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Talk:School District 27 Cariboo-Chilcotin

message: Please merge any relevant content from [ 100 Mile House Elementary School] per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/100 Mile House Elementary School.   (If there is nothing to merge, just leave it as a redirect.)  Thanks. —Quarl (talk) 2007-03-01 08:27Z
:Ah, aren't mergists fun?  the 100 Mile school article is bound to be reinstated; no doubt some admin in some farflung part of the US or abroad decided it wasn't noteworthy enough, wherever it is they are from; all schools in the Cariboo will eventually have their own article.....Skookum1 (talk) 05:19, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge from [[100 Mile House Elementary School]] 

message: So, I've removed most of the wikilinks to schools in the table, other than those which are clearly going to be notable under the standard notability procedure (i.e. they aren't elementary). I ummed and ahhed about whether to keep the links in for the elementary/junior secondary schools but decided not to just now - they can be readded if anyone thinks they'll pass notability, which is possible. This avoids the circular redirect of the links which have redirects coming straight back to this page - which is frankly silly. If any of the elementary schools ever get their own articles (i.e. they show notability in some form) then, again, they can be added in again.
I've also added some general information with some of those splendid old references. Interestingly it seems difficult to get sources to agree on how many schools there actually are in the district. I've gone with what seems to be a reasonable compromise - one source said 6 secondary which I don't think is anywhere close. I'd appreciate any further refs regarding this - although I think I've probably looked in all the official places! Blue Square Thing (talk) 20:30, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect avoidance May 2012 

message: I've done a minor edit to the Superintendent table, because Ms. Diane Wright has stepped down from being the Superintendent, and Mr. Mark Thiessen has appointed as the new Superintendent of School District No. 27- Cariboo Chilcotin. This edit and message was done by myself on August 13th, 2012 (PST.) The reason the edit was done so early was due to the the District's website saying it itself that Mark Thiessen will step up to his role as superintendent on September 1st, 2012. It's always good to be up to speed, and that's plainly what I'm doing. Have a good day, everybody! User:Scratlikesacorns/Scratlikesacorns (User talk:Scratlikesacorns/talk) 19:00, 13 August 2012 (PST)
:I've adjusted the reference. Thanks. Blue Square Thing (talk) 14:10, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Superintendent of Schools Appointed September 1st, 2012
Talk:Civilian Marksmanship Program

message: @user:Doug Weller What about the mission statement makes it inappropriate for Wikipedia? Was it too long? Was it written like an advertisement?
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Oktayey (talk) 18:05, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Mission statements are advertisements, always promotional. I try to remove them whenever I see them, no matter what the article. Doug Weller talk 18:42, 1 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Is there any way to describe a group's purpose without it becoming a mission statement? Oktayey (talk) 17:49, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: @Oktayey find an independent reliable source. I’ve seen a lot of mission statements that misrepresent the organisation. Note I’m not saying that applies here. Doug Weller talk 19:07, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, so the problem was that it was backed by only a primary source? Oktayey (talk) 20:01, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: @Oktayey the problem is that it’s self-sourced. Doug Weller talk 12:25, 5 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mission statement removal
Talk:Victim disarmament

message: 'Gun control' being a term designed to gloss over the drawbacks to gun prohibition, those drawbacks being exactly what 'victim disarmament' serves to draw one's attention to.  Put simply, 'victim disarmament' is the more honest description.
I disagree.  Gun control is a term designed to express what the prohibition is intended to do.  The brake on a car is called a brake because that is its purpose.  If for some reason it didn't work, one would not automatically assume that the name was intended to mislead.  Victim disarmament is an expression designed to express one consequence of gun prohibition. It undoubtedly has its place wherever one is discussing someone who might have been able to defend themselves were there not a prohibition of guns, but, it is not a suitable replacement for 'gun control', since not everyone who is deprived of a gun becomes a victim.
Surely there must be at least some categories of gun prohibition that are effective? Doesn't banning children from carrying guns generally succeed in ensuring that guns are not usually to hand and a danger to everyone including the user? Even if one concludes that not all gun control works and it may deprive some victims of a means of defending themselves, that doesn't mean that no useful control is obtained using gun prohibitions.
IceDragon64 (talk) 23:13, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A more useful phrase than gun control
Talk:One handgun a month law

message: "The law does not require the purchase of a handgun if a person does not already possess one. Non-handgun owners are exempt. The law only restricts handgun purchases, and does not limit thefts of handguns. Organizations are exempt."
While not exactly incorrect, I do have doubts as to whether it's really necessary to explicitly state that the one handgun a month law is a limit to the maximum rate individuals can purchase handguns, rather than either forcing them to buy, or a natural law preventing the acquisition of firearms at greater than this speed. At best, it's poorly worded and simply states the obvious, and at worst it attempts to put a political spin on the article.
86.112.77.131 (talk) 21:14, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. I removed that portion. Shadowjams (talk) 05:50, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  What?
Talk:Pedro Álvarez (baseball)

message: I'm not done yet!  I saved it so that I wouldn't lose my work as I just did  y accidentally exiting my browser... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Barry Caro (talk • contribs) 08:30, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You should include links to the articles in an external links section in the article. If they assert notability (which is probable) the page won't be deleted. LeaHazel : talk : contribs 14:49, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Notability
Talk:Arcadia Machine & Tool

message: The PBS Frontline claims about Arcadia Machine and Tool are without foundation and are not supported by any evidence. AMT made expensive stainless steel firearms, quite distinct from the cheap cast zinc framed handguns from Jennings, Raven, etc. AMT's only connection to any of these "Ring of Fire" companies was that it was located in southern California. The majority of its products were quality large-caliber handguns based on the US military M1911 design, and the only handgun it made that bore the slightest resemblance to the "Ring of Fire" companies' products was the .380 ACT "Backup" -- which was made of stainless steel (not zinc), retailed for $350 (many times the price of the Bryco, Jennings, Lorcin, etc) and was marketed to police officers.
The term "Ring of Fire" was a creation of Garen Wintermute, a partisan advocate of gun control, not the ATF. It is a pejorative politicized term that has no place in an encyclopedia. See, for example,  and Wintermute's own partisan and non-peer-reviewed  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.127.158.252 (talk • contribs) 19:10, 29 September 2017‎ (UTC)
:But, the source says that AMT was included in the "Ring of Fire". Gotta go with the source, rather than personal opinion. Have reverted the change, restoring what the source says. Miguel Escopeta (talk) 21:24, 29 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  Additionally, their products, though they "looked cool", were notorious for quality and reliability problems, which is a big part of the reason they went out of business. Even though the Longslide was featured in The Terminator. Poor quality guns aren't just made from Zamac, for example Rohm made many of their larger guns from regular steel. The Master ---)Vote Saxon(--- 14:19, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The"source" is full of crap. "Ring of Fire" was a deliberately pejorative term created by a hyper-partisan gun control activist. A bullshit claim that was NOT supported by any objective evidence is not a valid citation. AMT's reputation is nowhere near as negative as is being claimed: used guns sell for more than their original retail price --- tsake a look on gunbroker.com, etc --- and were thought well-enough of that they continued in production by other companies after the demise of AMT. Claim removed as it is complete crap. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.152.69.36 (talk) 05:23, 22 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  AMT and "Ring of Fire" propaganda
Talk:Firearms regulation in South Africa

message: This article is nothing but a pro-gun rant and has no place in Wikipedia.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.243.42.209 (talk) 16:33, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Pro-gun rant?

message: The article currently reads,
"Most recently this was shown when pro-gun groups lobbied  for an amendment  to remove the requirement of relicensing guns which are already licensed, and were instead surprised with an amendment that had little effect other than to require the licensing of muzzle loading firearms."
Which doesn't make a whole lot of sense to people who are unfamiliar with the history of South Africa, and specifically, it doesn't make a whole lot of sense unless a brief sentence or mention is added which includes a link to The Battle of Blood River. Invmog (talk) 03:25, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Add a link to the Battle of Blood River

message: I was looking for current and former legislation of guns in South-Africa, however, this article isn't exactly about that. --91.32.105.3 (talk) 11:27, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: What is this article about???

message: Just a comment. This article seems to be about Gun LAWS in South Africa... not gun politics in South Africa. They are two different topics. Lightbreather (talk) 22:37, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: There is just one very brief and completely unsourced section that mentions two lobbying organisations, the rest is all about regulation and legislation - which I will now remove, then I will move the article to the correct descriptive title. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 08:27, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article seems to be mis-named 

message: Per this discussion on the template talk page, I am removing the Gun politics by country template from this article, and this article from the template, because the article is not about politics.  Scolaire (talk) 16:23, 4 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gun control template
Talk:Domains of gun politics

message: I don't understand the point of this article. I was going to suggest deleting it, perhaps merging any points worth salvaging into "gun politics in the United States", but instead I've added a bunch of templates. Is the article about gun laws and regulations; or about attitudes to guns and gun laws; or something else?  Why is a separate article needed here rather than expanding gun politics?  Saying "different groups have different attitudes to controversy X" and "different levels of government may have responsibility for enforcing different regulations in legal area X" are both rather obvious statements not needing a separate article.  Mostly the article consists of vague generalisations along the lines of "the domain of X may have various positions regarding rights, responsibilities, restrictions and controls of guns" for various values of X", with a random example thrown in. --jnestorius(talk) 20:16, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problems 

message: Wouldn't this article be better if merged into US gun politics? It's puny and a lot of it is just unsourced opinion.--StopYourBull (talk) 18:44, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Still a problem
Talk:Abu 'l-Asakir Jaysh ibn Khumarawayh

message: Abu 'l-Asakir Jaysh ibn Khumarawayh = أبو العساكر جيش بن خمارويه
Abu 'l-'Ashir ibn Khumarawayh = أبو العشير بن خمارويه
--Z 11:10, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name
Talk:Said Ramadan

message: I noticed that one German source here refers to him as "Dr. Said Ramadan": http://islam.de/11062.php
I got curious about this because I have seen him referred to as a Dr. elsewhere:
:
Does anyone have information about if/when/where he received a doctorate? Or is there some other reason people are calling him Dr. ? Ranze (talk) 06:15, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: As many reliable sources confirm, such as this book, he received his PhD at the University of Cologne. Google is quite easy to use, and it took me less than 30 seconds to verify this. Cullen328 Let's discuss it 06:38, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Doctorate
Talk:Stephanus of Alexandria

message: An editor removed my mention of him by this name, apparently offended by the idea that he might be French.  The point of the reference was to allow people to find material about him using Google. Roger Pearse 17:14, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etienne d'Alexandrie 

message: E.J. Holmyard (Alchemy Dover, 1990)  calls him "the best known of the Greek alchemists after Zosimos" (p. 29). Who proved that the two are different people? -- llywrch 23:14, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not sure what the context is, but certainly sounds like the same man. Roger Pearse 07:00, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems to me that the claim that all these manuscripts were written by the same person is more difficult to prove than the reverse. The manuscripts cited in the article actually show different names (Stephanus of Alexandria and "of Athens") and the Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire shows that there are about 60 known Stephani for AD 527-641, so different names could mean different persons. The best article on the subject that I have read is W. Wolska-Conus, “Stephanos d’Athènes et Stephanos d’Alexandrie. Essai d’identification et de biographie, » Revue d’Études Byzantines 47 (1989), p.5-89.   She claims that the commentaries were written by the same man but that the alchemical and astrological work were done by other people. L.G. Westerink supported Ms. Wolska-Conus in his edition of the Anonymous Prolegomena to Platonic Philosophy.--Barzabouzath (talk) 17:26, 12 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Interesting indeed.  I don't have access to that article, but I wish I did! Roger Pearse (talk) 18:46, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stephan the alchemist wasn't this Stephen? 

message: I hope no-one will mind that I removed these tags, but they really served no purpose.  A list of works is inevitably a list; to make it anything else makes it much less useful.  The idea that we need more context... well, of what sort? -- The guy was a philosopher and alchemist who wrote works on philosophy and alchemy.  What else is there to say?  I do think that more info on the man would be good.  The problem is that I can't find anything much about him, not even in specialist handbooks.  But he's clearly important for the study of science in late-antiquity.  So I've done my best. Roger Pearse 07:04, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prose/Context tags 

message: "Stephanus of Alexandria." Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 2008. Retrieved March 24, 2015 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-2830906112.html and  "Stephanus (or Stephen) of Alexandria." Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 24 Mar. 2015 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. seem to be about the same guy but other sources say there is a writer by the same name who wrote about medicine. J8079s (talk) 02:26, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  2 Stephens?
Talk:The Proud Valley

message: Unless further information (at least the name of this supposed person) is available, we should consider this sentence a claim (probably concocted to help publicize the film) rather than fact:
*Robeson's role was based on the real-life adventures of a Black miner from West Virginia who drifted to Wales by way of England, searching for work."
173.88.246.138 (talk) 04:31, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Robeson's role was based on the real-life adventures of a Black miner from West Virginia who drifted to Wales by way of England, searching for work."
Talk:Peseshet

message: In Reference #1 the title was copied as "Die ägyptische Persönennamen".
The correct form is "Die ägyptischen Personennamen".
It was not possible to correct it via the "Edit" link.
Nfr-Maat (talk) 01:18, 16 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Corrected. Editing the full in-text citation where it appears in the text of the article is the way to edit the title, as the 'Reference' section is auto generated from the in-text citations.Merytat3n (talk) 22:15, 13 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong German!
Talk:Makram Ebeid

message: The stuff about Nahhas is so nasty (and without evidence) that one would suspect that one of Makram-Ebeid's many still powerful and pervasive descendents wrote it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.34.198.70 (talk) 09:39, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree; the article as a whole is over-reliant on one print source and the "Family history and early life" section needs additional citations. Additionally, the second half of the first paragraph in that section has POV issues, and so I'm tagging it accordingly for now. CropMilk (talk) 21:10, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Homecoming (poem)

message: AM i allowed to put the exact home coming poem in this article?
Please reply soon THAnx
: You can't put in the whole poem, but you can describe the poem and quote from it.  I have re-read it and it is terrible and beautiful and full of emotion.Stellar 11:09, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I don't think this poem's title is correct. It should be Homecoming, not Home Coming.
124.148.124.86 12:38, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I moved the page.  It should be Homecoming.  Stellar 10:55, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correct title? 

message: Seektruthfromfacts
See:
http://en.academic.ru/dic.nsf/enwiki/4635634
http://www.ask.com/wiki/Homecoming_%28poem%29  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.180.1.214 (talk) 11:36, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Potential Copyright Violation
Talk:Ahmed Ramzy

message: Hi, the 2nd external reference (to Dailystar Egypt article), is actually to an article on Omar Sharif and not on Ramzy. Although Ramzy may have been shortly mentioned, however, an article centered on another parson should be included, if anywhere, in the main person's article. Please remove reference. Thanks--68.100.159.179 17:59, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: References error
Category talk:Candidates in future elections

message: The Template:Future election candidate puts the page it's on in this category. It does so using a parameter. Unfortunately, it didn't provide a default value for it, causing it to take  literally. I've fixed that now, but apparently it only takes effect after each page it's on has been saved again. SQB 08:56, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sorting into {
Talk:Nueva Ecija

message: I changed the demonym to "neoecijano" because Novo Ecijano seems peculiar to a Spanish-derived name like Nueva Ecija. Example is the demonym for New Mexico's inhabitants in Spanish: Neomexicano, not Novo Mexicano.
* Spanish term for "NEW" is "NUEVO". Filipinos are not Mexicans. In the Philippines, the word "Nuevo" was pronounced as "NOVO". So the demonym "Novo Ecijano" has been used by Filipinos for the people who live in the Province of Nueva Ecija.--Wakowako (talk) 05:09, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changing demonym 

message: I have removed the SCHOOL section since I think the lists of schools (private or public) is not necessary to be included.--Wakowako (talk) 12:05, 29 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changing Page content 

message: Muñoz is a city in this province, but a Science City. It is no longer to be a municipality as of today. This city shall be placed in the "Component Cities" section in the infobox, if is a new one. Rdp060707 (talk) 10:05, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Muñoz is a city 
Talk:Unitarier - Religionsgemeinschaft freien Glaubens

message: Böhme resigned from his functions in the 1950s and focussed his activities in the "Deutsches Kulturwerk Europäischen Geistes". So in 1977 he was no leader of the community. MumpitzMoritz (talk) 21:44, 8 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Herbert Böhme 

message: It's stated it's unitarian (which is christian according to it's article) and a few words later it's stated as non-christian.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A04:4540:8C04:9201:CC16:730:2CCE:153A (talk) 20:44, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Christian / Non-Christian
Talk:European Unitarian Universalists

message: I find this curious. The article indicates that this group has about 120 members. Some time ago a church I studied had their entry deleted when their 200+ membership was considered not large enough to justify Wikipedia space. Now this group with 120 is apparently sizeable enough for an entry. It appears to me that the standards enforced are whatever the Wiki-insiders choose to emphasize (will this get me banned from "talk" discussions?)
LAWinans (talk) 00:30, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Membership