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Talk:Grand Trunk Western Railroad

message: This text;  The Chicago board, also known as the Elsdon board, operates out of Markham yard (CN/IC yard).  cannot be verified and could be original reaserch. It also does not have a neutral point of view since the average reader does not know what a 'board' is in railroad terms. It also does not explain a historical gap with dates why it maybe called the Elsdon board since Elsdon was closed by 1990 and CN did not acquire the Markham facility until it acquired IC in 1999. CN operations are now at Markham but since the user that added this has negative comments on their talk page about other edits and has been blocked from Wikipedia this text has been removed until it can be clarified.173.122.113.169 (talk) 01:04, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Board 
Talk:Western gorilla

message: ppap  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.124.12.30 (talk) 14:45, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  

message: Something tells me a section about this ape's distribution and habitat is missing. Can somebody do something about it?Esagurton (talk) 11:18, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing section
Talk:Snow Dome (Canada)

message: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Dome_(Canada)#/media/File:Snow_Dome_in_Canada_2018.jpg  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bioinfoguy1 (talk • contribs) 16:24, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The photo shown is not Snow Dome -- it is the Athabasca Glacier 

message: Snow Dome's status as the hydrological apex of North America depends on whether Hudson Bay is part of the Atlantic Ocean or the Arctic Ocean.  The entry for Triple Divide Peak (Montana) makes the claim that it is the hydrologic peak of N.A.  The Wikipedia entries for the two oceans agree that Hudson Bay is part of the Arctic Ocean, which would mean that Snow Dome doesn't really drain into the Atlantic.  However, the claim that Snow Dome is the hydrologic apex is widespread - see the externally linked Peakfinder page or tourist maps of the Columbia Icefields.
If the definition of "hydrologic apex" is broadly taken to mean "a point that drains into three bodies of water", then both Snow Dome and Triple Divide Peak could be hydrologic apexes.  However, if the definition is taken to mean "a point that drains into all oceans surrounding a continent", then only one of them may be.
--sMacJ 23:07, 14 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not really the hydrologic apex?
Talk:Swiftlet

message: IMHO this article needs to be split. There's the contributions of User:Lh47603 which belong to Aerodramus (currently a redirect to this article), and the bird nest soup IMHO should have a separate article (currently also just redirects to this article). andy 11:25, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Split off Bird's nest soup

message: I see there is now a Bird's nest soup article--perhaps the above comments should be deleted?  Well, I cleaned up the grammar in the "Food" section quite a bit but am not knowledgable specifically about any swiftlet facts.  However, I think the various articles about swiftlets need to be better organized (and interconnected).  As a wikipedia newbie, I am not prepared to work on this myself, though I'm sure I will eventually learn how.  I arrived here from a search for "swiftlet nest", which reveals several different pages about various swiftlets which produce edible nests, but the articles are not tied together in a logical fashion and there is a lot of redundant information between this page and "Indian Swiftlet". Lambart 04:22, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Organize Swiftlet pages

message: If you type in "Cave swiftlet" with a lowercase "s" it redirects to here. Shouldn't it go right to Cave Swiftlet? --The High Fin Sperm Whale (talk) 23:16, 17 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong redirect 
Talk:Skidmore (surname)

message: I am changing this page because the part concerning "chavs" and music students usually being called Skidmore is clearly an example of bad editing.
* Ha! I missed the original page, but I must say that is an amusing statement. =D  Although I do personally know some - and know of even more - Skidmores who are musically inclined or talented, that is clearly a ridiculous statement.  Sadly, the original page I found here today is similarly full of inaccuracies.  I will leave the original text - for now - out of deference to the author, but I will make notes to point out falsehoods, etc. where applicable. -Toniskids 17:56, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

message: The first paragraph of this entry up until 14 Sep 2008 in part states:  "Some consider it to have originated with Lord Skidmore of the North East, others with the Skidmores of Rickmansworth [see map]."
I have been doing genealogy research on the Skidmore surname for over seven years now and have never heard of any "Lord Skidmore of the North East" (North East of where??)  Rather, the surname in England almost certainly originated in Herefordshire, in the Ewyas Harold/Rowlstone/Kentchurch area.  It came there around A.D. 1070 with the first known immigrant ancestor of the Herefs. Skidmore/Scudamore families, a Norman stonemason named Ralph, whose surname was never recorded but has been postulated as 'de Scudemer.'  Therefore, I am deleting the above-mentioned line re. 'Lord Skidmore of the North East.'  The Rickmansworth, Herts. family is an offshoot of the older Herefordshire family (among others).  Other families sprung up later in in Worcestershire, Staffordshire, Oxfordshire, and elsewhere, which by nature of Y-DNA research do not appear to be genetically related to the Herefordshire familiy (in the direct male line) within approximately the last 10,000 years.  There is a lot more information on the origin of the name that needs to be posted here.  I have resources and will try to get on it at time permits.  Signed, A Skidmore. --Toniskids (talk) 07:37, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corrections to origins of the Skidmore surname
Talk:Care

message: An anon tried to add this:
#care used for online IRC chat. meant as an insult
I don't know what it means? --Sadi Carnot 11:31, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It just expresses in its ironic shortness, that you actually don't care. Valid entry for urbandictionary, but unnecessary here. 80.144.233.103 19:53, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Confusing part

message: The verb 'care' has also been used to express affection, like love. As in 'I care for you deeply' or something. Both in a romantic and a family sense probably. It can be both an emotional verb or an action verb. Only its use in the sense of action is described in this article. Tyciol (talk) 20:11, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Love?

message: As in "I cared for my flock"--Alchemist Jack (talk) 02:25, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Animal Care
Talk:Tangaroa

message: Have added Māori and Cook Islands sections. Next: will continue the tidy up by adding Samoan, Tongan, Hawaiian. Kahuroa 11:38, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Clean Up

message: I have deleted material relating to a Tangaroa expedition for two reasons:
* The material already appears in the Kon-Tiki article; it relates to the topic of that article well.
* The material has nothing to do with the topic of this article, which is about Polynesian mythology, primarily Māori. 
:::: Kahuroa 05:34, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Tangaroa expedition

message: in Turkic, central Asian shamanist religions the supreme god is termed "Tengri" which appears to be a cognate for Tengaroa.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.178.243.219 (talk) 09:50, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: As far as I know, there has never been any language contact between the Polynesian and Turkic language families. Are there any reliable sources that support this statement? Jarble (talk) 19:26, 31 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible connection to Central Asian "Tengri"
Talk:List of independent short films

message: Hey, I found a bunch of films, and yes later I'll bring proof of these short films. But, anyways theres only two films that im skeptic about and thats The Night Of JFK and #7 on the list Kill-also which may be a foreign film, because I remember seeing it at a festival in Oregon, and I think it was foreign. I'll research a little more and delete the ones theres no proof for.. Later Tri-color 11:39, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Starting it up. 

message: If so, the list would be enormous -- thousands upon thousands of independent short films have been produced.  For example, Stan Brakhage has made some 300 films -- Are all of these to be listed here?  Editor437 (talk) 01:13, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps we should limit this list to independant short films that have a wikipedia article.  This level of notability is often used as a threshold for notable residents or alumni lists.  RJFJR (talk) 14:46, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  A list of ALL short films? 

message: .  Define "independent" film makers, please.
IceDragon64 (talk) 00:19, 4 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Define

message: Also, I think there should be some kind of format.  Like Name of film, Year, other information--TimothyJacobson (talk) 21:19, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Since we're using the same data types over and over I'm going to make a table. Civicoblivion (talk) 16:01, 14 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Format
Talk:Rotha Lintorn-Orman

message: This article originally noted that Rotha Beryl Lintorn-Orman was "... the daughter of a Field Marshal".  As per the 1901 UK Census she was the daughter of a British Major and granddaughter of a Field Marshal. 203.220.53.60 04:36, 19 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Per the 1901 UK Census 

message: She was only 40 when she died - was it from natural causes?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.127.152.41 (talk) 19:13, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cause of Death 

message: I think perhaps a 'See also' with other early female British fascists would be useful here, if anyone knows of more. LastDodo (talk) 16:24, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other early female British fascists? 
Talk:Patrick Bowden

message: The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. --KenWalker | Talk 19:07, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 
Talk:Cyclic/collective pitch mixing

message: This whole page and pretty much all the edits before I put the "disputed" note up have just been part of an argument from an on-line RC heli form. I think the whole thing should really be deleted unless someone can give a proper write-up on it and back it up with some proof. — Soupisgoodfood 11:44, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: How's this? I need to go look up the sources, because I don't think I can cite "from memory" :-P Pinano 09:55, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Much better :) I might remove this though: "Each servo's control ball is separated by 120 degrees or 140 degrees from the other two" as it's not quite true. I know there are quite a few different setups. — Soupisgoodfood 13:38, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

message: I'm going to move this to Cyclic/collective pitch mixing so we can start a disambig page for CCPM if needed.  Pinano 10:00, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move to Cyclic/collective pitch mixing 

message: is it something to do with the forces or what? --njh 02:33, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why isn't this approach used for full scale helicopters?
Talk:William Logan (author)

message: Hello, Scotland is part of Britain. Why this parochialism? Then in the case of Englishmen, the description would have to be Englishman who worked under the British government.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.214.18.101 (talk) 09:39, 6 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scottish?  

message: I've just removed a recent addition here. Perhaps the monograph has merit but I hope that my edit summary is self-explanatory. Ideally, we could do with finding an academic review of this monograph, should it ever actually be published. - Sitush (talk) 14:32, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed new monograph 

message: The article is totally low class and is in urgent need of quality enhancement.
QUOTE: logan had a special liking for what is now the state of Kerala and its people.END OF QUOTE
There is no hint of such a suggestion anywhere in Malabar (Manual). Moreover, he was not connected with the people of Kerala, but only with the people of North and South Malabar. In the locations in his book, where it may be presumed that he himself has written the contents, there is no hint of any special love and endearment for the people of north and south Malabar, other than his trying to understand the various problems of the suppressed populations and their suppressing populations.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2405:204:D182:6DCF:6069:CFE:8228:3F42 (talk) 17:22, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Low class
Talk:Manitoba Highway 75

message: "Some have suggested that the highway north of Emerson Junction to Winnipeg be renumbered 29 due to the main link to I-29. Some renumbering proposals entirely delete Highway 75 by designating the portion between Emerson Junction, Emerson, and the border as Highway 29A."
Who has ever made this suggestion? I don't recall any public figures making statements about it, or any newspapers or other media outlets referring to it. "Some" is a classic weasel word if it only refers to the views of the person who wrote the above paragraph.
:Similar speculation existed over at Manitoba Provincial Highway 29.  After three weeks of no response over there to a call for sources, and finding no Google backup, I deleted it.  Doing the same over here.  This isn't the place for idle roadgeek speculation. VT hawkeyetalk to me 03:20, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Renumbering
Talk:Eastern gorilla

message: The "Relation to humans" section previously contained this sentence:  "The Eastern Gorilla is the most critically endangered of the two gorilla species."
But the Eastern Gorilla's Conservation status is listed in the taxobox as Endangered, whereas the Western Gorilla's is listed as Critically Endangered.
I've removed the offending sentence.  If I'm wrong, please redact/restore.  Thanks.  Seduisant (talk) 19:11, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I think - though I can't access the IUCN site at the moment - that with the revised numbers (see section below) of 6,000, it is Critically Endangered. I'll restore the sentence and have changed the status to CR.--Annielogue (talk) 15:14, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: IUCN still lists as EN, not CR, so we shouldn't say they say CR. I'm changing it back. (We don't assess the status, we report what the assessed status is.) - UtherSRG (talk) 15:19, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Most critically endangered" 

message: In the lead it says: "The Eastern Lowland Gorilla (G. b. graueri) is the most populous, at about 16,000 individuals."
The ref for numbers in the lead,
is a dead link now
Checking on the wwf site, the most relevant page I could find was
http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/endangered_species/great_apes/gorillas/#population
which doesn't give a figure for current Eastern Lowland Gorilla.
However a UNEP document
 
(near the bottom)
gives a figure of 5,000.
"The Eastern Lowland Gorilla population in the DRC has plummeted dramatically over the last 10 years, with probably only about 5,000 of the formerly 17,000 animals remaining."
I'll change the figure and the ref.--Annielogue (talk) 14:28, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Present numbers 

message: As these span a number of articles: please discuss recent photo additions by  at User_talk:SpaceMusk#Photo additions. --Elmidae (talk · contribs) 17:48, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent photo additions
Talk:Tullus (comics)

message: This should be a disambiguation page, cf Tullus Hostilius
I agree, but I am not sure how to create a disambiguation page.  You are welcome to do it, or if you wait until this afternoon, I'll try to imitate what works on other disambiguation pages.  Even better would be to move this page to "Tullus (comics)".
I added a reference link to Christian Comics International's notes on Tullus. I'm new to editing, so what I added might need cleanup. pdbowman 15:33, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Done--Daniel Robert Sum (talk) 19:45, 27 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Exclusion clause

message: "Contra preferentem - the clause is contrued against the person trying to take advantage of the rule." Isn't the usual meaning of this rule that the clause is construed against the person who drafted the contract, rather than the one trying to take advantage of the rule? 64.103.37.71 11:58, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not in Australia at least. If it's different in the US, add that in, with citations. enochlau (talk) 13:11, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

text: "Contra proferentem" means against the proferens, the person relying on the clause. Generally this is also the person who wrote the contract, but I think it's sloppy to think of it that way. --Cliau 00:24, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: ""Contra proferentem" means against the proferens, the person relying on the clause." No, the proferens is the peson who introduced the Clause, not the person seeking to rely upon it. It applies only where the clause was imposed by one party upon the other, rather than agreed in the course of negotiation (although there is some dispute whether it applies only if the individual term was not negotiated or if the entire agreement was unilaterally imposed (for contrasting views compare the definitions in the Unidroit Principles of International Commercial Contracts to the version in the proposed Principles of European Contract Law). It is premised on the notion that a party who can force a term upon the other has the opportunity to make their meaning absolutely plain. If there is any ambiguity about its meaning in a particular circumstance therefore, there is a presumption that this is because they did not mean it to apply in those circumstances in the way in which they contend at the point of dispute arising. For application of the principle see for instance the Scottish Court's decision in Aitken's Trs v Bank of Scotland 1944 SC 270. I would be surprised if alternative definitions apply elsewhere in the world and would certainly be interested to see a verifiable source for any such claim. --Antisthenes 09:39, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Cassata

message: I had assumed this word derives from قشطة (qashaTa) which means a kind of dessert. See the dictionary page http://dictionary.sakhr.com/idrisidic_2.asp?Sub=%de%d4%d8%c9
In any case, the transliteration provided is almost certainly not accurate. I found the article that the writer was probably referencing
http://www.inmamaskitchen.com/FOOD_IS_ART/sicilian_food_cooking.html
but it only mentions the etymology and doesn't provide any backup as to what the Arabic word is. I don't have a source that confirms my suspicions about the etymology, so I am going to reduce the article to saying only that it is of Arabic origin and add a citation needed (better to say nothing than to be inaccurate). Anyway if anyone has any info please do update.
I thought this was about the cake not the word and the only cassada cake I know of is nothing like this and im italian.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.205.106.191 (talk) 21:28, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Arabic etymology
Talk:Heinrich Hoffmann

message: Heinrich Hoffmann was his real name, which he used before he got the pseudonym. I think the entry should be added back. --Chl 12:02, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Hoffmann von Fallersleben]]
Talk:Gus Lewis

message: This indicates his date of birth is 19th January, 1993. Can anyone confirm/deny this? (You may need to be logged in to see the linked discussion). Also, this discussion on imdb  provided the rest of the information I added. Is this a reliable enough source, as it is only a user discussion board? --Tim from Leeds 12:03, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of Birth
Talk:Verein für Socialpolitik

message: This article isn't really right, because instead of "Verein für Socialpolitik" it must be called "Verein für Sozialpolitik". As I am no member of the english wiki, I would ask someone else to change this. 80.228.168.3 12:06, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

message: This article states the Verein für Socialpolitik is founded in 1872, but the  German and  Rusian Wikipedia say 1873. The Verein für Socialpolitik homepage also says "The Verein was founded in the year 1873", as do most german University sites.
The  Japanese Wikipedia and Answers.com say it's 1972.
UdovdM 10:09, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Year of foundation 1872 or 1873? 

message: "Verein für Sozialpolitik" should lead the reader to this article, because in many sources (including the high school textbook I'm reading right now) it's "Sozialpolitik" instead of "Socialpolitik". Also, I do believe the year in question is 1873, as it says so in my textbook as well as the official page for the society. Where does 1872 come from anyway? 88.112.26.246 18:40, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please create a redirect (because I don't have time to figure it out) 
Talk:Pignolata

message: Struffoli is mentioned in this article but perhaps it should be broken out into its own. It seems to be a distinct dessert from Pignolata. - AKeen 19:09, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've split the two articles - AKeen (talk) 03:09, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Struffoli

message: While there are two deserts being discussed here, there is some overlap in nomenclature.  Struffoli is also known as pignolata in some circles.  My family, from South-Central Calabria (the thinnest part from sea to gulf) refer to the small fried dough balls with honey and orange peel as pignolata, as do other folks in their enclave of Italian immigrants in the US (and my grandparents immigrated after WW2 and are still alive, so this is not an Italian-American thing).  Etymologically, this makes sense:  pignolata = something fashioned like pignoli (though, of course, the balls are actually larger than pignoli).  That is, pignolata is a process-based name, so it makes sense that it would have applications to multiple types of pastries, as the terms burger (i.e., as a suffix:  lambburger, veggieburger) or chips (US chips = UK crisps while US French fries = UK chips) do in English.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.202.135.10 (talk) 14:17, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pignolata/Struffoli