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188:. Still, their construction was slightly contentious from a political standpoint, as Senator Benjamin Tillman thought that if battleship size was going to keep increasing (it was already up 50% between 1907 and 1912), they may as well build gigantic ships rather than continuing with small steps forward. As for the careers of the two ships, 411:
Nofi's going to be an essential reference for just about any of our interwar ships at this level. Not much on destroyers, but he's pretty good at tracking cruisers and above. One of these days we should go back and add information from it to Arizona, although I'm not sure if there's really much that
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As a general point, it makes more sense to me to organize the article such that you start talking about the design process and the different technical requirements, and then to move to a description of the finalized design. Right now, you have that split with the construction and service history
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sections in between. It seems rather disjointed to me to talk about the design process, then the service histories, and then jump back to "The Pennsylvania-class ships were significantly larger than their predecessors, the Nevada class..."
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I organize my ship class articles a bit differently than others, nothing too crazy. I would prefer to keep the background section, as I believe that each article should be understandable on its own, and the
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Everything but the last two and possibly overlinking should be done. I do tend to link the items in the description again so that readers don't have to scroll elsewhere to find out what we're talking about.
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I toyed with that idea, but currently we have the specifications either at the beginning or the end of battleship article. Other than that, I don't have a specific objection to moving the section.
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For the sake of summary style, I would truncate or merge the Background section into a couple of intro sentences in the Design since readers can read about the Nevada class in the class article
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since I've been at FAC alone, but I'm finally back with an article I have been writing in my sandbox over the past year. I think it's finally ready for the big show.
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I found it at the GPO for relatively cheap; I'll probably buy it when I have a little money saved up. Stillwell was pretty thorough, but it wouldn't hurt to check.
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To forestall certain points that I'm sure will come up, I do know that I have an atypical citation style, including the references and images. I'm a big fan of
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I'm in DC at the moment, but I'm still trying to get to trawling through the (very helpful) book you linked. I didn't find anything in my books on what
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I'm only willing to cater to the readers so much. Links in the infobox and on first use in the main body (including lede) are good enough for me.--
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The redlinks for armor-piercing projectiles and deck armor can be resolved by using Armor-piercing shot and shell and deck (ship) respectively.
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File:USS_Pennsylvania_1925_SLV_Green.jpg: source link redirects to search page - possible to either include direct link or catalogue number?
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Do you have a different citation to doublecheck the deck armor thickness? Arizona has the thickness as 5" (3" deck plus 2" splinter?)
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I wanted to add more images as opposed to statistics, and placing images opposite the infobox creates a nasty sandwich.
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the armor protection - the way you have it worded now makes it sound like the bunkers were armored.
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You've got several duplicate links, particularly in the description section - I'd recommend using
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What was Pennsy used as a target for; gunfire, torpedoes, what? Inquiring minds want to know!--
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class marked no large leap forward in American battleship technology; that was the preceding
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has been promoted, but there may be a delay in bot processing of the close. Please see
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tomorrow—thank you for the thorough comparison, and my apologies for the late reply.
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did nothing of great note, but I assume most FAC reviewers will recognize the name "
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Overlinking on fiscal year, deck, dry dock and a bunch of terms in the description.
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EN1, 25, 27, 42: don't see a References entry that would correspond to this source
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Armament is missing number of guns per turret - e.g. 4x3 14-inch/45 caliber guns
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Add horsepower to infobox installed power line. Missing "×" for three-inch guns.
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Similarly, Arizona's beam is cited at 97ft vs. 97 ft 6 in (29.72 m) (waterline)
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Ah, your eagle eyes are always appreciated. Both of these should be fixed now!
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anti-torpedo bulges, which were standard additions on all ships in this period
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I've gone through and fixed the issues, using mostly Friedman. Thanks again!
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Cruising range doesn't match, but its not cited in the Arizona article.
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I still have to add Campbell, but these are all otherwise addressed.
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on the interwar fleet exercises to see what the ships did in them.--
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I've made a couple of tweaks, hope you like them, if not its a wiki.
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Arizona had the overall length only, which is probably sufficient.
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Good lord, time to go back to elementary school and relearn my
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All of these should be addressed! Thank you for the review.
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Mostly done: alphabetization for Campbell, presentation of
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Switch armor to greatest to least, from least to greatest.
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section, which I'll leave for whoever wants to tackle it.
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design. I've added a link to the standard type, though.
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Why did you chose to hide the infobox as the default?
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