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USS Wisconsin (BB-64)[edit]

This is a partial self-nom. Recently completed its run through Peer Review with several suggestions for improvement. Bear in mind that this article is largly historical, and that details on things like this ships engines and main armorment are discussed at length in the article Iowa class battleship. Also, school just recently restarted, so have some patience if I seem to take a long time to respond to a post. TomStar81 06:05, 24 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment: the inline citations seem disproportionately concentrated in the final few sections; much of the article is entirely devoid of them. —Kirill Lokshin 04:35, 25 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • There is a very good reason for that: Most of the material in the article begining with WWII service and ending with the Post-Korean War was copied almost exactly from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, but the entry in DANFS for Wisconsin condenses her reactivation and gulf war service to less than 10 lines. As a result, most of that information had to be obtained elsewhere, so most of my edits and the bulk majority of the independent research begins with Wisconsin’s 1986 reactivation. Because that material is not present in the DANFS version of the ships history I included the bulk of the inline ciatations toward the end of the article. TomStar81 04:54, 25 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

SupportMinor object You need to fix the caption to the bow damage photo the letters "irls" appear after Wisconsin and make no sense. Also, here is a link to Nauticus, you can use it to get rid of that red link (click on the Wisconsin photo too). I live in this area and have been to Nauticus and BB64. It's quite interesting. When these are fixed, lv msg on my talk page and I'll change my vote for this excellent article.Rlevse 15:11, 25 January 2006 (UTC)Rlevse 11:16, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Actually, its not "irls" its "n’s". This illusion is the result of the apostrophe between the "n" in Wisconsin and the "s" after tle apostrophe. This is needed to denote ownership, ie "whose bow? Wiscosnin’s bow", only when Wisconsin is written in itallics the apostrophe appears to catch the "n" in wiscosnin, making it look like its misspelled. TomStar81 16:31, 25 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Nauticus now has its own article. Its a stub, but the red link is now out of the Wisconsin article. TomStar81 16:38, 25 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Comment. I think it will be better to create "history" headline and place WWII etc. as a sub-headlines. Brandmeister 15:06, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • What exactly do you mean by this? From my standpoint, the page is already set up this way. TomStar81 19:09, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Support I think it is a great article, done very well. I have seen the Wisconsin many times and the article does it justice. I know some Wisconsin vets really thought it was a good article too.Coffeeboy 16:05, 27 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support It looks very good to me. Seems to cover all the bases and be reasonably well-written. Tuf-Kat 08:17, 31 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
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