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Talk:Oxfam Australia

message: I suggest placing a redirect on the Community Aid Abroad to Oxfam Australia. CAA are the same organisation; CAA was renamed to become Oxfam Australia. Thus it is more fitting to talk about CAA as part of the history of OA rather than for CAA to have a separate page. I have already moved the text from the CAA article into the OA article under the history section. If there are no objections I will place a redirect from CAA to OA#History.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Telemachus82 (talk • contribs) 09:05, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger Proposal

message: This article looks like it needs to be recategorised (as does Community Aid Abroad. There are currently only two articles in :Category:Australian non government organisations. There may be a more appropriate place to put them, such as :Category:Australian charities. Also take a look at the Oxfam article, the categories which it belongs in, and in turn at some of the other articles under those categories, and other categories that they sit in. -- Adz 06:07, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categories 

message: This seems a reasonable approach Makewa (talk) 10:10, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Agree with Merger
Talk:Worksop College

message: If the info on the other houses could be as subtantial as TALBOT, it would look 10x better!!!!!
:And justify having those images up. Is the Prince of Wales all right about you using his coat of arms on this page? --Guinnog 22:36, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Other houses?

message: Says it closed in the late 1980s but I was in 'garret until 1992, unsure of exact last year though.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.3.237.147 (talk) 19:25, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Mountgarret closure date

message: Sorry to take down the heartfelt stuff about ex-students' bad experience. This is not a forum though, and all content has to be verifiable. --Guinnog 22:36, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Original research

message: Why does the Harold Wilson bit need a citation, it is a fact just like Worksop College was founded in 1895!
The Pelham House section of this article does not leave me confidence with the standards of literacy at this educational institution. 
In any case is there any need to have separate bits on all the various houses. How important are they?   Is an encyclopedia the best place to conduct minor squabbles about minor administrative arrangements at a school.
The house system is the most important part of any school, especially Victorian Public Schools. I agree that some of the house articles are not good and do not tend to look beyond the last 6 months of the school's history.  Will have to keep an eye on things...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.145.170.143 (talk) 16:39, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Citation

message: I have suggested that Worksop College Preparatory School should be merged here as a non-notable primary school as per WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES.  Any comments appreciated. CalzGuy (talk) 06:16, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge school
Talk:Ba' Game

message: See Kirkwall Ba game<BR>
There are variations in each town that plays the Ba game, but this one gives a basic idea.
I am not Scottish myself, but interest stems from a similar game we have in Cornwall played on a Shrove tuesday called Hurling the Silver Ball Talskiddy 11:29, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  How the game is played.
Talk:Nathan Straus

message: Is there a source for the Titanic info?  See WP:CITE.  Chick Bowen 06:17, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: As of 11 December 2018, this article contained a section called "Anne Frank connection," about how Nathan Straus's son (Nathan Jr.) got to know Otto Frank (father of Anne and later publisher of her famous diary) and worked unsuccessfully to help the family obtain visas to escape to the United States. I thought it was really interesting! I rewrote it a bit, though, because it did not actually explain who Anne Frank was except via linking to her article, and says nothing about why Otto is notable (as Anne's father/publisher/co-author). But this article isn't about the Franks -- or even about Nathan Straus Jr., who has his own article. And this section seems to have been copied into the Nathan Jr. article as well.
It seems to me that this connection belongs only at the Straus Jr. article, because he is the one who was actually involved in the events described. The Nathan Sr. → Nathan Jr. → Otto → Anne "connection" is just too attenuated to warrant mention in this article. Nathan Sr. died in 1931, two years before the Franks left Germany and about a decade before they tried to get American visas. Accordingly, I have moved my rewritten version over to the Nathan Jr. article and deleted the Anne Frank section from this article. --EightYearBreak (talk)  16:40, 11 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Anne Frank connection"
Talk:Ballardvale, Massachusetts

message: Hey all, I'm the WikiProject Cities assessor of this article. If you would like some advice on how to work this article, go on my talk page and give me a holler! --Starstriker7(Say hior see my works) 01:35, 23 September 2008 (UTC)

message: That sentence that "Ballard Vale" is one word is completely wrong.  It is, has been, and always will be "Ballardvale".  The local newspaper insists on calling it "BallardVale" (still one word) as if that will make it interesting or cool, like SoHo.  Sadly, it will take a lot more than a name change for that.
:I agree.  I grew up in Ballardvale, and I have never heard of or seen the "Ballard Vale" spelling.  I propose the article should be moved to "Ballardvale, Massachusetts". NBS525 13:34, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, I went ahead and moved the article to Ballardvale, Massachusetts.  NBS525 13:51, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Ballard Vale" is Ballardvale
Talk:Bernard-Marie Koltès

message: Hello, whoever comes across this.
I translated this from the French Wikipedia, adding a little info from the German Wikipedia and koltès.gwen.org. I'm not the world's most stylistically savvy translator, however, especially considering I know nothing about Koltès beyond half an hour of associated Googling while translating this article.
If someone actually knows something about Koltès (especially the customary English titles of his early plays), please do something about this poor excuse for an article.
Cheers! Darobsta 06:44, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Cheers to you! I just merged a good deal of information from Bernard-Marie Koltes (sans accent grave) and redirected it here. Your translation is pretty good. I did some minor tweaking of it. Thanks for your contribution! *Exeunt* Ganymead | Dialogue? 20:58, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah sorry... I really should have run a search for the article without the accent. Thanks for the tidy-up. Darobsta 03:32, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: "He garnered recognition for his work on a production of Medea (Médée) directed by Jorge Lavelli in 1970."
I'm very confused. What exactly did he do in this production? He apparently didn't write a play called Medea, going by the list of works and the next paragraph that says his first play was staged in 1977. And he didn't direct it because Jorge Lavelli directed it. I'm guessing he acted in it, but the intro only calls him a playwright and director.
The sentence preceding this one is also odd: "He tried his hand at writing at a very young age but later renounced it, and didn't take to the stage until the age of twenty." If I'm interpreting it correctly, "take to the stage" refers to acting--what does this have to do with the first half of the sentence, and why should I be surprised that he didn't act before the age of twenty, when the article hasn't told me that he acted at all? Propaniac (talk) 20:08, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Medea / acting?
Talk:Baba (North Macedonia)

message: It is the same article as Varnous. User:Pyraechmes Chrusts 04:59, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Isn't Pelister located in Macedonia, not Greece? Why is the Greek name provided and why does it have to be first? I reverted a user for doing just that  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mydogeatsbetter (talk • contribs) 05:37, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Greece
Talk:Roncesvalles

message: We have the place's population from 1900? Is there anyone with more recent info? Krupo 06:49, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population 

message: I removed the paragraph that discusses Roncesvalles Village in Toronto as there should be a separate article about that locality. Also, the paragraph had POV issues. Whoever wrote this section feel free to start your own article, but please try to stay neutral. dq 17:43, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Roncesvalles
Talk:Roman–Persian Wars

message: This very old FA no longer meets FA standards.  It has some uncited text, relies heavily on primary sources, and has a serious MOS:SANDWICHed mess of images.  Unless someone is able to bring the article to current standards, it should be submitted to Featured article review.  SandyGeorgia (Talk)  04:07, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: There are also some broken references such as "Brazier (2001), 42" Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 11:59, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Featured article review needed 

message: Ok folks, this article is RIFE with Harvard cite warnings...actually none of the refs in "secondary sources" work the way they are supposed to, there are 47 - 47 -  Harvard warnings. If possible, I will work on pulling apart every single stinkin' ref to try to get each ref to actually work and yeah, this will be a long-term project. In case you're not seeing the issue, I have the following script installed - "User:Ucucha/HarvErrors.js". Cheers, Shearonink (talk) 13:20, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, after further review I have decided to not even try to fix these issues, I would have to pull apart each individual reference and verify the stated information. Not being familiar with the material all this is beyond my scope at this time. Am hopeful that some of the regulars around here can maybe take this on. Shearonink (talk) 13:39, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Harv cite warnings 

message: The article is about the Roman-Persian wars. Not a single Roman-Persian war is wikilinked or referred to in the lead, yet all the individual Rashidun invasions are. --Z 11:28, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Details regarding the expansion of the Rashidun Caliphate in the lead
Talk:Coat of arms of the Ottoman Empire

message: The image of the Ottoman Empire Coat of Arms displyed in this article is of very obvious poor quality (lossy JPEG, with many strong compression artifacts). Don’t you think some better (and bigger) version of the COA should be used? --MaGioZal 07:16, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Image of the Ottoman COA

message: File:Osmanli-nisani.svg|Current version
File:Osmanli armasi.svg|Other version used in the PD template
Which of these two versions is correct? They have different colors, and even different details on the escutcheon itself. Adelbrecht (talk) 10:55, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correct version? 

message: What is the source for the three crescents on the green flag in :File:Osmanli armasi.svg? It was recently included in the article, replacing :File:Osmanli-nisani.svg with one crescent. I revert that for now. All the images that are clearly historic show only one crescent. See c:Category:Sultanic coats of arms of the Ottoman Empire. The only other images with three crescents are   of dubious origin. Watchduck (quack) 07:37, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Green Flag with three crescents
Talk:Big man (political science)

message: Should Vladimir Putin be listed? Twb0004 (talk) 16:50, 8 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: At this point? Probably, if there are references for it. GreenReaper (talk) 03:04, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Examples

message: I would reccomend, if no one else has any strong feelings about it, splitting this into two articles, putting up a disambiguation page and further developing the 'big man syndrome' as it pertains to political science. -- Irongaard 07:24, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I support that, I think the "big man" concept in anthropology is quite distinct from the "big man" concept described in relation to corrupt dictators. Brianlucas 00:35, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have split the articles and created a disambiguation page.  Chupper 14:23, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Article split
Talk:HMS Cornwall (1812)

message: 3 things. First, if she was launched as Wellesley, the page should be Wellesley, N Cornwall, w a note she was renamed. 2d, I've read she was sunk at quayside in 1941, N 1940; 3d, as a matter of trivia, that makes her the last wooden ship of the line sunk by enemy action.
As to dating, I've seen discrepencies of a yr that way in film releases, too; somebody needs to check. This isn't a problem unique to Wikipedia; there seems to be a problem dating events at times, especially movie releases. Grun's Timetables of History is notorious for it; all his dates seem to be either a yr early or a yr late, & it's often impossible to know which. Movie dates are even worse (& is it yr of release, yr filming ended, copywright yr, or what, that actually gets mentioned?); absent the exact date, the year is a toss.  Trekphiler 07:44, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The ship was named Cornwall at launch, later renamed to Wellesley - the last paragraph of the article refers to a different ship, and should be removed to that article once it has been created. Martocticvs 21:29, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Adat

message: I've heard the word used regarding Chechnya, I think to describe Islamic traditional law (i.e. different from Indonesian usage). I'd guess they're from the same origin (Arabic?) though coincidence isn't impossible. --Singkong2005 07:47, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Adat in other languages?
Talk:Buccan

message: I have replaced the previous text of this article with the OED definition.  The mention of burning down the buccan wasn't referenced.  The reference to "some American Indians" is too vague to be meaningful.  The Levi-Strauss material is not directly related to the device.
As it stands, the article is not encyclopedic.  If encyclopedic content can't be found, it should go to Wiktionary.
--Macrakis 07:49, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Matitake

message: I have a Hen of the Woods mushroom over 12 lbs. I was stating to clean it when I noticed it appeared to be rotting (I think) it was orangy,pulpy,loose. Just didn't look right. Can anyone explain this? Thanks. 70.109.192.168 23:51, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hen of the Woods
Talk:Toyger

message: The toyger is a designer breed. Do we have a template or category for that? Mermaid from the Baltic Sea 03:56, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Designer breed

message: Can someone add a pic? --Endlessdan 19:51, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done - The Wifechaser (talk) 14:22, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture

message: I see a few editors have been plugging away over time on this article.  I thought I should point out the the reference sections is currently mislabled.  References should be formatted as inline citations of fact that support the statements made in the article and not merely links to external sites on the subject.  If those links are indeed supporting a fact, they need to be reformatted as an inline cite right after the fact they support.  As it stands right now, the reference section should be re-titled as External Links but that would then likely lead to some other editor tagging the article as unsourced and therefore worthy of deletion.  I'm leaving things as is to prevent any such moves.  I will try and come back and discover which link supports what fact and reformat the links myself but in the evnt that I don't, please feel free to do it yourself.LiPollis 20:04, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: References need to be corrected

message: as I understand it, domestic cats' pigmentation gene is on the X chromosome, presumably unlike tigers, so only females could ever truly be orange with black stripes.. males would have to settle for orange with dark orange stripes, right?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.73.70.113 (talk) 04:11, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coloration
Talk:Sokoke

message: Added a photograph. Should there be more? --SHD 21:27, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, please. A close up of it's face would be much appreciated. Kpstewart (talk) 05:54, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photos 

message: I've run into several sources (but primary/UGC ones, so not worth citing here) which are consistently certain that the Cat Genome Project work has proven this is  a domestic × wildcat felid hybrid, despite rumours to the contrary. I haven't tracked down the full text of that report yet; anyone have it?   Anyway, I have removed the hybrid claims from the article, since they were unsourced, and were dubious to begin with.   Also did a lot of other work on the article. Not done yet; I have 5 windows open on source material I haven't even gone through yet (but I have a lot of real-life work to do at least the first part of this week, so I'm not certain when I'll get to those).  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  14:06, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not a hybrid 
Talk:Abangan

message: I've put a few musings on this topic, and comments by an Indonesian friend, on my scratchpad. --Singkong2005 03:42, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Re this claim:
:Abangan come from Arabic word aba'a, which mean "not obey", because the Abangan believe shariah should be interpreted figuratively rather than obeyed literally.
Interesting, but possibly wrong. There is nothing at all that I can find to support this claim, and elsewhere it is claimed that it's fom the Javanese for red (though I don't know what the connection is). Googling the terms finds only this article and mirrors of this article. If anyone knows a source for this claim, please provide it. 
Incidentally I haven't heard Indonesians use this word - they usually refer to kejawen, Javanese traditional religion, which I think refers to the same people as abangan --Singkong2005 08:34, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you are right my friend. Abangan is somewhat pejorative. Meursault2004 19:30, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

text: "Abangan" is taken from the javanese word "abang" or "red". it was originally and commonly used related to mock lower quality golden jewelry. golden jewelry with low gold content will turn reddish after few weeks. So it is pejorative, it is a way to say that the "Abangan" has low content of islamic spirit within their hearts.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.204.137.219 (talk) 19:23, 23 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Word origin

message: I'm looking for a book written by a Singaporean official (most likely a foreign minister who traveled often to Indonesia). That book explains some of the Hindu and Buddhist aspects of the Malay World (in relation to Islamic traditions). --Komitsuki (talk) 13:31, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Finding a book
Talk:Donskoy cat

message: In trying to fix the TICA link, I could not find this breed listed.
They have a Sphinx
and a Don Hairless 
I am not sure which one it is. Open2universe 02:12, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: TICA link

message: - ক্রিমিনাল ইমরান কে "চিনেনা এমন কে আছে:-)♥💙 59.153.17.90 (talk) 20:49, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright 

message: — Assignment last updated by Jneezy504 (talk) 03:05, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Information Literacy and Scholarly Discourse-2002
Talk:Cymric cat

message: This source cites its own sources, and we can track down many of those it uses, e.g. on genetics, to improve this article:   — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  10:11, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source to use for more sources
Talk:American Wirehair

message: Should the duplication of links from picture template and References be dealt with? Remove the References because they are already listed? LdyDragonfly 02:05, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Although it has refs, it has little information & no pictures. Spawn Man 04:21, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Stub rating

message: When they say "wire-haired," maybe they meant curly-haired?
I think they are confusing the curly-haired cat with the wire-haired cat.  Its coat is a rough curly mass, and not soft to the touch.  Wish I had one.  198.177.27.17 (talk) 03:32, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Curly-haired cat?
Talk:Anthology Film Archives

message: Is this actually a film studio stub, as tagged? - dcljr (talk) 08:39, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Isn`t here more about Bloomberg than artists or cinema?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.197.191.154 (talk) 11:29, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Bloomberg

message: :Does this topic need a new article? A section for this article.
Calamitybrook (talk) 00:42, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Essential Cinema

message: Which is which? I'm confused.
Should "Filmmakers' Cinematheque" redirect to the Film-makers' Cooperative article?
Supposedly there was a "Boston branch" of the Filmmakers' Cinematheque where a lot of NYC underground films were screened in the 60s (you can see a flyer for a Warhol screening here: http://www.berkshirefinearts.com/02-05-2011_steve-nelson-music-museum-of-new-england.htm); later that building became the Boston Tea Party nightclub, where the Velvet Underground used to play. Interesting coincidence, I thought. Rosekelleher (talk) 18:37, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Filmmakers' Cinematheque, Filmmakers' Cooperative, and Anthology Film Archives 

message: @Lopifalko deleted boldface used not for emphasis, but for first use of those names for the building. Vzeebjtf (talk) 13:09, 18 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Boldface
Talk:Oriental Longhair

message: The link to cat photos is junk, the photos are stolen, and the info is poor.
The link, is merely to direct people to an adsense site.
in fact, the whole article is junk, cut and pasted from two other sites, and its only purpose is to create a link to the adsense site.
I attempted to wikify the page, which meant cutting out a lot of duplicate information and irrelevant info. I cut out these two paragraphs in their entirety and am putting them here in case anybody misses them or would like to use reintroduce them in an edited format Kpstewart (talk) 04:56, 26 April 2009 (UTC)