Talk:Navy Board

Recent alteration

I have reverted a recent change to the last version by me, because the person trying to alter it (inserting 'wikitable') had done so incompletely. I do not know what was intended and must leave the user (not signed in) to try again. On the other hand, there is a template Template:Royal Navy (talk · links · edit), which seems to be directed more to the modern navy than the historic one. Perhaps some one could think about how to improve that. Peterkingiron 13:14, 31 March 2007 (UTC)

Foley contract

I am simply left wondering why this is significant. Terry J. Carter (talk) 23:29, 4 November 2011 (UTC)

By itself it is probably not significant, but this article is really only a stub: there were numerous contractors. I will alter it so that this becomes an example. Peterkingiron (talk) 17:05, 7 November 2011 (UTC)

Chrisopher Wren in 1863?

I think there's a typo. It says Christopher Wren built a new house for the Navy Board in 1863. Maybe they meant 1663? Kashikom (talk) 19:48, 31 May 2016 (UTC)

@Kashikom: you're right, 1863 is certainly wrong. The date is unsourced, so I've removed it entirely pending a search for references. -- Euryalus (talk) 20:17, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

Split proposal

This article is really two articles sharing the same page. If one topic is primary for the title, then the other can be moved to a disambiguated title, probably by the years. If neither is the primary topic, then this title would be a DAB page.

The proposed disambiguated titles are:

• Navy Board (1546-1832)
• Navy Board (1964-present)

Thanks. - BilCat (talk) 08:11, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

Support split; the two organisations share a name but have dissimilar powers, constitution and status and are not contiguous. The existence of he second one is also not drawn on the rules or roles of the first. -- Euryalus (talk) 20:10, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

Any preferences or recommendations for titles? - BilCat (talk) 22:07, 4 November 2016 (UTC)

Support split for the same reasons stated it was until 1832 the main naval board of the RN in terms of its authority and considered more in important than the board of admiralty because it controlled spending. my 1st choice would be Navy Board Royal Navy (1546-1832) if you google Navy Board the search option comes up in the top 4 searches as Navy Board|Royal Navy if not Navy Board (1546-1832).--Navops47 (talk) 02:24, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

I've gone ahead and split the articles, based on consensus here and the spirit of WP:BRD. On balance I felt the historic organisation was the primary topic, given its much greater history, prominence and powers; so I've left it at this article name with a hatnote pointing to Navy Board (1964-present) Happy to discuss if others disagree. -- Euryalus (talk) 21:37, 19 December 2016 (UTC)