Wikipedia:Peer review/Iowa-class battleship/archive1

Iowa class battleship
This article has been slowly creeping up to Featured Article standards for some time now. I think its almost there, but I'm looking for ideas to improve it before running it through FAC. TomStar81 02:31, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
 * It looks good, and almost FA worthy. One issue is that there are a few too many overly short paragraphs and sections. For instance, the "Missiles" sections could easily be merged together. This would also help make the TOC more clearly organized. I'm also not sure what the relevance of Image:Mark 48 Torpedo testing.jpg is to the article. It actually seems somewhat misleading, as it depicts a fate that did not befall any of these ships. Overall the content is very good. One area I would like to see more on is the ships' actual performance in combat. How were they used in WWII and later conflicts? How effective were they? What were some of the most important engagements of ships of this class? - SimonP 03:04, August 14, 2005 (UTC)


 * Item A) Why most of these short paragraphs were not merged is beyond me. I would rather they remain independent of one another, but if I can't expand on them without being redundent then I will put them togather.
 * I couldn't expand on them, so as promised I started combining them. TomStar81 03:06, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Item B) Regarding the inclusion of the picture Image:Mark 48 Torpedo testing.jpg, I placed it in the article to illistrate a live-fire weapons test against derelict ships. I do concede that the picture is neither of an Iowa, nor of a battleship, but I thought it illistrated the point rather well. Unfortunatly, that picture has copyright issues, so it may wind up being removed in the long run anyway.
 * Item C) Actual Combat: To tell the truth I forgot to add this section (oops ^_^), but for a quick reference you can check out the page Crossing the T. I will add the rest just as soon as I can. TomStar81 03:15, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
 * The individual ship articles are chock full of combat info.
 * Thats true, but an overall total for ships sunk and planes destroyd wouldn't hurt. Unfortunatly, I cannot seem to get such numbers to add up, which is why I have not added any estimates yet. TomStar81 07:23, 22 August 2005 (UTC)

What do these lines mean?

"nine 16 inch (406 mm) 50 and six 5 inch (127 mm) 38 guns"

"5 inch (127 mm) 38 caliber guns" - How can they be 5 inch caliber and 38 caliber at the same time? Rmhermen 03:22, August 22, 2005 (UTC)


 * In the interest of being fair and accurate I'm going to say right off the bat that I'm not sure. Most of this data was copied and pasted from the ships in the Iowa class, and I am not familar enough with weapon statistics to attempt to answer this. This is more of a question for the members of the wiki ships group. Sorry :-/ TomStar81 07:23, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
 * From WikiProject Ships: "the gun's barrel is 5 inches inside diameter, and 38 times that in length (190 inches, 15.83 feet) ➥the Epopt 15:26, 22 August 2005 (UTC)"