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Talk:Fess

message: User:Daniel C. Boyer wrote in an edit summary:
: deleting this stuff; blazon is primary, after all, as evidenced, inter alia, by Rietstap having no pictures
I have no quarrel with the deletion, but disagree with the stated justification!  Rietstap has no pictures because they would make the book more costly and bulky.  Blazon is certainly convenient, but if blazon is primary, why are there old rolls with only pictures?  Perhaps DCB had in mind the irrelevancy of details of depiction; that certainly implies that the essence of a coat of arms is somewhat abstract, but that does not in turn mean that it is verbal.
The coat of Holstein is now usually blazoned Gules, a nettle-leaf argent, but some have said that it was originally Argent, a border indented gules. (See Fox-Davies The Art of Heraldry, fig.997, p.411.)  Perhaps DCB sees this confusion as illustrating the primacy of the blazon, and others see it as the opposite! —Tamfang (talk) 18:16, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  blazon is primary? 

message: Gotta say it's weird to get a coat of arms and then want to keep it secret. On another hand I'm not sorry to see it removed as it's not really heraldic style! —Tamfang (talk) 17:41, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  JFL 
Talk:Terry Slater (geographer)

message: This guy is one of the most prominent Historical Geographers in the UK and has had several well respected books published. He's a lot more important than a lot of people on this site, lol. Cls14 23:21, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Is Dr Slater really known as 'Dusty'? I was a student at Birmingham and I don't recall it being used. Poltair (talk) 20:42, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: 'Dusty'
Talk:Canton (heraldry)

message: How about someone explains all the weird un-linked terminology? Malick78 07:03, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, this has to be one of the least coherent articles I've ever seen.  It's like a bad translation into English from another language. - Shaheenjim (talk) 21:57, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: ??

message: Isn't upper dexter, the upper right? In which case is the image currently a mirror image of what it should be? Aamackie (talk) 20:39, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The directions are reckoned from the holder of the shield's perspective, not the viewer's.  --Daniel C. Boyer (talk) 23:16, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: dexter

message: : The highly unusual usage of a "canton bendwise sinister" appears on the emblem of the 410 Flight Test Squadron of the United States Air Force.
This is used in a labored attempt to blazon a field consisting of a tilted US flag. I'm taking it out: the reader does not need a catalog of every quasi-heraldic freak. (Cf WP:WEIGHT). —Tamfang (talk) 19:25, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  a cut 

message: Shouldn't the US Flag be an example of a flag with a canton. It's identified as such (in passing) on the Flag of the United States wikipage  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.16.15.215 (talk) 05:33, 21 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: There probably are other omissions, too.  Go ahead and add them if you like. —Tamfang (talk) 04:53, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Stars and Stripes

message: : Flag of Tuvalu is the final flag with the Union Flag in its canton
This could mean "the permanent flag of Tuvalu (successor to one or more temporary flags) has a Union canton" or "this is the last flag that will ever have the Union canton", but I suspect that final here merely means newest.  Can someone clarify? —Tamfang (talk) 17:16, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  finality 
Talk:Bordure

message: It would be good to have an example of a coat of arms which follows the normal impalement rule, instead of only having an image of a rare archaic exception... AnonMoos (talk) 09:53, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Heh, 'archaic' isn't the precise word I'd choose, since the normal rule is a relic of an archaic practice. — Here's one with an orle. —Tamfang (talk) 21:44, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Illustration

message: This coat of arms does not actually feature a "toothed bordure" -- it's actually a nettle. 77.119.133.107 (talk) 17:59, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: So why does it look so much more like a toothed bordure? —Tamfang (talk) 03:34, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Escut de Palau-solità i Plegamans
Talk:Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System

message: There is a mathematics test in grade 7 as well. 65.96.41.169 23:23, 14 September 2006 (UTC)

message: In my school, there is a scholarship given to many people each year if they do well on the MCAS, I think that should be in there somewhere 71.232.85.127 21:13, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scholarships 

message: There is definitely a lot of concern regarding the fact that MCAS takes up a lot of time in the school year, has not been developed and tested enough, does not always test kids on what they learned that year, forces a "one-size fits all" style of education, costs too much money,.....the list goes on and on. I really think this should be somewhere in the article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Superpig702 (talk • contribs) 23:41, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm in eighth grade taking Math and Science/Engineering MCAS this week (took the English-based one back in March). I've had to cram all the essays in and squeeze onto the last line, Ladder. We've spent probably a month reviewing material in science and math that we learned years ago. Also, I've seen many editorials/articles in the Globe and other highly regarded newspapers that MCAS is a very flawed system, and I wholeheartedly agree. I hate to admit this, but if I wanted to, I could easily synchronize answers with my friends and classmates either during the test, a break, or between days. The form system only half prevents "real-time" cheating, and causes you to search the booklet for a few seconds to find the question a classmate may be referring to. On the note of complaining, all my teachers get stressed and annoyed to hell by preparing for MCAS, then delivering the twenty minute speech word-for-word. Calor (t) 20:14, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

text: Aye. "Open up your test booklet to page..." Calor (t) 00:41, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

text: I have added this to the lead section of the article:
MCAS has been criticized for being too narrow in nature and for pressuring teachers into restricting the curriculum to material covered by the tests. 
I will expand it into a complete section once I can gather more sources. Chris (talk) 23:35, 28 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  No Criticism Section?  
Talk:Demodulator

message: A small correction:
FM does not inherently have better fidelity than AM
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this page needs alot of attention, it is difficult to read and very limited in scope.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.80.63.136 (talk) 09:19, 13 May 2008 (UTC)

message: There is now discussion in Talk:Modulator about making it an actual article instead of redirect. If so, then I suspect this should redirect to that page. But we are not supposed to do double redirect, so I can't change it yet. Gah4 (talk) 17:56, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Modulator]]
Talk:University of Birmingham Guild of Students

message: The Guild of Students publishes a weekly newspaper called Redbrick, which the president holds ultimate control over the contents of as executive editor and can censor it at any time. In 2006 a group of students established an alternative student newspaper and online discussion forum, The Radish.
The second statement requires citation, or probably should be removed. 82.10.216.25 15:05, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Redbrick

message: A user has multiple times edited the name of the president on this site to Richard Morris from Gary Hughes.  The BUGS website (http://www.bugs.bham.ac.uk/yourguild/exec06.asp) indicates that Gary Hughes is currently the president.  I'm not sure why the name of the president is being changed, but I would request some kind of evident that the website is wrong if it is going to be changed from my re-revert to Gary Hughes.TheologyJohn 14:15, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: President
Talk:Ullas kar dutta

message: This article borders on nonsense, and sounds like a hoax. The author removed the previous cleanup tags, adding only an external link to a forum, which does not qualify as a reliable source of information. Please provide proper sources for the claims in the article, and clean the article up (or leave the tags alone). If sources aren't provided, the article may be nominated for deletion. --AbsolutDan (talk) 23:37, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hoax?
Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/Warren Kinsella/Proposed decision

message: I've proposed a temporary injunction on AE at the workshop.  Since a ban on AE's editing of certain articles has already been supported by a majority of the arbitrators, I have proposed that we implement such a ban now as a temporary injunction.  (AE is currently blocked for a week, and this might be moot, but it's not impossible that the ArbComm decision may not be finalized for a while still.  Bucketsofg✐ 14:29, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  proposed temporary injunction 

message: Since one of the few proposals that are not unanimous is regarding article probation, I suggest a slightly different approach that may gain concensus.  It seems to me that wikipedia's normal procedures are normally fine: when IPs become a problem, an admin can semi-protect an article and the problem stops; when someone uses socks abusively, checkuser can be appealed to identify and then block the abusing socks.  The problem is that with a committed vandal, a few minutes of his effort can require several hours of process to stop, and sometimes it is unsuccessful.  In this case, for example, Checkuser turned down a request or two about Ellis.  (I don't criticize the Checkuser-authority for this--care should be taken to prevent fishing expeditions.)
In light of this, I suggest that a protocol be established that lowers the bar for both semi-protect and checkuser.  Specifically, 1. that any user can cite the ArbComm ruling to get a semi-protect on one of the affected articles when magma-IPs begin tendentious editing; 2.  that any user can ask for a check-user on any newish account that is engaged in tendentious editing (which would normally be rejected as a fishing expedition) and that if the IP turns out to be consistent with Ellis/Bourrie's record, that appropriate action be taken. 
This would have the advantage, I think, of using existing procedures, but making them easier to implement.  (Obviously the specific details will need some work.)   Bucketsofg✐ 15:27, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  article probation
Talk:Khaidi (1983 film)

message: KHAIDI  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.247.37.194 (talk) 06:40, 1 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  K H A I D I
Talk:Origin of the Azerbaijanis

message: The article says: " demonstrated to possess significant genetic influences from East Asia relative to their non-Turkic neighbors". The source is:
Influence of the Silk Road Trade on the Craniofacial Morphology
of Populations in Central Asia
Ayesha Yasmeen Hinedi
The Graduate Center, City University of New York,
which does not make such an assertion. In fact, it says Easter Asian influence is less the further West and Azerbijan is well in the West. I just cannot understand why people make things up on Wikipedia. Donotmakestuffup (talk) 04:51, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  unsupported assertion
Talk:Bellérophon

message: Not even the Viking guide??? Musikfabrik 23:46, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources??? 
Talk:Camp James A. Garfield

message: Please note that, despite the name, the RTLS is not in Ravenna.  In fact, the site does not occupy any part of either the City of Ravenna or Ravenna Township, and no entrance to the facility directly serves Ravenna.  This is key:  Presently, the only active entrance to the facility is in Braceville Township (which isn't even in Portage County, for whatever that's worth).  Another entrance, that depicted by the photograph in the infobox, is in Windham and is currently inactive, although discussions are underway to reactivate that entrance for at least utility access.  Two other entrances to the facility are located in Paris Township:  One, at the northern terminus of State Route 225, is clearly inactive.  The other, to the west along State Route 5, I believe is also inactive.  None of these entrances are oriented toward Ravenna.  
It's a bit of a mystery why the RTLS is even named for Ravenna:  I'm not convinced that mail is delivered through Ravenna to the site anymore, as it's presently staffed solely by military personnel.  Perhaps mail was once delivered to the Paris Twp. gates via Ravenna, but mail to the Braceville gate would probably have come through Newton Falls, and the barracks for contractors and personnel were located in Windham (with mail delivery through that post office to their residences).  Ravenna is also not the closest municipality:  That would be Windham, with Newton Falls the next closest.  But regardless, information about this facility doesn't belong to the article at Ravenna, Ohio.  There are other articles which would be well-enhanced with that info.  Thanks. -- JeffBillman (talk) 01:42, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed.  The townships that lost much of their land to the site should definitely have it mentioned as well as the village of Windham (I believe it is mentioned) since the site played a pivotal role in the development of Windham in the 1940s and 50s.  As for why it is named after Ravenna, it is likely because Ravenna is the closest city of importance.  Ravenna in the 1940's was about the same size as it is today, so was relatively important (more so than today) and was already known for being the county seat of Portage County.  Much of the land occupied by the Logistics Site is inside the Ravenna ZIP code, but I am not sure where they actually get their mail from. One thing is for certain: it is not located in Ravenna or Ravenna Township.  --JonRidinger (talk) 01:59, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Funny thing is, I think I had included info about the RTLS in every article about Windham except Windham, Ohio.  Oops.  It's there now.  Also, my mother tells me about how Richard Nixon toured the facility (along with Windham), possibly in 1968.  Any info we can find on that tour would be golden... rvaap.org contains a PDF about a 1968 site tour, but I can't get it to open. -- JeffBillman (talk) 02:15, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Location
Talk:Melville Elijah Stone

message: I removed the reference to Stone being responsible for prices ending in 9, such as 99 cents, since it appears to be untrue:
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a3_166.html
Pha telegrapher 23:56, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added the penny story back into the article, with references to Paul Harvey and the article linked above.  -FeralDruid (talk) 10:31, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Stone and Pennies
Talk:Urairat Soimee

message: This article contains no references but has a bunch of external links.  References are sources of information used within the article.  External links contain information that is not used in the article.  If the items shown under external links were actually used in the article, they should be renamed as "references". Patiwat 23:57, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: References vs. External links

message: This article is heavily biased with sympathy to Urairat Soimee and does not even write the fact that she was prosecuted with charge of murder. --79.242.145.79 (talk) 14:56, 28 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Biased article
Talk:Hunter Army Airfield

message: The only source I can find for Hunter AAF being an alternate or emergency landing site for the Space Shuttle is the history page from Fort Stewart. Is there a source that gives context for when it was selected and whether it is still a selected site? The other thing I think I understand about emergency landing sites is that they originally required 10,000 - 15,000 feet of runway to allow the Shuttle to land and rollout. --Born2flie (talk) 02:22, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shuttle landing site 
Talk:Betta St. John

message: The article says, "ended her career as the heroine of Horror Hotel (1960). She continued to act in films and television until 1965 when she retired." 
Obviously, if she continued to act until 1965, she didn't end her career in 1960. Kostaki mou (talk) 14:18, 10 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction
Talk:Taboo (drink)

message: ----
A ha! Just learnt how to put new pages into categories. Useful! Cls14 00:02, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Luxeuil-les-Bains

message: What does "twinned", in the first paragraph, mean?  --Pharillon 00:07, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Town twinning is another term for "sister cities", a modern concept of really no encyclopedic importance, as applied to articles on towns (of course, it should have an article on the general topic), to begin with. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont]  ‹(-¿-)› 17:01, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: "Twinned"?

message: The pronuciation of this would be a good thing to add to the lead. Most English speakers will have no idea at all how to pronounce this even approximately. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont]  ‹(-¿-)› 17:01, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation
Talk:Brod, Bosnia and Herzegovina

message: Per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names)#Disambiguation, if the place is called "Xyz" ("Brod"), and it can't use that (and it can't because in worldwide and English usage it's too generic), it is disambiguated. It can't be disambiguated to "Brod (town)" because that same designation works for several other places listed at Brod. It is therefore disambiguated by the country in which the places lies, if this is sufficient. Apparently this might not be sufficient because there are at least two more villages called "Brod" in Bosnia and Herzegovina. But, neither of them currently have articles on the English Wikipedia, so the town takes precedence. When they do get articles, the town can still take precedence, and the villages will use the name of a smaller administrative division instead. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 10:09, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  title 

message: درس أفعال المقاربة والرجاء والشروع 196.158.193.105 (talk) 09:24, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  لغه عربيه
Talk:Synthesis

message: I don't think these subjects are related, in any way. (Chemical synthesis, sound synthesis, philosophical synthesis).
I think what we're looking for here is a disambiguation page. ----CharlesGillingham 04:45, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree. The "other uses" tag at the top claims, This is an article about the philosophical concept. In fact, it is not. Only two sentences are about philosophy. The bulk of the article is about chemical synthesis and should probably be merged in to that article. This one should be chopped up and replaced with a disambiguation page. Hult041956 02:00, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestion: Change this to a disambiguation page
Talk:ITest

message: There is a new logo for the iTest. (image for 2006 can be found on the official website)ExterayT.C 00:41, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. Temperalxy 19:39, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
Talk:James McEachin

message: I could be mistaken, but I think he played another police lieutenant. Will 00:51, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  McEachin may have had a [[Matlock (TV series)|Matlock]] role 

message: I did some major spelling and grammar corrections on this article.  It still needs a lot of work, especially when it comes to backing up all the claims made.  I did not go through each claim and check them — hence the "noreferences" tag.  Highlights:
* I've added the "cleanup" tag to the top, and I've given the article a preliminary cleanup, hopefully fixing the worst of it.
* I've added the "noreferences" tag to the top.  In addition I've tagged especially notable claims that are not cited — mostly awards.  I also tagged his movie Old Glory because I noticed that it is presented as if it's a career milestone yet doesn't appear on the Internet Movie Database.
* I've removed the line "for his role as the first black man to have his own show on NBC called TENAFLY".  Besides it being very silly grammatically, I don't understand "have his own show on NBC".  Was he the first black star of a TV fiction series?  First black star of an NBC series?  Someone needs to look this up and re-add it, or maybe just forget about it.
--Closeapple 03:36, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup (August 2007 round) 

message: He also briefly starred as Tenafly on NBC Mystery Movie, but I remember almost nothing about it US 71 (talk) 13:49, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tenafly 

message: He was also in a Columbo called "Make me s perfect murder,'. 151.203.70.159 (talk) 00:54, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Columbo 

message: Appeared on Emergency! S2, Ep21 as a trapped construction worker, who wants Roy to amputate his leg to free him in time. Photo1516 (talk) 18:20, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  additional Emergency! episode 

message: He played a gymn owner Mr (Freddie?) Rivers, not Officer Wood. 2600:1700:3B6D:9810:5D05:464D:D6AE:1E46 (talk) 23:17, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adam-12
Talk:List of roads in Kuala Lumpur

message: Since "jalan" is the Malaysian word for "road or street", should it be considered part of the proper name (kata name khas) of the roads? I say this because I think the roads should be listed according to their proper name, eg. Jalan Ampang should be Ampang, Jalan. Annie D 00:56, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes it should, considering Las Vegas Boulevard, Main Street and Infinite Loop all have identifiers in their proper names, even in the US the word "street" or the number of other words that means some form of road are part of the street name.  æron phone home  16:26, 18 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jalan 
Talk:HAT-P-1b

message: Does someone know more about HAT-P-1? Saw an article on yahoo news.
Here's the discovery e-print on arXiv: HAT-P-1b: A Large-Radius, Low-Density Exoplanet Transiting one Member of a Stellar Binary. Since the designation is clearly HAT-P-1b, not HAT-P-1, I'm moving the article. Chaos syndrome 22:15, 15 September 2006 (UTC)