Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Dreadnought

Dreadnought
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The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/January 29, 2013 by BencherliteTalk 00:08, 22 January 2013‎ (UTC)



The dreadnought  was the predominant type of battleship in the early 20th century. The first of the kind, the Royal Navy's HMS Dreadnought (1906), had such an impact when launched in 1906 that similar battleships built after her were referred to as "dreadnoughts". Her design had two revolutionary features: an "all-big-gun" armament scheme and steam turbine propulsion. The arrival of the dreadnoughts renewed the naval arms race, principally between the United Kingdom and Germany, as the new warships became a symbol of national power. Technical development continued rapidly through the dreadnought era. Successive designs increased rapidly in size and made use of improvements in armament, armor, and propulsion. Within ten years, new battleships outclassed the original dreadnoughts, and most were scrapped after the end of World War I. Only one battle—the Battle of Jutland—was fought between large dreadnought fleets.

4 points: two for long-ago promotion date and two for a widely-covered topic. The citations were modernised in October and the prose is in nice shape. The last battleship-related article was presented on December 27. -- Dianna (talk) 02:57, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
 * If Chris wants this to happen, I'll support, but he may want to wait for 10 February or 2 December 2016, the 110th anniversary of Dreadnought's (the ship) launch or commissioning, which are the events that sparked naval arms races around the globe. His choice though. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 03:23, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
 * That's a good idea, Ed. He's not wildly active lately, but hopefully he will see my note and will let us know his opinion. -- Dianna (talk) 03:26, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, I don't have anything against your nomination. :-) Just my two cents. Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 03:32, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
 * Certainly no objection, but no particular date either - would prefer this side of July 2014 (the WWI centenary). Might see if I can do a little polishing here and there. Thanks for the nomination :-) The Land (talk) 19:58, 18 January 2013 (UTC)

FYI, HMS Eagle (1918) has been put in the "pending" list of possibilities by someone for 20th Feb, to mark the 100th anniversary of it being laid down. I don't know whether that's as significant as launch date or commissioning date or whether it might affect anyone's views of what's best to run when. The next open date at present is 29th January, which would still leave the best part of a month before Eagle. By the way, Dreadnought has one "citation needed" tag in the footnotes which ought to be looked at (but no deadlinks, thankfully). BencherliteTalk 10:56, 17 January 2013 (UTC)