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Talk:Cowley, Oxfordshire

message: Visiting Cowley, I looked to this article for some history of Cowley. The article states "Cowley coalesced from the former villages of Cowley, Temple Cowley and Cowley St John (also occasionally referred to as "Church Cowley")", but gives no information about the early times of these villages. Looking at old maps, I can not find "Cowley St John" or "Church Cowley", but the old Church (850 years old) shown on the second external link is "Cowley St James (not John)" and it is little way outside the village of Cowley. Is this an error? I also note that it warns that the Cowley Road is not Cowley. However it mentions the Cowley Fathers who were based on the Iffley Road not far from the Cowley Road, but not in Cowley. --Bduke  (Discussion) 08:48, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: History
Talk:Lawrence Justinian

message: We had inconsistent years for his death, and a quick glance at other sites looks to me like 1456 is correct, but better verification would be helpful. --Michael Snow 22:33, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The Template:defaultsort is setted on "Giustiniani, Lorenzo" instead of "Justinian, Lawrence ". I am not sure if this unusual choice (the Italian name) is correct, but it creates some problems on the alphabetic order of the related categories.Micheledisaveriosp (talk) 15:46, 10 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template:defaultsort
Talk:Wolfsburg

message: From the article:
"The building, located adjacent to the main train station, directly across the middle land canal from Autostadt and at the opposite end of the Porschestrasse from the art museum, is a dramatic example of leading edge architecture and construction techniques.  Inside visitors will find more than 250 interactive exhibits and commissioned artworks in an exhibition composed of the best hands-on science exhibits to be found worldwide. "
Is this NPOV?
Freako 17:38, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The article states that there's a Burg Neuburg in Wolfsburg, but the link points to a stub about an Austrian castle. Could someone clarify this? 194.110.176.66 (talk) 06:54, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Burg Neuburg
Talk:Northern Germany

message: What is the culture of Northern Germany? Any national costumes or anything? Angie Y. (talk) 01:46, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Norther Germany contains of divers variety of several regions, each with traditional costumes. Those costumes are rarely worn nowadays and don't play any role in contempary culture. At the best, they can be observe at the appereance of traditional folk dance groups or traditional celebrations, such as the harvast celebrations in rural areas or celebrations of the numberous sport-shooting guilds.--Zarbi1 (talk) 12:53, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

text: ~It is a little bit more: It is the country of the Grimm brothers. The Sababurg is the place of the Sleeping Beauty - German Dornröschen - and at the Trendelburg nearby the pigtail has survived the times. Folk dancing still can be done at some places. But the bulk of the old customs takes place at Walburgisnacht, the night to the first May - Tanz in den Mai - beware - its cold then. At this night the hags come to live - thousands - especially in the Harz mountains. The performances in Thale are impressive, especially for kids. By the way, all that are legends not only fairy tails. Historically something has taken place there. The language is Plattdeutsch or Niederdeutsch or Low German with - besides Friesian with an own subgrouping of the Germanic languages - an continuum of dialects from Hazebrouck in French Flandre to Memelland, today in Lituania. It is as divers as the continuum of dialects of High German, spoken from Gressoney in Italy and the Wallis to the High German dialects of the Sette and Treice Communi in Italy and the German spoken by the Schwaben in Hungary and the Sachsen in Romania. So High German actually is a kind of foreign language in Northern Germany and only lately people in Northern Germany develop dialects of High German, for instance Missingsch in Hamburg. - 46.11.243.249 (talk) 18:54, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Culture of Northern Germany
Talk:Bremen (state)

message: History is requested since after the World War II. Matthew_hk tc 09:49, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: History before the Napoleonic Wars would also be helpful. john k (talk) 23:24, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: Maybe someone more used to editing articles in the right way could insert the result of the 2011 election? Best regards Ptotheizzo (talk) 01:21, 3 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The elections should be listed on a seperate page or a breefly overview over all elections. There is no point in pointing out one specific election in history. --87.150.107.132 (talk) 08:03, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Elections
Talk:Sarpsborg

message: Now the best known resident is Inca from Peru :-) 81.210.22.98 14:41, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Unfortunately most of the old city landed in the river Glomma, after a mudslide in 1702. The city was rebuilt at a safer location but was burnt down to the ground by Swedish invaders in 1567. >> 
The city was rebuilt after a mudslide in 1702, but was then rebuilt in 1567? Time travel was not possible, even 
in the old days. Please check up on source.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.52.241.86 (talk) 23:19, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Illogical chronological order  
Talk:Askim

message: Strange, I never have heard about that there should be a weapons factory in Askim, although I grew up there. Oddeivind 18:14, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: A weapons factory?

message: I think Askim was merged with other municipalities  at 1 Jan. 2020. See Norwegian version of the page. Le Monsieur Paul (talk) 22:00, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Former municipality
Talk:Rakkestad

message: I propose that Ytterskogen be merged into Rakkestad. I think that the content in the Ytterskogen article can easily be explained in the context of Rakkestad, and the Rakkestad article is of a reasonable size that the merging of Ytterskogen will not cause any problems as far as article size or undue weight is concerned. Groiglery1217 (talk) 18:33, 2 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:   Merger proposal  
Talk:Hairy woodpecker

message: I'm by no means an expert at bird identification, which is why I haven't made a change to this page, but I need to ask - are the pictures of the bird on the suet feeder a hairy woodpecker or a downy woodpecker? Audobon field guide lists the Hairy Woodpecker as 9" and the Downy at 6". Also, the downy has a shorter bill.
Any thoughts?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vulture19 (talk • contribs) 21:29, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo questions

message: The current opinion on the bird species pictured in photos #1 and #2 range from categorical "That's a Downy" to a well reasoned "Here is why it is a Hairy". These opinions have been generated in two different bird enthusiast forums, whatbird.com and birdforum.net.
Regardless as to what species it actually is, it is showing that some of these photos are not providing good reference materials. My current thought is to somehow indicate that these photos are questionable, and to use it as an example of the difficulties in differentiating between the species. Vulture19 (talk) 17:53, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I went ahead and commented out three pictures that consensus on birding forums indicates doesn't provide a good reference.Vulture19 (talk) 06:53, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  figured it out, photo added 99.240.128.108 (talk) 20:23, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks - nice pic!Vulture19 (talk) 23:39, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo question update

message: I am removing the word natural from that phrase as attributed to the Hairy being one of the European Corn Borer. Not sure how a native bird could be a 'natural predator' of a non-native species. I mean, I get that they eat them readily, but you could say that about pretty much any insect...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:D1E0:60E0:25E5:D3B:7FB9:2190 (talk) 22:09, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Natural Predator" 

message: If anyone else wants to edit, the references already in the article are:
*Audubon Field Guide:Eastern Region, named "afg_east"
*Sibley Field Guide:Eastern region, named "sfg_east" (hmmmm, maybe I should have given them slightly different names....)
*IUCN website, named "iucn"
Vulture19 (talk) 01:23, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference names
Talk:Red-bellied woodpecker

message: I have a shot I personally took, let me know if you think it would work well on the page.
  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Compdude47 (talk • contribs) 00:56, 21 March 2016 (UTC)

message: I have a nesting pair in my yard in Key Largo. The map on Wiki doesn't show them this far South.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:585:103:96C0:9087:70E9:48A:E55C (talk) 17:13, 18 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Red- Bellied Woodpecker As Far South As Key Largo, Fl 

message: Jebbles- I edited the description to 'light gray to buffy', because I thought this better described most individuals of the species. Though the example of the female in Chicago does show more gray coloration, other images in the article and images available on the internet show more whitish or buffy-tinged plumage. Also, most individuals I have observed in the Northeast have more buffy coloration. I'm not sure what it does to impair sentence flow- though I know this is subjective, and impression of sentence flow can vary from person to person. However, I'll leave my edit undone, as the article does say 'mainly' gray, and besides it is a very minor aspect of the article. Aythya affinis (talk) 17:32, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Edit on description

message: I live in cape breton Island Nova Scotia; actually 400 km east of halifax. The very tip of cape Breton Island.I got a picture of a red belly woodpecker.Dec.18 2021. 156.57.30.159 (talk) 12:44, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Red belly woodpecker. I live in scotchtown nova scotia a small community east of sidney; as far east of cape breton Island and nova scotia that you can get.Yesterday I got a picture of a red belly woodpecker. 

message: Red-bellied Woodpecker at our seasonal camping site in St. Ignace, Michigan. I couldn't get a good picture. Only the back. Current map does not show them in this part of the country. We are in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. 
Jamie Kay 47.26.249.214 (talk) 15:11, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Very interesting. They have been expanding their range northward in recent decades, according to several different sites. Aythya affinis (talk) 16:48, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Red-bellied Woodpecker siting.
Talk:Order of the Holy Spirit

message: This statement is misleading as the order was in the early 19th century awarded to several non-French Protestants such as the Orthodox Tsar Alexander II and British Anglicans such as the Duke of Wellington (whose efforts helped the Bourbon restoration) and several sons of George III including the future King George IV. Was there a waiver of the condition in law? It would be useful for perspective to mention this.Cloptonson (talk) 10:51, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: 'members had to be Roman Catholic'

message: How many knights were appointed after the order was suppressed in 1830 and when was the most recent knight appointed (not including members of the French royal family)?187.73.191.2 (talk) 20:31, 19 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Post-1830 appointments
Talk:Alexander Kovalevsky

message: From Wikipedia:Requested articles/Biologists: 
:Kowalesky per letter of Thomas Huxley [7] - "Kowalesky could never have announced his great discovery of the affinity of the Ascidians and Vertebrates, by which zoologists had been startled."( http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/5084 ) - May be AKA "Kowalski", but I can't find a likely reference. 
::Probably Alexander Kovalevsky. -- User:Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 02:40, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  AKA Kowalesky?
Talk:Erwin Stresemann

message: This article about one of the leading ornithologists of the century really is a stub. A lot remains to be done. I added the reference "Erwin Stresemann (1975). Ornithology from Aristotle to the Present. Harvard University Press". But he wrote so much more - some of the many examples to be found at Google Scholar:
Aves. E Stresemann - Handbuch der Zoologie, 1934 - de Gruyter
Die Mauser der Vögel. E Stresemann, V Stresemann - 1966 - R. Friedländer
Ornithologician (talk) 18:48, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  A lot remains to be done 

message: The newly added material from Matthew Halley's blog is missing a proper citation to the actual newspaper clipping cited. I tried commenting on Halley's blog but there has been no response forthcoming. I asked a couple of senior European ornithologists about this and they feel that he probably toed the line of the government but that he did not show any anti-Jewish feeling during the period - (note that most copies of his own book were burnt because the publisher was Jewish). There is also no evidence of his having a NSDAP membership and presumably people have looked for it (esp. given that even Konrad Lorenz's membership data has been dug up in recent times). Shyamal (talk) 15:44, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nazi association
Talk:Alfred Duvaucel

message: Kinnear gives 1824 as year of death - in the History of Indian Mammalogy and Ornithology. Part 1. J. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. Shyamal 14:58, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death date 

message: Hi Shyamal: this is an interesting piece of info that you found there. But how come you attribute this note to Blyth? -- BhagyaMani (talk) 09:39, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: User:BhagyaMani - thanks for getting me to re-examine the dates and details. You are right, the editor then would probably have been James Prinsep but I will make the changes. Blyth became natural history editor for the Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal at a later date. Shyamal (talk) 09:51, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Considering that the footnote alone is marked with "[Ed.]", it may not be safe to assume that the "anonymous" articles are by Prinsep. Shyamal (talk) 11:16, 26 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duvaucel's connection with Hodgson 
Talk:Alpheus Hyatt

message: He lived in a house in Annisquam, now 704 Washington Ave (route 127) which is where he started the laboratory and school which became the MBL. I think he moved there in 1880. (It also may have been called River Road back then but that is on the other side of Lobster Cove which is where he may have moored the sloop which went out to collect samples) The house has a plaque on it predating the Civil War stating it was an old house then. It may have been 1635 the house was built. The owner in the 1980s was the editor of Antique magazine and I believe was related to Hyatt but all of this is stories and memory. Needs to be confirmed. At that time the attic was stuffed with artifacts including Hyatt's original copy of the "Origin of the Species" with his notes written in the margins. I think some of this as well as the bust of Hyatt which was in the upstairs hallway went to the Woods Hole Historical Society. MBCF (talk) 21:22, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: note:

message: Hyatt is probably best known for his unique but long-forgotten theory of "racial senescence"- and it's not mentioned here. In his early works he argued that the evolutionary "progress" and "decline" of higher taxonomic groups in the fossil record resembled the progress and decline of individual organisms (youthful morphology - > old age morphology). He derived these ideas from observations on the fossil record of the nautiloid and ammonoid cephalopods. Hyatt's subsequent, more forced adoption of Lamarckian ideas are less interesting from a historical perspective. 
Hyatt's unique evolutionary ideas derived some inspiration from his mentor Louis Agassiz as well as Haeckel's Biogenetic Law. His idea of directional evolution was later connected to early 20th century theories of orthogenesis. 
Peter Bowler and Steven Jay Gould remain the most informed published sources on Hyatt's ideas. I wrote an unpublished manuscript  while a bio grad student= it remains online and may be useful as a literature reference.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dosware (talk • contribs) 22:53, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Racial Senescence
Talk:Saltnes, Østfold, Norway

message: I have re written most of this article as it seemed to be in quite broken english. A lot of the article was filled with opinion which I have tried reword to a more neutral standpoint. I did removed the last few lines as i did not understand what was being put across, I leave them here for anyone who can rewirte them into the article.
 Among those who come there on vacation, are there spotted.
 Saltnes is very very very VERY triveli!!!! Saltnes is rett og slett very VERY kos!
 German, Austrian, Dutch, Danish and Swedish people.
Widders 19:33, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rewrite
Talk:William T. Cahill

message: It seems in the 1966 elections, Cahill switched congressional districts. That's not a time in the decade when redistricting happens, except under rare circumstances, and he's the only member of the delegation who did switch at that time. So it looks like he moved for political purposes. If anyone knows the details, this would be good to include and document. Dvd Avins (talk) 15:53, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Switching Districts
Talk:Antoine Risso

message: The current article mentions Risso as a French naturalist. But here, Giovanni Antonio Risso (born 1777 in Nizza) is described as an Italian scientist, chemist in Nizza until 1826 and from 1832 professor there of chemistry and botany. Was Nice/Nizza French in 1777? Did Italy exist? Apparently he wrote in French. Should we perhaps leave the nationality out and only mention the city? --LA2 23:01, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nationality
Talk:Eugen Herrigel

message: Not sure where the dispute section of this article should go - here? or in the article of the book Zen in the Art of Archery. Julia Rossi 02:11, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and thus far you have presented naught in terms of sources.58.169.13.178 (talk) 08:05, 9 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Source: Shots in the Dark, Shoji Yamada, The University of Chicago Press, 2009.  .  Herrigel joined the Nazi party on May 1, 1937.  His party membership number was 5499332.  After the war he mounted a defense of his party membership, indicating that ‘I was therefore indeed an “activist,” however, not for but against Hitlerism.’  The denazification court concluded that he had not been a committed Nazi, however, he was found to be a Mitläufer whose resistance to the Nazis had been insufficient to clear him of guilt.  Jay Wiser (talk) 02:14, 8 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not sure 

message: I added the quote from Scholem's letter. Scholem was a distinguished historian and philosopher, and perhaps his word can serve as an evidence. At leat it is worth mentioning in wiki.Bbeehvh 18:17, 22 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  The claim that Herrigel was a Nazi came (at least) from Gershom Scholem 

message: In both this page and the page for Zen In The Art Of Archery, the phrase "Zen can be used to justify the politics of the Nazi party" is used when discussing the conclusion of Koestler's article, but looking at the source of both the article itself and the letter to the magazine that references it by Gershom Scholem, this doesn't seem to hold up. Here's the relevant text of the article:
And the relevant quote from Gershom Scholem's letter
The neither of these really indicate that Koestler believed that Zen Buddhism could be used to justify the beliefs of the Nazi Party, just that a person could hold both Zen Buddhist beliefs and the beliefs of the Nazi Party. I'd suggest rewording the text to something better supported by its sources. TheWisestOfFools (talk) 23:11, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Verbiage used discussing Arthur Koestler's article
Talk:2006–07 Newcastle Jets FC season

message: Does the article really need to have all the match reports on it. It looks more like a fansite than Wikipedia. Just a thought. For example, the sites of other notable football teams, say in England do not have all the ins and outs of a season in them. See Newcastle United FC as an example. And as far as I can see, Sydney FC doesn't either. Bubba hotep 15:58, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I used Adelaide United FC Season 2006-07 as a template for this page, and for the record, I'm a Queensland Roar FC supporter. --Squilibob 16:05, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Concerns
Talk:Ready... Set... Cook!

message: "The contestants were then each given $60.00 to spend on whatever they wanted for the chefs to prepare a meal so thy weren't hungry for the show." Up until the word "meal," it makes perfect sense. What is the rest of the sentence trying to say? WaxTadpole (talk) 21:45, 23 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  What does this mean?
Talk:Lyman-alpha

message: It says the classic Bohr atom. I'm assuming this should be classical. I'm not sure enough to change in myself, though.  -- Tijmen  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.83.249.19 (talk) 20:02, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Sorry it took almost 6 years to add the 2 letters! –Patrug (talk) 23:41, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Classic or classical? 

message: The article says "Lyman-alpha astronomy must therefore ordinarily be carried out by satellite-borne instruments."
Yet, the Subaru Telescope in Hawaii has recently announced some results involving Lyman-alpha Emitting galaxies.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.0.14.163 (talk) 19:39, 8 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the web link. I've updated the article to note the exception for extremely distant sources. —Patrug (talk) 21:04, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ground telescopes
Talk:Vacuum expectation value

message: Suggest that someone add a redirect from Vacuum expectation to this page. 70.247.160.87 (talk) 02:45, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect 

message: I am going to change the wording wrt the Casimir effect.  I'm not an expert in this area, but I have seen several research articles refuting claims that the effect can only be explained by the QCD vacuum rather than the much more pedestrian di-, quadru-, etc.-polar electrical fields of the two near-by plates.  I am going to change it to "widely used, but controversial, examples" from "best known examples".  Please, before you "knee jerk" a response to this sacriligious violation of the "received wisdom" (aka status quo), research it. Thanks.72.172.11.140 (talk) 00:48, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Casimir Effect 

message: In order for a force (such as that asserted by the Casimir effect) to perform useful work W, it must act through a distance d, which in the case of a pair of Casimir plates, is for all intents and purposes, zero.
Perhaps the wormhole interpretation of the Casimir effect is an attempt to circumvent such analysis. It probably does not rate inclusion or mention in an article about the vacuum expectation value, which is actual science. Danshawen (talk) 00:48, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Casimer Effect free energy is pseudoscience 

message: This article would really benefit from showing the calcuation of a VEV.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.247.173.205 (talk) 01:53, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: there is the formula M_W = \tfrac{1}{2}vg which I guess must be in SI:  M_W = \tfrac{1}{2}vg \frac{1}{c^2q_P \pi \sqrt {\alpha_W}} using \alpha_W=1/128??? Ra-raisch (talk) 07:50, 7 August 2017 (UTC)

text: there is another formula: v = 1/\sqrt{\sqrt 2 G_F^0} using G_F^0=G_F/(\hbar c)^3 Ra-raisch (talk) 08:38, 7 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Calculation