Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships/Footer proposals
This is a set of proposals for the format of ship class footers. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships#Ship class footers for the discussion that led to these proposals. Please contribute to the discussion there.
Each ship listed once for each navy
[edit]Pro: Easy to read. No one can complain about it being biased towards the Royal Navy.
Con: Huge.
Let's see what it looks like for the Flower-class corvettes:
Each ship listed once
[edit]| Colossus-class aircraft carrier |
| Colossus (to France as Arromanches) | Glory | Ocean | Vengeance (to Australia as Vengeance; then to Brazil as Minas Gerais) | Pioneer | Venerable (to Netherlands as Karel Doorman; then to Argentina as Veinticinco de Mayo) | Warrior (to Canada as Warrior; then to Argentina as Independencia) | Perseus | Theseus | Triumph |
List of aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy |
Pro: Small.
Con: Hard to read
Let's see what it looks like for the Flower-class corvettes:
Each ship listed once, formatting tweaks
[edit]| Colossus-class aircraft carrier |
| Glory | Ocean | Perseus | Pioneer | Theseus | Triumph | Colossus (to France as Arromanches) | Vengeance (to Australia as Vengeance; then to Brazil as Minas Gerais) | Venerable (to Netherlands as Karel Doorman; then to Argentina as Veinticinco de Mayo) | Warrior (to Canada as Warrior; then to Argentina as Independencia) |
List of aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy |
Pro: Better.
Con: Still not very easy to read.
Each ship listed once, table in table
[edit]| Colossus-class aircraft carrier | |||||||||||||||||||||
|
Glory |
Ocean |
Perseus |
Pioneer |
Theseus |
Triumph
| |||||||||||||||||||||
List of aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy |
Pro: easy to read.
Con: uses a line in the box for each time a ship is sold. When a lot of ships have been sold the table might be bigger than the table in the first format above.
Let's see what it looks like for Flower class corvetes:
abstracted footer
[edit]| Flower-class corvette |
| Table of Flower-class corvettes |
| Lists of corvettes of the Canadian Navy | Free French Navy | French Navy | Netherlands Navy | Norwegian Navy | Royal Navy | United States Navy | Yugoslavian Navy |
The table should have, say: launch-year, navy, name, [transfer-year, navy, name], end-year
Maybe two sets of lists?--lists of Flower-class corvettes of * Navy, and lists of [all] corvettes?
It might be best not to have a footer at all for such a large ship class but to just link to the Flower class corvette article and put lists of ships there.