Talk:Silver Bridge

message: I'm removing the "Memorialization" section because the site linked does not contain "Very specific information on the 46 victims," just a list of their names.  The "very specific information" only seems to be about the people who the author feels have died in connection with the alleged "Mothman" incidents in Point Pleasant. --ndc 00:19, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Section

message: This is a good article, but the article's namespace needed to be turned into a disambiguation. RK (talk) 14:00, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Why? The current title is terrible. "Silver Bridge (bridge)" indeed. This should be Silver Bridge and the disambiguation should be Silver Bridge (disambiguation). Someone's applied a titling rule stupidly and this article has fallen victim to Wikipedia's worst fault - pedantry. Totnesmartin (talk) 20:47, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: No, the article namespace did not need to be turned into a disambiguation.   Look at Special:WhatLinksHere/Silver_Bridge and you will find two things;  one, that all but two of the links that point to "Silver Bridge" refer to the Silver Bridge in Point Pleasant WV, with the other two possibly ambiguous and referring either to the Silver Bridge or the Silver Memorial Bridge: and two, that all the links to "Silverbridge" refer to Silverbridge, County Armagh.  In fact, there are only two articles named Silver Bridge on Wikipedia:  Silver Bridge (bridge) and Silver Bridge (firm) with the latter being an orphan; the other pages with "Silver" and "bridge" in their title are clearly distinguishable by simply using their own full name (ie, Silver Memorial Bridge). Additionally, a check at  http://stats.grok.se/ finds that Silver Bridge (bridge) is viewed many thousands of times a month, while Silver Bridge (firm) is viewed a few hundred times a month.  It is abundantly clear that the term "Silver Bridge", as used on the English Wikipedia, refers to the bridge, while "Silverbridge" refers to Silverbridge, County Armagh.  Per the standard at WP:PRIME Silver Bridge will redirect to Silver Bridge (bridge) and Silver Bridge (disambiguation) will be used for disambiguation, while Silverbridge will redirect to Silverbridge, County Armagh, and a hatnote will be placed on that page directing any misguided readers to the dab page. Rejectwater (talk) 12:53, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation 

message: See identical paragraphs at the apparently original website
http://silverbridgeaccident.webs.com/aboutthebridge.htm  BryceN (talk) 17:29, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Plagiarism

message: Among some other changes, I've also removed this unsourced sentence from intro/overview section:
:: "Analysis showed that the bridge was carrying much heavier loads than it had been designed for and had been poorly maintained."
Neither of the above claims (of overloading or poor maintenance) appears to have any support in official accident investigation reports, including those from NTSB, which apparently considered, and rejected, both possibilities. (The conclusions are also at odds with the article's Wreckage analysis section, which makes clear that any maintenance issues, if any, were minor compared to the fact that detecting the bridge's flaw would have been impossible — short of taking the bridge apart.
There are similar issues with the current version of this article's Design loads section (completely unsourced), which seems to be hinting that the bridge was overloaded without actually saying so.
Comments are, of course, welcome. Marnofaldi (talk) 20:17, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsupported conclusions 

message: Yeah my grandmother and mother lived their lives heartbroken due to the incident and too I had to live out the rest of their lives heartbroken until the day they died. My grandmother never dated liked or loved or married another man thereafter Gerald’s death. 
My grandmother and mother would share their life moments with me and my siblings and this is how we got to know Gerald.  On the day the bridge collapsed Gerald had left his home to drive to a work area and one of which a friend slash person who shared the same work occupation as he did meaning if he hadn’t been out helping someone he would have not died on that bridge that day.    Being that Gerald  was a Scottish Freemason member and successful high chapter member and died from the bridge collapsing and thereafter the Mothman sighting occurred, I don’t think that it his death was a coincidence. Just saying, you wouldn’t believe the shit that happened thereafter his death 174.231.208.241 (talk) 09:14, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  My grandfather Gerald McManus was one of people who died as a result of the bridge collapsing.