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Talk:Loanwords in Sri Lankan Tamil/Archive 1

message: Is the aim to list all words of foreign origin in Sri Lankan Tamil, or only those words which are special to Sri Lankan Tamil (and not also found in Indian Tamil)?  The introduction suggests the former, but many of your words are also used in Indian Tamil. -- Arvind 19:52, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've marked off the words that seem to be unique to SL Tamil.  I was a little uncertain about "Yannal" (which exists in Indian Tamil but is pronounced "Channal" or "Jannal"), but the pronounciation difference struck me as being significant.  Interesting that "koppai" means "plate" in SL Tamil and "cup" in Indian Tamil - I've never noticed that in conversations with SL Tamil friends.  -- Arvind 16:17, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, I've rewrote the article based on your obervation. It would be intersting to find how Indian Tamil dialects have borrowed European loan words too. Also Koppai is a Plate and a Cup is a Cup :-)) at least in some circles. RaveenS 20:44, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Mesai, alumari, sapattu, veranda, vangi, penai and pippa are all used in Indian Tamil dialects (I use them all in daily speech except sapattu).  I had no idea they came from Portuguese.  Kaju and Kamara are used too but almost exclusively in urban northern (i.e. Chennai) dialects, which leads me to suspect they may be later borrowings from Urdu.  It would indeed be fascinating to find out how they entered Indian Tamil, although I wouldn't rule out their having come in by way of Jaffna Tamil since there was much more interaction at a social and literary level a couple of hundred years ago than there is today.  -- Arvind 21:26, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: And I'm still amused by the different meanings "koppai" has in TN and Sri Lanka.  That gives plenty of scope for funny misunderstandings at mealtimes!  -- Arvind 21:28, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  SL Tamil and Indian Tamil
Talk:Pennsylvania in the American Civil War

message: In the manner of the Ohio in the Civil War page that I wrote, I have generated a similar page for the state of Pennsylvania's involvement in the war. I would suggest that you create similar pages for your home state(s) if appropriate. Feel free to add to this article, although I will be maintaining it. Scott Mingus 03:29, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looper, if you have any appropriate photos in the public domain, place them in Wiki Commons or feel free to add one to the article. Good suggestion, and I agree that there are some impressive monuments in the region. Scott Mingus 15:28, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  New article 

message: Article reassessed and graded as start class.  Referencing and appropriate inline citation guidelines not met.   With appropriate citations and references, this article would easily qualify as B class if not higher.   --dashiellx (talk) 20:29, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008 

message: McClellan should be added to the list of notable leaders from Pennsylvania. He is from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and was the commanding general in the early years of the Civil War. I was unable to correctly add his photo. reference: https://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/george-b-mcclellan 50.76.117.44 (talk) 13:24, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maj. Gen George B McClellan
Talk:Texas Rangers award winners and league leaders

message: ;AL MVPs
* Jeff Burroughs, 1974
* Juan Gonzalez, 1996, 1998
* Iván Rodríguez, 1999
* Alex Rodriguez, 2003
;AL Managers of the Year
* Johnny Oates, 1996
* Buck Showalter, 2004
;AL Rookies of the Year
* Mike Hargrove, 1974
;AL Gold Gloves
* Buddy Bell, 3B, 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984
* Juan Beniquez, OF, 1977
* Rafael Palmeiro, 1B, 1999
* Gary Pettis, OF, 1990
* Alex Rodriguez, SS, 2002, 2003
* Iván Rodríguez, C, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
* Kenny Rogers, P, 2000, 2002, 2004
* Jim Sundberg, C, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981
* Mark Teixeira, 1B, 2005
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.238.146.31 (talk) 06:05, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:The Sun (tarot card)

message: The article is just personal opinions from occult enthusiasts about the nature and meaning of a particular tarot card. No peer reviewed books or journal articles are cited. No references or footnotes are given. When a new statement is added, the source needs to be cited, and the source needs to be verifiable, and reliable. Waite is not an unbiased, factual source on the history or evolution of tarot cards. The work can be cited properly, however: "Waite's opinion in his book The Pictorial Key to the Tarot ... etc"
The card in question has a history of over 500 years in European card games in which it is used as trump card (see Tarocchi). The article is unbalanced in that it only features the recent uses of the card for divination. This makes the article biased due to its recentism. Since the article ignores use of the card for game play in Europe and other parts of the world, it offers an anglo-american perspective that raises NPOV issues. There are academic sources and sources from international organizations discussing the history and evolution of the "Sun" card as well as its use in games. These need to be utilized. - Parsa 06:02, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unverifiable and unbalanced content
Talk:The Boat of a Million Years

message: i have been using the names the immortals use at the end of the book as there real names I believed this was the most accurate way to tell them apart. Anyone have any thoughts about this? The Isiah (talk) 19:43, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: john wanderer

message: I've wanted to contribute to this article for a while, but just don't have the details in my head and have been too lazy to go back to the book.  Keep up the great work! TJSwoboda (talk) 21:54, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, it's a good timeline.  I just wanted to point out that two incidents from the book are not listed.  First, the sacking of Svoboda's monastery during the Mongol Invasion of Russia.  Secondly, when Aliyat meets another immortal in the 1930s, thus finding a refuge and being able to abandon prostitution. 50.180.19.238 (talk) 01:37, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nice work on the timeline... 

message: "Old Stone Age" is ridiculous--that period ended about 12000 B.C. Nornagest said he was born before the use of metal (probably copper) came to Scandinavia, thus around 2000 B.C., give or take a century. The "Stone Age" is divided into sub-periods depending on how advanced the workmanship on the stones was. Nornagest's birth time was not the OLD Stone Age. Jakob37 (talk) 07:06, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The summary says Nornagest willed himself to die.  Actually he took advantage of a prophecy that he would die when he certain candle burnt down, by protecting the candle for hundreds of years and then voluntarily burning it.  (This may have part of the legend Anderson was dramatizing.  It's a Norse version of the Greek legend of Meleager, he died when a certain log was burned. Or faith in the prophecy was enough to kill Nornagest )  50.180.19.238 (talk) 01:37, 16 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change re Nornagest 

message: re "Hanno meets with him and agrees to head the expedition from Greece to the north seas." I don't have the book by my side, but I'm pretty sure they were in, and left from, Massalia, any early Greek colony in the western Mediterranean, so I changed it. Jakob37 (talk) 07:11, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Massalia, not Greece 

message: re "but Starkadh is more interested in plunder" , well, he was actually more obsessed with honor, glory, etc. Jakob37 (talk) 07:14, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Starkadh 

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Buggie111 (talk) 13:52, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: [[WP:GOCE]]

message: I removed the unreferenced section bar from §Immortal Physiology. I'm familiar with the book, and everything here is explicit in the only possible source, the book's own text. --Thnidu (talk) 05:56, 8 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Immortal Physiology
Talk:Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai

message: Hyakumonogatari Kaidankai usually goes by the name 100 Candles or the 100 Candles game in western countries. It is widely believed that after the last story is told and the last candle blown out, the players are surrounded by 100 different spirits. Stories told may include local folklore, urban legends, spur-of-the-moment stories, or real-life experiences of the players or loved ones. --Minako-chan27 (talk) 07:06, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:James de Barry, 4th Viscount Buttevant

message: It's possible but not clear if de Barry was only involved in the Second Desmond Rebellion from 1579.  If someone can confirm this is so, then the article should be updated, and he should be added to the article on the Second Desmond Rebellion--Rye1967 03:52, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Bedford Falls

message: Nick is only the bar owner in the world that lacks a George Bailey.  Perhaps a note?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.164.249.104 (talk • contribs) 09:32, 25 December 2006
hello!!!!!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.177.236.101 (talk) 20:45, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Persons 

message: I've redirected this page to It's a Wonderful Life; it has no sources, lots of original research and assumptions, and seems wholly constitutive of plot reiteration from the aforementioned film.  —  pd_THOR | =/\= | 01:57, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  redirection
Talk:Richard Connolly (composer)

message: For the discussion, see AfD/Richard Connolly. The article was later turned into a dab page.shaidar cuebiyar (talk) 10:54, 11 January 2019 (UTC)

message: This is just a begionning for this page. I will have more references and citations within the week . Cheers Cor Unum 04:02, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Mayor of Philadelphia

message: Thomas Lawrence is shown as being Mayor for 1727-1729, 1734-1735, 1749-1750, 1753-1754 (died in office), 1758-1759, 1764-1765.  That's 6 terms including 2 after death.  Thomas_Lawrence_%28mayor%29 in the text claims he was a 5 term mayor, dying in 1754.  But the link box at the bottom claims he served 1727-1729, 1734-1735, 1737-1738, 1749-1750, 1758-1759 (one term after death).  Which is it??  Skabat169 17:33, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Evidently there were two Thomas Lawrences who were mayors of Phila. I think it's correct to say that the first one was a five-time mayor, as the Official Phila. web site has him as serving two one-year terms (i.e., he was elected twice) in the period 1727-29: so, 1727-1729, 1734-1735, 1749-1750, 1753-1754 (died in office). My usual source sites for these colonial officials (FamousAmericans.com/Virtualology.com and PoliticalGraveyard.com) seem to have nothing on either of these guys. I'll correct the Thomas Lawrence (mayor) page.--BillFlis 18:00, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This page lists a Thomas Lawrence as an early student (non-graduate) of the University of Pennsylvania.--BillFlis 15:56, 4 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Two Thomas Lawrences
Talk:The Second Life of Doctor Mirage

message: Seems to be a lot of overlap on the two pages to me, And I don't see any compelling reason to keep them seperate, it's not as if Doctor Mirage has 4 books of his own.  --Impulse 04:03, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't see any reason why not to either.  There's a lot of redundant or extraneous pages dealing with Valiant Comics stuff at the moment. g026r 15:37, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

text: For what it is worth, I concur with both of you -- the two pages overlap, and I don't see a reason for either to exist independent of the other -- Simon Cursitor 07:53, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

message: Waaay too many parantheses. 
Reads like advertising copy. 
Not even one mention of their comedy-relief houseguest?
Lots42 01:29, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestions for improvement 
Talk:Richardson Dilworth

message: We need more about Richardson Dilworth, maybe the most critically important mayor of the 20th Century.--DThomsen8 (talk) 16:02, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  More! 

message: How is it that this article makes no mention of the myriad scandals that rocked city hall during Dilworth's term? The Philadelphia Inquirer literally had a daily handy guide to scandals on its top page. (My own father, attorney William P. Thorn, was knee deep in one of the biggest scandals, involving payola in contracts for the elevated train line. Just Google "Eli G. Travis" and dive in. I'm not saying Dilworth himself did anything wrong, but plenty of wrongs came to light during his tenure, and plenty of heads rolled.
--Matt Thorn (talk) 06:18, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  No mention of scandals!? 

message: What is the point of this? 2600:4040:7F70:8500:FAD3:6BAE:3F63:FCE5 (talk) 11:05, 31 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  White Anglo Saxon Protestant
Talk:1950 United States census

message: On the information bar, the number for Total population is 158,804,396 ( 14.5%)
On the state rankings bar, the number for State rankings total is 151,325,798
In the linked document, https://www2.census.gov/prod2/statcomp/documents/1991-02.pdf I am seeing three different figures on page 7, on No. 1 it is 150,697,361 for Resident Population Conterminous U.S., 151,325,798 for Resident population of the United States, and there is No. 2 Population 1900 to 1990 has 152,271 (it's measured in thousands) 
I do not see the 158,804,396 figure at all.
I saw 150,697,361 in a different document https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1950/pc-14/pc-14-05.pdf
So what number should it the 1950 census be? Leviathan Edits (talk) 10:10, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is the population figure incorrect?
Talk:Jim O'Brien (reporter)

message: That's what I was hearing in the news.  He and the other jumper would have hit the ground harder than normal but they would have been all right (despite injury?).  As said here on Wikipedia, he cut away and was already too close to the ground for the reserve chute to be effective.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.63.16.20 (talk) 22:33, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  should have stayed with that other jumper?
Talk:River Wylye

message: Please give a phonetic pronunciation for both the River Wylye, and the Nadder as mentioned in the article.  I have heard wildly varying pronunciations; surely there must be an accepted norm.
Would the IPA pronunciation be /waɪliː/? Where is the stress? Ferike333 (talk) 18:28, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: comments
Talk:Jim Gardner (broadcaster)

message: I do not believe in the year 2008 that it is really necessary to post someone's religion on their bio, especially when their religion has nothing to do with the job they do.  I feel the only reason Jim's religion was posted on here was because he is Jewish.  If he were a Protestant or a Catholic you know darn well you would not have posted what religion he was.  I suggest that you take a few minutes to look within yourself and ask why you felt so compelled to make a point of Jim being Jewish.  You might find that you have some anti-semetic feelings towards Jews and you carry prejudiced feelings toward them.  That is something you need to work on.  I am removing the reference to Jim's religion as I see how it has no basis as to  what a good news anchor he is.  I will however leave the history as to how he came to be known as Jim Gardner and not as Jim Goldman.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Jkminnich (talk • contribs) 03:02, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have since edited that Gardner is active in the Federation of Allied Jewish Appeal, but did not mention his religion specifically.  Another other major activity that he supports is Friends Central School, which is operated by the Religious Society of Friends. Bill S. (talk) 15:20, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is posting Jim's religion really necessary???? 

message: This article is a duplicate of James Gardner (news anchor). Perhaps someone who edits this article could merge them? Boleyn (talk) 18:01, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Duplicate

message: Just wondering if this is accurate. I know Gardner was a WPVI anchor for about 45 1/2 years. I also know Jim Vance on WRC in Washington DC was also an news anchor for about 45 years, from 1972-2017. (I have lived primarily in the Philadelphia and Washington TV markets for almost all of that time, so saw both anchors for many years each). But I have not seen any info about  when in 1972 Vance started (e.g., I only remember hearing "1972" at the time of Vance's death). I'm wondering where the Gardner information came from. 216.24.45.37 (talk) 19:13, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Second longest serving news anchor in US television history?
Talk:Francis Kenrick

message: Where is Arath?
Alexandre-Antonin Taché was also Bishop of Arath. Varlaam (talk) 02:11, 29 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arath? 
Talk:Canthus

message: I'm new to Wikipedia, so please excuse me if this is a dumb issue.
I reached the "Canthus" article from "Argonauts" (Canthus was apparently one of the Argonauts). Could a disambiguation page and a stub for the Argonaut be added?
:I've created the disambiguation page, but I'll leave it to someone else to create the stub page for the Argonaut. --Arcadian 13:25, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Disambiguation page?

message: I believe that this .gov article's Figure 2 image would be good for this article, however I do not know for sure that it is usable within Wikipedia's guidelines. I'm putting this note here to hopefully come back to it but please feel free to grab this and run ahead. Thanks very much! Geekdiva (talk) 07:56, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this .gov image usable? 

message: Am I completely crazy, or does the example image not use the term "C-a-n-t-h-u-s" in it?
Would an image that has the canthus identified by name be more useful?
Tomcatfish (talk) 02:25, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image Labels
Talk:Free Library of Philadelphia

message: Would it be useful to list all the Library's locations?
Awg1010 (talk) 22:18, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No, because the FLP website does that, as does www.librarything.com, but perhaps this article should list the specialized branch libraries, such as the Blind and Handicapped. --DThomsen8 (talk) 16:40, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Locations
Talk:Fairmount, Philadelphia

message: Real estate agents and tourists sometimes refer to it as the "Art Museum Area," for its proximity to and association with the Art Museum.
:It's not just real estate agents and tourists.  I know people who live there who call it that.  I'd imagine old timers still call it Fairmount, but "Art Museum" is pretty commonly used by residents and businesses in the area.  "Bella Vista" and "Queen Village" are just as much names made up by real estate agents as "Art Museum," but we don't say those names are only used by real estate agents and tourists. john k (talk) 16:14, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: An advantage for realtors is that Art Museum Area comes well before Fairmount or Spring Garden in classified ads. --DThomsen8 (talk) 17:52, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Art Museum Area

message: *Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 68.1, 1978. - gentrification, red-lining, likely gives boundaries.
*Journal of Urban Affairs, 8.4, 1986. - gentrification, likely gives boundaries.
*Environment and Planning A, 22.7, 1990. - gentrification, likely gives boundaries.
*City's Department of Records - report gives two slightly different sets of boundaries
*Fairmount CDC - boundaries given here - SummerPhDv2.0 17:16, 23 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible sources 
Talk:Possession (Byatt novel)

message: I removed the "Trivia" category, because the only item it held was this: "A. S. Byatt's novel shows so well what postmodernism is all about that students as young as 16 (Year 12 in the UK) study it as part of their modern novel examination for the AQA exam board."  Not only does it not make sense grammatically, but how does the fact that students study postmodernism for their AQA have anything to do with the novel, or that the novel shows what postmodernism's "all about"?  Um, it doesn't.  Also, in the novel LaM and RHA are romantics, not postmodernists.  Maria 15:12, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This article needs a lot of work. I can't really help, as I'm only about 100 pages through the book. It desperately needs a plot summary, I'm quite sure that's a requirement for articles on books. It also needs a 3 paragraph (or so) lead. ɱўɭĩєWhat did I dowrong 00:30, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You should familiarize yourself with Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels/ArticleTemplate before you finish the novel (one of my faves, by the way) and rush to make some changes.  I agree that a proper plot summary is needed, but the lead section need not be a certain amount of paragraphs; it already has the important details, such as year, genre, author, and awards, so it merely needs to be fleshed out.  Enjoy the book!  María: (habla conmigo) 01:12, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot Summary 

message: All that this section says is: "Here is what an epigraph is! Byatt uses epigraphs the way they are supposed to be used!" It is an eye sore.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.215.249.2 (talk) 00:48, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Epigraph

message: There are a few errors in the text, the 'holiday' that Ash & LaMotte take is not a weekend, I recall it as being at least a week, and the relationship can hardly be described as 'possibly consumnated' since there is certainty both in the text and in the later birth of a daughter! I also wonder whether it is appropriate to reveal the meeting between Ash and his daughter, since this secret is only revealed to the reader in an epilogue (a spoiler?).Pincrete (talk) 17:20, 20 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Errors and spoiler 

message: The sources cited don't appear to support the assertion that Possession was a RESPONSE to French Lieut Woman. Certainly the Byatt quote makes SOME comment and fairly obviously the two novels have parallels (post-modern novels, using historical forms to mirror modern pre-occupations), but the NATURE of the parallels doesn't seem to be pointed out or ref'd. Pincrete (talk) 18:56, 18 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Byatt - Fowles
Talk:John Chaney (basketball, born 1932)

message: Both ESPN and The Washington Post articles list Chaney as having 741 wins.
ESPN states: "Chaney has 741 wins as a college coach, including a 516-252 record at Temple, where he won seven Atlantic 10 conference titles. His teams did remarkably well considering Chaney couldn't recruit the high school All-Americans who filled the rosters of the power conferences."
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=2366357
The Post article states (or at least implies) that these were all D1: "Chaney coached Temple to a 516-252 record, and his 741 victories overall rank fifth among active Division I coaches behind Arizona's Lute Olson, Oklahoma State's Eddie Sutton, Texas Tech's Bob Knight and Duke's Mike Krzyzewski and 11th all-time."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/13/AR2006031300559.html  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.100.247.101 (talk) 13:47, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  724 or 741?
Talk:Ben Michaelson

message: The claim of Michaelson's 50 yard free time is contradictory to verified sources. According to the NCAA record book, the record time in the event is "19.84—John Berry, Ouachita Baptist, 3-8-2000." The claimed time in the article is .44 faster than the record. Given that the other times disagree with the records, I'm thinking the time listed here has a serious flaw. However, I can't see what the correct, verified time is. —C.Fred (talk) 04:26, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: 50 yard freestyle