Talk:Ise class battleship

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Question: How encyclopaedic should this article be? I'm using as my main reference M. J. Whiteley's excellent Battleships of Wolrd War Two: an International Encyclopaedia and don't want to risk simply copying out his work verbatim. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.44.15.216 (talk • contribs)

Compare with other articles in Category:Ship classes to see the level of detail that other editors have worked to. My personal opinion is that big tables of statistics are only interesting to the most specialist audience, and it is reasonable to expect this audience to refer to specialist reference works. For a general audience, it's more important to describe things in a more qualitiative way, e.g. what is interesting about the design of these ships? How did they differ from other contemporary or earlier designs? How did the design affect their use? I think that Iron Duke class battleship is an example of an article with a good level of detail. However, if you think information is valuable and interesting, please go ahead and add it. Gdr 13:49, 2005 May 6 (UTC) P.S. Have you considered creating an account?