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Talk:Robert Haldane

message: I would say that it is problematic at best to say that Robert and his brother founded Churches of Christ congregations (and then linking to the Churches of Christ pages) in Scotland and Ireland.  While the Haldane's churches are related to what would become the Stone-Campbell Movement, to call them "Churches of Christ" in the contemporary sense is to misrepresent what these churches actually were.  Furthermore, while the Haldane's might have called some of their congregations "Churches of Christ," they did not call all of them by this title, and several other independency churches called themselves this as well, such as the Glasites/Sandemanians. I would suggest we call them "Haldenite" churches, or "Haldenite Baptist" churches, as that is what their contemporaries called them. Dwight911 (talk) 21:54, 16 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Church and Ministry
Talk:Robert Hall (minister)

message: There are many notable Robert Hall (disambiguation)'s and this one is arguable far from the most prominent.  I suggest we move this article to Robert Hall (Baptist minister) or something similar and that the disambiguation page is moved to Robert Hall, the main Robert Hall page.  What say you all?  Paul Beardsell (talk) 08:44, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If it helps, he's the only Robert Hall I've personally heard of, so I guess prominence is hugely subjective.  Isn't he here because he's the earliest of some note?  I think the article could be improved and his relevance better described  (e.g. there's at least one church named after him) - I think this is mainly an old encyclopedia entry. I've no problem with him being disambiguated but don't particularly think another deserves his place instead.Jonnrobb (talk) 14:22, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed move
Talk:Robert McCormick (Virginia inventor)

message: I think there is a confusion between people with similar names. The family patriarch who lived from 1780 to 1846 in Virginia did not use a middle name (as usual in the 18th century) acording to my sources. "Hall" was his wife's maiden name. He had a son Robert Hall McCormick who died as a teenager, 1810-1826. There was also another Robert Hall who was the son of Leander (grandson of the patriarch) who lived 1847–1917. Perhaps another descendant I think had that name who lived 1915-1997. Might want to clarify at least, or move to something like Robert McCormick (Virginia)? Robert McCormick is already a disambig page. W Nowicki (talk) 23:13, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Middle name? 

message: As mentioned in the above thread, I also think there is confusion and the result is that the photo is tagged as Robert HALL when, in fact, it is the patriarch of the family , Robert "no middle name" Hall. I hope to investigate further at the Newberry library and will advise. ```Buster Seven Talk 15:21, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Hall
Talk:Robert Halpin

message: What's all this rubbish about this being an article about a living person? Robert Halpin, (bless his memory), has been in his grave for over 120 years.PlerdsusPlerdsus 19 April 2021‎ 
Now sorted! Hsq7278 (talk) 14:33, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This article indicates that Halpin captained the Great Eastern during the laying of the transatlantic telegraph cable—but our articles transatlantic telegraph cable, Sir James Anderson, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, and SS Great Eastern all indicate that the ship was instead captained by Sir James Anderson at the time. Can anyone offer some insight into this? Maralia (talk) 16:39, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for noticing this.  Anderson was first, but a financial failure.  Halpin was second; a technical and financial success.  We need to revise these articles with appropriate references. - ClemMcGann (talk) 12:31, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Transatlantic telegraph cable
Talk:Atheris rungweensis

message: In cleaning up this WP article I encountered the following sentence in the "Description" section: 
"Specimens from the Sumbawanga region usually have a green yellow and black color pattern".
Does this mean that they are green, yellow, and black, i.e., tricolored?  Or does it mean that they are green-yellow and black, i.e., bicolored?
Since I haven't examined the specimens, I don't know which interpretation is correct.  So, for the time being, I left that sentence untouched. Perhaps someone who is more familiar with this taxon than I am could make the necessary correction. Lyttle-Wight (talk) 01:40, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Punctuation needed.
Talk:Robert Hanna

message: Hello Fellow Editors, I am a relatively new and infrequent contributor, and am hesitant to just make a change to an article that has already had so many revisions.  I'm wondering if it's correct to call Hanna the third senator from Indiana.  I propose that he be called the fourth.  James Noble and Waller Taylor were the original and first two, from 11 Dec 1816.  Taylor was re-elected in 1818, but was replaced by William Hendricks, who took office on 4 Mar 1825.  I think he would be listed as the third senator, as Hanna did not take office until 31 Aug 1831.  Please let me know what comments you might have, and thanks for letting me participate.   Maine.Township (talk) 17:07, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal for Slight Change to Article
Talk:Sheridan, Wyoming

message: Can it be substantiated that Flicka was filmed in Sheridan?  Also, same for Wild Horses and Endangered Species.  There are several films by the name of Wild Horses   and several named Endangered Species . Which of these does the article refer to? DutchTower 22:00, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sheridan in Fiction

message: I undid the "excessive links" edit.  I asked Nyttend what was meant by excessive links and got no response.  I will clean up the extra lines, though. DutchTower 13:22, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: My reply (admittedly late): Wikipedia is not a repository of external links.  We don't need to have a link for virtually every organisation in town, and the external links section was altogether too large.  Nyttend 15:14, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: After learning more about external links guidelines, I agree with your changes. DutchTower 20:17, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Undo

message: I realize that I made a big change to this section; but industries need listed-not individual employers.  If anyone has data on the largest employers in Sheridan, it could be place in this section. I am sure those employers I removed would be here; however, without supporting data, it would be improper her.-Dutchtower (Talk) 6/17/2007
I can't offer anything more than anecdotal evidence that I've always heard... sorry.  But for what it's worth, I've always heard that the top three individual employers in Sheridan are the VA hospital, the School District, and Wal-Mart.  I'm not sure if that's true, though....  Bill Lava (talk) 01:24, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Economy

message: Please remember that to be listed, a person must pass the criteria in WP:BIO (i.e. - they must be notable to have a page themselves).  I was unsure about the beauty contestants, but Wikipedia:WikiProject Beauty Pageants seems to think that individual state winners are notable, so who am I to argue?  I'll add the redlinks to the Wyoming page. - CosmicPenguin (Talk) 02:41, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable Residents 

message: Please check the section with record high and low temperatures, they are waaaaay off  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.229.243.80 (talk) 16:47, 16 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. CosmicPenguin (talk• WP:WYOHelp!) 05:03, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Climate 

message: Recent account made a bunch of changes to the History section with very few credible sources (mostly just the same source). It reads like a tourism guide. Can anyone verify these claims? Alex.osheter (talk) 20:51, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  History
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Musical Instruments/Guidelines

message: Hello. I am new here. I have a question about the formating of citations. Recently, when editting various articles on bowed instruments, I have noticed an inconsistency in form. In the article I created entitled "Bass violin," a full bibliograpy is included in a section called "References," preceded by a section called "Notes," containing abbreviated inline citations. In contrast, when I went to cite a source in the article Double bass, a much longer article, it contained one section called "References," containing a mix of abbreviated and long-form in-line citations. Although my search in it was not extensive, the Wikipedia:Manual of Style did not seem to prefer one method over the other. Does the Musical Instruments WikiProject prefer that reference lists are somewhat uniform?BassHistory (talk) 23:24, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Formatting Citations
Talk:Robert Heriot Barclay

message: There is a story, that may require verification, that Barclay took stock of his physical condition after his court-martial and offered to release his fiancée from their contract.  Her reply was that she would marry him "so long as there was enough of his body left to contain his soul." 107.219.55.162 (talk) 20:28, 11 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Barclay's wife
Talk:Robert Hibbert (Anti-Trinitarian)

message: I am not sure how he could have fathered George Hibbert before he was born. Leutha (talk) 20:01, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed. The family trees are complicated by several Roberts. George Hibbert was actually his cousin. Made that clear, I hope. Paul W (talk) 10:58, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Problems
Talk:R. S. McGregor

message: McGregor passed away on August 19, 2013, aged 83 years. See the notice in Cambridge News. --217.246.103.124 (talk) 14:38, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Obituary 

message: Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/the-storyteller-of-hindi/1162437/0. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, and according to fair use may copy sentences and phrases, provided they are included in quotation marks and referenced properly. The material may also be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Therefore such paraphrased portions must provide their source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you.  Diannaa (talk) 20:03, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem removed
Talk:R. B. McDowell

message: Dear Colleague
Members of the College community will be saddened to learn of the death on Monday, 29 August 2011, of
Robert Brendan McDowell, M.A., Ph.D., Litt.D., LLD. (h.c.), M.R.I.A., F.T.C.D. (1951)
Junior Dean 1956-1969
Reader in History 1962-1967
Associate Professor of Modern History, 1967-1980
Professor of Oratory 1980-1981
 
Author of works including:
British Conservatism, 1832-1914 (1959)
The Irish Administration, 1801-1914 (1964)
The Irish Convention, 1917-1918 (1970)
Ireland in the Age of Imperialism and Revolution, 1760-1801 (1979)
Mahaffy (1971) (with W.B. Stanford)
Trinity College, Dublin 1592-1952 (1982) (with D.A. Webb)
McDowell on McDowell (2008)
 
The funeral will take place at 2.30 p.m. on Monday 5th September 2011 at Mount Jerome Crematorium.  A memorial service will be held in the College Chapel on Thursday 20th October 2011 at 5.15 p.m.
Yours sincerely,
 
Anne FitzGerald
Secretary to the College
Notjim (talk) 21:36, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for that. Can anyone source an exact birth date, perhaps from obits, and a copyright-free image? RashersTierney (talk) 22:05, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Death Notice

message: On a scale of importance, McDowell is nowhere. I'm not sure that being a 'character' at Trinity are grounds for a Wiki entry. If we include him, we may as well include every academic in the world, solely on the basis of their quirks. By what metric is this person noteworthy? Hanoi Road (talk) 14:41, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed Deletion
Talk:Ralph Hexter

message: is this article really relevant. At least in Wikipedia Espanol, many articles of important living people are considered as irrelevant from an Encyclopedic point of view. Provost Hexter is an important person of an important school, but as Hexter there are thousands of people. --TransportObserver (talk) 00:44, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment
Talk:Ralph Lilley Turner

message: This is the person who wrote several articles for the Gypsy Lore Society in the early 20th century, including "The Position of Romani in Indo-Aryan." Isn't it? If so, he appears to be a rather key figure in Romani Studies. --Kuaichik 23:51, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it is :-D --Kuaichik (talk) 01:16, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Romani Studies? 
Talk:Robert Louden

message: "The man who placed the torpedo on the boat is [on] my authority, for I had the statement from his own lips."
'On my authority' is used for something like:  'He placed the torpedo under my instructions.'
'He is my authority', without the '[on]', is used for something like:  'He is the person who told me the tale'.
(Also, "[on]" is not in the original quote.)
James A Hinnant (talk) 05:16, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "is [on] my authority" -> "is my authority"
Talk:Robert Maskell Patterson

message: I see here that his years of life are 1743-1824 whereas the current article states 1787–1854.  Perhaps we have father and son crossed here?  Clearly something needs to be corrected.  WilliamKF (talk) 03:01, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Nevermind, I now see that that UPenn article is for his father who did similar things and was incorrectly cited by another web page as being the Robert Patterson who sent Jefferson the ciphered letter. WilliamKF (talk) 03:14, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflicting info - two different people? 
Talk:Ranjit Sondhi

message: The current entry is little more than a very out-of-date stub.  Some years ago I tried to improve it, but the Wikipedia-police descended on me and beat me over the head.  (Well, it made them happy...)  I hope things here have improved since then.  Ranjit is a distinguished colleague (for what it's worth, a CBE, an ex-Governor of the BBC, an ex-Commissioner of the Commission for Racial Equality, an ex-Civil Services Commissioner, etc., and currently a member of the Criminal Cases Review Commission).
Could someone advise me as to how I can best go about updating his entry? HW70s80s (talk) 14:52, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I see you've been blocked as a WP:SOCK, but in case anybody else sees this and can help, please suggest citations from WP:Reliable sources. – Fayenatic London 23:31, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updating this entry.
Talk:Folded normal distribution

message: Should the \sigma^2 be inside of the variance equation? I think not. Check this.
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Isn't this distribution exactly the same as a noncentral chi distribution with 1 degree of freedom? --Zvika 11:05, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If Y ~ FoldedNormal(μ, σ2), then (Y/σ) ~ NoncentralChi(df=1, noncentrality=μ/σ). So pedantically speaking, your statement is only correct for σ=1. Btyner (talk) 19:41, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

message: Obviously, Phi is not explained. Every variable or function should be explained! Please, check and correct.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.95.58.3 (talk) 19:32, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I added the definition of Phi, the normal cumulative distribution function, and a link to that page. Hawryluka (talk) 20:46, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  what is Phi capital
Talk:Robert Moffat (missionary)

message: Asange Ntantiso 102.68.120.15 (talk) 16:21, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Robert Moffat was born in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 he was the first missionary who wrote a Tswana book   he was the missionary that wrote 

message: Regarding the edit summary in :
WP:LISTGAP means your lists must be together directly. You  put spaces in as you did here. It  produce HTML that looks like this:

cite 1


cite 2

which is the broken experience that LISTGAP says isn't allowed and which is not WP:ACCESSible for unsighted users. You may inspect your version of the HTML if you wish. If you wish further clarification, you may ask at WT:ACCESS. I have instead now put in a workaround which is to end the citation template on the next line down to add the desired whitespace.
Regarding WP:LAYOUT, the expectation is that the appendices are usually their own level 2 sections. And certainly, the reversion reason of "reduce the TOC length" is totally invalid because you are still adding an entry to the TOC. Regardless, these are not the sources as cited in the article which one would expect as part of the bibliography section (though I personally prefer to call that the works cited or sources section to distinguish clearly from an author's bibliography, which is a listing of their written works, as discussed at LAYOUT). Lastly, it shouldn't be a part of the div col but instead its own line. Izno (talk) 21:05, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Layout and listgap
Talk:Bermuda Triangle Band

message: This article was nominated for speedy deletion. Given that it claims that the band recorded albums and went on national tours, that comprises an assertion of notability under WP:MUSIC. However, if sources aren't added, the article will be liable for deletion under Articles for deletion. Capitalistroadster 05:30, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Speedy deletion

message: Wikipedia articles must be based on reliable sources to establish notability, and the author has not provided any ... without them, this is just original research, which is prohibited by official policy. — 06:34, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article lacks [[WP:A]] to establish [[WP:N]] 

message: Sorry I didn't put in the sources and references on the same day that I created the article. I put them in two days afterward. There are now 26 reliable sources in the Bermuda Triangle Band article. The claims of recorded albums and national tours are well supported by these sources.Windywendy 04:26, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: '''RESPONSE''' to notice of speedy deletion of article and lack of reliable sources  

message: I've cleaned up the article. The many citations still seem to get in the way of the actual text, and should probably be moved around accordingly, if possible (to the end of the sentence, perhaps). --S-man (talk) 21:05, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleaned up 

message: The link to http://www.bermudatriangleband.net/ does not work. 10-31-2015  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stutts (talk • contribs) 15:06, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Broken link notice
Talk:List of Dave the Barbarian episodes

message: I am currently creating pages for every episode of Dave The Barbarian except for The Figar/Silly Wiggy, until someone finds a direct link which proves this episode does exist and isn't some cleverly disguised fan fic I must advise nobody creates a page for this episode. User:AKR619
: Oh, hey, it's nice to know someone else still likes Dave the Barbarian.  I've been working on Dave the Barbarian's page on Wikiquote, I have digital recordings of most episodes, so if you need help, I might be able to help you out.  One thing, though, I'd advise you to check a few spellings of [character names]- Notably, it is "Quozmir" and "Irmoplotz", not "Quwazmir" and "Irmaplotz".--Oracle of Wuffing 01:36, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Here's something for you: TV Guide's Episode Listing.  It's relevant to this because, after you subtract the duplicate entries, as well as the "Dave the Barbarian" listing (which just takes you back to the same page), there's only 21 episodes- it, too, is missing The Figar / Silly Wiggy. --Oracle of Wuffing 02:05, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I asked Doug Langdale, he said "The Figar / Silly Wiggy" wasn't real. ραncακemisτακe (talk) 18:07, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Figar / Silly Wiggy
Talk:Robert Pashley

message: Pashley working for his government?
Pashley makes reference to the Royal Geographic Society in his forward to Travels In Crete. Is it possible that this trek into Ottoman-occupied territory was underwritten by the British government in order to get a glimpse into, even a quasi-military reconnaisance of, a rival empire? Does someone out there know more about Pashley, his family, and their connections to the British military?
Etherdave (talk) 05:26, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Pashley, Robert (1805–1859), lawyer and traveller, the son of Robert Pashley of Hull, was born, probably at York, on 4 September 1805, and was educated at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, under a Mr Williams. He was admitted at Trinity College, Cambridge, on 3 May 1825, and was elected to a scholarship in 1828. He took a double first class in 1829, and was elected a fellow of Trinity in the following year. In 1832 he proceeded MA, and, as travelling fellow of Trinity, undertook in 1833 a tour in Greece, Asia Minor, and Crete. Through the influence of Sir Francis Beaufort, he received from the Admiralty a free passage in the vessels employed in the Mediterranean survey. On his way home he spent some time in Venetian archives preparing an appendix to his travels which appeared in 1837, in two volumes, as Travels in Crete. Contemporaries judged the work to be scholarly and attractively written, but unfortunately a great part of the impression, together with Pashley's library and collections of antiquities, was destroyed in the fire at the Temple in 1838.
Pashley was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1825 and the Inner Temple in 1837. He was called to the bar in 1837 and obtained a large practice on the northern circuit. He acquired so great a reputation as a settlement lawyer, that the act for regulating appeals, which gave the court the power of amendment, was known as ‘the act for the better suppression of Pashley’. In 1851 he became QC, and was elected a bencher of the Inner Temple. In 1852 he was an unsuccessful candidate for parliament both at York and at King's Lynn. He published works on pauperism in 1852 and 1854. To try to set the poor law on a more rational geographical footing, he advocated the removal of the law of settlement and the raising of two-thirds of the money needed by a national levy on property. From 1856 to his death he was assistant judge of the Middlesex sessions. He died after a short illness, at his home, 16 Manchester Square, London, on 29 May 1859 and was buried in Kensal Green cemetery. Nothing is known of his wife, but he had a son Robert Edmund (1857–1878).
Richard Garnett, rev. Elizabeth Baigent
Sources   GM, 3rd ser., 7 (1859), 191–3 · Venn, Alum. Cant. · Boase, Mod. Eng. biog. · private information (1895) · CGPLA Eng. & Wales (1859) · d. cert.
Wealth at death   under £16,000: probate, 8 July 1859, CGPLA Eng. & Wales  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.69.78.19 (talk) 21:15, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Data from DNB