Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/SMS Zähringen/archive1
Parsecboy, we're almost done with the blurbs for articles promoted at FAC in 2018. This one is the last ship ... would you like to do the honors? - Dank (push to talk) 23:09, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
- My eyes are starting to glaze over, so I could use a break from chipping away at List of pre-dreadnought battleships of the Royal Navy. It's based on the one you did for SMS Wettin, as you might recognize ;) I can't remember what the size limitation for the blurbs are, but I hope I haven't gone over. Parsecboy (talk) 19:43, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
SMS Zähringen was a pre-dreadnought battleship of the Wittelsbach class of the Imperial German Navy. She was laid down in November 1899 and completed October 1902. She and her sister ships—Wittelsbach, Wettin, Schwaben and Mecklenburg—were armed with a main battery of four 24 cm (9.4 in) guns and had a top speed of 18 knots (33 km/h; 21 mph). These and the other ships of I Squadron underwent extensive annual training, as well as making goodwill visits to foreign countries. Zähringen was decommissioned in September 1910 as dreadnought battleships began to enter service and she saw little activity until the start of World War I in 1914. Zähringen saw limited duty in the Baltic Sea and played a minor role in the Battle of the Gulf of Riga. The ship was withdrawn from active service in late 1915 due to crew shortages and the threat from British submarines. After the war, she was converted into a radio-controlled target ship. (This article is part of a featured topic: Battleships of Germany.)
- Looking at just the blurb, it's great. I changed one link. Length is good. (Limits are 925–1025.) "She" is fine for now, but we don't know yet how the RfC at WT:MOS will turn out. Lately, I've been avoiding pronouns entirely. - Dank (push to talk) 22:09, 11 December 2019 (UTC)