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Talk:Henry IV of Castile

message: He wasn't a descendant of Peter I. I'm changing to line to Henry II, who was both a notorious redhead and the real founder of the House of Trastamara.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.26.120.40 (talk) 19:04, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Why does it say his appearance of blue eyes and reddish-blonde and auburn hair come from Leonor of England when in other articles of his families it says it comes from King Peter of Castile?  Which one is it? And Leonor lived more than twelve generations before he did.  Plus it sounds like this is saying that it's suppose to be a suprise that Spanish royals can have fair skin, blue eyes, and reddish-blonde and auburn which is racially stereotyping the Spanish people.  Is there any source to this at all?--Queen Elizabeth II's Little Spy (talk) 03:50, 26 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Appearance 

message: "the majority elected him to be King of Castille on 11 August 1462."
Shouldn't this should read 'King of Aragon', not Castile, of which he was already King?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.116.220.67 (talk) 14:58, 7 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correction? 

message: In the' King' section, in the last paragraph, the phrase "the majority elected him to be King of Castille" doesn't make sense. It seems to be "the majority elected King of Castile to be Prince of Catalonia" the right phrase, but I cannot document it, could someone correct it? — Preceding unsigned comment added by ArisMethymna (talk • contribs) 14:05, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure exactly what you're asking, but I can tell you that that section was awkwardly worded, likely from it being translated a bit crudely. I tried a reword, though it could use a once-over by someone with knowledge of the subject to make sure I didn't misunderstand the meaning. Once again, it would be helpful to the rest of us if you used edit summaries. And please don't forget to sign your talkpage posts with ~~~~. Eric talk 15:37, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I have reworded it yet further to clarify whose son died and who was elected count of where, with a source. Henry was indeed chosen to become count of Barcelona. Huon (talk) 02:21, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, @Huon. I tweaked a typo in your edit. Did I get it right? Eric talk 18:25, 5 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for fixing it. This was what I meant but got wrong. Huon (talk) 01:53, 7 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: King of Castille
Talk:Seymour Glass

message: The following passage seems a bit off:
"One undertands only partly why this inhuman act is to commit by Seymour. When considering that this girl named Charlotte is the very copy of Teddy's sister Booper who finally kills her brother - it is only fair to throw a stone to her..."
The ellipsis should be revised out, and "to commit by Seymour" could be improved as "why this inhuman act is committed by Seymour," although I question the apparent point of view of this section. It might not be desirable to engage in literary criticism here - my belief. --Edwin Herdman 06:10, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tone issue
Talk:Dalí Theatre and Museum

message: I wonder what the yellow elements on the building's outside walls mean ? They look like a regional form of bread ? dogshit ? decoration ? a cheerful reminder of the ornaments which can be found on Girona's cathedral main entrance doors ? Mae West's earrings ?   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.25.249.126 (talk) 14:42, 28 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: What are the many yellow pieces on the red outside walls of the building?

message: Is the Heart Beating of Rubies piece at this museum?... where is that? --67.189.16.236 (talk) 01:29, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Heart Beating of Rubies?
Talk:Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

message: There is an almost-same-name museum in Vienna founded by the daughter of the family associated with the Madrid one.  It would be nice to have a sentence or two in this article to disambiguate the two. Briankharvey (talk) 18:59, 24 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mention the Vienna one 

message: Since there seemed to be some disagreement on the visitor numbers, I decided to update it with a source. The citation that I added to the infobox lists the top 100 art museums by attendance. It appears to come from a British government site. Leschnei (talk) 13:55, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Visitor numbers 
Talk:De Castro family (Sephardi Jewish)

message: This Image may belong here: :File:WLANL - 23dingenvoormusea - David Henriques de Castro.jpg, or it is just a name coincidence... I do not know. Jahobr (talk) 10:39, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Thx, Jahobr! --Sei Shonagon (talk) 02:49, 5 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image
Talk:López

message: Your the best Surname description i have seen after ximenez. here is a book with the casa solar or house mark, and blason or family crest. My lineage is related to you. Lopez house marry to Navarra royalty and its 6th generation the Zambrana house mark was born.
You may add that the one of the lopez familes is from Basque country viscaya. Senores de Biscaya, or lords of Vizcaya.
Look at my wikipedia about zambrana.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation/Fortun(o)_Sanchez_(Sangiz)_Grandee_Zambrana
here is a free ebook you can read highligth the lopez text then google translated it.
http://books.google.com/books?id=0CW9Y1btLoMC&pg=PA214&lpg=PA214&dq=apellido+de+lopez&source=bl&ots=xAmGXjAqMH&sig=E_bg2N_aXtXbgOpx9U98JckFsw4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=f_ZlUJ3XHKPeiALDuoDABA&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=lopez&f=false
Talk to me if you need help translating google translate works great.
Jose Luis Zambrano De Santiago (talk)
Jose Luis Zambrano De Santiago (talk) 19:26, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Lopez blason and casa solar

message: I agree that it is of Spanish origin, but I find it difficult to accept that the word for wolf was the word origin.  In Latin, wolf is lupus, and in modern Spanish, that became lobo.  Granted, many Romance languages changed nouns ending -us to -o, but here we would have to have a SPLIT in the word ending before the consonant changed from P to B.  Could we have an actual source for the origin (one that cites a CORRECT derivation - I can't trust one that got the Latin word incorrect)?  (Also, Romanian is not a Romance language but Balkan in origin - Romansch, spoken in Switzerland, is.) 67.235.30.223 (talk) 00:17, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of the name.
Talk:Martínez

message: Martinez are a well-known if newish brand of fretted instruments in Australia
http://www.australianmusician.com.au/martinez-md-31-acoustic-guitar/
but I'm having trouble finding good sources to justify an article, mainly I think owing to the enormous amount of sales and promotional material on the web. Any help appreciated. Andrewa (talk) 22:03, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Martinez Guitars
Talk:Nadal (surname)

message: I think we should say that it is a Catalan surname since in Catalan "Nadal" means Christmas and most people called Nadal are from Catalan-speaking cities. This fact could also be added into the page if we move it back to the title "Nadal (disambiguation)". --SMP - talk (en) - talk (ca) 15:32, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Catalan

message: I strongly feel that this page should be redirected to Rafael Nadal since he is by far the most popular person bearing this last name. A disambiguation page will be created to list other people with Nadal as the last name.
Abhijit Sathe (talk) 17:27, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rafael Nadal
Talk:Ortega

message: Gutierre Tibón isn't a serious source for the name's etymology. --dab (𒁳) 10:18, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I gave it a look.  It is a load of wishful thinking and sloppy invention, and has no bearing on the actual ancestries of actual Ortega families. Agricolae (talk) 19:15, 11 January 2009 (UTC)

message: :Ortega → Ortega (surname) — Ortega should redirect to Ortega (disambiguation), and this page should be moved to Ortega (surname). At the disambiguation page, the page Ortega (surname) should then be linked.   Cs32en Talk to me  03:43, 6 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: In most cases, the surname actually does not redirect at all, but the respective page is a de facto disambiguation page. See Carter, Bush, Merkel, Blair, Clinton, Johnson, Kennedy, [[Harper], Schröder, Schmidt, Sarkozy, Chirac for an overview of the current situation.  Cs32en Talk to me  21:10, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move
Talk:Control booth

message: Is it necessary to put quotations around the word "booth" every time it appears? -JWGreen 05:37, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If you don't liek it then be bold and take it out. I have no problem with removing them. KeepOnTruckin 16:38, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quotations 

message: I suggest the page be moved to Control booth (media). The term doesn't just apply in theatre, but in TV (including news), & AFAIK, radio, too.  TREKphiler any time you're ready, Uhura  21:37, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move
Talk:Santos (surname)

message: The article states that Santos is the plural of Santo in Italian, however, that is not true, since the plural of Santo in Italian is Santi. Besides that, the form Santos is not used in Italian surnames unless we count De Santo, Del Santo, Santi, De Santis and similar variations. However there are other articles about that surnames for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santi and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeSantis
And last but not least "santos" is not the plural of "saint" in French either. I think that this article gives the wrong impression that Santos is a native Italian surname which is not.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.54.239.126 (talk) 09:28, 8 February 2020 (UTC)
Talk:Torres (surname)

message: 1044. Torre. Un noble linage del apellido de la Torre, que tuvo por tronco y progenitor á Alvar García de la Torre , alcaide de las Torres de Leon, emparentó con la casa de Lara por el casamiento de Don Bernarbé Man rique de Lara con Doña Catalina de la Torre , descendiente del espresado Al var García. Sus armas son: Escudo de azur y una torre de plata 4. 
buy this book for your family
http://books.google.com/books/reader?id=m1UBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader
Jose Luis Zambrano De Santiago (talk)
Jose Luis Zambrano De Santiago (talk) 20:15, 21 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Heraldic history to torre last name

message: This is a simple crest of the original title holder of torre, from Castra or camp in roman time. Castile, torre, castro, castillo. all have the same origin. Castra legio septima gemina.
check my work on the first holder for Zambrana o Zambrano.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation/Fortun(o)_Sanchez_(Sangiz)_Grandee_Zambrana
Jose Luis Zambrano De Santiago (talk)
Jose Luis Zambrano De Santiago (talk) 20:22, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Arms or blason Surnames started with a title
Talk:Vargas (surname)

message: This listing is inaccurate with the person's Wikipedia page. There is no mention of this person being a "Filipino-America" on that page and there is no official status given to this person by the US government. He is a Filipino journalist working in the United States. This needs to be changed. I have tried to change it once already but someone who obviously doesn't want to read the page that this links to keeps changing it back. NaturalEquality (talk) 00:35, 19 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: This appears to concern Jose Antonio Vargas. The most important point to consider is this: who cares whether a person "Born in the Philippines and raised in the United States from the age of twelve" should be described as "Filipino-American" or "Filipino"? Given that the disambiguation page needs to use as few words as possible while describing the subject in a recognizable manner, "Filipino-American" seems best. Please click "new section" at the top of the page when adding a new topic. Johnuniq (talk) 04:12, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

text: ""Filipino-American" seems best" is not a world standard. There are millions of people living around the world in other nations for decades if not their entire lives and they are not identified by your standard. They are identified by the fact that they have citizenship in those nations or that their parents come from two nations. Jose Vargas does not meet either of these standards. He is Filipino. It's that simple. If you want to add correct detail based on English language and world standards, you could identify him as a Filipino living in the US. There are many Filipinos and others living in the US who have lived there for as long as he has and they choose not to attain citizenship and do not use the title 'Filipino-American' to describe themselves. I am only arguing facts. With this I am going to change the main page and add Jose Vargas's correct identification. NaturalEquality (talk) 03:28, 23 July 2017 (UTC)

text: No, and please stop pushing your agenda. Tvoz/talk 17:43, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

text: What is the agenda? Vargas is not an American. The agenda seems to be pushed by some on Wikipedia. As NaturalEquity noted there are millions of people around the planet who have lived in nations not of their birth who do not identify and are not identified as having two nationalities to describe themselves. There is no rational for Jose Vargas to be entitled to special treatment. Consider all the refugees around the world who do not identify and are not identified as having the nationalities of the nations they live in. By keeping the description as 'Filipino-American', there should be a reason for it. Is there even one more person on Wikipedia who is listed in this same way despite not having citizenship? Please post that link as support 101.108.122.191 (talk) 00:50, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jose Antonio Vargas, Filipino journalist 

message: I can't find information on Ivan de "Martin," if that's even his real name. Any information I can find calls him Ivan de Vargas. Rendite (talk) 01:38, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ivan de Martin
Talk:Grupo Especial de Operaciones

message: What does "rights of terrorist groups" mean? --Error 00:42, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: rights of terrorist groups

message: Now the main rifle is the HK G36C. They dont use the HKG3SG/1, they use the SIG-Sauer SSG 2000.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.25.56.142 (talk) 19:45, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Weapons

message: The article now says "A select group who had been months before in the GSG 9 base in San Agustín del Guadalix were selected to train this new unit." The GSG 9, the German counterpart to the G.E.O., has their base in Sankt Augustin-Hangelar near Bonn. Maybe the San[kt] Augustins were mixed up? The cited reference no longer exists, and the current version only says that the G.E.O. has been modelled after the GSG 9.
Maribert (talk) 19:12, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Location of the GSG 9 base 
Talk:José de Gálvez, 1st Marquess of Sonora

message: Jose de Galvez was the most significant person in the history of the spanish borderlands. He was REALLY important. This article on him really drops the ball. The info on him is definitely not organized very well with some of the info being wrong.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Willmount (talk • contribs) 21:54, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spanish Borderlands 

message: We need some further historical investigation and sourcing here. I changed the text "appointed Minister of the Indies" to "appointed to the Council of the Indies, and added a source for that wording. The "minister" wording may have come from an unsourced sentence in Bourbon Reforms#The Reforms in Spanish America: "Under Charles III colonial matters were concentrated in a single ministry, which took powers away from the Council of the Indies." I found no mention of this action in Charles III of Spain or in Council of the Indies. However, the source I cited is pretty old (1916), and only mentioned the Council appointment briefly, so a more recent and/or thorough source might clarify further. WCCasey (talk) 20:09, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minister of the Indies?
Talk:Eduard Punset

message: At -- <SMALL>it is a translation page of the Spanish Wikipedia entry</SMALL> -- Eduard Punset I've made two minor edits.
<SMALL>Because I'm a learner,</SMALL> 1st <SMALL>(23:39, 9 May 2008)</SMALL> I didn't mark it, like a minor edit, but it is. <SMALL>Then I read a little more about minor edit,</SMALL> and on the 2nd <SMALL>(00:05, 10 May 2008)</SMALL> I marked it. <SMALL>Because ...Now I know:</SMALL>
A check to the minor edit box signifies that only superficial differences exist between the current and previous version: typo corrections, formatting and presentational changes, rearranging of text without modifying content, et cetera (...)<SMALL>
*I don't know about BOTs, but I think if it was a bot translation maybe it was the reason of the existence of the REDUNDANT code I deleted here. Ciao </SMALL> --PLA y Grande Covián (talk) 01:27, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  my (cause) hypothesis & two minor edits I've done 

message: Why on earth is the name of Eduard translated into Spanish?
His name is Eduard, a Catalan name.
Would you translate William Shakespeare as Guillermo Shakespeare?
Then why change Eduard's name?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.136.116.6 (talk) 08:24, 17 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eduard's name 
Talk:Thomas Telford School

message: TTelford is a well known CTC Victuallers 16:12, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Anyone else think this article needs to be SERIOUSLY chopped down. It seems overtly POV to me, as stated by the above, probably written by a biased staff memeber. Also, what is going on with that infobox? why is it yellow? surely a normal school/college infobox would be sufficient? 84.67.223.234 21:50, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Gut the article?

message: No offense intended to the school, but I have deleted "This is why they achieve what they say" from the end of the section "Achievements and school life" as a suspected POV. It is more appropriate for use in a school prospectus than an encyclopedic article unless in the context of a quoted statement.Cloptonson (talk) 20:19, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Deleted suspected POV/advertising
Talk:Jerónimo Saavedra

message: Forgive my ignorance, but is this man's name "Jerónimo Saavedra" or "Jerónimo Saavedra Acevedo" or "Jerónimo Saavedra-Acevedo"? -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 20:33, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name?
Talk:John William, Baron Ripperda

message: This edit  changing the birth year from 1680 to 1684 requires a source/reference as 1680 is given in the 1911 Enc Brit. If proven correct, the birth year category would need to be changed to 1684 also. Proofreader (talk) 12:06, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth year
Talk:José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones

message: I am looking for outside sources to use in an essay. This page has none listed. I was wondering if anyone had any. Thanks —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.182.146.25 (talk) 22:19, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 
Talk:Mimnermus

message: I couldn't find absolutely nothing about "G Tanzolini". Can somebody help me? Is this name right? --Leonardo T. de Oliveira 06:39, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I'll try to develop this article a bit. I've included frag 1 (with kalon rather than kakon in line 6) and translated it. I used no substituted feet for the elegy but only the full or 'ideal' form. I thinks that's the only way to get the form across to readers in the English with its stress-based meter. What the translation loses in punch it gains in the elegance of the full elegiac form. The ancients got both form and punch but we can only aim for one or the other. References I'll use
*David A. Campbell, Greek Lyric Poetry, Bristol Classical Press (1982)
*Douglas E. Gerber, Greek Elegiac Poetry, Loeb (1999)
*P.Easterling and B.Knox (eds), The Cambridge History of Classical Literature: Greek Literature, Cambridge University Press (1985)
*J.Boardman, J.Griffin and O.Murray (eds), The Oxford History of the Classical World, Oxford University Press (1995)
And from Googling:
*Martin L. West,  Studies in Greek Elegy and Iambus, Walter de Gruyter and Co. (1974)
*Douglas E. Gerber, A Companion to the Greek Lyric Poets, Brill (1997)
*some journal papers to support some points.
That's the plan so far. McZeus (talk) 06:08, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: new edit
Talk:Juan Vázquez de Mella

message: Did anyone notice this is total BS?
--194.94.133.193 10:10, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: Current note #58 refers to "Canal 1998, pp. 134–35", however the only complete references available in the article for this author are Canal 2000 and Canal 2006. CaféBuzz (talk) 11:55, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong or missing reference for "Canal 1998"
Talk:Nicolás Estévanez

message: I believe the plaque at the Hotel Inglaterra in Havana says he refused to carry out the order to execute the students but the article in the Spanish Wikipedia and its sources only say that he protested the execution when he heard about it by breaking his sabre and saying that it was wrong and "before my country come humanity and justice" and for that reason left the army. 
On the other hand all sources give the date of his death as 21 August 1914 so I do not know why it has been changed from that date to the 19. GS3 (talk) 11:45, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Did he refuse to carry out the execution?  Date of his death?
Talk:National Front (Spain, 1986)

message: A bunch of the incoming links seem to be talking about a "National Front" coalition that contested the 1936 elections in opposition to the Popular Front, not this organization founded in 1986. Does the 1930s organization also go under another name, or should a new article be created? --Delirium 04:33, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  earlier National Front?
Talk:Jack Zigler

message: The external links should not be visible in the article.  Please turn them into proper references or move them to the External links section.   
The article uses far too much bold-faced text.  Please read Wikipedia:Manual of Style (text formatting).  In general, the plainer the formatting, the better. 
Also, the point isn't to document every single instance of the subject being quoted in the newspaper.  "We got a soundbite from the subject" is the definition of a trivial media mention.  
I hope this helps you figure out ways to improve the article.  Good luck!  WhatamIdoing (talk) 04:00, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Clean up
Talk:Canary Islands Independence Movement

message: that flag is wrong, stars are very big, and are reversed. That is the right one:
  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.155.35.238 (talk) 08:19, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  wrong flag 

message: Having that link in the first paragraph is a bit confusing.  Following it suggests there was a violent struggle against the modern government of Spain (this is is what is at the end of the link).  Surely though, the government of the time was Franco's dictatorship?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.147.161.190 (talk) 13:59, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spanish government link? 

message: That first reference is dead. Qewr4231 (talk) 22:36, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead Link 

message: Shouldn't this section link to Wikipedia's article on the Tenerife airport disaster? There is also a mention here. Qewr4231 (talk) 00:19, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Violent Acts 
Talk:Summits on the Air

message: After noticing the duplicate articles on the subject, I've combined the best of both. E dog95 07:01, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You really should have used regular merge procedures (see WP:MERGE), so there would be more history. --StuffOfInterest 16:47, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge