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Talk:Trial of Louis Riel

message: This article does not maintain NPOV. There is a heated polemic among legal historians as to whether Riel's trial was properly conducted or not, and this article implicitly but decisively sides with those who say it was not. It should be edited to show both sides of the debate. I added some citations and an "according to critics" clause. I'd like to hear what others have to say, but if no one replies I'll make more extensive edits. (To clarify my position, I agree with the original author that it was *not* properly conducted, but believe that this encyclopedia must be neutral between the two sides.) Llajwa 16:02, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV

message: Citing sources SriMesh | talk 02:21, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: needs inline citations

message: I need some help with a question I have.
I have a metal given out to NWMP in 1885. I has "NORTH WEST 1885 CANADA" on one side, the other side has the image of who I think is Queen Victoria and has the words "VICTORIA REGINA  ET IMPERATRIX".
My Great Grandfather William Payne was a NWMP out of Fort McCloud Alberta, I have been told these metals were given to those who helped with the Riel rebellion. Is this true? If not what was it awarded for.
I also have my Grandfathers handgun he used during this period. My father says he remembers his Grandfather having a piece ot the rope used to hang Riel. Was the rope cut into short lengths and given to members of the NWMP?
Would anyone with more specific information on this please respond to me at, paynefamily5@comcast.net
 Thanks; Wade Payne  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.29.163.1 (talk) 00:33, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Louis Riel Rebellion 
Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/List of pieces, American

message: How did the contributors who voted before me become aware of this page and vote? Hyacinth 03:05, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: They probably saw the notice on List of pieces, American, or saw the listing on VFD. – ABCD 13:51, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: This illustrates the need for edit summaries. Hyacinth 23:50, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Powerpuff Girls Z

message: I propose that the article Powerpuff Girls Z: Original Soundtrack be merged into this one. The soundtrack article includes no references, little content, and can easily be incorporated into the already existing "Music" section of the PPGZ article. Therefore, I think that having two articles is entirely unnecessary, and, unless there are any objections in the next week or so, I'll begin merging them. Paper Luigi Talk  • Contributions 00:38, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: ~Has it ever had airing-time in North America? (or if it will be?)~  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.186.6.124 (talk) 04:44, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: American broadcast

message: Can someone put the show's reception? Stein256 (talk) 22:08, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reception
Talk:Pittock Mansion

message: The article's creator states, "Verified permission to use content from pittockmansion.com for this article, by City of Portland's Pittock Mansion Program Manager, Mary C. Weber." If this has been challenged, then please provide who challenged this, before tagging with copyvio again. This will allow for resolution of the violation. Amadeust 03:58, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This article might not be copyvio, but parts of the text seem to be not quite encyclopedic, nor NPOV. A bit of paraphrasing might be in order. Katr67 21:52, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Most of it is a copy/paste from here.  I will try to add some more encyclopedic info.  Cacophony 07:04, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's looking better already! Thanks! Katr67 07:39, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV 

message: Some minor copyediting/factchecking issues:
#Mrs. Pittock is identified as Georgia in the intro, and later as Georgiana.  Perhaps both are correct (one a short version of the other), but it is confusing, and should be clarified or made consistent.
#My understanding is that the Rose Festival was a community effort involving more than a single founder.  In any case, her role in its foundation, if included at all, should be clarified and referenced.  -- "J-M" (Jgilhousen) 08:54, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Georgia/Georgiana -- Rose Festival Founder 

message: , it seems to me that "finish line" should be lower case as it is neither a proper noun nor one of the exceptions listed at MOS:CAPS. If you agree,  please change it. If you disagree,  please explain your reasoning. Perhaps I've missed something. Thanks and happy editing.  YBG (talk) 23:55, 31 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Main reason I capitalized "finish line" on the page is because the term is usually capitalized on the Wikipedia pages for the show's seasons. Xoruz (talk) 00:12, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm generally a fan of consistency, but I rather think that consistency with the manual of style is more important than consistency between articles. If I were you, I'd not only change the capitalization in this article, but in all of the other articles you mention. The other articles are outside of my usual range of interest, or I might do it myself. YBG (talk) 07:30, 1 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalization
Talk:Ischys

message: There are a few issues with this statement: "While Coronis was carrying Apollo's child, a (then white) crow told Apollo of the affair between Ischys and Coronis. Apollo was so angry that he glared at the crow (burning its feathers black) and asked his sister Artemis to kill Coronis".
1. Pseudo-Apollodorus talks about a raven and not a crow. Which sources has a crow?
2. What sources says Apollo glared at the crow so its feathers burned and it turned black?
3. Pausanias has it that Arthemis killed Coronis but Apollo did not ask her to do it.
ICE77 (talk) 05:57, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Potential inconsistencies
Talk:ǀXam language

message: Is the fact that it's extinct the reason its used for the motto, etc.? - Nik42 04:37, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably. The extinct Latin is the most common motto language in the Western world. Also, South Africa has 11 official languages, so if the motto was in one, it would have to have 11. --Taejo 13:25, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Motto

message: Is the first character of the name of this language a vertical bar or a slash? – Kaihsu 13:07, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It is a vertical bar.  I'll move the page.  --Merovingian {T C @} 13:22, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: To be more precise, it's a dental click.  --Merovingian {T C @} 13:39, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: First character

message: ::It is uncommon for a country to use a motto in a language which is not an official language of that country.
If I were to guess, it seems more common for countries to use mottoes in other languages than the official living language(s).  I imagine this is due to 1) avoiding preferencing a single language out of several and 2) because of the certain educated mystique of foreign and/or dead languages.  Interesting topic.  --Xyzzyva 00:20, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed sentence; it's not really true...
Talk:Legalese

message: Would this section from the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs counts at legalese? I stared at this sentence for five minutes and still couldn't understand it. It's almost like a triple negative: "If the World Health Organization finds that a drug in Schedule I is particularly liable to abuse and to produce ill effects (paragraph 3) and that such liability is not offset by substantial therapeutic advantages not possessed by substances other than drugs in Schedule IV, the Commission may, in accordance with the recommendation of the World Health Organization, place that drug in Schedule IV." - Article 3, Section 5. Rad Racer | Talk 04:36, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Schedule IV
Talk:Gunji Koizumi

message: From 1950-1958, I practiced Judo at the Budokwai with G. Kozumi, T.P.Leggett, Geoff Gleeson and Charlie Palmer. This information was culled from numerous sources - books, magazines, obituaries, etc over many years. Oldfarm 05:29, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I realize that, but since I was in very poor health at the time I posted this article, I did not have time to do it properly. Since I have recovered, I have tried to update a couple of articles, but I have now become fed up with the constant barrage of incomprehensible messages regarding fair use rationale and have now lost interest in contributing anthing else to Wikipedia. It has become more trouble than it is worth and I will leave it to the experts. Regards: Oldfarm (talk) 02:25, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Early comments

message: I rewrote this article in February 2010. Janggeom (talk) 11:56, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Article revision

message: I removed the unsourced text, "In a letter to Robert W. Smith, Koizumi's longtime associate E. J. Harrison mentioned that Koizumi had been threatened with blindness and could not bear the thought of becoming a burden to his wife." In this source, Harrison's letter dated 20 August 1954 ("During the past two weeks the tragic suicide by gas poisoning of one of our oldest and most valued friends, an art teacher, has cast a deep shadow over our lives. He was threatened by imminent blindness and could not face the prospect of becoming a burden upon his wife."), to which the deleted text appears to refer, makes no explicit mention of Koizumi and does not match Koizumi's date of death (15 April 1965—more than a decade after the letter was written, and certainly the two-week period mentioned in it). Janggeom (talk) 11:18, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for providing the references. Janggeom (talk) 12:49, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  E. J. Harrison's letter to R. W. Smith 
Talk:Object–agent–verb

message: "In the future or with but" is very incomplete. You could just as easily say "To Rome I went", which is in the past tense. As far as I can tell, it would be more systematic to say that OAV appears in English when the object is stressed. "Oranges I like" sounds odd out of context, but you can imagine the speaker saying this in addition to a preceding conversation in which he says e.g. he doesn't like apples. A source from a book on English grammar (preferably not a textbook) would be useful.
I've already added the pretty obvious case of a relative clause with the object as pronoun. Hairy Dude 02:35, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  English appearance 

message: Is not Italian OAV?  Take the sentence: "Ti amo."  It translates as "Thee (I) love."  All Italian sentences are this way.  "Mi dispiace." = "Me (I am) sorry." etc.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.107.54.253 (talk) 13:16, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Terms such as OAV only make sense in cases where all three parts are explicitly expressed as distinct words. In the case of 'ti amo' there is only an (indirect) object and a verb, no separate word to express the agent. The sentence isn't OAV, but just OV. The agent can be derived from the inflection of the verb, yes. But you can't really say whether the agent comes before the verb or after it, since it's actually inherently part of the same word. What you're doing, however, is translating into English and then concluding that since the English translation of the verb by itself is AV, the Italian must be too. But to see how this breaks down, just pick another language to translate into, i.e. Dutch: Van jou houd ik. This means 'You love I' - i.e. OVA, not OAV. --CodeCat (talk) 11:05, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Italian
Talk:1941 in music

message: *February 15 - Brian Holland, songwriter
*February 17 - Eddie Holland, songwriter
...this must be a mistake. They're brothers. --FuriousFreddy 06:28, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Birthdate mistake?

message: what????  RYM is a website that polls it's modern readers. "A String Of Pearls" was released December 5, 1941 and did not have time to make a chart or sell any records. Meanwhile, "Piano Concerto In B Flat" by Freddy Martin & his Orchestra held number 1 for 8 weeks in Billboard. If I don't hear back, I will repair section with citations in a couple of days.Tillywilly17 (talk) 05:10, 18 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biggest hit songs
Talk:Robert Herring (poet)

message: A quick internet search suggests Herring was both Scottish and Welsh; the article mentions Wandsworth as his place of birth. The article makes no mention of Wales except in the Categories. As I am currently assessing for WP:Wales I have removed him from the WP until evidence is provided. His place of birth and nationality should be added definitively to the article. WikiData has copied the information too. welsh (talk) 18:44, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Place of birth / nationality?
Talk:Ani

message: Re this edit: , the article gets a decent number of hits because it's a historically important city and a tourist attraction. It's also a level-5 vital article. WP:ANI, which you would like to link to from a hatnote, is almost always referred to using all caps – ANI not Ani– and the redirect ANI receives two orders of magnitude fewer views . Personally, I'm not convinced we should link to such meta places like WP:ANI at all (vs. more fundamental pages like WP:AFD or WP:GNG which are much more likely to be encountered by the newbie editors that these hatnotes are meant for). However, if linked to at all, that should happen on the dab page: Ani has a hatnote to Ani (disambiguation), and that already links to WP:ANI. There's no reason to be singling out the noticeboard out of the many article entries listed there. – Uanfala (talk) 11:52, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Searching Wikipedia for 'ANI' and DDG for 'WP:ANI' lead here. Most of the people performing those searches are undoubtedly looking for WP:ANI and have never heard of this city. So, an additional hatnote with a direct link to WP:ANI would be beneficial. 2600:1003:B85D:E647:913D:6293:4030:10A6 (talk) 22:05, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hatnote to [[WP:ANI]] 

message: I'd suggest, we do not revert sourced good faith edits completely. I'd try to keep what is sourced with lesser sources, and find better sources and also welcome the new user. The new editor made quite some investment in such a large edit and as to mer this merits some more attention than just a revert.Paradise Chronicle (talk) 00:42, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reverting good faith edits 

message: It was discovered September 17, 1955 by archaeologist Mark Gioloany. 2601:184:4681:5340:8575:CD05:F72D:2528 (talk) 19:38, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: OK. Do you have a source for that which is better than the one used in the article? JezGrove (talk) 22:07, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no source given for the statement above. It was not footnoted. One can note all the ways in which Ani was chronicled by medieval writers, visited and drawn in the early modern period, excavated by Marr and so forth. No one "discovered" Ani on a particular date in 1955 or 1855, or 877 and so forth. 2601:184:4681:5340:C1B4:572F:9CF1:BAE1 (talk) 18:02, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  this is false
Talk:Madurai

message: well doo the responce of tn minasiyaman temple 100 kal madabam virabandiya kattaboman and maruthusakotharargal .
written of vasanavi  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.185.2.10 (talk) 09:07, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  creative  for madurai
Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/Rex071404 3/Evidence

message: Normally I wouldn't edit someone else's presentation.  In this instance, however, Zen-master gave this link: , which shows the cumulative changes to the Hubbert peak article since Zen-master's version.  Because Rex's revert was reverted, however, that link doesn't show Rex's violation.  I've substituted this link: , which I hope is what Zen-master meant. JamesMLane 08:21, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for that, I didn't realize history doesn't use permanent links when the "current" version is involved. zen master    T  08:24, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: My edit of Zen-master's evidence
Talk:Warsaw/Vote talk

message: On a completely different subject, why is this in the article namespace? —Korath (Talk) 23:36, Apr 4, 2005 (UTC)
Because Schlesier's a jerk? john k 03:47, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: LOL.... yeah sure... and Vilnius... or should I say Vilna, is also a German city :))) ... Oh! and don't you forget about Antwerp and Brussels (or maybe Antwerpstadt and Brusselburg ;) )... Schlesier, please... - Blueshade 13:09, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I know its hard to believe, for people who knows only the falsificated history of Europe and Germany..., but this map showing the true borders of Germany.--Schlesier 13:45, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You never replied to the debunking of this map as a British WWI anti-German propaganda. --Tydaj 16:43, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

text: Ah so! Ja wohl, Herr Schlesier, mein Personifikation auf die Allwissenheit... Ich wusste nicht das Ich ein Deutsch war...  ;))) - Blueshade 14:03, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Das mußt du ja selber wissen, ob du dich zum Deutschtum bekennst oder nicht...--Schlesier 14:46, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

text: all right... you lost me on that... it seems even the citizens of the truly German lands don't necessarily understand German... but now - let's get back to reality, ok, Herr Schlesier? ... - Blueshade 16:26, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: He said you have to decide for yourself whether you consider yourself German. As for reality, anyone who considers a map clearly labeled "Pan-German aims" to be an accurate indication of what boundaries really were in 1911 obviously has only a tenuous grasp on it. --Angr/comhrá 18:56, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  That's what struck me before but I didn't have time to check ... I could hardly believe Germans had that much land in 1911... and thanks for the translation :)... babelfish helped a bit but only so I could approximate the meaning... not really understand it :) - Blueshade 21:15, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No, of course they didn't. Just to make it 100% clear, the map linked to above is British propaganda from 1911, showing what the strongest Germanophobes feared the German Empire (Second Reich) would someday look like if not brought down in time. The largest the German Empire ever got (1871-1918) is shown at the map at :Image:Map-deutsches-kaiserreich.png, and Warsaw is outside it. --Angr/comhrá 12:59, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vote placement
Talk:Iquitos, Peru

message: The history here contains what used to be a duplicage article at Iquitos, before it was merged into Iquitos, Peru. Iquitos and Iquitos, Peru have since been swapped, which is why it's here now - because it was merged into the current article, so we have to keep it accessible. If we decide to switch the articles again, this will have to be moved to Iquitos, not simply deleted. Noel (talk) 00:57, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: History
Talk:Wheatpaste

message: Incidentally I was looking up dextrin and wondered if it's the same adhesive molecular chemistry as dextrin.  Anybody know? Thinkadoodle (talk) 17:35, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is the chemistry involved? 

message: The same starch gel with addition of fruit juice is a well known Eastern European drink called kissel, see the pertinent article.
Perhaps it should also be mentioned that starch only gels close to water's boiling point, as anyone who knows how to make kissel can testify. 172.103.225.11 (talk) 20:30, 2 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kissel
Talk:Railways Act 1921

message: I've rewritten this article since the previous version was somewhat short on detail. I also didn't like the word "forcibly" - most Acts tell people that they have to do something!! This article is quoted in so many other articles that it seemed a pity not to widen its scope a bit. Both World Wars wreaked havoc on the railways, since the only consideration was to get the war effort going and to hell with the infrastructure, so that some form of legislation was essential to at least get things going again. It was also the thinking behind the 1947 Act: having travelled in that time it was obvious that the entire system was falling apart and I'm sure that 1921 was no different! 
I also thought that going straight for the "Big Four" at the beginning was also a bit upsidedown before the explanation of the Act. Peter Shearan 08:53, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment1

message: The GWR was the only company to keep its identity through the Grouping. Is this because there were no constituents big enough to impede its onward progress (eg demand a directorship, influence policy or engineering design), or was there a difference in the legislation that uniquely permitted the GWR to continue as a company? To look at it from another direction, was the former Midland Railway actually abolished, or merely lost in the mix? -- Verbarson  talkedits 10:19, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I know of no special treatment for the GWR in the Act. The pre-1922 GWR amalgamated with six other railways (see List of constituents of the Great Western Railway#1921 Railways Act) to create what was technically a new organisation, described in the Act as the "Western Group". The new Board was dominated by ex-GWR men, but not exclusively so - out of 23 directors on the new Board, 18 had served on the Board of just one of the constituent companies (15 were from the "old" GWR Board, one each from the Barry, the Rhymney and the Taff Vale), whilst five had served on the Boards of two constituents. It's not inconceivable that at the first meeting of the new Board they resolved to use the name Great Western Railway. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 00:15, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you. I have now examined the Act, and it appears to me (IANAL) that the grouped companies had some leeway in determining how they should be amalgamated and structured, having the opportunity to write their own schemes within the legislation and subject to government approval. Are these documents (particularly the Western Group scheme) available anywhere? I can find debates about them and lists of schemes submitted in Hansard, but not the schemes themselves. -- Verbarson  talkedits 19:57, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know of any. I expect that they will be recorded in the minute books of the respective boards of the constituent companies, these may be at the National Railway Museum, or in The National Archives. I made a relevant post at Talk:Taff Vale Railway#1922 or 1923? some years ago. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:10, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  GWR