Talk:Bluebird K7

Past Tense

Should the article describe Bluebird in the past tense? The machine still exists after all, has been out of the lake for nearly a decade now, and is well on the way to being a fully functional hydroplane again. I know that most vessels, planes, cars etc that have been lost are refereed to in the past tense, but the restoration project makes Bluebird a special case. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.107.65.245 (talk) 22:00, 31 July 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Mr Whoppit

FYI Andy Dingley (talk) 23:52, 14 January 2014 (UTC)

Italics?

Should the name of the Bluebird be italicized, as with ships? Faceless Enemy (talk) 12:39, 12 October 2015 (UTC)

Yes. Its a name, same as. BrewsterBoy (talk) 21:20, 7 January 2017 (UTC)

Apparent copyvio

I noticed that much of the narrative in this article has errors and is in an unencyclopedic style. Searching on one phrase, I found this text, which is credited to Neil Sheppard and dated December 2011. It's first archived at the Wayback Machine here on August 11, 2013. From the WikiBlame search results, the edit introducing the text appears to have been this one on January 6, 2013, predating that archive, but I think we have to believe the "December 2011" and I see no indication that text is copyright-free. There are two footnotes to a History Press book by Sheppard, both broken, but the errors make it unlikely to be the same text, and the text overwrote a reference and does not appear to have been given its own reference. The edit was one of many in at least two long series by Sheppane; a complicating factor is that their user page suggests they are Neil Sheppard. I'm at work and may lose my connection or run out of downtime, so I'm documenting the links here before attempting to replace the account with an earlier version; there may be earlier copyvio and there are almost certainly subsequent improvements that need to be re-added. And it's possible that Sheppane is in a position to legally release the text to us, although it would need to be rewritten and have at the very least a reference to that 2011 page added. Yngvadottir (talk) 13:53, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

Unfortunately, I believe I have found copyvio also from this transcript of a BBC programme (which may in itself be copyvio). This edit on 26 November 2012 introduced text from there in two separate places. It's one of a series of edits by KW Mitchell. Again, the Wayback Machine first records the transcript at that site at a date later than the edit: 16 February 2014. The page as first crawled by the Internet Archive project didn't have the transcript, although the two immediately preceding crawls, in 2010 and 2011, weren't able to access the page at all. However, if this is an accurate transcript of the programme, it predates the edit here and whatever the actual source, is copyvio in the article. I will make an attempt to summarise and footnote it (I shall footnote it to the actual tv programme because I suspect the transcript I found online is copyvio). Judging from the results of my initial search, the Donald Campbell article and possibly others may also need attention. Yngvadottir (talk) 19:17, 19 February 2017 (UTC)

• Yngvadottir, thank you for your sleuthing. I have scrubbed the history back to the KW Mitchell edit--please let me know if I missed anything. Drmies (talk) 22:40, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

Commons files used on this page have been nominated for speedy deletion

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• Bluebird high speed image.jpg
• K7 Registration.jpg

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A Commons file used on this page has been nominated for deletion

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• Bluebird high speed image.jpg

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Restoration and future running -- edit war

There appears to be an edit war in progress in this article section between Agreementmade and Nosuchagreement regarding the topic of the section which may or may not involve this purported agreement. Both users have {{Uw-3rr}} notices on their user talk pages. Please discuss this here or elsewhere and work towards an agreement regarding what the article ought to say about this. Wtmitchell (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 14:22, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

The contract linked to above is the 2006 deed of gift, NOT the subsequent written agreement from 2013 that The Bluebird Project purport to have, but cannot/refuse to provide a source for. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nosuchagreement (talk • contribs) 15:17, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

33,300 miles per hour (53,600 km/h)

That's too fast. It can't be correct. 2603:8001:3300:693A:7DC9:B1FF:596D:EFE5 (talk) 02:22, 20 December 2022 (UTC)