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Talk:Love, Sidney

message: The intro was changed in this edit from:
:The show is remembered best as a milestone, though a severely flawed one, in the progress toward public acceptance of homosexuality.
to:
:The show is remembered best as a milestone in the progress toward public acceptance of homosexual characters on television.
The edit summary states "Edited for NPOV, added category", which makes think that the "severely flawed" clause was misread as endorsing an editor's POV opinion on the show, rather than objectively reporting on the prevalent POV out there about the show.  I think anyone who researches the show online will find that it is remembered in this way, with both pride that some show did make this leap and frustration that it didn't go nearly as far as it could have.  How can we report on this POV, as we're supposed to do, without it being mistaken for some editor trying to get Wikipedia to endorse this POV? -- Antaeus Feldspar 16:23, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Intro

message: This article on Wikipedia reads like a essay. There are also no sources.--98.87.130.174 (talk) 23:05, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Awful. Reads like a essay.
Talk:Prince Bob

message: Does anyone know what the large section apparently in Hungarian is doing here? --BaronLarf 16:28, August 6, 2005 (UTC)
:Okay, more has been added but still no response on this talk page.  Apparently it is the text to an aria.  First, entire text doesn't belong here; that goes in WikiSource.  Second, there is absolutely no introduction to what we are reading here;  this is the English Wikipedia.  Cheers.  --BaronLarf 21:44, August 6, 2005 (UTC)
Youre right; I moved it here. It is a very good song btw, the kind of song that stucks in one's head :) Alensha 20:47, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Your efforts to cleanup Wikipedia are appreciated, but in moving the text to Wikisource it was placed in the English domain and Hungarian doesn't not yet have it's own domain the text should be placed in the Multilingual domain.--Birgitte§β ʈ Talk 17:32, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Question
Talk:Broadhalfpenny Down

message: Hmmm... personally I think the 18th century is too long ago to call it first-class cricket, but I think it's clear from the discussion at Talk:First-class cricket that there's no hope of any agreement on that particular issue, so I have no intention of changing what you've written. Loganberry (Talk) 16:30, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with you.  I personally think in terms of "first-class" cricket starting when the counties began to play according to an arranged schedule for the season.  Games in C18 were ad hoc.  But the standards seem to have been high and there is no doubt that the games played by Hambledon against the best of the rest were the top-class matches of the day.----Jack | talk page 17:31, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: First-class?
Talk:Verdon Gorge

message: This section (in particular Recommendations) is written more in the style of a tour guide than an encyclopedia. According to Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not, articles should not include instructions or advice. See also Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Usage_and_spelling about usage of "one" and 2nd person pronouns. RosinDebow 17:43, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: The hiking route

message: According to the French wikipedia article this is located in several departements (the dept. var as well), not just in alpes-de-hautes-provence. 84.196.58.217 (talk) 14:27, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  location 

message: ===Key dates===
Moved to talk.  If moved back please consider converting to prose.  Also needs references. RJFJR (talk) 15:28, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Hydroelectric dams

message: Moved to talk.  If moved back please consider converting to prose.  Also needs references. RJFJR (talk) 15:28, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Key dates

message: It's not technically a move request, because I don't have the time just now, but I'll suggest this page be renamed Gorges du Verdon, per the sitewide standard set by France's other notable gorges. InedibleHulk (talk) 05:00, 7 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move (kinda)
Talk:Salim Ali

message: Not every work of his long publication list is worthy of inclusion on the page, particularly BNHS related technical publications. Removed material added here. Shyamal (talk) 16:08, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed material

message: Ali's supposed interest "in bird study has always been its ecology, its life history under natural conditions and not in a laboratory under a microscope. By travelling to these remote, uninhabited places, I could study the birds as they lived and behaved in their habitats."
Although this is found in some places on the Internet, the exact original source is not traceable. Would be good if someone can trace the correct citation (original publication) for this. Shyamal (talk) 05:26, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untraceable quote removed

message: A recent IP edit attempted to remove a section on Ali's religious belief or lack of it claiming that it was "cruel" diff - I have restored this since it is an important statement of his position and for anyone interested in the original quotation, it is included in the Epilogue to his autobiography as follows (p. 229):
Q . Was religion a factor in your upbringing, and does it play a role in your life now? Has the Sufi tradition influenced you?
A. Like all Muslim children at the time when I was young, and in many Muslim families even today, we were taught from an early age to read and recite the Koran parrotwise, without understanding a word of the Arabic in which it is written, and to go through the prescribed genuflections of formal prayer (namaz). I am sorry to confess that all this not only failed to elevate my spirituality but on the contrary rather put me off formal prayer for all time as a meaningless and even hypocritical performance. Critical observation in later years of some of my own ostentatiously sanctimonious elders—of their precepts vs. practices—has not helped to alter my views. 
Shyamal (talk) 05:46, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit restored 

message: Fhhh 157.40.107.65 (talk) 17:04, 28 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Salim Ali
Talk:List of Happy Days episodes

message: I am in need of the original airdates for five Season 11 episodes from "Happy Days."  There are airdates listed for those five episodes on TV.com, but I believe those to be rerun dates and NOT the correct original airdates. If someone can provide those ASAP, that would be much appreciated. Thanks! [[Briguy52748 21:47, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Original airdates needed

message: Shall I continue my art career. DustyStudebaker (talk) 02:14, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Love
Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 16

message: If the subject of the article is a species of animal or plant, the opening sentence should begin with the definite article "the".
*The Blue Whale is a marine mammal  belonging to the suborder of baleen whales .
:"Avoid unnecessary interference" is a useful rule-of-thumb. Perhaps the first step is to ask the proposer to go through Wikipedia and ensure that every current article on a species of animal or plant (but not any species of protist or fungus) does begin with the definite article "the". --Wetman 08:59, 19 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed addition

message: Is the  template intended only to be on this page, or is it meant to be on every other manual of style that's been around for a decent while (or for every other manual of style)?  It's not on many (if any, I haven't checked all) of the other style guideline pages - should it be there?  Neonumbers 06:21, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template:guideline 

message: Please take a look --MarSch 08:21, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia_talk:Summary_style#templates_to_make_summary_style_explicit]] 

message: I've just created Wikipedia:Manual of Style (lists of works) for discussion about the layout of discographies, filmographies, bibliographies and the like.  It is an attempt to standardise these lists, as their styles currently vary greatly (order, content, layout).  violet/riga (t) 16:50, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lists of works 

message: I posted this to the village pump, but only got one response. I hope to get some more discussion. The original post was: I'm having a hard time finding any guidance on extremely lengthy summaries of books and movies. An overblown example is Harry Potter (plot). Obviously this page needs to be split into individual articles for each book, but assuming that is done, would those articles be encyclopedic? In other words, is a summary so large that it cannot be on the book or movie's own page worth having in the encyclopedia? James 22:38, July 19, 2005 (UTC)
:See Check_your_fiction where it says Articles about fictional topics should not be simple book-reports, rather the topic should be explained through its significance on the work. There is nothing about length per se, but an extensive plot summery without more seems to violate at least the spirit of this injunction. Maybe this needs to be added to WP:NOT. It is my feeling that to high a ratio of plot summary to comment, or too extensive a summary, should be discourged in the MOS or some similar place. WP:FICT is another palce where this might be discussed, as is Wikipedia:WikiProject Fictional series. Also relevant might be Wikipedia:Fancruft. DES 19:48, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: There is also the argument that a very long and detailed plot summary constitutes a derivitave work and may not be covered under fair use. There is no clear case law on that that I know of, but IANAL. DES 19:58, 20 July 2005 (UTC)

text: I believe that fairly short overviews of the plots are fine in articles.  Longer plots can be put in Wikibooks. — Olathe 02:47, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot summaries
Talk:Doctor Syn

message: *Strong Agree.  Clegg has no separate existence apart from the Syn novels and adaptations, except as the Peter Cushing character in the Hammer production, and that should be a footnote to the main Syn article. 12.22.250.4 22:05, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge? 

message: I am afraid I must take exception to much of the sub-section on the Disney adaptation, The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh. Let me start out by explaining what the situation was for some time. Every book of capsule movie and/or video reviews that contained a listing for this dated it to 1962, yet included a statement to the precise effect of that in Leonard Maltin's Movie and Video Guide: "...originally shown in three parts on the Disney TV show...." They say that the telecast happened first, but as the article points out, it happened in early 1964, which is the year in the film's on-screen copyright notice. No doubt whoever got into print first confused Disney's version with Hammer's, put the earlier date down, and all the others copied him/her/them. So much for the urban legend of a 1962 release. As for the claim of Dr. Syn... being seen on a double bill with The Sword in the Stone "during the Christmas 1963 season," Sword was a then brand new, major cinema film for Disney, and they didn't double bill those with any other features—a short subject of perhaps 45 minutes in length, yes, but not another full-length feature. Between that and the aforementioned 1964 copyright notice this did not happen, the alleged ad in Photoplay (presumably the British version that the Wikipedia article informed me of but which was news to me; you learn something new every day!) notwithstanding. Note that none of that section is sourced, unless you count the mention of the Photoplay issue, which falls short of qualifying. Can anybody find a history of the Disney company or something to straighten this out with good cites? --Tbrittreid (talk) 21:54, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I've always wondered why Disney mistakenly thought Dr. Syn was a real person, going so far as to say they still talk about him today in taverns he frequented. My guess is he was simply misinformed. 96.237.184.133 (talk) 02:14, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disney film section 

message: "An expanded version of Doctor Syn Returns titled The Scarecrow Rides was published by The Dial Press in 1935."
:But the table above says Doctor Syn Returns was published in 1936.  So can an "expanded version" be published before the original? Rojomoke (talk) 15:47, 17 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Scarecrow Rides
Wikipedia talk:Free encyclopedia

message: Can we please move this out of the mainspace?  This isn't an encyclopedic entry.  lots of issues  | leave me a message 16:51, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you bring that up at Talk:Main Page where people are more likely to see it?  In the meantime I'm protecting the page because the only edits for a while have been vandalism. -- Francs2000 | Talk  12:54, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: If this is an essay, couldn't it be labelled as such with ? Simply south...... creating lakes for 5 years  13:38, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Essay 

message: Hi. Please link Wikipedia:The Free Encyclopedia in this page. Thanks :) –ebraminiotalk 16:51, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Done --Redrose64 (talk) 21:58, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Essay 

message: Please remove the red link. Per WP:See also "The 'See also' section should not link to pages that do not exist (red links)". Thanks.--Shantavira|feed me 15:12, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Red link 

message: This page is probably ripe for WP:TRYUNPROT (protecting admin is retired and hasn't edited in 17 yrs), but please replace :A statement from Jimmy "Jimbo" Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia. with proper hatnote syntax () and add  to the top of the page. Thanks, Queen of ♡ | speak 17:48, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Reduced protection to extendedconfirmed. * Pppery * it has begun... 03:24, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protected edit request on 28 April 2024
Template talk:CC BY 2.5

message: :Plz, add ruwiki ru:Шаблон:CC-BY-2.5 Alex Spade 13:17, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Done. Cheers. --MZMcBride 18:01, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iwiki 

message: Please remove the default This file from the template and replace it with plain text reading 'This file' as I have done here. It creates a unnessecary file link to the image. — Moe ε 17:09, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Cheers. --MZMcBride 19:01, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Link
Talk:Urban field

message: Created by --EatAlbertaBeef 17:02, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Formal request has been received to merge the article Urban field into Urban agriculture; dated: July 2017. Proposer's Rationale: topic is a sub-section of latter article. Discuss here.  Richard3120 (talk) 21:00, 14 August 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: After reading this article and seeing the urban agriculture article - I have to say that I am rather surprised about this merge proposal. To my view the topics mainly share the word "urban" in the title and I cannot see other overlap that warrants merger. I also do not see why this would be a subsection of urban agriculture as for Urban fields it purely recreational use (ie non agricultural) is part of the definition, while urban agriculture includes "non field" production systems (e.g. mushroom cultivation in the basement of an abandoned swimming pool). Arnoutf (talk) 13:48, 15 August 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  The urban field article is not based on any sources and is an opinion/perspective/idea on what 'urban field' means. Rather in urban planning, city administration practice there is no common definition of urban field. In this context generally, urban field is synonymous with urban agriculture and of which neither are differentiated by ownership, use, or purpose. Take what you see with a grain of salt. There are a lot of pop culture ideas, movements, suggested approaches in urbanity. As an example here http://members.chello.nl/smetaal/ufdf.htm is a very different definition of an urban field. Here is another http://www.fieldurbanism.com/changing-chinese-cities-1/. These aren't 'accepted' definitions, however, and urban planners in practice do not reference urban fields except where they relate to agriculture, or, at times drainage.  Randomeditor1000 (talk) 22:58, 15 August 2017 (UTC)

text: So, we have an article which has contained no references to support it for more than ten years. We can argue about what "urban field" means because nobody really has a clue. It can mean one thing to one person and one thing to another, as has been pointed out above. One thing's for sure, it's got nothing to do with urban agriculture from the scant sources I've managed to find which barely makes the term even notable (Urban field = Urban area). In my view, this article is WP:OR which should have been PRODed long ago. Blank the page and create a WP:REDIRECT to Urbanism. Nick Moyes (talk) 01:48, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

text: I agree to the above suggestion. Let's redirect to Urbanism. RenZutↂ 15:02, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal
Talk:Lasse Åberg

message: Article says:
:One may say he resembles the typical Chevy Chase or Mr. Bean character, likewise he shares the same tall and skinny physical characteristics.
Which is about not the case - the differences are too many. Åberg always plays a pretty neutral nerdlike shy hero, concentrating on slapstick gags, while essentially leaving the parody characters for other actors/actresses. Chevy Chase and Rowan Atkinson essentially dominates by making parody characters. Åberg does much more direction works in his films, and leaves much room for other actors. ... said: Rursus (mbork³) 14:40, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: One may??
Talk:The Great Kabuki

message: Better known. RandySavageFTW (talk) 21:44, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Akihisa Mera]] →  [[Great Kabuki]]
Talk:Ruki sound law

message: I edited 'unexceptionless for Indo-Iranian languages' to 'exceptionless for Indo-Iranian languages', on the assumption that what was meant was that there are no exceptions in Indo-Iranian languages.  If I'm wrong--if there are significant exceptions in these languages--then I suggest replacing "unexceptionless" with something like "there are few/some/numerous/ exceptions".  Having said that, there is a confusing discussion later on of the exceptions in Indo-Iranian languages, so maybe my guess was wrong.  Mcswell (talk) 21:07, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Exceptionless

message: The article states that RUKI applied after the semivowels *y and *w. But these also had vowel allophones *i and *u in PIE. Did the law apply after those too? For example, would a hypothetical *dus- become *duš-? What about the vowel allophones of *r? CodeCat (talk) 13:56, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: , yes, it does happen after syllabic r, i, and u, e.g. Proto-Indo-Iranian *tŕ̥šnas < *tr̥snós or the Proto-Balto-Slavic locative plural endings *-išu and *-ušu in i- and u-stem nouns. —Mahāgaja · talk 08:19, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vowels i and u? 

message: TBH this does not really seem like RUKI to me — especially since there are additionally other, fairly neutral positions where *s > sh. These include *st > sht, *skr > shkr, *sk > shk before voiceless stops, and s → sh in loanwords from Greek and Latin. I'm not going to add this as my own WP:SYNTH, but I wonder if there's already a source out there saying the same about Orel's proposal — e.g. a review of his book? Do any experts in Albanian historical linguistics happen to be reading? --Trɔpʏliʊm • blah 19:10, 7 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  re Albanian 

message: I rcall seeing a critique of Hegedűs that pointed out the middle Indo-Aryan merger of ṣ and s (which essentially undoes RUKI, possibly aside from *kṣ and/or (*ḱs >) *tṣ > ch) and suggests that this may have happened in Nuristani as well. Does this ring a bell for anyone else? (It's possible I'm only remembering a discussion instead of a published work.) --Trɔpʏliʊm • blah 17:28, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nuristani
Talk:Rhamnus (plant)

message: Cascara Sagrada redirects to here, and yet the term "Cascara Sagrada" is not mentioned once in this article.  Could someone please include this information?  The Jade Knight 08:08, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cascara Sagrada 

message: Under the topic of Peripheral Neuropathy there is a comment in the Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy that Buckthorn is demyelinating.
http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec16/ch223/ch223h.html?qt=neuropathy&alt=sh
71.114.195.58 (talk) 21:52, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Cause of Neuropathy

message: Rhamnus frangula is not listed in the list of species, but there are photos of it. Xakepxakep (talk) 10:50, 23 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rhamnus frangula 

message: :there definitely needs to be more added to the invasive section does it not?Plantsrgreat (talk) 22:59, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I added 5 new references today, which are from a combination of primary and secondary sources which are reputable.Plantsrgreat (talk) 02:47, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Invasives
Talk:Brian Epstein

message: 1) What ultimately happened to NEMS? 2) Is there enough material/justification for a separate article on NEMS? --kingboyk (talk) 03:36, 16 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  NEMS 

message: Jessicapierce is, of course, correct that direct quotes shouldn't be altered; I had supposed that the quotes were verbal rather than printed, so I changed them to be visually correct, but the point's no different.  Although reverting the other corrections to reintroduce the comma errors is an unfortunate choice, I'm not sure many folks care (such errors are so common they're becoming mainstream), so, as the saying goes, "whatever".  2620:160:EB08:0:0:0:1:B2ED (talk) 17:03, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  commas 

message: As I discussed on the George Martin talk page, the story of how the Beatles received a recording contract was not properly told in public until Mark Lewisohn's 2013 book The Beatles: All These Years: Tune In. I am going to substantially revise the text of the article so that it aligns with what I added to the George Martin article. --Jprg1966 (talk) 03:28, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beatles recording contract 

message: "It was revealed that he had taken six Carbrital pills to sleep, which was probably normal for him, but in combination with alcohol they reduced his tolerance."
Does this make sense? So the Carbritral reduced his tolerance for Carbrital? Dornwald (talk) 14:17, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does this make sense?
Talk:Transaction log

message: The description of log attributes/data structures seems too technical for Wikipedia and fails to be informative for the casual reader, not to mention that different DBMSes probably implement logging differently. Does anyone think it should be rewritten? (No, I'm not volunteering ;) -- intgr 10:40, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too technical 

message: I'm renaming this article from "database log" to "transaction log" since that's probably the least ambiguous way of referring to the concept. A "database log" can also be confused with a textual log file produced by a RDMS and "binary log" does not obviously say what the logs contain. "transaction log" also gets the most Google hits: "database log" (188,000), "binary log" (148,000) "transaction log" (952,000). -- intgr 16:51, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename to "transaction log" 

message: As it's written now, this article seems to be a low-level description of ARIES's data structures.  This article should be re-written to discuss transaction logs in general.  For example, not all logging schemes use both undo and redo logs, and not all schemes use CLRs.  Similarly, the article could discuss logical vs. physical operation logging as a dimension of the logging design space.
JoshRosen (talk) 00:45, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article is too low-level; needs rewrite