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Did You Know A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on September 22, 2010.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that of the nine British battlecruisers built before World War I only Tiger was retained by the Royal Navy after the tonnage limits of the Washington Naval Treaty came into effect in 1922?
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Areas for improvement

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Well, I say areas, the main issue that would prevent going to ACR/FLC for the moment is a lack of citations in the lead. You need to make sure that you cite everything in the introductory paragraph. For lists, these tend to make up the majority of text though I do understand that most of the information is covered already by citations in the individual sections. A little gripe though, excellent work so far. Regards, Woody (talk) 18:45, 15 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

HMAS Australia

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Is there any reason why HMAS Australia is in this list? She was always a unit of the Royal Australian Navy and was under the ultimate control of the Australian Government. I think that she should be removed as she was in no meaningful sense a "battlecruiser of the Royal Navy". Nick-D (talk) 09:47, 18 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Very good point. Done.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 13:44, 18 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks for that. I've just tweaked the text so that Australia is specified as 'HMAS' and New Zealand as HMS. Nick-D (talk) 23:50, 18 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Table wrapping

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With regard to my comment at FLC here is why I feel there is a problem:

Current tables
Ship Main guns Armour Displacement Propulsion Service
Laid down Commissioned Fate
HMS Indefatigable 8 × 12 in (305 mm)[1] 6 in (152 mm)[2] 22,430 long tons (22,790 t)[3] 4 screws, steam turbines, 25 kn (46 km/h; 29 mph)[4] 23 February 1909[5] 24 February 1911[5] Exploded at the Battle of Jutland, 1916[6]
HMS New Zealand 20 June 1910[5] 19 November 1912[5] Sold for scrap, 19 December 1922[7]
Ship Main guns Armour Displacement Propulsion Service
Laid down Commissioned Fate
HMS Queen Mary 8 × 13.5 in (343 mm)[1] 9 in (229 mm)[2] 31,844 long tons (32,355 t)[8] 4 screws, steam turbines, 28 kn (52 km/h; 32 mph)[4] 6 March 1911[5] 4 September 1913[5] Exploded at the Battle of Jutland, 1916[7]
Wrapping without convert and with a few  
Ship Main guns Armour Displacement Propulsion Service
Laid down Commissioned Fate
HMS Indefatigable 8 × 12 in (305 mm)[1] 6 in (152 mm)[2] 22,430 long tons (22,790 t)[3] 4 screws, steam turbines, 25 kn (46 km/h; 29 mph)[4] 23 February 1909[5] 24 February 1911[5] Exploded at the Battle of Jutland, 1916[6]
HMS New Zealand 20 June 1910[5] 19 November 1912[5] Sold for scrap, 19 December 1922[7]
Ship Main guns Armour Displacement Propulsion Service
Laid down Commissioned Fate
HMS Queen Mary 8 × 13.5 in (343 mm)[1] 9 in (229 mm)[2] 31,844 long tons (32,355 t)[8] 4 screws, steam turbines, 28 kn (52 km/h; 32 mph)[4] 6 March 1911[5] 4 September 1913[5] Exploded at the Battle of Jutland, 1916[7]

See the difference when you change the width of the screen. The second set of tables is much more readable. Rambo's Revenge (talk) 09:56, 12 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This was resolved after discussion here and can be solved by using abbr=mos instead of abbr=on. Rambo's Revenge (talk) 16:49, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

References

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  3. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference r44 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ a b c d Cite error: The named reference r76 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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  6. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference r122 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ a b c d Roberts, p. 123
  8. ^ a b Roberts, p. 45