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C and D class destroyers

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HMS Duncan finally got promoted a few hours ago so I present these two classes of British destroyers built in the early 1930s. Kempenfelt and Duncan were the flotilla leaders for each class and are listed first, the rest are alphabetical. All of the C-class ships were sold to Canada in the late 1930s as they were only a half-strength flotilla and did not work well as a tactical unit in the British system. A number of the ships survived World War II, but the survivors were scrapped after the end of the war. The British retained the D-class and most were sunk during the war, including one by a collision with a British battleship. The worn-out survivors were also scrapped after war's end.

Before I built the book for this topic, is there a problem using the template for ship names, forex {{HMS|Kempenfelt|I18|6}}, rather than the more traditional, if lengthier, style of link?--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 14:26, 4 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Books are exceedingly fragile. As far as I know, you can't use the special template, you have to use the traditional method or when a request to convert to PDF et. al. is made, the request will just break. Sven Manguard Wha? 16:09, 4 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support The GAN page has been clogged lately with these babies, happy to see them promoted. I'd suggest taking the class to FA after the unified GT gets promoted, but that's your choice. Buggie111 (talk) 01:15, 5 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Battlecruisers of Japan

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All of the battlecruisers built and designed for Japan. The Kongo class battlecruisers were reconstructed into fast battleships before World War II and are often referred to as battleships. The Amagi class were cancelled due to the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 and one ship was converted into an aircraft carrier. The B-65 design was never laid down due to World War II. I've only really worked on one of these, but I should be able to fill address any issues brought up during the review. I've structured the topic box deliberately to preserve class integrity.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 01:38, 22 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comments Support
Some disambiguation links need checking here [1]
All fixed except air raid which provides the basic definition used as well as dab links.
Also some references appear to need attention here [2]
Fixed.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 17:43, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

otherwise looks good Jim Sweeney (talk) 17:05, 23 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

1975 Pacific hurricane season

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Contributor(s): YE, Hurricanehink


Well, here it is. The 1975 season is not a well-remember hurricane season. However, two very notable storms occurred. The 1975 Pacific Northwest hurricane formed and dissipated near Alaska. Hurricane Olivia left 30,000 homeless in Mexico, and 30 million in damage. Sadly, several people died.

Both of these storms have article. Before something asks, all of the article storms (save Agatha) can't get articles. In the case of Agatha, it could get one, but is not an obvious gap due to lack of info.

I hope you like it.

YE Pacific Hurricane 23:08, 15 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

As the reviewer for the 1975 PHS article, I'm not voting, but commenting. The main article is a bit weak on prose, I'd like to see someone copyedit the article first, as the writing is just passable. HurricaneFan25 14:45, 16 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Some articles have dead links in them. Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 06:44, 21 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

All should be fixed. YE Pacific Hurricane
Comment The lede is a bit on the flimsy side..May I suggest expanding it to two paragraphs or so? Additionally, there are some deadlinks in the article, and in the "Storms" section, the storms' summaries are weak. TropicalAnalystwx13 (talk) 16:03, 28 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The lead is two paragraphs, good enough for an uneventful EPAC season, though I did add a tad more of content to the lead. The storm's summaries are similar in length to the 1973 Pacific hurricane season. Remember, this is EPHC era, so they are no discussions or TWO's. YE Pacific Hurricane 16:43, 28 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
The problem isn't the number of paragraph, it's the number of sentences (which is pretty scant). --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 16:47, 28 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Added a couple more sentences. YE Pacific Hurricane 17:12, 28 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

More comments are needed here. Wizardman Operation Big Bear 22:12, 2 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment From the position of an informed layperson (one who has lived through hurricanes but neither studies them nor writes about them on Wikipedia), the articles look fine. I'm reluctant to support however, because the fact that none of the regular Hurricane writers are expressing confidence in this. Sven Manguard Wha? 05:27, 12 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support. I suppose I'll bring up the reason I haven't committed. Eventually, can there be a good topic on every season? Should the fact that the topic meets the bare minimum mean it be promoted? --♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 06:12, 12 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Brummer class cruisers

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Another class of German light cruisers, these were built around turbines built in Germany for Russia that were confiscated at the outbreak of World War I. Parsecboy (talk) 13:02, 15 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]