Talk:SMS Arcona (1885)/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Iazyges (talk · contribs) 14:54, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Criteria

GA Criteria
GA Criteria: 1 1.a Y 1.b Y 2 2.a Y 2.b Y 2.c Y 2.d Y 3 3.a Y 3.b Y 4 4.a Y 5 5.a Y 6 6.a Y 6.b Y

• No DAB links N "Central Pacific" is a DAB link
  • Fixed
• No Dead links Y
• Images appropriately licensed Y

Prose Suggestions

• "to supplement Germany's fleet of cruising warships," you may wish to either create a footnote, link "cruising warships" to wiktionary if there is an entry, or else create one; I can't see a layman understanding what it means without a link or a footnote.
  • A link should do, I'd think
• "Arcona was equipped with a three-masted barque rig to supplement her steam engines on extended overseas deployments." Is this to mean that she was equipped with it while on those missions, or she had it but only really used it on long missions?
  • The latter
• "She was launched on 7 May 1885,[4] on a sideways slipway, unlike the traditional stern-first method." You may wish to include a link to Slipway somewhere in this.
  • Good idea
• "The trials concluded on 25 January 1887, when the ship was decommissioned and placed in reserve." Is there a reason for her decommisioning? No need? Financial issues?
  • Added a bit on this.
• That's all my comments. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 15:10, 16 November 2017 (UTC)
  • Thanks, Iazyges. Parsecboy (talk) 18:02, 16 November 2017 (UTC)