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Talk:Kafirs

message: This article is unsatisfactory:
*It describes in detail two totally unrelated groups of people on the same page
*All the content regarding black African people is repeated or presented in a more accurate form on other pages (e.g. Xhosa, Zulu). Much of the content is untrue or not NPOV (e.g. "In the past, Kafirs were essentially warriors")
*The content is apparently based on a Victorian writer's work. Not only might this be a copyvio, but it is inaccurate and seriously misleading. So far as southern Africa is concerned, the word has not been used in this sense for a century. For someone to use the word Kafirs to describe modern black South African people would cause serious offence.
I propose turning this page into a disambiguation page :  directing readers to the different southern African articles (e.g. Xhosa, Zulu) and to Kafirs of Hindukush and Kafirstan. Only 7 articles link here, so there is unlikely to be much traffic. 
Comments? Humansdorpie 12:57, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd actually go as far as suggesting a complete removal of this article and all references to this page. Why should it exist? --Janto 00:22, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  OK, I've removed all references to Kafirs. All of them where confusions with the plural for kafir. Which is actually "kuffar" apparently. I'm going to simply replace the page with a redirect to kafir. --Janto 00:50, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggestion
Talk:Paris GDP

message: To the anonymous user who keeps vandalising this page (using IP 82.35.100.95 and 80.195.235.28): please read carefully the text you have repeatedly removed. Greater London plus all the NUTS2 regions around it is much larger than the metropolitan area of London. It includes Oxford, Newbury, Chichester, Folkestone, Ramsgate, Cochester, etc, which no definiton of the London metropolitan area ever include in the metropolitan area. To say that the global GDP of all these NUTS2 regions is the GDP of the metropolitan area of London is simply an exageration, and that's why I call it vandalism, whereas the text in the article gives two numbers, one for Greater London alone, and one for Greater London plus all the NUTS2 regions around it, and makes it clear that the real figure for the metropolitan area is somewhere in between, but where exactly it is not possible to say. So please stop removing. Hardouin 12:57, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Destination (Ronan Keating album)

message: J-pop duo FictionJunction YUUKA has also released an album entitled Destination in late 2005, which I'll be creating the article for very soon. I don't think there will be any objection to this being moved to Destination (Ronan Keating album), so I'll request a move. -- Tydus Arandor 23:03, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've moved the page; cheers. -GTBacchus(talk) 22:51, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other "Destination" album 
Talk:Main Beach, Queensland

message: “The name Main Beach is descriptive, since it was the main surf beach for the town of Southport.” source Gold Coast City Council http://www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/t_gcsuburbs_h.asp?pid=1051
--WikiCats 13:11, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Origin of the name

message: File:Queensland State Archives 393 Main Beach Gold Coast City 1 January 1933.png   on the beach new years day 
description 1 Main Beach, Gold Coast City ... (uncategorized)Category:Photographic material from the Queensland State Archives Category:Australia in the 1930s ...
(720 × 504 (315 KB)) - 03:05, 2 April 2013       
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:StateLibQld_2_14498_Bridge_at_Southport_where_the_Nerang_River_meets_the_ocean,_Gold_Coast,_Queensland.jpg
meets the ocean, Gold Coast, Queensland Tidal estuary at Southport. | ... in Queensland Category:Southport, Queensland Category:1903 in Australia ...
(1,000 × 488 (96 KB)) - 21:54, 30 May 2013               southport to mainbeach / surfers bridge
--Andys'edtits 16:05, 23 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: wiki picks historical
Talk:English–Latin football rivalry

message: The Andover/Exeter rivalry started in 1878, and was reported in both the November 13, 2004 USA Today and the November 13, 2005 Boston Sunday Globe as being "The nation's oldest continuous prep school rivalry" and the "nation's longest consecutive schoolboy rivalry", respectively.  That being said, the rivalry has missed a few years (this year was the 125th meeting, but the 127th year of the rivalry) but was still qualified as "continuous," i believe, due to the fact that in each of these cases it resumed play the following year.  In any case, it certainly deserves a mention in the intro at the very least, as the andover/exeter rivalry is older than the latin/english, whether or not it is continuous.jfg284 you were saying? 13:32, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Latin/English is actually the third oldest rivalry overall, but it's the longest streak of yearly meetings. That was said in the article, wasn't it? Since this seems to be a low tread area, i'm removing the tag now. karmafist 11:32, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll head over to the Help Desk on this one. karmafist 18:44, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oldest? 

message: The article refers to a 0-0 game as a scoreless victory.
Is this just an unusual error is was there actually a rule
that gave one side the win in that situation somehow?
(09:00 UTC, December 16, 2005)
The score of at least one of the games is incorrect. The 1966 game was won by English. I know this because the Latin School class of 1973 had the distinction of being the first class to have Latin win all the games during the 6 years we attended the school.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.224.225.210 (talk) 02:09, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scoreless victory?
Talk:Sutter family

message: I'm not certain, but I think the twins were teamates in St.Louis. Maybe this could be added. GoodDay 23:42, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ahh, you are indeed correct. Resolute 00:33, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: St.Louis Blues

message: Could/should something be mentioned about the apparently huge ties to Calgary, given that Brian, Brent and Darryl have all coached for Calgary, Rich is the only Sutter to never have worked for the Calgary Flames and four of them are currently employed by the Flames?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.125.125.98 (talk) 15:44, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Calgary Flames
Talk:Zera Yacob Amha Selassie

message: Is there any reason the article name shouldn't simply be "Zera Yacob Amha Selassie" instead of "Zera Yacob Amha Selassie, Crown Prince of Ethiopia"? -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 22:44, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

message: There is no article about Princess Lideta Zera Yacob. Instead the "link" to her page redirects back to this article about Zera Yacob Amha Selassie. :-(  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Scribe asd (talk • contribs) 20:46, 30 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for pointing that out. I've removed the link: the Princess Lideta Zera Yacob article () consisted of only two sentences before someone redirected it to this one. It also lacked any sources – see WP:BLP. -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 18:52, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Loop through redirection
Talk:Hostomel

message: Despite the proper transliteration of the official name (which is Hostomel' ) I think that Russified Gostomel has become an established English name. The town is known only for its airport, marketed by Antonov Airlines as Gostomel. Ukrained 14:27, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point! At least this is a fair issue to discuss. As such, whoever itches to move the article, should raise the issue at talk first. If the move is made with a dirty trick it would be immediately brought up to the attention of the community and such moves will likely soon be reverted regardless of their merit based simply on the fact that the trick was used. The message here is that mage moves should be discussed before they are implemented except of the obvious ones, like typos or poor phrasing. Thanks! --Irpen 00:01, 15 December 2005 (UTC)

text: P.S. That said I am not sure what the name of the article should be. The article Gostomel Airport is very clear how to call, but as for the city name, I not 100% sure. We have a Kharkiv article and Battles of Kharkov at the same time and there is no problem so far. --Irpen 00:01, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Exactly. Airport should remain Gostomel since it is marketed as such. But I'm not happy that Antonov does so. The company's top-managers are extremely pro-Russian. So I agree with renaming the town article as Hostomel. Did I undesrtand your point? Ukrained 20:15, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I just said lets wait a little bit for others to say something. There is no rush, that's all. You raised the issue. Let's see what others have to say. I am mildly inclined to have the article titled "Hostomel" but Gostomel in boldface listed in the first line. --Irpen 20:23, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Name

message: Is the letter "Г" typically transliterated as an "H" or as a "G"? I'm seeing both in different contexts, though I'm not exactly sure which is the standard transliteration. — Mhawk10 (talk) 07:08, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe "Г" is transliterated as a "H" in Ukrainian and "G" in Russian, whereas Ukrainian uses the "Ґ" for "G" sounds. So the Ukrainian transliteration is Hostomel, whereas the Russian is Gostomel. I'm guessing standard transliteration here is rapidly changing due to political contexts, as with the Kiev/Kyiv renaming. QueenofBithynia (talk) 16:02, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transliteration of Г 

message: Prilipko's death is currently debated. The Ukrainians claim he was killed by Russian troops, while the Russians allege that he was murdered by the SBU, then Ukrainian intelligence service as a "collaborator", for negotiating with Russian troops. I suggest withholding factual statements until history clarifies the actual cause of his death.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 45.44.227.120 (talk) 22:32, 5 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Killing of Prilipko
Talk:History of Athens/Archive 1

message: Is it that big of the deal that the map is in German?
Also, it is a PD image from the 1888 edition of the German encyclopedia  Meyers Konversationslexikon, and it shows how Athens was laid out in the late 18th century. WhisperToMe 05:54, 18 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: 1888 German map

message: I removed the pronunciation given for  ath-'en'-néigh for two reasons, as explained in the edit comment:
*I don't see the point of giving the pronunciation of an ancient word, especially since Ancient Greek is written completely phonetically;
*the transcription is completely non-standard and unintelligible (could it be trying for ? but that's nothing like the ancient pronunciation—or the modern for that matter).
Now, it has been changed to At-hair-nigh.  Both objections stand with this transcription:
*There is no purpose in giving a pronunciation.
*Wikipedia policy says Ad-hoc pronunciation guides are discouraged for good reason —and the 'r' is not the only problem: ??  If you insist on a pronunciation, at least use IPA, viz. —though that misses the tone accent....
--Macrakis 06:40, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I pronounce the "r" in "hair" and so does everyone else on this continent (well...almost). It did not occur to me at all that you did not pronounce it, and I was wondering where the "r" came from. Adam Bishop 15:43, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Pardon my ignorance here, but which continent do you live on? Adam 00:30, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: North America (but don't worry, I'm Canadian :)) Adam Bishop 02:16, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

text: I've never heard "heh-ruh" either, but there is still an "r" there...that's strange, I guess we just have different mental images of what that sound should be. "heh" is fine I suppose. Adam Bishop 02:43, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Ancient pronunciation of {{lang|grc|&#x1f08;&#952;&#942;&#957;&#945;&#953;}}
File talk:La Fortaleza, the governor's mansion in Puerto Rico.jpg

message: The original copyright claims for this image were unsafe.  The claim was that it came from Educational site at:homepages.udayton.edu/. ../imageK4N.JPG, but that is a malformed URL, and that it was generic public domain, even though most educational sites are not public domain.  I have, however established to my satisfaction that this was a Google images search  hit and the mangling of the URL was the result of truncation for display, and therefore have established the true immediate source.
The sub-site that held the image was marked copyright and all rights reserved, however, the image on that site also contains the text:   Puerto Rico Econ. Dev. Admin., which has been cropped  off in the image uploaded here, and when contacted, the site owner said that the image came from the Puerto Rico office of the Economic Development Administration.  As this is a part of the US Department of Commerce, I think there are now reasonable grounds for considering this to be in the public domain because it came from a US federal agency.
If it is in the public domain, it is legal to remove an attribution, but I feel that doing so shows bad faith. It would also be better if it were possible to verify the copyright status with the DOC. --David Woolley 14:35, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyright Status

message: The image here seems to have a gamma of 1.0, rather than the 2.2 that approximates the sRGB standard used on the web.  This makes it look too dark.  I don't want to fix it until the copyright status fully stabilises.  This is a common problem with scans and professional photographs.  Most digital cameras conform to sRGB, because most pictures are used on PCs. --David Woolley 14:53, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Image quality
Talk:Howell, Michigan

message: This material belongs here.  It was the home of some famous Michigan members of the Ku Klux Klan, and that was well publicized and is part of its cultural history.  We don't censor or rewrite history.
You are all reminded that you appear to be in an WP:Edit war and may become in violation of the WP:3RR concerning the Howell, Michigan article.  We don't WP:Censor, and this involved WP:RS information.  Take it to the article talk page.  You can be blocked from WP:Editing. Please sign your posts using  ~~~~ 7&6=thirteen (☎) 22:31, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Once again we discuss this.  Part of Howell's history.  Well known and documented.  Belongs here.  I put it back.  User: John from Idegon and I disagree.  7&6=thirteen (☎) 15:35, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I support the inclusion of the Historic reputation section in this article. Its well referenced and the facts speak for themselves. - Samf4u (talk)  16:56, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Howell's reputation

message: In the "Interesting people" section, no mention of Miss Michigan, 1956?
(Yeah, she was on an old ep of "What's My Line?") 66.177.251.92 (talk) 02:01, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Margaret Devereaux
Talk:Potwar

message: The is a lot of contention on the issue of Kai Gohar being alive yet alone building roads in Potwar. In fact on the Gakhars page a month ago it was stated that his legends of being a Kayanid scion were 'fabulous' and that the Gakhars were Jatt origin i.e. Kokhars. Also the article highlights Kai Gohar being gifted it by Mahmud Ghazni in 10th century or so, then reads he built roads in 15th century?
This issue needs to be addressed there. But this page reads more of a Gakhar tribute than a Potwar article.
Potwar has many disctinct customs and peoples from many back grounds, tribes and the like. Essentially the whole of Potwar has NEVER been completely owned by the Gakhar or any other tribe. It has had very various regions within it controlled by different tribes so the references within the article seem quite biased.--Raja 15:18, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kai Gohar reference.
Talk:Sour mix

message: Can we assume a cup to be about 250 ml?  Jimp 4Dec05
: Closer to 235 mL. JesseRafe 03:12, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Under US Federal Law (seriously) a cup is 240mL --JD79 20:13, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  An Australian Standard Cup is exactly 250ml. 124.149.105.213 (talk) 01:02, 4 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definitions of cup 

message: How much does this yield? I'd assume 4 cups, but I don't know if the sugar would make it more or less. Also, does anyone know about how many lemons it would take to make 2 cups of fresh juice? Thanks, JesseRafe 03:14, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yield? 

message: Is Sweet 'n Sour the same thing as Sour Mix?  If so, we need a redirect page from Sweet 'n Sour (and probably a disambiguation page with Sweet and Sour the meat sauce). BeboGuitar 18:20, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As far as I can tell, it is. Sour Mix seems to be the traditional name, Sweet and Sour is more recent, but the ingredients are the same on the samples I checked. Would be nice to find a source to confirm. Agreed a redirect is in order. Rees11 (talk) 16:17, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sweet 'n Sour 

message: Sours in Japan are a huge thing, I think there needs to be a section on them.
Over there it is basically cheep vodka like spirit with a mixer. But is the main choice in karaoke/izakaya, and the cheapest.
I've added the Japanese page to the language links, but need someone with a bit more knowledge to actually write it.
--Stripy42 (talk) 18:12, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  サワー 

message: I recently had the occasion to visit the bar-scene in Iowa City (such as it is), and I noticed a common practice there was to replace Sour Mix with Sprite or equivalent.  Thus any drink requiring it, Whisky Sour, Vodka Sour, Amaretto Sour, etc., came out carbonated.  The flavor is otherwise approximately the same, other than the fizz.  I have no idea how widespread this practice is, as I'm not from Iowa, and have never spent much time in the midwest in general.  I don't know if it's just a regional thing, but I've never seen it done anywhere else, and it happened in several different places there.  It seems like something done only in the lower-end bars - cheap as Sour Mix may be, Sprite is probably cheaper.  More upscale places seemed to do it properly.  Has anyone else ever seen this?  If so - does it deserve a mention in the article?  Lurlock (talk) 06:52, 26 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I didn't say I preferred it that way, just that it happened to me several times at different locations (though all in the same general area), and I was curious how widespread a phenomenon it was.  Lurlock (talk) 19:28, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Substituting Sprite? 

message: Does this stuff taste pretty much like lemon squash? might be an idea to answer on my talk page Greglocock (talk) 07:44, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Question for Poms or Ozzies who've had it
Talk:Daniel Podrzycki

message: There seems to be some confusion about the date of birth here.  Some sources give it as the 4th June , others as the 14th .  I don't have the language skills or knowledge to check this further - can anyone help? -- sannse (talk) 15:28, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Correct date is 14th. Check here: http://sipdata.lex.pl/dane/monitory/05/m05456/77.pdf (his ID number - PESEL 63061403896). Radoc 12:36, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Cultural Mormonism

message: What about the current leader in "Survivor: Guatemala"?  I don't watch the show so I don't know his name.  But a local radio talk show host talked about him and used the term "Cultural Mormon" because he is raised in a family culture that is LDS but he was never baptized.  This would be a new use of the term that is currently not covered in this article.  I would have added this information myself, but I don't know the guy's name.  Val42 15:45, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Survivor Guatemala Guy

message: What about Mormons who don't understand the actual doctrine and have created an almost different religion...the cultural religion of Mormonism.  For instance, there has never been an explicit revelation for the prohibition of caffeine, yet everyone in Happy Valley, Utah looks down on those who might partake.  They do this, even though you can get a temple recommend just fine while answering truthfully that you obey the "word of wisdom".  Anti-caffeine Mormons seem to be Cultural Mormons even though they may absolutely believe in the Church, they just happen to believe in extra-canonical beliefs as well.  They believe in the culture even if it contradicts/adds to/takes away from the actual doctrine. 155.100.147.183 01:14, 7 January 2006
:This would be an appropriate subject for the Common Latter-day Saint perceptions article. Val42 05:07, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The Other Cultural Mormons
Talk:Monster Thickburger

message: Someone take a realistic picture.  Please.  Lotsofissues 15:49, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I haven't seen one, but I imagine that picture isn't too far from reality. doesn't look all that spruced up.--Alhutch 00:39, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, those food photos are always spruced up to the point of inedibility.  Here is a picture of the actual thing:  http://www.78west.com/eden/tmw_images/hardees3.jpg Spejic 16:14, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

message: how can anyone eat that? @_@
*I'm not sure. All that oil makes it look...flammable.--Planetary 22:44, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  yeah, that pic looks nasty 

message: Could someone please explain why the picture of the Monster Thickburger should be so large? —tregoweth (talk) 22:07, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image size 

message: Can someone explain why the text says 1410 kcal but the infobox on the side says 1736 cal?  The numbers are inconsistent and it's unclear if wikipedia has any standard on saying "kcal" or "cal".  The nutrition PDF from Hardee's linked to the article gives the 1410 kcal number so I'm inclined to change it to this. sam 05:33, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Calories 

message: This should be very easy to get, for Pete's sake. I'm not a big fan of this free-image jihad, but here they have a point. There was no reason for this article to have relied on a publicity photo for over a year. Not when anybody can go to Hardee's and just take one. Daniel Case 05:10, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Free photo needed
Talk:USS Maddox (DD-731)

message: There is a consensus on the fact that the second attack did not happen. To have it included in the article is incorrect and inconsistent with the facts. Please replace this. 
Would it be worthy saying somewhere in the article its attack was the immediate cause of Vietnam war? 
: I added a link to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident.  Considering that event is what made the ship famous, I don't understand why it would be excluded. - IstvanWolf 16:57, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cause

message: I have added citation tags to both this and a related article due to conflicting information, as follows
USS_Maddox_%28DD-731%29#Gulf_of_Tonkin_Incident
No US sailors were killed or wounded, and the Maddox did not sustain serious damage;
Gulf_of_Tonkin_Resolution
The Maddox took a torpedo that killed three men in the port bow.
99.149.123.182 (talk) 19:22, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflicting information
Talk:List of Oregon locations by per capita income

message: The two statewide per capita figures are too far apart to be accounted for by inflation. Is one of them wrong, or are they based on different definitions? Please explain. Sumahoy 15:57, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled