Template talk:Sailing dinghies and skiffs

message: Looking back over this template's history, it seems odd to me that some edits have been to remove redlinks.  If it is to be a complete list, a daunting task indeed, surely redlinks should be perfectly acceptable, since a redlink is often a spur for a knowledgeable editor to create the article that is required.
For example, I have just added a few boats where there are no articles.  That is not a bad thing nor a good thing.  It is just a fact.  Since the naming convention is sensible, then the template will point to the new articles when they are created.  And the editor is likely to deploy this template after checking "What links here" and being amazed how many articles point to the new article.  That part is the "good thing".
I'd like to see the Jollyboat come back to the template, for example.  A glorious 18' wooden planing boat, almost never seen today, but sadly deleted many months ago because there was, presumably, no article.  The same with the Graduate - a boat I learnt to sail on.  These boats are part of our history.  And the redlink will spur an aficionado to write the article, will jog a memory.  It may not be today, it may not be tomorrow, but it will come.
Fiddle Faddle 22:52, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've been gathering some info on Zephyr (Des Townson and Mistral (Des Townson) to prepare articles, but notice the redlinks to them have been removed in the past couple of days... any reason why?  Alan Baskin 00:43, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I suggest you both put them back and publish your articles.  Assuming the boat is in the right template.  Reasons, per se, don;t tend to appear much on wikipedia, so be bold yourself and edit the template. Fiddle Faddle 06:52, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll certainly "be bold" and do it myself, just thought it was worth asking the question.  Cheers.  Alan Baskin 00:00, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: May 2006

message: I have added this because it passes the duck test though it is a canoe Fiddle Faddle 18:00, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  International Canoe 

message: http://ussailing.org/odcc/classresults.asp  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tkjazzer (talk • contribs) 07:18, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ussailing.org - one design class listing 

message: I notice that several pages that use this template are in desperate need of an infobox. This page, for instance, has the "Specifications Under Current Rules" box on the upper right, but it is created by a bunch of manually-placed code. This should be standardized into a template so that all the other pages can be easily constructed. (Several other articles have this manually-placed code as well — not editor-friendly!)
I'd like to get the infobox started right away. I'm not knowledgeable enough on the dinghies and skiffs subject, however, to have all the answers. For starters, can someone tell me what the infobox should be called? I don't think that "Infobox specifications under current rules" makes much sense. Could it be, "infobox dinghies"? And what are specifications under current rules? Does that need to be in the header?
I'm going to start building the template here. Let me know how I can help. Thanks. Timneu22 (talk) 13:02, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Nevermind, I found an existing template. However, there is still a great need to switch all these articles to that infobox! Timneu22 (talk) 14:33, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox needed 

message: http://www.littletraversesailors.org/history.html
http://www.sailpixel.com/  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.22.220.61 (talk) 18:12, 29 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  need to add pixel dinghy 

message: I like the idea of splitting the template, at least to an extent. Would  meet the need for differentiation better though and look a tad neater? The work that has been done is not wasted, because a simple copy and paste operation woudl do the job easily. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 16:31, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The template split 

message: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amf_puffer/?v=1&t=search&ch=web&pub=groups&sec=group&slk=3
pretty popular boat. deserves a wikipedia article.
PS. I don't like the idea of fragmenting out the skiffs and scows. You should put the scows back in the template.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.151.131.87 (talk) 23:46, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It took nine years, but : Puffer (dinghy). - Ahunt (talk) 22:59, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[AMF Puffer]]