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When article becomes blank[edit]

Before anyone asks what will happen when a time comes where there are no ships held captive by somali pirates... When that happens this article will be turned into a redirect to List of ships attacked by Somali pirates. The problem is that

...there are so many attacks - not all succesfull
...ships are held captive for an extended period of time making updates difficult
...reader will probably have a special interest in the ships that are still held captive and this would be something the main page and wikinews would want to link to rather than all the ships in the past four years
...it does not seem likely that the piracy in Somalia will cease any time soon so there will be a lot of ships held captive for a while.

-- Cat ^chi? 17:06, 4 December 2008 (UTC)

Template and microformat[edit]

The template used for table rows in this article now emits an hCalendar microformat. This however, requires the use of {{Start date}} for date entry, and ether is discussion about whether that template's format is acceptable, Please join in. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 22:37, 14 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Mislabelled table columns[edit]

The headers for the last three columns are 'Status', 'Date of attack'/'Date of release ' and 'Coordinates'/'Ransom demanded'. These are partly incorrect: for example the last column is always empty, and the ransom is under the 'Date Released' header. I suggest the following headers instead for the current table structure: 'Date of attack'/'Status' and 'Coordinates'/'Ransom demanded'.

I cannot do this change myself because rewriting templates exceeds my knowledge.

By the way, the field 'Status' is probably unneccessary as it is always 'captive' on this page.

89.134.154.99 (talk) 18:39, 29 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yenegoa Ocean[edit]

I found a news source that said the ship disappeared (trying to find it)...so what do we do with ships like this that disappear? Spencer^T♦^C 17:21, 30 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Source is the IMB: "To date the where about [sic] of the crew and vessel is not known." Spencer^T♦^C 17:25, 30 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Category[edit]

Please see Talk:Piracy#Category_for_pirate_ships.--_{Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk} 04:04, 13 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]