Talk:Niantic (whaling vessel)

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A lot of material about the Niantic is available, and its story is quite fascinating. Will return to develop this stub.

Taquito1 02:14, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Roughed-out the article. Needs references, pictures, and various other improvements. Need to check some details for accuracy.

Taquito1 03:42, 16 August 2007 (UTC)

Good start on an interesting article. I have added it to a couple relevant WikiProjects. A few suggestions:

• The lead paragraph is kind of confusing. Try to make it a more concise summary of the ship.
• Then, because the summary paragraph will have briefly explained the context, it would make more sense for the rest of the article to be in chronological order (Background before Rediscovery).
• Please italicize a ship's name every time you use it - Niantic is proper.
• This is very minor, especially because Niantic was both a ship and a hotel, but we still refer to a ship as 'her' rather than 'it'.
• The category Category:Merchant ships of the United States would be more appropriate than the generic category Category:Ships.

Let me know if you have any questions. I look forward to reading the completed article! Maralia 05:38, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the good advice, Maralia. Am now working on incorporating your comments, including a major reorganization that will probably take several revisions. Have added section stub tags until the sections are fleshed out. I hope to gather enough details of the ship to use one of the ship infoboxes referenced on your user page. I think owner names are available. Planning to add pictures later.

Taquito1 03:02, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

If you do manage an infobox, it might be the first time in recorded history that somebody actually used the suggested infobox (or any infobox) for a civilian ship ;) Maralia 03:59, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

Well, I applied the infobox before I saw your note. Let me know if it should not be used for civilian ships. If it stays, I hope to compile and add to it a few more basic statistics that I know are out there. Thanks for your feedback. Taquito1 01:09, 20 August 2007 (UTC)