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Talk:Observation tower

message: According to an anon on the village pump this is a translation of de:Aussichtsturm. Still, it looks like a machine translation. Some editing or reworking would be appreciated. - Mgm|(talk) 09:31, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)
:I cleaned up the translation of "special observation towers".  It should be good now.  -zappa 05:38, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Note also that the English "Observation tower" has a different meaning the German "Aussichtsturm" (literally Outlook tower) which is set as the interwiki  - The German word "Aussichtsturm" can not have a (para-)military connotation at all. The German article states that in its introduction very clearly (Aussichtstürme, auf denen Posten sitzen, die über größere Zeiträume ein Gebiet überwachen, werden als Wachtürme bezeichnet. - Oberservation towers that are held by guard posts over an extended period to overlook an area are called watchtowers.) Guidod 12:26, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

text: Done. Peter Horn 03:02, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  German-centric 

message: * Oppose merge. -- Petri Krohn 11:38, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge from [[Observation tower (ride)]] 

message: A section describing bird observation towers would be useful, on need for a separate article. Peter Horn 02:55, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Oops, make that "no need". Peter Horn 03:04, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bird observation tower
Talk:Giovanni Gronchi

message: This is a beginner's self-tutorial effort to write a "good" article on a simple topic. Comments welcome. Mario 15:28, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This is a low B article.  More specific citations would help as would addition of more detailed information throughout.  ludahai 魯大海 05:07, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Rating

message: Maybe it should be added that one of the most important streets of São Paulo, Brazil, was named after him? While not being important, I personally find it interesting.
ByzantineCaesar (talk) 18:01, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Avenida Giovanni Gronchi
Talk:Surf (detergent)

message: Was Surf discontinued? It's been over a year since I've seen it at my local Ralphs, and now it's no longer at Walmart either.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.67.35.214 (talk) 16:10, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discontinued? 

message: helpme
I had written an article on Surf Excel Matic and has been redirected to the Surf Article, would like to know and get the permission to put the content i have on the page along with relevant links. Kindly advise/consider. Nellerism (talk) 13:37, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Surf Excel Matic

message: The body of the article states quite clearly the Unilver's main detergent brand in most markets is Omo, not Surf. The article should therefore be Omo (detergent), and Surf (detergent) should redirect there. 
The intro needs to be rewritten. As is stands, it is a haphazard list of markets and brand names; this should be reorganized as a list at the end of the article, and the intro should have a much clearer history of What brands were introduced when, together with (if possible) details on major regional markets (Europe, US, Latin America, Asia, Australia/NZ). I don't know enough about the topic to help with ther rwrite, moreover, reading the artcile did not materially increase my knowledge.  
One thing is sure: to tag either Surf or Omo as Food or Drink is just plain wrong. Just try to mix Omo and water and take a drink!
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Poflaatten (talk • contribs) 16:03, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirecting Omo to Surf is upside-down
Talk:OpenWindows

message: Ok now, I've dumped a History section in, based on Solaris FAQ for which I also provided link. I'm no Solaris expert, so it would be nice if one takes a look at that and corrects if necessary, or at least makes it more readable ;) Also I couldn't find the first release date and pertaining SunOS version (I practically started the history from the introduction of Solaris), so someone should fill that in. --Arny 09:14, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: History section

message: I still use OpenWindows on Solaris so I uploaded a screenshot of the default look. If anyone wants to see/know more let me know. A305w 02:21, 10 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the contribution! Do you remember which version of OpenWindows that was? Ringbang (talk) 21:35, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: OpenWindows
Talk:Jabberjaw

message: A few years ago, there was a song and music video they kept running on CN about this show, anyone have information on it?
At the bottom where it says Jabberjaw and the Neptunes are portrayed as a ska band with the music set to Pain, would this be correct? Pain does not consider themself to be a ska band.
--Satherev 03:15, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Gayo language

message: kune keber
:Could someone specify whether it belongs to the Inner or the Outer West MP languages?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.77.16.153 (talk) 18:21, 13 April 2008 (UTC)

message: refer to this publication -> Gayo Language is Old Malay (A Dialectology Study: The Language Change)  any thought? Ckfasdf (talk) 01:53, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I strongly recommend not to include this piece in the article. It makes an unfounded equation of Gayo with "Old Malay" and ends with a quantitive analysis which only includes Gayo and "New Malay" (= Standard Malay = Indonesian). Little can be learned from it, unless more lects were included. The conclusion that "it is very possible that Gayo’s ancestors are also the ancestors for Achinese, Batak, Minangkabau, New Malay ad other tribes among Sumatra island" is trivial, since all are Austronesian-speaking peoples. The statement could be permutated ad lib (e.g. "Achinese’s ancestors are also the ancestors for ..."). I think  will agree. –Austronesier (talk) 17:21, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  LOL... noted Ckfasdf (talk) 04:36, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gayo is old malay? 

message: The image on the language's infobox shows the language's native script (?) I'm struggling to find any information about it, and everything I have been able to find only shows the language being written in latin, like this this one from omniglot Can anybody find information about it? Svenard (talk) 18:05, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: As a first measure, I will remove the image, since it is unsourced and not exactly a gem. As for the script, you won't find anything about it before 2017. In 2017, a Gayo "researcher" came forward claiming to have discovered a manuscript in a hitherto unknown script that – according to him – has been in his family's possession for generations and which contains text written in a native script he calls rasi Gayo. You can search for "aksara Gayo" in Google and will find a few sources about it (mostly press reports). While it is not entirely impossible that a hidden literary tradition might have escaped the attention of Indonesian and foreign researchers in the past, I consider it highly implausible. Also, the sources (reporting about local seminars and press conferences) make some outlandish claims like rasi Gayo being the oldest script in Sumatra and possibly being related to ancient Greek stenography. Time will tell whether it is a hoax or really reflects an obscure but genuine literary tradition. For the time being, especially since peer-reviewed academic sources are entirely lacking, any mention of it in this article is totally undue. –Austronesier (talk) 18:53, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Writing system?
Talk:Swinton Lions

message: Wikipedia is not a place to raise funds for projects. Thanks. Triage (talk) 15:02, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fund raising 

message: Who updates the stats Abrame123 (talk) 15:25, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stats
Talk:The Shape of Punk to Come

message: I'm going to go ahead and remove the sentance about "this album has been the main influence for thursday and AFI" or whatever.  There's no citation and no one has attempted to provide one.  Furthermore, TSOPTC came out in 1998, at specifically the time that AFI was moving away from hardcore punk into more somber musical stuff.  I can't speak for thursday, cause... I don't know much about them.  But without a citation, I'm certainly not comfortable with saying anything AFI has done since 1998 has been based off of a refused album.
~X 128.173.236.156 14:51, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation needed for AFI / Thursday 

message: In the album cover track number 3 is spelled "The Deadly Rythm" (without the h), track 4 "Summerholidays Vs. Punkroutine" (plural holidays) and track 9 "Refused Are Fuckin Dead" (without the '). If those titles are wrong then I think it should appear on the article.
Track 11: Tannhäuser/Derivé (mind the é!)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.195.110.161 (talk) 17:19, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Track names in the album cover 

message: None of Refused's songs have their own seperate article. I think one for New Noise should be made at least. This is their most popular song and the one most people think about when Refused is mentioned Titan50 16:01, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Noise article 

message: Ignoring the fact that the page has few references, the "Influence" section is full of a seemingly non-notable series of covers, as well as somehow irrelevant homages to the album and its songs. Perhaps it seems notorious enough to mention the inclusion of the album in certain professional lists, as well as referenced opinions of musicians which have explicitly described it as influential in their work. For comparison, see this "Legacy" section. I wish there was consensus for this, however, if there's no opposition in the next days/weeks, I'll be bold and remove the most trivial references and, in case there's not enough material for the Influence section, I think it could be merged with the Overview section for now. --190.159.187.70 (talk) 04:45, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relevance of "Influence" section 
Talk:Ibn Tufayl

message: he's an Arab. He's not berber
His family name al-Qaisi, he belongs to  Arabian tribe Qais
source:
*1001 Inventions
*D. Mohammed Faris .. Encyclopedia Muslim and Arab scholars
*Baqir al-Amir roses ..Arab scholars  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.97.81.226 (talk) 07:16, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I had to revert your addition, because we need the full source information. For a book, that means the title, author, publisher, and year of publication. If you have that information, feel free to put it here, and I can get the formatting right. Qwyrxian (talk) 00:31, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: he is arab
Talk:The Secret of the Unicorn

message: There is no reference that I recall to a town in Belgium-like many of Herge's works, the location is generic Europe, and no definitive place names are given.
Halfsnail 11:39, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Hello fellow Wikipedians! As you may (or may not) have noticed, I have recently been involved in adding to several articles on The Adventures of Tintin, most prominently Tintin in the Land of the Soviets and Tintin in the Congo. As we speak, the former of these is in for FA review, and the latter for GA review. As a film adaptation of Secrets of the Unicorn will be out later this year (2011), I think that this article really needs to be pulled up to scratch, as many interested readers will likely come here then. For this reason, I believe in following the same basic template that I used on the Soviets page, and which appears to be succesful. To this end, I intend to use a wide variety of literary sources at my disposal to add to this article, + I plan to include images from the strip itself. However, whereas the recent work on those pages has been largely alone, here there are others with interests in making improvements, so let's get together and discuss what needs to be done. (Midnightblueowl (talk) 12:10, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improving the article 

message: I´m making a small change here. It currently says "the captain tells him of how Sir Francis Haddock had stolen the treasure of the pirate Red Rackham somewhere in...", but at this point in the story we are NOT informed that Sir Francis stole the treasure, hence all the diving in the next book.Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 15:35, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Synopsis 

message: The History/Background section of this article contains well-written text that is truly the history of the entire Adventures of Tintin series. For that reason, this section has been removed from this article and moved to the The Adventures of Tintin article. See the talk page there. —Prhartcom (talk) 16:27, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  History/Background section moved to main series article 

message: The article currently says, "The Secret of the Unicorn" was set entirely in Belgium and was the last Adventure to be set there until The Castafiore Emerald".
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Secret of the Unicorn also the first Adventure to be set entirely in Belgium? That seems worth noting, if sourcing can be found.
Also, other Adventures in between Secret of the Unicorn and Castafiore Emerald take place in Belgium; Secret of the Unicorn is simply the last Adventure to be set entirely in Belgium until the Castafiore Emerald. So that should be clarified. --Jpcase (talk) 15:24, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Belgium setting
File talk:Theresa Knott Sig.gif

message: Just wonderin' - did you use any special software to create this sig, or just photoshop et al? ··gracefool |☺ 11:39, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

message: God bless you for defending the positive reviews
 for Michael Denton's book. Wikipedia uses science bias
 to weed out the positive reviews.WScott1
 (talk) 11:14, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Evolution: A Theory In Crisis
Talk:Eskimos

message: I find there is an article Eskimo, fine, but that Eskimos is a redirect to Inuit. I don't understand the nicities but this makes no sense to me. See also Talk:Eskimo. So, I am changing so Eskimos redirects to Eskimo and I'll look and see what links to Eskimos with a view to avoiding the term anyway. Thincat 12:13, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Catering

message: This entire article is biased towards the Western world, and more specifically the USA in the history section. This needs more from the rest of the world. - Bleaney (talk) 20:43, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Worldview 

message: History of catring 103.192.78.221 (talk) 07:44, 19 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Catring 

message: — Assignment last updated by Mantaray2 (talk) 18:24, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Black Foodways in the United States
Talk:Tai Wo Hau station

message: Is this the first underground station in the New Territories? Lai King, also in the New Territories, is partly "inside" a hillside slope.  — Instantnood 12:35, Jun 15, 2005 (UTC)
:Lai King Station is indeed built as "cutting" the slope, so shouldn't be treated as fully underground.  For wiki standards, the article text should be amended though.  Patrickov 09:55, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Omweso

message: What is the so called "mayer test"? It links back to this page!
--81.38.183.95 22:25, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently a certain Professor of Physics called Steven Mayer provided a way to determine whether a position can lead to a never-ending omweso move. See more at Omweso: The Royal Mancala Game Of Uganda - A General Overview Of Current Research. --Ezeu 22:43, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mayer test
Talk:Paul DeFanti

message: This article is short, but how much can you say about someone who doesn't exist and was made up for one purpose only?  I don't see that tagging it a stub serves any purpose whatsoever.  --John Cowan 12:48, 2005 Jun 15 (UTC)
* I'm not a Reliable Source, but I knew some of the original Ig Nobel organizers socially at the time. IIRC, Paul DeFanti was a real person, an administrative person at MIT, who was helpful in making the Igs happen - logistical things like arranging the use of the auditorium, etc. I don't remember if he actually came up with the Buckybonnet but I think that giving him the award was either (a) a way to say "thanks" for all the help or (b) a way to pad out a slightly too-short program. :-) Hm, I wonder if any of the primary sources original organizers are still working at the MIT Museum? FreplySpang 18:14, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: These articles in The MIT Tech and this one in The Harvard Crimson make it sound like DeFanti is a real person. – Minh Nguyễn (talk, contribs) 01:40, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Talk:New Britain Party

message: I don't know much about this party but there may be some errors in this article. If anyone with better knowledge can assist in cleaning it, this would be appreciated.
Firstly, I can't reconcile the character of Patrick Moore with the "infamously chaired by TV astronomer Patrick Moore" reference. I can't think that he would do anything infamously. Does it mean that the fact that he was associated with the party at all was infamous or that he chaired it in an infamous manner? In any event it's probably POV.
Does the NBP still organise an annual March for Freedom from Runnymede to Westminster if it's now just one man?
I don't think the UKIP supports any other political party, but the statement that NBP is supported by them seems questionable.
User:DavidFarmbrough 13:50 (BST) 15 JUN 2005
Intruiged by this question, I did some Google searches. Searching on New Britain Party, I found very little about the party itelf, but literally hundreds of pages referring to the past membership of the party of UKIP's Nattrass and Titford, always with the implication that this shows UKIP to be 'Brownshirts in Blazers".  The original text references, much duplicated, seems to come from the Britain in Europe website and from this Wikipedia article.
Googling on "New Britain Party" + "March for Freedom" I found literally nothing except repetitions of this Wikipedia article in the usual places.
Googling on "March for Freedom" + "Runnymede" I found two pages on the website of the all-party Campaign for an Independdent Britain. These referred to the march taking place in 1998 and 1999, and said it was organised by the Anti Maastrict Alliance (a eurosceptic umbrella group, now nearly defunct, which so far as I can tell had nothing to do with the NBP though it may have been connected with UKIP).
I therefore conclude (a) that the annual March for Freedom was organised by the Anti Maastricht Allaince, not the NBP and (b) that so far as I can tell, the march hasn't taken place since 1999. I am therefore amending the NBP article to remove any mention of the march.  [Twilde 4/12/05]
This article is identical to that on http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/New_Britain_Party. I don't know which was copied from the other.Chile Nose Jam (talk) 16:02, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: That site is a mirror of Wikipedia. Fences&Windows 21:34, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

text: A party which opposes immigration isn't therefore "white nationalist", or "avowedly racist"!203.184.41.226 (talk) 06:53, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: Hi, the website linked (newbritain.com) no longer appears to be associated with the party. Should it be replaced by a wayback machine link? 31.50.4.56 (talk) 10:44, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Website link
Talk:Karaim

message: Let's see if i understand this correctly:
Karaim are both Jews and Turks?
Gringo300 12:53, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Absolutely correct Nonstopebrakes, there is a difference between the ancient pre-caliphate Karaism of a simple Karaite (uncircumcised laity, eating Kibinai which mix butter with meat, belief in the Quran, the prophet-hood of Christ, and reverence for Muhammad S.A.W. etc.) which was known to Abu Hanifa, and the post-caliphate Karaite Jews whose Karaite Judaism was only inspired by the simplicity of the Karaites although it has not much in common with original Karaism. Unfortunately these facts are suppressed by wikipedians in favour of the mainstream Jewish opinion on what Karaites actually believe.Kaz 08:24, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Karaim both Jews and Turks?

message: I have removed the  template from the article because it is not formatted as a disambiguation page, and I don't see any advantage in trying to force it to fit that format.  If this were a disambiguation page, it would not belong in other categories and would not have any informational links in the introduction.  --R'n'B (call me Russ) 10:26, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed.Kaz 08:25, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not a disambig page 
Talk:Amadeus (computer system)

message: This looks like little more than an advertisement; is there in fact anything interesting to say about this? Mel Etitis  (Μελ Ετητης) 12:54, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello, Amadeus is one of the top four players on that "secret" market of booking flights. There is a lot interesting to say about that market in generell and this company. The most people just go to an agency and book a flight, but they have no clue what is up in the background. Thats about Amadeus ... --Lofor 17:14, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Andrea Cordero Lanza di Montezemolo

message: Should his arms be posted at the article?  --Daniel C. Boyer 14:00, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If you have them, and think you can legally upload the image (public domain, GNU, copyright w/fair use).  Same goes for a portrait. — Eoghanacht talk 20:46, 1 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Arms?
Talk:Judeo-Iranian languages

message: Obviously, Iran is far more linguistically complex than a lot of people realize.
Gringo300 13:02, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Obviously.  Tomertalk 06:09, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I can't really tell if these are languages or dialects. The way these Judeo-Iranian languages articles are worded it's hard for me to tell. I can't seem to find much information on them through web searching. Gringo300 (talk) 01:57, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Iranian languages

message: Well we see here a big list of languages, but we don't have any exemple or any words of those languages. We have only their names. Can someone contribute to this article???? --Alsace38 (talk) 17:21, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  No clear exemples?