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Talk:Walter Aston, 1st Lord Aston of Forfar

message: it is a fact that:
In 1611, after paying a fee of £1095 sir Walter was created Baronet of Tixall.
However what follows is I think speculation:
However where I am location the source by Charles Mayo is is only viewable under Google Books in snipit format, so my searches of the text have not turned up any text to support the claim. If such text exists in the book please quote it here to prove the the assertion and the facts in the above quote are supported by the source. -- PBS (talk) 15:43, 26 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The sources is available on the internet archive site here. The name of Aston is not mentioned in the book. -- PBS (talk) 17:47, 2 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Particularly significant for the Aston family
Talk:Robert Grosvenor, 5th Duke of Westminster

message: *My memory seems to be failing me here, and I can't seem to find a definitive answer; he was UUP MP at Westminster, but was he simultaneously a Senator in Stormont? --Counter-revolutionary (talk) 13:03, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, he was style Lord Robert prior to inheriting the dukedom, presumably he got a Warrant of Precedence, as his father wasn't a Duke. --Counter-revolutionary (talk) 11:34, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  UUP MP
Talk:Turkish straits

message: == Not a dab page ==
I've changed this page from a disambiguation page to something more like a summary page for the two main articles Bosporus and Dardanelles. I think it wasn't really a dab page. When somebody says "Turkish Straits", they don't mean to refer to either the Bosporus or the Dardanelles, so there's no need to sort that out for them; they refer to both together. Fut.Perf. ☼ 06:19, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Perfect :) 82.230.24.185 (talk) 23:47, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: I've changed this page from a disambiguation page to something more like a summary page for the two main articles Bosporus and Dardanelles. I think it wasn't really a dab page. When somebody says "Turkish Straits", they don't mean to refer to either the Bosporus or the Dardanelles, so there's no need to sort that out for them; they refer to both together. Fut.Perf. ☼ 06:19, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Perfect :) 82.230.24.185 (talk) 23:47, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not a dab page 

message: Rather than factoring out "Straits question" into its own article, which would be a large artice and considering that many (not all) of the relevant articles already exist, I am adding a navigation template so that users can easily switch between pages that are related to this question.Selfstudier (talk) 09:28, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added Nav Box
Talk:St Benedict's School, Ealing

message: Further to Lord Carlile of Berriew QC commissioning, notices have been placed in local newspapers  announcing a 'Call for Evidence'. How these notices  will come to the attention of  people who may have moved away I don't know. There are no web citations (other than this at the end) to be found, so I  am not going to add this info just yet, but if anybody elsr finds better citations they can then think about adding it to the article.  --Aspro (talk) 17:07, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Call for Evidence

message: Placed this in its own section--Mongreilf (talk) 17:38, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  sex abuse 

message: Much of the article reads like a school prospectus, especially the section on ethos that relies entirely on a single report from the Independent School's Inspectorate report of 2010. Either include and greater range of citations or remove unsubstantiated and / or biased content.  31.185.217.160 (talk) 14:07, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree totally. I have previously removed this "marketing puff" from the article, but it keeps re-appearing. See my notes at User talk:Nhallisey. These are not objective facts, mere assertions. --The Sage of Stamford (talk) 21:13, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I have now substantially edited to make the article more factual and to take away the promotional tone. I believe that it is now sufficiently neutral and have therefore removed the tag.--The Sage of Stamford (talk) 20:29, 11 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Article neutrality

message: The list of old boys seems to not only have more members than the category, but also to contain far more detail for some of them than is necessary. I propose trimming it substantially, both by removing some of the less well-known old boys, and trimming the descriptions of those that remain. There should also be references for every member of the list. DuncanHill (talk) 22:34, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of old boys
Talk:Religion in Switzerland

message: Good job. What's the bit about Appenzell? I can only presume that this refers to the religiously motivated split in 1597 into Appenzell Innerrhoden (Catholic) and Appenzell Ausserrhoden (Protestant). But see  (in 1930, some 14% of the population of AR were Catholic; but only about 4.5% in AI were Protestant). I haven't found any current figures. Does anyone have access to the Statistisches Lexikon? (Combining the 1,200 from  with the 15,000 from , I arrive at about 8% Protestants in AI in 2006.)
See also Volkszählung 2000 for a source for the percentages given in the article. Lupo 15:56, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Appenzell

message: There are books that talk about a religious persecution of Catholics that occured during the 1870s period, at the end of the pontificate of Pius IX. It is sometimes described as the Swiss equivalent of the Kulturkampf. When you read Pius' encyclicals, he appears to indicate that the persecution was Masonic in nature. This could perhaps be mentioned in the article, along with appropriate sources of course.  ADM (talk) 01:01, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Religious persecution in the 1870s
Talk:Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster

message: According to Leigh Rayment and to Wikipedia's List of Historical Privy Counsellors, he was never a Privy Counsellor.
:True: it's not in the London Gazette either, so references to it deleted.--Peter I. Vardy (talk) 21:02, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Privy Counsellor
Talk:Architecture parlante

message: Re: University of Cincinnati podcast entitled Architecture Parlante: I'm confused as to why something that uses this term as its title isn't relevant. There are thousands of such references in wikipedia articles on many different terms. The podcast doesn't meet wikipedia's notoriety standard for its own article, but I don't know why it doesn't deserve mention at all. I tried to add it to the bottom of the article (due to the relative unimportance of the information), but I wasn't sure how to keep it from seeming part of the last section of the article, within which it doesn't belong.
noktulo 15:25, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Catskill Mountain Railway

message: Elijah Otis or Elisha Otis?
Simplulo 09:11, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who? 
Talk:1918 Sinn Féin election manifesto

message: I thought this seminal document should be in somewhere in wikipedia. Did it promise too much? Could its candidates realistically hope to be represented at Versailles, while at the same time fighting with one of the victors? Should a non-violent route have been pursued, at least until after Versailles? Could its terms have ever been acceptable to unionists in Ulster? These are the imponderables of historyStamboul 15:59, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion 

message: Would the text of this not be more suite to wikisource?
Iain3217 (talk) 12:29, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copy To Wikisource?
Talk:Simonds d'Ewes

message: Could the Middle Temple date 1611 be 1621? Charles Matthews 16:25, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Not sure how helpful it is in an article on a 17th century individual to show a photo of a house built in 1859...? 80.70.54.6 (talk) 13:30, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo
Talk:Thomas Belasyse, 1st Earl Fauconberg

message: An edit on Revision as of 15:00, 10 February 2010 by user:Poshjohn (a one edit account) cited the website www.bellasis.net. I am not sure it is reliable, as it does not cite its sources, but I have used it to mark sentences in the article that are on that website but not in the other cited sources. I will leave it to other editors to decide if the website is reliable:
*Thomas BELASYSE Viscount Fauconberg was born in 1627. He died on 31 Dec 1700
*Footnote 99. Thomas BELASYSE Viscount Fauconberg
There seems to be other information in this article that is not sourced came via this merger from Lord Falconbridge, and the initial creator of the Lord Falconbridge did not cite any sources.
-PBS (talk) 10:31, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: As can be seen in the edit history of the article I found several sources that showed that  www.bellais.net does not have the information about Belaseyse's first wife correct. Yes he did have a first wife but her her name was "Mildred" not Nichola, a transcription mistake as her father was Nicholas Saunderson, 2nd Viscount Castleton. -- PBS (talk) 00:55, 7 March 2010 (UTC)

text: I've found a reliable source for the translation claim: the article "Abraham Nicolas Amelot de la Houssaye" in the Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, so I am removing the  www.bellasis.net source from the article. -- PBS (talk) 09:07, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  www.bellasis.net 
Talk:Christian Jürgensen Thomsen

message: Bottom line: poor.
However, the picture is very nice. The article is poor because, first the English is not very good. Second, the archaeology is incomprehensible. Just because you are Danish does not make you an archaeologist. Third, there is little biography.
As a fourth point, this article was duplicated word for word in the Three-Age System article. I did not know that. I rewrote that article - am still rewriting - but had I known of this straight copy I would have been more severe on the other. I think now I will go back and change that section even more. Anyway it would be a shame not to have an article that does not live up to the fine picture. The light of knowledge shines from his eyes. I am not going to do this however as my time is limited. I encourage you to excellence. Onward and upward!Dave (talk) 19:30, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: You really are a smug asshole WP:DICK. And yes this is itself a personal attackDick move, but you have worked hard to deserve it. You can have the article to yourself, I'll go to great lengths not to have to interact with you in the future. It is off my watchlist. Happy editing.·Maunus·ƛ· 21:22, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Quality of article
Talk:Nicolas Mahudel

message: This article is like a machine translation, it dos not resemble Mahudel very much. Dates are 1673-1747. Born at Langres. Physician and antiquary. WHAT work did you say he wrote in 1734? I'd do it myself but I'm busy elsewhere.Dave (talk) 03:48, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: bot's don't write articles, only people do

message: the title is wrong, since Mahudel was French, his true name was Nicolas, without "h".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lele giannoni (talk • contribs) 16:23, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Title
Talk:William Borlase

message: Now much information has been added it would be worth checking this against the OxfordDNB article----Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 07:46, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Article expanded

message: Is this the same "Dr Borlase" who persecuted the methodists?  (See John Wesley's Journal) Roger Pearse (talk) 18:19, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Could be - the ODNB has the following "In the summers of 1744 and 1745 he came into conflict with John Wesley, who was successfully recruiting many of Borlase's parishioners to Methodism, and in his capacity as a magistrate he summoned Wesley before the local court." DuncanHill (talk) 18:27, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Can't remember the source but Wesley escaped the press gang because he was a gentleman. Some of his companions were not so lucky. Jowaninpensans (talk) 14:24, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Methodism
Talk:Walley Barnes

message: Perhaps Wally visited many schools to give coaching time to the team footballers at those schools. This is something of an unknown, but he did visit what was then known as Cormont Road Seconday School in Lambeth,London. (the school was opposite Myatts Fields) to show us boys where to place the ball when scoring. The idea was to hit the four corners marked out on a high brick wall which contained a painted goal, the wall was at the back of the school playground separating the school from the properties around. I remember his visit,but not the date although it would have been 1953 to 1955.
Perhaps others remember this.  (Originally posted to article  on 01:02, 18 April 2011 by User:92.21.167.218) Daemonic Kangaroo (talk) 05:04, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Query
Talk:Cantor cube

message: The Cantor cube 2^\omega can be given a topology where its not zero dimensional (the natural topology on the reals, of course, giving you a one-dimensional space). This article, as well as the Cantor space article, fail to discuss the topology imposed on the set: its zero dim only if the discrete topology is used. 
Similarly, giving  2^1=\{0,1\} the topology \{\{0\},\{0,1\}\} makes it not Hausdorf (and not discrete). These issues should be clarified as otherwise its misleading. 
Similarly, a discussion of topology w.r.t. group operations is required. For example, I have no clue what the group structure is intended for 2^1=\{0,1\} if the topology \{\{0\},\{0,1\}\} is intended, since clearly, this topology is incompatible with the permutation of two objects... linas 16:03, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm certain the product topology is meant; I can't honestly recall what the source says, but it makes sense. I'm also pretty sure that I wouldn't have misstated Schepin's theorem by leaving out a restriction on the zero-dimensionality of the spaces. So I'll just slide that in... Melchoir 19:05, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, OK, it'll do for now; I've been reading literature in ergodic theory that is remarkably sloppy in this way; its irritating, on the one hand, but also good, because it gives me something to work on :-) linas 04:08, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, maybe you can add something later on! Especially if you figure out where precisely the Hausdorff condition goes, speaking of sloppiness... Melchoir 04:32, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Dimension
Talk:Ilkurlka Community, Western Australia

message: The website for this location is https://www.ilkurlka.org.au, which suggested that Ilkurlka is preferred over Ilkulka.  Google shows about 20,000 results for Ilkurlka, and 11,600 results for Ilkulka.  Yes, WP:GNUM applies, but it seems like a move from Ilkulka to Ilkurlka is warranted? Cxbrx (talk) 16:43, 24 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems to make sense. The Drover's Wife (talk) 00:10, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Summerdrought (talk) 23:04, 26 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed move to Ilkurlka
Talk:Timewasting

message: The heading "legal methods", as well as the comparisson to Delay of Game in Hockey lead to the suggestion that timewasting is a penalty in association football. Yet the article doesn't make this clear. Is it a penalty? or Simply a strategy? TheHYPO (talk) 20:34, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Delay of game? 

message: Time wasting is also known as hanging it out. This has lead to a term known as Hang it out Hutchie's that discribes anyone who takes alot longer at his or her job.
It is not known exactly where this term is derived from but it is tought to originate from the sir name of a player who was well known for timewasting in the 1930's.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.33.117.42 (talk) 15:22, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  That would be Bill Timewasting? Sid Timewasting? Tim Timewasting?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.51.66.32 (talk) 04:27, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Timewasting Slang / Common Terms
Talk:Jennacubbine, Western Australia

message: : Will look into referencing today's contributions next time I'm at the Battye. Orderinchaos 08:53, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Kalbarri, Western Australia

message: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/up-to-70-per-cent-of-properties-in-wa-town-of-kalbarri-damaged-by-tropical-cyclone-seroja
220 of ßorg 06:57, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source re [[Tropical Cyclone Seroja]] damage
Talk:John Hadley

message: Hi,
I beleive there is a minor inaccuracy in this article.
"If the position of the object on the sky and the time of the observation are known, it is easy for the user to calculate his latitude."
If you determine the elevation of the sun on the sky at local noon (highest elevation that day), the lattitude can be calculated without timing (I mean independent source of exact GMT) information. However, if the observation was made in arbitrary time, you can not calculate the lattitude of the observer. A line of position can be derived, but this is not certainly paralell of lattitude (better say, in most cases it is not). In this case several celestial objects should be observed, and the position of the observer (vessel) is at the intersection of the lines of position.
I suggest to change "If the position of the object on the sky and the time of the observation are known, it is easy for the user to calculate his latitude." to "If the positions of the objects on the sky and the time of the observations are known, the user can resolve his position on the Earth.".
Any comment?
Jozsef
:Perhaps they meant to say "longitude" and left out a lot of info.  I think that a more general statement about determining position should replace the existing statement.  A link to sextant with a comment on that article's explanation of use of the instrument coupled with a link to celestial navigation for how position is determined would suffice.  Michael Daly 16:55, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I have found info that Hooke made a Gregorian telescope in the 1600s, so the comment on Hadley being the first is in doubt. Michael Daly 16:55, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Gregorian Telescope priority?
Talk:Sivarasa Rasiah

message: This article should fall under Wikiproject Malaysia, since the notable person in discussion is from Malaysia not India. Sreeking (talk) 00:32, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it has been tagged/categorized under WikiProject Malaysia already. Chongkian (talk) 13:30, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikiproject Malaysia
Talk:George Hadley

message: "Trade Winds was as important in Hadley's day as the understanding of the solar wind and other extraterrestrial phenomena is to contemporary scientists considering manned lunar and Martian expeditions."
I thought that was an odd comparison, because trade winds were (and are) of much greater important than manned space travel is today. Then, they were instrumental in global commerce and the spread of empire, and today they move weather phenomena (eg hurricanes) than can cost billions in damage. Geogene (talk) 13:08, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Space travel
Talk:Carnamah, Western Australia

message: The opening paragraph reads as follows: - "The Shire of Carnamah is a local government area located in the Mid West region of Western Australia, about 310 kilometres (193 mi) north of Perth, the state capital, and about 115 kilometres (71 mi) south of the city of Geraldton. The Shire covers an area of 2,876 square kilometres (1,110 sq mi) and its seat of government is the town of Carnamah."
Regrettably, the distance given as being south of Geraldton is quite wrong. It is in fact, closer to 181km. (112.5 miles.)
(Carnamahtian (talk) 11:30, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
Talk:Northampton, Western Australia

message: Maps have been used at this article external links - as at
* FallingRain Map - elevation = 119m (Red dots are defunct railways)
whereas there are red dots also active railways on this map.
I have repeatedly taken issue with the editor who places these maps on wa place articles
as to their effectiveness and relative innacuracy - however they are still placed at articles
I would appreciate comments from other editors on this matter lest I have misjudged.
SatuSuro 02:09, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Certainly from my own investigations the site, while great for elevations, is not useful for its mapping functions. The maps for Perth are almost 40 years out of date and contain errors normally associated with certain American mapping providers prior to their adoption of Geoscience Australia and Landsat data in around 2006. The countryside is dotted with towns that have never existed and I'm not sure I'd trust it for railways when there are plenty of more reliable sources. Orderinchaos 02:16, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Falling rain map

message: Does anyone know what this means?
It sounds like it's in the Cornish language to me.Bodrugan (talk) 00:44, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gwalla
Talk:Joseph Horrocks

message: This articles seems to be copied heavily from the Australian Dictionary of Biography article for the subject of this article. Betterkeks (talk) 13:46, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seems to be copied from Australian Dictionary of Biography
Talk:Maya Karin

message: How do we know that Maya Karin has Chinese & Indian blood too? Whoever placed that statement, could you please tell us where you've source of information?  Please cite that source too. Thanks. -- 203.15.122.35 05:06, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Maya Karin has Chinese & Indian blood too?
Talk:Kambalda, Western Australia

message: -  	
From then until 1985, many buildings including the primary school (1970), post office and two hotels were constructed. In 1885, the Bridgetown Agricultural Society was formed and local farmers produced sheep, cattle, dairy products, timber, fruit and nuts. The gold rush from 1892 onwards saw a considerable increase in settlement. In 1907, a number of significant buildings including the police station were built.
Something odd about this - (1) Bridgetown (2) no sequence of dates - any help to decipher the issues would be appreciated SatuSuro 03:06, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I think it's my fault actually. When this article was being expanded I sent the editors to the Bridgetown article as an example of a fairly reasonable country town article. I think some bits got lifted and pasted in that process which had nothing to do with Kambalda. Orderinchaos 05:36, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Deleted portion
Talk:Artillery Ground

message: Roger Fenton.
:Yes. A link has been included in the article.  BlackJack | talk page 07:45, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: This ground?