Talk:Miss England (speedboat)

Disambig pages trying to be more

Hello. Sorry to bother you, but your in-progress article on Miss England (Speedboat) was raised up at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ships#Disambig pages trying to be more. We thought that you should be informed that by the conventions of WP:SHIPS (this article falling under the mandate of the project), individual craft should have individual articles, instead of having several similarly named craft covered in a single article. So when you further expand the article, you might want to consider splitting it into Miss England I, Miss England II and Miss England III and converting Miss England (Speedboat) into a disambiguation page. Not that I'd be trying to dictate what you should do, but following established conventions obviously makes this place easier to use for everyone. Again, sorry for bothering you, and keep up the good work! -- Kjet (talk · contribs) 10:29, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Here's another one in progress - Miss England (Speedboat) - I wonder if we should catch it now, or let the author finish work on it and then split it? Benea (talk) 02:53, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Or maybe one of us should drop a note at his talk page (in the kindest of terms of course), noting that those should be separate articles? This would save trouble all around. -- Kjet (talk · contribs) 08:16, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Can it not be me? I came across one of his articles entitled 'Captain George E.T. Eyston'. I moved it to the conventional George E. T. Eyston (as we don't include rank in article titles) and explained my thinking on the talk page. I'm fairly sure I have both convention and consensus on my side, but I've discovered that he's acted very strongly (and garnered accusations of incivility for it) at other attempts to move it. I have a nasty feeling it might kick off, and he might take a note on the Miss England issue the wrong way. Ho hum. Benea (talk) 09:42, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Hmm, that definately doesn't sound nice. I can drop him a note on Miss England (famous last words). On an unrelated note to that subject, an update on Spirit of Tasmania: I've branched off Spirit of Tasmania III into MS Mega Express Four, and the first, non-numbered Spirit of Tasmania has previously been combined into the article of MS Princess of Norway. That leaves just Spirit of Tasmania I and Spirit of Tasmania II to be taken care of. So we're half-way there ;). -- Kjet (talk · contribs) 10:13, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Miss England (Speedboat): I have left a (hopefully very diplomatical) note at User talk:Andy Dingley#Miss England (Speedboat) and naming conventions. -- Kjet (talk · contribs) 10:32, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

As noted on my own talk page, I'd prefer it if you let the original creator finish the page, then split it. The problem is that I don't have enough material for three decent pages here, but hopefully do for one. If someone else were to come along later and add to it, then that could obviously change. In particular, I've almost nothing on III. Andy Dingley (talk) 11:18, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Right, that's all I've got for the moment. I might do some more work on the theoretical design of hydroplane hulls in the 1930s (To be honest, that depends if I can be bothered doing anything with wikipedia). It's a free-for-all now, including splitting it. Enjoy. Andy Dingley (talk) 23:12, 15 April 2008 (UTC)