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Talk:Aethon

message: Ovid. Metamorphoses VIII, 738-878 says that Aethon was god of famine. Does it say anything else (genealogy for example)? Redge(Talk) 15:02, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: The eagle that ate Prometheus' liver was not named Aethon. The word is simply an epithet applied to the eagle meaning "tawny," "fiery" or the like: "The shining eagle which was eating out the heart of Prometheus he killed with arrows," according to Mary Grant's translation at  Since aethon is a loan-word from Greek, consider also the mention of an aithon aietos (shining eagle) ad Hom. Il. 15.690.
Granted, a few horses in myth are given this name, but that is a special case; the horses (and other pets) of important mythic figures are often named. Spectacular monsters also rate names in myth: the Chimera, the Hydra, Typhoeus, etc.
The Caucasian Eagle (at it is often called), however, is neither of these things. It is simply a wild animal that causes trouble for Prometheus. The instructive parallel would be the unnamed animals that figure in the Labors of Heracles: the Stymphalian Birds, the Cretan Bull, the Nemean Lion, the Erymanthean Boar and so on. The eagle has no name.
P.S. The point made about famine is confused, as well. The Greek word for famine is limos, with aithon again serving as an epithet. See Callimachus' Hymn to Demeter at ; cf. Hes. Op. 363. According to a fr. 70 of the Hesiodic Catalogue of Women, Erysichthon was called Aithon due to the "burning" hunger he suffered as punishment for offending Demeter. Ifnkovhg (talk) 10:31, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not this again. 

message: You might do well to read the German Wikipedia article on Ethon https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethon as well as consulting with the Getty Museum who have published a children's book on Greek monsters including Ethon, the Encyclopedia Mythica, and oh hell, just google Ethon and see what you get.  Just about every secondary and primary source refers to the eagle as Ethon  EliRabett (talk) 17:17, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Yes, this again
Talk:Ursula von der Leyen

message: The shadow negotiations of von der Leyen and Pfizer are classified documents of the Commission. This 35 Billion deal is the main scnadal of von der Leyen and in a national context, she had to had step back for this. This information should be content of the articel in an understandebal leaguage. --Sinomina2000 (talk) 11:57, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: But her biography is the wrong place for it unless she is prosecuted and found guilty of misfeasance. There must be an article somewhere about executive actions taken (or not taken) during the covid epidemic, which is where it should go. WP:Wikipedia is not a soapbox. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 12:09, 13 March 2024 (UTC)

text: The policy WP:BLP governs what may be said about living people, so it is not permissible to allege or insinuate criminality. But it is entirely unsurprising that Pfizer would insist on contractual confidentiality, because central buying policies by European countries mean medication prices that are significantly lower that those in the USA. To reveal its terms would damage its negotiation position elsewhere. --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 17:38, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Pfizer-Scandal

message: My insertion was deleted with the reason "no encyclopedic tone".
Please build your opinion because I happen to find the reasoning symptomatic:
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In the early monrning of that day it was published that she would care for a right of the parliament to initiate statutes which she never did after she was elected. The unability of the EU-parliament to initiate statutes like a real parliament is considered as a grave and dangerous defect.
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Maybe one should add that she was suddenly, shortly before she was about getting elected, quoted saying that she would care for the right of the parliament.
That is possibly easier to understand and 'more encyclopedic'.
Yours, Karl Valensin
-06:54, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: is your personal opinion and violates WP:NPOV so I have reverted your edit. The second part of your edit has grammar problems and I am having trouble understanding it. What does it mean to ? –Novem Linguae (talk) 07:33, 27 March 2024 (UTC)

text: To add to what Novem Linguae wrote: the addition may be a legitimate one, you just have to change the way it is written. The part about the current system being a 'grave and dangerous' one for example is not about von der Leyen and therefore outside the scope of this article. (Also, was this reported primarily in German press, or? Because one of the articles you cite even says that the idea was an unpopular one in France.) JackTheSecond (talk) 11:17, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  How to get elected by telling stories ...  

message: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240528-european-commission-president-accused-of-complicity-in-israels-war-crimes-at-icc/; is this a reliable source? I found this information in Italian language by simply writing "Ursula von der Leyen" into Google, so not actively, and then I searched, and found, an English language source. I'm not against anyone, I'm just curious. JacktheBrown (talk) 23:33, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reliable source?
Talk:Usain Bolt

message: is this really worthy of a mention in the article? 125.168.137.67 (talk) 19:17, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Covid 19 infection  

message: Please consider updating the beginning of the entry to say "retired Jamaican sprinter." ElectricalStar (talk) 23:34, 12 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: It already says that. RudolfRed (talk) 01:20, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 12 June 2023 

message: Is it possible to list Bolt's world records and wins at championship (like the Olympics and World Championships) at the bottom of the page, similar to the other pages of athletics who also hold world records and have won Olympic/World Championships?
Or, would this not be wise considering how lengthy the page already is right now? ViveLaSuisse (talk) 02:44, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Banners/footers
Talk:Pompeia Plotina

message: This article contradicts itself on the year of death of the subject. The lead lists a death year of 121 or 122 whereas a cited note at the bottom lists 123. If someone could confirm either as correct and edit to match it would be very helpful. Also I have removed the France category and wikiproject tag as it doesn't mention France anywhere in the article, if this was a mistake please correct and expand the article. Stardust8212 00:03, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The article states: "Hadrian built a temple in her honor at Nîmes, in Provence." Since Nîmes is in France, I'm thinking that was the reason for the category and the wikiproject banner. Boneyard90 (talk) 18:21, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

text: Annalise Friesenbruch provides the year 123 as the date of her death; she cites Dio Cassius 69.10.3 in this paragraph, so that may be her basis for this year. More research is needed to provide the most accurate date. -- llywrch (talk) 23:21, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Contradiction
Talk:Cats Under the Stars

message: I or somebody can ref this up later.  Jerry said it's his favorite this interview, mentioned here. --11:03, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Cats Under The Stars

message: Hello!  About your recent change here, WP:ALBUMSTYLE#Track listing says "A track listing should generally be formatted as a numbered list." I believe that several different editors, including me, have mentioned this to you before.  I even seem to remember you saying that you would refrain from changing numbered lists to Track Listing templates, or maybe I just dreamed that part.  Anyway, in my opinion this one should be put back to a numbered list. — Mudwater (Talk) 20:05, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks!  — Mudwater (Talk) 21:17, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Track listing
Talk:Uta Barth

message: In the interview with Uta Barth conducted by Matthew Higgs for the Phaidon (2004) published book entitled 'Uta Barth', she mentions that her father was a chemist and that the family moved to the US from Germany because of his work (see p8).
I think then the claim on this page that Uta Barth is Roland Barthes' daughter is false.
:You are correct. He is Günther Barth, who worked with Carl Djerassi in the Chemistry department at Stanford.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.97.98.201 (talk) 19:15, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uta Barth's father 

message: The link provided in the reference section for this article is dead...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.221.155.147 (talk) 23:09, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference
Talk:Caught Live + 5

message: It says "Mike Pinder's estate released The Lost Performance: Paris...", but Pinder's still alive (according to his article anyway), so why would his estate be releasing anything? This seems to be either a mistake (in which case it should be rectified) or an unusual arrangement (in which case it should be explained). Herostratus (talk) 03:27, 24 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pinder's estate?
Talk:Chatoyancy

message: I'm not doing it, but somebody should add carbon fiber to this list.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:3248:A50:CA08:E9FF:FE96:F0E0 (talk) 17:09, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Carbon Fiber 

message: Consider the following (as it was prior to my slight tweaks):
"There was no evidence of tubes or fibers in the samples examined. The rutile precipitates were all aligned perpendicularly with respect to cat's eye effect. It is reasoned that the lattice... "
This reads like it is a direct copy/paste job from an abstract of a journal paper describing why chatoyancy is/does what it is/does.  Why is it in the past tense?  What specific samples were examined, etc?  I don't have time to go into this now, I just saw an unusual word (describing a dining room table!) and wanted to know what it meant (probably about 85% of Wikipedia traffic having analogous origins).  There will no doubt be someone who knows and cares about this to fix it.  I'm not being obstructive or sunduly critical...the last time I tried this after quitting the project I got chewed by the entrenched article gatekeepers for infringing on their bailiwick, which reminds me why I left, but hopefully gemology is a sedate enough field that people still have perspective! --104.238.169.51 (talk) 22:35, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lede
Talk:Ute Geweniger

message: WikiProject Biography Assessment Drives
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thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 

message: For the enormous quantity of templates I have just generated with a single edit; not entirely guilty, guv'. Splash - tk 16:49, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Apologies
Talk:Ute Lemper

message: I originally added the review below because it came from a recognized source and managed (even in the title of the review) to convey some of the flavor of the artist.  If published review excerpts are deprecated (That was not, in fact, the complaint of the editor who removed it) because they are Non-NPOV, this should be a stated policy.  Honestly, I don't know if that is so.  As the article stands now, it gives no indication of why anyone would pay money to hear this person live.  Does that make a good encyclopedia article? Stagehand 04:09, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This page exhibits the usual broken Wikipedia CSS: delivering low resolution feature-phone-type content to high resolution devices with better-than-desktop resolution, forcing users to accept the design problem or else scroll right to the end of the page and click a link to request a suitable version of the page ('Desktop').  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.118.14.126 (talk) 19:09, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken Wikipedia page 
Talk:Celebrity (album)

message: I deleted the line about JC and Joey’s hairstyles because it seemed a random point to include. Yes, the hairstyles are objectively bad, but do they really stick out on artwork that is already exaggerated? It seems more of a subjective detail being included in an article that is supposed to be neutral. Y2k lemonade (talk) 23:43, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The inclusion of the sentence is used to describe the writers' reception of the artwork, similar to the critical reception section. By all means if there are any positive opinions about the artwork, feel free to include it with the same citation-styled sourcing on the article per WP:CITEVAR. — Angryjoe1111 (talk) 04:35, 25 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Artwork and title
Talk:Utpal Bhattacharya

message: I removed this passage, added by an anonymous editor:
:However, in late 2006 he lost the title of James R. Hodge Eminent Scholar in Finance as he was investigated by the Dean of the Kelley School of Business. He is now just an Associate Finance Professor.
Is there any source corroborating this? (On the Kelley web page he still holds the title.) -- Marcika 19:53, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: He didn't write the article - I wrote it a couple of years ago when I studied at IU. (I was never one of his students.) -- Marcika (talk) 10:52, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Investigations
Talk:Centerfield (album)

message: After the initial clapping, I hear the opening measures of "La Bamba". Was this on purpose? Has anybody involved with the production of "Centerfield" commented on this? --Damian Yerrick (talk | stalk) 19:31, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Awesome. I thought that sounded familiar. And I have no idea otherwise. Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? 19:56, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  La Bamba?
Talk:Uwe Dassler

message: Can't we have normal spelling - Dassler - or atleast some guide to the right pronounciation here ? Tintin (talk) 18:48, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Daßler 

message: Whatever happens to the title the first line of the lead should continue to give the full and accurate German name. In ictu oculi (talk) 05:38, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: *I note your edit here, reversing the English and German spellings in the lead: .  While I have no particular objection to that, I see no guidance in WP:FULLNAME that supports your particular edit.  Dirtlawyer1 (talk) 12:31, 11 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, perhaps it should be added to WP:FULLNAME explicitly, but it is implicit, and practiced. In ictu oculi (talk) 18:50, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Preserve ß in [[WP:FULLNAME]]
Talk:Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen

message: he co-wrote just one song for NSYNC in 1997, when they had been unknown worldwide 
it was just one song and this song was served for the german edition of their debut album only 
when NSYNC re-released their debut album. this song was deleted for their US-Version totally
therefore it is wrong to say, that he wrote SONGS for NSYNC  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.15.239.182 (talk) 10:24, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  N SYNC just one song 

message: there are numbers of 65 million sold records but they are not confirmed
please not without source. 
and there aren't any sources !
I removed them
And the BUTTERFLY single was not a number 1 hit all around europe- That was not right
MILK AND HONEY released HABIBI which was only a top 100 hit in germany peaking a low position 
but here we see unimportant charts mentioned 
unimportant !  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.113.99.200 (talk) 14:59, 4 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  removal of unconfirmed numbers 
Talk:Poppaea Sabina

message: We could also mention her appearance in Quo Vadis by Nobel laurette Henryk Sienkiewicz. It is probably a good addition to Monteverdi's opera, although its mention is probably more relevant in Nero since she appears in only a few scenes. --24.91.40.69 20:23, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Quo Vadis

message: "the kind gentile Imperial palace guardsman’s Lucius Aelius Sejanus" is, I assume, sarcasm?  Those unfamiliar with Sejanus' career may not realize that you mean the opposite.  You do mean the opposite, don't you?  BTW, it's "gentle", not "gentile" although Sejanus was, indeed, a gentile. Tredzwater (talk) 01:14, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Kind Gentile Sejanus  

message: I have noticed that some authors have claimed that Sabina played an important role in getting Nero to persecute early Christians, presumably because of her Jewish background and her ties to the rabbinical establishment. It would be interesting if we could get more information on that. ADM (talk) 03:53, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Persecution of Christians

message: I note the comment that there is little or no evidence to connect the historical Poppaea with this splendid villa. But the WP entry for the Villa itself treats it as fact that it belonged to Poppaea. Could the original poster please give evidence, and perhaps alter the article on the villa itself? Cooke (talk) 16:05, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Villa Poppaea at Torre Annunziata 

message: That year cannot be correct. Poppaea Sabina the younger was born in 30AD. Maybe the date is a typo and it should be 42AD? 86.83.242.203 (talk) 03:25, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Second marriage of Poppaea Sabina the elder in 24AD?
Talk:Uwe Seeler

message: When and where has Seeler been a manager? And in any case, the link for football manager leads to a computer game series. 
My English is not so good, maybe someone else could change this?
--78.52.242.40 (talk) 14:48, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seeler a manager? 
Talk:Porcia (wife of Brutus)

message: Currently, there are separate pages for the historical Porcia Catonis (the wife of Brutus the assasin of Caesar) and her fictionalized version Portia (in Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar. This seems contrary to usual practice; ordinarily, this material would go in a "fictional representations" section (or something similar) in the article on the historical person. That's the practice followed with, e.g., Cæsar himself, a considerably larger character both in the play and in history.
:I agree seeing as they are basically the same person, we could place it under a seperate title rather then have two seperate pages. --82.34.129.62 16:19, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I certainly also agree. There's no point in there being two articles. --Camblunt100 11:22, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggest merging [[Portia (Julius Caesar)]] into [[Porcia Catonis]] 

message: Has anyone noticed that the family tree on these pages is a bit wrong. --82.34.129.135 18:04, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Is there anything we can do to fix it because this has been going on for quite some time now. --77.96.193.236 15:02, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled comment 1

message: Just want to say that this has developed into a very good article and very useful. I enjoy reading it! --Camblunt100 (talk) 21:35, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled comment 2

message: Deleted "However, this story is obviously apocryphal, and several historians believe that it was in fact Porcia who convinced Brutus to murder Caesar." Besides containing a dead citation, I feel several historians out of the hundreds of thousands and possibly millions is not very credible. If anyone finds a credible source citing credible historians, I'll reinstate it. I don't believe Wikipedia is an encyclopedia of opinions, only facts. LikeHolyWater (talk) 23:28, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opinion 

message: I don't entirely agree with the quality rating most projects give this article: the ancient sources are noted scrupulously, but there isn't much modern scholarship, or any recent scholarship. Cynwolfe (talk) 15:13, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. And since all WikiProjects now use a semi-standard scale (WP:ASSESS), I've changed all the ratings to correspond with that. There are essentially no non-primary sources used, and those there are are very limited. --Xover (talk) 15:26, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quality rating 

message: Under the heading "Marriage to Brutus", the last sentence of the second paragraph reads "She resolved not to inquire into Brutus' secrets before she had made a trial of herself and that she would bid defiance to pain."  This is baffling.  What does it mean in this context to "make a trial of oneself", or to "bid defiance to pain"?  Are these figures of speech from Shakespeare or something?  They're nonsensical to readers today.  If someone could please rewrite this in plain English, it would be a service to all who read it.  Thank you. Bricology (talk) 01:32, 11 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some archaic or just nonsensical language needs rewriting
Category talk:Video game lists

message: Entries shall be italicised bullet list items.
 * Game Title
 or
 * Game Title
 or
 * Game Title
If more than one game in a series is listed, then the game series entry shall be included (if available), and all of the relevant game entries shall be listed using a bullet sub-list, preferably in order of release.
 * (some of from the) Game Series Title series
 ** Game Title 1
 ** Game Title 2
 ...
—Metamorf 13:59, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure if the "some of the" prefix is necessary. Possibly "from the xxx series". —The_B 22:29, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The "some of the" prefix is not always used (hence the parentheses). I use it in the case where not all of the titles in the series are included in the list. —Metamorf 06:28, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

text: After some soul-searching, I have come to accept The_B's suggestion of changing "some of the xxx series" to "from the xxx series". —Metamorf 04:04, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

text: Should we include the platform the games are from? —129.180.1.224 (talk) 21:40, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Unnecessary.  Clicking on the relevant article's link will give you all the info you need. —Metamorf (talk) 04:31, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested Style Guide
Talk:Marcus Antonius Primus

message: How could Primus have been born in the reign of Nero (acceded to the purple in 54AD) and been general in the civil wars of 68/69AD? He was born, probably, in 30AD making him a man in his mid/late 30s--about right for a 1stC legate.
2A01:4C8:43E:457E:94BF:9455:8828:D33C (talk) 14:45, 26 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dates?
Talk:Priscian

message: This article could really use some updating. The last edit was made in October 2013. Is there anyone who has access to primary documents, preferably online? 
Also, the bit about Priscian being in hell with sodomites in Dante's Inferno seems out of place. Can we verify if it's true, and can we delete it outright since it doesn't seem relevant?
Seungkim.h (talk) 22:48, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updating the page