Talk:SS Minnesotan

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Featured articleSS Minnesotan is a featured article; it (or a previous version of it) has been identified as one of the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. Even so, if you can update or improve it, please do so.
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Did You Know Article milestones
DateProcessResult
August 31, 2008Good article nomineeListed
September 14, 2008WikiProject A-class reviewApproved
January 27, 2009Featured article candidatePromoted
Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on August 29, 2008.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the cargo ship SS Minnesotan carried five racing yachts from the East Coast to national championship races in Los Angeles?
Current status: Featured article

GA Review[edit]

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Hi! I will be doing the GA review for this article, and should have the full review up within a couple of hours. Dana boomer (talk) 17:09, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

GA review (see here for criteria)
  1. It is reasonably well written.
    a (prose): b (MoS):
    • In the "Interwar years" section, you say "while the load of copper was reportedly the largest water shipment of Arizona copper to that time." Should this be "at that time"?
      • That's the same sense, but "at the time" suggests there it was the largest of a concurrent group, but not necessarily the largest ever. The source indicated that it was the largest ever (as of the date of the source), and I think "to that time" conveys that a little better. — Bellhalla (talk) 18:57, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
    • In the "World War II" section, you say "Minnesotan had some undisclosed problem". It might be me, but this wording sounds a little odd. Perhaps something along the lines of "Minnesotan developed an undisclosed problem"?
      • I like your proposed wording and have implemented it. — Bellhalla (talk) 18:57, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.
    a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):
  3. It is broad in its coverage.
    a (major aspects): b (focused):
  4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.
    Fair representation without bias:
  5. It is stable.
    No edit wars etc.:
  6. It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.
    a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):
  7. Overall:
    Pass/Fail:

Another very nice article. There are a couple of very minor prose issues, but despite these, I am passing the article to GA status. The two prose items are nitpicky things, which you can fix if you have the wish, time and energy :) Let me know if you have any questions. Dana boomer (talk) 17:22, 31 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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The article has the ship's sponsor as "Lubelle Shepard", citing Christian Science Monitor of 27 Jan 1913 in an article "Hawaiian Ship Launched" (not found online). As it was the sistership Montanan that was launched the day previous it would be surprising if the CSM report did not cover that event, rather than the launch of Minnesotan over six months earier, unless the claim was that the young lady launched both ships. Miss Lubelle Shepard is indeed shown as sponsor of Montanan in its WP article, citing the same CSM reference, and that is supported by other contemporary reportage, eg Washington Post of 26 Jan 1913. According to the Baltimore Sun of 9 Jun 1912 the sponsor at the previous day's launching of Minnesotan had been Miss Doris Mary Hartridge, daughter of American-Hawaiian's construction superintendent. I have not made any changes as I am not able to access other contemporaneous references. Davidships (talk) 17:36, 10 June 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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