Talk:Gunpowder magazine

A fact from Gunpowder magazine appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 5 October 2007. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that after hundreds of years of construction and use, few gunpowder magazines remain in the United Kingdom as gunpowder has not been manufactured there since 1976?

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Ive tried to write a DYKnow hook for this, but its tricky. Lots of the stuff is from other places. There is some excellent ideas about the 1642 place... but no refs.

It could read

... that the 1642 Gunpowder magazine was built away from habitation but ironically very close to the last plant in the UK making gunpowder? Victuallers 21:03, 3 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Other places?

Were gunpowder magazines used exclusively in Britain? If so, it would be nice to have an explanation of why and what replaced them elsewhere; if not, then this article is quite incomplete. Rigadoun (talk) 17:52, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No. The article is very much incomplete.Pyrotec 14:21, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

If someone intends to expand this to the U.S., famous incidents involving gunpowder magazines early in the American Revolution include the Powder Alarm and the Gunpowder Incident. —Kevin Myers 23:02, 4 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I was intending to add a section on what is now the Republic of Ireland. I have no knowledge of the USA other than a bit of the early of history of du Pont at the Brandywine Creek. Can I suggest that Kevin, or someone else, adds the Powder Alarm and the Gunpowder Incident?Pyrotec 14:21, 6 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

There is a great article on a remaining, and still very much intact gunpowder magazine in Australia at [1] --Andygibbo (talk) 22:05, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Powder magazine vs. gunpowder magazine

Is a powder magazine the same as a gunpowder magazine or is a gunpowder magazine a type of powder magazine? Volcanoguy 22:29, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

"Powder" is just a common contraction of "gunpowder" (like "gas" is for "gasoline", "expo" for "exposition", etc.). Compare with powder horns, powder kegs, "keep your powder dry", etc. Morgan Riley (talk) 23:25, 2 November 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Polverista

@Andy Dingley and Anmccaff: The word "polverista" is used to refer to gunpowder magazines in the Maltese context in a number of English language sources, for example [2] [3] [4]. Xwejnusgozo (talk) 21:18, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

So what? This is the English language Wikipedia. We do not need to list all translations in the lead, we certainly don't need to cherry-pick one single translation and have that in the lead, rather than any others. Andy Dingley (talk) 21:20, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

@Andy Dingley: I repeat, the word is used in English language sources, not Maltese or Italian (in fact I have only seen the word used in English sentences even though it is originally derived from Italian). For example, in one of the sources that I gave above: "The polverista was built in the innermost part of the Grand Harbour at the coast's edge..." [5] If it is not included in the lead, it should at least be included somewhere in the article. Xwejnusgozo (talk) 22:05, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Such a term might belong in articles such as Grand Harbour, where that was a local name for it. But polverista [mt] just isn't relevant to a general encyclopedia article on the topic. We have interwiki links to corresponding articles on other language wikipedias, but this isn't a translation dictionary and especially there is no reason to give one translation but not others. Andy Dingley (talk) 23:51, 23 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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