Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Lighthouses

Invalid cite template used on many pages.

The Template:Cite uscghist, used on many pages, is invalid as a result of the "FYI: USCG Lighhouse pages are down" (2017) above. USCG (and many government sites) are too fluid to have reliable long term templates. USCG has been particularly hard hit with the cutter histories and much else vanishing. As for template's state pages they appear to be preserved. For example, Maryland: U.S. Coast Guard Historian’s Office Preserving Our History For Future Generations — Historic Light Station Information MARYLAND. Perhaps the template can be repaired, but the URL does not appear to be indexed in a way for that to be easily done. 71.178.17.34 (talk) 09:49, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

Indeed. The Coast Guard history pages have been replaced at least twice, that I remember, in the past decade, and are generally not recoverable from the Internet Archive. I have sometimes been able to find different versions of missing information on new Coast Guard pages, but have not found the time and energy to fix all of the lighthouse articles that I have worked on. In any case, we cannot expect any links to Coast Guard pages to be reliable for more than a few years. - Donald Albury 12:19, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

The template should probably be deleted to remove temptation to use it further. When the Naval Historical Center became the Navy History and Heritage Command (with web responsibility apparently in some outside technical organization) its historical data also did a vanishing act. Original WW II era documents, reports and publications simply vanished. 71.178.17.34 (talk) 20:23, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

I've proposed deprecating the template at Template_talk:Cite uscghist#Deprecate this template. Let's see how the discussion goes. - Donald Albury 20:42, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

It looks to me like Template:Cite ngall is now broken as well? I'm assuming things moved around again at the US Coast Guard website? - Ken Heaton (talk) 19:55, 12 April 2020 (UTC)

I think I've fixed Template:Cite ngall now, by replacing the url's with ones that work now. I also created a simple Template:Cite ccgll to create a reference to the Canadian Coast Guard List of Lights, Buoys and Fog Signals (4 Volumes). - Ken Heaton (talk) 00:08, 13 April 2020 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

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Nomination of Portal:Lighthouses for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Lighthouses is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Lighthouses until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. Certes (talk) 10:02, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

The discussion has now been closed but I can´t work out what the decision was.Roundtheworld (talk) 15:29, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

The discussion is here: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Lighthouses The result of the discussion 11 November 2019 was: Delete. (it is right at the top of that page) Ken Heaton (talk) 16:25, 12 July 2020 (UTC)

US Light Vessels/ Light Ships renaming

A discussion has been started at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Ships#Light_Vessels_and_Light_Stations_mess which may be of interest to editors from this project...Jokulhlaup (talk) 10:45, 26 October 2020 (UTC)

Discussion open

Talk:List_of_lighthouses_in_China#Discussion_to_split_Lighthouses_of_Hong_Kong_and_Lighthouses_of_Macau_into_their_own_separate_articles. Members of this project are invited to participate in the discussion. Atsme 💬 📧 15:53, 19 December 2020 (UTC)

Lists of lighthouses in Macau and in Hong Kong

Please refer to Talk:List of lighthouses in Macau#Lists of lighthouses in Macau and in Hong Kong. 124.217.189.46 19:41, 19 December 2020 (UTC)