Talk:Action of 12 April 2009

CNN reports that 1 pirate was on board a Navy vessel negotiating for the Captain's release. When the captain jumped overboard, SEALs kill the three pirates remaining on the life boat. This accounts for the 1 pirate surviving the attack. Rklawton (talk) 18:18, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Merger proposal
Is this page really needed at all? It should be deleted and merged with MV Maersk Alabama (though it is essentially already merged). -- T orsodo g Talk 18:23, 12 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Support - I see no reason to separate the incident from the ship - even if all merchant ships have their own articles, this is just once incident in the ship's life. Rklawton (talk) 18:21, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I disagree the Maresk Alabama page should discuss only events dealing witht that ship. All the events listed on the ships talk page that did not happen on that ship should be placed in a second article. Please dont merge pages without sufficent discussion!

XavierGreen (talk) 18:36, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I tend to agree with on this. This didn't happen on the ship, so it doesn't seem like it should go on it's page... Maybe the answer is to make a new article for the whole incident and link it from a summary section of the ship page. --Falcorian (talk) 20:00, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
 * We could take the view that whatever happens to a crew member - happens to the ship. In this instance, Captain Phillips is still acting as a member of his ship's crew.  Indeed, the event happened on the Alabama's lifeboat - which is arguable part of the Alabama even when not physically on board the ship.  Rklawton (talk) 21:26, 12 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Support merge into the main article on the ship's capture - there's not really enough to say about this to justify a separate article. (I agree, however, that there probably should be an article on the incident separate from that of the ship itself.) Robofish (talk) 20:01, 12 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Support per Robofish &#8756; Therefore cogito·sum 20:07, 12 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Support merge. Bsimmons 666  (talk) 20:18, 12 April 2009 (UTC)


 * Support more than I've ever supported anything in my life. Who the hell thought it would be a good idea to make a separate article?! RaseaC (talk) 20:42, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

This article's author also created a similar article here Tanit (yacht) which has the same deficiencies noted above. I've posted a merge tag on the article and invite editors to comment there. Rklawton (talk) 22:00, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Rename
So long as we're not rushing out to delete or merge this article, we aught to consider a more appropriate name. Suggestions? Rklawton (talk) 20:04, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
 * I think we are rushing to merge so no need to discuss. RaseaC (talk) 20:43, 12 April 2009 (UTC)