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Talk:John Ogilvie (lexicographer)

message: I had difficulty finding much biographical information about John Ogilvie, editor of the Imperial.  (A lot about St. John Ogilvie, of course.}  I wrote this bio based largely on the entry in the Century Cyclopedia of Names.  Besides more on his life, I want to find out if George W. Ogilvie, who later had control of the Imperial, was a son or grandson.  I also want more info on the publication history of the Imperial and its descendants.  For details on this part, see Talk:Imperial Dictionary.  - This entry revised:  216.19.218.5 04:08, 15 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Reference
Talk:Brahmo Samaj

message: revised recent "Meaning of name" edit by 'Yvantanguy'. Reason - Disambiguation. The modern definitions, though exceedingly precise, do not find much mention and/or use in the old references and histories. In articles like Brahmo Samaj with strong orientation to history, the traditional ("archaic" is OK) meanings could be retained for consistency and to prevent conflict dispute. Landirenzo (talk) 12:19, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Meaning of name? it seems all right for now - no dispute, as long as Brahmo and Brahmo Samaj are separate pages. However it doesn't give a good lead-in to the article. (no zing)Yvantanguy (talk) 14:27, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: For yvantanguy. recent edits, reverts. The section is now synthetic (too many differing sources). It is unclear what you intend conveying to first time visitors who know nothing about the Brahmo Samaj. You are also likely to initiate content dispute with your fellow Brahmo editors. For instance, Supreme Spirit, Supreme Being. Universe. Landirenzo (talk) 09:08, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Have tried to synthesize it more seamlessly. Actually half the problem here arises from the introduction to this article. Would appreciate your assistance. Yvantanguy (talk) 11:14, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It would not be ethical for me to assist only you. Be patient, the articles will mature in time. Diversity of inputs is what makes Encyclopedia. Let the articles flow (or meander) where they will, Nature (natural process) is self regulating. Co-exist with your fellow editors, be tolerant, allow non-Brahmos and un-Brahmos to share this Maya. Stick to Reliable Sources. Abide by Wiki Policies. The introductions to Brahmo Samaj and Brahmoism are improved significantly. Brahmo is the laggard now. Distinctions, if any, between the Adi and Sadharan streams need clarification, till then the Doctrine Template remains. Landirenzo (talk) 03:35, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: CONTENT DISPUTE: Meaning of Name

message: It’s really hard to believe that this religion has almost 8 million adherents, if only 177 persons declared themselves a "Brahmo". On top of that, their history in the article ends 70 years ago… 82.35.81.189 (talk) 23:18, 4 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of adherents 

message: This article claims that Brahmoish is the most recent legally recognized religion of India, but I can't find anything on it anywhere else. The sources there seem to be dead. Can anyone link an actual source that Brahmoism was ever legally recognized as a religion in India? 103.170.182.115 (talk) 02:54, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brahmoism legal recognition
Talk:Faust, Part Two

message: hi.
i haven't read the book or seen the play, yet was interested enough to read this article. i thought i'd help by improving the grammar a little. i found that i couldn't make too many changes for fear of losing the intended meaning.
anyway, hope it helps.
.michael
*Comment Restructured and cleaned-up.  Could still do with some cross-referencing particularly to other works on/about Faust.  Marcus22 15:32, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: *Why has this article gone from a regular article to a stub? --YankeeDoodle14 21:11, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Stub?

message: Part I is based on the legend of Faust, a legend that goes back at least to Marlowe's play. But what about this Part II? Is it more freely created by Goethe in its plot?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Leonardo Teixeira de Oliveira (talk • contribs) 20:57, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Question

message: The article says that Faust encounters the "German Kaiser", but that is utterly wrong.
Such a title did not exist when Goethe published Faust II, instead it is the Holy Roman Emperor. A title like  "German Emperor" (Deutscher Kaiser), often referred to as  "German Kaiser", only exists since 1871 with Wilhelm I. as the first who used it. Could someone please correct it in the article, because it leads to confusion.91.2.106.19 (talk) 23:21, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: German Kaiser
Talk:Builg

message: Never in my life have I ever heard of such a people. This article needs revision. Fergananim
:Yes, they are super obscure. But in any case this should not be redirecting to the mythological Fir Bolg, as the Builg may be more historical and obviously aren't associated with everything across Ireland the Fir Bolg are. DinDraithou (talk) 16:58, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I was directed here from List_of_Celtic_deities, which does cite specific text source(albeit minimal & flimsy, imo), still accessible on the Internet Archive.
I don't think this page should redirect to Fir_Bolg, but I do think there ought to be some consistency with the list that links to it. A section acknowledging the possibility of a deity referred to by this name and the possible connection etymologically would at least help build on this meagre stub slightly, and would have a source with a specific text page to cite.
(I'm not logged in & my user page still has literally nothing whatsoever on it, but -Zephyrump, for posterity/potential future discussion.) 24.61.145.225 (talk) 08:44, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Totally different issue...
Talk:Foundation University (Philippines)

message: This looks like advertising. Does anyone know enough to fix it? Mgm|(talk) 11:42, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
* I'm somewhat familiar with the school and it's fixed now. But after removing copyrighted and promotional fluff, there was very little left. Even the school's official website is full of promotional doublespeak. TheCoffee 14:30, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV
Talk:War of the Spanish Succession

message: No work "Fernández-Xesta y Vázquez 2012" listed, no work "Wilson 2016" listed. DuncanHill (talk) 12:29, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Corrected. Robinvp11 (talk) 17:51, 21 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Useless references 

message: The troop strength and troop casualty boxes don't seem to match up. Adding up the numbers in the strength box, it would seem there were 862,090-1,007,090 total soldiers who fought in the war, yet adding up the numbers from the casualty box, we get 1,050,000-1,150,000 killed and wounded on both sides, as well as the figure at the bottom listing 400,000 total combat deaths and 700,000-1,251,000 casualties including disease. Using the highest numbers on either side, we get a max casualty rate of 124% and a possible rate of about 145%, which are 1. The most appalling casualty rates I've ever seen, and 2. Quite literally impossible.
Were the numbers flipped between the casualty box and the troop strength box, the purported 1,251,000 disease-included-casualties number would still be wrong. Even the given combat death stat of 400,000 seems out of place, as that would be about a 35-46% combat death rate with the given numbers, which I don't think is at all correct given the time period in which this war occurred.
I have no sources to back up my beliefs, but I'm going to claim common sense as my rationale for this conclusion. If the numbers include civilians, shouldn't it say that?
I wonder if we could get these numbers rechecked. Would anyone have any sources we can use to verify these? If the numbers are correct but there's just more information that needs to be added to make the numbers make sense, should we not do that? VacaBlancaLoca (talk) 23:10, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Most of these numbers stand for the strength of the various armies in their peak years. Not all the soldiers that fought in the war together DavidDijkgraaf (talk) 21:44, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, but shouldn't it say that? VacaBlancaLoca (talk) 21:58, 26 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error in the Troop Strength vs. Troop Casualties Boxes 

message: @136.252.163.126 I won't edit war with you, but I just want to say that Pro-Habsburg Spain and Pro-Bourbon Spain is a more accurate way to frame it than Castille vs Aragon. And we can't have them both in the infobox. Why is Castille vs Aragon better? DavidDijkgraaf (talk) 13:36, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox
Talk:Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland

message: During my last photo trip to Glasgow, I took a (not terribly good) picture of St. Jude's Free Presbyterian church on Woodlands Road.  I was labouring under the impression that this was an important building in the church heirarchy (if memory serves, it was where Lord MacKay's hearing was conducted) but the signage outside doesn't indicate that it's anything more than an ordinary parish church.  Should I upload this picture?  If St. Jude's isn't important, where is? (There's a church on the mound that I seem to remember holding church-wide assemblies of some type). -- Finlay McWalter |  Talk 09:58, August 18, 2005 (UTC)
This is quite possibly it's only church in Glasgow, it's probably about as important as any, feel free to add the photo. PatGallacher 12:35, 2005 August 18 (UTC)
Finlay - you are indeed correct that St Jude's does have some significance - this building is the address you would write to if you wished to contact the denomination, as it maintains a (very small) administrative office there; it is also the address of the FP Bookroom and FP Publications.  The denomination has an annual "Synod" in May, where the other Presbyterian churches have a "General Assembly", and this alternates between their Glasgow church building and their Inverness church building.--PeterR 19:16, 22 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo

message: Neither this article nor the one on the APC makes it clear which group took what stance over the controversy about Lord Mackay's actions. 193.63.239.165 15:39, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The split 

message: Opposition to Roman Catholicism "is perhaps voiced in a different style"? This is enough to pique my curiosity, but not to satisfy it. Carolynparrishfan 18:08, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vs. Ulster 

message: My recent perusal of the FP bookroom showed that of the some 97 shelves of the bookroom, less than 2 are devoted to anti-RC polemical material. It is thus misleading of the earlier version of the article to draw attention to this material as if it were a primary feature of the bookroom.
In any case, wikipedia articles should only include verifiable material, which is NPOV and which does not constitute original research. As such, before any statement can be included specifying that the bookroom contains large amounts of anti-RC material, an appropriate proof for this statement must be given.
Obviously no such proof can be forthcoming, since the statement is false.
Cf. also the bookroom's webpage, which shows quite clearly that only a small % of its stock is anti-RC polemical material: http://www.fpbookroom.org. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 149.254.200.222 (talk) 16:29, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Bookroom
Talk:WxPython

message: :==Feature==
wxPython uses widgets provided by the underlying operating system, and therefore provides a native look similar to other programs running on that particular platform. Tkinter, on the other hand, provides a uniform look on all platforms, because it draws its widgets from scratch using the graphics facilities
afaik this is no longer true.  tkinter now uses native look and feel.
Benwing 03:14, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  deleted 

message: I think that the current example is too complicated for an new wxPython programmer. I have made a simplified example that I think illustrates the simplicity and ease of use of the library much better:
import wx
 
class TestFrame(wx.Frame):
    def __init__(self, parent, ID, title):
        wx.Frame.__init__(self, parent, -1, title)
        panel = wx.Panel(self, -1)
        text = wx.StaticText(panel, -1, "Hello, World!")
        self.Show(True)
 
app = wx.App()
frame = TestFrame(None, -1, "Hello, world!")
app.MainLoop()
Does anyone have a problem with replacing the current example with this one? --24.252.131.59 (talk) 17:37, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I went ahead and changed it. If you don't like it, then I guess you can change it back to the old one.--24.252.131.59 (talk) 21:04, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Simplified Example

message: According to the article wxPython "is one of the alternatives to Tkinter" Oh my God... It is like saying that the Lamborghini is one of the alternatives to the Fiat Panda. For anyone who knows both programs it is obvious that wxPython is light years away from Tkinter! The only problem with wxPython was the lack of a good free builder. Several years ago, the best builder I could find - wxGlade - was too buggy. But the version 0.8.3 changed everything, and all of a sudden wxPython with wxGlade became a powerful tool, comparable to (or  - from my experience - even better than) QT. So after using QT for years, I switched to wxPython. Ironically, the Wikipedia article about wxGlade was deleted. Luckily, in spite of this, wxGlade is still developed. 85.193.216.87 (talk) 00:17, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  A misleading sentence
Talk:Synapsin

message: I just realised that this is probably enough detail to not be called a stub? Shall I de-stubbify? --BazDM 13:18, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
:Its borderline, but remove the stub if you like Onco p53 19:49, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  De-Stubbify? 

message: Hi, first time editor here. The reference for this sentence "Conversely, studies using transgenic mice in which neuronal signaling is abolished in specific circuitries showed that synaptic activity regulates, but is not essential to maintain, the expression of these proteins.[4]" says the exact opposite (Kiraha et al.  ). It shows some the expression of other synaptic proteins is regulated by synaptic signalling, but that synapsin I is not. I don't know if there are other studies supporting this, but in the mean time I will delete this sentence.
131.111.109.40 (talk) 15:44, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Synaptic activity does NOT maintain expression of synapsin
Talk:Tupolev SB

message: Data quoted from http://www.aviation.ru/Tu/#ANT-40 by the owner of aviation.ru
"Was given to the production plant as an etalon." What is an etalon in this context? -FZ 20:08, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Article

message: If in June 1941, 94% of Soviet bombers were SBs, I would expect them to be used quite heavily in WW2. The operational history only lists use in the Spanish Civil war and the Far East - was it really not used against the German advance? --Stephan Schulz (talk) 08:43, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes it was used - Its just no-one has written about use against the Soviet invasion (or in the Winter War) yet.Nigel Ish (talk) 16:30, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Operational History section
Talk:Horseshoe Tavern

message: The article claimed the Shoe would be closing on it's 52th anniversary. That would be in 1999. This has clearly not happened, and I removed that reference. Maury 13:34, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I'm not sure how to add this (maybe a trivia section?) but the Tragically Hip song 'Bobcaygeon' makes reference to the Horseshoe Tavern and it's checker-board dance floor in the line: 'Those nights in Toronto/with its checker-board floors'
Anyone else think this would be relevant?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.160.173.2 (talk) 02:52, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Checkerboard Floor
Talk:Eason Jordan

message: Does the use of quotation marks imply that somebody is being quoted? Otherwise, what's up with the scare marks around the phrase taken down here? Either use a phrase that stands without quotes, or say who the source is, please. --Christofurio 13:43, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
Another interesting angle has to do with Marianne Pearl, widow of Daniel Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter murdered in 2002 by jihadists in Pakistan. Rumors that Eason is 'involved' with Ms Pearl may have helped persuade the CNN honchos to escort him out the door. Might such an involvement have impacted his coverage -- i.e. led him to see journalist-martyr-murdervictims in the Daniel Pearl mode where, on cool reflection, he has had to acknowledge that there isn't evidence of anything more than wartime accidents? --Christofurio 13:54, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC)
Although it was old, I added the link to Jordan's 1996 bio because it included information not found elsewhere. Randy 03:20, 16 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: What's with the new NPOV alert?
I can certainly understand if some of this seems heavy-handed, but you're supposed to indicate specific objections on the talk page so that we can all follow what needs to be addressed.  The NPOV notice even refers to this.  The "scare quotes" comment seems to have been handled a long time ago. -- Randy2063 02:36, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: "Mainstream media's refusal to run the story," and the like.  This article reads like a collection of quotes taken straight from the right-wing blogosphere, as opposed to an article covering it.  When did "the mainstream media" refuse to cover something, and who is their spokesperson? Shem (talk) 19:41, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)

text: The article says "right-wing of the blogosphere"; I used its wording.  Nor did I say it was not covered (despite that it was, for a week on FoxNews.com), I said I take issue with a Wikipedia article stating that the mysterious "mainstream media" refused (key verb) to cover something.  I'd be interested in seeing the moderate-to-liberal blogs who "joined in" on Eason as well, though.  I rather enjoy keeping tabs on the FoxNews-CNN-CBS media war, but didn't keep track of the blogs who covered Mr. Jordan here.  Again, the wording makes this article read like, as Glenn Reynolds said in the WaPo link, a "right-wing of the blogosphere scalping."  I did not insert the the tag as an "NPOV alert," I inserted it because I read POV language, and assumed that was the proper protocol. Shem (talk) 23:51, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV??? 

message: I noticed this article ends at 2005. In 2010, Wikileaks published the Iraq War Logs, which confirm US military actions against journalists in Iraq in intelligence reports between 2004 and 2009. There was significant controversy when Johnson claimed journalists were killed by American forces in 2005. Is it worth adding a hyperlink between these pages given their relationship?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:41:200:52C0:A5C8:5AE7:E4CD:8CEA (talk) 15:05, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iraq War Logs & Johnson's Claims
Wikipedia talk:How to edit a page

message: Is that first tag, , supposed to have a long description of common law? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.111.57.154 (talk • contribs) 17:13, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Common Law? 

message: this article doesn't describe how to link to an article while making the text different--24.6.185.253 (talk) 10:52, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you have to use HTML code to alter text, bold, colour, etc. Just do a search engine search for "HTML code" and you'll find some answers. Nick carson (talk) 10:40, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: missing information

message: I have just given up trying to edit an article, because I could not find a suitably simple guide to link a newspaper article that was a reference to the detail I was providing. I tried to copy another similar edit but was unsuccesful. I will be helped to be given a link to a simple "how to do it" instruction please. Stranger on the shore (talk) 20:49, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Just start with the basics, a good way to learn this sort of stuff is to just click 'edit this page' in any article and sneak a peak at how the references are done behind the scenes. Copy/paste also helps. Nick carson (talk) 12:10, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Adding References

message: Lets say I made a couple of anonymous edits before I decided to sign up for an account. Now that I have an account, is there any way to 'take credit' for those edits? Ajrisi (talk) 12:54, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: This used to be possible, but not anymore. See Wikipedia:Changing attribution for an edit. -- Avenue (talk) 13:19, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: That would be quite a useful tool. I made a fair few edits before I signed up as an editor. Nick carson (talk) 10:42, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taking credit for anonymous edits
Talk:Al Gore/Archive 5

message: I disagree with replacing this photo  with .
It is customary to use images in the bio box with the subject facing forward. The new image not only has Mr. Gore facing to the left, the illumination makes it look like propaganda. We want simple direct head shots for the profile in the box, not elaborately lighted and posed ones. --Jiang 03:34, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the one on the right looks a little better but the one on the left looks a little more "official" as a portrait of Gore as VP.  That's probably because, even though they're both apparently from the White House, the one on the left has the flag in the background.  I'll admit my bias here: I don't like the way the Republicans act as if the U.S. flag has become a symbol of their party.  Bush's picture has a flag in the background and he's wearing a flag lapel pin, so let's let Gore have at least one flag visible.  JamesMLane 07:08, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)

text: Just a note of caution -- Chris seems (and I may be wrong here) to be ignoring requests to provide copyright information for his uploaded photos.  Certainly he's uploaded images of Gore without tags recently.  I just wanted to leave a ntoe here since Chris has blanked his talk page once recently in response to a request for image tags -- I figured we should have a note somewhere other than buried in Chris's talk page history to note that those images need tags soon, or else we need to get rid of them. Jwrosenzweig 22:24, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photos 

message: Mr. Jackson, I don't see why you keep editing out and removing photos you don't happen to like.   The photo is relevant; his speech is mentioned in this very article! How can a photo of the speech possibly be irrelevant?  On the same note, how could you then justify a photo of Al Gore's signature relevant?  May I add that you usually do a very good job on wikipages but there is something you just have against this photo?--David Foster 06:03, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Photos 2