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Talk:Atyrau

message: The city is located both in Asia and Europe, as it is divided by the Ural River (by local tradition; by international sources the border between Asia and Europe is by Emba river). If the international convention has the border being the Emba, rather than Ural River, then it shouldn't be placed in the Transcontinental Cities category Nik42 02:49, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: Someone had put 330,000 in the infobox. It was completely out of synch with the text, which said less than 150,000. The same thing was done in a few other languages by the way. Actually, with nearby urbanized "villages", the population is 200,000, while the oblast has more than 400,000 - so I have no idea where the former number came from. I have also changed the ethnic figure. All that is on the basis of official numbers given by the oblast:
http://www.e-atyrau.kz/eng/
That page also quotes the distance to Astana, rather than to Almaty. Perhaps we should do the same?
--Paul Pieniezny (talk) 00:41, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Hello Administrator ! Atyrau population editing editing 217 314 (2013)[ww.stat.kz/publishing/2013/Демография/август/2_2013_Б-14-07-К.rar Численность населения РК по областям, городам и районам Республики Казахстан на 1 июля 2013 года] Thanks. (Асхат Жалиев (talk) 10:35, 23 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Total population 

message: Why is the distance between Atyrau and Almaty mentioned? Almaty is not the capital anymore. It's Astana now. Aminabzz (talk) 15:48, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Almaty
Talk:HMS Centurion (1911)

message: I am reading a little book about Cromarty, written by someone who remembers the RN activity around that area in the 1930s.  He writes about HMS Centurion being used as a target ship.  All her guns had been removed and she was controlled from the destroyer HMS Shikari which carried the radio gear to control Centurion.  Both these ships were painted light brey when all the other warships were painted dark grey.  He says that she was sent to Bombay after Japan entered the war where she was stationed offshore with dummy upper works to look like a King George V class of battleship as described in the main article but could be wrong about that.  She was sunk at Arromanches as part of the Mulberry harbour and withstood the storms better than the other smaller ships.  --jmb 08:29, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: She was officially a Fleet Target Service vessel until April, 1941.  Then she was converted into an imitation of HMS Anson, with dummy turrets, citadel &c.  Winston Churchill, directly responsible for her change of use, paid a visit to her while converting.  She was then dispatched via the Cape of Good Hope to Bombay, where she arrived before the Japanese war began.  It was realised that she could do nothing out there but lie at anchor, so she was sent to Alexandria, where she participated in Operation Vigorous and for a time was stationed in the Great Bitter Lake on the Suez Canal on Antiaircraft work.  She remained there until March 1944 when she returned to Britain to be readied for scuttling off Arromanches.  --Harlsbottom 10:02, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Target Ship

message: I've added some stats to the info box, taken from King_George_V-class_battleship_(1911), cleaned up the lead section, deleted some repeated links and corrected some grammar throughout the article. I'll continue to expand the article as I get time if no-one objects. Gehyra Australis (talk) 14:07, 20 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm sure no-one will object. Dolphin (t) 10:35, 21 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clean-up and expansion 

message: This is fascinating. I'm inferring from elsewhere in this article and the Talk page that her 13.5-inch battery had been removed at this point. Does anyone know what AA fit was contemplated? Would the absence of main armament be why she was not termed a potential "AA battleship"? She sure doesn't have much of the cruiser about her - too much armour and not quick enough...Tirailleur (talk) 11:46, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "she was briefly considered for rearming in May 1940 as an anti-aircraft cruiser in support of the Norway campaign."
Talk:Charyn Canyon

message: I am reverting 2 edits due to copyright infringement introduced on 22 October 2008. The text was copied and pasted from OrexCA.com and STANTours.com, where copyrights are clearly stated. • Gene93k (talk) 12:59, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revert of copyvio 

message: The original stub appears to match the Alamaty City website where copyright is asserted. • Gene93k (talk) 12:59, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Additional copyright problem

message: Why is this and similar articles called 'Charyn' instead of 'Sharyn'? Where does this 'ch' spelling come from? Either the name should be corrected or there should be some explanation as to why it isn't 'Sharyn'. 207.172.134.7 (talk) 19:02, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why 'Charyn'? 

message: I am skeptical of both of the supposed etymologies. The Uyghur word for ash tree is ئەرمۇدۇن (ärmudun), not 'sharyn', and I am not familiar any word in any Turkic language that has a meaning of 'precipice' and bears any resemblance to 'çar'.
I am not an expert; it is possible these are words that I simply do not know. But the cited source is a travel guide that does not cite any source, let alone one reputable in etymology. A more reputable source is definitely needed here. 207.172.134.7 (talk) 19:40, 29 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed due to close paraphrase of copyrighted content. ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me!  16:18, 9 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spurious etymologies?
Talk:Kazakh Steppe

message: The climate described in this article is exactly the same as the climate on the Canadian Prairies.  68.146.118.145 16:14, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Similar Climate to Canadian Prairies 

message: What is that about knocking a jew over ? I will remove it as it is unnecessary and it must be considered offensive. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Juliancoccia (talk • contribs) 23:45, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism ? 

message: This article is about the Kazakh Steppes, which extend across all of Kazakhstan. Saryarka - Steppe and Lakes of Northern Kazakhstan only occupies one part of the Kazakh Steppes. The UNESCO infobox and additional world heritage-realated info should be on a different page specifically for the Saryarka area. Otebig (talk) 09:07, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I just did it myself.Otebig (talk) 18:25, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split 

message: I read a book that included information about how the steppes were formed. I think it is important to include this in the article. It was the consequence of nuclear testing in Khazakhstan. It caused the climate and terrain to change dramatically.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.221.144.60 (talk) 04:02, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Kazakh steppes existed for thousands of years before nuclear testing. Selerian (talk) 07:14, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  How did the Steppes come to be?
Talk:Ishim (river)

message: Lake-like expanse? Not really; although the river has been deepened and possibly widened a little, I don't think anyone who had actually seen this area of the river for themselves would ever compare it to a lake.
Can the term public beach be used when an entrance fee must be paid?
I've not made any changes as I'm unsure on the exact meaning of 'lake-like expanse' and 'public beach' - if others want to consider and edit as necessary or advise, it'd be great.
88.204.215.149 (talk) 20:26, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure what was meant by "lake-like" either, I'd say feel free to change it.  "public" usually means government owned, not necessarily free. I think if it's a city owned beach calling it "public" would still be appropriate even if they charge a fee - though 'municipal beach' would be an even more exact term if that's the case. Kmusser (talk) 20:38, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Old talk
Talk:Ili (river)

message: ==Untitled==
Tamgaly Tas is a site on the Ili with Tibetan Buddhist carvings, not to be confused with the Tamgaly world heritage site. Both are covered separately on Russian Wikipedia, and I can confirm that they are in completely different directions from Almaty, where I live, as I have been to both! For this reason I intend to remove the link from this page, and hope to create a page for Tamgaly Tas in English in August. Harlandski (talk) 14:58, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tamgaly vs Tamgaly Tas 

message: Tamgaly Tas is a site on the Ili with Tibetan Buddhist carvings, not to be confused with the Tamgaly world heritage site. Both are covered separately on Russian Wikipedia, and I can confirm that they are in completely different directions from Almaty, where I live, as I have been to both! For this reason I intend to remove the link from this page, and hope to create a page for Tamgaly Tas in English in August. Harlandski (talk) 14:58, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Krymchaks

message: This is generally an excellent article but the lack of in-line references and only one listed source gives me some concern.  If more references cannot be found, it will likely end up at WP:UGA.  Good work overall, though.  Eluchil404 23:02, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Good Article Nomination

message: The Good article nomination for  has failed
:Lack of citations and only one source. More, and it should pass.
 Iolakana|T 18:19, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:Good articles|Good Article]] [[Wikipedia:Good articles/Nominations|nomination]] has failed
Talk:Utah and Northern Railway

message: Added external link, and changed the Wikipedia link from Mormon Co-op to Mormons, to make the link functional.--Don Strack 21:25, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I'm not entirely sure who is making the changes to this article, but I want to congratulate that individual and thank them for helping to expand a stubby article that otherwise would have gone unnoticed for some time. Some genuine meat has been added here that is actually new information that I didn't know regarding the valley where I live (Cache Valley). Thank you.
Most of the edits have been done by anonymous "IP address" accounts (aka they have not even bothered to "registered" a new user account), but they have been of fairly high quality. If there is more like this.... keep it up! --Robert Horning 19:56, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article Enhancement
Talk:Lake Zaysan

message: One of the key citations for the claims about Lake Zaysan is an article from a "Benjamin F. Dorfman." The link to the scientific article in question does not present any qualifications or institutional background for this character, and a google search of the name brings up nothing but the article, "Zaysan—the Only Surviving Cretaceous Lake—May be Lost," published in a now defunct journal that seems to have been run out of a Chinese research society that I can't find connected to any real geological and geographic research institutes or universities. What's more, the citation itself, the "paper" is bizarre, truly bizarre. I have worked a lot of with academic research written by someone in a second language, and the paper's problems don't appear to be because of linguistic barriers, rather it seems like the cheap, older English translation software common in China was used to translate a Chinese report into English, making the Benjamin F. Dorfman, San Francisco, citation, rather sketchy. There are a ton of linguistic, semantic, and bizarre formating errors to the article, and I recommend it and all claims based on it, simply be removed from the article, which needs a considerable overhaul from the WikiGeography group.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.84.72.212 (talk) 00:18, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Benjamin F. Dorfman Article 

message: :... un Lac, appellé Jamisch, ...
is how the lake for the usual residence of Galdan, khung tayiji of the Dzungars, appears in the contemporary account of a Swede kept as a Dzungar slave appended to the 1737 Nouvel Atlas de la Chine. Anyone know the language, the original name in it, and proper contemporary orthography? — LlywelynII 01:14, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Lake Jamisch
Talk:Petropavl

message: RUSSIAN MAJORITY
I wonder why they have a picture of a mosque when it is a city founded by Russians and with an overwhelming Russian majority like the rest of Northern Kazakhstan...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.53.111.123 (talk) 21:02, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: :Petropavl → Petropavlovsk – The article should be moved to "Petropavlovsk, Kazakhstan". It is the official and common name of the city, and it is used on Russian Wikipedia. Also there are no documents stating that the "-ovsk" was omitted. Source: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Petropavl%2CPetropavlovsk&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=26&smoothing=0 Newsovietperson (talk) 02:05, 15 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed move
Talk:Engineer (Final Fantasy)

message: As per discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Final Fantasy/Sub-projects/Jobs, most character class articles are to be merged into the main Final Fantasy character classes article unless they are deemed otherwise notable.  The WPFF has been trying to reel in the amount of crufty articles spread across the project.  This class article would be better suited merged into the main article.  Please discuss here or at the aforementioned talk page for the project. -RaCha'ar 15:18, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge
Talk:Talas River

message: reference http://talaschu.org has problems --katpatuka (talk) 18:36, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: Would showing the general location of the river be useful (e.g. http://www.grid.unep.ch/products/4_Maps/others_1_chu_talas_assab.jpg) ?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.29.222.179 (talk) 03:35, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Show the general location.
Talk:Shymkent

message: Actually I lived in South Kazakhstan for several years, too.
: 1. Soviet Union period and Maps. Since Russian language doesn't have "enough" letters in the alphabet, like kazakh "Ә","І", "Ң", "Ғ", "Ү", "Ұ", and "Қ", and has specific grammar rules (like "ЖЫ, ШЫ пиши с буквой И!"),they had to spell the personal Kazakh names in the way as they do it right know. For instance: (Kazakh vs. Russian spelling) Жамбыл - Джамбул, Мәншүк - Маншук, Шу - Чу, Қапшағай - Капчагай, Алматы - Алма-ата or even Қазақстан (Kazakstan) and Казахстан (Kazakhstan). Russian people can't pronounce and spell these words correctly (the same way as Kazakhs), so they made others to do as they do. Another example, Шымбүлақ - Чимбулак, it starts from the same "Чим", however, it wasn't a part of Uzbek territory. 
: Almost all maps were created and printed in former Russian SFSR for whole Soviet Union (it can be seen on the right bottom of the map). Of course, the most popular language, at that time, was Russian, so people used to pronounce names as it was shown on these maps.   
: 2. Generally, there wasn't any "Kazakhstan" or "Uzbekistan" at that time. Some period in history, Tashkent was a part of "Kazakh" territory.
: 3. What I found is "Слово Шымкент состоит из двух корней: тюркского "шым" - "дерн" и иранского "кент" - "поселение, город" ГОРОД НА ШЕЛКОВОМ ПУТИ (as I understand you know Russian). It doesn't say about 'Uzbek' or 'Kazakh' origin. It says 'Turkic'. 
: 3. Renaming, in this case, means return its correct or historical name. For example, Алма-ата (Alma-ata) - > Алматы (Almaty), Кустанай (Kustanai) - > Костанай (Kostanai), Kзыл-орда (Kzyl-orda) -> Қызылорда (Kyzylorda), Джамбул (Dzhambyl) -> Тараз (Taraz), and so on.  
: 4. I agree that Wikipedia is just 'first come, first serve'. However, it dosn't mean editing percentage so it won't sum up to 100% :) Encyclopedia has to be encyclopedia with some reliable information. 
Best, BernardTom (talk)  —Preceding comment was added at 08:27, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re: Requiring a Citation 

message: If I understand correctly (I don't speak Russian), :ru:Мюр и Мерилиз says that ЦУМ is short for "Central universal store": is this another name of Muir & Mirrielees, or a common noun, or a corporate name which is used as a common name for this type of store? Apokrif (talk) 18:57, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  ЦУМ in [[:File:Shymkent.jpeg]] 

message: Something could be said about the government's grandiose plans for Shymkent, as described here (being careful to avoid the CRYSTALBALL trap. Batternut (talk) 10:35, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grandiose plans for a new district 
Talk:Temirtau

message: External links were dead, so I deleted them. 
65.213.77.129 (talk) 13:33, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Töretam

message: I deleted the incorrect claim that Francis G. Powers was "looking for" Tyuratam on his ill-fated GRAND SLAM mission on 1 May 1960. In fact the site was first imaged during the SOFT TOUCH missions, on 5 Aug 1957, and re-imaged several times later. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Baikonur_CIA_U-2.gif for one of the images from these later flights. The main objective of the ill-advised Powers mission was to find or disprove the existence of operational SS-6 sites. Will O'Neil (talk) 04:00, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect entry
Talk:Aksy

message: I've removed an old neutrality tag from this page that appears to have no active discussion per the instructions at Template:POV:
::This template is not meant to be a permanent resident on any article. Remove this template whenever:
::#There is consensus on the talkpage or the NPOV Noticeboard that the issue has been resolved
::#It is not clear what the neutrality issue is, and no satisfactory explanation has been given
::#In the absence of any discussion, or if the discussion has become dormant.
Since there's no evidence of ongoing discussion, I'm removing the tag for now. If discussion is continuing and I've failed to see it, however, please feel free to restore the template and continue to address the issues. Thanks to everybody working on this one! -- Khazar2 (talk) 00:03, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  removing POV tag with no active discussion per [[Template:POV]]
Talk:Balykchy

message: balykchy means fisherman, not fishing place  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.61.23.69 (talk) 18:41, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Kant, Kyrgyzstan

message: Such a pity! I was in Kant two days ago, but had not known about this request and didn't make any picture of Kant. I'll try to do it the next time I'll go there. It's not really difficult, Kant is just 20 km to the East from Bishkek, buses do got there regularly. Bektour 14:57, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Photographs of Kant

message: I spent a couple of months in Kant, and the people there told me that "Kant" means "sugar cube" in the Kyrgyz language. This seems to make more sense. It's difficult to imagine that Kyrgyz and Russian peasant farmers naming a city after a German philosopher of the Enlightenment. Robko626 18:01, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, they named other German settlements in Kyrgyzstan "Rotfront" and "Luxemburg".Cosal 20:13, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Named After German Philospher?
Talk:Kara-Suu

message: Are we sure it means "clear water"? As far as i know kara in turkish languages means "dark" or "black". Vipera (talk) 11:32, 23 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Name of the city
Talk:Karakol

message: The Sights section needs considerable clean up, it is written more like tourist guide than an encyclopedia entry. Sources are needed in that section as well. Pmelton87 (talk) 03:19, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Sights
Talk:Kyzyl-Kyya

message: This city is listed as the 7th largest city in Kyrgyzstan which states that it's population is 44,144. However the city's page states that the population is 31,727. And the Kadamjay District that it is located in states that the largest city in the district is Kadamjay which has a population of 6,732. Can anyone verify the population of Kyzyl-Kiya? Thanks! 
Pmelton87 (talk) 03:26, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Population
Talk:Mayluu-Suu

message: Bald and bankrupt did an awesome "walk around the town" video about Mailuu-Suu, may be interesting if you want to know more about the city: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtYgsifAhtY  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jeanlucaslima (talk • contribs) 13:07, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Videos about Mailuu-Suu
Talk:Peter of Rates

message: This article should be moved to Peter of Rates, according to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people), where it says: "don't add qualifiers (such as "King", "Saint", "Dr.", "(person)", "(ship)"), except when this is the simplest and most NPOV way to deal with disambiguation;" Please see: Paul of Tarsus for an example. Thanks. Joaopais 15:28, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia is made of consensus, if consensus was reached when discussing whether or not the qualifier "Saint" should be included in the article's titles, we should respect it. The qualifier should not be used, so, we should remove it from the title. I don't understand the problem with the fact that nobody knows him as "Peter of Rates", of course not, but we can redirect "Saint Peter of Rates" to it. It's about whether we keep the standards or not. Obviously, the article will start by saying that Peter of Rates was a Saint, just like in Francis of Assisi. Cheers! Mário 19:48, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Green Mountain Railroad

message: They also had a 2-8-0 numbered 15.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.249.1.161 (talk) 05:42, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I added the information regarding Green Mountain 15 to the article back in November. That locomotive was only owned by the Green Mountain Railroad for a few years before reverting back to Rahway Valley #15 in 1973. --JCC the Alternate Historian (talk) 14:14, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing locomotive 

message: I need some urgent help with this article! When I was editing the Green Mountain Railroad article yesterday, I decided to add two sources to mention the fates of former units #400 and #401 after they were sold by the GMCR. However, after I completed the edit, the information about #401 somehow moved down into the reference section and oddly became the source for #400 with the real source for the latter not showing up at all!. I tried fixing the problem directly after that, but it didn't help at all! Could someone please help fix the mistake? I can't figure out what is causing the problem. Just in case the sources for 400 and 401 get removed and need to be readded, I am going to place them here below this comment.
http://www.danbury.org/drm/alco/alco2.html - Source for #400
http://www.danburyrailwaymuseum.org/nh0673.htm - Other source for #400
http://catskillmtrailroad.com/cmrr_401.php - Source for #401
--JCC the Alternate Historian (talk) 20:40, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: All set. Each "ref name" needed a closing bracket. I also added the Danbury Railway Museum link that you listed above. --Ken Gallager (talk) 20:50, 9 March 2018 (UTC)

text: I wasn't able to access the Danbury.org link. If you get a chance, you might consider converting the refs to the  format so you can display information such as page title, publisher, etc. --Ken Gallager (talk) 20:53, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you Ken Gallager! Sorry about the inconvenience, but at least it's fixed now. I'll take your references from now on. By the way, I also left a message on the Vermont Railway talk page discussing the problem with the former units template with #381 not being where it is suppose to be. Could you please help me out with that? You can reply back to me on that talk page. JCC the Alternate Historian (talk) 14:59, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Urgent Help With Article/Edit Request 3/9/2018
Talk:James N. Gardner

message: AfD closure comment: No prejudice against a renomination of this article if the concerns of this AfD aren't met in the near future. --Deathphoenix ʕ 15:35, 7 July 2006 (UTC)