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Talk:Gríðr

message: Deleted the reference to the staff being made of rowan. In Skáldskaparmál this actually refers to a clump of rowan used by Thor to pull himself from the river Vimur (in the tale of his battle with Geirröd). Cerdic 07:35, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Staff

message: This article is rapidly deteriorating.
Please note that grið and gríð are different words with entirely different meanings. In An Icelandic-English Dictionary by Richard Cleasby and Guðbrandur Vigfússon you will find grið on page 214, at the bottom, continuing on page 215. At the bottom of page 215 you will also find gríð – it comes after the word gripr because in Icelandic i and í are different letters – and gríð continues on page 216. This is Vigfússon's translation of gríð:
:GRÍÐ, f. frantic eagerness; í gríð, eagerly: gríðar-liga (gríðu-liga, Mag. 99, Ed.), adv. eagerly: gríðar-ligr, adj. eager.II. mythol. Gríðr, f. a giantess; (---)
Although the words grið and gríð look similar they are morphologically different, so there is no doubt that the name Gríðr derives from gríð (frantic eagerness) – not from grið. The name Gríðr occurs in several kennings, especially in kennings for ”wolf”. Hence we can deduce that Gríð's ”horse” was a wolf, or that she was leading ”a pack of wolves” (gránstóð Gríðar). But note the genitive: Gríðar. If the name had derived from grið the genitive would have been Griða, or simply Grið.
A major work on kennings is Finnur Jónsson's Lexicon Poeticum. Here is his entry gríð and Gríðr. (Remember that i and í are different letters: gríð comes after Grislupollar.) Here is his entry grið.
I don't think it was necessary to remove the section about Gríðr lending Thor her belt of power, an iron gauntlet and a stave called gríðarvǫlr. This is told in Skáldskaparmál 18, although the story was probably invented by Snorri. Rudolf Simek comments on this: ”As these objects are basically the same as those which he [Thor] – according to Snorri – already possessed, there would appear to be some confusion in Snorri's account.” (Rudolf Simek (2007), Dictionary of Northern Mythology, D.S. Brewer, headword: megingjǫrð, page 210. ) Simek's translation of the name Gríðr is ”greed, vehemence, violence, impetuosity”. (page 117) //Srv.rosen (talk) 14:11, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Do not confuse ''grið'' and ''gríð'' 

message: The claim that Saxo “refers to her as Grytha, the wife of the legendary king Dan I of Denmark”, is based on two assumptions: 1) that Grytha and Gríðr is the same name, and 2) that all persons with the same name are (or is) the same person.
Here is Saxo's text: Gesta Danorum, 1.1.3.
Verum a Dan (ut fert antiquitas) regum nostrorum stemmata, ceu quodam derivata principio, splendido successionis ordine profluxerunt. Huic filii Humblus et Lotherus fuere, ex Grytha summae inter Theutones dignitatis matrona suscepti.
Saxo says no more than that. //Srv.rosen (talk) 13:28, 16 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  The same person?
Talk:Crimson Chin

message: In Brazil his name is "Queixo Rubro" —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 201.78.212.154 (talk • contribs) .
:In other words, "Crimson Chin"?  What's your point? --UsaSatsui 23:47, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crimson Chin in other countries 

message: The part about continuity errors may be incorrect and might warrant removal; after all, the World War II superhero teams The Invaders and the All-Star Squadron were actually created in the 1970's.  Noclevername 23:18, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Continuity
Talk:Secret Weapons Over Normandy

message: I corrected a number of objectives and brief walkthroughs. The one problem that I'm finding is that there are too many grammar mistakes and misspelling of words. Please proofread before saving.
To whomever that is, I added a template for cleaning up and fixed multiple spelling mistakes. Grammar  is still an issue and the use of first instead of third person is a problem. --William Pembroke 20:16, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Celebration (musical)

message: The synopsis added on July 15, 2012 appears to be a cut-and-paste from []. I have reported this to  and I also notified the editor (IP 98.248.10.236). I did not take unilateral action to delete the synopsis because:1) there appears to be a minor amount of "close paraphrasing", and 2) I wanted another editor to verify that I am correct. Flami72 (talk) 12:17, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The IP who did this has been blocked briefly for edit-warring elsewhere.  I have tried to fix the problem.  See if you agree that I have succeeded.  -- Ssilvers (talk) 17:40, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks ok to me (no copyvio now), I see no need for me to edit the synopsis at this point. I thought it necessary to let the IP know about the Wikipedia policy re copy violations, which I have done.Flami72 (talk) 17:58, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks good to me from a copyvio standpoint.  Personally I think the synopsis may be overly long for an encyclopaedia article but that's not a copyvio concern.  Relevant revisions have been revdeled. Dpmuk (talk) 15:35, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, thanks, Ssilvers and Dpmuk, I will now try to tighten the synopsis (although I generally do not like to work on plots when I have not seen the show.)Flami72 (talk) 17:32, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I should also point out that I've come at this from a copyright prospective so the length may be more normal for articles on musicals.  I was comparing the length to what I'd expect to see for a film or book but hadn't really taken into account that adding the song titles would automatically make the synopsis longer. Dpmuk (talk) 17:37, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The Musicals project guidelines specify "A two-act musical's synopsis should be between 800 and 1100 words, with leeway for an unusually complicated plot." This synopsis is 794 words. I'm satisfied with it now. (I work a lot with musical theatre articles, and run into this plot length situation a lot--everyone has their favorite plot point that has to be included!)Flami72 (talk) 17:50, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice work!  -- Ssilvers (talk) 18:01, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyright problem
Talk:Zhao Feiyan

message: WikiProject Biography Assessment
The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 19:15, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 

message: "Consort Cao was forced to commit suicide", how, precisely, were they "forced"?
:In Consort Cao's case, Emperor Cheng sent an eunuch to deliver poison to her, and then she took it herself, so it was a "suicide" in the sense that she was not poisoned by forcefeeding, but it was forced in the sense that that was the implication -- if she didn't drink it herself, she would suffer a worse death.  --Nlu (talk) 15:08, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion
Talk:The Cingalee

message: Hi, I removed the stub tag, since the article contains pretty much all the information that I could find about this Edwardian musical.  If you can find anything else about it, great, but this article has sat for a year without anyone being able to contribute more to it, although I have posted requests for additional information to the musical theatre project talk page previously.  Best regards, -- Ssilvers 05:48, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: See above.  This has to be a "start", not a "stub", since it contains just about all the information readily available on this article, so ipso facto, it's at least a start.  There is no synopsis for libretto for it online, as far as I can tell, and only some serious research will turn up more info.  -- Ssilvers 22:31, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: With the recent improvements, the article is now C-class. -- Ssilvers (talk) 00:44, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Stub tag

message: J P Wearing is an authorative source and his calculation of 365 performances is explicitly broken down. The higher alternative figure only appears on a couple of websites with no justification or source I can find, so I have removed it. Colin aka Henri Merton 19:08, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, looks good. -- Ssilvers (talk) 21:39, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: London run
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Television/Episode coverage task force/to do

message: In the interest of being bold and getting more focussed with our work, I have created a current collaboration area. Hopefully this will encourage more work to be done more efficiently and quickly. I don't know how to put up a new candidate for collaboration other than discussing it here on the talk page or just updating it at will. I chose X-Files as a starter because it is fairly large and popular but needs quite a bit of work. --Will2k 16:01, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems to be a good idea. I don't know if it's the collaboration message or not, but the X-Files list is very active now :) -- Ned Scott 08:27, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: So are we going to take the Current Collaboration to a featured list nom before we change to another? Jay32183 16:51, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current collaboration
Category talk:Organisations based in London

message: Please note that this should not be renamed to :category:Organisations based in London as that would embrace nearly all of the most important of the organisations in :Category:Organisations based in England and :Category:Organisations based in the United Kingdom, and would thus completely undermine the objective of having a category for things which belong specifically to London. Honbicot 07:48, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Name
Talk:Native American Renaissance

message: Find the criteria here a bit confusing.  Are you listing them by order of first book published?  Or are you judging which is their first "significant" book and listing by order of that instead?  Wouldn't it be simpler to list alphabetically by surname?  Also, can you offer any evidence for the "typically included" and "commonly associated" tags?  I'd usually think of Niatum and Allen as first-wave (though admittedly I've also seen vizenor listed as second-wave before.)  Vizjim (talk) 07:48, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  First Wave / Second Wave 

message: I created a new article for Native American literature, if anyone here wants to edit that as well. Thanks. Aristophanes68 (talk) 01:35, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Native American lit article
Talk:Fred Harvey (entrepreneur)

message: And what about the Fred Harvey Company involvement at the Grand Canyon (e.g. Mary Colter, mule train, etc.)?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.235.30.51 (talk) 16:10, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Lion in the Valley

message: The infobox particularly is more complete. I re-tweaked the layout a bit because with the "explanation of the book's title" section in the middle of the plot summary, it seemed choppy. Also, there are no spoilers in the plot summary, but I'll leave the tags there if you think they should stay. Cheers, ♥ Her Pegship♥ 16:09, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thanks for the revision 

message: The plot summary does not summarize the whole story, as is needed. It needs completing. I edited it a little, but I am reading a different novel in the series now. - - Prairieplant (talk) 11:36, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot summary
Talk:Architectural forgery in Japan

message: Japanese page is protected.  Hidetsugu Aneha's Japanese Wiki page has been deleted and is not to be re-written.  Probably should not be mentioned on this page. Bueller 007 07:58, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  

message: 構造計算書 is a "structural calculation" Google. "Construction accounting" sounds like a construction company cooking the books. I would change it, but since it's the title of the article (and since I'm a newbie), I'll just post this here and hope someone notices. --Madler 19:44, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mistranslated title
Talk:Old Port of Montreal

message: I don't know how to delete the neutrality warning but seeing as how there was no talk page until i created one it should be removed.  I'm curious though, why was the warning there?  aboriginal issues?  user: luther_driggers.  real name: Al Erickson, june 30 2006
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Luther driggers (talk • contribs) 07:59, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Might as Well Be Dead

message: I've removed the following paragraph:
"The novel does not touch on sensitive political subjects, in contrast to some of Stout's other books including The Doorbell Rang (abuse of power by J. Edgar Hoover at the FBI) or The Second Confession (unmasking disguised Communists)."
because I suggest that it's not worthwhile discussing what a novel is NOT about.  There are many things that this novel is not about: "shoes and ships and sealing wax", etc.  In fact, most of Stout's books are not about sensitive political subjects and it would probably be more worthwhile to identify the ones that are in the articles about them.  
The plot summary for the second half of the book seems to be missing, but I don't have my copy handy to fill it in; I'll put this on my watchlist for when I'm by my books. Accounting4Taste 17:58, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed negative information
Talk:Sister Pelagia

message: Mother Pelageya mentioned in the Death of Achilles is NOT Sister Pelagiya. It is obvious both from the timelines of repsective books and from the description of the two characters. Pelagiya is 32 years old in the Black Monk, which takes place at the turn of the century. She was born no earlier than the laste 1860s. There is no possible way she could've been an abbess in the 1850s, during Achimas' boyhood.--Tighina 04:21, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Took out the Death of Achilles reference 

message: The real Zavolzhsk was founded in 1934, long after the events take place. Furthermore, it was never a center of a province, but rather a part of a large Ivanovo province. Therefore, the city in the Pelagia novels cannot refer to the real Zavolzhsk, whether fictionalized or authentic. It is obviously a fictitious city, as well as the entire province which surrounds it, including the village of Drozdovka and the New Ararat monastery.  Tighina 09:41, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zavolzhsk 

message: The article does not make a good case that the character is notable. I suggest this is rewritten into an article about the Sister Pelagia series. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 01:35, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Sister Pelagia series]]
Talk:The Poe Shadow

message: I deleted the book reviews from the plot summary, for two reasons. 
*They didn't need to be in the plot summary
*They weren't very NPOV. (Sounded like an ad)
Feel free to put them back under their own section - possibly with an aggregate measure of the books reception to make it NPOV. Xphill64x (talk) 03:23, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleted review quotations from summary, made it NPOV
Talk:The Poisoned Chocolates Case

message: There was a version of this as a short story under the title of "The avenging Chance". The names were changed but the problem was the same. However only the solution of Roger Sherringham is presented, the apparatus of the Crime Circle is absent, as are the various other solutions. I have read this version but will need to get bibliographic info before putting this into the article. DES (talk) 23:45, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: OOPS, I see it is already mentioned. DES (talk) 23:47, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Short story version
Talk:The Silent Speaker

message: A recent edit injects some OR into the article's introductory material ("almost certainly," for example, and "obvious avoidance"). Since I don't mind that sort of viewpoint so long as it isn't made up of whole cloth, I don't wish to edit it. But the  accompanying edit summary notes that the Dictaphone wasn't new to offices in 1946 (not 1947), having been introduced in 1917. The Dictaphone.com web site, with its brief corporate history, doesn't make that at all clear. Although the initial technology was developed by Edison's people in the late 19th century, it was 1939 before the "first electronic dictation machines were introduced." 1917 is not mentioned as a watershed date. Was Boone using an electronic dictation machine? I don't know, and I don't know that a so-called Stenophone was introduced in 1917. Fish Man's point is well taken, though: whatever the correct date, it wasn't brand new technology in 1946. TurnerHodges 04:55, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Dictaphone
Talk:Dames at Sea

message: I attempted to add some basic information to this article, based on the templates. I do not know how to add images.JeanColumbia 13:11, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've been working on this article to provide pertinent information. I've included about as much as time and research will allow. Today I added the image, the album cover, hopefully under the appropriate fair use requirememnts. JeanColumbia 13:01, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Adding info

message: (I can't believe I'm back at the first article I edited!) According to the press release/info published in on-line sources, (for example, at Playbill, [Dames at Sea Will Arrive on Broadway in 2014]) there will be a Broadway production in 2014. I think it is way too early to include this info in the article, especially since so little is known, but I will do so later this year if no one else gets to it. Alternatively, when more is known, say a theatre, dates, and/or cast, that may be the time to include. Flami72 (talk) 19:18, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Broadway production
Talk:Tom Sawyer, Detective

message: Not 1896 but 1894 or 1895. It is mentioned as recently -finished- in a letter by him 1-23-1895 and was published 1896. 184.153.57.115 (talk) 05:02, 25 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Date

message: "A similar incarnation of Tom Sawyer appeared in the film version of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, set three years after the publication of this novel with the character one year older[citation needed] than his age in this novel, which is 17."
I haGildir|talk]]) 15:52, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen''
Talk:An Unsuitable Job for a Woman

message: This should have some kind of spoiler alert, since it tells the whole story, but I don't know how to insert it. I've just read the book and am glad I didn't read this article before. --Eduarodi (talk) 04:27, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Spoiler warnings aren't considered appropriate for Wikipedia -- see WP:Spoiler.  As far as I know, the general concept is that people come here for information and they should get as much of it as possible.  Accounting4Taste:talk 06:12, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spoiler alert 

message: The infobox says 1977, the article says 1972. Which is it? VenomousConcept (talk) 00:30, 28 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Year of Publication  

message: — Assignment last updated by Gocats14 (talk) 16:48, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Detective Fiction
Talk:Imperial Hotel Gold Coast

message: The Versace logo (Image:Versace.jpeg) is not suitable because it is only half the logo. --WikiCats 08:11, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Versace logo

message: There is no such thing as 8 star hotels...  They are self proclaimed as a marketing ploy.  Does this violate NPOV?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.92.220.215 (talk) 05:27, 7 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Most sources call it a 5-star. The cited source for 8-star is behind a paywall. Without knowing who gave it that rating, the information is useless, and I have removed it. Kendall-K1 (talk) 23:02, 28 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: 8 star Hotel?

message: I propose the Celebrity guests section be removed from this article.  It lacks references, we know well-known, wealthy customers are likely to frequent such an establishment and it tells us nothing about the hotel. - Shiftchange (talk) 06:58, 18 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Celebrity guests section
Talk:Jake

message: This page has recently been vandalized with nonsensical spam, possibly the "Jake and Tom's friend spammer" described on the Long-term abuse page.  If any administrator can verify the source of that attack, I urge him to deal with the problem as soon as possible.  -- ISNorden 21:40, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism problems 

message: I just removed an unlinked entry from this disambiguation page, however there are more. Why are these here? What is the point of a disambiguation page if there are no articles linked? 65.75.73.66 22:41, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unlinked Entries 

message: At minimum, the "Jake" disambiguation page is needed to help those who are looking for Jamaican ginger but only know the slang term, to find the proper article. The "Jake" article was originally the title of the Jamaican ginger article, but somebody decided that it should be moved and a disambiguation page added. Then, a lot of other "Jake" stuff was added, most of which is non-encyclopedic. If that decision is being reversed, please move the Jamaican ginger article back to "Jake" and add a redirect from "Jamaican ginger" to "Jake". Thanks. Catbar (Brian Rock) 23:40, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please Don't Blank 

message: The page states "Jake is a shortened form of the male names Jacob or James."
Jake is a name in its own right, while it can be used as a shortened version of Jacob, people are christened Jake
Prehaps change the sentence to something along the lines of:
Jake is an English name, which can be a shortend form of Jacob or James
13:28, 24 February 2008 (GTM)
===James?===
: I have a different problem with this.  Jake is a shortened form of James?  I've never heard of this.  Examples?  Citations? Unschool (talk) 05:27, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'm going to wait a few days, and then remove James, unless someone brings forth some evidence (and one example would not be enough, for reasons that I will explain if challenged). Unschool (talk) 12:59, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Taking above measure. Unschool (talk) 00:12, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested Change 

message: : I have a different problem with this.  Jake is a shortened form of James?  I've never heard of this.  Examples?  Citations? Unschool (talk) 05:27, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'm going to wait a few days, and then remove James, unless someone brings forth some evidence (and one example would not be enough, for reasons that I will explain if challenged). Unschool (talk) 12:59, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Taking above measure. Unschool (talk) 00:12, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: James?
Talk:The Skull Beneath the Skin

message: Could someone with a copy of this book fact-check the Books reference on William Herbert Wallace? I spellchecked the new para, but I'm not sure of the spelling in one of the cites - or whether it's a single quoted word - so I've left that alone. Thanks! Ecobun (talk) 14:39, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Connection to the William Wallace case? 

message: I haven't read it (I think); I was following a chain of thought about Webster when I encountered the article.
But is one dismissive review the whole picture concerning Literary Significance and Criticism?
???  It seems most odd.
Rogersansom (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 08:27, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reception of Book?!? 

message: — Assignment last updated by Gocats14 (talk) 20:25, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Detective Fiction