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"Titanic" or "The Titanic"?

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The former professional subeditor in me has long been a bit bothered by this. Is there a style guide for which term to use? It's extremely inconsistent throughout the article. 60.53.91.107 (talk) 06:18, 17 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Both the American and British inquiries into the disaster used the latter. Titanic, after all, is the ship's name, and I doubt any ship has "the" in its name. However, James Cameron's 1997 film used the ship's name without the definite article, and Cameron does not use the definite article in any interviews. On a Sea of Glass uses both "Titanic" and "the Titanic" interchangeably. I feel like we should simply use the ship's name for the sake of clarity and continuity. SSBelfastFanatic (talk) 21:11, 10 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 8 June 2024

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Change 'her voyage' to 'its voyage' for grammatical reasons and less ambuigity, as well as other her -> it changes SSsirena (talk) 22:22, 8 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

 Not done: See MOS:SHIP, Ships may be referred to using either neuter forms ("it", "its") or feminine forms ("she", "her", "hers"). Either usage is acceptable, but each article should be internally consistent and employ one or the other exclusively. '''[[User:CanonNi]]''' (talkcontribs) 00:19, 9 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Semi-protected edit request on 9 November 2024

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The numbers are incorrect, There were 712 survivors and 1,496 deaths, which is a total of 2,208 people on board. This has been confirmed by several sources more than the old numbers. 2603:9001:B01:9BAB:B4A8:85FF:FE91:5DBE (talk) 17:48, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

As explained in the article, different sources give different numbers. The sources are given in the article. DrKay (talk) 18:10, 9 November 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Move discussion in progress

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why?

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Why are you saying maritime when it was in Newfoundland waters? Newfoundland isn’t part of the maritime 2607:FEA8:FF01:5917:4570:A0BB:731A:26D7 (talk) 13:13, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Look up maritime in a dictionary. DrKay (talk) 13:57, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]