Talk:Battle of Elli

Source of image

The photograph shown needs a source. Never mind copyright, how do we know that this is indeed a ship that took part in the battle?   Andreas   ^(T) 16:26, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

The painting is the "Battle of Elli" (1913) by Vassileios Chatzis, from the Naval Museum of Greece, in Piraeus. Chatzis died in 1915, and the painting is in public display in a museum, hence in the public domain. I am adding the relevant information to the image summary. Cplakidas 16:50, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

Thank you for sourcing it! It is a nice painting reflecting the battle.Argos'Dad 20:56, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

• "Naval Battle of Elli" -Llc 1
• "Battle of Elli" -Llc ?

Takabeg (talk) 06:11, 18 July 2011 (UTC)

Turkish order of battle

Wanting to distinguish between "battleship", "pre-draughtnaught battleship" and "ironclad" (also called "ironclad battleship") as these differences matter. There's quite a difference between a turret ship built in 1870, a battleship built in 1890, and the 'USS Iowa, and using the same term doesn't help the reader visualize what we're dealing with here.

At the Battle of Lemnos, the Turks had (according to that article) 3 capital ships:

• Ottoman battleship Barbaros Hayreddin, a pre-dreadnaught
• Ottoman battleship Turgut Reis, a pre-dreadnaught
• Ottoman ironclad Mesudiye, an ironclad, or ironclad batteship if you prefer

At this article (Battle of Elli), the infobox says 3 "battleships" and 1 "ironclad", thus one additional capital ship. They are:

• Barbaros Hayreddin
• Turgut Reis]
• Mesudiye
• ????

What's the fourth ship? Are the infobox's three battlships the Barbaros Hayreddin, Turgut Reis, and Mesudiye, with a forth ship being the "ironclad"? Or are two of the battleships being Barbaros Hayreddin and Turgut Reis, the Mesudiye being the ironclad, and the Turks having an additional pre-dreadnaught battleship? I can't correct the infobox until I find this out. Herostratus (talk) 18:52, 21 October 2021 (UTC)

Liberate?

"Greeks who were now free to liberate the islands of Lesbos, Chios, Lemnos and Samos and others." Were the islands Greek land invaded by the Ottomans during the war? Liberate is a loaded word. I propose changing it with "invade" or "capture". Eleman (talk) 17:08, 8 July 2025 (UTC)

CE

Expanded, cited sources and improved the quality of the article ArchivioItalia ✉ 09:46, 8 July 2026 (UTC)

For the B-class assessment there are two issues:

• Expand the lead to better reflect the content of the main body, a couple of statements/sentences will do. At the moment the lead does not summarize the content adequately enough.
• The quote starting "I am obliged to advise..." appears to be two different quotes not one. Please rewrite as the current version is confusing.

I also made some minor copyedits, please double check. A.Cython(talk) 01:35, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

A.Cython the issues are fixed please have a look ArchivioItalia ✉ 03:30, 9 July 2026 (UTC)

@ArchivioItalia: I made a few more c/e and upgraded to B-class. Please note that each term needs to be wikilinked once in the lead, once in the infobox, and once in the main body per WP:OVERLINK and MOS:DUPLINK.A.Cython(talk) 03:54, 9 July 2026 (UTC)