== Milhist article assessment == 

 Thank you for submitting this article to Requests for assessment. Following some discussion it has been decided the article should remain at Start-Class for now. The issues that are preventing its B-Class promotion are: 
 *The lead is unsourced and contains a number of statements that should be directly supported by an in-line citation per "all major points have appropriate inline citations." Examples: "the aircraft carrier was to be the most important ship in the modern fleet"; "Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States built up significant carrier fleets so that by the beginning of World War II, they had 18 carriers between them"; "HMS Argus being the first to have such modification begun". 
 *The lead also appears to contain editorial commentary. Examples: "Those first faltering steps gave little indication of just how important the aircraft carrier was to prove to be"; the entire second paragraph. 
 *Three of the four footnotes are unsourced 
 *Many of the citations are simply to DANFS. These need to be specific (ie cited to individual entries rather than the site) 
 *The article appears to overuse external links. According to WP:ELNO, we should keep external links to a minimum of those that will enhance article content beyond what the article would contain if it became a featured article. Generally if an external website is reliable its content should be used in developing the article and it can be cited accordingly. If it has no directly-relevant content, or isn't reliable, then it doesn't belong on the article anyway. 
 I hope this helps with the article's further development. You've chosen a difficult (though very interesting) subject to cover, and regardless of the outcome of this assessment I think you're doing a fine job so far and would like to thank you for the hard work you've put in. Best,