Talk:No man's land

message: No Man's Land has more than this definition and the term predates WWI. The term could mean:
#An unclaimed or unowned piece of land; a wasteland.
#Land under dispute by two opposing parties; especially, the field of battle between two opposing entrenched armies.
#Any area into which a man does not venture because of fear or uncertainty; a realm of danger or ambiguity (this definition probably descends from meaning 2).
I suggest this page be moved to, maybe, No_man's_land_(war), and this name be for a disambiguation page. --12.74.169.88
: The current version (changed by myself) implements this suggestion. I'm still not sure whether to keep the disambig marker or not... --Joy [shallot] 13:09, 25 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: original definition

message: I don't have much confidence in the land mines remark. Man traps yes.. land mines not the greatest problem.
--86.207.40.149 18:13, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: land mines

message: Yes. Land mines were used atleast by Germany and Britain during World War One. Britain produced land mines during WW1 that used poison gas too. PyrE 12:06, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Land mine 

message: It was called 'No man's land' because nether side could occupy the area without the occupiers being killed by the opposing side. With the advent of machine guns such as the Vickers and MG 08, both sides could bring down overwhelming fire on the land making survival without cover impossible.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.40.116.56 (talk) 22:23, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: WW I & WW I Use

message: move Anthony Appleyard (talk) 13:13, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: No Man's Land → No man's land — Should likely be standardized as lowercase given it's not really a proper place but a battlefield concept. Labattblueboy (talk) 07:27, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 

message: "The term was applied to a little-used area on ships called the forecastle" is incorrect on two counts. The forecastle was neither little-used nor no man's land.
From William Falconer's Dictionary of the Marine: "It probably derives this name from its situation, as being neither on the starboard nor larboard side of the ship, nor on the waist or forecastle; but, being situated in the middle, partakes equally of all those places." James Galloway (talk) 15:23, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin 

message: “Terra nemo” is a barbarism, since the Classical Latin genitive of nemo is neminis (often replaced by nullius: see Wiktionary). Neminis terra or Terra nullius would be more correct. — Tonymec (talk) 17:06, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Entirely agree. I'm not sure when that chance happended but the inserstion of terra nemo in the lead was not appropriate. If anything were to be inserted it should be Terra nullius.--Labattblueboy (talk) 17:59, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  “Terra nemo” 

message: Editors interested in expanding the topic will find a very good article here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sb2s3 (talk • contribs) 10:57, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: New research material here (BBC)

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:No Man's Land (disambiguation) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RMCD bot 09:32, 6 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move discussion in progress 

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Wikipedia talk:Disambiguation which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RMCD bot 20:01, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move discussion in progress 

message: I'm not an expert, but I would like to see disambiguation between DMZ and NML The only connection I see is reference to the Korean DMZ. Chris2crawford (talk) 04:29, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Demilitarized Zone