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Neutrality and formality of writing[edit]

This whole article reads like the dreadnought itself wrote its own Wikipedia article - full of inflated claims of importance unbacked.

It’s also informally written. The word “ironically” shouldn’t appear in a wiki article, and sentence structure devices like “In fact” also do not have a place in these articles. Someone needs to purge this article of this style of writing, and make it sound less like a story by your grandad all about his favourite ship 79.66.8.116 (talk) 21:15, 28 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Feel free to WP:FIXIT. - wolf 02:19, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Claims[edit]

It is stated that at 21 knots it was the world's fastest battleship. I find that difficult to believe. What speed did it achieve on trials? Is there an accurate source? the Austro-Hungarian navy had two classes of battleships at the time both achieving 20.5 knots in their sea trials. I have not examined the German navy. 2A00:23C4:B617:7D01:D52F:F40B:EDF:9DF2 (talk) 12:46, 14 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

21.6 knots average speed over 4 trials at the Polperro measured mile on 9 October 1906.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 14:23, 14 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]