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Talk:R. K. Narayan

message: How has this article made no mention of R. K. Ramachandran, the younger brother of Narayan and older brother of Lakshman? It's not like he was obscure for so many years; he worked at Gemini Studios. --Kailash29792 (talk)  11:37, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Narayan's other brother
Talk:Criticism of Atatürk

message: In 1920's Mustafa Kemal with the help of the British became the hero. Hmm, well, this so-called hero canceled the authority of the most powerful system suitable for human beings. The Khilafah !!! He abandoned all the rulings of Allah. He did not stop there. He abandoned the Adan in Arabic, he denied Muslim sisters from obeying Allah (SWT) by abandoning the Hijab. All Islamic calendars and holidays were canceled. Yes brothers and sisters. He changed the Arabic alphabet to Latin. By doing so, he made sure the next generation will be lost and have no connection to their Islamic roots as they can not read and write all the Islamic culture that was recorded. This Islamic system sent by the Creator of Alameen went from the application in life to be in museums for people to go and see in Turkey. - Darwinek 20:47, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Islam worst traitor - Mustafa Kemal
Talk:The Northern Way

message: The article says things like "...capitalise on the North's new-found confidence..." without clarifying where North is, I for one am unsure whether it is North England or North Scotland or north something else the article refers to. Akamad 13:04, September 2, 2005 (UTC)
:I've tried to add a little clarity about why this initiative was started, and also make clear we're talking about England.  It still needs substantially more information, though, so I've put the stub tags in. MrTrev 00:39, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: More information needed

message: This article is little more than a promotional piece for whatever it is these various quangoes get up to. It would help if there were some explanation of why the Northern Way (TM) is deemed necessary.  And why is "North" always capitalised?
This is a propaganda piece I think 81.249.217.222 (talk) 09:22, 18 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Vague, woolly, meaningless
Talk:Laodicea on the Lycus

message: I don't where this should go in the article, but the name "Laodicea" has a metaphorical usage which derives from Revelation 3:14-16. It is sometimes used to refer to Christians or congregations which are no longer zealous for the faith.  Should there be a "cultural significance" section to mention this fact, and does it belong here or on a disambiguation page? --User:Mdbates
:I think we have it covered at Laodicean Church. --Doc ask? 19:56, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Neither cold nor hot" 

message: Would they have included Hieraopolis and Colosse? KuudereKun 18:59, 26 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Other cities in it's Conventus? 

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thread_title:  Featured picture scheduled for POTD
Talk:Mike Yates

message: Like the entries for Sergeant Benton and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, the list of appearances for Mike Yates may be incomplete, because I don't have access to all the short story collections and comics, so I can't confirm whether an appearance by "UNIT" includes Yates or not. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 20:18, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of appearances 

message: You haven’t mentioned the stage-play "Recall U.N.I.T.", which Richard Franklin wrote and staged in Edinburgh, with John Levene as Benton, the voice of Nicholas Courtney as the Brigadier, and John Scott Martin as the chief Dalek... Jock123 (talk) 14:08, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recall U.N.I.T.: The Great T-Bag Mystery 

message: I'm not sure how to add a citation for the dialogue instead being "dolled up to go on a night on the town with Mike Yates", which doesn't necessarily imply a date, beyond the line being mildly famous among the fandom. BoomboxTestarossa (talk) 10:03, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "...was dressed up to go on a date with Mike..."
Talk:The Gap

message: Unless ChrisRuvolo specifies exactly what he feels is wrong with the article and what he feels needs to be cleaned up, there is no point in his putting on the tag.  I am not a mind reader and I have no idea what his problem is with the page. Figaro 12:42, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It does not comply with recommendatons of MOS:DP or Wikipedia:Disambiguation.  The edits by  were to bring this disambig page into the style guidelines, but they have been reverted.  --ChrisRuvolo (t) 22:43, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: But still nothing specific has been stated about what is supposed to be wrong with the page. Figaro 11:56, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There's nothing wrong with the page now, and thus no cleanup tag. Tedernst | talk 16:53, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup tags 

message: I have again made the page a redirect page.  Now the clothing store is properly identified, and those Americans who persist in calling the clothing retailer "The Gap" will be able to find it. Figaro 23:02, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect page 

message: Am I taking crazy pills?  This page already exists.  There may be some entries here which need to sync with the entries at Gap, but surely we don't need both pages.  It looks like someone just copied all the content from that page to this one a few months ago and then started adding tons more links that don't need to be here.  Remember:  only include articles on topics which are commonly known as "The Gap", NOT every last place that has the word "Gap" in its name! SlackerMom (talk) 20:55, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree that The Gap should only be for those entries that are likely to be linked as "The Gap".  And the Gap page should only be for those that would be linked as "Gap".  Just because something has Gap in its name, wouldn't be sufficient for inclusion on either disambiguation page. --Elonka 05:24, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge this with [[Gap]]
Talk:.17 HMR

message: Why is there a paragraph called "Chronograph results" under the see also section? It looks like someone just pasted it in there randomly. There is also nothing to back up the statements. That info needs to be deleted or verified and included in the main article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.94.245.113 (talk) 16:47, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Chronograph results

message: Ideas on todos:  typical usage of this cartridge, mention that it's likely to render .22 mag obsolete (if a source can be found).  Friday (talk) 13:45, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably a bad idea, considering that the .22 mag continues to sell. Arthurrh 08:49, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Ideas todo

message: The WPMILHIST tag has been removed due to this caliber not being military related.--Oldwildbill 07:50, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: WPMILHIST tag

message: What about the .17 HMR makes it unsafe in semi-autos? Neither the article nor the citations explain that. 75.76.213.106 (talk) 16:28, 2 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-autos 
Talk:Bruce Chatwin

message: There are numerous citation errors in the article due to the mix of citation styles. I have fixed some but can we please settle on one style and then the remaining errors can be resolved. - Sitush (talk) 19:06, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cite errors 

message: I am a little curious regarding why Diana Melly's autobiographical work does not feature at all. She writes quite extensively about Chatwin and I think it deserves a mention in a Further reading section, if nothing else. - Sitush (talk) 19:08, 13 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Melly 

message: * Quote: According to his biographer Nicholas Shakespeare, Chatwin's work developed a cult-like following in the years immediately after his death. By 1998 a million copies of his books had been sold. However, his reputation diminished following revelations ...
The expressions "cult following", "cult hero" and similar fill me with concern, almost every time I ever see them these days.  The Wikipedia definition of "cult following" is "a small but very passionate fanbase"; however, it's usually used in the sense of an overnight sensation, ie. great popularity achieved suddenly (but not necessarily enduring popularity).  This certainly seems to be the way it's used in the quote above.  A million copies sold hardly suggests a small following, in anyone's language.  For one's reputation to diminish from the literal meaning of "cult following" (a small following) would mean that one has sunk into oblivion and obscurity, and that's untrue of Bruce Chatwin.  So, can we come up with more appropriate wording here? --  Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 22:24, 6 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree. "cult" primarily has the notion of "a system of religious veneration and devotion directed towards a particular figure or object" (1st google search definition), the word "religiuous" is crucial i.e., could be irrational or group behaviour or organised. Even when the word is used by a biographer (raising the RS status?), we still don't know how the biographer meant it or concluded it. Then there is the word "-like", which reduces preciseness aka introducing safety-opt-out by the author. And "followers": how is that concluded? What meaning? (disclosure: I may feel personally attacked by this wording for appreciating Chatwin's work). -DePiep (talk) 10:05, 7 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Changed . ping   -DePiep (talk) 20:00, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Cult-like following
Talk:Gibbs sampling

message: I'm not an expert, but the phrase 'the stationary distribution' suggests uniqueness to me, but my intuition suggests there could be cases where it isn't unique.  For example p(x,y)=0 unless |x-y|<1/2 and 1<|x-y|<2, in which case p(x,y)=1.
:I think there is a typo in your example. If |x-y|<1/2 then it is never the case that |x-y|>1...
:Anyway you are correct that for some distributions with inaccessible regions of state space, Gibbs sampling does not give a unique stationary distribution. In these cases Gibbs sampling by itself isn't a valid MCMC method. Here's a toy example of discrete x and y taking on values 0 and 1.
::p(x=0,y=0)=0
::p(x=0,y=1)=0.5
::p(x=1,y=0)=0.5
::p(x=1,y=1)=0
:Gibbs sampling can never move out of (0,1) or (1,0). However, it does leave the distribution of interest invariant. So Gibbs sampling is always a valid MCMC operator that can be mixed with another operator that ensures ergodicity. Someone should add a lucid description of these issues at some point... 128.40.213.241 13:54, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Stationary Distribution

message: Isn't "proven" an adjective, with the more accepted past participle of "prove" being "proved"?  Quantling (talk) 11:56, 12 October 2007
I made the change to "proved".  Quantling (talk) 17:00, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Proved vs. Proven

message: OK, Gibbs sampling is stochastic and produces a different result every time, vs. EM or variational approx. mathods. But the latter techniques generally use a random init, which make the result overall MORE sensitive to init that Gibbs sampling run for long enough.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.195.171.99 (talk) 12:05, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deterministic
Talk:Carryduff

message: The last paragraph indicates that sectarian grafitti is a recent phenomenon - I can assure the writer that is not the case ;-) As far back as 1980's some sectarian hedgehead had scrawled "King Out" in red paint on Killynure Road.
The Carryduff Library was not built in the 90's, it should be introduced in the preceeding paragraph.
:Yeah, the library (and Killinure House old people's home) were built in about 1981 - I remember jumping about playing on the mounds of earth on the building site beforehand. 
And I remember when before the Killynure Estate was even built! It was all green fields in my day. No graffiti then! --feline1 16:04, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

message: I have an old plot map, published in 1803, of Hawthorn Manor.  Is is located here?  Is there a way to contact the current owners.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.67.187.121 (talk) 15:29, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: The two sources for the Gaelic version of Carryduff i think are invalid in the following context - it is a retrospective translation not an actual real-world usage of the Gaelic form. Northern Star (talk) 09:46, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Carryduff Irish sources
Talk:Marinebrigade Ehrhardt

message: In addition to fixing the article's grammar, I changed 'rabid nationalist' to 'fervent nationalist' for the sake of encyclopaedic-ness. --Last Malthusian 14:09, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyediting

message: A book published by Idle Winter Press in 2018, containing a lot of information on Ehrhardt  - http://www.idlewinter.com/hermann-ehrhardt.html 188.104.38.116 (talk) 13:37, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Book by John Koster: "Hermann Ehrhardt - the man Hitler wasn't" 

message: It seems that there was a connection between the swastika and antisemitism in 1919. The Krüger book, p. 34 (cited in note 14) says the swastikas "more probably" came via the Marinebrigade's contact with the Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund, which had distributed material from the Hammer Verlag (publisher) among the men coming back from Silesia. The Hammer Verlag was founded by the antisemite Theodor Fritsch, who in turn founded the antisemitic Reichshammerbund in 1912, which was using the swastika before 1919. See the linked articles. Given that connection, I reverted the edit. GHStPaulMN (talk) 22:12, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revert of 3 July 2023 edit by Johanss Visser
Talk:Preservation Hall

message: Has it survived?
Yes, the grand re-opening, in commemoration of the band's 45th anniversary is going to be held April 27-28.  While I did not specifically look for Preservation Hall, on a recent trip to New Orleans I was very closeby, and all the buildings in the immediate area are intact. --MMan710 03:21, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: you'd think such a grand place, I mean, to someone a thousand miles away and who's never been anywhere near the city and still heard of the business.. you'd think they'd have at least one cite.  I'd love to visit someday, sounds interesting.. they could totally boost their credibility by citing some stuff and making this a real article. Cs302b (talk) 06:49, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: verification

message: If that is not the real Preservation Hall in Bill and Ted Face the Music they did a remarkable job of duplicating it. I swear I spotted the bench where I sat in January. I'm sure the Hall has appeared in other media as well. That might deserve mention here. PurpleChez (talk) 15:48, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bill and Ted Face the Music 

message: Preservation Hall 1644 N. Villere St. in New Orleans' 7th Ward, has collapsed the hole in the roof and the side walls that were temporarily braced, fully  gave way within the past 2 days according to the article below.
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=347179280653295
https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/music/article_9ee53158-23f3-11ed-80dc-7fd3a3cd7848.html  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1702:1590:9A30:4848:CA25:9420:ECFB (talk) 11:52, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Hurricane IDA damage and final collapse August 24th 2022
Talk:Operation Goodwood

message: This sentence in the intro is a good candidate for an edit: "The objective of the operation was a limited attack to secure Caen and the Bourguébus Ridge beyond, pinning German formations in the east flank of the Normandy beachhead." This asserts the objective is known, when in fact it is an open issue. It is inconsistent both to leave the info box as it is and also have this sentence as it is. DMorpheus2 (talk) 19:00, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Sources that argue these were not objectives of the operation?EnigmaMcmxc (talk) 19:05, 25 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Candidate for edit

message: Apropos your comment, in Zetterling, Niklas (2000). Normandy 1944: German Military Organisation, Combat Power and Organizational Effectiveness. Winnipeg: J.J. Fedorowicz. ISBN 0-921991-56-8. managed to talk down German tank losses and unwittingly demonstrate that the number of German tanks available for operations was consistent with Allied tank claims. That the Allies sometimes knocked out a German tank several times didn't make the effect of such losses any less. Regards Keith-264 (talk) 19:54, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Oops wrong edition Zetterling, N. (2019) [2010]. Normandy 1944, German Military Organization, Combat Power and Organizational Effectiveness (2nd rev. Casemate, Oxford ed.). Winnipeg: J. J. Fedorowicz. ISBN 978-1-61200-816-5. Keith-264 (talk) 20:20, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent edits Copyedit
Talk:Sajid Hameed

message: I've cleaned up some of the language, but there remains a good bit that needs to be done on the article to make it more encyclopaediac. More of the Urdu terms need to be translated, at the very least. I didn't like having to change the headings either - I would have liked to have translated the one that was in Urdu instead of just replacing it with the bland 'Perosnality' but, of course, didn't know what it meant.
Still, sounds like a good story :-) --Last Malthusian 14:28, 2 September 2005 (UTC)

message: I have looked through this article again and do not see much issues left. Please do comment on specific things that are needed here.
Thanks,
Safi Fan
: I've copy edited the section now called "Pets", fixing spelling and grammar, etc.  Here are some specific things that need to be done for this article and all the others that are linked to it because they are related to the work of Ibn-e-Safi:
: * Adding references.  There are many things in this article that are stated as being facts that are not related to a specific novel, and thus would be considered original research WP:OR.  There are some references and that is a good start, but every single assertion needs to be referenced to a specific book and, for the benefit of English-speakers, that book has to have its English title (and it needs to be the same English title as is found in the list of novels linked to this page).  For instance, the article states that Hameed likes to take his goat to nightclubs.  In which novel does this happen first?  
: * Correcting POV (point of view).  Like all Wikipedia articles, we try to state the facts and let the readers draw their own conclusions.  So assertions of excellence of the stories, or the characters, are not appropriate UNLESS they have been made by an impartial third party (a book reviewer, for instance), and you can provide a reference that can be checked by the reader.  (Therefore, book reviews that are only available in Urdu are only appropriate for an Urdu version of Wikipedia.  English readers need to have English sources.)  If you say the books are best-sellers, that's an opinion.  Saying approximately how many copies were sold, and saying where that information comes from, is a fact and allows the readers to draw their own conclusions.  A best-seller in Urdu probably doesn't mean the same amount of copies of a book as a best-seller in English.  Another example of this is the former title of the section I edited.  The section is about pets.  How interesting those pets are is something that the reader will have to decide, so we just call the section "pets" and leave the adjectives aside.  
: I hope this helps you see the issues for this and all related pages.  I'll be looking at all these related pages and trying to improve them from time to time.  
Accounting4Taste 22:17, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  clean up issues
Talk:Battle of Sedan

message: According to the Sedantag article, that picture of the Brandenberg Gate was taken in 1898, not 1870. Can anyone confirm this? Drutt (talk) 08:12, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Image

message: This was raised in 2005 but they still don't match. Keted6 (talk) 21:06, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  The numbers in the info box and aftermath section don't match 

message: According to My Modern Met, there is an image of the Battle of Sedan which is thought to be the first of an actual battle. Should this be included in the article? --Icebsa (talk) 07:44, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: That sounds like it would be a good addition to the article. Kevin Nelson (talk) 09:39, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  First photo of war 

message: Please note that Template:Infobox military conflict#Parameters states against "result" that "this parameter may use one of two standard terms: "X victory" or "Inconclusive"." The infobox has been amended to reflect this. Please read the template "result" guidance in full before amending or reverting. It would probably be best to discuss any proposed change here first to seek consensus. Thanks. Gog the Mild (talk) 21:54, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox "Result"
File talk:Bangkok skytrain sunset.jpg

message: What's the make of that camera and lens? I gotta have the same equipment... Peter S. 14:36, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Random comments 

message: Um, hello?  You realise this is a CG image, right?  Why is this described on the front page and in the Bangkok article as if it were a real photo?  "taken from the corner of Thanon Silom"? give me a break. Look at the cars.  Do actual cars look like that?  131.111.8.99 03:40, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What is unusual about the cars? --Bjarki 21:22, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

text: You might want to read through the comments on its FPC nomination. -- Solipsist 06:19, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not to mention, cars (much less freeways or any of the other buildings we take for granted in the Westernized worlds) are actually kind of an unusual sight in Southeast Asia. I'm not sure about now, because it's literally been more than thirty years and we haven't gone back, but my dad said that when he was growing up in Saigon, everyone was so poor that they had to ride motorcycles and bikes and buses, but no cars. It was so bad, they had to share with their neighbors and they all basically became babysitters and cooks for each other and their children, but that's another thing. Limos were too expensive. They used those oldie cars — like the ones that you see as an image typical of America today, credit to the fifties and sixties — for weddings. But this is not something you'd see in Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong, or Japan. Lady Galaxy 00:31, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Real photo?