Template:Did you know nominations/Sevastopol Radar Station

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The result was: promoted by PFHLai (talk) 15:26, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

Sevastopol Radar Station[edit]

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... that Russia stopped using the missile defence radar in Sevastopol, Ukraine because it was being jammed by fishing boats?

Reviewed: Maison Alcan
Comment: There's more to it, of course, but the article covers that..

Created/expanded by Secretlondon (talk). Self nom at 01:19, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

New enough, long enough, well-written and well-sourced. One concern, however, re the hook: the article makes clear that the jamming by fishing boats was a supplementary reason, and that the primary issue was the station being under Ukrainian rather than Russian control. Hence the hook is somewhat misleading, if not actually wrong. I would suggest altering it to say something like "one of the reasons Russia stopped...". Constantine ✍ 08:14, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Also, looking at Dnestr radar, there appear to have been several earlier Dnepr-type radar stations. Admittedly some of them appear to have been modernized from the Dnestr type, but the issue of what was built and modernized when is a bit unclear. Were the other stations modernized after 1979, or was the Sevastopol station the second Dnepr to be expressly built as such? Constantine ✍ 08:20, 12 July 2012 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your detailed feedback - greatly appreciated (as this is how I improve). I need to do more work on the dnestr radar article, I have the notes - it's a matter of writing them up. I'll have time to work on this at the weekend. Secretlondon (talk) 01:23, 13 July 2012 (UTC)

I've taken out the second Dnepr claim - it was from one source which said it was the second to be built as a Dnepr rather than converted from a Dnestr-M, but no-one else seems to say that. I agree with your amendment to the hook. I think everyone has different interpretations on how eye catching the hook should be, and we've had quite a few that are totally misleading, which doesn't do the project's credibility any good. Secretlondon (talk) 01:11, 15 July 2012 (UTC)

ALT1... that one of the reasons Russia stopped using the missile defence radar in Sevastopol, Ukraine was because it was being jammed by fishing boats?

All right then, good to go for ALT1! IMO the claim about being the second directly built radar of the type can remain, since it is sourced, but it's your call. Constantine ✍ 07:51, 15 July 2012 (UTC)