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Talk:The Tiananmen Papers

message: The Chinese-language external links attached to this article should be reserved for the the Chinese-language version of the article.  They are not informative to the average English reader, since they do not provide an English translation.  In my opinion, they only serve to support the detractors of the papers and thereby compromise the article's NPOV-ness.  A link to Prof. Chan's paper would be more appropriate, since the English reader can evaluate that for himself and evaluate the arguments for himself.  But just listing "Time to End the Farce of 'Tiananmen Paper'" seems like propaganda.
I'll wait a few days before I delete those links.
Adam 17:10, 15 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chinese-only links unhelpful 

message: Forgers mostly don't understand their subjects very well and create documents full of banalities or improbably events.  Whereas the documents I've seen include high-level political discussion that shows an understanding of the actual issues China faced.  
Maybe particular items were forged, dates altered or topics left out.  But I think we are getting a genuine insight into the inner thinking of the Chinese leadership as it was at the time.
--GwydionM 13:53, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too smart to be forged 
Talk:Operation Hardtack (nuclear test)

message: Does anyone else have an idea what the meaning of this "1PT" or "1pt" could be? NWA says "1-point test", ok, but though it doesn´t seem to be related to the balloon which was used for the test (other balloon-test were no 1pt-tests).... Who knows more?
:I belive one point means only one of the explosive lenses is fired (there is usually several and they must all go off simultaniously or the bomb will fizzle).Ipsa scientia potestas est 12:44, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  PT (again) 

message: I have corrected numerous errors in the table for Hardtack I - yields, dates, and locations. Data was checked with the Nuclear Weapons Archive and DOE publications. I added references. So far, I have not checked Hardtack II for errors. - bernie12345  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bernie12345 (talk • contribs) 00:25, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits 11/3/07 

message: I split the page in Operation Hardtack I and Operation Hardtack II to allow the navigation provided by the nuclear weapons test infoxes to insert Operation Argus between the two halves of Hardtack. I follow the name and order of operations as given in . Bomazi (talk) 03:22, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page split
Talk:Joan Armatrading

message: I have removed the two LGBT categories. While Ms. Armatrading is certainly gay, she is, as the article points out, an intensely private person and her personal life is not part of her public persona. This is in contrast to people like Jimmy Somerville, who includes gay themes in his music and is known as a gay musician, rather than a musician who, if you dig around, you find is gay. Guy (Help!) 18:16, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I tend to agree with that. I'm not sure what value the categorisation adds. Martinevans123 (talk) 18:19, 5 May 2013 (UTC)

text: It may be standard practice for LGBT editors to claim their own, but Ms. Armatrading is notoriously silent on the issue. It is not a defining quality, it does not belong here because Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. Guy (Help!) 22:46, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I tend to agree, and have removed the category again. She hasn't even (explicitly) come out. Graham87 15:34, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

text: Also agree. I do not think the category is justified. Martinevans123 (talk) 16:04, 20 May 2015 (UTC)

text: I'm not suggesting we add her to the Lesbian category, because as stated she has not publicly identified as anything. However, to me it is incredibly hard to explain Armatrading's civil partnership with a woman without also recognizing that she is at the very least to some degree queer. The idea that we can't even categorize her as LGBT for the sake of usability confuses me. I obviously don't want to assume anything about her identity. But I'm really not sure what the purpose of pretending that her publicly revealing she has a wife isn't "explicit". I'm not a frequent editor, so I don't get all the rules lawyering, but frankly, it just baffles me. TheMonochroma (talk) 19:18, 12 February 2023 (UTC)

text: That works too. I'm more meh on the issue of categorisation these days. Graham87 15:31, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Hah, that's certainly valid. I agree that categories are just as important as text-content in terms of BLP policies, but I think we're at the right point on the balance between her privacy and detailing information that's publicly known. Certainly, if she were avoiding any public acknowledgement of her queerness then I would agree that categorisation would be inappropriate. — OwenBlacker (he/him; Talk) 09:54, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  LGBT categories 

message: Britannica describes her as a "British singer-songwriter, the first Black woman in the United Kingdom to make an impact performing her own compositions". Would "Kittitian-British singer-songwriter and guitarist" be better here? Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 14:42, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Makes sense to me, but I for one don't mind either way. Graham87 14:49, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  British? English?
Talk:Easy Action

message: a looked over work ???  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.203.117.99 (talk) 17:23, 20 May 2015 (UTC)
Talk:Ice Water Inc.

message: I edited the existing article while it was tagged for copyvio.  Should I revert my changes, or move them to the temp page, or what?  I didn't write a new article; I just cleaned up the existing one a bit.
Alynna 20:48, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Oops...

message: Information gathered from the Internet in a non-copyvio manner and compiled into the stub Ice Water Inc./Temp
--Alynna 13:31, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  new temp article written
Talk:George R. R. Martin

message: I removed the eventful.com link, since the appearences stated there (and more) are present on his own webpage.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sirana (talk • contribs) 10:01, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed "eventful.com" 

message: Believe me, I've known George for over forty years, and his speech was a major faux pas whose echoes will harm his reputation for decades to come, at least among writers and fans of color and their allies, which is sad given that he has a strongly anti-racist history. The irony is that the mood of his speech was not reactionary (he's no Sad Puppy) but nostalgic and more than a bit cluelessly sentimental. The names, though, were just plain wrong and inexcusable. --Orange Mike | Talk 20:52, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  The 2020 Hugo speech 

message: I have reviewed the sources given for the name-pronunciation controversy and I found two critics named therein: a pseudonymous non-notable Twitter user and a non-notable blogger. I have attributed the POV to them, but this raises the question whether the criticism is even WP:DUE or if tabloid media is just regurgitating the latest insignificant Twitter beef-in-a-teapot. Elizium23 (talk) 11:42, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, I was for the removal of the paragraph when it was first added. I think there are two issues: 1) perceived racism, which in my opinion is not WP:DUE even though more criticism can be found (the Gizmodo article links to several others); 2) mispronunciation, which may be more relevant bcs of Kuang's speech and Martin's apology. But if both of them are removed, I am OK with that. WikiHannibal (talk) 12:39, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation controversy
Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/ExtraLife

message: I am pretty new around here.  Can someone explain why this page us up for deletion?
:Because someone (User:Mikkalai) nominated it, basically. (The expressed reason was that it isn't notable enough of a subject.) It sounds like you are new to the deletion process—you may find Wikipedia:Guide to Votes for deletion helpful. By the way, welcome to Wikipedia! You may have already figured this out, but you can sign posts on talk pages by typing "~~~~". That way we know who we're talking to. :) -Aranel ("Sarah") 00:28, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks like it does, although I haven't investigated enough to know how regularly it really updates. However, the whole reason it's an alternate proposal is that not everyone agrees it should be used. (In fact, since it's listed as the alternate, probably slightly less people prefer it.) Personally, I think 100 articles and 33 weeks is too lenient. (Both require dedication and effort on the part of the writer. But hard work alone does not qualify one for a Wikipedia article.) But every individual editor is free to choose what standard they prefer. -Aranel ("Sarah") 17:57, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Haspe–Voerde–Breckerfeld Light Railway

message: I'm in the middle of copyediting several articles on German localities, railroads, etc. so I'm feeling a bit too  lazy to go through this one myself. The most important issue is in the beginning; the article referes to the railway in the past tense, as if it had been taken out of use. The rest of the article, as well as the Breckerfeld article (which I'm editing now), refer to it as if it exists  currently.
There seems to be a whole host of articles that, as far as I can tell, are loose translations from the German wikipedia. The last one I checked was the Breckerfeld article -- I don't speak German, but the parts in the English version of the article that were syntactically awkward had what looked like the same word order as in the German one. (I apologize for that wordy sentencee. I hope it made sense.) At least it gives those of us who like copyediting something to do. =) - Christiant 21:17, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: BTW, the last line before the external links section is really neat in its nonsense-ness. =) Christiant
I have tidied this up a bit and added some more. It really needs reworking from German Wiki. Bermicourt (talk) 21:40, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Rose Bertin

message: The German version of this article looks much better, and there is considerable information in French available online. As I can read neither, if someone who can comes along they might want to have a go at expanding this article. --Scimitar 21:23, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: There is good material on Rose Bertin beginning on p. 24 of The Age of Napoleon : costume from Revolution to Empire, 1789-1815, a catalog avilable as a PDF from the Met. - PKM (talk) 01:51, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Reference
Talk:Nikah mut'ah

message: Just asking,
if the moderator dont accept Islamic primary sources, then what does he accept?
Will an academic journal on this issue "Mut'ah marriage" be acceptable as a source specifically?
It is very hard to find such journals.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shadowwarrior8 (talk • contribs) 16:04, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Already been over this. And I'm not a mod. Read all of WP:RS and WP:NOR. Crossroads -talk- 02:43, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: With other subjects people cite modern books as sources.  You can buy modern books on Islam online from: Foyles, Amazon, www.islamicbookstore.com, and tahapublishers.com. Toddy1 (talk) 05:46, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  If not Islamic primary sources then what source would be acceptable? 

message: In Tafsir ibn Kathir, it is mentioned that the Leader of the Faithful, Ali ibn Abi Talib (a.s.), says that Rasullah [ﷺ] said that temporary marriage is not permitted. The Prophet's [ﷺ] successor said that it is not permitted. And as we all know, Shia Islam revolves around Ahl ul-Bayt (a.s.) consisting of five people (narrated in 74 traditional Sunni sources of Ghayat ul-Maraam), the Prophet[ﷺ], Ali, Fatima, Hasan, and Husayn (a.s.), it is plausible to affirm that temporary marriage is not allowed
Reference: https://quran.com/4:24/tafsirs/14 
English reference: https://quran.com/4:24/tafsirs/en-tafisr-ibn-kathir
--04:26, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nikah mut'ah is not permissible in Shia Islam 

message: Hi, can we talk more about the prohibition in sunni law about this. For example Ali disagreeing with Ibn Abbas about this topic. It is just odd how the sunni section starts in the 15th century in Mughal India rather than early sunni sources.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.28.199.31 (talk) 14:23, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sunni position update 

message: To claim repeatedly that a sanctioned practice of millions of shia is akin to prostitution is absolutely horrendous and offensive in Wikipedia 86.254.10.114 (talk) 20:30, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I look forward to seeing your improvements. Roger 8 Roger (talk) 20:51, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  This topic is totally biased anti shia 

message: Change 'pleasure marriage' to 'pleasure intercourse'. In Arabic 'Nikah' doesn't mean marriage, it means intercourse. Zawaj is marriage, nikah is not. 2A02:A44B:48AB:1:5806:56A5:A5BC:3B8C (talk) 10:10, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done. 'Nikah' is plainly translated as marriage under usual circumstances, and no sources have been provided to suggest otherwise. Iskandar323 (talk) 10:43, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 13 July 2023
Talk:James M. Cox

message: I think it is extremely doubtful that the book linked in the Project Gutenburg template is by James Middleton Cox.  I think it must be another James Cox.  Can anyone validate one way or the other?
David 23:33, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not by James Middleton Cox, but it is about him.  Project Gutenburg lists the subject of The Progressive Democracy of James M. Cox as being "Cox, James M. (James Middleton), 1870-1957". -- SwissCelt 17:55, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In March 2006 someone fixed the problem I was referring to, which was an incorrect reference using the Gutenburg template.David 20:30, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Project Gutenburg reference

message: The bio says he died in 1957. So what did he do for all those years?  Did he work in FDR's administration?  This article needs to be fleshed out more.Tom Cod (talk) 06:05, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Cox's life after 1920?

message: The third paragraph, detailing Cox's exploits as a journalist, is not bound to reality by a citation or even a proper noun. It reeks of fabrication or enhancement of some sort, and I recommend that it be quickly referenced or removed. Posting below for reference:
"While a reporter, Cox once went to a town where a massive railroad accident had occurred. Other reporters went directly to the scene of the accident, but Cox instead went to the town's only telegraph office, where he hired the telegraph operator to begin transmitting the Bible to his newspaper, telling the operator he would be back. (Under the law of the day, once a message was begun, it could not be interrupted by others.) Cox then went to the accident site, gathered all the information he needed, and wrote his article. He then returned to the telegraph office, which he found full of frustrated reporters waiting to make use of the telegraph. Cox handed his article to the telegraph operator and thus scooped all of the other reporters."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Enola45 (talk • contribs) 04:09, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed it.  His official biography mentions the scoop but none of the other details which don't make sense either.Geo8rge (talk) 03:30, 21 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Probable Fabrication
Talk:The Andy Milonakis Show

message: I have taken the initiative to cleanup this article, which needed it to say the least.  It now conforms to the Manual of Style and is bareable to look at.  It is important to remember that this is an Encyclopedia, not some bloody two-bit fan site.  Any poorly formatted or nonsense edit, which has plagued this article, will simply be reverted on sight.  --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 08:01, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Massive cleanup

message: Does anyone know the website for secret episode #2 on mtv2?  Episode #3 is http://dripdropdrip.mtv2.com.  I forgot Episode #1.  ThanksJoe 02:03, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Secret Episodes
Talk:Rynchops

message: The Black Skimmer is not restricted to tropical America.  It is seen, albeit not frequently, on the beaches around New York City and has been noted in summer 2005 on one of the waterways in Central Park in that City--70.19.101.128 21:35, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Black Skimmer

message: I'd like to see a disambiguation page here.  For me skimmers are a type of dragonflies: see Libellulidae.  I do not know what the conventions are here about disambiguation pages, so I'd like to see somebody else do it. Tbc2 17:18, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've set it up, jimfbleak 04:50, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. Tbc2 12:08, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Disambiguation

message: Rhynchops niger??? -Rynchops niger
:Should be, see below. — LlywelynII 07:04, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Name

message: Aside from the  issue, while it may be true that Rynchops has become the more common name in the literature, it is the misspelling of the latinized form of Greek rhynchops (beakface). It's always worse to be snotty about minor points when you're completely wrong, especially given Linnaeus even fixed his original mistake, only to be ignored. — LlywelynII 07:04, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Snotty editors
Talk:Travis (given name)

message: After reading through this page - there is only one article with Travis as it's complete title - Travis (band).  All the rest just have Travis as *part* of it's name - which, according to WP:MOS, means they shouldn't even be on the Disambig page, let alone prevent an article such as Travis (band) being at Travis.  -- Chuq 00:19, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Travis as a disambig page

message: I believe most of the people looking at this article would be looking for the band Travis, and I have moved said page to "Travis", and created a disambiguation page for other entries. SUPERMASSIVE 13:02, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Travis (band) moved 

message: What about people with "Travis" as a surname, for example William B. Travis?  Should they be included as part of the disambiguation?   I tend to think so, but then I may be bias.  If someone not named "Travis" agrees, please add the obvious link. TravisM 22:16, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Answering my own question, Today I discovered Travis_(surname).  I think the reasonable thing to do is to add a link from this page to Travis_(surname).  That will cover William B. Travis and any others --TravisM 05:42, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  links to Travis as a surname 
Talk:List of heads of state of Ghana

message: I removed the recent edit making Queen Elizabeth "Queen of Ghana". I don't see any sources saying that she used that title. I agree that she was the queen (I saw some photos of her 1961 visit), but did she use that title? I'm not sure what title she used in relation to Ghana. I'm quibbling, I know, but royalty is all about quibbling over titles. Brianyoumans (talk) 14:10, 13 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmmm... I think you are correct. The Royal Titles Act was actually passed in 1953, but it gave the British government the ability to give the queen appropriate titles in relation to Commonwealth countries, so that was presumably done on Ghana's independence in 1957. My apologies, I will revert my reversion. Brianyoumans (talk) 02:03, 26 September 2012 (UTC)

text: Queen of Ghana Queen Elizabeth? 41.215.173.28 (talk) 18:05, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Queen of Ghana?
Talk:List of social psychologists

message: Michael Argyle entry: The linked page conveys no sense in which Argyle might be considered or known as a social psychologist.  Is this a mistake?  I think it should be removed unless there's some evidence that Argyle actually is a psychologist.
65.24.92.175 21:48, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, well spotted!  Different Michael Argyle.  I've turned it into a disambig page and added a stub about the psychologist, I hope some of his many friends and students will expand it into something worthy of him. seglea 17:32, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [untitled] 

message: Hi everyone.
I posted the “delete” query on this page. My argument relates to the Wikipedia guideline of “what Wikipedia is not”. Specifically, Wikipedia is “not a directory”.
I did think about this more freely and generally I do not see this page as a useful resource for either lay wiki users or social psychologists. Put yourself in the shoes of someone who is not familiar with the field. It really does read like a completely arbitrary list of names. Or perhaps, as someone else said, a vanity list. I.e. “look whose supervisor made it onto the list of prominent social psychologists”.
If a social psychologist is prominent then a wiki user is likely to search for that psychologist (or identify them through the documentation their contribution the field of social psychology). It seems improbable that someone would simply be interested in a list of social psychologists.
As it stands I believe this article is at best a distraction. However, in place of deleting the article, I do believe that it could be augmented to become a “History of key social psychological advances” article. This would contextualise those who are mentioned for the lay reader, as well as provide some idea of what criteria we should measure social psychologists against in terms of prominence.
If however we feel a history of social psychological advances would not be beneficial as a wiki page, then again, I propose deletion.
P.S. I am aware that some other industries have done this. I do not see those as useful Wikipedia articles either.
U3964057 (talk) 07:36, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It is probably more useful than a list of Transformers. :-) Kitfoxxe (talk) 12:29, 22 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I would disagree. a) Unlike this list, lists of transformers have clear inclusion criteria as well as some other useful categorisation information. And b) transformers are heaps cooler than social psychologists. U3964057 (talk) 06:16, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Article Deletion
Talk:Russian Christmas Music

message: The wikimedia file doesn't actually exist.
: I removed the link. --bdesham 10:42, 14 July 2005 (UTC)

message: This piece has been performed and recorded frequently enough that it isn't necessary to include information about specific performances.
SuperOctave (talk) 04:34, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Specific Performances
Talk:Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans

message: After much deliberation, I think this is the most appropriate article name for the English Wikipedia (see Wikipedia:Naming conventions). Ideally, it would be simply "Royal Saltworks" for ease of Wikilinking, but that might be too vague. Currently Royal Saltworks redirects to this article, pending any need for disambiguation. UNESCO refers to the site as Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans and that seems as authoritative as any original research I could do using Google. In architecture school it was often called "The Saltworks of Chaux" but that doesn't seem to be as common outside architectural circles. If I knew more about the relationship of the saltworks to the Forêt de Chaux, I might pursue additional edits, disambiguation and/or redirects. Comments welcome. Dystopos 22:02, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Article Name

message: "The work is an important example of an early Enlightenment project"
How can a project dating to the 1770s be "an early Enlightenment project"? 
Regards, Klaus Schneider -- 88.68.134.16 (talk) 18:48, 18 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Early" Enlightenment?? 