User talk:Godsfriendchuck

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"Ship" vs. "boat"

My understanding is that the vessels of the Staten Island Ferry are "boats" - "ferry boats" - and not "ships". The Staten Island Ferry itself calls them boats, see this. I think you should change the categories you created from the disambiguator "(ship)" to "(boat)". Beyond My Ken (talk) 04:43, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Are you sure? I only created one new category for a Staten Island Ferry vessel, that being the Guy V. Molinari. All the other ones were preexisting and already labelled as ships. Should those be changed to "boat" as well? Godsfriendchuck (talk) 05:11, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

Sorry, I thought you had created them all. I do think they should all be "boat", "ferry boat" or "ferry". Beyond My Ken (talk) 06:56, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

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Mike Peel (talk) 23:07, 9 February 2020 (UTC)

IMO categorization

Hello Chris, thanks for all your contributions. But why creating IMO categories without shipyard and year? For example see Category:Ships built at Jiangdong Shipyard, Wuhu: You are the only one, who added the shipyard to the ship name category! Greetings --Ein Dahmer (talk) 18:47, 6 February 2023 (UTC)

Is there a rule about always placing the shipyard and year categories in the IMO category? If yes, then I will start doing so. If not, then I disagree with those categories being placed there rather than in the ship name category. I believe the typical user would not find a shipyard or year of construction category filled with IMO number sequences, instead of more recognizable ship names, to be as useful or interesting. The only case in which I think those categories should be placed in the IMO category rather than the ship name category is when we have an IMO-number-assigned ship that has operated under multiple names, and we have categories for more than one of those names. Best, Godsfriendchuck (talk) 15:18, 9 February 2023 (UTC)

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Seattle Seaplanes

I'm not sure I'd call them an "airline", although they do own a few small planes. They do charter flights, but mostly they do pilot training (I think they're the main place people around here learn to take of and land in a float plane) and scenic flights over the city and its environs. - Jmabel ! talk 05:53, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

Fair point, although there are similar companies in the Airlines category (Skydive DeLand and Performance Flight, for example). I'm unsure what category would be more appropriate for a company like this, maybe Air transport in Washington (state)? Godsfriendchuck (talk) 21:18, 26 July 2024 (UTC)

Certainly more appropriate. I'm wondering if we ought to have some special category for these little independents like this. It might technically meet some definition of airline, but only in the sense of the Bob Newhart routine about the Grace L. Ferguson Airline and Storm Door Company. - Jmabel ! talk 00:39, 27 July 2024 (UTC)

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