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Talk:Armand David

message: David is not a Basque surname.
Did his father-side family have Jewish origins?
--Error (talk) 19:26, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Family origin

message: The list include Francis Xavier who was never in China (died while waiting permission to enter). Avihu (talk) 21:53, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Catholic missionaries in China 
Talk:Euclid Trucks

message: Having discovered from Euclid (disambiguation) that Euclid Trucks were 'not described on WP', I found Euclid Earthmoving using the search facility and started processing it. I then discovered there was a TYPO at Euclid (disambiguation) (now corrected), and that I'd been wasting my time. Aargh!
The page at Euclid Earthmoving is almost certainly just a very small chunk of Euclid Trucks. It is doubtful whether the main text contains anything not already covered here. HOWEVER, you will find two useful external links (added today by me) that may be added to this page – in particular, the history of Euclid between 1968 and 1984 when it was part-owned by Volvo Construction Equipment. (This history page includes links to pages on 22 Euclid models, with photos and tech specs!!)
I strongly suggest that the pages should be 'merged'.
EdJogg 10:39, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: For what it's worth I also strongly agree the page merger should be done Dracontes 13:37, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed merge from [[Euclid Earthmoving]]
Talk:List of names for the Milky Way

message: May I suggest that you add to the list of names:  German: Milchstraße
64.223.93.114 16:41, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Tocharianne 16:41, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: German

message: Just what is the point of this article? Lanthanum-138 (talk) 06:56, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  ? 

message: A quick Google search failed to find any references to back up the claim that Australians euphemistically refer to the Milky Way as the "Girdler Spiral Galaxy" in order to avoid confusion with the candy bar of the same name.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.255.2.25 (talk) 17:42, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Girdler Spiral Galaxy? 
Talk:Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc

message: I have changed the text to indicate that this book is in two volumes, not three, in accordance with the Hathi catalogue. There are only two volumes showing up on IA and BHL. If anyone finds a third volume, great! Kognos (talk) 17:21, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Histoire naturelle des crustacés
Talk:André Michaux

message: The picture was removed because it is a portrait of his son François André Michaux and can be found there. According to the French version it is: fils d'André Michaux, portrait d'après une peinture de Rembrandt Peale conservée à l'American Philosophical Society. Tusbra (talk) 02:47, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portrait 

message: I am working on a class project that requires updating a current article. I have some familiarity with Michaux. Currently, I am working on obtaining a graduate degree in the history of science. I propose that the introductory section include a synopsis of his career and brief comments about his influence. Then, I would like to divide the main body into the following sections.
* Early Years
**Middle Eastern Adventures
***Mission to North America
****Charleston and Wilderness Exploration
*****The Proposal of Jefferson and the Genet Affair
******Carolina Piedmont Journeys
*******Return to France and Journey to Madagascar
********Legacies
This format is based on the André Michaux society's format on their website.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nnkapoor (talk • contribs) 22:19, 11 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: =Changing the Format and Content

message: The quote by Aaron Burr re meeting "Michaux" refers to the son, François André Michaux, not the father André Michaux, who died on Madagascar in 1802. The son, François André Michaux's travels through North America were published in French in 1804 and then in English in 1805. André Michaux, the father only published in French or Latin and was not widely read in the US in the early 19th c., except by scientific botanists. In 1810 "Michaux the botanist" meant the son--who was in the process of publishing his large 3 volume book on North American trees.  
This paragraph is in error, and has been removed:
While Michaux is often said to have died in 1802 or 1803, Aaron Burr recorded meeting Michaux in Paris on September 17, 1810. According to Burr he went "to Michaux's, the botanist, who was many years in the United States, and has written a valuable little book of his travels. He is now publishing his account of our trees, which will be extremely interesting. It demonstrates that we (not the whole continent, but the United States alone) have three times the number of useful trees that Europe can boast..."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.15.139.37 (talk) 20:35, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusing Father & Son: André Michaux and François André Michaux
Talk:Aimé Bonpland

message: — Assignment last updated by Issai920 (talk) 22:22, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Humanities 2 1400-present
Talk:Works about Mircea Eliade

message: *Oppose. You cannot include in the Mircea Eliade article only the critical work, while his scholar contributions are relegated into some external article/list. It's a simple problem of fair treatment. Dpotop 19:36, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Comment: I commented on this at talk:Mircea Eliade. I support the merge because this  morning I was looking for a book title about Eliade that I could not easily find because it was in a separate article i.e. this article. Andries 19:40, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Emmanuel Liais

message: <BR>:File:Solar_eclipse_1857Mar25-Corona_Liais.png	<BR>:File:Solar_eclipse_1858Sep07-Liais.png
: Same pictures is rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e3/Solar_eclipse_1857Mar25-Corona_Liais.png - This is a fake. As Emmanuel Liais was not in Mexico in 1857.--S. Korotkiy (talk) 12:58, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fake images remove 
Talk:Joseph Marie Henry Alfred Perrier de la Bâthie

message: There is a section, Controverse Opuntia, (cactus pear controversy) in the Wikipédia entry on Henri Perrier de La Bâthie that should be worth a mention here. Apparently he introduced a predatory insect, the cochineal, to Madagascar that caused significant damage. <B>☺</B> Dick Kimball (talk) 18:23, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cactus Pear Controversy
Talk:Jean-Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent

message: I'm noting here an inconsistency in the reported date of the incident in which Latereille was released from prison due to the intervention of Bory. The Latreille page reports it as having happened when Bory was 15 years old, while the Bory page reports it as having happened when Bory was 18 years old. On both pages a source is given, but the two pages use different sources. The corresponding French Wikipedia pages show a similar inconsistency. Felix116 (talk) 20:42, 10 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inconsistency in date of Latreille/Bory incident
Talk:Pierre Boitard

message: IPNI has his birth year as 1787, while the article currently lists 1789. It's certainly possible that IPNI is incorrect, but as there are currently no references supporting 1789 as his birth year, I am changing it to 1787. Plantdrew (talk) 00:37, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Birth year?
Talk:Charles-François Brisseau de Mirbel

message: Some suggestions for improvement as the article is expanded:
*Template:Infobox Scientist should be added 
*Some basic biographical information is missing, eg early education
*Main part of article should be divided into appropriate subheadings
*Information on research should be expanded
*References should be expanded and preferably converted to inline format
*External links to useful online resources should be added if available
Espresso Addict 01:05, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Review comments
Talk:Paul Guillaume Farges

message: Hi,
I've translated this article but I still have a little issue with this sentence : "He collected over 4000 plant specimens, including numerous species new to science, which were sent back to (...)". Could you please tell me what the word "which" refers to. Is it specimens or species? Thanks in advance. Shakki 16:25, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Translation issue
Talk:Hippolyte François Jaubert

message: The original translation from the French Wikipedia was sadly botched, so I retranslated it from scratch. I'm unsure about a couple of issues:
* ordonnateur de la marine — I've translated as "purser" though the latter is properly commissaire de la marine. Is there a better English term?
* maître de forges — I chose "manufacturer" over "mill-owner".
* Compagnie du chemin de fer d’Orléans — of the several railway companies of Orléans the only one that seems early enough is the Chemin de Fer de Paris à Orléans.
* I glossed the affaire Pritchard based on its description at :fr:Affaire Pritchard.
Gdr 16:06, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Retranslation
Talk:Guillaume Dupuytren

message: The date of birth of Guillaume Dupuytren is not 1777. As stated on his gravestone in the Cimetière Père Lachaise (Paris), he was born on 5 octobre 1778. Kirk R. Wilhelmus, MD PhD  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.201.116.12 (talk) 15:21, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
Talk:Johnny Gruelle

message: As the Johnny Gruelle page is currently written, the reader would think Gruelle burst onto the cartoon art scene in 1911 after winning a contest.  In reality, Gruelle was by that time a 10 year veteran in the industry and was a regular contributor to many newspapers covering a broad geographical range, and was syndicated.  Mostly under the pen name "GRUE" and sometimes just "G".
As someone who regularly reads newspapers of that era, I come across the GRUE signature time and time again.  I've added references to two pre-1911 examples.
Moreover, a simple google search turns up two books, "Johnny Gruelle, Creator of Raggedy Ann and Andy" and "Raggedy Ann and Johnny Gruelle: A Bibliography of Published Works", both by Patricia Hall.  Combining the free pages available through google books gives a detailed account of Gruelle's career prior to 1911.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mobbunka (talk • contribs) 22:38, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Added content related to his early career as a cartoonist. Rosalina523 (talk) 17:46, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: It is surprising that a patent would have been awarded for a rag doll in 1915. Similar rag dolls, printed cloth forms stuffed with rags, already existed. For example, the March 2nd 1914 Tacoma Times, page 4, contains a half page ad for "A Tango Rag Doll". This was offered as a premium for selling newspaper subscriptions.  Perhaps the difference is that Raggedy Ann was pre-stuffed and sewn, whereas the tango rag doll was simply muslim with the dolls features printed on it.
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn88085187/1914-03-02/ed-1/seq-4/ DiffuseGoose (talk) 00:55, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not an invention patent. It's a design patent. Note the D in the number. WilliamSommerwerck (talk) 21:27, 24 May 2016 (UTC)

text: Added the clarification to the article content. Rosalina523 (talk) 17:46, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Patent
Talk:Louis-Antoine Ranvier

message: M. Ranvier's skin tone appears rather dark in the photo. Does that reflect the photo technology (tintype?) of his time, or is there reason to believe creolization might be involved? (I see that the Latin Quarter location of the Collège de France is irrelevant!)--Jerzy•t 17:48, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  His skin tone
Talk:Charles Richet

message: Both August 25th and August 26th are given as dates in references.  Originally this page used Aug. 26th and then someone changed it without reference.  Both the Max Planck link and the Nobel link referenced use the Aug. 26th date as does Britannica.  I will wait to see if there is any discussion on this and if not, will change it back to the 26th.Wiseprincebambi (talk) 01:52, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth-date 

message: Naturally an encyclopedia has to give all aspects of a person's life or ideas. It is unreasonable therefore to omit Richet's outspoken racist views (as for example when he says that squirrels are higher up in the intelligence ladder than negroes). 83.200.66.86 (talk) 07:41, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the information. It appears Richet was a racist. I will add some scholarly sources to the article that document this. HealthyGirl (talk) 18:26, 25 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: racism

message: Context: “ Richet discovered the analgesic drug chloralose with [6]”
Being unable to find a co-discoverer - or any references to it (on a very quick google search), what action would be appropriate here?
UsersLikeYou (talk) 19:05, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incomplete sentence - typo removal or information addition?
Talk:Automattic

message: Small in head count, but big in influence, aren't they?
--Migs 18:07, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Small? 

message: It might be smart to mention in this article that the domain ending, .blog is owned by Automattic. 
Daylen (talk) 23:20, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: OK but they do not own every .blog domain in the world. They just deliver some of them as a one of the (many?) registrants. Moreover it's not clear to me if they already do it now. Can somebody confirm? --Valerio Bozzolan (talk) 15:31, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing information regarding ownership of .blog domain ending 

message: Preserving here by providing this link. My rationale was: WP:DIRECTORY - trim list of nn products in infobox; excessive ext links. 
--K.e.coffman (talk) 17:05, 11 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent edit 

message: The history section needs a rewrite. It's currently just a list of acquisitions, with no information or context about any of them. Much of the sourcing is to company press releases. This entire page currently reads like a press release, frankly. Handpigdad (talk) 06:09, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  History section
Talk:Louis Couty

message: Some suggestions for improvement as the article is expanded:
*Template:Infobox Scientist should be added 
*Some basic biographical information required, including dates of positions held, more details on education
*Some copy editing required
*Lead needs expanding and should emphasise reasons for notability of subject
*Article should be divided into appropriate subheadings
*Information on research should be expanded and references required
*References should be expanded and preferably converted to inline format
*External link present which could be used to expand article
Espresso Addict 11:37, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Review comments
Talk:Nicolas Maurice Arthus

message: Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: http://www.whonamedit.com/doctor.cfm/22.html. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you.  Moonriddengirl (talk) 20:40, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem removed
Template talk:Site plan

message: This template has been taken from :de::Vorlage:Infobox Ort in Deutschland. This could potentially be a widely used template for various infoboxes on the English wiki, but it needs translation and (if possible) generalisation - 52 Pickup 18:11, 6 January 2007 (UTC)

message: Wondering if it is possible to modify this template in order to allow multiple markers, similar to the  template, but retaining the relative sizing aspect, such that if the image size is increased, so would all the sizing and positioning of the various markers? – Lestatdelc (talk) 00:22, 17 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible multiple markers?
Talk:Théodore Claude Henri, vicomte Hersart de la Villemarqué

message: My impression — as a non-specialist in Breton — is that Hersart de la Villemarqué is almost always referred to in Breton contexts simply by his pseudonym, "Kervarker". At the very least, surely the article should mention this? I don't have a relevant source on hand or I'd add it somewhere myself. Ideally I think there would also be a redirect from Kervarker (if not in fact the other way around, with this page moved to Kervarker, just as Edson Arantes de Nascimento's base page is Pelé). Sectori (talk) 15:06, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Kervarker vs. Théodore Claude Henri, vicomte Hersart de la Villemarqué
Talk:Frédéric Mistral

message: This is very dubious categorizing, considering the fact he didn't not write in French. There are actually 3 categories that overlap : French-born writers writing in French, French-born writers writing in Latin, Provencal, Basque, etc.. rather than French, and non-French-born writers using French as a writing language. It's never really clear what French means, whether born in France or writing in French, even worse when it comes to people from medieval times when the French nationality didn't exist--Anne97432 (talk) 10:50, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I realize this is old, but I went ahead and switched it. There's a modern view of nationality that doesn't translate well to the near past, particularly for people from the Americas as many countries don't have that same melting pot aspect of nationality. My grandfather was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, he was neither Austrian nor Hungarian and would never characterize himself as such. It does introduce an interesting question as to how the spectrum of peoples past get portrayed in modern times, especially when older times lacked this idea of the nation state. In what year does someone born in Galicia cease to be Galician and begins being Spanish instead? Alcibiades979 (talk) 14:58, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: To speak of a person's nationality as "Occitan" is anachronistic. That reflects a modern attitude toward speakers of the Occitan language(s) that did not historically exist. What is more, speakers of the Provençal dialect often dislike having it grouped with Occitan (which historically referred to the dialects spoken in and around Languedoc). Mistral's nationality was French, and his regional identity was Provençal. Funnyhat (talk) 03:41, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: French writers
Talk:Jean Nicot

message: "Early Names and History of Tobacco" - Stephen J. W. Tabor, M.D. (1844) : https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJM184408070310102
"Jean Nicot, lord of Villemain [..] of France, was ambassador from that monarch at the court of Lisbon. From a Dutch trader just returned from the "long voyage," who was introduced to him by the keeper of the monuments at Lisbon, he received some seeds of the precious plant. A part of these he presented to Catherine de Medicis, and a part to a grand prior of the house of Lorrain. Catherine used the pulverized seeds as a medicine, and the French called the plant by several names, as herbe à la reine, herbe à l'ambassadeur, herbe au grand prieur, &c. This was its first recorded use among that people, so famous for their politeness and—snuff-taking! To this fact Nicot
probably owes the celebrity his name has acquired [..] but Linnaeus has done so by
bestowing the title of Nicotiana upon the genus to which tobacco belongs."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Henk Poley (talk • contribs) 15:26, 15 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  A nice old reference
Talk:MAC 1934

message: Hi to all. (excused for my poor english) I don't succeed to understand if the correct acronym is MAC 1934 or MAC 34 that, consulting the link external in French language, would have to be the second version. Tell me an answers, thanks :-)--Threecharlie (talk) 07:30, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  MAC 34 or MAC 1934? 
Talk:Modèle 1935 pistol

message: I see no indication that the 1935A and 1935S are different versions of the same weapon rather than two different weapons altogether. Many other Wikipedias have separate articles, suggest we adopt the same convention be it only for the sake on consistency with them and Wikidata. Rama (talk) 06:32, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Seeing no objections, I implemented the split. I will also inform our colleagues at it, no and ru. Cheers! Rama (talk) 07:36, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Splitting
Talk:Hadès

message: Hades was a tactical nuclear missile, rather than a strategic one. Therefore the statement that Hades was "as a last warning before use of strategic nuclear weapons, in the perspective of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe" is probably factually wrong as well as poor and unusual English.Royalcourtier (talk) 02:35, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tactical role
Talk:OutlookSoft

message: this article has problems:
last sentence is deficient, perhaps word 'been' is missing?  eg. 'has been renamed'...
external link to http://www.outlooksoft.com/ named 'OutlookSoft Corporation website' is dead, goes to SAP page not found page...
first paragraph describes BusinessObjects as a competitor, but it is also owned by SAP...
Jaydlewis (talk) 21:05, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
Talk:Rhyniophytes

message: It was the main food for many dinosaurs of the Silurian period.
If rhyniophytes first appeared in the Devonian then they would not appear in the Silurian. Dinosaurs first appeared about 200 million years after the Silurian. --Cory Kohn 18:28, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Deleted Ridiculous Sentence