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Talk:The Theory of the Leisure Class

message: I'm a native English speaker and I can't make sense of this (21st century subheading, end of first paragraph). Moved here in case anyone can work on making sense of it:
That the cultural irrelevance of the sociology and the economics of Veblen is in his dismissal of the theory of rational expectations of 18th-century classical economics, and that the American leisure-class would risk social and economic irrelevance if unemployed..
MartinPoulter (talk) 14:17, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sentence needs rewriting
Talk:Handmaiden

message: This article has been kept following this VFD debate. Sjakkalle (Check!) 09:44, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: VFD

message: This article is unfocused. It needs to explain the differences (if there are any) between a handmaiden and a maid and/or housekeeper, etc. The cultural references also need to be made clearer in this light, otherwise, this article should simply be redirected to maid. 151.197.226.214 (talk) 14:45, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unclear definition 

message: I cut the Wiccan reference as it had citation needed for over three years.  I put a citation needed on a few of the other claims; I didn't find a reliable reference for any of them; the references I found seemed to be quoting Wikipedia.
I think Handmaiden deserves its own article, which was the result of a vote a few years ago.  But right now it needs serious work. Alden Loveshade (talk) 19:29, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced 

message: The contents of this article are mostly based on Biblical accounts. Other viewpoints should be also included; for example, handmaidens in Asian cultures. JETH888 message me 08:23, 29 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs to be generalized more
Talk:Jimmie Foxx

message: --24.208.206.211 23:08, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: untitled

message: The photo of Foxx with Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Al Simmons... is the guy on the right Al Simmons or Mickey Cochrane?  The caption here claims Simmons, but the actual photo file claims it's Cochrane.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.184.198.5 (talk) 21:35, 5 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo caption

message: It says "this page may require cleanup" - whoever put that tag on left nothing on the talk page so we don't know what we're cleaning up! Mglovesfun 00:28, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: They're still officially the Athletics, not the A's.  They have been referred with the nickname, "A's" ever since they were in Philadelphia.  Best regardsTheBaron0530 (talk) 19:59, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Desert warfare

message: Mobility is essential to a successful desert war. This explains the heavy use of armor in battles such as El Alamein in the Second World War
Well its just wrong, there was no mobility in the El Alamein battles - they were head on assualts through minefields and field fortifications. The sea and the depression 40ish miles to the south meant either side could not use there mobility.
A much better example would be Operation Compass - small number of British tanks out manovered the Italian 10th Army and forced there surrender, or the German attack agaisnt the Gazala line were they outflanked it and nearly destroyed the Eighth Army.--EnigmaMcmxc (talk) 11:22, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  This sentance needs modifying 

message: In fact, the Crusades were fought over the desert, where heavily armoured knights roasted below the sun while being defeated easily by armorless camel warriors. There's also a whole desert warfare concept on the medieval era also.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.67.255.186 (talk) 07:19, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about the medieval era desert warfare? 

message: I'm sorry but this was such a mess - pure WP:OR, uncited and irrecoverable, that I've boldly emptied out the text and marked it as a stub. And added a reflist. At least like this it doesn't mislead, and anyone feeling like having a go can start again cleanly, with references this time please. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:18, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Stub
Talk:Twelfth United States Army Group

message: As the article correctly points out, Monty was Commander-in-Chief of all Allied Ground forces in Normandy (Bradley's First US Army and Dempsey's Second British Army). When Patton's Third US Army was activated, Bradley was promoted to command 12th Army Group (Hodges' First US Army and Patton's Third US Army) leaving Monty with 21st Army Group (Dempsey's Second British Army and Crerar's Canadians). So far, so good. Was there a brief period from mid-July until Ike set up SHAEF HQ in France in which Bradley had his own Army Group but still reported, at least notionally, to Monty? If so, Monty would have been CinC 21st Army Group but also still technically CinC Ground Forces. It might be helpful if somebody could look up the exact dates.Paulturtle (talk) 13:55, 4 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Were they ever under Monty
Talk:Miniatures game

message: Can this be done? --Boco XLVII 23:16, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: yes Phlebas 13:18, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It should have been tagged a long time ago. Grimhelm 17:04, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK folks - this has been taken care of. Scott Mingus 00:44, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with [[miniature wargaming]]
Talk:Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership elections

message: I am a very bad boy. I redirected the articles for the 1985, 2002 and 2004 conventions/elections without really knowing how to do it properly. (I blame the info provided at the community protal that tells you how to redirect without telling you that you really should "move" the article in order to protect the history.) As a consequence, it appear that I created these articles on February 2, 2004 with lots of lovely text. In fact, these were  collaborative efforts by several people. I did create the original of the 1985 article, but it had benefited from the input and editing of others. Now, should I bother an admin to get this mistake fixed, or should I  just just leave well enough alone with this mea culpa as the permanent record of my folly? Kevintoronto 23:41, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:British Columbia Liberal Party leadership contest, 2011 which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. 117Avenue (talk) 02:47, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move discussion in progress
Talk:Electronic voting in Canada

message: I don't have the time to, but if anyone is interested in making this page robust, the source below has a wealth of information about e-voting and the implications for canada. Its also a very authoritive source, lots of big names etc.
http://www.amcto.com/lib/Db2File.asp?fileid=28280
have fun  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.114.87.236 (talk) 05:47, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Stony Creek Puppet House

message: Interesting . . . but one important question this article leaves unanswered is whether this is a functioning puppet theatre & offers shows -- or is it now only a museum? -- llywrch 23:57, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, there's more to come, I just ran out of time today. (short answer so you don't get left in suspense: they're pretty much retired at this point, as the supply of puppeteers has run out)Gzuckier 05:35, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

message: Should this article be moved from Stony Creek Puppet House to Stony Creek Theatre? That seems a more all-encompassing name for the article content, particularly since the puppet house is now referenced in the past tense. — WFinch (talk) 17:36, 20 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Stony Creek Theatre
Talk:List of Utilitarians

message: User:Stratofortress has just removed Popper from the list. I am not familiar enough with the matter  to rv him, although I did followed here on a trace of his contributions - or rather, substractions. I'd appreciate comment on this. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 00:00, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Karl Popper]] ?
Talk:Xanadu (soundtrack)

message: This page was voted on for deletion at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Xanadu (Soundtrack).  The consensus was to keep it.  dbenbenn | talk 00:09, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Deletion

message: I'm virtually certain that the soundtrack was released in the United States on August 8, 1980.  I have lots of personal reasons to believe that this is true, but additionally, I know a lot more about media strategy than I did when the album first came out.  I'm pretty sure the sequence of events was:
* May 1980 - the following were released simultaneously as 7" singles in the United States on MCA Records:
** I'm Alive (Electric Light Orchestra song) - this single was sold in a blue paper jacket that didn't have a hole in the middle. 
** Magic (Olivia Newton-John song) - this single was sold in a pink (mauve?) paper jacket that didn't have a hole in the middle.
* August 8, 1980 - simultaneous release of the film ("Xanadu (film)") and the full 12" soundtrack on sturdy vinyl designed for 33 1/3 rpm turntables by MCA Records (unlike the cheapo vinyl that United Records issued the initial pressing of Out of the Blue on)
I don't have my sources yet, and I haven't even read the "Xanadu (soundtrack)" article in a while, so it could be that the article has been corrected the last time I saw it.  It also could be that the UK release was early (I vaguely remember that bit of trivia), but I remember a lot about the U.S. release. -- RobLa (talk) 09:52, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Release date
Talk:Tiago Monteiro

message: Kimi finished 20 races in 2012, so removing the most finishes by a driver in a single F1 season. --Mnosal (talk) 12:55, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: most consecutively finished races by a driver in his first F1 season, and most finishes by a driver in a single F1 season

message: I've just added the image of TM in the MF1.  The image file is labelled as being Giorgio Mondini, but it's Monteiro's helmet.--Diniz 20:43, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Image
Talk:Studebaker Starlight

message: This article has an image of a 1951 Studebaker Starlight that shows just the front end of the image - would it be better to move it the Studebaker article as an example of the bullit nose front end?  I'm raising the point because it doesn't illustrate the Starlight, and I've moved the image to the bottom of the artcile for that reason. Stude62 01:21, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Image placement
Talk:2002 Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario leadership election

message: Based on past experience, it should take a few minutes for the page's edit history to re-appear in its proper form.  CJCurrie 00:58, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:British Columbia Liberal Party leadership contest, 2011 which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. 117Avenue (talk) 02:54, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move discussion in progress
Talk:Bulat steel

message: The article mentions that Bulat steel involves a slow cooling process, and that Anosov began with the intent of producing it by quenching.  This implies that Anosov learned that quenching doesn't work, but it was phrased as "in retrospect," which suggests that it wasn't known until recently.  Would someone research this further, and make the article self-consistent?--Polyparadigm 01:03, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

message: How long ago was this steel used in Rus?  How old are the oldest samples of it?  The Jade Knight 02:25, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origins?
Talk:Standard curve

message: Hope you don't mind my tweaks. I don't recognize the Bradford protein assay. Whatever happened to the Lowry assay for protein? The paper that described that method used to be the most cited paper in the biochemical literature. (a few years ago, anyway...) alteripse 01:16, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: We use the Bradford in my lab because it's faster than the Lowry assay, I also used it alot in undergrad. Lowry and the BCA assay are probably the two other common assays, this site has a reasonable summary , expand the article as you see fit :) --nixie 23:17, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Misogi

message: "In some groups, the leader counts to nine and then cuts the air while shouting the word "yei!" to dispel this impurity." Could this be related to the Kuji Kiri (nine syllable cuts) ritual used in Japanese religions?.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.12.230.127 (talk) 16:33, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Kuji Kiri?

message: Can someone translate "harae-tamae-Kiyome-tamae-ro-kon-sho-jo!"  into English? RJFJR 00:49, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Translation?

message: I put some revisions into this text. There are several groups that still practice Misogi in Japan, all of them have slighty different traditions. The content of this article is good, but it seems to represent Misogi as it is found in Omotokyo Shinto more than a general guide (which is not a bad thing in itself). I am of the impression this should represent a overall feel of misogi and the practice here in Japan, so I added some additional kanji, explanation and information. Right now, I have to A) locate and B) translate additional informaton to add, it is just a matter of digging out the quotes and verifying it for the article's references. Small things such as incatations (such as Harahei Kotaba-which are really prayers) appear in different forms from group to group; there are different traditions that are practiced before entering the water (waterfalls, rivers or lakes) and there are several practices that are not mentioned. I will try to add them later! 
Thanks! 
Mekugi (talk) 08:27, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: January 27th Edit

message: 降り魂 with my very basic Japanese knowledge means "spirit alighting"　(when googling this I cannot find any results. while "spirit shaking" would be 振魂, and for that too I cannot find a word in any dictionary for it, and upon googling the results are very limited, with the closest result being on Dota 2 (振魂石)
does this practice even exist? Girpe (talk) 09:44, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  can't find a word for 降り魂 in dictionaries, and I think it's usually written 振魂 or 魂振
Talk:George McGovern

message: "60 Minutes included him in a 1971 report about liberal politicians and journalists who advocated integrated schooling while avoiding it for their children.[nb 10]" This sentence should be removed from the paragraph about the economy and inserted in a related paragraph (sorry I don't know wiki formatting, but I think this kind of fits here)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:6C40:700:53A8:4055:AA17:A340:965C (talk) 18:35, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: There isn't a better place to move it to, given the current contents of that section.  But I have introduced a transition phrase to make that sentence seem less jarring from what came before it.  Wasted Time R (talk) 12:42, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  [Paragraphing] 

message: User:HistorianL
Vote on the portrait used in the article. I believe that Photo 1, the current one, is better since it's in color, facing forwards, not an odd super-close crop of McGovern speaking; instead an actual portrait. I vote for Photo 1.
McGovern campaign portrait (cropped) (3x4).jpg|Photo 1
File:GeorgeStanleyMcGovern.jpg|Photo 2
 Mycranthebigman of Alaska ^_^ 16:06, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Photo 2: Photo 1 is a hastily made crop that was took from a random piece of McGovern campiagn material, with one of the only reasons of it staying up on the article is that it is a colored image. Sometimes a B&W image is a better choice over an colored image as the B&W image looks like a image that was taken by a professional photographer. As @Wasted Time R has stated, neither image is ideal for the infobox, but between the two images, Photo 2 gives off a better image of Sen. George McGovern HistorianL (talk) 17:44, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

text: Vote over. Photo 2 wins 2-1. Mycranthebigman of Alaska ^_^ 17:57, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portrait vote  

message: On the right sidebar, it would be appropriate to add his affiliation with the Progressive Party, since later in the article it states that he was a delegate to their national convention in 1948.
Proposed text:
Political party
Democratic
Other political affiliations
Progressive (1948) 199.79.170.209 (talk) 04:04, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm in favor of this. Mycranthebigman of Alaska ^_^ 09:12, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

text: Added. Mycranthebigman of Alaska ^_^ 05:53, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Political affiliations 

message: Please fix the formatting of the infobox, specifically for the office of Ambassador to the United Nations Agencies for Food and Agriculture. The  ambassador_from1 and country1 parameters are used when really only the office1 parameter should be used (and would look better). Like so: 
Using the ambassador_from parameter as it is currently used in the article makes the infobox look too fat with the name of the office unnecessarily stretched out. Using a simple office parameter would fix this issue. 195.99.8.32 (talk) 03:54, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Tollens (talk) 07:41, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 7 April 2023
Talk:Umeå University

message: I posted this before but it seems to have been deleted for a reason unknown to me...
Could someone familiar with Swedish add pronunciation information to this page?
-sam Walker 2005/2/3
:The name is pronounced (roughly) oomay-au, with stress on the first syllable. The å is pronounced like the <a> in hall or the <oa> in board. Somebody else can possibly give you this in IPA. / up land 06:39, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Though people from Umea generally don't pronounce the last letter (especially not when followed by university, the å melts into the u and vanishes). With my limited understanding of IPO, I'd transcribe the local pronunciation as [ʉɱæ]. But I'm not certain enough of it to put it in the article. Eudoxie (talk) 18:18, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Language Movement Day

message: Please see my comments at International Mother Language Day for the reason behind disputing the proposed merger. Gareth Hughes 03:45, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I'd like to point out that the bengali for language movement day is "bhasha andolon dibosh", but is written as "bhasha and  alon dobish" and Martyr's Day is "Shaheed Dibosh", not "Shaheed dobish", as written in the article. Please could someone correct this mistake? And also, the bengali characters are too small and the font is not so good. the bengali 'b' character looks like the hindi 'v' character. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.83.160.153 (talk • contribs) .
:Time and again, there would be someone who would raise the same question. There would be even some more who would "correct" this. Alas!! The problem is in your end. Your browser is not unicode compliant, or you don't have indic language support enabled. What is in the article *is* correct. Please update your browser (if you are using Windows XP, the common culprit in such cases, enable complex indic language support). Also, Wikipedia doesn't "store" any fonts, everything is in unicode, so if you are seeing something in small fonts, that's again a problem in your. end. Thanks. --Ragib 05:04, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bengali spelling mistake 

message: I don't know if you should just categorize Urdu even in that period as a minority language spoken by the supposed elite, to my knowledge it was the lingua franca of Muslims in NW India for a long time.  I'm recalling this from memory, so it would be nice if someone could check this and edit that comment. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 165.230.222.155 (talk • contribs) .
:Well, considering the demographics of combined Pakistan, Urdu was definitely a minority language. Remember that Bengalis constituted 56% of the population. Pakistanis from Punjab spoke Punjabi. Urdu may be intelligible to many, but that doesn't make it a majority language, otherwise  English language would be considered the majority language of the world (which isn't). Thanks. --Ragib 18:39, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment from 165.230.222.155
Talk:Avienius

message: Well listen I may be drunk but I'm having a problem of standards
it seems sincerely to me that this page hates itself
honestly could someone review this page (aware of the issues) and reconcile itself to itself?
Well listen I may be drunk but I'm having a problem of standards
it seems sincerely to me that this page hates itself
honestly could someone review this page (aware of the issues) and reconcile itself to itself?
The original source of this text is not indicated, but I assume 19th century, since it doesn't mention any 20th-century research. This should be rewritten from scratch to reflect up-to-date thinking. Stan 04:41, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: From the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology. I have added 
:The Ora Maritima includes reference to the islands of Ierne and Albion, Ireland and Britain, whose inhabitants reputedly traded with the Oestrymnides of Brittany. "Avienus, Rufus Festus"  The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology. Timothy Darvill. Oxford University Press, 2002
And yet when I read Ora maritima and Periegesis in Latin I can see no mention of Ierne and Albion. It is a long while since I was taught Latin. Can anyone elucidate or point me in the right direction. Lucian Sunday (talk) 13:30, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Ierne]] and [[Albion]]
Talk:Community ecology

message: Includes information from Barbour, Burke, and Pitts, 1987. Terrestrial Plant Ecology, 2nd ed. Cummings, Menlo Park, CA.
I see two problems with this page. The first is that the parenthetical clause "(not precisely the same thing as population ecology)" makes no sense. Community ecology is clearly defined in such a way that it is not remotely the same thing as population ecology. Looking back through the history of the page, it is clear that this clause originally had an entirely different context. The second problem is the argument that populations are the most appropriate level at which to study species. This is inappropriate here. A brief discussion of community ecology should explain why community ecology is important, not argue that some other discipline (population ecology) is actually the only one that scientists think is important (which is false). Additionally, this argument appears verbatim on the population ecology page, where it is appropriate.
Does anyone object to my correcting these two things?Justinleif 21:21, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Go for it.  Guettarda 22:09, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Chicago Union Station

message: There is a paragraph claiming that the northern half of Union Station (tracks 1-17) will be closed to install 25Kv overhead wires which will cause Metra Milwaukee services to be temporarily relocated to Ogilive Terminal, and Amtrak services (Hiawatha and Empire Builder) to be relocated near the Norfolk Southern 47th Street yard. There is a "citation needed" box right after the paragraph, since I tried doing some research online about all of this but I couldn't find anything. I'm not sure when this was added, but does anyone have any official source claiming any of this to be true?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pensyfan19 (talk • contribs) 19:52, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  North Side Electrification... Citation Needed! 

message: Can someone please add the Great River to the list of future services? I would do it but I have no idea how to do it without making an error message pop up. 2600:4041:7B25:C500:1C62:7C77:3AD1:B2EB (talk) 21:30, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Cards84664 23:18, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Great River 

message: if you seek changes, and users dispute the changes, you must discuss them, you cannot WP:edit war, or you may be blocked. Discuss here. ɱ (talk) 19:18, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Connections