Talk:Hobnail

1984

The actual quote is "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever." I have no idea where 70.24.10.146 got their quote, but it's not right, it's not attributed, and I'm taking it out. Emoticon (talk) 18:54, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Deletion

Two things were removed from the article. The first was a remark about characters being described as wearing hobnail boots to indicate toughness. This is textbook original research, and has no place in an article.

The second was a long list of utterly trivial mentions of hobnail and hobnail boots. None of these has any importance whatsoever, and their presence adds nothing to an encyclopedic treatment of the subject. It's a a mixed bag of characters that wear such boots (is it worth mentioning that a character wears a hat in the hat article? Of course not), and mere mentions of the word. I am aghast that these have persisted so long. Mintrick (talk) 05:57, 14 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Walter Hunt's invention

The ref is http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/2012/08/bdn_20120801_1428.mp3 , which is a 3-and-a-bit-minute audio (no video) mostly about Walter Hunt inventing safety pins. It says briefly in passing that he "invented hobnails for boots", not that "he invented hobnailed boots"; but people were putting hobnails or similar on footwear long before that. Perhaps he invented a new shape of hobnail? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 08:58, 21 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]