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Talk:Siege of Kimberley

message: it rambles on and on
as do most wikipedia pieces,
who was the good guys in the Boer wars? i dont see any  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.56.224.34 (talk) 22:50, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  why cant their be a synopsis 

message: The entry says 'However, as head of the mining company that owned most of the assets in the town, Rhodes proved to be more of a hindrance as he did not cooperate fully with the military.' does not sound right at all.  The writer obviously hasn't read his 'Further reading' of Phelan's Siege of Kimberley.  De Beers' workshops i.e. Rhodes, made shells for the Army's guns and eventually manufactured a 4 inch gun, nicknamed Long Cecil, which fired 30 lb shells (I have one of them)and was a match for the Boers until they brought in their 6 inch Creuset guns towards the end of the siege.Egoli (talk) 20:57, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: A number of texts state that Rhodes interfered with military strategy.  e.g. by going to Kimberley himself, he compelled the military to mount a defense of the town when it did not necessarily make military sense to do so.  Furthermore, during the siege, he continously undermined the garrison commander, Kekewich's, authority.  See here Socrates2008 (Talk) 11:12, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Rhodes

message: I added a citationneeded tag to a sentence in the last section, and that section could also do with a bit of a tidy up, if I'm honest; it's a tad fragmented. The geotags are a nice touch, but if you're going to take this to FA, they're extremely distracting and break up the flow of the article. Finally, I was disappointed to see nothing about the psychological effects of the siege on the defenders, which I believe has been covered in a number of texts over the years. Skinny87 (talk) 09:03, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Various Things 
Talk:The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (video game)

message: what a stub someone improve it 76.108.218.230 (talk) 02:57, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Anyone can take on that job you know ;-) Including yourself if you want to... I know nothing about it so I'd be a poor editor of this article -- Blue Square Thing (talk) 08:01, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  uhh..... 

message: *21:04, 17 September 2010  m (3,533 bytes) (moved The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (video game) to The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie Game over redirect: It is the proper title. It is not named the same as the film.)
# Disagree with move — The actual title of this game appears to be "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie", as shown on this Google search. The (video game)" qualifier is an appropriate disambiguation for the game, instead of the movie. THQ (the producer) call it that (press release), and the word 'game' does not appear on the playstation edition of it.  Chzz  ►  05:52, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Please don't move it again, without discussion and consensus here. Thanks,  Chzz  ►  05:55, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move to rename 

message: Uhh... I'm pretty sure it's the same person as with SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom. --2001:558:6032:0:2953:8DFE:E48F:DE8F (talk) 08:31, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Any mention of the programmer's name?
Category talk:British military personnel by war

message: I've reverted Kernel Saunters edit as I maintain that this cat is a sub cat of :Category:Military personnel by war.  For example, if I'm in the Military personnel by war category and I want to know about British military personnel only, then I would click on this sub cat. Greenshed (talk) 20:14, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Sub cat of Military personnel by war
Talk:Calder, Saskatchewan

message: (Cocopie (talk) 20:19, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Phil O'Donnell (Irish republican)

message: Phil 51.14.19.30 (talk) 07:34, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  James christopher o Donnell DERRY IRA volunteer
Talk:AAA Americas Heavyweight Championship

message: I've set it to "B", it's a very short article but I think it's about as good as it'll ever get. I used the format from recent FLs to update it and it's fully sourced. MPJ-DK (talk) 14:09, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: May I suggest changing to a format similar to the TNA Legends Championship and the TNA Women's Knockout Championship? It may make the article a bit better and have it in range for GAN.--WillC 14:43, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think I'll bother with this one, but it's an excellent idea for the AAA World Heavyweight one, that's got potential. Good catch. MPJ-DK (talk) 14:51, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Rating
Talk:Ouse Valley Railway

message: Is the bridge in the photograph really a skew bridge? It doesn't look skewed when viewed from that particular angle, but then that could be a problem with the perspective - it's possible to photograph a skew arch from and angle that makes it look unskewed. The double bend in the road is a bit of a clue that the bridge might actually cross it it right angles though. MegaPedant (talk) 05:31, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Just to confirm, having taken a virtual walk under the bridge courtesy of Google Street-view, it is indeed a right handed full-centred helicoidal skew arch bridge with a five-ringed barrel in red brick with rubbed red brick quoins. I'll add a Wikilink. —MegaPedant 02:00, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Skew bridge? 

message: Don't you need an Act of Parliament to cancel contruction of an Authorised Railway?
This happened with the Settle and Carlisle Railway.    Tabletop (talk) 09:39, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cancelling construction
Talk:Pseudolite

message: Huh? I don't get what this article is about. Apparently there is no discussion on this article. That is all right. I still believe this could be a great article if improvised. I think I'll work on it. Come back in November 6 2008. This article will soon be great progress. See you soon.
Questions? quite. 
abbybinoy@gmail.com
"All abandoned articles can be great with a little work."
Hey it's me again. Wow, 2009 already! Seems like yesterday i began construction on this article on January 2008. Looks like I need more time. Come back again in November 6 2009, and this article will blow you MIND. Until then I will be working day in and day out. I will see you very, very, VERY soon. 208.85.14.68 (talk) 22:43, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
Talk:North American Islamic Trust

message: This line:
"The misrepresentation of Islam and Muslims by the media, Orientalists and some missionaries necessitates the development of authentic Islamic literature"
is stated as fact when it clearly is an opinion (presumably by NAIT)
Gene Klein  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.233.160.226 (talk) 20:27, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Where is this coming from?
"... often appoints individuals to the mosques' boards of directors, appoints the mosque's imam (who is often Wahhabi), supplies free Wahhabi literature, and brings promising candidates to Saudi Arabia for additional indoctrination before sending them back to the US."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.36.49.198 (talk) 12:39, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
File talk:Hamilton-Burr pistols.jpg

message: The pistol to the right is a flintlock consistent with era, however the pistol on the left is a typical percussion cap pistol and these did not exist before Forsyth invented the percussion cap system in 1807.  It appears that Chase can show it was an 1860's modification:
http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/1976/5/1976_5_102.shtml
A better picture is here:
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2004/09/10/arts/10HAMI3.ready.html
I note the stock is different as well, which might suggest that the guns were not twins, but different models from the same maker.  If Chase indeed has the original parts it could help settle any ambiguity.
In any case, there are claims that are inconsistent with the authenticity of these weapons.  In 1869, the NY Times describes a presumably different set of weapons as "flintlocks" branded "J. Twiggs London" that "resemble each other exactly."
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E0DE3D7103AEF34BC4A52DFB7668382679FDE
Criticality (talk) 22:19, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The “percussion cap” pistol depicted is technologically anachronistic
Talk:FMW World Street Fight 6-Man Tag Team Championship

message: The table listed 20 November 1998. I left that in but fact-tagged it. What citation supports the date? The article's lead says it was active until May 1999 which is what the source cited supports. Did someone change this? I'm going to check the history to see who put this in and ask. Ranze (talk) 05:16, 1 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Date of retirement before 2015
Talk:Woodsboro, Maryland

message: For history, there should be a list of all burgesses and their dates of service. 68.81.151.62 (talk) 14:37, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: List of Burgesses

message: where might visitors find a hamburger? 38.100.128.52 (talk) 14:50, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hambubger 

message: I removed a bare URL for a newspaper article from the References section that had been added on June 28, 2021. It was subsequently restored by User:74.117.230.98 (whose previous edits to this page have all been insults directed at the current burgess) with this edit summary:  Some points of rebuttal:
* As I wrote in my edit summary, the newspaper article is not about Woodsboro.
* This wiki article is not about the current burgess, who wasn't even in office when the newspaper story was written.
* The References section is for links used to support the content in the article. Nothing in the newspaper story has been used in this article, so it is not actually a reference.
* I see no evidence that the current burgess . Even if he has, it's something to address here first, and later, if necessary, through the Conflict of interest Noticeboard. Adding a bare URL under References is not how to handle that.
Given the above, I'll delete the bare URL again. -- Pemilligan (talk) 23:42, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing a reference
Talk:Cavalcade

message: This article ("Cavalcade (parade)") was deleted in December 2007, without a heads-up to Wikipedia:WikiProject Equine.  I have recreated it;  it anchors several interwiki links from other language wikipedia. --Una Smith (talk) 20:45, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Undelete

message: Hi, I see this article is getting some long-overdue attention.  I am going to put in a couple of tags that note some OR and related problems with this article.  I haven't addressed these issues in part because I've had other fish to fry and because of the history I had with the (now blocked and inactive) user who put in the original claims.  However, if someone else wants to do a little research and sourcing, that would be quite helpful here.  Thanks!  Montanabw(talk) 16:45, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyeditors improvement 

message: Whilst historically cavalcade refers to horses, the modern usage goes beyond that. It may also refer to a procession of vehicles and people.
To have the Wikipedia article only refer to a parade of horses appears inaccurate.
See:
* https://www.dictionary.com/browse/cavalcade
* https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cavalcade
* https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/cavalcade?q=cavalcade
* https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/cavalcade
176.63.1.153 (talk) 12:19, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition of cavalcade
Talk:Cowboy Jimmy Moore

message: I searched but was not able to find sources listing any other technical advisor work other than My Living Doll and The Family Jewels. Every source implies (possibly hedging their bets) that these are "among" or "include" or say "such as" "for example" the works he worked on. I would love to list a complete list of works, or say it was just these two. Anyone have a source?--Fuhghettaboutit (talk) 13:36, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Technical advisor

message: It is neutral and is of a suitable length, it is not part of an edit war, it covers the major aspects of the topic and it, as far as I can tell, has not been the subject of vandalism. DangerTM (talk) 06:20, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA 
Talk:Liberty, Saskatchewan

message: (Cocopie (talk) 20:50, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Kid Williams

message: This article desperately needs attention! Adamd1008 (talk) 20:50, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Attention 

message: This is very close to a B-class article, but there are a few minor things that keep me from rating it as such:
*  This comment: "All information in this section is derived from BoxRec,[26] unless otherwise stated" seems more than a bit awkward. Better, in my opinion, would be to include specific references where appropriate.
* The biography section phrased a few things awkwardly.  For example, the passive-voice, "three more children were born", which should be active-voice and should probably state the relationship.
* "Not many years ago" appears outside a quote, I think.  That's not completely clear, since there is a missing double-quote mark.  I would prefer either put it into a direct quote or replace "ago" with something more specific.
There are probably other, similar things, which I'm not going to spend too much time going back to find.
Overall, a very good article.  Radzy0 (talk) 01:55, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assessment
Talk:KDE Plasma 4

message: Borderline C but some may not agree.
I got a message saying this was proposed for deletion. I didn't figure out how to find out why. I assume because KDE4 is out. Could the person who marked it for deletion post why here? Shortgeek (talk) 20:50, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Fixed "non-native language" mentioned in the Cleanup box from Feb. 2014 but not sure what constitutes "inappropriate tone."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.212.53.23 (talk) 18:34, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 3-24-2014 

message: My scheme  was removed, though it actually illustrates the intent behind KDE Plasma Workspaces very well:
# Some people confuse "Plasma Workspaces" with Qt or GTK+ (i.e. widget libraries), though it rather resembles GNOME Shell/KDesktop (i.e. a UX, a GUI, a graphical shell).
# But even the comparison with GNOME Shell is actually wrong, because Plasma Workspaces (plural) is rather a framework to facilitate the creation of multiple UXs. And multiple UXs were indeed created: Plasma Desktop, Plasma Active and Plasma Netbook. :File:Linux kernel ubiquity.svg illustrates exactly this intention perfectly.
# KDE Plasma Workspaces is not a "bundle" nor an "umbrella term" of multiple UXs, but indeed a framework to create such.
In case my illustration, since it mentions the Linux kernel is sooo damn bad, leave it out of the article, but claiming it an umbrella term, is just plain wrong. User:ScotXWt@lk 13:49, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  File:Linux kernel ubiquity 

message: Someone at "14:40, 29 June 2016" removed the enwiki link in the WIKIDATA and caused the en.wiki article had not any interlanguage link for more than 5 mounths! please check and report this vandalism. I re-turned the en.wiki link. Editor-1 (talk) 14:23, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism in WIKIDATA
Talk:Windisch technique

message: What is difference between this and Daescher technique? Miraceti (talk) 20:51, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

message: I have created a new article—ski jumping techniques—in which to lump all the styles, as they are too small-scale and sparsely referenced (in some cases unreferenced) to warrant their own articles. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 00:58, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merger with new article (ski jumping techniques)
Talk:Daescher technique

message: What is difference between this and Windisch technique? Miraceti (talk) 20:51, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion 

message: I have created a new article—ski jumping techniques—in which to lump all the styles, as they are too small-scale and sparsely referenced (in some cases unreferenced) to warrant their own articles. Mac Dreamstate (talk) 00:58, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merger with new article (ski jumping techniques)
Talk:Somerset, Maryland

message: Somerset evidently has a Chevy Chase mailing address but as best I can tell is not otherwise associated with it.  Somerset was founded not by the Chevy Chase Land Co like the areas along Connecticut Avenue commonly described as "Chevy Chase" (see Chevy Chase, Maryland for a bit of that history) but rather by 5 government scientists.  I tried to find a suitably reliable source for the Chevy Chase / Somerset connection otherwise but, other than the zip code, came up with little.  If someone can provide a good source for the connection, or I've otherwise entirely missed the boat, please restore the term but do explain the situation here.  Thanks.  JohnInDC (talk) 02:43, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Chevy Chase"
Talk:Riverdale Park, Maryland

message: Images in the article are made larger for the following reasons: 
Building and neigborhood shots on the right of the article:
*MOS:IMAGES (panoramic images exception) 
::However as a concession to other editor, although enlarged, it is not as big as it was before.  
*Calvert cemetery plaque image, MOS:IMAGES (exceptions made for when key details, like text, can not otherwise be read) and
::However as a concession to other editor, although enlarged enough for readability, it is not as big as it was before.  
*Also, all images on the right are made the same size as per MOS:IMAGES (exception for making all pictures the same size to preserve attractive appearance of the article). 
Thanks, :-) Cliffswallow-vaulting (talk) 21:53, 27 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Image sizes
Talk:Preston, Maryland

message: :Preston Volunteer Fire Department could be very helpful information for this page, it can let everyone know about the 100% volunteer commitment. It can let everyone know about the fundraisers we have, also if someone where to have an emergency it cant let them know the address and phone number. Jandrews22 (talk) 15:05, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: While information about the Fire Department is certainly relevant, only include encyclopedic facts. Letting people know about fundraisers sounds more like advertising than a neutral restatement of facts, and phone numbers are not appropriate content (see Wikipedia is not a directory). Phette23 (talk) 17:41, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Preston Volunteer Fire Department
Talk:Perryville, Maryland

message: Perryville is also the begining of the "Port Road" at the "WYE" on the North East Corridor main line railroad tracks of the Pennsylvania Railroad (now Norfolk Western & Amtrak). The "WYE" starts at the Perryville Railroad Station and goes along the northern shore of the Susquanna River. In town just west of the Perryville Railroad station, the two parts of the "Wye" cross bridges that span Main Street only a few feet apart.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.72.47.243 (talk) 04:52, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Tim Van Eyken

message: I attempted to rename this page as "Tim van Eyken" (small v), because the BBC and other websites show his name that way. Unfortunately I got a message saying that "Tim van Eyken" already exists. Ah well. Maybe somebody else knows how to correct it. Ogg (talk) 20:57, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Tim van Eyken (small v) redirects to this page... so at least it gets to the right place? Bonnie (talk) 05:27, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Name
Wikipedia talk:Requests for mediation/Causes of the 1948 Palestinian exodus/Archive

message: This discussion on a new text from Finkelstein is actually outside our issue. This was not yet discussed on the talk page of the article. I think it should be, because other editors should also be able to participate in the discussion. Therefore I slightly modify my proposed compromise:
:::If you agree to have my proposed text (Furthermore Finkelstein argues that transferist thinking is close to the core of Zionist thinking. According to Finkelstein Zionism claims for the Jews a prevalent right to Israel, their historical homeland, and accedes the Arabs only rights as incidental residents.[2]. He writes: 'the mainstream Zionist movement never doubted its 'historical right' to impose a Jewish state through the 'Right of Return' on the indigenous Arab population of Palestine.'[3] and 'Zionism's claim to the whole of Palestine ... called into question any Arab presence in Palestine.') in, I will refrain from adding this text at the end of the 'Outline of the historical debate'-section:
:::*According to Finkelstein all serious scholars now agree that the Palestinians were ethnically cleansed in 1948, and the scholarly debate now focusses on whether or not this cleansing was the intentional consequence of Zionist policy or the unintentional by-product of war
:::Furthermore we discuss the new text on the talk page of the article. To find a compromise on my alternative text and your proposal:
:::*Serious scholars now agree that Jewish military attacks were the main cause of the exodus, and the scholarly debate now focusses on whether or not the exodus was the intentional consequence of Zionist policy or the unintentional by-product of war  
:::*In his book, 'Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History', Norman Finkelstein wrote that all of the historians he considers to be serious agreed "that the Palestinians had been ethnically cleansed in 1948, and the scholarly debate now focused on ... whether this cleansing was the intentional consequence of Zionist policy or the unintentional by-product of war."[citation here]
:::I propose we start a discussion, and additionaly I promise not to add my text against the wishes of a majority of the editors. 
Is that acceptable for you? --JaapBoBo (talk) 21:17, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: new compromise
Talk:Crash (South Korean band)

message: I've performed various cleaning up edits:
*Removal of one or two lines that just sound like they were taken straight from the band's myspace page.
*Insertion of "fact" tags where there's something which doesn't sound like advertising, but still needs verifying.
*Adding of the rockdetector sourcing for the "thrash metal" tag, and removal of the other genres, as they weren't mentioned. They can easily be replaced, but only when a souce is found.
*Removal of the URL link in the infobox. That's already in place at the bottom.
Any more, especially citations where needed (or removals if they're false) would be appreciated. Prophaniti (talk) 15:59, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleaning up 

message: when was their last gig / concert ?  Don't they have a homepage ? 178.201.81.4 (talk) 20:52, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  is the Band still active ?
Talk:Koukdjuak River

message: This river seems to be extremely wide. It's wide enough to show up on some maps whose scale is too large to show most rivers.  Some like this map make it look like the river is a sea strait and Nettilling Lake is a sea inlet.  The river also seems from satellite images to be extremely shallow and full of shifting bars and islets. I wonder what the flow rate is.  It must all freeze over for much of the year.  I note that Nettilling Lake's maximum depth is much greater than its surface elevation.   jnestorius(talk) 02:48, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Features worth mentioning