Talk:New Mill, Cross in Hand
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A fact from New Mill, Cross in Hand appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 12 May 2008. |
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[edit] Move
Should be moved to New Mill, Cross-in-Hand. Jooler (talk) 22:24, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
- I've created that as a redirection to the article, the village can be spelled with or without hyphens. Mjroots (talk) 04:41, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Do windmills have a gender?
Originally this article referred the windmill in the feminine. It is often traditional to call certain things (notably ships) in the feminine. However, I didn't think this was formal or appropriate for an encyclopedia.
As a test however, it seems the HMS Victory is referred to in the feminine in its wikipedia article, but I'm not sure the convention is as widely recognized in windmills. If you look at windmills off the list of windmills, the dozen or so large sample I looked at entirely referred to windmills as "it" and not "she" or "her".
So it seems that referring to windmills as genderless is the current standard of wikipedia, which I think trumps a grammatical/"formal language" debate. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.240.227.56 (talk) 03:03, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
