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![]() | On 19 February 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved from T1 Light Tank to T1 light tank. The result of the discussion was moved. |
Just a remark that although this article had previously been assessed as B-class, its sources were actually rather dubious (a scattering of web pages), and it was full of errors and quite incomplete. I tracked down some better sources for it and completely rewrote it, though I'm sure there's still plenty of room for further improvement. Unfortunately, U.S. interwar tanks like this are not well covered by most publications. -- Colin Douglas Howell ( talk) 18:19, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
The original name for this article, "T1 Cunningham", appears to be a recent invention which quite likely stems from the popular MMO game World of Tanks, which introduced this tank under that name as a "Tier 1" (starting level) vehicle for players following the game's American tech tree. I can't find any examples of this tank ever being called "T1 Cunningham" in a Google Books search; as for web pages, most of them either seem to directly refer to the World of Tanks version or have apparently been influenced by it. (The tank was added to the game in late 2010, so it's had plenty of time to affect the web.) The name is also misleading, since it gives the impression that the tank was a Cunningham design or was somehow named for him, when in fact the tank was an Ordnance Department design, and Cunningham acted merely as the builder.
The official name seems to have been "Light Tank, T1", following standard U.S. Army practice of the time, but Wikipedia doesn't seem to follow that pattern for its weapon article titles, so I'm using the title "T1 Light Tank" for consistency -- Colin Douglas Howell ( talk) 19:07, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved. – robertsky ( talk) 03:39, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
– Per WP:LOWERCASE and for consistency, e.g., with M2 light tank, M2 medium tank, M103 heavy tank, M1917 light tank, T57 heavy tank, T92 light tank, T95 medium tank, and Type 95 heavy tank, and with corresponding tank classification articles Light tank, Medium tank, Heavy tank, and Super-heavy tank. — BarrelProof ( talk) 22:06, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
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![]() | On 19 February 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved from T1 Light Tank to T1 light tank. The result of the discussion was moved. |
Just a remark that although this article had previously been assessed as B-class, its sources were actually rather dubious (a scattering of web pages), and it was full of errors and quite incomplete. I tracked down some better sources for it and completely rewrote it, though I'm sure there's still plenty of room for further improvement. Unfortunately, U.S. interwar tanks like this are not well covered by most publications. -- Colin Douglas Howell ( talk) 18:19, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
The original name for this article, "T1 Cunningham", appears to be a recent invention which quite likely stems from the popular MMO game World of Tanks, which introduced this tank under that name as a "Tier 1" (starting level) vehicle for players following the game's American tech tree. I can't find any examples of this tank ever being called "T1 Cunningham" in a Google Books search; as for web pages, most of them either seem to directly refer to the World of Tanks version or have apparently been influenced by it. (The tank was added to the game in late 2010, so it's had plenty of time to affect the web.) The name is also misleading, since it gives the impression that the tank was a Cunningham design or was somehow named for him, when in fact the tank was an Ordnance Department design, and Cunningham acted merely as the builder.
The official name seems to have been "Light Tank, T1", following standard U.S. Army practice of the time, but Wikipedia doesn't seem to follow that pattern for its weapon article titles, so I'm using the title "T1 Light Tank" for consistency -- Colin Douglas Howell ( talk) 19:07, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: moved. – robertsky ( talk) 03:39, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
– Per WP:LOWERCASE and for consistency, e.g., with M2 light tank, M2 medium tank, M103 heavy tank, M1917 light tank, T57 heavy tank, T92 light tank, T95 medium tank, and Type 95 heavy tank, and with corresponding tank classification articles Light tank, Medium tank, Heavy tank, and Super-heavy tank. — BarrelProof ( talk) 22:06, 19 February 2024 (UTC)