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Talk:Pickup group

message: Hi, Jobbing bands and pickup orchestras are an important part of the music scene. For a double bass player in a mid-sized town in Missouri, a clarinettist in a small city in southern Manitoba, or a trombone player in an industrial town near the Mexican border (e.g., not thriving metropolises), jobbing band and pickup band work pays the bills. In smaller cities, there are not regular orchestra jobs, full-time big bands, or year-round musical theatre shows. But there IS a pops concert series once a year, where well-known, but aging 1970s pop stars croon pop songs with orchestral accompaniment, that comes to town. The aging pop star arrives with a piano player, and in each town, a small "pickup orchestra" of local working musicians is hired, and rehearsed for the show...............As well, once a year, an early-1980s jazz star makes a stop in the town. To cut costs, he only brings a piano player and a bassist with him...he hires a "jobbing band" of local jazz musicians in each town (drummer, soloists).....similarly, when a CATs or Les Miz show comes to town for 2 weeks, they hire a band. And when rich couple getting married wants a 20-piece big band, a contractor will just put one together quickly using local musicians.Nazamo 19:12, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article is notable
Talk:Cannaceae

message: Since Canna (article under Canna (plant)) is the sole genus in Cannaceae, the two articles should be merged.  No time to do it now but I would suggest merging all under the Cannaceae article, with Canna (genus), Canna (plant) and Canna lily (ugh) all redirecting to Cannaceae.  (The unqualified "Canna" should be disambiguated, although I would contend that the Canna (plant) is far better known than the island named Canna.) MrDarwin 17:51, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done - MPF 15:04, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Plow to the End of the Row

message: The artcile is PoV (it reads more like a press release on behalf of the singer at times), and needs to be slimmed down and focussed on the album, as well as rewriting in a more neutral and encyclopaedic tone.  I assume that much of it comes from here. --Phronima 17:51, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As I was the fiend who elsewhere suggested somebody should write her up, I'll see about editing the 'article' down.  And easy on the newbies--considering most of Adrienne's press, this is fairly NPoV.  ---JC Shepard 18:51, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Clean-up needed
Talk:Henryk Sucharski

message: On the front page (at the moment), we have "Sucharski...was allowed to keep his sabre in captvity (sic)", and then in the first paragraph of the article, we have "he defended for seven days against overwhelming odds".
However, it is not until the second half of the article that it becomes clear the truth is very different and Sucharski was in fact totally lame! He may have been able to personally surrender his sabre, but he didn't hold it during captivity and he did not defend against overwhelming odds: he was too busy attempting to procure the surrender of fellow officers, suffering  nervous breakdowns, and having his apparently more competent XO assume command! The sword thing was a gesture of respect towards the soldiers under his "command", and nothing to do with him personally.
/Rant and will make edits to deal with this issue. The people who know the sources and details please assist as necessary. 203.198.237.30 10:30, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Be bold to expand on Sucharski's controversy. Halibutt 10:46, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sucharski not worthy! 

message: Could the author of this article please cite references to explain the new source of information about Sucharski's nervous breakdown and discrace, as well as how it only came to be known more than 40 years after his death.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.238.157.245 (talk) 18:01, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sucharski Controversy 
Talk:Argonian (Elder Scrolls)

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I would not have thought it possible to thoroughly source an article on a relatively obscure game race. I think it could use a section that's out of universe (i.e. Who created the race, what authors have contributed greatly to their lore, et cetera), however the article has an impressive amount of detail and sources. Congratulations to everyone that's contributed. EvilCouch (talk) 09:14, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: GA nomination

message: Why does Elsweyr and Argonian have their own articles? Why don't all the other provinces and races have their own?Moocowsrule (talk) 20:25, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Most likely they did at one point, but they were merged, deleted, and or redirected, the Argonian and elsewyr have plenty of references and are good articles. - -The Spooky One  (talk to me) 23:11, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  ??? 

message: Would you kindly (videogame humor)insert a picture of the digitgrade legs the Argonians use to tread upon, prefferably from TES: Morrowind.
Thanks in advance!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by God Of Irony2012 (talk • contribs) 03:31, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture Plz
Talk:Redguards

message: (x-posted to Talk:Nord)  The Nord article and the Redguard article contradict each other in regards to the intelligence of the Nords.  The Nord article states that the Nords outperform the redguards in intelligence, while the Redguard article states that they outperform the smartests of Nords.  Which is it?  Kuhan 12:07, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Nordic Intelligence
Talk:Ziro

message: Ziro is regarded as the tourist hub of North east and with the steep increase in numbers of tourist that visit herein this place every year, beside hotels and resorts there is ever increasing demand of homestay's. "AKUNG KO HOMESTAY, ZIRO" ,one of the most advancing homestay in ziro caters the need of tourist with homely atmosphere and hospitable service. And the most interesting thing is that homestays are blooming in Ziro and visitors they prefer homestay more than they former. As through homestay they come to know more about Ziro and its people and when they go back they take along with them a ample of knowledge of new culture and people they met. Akungko Homestay Ziro, one of such kind is a homestay where many visitors has visited and stayed during Ziro Festival of Music 2015 and were really impressed with homely and hospitable environment. Duyu Tagio (talk) 04:38, 18 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  AKUNGKO HOMESTAY ZIRO 
Talk:Twista

message: The power of the arts for learning can work in all elementary schools .
This article talks about the importance of visual arts for the school
going children . The objective of this article is to focus on the
importance for children and to convince their parents and teachers to
give children knowledge about arts and should consider it as a core
subject in their elementary education . The article includes probable
reasons that why should children learn visual arts and its application
in the real world .
Importance of Arts :
Just like the importance of every subject , arts also help human in
better understanding the world around them . The arts enhance the
person 's reasoning skills , improve their decision-making power , bring
creativity into its thinking and helps them solve problems more
efficiently . The recent studies have revealed that the people those who
are goods in arts , are more intelligent than those who are good in other
sciences . Arts includes sketching , painting and drawing , but it is not
only restricted to these aspects only . Today , the visual art has
developed a lot , and it includes music , dance , sculpturing , designing
etc . Even though , people understand the importance of arts , but they
don 't promote it . Our schools and educational institute do not consider
arts as an important course , and don 't encourage their children to take
arts as a major course .
Why should student learn arts ?
As our objective of this article is to make realize the parents and our
education system the importance of...
He also have 3 children  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.172.37.183 (talk) 01:15, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: It says he's the world's fastest rapper.  Is speed rapping his usual style?Cromulant (talk) 17:35, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Speed rapping
Talk:Slide action

message: Merger makes sense to me.  I think it should be merged.  Yaf 18:04, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A pump action shotgun is a shotgun that uses a pump-action--what more can be said?  Everything that needs to be there is covered under those two articles.  Even oddball things like the old Tec-9 airsoft gun can be covered by the two articles pump-action and airsoft, so why should pump action shotguns be treated any differently?  scot 20:11, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

text: That arguement is nonsensical, because you have it backwards, the question is not would you put bolt-action under rifle, but rifles under bolt action? Should the bolt-action article make any mention of 1903 Springfield, K98s? Or should it speak only of the action and nothing of the equipment using it? Pump-action with a shotgun section in it makes far more sense, because thats already what we are doing for bolt-action (where theres a list of 4 major designs and other), and lever action (which similar to the proposed merge for this, has shotgun category, even involving the same people, Browning and Winchester). 65.95.107.182 (talk) 21:00, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Both articles contain similar content, whereas pump-action shotgun only covers shotguns, this article covers all designs. Hence, the former should be merged into the latter. Hayden120 (talk) 02:40, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Pump-action shotgun effectively holds just a large portion of this article...Thanks, The Mad Muffin!Muffin Chat? 14:49, 1 November 2009 (UTC)

text: If a merger is decided there would need to be a section added to about the other main pump action weapon; the rifle, in order to justify the new layout of the new article. The main article would also need to be heavily revise to avoid contradicting itslef and repeating points. 217.39.2.55 (talk) 01:06, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: If y'all don't merge, you might want to consider sources, ... and actual information. Wikipedia is not about a list of the pros and cons of something. Who invented the pump action, and when? What where some of the first models? What are current uses? All you got are What and How out of the "5 Ws and an H". Also, if theres a pump action shotgun article, why not a pump action rifle article? If that doesn't deserve a seperate article then clearly the shotgun is the dominate form of pump action, and belongs in this article. 65.95.107.182 (talk) 20:49, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal
Talk:John Loftus (military author)

message: Is this guy really a Nazi Hunter? He spend a few years in late 1970s working for the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations, which was charged with prosecuting and deporting Nazi war criminals in the US. Nothing is mentioned about his role with that Department, for all known he was the janitor. Nothing is mentioned about him hunting or finding any Nazis much less deporting them. After quitting, he didn’t continue hunting any Nazis. I don't see why he belongs under the Category: Nazi Hunter. It sounds like it was a short time job that he didn’t like much. There are no references. If there are no objections, I will remove him from this category. Meishern (talk) 12:31, 2 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed, and I don't see any reason why a summary of Loftus' involvement should be missing from this article. Zerotalk 03:36, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Nazi Hunter

message: His old Web site (available through the Wayback Machine) claims he helped train Israeli soldiers and helped turn the tide of the Yom Kippur War in 1973. See http://web.archive.org/web/20030604055731/http://john-loftus.com/bio.asp
I added this to his entry, but phrased it by saying that he "claimed" to have done so. It sounds like BS to me. But I don't have a source backing up his claim, or one that refutes it. Can we say there is no evidence to back up his claim? Does anyone else have any other information?
Thanks.
Bronxpolwatcher (talk) 22:57, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Role in Yom Kippur War?

message: I erased the Personal Life section, which stated that he is gay. I personally know John Loftus, and he is a married Catholic, and is not "openly gay," as the article stated. I'll assume that this was some sort of mistake.
--JoseKirly (talk) 20:17, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Personal Life section
Talk:W12 engine

message: :The following discussion is an archived debate 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. 
The result of the debate was don't move. —Nightstallion (?) 12:54, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.  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.
I'd like to kind of apologize for the above discussion.  When V12 and W12 were merged, I was kind of annoyed and I wanted the articles restored as quickly as possible.  I felt that this article should have been moved back to W12 because that was just how it was before.  However, over the weekend all of the engine articles have been moved to "(x) engine", and when I step back a moment, that makes more sense to me overall.  Sorry for arguing the point so much in this case while losing sight of the big picture. TomTheHand 14:13, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

message: the block is one piece, or a crankcase, plus plus two cylinder banks? CorvetteZ51 12:31, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: The firing interval is ?
Talk:Tahquamenon Falls

message: To none:
I just put back my waterfall website link to Tahquamenon falls because my site www.escapingtoparadise.com has pictures of this waterfall and 40 other Michigan falls. If you visit my site and check the content, I don't see how it's not relevant to the subject of waterfalls? I recently put my link on this page and a few other waterfall pages on Wikipedia, but my links were erased because someone told me it was advertising. Am I trying to get more visitors on my site? Sure, but if you like visiting waterfalls, I think most people would enjoy my website.
--Npeeff 15:29, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Combine the 2. Civil Engineer III 11:59, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

text: Disagree. Tahquamenon Falls State Park needs to be expanded, not merged. The falls are within the park, but there is more to the park than just the falls. It's a 46,000-acre park. --Elliskev 12:30, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I think the average flow value is too high. I think 50,000 is the peak. According to historical values the average is more like 8,000 gallons/second. I can provide a source for this too.  Anyone have any objections to me changing this?
Davidj pearson (talk) 00:45, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The article text is correct in stating "as much as 50,000" -- the infobox is incorrect to use that figure as the average flow. older ≠ wiser 00:58, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  average flow 

message: That's right, the  peak is usually around 50,000, but the value in the table is way too high. I'll come up with a correct value soon.  Davidj pearson (talk) 13:02, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  average flow
Talk:Flight of the Wild Geese

message: I removed this paragraph about the San Patricios from the section "the end of the Wild Geese" and bring it here for discussion:
:In the Mexican-American War, some Irish emigrees serving in the United States Army deserted to the Mexican side to form a large part of the Saint Patrick's Battalion, or Batallón de San Patricio. These soldiers' action is sometimes viewed in light of the Wild Geese tradition of Irishmen serving in foreign armies.
There is really no connection between the Wild Geese and the Irish immigrants who fought for the Mexicans in the Saint Patrick Battallion.  They are separated not only by a significant time gap, but also by social circumstance.  Specifically, they did not leave Ireland in order to serve with the Mexican army, this happened more or less by chance.  This was not the case with the Wild Geese. ---RepublicanJacobiteThe'FortyFive' 17:17, 31 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Some valid points, while we are on the subject the discussion of the UK regiments is fairly irrelevant & could do with some work by someone knowledgeable on the subject. I'll go ahead & add the Saint Patrick's Battalion to the "See also" section though. ʄ!•¿talk? 20:58, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks.  Adding it to the "See also" section would seem to make sense.  I agree with you about the UK regiments, as well, though I am not the one to improve that section. ---RepublicanJacobiteThe'FortyFive' 23:45, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Wikipedia clearly says that the London Irish Rifles regiment no longer exists ( its now just a company in a TA regiment ). I will remove it. 86.32.232.31 (talk) 11:20, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  San Patricios 
Talk:Prepared testimony

message: Be bold. Learn while u do. Learn from your mistatkes. Learn from others.
I am always nice. But I have little humility.
I am very nice to nice people. I can sense the diffrence. Come let us reason and work together.
I am very impressed on the speed with which the law stub tag was attached. It is exactly what I wanted but had not read yet on how to do.
regford 18:37, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Black Company

message: From my reading on the subject, Geyer was there at Ingolstadt. According to Engels (and another source, the author of whom I forget, but upon whose account Engels based his), Geyer was with Black Company when it was surrounded outside Ingolstadt, then led their breakout and defense at Ingolstadt, then led a third of Black Company out of the fallen castle, only to be surrounded again in nearby woodlands, and barely escape with his life. Can anyone clarify? The details of his proceeding betrayal and death are, to my knowledge, undisputed. Ahuitzotl 22:19, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

message: The article says: the word "Haufen" means "heap" in German.
That's true, but it also means "bunch" or "bunch of people". So, "Schwarzer Haufen" means "black bunch". 71.131.201.17 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment was added at 08:52, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Haufen
Talk:List of Wildstorm titles

message: Where does this term come from? --Chris Griswold  (☎☓) 19:15, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Beyond the Storm
Talk:Eternal Fire of Baba Gurgur

message: Alright, I've reviewed this page, tried to make some edits, but this may require a large re-write, with more sources needed. The only source given is something in Arabic, which I can neither read nor understand. What 'authority' is mentioned as putting it up the signs? The Iraq government? Under Saddam or currently? etc.
Also, I'd like to find the Herodotus citation. If anyone can clean up the picture to make it smaller and more compact, it would be much appreciated. It was taken from the Kirkuk page.
Finally, I think this page should be renamed "Eternal Fire of Baba Gurgur" instead of just the "Eternal Fire", which could have multiple connotations (e.g. JFK's Eternal Flame)141.161.31.47 18:40, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Amalgamated Press

message: There is a major issue with this article, which is that the AP/Fleetway was not "mainly" a publisher of comics. It was a giant newspaper and magazine empire that happened to include comics as one part of its output. Subsuming the history of the AP under Fleetway is also problematical. I'm sure sources can be found for a rewrite, but all I can immediately find online are either about the comics, or biographical pieces about Harmsworth, rather than about the history of the company. --Nicknack009 (talk) 18:45, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that's a very good point, but one that's very easily addressed; we just remove "mainly" a publisher of comics. I agree with you as well on the wider issue of the Harmsworth's publishing empire, which was obviously immensely influential before the First World War and is hardly dealt with here at all. But so far as the "dispute" is concerned I intend to remove the tag and the disputed statement, and look forward to some much needed work being done on this article's expansion. Malleus Fatuorum 19:50, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Disputed

message: The article says the company entered the comic magazine market in 1890, yet it was founded in 1901?? Setomorp (talk) 23:53, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The comics in question were some of Harmsworth's publishing ventures that were gathered under one banner in 1901. --Nicknack009 (talk) 00:33, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong date? 

message: :Rebellion Developments currently owns all comics characters and titles created by IPC's subsidiaries after January 1, 1970, together with 26 specified characters which appeared in Buster;[7][8] while IPC currently retains its other comics characters and titles, including Sexton Blake, The Steel Claw, and Battler Britton[9] (but not Dan Dare, which was sold separately and is now owned by the Dan Dare Corporation).
This bit needs to be updated - Rebellion probably now own all the 'other comics characters referred to as retained by IPC, but I (or another editor) would need to check what date the deal was done - one or two years ago now - and find a source. sheridan (talk) 02:12, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rebellion Update
Talk:Designated Targets

message: Paul Brasch is listed under "Historical characters". Is he really? I had assumed he was fictional. —wwoods 18:50, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Take a look at the Wikipedia article for Paul Brasch.  Brisbane comedian?  I smell John Birmingham's sense of humour again -- like Harry's trooper Piers Ackerman, or the two officers on the Dessaix, Goscinny and Underzo [sic].--Eric TF Bat 06:02, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's called tuckerization, an old tradition in science fiction. --Orange Mike 14:20, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

text: Page 58, at least in my book. Himmler and Brasch are talking at the research centre in the Ukraine and Himmler informs Brasch a regiment of soldiers turned their guns on the people who came to take Rommel away. -- Droideka75 (talk) 14:15, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paul Brasch
Talk:Kong Le

message: Image :File:Kong Le.jpg will likely be deleted from Commons. Someone may claim it as fair-use for this article. --Túrelio (talk) 13:32, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Try:
Conboy, Kenneth and James Morrison, Shadow War: The CIA's Secret War in Laos. Paladin Press, 1995, .
Found excellent account of the coup while working on an allied article.
Georgejdorner (talk) 21:09, 6 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source for coup details.