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Talk:Snodland

message: The History section seems messy to me, but I have no idea what to do with it....  24.215.177.116 02:20, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: This is a name so does not have to stick to the correct use of grammar. See Westward Ho!. The OS uses all three forms on its maps Pilgrim's Way, Pilgrims' Way and Pilgrims Way. In Snodland it shows as Pilgrims' Way on the 1/50 000 and Pilgrim's Way on the 1/25 000. As the name was only invented in 1871 by E.R.James- it can be conjectured that, its name has John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progess as its source, so should be singular.
Biblical language often uses the singular where today the plural is used. 'It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than a rich man to enter the kingdom of god'. And it has got to be said that this is the way a Pilgrim would approach Canterbury- rather than take the M25, A2, M2 and A2. It is not a case of possession. 
Common usage, uses both forms, though Pilgrim's Way predominates. And even published titles are changed from singular to plural in citings. The grubby fact is Chaucer's pilgrims used the A2 and the ancient trackway probably was never used by pilgrims!
Yes, the wikipedia article Pilgrims' Way probably needs to be renamed and the hypercorrections removed.
ClemRutter (talk) 20:11, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry; I think I misjudged the level of disagreement of sources, especially in the OS of all places. However, it does look to me that Pilgrims' is the more prevalent usage, cf. four of the six references on Pilgrims' Way, inluding Britannica, and more Google hits too. Both seem grammatically correct to me; one refers to the route of the abstract singular pilgrim and the other the route of multiple pilgrims. The Bunyan and Biblical considerations are moot since we don't conduct original research on Wikipedia. It seems sensible to keep what we see on the maps in specific places but Pilgrims' also seems a reasonable standard at least for the main article. I'll note the range of usages on that article. BigBlueFish (talk) 15:43, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Pilgrim's Way (sic)

message: Throughout the article Snodland is referred to as a "town". As a former local I've never known it to be called a town. When did this change? danno_uk 01:13, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The fact that the council identifies itself as a town council is probably the best pointer. And just generally, a population of over 10k is definitely more than a village.Le Deluge (talk) 19:29, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Town?
Talk:Double tonic

message: This seems like a very common pattern in Jazz (Killer Joe is the first to come to mind), especially the modal style from the 60's. Or am I not getting the concept? --Dan 02:24, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It appears to be a near universal pattern. I wouldn't know about jazz and modal jazz specifically. Hyacinth 03:39, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Jazz
Talk:Fractional Brownian motion

message: Feel free to leave me any messages, comments, remarks, objections. :)
sebastien 02:29, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Great start.  Wouldn't it be more accurate though to say that the increment process ($B^H_t - B^H_{t-1}$) has LRD though?  Anything to say on the subject of fractional Gaussian noise?  --Richard Clegg 01:08, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

message: I don't think Fractional brownian motion of order n needs to be a separate article. It seems to be based off of one paper (the one linked in the article) and could easily be merged into Fractional Brownian motion. Sarahj2107 (talk) 15:09, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Your merge looks good to me, thanks. --Mark viking (talk) 20:26, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[Fractional brownian motion of order n]] 

message: A citation was needed for the hypergeometric representation of fBm.
The following is appropriate:
L. DECREUSEFOND AND A. U¨ STUNEL, Stochastic analysis of the fractional Brownian
motion, Potential Analysis, 10 (1997), pp. 177–214.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.182.126.105 (talk) 15:20, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Method 2 simulation
Talk:Valencia, Santa Clarita, California

message: I've never heard of this guy, but it says he was a member of the SEAL team that killed Bin Laden. I thought none of their identities were public. Also, I ran a google search and don't see anything about this guy being a SEAL, other than what it says in this article. Should we scrub it?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.164.224.170 (talk) 01:48, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scott Scraper 

message: Hello:
I am the user who took the picture.  If you feel you can do better, go ahead and replace it on this page.
 
--Coolcaesar 07:55, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Go ahead... 

message: Of the schools listed, only College of the Canyons, California Institute of the Arts, and Valencia High School are located in Valencia. The other schools listed are part of other communities in the city of Santa Clarita, such as Newhall and Canyon Country. - Jmartinsson 00:49, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Schools 

message: The latter portion of the sentence below is extremely poorly written, and I'm unsure how it is actually supposed to read. It also has no citation so I'm not sure whether it is even true. Can someone confirm this info and clean up the sentence?
In 1987, it was one of the four unincorporated communities (along with Saugus, Newhall, and Canyon Country) that merged to create the city of Santa Clarita, California in addtion new master plan of Newhall Ranch, California will be join to Santa Clarita and promises over 21,000 homes 19,000 more jobs plus 7 elementry school,junior high ,High school and more.
--Kangabell (talk) 18:16, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sloppy sentence in intro 

message: "Valencia also has an extensive system of paved pathways with grade separations over and under the boulevards. The pathways are called paseos. These paseos connect the entire community together making it possible to travel around Valencia without having to cross streets at grade."
For someone outside of California, and outside the USA, this sentence is a meaningless load of old cobblers. Paved pathways? grade separations? under the boulevards? cross streets at grade?
To me this sounds like there are pedestrian walkways running underneath the streets which are different qualities and are on slopes and you can cross them without going on the slopes. It needs simplifying, clarifying and explaining. Chaosdruid (talk) 04:17, 10 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paseos 

message: Who is Michael Lee Rhodes? -- Vörös  yes?  17:49, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Please Let Michael Lee Rhodes Go Home Free From The Mountain" 
Talk:Characters of Bob and George

message: Bob and George's mom is such a minor character, why is she listed with the main ones? The characters 'Tango' and 'Rush' have appeared far more than her.
: Be bold! And now that you've mentioned it I'm not going to move it for you. Nifboy 04:03, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  It's now (as of several days ago) been moved. - Matthew0028 01:59, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Mom?

message: Do we have/need permission to use the descriptions directly from the Bob & George site? - Matthew0028 06:14, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe someone somewhere claimed to have permission, but the last time someone tried to kill the copyvio (me) it was reverted. I still think we need to start from scratch on the descriptions. Nifboy 17:49, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Which I have now done (as of a day or two ago). - Matthew0028 03:48, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: By Dave Anez...

message: Personally, I believe the Shadow Author is Liss. The hair, the pants/shoes-- the outlines are identical! Another suport for this theory is found in the RockMan universe story, when the Shadow Author explains to Bob the he(or she) shares The Author's power and has partial control of the strip. I think this warrents a "gender unknown" tag on the Shadow Author, at the very least. Maybe the automatic assumption that the Shadow Author is male is the reason I haven't seen anyone else suggest something like this.
B. 71.120.237.182 20:42, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shadowy Author 

message: some of the character profiles look like they were all made by someone with a bad grasp on the english language, and have parts that don't need to be in here, like references to stories that have long since been forgotten. I cleaned up the 'Bass' one, but I think that you guys should fix the rest. they all seem to be written by the same person because of the format, and they're easy to spot. 68.107.96.136 04:20, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  grammar are not of existing in some profiles of here
Talk:Neopets: The Darkest Faerie

message: Yeah, someone really needs to work on that, but it's not me. I don't own the game, but I've seen reviews giving it a 6/10 and it being criticised for huge amounts fo time being spent on wandering aimlessly, and that it's best nto to get into ANY battles. But I'm not gonna do it. I haven't played this game. And I pretty much came here in the first place to review the criticisms and ratings.
:One reason for the long paths between levels is a technical one:  it masks the obligatory loading sequences that must take place between different areas.  Other games like Star Fox Adventures, Metroid Prime, or Jak & Daxter, use this technique as well to provide a smoother experience for the player. --Stratadrake 06:29, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Ratings and criticisms?

message: Much of this article is nothing more than a loose collection of lists (a violation of WP:NOT).  I commented it all out (rather than just deleting it) so that we can review it and determine what elements are really needed in the article, and what other elements are merely cruft to be left for other sites like GameFAQs.  Anyone feel bold enough to start the reconstruction? --Stratadrake 06:42, 26 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needed:  Bold Rewrite 

message: Well, to help with the criticisms, how about a list of them compiled by player's experience and game reviews? I'm not a player of this game, though. Abby724 17:56, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticisms...
Talk:Aubrey de Grey

message: This is de Grey's idea, and it is probably not separately notable. WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:01, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I concur (as I noted on WT:MED.) The term seems to be de Grey's invention, and he seems to be just about the only one who uses it. The article's only citations are to de Grey's own publications. TenOfAllTrades(talk) 02:06, 8 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge of [[Xenocatabolism]] into [[Aubrey de Grey]] 

message: It may be the time-honoured tradition of Cambridge to award doctorates on the basis of a prior body of work, rather than requiring the usual supervised writing of an original thesis based upon novel independent research, but how does that differ from the behaviour of 'degree-mills' which award dubious qualifications on the basis of 'life experience'? 92.14.41.137 (talk) 08:56, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, universities are academic institutions, and "life experience" is not academic, but "novel independent research", if considered worthy of the award of a doctorate... IS academic, or at least is deemed of sufficient value TO academia. Seems fairly cut-and-dry.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.24.234.212 (talk) 00:20, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: That attitude makes you 'part of the problem'. The layman is not going to check whether the awarding 'university' is genuine, or merely a website and postal box-number. Even a university which actually exists may not in fact be accredited and cannot confer degrees, thus making it a de facto degree-mill. And who precisely, under these conditions, is evaluating the quality of the research? It is also obvious that this route is taken by those who are trying to foist a fringe concept on the general public. 78.145.10.148 (talk) 11:39, 20 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cambridge Doctorates
Talk:Aloysia Weber

message: the use of the familiar, Aloysia is inappropriate, and is contrary to WP:MOSBIO#Subsequent uses of names. 2) since the article is about aloysia, i don't think the reader would be at all confused by the reference.--emerson7 19:20, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, Michel, especially for finding the bit about "shared surnames".  In response to your comment, I've put back some "Aloysia"'s into the article, particularly where it seemed that this would help avoid ambiguity.  I'm hoping that editor Emerson7, who a few weeks ago changed a lot of "Aloysia"s into "Weber"s, will not object, now that it's clear that there is a policy that supports the use of the first name.  Yours truly, Opus33 (talk) 17:52, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  first name reference 

message: I'm putting this paragraph here for reference:  
Mozart himself moved to Vienna in 1781, and later that year was for a time a lodger in the Weber home. The father Fridolin had died in 1779, Aloysia had not left homeA-Wd, Tom. 73, fol. 353v. at the time of her marriage, and the mother Cäcilia and the remaining three sisters were taking in boarders to make ends meet. Mozart fell in love with the third daughter, Constanze. When the two married in 1782,New Grove online, "Mozart" 2007 Mozart became Aloysia's brother-in-law. Apparently there were no long-term hard feelings, as Mozart wrote a fair amount of music for Aloysia to sing, listed below.
Someone (Suessmayr?) added the archival reference falsifying the claim in the text, and the word "not".  This is fine, but maybe won't make much sense to readers.  In the article, I've simplified by saying nothing about where Aloysia was living at the time.  It doesn't really matter that much.  Opus33 (talk) 16:11, 22 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Where Aloysia Weber lived

message: This is utter nonsense.--62.47.148.16 (talk) 15:59, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: "where the father worked briefly as a ticket-taker"

message: This payment to Frau Weber was not part of the marriage contract. Before dabbling in a biography of Lange's second wife one should at least have read his autobiography.--Suessmayr (talk) 08:37, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Unfortunately this volume, like many of the works you cite, is not available to me.  Given that you have access to the book, might you please use it to add details/make further corrections?  Thanks, Opus33 (talk) 21:40, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Lange's payment to his mother in law
Talk:Big Hill

message: There is no CP 7527, suggest check image for correct number. Also, what is the name on the sign? This should be in the caption to enable locating the point (one mile before) where the picture was taken.
:RL, the sign says "Cathedral".  As for the loco number, this is what was reported to me by the photographer who took the cab ride.  I'll see what he says. Fawcett5 23:50, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I am wondering if this picture might be better suited for the Field Hill article since the photo was taken post-Spiral Tunnels. Al guy 03:39, Mar 21, 2005 (UTC)
Yes, since it is a newer photo (5727?) this might be a better choice. The real Big Hill was actually just the old switchback over the top. The Field Hill is the tunnel route, yet it gets referred to as "The Big Hill". Old names die hard, especially on the RR! 
R.L.Kennedy 17:51, 22 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: 2005 top post

message: You are mixing two factors here. This was the most diffficult section of railway line to OPERATE due to its extreme grade, as well as snow etc. Superior was the most difficult section of railway to ENGINEER, to actually construct. As for citation, see all the References given for this article. 
R.L.Kennedy 01:41, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Moved this post from top of page

message: When I saw this I thought of the famous Big Hill on the Chilcotin Highway, where the descent to Bella Coola is; and there's lots of others worldwide.Skookum1 06:29, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Needs disambig big-time

message: The author of the "It cannot be said that the railway ever conquered the mountains, only that the railway copes with the challenge and the mountains tolerate the railway"  sentence justifies its addition on the grounds that he/she is famous. This is specifically covered in WP:COS: a further, reliable source making this point is always required. Furthermore, the poetical personification style used doesn't seem encyclopedic and jars harshly with the factual tone of the rest of the piece. --Old Moonraker (talk) 07:58, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: No further objections: RV once more. --Old Moonraker (talk) 08:55, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editorialising 

message: Even after the introduction of modern locomotives with dynamic braking and continuous pneumatic brakes, accidents were not eliminated.
On a quick skim, the source abstract seems to say that a (probably) sleep-deprived engineer who wasn't properly trained in the conceptual model of that particular locomotive did something—against the grain of professional common sense—that the manuals should have explicitly disallowed, but didn't. This is the usual layer-cake of human error in these kinds of scenarios. 
What it boils down to is that a 2.2% descending grade is still dangerous if you don't operate your fancy equipment properly. 
— MaxEnt 16:31, 2 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Operatic tone
Category talk:Sexual urban legends

message: I would suggest all three of these phenomena be combined into one article and they all redirect to that article.  Perhaps Sexual urban legends should be created and this category deleted.
:I'm going to suggest something different: progesterex, penis captivus and vagina dentata are true urban legends that meet the UL criteria, and are notable enough for an article, in the same way as other well-known ULs. The others (donkey punch, Cleveland steamer etc.) are just apocryphal sexual practices that exist only as dirty jokes, and should all be merged into a single article that might actually be notable. We should be able to do all of this without needing afd (since nothing will be deleted, only merged and trimmed), and hopefully without feeding the "anti-censorship" trolls (ditto). -- The Anome 17:04, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Just noting that i removed this template, cos i think it was the wrong one. The description does not match the content:
"This category is used for administration of the Wikipedia project, and is not part of the encyclopedia. It contains pages which are not articles, or groups articles by status, rather than content."
This is for categories such as article status (GA/FA) or "needs n infobox". Is there a template for categories that do contain articles as part of the encylopedia, or is that assumed if no template?Yobmod (talk) 07:52, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikipedia category
Talk:Tim Wise

message: We should add some quotes by Mr. Wise to give passing readers an idea of his beliefs. ConstantineChase (talk) 23:10, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Which quotes would you like to see added? 47.4.30.23 (talk) 14:19, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quotes 

message: I would like a link or reference to Tim Wise's earlier books. If anyone has a link or even a way to buy early editions preferably. 2604:CB00:790:CA00:D020:4E85:E855:987B (talk) 00:44, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  His early written works, namely the first 3-4.cannot fway to read them. If anyone has a first edition copy please send the link..
Talk:Secret trial

message: Are recent changes made in the name of "NPOV" based on any actual information? --Wetman 03:52, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Hello?!  Wikipedia, anyone home?  How long has this substantive fact been missing from the article?  How long have we failed in the WP:Encyclopedia's mission to teach the public about limited government, and the rights that individuals are guaranteed under the law and constitution? And is the article here promoting a communist agenda for the US, or a fascist agenda?  Or since the article does not reflect the status quo of US jurisprudence, are we merely given warrant for current administrative policy at wikipedia?  I honestly don't know.  Given the uncertainty, I will choose neutrality and tag the article for dictatorial totalitarianism.   since i don't wish to waste my time edit warring with ignoramuses.  Someone else please ratify this contribution and add it to the encyclopedia.  
thanks, Jaredscribe (talk) 19:08, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Secret Trials Forbidden by 6th Ammendment.
Talk:King & Story, San Jose

message: Not a very transparent heading for the international English Wikipedia. --Wetman 03:55, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)

message: The intersection was always called "Story and King" as far as I know. I've never heard anybody say "King and Story", always "Story and King".
Neanderthalprimadonna 00:48, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Story and King
Talk:Iullus Antonius

message: Someone has added yet another child to Iullus children - is there any evidence for him? The only one I've ever know edited was Lucius Antonius. I only knew he had a daughter because of the source on Marcella's page. --82.34.129.154 23:07, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I've read somewhere that he was named Iullus after Julius Caesar; can anyone confirm or deny this?  Certainly I don't think it was a traditional Antonian praenomen, if it was even a proper praenomen at all. Binabik80 03:55, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Iullus is a form of Julius, but it's isn't Julius. It's said like Yullus, not Yulius. --80.193.32.171 14:45, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: So, was Iullus said like "Julius" or was it said like Iullus but without the "i", rather like U-llus? --Sophie-Lou 21:39, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In "Augustus" they said it like U-llus.--80.193.19.191 20:25, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  You mean Yullus? --Camblunt100 15:59, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  It's sort of said "You-luss" though some people say it with a "j" so it's Jew-luss. --82.34.129.62 16:54, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name
Talk:Henry Fok

message: communist Billionaire?  help me out , needs to be pointed out  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.38.155.134 (talk) 20:31, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  confused 

message: We list his birth name as 霍官泰, Fok Koon Tai, and have Henry Fok Ying Tung (no characters, but elsewhere 霍英东, see: https://sinopsis.cz/en/how-hong-kong-was-lost/). While changing one's name is not uncommon among Chinese of a certain age, we do not seem to identify when this change might have taken place, or why. DOR (HK) (talk) 17:44, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Chinese Name

message: 350 bullets found in his safe, four years after he died, SCMP. Onanoff (talk) 09:04, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bullets
Talk:Cex (musician)

message: Should we rellay be calling him Rjyan?  I went to college with this kid, and his legal name is NOT Rjyan, but Ryan. Alvis 04:01, 15 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: He has consistently referred to himself as Rjyan for many years now (see this idm-l post from early 1998).  I don't see why we shouldn't use his preferred name. Pimlottc 19:39, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

text: I agree with you, Pimlottc. Legal name or not, he is commonly referred to as Rjyan in press and personal correspondence, so that convention should be applied. It can noted, however, that his birth name is Ryan Kidwell. Which I shall do. Girolamo Savonarola 21:02, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It would be interesting to note if he has had his name legally changed to Rjyan.  Do you know if he has? Pimlottc 23:07, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

text: How dare you! --plz reply in my talkpage. Smooth Henry (talk) 19:13, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled