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Talk:Todd van der Heyden

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Some of this text looks suspiciously close to the bio posted at http://montreal.ctv.ca/cfcf/about/hostbios 216.221.37.214 (talk) 21:29, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyrighted material?

message: Some of this text looks suspiciously close to the bio posted at http://montreal.ctv.ca/cfcf/about/hostbios 216.221.37.214 (talk) 21:29, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

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thread_title:  Copyright problem removed
Talk:Vereeniging

message: pronounced 'Fur-een-agk-un' - it's not clear what this means.  What is the sound of each syllable?  Is there any chance it could be transcribed using Wikipedia:Pronunciation_respelling_key, or Wikipedia:IPA_for_English, or if it's an Afrikaans pronunciation, Wikipedia:IPA? Lfh (talk) 18:04, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It is now spelt scientifically.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.77.163.188 (talk) 14:52, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation
Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Fasach Nua

message: I am unfamiliar with this process, but have been dragged into it, so I would apologise if I am a little incoherent!
The RFC was set up statements made, certified and responded to, as I would have expeced. The initiator has now altered their statement diff, following this alteration I now believe that it appears that the certification and the responses were to the new remit/statements, and not to the original statement as they were intended.
Is an alteration of this type normal practice? Fasach Nua (talk) 21:36, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
Talk:HSBC Trinkaus

message: The new head office is located on Hansaallee since 2021. 213.248.108.12 (talk) 16:02, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old head office displayed 

message: In 2022, HSBC Trinkaus became a branch of HSBC Continental Europe headquartered in Paris. 213.248.108.12 (talk) 16:04, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  New legal form
Talk:Laelaps (mythology)

message: This one favourite article of mine should also be considered an old style philosophical stub. I think the Laelaps paradox is related to the omnipotence paradox. ... said: Rursus (bork²) 09:06, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Philosophy

message: Why is most of the same information repeated one next to the other?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.192.7.251 (talk) 04:40, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Repetition?

message: this doesn't make sense and in no way fixes the problem...the dog still never caught that fox stone/stars or not. zeus solved nothing  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.78.113.160 (talk) 13:08, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  stoned
Talk:Wood End, Stratford-on-Avon

message: There are two or more Wood Ends in Warwickshre. One is a small hamlet about 3 or 4 miles north of the northern border of Coventry. Snowman (talk) 22:55, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Another is a former mining village between Tamworth and Atherstone. I'm not sure about the one near Tanworth-In-Arden though as I'm not very familiar with the southern part of the county. I might add a 'see also' section to each of these Wood Ends in a few days to clear up any confusion. Any comments on this would be welcome. Cheers Paul20070 (talk) 11:57, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: A signpost to the disambiguation page would probably be adequate. Snowman (talk) 12:23, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: ok, I may as well do that now. Cheers Paul20070 (talk) 12:31, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  would it be better to rename this as "wood end, south warwickshire" and rename the one in the north currently named wood end, atherstone "wood end, north warickshire" to avoid confusion?,  —Preceding unsigned comment added by MarkBegg (talk • contribs) 16:01, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: What about Wood End, Warwickshire (near Coventry) which should also be considered in this renaming as it is not currently named to the usual convention. Keith D (talk) 23:06, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two or more Wood Ends
Talk:A. B. Stoddard

message: What is her name?  Any sources except the Hill - its bio not very WP:RS.Obina (talk) 22:00, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe her first name is Alexandra, as is her mother's.  I got that off a blog, which doesn't meet RS of course.  But do we really need her full name?  Professionally she simply goes by A. B. Stoddard. Qworty (talk) 06:51, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

text: Well, I just found this from the NYTimes: .  Alexandra Brandon Stoddard.  So she is named after both her parents. Qworty (talk) 07:02, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

text: We are creating her biography.  We want all reliably sourced information.Obina (talk) 00:06, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Name

message: I don't think Alexandra Stoddard should redirect to this page. Alexandra Stoddard is an author, well known interior designer and lifestyle philosopher. She is also the mother of A. B. Stoddard, but she is probably "worthy" of her own article. Ms. Stoddard senior has a Web site at http://www.alexandrastoddard.com/. Her published works (about 18 books) include Living a Beautiful Life: 500 Ways to Add Elegance, Order, Beauty and Joy to Every Day of Your Life, Choosing Happiness: Keys to a Joyful Life, Things I Want My Daughters to Know: A Small Book About the Big Issues in Life, and You Are Your Choices: 50 Ways to Live the Good Life, Happiness For Two: 75 Secrets for Finding More Joy Together, Things Good Mothers Know. I would suggest that it be started as a stub, with a link to her daughter's page. Comments?  (I wrote pretty much this same comment on the talk page for the redirect on 12 June 2011.  I'll wait at least one more week, but If I don't hear any disagreement, I'll turn that redirect Alexandra Stoddard into an article with a link to A. B. Stoddard, her daughter.  CocoaZen (talk) 23:08, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Change made.  Will now link this article to the mother's.  -CocoaZen (talk) 22:05, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Alexandra Stoddard
Talk:Qwak!

message: Is this possibly the first known duck hunting game? It seems like it has to be, given the release date. Granted, it could be really difficult to find a reliable source for that claim, and without a reliable source, we can't put it in the article. AmericanLemming (talk) 12:34, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it would depend on how you defined it (and yeah, no sources) - it's probably the first duck hunting video game- there were only a couple light gun video games before it, and I've never seen anything about a duck hunting computer game from before 1974 (nor did the Magnavox Odyssey have a duck hunting game). But electronic light gun games had been around since 1936, and while they're poorly documented at best, it seems... likely that at least one was duck hunting-related? Impossible to prove, though. --PresN 13:16, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  First duck-hunting game? 

message: I did a little research, and it turns out, ironically enough, that the very first electronic light gun game was a duck hunting game, Seeburg Ray-O-Lite. See Guinness World Records: First light-gun game. 
I also found this article on Mental Floss titled "How Did the Duck Hunt Gun Work?". While it's mostly about Nintendo's Duck Hunt,  it also includes a short paragraph about "Ray-O-LIte": "The Zapper’s ancestry goes back to the mid 1930s, when the first so-called “light guns” appeared after the development of light-sensing vacuum tubes. In the first light gun game, Ray-O-Lite (developed in 1936 by Seeburg, a company that made parts and systems for jukeboxes), players shot at small moving targets mounted with light sensors using a gun that emitted a beam of light. When the beam struck a sensor, the targets – ducks, coincidentally – registered the “hit” and a point was scored." The article also includes a link to a page with some nice pictures of a surviving Ray-O-Lite machine: http://www.pinrepair.com/arcade/rayolit.htm AmericanLemming (talk) 03:39, 14 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Seeburg Ray-O-Lite
Talk:Outlaw (video game)

message: The article says that Outlaw VCS is a home port of Outlaw arcade, and 'is more directly comparable to Gun Fight'. Surely it is just an unofficial port of Gun Fight, and doesn't really have anything much to do with the light gun arcade game of Outlaw (apart from the shared title and theme)? The referenced Dot Eaters article doesn't say it is a port of the Outlaw arcade. It says 'A sequel of sorts for Gunfight, called Boot Hill, is made by Midway in 1977. Atari has two versions of the concept, both titled Outlaw; an arcade version where players draw a light-gun pistol and shoot the  onscreen villains, and a VCS port more similar to the original, made in 1979 by renowned designer David Crane.' Kevin Bunch's Atari Archive article on Atari VCS Outlaw (https://www.atariarchive.org/blog/outlaw-gunslinger-october-1978/#more-929) discusses every derivation of Gun Fight and doesn't even *mention* Outlaw arcade.
I suggest that this article should be split into two separate articles - one for Outlaw (1976 arcade game), and one for Outlaw (1978 Atari VCS game), reflecting that they are two separate games. Jasonlv (talk) 08:46, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. I've removed the information regarding the Atari 2600 version. Andrzejbanas (talk) 15:40, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggest splitting this article into two articles: Outlaw VCS is not a port of Outlaw arcade
Talk:Paul Sykes (boxer)

message: '[Sykes] is also known to have boxed at White Rose Boxing Club, Thornes Wharfe, Wakefield where, amongst others, he flattened John Taylor.' Who, in the name of fuck, is John Taylor?  --OhNoPeedyPeebles (talk) 00:18, 16 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  John Taylor 

message: The tone of this article is not appropriate. Some examples: 
- "...he flattened John Taylor" 
- "An incredibly strong man..." 
- "known and respected by the hard cases in London" 
- "Some apparently classed Paul Sykes as one of the hardest men in Great Britain during the 1980s" 
- "Sadly, Sykes could not control his drinking, his life began to crumble and he became a notorious character in the city of Wakefield"
A more experienced editor needs to review this article. 46.208.13.145 (talk) 12:41, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tone of the article
Talk:Ionian Village

message: I created a subsection called 'Founding and History', and some new paragraphs. This structure makes it more readable. Thanks for the tip - Planetcast (talk) 23:10, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
File talk:Khamis al-Obedi.jpg

message: Fair use is disputed how? According to the deletion template added, because my rationale doesn't include the name of the article where the image is to be considered fair use. Except it does! Read the Copyright template again and you will see the name of the article clearly present at the end of the first paragraph. However, for the sake of humor, I added the non-free use rationale template which did not exist at the time I uploaded the image. It seems to me that instead of nominating it for deletion, it would have been better to just update the page yourself. It's not like the original uploader holds all the secrets to an image. –ArmadniGeneral (talk • contribs) 22:08, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I was following Wikipedia:RAT item number 2.  There a was rationale provided, but the rationale did not state: The name of the article the image is used in must be included in the rationale.--Rockfang (talk) 01:02, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair Use Dispute
Category talk:Stub-Class Ships articles

message: I have nooted that ther are 2 separate articles on the Swedish Bellona-class frigates, specifically the Frigate Venus
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Swedish_frigate_Venus_(1783)-schematics.jpg  ( I think the drawing is actually a standard chart for the Bellona class and not specifically the Venus)
2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_frigate_Venus_(1783)
I have 2 thoughts that maybe someone who is a more experienced Wiki-editor could look into, I´m afraid messing up the pages.
- I think the first picture page could be renamed to a Standard page on the Bellona frigate class and then be linked to the specific Venus page (it would open up to tell the stories of the other ships in the same class).
- The page on Venus is was with lack of sources, I added some very good sources since the original court protocol from the trials after the loss of Venus is avaliable, as well as the testimonys from the danish/norwegian pilot. However I don´t know how to remove the lack of source banner. Can anyone help or advice !
Best wishes Joakim
:The first page is not an article about the ship, it is just a picture of the ship with a description in the title. That means that, if appropriate, the picture can be added to the article about the Swedish frigate Venus.
:The only place that the picture is currently being used is at the page on Fredrik Henrik af Chapman, the designer of the vessel. Weakopedia (talk) 15:31, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion
Talk:Thyssen family

message: Is this a joke ? Where is the history of the company ? 89.80.250.44 (talk) 22:15, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: ThyssenKrupp. See also Thyssen; we clearly need some work in this area. - Nunh-huh 11:43, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Daniel Batista Lima

message: The original contents of this article are from  which is a GFDL site. In order to comply with the GFDL attribution requirements, the following is the history of the original source at the time this article was created:
    * (cur) (last) 11:56, February 20, 2007 Irlandos (Talk | contribs)
    * (cur) (last) 11:56, February 20, 2007 Irlandos (Talk | contribs)
    * (cur) (last) 11:47, February 20, 2007 Irlandos (Talk | contribs)
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-- JLaTondre 22:16, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 
Talk:San Miniato al Monte

message: Dante mentions the steps at Purgatorio 12.100-102: Come a man destra, per salire al monte / dove siede la chiesa che soggioga / la ben guidata sopra Rubaconte. 66.31.88.67 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 17:38, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Dante
Talk:1000s BC (decade)

message: I believe that, in all of Wikipedia, "Before Christ" and "Anno Domini" should be changed to "Before Common Era" and "Common Era", Respectively.  I don't think every Wikipedia user worships Christ.  Religion should not be a part of things that have nothing to do with religion.
Thhhh (talk) 22:22, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Use of BC and AD does not nowadays imply any religious belief. Don't change instances of BC ot BCE. You might just as well change the names of the days of the week. They are derived from gods. I've reverted your changes. 82.20.28.142 (talk) 14:17, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  I have no idea what the "official" policy is. I remember hearing in school that the "new" system is CE and BCE, but people don't normally seem to use it. Although I think religion is mythology meant for social control, I'm still not offended by CE and AD if this is the "standard" system which most people recognize. As you said, the days and months are based on religion as well. 99.246.109.131 (talk) 11:02, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: How is BC/AD offensive in any way? They simply describe a period of time which Jesus (he was a real person, ya know? :V) was not alive.  Four hundred years from now, something is gonna happen and mankind will probably swap to a new system that's a lot easier, but for now, there's no need to changed something relatively vague. 24.7.141.45 (talk) 04:25, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: BC and AD
Talk:Ed LaDou

message: I have assessed this as an high importance C-class article. He is responsible for the creation of a major segment of the pizza industry in the United States. The article gives a basic overview of his life but needs to be expanded upon in areas of profession and training.
:not a c yet.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 08:43, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  WPFood assessment 
Talk:Jason Coday

message: "he is believed to have illegally taken a gun from Rayco Sales"
As I understand it, this is one of the key contentions in the lawsuit -- whether the gun was licitly or illicitly obtained. The defense claims it was stolen, the plaintiffs assert it was bought and paid for. This is an excellent example of why passive voice should be avoided: not stating BY WHOM it is believed unfairly prejudices the article in the defense's favor.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by CNJECulver (talk • contribs) 23:02, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biased used of passive voice 
Talk:Department of Social Protection

message: It would be useful to have some input from editors whose native language is Irish English
to provide their perspective to help resolve a dispute over the article Welfare. In essence the argument is about the meaning of the word welfare. One school of thought is that Welfare nowadays mostly means "financial aid for the poor" and that the article about that topic should be simply Welfare. The other school of thought is that the word "welfare" has two meanings ("well-being" and "financial aid for the poor") and that the article welfare should be a disambiguation page explaining the two meanings and then link off to the many articles there are about "financial aid to the poor" such as Social security. One idea is to move the content now in welfare moved over to Welfare (financial aid).
If you have the time, please read the discussions here and record your thoughts here.  Cheers--84.250.230.158 (talk) 19:44, 25 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editor assistance needed at [[Talk:Welfare]]  

message: If you were in received social welfare protection and are no longer in receipt of it do you have to pay it back? 78.18.233.47 (talk) 10:15, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Social welfare protection
Talk:Connecticut Route 190

message: Anything needed? Juliancolton (talk) 22:33, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Todo?

message: GA review – see WP:WIAGA for criteria
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thread_title: GA Pass

message: This article has failed the USRD GA audit and will be sent to WP:GAR if the issues are not resolved within one week. Please see WT:USRD for more details, and please ask me if you have any questions as to why this article failed. --Rschen7754 (T C) 04:58, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: USRD GA audit
Talk:Abed Azrie

message: Criterion #5:   Has released two or more albums on a major label or one of the more important indie labels (i.e. an independent label with a history of more than a few years and a roster of performers, many of which are notable).
As it states in the article, he has recorded for Elektra-Nonesuch Records, the label of The Doors, k.d. Lang, Joni Mitchell, Tim Buckley, Kronos Quartet, John Adams, Laurie Anderson, among others. Abed probably meets other criteria, but I don't know that much about him (why I created the article.) Petskypiyamaradu (talk) 22:32, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
Talk:JavaStation

message: What, in the sense that it had a SPARC CPU?  Other resemblances seem pretty minimal.  You could plug a keyboard, mouse, and monitor into it, too; I guess maybe that counts, but the article points out it didn't even use the same connectors for these as Sun workstations did.  I mercifully can't remember: did they even have OBP?  Maybe they did, as it suddenly occurs to me it must have downloaded its OS from the net -- which means maybe it looked more like the old Sun X Terminal than anything.  (which doesn't appear to have its own WP article yet, btw...)
Maybe I'm conflating with Sun Ray, but I thought the mobo for the JavaStation was fairly original; it would've had to have been to fit into the mini lunchbox and Mr. Coffee enclosures.--NapoliRoma (talk) 22:33, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, read up a bit and answered/corrected some of my own questions.  Yes, they did have OBP, and they were close enough in function to a SPARCstation that people have figured out how to boot Linux on 'em... which I'd have seen links to if I'd read the article more closely. I also might've reminded myself that the mini lunchbox was "Mr. Coffee"; the next-gen avant garde design was codenamed "Krups."--NapoliRoma (talk) 06:17, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "based on the design of the Sun SPARCstation series" ?? 

message: Did these machines exclusively use JavaOS, as referred to in Sun performance and tuning: Java and the Internet? Thanks. --Trevj (talk) 14:53, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: As the article indicates, JavaOS was their native OS, although Linux and NetBSD were also ported to run on them. Letdorf (talk) 20:00, 9 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks - sorry for not really reading it. Presumably because of the processor, they were unable to run NCOS, which required an ARM processor. Is this right? Thanks. --Trevj (talk) 11:05, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: NCOS was developed by Acorn for the Acorn/Oracle NC reference design, and was specifically an ARM OS. So not of much relevance to Sun, really. Regards, Letdorf (talk) 11:48, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  --Trevj (talk) 18:21, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  JavaOS