Talk:Dungeness

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Opening heading[edit]

"It also featured in an episode of the the BBC detective serial 'the inspector linley mysteries'. One glitch, saw a thrilling chase startnear the nuclear power station and end with the bad guy beig caught by the policeman on a sand dune; the chase was poorly represented on screen as it must have gone on for some time, the nearest dunes are at Camber 8 miles away."

This supposed glitch sounds a lot more like an example of poetic licence and should probably be removed. At any rate, I'm sure the place has been on TV many times, and pointing out examples of scene discontinuity is hardly what wp is about. At the very least, the spelling and grammar need cleaned up.86.0.203.120 01:51, 1 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]



"The most famous house in Dungeness is the cottage formerly owned by the late artist and film director Derek Jarman."

Perhaps it may be more appropriate that the 'Rubber House' be added into this Dungeness article as the current titleholder?

This article[edit]

This article begins with a completely erroneous statement that "Dungeness is a village ..." It isn't - it's only the furthest point to which the Denge Beach reaches into the English Channel. OS map Sheet 189 shows this perfectly clearly. What is there is what is said later on - a collection of huts and wooden shacks along the coast as far as The Pilot public house, and few more down towards the end. If we want to write about Dungeness, then it should be only as part of the Romney Marsh article - since that is what it is. If people want to say they live at Dungeness, they can, but it doesn't make the place any more than a scattered settlement. (See the Wikipedia article village by the way.)

It is the logical extension of the fact that the marsh was drained and it then caused the tidal action along the south coast to start depositing shingle ... and more shingle. The sea-bed contours drop very steeply off the end of Dungeness, so that shipping down the Channel passes very close by.

It may be 'logical' in a 'Dan Brown' sort of way, but it ain't science. Please follow the link to the University of Liverpool website in the main article. Romney Marsh only exists because of the protection offered by the shingle headland.

The Landscape[edit]

"An excellent interactive website", and arguably "the serene other-worldliness of Dungeness", violate neutral point-of-view. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.20.6.38 (talk) 00:06, 20 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well that may be your point of view...

but "the serene other-worldliness of Dungeness" is hard to dispute, if you have ever been there, but then i suppose first hand experience is simply yet another point of view. ho hum - why is it so infuriating watching such dogmatic pedantry pouring over the contradictory tenet that objective fact can be even achieved let alone described, using words, as prose, in a way that serves any useful purpose. we sometimes greatly confuse fact and truth here dont we... 01:18, 13 September 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.107.147.216 (talk)

Desert[edit]

The citation for "classified as a desert by the MET Office" goes to an article in the Telegraph where the MET Office isn't mentioned once. Not only that, but the MET Office reports 700mm of rain in Dungeness last year, well in excess of what anyone would call "dry". Is the "desert" claim not an urban myth spread by the fact that, as a shingle beach, Dungeness has few plants? 80.254.158.92 (talk) 12:17, 10 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like the Met Office explicitly told the Guardian that Dungeness is not in fact a desert[1] so I'm going to remove that claim from the piece now. 80.254.158.92 (talk) 13:53, 10 August 2015 (UTC)[reply]

References

  1. ^ http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/aug/10/britains-only-desert-goes-on-sale-for-15m-dungeness-estate?CMP=share_btn_tw

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Requested move 4 February 2020[edit]

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: Pages moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) Jerm (talk) 15:47, 11 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

– The headland in Kent looks like the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC for the single-word search term "Dungeness". Traffic stats ([1]) show it to be getting more readers than the other articles about a thing called "Dungeness" (a place and a mansion in the US, and a 2018 album) combined. It also dominates in the numbers of incoming wiki links. Lord Belbury (talk) 14:55, 4 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]

  • Support - for reasons as given above - chris_j_wood (talk) 15:18, 4 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support - seems clear to me. -- DeFacto (talk). 21:14, 4 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support. Clear primary topic. -- Necrothesp (talk) 13:23, 5 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support, well known, and not just in the UK - most of the articles in other languages are just for "Dungeness" --Pfold (talk) 14:10, 5 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support, As an American, I am shocked to discover the Dungeness, Washington is not primary.[2] Colin Gerhard (talk) 09:08, 7 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  • Support per nom. It's better to look at page views monthly over the longer term [3]. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 17:58, 7 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
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