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Talk:Humphrey Hume Wrong

message: The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. --KenWalker | Talk 06:49, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 

message: The following was removed as it does not show up on Google Books. A well-known and widely available source has been used instead.
:Quotation from The Gentle Nudge: The Canadian Department of External Affairs and the North Atlantic Treaty, 1948–1949 by Michael W. Manulak:
: Wrong was the “the most incisive of the senior officials” in his thinking and the “crispest” in his writing. He was long described by Norman Robertson as “the most able man in the service.” Wrong was considered “brilliant” although “somewhat on the assertive side”.  This assertive side could border on impatience or waspishness. In diplomacy, Wrong was of a very practical and organized nature, seeking clear Canadian interests with fewer abstract notions or moral preoccupations. Wrong was extremely well-connected with the State Department and highly respected. Hickerson described him as “one of my best friends.” Wrong was also a close personal friend of Dean Acheson (US Secretary of State from January 1949) in a relationship that dated back to their childhood.
Perhaps a verifiable source can be found to confirm the association with Dean Acheson. — Rgdboer (talk) 02:42, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Manulak
Talk:H. M. Tomlinson

message: Feeling literary, anyone? There's a list of reviews of Tomlinson's books at Unz.com dating back to 1927 or thereabouts. Yeah, some fresher material would be helpful to form a balanced article. Guess the old stuff would do for a lush "Contemporary reception" section. Not meaning the 21st century. Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:21, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Reviews available for a (contemporary) 'Reception' section
Talk:Gordon v. Gordon

message: La Toyah Jackson is one of the Jackson Five and the older member of the family that Michael always said he loved the most and wanted to be like. She is rich as can be. She is upper crust upper class. Every time you hear little five year old Michael singing twiddly deet on the radio, you can notch up a few more cents for La Toyah. Her husband beating her about cos he wants her to stip at the club for money is highly debatable. Even if someone can be quoted to say it. 89.204.250.74 (talk) 05:31, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  la toyah jackson "extensively beating her"
Talk:H. W. Garrod

message: The text in Career talks about works Garrod published about Keats in 1939 and 1958. But the Works section doesn't list them. It would be worth fixing this. Piano beat (talk) 22:16, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing works 

message: In Chapter 6 of his book The Unexpected Professor, John Carey provides a pen-portrait of Garrod, based on personal experience and professional knowledge. It's a useful additional source. Piano beat (talk) 22:22, 28 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  John Carey's comments
Talk:Haane Manahi

message: Hello! This is to let editors know that :File:Haane Manahi.jpg, a featured picture used in this article, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for March 4, 2024. A preview of the POTD is displayed below and can be edited at Template:POTD/2024-03-04. For the greater benefit of readers, any potential improvements or maintenance that could benefit the quality of this article should be done before its scheduled appearance on the Main Page.  If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you!  — Amakuru (talk) 21:34, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Featured picture scheduled for POTD
Talk:Haik Hovsepian Mehr

message: Have added two short quotes which crystallise opinion in the House of Lords debate from Hansard.Cpsoper (talk) 20:25, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Hansard
Talk:Promachoteuthis sulcus

message: Hey people, I put a link to the actual picture in where the image is supposed to be. Someone can finish the job cause I don't know, or care to know how to convert it. Instead of doing something useless and reverting my edits, how about making the link into a picture.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.22.215.20 (talk) 09:17, 13 November 2009 (UTC)

message: I think someone should mention the fact that this creature has gained a small following as an internet meme, due to its lips looking like human teeth (the Tree of Life project refers to them as "dentures" and goes into more detail).The Talking Toaster (talk) 19:17, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dentures & memetic status.
Talk:Abijah Bigelow

message: An editor of the page for Michigan City, Indiana, insists that this Abijah Bigelow moved to Michigan City, Indiana, late in life and, presumably, was buried there. He lists a reference source of http://www.mclib.org/people.htm#abijah in support of this, and that source, for what it's worth, does suggest the move west. It is directly in conflict with the source listed in this article, namely, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000453
I wonder whether anyone knowledgeable about Abijah Bigelow could voice an opinion on the Michigan City website with respect to the reliability of the source cited there? Or, if that source is more reliable than the biographical dictionary source used here, could an edit be considered here? Many thanks. Xenophon777 (talk) 14:50, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Indiana?
Talk:Hal Smith (actor)

message: Article states that Vivian M. Angstadt was his wife. IMDB agrees, but most other results in Google are mirrors of what wikipedia says, or not reliable sources. Find A Grave shows a "Louise C. Smith" as sharing his burial plot:  and they say THAT was his wife. Note that his deceased son is buried there too, and it certainly looks like a husband-wife-child arrangement on the plaque. Without either source being super-definitive (although I am inclined to take IMDB over Find A Grave) does anyone have any bright ideas as to who his wife actually was, and if one of these women wasn't his wife, who was she? Echoedmyron (talk) 22:22, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: A year and a half later, and the question is still unsettled.  IMDb can be edited by users, so it's suspect as a reliable source. I can't say how reliable Find a Grave is (it looks like it accepts edits from users, too), but there is a picture of the gravestone that bears the name "Louise C. Smith". All sources seem to agree on the dates. Looks like the article needs a solid source on this question. Willondon (talk) 02:22, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: ,Find a Grave (like IMDB) is considered unreliable for use as sources for Wikipedia. See Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources. Eddie Blick (talk) 02:09, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spouse
Talk:Roman commerce

message: Potentially an enormous subject, and one often neglected. The article needs plenty of work. There's been little attention paid to internal markets, and the role of the military has been sidelined, apparently in favour of the exotic and exceptional. Citations are few (and not to standard format), and none are inline. So, is anyone interested (as I am) in improving it? Haploidavey (talk) 16:59, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Halle Tanner Dillon Johnson

message: It seems to me that perhaps the second and third paragraphs of this section are not in chronological order, but more checking is needed. Also, although she was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, an Alabama template would seem to be appropriate, along with several other states, and perhaps Philadelphia, too. I leave to other editors those changes in templates. --DThomsen8 (talk) 01:49, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early years chronology 
Talk:Halsted L. Ritter

message: A temporary subpage at User:Polbot/fjc/Halsted Lockwood Ritter was automatically created by a perl script, based on this article at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. The subpage should either be merged into this article, or moved and disambiguated. Polbot (talk) 19:24, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Done.--TommyBoy (talk) 02:12, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Bot-created subpage
Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Novoselsky Valery

message: User:Psychonaut who is adding  tags, allegedly bona-fidae, is currently involved in another AfD, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Margita Bangová, a rather promotional article (started by this user) about an undescript Romani beggar targeted by Toronto sensationalistic press. Thus there is supported an article activley creating the prejudicial "Gypsy" image, because otherwise the biography has nothing worthy to remember, while here is helped the deletion of an important contemporary Romani activist. What should one understand from this? Because of the Romani ethnicity, the beggar remains and the activist is out? Btw, just compare the importance of the biographies of these to persons. With regard to the tags themselves, for Valery novoselsky and RomanyChaj, it is obvious they are older and they have also other activities at Wikipedia. Desiphral-देसीफ्राल 14:04, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Valery novoselsky has only edited the article about himself and the organization he represents.  RomanyChaj has only made a few contributions, all on Romani subjects or to his own userpage.  Thus, the tag saying the user "has made few or no other edits outside this topic" is completely relevant -- it appears their only purpose in editing Wikipedia is to edit a very limited scope of articles, and thus they may not have the grasp of policy necessary to understand the deletion discussion.  -- Merope 14:17, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: To clarify, I am not "adding" SPA tags so much as restoring ones that Desiphral removed. Another user originally added the SPA tags (correctly, IMHO). —Psychonaut 14:29, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: "Another user" being me: diff - Nabla 21:36, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Syd Herlong

message: This body of this article seems to be a reproduction of Herlong's biography on  this  website.  There seems to be only minor editing.  Am I seeing something that's not there or is this a problem?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.179.94.92 (talk) 21:23, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this article copied?
Talk:Hamish Imlach

message: I deleted the the following:
"As a member of the Emmettones he recorded, "Bold Robert Emmett", which reached number one in the Irish charts."
Also this comment left by someone else
"Having grown up with the Irish charts from the beginning I have no memory of Emmettones and after consulting "The Larry Gogan Book Of Irish Chart Hits" I find that there is no mention there, therefore I feel your earlier contributer has got their facts wrong."
The Emmettones looks like a made up cross between the Emmet Spiceland and the Wolfe Tones.
Looks like this has has been here since october 06 though I can't make it show red in a diff.
Mind you this does sound like the kind of tale Hamish would tell (though that doesn't make it any more likely to be true)!Filceolaire (talk) 11:50, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleted the Emettones 

message: I've added 'for a time' to the BBC ban, on the grounds that it was on the BBC I first heard Imlach singing 'Cod Liver Oil'. It was certainly played on the folk music programmes. Peridon (talk) 00:31, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Ban

message: I'm editing the following sentence: Despite being little-known in the US and outside of the folk community, he influenced many other artists, including most notably John Martyn and Billy Connolly. as I can see no relevance in his being unknown in the US when he is being described as an influence on two other Scots. Normally I would have went ahead and made the change but I wanted to make the point on here as well as there is too much of a US-centric bias across Wikipedia. On no level is the notability of Hamish Imlach contingent on his being known in the USA so out it goes. Keresaspa (talk) 20:04, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not happy about the 'outside the folk community' either. I was talking about him the other day with a Scottish colleague who is definitely not a folkie - but was an Imlach fan. Peridon (talk) 21:04, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree with you on that so I've made another edit to the sentence. There is no real way to prove that he is only known to folk fans so that statement is also pretty redundant. Indeed I have an uncle who is a fan but not a folkie so I reckon your point is well made. Keresaspa (talk) 00:23, 19 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  US-centric
Talk:Hank Mann

message: Most online biographies have birth year as 1887 - however no primary sources are given.
* 1920 U.S. Census has estimated birth year as 1888
* 1930 U.S. Census has estimated birth year as 1889
* 1942 World War II Draft Registration Card states 1888. [This is written(?) and signed by the man himself.]
* Social Security Death Index states 1887. [Date presumably provided by next of kin?]
* Photo of Hollywood Forever Cemetery nameplate at FindAGrave shows 1887 [Again, date presumably provided by next of kin?]
Q. So which is it?
I've gone for 1888 as Draft Registration Card has Mann's signature on it.
JustWinBaby (talk) 18:56, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Year of Birth
Talk:Hank Patterson

message: A reader contacted Wikimedia :ticket:2019080310000382 suggesting that the leftmost character in the main image is not Hank Patterson but Eddie Waller. I think they are right but I'd like someone else to double check before making the change.
I left a comment on the image talk page but I'm not sure how soon someone will respond there.S Philbrick(Talk) 02:12, 5 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think it is Patterson, a still found  from the same film shows a different bone structure in the face, one much more like he had in the 1960s. Going to remove the image, if anyone has any better evidence to the contrary they are free to restore it. Danthemankhan 00:03, 2 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not Hank
Talk:Kern (soldier)

message: I just made a small edit to the Macbeth bit, but wasn't signed in at the time - it was me, if anyone wants to know who to blame... Edjack 14:07, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Under the heading "Military Equipment and Tactics" it say's "perhaps nothing more than a leather coat but they almost certainly did not wear chainmail as there is no evidence that the extensive iron-working industry required to facilitate it existed in Ireland at the time"
The statement "no evidence that the extensive iron-working industry" is unsupported in the text and in fact. The only industry required to produce maille coats is bog iron and or scrap, a forge and plenty of time, all of which has existed in Ireland for almost 2000 years (if we set late iron age as a start point for Kerns).
The very first line say's "There is little evidence to suggest that the kern wore armour, though this point is disputed." so, the above line is partly redundant. Norse raiders/settlers were known to use metal armour at the same time as they were colonising Ireland. Further up the page you find "Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, outfitted many of his Ceithernn with contemporary battle dress and weapons and drilled them as a professional force, complete with experienced captains and modern weapons.[1][2]"
Opinions?
Derek  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Scaith (talk • contribs) 18:40, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Military Equipment and Tactics 

message: "The dart was the weapon of choice for the kern, the bow never achieving popularity in the country" Where's the source? What do you mean "the bow never achieving popularity in the country?" There is literally an image of a gallowglass, many of whom were Irish, with a bowTTTime05 (talk) 19:33, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article needs work
Talk:Wallacia, New South Wales

message: The article claims both that the name was changed in the 30s, and that it has been named Wallacia for 100 years. JPD (talk) 14:08, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Contradiction

message: This encyclopedia, belief it or not, values and encourages meaningful addition from everyone. I find it extraordinarily rude for someone to delete significant references to two families whose contribution to the village of Wallacia was inestimable, passing off the history of Wallacia itself as "family history". 
Let us have a bit more about the Fowlers, the Baines, the Blatmans, the Crossman, the Osbornes, the Downes and all the rest of them. 
Amandajm (talk) 03:40, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: The nature of Wikipedia
Talk:Carbon (disambiguation)

message: , I'm quite tempted to remove the radiative forcing entry since there's no mention at all of the term "carbon" as a standalone word anywhere in that article, which would mean it doesn't pass what's said in MOS:DABMENTION. It seems like you attempted to consult an expert on the subject, but I have no idea where that conversation is supposed to have occurred. Would you be able to add some text (with proper sources) to the forcings article that discusses this shorthand? -- Fyrael (talk) 22:59, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: See article now please.  X1\ (talk) 23:03, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Radiative forcing]]
Talk:Hans Biebow

message: The holocaust research site? I think it is a good source? Much better than here anyways, at the moment.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by METALFREAK04 (talk • contribs) 16:03, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is this link spam filtered? 

message: The first sentence has: "Hans Biebow (December 18, 1902 – April 24, 1947)" while the last has: "he stood trial from April 23 to April 30, 1947." I doubt that he was on trial for almost a week after being hanged, but I have no idea what the correct date should be. Note that the second external link (Wolf Oschlies, etc) has the date 23 June 1947. Idontcareanymore (talk) 06:50, 4 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unclear dates 
Talk:Hans Coper

message: "* American Museum of Ceramic Art Coper's has shown "Friendship Forged in Fire: British Ceramics in America" and "Honoring the Past, Embracing the Future: AMOCA’s 10th Anniversary" and part of AMOCA's Permanent Collection" removed from External links; its relevance to Hans Coper needs explaining before including it again.--Johnsoniensis (talk) 10:45, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  American Museum of Ceramic Art 
Talk:Arch support

message: It would be really helpful to explain WHY arch supports are used.  That's what I came to this page to find out.  Does anyone know?  Can they add it in?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rootlet (talk • contribs) 02:08, 10 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled 1

message: Should specify what they are used for.  High Arches? Low Arches (flat feet)?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 8.225.200.133 (talk) 21:13, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled 2
Talk:Charles Debrille Poston

message: I have removed the section claiming Poston converted to Zoroastrianism as much of the section's information was already contained in other parts of the article and the rest was either based upon questionable sources or tangential to the article's subject.  Furthermore, while the article does state that he had an interest in the religion, it is unclear if this interest was strong enough for him to be considered an actual convert.
There are several published sources making the claim that Poston did actually convert (examples available here and here).  A problem with these sources is that they all claim the death of Poston's wife and daughter were contributing factors.  This is a temporal impossibility.  Poston's first wife, while paralyzed in 1851, did not die till 1884.  I do not have an exact date for his daughter's death, but do know that she died while retrieving her husband's body from the Philippines and that he died around February 1902.  This compares to Poston building his fire temple in 1878.  On top of the problems with the time line for "conversion", there are also sources that label Poston as a religious skeptic.  Given this level of uncertainty, I am removing the claim that Poston converted to Zoroastrianism from the article. --Allen3 talk 15:58, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conversion to Zoroastrianism 
Talk:Charles E. Wiggins

message: A temporary subpage at User:Polbot/fjc/Charles Edward Wiggins was automatically created by a perl script, based on this article at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. The subpage should either be merged into this article, or moved and disambiguated. Polbot (talk) 00:21, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Bot-created subpage
Talk:Hans Jüttner

message: Briefly:  No sources.  Fails to refer to postwar conviction and imprisonment for war crimes.  (German wikipedia article includes this information.).  Will code with war criminal category, but this is just a beginning of a fix.Mtsmallwood (talk) 21:08, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Multiple issues

message: I added in the subject's criminal conviction (straight from German wikipedia), added the category Holocaust perpetrator (Chief of Staff of concentration camp administration merits this, I believe) and some general cleanup.  Still no references, however.Mtsmallwood (talk) 01:58, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: January 22 rewrite

message: Must query this.  Although the SS bureaucracy was Byzantine, to the best of my knowledge the KZ's didn't come under the SS-Führungshauptamt at all, it being rather the eqivalent of a general staff for the Waffen-SS.  Solicitr (talk) 00:45, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Chief of Staff for concentration camp administration?

message: Preserving here by providing this link; please see edit summary for rationale. K.e.coffman (talk) 04:41, 23 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced material
Talk:Hans Keller

message: Why was the infobox removed? 70.186.172.75 (talk) 13:07, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox 

message: As a man very prominent in the world of 'contemporary music' (even working for several years as the BBC's 'Chief Assistant, New Music'), Keller had close personal and professional ties with many composers, and was frequently the dedicatee of new compositions. 
: He could easily be a latter-day Edward Clark (conductor).  A very interesting pair of chaps.  I wonder if they knew each other.  --  Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 00:23, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reminded me of Edward Clark 

message: There is currently a Wikipedia article titled Homotonal. Since the term seems to be associated with Hans Keller only (and describes a rather trivial--or simple, at any rate--musical characteristic), I proposed at the Homotonal article that it be merged with this article. TheScotch (talk) 10:50, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Oppose merge: the term seems to have entered more widespread use, being found in classical music review like those from Hyperion, for example. Given this, I don't think that there is a reason to exclusively associate the term with the person who coined it. Klbrain (talk) 21:14, 2 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal
Talk:Disaster supplies kit

message: I work for the America's Most Wanted Safety Center, a new branch of America's Most Wanted getting away from the capturing of criminals, and branching out to all aspects of safety. I feel a link to our post about preparing a disaster kit would be appropriate and mutually beneficial, particularly because all of the tips and most of the footage are from an interview with a Red Cross official.  The link is http://www.amw.com/safety/?p=159 please consider it.
Jrosenfe 14:20, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding a link