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Talk:Save Me the Waltz

message: This article is POV heavy, needs plenty taken out or at least referenced.  I'd do it but I'm not interested in the subject. --71.168.37.81 (talk) 12:32, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Book Review With No Sources 

message: A dedicated page for a novel that only sold 1300 copies  -  until after her death when it attracted interest purely because of its curiosity-value, not its merit? Valetude (talk) 14:08, 13 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I know this is an old post, but for future reference the book is of keen interest for those who study the Fitzgerald's lives, and for theorists who believe that Zelda had a larger role in her husband's writings than he ever gave her credit for. In that vein, if you look at some of their other works, he attached his name as a co-author to another short fiction work that she wrote alone. Besides, the Wikipedia guidelines state that significant coverage is the main factor in notability, which is independent of time. There's nothing on there about the exact context of that coverage, though for sure the coverage has been more varied than the OP stated. --IronMaidenRocks (talk) 05:11, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Questioning Notability
Talk:Isaiah Osbourne

message: Edited the caps, he's had a few more since then :-) - Jonoridge 21:23, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 
Talk:Journey to the End of the Night

message: The Doors' song "End of the Night" references a William Blake poem, not Céline. -Lillymw 18:37, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[The Doors]]

message: Hello all
I have significantly expanded the article adding new sections on its style, themes, critical reception and present reputation. I have also added a plot summary. Happy to discuss. Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 02:51, 29 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expanded article
Talk:Aidan (disambiguation)

message: Does anyone have any research that offers an explanation for why these -aiden sounding names are so absurdly popular?
I know that Parents.com has offered one theory. They state that the name Aiden was:
"made famous by the character Aidan Shaw, played by actor Josh Corbett, who was the boyfriend of Carrie Bradshaw in the TV show Sex and the City. A form of the name Aodan. Used (sic.) by several early Irish saints. Irish American actor Aidan Quinn has brought attention to the name." 
Whether or not this is true, it seems that they are just speculating here. Also, I think the trend in America has become to use increasingly non-traditional names. Can anyone source me on that? Maybe this relates to the role of history and cultural identity in American culture?
Furthermore, and this is just a thought, but does this name and others like it reflect a psychosocial shift or some kind of reconfiguration of aesthetic preferences in modernity. The name has been described as 'soft', by George Carlin, which has implications for changes in gender identity in American Society. Again, I don't have any literature, but if anyone can offer some perhaps it would make a worthwile contribution to the wiki.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.13.82.216 (talk) 07:50, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Explaining the phenomena 

message: Over the last few weeks a few links to people with the spelling Aiden have crept in. My initial inclination (as per my posting above) is to remove these. However, the spelling Aiden is popular, easily confused with Aidan, and there is (as yet) nowhere for people with the spelling Aiden to reside. The Wikilink Aiden links to the rock band of that name. For the moment, then, Aidens can stay, although ideally Aiden should have its own disambiguation page for that spelling.
I don't agree i think that the name Aidan shoud be spelled Aidan not any other way. Aidan is not a very common name though but it is confusing if you hear someone calling you name  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Smarter than u 101 (talk • contribs) 23:17, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I guess nobody felt strongly! Okay, the Aidens are all gone, to their brand new disambig article here. Preacherdoc (talk) 18:48, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Limit to ''Aidan''?
Talk:FEU

message: I have been involved in thermonuclear fusion research for may years now and I have never heard this unit used to give the energy resulting from a fusion reaction.  The unit used is in MeV (Millions of electron-Volts). For example, see the NRL Plasma Formular on pages 43 and 44.
ClaudeSB 21:24, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, and as such have reverted the article to the original redirect to the university. Mike Peel 16:33, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Spartacus (Gibbon novel)

message: I'm not sure that this novel is better than Fast's novel of the same name, more likely the other way round.   I propose that Spartacus (novel) should be a disambiguation page, I will move in a few days if nobody objects. PatGallacher 13:14, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wasn't done, or was lost?  Anyway, I've changed this one to Spartacus (Gibbon novel) and made sure that both novels are on the main Spartacus disambiguation page, and made Spartacus (novel) go there as well. Lessthanideal (talk) 00:15, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

message: "Its opening sentence is arguably the most dramatic in the whole of English literature." - And then there is nothing!  I think we should be able to have at least part of this sentence with-out violating copyright of this 1930s book. Some-body who has the book, please help. I'm really curious.Kdammers (talk) 10:35, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I found the book online, and there are three sentences that one could consider the opening one - I can't tell which one is being referred to.  This certainly seems POV "to me."Kdammers (talk) 10:56, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Teaser 

message: I don't know if it's worth including or not, but there is an anachronism in the novel:  On page 97 (according to the introduction, viewable in Google Books), the text says that Crixus stood up in his stirrups.  Yet this was a long time before a stirrup was to be seen in the West. Kdammers (talk) 10:56, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The Gladiators (novel) by Koestler, also about Spartacus, has its own anachronism... fire escapes!--MacRusgail (talk) 16:04, 14 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anachronism
Talk:Ystad Municipality

message: I am interested in knowing the origin of the name “Ystad.”  In Wiktionary, I looked up the word "ystad" and learned that it is a past participle of the Swedish verb “ysta,” which means “to make cheese.”  Thus, “De har ystad” would translate to “They have made cheese.”  Is this the origin of the name of the city?  Or does it have another meaning, perhaps related to “stad” (city)?  --Else, 14 November 2006
:The name has nothing to do with the verb "ysta". -stad is "town" or rather "place" and the "y" has probably something do to with an old word for a yew tree (Taxus baccata). --Muniswede (talk) 22:11, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Is "urban area" the best translation when it comes to the swedish concept "tätort"? In certain cases (e.g. Stockholm and greater cities) it could be fine, but an "urban area" with some 200 inhabitants?! I think "locality", which is used by Statistic Sweden, is a better word. --Muniswede 14:59, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
Template talk:Infobox cooperative

message: Could a "Total Assets" box be added to categories as in Template:Infobox Company?  This is a helpful and useful statistic for co-ops like credit unions.
DirectorStratton (talk) 03:15, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Request for addition

message: I brought the template in line with Template:Infobox company, which means:
* we're now on par with other companies in terms of fields (including structured location information, and much more)
* the parameter naming is now the same as in the other Infobox
* the whole difference is the "members" parameter instead of the "owner" parameter
I cleaned up every single article using the template so their use of the template is updated, standardized and corrected in some ways (has been a lot of work...).
We can now take the decision whether we want to merge to 'Infobox company' after a 'members' parameter is added there or if we rather want to stay independent, adding, changing or removing some more subtle features to serve cooperatives. I'm tending to the former, because I don't see in general big structural differences between companies with a cooperative ownership and other companies. However, I'd be happy to be convinced that these differences exist and need to be served by a different Infobox.
A third, very appealing, option would be to modularize the infoboxes, so we don't keep adding often unneeded parameters to Template:Infobox company, yet become more flexible without creating redundancies that have to be continuously cleaned up. This would mean we'd have just a trunk template 'new Infobox company' containing just the parameters all companies need. And then we have child templates adding, changing or removing parameters to the trunk depending on the specific needs. Some examples:
* cooperatives would have a 'members' parameter instead of the 'owner' parameter
* defunct companies have some parameters added (such as 'defunct' or 'fate') and maybe others removed.
* listed corporations would have additional parameters such as 'free float', 'major shareholders', 'stock exchange' and 'stock exchange code'
* publisher companies might have their 'genre' parameter and possibly more
* rail companies would have some of the stuff in Template:Infobox rail company
* state owned companies might have completely different parameters on financial figures
* dotcom companies would have all they seem to need, see Template:Infobox dotcom company
etc.Technically, the child template would call the trunk template passing the necessary parameters and add additional ones. There would be some details we'd need to figure out, but from a semantical perspective this would make much sense. How do you think?
Cheers, PanchoS (talk) 11:01, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updated template
Talk:Voyage in the Dark

message: Though quite thorough, I feel this entry reads a bit like a report penned for school and could use something of a clean-up. Agreed? --SydSid (talk) 22:08, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clean-up? 

message: This is based on material which students in my 2012 Global Modernisms class at the University of Strathclyde came up with when we studied Voyage in the Dark. I asked them to co-create a wiki entry which would add more depth and complexity to what was on this Wikipedia page (which at the time of writing was some basic publication history and an overview of the plot). I edited the students’ writing so as to pick out the most compelling analytical points and to ensure that as a whole the section flowed, but the ideas are theirs.--2012 al (talk) 19:26, 4 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Thematic connections to other works" section added
Category talk:Airliner accidents and incidents in the United States

message: Perhaps in the listing of these types of disasters it would be helpful to list the year in parentheses () after the flight number.
Superstooge 21:32, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Year

message: Any possibility of coming up with a template for the "Summary" table on each of these pages?  I've visited several and while (most) of the data is the same, the order and presentation is different.  Some tables included derived data, others duplicative data.  I've never proposed a template before, so I'm not sure where to do this.  Heck, I don't even know if this is the right page.  (NetJohn (talk) 23:44, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Template
Talk:Fer-de-Lance (novel)

message: My E→F dictionary translates golf club as club de golf or crosse de golf, but when I first read the novel (unaware of the snake, which is first mentioned well after the gimmicked golf club) I took the title to mean 'golf club'.  Perhaps the story idea came from such a misunderstanding! —Tamfang (talk) 20:41, 13 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, I take it that you no longer wish to imply or state that the phrase "fer-de-lance" refers to a golf club. In that case I'll remove the "citation needed" template and revise the text accordingly. The reference to "iron of the lance" is interesting and I'll leave it in. For what it's worth, the book makes several references to the club in question being a driver, which in English golf jargon means a one-wood -- that is, a club with a mostly wooden head and the minimum amount of loft, notoriously as difficult to manage as a one-iron. One therefore wonders why Stout had Manuel instruct Carlo to alter a driver, when his father was perhaps more likely to use a different club, even for a long tee shot.  TurnerHodges (talk) 00:45, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  You take it somewhat inaccurately: I never did intend the article to say that the title means 'golf club' (someone else inserted that). —Tamfang (talk) 03:44, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I see. Yes, the insertion was unsigned. I assumed that your post here was a response by the contributor to a citation request. Thanks for setting the record straight. TurnerHodges (talk) 06:30, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  golf club 

message: I've just added a paragraph to the article mentioning the interesting finding that Stout re-used a key plot element of Fer-de-Lance from a long-forgotten story he had serialized in Golfers Magazine 18 years earlier. This discovery was reported, and the earlier story reprinted in full, in The Green Bag Almanac and Reader 2012. The discoverers were Ross E. Davies, editor-in-chief of The Green Bag, and his assistant, but I was tangentially involved and I was co-editor of the 2012 Almanac, so I am mentioning this here for what it is worth per WP:COI. Newyorkbrad (talk) 21:33, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  COI disclosure
Talk:Doctor Syn Returns

message: Surely that dead link to agents of the 'Kings' Revenue' doesn't require a seperate page to be created at Kings' Rev.? 
The Revenue Men worked for what became HMRC, so I assume it should be converted to a link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Her_Majesty%27s_Customs_and_Excise ?
(I'm not 100% sure, however, because I don't have a copy of the book to hand, so I figure rather than change the link I'd just ask about it!) Cheers, 91.84.10.87 (talk) 22:41, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj

message: Plain and simple. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.10.50.212 (talk) 07:20, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Legend isnt Growing 

message: 2 thing confuse me, 1) why are the reviews so negative, this film was funny, is it just because the american audience couldnt grasp the fact that the film was set in england?
2) wasnt there a paintball scene? im sure they went paintballing but when i watched it again there was no paintball.. weird 172.207.242.9 (talk) 20:54, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There's a fundamental problem with American frat house movies set in British universities: there is no tradition of fraternities or sororities in British colleges, so American audiences find them weird and unconvincing, while British audiences find them incomprehensible. This is quite apart from whether the films are any good in other respects. --Ef80 (talk) 19:15, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confused 

message: Hahaha oh wow this is a terrible film. Crass stereotypes, amongst other things, meant I could barely watch it. 138.38.217.149 (talk) 00:07, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oh wow 

message: I was planning on watching this film but when i heard that ryan reynolds wasnt even in it i decided not to99.149.118.183 (talk) 17:11, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  awww.... 

message: :
What does "just" mean here?  What does "from the film" mean?  (The parenthesis was added 10 August 2015.) —Tamfang (talk) 01:12, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  just 2
Talk:A House and Its Head

message: This is a very badly written article right now. The use of the second-person is awkward and unconventional, and the tone is condescending and appears to be essentially written from a shameless position of personal opinion and reaction to the novel. The English is clumsy, and I wonder if it was written by somebody with limited skills in this language. The entire stub leaves one wondering if it was written by a secondary school student who has been set the novel to read as a class text.
Could somebody with real expertise in English literature, and with knowledge of this writer (and this work in particular)please re-write this article with something useful and objectively informative.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.238.2.116 (talk) 04:58, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
Talk:The General (Forester novel)

message: Forester does not refer to Hitler's alleged reading and distribution of The General to his officers as fact, what he says in the 1947 Preface is that his German publisher (who he does not name) in "the nightmare months before the war" told him "with frightened pride" that "the book was not only being bought by the masses but but was being carefully studies in the highest circles. The Fuhrer himself had read it and and was recomending it to his friends; among the Christmas presents which he gave away in 1938 were several specially bound copies -- the publisher could not find out for whom they were destined, but was sure that it would be great men like goering and Keitel...". Forester goes on to say that "Perhaps The General may have influenced the history of the world, if Hitler read it with care and yet with that lack of sympatetic understandign which was so conspicuious a part of his intellectual makup." (Preface to The General pp.xi-xii, Nautical and Avation Publishing company edition, )  Forester does not claim more than this "perhaps". This preface is present in every post-WWII edition of The General that I have seen. The rumor section should perhaps be expanded to make it clear exactly what Forester wrote, and to cite his source. 12.54.150.178 (talk) 22:00, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Hitler Rumor

message: I find it very significant to add the information I learned from this NY Times Magazine profile on John Kelly, it is clear from how this article wraps up that The General continues to influence John Kelly's thinking, and C.S. Forester's own Wikipedia entry makes it clear that Forester was a British subject who wrote war propaganda directed at Americans. And The General was admired by Hitler, which is relevant still, because Hitler was Hitler? John Kelly is alive and in the White House and serves at the pleasure of Donald Trump. Somebody please add John Kelly's name to this entry.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/26/magazine/how-long-can-john-kelly-hang-on.html?ribbon-ad-idx=2&src=trending&module=Ribbon&version=origin®ion=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Trending&pgtype=article  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:602:8500:F703:F0B1:133A:4525:91FB (talk) 07:45, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  John Kelly 

message: I have added some references with the chapter number only, as I have the novel in an "omnibus" edition; no introduction, pages 437-579. Hugo999 (talk) 13:34, 8 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  References
Talk:Death on Credit

message: There is a big mistake in this page. It does not describe Mort a credit but Voyage au bout de la nuit. It is another book by the same author. Mort a credit describes the adolescence of Ferdinand and not his later life as a doctor (Ferdinand Bardamu) which is described in Voyage au bout de la nuit.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.47.93.196 (talk) 07:52, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translators error. 

message: The "Content" section reads like a publisher's blurb. Probably because it is. The same text is found on many booksellers' websites. I think it should probably be deleted as a copyright violation.
Marchino61 (talk) 03:59, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plagiarism or Copyright Violoation?
Talk:Papal Authority

message: Is this really remotely true? 
Most RCs I have listened to regard the church as having precedence over the Bible in matters of authority (people were martyred before the Bible was written and the Church chose what to put in the Bible). 
Claiming Papal authority on the Bible seems to me to be unlikely; wrong way round. I also think the article is probably a bit of a non-subject and thus a candidate for deletion? --BozMo talk 21:41, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

message: This page has been redirected to Primacy of the Roman Pontiff as it is very much the same thing as Papal Authority. Dunfermline Scholar (talk) 03:08, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirect
Talk:Claret School

message: I came this way from the Claret page, which listed several claret schools in a very lengthy trivia section. In an attempt to make a disambiguation page, I found this page, as well as one for Claret School of Quezon City. So now this page is something of a disambiguation page too. I really know nothing about these schools, so it would be best if someone could sort out what pages need to redirect where, reference what, need content added, or should be deleted. --Spyforthemoon 21:43, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
Talk:The Flivver King

message: For anyone who would like to improve this article, there is a useful essay by Steve Meyer in the Charles H. Kerr Co. edition of The Flivver King (ISBN-13: 978-0882860541).  In particular, the "Effects" category in this entry is very general and seems to comment on the ultimate value of unionization as opposed to the content of the novel.  Perhaps it would make more sense to lengthen the "Plot summary" section and cut the "Effects"? Toby Higbie 18:31, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Getting Started

message: There is a useful Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels/ArticleTemplate from the WikiProject Novels page.  I am pasting in the relevant sections here so we can begin to fill them in on the Discussion page first and then move them over later.  When you click into edit mode, you'll see additional instructions and suggestions within the template.   Toby Higbie 17:32, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Template to Fill In

message: ~references to sources etc~
~include quotes or links to Wikiquote here~
There is no mistake that the book was meant to provoke and challenge its readers; on the cover (seen here), as a preface to the first edition it is stated:
The above quote from the Wiki article is subjective. Oat57 (talk) 01:16, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources, references, external links, quotations
Talk:Books for the Blind

message: Hello - I am writing this note as part of my official duties at the Library of Congress. The National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) is part of the Library of Congress. This article describes "Books for the Blind" as if it's distinct from NLS when it is, in fact, a nickname for NLS. Further, NLS has a Wikipedia page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Library_Service_for_the_Blind_and_Physically_Handicapped. Also, the numbers of books, magazines, and music titles in the "Books for the Blind" article are outdated. I'm looking for guidance on the most appropriate way to update this information. Would there be objections to someone from the Library of Congress updating the "Books for the Blind" article? Should readers of that article be encouraged to go to the NLS Wikipedia article? Thank you for any advice. 
Mprlib (talk) 19:56, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I've rewritten this article to represent that "Books for the Blind" is a subset of the NLS program; it's still referred to by name in some NLS documents, see this NLS report from about 2010. I do agree that this article is, however, significantly cumulative with the main NLS article and a more-skilled Wikipedia user may want to merge the two. 
Irritatingpedant (talk) 19:54, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for Article Changes 

message: The EBSCO links in the citations are no longer viable.  You need to have a subscriptiption to read the articles linked to. Mabibliophile (talk) 17:33, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 