Talk:Titanic International Society/GA1

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Reviewer: HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk · contribs) 22:12, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

JGHowes, What an interesting article. I'll review this soon. HickoryOughtShirt?4 (talk) 22:12, 20 February 2021 (UTC)

Review

• Should it say dedicated to preserving the history of the Titanic}?
  • Reference doesn't say 11, it says two. The ship's tragedy also fascinated Robert M. DiSogra, Freehold, and Sharon Rutman, Queens, N.Y., who both founded Titanic International in 1989.
• Per WP:EUPHEMISMS, I am unsure if "lives were lost" is appropriate. It flows beautifully but even the Titanic article says "died."
• First sentence in Founding is a run-on
• Ref 15 needs access-date
• Are 5 references necessary for each made dives to the Titanic's wrecksite?
• Eaton wrote first-person accounts of their expedition experiences for Voyage. is unsourced
• Why is reference 31 cited back to back in the second paragraph under "Support for recovery efforts." You can just cite it once t the end of motivating the salvagers
• I'm assuming the April 2012 content is sourced to reference 38
• The Society had joint conventions with the Belfast Titanic Society in 2011 and the Titanic Society of Atlantic Canada in 2018. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Society's 2020 convention, planned for Boston, Massachusetts, was rescheduled tentatively for June 2022. is unsourced
• More than twenty Society members are active researchers and experts who have authored books about Titanic or maritime history. Several members contributed the majority of segments presented on the Titanic Channel, a subscription-based video-on-demand service from 2016 through 2018. is unsourced
• The show discussed a disputed theory that the Canadian Pacific steamship Mount Temple.... is unsourced

@HickoryOughtShirt?4: Many thanks for the comprehensive review and your helpful comments.

• I've now made these changes, addressing the above. Sources have been added and unsourced content trimmed.
• With regard to the disputed theory about the Canadian Pacific steamship Mount Temple, unfortunately the full video where the event could be cited, https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/abandoning-the-titanic-full-fulm/5590/ is now behind a subscription paywall, so I’ve changed the url to point to the summary and transcript which mentions the theory about the Canadian Pacific steamship Mount Temple as the source.
• Re WP:EUPHEMISMS, I've changed ...postal service workers who lost their lives when Titanic sank to "...postal service workers who died when Titanic sank". However, I'm reluctant to reword the lead sentence because "lives lost" is such customary disaster terminology and the prose flows much so much better, as you said. I don't think it's really used euphemistically in that instance, if you will.  JGHowes  ^talk 21:10, 7 March 2021 (UTC)