Talk:Stepping stones

message: Does a series of stones placed in a puddle of rainwater qualify as a "step-stone bridge"? :-) -- Paddu 20:24, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
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message: Can't you move the stones or even carry them to another crossing?  Wouldn't that make a step-stone bridge movable?--Kamikaze14 (talk) 21:25, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Movable 

message: Does the expression "step-stone bridge" exist, or was it invented for Wikipedia? See discussion at Language Log. "Stepping stones" is the normal English name for this, so it should be the page title. Dadge (talk) 20:14, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I've notified the original author of the article about this discussion with the hopes that they'll enlighten us on the choice of article name. SQGibbon (talk) 22:29, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

text: In over five decades of living in Connecticut, California, DC, New York, Pennsylvania, England, and Wales, I have never heard someone say "step-stone bridge." GeneCallahan (talk) 22:43, 23 July 2015 (UTC)

text: I agree. Google Ngram viewer does not give a single hit for step-stone bridge, step stone bridge, or stepstone bridge. Prim Ethics (talk) 02:40, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

text: Greeting fellow editors. When I first created the article (under IP address, rather than logged in) the inspiration was the following image (which I contributed and named  "StepStoneBrige.jpg", and also the current the lead image in this article). The article's current lead image is more illustrative of what would be considered a very primitive string of stepping-stones. Whether it is sufficiently finished or sufficiently permanent to even be considered a bridge is open to opinion. Perhaps inserting the above image as lead would restore the "bridgeyness" and "step-stoneyness" of the arrangement to merit the current title. I have no problem with calling it a stepping-stone bridge if that will help people find the article (but at the very least the old name should redirect to this as there are non-wikipedia links to this article) Leonard G. (talk) 05:01, 26 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: It's the bridge part of the title I'm having trouble with.  I see stepping stones as being closer to a dam with gaps than a bridge, and your image is even more like a dam than the image in use at the moment, I don't see any "bridgeyness" at all in your image.  Plus stepping stones don't seem to fit the dictionary definition of a bridge, the OED has "A structure forming or carrying a road over a river, a ravine, etc., or affording passage between two points at a height above the ground.  Bridges vary in complexity from a simple plank, or a single arch, stretching from bank to bank over a stream, to an elaborate structure of architectural or engineering skill, supported by arches, piers, girders, chains, tubes, etc."  Personally dropping the word bridge from the title.  MidlandLinda (talk) 16:59, 26 July 2015 (UTC)

text:  I agree that the real problem is the word "bridge" in the title. It's just kind of confusing, like "I know what step stones are, but what is a "step-stone bridge" ? I'm open to the idea that stepping stones are a type of bridge (or a bridge-like structure - maybe a "proto-bridge" ?), and in the context of all the other bridges articles it makes a lot of sense. But I don't think appending the word bridge onto the title is really necessary to make this point. We already have articles like Viaduct that are about a type of bridge without the word bridge in the title. Why not do that here? Lukeritchie (talk) 18:19, 27 July 2015 (UTC)
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message: I've never tried adding a photo into a Wiki page before, so could someone who knows what they doing add https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii#/media/File:Pompeii-Street.jpg into this page with its information of keeping pedestrians' feet out of the sewage.  MidlandLinda (talk) 17:16, 1 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can the picture of the stepping stones in the street in Pompeii be added please.