Talk:Edmond Halley

An anonymous editor (LDS20) wants to change the places of birth and death from England to Kingdom of England. I find this both ridiculous and superfluous. Kingdom of England is a political entity, England is a geographical one. Ones place of birth/death is geographical, hence England not Kingdom of England. Are we going to go through hundred of thousands or even millions of Wikipedia articles changing places of birth/death to the relevant political entities, instead of geographical locations? Halley, of course provides another problem. When he died he no longer lived in the Kingdom of England, the Act of Union having taken place in 1707, He, however, still lived in the geographical location England! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thony C. (talk • contribs) 07:56, 2 November 2022 (UTC)

Nothing about me is anonymous. And I find it quite silly this notion of "geography". You can look at the info boxes for any other high-profile person be it a sports coach, politician, high profile murderer, and yes even scientists and it will have an appropriate link to the nation / political entity of birth and death. On no other occasion have I seen that (that I can think of) where it just says the geographic location (with exceptions to overlinking a specific link). An example being George Washington. His place of birth is linked appropriately to "Popes Creek, Virginia, British America" not the latter with no links and with an arbitrary location such as just "America". I find it just bizarre why there would be such resistance to a non-vandalizing addition such as what I've been attempting to add here to no avail. And yes, I will go through as many articles as I can fixing this because isn't that the point of this website? To provide as much relevant information as possible to the articles of this site? Or are we just cherry picking what makes the cut into an article now? LDS20 (talk) 23:35, 3 November 2022 (UTC)

I believe there is an error in the HALLEY INFOBOX. (Died 25 January 1742 [O.S. 14 January 1741] (aged 85) Greenwich, Kent, England) Shouldn't that be (Died 25 January 1742 [O.S. 14 January 1742] (aged 85)? DMc75771 (talk) 17:02, 14 October 2023 (UTC)

Vol.6 of Dictionary of Scientific Biography (1972) has Halley's birth date as 29 October 1656[?] and death date as 14 January 1743. What gives? DMc75771 (talk) 19:07, 26 October 2023 (UTC)

The length of sailing ship Paramuour is listed as 52 feet (16 m) 6 gun pink (sailship). For the voyages it performed (almost a year of sailing in the Atlantic a 16 m sailship would IMO be hard pressed to load all provisions for 20 people crew, and in HMS Paramour (1694) article lenghth is 64 feet 8 inches (19.71 m). I suppose 52 feet is a typo here, but did not yet clheck/verify by sources. Marjan Tomki SI (talk) 23:57, 10 January 2024 (UTC)

@Thony C.: See MOS:INSTITUTIONS and MOS:JOBTITLES. "Generic words for institutions, organizations, companies, etc., and rough descriptions of them (university, college, hospital, church, high school) do not take capitals:". So, "American Cancer Society", but "The society was founded ...". For a title such as "archbishop", capitalize when "is not preceded by a modifier (including a definite or indefinite article)". So, "He became Archbishop of York", but "He visited the archbishop of York in 1621". Chris the speller ^yack 14:59, 19 January 2026 (UTC)