Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ships/Archive 3

Ship portal

I was wondering if there is a ship portal,now that these portals are becoming more common it would be a good way to attrack new people to this poject.It would also give people a nice overview.(The transport portal currently already links to cars/trains/aviation portals. --213.224.243.109 22:20, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Articles for the Wikipedia 1.0 project

Hi, I'm a member of the Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team, which is looking to identify quality articles in Wikipedia for future publication on CD or paper. We recently began assessing using these criteria, and we are looking for A-class, B-class, and Good articles, with no POV or copyright problems. Can you recommend any suitable articles? Please post your suggestions here. Thanks a lot! Gflores ^Talk 17:40, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

Userbox

This user is a member of WikiProject Ships.

What do you think? To add it to your user page, type "{{User ships}}" -- §HurricaneERIC§^Damagesarchive 01:45, 14 February 2006 (UTC)

Inserting an image

Many ship image pages (see example) contain: (1) the statement "This image is a temporary placeholder for articles(mostly those utilizing the table from Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships/Tables) which still need a picture to illustrate them. You can help by uploading an image for any of the articles listed below under 'File links'"; followed by (2) much File History and File Links that seem irrelevant once an image is inserted. In inserting an image, one may therefore delete all that, right? -- Mccomb 12:00, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Commisioned?

We have an article on the X-1 Submarine, which was moved from USS X-1 on the grounds that she apparently wasn't commisioned. The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships only refers to her being "placed in service" [1]. We've had an email from an ex-crewmember, who referred to her as a commissioned sub; does anyone know for sure one way or the other? Shimgray | talk | 19:14, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

The ex-crewmember is almost certainly mistaken. Every Navy site refers to her as having been "placed in service" and none of them give her the "USS" prefix, including both DANFS and the NVR. Contrary-wise, every site that mentions her "commissioning" or tacks "USS" on is an unofficial, amateur site. ➥the Epopt 21:06, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Thanks; I'll pass that on if he gets back in touch. Is there a standard printed source other than the DANFS, like Colledge is for the RN, incidentally? Shimgray | talk | 21:10, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

Anyone willing to help improve Submarine?

I thought this might be the place with people with knowledge on the subject so if anyone can help take a look at : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Submarine#Plans_to_improve_the_article and help him out.

This is a pretty top level article so it might as well be the finest on wikipedia --Technosphere83 22:12, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

How Do I ...

I've posted articles on four post-WWII Navy ships, and I'm interested in posting some more. So far I've just modeled the articles on a few other ship articles. But you guys seem to have some standards, maybe some way to automate the table, etc. How do I find out about this stuff?

BTW, it took me a while to figure out what the blue Navy jack image is. It loses a lot by being printed on the blue background. Maybe it needs a white border, as someone suggested for one of the UK jacks. Lou Sander 21:31, 25 April 2006 (UTC)

Besides the templates on the main page, there are no commonly used standarts. Changing an image would require some discussion to make sure nobody has specific ideas about its color. CP/M