Wikipedia:Reference desk/Archives/Humanities/2018 May 27

= May 27 =

two charities working together
Did the American Red Cross and the Salvation Army work together in helping the sinking of the RMS Titanic survivors?2604:2000:7113:9D00:E4D9:AC7A:35DB:5EC2 (talk) 00:28, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
 * According to the ARC website: Helping the survivors was a coordinated effort involving several organizations on both sides of the Atlantic... (they don't mention which organizations, besides ARC). According to the following source, relief services were shared among Women's Relief Committee (WRC), the American Red Cross, and The Salvation Army:   The following might also be of interest:
 * —2606:A000:1126:4CA:0:98F2:CFF6:1782 (talk) 03:11, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
 * I doubt that either the American Red Cross or the Salvation Army helped sink the survivors of the Titanic. They may, however, have helped the survivors of the sinking.PiCo (talk) 08:07, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
 * That first remark was uncalled for. But the second remark is more to the point.2604:2000:7113:9D00:E489:B375:36EB:1AC5 (talk) 12:12, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
 * To clarify things for Pico (who has only been on Wikipedia for 13 years), you could have put quote marks around the link and/or changed it to just Titanic survivors. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 12:46, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Well the simplest solution would have been to move "survivors" in front of the article title and adding an 'of'. Putting a comma after helping and after the title would also have been clearer. Considering the question had already been answered by the time, this doesn't seem to be a big deal either way. Nil Einne (talk) 06:39, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Even simpler: disregard semantic nitpicking and respond to the obvious intent of the OP's query; after all, this purportedly is a "reference desk", not a Central Scrutinizer forum. —2606:A000:1126:4CA:0:98F2:CFF6:1782 (talk) 13:37, 28 May 2018 (UTC)
 * Wow, this is a lot of text to complain about a pretty good joke. --Golbez (talk) 17:22, 1 June 2018 (UTC)
 * Wow, this is a lot of text to complain about a pretty good joke. --Golbez (talk) 17:22, 1 June 2018 (UTC)