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Talk:Coco Islands

message: I noticed that most of island subsections within Coco Islands#Geography have no or little referenced. If anything new is added it selectively gets reverted as unsourced while retaining the current unsourced material. Whys this unacceptable reverting is applied so subjectively and selectively and there is no objectivity? Be consistent, either revert all the unsourced material from this article, or leave new unsourced edits there but insert a tag for the reference improvement. Caution for patrollers, it takes little effort to destroy hours of work of other editors with simple edits, but watch it. Before reverting, read the whole article, either revert all similar objectionable stuff or leave the new edit in. Do not easily and lazily revert in a trigger-happy manner under the pretext of anti-vandalism, this is neither objective, not commonsensical, seems like collecting points to become admins by blindly butchering edits in subjective manner. This kid of subjective anti-vandalism patrolling itself is vandalism, penalty is block. Watch it, if you have a pattern of inconsistent reverts,  you can be reported for being subjective and irrational even if your standalone revert might be valid but it might be invalid that you failed to  review whole article and just blindly reverting stuff to collect points, and not really here for collaborative incremental improvement of encyclopedia. that means your will have a bad record of complaints against you that would result in your admin rights revoked or denied. Be objective, before you destroy spend time to improve or at least review and be consistent across the whole article. Clear?
222.165.9.81 (talk) 09:57, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Please provide reference that Binnacle Rock and Jerry Island are part of India. I would like you to check the coordinates of these islands. Please provide BBC source for Nehru's island donation. In this article, these islands are part of British Burma since 1937. Thank you. Phyo WP (message)  10:24, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: No selective reverts, apply consistency, better insert tags for ref improvement
Talk:Leslie Manser

message: I noticed that one paragraph of this article was better written and more detailed than the rest, so I googled the text. This is what I found.
Most of the following paragraph from the article:
"As he came over the target, his aircraft was caught in searchlights and although he bombed the target successfully from 7,000 ft (2,100 m) it was hit by flak. In an effort to escape the anti-aircraft fire he took violent evasive action, this reduced his altitude to only 1,000 ft (300 m) but he did not escape the flak until he was clear of the city. By this time the rear gunner was wounded, the front cabin full of smoke and the port engine overheating. Rather than abandon the aircraft and be captured, Manser tried to get the aircraft and crew to safety. The port engine then burst into flames, burning the wing and reducing airspeed to a dangerously low level. The crew made preparations to abandon the aircraft, by then barely controllable and with a crash inevitable. The aircraft was by now over Belgium, and Manser ordered the crew to bail out, but refused the offer of a parachute for himself. He remained at the controls and sacrificed himself in order to save his crew. As the crew parachuted down they saw the bomber crash in flames into a dyke at Bree, 13 mi (21 km) north east of Genk in Belgium."
is taken from Manser's VC citation in the London Gazette (https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/35755/supplement/4593)
The use of this material is not attributed in the text. I'm not sure how this should be dealt with. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable than me can help.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Marchino61 (talk • contribs) 02:15, 10 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unattributed quotation
Talk:Olinda Castielle

message: i think the sorucething is just about Isotope not likeing me  becase i dont agree with him/matrix17
That sounds rather unlikely. The article needs sources to show that this person is notable. Why wouldn't it?--Bonadea 16:52, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Wikipedia's policy on verifiability isn't negotiable. --Tkynerd 16:56, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Right... I have nothing personal against you Matrix and I am absolutely fine with you disagreeing with me, but you must adhere to WP:V in your contributions here and it would help if you would adhere to WP:BIO and WP:MUSIC as well.--Isotope23 18:20, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources? 

message: Do anyone have an update on if Olinda is making any new american reality shows? Or maybe doing something in american television or entertainment?--Matrix17 22:22, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Any new american shows
Talk:Horace Martineau

message: --PunkyNZ (talk) 10:15, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
Talk:Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy

message: In spring of 1938, the Seniorchef (leading share holder) of the private bank Mendelssohn & Co., Rudolf Löb, was told at the ministery of economics that in the near future, "Jewish" banks were not allowed to exist in Germany anymore. He was presented three ways of dealing with the situation: 1) a take-over by another bank, 2) the handing-over to other, "aryan", shareholders, 3) a liquidation. 1 and 2 would have been two variations of an "aryanization" which was typical at that time. Mendelssohn & Co. chose a combination of 1 and 3. Officially, the bank went into liquidation. From January 1st 1939 on, Mendelssohn & Co. was a bank "in liquidation". At the same time, they made a special deal with Deutsche Bank, in the result of which Deutsche Bank took over most of the assets and liabilities, as well as all "Aryan" customers and staff members - and payed nothing for it (although Mendelssohn & Co. was still a quite wealthy and important bank at that time). So: Nazi rulers put pressure on the bank, but the bank itself decided to go into liquidation (mainly to "protect the name") and to hand over the business to Deutsche Bank. The liquidation was not "done" by the Nazis. Source: Extensive article by W. Treue in Mendelssohn-Studien 1 (1972) as well as a lot of other more recent articles on the subject of "aryanization" of German banks between 1933 and 1945. The appropriate historic file is to be found at the Bundesarchiv in Berlin. Sebastian Panwitz (talk) 18:01, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Liquidation of Mendelssohn & Co. 1938
Talk:Henry May (VC)

message: I am intrigued that (at least according to the BBC) May served for 13 years, including about a year in wartime, without rising above the rank of private, but then, after his original engagement was completed, he rejoined the army, reaching the rank of Lieutenant within about one further year.  It seems odd to me that his potential was not noticed during the first 13 years, where in spite of extreme bravery and, perhaps, some skill in addition to luck, he failed even to become a corporal; and yet when he rejoined, he was quickly made an officer.  I know very little about the British army during WW1.  I vaguely remember being told that the difference between officers and enlisted men was largely a matter of class, but that is clearly not the whole story, for during his first engagement he did not even rise through the non-commissioned ranks, and also, when he rejoined, he did become an officer.  Were such stories exceptional? Enginear (talk) 17:21, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was May's military career unusual? 
Talk:Fritz Noether

message: Some biographical details from the Universität Karlsruhe (TH) site.
(German)
Habilitationen, Privatdozenten, Lehraufträge, ao. Professoren bis 1945
...
Noether, Fritz	Bruder von Emmy Noether, 1911 Habil., dann PDoz., 1918 etatm.
	ao. Prof. an der TH Karlsruhe, 1922 o. Prof an der TH Breslau
(English)
Ph. D promotions, Lecturers, Chairmen, Associate Professors ( until 1945)
...
Noether, Fritz	Emmy Noether brother’s, 1911 directors, then Lecturer, 1918 etatm.
	associate Prof. at the TH Karlsruhe, 1922 (full) Prof at the TH Breslau
--Jtir 18:41, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some biographical details 

message: This was hidden text in the article. It appears to be a German article on Noether. --Jtir (talk) 20:59, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  hidden text removed from article
Talk:Eduard Bernstein

message: Article says Bernstein was an unorthodox socialist because he was not hostile to Trade Unions.  I always thought that Socialists are in favor of Trade Unions.  Anyone?  Grin0012 (talk) 17:58, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe that statement is intending to say the opposite: that not being hostile to trade unions is one of the things that makes him still a socialist (albeit an unorthodox one), despite his hostility to Marxism. --Delirium (talk) 20:42, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: German Socialists were not hostile to trade unions but had problems with their "trade matters" attitude. Trade unions were seen as solely economic organisation, that had more interests in good wages than in changing the whole system. Kautsky for example spoke of the necessary connection between the political (party) and the economical (trade union) fight. To Bernstein the fight for better wages, better conditions, more rights were important to form a kind of a thinking, critical man, who could change the system. Bernstein's thinking is only understandable by concerning his contacts and experiences in Great Britain. To Bernstein the British radicalism was a role model for developing a democratic society that would lead into socialism. Trade Unionism was more important in Britain than in continental european countries, trade unions were the nucleus of the later Labour Party. --78.53.36.209 (talk) 12:25, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  position on Trade Unions 

message: Marx did not argue nor did he ever imply, in any shape or form, that socialism is achievable through peaceful means i.e. legislative reform. Perhaps the following sentence implies that KAUTSKY interpreted Marx in that way but as it stands now, it leaves the impression that Marx actually proposed such an idea. 
'This mature form of Marxism refers to Marx in his later life acknowledging that socialism could be achieved through peaceful means through legislative reform in democratic societies.'[4]  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.84.68.252 (talk) 04:26, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Having just added a citation needed for this exact reason, I agree. 82.134.248.55 (talk) 15:17, 10 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peaceful theory of revolution?
Talk:Lasso of Truth

message: Shouldn't this page be named Lariat of Truth? I've created a page named that and redirected it here, but I think Lariat should be the ultimate term. --lightspeedchick 03:26, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The only problem with this is that "Lariat" is not the term currently used. Virtually every reference included here refers to it as either the Golden Lasso or the Magic Lasso. I am not certain where Lasso of Truth comes from. If the page is moved, it should reflect what is given in the references. -Classicfilms 15:51, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Lariat

message: Much of this article is unreferenced re: Wikipedia:Verifiability. If references are not added, the unreferenced sections should be moved to the talk page. -Classicfilms 13:04, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Possibly worth leaving it a while and seeing what turns up. I'll do some digging. (Emperor 13:15, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! -Classicfilms 13:34, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Lack of references

message: The article states:
In a 1997 academic article, psychologist Geoffry Bunn incorrectly reinforces a correlation between the lasso and the systolic blood-pressure test, stating:
Anyone caught in the lasso found it impossible to lie. And because Wonder Woman used it to extract confessions and compel obedience, the golden lasso was of course nothing less than a lie detector [...] Like the lie detector upon which it was modelled, Wonder Woman's Golden Lasso produced truth—and by implication justice and freedom too—through coercion.[5]
(The citation is to Bunn's paper.)
It's very strange to include a paper just to tell us it's wrong, especially when the "correct" interpretation isn't sourced at all.--Jeff (talk) 16:15, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Attributing "incorrect" to academic paper without citation
Talk:Ranasinghe Premadasa

message: Actually I've come come back to add more.
It would an absolute crime to have this page remain in its current form.
The only links at the bottom of the page go to Pro Premadasa web sites.
To put in stark terms Premadasa was a monster (not the only one in Sri Lanka at the time), but without doubt the worst one.  He had thousands killed.  Not just subversives and terrorist but innocent people by the score.
Many people have fled the island because of the security forces.
His rule was a time of absolute terror from every direction.
To give a whitewash like this as write up indicates either a lack of knowledge about the man or a total contempt for history.
Either way it is wrong.
==Clarification wanted==
... the Gam Udawa project with which he tried to stir up the stupor in the villages.  What do the highlighted words mean?  --  JackofOz 08:27, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Corrected,Thanks--MediaJet talk 07:32, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: =

message: ... the Gam Udawa project with which he tried to stir up the stupor in the villages.  What do the highlighted words mean?  --  JackofOz 08:27, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Clarification wanted

message: Everything above this topic in this page was written by someone who does not know what they were talking about. President Premadasa was a great man. So much so that most people in the country still have respect for him and consider him the greatest president the country has ever seen.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.43.164.211 (talk) 11:58, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bozo 

message: This article, as well as the List of Sri Lanka Presidents, shows Ranasnghe Premadasa as Preside4nt until May 1, 1994.  This is incorrect.  Premadasa was already dead when I arrived in Sri Lanka in December 1993, and Wijetunga was President.  According to this New York Times article, Premadasa was assassinated May Day, 1993.
www.nytimes.com%2F1993%2F05%2F02%2Fworld%2Fsuicide-bomber-kills-president-of-sri-lanka.html&usg=AFQjCNEs9CjL8TbZpQiOwJ5ZyhQMVGypPQ&sig2=1IAJ-ZSaWeoXlYPiOUO1BA  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:285:181:BBC0:1516:9FFF:B17C:B5E9 (talk) 01:35, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Corrected,Thanks--MediaJet talk 07:32, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong Date of Death
Talk:Samuel Warren Carey

message: Hope there is someone else out there who wants to lift this up a bit.  He has been notable in a few ways.  Fred 11:15, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable outsider 

message: How can S. W. Carey, born in 1911, be declared the founder of the Expanding Earth theory, when Ott Christoph Hilgenberg, born in 1896, published the book "vom wachsenden Erdball" in 1933, when Carey was only 22 years old? 
Something must have gone wrong when the article about Hilgenberg was deleted. Since Hilgenberg is the founder of the theory of the growing earth, one cannot deny him the encyclopedic relevance and attribute the foundation of the theory to Carey, just because Carey was a more important geologist. Sciencia58 (talk) 16:04, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Founder of
Talk:Auguste van Pels

message: Given that all the works in the 'References and further reading' section appear to relate to Anne Frank generally rather than Auguste van Pels specifically, can anybody tell me why Auguste is sufficiently notable to have an article independent of People associated with Anne Frank? HrafnTalkStalk 05:46, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Except the article states that she didn't die in Buchenwald but "probably Theriesenstadt". Your "essential bulwark against Holocaust revisionism" argument has two problems: (i) it would apply to every victim of the Holocaust (meaning millions of articles, if it were followed) & (ii) this particular "bulwark" would not be "lost" in any case, as the "esential"s can be covered under People associated with Anne Frank. In any case such an argument is entirely WP:COATRACKy. HrafnTalkStalk 06:02, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability of the topic
Talk:John Carr (architect)

message: Could the user who deleted a large part of this page please explain why?
I am working on improving and extending this page. I am aware of some of the limitations, such as lack of references, poor layout and problems with the parts on bridges. I will improve these over the next few weeks. 
Goldsborough Hall deleted as this is a commercial link to a hotel web site.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johndhall (talk • contribs) 05:54, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Above paragraphs moved into newly created section by Hallucegenia (talk) 07:12, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Deletions

message: It would be useful if one could wikify all the locations worked on by Carr using . - some of them have articles; some do not. Without ., we shall never know which is already there!
::::Aa42john (talk) 11:48, 9 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikifying needed

message: I will ass some more wiki links to the list of works as mentioned above.
I have changed the order of the works to place domestic buildings first because these are the buildings most likely to be open to the public. Such as Harewood.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Johndhall (talk • contribs) 08:25, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Edits 2012

message: I put a sentence in the lead saying Carr was best known for Buxton Crescent and Harewood House, but only because these were listed in the infobox. Do people agree with this? What do the sources say? Hallucegenia (talk) 10:01, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Best known work 

message: The short list can be merged into this article and/or repurposed as a category. Rschen7754 01:31, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Klbrain (talk) 12:54, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge of [[List of bridges designed by John Carr]] into [[John Carr (architect)]]
Talk:Siegbert Tarrasch

message: Added "most influential chess teacher" to intro.
In Chess Career, made style changes, added cites and anecdote re "check and mate."  Even if aprocryphal, it's a cool story!
Comments welcome.
Eldred 07:01, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Some Changes

message: This is one of my favorite chess articles, despite its brevity, for the following two lines alone;  
He was a great target of the hypermodern school, led by Richard Réti, Aron Nimzowitsch, and Savielly Tartakower, all of whom criticized his ideas as dogmatic. However, many modern masters regard Tarrasch's actual play as not dogmatic. 
Finally, someone who gets it.  The best way to judge the playing strength and style of an old master is not by some stodgy, over-simplified assessment of their skill in an old book written by a weaker player, but by actually looking at their games  Anyways, I agree tremendously with this assessment of Tarrasch's play, and was shocked it was actually noted in the Wikipedia article, fearing that people would go by his overly dogmatic chess writings.  (Ostensibly written for much weaker, beginning players)  
Whoever wrote the lines above certainly has my respect and gratitude.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by ChessPlayerLev (talk • contribs) 11:13, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Play Versus Teachings

message: *Capablanca on San Sebastián, 1912 --Philcha (talk) 14:29, 2 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources

message: Tarrasch had a narrow plus score against Harry Nelson Pillsbury of +6-5=2, while Lasker was even +5-5=4.
''
Augsburg 1900 was a casual game, in tournament games Lasker had a plus score +5-4=4 against Pillsbury, too.
How can one trust in rubbish like "chessgames.com"? Poor Wikipedia!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.138.43.139 (talk) 21:48, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong statistics 

message: This article does not mention the 1898 Vienna tournament, which Tarrasch won and whcich was among his greatest achievments. Shouldn't that be included in here somewhere? 2001:9E8:6CC0:F200:450E:1DFB:5152:23E3 (talk) 07:01, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vienna 1898 tournament
Talk:Rahel Varnhagen

message: The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- -- Thesocialistesq/M.lesocialiste 22:05, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 

message: JE definitely says June 19, however a new source is saying May 19.  Others sources also agree it was May.
John Vandenberg (chat) 13:36, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  month of birth 
Talk:F1 ROC II: Race of Champions

message: Hi, I removed this paragraph because it was complete nonsense. "The game takes place in the not-too-distant future. Open wheel racing and stock car racing have merged to become an elite racing circuit for the fastest, youngest, and most daring drivers in the world." What are they talking about? Stock car racing isn't even in the game. 92.111.65.127 (talk) 08:29, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nonsense paragraph
Talk:Jacob Joshua Falk

message: * The Pnei Yehoshua, (C) 1990, by Rabbi Shimon Finkelman, (Artscroll) spells it that way.
* "Passing of Pnei Yehoshua (Event). 1755. Shevat 14 is the anniversary of the passing of Rabbi Yaakov Yehoshua Falk Katz (1680-1755), author of ..."  http://www.chabad.org/search/keyword_cdo/kid/9537/jewish/Pnei-Yehoshua-the.htm Pi314m (talk) 23:35, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Known as the Pnei Yehoshua