Talk:Charles Verity

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A fact from Charles Verity appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 June 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Claude Hamilton Verity, a grandson of Doncaster mayor Charles Verity, was an early pioneer of the synchronisation of sound with silent films?

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Civil engineer

@Qwirkle: Please would you kindly let me know your grounds for saying that Charles Verity was not a civil engineer? As I understand it, civil engineers build viaducts and bridges, which is what Verity did. He did that unsupervised, in that he was given contracts to build bridges and viaducts independently. So how can he not be a civil engineer? Storye book (talk) 14:26, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Qwirkle: Why have you tagged the article as OR, without giving any evidence for that? Why have you directed the reader to the talk page for an explanation of your tag, although have put no explanation here, when I asked for it? The article is fully sourced. Why have you said it is not sourced? Storye book (talk) 16:04, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Qwirkle: You have reverted my edits on Fred Verity and on Charles Verity three times within 24 hours, and without explanations on the talk page (when those explanations were requested serveral times).. You have declared that there were no citations when there were citations. You removed one of those citations, an authoritative newspaper report. That is edit warring. Please stop. Storye book (talk) 16:14, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

When you find credible sources which agree with you, by all means add them. In the meantime, do not change an article to reflect your own beliefs.

In particular, note that a “disputed” tag should not be removed until a dispute is resolved. Qwirkle (talk) 16:29, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That was a credible source. There are several sources that he built that viaduct. What is your problem with a 19th-century British newspaper as a credible source? Storye book (talk) 16:32, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Gentle Reader, please look at the “cite” provided and ask what the “Mexborough and Swinton Times” has to do with the subject. Qwirkle (talk) 17:15, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

That news article has everything to do with the subject. It says he built bridges over water, four miles of railway, and a major viaduct. That's engineering. Storye book (talk) 19:11, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Gentle Reader, consider all of this logorhea about something supposedly blindingly obvious, and yet not a single source. Qwirkle (talk) 21:01, 15 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

It does not help your cause to accuse me of mental illness. It also does not help your cause to deny the existence of the source. If you are going to insult me and lie about the source, then I shall have to ignore you. Storye book (talk) 08:08, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Gentle Reader, look at the article, and at SB’s apologia for it at her talk page, and consider whether the words “verbose,” “wordy,” ”bloated, and yea, even unto ”logorheic” don’t come to mind.

Then look at the “source” offered and ask just who is lying.Qwirkle (talk) 15:47, 16 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]