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Hey! Thanks for your work on Wikipedia, creating new set index pages. When creating pages using a custom DISPLAYTITLE for italics, instead of writing {{Displaytitle| ... }}, could you write {{DISPLAYTITLE: ... }}, with a colon? Another alternative is using {{Italic title}}, with |string = as the text you want italicized. Thanks! --pro-anti-air ––>(talk)<–– 03:25, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Pro-anti-air: I don't really understand why using the magic word (with a colon) is prefered over using the template, but okay. Mdewman6 (talk) 03:30, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi there. I saw your revert on this page. Please can you explain what is the point of that page? Who is it helping? We already have the ship entries on the dab page. Thanks — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 21:29, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@MSGJ: WP:SHIPDAB makes clear that for ship names that have multiple notable ships, the base name should be a set index (specifically, a {{ship index}}) for disambiguation purposes, rather than being a simple disambiguation page (or redirecting to one). As a set index, eventually the page can contain more article-like information and links, rather than just being there for disambiguation, and many even contain information about other ships that don't have/don't merit separate articles. Additionally, anyone searching the specific name of the ship sees only ships with that name, rather than wading through all entries on a related disambiguation page. Cheers, Mdewman6 (talk) 22:08, 2 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Mdewman6. Thank you for your work on HMS Gossamer. Another editor, Uncle Bash007, has reviewed it as part of new pages patrol and left the following comment:

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Uncle Bash007 (talk) 01:20, 3 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

You have just put more than two dozen articles in Category:Pages with disallowed DISPLAYTITLE modifications. For a list, please see this PetScan. Paradoctor (talk) 09:29, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Paradoctor:  Done, thanks. Mdewman6 (talk) 22:06, 11 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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Delighted to see someone working on French ships but many of the moves you have made removing dabs are in error as there is more than one frigate by that name so the dabless title should be the title of a ship index page. Have a look at the page list of sail frigates of France eg Charmente,Sensible Lyndaship (talk) 20:44, 27 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Lyndaship: Ah, I guess we're missing a lot of ship index pages for ship names where we currently only have 1 article. I'll work on adding these and reverting my moves as needed. Any others you've noticed besides Charmante and Sensible? Cheers, Mdewman6 (talk) 20:58, 27 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes sadly the French ships index pages are very incomplete. When the individual articles were created there was a hat note but another editor removed them as there can be no red linked hat notes. I think you will find nearly all French frigates had more than one ship of that name and will need dabs. The page List of Sail Frigates of France is the easiest way to check. Do you have Winfield or Roche? Lyndaship (talk) 21:15, 27 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Lyndaship: I think I fixed all of the ones I messed up today, but if you notice any others, let me know. Feel free to improve upon the bare bones ship indexes I'm making, they're more just placeholders that are an improvement over the status quo. I'm most interested in making sure all the base names exist (either as articles, ship indices, or redirects) and aren't WP:MISPLACED. I'll pay attention to the red links at the List of Sail Frigates going forward. I don't have either of those references, just going by what is currently on enwiki. Thanks, Mdewman6 (talk) 21:42, 27 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Those are not like British pennant numbers or US hull numbers; they were budget numbers and were not used operationally. Please self revert any and all changes you’ve made like you did with Clorinde Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 03:34, 29 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Sturmvogel 66:, should launch year be used for disambiguation instead? We already had the redirect French submarine Cornélie (Q214) so I was following that format. Mdewman6 (talk) 03:40, 29 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, that would be preferable. Good work on renaming the articles with unneeded disambiguators. If you need some stubs written so you can have more than one entry on a set index page, lemme know. I have Roche and most of Winfield's books on French ships as well.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 12:25, 29 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I've just reverted your move to remove the dab. A quick look at the Scottish built ships database shows 4 other SS Agamemnons - no articles but two have red links Lyndaship (talk) 19:21, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Lyndaship:, so are you going to make a ship index at the base name? Otherwise redirecting the base name to the disambiguated title makes no sense. Cheers, Mdewman6 (talk) 19:24, 31 December 2025 (UTC)[reply]

An article you recently created, HSwMS Hugin, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Dan arndt (talk) 01:53, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

• @Dan arndt:, these are not disambiguation pages, but are set index articles, and do not follow the strict rules of WP:DAB. Nevertheless, all entries have an appropriate blue link when possible, per WP:ONEBLUE. These are necessary because there needs to something at the base name for these ship names. It is typical for ship index articles to exist at the base name, even when none of the ships listed have an extant article. Please move these back to mainspace, as having nothing occupying the base name is untenable per WP:QUALIFIER. Mdewman6 (talk) 02:01, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

If you are creating it as an article then you need to supply reliable independent references/sources, particularly for the redlinks, confirming the boats exist. Dan arndt (talk) 02:36, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I've added refs for the red-linked vessels in the Hugin, Virgo and Castor lists. - Davidships (talk) 02:14, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Davidships: excellent! Thank you so much. I will move them back to main space unless there is a reason not to do so yet. Mdewman6 (talk) 02:17, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

It's a pleasure. I think they are fine now as ship lists (at least, that's how I do them). - Davidships (talk) 02:29, 10 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:HSwMS Hugin. Thanks! Dan arndt (talk) 01:54, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

An article you recently created, HSwMS Castor, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Dan arndt (talk) 01:54, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

An article you recently created, HSwMS Virgo, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Dan arndt (talk) 01:54, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:HSwMS Castor. Thanks! Dan arndt (talk) 01:55, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:HSwMS Virgo. Thanks! Dan arndt (talk) 01:55, 9 January 2026 (UTC)[reply]

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A tag has been placed on PS Alexandra (disambiguation) requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section G14 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because it is:

• a disambiguation page with a title ending in "(disambiguation)" which lists only one extant Wikipedia page (i.e., there is a primary topic);
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An article you recently created, SS Clan Fraser, is not suitable as written to remain published. It needs more citations from reliable, independent sources. (?) Information that can't be referenced should be removed (verifiability is of central importance on Wikipedia). I've moved your draft to draftspace (with a prefix of "Draft:" before the article title) where you can incubate the article with minimal disruption. When you feel the article meets Wikipedia's general notability guideline and thus is ready for mainspace, please click on the "Submit your draft for review!" button at the top of the page. Dan arndt (talk) 02:24, 2 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

I've left a comment on your Articles for Creation submission, which can be viewed at Draft:SS Clan Fraser. Thanks! Dan arndt (talk) 02:25, 2 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

You moved HMS TB 81 (1885) to HMS TB 81 here, stating the reason as "move to base name per WP:NCSHIP, only ship with this name". However, as you can see from List_of_torpedo_boat_classes_of_the_Royal_Navy#Yarrow_&_Company_TB.74_Class, there was another TB.81, a smaller 2nd class torpedo boat - in fact the two vessels appear to have co-existed with the same name. Similar issues apply to other RN torpedo boats you have moved - all of the Cricket-class destroyers you moved (TBs 4, 5, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 23) all reused their number (although the earlier vessels in these cases had already been scrapped). Because of this, the articles should probably be moved back and a suitable set index page created, as even if there isn't enough for an article on the older vessel(s), it is a viable target for users to search for.Nigel Ish (talk) 21:55, 9 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Nigel Ish: Thanks for letting me know, I'll take a closer look at these and revert moves/create ship index articles accordingly. I try to determine whether all mentions on enwiki refer to the ship with the extant article before moving it to the base name, but I'm sure I miss some. Mdewman6 (talk) 00:10, 10 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

@Nigel Ish: I took a look at these, but I could use your (or someones) help in identifying references to cite for the redlinked ships. I am fine with moving the existing articles back to their disambiguated versions and creating ship index pages at the base name, but at least one current new page reviewer is a stickler for having citations for red links- linking to existing mention in another article isn't sufficient. Looking at List_of_torpedo_boat_classes_of_the_Royal_Navy, it's unclear to me what references go with specific boats, and I don't have access to any of the books listed. Let me know if you can help and if you need me to make any page moves, though I think you should be able to revert my moves. Mdewman6 (talk) 23:59, 11 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

David Lyon & Rif Winfield's The Sail & Steam Navy List (Lyon, David; Winfield, Rif (2004). The Sail & Steam Navy List: All the Ships of the Royal Navy 1815–1889. Chatham Publishing. ISBN 1-86176-032-9. {{cite book}}: Text "location-London" ignored (help)) probably gives enough detail to properly cite ship index pages for the torpedo boats in question (i.e. year or date of launching/completion and disposal. I'll see if can move the pages back and drop in appropriate SIAs.Nigel Ish (talk) 16:14, 13 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Also, when you move ship articles, please be sure to amend all links from navboxes such as shipwreck navboxes. The ships name should show in bold and unlinked. If it is in blue and linked, that shows it is a redirect and needs to be changed. Mjroots (talk) 08:51, 16 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]