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Talk:Empresario

message: I removed this text from the article:
From a marker on Old Bastrop Rd. (CR-266), 1.2 mile NE of FM-621, 2½ miles SE of San Marcos, Hays County Texas
Don Felipe Roque de la Portilla TX10256  	 
At the request of Antonio Cordero, interim Governor of the Province of Texas, Spanish-born Felipe Roque de la Portilla (1768?-1841) established a colony here on El Camino Real. With his own family of eight, he brought 51 persons from the interior of Mexico and founded San Marcos de Neve in April 1808. Titles were issued to 13 lots, and home were built, only to be washed away in June floods. Hardships plagued the colony: the defensive troops departed; no priest arrived; seed and a farm irrigation system did not materialize; horses and cattle were lost to Indians, and the people feared for their own lives. In 1809 new settlers brought the population to 81 without bettering living conditions. Portilla lost his health and fortune and was forced to lead his people back to Matamoros, Mexico, in 1812.
In 1829, however, he helped his son-in-law, James Power, and Power's associate, James Hewetson, plant their colony at Refugio, near Copano Bay. Portilla received land there in 1834, but left for Mexico in 1836. Because he invested his own fortune in the colonizing effort, he is sometimes called the First Empresario, and recognized as a forerunner of Stephen F. Austin, "The Father of Texas."
Texas Historical Commission, 1976.
I've done extensive research into Spanish Texas (see the article Spanish Texas, which I wrote most of) and have not run across this information.  While I don't doubt that he may have founded a town, that did not make Portilla an empresario; all research I've seen says that colonization contracts per se were not offered to individuals until the 1820s.  If you can find this same information in a scholarly work, it should probably be included in this, but I don't necessary trust just a historical marker. Karanacs (talk) 19:53, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: "At this time, about 3500 people lived in Texas, mostly congregated at San Antonio and La Bahia.[4]"
White settlers I presume? What about native Americans, or don't they count?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.178.147.90 (talk) 02:04, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: First empresario?

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* - SW historical quarterly from 1928 on "Minor empresario colonization"
* - SW Historical Quarterly - Republic of Texas
Karanacs (talk) 17:44, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Potential sources
Talk:Silver Surfer (1998 TV series)

message: the silver surfer is a bad character who attacks johnny flame in the opening scene of the sequel of the fantastic four movie
:First, sign your posts.  Some capitalization and punctuation wouldn't hurt, either.  Second, this is a different take on the character.  Third, I'm curious, on what grounds is he a bad character? Caswin 20:08, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Headline text
Talk:Argentine Chess Championship

message: Should make a mention of Francisco Bënko who competed in the championship in 1938 and then again in 2002 and 2004 (at age 92), a span of 66 years.  See Winter's Chess Notes, 3445. Francisco Benkö. Quale 15:03, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Francisco Bënko
Talk:Falls Career High School

message: I have nominated Falls for merger with MFISD only because I feel that it is a more favorable option than deletion, which I feel may be the better solution.  I request the opinions of my fellow wikipedians.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Theturtlehermit (talk • contribs) 01:34, August 27, 2007 (UTC) 
*As no one has discussed this idea, I have merged the articles.  Feel free to edit them once again, also, I'm removing the WP Texas tag, as this is a redirect now.Theturtlehermit (talk) 05:18, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion on Merger

message: Per WP:SCHOOLOUTCOMES a secondary school is not assumed to be notable simply because it exists.  This article should be merged into the page for the school district, which has inherent notability. 66.77.123.69 (talk) 15:23, 3 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  2017 Discussion on Merger
Talk:Family Tree DNA

message: There have been mentions within the genetic genealogical community about Dr. Krahn's "Walk on the Y" or "Walk along the Y" project, searching for novel Y-SNPs by looking at large sections of the Y chromosome. Is this part of the advanced orders coming in at a fast rate to the FTDNA customers on their pages or another planned excursion entirely? Nagelfar (talk) 05:06, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dr. Thomas Krahn of FTDNA and more complete Y-chromosome sequencing 

message: Could anyone with ideas on how to expand this article please post here? What would educated Genetic Genealogists like to see? We know the industry. —Preceding unsigned comment added by RebekahThorn (talk • contribs) 14:08, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Organization

message: This is just a response to the whole notion of having a page on Wikipedia promoting Family Tree DNA. I do not think ill of Family Tree DNA or their work. But I was unaware that commercial companies could be promoted on Wikipedia. If that is not the case, I have several favorite providers of services that I discovered on Angie's List I would like to put on Wikipedia. Or do you have to be be big and make a lot of money to be included? Or located in Texas? I do not get it.
Kokiugwe (talk) 03:44, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Any commercial company which has substantial coverage in reliable sources can have an article on Wikipedia. The articles shouldn't however be promotional. See this Wikipedia guideline
Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies). Dahliarose (talk) 09:08, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Appropropriateness

message: :Hello, there are about 7,000 projects at Family Tree DNA. The number goes up almost every day. Can we agree that there is neither space nor need to list all of them here?--RebekahThorn (talk) 18:53, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Agreed HelenOnline (talk) 19:44, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Surnames Projects
Talk:Ladle (spoon)

message: In Dutch theres the word "schuimspaan" which is basically a flat ladle with holes in it, used to take of fthe foam when making a bouillon for example.
Is that also a "ladle" in English?
see http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schuimspaan
The associated english article is slotted spoon, which makes more sense.  A ladle is more specifically a bowl on the end of a longer handle for conveniently scooping (ladling) soup or stew into smaller portions (bowls).  99.243.69.140 (talk) 19:18, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  ladle for skimming foam off? 

message: I object to the statement that ladle can be "extremely smart."  I've known a great number of ladles in my day, and I could rarely get them to much more than primary school arithmetic.  I would, in fact, say that they are entirely dumb, to use similarly precise language. 128.170.224.13 (talk) 14:44, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Extremely Smart" 

message: I have never heard of a ladle being used to serve lasagne, at least not in the United States. Unmasked (talk) 13:50, 26 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Lasagne?"
Talk:Tableware

message: We should all switch to paper plates, bowls, cups, and silverware. It’s just so much easier to throw away than put the stupid dying dishes away which I hate very much. 97.83.33.125 (talk) 01:19, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dinnerware 

message: The dishes are dead haha 97.83.33.125 (talk) 01:19, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dinnerware 

message: Tableware for special circumstances has to be adapted. 
And why is this?  There's no further explanation.
Dining in the outdoors, for example, whether for recreational purposes, as on a picnic or as part of a journey, project or mission requires specialised tableware. 
Really, eating outdoors **requires** specialized tableware?  Why is this a requirement?  Please explain.  What If I eat a sandwich outdoors?  That requires no tableware, what-so-ever.
It must be portable, more robust and if possible, lighter in weight than tableware used indoors. 
It must?  Why?  If I'm willing to carry my dinnerware outdoors and use it, it doesn't *must* be anything you demand of it or me.
It is usually carefully packed for transportation to the place where it will be used.
No, I can pack it any way I choose if I'm willing to risk breakage.  24.51.192.49 (talk) 07:26, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Very absolute statements lacking any citations
Template talk:Tate

message: Is there any good reason for this colour scheme? It's not exactly subtle and it detracts from the Tate St Ives article for example. Aren't templates supposed to be understated? If not, they should be. --91.104.120.189 21:24, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If you're still there - you'll have to blame the Tate. It's their colour scheme. Tyrenius (talk) 11:47, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Colours of this template
Talk:Genfo

message: Is this the same as, or similar to, gumfo (gunfo? sp.?) -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 04:18, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: This dish is more popularly known as genfo. Per WP:CRITERIA the article has been renamed to genfo as it is more popularly known. Ga'at has been noted as an alternative name in the article and the infobox. Turtlewong (talk) 12:36, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Harvest Home (novel)

message: In the copy of the novel that I have recently read (sixth reprinting, Knopf, 1977), Ned visits Robert before his arrest on the Common. After his escape and hiding in the church, Ned goes directly to the woods. Are there different versions of the novel, or is there an error in the Plot section of the article? Dinara2015 (talk) 16:34, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot discrepancy 

message: I just finished reading the book and came to look at the article. I wanted to note that Harvest Home takes place annually, not every seven years. There is an additional component to the ritual every seven years, which may be where that came from. I don't know how to edit articles so really I just want to share with someone who can. Thank you! MyssK (talk) 14:37, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Harvest Home is annual, not every seven years
Talk:Education Act

message: Education Bill now redirects to this article. --Bejnar (talk) 05:16, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Education Bill

message: The list in the article, whilst long is not comprehensive. Ironically the important Act that first introduced so-called comprehensive secondary education into the UK, Education Act 1968, is one of those not included. Also missing are the 1946 Act and the Education (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948.  The fact that the 1968 Act is missed from the list cannot be explained by the fact that it has been repealed in its entirety because the 1944 Act was repealed by the same Act, viz-a-viz Education Act 1996.Moonraker55 (talk) 23:10, 31 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Education Acts in UK
Talk:Plagues (album)

message: At the end of "Nickels Is Money Too" (at the very end, like the last three seconds and you may need headphones to hear it) there's a soft sound of what sounds like a door opening or closing. Does this have some sort of meaning to it? • GunMetal Angel 06:00, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: …Well it's already been exactly a year since I wrote this, guess it's just a pointless sound effect. • GunMetal Angel 09:10, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  At the end of the final track...
Talk:Efforts to impeach George W. Bush/Archive 5

message: The decision of Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) the House Judiciary Chair to hold hearings on Bush’s use of “signing statements”, has been hailed by the President’s critics as a step towards impeachment. Retrieved January 27 2007
— All preceding unsigned comments added directly to this archive page by FreedomAintFree (talk • contribs) 21:30, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Movement in the 110th Congress
Talk:Jebena

message: I'm told some jebenas don't have a spout, just the neck. I've not seen a spoutless example, myself. -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 23:05, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually it appears the jebena in this picture does not have a spout. -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 23:07, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Jebena pots without spouts are found in Eritrea, but in Ethiopia they have spouts. In some parts of south central Ethiopia, they have two spouts. I've added a photo of jebena with spout.Pete unseth (talk) 19:47, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  I believe the ones without spouts are also found in Tigray region, and are common to Tigrinya-speaking areas. -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 20:54, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
Talk:Coffee ceremony of Ethiopia and Eritrea

message: Is it not that coffee came from the Americas? So this cannot be such an ancient ceremony. Perhaps there was some other drink that preceded the coffee? פשוט pashute ♫ (talk) 13:53, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Coffee is indeed native to Ethiopia, see coffee production in Ethiopia.  According to history of coffee, the crop is not native to the Americas, but was brought there and cultivated. In any case, this article doesn't even mention the word "ancient." Thanks. -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 17:17, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  History needed 

message: THe article reads, "[coffee] is not traditionally drunk with milk."  The reference accompanying this edit says "no milk."  This is inaccurate.  I don't know whether most people take milk with their coffee or not, but it is always offered and there's nothing unusual about it.  However, I can't cite a source to that effect - for now I have flagged the sentence in question.  FWIW this article has been mirrored all over the web, but the version cited in this article would seem to be the oldest instance. -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 15:04, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Milk
Talk:System Wide Information Management

message: It should be noted that the term System Wide Information Management (SWIM) is not just related to an FAA activity. The notion has been identified nearly a decade ago in the EUROCONTROL ATM2000+ Strategy, and has also been used in the ICAO Global Concept. Coordination is taking place between the FAA and EUROCONTROL to refine the definition of SWIM and to work towards interoperable implementations of this concept. The FAA SWIM programme covers the FAA's current activities to come to such an implementation.
* Rewritten to be consistent with the new Next Generation Air Transportation System. Richard McDonald Woods 16:15, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Please check links, not all working correctly. --207.229.135.146 (talk) 21:51, 11 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Hotlist of Plants/M

message: Youall probably want to remove Malva lasiocarpa from this list; it's a synonym of Modiolastrum lateritium (still known in horticulture as Malvastrum lateritium). Lavateraguy 21:35, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Malva lasiocarpa
Talk:Lemberg (Swabian Jura)

message: I've moved this; it makes more sense to disambiguate this by saying what is, not where it is.</br> 
And the English term is "Swabian Alps", not Alb. (See "talk", here). Moonraker12 (talk) 12:56, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move 
Talk:Peter Apselamus

message: I believe this and Peter of Atroa are discussing the same historical figure.  If I am wrong, please correct.  If not, please merge.--Patrick Ѻ 19:24, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: As far as I could learn from the research done to write :pt:Pedro de Atroa (you can see the ref.s there), I concluded that definitively they aren't same person, so I'll remove the tag. --Stegop (talk) 05:31, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peter of Atroa
Talk:Father Yermo Schools

message: Obviously a lot more is required on this article to avoid deletion. Add an infobox first, more text and photos and try not to forget references. Welcome Victuallers 17:49, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Assess
Talk:Lea & Perrins

message: I edited  the intro to incorporate the later cited fact that the original sauce remains produced in the UK while a US version of the recipe is produced in New Jersey.  The intro failed to mention this, despite doing so in the next section, and by the omission made it appear that production was no longer carried out in the UK.  LookingGlass (talk) 16:59, 31 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Speaking of the recipes, where it says "pickles" were in the old recipe, does that make any sense? In modern US, pickles has a specific meaning, but wasn't it more general in old-timey England? Like, pickled what?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.72.186.125 (talk) 07:07, 1 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  UK and US recipes
Talk:Flour Bluff High School

message: This news story may be a useful resource with which to expand this article. Eastmain (talk • contribs)  03:10, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Death of Teddy Molina
Talk:Flour Bluff Independent School District

message: This news story may be a useful resource with which to expand this article. Eastmain (talk • contribs)  03:09, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Death of Teddy Molina
Talk:Fort Stockton Independent School District

message: I found:
* http://www.fsisd.net/education/page/download.php?fileinfo=RlNJU0RfU2Nob29sX1dhcmRzLnBkZjo6Oi93d3c2L3NjaG9vbHMvdHgvZm9ydHN0b2NrdG9uL2ltYWdlcy9kb2NtZ3IvMTUyMmZpbGU0Nzc4LnBkZg==§iondetailid=8507 - http://www.webcitation.org/6atEvu0Eg
WhisperToMe (talk) 03:55, 19 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redistricting map 
Talk:Forts of Texas

message: There is a critical need or more sources and access dates are not required on "External links". Otr500 (talk) 16:11, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article issues
Talk:Chinese jade

message: Not sure if it belongs in this article, but one of the main mineral exports from British Columbia to China, ever since the Fraser Gold Rush, has been nephrite jade, in quantity.  There's histories of this out there somewhere; all of it's dark green nephrite, with some apple-green cores; much later Qing-era art is made from it.  Supposedly there's older-still pieces which are mineralogical identical, suggesting tribe-to-tribe trading between parts of BC in which it occurs to China, long before "discovery" of BC in the late 1700s.  Don't have any specifics to add for now, other than it took a few years for BC mining commissioners to clue into the nature of the "big black rocks" that Chinese entrepreneurs were shipping to the coast for export.....and that in the modern era most jade mined at Jade City in the Cassia r District was exported to China. `
Skookum1 (talk) 19:05, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: BC as source of Chinese jade

message: The names section seems unclear, and it is very similar to a paragraph in the jade article. Some questions I have:
1. What does the expression "'true' jade" mean? Does it include stones other than jadeite and nephrite?
2. How is the cultural concept of jade broader in China and Korea than in the West? Is it because 玉 refers to stones other than jade? Are there any examples? 
3. The sentence "The Chinese names for many ornamental non-jade rocks also incorporate this character as a radical, and it is widely understood by native speakers that such stones are not, in fact, true precious nephrite or jadeite" seems obvious. Why would you expect that when 玉 is used as a radical that the character should mean jade?
4. What are some examples of stones that are not jade but are translated into English as "jade" for commercial reasons?
Can someone with knowledge in this area help clarify this section? Wakablogger2 (talk) 20:47, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  names section 

message: This edit established the page's usage as American English. Kindly maintain it consistently, pending a new consensus. — LlywelynII 11:51, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: WP:ENGVAR

message: Per WP:ERA, this edit established the usage of the page as /. Kindly maintain it consistently, pending a new consensus. As an unrelated personal request, please do not just give blanket specifc dates to the dynasties. Their births and deaths were complex affairs and the usages discussed on this page did not start and stop on those dates. It's far more accurate to use vaguer terms (e.g., "the Han Dynasty (2nd century BC - 2nd century AD)"), unless you have sources for specific jade-related dates. (A made-up example would be something like: "No bi has been found dating earlier than 1000 BC") — LlywelynII 10:17, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: WP:ERA

message: Any information on jade tubes?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Greg.collver (talk • contribs) 19:30, 26 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ts'ung, jade tube
Talk:Indefinite and fictitious numbers

message: Shouldn’t 17 be here? An Alonzo Church PhD advisee taught me that 17 is the standard random number used by mathematicians. Encyclopedant (talk) 05:56, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: That would be awesome but some sort of sourcing other than a second-hand remembered comment is needed. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 15:05, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  17  

message: we need to expound *illions and incorporate oodles... which is similiar and more. Tymes (talk) 19:51, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  oodle? 

message: I suggest the following :
- 36 and 36 000 to be marked as often meaning "very many", "too many", an indefinite number too large for reasonable consideration ("il n'y a pas 36 solutions", meaning "there aren't many ways to do this", implying there is just one)
- Add "trente-douze" and "quarante-douze" as examples of hunourous constructs meaning "uselessly large number"
- Add "n-ième" (pronounced 'ennième') as meaning "yet another of many repetitions (umpteenth)" This one maybe added under the Umpteen section instead. Philippe Magnabosco (talk) 10:08, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  French: proposed changes and input
Talk:Friendswood Development Company

message: Forgive me for being naive but I have read in this and other sources that Friendswood Development changed its name to Exxon Land Development and yet the site www.friendswooddevelopment.com still uses the Friendswood name. Anybody know the details?
--Mcorazao (talk) 22:52, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confused
Talk:Sebsi

message: Because kief (loose powdery trichomes) requires an ultra-low burning temperature, it is advisable to choose a smoking utensil with a narrow crater (ideal: 7/32-inch or 5.5-mm. diameter) to control air access and a mesh-40 screen nested at 3/16"/5 mm. depth to protect against drawing the very small kief particles down the channel.   Handmade native instruments vary in crater diameter and it is to be hoped that someone can provide a photo of one with the correct tiny aperture as described above.  The following article contains a photo that would be acceptable: http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/2860.html.Tokerdesigner (talk) 01:29, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: For this article a photo is needed
Talk:Trà Vinh province

message: Article needs literal meaning of this province name, and Han Tu. Badagnani 08:23, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Literal meaning/Han Tu
Talk:Butterfat

message: --Health Effects section needed--
The health impact of butterfat on arterial plaque formation, heart disease, and obesity should be addressed in this article. While Saturated fat and cardiovascular disease controversy addresses the general impact on health of saturated fats, butterfat only mentioned tangentially in that article. Tetsuo (talk) 03:21, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Is there something specific to butterfat as opposed to other saturated fats?  If not, the information should not be duplicated. --Macrakis (talk) 03:55, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

message: Why do the two tables of fatty acid composition seem to disagree? The first one lists more palmitic acid and much less medium chain acids (12) than the sum of them in the second table (27). And yet oleic is exactly the same in both (24).
-- J7n (talk) 06:52, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fatty acid composition tables