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Talk:Syr Darya

message: Various etymologies have been suggested for the name "Iaxartes" (or preciously, Iaxartês)
I suppose that:
A. The first part, the the root "Iaks-", is derivated by name "S-akas" (i.e. Sacae, Sacians, or else Scythians).
The same root occurs in words:
#"Ukrayina" ( i.e. Ok(s)-raine)( = Ukraine, the modern European state) 
#"Oxus" (i.e. Oks) ( = Amu Darya, ancient river, in Central Asia)
#"Euxinus Pontus" (i.e. Oks-inus pontus) ( = the modern Black Sea) etc.
B. The second part, "-arta", is derivated by ancient Persian word "arta" ( = great).
So, Iaxartes means "Great Oxos".
--IonnKorr 08:45, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology of Iaxartes 

message: the use of florid terms like 'highly repressive' and 'wrought carnage' is clearly opinionated and unencyclopaedic. Toyokuni3 (talk) 13:43, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: POV

message: "The river rises in two headstreams in the Tian Shan Mountains (ancient Mount Imeon) in Kyrgyzstan"
Who have added this crap "Mount Imeon"? I deleted it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Torebay (talk • contribs) 21:28, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mount Imeon 

message: in Modern Turkish. Böri (talk) 12:41, 31 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seyhun 

message: it's doesn't necessary mean it's turkic origin. it can be saka, or saqaliba or slavic syr meaning wet. as in mat syra zemljya meaning wet mother earth.89.205.59.148 (talk) 21:58, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: etymology of "syr"

message: https://twitter.com/RyskeldiSatke/status/1256564996621963269
2 May 2020
I am not sure that the dam has to do with Syr Darya river. --Helium4 (talk) 17:16, 3 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sardobin dam of 2017 broke in 1 May 2020
Talk:Marching Illini

message: well, if anybody is watching this page, you're probably already watching the Marching band page, but in case you aren't, please go over and check out the peer review in progress.  Thanks. Fsiler 08:51, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marching Band peer review 

message: I just wikified this article and added a bunch of info from the MI website. However, I wasn't able to find any info about the history of the band, or the current director(s). If someone could add a band logo, year founded, director, and uniform description for the info box that would be great.
Brad Halls 02:15, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikified 

message: Lack of citations/references continues to be a source of criticism lodged against many college marching band articles on Wikipedia, sometimes leading to suggestions for article deletion. Options for improvement (and clearing out the flag/s) include adding a reliable/verifiable citation/reference for each statement made (labor intensive and time-consuming) or deleting content without citations (for now) until it can be re-added with supporting citations/references (still labor intensive, but resolves the flag/s more quickly). If the latter option is chosen, it can be helpful to find, select, and document the sources to be cited ahead of time, and then only add statements backed up by those sources which can be cited easily because that homework has already been done. Remember, while remove might seem extreme and there might be fear of losing valuable, but unreferenced content, in reality that content remains available in the article's history and can be resurrected from that history once it can be cited. Verbose Edit summaries (during deletion) help make such retrievable easier. Rather than flag the entire article, each affected section has been tagged separately to allow gradual improve and resolution over time. The tag for each section can simply be removed once that section is properly referenced. ShoneBrooks (talk) 02:05, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Multiple sections with no citations
Talk:Torchère

message: The article says the torchère lamp was introduced into France in the 17th century.  But there’s something about the form of the torchère that intrigues me - and the article as it now stands doesn’t delve into it at all.  Is the “torch” shape on which the torchère lamp is based a functional shape (and only functional)?  Or does it have a reference to classical styles that may have influenced French design, since France was once part of the ancient Roman Empire?
Roman or “classical” designs took numerous forms, this (though stylized) illustrates some of them:
Classical Roman torch
But I’ve wondered if the Roman torch shape was, itself, influenced by ancient Egypt.  It’s well known that there was interaction between the Romans and the Egyptians.
This vase design, from India, seems to reflect classic Egyptian column designs.  Look at the flared top of the neck of the vase:
Egyptian-influenced East-Indian vase
Here’s one image of an Egyptian column:
Classic Egyptian column form
Surely the shape or motif itself of interest.  Can someone add info on this sort of thing?Joel Russ (talk) 00:29, 13 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Derivation of the torchère lamp shape
Talk:Alan Smith (footballer, born 1980)

message: I think that saying he's a Newcastle player is jumping the gun a touch. He won't be number 14, either. Probably 8.
---I think that the text should be changed to "he will miss...WC" because from what I've heard this injury is a year at the least
 
Very POV article 202.74.165.162 03:32, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: One former Leeds player did leave for Manchester United when Leeds were actual challengers for the title (say, 4-5 years ago?), though I've forgotten who, and Leeds supporters criticised him for leaving for a 'rival', just as if, say, Francesc Fabregas left for Manchester United.  Which was why, when Leeds were relegated from the Premiership, Alan Smith was slammed by supporters for leaving for Manchester United.  x42bn6 Talk 03:29, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Off the top of my head, Eric Cantona left Leeds for Manchester United. Poulsen 20:58, 10 February 2006 (UTC)

text: -; Leeds is much more of a rival to Manchester United than Arsenal. There is geographic and historical rivalry between Leeds and United. Much like United and Liverpool. Arsenal have only recently come into 'rivalry' with United and only because of increased success... not history.
StrikerCW 05:47, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: You can all vote for Alan Smith at Wikipedia:WikiProject Football/Article improvement drive. I know this has done a world of good for the Bayern Munich article. Kingjeff 04:24, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Vote

message: Does anyone know where I can get in on the Leeds United Centre of Excellence? I would like to start an article on it. Kingjeff 23:29, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Youth systems in English football have changed significantly since Smith first joined Leeds. Technically, the Leeds centre of excellence no longer exists, as Leeds now have an Academy system (for more information on the introduction of Academies, see the second half of ). Probably the best place to find out about the Leeds youth system is in Leeds United match programmes and club publications. Other than anything which is on the Leeds website, it is likely to be very difficult to find relevant information specific to the Leeds youth system online. (note to self: either improve Youth system or start an article on the Academy system) Oldelpaso 20:32, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Leeds United Centre of Excellence

message: Was he born in Wakefield or Rothwell? - 
The Daddy 16:24, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Contradict
Talk:Siege of Lucknow

message: This article doesn't read well. It needs more background and I think I could also do with loosing some of the information about events elsewhere - these are confusing, especially when the order of events is reversed as in the case of the first relief. Some of this would be better covered by a short summary and a wikilink. --NHSavage 09:06, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: :Category:Battles of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 is itself a sub-category of a sub-category of :Category:Rebellions in Asia. — Robert Greer (talk) 18:37, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:Category:Battles of the Indian Rebellion of 1857]] vs. [[:Category:Rebellions in Asia]] 

message: Hfbduuddndjnirurhfutjjf 223.196.193.46 (talk) 12:20, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Math
Talk:Military career of John Kerry

message: I converted the inline external links to references but the links to kerryvietnam.org do not sound like RS to me.  RJFJR (talk) 23:57, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: References
Talk:Heptapleurum arboricola

message: Would this name refer to Schefflera? (The old problem with common names being ambiguous). Imc 09:32, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

message: Hi, Schefflera arboricola now is a syn. of Heptapleurum arboricola. --2A01:CB00:2F0:FF00:1861:DBE0:878F:B945 (talk) 20:44, 3 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Synonym 

message: Hey, just adding distribution and fruit edibility. Let me know if I've got it wrong. Cheers. Tambor de Tocino (talk) 05:58, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Key information missing
Portal talk:Schools/Showcase articles

message: GGS article contains considerably more text than Fettes, Winchester, and others. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.19.252.190 (talk • contribs) 20:35, October 30, 2005  (UTC)
*The amount of text doesn't show the quality of the article, of which the GGS article is almost all lists and not a good showcase of school articles. Also, I am trying to keep a balance of US, UK and Australian schools while looking for other nation articles to add too. Harro5 21:13, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The GGS article is still dominated by lists (alumni, buildings) thus leaving only two paragraphs and a short intro in prose. Also, the images are of dubious copyrights (why not take some pics of your own under GDFL), and this article does not set itself aboive the rest in its current form. Harro5 08:47, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

text: Noted, thanks. Please come back and resumbit a nomination once the article is back up to scratch. Harro5 20:53, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

message: Proposal to add 2 links to Showcase:
* St Michael's Grammar School
* Geelong Grammar School
Please vote below. If you are against this idea, please state why in your objection.
Beyondcapricorn 08:05, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vote to add links 

message: I am willing to hear reasons why either of these articles should be a showcase article, but this is not like WP:FAC where votes decide. That is not what the portal is for. If you wish to have St Michaels recognised by community consensus, head in that direction. No vote will be viewed as valid on this matter, but I am open to seeing why you think these articles deserve this recognition. Any attempt to bring this to be about my bias is without cause - the section itself shows I want to promote other schools on Wikipedia. Thanks. Harro5 08:32, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion

message: * East Brunswick High School
Please vote below. If you are against this idea, please state why in your objection. --GorillazFanAdam 03:38, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal To Add School Link
Talk:Capital accumulation

message: Should this page redirect to Capitalism#Capital accumulation? Jonpatterns (talk) 09:58, 25 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. This article is nothing more than an essay on Das Kapital. It does not meet NPOV criteria, but the content does help make the capitalism article more NPOV.
* No This article was written some time ago, so it's short on citations. But it's well written, and the topic is important to economics. Harrod-Domar model is a standard economics model, and has nothing to do with Das Kapital. Darx9url (talk) 01:13, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect to Capitalism section? 

message: Definition : 
In economics, capital refers to any man made factor of production. The earliest forms of capital were prehistoric and perhaps even predating homo sapiens themselves. When homo erectus fashioned crude hand axes for chopping wood or other productive endeavours, capital entered the world. 
The classic triad in economics is land, labour, and capital. Here land refers to any sort of natural resources and labour is the expenditure of effort by individuals. Since antiquity, man has been innovating and employing additional forms of technology to increase the efficiency of his labour. This accumulation of capital, along side technological development has led to a steady increase in production and thus continually higher standards of living as well as higher levels of savings and investment. 
With the industrial revolution and the massive increase in production associated with the factory system, capital accumulation began to increase exponentially. This translated into a massive increase in workers wages and greatly improved working conditions over the course of many long, hard decades or even centuries in the English case. Industrialization started with England in the mid 18th century, but did not really get under way in American manufacturing until the late 19th century. Meistro1 (talk) 01:56, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  let me propose an alternative opening
Talk:New Community Corporation

message: The first line under the header Formation:  "New Community Corporation was formed by a group of community leaders in 1968 as a response to the Civic Disorders of July, 1967, which left 26 dead and caused approximately $15 million in property damage."  Why not call a duck a duck and change "Civic Disorders" to "riots"?  The page even links to an entry titled "1967 Newark riots."  Runnerupnj 10:12, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Currently it is a glowing review of this organization. Perhaps it is truly this wonderful but it looks quite biased. --Ifnord (talk) 23:34, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Looks like a PR piece
Talk:Jill Arrington

message: official home page no longer exists Nick Dillinger 10:43, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Is there a reputable source (not the IMDB) that she is "the aunt of young actress Dakota Fanning."? Mad Jack 22:40, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Dakota Fanning?
Talk:History of Church End, Barnet

message: These were a terrible mess with lots overlap, duplicated articles etc. Each "History of..." article should now directly relate to a district page: 
*Arkley
**History of Arkley
*Church End, Finchley
**History of Church End Finchley
*East Finchley
**History of East Finchley
*Edgware
**History of Edgware
*Golders Green
**History of Golders Green
*Mill Hill
**History of Mill Hill
*North Finchley
**History of North Finchley
The articles about formal parishes/districts should be named as such - otherwise it is consfusing to the reader as the parish/urban district/municipal boroughs usually covered a greater area than the town they were named after. These articles take the form of the name and status when it was abolished in 1965:
*Municipal Borough of Hendon
*Municipal Borough of Finchley
Redirects can be created for example from Hendon Urban District and the changing status shown in the article. As all these districts are historical anyway the articles do not need to be called "History of..." Please follow these naming conventions. MRSC 10:43, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: History articles for Barnet
Talk:Bernard Terminal

message: — JIP | Talk 10:47, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Binatone

message: — JIP | Talk 10:49, 30 October 2005 (UTC)

message: Hi,
Although googles first hit [www.binatonetelecom.com] returns an empty page, the last entry on the second page [www.binatone.ru/index.php] returns a corporate website. Here it states that Binatone is a private company. I take that to mean it is not listed on a stock exchange. In that respect it is not notable.
thanks
Kghose 11:32, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Would like to nominate for deletion again 

message: A lot of the final paragraph of this article is junk. Several sentences make no sense whatsoever. I can't edit it myself as I'm not sure exactly what the original author intended to convey. 86.132.59.99 (talk) 10:44, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs a tidy-up 

message: Is the first vowel the same as in "binary"? The console is mentioned in the Goldie Lookin Chain song Half Man Half Machine but they pronounce the first syllable like "(rubbish) bin". Equinox ◑ 09:29, 11 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Not sure I can be bothered to find a reliable source, but I've always thought the first syllable was the same as that of the word "binary"; but I would accept that the pronuniation used by people could be dependant on the (UK) regional accent.  87.112.47.121 (talk) 22:01, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation?
Talk:History of North Finchley

message: These were a terrible mess with lots overlap, duplicated articles etc. Each "History of..." article should now directly relate to a district page: 
*Arkley
**History of Arkley
*Church End Finchley
**History of Church End Finchley
*East Finchley
**History of East Finchley
*Edgware
**History of Edgware
*Golders Green
**History of Golders Green
*Mill Hill
**History of Mill Hill
*North Finchley
**History of North Finchley
The articles about formal parishes/districts should be named as such - otherwise it is consfusing to the reader as the parish/urban district/municipal boroughs usually covered a greater area than the town they were named after. These articles take the form of the name and status when it was abolished in 1965:
*Municipal Borough of Hendon
*Municipal Borough of Finchley
Redirects can be created for example from Hendon Urban District and the changing status shown in the article. As all these districts are historical anyway the articles do not need to be called "History of..." Please follow these naming conventions. MRSC 10:43, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: History articles for Barnet
Talk:Mark Anthony Bracegirdle

message: The BRACEGIRDLE incident is important as an episode in Sri Lanka's independence struggle. Mark Anthony Bracegirdle is not well known by his first names, which is why I have made the page simply BRACEGIRDLE.
Vinodm 11:19, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I have removed this statement from the article, as it appears to be a personal observation with no reference provided:
** I met Mark Bracegirdle in 1967, when I rented his house in Cornwall for three years.  We became good friends, and it was at that time that he told me about his past work with the Flying Doctor service in Africa.  We stayed in touch throughout the next 14 years, and I am certain that he did not return to Africa during that period.  Therefore, his service in Africa had to have been in the 1960s, or earlier.  •  Jack Barker - Princeton, NJ   PKT(alk) 16:24, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: February 2012
Talk:Information lifecycle management/Archive 1

message: This article mainly describes and overlaps with Records management. It does not cover the "official" position of ILM as defined by SNIA. The article needs some wikification and improvement.
80.171.91.166 11:20, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV

message: Merge with Information_Lifecycle_Management
Merge of Information_Lifecycle_Management into this article Information_lifecycle_management proposed, the latter being the better and more comprehensive article.Kff 13:16, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree! But I would use merge it the other way around to maintain the capital spelling of the words (which is also used in the article) --Ghormax 10:07, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The merge was done in the "wrong direction". Useful information was lost with the redirect. Kff 17:09, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Duplicate
Talk:RAF Third Tactical Air Force

message: What is the real nature of the required expansion to the Squadrons section?  Currently it is tagged as , but I feel that it is already too large for that to apply.  If there are missing
squadrons, one should probably use , but, if what is wanted is more on the individual squadrons, 
then what is really needed is to follow the requests for expansion procedures.
--David Woolley 11:35, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Expansion of Squadrons section
Talk:The Importance of Being Idle (song)

message: I just reverted the changes made by 81.104.144.71.  When I first heard the song I thought that the section referred to asking a doctor to lie for him, but on the printed lyrics the word is clearly line not lie. --Apyule 11:35, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meaning of one more line 

message: "He got the title from the Mark Twain book of the same name which he found whilst cleaning out his garage"
Mark Twain didn't write a book called "The Importance of Being Idle" and the link connects you to a book written by a one "Stephen Robins," albeit under the same name. There is, however, a play by Oscar Wilde named "The Importance of Being Earnest"; perhaps Noel was inspired by this title? This seems more likely. I would edit this, but I don't really know how (I literally just made an account) and I feel that this claim should probably have a reference to it (don't know where to find one).
TheMillenniumDuck 04:16, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  I don't think so... 
Talk:The Best of Black Sabbath

message: The article is self-contradictory and seems otherwise poorly written. Why "over 25" when the actual number of songs is listed as 16+16=32. Which is right?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.142.193.192 (talk) 17:03, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs Rewriting
Talk:It's Like That (Mariah Carey song)

message: I've placed this article at RfC as an example of the disagreemnts over formatting tables. --Mel Etitis  (Μελ Ετητης) 11:38, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: RfC

message: There is a policy discussion in progress at the Manual of Style which affects this page, suggesting that the capitalization of "like" should be removed. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. — LlywelynII 14:17, 12 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Policy discussion in progress