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Template talk:Roman provinces AD 117

message: Is there any source for Pisidia being a Roman province about 120 AD? It's neither in :Image:Roman_Empire_Map.png, which Roman province says shows the situation after 120, nor in :Image:Roemischeprovinzentrajan.png. Wikipeditor 10:48, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pisidia 

message: There are a few things wrong in this template, as it stands now. It covers the territorial extent of the Roman Empire ca. 120 pretty well, but not its actual administrative structure. It includes several provinces that did not exist in 120 AD (Trajan's Armenia, Assyria and Mesopotamia in particular) or that had been divided in smaller ones (Pannonia and Moesia) or not yet divided (Lycia and Pamphylia) or split off from larger ones (Armenia Inferior, Pisidia and Numidia), as well as territories under Roman rule, but not constituted as provinciae but ruled either by the military or by client kings, such as Taurica, Osrhoene and Sophene (to which one should also perhaps add the Agri Decumates). I propose eliminating the incorrect provinces, and creating a separate section for the Roman-administered, but not of "province" status, territories. Any comments? Cplakidas (talk) 15:04, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template reorganization 

message: Why not use English names? I have no idea where some of these are unless I click them 84.216.44.45 (talk) 13:55, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Latin 

message: Hy there. This template is currently being used to show the Roman empire at its territorial height. However because of the chosen date: 120 AD (or is it 117 AD? - that's really confusing) it lacks a couple of provinces. I suggest that we change the date so that we can include all the conquest of Trajan. Thanks Flamarande (talk) 00:48, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Despite the template's name, it does already portray the provinces for 117 AD. That's because in its earlier form, which was supposed to show the provinces of 120 AD, it included every region and territory controlled by the Roman Empire, but not the actual provinces (see the section Template reorganization). After no one responded, I simply changed the template to reflect the state of 117 AD, since it made more sense to have the actual territorial maximum of the RE rather than an arbitrary date. The only thing that needs to be done would be simply to change the name of the template. Cheers, Constantine   ✍  11:03, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  This template should show the "highwater mark"
Talk:Mary Margaret McBride

message: The only virtue i am sure of that justifies replacing the following text 
:Mary Margaret McBride (November 16, 1899 – April 7, 1976) was an American radio talk show host, starting in the 1930s. She had a national daytime show, with a primarily female audience. 
: The Missouri-born McBride had a broad range of guests, from politicians to generals to movie stars; she never announced her guests in advance, so the audience tuned in with no idea what they would get. Beginning during World War II, she began "breaking the color line", mixing in African American guests.
with my own is size; at the least it should be merged in with mine.
--Jerzy~t 12:59, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I regret leaving the above neglected, i think about a week, in an unsaved edit window, and probably speaking as if i had done my due diligence by saving it soon after overwriting its source in an ed-conflict. --Jerzy~t 12:59, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stub Needing Merging
Talk:Hispania Baetica

message: Do we need to link this to the Mauretania Tingitana article to clarify the relationship between the two provinces?
:Go ahead! --Wetman 00:24, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: Hi there. In the lead it currently states:
For this to be true it should also mention Gibraltar, which is not part of Andalusia. I added this only to find that it has been reverted without any discussion and an edit summary of think of the Wikipedia reader: this is a reader service, not a hobby shop.
I would like to ask Wetman to please assume good faith, I am only here to help out. Thanks. --Gibmetal 77talk 21:26, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modern day 

message: What's up with that infobox at the top of the article? First, "this article" does not appear in Pliny's "Natural History"; Baetica does, or "the subject of this article." Second, do you realize how many hundreds if not thousands of articles this box could be placed on? And to what end, for what purpose? Why is this factoid of such overriding importance that it should be at the top of the article anyway? Third, the Natural History is not "the world's" (!) first encyclopedia, though I suppose one could argue it's the earliest extant encyclopedia. But again, why is this the most important factoid to display at the top of an article about Baetica? Just asking. Cynwolfe (talk) 22:43, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disinformation box 

message: In the List of governors, it includes Marcus Ulpius Trajanus before 67.  The external link is to the emperor Trajan,  which can't be right - he would of been too young? Kakko1 (talk) 06:30, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of Governors
Talk:Year of three popes

message: The very title is misleading. Worth bothering over? --Wetman 00:32, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: John Paul I died on September 28th & John Paul II was elected on October 16th. Both theses dates are in the Fall, therefore 1978  being known as the "summer of three Popes" is misleading. GoodDay 20:23, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Or these dates could be in the Spring if you live in the southern hemisphere. On the whole, 'Year of Three Popes' is more descriptive. --<SPAN STYLE="font-family:monospace; color:#008800; background-color:#ffffcc; border:1px solid #ff4444;"> B.D.Mills </SPAN> (T, C) 04:12, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Summer of three Popes?

message: I remember my mother saying in 1978 that a year with 4 popes was a sign of bad things to come. Is this a well known superstition or just my mom's own weirdness?
Ttenchantr (talk) 02:32, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Year With Four Popes: A Bad Sign?

message: The text of this article, as it currently stands, uses the word "pope" or "popes" no less than 51 times (out of 318 words, counting numbers as words; almost 1/6 of the words in the article are "pope"), largely because the list of years begins each name with "Pope".  I would suggest removing some of the occurrences of "Pope" from the text, especially the list, as it's obvious by that point that we're talking about popes. 
--Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 10:43, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Word over-use 

message: I notice that in many places this article refers to popes "holding office".  Isn't it completely correct to state that, as monarchs, popes reign?  I just want to avoid needless offense.  -- Pakaran 18:35, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Held office?" 

message: I removed 1409 entry (Gregory XII, Benedict XIII, Alexander V), as we don't count the anti-popes. GoodDay (talk) 00:36, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  1409
Talk:Timeline of the 2004 Canadian federal election

message: Is there any good reason why this page is in reverse chronological order? - Cafemusique 00:36, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know why this page is in reverse chronological order. I'm going to work on it to make sure it is in the right chronological order - SNIyer12 12:50, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: This entire page is now in the right chronological order - SNIyer12(talk) 14:48, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Page order

message: I think fairuse images are pretty dubious for this page.  Some like :Image:Harpes.jpg don't even have a fair use rational.  The page is not specifically about each of these people, and the pictures don't serve to illistrate the subject of the article (namely the election).  Also, given that these people are in the public so much, free images should in theory be possible. --Rob 23:56, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fair use images seem dubious 
Talk:Zug Izland

message: What exactly is their specific genre? Rock is too broad, and their self-description of "an exploration of imperfect human morality brought forth through the imagery of a pure fantasy", though adequately poetic, does nothing for me, nor anyone else. So could someone narrow it down a bit? And please stick to standard classifications such as hard rock, progressive rock, punk rock, etc. 69.243.28.125 00:52, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Genre? 

message: Two articles for the third album by this band exist, neither with the right article title, they are The Promised Land album and Promise Land (the only contributor to both pages is Asylumwickid). They both need some heavy handed cleaning and merging into The Promised Land (album) if the album is notable enough to warrant an article yet, I don't know the subject well enough to make any further comment on it. — Balthazar (T|C) 09:09, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Promised Land 
Talk:Voiced retroflex approximant

message: The article currently says that the retroflex approximant sound occurs in the speech of "some American speakers." Are there certain regions in which the retroflex approximant occurs instead of the more common alveolar approximant? Just saying that it occurs in "some" speakers doesn't say much. --   00:58, May 15, 2005 (UTC)
:I might as well add that I'm fairly sure that I use alveolar approximants, and I'm from southern Illinois (if that matters). --   19:15, August 29, 2005 (UTC)
::This needs to be clarified. There are three common ways of pronouncing Midwestern/Western US /r/. You probably have friends and family members with all three, and can't tell the difference. (I know I can't.) That is, there are three articulations that produce the desired sound. Ladefoged discusses this, but I don't know if I'll get to it. kwami 19:39, 2005 August 29 (UTC)
:::Does this allophone occur more often medially and finally (in American English)?  Because I seem to use the alveolar approximant initially, and the retroflex version otherwise, except before /n/ and /m/.  (western Missouri, FYI...)  --Xyzzyva 14:01, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Retroflex approximant in American English speakers

message: The "occurs in" section has a reference to Marathi language. This seems to be incorrect. please see  Talk:Marathi_language#IPA. To my knowledge, Vedic Sanskrit also does not have this sound. Both these languages have retroflex lateral approximant, but not retroflex approximant. - sooraj 07:29, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Deleted the references to both Marathi and Vedic Sanskrit - sooraj 17:08, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Deleting Telugu from the list. Modern Telugu does not have this sound. sooraj 18:33, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Languages that have retroflex approximant

message: In Irish English, r's can be pronounced like pure retroflex approximants, especially in the fashionable Dublin accent.
Source: A handbook of varieties of English: Phonology, vol. 1; Bernd Kortmann, Edgar W. Schneider; Walter de Gruyter, 2004 
Irish Phonology chapter written by R. Hickey
http://books.google.es/books?id=Dptsvykgk3IC&pg=PR5&dq=A+handbook+of+varieties+of+English:+Phonology,+vol.+1;+Bernd+Kortmann,+Edgar+W.+Schneider&hl=es&ei=TVidTfHHHY_AswaWpuikBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=reason%20for%20the%20retroflex&f=false  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Linda Martens (talk • contribs) 06:25, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Retroflex approximant in Irish English

message: Isn't this sound also found in the French language, in the word "je" (meaning "I")? 173.89.236.187 (talk) 01:59, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: No, that's . Peter238 (talk) 02:03, 4 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Also French?
Talk:Ranch (brothel)

message: Is this article about a particular establishment, or is it saying that "ranch" is a general term derived from a particular establishment? I wasn't quite sure. -Vardion 01:26, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: <Start of discussion>
Ranch is an American Term for a brothel, does it really need it's own page?
Possibly it cound be added  as a section in brothel?
John B123 (talk) 17:24, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with [[brothel]]? 

message: The article states that the term Ranch was coined in connection with the Great Depression, in the 1920s. I came around a newspaper clipping from 1883, showing that Ranche was a common term in Pennsylvania, although set in quotation marks. --Eveready Norton (talk) 12:19, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin
Talk:Mermaid Avenue

message: Bearcat, curious why you don't think this is a folk album.  With an entire album based on the lyrics of Woody Guthrie, isn't that justification enough?  Thoughts? -- Dave C. 04:40, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)

message: This page should not be speedy deleted as an unambiguous copyright infringement, because... (your reason here) --71.233.17.254 (talk) 03:59, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contested deletion 

message: This page should not be speedy deleted as an unambiguous copyright infringement, because there is much more text and information on this page than on http://www.ovguide.com/mermaid-avenue-9202a8c04000641f80000000031b3e0e#. So the criterion "where there is no free-content material on the page worth saving" is not shown to be met.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rossetti29 (talk • contribs) 05:37, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contested deletion 

message: Should "California Stars" get its own article or be merged here? I found the article via WP:NPP but it does not look like the song is independently notable. Fyddlestix (talk) 14:46, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[California Stars (song)]]
Talk:James Branch Cabell

message: Portions of this page appear to have been copied from  without permission.
Or perhaps it is the other way around. I am not sure!-- Dominus 02:16, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like  has been around longer (per the Wayback machine). Reverted to pre-copyvio version.--Duk 08:01, 24 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Portions of this page appear to have been copied

message: Greek isn't a Romance language! -Branddobbe 18:39, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Romance languages
Talk:Scholastica

message: Since Scholastica is being introduced as a, it is surprising that a summary of what St Gregory says about her has not been given. Am I the only one who has never been prompted by any riot to remember her? Or, if the riot is historically so significant, should not perhaps the religious bits be left out, just a mention that it happened to erupt on this particular feastday? 
Portress 02:20, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: This part of the article is largely redundant with St. Scholastica riot.  I'm going to delete some of it and just leave a "see also" link.  I'll also try to find more about St Scholastica herself to add. --Jim Henry | Talk 15:00, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: should Scholastica be added to :Category:Medieval women? Cantara 21:04, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: category question

message: As a layperson who came to this page looking for some information, I have found that the following sentence is unclear to the reader who is not familiar with the topic (eg, me):
* St. Scholastica is the patron saint of convulsive children, nuns, storms, and against rain.
Is she the patron saint for storms but against rain? It doesn't seem logical. 
Is that correct, or should this sentence be rewritten to read "St. Scholastica is the patron saint of convulsive children and nuns, and against rain and storms"? MIP | Talk 11:08, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I find it says that she is 'invoked to storms and rain,' I am not completely sure. TaylorCat123 (talk) 17:16, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Patron of...? 

message: The story of Scholastica and Benedict confuses whether the brother was at his sister's convent, or she at his monastery.  And the story needs a citation. --71.62.85.99 (talk) 11:32, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I slightly agree. Most stories state Benedict visits her in her convent, if that answers your question TaylorCat123 (talk) 14:14, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  story issues 

message: It says only that Scholastica is Benedict's sister. From other resoureces, I've read of Scholastica being  Saint Benedict's twin sister. Which is correct?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by TaylorCat123 (talk • contribs) 17:21, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Sibling debate
Talk:Alumni association

message: The definition of "corporate alumni" does not belong here.  It is off-topic and contradicts the article Alumnus.  Miqrogroove (talk) 21:58, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a dedicated page about corporate alumni... --Wisdood (talk) 09:27, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misplaced Definition
Talk:Jurgen

message: I don't see why this should be merged into the James Branch Cabell article.  The article on the novel is short now, but it can be expanded, with more information about the book itself and about the legal battle it triggered.  I favor re-creating it as a separate article, as it was before being converted into a redirect. JamesMLane 02:44, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Whether to have a separate article
Talk:Philoctetes

message: Looking for Philoctetes and couldn't remember the correct spelling. How to provide more redirects for mispellings especially in difficult ones like this. I tried Philoctitese, Philocritese, Phyloctites, Pheloctitese. Is there a better vehicle than the talk page for providing mispellings to pull up the correct search.
kbanshee (talk) 05:21, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spellings as in 'did you mean'?
Talk:Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk

message: The Brandon dukedom of Suffolk became extinct in 1551 and he was related to them through his wife, yes. Well, jure uxoris usually means that the wife actually holds the title. So why was he (as the article says) created Duek of Suffolk jure uxoris?--85.176.176.239 (talk) 01:41, 19 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: "jure uxoris"
Talk:Kenneth L. Hale

message: Wonderful picture ... I should go learn how to caption it; it should say "Hale lecturing on the Warlpiri language".  That's a great shot.
And thanks for all the other work you've been doing on this article.
ACW 03:25, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: What happened to the photo?  That was a wonderful picture.  ACW 18:50, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hale photo
Talk:Dimitris Tsovolas

message: This article needs to be rewritten, more or less from start to finish.  The current article isn't a biography; it's a partisan attack piece, and clumsily written at that.  CJCurrie 03:32, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV

message: I suppose this is an improvement, but it still basically reads as an attack piece.  Could someone with firsthand knowledge of Greek politics write a more neutral account of DT's career?  CJCurrie 30 June 2005 20:29 (UTC)
I've made some factual changes like for example removing the corn scandal allegation (the scandal coincided with Tsovolas's trials but (I think) he had nothing to do with it). The NPOV stub should remain though until a cleaner rewrite--methinks at least. cubic[*]star | Talk 21:36, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV 2
Talk:Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March

message: Discrepancy in dates on the page.  Roger Mortimer is given the birth/death dates of 11 April 1375 / 20 July 1393 at the top of the page, but is said to have been killed in August 1393 under "Conflict in Ireland."  It's a small discrepancy from 700 years ago, but the inconsistency on the same page is sort of annoying.  Most sources go with 20 July.  I have NOT changed anything on the page, because I do not have an authoritative source at hand.
:(Presumably you mean 1498, not 1493.) Apparently the most-used primary sources disagree on the day and month of his death. I don't know if any recent historical work has clarified the matter. Loren Rosen 07:13, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: The Steven and Lee source is public domain, so it may be copied freely.  Please do use citations, though. Cheers. HausTalk 07:15, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good source 

message: On the page for his mother Philippa of Clarence it's given as 1382, but here it's "before 7 January 1378." Which is it? I know dates can be off a little, given it's the MIddle Ages, but this is a bit much. :-)108.90.91.140 (talk) 22:14, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for pointing out the discrepancy. I've changed the date of death in the article on Philippa of Clarence to conform to this one, and added two citations for the change. NinaGreen (talk) 22:54, 16 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discrepancy in his mother's death date
Talk:Avgustyn Voloshyn

message: The article claims that his burial place is unknown. Yet, the infobox claims he is buried at the Olšany Cemetery and we also have a photo of his grave at :File:Praha, Vinohrady, Olšanské hřbitovy, hrob Augustina Vološina.jpg. What is the truth? Vanjagenije (talk) 12:06, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Grave
Talk:Ibrahim al-Hamdi

message: Please clear up this pathetic propaganda! СЛУЖБА (talk) 03:49, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Completely agree, this seems like something pulled straight out of a Soviet-era school book. I've done some minor edits, but there's much more that can be done to improve it. User: Hawaiigopher (talk) 03:09, 21 September 2013 (UTC)

text: Pour une fois que vous faites pas de la propagande pro liberal dans ce site faudrait apprendre a etre neutre wikipedia un jour non ? Au lieu de faire de la propagande qui sort tout droit des Etat unis 46.193.0.166 (talk) 11:54, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  PROPAGANDA 

message: Article relies almost exclusively on Isa Blumi's 'Yemen: What Chaos in Arabia Tells Us About the World'. A more balanced article could include Marieke Brandt's review of the same book. I've also removed an unsourced (likely fabricated) quote, and I suspect there's more questionable content in the article.
StalkerFishy (talk) 21:03, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Single Source template