Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/HMS Plymouth

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The result of the debate was Merge and Redirect Jtkiefer  T - 04:19, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

HMS Plymouth
Managed to duplicate HMS_Plymouth_(F126)
 * Rather than deleting them, these duplicates ought to redirect to the more page with the registry number or whatever that (F126) is. --DavidConrad 05:32, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge the external link and redirect to more complete article. Remove the line about other ships by that name from the article, until we've got them an actually need to turn this into a disambig. - Mgm|(talk) 09:15, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Merge and redirect per Mgm. Alf melmac 20:38, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
 * Strong disambiguate - it would be extremely remarkable for the Royal Navy to adopt a name for that has not been previously used. Someone needs to do some research to find a list, that's all. Dunc|&#9786; 20:53, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
 * We only need a disambiguation if we actually have other articles about similarly named ships, but we don't, so we can wait and make the disambiguation later. - Mgm|(talk) 08:23, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
 * No we don't. As explained below, the role of a disambiguation page is to disambiguate.  Links to HMS Plymouth should be taken to a list of all ships of that name, regardless of whether or not those articles exist or not.  That avoids creating link from an article which was intent on mentioning one vessel being taken to a page on an entirely different vessel.  See allpages/HMS, and you'll find lots of redlinks to ships that haven't been written about yet.  Dunc|&#9786; 18:33, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
 * This should be a disambig, ala HMS Orpheus. The Royal Navy just loves reusing their names, so good disambigs with the dates of founding are essential Ziggurat 00:02, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
 * This needs to be either a redirect or a disambiguation page. In several instances, I have typed in a name of a ship, without the hull number or pennant number (because I don't know it), and I get a page saying something that 'the page does not exist, would you like to create it?'  I know it is there, but I am not being sent to the right place.  Keep, and either use as redirect or DAB page.


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