Talk:MV Argo Merchant

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Former good article nomineeMV Argo Merchant was a good articles nominee, but did not meet the good article criteria at the time. There may be suggestions below for improving the article. Once these issues have been addressed, the article can be renominated. Editors may also seek a reassessment of the decision if they believe there was a mistake.
Article milestones
DateProcessResult
March 30, 2006Good article nomineeNot listed
Did You Know
A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on March 2, 2006.
The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the Argo Merchant, a derelict oil tanker, ran aground only 25 miles off Nantucket Island in 1976, causing one of the largest oil spills in history?

Comment[edit]

Good little article. I would be very interested to learn more about what damage it did cause. Oil Spills are something I tend to think of as happening far away and having little to do with me, but this one was quite close. Kind of an eye opener. 129.119.250.132

Thank you for the praise :-) I'll see if I can find some information on the aftermath of that accident. Mstroeck 14:37, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Article needs a major expansion and a understantable lead as a normal reader including me won't get it, footnotes. Not a good article yet --152.163.100.138 22:24, 30 March 2006 (UTC) Steve Forbert wrote the OIL SONG about this distater, it really should have a mention in this article —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.42.114.151 (talk) 09:58, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Comp 38[edit]

What does Comp 38 mean, in the info box? -- RoySmith (talk) 00:07, 5 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

dunno....i just cleaned it up. --emerson7 02:05, 5 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Wave height and units[edit]

Those are enormous waves in the metric version. Do we have a citation for them? WIth regard to units, surely every distance should be in nautical miles? Other measurements, if converted, may be in any unit. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 17:13, 4 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

inasmuch as the entire article is written using standard si units, it is only logical--and in accordance with mos guidelines--to continue using metric units. also i made the necessary corrections to the approximate wave height, and provided the appropriate reference. --emerson7 22:47, 4 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
Looks much more consistent now. :) Fiddle Faddle (talk) 08:26, 5 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
I just corrected what I hope is the last non nautical mile navigational reference in the article to nautical miles. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 10:23, 18 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
If you are set on "correcting" an event reported in gallons and feet to SI units, you have more work to do. In spite of what you Brits say, the article started out in English units. Gallons are still reported, with liters in parenths. My objection is the original reports were all made in feet and gallons. They were ridiculously changed to metric, where a gross error was inserted. As a person who was on the scene, I know. So feel free to remove the reference to gallons. And also that the crew was evacuated to USCGC Sherman. After all, you guys are all about form, not content! User:MBarrieauMBarrieau (talk) 19:37, 21 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]
That you know something is useful. But this project requires facts to be cited. So being on the scene is interesting, perhaps praiseworthy depending upon your role, and knowing facts is good, but facts are useless if not cited in a reliable source. The project has a preference for SI Units. That may be weird, even unhelpful, but it is the project. Frankly I don't care a jot except for navigational distances to be in nautical miles. Nor should you care. Wikipedia is a social experiment and an encyclopaedia. It does Ok, but it isn't perfect. It works by consensus. Most consensus building is done without getting cross with other folk here. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 22:40, 21 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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