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Talk:Paul Cartledge

message: Paul Cartledge's association with Oxford was as a student (undergraduate and DPhil); his entire career as a "professional" academic has been at other universities, principally Cambridge for over 30 years. Is student level association with Oxford sufficient to come within the scope of this project? It would seem surprising if every Oxford graduate covered on Wikipedia merited inclusion within this project. --The Sage of Stamford (talk) 20:51, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, that's a question more for discussion between members of the project at the project's talk page rather than for a non-member to raise on the talk page of one article.  The answer to your question, though, is "Yes, it is."  Each WikiProject decide how it wants to organise itself.  See also the benefits of project tagging at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Guide#Article_tagging, and also (under the heading "Article editors do not own WikiProjects") the following: A WikiProject's members have the exclusive right to define the scope of their project, which includes defining an article as being outside the scope of the project. Similarly, if a WikiProject says that an article is within their scope, then you may not force them to remove the banner. Thanks,  BencherliteTalk 23:14, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia:WikiProject University of Oxford
Talk:List of Thor and Delta launches (1990–1999)

message: Would it be ok to split the table into date ranges? Two sections, 19xx through 2000, and 2001 through present would work for me. The trouble with one big table is that it is harder to edit and find the entry one wants to modify. Sdsds 04:38, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Splitting table 

message: Someone please change invalid ref note.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.54.250.11 (talk) 18:31, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sept 4 Delta launch rescheduled 
Talk:Paul F. Knitter

message: This article is, at present, essentially a collection of criticisms of Knitter's work.  Would somebody more knowledgeable of his work be interested in expanding the article in a more balanced fashion? HappyWanderer15 (talk) 02:48, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I've done my best to address these concerns on my own.  Feel free to revert and discuss if you think I was not even-handed in my edits. HappyWanderer15 (talk) 06:47, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Undue weight to criticism
Talk:Paul Fry (professor)

message: "there are many professors, maybe even millions or close to it, around the world and definitely throughout the history of higher education. Simply being a professor at Yale in and of itself make you notable. Nothing here shows us notability."
this guy is a full professor at yale, the holder of a named chair. Very few people in the profession reach this level--it would be extraordinary to find someone of this rank at Yale or a similar top-level research university who is not notable--the process of getting there requires many prestigious publications and many peer-reviews, much more stringent than we do at WP. 
WP:PROF requires greater notability than the average professor, and the tenured faculty at research universities are exactly that. You are correct that there are indeed millions of professors, lets say a million. Yale has about 3000, about one third of them full professors, and perhaps 50% of those have named professorships.  There are perhaps 200 research universities in the world total,  making 100,000 full professors holding named chairs in research universities, the top 10% of the total. There are perhaps about 20 universities of the quality of Yale,so we are talking about the top 1%. (although it may not have been obvious, the English department at Yale is probably one of the best two departments in the subject--the top 0.1%, )
I suggest checking the discussions of similar articles at the times they get nominated for afd before proceeding with the deletion of this one. i also suggest checking even just Google Scholar before proposing deletions--or looking in WorldCat for published books.  DGG (talk) 03:18, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Pseudechis

message: User:Peteruetz, in reply to your note on my talk page, I agree that inline citations are greatly to be perfered over general references. However, I did not introduce these general references, and I don't have access to the book by Swan.
The two general references were introduced in the  by User:Tnarg 12345. Moving these sources to a "Further reading" section would effectively remove them as references. Another editor could later remove them from "Further reading" if a URL became dead or they were judged to be otherwise unsuitable.
In my view, it would only be acceptable to remove these references (or to move them to Further reading) if we can establish that all the claims in the article are adequately sourced without them.
Since reverting your edit I have updated the citation of the Australian Faunal Directory source with a new URL. This source confirms that Pseudechis snakes are found in every Australian state except Tasmania. We could add an inline citation of this fact to this source, but I would still argue against its removal as a general reference as other facts may have been obtained from this source.
However, the mixture of inline and general references does look untidy. One way around this is to add multiple inline citations so that the two 'general references' sources are effectively declared as sources for the entire article. This is straightforward in this case, we simply need to add citations of them at the end of both of the main paragraphs. This would also ensure that any new paragraphs would not inherit the general citations. I will make a BOLD edit do do this, but would be happy to discuss it here. Verbcatcher (talk) 01:18, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it looks better now, although I would have preferred to add a General References section at the bottom. If the original citer doesn't step up or if someone doesn't look up those books, we may not be able to solve it. In any case, having a whole bunch of references at the end of a paragraph is an awkward solution. Thanks for you effort to fix this though. Peteruetz (talk) 02:59, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: okay, have changed to this to get rid of the tag as the studies clearly identify at least one undescribed form. Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 03:42, 16 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  General references
Talk:Richard Porson

message: Hello, what the hell is this info all about "He drank less" in the part later life??  What does that mean, did he ever drank more???  I don't get it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.148.150.9 (talk) 22:38, 7 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: "In later life he gave way to intemperance."--DNB.--Johnsoniensis (talk) 09:48, 19 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]
Talk:King brown snake

message: Hey. I'm doing some quick research on poisonous snakes. I noticed that the article on the Inner Taipan uses the animal's common name as the title while this one uses the scientific one. I'm not positive, but I was under the impression that wikipedia policy was to use the common name unless there was an animal with the same name. If there's another animal called the king brown snake, I should be redirected to a disambiguation page. Ofcourse, I could be totally wrong.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.28.121.180 (talk) 13:54, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: * Look at this Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 15:19, 25 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: The artist had broad impact, think I can do something when I access a library.
* Eats budgies, and also climbs trees to eat baby-birds, it is said. ~ cygnis insignis 10:22, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bookmark 

message: ... or are they legitimate criticismFA status notwithstanding? (damifino) --2601:840:8402:34A0:81A3:7F0D:B9E9:731B (talk) 19:37, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Twelve commentaries
Talk:Paul Hersey

message: The wedding certificate from Virginia seems very likely to be correct given that the home address given is Ohio and Hersey was teaching at Ohio U at the time (and separate documentation lists his wife as Suzanne). Natebailey (talk) 23:18, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  DoB/bio data 
Talk:Richard Roberts (engineer)

message: Remarkably, the Roberts Loom is not mentioned by name despite having its own wiki article. I was going to rectify this, but the article for it says it was introduced in 1830, while this article says 'Following the success of his power loom, in 1825 he invented a slotting machine to cut keyways in gears and pulleys to fasten them to their shafts.' This obviously suggests his loom predates 1825, an apparent contradiction which I do not have the knowledge to resolve. I hope someone else can. LastDodo (talk) 13:40, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Roberts Loom Date?
Talk:Naja

message: Can anyone explain why this genus is named Naja rather than Naga?  I've always wondered about this. Mia229 (talk) 09:41, 25 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology 

message: The Type Specie is Naja naja. What is listed, Coluber naja, is an old name which is currently a synonym for the Type Specie. 165.120.113.83 (talk) 11:12, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: First off, it's "specieS" with an "s," as "specie" is unminted money.  Secondly, and more importantly, the type species to be presented is what was originally written in the initial description, and not its current valid synonym.--Mr Fink (talk) 13:16, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Type Specie in error...
Talk:Monocled cobra

message: "...a circular mark behind the hood, unlike that of the Indian cobra."
This should probably be clarified: the Monacled Cobra only has one ocellus while the Indian Cobra (aka Spectacled Cobra) has two. 174.111.242.35 (talk) 15:49, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  intro is ambiguous 
Talk:Richard Shilleto

message: *Support merge: clearly the same man. PamD 11:38, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Aaargh, no. The other article is clearly a complete mess - see the dates of the catalogue holdings cited. Needs work. Might have a go. PamD 11:40, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge discussion
Talk:Paul LeClerc

message: I just removed a hunk of copyrighted content that was taken from this press release.  The press release was issued on 18 November 2009, while the content was added to the article on 3 October 2010.  The NYPL does not release its content under any public licence.  ... discospinster talk 00:13, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyrighted content 
Talk:Richard Smith (Continental Congress)

message: I added a stub template because this article is exceedingly short. One issue that drew me to this was Smith's resignation from the Continental Congress. No reason is given and it took a bit of research to pin it down. As was the case with several other members of Congress who resigned 1775-1776, Smith was a Quaker, and since independence meant armed conflict and Quakers were pacifists, as a matter of conscience they could not continue in service to the revolution. An excellent source on the issue, which requires JSTOR access for the full document:
Diary of Richard Smith in the Continental Congress
Allreet (talk) 04:50, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Smith's resignation from Continental Congress
Talk:Richard Stockton Field

message: A temporary subpage at User:Polbot/fjc/Richard Stockton Field was automatically created by a perl script, based on this article at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. The subpage should either be merged into this article, or moved and disambiguated. Polbot (talk) 20:37, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Bot-created subpage
Talk:Texas coral snake

message: Why does the Micrurus link in the taxon box not actually link to the Genus? Seems like that's something that should be standardized. It doesn't even redirect, it's just a different link to the visible text. If I wanted to go to the coral snake page, I would click that link in the article instead.--71.113.238.96 (talk) 05:36, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Micrurus 
Talk:Micrurus fulvius

message: http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2006/jun/13/man_dies_snake_bite/?local_news
death occurred in 2006, confirmation of coral snake fatality in a Stanford report released in 2009  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.95.142.182 (talk) 06:16, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
Talk:Yellow-lipped sea krait

message: I changed the ratings on this article.  If it is not done right, please change it back.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.250.72.128 (talk) 02:01, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ratings 

message: Article mentions not being a danger to divers (without citation), but isn't it also true that the snakes cannot open their mouths wide enough to get a bite on most places on the human body?
Also, it would be nice to have something on their diet, habitat, other behavior. Piano non troppo (talk) 12:35, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Danger to humans

message: The description section does not meet standard on WikiProject Amphibians and Reptiles for description;
Description (physical, behavioral characteristics) - what makes this (group of) critter(s) different from its close relatives?
Moreover, it is unreadable to a layperson.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.51.25.50 (talk) 17:53, 17 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Description 

message: One thing that the article does not make clear is whether these snakes can breathe while under water. Do they breathe air and hold their breathe while underwater, like marine mammals, or are they able to breathe underwater like fish?Bill (talk) 18:31, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: All sea snakes cannot breathe underwater like fish, as stated in Hydrophiinae, since they don't have gills. This could be included in this article anyways to clarify. Sn1per (talk) 05:16, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Respiration
Talk:Paul Pruyser

message: This article certainly needs extension. For a start, should it not include references to how Pruyser applied object relations theory to the psychology of religion? I believe that Wulff, D. (1997) Psychology of Religion: Classic and Contemporary Views" (New York: Wiley) is a good resource for this. 
ACEOREVIVED (talk) 21:11, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Paul Rolland

message: Hi. I'm unsure about the effects of this pair of edits. I must start by saying I'm not sure what the whole stub-sorting thing is about but since it seems to be based on something similar to categories, I worry that it has now placed Rolland wrongly. As you see from the diff, the edits removed the three stubs    and replaced them with the single stub . This seems odd. In his performing career, as the article makes clear, Rolland was not a violinist but a viola player, or violist, if you must, so whilst  was a bit broad it was at least accurate, whereas  is wrong. You might at an extreme pinch talk about Rolland the viola player but you wouldn't talk about Rolland the violinist. Odder, though, is the loss of . Rolland's role as an education[al]ist far outweighs the importance of his playing career. Why's he remembered now? As a pedagogue, not as a player. The loss of that stub seems, then, to compound the previous error by throwing away the most important set of people that he's a member of. So, although I do not really understand the process here nor the exact effect of these stub categorizations, I do know that on the face of it what happens seems to have introduced inaccuracy and discarded data. But I'd be very grateful for your view and I am not about to start a fist fight over it! Thanks and best wishes, DBaK (talk) 01:41, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Aha. Brilliant sort-out by Waacstats, thanks! DBaK (talk) 14:14, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Did recent stub sorting edits lose data? 

message: This biography lacks a timeline: Under the section heading Education and career he is described with higher education at USA institutions and having performed with a Hungarian orchestra. What is known about his name change? Likely related to emigration from Hungary to the West, but why Rolland from Reisman? (N.B. This earlier name is missing from the only other WP page, :de:Paul Rolland, nor is it mentioned in the Wikidata item.) -- Deborahjay (talk) 09:04, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  During WWII and the Holocaust
Talk:Heterodon

message: After several attempts at providing useful edits to articles here, editor jwinius has made it clear that they are not wanted. He follows me around and clicks undo on everything I do without any attempts at discussion in the articles' talk pages. Since he is apparently the editor-in-chief here and feels he has unilateral authority, I'll be moving on. I won't be back. Gladtohelp (talk) 19:28, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No, I don't follow you around; I've just worked on all of these articles and happen to have them on my watchlist. Everybody is welcome to contribute, but when someone comes along and changes referenced information without offering any alternative references of their own, that's never a good thing. In cases where good faith is evident, I often leave a note on the user's talk page, but in this case I only left a short explanation in the edit summary since this was the same kind of mistake you made in the Agkistrodon contortrix mokasen article. --Jwinius (talk) 21:39, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Teeth and stuff

message: This article is incorrect in mentioning that hognose snakes have only toxic saliva.  They do in fact possess venom, and due to the enlarged posterior maxillary teeth are classified as rear-fanged mildly venomous snakes. XPS420 (talk) 13:17, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Venom

message: Are the synonyms listed in the tax box legit?  They seem to be all over the board (world).  I don't have access to the Wright and Wright citation to check it out, but perhaps someone else will be so kind as to confirm or refute this.  Pinethicket (talk) 15:02, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Synonyms

message: In the opening paragraph it says there are three recognized species, but the species section lists four in the table. 50.35.73.211 (talk) 07:17, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inconsistent with the number of species listed.
Talk:Richard Upjohn

message: Do we have a picture of Richard Upjohn to go in the infobox, instead of one of his works? --Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 02:11, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: User:Willthacheerleader18: Done thanks to User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )!Zigzig20s (talk) 21:50, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture

message: I see that we include Connecticut State Capitol as being one of Upjohn's projects, but it appears to me that this building was actually designed by his son, Richard M. Upjohn.  I am still trying to track down the real stary, but if this is the case, then how many other mistakes do we have?  Feel free to jump in before I start to slash and burn. Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 21:36, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  A mistake?  Or is the mistake mine?
Talk:Richard W. Barton

message: This may be a poster case for inaccuracies on findagrave, since it shows him dying on March 15, 1859, whereas the census shows him as dying in January 1860. Nonetheless, the DBE article is imperfect, as is findagrave, in only naming one son and one daughter. I'm curious to know if his sons fought for the Confederacy, but don't have time for further research on this man. For what it's worth, his estate does not appear as a slaveholder in the 1860 slave schedule (either a function of the census-taker or quick probate process), but David W. Barton (whose sons did fight for the Confederacy) shows as owning 19 slaves, even though he did not figure in the 1850 slave schedule.Jweaver28 (talk) 20:48, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  more work needed
Talk:Paul W. Kahn

message: Although I have had a class with this guy, I do not see how he is notable.  He has published several books that have gone mostly unnoticed and he isn't very distinguished (at least by YLS standards).  I would recommend deleting this article unless some evidence to the contrary can be provided.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.36.152.153 (talk) 16:24, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability
Talk:Paula Fredriksen

message: She was one of the main commentators in the PBS Frontline documentary "From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.72.30.236 (talk) 23:52, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Role in 'Frontline' documentary 
Talk:Bitis parviocula

message: I am not a herpetologist, but I am confused by some writing about this snake as  "viper", some as "adder". Are they interchangeable? If not, the wrticle could aim for standardizing on one term Pete unseth (talk) 21:42, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Vipers and adders

message: The article says
“Known from only five localities in Ethiopia, it is found on both sides of the Rift Valley, both in the Bale Mountains to the east and between Bonga and Jimma to the west. It has been collected at altitudes of 1,700–2,800 metres (5,600–9,200 ft). The type locality is given as 'Doki River bridge (8°20′N 35°56′E), which is south of the east-west highway between Bedele and Metu.'" 
However, the “type locality” is far from Jimma or Bonga. It is on the east-west highway parallel to the Jimma - Bonga highway. Should we understand that the species has been found on the west of the Rift both at Doki River bridge and also between Bonga and Jimma?
The article does not mention when the first live specimen was collected, or by who, or where. I heard that it was first collected by a Czech team near Bonga and smuggled out of Ethiopia before 1995, but I have no published source to cite. There must be some record of who first captured a specimen. I hope somebody can document the first captured specimen.Pete unseth (talk) 00:34, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where have specimens been captured?
Talk:Pedro Malan

message: As muhc as Mensalão should be mentioned only in its on artcile, Palocci should be mentioned only whithin his own article. One of  Anyway, Jefferson´s main issue is the mensalão, so it should remain there. Lulu Margarida yes? 17:09, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You're talking about succession. You wouldn't mention that George W. Bush succeeded Bill Clinton in the Bill Clinton article? usually that's done through a succession box, but we don't have one in this case.--Dali-Llama 17:17, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: YOU are talkng abt succession, doesn´t matter who came after or before; maybe you should insert a box then. Lulu Margarida yes? 17:20, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, we're talking about succession. I can't believe you're opposed to saying who replaced Malan as minister of finance... You want to create a box, go ahead, but I don't want to take that project up. Until we have the box, we can leave the succession blurb.--Dali-Llama 17:37, 15 October 2007 (UTC)

text: The article´s title is Pedro Malan and his biography, not Lula nor Palocci nor who succeeded Malan. Lulu Margarida yes? 16:24, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This is bordering on non-sensical now. You're actually saying we shouldn't say why the minister of finance of a country left and who replaced him?--Dali-Llama 18:15, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Jef.

message: I can see the problem you two are having. There are arguments in favour of mentioning succession, and arguments against. It is appropriate that you are having a discussion to discover a solution - and it appears that the succession box is one you are agreed is the most appropriate solution. But you are both held back by the possible work involved. I have taken a look at how to create a succession box, and it shouldn't be too difficult
:Enter the start field so that the program recognises the table:
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:Enter the name of the predecessor:
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:Enter the title of the person on whose page you are working:
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:Enter the name of the successor:
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:Once everything is done, type:
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Example
Regards
SilkTork *SilkyTalk 20:38, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: 3rd Opinion comment