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Talk:Fisher Ames

message: I have removed certain unverifiable information from this article, including the statement that Ames "provided the wording for the First Amendment", and the following quote wrongly attributed to Ames:
:"Why... should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble. The reverence for the sacred book that is thus early impressed lasts long; and, probably, if not impressed in infancy, never takes firm hold of the mind."
I can find no reputable source attributing any such quote to Ames - it appears to have been written by someone else many years later, then retroactively attributed to Ames as a way to bolster claims that such language has something to do with the meaning of the First Amendment. By the tone and tenor of that quote, Ames may as well be attributed as having said "kids these days ought not be allowed to bring cell phones into the classroom, and should devote their time at home to their chores and studies, not Nintendo." Ames lived at a time before compulsory education, public schools, and governmental bodies that had any say in the books being used. Finally, the debate over the language of the First Amendment is so well documented as to eliminate any possibility that Ames played a role in its language, which was intended to capture the sentiment of state charters drawn up before Ames was born. bd2412 T 17:39, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Inaccurate information

message: I'm not sure Ames' work could have inspired Ben Franklin to write Poor Richard's Almanac, since Franklin's work was largely done with publishing after 1758, and Ames didn't start his publication until after 1774.  Perhaps Ames' almanac was "probably inspired by" Poor Richard's Almanac?
There is some controversy, fomented by advocates of the idea that the founders of the U.S. had intended, sub rosa, that there be an unofficial, official bias to Christianity, and others, to highlight Ames' role in the First Amendment over James Madison's.  Ames made the motion to accept the final language in the House committee working on that part of the Bill of Rights; it was not the final language, however, and Madison himself chaired the "conference committee" (did they call them conference committees then?).  A reliable history is available at the Legal Information Institute operated by Cornell's library:  http://www.law.cornell.edu/anncon/html/amdt1afrag1_user.html
69.152.107.91 12:55, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Striving for accuracy
Talk:Chris Simcox

message: Simcox writes, “Eleven miles of the Minuteman Border Fence in eleven months - that is how much of the United States the Minutemen have secured. That is eleven more miles of liberty!  But the work is far from finished.
“I’m not talking about a white-picket fence.
“I’m talking about an attack-repellant fence that makes it difficult for illegal crossers to climb with a ladder… Difficult to clip with wire cutters…  Difficult to tunnel under and difficult to ram with a vehicle… To stop illegals at the border.
“A double layered gauntlet of 14′ high anti-climb steel mesh, reinforced vehicle barriers and fiber optic sensors with cameras monitored by registered Minuteman volunteers 24 X 7.”
http://www.minutemanhq.com/bf/pl14.php
Actually, 11 miles have not been completed as you can clearly see in the photos taken just recently.
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All I can say is THANK GOD for Chris Simcox and the Minutemen!!! They are doing what our government won't!! I WISH I had more time and hundreds of thousands of dollars to give them because I would! They are the one thing that stands between our country and total invasion by a foreign nation.  
If it were up to ME there would be automatic radar operated high rate automatics mounted on pedestals out there in the desert. Good thing its not. 
THEY'RE HEROES!!!
STOP that link to that "SPLC" commie site which discredits the fine work the minutemen do with a load of BS!
How did they save over 100 lives? BTChicago 17:50, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I am not sure why every edit I made was wiped at once. I am giving the benefit of the doubt in saying that it was an accident, rather then jump to a conclusions that it was attempt to shield Chris Simcox for political reasons. 173.56.252.247 (talk) 21:43, 23 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  all edits wiped 
Talk:Fritz Lenz

message: This page already exists in the German Wikipedia Fritz Lenz article. Can it not be translated and Transwikied?  (aeropagitica)  17:53, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed. This is my own crap translation/adaptation of the German version. Paul B 21:20, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:UNICORE

message: the "German ministry for education and research (BMBF)" in the first paragraph should be linked to Federal Ministry for Education and Research (Germany).
(I cannot save the edited, as it says the page contains links and blocked by spam filter !)
-- Bact 17:54, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done --Boson 18:00, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Circus (1936 film)

message: I wonder how this boy Jim Patterson ended in a Soviet film. --Error 22:38, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Jim Patterson

message: The boy is Russian. There's already an article on him. Plinius Maior (talk) 19:42, 22 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: About Jim Patterson

message: Wrong person is linked to actor for Skameikin. I wonder how someone born in 1950 could appear in a 1936 film. 2607:F010:2A7:3016:ADA9:6B1A:CC1:EE81 (talk) 00:27, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aleksandr Komissarov
Talk:I Love to Singa

message: Subject. There are two links to the same video on youtube.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.2.101.108 (talk) 21:40, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two links to the youtube video 

message: I don't believe Owl Jolson was voiced by Tommy Bond. This piece of likely misinformation has been passed around the internet, including IMDb; but I don't think it has come from any published source. I think someone noticed that Owl Jolson's bad singing resembled Tommy Bond's performance of "Friends, Lovers No More" in the Little Rascals short, "Mush and Milk" (1933) and made a false assumption. Owl Jolson's bad singing may resemble (slightly) Tommy Bond's bad singing. But Owl's good singing and his speaking voice sound nothing at all like Tommy Bond. I don't think Bond did any of the singing or speaking for this character.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by JustinSpurlin (talk • contribs) 07:22, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tommy Bond as Owl Jolson? 

message: The section titled "Censorship" is clearly not censorship. Maybe it could be re-titled "Edited Version" or something of the like?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.58.27.73 (talk • contribs) 16:38, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Done, this does not appear to have been censorship; I can't find anything obviously offensive in the cartoon to a modern audience. The same cannot be said of the Censored Eleven and others, which have run into political correctness issues with a modern audience.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 18:19, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Censorship?
Talk:Mickey's Polo Team

message: Did the entertainers endorse their appearances? --Abdull (talk) 23:40, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Endorsement 
Talk:No Limit (1935 film)

message: The film was originally released on October 28, 1935 in the UK. Please refer to the imdb release date link Perhaps, we should change the date to suit this? IndulgentReader (talk) 01:38, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The movie No Limit was filmed during the 1935 Isle of Man TT races and even by today's standards, four months between post-production and release date in October 1935 is a very short time. The recent DVD re-release of No Limit gives a date of 1936.  The date 23 March 1936 is for preview of the film No Limit in the Isle of Man before general release(????) Agljones (talk) 15:48, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change Date of Film 

message: ISTR No Limit is traditionally always shown during the TT races. Is the scene where GF blacks up still shown? I'd have thought it would cause a few intakes of breath nowadays! 143.159.157.194 (talk) 12:01, 16 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blacking up scene?
Talk:Song of Freedom

message: :Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *Support or *Oppose, then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.
*Support in general I feel that, if the option is available, it is better to not have a qualifier in the title of a page as it makes searching, linking and working with lists or categories easier. In this specific instance the only question to think about is whether there is a song out there with this title that might get a future page here and to keep an eye out for for it (which can always get the qualifier (song) in its title I guess) if it gets created. MarnetteD | Talk 21:13, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: I have deleted the link to the illicit hosting of this British film on Internet Archive. Original story co-writer Dorothy Holloway did not die until 1972, so UK copyright subsists until the end of 2042. As a non-US film still under copyright in its country of origin on 1 January 1996, it is protected in the US for 95 years after publication, so to the end of 2031. Nick Cooper (talk) 12:00, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright status
Talk:Heads or Tails (1937 film)

message: :Image:Aguila o sol screenshot.PNG is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in Wikipedia articles constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale.
If there is other other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page.  Note that any fair use images uploaded after 4 May, 2006, and lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.Betacommand (talk • contribs • Bot) 02:36, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Aguila o sol screenshot.PNG
Talk:The CooCoo Nut Grove

message: Where does a caricature of Jean Harlow appear in this cartoon?  Jtyroler (talk) 03:40, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jean Harlow 

message: IMDB mentions Lupe Vélez and I think I spotted her across from Tarzan (Johnny Weissmuller), to whom she was married at the time.  But in the DVD box set (Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Vol 3, disk 2), in the audio commentary by Michael Barrier, he says this is Maureen O'Sullivan, who played Jane opposite Tarzan in the contemporary series of films.   Not having much else to go on: In the cartoon she is depicted with a darker skin tone (darker than Weissmuller in make-up at any rate), and very prominent teeth.  Still images of O'Sullivan from the films seem to show her skin as much lighter than Tarzan's, which would also seem to fit the plots.  The teeth seem inconclusive, judging from other still images, and the then very popular hairstyle even less so.  Which woman is it in the cartoon?   Jxh (talk) 05:35, 26 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lupe Vélez, or Maureen O'Sullivan? 

message: The plot doesn't really talk about the plot, but the cast. NightFall60 (talk) 13:47, 16 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Plot
Talk:The Edge of the World

message: *  ... plot synopsis, review, cast, production credits, awards
Reference available for citing in the article body. Erik (talk) 20:11, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Allmovie 
Talk:The Hurricane (1937 film)

message: Saw this film on 6-21-11 (TCM) and was very impressed with the realistic effects -- water and wind!   Some mention of this work should be made, since the acting would shame a palm tree.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.15.175.9 (talk) 23:01, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Special Effects
Talk:Night Must Fall

message: "The 1937 film of the play tells the story of an elderly woman in remote County Essex, England, who hires a young man to work in her home, despite her niece's increasing concerns that he may be a local murderer. Featuring a very scary hatbox. Chilling when performed properly. The film starred Robert Montgomery, Rosalind Russell and Dame May Whitty."
The italicized part makes no sense and I'm removing it. Kennard2 04:26, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Huh? 

message: Why does Dan rate a whole section to himself?  Is this POV or isn't this article finished?
4.249.3.117 (talk) 22:44, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Huh?? 

message: The obituary of director Herbert Kenwith in The Los Angeles Times states: "The first theatrical play he produced and directed was “Night Must Fall” starring Dame May Whitty."
However, Kenwith would have been barely 18 years old at the time of the 1935 London production with Whitty. The New York-based production followed only a year later, and the film was 1937. (Contrast this with him being "Broadway's youngest producer" more than a decade later in 1948.) It seems unlikely he would have been involved in leading these pre-WWII stagings.
Accordingly, I have not included this fact in the article pending further confirmation. Woodshed (talk) 16:51, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Herbert Kenwith
Talk:Porky's Duck Hunt

message: Thats not censorship, its editing and not terribly noteworthy. The goof doesn't make much sense and is worded poorly. Basically deleting everything after the Table of Contents, as all the real content is in the opening. 69.17.155.35 23:47, 14 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The section on later edits keeps being renamed to "Censorship". However, censorship is defined as:
censorship (noun): The use of state or group power to control freedom of expression, such as passing laws to prevent media from being published or propagated.
The relevant section of the article (at present) states that "The redrawn version of this cartoon (which was shown on Nickelodeon and in some syndicated networks) removed the video portion of "That's All Folks" end card where Daffy jumps and dances around the letters (the audio still plays)", which is clearly not actual censorship, but edits made for a different reason entirely. Xmoogle (talk) 02:47, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section on later edits should not be named "censorship"
Talk:John N. Warfield

message: This page seems to violate the Neutral point of view guideline, seeming a bit like promotional material.  I'd like to see more details and fewer laudatory comments.  I'd also like to see pages that detail out the many undefined terms.
RichMorin 18:15, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutral point of view 

message: Due to possible violation of copyright, see WP:Copyvio, I have removed the worksection of this article for now. 
I apologize for all inconvenience I have caused here, see also here. If you would like to assist in improving this article, please let me know. I can use all the help I can get. Thank you.
-- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 10:43, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Worksection removed 
Talk:East Somerset Railway

message: The Locomotives section is beginning to look like an advert for upcoming events, which is not what Wikipedia is about.  May I suggest that this section only list locos in the railway's permanent collection, and then add a note to the bottom saying that "The railway often plays host to visiting steam and diesel engines, details of which can be found on their website"... or something similar.  David Bailey (talk) 08:51, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Visiting locomotives 

message: I think this page is getting rather cramped, and the text doesn't flow nicely around the photos when viewed on a larger monitor.  I'd like to suggest that we add a gallery to this page a group all the pics together there... leaving one nice photo at the top of the page.  Comments?  David Bailey (talk) 18:48, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I would have suggested a gallery section myself. Kevin Steinhardt (talk) 19:18, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too many photos? 

message: The style of writing in the article is rather confusing, especially the section relating to a "past telephone box". There is reference to a fund raising exercise in 2006 which "will" achieve certain objectives. That's six years ago. Did it? Didn't it? Or is it still a plan?  There's a lot of this present tense stuff; editing that for example, 'The railway hosts several events throughout the year "Spring into steam", "Mendip steam dream" etc' is dangerous. When was that written? Is it still true in 2013? Afterbrunel (talk) 18:37, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Prose style

message: A banner has been added to this article for the sections "Operational steam locomotives" & "Steam locomotives under overhaul" saying "This section does not cite any sources." Can anyone help add any citations otherwise they risk being removed?— Rod talk 08:59, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: As there have been no responses to this request perhaps all of the "Locomotives" section should be removed - although this would be a real shame.— Rod talk 20:46, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources for locomotives
Talk:A Christmas Carol (1938 film)

message: The screenplay of the 1938 and subsequent versions of the story do not alter the arrival of the ghosts.
While Marley's ghost tells Scrooge he will be visiting on consecutive nights by the three ghosts, Dickens has all three visit Scrooge in one night.  In the text: 
"What's to-day, my fine fellow?" said Scrooge.
"To-day!" replied the boy. "Why, Christmas Day."
"It's Christmas Day!" said Scrooge to himself. "I haven't missed it. The Spirits have done it all in one night. They can do anything they like. Of course they can. Of course they can.
See Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol The Original Manuscript, 2009. https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/30368, p.62. West32 (talk) 15:49, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arrival of the ghosts
Talk:The Divorce of Lady X

message: The following might be more accurate:
Leslie Steele (Merle Oberon), a guest at a costume party is forced to stay overnight in a London hotel because of bad weather. As there are no rooms left, the hotel tries to get guests to accept stranded partygoers in their rooms. Everard Logan (Laurence Olivier), a handsome but somewhat stiff lawyer, refuses to share his suite but Leslie slips in. They spend the night together, quite chastely, but Logan becomes convinced that Leslie, who will not give her name, must be married. His conviction is confirmed when Lord Mere (Ralph Richardson) arrives at his office and asks Everard to represent him in a divorce case against his wife, the notorious Lady Mere (Binnie Barnes), who was at the party and spent the night in somebody’s room at the hotel.
The Lawless One (talk) 22:26, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot Summary 

message: I have deleted the link to the illicit hosting of this British film on Internet Archive. Scenario writer Ian Dalrymple did not die until 1989, so UK copyright subsists until the end of 2059. As a non-US film still under copyright in its country of origin on 1 January 1996, it is protected in the US for 95 years after publication, so to the end of 2033. Nick Cooper (talk) 18:41, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright status
Talk:The Goldwyn Follies

message: :The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the debate was move. -- tariqabjotu 19:32, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested Move

message: Add "* Support" or "* Oppose" followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your opinion with ~~~~
*Support per nom. --Usgnus 00:35, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey
Talk:South Devon Railway (heritage railway)

message: The old South Devon Railway page is causing confusion. If you check What links here, you will notice that, apart from lots of pages using the British heritage railways template, the majority of the links are expecting to find a page about the historical South Devon Railway Company - the one built by Brunel from Exeter to Plymouth back in the 1840s. The name South Devon Railway only came to be used by the heritage line to Buckfastleigh in 1991.
I therefore support the move to merge that page into this South Devon Railway Trust page, this will allow a disambiguation of the two very different railways.Geof Sheppard 07:17, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

message: Is this sufficiently notable to warrant an "Incidents" section? Child almost falls through floor of moving train in Devon (BBC). No one injured but RAIB and ORR investigations in progress...  Robevans123 (talk) 16:26, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Notable incident?
Talk:If I Were King

message: I think it is unnecessary to have Sidney's Toler's name in bold where it appears for the second time.  The first time his name is in the Cast list, the second time in the Notes about the cast.  The reason for my ojection is that it the bold makes it stand out as important in some way, but the only importance is to be that it occurs for the second time.  One would expect members of the Cast list to appear in the Notes anyway, therefor not necessary to highlight it. 
Arising from this, I suggest that the two sections could be incorporated together so the notes, which are not lengthy, follow on within the Cast list. My undoing of the bold was not blind, because I saw Sidney Toler's name was there before, and it was a considered revision.
I hope good reason, and if not, common practice will prevail.
My only reason for looking at this page is that my sister is Henry Wilcoxon's niece (she saw him the the USA before he died) and I was looking at the films he'd been in, and I put in some screenshots of him.
I have every respect for the principal editor of this page, who has done a good job on this one and maybe a few others - know it's painstaking work.P0mbal (talk) 00:19, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The reason for the bold on Toler's name is because he is the subject of the item in the cast notes section, and the bold makes that more obvious to the reader.  It's a common device, used almost universally, to bold the name of the subject in a short squib such as that.My concern, as always, is for the quality of the presentation to the reader, whom we are here to serve.Thanks for your kind remarks, I appreciate them. Ed Fitzgerald t / c 03:24, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sidney Toler's name in bold
Talk:Merrily We Live

message: The entire article needs to be erased and rewritten from top to bottom, namely to remove original research, peacock terms, typos and just plain bad writing. Lots42 (talk) 08:39, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove and rewrite 

message: The second paragraph of the lead contained questionable information that was unsourced, and other wording that was directly contradicted by the specified sources. I took a stab at rewording it.--Larry/Traveling_Man (talk) 02:56, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Unsubstatiated claims, and claims contradicted by sources