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The former professional subeditor in me has long been a bit bothered by this. Is there a style guide for which term to use? It's extremely inconsistent throughout the article. 60.53.91.107 (talk) 06:18, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Both the American and British inquiries into the disaster used the latter. Titanic, after all, is the ship's name, and I doubt any ship has "the" in its name. However, James Cameron's 1997 film used the ship's name without the definite article, and Cameron does not use the definite article in any interviews. On a Sea of Glass uses both "Titanic" and "the Titanic" interchangeably. I feel like we should simply use the ship's name for the sake of clarity and continuity. SSBelfastFanatic (talk) 21:11, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Not done: See MOS:SHIP, Ships may be referred to using either neuter forms ("it", "its") or feminine forms ("she", "her", "hers"). Either usage is acceptable, but each article should be internally consistent and employ one or the other exclusively.'''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talk • contribs) 00:19, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]
I don’t understand the point of this. It makes much more sense to use gender neutral pronouns such as “they” since it doesn’t have any gender, it’s a freaking ship goshdarnit! I guess the person who edited this article was a ship owner or something because no average person would consider a ship female. Should we fix this and change it to something that makes more sense? 70.20.40.223 (talk) 21:17, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
It's a longstanding convention to refer to ships as she/her, although it's not compulsory. However as it's already been written that way it can't be changed without a very good reason (see MOS:SHE4SHIPS) G-13114 (talk) 21:46, 25 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
level-4 vital article is rated FA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Not done: See MOS:SHIP, 