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Ship infoboxes

Please read Template:Infobox_ship_begin/Usage_guide, especially the parts labeled Ship name and Ship identification.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 17:46, 14 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Please stop adding "USS" to the Ship name= section of ship infoboxes. A ship prefix is not part of the ship's name, and in addition including it here makes it italicised, which it is not (USS Hawaii = wrong, USS Hawaii = right, Hawaii = all that needs to go into 'Ship name='.) - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 20:56, 17 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have just used an automated script to go through the list of your edits and repaired the faulty |Ship name= and |Ship badge= parameters in many of your edits. Please, read Template:Infobox_ship_begin/Usage_guide. It tells you pretty much everything you need to know about ship article infoboxes. Got questions that aren't answered there? Ask them at WT:SHIPS. The editors there will help you.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 23:03, 17 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Moved from User talk:Trappist the monk

When replying to a post on a talk page, it is generally better to make that reply on the same page so that the conversation doesn't become fragmented. So, I've copied your post on my talk page to here and will reply to it here. You wrote:

Trappist-I have already had someone bring this up like an hour before and have since stopped (even though I have seen a ton of articles with "USS" in the name). I have just been trying to standardize the info boxes somewhat but again I have omitted the "USS" from my future revisions. Also what "|Ship badge=" was wrong? I did find one on USS Cavalla but I fixed it. I normally check everyone I edit so i'm sorry I missed one. I'm sorry if I sound blunt i'm just trying to let you know I don't mean to do all this "willy-nilly" so to speak. 85 GT Kid (talk) 00:21, 18 April 2014 (UTC)

The purpose of Template:Infobox ship begin/Usage guide is to promote a uniform look to infoboxes in ship articles. It is the result of a lot of hours of discussion and editing by members of the WP:SHIPS project. So, if you are going to standardize stuff in infoboxes, standardize in accordance with the guideline. The guideline is just that though, a guide. For example, while the guideline doesn't say it, if the infobox has a caption that is the ship's name, see USS Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. (DD-850) for example, then that name need not be in |Ship name= because it's redundant. In fact, were I you and were I undertaking the task of standardizing ship infoboxes, instead of adding the ship's name to |Ship name=, I'd be adding |infobox caption=yes to {{Infobox ship begin}} when the infobox isn't captioned. The caption is very helpful to those who read Wikipedia with a screen reader program.

Infoboxes in ship articles are set to just a hair wider than 300 pixels. This accommodates a 300 pixel image and gives enough room for the information in the infobox. When you add a ship's badge image and specify its size as thumb, the image and the boarder that thumb adds increases the width of the infobox. To repair the infoboxes to which you had added these thumbnailed images, I replaced thumb with 180px. That removed the boarder and set the image to a size that doesn't change the overall width of the infobox.

I am a bit concerned about the ship badge images. Have you obtained the copyright owner's permission to post the images on Wikipedia? I know practically nothing about image use and copyright issues but I suspect that there are editors at WT:SHIPS who do. I think that you should ask there if you can or should continue to add ship badges from NavSource.

—Trappist the monk (talk) 11:03, 18 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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I had noticed that on the captons but never thought of that. I will try doing that from now on. Thank you for the pixel idea I couldn't figure out how to get it smaller except for using "thumb" so again thank you I will fix that from now on. I reread the guidelines again and I think I am but I did post on the Ships Talk page for help. Sorry I meant to check that link. Thanks for the help!--85 GT Kid (talk) 14:16, 18 April 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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AustralianRupert (talk) 00:36, 31 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination of USS South Dakota (BB-49) for deletion

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Hey Nigel yes it does need to be deleted as i finally found the "(BB-49)" one. It was on a redirect page and so I had a hard time finding it but I have since added info to that page instead. Thanks for the help. 85 GT Kid (talk) 13:13, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]