Template:Did you know nominations/Saphir-class submarine (1928)

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The result was: withdrawn by nominator, closed by L293D (☎ • ✎) 15:06, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

Saphir-class submarine (1928)

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Scale model of Saphir

• ... that Saphir-class submarines (pictured) had an automatic depth regulator that flooded ballast tanks after mines were dropped to prevent the risk of surfacing in enemy waters? Source: http://www.sous-mama.org/diamand-nautilus-perle-rubis-saphir-turquoise-les-sous-marins-de-la-serie-des-pierres-precieuses--blog-242.html
  • ALT1: ... that Saphir-class submarines (pictured) were named after precious stones, except for Nautilus, which was named after a fictional submarine in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea? Source: https://web.archive.org/web/20131104151301/http://sous-marin.france.pagesperso-orange.fr/Q152.htm

• Reviewed: Did you know nominations/Kauhakō Crater

Created by L293D (talk). Self-nominated at 16:19, 10 October 2018 (UTC).

• - Length, Date, Earwigs, and QPQ check. Foreign language ref accepted AGF. Image is freely licensed by a Wikimedian. Best, Mifter (talk) 05:24, 21 November 2018 (UTC)

• @Mifter: the source for ALT0 isn't very reliable, so I propose ALT1 instead. Could you re-review ALT1, please? L293D (☎ • ✎) 15:53, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

- L293D - happy to re-review. Looking at it, we would need to add a direct cite to the description of the Nautilus' naming and also a direct mention and cite in the prose describing that all other ships in the class were named for gems. Also, as one paragraph is tagged with "better source needed" we would need to resolve that as well. Best, Mifter (talk) 17:16, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

@Mifter: I believe I've fixed the issues you raised. L293D (☎ • ✎) 01:57, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

L293D - we just need an in-line cite to a source saying that Nautilus is named after the Jules Verne submarine and we will be good to go. Best, Mifter (talk) 02:55, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

Done. L293D (☎ • ✎) 03:02, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

- Great, looks good to go. ALT1 approved. Mifter (talk) 07:53, 8 December 2018 (UTC)

• Returned from prep. There is no source in the article for either of these facts. There is a hidden note stating that the part about being named after precious stones is an assumption, which is OR. Footnote 5 states that Nautilus was named in honor of the centenary of Jules Verne. The article needs to be corrected, and a new hook offered. Yoninah (talk) 14:47, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

• I don't have any interesting alts, so I'm withdrawing this. I'll have to be more careful when nominating submarine articles with hooks about namesakes. I will also withdraw Template:did you know nominations/French submarine Dauphin (1925) for the same reason. L293D (☎ • ✎) 15:06, 12 December 2018 (UTC)