Talk:Tent

message: extremely biiiiiiiiig tenst are great becauae you can sleep in them  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.252.46.186 (talk) 21:35, 7 March 2022 (UTC)

message: Could we add a topic about circus tents?  They were a big part of the culture around the turn of the century.  It was the tent that made it possible for circuses to quickly move from town to town, bringing big-city entertainment to the smallest villages in America.  I think they're worthy of a mention in this article.  Joe 20:22, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Circus tents? 

message: Is it worth adding a section on 'Older Tent Styles'?  I can think of three off-hand - pup tent, circular bell tent, and square center pole tent. Murray Langton 10:35, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "Older" like "modern" is an awfully vague, subjective and not very encyclopaedic word. Some sort of time-line with solid dates is needed in this article instead. If you are a three year old anything older than three is old!109.154.67.142 (talk) 21:05, 24 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  older tent styles 

message: This section seems inadequate. For instance: Who used tents in the Iron Age? How long have Bedouins been using tents? Did Ancient Egyptians use tents? Didn't the Crusades-Age Muslims have fantastic tent technology? 74.100.137.109 (talk) 19:50, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  history 

message: You might be interested to vote for the Wilderness article on the Article Improvement Drive. Jtneill - Talk 01:55, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Wilderness - Article Improvement Drive

message: Having substantially rewritten and extended the article on tents, it may be helpful for others to know something of my background to help them form an opinion as to the quality of the article.
* I am 187 cm tall (6 ft 2 in) and my three sons are all over 192 cm tall (6 ft 4 in).
* My camping experience started in about 1955. In New Zealand I camped with my family, with the Scout association, and with various tramping (backpacking) clubs. In Europe I have camped by myself, with friends, with the Scout association, and with my family. In the early 1970's I did three solo camping trips around various parts of Europe, with trip length between two and three months each. In recent years I have done some bicycle camping, towing a small trailer behind the bike to hold all my gear.
* I have personally used the following types of tent: simple bivouac (flysheet with groundsheet), hammock tent, single and double skin pup tents, ridge tent with and without flysheet, square center-pole tent, bell tent, frame tent, basic dome tent, tunnel tent.
* My previous tents were a single skin pup tent, 150 cm by 210 cm by 150 cm high (5 ft by 7 ft) weighing about 2 Kg, and a double skin pup tent 210 cm square weighing about 3 Kg.  My current tent is a double skin tunnel tent weighing 5 Kg; the inner tent is 210 cm by 240 cm by 140 cm high (7 ft by 8 ft by 4 ft 8 in high), and the living area is the same size as the inner tent - room enough for a bicycle and a trailer.
* Pitching a square centre-pole tent in 11 minutes (my family did a month-long camping trip in NZ):
** 2 minutes: 2 people spread out the tent canvas, 2 people place poles and guy ropes near canvas.
** 3 minutes: 2 people hold up adjacent corner poles while 2 people bang in the pegs for the two guy ropes for each of these poles.
** 3 minutes: repeat previous step for other two corner poles.
** 3 minutes: 2 people insert centre pole and raise the roof, 2 people insert poles at centre of each side and attach single guy ropes to each.
Camping is fun! Murray Langton 16:52, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Anecdote: On the first stop of our month-long NZ camping trip, it took us all of 14 minutes to pitch the tent - we all had previous relevant experience but had never actually worked together as a team for tent pitching. A neighbouring camper remarked to my father that he had never seen a tent go up so fast. My father took great pleasure in responding that "we had never pitched that particular tent before". Murray Langton 09:34, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personal Experience 

message: This article has become a "how-to" on going camping, losing sight of the fact that this is an encyclopedia, not a magazine (see WP:NOT-- "Wikipedia articles should not include instruction [...] or contain "how-to"s).  I am starting a rewrite with that guideline in mind.  Also, I intend to remove all external links except manufacturers sites. 
And I have removed the "units of measurement" section since units are an issue in a substantial number of articles, but we don't include a section describing the issue, we just provide inch and metric as needed. -- Mwanner | Talk 12:15, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs a substantial re-write 

message: "To allow for inclement weather, some covered living space may be desirable" yes, i would guess that may be a desirable feature of a tent, possibly. (unsigned remark by 131.251.96.5).
:'living space' as distinct from 'sleeping space' Murray Langton 22:50, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remarks 

message: Article is far too biased to Western practice of "recreational" camping and nearly totally ignores the uses of tents by nomadic peoples throughout history, as well as present-day use by the military, as well as the fact that for many less fortunate people in the world, living in a tent is a way of life and not just a bit of decadent fun like it is regarded in the West. This should be corrected. 81.105.63.242 23:43, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As it happens, my only experience with tents is 'recreational camping'. Could you either update the article yourself or point me at some references which can be used to widen the scope of the article. Murray Langton 08:02, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article bias 

message: In reading through the current article, which I like and wish to see improved, I noted a lack of citations. 
One citation I found doing a google search was on a manufacturer of Military tents. 
http://www.cis.tennessee.edu/library/pdf/fom_summer_2007.pdf
"Camel Manufacturing, a tent-making company in Campbell County, has been manufacturing tents for the U.S. military for 88 years. Of the six companies that provide military standard tents, Camel has been doing it the longest and now makes about 43 percent of all military tents."
Another I found was a general site on tents.
http://gorp.away.com/gorp/publishers/menasha/gea_tent.htm
This covers most common tent fabrics, tent pole materials, care and waterproofing. This may prove helpful to content of this topic.
I am willing to help. I am a new user of Wikipedia and a very casual user of the computer. So if you wish help please be specific about what you want me to do and I shall as soon as I get the information.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Papabear6288 (talk • contribs) 16:57, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations 

message: where can you find people using tents — Preceding unsigned comment added by 222.153.39.175 (talk • contribs) 04:17, 4 August 2008
: Try looking for a campsite Murray Langton (talk) 04:54, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tents 

message: You may also want to include tents being uses as houses in some countries. http://www.actionafrica.com/index.htm --Stevnim (talk) 05:07, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: That certainly goes to show that the term "tent" can be stretched to cover many different kinds of structures. Perhaps the buildings at that link should be dealt with in a separate article on cloth-roofed buildings. The Denver airport is a famous example, but there are many others.   Will Beback  talk   04:13, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Larger Tents 

message: To organize the sub-articles (which are currently a big mess), I started to design a navbox to sort out the duplicate, orphan, and unnecessary articles pertaining to Tents: User:Steveprutz/tents. I am not yet certain if the scope will be for camping only or go broader. Any feedback-ideas would be appreciated. StevePrutz (talk) 18:21, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Navbox template 

message: I hope it will not make anyone tense if i am camp enough to mention roof top tents --— ⦿⨦⨀Tumadoireacht Talk/Stalk 07:13, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  car roof tents  

message: Need some attention. Currently listed under both rigid pole (??) and flexible pole and alternatively listed as for children or professional hikers.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:14BA:984A:F200:0:0:0:8EA (talk) 10:23, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pop-up tents 

message: Perhaps this article could be expanded to discuss more modern, canvas tents. A link to the Springbar article might make a good addition to this page — either in the article itself or in "See also." Springbar tents are a type of tent invented in the 1960s.  Xlea Nollmav (talk) 01:18, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Note: user Xlea Nollmav (talk) is being paid to promote Springbar. Murray Langton (talk) 15:50, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  springbar tents