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Talk:Grand duchy

message: The article asserts that Luxemburg and Netherlands split on death of Willem III due to difference in inheritance rule.  However, I've learned (from another Wikipedia article!) that both countries had the same "semi-Salic" inheritance law!  Heirs differed because only the founder of the dynasty can inherit: the first King of Netherlands had left no legitimate male agnates whatsoever!  Luxemburg, on the other hand, passed to the Heir of the House of Nassau, founded many centuries before the Kingdom of Netherlands, and which was not yet extinct.
:The splitting had little to do with Salic law and is the result of Orange-Nassau house laws established in the aftermath of Vienna to deal with the family's German domains (I don't remember if it also dealt with the dutch succession, but the grand duchy of Luxemburg was a member of the German Confederation).   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.180.97.173 (talk) 15:27, 6 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  wrong description of inheritance difference 

message: Why is the title of this page Grand duchy and not Grand Duchy with both words capitalized? RP459 (talk) 20:22, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Title of Page

message: HRS needs to be defined or linked under Western Grand Dukes and their sovereignties. --Mistakefinder (talk) 16:19, 21 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  HRH is? 

message: The second sentence of the article asserts that there were only two Grand Duchies prior to the 19th century; Tuscany and Savoy. The cited article from Britannica.com does not mention Savoy being a Grand Duchy and only speaks about Tuscany. I'm not an expert on Savoy but its wikipedia article makes no mention of ever being elevated to being a Grand Duchy, only a Duchy, and I've never heard of it referred to as being a Grand Duchy at any point. I'd like to know if theres a different source to this claim, and if not Savoy should probably be removed from the sentence. 68.105.166.33 (talk) 04:20, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grand Duchy of Savoy?
Talk:Dionysius of Halicarnassus

message: (Περι Των αρχαιων Ρητορων Perì tôn archaiôn rhetorôn), is: "About ANCIENT (or ARCHAIC) Orators", NOT attic
--81.208.114.111 09:45, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Attic orators 

message: ":These two treatises are supplemented by letters to Gn. Pompeius"
I suppose Pompey was no more in life at that time.
Probably is Cn. Pompeius Geminus
cfr. 
-- 81.208.114.111 10:52, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  letters to [[Pompey|Gn. Pompeius]] 

message: The sections added on the foundation myth are a product of efforts to revise the Romulus and Remus Article.  Please feel free to comment, revise, delete, move, etc.  The hope is to make the R & R article coherent, informative but not overly long.  That is a challenge by virtue of its nature.  Informata ob Iniquitatum (talk) 05:01, 25 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Much of the foundation myth sections seems superfluous, unencyclopediac, irrelevant to actual page, as well as unreferenced. I have therefore begun condensing and adding references: more needs to be done however! Jacobisq (talk) 06:34, 11 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Have removed some 15000 units (WP:Relevance of content) - whether too little or too much is perhaps open to debate.....Jacobisq (talk) 06:29, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Foundation Myth
Talk:List of heads of government of Denmark

message: As none or only a few of the Prime Minsters have articles about themselves, it's preferable to keep their year of birth/year of death. - User:Docu
:Now that I have created articles for all the Prime Ministers, I plan to remove the birth/death years and maybe make some other changes. Thue | talk 21:26, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Done. Valentinian 11:51, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth/year of death 

message: Someone has added elections next to pre-1901 cabinets. This does not reflect political reality and can only confuse readers. They should be removed (but kept for post-1901 cabinets, obviously). 93.167.80.125 (talk) 17:13, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Elections

message: Why is there a picture of what I believe to be the Danish coat of arms, instead of one of Poul Hartling? It's the same with Knud Kristensen too?? I've been to various other wikipedia sites in many languages too, and there isn't a picture at all?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.27.162.135 (talk) 21:19, 23 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry for the late reply, but in case anyone else is wondering, it's because there are no available free pictures for these two people. This is also why some of the images aren't so good. -- Peter Talk page 12:06, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  What the hell? 

message: Hello there, my fellow Wikipedians.
I noticed that on the da.wiki, Helle Thorning-Schmidt is the 40th Prime Minister, while she's only the 26th on en.wiki, Anders Fogh Rasmussen is the 39th on da.wiki and only 24th on en.wiki, etc. How come? --Biscuit-in-Chief Let's talk about it  —Preceding undated comment added 16:53, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of Prime Ministers 

message: I have removed the list of Grand Chancellors and Privy Councillors, since these are precursors and unrelated to the current office of prime minister as head of government. . Skjoldbro (talk) 15:59, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of officeholders
Talk:Waterloo, Belgium

message: Google has the quote in the picture caption appearing only in a Project Guteberg etext of "American Adventures" from 1917 and is not attributed there.
70.53.109.198 14:15, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quote probably apocrpyphal? 

message: Is it really important to say that "Today Waterloo contains two Carrefour hypermarkets, a Delhaize store, an Ibis hotel, a Fortis Bank branch" I don't think that's a particularity of the city...
  -Well not all Belgian towns have two hypermarkets.. Renelllope 11:35, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it's important...it gives one a sense of the community.  What's nice about Waterloo is it's a very self-sufficient suburb of Brussels.  The real question, though, is should someone add something about any of it's interesting resturaunts like Six Colons or A Cote D'or or The Snug or something? Rowlan 15:13, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Self-sufficient? I don't think that word means what you think it does...81.241.35.127 16:26, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modern Waterlo 

message: Unemployment rate dates back to 2006, so a bit outdated --IIVeaa (talk) 08:53, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: unemployment rate
Talk:Manufacturing Consent

message: The description given of the fifth filter really doesn't explain its nature. Its been a long time since I read the book but a quick google of other sources confirms that in general this filter is about using a common enemy to marginalise dissent. Perhaps someone with a better recall of the book can rewrite this element. Carl weathers bicep (talk) 09:03, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fifth filter provides poor description
Talk:Soviet combat vehicle production during World War II

message: I read in a book a long time ago that said that between 1941-1942 sometime Hitler got a report from a general saying that the Bolsheviks produced 800 tanks/month. Not very important, but interesting! BL 15:24, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: IIRC, it was Guderian who told Hitler that, and Hitler later said that if he had beleived him, he wouldn't have invaded Russia -- Cabalamat 22:36, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: It might be useful to list locations of building plants. I know it might be reasnaiobly complicated to list lcoations, tank types and dates, but if anyone has any information on this I'd appreciate very much if something could be put into the article? Thanks! Same for the other countries during the war also.
SpookyMulder 12:30, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: factory locations?

message: The very first sentence in this article describes production as simply "large". Perhaps a better way could be found to write an opening sentence... how large is 'large'?  :)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.1.2.18 (talk) 19:53, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  First sentence
Talk:Albert Uderzo

message: Éditions Albert René, is claiming in court that certain IT companies whose name end in 'ix' (not unnatural in companies who work with Unix) are damaging his brands 'Asterix' and 'Obelix'.
I love Uderzo's illustrations in the Asterix comics, but somehow ths reminds me of the SCO vs. Linux fiasco...  Sewing 15:39, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: It is true that many albums aren't really that good, SPECIALLY Asterix and the Falling Sky, since the specialist on writing was Goscinny... But Uderzo can make some nice pieces of work too, like Asterix and the Black Gold. --Andrelvis 10:47, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: ix

message: I think that can be rewritten to be more fair-sounding. At the moment it makes the plagiarist that went bankrupt appear as a victim.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.166.215.166 (talk) 19:16, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  In a different controversy, Albert Uderzo sued a publisher of a parody into bankruptcy. 

message: How is it possible to retire after death? 2600:4040:5F51:DA00:1A5B:78BC:989D:29D3 (talk) 20:18, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: He retired in 2011, died in 2020. Where do see the contradiction? Robby.is.on (talk) 15:13, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uderzo retired in September 2011.
Talk:Living Universe Foundation

message: The Living Universe Foundation experienced a very gradual decline in activity over a period of about a decade.  Around 2003 the Executive Board determined that the nonprofit status of the foundation was no longer economically worth maintaining.  The charter was permitted to lapse and the foundation reverted to the default status in the state of Colorado which is an "unicorporated association."
The group continues to maintain several legacy communications portals, especially the Yahoo! Group LUF Team where former members and occassional new parties collaborate on projects such as CELSS, Mars Society, 1000 Planets Inc, OTEC news, and others.
The LufWiki fell into disarray when the primary administrator became unable to devote sufficient time to maintaining things server side.  A corrupted file or table somewhere led to edits being lost rendering most of the wiki unreadable.  The revision files were largely intact so the entire set of 7 webs in LufWiki universe were downloaded and burned to CD and otherwise backed up on the private server space of long time members.  The wiki remains suspended in the ether until it can be properly archived allowing the content to be put back into use.  Several content management systems are being explored for use in a new website for the LUF Phoenix Project but it is unlikely that a TWiki platform will be chosen again.
There is also talk of a "new book" to refresh the now outdated technology that spawned the first iteration of the foundation.
--KeithDauzat 20:43, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legal Status of LUF
Talk:Luis Cernuda

message: As this is English language Wikipedia, we need the poetry featured to be given in translation as well as in Spanish, by a sourced, notable translator. If not, the poetry will mean nothing to most readers. Also, the work is under copyright, so we cannot use large chunks of text. Articles with work under copyright, usually use one stanza. It's good to have example of his writing, but best to use secondary sources discussing the work, rather than lots and lots of the work itself. It is an encyclopaedic article, such as you might find in Britannica, where the discussion of the work is the main feature. This version of the article contained 33 excerpts from poems, which is about 30 too many. Span (talk) 23:28, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Poetry
Talk:Disk

message: Is that the correct definition of a geometrical disk?  AARI a disk is a two dimetional region bounded by a circle.  What you appear to have described is a cylinder. -- Daran 21:38, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm, I came to read this article in the hopes that it would help to clarify why there are two different spellings (disc and disk). Instead I think it left me more confused. I believe the dictionary-style approach (with "1" and "2" preceding two of the usages) is partly to blame; it makes more sense to me to start with "A disk or disc can refer to one of the following...", explaining all the various things that a disk/disc can be, and then devote a paragraph to explaining the divergent spellings in different contexts. So, without further ado, I think I will be bold. -- Wapcaplet 16:59, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Unsorted text

message: Where should this section go? Does it belong here, since this is a dab page? Gflores Talk 20:02, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This section was a copyright violation of the American Heritage Dictionary, and was removed on 16 March, 2006  to create a clean disambiguation page.  --Blainster 21:16, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: disc or disk

message: A bold editor removed the definitional and etymological information from the page, assuming it is a good idea to create a "clean", single function disambiguation page.  However, this action removed information found nowhere else in Wikipedia.  Information destruction is not a good idea unless pointers are created to the information removed.  Let's not remove content just to conform to a WP guideline.  Unfortunately, it turns out that the etymological section was a copyvio, so it cannot be directly replaced, but some other useful information was also removed from the page.   --Blainster 21:03, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Loss of information
Talk:Bill Moyers

message: Some recent paid contributions made directly to this page are problematic: extensive usage of non-independent sources, including external links, etc. I have tagged the article for a review. MarioGom (talk) 09:41, 9 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Would you please show any questionable sources -- or non-independent sources that are not directly connected to an actual event? MAK999KAM (talk) 18:29, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paid contributions 

message: See quote "On October 17, 1967, he told an audience (my emphasis) in Cambridge . . . "
There seems to be a problem with this statement.  The citation is Daniel Ellsberg's memoir, "Secrets".  He writes (p.197) "My notes of a meeting with him (my emphasis) in Cambridge on October 17 . . . " suggests a private conversation not a public address.  If Moyers was speaking the words, quoted later in the paragraph, publicly, there should be a different citation, making that clear. RSGumby (talk) 02:24, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Johnson Administration
Talk:Solid of revolution

message: This is still not right.  For a start, the volume formula doesn't take into account the angle the line segment makes with the axis. -- Daran 23:31, 27 Sep 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Formula

message: The Dutch page on Solids of rev. is quite good for pictures. Can someone transfer them over here please?
nl:Omwentelingslichaam . I've already put a German picture over, don't quite know what it said for the picture caption.  Thanks, DavidMcKenzie 16:47, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Furthermore, I just noticed that the Dutch version not only gives formulas for the volume, but also for the surface. Bob.v.R (talk) 16:34, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation 

message: Current definition: revolving a curve around an axis doesn't give solid, it is the Surface of revolution. We shold revolve a planar figure instead: eg. not a circle but a disc.
Faller (talk) 14:35, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Definition

message: Shouldn't we put the calculus template here? Nonagonal Spider (talk) 02:22, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template 

message: Can we add details about the center of mass formula or a link to it?
x = ∫ a b π x y 2 dx / ∫ a b π y 2 dx .
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.82.50.120 (talk) 15:16, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Center of mass 

message: The article says "...  the volumes of the solids generated by revolving the curve around ..." and then gives formulas. When you revolve a curve around an axis you get a surface of revolution with volume 0, not a solid. There should actually be three formulas depending on the actual area being revolved; I'll try to find a source with all three and add them when I do. --RDBury (talk) 15:26, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Volume in parametric form incorrect
Talk:1914

message: Alan Cranston, US senator; Allen Funt, host of Candid Camera; Jonas Salk, developed polio vaccine; Joe DiMaggio, baseball; Dorothy Lamour, actress; Richard Widmark, actor; Bert Parks, host of Miss America; William Vickrey, economist. 
:Why are these people all dumped together in a row?  What are their birthdates? RickK 00:59, 28 Sep 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  Specify dates for each 

message: I am of the opinion that the recent  was adding way too much detail; this page is supposed to be a brief summary of the most important events, not a detailed chronicle of the First World War. - Mike Rosoft 10:13, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. No need for all that on this page. Info can go into the articles if needed. Petros471 18:47, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Revert

message: May 29 - The ocean liner Empress of Ireland sinks in Gulf of St. Lawrence; 1,024 lives lost.  The article says there were 1012 lives lost rather than 1024.  Is there some explanation for the difference?  Is there something to verify which figure is correct?  KenWalker | Talk 02:56, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Empress of Ireland 

message: [See: Talk:1950#Format.  -Wikid77 13:50, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Format 
Talk:Provençal dialect

message: Arnaut Daniel :
This is obviously "Langue d'Oc" but is this archaïc Provençal ?
Ericd 01:45, 28 Sep 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Provençal is a dialect of Occitan. According to every edition I've ever seen of the Divine Comedy, Arnaut's words are in Provençal (though composed by Dante). Kricxjo 02:56, 28 Sep 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I myself come from Nice and I was wondering about the definition you give to language. My point is that in France, the definition of a language is pretty different from the definition of a dialect. A dialect is mainly spoken, while a language is spoken, written, having both a grammar and a dictionnary. In that sense, the "Provençal" I know about is not a language, but a dialect, not having a dictionnary or a grammar to my knowledge. On the contrary, the Niçard, as you call it, has a dictionnary and a grammar, and is written, so is actually a language, not a dialect. Being a bit proud of my homeland I'm a bit disappointed of seeing Niçard classified as a sub dialect of a dialect (the Provençal). And I'm not so sure it is so much connected to Prvençal. Palleas 17:22, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: All this stuff is an urban legend. There is a scientific way of determining what is a language. See Abstandsprache/Ausbausprache. Get involved in linguistics! --Aubadaurada 01:50, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Language" 

message: In the article, it's stated: "The prononciation always remains the same, the two norms (mistralian and classical) are only two different ways to write the same language."  But what would the pronunciation be like for a phrase with two apparently significantly different representations, such as la bono amigo and la bona amiga, or li bonis amigo and lis bonis amigas?
75.3.68.20 (talk) 13:48, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "A question about pronunciation"
Talk:Jake and Dinos Chapman

message: What is this bit of info at the bottom?  Whoever put it there (or someone else, I haven't the time right now to do it) should either delete it or fix it up and add it in a proper place in the article.  Freecorbinj 12:22, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bit at the bottom 

message: 1. Unsigned person above can we keep comments on topic i.e. not about our personal opinion of the chapman brothers, and stick to discussion about how the article can be improved
2. someone has systematically gone through the article and altered it in line with what is clearly a biased contempt for the brothers e.g.
"The Chapmans' ouevre often attempts to recuperate work by accomplished artists" which implys that they are not themselves accomplished.
On 24 May 2004, a fire in a storage warehouse destroyed many works from the Saatchi collection including Hell,   "to widespread approval from the British media and general public"
etc
Why add that Kate Moss is an alleged cocaine user? how is that relevant to the Chapmans? Equally why add that Saatchi supported Thatcher? Thatcher was not in power at the time. Someone that is interested in Saatchi can go to the Saatchi page and see this. The article is full of these insidious insertions and needs cleaning up.   
I would like to deal with what i consider vandalism by someone without an account, but am very busy over the next few weeks.
3tmx 14:49, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with this. The article has been turned into an attack and does not conform to WP:BLP or WP:NPOV. However, they are well known for provocation and shock tactics, as well as deliberate offensiveness, so this should be in the article, but needs to be very well referenced. I have done a clean up. Tyrenius 18:19, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Failure to abide by NPOV

message: "In 2008, whilst on holiday on the island of Ibiza, Jake was taken ill with pneumonia.[16]"
In what way is it significant and relevant to an encyclopedia article? Inoculatedcities (talk) 18:29, 29 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Irrelevant trivia
Talk:Rubén Blades

message: How do you pronounce Blades? As in English or as in Spanish? -- Error 02:37, 28 Sep 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Guess it would depend on who you ask. Blod-hes is correct but most gringos would probably pronounce it like  razorblade. -- Viajero 07:18, 28 Sep 2003 (UTC)
replies: text:  I've heard Rubén spontaneously pronouncing it as razorblades. Somewhere in the 'Net there's a memo from his sister stating the same thing... Demf 16:32, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

text:  In my whole life in Latin America, just as in the US, I've not once heard anybody ever pronounce his last name as [bleðz]--it is [ˈblaðes]. However, if he pronounces it [bleiðz] (which, btw, doesn't need a ' since the word is monosyllabic), then both pronunciations should be listed, mentioning that one is the one the artist prefers while the other one is the standard pronunciation of the vast majority of native, Latin American speakers of Spanish.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.177.141.76 (talk) 16:40, 13 November 2011 (UTC)

text: My father is actually a childhood friend of him and his brother (Panama is a small place). He says the family pronounces it as if it was in english. --Rab 16:02, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: As of this writing, the text says "Ruben Blades thought until recently that his grandfather had come to Panama to work on the Panama Canal...", which implies that he doesn't think this any longer, but it doesn't say anything further about this idea, pro or con, only that it's ultimately of English origin.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  10:24, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incomplete thought 

message: If Rubén Blades's father was surnamed Blades then his paternal name is Blades not Bellido. His maternal surname would be either Bellido de Luna if his mother had this as a compound paternal surname or only Bellido if Bellido was her paternal surname and De Luna her maternal surname.Dab14763 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 05:59, 7 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Bellido and the second or maternal family name is de Luna.