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Talk:Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten

message: This record neglects to say how Mr van Zanten actually *died*.
Randal Oulton (talk) 08:06, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Um

message: Is that page about Captain Van Zanten or about Tenerife Disaster? About Van Zanten there are a few informations, but about the accident there are a lot!
Look at italian version of this article on italian Wiki, it's perfect. --79.16.195.56 (talk) 13:51, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Off topic page

message: I have recently had the Dutch article, "Wie was Veldhuyzen van Zanten?" translated into English.
It doesn't contain the statement that Van Zanten was 'Mr. KLM' for which there is a citation in the text. SAHBfan (talk) 19:36, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Problem with references

message: I propose merging this to the main article; other than the crash the subject wasn't really notable. --76.117.164.50 (talk) 15:22, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge 

message: Why does Jan Bartelski redirect here? --Mûĸĸâĸûĸâĸû (blah?) 16:49, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jan Bartelski
Talk:Jacques Cartier (jeweler)

message: Not mentioning how much his work was influenced by Islamic art in his biography is like ignoring trees role in why Giraffes have long  necks. I just came from Dallas museum of art with hosts an exhibition filled with cartier’s finest pieces and how his inspiration and details came from Islamic art. 47.187.45.122 (talk) 22:23, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cartier and Islamic art
Talk:Cartoons (band)

message: someone fix those 92.81.161.172 (talk) 14:18, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  404 links 

message: Doo Dah seems to have peaked at least at number 9, reference here: https://books.google.pt/books?id=AQ4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA52  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.132.125.74 (talk) 13:06, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doo Dah in Italy
Talk:Jahmaal James

message: Much reporting on this topic is handicapped by a Canadian-wide publication ban, although I'll quote the judge who issued the 2006 ban that "The ban does not apply to information obtained outside the court". Any information I put on these pages is footnoted to its legitimate source, and nothing comes from any personal knowledge, discussions or attendance at legal hearings. Sherurcij (speaker for the dead)  03:44, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Publication Ban

message: This page seriously needs to be wikified.  The writing is atrocious and and the attempts at a neutral point of view are pathetic.  Somebody out there is actually trying to paint this guy as unstable or as a "rat" as opposed to just laying out the facts.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.137.245.206 (talk) 14:21, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flag this page!
Talk:International Correspondence Chess Grandmaster

message: It seems that 2700 ICCF rating is as rare as 2700 FIDE rating. So it would be good to list all with 2700 and over ICCF rating like it is done for FIDE (List of chess players by peak FIDE rating)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.149.61.49 (talk) 22:08, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broaden the article
Talk:Philidor position

message: Added further analysis/comments to the philidor rook&bishop vs. rook ending ScottRShannon (talk) 01:29, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: R+B vs. R

message: Added citation needed to the sentence The rook can be won in fewer than fifty moves, avoiding a draw by the fifty-move rule in Queen versus rook section. This is misleading. If it means from the Philidor position, the rook can be won in at most 8 moves (I make it) assuming checkmate doesn't happen first, whereas if it is meant to be from the general position there are obviously many draws. Averbakh gives several drawn situations - I think in Queen and Minor piece endings, but I don't have it to hand - the two positions shown here will do. 
Martin Rattigan (talk) 21:40, 28 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Queen vs. rook

message: Some consider this to be one of the most important positions in endgame theory".[1] 
That quote has an ending quote mark but no beginning, and the reference is offline. So where does the missing quote mark go? Art LaPella (talk) 04:32, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Must be my error - I expanded it.  Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 04:45, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quote mark 

message: Rook and pawn versus rook endgame and Rook and bishop versus rook endgame are already their own articles, and the queen versus rook endgame is mentioned at Pawnless chess endgame#Queen versus rook. Shouldn't we move the information here to those articles instead of keeping information about these positions here when their only relation to each other is that they're endgames who happen to have been studied by the same guy?
ISaveNewspapers (talk) 22:56, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, maybe you are right, I'm not sure.  Initially the only "Philidor position" I knew of was R+P vs. R.  Then I learned that these other two eldgames were also called "Philidor position", although I am pretty sure that if someone says "Philior position", the almost always mean R+P vs. R.  So the information was probably in this article before some of the other articles were started.  So, as I feel right now, R+B vs. R and Q vs. R can be covered in the other articles, but I'd rather keep the R+P vs. R material here.  Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 23:28, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree with Bubba73 – to me the first Philidor's position I think of is R+P vs R. I'd only think about R+B vs R or Q vs R in the case that either of these much rarer endgames was already being discussed. Double sharp (talk) 13:38, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does this need to exist?
Talk:Women's World Chess Championship

message: Maybe in the case of Sonja Graf using the white, red and black tricolor version of the german flag beside her name for the 1934 championship could be considered. The tricolor version was in official use 1933-35 and Graf was no fan of nazis.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.111.70.134 (talk) 15:04, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Nazi flag

message: *Women's chess
I just set this up and had this article link to it. Anyone is welcome to develop the article.  Blue Rasberry (talk) 16:06, 12 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  New article - women's chess
Talk:Get Down (Groove Armada song)

message: Don't the video of this song has been inspired by Rayman and the Raving Rabbids ? (possibility due to the fact they've done Rayman 3's introduction with Lovebox' Madder) SSBMboss 14:43, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Russian witchcraft

message: This article should not be deleted unless it is merged into another topic.  I'm going to mark it as a  for now and cross reference it with Witchcraft.  I am also going to flag it for merging with Witchcraft
:DeleteWhile I'm sympathetic to the idea of merging, I can't actually find any content in this short article that would be worth copying across! If the whole article were merged, I think it would, be pretty quickly edited out by the active editors there! Kim dent brown 14:55, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Do not delete, merge with [[Witchcraft]] instead
Talk:Hypermodernism (chess)

message: Would Bird's Opening (1. f2-f4, etc) constitute as a hypermodern opening? ~ Tommy Kronkvist (talk|contribs) 08:12, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That's not clear, it part yes, but not a good example of a Hypermodern opening. ChessCreator (talk) 02:19, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

text: Not exactly. It's concerned with controlling the center, but w/o occupying it w/ pawns that can end up as targets. The Dutch Defence does this (1.d4 f5), so does the Sicilian (1.e4 c5). Bird's can also be considered a "flank opening", and flank openings, e.g. English Opening, are hypermodern. (Dutch & Sicilian & English are discussed in The Oxford Companion to Chess (1996) under schools of chess, The Hypermodern movement.) --IHTS (talk) 03:27, 9 February 2019 (UTC)

text: Pawns are pieces, too... Mitologus (talk) 22:28, 1 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bird opening 

message: "It [My System] introduced and formalised concepts of the pawn chain, overprotection, undermining, prophylaxis, restraint, rook on the seventh rank, knight outposts, the dynamics of the isolated queen's pawn, and other areas of chess." Really? I suspect that some, if not all, of these concepts had been understood a long time before Nimzowitsch. Indeed, we are actually told in the History section that knight outposts were emphasised by Steinitz. JBritnell (talk) 18:16, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Exaggerated claims
Category talk:National sports teams of Australia

message: Is there a reason that men's national teams are in the main category and women's national teams are in a subcategory?  I've started moving the men's national teams to a separate subcategory so that the two genders have parity.--LauraHale (talk) 19:16, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Category:Men's national sports teams of Australia is a good idea. User:Fred Bauder Talk 22:45, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Men and women's national teams
Talk:Electoral district of Moreton, Wide Bay, Burnett and Maranoa

message: I have redirected Electoral district of United Pastoral Districts of Moreton, Wide Bay, Burnett, Maranoa, Leichhardt and Port Curtis to Electoral district of Moreton, Wide Bay, Burnett and Maranoa, in accordance with this reliable source  which lists it as a single electoral district.  This is consistent with the government gazette, by which the pastoral districts of Point Curtis and Leichhardt were added to the electoral district by proclamation in September 1856 , polling places were added in 1857,  and the district began being referred to as including the new districts in the writ for the by-election in 1857 . Technically the name of the district was the "United Pastoral Districts of ..." as per the 1856 proclamation, but I have not included it as per Green & previous practice for this division. Find bruce (talk) 02:03, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Reason for redirect
Talk:H-4 visa

message: is there  a way for a h-4 to work by filing some sort of paper×
I would prefer that there is information on:
the depression triggered by being unable to work and being dependent on another for their basic needs, added to the lack of social contact, when on an H4. 
It is a serious enough issue that has to be mentioned here.
rt (talk) 16:27, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Depression is indeed a serious issue. Lack of work may increase a person's chances of having depression. However, this article is about the H-4 visa, and only information about the visa itself should be included. ~ Quacks Like a Duck (talk) 13:31, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

text: There is a quite a controversy about this visa. It is worth mentioning it in an encyclopedia.--Sylvain Corlay (talk) 22:54, 20 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  Hmm, I have not seen any controversy about the H-4 visa. Any references? There is controversy about the H-1B visa, and that is covered extensively there. jfeise (talk) 19:58, 21 April 2013 (UTC)

message: Could this expand on which "certain" H4 holders are now eligible to work and who still aren't? --Melarish (talk) 09:14, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  New laws about work authorisation
Talk:Gísla saga

message: Actually, it's quite likely that in fact Vestein was slain not by Thorgrim (who hardly had a reason for that) but by Thorkel (who obviously had one).— Preceding unsigned comment added by Birch Alex (talk • contribs) 17:04, 24 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reality 

message: There seems to be some confusion here about "The Spear" I am going to rectify.
It was added here that a spear was involved in the blood brother's ceremony.
However, this runed spear (p. 23, Dasent ) is obviously not the spear which Thorgrim forged later from the shattered blade of Grásiða (p. 36 ).--Kiyoweap (talk) 20:10, 4 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Spear
Talk:My Tutor Friend

message: This picture gained a mega hit in South Korea and might be the second example of popular Korean movies based on an internet novel after My Sassy Girl. It doesn't have significantly important features in artistic view but in the light of the above matter, I rate it as "mid". If anyone doesn't agree with my opinion, feel free to change the grade. --Appletrees (talk) 00:21, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: The rating of importance scale
Talk:James Marr (biologist)

message: I am removing the text:
:was born 9 December 1902 in Cushnie, Auchterless, Scotland. (according to information on 
As a discussion forum isn't' an authoritative source. --JBellis 17:20, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Genealogy

message: I've just been digging on this a little. The ODNB and Who's Who both have his name as "Slesser"; he's "Slessor" in the London Gazette (and the dictionary of Polar Medal recipients, but we'd expect those to agree), Stephen Haddelsey's recent book on Operation Tabarin, and Robert Headland's Chronology of Antarctic Exploration. I haven't been able to find anything by Marr using his full name, either in published material or handwritten. Normally I would go with the ODNB as more accurate (it does cite his birth/marriage/death certificates) but it seems odd that all the secondary sources align on the other spelling. I'll keep poking at this and see if I can get a definitive answer.
Having said that, this page should probably just be at  James Marr (biologist) or similar - it seems odd to use the full name when he, as far as I can see, generally didn't. Andrew Gray (talk) 15:39, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Before I forget about this forever, I've moved the page and added a footnote about the name. I've not had any luck determining which form he himself used. Andrew Gray (talk) 13:20, 22 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slesser or Slessor? 

message: Hi, I've added a photograph of Marr taken during Operation Tabarin (public record held in British Antarctic Survey Archives) but didn't like to remove the image request as I expect the scouting body would like one of him as Scout Marr. Buckland1072 (talk) 16:50, 2 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images
Talk:James McParland

message: Concerning the bit about Sherlock Holmes:
Philip Jenkins, Professor of History and Religious Studies at Pennsylvania State University comments that,
...by common consent [The Valley of Fear is] the worst of the Sherlock Holmes novels...[12]
As this stands it creates a very NPOV impression VoF is a bad SH novel. I would add that the professor curiously fails to provide any sources for his claim - "by common consent" would hardly pass as a source here at Wikipedia. I feel such a claim should not remain uncommented, or Jenkins clear anti-Pinkerton sentiments (which you need to read the whole article to understand) will have been sneaked into the Wiki article.
Adding a npov tag until this is cleared up. 85.227.226.149 08:13, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jenkins commentary 

message: * Franklin B. Gowen, the President of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad ... [was] a Protestant
* Pinkerton assigned McParland to the job. Although James McParland was an Irish Catholic like those he would be investigating, he and his brothers had been the only Catholic boys at a Protestant school in the parish of Mullaghbrack, County Armagh, Ireland ... Parts of County Armagh, along with County Antrim and parts of County Down, had the highest living standard in Ireland. Conversely, North Leinster, south and west Ulster, and north and east Connacht, from which most of the Molly Maguires emigrated, were the most impoverished parts of Ireland.
:: a) Why is Gowen's religion important or germane to the article or the events?
:: b) Why is McParland's schooling (while, if true, interesting) germane or important to the article or the events?
:: c) Why the breakdown alleging discrepancies in living standards between counties; is it germane to McParland's article?
:::  ANSWER: They are not. This is religious bias, cruft, synthesis and apologetics, and tweaked or rv accordingly. Quis separabit? 18:51, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Religious bias
Talk:James Murren

message: This "biography" was written by his employer's PR department.  It's not even worth tagging the peacock terms, the unsourced assertions, etc, because it is a fact that the editor who made most of these changes is an employee of MGM.  --Free-world (talk) 14:28, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: easy enough to fix, and I fixed it. The citations still need verification, though; I haven't removed them, for I think they probably can be sourced easily enough. . I left notes for some of the more obvious COI editing.    DGG ( talk ) 17:58, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Complete Nonsense 
Talk:Hampstead Academy

message: More topic headings, an infobox and refs.... as very new article. However has a start at a gallery. Welcome
As a recent alumni of this institution, I have noticed that this page is wrong at a few points. For example, we neither have electives or play rugby. That is all. StealthNinja360 (talk) 12:34, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Assess for Schools
Talk:Caïssa

message: Googling yields images - this article needs at least one. Anyone have a free one?Caissa's DeathAngel 11:23, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Free image? 

message: I'd love to see this article expanded, but I'm not really sure what could be added to it. Does anyone have any suggestions? I'm more than happy to do it as long as I have an idea as to what to put in. Caissa's DeathAngel (talk) 14:40, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Expand the explanation of both Scacchia ludus and Caïssa poems. Maybe even quote part of the Caïssa poem, might have to check copyright, but is something 200+ years old still copyright? Would be nice to find out. You'll find the text of Caïssa in old English here page forward (20 pages) to see the rest, also here and Scacchia ludus info here (click at bottom for translation) also here. SunCreator (talk) 16:15, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That's certainly a good place to start, I'll try hunting around to see if I can get some academic discussion of the work as well - I reckon some sourced thematic discussion could be worthwhile, if it exists. Maybe the modern use section could also be expanded - there's a real danger of that just devolving into a trivia list, but if sources can be found this may be avoidable. The other thing that this article needs is technical discussion, though as I'm uncertain as to whether this has happened significantly at academic level it might be hard. I'm also not in a position to write such a section as I'm not very knowledgable about poetry - does anyone consider themselves up to the task?Caissa's DeathAngel (talk) 01:19, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Could try asking about the poetry at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Poetry. SunCreator (talk) 01:29, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article expansion 
Talk:Hestan Island

message: Some of Samuel Rutherford Crockett's novels are on Project Gutenberg.  Presumably when this particular book gets typed up the claim can be cross-referenced.Goatchurch 15:19, 30 April 2007 (UTC)

message: Could it be from the Norse? See Wiktionary : ---- JBellis (talk) 21:16, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of name? 

message: Here is a good link for Heston Island. See https://canmore.org.uk/site/195342/hestan-island-lighthouse . There is no lighthouse listed for Hestan Island in the Wikipedia article, List of Lighthouses in Scotland.LFlagg (talk) 03:52, 7 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Link
Talk:James W. Lewis

message: The link for this citation doesn't work: Contreras, Russell (February 4, 2009). "FBI announces review of evidence in Tylenol deaths". The Associated Press. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090205/ap_on_re_us/tylenol_poisonings.
It just leads to a yahoo search page. Alanasings (talk) 10:02, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation Link doesn't work 

message: This should be merged into 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders.  Lewis isn't notable for anything other than his involvement in that matter. -- John Broughton   (♫♫) 22:18, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger recommendation 

message: I strongly disagree with the recommendation to merge this page with the 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders page. This page should be left exactly where it is, and  Lewis should be mentioned on the 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders page with a link to the  Lewis page.  Lewis has not been found guilty of murder in the 1982 Chicago Tylenol murders, and we are not here to "solve the crime," but, rather, to create and maintain an online encyclopedia. If  Lewis, "isn't notable for anything other than his involvement in that matter," it doesn't matter. He IS notable for his involvement in the matter, and that is more than enough to justify this article on the man himself. In addition to the letter to the Johnson & Johnson Company,  Lewis has been found guilty and served time on several serious cases. This only adds to his notability, even if it makes him more, "notorious."
Based on the rationale that we combine pages for events with the people involved (even in small ways), I suppose we will combine Jim Jones with Jonestown, because, after all, Jim Jones isn't notable for anything other than his involvement in the Jonestown incident. I mean, yeah, there is a lot of content on the page, but, basically, nobody would find the Peoples Temple in San Francisco of any interest at all if not for the Jonestown incident. In fact, why not combine all three, 1. Peoples Temple in San Francisco with 2. Jonestown and 3. Jim Jones? 76.125.18.96 (talk) 05:25, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Leave as is Recommendation 

message: I agree: leave as is.  I don't understand the compulsive need to delete/merge pages.  If the information is useful, well-organized, and factual with references, then leave it be.  Energy would be better spent contributing content instead of fighting over deletions Repliedthemockturtle (talk).  —Preceding undated comment was added at 16:00, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Leave as is Recommendation
Talk:Jamie Pierre

message: This article has several issues. Each section could use a lot of improvement, but most notably the Christian Faith section is very WP:POV, and seems to basically be a dramatic commentary on his beliefs. Some gems are "At age fourteen, he began to do drugs" (which ones?), "This was when he accepted Jesus Christ as his savior", and "Religion is what gave him a reason to live as he so proudly announced before anything he did, but most importantly before he soared over cliffs." —Entropy (talk) 10:19, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Issues 

message: It says he was there to snowboard. But the next sentence says he was there to ski. Which is it? 107.194.133.235 (talk) 13:16, 21 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death section 

message: How can a wikipedia article on a specific individual mention how many siblings he had but not where he was born or of what nationality he was? 90.233.194.77 (talk) 15:43, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Basic info?