Talk:San Antonio class amphibious transport dock

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[edit] Merge with USS San Antonio article

I propose that this article be merged with USS San Antonio (LPD-17). -Amatulic 18:41, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

Uh, why? It's not like this is a one-ship class. —wwoods 16:49, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Or one can merge the other article here. Either way, both are generally about the lead ship in the class, and any information about the class also applies to the lead ship. There's a bunch of redundant information that isn't necessary to maintain in two articles. If the articles aren't merged, then the class-specific information should at least be moved here, and the ship-specific information left in the ship article. -Amatulic 18:12, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

That seems like a sensible way to go.

—wwoods 00:39, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Keep it as separate articles, but anything that applies to the class as a whole should go here. That's the way the other naval ship articles are arranged. While USS San Antonio (LPD-17) as a newly commissioned ship does not at present have much independent material, as it goes on tours, it will accumulate such details. Caerwine Caer’s whines 02:37, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

Agree with Caerwine. Keep the articles seperate. TomStar81 (Talk) 21:40, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

Oppose The standard layout for Wikipedia articles on a class of ships is to have a article on the class as a whole (which covers the design of the ships, their introduction into service, the performance of the design, etc) and individual articles on each of the ships of the class (which covers these ships individual characteristics and activities). --Nick Dowling 02:04, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

Oppose, as per Wikiproject Ships, we should have a ship class page giving an overview of the class, it's history and the ships in it, and a page for each ship with more specific details (deployments, mottos, modifications, history, etc.) Emoscopes ^Talk 18:35, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

As the consensus is clearly against merging I have removed the merge notices from the two pages. Caerwine Caer’s whines 21:35, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Thanks for taking care of that. I originally proposed the merge, and I've been meaning to remove the merge tags. Unless someone else gets to it first, I'll go through both articles and move some content around if needed, so that the ship-specific stuff is in the ship article, and the class stuff is in the class article. -Amatulic 21:26, 29 November 2006 (UTC)