Talk:Niantic (whaling vessel)

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New Article[edit]

A lot of material about the Niantic is available, and its story is quite fascinating. Will return to develop this stub.

Taquito1 02:14, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Roughed-out the article. Needs references, pictures, and various other improvements. Need to check some details for accuracy.

Taquito1 03:42, 16 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Good start on an interesting article. I have added it to a couple relevant WikiProjects. A few suggestions:

The lead paragraph is kind of confusing. Try to make it a more concise summary of the ship.
Then, because the summary paragraph will have briefly explained the context, it would make more sense for the rest of the article to be in chronological order (Background before Rediscovery).
Please italicize a ship's name every time you use it - Niantic is proper.
This is very minor, especially because Niantic was both a ship and a hotel, but we still refer to a ship as 'her' rather than 'it'.
The category Category:Merchant ships of the United States would be more appropriate than the generic category Category:Ships.

Let me know if you have any questions. I look forward to reading the completed article! Maralia 05:38, 17 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for the good advice, Maralia. Am now working on incorporating your comments, including a major reorganization that will probably take several revisions. Have added section stub tags until the sections are fleshed out. I hope to gather enough details of the ship to use one of the ship infoboxes referenced on your user page. I think owner names are available. Planning to add pictures later.

Taquito1 03:02, 18 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If you do manage an infobox, it might be the first time in recorded history that somebody actually used the suggested infobox (or any infobox) for a civilian ship ;) Maralia 03:59, 18 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Well, I applied the infobox before I saw your note. Let me know if it should not be used for civilian ships. If it stays, I hope to compile and add to it a few more basic statistics that I know are out there. Thanks for your feedback. Taquito1 01:09, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Image[edit]

Thanks, Maralia! You are quick. It took me a whole evening to figure out how to get that image into Wikimedia, and then into the article.Taquito1 (talk) 03:57, 13 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I just happened to see your edit on my watchlist shortly after you added the image. Hard to believe it's been a year and a half since you first started the article :) Maralia (talk) 04:04, 13 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Article Ratings[edit]

I changed the WikiProject Ships article rating from Start Class to B-Class, based on the quality scale and B-Class checklist at {{WikiProject Ships}}. I am not a member of the Ships WikiProject, and will defer to consensus within the project if it comes to that. Taquito1 (talk) 02:15, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I changed the WikiProject San Francisco Bay Area article rating from Start Class to B-Class, based on the quality scale at {{SFBAProject}}. I also changed the importance to MID; that was a difficult judgment to make (LOW vs MID), and will defer to others if there is disagreement. The ship may be long gone, marked only by a plaque, but I think it had an iconic place in the city's early history. Note that "iconic buildings" are assessed as HIGH importance, which is clearly overstating it for Niantic. I am not a member of the SFBA WikiProject, and will defer to consensus within the project if it comes to that. Taquito1 (talk) 02:53, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No hard feelings if someone sees fit to reduce my assessments above. I think Start Class is definitely too low, so it is either B or C. SFBA importance may be arguable. Taquito1 (talk) 02:53, 2 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]