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Talk:Isaac Komnenos of Cyprus

message: The accepted spelling seems to be Comnenus, which I found out too late. Could the page be renamed?
--Yak 17:49, Mar 11, 2004 (UTC)
or even better Isaac of Cyprus, to avoid confusion with Emperor Isaac Comnenos
--Yak 22:46, Mar 11, 2004 (UTC)
:I moved it to Isaac Comnenus of Cyprus, and made a new Isaac Comnenus disambiguation page just in case anyone makes links to that in the future. (Thanks for making this page, by the way!) Adam Bishop 20:54, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you mean his mother? His daughter's name, unless it's appeared somewhere in the article and I've missed it, is said to be unknown. As for the spelling, you're right that -i would be the transliteration from modern Greek, but Byzantine articles in Wikipedia use a different transliteration. In fact Eirene would be the preferred form. Similarly, Eleni which you cite is the modern Greek form but not the ancient one. Andrew Dalby 14:47, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: What does it mean in this clause: "He was son of an unnamed Doukas Kamateros" ? Jan1naD (talk • contrib) 22:53, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unnamed? 

message: In the Third Crusade section, what exactly does "Isaac is recorded firing two arrows at Richard from horseback, which is notable because Byzantine horse archery is an obscure subject" mean? 
What is obscure in the byzantine horse archery? And what does this supposedly obscurity has to do anything with the incident? D1177 (talk) 11:41, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: The author, Ian Heath recounts that the records of Byzantine horse-archery are rather scarce, and the record involving Isaac Komnenos is one of the more notable cases. Go-Chlodio (talk) 09:35, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

text: This was alluding to native Byzantine troops using horse-archers, not their mercenaries or auxiliary units, but I did misremember it:Komnenos of Cyprus firing two arrows at King Richard from horseback in 1191. Certainly, composite bows are depicted amongst the weapons of most military saints in late Byzantine art. It can, therefore, conclude that, despite having fallen out of favor from c. 1150 to c. 1350 ‒ during which period Byzantine sources invariably describe their cavalrymen fighting only with lance and sword ‒ the bow clearly never entirely disappeared. Go-Chlodio (talk) 01:41, 22 October 2019 (UTC)

text: Yes, it should probably be something like:"While Richard was traveling to Nicosia, Isaac unsuccessful attempt to ambush the company with 700 men. Ambroise of Normandy records that Isaac himself fired to arrows at Richard from the horseback; a Byzantine practice that had begun falling out of favor during the middle of the century." But we would need another source for your claim. Go-Chlodio (talk) 00:15, 23 October 2019 (UTC)

text: I'm fine with that edit. Go-Chlodio (talk) 15:33, 25 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "obscure subject"
Talk:Lebanese Civil War

message: Popular song by Chris de Burgh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timing_Is_Everything_(album)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.236.138.31 (talk) 09:26, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add Lebanese Night (song) to pop culture list? 

message: Much of this article (from "Independence" onwards) appears identical to this page at the website Global Religious Views. I suspected plagiarism because this is a huge amount of text to have absolutely no references and some of it is not very encyclopedic in style. It's possible the plagiarism runs the other way as unfortunately that website gives no dates or author credit. Hairy Dude (talk) 12:14, 11 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plagiarism? 

message: Please add a source on the Christian Palestinians fighting with the PLO part. Palestinian Christians fought on both sides of the war. 2600:1001:B114:C3EF:0:11:50E2:5F01 (talk) 17:51, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Palestinian groups at the time were secular, so it doesn't make sense to point out specific religions. George Habash, the leader of the PFLP,is already mentioned, but due to the secular nature of the group, religion is irrelevant. FunkMonk (talk) 18:15, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Christian Palestinians? 

message: Change "Jumblatt.After the Israelis from Chouf," to "Jumblatt. After the Israelis withdrew from Chouf," Danzig90 (talk) 08:40, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: M.Bitton (talk) 10:57, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 17 July 2023 

message: Jillian Becker seems to be considered a partisan source even at the time The PLO was first published (https://merip.org/1985/06/becker-the-plo/). Is there a better source showing the attacks came from Lebanon? 152.130.7.65 (talk) 15:12, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problematic source 

message: There is no need to hyphenate “Maronite Christians”. 82.36.70.45 (talk) 16:04, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maronites are Christians 

message: Hi, I just wanted to suggest two more films, both of them excellent, that you could add to the "In Popular Culture" section. Firstly, you definitely ought to have the Ziad Doueiri film West Beirut listed there. And even though it's not set at the time of the Civil War, you might also consider adding Doueiri's much later film The Insult, which is all about memories of the Civil War, a bit like Memory Box. That's all! Thanks for reading :~) Eastofeast (talk) 21:36, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Films 

message: Exactly how many Palestinians were killed in the Bus Massacre? The article here says 30, the article on the Massacre itself notes 27, Fawwaz Traboulsi's A History of Modern Lebanon claims 21 (page 182), and David Gilmour says 27 in Lebanon: the Fractured Country (page 109). 138.251.228.150 (talk) 20:12, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bus Massacre Death Count
Talk:Home cheesemaking

message: If anyone wants, I have 21 pictures related to home cheesemaking here.  For a description of what I was doing when these pictures were taken, visit here.  I took these when working to get approval from the health department to make cheese for sale at a farmers market - consider them to all be public domain.  - Rei  — Preceding undated comment added 18:24, 11 March 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Wind turbine

message: Does a wind turbine always include a generator? In all other uses of the word turbine it appears to be a rotating device generating mechanical energy from a moving gas or liquid. From wiki on turbine: "The work produced can be used for generating electrical power when combined with a generator" Can a wind turbine not be a device creating mechanical energy, but only electric? I am asking because I find this a bit sloppy and inconsistent. Vola31 (talk) 14:01, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  A turbine does not have to be combined with a generator, convenient though that often is. A gas turbine powers planes (and ships) directly. A wind turbine can be used to lift water, and so on. Chiswick Chap (talk) 14:25, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Turbine vs Generator 

message: "The first electricity-generating wind turbine was a battery-charging machine installed in July 1887 by Scottish academic James Blyth to light his holiday home in Marykirk, Scotland."
This statement is most likely inaccurate. The Austrian engineer Josef Friedländer designed and build an electricity-generating wind turbine in 1883 to power lights of the Wiener Prater.
Here the source of this information: https://wien.orf.at/stories/3218746/ (Austrian National News, Text in Austrian German)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:871:20D:67E0:7490:5317:7318:AEEA (talk) 17:20, 5 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  First electric wind turbine 

message: Change "affect on birds population" to "effect on bird population" Richardgomes7d (talk) 23:01, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Cannolis (talk) 00:37, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 31 January 2024 

message: There is nothing in this article on wind turbine fires. There have been a number of well-publicised fires, including fatalities in at least one case. So sources should be no problem.
Watch this space, or help greatly appreciated. Andrewa (talk) 06:28, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wind turbine fires
Talk:Eliwood

message: The assertion that Roy can only use the SoS because he has Dragon blood is original research, I believe. I seem to remember a line or so about how Roy was only chosen to use it because he had the Fire Emblem, not because of anything else. He even asked about why he was 'chosen', I believe, and that's the answer he got from the Princess of Bern. I know this has been speculated about on forums... let me try to retrieve the lines from a fan translation of the script. Should be a link on the Fire Emblem: Sword of Seals page... 169.229.121.94 19:10, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Not necessarily, since Nergal's daughter Ninian isn't the only girl Eliwood can marry in Rekka no Ken. He can also marry Lyn (half-Lycian, half-Sacaean) or Fiora (Illian). Lunamaria 12:08, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sword of Seals use = Dragon blood?!
Talk:Aurora

message: The claim that sunlight striking the particles trapped by the inversion causes a noise is nonsense, this would happen at dawn, not during the night when aurora noise is claimed to be heard. How these particles from 100km to 1000km in altitude make it down to 70m. A low level temperature inversion reflects sound, so noises heard may have a source 20km away.
The first reference requires giving your info to view article, second reference is no longer avail on site. 2001:56A:F9C9:1900:44D6:B0C6:2D4E:E34E (talk) 22:50, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aurora Noise 

message: I went to this article to confirm that auroras are indeed solar wind particles hitting upper atmosphere particles, exciting them and emitting energy in the form of light. However, it's really hard to find this information in the article, it's quite obfuscated. There is various talk of "disturbances in the magnetosphere" and "particles altering trajectories" and "interaction of solar wind and magnetosphere". I mean, I am sure it's all scientifically correct, but isn't the basic fact of particles hitting particles a bit more understandable to the average reader? I guess it requires a brave person to make such an edit. Jackissimus (talk) 09:25, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Could there be a bit clearer summary for amateurs? 

message: Is an aurora dangerous?
Is an aurora dangerous? 122.161.52.154 (talk) 08:14, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you are in the wrong place. This section is for discussing the article itself, not asking questions about the article. To answer your question, no an aurora is not dangerous. Luna Wagner (talk) 12:08, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aurora 

message: Remove any specifications lf Earth. Aurorae can happen in any atmosphere, even some stars, such as brown dwarves. 199.45.195.249 (talk) 01:40, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: We live on earth, so I believe it is highly relevant to talk about aurora on earth primarily. It is good to mention that they may also occur in other atmospheres, but not enough to warrant removing earth from the article. Luna Wagner (talk) 16:08, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove Earth 

message: I suggest to add the transitions responsible for the two oxygen lines.
I have wondered why the green line is not produced at top height, since the shorter lifetime [oh, I would like to see word lifetime after 0.7 and 107 s] should make it always stronger. I feel that the collisions with N2 may supply more energy to O than the mechanisms active above, so may populate the 2nd excited level (1S) and not only the first (1D). If I am correct, the red transition is NOT suppressed as says the article, is simply masked by the green one.
Also adding the spectroscopic name of the N2 transition is welcomed.
Excuse my poor english - I have no more access to the university library (I am aged) and I cannot find the needed references in the books that I knew.
pietro151.29.78.113 (talk) 18:16, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  comment
Talk:Battle of the Chesapeake

message: I found it's hard to believe that there are 1 million people died or wounded from French side...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:5450:9EF0:48CC:CFCD:E354:7D4C (talk) 04:24, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The solution to this problem, having looked up some facts, would have been to add them- which I've now done. There were, by American Revolutionary War standards, quite a lot of casualties at the (second) Battle of the Chesapeake. I've also made a lot of other changes to the article, but I consider this just a temporary patch- I'd rate this as Start Class, not B-Class, and it really needs a complete rewrite with proper referencing. So do lots of other articles about the American Revolutionary War, hence I'm afraid this is not high on my personal list of priorities. David Trochos (talk) 16:59, 6 January 2008 (UTC)

text: "Should have" doesn't count in history; why not say that the French had 25% more ships and therefore "should have" won? What happened happened; however the reasons why it happened are interesting- and to military planners very important. British naval signalling was just in the process of being improved at the time, and once the new system was fully adopted it made possible some extraordinary tactics. David Trochos (talk) 16:59, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I am pretty sure that the French 74 Sceptre was not commanded by Louis-Philippe de Vaudreuil, who was preparing to command the 80-gun Triomphant under Guichen, to cross the Atlantic in December 1781.  Sceptre was under the command of his younger brother Louis de Rigaud, comte de Vaudreuil.  Check in Villiers, La Marine de Louis XVI.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ferreiro (talk • contribs) 14:36, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sceptre and Vaudreuil
Talk:Cuper's Cove

message: Good article. Actually however this wasn't the second (technically the fifth), considering the Popham Colony was founded in the same year as the Jamestown Settlement, and of course both come after two attempts to settle at Roanoke Island. One could argue that it was the second "permanent" settlement, but its later abandonment makes that claim hazy. I think there is a right way of putting this, but right it seemes incorrect as stated. -- Decumanus 22:27, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Changed wording that I think fits the "second settlement" more appropriately. -- Decumanus 23:05, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I recently moved this to "Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland and Labrador" without much thought as I believed it was describing a community (history, geography, etc.).  Since it predates Newfoundland and Labrador as a political entity, should it be moved back to its original name "Cuper's Cove" and not be categorized under NL communities?  Plasma east 00:11, 3 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 
Talk:Nino Burjanadze

message: Look: I think it is nice that Wikipedia is giving names in Georgian in the Georgian alphabet, but why in the old, ecclesiastical script (khutsuri)? They should be in Mkhedruli, the modern civil script.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.105.137.137 (talk) 16:13, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't see anything in the Georgian-language text of this article (or any other article on a Georgian person or topic) that is choosing a script.  As far as I know, this would be determined by the font settings in your browser and/or the fonts available on your computer.  If you go to the Georgian-language Wikipedia, what does the text there look like to you?  Richwales (talk) 16:39, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Choice of script in article 

message: Issue 1:
The current IPA transcription uses [ ɪ  ʊ  a ] -- but I'm seeing only / i  u  ɑ / in the Georgian language article.
Is the IPA here allophonic, or dialectical, or an error?
Issue 2:
Please add syllable-division marks (period/full stop) and (primary, secondary) syllable-stress marks [ˈ  ˌ] if such stress exists in Georgian. (Note a stress mark also serves as a syllable-division mark when present.)
Issue 3:
Additionally a typical English pronunciation should be given as "in English: [IPA]".
As an edutated English speaker, knowing it is foreign and having never heard it spoken, I would by default say [ˈni:.no bʊr.dʒəˈnɑ:.dzɛi].
But this should be ascertained from news broadcasters -- and I fear my American compatriots who turn Myanmar into "My-ann-marr" might be problematic in this regard.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.36.153.236 (talk) 10:01, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  IPA Pronunciation Issues 

message: Please discuss the article before resorting to vandalism and removing large chunks of text. Thank you Zylog79 (talk) 21:26, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Discussions must be held before questionable text/sources are incorporated, not after.--Margarita439 (talk) 02:40, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

message: Can we find a more credible source than RT (Russia Today) There must be a non-Russian article to give reference to the Silver Revolution, Using a source from a country hostile to Georgia causes the statement to loose credibility, can someone find a more neutral source.--Scottykira (talk) 13:36, 29 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 
Talk:2004 attack on Istanbul restaurant

message: Was it a Jewish masonic lodge - or just a masonic lodge? Secretlondon 23:13, 11 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: I propose to move this article to March 9, 2004 attack on Istanbul restaurant (changing 'of' to 'on') in accordance with normal English usage. Are there any other considerations before I proceed? --gråb whåt you cån (talk) 10:16, 20 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: In the absence of dissent I'm going ahead with the move. Per WP:NAMINGCRITERIA the new name accords with the requirement of 'naturalness', which is lacking in the old title March 9, 2004 attack of Istanbul restaurant. --gråb whåt you cån (talk) 10:47, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I would suggest moving it to something like 2004 Istanbul restaurant attack, which is much more natural than the current title. I realize this is many years after the previous move, but the current title is a mess. Paris1127 (talk) 17:40, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed move
Talk:Historiography

message: South Asian historiography is not mentioned in this article.  When did it start?  What characterises it? Acwilson9 (talk) 06:51, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  South Asian historiography 

message: The recently added section Historiographic and Conceptual Problems of North Africa and Sub-Saharan Africa seems out of place in this broad overview of historiography; it's much too specific and technical for an article on such a general topic and gives undue weight to a specific aspect of historiography. I don't know if there's a better place for this content. What do others think? Lennart97 (talk) 16:00, 5 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Undue section?  

message: As a quantitative economic history graduate I can confidently say that cliometrics is not about history anymore. This subdiscipline almost completely engaged to economics. It has a controversial contribution to historiography. Some quantitative ecohist do not even know the language of the society she is writing about. I suggest you to add history of capitalism as the historicized version of economic history.  I can also contribute the improvement.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.209.32.73 (talk) 06:07, 19 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Cliometrics is generally not considered a historical field by historians. That's why even most known economic history journals are not cited by them. So I agree with this comment. Is there any objection? 88.230.143.189 (talk) 04:16, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  cliometrics 

message: — Assignment last updated by Calebbeausoleil (talk) 18:59, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Content Area Literacy
Talk:A. H. Tammsaare

message: Before 1918, Sochi and Tartu were part of the same country. He crossed no borders, ergo, there was no "journey abroad". --Ghirla-трёп- 13:44, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Wrong. Digwuren 21:30, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Journey abroad" 
Talk:Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute

message: :Please don't move this page to CAGI. 
:CAGI is something else. 
:Mikkalai 00:05, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes, you are right. English spelling is "TsAGI" not "CAGI", see website name for example. --Yuriy Lapitskiy 21:43, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naming issue
Talk:Interrogative word

message: Should Whither be added?    Tabletop (talk) 07:44, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Whither 

message: Indian languages seem to be getting a bit too much attention, plus the descriptions themselves are badly worded. Could we get some examples from a more diverse language set? 82.4.15.210 (talk) 23:37, 24 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Excessive description of Indian languages

message: Two questions:
First, should "whether" be there? It is not an interrogative word, it is a subordinating conjunction which introduces complement clauses.
Second, isn't this page too "English-oriented"? It is missing the semantic category showing "amount" or "quantity". What happens is that, in English language, there is no single word for that. English decomposes it in "how many" or "how much" but there are several languages (for instance, romance languages) that have a specific word for that: quanto, cuanto, combien, etc.
213.63.94.16 (talk) 12:25, 10 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Whether and how many / how much

message: Hi, both Arabic and Spanish should be treated in the entry, for they're major languages. Thanks in advance. --Backinstadiums (talk) 09:56, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arabic and Spanish 

message: It's a nice idea, mentioning MLE. However, the use of "innit" is never as an interrogative particle. It's used at the end of sentences (or by itself) for emphasishttps://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/innithttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/innit. So, not much unlike a tag question.
An interrogative particle turns a statement into a question, which in this case would mean that the sentence
"This book is big."
would turn into
"This book is big, innit?"
and would mean the same as
"Is this book big?"
which is obviously ridiculous - a more accurate synonymous way of phrasing it would be
"This book is big, isn't it?"
which is ultimately the origin of the contraction anyway. Now, though the two do seem similar, the difference is that the party asking the question already knows the answer beforehand if they use "innit" - so not an interrogative particle.
To sum up - the word "innit" is not an interrogative particle in any way - one does not use it to transform statements into yes/no questions. I find it should be removed from the introduction.
84.81.40.9 (talk) 17:20, 18 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I beg to differ, if pronounced as having a rising tone throughout, or as [ɪnɪ̌ʔ], it does indeed mark a question. 2607:F5F0:110:1:0:0:0:34 (talk) 21:13, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of "innit" 

message: The list at the top lists these separately, but wouldn't it make more sense to list them as one word like "who/whom"? Putting them as separate entries in a list implies they're as distinct as who vs. what vs. why etc. when really whom is just the objective case inflection of who. Cyllel (talk) 19:30, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  who and whom 

message: , hiarbab Ali
@junejo 2402:AD80:82:E99B:28EC:C2FF:FEC7:D49D (talk) 17:02, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  0317755888