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Talk:Church bus and school bus safety

message: Regarding the new article Church bus and school bus safety, as the holidays approach again, I found myself thinks of those loved ones who won't be with their families due to tragic accidents. So, I am writing this to everyone in memory of the victims of the school (church) bus tragedy which occurred at Carrollton, Kentucky on May 14, 1988.
A happy and fun-filled day for a church group at King's Island theme park near Cincinnati turned into a night of horror and tragedy as one of the worst bus accidents in U.S. history occurred on the way home. 
Please excuse this long article, but I feel better having written it. I hope you do after reading it. I hope we can have some contributing comments. Vaoverland 04:29, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Is this really an encyclopedia article? Seems more like it could be on Wikibooks under the same name. Thanx 68.39.174.150 21:05, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)

message: The underlying problem with this article is that the primary author has tried to impress upon us how horrible the Bus accident at Carrollton, Kentucky in 1988 was and how important taking safety seriously is. The result is that half the article is about one particular accident that has its own article, the other half is a giant how-to about buying and operating buses, and the whole thing is infused with a sense of panic. -- Cyrius|✎ 07:34, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  This is awful 

message: After this VFD debate I have decided to make this page a redirect to school bus, this in order to preserve the history which some indicated might contain useful material. The former versions can be found using the "history"-tab. Sjakkalle (Check!) 10:20, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  VfD debate link
Talk:St Paul's Cathedral

message: I find the lack of a period after "St" in "St Paul's" to be jarring.  I'm aware that Wikipedia guidelines allow this exception, but — as I read the guidelines — the exception is supposed to be for tables and such where space is at a premium.  I'm also aware that the UK punctuation standards may be trending in the direction of discarding the period after certain abbreviations.  But take a look at, for example, St._Paul%27s_Cathedral_(disambiguation).  It's so inconsistent.  Almost all of the world's listings use a period; the exceptions are the Australian, Kenyan, Maltese and UK listings.  Other British Commonwealth nations, Canada and New Zealand, do use the period.  My own preference would be to use the period after St in this article, and perhaps, as a policy throughout Wikipedia.  Any thoughts?  --JohnGHissong (talk) 17:27, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Completely agree:  as a Briton the degeneration of the language marks the general deterioration.  The lack of spaces between the end of sentences and punctuation marks is just as revolting, English printed books even up to the 1950s had it right.  I blame minimalism. Claverhouse (talk) 13:21, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "St. Paul's" or "St Paul's"? 

message: In the 1630s a west front was added to the building by England's first classical architect, Inigo Jones. There was much defacing and mistreatment of the building by Parliamentarian forces during the Civil War, and the old documents and charters were dispersed and destroyed.[page needed] During the Commonwealth, those churchyard buildings that were razed supplied ready-dressed building material for construction projects, such as the Lord Protector's city palace, Somerset House. Crowds were drawn to the north-east corner of the churchyard, St Paul's Cross, where open-air preaching took place.
Seeing as this refers to the commonwealth period, it should be made explicit that the 'Lord Protector's' Palace was that of the earlier 16th century villain, the Duke of Somerset, and not the viler one, Cromwell, LP at this time.
Crummle's body just lay about in that house.
Claverhouse (talk) 13:27, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old St. Paul's
Talk:Mail (disambiguation)

message: Do not remove the link to The Postal Service.  I put it in because postal service redirects to mail. --Smack 04:32, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

message: This is not mentioned in the target article (post box); are post boxes as discrete objects ever referred to as "mails", or is this just an extension of saying "put this in the mail"?  If the latter, I don't think this is a reference to the boxes, but to the mail system in general, which would be like saying smartphones are sometimes called "The Internet".  Would anyone say "the runaway car jumped the curb and smacked into a mail"?
Absent any mention in the target article or any reference, I think this entry should be deleted. Yours for over thinking, NapoliRoma (talk) 05:07, 27 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Mail" meaning "post box"?
Wikipedia talk:Science collaboration of the month

message: Looks like nobody is using this page anymore. To revive the project, I'd like to remove the built-in expectation that a new article must be chosen each month by changing the project's name to "Science Article Improvement Drive" or SciAID for short. I'd also like to make this a subpage of WP:SCI but we need signoff from that WikiProject first. --mav (talk) 00:04, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change name to SciAID and resurrect?
Talk:Cure4Kids

message: from VfD:
Came across this page when "random-surfing".
Seems to me as if this is a vanity page, or at the very least EXTREMELY non-POV. A Google test turns up ~290 results, many of which are from the organization's own site. --Librarian Brent 04:49, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Sollog

message: Since this page is occasionally subject to vandalism, and it should never change (being an archive of the deletion discussion), it has been protected. -- Khym Chanur 09:10, Jan 11, 2005 (UTC)
:Dropped it to semi, which I gather was not around in 2005. Bots, AWB runs, etc. sometimes still need to edit old AfDs. Jenks24 (talk) 17:33, 6 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Page protected
Talk:Aubrey

message: Aubrey is a girl name..... Seriously though people....
(Aubrey.reed (talk) 15:24, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Truth

message: Aubrey rules.....
and I do so love that he does :-*
For shizzle(white girl voice)
David Gates's Aubrey is a beautiful song. I'd love to know the story behind it. - Brian Kendig 17:18, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: drake

message: The Cistercian article contradicts the following sentence:
: In the twelfth century, a Christian saint and abbot named St. Aubrey founded the Cistercian Order, seeking to operate under the Rule of St. Benedict, continuing Benedict of Nursia's tradition of solitary scholarship in a community of monasticism.
We also don't have an article about St. Aubrey, so I;m assuming this is bad data and removing it from the article. Carolina wren (talk) 19:30, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The info is essentially correct. Aubrey (Alberic, in English), co-founded the Cistercians with St Robert of Molesme, and St Stephen Harding, at Citeaux, France. 166.205.153.29 (talk) 20:15, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  St. Aubrey 

message: Aubrey in English comes from French, for a simple reason : English does not vocalize /l/ before /b/ or /d/. It would be "Albrey". Other thing the OE corresponding name is Ælf-riċ. /f/ instead of /b/ in "continental" Germanic.
There is not only one source for this name, but two. Aubrey is the result of the phonetic mutation from a masculine name Alberic and a feminine name Alberada that gave both Aubrey in French (Aubrey is an alternative spelling for Aubry ([i], "obreee") and Aubrée ([e], obre), that's the source of the female name in English, not Alberic. The female's name was especially popular in the noble Norman families in the middle ages written alternatively in the documents Alberada, Alberade, Alberede, Aubree and Aubrey. What is written in the wikitionary is a mistake. See for example as a famous Aubrée : Aubrey of Buonalbergo Nortmannus (talk) 08:52, 13 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poor explanation
Talk:Soprano saxophone

message: I don't understand why a photo of a baritone sax should go in an article about the soprano. Wondering simply, -- Infrogmation 05:08, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

message: Any opinions on creating a Template:Saxophone?? Georgia guy 19:51, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You must have read my mind. Not to worry, though, as I have made such a template just now! Even thought you probably weren't worrying too much, as you had asked for it almost two years ago as of now. But in either case, here it is --Kschwerdt514 17:36, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Per the assistance request left as an editor's note on the main article, I have removed the stray full stop in the template that was appearing after the range graphic. AusTerrapin (talk) 06:46, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Saxophone template 

message: "The less tubing an instrument has, the higher it sounds." This sentence is a non sequitur and irrelevent to this article. It may belong in a different article, but not the soprano saxophone. ChaosMaster 01:21, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's certainly awkwardly placed, but I don't see it as a non sequitur. ¦ Reisio 21:13, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unneeded sentence 

message: The text says that E6 is the highest note, but the picture shows E♭6 as the highest. Which is it?
Now I see! The text says "modern soprano saxophones with a high F# key have a range from A♭3 to E6". The high F# key explains the (concert) E6 instead of E♭6. 
John Link (talk) 00:55, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Upper note E6 or E♭6? 

message: This could use some explanation.  There doesn't seem to be a Wikipedia page for "voicing" in this context.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.1.186.173 (talk) 00:11, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  "the technique of voicing to fix problems with intonation"
Talk:Highlander Research and Education Center

message: References included reference to "Shots Fired: Sam Francis on America's Culture War (Vienna, Virginia: Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation Books, 2006), pp.  162–164."  Fitzgerald Griffin Foundation is listed as a hate group at http://www.splcenter.org/intel/map/hate.jsp and Samuel T. Francis is listed in Wikipedia as "an anti-capitalist[1] paleoconservative columnist, nationally syndicated in America, known for his racialist views."  Fixed. Basilwhite (talk) 11:44, 15 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Reference to Hate Group Publication

message: links to the wrong Don West
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.60.176.216 (talk • contribs) 25 Oct 2005.
* Fixed -- Jmabel | Talk 23:05, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Don West

message: According to the FBI, Don West was a member of the Communist Party. http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/hfschool.htm "The Highlander Folk School, located in Monteagle, TN, was founded by Don West, District Director of the Communist Party in North Carolina, and Miles Norton, Director of the Commonwealth College." 
A good historical assessment of the Communist Party in the U.S. should include the fact that they were active in fighting segregation, and that the did so by having members like West teach people how to organize. And a good assessment of Highlander should point that out. 
At any rate, it's true, and it's relevant, so it belongs in the article. --Nbauman (talk) 15:51, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Don West, Communist Party 
Talk:Raviv Ullman

message: GOSH! Please swap his photo with another one. He's an actor and should be known as a more 'handsome' man. In that pic, he's at a religious ceremony, I REALLY dont find it true that people get pictured (and added to Wiki) while they're praying or something. Please add a better photo to Wiki Commons, please...--Rockermert hsm (talk) 20:20, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: His Photo

message: This link was given in an edit comment.  Look carefully, and at the bottom you'll see the note "The information on this page was used from wikipedia.org".  Bzzzt!!  Wikipedia cannot cite itself as a source. --Kbh3rdtalk 04:10, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  fake source citation 

message: Shouldnt someone say that his dad is a profesional clown??? But he was.
His dad was a clown, straight from Raviv's mouth:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GSFelIOl0oo  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.154.96.152 (talk) 23:33, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: His dad is a clown

message: His professional name is Ricky Ullman, that's what he's known as at imdb, that's what he's billed as when he performs.  MoS calls for this to be at the best-known name, which is Ricky.  If he has indicated that he's now known as Raviv, then please provide proof, otherwise, this should be moved.  Corvus cornixtalk 07:06, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Why is this article at Raviv Ullman?
Talk:Martha Jefferson Randolph

message: Patsy only rarely resided in the President's house. Dolly Madison spent more time hosting for Jefferson, but Thomas himself performed the most work of this type during his presidency. This reference should be deleted. 173.57.26.204 (talk) 19:33, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  First Lady 

message: "She attempted to keep enslaved people with their families when she could, and freed some slaves, but she kept many that she was forced to sell by creditors to settle outstanding debts.[2][34] For instance, in 1827, after her father's death, she sold 130 slaves. As a result, families were separated. The remaining enslaved people were her most valuable assets, and she hired them out when she could for income. She sold two more slaves in 1833.[2]
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She inherited Monticello from her father in 1826, as well as his many debts. Her eldest son Thomas Randolph acted as executor of the estate. Except for five slaves freed in her father's will, and "giving her time" (informal emancipation) to Sally Hemings, they sold the remainder of the 130 slaves at Monticello to try to settle the debts."
So if, in 1827, Patsy sold 130 enslaved people from Monticello, and presumably that means the "remainder of *130* [enslaved] at Monticello," then who was being hired out and ultimately sold in 1833?  Are these from the 8 people that TJ deeded her as a [human] wedding present? Vargob (talk) 23:53, 16 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Internal contradiction around 130 slaves? 

message: :Category:First Ladies and Gentlemen of Virginia was removed from the article in this edit. She was the First lady of Virginia when her husband was governor of the state. So, I reverted that change.–CaroleHenson (talk) 19:23, 19 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  First Lady 

message: This synopsis really misses the boat on Martha Jefferson Randolph. Some good historian, please rewrite it. 2600:100D:B042:7D2A:3C5B:D36A:CEC5:BA9E (talk) 20:10, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article needs serious revision.
Talk:George Callaghan

message: What is "Nore"?
Syd1435 05:51, 2004 Dec 4 (UTC)
:The Nore is an anchorage in SE England. Until 1961 the name was attached to a naval command for the eastern area of England. (Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th ed. v. VII, p. 387.) PKKloeppel (talk) 12:18, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Nore says it all.86.42.206.215 (talk) 10:22, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nore 

message: Does anyone have the Callaghan family tree?  Including George's descendants?
Mumuriel (talk) 03:56, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: His grandfather Daniel Callaghan (politician) was an MP for Cork in Ireland.78.16.104.181 (talk) 09:55, 17 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  George Callaghan Family 

message: Although a citation footnote was given to that point, Admiral Callaghan was NOT buried in Westminster Abbey, he merely had a funeral service held there preceding burial elsewhere. In his sketch in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the burial is not distinctly mentioned or placed but the Commonwealth War Graves Commission record it to be the churchyard of St Mary the Virgin at Bathwick, Somerset. Had his remains been interred in the Abbey (which increasingly in the 20th century would have entailed cremation - the last exception to the rule being The Unknown Warrior) the CWGC would have recorded him under that place. I have amended the detail of his funeral and burial place accordingly. Cloptonson (talk) 21:56, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not buried at Westminster Abbey
Talk:Converb

message: :Topic moved back to Talk:Coverb after split. --Latebird (talk) 15:48, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coverb 

message: :Topic moved back to Talk:Coverb after split. --Latebird (talk) 15:42, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coverbs in Swiss German??? 

message: What is described in this Article is a coverb or serial verb construction (two quite similar phenomenons). a converb is something else (in english somethin like the 'going to' constructions e.g.)--Meikal 13:51, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Since Purevdorj asked me for help, I've done the mechanical part of the split, which should be correct. The current introduction of Coverb is a rough translation from :de:Koverb. Since I'm not a linguist, please check the result carefully to make sure that I didn't introduce any gross factual errors. I also notice that the article here still contains two instances of the term "Coverb" in the text, which may or may not be correct. --Latebird (talk) 13:31, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong Phenomenon 

message: I've just added some data that should add to the information about converbs, but on the other hand, it also unbalances the article. I intend to fix this, but I shall not have access to the literature for almost two more weeks. Then, there are other things to do for me as well, thus it might take me (at the longest) until the mid of February to do so. Anyone else who'd like to present and explain some examples from Haspelmath and König would be welcome, of course. I also intend to use Martin on Korean and Japanese, Levin on Korean and Mattissen-Piaszenski on Japanese. 
Hopefully, Aidhoss could do something similar for "coverbs" as my knowledge on this subject is not that good.
G Purevdorj 13:43, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expansion 

message: I just deleted a tag that claimed that this article doesn't have sufficient inner citations. Now while page numbers may be missing, all material taken from secondary sources appears indeed to be attributed to these. A major part of the article is made up by an example from Mongolian which I had taken from some non-scientific internet source and commented upon to illustrate some points that are very well known in the field and could with a multitude of citations and examples be worked into this article as well. But it couldn't be presented with the same ease. On the other hand, a statement as basic as the one given here can hardly ever considered "original research" as there is nothing original or new about it. Of course, it would be easy to name just some book that treats -magc and -z (which should also hold for Ramstedt 1903) and reference to it. It would be about as meaningful as confirming that "I know it" is a sentence of English by referencing to some grammar of English.
There might be an additional point of relevance which is that the only source that really contrasts to the understanding of converbs from philology is Haspelmath, not even König. And of course, 1995 is not the last year with respect to research on converbs.
G Purevdorj (talk) 22:03, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleting tag
Talk:The Shelter (The Twilight Zone)

message: The local neighborhood of a typical suburban community is having a small dinner to honor the local Dr. Stockton at his house. Everybody is especially friendly and mention is made of his late night work on a fallout shelter that he has built in the basement. A scary radio announcement is made that unidentified objects have been detected heading for the United States. Everybody knows what it means, nuclear attack. The doctor locks himself and his family into the shelter. The neighborhood becomes hysterical and wants to occupy the shelter. All the friendliness disappears and is replaced with hate. The last scene shows the once friendly neighbors breaking down the door to the shelter with a battering ram. Just then, the radio announces that the objects have been identified as harmless satellites. Rod Serling makes the final statement. "For civilization to survive, man must remain civilized." This episode is historic in that it aired days before the Cuban Missile Crisis and helped to create the hysteria of the greatest crisis of the cold war.
                   Larry Goynes
that is not true.  this episode aired in Sept. 1961 and the Cuban Missile Crisis was in Oct. 1962.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.110.33.144 (talk) 11:02, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:List of American advertising characters

message: I don't understand why this article has an "other notable characters and their brands" section after the main list. What criteria are used for placing a character on one list or the other? It doesn't seem to be due to a difference in how well known they (or their companies/products) are, or the timeframe of their use, or any other reason I can tell. In fact, at least one (Punchy, the Hawaiian Punch dude) is on both lists. Should the two lists perhaps be merged into a single list? Or am I missing something here? -Rwv37 (talk) 19:23, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why two different sections?
Talk:Thonburi

message: Are there any concrete evidence that the Japanese word Donburi for bowls comes from Thonburi's exports of ceramicware and Celadon? --Bobbagum 07:43, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)

message: Of the present administration of Bangkok "Metropolis" or Province, which districts or khet represented the now-defunct province of Thonburi before merging with the province of Phra Nakhon? jlog3000 (talk) 17:40, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: All those districts west of the Chao Phraya, except of course those which were not yet created at the time the two provinces were merged. I have corrected the administration section accordingly, as it showed the subdistricts of Thonburi district, the former Mueang district of Thonburi province. andy (talk) 17:48, 6 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Districts that represented Thonburi Province