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Talk:Great Barrington, Massachusetts

message: As a GB resident there was a lot info on this page that was chatty or poorly summarized. I tried to update nightlife/entertainment info but will make a more comprehensive review later. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nothumb (talk • contribs) 
: Were you posting as 65.118.139.246?  --AJD 23:14, 27 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Early discussion

message: Why are all of the images of historical nature? why are there no contemporary photos of how the town looks today? ROxBo (talk) 12:13, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Images

message: I was looking at this page randomly and saw that they state that Paul Kirk is the junior senator when it is Scott Brown. I went ahead and changed it and then one of the Wikipedia admins sent me a message saying my changes were undocumented and changed it back!!! I don't understand why the heck you would put something that is false. I was clearly just changing what was wrong.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.195.55.113 (talk) 19:32, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, I was the one that reverted your edit. Sorry if the information you added was correct, but as you did not cite any reliable sources, I assumed that it was political vandalism. Guoguo12--Talk--   19:35, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Government
Talk:Bob Merrill

message: I am sorry about the mess with birth locations and dates. IMDb and several others say it he was 77 when he died, others 74. They also give differing birth locations. Hopefully someone will have an authorative reference. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 22:13, 27 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: birth

message: Citing this title (note lack of ' before Round) with Merrill's 40s and 50s pop hits is incorrect. It comes from his Broadway era. It was written for Carnival, and in any case is from 1961. Fred Lane 21:40, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Love Makes the World Go Round
Talk:Malta (island)

message: I've noticed there are previous discussions of the value of having this article separate from the article "Malta". I would not go into that but on the matter of the name. "Malta Island" is a term that is not in use (and therefore failing to fulfill WP:COMMONNAME) and grammatically incorrect. I would therefore propose a rename: "Malta (island)". This would be in the same style as the name of the article Hawaii (island) (which case is analogous in that both the group of islands and the largest island are commonly referred to as "Hawaii").
Views? Demdem (talk) 09:40, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article rename 

message: Apparently substantially flooded 900 eliminating former coastal settlements and separating the previously connected islands:
* .
This guy is mostly focused on philology but if the geology is sound we should at least mention/link whatever was going on so recently here. — LlywelynII 03:17, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Sea level rise?
Talk:Ford Fiesta

message: Any discussion that this "flag" generated at the time seems to have disappeared into an archive somewhere, but:
* 1.  Yes, the entry is getting rather unwieldy, especially with a telephone or in other places where download speeds are slow.   If you're still offering, please do it.   Though given the way that the present arrangement has become a bit unstructured, the task needs to be undertaken with care and should not (please) be rushed.
* 2.  Ditto sixth generation. 
* 3.  If the thing has already been discussed to death on this talk page when I wasn't looking, and a conclusion reached to do nothing about it, then the little flags on the entry page are simply getting in the way and should be removed.
Regards Charles01 (talk) 11:58, 29 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Splitting 

message: I don't think there should be full infoboxes on this page when the same info exists on the generational page, e.g. Ford Fiesta (fifth generation).  It adds white space to the condensed sections, and duplicates info so infobox changes have to be made to two different pages.  I propose removing all text from the infoboxes (except 7th generation which does not yet have a separate page) except production years and possibly platform and/or body style.  Photos can remain.  Any objections? --Vossanova o< 15:47, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Seconded. I think body style and platform should be included.  Mr.choppers | ✎  17:11, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, done. --Vossanova o< 18:02, 6 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infoboxes 

message: The section on Mark II starting with “A truly "hot" Fiesta was never produced…” is exactly the same as found on https://classiccars.fandom.com/wiki/Ford_Fiesta. I don’t know if there is cross-licensing or which site is the original. Just pointing this out since I was searching for some info on the subject and had a déja vu moment. Equals42 (talk) 01:22, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: it's compatible, as is the rest of Fandom, but it can't be used as a source. PRAXIDICAE🌈 01:23, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, our article pre-dates fandom by several years and it appears they copied from us. PRAXIDICAE🌈 01:25, 4 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Potential copyright issue?
Talk:Samba (Brazilian dance)

message: I was wondering if this stub should exist, given that there is another entry for Samba. The disambiguation page lists two types of Samba dance/music (plus a type of software, which is fair enough). I believe these should be combined in the same entry, maybe mentioning ballroom samba in the previous entry. I am very new to Wikipedia, so I won't change this right now (will need to find out if approapriate and how to do it first), but if you see what I mean and want to change it now, it would be great. Thanks. (Will add this comment to the other Samba page too). —Preceding unsigned comment added by AnandaLima (talk • contribs)  08:36, 28 May 2004 
:There is an immense amount of what can be written both about dance and music, and totally different thangs. So the articles must be separate. Mikkalai 23:35, 27 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Redundant stub

message: Here's a samba carneval photo that could be used to illustrate the article, in case people consider it appropriate. I'm not sure if it would add much value in terms of information contents, but at least it would make the article more colourful. :) --Jonik 12:28, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Illustration

message: :Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *Support or *Oppose, then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.
*Redirect :Samba (dance) to :Samba (disambiguation)#Dance styles.  In the US :Samba (Brazilian dance) might be the primary use, but is this the case world wide?  If someone can show a primary use I'll happily go with that. Vegaswikian (talk) 18:26, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: The article stated that Samba originated in Brazil but it actually originated in Africa.  The Africans brought their culture to Brazil during the slave trade era and introduced Brazil to samba along with capoeira and heavy rhythmic drum music and cuisines.  The article does not mention how Samba was a ceremonial dance that Africans performed and barely mentioned the use of it in capoeira which is an African form of martial arts.  Please check out the following websites that support the fact of Samba's origin: dictionary.reference.com/browse/SAMBA -, www.life123.com/sports/dance/samba/origin-of-samba.shtml   —Preceding unsigned comment added by Realbrazil (talk • contribs) 02:49, 29 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Samba did not originate in Africa! This is wrong, Samba is a disporic expression https://opanije.com/what-is-samba/, this is also present in the pt/ versions ViscondeVelho (talk) 16:09, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Samba originated in Africa
Talk:Luther Martin

message: The article has him graduating from college before he was born. I'd guess 1746 was a typo from 1766. As for the unsigned comment below, it wouldn't surprise me if Metuchen, then unincorporated, was considered part of Brunswick, as much of what's now Middlesex county was. Dvd Avins (talk) 00:07, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Can anyone provide a source for the burial site being "an unmarked grave in St. John's churchyard"?  Find-A-Grave lists him as being buried in Trinity Churchyard.  There have been several St. John's churches in New York City, and one of them (St. John's Chapel) was, according to Wiki, in the Episcopal parish of Trinity Church.  But this church was torn down in 1918.  Elsquared (talk) 20:50, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  source for burial info 

message: this change said it's according to "family records", but didn't provide any reference. Most of database on Internet says 1748.--fireattack (talk) 05:03, 2 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source of DOB change? 

message: This might be a bit much for the "Legal Career" section of the article, but is worth noting anyway:
The bar of Maryland felt a curious mixture of pride and shame in owning that his genius and vices were equally remarkable. Rough and coarse in manner and expression, verbose, often ungrammatical, commonly more or less drunk, passionate, vituperative, gross, he still had a mastery of legal principles and a memory that overbalanced his faults, an audacity and humor that conquered ill-will. In the practice of his profession he had learned to curb his passions until his ample knowledge had time to give the utmost weight to his assaults. History of the United States During the Administration of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison (Earl N. Harbert, ed.) (Library of America, 1986) Vol I (Jefferson) . Vol II (Madison) .Larry Koenigsberg (talk) 01:53, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Henry Adams]] characterizes Luther Martin 

message: No mention is made of Martin's background as a lawyer until later in the article. He attended Princeton and graduated in 1766 with honors, but the first we  learn of his legal background is in the Legal Career section which concerns the 1800s. I'm busy at the moment and will make a note to research and document this when I can wrap up some other WP matters. Allreet (talk) 19:43, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Information on legal background missing
Talk:Bobcat (disambiguation)

message: True or false: there is a good advantage of having this the way it is over using Bobcat for the animal and having other links moved to Bobcat (disambiguation). 66.245.6.21 23:45, 27 May 2004 (UTC)

message: Hi 167.73.214.65 (talk) 00:24, 22 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bobcat
Talk:St Ethelburga's Bishopsgate

message: This page seems to confuse two St Ethelburgas.  According to  and  there are (at least) two St Ethelburgas - one "of Barking" (died AD 675), of the family of Offa, King of Essex, and the other "of Lyming" (died AD 647), daughter of St Aethelbert; and  states that St Ethelburga's Bishopsgate is named after St. Ethelburga of Lyming (died AD 647).
Does anyone have definitive information? -- ALoan 00:01, 28 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: This is confusing... The Oxford Dictionary of Saints lists three St Ethelburgas. Ethelburga of Kent was the abbess of Lyming. According to the church's own website at http://www.stethelburgas.org/History.htm , their Ethelburga was a different one, "believed to have been born at Stalling-borough, some four miles from Grimsby, where also her brother, St. Erkonwald, was born.  Erkonwald became Bishop of London in 675.  The new Bishop founded a great Benedictine Abbey at Barking in Essex, one of the first religious houses for women in the country, and appointed Ethelburga as the first abbess." The Oxford Dictionary of Saints says the following of her: "Ethelburga (1) (Ædilburh)  (d. 675), abbess of Barking. Of a wealthy (possibly royal) family and sister of Erkenwald, Ethelburga was quite likely the owner, as well as the ruler, of Barking. A late tradition says that Erkenwald invited Hildelith from Chelles to be prioress and future abbess of Barking: her difficult task was to teach Ethelburga monastic traditions while retaining a subordinate role." -- ChrisO 10:08, 28 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Two Saints
Talk:Newark Castle, Nottinghamshire

message: If it was, it was the earliest castle in England by a good two hundred years. :-) (RJP 13:55, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: "founded by Egbert, king of the West Saxons"

message: I'm doing a History Conference next week on Newark Castle can you give me any info.
Cheers
58.104.110.245 08:50, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Newark Castle 

message: Newark Castle is really a stronghold for the English Civil War during 1645-1649. It encounted three bloody sieges with sword and gunpowder.
tom 02:42, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Newark Castle Civil War Trail 

message: The dismantling started in 1646, after the surrender of the Royal forces. What happened then? Was it re-built? 86.148.130.233 (talk) 12:35, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added a note to the article explaining the castle was restored in the 19th century by Anthony Salvin. Nev1 (talk) 12:52, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dismantling? 
Talk:Porno (novel)

message: It may be noteworthy that there is no scene in the book where heroin is being injected; I don't know much about addiction, but the novel makes it seem somewhat easy to quit taking heroin (albeit potentionally moving on to crack or cocaine) (clem 06:57, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: There's not much about the plot really. Loads happens in Part Three but there's only one sentence on it here.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.133.213.141 (talk) 12:28, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Plot

message: They end up together so she can't have lost all her interest in him.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.185.188.25 (talk) 14:04, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dianne and Rents
Talk:Badger (disambiguation)

message: Reading the guidelines about disambiguation pages at WP:DAB, I think this page needs some serious pruning. Does anyone typing in "badger" into the search box really expect to be taken to a page about dachshunds, the University of Wisconsin-Madison or Norman Lamont? That should be our criterion, surely. 
After looking at WP:DAB, I see no reason to keep anything except: 
* the animal (and types, since apparently Americans and Europeans expect different animals);
* badger (person);
* the various "Badger, placename" places;
* Badger (comics);
* possibly the beer/brewery? 
I definitely think that these should go: 
* link to Wisconsin (there's already a list of U.S. state nicknames); 
* link to University of Wisconsin-Madison;
* First Badgerline;
* Norman Lamont (no idea how often The New Statesman used this, but it didn't become exactly mainstream);
* badger to mean a dachshund (??) ;
* Badger badger badger (someone keeps adding this back into badger and getting reverted anyway);
* NATO reporting name;
* Breezy Badger (nothing to link to);
* Wind in the Willows character, much as I love the book (ditto);
* The Badger whilst it remains a redlink. 
Comments? Too wholesale? Too anti-Wisconsin? :) I do think that disambiguation pages on Wikipedia tend to need regular pruning, because people just add more and more to them without realising that they are not supposed to be collections of anything with the word in. 
--Telsa 15:18, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Disambiguation page, not directory

message: Badger might be Canadian police slang for a person police are interested in.
"OK, Badger's at the back of the bus, hacking off pieces and eating it,"  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Geo8rge (talk • contribs) 00:58, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Canadian police slang
Talk:Economy of England

message: I think this image would be better suited for the lead image as it looks nicer and lines up better with the picture. The picture used already is already used on the City of London page and it's nice to have a bit of diversity.--2economist2 (talk) 13:24, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: This looks like classic Wikipedia:Sockpuppet_investigations/Lam312321321. Belbury (talk) 08:53, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:   is already tagged as such. 74.73.224.126 (talk) 14:47, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: It wasn't at the time, it was merged after I flagged it. Belbury (talk) 14:57, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, I see I should've checked the history then. Thanks for being on top of this one, I'll keep on eye out for them in the future. 74.73.224.126 (talk) 15:27, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead image 

message: There is a reference in the manufacturing section to a company. 
In the 1970s, manufacturing accounted for over 20 percent of the economy. Total employment in manufacturing fell from 7.1 million in 1979 to 4.5 million in 1992 and only 2.7 million in 2016, when it accounted for 10% of the economy. Manufacturing has increased in 36 of the last 50 years and was twice in 2007 what is in 1958, manufactures include Autodesk.
The reference to Autodesk doesn't flow with the style of the paragraph, the reference link is strange, and the company listed here might not be the best representative of traditional manufacturing in the UK. I think the reference should be removed.  Narkie (talk) 18:53, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weird reference in Manufacturing section 

message: cuture = culture 75.82.33.0 (talk) 02:13, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Cannolis (talk) 04:28, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 26 November 2023
Talk:Bambi

message: This 1989  Los Angeles Time article says "Back in 1942, the then-princely sum of $2 million was spent on the film".   The article already has a budget figure of $858,000 with a source. Should this budget figure also be added? Mike Allen 17:23, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Budget 

message: Will you let me edit this page, plz? 109.53.39.70 (talk) 13:32, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: this is not the right page to request additional user rights. You may reopen this request with the specific changes to be made and someone may add them for you, or if you have an account, you can wait until you are autoconfirmed and edit the page yourself. Cannolis (talk) 18:39, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 3 November 2023 

message: In the Animation section, where it mentions the Los Angeles Zoo, please replace this with the Griffith Park Zoo as this is what the LA Zoo was know at the time. The current Los Angeles Zoo opened in 1966. 2600:100C:A218:92ED:950A:4F6F:705C:2067 (talk) 01:28, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Liu1126 (talk) 12:17, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request
Talk:Robert Wise

message: Wise grew up in Connersville, Indiana.
*wouldn't this be better suited to WikiProject Film?--64.12.117.13 11:51, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: ah, which doesn't exist--64.12.117.13 11:51, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Growing up

message: Shloimke, please do not continue to add unsourced information to this article without providing reliable sources that will allow for verification of the material. The addition of sources in order to verify information is Wikipedia policy and your continued addition of unsourced information without discussion (I've left several messages on your talk page) is a form of disruptive editing. I've looked for references myself and have found none to verify the death of Millicent Wise, nor the family relations you are adding. If you are adding this information based on your own knowledge or research, this constitutes original research and cannot be used in the article. Please discuss where you are obtaining this information so that it can be determined if the source is reliable prior to adding it back in. --Jezebel'sPonyoshhh 17:02, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: I added new content with related citations and also identified the few remaining lines of existing content where I couldn't locate a secondary source to support it. The related content that still needs a citation is marked with a "citations needed" note so they'd be easy to find in the text. Rosalina523 (talk) 22:29, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Citations

message: I can't find anything that says she or the surname is Jewish. The book may not say Jewish - if anyone has the book they can confirm this. TimTempleton (talk) (cont) 19:16, 10 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request at help desk
Talk:Shi Nai'an

message: I moved this page from Shi Nai'an since according to http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~chifc/pinyin.html there is no need for the apostrophe, and I am getting more google hits for "Shi Naian" versus "Shi Nai'an". ☞spencer195 03:41, 28 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Saṃsāra

message: It says:
"The concept of Saṃsāra has roots in the post-Vedic literature; the theory is not discussed in the Vedas themselves.[7][8] It appears in developed form, but without mechanistic details, in the early Upanishads."
This doesn't make much sense, considering that the Upanishads are part of the Vedas.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.11.230.77 (talk) 01:39, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Confusing sentence

message: I don't know if this popular 90s club night in London called 'Escape from Samsara' is worthy of a mention?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fridge#Return_To_The_Source_and_Escape_From_Samsara
 
78.86.10.170 (talk) 16:43, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Thats interesting. But it is not worthy of mention.--Indian Chronicles  (talk) 16:08, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popular Culture 

message: I categorized the redirect Samsaram as "other spelling". If it is a misspelling or not a direct synonym, please update the rcats accordingly. Thanks, Paradoctor (talk) 13:52, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Samsaram 

message: Hello, the french wictionary says that samsara can be spelled “samsarâ”. Is it true? https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/samsar%C3%A2#Anglais --French-Zhuangzi (talk) 04:47, 9 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling of samsara in english
Talk:Lysias

message: Why are there so many random-letter strings littering this article? Can someone replace them with the correct Greek or whatever should be there?
e.g. "iirirthr". These are apparently mistransliterations of Greek. The original article would be needed. --Erauch 23:50, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I think they're not transliterations, but rather something meant to be displayed in an old, badly coded Greek font, a relic from before Unicode. It is certainly difficult to figure out the coding without having the font. Is there anyone who has experience with these old fonts? (I have used one, but not this one, I think; I'll check anyway). – Krun 23:37, 11 November 2005 (UTC)

text: A lot of the stuff about the speeches looks like its from Jebb, which is 135 years old. Not that being old, in this context, is necessarily a problem, but more recent scholarship has probably corrected some of these problems. The stuff in the table like "forensic, in public causes," is verbatim from Jebb. 65.25.46.236 (talk) 23:33, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

text: I should add that it really needs a better "notes" system than the cumbersome "A" and "B" thing I've got. Jlg4104 (talk) 21:20, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments
Talk:Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk

message: this album needs a better version of the copy art! Spearhead 22:02, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: coverart