Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/SS Kroonland
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Closed as Promoted Woody (talk) 19:15, 29 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I recently updated this article and believe that it currently meets the requirements for an A-class article — Bellhalla (talk) 14:30, 23 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support. Detailed, informative, well-organized, and incredibly well-referenced article. The only quibble I have is that, although I know this is allowed, I don't think it's necessary to place citations in the middle of a sentence. I believe that all citations should be after periods. But, no big deal. Excellent work. Cla68 (talk) 02:07, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Thanks for taking the time to review. I generally try to only put citations in the middle of a sentence when they will appear after a complete thought (and usually after some sort of punctuation, like a comma or a semicolon). — Bellhalla (talk) 03:37, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- I've caught a few minor errors in wording an corrected them.
- Under Troopship duties, 2nd paragraph the statement Two minutes later her lookouts spotted a submarine bearing down on Kroonland so close aboard that the liner's guns could not be depressed enough to open fire on the raider. I'm not clear on what aboard means in this context. Seems like you're saying the submarine was aboard the Kroonland?
- The infobox does not reflect the Army career of the ship unless it was too short to bother including. Are there flags available for her passenger service periods?
- I'll assume you're going for FA eventually so the remaining red links should be filled if possible.
- Overall an outstanding article with bits of relative humor injected here and there by describing the antics of passengers. It's nice to read an article and be able to chuckle a bit.
- The "close aboard" phrase comes from DANFS. I agree its strange wording, but I'm not at all clear on exactly what it means myself.
- close aboard normally means alongside. In the current context substituting alongside makes as little sense as the original wording. I have reworded to show that the sub was very close to the ship. — Bellhalla (talk) 14:14, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- The Army career seems, according to DANFS, to have been only one voyage. The status of the ship in the time span from the entry of the US in WWI until April 1918 is really unclear from sources. My usual WWI sources don't give any information during that span. One of the few bits of information is about the U.S. 42nd Infantry Division sailing on Kroonland in September 1917.
- Thanks for the kind words and the corrections. — Bellhalla (talk) 03:35, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- Support A solid A-Class article all around. --Brad (talk) 23:53, 24 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
- The "close aboard" phrase comes from DANFS. I agree its strange wording, but I'm not at all clear on exactly what it means myself.
- Support Well referenced, seems to meet the MOS, well-illustrated, comprehensive, the prose seems ok to me. Great work. Woody (talk) 19:14, 29 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
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