Talk:The Solent

message: There is a couple of references to Selsey in the article. Strictly speaking Selsey is not in the Solent it is in the English Channel. Check Admiralty Chart 2036. Or put another way the Solent is to the west of Nab Tower, Selsey is to the east of the Nab Tower. Check any nautical reference and it will point this out, eg: The English Chnnnel pilot.Wilfridselsey (talk) 09:27, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Solent Area

message: This article is over-linked. The references to sea,tidal, port, oak, forest, glacier give no detail pertinent to the subject, and just clutter and obscure the content.
Attempts to remove the clutter have upset people, so care must be taken resolving the problem
:I agree, but it really isn't worth the bother if somebody likes it. Don't forget to sign your name, now, will you? Naturenet 18:23, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Link farm

message: The article says that the Solent "is renowned as one of the most expensive waters to cross by ferry in the world". I'm curious about this. Can someone who knows about this expand on it? Why is it so expensive? How much does it cost? I assume this expense is on a per-distance basis; some ferries travel much further, and must be more expensive. CDC (talk) 23:29, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that this is hearsay and unverifably POV, although I'm open to persuasion. When I lived in Gosport exactly the same thing was said about the Gosport ferry. People just like to moan about ferry prices, despite the fact that the Solent is what makes the Island an Island, and if ferries were free the Island would just be a suburb of Portsmouth. Naturenet | Talk 12:57, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Some years later I actually did the research and demonstrated that by at least one measure, the Solent is not the most expensive. Naturenet | Talk 10:48, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Expensive ferries

message: Shouldn't this article include some reference to No Man's Land Fort?
The Seventh Taylor 19:49, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I now see that with a reference to Palmerston Forts this has effectively been done. The Seventh Taylor (talk) 03:33, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: No Man's Land Fort

message: Should there be a Solent (disambiguation) page as per WP:D?  Especially with this article having a section entitled "other uses of the name" (two of which are linked to other articles).  Booglamay (talk) 15:59, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Disambiguation

message: Any idea how wide it is at its narrowest point? --Joopercoopers (talk) 23:02, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: How wide?

message: Can someone expand upon that fact considering the River Frome doesn't even empty into the Solent, anymore?  I'm trying to picture exactly how this could have been the case, and can't. --Criticalthinker (talk) 09:48, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Isle of Purbeck and Isle of Wight were formerly connected, with a valley south of Bournemouth fed by the R. Frome (and Avon at Christchurch). The Needles are all that's left.78.151.93.49 (talk) 14:37, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Source Was River Frome?

message: This article has two sections titled "Geology". Suggest merging them. Magicmike (talk) 12:34, 26 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge Geologies 

message: http://www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/4/2/430/htm
Talks about the overal situation and a couple of past events.©Geni (talk) 16:12, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Paper on flooding

message: The text currently implies that rivers arising from the melting of the last ice sheet caused flooding and scouring of the Solent - beyond permafrost, there was no ice within the catchment so this seems unlikely. Where is the evidence? Secondly glacial rebound is not about an east-west axis but, reflecting the amassing of ice over northern England and Wales too, is more of a NE-SW axis. How much of this is covered by the cited book by Murphy? cheers Geopersona (talk) 06:46, 6 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flooding of the Solent 

message: I propose that the content from the South Hampshire article should be merged into here. The political application of the term "Solent" corresponds to the South Hampshire entity. For example, the "City Deal" and prospective combined authority was named Solent. Information on Climate and demographics will be identical. Jonjonjohny (talk) 09:30, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: oppose I don't think they should be merged they are two distinct things. One is the urban area around Southampton and Portsmouth and the other is a strait. I don't see how a strait can really have demographics. Eopsid (talk) 18:49, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge South Hampshire into the Solent article 

message: The above section should not have been closed so hastily, with no attempt to generate further discussion. What does "non-admin closure" mean? Higher up this page the section "Requested move 21 April 2015" shows that there was opposition to moving the page, with valid reasons. The name of this body of water is simply "Solent", even though it is often preceded by the definite article in continuous prose. See the English Channel, the Strait of Dover or the Bristol Channel for similar examples. Note also that we have Solent University, Solent NHS Trust, Solent Airport, Solent Rescue, Solent Sky, Solent TV, Solent Way, none of which include "the" in their name. --92.40.134.248 (talk) 15:24, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: your close was clearly in good faith and valid, following the proper exposure period and the unanimous consensus of 3 participants. However, it was a marked change from the earlier discussion in 2015. Would you be prepared to reopen the discussion and ping the previous participants? I haven't checked how many of those editors are still active. – Fayenatic London 21:55, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I didn't mean to imply bad faith. Sorry if it came across that way. --92.40.134.248 (talk) 22:23, 12 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:   When Amakuru asked me on my talkpage I was about to reopen it but then he said there's no need since he understood he actually supported the older nomination. I've to admit, even after that, I thought maybe relist is the most appropriate way to go anyway,  but what deterred me was that RM is really suffering from lack of participation there's a very good chances that it'd got no comments apart from the above two. And seeing that already two experienced users agreed with the nom I concluded to close it. Now since you objected, I am reopening it, and pinging the participants of prior discussions. – Ammarpad (talk) 05:27, 13 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I suppose given the (rather even) split in the previous RM that given this was questioned reopening and relisting is reasonable. The request wasn't closed prematurely, it was open for 8 days which is longer than the minimum 7 days with all 3 (including the nom) supporting. The previous request was closed as "No move" which probably should have been "No consensus" given that sources had shown "The" to be part of the name even though (like The Beatles) sometimes use a lower case "t". 4 (including the nom) supported while 3 opposed. English Channel,  Strait of Dover and Bristol Channel do not have "The" on OS maps so aren't comparable. Crouch, Swale (talk)  10:12, 13 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  premature closure