The problem with Wikipedia

The description of the physical properties of Birds Custard (which I’m eating as I write this)…

You know, people would probably say “yellow and gloopy”.

Wikipedia says:

Though cooked custard is a weak gel, viscous and thixotropic, a suspension of uncooked custard powder (starch) in water, with the proper proportions, has the opposite rheological property: it is negative thixotropic, or dilatant, which is to say that it becomes more viscous when under pressure. This suspension is sometimes termed oobleck and often used in science demonstrations of non-Newtonian fluids.

I prefer yellow and gloopy.

This suspension is sometimes termed oobleck

I’d say ooh-heck as well. You make it with milk, not water!

it becomes more viscous when under pressure

Just like management.

it becomes more viscous when under pressure
bq.
Just like management.

Can’t get nested quotes to work…

Viscous as in thick, or vicious as in nasty – or both ;-)

Viscous as in thick and nasty. But well done for spotting the play with words. ;-)

Can’t get nested quotes to work

You’ll be wanting to use the < blockquote> < blockquote> form rather than the bq dot
Basically HTML style and close off with a < /blockquote> at each level

I was just reading something else on Wikipedia. It states that a particular object is 5.75" (150 mm) wide. It seemed that 150 was a very round number so I pulled out the calculator… 5.75 * 25.4 = 146.05.

So, which figure is correct? The inches or the millimetres? Fortunately they’d linked the device’s actual specifications… which are defined in metric and list the width as 146.05 mm. So the Wikipedia page is just plain wrong.

So the Wikipedia page is just plain wrong.

Probably somebody rounded it up to a whole number as “close enough”.

Change it. Point to the correct size in the change annotation. See if the change sticks… ;-)

See if the change sticks…

Historically the chances were low, but I’m told many of the opinionated (and wrong) “authors” are just that – history.

I would still be inclined to look for other sources and especially not the cited sources.

Last week I was looking at the entry for Edmund Drake, father of Francis. It states there that he was the Vicar at Upnor, on the Medway in Kent, whereas I know from the plaque in the church at Upchurch, also on (just about) the Medway in Kent that he was the vicar there – not at Upnor. One of the local roads there is named Drake’s Close in his honour. Seems Edmund was a bit of a rogue, reading up on life before becoming a vicar.

Seems Edmund was a bit of a rogue

Ran in the family, then. This is not surprising; more likely (imnsho) learned from parents than inherited genetically, but the end result is the same anyway.

t states there that he was the Vicar at Upnor, on the Medway in Kent, whereas I know from the plaque in the church at Upchurch, also on (just about) the Medway in Kent that he was the vicar there – not at Upnor.

Isn’t there certain amount of time difference to consider anyway?
I think the records show the church at Upnor as being built in the 1880’s and thus a bit late for Drake to have been near in his lifetime or even his grandchildren’s lifetime.

There is of course the situation that many parishes had floating¹ clergy doing the rounds of several parishes.

¹ Literally in some cases – various places in Cambridgeshire and the Fens had clergy that made their rounds on small water vessels and even preached from them.

Upchurch is just off the mouth of the Medway and Upnor is way further upstream – probably not ‘commuting/communing’ distance.

Upchurch is just off the mouth of the Medway and Upnor is way further upstream – probably not ‘commuting/communing’ distance.

Which may not actually be relevant except to not where he settled since the sketchy information about his life seems to say that he was a preacher as of 1539 but the records for Upchurch show him as vicar in 1560 -1567 so you have 20+ years to account for in which the role of a travelling preacher could have been his role.
Check the Bishops records (and parish records_may_ exist pre-ER 1) held at the county records office(sometimes online) and look for evidence of Drake doing baptisms at churches in the area