Talk:Silver Swan (automaton)

Disambiguation page

There needs to be a disambiguation page to distinguish between this and Silver Swan (music). —Preceding unsigned comment added by JLROSENB (talk • contribs) 16:46, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

There already is, and has been for a long time - you can check by clicking on "What links here" for the page (in left hand margin). It's at Silver Swan, but you also get there if you type Silver swan. It doesn't need to be at Silver Swan (disambiguation) because none of the uses is the "Primary Usage" which is used overwhelmingly more than any of the others, so the disambiguation page goes at the basic article name. Hope that helps clarify! PamD (talk) 17:24, 21 December 2009 (UTC)

Original dimensions

In 1773 James Cox obtained a Personal Act authorising him to dispose of his museum collection. An inventory was carried as an appendix to the Act. This is added as a reference in the article as it specified the original dimensions of the object, which otherwise (to this reader) appeared slightly surprising. The reference is given in the standard format for UK acts of Parliament (starting with the regnal year), but it doesn't actually have a formal short title. --217.155.32.221 (talk) 10:34, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

Perhaps, here in the context of a general international encyclopedia, it might be better to use a fuller version of the reference to benefit those unfamiliar with UK legal sources? PamD 12:46, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

Sorry, I see you've already done so! PamD 12:49, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

That's a good point; it is a bit obscure if you haven't come across it before. Unfortunately the actual, formal short title of the Act is (and not as I suggested above—I thought this was just rubric): "An Act for enabling James Cox, Jeweller, to dispose of his Museum, commonly called Cox’s Museum, by way of Chance, in such a manner as may be be most for the benefit of himself and his Creditors."--217.155.32.221 (talk) 15:54, 4 February 2017 (UTC)

Had to restore a WP:AGF deletion of this admittedly counter-intuitive material. Thanks to User:PamD's suggestion, it has a strong reference and drive-by editors should leave it alone.--217.155.32.221 (talk) 11:16, 1 September 2017 (UTC)