Wikipedia:Peer review/Avro Lancaster/archive1

Avro Lancaster

The 'Lanc' is one of the most significant British aircraft ever made, and the article seems to be reasonably sound. I'd be interested in knowing what it would take to make it a Featured Article candidate. Cheers --RichardH 06:18, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

IMHO, this article is a long way off from FA but here are a few things to get the ball rolling:

Intro needs to be considerably longer per WP:LEAD.
In-line citations, preferrably using Cite.php, as outlined in WP:FOOT. The article currently cites zero references.
Development needs to address key design decisions like omission of a ventral turret.
Operational history section needs to be expanded to cover entry into service, attempts at daytime bombing, the history/description of night-time roaming tactics, and the tactics/losses resulting from encounters with Luftwaffe nightfighters. As it stands now, the article immediately jumps to late-war Lancasters and I find it rather lacking in the comprehensiveness department.
Famous missions like the Dambusters, the Ruhr Dam attack, and the Tirpitz raid need to be outlined in greater detail, perhaps each as a separate subsection.
Consider sub-sections within Operational History for foreign service, electronics, etc.
General copyedit per WP:MOS
Shrink external links -- Wikipedia is not a link farm
Consider moving Survivors to a separate page or expand the rest of the article, it should not be one of the largest sections in the article.
Per WP:Air MoS, specs need to be for a specific variant, not just "Lancaster", and with a cited reference(s).
Expand all units in text, i.e. pounds not lb, feet not ft. There should be an nbsp rather than a space between the number and the units to prevent line breaks.

I'll help out where I can. Good luck! - Emt147 ^Burninate! 06:47, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks a lot for that advice. I'll start working on it. --RichardH 07:22, 31 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

In response to Emt147's point about units: This task is easier with the aid of a 'units' tab in edit mode. Simply copy the entire contents of User:Bobblewik/monobook.js to your own monobook. Then follow the instructions in your monobook to clear the cache (i.e. press Ctrl-Shift-R in Firefox, or Ctrl-F5 in IE) before it will work. You will also get a 'dates' tab. Hope that helps. bobblewik 18:04, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]