Talk:HSwMS Thor (1898)

HSwMS Thor (1898) is currently a Warfare good article nominee. Nominated by simongraham (talk) at 17:09, 30 November 2024 (UTC)

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Short description: Swedish coastal defence ship

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GA Review

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Nominator: Simongraham (talk · contribs) 17:09, 30 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Gog the Mild (talk · contribs) 14:22, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'll have a look at this. Feel free to nudge me if I stall during the process. Gog the Mild (talk) 14:22, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV ()

3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant ()

Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the Good Article criteria. Criteria marked are unassessed

"File:HMS Thor (1898).jpg" licensing: As the author is unknown, how do we know they have been dead for 70 years?
- Changed license.
"File:HMS Thor.jpg" needs a US PD tag.
- Added.
Bibliography: Gard & Becker is not used as a source.
- Added.
"The success of Oden". 1. This is the first sentence of the stand alone main article. I think you need to back up and introduce the topic. 2. What was the nature of this success?
- Reworded.
" a three-ship class of first-class coastal defence ships. The ships differed from their predecessor". So the three replaced a single predecessor, yes?
- The two refers to Thor and Niord.
"The three vessels are considered members of the same class." Mentioning the name of the third ship would be nice.
- Added.
"After reconstruction". Give the date.
- Added.
"The guns could fire a 200 kg (450 lb) shell". Is their range known?
- Sadly not in the sources that I have access to.
"Two 25 mm (1.0 in) machine guns were carried by the pinnaces." 1. Two guns per pinnace, or one each for a total of two pinnaces? 2. How many pinnaces were there?
- The sources do not explicitly say. The word pinnace is plural so it would be reasonable to assume two each with one gun but I feel it would be OR to speculate.
"barbettes protected by 100 mm (3.9 in) nickel-steel armour". 1. Is there a missing 'thick'? 2. Why is the composition of the armour mentioned in this instance, but no other?
- 1. There is. 2. The rest is Harvey steel. Clarified.
" Four 90 cm (35 in) searchlights were carried." This may fit more naturally into the previous paragraph.
- Moved.
"a cost of SEK 1,871,000". 1. SEK in full at first mention please. 2. The MoS says "Most currency symbols are placed before the number, and unspaced ($123 not $ 123)."
- 1. Done 2. I have removed the space.
"a rolling keel". What might that be?
- A bilge keel. Linked.
"which improved performance." Are any details of the improved performance known?
- Unfortunately not in the sources that I can find.
"sell the remains for scrap". "remains" seems odd. What had been removed to cause only remains to be offered for sale?
- Reworded.

A cracking little article, nice work. Gog the Mild (talk) 17:02, 2 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Gog the Mild: Thank you. That is very kind. Please take a look at my changes and tell me if there is anything more that you think would help improve it. simongraham (talk) 01:13, 4 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Checks

All sources are reliable.
Images are appropriately licensed.
Spot checks are fine.
Passes Earwig.