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Move to proper name in accordance with naming conventions

This needs to be moved back to HMS Beagle, in accordance with the naming conventions in line with every other Royal Navy ship. Dunc|☺ 12:43, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Number of Beagles?

About Darwin - People of note shows 9 HMS Beagles, citing Keith Stewart Thomson, H.M.S. Beagle, The Story of Darwin's Ship. W.W. Norton, New York, London, 1995 Pages 285-6. and listing "H.M.S. Beagle #1 An 8-gun gallivat. Built around 1766 by Bombay Marine shipbuilders." The others seem to match. Is this correct? dave souza 20:25, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

I would say so, but I'm not qualified to write it. (I wouldn't know "gallivat" from a yacht if I saw them.) --Astronouth7303 03:14, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Disambiguation page?

Is this a disambiguation page? A lot of things suggest this (page name, plus some tags on this talk page), but it doesn't comply at all with the Manual of Style for this type of page. I don't really mind if it's not supposed to be a dab page, it's just that I got quite confused looking at this page as to what it's there for. Schwede 66 04:37, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

No, it's a common mistake though. This and other lists of ships are WP:SETINDEX pages, and are not bound by the strictures of WP:MOSDAB. Simply through convention the templates use the 'Dab' rating, and here the term '(disambiguation)' is used as there has been one ship of this name that is considered to be far and away the most notable (i.e. Darwin's Beagle). This is used sparingly across wikipedia, only three other RN ship names are so treated. There was discussion a while back over whether some other term instead of 'disambiguation' should be used for these few cases, but nothing concrete was decided, so we still have 'disambiguation' for what is a set index page, for want of an alternative. Benea (talk) 11:16, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for your clarification. Schwede 66 18:00, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

That said, "clarification" might be just the word to use in lieu of disambiguation. Was that one of the options discussed? To me, it would make sense to remove this ambiguity, and this might be just the way to do it. Schwede 66 20:54, 25 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"List of XXX named YYY" is the format specified by WP:SETINDEX. -- JHunterJ (talk) 16:11, 1 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]