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Talk:Mefistofele

message: I oppose merging the article on Mefistofle and Boito. Other operas have independent articles (c.f. La Boheme, Maria Stuarda). I've deleted the merge suggestion. --FourthAve 00:46, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks; you're right.  Let's keep the two types of articles separate. Antandrus  (talk) 01:41, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: In 1974 the Sydney Opera Company gave Australia's premiere performance of Mefistofele with Vadim Laptev as Mefistofele. The performance was recorded on LP by Festival Records. I suspect there would only be approximately 100 of these recordings.
I was in the chorus of 90 members during dress rehearsal in the Sydney Opera House when, dressed in costume, I heard a sound in the corridor behind a stage door. I opened the door to find Leonard Bernstein on the other side, listening to our performance.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.129.97.82 (talk) 02:56, 3 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sydney Opera Company 1974 
Talk:Arrigo Boito

message: See my comment in the discuss section of Mefistofele. I oppose merging the article with this one. Other operas have independent pages. Why not Mefistofele.--FourthAve 00:49, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Absolutely agree.  Never even realized there was a merge notice here until your edit popped up on my watch list.  Articles on operas should never be merged with articles on composers. Antandrus  (talk) 01:39, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: I have often seen the name spelled Boïto, and I take the diaresis to mean that the "i" is pronounced as a separate vowel rather than as part of a diphthong, without being accented: therefore the pronunciation would be something like BO-it-oh. Unfortunately, I've never been able to find anything authoritative on this; but I'll suggest it here for further research. Skookumpete (talk) 23:45, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Name and pronunciation
Talk:Uninterruptible power supply

message: The section on batteries seems out-of-date; it's all about lead-acid batteries. Sayitclearly (talk) 13:13, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Batteries 

message: Extending it beyond two paragraphs seems like overkill to me. It contains what most people would want to know in brief summary. Actually one of the better intros really.--Weasel tango (talk) 20:24, 20 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intro seems fine 

message: I remember reading documents a decade or so ago about APCs delta conversion UPSs, they promised the output quality benefits of online UPSs without the efficiency drawbacks, but they seem to have disappeared both from this page on wikipedia and from the UPS market.
Does anyone know what happened? were their major drawbacks? were the benefits simply smaller than APC anticiated? did the technology just get lost in politics after the merger? Plugwash (talk) 00:22, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  What happened to delta conversion?
Talk:Purification Rundown

message: My knowledge of this comes from knowing a high level Landmark person who told me that she went with other members to Mexico to do sauna, oil, niacin purification process. I don’t know if it was formally organized or not. A quick look did not reveal sources.  --Technophant (talk) 03:12, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  EST/Landmark adopted the rundown 

message: Thank you for discovering and recovering the "Adverse outcomes" sections in the article. Grorp (talk) 02:38, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adverse outcomes (recovered)
Talk:Rehabilitation Project Force

message: Source: Aaron-Smith Levin - YouTube video around June 5th 2023. Of course CoS could reinstate it anytime or reform it and call it something else.  
Asherkobin (talk) 06:35, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I, too, have heard this, but I have no reliable source to cite so it's not in the article. Grorp (talk) 07:45, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  RPF (Labor Camp) is no more 

message: Storing here for future reference.
* 25 February 1999 - The ARD - German TV film by TV journalists Peter Reichelt and Ina Brockmann about Scientology's RPF prison camps in USA and Europe 
** In English: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w68aZ_41hds
** In German: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQOzMSLvIyQ
Grorp (talk) 06:50, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Documentary: Missing in the Scientology RPF "Happy Valley" by Peter Reichelt + Ina Brockmann 

message: This source used in the article has a good description of the "formula" of confession or "success story" required before being allowed to "graduate" from the RPF. Probably should be incorporated into the article.    ▶ I am Grorp ◀  20:23, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Graduation requirements
Talk:Captain America (Ultimate Marvel character)

message: The subject section is almost incoherent due to grammar issues. I would fix it but I don't know enough about the topic  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.23.193.172 (talk) 23:04, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Red Skull and the Avengers section 

message: shouldn't this fall under the wiki comics portal, not the fictional character portal?Asaspades (talk) 07:56, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comics portal 

message: See Talk:Ultimate Nick Fury#Requested move 18 January 2018.--TriiipleThreat (talk) 18:53, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 17 January 2018 
Talk:Nick Mitchell

message: Mitchells date of birth is definitely wrong. He is in his early twenties. The 1973-birthdate was a mistake by the Wrestling Observer Newsletter which was corrected one week later. Unfortunatley, I'm not sure what his real birthday is - it could be February 1 1983, but I cannot guarantee.
He is 23, making his birthday February 1 1983, Mitch has said this on his myspace.
: his REAL birthday is feb 1st 1973, the myspace profile you are going on is a fake profile, those pictures were taken of his actually one and used to make a fake one. If you don't believe me go thorugh nickys myspace and find nick and then check his pictures you will see nicky has commented on this profile because its the real one. The bigtimenickmitchell profile is a FAKE
It has his friends and family on there, and they all refer to Mitch's space as the bigtimenickmitchell address.
Anyway found the one mentioned, he only accepts people he knows.
Even if his MySpace-Page is fake, Mitchell's birthyear is definitely NOT 1973. This belief roots back to an edition of the Wrestling Observer by Dave Meltzer. This has been a mistake and Meltzer acknowledged that, I mailed him. Unfortunately, hundreds of wrestling sites have copied the mistake without realizing the correction, typical for the internet wrestling community. Mitch is in his twenties, definitely. I mean look at him: Does he have the face of a 33-year old?84.57.35.249 22:45, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong birthdate 

message: I remember reading in a wwe magazine that he was of italian origin, can someone allow me to post that.
:Not if you don't provide the actual quote from the source. 14:04, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin 
Talk:Lingerie

message: It's not surprising that the article describes lingerie as dating back to the late 19th century and chiefly begun in the 20th century because it seems that's what many people believe.
But that is an inaccurate picture of its history.
In fact, the design and use of lingerie goes much further back than the 19th century and has been the subject of scholarly investigation.
In July 2008, a team led by Innsbruck University began archaelogical research at Lengsberg Castle in the Austrian Tyrol. The team made discoveries that included a number of items of underwear which, by form and use, could only be called medieval lingeries.  Some 5 items were obviously brassieres.  The link below goes to a paper produced at the Innsbruck University which describes lingerie being dated to at least the 15th century and cites a supporting (no pun intended) contemporary account of the perceived use of what were essentially brassieres.
Could somebody add a section to the article please? 
The paper is at
https://web.archive.org/web/20160206041713/http://www.uibk.ac.at/urgeschichte/projekte_forschung/textilien-lengberg/medieval-lingerie-from-lengberg-castle-east-tyrol.html
2600:1700:EA01:1090:9839:3E2C:891F:A5F2 (talk) 07:31, 4 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request to add mention of historical evidence of 15th century lingerie.
Talk:Hype!

message: Wouldn't it be more appropriate to have the DVD cover instead of the soundtrack CD's cover? This cover is one of the several images User:Mjgm84 uploaded for no reason and really isn't being used for an appropriate article. Maybe it'd be good for an article on the actual soundtrack, but it is kind of out of place here. -- LGagnon 02:06, July 18, 2005 (UTC)
This problem has been fixed with the addition of the infobox and DVD cover image. Planetneutral 03:25, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Odd picture choice
Talk:Hunter Mountain (New York)

message: This article seems more or less to be an advertisement for the ski area.  The content about the ski area should be dramatically reduced, and there should be more about the mountain itself.  -- Ithacagorges 02:59 Jul 18 2005 (UTC)
The information about the mountain seems to be mostly from http://www.huntermtn.com/about.html.  Towel 21:02, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Daniel Case 05:56, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Soft sign

message: Is cedilla a type of soft sign? -Hello World! 08:47, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No. — Monedula 11:28, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cedilla?

message: Its meaning appears to be confusing. According to :bg:Ь, in such examples as listed in Soft sign#In Bulgarian language there is no iotation. But according to :bg:Йотация in some foreign words ‹ьо› is used namely as a mean to represent /j/. So, it is confusing, where it denotes palatalization, iotation, both, or probably none. Incnis Mrsi (talk) 17:12, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ь in Bulgarian 

message: I attempted to self-learn Russian a few years back and the soft sign was one of the things that made me give it up because I just couldn't visualize (audio-wise) how it effected words. I'd like to suggest that a sound file be created in which words with and without the modifier are spoken, so to better illustrate the difference in sound. 70.72.211.35 (talk) 04:32, 25 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Audio suggestion 

message: Neither this article, nor the articles for hard sign or yer mention where the yers (hard sign and soft sign) come from. They just say it was used in old slavic languages, not a mention of where the letter actually came from. Did it come from Greek, Glagolitic, or is the origin completely unknown? I can't find anything online on it's origin. Oikoopa (talk) 02:20, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Glyph Origin?
Talk:Pog (drink)

message: The text says "The Poglodyte is native to Bellevue."  What does this mean?  Searching the internet, I find copies of this WP article.  I also find "The Poglodyte jest macierzystego do Bellevue" and "La Poglodito estas apartenanta al Bellevue", which I am guessing are also this same sentence.  What does this mean?  Which Bellevue?  WP does not list a Bellevue, HI.    Randall Bart    Talk   19:13, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: . Was added in . Probably vandalism. Ibadibam (talk) 18:29, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: The Poglodyte is native to Bellevue

message: Thoughts? Candleabracadabra (talk) 20:28, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a real product, but probably not notable in its own right. Merge to Pogs? Ibadibam (talk) 20:39, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd agree with Ibadibam, look to merge it to pogs. --Jeremy (blah blah • I did it!) 20:54, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Are there actually sources for the pog assertions? I haven't looked yet to see if it's covered in pogs. I'm thinking a merge to Meadow Gold Dairy or Meadow Gold Dairies would be better. Unfortunately neither exists as an article (one is a redirect). I have to sort through if it's all the same company but it seems to be fairly notable in Hawaii with a mascot and more than 100 year history if what I was correct. Anyway, I will try to dig in more when I get a chance. Any additional input, suggestions, or objections are most welcome. I just stumbled on the subject and agree that is doesn't seem appropriate as a stand-alone. But I haven't had a chance to look into in depth yet. Candleabracadabra (talk) 21:13, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

text: If it's a notable subject and you want it kept as an independent article you need to add citations. The bold merge policy, including a discussion of bold merges, is clearly stated at wp:merge. Candleabracadabra (talk) 10:13, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Food and drink discussion 

message: Their website no longer lists the product. The Mo-Ja'al (talk) 05:04, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pog is gone
Talk:Politics of Wallonia

message: As it stands now (see date in signature), this article is a direct copy of the former Politics section of the Wallonia article. I moved the text from the main article (Wallonia) because it seems to be out topic. Notice that the Politics sections in other articles talk about institutions, not about (secondary) political issues. Moreover, parts of the current text, even though possibly technically correct, have a POV flavor.
In my opinion, this page, as it stands now, is inadequate in Wikipedia. It should be either deleted or deeply edited.
Peya 03:17, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]
Talk:Lorenzo de Zavala

message: Although Zavala was very involved with the government of the Republic of Texas, he had in common with Santa Anna that both of them were strongly opposed to slavery.
https://institutofranklin.net/sites/default/files/revistas/%5B2020-11/CR10-7-KINNALLY.pdf
 "His narrative intimates that both the U.S. and Mexico are linked by histories of slavery, as well as constant battles against slavery. Abolitionists throughout the Western world viewed and portrayed slavery first and foremost as a moral and humanitarian problem, and Zavala likewise highlights this aspect in his critique of U.S. slavery.6 When 31 reflecting upon his time in New Orleans (also, significantly, the first city in the United States that he visits), he voices one of his most forceful critiques of U.S. democracy, the continuation of slavery, which he describes as “degradante” and “humillante,” enforced by “leyes que contienen pricipios sumamente antiliberales” and “medidas de represion tan ofensivas á los derechos del hombre” (32-36). Moreover, he argues that slavery leads to moral decadence and political as well as cultural stagnation. He writes that laws permitting slavery have “una influencia estraordinaria sobre el progreso moral y la civilizacion de los Estados que permiten esclavos” (36). As evidence, he compares the current state of publishing in free and slave states. In free states, he shows, the numbers of newspapers have increased dramatically over the last 20 years, while in slave states the numbers have remained somewhat static (or even decreased in the case of Louisiana) (37). Zavala equates literacy, publishing, and education as proof of progress. His critique of slavery in the U.S. thus clearly highlights one more impediment to the realization of a truly liberal republic in the United States."7 GalantFan (talk) 19:50, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zavala's views on slavery
Talk:Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel

message: Andrew, I think it's a bad idea to try and combine so many electoral districts into one article.  It completely overlooks the fact that they were distinct entities, often with different geographic representation.  I think combination/redirection should only be used in the case of simple name changes where the district has existed only once or in some easy to follow manner. Currently, it ignores the relationship of this "district" with others such as:
DEUX-MONTAGNES (Quebec)(1976 - 1977)
LABELLE (Quebec)(1892 - 1987)
TERREBONNE (Quebec)(1867 - 1996)
LAVAL--TWO MOUNTAINS (Quebec)(1914 - 1949)
GATINEAU (Quebec)(1947 - 1987)
LAURENTIDES--LABELLE (Quebec)(2003 - )
RIVIÈRE-DU-NORD (Quebec)(2003 - )
Cheers, Fawcett5 03:21, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It cant be helped, there are official name changes at least once to all those names- that justify it. Not all of them were name changes, but they are all linked by name changes. To show you what I mean: Argenteuil was officially renamed Argenteuil—Papineau in 1980 which was officially changed to Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel in 1999. While it was abolished in 2003, the new riding of Argenteuil—Mirabel was renamed Argenteuil—Papineau—Mirabel in 2004, which is a reversion to an old name, which is officially connected to the original Argenteuil riding based on names. -- Earl Andrew - talk 03:41, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

text: All I'm saying is that with the way it is set up now, there are valid alternate ways of analyzing such a lineage — why would the alternative way of looking at some of these districts as part of a "DEUX-MONTAGNES" lineage not be equally valid? e.g.:
*LAVAL--TWO MOUNTAINS (Quebec)(1914 - 1949)
*ARGENTEUIL--DEUX-MONTAGNES, Quebec (1947 - 1966)
*ARGENTEUIL, Quebec (1966 - 1970)
*ARGENTEUIL--DEUX-MONTAGNES (Quebec)(1970 - 1976)
*DEUX-MONTAGNES (Quebec)(1976 - 1977)
*BLAINVILLE--DEUX-MONTAGNES (Quebec)(1977 - 1996)
*etc.
Therefore, it makes sense to have individual articles with the appropriate links. Fawcett5 23:26, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: bad idea to combine
Talk:Zephaniah

message: I am currently rewording large sections of this article, which are clearly a simple paste-job from the corresponding Catholic Encyclopedia entry. 
If you'd like to help with the article, please compare the entry to the link provided and ensure that they're not too similar.  Zahakiel 13:46, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. 2 years later, this article shows no improvement. The wording (e.g. shameful forms of idolatry) is basically copied from the Catholic Encylopedia. More importantly, it is not scholarly since it gives judgment (rather than citing judgments made). Also, the article mistakenly claims that Zephaniah himself threatens to destroy the remnant of Baal where in fact he is claiming that Yahweh will do so. If I have time I will try to correct a few of these inaccuracies.--JECompton (talk) 16:30, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Seven years after this last entry, the article is still very unclear. The lede needs to say something more than indicate that lots of folks have the name of Zephaniah. The article also needs to better situate the person after whom the Book of Zephaniah is named in the context of time. For example, how was Zephaniah related to the Babylonian Exile, if at all. Taram (talk) 04:22, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps the article should just focus specifically on the prophet Zephaniah, and have the minor biblical figures with the same name simply inserted @Biblical figures with Z...if there are anymore minor Zephaniahs. — JudeccaXIII (talk) 05:04, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewording necessary

message: There is scholarly speculation that this prophet could have been Black:
"Aside from kushi as an ethnic designation (gentilic) for Moses' wife (Num 12:1) and Ebed-melech (Jer 38:7-13), Kush or Kushi is found elsewhere in the Bible as a personal name... If the name Kushi, father of Zephaniah, indicates an African origin, then one of the biblical prophets had black African ancestry." 
The Curse of Ham: Race and Slavery in Early Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World Book 19) by David M. Goldenberg.loc655kindleebook
Tabbycatlove (talk) 09:04, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  African?
Talk:Book of Zephaniah

message: I don't know much about the bible/tanakh, etc/, and Wikipedia is my main sources for this.  This article has no introductory paragraph.  What compilations is it included in, etc.?  Could someone who knows more about it and/or has read the relevant texts please add one? 96.50.10.234 (talk) 04:48, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Introduction

message: I found a reference in a book of bible facts (Is That in the Bible? by Charles Francis Potter (1942 ed.)) that mentions that Zephaniah 1:10 was once held to be a prophecy about radio. Can anyone confirm/deny this? --Auric The Rad 03:36, July 18, 2005 (UTC)
If it ever was, it certainly wasn't orthodox. As far as Biblical end time prophecies go, few (if any) are so specific. DVDV28  —Preceding undated comment added 00:46, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Radio prophecy? 

message: The name of God in the Hebrew Old Testament was holy and has been given expressions in the English language that have included LORD or Yahweh or Jehovah or the Tetragrammaton.  These were written as expressions for the Hebraic expression of YHWH.  Recent edits removed Yahweh and introduced Hashem.  Yahweh is a term for the holy, Hebrew name of God that was commonly used in The Jerusalem Bible and other contexts.  See Names of God in Judaism for more information.  In the article, it states that Hashem is a more casual or colloquial term for the name of God. For now, I recommend retaining the work of others that includes Yahweh or Tetragrammaton or Hashem or other legitimate names.  Wikipedia grows when others share and add new knowledge and information.  I recommend this over editing the text of others and switching names that can then be switched again by others.  Adonai, Elohim and Yah are other common expressions of the Hebraic YHWH.
Itohacs 12:14, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Names of God in Judaism 

message: Could we have some proof that the name given for the father of Zephaniah means Ethiopian? As for the prophecies against the Ethiopians, is this not a code word for Egyptians, who were considerably closer to Jerusalem? --Hors-la-loi (talk) 18:19, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Ethiopians?
Talk:Telescope mount

message: I've edited this article myself, so I'm not exactly exempt from my own criticism, but I was wondering what the role of each of these telescope mount articles is supposed to be.  Most of the information in the Telescope mount article is duplicated on the respective mount articles, and it seems redundant to have it in several places.  Is Telescope mount supposed to be a disambiguation page?  Would there be any negative consequences if we merged most of its content into the more specific articles, and made this a simple disambiguation page?  Alternatively, should the various telescope mount articles be merged into a more complete article about telescope mounts?  (This could be done quite effectively if done well, I think, and it's what I'm in favour of.)  Any thoughts? Izogi 03:51, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I've got no objection leaving them how they are as they are both encyclopedic and describing semi-different objects.  I can't say that I would object to them being merged though either.  Either way I think they would be okay.  You would just have to make sure that they redirected to the central article from the individual ones if you decide to merge them as I am sure some people would still attempt to look up the individual mount types. --ScottyBoy900Q∞ 20:45, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's the role of this article?
Talk:Chum

message: *The following is included to provide citation for use of the word "chum" in a political context, since references are not used on disambiguation pages:
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Chorder (talk • contribs) 14:44, November 7, 2009
*There is not an article , which is why it doesn't appear on the disambiguation page.  The best place for this citation is on Wiktionary's entry for the word.
 
—Senator2029║talk 22:14, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Political context

message: Someone removed this definition, I've re-inserted it. Hakluyt bean (talk) 23:48, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  chum evidently means 'friend'