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December 28

"Bunching Table" is not defined anywhere

... and yet online searches find that stores have ads for such tables, and the Post Office has "gazettes" that describe their specific use. I can't find an actual definition of the phrase anywhere, though there seems to be an implication of either a worktable where things are brought together, OR tables that can be brought together for a bigger workspace. But for Interior Design references, I don't see anything that really makes sense, yet it appears all interior designers would "know one if they saw one".

Any ideas? Or a definitive source?

Thanks, Starmusic3 (talk) 01:14, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

Could it be another name for a sorting table ? Those are used in various places, like the post office, to divide up items into bins, like by ZIP code: [1]. StuRat (talk) 01:26, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

This appears to be a term for tables that can be "bunched" together, for aesthetic appeal. Try googling "Bunching table", and include the quotation marks. Fiddlersmouth (talk) 02:08, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

Oldest living person in Ireland

Anyone know who the oldest living person in Ireland is since Margaret O'Connell has died on 20 December? There is no listed oldest living person on "Chronological list of the oldest living person in Ireland" in the list of Irish supercentenarians. Deaths in 2013 (talk) 02:39, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

You can ask on the talk page of Wikipedia:WikiProject World's Oldest People.

—Wavelength (talk) 03:28, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

There are some serious problems with that article. In the first place, more than half of it isn't about supercentenarians. In the second, the claim for Margaret O'Connell is not well sourced at all; the Irish Independent says the latest oldest Irish person was Luke Dolan, who died on November 10, 2014, aged 108.[2] Clarityfiend (talk) 05:19, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

List of world's largest airlines

Hi, I am searching for information about the worlds largest airlines. I found a very complete article from Wikipedia but the lists only shows the top 10 in each category. Is there a way I can find at least the top 20 in each category?

Thank you. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.114.104.65 (talk) 11:17, 28 December 2014 (UTC)

Google?

Simply copy-pasting your heading of "List of world's largest airlines" showed me things such as REVEALED: The world's 50 biggest airlines by capacity.

Of course, "largest" is a debatable term - there are a lot of ways to measure 'largest' such as the number of flights, number of passengers, weight of freight carried, etc. Igor the facetious xmas bunny (talk) 16:33, 28 December 2014 (UTC)