Talk:USAT Don Esteban

USAT vice DON ESTEBAN (1936)
The fact that several years of notable, but routine, service as one of the passenger vessels with a "luxury" reputation is outweighed by a very brief (essentially four month) operation as a bareboat chartered U.S. Army vessel involved in late pre-war efforts to build up the ability to strike back an a possible invasion by Japan and then supply and passenger service as the Philippines fell warrants "USAT Don Esteban in references and my view. I'd have no major difficulty with a move to "Don Esteban (1936)" but unless Philippine sources can greatly add to the ship's history as a passenger vessel would suggest this title remain. As with so many of these ships, the other lost local Army fleet of the Philippines in particular, official histories are fairly slim. The Edward Weiss account, in the ADBC Museum, Wellsburg WV 26070, offers the most detail and matches official records, some of which gathered together sketchy reports out of the confusion and disaster overtaking allied forces during the time, well with one exception: he notes the attack in the last days of February while official records note 2 March for the loss. As a personal observation I've found this not exceptional as date/time groups of official records sometimes do not match memory of participants. A note on the photo from the Australian War Memorial: the ship appears to be in the peacetime U.S. Army livery of dark hull, white deck housing, buff masts with stack stripes or red over white over blue, under a black top and over a buff funnel. While it is difficult to be sure in a B&W photo, the scheme matches other B&W Army ship photos with that scheme. All the ships got the gray treatment ASAP after war broke out. Considering the frantic pace during the emergency of the entire Pacific, particularly the Southeast Asia, SW Pacific crumbling, it is likely the ship went down under these colors. Palmeira (talk) 15:35, 31 May 2013 (UTC)

Overlinking
There is a policy against over linking in articles. Linking "eight cylinder" and "diesel engine" is an example of exactly that. "Equator"? "medical personnel"? "reserve gold"? "gasoline"? No, not acceptable linking. Suggest the editor involved in this dispute read What generally should not be linked before reverting to the over linked version. Palmeira (talk) 04:20, 8 August 2015 (UTC)