Talk:Maritime flag signalling

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The initial version of this article could be considered a mere sketch of what could be covered; a serious expansion is not unwarranted. However, in order to avoid any deterioration of quality, I would ask subsequent editors to consider the following.

1) Please do not jump in just because you thought of something to add, or saw something interesting "on the web". Much of the material on this topic on the web is unsourced, unauthoritative (often amounting to little more than a blog of opinion), and sometimes even incorrect.  If you have something to add, please base it on authorititative, perfereably original, sources (though views and opinions of recognized experts are also valuable).  (Google Books ia a rich and very handy mine of old texts.)  Proper research does take time (I have spent around a hundred hours on this article), but that is necessary to be authoritative, as opposed to just opinionated.  Contact me if you need help.

2) Please do not add the NATO flags! The topic of naval (that is, of navies, not the merchant and other vessels) flag signals is immense, and warrants its own article, but that is not this article.

3) Please do not distort the coverage of this article. I covered Marryat, because his Code of Signals was the most widespread, most prominent system of signalling prior to the current International code.  Other systems of signalling (such as Rodger's, widely used in American shipping) are of interest, but overall are not as significant.  A section touching on all of these  might be useful here, but if you want to cover just a single system I would advise doing a separate article, which can then be cross-linked.

Thank you. J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 20:31, 29 September 2009 (UTC)

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French developments
Thanks for the bit about the French developments (we needed that). Holzmann & Pehrson looks to be excellent. Do note that we should use templates. If you look at my last two edits you can see how I templated both the full citation for Holzmann & Pehrson, and the short-cites. I converted the cite book templates to citation templates because the former (like most {cite xxx} templates) don't generate the necessary anchor by default. Also to be consistent with the existing use of {citation}, which displays slightly differently from {cite}. &diams; J. Johnson (JJ) (talk) 22:14, 26 October 2019 (UTC)