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Talk:One-bar facemask

message: I know this design has faded in popularity over the years, but I did not know the 1-bar facemask had been outlawed. WAVY 10 19:11, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The Last of a Dying Breed - Cardinals Punter Scott Player  71.41.125.210 16:27, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Player, who is 43, is now with the Patriots, BTW. [LukeTheSpook] | [t c r] 21:57, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Illegal? 

message: I know very little about football, and came to this page to find out why 1-bar facemasks are illegal. I assume it's a safety thing, if someone in the know was to add the reason to the article it would be helpful.203.25.230.150 (talk) 04:47, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why Illegal?
Talk:Nikolai Zaremba

message: Russian WP has the following note:
* «Русский биографический словарь» даёт день рождения 3 (15) июня 1821 года, на могильном памятнике указано: 31 мая (12 июня) 1821.
My translation:
* The Russian Biographical Dictionary gives the date of birth as 3 (15) June 1821. On his gravestone the date 31 May (12 June) 1821 is shown.
Russian WP prefers the date in the RBD. We prefer the gravestone date.  I think we should go by the most accurate information in reliable publications, rather than gravestone inscriptions, whose inaccuracies are legion. 
I'm changing the lede, and adding a note.--  Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 07:39, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Birth date
Talk:Halesite, New York

message: I am a Halesite native and an amateur historian of the hamlet and surrounding environs. I expanded the article to include information about landmarks, the history of the trolley, and two famous former residents. Alexandermoir (talk) 00:22, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Good to see the additions - had no idea Einstein resided there at one time. One thing though - can you had sources for the information? Otherwise it may be removed...--Dtolman (talk) 16:10, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Additions
Talk:Huntington Station, New York

message: What you have to do is go to that link, and zoom into the Huntington Station area. From there, what you have to do is click on "Place", and it will tell you the White, Black, etc population in numbers. So then, I just calculated that as a percent.
So the source is correct, but I wasn't sure how to cite it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Checkmatechamp137 (talk • contribs) 23:38, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Demographics 
Talk:Huntington (CDP), New York

message: Since the CDP is easily confused with the Township by the same name, be sure to verify that those added to the "Famous Residents" section actually hail and are linked to the Huntington Village or CDP and not the larger Township, which has its own gigantic section. czar · · 08:57, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Careful with "Famous Residents" section 
Talk:USS Midas

message: I've been working to remove links to the San Pedro disambiguation page. The link on this page refers to Leyte, which is in the Phillippines, but the dab page has two San Pedros in the Phillippines.  Therefore I don't feel confident enough to disambiguate here at this time. Auntof6 04:35, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguating San Pedro
Talk:Melville, New York

message: At least four major vendors of surveillance systems are headquartered in Melville, NY:
* Verint Systems
* Honeywell Security
* ADI Global
* OZvision
Surely this is not a coincidence, but what's the link (other than that ADI Global is a daughter company of Honeywell) ? The Seventh Taylor (talk) 09:03, 14 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Security industry 
Talk:John Whittier Treat

message: This page is linked from the article on Roger Treat.  Is this the same John Treat as referenced in that article? Anson2995 (talk) 12:35, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Son of Roger Treat?
Talk:John Yen

message: though there is no information yet on his major papers or their citation frequency, I think a full professor like him is very likely to be notable. DGG (talk) 23:42, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: comment on notabilty
Talk:Nikolay Afanasyev (composer)

message: We say December 31 [O.S. December 24] 1820.  There is no way both of these dates are correct.  The Julian and Gregorian calendars were 12 days apart in 1820, not 7 days.  --  Jack of Oz [your turn] 08:53, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Now it's 24 December/12 January – that's a 19-day gap.  We need a 12-day gap here.  Nothing else will satisfy the unavoidable fact that the Julian and Gregorian calendars were 12 days apart during this person’s lifetime.  --  Jack of Oz [your turn] 02:42, 17 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Birth date

message: I would much prefer to see his surname rendered as Afanasyev.  This needs admin intervention.  --  Jack of Oz [your turn] 08:53, 6 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Romanization
Talk:Jon Wolfsthal

message: Re: this edit, how does a direct quote from the office of the vice president of the U.S. qualify as the use of "peacock terms"? As I understand it, it is quite common to establish someone's notability in a field by using a quotation in the lede in which their importance/prominence is remarked by an authority in the field. The "peacock terms" issue is normally when such remarks are made without citation in the voice of the article itself. - Jmabel | Talk 00:55, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The quote -- "a globally recognized expert on nuclear security and nonproliferation" -- actually isn't present anywhere in the given source, so the issue is really WP:V. Plot Spoiler (talk) 00:58, 9 October 2013 (UTC)

text: And if a quote along that lines is found, it should come from a neutral source, and not a promotional bio or press release. Plot Spoiler (talk) 01:01, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The only problem was that the correct source was not cited immediately after the quotation. I have corrected this. Yworo (talk) 01:11, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Peacock terms?
Talk:Mary Stanisia

message: I've been working on the article to provide in-line citations, write with more of an encyclopedic tone, eliminate direct copies of sentences, and try to reduce copy vio / close paraphrasing issues. I've been using this copy vio report, which percentage was in the 80s - now is 58.8% and downgraded to "possible violation". 
I am posting a message here so that anyone who is watching better understands what's going on.... and if anyone wants to pitch in to scrub it even more - add more inline citations where they're missing, that would be wonderful!--CaroleHenson (talk) 07:34, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Down to 54% now. This is another report that is helpful: the duplicate detector report that focuses on a specific web page at a time. Most of what's on this report is names of people, titles, or places. The copyvio report picks up close paraphrasing issues that the duplicate detector report doesn't pick up. The wording to fix copyvio might have made it a bit choppy, so that's something, too.--CaroleHenson (talk) 07:51, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article improvement 
Talk:Burlington Central High School

message: This seems like a kind of vandalism to me, it's just pointless... Swiffer 01:40, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Cool Students?
Talk:Nongqawuse

message: WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive
The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 17:53, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 

message: Text in Source:
"... chief , Sarhili, sent emissaries to the Gxarha river mouth to investigate the prophecies. They did not actually meet the strangers, but returned home convinced of the truth of the prophecies and immediately began killing their cattle. Sarhili then sent two of his councillors to notify the chiefs under British jurisdiction that they must sacrifice their 'bewitched' cattle."
Text in Article:
"Mhlakaza repeated the prophecy to paramount chief Sarili kaHintsa. Chief Sarili sent emissaries to investigate the claims but they did not actually meet the strangers, but returned home convinced of the truth of the prophecies. Sarili then sent two of his councillors to notify the chiefs under British jurisdiction that they must sacrifice their 'bewitched' cattle. After Sarili had ordered his followers to obey the prophecy, the cattle-killing movement spread to an unstoppable point."
Where the directly plagarised text is as follows:
"... they did not actually meet the strangers, but returned home convinced of the truth of the prophecies. Sarili then sent two of his councillors to notify the chiefs under British jurisdiction that they must sacrifice their 'bewitched' cattle."
Compared to Source:
"They did not actually meet the strangers, but returned home convinced of the truth of the prophecies ... Sarhili then sent two of his councillors to notify the chiefs under British jurisdiction that they must sacrifice their 'bewitched' cattle. "  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.117.17.121 (talk) 14:21, 10 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Direct Plagarism (Source: http://www.siyabona.com/eastern-cape-xhosa-cattle-killing.html) 

message: Nongqawuse  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.114.243.120 (talk) 18:37, 11 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Xhosa
Talk:Norman Eddy

message: The history museum in South Bend, Indiana, reports that Eddy's 1835 medical school degree came from Jefferson College in Philly, not the University of Pennsylvania. I don't have access to the wiki sources. Can anyone weigh in from an alternate source? Thank you! 174.240.250.234 (talk) 21:41, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: This appears to be in error. Eddy is not listed as a graduate of Jefferson College between 1826 and 1857 here. The South Bend cite references "Jefferson College" and "Drs. Jackson and Hare" but neither are listed as faculty at Jefferson College here. I'm not sure on Dr. Jackson, but "Hare" seems to be Robert Hare (chemist) of the University of Pennsylvania, so I'm going to make that edit. I'm going to shoot a note to the History Museum at South Bend to start a dialogue, hopefully they'll make a fix, but this source is written in "stone" and will always be in error. --Engineerchange (talk) 04:25, 2 May 2023 (UTC)

text: Adding this cite as well, which clarifies a "Norman Eddy" of New York graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1835. --Engineerchange (talk) 04:47, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  1835 Graduation Penn or Jefferson?
Talk:Jose David Lapuz

message: I've pulled a long CV-like section for the article for now--surely every conference that man has ever attended isn't necessary to list. Here's the original (now removed by Velella), though, if anybody wants to compress this into something more encyclopedic: 
-- Khazar (talk) 09:23, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  CV-like section 

message: I've also pulled the following "reviews" section, which is far longer than necessary and quotes only unreferenced, fawning praise. (Surely a scholar of his stature has had negative reviews at some point?) Perhaps some of this material can be condensed and blended for a more balanced view, then reintroduced. -- Khazar (talk) 09:30, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advert-like review section 
Talk:New World sparrow

message: The external link redirects to another site which results in a 404.  I'll leave it to the mods/experts as to what to do with it.  Cheers.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:A600:1E38:286A:0:0:0:1 (talk) 18:50, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Link 404 

message: I've just moved the page from American sparrow to the correctly capitalized American Sparrow (here), based on the WikiProject standards. Please complain below if you'd like. Mukk » Talk « 02:57, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: In this update to IOC 10.2, the following changes were made:
*Update the reference and counts in the introduction.
*Add two species.
*Revise six binomials.
*Revise the sequence of species.
Craigthebirder (talk) 01:03, 16 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  July 15, 2020 revisions 

message: The standard English name for the family Passerellidae is "New World Sparrows". The name is used by all the following:
*IOC has "New World Sparrows, Bush Tanagers: see here
*H&M4 vol 2 p.337 has "New World Sparrows and allies" see here
* Clements Checklist 2019 has "Passerellidae (New World Sparrows)" see here
* Cornell Lab Birds of the World uses "New World Sparrows" see here (perhaps behind a paywall)
* IUCN/Birdlife International has Passerellidae New World Sparrows (based on HBW) see links here 
* the AOS (formerly AOU) has "New World Sparrows" -  for example 58th Supplement  here
I'll move this page.
Aa77zz (talk) 10:45, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I've requested the page move  at Wikipedia:Requested_moves/Technical_requests#Uncontroversial_technical_requests. —  Jts1882 | talk  12:13, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks - now moved. - Aa77zz (talk) 17:49, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name change from "American sparrow" to "New World sparrow"
Talk:Joseph Agassi

message: A paragraph in this section states:
An advocate of Popper’s philosophy with variations, Agassi ignores many of the problems that concern some philosophers of science, chiefly that of theory choice [as subjects of rational belief]. The problems of the philosophy of technology engage him, including the problem of choosing scientific theories and [other] ideas worthy of application and implementation [italics added].
These two statements are inconsistent with each other. Would someone familiar with Agassi's ideas please fix this? StN (talk) 00:58, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Er, wut? -- Jibal (talk) 19:50, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Philosophy 
Talk:Joseph E. Aoun

message: Reads like a press release.  If I knew the Wikipedia methods, I'd flag this article for improvement.  --William (talk) 19:58, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I added the POV flag to the top - it does indeed read like a press release.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.60.201.39 (talk) 17:27, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  Looks like it was a copy and paste of his speaking bio ().  Removed as a clear WP:COPYVIO. jheiv talk contribs 08:44, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Octavius Frothingham

message: The style of this article doesn't sound like Wikipedia (or any modern reference work), so I wondered if it was plagiarized from some older and more opinionated source. With a little help from Google, I learned that the whole thing was copied directly (and without attribution) from the 11th edition of Britannica.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:18A:C201:B3E0:A961:39F8:E3EF:438B (talk) 18:22, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article is plagiarized from Britannica, 11th edition.
Talk:Octavius Temple

message: The article incorrectly states he had five children. He had nine. Anna Laura 1806-1872, Margaret 1808-1899, William Octavius b.1808, Stowe Margaret 1811-1899, Catherine 1812-1892, Francis 1814-1830, Jenetta Octavia 1819-1890, Frederick (Archbishop of Canterbury) 1821-1902, and John 1823-1866. Ptilinopus (talk) 07:39, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Children
Talk:Newman Haynes Clanton

message: Was this bloke nicknamed "Old Man" because his first name was Newman? JIP | Talk 15:53, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: "Survivors Harry Ernshaw and Billy Byers survived." Isn't that tautological? Maickellz (talk) 05:24, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. SBHarris 05:48, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Tautology
Talk:Olin Levi Warner

message: Shall i add the imagination picture Jenny Everywhere (talk) 19:40, 11 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Imagination
Talk:Millet beer

message: I just stubbed this as a temporary measure. The cited source provides much more information that could be used to flesh out the article quite nicely. — Brian (talk) 01:49, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Further information
Talk:Josephine Miles

message: Isn't there a PEN award in her name?
Aristophanes68 (talk) 22:25, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  PEN Award? 

message: It is anachronistic to refer to her method as "distant reading," since this method was not formally defined when she was writing, and has distinct institutional and political origins from her own scholarly methods (we would not, for instance, edit a Wikipedia page about corpus linguistics to call it "distant reading"). I understand that this terminology was based on a Modernism/Modernity article that argues for her importance in the pre-history of the current "distant reading" crazy. If someone finds this important enough to include in her Wikipedia article, then I invite them to write a section about it. But, as it stands, it is inaccurate to refer to her method as distant reading.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Loadedonloaded (talk • contribs) 03:57, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Method
Talk:Omar D. Conger

message: The ghost town in Michigan, "Omard" allegedly derives its name from Omar D. Conger. (Omar D., Omard)Wallace, Janet. "Omard." 89. Sanilac County Ghost Towns & Historical Photos. Carsonville, MI: Wallace Publishing, 2004. 177-78. Print.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikidumbo (talk • contribs) 19:33, 27 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Namesakes
Talk:Omie Wise

message: The familiar story of Naomi Wise is based mostly on the rather questionable account by Braxton Craven published in 1851, about 40 years after the murder.  Another source for information on this story is the notebook of Mary Woody, available here.  Some discussion of these different sources would be nice in the article.  Sorry I can't do it at the moment.  For now I will simply link to the alternative source.  --Chinasaur 06:15, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: OK, the "Braxton Craven" page says Craven took a few facts about Ms. Wise and spun out an extravagantly fictionalized account.  The "Omie Wise" page says that the element of truth in the story is much greater, and cites all of Roote's research, which is lovely stuff.
Maybe the Braxton Craven page needs amending.
As to Mary Moody and her 'commonplace book,' however, I am left with a couple of questions.  Is there any indication of the date when the version she put into her book was written down?  All I can find is Mary's birthdate and the date when the book was donated to the university.  That gives me no clue as to whether she copied it BC (Before Craven) or AD (After [that] Date).  That would be informative, if it is knowable.
Terry J. Carter (talk) 18:16, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: This whole article needs a complete rewrite.--Khajidha (talk) 13:22, 16 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this matter really settled?
Talk:Orest Kiprensky

message: In the fourth paragraph under the heading "Biography" it states (regarding Anna Maria Falcucci) "He bought her from her dissolute family and employed as his ward." This is confusing and I suspect a faulty translation. A ward is a person who is either a minor, or if an adult, is in some way incapable of being responsible for their own well-being, for which an adult is granted custodianship. Saying that someone is "employed as (a) ward" is nonsensical. Can anyone make sense of this? Thanks. Bricology (talk) 20:44, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "...employed as his ward"?
Talk:Imagination Station

message: I took out the Education programs section because this refers to the old COSI, not the new Imagination Station. I imagine they still run the programs but I think we need more up-to-date info and sources. Rees11 (talk) 18:14, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Education programs 

message: I changed the dates in the info box to match that of Imagination Station. The old 1997 established / 2007 dissolved dates would be more appropriate for a separate COSI Toledo article if there were one. --98.224.216.6 (talk) 13:19, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: That's fine, but I've got a problem with the image caption. The photo is actually of COSI, not Imagination Station. What we really need is a new photo. Rees11 (talk) 15:49, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I am sure something could be arranged, especially since we have not been to the re-opened facility ... :-)—Kralizec! (talk) 16:57, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Info Box 

message: Is the fresnel lens still there? I didn't see it when we visited. If it's gone we might consider removing the photo.
I'd like to see a photo added of the high-wire bike. Rees11 (talk) 17:48, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: From past experience, I can say that it is really hard to take a good photo of the bike in action, especially due to the funky lighting conditions in the central room.—Kralizec! (talk) 04:28, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fresnel lens
Talk:Julius Adams Stratton

message: This book: 
:Stratton, Julius A. (2005). Mind and Hand: The Birth of MIT. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. .
should be added to the article along with the information in it's preface about Dr. Stratton's administrative associate and MIT President Paul Grey finishing the manuscript and preparing it for publication.  President Grey's contribution could also be added to his article. 209.6.85.155 (talk) 23:32, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  add Stratton's book: ''Mind and Hand: The Birth of MIT'' 

message: His wife, Catherine “Kay” Stratton, either deserves her own article (she meets WP:N) or a section in this article.  She was one of MIT's most active first ladies, and was actively serving MIT until her death. http://news.mit.edu/2014/catherine-kay-stratton-obituary-0916  — Lentower (talk) 22:50, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Catherine “Kay” Stratton
Talk:Oskar von Redwitz

message: See here:
* Baron Oskar von Redwitz, an eighteenth century German poet. The good Baron w^as what you might call a hypochondriac's hypochondriac. For the last 28 years of his life he complained of a new ailment every day. By the time he died at 68, he had managed to describe more than 1,000 different illnesses. And what's more every one of them was completely unknown to medical science! .
Now, this is hardly what one would call a reliable source.  But otoh I don't imagine they just made this up.  So, does this have any semblance to the truth, and is there a better source?  --  Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 21:35, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Extreme hypochondria
Talk:Justin L. Barrett

message: Does this read a bit like an advertisement to anyone else? A good deal of the article's comment consists of testimonials for one of the subject's books. Agharo (talk) 05:56, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Concern for Article's Tone
Talk:K. N. Panikkar

message: Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: https://web.archive.org/web/20110721150019/http://gurusmarana.ihrd.ac.in/profile.php?teacher=689. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you.  Moonriddengirl (talk) 12:42, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem removed 