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Talk:Ellen Dissanayake

message: WikiProject Biography Assessment
The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 16:21, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 

message: try "her 1995 work," rather than "1995's",which is gibberish.AptitudeDesign (talk) 13:05, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  syntax 

message: Article has a tag for COI since March 2015, adding a note to the talk page in case the issues persist. Jooojay (talk) 06:54, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: COI?

message: I'm also a personal friend of Ellen's, which is why I wouldn't even dream of editing this page.
But I do want to point out to any future editors one thing which I think would uncontroversially improve the page:  The ideas listed in the paragraph about her second book, Homo Aestheticus, were already expounded in her first book, What Is Art For?
Dudley Brooks (talk) 19:46, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Which book her theories first appeared in
Talk:Ellsworth Huntington

message: — Assignment last updated by Tyaser (talk) 03:39, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Science and colonialism
Talk:George W. Sears

message: From the article...
George Washington Sears (December 2, 1821 – May 1, 1890)
and this...
Sears wrote Woodcraft, a book on camping, in 1884, that has remained in print ever since. A book of poems, Forest Runes, appeared in 1887. He died at his home in Pennsylvania seven years later. Mount Nessmuk, in northern Pennsylvania, is named after him.
From me...
From 1884 to 1890 is only 6 years.  From 1887 to 1890 is only 3 years.  Neither of those is a 7 years span.
Thibeinn (talk) 00:19, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not Good Math
Talk:George Walter Thornbury

message: I have in my library this book where Walter Thornbury translated magnificently the complete Fables of La Fontaine in the 1860’s in an original edition published by Cassel, Petter and Galpin. Reprinted in 1988 by I.P. Verlagsgesellschaft (Bibliophile Books, London) with 320 illustrations by Gustave Doré. 74.12.164.142 (talk) 13:17, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  La Fontaine translation in English please add to Wikipedia article
Talk:Emil Leon Post

message: I don't have all the info, but I know that Post discovered that a functionally complete set of logical connectives has one member that does not possess one of five qualities for each of the five qualities. The qualities are: self-dual, monotonicity, linear, truth-preserving, falsehood-preserving. It is sometimes called adequacy of logical operators, Post functional completeness, or truth functional completeness. Gregbard 02:29, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Functional completeness

message: For possible use in article:
:Emil Post and His Anticipation of Gödel and Turing
:John Stillwell
:Mathematics Magazine, Vol. 77, No. 1 (Feb., 2004), pp. 3-14 
69.228.171.150 (talk) 21:40, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anticipation of incompleteness theorem
Talk:Non-international England cricket teams

message: I think this article should be split between:
* the general expression "All-England Eleven" (= rest of england)
* the Clarke's team
As the two have nothing in common but the name. That is to say, let's have a separate article on Clarke's team, which deserves to be treated alone.
OrangeKnight (talk) 19:43, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split? 

message: I've used the tag function here because the article is short of references. For example, the statistics about George Parr. Where was that information found? --Old Lanky (talk) 06:20, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 
Talk:George Washington Cullum

message: 'He was appointed brigadier general of volunteers to rank from November 1, 1862 on November 10, 1862 but President Lincoln had to submit the nomination four times before the U.S. Senate finally confirmed it on March 11, 1863.'
:Why was the Senate reluctant to confirm the appointment? Valetude (talk) 13:58, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reluctance to promote 
Talk:George Washington Doane

message: There is an image of Doane at Wikimedia, category: Bishops of the Episcopal Diocese of New Jersey. Drbones1950 (talk) 19:23, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo available 
Talk:Ennio De Giorgi

message: Hi, this might be helpful to someone interested in expanding the article:
http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/De_Giorgi.html
--75.188.199.98 (talk) 10:12, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biographical link
Talk:Buick Apollo

message: This article appears wrong, The 350 is a Chevrolet engine.
This article is not wrong - I owned one, my first new car.  It had a 350 engine - available on all General Motors products that had V8 engines, i.e. Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, Buick, Cadillac, and Pontiac, all GM product lines.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.210.214.230 (talk) 00:53, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Engine dispute

message: I know that some of the early-1960's Buicks used to use the name "Apollo" as a trim package, but aside from pictures stored away on a flash drive or an external hard drive, I'm still trying to find proof of that. ---------User:DanTD (talk)  16:13, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pre-1973 Apollos
Talk:Eric Mjöberg

message: Mjöberg's education and work was interwoven during several years, until he finished his PhD (not MA) in 1912, in fact. What's the logic in separating his education into a little two-line section on its own? I would suggest combining it with the rest. Olaus (talk) 09:12, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Olaus. Of course you are right about the current section on Mjöberg's early life having too little material in it to warrant separation, but it would be interesting to see some information (which I do not have access to) about his childhood, parents, formative influences etc, to illuminate such an instructive character.  When I started the article I included the section to elicit just such contributions.  However, please feel free to implement your recommendation, at least until further information makes separate sections appropriate.Maias (talk) 11:18, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: "Early life and education" section
Talk:Shamanism among Eskimo peoples/Bidirectional approach to organize the beauty of tension between diversity versus unity of cultures

message: Closing section ("Farewell") of , p. 2 of , , .
Even if Rasmussen could not see all Eskimo groups, his travels seem to spread across the whole area from Greenland to Bering strait:
The route of Rasmussen's travel (I scanned it from the Hungarian publication of his Thulefahrt)
He wrote the following, (for me) astonishing statements, as closing his book with the following words:
In the last (XXIII.) section ("Farewell") of his book "Thulefahrt":
Made after Hungarian publication. Citing is surely not literal
Chapter XIII, "Talking to shamans":
I do not know, how far was the linguistical unity meant. For me, Sirenik language and Ungazik variant of Siberian Yupik seem rather different, although I found also welcome similarities in them.
Now, let us see the concrete details how Rasmussen might mean this cultural unity:
Section "the ancient Eskimos" (a subsection of "VIII. Among Caribou Eskimos"). Made after Hungarian publication. Citing is surely not literal
Maybe that's why I'd like to structure the article in a way that both diversities and unity can be treated in a natureal way, while showing the beauty in their tension.
--Physis 21:25, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Certain unity of Eskimo cultures
Talk:New Deal for Communities

message: The original informatioin is not copyright.  It is for information and in the public domain.  I have taken the oroognal and added to it -
: You're wrong. All publications of the British government are Crown Copyright - it says right there on the page that you claim isn't copyright "© Crown Copyright 2002-2005".  -- Finlay McWalter | Talk 20:43, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Ernest Leonard Johnson

message: I've found additional info on EL Johnson. I will copy the original to my sandbox. Please let me know if there is anything else to add. Wyatt Tyrone Smith (talk) 16:58, 23 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Replaced page. Wyatt Tyrone Smith (talk) 17:34, 28 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional info
Talk:George William Gordon

message: Money he is on 96.43.179.35 (talk) 00:41, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Money he is on
Talk:George William Manby

message: He proposed to go on an expedition to Greenland, to rescue mariners and check if European settlers had survived.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/8647282
Colonial Times (Hobart, Tas.) Tue 19 Nov 1833, Page 3.
Copied from Portsmouth Journal, May, 18, 1833.
Did this expedition take place ?78.150.132.137 (talk) 20:55, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Greenland 

message: Some family trees show that his 1st wife remarried after a divorce however these were expensive and required an act of Parliament. Yet to find a record of a divorce. He appears to have remarried only after her death. Did the first wife remarry bigamously? Fenlandier (talk) 20:32, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Divorce
Talk:George XII of Georgia

message: I understand that kings of two eastern Georgian provinces were descendants of the royal House of Bagrationi but so were many others, including those from Imereti. The page need to be moved to George XII of Eastern Georgia or something like that.--Akovolyov (talk) 00:04, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It's true but Kartli-Kakheti was the more well known Georgian kingdom. I moved it knowing about the existent of the Kingdom of Imereti.--Queen Elizabeth II's Little Spy (talk) 01:18, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I concur with Little Spy. The case here is not the lineage and/or legitimacy of the kings of Kartli and Kakheti, but the geographical/political terminology. "Georgia" was a synonym of the kingdom of Kartli and Kakheti in contemporary sources and the kings Erekle II and George XII styled themselves as "kings of Georgia". --KoberTalk 03:58, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Another example of two Georgian kingdom but one more referred to as Georgia, is the period when David VII of Georgia and some kings that follohwed him, ruled alongside David VI of Georgia and his successors in Imereti We can also move it to George XII. But the title on his infobox should be reverted back to King of Georgia (Kartli and Kakheti) since that was the title he used.--Queen Elizabeth II's Little Spy (talk) 09:13, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Georgia vs. Eastern Georgia
Talk:Ervand Kogbetliantz

message: This article states that E.G.K. was "the first president of Yerevan State University". However the linked wikipedia article about Yerevan State University states that "The first president of YSU was H. Manandyan (1921)".  How is this contradiction to be resolved?  Shortly after the Bolshevik revolution E.G.K. left Russia/the Soviet Union for France.  So when was he president of YSU? Please provide references. Encyclops (talk) 04:46, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yerevan State University
Talk:Critical consciousness

message: I've merged conscientization with this article.  If you disagree with the merger, you're obviously wrong and crazy.  Just kidding, I considered starting a discussion or adding a tag first, but decided to be bold.  Also, if it was up to me this article would be rated high-importance, but I rated it mid- because I feel that accurately reflects its current status in practical educational theory.  Fredgoat (talk) 19:36, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  merged 

message: Why did this get flagged as needing more citations?  --Jgiesbrecht (talk) 18:18, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  citations
Talk:Georges Darboy

message: Shouldn't this be explained?  It seems to call for comment.      71.129.81.136 15:35, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "His body was recovered with difficulty" 

message: This article sounds a bit hagiographic, especially sentences like "marked by a devoted heroism" and "He died in the attitude of blessing and uttering words of forgiveness." The sources used to write this biography were probably pro-Church.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.235.36.126 (talk) 06:59, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV? 

message: to a layperson this reads like hagiography 135.23.190.109 (talk) 21:23, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  hagiography
Talk:Ethan Vishniac

message: What's a "linear overstability"?  I've never heard of an "overstability" before; here it seems to be used as the name of a specific type of instability, which is not very clear (at least to nonexperts).  Can we make it easier to follow? John Baez (talk) 07:01, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question
Talk:John Chichester (American politician)

message: I made this article very short and saved it, hoping to add things in later.  --StevenL 20:47, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed the speedy tag, since (minimal) context has been provided.  Describing someone in the first sentence as a "leading advocate for tax increases" doesn't strike me as a neutral point of view, but that can be fixed.  Remember, those of us who monitor the new page list can only judge an article based on what's there, not what's going to be there.  Thanks. --Finngall talk 21:01, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: On Deletion
Talk:Tai Chi

message: Just seeing if anyone is interested in discussing tai chi. - Master Gohring Master Gohring's Tai Chi & Kung Fu —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.107.199.200 (talk) 21:08, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Tai Chi simply serves as abbreviation of Tainted China, because all Chinese products are exceptionlessly tainted. 91.94.149.136 (talk) 19:53, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interested? 

message: Would it not be better to merge this dab page into Taiji (disambiguation)?--Nø (talk) 10:34, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I've done the merge, but redirected to Taiji (not Taiji (disambiguation)). This choice may not be brilliant, but different spellings of taiji redirected to different articles; at least now there is some consistency.--Nø (talk) 21:25, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge?
Talk:Eugene Houdry

message: I have been working to improve sourcing on this article. An anonymous edit of 24 May 2011‎ by 209.91.177.197 (talk)‎ . . (6,608 bytes) (+3,572)‎ . .  is pretty much a copy-paste from the 1996 ACS NATIONAL HISTORIC CHEMICAL LANDMARK publication honoring Houdry. I will be working to rewrite this. Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 13:55, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  extensive copyright violation
Talk:Georgi Benkovski

message: The image featured here is almost certainly not an image of Benkovski.  See Martina Baleva, "The Photographic Portrait of Georgi Benkovski, or the De-Archiving of the National Hero."  Ironically, this is an expanded translation of this article, linked from the image page. --jbmurray (talk • contribs) 09:58, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Image is not Benkovski

message: IMHO a Flying Squad will be more suitable translation of "Хвърковатата чета" than Flying Band
Rest (talk) 13:44, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flying Band or Flying Squad 
Talk:Georgi Sava Rakovski

message: Hi , I've tried to search for sources of what would the most accurate romanization of Нягулов is. Some sources say that я is always romanized as ya and others as ja, except when its at the end of a word, in the case of which it is ia. Later I tried to search for what version (Nyagulov or Njagulov) is used more commonly and it seems the scholar himself uses Njagulov and that this form is more common. Is Nyagulov really the most appropiate form? Could you provide sources here for this romanization of я? Super Ψ Dro 14:43, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, look at the table on the bottom of the article Romanization of Bulgarian. For Я the transliteration is YA except in word-final -ия where it is -ia (2006 official system). Jingiby (talk) 14:50, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Alright. Thanks for your answer. Super Ψ Dro 14:52, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Nyagulov or Njagulov
Talk:Germain Henri Hess

message: Please, determine whether the date of death (November 30, 1850) of Germain Hess is Gregorian (New Style) or Julian (Old Style) because I think it is in Old Style. If it is in Old Style, please, edit from "November 30, 1850" to "December 12, 1850 [O.S. November 30, 1850]" because Russia was using the Julian calendar until 1918. I hope you will understand this date conflicts. 112.206.171.184 (talk) 05:10, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death date conflicts
Talk:Gershom Mendes Seixas

message: I cleaned this up while waiting for an update that failed. I chose the hispanic method of surnames, referring to him as Mendes Seixas, although his son is normally referred to as Seixas using the English/American convention. Also, I used Mendes as that was originally in the article, although the memorial tablet spells his name as Mendez, as do several other online sources. I hope someone will at least add a religious person infobox.Jweaver28 (talk) 00:08, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  More work needed
Talk:Frances Ashcroft

message: I found myself sitting next to Prof Ashcroft at lunch a couple of weeks ago, and asked if her Wikipedia page is accurate. She said there are inaccuracies, most prominent among them is the description as a geneticist. She says she is not a geneticist, and looking at her online profiles, it seems that she is in a department with genetics in the title, but her job title/ does not include genetics. I will remove description of her as a geneticist from this article and from list articles mentioning her. I've asked in email for her to identify other inaccuracies and I'll make changes or suggestions here if I get a reply. MartinPoulter (talk) 19:17, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not a geneticist 

message: In the "Personal life" section, it says Dr.Ashcroft appeared on BBC's MasterChef as a diner (offered food), and the sentence is marked with missing citation. I searched but could find that BBC filmed MasterChef at University of Oxford (quote) "for 150 students and 15 senior fellows of New College, Oxford." (end quote), but no personal names are given on BBC's official website; Episode 9, "MasterChef", Series 7. FYI, according to the site, the episode was aired on BBC One (Wed 30 Mar 2011 21:00), BBC HD (Fri 1 Apr 2011 19:30), and BBC Two (Sun 3 Apr 2011 11:30.) --Omotecho (talk) 16:49, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  MasterChef appearance and citation
Talk:Gheorghe Lazăr

message: An old statue of Gheorghe Lazăr in the Piaţa Mare, Sibiu. Unless I'm mistaken, the statue is no longer there and there is discussion of replacing it. I think it may be more interesting than the bust currently in the article. I'll leave it up to someone else to make the decision. - Jmabel | Talk 06:30, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, this statue looks much better than the bust-with-two-stumps.  Turgidson 20:58, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another statue 

message: There are no sources that I as a non-Romanian speaker understand, so the article is unsourced and unreferenced as far as I'm concerned and therefore the content is OR--mrg3105mrg3105 00:53, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources
Talk:Worsley Navigable Levels

message: Coordinates of entrance. 53 30'02.2"N 2 22'52.2"W. It is very difficult to provide the surface coordinates of significant underground structures unfortunately. Tina Cordon 14:24, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Entrance to Worsley Navigable Levels at Worsley Delph 

message: I don't think I understand what classification is all about. Are you rating the article or the importance of the subject matter? Tina Cordon (talk) 21:25, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The article - when this article was last classified, C-class was not available.  Given the amount of information I would say its just beyond Start-Class, but the lack of inline citations for me makes it certainly not B-class.  The importance of the subject matter is covered in WP:NOTE Parrot of Doom (talk) 22:58, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: On that basis C-class is fair. Obviously I believe the subject matter is important, but I agree that this article could be improved and expanded and should be in order to give the subject the respect it deserves. Tina Cordon (talk) 23:14, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh I certainly agree it is an important subject - considering the impact the canal had on the industrial revolution in Manchester I'd say it's right up at the top of things to do history-wise for Manchester.  I have tried to gain access to those mines to take a photographic record (I am a television cameraman by trade) but unfortunately, and somewhat understandably, British Coal are extremely reluctant to allow anyone to have anything to do with any aspect of the mines.  We've been trying to get the Bridgewater article improved, right now it's at GA but I feel it has a very long way to go until it's worthy of FAC. Parrot of Doom (talk) 23:53, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added some in-line references and now that I've found Francis Egerton's pamphlet as mentioned below I will endeavour to expand the section referring to the underground incline. Tina Cordon (talk) 14:30, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Classification 

message: The Description du Plan Incliné Souterrain by Francis Egerton is available for free download at Google Books. It is of course in French. Tina Cordon (talk) 14:30, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Description du Plan Incliné Souterrain 

message: Is this place some kind of a nega-Venice? If Venice is aquatic heaven, then this place with its 47 miles of sub-terranean dungeon canals should be aquatic hell?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.83.33.58 (talk) 22:20, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  I don't get it. 

message: I think this image is now in the public domain copyright wise:
http://www.transportarchive.org.uk/getobject.php?rnum=T1697&searchitem=tunnel&mtv=T1&pnum=1
©Geni (talk) 23:40, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Coal board photo
Talk:Forty Hours' Devotion

message: Curious.  This is an interesting devotion and intriguing prayer exercise.  
But can anyone shed some light as to why "women must be excluded" from the devotion at night?  I mean, other than general Catholic institutional sexism?  Why only at night?  Are they afraid they're more tempting to men when the moon is up?
75.6.9.36 20:57, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I should have thought it was a fairly obvious precaution against scandal and gossip, given that there would naturally tend to be few people attending in the small hours, so giving occasion to all manner of salacious speculation as to what Father X and Miss Y were doing alone in there all that time … Vilĉjo (talk) 02:05, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

text: Note that the Wikipedia heavily relies on the Catholic Encyclopedia (because public domain) which describes what was then the practice. The reason for the exclusion of women at night was as a safeguard to 6th commandment issues and suspicion of such (obviously; though yes, a soure might be helpful still); this was, perhaps, shall we say it, overly anxious (or adapted to a society much less adapted to women and men being together). The rule does not exist any-more; should it still be practiced somewhere, it would be out of a "let's do it as they used to do it" feeling. - Now once it is agreed to shut out one of the sexes at night, the female one is the logical choice, as men make up the clergy (which is, so to speak, there by profession and not bound by their laical duties next morning) and could more easily drop out at night for an hour of watching. In nunneries I guess it was different, and the women made up the night-time watchers (any material on that?).--2001:A61:210E:7201:1C0A:B531:B871:BA9D (talk) 18:36, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: Im putting up a speedy deletion for this article, its almost a complete copy of New Advents page._Þέŗṃέłḥìμŝ LifeDeath 12:01, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article