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Talk:Oxford Ring Road

message: Google Earth now has some aerial photos from 1945 for most of the Oxford area including the Headington to Banbury Road section of the ring road and the bit past South Hinksey ending at what's now the A34 / A423 junction.  Would it be good to mention this in the Construction section or even link directly - though I'm not quite sure how? Cavrdg (talk) 07:25, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Google Earth 1945
Talk:Peddars Way

message: :Section on the charity event seems out of place - I'd suggest that this is deleted?? Archie carnforth (talk) 07:47, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I'm surprised to see it called that. It used to be believed it was a pre-Roman trackway that was used by the Romans. Can't find a source though.Costesseyboy (talk) 22:41, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I see numerous sources saying it was a Roman military road. However, East Anglian Landscapes: Past and Present by J.R. Ravensdale and Richard Muir  which looks like a reliable source says "It does not seem to be an entirely Roman creationm but rather a Roman remodelling of an ancient branch of the Icknield Way."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dougweller (talk • contribs) 08:50, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Roman Road

message: An old local use to tell me the route was Hunstanton,past Castleacre, Swaffham,Thetford, through Bury,Lavenham, Long Melford to Braintree.What we have today is a shorter version of it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johnrhowson (talk • contribs) 16:09, 25 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:   Old Route of Peddars Way
Talk:Queen's Lane

message: Unlike the college, the road signs for the lane do not include an apostrophe. Given the name of the college (and presumably the lane) date to before the rules on spelling were standardised, I am not sure whether this is a mistake on the part of the council, or a deliberate difference which has been "corrected" by third party maps like Google Maps. Is there a list of street names somewhere which defines its official name? 82.132.186.38 (talk) 15:29, 10 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Apostrophe in name?
Talk:Queen Street, Oxford

message: Locals refer to Cornmarket Street as simply Cornmarket; and to High Street as "The High". Similarly Turl Street is often referred to as The Turl, St. Aldates Street is usually just called "St. Aldates" (no apostrophe), and Broad Street is The Broad. Queen Street, however, is called Queen Street.
I don't know of another town where this kind of naming convention is extant, and I don't know how or when it arose. I assume it is ancient - it mainly applies to a few streets within the old city walls. With the exception of St. Clements Street, which is outside the old city walls; it is usually referred to as just "St. Clements". St. Giles Street, also outside the walls, is usually just called "St. Giles". 
Not editing, because I think these contractions are effectively a kind of slang. MrDemeanour (talk) 21:12, 4 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Local street names
Talk:Regional Cycle Route 42

message: National Cycle Route 42 is a route connecting Gloucester, Cinderford, Chepstow and Abergavenny to National Route 8 at Glasbury. It is a mistake to redirect this to Regional Route 42 in Suffolk.Oojamaflip2 (talk) 12:59, 20 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Road safety audit

message: Road Safety Audits are not a UK-only technique. My understanding is (like roundabouts) they were conceived in the U.S., tehn neglected by the birth parents while being raised by U.K. and Austrailian foster-parents, and are now returning to their county of birth. There is talk of requiring Road Safety Audits for US federal-aid highway projects.
The article needs a definition. Triskele Jim (talk) 16:45, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: A previous editor put these statements in the body of the article. My guess is they were good-faith efforts - something he or she wanted to come back and finish later. So, rather than deleting them entirely, I've moved them here:
: Refer Austroads Guide to Road Safety Part 6 Road Safety Audit, (2009)
 
: Refer Austroads Guide to Road Safety Part 8 Treatment of Crash Locations, (2009)
--Triskele Jim (talk)15:30, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: References
Talk:Rose Street

message: This article has been describing Rose street as a largely #pub# area. Many tourists come to Edinburgh for the purpose of drinking here.
However the principal function of the street are the shops which line it's length. Above the shops there are numerous office. 
Where there are no offices there are residents. We number quiet a few. We believe that the principal function of the street is home. It would be helpful if the tourists reading here see that, because they tend to act as if they're in a drunken disneyland.
Thankyou/  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.15.194.67 (talk) 18:42, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: for some reason ScottScott undid my edit...why? My edit was much better, more truthful. ScottScott is talking nonsense. I KNOW. I've lived there for ten years. I'm changing it back.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.15.131.213 (talk) 12:56, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: why did ScottScott change my version? On my section of the street - 1/4 of the length of the road - there are over 65 flats, there are also 4 large offices, for adoption, Macmillan caner research, etc. There are only 2ubs on my section of the street, a nightclub and a small bar. There are two brothels. You might as well say it is a brothel street... There are five jewellers. That's more significant. 5takeaways. 2 restaurants. 
It's not servants entrances - that's on the lanes. Rose street was, in itself, a working mans street with servants quarters and shops. I know - I have the deeds going back to when they where built in the 1700s. So will ScottScott please nick off and stop talking crap?
On Friday and Saturday night the drunken monsters appear. I have no doubt ScottScott is one of them. They like to believe they own the street, even though they only turn up for ten hours a week. But that is wrong. It may appear like it's just for alcoholics - the shops are shuttered, the residents hide - but the monsters don't understand Rose street has many functions. An article in ScottScott's form just encourages the drunken idiots.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.15.131.213 (talk) 13:06, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  expansion
Talk:The Virginia Informer

message: Apologies for sounding pissy - I'm just used to trolls. Ok - how about this, I think that neither the flat hat nor the informer are notable enough to be included in wikipedia.  It is the burden of the page to establish notability (not us to establish non-notability), so, lets discuss whether or not the informer is notable enough for inclusion in wikipedia.  The main ding against it is that Wikipedia policy considers a topic notable if:
"it has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject."  
Has it? Thanks for your thoughts. 
--Gurami (talk) 00:19, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: So, I'm reading the notability guidelines, and I'm not sure this article belongs on Wikipedia. They say that, "A topic is presumed to be notable if it has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Furthermore, "A short burst of present news coverage about a topic does not necessarily constitute objective evidence of long-term notability." I don't think the Informer gets much notice outside of the College community, outside of some quotations from general newspapers covering the fight over the Wren Chapel cross. When I search Google for "Virginia Informer" and omit pages from the Informer itself or the College's Web site, I don't get much of substance—just a few blog posts or links from Wren cross partisans.
I don't think most college newspapers are notable in this sense, including The Flat Hat and the DoG Street Journal. What do you think?
WWC (talk) 01:03, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability? 

message: This frankly does not sound even close to realistic. Even most college dailies don't have a staff this big, and this paper publishes, what, once every four weeks? I think there should really be some basis for this astounding claim. 69.255.216.47 (talk) 03:27, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Staff size of 64? 
Talk:Grand Han Righteous Army

message: 义军 is usually taken to mean "volunteer army" AFAIK; any particular reason for the possible but odd translation of it as "righteous army" here? Kumarajiva (talk) 15:23, 24 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Unusual Translation
Talk:Percy de Paravicini

message: What is know his religious stance?--Vojvodae 15:48, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: He now describes himself as an agnostic. Colin MacLaurin (talk) 11:32, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Former Seventh-day Adventists
Talk:East Brunswick Public Schools

message: The previous version of this page was rather brief and uninformative.  On 20th Nov 2007, I substantially added to the page.
Jabeles (talk) 07:30, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Southern Distributor Road

message: I arrived here via "random article" and couldn't help but notice that you can read the whole article, infobox included, and not know what country this road is in (though it becomes clear from the Wikiprojects it's part of according to this page). This seems like a rather glaring oversight. 99.34.232.245 (talk) 19:39, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Country?
Talk:Stane Street

message: This is useful info but I have no idea where to include a short summary
Recent aerial survey by Historic England for the Secrets of the High Woods Project (working in partnership with the South Downs National Park) has now firmly identified the remains of this Roman road, the existence of which has long been a subject for speculation. The discovery has depended on a combination of aerial photography and lidar (airborne laser scanning) data; the latter technique’s great strength is its potential to reveal sites in heavily-wooded areas.  https://historicengland.org.uk/whats-new/research/back-issues/lost-roman-road/ Peter K Burian (talk) 02:36, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi  the information you have linked to is about the Roman road which branched from Stane Street at Westhampnett. This is already mentioned in this article under Branch roads. If you wanted to expand coverage of this newly (re)discovered road on Wikipedia, the best thing to do would be to create a new article for it. It would not be appropriate to add any more detail to the Stane Street article. Best wishes Mertbiol (talk) 07:24, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where to cover this in the article
Talk:The Plain, Oxford

message: I am interested to know why The Plain is in the category of parks and open spaces in Oxford. The article says that it used to be an open space, but then a roundabout was put there. Surely this means that it is no longer an open space? The Baroness of Morden (talk) 17:06, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Park? Open space? 

message: This concerns POV tag cleanup.  Whenever an POV tag is placed, it is necessary to also post a message in the discussion section stating clearly why it is thought the article does not comply with POV guidelines, and suggestions for how to improve it.  This permits discussion and consensus among editors.  This is a drive-by tag, which is discouraged in WP, and it shall be removed. Future tags should have discussion posted as to why the tag was placed, and how the topic might be improved.  Better yet, edit the topic yourself with the improvements.  This statement is not a judgement of content, it is only a cleanup of frivolously and/or arbitrarily placed tags.  No discussion, no tag.Jjdon (talk) 23:56, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV tag
Talk:Union Street, Plymouth

message: Chris Robinson's 2000 book Union Street () sounds like it will be the best reference source for this article. Does anyone have a copy?  —SMALLJIM  13:04, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: ./.There is also 'Plymouth in war and peace' by Guy Fleming: has a section relevant bu that is only a hyndred papes of miscellaneous images: published 1987 by Bossiney Books.----Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 23:59, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Reference sources
Talk:Whinney Hill (street)

message: Whinney Hill as a street is no more notable than quite a few other streets in Durham.  I would propose merging the contents of this article with the article for Elvet and then tidying it   up.  Any thoughts?
Paulleake (talk) 22:31, 26 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, done.--Teach46 (talk) 12:01, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Article Merger?
Talk:Mount Hope, West Virginia

message: I am looking for an old friend from Mt Hope. His name is Robert Harmon and has a brother named Hobert. Contact me at rami5570@aol.com or 360-910-5253
My name is Alex 75.174.248.225 (talk) 22:11, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Looking for someone
Talk:My Father

message: The abstract of this article is written in a promotional tone and it is also more focused on the movie itself. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikimeedian (talk • contribs) 12:07, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  h
Talk:1988 Remscheid A-10 crash

message: The article is basically a direct translation of the German article (see link). All of the sources quoted there are in German. To what extent should one repeat them/refer to them here? The Seventh Taylor (talk) 08:02, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources

message: I rated this as start class rather than stub because of the amount of information.  But it needs:
# a lead -- probably 3-5 sentences describing players, location, fatalities
# expanded description of the crash separate from the lead
# aftermath needs sources/citations
looking forward to seeing an expanded article, if/when possible.  Auntieruth55 (talk) 20:40, 6 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: comments on assessment
Talk:Conquest of Cochinchina

message: I think this article should be changed to "Conquest of Cochinchina", instead of using "Colonization". There is no colonization process mentioned in the article; in fact it was just a process of conquest of Cochinchina by the French from Vietnam.Tryst Nguyen (talk)  —Preceding comment was added at 14:46, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree. Funnyhat (talk) 06:01, 5 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Colonization or Conquest?
Talk:William FitzGerald (bishop)

message: From the link , it seems that this article should be titled Wiliam FitzGerald (bishop) rather than Wiliam Fitzgerald (bishop).  This capitalization would be consistent with the spelling of the wikipedia article for his son, George FitzGerald.  Are there any dissenting opinions on an article move to change the capitalization from Fitzgerald to FitzGerald for this article? — Myasuda (talk) 18:27, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fitzgerald or FitzGerald?
Talk:Kauri gum

message: Nice article. It's a very interesting story. I'm curious as to the current state of the gum-digging industry. Is it still occurring? If so, on what sort of scale? - 14:06, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That's a good question, and it's one I've found no clear answer to.  According to this local history, "now, in the 1980s, no one is employed fulltime in the gum industry and less than one ton is exported annually for very specialised uses."  But how is it found? And who does it?   this in an interesting commercial site, advertising gum for sale, and it refers to:  "The gum we find today down in the swamplands".  Perhaps it is mainly done by hobbyists? It would be interesting to find out... Kauri Gumdigger (talk) 01:10, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modern Info? 

message: I suggest this article be renamed from Gum-digger to Kauri gum. Only part of the article is about gum diggers, but all of it is about some aspect of kauri gum. Nurg (talk) 01:20, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep good call. No objection here .. Ropata (talk) 02:35, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename to [[Kauri gum]] 

message: As far as I can work out, the reason that the tree doe not cover most of the north island is climate change, not the arrival of people. Deforestation by humans appears to have mostly been carried out by European colonists. With that in mind, the second sentence implies that the indigenous people living there previously were not people. Deforestation of this tree, according to most sources I can find, was due to colonization, not humans arriving on the island.  Gold Broth (talk) 05:07, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Addressing deforestation more head-on
Talk:Hinton, West Virginia

message: :::Bellepoint was merged into Hinton, it was NOT renamed Hinton. Bellepoint also had its own opost office, so NO, its not Hinton. I will make the appropriate editCoal town guy (talk) 13:39, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

message: what is the economy of Hinton? How to people in the town and its environs make their living? farming, coal mining etc?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:558:6045:E3:98A:A9D6:723C:16AB (talk) 19:21, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Economy?
Talk:A. S. Atwal

message: The senior Indian police officer who was killed in Punjab insurgency.
His day light murder was one of many things that led to Operation Bluestar. 
He is receipient of President of India Police medal for gallantry .
There are many google hits and many references available.
Shyamsunder 21:25, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: the subject is notable. --DBigXray 17:00, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Notable

message: this is not factually correct however someone keeps writing it. part about 
'paying obeisance and with Karah Prasaad in his hands'
please delete or prove with a reference - reliable one - not one from Punjab Police. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.20.51.192 (talk • contribs) 19:02, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The devotees coming out does have it in their hands. The fact that he was murdered while coming out of the temple is now properly cited in the article. Though I feel Karah Prasad is unnecessary detail. --DBigXray 17:00, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  not factually correct
Talk:MFI Foundation

message: This article is still under construction.
--petalglassjade 08:29, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
Talk:U.S. Courthouse

message: After creating an article for a federal courthouse that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as U.S. Courthouse I then disovered that there are several others listed in the NRHP. They were then redlinked to this page as shown by the "what links here" function so I created a disam page. Another editor converted this to a redirect, and when I approached them they simply referenced WP:OWN (odd since they don't seem to want their redirect edited) without any sort of policy based rationale. Which is better? Aboutmovies (talk) 08:30, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This kind of disambiguation page is routinely created for NRHP buildings per Wikipedia:WikiProject National Register of Historic Places/Disambiguation and serves to disambiguate the half dozen or so buildings whose official NRHP name is simply "U.S. Courthouse". Katr67 (talk) 09:03, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: A disambiguation page seems to be the better choice here.  There is no obvious US Courthouse that the reader might be searching for, so setting up a redirect to a particular one is unnecessary.--Danaman5 (talk) 08:14, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Meg Campbell

message: (speedy delection tag here deleted in line with deletion from main page)--Hugh7 (talk) 01:57, 22 November 2007 (UTC)

message: She has had six volumes of poetry published. The first (1981, I think it was said at her funeral today) won a P E N award. The forward to her last book, by John O'Connor, describes her as notable, and says she contributed to moving NZ poetry into the post-colonial era. I will gather links to discussion of her on NZ online poetry sources. --Hugh7 (talk) 08:43, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Notability
Talk:Rydal, New South Wales

message: I wonder if Rydal would be better classified as a "village" rather than a "town". If so the "Village" subcategory would need to be created for proper "Template:Infobox Australian place | type = village …" rendering.
The same would hold for Tarana. While both these villages have a pub, railway station, rural fire service and church(es), neither have shops, town hall or other community resources. As such it seems inappropriate to classify them as towns. -- gtsWiki talk 03:34, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi. You would be best placed to raise discussion of this issue at Template talk:Infobox Australian place and Wikipedia:Australian Wikipedians' notice board, where you will find more people who watch those pages. My own opinion is that while I take your point, the issue of how we define a "town" as opposed to a "village" would be fraught with difficulty and likely breach one of Wikipedia's core policies, WP:No original research. -- Cheers, Mattinbgn\talk 03:47, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, I have started  this discussion as suggested. -- gtsWiki talk 08:04, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
Talk:Prešeren Day

message: The second and third sentences should be removed.
Why?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Denisarona (talk • contribs) 18:43, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The name of the day according to the official translation is Prešern Day, Slovenian Cultural Holiday. Slovenski pravopis, 2001, uses the spelling France Prešeren. Therefore, I think this is rather a mistake in translation and the article should stay under the title Prešeren Day and the correct translation of the full name from Slovene would be Prešeren Day, the Slovenian Cultural Holiday. What do you think? --Eleassar my talk 22:07, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Title of the article
Talk:Storage cabinet

message: I'm contesting another proposal you made for speedy deletion of an article I just created.  As for this "storage cabinet" article - I will let that one go, if you really don't think it should be there, although I'll make one effort to try to justify it.
It seems to me to be just another redirection of the sort that (quite usefully) abound on Wikipedia.  It seems to be common practice when an item has more than one common name to write the article under one of the names (the commonest one, if one clearly stands out as commonest), and to provide redirections from the other names to the first name - and that's what I did with the "Storage cabinet" redirection.
Is this not the correct practice?  Unless this is not correct practice, I would defend this too.  If it is correct practice, then how have I done it wrongly in this case? M.J.E. (talk) 08:53, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reasons against speedy deletion.
Talk:Arthur Hyman

message: He helped to edit: Philosophy in the Middle Ages, Arthur Hyman and James J. Walsh, Second Edition, Hackett Publishing Company, 1973.
Excellent treaties on the works of philosophy during the Middle Ages and how various religious ideals have influenced society including Jewish Traditions, Christianity and Islam.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.123.201.236 (talk) 23:03, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional Works on Professor Arthur Hyman 