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Talk:Religion in Sri Lanka

message: below information on religions is misleading and this is a fake information.
"Hinduism was the major religion practiced on the island prior to the introduction of Buddhism"
There are no proves available on this point.
The earliest surviving chronicles from the island, the Dipavansa and the Mahavansa, say that tribes of Yakkhas (demon worshippers), Nagas (cobra worshippers) and Devas (god worshippers) inhabited the island in 6th century BC.
please refer "History of Sri Lanka" wiki page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Sri_Lanka  --Lankeshwara (talk) 09:24, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I did not add this content in the first place. I only reverted you because you removed the content twice (1, 2) without providing an edit summary. I do not know if its true or not but I will look into it and get back to you. However, your belief that it is "fake" because of what Mahavamsa, Dipavamsa and History of Sri Lanka say doesn't comply with Wikipedia content policy. We rely on reliable sources to back up content and neither Mahavamsa nor Dipavamsa are reliable, they are historical texts based on myths. Wikipedia articles are also not reliable - see WP:WINARS. I will try and find some reliable sources.--obi2canibetalk contr 15:18, 22 June 2014 (UTC)

text: Ancient (and not so ancient) chronicles often contain a great deal of fiction. Also I note that both the Mahavamas and the Dipavamsa were written several hundred years after the supposed events.  However a claim that Hinduism was there before Buddhism also requires support (beginning with what were the boundaries Hinduism over 2 thousand years ago); I note no such claim in the current article. --Erp (talk) 23:50, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fake information
Talk:Azazel in rabbinic literature

message: There's something fishy about the article and the Encyclopedia entry it's hoiked from. The main problem I have is that it's inherently contradictory about what exactly Nachmanides' opinion was. I think that the source text includes a typo. Perhaps it should read that modern scholars diagree with Ibn Ezra / Nachmanides. I'm looking into the issue. --Dweller 14:27, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Djinn etc
Talk:Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack

message: Are you really sure that it is NPOV to describe it as "massacre" and "suicide attack" ? --Magabund 14:28, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Massacre is defined as the mass killing of unarmed people, which this attack qualifies as.  Boston Massacre and Wounded Knee Massacre are other examples.  Driving a bus off a cliff qualifies as a suicide attack, as long as the attacker has suicidal intent, its a suicide attack, even though he or she may not be ultimately successful in committing suicide.--Exander (talk) 07:42, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Massacre? 

message: Could someone provide reliable, scholarly sources that indicate use of the terms "massacre" or "suicide attack" to describe this incident? Thanks. Tiamuttalk 09:28, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources?
Talk:Thomas Bell (mayor of Gloucester)

message: Check out Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people) for some ideas about a better title for this article.  Using the death date as disambiguation seems search un-friendly.  Maybe Thomas Bell (MP), like Thomas Hutchinson (MP)?
:This Bell's main fame derives from his thrice mayoralty of Gloucester, rather than his spells as MP. I think the title Thomas Bell (Mayor of Gloucester) is a good one for disambiguation, but it could be shortened to just (Mayor) if necessary. (Lobsterthermidor (talk) 18:34, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Peacock tag removed. Now fully referenced with 24 footnotes, and a Source heading quoting Victoria County History, vol.4, Gloucester. All the information I have added to this article is thus sourced, and verifiable. Some of what was already there is unsourced, and I have therefore added the appropriate caveats such as possibly, might etc.(Lobsterthermidor (talk) 19:59, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Title
Talk:Ansaldo A.1 Balilla

message: It would be interesting to know some more facts about this airplane.  What kind of engine did it use?  Was it the Isotta-Fraschini straight six?  The article mentions that it had "impressive" speed, but no numbers.  I've seen references (in the Aircraft Engine Historical Society) that this was the fastest airplane of WW I.  What was the top speed of this plane?98.170.203.61 (talk) 05:36, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Performance
Talk:Mercer County Senior High School (Kentucky)

message: I added a subsection for Harrodsburg High School talking about some of their past football successes. I was hoping that somebody could come in and give a more historical description of the school. WildManKY 17:08, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Lima (disambiguation)

message: There is also a city near Buenos Aires, Argentina called Lima. I am looking for more information on this city, so if anyone knows anything, please add an article!—Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.91.244.202 (talk • contribs) 14:48, 21 May 2007
:Added link to stub article in English Wikipedia, for now.  Maybe someone will take the time later to translate it into English from the Spanish Wikipedia article.—QuicksilverT @ 16:16, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lima (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Talk:Caproni Ca.1 (1914)

message: Don't you see that the drawing is absolutely not match the description?
It's the drawing of Ca.1 from 1910, not 1914: two very different airplanes.
91.78.15.183 (talk) 15:34, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
Talk:Magnus Liber

message: In the disambiguation page at W1 there's an entry for a manuscript source for the Magnus Liber - but in this article it isn't mentioned. I don't want to delete the entry in the dab page, but someone more deletionist is likely to come and do so sometime. If "W1" is really a source for this work, please add that statement to the article to justify the existence of the dab page link. Thanks. PamD (talk) 23:24, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Same applies to W2. PamD (talk) 23:25, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  W1 and W2? 
Talk:The Downeaster "Alexa"

message: Anyone know why Billy Joel called his fictitious boat the Downeaster Alexa?  As far as I can tell, all Downeasters (made by Down East Yachts) were cruising vessels.  Or was it a reference to Down East, an geographical location in New England.  And who was Alexa?
--Legis (talk - contributions) 15:02, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Alexa is Billy Joel's daughter. AJD 16:59, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Song title

message: Are you sure that shouldn't be The Downeaster 'Alexa', like it says on the album cover? 'Alexa just looks wrong. AJD 16:59, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Moved it. It was probably a failed move to remove the 's on both sides. We could alternatively also move it back to using two 's... Ingolfson 08:46, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: So, wait a minute. What's the official title of the song? CarpetCrawler (talk) 07:30, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks like this has been stagnant for a while...This needs to be fixed. Somebody fix it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.140.145.55 (talk) 21:33, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Recent Move to '''The Downeaster 'Alexa'''

message: The word "downeaster" in the second and fourth paragraphs under Content is linked to the Wikipedia article "Down Easter (ship)."  This link is misleading; the linked article describes a type of large (~300') square-rigged cargo-carrying sailing vessel, while the song (as stated in the fourth paragraph under Content) refers to a much smaller (36 - 46') powered commercial fishing boat.  I'm not a sufficiently well-versed Wikipedian to know if this should be fixed simply by removing the links, or if a section should be added to the linked article noting that the term "downeaster" has been used, at least in this song, to refer to a completely different type of vessel.  I also don't know if "downeaster" is commonly used in New England to refer to small vessels like Maine lobster boats, or if Billy Joel just got the word wrong in the song.  Woody832 (talk) 18:44, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to article "Down Easter (ship)" 

message: Melissa Leo appeared as Billy Havens' (wife/other) (waiting for his return from the sea) because her father Arnold Leo III, an editor at Grove Press, fisherman, and former spokesman for the East Hampton Baymen's Association. Billy Havens is also a real fisherman there. sources ... https://www.easthamptonstar.com/archive/billy-havens-longtime-bayman-finest-kind ... https://www.tvguide.com/celebrities/melissa-leo/bio/3030218972/.... I was going to try to edit but I cant do it 2602:306:8B24:4610:447D:2935:8DFD:F7CA (talk) 04:33, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  add to Music Video section
Talk:Pearl necklace (sexual act)

message: A brave soul chose to anonymously (rather than logging in for odd reason) to nominate everyone's favorite image for deletion on Commons, as I had suggested above to get this settled conclusively, and once for all. Please see Image:Sexuality pearl necklace small.png 3rd nomination. Note--the deletion request is on Commons, so the deletion rules differ slightly there from en. Since this is a perennial problem it will be good to get it sorted with hard facts rather than opinion once and for all. rootology (T) 13:44, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like strong consensus for keep on the commons site.  Atom (talk) 01:40, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Here's a vote for it being deleted. Wikipedia isn't a porn site and that smut is absolutely disgusting. Find this on a porn site. It will be easy to find. No need for it to be here.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.113.40.209 (talk) 09:24, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  FYI - pearl necklace image deletion nomination 

message: This "article" will be useful in the campaign to have wikipedia blocked from school use, not only because it's unreliable and often written by idiots, but is also a hard-core porn site.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.147.135.3 (talk) 14:56, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia covers an extremely wide variety of subjects, including sex-related topics. See WP:NOTCENSORED. --NeilN talk to me 15:15, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: You may also be interested to know that paper encyclopaedias also cover sex, as do biology textbooks. I will grant you that Wikipedia goes into a lot more depth on sex than say Britannica, but it also goes into a lot more depth on railway stations, politicians and places. As we're not limited by paper we can have articles on pretty much anything, and that makes us a good educational resource. I'm not sure I'd advise learning about sex from Wikipedia, but it would certainly give you a much more comprehensive view of the subject, rather than just the mechanics of it. -mattbuck (Talk) 22:11, 3 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia is porn now? 

message: We don't really need a porn diagram in this article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rainythunderstorm (talk • contribs) 07:49, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The image appears to be neither pornographic nor a diagram. I recommend that you read WP:CENSORED. If the use of the image in this article represents a policy violation, please let us know. Thank you. — MShabazz Talk/Stalk 12:16, 4 August 2017 (UTC)

text: This has been discussed at length, to the point twhere we have an entire archive jsut for this issue. I suggest that you read it. Meters (talk) 18:31, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can we please delete the image?
Talk:David Knowles (scholar)

message: I am not logged in because I do not seek publicity however are you aware that Dom David Knowles was if not the first, one of the first in aerial archaeology hence 'bare ruined choirs' on the black death/plague?  where do I go from here?
Should you wish money from me for Wiki to continue and I am poor but use Wiki - please enter all his publications.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.179.70.182 (talk) 19:47, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  bare ruined choirs - aerial archaeology? - did you know - are you aware 
Talk:Everaldo Coelho

message: WikiProject Biography Assessment Drives
Want to help write or improve biographies? Check out WikiProject Biography Tips for writing better articles. —Yamara ✉ 21:43, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 

message: Hi, can you please make a red question mark, so that i can put it on my nav-box on wikipedia, here is my nav-box on my user page.Thanks.Sunderland06 (talk) 16:21, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crystal Clear images 

message: Try these:
* https://corporate.canaltech.com.br/noticia/curiosidades/Everaldo-Coelho-Designer-brasileiro-conta-como-e-trabalhar-na-Apple/
*http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-08-22/entertainment/sns-201208221715reedbusivarietynvr1118058169-20120822_1_user-experience-design-firm-apple
*https://macmagazine.com.br/2012/07/30/apos-dois-anos-na-apple-designer-everaldo-coelho-esta-voltando-ao-brasil-para-trabalhar-em-uma-startup/
*https://macmagazine.com.br/2010/10/08/entrevista-exclusiva-everaldo-coelho-designer-brasileiro-que-esta-indo-trabalhar-na-apple/
*http://g1.globo.com/pr/parana/noticia/2012/09/brasileiro-que-ajudou-criar-o-iphone-5-pede-demissao-da-apple.html
these might help. DS (talk) 20:09, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources

message: The praise for "boost[ing] the mindshare of SVG" could be toned down a little considering the so called Crystal SVG icon set was never actually released as SVG. (osnews article) --Cebus (talk) 14:13, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crystal SVG
Talk:Carbon project

message: Carbon Solutions Group is a company that I am familiar with that supplies information for free regarding carbon projects.  I think the link is a useful one.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Carbonconsultant (talk • contribs) 15:31, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Carbon Solutions Group linkage

message: I could help quite a bit on this article but have a COI - waiting for feedback before I start editing. I assume "Carbonconsultant" has a COI, too... Anyway, I´ve been researching and working on Carbon Projects for a while and am pretty sure I can write from a critical, neutral, researchers perspective also I also make my living with carbon projects.
Anyway, COI guidelines suggest having a independent check up on COI Authors, so please, somebody?
TimS TimS (talk) 15:12, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  COI Author
Talk:Lotta Engbergs

message: Well, my Swedish is almost as bad as my Klingon, but for all I can see, this band has published a number of albums (swedish sites list about 10), published at regular labels, not self-released. Thus the subject passes WP:MUSIC. I am removing the notability tag.
Sources would be good however.
Sorted as part of the Notability Wikiproject --B. Wolterding 15:34, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  notability established
Talk:Second Aliyah

message: I think this article should become high importance. While the Second Aliyah practically built the Yishuv, it's still not a core topic of Israel. -- Ynhockey (Talk) 17:10, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Top importance? 

message: I don't understand the logic behind this sentence:
"The Zionist ideology played a minor factor for Jewish emigration to Palestine as indicate by the proportionally small number of immigrants compared to those who went to the US."
The only way this makes sense is if we assume all Jews to have been Zionists. Then we could rightly say that although there were (e.g.) 2 million Zionists who emigrated, only 50,000 came to Palestine, ergo Zionism played only a small role in the Second Aliya. But there is no way to know how many subscribed to Zionist ideology and of those, what percentage went to Palestine. Also, even if only 2.5% of Zionists went to Palestine, that doesn't mean that the ones who did go were NOT motived to a large extent by Zionism.
I don't think any of this is more than speculation and move for the section to be removed unless a valid source can be cited to back it up. MosheEmes (talk) 01:41, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Too much ultra-Westernized POV in this restructuring.GreyShark (dibra) 14:45, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

text: What you removed, apart from the short final paragraph, is supported by three academic sources written by respected experts. If it isn't a good reflection of the sources or is not written well, you should study the sources and improve the text according to what they say. It doesn't matter in the least whether you agree with it or consider it illogical. The role of Zionism in the second aliyah is now not mentioned at all, despite this obviously being a very important question. Zerotalk 03:51, 16 December 2018 (UTC)

text: You shouldn't edit on the basis of recollections. Also, in your version Zionism is not mentioned at all in the body of the article. Zerotalk 12:31, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Role of Zionism 

message: A new section on Zionism was added, sourced to a paper which I'd like to get my hands on. Is this available anywhere online somewhere?
Currently the section repeats the same idea a few times, so it can be trimmed significantly, but I don't have access to the source. It also contradicts itself: it says that Zionism was not a major factor in the immigration to the Land of Israel, but at the same time people who did immigrate suffered economic hardships and persecution in Israel as well. It should probably read that Zionism was not a major factor in emigration from Eastern Europe, but the people who did choose to emigrate to Israel were Zionists—but again, I don't have access to the source and don't know exactly what it says on the subject.
—Ynhockey (Talk) 13:03, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: One of them is here and the other is at your hotmail address. Zerotalk 13:44, 14 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Zionism section
Talk:The Chess Monthly (American magazine)

message: There appears to have been another magazine of the same name from September 1879 - August 1896, edited by Leopold Hoffer & Johannes Zukertort.  John Vandenberg 06:43, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  1879-1896 
File talk:Non-Pythagorean Scale Comparison.jpg

message: I'm not sure what temperament the blue bars show. The notation states 12-TET, but it does not appear to be ... 396 Hz on a 264 Hz root is 702 cents for a JI fifth, but 332.64 appears to be 400 for a 12-TET Maj3. Others ... I'm not sure. Have not looked into this deeply, but there appears to be a problem on the surface (unless my handy Excel calcs are messed up, which they could be). ClintGoss (talk) 12:46, 28 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Temperament of Blue Bars
Talk:Agape Europe

message: I have marked this article as unreferenced, as it has no references from independent, reliable sources. DuncanHill (talk) 15:22, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unreferenced 
Talk:Agape feast

message: Can the official (Mormon church potluck dinners) and the unofficial dinners held by many Mormon women 
constitute types of Agape feasts?
Prsaucer1958 (talk) 18:32, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: If reliable secondary sources say they do, but not otherwise (not on Wikipedia, which does not publish the novel ideas nor the original research of its editors and readers.  — AReaderOutThataway t/c 21:38, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Mormon potlucks?

message: This article has several citation problems:
* Invalid citations; the one that most stuck out was attempting to use a Google search as a source.  Search results are not sources; they can be tools for editors to use off-site, looking for sources.
* Incomplete and malformed citations. In particular, we cannot (per WP:SAYWHEREYOUGOTIT) cite a classical author like Tertullian and just leave it at that.  Every citation has to be to a published source.  Thus, such citations-to-the-ancients can read something like |title=Illegitimi non carborundum |author=Dufus Maximus the Younger |orig-year=c. 348 |work=Dufusian Electronic Archive |editor-last=Doe |editor-first=John |date=2018 |publisher=Coalition of Cooperative Institute for Organizational Association.
* No consistent citation style. This is veering between WP:CS1, WP:CS2 (the  template), and unformatted (e.g. bare URL) citations or attempts at citations.  Per WP:CITEVAR, these need to be all in one consistent format within the article.  Given that CS2 is almost dead, and trying to do an article in CS2, when about 99% of editors do CS1 by default requires watchlisting it like a hawk, I would suggest moving to CS1 format.
* Various parameters are being misused in citation templates (especially the CS2 template , though also in some CS1 templates).  I cleaned up some of this as I ran across it (e.g. removal of  which is redundant since it's the default), but there's a lot of confusion in there about what is a title of a work, what is a subwork, what is a publisher, and so on.  In short, please actually read the template documentation before you use the template.
— AReaderOutThataway t/c 22:51, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sourcing and citation cleanup needed 

message: An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Coffee hour. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so.  Fiamh (talk, contribs) 06:38, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Coffee hour" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: The section on Eastern Orthodoxy currently reads:
 A number of Eastern Orthodox Christian parishes will have an agape meal (Turkish: sevgi ziyafeti), commonly known as coffee hour (Spanish: café comunitario), on Sundays and feast days following the Divine Liturgy, and especially at the conclusion of the Paschal Vigil.
Why exactly are glosses being given in Turkish and Spanish? 
Furius (talk) 20:21, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: To add a gloss of pseudo-scholarship? Tachypaidia (talk) 01:25, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coffee hour
Talk:Bethpage station

message: Bethpage Junction is actually further east --JimWae (talk) 23:50, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bethpage Junction 

message: *No actual Monatuk Branch trains regularly stop at Bethpage.  It is not indicated on the Montauk or Ronkonkoma Schedules (as is Mineola and Hicksville).  While Montauk trains do pass through the station on their way to the Central Branch, no revenue trains actually stop here.  In the Bethpage wating area, no Montauk branch schedules are displayed (as customary with other stations that serve any Montauk branch trains. 
:Therefore, I think that any Montauk Branch references should be removed from the infobox.  The main aricle says that trains on the Central Branch pass through here, but do not stop.  I think that is sufficient.  Other stations (like Westbury and Carle Place) have Montauk trains pass through them without stopping, and they do not have the Montauk Branch listed in their infobox.   Cluefinder42 (talk) 01:45, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Montauk Branch Service to Bethpage 
Talk:Maxwell Smart

message: Shouldn't a little more detail be provided about the character Maxwell_Smart, in as much as so much detail was provided about Agent_99?   While Agent 99 will always have a special spot in my heart, she was the co-star.
Or should I step up to the plate and make my first contribution to Wikipedia?
CharliePATpk 15:49, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Details
Talk:PNG Air

message: I am redirecting Airlines of Papua New Guinea to Airlines PNG as per name of the airline. A redirect page exists at Airlines PNG already, so am requesting this be deleted so that the redirect can take place. --Russavia 15:51, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: What does "RPT" mean. Suggest the full term is used in the text.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.185.113.36 (talk) 21:02, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments