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Talk:Contemplation (short story collection)

message: This page, which had previously been mostly blank, is currently being updated as part of a 12th-grade English class project.  Each of the students in this class was assigned one of the stories and told to write about its structure and point of view, the images used, its tone, and its theme.  The students are uploading their entries without any editing from the teacher.  There are, at this moment, several problems--both grammatical and stylistic, as well as in interpretation--with many of the entries.  Everyone is now invited to make corrections and to suggest new approaches in interpretation.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.244.203.196 (talk) 03:00, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Most of these stories have interpretations, as well as plot summaries without citations. It would be good to add some scholarly references.
187.191.13.204 (talk) 21:13, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Original research
Talk:Dancing Girls (short story collection)

message: I have (from the Library) a Vintage Books UK edition dating from 1996 (). It conains only 14 stories; missing "The War in the Bathroom" and "Rape Fantasies". It ought to be mentioned in the article but I do not know if all UK editions are the same or just the Vintage edition; anyone have any more info? GrahamHardy (talk) 13:46, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: According to  the original version was also missing these two !GrahamHardy (talk) 17:33, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  UK version diferent ?
Talk:Deep Breathing Exercises

message: Deep breathing is a way to calm down in a stressful situation.  In a stressful situation you usually  breath rapid and fast. If you are stressed and freaking, out slow down, take a big deep breath hold it then  let it out slowly. not about deep breathing Okay so you’re kicking around Wikipedia and you come across this article and think, “Hey this article doesn’t even have a plot summary.  I think I’ll recommend that this short story be merged with the short story collection it came from.”  Well that is not a good idea for a two very good reasons.  First of all, Orson Scott Card published most of his short stories in two or three different anthologies so that an attempt at combining his stories with their collections would result in multiple listings.  The second reason is that Card’s biggest collection Maps in a Mirror contains 46 short stories and more than half of them have fairly long articles about them which include plot summaries, connections to other stories, critical reception, publication history, book covers etc.  The problem is that if all these stories were merged into Maps in a Mirror it would result in an article that is about three miles long.
So… If you want to help, try doing something constructive with your time like writing a summary for this story.  Pmcalduff (talk) 06:43, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

message: A plot summary is not an article.  This article gives no sources, reliable or otherwise, to suggest that the story itself is notable.  Either such sources should be added, or the article should be deleted or merged.    Guy who reads a lot (talk) 22:49, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable? 

message: I am tagging this for proposed delete.  No reason has been advanced to suggest that this short story is notable (although the author is notable). Guy who reads a lot (talk) 22:27, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:   Deletion proposed
Talk:Ali B

message: What is this nonsense ? 
Ali B is een rapper jeweetzelluf. Ik pown hem als een malle maarja toch probeert ie het. WTF is hij gay.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.95.219.236 (talk) 17:17, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is this ? 

message: This article is classified as 'Start' - compared to the Dutch Wikipedia article, and with the (still valid) remarks from 2012 above, it's probably better classfied as stub.... Angeloh (talk) 20:03, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Classification 
Talk:Association football/Archive 9

message: 3rd sentence of 1st paragraph: "manoeuvring" —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.118.196.201 (talk) 00:35, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: British English. – Elisson • T • C • 17:01, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not sometimes. Always. For that is the official spelling of the word as dictated by the OED. - PeeJay 21:07, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Spelling Error

message: When writing Wikipedia articles, should it be AET or aet? PSO or pso? Thanks. --Howard the Duck 17:51, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I prefer lowercase, which also makes a lot more sense, we aren't abbreviating "After Extra Time", we're abbreviating "after extra time". BTW, if you have further questions not directly related to this article but related to football articles in general, post them at the football project talk page. – Elisson • T • C • 18:26, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

text: For penalties, pens is probably a more common abbreviation. Oldelpaso 19:10, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks both, I use the lowercaps convention but Wikipedia is inconsistent with what to use. Thanks again. --Howard the Duck 02:38, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stupid questions 

message: 3rd sentence - grammar errors?: "A ball game, it is played on a rectangular grass field, or occasionally on artificial turf, with a goal at each end of the field.".
Should it be: "A ball game, played on a rectangular grass field, or occasionally on artificial turf, with a goal at each end of the field."
OR
"It is a ball game, played on a rectangular grass field, or occasionally on artificial turf, with a goal at each end of the field."?--Jon987 01:47, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Your first option no verb.  The second is pretty much the same as the current sentence, so why bother changing it?  The current text is perfectly grammatical. –EdC 18:00, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  3rd Sentence - Grammar Errors? 

message: American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, Association football. 220.253.52.9 15:52, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A god by any other name...
Talk:Dibs in Search of Self

message: I do not believe Dibs' report IQ.  is it in the book itself?  wouldn't it be a big reason to doubt all of it, if it was?
Jordan Peterson tells us that the top score is now 160.
All other such claims are either lies, exaggerations, or estimations.  However, on could ask harder and harder questions, but you wouldn't have a large sampling to judge your estimation of the "difficulty" of the questions or to award more and more IQ points based on it.
1. did the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Test allow for scores of hirer than 160 when he supposedly tested so highly?
2. whatever Dibs' true diagnosis, is it likely that someone like him, with his handicaps and his isolation because of them, would score so highly on every single section of the test?
I've taken the test, Dibs might have the vocabulary of a college professor at age seven, he might be able to do calculus in his head, that's what being gifted, or just plain cursed with a math teach and a English teacher as parents, but there there were several sections of the test, when I took it, and Dib might know the distance from Los Angeles to Tokyo, at age seven, and I don't remember the other sections, who wrote Dead Souls?  What does "scapulamancy" mean?
I can't help but suspect that even if it's true about Dibs actually taking the test and scoring very well on half of the sections that "they" decided to not even test him on ones in which he was handicapped by his condition.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:701:C002:FD40:CC2D:9187:AEB0:B311 (talk) 00:59, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: IQ tests for kids are different than kids for adults. A 168 for a ten year old is like an average seventeen-year old. Jikybebna (talk) 13:46, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  I do not believe Dibs' reported IQ.  is it in the book itself?  wouldn't it be a big reason to doubt all of it, if it was?
Talk:Dip in the Pool

message: In Spellbound Issue #5, there's an adaptation of the story. It was published in July '52 7 months after Dahl's story was published in the New Yorker. It doesn't credit Dahl, and uses the title "He waved to me" so adding it would constitute WP:OR. Stan Lee was the editor of the issue, but only Jack Keller (artist) is credited on the story (as Penciller and Inker, not writer). Not sure if anyone can find a suitable secondary source about it, but I haven't managed yet. Stuart.Jamieson (talk) 19:03, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Atlas (Marvel) comics Adaptation
Talk:Dogwalker (story)

message: The notablity of this story seem questionable, although there's no doubt about the notability of the author.  The article has no citations-- some sources or reviews suggesting it's notability would be helpful.  Guy who reads a lot (talk) 00:38, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable?
Talk:Mohammed Hussein Ali

message: This name needs a disambiguation page. Wizzy…☎ 09:52, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Fat Farm

message: A plot summary is not an article.  This article gives no sources, reliable or otherwise, to suggest that the story itself is notable.  Either such sources should be added, or the article should be deleted or merged.    Guy who reads a lot (talk) 22:49, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable? 

message: I am tagging this for quick delete.  No reason has been advanced to suggest that this short story is notable (although the author is notable). Guy who reads a lot (talk) 19:50, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Non-notablity is not a valid CSD category for a book or short story -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 20:34, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I changed the tag to "proposed deletion" instead of quick deletion. Guy who reads a lot (talk) 22:28, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It may not be notable but it's memorable - I remembered the story and was trying to figure out the name of the story and was Googling things like "man who clones himself and his old body is sent to work"...eventually finding this name after a long time looking. I wouldn't have bothered if it wasn't that memorable. Hardly the best reason to keep it, but it is one.Escottf (talk) 22:58, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quick Delete proposed
Talk:Follower (short story)

message: Is this short story notable?  The author is certainly notable, and arguably the collection it appears in is notable, but it is not clear that the story itself is notable.  
Suggest that this should be a redirect page to Maps in a Mirror.
Guy who reads a lot (talk)  20:51, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable?
Talk:Lev Rebet

message: Photo shows the remark "KL Auschwitz" (=KZ Auschwitz), text mentions - only - he was in Zellenbau of KZ Sachsenhausen. So, what's the point with Auschwitz ? --129.187.244.19 (talk) 09:28, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  KZ Sachsenhausen / KL Auschwitz ?
Talk:Savik Shuster

message: Couldn't find the name of his first wife and there children (nor how many the have...), hence I wrote Children in Italy in the infobox. Not an elegant solution (I know...) but don't know a better one (according to the sources I provided they do live in Italy). — Mariah-Yulia • Talk to me! 00:55, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Children in Italy 

message: I didn't find anything about him being a Jew either on Russian or on Ukrainian Wikipedia, so I removed it in accordance with WP:BLP until a source is found.--202.90.81.123 (talk) 18:01, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jewish nationality 

message: .... but information for updating this Wikipedia article can be found here.  — Yulia Romero • Talk to me! 17:49, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  I unfortunately have not the time to update this Wikipedia article now.... 
Talk:Hitching (short story)

message: In the absence of any evidence that this story is notable (there's been a notability query on the story for two years with no response), I am changing this to a redirect to the collection in which the story appears. Guy who reads a lot (talk) 14:45, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect
Talk:If You Liked School You'll Love Work

message: The [ current version] of the article is just one paragraph and it ends with:
:The t-shirt was printed by legendary t-shirt designer...
The three dots makes me suspect it's a copy-and-paste from some other site.
If someone with basic knowledge of this book could rewrite that one paragraph, that would make everything clearly legal. Gronky (talk) 20:57, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this a copyright violation?
Talk:In the Doghouse (short story)

message: Is there any evidence that this story is notable?   If not, this article should be changed to a redirect to the anthology in which it appears.Guy who reads a lot (talk) 14:41, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable?
Talk:Jupiter Five

message: Does the "insignificant literary meaning" really need to be in there? 24.131.64.124 (talk) 04:40, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I question that too.  The phrase itself has no obvious intrinsic meaning, and an explanation is required.  It probably is not necessary at all, smells like editorializing, and should probably be deleted. 12.233.147.42 (talk) 23:11, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:List of booksellers' abbreviations

message: I see used booksellers often use the terms   8 VO or 8 VO possibly 9,   The numbers usually ranging from 7 to 9 
I havent been able to find a definition 
VO very old ?
60.230.5.208 (talk) 12:08, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It is an abbreviation for the paper size. 8vo is octavo. 4to is quarto. “fo” is folio. 12mo is duodecimo.Steepleman (t) 08:33, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: VO
Talk:Vega 1

message: Shouldn't the Vega 1, Vega 2 and Vega program pages be merged, probably with the first two being redirected to the third? The pages are mostly copies of each other. This makes it difficult to improve them, since improvements to the text of one need to be implemented in the other as well.
--Dan Griscom (talk) 03:24, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge Vega 1, Vega 2 and Vega program pages?
Talk:Malpractice (short story)

message: Since there has been no evidence of notability added in the nearly two years that the notability tag has been on the article, I am changing this to a Redirect to the collection the story appears in. Guy who reads a lot (talk) 17:42, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change to Redirect
Talk:Memories of My Head

message: This article lacks citations to  reliable sources to show that the story is notable.  Either such sources should be added, or the article should be deleted or merged.  Guy who reads a lot (talk) 01:56, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable? 

message: I am tagging this for deletion, since no reasons have been advanced to suggest that this short story is notable (although the author is notable).  Guy who reads a lot (talk) 22:40, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Since nobody has voiced any objection in the course of a year, I am changing this to a redirect to Maps in a Mirror.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Guy who reads a lot (talk • contribs) 05:13, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deletion proposed
Talk:Mikal's Songbird

message: Since this story appears (nearly unaltered) as a section of the novel Songmaster, which continues and expands the story, I don't think there's any good reason to have an article for the story, and also one for the novel.  So I made this page a redirect to the novel.    Guy who reads a lot (talk) 21:38, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  redirect to Songmaster
Talk:Mortal Gods

message: Okay so you’re kicking around Wikipedia and you come across this article and think, “Hey this article doesn’t even have a plot summary.  I think I’ll recommend that this short story be merged with the short story collection it came from.”  Well that is not a good idea for a two very good reasons.  First of all, Orson Scott Card published most of his short stories in two or three different anthologies so that an attempt at combining his stories with their collections would result in multiple listings.  The second reason is that Card’s biggest collection Maps in a Mirror contains 46 short stories and more than half of them have fairly long articles about them which include plot summaries, connections to other stories, critical reception, publication history, book covers etc.  The problem is that if all these stories were merged into Maps in a Mirror it would result in an article that is about three miles long.
So… If you want to help, try doing something constructive with your time like writing a summary for this story.  Pmcalduff (talk) 06:44, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Since there has been no evidence added that this story is notable (although the author is notable), I changed this to a redirect to the collection the story appears in. Guy who reads a lot (talk) 17:19, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changed to redirect
Talk:Nine Lives (novelette)

message: Info from this blog post would need to be re-sourced but it might provide ideas for expanding the article. Jodi.a.schneider (talk) 14:37, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ideas for Expansion 
Talk:Oblivion, Nebraska

message: Request to merge Oblivion, Nebraska (film) into Oblivion, Nebraska, dated: March 2019. Pinging proposer  Discuss here. Richard3120 (talk) 23:26, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll perform this merger as an uncontroversial merge since two of the WP:MERGEREASONS apply to it. Both articles are very short and very unlikley to be expanded to a point where the film doesn't fit in a subsection of the broader topic and there is significant overlap between the articles. If you believe was the wrong choice please revert my merger and continue this discussion.Trialpears (talk) 08:16, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Go for it! GenQuest "Talk to Me" 18:49, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal
Talk:Accademia nazionale delle scienze

message: This article was tagged by User:Tommosimmo for speedy deletion for the following reason:
* No indication of importance/significance. An article about a real person, organization (band, club, company, etc.), or web content that does not indicate why its subject is important or significant. This is distinct from questions of notability, verifiability and reliability of sources. A7 applies only to the articles on the people, organizations and web content themselves, not articles on their books, albums, software, and so on. Other article types are not eligible for deletion by this criterion. If controversial, as with schools, list the article at Articles for deletion instead.
I beg to differ. This article describes Italy's National Academy of Sciences. Please see the article national academy for a discussion of this type of organization, and pointers to articles about various other country's national academies. If a national academy is not of significance, perhaps all such articles should be deleted from Wikipedia (eg the Royal Society, National Academy of Science, etc.). If the tagger believes that Italy's national academy is less important than those of other countries, I believe he/she should make this case explicitly. Daderot (talk) 12:28, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

message: I propose that Accademia nazionale delle scienze detta dei XL be merged into Accademia nazionale delle scienze, or vice versa. They are about the same subject. Gorobay (talk) 19:01, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: done -- Accademia nazionale delle scienze detta dei XL was merged into this article. -- phoebe / (talk to me) 21:52, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: I've removed a large addition of text translated without attribution from Italian Wikipedia, as it contained substantial copyright violations of this Italian-language page (see this tool). It was also, incidentally, without one single independent reliable source. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 20:41, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright violations
Talk:Babia Góra

message: There is a proposal to rename this page and other similar ones. Please see Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (geographic names)/Archives/2008/November#Undoubling and discuss there.--Kotniski (talk) 17:52, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed move
Talk:Prior Restraint

message: This article lacks citations to  reliable sources to show that the story is notable.  Either such sources should be added, or the article should be deleted or merged.  Guy who reads a lot (talk) 01:55, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable? 

message: I am tagging this for deletion, since no reasons have been advanced to suggest that this short story is notable (although the author is notable).  Guy who reads a lot (talk) 22:38, 3 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Since nobody has voiced an objection, I am deleting this article (actually, changing it to a redirect to the anthology it appears in). Guy who reads a lot (talk) 05:09, 5 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deletion proposed
Talk:James F. Allen (computer scientist)

message: I asked him about it in person because I wasn't sure.  Sorry that's not a legit source.  ~~Andrew Keenan Richardson~~ 19:11, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Middle name is Frederick 
Talk:Sandmagic

message: Okay so you’re kicking around Wikipedia and you come across this article and think, “Hey this article doesn’t even have a plot summary.  I think I’ll recommend that this short story be merged with the short story collection it came from.”  Well that is not a good idea for a two very good reasons.  First of all, Orson Scott Card published most of his short stories in two or three different anthologies so that an attempt at combining his stories with their collections would result in multiple listings.  The second reason is that Card’s biggest collection Maps in a Mirror contains 46 short stories and more than half of them have fairly long articles about them which include plot summaries, connections to other stories, critical reception, publication history, book covers etc.  The problem is that if all these stories were merged into Maps in a Mirror it would result in an article that is about three miles long.
So… If you want to help, try doing something constructive with your time like writing a summary for this story.  Pmcalduff (talk) 06:57, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Despite the text above by Pmcalduff, there doesn't seem to be any evidence that this particular story is notable.  I propose that this page should be a redirect to Cardography. Guy who reads a lot (talk) 13:20, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect?
Talk:Sticks (short story)

message: I've been researching the origin of the Devil's Nest (aka Cajun bird trap), a fetish object used in True Detective season 1.
TL;DR: I can't find any mention of Wagner or "Sticks" in connection with True Detective.
* From the story:
* This Vulture article talks in detail about the design and "ritual art" by Joshua Walsh, but no mention of "Sticks".
* This Den of Geek article even spoke to a "witch" about the possible connection with Santeria/Hoodoo.
* This Blogspot review has two illustrations from a 1932 book by Lee Brown Coye, who apparently was seeing stick latticework in New York state (ref) but that seems dubious, too.
...if I can find anything else, I'll update the topic. StevePrutz (talk) 13:45, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious: inspiration for Devil's Nests in True Detective
Talk:Supertoys Last All Summer Long

message: This article is a mashup of the short story, and the collection which included it. this needs to be straightened out at some point, esp. the infobox.(mercurywoodrose)66.80.6.163 (talk) 21:11, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Mashup

message: The combination of those two sections makes quite a long article for what is a fairly short story. -- Beardo (talk) 02:42, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot / Characters