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Talk:Michael Fielding

message: "Noel said on an interview with Jonathan Ross that the abstract name of the show came from one of Michael's arkies." What does 'arkies' mean? Alpheus 06:22, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Likewise I have no idea. Is it a reference to something in the show? --taras (talk) 19:12, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Does he by any chance know any architects or archeologists?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.14.141.190 (talk) 03:08, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Lord knows what "arkies" means.  Someone having a laugh I guess.  The interview is here: YouTube clip of the Johnathan Ross interview
The reference was to Michael's hair, not Noel's.  It was described by a Portuguese friend as being like "a mighty bush", which in the accent becomes "mighty boosh"--83.216.69.33 (talk) 01:40, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please explain 'arkies' 

message: Does anyone know Michael Fielding's birth name? He is presumably not a blood relation to his supposed brother Noel Fielding as he is from a different (Asian) racial background. Is he adopted, has a different mother or is the brother story made up?
Birth records show that Noel Fielding's mother's maiden name is Fagan.
http://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/world-records/england-and-wales-births-1837-2006?firstname=noel&lastname=fielding
A birth search for people with the surname Fielding and mother's maiden name Fagan only bring up 2 results (the other being a Steve Fielding born in 1970 in Burton Upon Trent). There are no records of a Michael Fielding born in London in 1982. 
http://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/world-records/england-and-wales-births-1837-2006?lastname=fielding&mothersmaidenname=fagan
There is a Michael Fielding born in Sutton, Surrey that year with a mother's maiden name of Whol (which sounds Asian)
http://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/world-records/england-and-wales-births-1837-2006?firstname=michael&lastname=fielding&eventyear=1982&eventyear_offset=0&county=london%2ckent%2cmiddlesex%2csurrey
92.8.17.46 (talk) 15:21, 18 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth Name 
Talk:Essex County Cricket Club

message: Just to let you know, Essex have been added to List_of_the_competitive_honours_won_by_county_cricket_clubs_in_England_and_Wales#List LeverageSerious (talk) 12:07, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: champs
Talk:Lakhdenpokhya

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.
*Oppose. The town lies in Russia now. It does not matter that the name is Finnish and Russified. - Darwinek (talk) 18:44, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey
Template talk:Misleading

message: Facts aren't misleading; facts are just facts.  Statements are misleading. Glycerinester 14:01, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Facts vs statements

message: It would be nice if the template allowed linking the exact Talk page section where the possibly misleading content is being discussed. Currently, it just has "talk page" linked to the Talk page. It would help the collaboration process if a "relevant section" portion preceding the "...on the talk page" text could be linked. --2001:1C06:19CA:D600:7BB1:ECF5:7FBE:B5A1 (talk) 05:44, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Request: Optional Talk page section link
Talk:Laptev Sea

message: Using the open-source tool-kit :de:Climate Data Operators (CDO), it is possible to evaluate the Laptev Sea area with only a few lines of code:
#!/bin/bash
# cut out a box around Laptev Sea to speed up computation
cdo sellonlatbox,85,165,70,83 ETOPO1_Ice_g_gmt4.grd laptev_cut.nc
# cut out polygon laptev_lim.text, take only depths (not heights), remove NANs
cdo setmisstoc,0.0 -lec,0 -maskregion,laptev_lim.txt laptev_cut.nc laptev_mask.nc
# calculate area per box in m^2 first, then convert to km^2
cdo divc,1000000 -gridarea laptev_mask.nc laptev_weight.nc
# multiply weights with mask, afterwards sum over the field
cdo fldsum -mul laptev_weight.nc laptev_mask.nc laptev_sum.nc
# display result, the file should contain only a single value
cdo info laptev_sum.nc
(Brn-Bld (talk) 11:53, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Calculating the Laptev Sea area 
Talk:Southern Pomo language

message: I have repaired the table -- the semivowel /j/ is the only true palatal consonant in Southern Pomo. The term 'postalveolar' is the most appropriate term for consonants like esh (as in English 'ship') and the affricates of Southern Pomo. Note that these affricates are stops, as all affricates are, but they are not plosives in the traditional sense; they have a fricative release.
The /w/ is labiovelar, as it is in all languages, and is not solely labial in pronunciation.
References:
Walker 2008. A Description of the Morphophonology of Southern Pomo. MA Thesi, University of California, Santa Barbara.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.111.199.58 (talk) 16:48, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:New Mosque, Istanbul

message: Heeey people... there's another article named "Yeni Valide Mosque" for this very mosque, whose real name is "Yeni Valide Camii" lets merge them.
--Eae1983 (talk) 13:02, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I wonder where Ahmet II is actually  buried as his burial place is also mentioned in Suleymanie Mosque article  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zanganeh (talk • contribs) 12:50, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ahmed II
Talk:Moacir Barbosa

message: In 1963 Barbosa was given the old square goal posts from the Maracanã as a present.
Here the statement old square goal posts are probably used to build up some pretend plausibility. Round goal posts were not introduced before the 1970s, or even early 1980s, that was also when wood made place for aluminium.
Inofficial Tournaments
All of these tournaments are GARBAGE!!! and should not be mentioned here! South American football friends, even more so our Brazilian amigos, attribute to them an importance which should not really be attributed. If the European afficionados were to use the same standards, this would blow up the Palmares of quite many clubs there no end. 
It is already problematic enough if os Europeos want to sell "League" and "Super" Cups as major honours, the former being a tournament of sorts which can be many different things depending on year and country, the latter being a single pre-season warm-up match. "Official" they might be, but garbage all the same! Oalexander-En 16:42, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Issues of this article
Talk:Loukhi

message: The place has gotten its name from Finnish Louhi, Kalevala; look at the flag of Louhi. There is not a figure called "Loukhi". --Dialection (talk) 20:55, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The same discussion is going on at Talk:Rakhya. The user has no edits outside of these pages and their talk pages.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:03, 25 July 2017 (UTC)

text: And the answer is actually directly above, so the user is advised to read before they post.--Ymblanter (talk) 20:04, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  Then those WP guidelines should be corrected for similar cases. For non-russian-language names in Russia or former Soviet Union. And similar cases in other areas where local dialect or name and state language are not same. Likewise, there is town in Russia named Togliatti, after italian communist. It is wrong to name this town in English Tolyatti. If you were to translate text about him from Russian into English, would you name him in English text also Tolyatti or rather Togliatti? Or welsh etc names in UK... If you ban Finnish names from use when they are in Russia now, do you ban Welsh names from use in English texts? For Karjala, correct place names are those in Finnish form, and should as such be used in languages with latin letters. As to not confuse politically, should be added their transcription into Russian, or name in Russian, as used in Russia. And btw, English language wikipedia is for all who understand English, not just native anglophones. :) BirgittaMTh (talk) 09:14, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  Good, another editor with 130 edits but a strong opinion of what policies we should use... Well, we use the names which most commonly appear in English. We use them for Russian localities, for Welsh localities, and for Tanzanian localities as well. This is a long-standing policy. You can try to change it, though I doubt that you will achieve any degree of success. In any case, for this you would need to oipen an RfC on a policy talk page. Another question is, assuming we stick to this policy, are Tolyatti and Loukhi are the most common names for these localities in English, or are Togliatti and Louhi the most common names. I guess Tolyatti can be check directly by a number of Google hits, as soon as you figure out how to only count hits related to the name of the locality and not directly to Palmiro Togliatti. Loukhi is I guess so obscure and so seldom gets mentioned in English-language sources that it would be difficult to come up with any result by just looking at search engines, but a lot of things like road signs still use Loukhi. In any case, if you can come up with the arguments showing why Louhi and not Loukhi is the most common name for this locality please bring them here, they could make a strong case for moving the page.--Ymblanter (talk) 09:24, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Loukhi > Louhi
Talk:Lovat (river)

message: name comes from Lithuanian word 'lova/lovys' meaning the river's channel.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 139.222.112.200 (talk) 21:49, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Etymology

message: Can anyone provide details on the Lovat/Lovat'/Lowatj that flows through Velikiye Luki and into Lake Ilmen? The latter article provides an edit-me link to it as Lovat'. Thanks. — B.Bryant 00:02, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: details
Talk:Flávio Costa

message: There is much more to be said about Costa, who probably deserves to be termed as the marker for the beginning of the modern era of the futebol brasileiro. The influence of Kuerschner on Flamengo and him directly surely is a major factor - and is well deserving of some evaluation. I should be able to get a bit deeper into it over the next days.Oalexander-En 06:29, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Much more to be said 
Talk:Lvinaya Past

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thread_title:  Copyright problem removed
Talk:Magdagachi

message: From a thorough search via Google Earth satellite renditions I conclude that the M58 is now sufficiently complete to be usable by off-road type vehicles, from end to end.  There are three missing bridges according the Google Earth satellite renditions.  The first of these (from east to west) is the overpass for the interchange with the M56 (about 20 km west of Skovorodino); one drives down the ramp and back up again on the other side.  The other two missing bridges are over minor water courses which are probably dry most of the year.  Drivers have a track which leads down to and across these two water courses.  It seems that many have taken these small detours.
Because of the nature of the second pair attempting this in an ordinary sedan would require local knowledge.
David B. Benson (talk) 07:33, 15 December 2012 (UTC)

message: I wonder if it would be appropriate to add the section Notable people and to add my name there.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Vshirokov (talk • contribs) 
: Only if you have an article about you on the English Wikipedia--Ymblanter (talk) 06:34, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Would it be appropriate to add section Notable people and to add myself in it?
Talk:Makhachkala

message: no connection betwen Mahachkala and Azer langauge ...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.109.126.118 (talk) 07:32, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Old talk

message: Hi, in the infobox on the right, next to "Location of Makhachkala", there is a "show" link/button. Clicking it reveals a map that's incorrectly centered at 0,0 and not the correct coordinate for the city. I tried but was unfortunately unable to find why this is happening in the page markup/template. Thanks! 107.179.252.18 (talk) 02:32, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map issue
Talk:Mamison Pass

message: Pass is now on the border of Russia and partially recognized South Ossetia. This is evident in the Polish map.
  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Advisors (talk • contribs) 19:40, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: One user-made map is not sufficient to advance your claims. As for the obscure tabloid you have linked, it does not prove anything. --KoberTalk 15:09, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Russia will build a road through this part of the sulfuric Ossetia to South Ossetia. The track will be only partially recognized in the territory of the republic. Advisors (talk) 15:35, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: mamison pass is sure on south ossetia border.--Soslanx (talk) 17:42, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: If that's all you have to say, I'm assuming the right to revert you. Links provided by Advisors do not prove anything.--KoberTalk 04:57, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:   - Defence Academy of the United Kingdom  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Soslanx (talk • contribs) 10:00, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the link. It does refer to the Mamisoni as one of the mountanous passes "along the length of the Russo-Georgian border" (p. 5) --KoberTalk 18:25, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  The document is attached map. It can be clearly seen military Ossetian section of the road on South Ossetia. Advisors (talk) 08:35, 6 July 2009 (UTC)

text:  It took 3 days. Exchange the contents of the page. Advisors (talk) 11:21, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

text:  Map Mamison Pass K-38-40 (1988). Definitely on the border between Russia and South Ossetia (Georgia). Strange argufy. --RosssW (talk) 12:53, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Location

message: The pass is more important for georgia . It is on the territory of  "so" but plays trivial role in the road system of "so".
I added "so" stub.  Soslanx (talk) 06:12, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Stubs
Talk:Matua (island)

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thread_title:  [[:File:Sarychev Volcano edit.jpg]] to appear as POTD soon
Category talk:Sabbateans

message: Given that Yakov Leib Hakohain is in the category (him being a living person born in the 20th century) does it make sense to say on the category that it is for 17th and 18th century people? After all, there aren't so many known self-described Sabbateans, doesn't make much sense to limit the scope of it, since there are more supposed/claimed Sabbateans (especially in Turkish rumor and conspiracy theory) than actual proven Sabbateans.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.214.148.147 (talk) 11:52, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
Talk:Monrepos Park

message: According to the Vyborg article the City of Vyborg itself was situated within what is now the Monrepos park before ca, 1430 when it was moved to the present site. Should that information be applied to this article as well?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.52.204.155 (talk) 15:50, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]
Talk:Monastery of Saint Euthymius

message: This was Suzdal 160 Camp, which was a very important POW camp housing German generals (including von Paulus) after Stalingrad and 1,500 prisoners from all Axis nations.  So something that could be expanded on.  Stevebritgimp (talk) 00:22, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  POW Camp
Talk:Narva (river)

message: The word Narva (Narova) has Baltic origin and comes from *Nārava 'a river to dive' or 'water-nymph' , cf. Latvian nāra, vārava 'mermaid, water-nymph', nirt 'to dive'.
Roberts7 16:29, 9 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Etymology
Talk:Nevyansk

message: Why was Nevyansk a closed city during soviet times? There is no mention of this in the article (got something to hide? just kidding ;) No, but really, does anyone know?) Brentt 18:02, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you sure you are not confusing it with nearby Novouralsk (which still is a closed town)?  I could find no mention that Nevyansk was closed during the Soviet times (not that I looked hard, admittedly :)).  Could you point me to where you found that fact?  I might be able to research it from there.  Thanks!—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 12:31, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I got it from an totally infallible source: wikipedia. ;) It says it in the Leaning Tower of Nevyansk article. It gives it as the reason archaeologists and historians wern't able to study it until recently. But you know...its wikipedia, so what moron would trust that site. Brentt 19:28, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, don't be so hard on us, we are just people, after all, and people are known for making mistakes every now and then :)  Anyway, my personal opinion is that Nevyansk might have been affected by Novouralsk's closed status when it came to archaeological research, but I don't know that for sure and have no reference to back it up.  So I did the next most sensible thing and asked the author of the article.  He's not editing often these days, but I hope he'll let us know where the statement came from when he shows up.  Best,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 17:38, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I was just joking about that last part ;) Brentt 18:31, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Closed town?
Talk:Nisenan language

message: Can anyone confirm which type of allophones the |ʦ~ʧ| and |s~ʃ| parings represent. Same for the realization of 'y' varying from |ɨ| to |u| (which to me seems to be quite a difference even for a vowel).  The sources I have found so far haven't elaborated on this.
1. Do the differences mark dialectal or regional differences such as the variations of 'r' in the different English dialects?
i.e.' the 'c' in 'caa' [tree] realized as either |ʦ| or |ʧ| depending on the dialect.
i.e., |ʦ| in the valley and |ʧ| in the mountains. (just example, don't know what the actual dialectal differences are)
2. Do they mark variations to particular speakers within a common dialect?
i.e.' the 'c' in 'caa' [tree] realized as either |ʦ| or |ʧ| depending on the speaker.
3. Are they completely interchangeable allophones, and up to individual preference?
i.e., the 'c' in 'caa' realized as either |ʦ| or |ʧ| within the same dialect, similar the the distinction between |ði| and |ðə| as equal variants for 'the' in English.
4. Are they due to phonemic harmony, changing pones depending on surrounding phones.
i.e., aspirated consonants becoming unaspirated when in the middle of a word.
5. Are they specific to particular words?
i.e., 'c' rendered as |ʧ| in 'caa' [tree] and |ʦ| in 'maacam' [ten] (once again, not sure as to the actual distinctions)
Basically, what kind of allophones are these? Where would one be used as opposed to the other? Are they regionalisms or what?
Hope this all wasn't too confusing.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Formic15 (talk • contribs) 03:48, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Allophones
Talk:Northern Dvina

message: Originally (and still) known in Finno Ugrian languages as Vienanjoki (Finnish), Vienajog (Estonian), Vienajug (Komi) etc. On the mouth of Vienanjoki was old commercial settlement which
grew to small town during 800s and named Vienankaupunki (Town of Viena). It was here Norwegian Viking Ottar visited during his journey to Perma (Bjarmia). Later Russians renamed it Archangel.
Vienanjoki ended to Vienanlahti (Bay of Viena) which is one of the three bays in Vienanmeri (Sea of Viena). Vienanmeri was renamed by the Pomors to White Sea becouse of the early morning
sea fog which made the sea look as white. Sometimes in Finnish literature also mentioned as
Valkeameri (White Sea), but the original name is Vienanmeri.
The Russian Western Dvina is Väinäjoki (Latvian Daugava) and have nothing to do with name Vienanjoki. The Russians have always had problems with spelling of Finno Ugrian languages,
thus this dual name for the Viena and Väinä Rivers.
JN
:What does the word 'Viena' mean in Finno-Ugrian languages? `'юзырь:mikka 18:11, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Northern Dvina River

message: Hei Mikkalai. This is the most trusteable version. Vienajoki = Vienojoki ( Quiet River ).
Russian Dvina River might also have been originated from Latin Dividum flumen which appear first in 1200 European sources spreaded there by the Norsemen who traded with the Karelians, Veps and Komi-murts in Vienankaupunki and even by that time important trading center Joensuu (River Mouth) locatad in the confluence of Suhona and Jug Rivers and inhabited by Komi-murts, Veps and Taipaleentakaiset Tshuudit (Savolotshij Tshudj). Thus, if this trade center was mentioned in early Russian chronicles as early as 1207 it must mean this Jug = River suu = mouth.
According to Finnish historical sources the Novgorodians made fur robbary raids to Vienajoki
in 1042 (attack against the Jams), 1078, 1123, 1187, 1212, 1217, 1220, 1222, 1265, 1324 when the Novgorodians managed to conquer Joensuu for five year period and it become Ustjug. However, there was a general uprisings and conflicts against Novgorod in 1329, 1333, 1337 and 1342 when Novgorod at last gained control of Joensuu / Ustjug.     
JN
Aren't the Finnish Viena and Väinä simply from Dviena? cf. Ranska from France 88.114.41.216 (talk) 17:06, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Vienajoki