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Category talk:Film by year

message: I see that all of the YYYY in film articles are named the same.  I'm wondering why the convention is to use YYYY in film rather than something like YYYY (in film) or YYYY (films).  If the standard parenthetic remark is used to disambiguate each year from others, then references can be made like this:   to render the particular year.  So, for example, an editor may write:
 X is a  film ...
and it would be rendered as:
 X is a 1939 film ...
With the current convention, one has to write:
 X is a 1939 film ...
to render the same thing.  It's not a big deal, but I just hate to see Wiki features not being utilized...
Maybe we should renamed all these articles so that references to film years could be made using the "pipe trick"? --Serge 03:46, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Naming convention

message: I recently adjusted the "YYYY films" categories to show up as subcategories of "YYYY in film".  However I notice that the "YYYY in film" categories aren't made in the same format as other by-year categories, so I'm going to work next week on standardizing the format of this category to be a little more similar to "YYYY films", "YYYY books", etc.  Dugwiki 22:55, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Going to work on cleaning up and templating the subcategories of "YYYY in film"
Talk:Loammi Baldwin

message: I believe Loammi Baldwin, Jr. has been called the father of American Civil Engineering not his father Loammi Baldwin.  It was the son(s) who traveled in Europe, collected a large engineering library (now at MIT, I think) and trained his/their assistants. Also Loammi's sons James, Loammi, and George wrote and published their engineering reports on various projects. These reports on canal, railroad, and water works were the earliest American publications of this kind and appear to have been the templates of other reports and works by other engineers. Loammi Baldwin the father would better be described as the grandfather of American Civil Engineering, since he trained his sons as he learned the skill of civil engineering. The father was originally trained as a cabinet maker and merchant.  The father Loammi had to learn on the job often by trial and error since there were no American Civil Engineers at that time.  The only professional advice he got was from William Weston the English canal builder who was working in Pennsylvania at that time.
If no one else does so before I do, I will eventually improve these Baldwin entries. DavidBlackwell (talk) 05:55, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Benjamin Wright has been recognized as the father of American civil engineering by the American Society of Civil Engineering. I plan to re-write the article accordingly. Cheers Risk Engineer (talk) 19:37, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding more.
Talk:Joseph B. Kershaw

message: There are several errors on this page and no sources are given, so I will edit and remove the errors.
1.At Fredericksburg, T.R.R.Cobb's brigade was composed of Georgians and Col. McMillan took command of that brigade upon Cobb's wounding. Kershaw was already in permanent command of his South Carolina Brigade at that time.
2. The Kirkland incident is a myth from post war newspapers. Kershaw and others never mentioned this incident in their reports or anywhere else.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by TomV71 (talk • contribs) 21:19, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing errors!
Talk:J. H. Hobart Ward

message: I was just editing the bio of Bishop John Henry Hobart of New York and wondered if this was his grandson. Unfortunately, I don't have the time to do the research, and this article does not list his mother's name (nor does the bishop's bio list any marriage or offspring).Jweaver28 (talk) 14:16, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bishop grandfather? 

message: This article says Gen. Ward was mustered out for misconduct at the Battle of the Wilderness, but the extensive entry does not mention him at all. This article says he received a head wound at the subsequent battle at Spottsylvania. Did the discharge reflect his head wound (was the Spottsylvania battle then considered merely a part of the Wilderness battle?). I doubt he would have been allowed to continue as general if he were already shown cowardly, etc. PTSD was probably common enough at the time but head injuries weren't that well understood.Jweaver28 (talk) 14:25, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I've just redone this article.  Spotsylvania and the Wilderness are considered separate battles, and even were back then.  Ward was still in command two days after his head wound, when he was caught drunk in action (there'd also been a prior running away from battle incident the prior year).  Ezra J. Warner (historian) speculates that the decision to relieve him may have been decided after the Wilderness action and before Spotsylvania, and that the axe just didn't fall until later. Hog Farm  Talk 02:06, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  misconduct
Talk:Thermate

message: In regards to 911, would it not be possible for a thermite reaction to be started by molten aluminum from the plane wreckage coming in contact with rusty steel columns?  Check out: http://www.911myths.com/WTCTHERM.pdf  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.32.122.135 (talk) 13:15, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Boris Pash

message: I recently read in a very respectable source (Bird and Sherwin, American Prometheus, Pulitzer Prize winner) that Pash was involved in testifying about possible complicity in assassinations during his tenure at the CIA (worked on the Castro poisoned cigar plot, for example). This should probably be included at some future date... He definitely testified during the Church Committee investigations (). --98.217.14.211 (talk) 14:31, 1 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The article on CIA counter-intelligence chief James Jesus Angleton claims that Pash ran an an assassination team for CIA counter intelligence, to eliminate security threats that could not be dealt with by legal process. Spike (talk) 00:28, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Complicity in assassinations, etc. 

message: degree in physical education - how does this quailify him to be an intell specialist? Juror1 (talk) 06:23, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:   education 

message: that should go to the oca 2600:1700:BB50:6850:C4EB:2AE5:4549:BAEB (talk) 22:15, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  wrong link with the metropolia
Talk:Gary L. Herod

message: At the bottom of the Honors and Memorials section a paragraph has been added telling of the users personal experiance hearing his mother talk about the crash.  This type of entry is not consistant with wikipeda standards.  It appears to be original research, not verifiable, and lacking reference citations.  It has been flaged as (Original Research) and (Citation Needed).  Hopefully the author of this paragraph can correct this otherwise it will be removed soon.  It is an interesting personal story, but wikipedia is just not the place for that sort of thing.  Thanks HF5523  — Preceding unsigned comment added by HF5523 (talk • contribs) 01:42, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 
Talk:Barclay and Edwin Coppock

message: Since this includes both brothers I suggest we call this article "The Coppock brothers" instead of barclay Coppock. 
--159.81.128.1 (talk) 07:14, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Changed name. deisenbe (talk) 22:24, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change Heading
Talk:Daniel O. Graham

message: I notice that the link to Hight Frontier Inc points to a troubled youth facility in Fort Davis, Tx. Was it always thus? JustJimWillDo (talk) 05:34, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: *I'm doing a bit of research on the Citizens' Group etc at the moment in my sandbox, I might just put it out for perusal tonight then everybody can have a go. (I'm corresponding with Jerry Pournelle fercryingoutloud! Does little happy dance. Well I sent him an e-mail, still awaiting a reply, happy dance slows a little.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by JustJimWillDo (talk • contribs) 12:12, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Note to self, sign posts! JustJimWillDo (talk) 13:12, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: High Frontier Inc.

message: I didn't know where else to put this. I started the above named article and have stated my plan of attack on the discussion page for it. JustJimWillDo (talk) 13:12, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Citizens' Advisory Council on National Space Policy

message: I hope I do not cross any sort of NPOV line here, but the guy advocated a program that spent billions thirty years ago and came to naught. Our limited SDI is ground-, not space-based. I am sure he was a swell guy, but he was quite wrong. Paul, in Saudi (talk) 09:10, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Wasted a lot of Money
Talk:List of tallest buildings in Detroit

message: A discussion is taking place to address the redirect :Tallest detroit. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 September 25#Tallest detroit until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Regards, SONIC678 16:30, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Tallest detroit" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:John T. Newton

message: There is an asserted portrait of the subject on this genealogy website, but I can not discern its origins or copyright status. BD2412 T 17:47, 28 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Portrait 

message: According to his Find-a-Grave listing, Newton was "educated at Nantes, France", but I have not yet found corroboration of that claim. BD2412 T 21:46, 30 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nantes, France
Talk:James C. Binnicker

message: New source .--66.91.113.125 (talk) 18:57, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source 
Talk:David J. Campanale

message: This article currently has just one stated source, the official U.S. military bio for David J. Campanale. As with some other military bio articles, I see at least two problems: 1.) the official U.S. military bios are likely to be slanted, in that they do not convey information that would reflect poorly on the military (compare the official bio of Frank Kelso, involved in the Tailhook scandal, vs. a better written wikipedia article on him using several other sources), and 2.) the article does not show which material is copied. Copied material should be in quotes (quotation marks or set in block quote formatting), to separate from wikipedia editor wording. Hence I mark this article with the "refimprove" tag.
This is not an issue of copyright violation, I believe that the source is public domain. It is an issue of proper referencing, including avoiding the appearance of plagiarizing, but for other good referencing reasons as well. There are other perspectives than mine on some of these details.  See Talk at WP:REF for other current discussion. doncram (talk) 17:44, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need for referencing improvement
Talk:Isaac Huger

message: LaFayette spent his first night in America at the home of Benjamin Huger on North Island near Georgetown.  There is an historical marker near the base of the Hwy 17 bridge over Winyah Bay commemorating LaFayette's landing.
A lover of liberty, Lafayette left Bordeaux, France, March 26, 1777, “to conquer or perish” in the American cause, and arrived at Benjamin Huger’s summer home near here, June 14, 1777, where he spent his first night in America. He rendered eminent service in our struggle for independence.
I believe Benjamin and Isaac were brothers. 206.40.45.28 (talk) 14:08, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  LaFayette reference is incorrect
Talk:Bing West

message: Wikipedia is not the place to settle scores or rehash criticisms.  the section I excised was particularly bad in that it uses the trite, emotional modifier "telling" which shows the writer is pushing a POV.  Also there is no citation of the active duty Marine criticisms or the noteworthiness of why active duty critics should be so special.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by TCO (talk • contribs) 05:13, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  removed evaluation of book 

message: Is this book by this same person:
http://www.amazon.com/Strongest-Tribe-Politics-Endgame-Iraq/dp/1400067014
--iFaqeer (talk) 02:51, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes.  It is the same person.  TeriEmbrey (talk) 19:31, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''The Strongest Tribe'' 

message: Can someone explain what this sentence means (and preferably re-write it): "He served with a Combined Action Platoon that fought for 485 days in a remote village."  I presume it means that his platoon was in a village for 485 days, and that they frequently fought someone (VC? NVR?)--not that there was a running gunfight for 485 days, which is what it sounds like at first reading.  (I'm also a bit puzzled--I had thought that the typical tour of duty for ground soldiers in Nam was a year; I guess his platoon would have been composed of mostly different soldiers at the beginning of the 485 days, and the end.  Maybe he was the only one left out of the original bunch.  But that's a different question, perhaps not worth clarifying here.) Mcswell (talk) 23:50, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confused 
Talk:Seaborn Jones

message: This article was started using public domain information from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. LarryQ 03:58, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: No mention of slave-owning. I feel that this category should be restricted to people whose slave-owning history was notable in itself. Valetude (talk) 12:32, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category:American slave owners
Talk:Pinocchio (Fables)

message: I don't see any reason for this page to be created.   It says nothing that isn't in his character bio on the main "list of characters" page, which, to be honest, is shorter than many characters who don't have their own pages yet.    Most of the sub-sections are pointlessly short and the frequent breaks actually make it a much harder read than the combined listing is.
May I respectfully suggest that it should be shelved.   Should Pinocchio do more and require his own page for real, then it can always be redone.    --Tailkinker 18:33, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Pinocchio is the main character of the current story arc. Knowing this, it's probably best to judge this article after issue 55 comes out. Stilgar135 23:13, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Why?

message: I went ahead and put a spoiler warning on the parts about Geppetto and the Blue Fairy.  68.106.197.250 09:11, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed them - under Wikipedia policy, spoiler tags should not be used in character history or plot sections, which, by their very definition, will contain spoiler information.  --Tailkinker 10:05, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Major Spoilers

message: A Pinocchio who is 300 years old is very hard to reconcile with the fact that Collodi created Pinocchio in 1883.  Das Baz, aka Erudil 19:45, 18 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Age of Pinocchio
Talk:Charles H. Bonesteel III

message: First of all, Yesterday I wrote the article at Charles Hartwell Bonesteel III, I did not know this one was here. We need to merge the two. I do not know how to do that.
Next, I do not know how to add footnotes. Here are the sources for this page:
Source for Ranks:
http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/chbonesteel-03.htm
USS Pueblo 
http://www.usspueblo.org/v2f/repatriation/repatriation.html
Other info and neat photo (I can't do photos either):
http://www.nndb.com/people/113/000029026/
Can anyone help?
Paul, in Saudi 13:24, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: help create more wiki errors?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.38.155.134 (talk) 11:44, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  HELP!!
Talk:Barbara Fast

message: I have found this article which suggests that Ms. Fast worked at the NSA, and may not be in the Army anymore. Might be worthy of input in the article. Sephiroth storm (talk) 01:17, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Still in the Army? 

message: first paragraphs of article read like a personal site bio. almost no sourcing. Its unremarkable linkedin summary buries the only notable historic event in her career, her official role in the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal. Mihir.pethe1 (talk) 04:44, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV concern -- article reads like personal bio, buries main source of notability
Talk:Henry Armstrong Reed

message: I have found a date of birth for Henry Armstrong Reed at: http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=gmarston&id=I1732
I am wondering if this information needs further verification? 
Good idea ... Victuallers (talk) 10:35, 27 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Henry Armstrong Reed (Custer's Nephew) 
Talk:Birkett D. Fry

message: * Exchanged in 1864, Fry rejoined the Army of Northern Virginia in time for the beginning of the Siege of Petersburg. - Paroled March 29, 1864; exchanged April 5, 1864 at City Point; VMI --Muhranoff (talk) 16:24, 17 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  the beginning of the Siege of Petersburg?
Talk:Lewis Blaine Hershey

message: This leaves off one very important quote: “Get off my lawn!” mcornelius (talk) 09:40, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quotes section 

message: It said he retired at 79 because of the law. But it also said the law said he had to retire at 64.   This needs clarification. 80.71.15.106 (talk) 09:27, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Required by law? 
Talk:John U. D. Page

message: I was clearing out :Category:People from Luzon, and saw his name stuck out as a sore thumb. According to this, he was born in "MALAHI ISLAND, LUZON, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS". "Malahi Island" is hard to find, but this points to an island off Talim Island called "Malaki Island". This is currently in what is now known as Binangonan, Rizal. Howard the Duck (talk) 21:03, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birthplace
Talk:Clarke Paulus

message: I love the way that whoever wrote this article presents stripping a guy naked and tying him to a wooden stake as if this was done primarily with the welfare of "other prisoners" in mind. This reads like quite a comical attempt to whitewash torture and murder. Funny though it is, I propose editing this article to remove the irrelevant/unsupported statements about what the war crimes convict may or may not have been thinking when he ordered the torture and humiliation of one of his prisoners. The only bit missing seems to be the ubiquitous claim that the victim beat himself up, while falling downstairs, and then tied himself naked to a wooden stake...  
86.159.153.89 (talk) 09:39, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: "He ordered him to strip him naked, burn his clothes, and tie him to a stake, outside, so his loss of bowel control wouldn't soil the other prisoners."

message: I reverted a magnification of Hatab's role in the ambush.
The claim that Hatab lead the ambush is unreferenced.  Hatab was arrested because he was trying to sell an M16 at the local bazaar, and the serial number on that M16 showed it had been issued to one of the GIs in the ambush.
Is this proof that Hatab lead the attack?  Is this proof that Hatab was involved in the attack?  We don't know.  It is not our place to speculate.
If someone finds a reference that asserts Hatab lead the attack the claim can be re-asserted.  Geo Swan (talk) 01:51, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  explanation 
Talk:Everton Conger

message: According to  and , it doesn't appear technically correct to say that Conger was "in command of" or "assigned command" of the 16th New York Cavalry detachment that captured Booth. Those sources state that the detachment was led by Lieutenant Edward P. Doherty, so I've reworded this article accordingly, adding the sources as refs. JGHowes talk -  16:29, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conger's status vis-a-vis the 16th New York Cavalry Regiment 
Talk:Benjamin Tallmadge

message: a handsome man should have am image in his article.  Is there one?  Thanks Hmains 00:55, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  image 

message: This page has been vandalized and needs clean-up/re-editing.
206.55.45.21 17:21, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page Vandalized 

message: This section is very poorly written. It begins in the middle of the Andre-Arnold affair, then goes back to the beginning, despite the fact that Tallmadge had only a tangential part in the entire operation. This section needs to be revised and most of it eleiminated, as it is about Andre, Arnold, Jameson, and Allen, and not Tallmadge. 
More information about operations Tallmadge actually *was* involved in would be far more appropriate here.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.81.129.193 (talk) 16:50, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  American Revolution section 

message: While installing an image of Tallmage's signature in the infobox, I checked into the Talk page here, and wow, I was sorta amazed at what went down here. It's a bit disappointing that fellow editors have locked horns over how to use a comma. A #&#%# comma!   On the one hand, Dilidore should have acquiesced to the guidelines about comma usage, but to block this editor, who didn't exceed the 3RR, and esp since the other editor plastered his name on a billboard ie. the section title, and went on at length in a mocking tone, is a bit overkill. Disappointed. -- Gwillhickers (talk) 05:17, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  I am happy to be corrected, but I believe Dilidor is currently under at least one revert restriction. This is not the first time Dilidor has been directed to MOS:GEOCOMMA; Dilidor is perfectly well aware of the policy, and persists in reverting. The reason it looks like overkill to you is that as far as you can tell this is the first time anything like this has happened; but if every time it happens we act like it's the first time it's happened—well, see for yourself: the behaviour does not change. Regulov (talk) 12:38, 17 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Overkill
Talk:Frederick C. Bock

message: Both of mentioned links are not visible, at the present time. I can't view them anyhow.Ari-69 (talk) 18:58, 8 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unclear links 
Talk:Duane D. Hackney

message: indicates that Hackney was awarded the Air Force Cross for actions on 13 March 1967, involving a rescue following the crash of two Marine helicopters, not the mission of 16 February (which Tilford also describes, see pp. 87-88).  Until this discrepancy is resolved, I have assessed B-2 as no.  --Lineagegeek (talk) 20:58, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Air Force Cross
Talk:Edmund L. Gruber

message: Recently have been looking at primary sources (at The Hoover Institution Archives) on Brigadier general William R. Gruber and discovered in his papers that Edmund L. Gruber was in fact his brother who "was famous for 'The Caisson Song'" as he quotes in a correspondence file. User:Tess600 22:15, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relying on primary sources to piece puzzles of history together 

message: I'm unclear what is meant by a "popular artilleryman", who made that determination, and how. Ramseyman (talk) 22:53, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Music 