Talk:USS Kentucky (BB-66)

BBG/BG
Shouldn't guided missile battleship and missile battleship redirect here? And did they ever come up with a code for these things? ie. BBG or BG ? 65.93.12.101 (talk) 19:32, 31 March 2011 (UTC)

Featured article quality has deteriorated
This article may have at one time been of featured quality but no longer. In regards to the Featured article criteria at a glance: If these issues can't be corrected in a reasonable amount of time the article will be listed at Featured article review. Brad (talk) 05:12, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
 * 1c There are multiple citation needed tags dated from October 2009 and I've just found at least two citations that don't back up what they're citing. There are three books listed in the bibliography that are not cited in the article. Sources are not meeting "High-quality and reliable" such as:
 * The 10 Greatest Fighting Ships in Military History. The Discover Channel.
 * http://www.navysite.de/bb/bb63.htm
 * http://www.hazegray.org/navhist/battleships/us_wwii.htm
 * MOS There are minor problems with MOS:IMAGES and MOS:LINK.

Erroneous information still included
A good idea for the GA reviewer would be to look at the Featured Article Review and note that the article still contains only ship of the class considered for a guided missile rebuild. which was long ago proven wrong. There were other issues mentioned too. Brad (talk) 12:54, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
 * Thank you for the note. Binksternet (talk) 14:32, 9 August 2012 (UTC)

NNSY?
The article implies that Kentucky finished out her days at Philadelphia Naval Shipyard. However, I can recall seeing her at Norfolk Naval Shipyard in late 1958. Was she towed there from Philly to be broken up? Or vice versa? It may take some research to answer these questions. I think they need to be answered. DutchmanInDisguise (talk) 18:57, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Orphaned references in USS Kentucky (BB-66)
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of USS Kentucky (BB-66)'s orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "spring": From Montana-class battleship: Naval Historical Center. Bureau of Ships' "Spring Styles" Book # 3 (1939–1944) – (Naval Historical Center Lot # S-511) – Battleship Preliminary Design Drawings. Retrieved 2007-12-01. From USS Illinois (BB-65): Naval Historical Center. Bureau of Ships' "Spring Styles" Book # 3 (1939–1944) – (Naval Historical Center Lot # S-511) – Battleship Preliminary Design Drawings. Retrieved 1 December 2007.  

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 00:07, 28 April 2016 (UTC)

BBAA?
According to this from Friedman, proposals for 8"/55 turrets in an AA conversion were considered, should this be added to the article or is this something discussed in the past and disproved? - The Bushranger One ping only 02:50, 21 December 2017 (UTC)

lede problem
as of now, the lede makes little sense. Ship was planned as the last of the iowas, but an emergency measure made them build it as an iowa? later in the text it becomes apparent that she was planned as a Montana, which directly contradicts the first sentence in the article? 89.8.211.108 (talk) 18:54, 18 June 2022 (UTC)