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Talk:Backhand

message: Just wanted people to know that I think it is a decent article and am working on references.Mjquin_id (talk) 05:11, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference work 

message: Who wrote that first sentence it shoulds like the Queen Mother wrote it! 92.244.166.26 (talk) 11:52, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  First Sentence 

message: A person, under multiple IP addresses starting with 220.255.1, is trying to add Pete Sampras to the list of current players still using single-handed backhand. I reverted his/her edits, because the purpose of that sentence is discussing the increasingly rare single-handed backhand among current players, as opposed to great players of the past, discussed in the previous section. Therefore, Pete Sampras, as a retired player, logically doesn't belong there—he is simply not a current player. The section says a single-handed backhand was used by great players in the 1980s, and then it says it is still used by some current players. So it cannot mention Pete Sampras as an example of a current player, because firstly, the sentence uses present tense (the word "is"), and Sampras is a player of the past, secondly, Sampras started in 1990, when single-handed backhand was still quite normal (for example, Lendl and McEnroe mentioned as the players of the 80s were still active back then), so mentioning him as a current counterexample to the players of the 1980s when the single-handed backhand was normal doesn't make much sense. So please don't put it back without discussing it here or reorganizing the whole section so that it actually makes sense. Thanks—J. M. (talk) 18:01, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Great backhands, Pete Sampras 
Talk:Volley (tennis)

message: This article is in definite need of improvement because it reads like a personal essay and does not comply with Wikipedia's encyclopedic tone at all.
The sub-section Exceptional volleyers for example is full of unreferenced statements, peacock language and weasel words such as "generally considered", "well-known". By whom?
I made a start by removing 'the phrase 'who had a fine volley himself from "In his 1979 autobiography, Jack Kramer, who had a fine volley himself, devoted a page to the best tennis strokes he had ever seen", and I suggest someone with more time and/or the original author needs to improve this article in several places
31.124.45.250 (talk) 16:55, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup/Re-write needed
Talk:Ed Townsend

message: There is nothing encyclopedic about the Family section of the main article. It belongs in someone's personal website, not in Wikipedia. Misterdoe (talk) 05:22, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Family 
Talk:Drop shot

message: This article indicates that balls do not bounce as high on clay courts, while the article Tennis Courts seems to indicate the opposite. I have never actually played on a clay court, so I can't remedy this situation, but if someone could clear it up, that would be great. MrCheshire 17:26, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right, balls on clay courts bounce higher than other courts (see for example tables at ).  The real reason drop shots are common on clay courts is that many clay court court players are baseliners who often hang several feet behind the baseline, making it hard for them to cover the distance to the net to retrieve a drop shot. Elch Yenn 03:21, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bounce? 

message: no one here seems to have noticed that Bobby Riggs has been replaced in the first paragraph by Andre Agassi. Is *everyone* at WP a cretin? Hayford Peirce (talk) 01:33, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  typical WP vandalism by cretins 

message: Well - the above comment by User:Hayford_Peirce made me wonder where Bobby Riggs (or Andre Agassi) might have gone into hiding. As my search in the present gave no results, I boldly decidied to go back in time to this memorable autumn of '08 (when that comment was done) and it was really successfull; I uncovered a whole new History-section.
Further research convinced me that it's disappearance was obviously an act of well disguised vandalism: First an IP-User replaced the whole section with the term ‘blah blah blah’ and then covered up his vandalism by removing just the ‘blah blah blah’ under the identity of User:Usethefame (who has only this single edit on his account). So I decided to restore the whole section from the last version, which is definitely untampered with. -- 83.65.195.12 (talk) 10:03, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  vanished History-section restored 

message: "They also should be able to, if the opponent hits it, it will give you the mid and back-court space to exploit." I posit that this is certainly not an English sentence, since each part of this period has a different grammatical subject and is going in a different direction. As I am not acquainted with Badminton, I have no idea what these words are meant to purport. Could a knowledgeable person please clean up this mess of a passage? Thank you. -- Zerolevel (talk) 14:34, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Badminton: Confused & confusing wording
Talk:Eddie Meduza

message: The link to "Mats Olsson" points to the wrong Mats Olsson.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.214.31.205 (talk) 13:35, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for pointing that out. There is as yet no enwp article corresponding to :sv:Mats Olsson (journalist). Tomas e (talk) 23:02, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Mats Olsson

message: I don't think the line "runka, which is Swedish slang for masturbation" is correct.
Runka in swedish is an old word for 'shake'. But in popular speech it's mostly refered to masturbate, though.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Loxus (talk • contribs) 17:40, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I would say that the word doesn't mean shake anymore, except sometimes in puns, but then it's only used because of its double meaning. Try using the once common phrase "runka på huvudet" ("shake one's head") when talking to a teenager and they'll probably burst out laughing and ask how it's possible to masturbate one's head. The point is that the word doesn't mean the same thing anymore. The modern meaning is "masturbate". However, technically speaking, "runka kuken" (used in lyrics by Eddie Meduza) literally means to "shake one's dick". /Jiiimbooh » TALK – CONTRIBS 22:52, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ronka
Talk:Edgar Bowers

message: I have the collected poems of both Bowers and Winters.
A quote from the article: ". . .but his achievement far surpasses that of his mentor. . ."
Absolutely not.
They won the same awards, except Winters was nominated for a National Book Award and Bowers had two Guggenheim Fellowships.
The final, most important differences are Winters was a famous critic and a prolific writer who published more than two dozen books.
Though I like Bowers much more than I like Winters, the fact remains: Edgar Bowers published five books of poetry, one of which was Collected Poems.
The statement is someone's opinion, and there is no way it's true. And I'll probably erase it at some point in the future or someone else will erase it and replace it with fact-based information rather than opinion-based information. Smartstocks (talk) 00:41, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Concerning The Opinions In This Article
Talk:Arrows (British band)

message: Is'nt 'Pop' a little vague? Elcaballooscuro (talk) 15:17, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Genra 

message: Another example of vague names... their first album and most albums use the name Arrows only. I can't see why The Arrows then should be used. 84.215.121.104 (talk) 23:02, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

message: This article states that Arrows "had top 30 UK chart hit singles in 1974 and 1975 with "Touch Too Much", "My Last Night With You" and "I Love Rock 'n' Roll". However, the band's page on the Official Charts site (http://www.officialcharts.com/artist/15036/arrows/) doesn't list "I Love Rock'n'Roll" as reaching even the top 40. 109.145.36.40 (talk) 22:33, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Quite so, and the wording has been toned down accordingly. - Derek R Bullamore (talk) 23:45, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chart position discrepancy 

message: A discussion is taking place as to whether the article :List of Songs recorded by Arrows is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of Songs recorded by Arrows until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. AngusWOOF (bark • sniff) 20:54, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nomination of [[:List of Songs recorded by Arrows]] for deletion
Talk:Edith Efron

message: An edit by Mtstroud inserted reference to “conservative politicians such as Richard Nixon”.  Now Richard Nixon was many things, but it would take a real stretch to label him “conservative”.  As President, he asserted that William F. Buckley's group was more dangerous than the Joh Birch Society; his administration advanced “affirmative action” adjustove discrimation; he took the United States off what remained of its tattered gold standard, and effected wage-and-price controls; and so forth.  Certainly there were many on the political left who denounced Nixon, but that doesn't make him a conservative. —SlamDiego←T 17:23, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably arguable as a POV issue (I know some liberals consider him a conservative), but there is no reason to argue over it here. The two remaining examples in the article (Goldwater and Reagan) are widely considered conservative, and two examples are enough to illustrate the point without bringing in a third, more contentious example. --RL0919 (talk) 21:54, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a PoV issue, but not merely a PoV issue, as labelling him conservative is incoherent at best. —SlamDiego←T 00:51, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nixon 
Talk:Blue Ball, County Offaly

message: This is hanging by the side of the road in Blue Ball. Anybody know how old it is, how it got there etcetera. (NO smart-ass trolling tyvm). 
Was the ball relatively recently put up because of the name of the place or is the name related to the Ball? Is the Blue Ball pub the original source of the name or was it called after the place? 
Any local browsing this must know! Get to it - expand the stub!! 
(Sarah777 08:45, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Edmund Trebus

message: When did his wife die? Was she a compulsive hoarder too? When did he start hoarding - before or after his wife's death? Nietzsche 2 (talk) 15:08, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wife 

message: "he was conscripted into the Wehrmacht. He was then captured and served with the Axis forces in Italy, in an anti-tank unit of the II Corps of the Polish armed forces, which was under British command." 
Shouldn't this be "Allied forces"?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.65.209.146 (talk) 11:48, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Axis forces?

message: He got an entry in the Framley Examiner's Advent calendar: . Mr Larrington (talk) 11:38, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Framley Examiner 

message: Has this been nominated for deletion before? Is this person really notable? He appeared on a tv show, that's about it.VolunteerMarek 04:04, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: When was that? Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 14:37, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability 

message: It may be either Ostrowo, Kartuzy County, or what is now a part of Władysławowo. 176.221.120.207 (talk) 04:27, 25 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Why is it not Ostrowo, Puck County? Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 07:49, 10 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ostrowo 

message: The main article says Southgate, the other Haringey. Obviously there's conflicts with the town of Southgate v. the former Southgate Urban District and Harringay v. the London Borough of Haringey, but AIUI the nursing home was in the town of Southgate, which is in the London Borough of Enfield. I have just checked the Register of Births Marriages & Deaths and it was definitely in Enfield. DavidFarmbrough (talk) 22:34, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Place Of Death
Talk:Eduardo Palomo

message: No empujen is not a telenovela. Saturn orfeo (talk) 04:09, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  No empujen 

message: There is no clear mention to the cause of Eduardo Palomo's death. Article is incomplete.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 35.11.38.122 (talk) 06:45, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If you have verifiable information from a reliable source, feel free to add it to the article. Personal speculation and suspicions, however, qualify as original research and cannot be added. --Icarus (Hi!) 02:45, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cause for death
Talk:Ashtray Navigations

message: I know there is quite a bit of work to be done on this page, and in the coming weeks I will be sourcing the additional citations and expanding this page. However, I think everything on this page is pretty accurate (with some notable exceptions). I'm in close contact with the artist involved, and certainly nothing on here is libellous or too inaccurate. So all I'm saying is please don't delete anything, I will come up with some citations soon.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kaleeyed (talk • contribs) 20:27, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improving this Article
Talk:Mount Yuniishikari

message: This article is 10 years old and it's still small. We need more information!!!24.113.93.190 (talk) 02:47, 29 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit NOW!!! 
Talk:Edward Downes (American musicologist)

message: Maybe the world knows him as a quizmaster because of radio broadcasts, but Edward Downes was foremost a musicologist who taught in the City University of New York system at Queens College and at the Graduate Center.  Perhaps someone can retitle the article Edward Downes (musicologist). -- kosboot (talk) 12:20, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Softlavender (talk) 06:43, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Quizmaster
Talk:Edward E. Simmons

message: I spoke with Ed Simmons several times between 1998 and 2002, and he was markedly "out of it", being generally unaware of things not immediately related to his daily routine. He was quite friendly and enjoyed talking to people (though most people avoided him). He was very slight of stature, had only two or three teeth, and generally wore a black nylon turban, light green tights, and a tutu. I saw him wandering naked along Arroyo Blvd. several times. The police carried clothes in the trunk of their patrol car for him, but often found hin resistant to putting on anything more than a shirt.
When Hans Bethe came to Caltech in 2002(?), Simmons attended his lecture, and Bethe and Simmons seemed to be on hailing terms, and exchanged greetings.
1984-1988, He was a frequent patron of Caltech's Millikan Library, and I recall him being in possession of an alumni library card which entitled him to use during the restricted 5 PM - 1 AM hours.  He owned a small pickup-truck camper which he parked near to the campus.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by MathInclined (talk • contribs) 04:51, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Edward Gonzalez Carroll

message: Captain (Chaplain) Edward G. Carroll was the chaplain for the 95th Engineering Regiment.  The famed African American regiment built the Sikanni Chief River Bridge in 84 hours when the white engineers said it would take two weeks. The 95th regiment bet their monthly paychecks that they would succeed. And they did. The 93rd Engineers,the first African American troops entering into the Yukon Territory, attended church services by Captain (Chaplain) Finis Hugo Austin.  Please take a look at 93regimentalcan.com for more of the 93rd's history.  Thank you, Christine McClure  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.28.207.32 (talk) 16:54, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Mount Usu

message: I'm sure there has been an eruption since 2001. Any information welcome as I can't find any actual record via google. -maxrspct ping me  16:04, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: In the lede it has March 2000 yet the Infobox has March 2001.
So which is correct? 2600:8800:785:2A00:C23F:D5FF:FEC4:D51D (talk) 08:19, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Which year is it ?
Talk:Atomkraft

message: Holy irrelevance batman...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 205.236.144.4 (talk) 18:27, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The article reads like a fansite written by a fourteen year old.  Please give attention to Wikipedia:Reliable sources and Wikipedia:Verifiability and less to familiarity, frippery and froth.  Wikipedia is an encyclopedia.  Thanks,
Derek R Bullamore (talk) 11:03, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Style 
Talk:Edwin D. Morgan (businessman)

message: Re portrait of Mrs. Edwin D. Morgan Jr. It is not immediately clear that this was his mother. I tried to add ‘Morgan’s mother,’ to the beginning of the caption, but it came out in red. Perhaps someone could do this correctly.
Re picture of the yacht. Caption reads: ‘Morgan's father and mother on an open-air 'veranda' on the stern of their steam yacht likely May, 1899’ As his mother was born in 1897, this date cannot be right. Valetude (talk) 17:01, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Morgan's mother
Talk:Edwin H. Colbert

message: Starting Talk Page: In the Beginning...when you start out all alone, save for the fellow soldiers you work with, all sharing and desiring to: literally unearth the secrets hidden below the Earth's surfaces, How can one say Enuff for the Great folks that have led the way before us?... We all walk, after previous footsteps. We all stand, are raised up on shoulders of those who have led, ways, paths, vias,  ...before us. Colbert, and colbert's dinosaurs assisted me.
And of note: his pet dog, [only in size], was Coelophysis!  For those who take dinosauria lightly, coelophysis was a "proto-dinosauria", and probably one of the "eo-dinosauria". Colbert was a lucky, and fortunate trailblazer....  (From the SonoranDeserts ofArizona).... -Mmcannis 03:58, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: An honoring: to Mr. Colbert
Talk:Eileen O'Connell (politician)

message: My mother's birthplace is Halifax, not Antigonish. I have her birth certificate to prove it. Her family didn't live in Antigonish until she was around 4 or 5.
Thanks for keeping up her page!
Carolyn Carpan  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.157.43.94 (talk) 01:52, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I just searched internet archive to find a copy of bio from NDP website when she was MLA, and that states she was born in Halifax, and raised in Antigonish. The mixup appears to have been made when the infobox was added. I would say the likely reason was the article at the time said raised in Antigonish, and an editor might have misread it. Cmr08 (talk) 03:21, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birthplace
Talk:Ekrem Akurgal

message: What has become of the photo of Akurgal which accompanied his biography?
86.138.250.56 (talk) 18:12, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Photograph
Talk:Elaine Parent

message: It's sad this has been unsourced so long. 
*Google web hits
*Google news hits
These negative BLP's are always a headache, but due diligence requires an attempt be made to source before we rush to delete.   Dlohcierekim  22:41, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Declined speedy deletion-- sourcing is out there-- maybe 

message: Excuse me, User talk:David in DC why the attack warning on my talk page?
I have made only two minor edits. In the first, I erroneously made the section heading lowercase, then realized that "Parent" was a surname. See edit diff. I am certain that you have the wrong editor. Esowteric+Talk 22:48, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Please see my apology on your page.  Here's a shorter version.  I effed up, big time. I'm sorry. Please trout-slap me. David in DC (talk) 12:20, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Warning on my talk page 

message: The following material was removed from the article because it was unsourced. Okip   02:52, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed unreferenced information
Talk:Defensive democracy

message: There are two cases to use defensive democracy:The Sozialistische Reichspartei (SRP; a pro-nazi party) case in 1952, the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) in 1956. In Both Cases, BVerG judged them with a theory - liberative democratic principle-,such as democracy, humanity, free-choosing religion, et cetera. Solzhenitsyn 09:46, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  I forgot to add my signature. and there are some cases in BVerG. 

message: Aharon Barak wasn't the first one to use the term. a cross-checking in google of the words "yardor" and "defensive democracy"  would show us, at least in part of the results, that the term was in use in the year 1964 . and yet, seemingly it was also not the first time to use these term.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.110.111.176 (talk) 07:48, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aharon Barak wasn't the first one to use the term
Talk:Eleanor Holm

message: The bottom of the biography states that Eleanor Holm received $30,000 a month in alimony in her 1954 divorce settlement from Billy Rose. The year 1954 goes back 59 years into time. Very few citizens in the United States could have afforded to pay that kind of money at that time. Thirty-thousand dollars in 1954 is the equivalent of about $1,000,000 today. The figure of $30,000 might be a mistake in the biography.
Anthony22 (talk) 21:07, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question concerning Eleanor Holm's  $30,000 a month alimony from Billy Rose  in the year 1954 

message: "In 1932, she was one of 14 girls named as a WAMPAS Baby Star"</br>
Shouldn't it be "In 1932, she was one of the 14 girls named as WAMPAS Baby Stars"--Adûnâi (talk) 13:25, 26 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  A weird sentence 

message: The information here does not agree with his Wikipedia entry. Can it be used to correct this one? Wis2fan (talk) 13:22, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Art Jarrett
Talk:Blue Mink

message: A couple of sources say that Allan Holdsworth played with Blue Mink. See, for example, http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Allan:Holdsworth.htm. Donovan has also repeatedly said this. Is that true? —BarrelProof (talk) 01:58, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Allan Holdsworth 

message: It was tremendously rare at the time to have Black people and white people in the same pop group. I think this should be mentioned 83.199.128.193 (talk) 07:05, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  ethnically mixed group 

message: How was "People Are Together" "too radical for American radio" - were the lyrics changed, or was the Blue mink song itself too radical for the USA? And what does "too radical" mean, in this context - un-segregated?Royalcourtier (talk) 23:55, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too radical for USA? 

message: This track should be referenced against Oasis - F£&kin in the Bushes track. 79.66.224.4 (talk) 22:12, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gidda Wadda Wobble
Talk:Alan Parker (musician)

message: Alan, we’re you credited in the Oasis track Fu&@in in the Bushes? 79.66.224.4 (talk) 09:44, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Credits 

message: The sleeve notes to David Bowie's album 'Diamond Dogs' list Parker as guitarist on '1984', so I think that counts as an official credit. Parker has also been widely mentioned as helping Bowie with the riff of 'Rebel Rebel', though he is not listed in the credits.2A00:23C8:7907:4B01:5F7:FF5C:CA20:6704 (talk) 13:42, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  1984