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Talk:Venus Anadyomene

message: hello, I just have a general observation and question about the iconography of the Venus on the half shell. Has anyone examined the correlation between this iconography of Venus on the half shell and the celestial sky? Often times when I look up at the sky and see the planet Venus sitting above the crescent moon that looks like a bowl or a sea shell and I'm reminded of this Iconography.
I see mention in these articles that the sea shell is a symbol of the vulva. That makes sense, but I'm wondering if there could also be a direct celestial reference to this symbolism. Could the half shell be a representation of the crescent moon? Also is there any traditional ceremonial significance in ancient religious traditions to times when a crescent moon is lying under the planet Venus? Or does anyone out there know who I should ask or where I could look to find out more about this? 
thanks for any info, thoughts etc.
Duncansylvester 19:50, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: thats fine - maybe you get a useful answer, maybe not. Avoid leading a line with a blank space though. Johnbod 19:55, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: The three paintings by Titian, Bouguereau, and Cabanel are in a gallery. I don't think we need a gallery for just three images. If no one objects, I will change them back to thumbnails. Lt. Waaxe 18:41, 30 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Why Gallery?

message: Hello all,
above the three paintings there is a caption stating that these are examples of the motif from the renaissance. This is certainly not the case with two of them. I suggest changing the caption to "Other examples of the motif Venus Anadyomene in art". Aurochs77 (talk) 08:46, 29 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Examples from "the renaissance"?
Talk:Yucca Mountain Johnny

message: I really don't see why this and Eddie Eagle are linked to each other. "both are mascots that have been criticized as pushing a "politically charged" message at children; if anyone still disagrees, we can discuss it on the "talk" page". Here's the discussion - I removed them about a month ago, and they just showed up again. I think the link is super weak. If anything, make a category for it and throw in Joe Camel for good measure - but I don't see how it would qualify as a "see also." — RevRagnarok Talk Contrib 18:21, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crosslinks 
Talk:Magdeburg Centuries

message: I changed the translation of the title around a bit as it had some grammatical flaws in it. Feedback would be nice.--Frenchman113  on wheels! 19:45, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New translation 

message: Sentences like "...it is the basis of all modern church history" and "It is said that Baronius undertook his Annales Ecclesiastici purely to oppose the Magdeburg Centuriators" have NPOV problem. The use of words like "all" and "purely" may be overweighted. Majority of references are from a single source may be a problem.
ppa (talk) 08:47, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I found this claim in the book form of a Ph.D. dissertation on a topic of church history. What you see on the page is what was in the source. If the claim was spurious, it would have been removed from the dissertation, as it was earned at one of the large government universities in France. The Centuries was the first treatment of church history written in modern historical-critical fashion that used diverse sources and pitted things against each other to attempt to arrive at what really happened. The church history books we have today derive from modern historical critical tools & owe this foundation to the Centuries.--Epiphyllumlover (talk) 22:18, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Even the claims are from a reputable authoritative source, this just just an opinion of the source. We should avoid stating opinions as facts. Rather than stating directly in Wikipedia's voice, it should state as someone's opinions. And loaded words and judgemental language like 'all' and 'purely' should be avoided as well. 6 out of the 10 references are from a single source may also post some possible neutrality problems. You can have a look of WP:YESPOV.ppa (talk) 20:39, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality 

message: I've removed an old neutrality tag from this page that appears to have no active discussion per the instructions at Template:POV:
::This template is not meant to be a permanent resident on any article. Remove this template whenever:
::#There is consensus on the talkpage or the NPOV Noticeboard that the issue has been resolved
::#It is not clear what the neutrality issue is, and no satisfactory explanation has been given
::#In the absence of any discussion, or if the discussion has become dormant.
Since there's no evidence of ongoing discussion, I'm removing the tag for now. If discussion is continuing and I've failed to see it, however, please feel free to restore the template and continue to address the issues. Thanks to everybody working on this one! -- Khazar2 (talk) 12:03, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  removing POV tag with no active discussion per [[Template:POV]]
Talk:Anichkov Bridge

message: The Bridge is jokingly called "The Bridge of Eighteen Balls" by some in St. Petersburg. The reason being that even though there are 4 horses X 4 male tamers totalling 16 balls (aka...testicles) the addition of two balls comes from the fact that a policeman was and still is often present to guard the sculptures from vandalism.
I will readd it...sans thw word testicles. If you have issue with this perhaps only the wording needs to be edited but these are the interesting portions of life which SHOULD NOT BE SIMPLY DELETED AND CENSORED because you disagree with the term.
20seven 17:03, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I appologize for appearing rude. My revert comment was "revert unsourced profanity" with the accent on the unsourced part. I myself just came back from St. Petersburg, and actually I was born and grew up there, and I never heard this name, so it looked to me like a made-up story. I own a book called "Cult St. Petersburg" with a lot of nicknames and folk stories about different places in St. Petersburg, but the story above is not there. Of course - it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. If you have a source for it - then by all means - it should become part of the article, I agree that folklore enriches it (I actually added couple of such stories to other bridges). But without proper souricing it looks too suspicious as being made up. Hopefully, I explained my position - please accept my appologies again. Wikiolap 18:49, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Wikiolap - Ok you have brought a smile to my face with your response.  I apologize for being perhaps a little to judgmental...esp. from someone who had lived there.  I understand Wiki's need to reference items and alas I can not provide a written source as the info provided was verbal.  I only know that it burned an everlasting memory of that bridge into my head and my Father got a big kick out of that nickname.  I had planned to paint the bridge for him as a token of my appreciation for taking me to see Russia; especially St. Petersburg which had a tremendous positive impression on me artistically and culturally (I had already painted one scene from the city, see http://www.urbanimpressionist.com/m-stpete.html).  You grew up in a beautiful place, I'm glad to see that it was being revitalized.  My apologies as well and I respect you for building on the knowledge of the city.  At this point I will leave the decision to include or exclude that unreferenced trivia to you.  Cheers.  20seven 22:20, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Trivia

message: The photos of the four horse-tamers are incorrect. The first two are of the same statue, while one of the statues (the one on the north-west corner of the bridge) is missing. Intelligent Mr Toad (talk) 07:16, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks. Do you think the horse-tamers deserve their own article? Intelligent Mr Toad (talk) 06:42, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Do they have a separate article at the Russian Wikipedia? Intelligent Mr Toad (talk) 09:53, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Incorrect photos
Talk:The Old Vic

message: The section Wartime exile states (my emphasis):
What "New Theatre" is this? Presumably it's not the New London Theatre, as this only opened in '73, but there's no reference to a "New Theatre" elsewhere in this article to help explain things. Anyone know what's going on? Casper Gutman (talk • contributions) 21:23, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. Thanks for pointing this out. --Old Moonraker (talk) 21:41, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The New Theatre? 

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 policy on article titles.
*Oppose. The addition of the definite article is unnecessary. I think most people would write "the Old Vic", not "The Old Vic". -- Necrothesp (talk) 22:33, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: *See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (definite and indefinite articles at beginning of name)#Rule of thumb. Would "The" be commonly capitalised in running text (i.e. would you write "I went to The Old Vic")? I would suggest it would not be and that most people would actually write "I went to the Old Vic". Note that we do not necessarily use official names on Wikipedia, but common names. -- Necrothesp (talk) 18:25, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: Currently, Feb. 20, 2012, the article says, "The Old Vic Company was established in 1929...in 1963, The Old Vic Company was dissolved...In 2000, the production company Criterion Productions was renamed Old Vic Productions, plc...In 2003, actor Kevin Spacey was appointed as new artistic director of the Old Vic Theatre Company", but there is no Old Vic Theatre Company. This is confusing. Where did the company Kevin Spacy is director of come from?!?  Nick Beeson (talk) 12:23, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Old Vic Theatre Company
Talk:Chef Aid

message: I think this paragraph should be removed because it seems a little unnecessary. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 58.165.178.31 (talk • contribs).
:Check the other episode pages.  For the first several seasons of South Park, Kenny dying was a staple of every episode.  To me it seems notable that it is mentioned. Mikya 01:35, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree - if it were up to me, I'd have all the Kenny's death things removed. Put it this way, I can't be bothered to argue it out, but if someone removed it, I would not put it back. ≈ The Haunted Angel 21:03, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've been removing them, they're simply a plot point given it's own little section and expanded beyond what is needed for the article. It's supposed to be enough to let the reader understand, not a repetition of the entire script.Alastairward (talk) 10:56, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Kenny's Death

message: I just watched the episode, and have decided to remove the following text from the article:
Although Kenny gets killed by Ozzy Osbourne, he appears alive beside Cartman when Elton John is singing the song Stan wrote for Wendy.
As for Kenny's death, I think that's an integral part of each South Park episode, but should not receive its own header. Perhaps a template for each episode? Mitch 02:01, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: he only did it once♠♦Д narchistPig♥♣ (talk) 02:50, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Kenny's Death and other deleted nonsense

message: That record exec keeps flips his hair and screaming "I am abouve the law". It sounds like a germna accent but i cant place it♠♦Д narchistPig♥♣ (talk) 02:50, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hitler? 

message: The redirect for Chewbacca Defence uses two different spellings of "defense". Its quite humourous :) -- Henriok (talk) 17:24, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Defence defense
Talk:Castrovalva (M. C. Escher)

message: There's no mention about the fact that Castrovalva is an actual place in Abruzzo (Italy). 
(Yes, there is when I looked at the page) 
There's a note somewhere saying that the perspective of this painting is self-contradictory. I don't understand how. This page could use somebody's explanation of this with, of course, a side diagram pointing out the perspective lines. Sobolewski 16:09, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Edible frog

message: The corresponding German article says that there are, in fact, pure edible frog populations, and that they are the norm in many areas. It goes on to say that some edible frogs are triploid, having a complete set of chromosomes of one parent species and half a set of the other. And that these special triploid edible frogs, and not pure parent species animals (which are much rarer anyway) are the key individuals in procreation. If that (sourced) info is correct, this article is plain wrong and needs to be fixed. -- 92.229.143.190 (talk) 01:01, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Pelophylax esculentus genetics/reproduction is weird (hence the denotation as a klepton, which is more than just a fertile hybrid). IIRC, there is also more than one cytotype. We need a summary based on the primary literature. Lavateraguy (talk) 18:33, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradictions with German Wikipedia article 

message: I don't see anything about Pelophylax esculentus either in the Amphibian Species of the World Online Reference or in the Frost et al. paper cited. Could this be confusion with Pyxicephalus edulis? Nadiatalent (talk) 19:13, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Wrong citations?

message: Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that :File:Rana esculenta on Nymphaea edit.JPG will be appearing as picture of the day on July 9, 2015. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2015-07-09. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. Thanks! — Chris Woodrich (talk) 23:35, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:File:Rana esculenta on Nymphaea edit.JPG]] to appear as POTD
Talk:Boranes

message: Righty - a minor edit - have just changed deltahedral to polyhedral, which now corresponds with the relevent article. I believe the terms are synonymous
Stui 12:49, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  untitled 

message: Having just rewritten the Wades rule article I was surprised how sparse the coverage of boranes is. Thinking about it I agree with the above idea of this becoming a family page. There are too many boranes to warrant a compound article each, but there should be some coverage of them as a class with specific articles for the key compounds (which are there already). I would be happy to make  a stab at enhancing it to become an over view of the main topics in borane chemistry including naming IUPAC, deltahedral structures, link to Wades rules, general chemistry, reactivity trends, isomerisation  etc. Individual key compound articles could then have a 'see also' link back to it. Let me know! Axiosaurus 21:17, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Borane chemistry

message: boranes want to know the structure of B3H8  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.252.229.51 (talk) 15:17, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure B3H8 exists as such.  B3H7 certainly does, but adding another hydride you'd get an octahydrotriborate anion (which is a well-known species). Google for "B3H8" or "NaB3H8" (a simple salt of it) and you'll get lots of papers with various information and images of the structure. DMacks (talk) 15:41, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  boranes want to know the structure of B3H8 

message: Borane zip fuels were abandoned by the Air Force not because of the ICBM-redundency issue, but because combustion of borane zip fuels caused corrosive boron deposits in the engine turbines and created a thick black smoke that drew attention to the presence of the aircraft.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cransona (talk • contribs) 21:09, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zip Fuels 
Talk:Tümer Metin

message: Someone exaggerated the article in many ways, especially in statistics. It was written that Tümer scored about 200 goals in his career which is a total lie. Anyone who ask about real statistics should look up to this website: http://www.turkfutbolu.net/ (Scragnothh (talk) 17:17, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Exaggeration in Article

message: I deleted the line "Tümer is also known for his amazing goal against Greece in Athens (Qualifying match Euro 2008) where he scored his goal from out the 36 meters in the top corner of the goal by first taking out 4 defenders, the match ended 1-4 for Turkey." because of over exaggeration. He passed two players and shooted the ball into the middle of the goal, onto the Greece goalie Nikopolidis, and it became goal by the big error of Nikopolidis. It is a good goal but however, not as sensational as it described. Scragnothh (talk) 17:17, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Goal against Greece
Talk:Trademark Official Gazette

message: There may, ironically, be a copyright violation with this page.  It appears that most of the content came from officialgazette.org, cited at the bottom of the article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thunderrabbit (talk • contribs) 
:It would only be ironic if the article had something to do with copyrights, to which trademarks are a separate beast. Aboutmovies (talk) 10:17, 7 December 2009 (UTC)
Talk:Buddhism in Austria

message: * Heinrich Harrer
Doesn't Heinrich Harrer deserve mentioning? I know little about the subject so I daren't write anything myself, but he is probably one of the more famous Austrians to have anything to do with Buddhism, especially with the success of the Hollywood film "Seven Years in Tibet".
PURPLEFISH 13:00, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Sonicblue Airways

message: Despite the fact it is listed on their website, and they have photos of one, Sonicblue Airways doesn't actually have a Beechcraft King Air. 
Quoted from the Toronto Star newspaper article on their fatal air crash. "But this was a short vacation and the 45-minute plane ride would save time. Before they left Toronto, Curtis had scanned the website of the airline that was to fly them from Vancouver to Tofino. Sonicblue Airways showed a twin-engine Beechcraft King Air. "It has two engines," Curtis thought. "We'll be okay." Company pilots later said they joked about the photo because although the airline listed the King Air as part of its fleet, Sonicblue didn't actually own one."
Instead of just quoting the largely untrustworthy Toronto Star as the source for this article, it might be worthwhile to do some investigation.  Sonicblue/IEA is currently in a law suit with the AG and Transport Canada regarding revocation of their license.  The accident was widely acknowledged to be a manufacturer issue, not maintenance or lack thereof.  There were other accidents with the same type of aircraft and the cause was the same for each one.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.157.171.14 (talk) 22:36, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Beechcraft King Air
Talk:Mady Rahl

message: The biography is from the German Wikipedia, the filmography from the IMDb. <KF> 13:09, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. Please feel free to put any comments or questions on my talk page. Thanks. -- GDon4t0 (talk to me...) 14:28, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 
Talk:Powell Clayton

message: Moved from the article until it can be expanded. Appears to show him in military uniform. Megapixie 13:13, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parked photograph(s) 

message: I'm working on the text below, it was copied from else where but I'm trying to format it to be more just about Clayton --The_stuart (talk) 03:31, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  working on text 
Talk:Singampunari

message: I assume "Town city" is a translation that doesn't read comfortably in English.
See List of Districts. There it lists Sivaganga as the District Headquaters of Sivaganga District. So what is Singampunari? Dweller 13:17, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

message: The percentage figures of male and female literacy mentioned in the template and on the body of the text are incompatible. This is an anomaly indeed. 68.194.119.231 (talk) 01:39, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Literacy figures data (incompatibility) : 

message: Singampunari town is a taluk (headquarters) in Sivaganga district. 68.194.119.231 (talk) 01:51, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Answer to Dweller's query :
Talk:Weston High School (Massachusetts)

message: MUSIC AND THEATER SECTION DOES NOT CITE  ************** ANY ***************** SOURCES!!!!!!!!!!! HOW DO WE KNOW WE ARE NOT JUST MAKING ALL THIS STUFF UP??????  ORIGINAL RESEARCH MUCH???? URGENT MOVE TO DELETE SECTION.    —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.96.145.141 (talk) 04:46, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I suggest that this article be moved to Weston High School (Weston, Massachusetts) --Eastmain 01:54, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed move to [[Weston High School (Weston, Massachusetts)]]  

message: Is Chester & the other boy even on the dance team? I wouldn't put it past him to join, but I don't think they're allstar dancers. The only boy I know that was on the team was Alejandro Lazo, but he was pretty much an "honorary member". --Yunaresuka 21:46, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Dance Team

message: The vast majority of this article was unencyclopedic and NN, so I blanked all but the intro.Poshua 19:32, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Blanking
Talk:Brought to Light

message: The articles Brought to Light and Brought to Light (graphic novel) appear to be about the same subject.
support as nominator.  for obvious reasons. ~CS 04:24, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge Discussion
Talk:The Hasheesh Eater

message: Hasheesh is an Arabic word that, in English, essentially means drugs; yet there is no mention of the origin. Can someone find a place to put that little tidbit of information?--68.0.133.212 04:15, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Comes from the midle east mercenary order "The Hashesheen",who drugged themselves,aparently.Their name is also the source for the word "assasin". 93.185.50.19 (talk) 20:27, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The word Hasheesh
Talk:Deutsch limit

message: Anybody can show me the proof of this theory/idea/comment? JiggySoo
: No, because it's not a scientific fact (AFAIK). I created the stub because I found a reference for the term in an article about Computer Science history, and it was not easy to google for it. Diego 19:58, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proof 

message: The sources use "Deutsch Limit" as the proper capitalization, but User:Dicklyon moved it to the current title. I can't find anything in policy justifying that move, should we restore it to the original title that matches the available sources? Diego (talk) 16:28, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Compare WP:CAPS, MOS:CAPS, and sources like this one and this one and this one.  Dicklyon (talk) 00:39, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalization 

message: "Functions should be short and sweet, and do just one thing. They should fit on one or
two screenfuls of text (the ISO/ANSI screen size is 80×24, as we all know), and do one
thing and do that well." is from the Linux Kernel Coding Style document. 2605:A601:46D:B01:CABC:C8FF:FEA5:82F4 (talk) 08:44, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Linus Torvalds on when functions get too big 