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Talk:The Dark Tower (Lewis novel)

message: I had the impression that the tower was based on the Cambridge University Library.  -- Beardo 08:20, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I think this is actually mentioned in the story (though it's a long time since I read it...). If I can confirm this I'll add a note. AndrewWTaylor 10:26, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Yes it's important to the story: The Othertimers modelled their building on one in Lewis' universe in order to strengthen the connection between the two worlds. The building they chose was the new University Library.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.241.199.124 (talk) 13:56, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The actual tower ? 

message: Users of this site might want further information regarding 'a man named Alistair Fowler.'  Prof. Fowler is a Regius Professor Emeritus in the University of Edinburgh.  His article, 'C.S. Lewis: Supervisor' was published in the Yale Review (LXXXXI/4 (October 2003), pp. 64-80 and concerns his relationship with Lewis when Prof. Lewis was his doctoral supervisor as he, Fowler, prepared his Oxford D. Phil. thesis.  Prof. Fowler is a leading scholar in his field and his word on this bizarre charge by Mrs Lindskoog should be decisive among anyone seriously wishing to understand the valuable work undertaken by Walter Hooper.  From Dr J.E.B. Munson, M.A., D. Phil. (Oxon.)  (Transcribed by Bigturtle 23:36, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Corroborative evidence for Lewis's authorship

message: Wikipedia's "Out of the Silent Planet" article says Lewis and Tolkien once had a plan that Lewis would write a space-travel story and Tolkien a time-travel story; the latter dropped the idea when he became engrossed in writing LORD OF THE RINGS.  Could this be Tolkien's abandonned time-travel story, turned over to Lewis and later abandonned by him as well?  Yes, I know this is speculation and "original research"
CharlesTheBold (talk) 15:32, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tolkien?
Talk:Brechtian theatre

message: Right now we have a medium-sized article on epic theater, and three closely related stubs: Brechtian theatre, alienation effect, and Verfremdungseffekt. The latter two are surely redundant with each other (though I'm not sure which is the better title—some would argue that the common translation "alienation effect" is misleading) and the first two probably are. I'm inclined to merge them all into either epic theater or Brechtian theatre, while adding a brief boldface mention of Verfremdungseffekt/alienation effect in the intro paragraph so people won't be confused if they follow a redirect. Which do y'all think is the better title? ←Hob 17:35, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I would be inclined to merge everything into Brechtian theatre as that is how I recognize these theatrical developments. Ganymead 15:13, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Request for comment: merge?
Talk:Roman Romanenko

message: Hi, you make a mistake between Yuri Victorovitch Romanenko and Roman Yurievich Romanenko, especially in Special:Whatlinkshere/Yuri_Romanenko for Soyuz 26, 27, 38, TM-2, TM-3. Bye, Barbe-sauvage --83.203.179.165 17:39, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. Now two articles - Yuri Romanenko and Roman Romanenko --Winterheart 03:18, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: September 2005

message: The text of this article is outdated. It does not refer to Romanenko's participation in Expedition 34/35 or that he is currently in space. Only the infobox and the template at the bottom mention those facts.  Cromwellt|talk|contribs 03:13, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expedition 34/35 
Talk:Lewis E. Platt

message: I don't understand the line:
  <B>Note:</B> Lew Platt was the individual to have chaired two (2) Dow Jones components.
so I removed it.  Please clarify before adding it back -- was he the only person to chair two DJ companies at the same time?  Separately?   I can't find any reference to this with a google search. - PxT 17:40, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:John Newlands (chemist)

message: There is a dispute over the date Newlands' law was published (the reviewer says 1864) as noted in the review by Science of Dmitri Medeleev. Can someone comment based on the information on that talk page? - Taxman Talk 22:41, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Publish date? 

message: Some one asked sarcastically if Newlands had tried alphabetical order. This was a reference to 
exceptions in the versions.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.177.171.194 (talk) 15:44, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sarcasm 

message: It seems that the birth date of the son is 16 years after Newlands died!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.64.112.163 (talk) 11:13, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Son Birth Date 

message: Did he create any experiments? 95.149.133.143 (talk) 12:20, 5 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chemistry
Talk:Adele (given name)

message: Not everyone is familiar with the dab concept, nor may immediately notice that the pop singer is mentioned at the very top. For the sake of completeness, and to be helpful to those who may have trouble navigating the page, I added the singer Adele to the main list as well (at the top not because of notability but because she is only known by the one name, while all the others have last names and would therefore follow her in alphabetical order). 68.146.72.113 (talk) 13:56, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds good to me -- Boing! said Zebedee (talk) 14:31, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Singer Adele in the main list

message: From German Wiki: "Adele is a female given name adopted from French, originally borrowed from German. The name is also a short form of Adelheid" (whose English form is Adelaide). In German, the first E is accented https://de.forvo.com/word/adele/#de.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:8109:25C0:6C8:C8:F17F:6360:C6AB (talk) 15:42, 30 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional trivia
Talk:Luling, Texas

message: re the origin of the name - As at September 2005, the page http://www.accd.edu/pac/history/rhines/StudentProjects/2001/Luling/Historical%20Sites.htm includes this text
:Luling is also blessed with five attractive parks: Charles Park and Blanche Square on the northside; Elena Square and Longer Park on the southside; and Patton Park.
It's presumably not a coincidence that Charles Luling and Elena Longer, of New Orleans and Staten Island, New York, had a daughter Blanche Luling. For example, there are papers in the Rathbone Collection at the University of Liverpool that give all these names
 :"William Gair Rathbone m. 7 Jun 1877 Blanche Marie (1856-1938), daughter of Charles Luling and Elena Michaela (née Longer), of Staten Island , New York"
see http://sca.lib.liv.ac.uk/collections/rathbone/wgr.htm
Keith Clarke, London, England.
:Interesting to read the actual origin of the name. When I was in junior high school in Austin, the social studies teacher told us Luling was named for a Chinese railroad worker in Texas named Lu Ling. Appealing as that story is, it's apparently not true. —Aɴɢʀ (talk) 09:02, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The demographics section would look a lot better if it were in a table. I will try to come back to it. C1776MTalk 15:54, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Demographics 
Talk:Return of the Champions

message: It needs to be made clear that the parentheticals are the writers and below is the singer,  as the "except where noted" will lead careless readers to think the parentheticals are the singers.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.177.47.137 (talk) 02:55, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: But if they're careless then I think that they would ... care ... less, no? FiggazWithAttitude (talk) 18:42, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:William Moorsom

message: I've built up this article from all sorts of references on the web, so any corrections will be welcome.
The bridge in the lower photo on the Cologne page may be Moorsom's or a postwar reincarnation of it, but I can't be sure. Chevin 18:21, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Nothing if not persistent I finally typed Hohenzollernbridge into Alta Vista and got the following info. Moorsom's bridge was rebuilt as a three span bridge between 1907 and 1911. It was rebuilt after the bombing of WWII when it was completely destroyed and was then widened to six tracks in 1990. Chevin 19:07, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: What was the role of Moorsom in the CHPR??. Most of the usual sources credit it to Josias Jessop whose father William built the Cromford Canal. And 'Joss. Jessop Engineer' is the person credited on the Parsley Hay bridge plaque.
But Jessop died in 1826 I gather, so a role for Moorsom to finish off the route seems possible - except he'd hardly got back in the country when it opened in 1831? Linuxlad 14:15, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The dates are very fuzzy, which is why I've avoided quoting any. He also got married about this time, and the reference implied it was in Canada. He could have come back, however, at any time, on leave of absence. After the end of the Napoleonic Wars I imagine a lot of officers were kicking their heels. As a Royal Engineer he would be experienced in surveying and civil engineering, so it would be, as it were, his conversion course. He was associated with the Stevensons, who were busy in the area, and he may have worked under their direction. Chevin 15:25, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  POSTSCRIPT Forget my last speculative paragraph. Moorsom was manager for a period shortly after it began operation. Reference: Hodgkins, D.J., (1983) Captain Moorsom and the Attempt to Revive the Cromford And High Peak Railway, Derbyshire Archaeological Journal Vol 103 Pp 137‑159 Chevin (talk) 10:00, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: CHPR
Talk:John Norris (philosopher)

message: As it stands now, this article has faults. It does not show Norris's influence on the Idealism of Arthur Collier, and possibly of George Berkeley. Also, there are subjective judgments made about his poetry, such as:
* they have fine thoughts,
* there are far-fetched metaphors and conceits,
* they are not seldom dull and prosaic.
Lestrade 18:25, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:HMS Quality (G62)

message: RE: HMS Quality. My father, George Bardsley was boatswain. I would like any info. Gill
H8gue (talk) 13:56, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Moved 11:22, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  From [[HMS Quality (G62)]] talkpage
Talk:Milestones (Miles Davis album)

message: Tracks #1 and #4 are respectively and definitely "Dr. Jekyll" and "Miles", not "Dr. Jackle" and "Milestones".
However, it's unclear to me whether I may fix these mistakes, as the history shows they have already been corrected then reintroduced several times. Vandalism? Or wrong CBS data?--Cedesguin (talk) 10:11, 23 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I own both Columbia mono and stereo releases. In the mono edition tracks #1 and #4 are respectively titled "Dr. Jeckyll" and "Miles". In the stereo edition they are titled "Dr. Jackle" and "Milestones". The track #8 (alternate take) is also titled "Milestones".--Cedesguin (talk) 10:55, 16 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Edit
Talk:Ame-no-Uzume

message: "The clever Ama-no-Uzume overturned a tub near the cave entrance and began a wild, sexual dance on it, tearing off her clothing in front of the male deities. They considered this so comical that they laughed heartily at the sight.
Amaterasu heard them, and asked Ama-no-Uzume what was going on. The dawn goddess replied that the gods had found a better lover than her"
I wonder if this is not a bit too much personal embellishment upon the original tale? It seems to over-eroticise the matter, especially as I cannot find any reference to the last sentence, in which it is implied that Ameterasu was a lover to the gods, nor any evidence that Ame-no-Uzume made any such quip. -- Hidoshi 19:15, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Issues with Description

message: Okame seems to be the name Uzume takes in some theatrical contexts; see  I have added this reference. --206.132.50.221 02:17, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Alternate Names

message: Would Ame no Uzume's dance qualify as a striptease? 192.12.88.7 (talk) 06:48, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The stripping is there but I see no evidence that it was a "tease" in the form of gradually removing clothes. 192.12.88.7 (talk) 06:50, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  A striptease?
Talk:Juan Fernández (explorer)

message: This article states "It was reviewed in the 19th century by the Chilean biographer José Toribio Medina who is one of the main sources for the claim in South American literature". It should be made clear that Medina did not necessarily believe the claim that Juan Fernández discovered New Zealand. This is what he said (El piloto Juan Fernándezp. 169): 'nos parece ... se descubrieron algunas islas, entra ellas la Nueva Zelandia, o más probablemente, a nuestra ententer, las islas de Tahiti' ('it appears to us ... he discovered some islands, among others those of New Zealand, or more probably, by our understanding, the islands of Tahiti'). The real reason for the claim is that Medina's book included as appendices hitherto unpublished Spanish archives which made the claim, and which the proponents of the claim use as sources.
Further, the primary Spanish document (transcribed by Medina) which makes the claim is a memorandum from a Dr. Arias to the King of Spain in 1621 requesting funds to convert the natives of the lands of Terra Australis; most of this document is taken up with the theoretical reasons why such a continent must exist (quoting the Bible to establish the necessity for a centre of gravity), and very little on the supposed discoveries of Juan Fernández which he considered verified his theories. MisterCDE (talk) 02:21, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some clarifications
Talk:Ejido

message: The introduction says  "After the Mexican Revolution, ejidos were created by the Mexican state to grant lands to peasant communities as a means to stem social unrest. The awarding of ejidos made peasants dependent on the government, with the creation of a bureaucracy to register and regulate them through the National Agrarian Registry (Registro Agrario Nacional)."  This seems to be speculation of the intent of the Mexican government as no source is provided. JustinGlen (talk) 20:32, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  biased phrasing? 

message: Ejidos still exist in Mexico! San Salvador Atenco is an example of one. The people of this ejido rioted in 2003 when the government tried to condemn their land for use as an airport. They rioted in 2006 over other government projects. Ejidos in Acaupulco are fighting against the building of a dam (Presa La Parota). This is a glaring inaccuracy. I don't know their full status so I won't make any edits to the article myself. glasperlenspiel 04:40, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ejidos still exist. 

message: I removed "This bank pays for the equipment and goods necessary for the upkeep of the land. In essence, the bank has only just replaced the encomendero; however, the community member who works on the land gets paid for his or her work."  I am reasonably sure that this is not correct.  In fact, Ejidatarios (Ejido members) debt problems due to Bank credit are well documented (see new links in article).  This article needs a lot of work, I hope that some people with more Mexican agriculture, politics or history knowledge than me can work on it.  Thank you, --LRG 05:40, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed erroneous text about National Bank
Talk:Animal echolocation

message: Should we not add humans to the list of organisms that can echolocate?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.11.187.161 (talk) 12:48, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: There seems to be both published research (PLOS) and popular press (AAAS Science Magazine) that should meet verifiability rules, so that would seem good to me. --Wesley R. Elsberry (talk) 21:03, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  The right way would be to add a short section, named and summarizing Human echolocation (an existing, cited article), with a few key refs from there and a  link, rather than creating a WP:FORK here. I guess, by the way, that we have here an example of the ambiguity of the term "animal" which has been discussed elsewhere. Chiswick Chap (talk) 21:19, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Homo sapiens

message: Molecular, anatomical & behavioral evidence for soft-furred tree mice using echolocation. 
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6548/eaay1513 Fitzhugh (talk) 18:29, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Soft-furred tree mice: more species to add? 

message: This section needs a substantial description of the ground-breaking research of Kenneth Roeder of Tufts University in the 1960s & 70s on noctuid moths, which, based on two bilateral pairs of neurons, can turn away from a distant echolocating bat, and when the sound gets intense, will stop flying and drop to the ground.  A classic study in neuroethology (I do not have time to go into the proper detail and Wikipedia formatting on this, unfortunately).  See for example https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.154.3756.1515 Dragonfly360 (talk) 02:30, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Addition to section "Avoidance by prey animals" 

message: The article's currently suffering from some over-citation in areas. Consider either WP:CITEONE or WP:CITEMERGE for solutions. -- Primium (talk) 04:29, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks. Removed several. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:00, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overcitation
Talk:Segfault (website)

message: I cannot believe that an article about Segfault fails to mention the role Segfault played in the trolling phenomenon. Most of the "classic" Slashdot trolls (e.g. Natilie Portman Nude and Petrified, Hot Grits) were first done on Segfault. In my humble opinion, the trolls really got their start on Segfault due to the complete lack of any mechanism to remove them (vs. Slashdot's moderation system), and only when Segfault blocked comments upon stories did the trolls, like fleas abandoning a dead rat, decend upon Slashdot. N0YKG 19:50, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Please go ahead and add what you know to the article. Fredrik | talk 19:54, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, done. Now, to let others polish it... N0YKG 20:21, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: "The troll community which had been well established on Segfault, having "killed their host", sought out a new host to "infect" - Slashdot." This article would be be better served with this line removed or at least significantly altered. Leaving it ruins the NPOV of the rest of the section. --68.148.103.30 07:11, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trolling and Segfault 
Talk:Doom 64

message: Article isn't very well written and contains POV. Added cleanup tag. Some guy 04:20, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup

message: FTA:
:gameplay elements were altered to increase the sense of fear evoked in the player, making Hell a much more frightening place.
Exactly what is this supposed to mean?  It reads like advertising copy. — Haeleth Talk 15:32, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Unclear

message: How strange. The storyline is seemingly all wrong for this game. In it, the heroic space marine encounters the monsters for the very first time. When I am able to, I will replay the first level in order to get a better understanding of the storyline. I hope I am not confusing this game with the equally entertaning DOOM for the SNES.
Lots42 17:37, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Never mind. It turns out that I was completely wrong about the storyline for the N64 Doom.Lots42 17:29, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Storyline Incorrect? 

message: Many of the other articles explain the differences between the Doom port and the original version.  This article points out that there are new enemies, and old ones are left out, but it doesn't mention nor explain why there is no multi player, especially on a system that can support up to 4 controllers.  I think it would add a lot to the article if someone could write it in and source it, but I couldn't find a source.  68.253.55.39 00:26, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: No Multiplayer

message: Too much self-confessed quoting from the Doom 64 manual. Lots42 10:21, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too Much 

message: There was a bit about some fandom community remaking Doom and how cool their efforts were. There was also original research about how, paraphrased, 'for the official game efforts were made to make it scary'. I removed both, the former is irrelevant, the latter is original research and quite obvious. Lots42 (talk) 15:33, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  My changes 

message: The current screenshot is from the Doom 64 TC for the Doomsday engine, which, in addition to not being the actual N64 game, is also notoriously obsolete among the playerbase. Failing an actual N64 shot, one from the much more faithful Doom64EX could do the trick. 89.92.27.39 (talk) 16:53, 13 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Will need better screenshot 
Talk:Ebon (Static Shock)

message: Is anything else known about the Evans' Family, apart from Ivan and Adam being brothers and that their father has passed away?
:Not that I know of. Jester35 21:57, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Family history 
Talk:Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site

message: *"Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Site," at one acre, perhaps should win an award for the smallest ratio of land compared to the length of it name.
*This is the only National Battlefield Site left in the country.  All others  with that designation (including the nearby and nearly identical Tupelo National Battlefield) have been renamed.  Why is this the only one? (Perhaps we will never know, but it is probably related to a lack of interest by Members of Congress in modern times in introducing any bill even remotely related to a site honoring Nathan Bedford Forrest.  Redesignating the site would take an act of Congress.)
By the way, the battle really is called "Brice's Crossroads" but the site "Brices Cross Roads." Again, I have no clue why.
— Eoghanacht talk 20:31, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Years ago, the federal gummint went to war against apostrophes in place names. That's why it's Stones River, Harpers Ferry, Sailors Creek, etc. Hal Jespersen 19:19, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yet there is "Wilson's Creek National Battlefield."  Also, it does not explain "Cross Roads" for "Crossroads." — Eoghanacht talk 17:11, 24 April 2006 (UTC)

text: And there's Devils Tower National Monument.  When we visited this site, the rangers told us that there's no apostrophe due to a typographical error back when the park was formed, which has stuck (one can imagine the same is true for Devils Postpile National Monument). Nationalparks 17:25, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: To risk getting even further off-topic... I heard that Charlotte Amalie (pronounced "Amalia") on St. Thomas, named after Charlotte Amelia of Hesse-Cassel, is spelt that way because of a typo by the U.S. Post Office shortly after acquiring the territory.  But my favorite is Clew Bay (see Talk:Clew Bay for the story). — Eoghanacht talk 17:40, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Trivia

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: Move. No objections after 9 days.  Cúchullain t/c 15:11, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The discussion above is closed.  Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 Done Battle of Brices Cross Roads. -Kj cheetham (talk) 17:57, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 15 August 2020