Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships/Footer proposals

This is a set of proposals for the format of ship class footers. See WikiProject Ships for the discussion that led to these proposals. Please contribute to the discussion there.

Each ship listed once for each navy
Pro: Easy to read. No one can complain about it being biased towards the Royal Navy.

Con: Huge.

Let's see what it looks like for the Flower-class corvettes:

Each ship listed once
Pro: Small.

Con: Hard to read

Let's see what it looks like for the Flower-class corvettes:

Each ship listed once, formatting tweaks
Pro: Better.

Con: Still not very easy to read.

Each ship listed once, table in table
Pro: easy to read.

Con: uses a line in the box for each time a ship is sold. When a lot of ships have been sold the table might be bigger than the table in the first format above.

Let's see what it looks like for Flower class corvetes:

abstracted footer
The table should have, say: launch-year, navy, name, [transfer-year, navy, name], end-year

Maybe two sets of lists?--lists of Flower-class corvettes of * Navy, and lists of [all] corvettes?

It might be best not to have a footer at all for such a large ship class but to just link to the Flower class corvette article and put lists of ships there.