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Talk:Laurentian Divide

message: I like simple. And the opening sentence, which is the definition of the term, is oblique. The opening sentence of a wiki article should have the form, "A foo is a bar, baz, quux....  Hence, "The Laurentian Divide is a hydrographic divide [or continental divide] in central North America that separates the Hudson Bay watershed to the north from the Gulf of Mexico watershed to the south and the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Watershed to the southeast."  It doesn't matter where the water is or goes; we'll be told that later - it's implicit in the definition of the respective watersheds.  The generic definition of divide is: "A water [or more precisely, hydrographic = geographic+hydrologic] divide separates two watersheds". Sbalfour (talk) 02:44, 13 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition 

message: We usually consider a continental divide to originate at the high point and terminate at the low point, as we state the course in the lead.  But the Course section reverses sense and starts at Cape Chidley. That's really awkward. Someone not paying attention. Sbalfour (talk) 00:31, 14 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Course 

message: The Course section is little more than what's already in the lead.  I think it should be reversed in sense, because starts at the end instead of the beginning, and merged into the lead along with a statement summarizing the hydrology section, and the history section deleted.  Then the whole article becomes the lead, because there's not enough text to have article sections separate from the lead. Sbalfour (talk) 23:05, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Sbalfour (talk) 01:49, 19 February 2019 (UTC)

text: However, some yahoo might undo me, and attempt to split the lead, especially the paragraph describing course, to a text section. The article is lean, just 4 paragraphs besides the definition opening sentence.  It's just not there yet.  If it were 50% longer, I'd say, yes, split and summarize.  But not today. Sbalfour (talk) 01:52, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Restructure article
Wikipedia talk:Miscellany for deletion/User:MQDuck/userboxes/Right To Resist

message: Why do we need the arbitary breaks? Editorofthewiki (talk) 21:33, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It helps users with slow modems edit. It's fairly standard in long deletion discussions. -- Kendrick7talk 21:37, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

message: You have my sympathies. I beg you to not even consider listing a political reason for your deletion, or any reference to something even related to that. If there is an air that this went for any kind of political concerns, if it was a delete, it will become open season on a lot of boxes and cause a lot of strife. Lawrence Cohen 01:55, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  To the closer
Talk:Vistry Group

message: There are many complaints about this company. It will soon go down. See
trustpilot reviews --84.64.18.253 (talk) 09:30, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Need reliable sources re complaints, etc Paul W (talk) 19:00, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversy 

message: the demolition of Nottingham City Airport the control tower the runways and the chocs away cafe. The destruction of green belt farming land wildlife and infrastructure of the community in and around the proposed development. The ignored planning around tolerton country park Homes which is a community situated like an island in the middle of all this development which seems to have not been consulted or are concerned about how it will affect this 50 home community. 92.40.217.187 (talk) 14:01, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Destroying Tollerton greenbelt and historic Nottingham city airport.
Talk:Internet in Denmark

message: Moved from the article to the talk pages due to outdated information:
As of December 2009, the OECD ranked Denmark a shared first (along with the Netherlands) in broadband connection penetration, at a rate of 37.1 broadband subscribers per 100 inhabitants.Directorate for Science, Technology, and Industry. OECD Broadband Portal. Retrieved on 2010-07-09. 
Denmark also held first spot as of their 2006 report: OECD Broadband Statistics June 2006
More information can be found here in order of market share ( see the 2009 report from ITST page 40,46 for official numbers ):  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Henry1500 (talk • contribs) 20:06, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: obsolete information
Talk:Gospel Plow

message: The Roud Folk Song Index lists a recording collected by the Lomax's in 1937.Pustelnik (talk) 02:50, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Earliest

message: How could you forget Mahalia Jackson? 2603:8000:D401:6EC4:ED8A:2FAA:D7B4:118C (talk) 03:53, 1 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recordings
Talk:Menstrie Castle

message: I have followed all known conventions in submitting this article. I do not own the article of course, but I would be appreciative if you would notify me here or here, explaining rationale if you carry out extensive modification, or indeed if you nominate it for deletion. Ref (chew)(do) 22:01, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: What a fantastic addition to the article. So good I have enlarged it a little. Thanks. Ref (chew)(do) 20:49, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image 

message: The reference http://www.doorsopendays.org.uk/opendays/area_programmes.aspx?areaid=6, retrieved 2008-01-13 has changed its content and now refers to the Doors Open scheme for Clackmannanshire: 04 September 2010 – 05 September 2010. It does not now mention Menstrie castle at all so we need references for the following statements: 
"The castle was built around 1560 by the Alexander family";
"By the end of the Second World War, the castle was in such disrepair that the Scottish actor and conservationist, Moultrie Kelsall, led a campaign to secure funding and protection to aid its restoration.";
"By 1964 the restoration was completed, and the castle was converted into flats."
Any ideas ?
Craig Omus (talk) 20:38, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Outdated reference
Talk:Grove Road Primary School

message: It is generally known that England is part of the UK.  Normally, this is not important but with regard to schools it is. England has a different schools system from the rest of the UK. Scotland has an entirely different system and Wales has important differences both with regard to language and inspection arrangements. Consequently, specifying the country (and England remains a country) is important. TerriersFan (talk) 22:02, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. Furthermore all UK schools on Wikipedia use the country so we need to be consistent. Dahliarose (talk) 01:18, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: England

message: I have removed the See also section pending better justification. The section contained:
*Tring 
*Tring School
*The Arts Educational School
*Ofsted
Of these Tring and Ofsted must be eliminated per WP:ALSO since they appear in the body of the article. I don't immediately see the relevance of Tring School and The Arts Educational School but am willing to be convinced. TerriersFan (talk) 00:31, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: OK what is the link with The Arts Educational School, please? TerriersFan (talk) 17:13, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I didn't look at the article but now that I've done so I see that it's in Chiswick in London. I don't see that it's at all relevant to this article. Dahliarose (talk) 18:10, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

text: I've now Wiki-linked OFSTED in the article so the link in the see also section is redundant. Tring is also Wiki-linked in the article so I've removed that link as well. I've left the other two links in. Can you make sure that you don't roll back to an earlier version of the article as you also revert other important edits at the same time. Dahliarose (talk) 09:58, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  See also
Talk:Japanese submarine I-1

message: The article mentions that the submarine was intentionally rammed and wrecked, but does not mention the fate of the crew onboard-- did the boat go down with all hands or were there survivors taken prisoner, or escaped?  This seems a glaring omission given the shallow water of the wreck and further discussion in the article of sensitive materials recovered from the sub. siafu (talk) 20:00, 22 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crew? 
Talk:Lansdowne High School

message: My mother went to Lansdowne High School, in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania.  Maybe we need some disambiguation.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.40.58.105 (talk) 01:07, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: So long as there's only one article, there's nothing to disambiguate. -- Pemilligan (talk) 03:05, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation 
Talk:Bolesław Gebert

message: I deleted the Jewish-related mentions and categories because he was not a Jew. His family were Catholic peasants of noble descent, which lost its nobility after January Uprising. Jewish was his second wife, with whom he had his son, Konstanty Gebert, a well-known Polish journalist and Jewish activist. But K. Gebert takes his Jewishness from his mother, not his father. I understand Gebert's ultra-Communist beliefs and actions, his German-sounding last name and his obviously Jewish son might indicate he was also Jewish, but he was not. 
I added also personal info about his father and one of his uncles. Added also info about Bill Gebert's first, American wife and son from Detroit. Kowalmistrz (talk) 08:38, 15 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  He was not Jewish
Talk:Gjenganger

message: Can we get a reference for the "varp" mention?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.78.15.134 (talk) 00:10, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: There doens't seem to be much unique or specific details to this Scandinavian version. Perhaps it should be merged with the Wiedergänger article, since it talks about the exact same folklore under a german title? Carewolf (talk) 12:33, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge? 

message: Atter (in danish) does not mean after -- it means again.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.130.79.38 (talk) 08:40, 8 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Atter
Talk:France/to do

message: Edit Request - brief, 2nd paragraph:
As a french, I'm surprised that the date of France Foundation isn't even mentioned, the baptism of Clovis in 496. Also Germanic tribes didn't arrive in 476, that's the date of the fall of the Roman Empire. Here is my proposal:
" The Germanic Franks arrived in 476 and formed the Kingdom of Francia, which became the heartland of the Carolingian Empire. "
-> 
"Germanic tribes took over the territory after the fall of the Roman Empire in 476. Clovis, King of the Germanic Franks, managed to reunite the most of it under one Kingdom. In 496 he converts to the Christian religion, thus allying with the Gallo-Roman people and funding the first Kingdom of what will become later France and its first dynasty of Kings, the Merovingians, followed three centuries later by a second dynasty, the Carolingians, whose Charlemagne founded his Empire."
My sources are just French Wikipedia articles. Thank you
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Edit Request - [Education] section:
In the third paragraph:
"Higher education is divided between public universities and the prestigious and selective Grandes écoles, such as Sciences Po Paris for Political studies, HEC Paris for Economics, Polytechnique and the École nationale supérieure des mines de Paris that produce high-profile engineers, or the École nationale d'administration for careers in the Grands Corps of the state"
Among the examples of Grandes écoles, I think that it should be interesting to add "École normale supérieure for academic research". Indeed it is one of the most esteemed schools in France, and the leader for research.
A link to the page of this school: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/École_normale_supérieure_(Paris)
Thank you.
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Edit Request - [Education] section:
In the last paragraphe of the section [Education], it is stated "Health insurance for students is free until the age of 20."
France has Universal Healthcare which although has some affiliation with concepts of insurance due to partial reimbursements of fees and costs, it is free and provided regardless of age or income. It is also comparatively very low cost.
Because of the above, it is misleading and even erroneous to bring into the article claims of age restrictions or even notions of insurance policies which, especially US audiences, evoke false images of potentially costly personal healthcare through [private] insurance companies. I suggest removing any text regarding health insurance in regards to the education section as it is not relevant to the French educational system.
Cdelapointe (talk) 20:31, 28 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Already corrected!User-duck (talk) 07:07, 7 January 2018 (UTC)
Talk:Landau (carriage)

message: So... is it open, or is it covered? Iamvered (talk) 22:30, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The article says it is a convertible, I.e. can be open at times and coverede at times, according to the passengers' choice. --Etxrge (talk) 15:31, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Luis Enrique (singer)

message: This whole article has been plagerised from another source and the tone of the article gives it away. This article does not need to be deleted because the singer himself is notable. Magiciandude (talk) 06:03, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article needs a partial rewrite 
Template talk:English Electric aircraft

message: Although the template is a very useful addition, I find the alphabetical order of the aircraft to be counter-intuitive. A chronological/designation sequence might be more appropriate. Or is it possible to provide a mechanism to allow the reader to switch between alphabetical and chronological sequences? --TraceyR (talk) 00:07, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point, although most readers would not know the correct chronological order and would just use it to find other EE products. In some of the other templates like Piper it would be hard to find entries if they were not alphabetic. Perhaps we should ask at project level. MilborneOne (talk) 12:13, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Point taken re Piper. I have added two templates to the Short Brothers article, one alphabetical, the other chronological. What do you think? --TraceyR (talk) 14:07, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alphabetical / chronological?
Talk:Irish Crown Jewels

message: *Allegedly this story was the basis of The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.53.145.119 (talk) 13:11, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia needs more than an anonymous allegation to include that in the article.  There is virtually no similarity between the story and the theft of the Irish Crown Jewels.  I recommend that the section in this article claiming a connection be removed, and also the similarly unsourced section "Elements from real life" in the article The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans.  24.27.31.170 (talk) 20:01, 23 October 2011 (UTC)

message: What do we know of this fellow Shackleton? Should he have an article of his own? Drutt (talk) 01:54, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Francis R Shackleton 
Talk:Carl Bell (physician)

message: From the edit summaries in the article history it is clear that the article has been created and mainly edited by the subject himself. Some sections read as a CV, other parts seem to be there to push a DVD. Some cleanup is needed. --Crusio (talk) 22:52, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Autobiography 
Talk:Chandler Parsons

message: Chandler Parsons does not play for the Dallas Mavericks yet. The Houston Rockets have 3 days to match the offer. Get your stuff together. 
64.91.130.222 (talk) 04:21, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 10 July 2014 

message: SInce Parsons was injured. I have noticed a lot of vandalism by anonoymous users. Could this page be protected to a level where only extended confirmed users or above can edit? ColinBear (talk) 15:32, 26 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page Protection?
Talk:Ireland's Own

message: As a newcomer to Wikipedia, I feel reticent about actually changing what someone else has written, but I feel compelled to point out that the political party Cumann na nGaedheal was founded, according to its own article, in 1900, rather than 1904.  Moreover, George the Fifth did not ascend the throne until 1910, and his father Edward was king in 1904, so nothing that happened in 1904 (or, for that matter, in 1900) can have been in protest against King George V and Queen Mary. Joseph Sheridan (talk) 16:35, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed. May also be worth noting that the Ireland's Own offices are no longer in Main Street. I imagine some of the magazine's loyal readers might be surprised that it's now owned by Mediahuis, who also own the famously Unionist Belfast Telegraph. 92.13.216.182 (talk) 11:51, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inconsistencies in the article 
File talk:Aldfrith British Isles.gif

message: Anti-Pictish Discrimination League rep here ... good map ... but poor ole Fortriu is missing though. Deacon of Pndapetzim (Talk) 22:59, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, thanks for the heads-up.  I'll hold off on updating till I get the article in shape, then I was planning to ask Angus for any other changes he thinks it needs.  Thanks! Mike Christie (talk) 23:38, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: And Fortriu?
Talk:DeepC

message: This article is part of the Timeline of hydrogen technologies. Mion (talk) 12:06, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Timeline of hydrogen technologies 
Talk:Solemn Declaration of 1893

message: CorenSearchBot is wrong.
The statement has been in the public domain since it was first made in 1893.  I took it from the same public source as the website identified by CorenSearchBot.
No problem there, but this is just a source text.  It isn't an encyclopedia article.  Can you add any historical facts to this? --PMDrive1061 (talk) 15:43, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: * The bot tagged it correctly. Articles must be completely written in your own words. Please see WP:COPYVIO for more. Thanks :-) LightAnkhC|MSG 15:47, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: *Not so. If the source used is out of copyright, there is no copyright issue with using the original text (there may be other issues, but not copyright) Mayalld (talk) 15:56, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Wrong
Talk:Chestatee High School

message: best school ever yall come visit  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.183.34.48 (talk) 22:23, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Some statistics in the infobox are outdated. Updated numbers are below
*Staff: 70 ( FTE)
*Enrollment: 1250 (Should also be updated in About Chestatee section
Demographics section should change to:
*American Indian or Alaskan: 0.4%
*Asian or Pacific Islander: 2.2%
*Black: 2.1%
*Hispanic: 47.2%
*White: 65.5%
*Multi-racial: 1.6%
All data can be cited with
Additionally, the website in the infobox should be changed to https://chs.hallco.org
The current URL will eventually become a dead link
Andrew at Hallco (talk) 13:26, 20 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: . Your percentages add up to more than 100%. I've recalculated them, but perhaps you could verify whether the posted version is correct. Altamel (talk) 01:28, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks! And your recalculated percentages are definitely correct. Thanks for catching that. Don't know how I miscalculated and missed that in a proofread. Andrew at Hallco (talk) 15:21, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, !  Please note I added a  to your edit request.  You should use these with each request; otherwise any references you cite will just get lumped together at the bottom of the page and be confusing.  Template:talk reflist holds all the references in the section they were intended to reference. Thanks.  John from Idegon (talk) 22:34, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requesting edits to update statistics 
Talk:Gretchen Parlato

message: Someone should write the standard stuff: birth loc and year.  Google: she was educated at Los Angeles County High School for the Arts. 
None of the references are linked with specific claims in the article. Dogru144 (talk) 01:20, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Personal bioo

message: Brazilian? Is that a genre? Maybe Bossa-nova? I am not an expert in the matter, but I don't like it... maybe specify a little bit more?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.252.92.246 (talk) 22:28, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Genres
Talk:Pat Pitney

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: Moved   (t · c) buidhe 23:38, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Pat Spurgin →  – The article subject first became notable as a 1984 Olympic gold medalist under her maiden name, Pat Spurgin.  However, for most of her life she has been known by her married name, Pat Pitney, and she has achieved new notability as the current University of Alaska system president under that name.  Of the 16 post-2000 cited sources for the article, 13 of them refer to her only as Pat Pitney.  The remaining three sources are mostly interested in her Olympian history: one calls her Pat Spurgin Pitney (Murray State Racers source), another calls her Pat Spurgin Pitney in the lede and Pitney throughout the article body (Anchorage Daily News source), and the third calls her Spurgin in the title, Pat Spurgin Pitney in the lede, and Pitney throughout the article body (Murray Ledger source).  Relevant policy is WP:NAMECHANGES (reliable sources written after the name change routinely use the Pitney name) and WP:COMMONNAME (the Pitney name is the one that contemporary readers are likely to search for, because she is now primarily notable as the university president). Dieter.Meinertzhagen (talk) 21:02, 14 February 2021 (UTC)

text: Hi Dieter - thanks for the ping. Support per the refs in the article. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 07:19, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 14 February 2021 

message: Hello,
You have made a substantial contribution to the article Pat Spurgin during the last ten years.  I'm writing to advise you that I  am proposing to move this page from Pat Spurgin, the name under which the subject achieved notability as a 1984 Olympic gold medalist, to Pat Pitney, the name under which the subject has been known for most of her life and under which she has attained recent notability as the president of the University of Alaska system. Your comments would be welcome.
Dieter.Meinertzhagen (talk) 22:31, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Dieter - thanks for the ping. Support per the refs in the article. Lugnuts Fire Walk with Me 07:19, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inform recent editors of proposed name change
Talk:Kipper (medieval tournament)

message: Where does this come from?  I've tagged it as unreferenced, but find it dubious; I've never come across this in any source, and a "google test" yields only sites citing or replicating this.  Anyone able to help?  Otherwise, I'm tempted to mark it "disputed". Gwinva (talk) 23:28, 13 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Can't find a great source for it, but added one so you can see it's accurate. A few more at books.google.com (search: tournament kipper) 71.191.42.242 (talk) 16:55, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Accuracy?
Talk:Ulster Junior Football Championship

message: Please do not delete - I will add sources for the information here.
Pmunited (talk) 17:01, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The actual name of this competition is Ulster Junior Football Championship. Please do not move it again to any other name without discussion and consensus. Brocach (talk) 11:14, 17 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use common name of competition