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Talk:Witan

message: So the modern consensus seems to be that Witenagemot had no role in the coming about of Parliament? I'm sure it left at least a cultural tendency toward it. knoodelhed (talk) 20:19, 22 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I ma not sure whether the article covers this point. The best source is John Maddicott's The Origins of the English Parliament. Dudley Miles (talk) 20:56, 22 January 2021 (UTC)

text: @Scott Sanchez, I think the general consensus is that the witan and its Norman counterpart the curia regis probably did help lay the foundations for what would become parliament in the reign of Henry III. However, the belief prevalent before the World War 1 that the witan was some kind of representative democratic "proto-parliament" has been rejected by modern scholars. As @Dudley Miles points out, Maddicott starts his book in 924, so he definitely sees the royal assemblies of the Anglo-Saxon period as contributing to what would become parliament. Perhaps the article needs to be more clearer on this issue. Ltwin (talk) 04:49, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Role in evolution of English Parliament? 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: moved. No objections. (closed by non-admin page mover) Extraordinary Writ (talk) 19:57, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Witenagemot →  – As explained in the article, Witenagemot is a rare usage, only occasionally attested at the end of the Anglo-Saxon period. It would be better to name the article "Witan", which was common in Anglo-Saxon sources. Dudley Miles (talk) 18:21, 7 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 7 December 2021 

message: Could someone correct the opening sentence to show the pronunciation of the given word, Witan, rather than of the Old English form, witena ġemōt?  Thanks. Pooh bear138 (talk) 09:31, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for pointing this out. I have deleted for now, pending someone competent dealing with the problem. Dudley Miles (talk) 09:45, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  IPA of Witan 

message: I just completed a reorganization of the article that I hope is an improvement. I updated some of the sources (many are from the 1800s and early 1900s). I also changed the section scheme (which used to be Terminology; Origin; Constitution and limitations; Function and legacy; American Revolution).The outline is now: 
*Etymology
*Attendance
*Role 
*Electing and deposing kings
*Norman Conquest
*Historiography
Ltwin (talk) 17:03, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article reorganization
Talk:Glossary of graphies

message: Why are calligraphy and choreography, which are both explained as "the art of ...", not considered fields of study? -- Timwi 00:04 5 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Calligraphy is not  an Ography!
The suffix is -graphy not oggraphy! Like graph or graphite or graphic. Back to Square One, everybody! Wetman 22:00, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Older comments
Talk:Saint Joseph

message: I think it is wrong to call Joseph "a New Testament figure". Since all scholars agree that Jesus existed historically, he clearly had a father (independently of religious beliefs about the Virgin birth of Jesus) and scholars usually accept that his father was indeed named Joseph (Yosef was a common name in 1st century Galilee). So I suggest we edit this page in stating that he was "a 1st century man of Nazareth" similarly to the page of Mary, mother of Jesus.-Karma1998 (talk) 00:25, 11 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits 

message: As said in the version comment: It is unclear what this is supposed to tell the reader. Furthermore, it is also illogical: if applies to Mary and St. John as well, Joseph cannot be "the only Saint". Furthermore, there is more than one kind of relic (see for second or third class relics). 
As I could see from at least one of your sources: the source only says, that there seem to be no bones etc, however, your wording is "not claimed by anyone..." 
Medusahead (talk) 09:45, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relics of Saint Joseph 

message: What you have commented out has been pointed by Jewish scholars who oppose Christianity. But Christian apologists found a way around that. tgeorgescu (talk)  16:24, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you. However, in any case there should be a possibility to point out who said (claims?) that, as it begins "Christians point to Joseph's lineage…". --Medusahead (talk) 08:43, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong lineage 

message: @IP: Christian law and Islamic law did not exist yet. So, Joseph could not be not the father of Jesus according to their laws.
Joseph could not say "I choose to obey Islamic law", since there was no such law at that time.
Joseph was the legal father of Jesus in history. That is independent of religious tradition. tgeorgescu (talk)  06:25, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legal father
Talk:XML pipeline

message: [Please.  Could we have some context here?  It is unclear whether this is about the Alaska oil pipeline or computer software or something else?  An educated reader who reads the sentence above would not find the answer.  You could start with "In software...", etc. (if in fact that's what this is).]  Michael Hardy
[The first sentence seems very explanatory that this is a software construct]  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.137.184.81 (talk) 23:44, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

message: This page under the "product specific" section has a huge number of dead or misdirected links. The first three I checked were broken. Anyone who wants to fix that up would be appreciated. I might be able to do it later, but wanted to say "hey this is broken" in case someone else beats me to it. Sesquiannual (talk) 19:05, 5 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page has a lot of dead links. 
Talk:Graphic organizer

message: I'm not sure what this is, it just says it "helps to ...", it doesn't really say how it works. I would like to learn this as i get REALLY bored in lessons and our teachers are tryin to increase my attention span.90.240.114.176 00:21, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  I'm still stuck 
Talk:Zorglub

message: Zorglub as a character is more complex than an "arch-vilain": unlike Zantafio, Zorglub is not evil, or even amoral: he is actually astonished and anguished at the consequences of his actions with zorglvertising (people eating soap). He personifies the risks of science without a conscience, as he does things just because they are possible, not cause damage or even get him all the power he could get from it. This is made particularly explicit by his relationship with Zantafio, forcing readers to consider the existence of such a moral position between "good" (Spirou, Fantasio, possibly Champignac), and "evil" (Zantafio/Zantas).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.238.217.133 (talk) 20:14, 17 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comment on content 

message: I boldly moved back the bulk of the text from the previous placement in Characters in Spirou et Fantasio for a couple of reasons. The material is of a size that justifies its own article, it has at least one interwiki, and at the previous location, the text was considered to be simply entries to a list, and therefore not acceptable for image illustration under WP:FAIRUSE. MURGH disc. 22:30, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revert to article 
Talk:List of transport topics

message: I understood a Hovercraft to be a ground effect vehicle, not an aircraft, so moved it to the off-road category, though it could go in the hybrid category, except that is more for vehicles with different methods of propulsion for different surfaces.  A Hovercraft only has one method of propulsion but can travel on land, on and off roads, and water. -- kiwiinapanic 09:10 5 Jul 2003 (UTC)
The characterization of forms of movement without a vehicle such as walking and swimming as transport seems not quite right to me.  Maybe these forms should be summarized under locomotion.
: transport is simply movement.  There is a whole field devoted to non-motorized transportation. (Google it) dml 04:46, 12 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  No it's not. Transport, according to my dictionary, is "the conveyance of goods or people from one place to another ... the means of conveyance for getting from place to place"; in other words, there's an element of "carrying something" in transport, whereas movement relates simply to a change of location, by means of some form of locomotion. Crawling, running, swimming and walking are all forms of locomotion, just like (for example) skipping, jumping, jogging, sprinting, ambling, trotting, galloping ... The article already links to locomotion, where crawling, running, swimming and walking are all mentioned. They're not means of transport and don't belong here, so I've removed them.  Jimmy Pitt (talk) 14:32, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Many people carry things when they walk, or swim so it does count.- (User) Wolfkeeper (Talk) 01:33, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

message: Is there any article about exotic transport systems that does not fit with the existing specialized articles?--Nixer 20:46, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Exotic transport systems
Talk:Eliminativist materialism

message: There's a mistake in the sentence beginning: Elimative materialism is different (..) 
It holds both views...
I don't see what the article is about. What does "elimative" mean ? The words "eliminative materialism" (the intended title ?) mean to me something completely different: see eliminative materialism. Phrases like "thought, like heat, is dispersed throughout the entire brain" are light years away from eliminative materialism. And what about the two and only two states of consciousness: belief and disbelief ? This sounds just nonsense to me. --FvdP 20:21, 27 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Talk:Great Western Railway

message: At the foot of the wikitext of this article is this line:
cs:Isambard Kingdom Brunel#Great Western Railway
It does not create a wikilink on the page. Does it have any function? Can I just delete it? -- Verbarson  talkedits 21:56, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The link is in the left sidebar, see H:ILL. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:39, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: If it's supposed to create an inter-language link, then it doesn't work. I suspect there may be a syntax error here. Should the cs be preceded by a colon? Roly (talk) 21:23, 24 September 2022 (UTC)

text:  I see it, thank you. And Wikidata cannot do section links, so a local link is needed in this case.  The inter language link is there for me, under "Čeština". -- Verbarson  talkedits 21:26, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right - my mistake. I didn't recognise the name of the language. Roly (talk) 21:41, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Czech this out... 

message: An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect :Great Western Railway/GA1 and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at  until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Regards, SONIC678 01:47, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Great Western Railway/GA1" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:Jymie Merritt

message: The material I've been able to find so far suggests Jymie Merritt is still alive. If you know otherwise, please change the article. I'll be looking for further information about this.
:Found the further information. He's still with us.
The Devin Leonard quote appeared in a Philadelphia paper called The Welcomat--no longer under that name--March 19, 1986. The section was called After Dark. Aple62 (talk) 04:32, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:History of India

message: An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect :Daily life in ancient india and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at  until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Steel1943 (talk) 03:06, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Daily life in ancient india" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: What was the speed of population growth during the second urbanization? --95.24.60.6 (talk) 03:51, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Second urbanization 

message: The south Indian mathematician Madhava of Sangamagrama founded the famous Kerala School of Astronomy and Mathematics in the 14th century which produced a lot of great south Indian mathematicians like Parameshvara, Nilakantha Somayaji and Jyeṣṭhadeva.
Why does "a lot of" in this sentence sound so cluncky and redneck to me? 2600:6C44:74F0:80F0:B7F0:A9B2:C1EA:BD65 (talk) 18:28, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  A lot of?
Talk:Lviv

message: These two seem to clash on this article, with the template's content overwriting the coordinates.
Could likely be fixed by limiting max-width for the template.
2A04:4540:6516:900:308E:4E24:BE85:707A (talk) 03:46, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coordinates and Redirect-multi template 

message: Hello, I'm here to propose the same type of change as for the Kyiv page. The ensemble of the historic centre was inscribed to the list of world heritage in danger:
In September 2023, the UNESCO World Heritage Committee added the ensemble of the historic centre of Lviv to the List of World Heritage in Danger.1 The Committee considered that «optimal conditions are no longer met to fully guarantee the protection of the Outstanding Universal Value of the property and that it is threatened by potential danger due to the war ».2 The aim is to deter Russian bombing and mobilize international support for the conservation of the sites.3
# https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/09/16/unesco-world-heritage-ukraine-kyiv-lviv-photos/
# https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/ukraine-unesco-sites-kyiv-and-lviv-are-inscribed-list-world-heritage-danger
# https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/09/15/unesco-adds-kyiv-lviv-sites-world-heritage-danger
E.poul (talk) 09:33, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of World Heritage in Danger
Talk:Secret police

message: Like the title says. It seems to me that you can't make a claim like that unless you're willing to label every Western liberal democracy as 'authoritarian' or 'totalitarian'.
Organisations, programs, systems dedicated to spying on citizens...
Have we forgotten what Edward Snowden exposed? Finch-WingedHussar (talk) 02:31, 5 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: If you're requesting an edit, you need to post it in a " format, and don't forget to include sourcing to support your proposed changes. - wolf 04:23, 5 February 2023 (UTC)

text: Edward Snowden is a hypocrite who sold his soul to Putin's Russia. He exposed dubious practices by Western intelligence agencies, sure, but he is strangely silent about the heinous recent actions of his new hosts. He was willing to risk things when exposing the sins of the West, but is not willing to take similar risks by commenting on Russia's sins. Hmmm... 2A0A:EF40:122D:7801:9840:7E14:1C33:BCEA (talk) 13:53, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Second Sentence Seems Like Bullsh*t
Talk:Mira Loma, California

message: the community service district is jurupa, it currently serves pedly, mira loma, glen avon, and eastvale. - signed by anon IP
: The new city of Jurupa Valley encompassed Pedley, Rubidoux and Mira Loma, which all had competitive city incorporation plans in the 1990s. But (mostly) unincorporated county areas does not want to be annexed by other cities to avoid paying city services taxes. 71.102.26.168 (talk) 09:55, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  why is there no information about the csd that serves mira loma 

message: the residents voted to be city yesterday75.24.247.231 (talk) 00:27, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: There was a lack of mention of Mira Loma was the site of a NASA installation, which opened in the early 1960's and closed in 1990, now the former base is a federally funded Superfund toxic removal site. Nearby Glen Avon has an infamous history being one of California's most polluted communities of water pollution from past chemical dumping (closed in the 1980's) first reported in the 1970s. The "town center" of Jurupa Valley is Pedley in terms of population and a higher average household income, and the "downtown" of the newly incorporated city: Rubidoux, an older community, known for providing schools, shopping, medical and commercial needs. 71.102.26.168 (talk) 09:55, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  mira loma is now part of jurupa city 
Talk:Chuuk

message: I came to Chuuk page from Nauru page for further information having just read "The Japanese deported 1,200 Nauruans to work as labourers in the Chuuk islands, where 463 died. There is no mention at all of this here. I would think it was a fairly important historical item for the islands. Tiddy (talk) 04:39, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  From Nauru page 

message: Is there a Icon / flag / template for Chuuk that works like these examples:    or ?
GeoFan49 20:40, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Icon / flag / template for Chuuk? 

message: The list of municipalities in the main article  is a dumb list. Anyone can sort a list of names alphabetically, an alphabetical sequence contains no additional information. Better would be a geographic sequence or grouping. Like which municipalities are located in the Truk lagoon (preferably divided between the Faichuuk and Namoneas groups), which ones in the Hall Islands, which ones in the Mortlock Islands, which ones in the western atolls (is that what they call "Pattiw"?). For a starter, Pisaris, Ruo, Magur, Ulul, Onari, Ono are all islets of the large Namonuito Atoll, so I presume they correspond to the namesake municipalities in the list (rather than for example to Ruo islet on the fringing reef of Truk lagoon).--Ratzer (talk) 09:51, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: sorted municipalities by region and atoll--Ratzer (talk) 17:13, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: List of municipalities

message: Why are there no stats? Chris (クリス) (talk) 03:05, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll work on this and find verifiable source(s) and cite. Sprinkler21 (talk) 03:12, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Population

message: A reputed article: Waging Baseball, Playing War: Games of American Imperialism by Bill Brown, Cultural Critique, No. 17 (Winter, 1990-1991), pp. 51-78 Published by: University of Minnesota Press, discusses the Japanese introduction of baseball to Truk and the role it played in pacifying the islands.  I think there should be mention made of this in the article, and perhaps this should be linked to the project baseball page.  75.145.75.206 (talk) 23:56, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: baseball
Talk:Marxist film theory

message: I removed some POV stuff. Verditer 23:54, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV 

message: This article is about marxist film, not about theoretical engagements with film from a marxist point of view.  That is, the article is about "marxist film" theory, when it should be about "marxist theory" of film.  
Would be good to eliminate or start from scratch.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.105.153.25 (talk) 22:56, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Not really about "theory"

message: It's come to my attention that parts of this article have been plagiarised by a YouTube video essayist, specifically paragraphs 1 and 3 of the overview. This is rather concerning, not only because of the plagiarism involved, but because the parts being plagiarised didn't cite any sources for the information. In fact, most of this article is unsourced and the only source provided for the lead failed verification, never actually discussing "Marxist film theory". If anyone comes across this and is interested in learning about Marxist film theory from people with expertise on the matter - or if you're interested in improving this article - I can recommend the book Marxist Film Theory and Fight Club by Anne Kornbluh and the journal article "Marxism, Film and Theory: From the Barricades to Postmodernism" by Scott Forsyth. For now, I'll build a bibliography at the bottom of the article with these two works, just so we can direct interested readers to reliable sources. -- Grnrchst (talk) 15:16, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Off-site plagiarism of this article
Talk:Berchem-Sainte-Agathe

message: Between 23 December 2006 and 28 January 2007 there has been a survey about which names the articles for the municipalities in the Brussels region should have. The municipalities in question have different names in French and Dutch, the two official languages of the region. A majority of contributors to the survey prefers using one single same over using both names in the title. This single name should follow English usage, which has been determined using domain specific Google searches. 
The final result of the survey is that:
*for the following municipalities the French name has been chosen, in line with the most commonly used names in English:
**Auderghem 
**Forest, Belgium 
**Ixelles 
**Saint-Gilles, Belgium 
**Saint-Josse-ten-Noode 
**Schaerbeek 
**Uccle 
**Watermael-Boitsfort 
**Woluwe-Saint-Lambert 
**Woluwe-Saint-Pierre 
*for the following municipalities no significant preference in the English language has been found. After discussion, the Dutch names have been chosen:
**Sint-Jans-Molenbeek  
**Sint-Agatha-Berchem 
Details about the survey can be found at Talk:Brussels-Capital Region/NamingArchive3. Markussep 18:39, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Names survey, result

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: moved per request after two relistings with no opposition.  Favonian (talk) 21:41, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Sint-Agatha-Berchem →  – I am starting a move request to retitle this article to its French name, and as such bring it in line with all the other municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region. Although I am a big defender of Brussels' bilingual status, as far as English Wikipedia is concerned, it seems rather odd to me (and not encyclopedic) to keep the less commonly used Dutch name, where the region's de facto majority language is French. Moreover, it appears the argument for the Dutch variant largely rests on the Brussels naming convention established back in 2007 (see Talk:Brussels-Capital Region/NamingArchive3), because no significant preference in English was found. However, in the meantime, the only other municipality previously in that case has already been renamed (see Talk:Molenbeek-Saint-Jean), leading to this article's name remaining as somewhat of an anomaly. Jason Lagos (talk) 19:17, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

text: Note: WikiProject Belgium has been notified of this discussion. Favonian (talk) 19:10, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

text: Relisting comment: Hoping to attract participation by notifying WikiProject Belgium Favonian (talk) 19:11, 25 October 2022 (UTC)

text: Support per WP:TITLECON  BhamBoi (talk) 19:43, 2 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 18 October 2022
Talk:Musical piece

message: A musical piece isn't necessarily composed, is it? A recorded improvisation is just as well a musical piece as a recorded performance of a composition. --Guaka 22:45 5 Jul 2003 (UTC)
* All musical pieces are composed. Even when you are improvising, you are still composing. This is because Musical composition is: "the process of creating a new piece of music". Even if that process is improvisation, it is still composition. Therefore all musical pieces are musical compositions. Which is why I am proposing the merge with Musical composition. Madder 02:42, 27 November 2006 (UTC)