Talk:List of submarine classes of the Royal Navy

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[edit] Disambiguating <letter> classes

Due to a lack of imagination or something, both the US Navy and the Royal Navy (and sometimes other navies) have more-or-less used up the alphabet for pre-WWII classes of submarines. The Royal Navy has already got pages for E class submarine and M class submarine, while S class submarine is shared by both with the Italian navy. I've done pages for the (2) USN E-class boats, using (USN) as a disambiguator. I suggest that using [[<letter> class submarine (USN)]] and [[<letter> class submarine (RN)]] consistently would be a good thing---better than having the default for some letters meaning one navy while other letters mean the other. —wwoods 07:59, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Following Wikipedia:Naming conventions (ships), I disambiguated all letter classes by nationality. For example, British S class submarine and United States S class submarine. Gdr 11:49, 2004 Dec 15 (UTC)

[edit] Dates listed

The dates listed on this page are ambiguous. I presume they are all the dates within which the submarines were constructed. Perhaps a table would be a better way to express the data present here? (Could also include dates of service/decommisioning) Timb0h 08:49, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes, they are date's of construction, which isn't at all clear, so I've added that to the page. I'm not sure a table would help, and adding too much additional data would obfuscate the fact this is a list to gather together the links of all the submarine classes, that sort of thing best belongs on the ship class / ship page. Emoscopes ^Talk 12:39, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

I think a simple 3 column table within each subheading would make it look a lot neater, along the lines of List of The Daily Show correspondent titles. If we keep the existing information and categories I don't think it will cause any cluttering. Timb0h 14:34, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Perhaps a frameless table might present the information slightly more neatly, but you would have to be prepared to bring all the other "lists of ship classes" pages into line with this to maintian the style. Also, tables can be confusing for new users (I still make errors myself after thousands of edits) and I tend to avoid them where they aren't really neccesary. As this is primarily a page listing links to other pages containing the pertinant data, I think it does it's job fine as it is. Emoscopes ^Talk 14:52, 16 October 2006 (UTC)