Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships/Tasks

This WikiProject Ships page is a list of open tasks related to improving ship articles. This list is periodically used to manually populate the template {{tl|Ships tasks}}, which appears in the sidebar on the main project page.

Cleanup

Resources: *Wikipedia:Cleanup *Wikify *Wikipedia:How to copyedit

Articles that need interwiki links and/or structure, cleanup, or general copyediting.

{{USS|Wasp|CV-18}}
{{USS|Henry M. Jackson|SSBN-730}}
{{MV|Braer}}
Icebreaker Feodor Litke recent rewrite needs copyedit
Glenlee (ship)

Disambiguation

Resources: *Wikipedia:Disambiguation *Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links)#Context *[http://toolserver.org/%7Edispenser/cgi-bin/dabfinder.py Disambig links]

Articles that have numerous interwiki links which lead to disambiguation pages, rather than to specific articles.

Note: these articles often need proper italicization of ship names as well.

Review

Merges and splits

Resources: *Wikipedia:Merging

Articles proposed for merger with another article, or splitting to a new article:

{{USS|Juniata|IX-77}} → Schooner Etak
{{Ship|BRP|Magat Salamat|PS-20}} → {{USS|Gayety|AM-239}}

Renames

Resources: *Wikipedia:Naming conventions (ships)

Articles proposed for renaming per conventions.

Note: be sure to review associated interwiki links and update them if necessary.

MV China Star, new name is MV Saipan Star, since 2017.

Facts/Expand

Resources: *WP:CITE *Wikipedia:Requests for expansion

Articles that are in need of content verification or expansion.

{{USNS|Richard E. Byrd|T-AKE-4}} - expand with [http://www.msc.navy.mil/N00p/pressrel/press08/press01.htm recent MSC press release]
{{USS|Firedrake|AE-14}} - expand with [http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/f2/firedrake.htm new info on DANFS]
{{USNS|Bowditch|T-AGS 62}} - ship is in service, should have much better info
Fenis and St. Joseph 18th century
{{USS|Henry W. Tucker|DD-875}} - more info on DANFS [http://www.history.navy.mil/danfs/h4/henry_w_tucker.htm]
{{MV|Sirius}} - [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.greenpeace.nl%2Fabout%2Fships%2Fsirius greenpeace page (translated)], [http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fnl.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSirius_%2528schip%2529 nl.wiki page (translated)], image on commons
{{SS|California|1907}}
Destriero - current holder of Transatlantic speed record
{{SS|California|1928}}, c.f. S.S. California strike, Joseph Curran
{{MV|DenDen}}
HMHS Newfoundland
:Category:Ships articles needing expert attention
Stem (ship)
{{USCGC|Ingham|WHEC-35}} – expand with [http://uscg.mil/history/webcutters/Ingham_WPG_35.html Coast Guard history]
British Merchant Navy - article needs cleanup, expansion and expert attention.
Stone Fleet and :Category:United States Navy Stone Fleet ships - no evidence of commissioning, so individual ship articles should not be "USS"

Requests

Articles requested by Wikipedia editors.

Note: see Wikipedia:Requested articles/Applied arts and sciences/Transport#Water transport for a full generated list of requests.

SSV Tabor Boy - Sailing school vessel owned by Tabor Academy. cf. [http://www.taboracademy.org/about_schoolsea-taborboy.asp], [http://www.taboracademy.org/Schooner_History.asp]
Richmond-San Rafael Ferry Company - based on information available [http://content.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=hb2m3nb1b0&query=richmond,%20california&brand=calisphere here]
SS Superior City - a steamer that collided with the Willis L. King on August 20th, 1920, and sank near Whitefish Point in Lake Superior, Great Lakes, North America. Notable for diving missions which picked artifacts off skeletons of the crew for use in museum display. [http://books.google.com/books?id=Tog_ll_MYrkC&pg=RA2-PA182&lpg=RA2-PA182&dq=%22superior+city%22+vessel&source=web&ots=gDZ0L5iMeh&sig=QMNSK01iwMWw-00XbPOnYaDgwUY&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PRA2-PA182,M1 Link 1] [http://www.nordicdiver.com/superiorcity.htm Link 2] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huQfUijRsHc Link 3]
Vorpostenboote - patrol boats operated by the Kriegsmarine during WWII, typically converted fishing boats.
Shipboard fire - historically the worst fear of any sailor and merits its own article, IMO. List of notable shipboard fires, causes, and countermeasures throughout history and in the present, on civilian and military ships. Tempshill (talk) 18:15, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
Arnhem (ship) — the 17th century Dutch vessel
Lightship Rose — first Moreton Bay lighthouse

Special projects

Review List of naval terms U.S. Navy slang for consolidation
U.S. Navy Museum and Naval Historical Center - research required in order to disambiguate references to numerous ship artifacts.

Miscellaneous

How to use this page

Adding a new task

Please list any new tasks in the appropriate section, or under the Miscellaneous section if you are unsure where they belong. For easy identification, please link the article name first, prior to any explanatory text.

Note: If a task is likely to be controversial or otherwise does not follow current project conventions, please bring it up for discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ships prior to listing it here.

Completing a listed task

If you finish a task from this list, please edit the page and remove the completed item.

Updating the associated template

This list is periodically used to manually populate the template {{tl|Ships tasks}}, which appears in the sidebar on the project main page. If you are comfortable editing complex templates, feel free to edit the template at any time in order to keep the tasks up to date with this page.

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