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Talk:Polewiki

message: * Polevik Variations: Polevoi, Polevoy, Polewik The polevik of Polish fairy lore are described as looking bipedal goats, they are NATURE SPIRITS — Encyclopedia of Fairies in World Folklore and Mythology
* Polevik (Russian, Slavic) Also known as: Polevoi, Polevoy. Spirit of the field. If you are drunk and fall asleep in a field, a Polevik may attack and murder you. A Polevik is usually dressed in white. He may have grass in place of hair. He could appear as a dwarf with two different color eyes. The female version may be Poludnitsa, who is not as vicious. Sometimes shown in white. — Encyclopedia of Ancient Deities
* The outward appearance of the Polevik varied according to region. Sometimes he was simply someone 'dressed in white'. Sometimes the Polevik had a body as black as earth and two eyes of different colours. Instead of hair, long green grass grew on his head. At times he would appear in the guise of a deformed dwarf who spoke a human language. The Polevik liked to amuse himself in the same fashion as the Leshy by misguiding belated travellers. — New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology, p. 291
* The Polevik appears at noon or before sunsei; and at time it is unsafe to take a nap in the field, for the Polevik, roaming about on horseback, will ride over those who are sleeping there, or will send disease upon them. He runs away before the swing of the scythe and hides among the stalks that are still standing; when the last ears are cut, he gets into the hands of the reaper and is brought to the barn with the final sheaf. — Slavic mythical beliefs, p. 203
* The Polevik. horse or afflict you with disease. His children run through the fields, catching birds for their parents to eat. To appease a mischievous or annoying Polevik, place two eggs and a cock too old to crow in a ditch, but without letting anyone see you. Until harvest time, the Polevik is as tall as a cornstalk, but then shrinks to the size of a stubble. He runs away from the farmers with their scythes, hiding among the stalks, but he is always caught and brought to the barn with the final. — Slavic Sorcery: Shamanic Journey of Initiation, p. 151, 206
--Лобачев Владимир (talk) 03:08, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source.  Polevik, polewik (multiple face – ''poleviki'')
Talk:Vodyanoy

message: He usually rides along his river on a half-sunk log, making loud splashes. Consequently, he is often dubbed "grandfather" or "forefather" by the local people [my emphasis]
The implication is that riding along rivers on logs making loud splahing noises is exactly the sort of thing grandfathers do in that part of the world. Which doesn't see quite right to me.
86.13.184.107 (talk) 16:55, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strange use of "Consequently"
Talk:Strzyga

message: Copied with specific permission from . silsor 04:29, Jan 4, 2004 (UTC)
The name seems to close to Latin striga, strix to be a coincidence. It would be nice if an etymological note could be added. 85.8.12.78 00:35, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes, Slavic Striga (=Polish Strzyga) is borrowed from Latin strix.
1. After christianisation a baby could become striga if it died before being christiened. One form of baby striga were little children with owlish wings instead of arms. Other form were owls with children's heads.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.10.231.82 (talk) 17:28, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

message: Obviously, this word's ultimate roots are in Latin 'strix', and it has cognates in Italian 'strega', Romanian 'strigă' (related to 'strigoi'), Albanian 'shtrigë', etc. As to how it arrived in Polish, I wonder if the intermediate of Romanian 'strigă', meaning both barn-owl and evil spirit or ghost, is a pretty reasonable theory, particularly as it is known various Romanian (Vlach) peoples migrated northward toward Slovakia and southern Poland in the Middle Ages and such, and a few words and concepts did become part of their languages (as well as a few surnames). It couldn't have been borrowed directly from Latin 'strix', since the form of the word does not match. And Italian evolved an 'e' in the word ('strega'). Albanian 'shtrigë' also wouldn't match, and had no way of really reaching Poland as there wasn't really direct interaction between them. There is, however, a derivative form 'striga' in Latin, and it is admissible that it could have been borrowed straight from it, but given Poland's location, and the semantic development of the term in line with others in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, it's uncertain. A Romanian etymological dictionary (http://www.dex.ro/strig%C4%83) says that the Polish word, along with a Slovenian equivalent must be derived from Romanian, though I don't know if you can cite that with absolute certainty. Polish also has a related form 'strigonia', which seems to correspond directly with the Romanian form 'strigoaie' (the '-oi' and '-oaie' suffixes likely derived from Latin '-oneus', '-onea', and the 'n' is still found in Aromanian and likely was found in Old Romanian, when it was shared to Poles by northern migrating Vlachs. Word dewd544 (talk) 00:21, 10 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strzyga etymology
Talk:Belenus

message: I'm not sure how to proceed here. Belenus is a Continental Celtic/Gaulish deity. He is not attested in Ireland or Wales, nor is Belenus the same as Bile, though it is possible Belenus is a related or cognate figure with Welsh Beli Mawr, they are not the same, nor do they have the same myths or attributes, so to speak
In Irish the figure Bile is not the same, even etymologically/linguistically, with the sacred tree, the Bile. 
There is possibly a linguistic relationship between Belenus, and Beltaine, in that scholars think Bel- may mean "bright," and hence "sacred."
But We Don't Know. See MacKillip Dictionary of Celtic Mythology, s.v. Belenus, Bile, Beli Mawr, Beltaine; Proinsias MacCana s.v. Beltaine, Rachel Bromwich Triodd Ynys Prydain s.v. Beli Mawr.
--DigitalMedievalist
---A convincing argument has been made for the original name of Cuchullain having been Cullan (R.S. Loomis ? Alwyn and Brinley Rees?) This would tend to indicate Q-Celtic Cullan being cognate with P-Celtic Belen/ Pelin, not to mention P-Greek Pollon.  Cuchullan has many of the attributes of a sun god, including the geis on him not to rise later than the sun nor to go to bed later than the sun. --[user: timsharp600]90.33.79.193 (talk) 20:27, 8 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The only relevant inscription at Inveresk that I can find mentions Apollo Grannus, not Apollo Belenus. There are inscriptions to Bellinus (sic) in Lancashire and County Durham, though. Q·L·1968 ☿ 23:58, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: attributes

message: Why is this article in the category for sea and river gods? Not that I question the categorization--I have no knowledge of the subject--but the reason should be explained in the article. Katherine Tredwell 00:26, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The nearest I've found is reference to images of Belenus being depicted with what is thought to be Belisama; no specific mention of her being a consort so I've changed it accordingly, and added the reference to Koch to support the claim. Beurlach (talk) 17:38, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Water associations

message: There is a french one-man black metal band called Belenos  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.96.203.23 (talk) 08:24, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Group 
Talk:List of Golfers

message: The title needs to be changed to "List of golfers" (small 'g') to be consistent with other sports lists. e.g., List of footballers, List of boxers, List of chess players, etc.
A list already exists at List of golfers. The contents of this article need to be merged there and this page be made a redirect to that. Or List of golfers can be deleted, and this page moved there. 
I've added an entry for this in Wikipedia:Duplicate_articles. Jay 09:02, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)
Talk:1752

message: The process of changing from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar in Great Britain meant that 1752 started on March 25, missed 11 days out in September, then ended on December 31.  Therefore January 1 1753 was the first time New Year's Day was celebrated on that date in Britain, not January 1 1752.  That's why I moved the date. -- Francs2000 09:27, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with Dave and Boz... - the Act is quite clear in that regard. I've tweaked my table to show the start of the British year as 1 January, not 25 March. I'm not certain that the Russians were in synch with the Brits up till then, though indications elsewhere in WP suggest that they were; any Russian legal experts out there? Robin Patterson 03:22, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I have made some year layout proposals which would affect a significant proportion of the year pages: an example of proposed style is 1850. It is detailed on my talk page. However pre 1800 the change is largely cosmetic.
If no-one flags where I have put the discussion on my talk page that they object in a month I will start making everything consistent. It may take some time... --(talk)BozMo 16:15, 11 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  years page layout
Talk:Nikon F

message: I'm not entirely sure what constitutes a "full" system, however the Exakta Varex was produced in 1950 and had a good set of System accessories, such as
Interchangeable waist- or eye-level finder - metered or otherwise
included microscope adaptor, extension bellows, stereo attachments, medical attachments and various specialized finder screens
Thousands of lenses
No doubt it was the first Japanese system camera and the Exakta is a fiddly system, none the less it would appear to be a full 9 years ahead. I've flagged rather than edited, as perhaps others have a different view of what a system camera should be.
TheWishy (talk) 19:51, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: First System Camera?

message: I've now compared this page with the History of the single-lens reflex camera page and the German Nikon F page, both of which contained much more information about the Nikon F.  I've incorporated text from both pages.  There will be rough edges: go ahead and fix them.  One thing, though: I don't think there should be any mention of first system camera without substantiation.  Groogle (talk) 07:01, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Major overhaul

message: Well-known sources claim, that Nikon F never been on the Moon surface. For example, this source argues about Nikon, "mounted in the righthand rendezvous window and periodically made time exposures during the dark portion of the lunar orbit". First Nikon was part of the box of Apollo 15 and we did not found any sources about it's participation in Extravehicular activity. Do you know any authoritative source about Nikon F residence on the Moon surface? Runner1616 (talk) 04:54, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  The first and only 35-mm SLR on the moon 

message: Wasn't in named for Masahiko Fuketa, the chief engineer? The "F for reflex" seems like it was pulled out of nowhere.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.220.238.155 (talk) 02:39, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origins of the "F"
Talk:Racial Holy War

message: The old external link, www.creator.org.au, no longer works (the domain is inactive).
: David Gerard 16:33, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: David Gerard 16:54, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)

message: I took the liberty of removing the atheist & Christian project banners as there was nothing here or in the article itself regarding either of those topics. Do note that I am not saying that those topics are unrelated to the topic of the article, only that there's nothing related to be found in the current content of the article. -Brother Dave Thompson (talk) 08:18, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Atheist & Christian Project Banners
Talk:F. J. Robinson, 1st Viscount Goderich

message: Looking at the painting by Wonder and reading the unpublished Dutch article on Academia.edu, the argument that this is Goderich does seem to need a bit more substantial evidence.  First, the picture itself - the man is dressed as a footman or a groom rather than as a gentleman - wearing what appears to be a livery outfit with a striped waistcoat, breeches and gaiters, and carrying a top hat with a gold band.   Second, the argument for the painting as allegory appears to hinge on the fact that Goderich was a Tory; that there had been a shooting accident in 1828 at Sudbourne involving other Tory MPs; and that Sudbourne is the source of the game on the table: it all seems a bit tenuous as a basis for identifying the man as Goderich. The Sudbourne connection with Wonder could do with better exploration?  Tommybrock 11:01, 10 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: The painting by Wonder

message: There is a difference between the formal title and the territorial qualification. The comma indicates the difference. In the case of "Viscount Goderich, of Nocton in the County of Lincoln", the latter part, "of Nocton in the County of Lincoln" is not part of his title. Similarly Thatcher's title is "Baroness Thatcher", not "Baroness Thatcher, of Kesteven in the County of Lincolnshire". Timrollpickering 21:18, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Territorial Qualification, not title

message: "Goderich had been an able minister but when it came to leading he was unsure and the government couldn't be run effectively as a number of Tory MPs stepped in to become the unofficial Prime Minister in an effort to help Goderich run the country."
*gasp* Someone who knows what it all means (i.e. not me) rewrite that with some internal punctuation, please! 86.136.250.154 (talk) 00:22, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  This is a horrible sentence 

message: The IPA has the o in code, the re-spelling has the o in bot. Which is correct? DuncanHill (talk) 20:58, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I've fixed it, the IPA was correct. DuncanHill (talk) 21:07, 19 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: The article notes that Goderich is the man in the Pieter Christoffel Wonder painting, citing an unpublished student essay as the source. Does a WP:RS exist? Furius (talk) 20:08, 14 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Man with the hat 

message: I thought Goderich served 144 days & Canning 119 but under Prime Minister it says that Goderich served 3 days more than Canning. Ally Bearders (talk) 15:09, 31 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Length of tenure
Wikipedia talk:Donation addresses

message: "makes a donation" -> "make a donation"
:Vacuum 17:29, Jan 4, 2004 (UTC)
::Done. Thanks for pointing it out. Angela. 11:27, Jan 11, 2004 (UTC)
Hi, not even sure why this is protected, but I was going to replace the page with #REDIRECT Wikipedia:Fundraising as I've been making all the pages that relate to this topic redirect there. This should too - Jack · talk · 01:27, Friday, 2 March 2007
: Done. Thanks. – Luna Santin (talk) 19:02, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
Talk:History of the Falkland Islands

message: I don't think the Yaghans could have made it, because travelling such a distance on a simple canoe must have been very dangerous, especially in those days. There has been no evidence to show the Falklands had been forested. Also, if the Yaghans had been to the Falklands, why couldn't they stay there and be the "indigenous people" of the Falklands? -- Warrah Falkland Islands — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scottishwildcat12 (talk • contribs) 10:54, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  comments on the bit about pre european discovery
Talk:Solar cell

message: I'm here to learn about the topic, so I am not sure how to fix it without introducing error but....if anyone is following this page, please at least try to fix the grammar. Also, how can it also be called a photovoltaic cell if it is a type of photovoltaic cell? Seem like one of those statements is partly wrong Elinruby (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 00:03, 26 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current lede is gibberish 

message: Factual numbers like cell efficiencies, prices per watt, or deployed world capacities, do not appear for any date after about 2012-2016 in various parts of the article.  Some parts describe "forecasts" for 2017.  Edits from someone who's conversant with 2019 efficiencies, market makeup, and prices (and can cite references for them) could really benefit this article.  Gnuish (talk) 06:24, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems to me that there ought to be a WikiProject:Solar Power or a WikiProject:Solar Electricity or a WikiProject:Solar Energy so that these projects could be owned, coordinated, and managed to higher standards. MaynardClark (talk) 21:27, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hasn't been updated since 2016 in many sections 

message: Sorry, is this article about "solar" cells or about photovoltaic cells/photovoltaic devices?  Because they are not the same thing, and when I was last editing this article (re-writing it, really), my edits reflected this.  If you don't know that they're not the same thing, or can't understand how they would be two different things, it seems likely that you should not be editing this article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.77.205.122 (talk) 05:16, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Solar Cell" or "Photovoltaic"? 

message: — Assignment last updated by ChloejWard (talk) 03:40, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: ERTH 4303 Resources of the Earth
Talk:The Breetles

message: This seems like advertising rather than information and I think it should be deleted.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Moncrief (talk • contribs) 21:32, 4 January 2004‎
:VfD decided to keep the page.
The archived debate is here: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/The Breetles— Preceding unsigned comment added by  (talk • contribs) 15:31, 12 April 2004‎ Meelar
: That's not reason for deletion, but it is information tailored to serve as advertising, and deserves more balanced editing, and investigation re COI.--Jerzy•t 07:41, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  (Deletion) 

message: I removed this:
:  "Breetveld may not be the best singer on the planet (hey, just like Brian [Wilson]!) but he writes and plays so well, the surf's always up.".Ken Richardson, SOUND&VISION Oct. 2005
because the result of a Google search:
: No results found for site:www.soundandvisionmag.com breetveld OR breetles
and reverted 32 minutes later after it hit me that that claim to notability was sourced to the print mag, not the Web site. Truth is, it's not likely that getting my hands on that old a print article is going to reach the top of my priorities. But someone should provide a volume, issue, & page citation, and clarify at least on the talk page just how the article implied that "Brian" clearly meant Brian Wilson.
--Jerzy•t 07:41, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad citations 

message: Is 
: The Breetles are Chris Breetveld and anyone who plays Breetles songs, with or without him. 
supposed to be a mind-blowing slogan, or a policy? If it is a policy, what does it objectively mean? I can't see how it could be meaningful policy, and if it isn't it's hard imagine that it is encyclopedic info about a notable band. --Jerzy•t 11:05, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious 

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) 00:08, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  removing POV tag with no active discussion per [[Template:POV]]
Talk:Forms of state

message: why is democracy "unjust"?
:Because Aristotle was an élitist, but never mind that. The point is that this entire article is worse than useless. It basically only deals with the views of Plato - and it doesn't even cover those properly. The content should be moved to the article on Plato (if it's not discussed there already) and this page should be made a redirect to forms of government. -- Mihnea Tudoreanu 12:44, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I've looked around, and found that much more comprehensive information exists in the specific articles on Plato's works, particularly the one on Plato's Republic. Therefore, I will proceed with making this article a redirect. -- Mihnea Tudoreanu 13:09, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Next time you make a redirect, try to make at least a token efforn to clean up after yourself.  --Chinasaur 19:28, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Personal subpages to be deleted/Archive 1

message: Just a recommendation: when I want to get rid of a subpage of mine, I orphan it, and redirect it to my user page. Has some advantages: keeps the history freely available (nobody can accuse me of censorship), is easily revertable (nobody can accuse me of unilateralism), doesn't use secret sysop powers (nobody can accuse me of sysop abuse), doesn't break any links, etc. Perhaps we can avoid the whole controversy by just recommending that people follow that approach?
Warning: I'm speaking generally: have no idea what the specific fuss is about... Martin 22:42, 7 Sep 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: But if someone wants to remove the history of "their own" pages then I still think that should be allowed. Angela 22:53, 7 Sep 2003 (UTC)
replies: text:  Perhaps I have a lack of imagination, but I can't think of any good reason to do so. Especially now we have 100+ sysops, so the history will still be practically available, but in a different place. Even for folks who are leaving Wikipedia, I view the solution of user:Kat and user:Zoe as a better one. Martin 23:39, 7 Sep 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirecting - the uncontroversial form of deletion!
Talk:Middle dot

message: Llull, I have combined the two Chinese paragraphs again, because they are both on that same theme, that being, well, both Chinese. I read your summary carefully ("I put the Catalan part up because of is a language ortography caracteristic"), but do not find that it is a suitable justification for inserting a Catalan paragraph between two Chinese on a very related topic: "partition mark". If the reason you moved the Catalan paragraph up is something else, like because you felt that having it one paragraph lower is disrespecting Catalonia or something like that (not to put words in your mouth), then move it to the first paragraph (after the intro). I do not care, but it is better for the reader not to disrupt the continuity of themes in the article. --Menchi (Talk)â 23:25, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Continuity/flow 

message: The raised point appears to be used consistently as the multiplication sign in Germany: 3·4=12. This seems not to be a purely coninental European thing, though, since France uses "x": 3x4=12. I wonder what the geographical ditribution of · versus x is. -- Picapica 15:55, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Mathematicians frequently use a "multiplication dot", when they show a sign for multiplication at all (juxtaposition also means multiplication). When dealing with vectors, however, both the dot (⋅) and the cross (×) are used, and actually mean different kinds of multiplication.  — Gwalla | Talk 01:26, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Raised point as "times sign"
Talk:Canton of Fribourg

message: I have removed an external link to a site that was promoting economic development and investment in the canton rather than providing information. Kokiri 22:34, 4 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Hello ! There is a vote going on at Latin Europe that might interest you. Please everyone, do come and give your opinion and votes. Thank you. The Ogre (talk) 21:18, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Latin Europe 