Talk:HMS Plymouth (F126)

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That infobox is vastly too large, and both overwhelms the article and makes it look really ugly. Do we really need it?. Would it not be better to convert much of the minutiae it contains (every radar set the ship has ever had, for example) into a more textual form?. Comments?. -- Waterstones 18:56, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

As an experiment, I've moved the general characteristics section of the infobox to its own article section. It (IMHO) makes the article read a lot better. It is beginning to look more like an encyclopedia article, and a bit less like a database report. But then I've never really had much interest in radar sets. -- Waterstones 19:19, 19 March 2007 (UTC)

And I've undone it. It may not be interesting to you, but the convention is to use infoboxes to carry that information, so that those who are interested have it to hand, and those that aren't don't have to wade through it in the main body of the article. Hope that explains why we do this. Benea 00:25, 31 October 2007 (UTC)

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Book with a rather odd title

IP editor 95.150.227.149 tried to add a book with a rather odd title to the bottom of the article 19:07, 28 December 2017, and this was reverted by another editor.[1]

Though the IP editor put the book reference in the wrong place (after categories), it is a sensible addition to the bibliography. However it is self-published and therefore under Wikipedia rules does not count as a "reliable source".

• Riley, Spike (2016). Mackenzie, Jacqui; Slater, Martin; Ash, Richard (eds.). Simon's A Poof's Name: Falklands War 1982. Independently published. ISBN 978-1520187594.

If you read the British version of Amazon, you will see many customer reviews.[2] I have heard of the book before, but have not read it.-- Toddy1 (talk) 10:36, 29 December 2017 (UTC)

Book review:

• Brennan, Marion (21 March 2017). "Simon's war wasn't all doom and gloom". Express and Star. Retrieved 1 January 2018.

-- Toddy1 (talk) 00:54, 1 January 2018 (UTC)