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Talk:Hyacinth Graf Strachwitz

message: *Preserving here by providing this link; my rationale was: "shortening -- not about Strachwitz or his command". --K.e.coffman (talk) 21:21, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  July 2021 edits 

message: :de:Ludger Tewes is a member of the faculty of the University of Potsdam, see PD Dr. Ludger Tewes. His work on "Panzergrenadierdivision Großdeutschland" is one of his projects at the university. Sönke Neitzel is the head of the department (Professur für Militärgeschichte / Kulturgeschichte der Gewalt) Tewes works for. In consequence, I consider the source  reliable in context of this article. Cheers MisterBee1966 (talk) 04:50, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Ludger Tewes, reliability as a source

message: The section regarding Strachwitz involvement in the "Plan Lanz", the attempt to arrest Hitler at Valky in February 1943, was removed on account this section being attributed to Röll as a source. On page 295, :de:Ludger Tewes tells the same story. This information is also found in the German book by the historian Peter Hoffmann (historian) Widerstand – Staatsstreich – Attentat. Der Kampf der Opposition gegen Hitler [Resistance, Coup d'etat, Assassination — The Battle of the Opposition against Hitler] on pages 348 to 350. In consequence, I advocate for the re-inclusion of this information with a reference to these sources. Objections? MisterBee1966 (talk) 12:41, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually in the "Potential synthesis" subsection, it says that Röll states that Strachwitz probably wasn't involved in the plot. I'm not convinced that this is any more than a vague rumour.Nigel Ish (talk) 13:18, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Your statement implies that Röll is reliable. Röll on the other hand derived his doubt on the statement made by Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff. The original section presented both sides of the story. MisterBee1966 (talk) 13:25, 17 July 2021 (UTC)

text:  For sake of this discussion, I included the text by Hoffmann and Tewes, with the counter thesis by Röll into the article. MisterBee1966 (talk) 14:02, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Involvement with the German resistance 

message: Is there some reason for two World War I sections? I know it was important, but...Nigel Ish (talk) 21:35, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  World War I 

message: According to Raymond Bogdanos in his biography of Graf Strachwitz, The Devil’s General: The Life of Hyazinth Graf von Strachwitz, “The Panzer Graf”, "Hyaincth" is the Anglicised misnomer of the subject's real name "Hyazinth", which was the name that he was known as throughout his life.(A more apt comparison in this case would be whether Hitler should be named "Adolph" or "Adolf".---User:Lawrencegordon |lawrencegordon I am the best  (talk) 12:24, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Whatever your preferred source says, there is absolutely no excuse for changing the titles of sources that are already in the article - the title of Röll uses Hyacinth, as can be seen by its Worldcat entry.Nigel Ish (talk) 15:28, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hyacinth or Hyazinth
Talk:Knockturn Alley

message: Just wondering why a citation is needed for someone's statement that "Knockturn Alley" is a pun on "nocturnally". Same with "Diagon Alley" being a pun on "diagonally" (there's a request for a citation in that article too). Especially knowing JKR's love of significant or joking names for things, it seems (to me) clear that that pair of puns was intentional. Besides, unless she confirmed it in an interview somewhere, I can't imagine how one could find a valid citation anyway.  - Erusse estelinya (sorry, having trouble signing in right now) 22:55, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Citation needed for pun?
Talk:St Mungo's (Harry Potter)

message: I wonder if we could guess a more detailed location of St Mungo's from the Cannon, rather than just "in London".
Any one know of any work done out there on the internet about HP geography that we could refer to?
and what about the homeless charity of the same name, also London based. Is that where JK picked up the name?
-I am more inclined to think that she got the name from the account that I mentioned in the article between Kentigren (Mungo) and Lailoken (Merlin). Of course, she is probably well aware of the charity by the same name, but as a classicalist and someone as well-versed in medieveal history as Rowlings, I doubt that this story has passed her notice.
Rob 03:50, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Location
Talk:Dark Mark

message: Mwahahahahahahahahahaha... --Lord Voldemort (Dark Mark) 16:54, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Dark Mark

message: Is the Dark Mark on the right, the left, or either forearm?  It would be worth noting here.  --DropDeadGorgias (talk) 14:53, July 25, 2005 (UTC)
-I believe it's always on the left arm; Barty Crouch Jr., Peter Pettigrew, Professor Snape, and Igor Karkaroff all had it branded on that arm. --Thrashmeister 21:20, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Forearm

message: Remember- the Dark Lord will prevail... Draco Malfoy 18:39, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: The Dark Lord always knows...

message: I changed the Quidditch World Cup section which incorrectly stated: during which a number of former Death Eaters seize a number of muggles and make a show of levitating them high in the air.  AS far I remember--muggles were not present at the Quidditch World Cup, considering Quidditch is a wizard-only sport!  I changed the word muggles to wizards.
:The attacks took place on a Muggle-run campsite where the Roberts family were intimidated, levitated, and humiliated at the hands of a group of Death Eaters, so the passage is correct. Refer to the first few chapters of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire for confirmation. Rob Church 18:46, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quidditch World Cup 

message: In the fifth book, where Hermione uses fake Galleons to call members of Dumbledore's Army, she said that she "sort of got the idea" (not actual quote) from the Dark Mark. I was wondering if this little tidbit should be added?
:Done. -Phi*n!x 02:44, 17 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Fake Galleons
Talk:Occlumency

message: Perhaps occlumency and legilimency should be listed on the same page under legilimency. The definition of occlumency should be included in this page, and a redirection set up from occulmency. The pages are very similar in content, and as they are antonyms they really should be grouped - Anon
I agree that occlumency and legilimency should be listed on the same page, but the main page should be occlumency, as this was mentioned in the books first. Also, note the lack of discussion on the legilimency page. --MrBawn 02:47, August 9, 2005 (UTC)
i made a few clarity related changes to this article. in addition, I also moved the description of legilmency to the top. I know that it was listed as a spoiler, but in the book occlumency and legilmency are named and described on nearly the same page, and i do not believe it constitutes a spoiler of the plot.
--jonasaurus 02:09, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  

message: Perhaps comments need to be made on the attitudes displayed by all participants during Harry's lessons with Professor Snape? Harry is clearly capable of legilimency, but chooses not to recognise that himself. Dumbledore, as an expert, must have known what Harry was experiencing, but he chose not to relieve Snape of his duties. And there needs to be a comment on the reason why Dumbledore chose not to allow himself to get too close to Harry as, due to the connection between the minds of Harry and Voldemort, he would have exposed weakness to Voldemort. BrianWalker 02:33, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Psychology of Dumbledore 

message: I realize that this is not an article regarding the book series merely information within it.  However, I must impose a thought that some contents of this article are obviously post-OOTP and Occlumency is first mentioned there.  I would think it wise to place a certain notice to indicate such information is found beyond year five.  Simply to ensure those who are researching such information are not welcome to an unpleasant surprise.  I would do so, but I do not feel I am yet ready to take on such a task, and feel someone else would be far more capable of doing so.  Webmaster Pete 07:08, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. I almost read something from book seven. Jobarts-Talk 04:41, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spoiler-ish?
Talk:Hogwarts headache

message: I added the  tag because though I have seen the New Journal page, I am still not convinced. There are many, many books far lengthier than the Harry Potter series. I've never heard any mention of Bible headache, for example. Not-notable to me, and possibly not even real. — Gary Kirk // talk! 14:28, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah. Thanks for explaining. It's true that the biggest Potters are not particularily long as huge books go (I recommend The Egyptian, by the way, if they translated it properly it's awesome), but keep in mind that the addictiveness of the series  and the obsessiveness of the Harry Potter fandom are both famous, for good reason. You used the Bible as your example: Bibles are usually very small and in tiny text, while the Potters are children's books printed with good-sized, easy-to-read text. My Half-Blood Prince is about twice the size of my Bible, and both Goblet of Fire and Order of the Phoenix are substantially bigger than that, true bug-squishers. Further, the sufferers described were children, whose tolerance of the strain (not to mention their reading speed) would be substantially lower. If the kids I knew are any indication I wouldn't swear by their knowledge of ergonomics, either. --Kizor 21:06, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hoax
Talk:Knight Bus

message: This page has been processed by N-Bot, which, for browsing convenience, changes links to redirects to lists to links to the relevant list sections: e.g. Ernie Prang is changed to Ernie Prang.
As a result, anyone who intends to split a section out of this page should be aware that, as of 4 September 2005, the following sections were linked to from the following pages:
* Stan Shunpike: Cockney, Death Eater, Ministry of Magic, Knight Bus, Wizarding world, Rufus Scrimgeour
* Ernie Prang: Knight Bus, Wizarding world, Jimmy Gardner (British actor)
~~ N-Bot (t/c) 18:30, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Note to anyone intending on splitting off a section 

message: I'm pretty certain I recall the KB calling at a Welsh town in PoA, letting off Madam Marsh (the vomitously green passenger who seems to turn up every time :-).
If so, we can remove the "(presumably)".
HTH HAND —Phil | Talk 12:49, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Area of operation includes Wales? 

message: As to whether Stan Shunpike's arrest and imprisonment are intended as a comment on current events, I presume they are not, directly.  But there is certainly widespread talk about it.
Rowling herself brings up Shunpike in relation to terrorism in an interview here: http://www.mugglenet.com/jkrinterview2.shtml
Discussion of the Shunpike metaphor can be found in mainstream media, e.g., "When Harry Met Osama", http://www.slate.com/id/2123105/
This issue reminds me of the speculation that L. Frank Baum's story "The Wizard of Oz" was a parable about the silver vs. gold monetary issue of the 1890s, with the yellow brick road (supposedly the gold standard), the silver slippers (ruby only in the movie), the cowardly lion (William Jennings Bryan), the scarecrow (farmers), the tin woodsman (industrial workers), etc., etc.  Of course it doesn't fit together into any kind of tidy critique of 1890s politics, and I doubt that Baum had that in mind.  HOWEVER, he wrote the story when the fury was at its height, and he was undoubtedly influenced.
When I was in college, I wrote a story set in medieval times, and the professor showed it to the class as a retelling of Watergate.  "That's not what I meant!" I said, but he pointed out parallel after parallel after parallel, and I had to admit he had a point.  Watergate was in the air, and I breathed it.
Anyway, I would think the widespread discussion of the Shunpike case merits at least passing mention in the article, if only to say that there is little or no evidence Rowling intended it as commentary.
Belated signature: Kestenbaum 14:45, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shunpike and Politics
Talk:Legilimency

message: "This is seen quite impressively in the sixth book, when he blocks every single spell before Harry can finish it. It seems, though, that a duel against such powerful Legilimentes can only be successful through an equally proficient use of Occlumency."
Using non-verbal spells would help, however, since it would take split seconds away from the Legilimens ability to know what spell is being cast.  In HBP, Snape yells at Harry, "Blocked again and again and again until you learn to keep your mouth shut and your mind closed, Potter!" (Ch. 28 Flight of the Prince)
Believeinlove 14:21, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  

message: I've merged the old Legilimency and Occlumency articles together, as there isn't much verifiable information for either.  I've put them both at "Legilimency", redirecting Occlumency to it.  But do people think it would be better to have the combined page at "Legilimency and Occlumency", and have both pages redirect to it?  Happy-melon 09:40, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: RFC - "Legilimency" or "Legilimency and Occlumency"??

message: In the article, it is mentioned that legilimency can be blocked by a shield charm; however, doesn't the shield charm also reverse the spell, causing the shield charm caster to see the memories of the legilimens?  That's what happened in the Order of Pheonix when Harry casted the shield charm in Snape's lesson.  Shmooshkums 18:58, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you're right.  However, given that this particular ship is leaking like a seive and is going to sink in a day or so (see the AfD), I'm not in any rush to correct it.  Happy-melon 19:02, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shield charms and legilimency
Talk:List of Quidditch teams

message: Where's the source about Indonesia? There is nothing about that in Quidditch through the ages
:Like loads of other people, I've removed it (again) - this is fanfiction rather than information from the HP canon.  Also removed Cairo Crystals, Neverland Nifflers and Tokyo Terriors - the last one also listed local teams as competing in the World Cup rather than countries.  Tobelia 12:47, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Indonesia

message: Why do we need four lists? There is no need, the lists are not notable, put together they have a much better chance. Judgesurreal777 04:08, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge in Quidditch team lists
Talk:Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Test

message: I though I read that it was "Near Extraordinary Wizarding Levels," which would make sense considering OWLs are "Ordinary Wizarding Levels"
146.243.4.157 17:00, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's only explained once, but not by the twins. It's in book 3, first page of chapter 16: "Percy was getting ready to take his N.E.W.T.s (Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests)." PruneauT 09:36, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Percy doesn't really land a high-ranked job in the ministry right away.  It is only after Barty Crouch Sr. dies that he is promoted to a high-ranked job, namely Junior Assistant to the Minister. I'm gonna update it. PantherFoxie 17:22, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Percy

message: "Most students take around three or four advanced N.E.W.T. classes. However, exceptional students go beyond this: Percy took twelve N.E.W.T.s, and Hermione Granger took seven. Harry Potter and Ron Weasley each took five."
 Actually, only Hermione returned for the newt tests . Exceptions were made for those who fought in the battle of Hogwarts.
Only Percy has taken his NEWTS, others only took their OWLs.  With that said, I don't feel like looking at whether the number provided was Percy's OWL or NEWT, so I am deleting the whole sentence.  If someone wants to find Percy's, feel free to add it.  DON'T PANIC 08:49, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the above passage refers to N.E.W.T. classes, rather than the tests themselves. -- Noneofyourbusiness 18:35, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Factual Error; Harry Ron and Hermione
Talk:Elimination

message: a search for "elimination" should point directly to the "elimination reaction" (the organic chemistry reaction) since that is what people are most likely looking for and it is more "encyclopedic".  i'm fairly new to Wikipedia so I'm not sure how to make this switch, or if its possible, but i'm definitely for it. Bubbachuck 04:46, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

message: This article should be drastically shortened and merged into a section of Assassin (game), which discusses all kinds of Assassins-related and -derived games. --Quuxplusone 22:09, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: someone get back to me on this.
I have augmented Assassin (game) with the relevant Elimination information.  Is this all that is necessary?  Might this article now just be deleted, turned into a redirect?  I feel like i am doing this unilaterally, but i feel like i can, since i wrote almost 100% of this article anyway.  Feedback please.
: I would make Elimination a disambiguition page with links to Assassin (game), elimination reaction, and probably several others in the future. 'Elimination' is a pretty general word. Cacycle 15:56, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  is there an official way to 'merge' this article?
Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/68.170.0.238

message: I think that instead of calling this person the "Stop drinking soda" vandal, we should call him the "Banana nut" vandal.  —Sean κ. + 04:47, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

message: It seems that this person is now appearing as 128.2.247.100. --Xcali 20:09, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Alias 

message: He's been a bit innocuous so far, but please keep an eye on . Jersyko talk 21:11, July 10, 2005 (UTC)
*He just created the articles sooda, which consists entirely of "Another word for soda," and baddery (for probably the 3rd or 4th time), which consists entirely of "Another word for battery."  I put a speedy tag on both.  He also edited some chemistry related articles that i don't have the knowledge to fact-check.  Someone please make sure these edits are OK. - Jersyko talk 23:33, July 10, 2005 (UTC)
User:Andrew P Lin recently created an article on soft drink addiction, which, after being helped out by User:Tabor, I speedied as re-creation of material previously voted for deletion. Content was:
:A soft drink addiction is an addiction to sweetened, carbonated, usually caffeinated, beverages, containing ingredients such as sugar, high fructose corn syrup, or aspartame, as well as chemical additives such as phosphoric acid or citric acid. As a result of these ingredients, soft drinks strongly promote obesity, diabetes, neurological diseases from aspartame, behavioral disorders such as ADHD, loss of bone mineral density due to phosphoric acid, and even some forms of cancers caused by elevated insulin levels. Some people argue that soft drinks are even more additive than tobacco and alcohol.
No sources cited. 
A little trickier is the article he created on Michael Jacobson, ostensibly a bio-stub, which does not even have Jacobson's date of birth. It is probably factually accurate, although no sources are cited, but obviously its only purpose is to insert a quotation in extenso of Jacobson's negative point of view on soft drinks. Jacobson is said to be "head" of Consumer Science for the Public Interest, a redlink. Dpbsmith (talk) 00:50, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Username [[User:Andrew P Lin]]

message: Andrew seems to be back (or a copycat, at least).  See User:CME46, User:You APLIN, User:AGLEN. · j e r s y k o talk · 20:02, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A year later . . .
Talk:Tom Riddle's diary

message: I don't know how to post it on the page, but the information in the section labeled "citation needed" comes from J. K. Rowling's interview with Steve Kloves on the Chamber of Secrets DVD and a 2001 interview in Sydney Morning Herald. Quotes from both are included in the article on the diary in the Harry Potter Lexicon. 67.171.163.212 07:03, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation needed
Talk:List of disco artists

message: We should be using this rather than sniping at each other through edit summaries. To get the ball rolling: I think Cher is disco. Hyacinth 05:39, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

message: errr, isn't it customary to alphabetize individuals by their last name? -- eo 00:57, 30 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: If you've to the time to sort this list from scratch, then be my guest. 84.139.63.79 13:35, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: A, B, C...

message: I'm definitely in favor of merging this article with the A-K & L-Z articles; because it makes more sense to have one big, uniform list rather than these 3 separate lists (besides, the A-K & L-Z lists are not as expansive as this big one).Sgt. Bond 03:22, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Only problem is the A-K article alone is over 35K.  Now, what could be done is to have those two articles transcluded into this one and all the content on this page merged to them.  Or this page could be made one huge page with the resultant issue of it being very large.  If it's not over 100K then it probably wouldn't be too bad.  Paul Robinson (Rfc1394) 10:21, 3 August 2007 (UTC)

text: I just opened the article for editing.  This article is 82K already; if we add the sub-articles it will probably exceed 150K.  This is a prime indicator that it should be split, and perhaps the subsidiary articles need to be split as well, perhaps split to four sub-articles instead of two.  Thus having it divided into sub articles is the correct method  Paul Robinson (Rfc1394) 10:29, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge
Talk:Impossible cube

message: TODO: I once saw a Linux/X-Windows screen saver that shows a rotating(!) impossible cube.
Maybe some one could turn that into an animated GIF and add it to this page?
I do not have the technical skills to do so (nor access to Linux at the moment).
195.35.160.133 11:19, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In my browser, the two images appear one on top of the other, no matter how wide I make the page; and the present state (with "impossible_cube_illusion_angle" first) is the one which puts the pictures in the correct order.  (I absolutely agree that the image of the illusion must appear first - whatever that means - in the rendered page.)  Zack 07:49, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: I think the impossible cube in the Image:Impossible_cube_illusion_angle.png is not the same type as the one used by Escher in  and which I have seen most often (and which I personally prefer). The current image has two "wrong" intersections, whereas Escher's version has only one. Here's a modified version of the figure with only one intersection wrong. Itub 19:42, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two kinds of impossible cube?