Talk:Naval tactics in the Age of Sail

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[edit] Against a Merge

I'm strongly against merging 'the line of battle' into this article for the simple reason that the line of battle does not belong exclusively to the Age of Sail and the information of the origional article would have to be needlessly recreated in several different articles, which is pointless, unweildy and a waste of space. (Also could whoever suggested the merge actually give their reasons for it here? It'd be helpful)81.151.124.131 10:52, 14 November 2006 (UTC) Elmo

That'd be me. At present we have two articles with large blocks of text that discuss exactly the same thing. Most of the information included in Naval tactics in the Age of Sail and that in Line of battle is duplicated, needlessly recreated in two different articles. When information has not been duplicated it would be worthwhile doing so; for instance, the inclusion of specific battles which occured during the period of developing the line to illustrate the implementation of the tactic, as seen in Line of battle, would be worthwhile (sourced and possibly rewritten) in Naval tactics in the Age of Sail.

What'd I'd suggest is making Line of Battle a disambig(ish?) page with a short description along the lines of the current Naval tactics article. Linking to Naval tactics in the Age of Sail and Naval tactics in the Age of Steam. I would also sugggest merging Crossing the T into Naval tacitcs in the Age of Steam (since it is enabled by the advent of steam). The overall result would be to put all the pertinent info into the parent 'Naval tactics in the Age of X' articles.

An alternative solution would be to improve the Line of Battle page, reduce the information in the Developing the Line of Battle section of Naval tactics in the Age of Sail to a single overreaching paragraph and refer to the Line of Battle article for more information.Inane Imp 10:56, 5 December 2006 (UTC)