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SS Morro Castle

Since I uploaded my initial major revision of this article in late-March of 2005, I have been polishing its wording and contents. Now, I would appreciate comments, suggestions, and improvements to this article in hopes of eventually nominating it to Featured Article status.
Bart 01:16, 23 December 2005 (UTC)

This is a very nice looking article but it needs some work before it should go up on FAC.

• The first major problem that needs to be worked on is the lack of references. Your notes only come from the Hal Burton book though you mention the book by Thomas and Morgan in the text. Perhaps see what information you can glean from that book as well as the external links and whatever else you may find at your local library. I have a book that includes the Morro Castle and I'll see what I can find and add. Another source might be period newspaper coverage of the incident. If you have access to a public library they would likely have back editions of major nearby newspaper (perhaps major Chicago papers since you are near there) and many libaries also have the NY Times on microfilm. Are the papers of any of the inquiries published? If they are available you might request them through Interlibrary Loan.
• The article seems to be too heavy on the disaster with too little information on the ship. Next to nothing is said on the subject of the ship's interiors as well as amenities. The first link in the external links section has postcards of interiors. I'm not sure what their copyright status is, but you might consider emailing the article's author and asking permission to use a few images.
• I cannot find the total number of crew onboard at the time of the disaster.
• There is also a discrepency in the total casualties. 137 in the intro and 135 in the last paragraph of the disaster section. In addition, one of the links states 133. Which is correct?
• There is a mention of inquiries into the disaster. By whom?
• The Contributing Factors to the Fire section should be in prose.
• Neither of the images you have used have copyright tags.
• A few more images would certainly be nice, especially one of the shots of the Morro Castle after it beached itself in Asbury Park. The library of Congress has two available images of the ship. Go to LOC Prints and Photograph Division search page and type in Morro Castle and a number of images come up. Most of the ship are restricted, but there are two that might be helpful.
• Be very wary of POV statements especially in the disaster section. Certainly the line about "gallant heroes and shameless cowards among both the passengers and crew" is just a bit POV.
• Did the disaster have any impact on the Ward Line or other lines of this period?

Truly a very good start to this article. I look forward to seeing this fully worked up to FA status! *Exeunt* Ganymead | Dialogue? 08:52, 23 December 2005 (UTC)