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Talk:Nathan Bedford Forrest

message: In the final sentence of the second paragraph, it reads:
"he is a controversial figure in U.S. history for his role in the massacre of several hundred U.S. Army soldiers at Fort Pillow, a majority of them black, and his postwar leadership of the Klan."
Well, okay, true; those are additional controversies. But all Confederate leaders are highly controversial figures in US history by virtue of having been Confederate leaders. I think a slight rewording to reflect actual American historical assessments is in order. WP Ludicer (talk) 18:26, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Controversial" 

message: I think perhaps we should consider forking the content in the last section to Historical reputation and legacy of Nathan Bedford Forrest. It's a long article and I think posthumous historiography/iconography of Forrest is probably encyclopedic in its own right, distinct from the biography of the man. Thoughts? jengod (talk) 03:55, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split? 

message: What is the basis for including this article in the category American duellist? jengod (talk) 17:23, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: As far as I can find, he evaded quite a few scheduled duels through circumstance, or even apologizing, at least once, to a challenger after his temper cooled. I'm not a categories person—the tremendous amount of churn and turnover associated with them would be too nerve-wracking for me—but it seems that he doesn't belong in that category. Is there a "homicidal maniacs" category? He would fit perfectly there.;-) Carlstak (talk) 19:37, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: OK I'm going to boldly remove that cat bc while I think he was in many gunfights a duel is a specific ritual thing that doesn't apply here (from everything I've read thus far). jengod (talk) 20:39, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  American duellist?
Talk:James Meadows Rendel (geneticist)

message: As far as I can figure he is the great great grandson of James Meadows Rendel (engineer) through the latter's son Alexander Meadows Rendel whose son James Meadows Rendel, a physician, married Elinor Strachey sister of Lytton Strachey and had a son Colonel Richard Meadows Rendel father of this James Meadows Rendel (https://csiropedia.csiro.au/rendel-james-meadows/).  However this article does need expanding.  --Erp (talk) 06:18, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  relationship to the other James Meadows Rendel
Talk:Pete Smith (film producer)

message: As someone who is trying to revive interest in Pete Smith's work, I thank you for your valuable enhancements to this article. But rather than being entirely anonymous, why not register (free!) and thereby join the Wikipedia community? Would be nice to welcome you to the fold! Ian Page 19:06, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Calling 216.57.133.253!
Talk:Peter Ivers

message: Previously there was a long section either here or in the New Wave Theatre article saying that Dave Jove had owned up to having murdered Ivers on his deathbed.  Was that for real, or some kind of sick vandalism?  Sounds like now that it is back to being a mystery. 
By the way, one measure of Peter Ivers' impact on the larger culture is that I first read about his murder in an in-flight magazine while on a flight of a major airline. Shocking Blue (talk) 18:36, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ivers' Murder 

message: The article makes a declarative statement that all vocals on this soundtrack are by Jim Connor; the album sleeve says that vocal duties are shared by Jim Connor (on two songs), and Michael Nesmith (on one - The World is Golden Too); was the Nesmith vocal an album only thing? Jock123 (talk) 22:49, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Right, a bit of further research, and some info sought from Michael Nesmith himself gets us further. The song only appears in the movie as an instrumental (it can be found on line). In a Facebook message to me in answer to a request for what he remembered about his involvement, Mr. Nesmith said: “the only person I remember from this is Fred Myrow -- RIP -- he was working on this with several people -- and one day he asked if I would like to take a swing at singing the lead on this song. I did -- and this is the one take we did of it (I think it was one -- if not -- it wasn't many). I don't think I ever met the other people involved and I don't know if my cut made the movie -- that was, indeed, titled "Threshold:The Blue Angels Experience". It was a pretty good documentary as I recall and I enjoyed the singing the song -- unlike anything I had ever done.” His comment can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/michaelnesmith/posts/10156283540260116?comment_id=10156285626340116&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R1%22%7D Jock123 (talk) 12:47, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  “Threshold” sound track.
Talk:Henry Nicholas

message: The philantropy section is bizarrely long. This should be a minor part of his personal life, not the majority of the article. /Julle (talk) 02:51, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I am so shocked this has stayed in the article for so long. I have heavily cut down on this section, but the article needs an overall rewrite. I would not be surprised if there was significant conflict-of-interest editing on this article. QueenofBithynia (talk) 18:38, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Philantropy 
Talk:James Rachels

message: This is a word-by-word copy of the biography on the official website. Raybrower 16:21, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The article makes this claim: "This introduction to ethics has sold over 750,000 copies and may well be the best-selling book in all of philosophy.", which is obviously false. Disregarding the merits of various philosophical books altogether, it is a simple fact that books like Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance sold way more copies. If we're going to take classics by for example Plato and Aristotle into account, then the claim is even more absurd. Stefan Kruithof (talk) 11:37, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Popularity of "The Elements of Moral Philosophy"
Talk:Richard Quine

message: This article says of Quine's first wife, Susan Peters, that "she died of the effects of anorexia nervosa in 1952, at age 31." That's probably wrong, and apparently came from that footnote, which merely said that "she starved herself to death in October 1952, at 31" -- from which we should not actually infer anorexia. I think a better source would be Susan Peters' own Wikipedia article, which says: "Peters' doctor attributed her death to a chronic kidney infection, a complication caused by her paralysis, and bronchial pneumonia. He also noted that her death was hastened by dehydration and starvation because, in the last few weeks of her life, Peters had "lost interest" in eating and drinking and had lost the will to live." (She had spent the previous almost eight years in a wheelchair, paralyzed from a hunting accident.) 71.204.84.204 (talk) 18:43, 3 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: His first wife's death

message: Although Quine served in the United States Coast Guard during the World War II era, no reliable sources found as of yet state that he served overseas in a war zone during the war. Accordingly, :Category:United States Coast Guard personnel of World War II was removed from the article. Semper Fi! FieldMarine (talk) 17:32, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: World War II service

message: Many web pages show him with another first wife, Example: [Susan Paley] but no information on dates other than 1942 and a comment they were only married four months before his romance started with his co-star Peters. MonsieurET (talk) 16:51, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: "MGM signed [| Susan Peters] to a long-term contract. Quine, who was already married to actress Susan Paley, fell in love with his co-star and in 1943, the pair tied the knot." MonsieurET (talk) 17:03, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Alternative First Wife
Talk:Jamileh Sheykhi

message: Jamileh Sheykhi was born in Zanjan, not in Tabriz and this has been  stated and documented  in numerous sources (all in Persian). It has been mention here as well. In fact IMDb is the only English source that claims she was born in Tabriz and it's apparently an error.--Far50had (talk) 21:29, 29 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: About her birth place
Talk:Rushton Moreve

message: I don't think Rushton was initially credited for Magic Carpet Ride - initially the song was credited solely to John Kay.  After recording 2 albums in a single year with Steppenwolf, Rushton was fired by John Kay and then replaced by Nick St. Nicholas.
Although I can't find any corroborating evidence, I was under the impression that Kay originally got the credit for MCR and only after some haggling was Rushton Moreve given credit for the music while Kay got the lyrics.  "They" say if ya can't remember the 60s it's pretty good evidence you were there.  A lot of it is a fog for me.
A couple of interesting things have popped up as I've researched this (all so I can learn to play the bass line of "The Pusher....rather intricate.)  First, there's some conflict about the date of Moreve's death.  Many web sites state his death as happening in 1981, but the official Steppenwolf site  states that he died in 1975.
Second (and this might just be a bit of trivia) the only statements I can find about Moreve's firing was one article stating his belief that California was going to fall into the ocean soon and he didn't wan to return there after a road trip.  So he was fired and St. Nicholas took his place.  This apparently happened between late 68 and sometime in 69 as the group was working on the "AT YOUR BIRTHDAY PARTY" album upon which only St. Nicholas is featured.  Most of this info came from this site:
    Bruno 03:42, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Scrapper Blackwell

message: This article has been revised as part of a large-scale clean-up project of multiple article copyright infringement. (See the investigation subpage) Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions must be deleted. Contributors may use sources as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously. Diannaa (talk) 03:34, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible copyright problem 
Talk:Jan Miner

message: I am kind of a maverick.  I am not sure if the big quotes are frowned upon, but I see them enough, and feel this particular quote so identifies this actress it could have been her calling card.  I am just writing this to emphasize my enthusiasm for it.  --K3vin (talk) 01:39, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Big Quote

message: The Times refers to Miner making her NY debut in 1948 in a play called Obligatoo, for which no confirmation can be found. The closest thing is a 1958 play called Obbligato (2 "bs", 1 "o"), reviewed in The Village Voice (available here). Given the lack of corroboration, and given the existence of a contemporaneous, detailed review, the Times appears to be in error, and I have adjusted the article accordingly. -- 207.237.223.118 (talk) 16:00, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: New York Times error?

message: Wikipedia omits that Jan Miner was a survivor of the famous Hartford circus fire. She is omitted on that page as well. The information is easily found, a survivor pointed her out to me as another survivor. 
http://articles.courant.com/2004-02-18/features/0402180218_1_madge-miner-circus-fire  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.65.92.14 (talk) 03:28, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: According to tat article, she was more a witness than a survivor. Not sure it's worth including. HalJor (talk) 05:41, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hartford Circus Fire
Talk:Soulja Slim

message: The article is unclear. Where was he raised, in the Magnolia Projects, or in the 3rd Ward of New Orleans, or did he spend time in both places? -- Infrogmation (talk) 20:19, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The Magnolia Projects is in the 3rd Ward of New Orleans.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.228.99.106 (talk) 18:50, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Certainly not. Look at a map. See Wards of New Orleans.  Where did you get that false claim from? -- Infrogmation (talk) 17:10, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled #2
Talk:Jan Sterling

message: LC says 1921.  This says 1923. Which is correct? Bookgrrl holler/lookee here 19:53, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birthdate? 

message: I am afraid this is incorrect. Noone has been buried in St Paul's Church, Covent Garden since 1852.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.222.81.130 (talk) 14:16, 1 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Resting place
Talk:Hernando Franco

message: I've reviewed this article as part of the Composers project review of its B-class articles.  This article is B-class; it could use a complete works list, images, and inline citations.  My full review is on the comments page; questions and comments should go here or on my talk page. Magic♪piano 20:30, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Composer project review
Talk:Tenor Saw

message: This article needs to be cleaned up.  It's written like a fan site, heaping praise on the artist, with lines like "If you know "Ring the Alarm" (which you should), then you know Tenor Saw's style..." and "He died at 22 years of age; this was a great loss, not only for his family and friends, but for reggae music as well."  It also makes extensive use of weasel words
The article needs to be wikified.  There are 6 links, only one of which is not in the first paragraph.
The article's sources need to be cited in-text.
Benandorsqueaks 03:41, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe these concerns have now been addressed.--Michig (talk) 12:20, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article needs clean-up
Talk:Jane Bolin

message: — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.29.91.84 (talk) 22:27, 13 February 2021 (UTC)

message: She is very inspirational 2603:9004:907:5274:B07C:78B7:DF2F:9B88 (talk) 16:30, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jane Bolin 

message: What are some family facs 2603:7000:E300:A9:98E9:E1F4:7E7C:8DC8 (talk) 23:36, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Family facts
Talk:Jane Lawrence

message: Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: https://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/22/arts/design/jane-lawrence-smith-90-actress-associated-with-1950s-art-scene.html. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.)
For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, and, if allowed under fair use, may copy sentences and phrases, provided they are included in quotation marks and referenced properly. The material may also be rewritten, provided it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Therefore, such paraphrased portions must provide their source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you.  ARandomName123 (talk)Ping me!  15:51, 19 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem removed
Talk:Anti-Taurus Mountains

message: I am ready to merge this article into Anti-Taurus. Can I? FIGHTERSOVIET wpedia (talk) 14:17, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Closing,given the uncontested objection and no support. Klbrain (talk) 21:13, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merging issues 

message: While mentioning the name "Aladaglar" as the Turkish version of the mountainous range of "Anti-Taurus Mountains", I suggest merging two separate articles for the same mountainous range into one article, no weighting.  unnecessary to have two separate titles for one same meaning, right? 𐰴𐰺𐰀:𐰆𐰍𐰺 · Karakylchyg 17:51, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it make sense to merge them. We can keep the mountains and national park seperated maybe that was the intention but even those two can be merged. Metuboy (talk) 19:04, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal with [[Aladaglar]]
Talk:Janice Rule

message: An article in the Atlantic Monthly June 2011  on film scholarship pretty much uses Janice Rule as the paradigm of the underappreciated actress. Clive James, a major cultural critic, takes David Thomson to task for ignoring her in his encyclopedia of film. There isn't a lot on Rule in the article, but James was so emphatic that I came here to read Rule's biography, and now can see why he was irate. Wiki exists to rectify flaws in print scholarship, and perhaps we should expand this article, starting with the Atlantic article. Any takers? Profhum (talk) 02:37, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Atlantic Monthly article cites Rule/ call for contributors
Talk:Grateful Dawg (soundtrack)

message: Can someone supply more information about when these individual tracks were recorded? 
Jerry died several years before, so we know they weren't new recordings. 
Were they all from a single session, like The Pizza Tapes, or from various recording sessions over the time of their acquaintance?
Also, where the name of another artist appears next to a track, is that indicating a cover version, or is this a Various Artists release including recordings that inspired Garcia and Grisman?
J Edward Malone (talk) 18:19, 13 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources for Various Tracks?
Talk:Scruton

message: I reverted a large amount of text that was copied from the web site http://www.knoxetal.com/scruton/scruton.htm -- Mufka (user) (talk) (contribs) 18:24, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That does help, and thank-you for pointing it out. However it still might not be entirely beneficial to simply paste the whole chunk of text into this article. It would be best to edit the pasted text so that it flows with what is already present in the article. Otherwise, it will read like just what it is: two separate articles which have been copied-and-pasted next to each other.   Cheers. --PeruvianLlama(spit) 18:54, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Reverted copy/paste
Talk:Hubert Waelrant

message: I've reviewed this article as part of the Composers project review of its B-class articles.  This article is B-class; it lacks a complete works list, images, and inline citations.  My full review is on the comments page; questions and comments should be left here or on my talk page. Magic♪piano 14:13, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Composer project review
Talk:Hugh Aston

message: I've reviewed this article as part of the Composers project review of its B-class articles.  This article is B-class; its main defects are an incomplete works list, no images, and a lack of inline citations.  My full review is on the comments page; questions and comments should be left here or on my talk page. Magic♪piano 13:51, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Composer project review

message: The merger should NOT take place. The authoritative History of Parliament website says that "He appears, however, to have been unrelated to either of the famous Hugh Astons, clerics and scholars, of Oxford and Cambridge"  
It may yet be proved that they are one and the same person but until then - leave sleeping dogs lie.
Plucas58 (talk) 12:14, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger with Hugh Aston

message: The 2020 volume of the Transactions of the Leicestershire Archaeological and Historical Society contains a substantial scholarly and peer-reviewed article by Patrick J Boylan on the identity of Hugh Aston (TLAHS vol 94, pp115-142). It provides major research updates on his biography, and answers some of the uncertainties reflected in this wikipedia article.  I am proposing to write in Aston's biography as set out in the TLAHS journal. Key amongst these details is compelling evidence that the Organist/Composer and the Alderman/Mayor/MP are the same person. The timeline set out in the journal is as follows:-
* born in Leicester in 1485, son of Alderman Robert Aston
* 1493-1502: Boy Choristor in The Newarke College
* 1502-10: Student in Oxford
* 1510-17: undocumented
* 1517: Back in Leicester and admitted as a freeman of the town, and possibly already Newarke organist
* 1520/21: working with various midlands churches on organs and choral institutions, potentially alongside his Newarke post
* 1525: gave evidence during visitation to The Newarke College
* 1526: turned down an offer from Cardinal College, Oxford, preferring to stay in Leicester
* 1530/31: elected to 'the twenty-four', his first Leicester civic appointment
* 1541/2: served as mayor of the town
* 1544: Closing of the Newarke college> Hugh retained his substantial stipend and continuing use of the official residence.
* 1555: elected as one of the two Leicester Members of Parliament
* November 1558: died, and buried at St Margaret's
My proposal would be that this wikipedia article should reflect these biographical details, but also include a section that shows the previously published suggestion of two different Hugh Astons, and set out some of the Boylan evidence for there being just one. RobinLeicester (talk) 22:41, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  2020 article by Patrick Boylan
Talk:Hugh Curwen

message: About the reference given:
John D'Alton, Memoirs of the Archbishops of Dublin (Dublin, 1838).
There is a link to Wikipedia article on John D'Alton (a 20th century Irish ecclesiastic). This is impossible. The author of this book had the same name but lived earlier (in the 19th century).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.175.136.50 (talk) 13:51, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Hugo von Hohenlandenberg

message: See
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_von_Hohenlandenberg -- Guroadrunner 12:10, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to german article 

message: http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=de_en&url=http%3A%2F%2Fde.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FHugo_von_Hohenlandenberg
Guroadrunner 12:17, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  here is german article translated to english 

message: Note to other copy editors - I requested a re-translation for Hugo von Hohenlandenberg#Relevant works of art... we can copy edit that. If they don't get back to me in a couple days, I'll mark up the article for translation attention and drop the copy edit status to gocereviewed. That is, of course, unless that's the wrong answer for this article... thanks -Paulmnguyen (talk) 12:33, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Update: User:Yngvadottir graciously re-translated the indicated section; I am now working on copy editing the whole article. Thanks! -Paulmnguyen (talk) 01:24, 17 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copy edit September 2010