Talk:List of seaplanes and flying boats

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Um, what was the point of that move? —Morven 07:02, Dec 16, 2004 (UTC)

Uh, what move? -Lommer | ^{talk 20:57, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)}

This move:

20:56, Dec 15, 2004 Ingoolemo (List of flying boats and seaplanes moved to List of seaplanes and flying boats)

In other words, User:Ingoolemo did a move that reversed the order of 'flying boats' and 'seaplanes' in the title. I was curious as to the point. —Morven 01:04, Dec 17, 2004 (UTC)

That's really bizzarre - the move doesn't show up in the page history (isn't it supposed to? where did you get it from?). However, I do see what he's doing though, there's already a category called "List of seaplanes and flying boats", and he wanted the associated article title to match. So rather than edit every article in the category over to a new category he just changed the the title of this one. -Lommer | ^{talk 06:11, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)}

It shows up in the page history of the PREVIOUS name, not this one. In other words, in the history of the redirect that's created at the old name. Annoyingly, the article existed way before categories, so by rights it should have been the other way round ... —Morven 06:32, Dec 17, 2004 (UTC)

I'd think that it's because seaplanes is a more generic term; flying boats is more specific. User:justfred

[edit] organization

I would expect these to be organized, first by country then by either manufacturer then year or model, or by year somehow. Moved the early ones to the top of US section. Do these ALL need to be listed, or only the common ones? Or only the manufacturers?

In fact, isn't this page really replaced by category:seaplanes and flying boats? --user:justfred

Yes, it is. However, if the category is to be as useful as this page then it needs to be broken into country-specific sub-categories and then the entries sorted by date. This is easy enough to do and once done, this page should be deleted I think.-Lommer | ^talk 19:16, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Are floatplane variants included?

I added two DH Beavers. This is a secondary application of this aircraft. Leonard G. 02:10, 10 July 2005 (UTC)

[edit] New amphib to ad

The Air Tractor 802F can also be added to this list. See www.firebossllc.com - the aircraft is now flying fire fighting missions in Minnesota through the MNDNR. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.73.30.164 (talk) 06:20, 28 May 2008 (UTC)