Talk:SMS Wolf (1878)/GA1

GA Review

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Nominator: Parsecboy (talk · contribs) 14:39, 28 December 2024 (UTC)

Reviewer: Simongraham (talk · contribs) 20:03, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

This looks like it is an interesting article, and on a cursory glance seems very close to being a Good Article. I will start a review shortly. simongraham (talk) 20:03, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

Comments

• Overall, the standard of the article is high.
• It is of reasonable length, with 3,188 words of readable prose.
• The lead is appropriately long at 317 words.
• Authorship is 100% from the nominator.
• It is currently assessed as a C class article.
• Although not a GA criteria, I suggest adding ALT text to the map for accessibility.

Criteria

The six good article criteria:

1. It is reasonable well written.

   the prose is clear, concise, and understandable to an appropriately broad audience; spelling and grammar are correct;

   • The writing is clear and appropriate.
   • The article says "Yangtze river" and "Hai River" etc. Suggest consistent capitalisation.

   • Fixed

   • Please correct "The ship was decommissioned there on the 30th for a major overhaul that modernization of her machinery, sailing rig, and armament."

   • Good catch

   • Nice addition.

   • I can see no other obvious spelling or grammar errors.

   it complies with the Manual of Style guidelines for lead, layout and word choice.

   • It seems to comply with the Manuals of Style.

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   it contains a reference section, presented in accordance with the layout style guideline;

   • A reference section is included, with sources listed.

   all inline citations are from reliable sources;

   • The sources are all credible sources.

   it contains no original research;

   • All relevant statements have inline citations.
   • Spot checks confirm Hildebrand, Röhr, & Steinmetz, 1993 and Lyon 1979.
   • I cannot see the comment on Korea in page 145 of Sondhaus, 1997. Can you please confirm the page.

   • The passage in question reads "...the United States had signed a trade treaty with the isolationist kingdom, the Germans resolved to secure similar concessions. Brandt, the ambassador to China, conducted the negotiations; the corvette Stosch ferried him to Korea and remained offshore with the gunboat Wolf until he achieved his goal. The German-Korean trade treaty was signed in June 1882."

   • Thank you.

   it contains no copyright violations nor plagiarism;

   • Earwig gives a 2% chance of copyright violation, which means it is extremely unlikely.

3. It is broad in its coverage

   it addresses the main aspects of the topic.

   • There are multiple volumes of Die Deutschen Kriegsschiffe: Biographien – ein Spiegel der Marinegeschichte von 1815 bis zur Gegenwart available on archive.org. Are there any other entries that are helpful to the article?

   • No, each volume covers a chunk of the alphabet - Vol. 8 lists ships from "Un" to "Z". There are cases where multiple ships participated in the same event, and the authors will typically only record the general narrative in the section for one of the ships, and then refer back to it in the others, but that doesn't apply to this one.

   it stays focused on the topic without going into unnecessary detail (see summary style).

   • The article goes into a lot of detail but is generally compliant.

4. It has a neutral point of view.

   it represents viewpoints fairly and without editorial bias, giving due weight to different points of view.

   • The article seems generally balanced with English and German sources.

5. It is stable.

   it does not change significantly from day to day because of any ongoing edit war or content dispute.

   • There is no evidence of edit wars.

6. It is illustrated by images and other media, where possible and appropriate.

   images are tagged with their copyright statuses, and valid fair use rationales are provided for non-free content;

   • The images have appropriate PD tags.

   images are relevant to the topic, and have suitable captions.

   • The images are appropriate.

@Parsecboy: Thank you for an interesting article. Please take a look at my comments above and ping me when you would like me to take another look. simongraham (talk) 20:33, 1 January 2025 (UTC)

@Simongraham: thanks for reviewing the article, I think I've addressed the issues you raised. Parsecboy (talk) 10:05, 2 January 2025 (UTC)

@Parsecboy: Awesome work. I believe that you have addressed them all perfectly. I believe that this article meets the criteria to be a Good Article.

Pass simongraham (talk) 15:32, 2 January 2025 (UTC)