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Talk:Field Marshall

message: One L or two?  Google has 20,600 for "Field Marshall" (and that includes several links to Marshall Field's department stores) and 49,600 for "Field Marshal".  -- Zoe
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One "l". A spelling expert I ain't, but it's "marshal". There is a foregin spelling, French perhaps, that goes something like "marchall" or "marshalle" Tannin
Sorry but it is spelt Field Marshall.  I have some genuine manufacturer's publications (manual and parts list) in front of me as I type this. 78.148.196.181 (talk) 19:27, 11 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Early Talkpage entries

message: not moved. Neither of the two externally linked sites use the hyphenated form. Per Wikipedia:AT#Special_characters, not moved. --rgpk (comment) 17:56, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move
Talk:Spontaneous human combustion

message: CRAW309 (talk) 05:32, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

message: Is quackery of this degree actually useful in an encyclopedia? Is it notable enough to warrant inclusion? It feels like undue weight is being given to absolutely ridiculous woo in this article. TricksterWolf (talk) 21:54, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Three cheers for Arnold's ridiculousness. Yes ok, this article is a woo magnet. He gets a slight comeuppance from Joe Nickell. Perhaps the balance could be made more explicit. And I'm not sure Arnold belongs, based on just that primary source, in the "Overview" section. But every article needs a slight spark of novelty? Martinevans123 (talk) 23:31, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Pyrotron" seems like something unfit for an encyclopedia. 

message: Formal request has been received to merge: Mary Reeser into Spontaneous human combustion; dated: March 2023. Proposer's Rationale: There is nothing notable about this individual besides the fact she allegedly died from spontaneous human combustion and its article has a paragraph about her in the "Notable Examples" section. ~216.165.127.20.  Discuss here. GenQuest "scribble" 13:15, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I think to oppose this. The daughter-in-law and FBI thought her combustion wasn't spontaneous. The leading source cited in the article for the "spontaneous" claim says nothing of the sort, only that it was a mystery,  and the only claims are from people speculating and passing on other people's speculation on the matter. I accept no end of people may have claimed spontaneous combustion (possibly sufficient for notability) but there was no evidence for "spontaneous" and the opinion of anyone involved was either unsure or thinking it was not. The article should either be deleted or changed to make it clearer the claims were uninformed and speculative. Thincat (talk) 16:56, 16 March 2023 (UTC)

text: *I don't see much to merge. The pertinent information is already at Spontaneous human combustion, and it is made clear there that  Reese's death was probably just an accident involving a cigarette. I think a redirect would suffice. Joyous! Noise! 02:01, 21 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger proposal

message: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn1720-ball-lightning-scientists-remain-in-the-dark/ I believe this is the link to the page citation 28 is trying to reach. 49.177.136.152 (talk) 10:06, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you. I've now seen to it. Thincat (talk) 13:09, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation 28 link is broken 

message: — Assignment last updated by Envylivion (talk) 01:36, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: LIT 3319 Contexts
Talk:Kingdom

message: Are kingdoms the same everywhere? That seems highly unlikely. We still have kingdoms in the modern era such as in the Middle East with Saudi Arabia or Morocco. Are there kingdoms in East Asia? Are they the same as kingdoms in Western Europe? What is the idea of property ownership in a kingdom? Does the king own it all? Is that what happened in Western Europe with serfdom? Wouldn't the concept of a kingdom have changed over time, even in the same area or region? Is Charlemagne's kingdom at the point where they are really just beginning to form kingdoms, the same as the Kingdom of France under Louis XIV? Certainly, there is enough subject matter to explore, isn't there and consequently develop an article about it? Anyway, these are some of the reasons why I came to this article to find answers to. I think the article's development would be well worth it... Stevenmitchell (talk) 08:15, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Kingdom

message: Currently on the language sidebar, this page is linked to the French page for the English word "Kingdom". That page is entirely a disambiguation for popular culture/media topics which use the word "Kingdom" and are known in the French-speaking world, like albums with the English word "Kingdom" in their title. I don't know of any relevant guides for this, but isn't it a closer analog for the page to link to the French page for the French word for kingdom? - Astrophobe (talk) 20:07, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikidata link to English word on frwiki
Talk:List of birds of Europe

message: Wouldn't birds of Europe be more in line with naming conventions? Tuf-Kat 06:54 Apr 3, 2003 (UTC)
This is a list of bird families in Europe, not the list of European birds, which I understand refers to species. Or it should anyways.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.240.122.10 (talk) 21:09, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:A Chinese Ghost Story

message: i added a lot to the plot summary...might be a bit too long? iono...but i'm sure a great HK classic like this deserves to be done full justice. Dagari 16:12, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: plot

message: I couldn't get the link to DVDReview to work. It just timed out whenever I tried.
I was interested in seeing exactly which parts of this film were borrowed for the Evil Dead series. As Evil Dead was released in 1981 and Evil Dead 2 was released in 1987 (same year as this film). It would have been hard for any deliberate copying of ideas from this film to have taken place - perhaps easier for the opposite to have ocurred? 62.6.161.131 (talk) 12:17, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Influences
Talk:Binary classification

message: specificity is defined as TN/(TN+FP) and sensitivity is defined as TP/(TP+FN). In this article the definitions given are incorrect (specificity = TN/(TN+FN), sensitivity = TP/(TP+FP)). 99.246.20.224 (talk) 21:28, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: specificity and sensitivity

message: I think this graphics is extremely confusing. Even though it seems cute and simple, it has so many annotated arrows compared to Precision and Recall, while having even less explanation. Either way, it is still unintelligible. In Type I and type II errors, the simple matrix of 'Test Result .vs. Actual Condition' illustrates all four possibilities immediately in a familiar matrix notation. The current graphics does not help illustrate the principle, as the reader will be busy deciphering the graphics instead. Toahi (talk) 09:00, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Illustration 

message: Should the article not discuss trade offs by varying the discrimination threshold. eg the medical test example may choose some specific value of a biomarker as a threshold for making a positive prediction ? Varying the threshold trades off false positives against false negatives. - Rod57 (talk) 18:40, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trade offs by varying discrimination threshold 

message: This is a really poor article. Apart from the last section "Converting continuous values to binary" which is vaguely related, there's nothing in here about *binary classification*. How do you do binary classification? What are the established methods? Statistical methods? Machine learning methods? The article is supposed to be about binary classification not hypothesis testing and sensitivity and sensitivity!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.76.224.135 (talk) 17:15, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Focus of article
Talk:Dinesh D'Souza

message: An approved editor just a few hours ago edited this entry to note that D'Souza believed in the conspiracy theory that George Soros assisted the Nazis against the Jews and that this assertion is untrue. However, George Soros himself plainly admits he helped the Nazis against the Jews in a 60 Minutes interview available here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QSyczwuTQfo. Starting at 6:57 you can hear the story of how Soros helped get his fellow Jews arrested, ultimately leading to the death of many. Soros himself freely admits this in this 60 Minutes interview aired on CBS television in tbe U.S. This, therefore, needs to be corrected since it accuses D'Souza of propogating an untruth. I will check back soon to see if this gets corrected. Thanks! 97.119.116.69 (talk) 05:17, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Xenologer48 (talk) 10:42, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

text: In the interview Soros asserts that as a very young boy (14) he "accompanied" his godfather on visits where the Nazis would confiscate belongings from Jews. He also points out that the experience instilled deep within him the idea the evil does exist and ought to be acted against actively rather than passively. When you do check back to see if your claims have been included in this bio please do tell us exactly how you know that he was "helping the Nazis" arrest Jews and thus causing their condemnation to death. Even if this were to be true -and it may be- it would be very misleading and unfair to make the statement that "George Soros assisted the Nazis against the Jews" as a stand-alone comment without mentioning the crucial fact that he was 14 years old, ensconced in a plan made by his father to save his son via placement with this godfather figure and clueless as to what was happening or it's significance. Please people - let's be a bit more detailed in pushing startling statements like this as informational when they paint a very small part of the overall picture. Jhall 3rd (talk) 20:54, 14 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I could have just said : context please. Jhall 3rd (talk) 20:55, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

text: Perhaps the audio wasn't working correctly when you watched the video because none of your claims are correct. At 10:00 Soros says that he was a spectator and played no role in taking property. There isn't anything at all about getting Jews arrested. Jibal (talk) 06:46, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I have no idea what the veracity of this claim is, but I have a very big problem with referring to it as a conspiracy theory. "Conspiracy theory" has become one of the most overused terms, seemingly used to refer to any political theory one disagrees with. Either Soros helped out the local Nazis or he didn't - either way, there would be no conspiracy involved. Korny O'Near (talk) 18:26, 16 December 2022 (UTC)

text: See, D'Souza discusses it because he associates Soros with the democrats and he cherry picks it in order to therefore push his claim that Fascism is leftist.  2600:8801:FB13:6B00:E6A4:78FF:DA8A:79F0 (talk) 02:17, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 23 September 2022
Talk:Visegrad Agreement

message: Visegrad not Visegard, no? I keep getting this place confused with Vysehrad too! Arwel 00:14 Apr 4, 2003 (UTC)
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Hi Wikipedians,
I think this is an absolutely superfluous stub. All of its contents are covered by the entry Visegrád group, therefore, it should be deleted, only the title seems to be useful for redirecting. What about this?
--Millisits 16:13, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Angkor Wat

message: This is quite a good article.  I think with an expanded history section and inline citations, it could be a featured article. Tuf-Kat 05:38, Jun 23, 2005 (UTC)
:Citations should be easy enough- I've got everything I used to hand.  I found a great old French pic for the History section, and I'm working on a plan of the temple which should see the light of day fairly soon. Mark1 08:47, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Featured article

message: I see this is a claim only attributed due its contestation, but it seems rather egregious that Guinness World Records is mentioned even once in this featured article? It seems obviously preferable to me to soften the claim to "one of the largest" and possibly supply more robust sourcing instead. Remsense诉 04:58, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guinness World Records?
Talk:Sam Loyd

message: I'm not sure if the solution is best given on the image page (where I've put it) or on the article page, or somewhere else. The image page keeps it away from view for people trying to solve the problem, but it's clogged up with some stuff about the images edit history and so on. If somebody wants to move the solution therefore, go ahead. --Camembert
:Just to note: the solution is now found at Excelsior (chess problem). Seems reasonable enough, I suppose. --Camembert 23:12, 20 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Old talk

message: As a biography, it’s particularly important to provide balance – Loyd is recognized both as America’s greatest puzzler, but also as a liar, huckster, hoaxer, and has been called rather worse things besides (e.g., claiming credit for 15 puzzle, tangram history hoax, etc.).
I’ve had a stab at a balanced (and referenced) view of his reception in [ this revision], but please feel free to improve!
:—Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 01:43, 2 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: - Anonymous (2010-12-04)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.232.118.38 (talk) 19:47, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reception and balance 

message: It is this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sam_Loyd&diff=next&oldid=1141645911 Now I'll edit out "Dudney" for the correct "dudeney"  Santropedro (talk) 03:32, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  A vandal edit was not corrected in time
Talk:Group entity

message: Wikipedia:Avoid_self-references says clearly that "Neutral self-references are acceptable" though they are now hard to add because linking to Wikipedia itself no longer seems to be available as a shortcut way to make a neutral self-reference without learning noxious notations.
See Talk:Wikipedia itself for why the general rule to avoid namespace cross-redirect isn't applicable in this case, and why we should welcome a few really good explanations of what theories Wikipedia seems to prove or advance.
For now someone can replace the link with that noxious notation no one can remember.  If you want people not to do something without thinking, educate them, don't make it harder to do.  The people that will learn the notation aren't necessarily the best judges of when to use it - we'd rather have academics adding neutral links in an easy notation and letting syntax lawyers replace it with a harder notation, I think.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Addressconcern (talk • contribs) 14:54, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia self-reference
Talk:Timeline of Fijian history

message: I don't know enough about Fiji to do it, nor do I have the necessary time to do it, but (if someone wants a project) someone should update the end of this article. Much has happened to complete the story. See: 
 Kingturtle 03:17 Apr 4, 2003 (UTC)
:See also George Speight. -Smack 02:33, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Bring Current

message: I've added that Fiji was re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations in 1997. I know Fiji's membership was suspended after the 2000 coup, and I think Fiji was re-instated in 2001, but I don't know the specific dates. Aridd 12:41, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: All right, it seems Fiji was re-admitted in December 2001 (source: official Commonwealth website). Aridd 13:33, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fiji and the Commonwealth 

message: This article should conform to other history articles and be written in prose rather than just time tables.  Æµ§œš¹ [aɪm ˈfɻɛ̃ⁿdˡi] 03:09, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Prose

message: Someone has written:  "the first settlers of Fiji, with their origins in South egypt." That's either nonsense or the most important archaeological discovery of the last 100 years. In the first case it should be corrected (maybe: China?), in the second case a reference is urgently needed. --2.201.208.32 (talk) 21:04, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The origin of the first settlers (Egyptians or Chinese?) 

message: So the summary of Fijian history (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiji#History) mentions cannibalism, while the page dedicated to Fijian history has no mention of it.  Is this an oversight, censorship, or something else? 66.66.149.221 (talk) 21:45, 6 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cannibalism
Talk:Bushehr

message: Absurd misuse of English. Needs rewriting. ExpatSalopian (talk) 01:58, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Writing
Talk:Nunarput, utoqqarsuanngoravit

message: Is this just an alternate name for Greenland? Or is its meaning somehow different from referring to the whole of Greenland? And is the first line of the song section just the title, or also sung as the first line of the song? -- John Owens 08:01 Apr 4, 2003 (UTC)
:FWIW, I understand the Inuktitut name of Greenland to be Kalaalit Nunaat. - Montréalais
According to http://www.gh.gl/uk/facts/culture.htm the official anthem of Greeland is Nunarput utoqqarsuanngoravit, and since 1979 Nuna asiilasooq as a second national anthem. Yet a lot of websites also claim Nangmineq erinllik as the anthem - but it must be an old one as the official website of Greenland should be the most credible source. andy 18:35, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: ARGH, now I see it - the first line is nonsense! andy 18:36, 16 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Hans Christian Andersen

message: According to Agnete og Havmanden this was an old ballad/folk tale, which he turned into a (flopped) play.  This discrepancy should be worked away, and the link added. 81.206.2.230 (talk) 20:17, 18 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Agnethe and the Merman 

message: I don't understand this sentence Wullschlager's biography maintains he was possibly lovers with Danish dancer Harald Schar.... Perhaps "in love" not "lovers"? Further I think too much space is dedicated to his supposed but never proven homosexuality. Any thoughts?--77.46.199.108 (talk) 15:54, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Love life 

message: Sophie Ørsted wasn't his daughter...?  What? Who wrote this?  Headbomb {t · c · p · b} 03:57, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sophie Ørsted, the daughter of the physicist [[Hans Christian Ørsted]] 

message: Under the "Legacy, Stage productions" section add the following works:
- The Nightingale Opera by Igor Stravinsky. (Sources and existing wikipedia article below.)
- Song of the Nightingale Opera by Lisa DeSpain (Sources below.)
Stravinsky Sources and Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nightingale_(opera)
https://imslp.org/wiki/Le_Chant_du_rossignol,_K026_(Stravinsky,_Igor)
Slim, H. C., & Stravinskij, I. (2002). Annotated catalogue of the H. Colin Slim Stravinsky Collection: Donated by him to the University of British Columbia Library. The University of British Columbia Library. 
DeSpain Sources:
https://osopera.org/productions/nightingale/
https://www.livemusicproject.org/events/75869/on-site-opera-despaintiens-song-of-the-nightingale Lookingforasource (talk) 06:00, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added Stravinsky's opera (using the third source you've provided) because it is a notable enough of an example to warrant uncontroversial inclusion in my opinion. However, given the recency of the opera by DeSpain, please provide reliable sources that support its notability (the sources you've included here are essentially advertisements). -- Pinchme123 (talk) 03:16, 5 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 15 September 2023 

message: The old oak tree’s last dream, 1858 2604:2D80:9190:5C00:31AD:9616:B971:DB25 (talk) 14:26, 10 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unmentioned work
Talk:Museum of Anthropology at UBC

message: Would it be appropriate to include the hours of operation?Kaw in stl 22:52, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it would not be appropriate. It is neither encyclopedic in value or notable information. Luke! 23:08, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Hours of Opperation

message: The existing gallery is just an indiscriminate collection of images of the article subject.  Galleries are not prohibited on Wikipedia, but galleries consisting of random collections of images are (see WP:IG).  Any ideas for improving the gallery, in order to be consistent with the policy, or should it simply be moved to the Commons? --Skeezix1000 (talk) 12:21, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I added the  tag.  The gallery remains a mess.  If we don't figure out how to improve it, the whole thing should just be moved to Commons. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 16:27, 10 July 2009 (UTC)

text: I removed some duplicate images and added some extra information. The gallery could still use some work. DGERobertson (talk) 03:14, 13 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It's better (thanks for that), but it's still just an indiscriminate collection of images, with little focus or theme (the notion of "collections" is an okay one, if a bit broad, but here the implementation is poor -- just random shots).  Maybe the better solution is to create a list (there practically is one already in the article), with one image depicting each aspect of the collection.  --Skeezix1000 (talk) 19:08, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image gallery
Talk:Sedgwick County, Kansas

message: Please review the following to get a better idea of what you should add to this article:
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• Sbmeirow • Talk •  21:44, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Important Notes Before Editing This Article 

message: Why isn't there a population statistic for people who live in rural Sedgwick County?
I suggest deleting the history section until somebody comes up with something more interesting.  I used to live in SG county.  Do you want to be known as the playground for a sick serial killer and the clumsy cops who took 30 years to catch him?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Racaroc (talk • contribs) 22:19, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. BTK does not represent the entirety of SG county history and should not be given such attention. In fact, the 20th century section on BTK should be deleted soon if they remain without citation. The 20th Century section should take into account The Poet incident, the George Tiller incident, and the growth of Wichita from 1901-1999. SomeoneWWTSI (talk) 17:37, 15 March 2022 (UTC)

text: I feel the information pertaining to what you are talking about is located in the article Alcohol laws of Kansas and includes references.  You may want to go through that article and the sources to see if you can fix up this section. Bhall87 (talk) 21:25, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: So the only thing worth mentioning for the ENTIRE 20th century is the BTK story? I would suggest it isn't worthy of inclusion at all. Every metro area over 100,000 in population has some kind of gruesome crime episodes in its history. I would suggest that unless you want to include a "crime" section in the article, that the BTK case deserves no mention at all in this article. Surely the development of the aircraft industry and the rise of Koch industries is more significant than a single criminal. Unless people think this is truly the most notable thing about Sedgwick County in the 20th century. I would delete the section myself but feel it's something for those more engaged with this article to take on. Unless you agree with Rader himself and want to use the murders to attract attention to the area.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.231.232.200 (talk) 21:41, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  20th century