Talk:Lionel Crabb

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Good article and timely updating with todays info. thanks !

I've created a references section with the footnote code to allow the existing Harvard style references to function and have reformatted the inline refs to aid readability. I'm coming around to the idea that inline refs screw up the format so much when they're used as frequently as they need to be, that either they should be placed at the end of the parargraph, or, better, generalised and placed in the references section, making them applicable to the whole article.

The article has the refs required banner, but I've always thought this is unhelpful in identifying the remaining unreferenced statements. Some editors just seem to love plastering banners about <g> ! -- John (Daytona2 · talk) 09:49, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

Inline references with correct <ref> code do not screw up readability, especially as they are put after sentences. The current policy favours putting <ref> code at the very end of sentences, after periods. Look at many of the prominent articles linked to from the main page.

References that are not directly referenced may stay at where they are now. Other editors might apply them more precisely to any current or future text. -Mardus 12:49, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

That's an assertive statement to make. I was unclear - I was referring to the edit window with lines of refs. mixed up with lines of text which I think is less clear than pure text. -- John (Daytona2 · talk) 19:58, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Theories are over, mystery is over, story is over, all over at BBC News.

Soviet combat driver decapitated Crabb when he tried to mine Khruchev's cruiser. The BBC News website has it all.

It is incredible how insane PM Eden became due to his amphethamine and morphine addiction. Trying to sink Khruschev in a british port with a mine? That would result in WWIII with H-bombs and mankind erased. That man was a lunatic, he thought Nasser is Hitler's reincarnation, so he orgainzed the disastrous tripartite agression on Suez, which almost caused atomic war against the USSR and sealed the fate of british empire might. -- 91.83.16.57 (talk) 20:15, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

It doesn't look "over" to me. That BBC page says "It's one of the great unsolved Cold War mysteries." Maproom (talk) 14:54, 13 December 2007 (UTC)