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Talk:House of Vasa

message: What does that line mean? Dying sounds like a pretty big 'issue' o.O  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.18.20.38 (talk) 01:23, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  "When Sigismund II of Poland died without issue," 

message: The article now reads: "After John, the Polish Vasa died out". Was this really the case? Was John the last male of the line or only the last Polish Vasa on the throne?KarlXII 23:08, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: They did not leave any male nor female survivor. The death of John II Casimir, a couple of years after his abdication, brought an end to the entire issue of Bona Sforza with Sigismund I, and (consequently of course) to Sigismund III's issue. It is not only the male line which went extinct. No daughters either had produced surviving children. They suffered from the Jagiellon dynasty difficulties to continue the progenity in any legitimate way. ObRoy 11:30, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Did the Polish Vasas really "die out"? 

message: "In 1654 Christina, the daughter of Gustavus Adolphus, the Protestant Champion of the Thirty Years' War, abdicated, converted to Catholicism and left the country."
Wouldn't it be better with "...abdicated, left the country and converted to Catholicism...", in that order? She converted to the Catholic on 24 December 1654 in Brussels, after leaving Sweden for Rome.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pgtw (talk • contribs) 19:51, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Queen Christina

message: I'm not sure why, but image Flaga_Rzeczpospolitej_Obojga_Narodow.svg is not displaying (on the left - Royal banner of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth). File exists and you may display it clicking on the link.
77.253.1.193 (talk) 16:04, 5 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image not displaying 

message: So how did the Vasas become monarchs in the first place? This article doesn't say anything about their origins.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.105.155.174 (talk) 10:29, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  How? 

message: King Carl XVI Gustaf is also descended from Adolphus Frederick II, Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, through his paternal grandmother and his mother, both of whom are descendants of Queen Victoria. Queen Victoria's grandmother, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, was Adolphus Frederick II's grandson. 47.187.222.116 (talk) 02:01, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Carl XVI Gustaf
Talk:Urban survival syndrome

message: Is this for real?195.93.50.13 19:07 Apr 29, 2003 (UTC)
:I seem to recall a case in NYC a few years ago in which it was stated (possibly from the bench) that running when you see the police isn't necessarily suspicious (this may only hold if the person running is a minority). --Calieber 20:08, Oct 29, 2003 (UTC)
Hmm, this sounds a lot like one of the defenses used by the cops who shot Amadou Diallo. Wonder if there should be a link? Tualha 23:25, 13 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:List of German expressions in English

message: What about Luftmensch?
  Sorry, I am a German native speaker, but I have never heard the word "Luftmensch", neither in German nor in English. --84.138.102.157 (talk) 18:01, 1 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Luftmensch 

message: So far, the page practically discusses only borrowings and adaptations of *nouns* from German into English. Why the limitation to nouns? There are German borrowings and adaptations of other forms of speech too. Two examples:- 
'Hopefully' (adv.) has now widely acquired, in English, a meaning essentially the same as 'hoffentlich' in German, a meaning which can be paraphrased as: 'it is to be hoped' [e.g. that something will or won't happen]. The older meaning of 'hopefully' in English, perhaps appearing to fade out, was 'with a hopeful or optimistic attitude' (such as, for example, the apparent attitude of a pet dog looking *hopefully* at a food item in the hands of its owner, seeming to hope to be given some of the food.) 
'Once' (adv.) seems to have acquired (when used with an imperative verb) a usage that parallels a German usage of 'mal'. (Perhaps in English this borrowing is regionally restricted, e.g. to areas with significant German-American roots).  Examples: 'give it to me once' or 'sit down once', with parallels to German phrases such as 'Pass mal auf' (i.e. watch out (once)!) where older English would not usually include or translate the 'once' at all. 
Terry0051 (talk) 13:33, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why only nouns? 

message: A lot of words in the article such as Frankfurter or Budweiser are based on the names of cities. Such words are usually not changed in any way other than phonology, and in this case some people will argue that the original (in this case German) pronunciation should still be used instead of an “anglicized” one. 
A similar thing applies to the “Selected works in classical music”, “Carols” and “Modern songs” sections: when stating the title or creator of a piece of music, you do not use it as a loanword. If I were to mention Queens “We are the Champions” in a german conversation, stating the name has no effect on “phonology, phonotactics, orthography, and morphology”, as is defined in the main “Loanword” Wikipedia Article. 
Even if such a name is pronounced differently (such as Johann Sebastian Bach) the name stays a german word. Again, mentioning George Washington in a german conversation does not mean that I’m using an English loanword. PumaPandora (talk) 09:53, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are names loanwords?
Talk:Breadbasket

message: This should not be a redirect to the household item breadbasket. This is a term referring to the grain producing region of a country. Defireman 00:36, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm inclined to agree with the above. There's not much an encyclopedia can say about the woven carrying item, but the majority of the article deals with the agrarian regional concept. Unfortunately, the image at the top of the article is misleading in that sense; failing any objection on this talk page, I'm going to shift the "bread basket" section to a wiktionary link at the bottom of the page. -- nae'blis 22:17, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Definitely. It is out of place. Thanks in advance for the cleanup … JonHarder 02:06, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

text: But Poland isn't the breadbasket of Europe. This term is not used in a international setting (i.e. no country that I know of is considered the breadbasket of a continent/larger region). Flamarande 21:13, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The first modern example on this page is "Zimbabwe was called the breadbasket of Africa", which is a country being the breadbasket of a continent, so it is possible.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 167.247.219.10 (talk) 09:40, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Bread basket or breadbasket?
Talk:Nerf Herder

message: Alot needs to be done with this article.  I've been a fan since I first saw these guys years ago, I never even knew about that whole Buffy thing so that section is suspect.  I'm not going to add/remove alot but I'll be watching this page. Crumnut 15:30, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: What do you mean by "suspect"? You only have to watch the closing credits of a Buffy episode to know they did the theme tune! Seb Patrick 17:36, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: What I meant was it may not be what they are most known for.  Then again, what do I know since I have never really watched Buffy.  It should be fine the way it is written, mentioning it and the Van Halen single.16:28, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I realised afterwards that that was what you probably meant. *slaps forehead* Anyway, yeah, given that they never really had a hit after "Van Halen", and that millions of people worldwide have seen Buffy, it's probably safe to say that those two are their most notable hours (even if not necessarily their best)... Seb Patrick 18:04, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additions 

message: As an editor at Crawdaddy!, and to comply with COI guidelines, I am not posting the link to this interview with Parry Gripp. However, I would like to recommend it on its merits, and hope that an editor will find the time to examine the interview and—if he or she sees fit—post it to the external links section. I appreciate your time. Crawdaddy! Mike harkin (talk) 19:18, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  External link suggestion: New interview with Parry Gripp of Nerf Herder 

message: I think the main theme of this entry should be the usage of the term in Star Wars and the band by the same name should either have its own entry or be a minor sub entry.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.85.54.121 (talk) 00:15, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Star Wars usage should be main theme
Talk:Greenland

message: The redirect Danish America has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached.  -- 65.92.247.66 (talk) 23:31, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "[[:Danish America]]" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: 1+8-
34 ok thanks 🙏  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.153.0.90 (talk) 10:43, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  ➗
Talk:Thyroidectomy

message: The part in the first paragraph that states "patients are strongly advised to only be operated on by surgeons who protect the voice by using electronic nerve monitoring" sounds like medical advice to me. In fact, there isn't even a citation there. It seems like you can't get much more removed from the intentions of wikipedia there... Skiingdemon (talk) 21:04, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Medical Advice? 

message: I have an Italian friend who is having her thyroid removed, and she tells me that her Italian doctors told her she is going to have to sleep with a special pillow for the rest of her life.  Is this common?  Can someone who knows add that to this article as a possible change to a person's life if they have their thyroid removed (like, along with your voice changing).  Thanks in advance to anybody that knows.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Betathetapi545 (talk • contribs) 20:24, 15 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Complications/changes to patient's life

message: I wasn't expecting to see such a gory photo as soon as I opened the page. -- kazerniel (talk | contribs) 13:59, 11 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maybe a medical illustration on top?
Talk:Today's New International Version

message: I’ve removed the following line from the section on gender-neutral language, as it seemed ungrammatical and I couldn’t parse any meaning:
Was this a remnant of some past half-completed edit? If not, could someone rewrite it to make the meaning more clear, or at least explain it here? Thanks. —96.8.24.95 (talk) 04:34, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: No idea what it means. Thanks for removing it. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 08:42, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  “Confessional terms are such as …”
Talk:Mary Louise Smith (activist)

message: I deleted this from the article: 
: http://www.google.com/search?q=Mary-Louise-Smith+Browder-v-Gayle 
: http://www.google.com/search?q=Mary-Louise-Smith+1955
It would be much better to actually read the results of that search and type the information into an article format. No copying and pasting, please. Wikipedia is an attempt to produce real encyclopedia articles. I'm sure Mary Louise Smith is an important figure. Please tell us about her. 
Wesley 02:11 Apr 30, 2003 (UTC)
The only books I've read that mention Mary Louise Smith have no doubt that her father was an alcoholic. The fact that she has rejected this claim as untrue would be great information to use IF IT WERE SOURCED! I am dying to know where this information came from. The Futurist Corporation (talk) 20:20, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The problem here is that the claim itself is unsourced. I too have read of her father's alleged alcoholism. I believe it was in a NY Times article about Claudette Colvin, but I'm not positive. Even though I'm fairly sure it's factually correct, I removed it for the time being, as a potential BLP concern. Do you have a source that we could use for this article? Joefromrandb (talk) 23:32, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Delegation

message: The article says it is about delegation of tasks to subordinates.
I have copied the five steps of delegation from the disambiguation page to this page, where I feel they belong.  I think they should be deleted from the disambiguation page and a link to this page provided instead (but I have not yet done that.)
"Theory of Delegation" deserves its own page, and an entry on the "Delegation" disambiguation page.  It does not belong on this page.
"Delegation in Spain" seems to refer to a representative assembly.  It also deserves its own page, and an entry on the "Delegation" disambiguation page. 
Lancele (talk) 00:50, 6 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added some theories of delegation from politics and economics to this page to try and add some more substance to this article. blankfrackis 00:13, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Delegation has 3 stages 
# Briefing
# Monitoring progress
# Evaluation and feedback
ceo 12:29, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Three Stages

message: Voice 106.78.83.5 (talk) 05:01, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Delegation 

message: E.g. delegation of tasks within a family, student group, or just an individual deciding to offload some work to someone they're paying.
Probably should be renamed to Delegation (management)?
Also should likely some discussion relating to Delegation theory and Delegation (law) ACaseOfWednesdays (talk) 13:13, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does not talk about delegation outside of an organizational or work setting
Wikipedia talk:Related Changes

message: We need one place to develop MediaWiki documentation so I'm starting a project-neutral MediaWiki User's Guide in meta and think it would be a good idea to cross wiki redirect this page to meta:MediaWiki User's Guide: Using the Related Changes function as soon as I'm done with the conversion (before that I will change each link to this page to a direct one to meta so that it appears correctly as an external link). --mav 01:42, 7 Sep 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plan to move this page to meta soon
Talk:Railgun

message: The article offers the translation "I, [who am] speed, eradicate"—or in the vernacular, "Speed Kills". The citation at the end of that paragraph doesn't support the translation offered.
I did Latin at school a long time ago; I don't think that's what it means. In fact I think it's bad Latin. "Eradico" is transitive, and should take an object.
Should there be a footnote or something, noting that the phrase is bad Latin that can't be translated correctly? At least, I don't think WP should offer this translation, in its own voice, without proper citation, and without explaining that the phrase isn't really translatable.
StackExchange: https://latin.stackexchange.com/questions/5270/velocitas-eradico-get-rid-of-speed-or-with-speed-eliminate
Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/latin/comments/1tjqwv/velocitas_eradico_translation_help/ 
MrDemeanour (talk) 15:36, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Velocitas Eradico 

message: :There's a lot of flame in the image (File:Railgun_usnavy_2008.jpg) which doesn't somehow convey the idea that the weapon's kinetic energy is not derived explosively. 92.10.212.241 (talk) 19:50, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: It is plasma. 2804:14D:5C59:44A4:48BF:3ECE:B40B:80B2 (talk) 21:48, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wotta lotta flame 

message: The paragraph 
"The Yugoslavian Military Technology Institute developed, within a project named EDO-0, a railgun with 7 kJ kinetic energy, in 1985. In 1987 a successor was created, project EDO-1, that used projectile with a mass of 0.7 kg (1.5 lb) and achieved speeds of 3,000 m/s (9,800 ft/s), and with a mass of 1.1 kg (2.4 lb) reached speeds of 2,400 m/s (7,900 ft/s). It used a track length of 0.7 m (2.3 ft). According to those working on it, with other modifications it was able to achieve a speed of 4,500 m/s (14,800 ft/s). The aim was to achieve projectile speed of 7,000 m/s (23,000 ft/s). " 
has no sources, and I am unable to find information that is not a copy paste of this article. Does anyone have a source for this?  Cron312 (talk) 05:02, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Upon further investigation, that passage originated in 2008 with the claim that it was the Serbian VTI that developed it, during political tension in Serbia.  There was no source at the time, and the IP address of the edit was in Serbia.  It was likely propaganda. LainOfTheReal (talk) 00:54, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cannot find source for Second paragraph of Tests, about the EDO-0 and EDO-1.
Talk:Csound

message: The link, « Lettuce a Windows frontend/editor for Csound5 » seems irrelevant, as the page seems mostly broken. -- (Hibou57)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.198.58.253 (talk) 19:18, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Irrelevant link 

message: The comments run off the edge of the screen on some monitors. Can they by chance be re-edited to wrap without losing readability? Just a suggestion. Thanks. --  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.89.189.214 (talk) 07:59, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coding Comments Length 
Talk:Anton Stadler

message: Google search for terms: Anton, Staedler, clarinet produces only 2 hits, both of them in Wiki. Are we sure this person even exists?  -- Evercat 17:39 Apr 30, 2003 (UTC)
:Google shows me many hits for Anton Stadler when googling anton mozart clarinet. Will move the page. -- JeLuF 19:01 Apr 30, 2003 (UTC)
I've added all that I know about Stadler. From my research there is not an awful lot more known about him, but my research has not been exhaustive I'm sure!
10-05-05 Corrected links to Quintet_for_Clarinet_and_Strings.
::Anton Stadler was not exactly a clarinet player, but more a basset-horn player (the ancestor of the clarinet and oldest representative of the clarinet family). Actually, the works from Mozart "for clarniet" were composed for basset-horn. So looking for "Anton Stadler+clarinet" in Google shouldn't give a lot of results. --Sixsous 14:13, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Stadler was exactly and mainly a clarinet player and playing this instrument was what he did for more than 30 years to make a living. Like his brother Johann he also played the oboe and the violin.--Suessmayr (talk) 21:18, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I'm guessing he was Austrian, not sure. Whatever his nationality is however, it should be in the article. -- Ynhockey (Talk) 20:24, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Nationality

message: Theodor Lotz was not born in 1748, but in 1746!--62.47.131.98 (talk) 07:24, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Lotz's year of birth

message: 'could supplement orchestral skills with duets, butts, wind octets and basset horn trios'
Please explain this term; does it refer to sackbuts?--Bluedawe 00:28, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Bluedawe, this actually appears to have been vandalism, introduced here. The quote in the source matches the one before that edit. Nikkimaria (talk) 04:59, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Butts?
Talk:Cunt

message: The etymology section is clearly pushing the reader towards a certain perspective without adequately supporting the claim that "most sources consider the word to have derived from a Germanic word..." What sources? Not disputing the claim, I would just appreciate some article links here. 
Further, in the next paragraph, the sentence about relationship with Latin cunnus, cunni, m. is phrased in such a way to make the reader doubt this possibility ("Relationships...have not been conclusively demonstrated."). Has the relationship with the Germanic word been conclusively demonstrated? If so, I would love a citation!
Also, this bit about Grimm's Law comes out of nowhere and similarly isn't cited. Is this simply an editor's speculation, or is this a theory that scholars have proposed? Once again, would like a link to an article or book chapter if that's the case!
First98Things (talk) 03:32, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology section
Talk:Tamaulipas crow

message: er....there's no image. Kingturtle 22:54 Apr 30, 2003 (UTC)
Tamaulipas crow
I changed this to reflect the current status:
It has been known on occasion for this species to come as far north as Brownsville in southern Texas, but the range has slipped back into Mexico again and these stragglers no longer come as far north, at least for now.
Nesting has occurred west of Brownsville at least in the last 2 years. It is not be seen for some periods but that may be because of the lack of birders looking for it in the hot summer months. From S. Texas, TimWhitehouse 20:57, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:St Catherine's College, Oxford

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thread_title:  Copyright problem removed 

message: I've now worked up a short article on the college bike shed, St Catherine's College Bicycle Store. Reading around the topic, there is actually more than enough sourcing to warrant a separate article on St Catz's buildings. That said, the existing coverage of the college's article is rather good. Far better than for many Oxbridge colleges. KJP1 (talk) 18:04, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bike shed