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Talk:Lakeland School District

message: I created this page, then got rid of the brief content on the Lakeland Jr./Sr. High School page, moved it all here, and really expanded it.  It's a good initial expansion anyway.  A few things that need to be done off the top of my head are:  clean up whatever mistakes I made moving/merging/deleting the previous page (plus it's probably only a matter of time before someone from another Lakeland S.D. fixes the fact that the page name doesn't specify PA or something, oops), add a section about some of the hard data for the district like enrollment, faculty, staff, and demographic stuff, add a section maybe about the sports and other competitive areas, and definitely add more images. Mls393 23:02, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Subdivision (Prison Break)

message: LiverpoolProductions' version is a wonderful repetition, but a little too detailed, especially the paragraph about the actions of Haywire. ^_* ——Nussknacker胡桃夹子^.^tell me... 23:04, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: In which episode did Scofield say "at your fingertips" to Sara, which is a key to decipher the phrase? Thanks. ^_* ——Nussknacker胡桃夹子^.^tell me... 17:17, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "At your fingertips"  
Talk:Niter

message: No, this is a mineral article while potassium nitrate is an article about the chemical compound. Vsmith 23:05, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Furthermore, about half this article is devoted to potassium nitrate produced artificially, rather than the mineral form, produced naturally in certain environments. This article should restrict itself to the natural mineral, and all the material on the history and technology of producing saltpeter should be moved to the article on potassium nitrate. --Kent G. Budge (talk) 05:08, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge?

message: I read the article and thought it was vandalized due to absurdity of the plotline description. Maybe adjust the tone?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.235.32.67 (talk) 07:41, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Satanic MacGuyver

message: Neither of these literary references have to do with the history of nitre. If nobody objects I'll delete them. We could move them to a separate section but there must surely be more appropriate literary references than a short story by Poe where nitre is invoked only to help set the scene and a novel from the 1980s. I'm not sure that a mineral needs a literary references section, anyway.
Eshafto (talk) 16:06, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks like you are correct, so I went ahead and removed them. I am not really opposed to having some sort of literature section, but it should contain pieces that are notable to niter. - 2/0 (cont.) 18:17, 20 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Literary references? 

message: Is it felt that it would make sense to merge Nitrary into this article, at least until it has enough references and covers enough material to be split into two distinct articles?  AdventurousSquirrel (talk) 07:43, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I take it back - it makes sense to me now to have two separate articles; merger proposal tag removed.  AdventurousSquirrel (talk) 23:21, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge of Nitrary 

message: There is continuing confusion about the scope of this article. This article is about niter, the mineral form of potassium nitrate. It does not help that "saltpeter" redirects here; I think that should be changed to a redirect to potassium nitrate. Most saltpeter used, e.g., in gunpowder, was manufacture artificially by composting various kinds of nitrate-rich organic matter rather than mined as the mineral form (though the latter was not insignificant, of course.) --Kent G. Budge (talk) 15:18, 10 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Niter vs. Potassium Nitrate
Talk:Max Matern

message: "he showed himself to be a true comrade and bodyguard." What on earth does this mean? The Real Walrus 23:15, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The article's division into two sections, a "correct" one and a "Communist" POV one seems unnecessary to me. The two parts don't contradict each other in anything else but tone, and since nobody has argued that anything in the "East German" part is factually wrong, I don't see why the two aren't integrated into one.--91.148.159.4 (talk) 22:40, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Division
Template talk:User enm-4

message: The previous text is in my judgement a somewhat poor sentence: 
In Englissh I was set ful muchel hir leste, as of a mon of Engelond. 
In modern English I make it: "In English I was set very greatly her desire."
So I changed it. 
N.B. "Weir" can refer to either one man or to company. So it may be rendered as "In English this man speaks well in company." 
If gender neutrality is an issue, I am more than willing to revise. Alarob 23:16, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New text for userbox
Template talk:User enm-3

message: I changed the text, as the previous sentence was confusing. (I was set ful muchel hir leste is something like "I was set very much her desire.")
Proposed text for the four levels:
# en-me-4: In Englisch ðis weir in weir wel spekeþ.
# en-me-3: Muchel knoweth this segge of Englische.
# en-me-2: This wiȝt knoweth Englisch ful wel.
# en-me-1: This led knoweth sumhwet of Englisch.
Quat þenkestow?
Alarob 23:28, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New userbox text
Talk:Shellos

message: Actualy Lapras has 2x pre-evos... This is Karanakushi evo and Lapras pre-evo 
http://pokeguide.filb.de/dpicons/423.gif Densus 00:24, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I doubt either are related to Lapras. There are also 2 other ones at the end, different colors. Who knows. DanPMK 05:56, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Evolution

message: The claim that Shellos and Gastrodon were originally going to be in Ruby and Sapphire was in a recent issue of Nintendo Power. Can't remember which one though, and I'm too lazy to hunt for a magaine at this time of night. -- ~PinkDeoxys~ 04:05, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Ruby and Sapphire
Template talk:User enm-2

message: Proposed text for the four Middle English userboxes:
# en-me-4: In Englisch ðis weir in weir wel spekeþ.
# en-me-3: Muchel knoweth this segge of Englische.
# en-me-2: This wiȝt knoweth Englisch ful wel.
# en-me-1: This led knoweth sumhwet of Englisch.
Quat þenkestow?
Alarob 23:26, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed userbox text
Talk:List of English abbreviations made by shortening words

message: It is better without citations, unless in doubtful cases perhaps. And then they should be added so that they don't spoil the look of the list. What do other people thenk? 62.64.227.56 23:23, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I respectfully disagree. Citations are integral to verifiablity. The look of the list can be tweaked to allow for the cites. But I think it more important that the list be verifiable than it be pretty. As well, define "doubtful". In this article, I find "stude" doubtful; others may find "po-mol" as an apocopation of "post-modern" doubtful, but at least it can be verified. Without cites the article is left open to all kinds of neologisms, vandalism, and utter nonsense. --SigPig 04:36, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Are these really apocopations or just abbreviations? Surely the criterion must be that the shortened forms are pronounced as written. The word "ad" is pronounced as one syllable, and not as "advertisement", and so is an apocopation; on the other hand, "misc." is pronounced "miscellaneous" and not to rhyme with "whisk", and so is an abbreviation.
I contend that "Minn", "Wisc", etc, fall into the second category and so do not belong on this page. I am from the UK so am not familiar with how these forms are used the US, but somehow I don't think they are true apocopations. Perhaps some US English speakers could provide some evidence either way. (Aside: In the UK, we have similar postal abbreviations for some long county names, such as Bucks, Wilts and Glos (Buckinghamshire, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, respectively). Some of these are sometimes pronounced as written, but I would be loath to say they were apocopations rather than just abbreviations. — Paul G 08:26, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minn, Wisc, etc 

message: Due to blocking software I couldn't add paedo/pedo, which is a very common abbreviation.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:4C8:140E:1E2A:1:1:377:F73D (talk) 02:18, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paedo
Template talk:User enm

message: Proposed text for the four Middle English userboxes:
# en-me-4: In Englisch ðis weir in weir wel spekeþ.
# en-me-3: Muchel knoweth this segge of Englische.
# en-me-2: This wiȝt knoweth Englisch ful wel.
# en-me-1: This led knoweth sumhwet of Englisch.
Quat þenkestow?
Alarob 23:25, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed userbox text
Talk:Cleavon Little

message: does anyone else think it would be a good idea to mention that he has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and when he got it and everything?Alex 17:21, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: For what it's worth, I'm for it. 71.206.217.214 (talk) 01:50, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Walk of Fame

message: The first four paragraphs of the body of this article appear to be word for word taken from his walkoffame.com profile here. Makes me wonder about the rest of it.Kire1975 (talk) 02:49, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Plagiarism?
Talk:William Fitts Ryan

message: Looking at this article I find that it mistakenly says that William Fitts Ryan (Congressman from NY) coined the phrase "blaming the victim."  The author of the article confuses him with another William Ryan, a Professor of Psychology at Boston College, who wrote a book entitled BLAMING THE VICTIM, which popularized the phrase. 75.34.177.95 18:29, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sentence removed. Good catch. Simon12 05:12, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error in article about William Fitts Ryan 

message: I suppose it's possible, but I think it's unlikely that Ryan was "the first member of the U.S. House to speak out against the War" [in Vietnam]. If so, it has somehow escaped my attention for all these years. In any event, it's an extraordinary claim, and requires documentation. Cgingold (talk) 07:11, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious
Talk:The Major Transitions in Evolution

message: and then this article deleted?

DGG 23:29, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Universal grammer is related to memes. It, and other social or intellectual breakthroughs, are  postulated to be carried by memes. Memes is used here as used by the authors--this article is about their book. I do not know if most biologists consider meme a useful concept. I personally do not.
I apologize for my edit to this page of 26 Sept. I did not at the time realize that this article was about a specific book. DGG 04:39, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: memes

message: I deleted this remark because it does not seem warranted from the article cited. Smith and Szathmary devote a page specifically to memes in their new book "The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origins of Language" (look it up in Google Books) and seem to heartily embrace the idea of culture replicating almost like genes (though they say it's phenotype, not genotype, that replicates directly). In Major Transitions the idea of memes is mentioned on p. 292, and not critically: "New words and phrases are memes, able to spread rapidly even if they are not, at first, understood."
The article this person cited says:
My uneasiness with the notion of memes arises because we do not know the rules whereby they are transmitted. A science of population genetics is possible because the laws of transmission—Mendel's laws—are known. Dennett would agree that no comparable science of memetics is as yet possible. His point is a philosophical rather than a scientific one. We see humans as the joint products of their genes and their memes—indeed, what else could they possibly be?—even if we have no predictive science of meme change. Once a human mind capable of harboring memes evolved, a new kind of evolution, cultural evolution, became possible, more rapid by far than genetic evolution..
Seems the idea of memes is pretty important to him, whether we know exactly how they're transmitted or not.
auriam (talk) 02:26, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: RE: memes and the 'dubious - discuss' section
Talk:Fort Myers Beach, Florida

message: Imagine using someone's wife that way. "There is no bad publicity." WurmWoodeT 20:45, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Publicity

message: According to this article's chart, Fort Myers Beach lost 1/3 of its population between 1990 and 2000!  What happened?? Air (talk) 16:12, 23 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dramatic population drop 
Talk:Religious law

message: For its importance as for the population, history, or number of states affected, the Bahá'í religious law is heavily overrepresented here. It should have a separate entry, and here a reference to less widespread religions should suffice. varbal 23:31, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: comment

message: Hindu law is largely based on the Manu Smriti or 'Institutions of Manu.' It was recognized by the British after their occupation of India, but its influenced has largely waned in 20th century India with its general policies of secularization.
There is no 'hindu law'. Manu Smrti is one of the three major smrtis. It wasn't followed at any time in india, but as said britishers recognised it. The articles is a tad biased, and is also too short. 202.53.9.65 16:23, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hindu Article.. 

message: There aren't any Shia legal perspectives in the Islam section. That particular part of the article needs significant assistance (and needs to be kept in summary style while preserving nuance!) Neutralitytalk 09:23, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sunni bias in Islam section 

message: The definition seems too narrow, speaking only of ethical and moral codes; this ignores the role of religious legal systems as governing the institutional structures of churches and even regulating some aspects of the lives of their members.  This is certainly the case of Christian systems of canon law; I can't speak to Halakha and Sharia.  Some broadening of the definition seems called for. SteveMcCluskey (talk) 21:56, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition in Lede 

message: In addition to the above WikiProjects, should not this article be linked to Wikipedia: WikiProject Religion?Vorbee (talk) 20:57, 20 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: WikiProject Religion
Talk:USS Spadefish (SSN-668)

message: I reverted an anonymous edit claiming that SSN-668 was the third (not the second) Spadefish.  The only supporting citation was the anon's claim in the edit summary to have served aboard one of them.  I don't doubt that claim, but I'm afraid it is insufficient — our readers can't look up an IP address's service record, nor could they verify from an individual's service record how many ships bore a given name.  If anyone can provide verifiable evidence of a third Spadefish, I would be delighted to prove DANFS wrong. ➥the Epopt 23:37, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Number of ''Spadefish''es
Talk:William Sayle

message: Where in the world did this idea come from? He in fact founded Charleston in 1670, not Port Royal. Port Royal as a town dates only to the late 1800s, and Port Royal Island was not settled by Englishmen until the 1680s, as is mentioned in the Port Royal Sound article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rcharlesholmes (talk • contribs) 05:36, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  William Sayle founded Port Royal?
Talk:Dolbadarn Castle

message: Spelled "Dolbadern Castle" in Simon Schama's Power of Art series episode about Turner (at 7.25). Manytexts (talk) 10:52, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: As was the case with medieval words, there are variations. You can see here that there are articles titled "Dolbadam Castle" and "Dolbadarn Castle"; Schama appears to have invented his own spelling, but as the guidebooks published by Her Majesty's Stationary Office (HMSO) use "Dolbadarn Castle" I don't think there's any need to change the article. Nev1 (talk) 18:09, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling etc 

message: Painting by Philippe Loutherbourg (which is quite important for the british landscapepainting) here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/view-of-snowdon-with-the-castle-of-dolbadarn-from-llanberi47557. Don't know if its allowed by british copyrights to insert the pic itself. Please consider it...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by QbA (talk • contribs) 14:42, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pics of Paintings
Talk:Homer Edwin Young

message: This article needs serious rewriting.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Jarsonic (talk • contribs) 20:20, September 27 2006 (UTC)
:I agree. I added the categories a while back and recently the ext links to "reference" the Young pastors. You are correct, someone needs to Wikify this. JungleCat  talk/contrib 13:24, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Gregory Dix

message: The section on his scholarship contains a great deal of what seems to me to be editorial opinion and cherry-picking of the various reactions to Dix's work, and it is painfully under-cited. It also seems to be colored by an Anglican-turned-Orthodox perspective. I'm guessing that a more balanced portrayal is going to produce different reactions from different quarters, but obviously the import of his work within Anglican circles is what needs to be presented most prominently. Mangoe (talk) 13:16, 7 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I have tightened it and the following section. It was all over-written, and should now be more acceptable. Charles Matthews (talk) 05:09, 30 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I wonder if someone could put the paragraph about Diarmaid MacCulloch in context:  it's not clear to me how that is about Dom Dix rather than Diarmaid MacCulloch. --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 11:57, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality of the assessment of his work
Talk:Glenshane Pass

message: The highest of the Sperrin Mountain Range Is Sawel 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawel_Mountain  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.18.188.140 (talk) 10:03, 18 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Interesting. I've seen two other claimants to 'Highest pub in Ireland': Johnny Fox's in the Dublin Mountains and the pub at Barr an Choma near Cúil Aodha on the Cork/Kerry border. So which one is the real 'highest pub in Ireland'?? An Muimhneach Machnamhach 16:17, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Highest pub in Ireland?
Category talk:Christianity by country

message: On the page Christianity in Vietnam the editor expressed concern that the subject of the article does not satisfy the notablity guideline and other guideline for inclusion to Wikipedia.
How can it be proved, that such article is a standard part of Christianity by country category and should be present in Wiki? Ans-mo 14:51, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: possibly misl;ocated comments

message: would it be nice to have something about switzerland?(Letuce 06:08, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  switzerland?
Category talk:Biota of South America

message: What criteria is being used to classify something as :Category:Wildlife of South America as opposed to :Category:Fauna of South America? Since Wildlife basically refers to plants flora and animals fauna, it would seem that the Flora and Fauan categories are all that is needed with anything that doesn't fall into one of those categories staying in the Biota category (fungi, etc.).—Chidom talk  23:51, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Classification distinction?
Talk:David Raksin

message: Well, I think we've got "Film/TV scores - selected list" filled out as much as it needs to be (or perhaps more than it needs to be). Future edits might add content to the main article. Anyone know if Raksin ever published his autobiography? Is it available anywhere? TheScotch (talk) 05:49, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  What next? 
Talk:Ethan Berkowitz

message: GEMS reported that with 124 precincts counted, though absentee ballots had not yet been entirely counted, Berkowtiz led by 59.35 to 40.65, or an 18.7 margin, rounded up to 19%. Activist (talk) 08:07, 7 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mayoral election margin 
Talk:Lancaster, Massachusetts

message: Is this statement really true?
>> Lancaster is one of the only places in the world to find Chiastolite, a cross-shaped rock that comes in a variety of colors and is indigenous to this area.
It doesn't seem to square with any references to that mineral elsewhere on the Web.
ghaff (talk) 14:02, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
Talk:The Old Manse

message: I think the use of Reverend Mr. is more of a English usage. New England usage doesn't often use the "Mr."
Compare book searches for "Reverend William Emerson" versus "Reverend Mr. William Emerson". WikiParker (talk) 17:01, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that to my ears (eyes?), "Reverend Mr." seems very nonstandard. --Midnightdreary (talk) 21:26, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I reduced the use of both the the styles Mr. and Rev.  Accidently hit the submit button instead of the check differences button so the edit reason does not appear in the edit history. WikiParker (talk) 13:16, 25 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reverend versus Reverend Mr. 

message: Taking a tour of the house in 2001, we were shown an unrepaired hole in the side facing the site of the Battle of Concord 1775
The guide told us it was a bullet hole
I see no mention of it here  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:1C2:4E02:9580:45C5:5C90:B8E7:D8B6 (talk) 20:46, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the comment! It would need a published source to be included here, otherwise it's just anecdotal. See WP:V, WP:RS, and WP:OR. --Midnightdreary (talk) 23:25, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  The hole in the House
Talk:Ray Nitschke

message: I have no reference, but I remember seeing  a TV commercial run in the early 80's. Ray was the spokesman for some product. The commercial started with " Hi, I'm Ray Nitschke and this is my dog Butkus..."--Purpleslog (talk) 18:20, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: TV Commercial?

message: A sentence in the article reads, "In 1969, He was awarded as the NFL's all- time top Linebacker by the NFL. Lawrence Taylor felt he deserved it, but was denied the honor."  
Lawrence Taylor was 10 years old in 1969.  Can someone clarify this?  I'm deleting it until then.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.192.213.5 (talk) 19:03, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: All-Time Linebacker

message: Headline has all the disclaimers you need
Source :  Bathroom stall wall in the Harvard Coop retail establishment circa late 1970's
3 Lines
God is dead - Nietzsche
Nietzsche is dead - God
God is Vince Lombardi - Ray Nitschke  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.252.76.29 (talk) 01:22, 21 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Apocrypha Ray quote
Talk:World Pipe Band Championships

message: The intro says it started in 1930 ... but the table starts at 1920 ... which one is right ?--OC 08:31, 28 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Neither, really!  There was a competition at Cowal from the late 19th century or early 20th, originally for military bands, which became retitled World Champions at some point (possibly the 1920 date, not sure). On the formation of the RSPBA, this title continued to be awarded, until a dustup in the fifties saw it taken away from Cowal.   This is also the reason Cowal continues to be an RSPBA major championship to this day. Calum (talk) 14:02, 29 October 2009 (UTC)

text: The RSPBA website [www.rspba.org] has results going back to 2002.  Beyond that, you're on your own. Calum (talk) 14:02, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  1930 or 1920 ? 

message: I'm not sure the results given are 100% accurate.  I am fairly sure Starthclyde were 2nd in '87 and the Vale were 2nd in 1990. Calum (talk) 14:02, 29 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Accuracy