Talk:Lawrence Oates

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His family is ancient? Everyone's family is ancient...[edit]

His family is ancient? Everyone's family is ancient... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.232.16.22 (talk) 05:46, 9 October 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Ancient, in the sense, one imagines, that the lineage can actually be traced back a considerable way. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.109.219.116 (talk) 22:04, 20 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Temperature Conversion Problem[edit]

The article states Oates died at -40 F, and uses the {{convert}} to produce the equivalent Celsius figure. However, the presented result is -40 F (-40 C), which is incorrect. The actual Celsius should be approx 4.5C. What was the correct measured temperature at the time of his death? What is wrong with the convert function when presented with negative values? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Regicide1649 (talk • contribs) 22:44, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

-40 degrees F is -40 Celsius, so I don't see what your problem is. DuncanHill (talk) 23:29, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

images[edit]

Which of these images looks better? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 21:23, 19 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Well, at thumbnail size there's only the slightest perceptible difference. On closeup, "original" manifests the texture of the canvas, whereas "new" seems to smooth that out. All things being equal I prefer something true to the original, especially since there's nothing explaining the smoothing process. EEng 00:11, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]
- 'current' is scanned from a book (as indeed 'new' may be), so I wouldn't make assumptions about its fidelity to the oil-on-canvass object. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 11:16, 20 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Reference A? (Eton College Times)[edit]

This reference is used extensively but, although probably useful, it is likely to be primary. In addition, we cannot even see it to check, with no link provided. Is anybody able to help? Ideally it should be in External links, not References. Roger 8 Roger (talk) 23:04, 9 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Conflicting date of death[edit]

This article lists his date of death as the 17th, yet is clear that Scot, writing on the 16th or 17th wrote the it was "yesterday", so the 15th or 16th. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.74.164.43 (talk) 19:31, 21 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]

I have changed it to the 16th and referenced the ODNB. DuncanHill (talk) 23:01, 21 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]