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John Jervis

As an admiral, John Jervis had a very large impact on the operations of the Portsmouth Block Mills, yet he is not mentioned anywhere in this article. -- Brothernight (talk) 20:23, 29 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Either the London Science Museum or National Maritime Museum had working models of this machinery, I still have the guide book published to accompany the models, I understand it is all in store somewhere, should be resurrected and put on display. 86.2.163.243 (talk) 23:30, 23 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

If you are sure you are right, edit the article to include the information citing your source. Nevertheless, the dockyards were run by the Navy Board under the supervision of the Admiralty, not directly by the Admiralty (as they were from the 1830s). Jarvis may well have approved of what was proposed, but that does not make him responsible for its creation. Peterkingiron (talk) 19:04, 24 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Comma after year

@Andy Dingley: Regarding this passage:

in 1808 130,000 blocks were produced

Normally, I'd put a comma after "in 1808" at the beginning of any sentence or (as in this case) a clause in a compound sentence. It matches the pacing of how the sentence would be read out loud, and reflects the fact that a prepositional phrase that modifies the verb has been moved all the way to before the subject of the sentence. For example, see how commas are used in "In 1979," and "In 2001," in Spotlight (film)#Plot and "In 1900," in Michelin Guide. In this case I think a comma is even more necessary because the next word is actually a number, and I found it particularly confusing to have them jammed up next to each other. -- Beland (talk) 17:11, 5 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I rephrased to move the numbers further apart, which seems like a better improvement. Beland (talk) 14:55, 8 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]