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Talk:Anglo-Russian War (1807–1812)

message: I am the author of the article entitled "The Quasi War between Britain and Russia in 1807".  I absolutely agree that these two articles should be merged.  I realise that they both deal with exactly the same thing; and I had I realised that an article already existed concerning the war, I wouldn't have written my own one.
I didn't raise the problem beforehand, simply because I didn't know what to do to merge these articles, or how to put a marker saying that these articles should be merged.
Go for it, I say!
EasyPeasy21 18:40, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In the late 19th century there was a much more bloody Anglo-Russian War, so that Anglo-Russian War shouldn't be merged with this article !Ti2008 (talk) 07:33, 1 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger between the articles:- "Anglo-Russian War" and "The Quasi War between Britain and Russia in 1807" 

message: The title uses the term 'Anglo'. This is Incorrect, as anglo refers to England, yet the war involved the United Kingdom and Russia, not England and Russia. This could be both offensive and misleading. I suggest it be changed to British-Russian war, or something along those lines. 82.1.157.16 (talk) 00:31, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: See what the sources call the conflict Google Books: Anglo-Russian War. Anglo is the usual prefix for such conflicts Google Books: Anglo- War returns thousands books. -- PBS (talk) 05:14, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: 11 years later - this remains incorrect and potentially offensive and misleading as Scotland Wales and Ireland qere also represented alongside England. 84.217.93.165 (talk) 19:59, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anglo
Talk:Russo-Turkish War (1828–1829)

message: The article stated: The Russian army plundered the landscape and engaged in scorched-earth tactics, which lead the an English traveller Sir Adolphus Slade to remark:' 'In some mud cabins, hard by Yeni Bazar, an advanced post of Cossacks was lodged, in great distress for want of necessaries, which they were obliged to draw from Varna, two days distance. All Bulgaria they informed me, was in the same state, not a house standing, thus confirming what a Russian officer had before told me "the Turks did some damage, but we levelled all" The reason of their wanton destruction is difficult to understand, especially among people whom they were pleased to call co-religionists, allies,&c., but whom they treated worse than serfs. Pravodi, for example, a Christian place, they levelled to the ground, although it was not attacked. The adage, " where the Spahis' hoofs tread, the grass will not grow," may be applied with more reason to the Cossacks."Records of travels in Turkey, Greece, &c: and of a cruise in the Black Sea with the Capitan Pasha,  Sir Adolphus Slade, page 59, 1833''
By that time, Russia and Britain were political rivals. So the quote is hardly the testimony of a disinterested, unbiased witness. A claim as ridiculuous as that not a single house was standing in Bulgaria anymore is propaganda, even when it is delivered as hearsay. -- Zz (talk) 16:12, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scorched Earth and such
Talk:Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812)

message: I think the article should include joint Russo-Serbian campaign against Ottomans during First Serbian Uprising. -- Bojan  Talk  04:56, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: In the text it says that Russia defeated Ottoman Empire. But the result according to side bar in indecisive. The bar should be  consistent with the text.Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 07:16, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sidebar 

message: In the text it says that Russia defeated Ottoman Empire. But the result according to side bar in indecisive. The bar should be  consistent with the text.Nedim Ardoğa (talk) 07:20, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sidebar 

message: The article talks about the Kamensky brothers and their key role.  However, immediately after introducing the Kamenskys, the article starts talking about Kamensky (singular), and it is not clear which one is being referred to.  For instance, who died in 1811?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dylan Thurston (talk • contribs) 01:42, 13 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kamenskys 

message: I have removed the unreliable "Baddeley" source and tagged the section. If the information within the section can not be verified using reliable sources, then it should be removed. --Kansas Bear (talk) 03:12, 3 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Caucasus Front section 

message: The article records a battle at Vidin on 26 October 1810. This appears to be a reiteration of the Battle of Batin, albeit with the wrong date and location. Vidin is far away from the area of conflict. Plucas58 (talk) 11:26, 20 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Battle of Vidin? 
Talk:Russo-Turkish War (1686–1700)

message: user:El Diablo98(currently at 4RR) has chosen to edit war instead of explaining their edit of adding "Russian victory"(unsourced) to the infobox while removing "Russia defeated in Crimea" cited by the Torke reference. --Kansas Bear (talk) 02:02, 27 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: So the victory of the Turks in Crimea does not change the outcome of the war, it is a separate campaign. Anyway, according to the peace treaty, the Ottomans satisfied all the demands of the Russians Dushnilkin (talk) 15:41, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Except the source you added isn't 3rd party, it's a Russian source written by   Andrey Guskov(unless I'm mistaken). Which makes it from the Russian perspective, not the neutral perspective. --Kansas Bear (talk) 17:08, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I ask you to at least familiarize yourself with the contents, and then declare a one-sided source. Russian Russian defeat in Crimea is wrong in any case, because this is one of the many companies of the early stage of the war, the result in any case was beneficial to the Russians, this is confirmed by absolutely all sources. Dushnilkin (talk) 19:44, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced "victory" and deletion of reference
Talk:Illyro-Roman Wars

message: The career of Scerdilaidas lies within the purview of this article. Shopuldn't his entry be here, with a redirect? --11:23, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Scerdilaidas

message: :Was this city Greek or Illyrian?Source please.Megistias (talk) 14:17, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: According to Polybius it was a "double-hilled town, the strongest among the Illyrian places, with two citadels on two heights, connected by a wall" (Polyb. iii. 18, vii. 9). It was inside Illyrian territory not a coastal city. The next sentence of the Roman fleet moving after its capture is somewhat confusing. Aigest (talk) 11:52, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dimale city 

message: :This is about the Illyrians wars not the Macedonian ones.The infobox needs be edited.Megistias (talk) 12:55, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Illyrian wars no Macedonian wars
Talk:Amory Lovins

message: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/01/22/mr-green Environmentalism’s optimistic guru Amory Lovins by Elizabeth Kolbert.
I don’t do problems” is how Lovins once put it to me. “I do solutions.”
Lovins makes his living as the C.E.O. of [XYZ energy advocacy company, and hey look it's located in guitarist, John Denver's old haunt, yo how 'rad' man]...it now employs more than fifty people
Employing fifty people to promote your brand of clearly nonsensical 'soft-energy', would fairly obviously mean, there is something of a major conflict of interest when say actual accredited scientists or agencies come along, as they routinely do and publish things that as a 'guru', would know, could upset the apple-cart of their business? Does it not? Something that is a little concerning. 
Life as, the fossil fuel funded, 'soft-energy' guru
#In 1969 oil tycoon and largest land owner in the US Robert Orville Anderson, contributed $200,000 in personal funds to launch the self-described 'radical environmental group', Friends of the Earth.
# By 1971—Lovins had come under the influence of David Brower, the charismatic founder of Friends of the Earth, and he went to work for the organization in London.
#In 1971, Lovins dropped out of college for the second time to become a full time employee of FOE. In October 1976, Foreign Affairs, a publication owned by the oil industry-linked Council on Foreign Relations, published Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken?, which is described as a landmark essay that introduced Lovins to the world as an energy strategy guru.
#In Top 11 Reasons to Oppose Nuclear Power, Once Amory Lovins manufactured some arguments against nuclear power in the early 1970s, this tactic became the anti-nuclear power argument
Though no mention to his source of income in the seventies, work for an organization set up by an oil tycoon and beginning of Lovins as the anti-nuclear spokesman, shall be made in this article?
Boundarylayer (talk) 09:33, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: 'Guru' and big-oil interests business man?
Talk:Jugurthine War

message: I feel it significant to note that this article seems to be written entirely (or almost entirely) from Sallust's "The Jugurthine War." While this is not necessarily a bad thing, as this is one of the most complete histories of the war that we have, I think it is important to realize that most of the information in this article comes from a single source and carries with it that source's not-so-thinly-veiled biases. A major changing of the article is perhaps unnecessary, but a disclaimer of sorts could be helpful.
-More importantly, maybe, I feel that this article is simply not very well written. It is rather unsophisticated in its approach and language, and simply doesn't read very well. I may attempt to fix the language somewhat without actually changing any of the information soon if I can find the time.
130.64.31.197 (talk) 17:58, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: How do people feel about the work of Ober and Strauss in Anatomy of Error on the Jugurthine War? 99.59.128.43 (talk) 14:35, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  RE: Concerns on source bias 

message: This article has a fair amount of fairly dubious information. Among other things:
* Sallust lived in the 1st century, and so could not have written about the "Fall of the Roman Empire"
* The historicity of the Marian reforms are disputed at best, so reference to that seems to be wrong.
* Lynda Telfort, Sulla: A Dictator Reconsidered does not look like a reputable source -- it is written by an amateur with no formal training and a fair amount of culture war axes to grind
* A lot of the commentary seems to parrot Sallust's analysis on events (especially regarding the putative corruption of the Roman Senate). While Sallust is a crucial source, he's also an incredibly biased one and not all his claims should be taken at face value.
71.167.7.218 (talk) 05:50, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious
Talk:Aengus

message: On November 1, Caer and the other girls would turn into a swan for one year.
What does this mean?  This is very unclear phrasing.  Also, when you follow the link to Caer, it has a very unclear artical that seems better suited to a disambiguation page and that has less information than the sentence(s) on Caer in this artical.
--Akako|☎ 19:25, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Caer

message: I was going to add a section on the poems and works that have notable content that are based/inspired by Aengus in mythology. By that I mean such as William Butler Yeats's poem entitled "The Song of Wandering Aengus" which deals with the god as representing youthful love, beauty, and the search that lasts a long time for love itself. The problem I am having is not just one problem, but several.
I can not seem to find any other basis for the idea that he inspired many poems than this one poem. Yet many sources portray him as a poetic inspiration god. Any ideas? Or even any other examples to help out on this issue? --Melune (talk) 20:14, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poetic inspiration/poems? 
Talk:Second Anglo-Sikh war

message: The account given on the page is a victorian-era one exclusively from the British point of view. The entire page needs to be redone because right now, its worthless and insulting. The preceding unsigned comment was added by 168.127.0.51 (talk) 21:04, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Please, please, sign comments everybody, it helps to know which particular version of the page or comment you find objectionable. Last major rewrite was November 2006, after the top two comments in this section were posted. HLGallon 10:01, 28 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV

message: * Why don't you just rewrite the page? 
* It's just a (damn) war, what do you expect, I do not see anything that really glorifies england in there.
* There do seem to be some unnecessary adjectives.
88.72.229.25 10:51, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: If someone got a problem with the content of this page, he/she may go ahead with writting what ought to be the true history (or nearest to truth for that matter!!). This is Wikipedia, and readers have every opportunity to edit the page they think is far from truth. Your contributions help the spread of knowledge in this free world and that's what is important in our present generation.Joram Beda 12:11, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've just done a major expansion and rewrite. To all intents and purposes, it is now a new article. Please review and modify as necessary. HLGallon 00:54, 12 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: Could some fact tags be insert so that one can find out where citations are needed? I can try to find some reliable sources, and I invite others to help. ManasShaikh (talk) 01:01, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Help Improve Verifiability

message: I have found that large parts of the article have been copypasted from . In addition, many recent additions are uncited, anachronistic and convey no impression of notability with regard to the overall subject of the article. Unless the anonymous IP editor (2409:4050:EBD:E958:4576:9964:B710:9A74 (talk)) who made these recent changes or some other editor takes action to redress these issues, I propose to restore the article to the last "clean" state as of 12 January 2021. HLGallon (talk) 10:00, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  cleanup 20/01/2021
Talk:Chris Atkinson

message: I created a temporary article at Chris Atkinson/Temp. Greba 19:32, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Temp page has replaced the main article. RedWolf 02:02, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Temp article

message: Should any of these have their own article? MacNeall still co-drives in the Australian championship. Prevot has apparently been a quite successful co-driver for years. Ole-p 22:30, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Stephane Prevot/Glenn MacNeall

message: This is not the first time Atkinson has lead a WRC event, having previously led Rally Australia for several stages in 2006. --Falcadore 05:53, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Leading the rally
Talk:Car service

message: In addition to this NYC usage, there is a more general use of "car service" -- meaning any for-hire vehicle other than a taxi (and possible excluding limos).  In general, for example, when a businessman refers to "car service" he or she means hiring a driver, normally a black sedan.  These do not need to function on-demand like this article suggests.  A businessman or politician might have a car service to and from work each and every day. Rlove 19:32, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Usage

message: Please see discussion at Talk:Taxicabs around the world#proposed restructuring. TerriersFan 19:06, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:   Proposed restructuring
Talk:Alfred Delp

message: The article has just (well... two weeks ago) been expanded, and it seems that it relies heavily on the German article. Therefore, I guess, there has been a slight, but significat translation error. It says: "While he was in prison, Delp bargained with the Gestapo to release him in return for his leaving the Jesuits, but his offer was rejected." If I understand correctly, that would mean that Delp asked the Gestapo to let him free, and that he would leave the Jesuits in turn. The German wikipedia however says that the Gestapo offered Delp that bargain, and that version sounds more sensible to me, because I find it unlikely that Delp would have made such an offer (if for nothing else, he would have guessed that he could not bargain with them on his terms). I have changed the sentence accordingly --222.13.236.80 19:34, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation error (?) 

message: Yes, you're right. I must have been tired or something. It says "ihm die Gestapo", not "er der Gestapo". I sometimes miss case inflections when it's late. Kelisi 04:45, 6 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation error (!) 
Talk:Yonge Street

message: An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Longest Street in North America. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so.  Bearcat (talk) 20:17, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Longest Street in North America" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: The current map is misleading. The section of road between Bradford and Barrie didn't become known as "Yonge Street" until Highway 11 was extended in the 1920s. Yonge Street was strictly the portion to Holland's Landing (and a tad north). - Floydian τ ¢ 03:28, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: What part of the map implies that the Bradford-to-Barrie segment was called Yonge Street before the 1920s at all? It's contrasting the current Yonge Street against the downloaded alignment of Highway 11 as of 1998 and the current terminus of Highway 11, so I don't see what the 1920s have to do with it. Bearcat (talk) 13:10, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: It just implies that it's part of Yonge Street, when it is in fact a separate road with the same name. There's plenty of Yonge Street's in Ontario, and I don't believe it is accurate to include anything but the original portion in this article. - Floydian τ ¢ 21:45, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Except that's not the point of that map. The infobox map (which just depicts the original John Graves Simcoe alignment) covers off that purpose — but the map in the "longest street in the world" section is meant to depict the complete extent to which Yonge Street and Highway 11 could ever have been taken as synonyms for each other. Which means that map does have to show both segments, because its core purpose is to illustrate "where did Highway 11 carry the street name Yonge and where did it not". Bearcat (talk) 12:52, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: You make a good point. I retract my issue. - Floydian τ ¢ 17:34, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yonge Street as the "longest street in the world" 

message: — Assignment last updated by Michelle312 (talk) 02:30, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Introduction to Community Economic and Social Development II
Talk:University Mall (Florida)

message: I've been hearing rumors from several locals whom I have talked to recently that University Mall may close altogether within the next few years. Is this by any chance true? I know the mall has been struggling over the past several years. But I would'nt think the mall would be making a hasty exit anytime soon. Wslupecki 01:58, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No. The Tampa Tribune has reported that in the next year or two, many new stores will move in (including Starbucks Coffee, which bought out the Barnie's franchise), that the entire center court near Macy's will be redone, and a hotel will be built on the premises, like at International Plaza. Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 03:09, 21 December 2006 (UTC)

text: Thank goodness to that. I don't think the University community would ever want to see it's local mall close up shop. It is unfortunate what happened to Tampa Bay Center. I used to visit that mall all the time and was shocked when the facility closed. I guess Tampa Bay Center was just not able to rack in any new business. 71.99.217.12 05:45, 1 January 2007 (UTC)

text: No, USF has signed a deal to keep the Bulls playing at Ray Jay for at least ten more years. Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 04:38, 5 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  University Mall on ther verge of closing too?
Talk:Ahn Ji-hwan

message: Some of the titles in the list of roles may not be the English titles, as the list appears to be translated from Korean. I wasn't able to identify many of them (for example, nothing corresponding to "Reply or Not" appears in Dean Cain's filmography at IMDB).  Some help would be appreciated.  Haeleth 20:10, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Fuad Khan

message: Why delete? This is a real person, as can be seen on This page. bjelleklang 20:13, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, just had to check. Thanks for the quick reply! bjelleklang 20:57, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Sonography

message: I would like to add some sonograms to the pages.
Excellent, as long as they aren't copyrighted.  By the way, if you sign your talk posts by typing --~~~~ at the end, it's easier for others to see who said what when. (the button at the top of the edit box with the signature picture does this automagically) --Slashme 07:53, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Frank Messervy

message: Not many people know this but, Gen Messervy was born in the island of Trinidad in the British West Indies! he is also the first cousin to Dr Eric Williams the first Prime Minister of an Independent Trinidad and Tobago, he (Messervy) is of French stock, settlers who came to the island before British rule began in 1791.
: "Messervy" as a surname appears to be exclusive to the Isle of Jersey.  His ancestry is more likely Norman than French (though it is not impossible that a Jerseyman may have moved to France at some poimt).  The Jade Knight 01:28, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: As a cousin of Frank Messervy and a genealogist, I can tell you that the Messervy lineage went back to Normandy.  Jim Pleiades Hawkins 16:31, 14 December 2018 (ACDT)
Messervy's mother was Myra De Boissiere. The De Boissiere family was of French origin and owned the Champs Elysees Estate in Trinidad. His ancestor Jean Valleton de Boissière was born in Bergerac in France in 1733. Jean Valleton's son Jean emigrated to Trinidad in the 1790s with his wife Claire.
Messervy was the second cousin to Dr Eric Williams whose mother was Eliza Boissiere, descended from Henri Boissiere, son of Jean, and a colored mistress.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 181.188.4.199 (talk) 00:24, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: do you have any source for this claim that "Messervy was seconded to the Pakistan Army, not a member of it"? -- Kautilya3 (talk) 19:50, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: This is already supported by a number of references in the article. The London Gazette, for example, refers to Messervy's appointment "to command the land forces of Pakistan". This was authorised under the India Office, since Messervy was an officer of the British Indian Army. Similarly, when Messervy retired at the end of his appointment in Pakistan, the London Gazette notice records him as being on the "Special List" of the British Army as an "Ex-Indian Army" officer. The retirement notice does not mention the Pakistan Army because Messervy was not a commissioned officer of it; he was appointed to its command in his capacity as a British Indian Army officer. This was consistent with British practice elsewhere in the Commonwealth. Senior military appointments, for instance, were filled by British officers following Confederation in Canada, Federation in Australia and Malaysia, and independence in India. In each of these cases, the officer remained a member of the British forces and was seconded for the local appointment. Messervy being a British officer in Pakistan—and not an officer of the Pakistan Army itself—is further supported by the following sources: ,  and . Cheers, Abraham, B.S. (talk) 11:47, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seconded?