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Talk:Supernumerary actor

message: While this is a worthy topic, the focus on limited specific opera companies and limited specific individuals leads to the suspicion that those individuals and companies have had a heavy hand in this entry's composition.  Nearly all major opera companies have a core body of "supers" from which they draw.
As a seasoned opera super with a major company, I feel the discussion would be benefited by the observation that a primary force in the casting of supernumeraries is dictated by how well they fit the costumes available for the production.  Often, directors view the role of the super simply as an ambulatory costume.  The wise super remembers that humble function.
This point is brought out in the following article about supernumeraries with the San Francisco Opera, which should be included to provide breadth beyond the companies mentioned in the entry: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1997/11/23/PK74779.DTL&hw=opera+super&sn=007&sc=383
However, a super's contributions can supply entire orchestral sequences with their only visual element, such as the lengthy dream banquet sequence from Hansel and Gretel, recently brodcast on PBS, entirely composed of supernumeraries, photo here: 
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2002/11/19/DD61815.DTL&o=0
The presence of supernumeraries are essential for key moments in many operas of the standard repetiore, For example in Rigoletto, Act I Scene I portrays the court of the debauched Duke of Mantua.  Most productions use female supers in addition to the men's chorus to add a tawdry sexual element.  In 1997, these women provoked the normally tolerant San Francisco audience to protest their (seeming) topless costuming and lascivious excess. See the avalanche of letters here:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1997/10/19/PK16853.DTL&hw=topless+opera&sn=001&sc=1000
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1997/11/30/PK14807.DTL&hw=topless+opera&sn=002&sc=670
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1997/11/09/PK72287.DTL&hw=topless+opera&sn=003&sc=616
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1997/10/12/ED73893.DTL&hw=topless+opera&sn=005&sc=447
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/1997/10/18/ED37497.DTL&hw=topless+opera&sn=015&sc=337
As a newcomer to wikipedia, I do not feel qualified to add directly to this entry, but I ask those more experienced to draw on these and other sources and modify the entry to provide more balance.
Marshagalinsky (talk) 09:02, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Badly in need of breadth 

message: ...is almost entirely wrong, it seems to me. Those are character types or stock characters, but not supernumerary. Ifnkovhg (talk) 00:22, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uh, the examples section... 

message: Image #2 File:Opera_-_Ariadne_with_judges_on_stage_2.jpg
Unknown face has been inserted (to left of Judge Ginsberg).
Original image can be seen on this blog page (direct link to image)
XyKyWyKy aka raffriff42 (talk) 14:43, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image photoshopped (vandalized?)
Talk:Inside Out Music

message: I'm thinking that this label was named after Fate's Warning's album Inside Out which was progressive (metal) and was released in 1994. I'm not sure when this record label was started but if it's the same year or after then it could possibly be named after the album or even vice versa. Just a thought. FireCrystal (talk) 01:10, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Named after progressive (metal) album? 
Talk:Devon colic

message: This article has a nice start and seems like an interesting topic. It's amazing how far we've come in medical advancements and technology now. There needs to be a lot more added to this page. It would be interesting to see if there are more records to add to the symptoms, treatment, etc of Devon colic. 
Anna jurgens (talk) 13:32, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]
Talk:Flores Island (Azores)

message: The island is part of the Azores archipelago, and as such should be under the name of Flores (Azores). As it is, gives the wrong impression that the island is in Portugal, almost 2000 km to the east. The Azores is an autonomous part of the Portuguese Republic (no to be confused with Portugal): writing Flores (Portugal) makes the same sense as Nuuk (Danmark)...
The name of the Island cannot stem from the hydrangeas, which are not endemic, but rather an exotic plant introduced later in the history of island.
Picuinhas (talk) 01:14, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flores, Azores 

message: I don't see in what way this photo is an ex-libris. It's a very nice image, but doesn't denote ownership of a book. Do you possibly mean the the rock is iconic or something similar? Or representative? Awien (talk) 14:25, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rocha dos Bordões photo caption 

message: In january 1683 a mutiny happened on the Danish frigate "Havmannen" ("Neptune") on a voyage from Copenhagen to Sct.Thomas in the West Indies, where captain and 8 officers were killed and thrown overboard.Under deck was 100 inmates from Danish prisons many of them in chains, waiting to serve life sentence as workers in plantations in the West India isles.
The ship anchored outside Flores Island and mutineers, pretending to be officers was by the unaware Portugese governor living in "Fasangrande" allowed to put some people ashore while they did necessary maintenance of the ship.
Nighttime 100 prisoners - men, women and children - plus a few surviving officers and settlers was forced to disembark whereafter the mutineers left Flores to split goods and values among themselves.The marooned prisoners was not heard of hereafter.The incident is documentet in a diary preserved at the national archives in Copenhagen (Simon Braads journal).Dynamolygte (talk) 02:58, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marooned prisoners jan. 1683
Talk:Faial Island

message: OK, so what is the Zona de Mysterio then ?    No point putting it on the map and then leaving us hanging.   Is they where Rey is from ?Eregli bob (talk) 06:44, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The "Mistério" is likely the Fajá region of Praia do Norte, and although it may have been a term used to identify it (mainly in Portuguese) it is not used today. Generally, "mistérios" are those areas with lava fields or volcanic structures caused during eruptions. There is a similar "Mistério de São João" and "Mistério de Prianha" on Pico, for example. Personally, I have had problems with this map since it does not comply with Wikipedia standards. But, until I can make a new one, its the best English map with localizations. Ruben JC (Zeorymer) (talk) 07:34, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  OK so whats this 

message: * Removal of a potentially damaging Link: (OVERFLOW ATTEMPT (POSSIBLY) THROUGH EXPLOIT)
* hxxp://www.azores.com/azores/faial.php
* Threat: JS/Exploit-Blacole.cw
* https://www.virustotal.com/de/file/fc3c28965158b7e22a8e5b37e6a4d7b43fc72d29f7bff87f83dc0692f7d8dd3e/analysis/1372847938/
* REFERENCES: http://jsunpack.jeek.org/?report=688384c073edc565c9483519c48daba473df6c8f
* FILE: http://jsunpack.jeek.org/dec/getfile?hash=5c43/13edcee1b02db02bb72679e70d7143ac5b90
* ALSO: As a HTML ?? Possibly Unwanted Application. While not necessarily malicious, the scanned file presents certain characteristics which depending on the user * policies and environment may or may not represent a threat.
* https://www.virustotal.com/de/file/09a3f9dd34f3483a032bbbff58850167532b2fd110c7224a2328954a01fe77f6/analysis/1372847963/
* https://www.virustotal.com/de/file/44e4a58241254fea8e2bb4dd59a93382c279995a5981d36a348a8ed9eed6ad94/analysis/1372847966/
* Possible Microsoft Office PNG overflow attempt invalid tEXt chunk length (2x)
* http://urlquery.net/report.php?id=3499890
* http://urlquery.net/report.php?id=3499944
* http://www.UnmaskParasites.com/security-report/?page=www.azores.com
* http://quttera.com/detailed_report/www.azores.com
--Gary Dee 10:53, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Malware Link Removal
Talk:Porto Santo Island

message: The map shown on this article labels the island to the south-east of the maderia island as "santa cruz" when I believe it is supposed to be the "desertas islands"? I am not certain as perhaps it is a translated name or local name? 
According to the Desertas Islands page they are in fact a municipality of Santa Cruz hence the possible confusion
Thanks 51.155.8.159 (talk) 10:28, 9 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Desertas mislabelled
Talk:Guangdong University of Foreign Studies

message: This page is blatant self-advertisement. Doesn't this contravene wikipedia policy?
LanYiTian 21:26, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I tried cleaning up the first sections of the article, but much work is still to be done. Hopefully someone can pitch in. Or perhaps the article should be suggested for deletion on the grounds of the sheer amount of blatant self-promotion it contains? 64.69.46.239 (talk) 06:26, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:All Quiet on the Western Front (1979 film)

message: I have not seen the film in some ten years or so.  However I think that the article's claim that Gew 88s were used in the film is incorrect.  Being a gun geek I noticed early on that although a few actual Gew-98s do apear in the film the majority of the rifles in the movie (including oddly enough the primary actors) are actually post-war Turkish mausers.  These are often used as "stand ins" for the fairly uncommon Gew-98 in WW1 movies.  I do not recall seeing any model 1888 commision rifles.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.69.219.207 (talk) 01:28, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not so sure about the rifles...were Turkish Mausers equiped with that bayonet (the curved quillion, aka: handguard)? See the first/early part of the movie. They look like Japanese bayonets to me. There were indeed a lot of Arisaka rifles sent to Britain and other countries in WWI; most used in training, but still...were they perhaps used as 'movie surplus' in this  case? Engr105th (talk) 10:04, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: (removed nasty personal comment which violated civility. Editor is welcome to repost after rethinking and rephrasing.) Rumiton (talk) 16:16, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Incorrect weapon information

message: It is certainly wrong to state that this was one of the first films made in the Communist bloc - I can think of two from the 60s offhand, namely, "Kelly's Heroes" and "The Bridge at Remagen" (Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia resp.) The latter had a near-comical real life interruption in the production schedule when Russia invaded, forcing the entire production crew to flee into Germany in a strange recapitulation of reality. There must be many more examples of war films that used these countries for their relatively unspoiled village scenes and matching terrain. Antimatter33 (talk) 20:14, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Films made in the Communist Bloc 

message: I was under the impression that this movie was banned in Germany? Or am I mistaken? Delierajaytoday (talk) 02:50, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The original movie that came out in 1930 was banned in Germany from 1930 until 1945. This 1979 version was never banned. Rumiton (talk) 08:44, 1 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Banned in Germany?
Talk:1969 (film)

message: The Plot section currently begins with this sentence: "In 1969, two best friends, Ralph Karr (Robert Downey Jr.) and Scott Denny (Kiefer Sutherland) live in a stuffy, upper-middle class suburban town in Maryland at the outset of the Vietnam War, and are both in college."
"Outset" means "beginning". In 1969, the Vietnam War had been going on for a decade. In fact, the Tet Offensive was already a year in the past. Describing 1969 as the outset of the war makes no sense.--Pat Berry (talk) 18:17, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I've corrected the problem as part of a copy edit of that section.--Pat Berry (talk) 04:04, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Outset?
Talk:Nebraska Center for the Education of Children Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired

message: Copied verbatim from homepage. Couldn't find a copyright notice on the site, so I don't know if it's copyvio. LeaHazel : talk : contribs 21:28, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyright?

message: I am the author of the both the words on the Source Site and the Wikipea site. I grant right for these to be used in all setting. Tim Lockwood.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Timlockwood (talk • contribs) 02:13, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Not a Problem
Talk:Hembury

message: I have removed the assertion that Hembury 'is thought to be the capital of the Dumnonii' since this has no basis. The 'Civitas' of the Dumnonii was Exeter, and the site of the tribal oppida predating the Roman Invasion is unknown, if indeed there was one, as such. Hembury has more in common with the Hill Forts of the Durotriges than the Dumnonii anyway and it may well be more likely that Hembury, Dumpdon, Blackberry and Sidbury marked their Western boundary. Trotboy (talk) 22:30, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
Talk:V Shape Mind

message: This V Shape Mind page needs to be updated a little bit. V Shape Mind has many MySpace profiles for fans to check out their music. A truly amazing band that just didn't get much promotion! Brad Hursh, the singer has solo music on his MYSPACE profile that V Shape Mind fans, or any other music fans should listen to. Brad's still got it going on. Check it out! The members still make music in other projects that fellow hometown Decatur fans can tell you about! You want to find out more about this band, dont you? ---Mike, a fan —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.24.88.5 (talk • contribs).
The "website:" in the info box to vshapemind.com seems to be an expired domain name...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.160.244.131 (talk) 03:03, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Article content
Talk:Jeffrey Gettleman

message: Please contact me. Under British rule my grandfather was overseer of the Andaman Islands and my family has a lot of information you may be interested in. A time not forgotten.
760 845 5288 2603:8000:37F0:8290:437:2EC7:9CF0:254F (talk) 20:10, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: A little late to say this as this comment has been here for some time, but if you are addressing the subject of the article you need to contact him directly. Coretheapple (talk) 19:20, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Andaman Islands artical 

message: See the Anat Schwartz talk page on whether this source should be used for BLPs. BobFromBrockley (talk) 04:39, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  MondoWeiss as source for BLPs 

message: Change "Gettleman" in "In 2017, Gettlemen published a memoir, Love, Africa: A Memoir of Romance, War, and Survival.[14]" to "Gettleman". 98.118.9.141 (talk) 05:46, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Jamedeus (talk) 17:48, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 20 March 2024
Talk:Beira (Portugal)

message: Beira Alta should be merged here (and the other two former Beira subdivisions developed here) because there is not enough distinct information to justify having separate articles on these topics. If, at some point in the distant future, there is sufficient information to justify separate articles, they can be broken out at that time. bd2412 T 22:36, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge proposal
Talk:Ribatejo Province

message: In 1998, there was a referendum on regionalization in Portugal (about the creation of new administrative regions) which was rejected in 1998. Neither were any EU statistical regions approved, nor they were recognized by the people who had the word according to the 1998 referendum. Therefore, the NUTS regions (apart from Azores and Madeira which are autonomous regions and apart from Algarve, which matches the Faro District) should not be considered as Portuguese subregions, since they were only created and redrawn for statistical purposes.
I'd suggest that some sort of compromise could be made concerning to some particular regions, specially concerning to Ribatejo, since the NUTS II classification was made only for statistical purposes (and were redrawn, for those purposes, namely not to let some parts of the former NUTS II region of Lisboa e Vale do Tejo (Ribatejo and the North side of Estremadura) to be affected in relation to the allocation EU funds.
Besides that everyone in Portugal calls the territory roughly corresponding to the {Santarém District) as Ribatejo, not Alentejo (apart from Ponte de Sôr, which is in another district and sometimes is considered to be in Ribatejo though most of the times is considered to be in Alentejo. There are plenty of sites that show that Alentejo doesn't include Ribatejo, like the following ones: , ,  (published by the Portuguese Government itself), , etc. (note: I only indicated maps published after the redrawing of the NUTS II region in 2011).
The other regions are also commonly called by their traditional names, but in a broader sense there are indeed the North, Center, Alentejo (this one not with the borders defined by NUTS II) and Algarve regions, along with the Metropolitan area of Lisbon, which corresponds to the NUTS II region of Lisbon. I don't disagree, at all, that the NUTS II and NUTS III are included in the location of the places, though I'd prefer that the proper context would be provided and the traditional regions would be added to the description (preferably those established in 1936), with an explanation that those regions are not administrative (since their administrative functions were later transfered to the districts), but they're historical and cultural regions, with their designations being broadly used in Portugal (unlike many of the NUTS regions). Thanks a lot the attention of the users who may wish to participate in this discussion. Greetings!
P.S.: Portuguese editors (and particularly from Ribatejo are very welcome to this discussion, since it's an issue that concerns to Portugal and to Ribatejo.Viet-hoian1 (talk) 02:12, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Subregions of Portugal (Ribatejo and others)
Talk:1970 in literature

message: Are we sure about this date for John Fowles's The French Lieutenant's Woman? 201.9.113.124 21:30, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: My copy of the book has a copyright date of 1969.  And the Oxford Companion to English Literature also lists it as 1969. I guess that seals it. Perry Middlemiss (talk) 11:09, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Release Date

message: I'm a bit dubious about placing the Booker Prize under the United Kingdom heading.  The prize has a British Commonwealth entry base and, while it is presented in the UK, is not restricted to that country.
Similarly for the Hugo Award. This award is presented at the WORLD SF Convention each year which is held under the auspices of the WORLD SF Society.   It may have started in the US but is presented in different countries each year and, as such, can't be seen as being as solely American.  The Nebula Award is different, in that it is presented by the Science Fiction Writers of America, a specific US organisation. Perry Middlemiss (talk) 01:53, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Awards

message: I don't see that the publication of one novel, Deliverance, counts as an event in the true sense.  There is a section for such publications below, and the novel is listed there.  If it has been included because it was named one of the 100 best novels of the 20th century by someone or other, then all others in that list should be so honoured in their years.  This note should be included in the book's page not here.  It is my intention to remove this event in the near future. Perry Middlemiss (talk) 23:11, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Events
Talk:Siemens & Halske

message: Vermutlich eine fehlerhafte Übersetzung: Siemens & Halske baute keine "Kreiskolbenmotoren" (etwa so wie die Wankelmotoren im NSU Ro80 oder heute verschiedenen Mazda-Modellen) sondern Hubkolbenmotoren in sternförmiger Anordnung. Die Kolben wirkten bei den Siemens & Halske-Motoren über die Pleuel auf eine starre Kurbelwelle, so dass sich der ganze Sternmotor drehte. Diese Bauart (wie der Oberursel-Motor des legendären Fokker DR 1 des "roten Barons" oder der Megola-Motorräder der 1920er-Jahre) bezeichnet man nicht als Kreiskolben-Motor, sondern als Umlaufmotor. Aa-See (talk) 20:15, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abschnitt "Im 20. Jahrhundert"
Talk:Deutsche Bergwerks- und Hüttenbau

message: I have written a German version of the respective article in the German
edition of Wikipedia (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Bergwerks-_und_Hüttenbaugesellschaft).  
I am not fluent enough in English to provide a translation, but will be happy to check. Beaker2 (talk) 14:26, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Round barrow

message: Suggest merging this article into the article for tumuli; it repeats much of the information found there, and as far as I can tell, they're talking about the same thing. Greenie2600 21:35, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Is this still an active issue? Anyway, Tumuli is a general term that very broadly comprise certain grave-types. Round barrows are a subgroup of Tumuli. RhinoMind (talk) 13:52, 28 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Fleischmann (model railroads)

message: The Fleischmann/Roco acquisition situation should be clarified, but I've been unable to find English-language sources. There's a press release in German detailing the situation that I'd like to see translated and added to the body of the article if useful. http://www.modellbahnecke.de/html/pressemitteilung.html  Any help you can provide will be appreciated. --Agamemnon2 (talk) 10:50, 6 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Fleischmann and Roco are continuing as separate brands and companies, under the ownership of Modelleisenbahn Holding. The letter talks about better product/market definition for each brand, while benefiting from joined development projects, marketing and procurement. gidonb (talk) 05:00, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Much appreciated, thanks. --Agamemnon2 (talk) 07:49, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You are most welcome. gidonb (talk) 16:26, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Requesting the services of a German speaker

message: Is this the same company which used to make live steam engines? If so, the history section needs to be edited. Maybe a new section added or even a completely new article? --Roly (talk) 10:44, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Live steam engines 
Talk:Habermaaß

message: I added a POV-Check tag to this article. In parts it reads just like an advertising leaflet. Toning down the language, particularly in the "quality" section could not hurt. 
It may also be worth mentioning that although they write "made in Germany in capital letters" all their soft textile products are actually made in china, in which case the label "designed in germany" is in large latter, and "made in china" very very small :)
--gromgull (talk) 08:58, 28 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV-Check 

message: It is my impression from playing board games (and working in a board game cafe) that the company is best known as HABA. --Palnatoke (talk) 12:44, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Better known as HABA?
Talk:Conrad Models

message: I think that the article Gescha should be imported into this  article. According to both texts the two names refer to the same company in different but overlapping time periods. --Ettrig (talk) 15:08, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Combine articles

message: I disagree on the merging for two reasons.  One, Gescha was a separate brand name with a separate brand history.  It came before Conrad and represented an era when the company was more involved with toys than commercial promotional models.  Second, when Wikipedians search for Gescha as a separate name they could be redirected to the Conrad page, but it would be more inclusive and less confusing to have a Gescha page.--Cstevencampbell (talk) 22:24, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Gescha as Separate History