Talk:List of aircraft carriers
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I removed HMS Ocean as it is only a helicopter ship. We could have a separate list of helicopter ships but adding all of them to this page would be a mess. Rmhermen 15:22 Mar 20, 2003 (UTC)
The first two canadian carriers were manned by a majority of Canadians and a minority of Royal Navy personnel. They were both Escort aircraft carriers operated during WW II. The mix of sailors from the Canadian Navy and the Royal Navy casued many morale problems, since the Canadian Navy paid and fed its sailors better than the Royal Navy, at the time. AlainV 16:09, 2004 May 9 (UTC)
[edit] Consistency/PRC/etc
To SpookyMulder:
Regarding your comment directed at me in the article:
<!-- you dont believe in consistency, do you? different formats on every second line. () or - or , after ship names, some in italics, some with . some with no . at the end of a sentence, etc. etc. I don't see the point really. ALso, no one calls it "Peoples republic of China". they call it "Taiwan". you're just confusing people with that.-->
- If you would do a bit of research, you would see that you are off-base here. First of all, I have been making an effort to clean up the article, after you added some things that were unformatted, as well as clean up the formatting on pre-existing portions. Second of all, the People's Republic of China and Taiwan are not the same thing. You see, the formal name of Taiwan is the Republic of China, which is not the same thing as the People's Republic of China. Before you go to lecture someone on place names, perhaps you should carefully study other areas of Wikipedia. -Joseph 22:04, 2004 Jul 29 (UTC)
Inspired by 203.185.240.11's efforts, I decided to impose some additional rules: no links in country section titles (which is a general rule actually), subgroups are bolded but no more (because many are small and clutter up TOC), and we don't need prefix notes because we have ship prefix. Green for dates is undesirable because our red/blue/brown/purple links are quite enough color, thank you, and it's not done anywhere else in WP. I'm waffling a little on links in the list annotations; generally I don't favor those, and many of the ships here appear on the list elsewhere. It comes down to a question of whether it's useful for a user to be able to click directly on the previous or following name, or sufficient to have them scan down the list and look for the other incarnation manually (of course when I put it that way, the link seems preferable :-) ). Stan 14:17, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I know china and taiwan uyse similar Official names. that's why it's less confusing to call them "china" and "taiwan" :)
[edit] Why remove launch dates?
User:SpookyMulder has just removed launch dates for several Canadian ships, leaving only launch years. Why? —Morven 20:03, Sep 23, 2004 (UTC)
- I'm all for whacking launch dates myself, that is the sort of extreme minutiae that only the article itself needs. List readers/scanners only need year as hint to set the "era", and ideally a short phrase describing the ship's significance, much as is seen in lists of people. Stan 03:00, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
