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Talk:Willbur Fisk

message: The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- CaseKid 22:34, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 

message: No indication of sources actually used. Most of the substance of this article was added in a single edit by User:Northland45, who has no other edits to Wikipedia. I have no reason to think any of it is wrong, but it is essentially uncited. - Jmabel | Talk 06:16, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: I came across some information on Find A Grave that said James Fisk (politician) was the father of Willbur Fisk. I have not found this information anywhere else and Willbur Fisk's Wikipedia article shows that his father is the Honorable Isaiah Fisk, but there are no sources cited. I wondered if anyone else had any information regarding this? Thank you...--BuzyBody (talk) 17:53, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible relationship to [[James Fisk (politician)]] 

message: The statement that Fisk secured funding and the project was completed in 1839 suggests to the reader that this was the first translation. It ignores the translations of the gospels by Joseph Brant, John Norton, and others. Humphrey Tribble (talk) 07:31, 30 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  translation of the Bible into the Mohawk language
Talk:Wildman Whitehouse

message: I have no idea why, but I find Whitehouse's rise and fall fascinating.  I've realized that there are enough reliable sources for what could be a Good Article.  Would anyone be willing to work with me on a rewrite?  Andrew327 23:34, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: He's certainly made out to be a dissolute sort in John Griesemer's novel "Signal and Noise". Perhaps some "fair and balanced" coverage is in order. --Wtshymanski (talk) 02:38, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: What I've read paints a more mixed picture.  He is at least partially responsible for the failure of the first trans-Atlantic cable, but there were other factors as well, and not many people in the world at that point actually understood the physics behind telegraphy.  Andrew327 02:46, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Would anyone object to an article rewrite?
Talk:Tostada (tortilla)

message: There are pictures of toast, but not of the most popular meaning. —Ben FrantzDale 12:27, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Shrimp tostada photo has been added. — VulcanOfWalden 09:49, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo

message: So there really isn't much in this page besides the basic types of tostadas and a brief description of what they are. I think that this article needs a short section about the history of tostadas. I learned about the history of tostadas through a friends great grandmother which i found very interesting. I am going to add how they originated by the Indians mostly the Mayas, Aztec and Incas. I will also add how they use to make different colored tostadas. Do you guys have any suggestions or anything else i should add?KiKis21 (talk) 19:57, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: Tostadas are tortilla chips, so I don't understand why these are two separate articles. Have a section on chips and a section on the mexican dish of the same name maybe? But like, in most south american places, tostada literally refers to tortilla chips. Meskarune (talk) 20:24, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge "tortilla chip" article?
Talk:Gary Onik

message: I have noted two accounts which appear to be connected to the subject.  The article was created by  which is largely a single-article account with 7 edits in 2007.  Also,  has 28 edits, all to this article in July 2015.  These edits should ideally be checked for neutrality.  I have tagged this talk page with . – Reidgreg (talk) 19:38, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Connected contributors
Talk:Anna Balmer Myers

message: This article was created in 2007, but 14 years later, in 2021, I found that it had no references. I started researching and rewrote the article, eliminating everything I couldn't properly reference. I deleted this sentence:
::Myers' work is frequently viewed as a gentle corrective to the harsh misrepresentations of another novelist, Helen Reimensnyder Martin, also from Lancaster County, whose stories about the Pennsylvania Dutch of Lancaster County, particularly her Tillie: a Mennonite Maid, provoked cries of misrepresentation from those who resented her depictions. 
I tried to find a reference for this statement. I found the sentence copied and pasted into at least three websites, but the only published reference I could find was in the book Life of the Amish, printed by PediaPress -- a publisher that assembles printed books from Wikipedia articles, including the formally unreferenced Anna Balmer Myers article. Myers' novels may have been "frequently viewed as a gentle corrective" to another author's novels, or it may have been one person's opinion that has been published as a fact in a non-fiction book. 
If you want to add something to any Wikipedia article list the reference where you found the information. Don't just add something that you think you know, for you may be wrong. Karenthewriter (talk) 15:09, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  The problem of unreferenced articles
Talk:Wilhelm Junker

message: The article states that Junker received "the gold medal" from the RGS in 1887, but Gold Medal (RGS) lists different recipients for that year, and does not list Junker for any other year, nor does either article indicate which of the several RGS gold medals he is supposed to have been awarded. Something is wrong here somewhere, but there's no direct source for the assertion to begin with, so it's difficult to track down. Similarly, () says "In 1887 he received the gold medal of the Royal Geographical Society," without further attribution. KGF0 ( T | C ) 21:25, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  RGS Gold medal?
Talk:Wilhelm Martin Leberecht de Wette

message: Ernst Nicholson in The Pentateuch in the Twentieth Century: The Legacy of Julius Wellhausen, Oxford University Press, 2003.  (this book is partially available on Google Books ) 
uses deWette (see page 5).
TomyDuby (talk) 03:38, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "deWette" or "de Wette" that is the question
Talk:Rights issue

message: Why does the example mention face value? What difference does it make what the face value of the share is?
192.118.34.229 (talk) 09:56, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Face value

message: This article should be linked with the German term "Kapitalerhöhung", not "Bezugsrecht".
:I completely agree with the comment in German above. In the first sentence of the introduction, there should not be a link to "Secondary Market Offering", but rather to "Follow-on offering". This is due to the fact that any offering made by the company itself, apart from a Initial Price Offering (IPO) is a follow-on one (a stated in both IPO and SPO articles). Pjbalchev1 10:16, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed :-) Regards Bahnemann (talk) 09:04, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: German link

message: I feel that there needs to be some clarification around the 'Mr A had 100 shares at a face value of $10 and a total investment of $10,000, assuming he purchased the shares at $100 per share. Why is he paying $100 for $10 shares? I'm lost.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.41.107.13 (talk) 10:57, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rights offering example.  

message: So why would one make a Rights Issue rather than just a Secondary Market Offering.  What are the advantages to each?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.70.152.142 (talk) 21:32, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Secondary offerings offer shares that do already exist, so a company itself gets no cash (but the old shareholder who sells its stake). A rights issue, as part of the capital increases and in particular part of the seasoned equity offerings, is the issuance of "young, new shares" that raise additional cash for the company. Regards, Bahnemann (talk) 09:04, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why 

message: "Closed-end companies cannot retain earnings, because they distribute essentially all of their realized income, and capital gains each year."  This is not accurate for operating companies--they can retain earnings, eg Berkshire Hathaway, but I believe it's correct for closed-end management companies registered under the Investment Company Act as a management company.  Can't tell by context of the article if this is what is being referred to. Dinoshim (talk) 16:44, 11 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Closed end company retained earnings 

message: In the worked example, the article says: "In this example, the price of the right would adjust itself to $100 (ideally)." However, this ignores the time value of the rights as an option. The value should exceed $100 until the expiration date approaches. Brian Tomasik (talk) 20:33, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Option value of rights
Talk:Anna Tambour

message: I removed the photo at the request of the photographer, Catriona Sparks, who emailed me asking to substitute a more-flattering photo. Apparently Anna Tambour strongly dislikes the photo I took down. I'll put up a new one when I get formal OTRS permission to use it. --Pete Tillman (talk) 20:23, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Author photo 

message: I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section:
* Cite templates will be used where possible.
* Tables may be used to organise short stories, poems and/or book reviews. 
* I prefer capitalization and punctuation to follow the standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, rather than "title case".
* Links (either direct or indirect) to potentially unreliable or incomplete digitised copies and to booksellers may be removed. 
This is a work in progress; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 10:41, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bibliography
Talk:Wilhelm Müller

message: Um...so how did he die? Lanthanum-138 (talk) 13:27, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Did he have any friends, relatives, collegues, patrons? A nonRS bio can be found at http://www.gopera.com/winterreise/articles/rp_mueller_bio.mv hmmm spamguard - yukkO124.168.106.146 (talk) 08:41, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The current text contains: "Müller excelled in popular and political songs that attracted great composers, notably Franz Schubert, and also influenced Heinrich Heine's lyric development."
I must admit ignorance about Müller's work, but he is known primarily as a poet and it was always my impression that Schubert selected, reordered, and set Müller's poetry collections for his two famous song cycles.  Yet the sentence above suggests Müller also set some of his own verse as song.  Either the quoted sentence is a simple misstatement, or there is something here that the musicological community has been missing?  Schubert's two cycles from Müller are extremely important historical parts of the standard literature.  If any of the music derives from Müller, even in some small or indirect way, that fact would be profoundly interesting to the musicological community and needs to be brought to the foreground.
Wolfamade (talk) 07:29, 13 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Did he really write songs?

message: — Assignment last updated by Jmares3218 (talk) 03:41, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: 19th Century Concert Life
Talk:Tower Hill Wildlife Reserve

message: The terms are imprecisely defined but with a last eruption ca. 37,000 years ago, or some 20,000 before the Holocene Tower Hill is certainly not best described as active. It is described as dormant in multiple official sources, although I am unable to find any information on why it seems to be considered capable of erupting again. Historically there have been a string of earthquakes extending north-northwest from Melbourne, so the general area is definitely active seismically if not volcanically. 
At any rate, I changed the description to "dormant" to be in keeping with official sources. It would be great if someone could fill more geologic information on the area, if not on this page then on the Tower Hill (volcano) page where I'm leaving the description as "inactive" since it's basically a synonym for "dormant." 24.17.40.164 (talk) 24.17.40.164 (talk) 22:15, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dormant, not extinct
Talk:Wilhelm von Tegetthoff

message: About the Maribor (Marburg) memorial, I unfortunately cannot give you any references I can find at the moment. But articles about plans to move the memorial from the museum (AFAIK) where it right now back to its original location have been around since 1991 (I've read a newspaper from that year with a prominent article and photograph of the memorial). The last time I saw anything about these attempts was on television in late 2007 or early 2008. So you could say this is an ongoing process. However, again, I can't find any references online (or better yet, lack the time to search for them)
If you think this is enough then we can revert my edit, otherwise the article can stay the way it is until I find the time to go reference-hunting. 94.127.25.42 (talk) 20:24, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Removed that Tegetthoff had the title of "Freiherr". I read a number of books about him and never found that he was a baron. If anyone has a reliable source proving that he really was, please add the title again and cite the source. Thanks ViennaUK (talk) 20:32, 4 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Freiherr 
Talk:Wilhelm, Duke of Urach

message: "An unexpected outcome of this marriage was the Monaco Succession Crisis of 1918."
Uh, no. The succession crisis was not because of this marriage. It was because Prince Louis, the heir to Monaco's throne, only had one child and that was an illegitimate daughter rather than having legitimate children. THAT was the cause of the succession "crisis." 2600:1700:BC01:9B0:544F:E012:2320:EFE4 (talk) 01:43, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  doesn't make sense
Talk:6 Days to Nowhere

message: :Image:6 Days to Nowhere.jpg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale.
If there is other other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page.  Note that any fair use images uploaded after 4 May, 2006, and lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 04:40, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:6 Days to Nowhere.jpg
Talk:Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient

message: Before he had completed Die Feen, which was never performed during his lifetime, Wagner's disillusionment with the prevailing style of German gothic-horror romanticism had begun. In the theatre at Würzburg he had been exposed to recent Italian
operas and, though be affected to despise the simple orchestration of
The Italians and their apparently casy access to melody, he could see
that, aesehetically, their operatic style was obviously superior to the
labored pedantry of what was being composed in Germany. He
returned to Laipzig early in 1834, and there in March be attended a performance of Bellini's I Capuleti ed i Montecchi in which his idol
Schröder-Devrient sang the role of Romeo.
Source - Wagner and his world, by Charles Osborne
Page 15, last paragraph. 204.115.126.10 (talk) 15:38, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regarding Richard Wagner
Talk:Anne Ripley Smith

message: I think external links should be removed because they are advertisements for books, and comments, contain no useful content. --Mitch3000 23:34, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The proposed deletion rationale was WP:NOTINHERITED. I think that this subject has a reasonable independent claim to notability, so I have deprodded. Pburka (talk) 21:28, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deprod
Talk:Willard Richards

message: In the beginning paragraph, it states: "He taught school in Chatham, New York, and in Lanesborn, Massachusetts." There is no "Langsborn" in Massachusetts. It should be "Langsboro." It was typed incorrectly in some source long gone and has been copied forward without correction. I found it misspelled in three different articles about Willard Richards. See, for example: http://www.uen.org/utah_history_encyclopedia/r/RICHARDS_WILLARD.html. Although "Langsboro" is accepted, the prefered form is "Langsborough." I changed "Lanesborn, Massachusetts" to "Langsborough, Massachusetts." Edward E Fairchild (talk) 02:32, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''''Langsborn, MA'''' should be ''''Langsborough, MA'''' 

message: This is the title of a book published in 1957 by the University of Utah Press. It runs 630 pages and was written by Clare Augusta Wilcox Noall. I just found a copy here  that is viewable. I will add it to the sources soon.John Pack Lambert (talk) 06:27, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intimate Disciple: A Portrait of Willard Richards 

message: I removed significant chunks of content that were added by Rrsmck in Jan. 2018. Some of it purported to have references, which is probably why it survived this long, but none of them backed up the information to the extent that I was able to check. Some references were to entirely fraudulent, non-existent sources, while others were to real articles and books but the citations had nothing to do with the information added. I checked this user's contribution history and it appears he mostly added similar unhelpful content elsewhere that has largely already been removed. -- Michael Snow (talk) 06:24, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not a midwife trainer
Talk:El Supremo

message: There was a merge tag here, but no discussion opened and no justification given, so I’ve removed it.
For the record, I’d oppose the merger; moving the content here to The Happy Return would create undue weight there and make the article ”clunky”. I don’t see how that would improve matters. Swanny18 (talk) 18:25, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: re in which book of the original trilogy "El Supremo" appears. It is in the first book, BEAT TO QUARTERS, which takes place in the South American Pacific. THE HAPPY RETURN is the third book of the trilogy (the middle volume is SHIP OF THE LINE) and takes place in France, then England. 74.72.189.241 (talk) 04:27, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: No, "The Happy Return" was the first book; "Ship of the Line" was second (as you say) but the third was "Flying Colours". "Beat to Quarters" was just the American title for "The Happy Return", as the link makes clear. Swanny18 (talk) 17:46, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correcting Mis-ascribation 

message: There's little about the Hornblower character that isn't already in The Happy Return other than some OR speculation about Griffin. Clarityfiend (talk) 00:58, 16 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conversion to a dab page
Talk:William "Tiger" Dunlop

message: I've noticed that the current image that's accompanying the article is marked for deletion on 21 July because of licensing issues. That's too bad really, I always think that any half decent picture at the top of the article really gives the initial presentation an added boost. Trust me, I'm the last person that should directly advise another editor on how to clear up these kinds of image 'problems'; but I know we have lots of editors around here that are quite expert at providing advice on contingencies. If I have some time over the next several days, I'll poke around and perhaps try to locate a good venue in the form of a noticeboard to seek some answers. I wonder how difficult it would be to try to track down a replacement. What we need is a copy of a late 19th century book containing a plate presenting a portrait of him; the copyright would be long since gone.  cheers Deconstructhis (talk) 02:19, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed the deletion tag because the image is no longer orphaned. Any copyright has long since expired so there should be no danger of deletion. – ukexpat (talk) 02:30, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Excellent! Thank you very much for your help Ukexpat. cheers Deconstructhis (talk) 02:34, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Good move ukexpat.  That was really helpful (no, I'm not being sarcastic).  Skinsmoke (talk) 05:41, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current image
Talk:Annie Fox (author)

message: I think she's notable for these reasons: her books are well-reviewed, she is considered a consulting expert on several news outlets, such as CNN, she is a current, contributing author for the Huff Post. Also, she is written up widely in the news and various library and school journals. 
However.... I am having trouble finding unbiased biographical information about her. In addition, it looks as though someone close to her has added information to the article.
So, this article needs work, but I think it'll pass notability. My two cents. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 20:54, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comment
Talk:Annie Jacobsen

message: It portrays the government report as supporting Jacobsen and contradicting Snopes, but this is not the case.  The government report is entirely consistent with Clint Taylor's much superior reporting on Flight 327.  I recommend adding Clint Taylor's reporting to the references (e.g., http://spectator.org/archives/2004/08/05/rashomon-in-the-skies-the-tang) and updating the description to be more accurate.  Snopes does NOT say that Jacobsen's testimony about what happened is false, it says that her conclusion that what she saw was a dry run for a terrorist attack is false, and that appears to be correct.  Lippard (talk) 16:02, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flight 327 description is weak 

message: Date-of-birth is standard on Wiki pages. Valetude (talk) 02:32, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  D.o.B.? 

message: Good 24.38.200.69 (talk) 18:12, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  This was very interesting
Talk:Epic (Kostick novel)

message: bababanaa  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.250.64.45 (talk) 00:46, 17 May 2013 (UTC)

message: A quick search allowed me to find ten references. The article could still use a couple more but I believe it reasonable to remove the 'references needed tag' at this point.
JimHolden (talk) 11:49, 23 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified
Talk:Ansel Talbert

message: An IP in help desk stated that they were inaccurate and they were a relative. The accurate death date was found and cited by another editor. I put in the birthdate assuming good faith of the IP.--Canoe1967 (talk) 01:09, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I am removing citation needed as per:Wikipedia:Verifiability#Anything_challenged_or_likely_to_be_challenged. I doubt anyone will challenge the day of his birth, and the cite to the year of his passing confirms the year of birth.--Canoe1967 (talk) 17:42, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth and death dates added