Talk:USS Yorktown (CV-10)/Archive 1

"Romantic" language
DELETED: ", ready to avenge the death of her older namesake sister" FROM: Introduction REASON: Too emotional for an encyclopedia

This article is long and detailed, but I find that acceptable considering the extent of this ship's career. I understand that ships are commonly thought of as female, but the article has a slightly romantic feel. We should be wary of romanticizing weapons of war. 202.220.171.235 (talk) 12:38, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * _ _ 202 has done the article a good service, for an unacceptable reason. NPoV is not only among the most fundamental principles of WP, it is also among the 2 or 3 about which discussion of changes is simply and totally off the table: it will not be dropped; it cannot be dropped. _ _ In this case, that IP-user removed the "romantic" language, and that is a good thing bcz romanticism toward any subject is a Point of View on that subject, and it doesn't belong in WP. Some very specialized encyclopedias like the Great Soviet Encyclopedia and the Catholic Encyclopedia are fundamentally committed to a PoV (including those implicit in use of the expressions "Our Lord" and "Great Patriotic War", respectively -- or maybe it's vice-versa, i get confused about that), and it's not surprising that they'll use PoV language. But outside those cases, an encyclopedia that does that hampers its function as an encyclopedia. (I put a cleanup tag on the accompanying article for that reason, saying
 * ... fix non-ency'c language like "stupendous", "death of [a ship]", and (what i cleaned up "[shot down] for their trouble")
 * even tho i seem to have forgotten the do the removal i said i had!) _ _ As to "romanticizing weapons of war", we don't romanticize war. Nor do we romanticize religion, romanticize music, or romanticize sex. Romantic, or other PoV language is no more appropriate here to war or weapons than to anything else. And no less relevant. _ _ All of that being said, i've taken care of the others i mentioned, but they were intended as examples, and the cleanup tag should remain pending at least a careful reading of the entire article with NPoV in mind. --Jerzy•t 18:50, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Oldest carrier still in existence?
I deleted this statement because it is wrong. Lexington (CV-16), for example, was laid down, launched and commissioned earlier. The only related claim to fame that can be made for Yorktown is that it has the lowest hull number of any carrier still around.Busaccsb (talk) 00:17, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Image
Hi all,

The image File:CVS-10 Yorktown.jpg used with this article may be of questionable quality. See Graphics Lab. (I thought it was because there are too many JPEG artifacts. Please see how the image can be improved. I don't know where else to broach this so here was the only other place. Thanks! 68.173.113.106 (talk) 01:00, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

allegedly
I am not sure how I confirm that this is the USS Yorktown, feel free to correct or fix. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fsainsbu (talk • contribs) 02:11, 31 October 2012 (UTC)

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