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Talk:A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

message: I intend to make adjustments to the Themes heading, fixing the writing to make it more encyclopedic, and deciding whether or not the themes claimed accurately reflect the story. I would love for someone to check over my work, once the edits are made. L.Jentes (talk) 19:09, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Themes Reassessment

message: The following wording is not encyclopedic (bold mine):
::"In fact, if you look at the title, you will see that its complete title is "A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings: A Tale for Children." Upon first reading, you may think this is the *last* thing you'd want to read to your child! But think of the stories of the Brothers' Grimm. Those tales also were gruesome but contained some moral lesson, created not only to excite but to instruct."
Encyclopedias do not say "you". Secondly, they do not use exclamation marks, speaking directly to the reader. Also, they don't give advice, make pleas, or requests to the reader like, "think of the stories of the Brothers' Grim". Perhaps a better way to word this would be:
::"Subtitled, "A Tale for Children", the story's message is aimed at children despite its darker aspects, in similar fashion to the fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm."
--Daniel 16:20, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Not Encyclopedic

message: The "Character summary" section is ridiculous, it looks like it was written by a 10 year old oblivious to any metaphors. It should be changed drastically to include the main metaphorical message of the story - human attitude towards religion and the critique that humans would rather have the religion as "an imaginary dot on the horizon of the sea" than to have it present, in flesh, walking and stumbling around them.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Adriatic HR (talk • contribs) 16:20, 5 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Character summary 

message: This needs a great deal of rewriting.  I've added sections for the stage play and historical context, and a start at good sources.  There's lots of scholarship on this story, so it can be a pretty decent article someday.
SarahTheEntwife (talk) 20:45, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits 

message: The article states that this story was published in 1955, and cites a single essay as evidence for that date, but everything else that I can find online states that this story was published in 1968. If so, that would invalidate the entire paragraph that describes this story as an allegory for the ongoing civil war in Colombia, although it could have been written about that war retrospectively. At any rate, further investigation is required to determine exactly when the story was published. 1955 seems far from conclusive. —Antodav2007 (talk) 01:03, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The story was first published in Spanish in 1955. It was translated into English by Gregory Rabassa and published in 1968 in the New American Review and then in Marquez's book Leaf Storm in 1972. —Caper147 (talk) 23:39, 6 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Publication date
Talk:Like Light to the Flies

message: Saw some vandalism on the page, something about it being the best song in the world (which it isn't). Fixed it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.201.185.19 (talk) 00:32, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 
Talk:Marsha Vadhanapanich

message: Marsha is said to have a half sister in Germany.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:46:1A12:9506:F14E:5A9D:86FE:8FE9 (talk) 13:28, 12 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relatives in Germany 
Talk:Barry Gray

message: Another web site states 1925 as the year of birth of Barry Gray.
It might be worth double-checking
*No need to dbl check. If he was born in 1925 then how did he serve for 6 years in the RAF during WW2?? Eddie.willers 01:21, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I have removed the claim that Gray's birth-name was 'Jack Eckles', as the only source for this is a wiki-mirror. It is unlikely that the name is correct given that 'Jack' has always been a slang-contraction for 'John' in the UK and only became a given name in its own right very recently. Eddie.willers 19:26, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth Name? 
Category talk:British books by writer

message: I was disappointed to see that there was no entry here for "Books by Lewis Carroll". The article on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is in a category called "Works by Lewis Carroll", so that should be here. I think it is a little confusing that some entries here are called "Books by" and some "Works by". ACEOREVIVED (talk) 20:08, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Books by Lewis Carroll
Talk:Maurice Agis

message: I remember reading somewhere that the Arts Council and Chester-le-Street H&S did a safety inspection of Dreamspace on the day Agis set it up but I can't find the piece anymore. If anyone comes across it could you please post a link to the page here. It's quite difficult to find appropriate information through all the bias of newspapers. Thanks. WindsorFan 22:52, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Nevermind, found it. WindsorFan 10:53, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Chester-le-Street
Talk:Umney's Last Case

message: At the end of the story, he explicitly states "I want my life back. I want things back the way they were." He certainly intends to kill Landry, but having become the author himself, this act wouldn't kill Umney, or, at least, nothing in the story suggests that it would.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.49.192.185 (talk) 22:58, 24 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Umney doesn't want to "end both of their existences"

message: Perhaps it's worth mentioning that, as Landry disdainfully tells Umney in the story to show him what a dismally derivative cliché he is, even his name was borrowed from a better writer, the original Clyde Umney being a minor character in Raymond Chandler's last novel "Playback".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.143.52.255 (talk) 15:20, 24 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  One Small Point
Talk:A. H. Woods

message: Something is off.  I'm not an expert on Albert Woods, but The Bowery After Dark is 1899.  Internet Broadway Data Base does not affiliate him with the show, and it is 5 years earlier that his "first" show.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alisar (talk • contribs) 21:15, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Woods started his career working with touring companies. He would only be associated with those in IBDB if a tour he was managing included a stint at a Broadway theatre. --RL0919 (talk) 20:57, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I did a lot of research on Ufa-Pavillon am Nollendorfplatz and The Miracle (1912 film), in both of with he was heavily involved (see also The Miracle (1959 film)), and I have never come across Woods being called Albert. The article has had this name since it was created a a stub in 2004 by a now-retired editor. I feel it may have been a confusion of 'Al.' as an abbreviation of Albert. As far am I am aware he was almost always referred to as A. H. Woods, or Al. Woods (with full stop), in the early days at least. I'm not sure that he ever legally changed his name. Are there a number of reliable printed sources that specifically name him as Albert H. Woods? Even the cited NYT obit and the Ayn Rand bio call him A. H. Woods, his usual appellation. Otherwise I propose an article name change to A. H. Woods, currently a redirect. I'm happy to try to fix all the WLs (around 75). MinorProphet (talk) 18:44, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Was he ever really called Albert?

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: Moved   (t · c) buidhe 04:20, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Albert H. Woods →  – uncontested, as per talk page MinorProphet (talk) 02:59, 25 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 25 January 2021
Talk:Allamagoosa

message: There's a hilarious little foreshadowing in the story when the captain asks the French cook about what the "offog" is, and the cook replies "Nom d'un chien!", which is a French exclamation (roughly equivalent to "damnit!"), but literally means "Name of a dog!", which incidentally what the offog is. // Gargaj (talk) 20:12, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I noticed that too. Also, the very next items on the list are the dog's appurtenances. And the typo isn't there on the captain's copy. All of which they might have caught if they'd not been caught up in a blind panic.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.184.123.45 (talk) 14:57, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Nom d'un chien!"
Talk:Amy Foster

message: Hi
The article says that he was Polish. This is not true.
The book states central Europe - "A poor emigrant from Central Europe"
and the eastern carpathian mountains - "He was a mountaineer of the eastern range of the Carpathians"
This puts him in Ukraine, Moldovia or Romania.
Many people in Ukraine and some in Romania have polish sounding names and many are of Polish descent.
I think it best to edit out Polish and put, as in the book, "central Europe" or "eastern range of the Carpathians"
Chaosdruid (talk) 15:05, 20 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polish ?? I don't think so
Talk:Securities and Exchange Commission (Philippines)

message: I think this laon app has a super very high interest i would like to complain 49.145.108.81 (talk) 01:56, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pesoloan app
Talk:NV Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw

message: The title of this page is incorrect. The firm was called "NV Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw". Kantoor means "office" and is spelled with double "o" not double "n". Spelling is corrected within the entry itself. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.92.235.28 (talk) 00:19, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling of subject title 

message: What does it mean ? -- Beardo 08:30, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name
Talk:Beaune

message: I rearranged and extended the page a bit, using the French page, especially for the section on origin.  Strobilomyces (talk) 14:40, 18 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Editing
Talk:BLIT (short story)

message: I am removing the memetics category from this article since you learn no more about the article's contents from the category and v.v. Since so many things may be memes we should try to keep the category closely defined in order to remain useful. Hope you're okay with that. The link to meme would be enough I suggest. Facius 17:57, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Removing memetics category

message: Sorry, I can't resist:--Apoc2400 (talk) 20:29, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image 

message: This section should be removed, as it doesn't expand on the subject of the short story, but offers a similar example from another story entirely. If the article was about "images that reprogram the brain/body" then it would make sense, but the article is about BLIT.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.10.162.3 (talk) 04:08, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The Stark Trek: TNG episode "I, Borg" would fit that.  I added mention of this and the 2002 film "The Ring". Jimw338 (talk) 14:58, 7 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coincidences in literature section 

message: A mind-breaking bitmap is a major plot point in Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, as well. --Pariah (talk) 21:55, 9 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  No mention of Snow Crash? 

message: Would it be useful to include the Blipverts from Max Headroom as another example of similar ideas. Blipverts were mentioned in two versions of Max Headroom (in 1985 and 1987), in other words just before this story was written. So, they are very contemporary to the story, if they weren't direct influences.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:199:C201:213D:E076:EDC2:2EDE:7D95 (talk) 20:43, 13 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blipverts? 

message: On the article for SCP-001 on the official website, there is an image mentioned to cause "IMMEDIATE CARDIAC ARREST FOLLOWED BY DEATH. [Sic]" to any individual who views it without proper training which is referred to as the "Berryman-langford memetic kill agent" in reference to this story. 2A02:5080:1826:E80C:5DA5:FC25:E26:ABBC (talk) 20:58, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional cultural influence
Talk:Bing Devine

message: One deduces from this article that Devine was sacked as Cardinals GM during the 1964 season.  We are told Devine then succeeded George Weiss as GM of the Mets.  The article gives Devine a lot of credit for building up the Mets team that eventually won the World Series in 1969.  And it's stated that Devine went back to the Cardinals in December 1967.
But the article on George Weiss states that he wasn't succeeded by Devine until the end of 1966.  So Devine was GM of the Mets for only one year, 1967.  There appears to be an error here, and a mis-analysis that gives Devine credit where it was not due.  68.196.1.236 (talk) 23:35, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Ellen G. White bibliography

message: * https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scritti_di_Ellen_G._White  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kizoa (talk • contribs) 11:10, 26 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  * https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scritti_di_Ellen_G._White 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: moved. Per consensus. (closed by non-admin page mover) – robertsky (talk) 02:27, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, let me expand on it just a bit.  I think the proposed title just flows better, and makes more sense.  It is particularly important for an author like Ellen White, who wrote a large amount of material that has never been published but remains studied by the Adventist church. Taking it further, does the "writings of" title suggest the list should contain every email composed by a one of the novelists? I think bibliography is a much better fit for the purpose of the list. So while I certainly agree with the nominator regarding consistency, I also think the titles should be changed for their own sakes. 78.26 (spin me / revolutions) 03:04, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 22 October 2022
Talk:Max Weber bibliography

message: The title should read either "List of works by Max Weber" (preferably) or "List of Max Weber's works" (less satisfactory).  The current title ("List of Max Weber works") is somewhat ambiguous, as it might conceivably include works not by him but in some other way relating to him.  Nihil novi (talk) 09:08, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Title of the article
Talk:The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby

message: How do you get a lot of points in the Super Diaper Baby game on Dav's Website?
I see people geeting 5 million points! and I can only get 600,000 pts!
: I suggest you move your attention-seeking garbage to another location (I would refer to you by username, but you don't seem to have worked out how to sign contributions) - may I suggest 'Hot or Not'? Soulparadox 14:54, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Big Score 

message: If anyone would have a look at the list of most frequently challenged books in the United States during the 90s, you'll see this book at the third spot. Should this be mentioned? 58.167.248.234 (talk) 00:30, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: What is your source? I found it for the 2000s at number 47, with Captain Underpants on it as well. http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/challengedbydecade/2000_2009/index.cfm. I do think that this kind of information would be good to add to the page so it isn't just a cheeky description of the book and it will have some context.  Feelings? Cleanelephant (talk) 10:02, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: --Breawycker (talk to me!) 23:45, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  CHallenged
Talk:P. G. Wodehouse short stories bibliography

message: In "Tales from the Drones Club," printed in a 1993 Barnes and Noble edition (also printed as "The Drones Omnibus" published by Hutchinson), there are the thirteen stories listed here.  However, the following stories are also included:
*The Shadow Passes
*Bramley is So Bracing
*The Fat of the Land
*The Word in Season
*Leave it to Algy
*Oofy, Freddie and the Beef Trust
*Bingo Bans the Bomb
*Stylish Stouts
Bill Abendroth (talk) 19:08, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional Stories of the Drones Club 

message: Many of the short stories were first published in magazines, well ahead of their inclusion in the books. The date of the first appearance and the name of the publication, both in the UK and the US, would be significant. Valetude (talk) 09:51, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I have added magazine publication names and dates. (I realize 's comment is several years old – from before I was on Wikipedia!) I kept the list ordered by book publication, but made it possible to sort by magazine publication too. Miles26 (talk) 03:07, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  First publication in magazines 

message: I've just bought this in a second-hand shop.  It's a collection of 34 Jeeves stories, 564 pages, originally published by Herbert Jenkins in 1967, reprinted by Hutchinson in 1980. The blurb says "This complete collection of the Jeeves stories ...".  It's not mentioned in the article.  --  Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 08:41, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: The World of Jeeves
Talk:1974 in LGBT rights

message: What I've found is that Ohio's repeal happened in 1972. Could this be changed? I'm new to editing, so I don't feel comfortable doing it myself. Amethystloucks (talk) 00:40, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Ohio Sodomy Laws
Talk:1980 in LGBT rights

message: I'm not finding much for Toronto info, could someone look into it? I checked the Legislative Assembly of Ontario (https://www.ola.org/en) and I guess I was looking in the wrong places as I couldn't find sources in the house notes or the bills. Amethystloucks (talk) 01:30, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Toronto Board of Education, September
Talk:Remonstrants

message: do request from the whatever the writer who’s names had Mauricio’s of Orange executed for belief conflicts! It’s does seems and taste like catholically controversial —Preceding unsigned comment added by user:189.11.20.128  (talk • contribs) 
: I am not completely understand what you mean. But the most prominent victim executed within the Netherlands was Johan van Oldenbarneveld; he was executed by the ruling majority of which Maurice of Orange was part. I do, however not see why this would be Catholically controversial as this was done in the Protestant infighting between the Arminians (ie the Remonstrants) and the stricter Gomarists; which were two competing branches of protestantism. I hope I clarified the issue in enough detail. Arnoutf 23:13, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Complaint
Talk:Pouilly-en-Auxois

message: The second sentence is: "[Pouilly-en-Auxois] is the start of the Canal of Burgundy, ... " - but the Canal de Bourgogne page states that "The canal begins at Migennes ... " — that's over 150 km ENE!
The talk page for the Canal de Bourgogne requested (in Nov. 2009) a change of name from "the canal of Burgundy" ... for consistency, this change should have been applied to all mentions in Wikipedia.
Prisoner of Zenda (talk) 02:06, 5 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  This doesn't seem to be right ...
Talk:My Name (Lena Philipsson album)

message: the meaning of ur name is on this web site  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.254.18.205 (talk) 00:30, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  the meaning
Talk:Supermarine S.4

message: Just checking the spelling of this pilot's name. Shouldn't it be Baird? Flanker235 (talk) 03:15, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  H.C. Biard 
Talk:Vézelay

message: The history of the town ends in the 1590s. How about a history of the place since then?
Thanks so much  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2D80:ED11:5300:F9F2:18EB:D6AC:C848 (talk) 14:51, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modern History Section?
Talk:Against Nature?

message: Should this be marked as a Current Event? Safe-Keeper 21:51, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current Event? 

message: everything on the title  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.217.196.158 (talk) 00:51, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The title of the article is the title of the exhibition, mate.Petter Bøckman (talk) 10:29, 8 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  this is really against nature! 

message: The article stated that "Against Nature? is a exhibition on homosexuality in animals made by The Natural History Museum, University of Oslo, Norway. 
It might have been controversial, but I couldnt find anything about the controversy in the article text. As far as I know the news coverage was quite positive.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.216.231.81 (talk) 03:59, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Most of the controversy came before the exhibition. The exhibit itself was cautiously kept very uncontroversial in style, making for a rather more dampened reception than the preliminary reactions had suggested. Petter Bøckman (talk) 13:10, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversial?
Talk:Douglas State Forest

message: ==Destubification?==
Yup, destubification is a wikipedia term...I did not make this up.
Expanded the article as part of the 50K challenge.  If someone would like to take a look at the quality score and see if can be moved out of 'stub' status, I would appreciate it.Bill McKenna (talk) 03:31, 15 November 2016 (UTC)
Talk:2000 in LGBT rights

message: 30-May-2007: Today, I have linked Template:Year_nav_topic2 as the top nav-box in about 30 earlier/later LGBT articles (such as "1886 in LGBT rights" and "2001 in LGBT rights").  That nav-box is used in over 400 year-in-topic articles, to allow a 20-year selection range and connect to years in Art, Architecture, Music, Science, etc.  The effect is to allow users to navigate articles faster, and to branch outward to related subjects (such as "1999 in art"); however, no increased visibility back to LGBT occurs, so linking to Template:Year_nav_topic2 is NOT a grandstanding act to focus attention; any outside links back to LGBT articles are unchanged, and the effects are only seen within the connected set of LGBT articles.  -Wikid77 06:38, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Year navigation
Talk:2007 Washington Nationals season

message: I have started italicizing players on the disabled list in the statistics. I feel that this is important information. Fbdave 22:29, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Disabled list]]
Talk:Christian Embassy

message: Use the space below to start or join a current discussion. If you want to start a new dialogue, be sure to check out the archives to see what has previously been discussed. Thanks for participating and helping to make wikipedia an excellent online resource. --Sixtrojans 23:16, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current Discussion Topics 

message: I moved the "controversy" section of the Christian Embassy article to the talk page for editing. It does not represent a neutral point of view, contains many weasel words and none of it sourced even though there are plenty of articles about it online. Please help us clean up this section for re-inclusion in the article. --Sixtrojans 23:16, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion of Pentagon Promo Video & Media Concerns of Evangelical Influence in Washington D.C.