Talk:USS Hornet (CV-8)

message: The DANFS material has what is for us a duplicate of Doolittle Raid - the account here should be pruned down a bit, rely on the dedicated article for all the details. Stan 20:38, 19 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doolittle Raid 

message: This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 05:11, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: This article and Doolittle Raid appear to disagree on the number of planes taken on-board during the test flights for the raid.  I've added the tag until someone with access to better sources than I can correct whichever one needs correcting. -- 142.166.3.82 (talk) 20:31, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradict 

message: One paragraph claims that Captain Charles P. Mason was "the last man on board"; he "climbed over the side, and survivors were soon picked up by destroyers." The next paragraph, however, claims that Hornet "finally sank with the loss of 140 of her crewmen." Rammer (talk) 03:13, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The 140 sailors and airmen lost with the Hornet were dead already when the Captain disembarked. It is that simple... 98.67.106.36 (talk) 21:17, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, but the wording is odd. I can't think of a good way to fix it but maybe someone should try. Kendall-K1 (talk) 22:52, 16 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't even try.  That's the conventional way to describe the last one off, with the implication that there were no other living people left on board.JDZeff (talk) 06:29, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inconsistency? 

message: Has there been some vandalism in the Info box in the July 1942 Armament section?
20 × 26 ft 9 in (8.15 m)1.1 in/75 cal
184.66.110.161 (talk) 00:50, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism in the info box? 

message: *There should be a short section that covers the technical details of the ship in prose. See for instance FAs like  or  - there is some variation in how this can be treated, especially in regards to level of detail, but it essentially is a requirement for GA and higher. 
*The infobox is pretty bloated and much could be trimmed. Remember that infoboxes should provide readers info at a glance and should be kept as concise as possible. Greater detail should be reserved for the technical section mentioned above. For example, I'd get rid of the service awards (which can be summarized at the end of the article), and slim down the characteristics section. Standard practice is to give the original characteristics in the infobox, and if there were significant modernizations, to present the final characteristics in a separate box (see for instance )
*The article seems overly reliant on Rose's book - other sources should be consulted. I'd also make sure there's no DANFS text still present in the article. Parsecboy (talk) 12:54, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some suggestions for further improvement 

message: This part is unclear to me: "Captain Charles P. Mason, the last man on board, climbed over the side ... Hornet was finally sunk with the loss of 140 of her sailors." I would normally interpret that last part to mean that 140 living men went down with the ship, but that can't be the case here. Does it mean that 140 were killed in the attacks, and Mason was the last one alive? If so, can we add "alive" to that sentence? Kendall-K1 (talk) 00:45, 26 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Loss of 140? 

message: I have had the pleasure of taking three overnight trips to the U.S.S. Hornet, which is a docked museum in Alameda, California, with Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts.  The aircraft carrier they found in January 2019 is not the actual U.S.S. Hornet.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.134.190.56 (talk) 04:37, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: You slept on the USS Hornet, CV-12, a ship named in remembrance of the ship that was just discovered USS Hornet, CV-8. The USN reuses names.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 04:57, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  U.S.S. Hornet Is Docked In Alameda, CA 

message: Text and references copied from USS Hornet (CV-8) to John C. England,  See former article's history for a list of contributors. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 19:38, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Attribution

message: I found this website of apparently the official page for the Hornet museum and I was wondering if it is a reliable source as some specifications differ from what is currently on the page. --Animeweebman (talk) 14:12, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this a reliable source?