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Talk:Robert Wood (antiquarian)

message: Anyone know why this article was titled "Robert Wood (engraver)"? He was many things in his career but one thing Robert Wood was definitely not is an engraver. So far as we know, he never wielded a burin in his life and in his journals of the Levantine trip (now in the IHR, Senate House, London) he makes it clear he was no draftsman either. Borra did all the drawings while Dawkins and Wood did the measuring.
A much better clarification for this article would be "Robert Wood (antiquarian)" since that was the capacity in which he was best known during his own lifetime (and for which he was commemorated on his tomb in Putney cemetary).
Just for the record, the engravings for the 'Palmyra' and 'Baalbek' volumes were done by a small group of specialist engravers including Thomas Major, Pierre Fourdrinier and J. Muller, based on watercolour plates prepared by Borra (which now in the RIBA early drawings collection in London).   StuartLondon (talk) 13:28, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Misleading Disambiguation
Talk:Roger L'Estrange

message: L'Estrange came up with some cracking quotes that illustrate classic establishment opposition to printing as a democratiser of knowledge. I can't find any online sources right now but the below book has some great ones on p.92. Sorry I haven't time to add more info.
Briggs, A. & P. Burke 2002. Social History of the Media: From Gutenberg to the Internet. (1st edition). Polity Press.
PatHadley (talk) 20:01, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Surveyor of the Imprimery
Talk:Sadarang

message: Bearian (talk) 21:25, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Sambo's Grave

message: The lack of any contemporary reference suggests the possibility that this has always been a tourist attraction and is therefore possibly a hoax. Is there any earlier reference?  Cassandra.
:Sadly, at that time the death of a slave or black cabin boy would have been considered unimportant and would not have been reported in any newspapers or books. The grave site is, however, notable in its own right whether you believe the story or not. Richerman (talk) 14:14, 10 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: The Lonsdale Magazine article discussing it dates from 1822. If it's a hoax it's a longstanding one. GrindtXX (talk) 19:03, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hoax? Tourist attraction? 

message: I've just added some information about the main plaque being a modern replica. However, I've been unable to discover much about when and how the original was lost, or when it was replaced with the replica. The smaller explanatory plaque just says the original was "damaged & defaced"; but Pevsner 2009 says it was "shamefully stolen" (so I've put stolen in the article). No dates. The 2005 photo here shows it looking quite weathered, so I'd say it must have been replaced a few years before that; but the attention to detail in the reproduction suggests a modern attitude towards heritage. I'd guess maybe the 1990s. Does anyone have any more info? GrindtXX (talk) 18:58, 31 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plaque
Talk:Samuel Hearne

message: Please a photo of that stone with his name on it (see article): On 1 July 1767 he chiseled his name on smooth, glaciated stone at Sloop's Cove near Fort Prince of Wales where it remains today. --Carl Steinbeißer (talk) 18:39, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: In North America the black bear was seen by Hearne swimming for hours with widely open mouth, thus catching, like a whale, insects in the water. Even in so extreme a case as this, if the supply of insects were constant, and if better adapted competitors did not already exist in the country, I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by natural selection, more and more aquatic in their structure and habits, with larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as monstrous as a whale.
Is the full quote from the first edition of "Origin of species" by Darwin and not the excised quote from revised editions. 
Jinx69 (talk) 03:12, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Darwin quote. 
Talk:Johnny, My Friend

message: I have attempted to do my part to wikify this page.  Though I have made the language a bit more sophisticated (removed inappropriate contraction, made subjects and verbs agree, removed or fixed sentence fragments), the article still needs a lot or work.  As is, there is barely enough information here for a third grade book report.  Somebody familiar with this work should flesh this out. Kjdamrau 21:14, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikification 
Talk:Samuel Shute

message: the death date listed in the text at the end is different from the death date in the box at the top ...  it stood out to me and i couldn't verify either quickly using the references for the date in the text, so i thought i'd comment here.  Gov. Shute was granted a lot of land during the time he was in New Hampshire because as new towns were being granted (Nottingham and Chester are of interest to me), the governor was routinely granted a large 500-acre or so lot in addition to the regular proprietors.  
i was looking for general information about Samuel Shute because of land that was granted to him in Nottingham, New Hampshire, and trying to follow the chain-of-title, it went to Shute Shrimpton Yeamons, which is an unusual name and made me think that perhaps Saml. Shute had a daughter that named a son after her maiden name, but the wikipedia article points out that he never married.  
thank you!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ddzulager (talk • contribs) 19:50, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The difference in the death dates is due to changes between Julian and Gregorian calendars (15 day differential, new year beginning in March).  This should probably be clarified. Magic♪piano 01:33, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  death date for Samuel Shute
Talk:Samuel Ward (Rhode Island politician)

message: I would like to see verification of the descent of the father Richard Ward from Roger Williams. I do know of the descent of the mother Mary Tillinghast Ward from Roger Williams (as well as from my direct ancestor Rev. Pardon Tillinghast, 1623-1718). Scott Tillinghast, Houston TX (talk) 06:19, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Double descent from Roger Williams

message: No prominent sources can be found on the internet explicitly referring to Samuel Ward as a Founding Father of the United States. Yes, he was an important figure in colonial affairs, but he died before the nation's actual founding. Unless multiple sources can be provided to support this, the title will be removed. Allreet (talk) 05:56, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The signers of the other three founding documents are accepted per sources and various talk page discussions as Founding Fathers, and since there is no dispute that the Continental Association is a founding document, site consistency applies. Besides the defining 2017 Werther article "Analyzing the Founders: A Closer Look at the Signers of Four Founding Documents" in the Journal of the American Revolution here are two other sources which, for consistency and per WP:COMMONSENSE, acknowledge that the Founders include the signers of the fourth: The Founder of the Day article "Signers of the Continental Association" clearly states "Below is a list of the Founders who signed the Continental Association" [emphasis mine], followed by the names of the 53 signers (Founder of the Day also names the Association as one of the four founding documents). The worldhistory.edu "Top 10 Founding Fathers of the United States of America" - section "List of Founding Fathers of the United States" asserts "Also, two broader groups of Founding Fathers capture the signers of Articles of Confederation (the initial version of the American Constitution which was adopted in 1777 and ratified in 1781) and the signers of the Continental Association (created on October 20, 1774)" [emphasis mine]. Please add these sources to the pages of the other Association signers you are intent of removing from Founding Father status, thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 03:44, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dispute unsourced Founding Fathers label
Talk:Sóc Trăng province

message: 218.144.136.181 13:20, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

message: The Nom Foundation gives 朔庄, while the Chinese Wikipedia gives 蓄臻. The fact that Sóc Trăng was originally a Khmer word, "Srok Kh'leang," means that 朔庄 was likely an approximation of this place name, used in government documents before the switch to quoc ngu. Badagnani (talk) 05:37, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Han tu
Talk:Fly (exercise)

message: While browsing through :Category:Weight training exercises looking for anything not present in Template:Strength training exercises, I noticed this one recently created in 2011. I am inviting the author to come and discuss the titles and content of both articles in hopes they can be merged. Dummbbells are the classic means by which to perform the fly exercise, and are mentioned here alongside more recent means like the machine ones or pec decks. Y12J (talk) 09:39, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Support merge into this title (Fly (exercise) ) as the more general title.  An article entitled "Dumbbell fly(e)" should not discuss cables, and would usually mean "chest fly" as opposed to other sorts of flyes that can be performed. --EncycloPetey (talk) 15:29, 26 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Dumbbell fly]] merge proposal
Talk:Sarah Kemble Knight

message: Appletons' CAB records Norwalk, Connecticut, where Norwich is meant.  Other than this, it seems a useful source, and I just worked around the error. 71.233.62.241 (talk) 23:37, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Appletons' gaffe 

message: I removed a skeptical paragraph about her diary, which has been challenged over a year.  It is in no way supported by any of the sources, though I have not been able to examine Her story.  The 2007 Britannica supports the record of the trip as authentic. Bob Burkhardt (talk) 21:18, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Skeptical paragraph about trip
Talk:Séamas Dall Mac Cuarta

message: Did Séamas flee to the continent with the Flemings of Slane? I'm nearly sure I read that somewhere. There is definitely some connection there. Seosamh Laoide (1865-1939) wrote a good bit about him in Duanaire na Midhe (Baile Átha Cliath, 1914). 86.42.119.12 (talk) 02:52, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flemings, barons of Slane
Talk:Sébastien Rale

message: The quote that appears to be used in back up this statement is from Francis Parkman, Jr. (September 16, 1823 – November 8, 1893). So its over a 100 years old. So where is any RS that Rales "remains a polarizing figure"? In this article currently there is none. 124.171.69.27 (talk) 23:15, 27 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  "remains a polarizing figure" ..... 
Talk:Atmore station

message: I was just examining the area on Google Maps, and I can't identify a platform or shelter building. Looks like it has been demolished since the discontinuance of service? —Mulad (talk) 17:08, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Demolished?
Talk:Pomona–Downtown station

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.
*Weak support. I've always found this to be an awkward form of disambiguation. Metrolink gives a referenced disambiguation, so I was always content to leave it alone. Secondarywaltz (talk) 18:50, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  The problem with the current title is that it's awkward: I'm pretty sure that most of the people searching for this specific Pomona station on Wikipedia aren't going to think to put the "Downtown" part in front – and I'll bet that's true even of people who use Metrolink! But the other part is the Metrolink itself is somewhat inconsistent with what it calls this station (and no one else aside from Metrolink uses the "Downtown" part). --IJBall (contribs • talk) 19:10, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: "No one else" but Metrolink needs disambiguation. But I am giving you support, if you feel the need to move this again. So why are you arguing with me? Secondarywaltz (talk) 21:05, 3 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: Why is the sunset limited former service listed? Why just mention that the Alhambra station was formerly served by the Sunset Limited 2603:8001:2E07:2D00:A8F4:674D:5138:DC4D (talk) 06:31, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Former services? 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: moved.  – robertsky (talk) 07:24, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Pomona station (California) →  – Similarly to Riverside–Downtown station, since this station is moreso primarily served by Metrolink trains, would it make more sense to name this article in accordance to Metrolink naming? This would also provide natural disambiguation versus all the other Pomona station articles. OrdinaryScarlett (talk) 02:41, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

text: Note: WikiProject Trains has been notified of this discussion. Vanderwaalforces (talk) 10:19, 12 January 2024 (UTC)

text: Agree per nom. -MJ (talk) 04:00, 21 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 12 January 2024 

message: should the article be updated to include the SBX terminal?
https://www.gosbcta.com/project/west-valley-connector-brt/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:8000:5000:E9D2:8C9:A639:F329:1683 (talk • contribs) 
:It's already discussed in the article. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 05:15, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: sbx
Talk:Simon Boerum

message: Text was entered by @User:Randy Kryn asserting that Boerum is a founding father as a result of having signed the Continental Association. No citations were included to support these claims. I am posting a dispute template to the lead and have a added text indicating the lack of support regarding the Continental Association as a founding document. I also have provided citations referencing prominent sources to verify my edits. Allreet (talk) 21:57, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: There is neither any source that says Boerum was not a Founding Father, which is the Original Research conclusion you added to the lede, which has been removed. As a Member of the Continental Congress, a delegate from New York, this makes Boerum a Founding Father, as there are plenty of sources that cover the idea that the Continental Congress was responsible for instituting, or establishing, or founding representative government in the colonies, and hence was an important part of the founding. Since Boerum was a delegate, this makes him one of the founders, regardless if you can't find a source that says he was a "founder". -- Gwillhickers (talk) 21:58, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dispute Founding Father status
Talk:Nuclear Management Company

message: I don't want to edit the article, but the sale of Palisades Nuclear Generating Plant closed today.  It is no longer a part of the NMC.  Press Release: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070411/aqw119.html?.v=1 TimAgen 13:29, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Lak Mueang

message: Some Thai regard the taller pillar as male and the other as female, which would make the latter kin to an Asherah pole.Lee 13:28, 12 April 2007 (UTC)

message: Which provinces still have no city pillar shrine? I just added to the article that Chonburi is now building one, and I also failed to find any in Nakhon Pathom. Obviously Bueng Kan has none yet, but that one is not yet established as a province. But are there any other provinces? andy (talk) 11:33, 11 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Provinces without city pillar shrine 

message: Suggest renaming to City pillar per WP:USEENGLISH. Otherwise, should be Lak mueang, with a lowercase m. --Paul_012 (talk) 08:17, 26 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article title
Talk:Portuguese Irregular Verbs

message: 1. Write a novel.
2. Get someone to publish your novel.
3. Exclaim 'My, that's novel!' at a private function and, when invariably questioned, produce a copy of your novel and rearrange the words of your previous utterance to form a unilateral introduction to your text.
4. Accept payment from a burly man of ill repute.
5. Growl at Christopher Timothy in a crowded shopping centre.
6. Six.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.81.33.39 (talk) 17:33, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: What is the purpose of the above comment? I gave it a title. Is there any reason to keep it on the Talk page? Who is Christopher Timothy? --Prairieplant (talk) 02:50, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Anonymous comment

message: Am I the only one who thinks that people are less likely to be searching for 'Portuguese Irregular Verbs' than for actual portuguese irregular verbs?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.142.48.96 (talk) 08:27, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently so, but someone add a redirect to articles on the Portuguese language for those who arrive at the article in error.  --Prairieplant (talk) 12:30, 25 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Appropriate search priority?
Talk:Precious Ramotswe

message: Why is there an email address listed for a fictional character? I'm removing it.66.95.123.6 (talk) 18:05, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Email address? 

message: Excuse my ignorance, but what does "Mma" mean? I'm assuming it's an abbreviation like "Ms", but for what? Mamma? Mma simply goes to the MMA disambiguation page, where this usage is not explained. 86.132.141.139 (talk) 16:02, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mma Ramotswe? 

message: Yes, I want to know what this means too.  Anyone?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.44.75.243 (talk) 13:13, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mma 

message: According to this McCall Smith interview [] she is based on a real person. Perhaps we should include this? --BozMo talk 06:44, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: In the article, McCall Smith indicates only that the character of Mma Potokwane (not Mma Ramotswe) is based on a real person.(de Fideli (talk) 18:35, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Based on real character
Talk:Roseanna (novel)

message: The article misses the most important plot point: the killer was a sexual deviant who killed the American woman because she was a deviant, too. The 2 characters were like Yin and Yang, or like matter and antimatter, who cancelled each other out. 84.128.168.3 (talk) 16:15, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  the American woman was a sexual deviant too 

message: I heard that a third film adaption was in the works. Still too much crystal ball, perhaps... 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 12:05, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Film adaption

message: This is a purely American English euphemism for "raped" - in other forms of English it has no specific sexual connotation (for instance, when the unpopular Greek queen Frederica visited London in the early 1960s and was booed and jostled by protesting crowds, this was described as "molestation", and there was certainly no question of sexual violence). Since the character in the book is indeed raped, and since Wikipedia is not just an American-English medium, I feel "molested" should be replaced by "raped". Other American English euphemisms such as "passed away" (or nowadays simply "passed") for "died" also have no place on Wikipedia - a spade should be called a spade, otherwise we don't know what we're talking about.89.212.50.177 (talk) 16:26, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "molested"
Talk:Central Utah Correctional Facility

message: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-news/this-toy-factory-is-run-by-volunteers-who-give-away-all-the-toys-for-free/ar-BBQNOsl - Jack N. Stock (talk) 13:26, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Work by prisoners 

message: "Boulder is divided into three buildings - Elm, Fir, Gale and Hickory."  How is this possible?  Does someone know a different way of counting? J S Ayer (talk) 20:05, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arithmetic Problem
Talk:South by Java Head

message: Quote with my emphasis:
: As with any MacLean novel, no one is exactly who they initially seem to be, and the story is filled with secret documents, double agents, traitors, and romantic subplots, not to mention repeated attacks from the Japanese.
Were romantic subplots really part of "any MacLean novel"? Cite?
--13:24, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot key concepts: romatic subplots
Talk:Solomon I

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: moved. (non-admin closure) Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 00:39, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 20 May 2024
Talk:Duchess Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

message: This portrait is presented as the portrait of princess "Marie Sophie Frederikke of Denmark". Marie Sophie of Hesse-Kassel was indeed named Marie Sophie Frederikk, and was princess of Denmark after her marriage. But this person wears the fashion of the 1770s, not the 1790s. This image is rather of Duchess Sophia Frederica of Mecklenburg-Schwerin: she also had the name Sophie Frederikke, and was also a princess of Denmark after her marriage: and she was a Danish princess during the 1770s, a fashion also worn by the person in this portrait. This should be clarified.--Aciram (talk) 13:08, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image? 
Talk:Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani

message: No disrespect to Sulkhan-Saba Orbeliani, who is one of my all-time favorite Georgians for sure, but the quotes like 'his immortal genius', or 'he was a great renaissance man' are rather cringey, unencyclopedic and do more harm than good. Wikipedia articles should be written from a neutral point of view. They should point out how significant SS's dictionary, writings and travelogues are but never venture into supra toasts and subjective hagiography
*i've done a bit of a copyedit including removal of all/most(?) peacock terms but still needs tightening up, including references, if any other editor can assist....? Coolabahapple (talk) 14:16, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs to fix that rather pompous and un-encyclopedic language
Talk:Sylvius Leopold Weiss

message: Shouldn't Weiss be a Polish/German composer? I remember a while ago I read that his father (and possibly mother) have some Polish nationality. I'm looking for the source, but I can't seem to find it.
Have anyone heard about this?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.152.146.236 (talk) 06:29, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weiss Nationality 

message: I notice the Article has his first name spelt with a Y, being Sylvius. However in the intro it is spelt with an I, being Silvius. Is there any historical references showing the correct spelling, or is this a change when the name is spelt out in English vs the original German. I don't want to correct it without having the proper facts. --Lantrix (talk) 05:23, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Further research shows their is indeed confusion between the two spellings as shown on this site. However I believe the article should be consistent, and if required document that there is an unknown in the spelling of his name. --Lantrix (talk) 05:30, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling of his Name