lflage/wiki-talks huggingface dataset:
Talk:Carl Dale

message: Hi  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.142.168.129 (talk) 09:54, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Benjamin Blayney

message: I refuse to believe that Blayney, born in 1728, took his degree at Oxford in 1735, aged seven!  This is given in the Jewish Encylopedia article referenced, from which practically the entire article is taken verbatim.  Perhaps the digits were transposed, and the date should be 1753?  That would make him twenty-five at the time. J S Ayer (talk) 04:36, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Impossible!
Talk:Brian O. Murdoch

message: Is the middle name of Brian Murdoch simply O?  Or should the article be moved to Brian O. Murdoch? Michael Slone (talk) 05:16, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Amazon.co.uk lists him with O. :.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk  11:42, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Middle name or middle initial?
Talk:Carlos Alberto Montaner

message: In this site:[Brazil] Carlos Alberto Montaner talks about Brazil.Agre22 (talk) 13:13, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Carlos Alberto Montaner talks about Brazil.

message: In this site:[] Carlos Alberto Montaner as a CIA agent.Agre22 (talk) 13:19, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Carlos Alberto Montaner as a CIA agent.
Talk:Demon King of Confusion

message: This character is just not notable enough to have its own article. He is not as well known as other characters with pages like Red Boy, Bai Gu Jing, Princess Iron Fan, etc. If a good reason for keeping the article cannot be provided, I'm going to merge it with List of Journey to the West characters. --Ghostexorcist (talk) 02:51, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: No one has replied, so I am redirecting this page to List of Journey to the West characters. --Ghostexorcist (talk) 00:11, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal
Talk:Carly Lewis

message: In my opinion, this article is next to useless and it would be incredibly difficult to restore it to something worth being up. It adds nothing to Wikipedia as it only tells you what's on the No Secrets page and nothing else. It hasn't changed in about a year since I last came on it. I will be nominating it for deletion as soon as I find out how, unless anyone objects before that time. Lowri (talk) 16:44, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Nominated for deletion?
Talk:Christopher J. Lane

message: A bunch of edits are seemingly done by the person himself under his own Wikipedia account. The article reads much like his own bio at his own website, and he links to this very Wikipedia article on that website (which is, frankly, a suspicious thing to do, as Wikipedia shouldn't be used as a promotional vehicle.) 2603:8000:B600:4000:F5A3:B549:1ABF:2532 (talk) 06:49, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Minor updates correspond to substantive and factual changes in career—for instance, retirement from Northwestern U in 2022. The link to this Wikipedia page from Northwestern website has been removed. Clane521200 (talk) 16:10, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some reality check on the state of this article
Talk:Cary Nelson

message: Please go take a look at the horrible page "Poetry in the Early 20th Century" and weigh in.  It includes lines like ""With his father gone, Edwin Robinson became the man of the household."  What in god's name is this crap?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:147:102:B30:886B:A034:9B79:167E (talk) 19:22, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  
Talk:Casey-Lee Jolleys

message: "Casey-Lee Jolleys (born 1974) is a British actress, dancer and performer"
actress, dancer and performer? Are not actress and dancer perfomers? Reading the text, the referred "performing" seems to be dancing. 86.115.73.236 (talk) 02:46, 15 July 2022 (UTC)
Talk:Cathy Hopkins

message: hallo eine frage wie alt bist du???? oder wo kann man sachen über Sie herrausfinden? ich muss eben ein buchfortrag über ihre bücher machen. ich finde ihre bücher super!!!!!!!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.203.214.174 (talk) 18:01, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  frage 

message: I've removed large chunks of this article which dealt with plot summaries and characters of some of her books - these are not suitable for an author biography, and should only exist in articles about the book series themselves (if notable). CultureDrone (talk) 22:10, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Text removal 
Talk:Cathy Maguire

message: Maguire travels extensively to Nashville, Tn where she writes with several diverse and renowned songwriters.  She regularly co-writes with five times Ivor Norvello songwriter Roger Cook, who has co-written two songs on her forth coming album.
Recent appearances include a performance for the governor and the Mayor of New York Micheal Bloomberg at the official St Patricks Day celebrations in New York city.
: Unfortunately your suggested edit reads rather promotionally and you have not provided a source. Given that this article has had problems with unsourced promotional edits before, I'm wary of adding this without one. ~ mazca t | c 19:15, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Celes Kobayashi

message: Akira Kouchiyama
I think that the first edition of this is the translation from the Japanese version. However, this article has no information about the inheritance of the page history from that. Therefore, I strongly suspect that this is a GFDL violation. Moreover the Japanese version hadn't specified any source, and hasn't been a reliable information. Almost all the articles created by this user seem to have a same GFDL problem. Thanks. --Akira Kouchiyama 18:23, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Pretty clear translation (still mostly the same as the 07 version actually), now attributed. Wizardman 15:22, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possibly copyvio
Module talk:Location map/data/Canada Nova Scotia

message: Add a line 8: image1 = Nova Scotia topographic map.png (and a comma at line 7). This is a topographic location map that matches the current administrative map. GrandEscogriffe (talk) 12:56, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: * Pppery * it has begun... 00:00, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 11 April 2022
Template talk:National parks of France

message: In bringing this template across from the French Wikipedia (see fr:Modèle:Parcs nationaux en France), I noticed that the individual articles for the parks in the English Wikipedia were not consistent in their use of the accent marks in the article names.  For example:  Cévennes National Park vs. Pyrenees National Park.
Because this template forced the issue of consistency among the different parks, I consulted WP:UE, WP:NAME, and WP:NCGN extensively to determine whether to use the accents or not. Conclusion is that there is no conclusion:  There has been extensive controversy over the course of years about the use of diacritics in the English Wikipedia, and no consensus has emerged.
In the end, I elected to go with the advice at WP:NCGN#Widely accepted name, especially the referral to Google Scholar and Google Books, to establish the form of the park name most commonly used in formal English-language publications. Pretty much consistently across the board, Ecrins was used more often than Écrins, Cevennes than Cévennes, and Pyrenees than Pyrénées.  It appears that little has yet been written about Réunion National Park, and references to Réunion the island were about evenly split between accent and no-accent. Thus I omitted the accents from this template.
I translated Guyane to Guiana to keep in line with English usage of "French Guiana".  Google Scholar and Google Books had virtually no references to the park.
In line with this logic, I am presently working on creating articles for Reunion National Park and Guiana Amazonian Park.  I also recommend that Écrins National Park eventually be moved to Ecrins National Park, and Cévennes National Park to Cevennes National Park.  Ipoellet (talk) 02:03, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I am disappointed that some users still don't get the fact that Google is not The Bible and that we use diacritics throughout the EN Wikipedia for years, no matter if Google, the Almighty is in favour or not of diacriticized names. - Darwinek (talk) 09:25, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of accent marks
Talk:Cesar Velasco Broca

message: I was appalled by the text i found, and i have removed most of it based on its insufficient communication of info on its topic. The broken-English article that accompanied this English-WP talk page did, already in its initial revision, differ from the now-current Google-toolbar translation, of the revision of :es:César Velasco Broca that existed at the time-stamp of that initial revision. Inspection of those differences suggests to me a combination of
# evolution in the Google translation software and 
# careless or unskillful manual touch-ups to the then-current Google translation. 
For instance, many sources make out Footsy to involve sex with dead horses (a description, BTW, which the auteur disavows as someone else's perception), which no editor or program qualified to translate for WP main-namespace use would render as "matching" rather than "mating". I believe that i've made some worthwhile contributions aided by Google translations combined with bilingual dicts and my own time in Central Europe, and don't doubt others can do the same without being expert translators, but the bulk of the accompanying article, now removed, is not ready for a main-namespace page. --Jerzy•t 22:47, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stripped out most of the prose 
Talk:Chad Griggs

message: Stop changing the fight result to "TKO (Punches/Strikes)". The fight wasn't stopped due to punches or strikes, the fight was stopped IN BETWEEN rounds 2 and 3 when Lashley "retired"/quit in his corner. Lashley himself quit, his corner didn't stop the fight, so the official ruling was TKO (Retirement). It's even on his Sherdog fighter profile. Delinquent1904 (talk) 20:53, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vs. Bobby Lashley 

message: Looking at Grigg's record, I discovered that Shane Ott, the only fighter to defeat him at this point, is no longer fighting - was severely injured, inter alia losing a leg in a motorcycle accident.  Web reports he was killed Nov. 3, 2008 were in error.  A newpaper reports he was still alive and convalescing in 2009.  http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=134085
 72.35.117.92 (talk) 09:25, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shane Ott 
Talk:Charles A. S. Hall

message: The following quote is removed from the article, because there doesn't seem to be any online source which can confirm the source of the quote. -- Mdd (talk) 18:18, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced quote

message: Is it true that Hall was denied tenure in the same week he was featured on the cover of the journal Science? 76.190.213.189 (talk) 04:11, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tenure
Talk:Catherine Butler

message: Here to check out further when I have time, or by anyone else who wants to.  	 below. 
* composer Martin Butler, brother?
**  Philip Pullman, edited by Catherine Butler, Tommy Halsdorf, Palgrave Macmillan, Jul 15, 2014 
*** Butler's dedication: "For my brother, Martin Butler" Thnidu (talk) 23:56, 2 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: You are correct on all counts - viz. the dead links (thanks for pointing these out!) and the assertions concerning Cathy's and my family connections, although I'm afraid I cannot provide citable sources for the latter.
Of course, we can't use personal email as a  reliable source, but I mention this here as a matter of record and to encourage anyone who wants to search for one. --Thnidu (talk) 01:10, 13 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  notes on relatives 

message: Here's the long list of libraries and reviews, before I boil it down: 
: Butler's most important academic work, Four British fantasists : place and culture in the children's fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper won the Mythopoeic Fantasy Award (2009) in the Mythopoeic Scholarship category and is in 236 libraries according to WorldCat, and has been reviewed in the standard book review sources CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries Dec 2006 v44 i4 p645,School Library Journal  Oct 2006 v52 i10 p192Reference & Research Book News August 2006 and  academic journals.Children's Literature Association Quarterly, 32, no. 3 (2007): 273-275, Children's Literature Annual  2008 v36 p251(6)Marvels & tales.  (Wayne State University Press)  21, no. 1, (2007) 172   Another academic work,   Teaching Children's Fiction is in 148 libraries. Of Butler's fiction, Timon's Tide is the most widely held and reviewed:  over 300 libraries & reviews.Publishers Weekly July 3, 2000Center for Children's Books Bulletin Sept 2000 v54 p9,Kirkus Reviews June 1, 2000 v68 p792 School Library Journal June 2000 v46 i6 p142,School Librarian Summer 1999 v47 p98 Voice of Youth Advocates June 2000 v23 p123   Among her other fiction,  Death of a Ghost, The Fetch of Mardy Watt, Calypso Dreaming, The Lurkers, are each in about 100 libraries and with journal reviews. Thnidu (talk) 09:23, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  libraries and reviews
Talk:Charles Fernley Fawcett

message: This page needs some sources. --Sharkface217 20:41, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Working on expansion and sources. Infobox could do with an image - lots here, but not sure on policy regarding images etc - best left to someone who knows what they are doing! --TicketMan - Talk - contribs 22:15, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: "He was also the first American singled out to be honoured as a Righteous Among the Nations when in 1996 he was recognised by Israel’s Yad Vashem" - this disagrees with Varian Fry, which states that "in 1995 Varian Fry became the first United States citizen to be listed in the Righteous Among the Nations at Israel's national Holocaust Memorial, Yad Vashem". --144.53.251.2 (talk) 23:11, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradicts Varian Fry page 

message: I read on a government site that he went to school.But I can not find out were or when.-- Freshbakedpie (Wanna talk?)   \'_'/     18:56, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  School
Talk:Charles McBurney (politician)

message: Mcburney's request to the FDLE for a criminal investigation of Florida Planned Parenthood clinics has created a significant amount of news coverage. This should probably be in the article.
* http://jacksonville.com/news/2015-07-31/story/mcburney-wans-criminal-investigation-planned-parenthood
* http://miami.cbslocal.com/2015/07/31/florida-legislator-wants-investigation-of-planned-parenthood/
* http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/political-pulse/os-lawmakers-request-criminal-planned-parenthood-investigation-post.html
* http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/florida-house-judiciary-planned-parenthood-investigation-120854
* http://floridapolitics.com/archives/187441-florida-legislator-wants-investigation-of-planned-parenthood
* http://miami.cbslocal.com/2015/07/31/florida-legislator-wants-investigation-of-planned-parenthood/
* http://www.gainesville.com/article/20150731/WIRE/150739878
* http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/political-pulse/os-fdle-no-evidence-planned-parenthood-broke-law-20151130-post.html
* http://jacksonville.com/news/2015-07-31/story/mcburney-wans-criminal-investigation-planned-parenthood
* http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/florida/2015/11/8584285/dept-law-enforcement-closes-inquiry-planned-parenthood
Waters.Justin (talk) 04:24, 1 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Planned Parenthood Investigation
Talk:Charles P. Murray Jr.

message: Body says MOH awarded Aug 1, 1945; photo caption says July 5th. Which is it?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.160.218.130 (talk) 02:32, 23 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Which date 
Talk:Fengtian clique

message: Should the flag of the Fengtian Clique be included in this article? It was mentioned in this article. --68.175.142.78 (talk) 00:41, 8 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flag Question 

message: @Roniius Here's what I found, comparing your text to the cited Brill text:
Your text: 
Source text: 
Comparing the text the other parts of the article, I found nothing else for concern. Even then I think this sentence just needs a little rephrasing, not too much. Moneytrees🏝️Talk/CCI guide  06:16, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Close paraphrasing?
Talk:Charlie Cook

message: Quotes:
*CBS News' Bob Schieffer called the Cook Political Report "the bible of the political community."
*The New York Times has called Cook "one of the best political handicappers in the nation" and has said the Cook Political Report is "a newsletter which both parties regard as authoritative."
* David Broder wrote in The Washington Post that Cook was "perhaps the best non-partisan tracker of Congressional races."
I have marked these as  and indeed the whole section as . They have probably been lifted straight from Cook's own CV, and indeed a Google Search does bring up those quotes but always as background information for Cook for speaker notes when he is a speaker at some event (i.e. will have been either supplied by Cook himself, or indirectly by being taken from this Wikipedia page.)
I have damped down the bio generally (e.g. the Family Life section; the article is not about his father, who if notable should have a separate article – and we don't need to know where his sisters live).
There is a triad of articles with the The Cook Political Report and Cook_Partisan_Voting_Index which contain much that seems to be WP:PROMO, although written impartially. 82.22.227.170 Si Trew (talk) 08:15, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Career Quotes 
Talk:First Zhili–Fengtian War

message: But also inaccurate. Machang is "Horse Field" or "Expanse", not "Horse Factory" (=glue?). The current "placenames" are about as accurate as saying the capital of America is "City of Laundry, Columbus Area". — LlywelynII 19:12, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Cute Chinese Article is Cute
Talk:Charlie Morton (pitcher)

message: The Rays officially announced the signing in  this tweet.
Birb.fm (talk) 23:36, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rays Signing 

message: Add more details behind the possibility of the Rays adding Charlie Morton back to their roster for 2021 from the Tampa Bay Times (after declaring him a free agent just today), in addition to updating his picture to a more recent one in a Rays uniform. Scheibercamo (talk) 17:13, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: . Edit requests are for requests to make specific edits, not general pleas for article improvement. –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 17:48, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The possibility is just speculation... we don't add speculation. And if you can find a photo with the proper license then by all means add it. Spanneraol (talk) 18:09, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 30 October 2020
Talk:Guangdong–Guangxi War

message: This is a very funny mistake.
Who made this mistake?
The abbreviation of Guangdong is 粤(Yue), not Ao(奥).--Anativecantonesespeaker (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 08:32, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: What is "Ao-Gui war"?

message: For that matter, what's with the title? I emended the bizarre use of Cantonese, but Yue-Gui seems more common even in English than the overly-long "Guangdong-Guangxi War" to describe this conflict. — LlywelynII 02:31, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: What is "Guangdong-Guangxi war"?

message: For bilingual editors, this article could be improved with material from the Chinese wiki articles at zh:第一次粵桂戰爭 and zh:第二次粤桂战争. — LlywelynII 02:34, 16 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Article Expansion
Talk:Charlie Parsons

message: i am curious as to what the
sources/citations are that authenticate that
charlie parsons is the creator of this
television show??-- is there a reliable source
from the affiliated network or something else?
-sio.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.230.224.27 (talk) 00:07, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  citations/sources that authenticate charlie parsons... 

message: This entry seems far from Wikipedia's standards for a reasonably high profile person. Huge positive impact? Changed the face of television? "continues to create punchy headlines with its originalitY"? It reads like the Charlie Parsons publicity unit wrote it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2401:A400:2C00:A500:3C61:1833:E5B3:E3A5 (talk) 10:43, 2 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I have added an advert template. You could edit the article to remove the promotional language. TSventon (talk) 11:25, 3 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tone of entry 

message: This may be an image of Charlie Parsons, but I am not sure. Wouterhagens (talk) 19:50, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image of Charlie Parsons 

message: Did LWT really make Network 7? This BFI article suggests Sunday Productions for Channel 4. I won't change it because LWT may have had some involvement but could someone who knows more please clarify? http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/1331427/ MongogramForCandy (talk) 20:00, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: London Weekend?

message: this is historically inaccurate.
he & alli started 24 hour productions, which later merged with geldof's planet-tv.
both were clients of limehouse, & merged during the first season of 'the word'.
duncanrmi (talk) 18:34, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  again with the 'co-founded planet 24 with geldof'
Talk:Guangzhou Uprising

message: Kindly restore these to the article once they are being used to verify statements in the running text:
* Setting the East Ablaze: On Secret Service in Bolshevik Asia By Peter Hopkirk
* Кантонская коммуна. Сб. статей и материалов, М. — Л., 1929; (in Russian)
* Кантонская коммуна (К 40-летию восстания в Гуанчжоу), М., 1967. (in Russian)
 — LlywelynII 22:42, 12 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources for future article expansion
Talk:Charlotte Mailliard Shultz

message: As with the entry for Diane Buchanan Wilsey, this seems horribly self-promoting in its tone.  It could have been written (was it?) by one of the hacks at the Nob Hill Gazette.  I live in SF, and am a 4th-generation Californian who travels in the circle.  Don't these stuffed birds have enough platforms for their egos?  George Shultz and Mel Swig are people of accomplishment.  What has this person actually done, apart from marrying well?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andarin (talk • contribs) 00:30, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Self-promotion? 

message: There's no such thing as "University of Arkansas-Fayetteville". Fayetteville has only one campus of the University of Arkansas, and that campus is called "the University of Arkansas" or "the University of Arkansas Period" or "the University of Arkansas Period You Screeching Baboon". If you need to be differentiate it from other campuses in the state you can say "the principal [or headquarters, or main, or first, or original, or founding, or 'pre-expansion', or most important, or largest] campus of the University of Arkansas, that being the one in Fayetteville". The Fayetteville campus is NOT a "branch" of the University of Arkansas as is implied by "University of Arkansas-Fayetteville" All OTHER campuses of the University of Arkansas are "branches".Christopher L. Simpson (talk) 16:28, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Wrong name
Talk:Hai Rui Dismissed from Office

message: "The play was initially praised by Mao Zedong." Google Books does not corroborate this at all: Link to MacFarquhar
I would rather someone check this, I have been mistaken before.
--Student in Chinese Cultural Revolution  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.119.155.103 (talk) 22:26, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mao's opinion of Wu Han 

message: @JArthur1984, you realize that you can re-use the same citation, right? No need to insert the same one multiple times, thereby cluttering References unnecessarily. Amigao (talk) 04:07, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation re-use
Talk:Chelsea Chen

message: Ms. Chen is 40 years old.  She is no longer a “young organist.”  :)
:216.152.18.132 (talk) 02:30, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  No longer a “young” organist