Talk:Adrian Carton de Wiart

message: I'm currently reading Happy Odyssey and finding a few inconsistencies between that and this article. Anyone object if I make a few changes to bring the article into line with de Wiart's own writings? 66.134.170.155 (talk) 17:07, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Consistency with Memoirs

message: I think this article needs a portrait of the person discussed.
I would upload and edit it myself if I only knew how.
: Goto Special:Upload, and then reference your image as Image:filename.ext] --Gabriel Millerd (talk) 17:22, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  here are quite a few http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp01288  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gmillerd (talk • contribs) 17:25, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portrait 

message: "De Wiart was in the thick of the fighting on the Western Front, commanding successively a brigade and three infantry battalions."
But a bridage IS three infantry battalions. Should it be the other way round? ie. He was battalion commander of three different battalions and then was promoted to CO of a brigade? --Affentitten 06:15, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What did he command? 

message: As I've indicated, we really need page numbers as well as the book for each of the direct quotes.  Also the catalogue reference given for the quote via Max Hastings, FO 371/F6140/34/10, is not a valid reference in The National Archives' online catalogue.  I've linked it to FO 371/34 as that appears plausible (unfortunately the dates for all the files in this series are given as 1906), the F6140/10 could well be a folio and page number.  David Underdown (talk) 13:54, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Quotes and references

message: On July 10, 2013,  Aja Romano of The Daily Dot linked to Adrian Carton de Wiart in an article titled "This is the most interesting man on Wikipedia".  Based on the traffic spike from a normal of under 500/day to over 30K/day, I'm going to add  shortly. davidwr/(talk)/(contribs)/(e-mail) 21:52, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: That's not the only one:  - check back here for more! -- ke4roh (talk) 02:22, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Daily Dot:  This is the most interesting man on Wikipedia 

message: was shot in the face, head, stomach, ankle, leg, hip and ear, survived a plane crash, tunneled out of a POW camp, received a trunk job, and bit off his own fingers when a doctor refused to amputate them.
What is a "trunk job"?  I can't find it in the source, so I'm assuming someone pulled a coding trick.Mzmadmike (talk) 16:38, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like it's been fixed. --RA (✍) 20:59, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Found possible vandalism

message: This page has been linked from Fark.  I've noted it at the top.--Ray Chason (talk) 22:11, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Linked from Fark

message: The phrase «Carton de Wiart managed to move his forces over the mountains», regarding the move from Namsos to Trondheim should be improved. Namdalseid is the high-point on the journey from Namsos to Trondheim, at 100m above sea level. You are moving through the floor of the Namdalen valley, which can not be phrased «over the mountains».
Grstein (talk) 08:38, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Norwegian campaign 

message: We got enough people here to do it....so let's do it.
I'm game. theonesean 01:57, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: A worldwide interest is building up for this page / individual. The visits to the page have sky rocketed from virtually nothing to average 40-50,000 a day just this week: See http://stats.grok.se/en/latest/Adrian_Carton_de_Wiart But a huge revamp is in order. Three quarters of all citations are from London Gazette on various dates. References should be more varied and from a number of other good sources. I couldn't help but notice too many one-line and two-line paragraphs in various sections. Clearly this page needs a huge clean-up. werldwayd (talk) 10:16, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: One of the obvious (to me) omissions is that neither his mother nor his stepmother are named. BrainyBabe (talk) 16:09, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Let's turn this into a feature article 

message: Just a nudge that this page made it to one of the most read newspapers online: . 
Brace yourselves ;) Paulbrock (talk) 09:10, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Daily Mail coverage 

message: "a French and a British destroyer, HMS Afridi" - Why is it that only British ship had a name? --Oop (talk) 06:35, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  The unimportant French ship 

message: In this article the sentence:
'The grave site is just outside the actual graveyard wall on the grounds of his own home Aghinagh House.'
This does not accord with the Aghinagh House article which states:
'Sir Adrian is buried in the grounds of the church adjacent to Aghinagh House.'
This should be corrected by people who know more about the subject's history than I do.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.57.212.213 (talk) 23:29, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia Conflict 

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