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Talk:Frederick Selous

message: It's often stated that the German commander "wrote a personal condolence note, apologizing for the "ungentlemanly death" of Selous at the hands of the German Army".  However, most of the cites that I could find online are just copies of the Wikipedia article or similar.  Is there any reliable historical account of this, prefereably a contemporty one.  I've been looking, but hard to find anything amongst all the online mirrors.--Dmol (talk) 21:46, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed the info, as six months later there's still no contempory references. I asked the same question on another board and they too could not support this. Removed pending reliable cites.--Dmol (talk) 05:50, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  /* Death and legacy */ looking for reliable cite for note from German commander. 

message: Where is it written that Selous shot with a .461 No 2 Gibbs Farquharson rifle?  My reading of his works show he shot extensively with a "single .450 Express by George Gibbs of Bristol",A Hunter's Wanderings., whish in later works he describes as a ".450-bore Metford by Gibbs of Bristol",Travel and adventure in Africa. which fired, among other bullets, "a 540-grain bullet propelled by only 75 grains of powder."  The only reference to the .461 Gibbs No 2 cartridge I can find in his writings is in the chapter "Merits of different rifles" in Travel and adventure in Africa, in which he talks about the effect of the .450 caliber and "such a rifle as Mr Gibb's 461-Metford, taking the No 2 cartridge ... [which] shoot either a 570-grain bullet propelled by 80 grains of powder or a 360-grain bullet propelled by 100 grains of powder."  Given these bullet weights are consistent with other sources for the .461 Gibbs No 2 cartridge,Imperial War Museums, "11.68 x 69.8R : ; .461 No 2 Gibbs 23/4 inch". I think they should be seen as accurate.  Given the bullet weights of the for the ".450 Express" align with other .450 caliber rounds of the era,Imperial War Museums, "Eley : .500-.450 No. 1 Black Powder Express soft point". I think it far more likely the rifle was actually chambered in this round.  
Does anyone have any evidence to the contrary?  Kind regards, Cavalryman V31 (talk) 02:07, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I think I have solved the riddle, the .461 No 1 Gibbs seems to have shot a 540 grain bullet,Imperial War Museums, "Eley ; .461 No 1 Gibbs 211/12 inch".http://forums.nitroexpress.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=45519&an=0&page=6 the terminology of the day must have been ".450 Express" for .461 No 1.  Cavalryman V31 (talk) 06:08, 20 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rifles
Talk:Coventry Christian Schools

message: Administrator, Please do not allow anyone to add the site "www.ccsparents.com" to the list of external sites. The site mentioned is not affiliated with the school in the wikipedia article. I would also like to request full protection of the article. Please let me know where I would need to request full protection if this is not the place, and I will make the case for that needed protection there. Dwilczyn 17:04, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If there is actually an issue, it should be taken to WP:AN/I where it can be looked at. Please not that Wikipedia is not the place for propaganda good or bad and that all claims must meet the verifiability standards. Adam McCormick (talk) 21:00, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Request
Talk:Lester Horton

message: What's going on in the "Further Reading" section? Mr. Eng (presuming that it is Mr. Eng) may not like the book, but this cannot be the right place to argue with it.  Not least because he's criticizing something mentioned nowhere in the article itself.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lector (talk • contribs) 02:24, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Further reading

message: I've read in a number of places that Horton was gay but I can't find a source to reference. I think his sexuality is important especially given his close relationship with Hay and Ailey. Does anyone know where I can get a reference?Sugarcoma (talk) 06:38, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Horton's Sexuality 

message: There is no mention in the article of the Artistic Direction of Lester Horton Dance Theatre after his death.  I can find no citation as of yet, but there is little doubt that James Truitte directed both the school and in collaboration with others, the company, until the late 1950s.  It must be noted that Frank Eng was the business manager at that time, and was not directly in an artistic position.  http://danceheritage.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/mu005003ID.xml&doc.view=content&brand=default&anchor.id=0  [[Wikipedia:Signatures|Prosemo]  (Prosemo (talk) 16:01, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Direction of Lester Horton Dance Theatre 1953-1960 
Talk:Tim Vine

message: I've removed these for several reasons: They look terrible, the jokes are so inconsequential that it really doesn't matter the source, so much as they are jokes from his sets. Wikipedia needs to cite its references, but it does not need to ruin every article's look and professional feel by covering it with little 'cite reference' markers after every sentence. ny156uk 22:14, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed the 'cite reference' for the jokes

message: While it pains me to suggest this as Tim's jokes are hilarious, this is supposed to be a biographical article about Tim Vine, not a collection of his works.  At best, the list of jokes is off-topic, and at worst it could be a copyright violation and therefore unlawful.  Can anyone come up with a compelling reason for why the section should stay?  (I'd love it to, honestly, but I can't think of any justification for it).  And if it does stay, how do we keep it down to a reasonable length?  People seem to be adding material to it every week! Waggers (talk) 23:08, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I looks like most of that list came directly from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eshR-WpdYDM - surely it would be better to link there than list the jokes. 146.87.6.75 (talk) 17:38, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jokes 

message: "Vine has also presented the game show Fluke on Channel 4"
I don't want to edit this because I may be wrong, but I'm almost certain that Fluke was on Channel 5, not Channel 4. I remember because Fluke was one of the first shows to come out on Channel 5 when it came out on the air. Can anyone back me up on this? Haddock420 (talk) 03:24, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fluke on Channel 4? 

message: This looks suspicious to me. When you hit the URL and click a track the URL is karlhampson.f2s.com which doesn't look real to me. I've removed the working under Music relating to this link - can someone check and put it back if I'm wrong?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.233.195.135 (talk) 23:17, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pretend PopStar? 

message: the following sentence makes no sens,  but I'm not sure what it is supposed to say
"Vine and a security guard from his office job in Croydon started doing open mic nights as a hobby. During 1991, Tim Vine regularly honed his routine at the Comedy Café in London, adding other clubs throughout 1992" 150.143.238.35 (talk) 05:47, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: It makes sense to me. WaggersTALK 09:54, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  rewrite needed
Talk:Stuart Townsend

message: I've created new Career and Personal life sections, and moved several items from Trivia into the new sections.  Both need some clean-up, and Personal life needs some further information added.  -FeralDruid 19:50, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sections
Talk:Triflic acid

message: Some figures were incorrect, so I deleted them.  TFA in place of HOTf, etc.
How is HOTf purified?  How is the hydrate dehydrated?  How to make Tf2O, the anhydride? Check Inorg Syn for MOTf's.--Smokefoot 20:15, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggestions

message: Is this a brønsted acid or a lewis acid? It does have a proton but as OH, suggesting it could be either one depending on the nature of its disassociation. AeoniosHaplo 15:21, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Acid Type? 

message: Is this supposed to be "electrophiles"? After all, the triflate ion carries a negative charge (excess of electrons). I would say that the fluoroborate ion, another ion derived from a strong acid (HBF4) can co-exist with very electrophilic cations.
38.113.178.13 (talk) 00:31, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "The triflate anion is immune to attack by even strong nucleophiles." 

message: There is no consensus for the pKa of Triflic acid in water.
Another source suggests a pKa of -13.6 (http://www.armourassociates.com/papers/triflic.pdf (Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology, 4th Edition, Vol. 23, p. 195)).
and Pubchem simply says "~ -15" 
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Trifluoromethanesulfonic_acid#section=Top
So maybe a range should be presented with multiple citations instead of an exact value.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marco0126 (talk • contribs) 19:59, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  pKa of Triflic Acid
Talk:The British Museum is Falling Down

message: "what is possibly one of the longest sentences ever written in the English language"
I'm not going to edit because I haven't read the novel, but can you really just say something like that? It'd be pretty difficult to back up, unless you'd actually read everything anyone had ever written in English. It might make more sense just to say how long the sentence actually is, which I'm wondering now myself. A page? Eight pages? Twenty?
--Conspire 20:17, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: agreed - it's a silly remark (though it could possibly apply to Molly Bloom's soliloquy itself). I'll remove it amd reword the paragraph AndrewWTaylor 22:46, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Council of Ten

message: Goes from 10 to 17 by adding 2 (Doge & (wife?))?  I take it there were some other people in here, but not sure whom, or how they got there.How did they handle Capi's getting sick/dying, or having business elsewhere during their terms?I assume that Capis rotated, as there were 36 slots to fill during the year, and only 10-15 people to fill them.~ender 2008-04-10 12:29:PM MST
:# We get 17 by taking the original 10, and adding the Doge (1), plus 6 members of the Signoria of Venice (the Minor Consiglio, if I'm not mistaken).
:# I'm not sure if any of the Capi died in office; and anything short of a fatal illness would probably have been considered secondary to the interests of the state.
:# Yes, I believe the position rotated.
:Kirill 02:33, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'll have to check Norwich's book but if I remember right they couldn't have other business while sitting on the ten as they were placed under effective house arrest.  To be the most powerful member of the Venetian nobility meant the loss of your freedom of movement. Nickjost (talk) 20:51, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of the Ten? 

message: It seems to say "in effect a abinet".  I imagine it's supposed to say "in effect a cabinet", right?  i kan reed (talk) 00:29, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is the second visual aid correct? 

message: The previous diagram was very inaccurate. The current one is better I think. I tried to take into account the remarks from Hans-Jürgen Hübner on the Signoria of Venice article when he removed the diagram because there were too many mistakes. I am not the one who created the previous diagram, so I had to recreate it completely. Hervegirod (talk) 14:27, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update for the republic governmental structure
Talk:Montréal-Est, Quebec

message: :The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the debate was don't move. —Nightstallion (?) 11:20, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Doug Sandom

message: pretty much all of this is from answers.com. if anyone can expand on it, specifically the dob and dod, it would be appreciated.-Joeyramoney 21:00, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: gave him an article

message: "Your drummer's shit!" - I know I've read it somewhere, but it turns out it's not an easy thing to find on the net. I can't be bothered to read through all my books and album liner notes to find it, so I just took it out. Turns out it wasn't about Sandom anyway, I just assumed as it referred to The Who's "old drummer". MightyMoose22 03:50, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Keith Moon's quote

message: Is Doug Sandom dead, or is he still alive, now in his 70s? BulsaraAndDeacon (talk) 09:28, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead? 

message: In my opinion, the cause of death if possible (and properly sourced) should be included in the 'Death' tab of the article as readers may be curious. Xboxsponge15 (talk) 10:34, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cause of death
Talk:Motoi Sakuraba

message: I was once watching the show, Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi, when I thought I heard one of his works. It was the song, Deterioration, from the Baten Kaitos soundtrack. At least, it sounded suspiciously similar to Deterioration, yet I have not been able to verify if this is true. Wolf ODonnell 20:57, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: One of his compositions appeared in Hi Hi Puffy Ami Yumi?

message: motoi sakuraba page is should have his picture --KL Joe (talk) 06:29, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  about this page 

message: These have been moved here from a subpage as part of a cleanup process. See Wikipedia:Discontinuation of comments subpages.
===Rating===
Class=Start for already containing plenty data but not complete information, lacks in structure and non-work related biographical data. Needs checking by native English speakers. Importance=Mid as Mr. Sakuraba is a commonly used reference point for both the Japanese Progressive Rock scene of the 1980s as well as the Japanese videogame music industry. -- 138.246.7.97 21:01, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comments

message: Class=Start for already containing plenty data but not complete information, lacks in structure and non-work related biographical data. Needs checking by native English speakers. Importance=Mid as Mr. Sakuraba is a commonly used reference point for both the Japanese Progressive Rock scene of the 1980s as well as the Japanese videogame music industry. -- 138.246.7.97 21:01, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Rating

message: Feel free to use these to aid further research or to improve the article
* https://www.squareenixmusic.com/composers/sakuraba/biography.shtml (Unreliable but still interesting read)
* https://squareenixmusic.com/features/interviews/motoisakuraba.shtml (Reliable interview)
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTXHorVYuqc (Unreliable but interesting watch, this was probably included in an Star Ocean album)
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rYY2gwh7g0 (Unreliable and untranslated but interesting)
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwu1Fozafpc (Unreliable but interesting)
* https://web.archive.org/web/20100828142905/http://member.square-enix.com:80/na/features/so4/05/ (Reliable interview)
* http://sakuraba.snesmusic.org/discography/ (Unreliable but interesting fansite)
* http://snesmusic.org/motoisakuraba/static/Motoi_Sakuraba.html (Unreliable but interesting fansite)
* https://spice.eplus.jp/articles/195677 (Reliable and interesting interview)
AlphaRex1984 (talk) 16:18, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources/Further Research
Talk:List of British royal consorts

message: I have deleted the comment stating that the husband of a Queen Regnant is styled "simply His Royal Highness"... that isnt necessarily the case.  Yes the 3 last husbands have been Princes (Prince Albert was raised from Serene Highness (HSH) to Royal Highness (HRH) - but it made it sound like the style of HRH was obligatory.  It is possible that a Queen Regnant could marry a commoner or a Peer, without being granted any Royal title.  In that case, he would be styled by his OWN status and not HRH as standard practice.  Each husband has and will be styled in accordance with whatever he was or after marriage and each style would be bespoke. 2A02:C7C:A820:8800:24AF:735C:378A:DA3A (talk) 20:38, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The style of the husband of a Queen Regnant 

message: At present it says "Charles III with the current queen of the United Kingdom, then pictured as Queen Consort. Camilla (pictured in 2019)"
I don't understand "then pictured as Queen Consort". If the picture was taken in 2019, then at that time she was not consort, but (I think) duchess of cornwall. -- SGBailey (talk) 19:24, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Picture changed and annotation fixed. -- SGBailey (talk) 04:40, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Annotation to first picture of Charles and Camilla 
Template talk:TOC float right

message: Thanks to Gmcfoley for helping with this. --日本穣 21:06, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Thanks

message: 100110100 08:43, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems that the biggest difference is how simple it is. TOCright seems much more complicated. This one was created as I was unable to find anything about the other one after hunting around for about an hour.  ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 19:40, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks like that this is warrented for a deletion.100110100 20:35, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  How Is This Template Different From {{tl|TOCright}}?
Template talk:TOC float left

message: Thanks to Gmcfoley for helping with this. --日本穣 21:06, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Thanks

message: 100110100 08:43, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems that the biggest difference is how simple it is. TOCleft seems much more complicated. This one was created as I was unable to find anything about the other one after hunting around for about an hour.  ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 19:40, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks like that this is warrented for a deletion.100110100 20:35, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  How Is This Template Different From {{tl|TOCleft}}?
Talk:Basilica Cistern

message: it's been a while since i wiki'd, i forgot how to put this picture in the gallery, somebody help me out -Taco325i (talk) 00:24, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: An editor has tagged the article with "to russia with love" category. I don't even want to know why a film is also a category! Lord knows where else it is going. This is in clear violation of WP:OC#TRIVIA which says that categorization must be germane. It should not be a "non-defining or trivial characteristic." This trivializes the basilica (and other monuments presumably), since they are apparently going around overcategorizing many significant monuments with trivial film categories. The basilica has been there a long time like many historic monuments and has seen fads come and go. Films too will pass. Presumably the monument will still be there. People could care less about some film that was shot there. This is almost WP:PR or WP:SPAM for the film since the monument is more famous than the film. Student7 (talk) 21:14, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Clear violation of [[WP:OVERCAT]]

message: The article states "The upside down Medusa was placed that way specifically because she would be the same height right side up" in the Medusa Column Bases section. I'm not even sure what the author is trying to say here... what does that sentence even mean? If you have a cube of granite (say, carved in the shape of a Medusa head), then wouldn't it's height, by definition, be the same regardless of whether it was right-side-up or up-side-down? It seems like simple geometry to me... Maybe someone else can explain?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.196.233.202 (talk) 00:19, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Comprehension limited by poor wording in the Medusa Column Base section

message: There are 2 medusa heads: 1 reversed vertical and the other horizontal oriented. It was written on leaflets at the museum that the heads have been presumebly brought there by the romans who took them from another unknown temple. Also that making medusa head in stone, avoid people looking them in the eyes to turn into stone themselves, like a mirror or something against her curse. Put the heads under earth and under water and with reversed orientation because of the curse, so that nobody can see her. I have no better explanation for the 2 orientations.151.31.126.1 (talk) 10:13, 10 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: 2 different orientation of medusa heads

message: "The Basilica Cistern (Turkish: Yerebatan Sarayı - "Sunken Palace", or Yerebatan Sarnıcı - "Sunken Cistern"),"
The official website, www.yerebatan.com, uses only the name, Yerebatan Sarnici, which according to Google Translate is "Basilica Cistern" in English, not "Sunken Cistern".  "Yerebatan Sarayi" is not used at all on the official site and in any case translates as "Basilica Palace", not "Sunken Palace". Kokkieh (talk) 19:09, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect name and translation
Talk:Marita Covarrubias

message: This article needs to be expanded by an expert.
I changed it a bit and stuff - just llike some headings and stuff, bye x  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.236.129.65 (talk) 23:57, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Help

message: Firstly, a statement that fans call her this needs a citation; it seems far too cumbersome to have been created by a professional writer, so I do not question the fact it is a fan invention (if it is just an internet thing, the reference should probably be lower in the article). I know nothing about this nickname, or indeed the character, but shouldn't it be "Unablonder" anyway? It would appear to be a reference to Theodore Kaczynski, so I would assume the spelling of the nickname would be the same. Rje 02:03, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You would expect so, but no. It was just a fan nickname, used on the alt.tv.x-files Usenet group, and probably in other fan discussion ...uh... venues. "Un-" of course in part because she worked for a department in the UN, and yes, in part from "unabomber" which also provided the "-er" suffix. Even so, it was usually written as "The Uniblonder", with an "i", about 90% of the time. Sometimes just "Uniblonder". Search Google Groups for both "Uniblonder" and "Unablonder". There are also hits for "Uniblonde" and "Unablonde". Planish 02:43, 18 August 2007 (UTC)

text: A Cinefantastique interview with Holden made mention of "UNblonde" (with that capitalisation) as an online nickname, so it's been included and sourced to that journal. GRAPPLE X 12:37, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Uniblonder?
Talk:Neurodynamics

message: So apparently someone has read Trigant Burrow, how come there's no wiki page for him? Waking 03:10, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

message: The Research section is simply copied (without attribution) from an Ohio State lab's webpage.  See the second two paragraphs at http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/pnl/  
 
I'm removing it from the WP entry.   JXM 02:28, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plagerized text
Talk:Carolina Herrera

message: Is it common to have parentheses next to the name of the person?  I would rather remove them and use disambiguationPjgonzalez 19:40, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There's already a disambiguation page at Carolina Herrera. The parentheses are used because there's more than one person with that name. -- Mentisock 13:53, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: In english below:
Regards,
--TheEconomissst (talk) 05:17, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources of the dress of The Duchess of Cadaval