User talk:Ehbowen

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User:Ehbowen/Iowa class battleship manning[edit]

You should be aware that the moment that you move this page to the main namespace, you will have only three months to bring it to GA/FA status or else the entire featured topic on the Iowa class will loose its status. Frankly, I am unsue if the article as you are constructing it could reach that status due to the comprehensiveness requirements, so please do not do this without consulting all of us at WP:OMT. Thanks, -MBK₀₀₄ 05:13, 25 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

My initial thoughts are that the page has potential, but at the moment I am focusing on getting the class page through the FAR process so it can retain its star, which is for me proving to be infinitely harder than I had given credit to. Apparently, I am much hated person for contaminating the article with inappropriate material, and my sentence is fixing the problems alone. I'll take a closer look when I have salvaged the class article. At a minimum right now, I would suggest more citations for the material and more links to ranks. Also, I would suggest broadening your scope to include the cruise books of the other battleships at the time. TomStar81 (Talk) 03:24, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, limiting it to one time-period is a non-starter because it will fail the comprehensiveness requirements. Plus, it is too much of a bulleted list, which are discouraged in favor of prose. Perhaps you should format this towards a featured list instead by following WP:WIAFL. -MBK₀₀₄ 03:36, 26 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The more I think about it the more I think this has the potential to be a featured list, but lists are a little outside my purview. I would recommend asking MisterBee1966 (talk · contribs) about what the article would need to be an effective list, Bee has several A-class lists under his belt, and should be able to offer constructive feedback on things that could be done to turn this into a featured list. If Bee says the article has potential as a list then I will engineer some time into my schedule to offer constructive feedback and we can see where this venture into the bold leads us. TomStar81 (Talk) 09:39, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]