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Talk:The Lottery in Babylon

message: I don't see any quotations from an English version of the story, and several people have translated it, so Anthony Bonner probably shouldn't get a Translator credit in the infobox.     168.122.246.234 (talk) 19:42, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Translator

message: Hi, can someone delete the external links? They violate the copyright over this book. Thanks in advance! --Canopus49 (talk) 23:27, 18 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for your suggestion. When you believe an article needs improvement, please feel free to make those changes.  Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the  link at the top.</br> The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold in updating pages. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes—they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use the sandbox to try out your editing skills.  New contributors are always welcome. You don't even need to log in (although there are many reasons why you might want to). TJRC (talk) 04:50, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright violation in External links 
Talk:Silpakorn University

message: There are two contradicting versions of the history in the web:
*http://www.thailandmuseum.com/thaimuseum_eng/silpa/history.html says it was founded in 1934 by Silpa Bhirasri, who was also first dean
*http://www.geocities.com/arts23silpakorn/artshist.html says it was founded in 1939 by Pin Malagula, who was also first dean - and this is a translation of the university homepage itself
I have picked the second one for the article, please correct if necessary.
andy 11:23, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: In 1937 the school changed its name to , ‘Silpakorn School of Fine Arts’. In 1942, the Fine Arts Department was transferred from the Ministry of Education to the Prime Minister’s Office. Field Marshal P.Pibulsongkram, then PrimeMinister, recognized the importance of art as a crucial branch of national culture. He thus orderd the Fine Arts Department Director General, Phraya Anumanrajadhon, to review the school’s syllabus, and by royal statute transformed it into ‘Silpalorn University’ on the 5 October 1943. 
So it must have already been in existance before 1937.  — KayEss | talk 05:45, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Austrian Social Service

message: The text is copied from this page: http://www.auslandsdienst.at/sozialdienst/sprachen/english/info.htm with the approval of the organization. Infos: maislinger@hrb.at
--Toeglhofer 11:23, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: This article seems to be the same as Austrian Service Abroad and should be merged with it but I don't have the time to suggest it formally. Abtract (talk) 21:32, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Added the merge request tags.-- Matthead  Discuß   22:08, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]
Talk:Leading question

message: I think this needs a complete rewrite.  I'll try to get to it later today. cpro 18:55, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment 1

message: I've removed the redirect and rewrote this entry.  I do not believe that "leading question" is necessarily a dictionary defintion anymore than other legal concepts that are currently articles.  I think that there could be more useful information in this article than simply a dictionary definition.
Moreover, I agree with the earlier comment that the redirect to a logical fallacy is not really appropriate.  Though, perhaps it is related. Mmmbeer 16:24, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not merely a definition 

message: Some good general info, but all the specifics are for US law.  Perhaps someone could add whatever magic tag is needed to indicate that experts in other common law systems (eg England) should look at it and expand as necessary. Daniel Barlow (talk) 11:47, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other jurisdictions 

message: — Assignment last updated by Patrickgleason6 (talk) 17:12, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Industry Theory and Practice 74252
Talk:Grand Council of the Crees

message: Seems pretty factual to me, as it merely outlines the political structure of the organization as well as the circumstances surrounding its formation.  What part(s) of it are self-promoting and/or inaccurate?
*Please do remember to sign your posts. Thanks, Shawn in Montreal (talk) 16:50, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inaccurate? 

message: They get 70 million dollars from power lines across their land.  They get money from dams.  They have a lot of mining companies they deal with also.  Need to show how their now prosper. http://news.yahoo.com/video/flourishing-cree-quebec-033000871.html  Dream Focus 14:22, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  show the mineral wealth 
Template talk:WWIIBritishAFVs

message: I wonder what is that "BSA scout". Is it a scout car prototype built by BSA which became Daimler Dingo ? If so, I don't think we need an "entry" (or an article) for it. Or is it something else ? Bukvoed 13:11, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed the "BSA Scout" from the template. I failed to find any information about any such vehicle except the aforementioned prototype. Bukvoed 12:40, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: BSA Scout

message: We have almost 30 British and Commonwealth armoured cars now (and there are still some omissions...). Some don't appear in this template yet (see :Template:WWIIBritishAFVs2 ), but this long list of armoured cars in the middle of the template already does't look good, IMHO. And the template is already huge. May be it's the time to ask again: Is there room on this template for all these armoured cars ? Bukvoed 15:30, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Stick to the major players and a link to a list of the minor ones? How does the German WW2 AFV template do it - it seems they had more uniform designs. hmmm. GraemeLeggett 16:51, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I see that the "Coventry" (too late) and "Beaverette" (homer defence) did not see service so could be choices for demotion.GraemeLeggett 16:56, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Aromured cars issue once again

message: I've created some new versions for this template with the main purpose of saving space. Any comments?
User:Raoulduke47/Template03
Raoulduke47 18:23, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New version 

message: Pppery, I have removed the deletion banner from this template page as it incorrectly staes this template has been nominated for deletion.  My reading of the instructions on WP:TFD and Template:Tfm is there is no specific banner to place on a template that others have been nominated to be merged into.  Kind regards, Cavalryman V31 (talk) 22:59, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I must have misread your (complicated) tfd nomination. There is a template for the merge target, and it it  (the same as all of the others it is merged into)  ery (talk) 23:10, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deletion template 

message: Concerning the reverted replacement of the wingdings used as explanatory notes with flag icons: Respectfully, WP:TOOMANY does not apply here because the use of the flag icons is not redundant. There is a difference between using the flag icon as a gratuitous element, like in many infoboxes as explained in the guideline, and using it as a explanatory note, as here. Regardless, the symbols currently used cannot be kept. Per WP:EXPLNOTE, they should be replaced with an explanatory note template. So which shall it be? --Bsherr (talk) 22:21, 1 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Bsherr, my apologies if I have misinterpreted the policy.  I feel the flags are a little distracting, but if the use of symbols (the ordering of which I drew from here) is inappropriate then it should again be amended.  Kind regards, Cavalryman V31 (talk) 05:48, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flags vs. symbols
Talk:Southwest Australia

message: I dispute the recommended merge.  I have no opinion on merging South-west Corner of Western Australia (which appears to be about a catchment) into Southwest Australia, which is obvious defined in terms of biodiversity criteria.  However the South West region of Western Australia is about a region defined by the government under the Regional Development Act.  Neither its geographical boundaries nor its purpose coincide with Southwest Australia, and the articles must not be merged.  One might just as well suggest merging Swan Shire into Swan River.  Hesperian 12:14, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: earlier comment

message: Needs referencing from Hopper on historical 'interzone' - not at hand to expand Yalgoo and Mallee references
+ I really do not like the WWF nomenclature - I have not seen any Savanna anywhere in the Southwest Australia savanna region, there are barely any native grasses at all! And how is that Swan Coastal Plain = Kwongan heathlands when it is mostly Banksia woodlands, and 'Kwongan shrubland' occurs in at least 3 or 4 other IBRA / ecoregions. And it is odd that 'Jarrah' refers to different regions in the IBRA v WWF systems
* Jarrah Forest = Southwest Australia woodlands
* Warren = Jarrah-Karri forest and shrublands
Bpinab (talk) 02:43, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: interzone + nomenclature

message: This is one of the cases where Australian English style (as per the Macquarie and Oxford Australian Dictionaries) usually differs from both US and UK style. 
That is, the joining together of cardinal directions (e.g. southwest/southwestern) is very much a North American thing, whereas formal UK style is more often hyphenated (south-west, south-western). 
Australian English is distinguished by an aversion to hyphenation (except in proper nouns) and rendering non-cardinal directions as separate words (e.g. "South West").
While I take the point that some of the sources cited use "Southwest", "South-western" in titles etc., that lack of uniformity is an even bigger pointer that the name should default to the conventional.
Thoughts?
Grant | Talk 13:29, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  AusEng style = South West [not "Southwest"]
Talk:South West (Western Australia)

message: I dispute the recommended merge.  I have no opinion on merging South-west Corner of Western Australia (which appears to be about a catchment) into Southwest Australia, which is obvious defined in terms of biodiversity criteria.  However the South West region of Western Australia is about a region defined by the government under the Regional Development Act.  Neither its geographical boundaries nor its purpose coincide with Southwest Australia, and the articles must not be merged.  One might just as well suggest merging Swan Shire into Swan River.  Hesperian 12:14, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Feel free to remove the merge notice if you disagree. However, consider adding some sort of disambiguation notice at the top of each article (e.g. This article refers to the government region. For other uses, see ...). The differences between those articles may not be obvious to those who don't live down-under. Rl 12:58, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: All three of these units describe different regions; South West region of Western Australia is about a governmental region (23,970 km²), Southwest Australia is an ecoregion (356,717 km²), but I'm not sure what sort of region the South-west Corner of Western Australia (140,000 km²) happens to be. I agree that they should not be merged, but it won't hurt to cross-reference the articles, for example to explain which ecoregion or ecoregions a political unit is part of, and vice versa. Tom Radulovich 16:01, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think South-west Corner of Western Australia refers to a drainage divisiont, because the "See Also" section links to a number of articles on various drainage divisions, all with the same organisation as South-west Corner of Western Australia, and all contributed by User:Tannin.  I will add cross-references for the articles.  Hesperian 23:37, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: earlier conversation
Wikipedia talk:Contests

message: Judges will be needed for the writing & media contests in May and at Wikimania.  If you are interested, please add your name below.  (Note that, unfortunately, this disqualifies you from entering your own work ;)
I'm willing to be a judge, if this is still current. JJohnCooper (talk) 18:30, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

message: This article seems very outdated. All of the "current" contests seem to be very very old.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.246.112.51 (talk) 19:56, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Outdated 

message: Hi everyone. The Program Evaluation and Design team at the Wikimedia Foundation has released a new program evaluation about on-wiki writing contests. Thanks to everyone who shared data, and we hope you'll share with us in the future. You can read the report here:
:*Program evaluation: on-wiki writing contests
SarahStierch (talk) 18:49, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  New program evaluation of contests released 

message: Hi all, I'm wondering if this is the right place to advertise competitions run by WikiProjects, independent of WMF? WikiProject Computational Biology and ISCB are currently running their 6th annual Wikipedia competition for students of all levels and it would be nice to advertise this more widely, but as another poster above noted this page seems pretty quiet: is there a better place to advertise this? Thanks, Amkilpatrick (talk) 10:06, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Place to advertise WikiProject-run competition? 

message: This page needs to be repaired and edited as all the contests are outdated and irrelevant.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arnabsaha2212 (talk • contribs) 10:21, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update required 

message: The contest in the article called wikicup should be written by closed. Cause the contests status is showing future.- Rafi  (talk) 03:59, 12 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikicup
Talk:Submarine sandwich/Hero archive

message: I've always understood the name "hero" to be a mispronunciation of "gyro", which is itself an incorrect pronunciation of "gyros". Since the sandwiches are similar, at least to people who don't understand gyros meat, I figured at some point the same name was applied to both by American customers who didn't understand the ethnic differences in the two foods. Am I completely off base here? --66.194.217.222 12:43, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of Name 

message: Heroes or heros? --Closedmouth (talk) 12:13, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The only plural example for hero sandwich offered in the OED gives 'heros'; however, it's in the same word-entry as all the other uses of hero, so I don't think you could say 'heroes' is wrong. Carl.bunderson (talk) 18:27, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plural? 

message: There has been a proposal to merge this article and Hoagie with the article Submarine Sandwich. Please see discussion here. BillyTFried (talk) 04:38, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge discussion
Talk:Tom Clancy's Op-Center

message: The 12th book of the series is NOT called "War of Eagles". It is really called Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Flight of Eagles.
This comment is incorrect according to Amazon.com Bloviator2000 (talk) 03:21, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tom Clancy's Op-Center XII 

message: Voldemort's edit on 27 October 2005 to the Op-Center section seems to be taken almost word-for-word out of Tom Clancy's Op-Center: Mirror Image. ⇒Bayerischermann  - 03:18, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible copyright problem 

message: The entire chart listing the Op-Center Series of twelve novels should indicate Jeff Rovin as Author according to Amazon.com Bloviator2000 (talk) 03:29, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:   Op-Center Series Chart Under Novels
Talk:Monica

message: The article says that it is illegal to name one's child Monica in Equatorial Guinea. But why is it illegal? That is a very strange law and it would be interesting to know what the purpose of it is. Everyking 03:57, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed the claim "In Equatorial Guinea, it is illegal to name your child Monica"  pending verification. I'll put a message on Meweight's page to ask him what his source was for this. --Spondoolicks 13:44, 28 November 2005 (UTC)

message: There exists a kind of melody or a kind of dancing form within italian baroque music named "Monica". I'm just working on the German Wp article Bernardo Storace (1637-1707); there is written (translated in English):In Storaces time, there are known melodies or dances, like Passamezzo, Romanesca, Spagnoletta, Monica etc., they are guided by the example of Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583-1643) .... Can anyone tell me the nearer properties of this kind of "Monica"? --Wilhelmus Legrant (talk) 09:59, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  The item "Monica" in baroque music
Talk:Milanese dialect

message: I was browsing this out of curiosity (I am just starting to learn standard Italian), and I really don't know what the phonemes /ö/ and /ü/ are supposed to represent. Are they as in German (which I'm not familiar with)? For readability, it would be best to use the standardized International Phonetic Alphabet symbols most professional linguists use for phonetic transcription rather than some ad hoc scheme.--NeantHumain 05:37, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  IPA, People, Come on 

message: Reading this article on the Wikipedia and being myself a Milanese native speaker (but I never studied gramatics, since there is no official status for this language), I've noticed that the original author affirmed that there is no rule for using minga rather than no and using one or another is a matter of personal taste. By telling the truth, there is a rule, even if it is not always respected, so I decided to edit that part of the article. I hope that nobody gets offended and any correction of my clumpy English is welcome. --Robwaha 13:25, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Minga'' and ''no''
Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Jim Robinson

message: For anyone coming here from the factual accuracy tag, the "factual accuracy dispute," in case it is not entirely clear from the above bits and pieces taken out of the original discussion, centers around two points:
* User:Rangerdude claims it was inappropriate for me to start a VfD with a request to merge, and
* User:Rangerdude claims that since I changed my vote to delete to appease his above claim, I should now have to restart the entire VfD process.
Of course, those of us familiar with VfD (Rangerdude has never been on VfD before this dispute, at least not with this account) know that the second of these objections is completely unfounded--it is not uncommon for people, including the nominator, to change their votes. Further, as I have already addressed his first objection, there should be no problem. --Jonathan Christensen 07:20, 19 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Factual accuracy
Talk:Impa (The Legend of Zelda)

message: It doesn't make sense to Merge. Impa's been in:
The Legend of Zelda (Plot)
Zelda II: Adventure of Link (Plot)
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages
The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons
Plus, she's been merged into OoT characters, which makes no sense, since she's more than an OoT character.
:I didn't put her in OOT chars did I? No, she's in the series chars page because she appears in so many. Any references on the OOT chars page that sound like duplicates were not put there by me. I'll have to check for dupes like that in future.
:But if you feel she deserves her own page back, please revert this. Master Thief Garrett 21:57, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't feel she deserves her own page, and I'm putting her back in the series characters article. I favor Master Thief Garrett's move. The other characters in that article also appear in multiple games, and Impa is no more special than them. (well, some of them, but certainly not all) Deco 05:46, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: hm, hopefully this won't start one of those edit wars or anything nasty like that... hm... Master Thief Garrett 11:32, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: If our friend does think of reverting, I'd encourage him to first take a look at :Category:Legend of Zelda characters and consider whether this article is on a par with the ones listed there. Deco 04:50, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

text: She had minor roles at best in almost all these games, although she's more important than many other minor characters. Unless you can really come up with two pages or more of text on her, I'm suggesting she remain where she is. I won't move it again if you do insist on reverting it though. Deco 23:43, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)

text: I've got to admit, I didn't think she could justify her own article, but now she has not only a fair amount of text but a corresponding article on the Spanish Wikipedia. Deco 19:52, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merging

message: Should Twinrova be added to the Zelda characters box at the bottom of the major character pages?
Superneoking 19:21, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Twinrova

message: Should Impaz be added here from Twilight Princess? H2P (Yell at me for what I've done) 04:47, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably not - she's not actually Impa, and doesn't serve as the nursemaid (the two things linking all of these Impas together). You could put a note that there is a character that may be named after Impa, but that would probably be reverted as OR, since, hell, she could have been named after some Paz character we've yet to meet.KrytenKoro 04:58, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Impaz
Category talk:Roads in the United Kingdom

message: I am thinking  "UK roads", as now used, is a somewhat clumsy category. Road numbers in Northern Ireland are used also in in Great Britain. Therefore Northern Ireland roads and roads in Great Britian seem to belong to separate categories. Laurel Bush 14:03, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: As UK motorways are now listed in seperate England, Northern Ireland, Scotland & Wales sections, maybe we should do this here?Regan123 03:03, 15 October 2006 (UTC)

message: Most of the articles in this category have a sort key, so the road numbers sort numerically, grouped by their first digit, rather than all just sorting under "A" or "B". For example, for the A123, use the category link 1-0123. — sjorford (talk) 11:51, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category sorting 

message: Actually, we could do with adding "(Great Britain)" to each and every one of these. The reason is that this numbering system is used by other countries, leading to dab pages and renaming. So either we're proactive and rename the lot, consistently, or we let each person who comes across this lot (like me, trying to fix A2 road!) chose their own renaming. I vote for the former... :-) JackyR | Talk 18:57, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  I hate to say it, but... 

message: I'm not sure if this is the right place for it?  The only external link is one that leads to a factual the road goes here or there and, I believe, is there only as an easy way to write road based articles?  This kind of detail I would suggest should be left for the actual articles.  What do others think? Regan123 17:58, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Road Block link
Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Old Norse, dates and subgroups)

message: For kings of Norway, a naming convention has already been suggested, wherein it is stated: The naming of monarchs should be true to the form used in the historical sources yet not alienating for the modern, international reader.
:No, this discussion is about how to name the dialects and how to define their respective time spans.--Wiglaf 07:32, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Kings?
Talk:David Holbrook

message: I have started to expand this section with descriptions of his works.  My plan is to gradually move each title into the chronological bibliography as it is described in the main body of the article. That is why some subheadings are empty. --Theo  (Talk) 14:27, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Holbrook's Works

message: It would be good to know what kind of family he came from, what profession his father exercised and what religion if any.-Wwallacee (talk) 05:06, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Family