# Talk:SMS Hansa (1872)

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Reviewer: Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 20:01, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria

Is it reasonably well written?
A. Prose quality: 
One tag that needs to be cleaned up.
Take a look now, also incorporated the namesake there. BB-PB (talk) 21:05, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
B. MoS compliance for lead, layout, words to watch, fiction, and lists: 

Is it factually accurate and verifiable?
A. References to sources: 

B. Citation of reliable sources where necessary: 

C. No original research: 

Is it broad in its coverage?
A. Major aspects: 
Link to central battery, biofouling. What does stiff mean? What was she named after?
Links added, I don't know exactly what Groner means by "stiff." BB-PB (talk) 21:05, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
B. Focused: 
Can you find any mention of her activities overseas in the NYT archives or other places?
I've scanned through google books for contemporary accounts, but nothing turned up. I'll ask Ed about the NYT, he has more experience with their archives. BB-PB (talk) 21:05, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
Ed pointed me in the right direction, but unfortunately, the NYT didn't have anything either (plenty on a steamship named Hansa in operation in the 1860s, and some on Hansa, which will be useful when I get around to the latter). Parsecboy (talk) 01:02, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
Conway's says guardship after a short period overseas. Not that that's much help.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 02:13, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
Is it neutral?
Fair representation without bias: 

Is it stable?
No edit wars, etc: 

Does it contain images to illustrate the topic?
A. Images are copyright tagged, and non-free images have fair use rationales: 

B. Images are provided where possible and appropriate, with suitable captions: 

Overall:
Pass or Fail: 

The article stated that the ship was laid down in the Imperial dockyard in Danzig in 1868. There was no German empire in 1868 and therefore there couldn't have been an imperial dockyard. According to the Kaiserliche Werft Danzig article, it was renamed in 1871 from Royal to Imperial, but this article completely lacks sources. Calistemon (talk) 12:35, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

Gröner does say "Royal/Imperial Dockyard," so it should be fine. Good catch on this. Parsecboy (talk) 13:33, 25 March 2011 (UTC)

here. Parsecboy (talk) 19:57, 7 January 2016 (UTC)

Article says; "The guns were placed in a two-story arrangement amidships; four were mounted in a broadside casemate, two on either side of the ship. The other four guns were mounted in casemates on the corners of the lower casemate, which gave the ship a degree of end-on fire capability."
The line drawing and photograpgh seem to show the reverse; broadside guns on the lower deck and corner guns on the upper.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2404:4404:1408:CE00:4C7F:70E:54E1:3C2 (talk) 09:20, 19 May 2023 (UTC) 

Right, that's what the text says. The corner guns were mounted "on the corners of the lower casemate..." Parsecboy (talk) 15:41, 19 May 2023 (UTC)