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Talk:Bill Travers

message: Why is he called "Lindon-Travers" and his sister "Linden-Travers" ?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.67.205.187 (talk) 23:04, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Actual name ? 

message: This entry currently says, In 1976 he wrote, directed, and produced the film, "Christian the Lion" then that same year acted in "The Lion Who Thought He Was People"
I believe those are two different names for the same movie, a documentary in which Bill Travers appears in the introductory set-up and as narrator.  George Adamson (of Born Free fame) was also in this film. A third name for the film, the one used in the referenced IMDB listing, is The Lion at World's End. You can see movie posters for two of the titles here: 
the placebo 21:09, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Christian the Lion 

message: The article states that The Bridal Path was a 1960 film but the article on the film itself says it was released on 5 August 1959. The citation in the latter is a blog, so perhaps not ideal. We should at least be consistent. Exbrum (talk) 11:18, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Bridal Path: release date
Talk:Geoffrey Keen

message: I don't think he counts as an alumnus of the London School of Economics if he accepted a place but did not go there. JMcC 00:44, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: LSE

message: It seems most sources list Keen as born in Wallingford, Surrey rather than Wallingford, Oxfordshire.
Sciencebloke 22:00, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Wallingford

message: Minutiae, I know, but Wallingford has never been in Surrey (as one who lived in and worked near Wallingford for about 18 years). I see the main page says 'Berkshire' which was correct pre county boundary changes. However, Wallingford is now in Oxfordshire. Longfinal (talk) 20:53, 5 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wallingford - the sequal
Talk:Mail cover

message: This article should be substantially revised to be improved.  --Daniel C. Boyer 19:08, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Western Scheldt

message: I'm a bit surprised that this article uses the name Flushing exclusively to refer to the Dutch town of Vlissingen.
Linguistic issues can be politically difficult, but to use an English name for a Dutch town, without giving the
official Dutch name seems to be excessively chauvinistic. However, I did not edit the page, in case there are some
good reasons for not using the Dutch name. blahblahblah,,,,..///,, pew uioqt
Sangwine 19:09, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I guess "...In absence of a common English name, the current local name of the city should be used..." from guideline Wikipedia:Naming conventions (settlements) is the reason. --Van helsing 12:36, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Kayah Li

message: can someone undelete this http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Talk:Kayah_Li ??? Tobias Conradi (Talk) 19:16, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Please leave this alone now. Evertype 12:19, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

message: Can an admin state whether the old talk was allowed to be speedily deleted? It was part of a dispute and contained edits originally made here not only stuff copied as claimed by the deleting admin. Tobias Conradi (Talk) 15:25, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: For some reason I am unable to see the deleted content, and thus cannot determine whether it should have been deleted... and wouldn't be able to do anything about it. Most likely it got moved somewhere else just prior to deletion of the page... which relocated the history away from here. It might be recoverable from wherever else that was, but I haven't been able to locate it. --CBD 16:23, 3 September 2006 (UTC)

text: Talk pages of deleted articles are valid speedy deletion targets. If the article is back, then the talk page could be restored, but while it was deleted, the talk should have been as well. There are only limited exceptions to this principle. ++Lar: t/c 18:07, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Deletion of Talk
Talk:Henry Pickering Bowditch

message: Zargulon, I've never heard of him either, but he is in the Top 1000 Scientists: From the Beginning of Time to 2000 AD book. That list is hopelessly bungled and parochially anglophile, but I've removed the notability tag nevertheless. Afasmit 08:01, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Notability tag

message: The Dictionary of Scientific Biography provided the clue that HP Bowditch is known for his development of the research-teaching context in Harvard medical education. It lists these students as notable: Warren P. Lombard, Joseph W. Warren, Isaac Ott, G. M. Garland, and William F. Southward. They do not seem to be yet in WP. Two other students have mentions that are not necessary noteworthy: James P. Putnam is mentioned in the Ira Van Gieson article, and Robert W. Lovett is mentioned as misdiagnosing Franklin D. Roosevelt's paralytic illness. Given the calibre of students at Harvard, one might have hoped for a better output. Nevertheless, more looking is needed to appraise the Bowditch teaching lab.Rgdboer (talk) 23:16, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Students
Talk:Henry Vaughan (architect)

message: Hey, an i.p. editor has several times removed a spouse name in the infobox, citing a source that Vaughan was never married.  Others have been restoring it, I think wrongly.  The information has been challenged, so for the moment it is best to show nothing there.
The info was originally added in this edit by User:Chamberednautilus.
Chamberednautilus, could you please comment? --Doncram (talk) 01:06, 3 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  never married, or spouse
Talk:Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton

message: "the Jesuit Thomas Campion had been in contact with the Earl"
Surely this is not the composer?  That's whom it links to… Paul Magnussen (talk) 16:14, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for catching that error! I've corrected it. NinaGreen (talk) 17:46, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thomas Campion?
Talk:The Moth Confesses

message: A man reminisces about his first love, which ended in a painful breakup ("Brilliant Colors") and contemplates what he should do next ("Cowboy"), ending up in Los Angeles.  He works on getting on with his life, working in the entertainment industry in various capacities, including as a writer ("The New Life Out There").  He goes through several more relationships ("Morning, Girl"), ("Midsummer"), ("Little Sparrow"), and finally encountering a lost unrequited love ("The Last Time I Saw Jacqueline") appearing morose, and decides not to end up like her.  Some time later, he is married, and makes contact with his second love for old time's sake ("Morning Girl, Revisted"), telling her than she will ultimately forget about him, even though she has yet to find someone for herself.  The opera concludes with a recapitulation of the interlude from "Brilliant Colors" including vocalizations by a chorus.
Andy Zax told me that he found my attempt to see a narrative in the "opera" admirable, but that Saussy would not have approved of my attempt to give it one.  It is true enough that there is a recapitualition of the "Brilliant Colors" interlude at the end of "Morning Girl, Revisited" and that the songs have a musical interrelationship. --Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 17:57, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Opera synopsis
Talk:John Garrie

message: I heard of John Garrie Roshi several years ago from people who had studied under him (he used to live in this part of the world). Then in recent weeks I saw the name John Garrie in the cast list of a couple of old cult TV programmes on ITV4. That made me wonder if it was the same person. I looked on Wikipedia, but there wasn't an article. However, having looked on other web pages I am now 99% sure they are one and the same person. If so I feel he is notable enough to have an article here. I hope there's someone out there who knows more about him than I do and can fill in more details (or correct any inadvertent mistakes). Hoblok 19:33, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Embryonic stem cell/Archive 1

message: Embryonic stem cells → Embryonic stem cell … Rationale: According to Wikipedia:Naming_conventions#Prefer_singular_nouns. SOME_article_titles_should_be_plural raises some valid points, but in that case Cell (biology) and so on should be plural too... Furthermore, all other stem cell articles are singular. Currently Embryonic stem cell is an inappropriate redirect to Stem cell … Please share your opinion at Talk:Embryonic stem cells. Peter Znamenskiy 18:23, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Makes sense. —Nightstallion (?) 09:02, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested move

message: Embryonic stem (ES) cells are pluripotent, not totipotent.  Totipotency implies an ability to contribute to all extraembryonic (placental) tissues, in addition to all three embryonic germ layers.  ES cells can only contribute to the three germ layers. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mellogirl (talk • contribs) 03:22, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree 100%. By the way, please sign your comments on talk pages with four tildes - ~~~~. --Peter Z.Talk 06:11, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  ES cells are pluripotent, not totipotent 
Talk:Howard Bingham

message: Is it worth noting that he testified at the OJ criminal trial?Rja13ww33 (talk) 01:42, 9 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  OJ Trial
Talk:William Beatty (surgeon)

message: The guideline on the naming of this city can be found at Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Ireland-related articles (specifically WP:DERRY):
*Use Derry for the city and County Londonderry for the county in articles.
I see no reason why this article should be exempt from the guideline, and I will be restoring the consensus version. If anyone wishes to seek consensus for their preferred version, they are welcome to make a case for it here. FDW777 (talk) 18:52, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Derry not Londonderry
Talk:Shuttle-C

message: Oppose - We should have sepearate articles about these rockets. --GW_SimulationsUser Page | Talk 19:39, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger with [[SDLV]]
Talk:William Reid Clanny

message: I have a reference here that Dr. Clanny while chief physician at Sunderland Royal Infirmary wrote "Hyperanthraxis", "the first scientific treatise on cholera" during the 1831 outbreak.
The reference is from a partly-fictional work, though (Alice in  Sunderland). Any medical historians able to further shore up the claim?
Chaikney (talk) 17:04, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  First scientific treatise on cholera?
Talk:Last Resort font

message: Well, there's this article and then there's the info on the same font in Fonts on the Mac. And also in Fallback font. What should be done? Please let's discuss this here and decide. Evertype 19:54, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If there's any useful information in one article that the other two don't have...why not merge all those articles to Fallback font (since that's the most general article) and bring up the Mac-specific topics in a section?  --Ingeborg S. Nordén 23:27, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Einhard

message: <quote>Once there, the relics made it known they were unhappy with their new tomb and thus had to be moved again to Mulinheim. Once established there, they proved to be miracle workers. </quote>
So that’s scientifically established now? Impressive!2A02:AA1:1015:34CB:9C78:792:14CC:B921 (talk) 09:32, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Miracles
Talk:Albert of Aix

message: Before I move this back, I thought I would at least ask...has anyone ever called this guy "Albert of Aix-la-Chapelle"? He is always Albert of Aix or Albert of Aachen. Of course there are many places named Aix and of course he was from Aachen/Aix-la-Chapelle, but that's not really the point. Aside from a few results on Google (which is now completely skewed thanks to this page being moved), he is basically never called "Albert of Aix-la-Chapelle". Adam Bishop (talk) 20:42, 20 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  of Aix-la-Chapelle?
Talk:Neuromuscular medicine

message: Article titles shouldn't be adjectives. Neuromuscular currently reads like a dictdef with some mostly redundant stuff from Neuromuscular junction and so on, but Neuromuscular medicine has the potential to be a full article. —Keenan Pepper 19:52, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge from [[Neuromuscular]] 
Talk:Niketas Choniates

message: This article is extraordinary misleading in whom Niketas Choniates was. He was a top government official for one of the ruling families of Constantinople and the Byzantines - that is his cause for the proximity to the events prior to the 1204 C.E. destruction of Constantinople and his first-hand accounts of all of these events. He is an insider to Byzantine history, but he is a historian after the fact... Did any of the contributors to this article actually read the text that he is famous for writing? It doesn't appear that they have... Stevenmitchell (talk) 18:09, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: The article is sparse and needs work, but I fail to see anything "extraordinary misleading". Nothing that you wrote above contradicts the article in the slightest. Constantine   ✍  18:50, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't see anything misleading either, but, Steven, by all means improve and extend the text. It's true that his notability in his lifetime, and his notability now, have different causes. (I guess that's true of some other people.) Is that the point you're making? Certainly, say it in the article! Andrew Dalby 08:38, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Very misleading article
Talk:Immersion heater

message: What a hugely informative article. Come on, people - you can do better than that. I need to know about them.
:I have written a section about immersion heaters within the electric heating article and redirected this page to it.  This is because immersion heaters are used for other purposes besides domestic water heating. Biscuittin (talk) 14:01, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Joe Byrd

message: Given that the USA record, for which he is best known, credits him as "Joseph Byrd", and given that (I assume) the man himself made the edit to add "(no one except Columbia Records ever called him "Joe")", would this page not be better titled Joseph Byrd, rather than Joe ?
Ghmyrtle 19:53, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Joe or Joseph ?
Talk:Dutch Canadians

message: Does anyone have reliable sources that say the following are Dutch-Canadian?
*Trevor Linden  (1970 - ) ice hockey player in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Vancouver Canucks
Mad Jack 19:53, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources

message: The name of this article should be Dutch Canadian, because a Dutch-Canadian is a canadian citizen of dutch descent.
Greatings,
84.241.220.148 21:37, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dutch-Canadian 
Talk:Jean Froissart

message: Froissart is described here as "a medieval French author", but the article says he was from Valenciennes and in the service of Philippa of Hainaut and Joanna of Brabant. None of this seems to make him French. He *spoke* French, but that doesn't make him French either. Does "French author" just mean "author of books in French"? --Andreas Philopater (talk) 07:56, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nationality? 

message: The gallery consists entirely of miniatures from later illuminated editions of the Chronicles, which don't have much direct relation to Froissart himself. Many of the images already appear on the Chronicles article. I'm removing the section. Jfmantis (talk) 20:33, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Gallery

message: I've seen him referred to as not just John Froissart, but Sir John Froissart.  Is this title documented anywhere?  --  Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 06:01, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Interesting, wherefrom have you seen him has “Sir John Froissart”? 2A00:23C7:2B13:9001:B581:F6B6:2663:526B (talk) 03:23, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Sir John?
Talk:Hole in the Wall Gang (comedy)

message: I can't find any sources for Nuala McKeever ever being in the Hole in the Wall Gang so I'm going to remove that - if any one can find a reliable source then restore it or whatever  09:49, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nuala McKeever 
Talk:Joseph Barondess

message: "Romanian Opera Company": I know this was one of the prominent NYC Yiddish theatres of the time, but I forget whose. Maybe Sigmund Mogulesko? Anyway, if someone knows, that would be a good addition. - Jmabel | Talk 19:57, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Romanian Opera Company

message: His passport application gives the D.O.B. 3 Jul 1875. Can anyone account for the discrepancy or source the D.O.B. specifically?  Thanks ClaudeReigns (talk) 07:51, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Date of Birth

message: Making use of the resources at Brandeis University documenting Louis Brandeis' family tree, I was unable to verify the connection to Joseph Barondess. The claim may be a peacock; can anyone verify the actual connection, if any? ClaudeReigns (talk) 08:00, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Kinship with Louis Brandeis
Talk:Dubhaltach Mac Fhirbhisigh

message: Is there any chance we can get someone to do a pronunciation / read-out-loud thing for this entry?  I, a native english speaker, haven't the foggiest notion of how to approach that name.
--BSweezy 01:19, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: His name also appears, Englished and Latinised to various degrees, as Duald Mac Firbis, Dudly Ferbisie, and Dualdus Firbissius. Angus McLellan  (Talk) 19:48, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Doo-uhl-tock Moc Feer-bish-ig is an approximation of how it is pronounced (the 'k' in the 'tock' section is soft), if that helps anyone with IPA knowledge but no Irish to come up with a pronounciation guide. ANB (talk) 20:45, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: /ˈduːəltəx mɑk ˈir'viʃiː/ or /ˈfir'viʃiː/ if spelt with unlenited "f" (i.e. Mac Firbhisigh) which is also common.Murchadh (talk) 03:47, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  How to pronounce? 
Talk:Zachary Macaulay

message: The change of Macaulay to MacAulay seems to have no reason given, and as all current usage is to spell the name Macaulay (without the capital 'A'), I propose to revert this article to the usual spelling. There seems to be little consistency here, as you have continued to spell his father's and son's family name in the traditional way. Cheers – Agendum 17:26, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalisation of surname
Talk:G. M. Trevelyan

message: I noticed a number of references using the url to a Google Book link. I though editors might be interested in a tool which takes a link as input and creates a (usually) properly formatted ref.
Wikipedia citation tool for Google Books
I used it to improve two such references.
It really helps creates a much cleaner list of references. I hope you will try it. S Philbrick(Talk) 19:24, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  References
Talk:George Bancroft

message: I removed the unreferenced statement that Bancroft took a high moral ground as to the propriety of slavery.  In all references I can find, Bancroft did not defend the propriety of slavery; he considered it morally wrong.  The assumption that he considered slavery morally right because he was a Democrat is not supported; many Northern Democrats opposed slavery, or at least its expansion. Pirate Dan (talk) 15:28, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bancroft and slavery 

message: In place articles, there are only two trailing sections: Notes and Externals (which may be further broken down). Here there are three, which looks okay, but I thought violated "the" rules. Can't seem to find one for bios though. Student7 (talk) 12:04, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Small point 
Talk:James Harrington (author)

message: editing and improvement of the last 3 paragraphs.  70.110.208.173 18:05, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: comment

message: Recently the file :File:James Harrington by Sir Peter Lely.jpg (right) was uploaded and it appears to be relevant to this article and not currently used by it. If you're interested and think it would be a useful addition, please feel free to include it. Dcoetzee 00:43, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  New file [[:File:James Harrington by Sir Peter Lely.jpg]]
Talk:F. E. McWilliam

message: I removed the phrase "The most internationally distinguished artist to have been born in Ulster in the 20th century.", as I regarded this as NPOV. Mouse Nightshirt 10:39, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed NPOV statement 

message: On episode 20 of the 40th series of BBC's Antiques Roadshow, broadcast on 29 July 2018, a group of three McWilliam pieces was appraised by expert Mark Hill, who gave an auction estimate of £15,000.  Martinevans123 (talk) 22:11, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''[[Antiques Roadshow]]''
Talk:Alexander Herzen

message: 'His autobiography My Past and Thoughts, written with grace, energy, and ease, is often considered the best specimen of that genre in Russian literature.' Says who? 109.154.130.112 (talk) 19:49, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: POV?

message: I think there is an error in the dating in this piece. It says that Herzen eloped with his cousin and married her in 1846. Herzen's autobiography says that they eloped in 1838, while he was still in exile in Vladimir and 2 years before he went to Saint Petersburgh.
(Alexander Herzen: Ends and Beginnings, Oxford Paperbacks.)
Unless someone provides a reason not to, I will change the article to reflect this.
80.169.162.100 (talk) 15:54, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Dating

message: I would like to inquire about the author's surname. Ге́рцен starts with the letter "Г" which is literally "G" in Latin alphabet. Should it not be Gerzen?Ertly (talk) 07:31, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naming 

message: There is an RfC on the question of using "Religion: None" vs. "Religion: None (atheist)" in the infobox on this and other similar pages. 
The RfC is at Template talk:Infobox person#RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion. 
Please help us determine consensus on this issue. --Guy Macon (talk) 09:16, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Template talk:Infobox person#RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion|Request for Comments]] 
Talk:Justin Winsor

message: Edited the section that stated Winsor graduated from Harvard in 1853.  In fact, he left and never received his degree from Harvard.  My citation and Bartelby.com verify this fact.Petercannon usf (talk) 17:18, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: According to Samuel eliot Morrison, Mr. Winsor wrote narrative and critical history of America 1884 - 89.. 2601:703:4201:92B0:59AE:7EA6:33E0:312C (talk) 14:18, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other writings
Template talk:User mathematician

message: Why is the pi capitalized? Shouldn't \pi make a lowercase one and \Pi make the uppercase?
:The pi is capitalized. You probably have your preferences set so that simple math is rendered in HTML, and the font you're using doesn't produce the glyph you're expecting for a lower-case pi. For comparison, a lower-case pi is \pi, and an upper-case pi is \Pi. —Bkell (talk) 13:10, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Case
Talk:Johan Ludvig Runeberg

message: "Sweden ignominiously lost Finland, which became a Grand Duchy in the Russian empire."
I find this part a bit misleading since finland was a grand duchy since the 1600th century, however only in name, but still.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.32.7.33 (talk) 00:27, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  A bit misleading 

message: The "early life" section seems anachronistic, for example in saying that "grandfather Ludvig had moved to Finland from Sweden", when they moved from what was then the western half of Sweden to a Swedish-speaking city in the eastern half of Sweden. I'm not sure how to fix this elegantly, but surely the same issues arise for many, many historical persons where the country borders have changed, like Germans or Poles. —St.Nerol (talk, contribs) 19:24, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Country anachronisms