Talk:A. T. L. Covey-Crump

TID BITS
It's tid-bits not tit-bits. Get it right. God my life has no meaning.
 * In the UK, where the phrase originated, it’s tit-bits. This is a UK phrase for a UK subject so it is perfectly correct as tit-bit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.189.141.36 (talk) 07:56, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Also it is in a quotation and you NEVER change the spelling in quotations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.189.141.36 (talk) 07:59, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
 * The sic that has been added is redundant. It is perfectly proper as it is, so no 'explanation' of the spelling is required using a 'sic'. I am guessing it was added as an American had queried the spelling. But as it is correct British English, and a quotation, it needs no explanation. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.189.141.36 (talk) 08:31, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
 * 'Sic' is normally added when something in a quotation is misspelled or otherwise erroneous, to highlight the error and show that it hasn't resulted from the editing process. By adding sic you are suggesting that 'tit-bits' is erroneous, and it is not, it is perfectly correct. 86.189.141.36 (talk) 08:36, 27 July 2022 (UTC)

Please discuss before removing essential content
You may not know whether apparently random content is in fact essential, but I do not write random content. So please discuss on the talk page before removing content which is not a crime (e.g. not copyvio, offensiveness, or other illegal matter). Thank you for trying to help, but in this case we need the formal title of his father, because the father took himself seriously, and the son was writing a compendium of rather edgy Naval slang, which he was careful not to publish, even internally, until after his father's death. There is a tension here between decency and the correlation between the father's ancient language research and the content of the slang compendium, i.e. the likelihood that they were quietly collaborating. (A.T.L. Covey-Crump didn't study ancient languages; his father did). We cannot speak of those correlations without citation, but we can just give the father his full title, and other basic facts which are in no way joined by opinion/synthesis/conjunction, and no harm done. WP is supposed to be a potential first-stop for students and researchers, so it's worth giving them all the information that is available. WP rules require common sense. Storye book (talk) 13:37, 25 July 2022 (UTC)