Talk:SMS Sperber (1860)

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GA review

This review is transcluded from Talk:SMS Sperber (1860)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Parsecboy (talk · contribs) 17:59, 21 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Jaguar (talk · contribs) 15:33, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Will get to this shortly. Jaguar (talk) 15:33, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Lead

• The lead summarises the article well, so no issues here
• " She was then used as a barge in Kiel." - I think you should add that her ultimate fate was unknown after this sentence
  • Done

Body

• "Sperber was laid down at the Domcke shipyard in Grabow in 1859 and she was launched on 14 February 1860" - can be condensed to Sperber was laid down at the Domcke shipyard in Grabow in 1859 and launched on 14 February 1860
  • Good idea
• "The ship was armed with a battery of one rifled 24-pounder muzzle-loading gun" - ship, or in this case 'gunboat'?
  • Works for me

There's not much else I can add to the review, I'm afraid. It meets the criteria based on its comprehensiveness and is well written, in similar vein to the others. I will promote this one outright on that basis. Well done. Jaguar (talk) 15:40, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Jaguar! By the way, once I get SMS Iltis (1898) through GAN, I'll put up SMS Jaguar, which would be quite the appropriate one for you to review if you wanted to do more German ships ;) Parsecboy (talk) 20:03, 23 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]