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Talk:Smocking

message: Is this page about smocking, the embroidery technique, or "smocking" as a word? I don't think discussion of Trump's twitter typos, and the internet's reception of them, is appropriate, unless we are prepared to include in this article all possible uses and interpretations of the word "smocking". I am going to remove it unless anyone can justify its inclusion.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by SK8RBOI (talk • contribs) 00:37, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I would remove it, but I don't want to get involved in a content dispute. This article is about the concept of smocking, not the word smocking (this isn't Wiktionary). The tweet will be forgotten in a few weeks, anyway. HotdogPi 00:56, 12 December 2018 (UTC)

text: I was the one who originally added the mention and have subsequently removed it. MarkZusab (talk) 01:31, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Purpose of this article
Talk:Civil service entrance examination

message: Can't we get any more info?!?!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.138.85.78 (talk) 01:34, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Manually cleaned up after an auto-revert. Thanx. --Sue Rangell[citation needed] 01:31, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: This page is Pathetic

message: I don't think there is because I am a permenant US federal employee and I didn't take an exam. ike9898 13:11, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is there still a civil service exam for US civil service? 

message: Merger proposal: Public contest into Civil service examination.
The current article Public contest describes the general concept of Civil service examination but in the specific context of Brazil. Currently, the French and English articles for Civil service examination are linked to each other, while the Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Catalan and Galician articles are linked to Public contest. They should all be linked to each other, as they refer to the same general concept.--gonzy (talk) 14:43, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal
Talk:Kulpmont, Pennsylvania

message: under "Notable people" a red link is listed:
* Sam Brazinsky (January 9, 1921-) Pro Football Player (Buffalo Bills)
It's unusual that we don't have an article for a pro football player.  Since the AFL started in the early 1960s he'd have been in his 40s when he played, also unusual back then.  Maybe it was a different Buffalo Bills team?  Does anybody have additional info?  Smallbones(smalltalk) 03:49, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Just checking 
Talk:Northumberland, Pennsylvania

message: I just removed this from the Notable residents section: Harry 'Bud' Leisenring- Olympic swimmer and Gold medal winner was born and raised in Northumberland, first learning how to swim utilizing the Susquehanna river that was right outside his front door. He now lives outside of Pittsburgh with his wife Roseanne 'Marotta' Leisenring. They have 3 children and 6 grandchildren. as I checked List of Olympic medalists in swimming (men) and there is no one of this name or any close variant that I could find. A quick Google search also failed to turn up this name as an Olympic medalist. If anyone has a ref that shows this person is really notable and an olmpic gold medalist, please add this back with the ref. Ruhrfisch  ><>°° 01:03, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-notable person?
Talk:List of companies based in Omaha

message: *Rectify :Category:Companies based in Omaha, Nebraska and this article.
*Write short summaries of each company and cite to reliable sources.
*Bring all the summaries together in a unifying prose, and create List of businesses in Omaha, Nebraska to place the existing text.
Thoughts? – Freechild (BoomCha) 01:55, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Potential task list

message: Following the AFD discussion Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of businesses in Omaha (assuming the outcome is to keep), I propose to rename the article to List of companies based in Omaha. This would make the naming more relevant to what the list actually is, as well as making is consistent with similar articles (ie List of companies based in Austin, Texas or List of companies based in Seattle). Ajf773 (talk) 08:01, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename proposed
Talk:Lauritzen Corporation

message: NOTE: The entry regarding TARP funding is incorrect.  The article cited in [12] that was the basis for this entry reported that Lauritzen Corporation was the second largest bank that "did not get" TARP money.  That is because the corporation did not seek nor accept TARP money.  Can this be changed? Hawkeye81 (talk) 14:23, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lauritzen Corporation was not denied TARP funding 
Talk:Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania

message: Mechanicsburg Area Senior High School is a point of interest? Really? --Colinbartlett (talk) 15:23, 13 June 2008 (UTC)

message: From doing research on the soldiers of the 54th Massachusetts, and seeing a bunch of their families in Mechanicsburg in the 19th century, I'd always assumed it was a large Black community, so was surprised to see the teensy minority of African Americans in the demographics on Wikipedia and nothing on Black history. Has anyone looked into this? Just doing a quick lazy race check on the 1900 federal census, it was 106 Black, 1 Mulatto, 3748 White, about 2.7% Black. So probably not "large" after all. Still, quite a few men served from here. Having studied the whole regiment for awhile now, and assuming there isn't some undocumented Black community from the 19th century, it kind of feels like there was an Underground Railroad presence? Maybe someone local can mosey over to one of the historic buildings and pester a historian? -kim.  (talk) 00:45, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: If you would like to add something on the subject, I recommend you do your own ground work instead of waiting for someone else. CiderFancy (talk) 22:46, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Black History?

message: Nothing about the etymology of the rather peculiar placename? fishhead64 (talk) 17:47, 29 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Name

message: Would there be any value in explaining that a swath of territory well beyond the borough itself ends up being called "Mechanicsburg," if only because of post office names? This seems to be somewhat common in this area. Annville, in Lebanon County, has the same bit going on.... PurpleChez (talk) 12:29, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes! -kim.  (talk) 00:45, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  geography 

message: Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania 93.146.112.59 (talk) 11:43, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
Talk:Shippensburg, Pennsylvania

message: I'll circle back and work on this, but if someone gets to it before me, great! There's a big chunk of Shippensburg's history missing right now from this page: Locust Grove Cemetery (burial ground of slaves, freed slaves and African Americans since the 18th century or earlier), Edward Shippen Burd, the establishment of an African Methodist Episcopal Church, it's role as a destination for former slaves from Maryland and Virginia ... There's a lot. A few references I've collected here for future use: "Shippensburg's Lotus Grove African-American Cemetery" by Steven B. Burg; Edward Shippen Burd family papers; Locust Grove Cemetery. -kim.  (talk) 12:28, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Rich African American history missing

message: Yes, I get it. Hitler is not Shippensburg's proudest moment. That said:
*Removing him because (you claim) he "does not currently live in Shippensburg" is absurd. NONE of the notable people currently live in Shippensburg.
*Removing him because "The others listed are from shippensburg, heath hitler is not" is simply wrong. While we don't know where Hitler was born, we do know that (for example) Shippen was born in Boston and is much more closely associated with Philadelphia. Unlike Shippen, we have reliable sources (here and in Hitler's article) that have Hitler living in Shippensburg.
While I have little doubt that there will be other attempts to remove Hitler based on whatever other criteria you might craft specifically to omit Hitler, it's quite well sourced and consistent with similar sections in other articles. - SummerPhDv2.0 22:58, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heath Hitler
Talk:RuneScape Moderators

message: It is not appropriate to delete this page, because it is NOT fancruft as is suggested by a quick delete.  The fact that there are player moderators on Runescape is a unique aspect of this online game, and this part of the game serves as a protection for younger players.  Unlike other games, player moderators allow there to be a smaller player to moderator ratio, which parents consider a critical general piece of information when making decisions to allow their children to play the game and whether to pay for membership use.  All of the moderators enforce rules that include amongst other things no questions regarding personal information and the use of foul language.  All the moderators have the authority to mute players and to lead to the banning of rulebreaking players from the game.
RuneScape Rocks!---Sleepydragn1---RuneScape Rocks! 17:50, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Parker, Pennsylvania

message: This article needs to define city. I take it Parker's designation as "smallest city in the U.S." is based on a Pennsylvania specific classification of cities. Surely there are cities in other states (however those states define cities) that are smaller? It seems kind of odd to disqualify cities in other states due to them not meeting Pennsylvania's definition of city.Plantdrew (talk) 19:32, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: You are correct. All incorporated municipalities in North Dakota are cities and many are much smaller than Parker. Gerry D (talk) 19:34, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  City? 
Talk:Fyodor Raskolnikov

message: This article reflects the interpretation of key events in  K.A. Zalessky's Stalin Imperia.  A biography should give due weight to the events of the subject's own life, and depend less on a single external point of view.Fconaway (talk) 01:44, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Interpretation
Talk:Danny Tidwell

message: Danny Tidwell's web site now states in its about page that: Copyright (c) Danny Tidwell.
Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License
http://www.dannytidwell.com/about.html
DB 21:58, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: website

message: The Biography section of the article doesn't read very neutrally. "In August 2007, despite countless feeble attempts at portraying him as "arrogant," Danny has been easily able to woo the So You Think You Can Dance audience, staying safe for many weeks, allowing him to have a part in the Top 4 Finale." Seriously? Feeble attempts? Has been easily able to woo? Can we change the phrasing of some of this? Whoever put it up has a clear bias. 172.190.134.159 04:19, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: neutral

message: This article reads well and meets all the GA criteria.  In particular, I thought the article was very well referenced. Congratulations! Johnfos 03:43, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: YAY!  Thanks so much!--Esprit15d 12:21, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Good article

message: He is also a guitarist, right?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.8.60.188 (talk) 05:17, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Guitar

message: He also released an album
signedL Szypsom  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.8.60.188 (talk) 05:18, 7 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Versus Video Games
Talk:BladeMaster

message: I wrote this initial stub, I'm hoping someone will expand it especially with links for playing it today (I'm really interested in finding a BBS to play this). I loved this game when I was younger and consider it a classic. --Ilswyn 21:59, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Zhou Yu/Archive 1

message: I can't say much about Zhou Yu, but from the novel, he performed just as much as Cao Cao and others could have in their life. In the campaign for Wu, Zhou Yu proves his capabilities worthy of being grand and amazing. At Chi Bi, he used treacherous tactics and superior terrain advantages to beat Cao Cao with help from various Wu generals that handled the Wei army well in water. (And yes, it is from the novel's P.O.V.) More importantly, Zhou Yu, without a doubt, deserves a high praise for all his success and the battles he fought in.
The only thing that makes Zhou Yu and Zhuge Liang comparable, to me, is how well planned, how useful, and clever they used ruses and strategy to tip things in their favor.--Zhang Liao 04:18, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Wu General Zhou Yu
Talk:Hang Fire

message: The article quotes the lyric as follows: 
Are you sure the correct word is slob? I thought it was sod -- "I'm a lazy sod." "Lazy sod" is an English figure of speech, one fitting for a song like "Hang Fire" which is sung in a cockney accent. Moreover, in their 1977 debut album, the Sex Pistols had a song called "Seventeen (I'm a Lazy Sod)" with the lyrics "I'm a lazy sod" repeated many times. I always thought maybe the one song influenced the other. Chisme (talk) 21:46, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Slob or sod?
Talk:Sleep Tonight

message: i belive it should be noted that tom waits is preforming on this track... backing vocals i believe.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.244.255.170 (talk) 12:50, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: tom waits
Talk:World Jianshu League

message: Interesting, but this group may not be notable enough for a Wikipedia article. The article will need some secondary sources pretty quickly if it is going to survive for long, but I won't make that determination. At any rate, we have to avoid things like WP:Weasel words or at least have statements in an article like this satisfy WP:REF. We can't say what most other schools don't do in their training without providing a reference to at least one comprehensive survey of all Chinese style schools to back it up. I don't think there are any. So it is best to limit the article to what the group does do. --Fire Star 火星 22:15, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Waldo Díaz-Balart

message: Yes, the two articles are on the same person and should be merged. The Waldo Diaz-Balart article is the better of the two articles. Callelinea (talk) 17:54, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There doesn't seem to be much in Waldo Díaz-Balart Gutiérrez that isn't already in this article, so I'm going to redirect it here. Jfire (talk) 20:51, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: merged

message: I believe I remember at one point Waldo Diaz-Balart was promoting the combination of monumental Sculpture and Architecture under the name Edifiscultura.  RichardBond (talk) 00:06, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  I think that Waldo Diaz-Balart is also a sculptor and architect.
Talk:Abercius of Hieropolis

message: Where does 167 as his year of death come from? The article Inscription of Abercius refers to a work of Abercius which is dated 193;  dates the epitaph 190,  gives 200 as his year of death. Terminus ante quem is 216, when Alexander, son of Anthony died, the epitaph of whom is inspired by Abercius'. On the other hand, Abercius was in Rome when Marcus Aurelius was emperor and his age at the time of his death is given as 72. All this does not make the year 167 absolutely impossible, I was just curious about the source. --Proofreader (talk) 13:01, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Year of death 
Talk:Ahiohill

message: This is written in the style of an estate-agent / realtor ad. Tone is not consistent with Wikipedia standards.
:I have removed a combination of mild vandalism, some extremely unlikely claims (for example  a 3000% increase in house prices) and a variety of non-notable sports information about junior football teams. This has left a single-line stub, which is the only verifiable statement in the article. Please feel free to add notable and source dinfomation about the village - I will also do this over the next few days. Please do not simply re-add the material I removed, at least without discussing it on this page first.  Euryalus 12:06, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:The Vegetable Orchestra

message: Judy Dunaway, Balloon Music performed on Sat, 25 September 2004 in Klangraum Krems Minoritenkirche (= Sound Space, Krems, Minorites Church) in Krems-Stein, Minoritenplatz 1, Austria. The Friday/Saturday (anually) event was named "KONTRASTE 2004 „Seltsame Musik“" (= contrasts 2004 strange music) lined up with Gemüseorchester (The Vegetable Orchestra) from Vienna (on the same day) and others.
See: KONTRASTE 2004 „Seltsame Musik“ kuco.at, 24./25. September 2004, retrieved 21 October 2020.
See: Kontraste 2004 Seltsame Musik – info folder yumpu.com, 24./25. September & 24./25. October 2004, retrieved 21 October 2020.
--Helium4 (talk) 09:26, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Krems, Austria
Talk:Smokey Mountain

message: starts off talking about closing it / redevelopment, and then nonchalantly mentions slumdwellers and scavengers being resettled.  how about telling us that there ARE slumdwellers and scavengers before u get into all that?!  i mean, the line about fires causing death falls totally flat unless u know this -- typical reader is thinking "plant engineers?" "sanitation workers?" etc.
should have a solid paragraph about its history, nature, and population before even MENTIONING its closure/redevelopment/resettlement!
IMHO.  173.9.95.217 (talk) 15:47, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article is Bass-Ackwards
Talk:TD Ameritrade

message: Article is a complete WP:COATRACK, and not at all neutrally written.  Whole sections make accusations without a single cite.  Smacks very much of plaintiff-lawyer advertising.  WP:MOS not followed.  THF (talk) 00:24, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  tags 

message: There appears to be a concerted effort to suppress the fact that the ultimate parent company is Toronto-Dominion Bank. There is no mention what so ever of Toronto-Dominion being the controlling interest in through its holding company TD Bank Group? Seems a little odd to be that there is no links, refs or see also for Toronto-Dominion. 108.172.115.8 (talk) 00:29, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Toronto Dominion? 

message: In section External links, categorization into :Category:Electronic trading platforms should not have the sort key " " (space), which is reserved for the main articles in a category. —⁠andrybak (talk) 08:45, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Altamel (talk) 16:57, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fix category sort key 

message: money to 0660379674 R1000 105.245.98.81 (talk) 17:36, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: @ 105.245.98.81 (talk) 17:37, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need cash for left amount of civic equipment material ...money to this number 0660379674 right due tomorrow morning....please
Talk:Valentino's

message: I know the about page on the main website mentions their partnerships with the University of Nebraska, but I feel one of the major springboards for Valentino's was the Cornhusker football team eating at its restaurant from the very beginning. Anyone have more information on this? That would be great for content! --Spotlightuser (talk) 05:03, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Nebraska Cornhusker connection
Talk:Gilded catfish

message: Since both this article and Brachyplatystoma state that Brachyplatystoma flavicans is a synonym for Zungaro zungaro, I propose merging the two articles, leaving Brachyplatystoma flavicans as a redirect to here.  Ka Faraq Gatri (talk) 21:54, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed merge with [[Brachyplatystoma flavicans]]
Talk:15 May Organization

message: I recently read an AP article concerning this organization, and thought someone here might be interested in it. AP INVESTIGATION: Terrorist Eludes US in Iraq. -- PEPSI2786talk 02:59, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  AP article concerning the organization 
Talk:Kent Place School

message: "the school boasts a top quality education which is usually fulfilled due to the superb teachers, curriculum, and community opportunities. There are also many opportunities for leadership."
That's pov isn't it?  Should it be changed?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.174.126.110 (talk) 13:14, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Mad Maxine

message: The article indicates her birth date as 1965, but other dates strongly contradict this. Specifically, the text states that she became interested in professional wrestling "a couple of years after graduating college"; her wrestling career began in 1984, so she would have been only 19 at the time. While child prodigies who attend college early aren't unheard of, the text also states that she played basketball for the University of Kentucky from 1977-1979. Playing sports at the NCAA Division I level would have been quite impressive considering she would have been only 12 to 14 years old at the time!  8.19.241.10 (talk) 17:00, 30 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Birth date incorrect?
Talk:Klaxon

message: In popular culture? Thius section could really use a proper trimming or complete removal. Mentioning klaxons used in a TV series in a situation that klaxon generally are used is utterly trivial info. I would urge someone a bit more bold to actually rewrite/delete. --195.84.66.130 (talk) 07:20, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: D
I don't know if this is important, but here in Mexico everybody refers to cars', buses', bycicles' and even trucks' horn as a claxón.
201.141.42.252 (talk) 22:24, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

text: I'm hesitant to add or change the main article (other than removing the misleading photograph mentioned above) because all this is difficult to verify with published sources, as these procedures are sometimes classified and surely not available to the public. For audio samples of the Klaxon and (secondary) diving alarm, check here: http://www.policeinterceptor.com/navysounds.htm --72.235.1.92 (talk) 04:14, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Chicago Portage National Historic Site

message: The map doesn't show the site. Speciate 00:56, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Wrong map?

message: Should this article be merged into the general Chicago Portage article? RogerD (talk) 01:57, 21 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I have incorporated all of the information from this article into Chicago Portage, and I plan to turn this into a redirect.RogerD (talk) 16:21, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge into Chicago Portage?
Talk:Mizpah (emotional bond)

message: The explanation given above is the traditional one passed down because of a mistaken interpretation of the Hebrew word Mizpah and a disregard of the context in which the quotation following the word was stated. Actually, Mizpah is hebrew for "watchtower", but what was to be watched was future misbehaviour from two men to each other. Jacob had secretly fled the house of Laban, his father-in-law in the middle of the night, taking flocks of animals, all his other assets, and his two wives and their children, the daughters and grandchildren of Laban with him, intending never to return. Laban discovered this and pursued Jacob. After discussion, the two agreed to recognize the separation,Laban saying that his daughters voluntarily left, and "(W)hat can I do to these daughters or to the children which they have bore?" Genesis 31:43. He agreed to let Jacob go in peace, but exacted a promise from Jacob to never abuse his daughters or take additional wives. Genesis 31:50. Both of these men then determined to erect a watchtower, a Mizpah, to commemorate this promise even though no person was present other than the two men when it was made, for "God is a witness between you and I". Both of the men also agreed that they would stay apart from now on, and not pass this watchtower to visit one another "to do evil". Genesis 31:52
72.16.133.42 17:59, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The intro paragraph doesn't really explain anything about an "emotional bond". It just talks about stones in the Bible. Er, okay, what? Equinox ◑ 06:58, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not a good article