Talk:Narrowboat

message: Apparently there was a news story roughly fifty years ago about how children who grew up on the boats from birth had serious educational or cognitive deficits, which ended up being a kind of minor media scandal, and was sort of the beginning of the end of that way of life... AnonMoos (talk) 13:54, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: news story 50 years ago

message: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Welsh_Canal.jpeg
Saffron Blaze (talk) 02:52, 22 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hi-res image available 

message: Very little is covered about the history of the canals. The canal system was completed a short time before the explosive growth of the railways. The mobile-gang construction practices of canal building were adopted by the railway companies. They permanently employed very fit and skilled men rather than the temporary hiring of locals. They were all housed in mobile camps, along with their families. These gangs could work several times faster than locally hired men.
The canal companies were all soon bankrupted. They had spent decades building the canals, and just when it was pay day for them the railways took most of their custom. Trains were much faster, and could carry fragile and non-bulk cargo more cheaply. Even the Manchester canal, which allowed ships inland, was closed more often than open during C19.203.213.60.111 (talk) 02:18, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: This is an article about narrowboats and I think it does a reasonably good job of describing them. In its very first sentence it contains a link to History of the British canal system which seems a much more appropriate place for the information you want to see. In an encyclopaedia which runs entirely on hypertext links I can't see what is wrong with the current situation. With best wishes, DBaK (talk) 07:24, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: I would like to suggest adding an external link to the article:
A complete walk through of a historic working boat, with every detail explained, has been created as a virtual tour:
https://www.haraldjoergens.com/panoramas/bclm-swallow/files/ 
It shows narrow boat "Swallow" at the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley.  
The viewer can explore the boat from the outside, from three different angles, explaining all the features.
There is a view of the engine room (where the engine can be "started").
The boatman's cabin is shown in a day view and a night view, to show how the cross bed was used.
HaraldJoergens (talk) 07:58, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested external link 

message: The article currently says "" It then goes on to list various authorities who refer to modern boats as narrowboats.
The quoted sentence falls foul of WP:ATTRIBUTEPOV. Who are these "purists" how many of them are there and is their POV one worth noting given the more authoritative organisations listed in the next sentence. If it is a minority view for which a source can be found then it may be worth footnoting it. -- PBS (talk) 15:40, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed the term "purist" and replaced the sentence with the Oxford English Dictionary definition mentioning the the word "Narrowboat" as a replacement for "narrow boat" was first recorded in 1998 (about 20 years ago). -- PBS (talk) 13:54, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Purist 

message: I have replaced the lead with a summary of the sections in the body of the text as stated in WP:LEAD "The lead should stand on its own as a concise overview of the article's topic.". -- PBS (talk) 13:54, 15 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Lead

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