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Talk:Samira Shahbandar

message: I have heard that she is of Iranian descent? Any one who can confirm that? Her surname is 100% Persian and as far as I know 'real' Arab's would kill themselves with such an Ajami surname... I will try to find some sources as well regarding this.LouisAragon (talk) 13:47, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Of Iranian descent? 

message: Good observation Louis Aragon! Her name is distinctly Persian, no question about that. I initially added the category "Iraqi People Of Iranian Descent" as I thought the Ajami roots were undeniable. But then I searched a little and found interesting stuff on the history of the word "Shahbandar". Under the Safavids rule in Persia, Shāhbandar was the functionary in charge of collecting the tolls in Bandar Abbas, the largest of the Persian Gulf ports. Later it became synonymous with "Port Official" and got into widespread use in adjoining territories and was known as far as the shores of the Indian Ocean and later the Ottomans picked it up as "The official who represented the interests of the Turkish merchants operating within Persia". So it is historically associated with a marine occupation and the Shahbandar didn't necessarily have to be Persian. It was purely a political post. Nowadays it is an obsolete word, but there are many people with this surname in the Muslim world who have no obvious ties to Iran. One famous example is Abd al-Rahman Shahbandar, the prominent Syrian nationalist. The other is the Iraqi ex-MP Izzat al-Shahbandar. These surnames are probably reminiscent of the Ottoman period or before that when this word was in popular use in the Persian Gulf. Omid.espero (talk) 20:05, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not necessarily of Iranian descent 

message: Hi Wikipedia's,
Please note that Saffi is used for her son Mohammad Saffi. For her first husband Noureddine Safi, the spelling may be Safi or al-Safi.
This is not an error. See reference.
Please do not modify existing spelling.
SWP13 (talk) 03:00, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Safi or Saffi 

message: Hi Wikipedians,
Please help me archive the references of Samira Shahbandar to archive.org. Thanks. SWP13 (talk) 04:11, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Sam Sailor 09:45, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Archive References 

message: Hi Wikipedians,
I made a cut and paste of Samira Shahbandar's Arabic script name in the Early life section. Please verify that this is correct. Thanks. SWP13 (talk) 04:15, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. Sam Sailor 09:53, 1 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arabic Script Help Needed
Talk:Sampo Karjalainen

message: Hi,
The page contains some outdated and incorrect information.
It's about me, so I think I'll point it out here and hope that someone else corrects it as editing a page about yourself is not encouraged.
After 10 years as the Chief Creative Officer of Sulake I've stepped down. Have a look at the Management page on Sulake web site:
http://www.sulake.com/company/management
My birthdate is wrong. The correct one is May 2nd, 1977.
For more details about myself:
http://sampokarjalainen.com
http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=1398266
Sampokarjalainen (talk) 08:04, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge

message: There was a good article at  which might help this article. 170.201.180.136 19:31, 9 May 2007 (UTC)

message: Does anyone have access to info on why Blackwater was built or how it has impacted the natural wildlife populations? I feel like either of those would be a necessary addition in improving this page.
Pistachio13 (talk) 13:10, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  History/Significance 
Talk:Samuel Wells Williams

message: Public domain
http://books.google.com/books?id=uiYAAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=j8kOEmIxyYYC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Kessinger publishing
http://books.google.com/books?id=kOHLGPk7msoC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Simon publications llc
http://books.google.com/books?id=CF3RnQkYJ_8C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Simon Publications LLC
http://www.books-by-isbn.com/1-931541/
http://www.manta.com/c/mmbqg7d/simon-publications
http://www.tower.com/book-publisher/simon-publications
Rajmaan (talk) 14:47, 25 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Works of samuel wells williams
Talk:Shady Glen

message: While it's great to see an article massively expanded, NABoudreau21, it reads like an advertisement or a biography and needs editing. Text like "Theirs was indeed a joint effort" or "Establishing an entirely new and unproved business in Manchester’s semi-rural East end in the year 1948 was quite a challenge" is opinion. Also, the text is far more verbose than the few citations bear out.  Thanks, Markvs88 (talk) 11:43, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yup, massive fluff alert.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.224.43.118 (talk) 21:39, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Recent massive addition to the article

message: Please change the link for the roadfood review to https://roadfood.com/restaurants/shady-glen/
The other link is no longer working. Roadfood123 (talk) 21:20, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Happy Editing--IAmChaos 03:45, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 12 April 2022
Talk:Shivling (mountain)

message: Note:  Project Banner with Uttarakhand workgroup parameters was added to this article talk page because the article  falls under :Category:Uttarakhand or its subcategories. Should you feel this addition is inappropriate , please undo my changes and update/remove the relavent categories to the article  --  TinuCherian     (Wanna Talk?)   - 13:57, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[WP:INDIA]] Banner/Uttarakhand workgroup Addition 

message: it seems lossy,  many of the most important ascents (Scott & C. 1981, Bonington 1983, Bernasconi-Manoni-Rosso 1986, Hainz-Kammerlander 1993, Thomas Huber 2000) but mentioning "indiancentric" details: the youngest person who climbed the mountain could have some enciclopedic interest for a 8000, whereas who were "the first successful summiters of India, as a part of a total civilian effort i.e without any army support" has no enciclopedic meaning at all (and could be faulty).--Sivanarayana (talk) 18:44, 15 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Climbing history
Talk:Saovabha Phongsri

message: Yesterday an anonymous IP deleted most of the existing text and inserted in its place a machine translation, perhaps from the Thai wiki via Google translations. This text was utter nonsense (if anyone doesn't believe me, just try reading it in the history). Therefore I have reverted. Andrew Dalby 16:21, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed machine translation 

message: Spellings of proper names, especially that of persons, should follow what can be established as "correct", rather than simply the most common. One of the disadvantages of the simple Google test is that is tends to get polluted by unreliable sources. It is not uncommon that when Wikipedia unfortunately picks the wrong spelling, it gets propagated through forks and mirrors and the wrong spelling thus becomes common.
In this case, sources which confirm "Saovabha Phonsri" include this page on palaces.thai.net, which is administered by the Bureau of The Royal Household. Google Book Search reveals five sources using "Phongsri", vs only one with the B. --Paul_012 (talk) 11:44, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling
Talk:Admiral (Sweden)

message: He is wearing a Swedish air force generallöjtnant's uniform, not an admiral's uniform:
http://www.uniforminsignia.net/index.php?p=show&id=129&sid=132
68.152.95.130 15:08, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. The easiest thing was to change to a one of his descendants in admiral's uniform. Tomas e (talk) 13:16, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  King Gustaf image is not that of an admiral
Talk:Satendra Singh (politician)

message: The man was murdered not to long ago.
Someone might want to add that.
The title page may be suffixed with Fijian politician  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Loshcke MO (talk • contribs) 01:37, 10 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Wickham Park (Manchester, Connecticut)

message: I have changed back the title of the article to its former title.  This is because there are at least two Wickham Parks. Figaro 15:26, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Any objections to nenaming this Wickham Park (Manchester, Connecticut)?  That seems to be more in line with the naming conventions I have seen used.  Thanks! FieldMarine (talk) 17:53, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that the change of name to Wickham Park (Manchester, Connecticut) is good.  The only reason why I changed the name — from Wickham Park to Wickham Park, Manchester, CT — was to differentiate it from Wickham Park in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.  Figaro (talk) 09:48, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Article title
Talk:Symbel

message: an excellent image, Berig! dab (𒁳) 16:02, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, Dieter!--Berig (talk) 16:41, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: "Að sita að sumbli" is in present/modern icelandic language, meaning sitting at (sumbli) drinking. This word does not mean or say what "sumbl" is, table, ale container, or sitting around the fire and beeing served ale "öl" (by the selja) or what ever one can think of or possibly find in old literature.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ivarara59 (talk • contribs) 11:47, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Icelandic
Talk:Scott Heiferman

message: Can't manage to upload it now, but here is a free image. Rettetast (talk) 06:06, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: image

message: Hello. I want to begin by sharing that I work for Meetup's Brand team. I'm proposing a new draft to replace the existing article which is incomplete and lacks much biographical information. I've made every effort to be objective and neutral, and you'll see my draft is less promotional because it removes the awards. I'm hoping that a disinterested editor will review my proposed draft and either provide feedback, or accept these changes.Kristin hodgson at meetup (talk) 13:59, 3 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello. Do you have time to take a look at this draft, as well? It would be helpful to have your eyes on it.Kristin hodgson at meetup (talk) 15:17, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I have moved the draft into article space.  If there are any issues, please let me know.Kristin hodgson at meetup (talk) 17:45, 8 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggesting a new draft
Talk:Biocultural anthropology

message: I entered a definition of biocultural anthropology and planned to add illustrations to the definition today but find two messages I do not know how to deal with, one says the existing article may need cleanup, the other says the article needs to have resource citations.  I'm not sure how to do either of these things and the hypertext to wikipedia sources all seem to begin with assumptions about doing things that would be easy only for those who are familiar with wikipedia.  Can anyone help? (Kelsoj1 19:53, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I did some cleaning and sourcing, added material, and removed the wikify and source tags.  Would be nice to see it expanded more.  Thanks for getting this started.    Zenauberon 15:51, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Article creation

message: Why is the single external link to a single anthropologist's home page?  Surely that's not representative nor a RS? ZarhanFastfire (talk) 05:16, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: External link
Talk:Journal Inquirer

message: This phrase, currently in the lead sentence, makes it sound as though the newspaper is a scandal sheet, i.e., employs "tabloid" newsgathering and writing tactics. What is plain from the article (really, from the front-page image supplied) is that the Journal Inquirer is a tabloid-format paper; but to call it "tabloid-style", there really ought to be some discussion in the text as to how we arrive at that conclusion. ``` W i k i W i s t a h ``` 04:09, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I simply changed the word "-style" to "-sized". This involved reverting a well-intentioned anon edit that had nixed the word 'tabloid' altogether. The wikilink to which "tabloid" points is, as it should be, a page about the tabloid format. N.B. that the "format" parameter in Infobox Newspaper is meant to refer to the page format (tabloid, broadsheet, etc.). ``` W i k i W i s t a h ``` 05:23, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Tabloid-style newspaper'
Talk:James Lumbers

message: Re-Write is coming
:By all means rewrite the article so that it adheres to wikipedia standards. Read the WP:WELCOME page for tutorials and other information. Happy editing. Freshacconci 14:48, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Adding tags to an article is contributing. It's pointing out problems that exist. Please do not remove tags without explanation or an attempt to address the issue. Thank you. Freshacconci 20:14, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This article is copied from another website. Please read WP:COPY for further information. It will need to be completely rewritten or the article may be deleted per wikipedia policy. Freshacconci 20:38, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copied  

message: Removed a butt load of promotional language, cleaned up prose with more neutral language and cited need for references. So far this article has zero references from published, third-party sources about the subject - a requirement to meet Wikipedia:Notability (people). There are claims in the article that "The person is regarded as an important figure or is widely cited by their peers or successors", but again it is un-referenced. It is up to the creators/editors of the article to supply those references to keep the article from being deleted as non-notable. If there is still a copy/paste problem then the ((copypaste)) tag should be added to the top of the page (the previous comment did not cite the suspected pages that were copied so I did not check that).  69.72.93.252 05:16, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's taken from here. I added the copy/paste tag. Freshacconci 14:22, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup
Talk:Scotty Smith

message: The extreme lack of citations - and the vague and voluminous context of the references - kind of make me suspicious of this entire page and its subject. Not to even mention its fantastical accounts. Scotty Smith some sort of folk-hero in South Africa, serial killer, or is this entire page farcical? I honest cannot tell but at the very least this page YEARNS to be discussed. 2601:87:4400:AF2:DD04:A3D1:A97F:1D29 (talk) 14:08, 15 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: This Some Sort of Joke?
Talk:Seamus Haji

message: DJ Cruze's 2006 80s Mix: http://www.djcruze.co.uk/cms/2006/12/30/christmas-2006-80s-mix/ lists: "2.Degrees Of Motion – Do You Want It Right Now? (Haji & Emanuel Remix)" - so p'raps that needs adding to the discog? (philipb)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.185.215.160 (talk) 20:01, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:List of Roadrunner Records artists

message: I'm pretty sure Queens of the Stone Age were signed to Roadrunner Records at some point in the past (http://www.thefade.net/oldsite/discography/burn.html, yet they aren't listed here. Anyone with anything more definitive than this can clear this up? Cheers.193.110.129.66 (talk) 15:19, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Whoever whacked Mr *UNT in, do grow up or at least try to.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.107.13.216 (talk) 15:41, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  James Blunt 

message: Code Orange Kids are not on Roadrunner.  There is tons of evidence of this.  Their records have only been released on Topshelf, Deathwish, and Run For Cover.
evidence:1. Roadrunner's site doesn't list them
2.http://www.deathwishinc.com/bands/
among many others.
anyway, I removed them.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Craksmok (talk • contribs) 04:33, 20 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Code Orange Kids
Talk:Seeley W. Mudd

message: Is this the same Seeley Wintersmith Mudd that the building at Columbia University is named for? It might be interesting to add that to the article if it is true. --Pmetzger (talk) 12:53, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mudd building at Columbia? 

message: In the article under CAREER, in the 4th paragraph starting "In early 1914" it says he partnered with a person named "Charles Godfrey Gunther" with a link to an article on that person. The problem is that the person in that article was a New York City mayor who died in 1885. So it cannot be the right person. hillwalker (talk) 14:58, 13 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to wrong person
Talk:Pippin (comics)

message: Propose that the article be moved per the Wikipedia:Naming conventions (comics) guideline, to fall in line with all the others using (comics).
Anyone have strong feelings and good reason why not? Murghdisc. 20:05, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Move done. Murghdisc. 13:48, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In hindsight I've come to think that in British context, the word comic was a more appropriate term than applying the WPC naming convention and tag the article subject as "the Pippin of comics". Like :Viz (comic) or :Eagle (comic), Pippin was "comic" or "comic paper" -a magazine assembly of comics, and I'm not sure how the DAB naming conventions should account for that. I lean toward asking an admin to restore the article to its previous namespace. Any thoughts this time around?  MURGH disc. 09:37, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested move
Talk:Office of the Attorney General of Colombia

message: :The following discussion is an archived discussion of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
Attorney General of Colombia → Office of the Attorney General of Colombia — "article is about the office of the attorney general not the official" - completing request made by another user —Stemonitis 18:40, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *Support or *Oppose, then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.
*Prefer Office of the Attorney General (Colombia) Septentrionalis PMAnderson 18:34, 20 May 2007 (UTC)

text: The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal.  Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
It was requested that this article be renamed but there was no consensus for it be moved. --Stemonitis 16:44, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 

message: :Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *Support or *Oppose, then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.
*Prefer Office of the Attorney General (Colombia) Septentrionalis PMAnderson 18:34, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the proposal.  Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.</div>
It was requested that this article be renamed but there was no consensus for it be moved. --Stemonitis 16:44, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: edit summary should have said 
sorry Softlem (talk) 16:17, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  fixing december 2023 edit summary
Talk:Sex columnist

message: I would like to nominate Mistress Matisse as a notable sex columnist. She writes "Control Tower" for Seattle, WA's paper The Stranger, and has a widely read personal blog as well.
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Author?oid=9386 75.207.31.143 13:27, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I'm not sure what the more appropriate title is for this page. Generally, we tend to focus on the work moreso than the author, so perhaps a move would be appropriate. Having two articles would be inappropriate, since this one is pretty small as is.  talk 20:35, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sex column versus sex columnist
Talk:Seymour Chwast

message: His surname is pronounced with the sounds kw - ah - st (with the "ah" representing the O in "hot", not the A in "hat"), according to the pronunciation of Faith Middleton of Connecticut Public Radio's program (formerly Open Air, and a local knockoff of Fresh Air) in interviewing him, i think by phone. I presume it is at least a version acceptable to him, tho my guess is that his parents' generation may have made the initial cluster of consonants closer to khw or even khv. Probably worth mention, tho i haven't looked for a written & hopefully more direct verification of it.--Jerzy•t 20:43, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: — Assignment last updated by Ktrachsel01 (talk) 01:07, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Graphic Design History
Talk:Shad (rapper)

message: It appears that of late he has been more commonly referred to as Shad rather than Shad K. See the links to his myspace page and at CBC Radio 3. Any objection to moving the page back to Shad (rapper)? --Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 03:21, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I also heard him being referred to as Shad on the radio. I'm going to assume that the move is not controversial. --Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 03:02, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems appropriate, given that The Old Prince CD is identified as merely Shad, rather than Shad K. Dl2000 (talk) 01:04, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shad vs. Shad K. 

message: Per WP:ELNO, the external links section of an article is meant for the one or two primary websites for a topic, not for every page that can be found with any connection to the topic whatsoever. The following interviews and articles may be cited as references for article content, where appropriate, but are not suitable as plain external links:
*Juno Nominees 2008 Juno Nominees
*Interview with Shad K mindyourmind.ca
*Shad article November 2007
*USG Mag article
*Shad interview
*Toronto Indie article
*Shad Interview Fazer Magazine, July 09'
- Bearcat (talk) 06:07, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

message: I had added Resolutions by Said the Whale to his guest appearances, however it was removed - is this because there was no source? I've been unable to find a source for it, but it seems to be commonly accepted that he is indeed the rapper on the song. Spark017 (talk) 16:31, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Here is a source that confirms it is Shad. Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 19:39, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regarding the song "Resolutions"