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Talk:Maurice Suckling

message: According to this article, only men of wealth could join the British army. Yes, that would likely be true for British officers, certainly in the 18th century, but it doesn't seem very likely for service at the bottom of the totem pole, as a grunt soldier. The British were famous for sacrificing their lower ranked soldiers in battle, while shielding their upper echelon officers, certainly in the 19th and 20th centuries. Was this actually different during the 18th century and earlier? Stevenmitchell (talk) 01:17, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I have reworded this for clarity. Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 18:49, 12 December 2023 (UTC)

text: Given your comments,  you're probably not best placed to decide what's dubious. --Ykraps (talk) 21:47, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Re the later comments in the aforementioned query, work has been done on British Army casualties in the period that doesn't agree with that: Pickersgill-Cunliffe (talk) 09:54, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed. And in addition to being at the fore front of the fighting, like Major Pitcairn who was killed leading his men up Bunker Hill, most officers took care of their men. The Duke of Wellington for example,  had his men lie down behind a ridge while he remained steadfast on his horse in full view. And while there was a lot of standing in tightly-packed formation and advancing slowly on the enemy, this was the prevailing tactic at the time (for very good reasons that I won't go into here) and in no way 'famously British'.  --Ykraps (talk) 06:51, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Only the Rich Could Join British Army?
Talk:Sutton Coldfield Grammar School for Girls

message: I was a pupil at this school between 1957 and 1964, and it was during this time that its name changed from “High School” to “Grammar School for Girls” — because at that time some secondary modern schools were being renamed as High Schools, and there was concern that this school should not be mistaken for a sec mod.  There was also a later period when it was a comprehensive school, something not mentioned here at all.
A smaller point:  in my day there was also a Mowbray House (I was in it, which is why I remember it), and I think some others — eight altogether?  The role of houses then seems however to have been much less important then it is now.
I do not want to make any changes to the article because I speak only from personal experience of the place and have no firm dates, no special access to authoritative sources, nor special knowledge of Warwickshire and Birmingham education policies over this time — but there is huge scope for someone who does to improve this greatly!  Penelope Coleman (talk) 10:13, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]
Talk:Menno van Coehoorn

message: What was his system? How was it different from before? The article keeps saying how wonderful his fortifications were, but makes no mention of the designs used.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.139.87.39 (talk) 14:38, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Point well taken. I intend to quote Duffy extensively on the subject.--Ereunetes (talk) 23:57, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Michel de Sallaberry

message: I still don't see why this article is necessary. Michel didn't do anything notable himself, so his existence and move from France could easily me included in the Ignace-Michel-Louis-Antoine d'Irumberry de Salaberry article (which is equally short). - TheMightyQuill 03:29, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relevance?
Talk:Mirza Rafi Sauda

message: Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources.  Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, and according to fair use may copy sentences and phrases, provided they are included in quotation marks and referenced properly. The material may also be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Therefore such paraphrased portions must provide their source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you.  Diannaa (talk) 17:51, 16 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem removed
Talk:Moses Dobruška

message: WP:Categorization of people#General considerations instructs us to "Categorize by those characteristics that make the person notable" - We don't even have a source to support the claim that Dobruska was a Freemason, so his membership in the fraternity is secondary (or even trivial) to what made him notable.   The category should be removed. Blueboar (talk) 15:43, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a problem with citation but if that's sorted then the line "one of the main conspirators of the “Knights of St. John the Evangelists for Asia in Europe,” " seems to belie the idea that this was a trivial fact in his life. Are you reading these articles before you take the categorisation out?  This is the second example I've seen where you say it's secondary or trivial but this is belied in the article. JASpencer (talk) 22:03, 31 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps... but if that is the case, the categorization rests on two bits unsourced (and potentially unverifiable) information... 1) that Dobruska actually was a member of the "Knights of St. John the Evangelists for Asia in Europe", and 2) that the Knights actually were a Masonic group.  We definitely should not categorize people based on unsourced information. Blueboar (talk) 17:37, 1 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categorization as a Freemason
Talk:Nara Bhupal Shah

message: "May i know the Father of Nara Bhupal Shah ?" I believe that it should be more appropriately kept in the Talk section and not in the article. Anyway, his father was Bir Bhadra Shah, who was the son of Prithivi Pati Shah.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shirsakbc (talk • contribs) 08:31, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Pillow structure

message: I suggest that the title of this page is changed to 'Pillow lava' as the term is used far more often in literature than 'Pillow structure', although the name should be retained as an alternative. Pillow lava currently redirects to Lava#Pillow lava. Mikenorton (talk) 13:14, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I completely agree. -- Avenue (talk) 21:09, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: No further comments, so I'm changing it as discussed. Mikenorton (talk) 21:50, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pillow structure or Pillow lava
Talk:Nathaniel Scudder

message: @User:Randy Kryn: Nathaniel Scudder is considered a Founding Father by whom? Since you didn't add a citation, we have no way of telling. So please apply one so we can determine whether reliable sources consider him a founder. This page is one 50 or so where you added this title without providing a citation. According to WP:VER, "Any material that needs a source but does not have one may be removed." Thank you. Allreet (talk) 01:14, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disputing unsourced Founding Father claim
Talk:Nathaniel West (captain)

message: I have moved this ahnentafel here because it is not supported by any sources what so ever and as can be seen by this recent edit, by 213.30.96.102 it is still being filled out without any reliable sources being added.
I have been editing the article Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, in that article there are four children listed with reliable sources. There is a fifth child listed "Martha (born 1615), who married William Woodward" but the source:
*  
is not a reliable one (WP:SOURCES). The editor who added the Martha (born 1615) information to Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr article is the same IP adddress that added it here (213.30.96.102)
I came to this article to have a look for the sources used to support the inclusion of Martha West (born 1615), only to find that the sources for this article are more of a mess than those of Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr.
Come on people it is the inclusion of un-reliabley-sourced speculative information that gave Wikipedia a bad name as a source that can be used by students. All of the information in this article for which reliable sources can not be found quickly should be removed from article space, until such time as verifiable reliable sources are provided. -- PBS (talk) 14:12, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Ancestry
Talk:Nathaniel Weil

message: A reader sent in the following image:
:File:New tombstone Korban Nesanel Front.jpg
I note the article has an image of the tombstone, identified as the front. The author of this one claims this is the front, and the other one the back. They are obviously opposite sides, I will leave it to editors to sort out the captions, and then add the second photo to the article.--SPhilbrick(Talk) 16:16, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Something's weird. Here there are some photos of the gravestone, none of them matches the one that is currently shown in this article. דוגדוגוש (talk) 19:50, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  New photo
Talk:Nantucket Sound

message: I think this article was awesome, and  i want more of it!
This article contains no references and given the controversial nature of the topic I believe people should be warned that this may be a biased article. Claiming that the biological diversity is particularly special in this area then stating that Cape Wind wants to put a wind farm in the middle of that is definitely an argument against Cape Wind that could very well be meaningless.
Josh821 18:03, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Category talk:2012 Summer Olympics

message: I have included this in both :Category:July 2012 sports events/:Category:August 2012 sports events and :Category:July 2012 sports events in the United Kingdom/:Category:August 2012 sports events in the United Kingdom on the basis that as a truly international event (and arguably seen by most people as the biggest sporting event of the year) it is probably the case that people using categories to search would expect to find the games in the parent category for sporting events by month as well as the sub-sub categories (which being held in the UK it seems logical for it to be included in). Dunarc (talk) 14:48, 2 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categories
Talk:Niccolò Jommelli

message: Yes, I agree the duplicate articles should be merged to one or the other.  Gene Nygaard (talk) 23:55, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge suggestion

message: Could someone clean up the section about Padre Martini?  It is an obvious merge without harmonization. Delmlsfan (talk) 00:02, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Martini section confused
Talk:Nicholas Amhurst

message: What, no mention of Mister Francklin?  :-)  The following, from a footnote to Waverley:
:Nicholas Amhurst, a noted political writer, who conducted for many years a paper called the Craftsman, under the assumed name of Caleb D'Anvers. He was devoted to the Tory interest, and seconded with much ability the attacks of Pulteney on Sir Robert Walpole. He died in 1742, neglected by his great patrons and in the most miserable circumstances.
:'Amhurst survived the downfall of Walpole's power, and had reason to expect a reward for his labours. If we excuse Bolingbroke, who had only saved the shipwreck of his fortunes, we shall be at a loss to justify Pulteney, who could with ease have given this man a considerable income. The utmost of his generosity to Amhurst that I ever heard of was a hogshead of claret! He died, it is supposed, of a broken heart; and was buried at the charge of his honest printer, Richard Francklin.'—Lord Chesterfield's Characters Reviewed, p. 42.
—From the PG ebook, http://www.archive.org/details/waverley05998gut
I'll add that latter publication to Wikisource, if I can find it.  —Sam Wilson 23:11, 18 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Footnote from Scott's ''Waverley'' 

message: Walpole was prime minister from 1721 to 1742.  He was a Whig.  How can Amhurst be both a Whig and in the opposition?  Whatever the political situation was, Amhurst's role in it needs to be made much clearer.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.37.62.241 (talk) 23:07, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Politics Doesn't Make Sense
Talk:Nicholas Hawksmoor

message: I have removed the repeated use of (sic) from the obituary, on the basis that most people will understand that it is written in 18th century English.Thomas Peardew (talk) 12:14, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Obituary 

message: So what is this considered to be ?  There are a number of mortal stomach complaints    ---  as a non-Jacobite no doubt the fellow was a rogue, but I wouldn't wish stomach cancer even on the worst Whig. Claverhouse (talk) 13:05, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gout of the Stomach 

message: Is there a portrait available showing what Hawksmoor himself looked like?
Sdrawkcab (talk) 12:19, 2 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Sadly, Sdrawkcab, no there isn’t. A portrait supposedly of Hawksmoor here, is actually the architect James Gibbs. There is a bust of him on the internet, but I’m unsure of the copyright status of photographed busts. I have seen a painted portrait of Hawksmoor, but only a monochrome photo in a very old book. I will try and see if I can find it, it doesn’t seem to be on the internet. Giano   (talk) 18:41, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  ah I see, thanks for clearing that up.Sdrawkcab (talk) 18:48, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture
Talk:Nicholas Purcell of Loughmoe

message: He was a member of a national legislature, namely the Irish Patriot Parliament of 1689. I therefore propose to remove the notability hatnote. Alekksandr (talk) 17:11, 5 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Now done.Alekksandr (talk) 22:09, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Notability
Talk:Nicholas Rowe (writer)

message: Did Alexander Pope write '
:'Peace to the gentle Shade'
:or
:'Peace to thy gentle Shade'
The web gives sanction for either
Linuxlad 23:05, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Later - the following article,
Pope's Epitaphs on Nicholas Rowe, Alfred Jackson, The Review of English Studies, Vol. 7, No. 25 (Jan., 1931), pp. 76-79
Says there are in fact two epitaphs, only one of which is definitely by Pope. The shorter one (8 lines) says 'thy', the one on Rowe's tomb says 'the'
Linuxlad 20:59, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Pope's Epitaph for Rowe

message: Infobox and dates seem to suggest he was 44 years old, yet his tomb inscription says "45 years old", this doesn't appear to have been addressed anywhere. The Rambling Man (talk) 12:58, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I can find no good modern secondary source on Rowe. Older secondary sources are not of sufficient scholarly standard (and do not in any case address this issue: Dr. Johnson, for example, takes the epitaph at face value and actually calculates an incorrect date of birth in 1793 from it!). And all the modern ternary sources (biographical dictionaries and encyclopedias) either do not cover the epitaph or they give it as is without addressing the discrepancy. There are yet some older secondary sources I can check, who might possibly address it, but I don't hold out much hope.However, the explanation is very likely a typo on the part of the epitaph's author: it was most likely intended to say that Rowe died "in his 45th year" (as it does for his daughter). The dates of baptism and death appear well documented (I haven't checked the primary sources here, but the ternary sources give me confidence in the dates), so there would seem to be no real question that he was 44 when he died. Absent sources that address the issue, I'm not sure how we can deal with it here apart from passing it over in silence. --Xover (talk) 14:17, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  thanks for getting back to me about this, I agree it looks impossible to resolve elegantly.  Cheers. The Rambling Man (talk) 15:37, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Age at death
Talk:Nicholas Sheehy

message: The Waterford County museum republication of Egan's history online  is useful but was written in the 1890s and would be considered too simplistic by historians today. An interesting emotive product of its times. Sheehy's memory and judicial murder was also publicized by Edmund Burke his (Protestant) cousin, and he deserves a better article.86.42.205.97 (talk) 08:52, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Main source
Talk:Nikola Bošković

message: : This matter is discussed at length at Talk:Ruđer Bošković. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 08:34, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Ethnicity

message: http://dizbi.hazu.hr/?vdoc=1121&page=65 is Rad LIV and it has Ljubić's text, but there are no pages 564-5 there. The text is tagged "(Ostatak.)" meaning "remainder" - maybe this part is in a different issue? --Joy [shallot] (talk) 10:27, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Šime Ljubić reference 

message: To avoid WP:RUD and to stay true to the license and fair to the original author, I'm attributing a few edits here:
* this edit includes a reference and text added by User:Nikola Smolenski on 2007-09-06 admin-only link
* this edit includes a reference from the aforementioned edit
* this edit includes a reference from the aforementioned edit
--Joy [shallot] (talk) 22:58, 17 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  attribution 

message: Is there any notability to this person other than the Boscovich ethnicity disputes? If no, it should probably be deleted. --Ivan Štambuk (talk) 13:48, 17 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability 

message: He has nothing to do with Serbia. Please don't tell me nationalists have taken over now.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.27.252.190 (talk) 01:36, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Serbia?
Talk:Ninon de l'Enclos

message: Saw in a comment on a blog this attributed to her:
:“I tell you on behalf of women: there is not one of us who does not prefer a little rough handling to too much consideration. Men lose through blundering more hearts than virtue saves. The more timidity a lover shows with us the more it concerns our pride to goad him on; the more respect he has for our resistance, the more respect we demand of him. We would willingly say to you men: “Ah in pity’s name do not suppose us to be so very virtuous, you are forcing us to have too much of it…”"
I can not find her on wikiquote, can anyone confirm if it rings a bell? I am wondering if legit if this should be used as evidence for describing attitudes. Ranze (talk) 09:12, 11 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Quote Q

message: The article says 1620. One of its references, the New Int'l Encyclopedia, says 1616. Another reference, the book reproduced at aelliott.com, says 1615. --Tbanderson (talk) 18:04, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Good question. The 1761 Memoirs of Ninon de L'Enclos, says she was born on the ides of May, 1616 while the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica says November 1615. But most sources seem to indicate it was either 1620 or 1623. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy says November 10, 1620. The Encyclopedia of Continental Women Writers says "January 9, 1623 (?)" and that she was born in either November 1620 or January 9, 1623. According to William L. Chew III, who wrote her entry in Women in World History: "Born Anne de Lanclos on January 9, 1623, in Paris, France (some sources erroneously cite November 11, 1620)". Project Continua's entry also has January 9, 1623, sourced to Roger Duchêne, Ninon de Lenclos, la courtisane du Grand Siècle, (Paris: Fayard, 1984), 18-19. gobonobo + c 20:38, 23 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  What year was she born?
Talk:Osei Kofi Tutu I

message: The biological descendants of Osei Tutu I are alive this present day resident at BOADI, Within the oforikrom municipality of the Ashanti Region. Thus more particularly described as Huahi Achama Tutuwaa Royal family of BOADI, HuahiRoyals (talk) 03:40, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: And so are the Asantehene's family FOAM543678 (talk) 01:37, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biological Descendants of Osei Tutu I
Talk:John Readhead & Sons

message: The subject seems to be notable. But the text, while taken verbatim from http://www.communigate.co.uk/ne/readhead/ , is from a book, and the exact copyright status of that book needs to be verified. Also, the text from this book is really not suitable at all for the article, and only describes the 19th century history. -- Egil 11:46, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorted those problems, changed {cleanup} to {expand} CIreland 12:40, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup
Talk:Percivall Pott

message: Hi Amohan12, good job with your edits! Just a few suggestions. Firstly, I noticed there are a lot of grammatical and punctuation errors throughout the sections you added, and some of the sentences sound awkward or quotes don't fit in with the sentence. For example, this sentence: "After his initial publication, more clinical cases began to emerge rapidly.[9] and by triggering a series of “Chimney Sweepers' Acts” which aimed to protect chimney sweepers." This quote also doesn't fit well where it is: "described Pott’s surgery as being “divested of great part of its horrors, became, comparatively, a pleasing study."" These are pretty simple/quick things to fix but I think it would really help with the readability of the article instead of distracting the reader constantly. Secondly, I think the Discovery and Identification Credit section is kind of unnecessary. You could add a sentence or two to the previous paragraph summarizing the information instead of creating a full section for it. From the reader's perspective, you are also introducing random people into this section, and I feel like there becomes less of a focus on Pott. Lastly, you could include more clarification in certain areas, such as when you say Pott "preferred gentler forms" or medicine. Great job with everything! Acewind88 (talk) 01:15, 17 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: "As the first surgeon of his day in England, excelling even his pupil, John Hunter..."Longinus876 (talk) 15:46, 3 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  I don't understand this sentence.  Who is John Hunter?
Talk:Peregrine White

message: It's a pity they don't have anymore info on William and Susanna White. Afterall, they were THE PILGRIMS and she survived to have many more children other than Peregrine.
Im a decendent of Peregrine My uncle has a family tree dating back to the 1300's.Rewrew1995 (talk) 22:06, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Given that they were married in 1646, how is it they were fined for fornication in 1648? --jpgordon::==( o ) 02:09, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marriage etc 

message: Updated some information from new sources. Mugginsx (talk) 18:13, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updated 

message: How can Peregrine White be the first English child born in America? What about Virginia Dare born in Roanoke in 1587? They can't both be first.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.152.75.114 (talk) 03:46, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  first English child born? 

message: The article lists Peregrine as the first boy and second baby born aboard the Mayflower, seeming to imply that the first baby was a girl. The hyperlink “second baby” leads to the page for Oceanus Hopkins, the first baby born on the Mayflower, also a boy. 2600:387:A:9:0:0:0:71 (talk) 04:49, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accuracy?