Talk:Bay-class landing ship

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Name

The navy and RFA call them Bay class landing ships. Other news sources generally use this term as well, or occasionally 'Bay class amphibious landing ships'. Reuters goes a little further with 'Bay Class heavy amphibious lift vessel'. While Landing Platform Dock ships is seen sometimes, that source even refers to the Bays specifically as 'Bay Class amphibious support ships'. Given the more common name, any objection to this being 'Bay class landing ship' instead? Benea (talk) 11:08, 19 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm. I went by the article's description and the pattern of other Wikipedia articles on LSx types ("foo landing ship"); if the WP:COMMONNAME is Bay class landing ship then I have no problem with a move to it. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 11:10, 19 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
- The only catch I can see is that just plain "landing ship" seems to usually refer to ships that beach and use bow doors - Polnocny class landing ship for instance. But that might not be too much of an issue? - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 11:19, 19 November 2011 (UTC) Scratch that - Ivan Rogov class landing ship is precedent. Full support then. - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 11:21, 19 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
  - I agree, the two Russian examples demonstrate that there is not much standardisation in these types of vessels any more. If we want to avoid OR by looking at a ship's capabilities and then seeing for ourselves what type we think it best matches, we are probably better off by going with the common/official descriptor. Benea (talk) 11:23, 19 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
    - True...so, go ahead and move this one to Bay class landing ship then? - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 11:27, 19 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
      - A redirect with history will need to be deleted, but yes, absolutely. Benea (talk) 11:34, 19 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
        Done. (The history, funnily, was just the bot fixing the redirect after the earlier move.) - The Bushranger _{One ping only} 11:35, 19 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Photos

There's a really nice photo of Largs here - but I'm not sure whether it's available under the OGL, they seem to be tightening up on that for defence images at least. Being from up and behind, it really gives a sense of the purpose of the Bays. The next best one I've found that is definitely OGL is of Lyme Bay - search http://www.defenceimagery.mod.uk/ for 45150928.jpg if someone wants to do the honours? 86.25.7.71 (talk) 16:30, 11 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in Bay class landing ship

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Bay class landing ship's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "KerrAA":

From HMAS Choules (L100): Kerr, Amphibious ambitions
From Canberra class landing helicopter dock: Kerr, Amphibious Ambitions

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 20:41, 17 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]