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Talk:Bureau of Aeronautics

message: Would some kind soul please redirect BuAer here?  70.252.97.128 (talk) 23:08, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirect?
Talk:Geoffrey A. Landis

message: "foremost" is POV. Avt tor 10:18, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That's curious.  Puffery, as well.  I wonder which editor inserted it.--Epeefleche (talk) 04:11, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV 

message: I added citations, wikilinked and will work on this little more as it seems to be an article with potential. I removed the citations needed banner. –– Jezhotwells (talk) 02:06, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: wow, thanks for all the edits! Geoffrey.landis (talk) 13:29, 26 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations
Talk:Classification of transgender people

message: Harry Benjamin agreed with German sexologist Magnus Hirschfeld that transsexuals were a form of neurological intersex.Detail of conversation between Benjamin and Hirschfeld re. neurological intersex
Return this to page when it can be sourced?
—MarionTheLibrarian (talk) 23:39, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Claim sourced with dead link. 

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. (non-admin closure) Alpha3031 (t • c) 12:42, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Classification of transsexual and transgender people →  – Our transsexual article states that it is a subcategory of transgender, so the current title is tautological (and somewhat outdated). Not sure if this is a possible candidate for merging? GnocchiFan (talk) 19:25, 7 April 2024 (UTC)

text: Note: WikiProject LGBT studies and WikiProject Sexology and sexuality have been notified of this discussion. RodRabelo7 (talk) 23:49, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

text: Support. I think "Classification of transgender people" is more concise and more up-to-date Qwaabza (talk) 20:43, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 7 April 2024
Talk:Persuader (novel)

message: I don't understand the assertion that the use of first person perpective in Persuader is a device aimed at concealing the kidnap set-up. This is revealed as early as the second chapter anyway and, it seems to me, could have been done just as effectively in third person. It seems more likely that Lee Child wishes to continuously vary the style of the Reacher books, the plot of Persuader being designed to lend itself to the use of first person with Reacher working largely isolated and under cover. JohnB57 (talk) 12:03, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of first person
Talk:List of Platanus diseases

message: The name of the article is currently List of sycamore diseases. Since sycamore is an ambiguous common name (Acer pseudoplatanus to us Brits), this is not always helpful. It is also not clear whether it is diseases of Platanus occidentalis or all Platanus. I suggest clarification and a rename. Imc 10:27, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I see your point, and I'm open to any suggestions.  The other common name for Platanus species is planes.  However, I think that renaming the article List of plane diseases would cause even more confusion. Seriously though, the first line of the article does mention that the article is about sycamores (Platanus spp) and the link takes you to the article on the genus Platanus. I really would prefer not to replace the common name with the scientific name in the title, but perhaps the solution would be to include it in the title: List of sycamore (Platanus spp) diseases Somanypeople 20:54, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it is fair to say that List of sycamore (Platanus spp) diseases would leave most British people confused. The acer/sycamore is very common here, it could be the most common tree in many urban areas, and it's always known as the sycamore. Personally I'd prefer just Platanus in the article. Another alternative would be to have both common names List of Platanus (sycamore / plane) diseases, but it all starts to look very unwieldy then. Imc 21:16, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Name of the article
Talk:Seventy-Two Virgins

message: See https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jul/17/boris-johnson-seventy-two-virgins-novel and compare text in paragraph "Attention was refocused on Seventy-Two Virgins …". --WolfgangRieger (talk) 07:20, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright violation
Talk:Scolopendra subspinipes

message: I added some contents and references on this article and tabularized the subspecies. Please check to see if my edition is appropriate. Thanks!
User:Toxic Walker (talk) 18:36, 20 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Did a large-scale edit 

message: Found a new refercne which claims no valid subspecies. Since the article states in the lead that there are 8 subspecies, the reference stating there were at best 6, I've just removed the tables until it can be cleaned up. 08:16, 15 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Subspecies 

message: This article says someone in Venezuela also died due to a centipede bite. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scolopendra_gigantea 
So does that mean the information in the "venom" section about there not being any other verifiable reports of human deaths by centipede bite is inaccurate/outdated? 39.46.210.241 (talk) 10:07, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  No other verifiable death
Talk:Stefan Fatsis

message: What is the ethnic origin of his surname? Badagnani (talk) 23:11, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I can conjecture that it's Greek, based on page 23 of Word Freak: "Backgammon, though, I could play. Summers on the Greek island of Chios, where my father was born, passed with endless session of the game in three variant forms -- standard backgammon, plakoto (Greek backgammon) and moultezimi (Turkish backgammon). I recall sitting in the coffee shop in the central square of the ancestral village eating sweets and beating local men sixty years my senior." Andy Saunders (talk) 23:33, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Surname

message: I learned today by way of an on-air admission, that regular guest on NPR's All Things Considered, Stefan Fatsis is the husband of Melissa Block, a host of All Things Considered, who interviewed him today.  Is he paid by NPR for his appearances?  Is his position related to his family connection?  See also Rebecca Roberts, daughter of Cokie.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.99.214.10 (talk) 00:28, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Nepotism at NPR?
Talk:Luís de Matos

message: * I have just received an email asking me to remove the  at the top of page Luis de Matos (magician). Should this be done? I know nothing about Luis de Matos or about the magician trade in general. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 12:58, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove the "needs additional citations for verification" tag? 

message: * Someone asked me to remove the  tag ("This article contains wording that promotes the subject in a subjective manner ...") from the start of page Luis de Matos (magician). Should this be done? Anthony Appleyard (talk) 15:10, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove the "This article contains wording that promotes the subject in a subjective manner ..." tag? 
Talk:Alice Parker

message: Link to home page http://aliceparker.com is incorrect.  Correct link is http://melodiousaccord.org
Cah329a (talk) 02:32, 13 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 13 May 2016 

message: Please update the link to the acda.org source from http://acda.org/page.asp?page=brock_pieces to https://acda.org/ACDA/About-Root/Brock_Contest/Memorial_Commission.aspx.Sundra7 (talk) 15:58, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link update request 2017 12 18 

message: Alice Parker died yesterday, December 24, 2023 at the age of 98. In addition to listing this information, all present-tense verbiage regarding Parker needs to be changed to its past-tense counterparts. 24.166.179.125 (talk) 15:25, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Cannolis (talk) 17:33, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 25 December 2023
Talk:Birmingham to Worcester via Kidderminster line

message: Why does this map show axed stations in Birmingham only?
Where is Cutnall Green, Fernhill Heath etc? Btline (talk) 18:21, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If you can improve the line diagram, edit it! Mjroots (talk) 06:04, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

text: I do not know how to (the legend is gibberish to me). I can help with describing what needs to be added, though. Btline (talk) 20:10, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Axed stations 
Talk:North Warwickshire Line

message: I think this page should be moved to North Warwickshire Line. Because I can't see any evidence that 'Birmingham to Stratford Line' is anything other than an invented name which is not used anywhere outside wikipedia. Whereas North Warwickshire Line is/was the official name. Any thoughts? G-13114 (talk) 12:43, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Naming

message: I think this page should be moved to Shakespeare Line, given that it's referred to increasingly as such. I personally hadn't heard of it referred to the North Warwickshire Line until I saw this page. The promotional group for the line is also called 'Friends of the Shakespeare Line' and TfWM use the name interchangeably. Oldhamtw (talk) 17:31, 12 April 2023 (UT
:Then again, Shakespeare Line redirects here, and is prominently listed as an alternative name. NWL has been its name for most of its history. Most books on the line still refer to it as the NWL, and  calling it the Shakespeare Line could easilly be confused with something shakespeaerean. G-13114 (talk) 09:31, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I oppose change. Agreed with G-13114.SovalValtos (talk) 10:24, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naming (2)
Talk:Evesham railway station

message: In the early 1960s or the mid 1960s at Evesham railway station, there was, on the platform of the up-line to London on the Western region line, there was, a short way past the end of the building, on the London side of the building, a very large advertising hoarding. From time to time the advertisements were changed.
One of the panels of the hoarding, (were there two panels or three?), had been covered in white paper. The panel nearest the building if I remember correctly.
The panels may have been about eight feet to ten feet tall and maybe six feet wide, but that is only a rough estimate.
One day, around 4 pm in the afternoon a man arrived, ordinary clothes, neither railway uniform nor overalls, and began carefully drawing lines on the white paper.
Over a period of time the man arrived every weekday at the same time. I do not know whether he arrived at weekends. One day the man brought paints, paints as in artist's paints, not paints as in decorating.
Gradually a picture appeared. It was at the right side of the panel. It was a picture of the famous Bell Tower at Evesham. The Bell Tower is a remnant of Evesham Abbey.
The space at the left had lettering added and the whole thing turned out to be an advertisement for Collins Pies. Collins Pies was a pie factory in Evesham. The wrappings of Collins Pies had a picture of the Bell Tower upon them.
I have sometimes wondered what happened to that painting.
Was it destroyed? Was it conserved by Collins Pies? Was the hoarding moved and relocated somewhere else with the painting of the Bell Tower still on it, maybe the painting is still in existence, perhaps under layers of later unconnected advertisements?
Are there photographs, perhaps with dates, so that when the painting was still there can be discovered?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.135.43.227 (talk) 17:08, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Collins still exists (Kennel Lane, Broadway, nr Evesham, WR12 7DJ, tel 01386 852061). You could ask. ‑ Iridescent 17:34, 23 November 2016 (UTC)
Talk:Honeybourne railway station

message: Not sure how the sentence about "rejuvenating tourism" (in a small town with 3.5 million visitors per annum) makes any sense. I dont want to learn all your Wikipedia mumbo-jumbo but hopefully some reasonable people are still around.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.205.56.115 (talk) 12:02, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Tourism
Talk:Kingham railway station

message: Rsloch would like to expand the introduction and simplify the infobox; see User talk:Rsloch/Archives/2013/July#Kingham railway station. Opinions anybody? --Redrose64 (talk) 21:21, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I was thinking of adding 'The station was opened as Chipping Norton Junction on 10 August 1855, and renamed Kingham on 1 May 1909' to the introduction, and simplifying the infobox to 'Station opened', 'station name changed', etc. Rsloch (talk) 22:15, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The introduction could be beefed up slightly in accordance with Wikipedia:Lead section, and I wonder whether both pre and post grouping mentions of the GWR in the infobox are necessary. Also, the opening date features twice in different sections both marked "history". That said, I would leave the rest of infobox as is, adding perhaps the goods closure date. This discussion does highlight the limitations of the infobox template as currently designed; ideally the operating history and chronology should be separate sections. Unfortunately, I don't have a clue how to change this. Lamberhurst (talk) 23:20, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that the introduction should refer to the original name of Chipping Norton Junction. Not sure if the introduction needs precise dates, perhaps just the years since the full dates are given elsewhere in the article. It could include the facts that (a)it was not one of the original stations on the line (b)it was originally opened to provide a junction for the Chipping Norton Branch (c)it was proposed for closure in the 1960s but reprieved. Bruern Crossing (talk) 06:29, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Introduction and infobox
Talk:Tackley railway station

message: I think that the section on the 2008 accident goes into excessive detail for a general purpose encyclopaedia - there isn't a need to summarise every detail of the RAIB report. If there are no objections in a few days I'll trim it down to a more reasonable length. Thryduulf (talk) 10:28, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. A substantial trim is in order of the material not directly relevant to the subject of the article - the station. The sourced report is available for those who wish to see more.SovalValtos (talk) 10:50, 26 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I've now significantly trimmed this, and may come back to do the same with the section about the bridge and subway proposals. Thryduulf (talk) 14:53, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Excessive detail 

message: I accidentally hit return when aiming for backspace, so committed my change without completing the edit note. 
Per wp:think of the reader, the controversy about the crossing should not be almost the first section of the article, especially when it is so long and dominant (per discussion above). So I have swapped the sections around so that the essential and/or short sections come first. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 11:24, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: My edit on 18 November 2020
Talk:Bicester Village railway station

message: Seeing as Bicester Town / Village is now a big two-platform station with a proper building, I'm not sure smaller of the two stations still applies. Tom walker (talk) 16:16, 15 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Smaller of the two" 

message: Could someone with access to the data check this figure? It doesn't look right.  --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 11:10, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: It's right. The line was closed for much of 2014/2015. You can check for yourself here www.orr.gov.uk/statistics/published-stats/station-usage-estimates Ingafube (talk) 11:18, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Usage 2014/15 
Talk:Goodricke College, York

message: The reason for this lack of plaster is that EU fire regulations state that the wall proximity cannot be any narrower, as this would cause a fire hazard. - I'm pretty sure this is a campus urban myth and actually more to do with cost cutting on the part of the university when these bloxks were built.  Unless anyone can verify this statement I'm going to delete it.Mammal4 11:16, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: College plaster
Talk:Kings Sutton railway station

message: Was the footbridge put back in 2007 or 2009? Can we get a source either way? The article presently contradicts itself... Tom walker (talk) 12:47, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The image was  by an editor not noted for the quality of his spelling, grammar or punctuation. Thus, "2009" may well be a spelling mistaketypo for "2007". As I recall, the bridge was replaced over two years ago, but whether it occurred in 2007 or not, I couldn't say. --Redrose64 (talk) 16:49, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

text: The page referenced is now a dead link. Can anyone get this information? Also, the page does not say when Chiltern started serving KGS or when it took over managing it from GWR. --gobears87 (talk) 13:46, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Footbridge
Talk:Haddenham & Thame Parkway railway station

message: The article states "The station is sited just north of the original Haddenham railway station." - according to Mitchell & Smith, they were half a mile apart. The grid refs would tend to agree: according to OS one-inch 7th series sheet 159, the old station was on Station Road at  whilst according to OS 1:50000 sheet 165 the new is on Thame Road at . Should a second article be created?
*
--Redrose64 (talk) 17:02, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Second article created, see Haddenham (Bucks) railway station --Redrose64 (talk) 16:53, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two stations
Talk:The Dissertation (novel)

message: "It is often..." - There is no support for this assertion about the book's popularity.  [Maybe a amazon readers' comments survey would support i, but then we run into the problem of original research. Kdammers (talk) 02:36, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsupported claim
Talk:Denham railway station

message: The Railway Clearing House map doesn't extend as far as Denham. 83.104.249.240 (talk) 04:24, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes it does: the inset upper left is titled "DENHAM", and covers the stretch of GW/GC Joint Line from West Ruislip (shown as "Ruislip & Ickenham") to Denham (shown as "Denham for Harefield"), plus the triangular junction and the GWR Uxbridge High Street branch. I've  the caption to make it clearer. --Redrose64 (talk) 16:10, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map 

message: As the term 'roads' is used a couple of times in a railway sense, could this be clarified for non-terminology-experts. Jackiespeel (talk) 10:31, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Terminology

message: Looking at  there seems to be more than the 'one train an hour' mentioned in the article. Jackiespeel (talk) 10:34, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Services
Talk:Denham Golf Club railway station

message: Do we really need the address in the article? I don't know of any other station articles which have this. It's available by clicking the station information link in the infobox. The code DGC is shown on that page, and is also in the infobox, so is doubly redundant in the text. --Redrose64 (talk) 15:21, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair enough. It's not fundamental. It would save the trouble of cllicking a link; but then why should an encyclopedia be an atlas too, I guess! Carry on.
Paranoiacs comment on other peoples' sigs, AH-HA !!! (talk) 15:43, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Address
Talk:The Enemy (Child novel)

message: The article currently says
"Feeling guilt for having maimed an innocent man for life, Reacher pleads guilty to the brutality charge that had been brought by Carbone."
However, the novel itself says
"…the fat guy was messed up bad. On the other hand, he wasn't one of North Carolina's finest citizens. I doubted if the governor was lining him up for a civic award."
and
"…Carbone wasn't a liar. That shouldn't be the last thing that goes in his record. He deserves better than that. He was in [the army for] sixteen years."
so it looks more likely that Reacher's decision was made out of respect for Carbone rather than from guilt for maiming a low life. Either way, he felt he was doing the right thing, a recurring theme in the story. 188.29.165.143 (talk) 22:16, 7 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why did Reacher plead guilty to Carbone's brutality charge? 
Talk:Northolt Park railway station

message: There is a photo in Dow, George (1965) Great Central, Vol III : Fay sets the pace, (London, Ian Allan, 422p) on page 108 which is labelled South Harrow Station, circa 1907. This appears to conflict with the information on this page. The photo shows a Great Central loco and suburban train at a station with four tracks, in a fairly flat rural setting. Ivanberti 14:20, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Interesting - as this map (not to scale) also suggests this station, as 'South Harrow station' was open in 1914.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.152.146.55 (talk) 01:31, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The name "South Harrow" has been borne by at least four different stations on two different lines. The station in the photo in Dow's book was opened by the Great Central Railway as South Harrow on 1 March 1906, and renamed  on 19 July 1926; the RCH map mentioned in 86.152.146.55's post was prepared and published in 1914, and so naturally uses the name that the station had at that time. This article deals with a different station on the same line, opened by the London and North Eastern Railway as South Harrow and Roxeth on 19 July 1926, renamed Northolt Park for Northolt Village on 13 May 1929, again renamed  on 13 June 1955; being opened in 1926, it's not shown on a 1914 map. --Redrose64 (talk) 23:30, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Opening date
Talk:Wembley Stadium railway station

message: Many sources (including Wikipedia itself) report that it was Pendennis Castle and not Caerphilly Castle at the British Empire Exhibition, hence the two footnotes for the same piece of information. I'll be changing  the other Wikipedia pages in due course. --Old Moonraker (talk) 07:03, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The truth is that both were exhibited; Caerphilly Castle in 1924, Pendennis Castle in 1925 (). --Redrose64 (talk) 22:19, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I didn't know that. Will you be adding it and replacing the existing references?--Old Moonraker (talk) 22:23, 13 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that the best place for the details of which locomotives were exhibited is on British Empire Exhibition itself, plus mentions on the various articles for the individual locomotives or classes. I've been working through these, as and when I can turn up sources. I don't think that very much should be here, to avoid unnecessary duplication (it's not really relevant to this station); perhaps condense the existing sentence to 'Temporary sidings led into the "Palace of Engineering" exhibition hall where various railway locomotives, including a Great Western Railway 4073 (Castle) class locomotive and the London and North Eastern Railway's Flying Scotsman were displayed.'. --Redrose64 (talk) 21:55, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: You are right: danger of going a bit off topic otherwise. --Old Moonraker (talk) 23:06, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Caerphilly Castle'' 

message: Perhaps the article is a little more factual and easier to read. I'd not meant to edit it but was led into it from another.--SilasW (talk) 18:15, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit of 09 Oct 2008