Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/König-class battleship

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Promoted –Abraham, B.S. (talk) 07:52, 5 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

König class battleship[edit]

Nominator(s): Parsecboy (talk)

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Another one of my WWI German battleship class articles (don't worry, there's only Bayern class battleship after this! Before I start working on all the of the individual ships...) Anyways, I think the article is at or close to A-class, and the reviews that will be done here will help me fine-tune the article for an eventual FAC. Thanks in advance to all reviewers. Parsecboy (talk) 14:18, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Comments I'm ten minutes into a break at the moment with only another 10 minutes left to borrow against, so I can not preform a thorough review at the moment. I can tell you that the external links check out ok, but you have two disambig links that need to be located and if at all possible fixed. Also, it appears that some images are missing alt text, please check and advise on them. TomStar81 (Talk • Some say ¥€$, I say NO) 16:17, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Tom. I fixed the two dablinks and added alt text to the images. Parsecboy (talk) 17:21, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Your welcome. Now for the more thorough review points:
- Stateside Americans can't think in metric; could you translate the weapon sizes into standard measurements so we can have a better idea of what the battleships of the class were packing?
- The second paragraph of the design section brings money into the equation. The mark of 1918 and the current mark are probably off due to inflation; would it be possible to get a dollar figure for 1918 or adjust the mark inflation for 2008/2009? It would better the understanding of the expense the Reichstag approved for the construction of these big ships.
- Otherwise everything else appears to be in good order. Well Done. TomStar81 (Talk • Some say ¥€$, I say NO) 21:59, 28 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I added conversions for the weapon sizes. As to the second issue, we have {{Inflation}}, but it only goes as far back as 1950 for Germany. I don't have anything to convert 1914 marks into dollars or pounds, and haven't been able to find anything online yet. I have found this book, which states that in May 1921, it was 62.30 marks to the dollar, but this was well into the post-war financial panic in Germany. Parsecboy (talk) 12:05, 29 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support: Well written, referenced and illustrated. I made a couple of minor tweaks (endashes, consolidated refs, reference format etc.) but otherwise I couldn't see anything holding it back. Good work. — AustralianRupert (talk) 06:58, 31 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Another example of your great work. – Joe N 02:02, 1 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support I'm happy, though I would suggest trying to find an inflation conversion website somewhere. I am not going to hold this one against you though, everything else is in order for a promotion. Well Done! TomStar81 (Talk) 21:21, 2 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Support Perhaps at FAC people will ask for more source diversity, but for ACR, this passes handily YellowMonkey (cricket photo poll!) paid editing=POV 04:39, 4 August 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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