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Talk:Useful Jew

message: I'd like to express a doubt that prostitutes were considered "useful Jews" in Imperial Russia. Any confirmations? mikka (t) 23:26, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: More than enough. "The freest Jewish professionals were prostitutes, who could live anywhere in the empire as long as they could prove they were plying their trade". (How Russia Shaped the Modern World: From Art to Anti-Semitism, Ballet to Bolshevism by Steven G. Marks, p.142). I'm sure it is easy to find more. If I'm not mistaken, Alexander Kuprin wrote about it in "Яма". ←Humus sapiens←Talk 09:28, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  I was speaking about more direct sources. I doubt any law or ukase existed that included prostitutes explicitely. The only possible reason I see is that prostitutes fell under the category of "skilled laborers", if such existed for the purposes of the Pale of Settlement. There could be other reasons. One may recall that bordellos were a favorite milking cow of corrupted officials. Also in coud be possible that the "yellow ticket" of the prostitute didn;t give rights for permanent residence, so technically prostitutes were not under the regulations of the Pale, since they could be evicted at any moment. In any case, the item sticks out in a kind of sensationalist way, and IMO better be placed into a proper context. mikka (t) 18:52, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)

text: Quoting: ...the urban legend of the false prostitute. Novels, films, and memoirs produced in the period in Russia and abroad repeated the story of the nice Jewish girl who signs up as a prostitute solely to get permission to live in Moscow or St. Petersburg. This narrative was undoubtedly so popular because of its titillating combination of sex, deception, and chastity. mikka (t) 18:57, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Prostitutes
Talk:Distributed programming

message: The opening text:
Distributed programming is a programming paradigm focusing on designing distributed..systems.
reads to me like a circular definition.
Can someone clarify or do better?
--Philopedia 23:30, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

message: I think that this article should be merged with Distributed computing. They mostly deal with the same notions. Hervegirod 09:26, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This article is basically a stub.  I don't know what from here would be useful to include in Distributed computing.  --Ideogram 12:48, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal to merge with Distributed computing
Talk:Covering a base

message: Merely passing through. I pause only to note that this article is essentially completely indecipherable 
to me. I am British and dislike sports, so virtually all the terms used in this definition convey no meaning to me. It's only defined in terms of other things that need definitions and thus means nothing to someone who doesn't know anything at all about baseball. If one does know about baseball one probably doesn't need this article anyway. What's a base? What's an infielder? And so on. Yes, they're all linked, but to follow all those articles would take me half an hour when all I wanted to know was what the phrase meant. I don't mean to carp but this rather needs expanding... Liam Proven 23:33, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Dalek Empire

message: In the episode 'Parting of the Ways', the Daleks leave their spaceship by flying! dose the old series say anything about flying? No. They can elevate but NOT FLY!!!
:Easily explained by the fact that an undetermined period of time between Remembrance of the Daleks and said episode. Of course, you can then turn to the plethora of expanded universe books, dramas, and other stories for an explanation, though this can induce migraine with the staggering amount of confusion trying to fathom it all can cause. Your best explanation is the one you can make up in your own head. I personally like to think that since a Dalek is already a little battle machine, all it needs is flight and it's essentially a tiny spaceship. Not to mention that enemies capable of flight seem to be popular in the relaunched series.--68.111.242.170 (talk) 04:29, 16 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: What has any of this got to do with the article? This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Dalek Empire article. It is not a forum for general discussion about Daleks or their fictional abilities.  There are plenty of other place around the internet for that.  Let's keep focused, please. 88.105.75.8 (talk) 18:53, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Daleks Flying? 

message: I removed :Image:Dalekinvasionfleet.jpg from the top because the fair use rationale was weak/nonexistant. However, I think both :Image:Dalekemperor.jpg and :Image:Emperordalek.jpg can stay, because they are both discussed within the article text, and could be discussed even more so if the article is expanded :).--Sean Black (talk) 23:57, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What we need is a screenshot for the lead - one of the Dalek city on Skaro might do nicely. --khaosworks (talk • contribs) 02:26, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images
Talk:Five Stories Falling

message: While the statement that Geoff Rickly urged fans to download Jet Black New Year rather than buying the E.P. is true, I only know this because I was at the show where he said it. Without a citation I think this statement may need to be removed. Geekdog 19:16, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced statement 
Talk:Sammich

message: From WP:RfD:
* Sammich -> Sandwich. There's no such word, or at best it's a neologism, which WP:NOT. Putting things into redirects is no excuse. -Splash 00:07, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)
** Keep redirecting from a neologism is a perfect example of why redirects exist. —Preceding unsigned comment added by SchmuckyTheCat (talk • contribs) 03:49, 17 Jun 2005
**Keep. Enough people write sammich (I routinely do, as Google will attest) to make this useful. Bill 10:40, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Blue ant

message: I'd think the proper noun version (capitalized) should point to an article about the company Blue Ant, which makes audio equipment. --Nil0lab 02:28, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, actually, having read the "trivia" at the bottom (though I have to say that term is *not* NPOV, at least to the people in the companies mentioned), I see that there's more than one proper noun Blue Ant, so clearly the capitalized entry should be a disambig. --Nil0lab 21:20, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blue Ant redirects here 

message: Adults feed on nectar, and pollinate various native Australian flowers.
is that supposed to be "Adult males"? seeing how the article says that the females are ground dwelling and hunt insects. just wondering YggdrasilsRoot 14:43, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No - females hunt insects to feed their larvae.  Male and female adults both feed on nectar. -- ALoan (Talk) 15:12, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification 

message: According to the articles on Tiphiidae and Thynnidae, this subfamily now belongs to the family Thynnidae. I'm not entirely sure how to sort it all out, but it's confusing and contradictory as it now stands. Chuck Entz (talk) 19:22, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Classification
Talk:Pretenders (album)

message: Please caption the photo with the members' names (Chrissy is obvious, but which man is which?)
L-R, Pete Farndon (R.I.P.), Chrissie Hynde, Martin Chambers, James Honeyman-Scott (R.I.P.). (per The Pretenders main page.)
A lot of this article is not actually about the Pretenders first album, but about Chrissie Hynde or the Pretenders band, or other albums.  Perhaps it could be moved to those articles?  heidimo  00:53, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)

message: Can anyone confirm from a reliable source whether Chrissie Hynde is the sole songwriter of "Precious"? The Allmusic page also gives credit to Paul Weller.Walterego (talk) 12:46, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Precious 

message: This article says the album was released 7 January 1980 in the UK and US (The Pretenders#Discography also lists it as a 1980 release). The Pretenders discography says 27 December 1979 UK and 19 January 1980 in the US. postdlf (talk) 17:47, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Release date discrepancy between articles
Talk:Scottish people

message: Why is there no section on the genetics of the Scottish population? 2.98.201.84 (talk) 12:16, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Genetics 

message: The redirect Scottish nation has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached.  CycloneYoris talk! 23:22, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "[[:Scottish nation]]" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: There does not seem to be much evidence to support this generalised and arguably outdated claim. It greatly implies Anglo-Saxons replaced rather than assimilated the Brythonic Celts which recent studies have cast doubt on. DNA mapping by Oxford University in 2015 even found the English population had far lower Anglo-Saxon ancestry than previously thought. Furthermore, whilst there will undoubtedly be higher Anglo-Saxon ancestry in the Lowlands, especially in the former territories of Bernicia, there is in fact similar Germanic ancestry in the Highlands, particularly in the Hebrides, Caithness and Northern Isles due to Norse settlement. The idea that Lowland Scots are homogeneously Germanic and Highland Scots homogeneously Celtic just has no basis in fact. VeryReluctantAcademic (talk) 10:49, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: agreed. The shift was more about language and wasn't a replacement of a different group of people. Simply, the lowlanders who were at one time Pictish or Gaelic speaking became speakers of a new language, Scots. 2001:FB1:11A:E21:9509:BCCB:28A6:38E7 (talk) 14:29, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "While Highland Scots are of Celtic (Gaelic) descent, Lowland Scots are descended from people of Germanic stock."
Wikipedia talk:Featured lists

message: Does a FL need to have the name "list" in the title? (you can laugh if that's a dumb question) I've already written the 14 articles found in the table. APK hi :-) (talk) 08:16, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: It does not, each content area has their own naming standards but there's plenty of FLs that don't have "list" in the title. Usually it's when there isn't both an article named "X" and one named "List of X", so in this case you'd be fine to leave the title as-is. --PresN 12:54, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[American Revolution Statuary]] 

message: I propose the following addition to WP:FLCR #5 (open to wordsmithing and linking to improve it):
*
 « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @  15:01, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm in favor; it makes explicit what we've been holding  to mean for a long time now. --PresN 16:10, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

text: Support: It's essentially been a de facto requirement anyways, better to spell it out in the requirements. Hey man im josh (talk) 17:42, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

text: Support - I didn't realize that this wasn't already in the criteria. -- ZooBlazer  17:52, 12 March 2024 (UTC)

text: Support the principle, but not this wording. There are other accessibility issues that come to mind (image alt text and color usage come to mind), and while lists and tables are obviously key, we shouldn't imply these are the only items that matter. It would help to link directly to the relevant MOS page, not a subsection (since the entire MOS page is fair game). I suggest:  RunningTiger123 (talk) 02:09, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: , I am fine with your wording and linking, other than . I would strike this as it is self-evident that the MOS and the FLCR are applicable. « Gonzo fan2007 (talk) @  14:22, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I added that since most FLs only have one or the other, not both, but I don't find it particularly necessary, either. RunningTiger123 (talk) 01:20, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

text: Support It would save us from having to link to PresN's comments everywhere. RunningTiger's wording seems better to me. -MPGuy2824 (talk) 02:45, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

text: Awesome, I'm happy with the wording used. --PresN 16:28, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal to Add to the [[WP:FLCR|Featured List Criteria]] 

message: Motivated by the IMO spurious assertion on the Mainpage today that "The Philippine television newscast 24 Oras has won thirty-two awards from ninety-three nominations", I've started a discussion at Template talk:Infobox awards list#Totals should be avoided. Comments there are welcome. jnestorius(talk) 14:50, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Total awards/nominations in infobox/lede/TFL-summary should be avoided
Talk:Vincent Hanna

message: I'm pretty sure VH worked with this guy on TV, but don't have info/sources. Would be good to flesh this out and link to AR's article.--Shtove 00:03, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: They were the joint presenters of Channel 4's "A Week in Politics" from about 1989 until Vincent Hanna's untimely death. David | Talk 07:01, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Andrew Rawnsley]] 

message: Wasn't he behind the BBC's coverage of the Superbowl? Way before Channel 4 started their TV show?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.183.237.246 (talk) 20:46, 23 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  American Football/Grid Iron
Talk:Novodevichy Convent

message: "Mitropolit Krititskij": is this tile derived from Krutitsy (Крутицы) or Krutitsa (Крутица) mentioned in medieval sources and approximately in the same sub-Moscow area, or any other Russian settlemets (Крутица Болховского уезда Орловской губ), (Костромская обл | Чухломский р-н, Крутица, 157141), (Костромская обл | Антроповский р-н Крутица д, 157247) ? mikka (t) 01:42, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  OK, I added a separate article on Krutitsy. --Ghirlandajo 15:56, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Krutitsy
Talk:Ocean Dream Diamond

message: This really needs a picture.
I classified this page along with most of the rest of the members of Category:Famous gems under Wikipedia:Requested pictures#Science on 27 April 2005 --Vengeful Cynic 16:52, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Conflicts of Interest (Babylon 5)

message: I suggest renaming this page Conflicts of Interest (Babylon 5). I haven't checked, but I'm guessing that there are books, movies, and political situations that are going to want to share the Conflicts of Interest and we might as well disambiguate now before people start linking here. What's normally done with other book titles or TV episodes? --Yannick 02:13, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Lots of subheadings without content -- Enochlau 06:38, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expansion
Talk:Estrone

message: Does the writer of this article have a source for the Biosynthesis section of this article. 
Thanks, 
Jlukeedwards (talk) 19:41, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Biosynthesis section

message: This article is over-focused on the effects of exposure to high quantities of synthetic estrone while mostly ignoring the biological function of estrone. Sometimes it does not clearly distinguish between the two. There needs to be a section on why estrone is important in pregnancy.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.119.208.174 (talk) 18:27, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Biological activity

message: I would strongly suggest a throughfully revision of this entry for Estrone.
Estrone is before all an endogenous hormone with important role in our metabolism, while here
it's rather treated as a poisonous hazard.
Please focus more on its actual biological role rather on its effects on the environment and exposure to
it. Reading this entry it pretty looks like every women around should already be died by cancer and so on,
for it is one of the main estrogens in our body ! So our human specie would have been already extinguished
since long, which luckily enough it is not the case...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.20.40.80 (talk) 22:17, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  This entry is misleading 

message: There seems to be a problem in that the structure of estriol is different in one place than another.  The one in the centre bottom of a diagram of structures shows only two O while the one to the right in another diagram shows three O.  Three is correct according to other sites including another Wikipedia article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.202.9.82 (talk) 14:47, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  estriol structure inconsistent between graphics
Category talk:Canines

message: Shouldn't this be at Category:canids?  Canine refers to members of the subfamily Caninae (such as the genus Canis and its close relatives).  Canids are all members of the family Canidae.  --Aranae 03:00, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)
:I agree; Canids should refer to Canidae and Canines to Caninae. The category should be renamed for the sake of accuracy. --Arny 16:39, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yup, there's at least one non-canine (Borophagus, member of subfamily Borophaginae), in the category. P.S. Names of mammal (sub)families (for example Canidae, Caninae) are mostly not written in italics. Ucucha (talk) 18:22, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the observation, I merely wanted to emphasize the words, standard style nonwithstanding. :) Anyway, I guess all of us agreeing on canines vs. canids issue could try and help correcting this mistake. --Arny 21:14, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This is tricky. Strickly speaking taxonomically yes, but the more casual definition of the word canine is defined by Webster as "of or relating to dogs or to the family Canidae including the canids." So are we writing Wiki articles for taxonomists or for the everyday user who doesn't delineate the category in such a precise taxonomical sense? Valich 00:17, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Joe Gibbs

message: J.G. runs a  professional do-gooder service called Youth of Tomorrow. Feel like this should be recognized in his article V. Joe 16:31, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Joe Gibbs Home

message: did he suport mcain just because he was white?is he a racist for not supporting Obama? this shuld be Mentioned in the article!!!!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.228.107.219 (talk) 01:24, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: sounds like an awful lot of speculation there. It seems entirely possible for a person to support a candidate due to reasons other than race. Unless you happen to have some very good reliable sources stating that he supported McCain due primarily to racism your speculations should stay off this site. Unless someone objects I don't see any reason for this section to even remain on the talk page. Drewder (talk) 04:12, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Mcain support
Category talk:Existentialists

message: Has anyone reviewed the list of existentialist philosophers here?
The Wikipedea Category for Existentialists has surprisingly few entries.
As a start, Friedrich Nietzsche who is responsible for many of the ideas that inspired
later existentialist writings, should surely be included here.
I would love to hear from others who take an interest in existentialist thought.
Akiva Quinn, 17 June 2005
:I'm not so much a fan of adding Nietzsche to this category, simply because he was not an existentialist.  If anything, adding him to :Category: Existentialism might be appropriate.  You're right, though, there are a lot of people missing.  -Seth Mahoney 00:09, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)
What about Søren Kierkegaard?  He's pretty much the founder of Existentialism. Poolboy8 (talk) 00:50, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Missing persons

message: It is a sorry sight to see that some Wikipedians have fallen into a common trap of thinking of Martin Heidegger as an existentialist. He himself denied that he was an existentialist, insisting that his quest to understand "human being" was only part of a quest to understand ontology in general. It would be more accurate to refer to Heidegger as an "existential phenomenologist" (this would show how his phenonomenology differed from the transcendental phenomenology of Edmund Husserl). ACEOREVIVED (talk) 23:26, 9 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Please delete Heidegger from this list
Talk:Pan American Games

message: I found this document while searching out a {dead-link} for another article.  I leave this here in the hopes a future editor will find it as useful as it looks.
*   Darryl.P.Pike (talk) 05:39, 8 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources to improve article 

message: The map with the host cities is wrong. No Pan American Games has been placed in Mendoza City in 1990. Please, correct it. Thanks.--186.132.255.129 (talk) 23:26, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of Pan American Games 
Talk:Don McKinnon

message: *He was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize as a result of the Bougainville negotiations.
Being nominated for the Peace Prize is an honor, but it is not official and not necessarily prestigious. Any national legislator or about a third of the university professors in the world can make a nomination, and there have been as many as 140 some years. Nominators are requested to keep their nominations secret, so it's only those wishing publicity who make announcements. Altogether, I see no reason to keep it. No offense to the subject, this is a general Nobel Peace Prize "nominees" issue. -Willmcw 03:38, Jun 17, 2005 (UTC)
Don McKinnon should have won the prize, not just been nominated.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.57.174.252 (talk) 07:31, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:David Brower

message: In the section Career with the Sierra Club, a weasel word is used in the second-to-last sentence of the first paragraph. I have copied the sentence below and italicized the weasel words.
Brower published two new titles a year in the series, but they began to lose money for the organization after 1964, though many claim they were the primary cause of the Club's extraordinary growth and rise to national prominence. Smock42 (talk) 19:34, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Wikipedia:Weasel words|Weasel Words]]

message: I believe that Brower's achievements as a mountaineer deserve more attention in this article, and I propose to expand that part of the article.  However, I do believe that his work as an environmental activist deserve most of the attention.  Any feedback?  Jim Heaphy (talk) 03:25, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: True. The Manual of Ski Mountaineering, edited by Bower, is a classic.   Will Beback  talk   05:25, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Right now we have two sentences on his climbs.  I agree that more could reasonably be said. JamesMLane t c 05:28, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Mountaineering

message: Since when could Dixy Lee Ray possibly be considered a usable source for quotations from David Brower? If there is no other source for these quotes, they need to be marked aa apocryphal if not deleted entirely.
NB: I mean apocryphal in its strict sense: of doubtful authorship or authenticity.
Dandrake (talk) 07:44, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I absolutely agree. Dixy Lee Ray cannot possibly be regarded as a reliable source for such a controversial alleged quotation. Given her politics, etc. she probably considered David Brower "Public Enemy No.1" -- so using her as a source is on a par with using a member of the White Citizens Council as the source for a controversial statement attributed to Martin Luther King. I made a serious effort to find another, reliable source for the quotation in question; however, I'm afraid that everything I checked out online cited the very same source -- Dixy Lee Ray. (Btw, this quote is a huge favorite among right-wing Conspiracy Theorists.) I am removing that passage forthwith. Cgingold (talk) 00:57, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious quotations 