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Talk:St. George Defence

message: I don't normally care too much about British v American spellings, especially when a redirect is set up to make them both work, but I can't help thinking this subject should be spelt 'St. George Defence', given that it got its name from the patron saint of England after an English player got a notable victory with it.  Anyone got any strong objections to it being moved?  CTOAGN 17:20, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Consistency with other opening articles. 213.249.135.36 17:17, 11 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No, there's no such consistency (see Category talk:Chess openings#Defense vs. Defence). Most of the more common defences are at Defence, while many others are at Defense. CTOAGN's argument is a valid one, although I don't know if it warrants moving the article. -- Jao 14:56, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I too prefer 'defence' to 'defense' but let us not split hairs good people.  SmokeyTheCat  •TALK• 19:33, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

text: This one is defence as the whole topic is about English items. ChessCreator (talk) 10:48, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Spelling

message: The article currently implies that the name was first used by Miles and also that it was first used by Basman. I'm assuming they spoke to each other regularly, so there may be some truth to both statements, but they sound contradictory. Can someone shed light on this? -- Jao (talk) 20:14, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Basman played the opening many times before Miles but it was only Miles's defeat of Karpow with it that put it on the map. Basman never made GM and was only an IM.  SmokeyTheCat  •TALK• 18:14, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Given that at this time we have no sources for any of these claims, I've removed the contradictory information and the template until the issue can be conclusively resolved. Chromancer (talk) 22:00, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Coinage

message: The main line of St. George Defence seems to be almost unplayable since a theoretical novelty at move 6 was introduced in the following Internet game:
[Event "Aljubarrota Vs Castela ~  from sam_barroqueiro"]
[Site "http://gameknot.com/"]
[Date "2019.10.10"]
[Round "-"]
[White "dr_siggy"]
[Black "sam_barroqueiro"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "2300"]
[BlackElo "2134"]
1. e4 a6 2. d4 b5 3. Nf3 Bb7 4. Bd3 d6 5. O-O Nf6 6. e5 [!?] dxe5 7. dxe5 Ne4 8. e6 [!] f5 9. Bxe4 fxe4 10. Qxd8+ Kxd8 11. Ng5 Kc8 12. Nf7 Rg8 13. Rd1 Nc6 14. Nc3 Kb8 15. Nxe4 Nb4 16. Rd8+ Bc8 17. c3 Nc6 18. Re8 Kb7 1-0 81.193.184.192 (talk) 03:35, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Main line in crisis?
Talk:Reavers (Firefly)

message: Is Reavers (television series) the best location for this article, especially since they've now graduated to the big screen?  Would it be better to move the article to Reavers (Firefly) or Reavers (Serenity)? —
:The former, I think. I'll move it. —Charles P. (Mirv) 02:16, 2 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Actually, the proper title is Reaver (Firefly), per WP:MOS policy (Wikipedia:Naming conventions#Prefer singular nouns). Since that article and this one were apparently developed independently, the correct procedure is to merge them and post the edit history of the redirected one ("Reavers (Firefly)") on the talk page of the final one ("Reaver (Firefly)"). ~ Jeff Q (talk) 01:14, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Huh.  Didn't know about that one.  (Followed a link to get here.)  Anyway, merge away! —Josiah Rowe 03:53, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Page name
Talk:1994 NHL supplemental draft

message: Can we get some background on the supplemental draft actually was? AMac2002 21:08, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

message: *Reid Simonton (wikidata:Q431105) - 1
Note: Articles must also meet WP:GNG. --75.88.89.194 (talk) 07:15, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  These redlinked draft picks meet [[WP:NHOCKEY]] 
Talk:Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

message: the above was removed here from the article space by me. -Acjelen 17:31, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Refers to a different Elizabeth Phelps, the wife (and co-author) of Charles Edward Davis Phelps.  (They wrote The Bailiff of Tewkesbury see Collaborators in Literary America, 1870-1920.)
American Women's Fiction, 1790-1870: A Reference Guide, Barbara A. White, 2007, page 233 gives Leigh North, H. Trusta and Mary Adams as pseudonyms of Elizabeth Wooster Stuart Phelps (1815-52) - the mother of the subject of this article.
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 18:44, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Leigh North
Talk:Werribee Open Range Zoo

message: This article seems to go into too much depth on the operations inside the zoo.  Tour bus routes would be more suited to a brocure than an enyclopedia.  Gregory.currie 17:35, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

message: Likely a bit 'newsy' but a rare Southern White Rhino was born late December 2014 at the zoo, but had to be euthanised within days.  http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/cutestuff/64565175/rare-baby-rhino-born-in-melbourne-dies --220 of Borg 13:35, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible source
Category talk:Tourist attractions in Birmingham, West Midlands

message: This category was renamed from Places of interest in Birmingham, England to Visitor attractions in Birmingham, England to accord with the general practice within the UK cats. The archived discussion can be viewed at Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2005 September 23#Non-standard visitor attractions categories.
It appears that the Places of interest cat was being used as a catch-all for Birmingham locations, some of which can scarcely be called visitor attractions - e.g. Frankley Water Treatment Works. I'm therefore planning to recategorise those that do not belong in the newly titled cat as per the archived discussion. Most will be going to :Category:Buildings and structures in Birmingham, England which I have previously removed as a subcat of the Places of interest cat and made a subcat of the main :Category:Birmingham, England. Valiantis 17:39, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It appears that the category's scope, which was deliberately wide, has been narrowed, causing such problems. It's a pity that the proposal to rename the category wasn't mentioned on the Birmingham talk page. Furthermore, your removal of several articles of Birmingham interest from the new category leaves them with no Birmingham categorization,. This helps interested readers, how, exactly? Andy Mabbett 19:44, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Recategorising
Talk:Temasek Academy

message: * Temasek Academy covers a small portion of the history of Temasek Junior College. It is a defunct programme that existed for a couple of years only and is now part of the College's Integrated Programme. Also, the article is outdated for years and only cited 1 source. Being as a stub article, it is viable to merge it into the main article instead. Muggershell (talk) 01:37, 3 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge into [[Temasek Junior College]]
Talk:Pathummayude Aadu

message: the events in the story are real, as are the human and animal characters. i've included some biographical stuff in the article that is not stated as such in the book, but mentioned in passing only: i was making a chronological connection. basheer lived through various kinds of life; the period of near-starvation in "sahitheesevanam" had a major impact on his literary works, so i thought it was relevant to mention. 
about shabdangal being the subject of fierce criticism and about the mention of his first jayilvasam in ormakkurippu(probabbly he means the story amma)-that occurs in the book itself.. about janmadinam and kadhabeejam.. that is a personal inference; which i think is fairly accurate, from my experience of reading basheer. 
--Pournami 06:31, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  memoir vs. fiction
Talk:Passé simple tense

message: This page has a number of problems. To be honest, I think it should be deleted as non-encyclopedic, but here are some things that would need to be fixed if we are to keep the article:
*Its title: in French, the name of the tense is le passé simple, or more fully le temps passé simple. In English, the name of the tense is the simple past, or the simple past tense. A reasonable name for the article would therefore be French simple past tense, passé simple, or passé simple (tense). Sorry, but passé simple tense just sounds silly. (It's also rather hard to say, for me at least, since tense isn't obviously non-French, so my mind tries to pronounce it as tãs.)
*It gives very little encyclopedic information about the passé simple. It buries its origin — which I think is incorrect, BTW, but I'm not sure — at the bottom of the article (without giving links to more information about that, or explaining how/why tenses from Latin ended up in French); it doesn't explain how or when to use it; it ignores the use of the passé simple in literature.
*It gives a lot of conjugations, which isn't really the purpose of an encyclopedia. (I don't really mind this so much, except that the page gives almost no encyclopedic information, and I feel like all the conjugations "cover that up," so to speak.)
*It seems to think that a verb whose irregular preterite stem ends in -i is more regular than a verb whose irregular preterite stem ends in -u, simply because regular preterite stems can end in -i and cannot end in -u. That doesn't really make sense to me.
*It also seems to think, presumably for the same reason as in the prior point, that a stem-final -i is part of the ending, while a stem-final -u is part of the stem. I think of both as being part of the stem, and I think you could make a case that both are part of the ending; but I really don't think you can make a case that one is part of the stem and one is part of the ending. Even if you could make such a case, that seems needlessly confusing.
*For the conjugation tables, it would make more sense to use tables (see Help:Table). The blocks of preformatted text break up the page in an IMHO-confusing way.
I really must repeat, though, that I don't think this article is necessary to an encyclopedia. Anything encyclopedic that could be said here could be said just as well at French verbs, unless it turns out there's much more to say about the passé simple than I realize.
Ruakh 18:11, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Starbuck

message: The money in Spaceballs was not starbucks, it was spacebucks.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.50.14.224 (talk) 17:26, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It was space bucks in the film. According to IMDB it was changed to Starbucks in the animated series. Peter E. James (talk) 13:01, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Currency

message: Starbucks was also an arcade in Albuquerque in the 1980s. Is that insufficiently notable? Barry.carter (talk) 20:25, 19 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arcade in Albuquerque 

message: Before Battlestar Galactica, in the early 1970s, we called Dollar currency that had an asterisk in the serial number a "starbuck". These appear in circulation as replacements for misprints. Group29 (talk) 23:58, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: US Dollars with replacement serial numbers
Talk:Waaq

message: The style of the third paragraph is inappropriate for Wikipedia, going as far as to tell the user what they "should" think and do. It's also reliant on a single source that may or may not establish the body of that paragraph. --IronMaidenRocks (talk) 20:20, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Keep Forgettin' I'm Not in Love Anymore
Talk:Chao

message: Can Chao has the same entry like Zhao?  Chao could be a surname in Chinese too.  Just different spelling but it has same history with Zhao. Stephenchao 17:48, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I included interarticle links on each so people will know about the other. Is that what you needed? ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 19:37, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's great. Thanks Nihonjoe. But I was talking about an entry like this: Zhao.  See, it goes to an entry Zhao(surname), but there is no entry for Chao(surname). I was wondering if we could have an entry like (surname)Chao  Stephenchao 19:40, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Same as Zhao

message: Shouldn't the Chao from Sonic be here under Japan? Since Chao originated from Sonic Adventure which debuted in Japan?? SuperSonic12 (talk) 14:43, 16 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chao from STH? 

message: An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect :Chao (Disambiguation) and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 August 24#Chao (Disambiguation) until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Steel1943 (talk) 16:25, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Chao (Disambiguation)" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:A-0 System

message: A-0 (i.e. zero) is alphabetized in the main index as A-O (i.e. capital o)
What did this language look like?  I can't seem to find much information about this language on Google -- in fact most hits are pages that seem to just be copies of this article.  What did A-0 source code "look" like?  Or has A-0 code never ever been released, collecting dust somewhere in the vaults of the Pentagon's basements??  --I am not good at running 18:40, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

message: This entry is taken almost verbatim from FOLDOC. The research I've been doing indicates a number of errors:
# A-0 was not the name of a language but the compiler
# The A-0 compiler was only used on Univac I
# The A-0 compiler was written by Grace Hopper
# The A-0 compiler did not use a three-address code convention
Any feedback or corrections are welcomed.A B Carter (talk) 14:17, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed Corrections and Changes 

message: I too would be interested in seeing what the A-o (compiler) language looked like, and what the name of the language was.  Article kind of hints it was COBOL but not really.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.84.231.3 (talk) 20:04, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  A-o
Talk:Kano State

message: There is a contradiction in the 20,000 km² total surface and the 30,000 km² of cultivable land. Riki 18:56, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Contradiction

message: This request received by OTRS email. --Fæ (talk) 06:14, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request by email 

message: I've deleted much of this unsubstantiated pseudo-Nkhrumist rhetoric. please do not undo unless your willing to substantiate with reliable citations! thanks  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.62.133.17 (talk) 01:47, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: unsubstantiated  rhetoric
Talk:Torne (Finnish and Swedish river)

message: Why is the name given as Torne River with redirect from Tornio River?  Why not the opposite?  Or why not both names given?  Why is the Swedish name given preference?  How was this decided on?  What were the criteria?  Or is it simply that an ethnic Swedish person authored the article?  I would appreciate any insight anyone interested in this subject can give. Paavo273 (talk) 02:52, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why Torne River and not Tornio River? 

message: My map lists Tornionväyla as one of the names of the river. Is it Meankieli? Gerrit CUTEDH 09:55, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I first wrote something here not noticing that it should be Tornionväylä. According to Swedish Wikipedia, it is the meänkieli name. Väylä, according to my Finnish net dictionary, means "passage", a way you travel esp. on water in standard Finnish so I guess that name makes sense in standard Finnish too. / Habj 15:01, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: In standard Finnish, including that spoken on the east bank of the river, it is Tornionjoki, not -väylä. If I (a Finnish-speaking Finn) didn't know better, I'd guess the word "Tornionväylä" means the E8-motorway from Keminmaa to Tornio. --Oami 15:55, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tornionväyla 
Talk:Metro Center station

message: To: Schuminweb
Why not distinquish the Metrorail system from the Metrobus system a la the Washington Metro article? AnonUser 19:07, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not entirely sure what you're asking me... could you elaborate some more? Schuminweb 03:52, 2 October 2005 (UTC)

text: Go for it, and be bold. I'll be interested to see what you come up with. Schuminweb 05:03, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

text: Not bad. I've also got some plans to further unify the whole Metro project (including making an overarching Wikiproject), but I'm not there yet. Schuminweb 11:37, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Should some mention of future connection to the Silver line be made in the article? It's mentioned in the infobox, but possibly as a parenthetical alongside Red Orange and Blue? Burndownthedisco talk 15:23, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see why. No changes are required to be made to Metro Center when the Silver Line eventually comes, and there's no big change in the station's function. Just another color on the lower level is all. The infobox link is probably sufficient for right now. SchuminWeb (Talk) 19:31, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Silver line

message: I'm sure someone can fling chapter and verse at me about how bolded 'station' in the lede is Officially Correct, but as a Metro rider it really feels wrong to talk about "Metro Center station" -- much worse than facial equivalents like "Glenmont station” or "Rosslyn station".  Maybe the problem is there’s no Metro Center neighborhood, so it's not "the station in Metro Center -> Metro Center station"; maybe the problem is that the first sentence repeats the word "station" so quickly.  Either way I'd like to introduce the station as just "Metro Center" without running into Official Policy objections. PixelatedVolume (talk) 01:46, 2 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bold 'station' in lede (not title) 

message: Do you think that:
A: the panorama should go at the top of the article;
B: the panorama should go at the bottom, without a section;
C: or with a separate section? G13178m (talk) 01:16, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: There's no compelling reason for a panorama in the article - it takes up a lot of space and doesn't add much value. The existing Commons link is sufficient. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 01:34, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where do you think the panorama should go?
Talk:Moldavia (historical region)

message: What are the sources that say Moldova was named Bogdania after Bogdan I? 
Axinte Uricariul says that it was named Bogdania after Bogdan II( 1449 - 1451), father of Stephen the Great: 
"Scrie la un letopiseţu sârbescu de Azarie călugărul izvodit, precum în zilele acestui Bogdan vodă s-au început a da dajde turcilor şi de aceia ne-au numit bogdani până astăzi. Acesto Bogdan vodă este tată lui Ştefan vodă cel Bun." (" And is written in a Serbian chronicle made by Azarie the monk, that in the days of voyvoda Bogdan we began to pay tribute to the Turks and because of this they called us Bogdans. This Bogdan was father of voyvoda Stefan the Kind ( Stephen the Great )" (Grigore Ureche, Letopisetul Tarii Moldovei, cap. "Războiul lui Bogdan vodă cu leşii" )
But there's a problem: in the following chapters Grigore Ureche says Petru Aron (1455-1457) began to pay tribute to the Turks. Anonimu 19:11, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Are you sure Bogdania was named after Bogdan I?
Talk:Nury Vittachi

message: Nury Vittachi is his full name and is used in other articles, Vittachi does not come up as a link within these articles kju 11:48, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Copied from WP:RM  Alai  Alai 19:19, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

text: Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one sentence explanation, then sign your vote with ~~~~
*Support'.  Full name, and common name, as per the NC.  Alai 19:19, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

text: Add any additional comments
This article has been renamed after the result of a move request.  Alai 16:07, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested move

message: :Add any additional comments
This article has been renamed after the result of a move request.  Alai 16:07, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion
Talk:MTV News

message: This is a redlink in Jen Rubino, and searching around I found a mention of it at List_of_programs_broadcast_by_MTV#Public_awareness_campaigns, piped to MTV News. Could someone who knows about it and can find a source perhaps put a mention of it into this article at some relevant point, and make a redirect? Thanks. PamD 07:38, 12 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[MTV Act]]
Talk:Ann Harvey

message: Was she really called the Grace Darling of Newfoundland. Her rescue was 10 years before Grace Darling's. Sounds a bit odd to me. --Tagishsimon (talk)
:Not familiar with the origin of calling Ann Harvey, Grace Darling of Newfoundland, it has been referenced in the Encyclopedia of Newfoundland and Labrador and at this website describing the vessel Dispatch.
:Perhaps the comparisons to Grace Darling only appeared after Ann's second rescue, which occured the same week as Grace's rescue.
Ann Harvey was called Grace Darling because when Grace was alive she saved so many people just like Ann so that's why she was called the Grace Darling of Newfoundland  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Haena12 (talk • contribs) 15:52, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: The Grace Darling of Newfoundland

message: I put the rewrite template on the page because the whole thing reads like a breathless story rather than a serious article ("resucer", "Anne sighted", "little regard for their own safety", "expired", &c.).  If i get round to it i'll give it a shot; feel free to, though, if you come across this and i haven't! Cheers, LindsayHi 14:51, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rewrite 
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Aircraft/Archive 6

message: Anyone know what happened to this? It seems to have disappeared, and only one edit remains from 2003 (4), which has no content. Admittedly it might be better placed under "Cargo Aircraft", but that's missing too!
Maury 13:03, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That's extremely bizarre. Maybe it got eaten last 'pedia upgrade? I could have sworn I've linked to it in blue for a while, but that's possibly because it redirects. -eric ✈ 20:01, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transport Aircraft article? 

message: Remember to throw out the votes cast by ineligible voters!  Gene Nygaard 12:05, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Vote count

message: The article on Transportation is currently nominated on Wikipedia:This week's improvement drive. Vote for Transportation there.--Fenice 09:11, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Improvement drive

message: User:Dbinder has recently added a "civil aircraft infobox" to the Boeing 787 as well as some others like the 767 and 707. It initially completely duplicated the old infoboxes, in addition to the list at the bottom, and he has apparently not checked in with the project at all despite my request for him to do so. I removed the infobox from the 787 and 767 articles, citing page layout reasons in this case, and it was reinstalled by an anonymous user — who claimed i had vandalized the 787 article — and User:Deniss, respectively.
This is a parallel set of users, it seems, focusing on airliners, and Dbinder hasn't replied to my comments in any way. If someone else would like to try and work this out, that would be great, as apparently my thousand or so aircraft edits don't lend my reasons or pleas any credence. Or maybe I'm coming off as an asshole. Either way, would someone be willing to lend a hand? I'm not going to revert these articles, instead pointing to Wikipedia:WikiProject_Aircraft/page_content on the talk pages, and hope that they'll see reason. Also, that color of green - what the hell? -eric ✈ 00:58, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  recent infobox additions to Boeing series?