May 27
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)[reply]
- According to the ARC website: Helping the survivors was a coordinated effort involving several organizations on both sides of the Atlantic...[1] (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: [2] The following might also be of interest:
- —2606:A000:1126:4CA:0:98F2:CFF6:1782 (talk) 03:11, 27 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
- 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)[reply]
- 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)[reply]
- 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)[reply]
- 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)[reply]
- 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)[reply]
- Wow, this is a lot of text to complain about a pretty good joke. --Golbez (talk) 17:22, 1 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]