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Talk:Richard Hauptmann

message: > At the age of eleven, he joined the Boy Scouts (Pfadfinderbund).
The link for Pfadfinderbund is for an organization founded in 1970, after this person's death. 2601:2C3:400:EB0:A9B7:7DF1:E7FB:ABF (talk) 20:21, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Background 

message: In general, I like all the information provided in the introduction section. But I wish we could present those facts in a different order, in a scheme that makes the writing flow logically and naturally.
The thing I don’t like is just how much information is packed between two parentheses in the final sentence. All that stuff about how Anna Hauptmann, later in life, sued the various people who had framed her husband.
(……… in her opinion, that is. But it’s my opinion too! I agree with Anna. I believe her husband was innocent.)
We should absolutely include all of that information, but it’s really bad writing technique to stick all of it into one set of parentheses within one very long sentence. No parenthesized (is that a word?) passage should ever be THAT long. In fact, no SENTENCE should ever be that long!
(I’m not angry, though, I promise. I just use all-caps to emphasize particular words, and exclamation points to make it sound semi-humorous. Or something.)
I propose moving that big long parenthesized passage to the end of the Intro section to form a whole new paragraph. Thus, the Intro section would have two paragraphs instead of one.
This new paragraph would be exactly the same information that’s currently within parentheses, but it might consist of more than one sentence. It would probably make sense to split it into at least two sentences.
But the important thing is: the stuff within those two parentheses in the final sentence of the Intro should be relocated to form a second paragraph of the Intro. Thegoldenconciseencyclopediaofmammals (talk) 00:19, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  The flow of the writing in the Intro
Talk:1974 Super Outbreak

message: I propose the section about the Xenia F5 tornado be split into its own article called 1974 Xenia tornado. Extremely notable and well-known tornado & its section is about the same size as the 2011 Smithville, Mississippi tornado, which is a stand-alone article. Elijahandskip (talk) 08:17, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Splitting proposal (Xenia) 

message: An AfD is taking place with concerns this may be a WP:CONTENTFORK. United States Man (talk) 03:03, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/1974 Xenia tornado‎]] 

message: I vividly remember this tornado. The church destroyed was Alta Hill Baptist Church in Fayette County. Should I insert the name of the church? Johnalex1 (talk) 15:58, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jasper Tornado: Destroyed Church in Alabama 

message: Since there is an issue discussed here about the info, the source is only cited a single time and for the following:  Per original research, the National Weather Service even published they did not issue tornado warnings for the entire state of Indiana. For all of this, let’s have a discussion to gain a consensus about removing those sentences + the farmersalamac.com reference as not being useful for the article as only a single source mentions it (i.e. no WP:LASTING citation mentions). Courtesy ping for users involved in discussion above: , . The Weather Event Writer (Talk Page) 15:44, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: For the record, I reverted the edit initially because of good faith assumption, as it is hard to believe someone saying such information if they are using an IP to make an edit (this is a common thing on Wikipedia for IPs to make such claims without backing it up, in all areas not just WikiProject Weather). Seeing the above discussion, it seems like it’s been realized the IP was (probably?) right. Sorry for any misgivings from this. --MarioProtIV (talk/contribs) 21:26, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: "Cool story bro". For the record, the IP claim was actually me. I attempted to make an account prior to my edit last night, but was auto-denied because too many people with my IP had created an account recently. Fat Feline (talk) 03:40, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: No hard feelings though. I get that 99% of changed made by IPs on Wikipedia end up being bs. Fat Feline (talk) 03:42, 21 April 2024 (UTC)

text: No hard feelings, of course! But I think it would be wise to give a little explanation as to why you make a revert when you do. Thanks!  Malnu (talk) 15:41, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Removal of Farmersalmanac.com
Talk:Origins of the American Civil War (2/4)

message: Some questions/issues:
#"to claim as slaves often residing there for years".  Who or what was claimed?  Who resided?
#"James Buchanan, for example, left office".  What is this an example of?  The article reads as if this is an example of Seward's argument, and thus a rebuttal of Buchanan's argument.  Can that be right?
#"the second American party system conformed to this pattern" What was the second American party system?  Do we have an article on it?
#What is the "Old Northwest"?  Is is a recognised term?
#"therefore, pressure began to build for efforts to extend settlement westward once again."  Why?  Was there pressure for extending settlement because the line of settlement had been extended?
#"Of greater importance than the opposition to the Kansas-Nebraska Act in Congress was the reaction against it in the Northern states".  I'm not sure what this means.  Is it contrasting the Northern representatives in Congress with the voters back home?  
#The Kansas-Nebraska Act produced "immediate... changes", but "for the first month... radicals were worried by the lack of popular response"?
#"Once the Northern reaction against the Kansas-Nebraska Act took place, the radicals swung into action to attempt another political reorganization." The rest of this paragraph gives the impression that these events were simultaneous.
#"Its editor, Gamaliel Bailey".  Editor of what?
#"The radicals also took a leading role in the creation of the Republican Party in many northern states".  Who else took a role?  What happened in the other northern states?
#Republicans also insisted that there was a high correlation between... the values of the "Protestant ethic" - and Republican votes." To whom did they insist this?  Why?
Markalexander100 08:28, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Origins of the American Civil War (3/4)

message: Some questions/issues:
#"Behind this shift was the growth of the cotton industry.... Coloring this and heightening its intensity, it was imbued with a pattern of ideological response".  Coloring what? The shift or the growth?  What was imbued?
#Foreshadowing modern totalitarian thought, especially Nazism".   Totalitarian is not the same as racist. ;)  The article argues elsewhere that the southerners were more tolerant of diversity that the northerners. 
#"Latent sectional divisions suddenly activated derogatory sectional imagery emerge into full-blown sectional ideology that would enter politics."  Something wrong there. 
#"the corresponding rise of a mass society".  What is a mass society?  As opposed to what?  Is is different from the mass politics mentioned in the next sentence?
#"the people of each territory would be denied a measure of states' rights".  Which territories? Kansas and Nebraska?  Different parts of Kansas?  The constitution seems only to deal with Kansas.
#"With growing discontent with the unwillingness of many Democratic leaders to take a stand against slavery, and growing consciousness of their increasingly pro-Southern stance".  Whose discontent and consciousness- Seward's?  The public's?
#"The groundswell of popular clamor fed by the issue of free soil, however, was powerful enough to thwart these aims (and ensure the nomination of a conservative Republican candidate less likely to inspire the secession of Southern states in 1860)."  I don't understand this.  I thought that Lincoln was the candidate in 1860, and he did inspire the secession?
Markalexander100 08:48, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Head of state and government of Paraguay

message: This looks like it might be a copy and paste from rulers.org. Morwen 09:35, Mar 28, 2004 (UTC)
I don't think so. It has a bit more detail about transfers of power, and no birth and death dates. Also, it has been improved a lot now. The only major problem is that most of these presidents don't have articles yet. Academic Challenger 03:07, 30 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Sunshine (disambiguation)

message: I've seen people use "sunshine" in place of certain censored words.  Not sure what this is.  Is it some obscure inside joke?  Wikipedia has no documentation of this, and therefore should.  Example—Moonraker0 (talk) 02:21, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Sunshine" as a swear word? 

message: there is a new song called "Sunshine" by "Ginger Ninja", I think it should be placed in that list too  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.127.164.28 (talk) 22:10, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Disambiguation pages disambiguate topics covered by Wikipedia, so the first thing necessary for having the song mentioned here is for someone to create an article for Ginger Ninja in which the song is mentioned. I see a Ginger Ninja article has been created and deleted three times; a new article should include referenced information demonstrating that the band meets the notability criteria for performers. If you need help starting an article, try the Article Creation Wizard. --ShelfSkewed Talk 03:33, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ginger Ninja song
Talk:List of Manchu clans/pre-merge

message: This page preserves the edit history of List of Manchu clans, which was merged into  on September 23, 2010. On March 18, 2012, "List of Manchu clans in alphabetical order" was renamed to "List of Manchu clans" following ; hence this peculiar arrangement. Favonian (talk) 11:29, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Do not delete this sub-page
Talk:Declaration of the Rights of the Negro Peoples of the World

message: Where is this from? Anyone recognise it? The contributor probably thought we all would. Andrewa 13:09, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Added an attribution (thanks to Cyrius for finding it). IMO could be stubified, and/or the basis of an interesting article. Andrewa 21:05, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Question
Talk:Members of the Australian House of Representatives, 2001–2004

message: Would it hurt to have a little bit more respect here? You're doing good work, Adam. Heck, we're both using some of your pages as templates for our own. I prefer to shy away from conflict, but you've left snide remarks on both mine and Dysprosia's user pages, and a variety of narky remarks in edit comments, and I've just about had enough. I didn't set out to tread on your toes here. Neither did Dysprosia. But this is a communal effort, not your own, and for gods sake, a little bit of respect would not go astray. Ambivalenthysteria 13:44, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: That's my point. I try to stay well away from those sorts of articles - I don't expect to find such treatment here. It's quite possible to explain exactly what you tried to do, and still be civil. But whatever. Ambivalenthysteria 14:05, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)

text: a she, by the way Dysprosia 22:13, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)

text: oops! sorry! Ambivalenthysteria 23:26, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  No, that was to Adam. (You didn't mention gender, btw :) Dysprosia 23:36, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: ah by their comments of the past

message: Now that this isn't just a list of current members, how are we going to treat those who were elected/replaced at by-elections? Ambi 08:52, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: By-elections
Talk:Massif

message: *Other. Currenly dic def.  Should probably be moved to Wiktionary (I don't know how, and can't find docs), then replaced with a disambig page like this. (Not sure this is the best place to list this, but it doesn't seem to qualify for either needs attention or clean up) Niteowlneils 21:41, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: quote as of july 2023:
"As a purely scientific term in geology, however, a "massif" is separately and more specifically defined as a section of a planet's crust that is demarcated by faults or flexures. In the movement of the crust, a massif tends to retain its internal structure while being displaced as a whole. A massif is a smaller structural unit than a tectonic plate, and is considered the fourth-largest driving force in geomorphology.[2]"
...er...  I'm slightly familiar with the term "terrane," which is/not the same as a "massif," though this article suggests otherwise. I wonder if this segment needs work??
32.221.207.102 (talk) 15:37, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: science term ("[[Terrane]]")
Talk:Mbube (genre)

message: I think the content here should be merged to isicathamiya, and this article should be replaced with a description of the Original Evening Birds song Mbube. rspeer 02:27, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Never mind -- the difference between mbube and isicathamiya is significant enough for two different articles. This article needs to cite sources. The references on the isicathamiya and Solomon Linda articles may be a good place to look. rspeer / ɹəədsɹ  05:17, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge, kinda
Talk:Rodhocetus

message: I have a picture of a Rhodocetus skull (different species that was discovered earlier) that I made myself and would like to upload and add to a general Rhodocetus article. Also given the error in the title (specific epithets should always be lowercase), wouldn't it be better to make an article on the whole genus Rhodocetus and move this section thereto?  Fedor 15:16, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Hey! What happened to my image!? Fedor 06:17, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: Is the correct spelling Rodhocetus or Rhodocetus? It is spelled both ways in the article! Lusanaherandraton 10:37, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling 

message: The sentence "This trait is only known in artiodactyls, as all other mammalian orders have a single-spooled a monkeylike species very whale-like, though the swimming style is very different." is confusing and should be clarified.
74.162.157.112 (talk) 17:55, 6 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusing Sentence 

message: I am writing a bio. I know him. Give me til Dec 31 2018 --Akrasia25 (talk) 13:24, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Much appreciated.--Mr Fink (talk) 13:29, 3 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Hans Thewissen Bio

message: This 2-minute video interview with Dr. Gingerich youtube.com/watch?v=POMjpTSk3no shows I think the importance of displaying an image (in addition to the couple images currently displayed) of Rodhocetus' skeleton (showing just those bones actually found). I've searched and haven't found one so hopefully, some editor can locate just such a usable image. Bob Enyart, Denver KGOV radio host  (talk) 20:31, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: More images are of course always good, it is just hard to get some with the right licencing (so someone here might have to make such a diagram). As for that video, the anti-evolution conclusion drawn from the fact that a scientist revises a reconstruction because more fossils are later found is ridiculous. We once thought Tyrannosaurus had three fingers because the hands weren't known (based on the fact that other large meat-eating dinosaurs known at the time had three fingers). When the hands were found, we revised this idea. Does that disprove evolution? You tell me... FunkMonk (talk) 20:38, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Find image of a skeletal reconstruction
Talk:Kuwaiti dinar

message: Convert in words 2A00:1851:3:984D:FDC6:F5D7:DAA1:CE09 (talk) 19:45, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  131.750 

message: Sorry😅😅😅😅😅 157.119.48.41 (talk) 13:33, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hmmm i am from intragram 

message: What is the oldest banknote still legal tender? What is the history to USD? I read that KWD rose 10 times to USD. Is it really so? Or did they just have a denomination? --95.24.77.237 (talk) 10:47, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Currency statistics
Talk:Murtala Muhammed

message: http://www.dawodu.com/siollun2.htm might be useful (doing something else, will integrate it later if no one has first). Picaroon (t) 23:12, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source of use 

message: I think the writer is very very subjective and I am disappointed.
Even Murtala's foes in the army admit that he was a very brave and disciplined soldier. His attempt to cross the river was out of sheer bravery as explained by many over the years, and yet here is this writer "saying" Murtala crossed the river because he did not want to be denied the glory. Nothing can be further from the truth.
Murtala was clearly one of the heroes of the civil war and risked his life to keep Nigeria together.
When he took over as leader of the country, he took steps to keep his promise to Nigerians, before his unfortunate sponsored assassination.
He was very disciplined but because he did not tow the US line and tilted a bit towards the Russians, efforts are being made to distort his history. 
Remember, we have no other country but Nigeria.
Yours
Reason  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.135.85.109 (talk) 13:01, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Second Encounter with Disaster 

message: How could the 1973 census have been "weighted in favor of the north"?101.98.74.13 (talk) 04:00, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: At the time (in the south) it was stated that to be counted in the south you had to be seen by the census takers. But in the North you had only to see the male head of the household, and could accept his word for the number of wives / children without seeing them. If true, then there you have a weighting in favour of the North. Bendel boy (talk) 15:40, 16 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weighted census? 
Talk:Perelandra

message: I would like to call attention to a passage that might give a hint of Lewis' beliefs on evolution.  While crossing the sea, Ransom sees a human-like sea animal and speculates that the Green Lady might have been "descended from them on the physical side".  In other words, God had animals evolve on Perelandra, then intervened to give a soul and other gifts (the "spiritual" and more important side) to one species to create the Green Lady and her husband.  And the same on Earth?
CharlesTheBold 12:46, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think Lewis goes quite a good deal into his beliefs about Evolution in Mere Christianity---and they do indeed reflect what we have about it here.  But, seeing as in Perelandra the topic is only somewhat touched upon (and even then only vaguely), I think it might be better to include a reference to this on the [Mere Christianity] page.Corbmobile 19:01, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Evolution? 

message: This is a cute neologism, and even though it gave me a chuckle, I still think it's out of place.  I hope "asinine" will be a reasonable comprimise. Corbmobile 19:04, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dumbasslike 

message: Please note that this article's infobox is retrieving an ISBN from Wikidata currently. This is the result of a change made to  as a result of  this RfC. It would be appreciated if an editor took some time to review this ISBN to ensure it is appropriate for the infobox. If it is not, you could consider either correcting the ISBN on Wikidata (preferred) or introducing a blank ISBN parameter in the infobox to block the retrieval from Wikidata. If you do review the ISBN, please respond here so other editors don't duplicate your work. This is an automated message to address concerns that this change did not show up on watchlists. ~ RobTalk 01:25, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Addition of ISBN from Wikidata
Talk:BuyMusic

message: I moved the following list of statistics to talk because it would be better formatted as prose but I didn't want to just delete it RJFJR (talk) 18:51, 20 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Statistics
Talk:Napoleon III

message: I recall that this article used to mention the DNA test that was done a few years ago which confirmed that Napoleon III was not the son of his father. What happened? Why was it removed? --Lecen (talk) 21:45, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I did not remove your edit but I have attempted to research it and it appears that the science it actually currently inconclusive - if i've misread or simply missed the facts by all means set me and the record straight but it seems for the time being it would be at least arguably too speculative to include a section on this here, at least at the present moment. Irregardless, I would encourage you to add this content to page on House of Bonaparte.
OgamD218 (talk) 06:45, 1 September 2021 (UTC)

text: It cannot be mentioned, since the result became that his biological father was Nathanael Rothschild of London, the long-time lover and money lender of Hortensia. A century before DNA was discovered, the people of Paris openly talked about his complete lack of resemblance to Napoleon physiognomy and uncanny likeness to the Rotschilds. 78.131.76.26 (talk) 19:36, 30 November 2022 (UTC)

text: No such sources exist. It was speculated that NIII belonged to haplogroup I1 which purportedly Talleyrand also belonged to (a haplogroup of Scandinavian and North German origin), while Rothschields belong to haplogroup J2 (a haplogroup of Middle Eastern origin) if I remember correctly. --95.24.66.198 (talk) 04:27, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  DNA test? 

message: I used the painted portrait in editing  the earlier article because it is in color, is used at the top of  French Wikipedia article, and shows him at his peak of his reign.  The current photo comes from the end of his reign and makes him look old and asleep. I think the photo is acceptable, but I still wish we had a more sympathetic  color portrait in the lead.Respectfully,SiefkinDR (talk) 11:19, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I do see your point. Most of his better quality photo portraits are for from later in his reign, thus he looks older and more tired (as he was in poor health the last years of his reign). But, I think photos (if available) should be used instead of portrait paintings. Photos give a more real representation of the subject. Robertus Pius  (Talk • Contribs) 23:30, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo rather than painted portrait 

message: It is said that he left Kassel on March 19 and arrived in England on March 20. That was not possible in 1871. Something has to be wrong here. 2A00:801:7B9:5F19:46D9:9B76:BE8B:5DDB (talk) 06:21, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Check the sources. We put down or change to what the sources say. If they are clearly wrong, check the quality of the sources and bring to talk to get opinion. Roger 8 Roger (talk) 07:55, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  From Kassel to Kent
Talk:Craig McClanahan

message: Please include a quick bit of context for the casual reader (like me) who is completely baffled - are we talking about computers, politics, financial institutions, something else entirely? It often helps to put in a phrase that seems so blindingly obvious to the knowledgeable reader that they didn't even both to include(e.g., in Doosra, I rewrote the lead sentence to say that it is a term from cricket, which the original poster never mentioned but which made the article meaningless to many.) - DavidWBrooks 17:18, 28 Mar 2004 (UTC)