Talk:HMS Dreadnought (1906)
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Neutrality and formality of writing
[edit]This whole article reads like the dreadnought itself wrote its own Wikipedia article - full of inflated claims of importance unbacked.
It’s also informally written. The word “ironically” shouldn’t appear in a wiki article, and sentence structure devices like “In fact” also do not have a place in these articles. Someone needs to purge this article of this style of writing, and make it sound less like a story by your grandad all about his favourite ship 79.66.8.116 (talk) 21:15, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
- Feel free to WP:FIXIT. - wolf 02:19, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
Claims
[edit]It is stated that at 21 knots it was the world's fastest battleship. I find that difficult to believe. What speed did it achieve on trials? Is there an accurate source? the Austro-Hungarian navy had two classes of battleships at the time both achieving 20.5 knots in their sea trials. I have not examined the German navy. 2A00:23C4:B617:7D01:D52F:F40B:EDF:9DF2 (talk) 12:46, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
- 21.6 knots average speed over 4 trials at the Polperro measured mile on 9 October 1906.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 14:23, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
My poor WP programming knowledge
[edit]Love the page... ThankYou! It needs work... slowly it will get there. Like when one clicks on an image, WP brings it up full screen with the description just bellow it. Like the "Hull longitudinal section" graphic, it comes up with each part well numbered. The "Port side engine room" graphic did not have the parts name. I was able to make them show up but they do not have their part identifications. FTLOM, I tried for an hour to have them show up but to no avail. It might have something to do with the fact the "Port side engine room" is set in a WikiTable. I tried.
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