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Talk:Baer's pochard

message: Parts of the Baer's Pochard#Breeding was copied directly from  or only slightly modified. This paper was licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Raccoozzy (talk) 02:35, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Content copied from papers licensed under a CC BY 4.0 license. 

message: Okay - nominating for Good Article would be a really really good idea. I'm tired as it is after midnight where I am (Oz). I rearranged headers to line up like other bird FAs. Try to minimise small paras (either expand content or join together). Make all references consistent in formatting. Will look again tomorrow Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 14:15, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: OK. Thank you for that. ——🦝 Raccoozzy  (talk・contribs)  13:21, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Feedback
Talk:Ferruginous duck

message: Form large flocks in winter? By comparison to other diving ducks they are notably less gregarious. Opinions?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.159.71.173 (talk) 23:36, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: "Fudge duck"? I always thought "fudge duck" was a minced oath. Stonemason89 (talk) 23:21, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Ty Barnett

message: Come on, you can't spend an hour on it?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.125.140.85 (talk) 21:34, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  NEED MORE STUFF 

message: He was born in 1975, ended a 6-year stint in 1996 -- which means he joined the Armed Forces at 15? L3kn (talk) 21:29, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Dates Not Consistent
Talk:Michael Vincent (magician)

message: FISM ranking 3. Come on Michael - in that year the standard was so low that for the first time in the history of FISM they did not award any prizes. They gave somebody a bronze or third prize to avoid embarrassment. Michael you did not even place that year and you came maybe two places further below. So you have the cheek to claim you came 3rd. At least you tried  Welshmagician (talk) 23:35, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: From the history of the article, the Eton college photos and discussion of his visit were added by the students themselves.  I have restored much of the article, edited to remove peacock terms and tagging for citations needed. Do not remove the references listed, they are valid and from a subscription news archive. I have no interest the article, or the subject. I only added the references. Welshmagician, please read more about editing Wikipedia, and talk page etiquette. Please do not use the talk page to make personal attacks on the subject of the article. The slash job you did to the article was unjustified and removed the work of several editors, not simply the article's creator. You also removed a photo with no justification whatsoever. It has been restored. You are welcome to improve and expand the article, add inline citations, and make careful, selective edits for accuracy. But do it properly, please. Voceditenore (talk) 00:53, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

text: Note re the photos: If you had clicked on the photos, you would have seen that they all had a valid license. The permission does not have to be displayed in the article, and shoudn't be. That's what the file page is for..Voceditenore (talk) 01:44, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

text: Note re references: They do not have to be online as long a full bibliographic information is given. Please read WP:CITE. Voceditenore (talk) 03:28, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments May 2009
Talk:Leon White (linebacker)

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the move request was: Moved  — Amakuru (talk) 17:58, 19 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Leon White (American football) →  – Big Van Vader born 1955 is also named Leon White and played American Football with the Los Angeles Rams. Vader played offensive centre / offensive line so specifying that the one born in 1963 is a linebacker is unique to him. Ranze (talk) 16:17, 12 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 12 September 2016
Talk:Common scoter

message: I couldn't find any of the 4 refs for the "UK population and current issues" section. Wayback Machine didn't have them, that I could find. Anybody have them?
Stongey (talk) 00:29, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Can't find references
Talk:Utt Panichkul

message: Anyone know how to write his name in Thai?--Gak (talk) 01:31, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It's อัษฎา พานิชกุล, as seen in the Thai InterWiki link. --Paul_012 (talk) 12:39, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Thai name
Talk:Val Avery

message: Although Avery served in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II, no reliable sources found as of yet state that he served overseas in a war zone during the war. More specifically, the sources do not establish defining role in World War II. Accordingly, :Category:American military personnel of World War II was removed from the article. Semper Fi! FieldMarine (talk) 21:29, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: World War II service
Talk:Auckland Island merganser

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: Moved: unopposed and was already relisted twice (closed by non-admin page mover) BegbertBiggs (talk) 20:29, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: New Zealand merganser →  – New Zealand merganser is the IOC name. However, this appears to be out-of-date. New Zealand Birds Online says, "In addition to the Auckland Island merganser, there was a separate merganser species on the Chatham Islands (Mergus milleneri). Merganser fossils from mainland New Zealand cannot yet be assigned to either of the named species."
The authoritative Checklist of the Birds of New Zealand (5th edition, 2022) says, "The English name for this species should be Auckland Island merganser rather than New Zealand merganser, following M. Williams et al. (2014). The only historical records are from Auckland and Adams Islands in the Auckland Islands / Maukahuka; the last specimens were apparently a pair shot on 9 Jan. 1902, and the species is now extinct (Kear & Scarlett 1970; M. Williams 2012). Holocene bones found on Enderby Island (Tennyson 2020a). The specific identity of North Island, South Island, and Stewart Island / Rakiura Mergus bones is unresolved (M. Williams et al. 2014)."Miskelly, Colin & Forsdick, Natalie & Gill, Brian & Palma, Ricardo & Rawlence, Nicolas & Tennyson, Alan. (2022). CHECKLIST OF THE BIRDS OF NEW ZEALAND. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361824003_CHECKLIST_OF_THE_BIRDS_OF_NEW_ZEALAND
The New Zealand Birds Online page cited above also says, "A total of 27 specimens are known to have been obtained from the Auckland Islands. Merganser bones found in natural deposits and Maori middens at sites on North, South, and Stewart Islands are possibly referable to the same species."
Columbianmammoth (talk) 17:07, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 10 November 2023
Talk:Vance Colvig

message: "He was the son of Pinto Colvig (Vance Colvig, Sr.), who was the original Bozo the Clown and voice of famous Disney character Goofy and the voice of Grumpy and Sleepy in Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."
Way to dangle multiple participles.  Which of this stuff is who Pinto was and what's what Vance was?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Danny Miller (talk • contribs) 03:50, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Southern Oregon Historical Society has an extensive collection of material about Colvig. Here is a start:
https://research.sohs.org/node/233919 47.7.22.84 (talk) 13:46, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources for more info
Talk:Hilbre Islands

message: Does anyone have some pictures of Hilbre Island and Middle eye and if you do add them on the article.195.8.175.130 11:32, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Pictures

message: The article says that Middle and Little Eye are the same area and they are not.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 115.69.14.14 (talk) 06:26, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right. Have removed the area size of Little Eye currently specified in the article. Replaced with a (vague) description until the actual area can be sourced. Snowy 1973 (talk) 11:11, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Little Eye area size

message: The OS marks an island Little Hilbre and no island middle eye. Are they the same or is Middle Eye something else? 185.4.25.89 (talk) 18:48, 17 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, what the OS calls Little Hilbre is the same island as Middle Eye. Dave.Dunford (talk) 08:27, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Little Hilbre and Middle Eye 

message: The article could use a map, perhaps similar to this (but without the birdwatching annotations).  Should we ask for one at Wikipedia:Graphics Lab/Map workshop?  Ghmyrtle (talk) 08:32, 18 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Map?
Talk:Davos Platz

message: Since 2005, this article stub has hardly been enhancing any bit. I therefore propose to replace it as a redirect to Davos:
#REDIRECT Davos 
The same way as it is now for Davos Dorf. -- ZH8000 (talk) 17:50, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Replace it with a REDIRECT
Talk:Rogue (Ragnarok Online)

message: This is the first article in a series of articles I intend to write for the character classes in Ragnarok Online, allowing them not only to be linked from the main Ragnarok Online article, but also removed from the general "Character Class" articles Daedalin 11:34, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Is this the same article as Rogue Combat, currently nominated for deletion?  Do we need two of it?  -FisherQueen (Talk) 11:37, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not at all. That article- as incomplete as it is- focuses mainly on World of Warcraft. This article is for Ragnarok Online, and is intended to be linked from the main Ragnarok Online article, which has no actual information on any of the character classes, and would become rather cluttered if all the classes were to be added to it. Daedalin 06:38, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Diamond net

message: Article last edited in 2009, small and not expanding. Doesn't seem notable on its own. Waddie96 (talk) 12:04, 17 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I've merged it with the book in which he coined the phrase, in the running of Hegel's thought the diamond net is so small it probably doesn't need to go into his biography.  Is this acceptable to you?  Thanks, StraussInTheHouse (talk) 22:26, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  Perfect, thanks! Waddie96 (talk) 06:52, 19 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel]]
Talk:Vic Oliver

message: "His cousin was Major Herbert Samek O.B.E. who was born in Vienna, Austria in 1919. He fled to England in 1938 aged 19 in order to escape persecution at the hands of the Nazis. His mother and sister were murdered in Bergen-Belsen extermination camp. In 1943 he joined up - having previously been rejected on the grounds that he was working in a reserved occupation. Commissioned into the Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers, he fought against the Japanese in Burma from 1944-1945. After the war he was briefly CO of the reconstituted Border Regiment in Carlisle. He left the army in 1947 with the rank of Major. He was a former Chairman of the Association of Jewish Ex-Service men and women ("AJEX")."
I've moved this here from the article as the life story of Oliver's cousin is not relevant in Oliver's article.  IF - and it's a big if based on the info here - this guy is notable in any way, he needs his own article to be written, with independent sources to verify his notability above and beyond having family killed in concentration camps and serving in the army, those factors alone don't make him notable. Draggleduck (talk) 06:38, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Moved from article
Talk:Doctor Slop

message: I have removed the following paragraphs from the article:
In addition to the above, Doctor Slop is used by Sterne to satirise the "medicalisation" of childbirth. Firstly, Tristram's father puts pressure on his mother not to have the baby born at home but in an up-to-the-minute hospital in London. The mother stands her ground and a compromise is reached. The child can be birthed at home but Doctor Slop is to be retained to "control" the birth.
In the event, Doctor Slop arrives unprepared, and he and Tristram's father and Uncle Toby sit beside the fire with Slop pontificating on birth and how it is to be dealt with, all accompanied by draughts of drink. Meanwhile the women, including the midwife, go on with the work with no input from the experts.
The first paragraph is incorrect - in the book, Tristram's mother wants to go to London for the birth, but her husband refuses on the grounds of an obscure clause in the marriage license.  These paragraphs seem to be OR anyway so I just removed them.  73.223.96.73 (talk) 05:07, 7 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Medicalization of childbirth
Talk:Vichara Dany

message: As with most of the prominent figures from the pre-Khmer Rouge era there is a lot of speculation. My mother too has told me about that magazine article but there sources arent 100%. I'm very reluctant to use these sources but nevertheless it does give us a glimpse to the fate of some of these people.
I also read from a myriad of magazine articles that stated she was the daughter of a prominant military officer and launched her career initially by posing for pictures. Her beauty captured the attention of directors and she was cast in secondary roles in movies such as Thavory Meas Bong for example. By 1970, she would eventually overtake Dy Saveth and Saom Vansodany and capture the spotlight of Cambodia. 
Another article I read was that she almost narrowly escaped the Khmer Rouge. She apparently feel off a horse while filming one of her last films and had to get breast surgery. In order to do that she had to go overseas to Japan and sadly returned before Phnom Penh was evacuated. Apparently excited that the war was over and hearing that there would be peace. But as usual these may all just be speculations.
The only reason I've stuck in that little paragraph regarding her death is there are a few witnesses who reported to have seen Vichara alive during the Vietnamese invasions. LionheartPnshmnt (talk) 23:00, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm sorry it's not much help - but I've been looking as well and can't find any more information about her at all. She has a lot of fans (even now:) but very little solid information. Hopefully, one of these days someone will write a good history of Cambodian Film and help to answer a lot of these questions. Cheers, Paxse (talk) 06:32, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Regarding Her Fate
Talk:Dogberry

message: The word "ass" is linked to "asshole", which seems inappropriate to me.
Would not Shakespear have intended rather a donkey?
188.100.196.8 (talk) 22:34, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:SOFIXIT. Now I did. Of course Shakespeare was not American: Oh that she were/an open-arse and thou a popp'rin'pear--88.74.205.16 (talk) 22:04, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Donkey or anus 

message: I don't have institutional access for these...hopefully someone else does.
*Dogberry Hero: Shakespeare's Comic Constables in Their Communal Context, Phoebe S. Spinrad, Studies in Philology, Vol. 89, No. 2 (Spring, 1992), pp. 161-178, University of North Carolina Press
*SHAKESPEARES CONSTABLES, LOUISE D. FRASURE, Zeitschrift für englische Philologie. Volume 1934, Issue 58, Pages 384–391, ISSN (Online) 1865-8938, ISSN (Print) 0340-5222
I think I can get the .pdf for this one:
*Dogberry, John A. Allen, Shakespeare Quarterly, Vol. 24, No. 1 (Winter, 1973), pp. 35-53, Folger Shakespeare Library in association with George Washington University
— Scientizzle 15:10, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Potential sources
Talk:Dondra

message: Propose a rename as per WP:UCN. 
Dondra is the name of the settlement.  Dondra Head is the name of the specific area in the vicinity of the lighthouse. 
This article is clearly about the settlement as a whole and the name should reflect that, keeping Dondra Head as a redirect. 
nancy 14:47, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Proposed this eight months ago. Going ahead with the change. nancy 04:56, 29 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename proposal [[Dondra Head]] -> [[Dondra]] 

message: Dear Xenani. The following fact is doubtful. (Dondra is an anglicised version of the Sinhala name Devundara, with Tamil origin from Theivanthurai (God's Port).) I would like to hear an answer from you as you are the one who has done this edit. It is clear that you have completely changed a sourced paragraph in to another by adding a non-clear ref. This edit shows your biased and careless behavior in Wiki again.--L Manju (talk) 04:56, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Without knowing whether the sources are reliable or not you are adding the things see in the pages of google books. Some information has been just taken from the snipping views. Example here. It is obvious that you haven't study or even see the Tamil part of that inscription.-- L Manju (talk) 14:04, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Dubious facts - user:Xenani has a ref saying this (Dondra is an corrupted form of the Sinhala name Devundara with Tamil origin from Theivanthurai). The user has put the quotation of that ref as follows (quote=In this context, it may be of interest to cite a few place-names in other parts of the Island, with a Tamil origin; in the Western Coast such as Puttalam, Ciläpam (Chilaw), Nirkolumbo (Nikumpalai, Negombo), Kalattarai (Kalutara), Pãnanturai (Pãnadura), Mätarai (Matara), Teivanturai (Dondra)...). The ref trivially mentions Teivanturai (Dondra) as a place-name with a Tamil origin. Teivanturai (Dondra) does not include the term Devundara. Then how this user assumed that Devundara has a Tamil origin and create his sentence.--L Manju (talk) 14:49, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

text: You are right. Devundara shoud be removed from the sentence. Xenani (talk) 14:52, 20 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious facts again by [[user:Xenani]]
Talk:Southern Highlands Province

message: for the record, I did that but neglected ti sign-on first.
Clown in black and yellow 07:10, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Kewa un-linking

message: I just started Wikifying and cleaning up the Ialibu district article.  If anyone is interested, it could use some expanding and further cleanup. Leena (talk) 07:19, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Help expand [[Ialibu]] article?

message: I was under the impression the unrest was the result of the mining companies inability to settle with certain tribes, tribal fighting over land for a better share of the profits and corruption. Enlil Ninlil (talk) 04:39, 21 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Tention
Talk:Provinces of Papua New Guinea

message: Population density for each province would be nice. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.186.251.152 (talk • contribs) 
*Good idea. Wantok (toktok) 08:12, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: fixed. Nomadtales 05:57, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

message: First paragraph of the article "24 province-level divisions: 22 provinces, one autonomous region (Bougainville) and the National Capital District."
Info box on right - 20 Provinces   1 Autonomous Region   1 Capital district   = 22
Table also lists 22 provinces.
Is the 24 is the first paragraph an error? If not, what are the other 2 provinces not listed in the table?
Jdtrue63 (talk) 01:56, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Good catch. This seems to be an error: it seems to be 22, including Bougainville and the NCD. The Drover's Wife (talk) 02:03, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of provinces doesn't match 
Talk:Victoria Ward (actress)

message: I don't get this article.  It's been sitting there for 8 years and had about 25 editors contribute to it, but it still tells us absolutely nothing about anything she ever did as an actress.  Literally nothing.  
Just being an actress does not make someone notable.  Nor does marrying someone notable make one notable.  
Can we not say anything about her thespian activities?  This is, after all, what has been asserted as her claim to notability. --  Jack of Oz [Talk] 06:41, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: What did she do?
Talk:Edward Monson

message: I can find no evidence that an Edward Monson existed - certainly not a British diplomat. 
All the material in the article (except perhaps the first line) referred to incidents in the career of Sir Edmund Monson, 1st Baronet. Some sources, especially newspaper articles, mistakenly refer to him as Edward Monson - I found two newspaper articles that called him Edmund Monson in one paragraph and Edward Monson in the next! But authoritative sources, sucn as the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Who's Who, the London Gazette, etc., make it clear that his name was Edmund. 
For the time being I've left the content in the page, but topped it with a redirect to Sir Edmund Monson, 1st Baronet.
Should this page be deleted? 
Stanning (talk) 18:11, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  This person didn't exist
Talk:Vidya Sinha

message: When I read with interest, I find "Personal Life" quite confusing.  It needs a rewrite giving details in a proper and chronological order.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.146.118.197 (talk) 01:40, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: You can start rewriting. You can register an account too before editing (optional)! --Tito Dutta ✉  02:22, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewrite
Talk:Vikram Gokhale

message: I urge all editors to exercise caution and patience while editing the article, especially with regards to the reports of his death. Per the generally reliable (per WP:RSP) Indian Express article, his family has stated that he is alive but critical.  JavaHurricane 03:49, 24 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  On reports of death
Talk:Elf-arrow

message: Created links in Elves, arrowheads and arrowhead (stone age).   We could easily add this as a wikilink to any of the references to arrowheads in Ancient Britain but we'd first need to know whether these arrowheads are specifically Paleolithic, Mesolithic... Darkfrog24 (talk) 21:28, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Orphaned status
Talk:Vincent Winter

message: About filming Battle of Britain: On one occasion, (stunt pilot) Edwards went down in flames for real when the engine blew up on his two-seater ME 109, with (the former child star) Vincent Winters as his passenger. “Hell, you can’t do much save shut off the gas and jump, but old Vince was having none of it. 'Oh, I caaan’t jump, I don’t have the intestinal fortitude’. It takes some kind of an idiot to come up with a phrase like that when the aircraft is on fire. So I belly-landed. Got my honorary RAF wings for that.”  Tsinfandel (talk) 22:09, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: @Tsinfandel Vincent was no idiot 78.17.148.157 (talk) 08:58, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Intestinal fortitude