Talk:Skerton Bridge
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Latest comment: 14 years ago by I Jethrobot in topic Large is vague
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A fact from Skerton Bridge appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 12 December 2011. The text of the entry was as follows:
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Large is vague
[edit]I have deleted the vague template because I do not see that it serves any sensible purpose. Anyone can understand that a small bridge will cross, say, a small stream, but it would take a large bridge to cross the River Lune at Lancaster. There is no way in which "small", "medium", "large" etc can be quantified (is there?). I used the specific word "large" because that is the word used in two of the cited sources, the Buildings of England series, and the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Good enough for them!) --Peter I. Vardy (talk) 13:50, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
- Okay. I did take a brief look through the sources (that I was able to access) at the time, namely this one for sentences describing the bridge as particularly large, but I didn't find any. Based on the photo and the fact that it is called as such in the other sources you mentioned above, I think it's fine. It just caught my attention at the time. I, Jethrobot drop me a line (note: not a bot!) 17:15, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
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