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Talk:Thomas Rees (Twm Carnabwth)

message: re. the note on the link to this page: Bro Beca does indeed mean the district of Rebecca; but Bro can NOT be expanded to brother - it's a Welsh word meaning district or area. 37.157.52.81 (talk) 13:01, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bro Beca
Talk:Thomas Ridout (politician)

message: The article is about Thomas Ridout who died in 1829. All the buildings credited to Thomas Ridout in the table at the bottom of the article were built in the 1850s, well after his death. The buildings ought to be credited to his son and namesake.
--Oldontarian (talk) 10:20, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thomas Ridout, father and son
Talk:Thomas Roderick Dew

message: I've discovered a useful and illuminating tidbit of information about Thomas Dew, and I would like to know if it would be appropriate for this page. 
In the 1969 Spaghetti Western,'Sabata" (Alberto Grimaldi producer, Lee van Clef lead) there is a prominent placing of the Thomas Dew as an author.  I took a screenshot of it.  The shot begins with a lingering full screen image of a red book cover with the embossed words "Inequality is Basis of Society" and below that "Thomas Dew".  The camera pans back to show the villain reading the book.  Then one of his flunkies comes in and he quotes from the book to him, something like 'The responsibility of command is to use lesser men'.
Would this be categorized as trivia?  Or perhaps too obscure?
I notice the book title, "Inequality is the Basis of Society", which is a marvelously clear phrase, is not listed among his works.  It also characterises Dew in history, or represents Grimaldi's interpretation of Dew's significance.  Also, the scene provides a candidate notable quotation in popular culture. The film was what led me to this page, and it seems to have shed some light on what Political Economy was, and is.  
I'll check here later and see if there are any opinions about how or if to add this information. 
~ripe.program 11:49, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I've put this in but it would be very helpful if you could find something written about the movie that mentions this. deisenbe (talk) 12:01, 9 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Historical Significance

message: "A non-existant book by Dew, Inequality Is the Basis of Society, appears in the spaghetti western Sabata (1969), in which the book is read by a villain. A character reads a quotation from it: 'The responsibility of command is to use lesser men.'"
The Imdb doesn't say this, and one WP article cannot be source for another.  deisenbe (talk) 12:48, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Need for a source

message: This article obviously needed cleanup, for it mentioned a book by a supposed descendant when the man died on his honeymoon and had no apparent children. Plus, I went to an LDS geneology center a few days ago, which seemed to indicate this man was not in fact descended from the Speaker of the House of Burgesses Thomas Dew (politician) despite that article's citation-less comment. However, this generally well-equipped library/archive does not contain that cited book, and the family is not mentioned in the most recent published set of Virginia genealogy books, Adventures of Purse and Person (4th edition, 2005). Jweaver28 (talk) 20:55, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  more work needed
Talk:Thomas Say

message: Suggest the artcle be broken into sections covering personal, professional matters. Heds (talk) 03:59, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Grading

message: Article about William Kirby says the same. Which one is now correct? --Yerpo (talk) 15:00, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Not really the same. William Kirby was an Englishman and is considered the "founder of entomology", while Thomas Say was an American and and is often considered to be the father of descriptive entomology in the United States.  JoJan (talk) 16:29, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The infobox explicitly states "father of entomology". Other sources I've seen (such as this one) support your phrasing, so I fixed the infobox entry accordingly. --Yerpo (talk) 08:05, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Father of entomology"?
Talk:Thomas Spence

message: The article says '21 June Old Style/ 2 July New Style, 1750'. The first of these date comes from Mackenzie, but how does anyone know it is Old Style? And why is the 2nd of July the New Style version of the same date? (it may be, I just didn't think that was how the difference worked, and I think this needs some explaining generally). Marinheiro (talk) 16:49, 3 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth dates
Talk:The Day He Himself Shall Wipe My Tears Away

message: Komm, o Tod, du Schlafes Bruder is the final fifth movement of the cantata, but the text of wiping the tears away appears in movements 1 and 5. Please correct that. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 07:03, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tears away? 

message: The article says: "The father takes his son with him and his co-conspirators as he leaves the valley. The group sing the closing chorale from the Bach cantata (Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen, BWV 56): Komm, o Tod, du Schlafes Bruder, Komm und führe mich nur fort; Da wischt mir die Tränen mein Heiland selbst ab (Come, O death, brother of sleep, come and lead me forth; my saviour himself shall wipe my tears away)." - For a bit more precision: the line "Komm, o Tod, du Schlafes Bruder, Komm und führe mich nur fort" is indeed from the closing chorale, however, "Da wischt mir die Tränen mein Heiland selbst ab" is from two other movements of the same cantata.  Please check the cantata article which I now linked, and see how far you want to go into detail. At present it's wrong. --Gerda Arendt (talk) 10:44, 9 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bach music
Talk:The Sisterhood (gothic rock band)

message: I have heard it rumored that the 2 - 5 - 0 - 0 - 0 was the amount of the advance Eldrich received to make this album and that he put it in as sort of a jab at the former Sister's members.
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Skizznott (talk) 13:58, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Thomas Story Kirkbride

message: Someone removed the photo of Kirkbride a few days ago without giving an explanation why.  The image is clearly in the public domain.
-Belgrade18
Whats up with the personal life? He got married 16 years after he died? Had a child 17 years after death? (Died 1883, according to article. Then married in 1899 and had a child in 1900?) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.238.24.75 (talk) 16:11, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Thomas Sully

message: My name is Sully  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.6.46.24 (talk) 23:00, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I'm guessing that "The Torn Hat" is Sully's best painting by a wide margin. It would be good to include an image of that here. Ishboyfay (talk) 01:56, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "The Torn Hat" 

message: "After a brief apprenticeship to an insurance broker who recognized his artistic talent" - some briefly instructed insurance broker who was accidentally the young Sully himself should have recognized his artistic talent??? Or how should be this damned sentence understood? (since Revision as of 19:07, 26 June 2005). -- 8ohmSpeaker (talk) 22:41, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who recognized his artistic talent?
Talk:Thomas Sutcliffe (artist)

message: i think i have one off his paintings... room101247@msn.com  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.197.38.148 (talk) 17:35, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: If so, why not put a photograph on Wikimedia Commons? Chemical Engineer (talk) 19:45, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:The Deluge (novel)

message: As an Englishman living in Poland since 2002 I have long wanted to read Sienkiewicz's 'Trilogy'. I was first alerted to an English translation of the series when reading Radek Sikorski's 'A Polish House' in which he mentions a translator, W. Kuniczak. I started to look for the books and found them to be very expensive. However, much to my relief I have an Amazon kindle and saw that there was a Kindle digital version of Jeremiah Curtin's translation and I was able to download the whole series for free! I also saw this comment about the two different translations by an Amazon reviewer (see below) and Curtin's translation seems to be superior:
"I've read Kuniczak's translation of the Trilogy and greatly enjoyed it. It was my introduction to Sienkiewicz. However, while reading it, it seemed somehow incoherent, like something was missing. It also seemed impossible that the companions of Zagloba would be so credulous of his boasting. I went and found a copy of the 1890 translation of the Trilogy by Jeremiah Curtin. What a difference! Though the language is somewhat archaic, the story flows so much better and the character of Zagloba is much more believeable. There is more context to his antics, and his companions are presented as far more skeptical of his boasting, making the story much more realistic. Kuniczak seems to have omitted and simplified much that appears in the Curtin translation, to the detriment of the story. Many believe the Kuniczak version is superior, and maybe it is more accessible, but I recommend you find the old editon in the basement of the local library and read it first." 
The only name I find rather strange is Andrei Kmita's, which I have used in the plot description. Most of the names are pretty similar in the translation but this one is written and pronounced very differently to the original Polish - Andrzej Kmicic (Kmiczicz is more the pronunciation). Ivankinsman (talk) 19:30, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Translation of the novel
Talk:The Double (Dostoevsky novel)

message: This story is characteristic of a genre of pulp fiction serial dramas popular at the time Dostoevsky wrote the novella.  Most well known is of course, the later Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.  Can anyone comment further on this genre which clearly influenced Dostoevsky in portraying his psychological musings?  --Kenneth M Burke 03:03, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Genre 

message: I think that the Critical Reception section should contain less information about the meaning and interpretations of the novel and more about what critics thought of it. Only the last two paragraphs even mention critics' responses to the book.
pigi5 Pigi5 (talk) 06:54, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Critical Reception Section
Talk:Thomas Vernon Wollaston

message: These are some sloppy notes about T. V. Wollaston's wife Edith. She is listed as the describer of several species of Lepidoptera and her work "Notes on the Lepidoptera of St. Helena, with Descriptions of new Species" is often attributed to her husband.
The original descriptions of at least 37 species in that article are attributed to "E. Woll."
According to Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 62 "He married, on 12 Jan. 1869, Edith, youngest daughter of Joseph Shepherd of Teignmouth."
According to his obituary in The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine, volume 14, page 213, he had no children. It mentioned that he "married the youngest daughter of his friend Mr. Sheppard", but does not give her name.
In Ladies in the Laboratory? American and British Women in Science, 1800-1900 by Mary R. S. Creese it says Edith Wollaston "was remembered for her collections from St. Helena."
I will add a brief note of his marriage to this article and I hope this might be helpful to anyone working on an article on her later or as further background for her husband.  SchreiberBike | ⌨  00:55, 11 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edith Wollaston
Talk:Thomas W. Sherman

message: In the article on the Battle of Port Royal, it states in the aftermath that:
"General Sherman continued to serve in various capacities throughout the war, but without distinction. His abrasive personality made him difficult to work with, so he was shunted off to lesser commands. He lost his right leg in combat at Port Hudson. Faust, Encyclopedia of the Civil War, entry for Thomas West Sherman.
Since I don't have a copy of that Encyclopedia, I hesitate to repeat the entry. --Habap (talk) 21:06, 4 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:The House of the Dead (novel)

message: This is more complicated than I thought. Goryanchikov is ostensibly "a convict deportee of the second category for the murder of his wife" (, p.22). However, according to the translator of this particular edition, a remark made by a fellow convict implies Goryanchikov may be a political prisoner (p. 15). Rather than putting this long-windedness into a note in a pretty short article, I've just removed the exact nature of his crime for the time being, since it's probably easier not to mention it. Mrabbits 21:55, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Goryanchikov's crime 

message: Is there a particular reason why this novel is not available out of copyright from sites such as Project Gutenberg when most if not all of his other best known works are? Riddley (talk) 23:07, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyright

message: I think a character list with brief descriptions would be very useful to readers. Since characters are often introduced briefly and then examined in detail later in the book, it makes it confusing for first time readers to keep track of them all. I will add this later if I have time and there are no objections.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.183.86.242 (talk) 16:16, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: You must have been quite busy for 12 years, so I've taken it upon myself to add a character list. Harold the Sheep (talk) 05:33, 5 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Character List
Talk:Thomas Wedgwood (photographer)

message: A piece of mind-bogglingly unencyclopedic anecdotal "evidence" from fiction, contributed on the assumption that to have one's portrait "taken" has always meant the use of photography, started me hitting the edit tab on this article. Unsupported opinions, unwarranted implications and outright errors concerning Wedgwood's photographic work kept me at it until the limits of my existing knowledge drew dangerously near.
A syndrome evident in other articles had evidently wrought havoc here: a real or supposed new discovery (in this case, 2008 news of an alleged surviving photogram by Wedgwood) in some arcane technical or historical field goes viral in the online press and blogosphere, then WP editors with little or no expertise in that field hasten to expand one or more WP articles with nth generation "facts" and misinformation gleaned from those sources. Even the BBC and the New York Times have very poor track records for accuracy when reporting exotic news of this kind: they have no resident expert. Their reporter's "background" may consist of doing some hasty googling and reading the Wikipedia article. As often as not, yet another layer of innocent misreporting is added by the WP editor.
Consulting several hardcover and a few high-quality web sources at length, I find that the only primary source for any details about Wedgwood's experiments is Davy's brief 1802 account. If any alleged feature is not to be found there, then it is simply an assumption, speculation or error by a later writer, sometimes fossilized into a widely accepted "fact" by generations of repetition. Davy's paper itself is something of a minefield, as it requires attention to distinguish what Wedgwood did from presumably later variations and elaborations by Davy himself ("In following these processes, I have found..."), such as making enlarged shadow images by means of a solar microscope.
Davy's paper is available unabridged in Tom Wedgwood, the First Photographer by R. B. Litchfield, London, 1903, several different scans of which are available in several formats at archive.org. That book, despite its great age, appears to remain the definitive text on the subject. As far as I can determine, no new information of any importance has come to light in the 110 years since it was published. If anyone has definite, impeccably sourced information to the contrary, a heads-up would be very much appreciated.
Having waded in this deep and being now more thoroughly acquainted with what is and is not actually known, I intend to do more housecleaning and improvement, including a badly-needed reorganization of the whole photography-related section, by sporadic editing as time permits. Any objections, suggestions or general comments? AVarchaeologist (talk) 04:12, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photographic experiments
Talk:Thomas Wildman

message: i don't want to cause panic, but there are THREE (related) Thomas Wildmans, and two at least contemporaneous ones - all from the same family.   This one's contemporary is Thomas Wildman, son of Henry Wildman, kin to the Thomas who died in 1795.   All gained something from  the famili's work for the Beckfords.    Even the History of Parliament gets the Wildman ownership of another plantation, Esher, in St Mary's, Jamaica, wrong.    Until the bankruptcy of Henry's another of Henry's sons James, in the 1820s, it belonged to the heirs of Henry Wildman, not, as the History of Parliament claims, James Beckford Wildman.  Some disambiguation for this Thomas Wildman might help a bitDelahays (talk) 17:04, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
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Talk:Kitasu Hill

message: On p.119 in Holland, just after his short description of Kitasu Hill, he mentions a cinder cone on Lake Island (at the entrance to Mathieson Channel) and associated flows on Lady Island.  Not sure that either island is notable in any other aspect but thought you (BT) might find these worth looking into; the one on Lake Island is 1000' high.Skookum1 (talk) 13:32, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not familiar with a cinder cone on Lake Island but there's a cinder cone on Lady Island called Helmet Peak. I'll take a look at Lake Island and see if I can find it. Black Tusk (talk) 19:23, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I looked at Lady Island for a cinder cone and there's a hill, most likely the cinder cone. Is there a way to find out the name for this cone? Maybe it dosen't have a name because no cinder cone on Lady Island is listed on the GSC website or here. Black Tusk (talk) 14:25, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: nearby volcanoes
Talk:Musso

message: Why is this bio under "Musso" instead of Munawar Musso? There are many other Musso, see Musso (disambiguation). 2003:C6:3707:B0AC:D1D5:22ED:AFBB:76B3 (talk) 15:06, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I cannot say how it should be in relation to other articles with this name, but in terms of common name I have never once heard him referred to in a book as Munawar Musso, only ever just Musso. Dan Carkner (talk) 16:46, 18 September 2023 (UTC)

text: See WP:COMMONNAME. Hoof Hearted (talk) 17:31, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why Musso?
Talk:Thomas Wright (antiquarian)

message: Wright is crucial to the establishment of archaeological societies and institutions in the mid 19th century. Good account in: Rowley-Conwy, P. 2007. From genesis to prehistory : the archaeological three age system and its contested reception in Denmark, Britain, and Ireland. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. PatHadley (talk) 18:09, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:The Housekeeper and the Professor

message: The current title of this article is The Professor's Beloved Equation. However, the novel is known in both the UK and the US as The Housekeeper and the Professor . Therefore I am going to do a page move to The Housekeeper and the Professor in accordance with Wikipedia:Naming conventions (books)#Title translations. I would note however that Google Books also has a listing for this novel as The doctor's equation but that looks like it might be a translation into Chinese, not English. As for the film, IMDb gives The Professor and His Beloved Equation as the English title (not The Professor's Beloved Equation as Wikipedia has it). But IMDb is not always a reliable source for that kind of thing. Mathew5000 (talk) 01:18, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  article name should be the title of the English translation of the novel, not a translation of the Japanese title of the novel 

message: The equation referenced in the book is actually Euler's Identity, not Euler's Formula. Zonkerette (talk) 15:28, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Math terms
Talk:Thurlow Weed

message: How so?  Weed supported his long time ally, Seward in 1860, not Lincoln. john k (talk) 04:56, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  instrumental in Lincoln's nomination? 

message: Anyone notice the complete lack of sources cited?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.117.90.83 (talk) 02:44, 3 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources? 

message: I've made several recent edits to add content, references, and categories. Can someone review it and see whether it merits an upgrade from C class?
Billmckern (talk) 02:10, 4 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Can someone review this article?
Talk:The Second Invasion from Mars

message: “All characters and few places mentioned have characteristically Greek names, but there is nothing specific to Greek culture in the plot” — Nothing in the plot, but there is something in the work as a whole. There is a stylistic reference to “Odyssey” in the novella. One character, Polyphemus, is consistently referred to as “one-legged” throughout the novella, whether that attribute is important at the moment or not (usually not, of course). That is a reference both to the manner of “Odyssey” to repeat the same attributes over and over again in reference to the same characters, and to the fact that the original Polyphemus is consistently called “one-eyed” throughout the epic, at least in its Russian translation for sure. A joke, of course. Other than that, I can see no reference indeed.
As Boris Strugatsky wrote in his “Comments on the Past Work” on another occasion, Strugatsky brothers were acquainted with the works by Rex Stout. So they probably had read “The Great Legend”, too. That may of course have been an influence that made them use Greek names in their novella. The manner, scathingly ironic, is much the same: the narrator, who does have noble ideas, but is cynical, simple-minded, and very practical, contradicts himself just every now and then, declaring how sane his thinking is on every occasion, yet making very funny slips about his true motives that have nothing to do with what he thinks his motives are. - 37.9.29.40 (talk) 00:11, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  A few comments on Greek…
Talk:JoBoxers

message: Didn't they get their name from observing how numerous boxers - such as Joe Bugner, Joe Frazier or Joe Brown - were called Joe? ACEOREVIVED (talk) 23:33, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Origins of the name

message: The article says that the band's first hit was kept off the Top Spot by David Bowie's "Let's Dance" and Duran Duran. Since the David Bowie track is named, should not the song by Duran Duran also be named? Vorbee (talk) 14:58, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: David Bowie and Duran Duran
Talk:Tom Hyer

message: ONCE AGAIN, I QUESTION THE SOURCE THAT LINKS TOM HYER TO THE 'GREAT TURBERT FAMILY' -- WHO ARE THE TURBERTS?  AS A GENEALOGIST, I HAVE NOTHING THAT SHOWS SUCH A LINK ... TOM HYER HAD NO BIOLOGICAL CHILDREN - PLEASE SHOW THE TIE-IN MORE SPECIFICALLY! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Claudiamontana8 (talk • contribs) 
Tom did have a daughter, Charlotte, born in Sacco, Maine on march 9, 1849 to he and his wife Emma Beke.  Charlotte and her husband Floyd Grant had a daughter May Rankin Grant who married Charles Davis. [Source: "The Life and Times of Tom Hyer, by Peter Gammie, New York History, April 1994, Copyright 1994 by the New York State Historical Association; and the interment records of The Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY]  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.203.71.129 (talk) 23:28, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Regarding genealogical relationship to the Turbert family - appears in error