User talk:SpanCan
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MV Rapana[edit]
I have read this article to review it for the military history project. I suggest a revision of the repeated use of the word "she" with reference to the ship. Please see Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Military history#Pronouns, a page that I suspect a new user is quite unlikely to know about. That section is brief and includes "Try to avoid close, successive uses of the same referent for a ship by carefully using a number of referents in rotation; for example, "it/she", "the ship", and the ship's name." The full article has helpful information about the style of military history articles. I suggest two other small changes: Rapana should be italicized in the lead, which you do in all the other occurrences of the name. I would add "torpedo bomber" after the first use of "Swordfish." Otherwise the reader who does not recognize the type of aircraft might follow the link rather than continuing to read the article without interruption. Coordinators will sometimes make minor changes in articles such as these but I think that as a new user, you may want to make them yourself. You have done a good job in improving this article. I think it is B class and I will rate it as such after you work on these style changes. Donner60 (talk) 10:26, 24 February 2024 (UTC) Adding one other note: The article on World War II is titled that way. It would be best to refer to it that way, not World War 2, and link the first use. Some editors use Second World War in the alternative but if it is used first it should be piped [[World War II|Second World War]]. Second World War will be redirected if linked but it is better style to do it through a direct piped link. Donner60 (talk) 10:37, 24 February 2024 (UTC)