Talk:Mallard II/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Hog Farm (talk · contribs) 04:46, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

Will review this soon. Hog Farm _Talk 04:46, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

• "Salt ponds on which Mallard II is used must be kept at a higher water level than they otherwise would be, owing to her draft." - do we know the draft measurement?
• Do any of the sources state what the dredger's dimensions were?
• "using her clamshell bucket to remove material from a "borrow pit"; this material is then deposited atop the levee" - link borrow pit and remove the quotation marks, as it is a set-meaning term
• "and prevent water from "flooding San Jose and other urban areas below the high-tide level"" - possibly an excessive use of a direct quote here for something that probably doesn't need to be a direct quote. Is there a way to rephrase this?
• Image licensing is accurate
• Sources are all reliable and are formatted well enough

A short article, but one that is well-written and doesn't seem to be missing much (looked to see if there were sources to be added, and nothing obvious stood out as missing). Good work; this shouldn't need much more work before it's good to promote. Hog Farm _Talk 18:37, 8 August 2021 (UTC)

@Hog Farm: Thanks for the feedback

Regarding draft, length, construction date etc: frankly, I've been scratching my head about measurements and specifications. I couldn't find any online when I was writing the article, and I'm not aware of any database that's got an entry for it. Even at marinetraffic.com, which shows a relatively current map of thousands of ships, doesn't seem to know Mallard II from Adam (I checked it a while ago, on a day when I'd seen it with my own eyes a few hours earlier; marinetraffic didn't show anything at said location). Searching for US ships named Mallard there turns up this, this, this, this, this, this, this, and this; none look remotely like Mallard II or are located anywhere near San Francisco Bay. I can, of course, find other dredgers in the area (such as DB IRONBOUND, for which I can get basic information like length and draft). My guess is that, since she roams in a small area and stays on private property, she might just not be registered or accessible in this type of database. I asked User:GreatLakesShips, who writes a lot of articles about ships, who also had no idea how to get better information about this type of thing. jp×g 01:58, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

It seems that someone took 59 high-resolution photos from a variety of different angles all around the vessel; going through all of them, I don't see anything that looks like a registration number (although it does say "MALLARD" on a plate at the front). jp×g 02:09, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

I tried to look too, and couldn't find anything either. Since it's apparently not stated in RS, don't worry about that as there's no real way to include it. Hog Farm _Talk 03:55, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

Okay, I've gotten through the stuff you mentioned so far (as well as some overall copyediting and additional sources). I think the article could stand a little reorganization, although nothing in specific comes to mind for me. What do you think? jp×g 04:31, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

I think it's good enough to promote now, if you think it's ready to promote. (I think the new picture is a good addition, as well. Quite a fan of the shade of blue in the sky). Hog Farm _Talk 04:37, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

@Hog Farm: It seems good to me. I'm sure I'll come across more stuff later (perhaps in a print source), but it's likely going to be a ways off. jp×g 04:59, 10 August 2021 (UTC)