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Talk:The Contender (TV series)

message: Instead of having the people who are not in bold that have been eliminated I had a idea that the people who got eliminated got a * (astrik). I just thought it might be more helpful. --Contrib 17:13, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Elimination setup 

message: "Najai Turpin, despondent over his inability to fight between the shooting of the series"
I don't remember hearing any evidence that this was the reason he commited suicide.
:It's in his wikipedia bio. Anchoress 02:05, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  His bio just says it may have been a factor, should not this articles use the word 'may' aswell?Riphal 02:12, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know. I was just answering the person's question. I have no opinion about the veracity of the statement or how it should best be expressed. Anchoress 02:43, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Najai Turpin 

message: :NBC was to have been said to been satisfied with the ratings within the demographics it drew.  
--Anchoress 02:04, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed nonsensical statement 

message: Watching stallone in The Contender is like watching george clooney perform a real surgery  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.197.175.20 (talk) 19:57, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  stallone
Talk:Semei Kakungulu

message: My names are Dr Shannon Kakungulu son of Israel Mugenyi Kakungulu who in turn is the last son of Semei Kakungulu. All the Jewish rituals are still performed on the male sons of the descendants of Semei Kakungulu. We are rather disappointed that to date recognition from jews across the globe is still in doubt. Anyway we shall continue to profess the beliefs of Yahweh regardless of what the world says.
Shalom
Hello, Baruch Hashem. The Abayudaya are clearly Jews and are accepted as such by Jews worldwide except the Orthodox. May Hashem bless the Abayudaya community.
Universal recognition of Jewish converts is a painful subject everywhere. Since they are fully practicing Jewish Halacha and shed all Christian features of their belief and customs, the Abayudaya can easily get recognition from the Orthodox establishments and I hear some are working in that direction. They won't be the first community to join the Hebrew nation as a whole. In my opinion, they would achieve more by seeking attention from the new center of Judaism, which is in the same time-zone as Uganda, than from the friendly, rich, but internally splintered and decaying old Jewish center, 1/3 of the planet away.
On a different matter, I was rather disappointed to find the Wikipedia article so short and too focused on one aspect of Kakungulu's biography and the final phase of his spiritual evolution in particular. 
The first blaring mistake is the listing of his place of birth as "Uganda", which naturally did not exist in 1869. The protectorate that put that name on the map came only in 1894. I understand that even Twaddle in his book didn't commit to say he was born in the Kingdom of Buganda, but at least give a historically consistent hypothesis. Actually, looking at the reference list, it is obvious why this article was written almost exclusively from the Jewish perspective.  I understand that interest in Kakungulu's life is limited in Uganda itself, but it would be such a shame to leave the article in the "Synagogue Pamphlet" level (I read so many in my life as an Orthodox Jew). My own interest in Kakungulu's life came after I saw Twaddle's book at the Kampala Museum in `98 (). I managed to get a copy (it is out of print now) and read it at least twice. I think this article should be rewritten and I suggest having Twaddle himself do the rewrite.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.55.54.38 (talk) 19:00, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Honshū–Shikoku Bridge Project

message: Anybody want to add something about the absolute absence of any need for three bridges connecting Honshu and Shikoku? Corruption, cronyism, tight ties between the construction industry and the LDP--surely someone more knowledgable than I can create a nice NPOV addendum.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 160.133.117.45 (talk • contribs) 17:31, 5 April 2005.
:As someone who has personally had to go 3 hours out of my way to get to my final destination on Honshu because there are only three bridges connecting Honshu and Shikoku, I would say yes, it would have to be someone more knowledgable than you, because when you say "the absolute absence of any need," it shows you have never experienced the joys of traveling by car from Shikoku to...anywhere else in Japan.--Nobunaga24 12:09, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Critiques? 

message: I couldn't find an older 'free' map with the bridges on it, so I drew them in myself (caveat). They aren't meant to be exactly accurate, but they give an immediate overview of the 'bridging' of the Inland Sea. Frankly, I was a bit overwhelmed by the complex of actual bridges included within the expressways (e.g., Great Seto Bridge), compounded by the variety of names for each thing (I think I understand now the Great Seto Bridge is an alternate name for the entire Seto-Chuo Expressway, whereas elsewhere bridges are just parts of an Expressway). My tendency is always to go left to right / west to east, but I regret I did not match the order of the article in listing the expressways, now that it's all together. Oh well. No biggie, I think. Jauntymcd 20:14, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Added map showing Expressway locations

message: Are/were any of the ferries rail-ferries?    Tabletop 01:48, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  rail ferries?
Talk:High Cross, Leicestershire

message: I have tried to modernise the language - as it was pretty dull! 11:39, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I think this section shoudl be removed - it's unreadable an uninformative. The link to the external site should surely suffice.--JBellis (talk) 19:28, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

text: Further to my comment, an indication of the accuracy of the text could be taken from the statement 'highest ground in England'.  OS puts it at 134m, somewhat lower than Bardon Hill highest place in Leicestershire never mind any further afield.--JBellis (talk) 19:48, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Turgid English 

message: :Why - there's not much to see?--JBellis (talk) 19:28, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reqphoto 

message: Some clarification needed on what part is actually designated as an Ancient Monument? I would guess that only the Venonis is included?--JBellis (talk) 19:28, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ancient Monument 

message: Hi @G-13114 Nice to meet you, and good to collaborate to improve this article. Just one thought on putting the parish boundaries in the "today" section. The parish boundaries are very ancient, predating the county division, so i think it is good to mention that various parishes did meet at the High Cross, maybe without listing them all, in the intro section. The book by Phythian-Adams that I've added to the citations - frustratingly not online - is a detailed argument about the deep history of the parish boundaries of the villages around High Cross,  arguing the boundaries can be traced in part back to the Roman era. Certainly they predate the Danelaw, which led to the Warwickshire/Leicester border at Watling Street.
Also - this may be petty - but as a Warwickshire person, I slightly object to the title of the article being High Cross, Leicestershire!
Atrapalhado (talk) 17:45, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: That's interesting, I didn't know that. I just thought that the lead paragraph shouldn't be cluttered with tangental information which could be deeper in the article. Though if you have a better idea on what to do with it feel free. I suppose technically the county border runs along the south of the A5 so the actual centrepoint of the crossroads are in Leicestershire, though it doesn't entirely do justice to the geography of the place. Though I can't think of an alternative title. G-13114 (talk) 20:11, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parishes etc
Talk:Ernst Rüdiger Starhemberg

message: English language Wiki article on referenced uses eszett only once, in the introductory sentence (and not in article title). "ss" is standard. No need to use any other than standard anywhere else in English Wiki.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.35.2.47 (talk) 00:59, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  DolfuSS please
Talk:Mushing

message: The statement that lead dogs are commonly female was added, but in my experience this is not correct. I see both males and females run at lead. Other factors than gender are much more important. Unless someone can cite a reference that this is true, I don't believe the statement belongs here so I undid this addition.botanybob (talk) 04:32, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Gender of lead dogs

message: This section has no citations and the list of breeds seems fishy. Canine ethologists Ray and Lorna Coppinger have written that Malamutes are useless for any but the lightest mushing because of their size. They are incapable of regulating their brain temperature under competitive mushing loads. OTOH, standard poodles have run the Iditerod. It would be nice if a knowledgeable contributer edited this section.
http://home.gci.net/~poodlesleddog/ Svejkist (talk) 22:04, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Alaskan malamutes ARE used for mushing. We have had 4-dog and 6-dog malamute classes in our races at Priest Lake, Idaho for many years. This breed also is particularly well suited for freight racing. The ability to run the Iditarod, one of the most extreme races in the sport, should not be used as standard for whether a particular breed is a sleddog. Mushing includes running sleddogs both competitively and recreationally.botanybob (talk) 02:38, 22 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Types of dogs

message: If some musher can find a reference in the literature it might be good to add the explanation that the names of the dog positions come from carriage driving. A six-horse team has leaders, swing horses, and wheelers. The wheelers are closest to the wheels. Snezzy (talk) 00:52, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Why wheelers if there are no wheels?
Talk:Nuclear option

message: Hello, I think that the term "nuclear option" is very general, and using Nuclear option to describe this U.S. Senate procedure is undue. --167.58.214.170 (talk) 19:39, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move to [[Nuclear option (United States Senate)]] 

message: This article contains multiple redundancies.  For example, it refers to "simple majority" and "three-fifths majority."  A majority is a majority.  If a greater number of votes is required, that requirement is referred to as a "three-fifths vote" or a "two-thirds vote" respectively.Hansel von Schnitzel (talk) 15:31, 19 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Riddled with Redunancies
Talk:Denholm Elliott

message: I understand that he was an athiest, but were his roots Jewish or Christian???
:Christian, like most British. JackO'Lantern 07:35, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  nominally Christian, you mean - 70% Brits claim to be Christian, but only 55% profess any belief in a God. --Krsont 00:07, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Christian or Jew

message: Shouldn't Brimstone and Treacle appear in Elliott's Filmography as well as his Television credits? TimJoslin 20:02, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brimstone and Treacle 

message: The role of "Bayliss" in "Defence of the Realm" was neither seedy nor ineffectual (drunk, indeed), and I posit that this is a poor example. I am not familiar enough with Mr. Elliot's filmography to suggest an alternative portrayal, but I think if someone else cannot provide a better example then the sentence should be struck.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:601:CB81:6000:A52D:1DDF:A91B:710C (talk) 14:38, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assessment of "Bayliss" Role 

message: There was a TV play I once saw, starring Denholm Elliott as a man undergoing a psychotic breakdown. It must have been the early seventies; I don't know the title. I've always thought it was a Play for Today. It made an enormous impression on me; it was really good (mainly because of Elliott's virtuoso performance). And yet I can't find any trace of it. It's certainly not mentioned here under Filmography.
Is it possible that it was expunged from the record, for some reason? 
There is no question that the actor was Elliott, by the way; every time I've seen his face on screen since, I have had vivid memories of scenes from that show.
Anyone know how I could trace it? I've tried the BBC archive site, and trawled through every single Play for Today, and turned up nothing.
MrDemeanour (talk) 16:42, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Psychosis 

message: Perhaps include in career section. 212.39.89.217 (talk) 20:46, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rising damp the movie.
Talk:Muhammad Zafarullah Khan

message: Wasn't the name spelt "Zafarullah"?—iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 18:01, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)
Hmmm, perhaps one needs to search international court of justice archives for correct spellings where he was a judge. I couldn’t find anything in my cursory search. Yahya 16:43, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: merge two articles about the same person. --Kerowyn 00:09, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Sir. Muhammad Zaffarullah Khan read more like a list of facts. I attempted to merge relevant facts from the other article, but many were NPOV, so I didn't actually bring any over. -- Irixman (t) (m) 20:04, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: merge

message: the correct spelling is Zafarulla.   He never had ‘h’ at end of name 24.25.214.247 (talk) 18:54, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling
Talk:Samford University

message: Rania Majors
35 years of representing any, and everyone in Philadelphia committed activist, and community leader. She is on the ballot to become a judge, and join the ranks of your prestigious University. 2601:41:4301:46E0:34FE:EB81:176:D913 (talk) 07:13, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable Alumni Cumberland Law
Talk:Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

message: "The exhibition, which runs during the summer months of July and August, is traditionally opened with a procession to the nearby St. James church, led by the Archbishop of Westminster."
Is this right?  St James's Church is a Church of England church, whilst the Archbishop of Westminster is part of the Roman Catholic hierarchy.  Until relatively recent times, and certainly for most of the history of the Royal Academy, there was either no Roman Catholic hierarchy or such a hierarchy was not accepted by the British establishment (there was even a law against it - the Ecclesisatical Titles Act).  So I find this assertion, which I have not heard before, somewhat implausible. Chelseaboy 18:11, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: , I would like to protest this edit which you removed saying "could be anywhere". I claim that the images on the wallls on the background are unique to the Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition and therefore this image has just as much right to remain as :file:Royal academy summer exhibition varnishing day 2015 room scene.jpg.  is sitting beside me and agrees. Also, and I admit I did not put this in the image caption, my image shows that conducted tours are given. — Matthisvalerie (talk) 17:25, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Matthisvalerie, I perhaps should have explained more why I feel this image does not fit in here: 1. Some people are very explicitly depicted on this photo, even though it is not explained in the image caption who they are; the article is clearly not about these people; 2. Very little of the Royal Academy rooms is visible on this photo, much less than some of the other images that are available on Wiki Commons, and that for various reasons were not added to this article; 3. The fact that conducted tours are given is not unique to the RA Summer Exhibition. This happens at any museum or exhibition. Also, the photo doesn't illustrate clearly that this is a guided tour at the RA - hence my original comment... Hope this makes it more acceptable for you. Best, Kleon3 (talk) 16:06, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why delete? 
Talk:1990 Ontario general election

message: I've removed the redlinks to most of the defeated candidates because it is unlikely that anyone will ever write articles for these people.1 If they do, they will likely be aware that there is a candidate list here, and will come in to put in a link. In the absence of articles being written about the candidates, what is more likely to happen is that someone will write an article about a US state senator, or an English footballer, or an Australian crocodile wrestler of the same name, and then we'll have a faulty link.
I have left in links to:
* candidates for whom there is already an article, 
* to defeated members of the previous legislature on the basis that someone may come back some day to write articles about all former MPPS, 
* to a few others who seem possible candidates for articles, and
* to those for whom someone has bothered to put in a disambiguation tag.
1 For example, I was the campaign manager for a PC candidate in this election (it was a long time ago) who came third with a respectable 22% of the vote, and I can't be bothered to write an article about him. I've never heard of him since, and I can't imagine that anyone else is going to take the time to wite about him. I ust admit that I came this close > < to not voting for him myself. 
Kevintoronto 18:21, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Defeated candidates
Talk:Pierre Gaspard Chaumette

message: His speeches in favor of patriarchy should be mentioned somewhere.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.130.135.9 (talk) 04:25, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Women 

message: You cannot speculate on the reasons why he was executed (such as "it has been suggested") since all reasons are clearly stated by prosecutors in their sentence.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.38.215.245 (talk) 03:37, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speculation
Talk:Cŵn Annwn

message: it would be great if some nice Welshman provided a pronounciation for this entry... It's not really normal to have no vowels in a word in English ;) without any help I can only assume it should sound something like "coon annoon" but this is just a wild guess :) - Blueshade (talk) 11:55, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Correct! Flapdragon (talk) 12:16, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronounciation 

message: Are "Imperial Vengeance" notable enough for an article?  If so, someone should make it, otherwise maybe we don't need this section. --192.193.245.16 (talk) 11:18, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for pointing this out. I agree. As there is not even an article here on the band I've removed the section, which borders on trivia in any case. Enaidmawr (talk) 23:44, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popular Culture 

message: What or who is Pwyll? 2601:CF:4600:5E60:974F:9753:B74B:C32C (talk) 01:12, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: , Pwyll was Prince of the Kingdom of Dyfed. Verbcatcher (talk) 01:42, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link needed
Talk:Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)

message: Nothing I really want to change on the main page here because I really do not know correctly where the information fits. 
But there was another group that also recorded this song, with much of the backround music too. That would be because this group was close to Whitman and Gordy. 
The group is "The Undisputed Truth". The truth is, they recorded, other than a hit with "Smiling Faces", but a better version of Ball of Confusion better than the Temptations. 
The Undisputed Truth's version, Joe Harris supplied the edge. Brenda Joyce Evans and Billie Rae Calvin softened it with their harmony. It's a great recording if you can find it. 
Davetopper — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.245.47.86 (talk) 17:13, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Version by The Undisputed Truth 
Talk:Judaeo-Portuguese

message: The box on the right of the page says there are some 2,000 users of the language, but no source is given. For what I am aware of the language is not used by any Sephardic Jew in the Netherlands; just like the Askenazi community in the Netherlands the Sephardic community in the Netherlands has totally switched to Dutch in the last two centuries.  So where do these 2,000 users come from? Rick86 18:29, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Users of Judæo-Portuguese

message: NEW MATTER
There is no evidence here for a separate Jewish-Portuguese language.  In the lists of words provided here we may discount loanwords from Hebrew, which do not constitute evidence for a separate language.  In the list of different forms of Portuguese words, all forms except angora are simply the normal medieval forms of Galician-Portuguese.  If you cannot provide compelling linguistic evidence, you should cut this entry or change its name or its tenor.  ~~philologist58  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.54.25.120 (talk) 06:45, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: no evidence?

message: In this edit, I've reduced this article to a one-sentence stub, per WP:Verifiability policy, and am issuing this formal challenge: anything added to this article must be accompanied with a citation to a reliable source.  The policy states:
All content must be verifiable. The burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material, and it is satisfied by providing an inline citation to a reliable source that directly supports the contribution.
Any material added or restored to this article that fails to meet the requirements of WP:Verifiability, will be removed immediately. Here are some suggestions for where you might find reliable sources for this topic:
:
If, as some editors here believe, there is no evidence available because there is no such thing, then I would encourage them to start deletion procedures to remove this article.  See WP:AFD and WP:AFDHOW for how to proceed. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 03:12, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Formal challenge
Talk:Judeo-Hamedani–Borujerdi

message: Is Hamedani a dialect of Farsi/Persian? The article needs to tell about this. Gringo300 (talk) 14:50, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  dialect of Farsi/Persian? 
Talk:Judeo-Provençal

message: What is the etymology of "Chouadite" שואדית? It's tempting to think that "Chouadi" is derived from יהודי yehudi "Jew", but I don't know of any sources for this. —Moxfyre (ǝɹʎℲxoɯ | contrib) 21:18, 10 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology? 

message: The content of this page should be moved to Judeo-Provençal. The word Shuadit is a pseudo-glottonym erroneously coined by Szajkowski, has it has been shown by Strich, A. 2015. “Judeo-Occitan (Judeo-Provencal).” In Handbook of Jewish Languages. Leiden: Brill, 517–551, and again by Nahon, P. (2021). Modern Judeo-Provençal as Known from Its Sole Textual Testimony: Harcanot et Barcanot (Critical Edition and Linguistic Analysis), Journal of Jewish Languages (published online ahead of print 2021). doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/22134638-bja10014.
The latter article by Nahon brings a wealth of new data about Judeo-Provençal that should be included in the WP article. As English is not my native language I do not feel confortable doing it myself, but maybe User:TShilo12 or User:Moxfyre can do it?. 
In case you don't have access to Brill paywall, it is available here: https://www.academia.edu/58609524/Modern_Judeo_Proven%C3%A7al_as_Known_from_Its_Sole_Textual_Testimony_Harcanot_et_Barcanot_Critical_Edition_and_Linguistic_Analysis_?email_work_card=title Fuligo septica (talk) 15:15, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Issues with this page