Talk:French destroyer Dague/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: Harrias (talk · contribs) 19:19, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

I'll take a look at this. Harrias (he/him) • talk 19:19, 13 January 2023 (UTC)

Images

 * File:Contre-torpilleur Dague in 1914 (Agence Rol).jpg - has appropriate tag for both US and France. I don't particularly doubt it, but on what basis is it captioned as being in Toulon? There is nothing in the image source.
 * Good catch.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 15:14, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
 * File:French destroyers Chasseur and Dague in Toulon on 28 September 1912.jpg - has appropriate tag for both US and France, and is suitably captioned.

Prose

 * Link Boucliers again on its first use in the body. Same for "destroyer".
 * It's a short enough article that I don't think that any readers have forgotten what those are already.
 * The infobox says that she was laid down in 1910, but this isn't included in the body, and so isn't cited.
 * When I got down to the mention of Faulx later in the article, I was a bit surprised, as my reading of the Design and description section had interpreted it as meaning that the class only included Dague and her sister Cimeterre. It was probably just me, but maybe consider tweaking to something like "..the 12 ships of the class were built to a general specification and each shipyard was allowed to determine the best way to meet that specification. Dague and her sister Cimeterre were built together, and had an.."
 * Good idea
 * Link "Battle of Antivari" in the body, and consider mentioning where it is here, rather than two sentences later. I think it is especially worth clarifying that Antivari is now better known as Bar.
 * All the links are in the lede.
 * "..covered by cruisers and a distance of 20–50 miles (32–80 km)." Does this mean the destroyers were 20–50 miles from the transport, or the cruisers were 20–50 miles from the destroyers?
 * "..of the next convoy that arrived on 23 February. The next day.." I found the close repetition of "next" a little jarring.

Overall, a nice piece of work. I do think the sinking could be expanded somewhat based on the French-language sources, but other than that it is mostly minor tweaks. Harrias (he/him) • talk 22:05, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I think that it's pretty clear from the captain's testimony that the ship was at anchor when she was struck by the mine. If the weather had been severe enough that she dragged her anchors, I don't think that the captain would have been in his cabin.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 15:46, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Great, all good with the changes, nice work. Harrias  (he/him) • talk 15:12, 27 January 2023 (UTC)