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Talk:Thomas Stevens (cyclist)

message: I think the date of Stevens´s return to San Francisco (on December 24, 1886) could no be right. In his book he wrote: And so the bicycle part of the tour around the world, which was begun April 22, 1884, at San Francisco, California, ends December 17, 1886, at Yokohama.
At this port I board the Pacific mail steamer City of Peking, which in seventeen days lands me in San Francisco. So he could not return to San Francisco before January 3, 1885. -- 80.131.61.111 13:31, 20 March 2007 (UTC)

message: What is a slicker? This was an unknown word to me (I'm British) until I looked it up. I take it that it means 'raincoat', so I am changing the text accordingly.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pawebster (talk • contribs) 16:46, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: What's a slicker?

message: I think originally there were links to other languages. There aren't now so I suspect I have blundered and deleted them. Does anyone less clumsy know how to get them back, please? Sorry. Les woodland (talk) 09:01, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  International distress call 

message: "He had never seen North America east of the Mississippi." but he was born in England and grew up in Denver. This is quoting from a source but it seems the source is inaccurate. Presumably if the family were in financial straights, they would migrate directly from England, across eastern North America to Colorado, rather than immigrate via Asia.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.242.147.63 (talk) 17:46, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: As I read the article he moved first to Missouri then to Denver, but it would not be impossible to have sailed from Britain to a port West of the Mississippi - eg Houston had a port from circa 1840. Pinkbeast (talk) 18:32, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Never seen east of the Mississippi?
Talk:Japanese-American Claims Act

message: This article completely leaves out the fact that many properties were acquired illegally by aliens, who could not purchase land in the United States under the Alien Land Act (just as Americans today could not buy land in China or Thailand or Japan, for example).  For the same reason, many others did not have valid leases for the land they were farming, either.  Naturally all of these non-American citizens, who instantly became ENEMY ALIENS when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, had no legal right to their real estate and thus no valid claim.  Former WRA Director Dillon Myer writes about this group of claimants in exact detail in his book "Uprooted Americans" (a misleading title, because over 40,000 of those relocated from the west coast combat zone were Japanese enemy aliens, NOT American citizens).Starhistory22 (talk) 06:37, 7 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vital Pertinent Fact Was Left Out of This Article 

message: Journalist Gus Russo has several pages discussing the systematic private profiteering at the expense of Japanese Americans following the attack on Pearl Harbor in his book, Supermob: How Sidney Korshak and His Criminal Associates Became America's Hidden Power Brokers (Bloomsbury, 2007). The book was reviewed in SFGate by Trey Popp, who writes: "Russo's chapter on the shameless plundering of the assets of imprisoned Japanese Americans during World War II, presided over by a bevy of Korshak's associates, is particularly stirring." The book was also reviewed in the Chicago Tribune by Hillel Levin, who writes: "[Jacob Arvey's] clout with the Truman administration put a protege in charge of property seized from German companies and interned Japanese-Americans. Russo documents how these West Coast assets were sold for a fraction of their value to silent mob partners and the young lawyers, Arvey accomplices, who served as their frontmen." Russo also mentions how the reparations paid to Japanese Americans in the 1980s amounted to probably pennies on the dollar. It might be good to work some of this material into the article. --Mox La Push (talk) 09:38, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Property Dispossession Source
Talk:Alpha-level mutant

message: I would like to see this article restored, as I think it is informative and interesting.  Unfortunately, I don't have the comics that would allow me to verify the list, and Wikipedia policy (see Wikipedia:Verifiability) says that sources should be found before the page is restored, so I will anxiously await someone who is able to help out in this area.  --Lasunncty 01:38, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Heinz Stücke

message: The redirect Crazy mofo has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached.  Skynxnex (talk) 14:11, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "[[:Crazy mofo]]" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: I found this article, , which seems reliable but I don't have time to add the updates at present. Please would someone else pick it up.  In 1962, aged 22 and bored with factory work, he decided to ride to places that seemed interesting, but after a while, he varied that, deciding to visit every country of the world, which he had achieved by 1996; but he then decided there were more things to see, so he returned to some countries, generally staying a few months in each, before finally, in 2012 aged 72, returning home for the first time in 50 years.  
Also, although his original 3-gear steel bike was repaired and refurbished many times, after 580,000 km "when no more repairs were possible", he did get a new bike for the last 68,000 km.
List_of_circumnavigations#Miscellaneous can then be updated with the end date of 2012.
It deserves more attention than I have time to give it! Enginear (talk) 22:57, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some updates needed, not least that he stopped in 2012 after 50 years
Talk:Western swamp turtle

message: Where does it live? How many are there? What are its relatives? Which Vienna Museum? Rmhermen 01:41, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: mostly its available in the ref already cite, I'll be work this up during the coming days Gnangarra 02:19, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: question to answer

message: My wife works for the WA government conservation agency - I'll see if she can source any decent photos appropriate for the public domain. ropable 03:17, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Photos

message: A note that 'tortoise' properly refers only to members of the Testudinidae, a family of cryptodire turtles very remote from any sideneck.  I'm leaving the mention of the common name -- lots of common name are misnomers -- but I'm editing the section to clarify that it isn't really a tortoise. 129.62.56.98 (talk) 18:34, 11 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Name

message: I plan to make some updates to this page based on current information obtained through the Friends of WST and the scientific Recovery Team. I'll also add some more photos.TedDougal'n'Jack (talk) 06:13, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: General update
Talk:Billy Kilmer

message: The section ends with the following sentence:
:"On September 17, 2010, Colin Cowherd was the first person to ever reference Kilmer on sports radio."
Presumably this would be the first time since retiring, as many games were probably broadcast on radio. Also, a citation is needed for such a specific assertion. Ileanadu (talk) 21:53, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Post-Playing Career

message: If he was born in Topeka, how can he be a native of Azusa? I am assuming that perhaps he moved there at a young age and grew up there, but that doesn't make him a native. Wschart (talk) 04:45, 9 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Native of? 

message: For quite some time, this article has included an uncited story about a "brief but friendly dispute" over who was the holder for Tom Dempsey's legendary 63-yard field goal. The same story is echoed in Dempsey's own Wikipedia article. There's no mention of who the dispute was between, or when it happened. Supposedly, it was "widely believed" by some unspecified group of people during some unspecified period that Kilmer was the holder, until photographic evidence surfaced at some unspecified point in time showing that in fact an obscure defensive back named Joe Scarpati was the holder. This would be original research if I put it in the article, but I have been unable to find any evidence that anyone ever believed that anyone other Scarpati was Dempsey's holder.  There are quite a few stories out there about Dempsey's still-legendary feat, some of which do mention that Kilmer was the Saint's quarterback who led the drive which ended with Dempsey's field goal. But, none of the accounts I have seen have ever even hinted that Kilmer might have been the holder, and most of them in fact specifically give credit to Scarpati.
Here's the seemingly spurious story as it appeared in late March 2020.
:A short, but friendly dispute arose[by whom?] about who was the actual holder of Tom Dempsey's record-setting 63 yard field goal kick. For many years, it was widely believed that Kilmer was the holder, but it was actually Saints' safety Joe Scarpati (#21), who was the holder of the (then) record-setting field goal. The dispute was finally put to rest, as still pictures and a few videos of that moment finally surfaced, showing that Scarpati mentioned by name by veteran CBS (television) announcer Lindsey Nelson (Don Criqui on radio), and verified by his jersey number #21) was indeed the holder of Dempsey's kick. A few weeks after the record-setting kick, Kilmer was traded to the Washington Redskins, where he achieved greater fame, Dempsey was traded to the Philadelphia Eagles. Just a few days after Kilmer and Dempsey were traded, Scarpati retired from professional football.
Timothy Horrigan (talk) 20:35, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tom Dempsey's 63 Yard Field Goal
Talk:Bob Babich (linebacker)

message: Within the last week in San Diego but there is no next of kin so the matter is taking time. 2603:6011:5600:A7AD:79CB:4D1C:5A8E:4020 (talk) 23:20, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  He has died
Talk:DF-5

message: Parts of this article have been lifted from http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/china/icbm/df-5.htm --Hypo 01:51, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Plagarism
File talk:Karandila2.jpg

message: The discussion says two but I see three people.
This photo is AWESOME!! --unknown
A very delightful picture.  What a wonderful viewpoint!  Doug 20:07, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You can actually see God descending between the clouds...... awesome. --MakE shout! 03:42, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Perry Island (Queensland)

message: there is also a perry island in Alaska --Melaen (talk) 01:19, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Where in Alaska? Peter Horn User talk 21:14, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Eureka! Perry Island (Alaska) in 148th meridian west Peter Horn User talk 22:31, 19 February 2011 (UTC)

message: It might be a good idea to restore the dab, see List of islands on the Potomac River#Alphabetically Peter Horn User talk 21:02, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dab
Talk:Coombe Island

message: There is contradicting information on this page as it states that the island allows camping while the GBRMPA has refused access to it.  Also, the article reads more like an article for the entire chain of islands.  Because of this I'm redirecting to the main island chain article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Geozapf (talk • contribs) 15:00, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect
Template talk:Champaign County, Illinois

message: The township list is missing one: City of Champaign Township. Note that City of Champaign Township is distinct from both the city of Champaign, and from Champaign Township. The boundaries of City of Champaign Township township are more-or-less coincident with the City of Champaign but they are distinct political entities. 
See http://www.cctownship.com/ and http://www.toi.org/townshipsbycounty.asp#champaign and http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/irad/champaign.html
Gv250 (talk) 17:54, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  City of Champaign Township
Talk:Baird Island

message: As per either a recent request at or because this article was listed as fully or partly unassessed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/Assessment I have just now completed a rating of the article and posted my results to this page. Those results are detailed above in the template box. Unfortunately, due to the volume of articles that need to be assessed, I am unable to leave detailed comments other than to make the following brief observation: low level stub, suggest an info box, further specifics such as postcode, elevation etc will assist immediately However if you have specific questions, please write to me on my talk page and as time permits I will try to provide you with my reasoning. Please put my talk page on your watchlist if you do ask such a question because in the case of these responses I will only post my answer underneath your question. ALSO if you do not agree with the rating you can list it in the "Requesting an assessment section", and someone will take a look at it.--VS talk 08:50, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment completed for [[{{BASEPAGENAME}}]]
Talk:Wonky hole

message: The external link "Article on the effects of agriculture on wonky holes" leads to the NewScientist.com page, however there is an "Error 410" (Sorry this page no longer exists.) 2601:40A:280:2260:5438:756F:DF70:F6D0 (talk) 03:09, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  External link article no longer available
Talk:List of companies of Poland

message: Aren't PKO and PEKAO the very same company? Mountolive 02:08, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Banking

message: I need Poland work permit with job 2001:8F8:183B:CDAA:C7E:2164:8195:CBE2 (talk) 14:49, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hy sir /miss 

message: Most of the mentioned companies are either part of, or bought out, by investment groups or other entities.
Just a few examples - Biedronka is owned by Portuguese Jerónimo Martins, Hortex by British Mid-Europa Partners, Wedel by South Korean Lotte Group and the list goes on.
Maybe add to the legend another colour to show which is owned by foreign investors, and which companies are actually Polish? 86.121.117.87 (talk) 20:33, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Ownership structures can get really complicated. I think I used the notes column to annotate when there was a clean owner-subsidiary relationship (and where the subsidiary was still treated as a "company"); feel free to add more. The list just shows which companies have a headquarters in the country, or where there is a significant subsidiary with a clear regional headquarters. There are larger problems when the companies are private, and the ownership structures are not really covered in reliable sources. I get your point - I think most people would be surprised at the international spiderwebs of control and ownership; I just struggle with a simple way to annotate that. Sam Kuru (talk) 21:12, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  List is very misleading
Talk:Allen Stanley

message: There are 2 Allen Stanley articles on Wikipedia.  I don`t know how to go about merging these, but I`ll ask for help on my talkpage and hopefully someone will be able to clear it up or merge the 2.  The other article I`m referring to is Allan Stanley, which is clearly the same hockey player in question.  --Renrenren 02:09, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

message: The correct spelling of New York Ranger is Allan Stanley Not Allen Stanley.— WilsBadKarma (Talk) 02:25, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger
Talk:Mobile media

message: I think that one of the first things that we need to do for this article is to define the scope of the article.  Do we only want to cover media that is capable of being sent to a mobile device?  Where do we draw the line on what what counts?  For example does playing videos on the PSP count?  What if the PSP videos where downloaded from Google Video?  What if the Videos were played from a disk? --Cooleymd 02:31, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scope of article 

message: I think that we should add a section on the different services that are available to deliver mobile media to mobile devices.  This would include services like Orb (software), tinytube, and the Sling box.  --Cooleymd 02:12, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion of available Mobile Media Sites/Services 

message: Does anyone have any ideas for sections for this article?  Here are the sections that I was thinking of:
* Brief history
* Means of recieving content
* Types of Content (and types of formats.  like .gp3)
* Types of Devices
Please add any other sections you would like to see to my list above.--Cooleymd 02:31, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sections for the article 

message: This item needs to be expanded and disambiguated between mobile content (media) and mobile advertising (media).
Both are very large topics and from a different perspective.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wizoz (talk • contribs) 13:10, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What Media? 

message: Cohen, M. M. (2016). “Always on and always on them”: Portable radios and the creation of the mobile media experience. Mobile Media & Communication, 4(3), 371–384. doi: 10.1177/2050157916651306
Goggin, G. (2011). Global mobile media. London: Routledge. Taylor & Francis Group.
Hjorth, L., Burgess, J., & Richardson, I. (Eds.). (2013). Studying mobile media: cultural technologies, mobile communication, and the iPhone. London: Routledge.
Mcroll333 (talk) 03:33, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible sources for new edits
Talk:BRG Sports

message: Easton has more competition than Louisville Slugger for baseball and softball bats.  Other major competition is Worth, Miken, and Mizuno
Easton Archery is held by Easton Technical Products (which in turn is held by Jas D Easton) and is still controlled by the Easton family.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dbellers (talk • contribs) 00:50, 22 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Notes

message: Can someone go to Easton Hockey and merge it into this article??  208.101.125.7 (talk) 06:03, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Easton Hockey 

message: Ugh, what a mess.  I'll try to resume.
* BRG as of today only owns the Riddell brand.  Bell has been divested and has its article at Bell Sports.
* Easton Diamond and Easton Hockey were both acquired by what is now Peak Achievement Athletics, parent of Bauer Hockey.  The Easton brand is no longer used on hockey gear, having been merged into Bauer.
* Easton Archery is family owned, was never part of BRG, and should have its own article.
162.208.171.22 (talk) 06:13, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Turns out 'Easton Cycling' is a thing too.  It was sold by BRG in 2014 to RaceFace.  162.208.171.22 (talk) 04:40, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, and the G in BRG stands for Giro (company), it too has been spun off.  162.208.171.22 (talk) 04:50, 6 June 2020 (UTC)

text: I've reverted the change to Easton (company).  It might make sense (although the unedited split from here makes it very confusing), but the majority of incoming wikilinks (bar the ones you just created) are for non-archery uses.  This suggests the same would apply for external urls also, all of which are now effectively broken.  Find a new name for your article and leave the redirect to its existing (if obsolete) purpose.  I haven't reverted the change at BRG Sports but this article in its new form isn't very informative and is completely unsourced.  Lithopsian (talk) 14:12, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I've fixed the wikipedia links to non-archery content to point to either BRG Sports or Easton Hockey.  Reverted Easton (company) to contain the archery info.  I'll add some refs to the BRG article too. 162.208.171.22 (talk) 19:22, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup here 

message: Admittedly the sources in this article aren't the best, but I disagree that this is a non-notable company... At the time of its creation in 2006, it had 2500 employees and an estimated $600M in annual sales.  That link also describes the company as "a monster of the sports world"... The Easton and Riddell brands have been around for decades and are well-recognized in American sports.  There's room for improvement here, but I don't think a deletion would be helpful to our readers. 162 etc. (talk) 23:40, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: PROD comment
Talk:Lesbian fiction

message: This article might be useful.--Cattus talk 22:39, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Useful article 

message: The sections "Notable works" and "Notable authors" contain very long lists with no commentary on why these works or authors should be considered notable.  We need a criteria for listing authors and works.  Are there any lesbian fiction awards or similar?  Or could we list authors who have won general fiction awards for their lesbian fiction writings?
Otherwise those lists should be deleted or moved to separate "List of..." articles (if such don't exist already).  But I'm not a fan of deleting stuff, so I'd rather find a verifiable way to keep some part of those sections. Gronky (talk) 08:34, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move or trim the long lists
Talk:Richard Gibbs

message: The current link referring to them is red, but are the referenced actually The Staple Singers? -Mardus 02:25, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Staples 

message: How can be have been born in 1983 yet moved the California in the 1970's?  Someone want to fix that up???? - TTP
He was born in 1955. OR... he has a time machine. 75.48.22.98 (talk) 23:39, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Errors
Talk:Lisbon Story (1994 film)

message: "Folk" music? Madredeus?! At least "world music" isn't as insulting, in that it merely mirrors the utterer's ignorance.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.249.64.233 (talk) 17:45, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

message: Wenders did NOT call them this, he says in "Three for the Road" (Criterion Collection documentary) that a critic referred them this way, he hadn't ever thought of it. He seems to accept the name, but didn't originate it. -- David Spalding (☎ ✉ ✍) 23:32, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Road Movie Trilogy"  

message: Although he would claim the title later (and still holds the "record" for the oldest director, as far as I know), at least two older directors (by few months) were active in 1993-1994: Jean Delannoy and Gösta Werner; and I am not counting Leni Riefenstahl, since she worked only on photography after mid-1960s and only made another picture in early 2000s. I guess they were likely dozens of lesser-known directors in their late-80s that were still active at the time. StjepanHR (talk) 13:32, 11 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Manoel de Oliveira - not the oldest active director at the time
Talk:Columbia Correctional Institution (Wisconsin)

message: If anyone is interested, I have proposed a new Wikiproject concerning prisons here.--Cdogsimmons (talk) 16:57, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikiproject Prisons 
Talk:California Institute of Integral Studies/Archive 1

message: I am reverting User:AnjaliGupta's edits, which consist of a series of undocumented, POV, contentious attacks on CIIS. These edits are not in accordance with the Wikipedia manual of style.  --goethean ॐ 20:28, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I've placed the "cleanup" template on the article because much of it is in unencyclopædic style, (and it also seems to hide the nature of the institution until some way into the article); if there's a more specific template I should have used, I'm sorry — could someone replace mine? --Phronima 13:50, 2 December 2005 (UTC)