Talk:List of battlecruisers of the Royal Navy

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Areas for improvement

Well, I say areas, the main issue that would prevent going to ACR/FLC for the moment is a lack of citations in the lead. You need to make sure that you cite everything in the introductory paragraph. For lists, these tend to make up the majority of text though I do understand that most of the information is covered already by citations in the individual sections. A little gripe though, excellent work so far. Regards, Woody (talk) 18:45, 15 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

HMAS Australia

Is there any reason why HMAS Australia is in this list? She was always a unit of the Royal Australian Navy and was under the ultimate control of the Australian Government. I think that she should be removed as she was in no meaningful sense a "battlecruiser of the Royal Navy". Nick-D (talk) 09:47, 18 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Very good point. Done.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 13:44, 18 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for that. I've just tweaked the text so that Australia is specified as 'HMAS' and New Zealand as HMS. Nick-D (talk) 23:50, 18 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Table wrapping

With regard to my comment at FLC here is why I feel there is a problem:

Current tables

Ship	Main guns	Armour	Displacement	Propulsion	Service
Ship	Main guns	Armour	Displacement	Propulsion	Laid down	Commissioned	Fate
HMS Indefatigable	8 × 12 in (305 mm)^[1]	6 in (152 mm)^[2]	22,430 long tons (22,790 t)^[3]	4 screws, steam turbines, 25 kn (46 km/h; 29 mph)^[4]	23 February 1909^[5]	24 February 1911^[5]	Exploded at the Battle of Jutland, 1916^[6]
HMS New Zealand	8 × 12 in (305 mm)^[1]	6 in (152 mm)^[2]	22,430 long tons (22,790 t)^[3]	4 screws, steam turbines, 25 kn (46 km/h; 29 mph)^[4]	20 June 1910^[5]	19 November 1912^[5]	Sold for scrap, 19 December 1922^[7]

Ship	Main guns	Armour	Displacement	Propulsion	Service
Ship	Main guns	Armour	Displacement	Propulsion	Laid down	Commissioned	Fate
HMS Queen Mary	8 × 13.5 in (343 mm)^[1]	9 in (229 mm)^[2]	31,844 long tons (32,355 t)^[8]	4 screws, steam turbines, 28 kn (52 km/h; 32 mph)^[4]	6 March 1911^[5]	4 September 1913^[5]	Exploded at the Battle of Jutland, 1916^[7]

Wrapping without convert and with a few

Ship	Main guns	Armour	Displacement	Propulsion	Service
Ship	Main guns	Armour	Displacement	Propulsion	Laid down	Commissioned	Fate
HMS Indefatigable	8 × 12 in (305 mm)^[1]	6 in (152 mm)^[2]	22,430 long tons (22,790 t)^[3]	4 screws, steam turbines, 25 kn (46 km/h; 29 mph)^[4]	23 February 1909^[5]	24 February 1911^[5]	Exploded at the Battle of Jutland, 1916^[6]
HMS New Zealand	8 × 12 in (305 mm)^[1]	6 in (152 mm)^[2]	22,430 long tons (22,790 t)^[3]	4 screws, steam turbines, 25 kn (46 km/h; 29 mph)^[4]	20 June 1910^[5]	19 November 1912^[5]	Sold for scrap, 19 December 1922^[7]

Ship	Main guns	Armour	Displacement	Propulsion	Service
Ship	Main guns	Armour	Displacement	Propulsion	Laid down	Commissioned	Fate
HMS Queen Mary	8 × 13.5 in (343 mm)^[1]	9 in (229 mm)^[2]	31,844 long tons (32,355 t)^[8]	4 screws, steam turbines, 28 kn (52 km/h; 32 mph)^[4]	6 March 1911^[5]	4 September 1913^[5]	Exploded at the Battle of Jutland, 1916^[7]

See the difference when you change the width of the screen. The second set of tables is much more readable. Rambo's Revenge (talk) 09:56, 12 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This was resolved after discussion here and can be solved by using abbr=mos instead of abbr=on. Rambo's Revenge (talk) 16:49, 19 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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