Talk:George Everest

message: This comment appeared in Wikipedia:Reference desk/Humanities. Can someone who know the subject verify this and update the article : 
There are two factual errors and a little missing information in the article on George Everest (for whom Mt Everest was named). Here's your entry [my comments/corrections are in brackets]:
'Colonel Sir George Everest... He was largely responsible for completion of the Great Trigonometric Survey of India along the meridian arc from the south of India extending north to Nepal... The survey was started by William Lambton in 1806 and lasted several decades. Mount Everest was surveyed in 1852 under his successor Andrew Waugh [it sounds like Waugh is Lambton's successor: wrong - he was Everest's successor who, in turn, was a successor [which one?] of Lambton in the position of Surveyor-General of India], who named it Mount Everest in 1865 [the correct date is '1856'] in honour of Sir George. [George Everest was not knighted until after the mountain was named for him... so it should read 'in honour of George (later Sir George) Everest'..
Hope this makes sense. If any questions, contact me:
Don Messerschmidt, PhD Anthropologist & Writer Kathmandu, Nepal [email removed to prevent you being spammed]
Tintin (talk) 07:19, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Errors in the articles 

message: I have 2 critiques of John Keay's The Great Arc, and reference is made in both of them to Everest's personality.  
*One calls him "the controversial British Colonel George Everest".
*The other says "[Lambton]'s assistant, George Everest, a singularly truculent and generously [sic] disliked individual, completed the survey.  Everest, incidentally, pronounced his name Eve-rest - not like "cleverest" - and thanked no one for getting it wrong".  
What can we say about this?  --  JackofOz (talk) 21:50, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: His personality

message: freebmd shows George Everest died 4Q 1866 in Kensington, not Greenwich as mentioned in the article  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.193.224.194 (talk) 06:17, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Place of death error

message: Can someone put it in the right place please, and/or deal with the section on the present state of his residence. Jackiespeel (talk) 15:46, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup tag

message: George's daughter, Ethel, seems to have had some significance, but wouldn't meet WP:BIO or WP:GNG, as her significance seems to be only connected to the money she had and the people she associated with. However, rather than delete Ethel Everest, a merge here is a better idea. Ethel's article is only a couple of lines long, so wouldn't be out of place merged here. Boleyn (talk) 07:41, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The article Ethel Everest should certainly be deleted. She may deserve a small footnote in this article, but I am not convinced. This article requires a serious rewrite which brings Everest's work on the survey into more prominence. A description of that undertaking together with the available references is really necessary. The description of his Indian home is way too long.: most of it should go. I vote for British rather than Welsh!  Peter Mercator (talk) 22:30, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  It is sometimes easier to create a stub and then come to a collective decision on whether it can be collaboratively evolved or turned into a subheading or mention on other articles. (Not 'how many angels can dance on a pin' but which pins they should be assigned to :) )
Perhaps a 'Family' subheading, in which EE's connections can be noted, and which would also note Mary Everest Boole and her family will cover all issues. Jackiespeel (talk) 10:30, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal: [[Ethel Everest]] here 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: According to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas-Louis_de_Lacaille
Everest made significant contributions to discovering the shape of the geoid.
Shouldn't that warrant a mention on his home page?
I dunno how to chase this footnote down to get more information.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas-Louis_de_Lacaille#cite_note-4  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chippo1 (talk • contribs) 00:47, 23 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shape of the Geoid Calculations/Discoveries 

message: "The house is under the jurisdiction of the Tourism Department. These underground water cisterns (or perhaps pits for storing ice, although water is scarce in the area) are quite deep and lie uncovered in the front yard outside the house, filled with litter and posing danger of slipping."
This paragraph doesn't make a lot of sense.  I think there must have been an edit that removed some previous information referring to the water cisterns.  I know nothing about them, so I will not make the update myself - but I suggest somebody ought to.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by DiverseSynergy (talk • contribs) 13:09, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Everest's house in Mussoorie, India