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Talk:Julian Nott (balloonist)

message: Editor User talk:JulianNott has repeatedly deleted article links to longstanding sources with the assertion that they are "very old" and "not appropriate" (see latest diff here).  The links are valid (not broken) and are third-party published newspaper articles from 1989 and 1993 that report on the article's subject.  I would invite discussion here on whether, and why, these sources should be deleted.  Chuckiesdad/Talk/Contribs 03:20, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: total rewrite from my sandbox copied and replacedUser:Peteschulz210 (talk) 19:11, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  total rewrite from my sandbox copied and replaced[[User:Peteschulz210|User:Peteschulz210]] ([[User talk:Peteschulz210|talk]]) 19:11, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
Talk:Motorola RIZR Z8

message: I just had a quick check on Google for such a thing and it appears to be true, but I've yet to actually find a news site to reference it. Anyone want to help with that? Chan Yin Keen | Talk 07:23, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  RIZR Z8 with Bourne Identity on microSD 

message: The article states that "In the United States, unlocked Z8s only can take T-Mobile SIM cards, as the USA's only other two GSM providers, AT&T Wireless and Alltel, require all phones using their SIM cards to be locked to their respective network (and therefore purchased from the company)." This does not seem correct, since I have personally used unlocked GSM phones purchased on the gray market on the Cingular/AT&T network. Lots of people do. While I'm no fan of AT&T, and they're cast-iron bastards about unlocking phones that you buy from them, you can put one of their SIMs into an unlocked phone and use it just fine. I am removing this statement from the article; if someone wants to reinsert it, please back it up with a source. --Kadin2048 15:39, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect Cingular / AT&T Claim
Talk:Jürgen Stark

message: this guy must be a 'game of thrones' fan  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.104.138.123 (talk) 18:53, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps someone could source that he actually said that? A search on Google turns up nothing useful for "Jürgen Stark" +winterfell, and for me it appears likely that a Game of Thrones fan on Wikipedia actually put that there... if I can remember coming here the day after tomorrow and there is still no source available, I'll make sure to remove that phrase. Andreas Willow (talk) 12:05, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  always be a stark in winterfell 

message: Is this really worth an article, an obscure bureaucrat.  True, lawyers can read wikipedia rules and try to justify it but that is just justifying it on a technicality, not on the merits.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wawaxi (talk • contribs) 01:45, 13 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The ECB manages the Euro, one would hope that an executive member of the board would be considered "important" enough to have an article. 67.181.27.134 (talk) 03:13, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

text: Jürgen Stark is clearly notable. --Boson (talk) 21:09, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable? 
Talk:K. Paul Johnson

message: Gnosis # 26, Winter 1993, book review, Brother Twelve by John Oliphant, p. 71
Gnosis #28, Summer 1993, “Imaginary Mahatmas,” p. 24
Gnosis # 29 Fall 1993, book review, HPB: The Extraordinary Life of Helena Blavatsky, Founder of the Modern Theosophical Movement, by Sylvia Cranston, p. 66
Gnosis #30, Winter 1994, “Holy Book of Baha’is Unveiled in English,” p. 8
Gnosis #41, Fall 1996, book review, The White Buddhist by Stephen Prothero, p. 42
Gnosis #42, Winter 1997, “Baha’i Leaders Vexed by On-line Critics,” p. 10
Gnosis #42, Winter 1997, “After Life Visions of a Sleeping Prophet,” p. 34
Sunrise: Theosophical Perspectives, August/September 1981, “Old Wine in New Bottles”
Sunrise: Theosophical Perspectives, October/November 1987, “The Mysteries of Carnac and Atlantis”
Sunrise: Theosophical Perspectives, annual special issue 1989, “Revival of the Alexandrian Library”
Theosophical History, July 1888, “Albert Leighton Rawson,” p. 230
Theosophical History, January 1992, “Theosophical Influence in Baha’i History,” p. 24
Theosophical History, July 1992, “International Theosophical History Conference,” p. 73
Theosophical History, October 1992-January 1993, book review, Arktos: The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism & Nazi Survival by Joscelyn Godwin, p. 105
Theosophical History, October 1992-January 1993, book review, Helena P. Blavatsky ou la reponse du Sphinx by Noel Richard-Nafarre, p. 159
Theosophical History, October 1995,”Response to John Algeo’s Review of The Masters Revealed,” p. 264
Venture Inward, September/October 1999, review, Edgar Cayce: An American Prophet by Sidney Kirpatrick  — Preceding unsigned comment added by JEMead (talk • contribs) 15:44, 25 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Articles to be added (reliable)
Talk:Karen Simonsen

message: I think this needs to go to AfD, at the very least. On my reading of WP:JUDGE, she would indeed be presumed notable, as she is a judge of a provincewide court, which is specifically covered by that notability guideline:
"The following are presumed to be notable:
Politicians and judges who have held international, national or sub-national (statewide/provincewide) office, and members or former members of a national, state or provincial legislature".
I will de-PROD all the articles of judges of provincial courts for the same reason. RebeccaGreen (talk) 11:11, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  PROD removal
Talk:Kassaly Daouda

message: All sources except "National-Football-Teams.com" agree he started at Olympique SC Niamey, not JS du Ténéré.  Two of these are print publications, while "National-Football-Teams.com" is an unreferenced website.  I privileging the print sources (as they actually meet Wikipedia standards for sources), adding another I just found (L'homme : Héroïque Daouda Kassali.  Ateba Biwolé, Le Jour (Cameroon). 2012-01-25.) and striking references to JS du Ténéré. T L Miles (talk) 17:33, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Done: literally every date cited in the previous version prior to 2006 was wrong.  The references were correct (at least the print publications: "National-Football-Teams.com" was a mess, and probably itself derived from this bad wikipedia article) but whoever actually wrote the content clearly couldn't/didn't read the article they were referencing.  His national career didn't start in 2002: his run as no1 keeper for the national squad started then.  He's been selected since 1998.  In 1996 he was on the youth squad, while playing for Olympique, with whom he won a national championship at senior level.  He moved to Sahel in 2001, Cameroon in 2006.  He was also born in Dosso, not Niamey.  Apart from all that being wrong, it was fine.  18:17, 25 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Career clubs
Talk:Katharine Emma Maltwood

message: Before my edit: 
- Article had Multiple Issues template
- Issue: underlinked. outdated. article does have several wikilinks.
- Issue: refimprove. not applicable to article - because there are no references.
After my edit:
- deleted Multiple Issues
- inserted Unreferenced template.
Jackiejwallace (talk) 08:08, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template message changes
Talk:Alfred Beardsley

message: this article should NOT be deleted.  Alfred Beardsley is a central figure in the O.J. Simpson Las Vegas Robbery Case.  He appears to be the central figure that everyone else is talking about, and he was on Larry King Live tonight.  No doubt, there will be a lot more to add, but this is a start.
:At minimum, you'll need to add a little more context explaining who he is, and at least one reliable source. -FisherQueen (Talk) 11:11, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Kathlyn Curtis

message: I've rewritten the 2nd para of this article as it was a direct lift from the Manitoba press release about the appointment.  Article really needs expansion and rewriting.--Plad2 (talk) 06:05, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed copy vio 

message: I think this needs to go to AfD, at the very least. On my reading of WP:JUDGE, she would indeed be presumed notable, as she is a judge of a provincewide court, which is specifically covered by that notability guideline:
"The following are presumed to be notable:
Politicians and judges who have held international, national or sub-national (statewide/provincewide) office, and members or former members of a national, state or provincial legislature".
I will de-PROD all the articles of judges of provincial courts for the same reason. RebeccaGreen (talk) 10:54, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  PROD removal
Talk:Keith Gessen

message: I see nothing in this article that merits to be published in wikipedia. Politis (talk) 08:43, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  Speak for yourself. I just read his article "Putinology" in the latest Guardian (paper edition) and found that excellent so I wanted to know who this guy was. Especially, I wanted to know if he was a relative of Marsha Gessen, about whom I could not make a positive comment. So I know, for what that's worth. Ally Hauptmann-Gurski, 2001:8003:A0B9:EF00:E8D1:13B6:8EAA:CF9A (talk) 23:56, 18 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Article for Deletion?

message: Hi, it's Keith Gessen. I just made some changes to the page as it was a couple of years out of date and a little confusing (for example there was a photo of me and Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, but no reference to the translation of her book in the body of the article; there was a link in "external references" to Dwight Garner's review of my last book, but no mention of the book in the article; etc.). I have, I hope, only updated/adjusted facts and not touched or removed anything evaluative. As for whether this page ought to be on Wikipedia at all, that, of course, is a question for someone else. Thanks to anyone reading this for all your work on these things; it's an impressive (and much-used) resource. -Keith 24.90.234.37 (talk) 18:54, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: =Recent Edits

message: I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. ISBNs and other persistent identifiers, where available, are commented out, but still available for reference. This is a work in progress; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 00:21, 14 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bibliography
Talk:Kelly Moar

message: I think this needs to go to AfD, at the very least. On my reading of WP:JUDGE, he would indeed be presumed notable, as he is a judge of a provincewide court, which is specifically covered by that notability guideline:
"The following are presumed to be notable:
Politicians and judges who have held international, national or sub-national (statewide/provincewide) office, and members or former members of a national, state or provincial legislature".
I will de-PROD all the articles of judges of provincial courts for the same reason. RebeccaGreen (talk) 12:17, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  PROD removal
Talk:Kenneth Champagne

message: Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: here. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.)
For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, and, if allowed under fair use, may copy sentences and phrases, provided they are included in quotation marks and referenced properly. The material may also be rewritten, providing it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Therefore, such paraphrased portions must provide their source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you.  — Diannaa 🍁 (talk) 16:06, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem removed
Talk:Kesang Choden Wangchuck

message: What is the name of her daughter (born in 2019)?.
--81.37.111.138 (talk) 19:45, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Daughter
Talk:Kevin Lyman

message: Potential whitewash by user with same name and article subject. CNMall41 (talk) 19:52, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  COI tag (July 2023)
Talk:Jędrzejów Abbey

message: I think that Cistercian Monastery in Jędrzejów is a lot better name for the article as it's not the only (or even the most recognizable) Cistercian Monastery. In fact I'd suggest the title Cistercians Abbey in Jędrzejów just like Cistercians Abbey in Wąchock or Cistercians Abbey in Sulejów. --Grzegorz Chrząszcz vel Brzęszczykiewicz 09:48, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Name
Talk:My Brother Yves

message: I encourage anyone who wants to read this novel to seek out the most recent translation you can as the older one(s) are not so good. -- 71.191.47.120 17:19, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation 
Talk:Larry Rudolph

message: This page should not be speedy deleted because... 
people put effort and time making these pages. --98.190.242.188 (talk) 13:39, 19 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contested deletion 

message: This article is devoid of biographical information, and in adition, is written in a very childish style. The entire article should be rewritten with the assistance of subject experts, or else deleted due to a lack of relevance, as previous editers have suggeted.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:147:C002:D83A:9119:D26F:59A4:1D1D (talk) 17:01, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rewrite Needed 

message: If this page should not be deleted, then why has relevant details about Mr. Rudolph's professional history been deleted?  Is there some reason that the man's professional history should not be listed on his wiki page? When factual, uncontested and sourced information is not relevant on this page, then perhaps that is a sign that the person who deleted the factual and sourced information also believed the entire page should be deleted? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.134.202.247 (talk) 02:57, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of professional history
Talk:Layla Al-Attar

message: Is there any proof for this article's statements that the Clinton administration targeted Al-Attar intentionally in retaliation for a George Bush mural?
According to Steve Coll's Ghost Wars, (ISBN: 1-59420-007-6 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_Wars), Al-Attar's house was struck by accident and her death disturbed Clinton deeply, leading him to second-guess other missile strikes later on. 
https://books.google.com/books?id=ToYxFL5wmBIC&lpg=PA422&ots=CCst9F0I97&dq=one%20of%20the%20most%20prominent%20female%20artists%20in%20the%20Arab%20world.%20steve%20coll&pg=PA422#v=onepage&q=one%20of%20the%20most%20prominent%20female%20artists%20in%20the%20Arab%20world.%20steve%20coll&f=false
This inflammatory and unsourced statement should be removed immediately. I will do so unless a citation can be found and posted to the page. Editors, please advise.
2601:B:AC80:9CE:1428:1D76:3EFB:2D0E (talk) 21:36, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  This page requires immediate editing for uncited, inflammatory statements 

message: Her daughter's name is Rema and aid workers saved her life.  She eventually came to the Canada & USA for facial reconstruction surgery  and now lives in the Bay Area.  However, since so few English language sources exist on the deaths of Al-Attar and the wounding of her daughter, the only sources we have to rely on are anti-war sites or sites that some editors might believe are one-sided or too POV.  This article may not be entirely even-handed but it has some real facts about the case that other editors might be able to cross-reference.  Can we use it at least to name the daughter and describe the aftermath?  I'd like some input.  I became interested due to Kris Kristofferson's song about her.  Here is the article: Losing Sleep Over Layla Al-Attar (And Countless Thousands Of Other Dead Iraqis)  Thanks. LiPollis (talk) 18:16, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  I found out what happened to her daughter, but can we use this source?
Talk:Levern Spencer

message: Hi 2606:3C80:8A00:4D6:1AD:1941:882F:5CBB (talk) 21:30, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hi
Talk:Shah-e-Hamadan

message: Shah-e-Hamadan is a revered sufi saint and a historical figure who is respected and honored by 13 million Kashmiris as well as millions of Pakistani and Indian Muslims.
I am surprised that it is being cited as an article about a person. It is about a historical figure. ContributorV2000 10:06, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

message: Prior content in this  duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: https://web.archive.org/web/20050110031223/http://www.myasa.net/sufindia/hazrat%20amir-e-kabir%20shah-e-hamdan.html. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.)
For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, and, if allowed under fair use, may copy sentences and phrases, provided they are included in quotation marks and referenced properly. The material may also be rewritten, providing it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Therefore, such paraphrased portions must provide their source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you.  Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 21:20, 21 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem removed
Talk:Lucille Eichengreen

message: I find the word "reprisals" in "After that, the Jews became exposed to growing reprisals by the Nazis..." an unfortunate one. Obviously, there were both officially organised and unofficial attacks on German Jews. But these can hardly be called reprisals unless there was some previous action that in fact (or in Nazi imaginings) provoked them. There was not. Because this phrase is referenced to what may be the page subject's own words, I am hesitant to change it. But if it is not inconsistent with the source, then "organised attacks" seems a better description.--PaulBetteridge (talk) 09:58, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The sentence is a summary of what the source says; the source just gives specific examples. The German Wikipedia article, which is older, uses the word "Repressalien", which can be translated "reprisals" or "repressive measures". The second is a better meaning here. In its oldest meaning in English reprisals are something extracted from enemy foreigners. StarryGrandma (talk) 22:25, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you - real improvement --PaulBetteridge (talk) 10:56, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reprisals 

message: Is there info on the change from Cecilie? At one point she is referred to as Lucille Landau, which may not be accurate for the referenced point in time. It is conceivable that she changed it after moving to the U.S. Jmar67 (talk) 13:25, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I changed the instance, good point. It looks like she changed surname when she married, but if "Lucille" came at the same time, I didn't see evidence. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 13:54, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name change
Talk:Richard Stallman/Archive 2

message: I have protected this page to stop the ongoing edit war. So far, users Gronky and R1 have explained here on the talk page why the criticism section is not suitable for an encyclopedia, and a succession of anonymous editors and impersonators have reinserted the section without debating it rationally. A request for comment does not seem to have drawn more attention to the situation apart from my own involvement. Protection appears to be the only valid response at this point. -gadfium 09:07, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I haven't been involved with this article up until this point; I got here last night from the RfC.  I believe the article needs a criticism section, as without it the article is hopelessly incomplete.  That being said, I agree that the particular section being reinserted was somewhat weak (an entire paragraph on an obscure webcomic?) and something better can and should be created.  I'll see if I can throw something together here that will be acceptable to both sides. --Nandesuka 11:37, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protected
Talk:Richard Stallman/Archive 3

message: Here is a partial list of problems I see with the article right now.  I'm going to work on these if I find the time, and will mark them as struck through when I think they are "done enough".  Others should feel free to try to tackle them before I do, and strike them through. (And of course, since this is Wikipedia, if you think my definition of "done enough" is too lax, feel free to keep working on them or any other part of the article!  These are just my suggestions).
*"Stallman enabled others to write free software independent of the GNU project. In 1991, one such independent project produced the Linux kernel" - I find it hard to believe that this is a fair description:  the Linux kernel' was certainly more "enabled" by Andrew Tannenbaum's MINIX class.  Do we have a source for this statement?  (Note that the following sentences, indicating that GNU did enable Linux to be used as part of a complete operating system, are certainly accurate, and Linus has said as much.) 
*"Stallman is prone to being something of a monologist. He does not take kindly to criticism or interruption.".  While I certainly believe this and know it personally, we should add a citation to someone else saying this.  Wikipedia is not a place for us to provide our own personal opinions.
*"Support for this term was no doubt bolstered by some influential figures' dislike of the moral philosophy of the free software movement, which came from Stallman." If it was "no doubt" bolstered by "some influential figures' dislike" then it should "no doubt" be easy to find a citation to a credible source saying this.  Otherwise, this is original research. 
Comments, thoughts, additions?  --Nandesuka 14:14, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: On #1, Stallman wrote and published GCC, GDB, Emacs and other software development tools.  This enabled others by providing the tools necessary.  Linus, one example, used GCC.  This is well known.  On #2 I was thinking of deleting that too.  It could be better said.  No opinion on #3. --Gronky 14:44, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That statement is still wrong.  One can compile free software with non-free compilers, in fact, I've done that many times.  Not just that, but the tool he's most famous for, gcc, just allows you to compile the software, not write it.  There's nothing to suggest Linus used Emacs or gdb.  Do you know that Linus didn't have access to other compilers and couldn't have done this otherwise?  --Nathan J. Yoder 06:18, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Specific Cleanup Tasks