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Talk:Effie I. Canning

message: WikiProject Biography Assessment
The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 05:54, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 

message: Anyone know further biographical details to confirm the d.o.b?   Crockett's New York Times obituary (January 1940) gives her age as 67, suggesting a birthdate c. 1883.  Obviously an actress is entitled to knock a few years off her real age, but Crockett would have been over two decades out.  Also, an interview with her in 1893 describes her as a "young girl", whereas by the birthdate in the article she'd then be in her mid-thirties. (New York Times, Wednesday September 10, 1893, Page 11“The composer of the popular song, “Rock-a-Bye Baby”, which beautifully adapts and incorporates the old and familiar lullaby, is Miss Effie L. Canning, a young girl who was born and formerly lived in Rockland, Me. She is now a resident of Boston. Her success at either verse or music had not been especially great until, by a sort of sudden inspiration, she one day produced the now celebrated lullaby whose popularity, it is a pleasure to state, in the face of so many unlike instances, has been a source of much profit to the composer. Miss Canning is a tall, slender girl, with big brown eyes, full of the sympathy that finds its best expression in art.”)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by RLamb (talk • contribs) 08:54, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: If she would have died aged 67, that would suggest a birthdate in 1873, not 1883. If she married in 1881, a YOB 1873 is impossible, so the NYT is wrong here. find-a-grave gives her exact birthday: 4 March 1856. --FordPrefect42 (talk) 10:19, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Birthdate okay?
Talk:Frances Day

message: almost all of this article has been plagiarised from a Daily Mail Article Greebowarrior - (talk) 17:01, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Plagiarism

message: There's no citation for the asserted "fact" that Eleanor Roosevelt was bisexual, and there's nothing in the E.R. article to support this.  Does anyone know where this came from?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.75.0.141 (talk) 02:38, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eleanor Roosevelt—bisexual?
Talk:Francis Wilson (actor)

message: Is the Mary Bok in this article Mary Louise Curtis Bok Zimbalist? If so, there should be a link, and perhaps the name should be different.--DThomsen8 (talk) 18:21, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Mary Bok

message: The Francis Wilson Playhouse could easily become a separate article, but currently it is without sources other than the official web site. An editor interested in theater could separate the actor from the playhouse, if other sources are to be found. --DThomsen8 (talk) 18:32, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Francis Wilson Playhouse
Talk:Strip the willow

message: Hey, is this dance English or Scottish?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.153.150.94 (talk) 08:41, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

message: The article currently contains excellent information about how StW is danced. But not a word about its history or any tunes that it goes with. Is anybody able to add a couple of paragraphs? (StW is near and dear to my heart from my youth in the Stockholm Tolkien Society.) Martin Rundkvist (talk) 13:42, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. 91.110.129.135 (talk) 12:28, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some history and tunes, please, anyone? 

message: I'm thinking a video would be great to simplify the explanation somewhat..  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 36.11.228.180 (talk) 00:05, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Vid

message: may have to do with basket weaving Tickme (talk) 00:46, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of name
Talk:Gary Mauer

message: I have deleted the comment about "Gary is widely regarded as the greatest Phantom of all time." This is 1) totally unsubstiantiated, and 2) far-fetched. On a poll, which has unfortunately now been removed, on Phantom's official site, Gary received 6% of the vote on a "Who's your favorite Phantom" poll, compared to Michael Crawford's 75%. Also, I have never seen a newspaper article comparing Mauer to Crawford, whereas I've seen several comparing, say, Anthony Warlow to Crawford. I'm not saying such articles do not exist, I just haven't seen any. As such, please do not re-insert the claim unless you can supply a source for it, per WP:NPOV, WP:V, and WP:OR. By the way, I do think Mauer's interpretation is excellent, but that's just an opinion. Rurp (talk) 09:44, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: "Best Phantom"
Talk:Mairi's Wedding

message: With the recent edits, this article has gone way off topic. It needs to be corrected, which I shall do unless anyone objects.Hohenloh  +   16:39, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Off topic 

message: Can a song composed as recently as the 1930's, by a known composer, be called a folk song?Royalcourtier (talk) 07:34, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  Why not? It certainly functions as one, being covered by bands from the best-known to the most obscure at events of all kinds. Perhaps you're thinking of the difference between trad. folk and contemporary folk music, but in the case of Mairi's Wedding it's getting hard to say which of the two it is, known author or not; not many people now alive can recall 1934, and even 1959 is becoming a distant memory. Perhaps a song that people have taken to their heart as folk is the epitome of a living tradition. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:48, 16 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Folk song?
Talk:Jens Munk

message: The first Danish whaling expedition was not sent to Spitsbergen until 1617, so it is impossible that he could have led expeditions there in 1615 and 1616. In 1615 he was part of a naval expedition to North Norway that was sent to disrupt foreign whaling. He did play a significant part in the recruiting of Basque whalemen for the 1617 expedition, but I don't know of him actually participating in it. And as far as I know he did not participate in the 1618 expedition either. Jonas Poole (talk) 22:11, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Jens Munk and Spitsbergen

message: by a more fluent English speaker.  Not to trod on the original contributors--I was very happy to have this information available here!
However, it is quite hard to read.  If there are no objections by more experienced editors, I will undertake the project in a few weeks.
I did fix a couple of the more jarring errors.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Spelric (talk • contribs) 22:02, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article needs a major rewrite
Talk:Capriccio Espagnol

message: Here's a link to the International Music Score Library Project score of Capriccio Espagnol, mvt. 5. On page 3, just before rehearsal letter S, you can see that the violas have a similar notation as the violins and cellos. It does not actually say "quasi guitara" on the viola staff in the score, but the viola part is marked with up/down bows despite being pizzicato (pizzicato starts at measure 8 of fifth movement). I play viola and have played this piece, and in the parts it does say "quasi guitara", although I know that you can't take my word for it.
72.227.27.201 00:40, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quasi Guitara for Violas 

message: This work was written by a Russian, as an evocation of Spain.  Can anyone explain why, in the Anglosphere, it's known by a title that's partly in Italian ("Capriccio") and partly in French ("Espagnol")?   Who dreamt up that absurd concoction?  A fully Italian title would be "Capriccio spagnolo" (and that's what the Italian WP article is called).  A fully French title would be "Caprice espagnole", although apparently the French use the same title as the English do, except that they don't capitalise "espagnol".  
Which brings me to my second question.  Since in neither Italian nor French do they capitalise titles except for the first word and any proper nouns, why isn't it "Capriccio espagnol"?    --  JackofOz (talk) 07:02, 6 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks, David.  I got a bit side-tracked.  See below.  --  Jack of Oz [your turn] 21:37, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  No go, apparently.  Ah, well ...  --  Jack of Oz [your turn] 11:51, 30 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Language of the "English" version of the name

message: @Captain Parmenter Are you really sure about the usage of the 4th part in the Pizza Hut commercial with Mikhail Gorbachev? I've listened to the piece and I'm not really convinced tbh. Shazam doesn't recognize it either. PhotographyEdits (talk) 14:05, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Usage in Pizza Hut commercial
Talk:George Broadhurst

message: as you can read in St. Joseph Weekly News · ‎25 May 1895 · ‎Newspaper. You might want to add that. 2A02:14F:17D:E3C5:49DA:6428:1281:3534 (talk) 09:24, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  He also performed as a mindreader in 1895
Talk:Imus Ranch

message: No mention of or link to Don Imus at all in this article? ~ Rollo44 19:17, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

message: Why did someone feel the need to mention that almost half the children are minorities and 10% are black? How is this relevant to the activities? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rapid Komodo (talk • contribs) 16:50, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Activities
Talk:Roger de Coverley

message: I've searched but could find no evidence of the claim that: "The name refers to a fox, and the dance's steps are reminiscent of a hunted fox going in and out of cover."
In fact, said claim appears to originate from this anonymous Wikipedia edit from 2006 where the IP seems to have been under the impression that the dance was named after a fox in the 1952 novel Love for Lydia named 'Sir Roger' who often sought 'cover' as he was pursued. Thus... "Sir Roger" de "Cover"ly dance. Ugh.
(And indeed, Oxford English Dictionary says the dance was in fact named in the 1600s after a man about whom nothing is known today.) –Vuccala (talk) 22:23, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "The name refers to a fox"
Talk:Gilbert Price

message: User:97.78.125.88 put this question on the talk page on 16 May 2012.
:Are you sure that Mr. Price sang in Leonard Bernstein's "Mass?" I was in the original production in Washington, D.C. and later for a limited run in NYC. I am very familiar with the next production, at Yale University, televised on PBS. The next important production was the 10th anniversary production in Washington, D.C. I am unaware of Mr. Price's participation in any of those productions, all of the major ones during the work's first 10 years. If the author is correct, where and when did he appear in "Mass?"
It's a reasonable question, as the assertion is not supported by any of the external links. Grafen (talk) 08:52, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Question moved from article

message: I'm watching this youtube video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mZCU_4DONk and wondering how he was said to be a baritone rather than a bass?  The low notes are so smooth, while other singers are gravelly at those tones  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Skysong263 (talk • contribs) 01:39, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: baritone?
Talk:Jeremias van Rensselaer

message: This article is unbalanced and may be biased. It uses only Spooner.Taksen (talk) 05:06, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: There were two men with the same name, both part of the same family tree. Currently, the same portrait is shown on both their pages. I'm guessing that the picture is of one man and not the other, but I don't know which is which. TooManyFingers (talk) 16:34, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  The picture portrait of the subject
Talk:H. G. Pélissier

message: In 1895 Pelissier was a member of the 'Baddeley Troupe', a group of amateur entertainers...
:A lot of people would be wondering whether this was anything to do with Angela or Hemione of that ilk. Valetude (talk) 22:34, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Baddeley?
Talk:Jerome Horsey

message: The opening statement says he has been the subject of two novels--which are then never named. Any help, since I'm now interested? Pretty please?69.157.226.61 (talk) 23:45, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: this is in desperate need of footnotes. 14.0.171.27 (talk) 09:13, 29 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Footnotes
Talk:Jeronimus Cornelisz

message: It seems fairly likely......Jerry Cornelius is an amoral often ruthlessly violent and always anti-authoritarian character in the speculative fiction of Michael Moorcock. I would guess that Jeronimus inspired him, I wonder if it is documented anywhere?Jeremy (talk) 01:40, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Not really...it's more likely it is just a co-incidence. Moorcock's JC first appeared in 1968, while the Batavia story wasn’t well-known outside Australia until (at a guess) the 90’s, when the Prospero documentary was shown on British TV (which was the first time I heard about it). Swanny18 (talk) 21:03, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Source of [[Jerry Cornelius]]?

message: Are Cornelisz and Jacobsz abbreviations of Corneliszoon and Jacobszoon respectively? Hairy Dude (talk) 14:42, 23 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Late reply, but yes I believe they are. Patronymics were used since surnames were lacking at the time, and for convenience sake they are generally abbreviated. Viralworld (talk) 22:29, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Names
Talk:Jack Garfein

message: Added subsections as requested for better organization.TheHappiestCritic (talk) 03:35, 18 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Subsections

message: An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Jack Gardine. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so.  signed, Rosguill talk 19:18, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Jack Gardine" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 
Talk:James O'Neill (actor, born 1847)

message: There is no source quoted for the birth date of Nov. 15 1847. I found at least three sources that give birth dates among the citations. They all give different dates, and none of them give the 1847 date. Britannica says November 15, 1849, American Experience says October 14, 1845, and the Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in Northern California says October 14, 1846.
Unless someone can come up with a definitive source for the birth date, perhaps we should change the article to say something like "born 1845-49", and change the name to (actor, died 1920), which all the sources agree on? Knuthove (talk) 18:47, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should we change the name "born 1847"?
Talk:Job Charnock

message: Article contains a lot of opinion, and not a lot of fact.156.34.34.217  —Preceding comment was added at 13:06, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This article seems badly biased, without many actual facts.  Can someone clean this article up, making it less opinion and more facts?  --Pompadours chinabox (talk) 18:34, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

text: I've changed the tone and tidied up the page a bit.  Unable to add more facts though.Pre1mjr (talk) 14:33, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: article contains statement that Sati was reinstated after 1857 and the Indian Mutiny. Whereas it is true that banning sati was a factor for the native soldiery to revolt, the British never lifted the restriction. This statement also contradicts Sati "On 4 December 1829, the practice was formally banned in the Bengal Presidency lands, by the then governor, Lord William Bentinck. The ban was challenged in the courts, and the matter went to the Privy Council in London, but was upheld in 1832. Other company territories also banned it shortly after. Although the original ban in Bengal was fairly uncompromising, later in the century British laws include provisions that provided mitigation for murder when "the person whose death is caused, being above the age of 18 years, suffers death or takes the risk of death with his own consent". Sati remained legal in some princely states for a time after it had been abolished in lands under British control. The last such state to permit it, Jaipur, banned the practice in 1846." Indian Penal Code 1860 explicity bans Sati. Bengalibaboo (talk) 16:49, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Please provide a verifiable reference for last sentence. A google book will do. Thanks. --GDibyendu (talk) 17:54, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Indian Penal Code is available on many websites. also on indiacode.nic.in. Googlebooks are not necessarily Reliable Source. A good reference book on Indian Penal Code is "Ratanlal & Dhirajlal", now in its 18th edn. The old editions may be in Public Domain. Bengalibaboo (talk) 08:24, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Sati

message: I have added this section which basically summarizes the incidents leading to the settlement of Job Charnock at Sutanuti in 1690.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Syz2 (talk • contribs) 05:11, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: You added a long separate section which duplicated coverage in the rest of the article without bothering to integrate it into the existing text, and it was basically unsourced and opinionated. I've taken it out for now. We'll have to compare it with the existing text step by step and see if and how this material can be integrated chronologically into the existing text. There's a lot there so it may take some time. Lachrie (talk) 19:30, 15 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Establishment of English Trade in Bengal (1600-1700) 

message: Born - 10 August 1630 died - 10 January 1693 202.78.234.144 (talk) 17:52, 15 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Job Charnock
Talk:Jodocus Hondius

message: I wonder how those two were related? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk  20:29, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Wilhelm Hondius]]

message: Why does it redirect here? They were not the same person; I will stub him. --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk  21:07, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Henricus Hondius]]

message: I would like to delete the Links with Richard Norwood section, barring any reasonable objections. It's factually incorrect, as the snarky final sentence in the section points out. (I did not write that sentence, I've only learned of this section today.) This map isn't linked to Hondius the Elder, since he was long dead by the time it was made, and the map image shown with this section is a Blaeu, not a Hondius. I hold that there is no reason for this section to be here, as there is no link between Norwood and Hondius the Elder. 
-Librarian lena (talk) 18:18, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requesting deletion of erroneous Links with Richard Norwood section
Talk:Johann Adam Schall von Bell

message: Is there a connection between the subject and Livonian knights Philipp Schall von Bell and Bernt Shall von Bell? Philip Schall von Bell was defeated by Muscovites in 1560, taken prisoner with his brother, and executed in Moscow. Bernt's tomb is now stored in the Kremlin museum. NVO (talk) 22:51, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This
*Väth, Alfons (SJ) (1991). Johann Adam Schall von Bell SJ: Missionar in China, kaiserlicher Astronom und Ratgeber am Hofe von Peking 1592-1666, Steyler Verlag Nettetal.
was listed as a "reference" but entirely unused by the text. Kindly restore it once it is being used to verify some point in the article.
This
* Article by Joseph Brucker, 1912 (vol. 13).
was listed as "further reading" but those are generally bad ideas and, again, if it is actually useful we should just actually use it to verify some point in the article.
See also the sources at
* Xu Guangqi
which should be used to greatly expand coverage of their relationship and work together. — LlywelynII 02:24, 23 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources for future article expansion
Talk:Johann Bayer

message: I removed the following from the article:


They're incorrect:
Crux was still an asterism within Centaurus. The split occurred later. Leo was split into Leo/Coma by Tycho, or someone earlier. Tabulae Rudolphinae shows that Leo/Coma was considered separate by Tycho. Bayer used Plancius globes and probably Tabulae Rudolphinae.
This table seems to be essentially correct, but needs revision:
Keyser and de Houtman transfered their star data to Petrus Plancius, who was the great constellation inventor, while Bayer invented nothing – his main achievement is a rigorous fact collection and map authoring – for which we are very grateful of course. Rursus 10:47, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I tweaked the title of Template:ConstellationsByBayer -- Elphion (talk) 04:37, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Constellations allegedly created by Bayer
Talk:Joseph Papp

message: Why is there no mention of his career at CBS, where he was fired during the House Un-American Activities Committee for taking the Fifth and refusing to testify against anyone?  This is a significant point in his life and led to the career you mention from there. http://todayinclh.com/?event=joseph-papp-ordered-reinstated
206.206.145.139 (talk) 17:31, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Early Career

message: The name of this movement was "Save the Theatres".  A corporation, now defunct, was formed called "Save the Theatres, Inc.", and the official rallies were called "Save the Theatres".  There is a "Save the Theatres Award", and you could buy a "Save the Theatres Pin".  See this, this,  this. -- Ssilvers (talk) 19:44, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Save the Theatres
Talk:Julia Marlowe

message: WikiProject Biography Assessment
The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 08:14, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 
Talk:Kavalam Narayana Panicker

message: I have classified this as a B class article according to WikiProject Biography standards due to its level of completeness. Capitalistroadster (talk) 01:24, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessed as B class
Talk:Keith Wann

message: https://nypost.com/2022/11/26/broadway-interpreter-fired-for-being-white-settles-case-amid-backlash/
Also of the footnotes, #5 and #6 are the same thing.~~ 24.59.13.232 (talk) 20:08, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fired for being white 

message: subject appears to have edited the article Valereee (talk) 20:32, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  COI tag (December 2022)
Talk:Johann von Aldringen

message: Aldringen seems to have lived in various places within the Holy Roman Empire. He worked for the Hubsburgs, but I am not sure "Austrian" makes sense. He does not seem to have been connected with any of the areas called Austria at the time. This seems like an anachronistic description of him.John Pack Lambert (talk) 16:14, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was he Austrian? Is this the way we want to describe him?
Talk:Johann Jacob Zimmermann

message: rjhaiokajrti hsrtkjkowart hynk'wth qthrthy wtrh th thsrths ftfg  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.248.13.194 (talk) 19:21, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  trhw hsrt h 

message: I just watched Who Do You Think You Are?  Johann Jacob Zimmermann was Singer Josh Groben's 8 times great grandfather.  Way cool.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Not2l84prayer (talk • contribs) 03:06, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Josh Grobin 