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This article has been checked against the following criteria for B-class status:
122 mm howitzer M1938 (M-30) was one of the History good articles, but it has been removed from the list. There are suggestions below for improving the article to meet the
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I have undertaken a copyedit to remove some serious grammar errors (probably he result of an inexact translation) and the article is not far off. However there were one or two point, listed below that need to be explained before this will pass as a GA.
"The suspension was locking automatically when swinging the trails open." - I have no idea what this means.
The section "Interesting facts about M-30 howitzer" in unencyclopedic and should be broken up with the relevant information going in the relevant section.
a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (
OR):
This article does not have enough inline citations, please see the citation needed tags I have added to the article. In addition, the internet inline sources are improperly formatted. Please see citations section below.
a (fair representation): b (all significant views):
It is stable.
It contains
images, where possible, to illustrate the topic.
a (tagged and captioned): b (lack of images does not in itself exclude GA): c (non-free images have
fair use rationales):
Overall:
a Pass/Fail:
I will check back in no less than seven days. If progress is being made and issues are being addressed, the article will remain listed as a
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WP:GAN. Feel free to drop a message on my talk page if you have any questions, and many thanks for all the hard work that has gone into this article thus far. Regards,
Jackyd101 (
talk) 23:51, 13 July 2008 (UTC)reply
Truth be told, I don't know how this article had become a GA in the first place. I never nominated it and I knew it has problems which I hoped to address "perhaps, one day". Well, perhaps the day has come. :)
I removed the "interesting facts" section and reformatted web links.
The awkward phrase about suspension was supposed to mean the following. The carriage of M-30 was fitted with leaf spring suspension, in order to allow higher transportation speed. However, in firing position suspension springs would cause the gun to rock, hurting its accuracy. To prevent it, the carriage of the M-30 was built in such a way that opening trails locked the suspension, effectively making it rigid.
As for inline citation, there is a little problem here. I'm not really the author, the article is mostly a translation from ruWiki, so... I'll try to take a look at some of the sources though...
Bukvoed (
talk) 19:39, 18 July 2008 (UTC)reply
Any improvements you can make would be appreciated. By the way, when you are done here,
152 mm howitzer M1943 (D-1) could use a look. It just about passes for GA but could use some tidying and sourcing if possible.--
Jackyd101 (
talk) 20:00, 18 July 2008 (UTC)reply
I seems I have to postpone it :(. I guess the article will spend some time in B class again.
Bukvoed (
talk) 07:46, 23 July 2008 (UTC)reply
How long do you need? I can certainly hold off delisting for several weeks if it gives you time to get round to this.--
Jackyd101 (
talk) 17:38, 23 July 2008 (UTC)reply
Oops, sorry, for some reason I didn't see your comment in my watchlist. It's unlikely I'll be able to improve the article in several weeks.
Bukvoed (
talk) 11:16, 9 August 2008 (UTC)reply
OK, sorry I'm going to have to fail this then. Good luck for the future.--
Jackyd101 (
talk) 14:54, 9 August 2008 (UTC)reply
Citations
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Wikipedia:Citing sources. The simplest way of doing this is in the following format:
<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.discovery.org/a/3859|title=Avoiding a Thirty Years War|publisher=www.discovery.org|work=[[The Washington Post]]|date=2006-12-21|author=Richard W. Rahn|accessdate=2008-05-25}}</ref>
If any information is unknown then simply omit it, but title, publisher and last access dates are always required. I strongly recommend that all internet inline references in this article be formatted properly. If you have any further questions please contact me and as mentioned above, more information on this issue can be found at
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