Talk:Circé-class submarine (1925)

Proposed merge of French submarine Circé (Q125) into Circé-class submarine (1925)
While not a content fork, they are describing the same submarine Justanothersgwikieditor (talk) 04:11, 7 June 2023 (UTC)


 * @Mdnavman Hi there~! If I am not mistaken, both articles are describing the same submarine and hence should be merged. Thanks! Justanothersgwikieditor (talk) 04:14, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
 * I think there is a misunderstanding. One article (the first one) describes the singular ship named Circé. The second link describes the entire class of ships. The first article would be a sub article of the second one. The class article would describe things such as how the class came to be ordered and what the design discussions were, while the ship article goes into the ship's career. This would be like the Lexington-class aircraft carrier and USS Lexington (CV-2) for more complete examples.


 * @Justanothersgwikieditor The above paragraph is unsigned, but whoever wrote it is correct. The two articles cover distinct subjects. Circé-class submarine (1925) discuss the entire class, which includes four submarines, namely French submarine Circé (Q125), French submarine Calypso (Q126), French submarine Doris (Q135), and French submarine Thétis. This results in five distinct articles, one about the class as a whole and one about each of the four submarines in the class. Almost all ship classes are named after the lead ship of the class, and no ship class article is about the same subject as the article about the individual lead ship of the class with the same name. A ship class article should never be merged with the article about the particular ship the class is named after, and they are treated as separate articles in the case of all the other hundreds of ship classes with Wikipedia articles. You can learn more about this by reading the Ship class and lead ship articles, as well as by looking at naval ships and seeing how ship class articles and individual articles for those ships are organized. You also could contact WikiProject Ships for more information on how ship-class-naming conventions work. Meanwhile, DO NOT MERGE the Circe class article with the article about Circe herself (or any ship-class article with the article about its lead ship). Mdnavman (talk) 19:39, 7 June 2023 (UTC)mdnavman
 * @Mdnavman @Llammakey : Ah, thanks for the clarification. I definitely misread some part of the articles but the content are largely similar so I thought it might be an accidental content fork which is not. Will close the discussion as not needed. Thanks! Justanothersgwikieditor (talk) 01:27, 8 June 2023 (UTC)