Talk:SS Dixie Arrow

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✠ SunDawn ✠ (contact) 09:07, 8 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Peer review

I'll step in and focus on this article to improve it as much as possible - of course, others are more than welcome to join. GGOTCC (talk) 21:23, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Running list of helpful information, to be expanded:

- Before hitting A-grade, this article should meet GA status first. One of the most important aspects regards the sources - as of now, the article heavily relies on websites. Instead, it would be helpful to focus on written texts from Archive.org (search "Dixie Arrow" for texts) for more reliable information.

- My current mark of shame, User:GGOTCC/sandbox, is an article with a shocking similarity. While the refrence system is shot and is too long, it would be very benificial to see what additional information (ie. on the U-boat, the ship's design, economic context, quotes) can be added to this article. GGOTCC (talk) 22:00, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

- China Arrow and India Arrow are GA articles, and have great sources for this project.

- IMO, it may be best to first introduce the Arrow-class and its design before stating that the last was laid down as hull No # and named Dixie Arrow. I'm poking around now to see how much info I can dig up on the topic.

- Per WP:CITEKILL, the same simple information is refrenced by several diffrent sources. There is no need to cite several texts for a simple and undisputed fact. Instead, it would be best to cite the most reputable source, such as a book.

- Information in the Infobox should either be cited or mentioned by name in the text itself

- Please cite page numbers for books. You can use Template:RP to add the page number without needing to make a new citation.

Still, the article looks to be in good shape! With some effort, it can certainly be GA material! GGOTCC (talk) 21:57, 7 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Almost all of the books that I cite (minus War Zone, which I own) were taken from the National Register of Historic Places application. It cites books in-text, which is where I have cited them here, but I unfortunately do not have specific page numbers from said books, nor do I have the time or money to go digging around to find copies of the books to look for myself. I'll see if I can be more specific in the future if I am in that capacity. -Emily (PhoenixCaelestis) (talk) 12:38, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

As another note before I forget: The lead of the article (and the construction portion) says it was ordered by Socony-Vacuum, yet the ship was used by Standard Transportation Company. From my research, ownership transferred in 1931. I feel like we're missing something in this situation, like maybe STC was a subsidiary of Socony-Vacuum? I'm gonna try to do some digging on STC to see what I can find to hopefully clear this up. -Emily (PhoenixCaelestis) (talk) 12:42, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Update, I've found another good source here. Lloyd's of London's reigsters has a page full of documents on Dixie Arrow! https://hec.lrfoundation.org.uk/archive-library/ships/dixie-arrow-1921/search/ship-type:tanker-11791/page/26/view-as/list -Emily (PhoenixCaelestis) (talk) 14:17, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, good find! No worries about the page number if you can't find which one you are reading. While I do not have an exact source for this, it was very common to have a subsidary like STC operate a coperation's tankers for liability issues. And thanks for correcting a few of my mistakes, this article looks even better! GGOTCC (talk) 19:21, 8 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've found an article for the ship in German which we could add to the list of the same page in different languages (alas, I don't know how to do that). I've added tons of more sources and some more tidbits to the article in the meantime. -Emily (PhoenixCaelestis) (talk) 21:19, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Wonderful! You can link multiple languages of the same topic via Wikidata, but I'll do that now. GGOTCC (talk) 21:29, 10 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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I've listed this article for peer review because I want to know what specifically I should improve on this article to get it up to an even better rating than it is now. Any sort of feedback is appreciated. -Emily (PhoenixCaelestis) (talk) 21:20, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]