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Talk:Tommy Watkins

message: Just looking at the raw numerical data, it looks like I removed a lot from the article, but I essentially just removed redundancies, quotes, and stuff that just shouldn't be in an encyclopedia article.  If anyone has any problem with it, I'm watching the page, so feel free to discuss it with me here. matt91486 00:27, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've been a lifelong Twins fan, I live 5 minutes from the Metrodome.  That's not the point.  People's favorite movies and television shows simply aren't notable.  It's wonderful that they enjoy them, but Wikipedia isn't the place for that sort of information.  And just saying that you believe they were referenced isn't enough; you have to site things and show their significance to the subject.  Yes, singers personal lives' have a lot more information, but unfortunately, that comes up more frequently.  I wouldn't have a problem with a short paragraph about his family life, etc, but I just don't think his personal likes and dislikes are important.  I don't think it should be for anyone unless it somehow has had a greater impact:  An example would be Margaret Thatcher's love of the show Yes, Minister, which led to a public episode with the show's actors, etc. As long as I've got you here, is the career highlights thing at the end copied from the Rochester website?  If it is, it's copy vio and has to be rewritten and greatly condensed down, since minor league careers aren't considered notable by Wikipedia standards (and will have to probably be condensed even if it isn't).  If it's not, I'm truly sorry for the implication, the tone just sounded very much like a site like that.  I appreciate all of your work on the article so far, and it's great to have a long article on a player so recently called up. matt91486 04:40, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Disappearance of Madeleine McCann

message: And in the :Category:Unexplained disappearances articles are there any 'current events'? my comment to another user below quantifies this article to be more of an ongoing blog as opposed to a factual complete encyclopedia entry. Madeleine's disappearance is neither explained nor unexplained at the moment which is why the article is Irrelevant until its eventual conclusion. Frequency24 12/08/07 01.11 GM
:The point I was making was that there are plenty of articles on here covering open-ended events. The current tag was only added a day or two ago - before that the article was completely rewritten to remove any bloggish tendencies. Anyway, you are ploughing a lonely furrow - the only support you got was from two anons with almost identical IP addresses! TerriersFan 00:31, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Axial Seamount

message: Does this article really belong in Oregon or sub-category? The subject is 300 miles from any place in Oregon. Backspace (talk) 10:53, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Probaby not. ResMar 14:01, 26 July 2010 (UTC)

text: Definitely it does.  Its on-site study is staged from Newport, Oregon, and it is directly west of Portland.  If it does anything dramatic, it will definitely affect Oregon:  seismologically, emissions, weather, and the place where all the reporters will flock to.  —EncMstr (talk) 07:21, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Category:Oregon (?)

message: With a wealth of scientific papers regarding its eruption, this is looking to be an easy GA :) ResMar 02:57, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: . ResMar 02:23, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I think I'll pick this up again. ResMar 16:09, 29 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: And again! My oh my. ResMar 02:59, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Expansion

message: It is erupting again!  See overview here and scientific details here.  15.234.212.124 (talk) 19:40, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah. I'll put it on my to-do. ResMar 00:08, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  2015 eruption 

message: (The bulk of a) removed post:
Someone wants the article to claim that the 2011 eruption "fulfilled the prediction" of a 16 year eruption cycle. First, there was no such prediction. The paper makes a cautious claim, specifying various caveats. Second, an interval of 13 years does not and cannot fulfil a prediction of a 16 year cycle in any case. 
I agree with the premise that banned editors are banned and should not edit; but I think this allegation is worth investigating. Restoring incorrect material is, after all, clearly not in the reader's best interests. At face value, it does appear that some of the claims need verification- certainly the maths behind the time-cycle doesn't seem to add up. Thoughts? — fortunavelut luna 11:50, 28 August 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: In fact 13 years is about 80% of the "recurrence interval of ~ 16 years between eruptions at Axial" predicted by the cited paper, so I don't see a problem with the existing wording. If anyone who is allowed to edit wishes to re-word it, please go ahead. Burninthruthesky (talk) 14:40, 28 August 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I see in any case the ~16y claim is now outdated, because of the subsequent 2015 eruption. I have updated the article. Burninthruthesky (talk) 08:35, 29 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Prediction
Talk:Death of Anthony Baez

message: Francis X Livoti has served his time for the state's charge of "violating" Anthony Baez's civil rights.
He has the right to tell his point of view and not have his life story redirected to Anthony Baez's page.
His redirect to Anthony Baez's page has been protected and does not cite any references or sources.
NOT REALLY A Whitegirl01 00:29, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Livoti does not meet notability requirements outside of the Baez incident. WP:NOTSOAPBOX. -Etoile ✩ (talk) 14:16, 7 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: This article concerning Anthony Baez's murder by the NYPD misleads the reader into believing the innocence of the NYPD's institutional conspiracy and conver-up of its members - members that have been prosecuted over and over again through the decades for abuse of power and performing oppression. The presiding judge overlooking the case himself pronounced what everyone with even one good eye could see: perjury and nepotist scandal from some of the highest rankings in the police and judicial department.
Whoever wrote this article trying to legitimize the force with which killed Baez clearly has an interest in historical revisionism. Those of us who need only look out our windows to see clear abuses of power by the so-called authorities can see this act of retroactive exoneration of Livoti as a means to re-write the truth into historical fiction.
This doesn't seem to be an impartial description of the events. There are many missing citations.
Alyoness (talk) 9:38 am, 1 June 2008, Sunday (2 years, 10 months, 7 days ago) (UTC−4)aLyoness
This is suspiciously like an attempted exoneration of Livoti; we have recently learned that the NYPD is likely to have had members rewriting and "whitewashing" Wikipedia pages that pertain to their actions. I would love to have the history on this entry looked at and a more reasonable version, one that fits with the accepted facts of the case, put in place. Actio (talk) 05:16, 1 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Not an impartial description of the events

message: "it took four hundred and twelve police officers to handcuff him" -- I find it hard to believe that it took 412 police officers to handcuff one man. How would this even work from a purely logistical and physics perspective?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.190.232.92 (talk) 05:18, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: 412 police officers?
Talk:Black River (Jamaica)

message: The Black River was so named because the ink from the logwood that was transported down the river and sent to England to make dye turned the water a dark colour hence, the Black River.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.119.128.86 (talk) 05:34, 21 October 2013 (UTC)
Talk:Nervo-Trajanic Dynasty

message: Is there a published source that distinguishes the Nervo-Trajanic Dynasty as separate from the Antonines? My understanding from all I've read was that the Antonine dynasty stretched from Nerva to Marcus Aurelius, and that the Antonines were defined by their form of passing on Imperial power (adoption of worthy men as opposed to blood) --Vedexent (talk) - 00:38, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source?
Talk:Sir Henry Gore-Booth, 5th Baronet

message: Nice to meet again on a non-controversial topic (I hope). I'm quite bored here waiting for the phone to ring  so I'll do a bit of copy editing, if that's alright with you, Vinny (you seem to be the only one who's edited here so far). Don't hesitate to e-mail me if I make any howlers. W. Frank ✉  14:44, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Collegiality]] 

message: The article looks like it's shaping up quite nicely, but would it be an idea to clearly assert a claim of notability Clearly notable.  W. Frank ✉  14:44, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability
Talk:Sanxing (deities)

message: I saw the merge tag without any discussion. Obviously they are the same topics. If nobody objects, I will merge Three Star Gods into this article. --PalaceGuard008 (Talk) 22:24, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: Should this article make mention of the practical value of these three stars to the ancient Chinese? Lu could be used to find North and Shou could be used to find South. (That has changed now due to precession of the axes.) Fu could be used to determine the current year within the 12-year cycle of the Chinese calendar, because Jupiter's orbit was approximately 12 years long. It was known as the "Year Star" for that reason. 99.235.186.116 (talk) 19:54, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of the three stars 
Talk:Gonggong

message: This article asserts that Mt. Everest is the same as the mythical Buzhou Shan. This is anachronistic speculation. The knowledge that Mt. Everest is the tallest mountain in the world is modern. The Chinese name for Mt. Everest is Zhu mu lang ma feng, derived from the Tibetan language name, Chomolungma. There is no evidence from any credible scholarly source that I can find for the Chinese identifying Everest as Buzhou Shan. In other wikipedia articles refering to the mountain, Buzhou Shan is translated as Buzhou Mountain, so I will follow this convention. --Ouyangwulong (talk) 07:09, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Buzhou Shan

message: Alt name "Kanghui" tagged as citation needed. Chinese WP states it is said that his name is Jiang Kanghui and he descends from the Yan Emperor. The ref says, 《国语·周语》：“共工之从孙四岳佐禹。”贾逵注说：“共工，炎帝之后，姜姓也。”, but I don't know about the "Kanghui" part. — kwami (talk) 09:01, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Kanghui"
Talk:Hou Yi

message: Does anyone notice that "Houyi" can't be pronounced anywhere near what his Chinese name actually sounds like?  Where does this spelling "Houyi" come from?  I don't know pinyin.  Can anyone verify this?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.135.143.106 (talk) 22:15, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Houyi" 

message: This is a lovely, well-written article with just a few minor copyediting problems.  I'll be finishing up in the next day or 36 hours.Levalley (talk) 02:27, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyeditor here 

message: I think this article is great.  I love the turns of phrase, just fixed a few minor things.  Contact me on my talk page if more is needed.Levalley (talk) 16:27, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyediting done 

message: This article does not mention what pre-modern texts mention this story. Please add this information.--Tibetologist (talk) 18:03, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Primary sources 

message: On a gods & goddesses website it says the "myth of the 10 suns" was "around 1270 BC". This is of course not a reliable source, and cites no source for the date. But assuming the date is "real" (in the sense that there is archeological evidence or something that dates the story itself to a time around then, and semi-conclusive evidence that the story did not exist or was different before then) - was there any volcanism around that time that could explain it? Jimw338 (talk) 16:24, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: China has almost no volcanos. The ones that exist are on the other end of the modern country from where the ancient Chinese lived. No, it has absolutely nothing to do with volcanism. — LlywelynII 15:28, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Volcanism around 1270 BC and "myth of 10 suns" 

message: needs to be included that some sources treat Houyi as a culture hero responsible for the invention of archery altogether. — LlywelynII 15:28, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Culture hero
Talk:Janbazar

message: However, the areas around ...were gradually taken over by ‘the rest’, which included half-castes, Portuguese, Armenians and so on, to become grey areas between Black and White Towns of old Kolkata.
Grey areas between Black and White Towns?  Could this be worded better? Kitty Davis 14:56, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You have to view it in the historical context.  I had picked up the wording from the source. It is well worded. - P.K.Niyogi 01:58, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Grey,Black and White

message: However, the areas around ...were gradually taken over by ‘the rest’, which included half-castes, Portuguese, Armenians and so on, to become grey areas between Black and White Towns of old Kolkata.
Portuguese in Brtish Calcuta? Are you sure? Don't you mean Indians from Portuguese India? That sounds more likely. I'm tagging it for a source or enlightment. The Ogre 16:08, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It is Portuguese, not Indians from the Portuguese colonies. The citation is there at the end of the sentence and so I have removed the tag. The Portuguese came to Bengal before the English came and many of them stayed back. Please see Saptagram and Bandel Church for more information. - P.K.Niyogi 01:58, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok. Thanks! The Ogre 13:19, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Portuguese?
Category talk:Biography (genre)

message: biography
· n. (pl. biographies) an account of someone’s life written by someone else.
– DERIVATIVES biographer n. biographic adj. biographical adj. biographically adv.
– ORIGIN C17: from Fr. biographie or mod. L. biographia, from med. Gk, from bios ‘life’ + -graphia ‘writing’.
I have no problems with your interpretations above. But the confusion will continue because most people are taught the dictionary version of Biography I list above. And will list such articles as biographies.
May I suggest a category of Biography-Human with a search sub-catergory B-H-last name, first name, birth year with the birth year even if it is estimated? I am a novice with Wikipedia, but might this solve the problem?  And it would be easy for computers to search.  Or maybe something similar? 
John R. Carpenter
Jrcrin001 (talk) 23:51, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Articles are meant to be categorized by characteristics of the topic, not by characteristics of the article. That is, adding George W. Bush to :Category:Biography is not asserting that the article is a biography — it's asserting that the person is a biography. Articles are already categorized in the most appropriate and relevant subcategories of :Category:People, so we neither need nor want another one for "all biographical articles". Bearcat (talk) 23:21, 22 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biography
Talk:Binary Star (hip hop group)

message: Binary Star has reunited.  They have recently played shows (Paid Dues http://paidduesfestival.com/) and are planning on releasing new material at some point.  There are various interviews with them across the internet.  From their (official) Myspace: "Recently reuniting after a 10-year hiatus, Binary Star is back in the studio working on its long awaited follow-up to the classic debut album Masters Of The Universe (M.O.T.U.). Tentatively titled "Light Years Apart," the duo's EP serves as a mere prequel to a full-length LP." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.33.141.180 (talk) 04:22, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Back together

message: I realize this page has been deleted before, but I think since their albums warrant wikipedia articles, then the band should as well. Plus in this version of the article, I took the time to find sources to verify all claims and to show that this band has notability. If anyone disagrees, feel free to let me know. - Razorhead August 11, 2007
I restored the previous revisions, since they were deleted by speedy deletion and the basis for the deletion has been addressed there's no reason to keep them hidden. Bryan Derksen 15:57, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Ritan (Beijing)

message: move. Anthony Appleyard (talk) 18:19, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

message: :Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *Support or *Oppose, then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's naming conventions.
*Support as idiom. Temple of Sun is not English; if it were, it would be Sun, the surname, not the astronomical body. Septentrionalis PMAnderson 15:55, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: There are / have been many Temples of the Sun (Machu Picchu, Isla del Sol, Akhetaten, Rome, Ise, ...) and this is just one of them.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.139.82.82 (talk) 15:46, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  This should be a disambiguation page
Talk:Shen (Chinese religion)

message: in its present form. It's possible it could form a special spinoff of Chinese gods once that page called for it, with the list of proper deities coming here.
All of the current gobbledygook about pronunciation and etymology, however, simply belong at the character's Wiktionary entry. — LlywelynII 13:06, 7 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I strongly oppose the merger. The concept of shen, because of its semantic richness (it does not translate merely the Western concept of "god", but it is a nexus of a variety of concepts which in Western thought are usually kept separate) deserves a specific article, just as it is the case for xian.--82.53.193.223 (talk) 11:24, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: This article shouldn't exist

message: Capitalization of Heart and Kidney caused me to normalize capitalization throughout the lead. My knowledge of pinyin is that capitalization is limited to sentence caps and proper names; I can't find any reference that "Concepts" like Qi are proper names (except in English translations of Heidegger, where it constantly makes me wince). 
If someone has a source for this treatment, please add it here before reintroducing a capitalization scheme that might appear improvised. — MaxEnt 14:59, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heart and Kidney were capped
Talk:Tudigong

message: To add to article: the government of the People's Republic of China began destroying numerous Tudigong temples in mainland China in 2019. 173.88.241.33 (talk) 05:20, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: To add to article

message: I want to split Draft:Sheshen into its own article and remove the section Tudigong#Village_Gods and redirect the previously merged Village gods in Taoism to that new article.
Tudigong is a particular deity and these are a category of tutelary deity similar to City Gods.
I think I am required to say this on the page in order to have the draft be moved over the redirect Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (talk to the cutest Wikipedian) 18:59, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: There are 234 million google results for its name in chinese. Actually about triple Tudigong. But unsure how good a metric that is Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (talk to the cutest Wikipedian) 22:29, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: This source seems to suggest there are multiple Tudigongs though https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tudi-Gong so I think there's a decent point to be made that the current article is just bad and we should merge my draft back into it Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (talk to the cutest Wikipedian) 01:02, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually this source https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:tDXPbNHF63QJ:https://religion.moi.gov.tw/knowledge/content%3Fci%3D2%26cid%3D278&cd=24&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca seems to be enough for me to say they are the same, and the article is badly written and needs to be rewritten with the information in the draft instead Immanuelle ❤️💚💙 (talk to the cutest Wikipedian) 01:12, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed split 

message: The first half of the article describes them as multiple individuals with the same rank. Various soil/land gods that govern an undefined territory. However, the second half of the article talks about him/them as if they are one god. Could someone who understands these stories fix this?Wacape (talk) 05:56, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Type of God vs Singular God
Talk:Metatheory

message: In most cases i see such an word used, it´s as a synonym for methodology(closer to the epistemological sense of the term).
Does it proceed?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.33.203.27 (talk) 02:08, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Metatheory = Methodology 

message: The TOGA metatheory is completely unknown on four best universities:
http://search.cam.ac.uk/web?query=TOGA+metatheory     => no results
http://www.harvard.edu/searches/?searchtext=TOGA+metatheory    => no results
http://web.mit.edu/search.html    TOGA+metatheory     => no results
http://www.yale.edu/     TOGA+metatheory    => no results  Vikom (talk) 00:18, 8 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why I have deleted the TOGA metatheory 

message: - Above mentioned data-basies are rather specific.
We may see:  Google search https://www.google.pl/#q=%22toga+meta-theory%22 -  
"TOGA meta-theory"  --  6.420 results
" meta-teoria TOGA" --    336 results.
We should notice that it is a theory rather for high-level specialists ...
151.24.128.4 (talk) 09:18, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: noted above that it's not found in the usual scholarly references, and the anon notes it is found on Google (or, at least, the Polish localization).  This leans against linkage here, although it provides mild support for a TOGA article.  — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 12:33, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why I have added the TOGA metatheory 
Talk:Robin Millar

message: Since this is an encyclopaedia rather than a news or rumor site, I removed the aggrieved Mr. Lee's announcement of his putative legal action against the subject.
Dear Mr. Lee, as I pointed out in my previous comment, this is an encyclopaedia, not  a news or rumor site. Your announcement of a merely possible legal action against the subject is entirely inappropriate - whatever your complaint against the subject may be. I have removed your announcement again, and will do so as many times as you feel it necessary to post it.
Perhaps, in the spirit of Wikipedia, you might like to post a comment here as to why you think this is an appropriate forum for your personal disagreements.
Okey dokey. removed it again. Sigh.  —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Masmit (talk • contribs). 
Further to above talk pages are a record of discussions about the article in question. You do not delete all of the previous entries, even if you think you're in the right. And before you ask, I have no connection personal, professional or otherwise with Mr Millar other than buying an EBTG record in 1984.  
You should read what Masmit has just written and take it on board. 
I'd never heard of Adam Lee until recently, now I have I'll know to avoid his records. Yorkshiresky 09:55, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Sum keep rdes 2600:6C58:593F:C053:349B:1A1F:5112:8837 (talk) 16:31, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bluistíc
Talk:São Paulo International Film Festival

message: The page says, that an Iranian Director was the member of the jury?   In a Film Festival?!   Huh?  What does that mean?   --leahtwosaints (talk) 16:21, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  WHAT? 