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Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian maritime history/Categories

This sub page of the Australian maritime history project was created to trace existing category trees for issues relating to the subject with the ultimate aim of standardising categories - and possibly encouraging some changes where necessary: (to reduce low potential population of a category, for overlap between categories, or even contradictory categories)

Update 2014

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Since the creation of this project - significant changes have occurred in portals/projects relative to maritime history, and transport history.


Convict Ships

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Higher category - Ships by type but the proviso in that category allows alternate use of the word boat it dones not seem to be significantly utilised.

From Category Boats we have This category includes articles on individual vessels often considered as boats. Note that some vessels may be legitimately either here or Category:Ships by type, or both.Category:Ship types has articles on types of ships. Category:Boat types has articles on types of boats.


Port Cities

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From the category page -This category contains articles about cities which have a port. For articles which are specific to port facilities see Category:Ports and harbours.

Ports and harbours

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From the Ports and harbours category page: -Category:Ports and harbours - Ports and harbours are not quite the same thing, but the articles about them have been combined in this category as they are closely related.

However that category exists in the following categories: Categories: Commercial item transport and distribution | Coastal construction | Water transport | Stations, terminals and stops

Sailing ships

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  • Category:Sailing ships This is the category of sailing ships not further classifiable.

Subcategories A

B

C

F

G

I

L

S

T

U

V

Transport

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Transport in Australia is the lead in article for the category Category:Transport in Australia and needs work on the water transport and maritime area

Sub-categories are either by state ie Transport in x state or Category: Water transport in Australia - which means eaqch state article carries water transport sections as well {no NT transport article apparent here but ACT a non maritime territory is)

Most of the categories below have negligble maritime component if at all


This category exists in the following - Categories: Transport in Australia | Water transport by country

Ships of Australia

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This category exists within the Categories: Ships by country | Science and technology in Australia | Water transport in Australia

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This category exists within - Categories: Naval ships by country | Military equipment of Australia | Ships of Australia | Military units and formations of Australia

Which has the following sub-categories-

It has see also Category:Royal Australian Navy ships include ships commissioned into Royal Australian Navy service. Which has the following sub-categories-

In the Category:Active naval ships of Australia

Active naval ships of Australia include all naval ships designed, built, or operated in Australia during the period since the end of the Cold War (approximately since 1990.)

Passenger Ships

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Exists within the following - Categories: Ships of Australia | Passenger ships by country

And has the following as a sub-category

Submarines

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Exists within the following Categories: Submarines by country | Ships of Australia | Underpopulated Australia categories | Royal Australian Navy ships

Shipwrecks

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Exists within the following Categories: Shipwrecks by country | Disasters in Australia | Water transport in Australia


Water transport

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The main article for this category is Water transport.

The sub-categories are: -

C

D

F

I

K

L

M

N

P

S


This category is for stub articles relating to water-transport. You can help Wikipedia by expanding them. To add an article to this category, use {{water-transport-stub}} instead of {{stub}}.