Talk:Capture of Lemnos

Capture of Lemnos has been listed as one of the Warfare good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it.
Review: January 27, 2023. (Reviewed version).

Military history: Maritime / Balkan / European / Ottoman

This article is within the scope of the Military history WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks. To use this banner, please see the full instructions.Military historyWikipedia:WikiProject Military historyTemplate:WikiProject Military historymilitary history articles

Associated task forces:
/
	Maritime warfare task force
	Balkan military history task force (c. 500–present)
	European military history task force
	Ottoman military history task force

Greece Low‑importance

	Greece portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Greece, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Greek history on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.GreeceWikipedia:WikiProject GreeceTemplate:WikiProject GreeceGreek articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

Former countries: Ottoman Empire

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Former countries, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of defunct states and territories (and their subdivisions). If you would like to participate, please join the project.Former countriesWikipedia:WikiProject Former countriesTemplate:WikiProject Former countriesformer country articles
	This article is supported by WikiProject Ottoman Empire (assessed as Low-importance).

A fact from Capture of Lemnos appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 9 March 2023 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that during the First Balkan War, the capture of Lemnos by the Greek navy enabled it to blockade the Dardanelles?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2023/March. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Capture of Lemnos (1912).

Wikipedia

GA Review[edit]

Passed. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 03:04, 27 January 2023 (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:Capture of Lemnos (1912)/GA1. The edit link for this section can be used to add comments to the review.

Reviewer: Iazyges (talk · contribs) 02:36, 27 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Criteria[edit]

GA Criteria

GA Criteria:

1
1.a Y

1.b Y
2
2.a Y

2.b Y

2.c Y

2.d Y
3
3.a Y

3.b Y
4
4.a Y
5
5.a Y
6
6.a Y

6.b Y

No DAB links Y
No dead links Y
No missing citations Y

Discussion[edit]

Spotchecks performed; no issues found. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 02:41, 27 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Prose Suggestions[edit]

Please note that almost all of these are suggestions, and can be implemented or ignored at your discretion. Any changes I deem necessary for the article to pass GA standards I will bold.

Capture of Lemnos[edit]

but insisted on getting the consent of the British government for this first. suggest changing getting to obtaining
@Cplakidas: That is my only suggestion, although I have made some copyedits, feel free to revert any you dislike. Passing now. Iazyges Consermonor Opus meum 03:04, 27 January 2023 (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.

Did you know nomination[edit]

The following is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify this page. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Cielquiparle (talk) 10:12, 26 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

(

Comment or view
Article history

)

... that during the First Balkan War, the almost unopposed capture of Lemnos by the Greek navy enabled it to blockade the Dardanelles? Source: Summary of the article, including Hall's quote "The conquest of Lemnos effectively closed the Dardanelles."
- ALT1: ... that although proposed by naval strategists for years beforehand, the capture of Lemnos by the Greek navy was decided on only upon the outbreak of the First Balkan War? Source: Summary of Background section. More specifically, Fotakis, pp. 47-48: "It is not clear who originally introduced the idea of the occupation of Lemnos instead of developing the war anchorage at Oreus. All available evidence points to the fact that Coundouriotes, with his customary courage, pressed the adoption of this idea upon a circumspect Venizelos....Having reached a decision on the occupation of Lemnos, the Greek fleet sailed towards the Dardanelles on 18 October"
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Myron Levoy

Improved to Good Article status by Cplakidas (talk). Self-nominated at 12:35, 28 January 2023 (UTC). Note: As of October 2022, all changes made to promoted hooks will be logged by a bot. The log for this nomination can be found at Template talk:Did you know nominations/Capture of Lemnos (1912), so please watch a successfully closed nomination until the hook appears on the Main Page.[reply]

Article meets criteria and QPQ done. ALT0 is better, but I would go:

... that during the First Balkan War, the capture of Lemnos by the Greek navy enabled it to blockade the Dardanelles?

Srnec (talk) 20:16, 28 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Srnec's suggestion is fine by me, that was my original draft for ALT0 either way :D. Constantine ✍ 13:03, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]