Talk:SMS Iltis (1898)

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GA review

Passed. Matarisvan (talk) 19:50, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

This review is transcluded from Talk:SMS Iltis (1898)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Nominator: Parsecboy (talk · contribs) 18:47, 25 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Reviewer: Matarisvan (talk · contribs) 08:19, 3 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Parsecboy, I will do this review. Could you please do the GA review for Vinod Bhatia as QPQ? No problems if not. Cheers Matarisvan (talk) 08:19, 3 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Parsecboy, the image, source and prose reviews all check out. I took the liberty to make some edits, I hope those are alright. A few comments:

Does this link ([1]) have the Times issue (28/01/03) we have cited? I think it does. If confirmed, can this link be added?

I'd guess so, though Takvaal added the text and source here - perhaps they can confirm (or provide a different link if there's another they used)?

Doesn't Iltis mean polecat in German? There is no mention of this fact on this article or the Iltis 1878 article. However, this is a relatively minor issue.

Yes, I've added it to both articles

Could you please paste here the supporting texts for refs #8, #9, and #20 for spot checks?

It appears that #8 is not viewable in Google Books anymore (though embarrassingly, in looking it up I discovered that Perry was just the illustrator, not the author of that book!). I'm currently out of town, so the other 2 will need to wait. I do have a scan of the main Hildebrand source for this article (the chapter in Vol. 4), so if you want something from that, I can provide that. Parsecboy (talk) 13:09, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

This is all from my end. Cheers Matarisvan (talk) 12:25, 5 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Parsecboy, Takvaal has not responded on here despite being active. You should decide now whether to add the link. On the namesake point, the details have been added only to the Iltis 1878 article and not here. For the spot checks, #19 and #20 would suffice. Cheers Matarisvan (talk) 19:24, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I added the namesake to this article here

For the spot checks, the relevant passages are:

(for #19): 1914 war Iltis nach einem rund sechswoechigen Aufenthalt in Schanghai am 15. 6. nach Tsingtau zurueckgekehrt, um dort, obgleich ihre Ausserdienststellung vorgesehen war, sobald die im Bau befindliche Meteor an ihre Stelle treten konnte, laengere Reparaturarbeiten ausfuehren zu lassen. Mit Kriegsausbruch wurde der Kommandant, K Sachsse, vom Gouverneur von Kiautschou, KzS Meyer-Waldeck, mit der Leitung der "Etappe Tsingtau" beauftragt. Ein Teil der Iltis-Besatzung ging an Bord des als Hilfskreuzer Cormoran ausgeruesteten, von Emden gekaperten russischen Dampfers Rjaesan.

(for #20): Nach Kriegausbruch brachte Emden am 4. 8. den Dampfer Rjaesan der russischen Freiwilligen-Flotte als erste Prise auf und lief mit ihr am 6. 8. in Tsingtau ein. Am gleichen Tage stellte das Kanonenboot ausser Dienst und ruestete den Dampfer bis zum 10. 8. als Hilfskreuzer Cormoran aus. Die Besatzung wurde durch Angehoerige der aufgelegten Kanonenboote Iltis und Vaterland siwue durch Reservisten und Kriegsfreiwillige verstaerkt.

Let me know if there's anything else you need. Parsecboy (talk) 19:37, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Parsecboy, the spot checks check out. The article has now been promoted to GA. Cheers Matarisvan (talk) 19:50, 6 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.