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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/biographies

message: I created Template:bio-cats to save just a little bit on the typing you always find yourself doing at the end of one of these pages. For example:

expands to
Dumesnil, Marie
Dumesnil, Marie
Dumesnil, Marie
David Brooks 23:53, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I would recommend using subst: here. – Quadell (talk) 17:16, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: bio-cats template

message: I hate not being able to tell how much progress a project has made so I went about trying to calculate it.  Below are the starting numbers for each of the pages.  "A" was the only page that was not broken down into sections so it started with 500, all the other pages started with 10 sections of 49, except G2 which has 299.  There are a number of missing entries and pages.  The original list claimed to have ~15,000 entries, but this only comes to 11,089.  I wasn't around for the creation of the lists and the originals are no longer on the web, so I don't know where the other 4K have gone.
*a	500
*b	490
*b2	490
*b3	490
*c	490
*c2	490
*d	490
*e	490
*f	490
*g	490
*g2	299
*h	490
*h2	490
*k	490
*l	490
*m	490
*m2	490
*p	490
*r	490
*s	490
*s2	490
*t	490
*w	490
Reflex Reaction 16:00, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: My guess is that the other 4K is the Is, Js, Ns, Os, Qs, Us, Vs, Xs, Ys, Zs, and additional members of letters given. (There may have originally been a P2 and an M3, for example.) These would all have been fairly small, presumably, and were either done quickly or just lopped off. – Quadell (talk) 17:11, 17 October 2005 (UTC)

text: Follow-up: Looks like I was right. There was originally a D2 with 190 entries, for example - it was finished up in April. If you're an admin, you can just go to where the page should be and read the deleted edits. If not, you can't see them. – Quadell (talk) 17:16, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I had that feeling as well but thanks much for answering my question.  I am not an admin so I can't see the original list, but the 11K number is fine for calculating the percentages since those were the numbers when this particular project (page) was started. --Reflex Reaction 17:50, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Progress 

message: See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles#User:Piotrus.2FList_of_Poles for my list of (mostly missing) Polish biographies to add.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 18:20, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Have few thousand more 

message: I am categorising Catholic encyclopedia Wikipedia:Catholic Encyclopedia cat People.  I've got about 1000 entries so far.  JASpencer 19:39, 13 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Catholic Encyclopedia biographies 

message: The page is empty! Congratulations to all who've participated! --Alvestrand (talk) 21:05, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hooray!
Talk:Dandys Rule OK

message: I believe the title should be "Dandys Rule OK?" (as in, sans apostrophe). How to change a title? Will investigate.
+swaly 23:59, September 9, 2005 (UTC)
Hmm, apparently there is some kind of difference between albums "Dandys Rule: OK" and "Dandy's Rule OK?", so I'll put it back the way it was. Whoops.
+swaly 00:06, September 10, 2005 (UTC)
The record is Dandys Rule, OK?.  All of these are completely wrong.  --Satyricrash 02:04, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Title

message: I'm sure this album was (eventually) released in the UK with the title 'The Dandy Warhols' and different cover artwork, though still on the Tim Kerr label. Can anybody confirm this? --Ef80 (talk) 19:32, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  UK release 
Talk:Brian Taylor (Australian footballer)

message: Hello, you are a brave man and you support people and help a lot. Please, we are from Gaza and our children are dying. If you can help us get my family out of Gaza, this would be a big thing for me. Thank you in advance. Imad abuathera (talk) 14:34, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hello, you are a brave man and you support people and help a lot. Please, we are from Gaza and our children are dying. If you can help us get my family out of Gaza, this would be a big thing for me. Thank you in advance.
Talk:Welcome to the Monkey House (album)

message: I think "Plan A" should be merged into the album page because it's unlikely to be expanded more than it is. LF (talk) 00:39, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: +1 Me too!  When I hear or read "Plan A" , I think of the Plan / arms build-up program that ran from 1934 - 1939; they bought new planes (many bombers later used against Germany), advanced with Radar (see History of radar) ; the Home Chain became ready just in time (start around the clock Good Friday 1939) => that should be treated as Lemma 'Plan A' --Neun-x (talk) 13:40, 30 January 2013 (UTC)

text: PS: I mave moved "Plan A" to "Plan A (song)"  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Neun-x (talk • contribs) 14:35, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge
Talk:Verbena

message: This entry, one of an unprecedented 52, has won the September 2005 West Dakota Prize, awarded for successfully employing the expression "legend states" in a complete sentence.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by  Wetman  (talk • contribs) 00:13, 10 September 2005
: wikilinked, for more funny --Lexein (talk) 23:42, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: A Winner of the [[User:Wetman/West Dakota Prizes September 2005|September 2005 West Dakota Prize]]

message: Following general Wikipedia usage, this should be a redirect to Verbena (genus), instead of the other way round. Any objections? --Wetman 00:09, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, except that I'd move it to Verbena, with the current content of that page moved to Verbena (disambiguation) as its contents are minor compared to the plant genus (and mostly derivative from it) - MPF 12:09, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: 2005

message: I removed the tea recipes as they seemed inappropriate.  Discussion of herbal remedies is fine, but the old discussion was more cookbook that encyclopedia. Iellwood 23:15, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Oct 2007

message: "Vervain should not be used regularly or in significant quantities without medical advice"
I've read plenty of articles about Vervain and none contain any warning about not using the plant regularly. I've been taking the infusion pretty much daily for years; if there are any risks, I would like to see them sourced properly.
User:Anchorite1 12:18, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Dec 2007

message: Is for culture to be human not a it superfluous? On the other had, just "culture" is a bit vague maybe. -- 12:46, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Belated agreement. Fixed. --Lexein (talk) 23:42, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Human" culture 

message: Text under dispute should be moved to Talk for discussion, not just hidden. So, I'm doing that here (comment italicised):
:
So, discuss? --Lexein (talk) 23:16, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Japanese name? 

message: Verbena officinalis ("herb of the cross"), as the name shows, is an herb from the official monastic herbal at the time of Linneaus.  It is used to diagnose illness.  The leaf tastes bitter in persons who are ill.  Thus, it is called, "herb of the cross". My Flatley (talk) 01:26, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use
Talk:List of historical passenger rail services in Chicago

message: According to this map, the "World's Fair Station" is also Roosevelt Road (Metra). Does this mean we can redirect World's Columbian Exposition Terminal Station to Museum Campus/11th Street Station? ----DanTD (talk) 14:23, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: No. First: the World's Fair mentioned here is actually the second one held in Chicago, the Century of Progress, which was held in the 1930s. Second: the Roosevelt station mentioned here is actually Roosevelt/Wabash (CTA). This was not a direct station for access to the World's Fair, but rather the most convenient get off point for North Shore Line passengers making connections to the fair. (Apologies for arriving several months late to answer your question.) Lost on Belmont (talk) 13:23, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Columbian Exposition Station=Museum Campus/11th Street? 

message: Isn't Millennium Station the former terminus of the I.C. Electric and South Shore.  Wasn't Great Central Station at the south end of Grant Park closer the the Chicago Hilton  Bikeoutside (talk) 13:52, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Great Central Station 

message: Passenger trains served Englewood Union (New York Central and Pennsylvania RR), Woodlawn (Illinois Central and New York Central trains due south) and South Chicago (Baltimore and Ohio, with additional tenant in the Pere Marquette, later the C&O).
Perhaps a second table, below the present table, is warranted.Dogru144 (talk) 05:49, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Missing long-distance train stations in Chicago beyond the downtown section

message: BNSF and Union Pacific were listed as passenger railroads going into the Chicago terminals. The predecessors of BNSF and Union Pacific ceased passenger railroad operations in 1971. It made no sense that they were as continuing passenger operations into the present.Dogru144 (talk) 04:38, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Union Pacific and BNSF are still the owners and operators of their Metra-branded lines, but not for much longer in UP's case. https://www.courthousenews.com/federal-court-gives-union-pacific-green-light-to-cut-its-services-on-three-busy-chicago-commuter-rail-lines/ Cards84664 20:29, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

text: Well, by the same token, we should identify BNSF, CSX, Canadian Pacific and Union Pacific as passenger train railroads, alongside Amtrak.Dogru144 (talk) 05:46, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Metra operates trains on those lines, but not on UP and BNSF. Cards84664 04:55, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: BNSF and Union Pacific?
Talk:Plane (Magic: The Gathering)

message: So would it be fair to put everything into an order like this, from smallest, to biggest: planet, solar system, universe, plane (bunch of universes that are parallel?), and then multiverse? So then what comes after multiverse, if anything? And aren't parallel universes known to be infinite in modern day physics?
Also, if I'm right, doesn't that mean that planeswalkers don't really travel between different planes? I mean, they simply travel within one plane, between the parallel universes; but how are they to travel outside of their plane, and into a new one? Because as I take it, planeswalkers travel between different parallel universes to get mana and also, to cast bizzare spells only found in parallel universes. 24.23.51.27 22:47, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Plane and universe are synonymous. A multiverse is an group, most likely infinite, of closely connected planes. Beyond that is the omniverse, which is all planes. Noneofyourbusiness 00:11, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  To clarify... 

message: I don't think Segovia is a plane so unless someone knows information about this Ill take it off soon. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Deadbraincell (talk • contribs) 21:38, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I just did a Google search for "Segovia" "plane" "Leviathan". People on a couple of threads said that Segovia was mentioned in an old article of Duelist magazine as a miniature plane where everything is much smaller than its Dominarian counterpart, which is why only the Leviathan is worthy of notice. -- Noneofyourbusiness 21:55, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Segovia

message: Sorry to be a bother, but I found myself incensed at the destruction of a perfectly good and highly instructive page devoted to the plane of Ravnica, mysteriously merged into this current page and thus transformed, for no reason I can see, into a 1-paragraph stub.
I for one feel this should be immediately reversed.
-Leon  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.149.22.209 (talk) 20:42, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ravnica 

message: I can see deleting the Phyrexia article and mentioning the content that was there here instead. But deleting all content besides "the new set, "New Phyrexia", is named after Phyrexia (when it's actually named after New Phyrexia, which is a renamedMirrodin) seems like overzealous removal.--Guillaume Hébert-Jodoin (talk) 17:10, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Phyrexia
Talk:Box-spring

message: Maybe somebody can add an explanation for why box springs no longer contain springs. They are nothing but platforms now. Why do we need them?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.191.181.198 (talk) 21:54, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Why do boxsprings no longer have springs

message: The comment about slatted bedframes being particularly German seems odd to me. Something of a generalisation I imagine. 87.114.159.156 (talk) 01:53, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: German?

message: I query the use of a hyphen in box spring. Box and spring are both nouns. There is no rationale for hyphenating them apart from (incorrect) usage. Webster's Third New International Dictionary does not use the hyphen. Everybody got to be somewhere! (talk) 00:16, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Box-spring or box spring?  

message: How about references showing that the modern box spring is a scam by mattress manufacturers to increase profits? they are completely useless now that we have floors, and bed frames that can hold a mattress firmly.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 18:33, 14 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Scam
Talk:Wahoos

message: No to the merge, but: This wahoos page should be about the name wahoo; it's currently about the song. There's lots more to be said about wahoos, and the song oughta be removed from this page. As it stands if you remove the wahoo page you don't remove much, and if anything this page gets merged into Good Old Song, not the other way around. B.S. Lawrence (talk) 19:17, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with Good Old Song
Talk:Sonneries de la Rose+Croix

message: Based on Google searches (both text searches and image searches, for instance  and pictures of various album covers), it seems the correct title is "Sonneries de la Rose + Croix".  That is, a regular "+" sign, not a Unicode superscript plus sign U+207A (which is nondisplayable even in most Unicode fonts) and with spaces before and after the "+" sign.
Unfortunately, Wikipedia cannot have "+" in article titles due to technical limitations, so the usual Wikipedia practice (at C plus plus, Canal Plus, etc) is to spell out "plus" in the article title and use the  template.
-- Curps 00:20, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The above technical restriction was removed on January 5 2006.  Much of the discussion above and below is thus obsolete. -- Curps 08:04, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Llanddewi Brefi

message: http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/littlebritain/characters/daffyd.shtml suggests that daffyd does not live in the "real" town, but in a village with a slightly different name, though there are inconsistencies even in the article. however in the script excerpt and on the picture showing daffyd with a road sign it's "llandewi breffi", not "llanddewi brefi".
this seems to be another iteration of the "f<->ff and d<->dd" joke that was done with his name. 91.15.150.161 (talk) 07:06, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The change of Dafydd to Daffyd might be an allusion to daffodils, as in Freddie Mercury's famous quote, "[I'm/I am as] gay as a daffodil[, dear/my dear!]" (the parts in brackets are widely added, but not in the original article). --Florian Blaschke (talk) 15:00, 16 September 2013 (UTC)

text: It's complete shite that this article makes no reference to Little Britain.  It's literally the only thing this town is known for, and it's not in the article.  04:58, 28 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  llandewi breffi in little britain 

message: Could someone provide a reason to keep the long-winded paragraph on the continuity mistake in Little Britain - surely all one needs to note is that there isn't actually a train station in Llandewi Brefi.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.195.191.50 (talk) 00:59, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Well, we're 3.5 years later and still no justification.  So I've removed it. Mongoletsi (talk) 14:57, 3 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Justification for Train Details
Talk:Salisbury Road, Hong Kong

message: Does Salisbury come from British Prime Minister Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (3 February 1830 – 22 August 1903) ? HenryLi 00:31, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: According to this site , yes. - Hinto 01:19, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Salisbury means? 

message: Should this article be Salisbury Road, Hong Kong? I think the clumsy, uninterjectioned phrase Salisbury Road Hong Kong should not be the name. If no objection I'd move. --Deryck C. 11:19, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's done. — HenryLi (Talk) 15:45, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move
Talk:Perth Royal Show

message: Does the Perth Show really have horse racing, or show jumping in the main arena? --Scott Davis Talk 00:33, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Good question.. I seemed to remember it being there before, last time I went to the sure, but my memory is a little foggy. I've commented out the horse racing for now, anyone want to look it up on the Show website or something? splintax (talk) 07:27, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Its there, I was watching it today. --203.59.166.123 15:49, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: tis true, I saw on several days last week. Fred.e 19:59, 8 October 2006 (UTC)

text: I've ridden the Python Loop at Adventure World, two years ago. It was on top of that big hill on the complex. splintax (talk) 14:50, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thats not the Python Loop, Splintax! That is Turbo Mountain, a permanent fixture. --Djone2121 13:45, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

message: I removed this sentence:
:"Catching the train or Bus to the Royal show will save you parking costs and will save you time visit www.transperth.wa.gov.au for more information."
Because it is just incurably unencyclopaedic. It just reads like an advertisement for TransPerth.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.169.66.243 (talk) 15:52, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed advertising from transport and parking section
Talk:Sherman Firefly

message: The Book "British Armor in the Normandy Campaign 1944" has some good information that is lacking in this article. I will be reworking some of the information to expand the section and improve it.
-- Wokelly (talk) 20:59, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gonna do some rewriting 

message: this section of Ironsides: Canadian Armoured Fighting Vehicle Museums and Monuments seems to match part of the section on urceservice. Having read the preface, the book uses wikipedia as a source. Thought it best to mention it, so we don't end up with circular and unreliable referencing. GraemeLeggett (talk) 18:42, 22 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed! Very wrong. I think the previous comment sounds like it was a joke too. Shire Lord 20:58, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  sourcing - a possible issue 

message: I deleted a paragraph someone inserted, cited to a thoroughly hokey source (Bird), claiming that 'photographs' prove Wittmann's Tiger 007 was hit from the left side and therefore the Canadians did it. There is only one extant photograph of Tiger 007 after its destruction, it was taken from the rear and shows the back end of the vehicle with the blown-off turret lying in the field behind it, and it cannot possibly support any such hypothesis. It shows, perhaps, some untidiness on the left side, suggesting something blew out from the inside during the explosion that took off the six-tonne turret, but an inbound anti-tank round would not create that outward deformation of the metalwork. The Canadian unit's war diary was destroyed that day and there is no proof that they were even in position at the relevant time. Nor did any individual from that unit ever attest to taking the required shot or seeing the explosion (which Ekins did see, and only one Tiger exploded during that action, and it was Wittmann's). The destruction of Tiger 007 is credited to Joe Ekins of the Northants Yeomanry for sound, documented reasons. Undocumented retrospective claims, made long after the war, solely on account of Wittmann's posthumous celebrity in revisionist literature, with no reference to records kept on the day, are of no value. Khamba Tendal (talk) 19:43, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wittmann
Talk:Michael Scot

message: This entry, one of an unprecedented 52, has won the September 2005 West Dakota Prize, awarded for successfully employing the expression "legend states" in a complete sentence. 
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As far as modern fiction is concerned, there is also a reference to Michael Scot and is work Physionomia In John Buchan’s The Three Hostages (1924), as the guru of the evil character Dominick Medina on the arts of spiritual/mind control. Thank you Wikipedia and keep up the good work!
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Apparently this character was played a really important role in renascentism, if not by other things, by being the first to trasnlate some texts from Aristotle from Arabian sources into Latim. I found some references to this in a book by Jacques Bergier I don't have access right now, but he also failed to bring up his sources.
Gwidion (talk) 01:53, 22 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I'm a bit confused by the hatnote:
The hatnote does not link to this other Michael Scot, so who is the Michael Scot with whom we are not supposed to confuse this Michael Scot? Or is this a joke on someone's part (in which case it should be removed)? 12.233.147.42 (talk) 21:03, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Previous versions had a hat note linking to Michael Scott, I've restored that.--Salix alba (talk): 21:57, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Um...huh? 

message: These folks:
http://www.scotlandmag.com/magazine/issue49/12009597.html
suggest that Scot was awarded the name "aqua ardens" from being a pioneer in alcohol distillation and possible the father of Scots Whisky. Is this worth adding?  Or is there a better cite anyone can find? 93.145.221.210 (talk) 14:23, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aqua Ardens?
Talk:Britney and Kevin: Chaotic

message: If there were 6 episodes, why are only 5 described?
:#6 isn't worthy of the server space. Zchris87v 06:06, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  6 Episodes? 

message: There's a reference to the show in the first episode of the second season of My Name is Earl. I would add it but I'm too tired now. ZZZzzzzz....... Zchris87v 06:06, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[My Name is Earl]] 

message: Did they have their sons on the show?
I could of sworn that they were on there....
I'm bringing this up because i didnt say in the article.
67.129.74.22 (talk) 23:51, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  I wonder....... 

message: I have proposed this merge since the EP was never released separately, it was a CD released alongside the DVD. It has not received attention from a third party and there are no reviews noting the EP. I believe the situation is similar to The Singles Collection boxset version, in which a DVD was released alongside the CD. Xwomanizerx (talk) 02:42, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge of the article with [[Chaotic (EP)]]