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Talk:Kaúxuma Núpika

message: Re this:
:Thompson never gives the "Woman that carried a Bow and Arrows and had a Wife" any kind of name. It was Sir John Franklin who refers to her as "the Manlike Woman" in his Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea (1928), and suggests the label was one given to her by the native people she influenced. Since the lack of a name contributes to obscurity, "Manlike Woman" is pressed into service, here, as the best guess available. It also has the virtue of being shorter than Thompson's "Woman that carried a Bow and Arrows and had a Wife"
Where did Franklin meet her?  I've never heard of him coming anyway near the region; is the assumption here that another "Man-Like Woman" he'd met in the Arctic was the same person?  Could she have made it to Churchill (did he call in at Churchill?).  Clarification please.Skookum1 (talk) 04:59, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Franklin?

message: I removed the imposition of male pronouns, which made for some weird language..."he...[had a reputation] as a prophetess" for one.  Historical sources override bad interpretations of Wikipedia policy, I removed the inline comment claiming that nobody should change what has been imposed by modern abuse of language.  The impositions of "him" and "he" and "his" were not even consistent within sentences, never mind with the actual source texts. Sources speak of her as female; it is NOT Wikipedia's job to rewrite history based on modern gender/language politics.  To do so is fringe politics and a fringe theory.Skookum1 (talk) 16:23, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  gender politics applied here is WRONG 

message: This article has been mentioned at Talk:Transgender history#Kaúxuma Núpika as a good candidate for inclusion at Transgender history, but the poor state of sourcing here is blocking that.  Any contributions to improving the referencing at this article which would be much appreciated. Mathglot (talk) 01:42, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I had a go at revising the article a bit; basically, I wrote a very short bio in a sandbox based on references, and then incorporated it into this article, merging redundant bits and -tagging the parts of this article that had no inline references and were not reflected in the references I looked at. I may try to expand it / reference more of the existing article later. -sche (talk) 23:57, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  More references
Talk:Ana Castillo

message: Anyone else think so? It's more notable than just having a large section on Ana Castillo's page, at least in my eyes.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.62.34.141 (talk) 18:43, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  So Far From God, Should Have Own Page. 
Talk:C.R.A.Z.Y.

message: Thanks to the IP user for this correction. That actually makes a lot more sense given what Gervais had just said. It's better to omit it than make the wrong assumption. I would be interested in finding an RS with a director interview that might have some thematic or behind-the-scenes background to include. Thanks. Ruodyssey (talk) 00:53, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Laurianne: "You have a short memory."
Talk:Mira (Star Wars)

message: Neither of the Exile's companions were made Jedi. Becoming a Jedi requires, as I said, years of training. Wow, look, the Exile guided Mira to that pit on Nar Shaddaa and told her to close her eyes and listen, then voila, she's a Jedi. If only it was so simple. They can use the Force, but just because their classes are Jedi Consular/Sentinel/Guardian doesn't mean they are true Jedi. It's called game mechanics. Darth Sion is a Jedi Guardian, will you please edit his article and say he was a Jedi and a Sith simultaneously? - Sikon 04:44, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Jedi
Talk:Rangers Standing Orders

message: don't never lie?
isn't that saying you should lie to a ranger  the double negative cancels each other out
The rules are in the language as they are used.  Do we "fix" song lyrics that have bad grammar as well?
Aversion to double negatives is uncommon in most languages, and was not always an issue even in standard English.  It comes from a questionable attempt to apply rules of logic to natural language.  Using two negatives is a natural way to emphasize the negative, that's way children do it automatically until they're taught that it's incorrect.
:In informal American English, as in several other languages, a double negative is not a negation. It's an emphatic signal. The Rangers Standing Orders which were adopted in the Ranger Handbook were written by Kenneth Roberts in his novel Northwest Passage, and were verbally told by an uneducated but veteran Ranger to the narrator.
:To assume two negatives makes a positive only holds absolutely true in mathematics.GABaker 18:10, 12 October 2007 (UTC)

message: What about this? Robert Rogers' 28 "Rules of Ranging"
I think it's the same topic, isn't it? --Kun25 16:36, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like it to me. And I don't understand why the first list is included here if it comes from a novel published 200 years later. I'm nominating this article for deletion. Alcarillo 19:33, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  On second thought, I propose a merger Alcarillo 19:50, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: 2 articles

message: #redirect Robert Rogers' 28 "Rules of Ranging" RJFJR (talk) 16:39, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merged and redirected
Talk:Candee Jay

message: I have Candy Ilze as her birth name.  Where does Candee 'J' come from ?  Whilst I presume - 1 September 1981 - as her date of birth is correct ?
:theres a possibility that its from "DJ", only noticed this because Keith on Highland Radio always pronounces the name as "Can DJ" - although that could be the donegal accent more than anything... --Kiand 00:21, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe that she stated in her about.com interview that she 'used to bring loads of candy to the studio sessions' and that 'Candee' paired with 'Jay' 'has the word "deejay" in it, which refers to her producers who are also deejays.'Anomal-E 13:03, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth name 
Talk:Armstrong Whitworth Argosy

message: Believe the Argosy won the coveted World's Ugliest Airplane award in 1929. – Sca (talk) 14:49, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The Farman Jabiru sniffs at any comparison with the Argosy.Nigel Ish (talk) 15:02, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Award
Talk:The Big Red One

message: The Big Red One begins with a huge crucifix (all that's left of a church) that stands in the middle of a field littered with dead soldiers. The Jesus on the crucifix stares wide-eyed and baffled at the behavior of humanity. Ants crawl in his eye sockets. So much for the hope of Western civilization. 
But when Fuller's squad liberates the concentration camp, that same sergeant behaves very differently. He sort of adopts an emaciated Jewish boy of about 11. The boy is baffled and even threatened by the sergeant's kindness, but nevertheless he responds, and the sergeant gives him something to eat and picks him up and carries him on his shoulders. There, on the sergeant's shoulders, the exhausted, horrified, hunger-ravaged boy dies. The narrator relates (as we watch), "He [the sergeant] walked for half an hour before he could bring himself to put the kid down."
:Yes, so, what's your point? — Frecklefoot | Talk 17:49, August 22, 2005 (UTC)
We should probably also note the mirror scene at the end of the film where the Sergeant again kills a German after the war has ended, but this time they are able to save the man's life. Just a thought as I see the intro scene is mentioned and this end scene ties in with it.
Also: I added some "the"'s to the name of Sergeant. It never says that's his name; that's just the only thing anyone ever calls him. --DanielCD 21:49, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Details

message: Panoramic photo contact captbuttcrust@yahoo.com —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 198.102.103.18 (talk) 18:44, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  1stdivision,26thinf.sept,1919 (photo) 
Talk:Dax (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode)

message: Please note that an editor removed some book references from this article. I don't care about reference style, I was only making a good faith effort to follow the style of referencing already seen in other Trek episode articles like Past Prologue (and to a lesser extent articles with even more complicated reference formatting like Favorite Son (Star Trek: Voyager)). The reference to the book The Nitpickers Guide was added in 2007, and seems to have been a general reference for the episode as a whole, not a specific reference for any particular detail. I added the reference to Deep Space Nine Companion (Erdmann) specifically to support details in the Production section. -- 109.79.178.97 (talk) 23:24, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: IP 109.79.178.97 is forum shopping because they are not willing to accept Wikipedia's manual of style, specifically regarding citations and references. See other discussions with this IP here (which they deleted apparently without reading), here, and here. Sundayclose (talk) 02:11, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Book references
Talk:John Wroe

message: I have attempted to make this entry neutral. Much needs adding, however, especially Wroe's founding of the church, his teachings and his fall from grace.--Cunningham 14:09, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV 

message: The internet has examples of the title both with and without the full stop after Mr. It's not clear which is correct. Martinevans123 (talk) 11:05, 31 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Book by [[Jane Rogers]]
Talk:Sengkang MRT Station

message: I'm wondering, should it be considered an interchange (on the map and on the next/previous box) for the LRT line, which should then be coloured? -- Natalinasmpf 05:39, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it should be highlighted as an interchange. For the locator map, I used it's standard dark-grey color for the Sengkang lrt rail to be consistent with the system map, but it is not showing up well. Probably need a zoom-in map. Any better suggestion?  --Vsion 06:18, 20 August 2005 (UTC)

text: In a way it depends. Sengkang is more of a "multi-modal" interchange such as a bus-train connection, rather than being something similar to City Hall MRT Station. Actually, I once made it such that there are two articles: one for the Sengkang MRT and one for the LRT station, but others prefer to do redirects. What do you guys think about this? Perhaps after we settle this, the above issue will also fall into place a little more readily...--Huaiwei 07:42, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Tavík František Šimon

message: The article now links his Czech nationality to Czech Republic, which didn't exist until about 50 years after his death. That seems wrong to me. -- Jmabel | Talk 05:51, August 20, 2005 (UTC)   
AGREED, I have attempted to clarify this --- please read the first sentence and see if you think it is more correct. The problem seems to be that hundreds of editors seem to be having an argument over all sorts of political "stuff" relating to the prior history of this nation.  I prefer to avoid this shooting match, so hopefully my modification here conveys where this artist was born without getting involved in what is was called then.  This link to Czech Republic needs clarified and decided upon... but to do so requires concensus above my pay grade..  It mentions the nation formed in 1918, but not the name of the nation (Bohemia??) before then when Simon was born.Printguy 04:27, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Linking nationality

message: Please list sources regarding possible recent restrikes.  I can locate no other discussions regarding modern editions of the atrists New York prints, though there do seem to be places in Prague selling various recently restruck smaller etchings and woodcuts. Printguy 16:41, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Restrikes

message: I have for at least the second time restored indication that this is a commercial site. If someone -- I presume related to the site -- keeps removing this without (unlikely) consensus on talk page, I will regrettably have to remove it entirely. - Jmabel | Talk 03:02, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that it is useful — that's why I didn't remove it — but it is obviously commercial (it has prints for sale) and we should always clarify that in a link: that is very different from (say) an academic site about an artist. - Jmabel | Talk 04:47, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  It looks like the vending links are now gone from the site. - Jmabel | Talk 04:55, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  TFSimon.com
Talk:Gregory G. Pincus

message: "Envoid" is incorrect, see http://www.fda.gov/oc/history/makinghistory/enovid.html -- 137.189.4.1 15:30, 26 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not "Envoid", but "Enovid" 

message: This page really needs a rewrite... there's a lot of missing info.  I'll try to update it when I can - just thought it should be noted.
24.90.0.203 04:36, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update needed 

message: The Wikipedia article itself had different information than the credible site, American National Biography.  The article lacks certain details.  For example, we do not learn from Wikipedia that Pincus was a National Research Council Fellow.  We learn from ANB that Pincus receives recognition for his rabbit experiment, but also that the recognition was received due to a miscommunication.  ANB gives us the procedure for making the pill, and also for conduction the in vitro experiment.  This Wikipedia article lacked details about his family life, the awards he's been given throughout his career, and his creation of the Laurentian Hormone Conference.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kthomas823 (talk • contribs) 17:38, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Missing information
Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Keetoowah

message: This is personal attack of the first order and it will be removed.
It is libelous and I will hold the writer and Wikipedia responsible for the lies listed on it.
I can prove my background.  
Who the hell is this anon user?  
Let's the SOB come forward and tell me who he is.
Please come forward and tell me who you are. I willing to tell you who I am. Let's talk directly. I will prove to you that I am a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. I more than willing to show you. Please come forward. I would like to get to know you. You claim that you are member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Please come forward and let's talk man to man. I more than willing to show you my tribal card and discuss the politics of the tribe. We need to talk. You have claimed that I am not a member of the tribe and you have claimed that you are a member of the tribe. Come forward. I will prove my membership to you if you prove your membership to me. What other members of the tribe do you know? I more than willing to clear my name. I waiting for your acceptance of my offer to settle this
--Keetoowah 14:32, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Steny Hoyer

message: We should either change leader to speaker in the infobox or delete the speaker from the infobox entirely. For readers have the Speaker of the House shown as leader, is confusing. GoodDay (talk) 00:55, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  House majority leaders & House speakers 

message: There seems to be an error with the dates of when he was married and when his late wife died; I rolled back an edit apparently trying to fix this because it broke the infobox and don't know how to solve the "invalid date" problem DemonDays64 (talk) 04:35, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marriage error
Talk:Myrtle Corbin

message: I would love to know more about Myrtle Corbin. One of my Great Grandfather's worked with her in the Circus, and had a painting of her in his home. I think I recall my grandfather saying she was a cousin, but I havn't been able to verify that. If anyone has links that give her parents names, please post it here.  Thanks...MB, Alabama User:207.69.136.202  06:08, 20 August 2005
:MB, I am related to Myrtle Corbin. I don't know how long ago you posted but if you'll respond on my talk page I can give you genealogical information. LDhummingbird (talk) 15:14, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Painting, relatives

message: 88.159.72.240 (talk) 15:04, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations needed 

message: It looks like someone replaced the picture with her as a child in 1882 with a picture of her as a young woman without changing the caption. --Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 20:06, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Caption wrong
Talk:Elgin National Watch Company

message: Changed the often repeated remark that Elgin produced the only USA made automatic watches.  Bulova introduced a USA made automatic in 1954:
see | Bulova 10BZAC
and | Example watch on the NAWCC message board  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Flynwill (talk • contribs) 14:04, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Notes

message: I just merged The National Watch Co with this page. Not really a merge I guess as it was an exact copy of the main body of here. But it's done and redirected. --Bookandcoffee 20:27, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge

message: really?  How the heck could a song entitled "Lord Elgin" be about Elgin watches?  That is stupid, and probably incorrect.   In England, nobility with titles are called Lords.   Lords are often holders of titles Duke or Earl.   There is an Earl of Elgin; He can also be called "Lord Elgin."    Marc S.  Dania Fl.  206.192.35.125 (talk) 13:37, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Trivia

message: We need a citation that shows that Elgin actually stopped production of their watches during WWII. I was recently given my grandfather's Elgin watch (grade 555) - which according to http://elginwatches.org/cgi-bin/elgin_grades was made between 1940 - 1955. The serial number of the watch shows a manufacturing date of 1945.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.71.24.172 (talk) 04:12, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Its possible they decreased their production of wristwatches.  But during WWII, there was production of both wristwatches and pocket watches for the military.   WWII was the last era of pocket watches.   The United States, Canadian, and English Military all ordered pocket watches for uses by Naval forces.   The WWII military-issue Watches had Special radium-coated hands to be able to see the time in low light or dark conditions.  And Naval officers needed to be able to time ordnance detonation. Military-issue watches from all companies were a combination of regular 12-hour dial watches, and 60-second dial stop-watches MS, Dania fl  206.192.35.125 (talk) 12:59, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  WWII manufacturing stoppage? 

message: What do the engraved numbers on the watch mean? The numbers on the gold case are different than the actual watch. 2603:7080:2401:87C6:A41A:FC62:DACF:EC92 (talk) 22:51, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pocket watch 

message: As of Sun 22 Aug 2023 10:07 GMT-0700, in the External Links section, these links are dead:
"The Elgin Watch Collectors Site","Entry in Encyclopedia of Chicago", "The Elgin Story (words & pictures)", "Elgin History, Serial Numbers and Production Dates", "The Watch Word Magazine"
If it is possible to locate the site which is associated with a dead link, then the dead link should be changed to link to the correct site. I have not yet made any changes to the External Links. Nivekregrub (talk) 17:08, 20 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead External Links
Talk:Howard Buffett

message: Korean "Adventure".
Communist Invasion of the Republic of Korea.
Where is the actual evidence that Howard Buffett believed that the Communist invasion of South Korea was actually a South Korean attack upon the North? 
I do not accept the word of the late Murray Rothbard as evidence. Where is the evidence that Howard Buffett believed that the Republic of Korea (South Korea) started the "shooting war" - an odd belief indeed as the advance was north to south (not south to north).2A02:C7D:B5DA:7B00:9DC1:C7E8:6D44:ED06 (talk) 12:48, 9 October 2015 (UTC)

message: This entry needs disambiguation, as Warren and Susan Buffett have a son named Howard who is (now) better known than this Howard Buffett (Warren's dad). --Zippy 07:20, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Howard Graham Buffett has been created. Shawnc 12:34, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Given the late Professor Rothbard's pushing of the Nazi line (from Harry Elmer Barnes) blaming the United States and Britain for World War II, and his pushing of the Soviet propaganda line about the Cold War and its origins, he is not a reliable witness concerning the alleged opinions of Howard Buffett in regards to the Korean War - especially as it was obvious that the attack had come from the Communist side. Professor Rothbard denied this - but it is very unlikely that Howard Buffett did.2A02:C7C:E085:8D00:C59F:5A3E:F3BA:8B7E (talk) 13:18, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  The late Murray Newton Rothbard not a reliable witness concerning what Howard Buffett may have believed about the Korean War.
Talk:Royal Fusiliers

message: I don’t know where the previous figure of 400 men of the Stockbrokers’ Battalion came from, but I’ve edited it to show the figure that is stated by Carter (2014): according to Carter this comprised 440 KiAs, 249 DoWs, and 53 MiAs. A further 1958 were wounded, but survived, taking their total casualties to precisely 2700, assuming that Carter’s data are accurate.  
On a wider point, the laxness in specifying casualties and losses in Wikipedia is dreadful, and needs tightening up! I suspect that the 400 came from someone reading that 408 other ranks (i.e. excluding officers) had been KiA, and decided that 400 was ‘close enough for government work’. However, this figure excludes the 32 officers who were also KiA (don’t they count?), the 249 who died of wounds (and were therefore just as dead), and the 53 missing in action, who in the context of the Western Front, were almost certainly dead as well. To count only the KiAs and only those among the ORs, then to round it down to the nearest hundred, is doing a disservice to the others who died.  
I’ve also added ‘and others from the area’, because only a minority were actually stockbrokers, or even worked at the Stock Exchange. The majority were clerks and other workers from the City of London and surrounding districts. (Of one sample of 331 volunteers mentioned by Carter, only 168 were known to have had jobs in stockbroking, banking, insurance, and trading; others included gardeners, surveyors, engineers, and a wide variety of other occupations.)  
Also, is the 10th (Service) Battalion is sufficiently well documented to warrant its own page? There’s more than enough peer-reviewed evidence available. --Wally Tharg (talk) 12:20, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Edits to 10th (Service) Battalion
Talk:City of Botany Bay

message: This page was moved from "Botany Bay" to "City of Botany Bay" as per the naming convention set out at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (places) -- Ianblair23 08:37, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page move 
Talk:Ovilla Christian School

message: Someone has modified this article to claim that one has to attend a Southern Baptist church or at least believe in SBC teachings to enroll at OCS.  Although the sponsoring church is SBC, this has never been a requirement of the school, only that the student and at least one parent be active in a Bible-believing church.  I have edited this article to the extent possible to remove the untrue comments. Quidam65 (talk) 03:17, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Southern Baptist Comments