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Talk:Heritage Regional High School

message: A reference is made to "RVR High School" in the article but there is no indication of what "RVR" stands for, and some preliminary google searches turned up no relevant results. Unless this is explained, I'll remove the reference. Jmajeremy (talk) 21:00, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "RVR High School" 

message: I believe this article presents challenges related to English-language vs. French-language schools, and Catholic vs. Protestant education. I've clipped the following articles at newspapers.com, but I think other editors more familiar with Canadian education issues would be better qualified to digest/summarize the issues:
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-montreal-star-mis-planning-to-open-f/140657810/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-montreal-star-integration-move-fails/140658051/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-chambly-parents-demand-schoo/140658292/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-18000-students-without-norm/140658486/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-school-lock-out-spreading-u/140658655/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-toronto-star-teaching-positions/140658917/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-school-heads-inchambly-fire/140660015/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-montreal-star-chambly-18000-still/140659824/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-english-lobby-growing/140663845/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-teachers-losing-professiona/140664377/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-montreal-star-religion-dead-catho/140664802/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-montreal-star-switch-channels-for-fl/140665008/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-montreal-star-more-injustice/140665285/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-montreal-star-chambly-cuts-36-fromen/140665500/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-chambly-parents-vow-english/140665846/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-montreal-star-chambly-teachers-stage/140666059/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-schools-should-be-open/140666726/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-montreal-star-pickets-protest-bill-1/140670825/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-school-without-coveted-statu/140671828/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-mending-fences/140672197/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-school-move-facing-legal-bat/140671450/'
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-gazette-south-shore-protestant-regio/140851818/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-montreal-star-environment/140851951/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-montreal-star-the-orange-they-used/140852055/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-montreal-star-south-shore-protestant/140852139/
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-montreal-star-parent-protests/140852320/ — Grand'mere Eugene (talk) 03:59, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Potential sources to improve this article
Talk:Characters from the docks of The Wire

message: I didn't want to do it now, but I think Bruce DiBagio should be under "political" characters, not "dock" characters. ThatGuamGuy 16:27, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That seems perfectly reasonable. If you do move him please could you update the link on the A to Z page.--Opark 77 10:35, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Babylon by Bus Tour

message: How could the Babylon By Bus tour be in 1979 if the Island album was released on November 10, 1978???
:The Kaya Tour was over by August 1978. The tour through Oceania and Asia took place only a few months after the release of "Babylon by Bus" (in Spring 1979), and the Survival Tour started in fall 1979 when the album "Survival" had been released. Should be self-explanatory... -- CdaMVvWgS 12:29, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Theodore Stratelates

message: The article  is confusing. Most of it suggests there was one St. Theodore with two different traditions. Then it is argued that there were two or maybe three. Which is it?Jim Lacey (talk) 17:41, 12 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you are expecting too much certainty here. We are writing of events of nearly 1700 years ago with practically no contemporary written evidence to go on. I think the article made the present view of scholars in this field reasonably clear until an anonymous contributor very recently added a new paragraph (the para commencing "However, St Gregory of Nyssa....") which is certainly confusing and cites no authorities except St Gregory of Nyssa, who is mentioned as if he was alive today. (I think he was living in the 10th century and his views are part of the evidence which scholars discussing the matter have to consider. He cannot be treated as if he was a modern scholar himself!)  It seems clear from internal evidence in the way the paragraph is worded that the anonymous editor is a devout member of the Eastern church, probably Greek and certainly not writing English as his main language. The paragraph is hard to follow but would make more sense if it came under a separate heading as stating the official view of the Eastern church, if that is indeed what it is. I am puzzled how best to deal with this, but I do not think it should remain as it stands. I will try and find a heading for the new paragraph which will enable it to be deleted if no modern references for these views can be given.
Waysider1925 (talk) 11:30, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I have now placed the paragraph in a separate subsection in the hope that some member of the Eastern Orthodox church can rewrite it to reliably express the current views of that church. The two places of pilgrimage were already mentioned in the article, but cannot be taken as proving anything, as Western commentators acknowledge that for many years there were believed to be two different saints but say that this belief was ill founded and cannot be supported.
Waysider1925 (talk) 12:12, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  How many? 

message: There are a lot of common details between him and Theodore of Shotep, Many say they are the same person and the evidence is so similar to the place of birth and the story of the killing of the snake or dragon, And these two links to the story known in the Middle East, especially Egypt link 1 & link 2 & link 3 & link 4 "story in Arabic"
So I want your opinion, create a new page for St.  Theodore of Shotep, or add the story about him if you think he is the same person in a new section on the main page here.Egy writer (talk) 16:49, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion
Talk:Eusthenopteron

message: "Walking Eusthenopteron"-pic removed from the top right box. Let's stop spreading that one.... Snitting 16:47, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This paper should be cited
http://jpaleontol.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/81/1/143Brisio (talk) 01:11, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Habitat 

message: This article assumes the Eusthenopteron laid eggs and that it was normal for Devonian tetrapods and tetrapodomorphs to go through a larval stage. Admittedly, this is supported by the sources, but I think this thinking is now out-of-date. The current paradigm is to make no assumptions and consider possibilities. For example, ovovivipary or (less likely) vivipary with placenta and umbilical cord. Zyxwv99 (talk) 23:30, 2 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Laid eggs? 

message: The article says "Eusthenopteron's notoriety comes from the pattern of its fin endoskeleton, which bears a distinct humerus, ulna, and radius (in the fore-fin) and femur, tibia, and fibula (in the pelvic fin)."
Then why not include a diagram of the Eustenopteron's skeleton?
DouglasHeld (talk) 19:04, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Skeleton?
File talk:Amtrak schematic.png

message: Some Thruway Motorcoach routes are missing. -- Beland 16:49, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I was noticing that the link to Duluth is not there, and I believe there's also service north and south from Fargo. —Mulad (talk) 15:50, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
Talk:Backhanded compliment

message: "It is generally used to belittle or condescend, or often one uses a backhanded compliment when one wants to insult someone in a subtle way." - erm, no, that may be the American usage, but in Scotland where it is traditional not to praise certain things too highly, or even do them down, a backhanded compliment is a means of praising something but not in a particularly obvious way. And they say Americans don't understand irony...--MacRusgail (talk) 15:54, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Other usage

message: I really feel folks have done a good job on the text of this article. However.
Urban Dictionary is not anything like a reliable source -- practically the opposite -- and should never appear in Wiki: Anyone can add a definition, any number of definitions can be added, and public voting only establishes which (unvetted) online readers like a definition, not which one is held to be correct by any authority.
The Reference from www.joe-ks.com by-and-large doesn't agree with the Wiki article. And it's just as unreliable a source as Urban Dictionary. (Yes, I just bookmarked it, and plan to go back and enjoy it, no it's not a reliable source.)
Reliable sources aren't filled with anonomously contributed material, unsourced material, material which changes on a daily basis without any explanation or justification.
Instead, quote one of the major dictionaries, or a published encyclopedia. Then you'll have one very tidy little article, here.
24.130.14.173 (talk) 14:21, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. I removed the link to Urban Dictionary in January; User:Evrik reverted my change. We discussed the issue briefly here: User_talk:Phoenixrod#Urbandictionary.com_link. I have since then seen several editors remove the link; it is always re-instated. How about a discussion here? -Phoenixrod (talk) 15:44, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Text is fine, references aren't

message: Regarding the uncited example by Barack Obama... is it really necessary to attempt to score political points in a completely non-political article? (Note, I am from outside the US and have no interest in US politics) 217.45.238.49 (talk) 14:12, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Political 

message: * There are five examples, but only four of them are explained
* The third example mentions men, but the explanation refers to women
* The text uses the term "criticism", would "insult" perhaps be better?
* There is this sentence "In some cultures, backhanded compliments are considered a genteel or polite way of expressing disdain." Which cultures, for example?
79.249.115.226 (talk) 17:34, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Small problems
Talk:The Doctrine of Chances

message: There needs to be a cross reference (or thingy, I'm no wiki expert) to the Doctrine of chances (Rule of evidence in law). And vice versa.
"Doctrine of chances" is too similar to
"Doctrine of Chances" -
not to have some kind of link.
This page lists 1738 for the second edition. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theorem_of_de_Moivre-Laplace lists 1733.  Which is it?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.89.14.206 (talk) 23:03, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
Talk:List of works by Clough Williams-Ellis

message: A bit of work is needed on this list.  Wikipedia UK policy is that lists should use ceremonial county for England; unitary authority for Wales, council area for Scotland and former county for Northern Ireland.  For an idea of what a list can look like see List of monasteries dissolved by Henry VIII of England: a lot of work still to do there, but the idea comes through. Skinsmoke (talk) 19:19, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Have sorted out Wales. Skinsmoke (talk) 03:41, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  List format 

message: Article says "The New Arrival: Place - Limbo; Time - 19 ?", gouache by Hans Feibusch, 14 January 1972 (made since CW-E was knighted at the New Year). Sir Christopher Wren, Sir (sic) Nicholas Hawksmoor & Sir John Vanbrugh are quizzing the latest arrival, Sir Clough Williams-Ellis. Wren; "He says he reveres our works & shares our principles, & so claims that he too should be counted an architect, in spite of aberrations. How say you both?". Hawksmoor (dubiously) ..."Well"..., Vanbrugh (dubiously) ..."Um"... [PA435/3]" What does this mean? Does it belong here? 95.151.235.254 (talk) 16:47, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right - although it's among the papers at the RIBA, it's a sketch for a painting by Hans Feibusch. Ghughesarch (talk) 22:27, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  What does this mean? 

message: Am I being unobservant, or is this house not on the list? -- Will-is-here (talk) 13:45, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it's not - feel free to add it, with the BBC citation. I have my doubts as to whether it really is by C W-E, but if the BBC (presumably quoting the estate agents' details from ten years ago) say it is, then it counts as a "reliable source". Ghughesarch (talk) 15:26, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gwen y Wawr
Talk:Éamonn Young

message: Why is this article hidden away with Eamonn Young a redlink?  Gene Nygaard 17:32, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Hidden away in oblivion
Template talk:Widescreen monitor resolutions

message: The purpose of this template is to facilitate easy comparison among monitor sizes. Eventually, it could be placed on each article dealing with resolutions. However, I recognize it needs improvement to make it more readable. Captain Zyrain 17:41, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Purpose

message: How much precision is needed in the percentages? Two significant digits? Right now we have four. Captain Zyrain 17:47, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Precision

message: I am going to change it so that it says "% more/less pixels". That will be more useful than all these "N/A"s in those columns. Captain Zyrain 12:24, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, I'm going to make a header over that entire lot of columns with that, and just includ the comparison name underneath. Another change I'm going to make is to explain what "x" and "y" stand for. As this is mostly a numeric (and non currency based) listing, I'm going to centre align the columns for flow. If you dislike my edits, revert, but I feel these changes will improve the look. Oh, and I'm going to change the colours and look of it too. --lincalinca 04:03, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You are awesome. Thank you for your help. Captain Zyrain 10:48, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: % more/less pixels

message: See also Template:Monitor resolutions. Captain Zyrain 07:53, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: See also

message: The most common resolution for HDTVs is most commonly used for watching SDTV?? and "heavy-duty graphic design" doesn't sound very proper. I'm changing these. This also raises the question, what should go in this category? Or should this even be a category? In all the similar tables I've seen this category has been pretty pointless and inaccurate.
--74.46.213.148 (talk) 13:39, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who wrote these common uses? 

message: I find it somewhat inappropriate that the table lists WXGA as 1366x768. After all, it is less common than, say, 1280x800 and 1280x720 (see Wide XGA for other resolutions called WXGA), and it is a 16:9 resolution in a table where all the other reolutions are 16:10.
Default.aspx (talk) 02:24, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is "WXGA" 1366x768? 

message: What would you call this resolution which stars appearing in monitors bases on LG Display 27" S-IPS panel? --188.123.237.4 (talk) 16:35, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  2560x1440
Talk:G. Marcus Cole

message: This guy is a professor at Stanford Law School; that's pretty significant.  Note the number of Stanford Law professors who have been deemed to merit their own entries:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_Law_School#Notable_faculty
Clearly the article needs to be expanded to include more information about the subject, but it isn't obviously a candidate for deletion.
I agree, he's notable and passes WP:PROF. Bearian 00:26, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Opinion polls about 9/11 conspiracy theories

message: This should include the percentages that stated each opinion including the "not likely" opinions, not just the 2 "likely" opinions added together. The actual data is here. Mr.Z-man 17:46, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the link. It should be okay now. (I excluded the "don't know" and the "1% other answer" categories for clarity.) Sheffield Steeltalkstalk 18:30, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Much better. Mr.Z-man 20:28, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Scripps Howard poll

message: I hope I am not misusing the Discussion page, but I would like to know if any of the editors are planning to add material that extends to opinions beyond the United States.  Perhaps it is noted in another article that I haven't found.  Thanks. Prosenblum 14:13, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Prosenblum - welcome to wikipedia!  I agree with you, it would be good to have some non-US polls in this article.  Do you know of any?  If you can provide a link, I'm sure we will be able to add it in, or better still, you could add it yourself - be bold!  And, this sort of thing is exactly what the discussion page is for.  Corleonebrother 18:47, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-US opinion 

message: What has a man supposing that 911 was done by big shape-shifting lizards has to do with a movement suspecting criminal elements within the US government?Mik1984 (talk) 00:37, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps because he thinks those big shape-shifting lizards are the US Government. ---------User:DanTD (talk)  18:03, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  David Icke and 9/11 truth movement!? 

message: New poll needs to be added: 
http://911truthnews.com/german-poll-89-question-911/
http://911blogger.com/news/2011-01-21/poll-germany-895-doubt-official-version-911  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.11.186.64 (talk) 22:21, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  German Poll: 89% Question 9/11 

message: I noticed that at this address: http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/international_security_bt/535.php the statistics for France are different from what shown in the page. According to it, no one attributes the attacks to Israel. 7% is the percentage of people who answered with another country. Damix 79.9.129.81 (talk) 00:25, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  France's and possibly other states' opinion 

message: Has nobody noticed that the pie chart picture says "attacls" rather than attacks?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.65.64.100 (talk) 22:34, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Typo corrected. Alan G. Archer (talk) 11:18, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Main picture 

message: Under World opinion polls. It says "Who do you think was behind th [sic] 9/11 attacks?" --(Moshe) מֹשֶׁה‎ 03:32, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Issue with Second Poll
Talk:European Youth Chess Championship

message: According to CHESS magazine (Jan 89), Arnaud Payen won the European under 16 championship, held in Paris. The reference is very brief and leaves me undecided whether this occurred in 1988 or 1989. Brittle heaven (talk) 10:41, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The German wikipedia has this championship. It was 1988, and apparently it was the only edition of the championship held before 1991. 
Krystyna Dąbrowska won the girls section that year.Voorlandt (talk) 10:58, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Were there earlier versions?
Talk:I Spy (2002 TV series)

message: I thought this ran in 2002. Oh well. I remember seeing A Mumble Monster Mystery and CeCe's Special ScrapBook, both aired on December 14, 2002 while A Runaway Robot and The Little Lost Lamb aired on December 15, 2002. Correct me if I'm wrong. TobytheTramEngine 17:57, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Can't find a discussion of a merger proposal of Spyler to I Spy (2003 TV series), but I support this action. TheGGoose (talk) 04:31, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Spyler" merge
Talk:Gabriel Kron

message: Tidied up the lede section.  Added a subsection titled "Method of Tearing".  Reworked the Reference section.  --BwB (talk) 16:20, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Edits

message: Several editors have made large edits over the past several years, essentially re-writing large parts of the article in the process.   It would be worthwhile to go back through and see if anything of value was lost.
It would also be worthwhile to see if the article's point of view was changed without justificaiton.  While I'm sure every Wikipedia editor thinks that their own point of view is neutral, when two editors clearly write from a different point of view, the community needs to decide if the change was for the better.  Did the article go from "bluntly neutral to whitewashed puffery" or did it go from "unfairly maligning to neutral"? As with any biography, the answer will depend on what the world, as a whole, has already said about this person.  
I won't prejudice other editors by including a list of diffs, but when I looked, there were several "single editor runs" of edits where each run added or removed over a thousand characters.  These are good places to start.  davidwr/(talk)/(contribs) 04:16, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revision history is worth digging through
Talk:Night Train to Paris

message: I am close to adding  - for the plot part, and it seems like a bit to much. ( see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058402/plotsummary) Greswik 18:01, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, rewritten. Greswik 17:51, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Plot
Talk:On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason

message: In the "Philosophical" section, the article claims "...this 'idea' is semantically distinct...from Berkeley's use of 'idea.' " How is Vorstellung different from Berkeley's idea?Lestrade (talk) 23:38, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: "Auffassung" is "apprehension." "Begriff" is "conception." "Einbildung" is "imagination." "Vorstellung" is either "presentation" or "representation." Lestrade (talk) 23:25, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Vorstellung

message: Thanks for the article but I still don't understand the concept of "sufficient reason". Obviously this is an answer to a long history. Maybe the "philosophical background" section should be augmented.84.97.87.172 (talk) 01:24, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: In a judgment, a predicate that is attributed or denied of a subject must be based on at least either another judgment or on a perceived object.173.72.115.21 (talk) 13:00, 16 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Sufficient reason?
Talk:Kielder

message: I agree with the proposal.
As a local resident it is important that there is clarity with the identity of Kielder.
Kielder is the village.
Kielder Forest is the forest
Kielder Water is the larger of the two reservoirs
Kielder Water & Forest Park is a"tourist" entity
Kielder should therefore have its own entry
Cranecleugh (talk) 22:21, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Agreement
Category talk:Health care companies

message: Isn't GE a health care company?  I know they do a lot of different things, but they are somewhat big on health care.  Right?
:General Electric is in :Category:Conglomerate companies which implies they do many things. They could potentially be in dozens of specialized categories but I think that would give an impractical category list in the article. I have added the division GE Healthcare to :Category:Health care companies instead. PrimeHunter 21:40, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: GE
Talk:Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad

message: Vegaswikian seems biased in his/her assumptions.  It turns out that Utah History, who may be stubborn, know his/her facts and was right all along. Vegaswikian should respect this in the long run since there is too much bogus information on Wiki
I reverted to a version without the duplication of material.  I also locked the article for 48 hours to allow time here to resolve differences.  Vegaswikian 05:07, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article locked to allow time to resolve differences 