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Talk:African-initiated church

message: I am not happy with the identification of AICs
with syncretism. (Perhaps I should state that I
am writing from Botswana and am most familiar with
this region.) While there is I concede syncretism at
one end of the spectrum, most AICs (here, at least)
are clearly Christian churches, albeit with 
some features which the mainline churches regard
as unorthodox, and not (like for some example some
of the syncretist movements of the Caribbean) 
mixed religions in which Christian names are being
attached to other ideas.
I propose to edit this entry to indicate these
reservations (but not removing references to
syncretism altogether). Any objections?
No objections, and if you don't do it, I will. SteveH 19:44, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I agree. Many people have pointed out the cultural double standard by which classical Greek influences on Christian thought are ignored (or celebrated) but African influences are labeled as "syncretism". We shouldn't be perpetuating that double standard.... FiredanceThroughTheNight (talk) 01:27, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: There is currently discussion regarding the creation of a work group specifically to deal with articles dealing with the African Initiated Church, among others,  here. Any parties interested in working in such a group are welcome to indicate their interest there. Thank you. John Carter (talk) 16:43, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed work group 

message: The introduction sentence to this article seems a bit bitter, as if it were trying to defend itself against what people might believe about the AIC, rather than offering an actual explanation about this movement. I suggest revising the "by..., and not by..." formulation.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.168.225.237 (talk) 08:49, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  A bit bitter? 

message: "The oldest of these is the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church which dates from the 4th century and was one of the first Christian churches in the world."
The Church in Ethiopia is indeed ancient.  But even according to their own history, they were not initiated by Africans, and so are not an AIC.  The Coptic Church in Ethiopia was established by the Syrian Frumentius, an accidental missionary.  (This is noted on the main page for the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.
So the claim that the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church is an "African Initiated Church."  Moreover, applying the AIC label to a Church body with such ancient origins is anachronistic.
Olcharkuk (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 11:34, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church 

message: How did the African Initiated Church develop ? 169.159.175.244 (talk) 12:14, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religion studies
Talk:Mattock

message: I agree with Kwami that there is no need to have two different pronunciations (or one for that matter) of an everyday word that no native English speaker would ever have a second of doubt about how to pronounce. Pronunciation guides are meant to be a help to show pronunciation of uncommon words not simply gratuitous information about completely regular dialect correpsondences between British and American English. ·Maunus·ƛ· 13:39, 7 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: IPA

message: In Eastern Ontario a lot of people seem to refer to a mattock as a Polish Hoe.  There is a hit in Lee Valley Tools' catalogue illustrating something that looks like a mattock.  I am unsure whether a polish hoe is a precise, distinct tool.  I am considering adding some language to mattock to say "also sometimes referred to as polish hoe"  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gbuchana (talk • contribs) 16:06, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Polish Hoe
Talk:Katie Roiphe

message: whoa! Along with minimal information about Roiphe and her ideas, we have a single link, that to a piece of attack journalism that concerns itself more with "lazy research" and what the author perceives as flaws in Roiphe's character, than in the criticisms Roiphe brought to the table. There are a few Roiphe essays on the web, I'm adding links to these as some effort at balance.
Bustter 17:10, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I have been undoing Hailey2's edits, as s/he is not adding information to the article, and in fact has been consistently stripping vital information from it, along with adding unsubstantiated/unsourced claims, original research, ungrammatical usage, etc. --TallulahBelle (talk) 10:44, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hailey2 edits 

message: To those who have been improving this entry, congratulations!
I made a few efforts to tidy things up in the past, but it needs people who are more familiar with the substantial amount of published material available.
Unfortunately, it is easier for people to undermine articles than to construct them.
Thank you to those who have put in effort to write clear, informative, neutral text. I hope its quality will help serve as a deterent to would-be vandals.
There's so much more that could be added to the entry. I hope, in time, people will take the time to contribute it.
Best wishes. Alastair Haines (talk) 22:50, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Congratulations
Talk:Kivledalen

message: Way is this article named Kivledal? The valley is named Kivledalen on Norwegian. Is there some kind of translation rules? Or is it just a mistake?
http://kart.gulesider.no/kart/index.c?id=a_10000418298
http://www.hvor.no/kart/sok/?q=KIVLEDAL&x=0&y=0
Dl 17:24, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I did not hear anything, so I moved the page Dl 11:08, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Page move
Talk:Lou Lamoriello

message: Acccording to [NJ http://www.nj.com/devils/index.ssf/2009/11/post_7.html]  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lingust (talk • contribs) 01:14, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: American, not Canadian

message: Is it just me or does that entire section come across as extremely laudatory and not very objective? Kevin W. - Talk 05:37, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Devils section
Talk:Capitol Christian Music Group

message: I just added a bunch of new website to the external links. They're all sites for the labels owned by EMI. Later!!! Chili14 17:28, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Why is Tencent's box at the bottom of this page?  How is Capitol CMG related to Tencent?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.225.50.96 (talk) 21:30, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: It was added here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Capitol_Christian_Music_Group&diff=930522137&oldid=929716155 Walter Görlitz (talk) 21:44, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tencent
Talk:Mary Mouse

message: Thanks for the last edit, it is an improvement. I have reverted one small piece back to "imagined" because that is what the books themselves say ... rather than "written by" or simply "by" each says "imagined" by Enid Blyton. Therefore it seems a better way of putting it here, and surely it is clear what it means?  Abtract 22:07, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This link produces a very uninformative picture of flowers and a typewriter.  Was it as intended? JRPG (talk) 11:11, 11 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dodgy archive link?
Talk:Centerburg, Ohio

message: The last section of this article is basically propoganda and needs to be reorganized and cleaned up. Also, that dude's name shouldn't be at the bottom of it in the first place. User:Cwilli201
: Agreed; good find. --Takeel 13:27, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: May 21, 2006
Talk:Smith–Magenis syndrome

message: I made a few updates on this page, added some details and some wiki links. Blade 17:42, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: note

message: Do they try to force patients to sleep during the night, or do they just let them live with an inverted sleep pattern?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.159.187.115 (talk) 20:36, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe the treatment section explains how it is treated. Is there something more specific you would like to be seen added to the section?P0PP4B34R732 (talk) 20:38, 21 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  So, uhh, how is it treated?` 

message: This is not genetic - I can't figure out how to remove that from the box on the right  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:644:4000:33D7:5D7A:C28A:EB78:992B (talk) 06:22, 8 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Genetic
Talk:Stagecoach North West

message: I have deleted Stagecoach in Manchester from the article and made a seperate article for it as the Manchester services are not administered as part of the North West division but are in fact a seperate division Penrithguy 17:42, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Stagecoach North West's HQ was originally in Whitehaven and the address on side of buses used to read Cumberland Motor ServicesTangier StreetWhitehavenCA28 7XE  1701Will (talk) 18:35, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Head office
Talk:Lexer hack

message: According to the reference given (Eli Bendersky's website), clang can get rid of 'the lexer hack' because it is using a recursive / backtracking parser (which allows it to try different interpretations, and tag lexical items with semantic info). Please explain how this supports the claim that clang is using a "non-reference lexical grammar".
Using the example given in this article, if using a LALR parser, it would be impossible to reinterpret "var*(var_or_type)*var" as "var*((type)*var)" instead of "(var*(var))*var" without throwing away the whole syntax tree.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:2F0E:D2A1:4B00:B165:DC79:CC95:1986 (talk) 23:17, 31 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe clang uses an equivalent of GLR parsing technique. Lightness1024 (talk) 09:42, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Clang
Talk:Freddy vs. Jason (soundtrack)

message: Even though slipknot's "snap" did not make it onto their 1999 debut album, it was still released with 4 other songs, all were demos, but ~1,000 copies were still released. I can cite scources for proof if needed. Permission to change "snap" to released? CrowzRSA 17:09, 16 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slipknot - snap 

message: Nightmares by Junkie XL was featured in the film but not on the soundtrack along with some other electronic songs by Smitty. should there by a section for songs not featured?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.32.184.128 (talk) 20:11, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  unreleased soundtrack songs?
Talk:Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head

message: I don't understand the reason for this article.  There is no formatting or wikilinks, also no infobox or categories.  The "song structure" section tells nothing of the song's structure.  As far as I know this isn't released as a single nor does it have a video.  Does this song have special meaning or notoriety to Gorillaz fans? -- eo 18:01, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I was wondering the same thing myself. This might be candidate for deletion.--Daveswagon 19:28, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

text: Very very many songs tell a story, I doubt that alone makes this worth an article. This should be merged with the demon days article. --Wildnox 21:33, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Notability?
Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Mehrashk

message: since this is a new farsi name, and its meaning is not known, it is better to keep the article.
:It might be more suitable in something like List_of_people_by_name (I'm not entirely sure what the criteria for inclusion there are).  It doesn't seem likely that a new name should have an article all to itself - see e.g. WP:OR and WP:Verifiable  Dlyons493 Talk 18:24, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Henan University

message: The cited reference does not contain the information listed in the new MingLun and JinMing campus sections. The reference only mentions "明伦" (MingLun) once, in the sentence "其中明伦校区近代建筑群是国家重点文物保护单位" (translation: "the modern buildings on the MingLun campus are national cultural treasures") and doesn't mention "金明" (JinMing) at all. Please provide valid references for all other information, or it will be deleted. Phlar (talk) 23:25, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Valid references needed for MingLun and JinMing campus information 
Talk:Kiritsugu Emiya

message: Kiritsugu is described as being a sorcerer, could we put this into the article in some way? Tyciol (talk) 11:06, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Kiritsugu's magic

message: English is not my primary language so forgive me if I make mistakes. In the reception section, this sentence "THEM Anime Reviews agreed, seeing the servants' interactions as more appealing than those of Kiritsugu and Kirei" is kind of inacurrate. Here's what the reviewer said:
"Probably the greatest and most interesting shift from Type-Moon's own style and the main reason why I really like the show is the time and effort that Urobuchi puts into the majority of the characters. Motivations are explored and contrasted, relationships grow and are expanded upon and all this gives the superb action context and meaning. Personal highlights are the Emiya/Kirei relationship that is somehow built up despite the characters barely conversing over the course of the show, the relationship of the three kings, Saber, Rider and Archer, and their opposing philosophies and beliefs as heroic spirits and the charm and charisma of characters like Iksander." 
The reviewer actually praised their relationship, I believe the sentence should be revised. Thank you!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.129.84.144 (talk) 20:48, 5 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correction
Talk:Vis-à-vis

message: Why is there a "see also" link to the abbreviation viz., which stands for videlicet?  Shouldn't this be clarified as a "not to be confused with?" Kavindad1 (talk) 18:13, 1 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Abbreviation viz.

message: --CopyToWiktionaryBot (talk) 07:15, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  2007-12-8 Automated pywikipediabot message 

message: Pronounce is important. How? !!!!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jackzhp (talk • contribs) 15:24, 14 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronounce
Talk:Aleksey Khomyakov

message: I am pretty sure it was Khomiakov who said that over and against both the Roman Catholic church (unity without freedom) and the Protestant denoniminations (freedom without unity) the Eastern Orthodox was true  Christianity. Should this be included in this article?Vorbee (talk) 19:32, 2 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Freedom without unity, unity without freedom
Talk:Earl of Barrymore

message: There were many souces for both versions of a viscountcy. Some say the name Buttevant was an error, some didn't mention the name Barry, some say they exist both, some set the creation to 1461, some to 1541 or 1554. Does anyone know more? Was it perhaps a complex writing error in the past? Phoe 23:30, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Viscount Barry or Viscount Buttevant

message: According to the page De Barry family, the viscountcy was created in 1385 (and the barony under the first three Angevin Kings of England).--78.51.166.12 (talk) 23:12, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Consistency

message: : The direct descendants of the earl of Barrymore lineage immigrated to the U.S. before WWI and the title is now considered extinct.
Do the two parts of this sentence have any relation to each other?  It seems to imply that the sequence of events is this:
* With the death of the 8th earl in 1823, the titles became dormant because none of the "direct descendants of the earl lineage" proved seniority.
* By 1914 all surviving potential claimants had emigrated, and were thus unlikely to claim the peerages.
* A century later, those American heirs are "considered" extinct.
But perhaps the "direct descendants" mentioned are all in female lines, in which case they are irrelevant to the extinction — and it's less plausible that all such persons emigrated to the same country!
Either way, the passage cries out for cleanup. —Tamfang (talk) 23:13, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  extinctions and Americans
Talk:Ulaghchi

message: The information about Ulaghchi's young age and the regency of Berke are from the German version of this article.  However, I've seen one source (pdf) that states that officials from Novgorod negotiated directly with Ulaghchi, and that he ordered a census; implying some degree of capability as a leader. -- Takwish 18:44, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Hormone replacement therapy (trans)/Archive 1

message: I changed natal to Cisgender. I had this fight previously and was defending my use of the term natal to describe people who are not trans. In the course of that discussion, I realized three things:
*Natal pisses many transgender people off as bad as saying a biological female or even real female,
*I was using the term natal because it sounded more scientific (and hence valuable to me), and
*The term cisgender more aptly describes what we are wanting to say here: the group of men (or women) who are not trans.
So I have actually started using that term when I mean that concept. I've heart objections that it is a neologism or some uber-pc nonsense. But if that is the case, then so is heterosexual. That is, we didn't have the word heterosexual to describe people who are not homosexual or bisexual until we had and used the words homosexual and bisexual.
With regards to that bit about oophorectomy for transwomen.... huh? That passage was directly copied from what I wrote about Transmen by 211.29.20.240 - on my 35th birthday, oddly enough. I guess it was a present? ;) However, its not just that transwomen don't need oophorectomies, but I also believe the DEXA comment is completely unfounded when talking about transwomen. I've never heard that advocated by anyone for transwomen. If anything, they would be more protected from osteoporosis by the large doses of E they take.NickGorton 20:31, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree on cisgender - why not? Nothing wrong with neologisms & I take your point re. 'natal' being potentially offensive. Re. DEXA. I need to pmail you on that one. :-) - Pete C ✍ 20:46, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cisgender and Oophorectomy
Talk:Posterior pituitary

message: I think that the page needs to be modified to say that both the paraventricular nucleus and supraoptic nucleus release both hormones, with the supraoptic doing so in higher quantity.
Here's a reference to what I'm talking about:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17932139?ordinalpos=4&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.172.94.68 (talk) 18:48, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: secretion

message: More information on this is needed.  Such as disorders.
: Agreed. I've begun by mentioning SIADH and central diabetes insipidus. Feel free to augment the "role in disease" section with others. --David Iberri (talk) 19:25, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: More

message: Neurohypophysis and posterior pituitary are not synonymous. The neurohypophysis includes the posterior pituitary as well as the infundibulum.
Chrisjustinparr (talk) 18:17, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neurohypophysis 

message: Neither of these images present a clear view of the important structures in the posterior pituitary.  I don't know any public pictures that show the axon projections, but this would make the anatomy section much easier to understand. 
PVSpud (talk) 03:20, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image 

message: The anterior pituitary article, which is mentioned in this one is rated C class. I think this article should be structured similar to that one. The other one has development, role in the endocrine system and behavioral effects which I think would be important information to add to the article  Aahoward13 (talk) 19:03, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Structure of Article
Talk:Dan Engler

message: I don't believe this person fits the Wiki definition of a person who is notable enough to be profiled. And the entire profile reads like promotional material. Were I a Wiki community editor, I would recommend it for deletion. I have no bias against nor personal connection to wrestling nor the article subject.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.83.70.117 (talk) 13:11, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:History of telephone service in Catalonia

message: The page is a translation of the equivalent article in Catalan. Links to the original article, and to other translations have not been written in.
I have a slight reading knowledge of Catalan, so this translation may not be very accurate.
Twenex 18:59, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Preliminary

message: A change of the article title to "The History of Telephone Service in Catalonia" may be appropriate.
Twenex 18:59, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title Change 

message: Links to the original article have been added.
Twenex 20:14, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links added 

message: I reworked most of the remaining "rough translation" into standard or more colloquial standard English from the text already here. As I do not know Catalan, I was not able to translate the Albert Einstein 1923 entry or a few other remaining phrases.--EFerington 05:30, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Good work. I too know no Catalan but my halting Castilian and smattering of French make me suspect mosso de magatzem is "supply clerk".  As for Albert Einstein, it seems to say he gave a lecture as part of a program of advanced studies.  At any rate, no relevance to topic is indicated.  Jim.henderson (talk) 01:53, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rough translation largely edited 
Talk:Queen: The Eye

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: moved. (non-admin closure) Captain Jack Sparrow (talk) 16:15, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Queen: The eYe →  – Per WP:MOSTM: "Follow standard English text formatting and capitalization practices, even if the trademark owner considers nonstandard formatting "official"". Reliable sources listed in the article use standard formatting: Next Generation, PC Gamer, PC PowerPlay, PC Zone. Mika1h (talk) 10:51, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 25 June 2023
Talk:Correlation function (statistical mechanics)

message: It seems that this article currently only discusses correlation functions in equilibrium systems. However, correlation functions in spin glasses, chalcogenide and metallic glasses, etc. are all extremely important. I think the definition of the correlation function should be defined in this article without reference to 'thermal averages.' By the way, does anyone else find the use of 'thermal average' to be a bit uncommon to be used in this article?Mgibby5 (talk) 04:15, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Correlation functions in systems not at equilibrium?

message: Time-correlation functions and their relation to kinetic properties of systems, such as diffusion, seem worth mentioning here. Mgibby5 (talk) 04:15, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Separate sections for time and spatial correlation funcitons?

message: The radial distribution function is mentioned, but there are many other examples. Other, related examples are short-range chemical order in liquids and crystals. Mgibby5 (talk) 04:15, 21 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Non-Spin Related Examples

message: According to historical notes in Fluid Mechanics(Kundu,Cohen), G.I.Taylor introduced the idea of a correlation function during a study of turbulent diffusion. 
Here is another reference : http://journals.cambridge.org/production/action/cjoGetFulltext?fulltextid=382932 by S.A Orszag  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.157.204.95 (talk) 12:51, 27 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  G.I.Taylor introduced the idea of a correlation function