Talk:Roadstead

message: I've checked the list of examples here; not all of them would be described as roadsteads, I think. Scapa Flow (for example) is a natural harbour, not a roadstead (it's shallower and more sheltered) The same goes for some of the others.</br>
On some of the examples I've added a link to where they are described as roadsteads; the others I've requested citations for. If none are forthcoming they should be deleted. Xyl 54 (talk) 14:30, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious 

message: Anybody know if it is possible to get wiktionary links appearing in the left side bar under 'In other projects'? eg Government has other project links to Commons and Wikiquote? I can see that the roadstead wikidata item does have a link to the English Wikipedia. The wikidata page does not list Wiktionary explicitly as a sister project, and I have tried to put wiktionary into the 'Other sites' thing, bottom right of the page, but it doesn't seem to bite.
The reverse does happen, ie wiktionary:roadstead lists wikipedia under 'In other projects'. Batternut (talk) 09:39, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wiktionary link as a sister project in left side bar under 'In other projects'? 

message: I think the article in its current form misses a few points: besides waiting for their turn to enter a port of call, ships at roadstead can do a number of other things as well, even without entering the port at all. The Swedish Wikipedia article of :sv:Redd is only one sentence long but tells it all very well:Redd är ett vattenområde utanför en hamn där fartyg kan ankra för att lasta, lossa, ta ombord förråd, bunkra eller vänta på kajplatstranslated by Google asRedd is a water area outside a port where ships can anchor to load, unload, take on board storage, bunkering or wait for berthGoogle seems to have missed the word 'Redd' but otherwise the translation appears quite acceptable..--Sivullinen (talk) 19:06, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, and there is nothing in the references quoted to justify the limitation to ships waiting to enter port. Will prune first sentence, and contemplate adding explanation of possible purposes later. Rjccumbria (talk) 21:53, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Yet one use of roadstead, I think even quite common one, is storage of ships that have been 'laid up', i.e. taken out of active service.--Sivullinen (talk) 23:05, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes; actually well aware of that as a use of roadsteads, from family history (an ancestor was for some time in the 1930's a watchkeeping officer on a ship laid up in one of the remoter bits of the Clyde estuary (which sounds bad, but times were hard, and he was lucky to get that ...))  but (after some thought) came to the view that that is more to do with 'anchorage' than 'roadstead' : any safe anchorage will do for laying up a ship.Rjccumbria (talk) 02:09, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition of 'Roadstead' 

message: The lead paragraph looks fine in relation to the length of the article to me. I propose removing the tag. Newystats (talk) 21:42, 18 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ready to remove leadtoolong tag 

message: It is not obvious to me why this article is titled 'roadstead' rather than 'road' given that all the examples quoted bar one (and even that one in the original French is simply 'rade') are named as 'roads'. All examples in Britain (and named on OS maps) are, so far as I'm aware named as 'roads' rather than roadsteads. The assertion that roads is simply the older term is difficult to follow up - one the surface it looks like the term most commonly in use. cheers Geopersona (talk) 04:06, 5 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Roadstead or Road? 

message: a search for roads (maritime) food not cross-reference to Roadstead. How do we mitigate this omission? 2001:8003:14C0:B800:990D:22AE:78BD:39B (talk) 05:44, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  roadstead