Talk:Borodino-class battlecruiser

message: :Obvious question - why did the Red Army not want Izmail converted into a carrier? Conceptual opposition to carriers, a desire to avoid the Navy taking a larger share of the defence budget by having a new capital ship of any type, or something even more complicated? Shimgray | talk | 21:31, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Too much money not going to the Army.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 23:56, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Question

message: Some thoughts for copyediting:
*We introduce one of the ships by name in a sentence "Components for the turbines of the Navarin that had been ordered" without previously identifying that the Navarin is a Borodino class battlecruiser. Might be better to introduce the names before making use of them.
*The sentence "but the Duma session ended before it could be voted on" might be better as "but the Duma session ended before it approved funding for the construction", or some such. Later in the article we learn that the Duma does finally approve funds for the project.
**I changed it to read "but the Duma session ended before the proposal could be voted on".
*"and some money had to be diverted from the budget for the Svetlana-class cruisers." strikes me as poor phrasing ... had based on what? Better to say that the budget was in any event reduced to provide funds for the construction of  Svetlana-class cruisers.
**Changed to "money was diverted from the budget".
*There are a couple of "In the meantime" phrases; would be nice to rephrase one of them.
**I dropped one instance.
*Check consistency of use of Armament versus Armaments. I may have introduced the latter, possibly in error.
*We have no article on high-tension steel. That seems a pity. I'd prefer to keep the link. There's no use in specifying the material if we have no definition of what it means.
*Not thrilled with the sentence "as shown in the table below, but in some respects the situation was worse than shown as the turrets for Izmail were not expected to be completed until 1919." I understand the logic, having looked at the table, since we're telling the reader that the situation was worse before they have had a chance to see from the table what the situation was.
**I agree; i have worked the material into the prose.
--Tagishsimon (talk) 19:45, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, Tagishimon. We had an edit conflict there! Suddenly this article is popular. I have looked over your remarks now that my first pass is complete, and taken action on some of your suggestions. My responses are above in intented text. I will do another pass later this evening and see if I can spot anything else. Please feel free to introduce more improvements in the meantime, as I am stopping for now. --Diannaa (Talk) 21:20, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyedit thoughts

message: Per this edit, are we in British English here? --John (talk) 21:22, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 22:06, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  ENGVAR 

message: I'm puzzled. 
* The single photo currently in the article is labelled "Launch of Izmail in 1915" but doesn't seem to show a launching - more like a ship under construction
* The photo on todays main page is labelled "Izmail under construction at the Baltic Works", yet looks to me like a ship being launched
And why is the latter photo not in the article at all? Davidships (talk) 19:55, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Because the photo's copyright is disputed. I don't believe that it is copyright free, but my request to delete it from commons was denied.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 23:16, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. I suppose that would apply to the first image as well, though I would think that a Fair Use argument for a lower res version could run on the basis of being the only know profile image. Davidships (talk) 23:51, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I suppose, but I found the resolution of fair use issues to be so arbitrary that I gave up years ago. I agree that it's a better image; if you want to take up the gauntlet so we can use it, feel free.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 16:24, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photos 

message: At present this article uses the American English forms "ruble" and "percent" instead of "rouble" and "per cent".  92.21.249.248 (talk) 07:33, 17 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spellings