Talk:Watson-class lifeboat

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Watson split

I think its time this section was split into two separate pages.

Watson-class (P&S) lifeboats
Watson-class (motor) lifeboats

Not sure I dare do this.

Any addition or correction I make gets instantly re-edited, even though there are plenty of other corrections needed, which get ignored.

And you wonder why I take it personally!

MartinOjsyork (talk) 17:39, 16 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have been pondering the same thing myself while I have been expanding and editing the page. It would mean that all the pages that were created by @Ambak51: for the different lengths would need to be merged back into the new motor lifeboats page.

Wiki naming policy for disambiguating titles and avoiding acronyms would require:

Watson-class pulling and sailing lifeboat
Watson-class motor lifeboat

Geof Sheppard (talk) 12:55, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Don't see why it would all need remerging.

Separate off Pulling and Sailing.

And create a list page like we have for RNLI stations, for all the different motor pages.

MartinOjsyork (talk) 13:19, 17 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

It doesn't seem to make sense that this page should have two of the lists but readers have to go elsewhere to find the details of others. If I want to find out a bout Watson-class RNLB Charles Henry Ashley, which page do I go to?.

If there really is a need to split the motor lifeboats into smaller pages then I think we should take a step back and consider how the different designs relate. Is it that there are just three, each produced with two or more lengths?

Single-engine petrol lifeboats
Twin-engine petrol lifeboats
Diesel-engined lifeboats

Fewer pages; similar designs and build dates are grouped together; less confusion. Geof Sheppard (talk) 13:11, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There's already a Liver-class P&S lifeboat page

So no reason why we can't have a Watson-class P&S lifeboat page

Lets split that off, and then we can review whats left.

MartinOjsyork (talk) 17:25, 18 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]