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Talk:The State (newspaper)

message: Wouldn't this title more appropriately be about the comedy group The State? The one existing link at gun control can be changed to "the State". --Brion 22:07 Oct 3, 2002 (UTC)
:I second Brion's thoughts.  The State comedy troupe/T.V. show is a continetnal phenomenon with a large cult following.  I imagine, especially with the sucess of Reno 911 and the cult following of Stella that there's infinitely more interest in the comedy group than a newspaper in South Carolina. Sonofabird 20:23, 5 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  I agree. At the very least it shouldb be a disambiguation page with options. I thought I had typed in something wrong when this came up. (ImagoDei 23:00, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

message: According to Hightower Lowdown Vol. 23 No. 5 (June 2021) McCarthy's 30 newspapers were acquired by hedge fund Chatham Asset Management in August 2020. I hope someone with the know how and interest in the sad state of print journalism will verify and update this in the article. 
Please don't send me advice on how to do it myself. I'm not that tech savvy and stick to hard copy editing. 207.144.137.130 (talk) 21:10, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  ownership
Talk:Green anarchism

message: It seems to me that this article has been written with the purported superiority of this particular political philosophy firmly in mind.  Therefore, effort must be made to neutralise the point of view.
Statements such as "as opposed to obsolete isms such as socialism or liberalism" are particularily glaring, offensive and POV (not to mention that "ism" is a suffix, not a noun).  Falcon 17:07, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV Dispute

message: https://www.facebook.com/560701240692778/photos/a.561473853948850.1073741828.560701240692778/596496100446625/?type=1&theater Lockeownzj00 04:49, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  this article needs to be cleaned up. 

message: This article is in desperate need of a restructuring because, right now, it's little more than a list of article summaries, many of which have dubious connections to green anarchism. In its current state, this article provides nothing in the way of explaining what green anarchism actually is beyond scattered back-and-forth references to random, disconnected individuals and movements. Grnrchst (talk) 13:51, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I mean this genuinely, but is that necessarily unreflective of green anarchism? AllenY99 (talk) 15:17, 24 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Restructuring desperately needed 

message: The statement is almost certainly incorrect, and as it serves as a founding sentence to the background, needs to be addressed. 
"Before the Industrial Revolution, the only occurrences of ecological crisis were small-scale, localised to areas affected by natural disasters, overproduction or war." 
First, this is not referenced. Secondly, of the information that I am peripherally aware, it's factually wrong: (a) high lead levels have been found in Antarctic ice cores dating from the 16th century, and as early as 1200 AD, caused by mining activities in South America https://www.dri.edu/assessment-of-toxic-heavy-metal-pollution/#:~:text=An%20international%20team%20of%20scientists,the%20Industrial%20Revolution%20by%20centuries.. (b)Large declines in megafaunal abundance (large land animals in this case) are best correlated with human range expansion rather than climate variability over the period between 38,000 and 72,000 years ago - with severe ecological ramifications  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10667484/ 
I'd like some additional consensus on wading into this particular argument, however, as I don't dispute that vast ecological changes, typically not improving ecological function, have occurred since, and as a direct result of, industrialization. Jed (talk) 14:47, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: @Jedgold: It is referenced, see Parson 2018, p. 220. As for factual correctness, you're definitely right that it's not entirely accurate. How would you recommend we reword this sentence? This section needs to communicate the great ecological changes that happened post-industrialisation, but we definitely shouldn't be implying that no great ecological damage has been done before then. --Grnrchst (talk) 15:28, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  This statement is likely wrong, and certainly needs some support
Talk:Prince Edward Island

message: Should there by a French pronunciation? If there are French pronunciations for British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. Why not Alberta, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Prince Edward Island? There are not many French speakers in PEI. However, French is still an official language of Canada and Lot 15 has a French majority. Cascadia630 (talk) 02:31, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Should there be a French pronunciation?

message: Isn't Prince Edward Island Canada's 7th province?  ON, QC, NB and NS were the first four in 1867; then came MB in 1870, then BC in 1871, then PE in 1873.  AB and SK were confederated in 1905, and finally NL in 1949. --  Denelson83  20:02, 14 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Assuming you're referring to the 8th in the infobox, that number includes territories. Nikkimaria (talk) 02:58, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prince Edward Island order of confederation 

message: An issue has come up:  should the infobox to this article contain the field "government_type", filled in with "Parliamentary constitutional monarchy".  Since this issue affects all ten provinces and the three territories, a Request for Comment has been started on the Canadian Wikipedians Notice Board.  If you interested in this issue, please come to the Notice Board and contribute to the discussion.  Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 00:29, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dispute about Infobox content 

message: Its unacceptable to not have Epekwitk as the proper name for this island the original inhabitants have called it such for a long time and to not reflect this is colonialism at its finest . I wish I was more knowledgeable and will continue to learn how to edit wiki but anyone else who follows this page and knows more than me will definitely be able to get the edit approved . Why that name isn't up yet is sad Brandon.Lundigan (talk) 09:15, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Just source the name. Don't claim that an existing reference contains information that it does not, And don't invent a nickname by translating a Native name into English. Meters (talk) 09:27, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The proper name of the island 

message: :
This looks as if the middle was added to
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The insertion 
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should come after the rest: presumably this name came into use only after the French were gone.
And this should be done by someone who knows more than I know. —Tamfang (talk) 08:03, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  French and Gaelic
Talk:Fictional language

message: Not really a language as such, just a substitution cipher... AnonMoos (talk)
: Agreed. Switched to Klingon. APL (talk) 17:03, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Futurama Alien language 1 

message: I have deleted the list of fictional languages this article used to have since it duplicated the purpose of List_of_constructed_languages#Artistic.2Ffictional_languages.  The information is preserved, though; I have added all of the entries from this list to that one.  (Should've made my edit summary clearer.) 4pq1injbok (talk) 12:30, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Cf. CFD Category:Language_creators —Sai ¿?✍ 14:52, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  this article's erstwhile list 

message: The phrasing here is kinda weird, is this implying that other conlangs may be created by a group but not fictional langs? This sentence seems to be trying to do two things at the same time: compare fictional langs to other conlangs, and compare conlangs (in general) to natlangs, which is confusing.
The first part here seems like it's just copied from something describing conlangs in general, while the comparison with Esperanto implies that fictional langs specifically have no native speakers while other conlangs can have them. As far as I know, just like with Esperanto there was also a case of a native speaker of Klingon (a fictional language).
I think neither
a) whether they are created by an individual or a group, nor
b) whether they may have native speakers
distinguishes fictional langs from other types of conlangs, these traits are not relevant to the distinction. Both of these seem like they were taken out of context and originate from a text comparing conlangs to natlangs. The article should more clearly separate descriptions of what a conlang is in general (compared to natlangs) from descriptions of what a fictional language specifically is (compared to other conlangs).
Tajoshu (talk) 13:13, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "group involvement" and native speakers
Talk:The Illustrated Man

message: Could mention that radio adaptations of Kaleidoscope were aired by BBC (AT-1996), Bradbury 13, Dimension X, Shape of Things to Come (BBC, 1991), Mindwebs and Suspense. This from The Plot Spot and elsewhere. 97.113.131.139 (talk) 21:59, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kaleidoscope on the air 

message: This page is full of spoilers. Don't give away the stories in the descriptions. Geez.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.76.96.154 (talk) 18:35, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: "Plot Summary" change to "Plot Summary with Endings" approved by DVdm. (see Illustrated Man section) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DVdm 130.76.96.154 (talk) 21:25, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Not "approved" merely noted that it might be okay but others might object. If you ask me it is a technical avoidance of using the word "spoiler" while still achieving the same aim (so actually in breach of WP:SPOILER QU TalkQu 21:28, 1 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  FULL OF SPOILERS 

message: I expect spoilers for The Illustrated Man on its own Wikipedia page. I do not expect plot details of Something Wicked This Way Comes. Thanks a lot.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Asm5449 (talk • contribs) 15:49, 2 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove plot details of other books 

message: I don't buy the claim that the Kaleidescope story inspired the movie Dark Star. Dark Star ends with one of the protagonists surfing through space to his death; but the rest of that movie is a wry, hippie comedy whose plot bears zero relationship with Kaleidescope. I don't believe even that the ending of Dark Star was inspired by the ending of Kaleidescope.
So: I will delete the claim if a citation doesn't appear 'fairly soon'. MrDemeanour (talk) 17:11, 26 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dark Star 
Talk:Dutch language

message: "Dutch language, spoken in Aruba, Belgium, Curaçao, the Netherlands, Sint Maarten, and Suriname." Speling12345 (talk) 3:52, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comment 

message: I am confused by the "two to three genders" in the lead. So there are neuter words which I don't think anyone is disputing. And while many historically feminine and masculine words can be considered "common" in the standard language (=speakers can chose whether these words are referred to as "hij/hem/zijn" (he/him/his) or "zij/ze/haar" (she/her/her)), not all words can. Het Groene Boekje has purely feminine (e.g., ) and purely masculine () words, which means that there are three genders in the standard language. Morgengave (talk) 09:24, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: IIUC, Het Groene Boekje gives genders as they were historically, and still are in Dutch idiolects and regiolects using all three. However, it has long been "acceptable" (since the 1960s and possibly earlier) to regard as masculine all de-words except those naming biologicaly female beings. As a rule of thumb, Hollandic usually has two genders (de and het, with, as in English which has no grammatical gender, zij, ze, haar only used for female persons or animals) while Southern Dutch (Flemish, Brabantian, etc.) usually has three (hij, ze, het, with de zon (the sun), de gelegenheid (the opportunity), de broederschap (the fraternity), etc. beiing regarded as feminine). I'm not sure where to draw the line between them. — Tonymec (talk) 00:57, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Standard language: 3 genders

message: , your recent edits included a few references that you invoked but didn't declare, which is leading to loud red errors in the article's reference section.  Could you check and add the source information as appropriate?  Thanks, Wham2001 (talk) 19:00, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: The English Wikipedia article states that "English is the only language to use the adjective Dutch for the language of the Netherlands" but the English to Hindi translation of "Dutch" provided by English Wiktionary contradicts this.  The Hindi word for Dutch ("डच" / ḍac) derives from the English word "Dutch".  The translations into Dhivehi, Marathi, Nepali, and Urdu also appear to share the same root from English.  Nicole Sharp (talk) 15:17, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, the Hindi word for Dutch is unambiguously an English derivative, this is why it is ignored. The article wants to say that "English is the only language to use Dutch as an own word for the language of the Netherlands", the cognates of the word Dutch, German deutsch, Swedish tysk, Dutch Duits, Italian tedesco, all mean German, while Hindi probably had no word for either Dutch or German, as the Hindi did not know these nations, therefore, when it became important, they started to use the word for them from the language they know had, English. This all means that डच is actually an English word in Hindi i.e., "English is the only…" can be considered right. CERBERUS - ii iv iii (talk) 19:33, 21 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dutch for Hindi speakers
Talk:Bird-in-Hand, Pennsylvania

message: Not an unincorporated community, at least, the 2010 census says, its a CDP  http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/files/Gaz_places_national.txtCoal town guy (talk) 17:33, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Bird in Hand is a CDP
Talk:East Petersburg, Pennsylvania

message: East Petersburg is governed by a seven-person Borough Council and Mayor.  As of July 2012 the Council President was Cappy Panus and the Mayor was Jeff Geoghan
East Petersburg Borough Council is comprised of seven members elected to four-year staggered terms. Borough Council elects from members a president of council and a vice-president. Borough Council serves as the legislative body elected by citizens of the borough. Council is responsible for establishing policies, enacting by ordinance or resolution laws and regulations to implement approved policies, providing for annual budgets and appropriations of funds for lawful expenditures, appointing members to boards, and commissions established by Borough Council.  Mayor is responsible for law enforcement and holds a non-voting membership in the council, but with tie-breaking and veto powers per the Pennsylvania Borough Code
Borough Council meets twice per month to conduct business - a formal meeting the first Tuesday and a business meeting the third Tuesday.
The East Petersburg Borough Website is http://www.eastpetersburgborough.org/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.151.165.233 (talk) 14:29, 6 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Politics and Government 
Talk:Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania

message: I just fixed a bunch of vandalism to the page. I'm only an occasional contributor to Wikipedia and I don't know how pages get protected, but protecting this page seems like a good idea to me. Pha telegrapher (talk) 22:45, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 
Talk:Esoteric knowledge

message: I don't see any reason why we shouldn't merge Esoteric knowledge and Occult (and probably esotericism). If these articles need to be differentiated more strongly then we need to write text that does this.
Occult has a different connotation. Esoteric knowledge is simply information that is "true" but by some circumstance not general, for example, precisely how to make a small H-bomb, or the sort of knowledge a veteran taxidriver has of a city. Esotericism, on the other hand, consists of attaching significance to a body of knowledge which is at variance with general knowledge; although it may be neither secret or true. User:Fredbauder
* Agree: true and deeper... --GalaazV 04:37, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

message: User:Baphomet. is damaging Wikipedia: he his trying to label Religious articles as Superstition (from a POV view of positivism, that he calls Science). At the article Reincarnation he just went on to add to category "Superstition" and later on without discussion put a POV msg in the article. Please see the discussion page between both of us Talk:Reincarnation#Superstition.
Through the use of a Culture created by extremism in Science, he is clearly trying to do the job that the Inquisition did in the Middle Ages in a Culture created by extremism in Religion. He is damaging Wikipedia in a subtle invious way! 
: Please see also the Alert message I have created at Wikipedia:Wikiquette_alerts#September_4, Thank you! --GalaazV 20:25, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for your aid dealing with actions from a user against Religious, Spiritual and Esoteric articles
Talk:Yemaja

message: I believe that Yemaja also has a strong following in Brazil. But that's about all I know. Perhaps more information on this could be mentioned in the article? Guy
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I'm about 75% sure the Umbandists mentioned in the article are Brazilian.Tokerboy 20:01 Oct 4, 2002 (UTC)
there is a link on the last paragraph to "umbandists" - for which there isn't any article on wikipedia. Why not link it to "Umbanda", as there is such an entry here?
I have been to Rio de Janeiro in 1990 and the goddess, known there as Imanja, is very much in evidence.  I was told that underneath catholicism is a lot of local religion and I saw it to be true.  In the shops that sell religious icons- paintings and statues of Jesus etc., you can also buy paintings of Imanja- she looks beautiful and rises out of the sea, as she is portrayed in one of the Yemaja pictures on this site.  I have also seen the little candles that the locals burn on the beach at Copacabana and Ipanema at night for her.
I have no idea how to make this info into a proper article, but I would like mention of at least some of this to go into the Brazil page, the Rio page, the Yemaja page or a little stub of Imanja.
IceDragon64 00:09, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Brazil

message: It is listed on the entry that "Her parents are Oduduwa and Obatala." It is posted elsewhere on Wikipedia that both of these entities were male. There should be more research and I will check entries again.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dweiums (talk • contribs) 21:18, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problem with deity parentage 

message: It would be nice to have some consistency about the spelling.
The page title is "Yemaja" (a spelling I have never seen). This spelling is never again used in the article.
The spellings I have seen here in Rio de Janeiro are Yemanjá and Iemanjá, both of which are used in the body of the article.
I suggest that, for consistency, the page title be changed to Yemanjá or Yemanja.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.25.15.78 (talk) 20:13, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title of Page
Talk:Dabru Emet

message: Thanks for posting this. Are we allowed to edit it? --Ed Poor
We can edit the article, but for historical accuracy, we cannot edit the text of the quote itself; Its a quote, after all. However, we can cut and paste from the article, insert it somewhere else, and then edit it there.
:Can't the text be transwikied to Wikisource, with the background remaining here? JFW | T@lk 10:11, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think there's a problem with including the source at Wikisource, but given how short the text is, I don't think that removing it completely to Wikisource simply because it's source text truly serves the purpose of Wikisource which, at least as I understand it, is designed to be a repository of source texts that are significantly more extensive in length and interest than the relatively few paragraphs of the Dabru Emet statement.  Tomer TALK 08:19, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

message: A previous version said "Throughout the nearly two millennia of Jewish exile, Christians have tended to characterize Judaism as a failed religion or, at best, a religion that prepared the way for, and is completed in, Christianity," but the phrase "a failed religion" was removed.  While it would need specific documentation, which I don't have at hand, I believe such a claim, i.e., that some influential Christians referred to Judaism as failed or used some similar idea or terminology, is (alas) justified.  The whole topic is tricky (one wonders if any significant statement would be seen as NPOV by all), and perhaps best not dealt with here, in so short a space.  The phrase "have tended" is vague in a spot needing precision:  does it mean most Christians by number?  Most official institutional responses?  Most important or leading Christian intellectuals?  
Good luck to whoever comes up with a good fix!  ABShippee (talk) 22:51, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historical characterizations of Judaism 
Talk:Pollard

message: I am German and I found the translation "pollard" for this pile in a pedestrian zone. Is that right ?
 --84.166.221.199 23:33, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The object pictured in that image is actually a bollard.-h i s   s p a c e   r e s e a r c h 17:14, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poller (German)
Talk:Rush

message: I think [] was a bad idea and I reverted it. My rationale: People are equally likely to be looking for the dictionary defition of "rush" as they do Rush Limbaugh or Rush (band) if they type "rush" and hit Go in the search box. For reference, Google gives on its first page of results for "rush": link to the dictionary definition, the band's website, RushLimbaugh.com, a medical centre, and a university. Which suggests people may be looking for any one of a lot of things when they come to the Rush page, not just the band. Kimchi.sg 09:58, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree. With such a variety of meanings, there's no reason to assume that someone is most likley to be looking for the band.  Ward3001 00:32, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirecting to [[Rush (band)]] 

message: Yale University has a long-standing tradition of a capella rush, which often involves a greater time commitment than fraternity or sorority rush and is rather distinctive in forming the school's unique character.  Would it be suitable for a capella rush to receive brief mention on this page?  Does this practice occur at any other schools? Yitzhak1995 07:19, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would suggest putting that on fraternities and sororities page.  This is a disambiguation page that is primarily for navigation and not detailed information like that. (John User:Jwy talk) 13:25, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A capella rush 

message: I added it, since I got to this page looking for it and it was missing.  Antichris (talk) 15:37, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Fireman album 

message: I often come here looking for the original usage of a word, but find the content limited to slang or new usages. I beieve the term rush is first found in military vocabulary, perhaps also as a hunting term. It seems t me that to compile a useful reference, some thought should be given to a word's original meaning. Of course I understand that an encyclopedia is not a dictionary; nevertheless these omissions should be corrected. --APDEF (talk) 03:36, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origins?