Talk:Dunkerque-class battleship

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Duplication of class development history in three places[edit]

I have noticed that much of the development history of the class is duplicated each of the individual ships. This seems like a recipe for unnecessary work; if one article gets improved, it'll be necessary to remember to do the other one (and any other places where it is duplicated.) It seems easier to keep class specific information to the class article, and let the ship articles concentrate on ship history and other elements that make them unique.

EDIT: At the very least, instances of duplication should be radically downsized into a summary, as per Wikipedia:SUMMARY. I also note that USS Iowa (BB-61), a featured article, does something like that. - RovingPersonalityConstruct (talk, contribs) 17:32, 6 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed (particularly including downsizing into a summary - one line for each subsection should work) - plus there is material (not copyedited) here that is a duplicate of that found in the Richelieu class battleship article (copyedited), as you noted there. Allens (talk | contribs) 18:28, 6 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I've tried summarizing the class history for French battleship Dunkerque. I have not checked the "Design' section for that article, but if there are no unique parts then it seems it could be done away with entirely. If there are unique parts, it might be better to integrate them directly into the ship's history ("this was changed at this time" and that sort of thing.) - RovingPersonalityConstruct (talk, contribs) 20:02, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks and agreed! I've done a partial copyedit on the start of the History section summary (the Development subsection); you might take a look at the changes. Allens (talk | contribs) 21:56, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

For what it's worth, I've overhauled French battleship Dunkerque and cut down the technical details into a much shorter section with a {{main}} link to this article. I plan to improve the Strasbourg and class articles along similar lines in the relatively near future, and would like working with anyone else interested. Parsecboy (talk) 16:12, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"Relatively near future"...like 7 years later... Parsecboy (talk) 16:32, 31 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Mers El Khébir[edit]

From my memory , joining the Free France Force wasn't on the ultimatum . It was 1 ) scuttle ,2) sail to a "safe " neutral shore , 3 ) to the caribean , 4) join the british in the fight

De Gaulle wasn't involved in this mess and thake a serious grieff against the british prime minister

regard 2A01:CB00:456:9C00:715A:E48A:70A0:FA02 (talk) 05:55, 14 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]