Talk:List of U-boats

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I originally intended this as a simple list of U-boats with articles. I see no reason to include over a thousand links to nonexistent articles. Now another user has begun to add these links. I'd like to hear from others on what they believe this page should be. --Pascal666 02:07, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Shouldn't this list be divided into World War I and World War II U-boats? Gdr 16:18, 2004 Oct 18 (UTC)

This list really must be divided into WWI boats, WWII boats, and post-WWII boats. The numbering started again from 1 after Germany had to surrender all U-boats after WWI and again after WWII, and so we will have numerous duplicate numbers here. The current listing of multiple years after various U-boat numbers is not very helpful.Cosal 03:16, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

A red link provides the incentive to write an article. Without a red links the gaps are not nearly as obvious. Jooler 12:35, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Red links should be included. Categories, unlike lists, link only to existing articles. Gene Nygaard 17:36, 25 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• This list is silly, there's no way to keep it always up to date any time someone adds an article about one of the thousands of U-bots. They are being kept track of using categories, but I just can't figure out a way to include the categories in the article so I'm leaving the list as it is, very incomplete.Elfguy 00:29, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

I agree, categories are much better than lists. They just didn't exist when I created this page. Now that they do, I'd love to see all lists (including this one) get deleted. --Pascal666 00:16, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

I disagree a list can be much more informative than a category. You can put notes beside each entry () as in when commissioned and when decommisioned and sunk etc.. Jooler 00:17, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

• Which is why it should just be the complete list, red links and all. Jooler 09:02, 6 August 2005 (UTC)

I added some more uboats, I hope someone will find the infomation usefull. Nomble 03:00, 30 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] naming?

(moved from Talk:Unterseeboot 754 to get more input) Wikipedia:Naming_conventions#Use_common_names_of_persons_and_things suggests (by my reading) that this article be moved to U-754. Thoughts? Good job with a great first draft, btw! --Kchase02 T 00:15, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

Thats odd, beacuse the general rule at List of U-boats seems to be the opposite.--Jackyd101 07:43, 11 June 2006 (UTC) Actually, just read further, this page:Wikipedia:Naming conventions (ships) explains that it should be spelt out, although U-754 should redirect here.

It may be an interpretation of the naming convention two down about acronyms. The expanded version being Wikipedia:Naming conventions (acronyms). I'm not sure what's appropriate now. If it's a bunch of work, I'd suggest just leaving it and creating redirects for all the articles, though that's a lot of work, too, so perhaps more guidance first.--Kchase02 T 07:54, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

(edit conflict) Jackyd added this to the other page: Actually, just read further, this page:Wikipedia:Naming conventions (ships) explains that it should be spelt out, although U-754 should redirect here. I think that closes the issue.--Kchase02 T 07:57, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The List

Really, each U-boat which saw service should have its own individual page. This is clearly a lot of pages, since in the First World War there were 167 "U-class" boats, 155 "UB-class" boats and 114 "UC-class" boats (although probably only 2/3 of these saw active service) whilst in the Second World War there were over 1,000 operational U-boats. This is in addition to German post-war submarines which bear the same designations. This raises some problems, especially as many U-boats share numbers and designations. I see that some people have tried to put all boats with the same designation on the same page, but this raises all sorts of problems or size, as well as the fact that the boats on the page have nothing besides name and nationality to connect them. My suggestion is to create a disambiguation page as with U-69 and then create seperate articles from there, creating all relevant links here too. If any one has a better idea then please say so.--Jackyd101 15:13, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Red Links

I added a large number of links please leave them there; someone said it encourages additions, which it does.--Noha307 20:39, 3 August 2006 (UTC)