Talk:List of battleships of the United States Navy
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The two lists used to be the same length, indicating that the contents of the two lists are the same, differing only in sorting. Could the people who messed this up please fix? Stan 16:24, 5 May 2004 (UTC)
- The length doesn't match because of the added line caused by the comment after USS Wisconsin's entry in the numeric list. -B-
Request for Change
Near the top of the article is the statement "Thus, the US Navy never matched or even closely rivaled the line of battle of the Royal Navy in sheer numbers, but tended to have more powerful ships which could take more damage." There are (at least) two issues here: (1) "The" Royal Navy? I assume the author is talking about the UK's Navy. This should be made explicit. (2) I would venture a guess that the statement is no longer true. I assume the author is talking about the 19th Century, or something like that. This should be made explicit as well. I am not making either change myself because I am not knowledgable enough on the topic - I'm just guessing (though confident) in both cases. - Rwv37 June 28, 2005 04:31 (UTC)
- Well, there's only one Royal Navy. :-) The statement is true throughout the battleship era, which for the US is ca 1890-1945, so could be clarified that way. Personally, I think the whole para is irrelevant; this is supposed to be just the list of ships with no distractions or ramblings, and other articles have plenty of design philosophy and fleet doctrine. Stan 28 June 2005 04:57 (UTC)
[edit] Propose Split
On:
See also: Category:Battleships of the United States and Category:Battleships of the United States Navy.
- With a 'List of' title, the second half of this article is more like what one would expect to find in a main article.
- Add in there is no main article matching either of the the two categories above (Why there are two is itself unclear).
- I'd postulate there is a fair amount of material that could be incorportated into such a main article, certain more interesting historical highlights now in individual BB articles, and perhaps some comparision data to other world class navies in the day and period 'head to head'. In short, this article having a list title can't use some of the text that could easily be pulled together into a main article on the Battleships of the United States Navy (Alternative and perhaps better name).
- In sum, there is no overall class article or History of article, and such a major 'projector' and factor in world politics and warfare pretty much demand that there indeed should be one. // FrankB 05:31, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
