Talk:Plankowner

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Old discussions

Article listed on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion July 1 to July 7 2004, consensus was not reached. Discussion:

Dicdef. Joyous 16:11, Jul 1, 2004 (UTC)

Isn't in my dictionary. Neologism? or just an Americanism? Delete either way. Google search on the term seems to indicate it means something more along the lines of owner-captain or even owner-crewman that as written. SkArcher 17:03, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/questions/plnkownr.html -- This seems to be a maritime practice with some history to it. That being the case, there's no reason we shouldn't keep it as a stub, since it can certainly grow to more than a dicdef. Oh, and here's the OED's definition: "plank-owner Navy slang (chiefly U.S.), (a) a member of the original crew of a ship; a marine with long service with his ship or unit; (b) a marine with a light task; " amusingly, the creator linked to plankowner from Bruno Grobal, an article on a fictional universe, but there was another link to the term from USS Franklin that seems more, ah, encyclopedic. Okay, now I'll actually shut up. -- कुक्कुरोवाच|Talk‽ 19:47, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
It's a darned good dictdef and really interesting. The problem is that no one has added to it to broaden it out. If it gets widened, it should stay. Otherwise, it should go, very valuably, to Wiktionary. Geogre 19:39, 6 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Would anyone like to see my plankowner certificate? It is a very real tradition in the U.S. Navy. And I not sure where the truth lies, but by this article at this time, the claim is that plankowners do not receive deck plate at the time of decommissioning. If that's true, then a lot of us have been lied to. BTW, I've claimed a piece from 03-189-0-Q of the USS Princeton (CG-59) because I had to scrape and paint it three times in February, 1989! (I couldn't keep my shipmates from walking on it before it cured.) --Woolhiser 03:44, 24 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Unfortunately, Woolhiser, it looks like according to http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/questions/plnkownr.html -- you don't get a piece of the deck plating. 68.248.229.244 11:02, 31 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

End discussion

Removal of certificate text

The following information was removed from the article based on "Plank-owner certificates are procured by and issued to crew members of the ship being commissioned; they are not officially issued by the Navy" [1]

In lieu of an actual "plank" from the deck of a newly commissioned ship (these being pretty hard to come by in this day and age) crew members are presented with a Plank Owner Certificate commemorating their unique status of being part of the Original Crew when the ship became part of the U. S. Navy.

If additional citations can be found, please re-add the information and cite it properly. — MrDolomite • Talk 18:39, 31 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]