Talk:New Carissa
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[edit] Questions for peer review/featured article status
Laid down I know nothing about ships. What does "laid down" mean? Is there a wiki article on nautical terms we can link to? The average reader might like to know what the term means. If no wiki article or desire to write one, can we define the term in parentheses? Katr67 02:33, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
- To lay a ship down is to begin construction in a shipyard, to "launch" a vessel is to remove the now-seaworthy vessel from the shipyard and place it in the water. These definitions don't appear to be in Wikipedia anywhere, they ought to be added to glossary of nautical terms, I suppose... --EngineerScotty 06:09, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
- Done for "lay down", "launch" seems self-explanatory (but I could be wrong). Katr67 17:39, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
Verb tense Next question. In "Vessel", The ship "has" as steel construction, but "had" a crew, etc. This sort of makes sense since the ship, or part of it, still exists, but it will never have a crew again. But since everything else is past tense, any objection to making the construction part past tense as well? Katr67 02:39, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
- Someone fixed that. --EngineerScotty 06:09, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
Categories Um, "Oregon Culture"? I would add the article to Category:History of Oregon but shipwrecks of the Oregon coast is a subcat of that. Any good arguments for including it with the ballet and symphony and stuff before I remove it? Pop culture maybe (see Exploding Whale, same cat), but I don't think that's what the culture cat covers. Katr67 02:55, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
- Go ahead and remove it. --EngineerScotty 06:09, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
- OK, I did. Katr67 14:21, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
Wood chips I read that the wood chips the NC was to pick up were going to be used to make paper pulp. [1] Can we mention that in the article? A reader unfamiliar with the NW timber industry might well wonder "What the heck do they do with wood chips?" Katr67 17:56, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
- Took care of it. I think I'm done messing with the article now. Congrats on the featured article status everyone! Katr67 01:50, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Reference numbers
There are two note #1s, i.e. two of these: [1]. I don't know anything about referencing, plus I know that the article is getting a lot of attention right now, so I thought I'd post it here. The two occur once in the Vessel section and once in Grounding. BigNate37(T) 16:49, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
- The first two references in the article point to the same footnote; that's why they have the same number. Several footnotes/references are referred to multiple places within the article; this is perfectly normal.--EngineerScotty 17:14, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
