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Spanish battleship Alfonso XIII
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Nobody expects the Spanish Inqui... a Spanish warship at A-class review! Alfonso XIII, later renamed España, was one of three dreadnought battleships built for the Spanish Navy in the early 1910s. She had a fairly interesting career, ending up in the Nationalist fleet during the Spanish Civil War and ultimately being accidentally sunk by a Nationalist mine. Thanks to all who take the time to review the article. Parsecboy (talk) 15:49, 10 February 2020 (UTC)

Support from Nick-D
Support It's good to see a change from the usual focus on the main battleship fleets. I think that the A-class criteria are met, but would like to offer the following comments to assist with FAC preperations:
 * Believe me, it can get boring writing about the same couple of fleets over and over - if I had the sources, I'd do more with minor navies, but they're generally poorly documented, and Ed went and did the South American battleships! Luckily, I was able to get all three of the Spanish battleships into good shape, so we can have a change of pace every now and then.


 * "The ship's landing party went ashore to guard a rail line and several mines and in a clash with revolutionaries, one man from the ship's crew was killed and several were injured, while twenty-two revolutionaries were arrested and held aboard the ship." - I'd suggest splitting this into two sentences
 * Good idea
 * "Alfonso XIII again helped to suppress revolutionary activities" - was this a revolution? The stub on the strike note that it led to the adoption of an eight hour day in Spain, which is far from a radical reform (not sure what the history is, but there's a risk here of accidentally legitimising attempts to use the armed forces to suppress trade union/workers rights activities) Nick-D (talk) 10:52, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
 * I don't know exactly, either - the passage characterizes the 1917 strike as one "with pronounced revolutionary overtones", but the 1919 strike simply as "another outburst of industrial unrest". Given what I do know about the political situation in Spain in the early 20th century, I don't know that it'd be unreasonable to think the latter strike had a similar segment of revolutionaries involved, but it might be safer to just say "...helped to suppress striking workers in early 1919..." Thanks Nick. Parsecboy (talk) 12:47, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Comments Support by CPA-5

 * The engines were rated at 15,500 shaft horsepower (11,600 kW) Link kW.
 * Done
 * Maybe in the body too? Also link knots and calibre in the infobox too. Cheers. CPA-5 (talk) 16:02, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Done


 * Where's the weight of the ship in the body?
 * Whoops, good catch! (I've added it to the others too)
 * superfiring turrets, as was done in the South Carolinas Mention here that the South Carolinas battleships were.
 * Good idea
 * After Italy, a member of the Triple Alliance, declared neutrality Pipe Italy to the Kingdom of Italy.
 * Done
 * King Alfonso XIII was aboard his yacht Giralda No link for Giralda?
 * No, unfortunately
 * United States and commissioned into the US Navy Link US Navy.
 * Done
 * the ship visited Lisbon, Portugal during ceremonies held to commemorate the country's soldiers who had been killed during World War I What did she do between the Rif War and this event?
 * Nothing - Rodríguez González doesn't mention anything, and as far as I can tell, the operations before July 1921 were limited to the Spanish Army
 * advocated rebuilding the ships into analogues to the German Deutschland-class cruisers British analogues?
 * No, they'd have remained Spanish
 * No I mean, shouldn't it be analog?
 * Both variants are commonly used in the US (to my mind, I'd use "analog" for a clock but "analogue" in this context, but that might just be my own idiosyncrasy)
 * By Ngram analog is more popular rather than analogue. However Merriam-Webster you know the biggest (and oldest) American dictionary says it's "chiefly British spelling of ANALOG" so I believe it's fine but to be sure because should we not use only the most common term in an English dialect?
 * Any update Parsecboy?
 * Not a hill I'm going to die on ;) Parsecboy (talk) 22:04, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

That's anything from me. Cheers. CPA-5 (talk) 17:01, 1 March 2020 (UTC)
 * After a brief period of uncertainty, Lieutenant Commander Gabriel Rozas Link both Gabriel Rozas and lieutenant itself.
 * Linked the rank, but I don't know that he's notable
 * operational, and she carried only twelve of her 4-inch guns Imperial unit here while the rest of the article uses metric?
 * Fixed
 * Link Royal Navy.
 * Done
 * Thanks CPA. Parsecboy (talk) 15:27, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

Update: I don't really have the time to continue this. 'Cause of our lockdown, school and real life issues I won't be that much online for a week or longer. :/ Cheers. CPA-5 (talk) 22:33, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Source review - pass
G'day, looks pretty good to me from a sourcing perspective. I have a few minor comments: AustralianRupert (talk) 04:04, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
 * suggest adding hyphens to he ISBN for the Fernández work for consistency
 * Done
 * suggest adding a translation for the title of the Moreno work
 * Done - but I'd be happy for a Spanish speaker to check Google Translate's work
 * publisher and location for the Moreno work?
 * Done
 * page range for Rodriguez's chapter in Taylor?
 * Added
 * probably don't need "Ltd" for the Gibbons and Lyon works in the Further reading section
 * Removed
 * endash for the title of the Gardiner work?
 * Done
 * add "|language=Spanish" for the Moreno source?
 * Done
 * there are no dup links or dab links (no action required)
 * the citations appear to be consistently formatted (no action required)
 * English language sources seem reliable to me based on authors, publishers and/or citations from other reliable sources; AGF on non-English language sources (no action required)
 * suggest adding alt text to the images:
 * nothing much showed up in terms of additional sources that I could see based on my Google Books search (although for FAC, it may pay to consult a broader database, of course)
 * Thanks AR. Parsecboy (talk) 10:42, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Image review - pass
"File:Frente del Norte - Spanish Civil War (March-Sept 1937).svg" needs a source. Ie the book, article or map from which the information in the image is drawn.

Gog the Mild (talk) 18:10, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Added the source used per the uploader. Thanks Gog. Parsecboy (talk) 16:38, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

Comments Support by PM
A nice change, and the Spanish Civil War stuff is interesting. I know how hard minor navies can be... A few comments: That's all I could find. Nice job. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 09:50, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
 * suggest "she received major damage when she accidentally struck a mine that had been laid by a Nationalist minelayer."
 * Yeah, that sounds better
 * "awarded to the Spanish firm Spanish "
 * Whoops!
 * the deck armor conversion doesn't match between infobox and body
 * Fixed
 * suggest "The destroyer Velasco also defected to the Nationalist coup side"
 * Done
 * no idea of the tonnage of SS Mar Báltico?
 * added that line back in 2010, maybe he can answer that for us?
 * " At By around 08:30, España's crew"
 * Done
 * duplication: "A fourth man died of his wounds aboard Velasco" and "A fourth man died while Velasco was en route to Ferrol"
 * Removed the second one
 * Thanks PM. Parsecboy (talk) 14:47, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
 * The tonnage is a very minor bit of detail, so supporting as is. Peacemaker67 (click to talk to me) 23:26, 29 March 2020 (UTC)