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Talk:Petroleum industry

message: An article about the petroleum industry and there’s not a single mention of Standard Oil on the entire page? Standard Oil WAS the modern petroleum industry in the second half of the 19th Century, and it’s divested companies dominated the first half of the 20th Century. These energy companies are still dominant today in their current forms.
JamesMadison (talk) 18:45, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: No Mention of Standard Oil?

message: Above statement is not correct. First, could not find this "Armenians established the oil industry in Azerbaijan" stated in provided sources. Secondly, Ivan Mirzoev can not be the first person who drilled oil well in 1872, because we have reports about the first land wells since 1593. According to the source  Mirzoev was one of those who DRILLED well using the wooden oil derrick. Considering that I rephrasing sentence as such:  Abrvagl (talk) 16:54, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ivan Mirzoev
Talk:Allan Corduner

message: Corduner portrayed Arthur Sullivan in the film.   But I don't understand why he is in the Category "Gilbert and Sullivan performers"?  Ssilvers 12:51, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. I've recategorized him to British actors. Marc Shepherd 14:10, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Is this category correct?

message: source for category gay musicians: http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1589/is_2000_Feb_15/ai_59410464/pg_2 Sophy's Duckling 20:44, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Category
Category talk:Airports in Washington, D.C.

message: I'm sure this has been discussed somewhere (though I can't figure out where) but is "in" really appopriate here?  We acknowledge on the Category page that none of these airports are in the District, but why use a title that is strictly speaking false in the first place?  Why not "Airports serving Washington DC" or "Airports in greater Washington DC" or the like? --Jfruh (talk) 12:53, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: particularly here in the US where knowledge of geography is lacking - Knowledge of history is apparently lacking for others. The land was donated by Maryland and Virginia. Also, the DoC is not a city-state. APK thinks he's ready for his closeup 13:36, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: "in"?
Talk:Mark Vos

message: While news articles on Mark may be scarce at this stage, I don't believe every reference to him on the web needs to be listed. A report by the Melbourne Herald Sun of an alleged poker war between Mark Vos and Joe Hachem should not be taken as thorough investigative journalism and does not need to be listed under Mark's external links. Ash73 12:55, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Links 
Talk:Taurus (astrology)

message: The associated body part for Taurus should be the neck and shoulders, not genitalia.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.28.60.196 (talk • contribs) 09:09, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Body part 

message: কখন সফলতা পাব কি কাজ 2409:40E1:1000:58DC:D89B:5CB2:5178:BD35 (talk) 04:30, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  কাজ কম ভবিষ্যতে
Talk:Nevill Coghill

message: Coghill directed the above production, which is so well-known in broader theatrical history that it is still discussed in reverent terms more than 50 years later. I know that in general we don't create articles for particular productions of plays, but this one seems to be so significant that I wonder if it should be covered explicitly. WMMartin 13:02, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  OUDS 1949 Production of "The Tempest" 

message: The sentences on The Homeward Ride were entirely unsourced; I found a mention on the Chaucer Heritage Trust website. Claim that it was only put on in Australia was contradicted on that website so I removed that sentence as that seemed sensible; they suggest it was produced in London and the South East (of England) at least once, and likely multiple times. See here: https://chaucer.org.uk/history/ 192.76.8.66 (talk) 18:10, 25 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Musicals
Talk:Bridgnorth Cliff Railway

message: An anonymous user changed the current price from 80p for a return (no single tickets available) to £1.75/£2.75 for single/return tickets. As this was a major change I've had a look for sources to confirm this, but I've not found anything. The official website is curerntly not working (requesting authorisation to view) but Google's cache from February 2006 advertises returns for 80p. I've not found any other page with prices that has a date. As such I have reverted the change and updated the as of date to February 2006. Thryduulf 13:13, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That seems like the right thing to do. Gwernol 13:37, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Current prices

message: The article contains the following:
:Although it remains in the town's ownership, the railway has been operated by a private company, the Bridgnorth Castle Hill Railway Company Ltd, since 1995.
This is not reflected in the history section, which indicates that the company built the line back in the 19th century, and gives no indication of subsequent municipal ownership. The history section is properly sourced; the above statement is not. So I've marked it as needing citation. -- Waterstones 13:10, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hum. Further digging shows the source of the above statement (the BBC web site now referenced) but it is a bit of a misquote. What the BBC says is that current owners of the company have operated it since 1995. A company search (also now referenced) shows the company was incorporated in 1970. How that squares with the company incorporated in 1891 is not clear. It could just be the same name was used for a different company. If anybody can clarify, please do. -- Waterstones 15:04, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Ownership / operatorship

message: Saltburn has the oldest cliff lift 2A00:23C7:2518:E701:74F6:7A4F:F36F:6613 (talk) 17:42, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Saltburn cliff lift
Talk:Jerry Mander

message: Hey as much as I like the fact that I'm (Quin Aaron Shakra) cited as a source for this article, someone could do the work and pull Mander's biography information from Mander's book In the Absence of the Sacred which is where i got the infomation that's quoted. It's a more direct source.
Jadecricket (talk) 22:16, 27 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:New Brunswick Southern Railway

message: Note, that there was also an Eastern Maine Railway in former times, owning the line Bangor - Bucksport. So the redirect there should rather be a disambiguation page. --Thogo (Talk) 11:35, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Who owns the railroad company? Greedy Irving?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.184.35.114 (talk) 12:26, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Merritt Island, Florida

message: The photograph that claims to be of Merritt Island, used in the article on this page, is NOT of Merritt Island.  Seems incredible, what in this photo represents the island? The large inlet there in the photograph appears to be either Sebastian Inlet, or is further north of Merritt Island.  Where is the Banana River? Where is the Mosquito Lagoon? Where is the Indian River? Perhaps there is part of the island in this photo, but I do not think it is representative of the MI that I know. Please confirm or comment before I make a major edit. Thanks. Brick Thrower (talk) 21:03, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Merritt Island SPOT photo image

message: Thomas Jefferson Middle School was formerly Thomas Jefferson Junior High School.  The sign in front of the place was rendered
THOMAS JEFFERSON JR.
HIGH SCHOOL
... which puzzled me the first time I saw it. I wondered just who Thomas Jefferson Jr. might be, and why they named a high school after him, instead of, say, Sammy Davis Jr. or William F. Buckley Jr.  As we all know, the Third President didn't have any sons, at least none that he admitted to.  I eventually figured it out. WHPratt (talk) 03:17, 26 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Schools 

message: Jefferson middle school is the most common school of choice for most students entering the 7th grade on Merritt Island, Fl. The school receiving its name after one of our founding fathers and our 3rd President, Thomas Jefferson. The School is home to the states men. It is a school for 7th and graders. With its own sports, educational programs, electives, and future training for adults. The sports include Basketball, track, and gym on normal school days. Jefferson middle is located on South Courtney parkway, just south of the Merritt island airport.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.197.74.40 (talk) 01:32, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thomas Jefferson Middle School 

message: A wait of over 5 hours to receive 8 sandbags for protection from hurricane Irma was underway Sept 8 2017.  Hurricane preparedness section or mention might should be a part of the article so as to demonstrate the degree of emergency preparedness that the local governmental officials were providing for the citizens.  Prison labor was filling bags with a shovel as a line of automobiles waited for their allotment.  CNN aired a segment on Sept 8 2017.--Wikipietime (talk) 13:40, 8 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Irma sand bagging dispensing operation
Talk:International Railway of Maine

message: SPUI moved this "article" to International Railway (Canada) which is quite nonsense. I moved it back to the official name. --Thogo (Talk) 10:40, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lemma 

message: What are the sources for the opening year 1889? I don't believe that this is true. The road was owned by Atlantic&North West Ry., leased to Ontario&Quebec in 1883, and finally leased to CP in 1886. Please find sources for the 1889 date. Thank you. --Thogo (Talk) 10:40, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the ICC valuation for the International of Maine: "The Atlantic and Northeast[sic] Railway Company continued the work in Maine, and the road between Boundary and Mattawamkeag was completed and opened for operation on June 1, 1889." --NE2 21:20, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opening year 

message: While I'm at it, I'm going to try to figure out how this relates to the Atlantic and North-West Railway (incorporated May 15, 1879). According to the ICC valuation, it acquired the property on December 6, 1886. It then includes this strange note: "This report will deal only with that portion of the property of the Atlantic and Northeast[sic] Railway Company located in the State of Maine, which will be considered as standing in the name of the International Railway of Maine."
According to Moody's Transportation Manual, 1992, the A&NW owned the following (I've added who currently operates and probably owns the lines):
:St. Lawrence River Bridge (South End) to Farnham, 33.1 miles; (CP and Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway)
:Brookport to Megantic, 125.7 miles; (Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway)
:West connection to M&A at Foster, 0.2 mile; (appears to be abandoned)
:Megantic to U.S. boundary, 15.3 miles; (Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway)
:U.S. boundary to Mattawamkeag, Me., 144.6 miles; (Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway and Eastern Maine Railway)
:Sherbrooke to Newington, 0.9 mile. (probably Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway)
As best as I can tell, the line east of Megantic was spun off to the Canadian Atlantic Railway in September 1988, and abandoned on December 31, 1994. The Canadian American Railroad and Eastern Maine Railway bought the line and restored service on January 6, 1995. Lennoxville to Megantic appears to have been included in the latter sale but not the former.
St. Jean to Lennoxville became part of the Quebec Southern Railway on September 28, 1996, while Montreal to St. Jean was included in the St. Lawrence and Hudson Railway on October 1, 1996, but given back to the CP on January 1, 2001. So was the A&NW without any property at the end of 1996? Or were any of these leases? --NE2 21:20, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: A&NW?
Talk:Monson Railroad

message: Can anyone find information about the origin of these cars?  Did Boyd and Harvey Lumber Company purchase these cars new from Portland Company or were they used cars (possibly Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad #298 and #321) provided by Maine Central Railroad with used light rail as part of the contract for delivery of new railroad ties?Thewellman (talk) 18:06, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Flat Cars #23 & #24
Talk:Thief2X: Shadows of the Metal Age

message: I think that T2x is important in the Thief canon - it's regarded as an unofficial Thief3, and certainly stands up with the first two. It also shares a developer with TDS.
I've heard it said that it was one of the largest mod/expansion packs made, though I wish I could get evidence/citation. As for coverage, it has had stand alone media coverage, and front cover billing on a magazine DVD (artwork prominently displayed).
--Auralrothko 13:24, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Notable it may be, but does it really warrant its own article?  I say we merge this with Thief II: The Metal Age --- what do you people think?  --Goblin ›talk 03:01, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Importance/Notability
Talk:Maryland and Delaware Railroad

message: When did the state of Maryland buy the North Line and Seaford Line tracks from Penn Central? The "History" section of the MDDE website states only that the branches were purchased by Maryland, but does not mention the year. Folklore1 (talk) 14:35, 7 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: The BPW agenda summary for June 25, 2008 gives an effective date of July 1, 2008 for the MD-DE Railroad's contract with Maryland. This is incorrect; the actual start date of the contract was October 1, 2008 and the end date is June 30, 2013, a period slightly shorter than five years. However, I have not been able to find any publicly accessible sources for reference, so I left only the effective year in the article. The year can be verified in the "History" section of the MD-DE Railroad website, which doesn't state the precise date. Folklore1 (talk) 18:50, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current contract 
Talk:Winchester and Western Railroad

message: *Winchester and Western Railroad, 1916 - 1930-09-01
*Wardensville Railroad (West Virginia), 1929 - 1929-08-01
*Winchester Railroad (Virginia), 1929 - 1929-08-01
*Winchester and Wardensville Railroad, 1929-08-01 - 1941-03-01 
*Winchester and Western Railroad, 1940-02-17 - present
--NE2 10:08, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Predecessors
Talk:PFC Lokomotiv Plovdiv

message: Awfully written article. Not giving any information on the history of the team (except for the latest years), almost no information of famous players and managers, also nothing is said about the stadium. The article is poorly structured, no information is given about the current season squad. --Veseo 21:42, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

message: Does anyone know what's the story behind Mr Tasev's assasination?Parrisia 17:11, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Late President 

message: Here it says 1926, not 1936. ErikvanB (talk) 15:20, 10 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of foundation 
Talk:List of railroad lines in Massachusetts

message: It would be neat to have the dates of construction for each. -- Beland 01:20, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dates 
Talk:Corporation for Public Broadcasting

message: The CPB has had it's congressional funding threatened a number of times, mostly by Republicans who think PBS had a left-wing bias. President Nixon was well known for his dislike of PBS and the CPB and wanted to kill the congressional funding for it, though never succeeded. We should included something on the various attempts by Presidents and/or congressmen to cut it's funding. Here is a article that covers the history of CPB and includes links it's source material (New York Times and Business Week mostly) that all have useful historical info in them that belongs in this article: http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/corporation-for-public-broadcasting-history/ --Notcharliechaplin (talk) 18:41, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing info on funding threats to CPB over the years. 

message: Outlets like RT have a statement that they are funded and controlled by the government, even though similar to CPD-funded media, they receive funding from taxpayers. It seems like a bias/POV issue to not list PBS, NPR, etc, similarly. This very article talks about admitted government bias at the CPB. Asaturn (talk) 19:18, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: This article says: "people from PBS and NPR complained that the CPB was starting to push a conservative agenda." NPR controversies says: "Various allegations of bias against conservatives have arisen throughout NPR's history." In the 50 years since NPR was founded, the US has had Democratic presidents during 20 years and Republican presidents during 30 years. What do you think – which of these governments "controlled" NPR? — Chrisahn (talk) 18:23, 4 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  why are CPB-funded media outlets not called state-sponsored or government-funded?
Talk:Coongulla, Victoria

message: I wikified your article as best as I could. This article needs much work. It is really a series of lists. Except for giving statistics (for which you do not cite your references), you do not describe your town, its character or history. The reader is given no idea of what kind of town it is, what the geography around it is like, etc. 
We would like to know more about your town! KarenAnn 13:39, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
Talk:The Lung

message: This was my first article that I've actually written for Wikipedia, let me say that first off. I'm not even 100% sure I'm doing this talk page right. Anyway, "the lung" is pretty similar to a gravity bong, and maybe it should just be appended to the gravity bong article. I really want to add references to this page but either due to it being a regional phenomenon, or just hard keywords to find (too common), I can't find anything online about it. I live in Iowa and it is used pretty commonly, and I know of people in other places throughout the midwest that have used them, too. Anyway, I'm just posting this comment so those more experienced than me in doing this stuff can maybe improve on it and/or find citations --Killfoot 13:39, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Smoking Gunns

message: I am proposing that this article be moved to The Smoking Gunns. "Smoking" was the spelling used when they were in the WWF (as seen in the WWF magazine and on event programs and the video screen during their entrance video, and it was the name shown on the screen during their ring entrance). WWE.com uses both spellings of the name, but most other sites that we use as sources (Pro Wrestling History, Online World of Wrestling, Wrestling Information Archive, 411mania, SLAM! Wrestling, Wrestling Digest, The History of WWE) use the spelling with the "g". GaryColemanFan (talk) 18:18, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Name change for [[The Smokin' Gunns]]
Talk:Progressive Rail, Inc.

message: I have now updated the list of shortlines owned by Progressive. I have also tried my best cleaning up what redirects where (as indicated by what is bolded in the article lead), but I can easily have missed something. CapnZapp (talk) 09:46, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shortlines and redirects
Talk:Twin Cities and Western Railroad

message: The drama of where the Twin Cities & Western was going to be reouted due to the Southwest LRT project has ended with the railroad staying in the Kenilworth Corridor, so having two sections entitled "Current Routing" and "Planned Changes" respectively no longer makes sense. I thus propose that they be merged into one section, entitled, perhaps, "Operations." TH1980 (talk) 03:40, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Here is a better title for the proposed merged sections: "Operations." Comments, anyone? TH1980 (talk) 01:08, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I have gone and merged "Current Routing" and "Planned Changes" into a section entitled "Operations." TH1980 (talk) 01:15, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge "Current Routing" and "Planned Changes" into one section?
Talk:Sven Väth

message: The guy in the photography is Ritchie Hawtin, not Sven Vath  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.97.161.166 (talk) 01:22, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I though Hawtin was a baldy? Ahhh I see after googling.. what a similarity! hawhaw -maxrspct ping me  15:32, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

text: They actually dance together at some after party in Ibiza..see youtube. the likeness is quite funny. --maxrspct ping me  15:42, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I am changing the class of this article to C-class. It has enough development, structure, and MOS style-compliance that it has (I feel at least) that it has enough criteria for a long-overdue status upgrade. I feel like that there may be updating needed to some parts of the article, though. (If you are looking for things to improve, that might be one.)
Devinthepeng (talk) 23:59, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Class change 

message: Is this the Svein Sings the Hits guy who did Take On Me drunk?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaxelrod (talk • contribs) 03:52, 1 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Svein Sings the Hits?
Talk:Minneapolis, Northfield and Southern Railway

message: Articles keep appearing on different aspects of the MN&S, past and present.  Would it be wise to roll the MN&S Spur and Dan Patch Line Bridge articles into the main MN&S article under a subsection for each?  If nothing else, both of those articles should better reflect the main one on the Dan Patch Lines. A.w.stephens (talk) 07:04, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  MN&S Spur and Dan Patch Line Bridge 
Talk:Twin City Rapid Transit Company

message: Twin City Rapid Transit Pictorial 30th Anniversary Edition: 1954-1984 by Alan R. Lind, published by Transport History Press pg 79 can be used for a source for the 91 to Mexico City, 30 to Newark, and 20 to Shaker Heights, with slightly more detail. Company takeover and decline, second paragraph, second sentence, and Streetcar preservation, first paragraph, can use this.
Twin Cities by Trolley, The Streetcar Era in Minneapolis and St. Paul by John W. Diers & Aaron Isaacs, published by University of Minnesota Press ISBN-13:978-0-8166-4358-5, can be used as a source. Chapter 1-4 relate to the history. Epilogue: Conspiracy Theories also relates history. A'nother'un (talk) 03:46, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two more sources
Talk:Domain name registry

message: User:wikibase has twice deleted the external links for this article.  I am listing them below rather than replacing (reverting) them back into the article, because I would like the opinions of others:  are these spam (more or less), or not particularly notable, or are they worthwhile to include? (I normally give credence to a named user who deletes external links, but wikibase has essentially had every one of his/her additions to articles reverted because they were judged to be spam.) John Broughton 14:00, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Personally, I'd tend to delete them too, citing WP:EL. I tend to be somewhere between firm and harsh on external links, mostly on the theory that the existence of a marginal link will be used to justify a slightly more marginal one, etc., a classic slippery slope argument, with all its faults. One the other hand, I'm not a day-to-day link crusader. A recent link edit I've done was to green tea. Studerby 06:16, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

message: Considering the list of 
* .au Australia
* .uk UK
is available from other parts of Wikipeida, is it needed here? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by AFA (talk • contribs) 00:09, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Do the article need the long list? 

message: There are hundredths of TLDs and registers. Why a statement  like
"IANA delegates all other domain name authority to other domain name registries such as VeriSign." and not "such  as anybody else"? Do we really need such "such as"?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.96.3.241 (talk) 12:32, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  why VeriSign?