Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/HMS Speedy (1782)/archive2

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Comments. Not much to quibble at; this is a fine article (and I laughed out loud at the description of Cochrane's capture of the Gamo).

  • Any particular reason why the ship is described as a brig in the lead but as a brig-sloop in the first sentence of the body?
    • It's Benea's call but I'm fine with it, since more readers will know the term "brig", and we try to reduce the effort needed to read the lead. - Dank (push to talk)
      I thought it might be something like that. Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 11:53, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  • Why is "Tons" capitalized? Is this standard in ship articles?
  • The abbreviation "pdr" is only used twice; elsewhere it's "pounder". Any reason not to use "pounder" throughout? If it's a standard abbreviation I think it's OK but it should be defined on first use, and used more than once in the text in that case.
  • Downman captured "a number of vessels" and "captured five privateers"; is the second just a repetition of the first? If so I would cut the first phrase.
  • "Eyre endured a harsh time in captivity": I would prefer "Eyre endured a harsh captivity"; it's the captivity, not the time, that is harsh.
  • One more comment: isn't it the case that back then capturing a ship led to an award of prize money to the capturing crew? Should some mention be made of those amounts? Perhaps that's less relevant to Speedy than to the men commanding her, but I thought I'd ask.

-- Mike Christie (talk - contribs - library) 20:11, 20 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]

  • Isn't this in the wrong namespace? It should be Wikipedia not Wikipedi talk - Moving to actual page. Kirk (talk) 16:00, 21 March 2011 (UTC)[reply]
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