Wiki143: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 Template:Tl, 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.

4. Icebreaker Feodor Litke recent rewrite needs copyedit
5. Glenlee (ship)

Disambiguation

Resources: *Wikipedia:Disambiguation *Wikipedia:Manual of Style (links)#Context *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.

Merges and splits

Resources: *Wikipedia:Merging
Articles proposed for merger with another article, or splitting to a new article:

1. → Schooner Etak
2. →

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.

1. - expand with recent MSC press release
2. - expand with new info on DANFS
3. - ship is in service, should have much better info
4. Fenis and St. Joseph 18th century
5. - more info on DANFS [1]
6. - greenpeace page (translated), nl.wiki page (translated), image on commons
8. Destriero - current holder of Transatlantic speed record
9. , c.f. S.S. California strike, Joseph Curran
11. HMHS Newfoundland
12. Category:Ships articles needing expert attention
13. Stem (ship)
14. – expand with Coast Guard history
15. British Merchant Navy - article needs cleanup, expansion and expert attention.
16. Stone Fleet and Category:United States Navy Stone Fleet ships - no evidence of commissioning, so individual ship articles should not be "USS"

Articles with the Template:Tl tag

1. Italian battleship Giulio Cesare
3. B1 type submarine
10. Club Med 2
12. Dutch ship Aemilia (1632)
13. El Horria
14. Finnish coastal defence ship Väinämöinen
15. Finnish escort Aura II
16. Finnish frigate Hämeenmaa
17. Finnish frigate Matti Kurki
18. Finnish frigate Uusimaa
19. Finnish gunboat Hämeenmaa
20. Finnish gunboat Karjala
21. Finnish gunboat Klas Horn
22. Finnish gunboat Matti Kurki
23. Finnish gunboat Uusimaa
24. Finnish submarine AG 12
25. Finnish submarine AG 16
26. Finnish submarine Iku-Turso
27. Finnish submarine Vesihiisi
28. Freedom Class
29. FREMM multipurpose frigate
30. French battleship France
31. French battleship Gaulois (1896)
32. French cruiser Lamotte-Piquet
33. French cruiser Montcalm
34. French ship Algésiras (1804)
35. French ship Bretagne (1766)
36. French ship Bretagne (1855)
37. French ship Bucentaure (1804)
38. French ship Formidable (1795)
39. French ship Franklin (1797)
40. French ship Héros (1750)
41. French ship Héros (1778)
42. French ship Océan (1790)
43. French ship Orient (1791)
44. French ship Valmy
45. French ship Ville de Paris (1764)
46. French ship Wattignies (1794)
47. French submarine L'Inflexible (S 615)
48. German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer
88. Japanese destroyer Hatsuyuki
89. Juan Carlos I (L61)
92. Minerve (S647)
94. Radiance of the Seas
100. Russian battleship Novgorod
113. Type 42 destroyer
114. Unterseeboot 571

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. [2], [3]
• Richmond-San Rafael Ferry Company - based on information available 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. Link 1 Link 2 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.

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 Template:Tl, 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.