Talk:Ross Sea party

Shorten article?
I think this article is a bit too long and gives too much detail. After all, Wikipedia is meant to be an encyclopedia, and should state the important facts about a given topic, but not necessarily all facts available.

Passages like “''Wild, who had nursed the very weak Padre and Mack but had only some tea and Bovril cubes and 2 biscuits for food during that time. Seeing the others returning, Wild came out of the lonely tent and put on his harness to come help pull the sledge, an act that brought tears to Richards' eyes. Mackintosh was unable to stand up straight but crawled out to thank Joyce's party for saving their lives.''” seem a bit out of place here, as well as the style of writing used, which I think is appropriate for a book about the expedition but not for an encyclopedia article.

Nebogipfel 13:55, 18 January 2007 (UTC)


 * This comment relates to a superseded version of the article Brianboulton (talk) 14:47, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Article edited
The concerns above haven't been addressed in 10 months so I've decided to do it. The story-telling stuff, which is available in many expedition books, is being largely eliminated and important factual information added, also references & footnotes. The finished product may not be much shorter but should much more resemble an encyclopedia article. I don't like hacking someone's work about, but there has been plenty of time for the writer to respond, & he/she has not done so.

Brianboulton 00:50, 24th November 2007
 * Revision completed Brianboulton (talk) 00:31, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
 * Featured Article from 13 February 2008 Brianboulton (talk) 14:46, 19 February 2008 (UTC)

Featured article with grammar mistake?
I just saw this article as the featured article for September 23rd, 2009. As I was reading it, I noticed that in the second paragraph it states, "After their arrival the inexperienced party struggled to master the art of Antarctic travel, in the process losing most of their sledge dogs."

Sledge dogs? Shouldn't this be "sled dogs"? Maybe sledge is a term I'm not familiar with, but it seems it should really be sled. Also, shouldn't there be a comma, here: "After their arrival, the inexperienced..."

Seeing that it's a featured article, though, and I'm not really a subscribed member to Wikipedia, I didn't feel it was my place to make the change directly -- even though I think this is the point of Wikipedia. If someone more knowledgable could review this and correct it if needed, that would be great.

(Matt, Ohio, USA) 198.70.201.220 (talk) 14:58, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Sledge dog is used in British English, while sled dog is the American English term. This article is about a British expedition and is therefore written using British English. The comma is, in my opinion, a debateable case - certainly the sentence would work equally well with a comma, but I'm not sure it's a necessity. If you feel it should be in then by all means be bold and add it. Adacore (t·c) 16:26, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Sir Ernest used the words "sledge" and "sledging"in his account of this expedition. That ought to be enough.  And I'm sure you meant "grammar" vice "grammer."  Weepy.Moyer (talk) 17:40, 23 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the info. I agree that it makes sense to use sledge -- I have just never heard of it.  And does Wikipedia have a spell-checker?  I see that when typing this at home on my Mac, it uses the built in OS spell-checking, but I didn't see that it did on my Windows XP machine at work.  Still, I should have seen that one in the first place.  I've corrected it to 'grammar', but I didn't do anything to the main article.
 * As for the comma, the subject of the sentence would be "the inexperienced party", so therefore "After their arrival" is a prepositional phrase, and should be separated from the subject by a comma. But these are the rules I learned in America, and this may possibly be different in the UK.  Following the same logic as above, I will not change the article from it's current syntax.  (And thanks for the tip, Adacore!  I didn't know putting a colon  in at the beginning indented the text!  And by the way, I have edited many articles, including an almost total grammar/syntax cleanup on the article about Panama, and occasionally try looking up random articles to find a stub, then add any information I can find to help the entry.  It might be cool to have a "stub of the day" on the main page that would highlight entries that need more info.)  Matt 99.164.123.93 (talk) 23:12, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Actually, now that I think about it, I'm going to make "sledge dogs" a link in this article. That way, people like me can quickly find out that it's the same as a sled dog!  Matt 99.164.123.93 (talk) 23:16, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
 * I too have noticed that British English in general tends toward not using a comma after prepositional phrases. Nothing wrong with that, although I personally prefer the American style because a) I'm used to it, being American, and b) it reads more naturally to me. However, Wikipedia's guidelines say not to change styles when the existing one is acceptable. Dabomb87 (talk) 04:04, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Melville also used the word 'sledge' in Moby-Dick. Weepy.Moyer (talk) 17:44, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

Possible additional external link
Hi, I moderate Culture Victoria. We have The Ross Sea Party story in CV which was created by the State Library of Victoria and includes images compiled by Keith Jack during their time in Antarctica, as well as high resolution images and trasncripts of Jack's diaries. I've had a look at the guidelines for adding external links and thought that a link to CV would be relevant and appropriate. Please let me know what you think.Eleworth (talk) 04:19, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
 * ✅ -- Zsero (talk) 14:08, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Also a magnificent band
The Ross Sea Party is also the name of a band. http://www.myspace.com/therossseaparty http://therossseaparty.bandcamp.com/

I have no affiliation with them, just like the music and think they should be recognized on wikipedia for it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.173.227.44 (talk) 02:13, 24 February 2011 (UTC)

animal cruelty
the dogs had no choice but to be killed for mans vanity. so glad so many men died — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.58.188.126 (talk) 06:41, 29 December 2013 (UTC)


 * yes should be mentioned in main article, men could choose,fate, dogs were treawte4d like S^&*T

for what, Pride not science, — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.190.34.142 (talk) 17:52, 14 March 2022 (UTC)