Talk:USS Lexington (CV-16)

Blue Ghost
This section is confusing and needs re-wording Tony Spike (talk) 08:10, 17 March 2020 (UTC)

Commanding Officers section
I added a new section for Commanding Officers, patterned after another ship page. My edits have been deleted twice. XNavyAir (talk) 04:38, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
 * As explained by another editor, such were deprecated as the consensus was to add notable commanding officers (and any other notable crew) to the article's prose instead. -  wolf  21:39, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

Namesake
(GansMans IP acct will also be not'd) - while I see a ref has been attached, I'm not sure if it is sufficient. The only source it uses is DANFS which makes no mention of CV-2. There are links to assoc. pages (which we generally don't accept as RS), but no other sources that I saw. I believe this may be the same issue as we are currently seeing on the USS Yorktown (CV-10) page, where the source is likely a result of WP:CIRC. (BilCat, thoughts?) And GansMans, are you able to find any other sources to support the naming for CV-2? Thanks -  wolf  21:51, 18 September 2021 (UTC)


 * Now USS Wasp. I'm going to sit this out for awhile so I don't get blocked for edit warring. We might ask at MILHIST/WPSHIPS in the meantime, as this has likely been discussed before. BilCat (talk) 22:02, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
 * thanks for the reply. Don't blame you for wanting to avoid further reverts, I think I will now as well. But any contribution to discussion would be helpful. Cheers -  wolf  22:15, 18 September 2021 (UTC)


 * As I said, I'm going to sit this out for a while. You can't get in trouble for what you don't say! BilCat (talk) 22:36, 18 September 2021 (UTC)

Returned namesake belatedly to Battle of Lexington, which is supported by both DANFS, which doesn't mention CV-2 at all, and Navsource. The latter draws the correct distinction between what the name means (which is what, to me, the "namesake" field is for), and why it was chosen for this ship: "Renamed Lexington, 16 June 1942, to honor CV-2 (lost one month earlier at the Battle of the Coral Sea), thus becoming the fifth US warship to bear the name of the town in Massachusetts...." (emphasis added). Davidships (talk) 01:02, 7 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Exactly. BilCat (talk) 01:11, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

Power source
This page should say how the ship was powered. Thanks User:SYNTHWAVER MAN