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Talk:Germaine of Foix

message: For what it's worth, the following line got tagged with a citation request:
:It is widely speculated among historians that Charles was Isabel's father; Germaine refers to her in her will as the "Infanta Isabel"—a title that only makes sense if her father was the King.[citation needed]
The source for this was the Spanish Wikipedia article; I translated some of the information there over here awhile back.  Here's what it says:
:Pronto surgió entre los dos una apasionada relación amorosa de la que nació una hija, Isabel, y aunque nunca fue reconocida oficialmente, Germana de Foix se refiere a ella en su testamento como la «infanta Isabel» –título que no le podía corresponder– y a su padre como «el emperador».
Of course, Wikipedia can't be used as a source, and the line isn't cited there either.  (Also, Emperor?  Charles hadn't been elected Holy Roman Emperor yet when Isabel was born...)  Still, this sounds pretty plausible from what I've read- I'm fairly certain I read somewhere else that there were suspicions that Charles and his step-grandmother had an affair, at least, though I haven't seen the part about her referring to the daughter as "Infanta Isabel" elsewhere.  So...  it could definitely use a cite better than the lame "among historians," but I suspect it is in fact true. SnowFire (talk) 20:32, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Geoffrey Parker in his recent biography Charles V (Emperor, A New Life of Charles V, 2019) essentially calls it nonsense. He traces the weak evidence used by some authors to make this sensational claim and shows why it is wrong. He categorically states the emperor did not sire a daughter with Germaine. Glendoremus (talk) 18:40, 6 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Germaine's bastard daughter
Talk:Francis Ellingwood Abbot

message: I added several paragraphs concerning the landmark case of Hale v. Everett, 53 N.H. 9 (1868), in which New Hampshire's highest court ruled that the Rev. Francis Ellingwood Abbot was doctrinally unsound and insufficiently Christian to serve his Unitarian congregation.  I've included quotations drawn from the opinion for flavor, and added a contrasting laudatory quotation from Frederick Douglass - - to show that some deeply appreciated Abbot's work.  
This information is based on research I did for an article published by the George Mason University Civil Rights Law Journal.  
Eric Alan Isaacson 00:18, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rev. Abbot and Hale v. Everett (N.H. 1868) 

message: I have searched for some time now for the earliest sketch of the scientific method in its modern form. Abbot's description from Scientific Theism is the earliest I have so far:
"This method consists essentially in three distinct steps : (1) observation and experiment, (2) hypothesis, (3) verification by fresh observation..." (p. 60). 
I have no idea if Abbot picked this up from another source, or condensed the method down to these steps from his own reading. --ChrisSteinbach (talk) 23:31, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scientific Method
Talk:Socialising networks

message: Hi
sorry if this looks like an advert for relopia. This is not intended. I just haven't had time yet to add more information. I want to address a blog from O'reilly (I haven't had time to link to it yet - but I promise to do this) where there is a discussion about what should be happening in social network platforms: i.e. making them useful for people to connect.
PLEEEEASE give me a bit more time.
THANKS!
20:07, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Maria of Castile

message: WikiProject Biography Assessment
The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 17:37, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: Moved. There's a 3:1 majority in favour of the move, and it is supported by WP:CONCISE as well as WP:CONSISTENCY with other names such as Eleanor of Aquitaine and Anne of Cleves.   — Amakuru (talk) 21:23, 21 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Maria of Castile, Queen of Aragon →  – Maria of Castile redirects here. It should be removed to prevent the title from being longer than necessary. Interstellarity (talk) 21:59, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 4 September 2021
Talk:Ronald Davis

message: MOS:LEADIMAGE states "It is common for an article's lead or infobox to carry a representative image—such as of a person or place, a book or album cover—to give readers visual confirmation that they've arrived at the right page." This is an article about a PERSON not his WORK. If this was an article about this style of artwork then it would be fine to have this as the lead image. It's common practice for the lead image to only be the person. This is also the practice endorsed by infobox artist (see Template:Infobox artist), which says under the image parameter "A picture of or including the person." This image should be in the body section. Iamreallygoodatcheckers (talk) 02:46, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, however that is not set in stone....In this case the painting is powerful, and stands as a clear introduction to Davis's ouevre; and it works very well as the lede image in the infobox. One of the most important policy guidelines to remember is: WP:IAR especially when common sense applies....Modernist (talk) 03:01, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not common sense to depict someone as their art piece. I think it's a "powerful" art piece too, but it would be just as powerful in the body in accordance with Wikipedia consensus and general guidelines. Iamreallygoodatcheckers (talk) 03:05, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Frankly it is simply wrong to not include an artists work in the infobox...In most cases it is the work; the artwork that is known; not the artist's appearance...Modernist (talk) 03:11, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The most logical thing do is to get WP:3O, but you seem to really want it to stay in the Infobox. Also it appears you have more experience in the art realm of Wikipedia than me. I'm a political editor and we usually stick to the policies and guidelines pretty stringently because the topics are so contentious, but this art so what the heck. Let it stay in the infobox. Iamreallygoodatcheckers (talk) 03:17, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Location of image
Talk:Ronald Inglehart

message: The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- KenWalker | Talk 08:13, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 

message: Information about the argument in Sacred and Secular was copy-pasted from the author's own review. Which is not acceptable. I removed some (see below), and edited the rest to meet general neutral and informative standards. Wikipedia is not a commercial channgel, and Inglehart's work is controversial at best.
Removed:
Many nineteenth-century thinkers -- Auguste Comte, Herbert Spencer, Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, Karl Marx, and Sigmund Freud --  predicted that religion would gradually fade in importance and cease to be significant with the emergence of industrial society. This belief that religion was dying became the conventional wisdom in the social sciences during most of the twentieth century. 
During the last decade, however, the secularization thesis has experienced sustained challenge. Critics point to multiple indicators of religious health and vitality today, from the continued popularity of churchgoing in the United States, to the emergence of New Age spirituality in Western Europe, the surge of fundamentalist movements and Islamic parties in the Muslim world, the evangelical revival sweeping through Latin America, and the widespread ethno-religious conflicts in international affairs.
The traditional secularization thesis needs updating: religion has not disappeared and appears unlikely to do so. Yet the concept of secularization arguably captures an important part of what is going on.  Sacred and Secular develops a theory of secularization and existential security, building on key elements of traditional sociological theories and revising others.  This book demonstrates that: (1) The publics of virtually all advanced industrial societies have been moving toward more secular orientations during the past fifty years; but (2) The world as a whole now has more people with traditional religious views than ever before -- and they constitute a growing proportion of the world's population.  Though these two propositions may seem contradictory, they are not.  The fact that the first proposition is true, helps account for the second — because secularization has a surprisingly powerful negative impact on human fertility rates. 
--Yanemiro 13:46, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not acceptable standards 
Talk:Ronald Radosh

message: This article has been revised as part of a large-scale clean-up project of multiple article copyright infringement.  Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions must be deleted. Contributors may use sources 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. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:34, 22 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem
Talk:Ronald Rotunda

message: I trimmed a passage that claimed Rotunda had an extramarital affair.  Per WP:BLP negative claims that aren't referenced are supposed to be removed.  I looked for references to the woman the passage named as the other party and found nothing but mirrors to this article.  Geo Swan (talk) 08:25, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Extramarital affair?

message: I found out from his close friend, fellow law professor and "claremonster" F.H. "Frank" Buckley that he passed from pneumonia. Does anyone have his D.O.B.? I'll post it, along with his professional obituary when it is published. 
Discpad (talk) 06:33, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Death
Talk:Seal of Los Angeles

message: Pretty much all references are from other Wikipedia pages which are linked in the text, e.g. Coat of arms of Castile and León. Keith D. Tyler ¶ (AMA) 20:17, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

message: I seem to remember at somepoint there was a cross on the seal to represent the city's past Spanish Mission history but was removed to violations of church and state, can anyone confirm this and add this to this article?  GreatGreg 23:50, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That would be the seal of Los Angeles County.  - Keith D. Tyler ¶ 19:58, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Cross
Talk:Ronan Finn

message: To the IP editors who feel that the BLP maintenance tag does not belong there, you need to read WP:BLP, or at the least take a glance at the top of this very talk page where it says "Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately." Putting the maintenance tag there is done as a favor to those who added the information so that they have a chance to add sources. If those sources are not found, the information will be removed. Only the last, very small sections of this article have any sourcing at all, so as a whole the article is sorely in needed of additional references to meet the requirements outlined in WP:BLP. I will be putting the tag back up soon, with a note warning editors not to remove it until the issues have been reconciled. Anyone who removes it will receive warnings and I will report them to admins for vandalism. -- Fyrefly  (talk) 19:43, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stop removing the maintenance tag
Talk:Ronit Lentin

message: Is Ronit the mother of Alana Lentin?  The ages seem right, the appearances in the photo would seem to bear that out, and they are both active academics in related areas....  I've not (yet) been able to find any proof of my theory, though.  --Eliyahu S Talk 18:32, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mother - Daughter?
Talk:Hornblende

message: This article uses lustre and luster. someone should make it all either American or British English
RockRNC 15:26, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  uk/us 

message: "Hornblende is an isomorphous mixture of three molecules; a calcium-iron-magnesium silicate, an aluminium-iron-magnesium silicate, and an iron-magnesium silicate. "
This is actually pretty unhelpful as it stands. It doesn't explain where alkali metals come in to the composition, nor the halogen/hydroxide. At the very least, the actual formulas for the molecules ought to be included here.  --Kent G. Budge (talk) 14:05, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Molecules of solid solution series 

message: Should we create an article for a related mineral called metahornblendite? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 12:52, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Metahornblendite is not a mineral. It is a somewhat uncommon name for a rock type. --Kent G. Budge (talk) 14:01, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Metahornblendite]]

message: — Assignment last updated by ChloejWard (talk) 03:40, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: ERTH 4303 Resources of the Earth
Talk:Ronnie Fields

message: There have been a couple of attempts to add information about the subjects arrest in February 2007.  Please note that all charges were dropped; accordingly, IMHO WP:BLP strongly militates against listing any of this information in his article. He's notable for being a minor league basketball player, and this had nothing to do with basketball. Please use caution with BLP information; this was the very first hit I got in Google. Xymmax (talk) 01:19, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Field's Arrest and [[WP:BLP]] 
Talk:Matsushima, Miyagi

message: I believe in this case for the Japanese name of Matsushima, as used in an official address {松島町}, that the final character would be pronounced as "-chou", not the "-machi". -Machi refers more to a village, hamlet, or sub-district of a larger town.
:The -machi is consistent with the Japanese wikipedia, and my Miyagi maps. Neier 22:32, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name suffix 
Talk:Ronnie Rancifer

message: This article (along with the Johnny Jackson (musician) article), is (in my opinion) essentially WP:1E and doesn't seem like it'd meet WP:MUSICBIO or WP:GNG, so I edited the article accordingly. But somehow my edit was tagged as possible unreferenced addition to BLP. My intentions were good, but I'm not really that familiar with how these edit filters work.--2601:153:881:3D60:90FC:9BD7:C248:2103 (talk) 01:02, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge or redirect template's status as a [[WP:BLP]] concern
Talk:Africa Day

message: I propose that African Liberation Day be merged into Africa Day. They seem to be a duplicate - same subject, same scope. MassiveEartha (talk) 02:14, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge discussion 
Talk:Ronny Hodel

message: This page previously had a "fun fact" at the end.  I took the liberty to clean up the sentence structure so that it sounds less opinionated.  Unless this "fact" can later be incorporated into the article, it should probably be deleted according to Wikipedia standards.  NatePhysics (talk) 22:09, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Random Fact
Talk:Rosa Monckton, Baroness Monckton of Dallington Forest

message: Whenever I hear this woman's name pop up in the media it's in connection with Diana, Princess of Wales. While I'm sure she's done useful charity work, she appears to have run a significant sideline in being a professional 'friend and confidant' of the big D, but for some reason none of this is mentioned in the article. Google her and see for yourself. 79.75.178.11 21:07, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: She does seem to have been a close friend. Diana, Princess of Wales went on a holiday between the 15th and 20th of August, with the Honourable Rosa Monckton shortly before her death, according to page 28 of the Operation Paget Report.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Timtak (talk • contribs) 06:34, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Diana's best mate
Talk:African Growth and Opportunity Act

message: As can be seen here, the US had no WTO waiver for AGOA. The attempt to get one was blocked by Paraguay.  Happily ever after 06:26, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Waiver

message: The external inline hyperlink is dead.  I've removed it from the article and placed it here:   . Njerseyguy (talk) 05:48, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Dead link

message: Gabon, Niger, Uganda, and the Central African Republic were recently made inelligible, and the chart should reflect that. Thunderhawk256 (talk) 12:06, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent Expulsions 

message: Sociologist Michael Mann in the cited source argues the dollar "exacts indirect imperial tribute,"  not the legislation itself. This criticism is of US dollar hegemony, and is only indirectly related to the AGOA, which does not impose anything Mann calls tribute on its own, unless I'm misunderstanding the source. 2601:402:4581:C500:BCBF:A021:CDB8:9DE0 (talk) 19:51, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Indirect Imperial Tribute"
Talk:First Swedish Crusade

message: "Worth noting is also the fact that the Swedish bishop normally involved in the eastern campaigns was the Bishop of Linköping, not the Bishop of Uppsala." - What eastern campaigns? East of Sweden or the East of Finland? This remains unclear. Jatrius 20:30, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: When historical records mention a Swedish bishop involved in eastern campaigns of that time, it was the Bishop of Linköping. These activities include the embargo against Novgorod 1229 and invasion to Estland in 1220. This has its roots in the 11th century church decision to have a bishop in "Birka" responsible for "islands of the Baltic sea", meaning the heathen countries in the east. This position was clearly inherited by the Bishop of Linköping, even though it is not clear how that happened. --Drieakko 05:24, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: Though the historicity of this Crusade is debated, I think mythical is 1. Taking a stance in an ongoing historical debate and 2. Far to extreme. Maybe 'Legendary' 'Semi-Myhthical' or 'Semi-Legendary' might give the article a more neutral tone.
But Heimskringla Already says a Swedish viking named Erik conquered parts of Finland during the 9-10 century. 83.251.143.7 (talk) 01:27, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mythical?
Talk:Rosemary Altea

message: I added her to the category of imposters. She was clearly exposed as a charlatan on the Penn and Teller episode. Because she is not a real psychic and pretending to be one, she is an imposter. Bstone 18:27, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, I deleted: that's clearly a pov. --Ballanti 14:08, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Imposter

message: I'm removing all of this until it can be cited.  Positive statements about psychics and spirituality are not allowed on Wikipedia.
Rosemary Altea is a New York Times best-selling Author and psychic medium who also runs a charitable healing organization. As well as writing books and doing private consultations with clients, Altea gives lectures and holds events talking about the subject of spirituality and healing. She is well known world wide and has a large following in England, America, Italy and Latin America in particular. 
Sgerbic (talk) 01:50, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  uncited section removed 

message: Google gives results for 19 May 1946 and 12 December 1946.  How do we know that either of these is correct, and why do we prefer 19 May currently?  --  Jack of Oz [Talk] 23:22, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Date of birth
Talk:Rosemary Crossley

message: Since you have a declared conflict of interest and cannot edit the page, please leave all sources you think relevant to the article here. If there are any changes you would like to make to the article, state them here and the community will approve or reject them. --Wikiman2718 (talk) 12:55, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: What sources here specifically do you think are unreliable? The  APA, AACAP or ABA? Praxidicae (talk) 12:56, 4 August 2019 (UTC)

text: I will try my best but can't guarantee anything. Ylevental (talk) 13:25, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  COI edits 

message: I removed the prod, while I respect BLP requests, PROD is only for uncontroversial deletions. By definition a request of this nature is controversial for a variety of reasons. Praxidicae (talk) 13:57, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Prod removal 

message: I removed a long quotation from a particularly unreliable primary source: testimony of a witness in a case relating to the subject of the article who was employed by a party in the case, testimony which it appears the judge ruled not to be directly pertinent. As this is a BLP, it may not be restored without consensus.     DGG ( talk ) 22:45, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: primary source

message: I am aware that the FC world is buzzing on social media that Crossley died yesterday and someone has attempted to make that change here on the Wikipedia page. What they are missing is that Wikipedia requires evidence before making that change. Without getting snarky about the irony of needing evidence, I suppose we will have a quality announcement within the next day or so of her death. Be patient. 17:15, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death of Crossley
Talk:Rosemary Radford Ruether

message: Listings of her books on Amazon is a nice touch, but they don't count as references. (Not to mention that they're constantly changing) WQUlrich (talk) 22:17, 26 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Reading the article I considered if it should be AfDed as non-notable. However she seems to be substantial enough. Sources should be found. It's fair enough to list her books without any need to cite a source (Amazon or other) for their existence.Kitfoxxe (talk) 18:51, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Book buyer

message: * As hosted by Religion Online.
The biography should tell the reader about Ruether's involvement with the 1984 A Catholic Statement on Pluralism and Abortion, and that the resulting controversy limited her career afterward to some degree. She wrote about this experience in 1985. Binksternet (talk) 16:22, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  1984 abortion statement in favor of pluralism, career-limiting result
Talk:Rosemary Sage

message: WikiProject Biography Assessment
The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 03:15, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 

message: Article wholly created and expanded from unreferenced personal knowledge of four contributors, all other edits are editors providing maintenance and repair. Jmg38 (talk) 20:08, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflict of interest 

message: This article is almost entirely unsourced and has been tagged as such for almost five years. It's clearly not going to be improved upon.
Unless someone starts adding sources, it should be stubbed down to the sourced material. Editors interested in restoring the bulk of it can go into the page history and add back in what they like, with sources. (I note that its Keep at AFD was pretty borderline.) TJRC (talk) 21:35, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sourcing