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Talk:Dave Tough

message: No mention in this article of his considerable alcoholism, which stifled his career and cost him many jobs. He was Benny Goodman's favorite drummer, but Goodman was reluctant to hire him (though he eventually did, briefly) because of his problems with liquor. This should be part of this piece.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:643:8101:6A37:FD55:2AE2:AF30:3F18 (talk) 06:20, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alcoholism?
Talk:Jess Stacy

message: Early Life
Article says, "Professor Clyde Brandt, a professor at Southeast Missouri State Teachers College (now Southeast Missouri State University),[1]" with ref.
'Jazz on the River' by W H Kenney [Univ of Chicago Press 2005 ISBN:0226437337] says "Stacy .... began taking formal piano lessons from J.Clyde Brandt, professor of piano and violin at what was then called Cape Girardeau University" 
Which is better/more accurate do we all think?
81.137.120.145 (talk) 06:14, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:John Kirby (musician)

message: i deleted the line "(this was unusual, because few tuba players continued their role in the orchestra by switching to double-bass)" because it's nonsense. rather the opposite is true: most early jazz double-bass players began playing tuba and/or bass trombone, from old players born in late XIX century, like Ed Garland, Steve Brown, Pops Foster, Henry "Bass" Edwards and Bob Ysaguirre to later payers like Grachan Moncur II and Red Callender, to name just a few of the most famous ones. and Walter Page, of course.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Theloni0us (talk • contribs) 11:49, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: tuba and double-bass
Talk:Sergei Lyapunov

message: Does anyone know if his etudes from Op. 11 are still in print besides no. 10 (Lezghinka)? And if they are, where I can find them?
   -- Try the IMSLP, http://www.imslp.org/wiki/Category:Lyapunov%2C_Sergei
   Lunasspectos29 15:29, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Existence of the 12 Transcendental Etudes? 

message: that the entire section now sub-titled "Legacy" is a word-for-word plagarization of Edward Garden's comments in the liner notes for Hyperion CDA 67326. Yes, I suspect this is nothing new. While working on the main article for Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, I found that article had been lifted from another site. But c'mon, guys—a word-for-word taking from an acknowledged expert on Russian classical music from this period?  It doesn't take that much more work to actually write something and acknowledge it as a source than to simply type it out. Jonyungk (talk) 18:42, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Those paragraphs (which I've now deleted) have been there from the first edit. It's possible the entire entry is stolen; can anybody check? Xanthoxyl (talk) 10:29, 1 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  I am really shocked 
Talk:Samuel Dale

message: The article as I found it stated that, some time after the Trail of Tears transportation (1831) Dale visited "George Washington" to request compensation for supplies for his troops. Since this happened some 32 years after Washington's death, I changed the link to Washington, D.C. and -tagged the paragraph. This needs further verification. Rklear (talk) 06:02, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Washington visit 

message: The article incorporates text from the 1860 potboiler biography of Sam Dale without using quotation marks or a long blockquote. The only change is to switch from first person to third person. See e.g. the sentence "At night, Samuel Dale illuminated the approaches, for a circuit of one hundred yards, by a device of his own." This reproduces "At night I illuminated the approaches, for a circuit of one hundred yards, by a device of my own." (Life and Times of Sam Dale, p. 117), reproducing the antiquated usage of the words "circuit" (distance, range) and "device" (plan, scheme, invention). The transcription continues with apparent incomprehension, e.g. copying "well-sweep" (a simple lever for raising and lowering a water bucket) as "sell sweep". The text needs rewriting in an encyclopedic tone, drawing on more than one source. — ℜob C. alias ALAROB 17:42, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Silent copying of direct quotes
Talk:Freedom and Unity

message: Vermont's motto was most likely written by Ira Allen, but he does not claim credit in his book A Natural and Political History of Vermont where he does claim credit for the design of the great seal of Vermont, and the founding of the state university UVM. The Vermont Historical Society has an exhibition titled "Freedom and Unity" and they too question Allen's authorship, as does former Vermont Life editor Tom Slayton. 
Regardless of authroship, there is a dynamism suggested between balancing the two: freedom, and unity. The moto has been used by other groups, across quite a wide political spectrum. The German Social Democratic Party-SDP (party of chancellors Brandt and Schroeder) used the motto before WWII. A more right leaning party in the UK, the English Democratic party, that is fearful of Britain's alignment with the European Union uses the motto Freedom and Unity. A bit contrary given that they clearly do not seek unity with Europe. Today the national motto of Germany, adopted in 1952 has some similarities: Einigkeit Recht und Freiheit translating as Unity, Law and Freedom. CApitol3 17:03, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:William Hooper

message: An anon recently added the following text:
*It may be a copyright violation so I've moved it to talk where it can be discussed and perhaps if it can be sourced it might be worked into the article. Hiding T  12:44, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unformatted unsourced text recently added 

message: No mention of slave-owning. I feel that this category should be restricted to people whose slave-owning history was notable in itself. Valetude (talk) 12:32, 16 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category:American slave owners
Talk:Oceana

message: redirected to "The Commonwealth of Oceana", i.e. the full name of the tract.  Stevewk 17:45, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: Why isn't there an article for the debuting singer Oceana, the one with the hit single "Cry, Cry"? Look at how many YouTube views she has! --79.112.53.182 (talk) 21:21, 14 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: singer

message: The Commonwealth of Oceana, a 1656 political tract by James Harington  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.56.68.233 (talk) 15:23, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Harrington's Oceana is not a place 

message: Hotels may not be relevant but this newly built complex was chosen by Stan Laurel as his retirement home in the late Fifties where he would meet other famous people (source). --Kolya (talk) 14:21, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oceana Apartment Hotel in [[Santa Monica]]
Talk:The Commonwealth of Oceana

message: ==redirected "Oceana" to here.  this is the full title of the tract. much more editing to come.  Stevewk 17:44, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

message: I came to this page looking for "Oceania". Should we add a link at the top, to clarify any confusion? The link could either point to Oceania (the continent) or to Oceania (disambiguation), which additionally contains a link to George Orwell's fictitious superstate. Mtford 21:52, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add link to [[Oceania]]? 

message: :
Any idea who Daniel Pakeman and Livewell Chapman were, and why the editions were named for them? —Tamfang (talk) 21:56, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  eponyms?
Talk:Stephen Hopkins (politician)

message: This article states that "Hopkins is renowned in historical calligraphy as author of 'the worst signature on the Declaration of Independence,'" but does not provide a citation. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.177.38.5 (talk) 07:16, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation under "Legacy" section 

message: How should Jemima Wilkinson be described in this article? I added the main descriptor from the lead of Wilkinson's own biography, "evangelist" (or at least, what had been the main descriptor in that article for years, until a recent unexplained removal of it by the same editor), but another editor changed this to "self-proclaimed prophetess", which is problematic in several ways, e.g. using the uncommon and archaic word prophetess instead of the more common word prophet to unnecessarily gender the referent who specifically rejected being referred to with gendered terms and who thus, on a basic level, was never a self-proclaimed prophetess. Other sources, and e.g. wikidata, describe the person as a "preacher", which accurately describes their main activity. Which term should be used? I would suggest preacher as the best choice and evangelist as the second best (and prophet as third best). -sche (talk) 18:06, 29 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: She considered herself a prophet, and she uttered prophecies. In treating historical topics, it is good to use the terminology that was used at the time—and she would have been referred to as a "prophetess" rather than a "prophet". An "evangelist" is someone who shares the gospel or brings good news, so I suppose it could be used in a loose sense. All the same, I've changed it to "Quaker preacher", which is probably the best short description.  —Dilidor (talk) 11:45, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Description of Wilkinson 

message: It has been conjectured that Stephen Hopkins had Parkinson’s disease. 108.34.248.223 (talk) 16:06, 9 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parkinson’s
Talk:William Ellery

message: " He had 19 children, and his descendants include..." WithGLEE (talk) 22:00, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can they really not name his children?
Talk:Joseph Hewes

message: I've been rewriting the page on Joseph Hewes. A few other people are monitoring the page and have made helpful corrections. I'm not satisfied with what I have posted so far. Its simply not up to wikipedia standards. So please everyone, please jump in and improve the page.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bob1743 (talk • contribs) 16:37, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
Talk:Lyman Hall

message: I'll be reviewing this article for GA.--Wehwalt (talk) 21:39, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: GA reviewer

message: No mention of slave-owning. I feel that this category should be restricted to people whose slave-owning history was notable in itself. Valetude (talk) 23:58, 16 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category:American slave owners
Talk:1984 Australian federal election

message: Could someone add an explanation as to why this election was held so soon after the double dissolution in 1983?
:Heh, the official reason was something along the lines of "Labor is seeking a mandate to continue its reforms". The real reason was they were well ahead in the polls so it was a good time to call an election. But I'm not sure how Wikify that! Rocksong 05:08, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: http://australianpolitics.com/elections/1984/ Timeshift 06:19, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Why was this election so early?
Talk:Gaelic road signs in Scotland

message: It would help a lot if the people who commission the signs could actually spell Gaelic. The sign illustrated in the article gives (correctly) a direction to "Àird a’ Bhàsair" (Ardvasar) - "the high place of the killing". The current sign for the A851 at Skulamus directs the traveller to "Àird a’ Mhàsair" - which means???
Incidentally, C Macleòid must be right: Inverness-shire CC was responsible only for its own patch. Those with long enough memories will recall that before the establishment of the Western Isles Council, Harris and the islands to its south were in Inverness-shire while Lewis was in Ross & Cromarty. Barmy. Kranf (talk) 22:53, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Nobody can argue with you about the need for getting it right. However, place names don't normally 'mean' anything (at least not in their modern forms - place name etymology does produce explanations, but they are usually pretty obscure), and when an all-too obvious meaning is given to a place name, it is usually a folk etymology (Portree was never the 'King's Port'). So I would be suspicious of an argument that one spelling is better than the other because it provides a transparent meaning. More important would be what old records show. Or what the locals do now - if they have enough Gaelic to have an opinion!  --Doric Loon (talk) 21:45, 27 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gaelic place-names 

message: When I last went there (2004) the place-name directional signs were in Gaelic only.  Looking at Google street view it seems that they've moved to bilingual for some reason... I've put something in to that effect. 92.10.175.129 (talk) 22:23, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bilingual road signs in the Western Isles
Talk:Khalistan Zindabad Force

message: The argument uses Argumentum ad ignorantiam fallacy by using the term "Sikh terrorism". The term is an appeal to the public opinion. The argument is ignorant of the conflict between Sikhs and the government and focuses primarily on using term like "sikh terrorism" leading to the fallacy of accepting the assumption that just because Sikh Militant outfits have not given the chance to prove themselves, the Indian government's accusationis right. The argument also appeals to the authority. 
The Sikh groups have never openly called for killing of Hindus as in case of Islamicists or IRA. But yet IRA was never labelled as a Catholic terrorist outfit. It is paramount to understand that not all conflicts in the world have the same modus-operandi and in case of Sikh Conflict, the tussle between Government and Militant outfits should be more objectified other applying the avlaible rhetoric of one-side. HSingh30 17:28, 9 September 2006  (UTC)
: You may want to read the Wikipedia article on the Provisional Irish Republican Army.  It is labelled as a terrorist organization.  --- Skapur 22:59, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The refference to regarding the activities by the organization has been laballed as "terrorist".Acts of "terrorism" are really based on what "terrorism" is in a persons view.Someone should change that.74.98.241.189 00:18, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV 
Talk:University Centre Hastings

message: Please see Talk:University Centre Hastings/Temp. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 17:30, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  replacement for copyvio article 
Talk:Lewis Morris (governor)

message: I'm no expert on American history, but I'm sure both having a very Welsh name and having parents hailing from Monmouthshire attests Lewis Morris as a Welsh American rather than an English American.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cynfael Fendigaid (talk • contribs) 22:15, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  English American? 

message: Maybe mention Morris County and Morristown, NJ as named after him.--68.193.135.139 (talk) 03:06, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: There is definitely something not right about the Westin hotel entry; I think it should probably be removed. The article here suggests that it was named after Gouverneur Morris, not the subject of this article. The namesake of the hotel according to the Westin web page source was the state's first governor, but that person was William Livingston, not this article's Lewis Morris (the 8th colonial governor) or Gouverneur Morris (his grandson, and not a governor at all). A similar error also seems to appear on the website for Lewis Morris Park. -- Erjwiki (talk) 20:58, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Places named after him 
Template talk:Sikhism sidebar

message: In Africa, the largest concentration of Sikhs is in East Africa, specially in Kenya. There is a need to correct the relevant country list and regional segment.
Aurrat (talk) 17:05, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Largest concentration 

message: I am new to Wikipedia, so I won't make the edit myself yet. However, could somebody put the correct symbol for Sikhism. It is Ekonkar (the first word/letter in Guru Granth Sahib) and not the so called Khanda which is adopted only recently and is mistakenly taken as the symbol of Sikhs.
Bslubana (talk) 06:50, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: In my opinon, this is not directly related to Sikhism (Sikhi) as a religion. Sikh extremism is just a minority stance followed by some people who misinterpret the great Sikh religion (which is actually the most modern major religion). This link is better suited for Template:Sikh politics or some other template. Best, Dave. 59.164.105.254 (talk) 17:20, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: My changes

message: I don't mind either way, but I don't see the reason why the Khanda had to be replaced with the Ik Onkar; both are legitimate symbols of Sikhism, but the Khanda is the more-recognized symbol of the Sikhs worldwide (and its express purpose is to be a symbol) as it appears on the Nishan Sahib and symbolizes both the Sikhs' faith and history; its purpose is to be a symbol, as opposed to the Ik Onkar, which is more a tenet of Sikhism. There's been a trend implying that Ik Onkar is a "truer" symbol than the Khanda, or that it is too warlike or disingenuous or whatever; I strongly disagree and would like to see this changed. I am not saying that the person who made the change has such motives (quite contrary), but the Khanda is a symbol in the true sense.3swordz (talk) 23:58, 31 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture
Talk:Randolph-Macon Woman's College

message: I realize that a lot of R-MWC students and alumnae are upset about the recent decision by the Board of Trustees, but remember that Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia and not an editorial.  This is not the place to share your opinions on the matter or attempt to argue against co-education.  KGiles 17:32, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Co-ed controversy
Talk:Bright Angel Trail/to do

message: Since the Bright Angel Trail is the most famous trail within Grand Canyon National Park, it deserves the best attention of all Grand Canyon trail articles:
* Verify trail mileages and elevations
* Change trail mileage list into a wikitable
* Expand trail description
* Add climate section, with separate winter sub-section
* Describe Indian Garden area (today)
* Include a History section
** Expand Havasupai settlement information, include expulsion by federal gov't using good sources
** Describe Expand pre-20th century Havasupai construction and use of trail
** Describe Ralph Cameron's control of trail, charging of tolls
** Describe Kolb brothers and their studio
** Describe Expand park service era control
*Include current mule use of trail (might be advertising, discussion necessary)
* Wikify!
* As always, expand current sources of information, find new ones and add citations
In the provided graph, there is no distance or elevation change listed from rim to river, although the elevation change is included in the description.  It would be helpful to add this, mostly for the purposes of accuracy, but also to help the reader not confuse the Bright Angel Trail with the River Trail, since the distance and elevation change from rim to Phantom Ranch is included.  Zencowboy27 (talk) 02:55, 11 January 2012 (UTC)
Talk:Matthew Thornton

message: 'Worcestor Academy
Although I have a reference that has Matthew Thornton studying at the Worcestor Academy, but the Wikipedia Article on the Worcestor Academy states it wasn't founded until 1834.  There's a problem somewhere, so I am deleting the reference to the academy from this article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Corlyon (talk • contribs) 00:35, 14 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Does anyone know from where in Ireland Thornton's family originated? Fergananim (talk) 08:51, 7 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Origins
Talk:Propinquity

message: Psychological propinquity (like exposure effect of living near stairs (?)) needs to be distinguished from personality propinquity of similarity.  ENeville 17:47, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Psychological propinquity

message: The Venn diagram is great to have on this page... but I think maybe an explanation of its meaning would be useful. :) cøøkiə Ξ (talk) 01:30, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The explanation is this: Universe (U), Set A (A), Set B (B), and Similarity (S).  The sets are basically any relevant subject matter about a person, or persons, or non-persons, etc; depending on the context of the use of the word. --Charlesrkiss 21:41, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Venn diagram

message: Hi, I hope no one minds but I merged the essentially duplicate material from propinquity effect (four links) into this article (nine links) so that we wouldn't have to use the same diagram in both articles and because they are both essentially the same articles. --Sadi Carnot 03:35, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: but see #Move to "propinquity effect"? below. --Concrete Cowboy 12:13, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge note

message: I accept that there is probably a case for the defence, but it needs to be made.  I'll put the tag here rather than in the main article.  Note that Wiktionary already has a definition - see propinquity. --Concrete Cowboy 16:57, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Please note that putting the template here only leaves the talk page in the category; my bot only copies entries from the main namespace.  I think you should remove this tag and nominate the entry using  instead.  --Connel MacKenzie -  wikt 05:54, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Cowboy, could you please not spam wiktionary with encylopedic entries like this, as you noticed it already has a definition of the word. If you want to get rid of this article, take it to AFD (which it would survive). Kappa 01:26, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Wikipedia is not a dictionary" 

message: --CopyToWiktionaryBot 01:20, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  2007-05-18 Automated pywikipediabot message 

message: Would it solve the "wikipedia is not a dictionary" issue if this article were moved back to Propinquity effect? This, it seems to me, is a valid encyclopedia entry.  "Propinquity" by itself is just a noun that belongs in the Wiktionary. --Concrete Cowboy 12:11, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move to "propinquity effect"?
Talk:Emil i Lönneberga

message: Beaten to it! :) --Kizor 17:48, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Is that what Lönneberga is called in the translations? I don't own the books in English, but the title of the book Emil i Lönneberga is Emil in the Soup Tureen in English, and I don't find any references to Lönneberga being Maple Hills, other than in Wikipedia and sites with Wikipedia as source.--Bonadea 19:29, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Unless it’s been changed in more recent versions, the English editions say Lönneberga just as much as everyone else, with no references to ‘Maple Hills’. David Arthur 15:03, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This article title needs to change, then. Maple Hills appears to be a (slightly contrieved) translation by the person who first wrote the article, and the literal meaning of the place name is not relevant. --Bonadea 14:13, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems someone is trying to do it themselves at the moment.  I'm lost because its a bit of strange way to do so...¤~Persian Poet Gal (talk) 20:51, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maple Hills?? 

message: Strangely, I can't find any time setting for the Emil i Lönneberga novels. Did Astrid set them in the same time period she grew up, possibly 1912 to 1922? Or are they earlier? DBlomgren (talk) 10:31, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time setting of novels