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Talk:Christianity Is Stupid

message: Is this really worth having a page? (Kaiser jay 20:54, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes- having stubs helps people see areas where Wikipedia needs article improvements. Nwwaew (Talk Page) (Contribs) (E-mail me) (Review me!) 20:55, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

message: *  — not sure if much can be used without verification. Also, BLP concerns. / edg ☺ ☭ 19:39, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Newsgroup posting from Mark Hosler on learning more fallout from press release 
Talk:2003 Penn State Nittany Lions football team

message: A discussion regarding logo removal/inclusion that occurred during a recent edit to this article is ongoing at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject College football#Logos on articles of past seasons.CrazyPaco (talk) 23:24, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: infobox comtemporary/historic logo requirement
Talk:Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

message: In 1878 he became interested by a tour in America
What does this mean, exactly? Interested in what? --Michael K SmithTalk  15:17, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Excellent question. The sentence doesn't make much sense, does it?  I have a copy of the standard bio, but it is boxed up and I cannot get to it right away. When I do I'll see what it says, unless someone in the meanwhile is able to clarify.  Mddietz (talk) 00:00, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Puzzlement
Talk:Arthur Symons

message: Many sources give 1908.
This article has 1909.
142.162.21.1 (talk) 11:36, 12 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  year of his breakdown 

message: — Assignment last updated by NightVid19 (talk) 06:13, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: ENGL 172T Studies in Victorian Literature
Talk:Arthur Waugh

message: This article certainly needs to be expanded. The family background of the two famous Waughs is of the highest interest, and Arthur Waugh himself is apparently not just a bystander in the story anyway. In particular, the area where they lived (Hampstead Garden Suburb) clearly carries great significance. Those three words themselves would be worth a psychological study in the Waugh connection. Valetude (talk) 23:49, 27 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expand this stub
Talk:Arthur O'Shaughnessy

message: The ODNB gives the names and professions of his parents, and the address of his birth.   Worth including?Delahays (talk) 15:31, 11 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: More biographical
Talk:Reggie Nelson

message: Does anyone have more information on his family members?--66.176.255.84 04:39, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The info about his mother saying he would likely go pro was added before her death (and thus was in present tense).  I removed this portion since the info is old, as he has already made himself eligible for the NFL Draft.--WTStoffs 21:36, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

message: Both of the external links in the article say he went to Palm Bay (Melbourne, Fla.) High School. The article says Pensacola High School. If nobody objects I will fix this. Also, the place of birth listed doesn't show up in any Google searches. Can anyone provide as reference for the place of birth? Josh Thompson 19:30, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Forget about my place of birth comment. It looks like the page is being edited right now and I caught an intermediate edit. I still think the high school is wrong though. Josh Thompson 19:32, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I see the high school was fixed too. Thanks. Josh Thompson 00:00, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  High school, place of birth 
Category talk:Antimafia

message: I removed the category mob-busters. There is no "mob" in Italy, only the Mafia or Cosa Nostra. The "mob" is a terminology for American gangsters, it does not exist in Italy. Antimafia is a much wider category, it includes activists, politicians and the like who are involved in political activities against Cosa Nostra, not with busting them. - Mafia Expert 21:28, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Mob-busters
Talk:Augustus Toplady

message: First of all thanks to Flex for his constructive editing.
Toplady is often dismissed, even by his friends, as a destructive polemesist and hence an explanation of the reasons for his indignation is valuable. While neutrality is of course to be desired this has to be balanced against setting forth the reasons for Toplady's disgust at the treatment that he suffered. I have delibereatly avoided making historical judgements of Wesley as such comments would not be neutral, but the fact that Toplady thought that Wesley had acted dishonestly is crucial to understanding Topladys conduct. 
MikeGnosis (talk) 00:11, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Barnabe Googe

message: This article appears to have been written in order to create a fictional character for the purposes of a traffic redirect from google.com (www.googe.com). Much of the article looks like it might have been generated - in any event, although it is a very good fake, it should probably be deleted.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.175.139.170 (talk) 03:22, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Somebody should add the reference google made to him on valentines day,  2007
read about it here: http://reddit.com/info/14kq1/comments
No, this should be removed because it is "Aopen_gigi".
193.36.79.207 13:30, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Surrey Puma

message: This Hoax! Hoax! Hoax!: The Fowey Skull - Bodmin Beast or Piltdown Puss? leads to a dead page with some adverts on. Needs sorting? User:Totnesmartin at work, 29-3-07 (about tea-time)
:Fixed. An admin now needs to check The Independent pre-1994 archive to see that is what Duff Hart-Davis Wrote.- Adam37 Talk 19:53, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: A daybook is usually cited as "number of entries/pages", an entry meaning pages. Not meaning discrete reports. This appears to have led to the Independent article which covers several other "fringe accounts" mis-understanding the number of reports.  Just my opinion and more than a little learning, may I add.- Adam37 Talk 19:10, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken link and issues as at 2015
Talk:Jemima von Tautphoeus

message: A novel “The Initials” is mentioned in Henry James’ first novel “Watch and Ward” (part 2 chapter 3) as being one that Nora favored. I conjecture that this refers to Tautphoeus’ novel of that title published in 1850 (and later and maybe earlier.) ELSchissel (talk) 12:48, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: The Initials
Talk:Bayard Taylor

message: Is there a way to confirm his death date? The lead and infobox say December 19 but the prose says December 10. --Midnightdreary (talk) 14:47, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. I wonder if you'd be able to put your source as an in-line reference / footnote after the sentence on his death. That might prevent further dispute or questions. --Midnightdreary (talk) 14:47, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Death date

message: The sections "First/Second return to the U.S." are incorrectly named.  From the earlier bits of the article, he was obviously back from Europe in the late 1840's, making those sections at least the second and third returns.  --J Clear (talk) 15:56, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The subsection names are pretty lame anyway and I think we can do better. Any suggestions? --Midnightdreary (talk) 16:07, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misnamed sections 

message: not possible, Humboldt died (6 May 1859) before Washington Irving (28 November 1859)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.146.29.139 (talk) 01:35, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taylor informed Humboldt of Washington Irving's death;
Talk:Benjamin Kidd

message: I have removed the following:
The main theme of Social Evolution is the conflict between private interest and social welfare, the struggle which eliminates the unfit being the condition of progress.  Kidd held that society should be interpreted in terms of biology.
I do not think this is a fair representation of Kidd's main idea, which is about the essential conflict between the interest of the individual in his lifetime and the interest of the group, including, importantly, the yet-to-be-born.  'Social welfare' is a socialist concept that relates only to the present and not to the grand scheme of evolution over all time. This is why he criticises socialism as inevitably doomed to fail. Only a 'supra-rational' sanction can save the group in the long run. At one point he uses the analogy of a pear picked from the tree, which he says will continue to ripen for a while using its accumulated resources, but will then die without the tree. Socialism does the same for a society.  --Memestream (talk) 15:35, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: In seeking needed citations, I found many other “reliable sources” of information important to the article. (It had been rated as "Stub-class.”) I also found material from a tendentious self-published book that had been cut-and-pasted in the article without quotation marks and that ignored WP:NPV. Working in needed citations and new material required a major rewriting. I used as much of the previous version as I could while deleting material that Wikipedia says should be: material without citations and material from non-reliable sources. Vejlefjord (talk) 17:35, 5 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major edit March 5, 2015
Talk:BBC Trust

message: There are a number of sections that require referencing, especially the 'Expenses' and 'Trust Unit' sections. – Sasuke Sarutobi (talk) 12:18, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional references required 

message: If the BBC Trust considers these things worthy of note (and they are corrupted by the financial sector and other vested interests) then these and other board memberships should be noted.
* " held a variety of senior positions in financial and global businesses"
* "She is currently on the Board of HSBC Holdings plc, HSBC Northern America Holdings Inc and PepsiCo Inc." 
Both from http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/who_we_are/trustees/rona_fairhead.html  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.233.41.69 (talk) 14:41, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see the issue with including a short note of Fairhead's other positions, if length remains proportionate and wording satisfies WP:NPOV.  Zcbeaton (talk) 00:15, 7 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fairhead's outside interests 
Talk:Chapaev (film)

message: Translate Wikipedia-ru article on same, which seems very detailed. Schissel | Sound the Note! 14:24, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestion for improving stub 

message: does anyone know if a suite was ever released (on Melodiya LP presumably?) of Popov's music for this film (as happened for a number of other films, and not just famous ones like Lt Kije with Prokofiev's music or The Cranes are Flying with Weinberg's, but a suite from something that translates more or less as The Story of Penguins - (will have to check my collection again to see who wrote that...) etc. etc. etc. etc. ...) Schissel | Sound the Note! 14:34, 12 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Also...
Talk:Florence Roberts

message: The photo is to the wrong Florence Roberts. There were two Florence Roberts of note, the one this article describes (1861-1940) and the lesser known but more attractive stage actress (1871-1927). They are quite often mixed up in film and stage biographies. The lithograph here is to the stage actress, a more regal and statuesque woman than the short plump beloved character actress. So I'll move it. Koplimek (talk) 00:28, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I have put Isle of Man in place of Frederick, Maryland, as her place of birth. Frederick, Maryland, had no citation, so I don't know where someone found it. Her obituary in The New York Times says Isle of Man. Eddie Blick (talk) 01:28, 15 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Place of birth

message: The text of the section is: "Actor Robert Gottschall|Robert Shaw settled a lawsuit with an actress, Florence Roberts (stage name: Etna Ross), who brought a $50,000 lawsuit against Shaw, who allegedly had thrown her down a staircase while the two worked together in a road company. The suit was settled in January 1937." An actress named Etna Ross (whose birth name may have been "Florence Roberts") is listed on IMDb, but she is not related to the subject of this article. —Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 09:44, 27 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Section "Legal settlement" has been deleted since it apparently refers to another actress
Talk:Catharine Macaulay

message: Is Macaulay's first name spelled Catharine or Catherine — or perhaps both were used?  Willow 10:41, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Correct spelling of name?

message: "her scandalous marriage to William Graham in 1778 damaged her reputation in Britain," -- would someone care to elaborate on this aside?--JO 24 (talk) 12:03, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Scandalous marriage

message: Mercy Otis Warren was not James Otis, Jr's wife.  She was his sister.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.134.180.201 (talk) 00:16, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mercy Otis Warren
Talk:Charles Churchill (satirist)

message: A Churchill poem opens one of the T. Paine's Crises pamphlets, the one addressed to Gen Howe during the American Revolution.
    "What's in the name of lord, that I should fear
    To bring my grievance to the public ear?"
SteveCoppock (talk) 03:16, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paine
Talk:Principles of Philosophy

message: I'm a little confused about the letter-preface of the french version. In the article it says the letter was addressed to Queen Christina of Sweden. It is strange then that I have yet another letter-preface which is addressed to the translator and starts, "Sir, The version of my principles...". The preface I have is an English translation of the letter included in Penguin published "Discourse on Method and the Meditations". --Chris 21:48, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The article says that the original latin version was dedicated to Princess Elisabeth of Bohemia, and the french translation had a letter addressed by Descartes to the translator, in which he said that it could be used as a preface, if the translator considered it convinient, as he did. It should be normal that the English versions contain both "prefaces"--Auró (talk) 22:28, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  untitled
Talk:Fur-bearing trout

message: This fish was recently caught in Wisconsin. Just some more picture proof of it's existence. It's likely the fungus mentioned in on this Wikipedia page, but still, it's a furry fish no matter how you slice it.
To that extent, can we really justify calling this thing a fictional creature? I mean, it does exist. It's not fictional.
:What complete and utter rubbish. Martinevans123 (talk) 14:34, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Reported in Wisconsin

message: I came across a tale in a history book on Leadville, Colorado that contained a story about the Fur-bearing trout.  In it, the hapless inventor of a hair-tonic was taking bottles of his tonic into town, when he slipped on rain-slick planks that were bridging California Gulch.  I believe the story ends with the I'll try to find the story if I can... --Mdwyer (talk) 22:58, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Leadville Tale

message: I'd never heard this expression until today, when a character in the Gunsmoke episode "A Town in Chains" dissed another character by calling him a "fur-bearin' trout". The episode was written by Ron Bishop, who had an encyclopedic knowledge of Western slang and jargon. This episode is worth seeing, simply because it gives the impression we're hearing true 19th-century speech. WilliamSommerwerck (talk) 00:25, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Gunsmoke]]

message: This is the first line of the article:
The fur-bearing trout (or furry trout) is a legendary creature purportedly found in American folklore and Icelandic folklore
Why is this 'purported'? Surely it is definitely found in American and Icelandic folklore? Or is there some debate about what we mean by folklore?
If no one has an answer about this adverb I'll change :) Mr Blumenthal (talk) 10:02, 5 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Purportedly' query
Talk:Charles Gildon

message: I removed the sentence "Steele provided the preface to Gildon's Grammar of the English Tongue in the same year." (1) Gildon did not write that book. The confusion probably arises because Brightland incorporated Gildon's 35-page essay, "The Art of Poetry". (2) The book was published in 1711, not 1710. In the absence of cited sources, I make these points on the grounds of my own observations and readings of those books. Title pages are a good place to start.
However, there are those who do argue, on the grounds of other evidence, that Gildon was an author of the grammar itself. See, for example, Buschmann-Göbels paper in Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (ed.), Grammars, Grammarians and Grammar-Writing in Eighteenth-Century England (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2008). Should anyone want to change the story to argue that Gildon was an author of the Grammar, please provide appropriate references to justify such a claim. Belastro (talk) 14:39, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
Talk:Grant Allen

message: Add the first title and a date? Pliny (talk) 12:20, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Colonel Clay 

message: What did he die of? He was only 51. Muzilon (talk) 03:44, 18 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Cause of death?
Talk:Lair of the Minotaur

message: It seems to me that this discussion has already taken place and was resolved, so why is this article still being considered for deletion? The band rocks pretty hard, that should be enough reason to keep them around. Seriously though, the "notability guidelines" seem pretty vague, so how does one go about establishing that a band is "notable"? These guys have been reviewed by a ton of heavy metal magazines and websites (mostly positive reviews BTW)... I just googled "lair of the minotaur review" and got over 135,000 results. I proclaim them to be notable! Deepfryer99 00:49, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:22nd Panzer Division (Wehrmacht)

message: Oddly enough German staff maps show that the 22nd was moved from its position behind the Italians ~50 miles to behind the Serafimovich bridgehead in mid-November, so its tanks could not have been unused for all that long on the 19th.
Here is the official map showing the division on its road march on the 10th.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.182.114.153 (talk) 20:35, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mice eating tanks myth? 

message: Unfortunately, it appears that, in this instance at least, Mitcham is uncritically repeating an apocryphal story from "Paul Carell's" books, in this case rather easily disproven, as noted above. As some may not know, "Paul Carell" was actually Paul Karl Schmidt, a nazi propagandist working for nazi Germany's Foreign Office during WW II. As such, his pseudonymous post-war writings suffer from the same self-serving apologist agenda as many other post-war writings by German nazis and military figures, and none of their material should ever be taken at face value. Were one or two AFVs disabled because poor maintenance protocols led to rodents chewing on wires? Possibly. But anything more is sheer fiction on the part of a writer invested in finding -any- cause for nazi losses in WW II other than the actual facts of German incompetence in logistics, and an unrealistic and contrafactual hubris regarding their opponents.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:1C0:4202:2EE0:6D4C:31A9:442C:31A (talk) 08:22, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mice myth
Talk:Charles Waterton

message: he was not an aristocrat Brownturkey (talk) 21:43, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aristocrat? 

message: Some of the material in this article I find implausible, especially his ancestry and that of his wife. --DThomsen8 (talk) 17:11, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Implausible? 
Talk:Charles Reade

message: I'm concerned about the links to  which contains the complete text of the essay on Charles Reade with no indication that they have the right to publish what must surely be in copyright.  Lady Audley (talk) 07:02, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Troublesome links 

message: The reference to 'Peregrine Pickle' could easily be taken as meaning that the Smollett novel was written by Reade. (Pli)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.49.245.42 (talk) 08:50, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misleading reference 

message: In [1879] his friend Laura Seymour, who may have been his mistress and had kept house for him since 1854, died.
But then:
Reade and his late [?] wife had an adopted daughter.
Can you clarify the marital picture? Valetude (talk) 10:54, 14 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Family
Talk:Charles Wolfe

message: Not sure how to properly add this reference (see p. 49):
http://books.google.com/books?id=PL1YhI3Rp1cC&pg=PA49&lpg=PA49&dq=%22charles+wolfe%22+%22associated+press%22+tuberculosis+%22country+music%22&source=web&ots=sR3twFbcvl&sig=dpofK8hoSSCaznJYW_UZTmGfXdg#PPP1,M1 
24.13.80.209 (talk) 08:23, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Tuberculosis
Talk:Shirley Brooks

message: A lot of this reads as if it has been copied and pasted from some 19th century obituary, for example: "but there is no record of his ever having become a solicitor, for the natural bent of his genius impelled him, like Dickens and Disraeli, to lighter studies, and he forsook law for literature".It wouldn't be copyright violation given the age of the original material, but even so it could do with a rewrite into a more contemporary style of English. JH (talk page) 20:56, 7 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plagiarism?
Talk:Charles Wentworth Dilke

message: It's likely that he authored this anonymous and very influential pamphlet; Marx rated it very highly. I'm not very good at editing stuff on here, but here's a citation https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/economics/dilke/1821/sourceandremedy.htm  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.87.87.152 (talk) 19:42, 23 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should his authorship of "The Sources and Remedies" be included? 

message: Dilke’s father-in-law is described as a Yorkshire farmer and also an upholsterer of Dean Street, Soho. Was he both of these? That paragraph needs editing in any case. Valetude (talk) 13:13, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Father-in-law 
Talk:Guanahacabibes Peninsula

message: is it true that Guanahacabibes had a concentration camp in it at one time?
:Cuba's first forced labor camp was opened there in 1960 by Guevara. You shouldn't say "concentration camp" because that term is closely associated to the Nazi camps, and it is in no way comparable.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.162.7.139 (talk) 09:36, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:A Modern Instance

message: Whoever wrote that entry either did not read the novel or did not understand it. The Hubbards' marriage was never loving and readers are led to understand very early on that it is doomed to fail. Bartley never loved Marcia; he was merely (at most) fond of her, and said so explicitly before leaving her. A major revision is necessary.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Executive Editor at MC (talk • contribs) 18:19, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major revision necessary 

message: I just finished reading the book, and have rewritten the plot summary.--Ebbarc (talk) 01:07, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Done
Talk:Marie-Laure de Noailles

message: Can you find a picture for the main person being talked about in biographies? It would be helpful, at least.
-student_school09- 13:27, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another Biography Recommendation 

message: It says here in the article: "One of her great-great-great-grandfathers was the Marquis de Sade, and her maternal grandmother, Laure de Sade, Countess de Chevigné, inspired at least one character in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time."
Which character is this?  Is it Madame de Guermantes?  And who is the other one?  Or the other ones plural?  Could you put it in the article?
71.160.167.33 (talk) 22:46, 1 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who in Proust?