Talk:HNoMS Eidsvold

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BetacommandBot (talk) 20:56, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

HNoMS vs KNM
An inconsistency is apparent. In the title and opening paragraph, the ship is named HNoMS Eidsvold, but thereafter is called KNM Eidsvold. I would presume that the latter is correct, but am not sure. Is the former then a false construction, made for the benefit of English readers, of the sort that is deprecated by Wikipedia (style manual)? (The same question can be raised concerning articles on other Norwegian ships with prefix HNoMS.) PKKloeppel (talk) 16:47, 11 May 2008 (UTC)


 * HNoMS is the correct English language prefix for Royal Norwegian Navy ships. KNM is simply the Norwegian language version (literal meaning: Kongelig Norsk Marine → Royal Norwegian Navy). Some early editors on these articles used the two terms in a rather confused manner. It should be HNoMS. I'll go fix it here right away. Manxruler (talk) 16:53, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
 * However, the Norwegian Navy only introduced the prefix KNM in 1946, long after the Eidsvold had gone down. The use of the prefix, Norwegian or English, is therefore inappropriate. Indeed, the Norwegian Wiki therefore does not use any prefix for the ship. --Cosal (talk) 07:06, 7 September 2015 (UTC)