Talk:PacifiCat-class ferry

fine to have what they were sold for, but without how much they cost?
I've just been looking over Fast Ferry Scandal and though a $460 million figure is given, not clear which cite will have that figure; I've seen 477 million somewhere recently.... this in ref to this edit.Skookum1 (talk) 04:34, 4 May 2013 (UTC)

Merger proposal
I propose that Fast Ferry Scandal be merged into PacifiCat-class ferry. I feel it is impossible to adequately explain the scandal without explaining the ships themselves and vice versa. Gwsk55970 (talk) 20:36, 29 May 2013 (UTC) There do not seem to have been any additional comments for almost two months here, so I think it might be fine to go ahead and merge the two pages. &mdash;Comp dude 123 19:46, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Support – The scandal has to do with the development of the ferries anyway, so it would only make sense to combine both articles. &mdash;Comp dude 123 06:20, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Support Yes, I thought it odd that there's two articles, since PacifiCat Class Ferries are only this one design/project. There are two categories, also, I think; I'll check when I get a chance unless someone else would oblige (I'm working on an upgrade to be website right now).Skookum1 (talk) 06:45, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Comment The one issue I have with this is that there's a big difference between a scandal article and a ship article; more input from WP:SHIPS is needed IMO.Skookum1 (talk) 02:09, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Oppose there's enough material to support separate class and scandal articles. I see no reason for a merger. If it were merged, then it would merge the other way around, with the ship-class article into the scandal article, as the political scandal would seem more significant than the ships themselves. -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 06:52, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Support, that's pretty much the point in my comment; changing my vote. It's like Canadian Pacific Railway vs. Pacific Scandal a bit, other examples are out there.  Many BC scandals are just sections on bios or town or company articles (Amor de Cosmos, Matthew Baillie Begbie, BC Rail and various others) and should all eventually be split once enough material/citations are provided to warrant stand-alone articles......Skookum1 (talk) 06:57, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Except the Pacific Scandal has a separate article. So, is your changed vote supporting a merge the other way around (ships into the scandal article), or opposing a merge? -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 08:03, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
 * I was meaning by way of example that it wouldn't be appropriate to have only the scandal as part of the railway article, or vice-versa.Skookum1 (talk) 09:05, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
 * well, I've been kinda busy elsewhere..... but my point remains that Pacific Scandal should not be upmerged to Canadian Pacific Railway, and that real scandals in BC history, such as the Cottonwood Scandal or Texada Scandal may eventually have enough to warrant separate articles rather than being sections of the Begbie and deCosmos articles. Whether Doman Scandal redirects to Doman Industries I'm not sure (just checked it goes to Bill_Bennett where there's a tiny bit on it; perhaps to the section on the William Richards Bennett page instead.  The media-fanning of "Scandal" in relation to the Fast Ferries is why the current title; it's just commonly, and more honestly, titled as "Fiasco".Skookum1 (talk) 05:20, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Comment I see you actually haven't done the merge yet; I'd hold off; the "scandal" article should focus on the political/media information, the ferry article should remain as a ship article with all the technical data; they are different subjects...so my vote is waffle and hold out; as I can see the reason now for the two separate articles, given the separation of ship titles from associated matters being somewhat the norm in WP:SHIPSSkookum1 (talk) 05:30, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
 * Politics and Ship Building do not mix: Keep them separate with links to each other. Political analysts do not want engineering information and ship builders do not want politics.

Thanks, TW Burger (talk) 22:07, 27 March 2015 (UTC)