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Talk:C. Thomas Howell

message: moved from article (Dante Alighieri 20:45 29 May 2003 (UTC)):
:C. Thomas Howell was born on 12-7-1966... this listing implies that he died 36 years ago, instead.
What was the relationship to a Male co-actor with whom he lived with before marrying?  I believe I read an article interview given by him back in early 80's indicating he was either Gay or Bisexual?  Perhpas in the Magazine, "In Touch for Men", dated in the 80's.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.180.164.41 (talk) 01:04, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: His filmography contains all sorts of TV work then there is a separate section for TV appearances. Natually, this looks a bit of a mess. Unfortunately, I am not very good at working with these tables so if any editor is proficient with dealing with them and can untangle the mishmash please feel free to clean them up with my thanks. MarnetteD | Talk 19:57, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: The tables

message: Re: Young Toscanini: "The film was never released domestically."
Does that mean it was never released in the United States? Or in France and/or Italy? The Belgian Ocelot (talk) 21:23, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Career: 1980 

message: Hello. This page has a lot of text that isn't sourced. I have added about 10 sources so far. By my estimate, it looks like it needs another two dozen more. Would it be possible for anyone to help? Especially those who have added the unsourced material over the years? I would appreciate it. :) EugeneMJ (talk) 19:09, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Help with sources?

message: Such a huge pivotal role and theres a lot to say about it , yet its totally skipped over. 
WTF 2601:18F:E82:A10:D1D8:EECA:F82F:5F11 (talk) 01:36, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  How is Soul Man not even mentioned ??? 

message: C. Thomas Howell aka Tommy Howell is married to Brandi Howell - she’s a photographer and musician and dancer! You need to add this gem in there! She keeps Tommy humble and they are the cutest couple!! 2601:601:A481:D900:4006:9EE1:AEDC:9ABB (talk) 03:37, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  You need to update his info
Talk:Caretaker

message: "A dog is a zoological term used to describe an animal with four legs."
"In zoology, a dog is an animal with four legs."
This article began like the first sentence above; I changed it so that it begins like the second.  An epidemic of sentences of that form took place on Wikipedia a few months back; is it now returning?  Someone even wrote:
"A centanarian is a term used to describe a person who..."
instead of
"A centenarian is a person who...".
Michael Hardy 20:56 29 May 2003 (UTC)
:How right you are. However, having used the very term you object to, I find that the way I have qualified it means that it makes best sense to keep it in this particular article. Hope you agree. Naturenet 21:56, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wording 

message: The topic of property caretaking needs to be discussed, but the new article has stylistic problems (at least).  Someone more qualified than myself needs to fix it.  Also, I am starting to wonder if this article needs to be converted to a dab page and then split into articles describing the literal and political senses.  Rlquall 04:05, 21 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  New section needs help 

message: I think there is a major flaw in this article, in that, in contemporary times, the word caretaker is used in English (i.e. English/British English, at least), to refer to anyone that takes care of a building, usually a state-owned building, i.e. school. A caretaker is usually the head of the school cleaners, for example, much in the way as in states, you have 'janitors', a caretaker is a responsible for day to day maintenance, but it is a paid job in contemporary times, and in larger schools/colleges a head caretaker is a fairly well-respected position, i.e. estates manager. Helzagood 23:04, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  ?
Talk:Crabeater seal

message: It sounds like they don't, so why the moniker.  This would be something interesting to add to the article, I bet.
Krill is in the biological world no crab, but the name is traditional Uwe Kils  19:02, July 18, 2005 (UTC)
* The folks who coined the current name didn't mean crabs: Il se nourrit principalement de crevettes, ce qui donne une coloration rouge à ses excréments. C'est cette circonstance des mœurs de cette espèce qui a déterminé nos voyageurs à lui donner la dénomination qu'elle porte "It feeds mainly on shrimp, which gives a red coloration to its feces. It is this circumstance of the customs of this species which determined our travelers to give it the name it bears". Even though from the modern point of view krill is no shrimp either (the former has a head separate from the carapace, the latter has them fused together; the discoverers probably hadn't investigated the animal's diet properly), "crab-eater" is a mistranslation originating already in the 1840s. Ain92 (talk) 14:36, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Just curious, do these animals actually eat crabs? 

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Northern Fur Seal which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RM bot 02:00, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Move discussion in progress
Talk:James Duffy

message: As in my edit comment, the eventual spelling of James Duffy (sapper) may be James Duffey.  A lake named after him uses the -ey spelling, and his colleagues used the spellings interchangeably, with slight prefernce with the -y.  If there's a better disambig for that - "engineer"? - please change it acoordingly; I'll write him up a bit in the next day or two....I placed him after the Jameses before the Jamie and the Jims....Skookum1 (talk) 05:06, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Seeking advice on which spelling to use; here's a bio-quote from the British Columbia Geographical Names Information System page on Duffey Lake:
"On his one mile to one inch strip map (PABC Call No. 8500 A61), Duffy names the long lake between his camps 4 and 5 as Lake Melvin. We do not know whom Duffy was honouring, and the lake was actually named "L Duffey" on the map of British Columbia completed...[September 1863]... by his colleagues in New Westminster. (Duffy's "Lake Melvin" was accomodated by a later Surveyor General who named a small Melvin Lake...about 5 miles east of Duffey Lake). We have not traced Duffy's movements for the remainder of 1860, but he was back on the Harrison-Lillooet trail early in 1861. The British Colonist reported 18 January 1861 that he had been found frozen to death in the snow on the first, or long portage between the head of Harrison Lake and Lillooet Lake. With some difficulty his body was returned to New Westminster, where he was escorted to his grave by the whole detachment of Royal Engineers on Sunday 19 January 1861. Duffy's name has been recorded 3 ways: Governor Douglas used "Duffie" in his diary (Despatch #13, 9 October 1860, Douglas to Newcastle, Colonial Secretary in London); Royal Army records in England show "James Duffy" enlisted 2 October 1848 and was assigned Regimental Number 2146 - his was the only death in the Columbia Detachment in 1861, recorded as 9 January; Duffy and his colleagues used [the spellings] Duffy and Duffey almost indiscriminately - there was a slight preference for "Duffy", though it is recorded "Lake Duffey" on the last RE map of British Columbia. The Geographic Board of Canada has adopted "Duffey", possibly to distinguish it from the Duffy Creek and Lake south of Kamloops..." (R.C. Harris, "Sapper Duffy's Exploration Cayoosh Creek to Lilloett Lake, 1860", printed in British Columbia Historical News, Vol 14, No.2; copy received February 1981, file P.1.65 #2).
I'll maybe also field this through the British Army workgroup/project.Skookum1 (talk) 16:18, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Sapper Duffy/Duffey
Talk:Neanderthal, Germany

message: I'm not sure that technically Neander is a nom-de-plume (pen name), if his grandfather actually legally changed the family name from Neumann. I do not know that that is true.
But nom-de-plume is probably wrong.
-Misha Vargas
216.254.12.114 19:36, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nom-de-plume 

message: The name of the valley is Neandertal, not Neanderthal. (see German article). Only the Neanderthal Man is written with an "h". -- 84.132.102.131 (talk) 07:56, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neandertal, not Neanderthal
Talk:Liberal Party of Canada

message: I initially removed this, and it was reverted. I don’t want an edit war so, I will ask, how is this relevant to the liberal party page? I understand that they play a role in the confidence and supply of the liberal government but it seems to me that doesn’t need to be on the Liberal Party page. Wikentromere (talk) 02:37, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: At the very least, could it be reworded in some way? It doesn’t fit in wells . Wikentromere (talk) 02:39, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

text: I agree with you. Previously, I took that aside as a quick, implicit way of explaining the party standings and relative strength — that the Liberals ally with the NDP rather than the Conservatives tells you that the LPC and CPC are the two major parties — but on closer inspection, I suppose that calling the CPC their "rival" already does that. So, if it's not actually providing context, I don't think it's important enough for the lede. That the Liberals sometimes ally with the NDP is true but it's always (until very recently) been an informal partnership; mentioning it so prominently almost makes it sound like they've got some sort of CDU/CSU or Liberal/National agreement going on, which is obviously not the case. I'll go ahead and remove it. — Kawnhr (talk) 18:17, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  NDP’s role in minority governments  

message: I think there should be consideration for placing the Liberal Party of Canada on the Centre-right to Centre-Left spectrum, as evidenced by shared centre-right policies with the Conservatives, from back-to-work legislation, prioritizing tax cuts that benefit 6-figure earners, and rejection of many NDP policies like the wealth tax
I would at least like to hear opinions on this. Perhaps a compromise would be like what we see on the NDP page, which is a centre left party that has a left-wing faction. The Liberals could be seen as a centrist party with both centre left and centre right factions 174.89.12.70 (talk) 05:28, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: We can talk about any rreliable sources that are presented. Moxy🍁 06:24, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ideological Position
Talk:James Vicary

message: Besides this article being very blurry, what does it have to do with the article title? -- Zoe
:Have a look at the German de.wikipedia 78.49.17.143 (talk) 14:42, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Snopes seems to imply subliminal messages weren't banned in the US -- at least not after the CIA report. Joriki (talk) 21:49, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The FCC issued a "policy statement", on subliminal perception techniques in 1974, but at least according to one commissioner's press statement this is not an enforceable rule and thus cannot be called a "ban", although broadcasters have been admonished with reference to it. Mbethke (talk) 03:45, 9 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  CIA report led to ban in the US? 

message: This could maybe be placed later in the article, but I feel that accusing the experiment of being fraudulent in the introduction to the person's article is a little out of place. Not a big deal, but I would like to hear from others before deleting it. 74.194.153.185 (talk) 18:52, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The problem is that he isn't known for his experiments - he is known for the "gimmick" of his experiments. The majority of the sources are about the "controversy" and the "myth". I don't think it is WP:UNDUE to reflect that in the lede. Happy to discuss ideas for rewording it though. "Fraud" has a particular meaning - a criminal offence with which he was never charged - so if you want to suggest an alternate phrasing, I would think there would probably be WP:CONSENSUS for that. Good call discussing it here either way - a great approach! Stalwart111 22:48, 22 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove fraud accusations in intro? 

message: "moviegoers were repeatedly shown 1/3000-second advertisements". That has to be 1/30-second, I think. Projectors of the time would have been 24 frames per second, and I have no idea what kind of equipment you could even get in 1958 that would show a frame for 1/100th of that time. It's confusing, since it apparently never happened anyhow, but Vicary was likely claiming to have inserted single frames. –75.145.68.90 (talk) 23:16, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Frame Rate
Talk:1985 in sports

message: Patrick Ewing was drafted, adding the final piece of the puzzle to the NBA, increasing it's already immense popularity
This sentence makes no sense at all. What puzzle is this refering to and how does Patrick Ewing's draft status add to the NBA's popularity?
--Javafreek 21:07, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The reference to Patrick Ewing is unclear
Talk:Santa Cruz Operation

message: Could someone add this person to wikipedia? He appeared in this documentation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yas19evqcT8
I would like to know what happened to him after SCO. 2A02:8388:1641:4980:0:0:0:D (talk) 00:09, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: (To clarify the above: he is currently mentioned in the article, but no wikipedia page about him shows up on wikipedia.) 2A02:8388:1641:4980:0:0:0:D (talk) 00:10, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Not sure what Doug is doing these days.  He was doing high-level consulting to startups and sitting on a couple of boards, but don't know if any of those activities are still ongoing.  Wasted Time R (talk) 23:00, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Main content: Doug Michels
Talk:Judy Garland

message: Garland's death played an important role in the Stonewall Riots/ Gay Liberation since she was a Queer Icon--this deserves to be mentioned! 70.39.20.64 (talk) 16:27, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The historicity of that narrative is questionable. See  Best.4meter4 (talk) 17:29, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stonewall/ Gay Rights Legacy? 

message: Link #111 "Grammy Awards for Judy at Carnegie Hall" does not work. 404 page 2600:1700:AC91:27E0:5D20:13C9:3199:5508 (talk) 01:34, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead Link
Talk:Viljandi County

message: Most important county in olden times; the center of ancient Estonia (an eastern Land; it is forbidden to a human to mention its actual name, that has lost into the past oblivion) with the second greatest stronghold ruins in Europe.
:It passes the google test, but not anything I can parse... anyone want to help? --Dante Alighieri 10:07 30 May 2003 (UTC)
::The text moved from the article is nonsense or expresses the idiosyncratic views of some very small group. (This is my expert opinion as I am Estonian.) Andres 11:41, 22 Aug 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Earthquake construction

message: recent earthquake tragedies have tended to show the deadly combination of blind-thrust earthquakes and poor construction.   Zeizmic 12:21 30 May 2003 (UTC)
merge earthquake management taken care of, will put in seismic retrofit link. --Zeizmic 12:47, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

message: We need a subject matter expert to address more exotic eartquake constructions techniques including:
* Dampened Bearings -- allows portion of the building above the foundation to remain relatively stable while the earth and foundation shifts laterally
* Active Counterweights -- actively controlled counterweights in upper parts of the structure are moved to counteract swaying, keeping the structure relatively stable
* Others??
70.174.82.89 12:49, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  No mention of bearings, counterweights, or other mechanical means
Talk:Blind thrust earthquake

message: The 2010 Haiti earthquake also occurred on a blind thrust . Elriana (talk) 22:09, 27 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Haiti Earthquake 

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians,
I have just added archive links to  on Blind thrust earthquake. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add  after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add  to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
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— Gorthian (talk) 04:44, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 
Talk:Salam Pax

message: Is the Raed Jarrar in this article the same one who had to take off his "We will not be silent" T-shirt?  --Amaccormack 15:30, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've started an article at Raed Jarrar. --Saforrest 19:23, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Raed Jarrar 

message: I've arranged and annotated the external links so it's easier for people to see which links are current. 
Has Salam blogged since 2006?
I found a claim that "Salam Pax has gone on to work for the Guardian and BBC." Also his more recent blog (shut up you fat whiner! ) mentions doing work for Newsnight - which I guess is the BBC's Newsnight. 
Not my area - just wanted to leave the info with those working on the article. --Chriswaterguy talk 01:58, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current information? 
Talk:Top of the Pops

message: There are several reports about the annual Christmas specials being axed, though most of them seem to be from tabloid newspapers rather than a reliable source. Mark and inwardly digest (talk) 13:36, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a Christmas special (as BBC describe it) in the form of "Review of 2022" Fort esc (talk) 19:53, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  End of Christmas specials? 

message: At the moment there are two date ranges shown - one for the weekly series and one for the Christmas specials - but they are both labelled simply "Release". There used to be headings showing which was which, but these were removed, and when I tried reinstating them they were removed again, apparently because formatting them in that way doesn't conform to the Infobox standards. How can we resolve this? Mark and inwardly digest (talk) 15:12, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: It appears that if anything more than a date is put in a date field, this gets flagged as an error and someone comes to "fix" the error. (The infobox isn't really designed to cope with two parallel "releases".) So I've tried to fix this by adding explanations to the "network" fields.  Dr Greg  talk  16:48, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox dates
Talk:Tysnes

message: It's many years since I've been to Tysnes.  My impression was that it's an island, but it might only be part of one (the geography in that area is crazy/beautiful, so it's hard to tell—need to look at a bigger map ;-).  One town I know is on the island is Våge, which has a ferry line to Os, a neighboring municipality.  Beyond Os is Bergen ("the second-largest city of Norway," according to it's article), which is notable.  The local paper has a website—guess I'll have to pick up a Norwegian↔English dictionary and bone up :-p &mdashMulad 17:41 30 May 2003 (UTC)
I added some stuff to the page based on my memories and whatever I could find in English by googling.  I think the bridge was made sometime in the 80s, and to my memory the Våge ferry went to Os, but I'm not completely sure. -- Ckape 17:37, 23 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Talk:Panicle

message: According to the Cambridge Glossary, cited as a source for this article, a corymb has the branching structure of a simple raceme not a panicle. It seems to me it would be more logical to include it in the article for raceme rather than here. Thoughts? Seanmcdill (talk) 01:53, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree; it's a problem. The Maloideae that are mentioned here are generally said to have corymbose inflorescences rather than actual corymbs. Perhaps there should be a page about corymbs and corymbose structures, rather than trying to jam them in with either the raceme or the panicle. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 08:42, 12 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: There's been an orphaned article at corymboid for years, while corymb has tons of incoming links and retargets here. There were several other redirect with links (corymbs, corymbose, corymbiform). I've started a crappy stub at corymb with everything else redirecting there.  Plantdrew (talk) 03:43, 6 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inclusion of Corymb?
Talk:Charles the Fat

message: Hi, according to the German Wiki article, disappointment over Charles' inefficient handling of the Viking incursions into East Frankia contributed to his downfall, as it eroded the confidence potential supporters might have had in him. I find it strange, therefore, that this article only mentions Viking incursions in the Low Countries, esp. since the Rhineland raids are well covered in its own Wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking_raids_in_the_Rhineland . It's too much to incorporate, but I think it's worth a mention and a link. T 84.208.86.134 (talk) 14:49, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Charles and the Vikings 

message: Yeah, my bad. I had a look on the template page. I am frankly a bit confuddled that they would name a template "antique" kings. Trigaranus (talk) 09:13, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Antique kings
Talk:Saturday Night Live

message: Saturday night live is available on peacock that should be mentioned Encyclopediafanatic (talk) 18:47, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  peacock  

message: Basic information to add to this article: whether there will be a Season 49. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 02:19, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  To add to article 

message: The first sentence of the lead currently reads as follows:  However, I think there are too many descriptions in the sentence (do we really have to clarify every single genre?) thus I am starting this discussion.
Here are a few options, though I am open to more variations:
* Option 1:  My personal choice, as the show is characterized by being live and sketch comedy.
* Option 2:  An editor on WP:DISCORD suggested that variety be included.
* Option 3:  (or )  Another suggestion from an editor on Discord.
Spinixster (chat!) 14:45, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Option 1 is the clearest definition. While the show is sometimes political and satirical, it's often just silly. A "political satire" show sounds like the entire show is political satire, which is definitely not the case.  Toughpigs (talk) 16:31, 13 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Sure, the show's sketches can be political, but that's a result of them writing to current events to keep the show topical. It's not specifically political in purpose. The inclusion of "live" is fundamentally defining (it's in the name). "Variety" is logical, because although the show does primary consist of live and pre-filmed sketches, it also includes "Weekend Update", a satirical newscast parody (which isn't really a sketch as the term is strictly defined) and musical performances by guest acts. So to that end I would say Option 2 is the best descriptor. oknazevad (talk) 17:37, 13 January 2024 (UTC)

text: Option 2 is probably best, because the monologue and musical performances (and arguably Weekend Update) fall under the broader "variety" umbrella. Option 1 is also fine. Option 3 is bad, as the focus of the show is not politics. If more words need to be cut, "sketch comedy" is not particularly necessary because the rest of the first paragraph explains the format of the show. RunningTiger123 (talk) 00:39, 14 January 2024 (UTC)

text: The second option seems to be the most popular, but I'll be waiting for a few more days to see if there's any more votes. Spinixster (chat!) 01:32, 15 January 2024 (UTC)

text: It's been 7 days, and no more votes. I will be using option 2 as the new lead. Thanks again! Spinixster (chat!) 02:15, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  First sentence of lead