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Talk:The History of The Lord of the Rings

message: Brendan Moody's edits of 22 January have pretty much eviscerated the description of the books' content, under the ridiculous assertion of "POV". POV does not apply to factual descriptions of the content. Unless I'm convinced otherwise very soon, I'm going to revert these deletions. Stan 18:12, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I've just readded some parts of the deleted material that are encyclopedic, and possibly more must be preserved. Also, I've expanded the paragraphs on volume titles so as to escape redundant disambiguation pages: The War of the Ring, The Treason of Isengard. These together with The End of the Third Age now redirect here. Súrendil 18:54, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discarded titles 

message: This article should either be expanded to discuss the contents of each volume in more detail, or this article should be split and each volume receive its own article, as all other volumes in the series (with the exception of Volumes 1 and 2). - 195.92.38.20 (talk) 13:03, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Feel free to expand the article using reliable secondary sources, which in this case means either reviews or scholarly articles; it will be no good adding much primary material on each volume unsupported by additional secondary materials on those volumes also. It should certainly not be split before it has been so greatly expanded that it is inconveniently large for a single article. So far it has been in print for around 30 years and nobody has yet seen fit to undertake the task, so perhaps the community of volunteers isn't specially interested in it. Chiswick Chap (talk) 13:09, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs expansion
Talk:Africanization

message: This is a fairly sensitive, but I would say quite real phenomenon, and deserving of an article. However, the page is really just a list of examples, and needs wikification, quite apart from a rewrite. -Kieran 21:20, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup

message: As far as I understand, "Africanization" is a bigger topic than just name changes. For instance Africanization of the civil services of newly independent African countries. As far as the name change issue goes, one could mention that in many cases place names were given European names under colonial rule, which is important context to understanding changes (or return) to African names. Altogether it seems this article needs a lot of work. --A12n 07:37, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Revisiting this with the same comment. Will try to find time to work on it. --A12n (talk) 15:22, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major rewrite? 

message: :Category:Human names was removed because "These are place names, not names for people." However, the article does indeed include several examples of Africanization of people's (given) names. Rather than reverting, I thought I'd first ask if there is a better category than Human names to capture this aspect. TIA for any feedback.--A12n (talk) 07:16, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Catagories 

message: Does "Africanization"  apply to any Afrikaans contexts, either in geographic or personal naming and in the composition of the civil service? If so, problematic, as Afrikaans is an African language, the only Indo-European language known to have developed in Africa & thus African. See languages of Africa. How can you apply Africanization to something that is already been through the process of Africanization? Although, South African European history is evident, such as East London or Port Elizabeth, considering this was in the Cape Colony territory, but Bloemfontein or Pretoria is African as Mangaung or Tshwane. Therefore, there should be made a clear distinction and a clarification otherwise Afrikaans it is interpret as European, which it is not and therefore misleading.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roland Postma (talk • contribs) 12:27, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  South Africa 

message: The section "Africanization of names" currently contains the sentence "In some cases, changes are not a change of transliteration rather than of the European name.[2]". I fail to understand the "not ... rather than" construction and believe there's a mistake here. I tend to guess the word "not" was accidentally added to this sentence, but I am reluctant to erase it myself, as I have no knowledge whatsoever of the subject and may have got it wrong. 2A02:8109:9340:112C:BD7B:3649:9340:A16A (talk) 10:45, 26 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Small clarification needed:
Talk:Qinggong

message: Being the author of the Qing Gong article, I am eager to see the two articles merged, as the Qinggong article is equally well written. Dessydes 15:01, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Merged. --mh 07:45, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge

message: The name of the article is "Qing gong" but its always referred to in the body as "Qing Gong", and then the pinyin is qingging and the yale is... well it doesnt matter cuz no one will use it. my point is, the title should be "Qinggong" and all references in the article should be qinggong. Spelling it Qing Gong is like spelling nothing as No Thing. --1698 21:33, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Pinyin is actually something like ching kung. Definitely not ging though. Dessydes 05:28, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually the pinyin is, as that guy stated, Qinggong. He probably made a typo when writing "qingging" - i and o are right next to each other. "Ching Kung" would be the old Wade-Giles romanisation, not Pinyin. Also, the article in general lacks any qualification or sourcing of the explanation which seems totally pseudoscientific and unbelievable. Destynova 21:03, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

message: The article begins by telling us a lot about how some fiction is using it wrong and then ends with telling us it's just about running on planks. I'm sure a lot of information was lost on the way and I'm not sure if this is even correct. At least, the complaining about wuxia should be moved below the actual description of qinggong.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.110.44.130 (talk) 04:39, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Can we just delete the running around on planks? I've tried to find 傾功 and there's absolutely nothing on it. Not to mention the Chinese Wikipedia page mentions nothing of it. Iserlon (talk) 19:29, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Qinggong = running on plank
Template talk:Wylie box

message: Csbodine expressed the idea to add Tibetan script to the template.
I'll try to do this eventually but it could take a while.
--Klimov 18:22, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You mentioned on my talk page that you had trouble getting Tibetan Fonts to appear in Firefox.  I downloaded the Unicode font from Tibetan Fonts and everything seems pretty good right now. I don't know all of the ways Wikipedia, but it seems to me that it would require some sort of script to run through and add the appropriate Unicode to the template. Csbodine 19:14, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Incidentally, I created a group of similar templates that allow Tibetan characters. See Template:bobox-tw and Template:bobox-two. - Nat Krause(Talk!) 18:21, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There is also the Tibetan template Template:bo  which includes Tibetan script.  Chris Fynn (talk) 11:18, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Tibetan script

message: I notice many people using Wylie in articles are improperly using capitalization in their Wylie transliteration. Wylie discouraged capitalization and said that where used the first letter or prefix should be capitalized not the root letter (which he calls the initial). So bka' rgyud and Bka' rgyud are correct in Wylie transliteration but not bKa' rgyud. See: Wylie_transliteration#Capitalization. 
 Chris Fynn (talk) 11:15, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Capitalization
Talk:YT series

message: I feel that the YT series should be in its own article, and not in four seperate stub articles.  Therefore, I suggest merging Yt-2000, YT-1300, and YT-2400. Deckiller 18:24, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: While I agree with the sentiment of the prod, I think if might just be easier to merge in any relevant content to the Falcon page. --Daniel J. Leivick 04:06, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Delete
Talk:Mecha-King Ghidorah

message: The little there is to say about Mecha-King Ghidorah i've incorporated into King Ghidorah (specifically King Ghidorah#Heisei era), so i'm redirecting this page there. If anyone feels the need to separate the pages, go ahead and revert this one, but please justify the split here!—Crazillatalk|contribs 18:35, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Christa Miller

message: "Christa Miller also appeared in Seinfeld as the boss of a potential employer of George. He "feels her material" and is reamed out, losing his shot as a bra salesman. "
The phrases '"feels her material"' and 'is reamed out' are somewhat inconsistent with the tone of the rest of this page, and don't sound at all like they belong in an encyclopedia. Should be re-worded to remove euphemistic meanings.
: Euphemistic wording changed. • Shadowhillway 02:39, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  wording of Seinfeld appearances 

message: I added a promotional photo of Christa Miller that is from her press kit (old one). Ransak 06:57, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Promotional Photo 

message: I think we should move this article to Christa Miller-Lawrence, because i've seen her credited like that in several web pages... --201.212.93.119 (talk) 05:17, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move 

message: Hold the fuck on, she's been active as an actress for 45 years? That would mean she regularly got roles a year before she was born, that can't be right, can it?--86.87.28.191 (talk) 15:43, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Years active" 
Talk:Ranpha Franboise

message: The text currently reads:
:Later still, after Tact is forced to shoot down the Kung-Fu Fighter when it is hijacked by the Val Fasq, Ranpha develops a reflex action, striking Tact whenever they come into physical combat. It would not be until Tact risks his own life to save her, catching her just before she falls off a collapsing bridge, that she'd be able to overcome the reflex and touch him again.
I know nothing about this series, but from contact, I mean from context it looks like this should say "whenever they come into physical contact," not "combat." Would someone who knows this game please correct this if it indeed needs correcting? --Iustinus 18:39, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Combat or Contact?
Talk:Light Railways Act 1896

message: I removed:
* Weaversdown Light Railway - Not built under the light railway act, but an army narrow gauge railway on the Longmoor site.
Since it is not built under the LRA and this page is explicitly about the LRA and the railways built under it. However I am adding this entry to the List of British Narrow Gauge Railways where it is highly relevant.
Gwernol 18:42, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have wanted to show an example of the inclusion of the word 'Light' in a railways name where it was under the Light railway act. I have now found a better example in the Beer Heights Light Railway (7.25 in gauge), but as long as WLR is useful somewhere. Note Longmoor link can be moved to Longmoor Military Railway. AHEMSLTD 12:48, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Dont many heritage railways operate under the LRA? G-Man * 22:00, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Appropriate examples??
Talk:Darra Adam Khel

message: Note: Some maps I have seen have placed the town in FATA (Orakzai), though the most guidebook maps palce it in NWFP. 
Sdrawkcab 18:49, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What's the population? Rmhermen (talk) 21:02, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

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thread_title:  Copyright problem removed
Talk:Grant Green

message: why doesn't this page show up when i do a google search for it?TheKid 18:50, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I'm a big fan, but can he really be considered overlooked? He has a published biography, has a ton of reissues out on Blue Note, etc.  Every great jazz musician is overlooked by some degree in our society.
Nj78 22:20, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overlooked 

message: Support split -Discography section takes up close to one half of the page and should be split to a new article entitled Grant Green discography. --Jax 0677 (talk) 01:48, 19 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grant Green discography 

message: Nothing in the article whatsoever about his wife and family, serious drug addiction, reputation for ripping off sidemen, jail time, etc. A big weakness in the article. 2601:41:200:5260:184A:7CE7:11C2:30B0 (talk) 18:18, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personal life 

message: The article suggests that part of the appeal was his immediacy and avoidance of chromaticism. While I agree with the first point the second is blatantly wrong. I have transcribed a few Grant Green solos (Blues for Willarene and Gooden's Corner) and I would say that most of his language is heavily chromatic as was the case and still is for most bebop and hard bop musicians. I am less familiar with his funk and pop oriented works and maybe there is little chromaticism in those recordings but it makes no sense to say he avoided chromaticism. CallumGMacDonald (talk) 18:20, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chromaticism
Talk:Death (Castlevania)

message: In the official Japanese Lament of Innocence guidebook it states that Mathias later became known as Dracula: . It is in the last line of text. You can translate with and online translator if you wish, most do a pretty good job of rendering it. So please don't change any Castlevania page to state that Mathias "may have become" Dracula. The fact that they are one in the same is widely known in the Castlevania fan base. Guermantes 18:19, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Mathias is Dracula

message: He may well not be Death itself at all. Many famous serial killers have identified themselves with or as Death. If so he may literally be just a minion of Dracula with grandiose delusions who calls himself Death (as an omage or delusion). I really cant see Death referring to a mortal as "Master" under any circumstances, partnership or not.--Darkling235 16:42, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death as an omage 

message: In Castlevania PoR (DS), Death is portrayed as a samurai serving his lord Dracula.
Um... no... the instruction manual simply says he has "samurai-like qualites", which is probably meant to referance his loyalty to Dracula, (remaining loyal to him even with Brauner being the castle's ruler, and blocking a blow that was meant for Drac. BassxForte 20:45, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death in PoR 

message: I'm aware that "desu" is the phonetic sound of the word in Japanese, just as "soriddo suneeku" is the phonetic sound of "Solid Snake". In certain Castlevanias, his name is 死神 (shinigami), while in others his name is デス (desu), which is why the article should have both listed, although I'm not sure the way it's put right now is really clear that "desu" is just the pronunciation a different name. - 75.136.202.14 10:16, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Name in Japanese versions

message: All over the place I have seen only SotN images. Perhaps that is considered the best of the series, but, for goodness sakes, man! Why not replace them with some newer designs, say, the ones from CoD? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 74.212.7.123 (talk) 22:09, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ARGH! Replace SotN images!
Talk:Vin Scelsa

message: The only cite I have for Vin Scelsa's potential priesthood is from his various anecdotes on Idiot's Delight. Heptapod 18:51, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I have nothing against Mr. Scelsa but I am concerned about the neutrality of the article considering that in the beginning of its creation the majority of the article was written by Mr. Scelsa himself which would a conflict and a violation of Wikipedia, yes/no? TheGoofyGolfer (talk) 04:54, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Article definitely needs more citations. I can see that a lot of the unattributed material is worth noting ( e.g. his views on the DMCA and restrictions on his freeform ethos, which were often addressed by Scelsa on the air); I also know he has a daughter, and a little about his earlier radio stints, so ... more outside material (such as print interviews) needs to be sourced. His radio history can be found in trade publications and his other projects like 'In Your Own Words' would also be referred to in news articles, since the series also spawned CD releases and a concert tour. Attendees there to honor him at the 2007 celebration were also named in news reports of the event. I have started a list of (to my knowledge) certain omissions, as equal in weight or notability to the details currently included. Will have to look into more sources to cite. Dano67 (talk) 15:56, 20 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Concerns
Talk:Hades (disambiguation)

message: Moved the following comment from dab page (I could not determine whether or not this is an actual factual dispute; the contradictory note in the article—which I removed to here—makes it appear so):
There is no minor planet, asteroid, comet, or planet officially named Hades.
Please resolve this dispute here, and modify dab page as needed.  
-,-~R'lyehRising~-,- 18:54, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Factual disputes 

message: In Greek mythology, Hades was the name of (A) the god of the dead and/or (B) the abode of the dead.  The Roman name for Hades was Pluto, therefore, the planet Pluto may inaccurately be called Hades. 
*  Superslum 10:31, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Synonyms
Talk:The Daily Free Press

message: The Daily Free Press should have its own article.  I propose keeping the article separate because newspapers have thier own Wiki articles, and the paper is not officially recognized by Boston University. The article can be edited to acheive a longer length and quality.  Assawyer 18:55, 22 January 2006 (UTC)

message: A Daily Free Press alumni (who works for Turner Investment Partners in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, according to WHOIS data on the logged IP address) has repeatedly added biased information to the article, which both lacks accuracy and any semblance of neutrality. This addition has been repeatedly stripped, and is NOT a valid point. As such, please lock this page to any edits not attributed to Wikipedia Usernames.
A possible current Daily Free Press person (as per WHOIS data on the logged IP address, look anyone can do it) is most likely making the above charge with no knowledge, i doubt anyone who worked for the FreeP (mostly journalism, advertising, communications, and marketing majors I would assume) would work for a Pennsylvania based financial company (no math or finance majors really work for the FreeP I would assume).  However, it is a widely known fact around the BU campus that the paper is in a mountain of debt and had to cut costs by cutting the Friday edition of the paper.  Just look at the evidence.  Also, the person asking to lock the article doesn't even have a Wikipedia Username his or herself.  Maybe they are the one "vandalizing" the page by erasing valid information that doesn't shine well on the paper they work for.  That is where the bias is.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.53.157.242 (talk) 13:27, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please Lock this Page 

message: This section seems applicable to all student newspapers, not particularly to this one.  I don't think it adds to this article and since it has been tagged as appearing to be original research, I would am inclined to remove it entirely.  I invite comments on this and will not take action for a few days, or if others think it inappropriate.  Pzavon (talk) 00:08, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  remove section : The Dilemma of The Daily Free Press 

message: For an article about a newspaper, it has an appalling lack of references.  There are only two references, with one being a primary reference, and both links are broken.  The article also lacks inline citations. Primogen (talk) 19:54, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lack of references
Talk:Ken Aston

message: 'Ken's legacy among soccer referees will not be forgotten for his imprint is forever stamped into what an ideal referee should be.' seriously??   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.103.194.148 (talk) 00:05, 24 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  WTH 

message: It´s to debate, if Ken Aston was really the very first one to wear a black referee uniform with a white rim. As a matter of fact, referees always wore black, as the colour of dignity, but it was Mr. Aston for sure to be one of the first to change from the "traditional" suit jacket with a white shirt underneath to a black jersey with a white collar. In the early days of football referees wore a suit with a white shirt and a tie (see those photographs from the years from 1890 until the 1920ies). In the 1930ies the referees had changed to shorts and dropped the tie already. A very good picture to document that is the handshake between the Austrian and Czech captain in the Austria vs. Czechoslovakia match from 1933.
There is an error in this. Ken Aston did not referee the 1960 European Nations Cup Final. This match was refereed by Arthur Ellis.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.9.83.113 (talk) 21:32, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: uniform 

message: Is this USEng in a British topic, or Victorian language?
:On his return from military service in 1946, Aston became the first League referee to wear the black uniform with white trim which became the standard for referees. Up to that point, referees wore tweed jackets over white shirts with French cuffs, and pants akin to golf knickers. He later explained that when he spied a black flight jacket in the window of a war surplus store, he was delighted with the wonderful assortment of pockets. He immediately bought a couple of the jackets, thinking the pockets would serve him well as a referee. He changed to black knickers, kept the white shirt, and wore the new black flight jacket, creating the black uniform with the apparent white "trim."
What's with the use of "pants" and "knickers"?
And what's the source? --Dweller (talk) Become old fashioned! 09:37, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strange use of English