Talk:SS Santa Paula (1916)

Need for redirects?
Two redirect pages may be in order for this article. There is already an article Santa Paula but it pertains to the 1958 built ship. This article would make the second ship name Montanan to be sunk in war service.

SS Santa Paula may refer to -
 * SS Santa Paula (1916), was a cargo ocean liner built in 1916 and sunk in 1943.
 * SS Santa Paula (1932), was a passenger and cargo ocean liner built in 1932 and scrapped in 1971.
 * SS Santa Paula (1958), was a passenger and cargo ocean liner built in 1958 and scrapped in 2002.
 * I did SS Santa Paula. Brad (talk) 21:51, 1 October 2012 (UTC)

SS Montanan may refer to -
 * SS Montanan, was a cargo ocean liner built in 1912 and sunk in 1918.
 * SS Montanan, was a cargo ocean liner built in 1916 and sunk in 1943. NightSt✷r   talk  13:27, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

Ship Year?
This article was named Santa Paula (1916) because another editor Benea had moved SS Santa Rosa (1917) to SS Santa Rosa (1916) citing "dab by year of launch, per WP:Naming conventions (ships))". While I do not have an exact date for the Santa Paula's launch, her completion date of April 1917 would have most likely placed her launch date in 1916. So now I'm confused on what it is to be because a recent editor BusterD has placed this article in 1917, rather than 1916, category ships.  NightSt✷r   talk  13:27, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
 * A mistake on my part. Fixed it. BusterD (talk) 13:32, 30 September 2012 (UTC)

Copying
The last paragraph appears to be taken verbatim from this source. Unless that source is public domain, or copyright has been released, the paragraph needs to be deleted and the content completely rewritten. Kablammo (talk) 11:58, 7 October 2012 (UTC) I have truncated the section to remove the parts taken verbatim from the source. I did not check other parts of the article against their respective sources. Kablammo (talk) 12:30, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
 * The paragraph has been completely rewritten. If the re-write is still too close to the copyrighted material it may be necessary to just give the basic facts of the ship sinking without a description of the event or the fate of the crew.  The other reference, which cites another section of the SS Arkansan web site, was a summary of a crew member's inter-war years service and used to summarize her itinearies.   NightSt✷r   talk  01:00, 9 October 2012 (UTC)