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August 2019: Imagery in article[edit]

The lead image for an article should not be of low quality unless other, better images are not to be found. Therefore, I will exchange the two images of Chinese vessels, making the poor-quality image last, and the modern, Taiwanese vessel first.

Sadly, this entire month-long edit war seems to have stemmed from the inclusion of flag icons in image captions, which is a violation of the MOS. Hubris has no place in Wikipedia.--Quisqualis (talk) 22:37, 13 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Former operators[edit]

The article describes the Corvettes the Royal Canadian Navy operated, but does not list Canada as a current or former operator? Anyone got info? Greg Salter (talk) 17:53, 23 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in Corvette[edit]

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Corvette's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "naval-technology.com":

From Freedom-class littoral combat ship: "Multi-Mission Surface Combatant (MMSC) – Naval Technology". www.naval-technology.com. Retrieved 2020-12-16.
From Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft: "Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASW-SWC)".

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 01:56, 30 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

British spelling[edit]

Should we be using the spelling "manoeuvrable"? 168.91.242.168 (talk) 13:47, 9 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

This article appears to be using British English (e.g. -ise as in "categorised" somewhere in the article), so per MOS:ENGVAR, yes. Fork99 (talk) 12:17, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What does the word "corvette" actually mean?[edit]

It seems like a random word, what is its etymology? Formerlychucks (talk) 12:05, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The lead says The word "corvette" is first found in Middle French, a diminutive of the Dutch word corf, meaning a "basket", from the Latin corbis. Fork99 (talk) 12:16, 4 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]