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Talk:Zeuxis (painter)

message: Who will find this anecdote, when Zeuxis himself doesn't have an entry? Wetman 22:45, 22 Nov 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Meaning is that "Zeuxis then asked Parrhasius to pull aside the curtain from Zeuxis' painting"... AnonMoos (talk) 19:15, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments
Talk:Rebecca Romijn

message: Considering she is now divorced, maybe the article should be moved to "Rebecca Romijn" with "Rebecca Romijn-Stamos" as a redirect. MK2 04:26, 22 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: She has a substantial role as Jennifer in this Sissy Spacek/Troy Garity movie.68.225.55.210 (talk) 05:06, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add Movie Credit for Lake City 
Talk:Vicente Lusitano

message: The reference says he is of african descent  . Searching the source you can see it makes two mentions of the person in question, 
Vicente Lusitano was of African descent
and wrote a famous book on musical theory. He
was born in Portugal, went to Rome in the early
sixteenth century, and then went on to a German
court, and he must have spoken the languages
of all these places. and (...)Vicente Lusitano, author of an important book
on musical theory.''
The author's own references trace back to "Maria Augusta Alves Barbosa, Vicentivs Lvsitanvs:
Ein portugiesischer Komponist und Musiktheoretiker des
16. Jahrhunderts (Lisbon: Estado da Cultura, 1977)" and "Robert Stevenson, “The First Black Published Composer,”
Inter-American Music Review 5 (1982)" . 
Here's an excerpt from one of the works that mention the Vicente Lusitano here on page 51.
(...) Duke Christoph of Württemberg (ruled 1550-68) at Stuttgart even boasted a black musical theorist and composer called Vicente Lusitano.Vicente was probably born to a white father and black mother in the Alentejo in Portugal.
Will remove the "African descent" part of the article as it is unproven and its legitimacy is based all on the words of someone who did not work in genetics or worked in the study of phenotypes. The person in the article "could" have been a very tanned portuguese man living in Alentejo which is a region in the south of Portugal with alot of daylight time.
Will also remove categories related to his possible african descent.
:What you have just done is removed information that is in three cited reliable sources based on your personal opinions that this information would need to be from a person who works "in genetics or worked in the study of phenotypes". If you want to challenge a well cited statement from multiple reliable sources you would need to find a source that contradicts and challenges it. Lusitano is rather famous for being of African Descent, a discovery spearheaded by Robert Stevenson, a respect musicologist. Musicologists write about musicians, that's all it is. Aza24 (talk) 01:04, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for the source, I've been planning on working on this article for a while so when I do I will be sure to check out the full reference you provide. I appreciate your alteration to the text, much better now. Aza24 (talk) 04:03, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I have read the entirety of the above comments and did not see any information that indicated (let alone proved) that Lusitano was of partial African ancestry.  Have I missed something?  Where is this information? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 23:39, 19 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes you have. See the second reference in the article. Aza24 (talk) 00:22, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: No you haven't missed anything. There is an inference that he may have been of mixed race, but the actual origin of that race is pure speculation (see below). 2001:8003:70F5:2400:B4E4:7121:71A:9EDC (talk) 12:31, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  African?
Talk:True Whig Party

message: The decline and fall of the first Liberian republic 41.57.95.2 (talk) 16:13, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  History
Talk:Frauen-Liebe und Leben

message: Is the spacing in the title correct? Should it be moved to Frauenliebe und leben or Frauenliebe und - leben? Dysprosia 00:47, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: It is German. In German it is common to use the hyphen in case of nouns consisting of two or more parts. Instead of "Frauenliebe und Frauenleben" it is common to abbreviate spelling "Frauenliebe und -leben". 82.82.129.206 00:52, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed. I'm pretty sure this is most common form of the title (my copy of the score has it this way, anyway). --Camembert
Cool, thanks. We'll just leave it, shall we? :) Dysprosia 00:56, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Spacing

message: The recordings of Shumann's Cycle is a real mess.  I cannot follow it at all.  Needs updating or editing.  98.210.23.161 (talk) 17:48, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. For example, under "During the 1930s the principal versions were those of", we have "Elena Gerhardt made a recording with Gerald Moore in 1947-1948" (my emphases). -- Jmc (talk) 18:12, 9 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: List of recordings (Schumann's setting)

message: I wonder why the translations of the poem titles in the section about Schumann's setting are title case. They are only translations, no? --Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:07, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right of course, save in the rather unlikely case that  someone wanted to refer later to individual songs by English titles. Sparafucil (talk) 22:27, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  MinorProphet (talk) 04:31, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation of poem titles
Talk:Book of Numbers

message: The statement, "The composition of Numbers 22-24 can be dated with reasonable certainty to c.840-760 BC on the basis of the Deir Alla text . . ." is not borne out by the citation at the end of the sentence. In the citation, as found on the Web site given, author Charles Isbell does not date the composition of Numbers to the time of the Deir Alla text, nor does he say that Kenneth Kitchen, the author he is critiquing, does so. Since Mr. Isbell's writing does not support the statement in the Wikipedia article, this sentence should be eliminated. Chronic2 (talk) 21:53, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I've reviewed the reference and Isbel does indeed suggest a 1st millennium date for Numbers based on the Deir Alla text. PiCo (talk) 10:48, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Erroneous citation regarding Deir Alla text

message: The words used are somewhat interesting, for instance text of 'A new census gives' was understood as a trusted person - somehow the last one was replaced by a new trusted person whom then undertook the counting of persons (no doubt some were counted twice and others excluded from the count as per human nature and the law of error - as in if it can happen it could and will)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.166.95.146 (talk) 13:21, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  First reading of the book, on wiki and well 

message: Under the "Themes" section, the following statement is made: "The message is clear: failure was not due to any fault in the preparation, because Yahweh had foreseen everything, but to Israel's sin of unfaithfulness." It is arguable as to whether the concept of "sin" is really relevant here. It may be acceptably amended to remove this word and simply refer "to Israel's unfaithfulness". BibleScholar (talk) 09:04, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Themes - Mention of "sin" 

message: This article should consider employing BCE (Before Common Era) dating terminology instead of BC (Before Christ) to align with the neutral point of view policy. This change respects the diverse beliefs of readers and maintains a more inclusive and globally sensitive perspective, reflecting Wikipedia's commitment to providing accurate information while accommodating various cultural and religious viewpoints. BibleScholar (talk) 08:43, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of BCE
Talk:Poul Nyrup Rasmussen

message: The lost vote on the euro was not seen so much as a blow to his credibility, as the changes made to the early-retirement scheme. During the election a handout was distributed to a large proportion of voters, issuing a guarantee with his signature, that the retirement scheme would be left untouched.
--None the less, it was my impression that the lost Euro campaign was seen as a blow to his authority, certainly within his own party. The early-retirement affair may have been far more serious, but that doesn't mean the Euro affair was irrelevant. So, if you want to put in information about the early retirement, I encourage you to do so, the article is fairly incomplete right now.
Peregrine981 17:42, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Johannes Vermeer

message: I made a redirect here from Jan Vermeer (though nothing links to it), but shouldn't the article be at Jan Vermeer instead?  They get about an equal number of Google hits (38 800 for Johannes, 34 000 for Jan), but my first instinct when I was looking for him here today was to search for Jan. Adam Bishop 04:41, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: I've always heard him referred to as Johannes. -- Viajero 10:59, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)

text: I have done a bit of this Notjim 13:36, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

text: Ok, I added a link under influences Notjim 14:02, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Old conversation

message: He only has 34 attributed works and the article is half-way there already.  It's not like Picasso with 100's of painting to his name, and none of them are under copyright?  24.51.192.49 (talk) 10:25, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: No need. This article is about the artist and showing a sample of his work is enough. The article List of paintings by Johannes Vermeer lists all of his attributed works. Also Commons lists 35! This article shows both of these links — GhostInTheMachine talk to me 11:31, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why not show ALL his paintings? 

message: Why is his name written “ Johannes Reijniersz Vermeer” in the section “Marriage and family”, but in the lead paragraph his name is written “ Johannes Vermeer”? 
Does he have a middle name? 2601:1C0:8380:16E0:CCF0:E9C:316:A8E8 (talk) 17:41, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  What’s his full name?
Talk:Saudi Arabia

message: Under "Politics --> Human Rights", there is an error where a reference isn't completed.
"The justice system regularly engages in capital punishment, which has included public executions by beheading.[276]ref>"Rights group condemns Saudi beheadings". Associated Press. 14 October 2008. Retrieved 14 October 2008.</ref>"
An extra "<" is missing at the beginning of the 'ref' I think. 128.255.234.11 (talk) 20:00, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you! --TheImaCow (talk) 21:29, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 3 March 2024 

message: English Wikipedia generally applies the transliteration and spelling standards developed by English-language scholars and academics. This is certainly the case with historical terms, while current terms may be spelled according to official policy in the respective country. The scholarly norms have evolved over time and are well founded.
The common academic name spelling in English requires the definite article (al, etc.) and "son of" (ibn) to be written small, unless it occurs at the beginning of a sentence. The article must be followed by a hyphen. Examples:
*Omar ibn al-Khattab, not Omar Ibn Al Khattab
*Dumat al-Jandal, not Dumat Al Jandal
I know some perceive it as irreverential, but it's not meant to be and it is the common practice. If administrative units (national governments, regional or municipal authorities) decree a different English spelling as normative, this concerns only the individual names to which the decrees apply, and the modern administrative units, not the historical or archaeological sites.
Thank you. Arminden (talk) 13:56, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wiki standards 

message: The banner used to be in British spelling but I changed it to British Oxford spelling since the majority of words with the ending ize/ise (izing/ising and ization/isation too) were already using the American/Oxford spelling, and I think enforcing the other variant would just lead to an inconsistent article, it also appears that the first version that's not a stub used the spellings "flavour" and "recognized" for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Saudi_Arabia&oldid=1637856 Terbofast (talk) 07:26, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling
Talk:Soulpepper

message: Could you please point to some evidence of this company's importance to the Toronto theatre scene? --Robert Merkel 05:48, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I blanked the "Young Centre for the Performing Arts" section as it was a verbatim copy/paste of copyrighted material. Superp (talk) 08:08, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyvio: Young Centre for the Performing Arts
Talk:Cookie Gilchrist

message: After many years as a recluse, Cookie Gilchrist is out of the Jar and talking again. Check out Jim Kernaghan, London Free Press...Nov.15th and 19th / 03 What a great story, and I'm sure he has more.
Seeing as how the CFL and AFL were separate entities, it would have been impossible for him to be traded from a CFL team to an AFL team.  Therefore, I changed the "traded to the Buffalo Bills" to "joined the Buffalo Bills."
He played his high school ball at Har-Brack (now Highlands) in Natrona Heights, PA.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.253.40.255 (talk) 02:43, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Porthos

message: "Dumas nevers tells Porthos given name" -- Is there a  "his" before "given"?  If Porthos is not his given, and du Valon is his surname. What is  Porthos? --Menchi 05:54, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: A pseudonym, if I recall correctly.Mind you, the fact that his family name is "du Valon" needn't rule out "Porthos" being part of his surname; some French people have long multipart surnames, of which part is his family name, part is a reference to his birthplace, part is something he inherited from his wife, etc. Porthos himself is "du Valon de Bracieux de Pierrefonds", as it says in the article.As to your first question: I interpret it as "...never tells the reader Porthos' given name" (or possibly "...Porthos's given name").—Paul A 07:14, 24 Nov 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

message: I've made a couple of very small tweaks which I wanted to explain:
I have changed "a successful wedding" to "a financially advantageous marriage" as the former is slightly ambiguous.  At the start of 20 Years After Porthos is unhappy because his wife's humble origins haven't brought him the social status he craves - it's the promise of a title that enables d'Artagnan to enlist him on his side - therefore the marriage isn't entirely successful from his point of view.
I've also noted that the lawyer's wife whom he romances throughout The Three Musketeers is the wealthy widow he eventually marries.
20 Years After, ch. XIII
Malentaheloyse (talk) 23:26, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marriage
Talk:Arithmetic

message: Let's start a collection of relevant sources here. Feel free to modify the below list. –jacobolus (t) 20:10, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for listing the sources. Several of the ones listed so far should be useful for the parts that deal with education and psychology. It will take me a while to familiarize myself with them. My idea was to get started with the sections on integer arithmetic, rational arithmetic, and real arithmetic. Do you know of any sources that provide a good overview of one or several of these topics? Phlsph7 (talk) 07:58, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: These "education" sources deal extensively with these topics. –jacobolus (t) 08:01, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: I'd recommend against using this  template for lists of short "harvnb" references. It puts an unreasonably large amount of space between lines and ends up taking up like 2.5x more space overall than just putting the short references on the same line separated by semicolons, or similar. –jacobolus (t) 21:59, 25 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for pointing this out. I replaced it to avoid the extra space between citations. I hope the reference section is tidier this way. Phlsph7 (talk) 09:04, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it's better. The one with more space would work better between longer notes or full citations. –jacobolus (t) 19:45, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  multiref2 template
Talk:Wonderland murders

message: The material below was recently removed from the article by User:Hayford Peirce. 
It was added by User:JMoyer with the edit comment that "Specific page numbers, newspaper articles to be added." Ordinarily, this would warrant tagging the material with the  tag and waiting to see whether a proper source citation was forthcoming, then eventually removing it or moving it to the talk page for discussion.
In this case, however, in addition to being unsourced, the material is voluminous, needs rewriting, and the truth of it has been sharply questioned by two editors of the John Holmes (actor) article. Therefore I agree with Hayford Peirce that the material should not be left in the article in its present form. Per the verifiability policy, "The obligation to provide a reputable source lies with the editors wishing to include the material, not on those seeking to remove it."
If JMoyer wishes to keep this material, source citations should be included at the time when it is inserted. I personally would suggest that the material should be boiled down to a moderate-length paragraph or so. Dpbsmith (talk) 22:23, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced material recently removed 

message: This entire article is poorly written, and in such a way that suggests that it was plagiarized en bloc from something decent like a Los Angeles Magazine article, then edited down and re-phrased to conceal the fact that it was copied, all the while without the "author" understanding the English language in which it was written. Some of it takes something that may have been correct and makes it wrong, like, and I quote directly, "The prosecutor, district attorney Ron Coen..." This is crap, Los Angeles has never had a district attorney named Ron Coen. Anyone capable of writing a single sentence of true crime (or anything in English) would have said "deputy district attorney Ron Coen". Big difference. Will someone who can write re-do this? Thanks.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.127.228.248 (talk) 08:23, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Poorly Written

message: Section was tagged for needing sources for over a year. Feel free to reinsert the below material with appropriate references. DonIago (talk) 13:53, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced material 

message: The article currently lists the motive as revenge, but this is unsourced and without knowing the perpetrators pretty hard to confirm. I am going to go ahead and remove the motive for now, however if anyone disagrees they can revert me. Bakilas (talk) 06:21, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Motive

message: Any info on Bill Shatner being questioned, implicated, or otherwise investigated as the possible murder suspect?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.178.137.210 (talk) 20:59, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: William Shatner
Talk:Livery company

message: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SFEC_LONDON_HABERDASHERS-2003-04-003.JPG  Haberdashers Hall - London Merlin-UK (talk) 11:06, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: This is now a Livery Company. Jackiespeel (talk) 11:12, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guild of Human Resource Professionals 

message: The description of Worshipful Company of Carmen (no.77) as 'vehicle drivers' is not quite correct. The Carmen's story (https://thecarmen.co.uk/history/) indicates that the Guild of St Catherine, forerunners of the Carmen, was established to move goods and materials, wine, wood, and fuel, within and beyond the City. Their role was that of carrier or today's haulage company. Haynesta (talk) 19:30, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of companies in order of precedence 

message: Will mention  - the Worshipful Companies start on page 34. Jackiespeel (talk) 18:51, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Listings
Talk:List of governors of the Habsburg Netherlands

message: Re: Use of the term "Netherlands".  In the 17th and 18th centuries, my understanding is that when said term was used, it would almost always have been used to refer to the Spanish/Austrian Netherlands.  The "northern Netherlands" would have been called the "United Provinces" or, informally and technically incorrectly, "Holland."  So, is it necessary to say that it was the "Southern Netherlands" which were occupied by the British and Dutch from 1706 to 1714?  Among other things, the article is obviously about the Habsburg a.k.a. Southern Netherlands.  And the presence of the Dutch as occupiers obviously connotes that we are not referring to the United Provinces... john 10:12, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: It was the presence of the Dutch as occupiers that made me change that sentence. To say that the Dutch occupied the Netherlands looks strange to me. As far as I know, the term the Netherlands covered all of the Low Countries until the end of the 18 century. The United Provinces were also called the (Seven) United Netherlands. When talking about Belgium during that period, I would always say the "Southern", "Spanish", or "Austrian" Netherlands. Eugene van der Pijll 10:27, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Nałęcz coat of arms

message: This is clearly not the same symbol as the odal rune; graphics of both have been uploaded for comparison.  See also http://images.google.com/images?q=Nalecz&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&filter=0. - Hephaestos 11:00, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Mere glyph variants.  Unicode code charts show the odal rune without the funny little wing things that you are referring to. Morwen 11:02, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)

text: See http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U16A0.pdf for that, btw Morwen 11:02, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)

text: Oh, actually having looked at your link, I see what you mean... The Nalecz and the Odal rune are clearly different things, and equally as clearly the Sanacja logo has the odal rune rather than the nalecz. Morwen 11:03, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)

text: Aha.  That makes sense then. - Hephaestos 11:07, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)
Talk:Study of the Hebrew language

message: This doesn't seem like a suitable title for an article.  I suggest "Hebrew studies".  Anyone got any better ideas? Deb 11:04, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Title

message: Urgent: see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Hebrew) to add your opinions about this important matter. Thank you. IZAK 18:00, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hebrew naming conventions 

message: Was there conflict between Benjamin Harshav and Eliezer Ben-Yehuda? This section of the article was unclear. Maya Millner (talk) 04:52, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversy(?)
Talk:Southern Agrarians

message: This page seems to have an anti-conservative bias and seems to present a reductive summary of Southern Agrarianism accordingly.  
One of the essential sources on this topic is missing: Malvasi, Mark G. (1997). The Unregenerate South: The Agrarian Thought of John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Donald Davidson. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.
A better treatment of this subject may be found in Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics, edited by Carl Mitcham, vol. 1, Macmillan Reference USA, 2005, pp. 37-41. Gale In Context: College, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3434900035/CSIC?u=tel_a_domi&sid=bookmark-CSIC&xid=b0ac4fd3. 12.19.18.2 (talk) 16:13, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  need for improvement