[WikiEN-l] Rampant deletionism

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

George Herbert wrote:
> On 1/14/07, Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The issue is that there is very little actually known about the ship
>> yet.  It's not, as far as I can tell in the article, even in the
>> building phase yet.  Is there anything public about them other than
>> the order being placed?
>>
>> I think that many are concerned about articles created about things
>> that don't exist yet and for which not much in the way of plans have
>> been released, and feel that the right time to write this article
>> would be when more information is available.
>>
>> -Matt
> 
> If "not much in the way of plans existed" then I'd say sure, it's
> still speculative.
> 
> Carnival and the builder certainly have more detailed plans than that;
> having the passenger count and the tonnage indicate that they know
> what they're building very precisely (as an actual ship build "order"
> would imply... one doesn't order "about like this"...).
> 
> If we take the flip side of this, we have large articles for the
> [[Airbus A380]] and [[Boeing 787]] jets, and the [[Airbus A350]].
> Exactly one of these designs (A380) has flown, and due to wiring
> design snafus it will enter service around the launch date of the
> unnamed Carnival ship.  Exactly one of them has any flightready
> hardware (A380), though the initial components for the first 787s are
> in production now.  The A350XWB hasn't even had its industrial launch
> yet, so in a sense it's not as far along as the unnamed Carnival ship.
> 

If several hundred of these unnamed ships were going to be built and had
been touted as "the next big thing" for years leading up to the official
launch (as was the case for the A380), you might have a leg to stand on.

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