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I am consolidating a series of disambiguation pages that begin with Mark I, Mark II and so on, up until we run out of notable weapon, product and vehicle marks. I would like to have this page's name be devoted to a disambiguation page that lists various "Mark 8" and "Mark VIII" things such as this tank, the Cromwell tank, the Harry Hopkins tank, a torpedo or two, a naval gun, a howitzer, a Spitfire variant, a Handley Page cargo plane, a Lincoln car, a computer, a calculator, etc.
This Mark VIII tank page was moved from Mark VIII (tank) to what it is now in February 2008 but I don't feel that reversing that move is the best direction. I don't think the parentheses are necessary. Yes, there's the Mark VI (tank) page and a bunch of redirect pages ending with (tank) but there's also the Mark I tank and the Mark IX tank pages that don't have parentheses. I like the more trim look of those. Binksternet ( talk) 16:47, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Article reassessed and graded as start class. Referencing and appropriate inline citation guidelines not met. With appropriate citations and references, this article would easily qualify as B class is not higher. -- dashiellx ( talk) 11:06, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
This article quite confusedly jumps between imperial and metric measurements, sometimes using both within the same sentence. This obviously makes measurement comparisons very difficult. I would recommend converting all measurements to one format, preferably metric. Wcp07 ( talk) 01:46, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
I understand some have problems with mentioning that the Mark VIII inspired the tank in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Indeed this is part of a larger uneasiness with such "trivia" information, especially when referring to the way elements from real history are represented in works of fiction, such as novels or movies. Such trivia seem to have nothing to do with the subject per se and to be merely about some irrelevant reworking of real material into, well, "junk".
However, there are good reasons to consider such junk valid content of a Wikipedia article. The reproduction of history in other realms of life is a very interesting cultural phenomenon per se — indeed it is a science in its own right. Therefore such information is by nature encyclopedic. Furthermore most readers are better acquainted with e.g. a movie than with the "real thing". Sadly, they are probably even more interested in the movie aspect. A deplorable fact perhaps, but it means we have the duty to provide the information they desire. Their interest is proven by the fact that in the past several contributors have added this information — but sadly in an incorrect form. So I created a single sentence with the real facts. Removing it will only cause errors to pop up again, here or elsewhere on Wikipedia!-- MWAK ( talk) 13:25, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
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I am consolidating a series of disambiguation pages that begin with Mark I, Mark II and so on, up until we run out of notable weapon, product and vehicle marks. I would like to have this page's name be devoted to a disambiguation page that lists various "Mark 8" and "Mark VIII" things such as this tank, the Cromwell tank, the Harry Hopkins tank, a torpedo or two, a naval gun, a howitzer, a Spitfire variant, a Handley Page cargo plane, a Lincoln car, a computer, a calculator, etc.
This Mark VIII tank page was moved from Mark VIII (tank) to what it is now in February 2008 but I don't feel that reversing that move is the best direction. I don't think the parentheses are necessary. Yes, there's the Mark VI (tank) page and a bunch of redirect pages ending with (tank) but there's also the Mark I tank and the Mark IX tank pages that don't have parentheses. I like the more trim look of those. Binksternet ( talk) 16:47, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
Article reassessed and graded as start class. Referencing and appropriate inline citation guidelines not met. With appropriate citations and references, this article would easily qualify as B class is not higher. -- dashiellx ( talk) 11:06, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
This article quite confusedly jumps between imperial and metric measurements, sometimes using both within the same sentence. This obviously makes measurement comparisons very difficult. I would recommend converting all measurements to one format, preferably metric. Wcp07 ( talk) 01:46, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
I understand some have problems with mentioning that the Mark VIII inspired the tank in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Indeed this is part of a larger uneasiness with such "trivia" information, especially when referring to the way elements from real history are represented in works of fiction, such as novels or movies. Such trivia seem to have nothing to do with the subject per se and to be merely about some irrelevant reworking of real material into, well, "junk".
However, there are good reasons to consider such junk valid content of a Wikipedia article. The reproduction of history in other realms of life is a very interesting cultural phenomenon per se — indeed it is a science in its own right. Therefore such information is by nature encyclopedic. Furthermore most readers are better acquainted with e.g. a movie than with the "real thing". Sadly, they are probably even more interested in the movie aspect. A deplorable fact perhaps, but it means we have the duty to provide the information they desire. Their interest is proven by the fact that in the past several contributors have added this information — but sadly in an incorrect form. So I created a single sentence with the real facts. Removing it will only cause errors to pop up again, here or elsewhere on Wikipedia!-- MWAK ( talk) 13:25, 21 August 2009 (UTC)