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The result was: promoted by Callanecc (talk • contribs • logs) 10:15, 2 April 2014 (UTC)

• ... that the Andrea Doria-class battleship (pictured) spent the First World War in a bottle?
• ALT 1: ... that Italy's Andrea Doria-class battleships (lead ship pictured) were attacked by Swordfish during the Battle of Taranto?

• Comment: File:Italian battleship Andrea Doria.jpg could be an alternative image

Improved to Good Article status by Sturmvogel 66 (talk), Parsecboy (talk). Nominated by Matty.007 (talk) at 19:23, 11 March 2014 (UTC).

• Raised to good article status on 10 March. Clearly well-cited and long enough. Not a self-nom so no quid pro quo requirement. The image is in the public domain, but it's not particularly illuminating at small size—might be better to let another article handle the photo.

The hook doesn't work, unfortunately. The battleships (plural) spent WWI bottling up the Austro-Hungarian Navy rather than being bottled up (which I'm not sure you could call being in a bottle anyway). I added a new one which is also playful; the sentence which mentions the Swordfish doesn't have its own citation, but I'm sure I could find one. —Neil 12:37, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

Alt looks good, thanks. This needs another reviewer. Thanks, Matty.007 16:55, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

The alt hook meets the DYK requirements. It's a great article.--Khanate General ☪ talk ^{project mongol conquests} 03:59, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

Thank you for the review, but in it you need to say what you have addressed (for example, no close paraphrasing found). Thanks, Matty.007 08:55, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

• ALT1 hook needs specific review, including inline sourcing, neutrality, etc. Original review does not mention many DYK characteristics, including close paraphrasing checks; should not depend on GA review for all this but do own spot-checks. BlueMoonset (talk) 01:27, 28 March 2014 (UTC)

I think this is good to go on AGF, due to all sourcing being offline, footnotes that refer to books in the bibliography. I don't know of any way to check for copyvio/paraphrasing under those circumstances. It seems to be a rather neutral article with detailed specs about this class of ship. The ships involved didn't really see any war combat action, and where they were later in service it's only mentioned that they were present for any given circumstance. I'd say this is a detailed, neutral article. The hook is mentioned in the article and sourced thusly: The two ships joined the 5th Division based at Taranto. Caio Duilio participated in a patrol intended to catch the British battleship HMS Valiant and a convoy bound for Malta, but neither target was found. She and Andrea Doria were present during the British attack on Taranto on the night of 11–12 November 1940. A force of twenty-one Fairey Swordfish torpedo-bombers, launched from HMS Illustrious, attacked the ships moored in the harbor. Andrea Doria was undamaged in the raid, but Caio Duilio was hit by a torpedo on her starboard side. She was grounded to prevent her from sinking in the harbor and temporary repairs were effected to allow her to travel to Genoa for permanent repairs, which began in January 1941.[27][28] Every paragraph is sourced, and this article looks really well written. This is good to go, I think. — Maile (talk) 16:59, 1 April 2014 (UTC)