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Talk:Jefferson, West Virginia

message: This town was featured in a segment on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart ("Downtown" -Aug. 9 2001-). Apparently it's a haven for strip clubs and prostitutes. -76.117.235.231 (talk) 02:17, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Daily Show

message: As I understand it (from afar as a former West Virginian), the town's existence and history have been the source of some controversy.  Maybe someone could write a bit about that? Malepheasant 09:03, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Town history

message: Jefferson was the youngest town in the state of West Virginia. It was founded by a group of business men to show with proper stewardship a town could function without a business and occupation tax (B&O tax) and to change the image of the area better known as the "Bad Lands".  The county commission especially one commmissioner was totally against its forming. One commissioner went so far as to sign the paperwork in "red" stating he knows the town will be destine to fail. Naturally even through all the problems the town operated in the black until the the last administration who had sworn the see the town be desolved. Naturally the one county commissioner waited and even stated on the news but he could have assisted the town better in its formation and establishing of guideline.  Yes, it was a bag of worms and few had the back ground to start a new town. Documents show it was the first town to incorporate in nearly 100 years. With that fact even the county commission had NO experience to assist. But the town would be a stumbling block for any effort to establish a much talked about "metro government" which would supposely cut operational cost by combining the different areas of administration and increase the population of Charleston. This would ensure the continuation of the flow of federals fund into Charleston but increase the power of one central region (county commission). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.72.98.83 (talk) 17:46, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Town of Jefferson, West Virginia 
Talk:Law degree

message: There are a lot of "it is sometimes considered a graduate/masters..." in this article without any citations for verifiability. Is there anyway to address this in due course? Cheers. Nja247 (talk • contribs) 08:20, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The article could benefit from more citations.  Although the phrase you object to only occurs once. Zoticogrillo (talk) 18:25, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I meant "It is sometimes considered a masters level degree" and "It is a graduate degree, though not at the masters level".  Nja247 (talk • contribs) 21:11, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

text: Looks brilliant, thanks for the excellent cite work. Nja247 (talk • contribs) 20:41, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Degree levels
Talk:Lord High Constable of Scotland

message: I removed the second paragraph ("Edward, who served under Alexander I and David I is called chief of David's knights (princeps militae), but the exact nature of the Constable's military role in the 12th century is unclear.") since it's completely unclear to me who this Edward is. -- Ricky81682 (talk) 09:27, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Edward was the son of Siward, son of Aethelgar. Siward was a Mercian thegn and was a large pre-Conquest landholder in Shropshire. He and his brother Ealdred submitted to William the Conqueror in 1067. Siward was a 'thegn and kinsman of King Edward' (the Confessor) and is thought to be have been a great grandson of King Aethelred II, via his daughter Edith and her husband Eadric Streona. See 'The English and the Norman Conquest', p. 95, by Ann Williams (1995): http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Su1IbQKzocsC&pg=PA95  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.169.174.86 (talk) 15:12, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edward ?
Template talk:Superstations

message: Even though TBS and WPCH-TV no longer simulcast each other, WPCH-TV still appears to be uplinked to national satellite. So technically, it's still a superstation. TBS is not. --Tv's emory 07:41, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: WPCH-TV

message: Are all those Canadian stations that Raccoon Fox added superstations? Kimmykun 09:08, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've discussed this with him before; in the current Canadian media context there is not a single Canadian television station which can properly be labelled a superstation. Every last one he added fails either the "independent" criterion or the "national carriage" one. Bearcat 09:13, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Canadian stations 

message: Could someone add the NavHide feature to this template? (My knowlege of HTML is pretty bad.) Thanks. —Whomp <span
 style="font-weight: bold; font-family: Calibri;">[T] [C]</span> 23:27, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Uh, anyone? —Whomp t/c 23:51, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  NavHide 

message: The following Mexican stations are not superstations they're flagships for networks that have affiliates / repeaters across Mexico.
Flagship	Network
XEW     	Canal de las Estrellas
XHTV    	FOROtv
XHGC    	Canal 5
XEQ     	Galavisión
XHDF    	Azteca 7
XHIMT   	Azteca 13
XHAW    	Multimedios Television
As for the American stations KTLA, KWGN, WGN, and WPIX are all affiliates of The CW. WGN America and TBS are pay television only networks. WPCH is an independent local station in Atlanta, which is not available nationwide. WSBK and WWOR are MyNetworkTV syndicate flagships.
That just leaves us with XHCNL-TV which is a Televisa Regional station that broadcasts programming from Canal de las Estrellas, Canal 5, and Galavision Mexico and is only available through SKY Mexico which is 58.7% owned by Televisa.
-AMAPO (talk) 07:34, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Obsolete Template
Talk:Jessica Biel

message: Please add https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/2006/9/the-biel-curve
: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 15:40, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jessica Biel playing saxophone as kid is missing 

message: I have removed this sentence from the lead : "The series is the longest-running series that aired on The WB channel and the longest-running family drama in television history". As it is irrelevant for a biography article, and also because it is doubtful (source is a press release with more than 15 years old, see for example List of longest-running scripted American primetime television series and List of longest-running American television series). Alexcalamaro (talk) 06:01, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. Emir of Wikipedia (talk) 20:56, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you, . Other biographies would benefit from removal of content from leads when that content does not add anything about the subject of the article. Eddie Blick (talk) 17:28, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed sentence from the lead
Talk:Scumble

message: I think I better explain why I made this a two item disambig when dismabig pages normally require three or more.
Scumble as a redirect could either point to glaze, where it is mentioned in a line of text, or to Minor Discworld concepts, where it's under a heading near the bottom of the page. This is a simple alternate (to me) to redirecting to one of the two and adding a whole bunch of messy lines saying something like "Hey, if you typed scumble into the Wikisearch and were dumped here and want this, scroll down to here. If you want that, follow this redirect and look 'here'."
If someone can come up with a better way to do this, I won't stop them. Saberwyn 09:41, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two item disambig justification
Talk:Stalwarts (politics)

message: This is too big a topic for me to handle on my own right now . . . But why no mention of slavery?  Stalwarts turned to machine politics to counter the Democrats, who (until FDR) were the party of state's rights and segregation, and who used violence to oppose Reconstruction in the South.  Anti-racism being a minority position in the 1880's, Stalwarts built a patronage machine to keep the Southerners out of power.  Half-breeds, on the other hand, were willing to sell out Reconstuction to enact their economic agenda.
Anyone else have any thoughts?
Innocent76 09:51, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

message: "They were pitted against the Half Breeds for control of the Republican Party". Not entirely, if I remember my history correctly. They were pitted against the Mugwumps, with the Half Breeds being named for their being in an intermediate position. 
You are a little early with the Mugwumps. That was part of a "Goo-goo" (Good Government-- a young Theodore Roosevelt was involved, but didn't become a Mugwump) faction that bolted from the party in 1884 upon the nomination of Blaine, who had some corruption issues. This led to the election of the Democrat Cleveland. But you are not entirely wrong. The reformist types like Hayes and Garfield were obviously part of the trend. But during the time of the Stalwarts, the nation was more fascinated by the battle between Grant/Conkling and Blaine, since the two sides had more cohesive followers and seemed to thoroughly hate each other.PhilD86 (talk) 06:39, 4 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Pitted against

message: I added some information on the Stalwarts that I found in a journal article.  I didn't have any information on slavery per se, so I didn't add that.  Also organized it a bit with some section headings.Alouette93 (talk) 20:02, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the debate was NO CONSENSUS to move page at this time, per discussion below. -GTBacchus(talk) 09:05, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Organization and Edits

message: Conservatives are described here as “in reality more liberal” than Radical Republicans — then as opponents of both the extension of suffrage and “a system of free-market capitalism”. 
Whatever connotations the word “liberal” has in present-day American political discourse, it’s clunky and anachronistic to use it in this ahistorical manner.
I cannot see how a politics premised upon free markets and the extension of the franchise could be construed such that opposition to it could be described as “liberal”.
On that note: on what grounds have editors opted to put quotation marks around the words “liberal”, “moderate”, and “conservative”? Again, it gives the impression of contemporary political ideologies being crudely retrofitted to the distant past. Foxmilder (talk) 04:32, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  On the usage of “liberal”
Talk:CIA prison system

message: I find that a significant number of people apply {npov}, {bias} and {dispute} tags without attempting to be specific about they have a problem with.  I think this is irresponsible and disrespectful to the rest of the wikipedia community.  The wikipedia tag puts a note that says:
 The neutrality of this article is disputed.
 Please see discussion on the talk page.
Well, if are going to put the tag, fulfill your obligation to initiate that dialogue on the talk page.
*If you don't say what passage you think displays a biased point of view how are the rest of supposed to figure out what we should think about changing to take your concerns into account?
*How will we know we are finished.
Some people slap on {npov} tags in order to suppress discussion of topics they think reflect poorely on their religion, ideology or country.  That habit is, in my opinion, very destructive to the wikipedia community.  IMO, if you can't make the effort to be civil and specific about what you consider biased, you don't really have anything interesting to offer in the discussing as to how the article should evolve.  --  Geo Swan 22:40, 24 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  I reverted the {npov} tag
Talk:Three men's morris

message: Er - hum... Is it correct that 8 pieces are used, 4 each? I really think only 6 pieces are used, 3 each (and the players are allowed to move them once all have been placed). I checked the history, and...I'm the one who added this info. I just don't remeber where I got it from. (Note: The info is repeated in the article Tic-tac-toe.)
I also added the ethymological link to Morris dance; I've now added an alternative theory I found in a Danish book on boardgames.
--Niels Ø 10:18, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

message: The article mentions that players place their pieces. But how many pieces does each player have? 2001:9E8:65FD:8200:BD3A:CAF6:6849:D8B1 (talk) 06:49, 6 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of pieces
Talk:Magne Hoseth

message: Hoset og Hoseth?
It reads Hoset in the article header, but spelled Hoseth in the article - a Google search shows both are good, though Hoseth gets the most hits.. What is his name?
:Hoset is the correct name according to the Norwegian article, but he is often wrongly called Hoseth Arnemann 13:55, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: When he played in F.C. Copenhagen, there was written HOSETH on his shirt. kalaha 14:53, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:799 F.2d 929 - United States Court of Appeals, 4th Circuit (1986)

message: Whilst editing the Wicca article at Wikipedia, I noticed that the court cases cited within that article were not readily available online except in a few places that did not lend themselves to being credible sources. At that point, I asked a colleague to locate the relevant court case data so that it could be properly cited at the Wicca article. He agreed and sent me the data. 
As far as I know, this text is in the public domain. Questions regarding its status as public domain material can be written here, and I will clarify as needed.
This court case text has been informally provided by a member of a legal office based in California, U.S.A.. It properly belongs at Wikisource, but I do not have an account at that division of the Wikimedia Foundation, so I invite anyone who does to move/recopy this text to Wikisource and then eliminate this Wikipedia article after doing so. Any questions regarding this matter can be placed at my user 'talk' page. --P.MacUidhir (t) (c)  10:56, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The transcript is now at Wikisource, and I overwrote it with a summary.  Jkelly 00:47, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Good work with the summary for this one. Summarising long portions of text into nice bite-size pieces has never been easy for me. I am glad to be working with you on this and related materials here at Wikipedia. --P.MacUidhir (t) (c) 03:08, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks.  Actually, I think that last sentence of mine was pretty bad.  I fixed it this time through.  Jkelly 03:17, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:The Horrorpops

message: "Despite both being from Copenhagen, Denmark, the two had never met before"
like everyone from Copenhagen knows each other? the population is (according to wikipedia) 1,115,035. just pointing that out. Wan30ate 01:31, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Copenhagen's subcultural scene is small though. ;-) I'll think of a rewrite removing the implication, I understand what you're saying but the initial meeting between Patricia and Kim is quite relevant so I'd rather rewrite than simply remove this part. Robert John Kaper 01:42, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: copenhagen
Talk:Son, Ambulance

message: This article was unsuccessfully nominated for AFD. Johnleemk | Talk 11:11, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Failed AFD

message: As an editor at Crawdaddy!, and to comply with COI guidelines, I am not posting the link to this review. However, I would like to recommend it on its merits, and hope that an editor will find the time to examine the review and—if he or she sees fit—post it as an external link, or, if/when a Someone Else's Deja Vu page is created, to the professional reviews section. I appreciate your time. Crawdaddy! (favorable) 2008Asst. Editor, Crawdaddy! FenderRhodesScholar | Talk 22:37, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: review suggestion
Talk:Narayan Rane

message: Wiki spirit demands that the articles written here be neutral.It's a fact that Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackerey expelled Narayan Rane from the party in July 2005.I am wondering if calling Thackerey 'Self-styled tiger' can be considered neutral.There are variety of opinions about the style of functioning and thoughts of Thackerey but using such derogatory language represents only one side of the picture.Suppose an ardent supporter of Thackery were to write about the incident of expulsion of Narayan Rane, he/she would perhaps write 'Uncrowned king of Hindus, honorable Balasaheb Thackerey expelled traitor Narayan Rane'. That type of langauge would not be appropriate on wiki either.So what is needed is to make sure that neither Thackerey nor Rane is unnecessarily glorified or demonised.What do wiki editors have to say about it?
Yeh this right and Bal Thackarey has also been named/nicknamed Tiger by the press so self styled doesnt come into question.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.180.142.23 (talk) 12:49, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality of the article 
Talk:River Arrow, Wales

message: I can find very little about this river, on-line; no source (it may not even be in Herefordshire), no other tributaries, and no confluence. It's also not listed at Rivers of the United Kingdom. Andy Mabbett 11:38, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It definitely rises in Wales - I think  is the exact source.   Morwen - Talk 11:50, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you. Andy Mabbett 11:54, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: No info

message: It is unfortunate that, in differentiating it from 'River Arrow, Worcestershire', this River Arrow should be labelled as 'River Arrow, Wales' since the greater part of its length is in fact in England. Though it rises in Powys (Wales), it continues through Herefordshire (England) and might better appear as 'River Arrow, Powys/Herefordshire' or perhaps as 'River Arrow, Kington' - the latter suggestion as this is the largest town through which it flows.  Any thoughts?  Geopersona (talk) 19:18, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I see that for the River Avon we use River Avon (Hampshire) for the one that rises in Wiltshire and River Avon (Warwickshire) for the one that rises in Northamptonshire.  That seems a bit odd but it does tie in with having the title co-ordinates as the mouth of the river as suggested in WP:LINEAR.  If we follow the same approach, this one would be River Arrow (Herefordshire).  Cavrdg (talk) 19:58, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wales?
Talk:Leonid Nikolaev

message: Please note that Leonid Nikolaev was not the leader of the Leningrad Communist Party, but assassin of the leader of the Leningrad Communist Party, Sergei Kirov—Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.207.70.86 (talk) 11:43, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Note

message: The page right now is not neutral. Article's view contradicts the decision of of the High Court of the Soviet Union which is not even mentioned. According to the decision, Leonid Nikolaev followed direct orders of Trotsky and Zinoviev. Zinoviev was convected for treason and executed shortly after. -- Magioladitis (talk) 11:59, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV 
Talk:Bondi Junction railway station

message: Source? Steven Fitter 11:59, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sixth busiest station 

message: Is there a wiki entry for the proposed Bondi Beach station that was shelved in mid-'90s?
thanks,
121.216.61.22 (talk) 02:03, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed Bondi Beach station 
Talk:Open-access network

message: I think that OAN is an interesting concept and as far as i know there have been a few pilots around the world. I hope I can add more information in the future.
Jbarcelo 12:17, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: This article makes reference to some networks owned by local governments, but does not explicitly describe the typical ownership of incentives for open-access networks. Who owns such a network? What is the incentive to a private sector business to construct and operate a network? What is the incentive for a private sector owner to upgrade the network? These are important factors, especially given the significant policy implications of advocating a government-run, taxpayer-funded network versus a corporate or private business-owned network operated for profit, without cost to the taxpayer. The incentives are different, the costs are different, and the efficiency is different. I point this out to illustrate the importance of describing the ownership aspects of the concept somewhere in the article.Blcklbl (talk) 21:21, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Network Ownership? 

message: A disambiguation page is needed for OAN as a way to find this article and others with the same acronym.--DThomsen8 (talk) 16:57, 6 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation
Talk:North Sydney railway station

message: Local business interests and the local council say that North Sydney station is now inadequate for the passenger traffic that flows through it, and that it will be rebuilt at the expense of local business. Steven Fitter 12:36, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source? 

message: This article needs to be updated. Platform 2 has been back in use for some time now.
203.31.53.204 (talk) 04:06, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Platform 2: currently not in use?
Talk:Cheesemaking

message: There's a profession in France - I forget what it's called - who's sole purpose is to perpetuate the right mix of bacteria in order to 'seed' the new years cheese. Apparently, this is done with a slightly pongy stick.
Anyone else heard of this? I was looking here to try and discover more information on this strange profession. [[User:147.114.226.175|147.114.226.175
I'm not going to lie, this sounds a lot like a dirty joke a Frenchman would tell tourists. I have never heard of this, as whimsical as it may be.
The profession in France for a cheesemaker is called fromagere.  
http://dictionary.reverso.net/french-english/fromagèrey 
(Kmbaker333 (talk) 03:11, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: French Cheese 'Starters'

message: This article had an AFD debate that failed to gather consensus to delete. Johnleemk | Talk 12:40, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Failed AFD

message: Almost everything beside the intro of this article is about the manufacture of cheese, not directly about the profession.
Does anybody oppose to renaming the article? (And an according modification of the intro?)
What should the title be cheese production, cheese manufacturing or cheese manufacture?
I think i´s fascinating why roughly similar recipes and same ingredients lead to different kinds of hard cheese (e.g. gouda vs emmentaler..) Can anybody explain this a bit more?
Cheers,
--Saimondo (talk) 15:51, 21 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Renaming /moving this to cheese production 