Template talk:Shipindex

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[edit] WP:Disambig link

I added a link in the verbage to Wikipedia:Disambiguation#Lists of ships because I think it's a good idea to make it easy for Wikipedians to find out what lists of ships are and how they relate to standard disambiguation pages. I suppose the link could be directly to Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships#Index Pages, but it seems better to go to the short explanation on the disambig page first, especially for newbies who might not know what disambig pages or projects are. —Tox 09:42, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Category:Lists of ships

Hmm, with all the ship name articles being added from {{shipindex}} the actual contents of that category are being lost. How about making the template autocategorize into some new category underneath [[Category:Lists of ships]]? — MrDolomite | Talk 15:48, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

  • I'm reformatting the template to aim to Category:Disambiguation lists of ships. -- saberwyn 09:49, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
    • Excellent. Turned one massive bloat cat into two useful ones. Gotta love WP, there is always another brain willing to help out. ;)  — MrDolomite | Talk 14:31, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Sorting

Since the recent change [1] to this template changed the default sort to #, I am going to go ahead and revert it back. At least with the prior {{pagename}} sort, we have the ability to sort by first word which is often the naval prefix ("HMS", "USS", "French", etc.). --Kralizec! (talk) 15:02, 18 December 2007 (UTC)