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Talk:HMS M2 (1918)

message: The photy is about Peto retrieving, not launch. There was no need to use crane to launch the aircraft, and the aircraft was already on catapult rail when it was in the hangar.
Also check on this video:  --Il palazzo (talk) 21:38, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo 

message: I've removed this:
"they were designed to operate as part of the main fleet of battleships and so needed to be fast"
and this:
"The maximum speed on the surface was 15.5kn, which proved to be slower than the newer battleships and the concept of fleet submarines was soon scrapped, with the River class of submarines being the last"
AFAIK the M-class weren't intended as Fleet submarines; their speed was about average for submarines of the time, nowhere near the 24 knots required. But the big gun fitted equipped them as monitors or raiding cruisers; so their successor was HMS X1, not the River class. Xyl 54 (talk) 03:16, 29 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Role 

message: This is unclear: "[...] to conserve compressed air compressors were then started to completely clear the ballast tanks of water by blowing air into them. This could take as long as 15 minutes to complete. The normal procedure for launching the aircraft was therefore to hold the boat on the surface using the hydroplanes whilst the hangar door was opened and the aircraft launched."
What I believe this means is that air for clearing the tanks was stored in compressed air canisters and that the canisters were conserved by clearing the tanks directly with the compressor. I assume the hydroplane method involves the forward motion of the boat. Someone who knows for sure can clarify. 70.225.161.132 (talk) 04:54, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Launch Procedure 

message: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-18025157
©Geni 11:59, 19 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: possible source
Talk:SS Mendi

message: i still dont know mate 105.245.8.194 (talk) 18:46, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Steam Ship Murgatroyd49 (talk) 19:28, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  What does the SS mean in SS Mendi
Talk:HMS Hampshire (1903)

message: Hello.
Apologies if this does not fit with the usual format and method of referencing - still new to this system.
I'd like to draw your attention to recent research by myself and others which has revealed that the previously accepted figure of 655 crewmen as HMS Hampshire's complement is well short of the actual number on board on 5 June 1916. The figure of 655 was published by many newspapers at the time and is most likley derived from the figure given in contemporaneous editions of Jane's Fighting Ships.
A total of 737 lives were lost, 12 survivors. Kitchener and party totalled 14 men, and the number of crew lost was 723 out of 735.
This is based on detail gathered by myself and others from various sources including the Commonwealth War Graves Commission via cwgc.org, and by examination of primary sources held at The National Archives, Kew (e.g. ADM 116/1526 HMS Hampshire Sunk 5th June 1916 - Casualties).
Our list of crewmembers matches (in number at least, although we have corrected a few spellings) the list of casualties and survivors compiled by Don Kindell and available at www.naval-history.net/xDKCas1916-06Jun.htm
Don Kindell's list of Kitchener's party is not far off - he has the right number of individuals as 14, albeit not all named and one mis-named. I discovered that what must have been a misreading of initial reports that Henry SURGUY-SHIELDS should be two separate individuals, namely Henry SURGUY (Kitchener's valet) and William SHIELDS (Fitzgerald's valet), the latter corresponding to the  unnamed 'personal servant' in Kindell's list. The other two unnamed individuals were D.C.BROWN and F.P.WEST (also valets and therefore not clerks as Kindell states).
To better remember the loss of those aboard HMS Hampshire, we (Orkney Heritage Society) raised funds and erected a new wall next to the Kitchener Memorial, engraved with the names of all 737 men lost. For more detail on the project, see www.hmshampshire.org
Thanks and kind regards
Fine Hid (talk) 21:01, 2 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested update to casualty figures.
Talk:Royal Charter (ship)

message: 30 Jan 1856, Wed, Page 3 Royal Charter - Broichmore (talk) 19:17, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Clipping from the Liverpool Mercury
Talk:HMS Waterwitch (1892)

message: This namespace needs to be a dab page for a shipindex of HMS Waterwitches. Emoscopes Talk 01:32, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Split

message: :Quite right - photoreq removed. Shem (talk) 21:53, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Photoreq

message: Comparing pictures it is possible that HMS Waterwitch was The Lancashire Witch launched by Robert Steele & Company, Cartsburn, Yard No 107, on 29/8/1878, as the wooden Steam Yacht Lancashire Witch for Sir T G F Hesketh.  This was owned in 1886 to 1892/3 by the James family who were members of the Royal Yacht Squadron (see Sidney Mail May 24 1890 pp. 1165 "Sailing Notes" Para 2 ).  This vessel had many trips to various parts of the world (including round the world) whilst in private hands and many adventures so would have been a proven vessel for the navy to take over.  This seems more probable than navy wanting The White Lady (Ladye).
Sidpickle (talk) 12:43, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Correct Information Provided?

message: Does this article and everything associated with it in Commons need to be renamed "HMS Waterwitch (1893)". There are a plethora of "Waterwitch" and "Water witch" named ships on Wikipedia already without more confusion.BeckenhamBear (talk) 19:08, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: HMS Waterwitch (1893)
Talk:Lillie Parsons

message: Any way of changing the page name to be the ship's actual name? (Lillie Parsons)PeregrinusNG 13:29, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Talk:SS Storstad

message: As it is incorrect, I have removed the following paragraph and replaced it with information from another source which explains the fate of the S.S. Storstad:
"To date, whatever happened to the Storstad and her whereabouts are unknown. It is known that the ship became terribly wounded after her collision, but was able to dock at her desired destination. Many people have suggested that after the ship docked, she was destroyed, possibly burned, to try and cover up the evidence of the collision and leave the owners of the ship legally unharmed."
--Ber06122 20:50, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]
Talk:Beaver (steamship)

message: I was looking up Labouchere Channel and, on a within-5km-radius find for Labouchere Passage, which is different, I found Dodd Narrows and this mini-bio of Charles Dodd, who was also a chief factor.  The Dodd link currently refers to an English historian, Toutell, who uses the name as a pseudonym; I wanted to drop the link here for later reference/article usage.Skookum1 (talk) 12:53, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Charles Dodd]], capt. 1843-1852
Talk:MV Bianca C.

message: This is now Bianca C. (shipwreck) Just letting everyone know, it didn't meet WikiProject Shipwrecks Naming Convention. This page desperately needs a infobox. Can't fix it myself now, tagging articles. Evan(Salad dressing is the milk of the infidel!) 18:13, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Moving the Page
Talk:Calc-alkaline magma series

message: Considering this is one of the, you know, two most common magma series on the planet and it has about 0.5 paragraphs devoted to it and is essentially an orphaned article, please,if you have any spare time, do this up a bit. Anything helps. Cheers,
Rolinator 12:16, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Expansion urgently required

message: Hi folks,
I have a question that has bugged me for years.  How do you pronounce "calc-alkaline"?  I'm assuming it is pronounced kals-alkaline (just like "calcic" is pronounced kalsik) and not pronounced kalk-alkaline as in calculate.  But as a native English speaker, I know all too well that words are not always pronounced as expected or like their cognates.
I'm a scientist in another field, and I've read many volcanological books and research papers over the past few years (Igneous Petrology by McBirney is on my shelf).  But I've never taken a geology course in college or grad school, and I've never heard anyone say the word "calc-alkaline" yet.
I've tried for years to find out how it is pronounced, occasionally Googling terms like "pronounce calc-alkaline" and such, but all to no avail.  Everyone assumes that the first time somebody encounters the term is in a geology or petrology class where the professor says it.  So no website, book, or paper ever bothers to give the correct pronunciation.
Thanks for your help.
--128.208.111.141 04:29, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Always been kalk-alkaline to me, but that doesn't mean it's correct :-) Vsmith 11:08, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: To Find out how to alkalize and mineralize your water: go to www.xoomaworldwide.com/mattmiller
Wonderful business-www.x2om.com  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.234.102.230 (talk) 23:33, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

text: Kalk-alkaline would be german, seems ok for me. --Chris.urs-o (talk) 17:36, 17 March 2011 (UTC)

text: 'Kalk-alkaline' is the way I pronounce it thi is because my lecturers, professors etc at university pronounced it that way. But that could be an artifact of the Australian dialect. Yendor of yinn (talk) 06:05, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation

message: Look here:  --Chris.urs-o (talk) 17:44, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Has anyone an AFM diagram?
Talk:Open Space Institute

message: Originally based on wikipaltz.
Unfortunately they seem to have grabbed it from  and I still haven't found wikipaltz's GFDL statement.  I'll do a quick rewrite to clear CV. RJFJR 12:20, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I did a quick rewrite, should be clear of direct CV (and now sites a source for some of the information, the OSI's web site). RJFJR 12:31, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Islamic sexual hygienical jurisprudence

message: This article can be greatly expanded.--Striver 12:24, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Great expansion

message: What are their views? That should be included in detail, this will be helpful because not all of them are so strict, even Abu Hanifa
68.100.160.250 (talk) 00:15, 30 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  All [[Madhab]] imams 

message: This topic doesnt look notable on its own to need an article. Can easily be covered in  Islamic sexual jurisprudence. Swingoswingo (talk) 19:28, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger with  Islamic sexual jurisprudence
Talk:Tholeiitic magma series

message: Does anyone object to renaming this article "tholeiitic magma series" or "tholeiitic"?  It doesn't make much sense to just describe as a basalt.  Also, how do you rename a page?Rppeabody (talk) 04:38, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Magma Series 

message: The obscure , unexplained reference "(AGI, 41)" is included in this article (it was once included twice, but the other occurrence was removed by User:Rppeabody in March 2011). I guess AGI may be the American Geological Institute, in which this may be a reference (perhaps a page reference) to the Dictionary of Geological Terms included in the "references" list. In the absence of better information, I will remove the reference in its current form. Hopefully, someone can authoritatively replace it with a Wiki standard format reference / citation. FredV (talk) 12:59, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  AGI 41 

message: This section seems specific to tholeiitic basalt, and that seems slightly out of place here. I think it should either be expanded to describe distinctive petrography of the tholeiitic series as a whole, or be dropped altogether. Preferences?  --Kent G. Budge (talk) 16:30, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Petrography
Talk:Gummery

message: It's OK as an article, but please refer to Wikipedia:Manual of Style to Wikify it. For example, try not to link names within the main article directly to external websites. Use inline citations instead or a reference section at the bottom. Good luck. I've also noticed nobody has bothered formally welcoming you to Wikipedia. I will rectify that on your talk page now. :) Bubba hotep 12:30, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If you take a look at the section "People with the Surname Gummery" – instead of putting the name of the person "inside" a link (as you originally did), put the link at the end of the sentence – example  – without adding any displayable text and it will create a numbered external link which people can click on to verify the info you had just stated in that paragraph. In-line citations are links in the main body of the article as opposed to separate external links at the bottom. Hope I haven't confused you too much. :) Anything else you need to know, I will try to help! Bubba hotep 12:58, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: By the way, you had already done an inline citation after the sentence "...but had spread to other industrial centres in the country..." - the numbered link is an inline citation, just don't label it with a name or anything. So I just taught you something you did know! Bubba hotep 13:01, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

text: Believe me, it's very easy to fall into the trap of using jargon! I've only been on here a few months, but you soon get the hang of it and find some really useful people to help. Bubba hotep 13:11, 28 October 2006 (UTC)

text: Just corrected the Bayswater link to an internal link - a WikiLink, if you will. Bubba hotep 13:22, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup concerns
Talk:Ridley Motorcycle Company

message: I have seen these bikes before.  I removed the info that sounded like an advertisement and cited what I could.  The other information is still not cited, but appears accurate on its face.  I will research this and cite it later (or remove it if inaccurate). Pilotbob 03:11, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ridley's 

message: This article must demonstrate why the subject is notable per WP:N otherwise it is in danger of being nominated for deletion. – ukexpat (talk) 18:09, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Notability
Talk:Rostrevor College

message: For Palma Merenti, the teachers and leaders of the school always translated the term as "He who strives gets the reward". It's often mentioned as there is the Palma Merenti award.
The translation as it reads is from the Red and Black, as is the same as in the school diary. This is also the way its been translated through the some 13 speech nights I've attended.
121.44.66.188 09:31, 26 February 2007 (UTC)

message: Removed unsourced Alumni as per Admin [User:Kusma|Kusma]]'s (talk) (unilateral) policy regarding other South Australian Schools. Please address all concerns on his talk page.  —The preceding  signed but undated. 
:There is no such policy. Please do not address this on my talk page, but discuss this article here. Thank you, Kusma (talk) 18:52, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alumni 

message: List of Headmasters
Mr J Croser (2003 – 2010)
Mr Simon Dash (2011 - Present)
As per:
http://www.rostrevor.sa.edu.au/__files/f/2563/Letter%20to%20Rostrevor%20Parents%20and%20Staff.pdf
http://www.rostrevor.sa.edu.au/about-rostrevor/headmaster
Phileh57 (talk) 02:50, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Done Stickee (talk) 05:04, 12 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request from Phileh57, 12 November 2010 

message: Someone is having fun making up translations for various Latin phrases. 180.150.113.40 (talk) 07:57, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Latin translations
Category talk:GAA GPA All Stars Awards

message: Is there no way to subdivide this into decades, rather than, as it is, millenia?--Macca7174 12:35, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Have sub divided into football and hurling , i dont think it needs any more divisions (Gnevin 15:15, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Henrietta Marie

message: I've started re-writing this article to correct mistakes and add new information. For instance, the Henrietta Marie never carried Africans to what is now the United States. Its two voyages as a slave ship were to Barbados and Jamaica. The year of the wreck also appears to be 1700, not 1701. I also removed some over-blown wording about the shackles being used to punish and torture the captive Africans. However cruel use of the shackles was, it was not deliberate torture. I'll be working more on this. -- Donald Albury 12:44, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  New edits 
Talk:USS Spiegel Grove

message: The attached comment appeared in the main article:
I am moving it to the talk page, where it better belongs.  Personally, I largely agree with the sentiment about CDNN (although I would say it tends to sensationalise and misreport rather than simply falsify stuff), but clearly that is way too POV for the main article.  Presumably there must be some kind of reliable source for this info? --Legis (talk - contribs) 23:20, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Deaths, sourcing

message: In section "Sinking for reef", a date is shown as "On 10-11 June" which is not consistent with the date format of the rest of the article. International date is yyyy-mm-dd, Most countries use dd-mm-yy and the US uses mm-dd-yy, so ##-## is particularly confusing.Alessio.aguirre (talk) 11:52, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The dates all look to be dd-mm to me. —WWoods (talk) 18:26, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: DATE FORMAT INCONSISTENCY

message: That's interesting! Considering the fact, that a storm was obviously strong enough to turn it. 77.180.35.25 (talk) 15:18, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: How deep is the ship?
Talk:USS Wilkes-Barre

message: Please? I don't know about this subject to do it, but someone.. somewhere.. somehow.. get round to it please? :) Thanks. CycloneNimrod (talk) 21:22, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: SECTIONS!

message: Please update the page title to include Wilkes-Barre's hull number. All the other US cruiser pages contain the hull number in the title, but not this one. 2600:4040:100A:8400:9C59:3142:9636:383D (talk) 15:28, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page Title - update to include (CL-103)
Talk:Pennant coralfish

message: This article has been revised as part of the large-scale clean-up project of a massive copyright infringement on Wikipedia. Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions must be deleted. Contributors may use sources as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously.
For more information on this situation, which involved a single contributor liberally copying material from print and internet sources into several thousand articles, please see the two administrators' noticeboard discussions of the matter,  here and here, as well as the the cleanup task force subpage. Thank you.  --Whpq (talk) 15:22, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem
Talk:Endangered mammals of India

message: The source for information here is rather poor quality. Need to run it through IUCN and CAMP publications. WII website uses old taxonomy and like most Indian government websites is prone to be low on scientific quality. Shyamal 12:58, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: has what appears to be a more upto date list. However this too will have to be checked and updated with Mammal species of the World. Ouch... so much for tax-payer funded research ! Shyamal 13:24, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Information checking needed

message: *Asiatic Cheetah
*A more detailed account of the critically endangered “Asiatic Cheetah” (original version of current “Asiatic Cheetah” article on Wikipedia)
*Cloning
*Cryogenics
*Liquid nitrogen
*Embryo transfer
*Ex-situ conservation
*in-situ conservation
*Wildlife conservation
*Artificial insemination
*Animal husbandry
*Wildlife Conservation
*Asiatic Lion
Atulsnischal 17:58, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: See also

message: The list of endangered mammals lists every animal, not just those which are endangered. It is misleading...
The Blue Bucket (talk) 00:50, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The list is incorrect. 
Talk:Chris Impellitteri

message: I just happened on this page while looking for information on an awesome version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow and noticed that it contained an npov tag.  I also noticed the article was very small and could not immediately discern the alleged impartiality so I naturally went to the talk page to find out.  There is no mention of npov on the talk page and in fact no mention of npov anywhere in the history of the talk page so this is obviously a "drive-by" tag.  I feel fairly safe in removing it because no reason was posted for including in the first place.  If anyone wants to dispute the impartiality of the article, they should read the guidelines for npov tagging where it explains that one should put a section on the talk page explaining why they are disputing the impartiality of the article.
Thank you and thanks for clearing up the mystery of who recorded that awesome version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wdrev (talk • contribs) 18:44, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing the drive-by npov tag 

message: The current date of birth, 1975, is not right. If he was born on that date it would mean that he released his first EP when he was 11 or 12 years old and he certainly does not look anywhere near that young in the photos.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.105.72.78 (talk) 14:57, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of birth 

message: This would be a great article for someone to completely rewrite to remove all the POV. "The Black Ep was the 1st metal record to combine fast tempos,addictive riffs, shredding guitar solos, and screaming vocals that rivaled the likes of legendary bands Iron Maiden and Judas Priest" just doesn't sound, you know, encyclopoedic to me. I'd do it myself but I don't know much about the guy, which is why I'm here.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.194.48.42 (talk) 16:51, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quality of Article 
Talk:Cambodian People's Party

message: The infobox is very poorly sourced: 
*Conservatism source broadly mentions Buddhism & maybe supporting of the status quo (we are talking about an authoritarian regime though)
*Economic liberalism source is an interview with a CPP MP (so primary source) and the question was will CPP use populism to get more voters, so the context even implies the opposite
*first big tent source: lists Cambodia as "HEGEMONIC ELECTORAL AUTHORITARIAN" alongside Angola?, Singapore? & Kuwait? - it does not state that CPP is actually big tent nor do the compared countries proof that
*second source Archived version does not mention it
*last source does not even mention it in any way
i will remove all of them but Conservatism (which i'll renaim to social conservatism) and big tent (without sources, until proper sources for any position can be found) Braganza (talk) 16:39, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Purge