Template:Did you know nominations/SMS Marie

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The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by 97198 (talk) 06:03, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

SMS Marie
SMS Marie

SMS Marie[edit]

  • ... that SMS Marie (pictured) – an 1880s steam corvette built for the German (Imperial Navy) – had her keel laid down under the contract name "Ersatz Vineta". Source: "Hildebrand, Röhr & Steinmetz
    • ALT1: ... that SMS Marie (pictured) – an 1880s steam corvette built for the German (Imperial Navy) – was the first warship built in Hamburg? Source: "You are strongly encouraged to quote the source text supporting each hook" (and [link] the source, or cite it briefly without using citation templates)
    • ALT2: ... that SMS Marie (pictured) – an 1880s steam corvette built for the German (Imperial Navy) – had her keel laid down under the contract name "Ersatz Vineta", an homage to the ship she was to replace?
    • ALT3: ... that SMS Marie (pictured) – first warship built in Hamburg – had her keel laid down under the contract name "Ersatz Vineta", an homage to the ship she was to replace?
    • ALT4: ... that the first warship built in Hamburg was SMS Marie (pictured)?

Improved to Good Article status by Parsecboy (talk). Nominated by 7&6=thirteen () 22:27, 22 November 2017 (UTC) at 22:25, 22 November 2017 (UTC).

  • Seems like the the more obvious hook would be that it was the first warship built in Hamburg. Parsecboy (talk) 00:46, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
  • AGF to offline sources. Date of GA checks out. References are ok (normally there should be more than one per paragraph, but if it passed that way I won't raise a stink), pic is at Commons and properly licenese, QPQ is present. Looks like this is good to go, strongly suggest ALT4. - The Bushranger One ping only 07:06, 3 December 2017 (UTC)