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Talk:Tarikh al-Sudan

message: Googling "Tarikh al-Sudan" etc (with quotes) gives the following hits:
* Tarikh es-Sudan - 905 hits (used here)
* Tarikh al-Sudan - 746 hits (used by Hunwick)
* Tarikh es-Soudan - 1510 hits (used by Houdas)
* Tarikh al-Soudan - 3 hits
The Wiki disambiguation page for Tarikh omits "Tarikh es-Sudan" but has 4 others with al. Does Wikipedia have guidelines?
Aa77zz (talk) 15:33, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling 

message: The French version of Encarta states that René Caillié (author of "Timbuctoo: The Mysterious" - 1896) brought back a copy of the Tarikh from Djenné to Paris so that it could be translated by specialists: http://fr.encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_741547696/Tarikh_es-Sudan.html
I would put this in the article if I could find a decent reference. René Caillié mentions the Tarikh es-Sudan. For instance on page 90:
"After the human documents I consulted the written, and among all the historical manuscripts collected in my travels the only one to refer to the origin of the Songhois is the Tarik."
Did Octave Houdas translate this version? Perhaps Houdas tells us in his introduction. My local library wouldn’t have his book – I would need to go to the British Library.
Aa77zz (talk) 12:35, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  René Caillié and the Tarikh 

message: Stimulated by the excellent FA on the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, I wondered about the age of the existing copies of the Tarikh and whether we knew which had been copied from which. Hunwick mentions seven manuscripts (MS A-G). From Hunwick’s footnotes it would appear that they are all quite similar.
*MS A – Used by Houdas - no info in Hunwick
*MS B – Used by Houdas – BNP MS 5256 (Houdas Manuscript B - copied in Djenne by Felix Dubois See Houdas and Dubois)
*MS C – BNP MSS Arabes, 6096 (would appear to be MS C of Houdas - date is 1206/1792 - see Gallica link and Houdas
*MS D – Bibliotheque de l'Institut de France, Paris, MS 2414 (Fonds De Gironcourt 200). (Hunwick page xvii: Mid-eighteenth century)
*MS E - Bibliotheque Nationale, Alger, Fonds Ben Hamouda, MS 4.
*MS F – Centre de Documentation et de Recherches Historiques Ahmad Baba, Timbuktu, MS 660. (Hunwick page xviii: undated by probably nineteenth century)
*MS G - Centre de Documentation et de Recherches Historiques Ahmad Baba, Timbuktu, MS 681. (Hunwick page xviii: undated by probably nineteenth century)
I looked at library catalogues. MS B and C are in the BNF (downloaded catalogue as a pdf)
*MS B – second half of the 19th century
*MS C – 19th century
*MS D – Using MS number given by Hunwick and found: http://www.calames.abes.fr/pub/institut.html#details?id=IF2C11219 MS 2414: Pièce 200: Histoire des Songhois et des rois du Soudan (No author, title or date given – difficult to find without knowing MS number).
Thus MS D is the oldest and is mid-eighteeth century.
Aa77zz (talk) 14:53, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  How old are the existing manuscripts?
Talk:Draycott, Derbyshire

message: As this article includes the hamlet of Church Wilne in its scope as well as Draycott itself, wouldn't it be more accurate to title it "Draycott and Church Wilne" after the civil parish? Currently, that redirects to Draycott, whereas the other way round would more accurately represent the content of the article. Jellyman (talk) 14:19, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed renaming
Talk:Crash bar

message: Is there any point in creating a disambiguation page for this article? Why create a page that links to two pages, each consisting of 4-5 lines of text, instead of a page that consists of 9-10 lines of text? 82.17.73.208 15:15, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation page 

message: What on earth does this mean? Presumably not its common meaning in British English... Hairy Dude (talk) 17:31, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Dogging"
Category talk:User lisp

message: People who have added themselves to this category may be interested in TonyBot, part of a project to make an on-wiki query system for Wikipedia and other large MediaWiki-based wikis.
Because I'm a Schemer I've written the bot framework in Scheme, and the query language is a dialect of Chicken Scheme, but the basic idea is applicable to any scripting language.   I've been running private queries based on the bot framework for a couple of months now and I'm currently running simple tests of the user interface, which allows any Wikipedian to write a script, and any other Wikipedian to make use of it.  A sample script, which is working now, is at User:Tony Sidaway/scripts/search.  It's rather more complex than it should be because I'm still developing a standard library that will enable concise query scripts to be written.  I am also working n a separate-compilation facility so that scripts can use code units spread across several wiki pages.
If anybody is interested in this project, please contact me on my talk page. --Tony Sidaway 15:15, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[User:TonyBot|TonyBot]]
Category talk:User scheme

message: People who have added themselves to this category may be interested in TonyBot, part of a project to make an on-wiki query system for Wikipedia and other large MediaWiki-based wikis.
Because I'm a Schemer I've written the bot framework in Scheme, and the query language is a dialect of Chicken Scheme, but the basic idea is applicable to any scripting language.  I've been running private queries based on the bot framework for a couple of months now and I'm currently running simple tests of the user interface, which allows any Wikipedian to write a script, and any other Wikipedian to make use of it.  A sample script, which is working now, is at User:Tony Sidaway/scripts/search.  It's rather more complex than it should be because I'm still developing a standard library that will enable concise query scripts to be written.  I am also working n a separate-compilation facility so that scripts can use code units spread across several wiki pages.
If anybody is interested in this project, please contact me on my talk page.  --Tony Sidaway 15:17, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[User:TonyBot|TonyBot]]
Talk:Hathersage

message: I've had a stab at an IPA template to show the pronunciation I am familiar with (I grew up not far away). If anyone thinks I've made an error, please feel free to adjust (and explain!). PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 22:43, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi PaleCloudedWhite (hope this is a good place to discuss your reversion of my edit), I used the spelling DH for /ð/ because it was given at Template:Respell#Examples. I agree it's not necessarily intuitive, but I thought it was better than implying /ˈhæθəsɪdʒ/ with a voiceless 'th' like in "thing" with HATH-ə-sidge. I'll change it to HATHə-sidge – does that look clear enough to you? I find the main problem is train announcers and co. making the last syllable sound like "sage", anyway. I don't know if you were asking whether your pronunciation or your IPA was okay but both look fine to me (also from the area). Φ (talk) 09:22, 3 April 2019 (UTC)

text: Of course you only notice things once you've clicked Publish... The secondary stress you had in the IPA wasn't necessary. John C. Wells has a post about why this is if you're interested. Φ (talk) 09:31, 3 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: , thanks for the explanation. I understand the issue with readers possibly thinking the 'th' sound in HATH-ə-sidge is voiceless (/θ/). I'm not sure if HATHə-sidge reduces that risk, though either is preferable to HADH-ə-sidge in my view. However, what about HA-the-sidge as an alternative (if that's allowable under respell guidelines?)? PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 13:34, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  Hi , I've just remembered about this. As 'dh' is given for /ð/ in the standardised key actually linked by the pronunciation template and the schwa is already a phonetic symbol (so not intuitive), I think it's best to change it back to my original edit. Φ (talk) 10:26, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I cannot agree to using 'dh', simply because nobody pronounces it like that. PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 08:12, 20 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: Is it true that locals call it Hathersausage? Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 12:47, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Lol. Not heard that one. I'll ask a local. PaleCloudedWhite (talk) 20:18, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Local name
Talk:Kasuganishiki Takahiro

message: Jan.,2011. --Bilderling (talk) 09:39, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes I know; just haven't got round to updating it yet. Seems he's also involved in the latest match-fixing scandal, so plenty to write about.--Pawnkingthree (talk) 13:08, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intai
Talk:Chama, Colorado

message: While checking a geographic reference for this town, I discovered that two are listed, in different counties with different elevations! 
What's the protocol when there are two towns in the same state with the same name?  -- Ken g6 15:26, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe the other Chama, Colorado, is a ghost town.  There are often more than one town of the same name in the same state.  You normally distinguish towns of the same name by adding the county name, e.g., Twin Lakes, Adams County, Colorado, and Twin Lakes, Lake County, Colorado.  --Buaidh 16:22, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks!  That helped at Coal Creek, Colorado, too. -- Ken g6 19:27, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Are there two Chama, Colorados?
Category talk:Buddhist nuns

message: It would be interesting to me to have a category for bhikkhunīs/bhikṣuṇīs (fully ordained nun-priests) distinct from women who belong to the various other renunciate vocations that have been developed in countries where fully ordination is not available to women (maechis, etc). That would involve a significant reorganisation of this category, though, since both bhikkhunīs and other female renunciates can be referred to as Buddhist nuns. – Greg Pandatshang (talk) 18:23, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  bhikkhunīs and other renunciates
Talk:Harold G. Hillam

message: I placed the tag for deletion on this article because I believe it is a family history article and not something for inclusion in a general encyclopedia. I suggest this be moved to another venue (Mormon biographies encyclopedia, for instance) before deletion from here. --Robbie Giles 15:36, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: He was general president of the LDS Church Sunday School, quite a high position in the church; and he was a member of the Presidency of the Seventy, which ranks only after the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve in church heirarchy. He's also currently a president of an LDS temple in Idaho. A definite keep; it needs source expansion. I can perhaps dig some things out. Ubi Terrarum 21:41, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Notability

message: this guy was one of the leaders of that LDS scout organization that was full of pedofiles, more than half of the kids had gotten some kind of abuse, and that Adam Steed was a whistleblower against. Then he used and abused his power to go after Steed for more than a decade in the most dire ways possible. he tried to hinder his marriage, was giving out private information about Steed to undermine his fight for his kids custody. when this didnt work properly in his eyes, he let Jodi Hildebrand, the now worldwide known LDS connected child abuser felon loose on Steed. which is turned out to be a frequen tool for him against "problematic" men in the church. This page is a joke, this person is clearly a criminal, had he not died he would have been accused of something by the court. this page need a serious tuneup.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:4C4C:1152:C100:0:0:0:1000 (talk) 12:00, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  one of the leaders
Talk:Cephalonia Prefecture

message: ::It seems no-one has made a note that starting 1/1/11 the municipalities of Kefalonia have all merged into one (the Municipality of Kefalonia), it's "seat" being Argostoli, the former municipality and capital of the prefecture. The prefecture still does exist, but no longer includes the island of Ithaki (if I am not mistaken: changes such as this were made under the new "Kallikratis" programme in replacement of the former "Kapodistrias", which are rulings as to the organization of prefectures, municipalities and communities in Greece. As these changes are recent, there is confusion even among Greeks as to what the new structure is. Perhaps an editor experienced in Greek local self-government administration would be the right person to update the article)--Saintfevrier (talk) 08:15, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Kallikratis programme
Talk:Eveready Industries India

message: I don't understand how this country is still allowed to survive and flourish in INDIA of all countries....Eveready is nothing but UNION CARBIDE....the company responsible for the Bhopal Gas Tragedy that paid a pittance as compensation to the 1000s of people affected....What are we doing letting their sales grow by buying their batteries???
Is the company affiliated with Energizer (formally known as Eveready)? --MrBurns (talk) 17:27, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

message: Should Eveready Industries be listed as an Energizer affiliate? Apart from having a perpetual licence on the Eveready Brand in India and a few other countries, there is no other connection to Energizer holdings. Please review.AchintyaRanjanDas (talk) 09:22, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question about Energizer Link
Talk:Peggy Webb

message: In 2008 Peggy Webb turned her talents to writing cozy mysteries with Elvis and the Dearly Departed: A Southern Cousins Mystery (Kensington Publishing Corp.). Kensington published the first five books in that series, including Elvis and the Grateful Dead (2009), Elvis and the Memphis Mambo Murder (2010), Elvis and the Tropical Double Trouble (2011) and Elvis and the Blue Christmas Corpse (2012). Subsequent cozies in this series were Indie Published (Elvis and the Bridegroom Stiffs, Elvis and the Buried Brides, Jack Loves Callie Tender)and are available as ebooks on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and at Smashwords.
     In 2011, Webb's first literary fiction novel, The Tender Mercy of Roses, written under the pen name Anna Michaels, was published by Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster. In 2012 Peggy Webb became a USA Today Bestselling author for her book Witch Dance which appeared in an Indie Published, limited run anthology (Dangerous Desires) with fellow writers, Vicki Hinze, Debra Webb, Regan Black, and Kathy Carmichael. When Simon & Schuster published The Language of Silence in 2014, they used the name Peggy Webb. 
    This author also writes literary fiction under the pen name, Elaine Hussey - The Sweetest Hallelujah (2013, MIRA) and The Oleander Sisters (2014, MIRA).
     Currently this prolific author lives in northeast Mississippi and continues to write cozy mysteries and literary fiction. She is also editing the romances from her early career and bringing them back as ebooks. A complete list of her books and up-to-date news from her can be found at her websites, www.peggywebb.com and www.elainehussey.com. (98.251.249.83 (talk) 15:51, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  ((REQUEST EDIT))
Talk:Piter Wilkens

message: I just wasted about half an hour translating this article, only to have all my work lost due to an edit conflict caused by User:Arknascar44's speedy deletion notice. Arknascar44 had apparently not read my edit summary which explained that I was in the process of translation. As a result, I will have to go back and translate the whole thing again. But first I will eat lunch, and do some work so the article will have to remain in its current untranslated state for several more hours. Please read edit summaries. Aelffin 15:48, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hangon
Talk:Phased array ultrasonics

message: I don't think the picture of the fetus is made with a phased array probe. Usually fetal ultrasound is made with curvilinear probes. --Ekko 15:49, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, I fixed it. — DavidMack 17:32, 5 September 2007 (UTC)

message: Mr. Markovski is not the original pioneer of Phased Array ultrasonics. Also this is not what the reference given in the article states. It merely states that he made a contribution to the field of phased array imaging. 
The earliest reference in literature on the development of Phased Array systems is from Jan Somer of the university of Maastricht who reports having build a working prototype in 1967. See for instance the article J.C. Somer "The history of real time ultrasound", elsevier international congress series 1274 (2004) 3-13
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Yonare (talk • contribs) 
:Thanks, I have removed the reference to the inventor until we find a more authoritative reference. — DavidMack (talk) 22:26, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inventor incorrect
Talk:Fruit bum

message: There are no google hits for this term.  It's not even being used in anyone's blog.  There are no sources for this given.  It is inflammatory to suggest that all migrant agricultural workers in England are or were thieves.  There is no time frame given as to when people might have been using this terminology.  I am going to boldly redirect this page to Migrant worker.OfficeGirl 15:52, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  I doubt this is a genuinely used phrase
Talk:Armed Forces of South Russia

message: Most sources suggest that White strength peaked in Octtober 1919, but the article implies it was in decline. 173.66.5.216 (talk) 23:16, 10 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  October 1919 

message: I propose merging General Command of the Armed Forces of South Russia into Armed Forces of South Russia. I think the content in General Command of the Armed Forces of South Russia can easily be explained in the context of Armed Forces of South Russia, and a merge would not cause any article-size or weighting problems in Armed Forces of South Russia. NLeeuw (talk) 19:50, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: It might help context if they were on the same page. Discussion should probably also include South Russian Government. CMD (talk) 07:35, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal
Talk:American Champion Older Dirt Male Horse

message: The pre-1936 champions- why are they here? Just because someone made up a list? I have looked at the bloodhorse and tbheritage sources and they give no clue as to how they were compiled. They need to be separated from the main list, or removed altogether. Unless someone can enlighten me. Tigerboy1966 (talk) 17:35, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Validity?

message: I question moving this article, as until 2015, turf horses were eligible (and notably, Wise Dan was a turf horse).  I think that it should be moved back and a new article created at this title.  Thoughts?  Montanabw(talk) 22:02, 12 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  question move
Talk:Vileness Fats

message: The infobox says that the "original" running time was "over 840 minutes".  I'm changing it to "N/A".  There may have been over 14 hours of footage shot, but that was raw, unedited footage.  No one lists movie running times by how much footage was shot, they go by how long an actual final cut runs.  There was no final cut of Vileness Fats (or any other cut that I know of, for that matter).  There was no original running time because it never ran anywhere.  Funkeboy 16:03, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Original" running time 

message: Just so we're absolutely clear:  The film is "Vileness Fats", but the setting is "Vileness Flats", right? - Immigrant laborer (talk) 20:24, 8 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Fats" / "Flats"
Talk:Antiquarian book trade in the United States

message: I added a link to this page from my article, MAURICE FIRUSKI, since Mr. Firuski was involved in the trade. I am not sure if 1 link qualifies this article as "un-orphaned."  Or does it? Christopher.altnau 16:05, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've untagged it, there's a few incoming links. KTC 16:10, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Cryostasis (clathrate hydrates)

message: http://www.bio-medicine.org/q/clathrate wbesite coppied this information from wikipedia.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.180.239.20 (talk) 16:05, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reliable Sources and Possible Copyright Issues 

message: If no concrete answer can be given then please make this article either disappear or move it into the science fiction category.
I mean, that if a human or other animate body other than for example bacteria or viruses is to be set into cryostasis, then that body must be killed forefront in order to establish an environment where individual cells can survive low temperatures beyond the freezing point. But then again, having one such body killed forefront means also that all cells will be dead by programmed death aka "self destruction". Please see related wikipedia articles on that topic for more information. And, please, come to the conclusion that this is charlatanism when provided as a commercial service to the willingly believing/hopeful consumers.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.54.66.34 (talk) 23:56, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question: how would one be able to induce required gaseous materials into every cell of a body in order to preserve and "unfreeze" it in the future without the need of the body do be dead or have to be killed in the first place?
Wikipedia talk:Bots/Requests for approval/TonyBot

message: Oh well, about four months later I'm running tests of this bot using code written on the wiki.  Please see the following:
* TonyBot contributions
* History of User talk:Tony Sidaway
A lot of the intervening time has been spent in working out a simple technique for communicating with a bot using a wiki.  --Tony Sidaway 16:19, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Oh well
Talk:Gagra

message: Is there any administrative reason to call Gagra a city? Otherwise I will change it to 'town'. sephia karta 15:43, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see any. Most languages don't have the city/town distinction so calling an entity either way is largely arbitrary imho... Go ahead and change it if you feel it's necessary. Alæxis¿question? 15:55, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: My reasoning was that, to my knowledge, in English, city implies either 'city rights' or a population significantly higher than that of Gagra. sephia karta 16:08, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  City or town? 

message: :In this article it is already shown other map depicting Gagra's location in Abkhazia, two similar maps is not relevant, will be better if we add its location in Georgia, as it's done in other articles. --g. balaxaZe★ 12:57, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  The location in Abkhazia map adds value as on the map of Georgia Gagra can only be shown as a point, rather than in its true shape. Since you propose changes to several Abkhazia-related articles it's best to discuss it at the Abkhazia WikiProject. Alæxis¿question? 07:31, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Location Map 

message: While pro-Russian, pro-Kartvelian trivia is spread on all of the history section.
First of all, it is not western Georgia, it is Abkhazia for more than 2 millenia (Check Roman names of the region).
Secondly Abkhazia was never annexed/conquered by Ottomans. Abasgia( safe for Apsilia kind of feudal anarchist system and Sadza with its local princes) were ruled by Acba dynasty till 1864. If you have such a claim you have to provide evidence, a few castles are not evidence(Britain has US bases all over).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.172.37.234 (talk) 20:04, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  No info of Abkhazian Genocide 
Talk:Perioperative mortality

message: Is there anyone working on a preoperative assessment page?  I developed a form for my residents to use when doing preoperative risk assessment (which includes the Goldman-Detsky Criteria as well as portions of AHA guidelines.)  An anesthesiologist would be much more qualified, but has anybody started something like this?doctorwolfie 16:42, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  