User talk:Pas Meche

Hello, and welcome to wikipedia. Unfortunately I'm not here to give a very encouraging first post, but thank you for being here and taking an interest in wikipedia. I happened to take an interest in the article on 'cutty Sark' recently and noticed that you had changed all the references to the ship from 'she' to 'it'. The use of a female pronoun in English to refer to a ship, or indeed other large pieces of machinery such as steam engines, is a long established usage. Wikipedia policy, which I see you quoted in relation to another article about 'terra nova', recognises that ships are referred to as female and states this is entirely acceptable for wikipedia. English does not go in much for male or female pronouns when referring to objects, but this is one case where it does. Sandpiper (talk) 11:07, 8 April 2012 (UTC)