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Talk:First Sudanese Civil War

message: The result of the VFD can be found here: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/First Sudanese Civil War -- AllyUnion (talk) 13:42, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  VFD Result 

message: Why is Anya nya a redirect to Anyanya, when the first spelling is the "correct" one as used in the Library of Congress? --ZsinjTalk 15:29, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The Library of Congress is not the first and foremost authority on everything. --Ezeu (talk) 00:35, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anya Nya 

message: I just made some edits that may be subject to dispute,
# The claim that their was foreign support for Sudan is not one reflected in the subject literature. The website which was used as a reference lists arms exporters to Sudan during the decades in question and makes no mention of the war. This in itself doesn't give evidence for USSR or UK political support for the Republic of Sudan.
#There are two SSLMs, one from the first war and one from the second. The flag and article linked to in this page refer to the collaborationist Nuer factions from the Second War. The two have no continuity other than name.
-- Secondat of Orange (talk) 20:14, 16 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  On SSLP, and UK & USSR support for Sudan
Wikipedia talk:English phonetic spelling

message: I think this is well-intentioned, but it's certainly not POV neutral.
The author is correct in that many dialects of English have a ridiculously large number of supposedly different vowels.  "Caught" and "cot" are not words that would ever be mistaken for one another in a sentence.  G.A.E. has abandoned the "aw" sound because it's not useful.  In California people pronounce the vowels in "dude" and "food" differently (/dy:d/ and /fu:d/, more or less), but we don't expect that kind of local quirk to be reflected in worldwide teaching materials.
The "international language" was FRENCH until World War II.  English is the new standard because of American influence.  Why people around the world are learning British English instead is certainly confusing.
:This represents a project that was only sporadically used, and has been pretty much abandoned.  More than a year ago, there was a kerfluffle about how best to convey the pronunciation of foreign or unfamiliar words.  This was a bigger deal then than now, because the software then could not reliably convey IPA transcriptions.  Some favoured IPA, which still requires some training to read; others a hideous ASCII version called SAMPA, now all but abandoned; while others favoured pseudo-phonetic prah-nun-see-YAY-shun spellings.  I started this as an alternative proposal.
:I deliberately chose a lowest-common-denominator version of General American in this.  This was done to avoid the misleading nature of guides that assume familiarity with the obscure A sounds of British English, and assume non-rhotic pronunciations — these were two areas that contain pitfalls.  Telling people to pronounce Goethe like Gertie is seriously misleading for speakers of the majority native dialect of English; and if you distinguish short O from AW, the distinction may not carry for those who did not.  Speakers of insular dialects seem uncomfortably aware that their remote archipelago is no longer the centre of gravity of the English language, and as such this article has been subjected to several attempts to Briticize it.  
:The chief motivation for this article --- the inability of the software to reliably carry IPA information --- has been obsoleted by technical developments.  IPA is also equal to the task of conveying the obscure A sounds of British English without ambiguity.  As such, this proposal has mostly historical interest now.  -- Smerdis of Tlön 15:32, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The only reason I could see to keep this is that the discussion might be useful if the subject ever returns again.  Smerdis of Tlön 05:56, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Hm, okay. I'll redirect it then to Wikipedia:Manual of Style (pronunciation). That way everything's still around if it's useful in the future, but people will stop coming by this and saying "What a horrible proposal! No, this cannot be!". —Felix the Cassowary (ɑe hɪː jɐ) 08:05, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  hwat a streinzh artikl
Talk:South Korea national football team

message: Add South Korea's 2018 Asian Games Gold medal 2400:9800:4B0:8671:1:0:E1A8:3156 (talk) 14:00, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: It is clearly stated that all tournamets after 2002 are under-23s, and not senior. Snowflake91 (talk) 14:05, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 14 January 2024
Talk:Islamic prayer

message: #REDIRECT Talk:Salah
I removed the link to 'dua', because the article dua gives a common Indian surname. In the edit history of dua, a redirect to Duamutef is given, which is an ancient Egyptian god. If someone can make a good article about the Islamic dua, feel free to make a disambiguation page. Coffeemonster 14:42, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Talk:2005 Danish general election

message: Something is screwy with the table on this page.  The article says: "The Radical Left party made the biggest gains of any party, although it remains outside the governing group of parties."  The preliminary results have the entry: "Radical Left (RV)                        307,306   09.2  +04.0     16 ".  Yet in the spiffy table with the party logo, the Radical Left (RV) is nowhere to be found.  What's the story? --Jfruh 15:02, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, I see now: the name of Det Radikale Venstre was being translated in two different ways.  I changed the text to match the party's official translation. --Jfruh 15:12, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Where's the RV party in the table?

message: Which parties won the seats from Faroe and Greenland? Gangulf 11:46, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Faroe and Greenland

message: Has Denmark changed its electoral system? At the last election 135 members were elected at county level, and another 40 were elected by proportional representation at national level. At this election all 175 seats seem to have been allocated at county level, according to the figures at the Interior Ministry website. Adam 09:23, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Danish electoral system
Talk:Octopus Cards Limited

message: I would say Hong Kong Government's shareholding is rather indirect, and has little say (and decision power) over the company.
hello  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.153.181.194 (talk) 03:04, 18 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  HK government shareholding 

message: Since there is no article for parent company Octopus Holdings, should we make this article about Octopus Holdings instead?  Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 07:43, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  move to Octopus Holdings?
Talk:John Nathan-Turner

message: I'm the one who uploaded the free picture of JNT.  It's a picture I took of him in Whovent 86 in.. I can't remember this second what city it was.  Either Philadelphia or somewhere in New Jersey.  Anyway, the original photograph that I scanned for this was pretty darned mangled 21 years later.  I turned up the dust and scratch repair functions of my scanning program as high as they can go.  It still made for a jpg that had some scratch damage.  It doesn't look bad in the thumbnail on the JNT page itself, but if you look at the larger version, you can see it pretty clearly on the right side of the picture.  If someone wants to take a stab at cleaning it up, let me know via my talk page.  Thanks.  Dopefish 17:54, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  JNT Picture 

message: Are there still any present in the article? If so, can someone please point them out, or better still remove them? DavidFarmbrough (talk) 11:33, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: After reading and tweaking without looking for too many new sources, I think there is still some weasel phrasings in this article. Can I pinpoint them? Not really, it is just the general feel I get from the amount of weight given to fan criticism. Maybe its more of an WP:Undue weight issue? ZueJay (talk) 02:06, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weasel Words 

message: Can we not just leave out the contentious content?-- Deepfriedokra   21:28, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  liver failure 

message: * https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/mar/22/jnt-scandalous-doctor-who-review establishes the significance and credibility of the source
* https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/doctor-who-sex-scandal-claims-1783650
* https://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=10873666
Any sources for the final outcome? Or was it all dropped because he was dead? Guy (help!) 23:46, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  That book
Talk:Carly Fiorina

message: Hello!
Hope you and your family is all well. My suggestion is to make that she is a Democrat. She said she will vote for Joe Biden in 2020. 2600:8805:9900:5AF:E196:1FF3:EF85:E9D3 (talk) 20:38, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Rummskartoffel (talk) 21:11, 5 July 2020 (UTC)

text: It was clear to me that this IP editor wanted to change Fiorina from Republican to Democrat, which is not supported by any references. Nobody is saying she is now a Democrat. So this request is definitely not going to happen. Binksternet (talk) 21:17, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 5 July 2020 

message: Hello.
Currently she is a Democrat. She said she would vote for Joe Biden. https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/25/politics/carly-fiorina-joe-biden-trump/index.html2600:8805:9900:5AF:D0C1:7A7C:B27:B04B (talk) 11:13, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: The source you provided reports that she intends to vote for Biden, but not that she is a Democrat. Democrats need not vote for Biden and people who vote for Biden need not be Democrats. Rummskartoffel (talk) 11:53, 7 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 7 July 2020 

message: The "political positions" section is redundant with the one in her 2016 campaign page.  I think that this section should be removed.--Sa57arc (talk) 22:23, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I think removal is too much. Greatly pruning the section here is a good idea, though, leaving all the detail at a campaign page. We should tell the reader her positions on major issues, that she is anti-abortion, for instance. Binksternet (talk) 23:29, 17 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: OK. I will think about this some more.--Sa57arc (talk) 03:16, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I read it over again and I changed my mind. I am going to leave it as is.--Sa57arc (talk) 04:29, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove political positions section?
Talk:Dictamnus albus

message: Needs to me merged with Dittany, I believe. --DanielCD 15:36, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The page has been turned into a disambig page, and this is no longer relevant. -- Kizor 17:10, 20 May 2005 (UTC)

message: Since Dittany of Crete is a redirect to Origanum dictamnus, perhaps Dictamnus (the genus) should redirect to Dictamnus albus (its sole species, according to the article.) Feezo  (Talk) 01:14, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Scratch that. Looks like the article is wrong.  Feezo  (Talk) 01:42, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirect

message: The second paragraph in the "Historical medical uses" section begins (italics are mine):
An infusion of the tops of the plant was also used as a pleasant and efficacious medicine in the gravel. It was believed to work powerfully by provoking urine and easing colicky pains which frequently accompany that disorder. 
I traced this text all the way back to:
09:00, 18 February 2005 Lady Tenar (talk | contribs) (3,833 bytes) (merge with content from Dittany) (undo) 
And then back further in the current disambiguation Dittany page's history to the time it was an article. The original text was the same as the current one, so "in the gravel" is not from an editing mishap along the way.
A Google search for "gravel illness" turned up one mention of kidney stones being obliquely referred to as gravel. My first impression was "gravel" was a typo for "gravid," but that seems unlikely. 
Sorry that this is all I can do at the moment. I have my own, non-gravel illness to deal with, so I appreciate anyone who can finish this research and revise the section. I suggest starting with a search for "kidney gravel" to find a decent reference. 
Thanks, Geekdiva (talk) 08:52, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  A "disorder" called "in the gravel"?
Talk:Penelope Pitstop

message: User:Ashley Pomeroy just modified the sentence: "Nonetheless, when the villain "The Hooded Claw" grabbed her and held her back- down over his head, she would somehow be incapable of doing anything other than yelling "Hayulp!" and flailing her limbs uselessly above her, like an upended turtle." The phrase "like an upended turtle" was removed with the comment "NPOV edit; we cannot see into the minds of turtles". I don't understand how the phrase was a POV problem nor how it implied turtle mindreading. Puzzled, -- Infrogmation 15:55, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: In a recent television programme in the UK (100 Greatest Cartoons) it is averred that amongst the "personal grooming devices" in Penelope's Pitstop's car, the second or third item was quite visibly "VIBRATOR" and they backed this up with a screenshot.  I can't honestly say that I recall this from my youth, but if it is true and verifiable, it is probably the most interesting thing about this character, and probably deserves a mention in the Wikipedia article. Legis 12:49, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Vibrator

message: "despite having white sclerae, she wears red lipstick."
Why "despite"? What's the one got to do with the other? 
:84.70.129.162 (talk) 18:15, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I came here to ask exactly that, and seeing that no one's posted any kind of justification in almost two years, I'm going to "be bold" and go ahead and remove that phrasing. 2601:4C0:4002:52E0:F5AA:C515:2C47:22B8 (talk) 19:54, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why "despite" ?  

message: Penelope Pitstop became a running joke on the YouTube series No More Jockeys. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeZucoN2CCA&t=885s
Her gloves are jokingly referred to as "job gloves", which has been used in some vandalism on this article, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Penelope_Pitstop&oldid=1078679168 2A02:6B68:C62:0:ADA3:77C4:1F31:E155 (talk) 23:27, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  No More Jockeys / Job Gloves
Talk:Velvalee Dickinson

message: I wonder where this Velvalee Dickinson is today?  Any news would be appreciated.--205.68.101.193 16:46, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: While revising the article, I came across an Italian reference that stated she died in 1980, but said nothing else.--Mitsukai 17:37, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Does anyone who is already familiar with this person have any idea as to her motivations? Purely for money? Engr105th 06:36, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Motivation ?? 

message: This sentence "Typewritten letters between Dickinson and the women involved were identified by the FBI as having been used in the "Springfield" letter." seems confusing. Is this describing the typewritten individual characters from the typewriter (letters) are the same? Or that the entire mailed letters between the two were somehow "used" in the springfield letter? The latter is quite ambiguous.72.25.177.218 (talk) 18:33, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification 
Talk:Portfolio (finance)

message: The title of Portfolio (finance) seems somewhat clumsy.  Are all financial portfolios investment portfolios, as the lead section suggests?  If so, why not move it to Investment portfolio?  That would be easier to read and to link.  --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 13:35, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with this point. -- — Keithbob • Talk •  20:08, 16 July 2011 (UTC)

text: . Millbug talk 22:16, 7 March 2019 (UTC)

text: I'm not so sure. The common term is "Portfolio" and the disamgbiguator is "Finance" so the current title makes sense. Also, the term is used in many different ways of which "Investment portfolio" is only one (trading portfolio, market neutral portfolio, etc.). --regentspark (comment) 05:02, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: So why not to change the disamb to investment? Millbug talk 01:30, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Because not all portfolios are investment portfolios. For example, a trading portfolio that is held by a high frequency trader is not called an investment portfolio. Though, technically, anything held for even a nano second is an investment, in common as well as financial usage, it implies holding assets for a longer period. --regentspark (comment) 04:48, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Title

message: I have a good story video 2400:1A00:B050:425B:946D:BD53:4B0C:C8E2 (talk) 16:33, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contant creator
Talk:International relations within the Comecon

message: Seeing as the Communist bloc no longer exsists in Europe, it seems daft to refer to how the comecon is 'benefiting' nations such as Cuba, Vietnam etc. Snooo 16:58, 9 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Lol, didn't notice at the time :-D . It seemed to be a very clunky document - although looking back most of the changes I made were related to the tense of the document. Will look back over to make more changes when I get a chance. Snooo 16:32, 10 Feb 2005 (UTC)

text: Since nobody objected in almost 16 years, and given that it seems a clear oversight, I just added it. Steffens123 (talk) 17:38, 4 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Present tense?
Talk:Baba Yaga

message: In the modern culture section, I recommend adding the book Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott. It is an expansive and important cultural retelling of the Baba Yaga myth. Link for nore info: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/673386/thistlefoot-by-gennarose-nethercott/ 2601:985:4201:EE0:611B:AC7B:9EE1:AFB0 (talk) 04:23, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add Thistlefoot Novel 

message: Either in “Attestations” section or a new section called “In Classical Music” (?), there should be a reference to Mussorgsky’s piece Pictures at an Exhibition.  The Emerson, Lake, and Palmer’s version referenced in Baba Yaga wiki wouldn’t exist if Mussorgsky hadn’t written the piano suite first! Mcksis (talk) 19:19, 9 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. You could have done it yourself. BTW it has nothning to do with attestations. - Altenmann >talk 22:16, 9 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: yaga river in mansi language, nation in Siberia/ Yagach ass in turkish languages 176.65.114.68 (talk) 20:33, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mussorgsky  

message: Undue for the lede and no place to move it in the article
Scholar Andreas Johns identifies Baba Yaga as "one of the most memorable and distinctive figures in eastern European folklore", and observes that she is "enigmatic" and often exhibits "striking ambiguity". Johns summarizes Baba Yaga as "a many-faceted figure, capable of inspiring researchers to see her as a Cloud, Moon, Death, Winter, Snake, Bird, Pelican or Earth Goddess, totemic matriarchal ancestress, female initiator, phallic mother, or archetypal image". Ben Azura (talk) 17:38, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: There's always a place. I placed it near the other mention of Johns. Maybe another place would be even better, but this should do. Gawaon (talk) 19:47, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Awesome. Thanks for finding a place for it. Ben Azura (talk) 22:17, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Andreas Johns
Talk:Croatian cuisine

message: Thought it wuld be nice to have a page with differnent food specialities from Croatia, since this country really has a hh
lot to offer that is so far unknown to the big wide world. Please be free to change or add antything You want (I am not even quite sure if some translations are correct in English, so please change wrong or weird-sounding entries). It would be nice if we could create a complete list of specialities, recipies, etc. User: Neoneo13 — Preceding undated comment added 17:15, 9 February 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Bonaventure

message: Someone added a philosopher infobox beneath the saint infobox. Do we want to keep both? Aristophanes68 (talk) 16:59, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I think no. It seems unnecessary and unwieldy to me. Keep the saint one, remove the philosopher one. There hasn't been much activity on this article in a serious way for a while, so I may just do this myself if no one objects in a few days. — AlekJDS talk 05:37, 14 June 2011 (UTC)

text: Yes. He is notable both as a saint and as a philosopher. The philosopher infobox is a quick, handy way to check out his stats as such. carl bunderson (talk) (contributions) 04:36, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two infoboxes 

message: I have added a template indicating that the Philosophy section of this article is confusing to readers. See the above discussion on this page under the section heading "Not written in encyclopedic style" for my thoughts on the problem. — AlekJDS talk 05:37, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems clear enough to me; so what specifically do you want clarified? carl bunderson (talk) (contributions) 04:36, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: "Confusing section" template

message: The top biographical section gives the date for canonization as 14 April 1482 by Pope Sixtus IV. The section "Feast day" repeats the year of canonization as 1482. The section "Theology and works" gives the date of canonization as 1484 by Pope Sixtus IV. I recommend someone investigate, correct the error(s), eliminate repetition, and add a detailed reference to the date settled on. Theo2amore (talk) 02:48, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two dates for canonization 

message: The entire philosophy section appears to be plagiarized from the sources cited at the end of each paragraph. According to Wikipedia's guidelines on plagiarism, the section should be erased, or rewritten to include paraphrase and quotations. 74.77.143.77 (talk) 23:44, 27 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: If you're referring to the 1907 Catholic Encyclopedia entry or the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, both appear to be public domain. Mannanan51 (talk) 05:17, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plagiarism 

message: Important info missing:
Why was he sainted with the name Bonaventure when his real name was Johnny Fidanza? And wouldn't it be spelled Buonaventura since he was Italian (Papal States)? - Tangverse (talk) 05:33, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

message: The Life section refers extensively to people other than Bonaventure, but it's not clear why they are mentioned (their connection to his life).
Can anyone knowledgable fix this? Eteb3 (talk) 12:51, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Life' section - why Roger Bacon?