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Talk:Brian Howe (politician)

message: I think it is a lot more important to catalog the legacy of politicians while in office than a description of the deck chairs they have shuffled. I am including a new section on Contribution which will take several drafts to complete - as Howe's contribution is very significant.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Redabyss1 (talk • contribs) 00:41, 4 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:   Contribution
Talk:Brian Menell

message: I removed content that stated Menell is the Chairman of Agricor Ltd (an African fertiliser and feedstock company) as it was uncited. I have had a search and am unable to find any reference let alone a quality source. If anyone can source a reference do consider re-adding. 
Tgilby (talk) 14:02, 12 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Agricor Ltd
Talk:Demerit good

message: I have reverted this user's edits, which cleared much useful information and was largely incoherent. It is reproduced below:
In economics, a demerit good is a good which is socially undesirable and its consumption usually results in negative externalities.Like merit good, a demerit good is excludable and rival in consumption and has no inherent characteristics. Examples of demerit goods include alcoholic drinks ,addictive drugs andcigarettes.
In most cases, the government has to intervene in the provision of demerit goods as consumers may over estimate the benefits of the good and hence overconsume it. This is largely due to consumer's imperfect knowlege of the good. As a result, the government may intervene through taxes,regulation,moral suasion and international co-operation.''
In case anybody wants to discuss this, please post here. -Grick(talk to me!) 16:37, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Revert

message: Describe the economic theories related to merit and demerit goods 103.75.21.251 (talk) 21:02, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Economic
Talk:Nicholas Kenyon

message: Not much on his time as controller of BBC R3. His changes were extremely controversial with accusations of dumbing down. --Ef80 (talk) 22:08, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  BBC Radio 3 
Talk:Brian Schmidt

message: As at July 2007, article contains text "traced the Universe's expansion back nearly 8 billion light years." This reads like an error to me, as a light year is a distance, not a time. Can someone more knowledgeable fix this, or else confirm here that it's right? Ian Page 06:43, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error? 

message: "I have been described by one of my colleagues as a "militant agnostic" with my tagline, "I don't know, and neither do you!". I take this hard-line, fence-sitting position because it is the only position consistent with both my scientific ethos and my conscience."
Brian Schmidt on "God"
A true agnostic wouldn't include "and neither do you!" Tony Rodi (talk) 08:23, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Existence of God 

message: The belief that "God", as defined by an atheist, does not exist.
Seems somewhat meaningless. 
Tony Rodi (talk) 23:50, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you making a suggestion about how to improve this article?  If so, I'm afraid that I can't make out what your suggestion is; please clarify it.--Gronk Oz (talk) 10:29, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

text: I still am not clear what change you are proposing. Looking at the sources, it seems to me that the article accurately summarizes what they say about his religious views.  I am not sure how you think the ancient Romans' views on Christianity relate to this article about Brian Schmidt.  Nor what atheism has to do with it; that is not mentioned in any of the sources.  Perhaps if there is a reliable source where he discusses those matters, it might be worth a brief mention - do you have such sources?  On your second point, I have searched this article and the word "favor" does not appear in it.--Gronk Oz (talk) 11:23, 1 February 2017 (UTC)

text: oops, I got the ping wrong on my previous post. --Gronk Oz (talk) 11:25, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Atheism 
Talk:Tomcar

message: Hi PIXTOM. I hope your version of this page will look less like an advertisement. Please disclose what (if any) is your relation to the subject matter.
--Samfreed 16:43, 16 September 2006 (UTC)

message: Needs disambiguation with Tomcar Australia as well as the original French usage.  
Would be nice to know who created the name and the concept, too. yoyo (talk) 04:42, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  DAB
Talk:Elizabeth Klarer

message: See Wikipedia:Footnotes for an explanation of how to generate footnotes using the <ref(erences/)> tags Nhl4hamilton (talk) 07:52, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Citations & References

message: Both sites ars registered personally to Michael Salla (via a P.O. box in Hawaii). Based on the site information (http://www.galacticdiplomacy.com/about.htm and http://exopolitics.org/about.htm) they exist to promote the existence of ETs and to sell services or raise money to enable others to contact ETs. The sites are self published, have no official affiliations and cannot be considered a reliable source, in any way independent or of academic interest. The sites fail WP:RS as a reference and WP:ELNO as a link. The sites might only be suitable for an article on Michael Salla or his company, the "Exopolitics Institute" based on the guidance of WP:SELFPUB.—Ash (talk) 14:51, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Using galacticdiplomacy.com or exopolitics.org as a source or link 

message: Do anyone know anything about it? 2409:4073:2E80:B886:0:0:F1C9:D913 (talk) 04:55, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm curious too about this. 41.121.45.190 (talk) 11:06, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Did Elizabeth Klarer gave birth to the alien baby?
Talk:Samuel Eaton Thompson

message: I've fixed the punctuation of this article, included conversions into metres of the measurements given in feet (for the benefit of non-American readers), and harmonised the spelling (which contained a mixture of Commonwealth and American spelling) into American spelling (seeing as though the article is about an American).--Life in General (Talk) 06:07, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Slight cleanup
Talk:Craniofacial surgery

message: This stub mentions trauma a few times, but mostly deals with birth defects.  I am not particularly qualified to flesh it out, but as someone who had facial reconstruction done directly after facial trauma, I am curious if that was anomalous when compared to the number of surgeries done on account of congenital defects.  mordicai. 16:54, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah-ha!  It seems that Oral and maxillofacial surgery is the subject more at hand for these issues.  mordicai. 01:52, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trauma 

message: It should be noted:
Craniofacial Surgery like hand surgery is a shared surgical discipline.  Craniofacial Surgery is a shared field between both Plastic and Reconstructive sureons (PRS) and Oral and Maxillofacial surgeons (OMS).  Both specialties have their own craniofacial surgical fellowships that focus on this type of training.  Both specialties are able to train surgeons to take on the role of the Cheif Craniofacial surgeon of a of a craniofacial unit.
Here is an example of an OMS craniofacial fellowship:  OMS-Craniofacial
Here is an example of a Plastics craniofacial fellowship:   PRS-Craniofacial
More information:
BAOMS - What is Craniofacial surgery?
Jwri7474 06:43, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Craniofacial Surgery Fellowships available to both Plastics and Maxillofacial graduates 
Talk:Optic flow

message: Aren't "optic flow" and "optical flow" synonyms?
They have different entries in Wikipedia but seem similar.
--150.241.250.3 (talk) 09:45, 11 December 2007 (UTC)

message: This information should definitely be merged into optical flow. Will the author please do this. Dhatfield (talk) 10:03, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, based on the old proposal and current status, I went ahead and redirected it.  If anything got lost, it can picked up from the history. Dicklyon (talk) 04:50, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge, definitely
Talk:Bruce Williams (talk radio host)

message: Bruce mentioned on his 11/14/2006 show (first segment) that in 1975 he replaced Dave Marish's show which was called Dave Marrish On-Call.  Bruce stated that his show was called Bruce Williams On Call, which is in conflict with what the radio hall of fame website mentions.  Should the article be changed? Stivo 13:57, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bruce's first radio show? 

message: That would be fun to hear, since I was able to contribute some to the article.  I would still like to see more about Bruce's military service and something about how old he actually is.  Stivo 04:01, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  How old is Bruce? 

message: His web site states he graduated high school in 1950.  This would almost certainly mean he was born in 1932. http://www.brucewilliams.com/brucebio.htm. John celona 11:40, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not comfortable going on that page alone for determining birth year, since it's inexact.  High school graduation is not necessarily a good measure of age.  SchuminWeb (Talk) 18:47, 26 June 2007 (UTC)

text: Still notr sufficiently verifiable.  SchuminWeb (Talk) 18:41, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

text: I agree with SchuminWeb.  The article cannot state that he was born in 1932 if we do not indeed know he was born in 1932.  I am going to take that out of the article since is not known factually.  Personally, I would love to know more information regarding his birthday and time spent in the military.  We may not know any of that until after he is gone as he is very hush-hush regarding any age-related information.  I have listened to Bruce for years and years.  My assumption is that he does not disclose it in fear that his age, as opposed to his advice, might become a distraction to listeners.  --Stivo (talk) 23:48, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Born 1932 

message: "Maurice Tunick, Talknet creator and Executive Producer remembers the incident:
“ 	"Bruce was critically injured and nearly clinically dead when he arrived at the Medical Center of Princeton. One week later he was back on the air from his hospital room and did his show from there for a week before he was released and originated his program from home for the next three months. We were told at the time this was the first national radio show to originate from a hospital.""
This contradicts the biography on Bruce's biography page that states it wasn't until 4 weeks after the crash that he was once again broadcasting. Bruce has also mentioned on his show that he was drifting in and out of consciousness for about a month after the crash.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.176.44.37 (talk) 12:26, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plane Crash
Talk:Ray Coleman

message: Here is Ray Coleman (from 1min 40sec) in 1970 when he would have been 33, looking about 63. Acorrector (talk) 19:43, 12 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Television appearance 1970
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Formula One/To-do

message: Hello, 
I made the Article Rob Marshall (motorsport). But it says it needs to stay in review for weeks? Why is that? When I was an IP my edits where visible instant?
:Can you give a link to the article or to the review? Zwerg Nase (talk) 11:01, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you not just create the article by clicking this link? I don't think it has to go through a review. Zwerg Nase (talk) 11:27, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

text: I have just applied for reviewer rights, so if that goes through (which it should), I will review the draft asap. Zwerg Nase (talk) 11:32, 15 July 2020 (UTC)

text: Oh well, it already went through without me participating. Congrats! :) Zwerg Nase (talk) 13:05, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rob Marshall (motorsport)
Talk:Phlegethon

message: "It is said that the goddess Styx was in love with Phlegethon, but she was consumed by his flames and sent him to Hades. Eventually when Zeus accepted her river to flow through, they reunited."
Is there something I'm missing? Please clarify this, thanks.
CAF51 22:11, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Eh?

message: please?
201.72.104.235 00:26, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There's a useful set of references here, at theoi.com, but none of them support the Styx story. Gdr 19:24, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: references..

message: The article mentions Phlegethon as one of the five rivers, along with the "rivers Styx, Lethe, Cocytus, and Acheron". Ok so clicking on Cocytus, the wiki there  states "There are five rivers encircling Hades. The River Styx is perhaps the most famous; the other rivers are Phlegethon, Lethe, and Erida". So now we have a dispute between Archeron or Erida as one of the 5th rivers. The page of Archeron describes it as a 'branch' of the river Styx. Ok well I don't consider a 'branch' of Styx as one of the five 'rivers', nor should it be described as so. The wiki on Erida (actually Eridanos), describes it as one of the rivers of "Hades", and doesn't mention it as one of five or any of the other rivers of the "underworld". To add further confusion, the last paragraph on the page for Phlegethon states "When Mym is lured into Hell, he decides to incite rebellion against the forces of Satan and uses four of the five major waterways of Hell, among which are the River Lethe, the Archeron, the River Kyoktys, and the River Styx." "Kyoktys" has no wiki entry, so I assume its either a mispelling of "Cocytus" or vice versa and needs to be corrected along with every other corresponding wiki page regarding these "5 major waterways of Hell". Anemos (talk) 00:44, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: "The Five Rivers of the Underworld" innacuracies?

message: Can someone find a pronunciation guide please.
Idyllic press (talk) 19:32, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  English pronunciation?
Talk:Callum Thorp

message: A series of IP addresses have edited the page and others recently to add an unnecessary overlink for Australia. Per WP:OLINK - there is no need to link to large geographical entities such as Australia in this context - and the obvious tautology is, well, a tautology - where else, exactly, do you propose locating Western Australia rather than in Australia? In an article such as this we simply don't need the addition of the country name to be clear where he was born - in an article about the state, yes, sure, we need it. Obviously.
These are dynamic IP addresses almost certainly from the same editor who has used other, similarly dynamic IP addresses in the past to edit pages such as Nathan Coulter-Nile and similar articles. That article has had to be protected as a result. These are clearly disruptive edits which have now gone past WP:3RR. I'd really rather not have to go to RPP, but will do so if necessary. Blue Square Thing (talk) 08:02, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disruptive editing
Talk:Calvin O. Butts

message: Changed "Doctor" to Doctorate. Rookie Rover 00:25, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Deleted unsourced material about supporting Clinton in the primaries; dated and no longer relevant.--Parkwells (talk) 14:11, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Spiritual and political beliefs

message: This article is highly biased in favor of Butts. Don't get me wrong, I like big butts and I cannot lie, no other brother can't deny, but articles here are supposed to be encyclopedic and neutral.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.79.39.60 (talk) 16:21, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Hagiography
Talk:Hans Bender

message: I have just been studying one of Hans Bender's literary work regarding post-War Time Russia and I was just wondering why there wasn't a section on here regarding this part of his life. It's definitely this guy and he's done lots of different pieces of work. If I can research further, I'd be happy to type a couple of sentences up, acknowledging this other aspect of his life, if everybody else is fine with this.
:TheFartyDoctor Talk 14:40, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Being an author 

message: This article appears to have been, at best, machine-translated from German, and, as such, requires a certain familiarity with the German language for comprehension. For this reason, it should be rewritten by an editor who is either familiar with the article's subject or else is fully bilingual in English and German.--Quisqualis (talk) 01:33, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  April 2020: Incomprehensible article: not idiomatic English
Talk:Charles Honorton

message: Let's avoid using this page as part of a great campaign to convince everyone that parapsychologicsts are stupid. Focusing on one event in 1971 as if it were somehow a defining moment is absurd. My version contains no judgement regarding his results, simply a list of dates and places.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ersby (talk • contribs) 07:45, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: You are deleting reliable references and inserting unreliable pseudoscience journals, that's not the way Wikipedia works. Goblin Face (talk) 14:07, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Keep it simple, stupid 

message: It has come to my attention (from a post on parapsychology blog ) from a banned Wikipedia user who has complained about this Wikipedia article, that two of the sources used are being used wrongly i.e. claiming things in the Wikipedia article that are not actually in the sources. I have checked the edit history of the article, they were added by  in this edit . I am referring to the following sources:
Emily Williams Cook (November 19, 1992). "Obituary: Charles Honorton". The Independent and John Palmer (March 8, 1987). "Pink Noise and Dice". The Washington Post. They are being used for the claim that is in the article "Some statisticians argued that the meta-analysis carried out by Honorton that supported an underlying pattern behind parasychological studies was ill-conceived and ignored basic rules of mathematics".
Which is false because these references do not say this. I will remove these sources for that phrase. The reliable sources (Hyman, Lilienfeld etc) indicate that the Bem meta-analysis contained errors but none have stated he ignored the basic rules of mathematics. Goblin Face (talk) 01:39, 8 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources being used wrongly
Talk:United States law enforcement decorations

message: I would propose that all the stubby articles  on individual decorations are merged to here.--NHSavage 17:12, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OPPOSE: The articles on the individual medals are completly separate from this article, containing article specific links, pictures, and other information which is specific only for that article on the medal.  Having one all encompassing article covering every law enforcement medal would be bulky, lenghty, and would eventually be split up into separate articles anyway.  See Awards and decorations of the United States military for such an example of a "listified article".  Very much against merging all those articles here. -Husnock 01:30, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge all to here

message: It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles. I would support that. Chris 23:04, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe instead of listing them all here, where there is an article on a Police department that lists the awards and decorations on its page (or has a separate article on its awards, like the NYPD) just link to it instead of duplicating the list here.--Nyctc7 (talk) 19:45, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Split into different articles

message: For what it's worth, I found a good photo of this ribbon on an Ebay auction. Direct link to the image: http://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/NTEwWDQ5OQ==/z/zCEAAOSwgZ1XqopM/$_3.JPG
I don't posess the skills to create a digital drawing of this to be used on the wiki page.
1000mm (talk) 14:26, 15 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  LAPD 1984 Summer Olympics Ribbon
Category talk:French-Canadian people

message: I'd like to start a discussion on what is necessary to add someone in this category. A recent revert on a the Robert Bourassa page is prompting me to do this. While he was obviously French Canadian, how does one go about proving it? More generally, what criteria is necessary for inclusion in this category? Arasaka 17:15, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Criteria and proof
Talk:Carl, Duke of Württemberg

message: . Would you please revert your move. As you are well aware, it is contentious and there is not yet a consensus for it. Thank you. Bermicourt (talk) 20:52, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: How is it contentious? Is there any counter-position I have not addressed? Mewulwe (talk) 21:04, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: It's clear from the above discussion, in which you took part, that there are different views and no consensus has yet been achieved. So please would you revert it and let's follow the normal Wikipedia guidelines. Bermicourt (talk) 21:24, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: It's clear? No, I have a different view. So I guess no consensus has been achieved about no consensus having been achieved. See how that works? Mewulwe (talk) 21:37, 26 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contentious move 

message: I'm assuming that Wilhelm is Carl's grandson, the son of the late Friedrich. Perhaps we should mention/clarify that in the article? GoodDay (talk) 15:37, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Carl's heir-apparent 
Talk:Carmen Zapata

message: Is it really this Carmen Zapata responsible for the lyrics and not someone with the same name? It seems unlikely an 78 year old American actress providing lyrics for Rammstein? More likely Till's Spanish-speaking girlfriend has the same name? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.80.81.236 (talk) 14:39, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right, the Carmen Zapata who sings with Rammstein is this one  (not really 78, is she?). They've been mixed up even at imdb.com! --Will 22:04, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, thanks for clearing that up! Jalwikip (talk) 15:36, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mix-up of persons?
Talk:Clinical cardiac electrophysiology

message: Actually, I think these two articles should be merged. Ksheka 19:35, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: it'd be better to have an intro article Cardiac electrophysiolgy (linked from Cardiology and Electrophysiolgy articles) briefly explaining what science it is and what branches it has and 2 comprehensive articles Basic/Experimental cardiac electrophysiolgy and Clinical cardiac electrophysiology. What do you say?Armatura (talk) 11:04, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

text: The other article in question is electrophysiology.  While I generally agree that the two should not be merged, they clearly aren't well coordinated.  -- John Broughton   (♫♫) 14:38, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

text: Actually, the other article appears to be Cardiac electrophysiology, which does seem to me to have significant overlap.  Again, at minimum these (three, now) articles need to be well organized with respect to each other, including distinguishing among themselves.  -- John Broughton   (♫♫) 14:41, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge
Talk:Carole Samaha

message: * can someone provide a REALIABLE or any source for her date of birth, i heard she was born in 1960 but it says on wikipedia shes only 36?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.43.207.125 (talk) 10:36, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I deleted the year (1972) from the article since for two years now no one was able to find any source for it. --A998800 (talk) 06:44, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Date Of Birth
Talk:Carolina Tohá

message: Does someone know how to introduce a table with the position of deputy, her predecessor and successor?Guzmas31 (talk) 22:36, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: See . I've tagged this article as needing an infobox, but if this waits for me it might be a while. - Ruodyssey (talk) 10:08, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Infobox needed