Talk:Joseph Chamberlain

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[edit] Elan Valley Water

In the History of Birmingham article, it is suggested that the scheme to bring water to Birmingham from the Elan Valley in Wales was approved in 1891, long after Chamberlain's mayoralty. However, this article has stated for quite some time that Chamberlain was responsible for implementing this during his tenure as Mayor between 1873 and 1876. There is obviously a conflict here, and I am inclined to remove the information from this article.

InfectedWithRage 22:48, 29 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Length

Anyone else think this is a little long. Anyone willing to edit it down a bit?

Yes and NO WAAAAAAAY!!--Lacatosias 12:04, 14 January 2006 (UTC)

YES! Tthis is ridiculously long for what should be a brief encyclopedia biography. It appears someone has simply copied and pasted a very long (and boring) biography in from somewhere else. What we want is a brief description of his career, achievemnets etc., not this enormous nonsense. Megawattbulbman 15:46, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia is a depository of information and knowledge - this particular article is exceptionally detailed, more so than other biographical articles, and is a credit to the site. Wikipedia is criticised often enough without people wishing to reduce articles to suit those with painfully short attention spans. As long as the article is well written and organised with relevant headings, then I see no problem. ForeignMinister 09:00, 28 February 2006 (UTC)

This article should NOT be shortened. It is well written and full of detailed information- exactly the kind of article which should be a model for Wikipedia.

Good article. Could use more footnotes and references though. Bastie 19:10, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tropical diseases

He was also instrumental in recognising the need to treat tropical diseases, given that travellers and sailors were returning from abroad with "new" diseases". It is with his help to Patrick Manson that the world's first dedicated specialist hospital was set up (Albert Dock Seamen's Hospital) that would later be known as Hospital for Tropical Diseases that continues to this day. However where to insert this information ? The correct time-line point is in the middle of the discussion on various wars & international developments, so at the end under 'Legacy' ? David Ruben Talk 18:26, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

Yes, either in the 'Legacy' section or even the 'Colonial Secretary' section ought to be a good place. :) InfectedWithRage 18:03, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Error in an American title fixed.

Chamberlain's third American wife's father was "Secretary of War", not "Secretary of State for War"; that would be a British formation.

I also tweaked a couple of poorly phrased sentences and discarded an unnecessary reference/link to Washington DC. --Rich Rostrom 08:12, 9 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] No mention of the Highbury Hall article

I'm surprised that the internal link to Highbury Hall is not provided, and vice versa, that the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highbury_Hall page has no link to this article. Dglp (talk) 08:44, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Add a reference to G. K. Chesterton's "The Man Who Was Thursday"?

I think it would be fun and appropriate to add mention (References?) to the anarchists' use of "Mr. Joseph Chamberlain" as a password in Chapter II of "The Man Who Was Thursday" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Was_Thursday. G. K. Chesterton in fact editorializes a bit when he says "the crowd of Joseph Chamberlains (a solemn thought)"... Meneelyt (talk) 16:53, 3 April 2008 (UTC)