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Talk:China men's national basketball team

message: I would like to know exactly what the tiebreakers are for the Fiba World Championships. Wikipedia has referred to China finishing 15th, but most other sites say it finished 11th. How does the person who edited the Wikipedia rankings know? Is there a link to the tiebreakers used in these situations? Hanuab 14:10, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Tiebreakers for FIBA 2006 World Championships

message: Is the "nationality" column of the players' roster really necessary?  It is the Chinese National Basketball Team, after all!  Having the national flags in the coaches section makes sense, as one coach hails from Lithuania and the other from China.  But given that all the players are from the People's Republic of China, well … —MicahBrwn (talk) 00:02, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chinese National Basketball Team roster 

message: Why are the names in the roster list in the "Firstname/given name, Surname/lastname" format?
Chinese names are already in "Surname Firstname" format, so why not just display it like that? For example, the article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China_national_football_team already has names in that format
So Yao Ming would just be listed "Yao Ming" instead of "Ming, Yao"  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.62.166.208 (talk) 02:10, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Names 

message: What about China's sole remaining NBA player Yi Jianlian (212-F/C-87)? Why is he not on the list? China really needs him to claim back their Asian title. This year's Asian Championship will be a tough  assignment for China. Iran, Lebanon and South Korea all post serious threats to the Hosts. 202.81.69.137 (talk) 02:30, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: 2011 Roster

message: There is a move discussion in progress which affects this page. Please participate at Talk:Canada national men's basketball team - Requested move and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RM bot 23:00, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Move discussion in progress

message: - You moved this page without any discussion. As the discussion linked to in the talk section immediately above this shows, that move is controversial. Please undo the move and start a discussion before attempting it to move it again. --Nat Gertler (talk) 00:16, 14 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problematic page move
Talk:Ragnarok (Týr album)

message: While it's true that this is a concept album, it's not entirely accurate that the concept is Ragnarok itself.  The actual theme that unites all of the lore inspired songs is Loki.  He is the one that is either speaking, spoken to, spoken about, or instigating the action  in all of these songs, yet he is not once mentioned by name.
:you seem to know a lot about this. why not write a blurb about it on the page. Patrick (talk) 02:38, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Concept Album

message: The second variant of 14th track title is on the official band's page. It also wins a Google Fight :) So I changed it. I don't have a faintest idea what does any of these mean, and I don't have the album to look it up on a booklet so if they have a typo on the site by chance, this still may be wrong. — ⟨✆∣µzdzisław∣⚒⟩ 17:36, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I noticed that on the site too, but i just checked my cd and it says Gjallarhornið. ...Patrick (talk, contributions) 20:54, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, accidentally I see the cover now too. I corrected the lack of apostrophe in "Brother's Bane", another mistake on the band's webpage. — ⟨✆∣µzdzisław∣⚒⟩ 20:30, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Gjallarhornið or Gjallarhorni?
Talk:Culm Measures

message: Anyone know a connection with River Culm?
:Not as far as I'm aware. My sources give alternative derivations as from Old English col, meaning coal, or Welsh cwlwm, meaning knot (because of the contorted folding of these deposits). --Portnadler 09:37, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I have added something to this effect. The two do get confused. Ironically, the origin of their names may be linked as both may be derived from cwlwm meaning knot. If this is true in river's case it is the meanders that lead to this name.--NHSavage (talk) 20:02, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: River Culm?

message: I've moved the section on the National Character Area from the article on the River Culm to this article.  It's clear that the NCA was named for, and covers broadly the same area as, the Culm Measures, not the river which is in a different part of Devon (close, but no cream tea).  Ghmyrtle (talk) 08:38, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Culm NCA

message: I reverted the undiscussed change of article title to the uncapitalised form.  In my experience the term usually has capitals for both C and M - see for example here, here,  here, here, and here.   But, we should discuss it further here.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 16:36, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Oldest and newest books prefer lowercase measures, while most 20th century books cap.  See  and .  It's not at all clear why Measures is capped, but Culm is (perhaps) a name in addition to a local term for the soft coal there. Dicklyon (talk) 01:21, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems the BGS Lexicon of Named Rock Units (used as ref #1) uses Culm Measures as a formal stratigraphic name. Vsmith (talk) 02:17, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I suspect - but have no sources to back up the thought - that some authorities thought that the name originated from the River Culm rather than the substance "culm", and capitalised it accordingly.  Then, having capitalised the first word, they or others capitalised the second word for consistency.  So, a lower case form may be historically accurate, but I don't think it's what most recent or current sources apply, and if we here try to use lower case, without a clear justification from reliable sources, we appear to be prioritising WP style over real-world practice - which is something I would oppose.   Ghmyrtle (talk) 08:41, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the BGS Lexicon always capitalises, and I also think we should defer to them on this sort of thing, as being a real world reliable source. I also think that some of these discussions on capitalisation tend to wander off into angels on pinheads territory. DuncanHill (talk) 22:03, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article name
Talk:Isham G. Harris

message: In the "Civil War" section, this little line jumped out at me:
:"This helped push Tennessee to become the second to last state to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy."
I could have sworn that Tennessee was the final state to secede. In my history class for this year (which focuses on Tennessee history), they keep mentioning how Tennessee was "the last to leave the Union and the first to rejoin the Union". So who's right? --Kaoskastle (talk) 13:28, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Tennessee aligned itself militarily with the Confederacy on May 7, 1861.  North Carolina seceded on May 20, 1861.  However, Tennessee's secession wasn't official until the vote on the Ordinance of Secession on June 8, 1861.  Thus the confusion.  If June 8 is considered the date when Tennessee left the Union, then Tennessee was the last state to secede.  Bms4880 (talk) 23:45, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tennessee secedes 

message: A draft on Isham's brother is underway at Draft:William R. Harris. Cheers! BD2412 T 05:18, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Draft:William R. Harris]] 

message: All of this is INCORRECT!! HE WAS NEVER GOV. Shelbybdobson (talk) 03:17, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  WRONG HISTORY
Talk:Asian Man Records

message: Please keep discussion talk relevant. This is not a forums. --Blckhawk1234 (talk) 22:10, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Not a forum

message: a DIY record label is borderline nonnotable, but in this case since there are so many articles on the bands this label has worked with, obviously no action is needed around notability. but i do think that some of the trivial details need to be sourced or removed, which i will do at some point. a guide to notability for me is: does every entity in the category this article belong to have a characteristic described in article? if so, mentioning it is probably unncessary. every record label will have a coffee pot in the office, just as every major motion picture release has a MAD magazine parody, and every notable building has windows (or if it doesnt, that would be notable). Mercurywoodrose (talk) 19:34, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: notability issue
Talk:Makhnovism

message: There is no proves that Makhnovists made antisemitic pogroms. It was a plod prepared by stalinists. Richard Pipes writes this bullshit but he doesn't give any cautions. He only says that Ukrainian atamans did it and he includes Makhno without any concreet places and numbers.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.6.170.176 (talk) 20:22, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Antisemitism 

message: The article Ukrainian Revolution of 1918 is a copy-paste fork of this one, losing the entire edit history.  It should be merged back into this one. —Michael Z. 2006-10-24 20:06 Z
:there is nothing to merge, that article should be deleted. I will 1) blank it to a redirect, 2) prod the redirect. --Irpen 20:23, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Replied at talk:Ukrainian Revolution. Please discuss at one place and don't post same stuff to a multitude of pages. --Irpen 23:35, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: This article is nothing but POV propaganda. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.162.198.67 (talk • contribs) 04:20, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bias 

message: I suggest:
* Merge the sections about Makhno himself into Nestor Makhno.
* Merge the sections about military events into Revolutionary Insurrectionary Army of Ukraine.
* There is virtually nothing about social/economic matters. If there were, I'd suggest merging them into Free Territory (Ukraine).
* After moving everything out, I'd suggest redirecting this to Nestor Makhno.
Any better ideas? Jacob Haller 20:51, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: What should we do with this?
Talk:Jere Ratcliffe

message: *Add to list of alumni: Wittenberg University. done --Gadget850 ( Ed) 18:41, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Todo
Talk:Turkish National Movement

message: where is turkey? where will you find turkey? turkey is located in the middle east. also locatedin southeastern europe and southweastern asia.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.59.53.124 (talk) 14:44, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  turkey's place 

message: I have to say, considering that so many articles having to do with anything Turkish are over-edited, I am stunned to see how under-edited this article is. The article is currently on the main page today, and still no edits have been made since March, which is a bad thing in this case. Hiberniantears (talk) 16:49, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article lacks substance 

message: ===Cleanup===
Currently this article is no more than a collection of article summaries.  The phrase "establishment of the turkish national movement" is not apparently notable.  Furthermore, it is almost entirely redundant, being covered in the articles linked herein and in Turkey.  In terms of the style and layout of the page, it is drowning in unnecessary images.  Add something of note, clean up the introduction, and make the article stand on its own.  If that can't be done, it might not be of line to nominate it in WP:AfD. MrZaiustalk 04:57, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. This article can be merged to Turkish national movement. Takabeg (talk) 04:15, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: From talk page of "Establishment of TNM"

message: Currently this article is no more than a collection of article summaries.  The phrase "establishment of the turkish national movement" is not apparently notable.  Furthermore, it is almost entirely redundant, being covered in the articles linked herein and in Turkey.  In terms of the style and layout of the page, it is drowning in unnecessary images.  Add something of note, clean up the introduction, and make the article stand on its own.  If that can't be done, it might not be of line to nominate it in WP:AfD. MrZaiustalk 04:57, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. This article can be merged to Turkish national movement. Takabeg (talk) 04:15, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup

message: *"establishment of the Turkish National Movement" -Llc 5 
We understand that only Hamit Palabiyik used this term. All of other samples are nothing but Wikipedia "invention".
Takabeg (talk) 04:13, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: ?

message: Please use this space to discuss the proposed merge of Association for Defence of National Rights into this article. I'm assuming that's the direction you want the articles merged. (Pinging .  Joyous! Noise! 23:50, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal
Talk:Ukrainian Revolution (disambiguation)

message: 1. Ukrainian Revolution is Ukrainian Revolution. Russian Revolution is not Ukrainian Revolution. You are a Russian. Most of Russians are (little bit) patriots and will be NEVER neutral about Ukrainians, Poles or anarchists because Ukrainians (Maknovists, Petliuravists) were enemies and anarchists don't like Russian Empire or Russian Federation, the prison of peoples. Russians learned in school that Makhno wasn't revolutionary but white guardist. You can be neutral about Belgium or Denmark for example but not about Ukraine. So stop destroying articles about Ukrainian anarchists.--Maliuta 23:06, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Answered at talk:Ukrainian Revolution. --Irpen 23:34, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
Talk:King's Scholar

message: The article states that the Kings scholars wear black gowns. That's backwards isn't it? Don't all of the students wear black gowns except for the Kings scholars, who wear white?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.27.30.149 (talk) 16:22, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gowns 

message: I was a King's Scholar, but don't know if I am "famous"!  Another way to handle this would be to make King's Scholar a category - then this would be handled automatically, if I understand categories correctly. Jpaulm 18:25, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Define "famous" 

message: If there are indeed KS's at Canterbury and King's College, Cambridge, these should be separate articles.  There is now no way to tell which of these institutions the listed individuals attended. Jpaulm (talk) 12:49, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguate? 

message: Indeed.  Westminster School has 40 King's Scholars (KS) when there is a King, and Queen's Scholars (QS) when there is a Queen.  Indeed they are responsible for shouting/singing Vivat Rex/Regina at the coronation. This Etonian page should become King's Scholar (Eton) or King's Scholar (Eton College)   --Rumping (talk) 10:01, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Westminster 

message: "===King's School, Canterbury===
At the King's School Canterbury, King's Scholars are students who have taken the scholarship exam on entry or achieved exceptional grades in their GCSE, usually more than 8 A*. In previous years they wore gowns over their uniforms, a privilege now reserved for "purples" the heads of houses, captain and vice captain of school and head scholar. Schols do have the right"
schols = schools or scholars?GinAndChronically (talk) 04:32, 31 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  sp schols
Talk:Amy and Amiability

message: * At one point, when asked by Baldrick if he is becoming a highwayman, Blackadder sarcastically replies 'No, I'm auditioning for the role of Arnold the Bat in Sheridan's new comedy!'. This could be a reference to the novel Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan le Fanu.
Except that Carmilla isn't a play, or a comedy; le Fanu wouldn't be refered to as "Sheridan"; and 1870 is a bit anachronistic even for Blackadder, surely? On the other hand, Richard Brinsley Sheridan was a comedy playwright from the Regency period. Daibhid C (talk) 18:18, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
Talk:Sense and Senility

message: The chant is quoted variously. For "off his drawers" you also find "orchestra stalls", which is at least theatrical. That bit really needs a reference. 192.91.147.35 (talk) 04:24, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I added a note a while back that the official subtitles use "off his drawers." So why not use that? 09:37, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  http://ics-www.leeds.ac.uk/papers/vp01.cfm?outfit=pmt&folder=1185&paper=1189 - seems reasonable. Spa-Franks (talk) 18:17, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  An authoritative source, the authors themselves, say "Hot potato, off his drawers, pluck to make amends". The Lemons Are Coming (talk) 06:08, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Macbeth ritual
Talk:Nob and Nobility

message: The Pimpernel did not wear a mask. This seems to be a common misconception perpetuated by of all things the Daffy Duck cartoon The Scarlet Pumpernickel, which was more a pastiche of Zorro & The Pimpernel. (I guess that’s where most got their impression of the character?)
In the original stories, movies, and as in the   Blackadder episode; he does not wear a mask but disguises, impersonates people. There is no masked Pimpernel person like you see in the Daffy Duck cartoon.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Orzzo (talk • contribs) 18:05, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "...the Scarlet Pimpernel, the masked vigilante who..." 

message: Is it known why it was cut from the DVDs etc? I can't think of a reason. 86.146.232.17 01:16, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It still needs a reference, though, so I've stuck a  tag in there. "Apparently over 'contractual issues'" is incredibly vague. And what did this contract say, anyway: "On video releases, Mr. Atkinson shall not be required to finish poems by Mr. Robinson?" It really doesn't make any sense on the face of it! 86.132.138.159 (talk) 21:27, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The line is said on my Region 4 DVD. Is it really omitted from other releases? Dazcha (talk) 07:57, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes. It was cut out on the original VHS releases, and is also cut out on the Region 2 DVD "Complete Blackadder" box set. Most DVD releases of old TV shows are edited, and even TV repeats are now usually heavily edited for scheduling purposes. It's not unusual. 94.193.182.242 (talk) 10:35, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The cut "garlic smell" line
Talk:Ink and Incapability

message: I once thought that the bit were Edmund explains away his nonce-words as being "perfectly cromulent" was the funniest part of this episode.  However, I'm now reading online that “cromulent” appeared a decade later in The Simpsons, and never in Blackadder.  I'm not sure I've even seen that episode of The Simpsons!  How could I have got this word in my head from watching Blackadder, if it's not in it (I've just watched the episode to check, and didn't hear the word once)?  This is just insane.  Crazier still is the fact that I can find a few websites that say the same!  Is this some sort of collective madness... mass hysteria??
I just can't explain it.
— Chameleon 11:13, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cromulent 

message: I would assume that the burning dictionary is a reference to John Aubrey's story about the burning of Thomas Cooper's dictionary. It could of course be inspired by both stories.
— 16:59, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:   Historical and cultural references
Talk:Dish and Dishonesty

message: I don't think the election scene has anything to do with the monty python election sketch; they're both independent parodies of a UK election return. --VinceBowdren 00:34, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Homage to python? 

message: Amusing though it is that someone has linked "Keep Royalty White, Rat Catching And Safe Sewage Residents' Party" to the article about the Conservative Party, surely this is actually a parody of Bill Boaks.  MFlet1 (talk) 14:47, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brigadier General Horace Bolsom
Talk:Blue Line

message: For subway systems with 2 blue lines, one of which is a light shade and the other a dark shade, how do you think this dis-ambiguation page should treat the subway system's lines?? Georgia guy 18:28, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Light/dark blue lines

message: "Blue line" is a noun and, I believe, a verb referring to landmarks made in bone (or other tissue) by a surgeon. Its use as a medical term, I suspect, may derive from making lines with a blue marker on technical drawings.
I hope that someone more knowledgeable about these meanings of "blue line" could write a new entry.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Launcher2000 (talk • contribs) 18:43, 7 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Blue Line" in surgery
Talk:Patricia C. Dunn

message: The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. --KenWalker | Talk 04:55, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 

message: Looks like she resigned today.--74.130.131.120 22:14, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Resignation 
Talk:Talon Karrde

message: Removed film tag as there is no indication that this character is present, directly or indirectly, in any of the actual films.  Hondo 01:37, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

message: This is mostly in-universe plot summary, with no citations to third-party sources to establish notability. I am redirecting this to List of Star Wars characters. Please feel free to add there any sort of that real-world/development stuff, but only if cited to sources. --EEMIV (talk) 14:59, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirect
Talk:Violaceae

message: I do not see the need for having two articles - the "Violaceae" is merely a stub with a taxobox, and the "Taxonomy ..." is a two-screen list. Putting all the information in one place would only be of help to the reader. It is not a genus or species article, so its main value is exactly from the botancal point of view. -- Goldie (tell me) 18:37, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree 100% - MPF 10:43, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal 

message: The taxonomy is unreferenced and is not the only one available. Link is dead. Andyboorman (talk) 16:27, 6 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stub page 
Talk:Lunge (fencing)

message: I reverted the anonymous edit that added the following: 
:"Number 3 is incorrect. The back arm does not add impetus to the lunge. Since it remains attached to the body, its action contributes no added force as per the laws of mechanics (physics). Its action does increase the radius of gyration of the body, perhaps aiding in keeping the blade on a true course to the target."
I reverted this edit for two reasons:
#The edit is incorrect, as throwing out the back arm does in fact impart added force. I will dig up an additional reference to support this, as a motion study on this exact subject was done about two years ago by a Dutch fencing master and reported in The Swordmaster, which is the journal of the U.S. Fencing Coaches Association. 
#The edit should have been made directly to the point in question (#3) rather than as a rebuttal paragraph. Rebuttal paragraphs belong on talk pages like this one—not in articles.
#This was a contradictory edit that was unsupported by a citation in an article that was otherwise referenced.
Twisted86 18:45, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Use of back arm

message: I replaced this section as the lunge is present in european fencing far earlier than the 17th century.  This section could probably use more detail regarding the development of the modern lunge, though, as that appears to be the focus of this article. Rapier42 21:31, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: History of the lunge