Talk:Wacht-class aviso/GA1

GA Review
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Reviewer: Jonas Vinther (talk · contribs) 14:15, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

a. the prose is clear and concise, it respects copyright laws, and the spelling and grammar are correct
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b. It complies with the manual of style guidelines for lead sections, layout, words to watch, fiction, and list incorporation
 * Here is a list of sentence or grammar errors I found.
 * 1. "was a pair of two avisos built by the Imperial German Navy" - To be sure the reader understands completely, considered chaning this sentence to "was a pair of two aviso ships built by the Imperial German Navy".
 * There's a link for clarification, "aviso ships" is just wrong.
 * 2. "Both ships served in the main German fleet for the entirety of their active duty careers" - The "active duty careers" part should be reformulated as it sounds very wrong.
 * It's fine as it is - one can also have a career while in reserve status.
 * 3. "Wacht and Jagd had a crew of 7 officers and 134 enlisted men" - Did Wacht and Jagd had a combined crew of seven officers and 134 men or did each aviso had a crew of seven officiers and 134 men? This needs to be clarified. Also "7" should be written in words because it's between 1-9 per WP:NUMERAL.
 * Clarified, but one should not mix words and figures in the same sentence when dealing with the same category of items.
 * 4. "In 1891–1893" - This sentence should be changed to "In 1891-93" per WP:DATERANGE.
 * Good catch.
 * 5. "new boilers manufactured by Schichau-Werke and the Kaiserliche Werft (Imperial Shipyard)" - If you have a paragraph translation of Kaiserliche Werft you might as well have one of Schichau-Werke.
 * Schichau-Werke is the name of the company (owned by Ferdinand Schichau), while Kaiserliche Werft is not, which is why the latter is translated and the former is not.
 * 6. "in the Mediterranean Sea in 1889–1890" - WP:DATERANGE.
 * Fixed.
 * 7. "alternating between the I and II Divisions" - I would recommend changing this sentence to "alternating between the 1st and 2nd Divisions".
 * German naval units are routinely expressed with Roman rather than Arabic numerals.

a. It contains a list of all references (sources of information), presented in accordance with the layout style guideline
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b. It provides in-line citations from reliable sources for direct quotations, statistics, published opinion, counter-intuitive or controversial statements that are challenged or likely to be challenged, and contentious material relating to living persons—science-based articles should follow the scientific citation guidelines

c. It contains no original research
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a. it addresses the main aspects of the topic
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b. it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail
 * The article addresses the main topics of the subjects in question and does not go into unnecessary detail.

It represents viewpoints fairly and without bias, giving due weight to each
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 * The article is neutral with no personal opinions or statements.

It does not change significantly from day to day because of an ongoing edit war or content dispute
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 * The article is very stable with no edit wars or content disputes.

a. Images are tagged with their copyright status, and valid fair use rationales are provided for non-free content
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b. Images are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions
 * The article has one image in the infobox which is a public domain that shows Jagd in 1904.


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 * With the article meeting the GA-criteria I'm of course going to pass it. Good job. Jonas Vinther (speak to me!) 14:44, 1 October 2014 (UTC)