Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Transport/Maritime transport task force/Archive 2

Archive 1

Archive 2

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Scope of Project

I'm a little confused on the scope of this project. Is it really all things maritime? Here are some articles that are not part of this project (just random maritime examples). Should they be, or is this not the right project for them? EEZ, International Safety Management Code, MARPOL, piracy, Protection and Indemnity Insurance, bollard, fuel oil. - attilag 18:22, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

There's no right or wrong answer for questions like this, but here's my opinion:

Absolutely: International Safety Management Code, MARPOL,Protection and Indemnity Insurance... There are many, many items like this.

Maybe: EEZ

Some items fall squarely into other projects that are more active than this one. There's nothing wrong about adding them, per se, but one questions the usefulness of doing so. For example, bollard is probably best at WP:SHIPS, fuel oil at WP:ENERGY, piracy at WP:PIRATE. Haus^Talk 19:22, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

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WikiProject Boats

FYI, there is a proposal for a WP:BOATS to cover watercraft that are smaller than those bannered by WP:SHIPS. As several watercraft articles have been debannered from WPSHIPS, it seems appropriate that there be a wikiproject to cover these articles. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/Boats

76.66.199.238 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 08:59, 23 October 2010 (UTC).

Port international de Port-au-Prince

Hello, I have just created a stub for Port international de Port-au-Prince. You are welcome to help. Teofilo talk 08:57, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

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Categories for discussion

I just opened up this discussion on Category:Port settlements and some similarly named categories. This is a different target than the last time these were nominated, and in the meantime nearly every category with the word "settlements" has been renamed. I would welcome comments on the concept.--Mike Selinker (talk) 22:23, 16 July 2010 (UTC)

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Combine with WP:Maritime Trades and/or move to a task force of WP:Transport?

The founder and only really active member of the Maritime Trades Wikiproject has suggested that that project be rebadged as a task force of Wikipedia:WikiProject Transport.

I think we're at the point with this Wikiproject that we might consider something similar. Our article quantum is fairly stable, with relatively few ports-related additions to tagged pages. We have a very small active membership, and could seriosuly do with the wider attention and editor input that a larger Wikiproject might bring. And the divide betwene Transprot, Ships, Maritime trades and Ports topics is challenging and often arbitrary.

Potential negatives include losing the specific focus on ports, and reducing the prospect of attracting editors who are singularly interested in ports articles and not anything else either maritime or transport-related. But these seem unlikely to arise, especially as we're not attracting nrew members as it is, nor are we consistently improving the quality of ports info across most of the current article list.

Comments and criticisms welcomed, as always. Euryalus (talk) 11:40, 28 December 2010 (UTC)