 | Below are answers to frequently asked questions about the corresponding page HMAS Melbourne (R21). They address concerns, questions, and misconceptions which have repeatedly arisen on the talk page. Please feel free to change this material in light of new discussion. |
I added something to the article but it got removed. Why?
What you added most likely fell into one of two categories:
- It was unsourced information or information cited to an unreliable source; such information is usually removed quickly because of the article's Featured Article status. Featured Articles on Wikipedia require reliable sources for an independent verification of the facts presented.
- The information is not relevant, or only tangentially relevant to the subject of the article. In order to keep the size of the article from becoming excessive, any irrelevant information should be moved to a more appropriate article. The editor who removed the information either moved it to a more appropriate home, or left an edit summary message indicating a better article for it.
I see information in the article that has no source. What should I do?
If you have access to a reliable source for this information, add it! Please place the source information within ref tabs (<ref></ref>), and consider using one of the citation templates to ensure that you add all necessary information from your source to the article.
If you do not have access to such a source, please add {{fact}} to the suspicious information: this will draw attention to the information, which will either be sourced or removed by a more experienced editor.
Something in the lead section doesn't have a citation. I'm going to put a {{fact}} tag on it right now.
This article (like many others) uses the approach of putting no citations in the lead section, as the lead functions as a summary of the entire article. All of the 'uncited' content in the lead can be found in the body of the article, along with the relevant citations.
The entire article makes reference to Melbourne as "she", shouldn't the aircraft carrier be referenced as "it"?
This is an issue that has come up repeatedly, and the consensus of the editors for the Military history WikiProject and its contributors is that ship articles on Wikipedia may use an all "she/her" format or an all "it" format, but the article may not alternate between the two forms of reference. Most sources discussing HMAS Melbourne in detail refer to the ship as "she" or "her"; consequently, this is the form used in the article.
"Never fired a shot in anger"? Aircraft carriers don't fire shots!
That statement is intended to convey the fact that none of the weapons carried by Melbourne (including aircraft, mounted weapons, and small arms) were used in a combat situation during the ship's career.
This article is long!
Yes it is, because Melbourne had a long and active career. Detailed information on the Melbourne-Voyager collision and Melbourne-Evans collision can be found in these sub-articles, while information that is only tangentially related to Melbourne, is better handled in other articles