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	== Scope ==		== Scope ==
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	This ] aims primarily to organize the
			WikiProject Ships aims primarily to organize the effort to create and improve articles on ]s. The scope includes ], ], and ship related topics. Many of our members focus on ]s, usually a particular ], if not an ]. However we also address civilian ships, such as ]s and ]s. We also don't discriminate by age; ], ], and ] are all in scope.
	effort to create articles about naval vessels, but also addresses civilian ships. Most ship names have been used more than once, and many ships have had long service lives. That combination can produce very long articles if all ships of a given name are included in the same article. Accordingly, it is recommended that editors create an index page under the simple name of the ship, and detailed pages for each individual vessel.

	Separately, ''classes'' of ships should also have articles of their own.

	== Structure ==

	Three types of articles are created by this project: index pages, individual ship articles, and ship class articles.

	=== Index pages ===
	Index articles about ships should include in their titles only the standard prefix used by that ship. Other identification should be omitted, so that a reader can easily locate the material sought; for example, name an index article simply "]".

	Within the article, give a brief introduction to the name, followed by very brief identifications of each vessel. The identifications should provide enough information for a reader to find the particular ship being sought, but not expand into an account of her career. You should give:
	* the hull number or ] (if any);
	* the year of launch (if known, or another significant date such as year of purchase or commissioning if not);
	* ship type (frigate/destroyer/third-rate);
	* ship class (if any); and
	* the single most significant event of her career, if any (e.g. "fought at the battle of Trafalgar", "convoy escort in World War II", "wrecked off Jamaica in a hurricane").

	Index pages should use the template {{]}}.

	=== Individual ship articles ===
	Articles about individual ships should have fully disambiguated titles, and include all information from the index page; in other words, don't assume that the reader had seen the index page. (This is because references may link directly to the article.)

	The articles ] and ] make good links from the discussions of construction and commissioning.

			<!-- I was thinking of adding what we're not here. E.g. we generally exclude boats, and we're not WP:MILHIST -->
	=== Ship class articles ===
	Articles about a ship ''class'' should be named <tt>(Lead ship name) "class" (type)</tt>; for example,
	<nowiki>]</nowiki> or
	<nowiki>]</nowiki>.
	Do not be overly specific in the type; for example, use "aircraft carrier", not "light escort fleet assault carrier". Use the singular form of the ship type; for example, "submarine", not "submarines". Note that the navies of the United Kingdom often name their ship class after what the ships' names have in common rather than for the lead ship (Flower-class ]s, A-class submarines); in these cases the class name is not italicized.

			== Articles ==
	When writing references, using the class as an adjective followed by the type name as a separate link lets the reader go equally easily to specific or general info, as in ] ].
			As with most Misplaced Pages Projects, Ships has its focus on a collection of articles, perhaps unsurprisingly, about ships.

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	== ~~Guidelines~~ ==		=== Assessment and Review ===

			In order to improve Ship related articles throughout wikipedia, the project uses ] and ] processes. Ship articles are tagged for quality and importance ratings by including the ] on the article's discussion page.
	=== Naming conventions ===
	Please follow ].

			=== Featured Articles ===
	An article about a ship with a unique name should still include any obvious disambiguators, with an automatic redirect from the index page. For example, only one ship (as this is written) has been named "USS ''Ronald Reagan''," but an editor of another article will probably automatically link to
	<nowiki>]</nowiki>.
	For consistency, create the article at the latter page and a redirect at the former. Then, when a second ship is given the name, the redirect can be overwritten with the index, and the CVN article will not need to be moved.

			WikiProject Ships is proud of our articles (and editors!) that have achieved ] (FA) status.
	Some types of ship are known only by a hull number; for example, American ]s, German ]s. In these cases, spell out the ship type -- ], ] -- for the main article, and create a redirect or a disambiguation page at the short form -- ] can probably be a automatic redirect, but ] must be a disambiguation page. In this case, there is no distinction between the index page and the individual page.

			* ] was promoted to FA on ] ].
	For details of the components of a ship's name, see ], ], and ]. See ] for how to put them together.
			* ], a ] that broke in half and washed up on the coast of ], ] to FA, and appeared on ] ]
			* ] was ] to FA, and appeared on ] ]

			==== Related FA ====
	Ships that have changed nationality may want to have separate articles for each nationality; for instance ] and ] were physically the same chunk of iron. The end of one article should explain the circumstances of the transfer and link to the article about the new incarnation. In some cases there is little to say about some of the incarnations (] for instance), in which case separate paragraphs within the article work.
			* The ] is the story of the battle of the first ironclads, ] and ] during the ]. It became an FA in December, 2004.

			=== Pages needing attention ===
	A useful litmus test; will a link from another article immediately connect to relevant info? To use the ''Phoenix''/''Belgrano'' example, a Falklands War link that jumped to a World War II US cruiser would be distracting at best; better to link directly to an article about an Argentine ship.
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			If you'd like to help WikiProject Ships, an easy place to start is with our ] and ] articles, although please review our ] first.

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	=== Units and number formatting ===

			== Resources ==
	Please follow ]. Some especially important things to pay attention to are how to link dates, how to format numbers with units, and how to specify latitude and longitude.
			An indirect, but key, goal of WikiProject Ships is to grow and maintain a large collection of ship related resources.

	=== ~~Infoboxes~~ ===		=== Sources ===
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			Misplaced Pages readers, interested in further research, are welcome to explore our collection of ]. These sources have been found to be handy for getting information on ships. Please feel free to add additional sources that you find to be useful.

			Many public domain sources of information on ships are available, such as the ]. If any material in an article has been copied from the public domain, be sure to credit the source. DANFS in particular has been widely copied across the ], and its copiers sometimes (wrongly) claim that they hold the copyright to that public domain material. A Misplaced Pages editor checking provenance could discover one of those copies and jump to the conclusion the article is in violation of that (non-existent) copyright. If you adapt material from DANFS for Misplaced Pages, please see the ].
	] provide a summary of information about the subject of an article in a consistent, attractive, and easy-to-read way. All ship articles and ship class articles should use an infobox to summarize characteristics and other information. See ] for full details on the ship infoboxes.

	=== ~~Introductory~~ ~~sentence~~ ===		=== Editing Guidelines and Tools ===
	The first sentence of (any) article should use the article title (set in bold face) early in the sentence and establish context. In the case of ships, set all elements of the name in bold face, with the ship's name also italicized; for example,
	<nowiki>'''HMS ''Ark Royal'' (R07)'''</nowiki>,
	<nowiki>'''USS ''Constitution'', 44'''</nowiki>.
	The commissioning nation, the ship type, and the time period are important elements of context. Why the particular name was given is interesting, especially if it is not obvious.

			Misplaced Pages editors will find ] on writing ship articles and ] to help do so. Editors may also wish to request ] of articles.
	It is also helpful to the reader to mention the particular significance of the ship; "world's first aircraft carrier" for instance.

			== Project relations ==
	Later references to the same ship in the article (which should not be links) should just use the ship's name, still in italics: ''Ark Royal'' or ''Enterprise''.
			]

	=== ~~Article body~~ ===		=== Parentage ===
	In a sense, an article about a ship is a lot like a biography; the dates of commissioning and decommissioning set the context, while achievements explain why the ship has an article about it in the first place, and events in the ship's life make the narrative connected. In addition, a ship will have associated with it other ships, various people such as officers and crew, and these should all be interlinked - famous admirals were once junior officers on some ship or another, and the cross-links will illuminate.

	Since this is Misplaced Pages, ship articles should be pruned to the ship's life as such, and links made to separate articles about battles and other multi-ship events (such as the cruise of the ]).

	Finally, articles should make objective assessments of the ship as the data warrants ("too slow to be of use", etc). If the article content is not sufficient to support the assessment, then cite external references. Assessments are especially important for ship class articles.

	Every ship article should have a picture of the ship if possible.

	=== Categorization ===

	For full information on categorizing ships, ship class articles, and ship class categories, see ].

	Additional subcategories, such {{ccl\|Fictional ships}} are available for things that don't fit elsewhere.

	Types of boats should be categorized under {{ccl\|Boat types}}. The very small number of notable boats should be classified under {{ccl\|Boats}}.
	Vessels that are not clearly "boats" or "ships" may be classified under both, to facilitate being found either way. Oddball water vessels not otherwise classifiable should go in {{ccl\|Water transport}}.

	=== Project template ===
	When editing an article of interest to WikiProject Ships, please make sure that {{tl\|WikiProject Ships}} is placed at the top of the related ''discussion'' page.

	=== Article outlines ===
	The following outlines and related information are intended to result in consistent and complete ship articles. Use them to start new articles or to improve existing stubs. Reworking of an existing, mature article to these standards should be discussed first.

	==== Index page outline ====
	If there has been more than one ship with the same name, create a ship index page for the generic ship name. Like the disambiguation rules, unless one instance of the ship overshadows all others (] ]), the index is the primary article.

	<nowiki> Three ships of the ] have been named '''HMS ''Pinafore'''''
	after the ]:

	*], launched in 1652 as ''Dunbar'',
	was a 60-gun ] ]. She fought in the
	] and was renamed ''Pinafore'' on the
	] in 1660.

	*], launched in 1878, was a
	] ] that saw
	action against the ] corsairs.

	*], launched in ],
	was an ] ].
	She served in ], escorting cheese ]s to
	]. She was coincidentally sunk by
	] in 1944.

	{{shipindex}}</nowiki>

	Note: when you make an index page, always check "What links here". There are often pages that link to the ship name that need to be redirected.

	==== Individual ship outline ====
	<nowiki>
	{{otherships\|HMS Pinafore}}
	'''HMS ''Pinafore''''' was a ]
	] of the ], named after ].
	She was ] on ] ], and
	] on ] ] under the
	command of Captain Corcoran.

	...

	{{Rackstraw class sloop}}
	]</nowiki>

	Or for a more modern ship:

	<nowiki>
	{{otherships\|HMS Pinafore}}
	'''HMS ''Pinafore'' (D987)''' was an ]
	] of the ], named after ].
	She was laid down by Bobstay and Sons, ], on ] ],
	] on ] ], and
	] on ] ].
	She served in ] under the command of Captain ]

	...

	{{Operetta class destroyer}}
	]</nowiki>

	Soviet and Russian ships have NATO reporting names in addition to the actual project number and name in Russian:

	<nowiki> '''K-141 ''Kursk'' was a Project 949A Антей (''Antey'', ]; also known
	by the ] of [[Oscar class submarine\|"Oscar-II" class)
	nuclear cruise missile submarine, named for the ]....</nowiki>

	Ship articles should also generally use an ] to summarize the ship's career and characteristics. See ] for infobox templates.

	==== Ship class outline ====

	<nowiki>
	The '''''Rackstraw'' class''' was a ] of ]
	of the ]. Seven were built at ] by Bobstay and Sons between
	1876 and 1878. They were wooden composite screw sloops — that is, they had
	three masts as well as steam-powered screw propulsion. They were modified versions
	of the ] ...

	== Ships ==
	* ], launched in 1876
	* ], launched in 1876
	...

	{{Rackstraw class sloop}}
	]
	]
	</nowiki>

	As with an individual ship page, it's also a good idea to include an ] summarizing the class's characteristics. See ] for infobox templates.

	== Parentage ==
	The parent of this WikiProject is the		The parent of this WikiProject is the
	].		].

	== ~~Similar~~ Wikiprojects ==		=== Peer Wikiprojects ===
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	* ] - USN
	* ]
	* ] (Mainly cross-channel ferries.
	* ] 15:44, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
	* ] - Trying to document all the ] liners
	* ] (British battleships from HMS Warrior onwards)
	* ] (Mostly WW1 British and German, with a side interest in the ].)
	* ] (Fighting sail primarily, but interests in other theatres too.)
	* ] General interest in matters naval
	* ] (<small>] ;; ]</small>) Primarily interested in WW1 & WW2 era ships relating to my own heritage; or anything else I become interested in along the way.
	* ] (Primarily Battleships, but occasionally I venture into other military ship types)
	* ] (Ships connected to ] in name or action)
	* ] (Sternwheelers of British Columbia)
	* ]
	* ]
	* ] (Will work on ships of the swedish navy and other swedish ships)
	* ]
	* ] (Random acts of article addition)
	* ] (mostly work on USN, but other navies where I run into useful material to put on Misplaced Pages)
	* ] (Can help with all old military sailing ships, and most USN ships from 1775 to today)
	* ] <sup>]</sup> 20:52, 1 June 2006 (UTC) - Interested in ships of the Royal Navy, mainly escort vessels. Enjoy adding and correcting infoboxes and being utterly fastidious about the marks, designations and nomenclatures of Royal Navy weapons and radars.
	* <font color="gray">'''Evogol'''</font><sup>]</sup> (working on ] ships)
	* ] - Australian shipping, marine regulation, naval history
	* {{User\|Fabartus}} — sig: <B>]</B><font color="green">]</font> 16:07, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
	* {{User\|Flowi}} (especially battleships: ancient; medieval; modern; but mostly 17th and 18th Century)
	* ] - non-practicing Naval Architect, defense analyst, and hobbyist naval historian and historian of the art of Naval Architecture.
	* ] - WW1, WW2 British and Commonwealth
	* ]
	* ], Mostly working on ] and ] ships.
	* ] - where ever the links take me, but usually USN or WWII. Presently working on populating the ].
	* ] - Unusual vessels (eg Disposable ship).
	* ] - primarily US Navy ships that tie into my experiences on the ], ] & ].
	* ] - Australian shipping and design, and an amateur's interest in Napoleonic vessels.
	* ] (18th and 20th century European warships)
	* ]
	* ] (from time to time, mainly pre-WW2 British ships)
	* ] (Professional Naval Architect - would like to help out wherever I can)
	* ] <sup>]</sup> Interested in the 1906-1945 period, and particularly in battlecruisers. I has been working mainly on ]. I am relatively new here, so comments on my efforts to date would be welcome.
	* ] - working to create or improve ships that took part in ]
	* ] - works on anything modern, generally modern Royal Navy
	* ] (Ship articles, classification, reference tools)
	* ] (primarily ships from the pre-Dreadnought era through Cold War, with emphasis on WWI, WWII, and Cold War ship classes)
	* ] (working on Finnish Navy ships albeit very slowly)
	* ] (new self-addition to the project, working mainly on US subs and Aircraft carriers)
	* ] <sup>]</sup> Interested in U.S. Navy ships, especially amphibious ships and all subjects related to WWII amphibs.
	* ] (Working on USN ships, mostly converting DANFS entries, currently doing ] destroyers)
	* ] - mainly Royal Navy, 1650-1815
	* ] (Mainly ferries that have some relevance to Australia but also any super ferry)

			{{Main\|Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Ships/Participants}}
	* ] (mostly doing ] ships for now)
	* ] mainly working with Finnish Navy articles and ships that have a connection to Finland somehow
	* ]
	*] Mostly things to do with Cruise ships and ferries.
	* ] Anything tall ships! & wherever else i can help out
	* ] (Mainly Australian ships)
	* ] (Liberty ships, Victory ships, Ocean class freighters, Union-Castle)
	* ] - ]-era ships, working on ]
	* ] - Modern merchant shipping
	* ] (] and ])
	* ] - Confederate States Navy
	* ] - Been working on filling in the gaps in US Navy destroyers, but I'm also a fan of fighting sail.
	* ] - Great Lakes hobbyist
	* ] Would like to do a Wikiproject Cruise Lines as a daughter project of Wikiproject Ships. If Ships proper is not interested I could spin it off as a separate Wikiproject under Transportation.
	* ] I want to help make cruise line pages better, especially cruises owned by Carnival Cruise Lines.
	* ] (working on ] destroyers (count 'em - 175 of them!))
	* ] (Working on uploading public domain ship images.)
	* ] (ships and marine history in British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest, including freshwater)
	* ]
	* ]
	* ]
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	* ] (casual participant; I want to do a few Canadian ships)
	* ] (sailing vessels; Great Lakes ships; ]s)
	* ] (Mostly Australian, maybe some English ones too, time permitting.)
	* ]
	* ] (Mostly ship data and history. I'm going to try to fill in the blanks in a lot of the minor military ships)
	* ] warships from Symondites onwards
	* ] - I have a strong interest in ship design histories, but my primary contribution so far has been categorization, especially under ]
	* ] (mostly doing ] ships for now)
	* ] (Primarily United States Naval Monitors, would like to do class articles after individual ships, I use DANFS as a base and augment it as needed from other more-accurate published sources)
	* ] Overhauled ] and articles related to ]. I believe that page layout and structure is as important as the article's writing.
	* --] 09:29, 28 March 2007 (UTC)

			WikiProject Ships has an international collection of participants with a common interest in ships of all types. Please join us by and helping with ship articles. And don't worry, we get along more like an ] match, than the ](right).
	== Featured Articles ==

	* The ] is the story of the battle of the first ironclads, ] and ] during the ]. It became a ] in December, 2004.

	== Resources ==

	=== Sources ===

	For a list of sources found to be handy for getting information on ships, see ]. Please feel free to add additional sources that you find to be useful.

	Many public domain sources of information on ships are available, such as the ]. If any material in an article has been copied from the public domain, be sure to credit the source. DANFS in particular has been widely copied across the ], and its copiers sometimes (wrongly) claim that they hold the copyright to that public domain material. A Misplaced Pages editor checking provenance could discover one of those copies and jump to the conclusion the article is in violation of that (non-existent) copyright.

	If you adapt material from DANFS for Misplaced Pages, please see ].

	=== Available templates and userboxes ===

	{{see also\|Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Ships/Tables}}

	* {{tl\|WikiProject Ships}} - Project Banner for discussion pages.
	* {{tl\|User CSNavy}} - Confederate Navy userbox
	* {{tlx\|USS\|Shipname\|Type-Num}} - Short hand for linking to USN vessel articles
	* {{tl\|user ships}} - A WikiProject Ships Userbox

	=== Mediawiki Footers ===

	* ]
	==== Stub types ====
	* ] {{tl\|water-stub}}
	** ] {{tl\|ship-stub}}
	*** ] {{tl\|ferry-stub}}
	*** ] {{tl\|submarine-stub}}
	*** ] {{tl\|mil-ship-stub}}
	**** ] {{tl\|Japan-mil-ship-stub}}
	**** ] {{tl\|UK-mil-ship-stub}}
	**** ] {{tl\|US-mil-ship-stub}}

	=== Ensigns, Jacks, Pennants, and Other Vexillologs ===
	{{Misplaced Pages:WikiProject Ships/Ensigns}}

	== Pages needing attention ==

	{{Misplaced Pages:Pages needing attention/Water transport}}

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Scope

WikiProject Ships aims primarily to organize the effort to create and improve articles on ships. The scope includes specific ships, classes, and ship related topics. Many of our members focus on naval vessels, usually a particular navy, if not an particular era. However we also address civilian ships, such as freighters and cruise liners. We also don't discriminate by age; ancient ships, age of sail, and modern vessels are all in scope.

Articles

As with most Misplaced Pages Projects, Ships has its focus on a collection of articles, perhaps unsurprisingly, about ships.

Wikiproject Ships Article Ratings

Ships pages by quality
Quality
Quality	Total
FA	305
FL	33
A	98
GA	1,917
B	5,105
C	11,238
Start	18,368
Stub	8,052
List	9,744
Category	5,731
Disambig	132
File	143
Project	74
Redirect	3,370
Template	1,625
NA	20,685
Assessed	86,620
Unassessed	19
Total	86,639
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 204,407	Ω = 4.53

Assessment and Review

In order to improve Ship related articles throughout wikipedia, the project uses Assessment and Review processes. Ship articles are tagged for quality and importance ratings by including the Project Banner on the article's discussion page.

Pages needing attention

If you'd like to help WikiProject Ships, an easy place to start is with our stubs and Start-Class articles, although please review our Guidelines first.

Misplaced Pages:Pages needing attention listings are no longer being updated. For by-topic listings of articles that need attention, see:

To flag an article for attention, add a cleanup template to the article or talk page. See Misplaced Pages:Template index/Cleanup for a listing. All previously listed articles have either been fixed or tagged.

See also the page history of Misplaced Pages:Votes for rewrite which ran from May 2002-June 2003 then was redirected to here.

Resources

An indirect, but key, goal of WikiProject Ships is to grow and maintain a large collection of ship related resources.

Sources

File:BismarckColor.jpg

German battleship Bismarck

Misplaced Pages readers, interested in further research, are welcome to explore our collection of sources and reference material. These sources have been found to be handy for getting information on ships. Please feel free to add additional sources that you find to be useful.

Many public domain sources of information on ships are available, such as the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. If any material in an article has been copied from the public domain, be sure to credit the source. DANFS in particular has been widely copied across the World Wide Web, and its copiers sometimes (wrongly) claim that they hold the copyright to that public domain material. A Misplaced Pages editor checking provenance could discover one of those copies and jump to the conclusion the article is in violation of that (non-existent) copyright. If you adapt material from DANFS for Misplaced Pages, please see the DANFS conversions guidelines.

Editing Guidelines and Tools

Misplaced Pages editors will find guidelines on writing ship articles and tools and templates to help do so. Editors may also wish to request peer review of articles.

Project relations

Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Transportation.

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WikiProject Ships has an international collection of participants with a common interest in ships of all types. Please join us by adding yourself and helping with ship articles. And don't worry, we get along more like an America's Cup match, than the Battle of Hampton Roads(right).

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