Talk:HSC Express 4

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Wow, you've got to be flabbergasted when self anointed, superior people like Nick Moyes waltz in and put a bunch of labels on articles without actually doing any work to improve the articles they sneer at. This sort of thing is becoming increasingly common in many fields. So rather than ignore it, this time I'll address the points Mr Moyes makes.

This article may rely excessively on sources too closely associated with the subject. Well construction of the ship has barely begun, so we don't need to be told that the article depends almost entirely on information from the ship builder and shipping line, because they are the only people who know anything about it. Naturally when the ship is completed and begins its working life in Denmark, a lot more will come to light about Express 4 from a variety of sources.

This article needs additional citations for verification. At this early stage there are no other sources, so contributors have to do their best with what is available as there are no other sources. Of course this will change in a few years when the ship enters service.

This article may not meet Wikipedia's general notability guideline. Perhaps the best response is to point out that 90% of large (i.e. over 70 metres) fast catamaran ferries have been deemed worthy of Wikipaedia articles and this ship has attracted some attention as it represents the transfer of allegiance of a loyal customer from one of the two builders of this type of vessel to the other shipbuilder.

Now I've written a lot commercially and one of the history books I've written has won awards. I'm also well over 40, so I'm not a naïve kid. But the pomposity of many Wikipedia admins is quite ridiculous, especially when they rarely (if ever) do anything to improve the articles they declare to be flawed. In short, I wish they'd either put up or shut up. Rant ends. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bogong (talk • contribs) 03:17, 14 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]