Talk:British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company

British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company has been listed as one of the Engineering and technology good articles under the good article criteria. If you can improve it further, please do so. If it no longer meets these criteria, you can reassess it. Review: September 11, 2019. (Reviewed version).

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A fact from British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 27 February 2019 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the first attempt of the British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company to lay a submarine telegraph cable to Ireland failed because the cable would not reach that far? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2019/February. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company.

The redlinked William Henry Woodhouse mentioned in this article may be notable enough for his own article. See Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, p. 18, 1865. SpinningSpark 22:47, 26 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Davidships: I've restored the claim that Britannia was a cattle ship. This does not just come from Haigh, it is also in the Willoughby Smith source. Smith worked for the Gutta Percha Company and was actively involved in this project so I would consider him reliable on this. Also, it may be coincidence, but Smith comes from Great Yarmouth, which conceivably has something to do with the confusion in Haigh. SpinningSpark 09:46, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

That's good, re cattle ship (as I said in the earlier discussion, it seems credible, but I did not find any new sources to support it). Davidships (talk) 09:58, 27 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]

An IP tagged the claim that the system works electromagnetically without batteries with {{

Another description in Shaffner, which is TLDR. SpinningSpark 15:32, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I would like to use the {{cite book}} template (and similar ones if needed) throughout this section, as the style currently used is not consistent enough for GA. Amitchell125 (talk) 15:19, 08 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The cite templates are the worst thing ever conceived on Wikipedia. What exactly is supposed not to be consistent? And where exactly does it say in the GA criteria that the bibliography needs to be consistent? I don't dispute that consistency is a good idea, but you cannot justify a change to your preferred style by invoking GA requirements. SpinningSpark 16:33, 8 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

OK looking at

WP:CITECONSENSUS, you are clearly quite right, and I'm looking at it merely from a reviewer's angle. Happy not to add the templates! However, I will need the section to be copy-edited where needed, and I can help improve the section by adding information if I find it (e.g. links to authors), providing urls and access templates. Amitchell125 (talk) 18:06, 08 September 2019 (UTC)[reply

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