Talk:Derrick

Non-encyclopedic tone in two paragraphs
I suggest removing or heavily modifying the following:


 * Because of all these different requirements, done under high cost and time pressures, in almost any climate and virtually any place in the world, combined with the fact that the purpose is to find flammable or explosive fossil fuels, oil drilling is a complex and dangerous business.


 * The people who do this hard work do so under dangerous circumstances and often in considerable isolation, especially when on offshore drilling platforms."

Any comments? -- 85.179.162.97 (talk) 22:52, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

The entire section "Stülcken Derrick" reads very much as if it has come out of an automatic translation service. 93.189.156.99 (talk) 09:18, 17 January 2013 (UTC)

Redirect from Inspector Derrick
...is entirely inappropriate, and needs changing. Whoever devised it was obviously having a laugh. The mayor of Yurp (talk) 20:14, 14 August 2011 (UTC)

Godfrey Derrick
I have a book here that says "derrick" was named after the famous London hangman Godfrey Derrick. Unless Mr. Derrick went by both names, someone is wrong. I don't see any substantiation of "Godfrey", so I lean towards that being the incorrect one, but I still thought I'd mention the discrepancy. I also notice that sightings of him in older books seem to omit a first name entirely and simply refer to him as "Derrick". – JBarta (talk) 21:29, 25 December 2014 (UTC)


 * I also see Godfrey Derrick in a few books, but they don't have much details on the subject. Most entries on the search result go to Thomas Derrick. Some of those also have more details on his execution carrier including the execution of the Earl of Essex. So I think it is more credible to be Thomas Derrick. I also include here one source that I think it is interesting. It's from a collection of valid Scrabble words by The Association of British Scrabble Players in UK. Z22 (talk) 23:32, 25 December 2014 (UTC)

Derrick vs Drilling rig
Hello, I want to ask what is the difference between this page and Drilling rig? I see both pages are about oil drilling and why not just combine the two headings? Badak Jawa (talk) 12:38, 27 April 2023 (UTC)