User talk:Schroughphie

List of Clemson-class destroyers[edit]

The way you left List of Clemson-class destroyers following your edits was not acceptable per WP:MOS. The work was very detailed and helpful to the overall quality of the articles but, for starters, leaving references in a heading line is incorrect. I have moved them into the body of the article - we can go from there. Kazamzam (talk) 17:53, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

What is WP:MOS and how do get a copy?

I put the references where I did because it seemed most accurate. For example the "Ships in class" section was from one reference: Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, Volume I (A-B), Appendix IV, Pages 288 - 295. I made no edits to this section. The "Construction data" Section uses ever single one of the other references but to try to cite each ship's information to a particular reference would leave the table awash in superscripts. To randomly assign the references to a particular line in the "Ships in class" section is completely inaccurate. This page is a stripped down version of a list I compiled the late 1980s which also included Date of Launch and Date Stricken among other information. I was thinking about working on the Wickes-class next but not until I figure out how to do this.

Where help is needed is: DD-200 - 205 and 316 - 318 when I was editing column 1 & 2 (ship name & hull #) somehow got font and justification changed and I don't know how to correct this. Also is there anyway to adjust the column widths to reduce wrapping.

Where do we go next? Schroughphie (talk) 21:12, 22 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ah okay. WP:MOS stands for Wikipedia:Manual of Style. It's a standard way of formatting articles and is very useful for structuring content. Kazamzam (talk) 00:52, 23 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Ah. Useful but no manual can cover every contingency. Where would the references go for an entire article? Schroughphie (talk) 02:15, 23 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Two things. If you want me to see these messages you need to "ping" me using the Template:Reply to. Secondly, I'm not sure what would mean by where would the references go. The references section is at the bottom of the page, per the MOS, and uses the Template:Reflist. Inline references should go, again, per the MOS section on punctuation and footnotes and the Wikipedia citing sources guidelines, immediately following the text that they support. Kazamzam (talk) 12:48, 23 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

So the reply button on the messages doesn't work?

I am going to start reworking the references. I will do a handful, notify you and see if it meets spec. Schroughphie (talk) 17:53, 24 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Kazamzam: Does this do the ping thing? 1st batch is up. Schroughphie (talk) 19:10, 24 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The reply button works but it doesn't automatically alert me. The ping thing did! 1st batch of edits looks great. Let me know if you want any help and have fun. Kazamzam (talk) 19:15, 24 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Kazamzam

This is gonna take minute to do.

Anything on changing the justification and font on the previously mentioned ships? Schroughphie (talk) 21:12, 24 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not at all clear on what you mean by that. Changing the justification...as in the inclusion of specific ships? The font is a question of MOS and the Wikipedia naming conventions for ships. Kazamzam (talk) 21:33, 24 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Kazamzam

Take a look at DD-316 - 318 and 200 - 205, column 1 & 2 do not match the rest of the table. Schroughphie (talk) 22:51, 24 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Kazamzam

Just had to correct DD-321 - 323 and it did the same thing as far as font/justification as the others.

The table at the very bottom of the cannot be edited. Any idea why? Schroughphie (talk) 18:52, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hm. I can't fix the bolding and I'm not sure why. Will get back to you on this.

I'm not sure what you mean by the table at the very bottom. If you mean the references section, it's a template so you have to edit the references themselves and they will be modified in the reflist template. Kazamzam (talk) 19:12, 28 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Kazamzam

I checked and rechecked it is gone. I even checked prior revisions and they don't show it. The information in the table was all of the links that were in the article. When I hovered on it it popped up a "this table was auto-generated". It was very similar to the one at the bottom of Clemson-class destroyer, but included RN & RCN entries. The one at the bottom of that one needs serious help. Not sorry it is gone. Schroughphie (talk) 18:32, 29 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]