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Talk:William Combe

message: I've often seen this term used to describe certain authors, but what does it mean ? A writer who concentrates on no particular genre but works in all, would be my guess. Shakespeare never wrote essays, Keats didn't produce biography, Thurber never wrote a novel, Maugham didn't write poetry, Wolff didn't write humour. An author who does all this seems to be of the 'miscellaneous' type, but the word carries connotations of triviality. A dabbler, rather than a serious artist. Is this correct ? 2001:44B8:3102:BB00:51ED:F309:1825:A132 (talk) 21:04, 17 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Miscellaneous writer ?
Talk:Jamaican patty

message: The Jamaican patty is better known as Tastee Patties, The most Popular brand in Jamaica.
-in NYC it's known as jamaican beef patties. I have never heard Tastee  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.111.23.142 (talk) 19:26, 14 September 2007 (UTC)

message: bilcat a editor keeps removing useful information, without reasons why
Information seems to be removed regularly by this individual. Is Bilcat the main main editor as dictated by Wikipedia. 
I am reverting the information. the Caribbean population is in Canada is as old or older that the ones in New York. In the late 60's and early 70's families initially didn't go to the U.S because they didn't want their husbands or sons drafted for the Vietnam war. Patties are ubiquitous in the Toronto area.     — Preceding unsigned comment added by Starbwoy (talk • contribs) 00:16, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is information being removed by Bilcat?  

message: I wonder what the differences are between the Jamaican beef patties and cornish pasties?72.78.154.193 (talk) 13:17, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cornish Pasty? 
Talk:William Connor Magee

message: If someone wants to, there is a photo in Macdonnell's biography of Magee. -- billinghurst (talk) 23:50, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo exists 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: Moved to William Connor Magee, partly for substantial (WP:NATURAL is generally preferred, although "this could go either way") and partly for procedural reasons (was unilaterally moved from this title).   No such user (talk) 10:41, 4 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: William Magee (archbishop of York) →  – Same reason as previously given (and accepted) on 19 January 2017: Normally known by full name, which is a better disambiguator from his grandfather William Magee (archbishop of Dublin). On Google ngrams, the spike for "William Magee" in the 1830s and "William Connor Magee" in the 1890s clearly demonstrates that "William Magee" generally refers to the grandfather, and "William Connor Magee" to the grandson. (Renamed on  with a later tidying rename on ) LookLook36 (talk) 17:29, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 18 January 2022
Talk:Foo was here

message: I have reverted the merger with the Kilroy was here article.  Firstly, I don't find it at all acceptable that this merger was made without any proposal and discussion.  Secondly, the aFoo rticle is part of the Australian Wikipedia project - and, thirdly, it is believed in Australia that "Foo was here" originates before "Kilroy was here" and is not, therefore, a so-called "variation" of it but that "Kilroy was here" derives from "Foo"..  Therefore the whole basis of the merger is false.  How would an American like it if I merged "Kilroy was here" with the "Foo" article?  Not very much I suspect.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Afterwriting (talk • contribs) 
:Merge discussion is here. Fences&Windows 19:15, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reversion of the unjustified merger with "Kilroy was here". 
Talk:Azucena Grajo Uranza

message: Dragonbite 03:32, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo request
Talk:William Coxe (historian)

message: The old DNB (1892) gives Coxe's date of birth as 7 March 1747. This date can also be found in a biographical portrait published during Coxe's lifetime and in his obituary as published in Gentlemen's Magazine  1st ser., 98/2 (1828), 86–9. Since Jeremy Knight, who wrote the new entry in the ODNB (2004), knew these sources and also cites the parish register, St George's, Hanover Square, I assume he is correct in giving 6 March 1748 as Coxe's date of birth. The older sources nonetheless note that March 7th is O.S.. Since it makes sense that this can easily be overlooked, I applied OldStyleDate. OS also explains why occassionally Coxe's date of birth is given as March 18th. -- Assayer (talk) 22:26, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of Birth
Talk:Murders of Channon Christian and Christopher Newsom

message: This article immediately jumps from the crime to the trials.  I'm unclear how police identified the various people as suspects in the first place.
***Added 2/08/2023 according to a episode of Monsters on Youtube they state that one of the suspects left mail and cigarette butts around the middle console of Channon's SUV. This gave them the address of the home that led to the discovery of Channon's body.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.168.121.4 (talk) 04:33, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Huge portions of information missing 

message: This is most definitely a hate crime and for someone to say it’s not, well aren’t they the crackpots. Shame on the media for misleading this as non-reporting. If the tables were turned, you bet it would be a hate crime. Sharpton and those others would have been there in a heartbeat . Civil rights my buttock. If someone says that blacks and Latinos are under reported. That has too be the most ridiculous statement I ever heard. 4.53.60.40 (talk) 23:10, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hate crime
Talk:Bao Phi

message: While working on A Different Pond I came across this interview which contains a lot of potentially useful information for this article. Best, Barkeep49 (talk) 16:36, 9 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source
Talk:Lowboy

message: Lowboy is also used in restaurant terminology in the US to refer to those refrigerators that are below counter tops or are only waste high (in which case the top can work as a countertop. 71.57.186.90 (talk) 21:51, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lowboy as restaurant terminology for waist high fridge 

message: "A lowboy is an American collectors term for a dressing table, or vanity" - in other words, it is generally known as a dressing table in the rest of the world, and a vanity, or vanity table, in the U.S. Why is the article named by a term used mainly by American collectors? I propose that this article be moved to "Dressing table" and that "Lowboy" should be a redirect pointing here. David_FLXD (Talk) 18:12, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes & no - what we need is a proper article on dressing tables. The ideal source is:  Adlin, Jane, with contributions from Lori Zabar, Vanities: art of the dressing table, reprint from the Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fall 2013, Volume LXXI, number 2, 2013, Metropolitan Museum of Art, downloadable PDF Johnbod (talk) 14:12, 21 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I am writing an article right now. A stub is available at User:Викидим/Dressing table. Thank you for the link (I actually have a paper copy). Викидим (talk) 05:53, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong title 

message: Tried to get to 'dressing table', but was redirected to a specific type of dressing table rather than an actual page for information on dressing tables. not good organization here. 173.72.178.66 (talk) 18:46, 9 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong redirect from 'dressing table' 
Talk:Althoff Catholic High School

message: The substance of the article is copied directly from the school web site.  There are no earlier versions of the page that are good candidates for reversion as they are primarily just an infobox with no substantial text of merit. -- Whpq 13:25, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Update - User:Buckie2889 left a message on my talk page indicating that he had permission to copy the text, but there is no proof.  I've asked him to follow the procedures for requesting permission to use copyrighted text, or in the alternate, write the article in his own words. -- Whpq 16:43, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It wouldn't matter, even if the school improbably wished to license the text under the GFDL: The text is inherently non-neutral and not appropriate for an encyclopedia, being copied from the school website. —Centrx→talk • 14:35, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyvio

message: I rewrote the page from scratch so that it does not contain any copyright violation. Bfg818 22:16, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I deleted the copyvio and moved the re-write over. —Centrx→talk • 14:35, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Page Updated

message: I added Mary Lynne Gasaway Hill, American poet, writer and professor to the "Notable Alumni" section, and linked it to her Wiki page.
While I do not have a COI issue with Althoff Catholic High School, I did want to note my COI with Mary Lynne Gasaway Hill here in the Talk page.
However, I checked the COI rules, and it looks like this edit is in compliance with the guidelines.
Best wishes,
Andrewincowtown (talk) 20:29, 12 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable Alumni
Talk:Apía, Risaralda

message: Ok, translated the main material, deleted the rest. I rewrote most of it but since it looked like a copyvio from somewhere, I deleted the rest. It's been here over a year and nothing happened. Do expand the article, but if your English is shaky, perhaps contribute to the Spanish Wiki? Akerbeltz (talk) 02:00, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Translation
Talk:He Don't Love You

message: I'd like to see a disambiguation between this and He Don't Love You (Like I Love You) by Tony Orlando -- a #1 hit in 1975. Though unfortunately, I don't know that wikipedia even has a page on the Tony Orlando song. This is a great site full of tons of information, but sometimes wikipedia seems to be a bit top-heavy when it comes to post-2000 pop culture. It's sometimes been a struggle to find information on music of the 1970s, for example. Thanks! 66.17.118.195 13:25, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Barbara Willard

message: Adding here for now because I can't find any suitable secondary sources; but she co-authored a non-fiction book Junior Motorist in 1969 with Frances Howell, with whom she also co-founded the Lewes Literary Society (a.k.a. "Lewes Lit").    I still have a copy of Junior Motorist kicking about somewhere; it was basically a comprehensive introduction to cars and motoring aimed at children.  Hassocks5489 (Floreat Hova!) 15:08, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Note for future reference
Talk:William D. Porter

message: 1. There isn't a single footnote in this article.
2. It ends as if cut off; did a "copy and paste" operation go awry?
3. "Gallantly"?  Rather a POV; sadly, this theme presists in many articles of this sort.
--Piledhigheranddeeper (talk) 17:39, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Initial problems
Talk:Jerusalem/Largest city

message: *"...modern Jerusalem, Israel's largest city..." (Erlanger, Steven. Jerusalem, Now, The New York Times, April 16, 2006.)
*"With a population of 701,512 in 2004, Jerusalem is Israel’s largest city. ("Israel (country)", Microsoft Encarta, 2006, p. 3. Retrieved October 18, 2006.)
*"Since 1975 unified Jerusalem has been the largest city in Israel."  ("Jerusalem",  Encyclopædia Britannica Online, 2006. Retrieved October 18, 2006.)
*"Jerusalem is Israel’s largest city." ("Jerusalem", Microsoft Encarta, 2006, p. 1. Retrieved October 18, 2006.)
*"Jerusalem is the largest city in the State of Israel. It has the largest population, the most Jews and the most non-Jews of all Israeli cities."  (Klein, Menachem. Jerusalem: The Future of a Contested City, New York  University Press, March 1, 2001, p. 18. ISBN 0-8147-4754-X)
*"In 1967, Tel Aviv was the largest city in Israel. By 1987, more Jews lived in Jerusalem than the total population of Tel Aviv. Jerusalem had become Israel's premier city." (Friedland, Roger and Hecht, Richard. To Rule Jerusalem, University of California Press, September 19, 2000, p. 192. ISBN 0-520-22092-7)— Preceding unsigned comment added by Pharos (talk • contribs) 14:27, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Documentation of [[Jerusalem]]'s status as Israel's largest city
Talk:William Daniel (judge)

message: I made a couple of changes to this article today, and don't know when I can bring it up to even minimal wikipedia standards, since although findagrave (not reliable) is listed as a ref, the findagrave page said he was born in Winchester not Cumberland County (other end of Wilderness Road in Virginia) and died in Nelson County rather than Farmville. Today I couldn't find on ancestry.com his personal nor slave census results for 1840, 1850 and 1860, although I found him on another type of property listing in Lynchburg in 1860. I think I noticed the problem years ago, and tried to download the other ref cite, to Men of Mark via archive.org, but had some sort of download problem, so I'm trying again. However, what's really needed is a non-Covid-closed library with a good Virginia history section. I also managed to find a law volume with his notorious anti-emancipation opinion while unsuccessfully trying to download updates to a balky laptop, but the volume was 3-in-1 so the Virginia Reports page number may be OK per a discussion with a reference librarian, or incorrect. I'm just hoping this edit doesn't produce a nonreturnable web robocall supposedly from South Dakota touting a Covid benefit, as had my morning edit on a Virginia article.Jweaver28 (talk) 22:58, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  more work needed
Talk:William Darke

message: There is a paragraph starting "In 1790, General Josiah Harmar, with a poorly trained and ill-equipped army and volunteer militia, ...".  I fail to see reference to Darke in it Carlm0404 (talk) 01:24, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  explain what this is doing in this article 

message: The sources cited as of now are old and not great. Here's a good one I hope someone gets around to making use of: https://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/dvb/bio.php?b=Darke_William Brent Tarter,"William Darke (1736–1801)," Dictionary of Virginia Biography, Library of Virginia (1998– ), published 2015] Kevin1776 (talk) 01:36, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good source here
Talk:Pebbles, Volume 7 (1994 album)

message: The article clearly says
:Despite the similar catalogue number, there is no relation between the tracks on this CD and the tracks on the corresponding LP.
yet the article's very first words are
:Pebbles, Volume 7 is a compilation album among the CDs in the Pebbles series
The article title makes clear that it is supposedly about the 1994 album, therefore NOT about the CD of similar title. (NOT "the same" because the CD is subtitled "Chicago 2," which at minimum is not established for the 1994 release.) Therefore even the first quote I offered is WRONG.
Not only does Wikipedia demonstrate confusion, it advances it. "The police are not here to create disorder, they are here to preserve disorder."Weeb Dingle (talk) 18:51, 9 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  I blame both ennobled illiteracy (even amongst WP editors) and the rise of social media
Talk:William Dawes (British Marines officer)

message: The term “perhaps Lover” is objectionable in the modern world, and we do Patyegarang a disservice to continue using this term. Given the ages and power disparity between these two people, we would use the term “sexual assault” now. 49.183.15.58 (talk) 03:29, 27 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dawes relationship with Patyegarang
Talk:Barton Gellman

message: The article states ...he contributed an important article..., without any justification or references why the article was important. This is inappropriate for an encyclopedia.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.142.217.217 (talk) 08:35, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Subjective phrasing
Talk:Portrait of Narcissus

message: Keep I think the sited reviews and personel involved alone qualify this article. I don't know if they were added after the request for deletion or not but it seems like a qualified article to me. Bluejordan (talk) 19:49, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Importance
Talk:R° (Ruratia album)

message: In any case ° not sufficient to disambiguate from R. (album) and R (album) In ictu oculi (talk) 03:04, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Is the ° represented in English sources?
Talk:Bellamy Bach

message: I added the refimprove tag. Really think it might just need to be deleted, but tend to give the benefit of the doubt. That said, it appears that the only link/reference provided is to a fan site, not what I would consider a reliable source. And I have to question the notability of this. Since the only notable person mentioned is Terri Windling, it could be merged into her article unless there are other notable authors who used this. I would like to see other sources of info for this pseudonym. If I get any time, I'll see what I can find myself. Thank you. -- JoannaSerah (talk) 23:22, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Refimprove
Talk:Ben Ames Williams

message: I have requested that the English football player at Ben Williams is moved to Ben Williams (footballer) as I don't believe he, or any of the other Ben Williams', meet the requirements for WP:PRIMARYTOPIC. This would then mean that Ben Williams (disambiguation) is moved to Ben Williams. Discussion is here. Tassedethe (talk) 17:06, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move of [[Ben Williams (disambiguation)]]
Talk:Alten8

message: what is different about this page about a games company to all the other pages about games companies? we do not understand why this one has been singled out and say not 'atari' for example, this company holds the biggest non giant corporation, retro game license banks, and is bring those out on new formats? so what is the difference?
(Andrewsuk 13:35, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

message: This article was nominated for speedy deletion as spam. I have removed this nomination as I have judged it not to be spam but an article about a company with some claims to notability. References should be added so as to confirm its notability and this Google News Archive contains some sources. . Capitalistroadster 04:23, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Speedy deletion
Talk:William Edward Hall

message: I have deleted the bolded text from the following in the article:
""In 1867 he published a pamphlet entitled A Plan for the Reorganization of the Army, and, many years afterwards, he saw as much as he was permitted to see of the expedition sent for the rescue of Gordon."
The reference is presumably to Charles George Gordon but what is meant in this context I am unable to discover, or speculate about.Cutler 09:47, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleted text
Talk:Ben Hamper

message: Hamper appeared on the cover of the Wall Street Journal BEFORE "Roger & Me" was released and BEFORE the publishing of his book "Rivethead".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.161.204.233 (talk) 14:55, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The article says that when Ben's employment with GM ended in 1988 he was laid off. In fact it was because he suffered a panic attack (at least his third) and he decided, at the urging of his psychiatrist, to give up working, as documented at the end of Rivethead. He is still on disability, or at least was as of a year or two ago (the last time I saw his name pop up in a news report). Unless someone has any further information, I will update the article to reflect that.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Caissanist (talk • contribs) 15:25, 9 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ben Was Not Laid Off
Talk:Secrets from the Future

message: It is not obvious to me that the YouTube video was posted by the copyright owner, in view of the warning at WP:ELNEVER that This is particularly relevant when linking to sites such as YouTube, where due care should be taken to avoid linking to material that violates its creator's copyright..  The advice I have is that if you cannot validate the identity, then linking to the video there is not acceptable.  Can anyone verify the copyright situation?  Richard Pinch (talk) 15:20, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  YouTube
Talk:William Elford Leach

message: The article on the Natural History Museum, London states that
The reference says "Edwards E. 1870. Lives of the founders of the British Museum. London." The book exists, but I was unable to find a mention of Leach in it: I could have missed the page, or this could be a mis-citation. I couldn't find corroborating evidence, but there are two suggestive facts. It is certain that Sloane's natural history collection, barring the plants, suffered losses. Leach certainly also became ill enough to force him to retire: this could have been a mental illness, which could have led him to tidy the collection by burning (decayed?) parts of it, but I haven't found proof of that, either. It'd be interesting to know. Chiswick Chap (talk) 16:01, 17 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  Ah, how fascinating. I suspected something was amiss. The passage in Natural History Museum, London will need to be amended; and something might be said at George Shaw too. Of course a paragraph could be added to William Elford Leach about the misattribution, with a link to Shaw. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:43, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Bonfires at the [[Natural History Museum, London]]?

message: The redirect Leach. has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached.  Fram (talk) 09:52, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "[[:Leach.]]" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:Dig (magazine)

message: Is it all right if I take off the deletion notice now? Thryth 13:37, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You're allowed to remove a prod notice at any point if you feel that deletion is improper. --badlydrawnjeff talk 13:44, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

text: "A magazine full of colorful photos, most issues of Dig also include puzzles and hands-on projects." That reeks of the marketing brochure selling subscriptions. --Orange Mike  |  Talk 15:40, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
Talk:William Ellery Channing

message: The writers of this article (and perhaps this is true of other articles on slavery) have confused the terms abolition (i.e. abolition of the trans-Atlantic slave trade), with the emancipation of slaves.  The issue in Channing's time was very much that of emancipation, since the slave trade had officially ceased.  Whilst in England, the two subjects were discussed simultaneously, and the same ethic used for both.  In the West Indies and America, the two topics were markedly different, with many slave owners abhorring the kidnap and transportation of slaves, whilst insisting that the practice of 'owning' enslaved workers should be continued.
Wikipedia should also consider the political correctness of language.  Words such as 'Negro', are thought derogatory and deeply offensive to many people, when used in an non-essential context or non-familial context.  It is difficult to define a policy for word usage, particularly when public impressions are in a state of flux.  However, phrases such as 'enslaved person' should be used instead of the word 'slave' whenever the context allows.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Katbun (talk • contribs) 10:13, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled