Talk:HMS Plymouth (F126)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the HMS Plymouth (F126) article.
Please sign and date your posts by typing four tildes (~~~~). Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic. New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Ask questions, get answers. This is not a forum for general discussion about the article's subject.	Be polite Assume good faith No personal attacks Be welcoming	Article policies No original research Neutral point of view Verifiability

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Ships, a project to improve all Ship-related articles. If you would like to help improve this and other Ship-related articles, please join the project. All interested editors are welcome.
Start	rated as Start-Class on the assessment scale
Mid	rated as mid-importance on the assessment scale

	This article is within the scope of the Military history WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see lists of open tasks and regional and topical task forces. To use this banner, please see the full instructions.
Start	This article has been rated as Start-Class on the quality scale.
Additional information and associated task forces: This article has been checked against the following criteria for B-Class status: Referencing and citation: criterion not met Coverage and accuracy: not checked Structure: criterion met Grammar: not checked Supporting materials: criterion met Associated task forces (general topics): Maritime warfare task force Associated task forces (nations and regions): British military history task force

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)