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(paraphrased from my talk page)
Recently, an anon IP (correctly) removed all the external links as commercial spam. [1]. User NPA8640, who created the article, then removed the prod tag.
So now the article has no commercial links, and mentions no company or person. It's not WP:SPAM, now.
The topic will be of academic interest to most readers. (Presumably yacht owners are aware of transport options.) So it's on that academic basis that it should be assessed. In the best of all worlds this article would be a part of a series about methods of shipping cargo by ship. Unfortunately Wikipedia coverage of shipping is spotty. There are editors who write shipping articles who do not have a broad background in either the history of shipping, or in the commercial aspect of shipping. (The history student who added an entire huge section in cruise ship and then departed Wiki forever after her assignment comes to mind [2].) The Yacht Transport article, largely written by NPA8640, is in the opposite class: It's technical, articulate, and well-informed. The cruise ship article, after much work, is finally getting to that stage. The quality of this article outweighs the somewhat obscure topic. Alpha Ralpha Boulevard ( talk) 14:31, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
(paraphrased from his response page) The article isn't about yacht transport, it's about watercraft transport. It's poorly assembled and missing the most common transportation mode, tractor-trailer. Maybe it just needs severe editing and additions, but considering its origin it doesn't seem informative on its own and feels like a brochure for a yacht transportation company. (from Eli lilly)
This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's
content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||
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(paraphrased from my talk page)
Recently, an anon IP (correctly) removed all the external links as commercial spam. [1]. User NPA8640, who created the article, then removed the prod tag.
So now the article has no commercial links, and mentions no company or person. It's not WP:SPAM, now.
The topic will be of academic interest to most readers. (Presumably yacht owners are aware of transport options.) So it's on that academic basis that it should be assessed. In the best of all worlds this article would be a part of a series about methods of shipping cargo by ship. Unfortunately Wikipedia coverage of shipping is spotty. There are editors who write shipping articles who do not have a broad background in either the history of shipping, or in the commercial aspect of shipping. (The history student who added an entire huge section in cruise ship and then departed Wiki forever after her assignment comes to mind [2].) The Yacht Transport article, largely written by NPA8640, is in the opposite class: It's technical, articulate, and well-informed. The cruise ship article, after much work, is finally getting to that stage. The quality of this article outweighs the somewhat obscure topic. Alpha Ralpha Boulevard ( talk) 14:31, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
(paraphrased from his response page) The article isn't about yacht transport, it's about watercraft transport. It's poorly assembled and missing the most common transportation mode, tractor-trailer. Maybe it just needs severe editing and additions, but considering its origin it doesn't seem informative on its own and feels like a brochure for a yacht transportation company. (from Eli lilly)