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Talk:Convention of Cintra

message: " . .  like a defeated garrison marching to their own lines": I've an idea our article overstates a point here.  Do we have a reference?
I'm familiar with the phrase "retire bag and baggage", in military use of the general period.  My understanding is tht the phrase expresses the terms often agreed when a garrison withdrew, surrendering its position, typically when the strategic picture meant that resupply was not a foreseeable possibility and a defence, however determined, could not outlast a siege.  And I seem to recall reading tht the phrase isn't just emphatic repetition: tht bag and baggage mean different things, and the meaning is tht the retiring force would be permitted to withdraw unhindered with the soldiers carrying their own kit and with the force's baggage train following.  That is (in the terms used in our article), it was normal for a force honorably surrendering a position and returning to its lines to travel "loaded", not "light".  Can anybody help?  - SquisherDa (talk) 23:13, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "the French travelled loaded, not light . . "
Talk:Vehicle routing problem

message: How come the Clarke & Wright savings heuristic not being mentioned anywhere on the English Wikipedia? Was quite hard finding this page. --Blackstab-- (talk) 15:31, 26 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Not true. I've added a section for this (with references).Jiuguang Wang (talk) 17:20, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

text: I agree. Deleted. AustinBuchanan (talk) 00:44, 19 September 2013 (UTC)
Talk:Denomination (postage stamp)

message: Forever stamp redirects to this page, which makes no mention of the concept.  Wouldn't it make more sense to redirect it to Non-denominated postage instead?  -- Heath 24.127.52.67 19:44, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Good idea, go for it. Stan 02:19, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Scott O'Hara

message: I've heard somewhere that the character "Dirk Diggler" from the movie Boogie Nights was based on O'Hara. Does anyone have any reliable information on this? -- OlEnglish (Talk) 20:55, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Dirk Diggler?

message: The article lead should appropriately clarify Mr. O'Hara's real and chosen names. 69.105.109.37 (talk) 06:40, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Given/Chosen name

message: I find it very remiss that this article does not mention O'Hara's turn at publisher of gay magazines, Steam and Wilde. I'm attempting to link from another article about a contributor, but credence would help if this article mentioned O'Hara's ambitions and efforts towards publishing. Steam had quite a long run as a journalistic review of public sex in the US, while Wilde managed only a short run as a "literary" color glossy. These were projects he took on towards the end of his life. I can't be the only person who knows this or cares.Volpane (talk) 22:47, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Publishing Projects: ''Steam'', ''Wilde''
Talk:Melodifestivalen 2007

message: In all newspapers their are talk about that The ark is the big favourites to win on saturdya is this something to put into the meldofiestivalen2007 article?--Matrix17 16:50, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Watan Party of Afghanistan

message: I higly doubt that the party still exist. I don't believe that the "official homepage" really is an official platform of the party. Also I don't agree with "Secularism" as an ideology of the party, because National Reconciliation included that they should mix Islam into Afghan politics. --153.110.194.139 (talk) 07:38, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: There are many ex-PDPA organizations, more than one using the name Watan Party. I have arbitrarily delimited the article to the faction led by Md. Issa Jassur. --Soman (talk) 09:18, 24 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvXJ82pYgLc PreserveOurHistory (talk) 02:50, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious
Talk:Desertas Islands

message: *Chao: 1500 m N-S, 370 m wide in N, average widht about half, rocks Farilhão and Baixa da Trombeta in the N, southern tip Ponta da Coada, separted from Deserta Grande by Boqueirão Norte, 500 m wide
*Deserta Grande: 11.5 km N-S from Ponta da Fajã Pequena (N) to Ponta do Tabaqueiro (S), up to 2.5 km wide in the N, separated from Bugio by Boqueirão Sul, 1.5 km wide
*Bugio: 8 km N-S from Ponta do Cágado (N) to Ponta da Agulha (S), up to 1400 m wide (S)--Ratzer (talk) 19:21, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Collection of map infos, to be built and fleshed out into article later

message: "the whole chain located roughly between Madeira and the Canary Islands." - isn't this a mix up with Savage Islands?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.54.195.192 (talk) 04:28, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, that should be fixed. And the utexas topographic map under "external links" showing the location (east of Madeira and near, not south-east and far away like the Savage Is.) could be uploaded to Commons by somebody willing to login, it's apparently PD-US-gov. 193.96.224.17 (talk) 20:54, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  what?? 

message: If his pic is supposed to be here, we had better say why.
IceDragon64 (talk) 00:46, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zino
Talk:Islamic Dawah Organisation of Afghanistan

message: Itihad Islami redirects here and Ittihad is mentioned in the article.  So information about synonyms and the etymology could be useful. Jonpatterns (talk) 17:40, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, I now understand that Al-Ittihad means The Union.  Is Itihad Islami a westernized form? Jonpatterns (talk) 17:51, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: There are no right or wrongs on how to transliterate Arabic/Persian words into Latin script. It can be Itihad, Etihad, Ittihad, Ettehad, etc.. 'Ittehad-e Islami' means Islamic Union. --Soman (talk) 18:41, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Itihad Islami /Ittihad
Talk:Eidgah Mosque

message: The following coordinate fixes are needed for Id Gah Mosque. 
It is located in Afghanistan at 34.517943, 69.190429. (Across the street from the Ghazi Stadium) The current coordinates don't even have it in Afghanistan.
Source: Google Maps
—108.40.88.10 (talk) 19:37, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: . Thanks for pointing out the error. Deor (talk) 21:48, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coordinate error 
Talk:Siege of Pirisabora

message: Was this a Sassanid victory?  Ammianus reports that Julian himself made an unsuccessful attempt to breach one of the gates.  However, in the "Epitome of military science" of Flavius Vegetius Renatus, translated by	N. P. Milner as Volume 16 of Translated texts for historians, Liverpool University Press, 1996,   we read a footnote on p.130 saying "At the siege of Pirisabora AD363, the sight of Julian's helepolis under construction was enough to induce the besieged to offer acceptable terms of surrender".  Grumpy spiral (talk) 20:24, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right to ask. It was a Roman victory, though followed by a disastrous skirmish and some sort of mutiny. Andrew Dalby 20:08, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Victory for whom?
Talk:Amani High School

message: text moved from "list of Kabul High Schools"
*Amani High School is one of the top high schools in Kabul city located behind presidential palace. It was founded by king Amanullah Khan in 1924 and is called after his name. The school was supported by Germany from that time until 1985 by providing staff and teaching materials. During the 1992-1996 civil war, the school was partially destroyed and its educational material being looted. After the establishment of Hamid Karzai government in 2002, the reconstruction of the school began with German help and the first ceremony to celebrate Afghanistan's return to education was held at the school by attending of interim Afghan leader Hamid Karzai. The school is capable of two to three thousand students in different shifts from 1st to 12th grade.
End of Moved Text ( Martin |  talk • contribs  19:43, 18 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  please incorporate as appropriate into the text 

message: This book is talking about a German school in Kabul in the 1950s. Could this be the school?
* Ayoub, Christine. Memories of the Quaker Past: Stories of Thirty-Seven Senior Quakers. Xlibris Corporation, 2014. , 9781469162546. p. 171.
The book itself cannot be used as a source since it is self-published... but maybe info in it can be found in another source?
WhisperToMe (talk) 08:15, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible source
Talk:Message of the Sphinx

message: This entire article (paragraph) needs to be rewritten.  It is taken verbatim from the editorial review of the book at amazon.com :  http://www.amazon.com/Message-Sphinx-Hidden-Legacy-Mankind/dp/0517888521/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216933815&sr=1-1 
Cheesecake42 (talk) 21:24, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rewrite
Talk:British Columbia mainland coastal forests

message: The source is valid only to its own system of definition, although at least it does use actual official-name landforms in its descriptions (which this article doesn't, as yet).  But to see an article of a deep stretch of inlet titled "Strait of Georgia" - see  here, tells me everything I need to know about the accuracy/relevance of this classification system, no matter who the partners behind it are.  The title is only valid as a reference to this classification system, and not in reference to forests themselves.  Other classification systems for the forests do exist, not just hte CEC Ecoregion/Ecozones system (used by Environment Canada and also by teh equivalent US system and also the Dept of the Interior there).  The BC Ministry of Forests has yet another system, for forest-types notably, and there's the biogeoclimatic zones, which are something different again, i.e. the defined regions/zones are different.  Misrepresenting one systme as if it were the fact of the matter, above the other defintions, titles, is not Wikipedia's purpose; adopting one over the other as some kind of binding definition is highly questionable/POV-ish....and as I often find with ecological-group-based websites, the sites themselves arent' generally all that accurate.  Showing a picture of what I gather is the deeper end of Jervis Inlet or the Kitlope or another coastal inlet, and using it to illstrate the Strait of Georgia is just so wrong....Skookum1 (talk) 00:26, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Source accuracy
Talk:Barakzai dynasty

message: Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: http://www.khyber.org/pashtotribes/b/barakzai.shtml and http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/barakzi-singular-barakzay-an-ethnic-name-common-in-the-entire-eastern-portion-of-iran-and-afghanistan-where-it-is-found. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you.  DrKiernan (talk) 12:50, 21 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem removed 
Talk:Aush

message: It's evident that Aush / Aash / Āsh can be found in many cuisines and apparently, political division lines had made their way to the pages related to Aush. Currently, there are two pages for this range of traditional soups: Āsh which explains about  Iranian, Azerbaijani, Caucasian, and Turkish types of Aush and Aush for Afghani aushes. I don't see any reason for having these two pages separated and my understanding is that "Aush" should be the correct way of writing the word in English as it would not be read incorrectly and for English native speakers, it would not be confused with the English word "Ash".  Ammar (talk) 15:28, 15 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Klbrain (talk) 16:42, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:   : Yeah, agreed, thank you.---Wikaviani (talk) 16:45, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  This merge did not clearly address the differences between the different versions of Aush/Aash/Āsh in different regions (which had been discussed on the other talk page) - the word "Aush" literally translates to "soup" in many of these different languages and the soup is made different in terms of location. I tried to add some of this in edits, I hope someone with more experience can elaborate it within the article (with reliable sources). I think it was easier understood when it was two seperate articles. Jooojay (talk) 00:32, 15 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal
Talk:Miami Psychic

message: Numerous wikilinks seem to have been copy-and-pasted to the "See also" sections of various pages despite not having any particular relevance. I have removed several links from the "See also" section that did not have any direct relevance to the article subject's author other than to implicitly disparage her, which would be a violation of the WP:BLP policy against unsourced content. WP:SEEALSO says that "The links in the 'See also' section should be relevant, should reflect the links that would be present in a comprehensive article on the topic, and should be limited to a reasonable number." – wallyfromdilbert (talk) 03:07, 27 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: @Wallyfromdilbert: You are going way overboard on the medium articles you are removing material. The MOS states: "One purpose of "See also" links is to enable readers to explore tangentially related topics..." I maintain that the bios of other mediums and articles covering the general topic are, for certain, tangentially related. RobP (talk) 03:11, 27 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: BLP violations should not be restored. Regarding wikilinks to other mediums, under your interpretation, any biography could have dozens of "see also" entries based purely on their profession. Can you explain how that would make sense as a guideline? – wallyfromdilbert (talk) 04:02, 27 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links in "See also" section
Talk:Sheila van Damm

message: Currently the article says "He encouraged her to learn to drive, at well below the legal age, and her first journey with him was to drive from London to Brighton". This is a little disingenuous for two reasons:
#Even today it is quite common for children to learn to drive long before they reach the legal age to take a test to obtain a licence. In Britain they just can't drive on the Queen's highway until they have a provisional licence, and for tractors that is 16 (learning-to-drive-a-tractor/age-limits)
#Driving tests to obtain a licence did not come in until 1935 and were suspended during WWII until 1946 (History of road safety, The Highway Code and the driving test § 3. Top 10 driving test facts)
So it was possible that before the driving test was introduced that there was no legal requirement as to age or compitence for obtaining a licence to drive (think about drone flying until recently, or driving a narrowboat on a canal), so a source is needed to state that the first journey was illegal (as the text implies) and not just eccentric. -- PBS (talk) 19:44, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Driving
Talk:Midnight and Jeremiah

message: I was surprised when I first read this article having just read a 1965 paperback edition of the book - entitled So Dear to My Heart - which differed from the book as described in this article. I've since learned that North revised his original story to parallel the Disney filmation. I've noted some changes I've been able to substantiate without having access to a copy of the book as originally published. I've noticed the article's list of characters omits Tildy: was she invented by Disney so that the stars of Song of the South could reunite for a second film? Perhaps someone who has a copy of the original Midnight and Jeremiah or recalls reading it could comment.--Cherrylimerickey (talk) 02:44, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Changes made in wake of Disney film
Talk:Midnight Over Sanctaphrax

message: If you're interested in the Edge Chronicles and are also appalled by the terrible and unorganized state most of the pages are in, help! Voice your support for my proposal that we create an Edge Chronicles WikiProject here! MythCreator (talk) 22:08, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Support the project!
Talk:Milly-Molly-Mandy

message: Child singer Glyn Poole from Castleford, West Yorkshire (part of the Poole Family who won TV talent show Opportunity Knocks, later starred in ITV variety show Junior Showtime) had a UK 8-week chart run, reaching No 35 in October, with the single "Milly Molly Mandy" in 1973. Here it is at 45cat.com, discogs and rateyourmusic. Here's a clip at YouTube. Possibly one of the worst records ever made. Martinevans123 (talk) 23:30, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Glyn Poole single
Talk:Ouidah

message: Someone needs to remove this bogus page that the Ouidah article links to and replace it with a proper page on the Triangular Trade, unless that exists under a different name.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.244.5.69 (talk) 17:59, 16 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangular_trade 
Talk:Mining the Sky

message: There were a references in the 3554 Amun article to some material from this book, but it wasn't in this article about this book. So I've copied it over. Since the values Lewis used are out of date (1997), I've added an update from the Platinum article, and copied the link (from that article) to a platinum commodities market price site. Not sure if that counts as original research? -- PaulxSA (talk) 22:19, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Asteroid [[3554 Amun]]

message: Stating that an asteroid contains this and that much of a particular substance; OK. Stating that "it's worth" this and that many million US$ is just ridiculous. Prices change, and markets certainly would be disturbed by that kinds of amounts of material. To first state that shortage of resources is "...an illusion born of ignorance" and then quote market prices (markets = managing scarcity) is just self-contradictory and utterly clueless. Wish I knew how to fix without just deleting the whole crap. --Sigmundur (talk) 04:59, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I agree, and space exploration advocates (of which I admit I am one) do this constantly.  I think the point and value of such statements is really to suggest that the asteroidal and other extraterrestrial resources are simply "extremely valuable", likely dwarfing the large (and also poorly known) costs of accessing them.  Let's see if some words to make this more clear can be put into the article.  Wwheaton (talk) 17:07, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ridiculous
Talk:Ministry of Plenty

message: I'm working with the branch of a First World bank in a Third World country, and I have to say, they are trying to function as a Mini-Plenty, but for the emplyees inside, due to serious security concerns, the degree of surveillance is reminiscent of the surveillance Winston faced in the Ministry of "Truth".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.67.203.142 (talk) 07:52, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
Talk:Ministry of Truth

message: Is the text at the bottom of the introduction appropriate? It seems like the last few lines are somewhat advertise-y. Could someone more experienced help? 60.242.31.143 08:56, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Older comments

message: As I recall, The Colbert Report has occasionally had G.W.Bush-related segments with the banner 'Ministry of Truth.' Finding a few examples might expand the section a bit.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.202.27.131 (talk) 21:21, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minitru in Popular Culture: Colbert Report 

message: If Minitru is indeed involved with the production of music, could this be given more of a mention in the article? As I recall, the music for the proles is written entirely by machine. Some guy (talk) 01:02, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Music

message: There is a Chinese blog called Zhenlibu which translated gives the name "Ministry of Truth". This blog reports on the official decrees of the ministry of propaganda within China and how those affect the media. It's especially interesting because it sometimes has internal documents describing exactly what the media can and cannot report on. I think this should be mentioned somewhere in this article, although I'm not sure how to do it. Anawrahta (talk) 16:55, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chinese Ministry of Truth
Talk:Ice protection system

message: the TKS-anti-ice-system works with a fluid (www.weepingwings.com). What stand the 3 letters TKS for?--84.137.39.121 20:08, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: TKS = Tecalemit-Kilfrost-Sheepbridge Stokes   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.4.57.101 (talk) 15:04, 20 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: A 1950 advertisement for their system on the Avro Shackleton in Flight magazine here;   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.7.147.13 (talk) 18:14, 18 May 2012 (UTC)

message: This article is a good start, but needs some work.  How about some diagrams?  For example, to show how a de-icing boot works.  And what about these "actuators" mentioned in the article?  How, exactly, do they work?  What do they look like?  It's not clear at all from this article.  Some drawings and a more detailed description would be very helpful.  Captain Quirk (talk) 02:11, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good start, but..... 

message: It seems we have three different articles on this topic that could be effectively combined into one article:
* Atmospheric icing
* Ice protection system
* Icing conditions
I would suggest that we merge all the articles into Atmospheric icing, possibly renaming it to Atmospheric icing conditions.
The FAA website frequently refers to Atmospheric icing conditions and also uses this terminology in the FAR: []
What are your thoughts?
PolarYukon (talk) 19:41, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge discussion 

message: I suggest merging Weeping wing with this article. Probably should be put somewhere around 'TKS Ice Protection'. Abcjake (talk) 05:45, 4 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weeping wing merger