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Talk:Richard N. Haass

message: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/world/july-dec11/obamapolicy_10-20.html
RICHARD HAASS: I wish it were, but it won't be, for several reasons.
Libya presented a relatively easy area to intervene. You have a very small population, very low population density, for example, very different than the sort of situation you see in neighboring Syria.
:Which section does this go under? Hcobb (talk) 01:53, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Syria borders on Libya 

message: Is there any information available on Hass's Selective Service classification when he was at Oberlin? He seems enthusiastic about throwing the children of other Americans into the maw of war. Rt3368 (talk) 08:46, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Draft classification?
Talk:The Dolphins of Pern

message: The plot outline needs to be rewritten as it is currently a copyvio of the publisher's promotional material. 23skidoo 18:59, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: is this still the case - then action would be needed? :: Kevinalewis : (Talk Page)/(Desk) 16:38, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This is no longer the case, since I re-wrote it a few years ago. Delphiki27 (talk) 17:42, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Plot outline

message: I've just been reading these books, and I can't recall any mention of homosexuality in here (though I tend to speedread, so I may have just missed it. Or I'm just dense.) There *IS* however explicit mention of it in a prior book in the series (Dragon's Dawn), though not among any of the named characters. If someone could point out which character in this book is being referred to, I'd be most grateful.--213.114.138.197 10:34, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I don't remember any either.... Applejaxs 15:31, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Homosexuality?
Talk:Richard Neal

message: I'm pretty sure that's to a different person, unless he went from getting thrown out by J. Edgar Hoover to mayor of Spfld. in a couple of years' span.   Someone please confirm and change the link.  Cheers, PhilipR 07:32, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  William C. Sullivan link 
Talk:Richard Nelson Bolles

message: "What Color is Your Parachute?" redirects here, but the article says absolutely nothing about the content or purpose of the book.  Minaker (talk) 05:31, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That's very strange considering it's one of the all time top-selling books with 10 million copies... uhh. Something is off here. --Alexc3 (talk) 22:54, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: update... Alexjohnc3 started the article in 2009  What Color Is Your Parachute? (book) Petersam (talk) 04:44, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Rick Nolan

message: This page reads like a campaign literature piece for his congressional campaign.  Specifically, I fail to see how a list of endorsements for his current campaign is of value to anyone not living in the Northeast corner of Minnesota. Joe Forkeybolo (talk) 06:23, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Most of the content isn't complimentary, and at least one point is a potential negative (re President Carter). Not sure I agree that the endorsements are a problem, they're relevant to the campaign and local voters. I think the article is dry and a little thin, but the campaign is new. I'd love more discussion of his accomplishments while in office, and his life since, for instance. Uberhill 19:45, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Concerns over neutrality seem to have been addressed, so I've removed the template. Gobōnobo + c 08:16, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality 

message: Anyone have a nice photo of Nolan to use on this article? It really needs one. Also, if he wins the election, this page will need a major revamping.~Pferd~ (talk) 02:59, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture and things 

message: It seems to me that moving the business experience up will allow the political/electoral sections to be closer, as they should be (in my opinion).  I will so re-sort it.</br>
LP-mn (talk) 22:38, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re sort section sequence 

message: Does anyone else think this article is up to GA status?--Bigpoliticsfan (talk) 00:31, 14 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Looking for someone to nominate this article for GA status 

message: Trying to clean the page up a little, and confused by whether all children are from one wife. Anyone know? I've added a Personal Life section, with some potentially helpful citations, and left the information about that ambiguous. Thanks! Shatterpoint05 (talk) 01:57, 12 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marriages and Children
Talk:Richard Northey

message: "Married and had three children"
In fact he has married twice, to Heather ~1970 and to Robyn ~1984, and had two children by his first marriage. His son Michael died in an accident, aged 9. I don't have encyclopsedic sources for this information. --Hugh7 (talk) 00:41, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: What was there was unreferenced; I've nuked it. Schwede66 05:28, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personal life
Category talk:Albums by Bulgarian artists

message: A tag has been placed on :Category:Compilation albums by Bulgarian artists requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under section C1 of the criteria for speedy deletion, because the category has been empty for seven days or more and is not a disambiguation category, a category redirect, a featured topics category, under discussion at Categories for discussion, or a project category that by its nature may become empty on occasion. 
If you think this page should not be deleted for this reason, you may contest the nomination by visiting the page and clicking the button labelled "Contest this speedy deletion". This will give you the opportunity to explain why you believe the page should not be deleted. However, be aware that once a page is tagged for speedy deletion, it may be deleted without delay. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag from the page yourself, but do not hesitate to add information in line with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.   --David Tornheim (talk) 16:14, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion|Speedy deletion]] nomination of [[:Category:Compilation albums by Bulgarian artists]]
Talk:Richard O. Spertzel

message: Obvious POV conflict here. Encyclopedia articles should be unbiased.  Please remove language referring to him as "infamous" or "strongly misleading."  Unless you can prove that he was intentionally misleading, leave it out.  Find some proof.  Otherwise, leave your opinions at home and stick to the facts.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 116.49.227.16 (talk) 19:52, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Is Spertzel Jewish?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.105.83.109 (talk) 15:31, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Religion
Talk:Richard Oakes (guitarist)

message: This is a poor article. A lot of the pointless info needs drawing out. It also has little information post-2004. I wil edit some out now. Boils (talk) 00:19, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Pointless info
Talk:Calgary International Reggae Festival

message: I just added this page and am on my way to the festival.  If I remember when I get back, I'll add more content, possibly a picture or two.  There is a lot of info on the official site, some of which should make its way over here.
--Carlsonmark 19:01, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Needs a lot of work
Talk:John Van de Kamp

message: This says Robert Philibosian, who followed Van de Kamp as District Attorney, wasn't selected until Dec. 1982.   See my edit here for more sources. Talk:Robert Philibosian And this says Van de Kamp was DA from 1975 - 1983 , contradicting the article which says his term as DA ran from 1975 - 1981.  Anyone have a firm date and iron clad source?  Timtempleton (talk) 00:51, 29 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  I think the years as DA are wrong 
Talk:Richard Overy

message: There is here no information on Prof. Overy's early life, and therefore social and (earlier) educational background. It would be nice to know where Prof. O. (of whose works I am an admirer) comes from, in all the senses of the term.Maelli (talk) 11:57, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Basics

message: The photo of Dr. Overy, a longish side view in profile, doesn't show his face at all. Can't something better be found? Sca (talk) 21:42, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo

message: I have seen a couple of interviews with Overy in WW II documentaries. His knowledge of the Third Reich seems to be superficial. Hitler planned a war from the day he seized power in Germany. To finance Germany´s economic upswing and the armament programme his Reichsbank chief Hjalmar Schacht created a parallel currency, the Mefo Wechsel which were nothing but debt. Hitler intended to pay back those drafts with spoils of war. In 1938 and 1939 these drafts were due, and the war was started.
When Overy talks about leading Nazis he often mispronounces their names. Kershaw has a good knowledge of German. Overy doesn´t.
Overy seems to me to be rather a journalist than a historian and scholar.
In a film on whether Aushwitz should be bombed as Jewish organisations demanded Overy defended the British position not to. Asked whether the railway lines should have been bombed he replied that they could easily be repaired. 
 93.104.15.122 (talk) 00:39, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overy´s limited knowledge of Nazi Germany
Talk:Richard P. Stanley

message: The first sentence of the lede had read "Richard Stanley (birth year) is Norman Levinson Professor of Applied Mathematics...".  I added the definite article, changing it to "Richard Stanley (birth year) is the Norman Levinson Professor of Applied Mathematics..." because an editor interpreted the first version as asserting that Richard Stanley is Norman Levinson, which is certainly false.  See Stanley's abbreviated CV to verify that he holds this named professorship. Michael Slone (talk) 19:37, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Norman Levinson professor
Talk:Richard Parsons (businessman)

message: According to the article the year of birth is 1948 (since the very first edit with no given sources). According to the article in :de:Richard Dean Parsons the year of birth is 1949, based on this german pdf-file , page 11. -- Ilion2 (talk) 21:51, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Year of bith 

message: That seems like a strong, subjective descriptor to be based off a citation that simply lists his party affiliation in an otherwise unrelated context. Unless there's some evidence that he is indeed actively a promoter of the party I'm going to remove the what seems motivated by an agenda (playing up black Republican membership to combat their general anti-black image).Snackmagic (talk) 16:00, 16 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prominent African American Republican? 

message: Various places Rockefeller is misspelled so that links to the Rockefeller wiki pages are dead links. Oldspammer (talk) 17:17, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misspelling of Rockefeller
Talk:Richard Patterson (artist)

message: This article is little more than a list of exhibits.  It needs more information on style, reviews, etc. RJFJR (talk) 14:51, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Expand
Talk:The Skies of Pern

message: The cover painting by Les Edwards may be the first one used for both UK and US first editions of Dragonriders of Pern books. (It is, according to ISFDB listings for all titles.) It may also be the Pern cover painting least used on the book cover. The cover depicted here, at least, shows only the dragon and rider in flight, without any of its spectacular context —the tsunami strike at Monaco Bay; see the gallery linked below.
The online Pern Museum includes a gallery of Official Pern Art (some commissioned but not used). It is organized by artist with notes by museum curator Hans van der Boom, some including remarks by the artist. --P64 (talk) 15:31, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Cover art
Talk:Richard Pearce (director)

message: The details that were on this page for Richard Pearce as a voice actor (Dennis The Menace, Ape Escape, etc) refer to a different Richard Pearce (listed here, here and here).  He is not the American director  --Thetriangleguy 19:27, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Richard Pearce (Voice actor)
Talk:Richard Peto

message: On "The Life Scientific" on 9 April 2019, it was said that Peto was born in Reading. This could be mentioned in the article. Vorbee (talk) 20:35, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Born in Reading
Category talk:Albums by Canadian artists

message: Please don't chage the importance rating from ???.  I know, it's wrong and should be NA.  I'm trying to get all the Canadian music category pages assigned to the Canadian music group.  I'll come back when my maintenance to-do thing gets underway to post a follow up.  Argolin (talk) 23:15, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Note to all
Talk:Functional shift

message: I have yet to come across this term, but it seems quite useful for a paper I'm writing. I'd be grateful if anyone could refer me to some texts where this term is used. 217.132.184.209 (talk) 19:07, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Unrequited question

message: Not only do I find this term in of itself fascinating, but I also find it fascinating that linguists use the word "shift" more than the guy in charge of scheduling workers at the textile mill. 98.82.196.213 (talk) 06:36, 6 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Fascinating term
Talk:Dragonsblood

message: This article is mostly copyvio as it consists almost entirely of the publisher's blurb as it currently stands. I recommend the plot summary be rewritten before the copyvio posse take notice. 23skidoo 19:07, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyvio

message: When I added the information on the book, I made note of a plot hole.  What happened to these? Pejorative.majeure 05:19, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot hole addition/removal
Talk:Richard Preston

message: Suggesting the possible idea of adding a TED talks video link to this article, regarding Preston's redwood forest climbing talk.
I just deleted the video, which someone added to the coast redwood page, because the video is not geared specifically enough to the redwood tree itself. The video covers people, climbing forests, hemlocks, Preston's childhood, on and on. It opens immediately into advertising too, which is pretty bad for an external link. Anyhow, it seemed like a reasonable addition for the Preston page here. But I did not want to add it right away without allowing a few days or weeks for other editor feedback. ThreeWikiteers (talk) 03:24, 24 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  TED talks video 

message: Shouldn't Micro be added to the "selected works" section? Alphius (talk) 19:12, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Micro 

message: Why does Baron Dunmore redirect here? —Tamfang (talk) 19:14, 16 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Baron Dunmore]] 

message: I have removed two books from the Bibliography on this page, as there is no strong evidence they are by this Richard Preston (they are not listed in the "other books by this author" lists in Preston's books, for example, or Preston's own website), and moderately strong evidence they are in fact by other people who happen to also be called "Richard Preston".
* 2016: 
A website seemingly associated with this book is serenitygranted.net. The photograph on that website is clearly not this Richard Preston.
* 1997: 
This book is by "Richard A. Preston M.D.", whose biography on Amazon.com reads:
This is surely a different person. Mpaldridge (talk) 08:59, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Books removed from bibliography 

message: I've also removed
* 1996: 
Again, no strong evidence: not on or Preston's own website, for example. On the other hand, the British editor and journalist also called "Richard Preston", on his Linkedin page claims credit for the text in this book. Mpaldridge (talk) 09:07, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Pure Fuel"
Talk:Richard Reeves (American writer)

message: The article's list of his books OMITS the 2010 book on the Berlin Airlift, title "Daring Young Men", ISBN 978-1-4165-4119-6 . 74.74.204.38 (talk) 02:51, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Richard Reeves (American writer)
Talk:Richard Rhodes

message: --Vague Reportage of Book Sales--
I'm sad to say that some determined internet research on my part revealed that figures on sales of specific book titles is not available to the public. There is much speculation on the internet that this bizarre secrecy is a product of the publishing industry's desire to keep authors in the dark about sales, and described as a useful state of affairs for the industry in order to low-ball authors about sales volume and thereby rake in unmerited profits for the publishers - at the author's expense.
<My Personal Opinion>This sounds very familiar to me - and I suspect that this is in fact the reason for the dearth of information.</My Personal Opinion>
Just wondering why such information is not easily available...
Lew Sheen (talk) 01:18, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
Talk:Dragon's Fire

message: As with the preceding book, this article consists of only the publisher's promotional copy and as such is considered copyvio and may be deleted by Wikipedia administrators. Someone familiar with this book needs to rewrite the plot summary section as soon as possible to avoid this. Thanks. 23skidoo 19:10, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Filled out some information. Pejorative.majeure 06:50, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyvio warning

message: My edit removed the entry that said there was an 'Internal continuity error' regarding Pellar's promotion.  Previous version justified the conflict by saying 'talks of taking a second apprentice, he performs a field promotion for Pellar' vs 'he is 'ecstatic' about becoming an official apprentice'.  This synthesis is not only original research, but it is also incorrect.  Page 54 of the book:
:Zist frowned in thought for a moment and then nodded.  "I'll rate you journeyman, pending more classes back at the Harper Hall.  By the time we're done here, I'm sure you'll have earned it.
The editor called this a field promotion, but the book states that the journeyman rating is pending more classes, and therefore, it was not official.  Being made an official apprentice, needing to take those classes to be an official journeyman, would not be a conflict. Sundaybrunch 11:02, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Internal continuity error
Talk:Richard Ridings

message: I've just removed the following text from the page: it belongs here on the talk page, not on the entry:
Not sure about his birth year of 1957. I was at school with him and played rughy for many years in the same academic year. I was born in April 1959, so would expect Richard's birth to be late 1958 or early part of 1959.
81.5.159.227 13:50, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Surely Richard Ridings is now far more famous as Daddy Pig? He's been doing that voice for over a decade and Peppa Pig is still very popular! Lenzar (talk) 21:15, 17 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Best Known Work
Talk:Richard Riehle

message: Seems off that someone with this much work would have an article with no picture 174.240.250.168 (talk) 15:30, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  No picture? 

message: Richard has been in a relationship with theatre educator Gale McLeod since 1981. 2601:602:9080:5CD0:FE3B:6E15:FC3:134C (talk) 01:40, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relationship
Talk:Scouting and Guiding in Belgium

message: "The first Scout Troop was founded in Brussels in 1909. " Is that really true? In documents on Belgian Scouting Websites, I read 1910. And does anybody know which group it was in Brussels, and if this group still exists? SietskeEN 12:24, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  1909??? 

message: An IP editor added a comment after the statement: "Scouting resumed after the liberation in spring 1944." to say "This is not correct.  I am not sure when Scouting resumed, but Belgium was liberated in September 1944, although the Germans returned during the December Bulge offensive.". Can anyone clarify this with sources.? --Bduke  (Discussion) 10:01, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Scouting never complicity stopped in Belgium, it was only made more and more difficult. --Egel Reaction? 12:45, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Resumption after WWII
Talk:Richard Rodney Bennett

message: For the record obitituries in The Telegraph and The Guardian mention how in 1995 Bennett was named by Gay Times magazine as one of the most influential gay musical figures. Vauxhall1964 (talk) 23:57, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personal life 

message: Since Les Paul's regular weekly gig at Iridium is at least referred to in the article on Les Paul, is it worth tracking down the date when Richard Rodney Bennett started a once-weekly gig at J's nightclub, 97th and Broadway in Manhattan, and kept it up (I think it was every Tuesday) for several years probably until J's closed?2604:2000:1383:8B0B:1C64:8308:33BC:E2D6 (talk) 05:32, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  J's was to Richard Rodney Bennett as the Iridium was to Les Paul 

message: The use of the term "homosexual" (both as adjective and especially as noun) is problematic in this article.  The term is considered a slur within the LGBTQ community when used this way and it would be preferable to use the word "gay" for the adjective and "gay figures" for the collective noun ("homosexuals").
Please make this correction; the article as it currently stands is offensive.
TonstantWikiWeader (talk) 21:48, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I've gone with "gay" and "gay people", which is what the sources say. DuncanHill (talk) 13:23, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect word used when discussing RRB's orientation
Talk:The Ship Who Searched

message: The article's been tagged with a "citation needed" template. Everything currently in the article is straight out of the book (I've just finished reading it). Is the book itself acceptable as a citation? It seems a bit silly to add a reference to what is, after all, the subject of the article - but you can't really get a better source. IMHO better not to unthinkingly slap an ugly great box at the top of it, but there you go. PeteVerdon (talk) 23:55, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  References
Talk:Richard Roth (journalist)

message: I can't make the entire infobox come up. I'm hoping someone will see this message and fix this for me. T@nn 10:54, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/there-was-no-tiananmen-square-massacre/
Did he think they'd just leave people bleeding out on the sidewalk?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.80.69.119 (talk) 17:32, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Denial of the Tianamen Square Shootings 

message: I disagree with your revert of my edit, for the following reasons.
#Notices warning of possible confusion about who is the subject of an article are conventionally placed at the very top of an article, see Wikipedia:Hatnote. If a reader is looking for the other journalist named Richard Roth then we should put them right as soon as we can.
#Your use of boldface was distracting and does not follow the guidelines in MOS:BOLD.
#External links should not normally be placed in the body of an article, see WP:EL.
#Your link to an external biography of the other Richard Roth does not add to the understanding of the subject of this article.
#You did not give an explanation of your revert  an edit summary or on this talk page, see WP:REVEXP.
#You marked the edit as a minor edit, see Help:Minor edit
Please explain why we should prefer your text, or I will re-revert. Verbcatcher (talk) 20:25, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: There has been no reply, so I have re-reverted. Verbcatcher (talk) 19:21, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  How to handle 'Not to be confused with Richard Roth of CBS News'