Template talk:DANFS

message: Should this template include its own Category, such as Category:DANFS content articles? I noticed the 1911EB has such a tag.--J Clear 13:23, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Pages on which this templates is used are now added to :Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, per a request on WP:AN – Gurch 20:27, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Category

message: Please change this template to remove :Category:Wikipedia articles incorporating text from the Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships and place a noinclude note on the template page to add  to articles tagged with DANFS. See the category page and Wikipedia:Categories_for_discussion/Log/2007_April_15#Category:Wikipedia_articles_incorporating_text_from_the_Dictionary_of_American_Naval_Fighting_Ships.
Once this is done, someone who owns a bot will complete the transition. -N 20:29, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Cheers. --MZMcBride 00:35, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Edit request

message: Please add the wikiproject category  to this template inside the noinclude. Maralia 03:13, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done! TomTheHand 13:24, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request 

message: 
Please add  inside the  tags. Thanks—G716 <T·C> 04:39, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: SkierRMH (talk) 07:27, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request 

message: I would like to solicite comments on wether we really need 2 separate templates that do basically the same thing. I realize that the Cite DANFS template is designed more for use as an inline citation and this is more for a notification but I recommend we modify the Cite DANFS template so that if there is a flag set (maybe info-only= Yes) then the citation would display with the This article uses information from verbiage that this template uses. Does anyone have any opposition to doing this? --Kumioko (talk) 15:00, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Do we really Need templates for DANFS and Cite DANFS 

message: I suggest that the title of the book should be italicized (as it is on its own page).--NapoliRoma (talk) 00:07, 12 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm.  Looking back at this, it appears I misinterpreted the formatting of this template's output.  So, continue to never mind...:-)--NapoliRoma (talk) 17:50, 11 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Italicize title 

message: DANFS links are sometimes changed (perhaps for older and less significant vessels?), so that the invitation "This article incorporates text from the public domain Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships. The entry can be found " fails. I fixed this a few minutes ago for USS Patapsco (1799); a quick search for 'danfs sloop "public domain"' finds the same issue for USS Granite (1862), amongst presumably many others. The solution is of course finding and replacing the updated link.
* (Patapsco, until 5 Feb 23) gives deadlinked:
*  (Patapsco, until 5 Feb 23)
*  is the corrected link
*
* (Granite) gives deadlinked:
*  (Granite)
I don't know if the correct form can be inferred by examining the URL, but for Granite the rule, inferred from Patapsco, and easily implemented as a script, is:
- (maybe) replace" http" by "https"
- insert "/content/history/nhhc/research/histories/ship-histories" between "www.history.navy.mil" and "/danfs"
- replace initial letter followed by a number ("g7") by initial letter ("g")
- replace "htm" by "html"
giving:
*  (Granite), giving:
*  (Granite)
Best wishes, Pol098 (talk) 13:01, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  DANFS links sometimes dead