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Talk:Lovedale (South Africa)

message: I replaced the original (1911 EB) kaffirs with natives, although I recognize that the first term was not specifically derogatory in its 19th century context, and perhaps the second is also offensive. I'd appreciate a review of that.
Also, the online 1911 versions say "The sum paid in fees by scholars (of whom fully nine-tenths were Kaffirs) in the period 1841-1908 was 84,000." Even if that is intended to be £4,000, it's a lot of money and I don't believe it. David Brooks 06:18, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

message: Can we not beef up this article by giving some more info on the founding fathers of the station and the work they did there.
The likes of John Roos and John Bennie come to mind--Scottykira (talk) 07:41, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: John Bennie has an article which includes some mentions of John Ross.--Felix Folio Secundus (talk) 14:49, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missionaries
Talk:Richard Flanagan

message: What about his academic work - don't we need the earlier part of his career as well?User:SatuSuro 06:28, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: haha - 8 years later we have people making academic careers out of explaining him: *http://www.ca-cranston.com/Flanagan%20.pdf Representation of Region and Nation in Literary Culture Studies Conference, University of Madras, 2009. Transcript of Plenary session 'The (Hydro)power Relations within Nation and Region, and the (de)formation of Identity in the case of Richard Flanagan' by Dr. CA. Cranston. Discusses the relationship of Flanagan's novels, films, to Island politics.
removed as it is not tied into the article. satusuro 01:22, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This section in particular reads like a publishers blurb rather than an encyclopedia article - every book quotes extensively from a positive review stating what an amazing writer Flanagan is. Some collection of critical assessment is appropriate, but the tone of this skews much too far toward seeking critical praise rather than describing what the novels are about, when they were published, what the context was, etc.Irregulargalaxies (talk) 04:35, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree a little. I mean, it does show the novels are notable, but you could add some differing views for neutrality. Doctorhawkes (talk) 07:40, 12 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Novels 

message: If his severe hearing loss was corrected at age 6, presumably decades before he ever wrote anything, is it appropriate to categorise him as a deaf writer? --  Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 08:41, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Deaf writers category
Talk:Grace (Legacy Edition)

message: I've added a merge suggestion since i can't see any reason for an extra page with minimal extra information for the rerelease.  It could be easily merged into the other article with the extra tracklisting being added below current one and other cover and information being added to bottom of infobox as mentioned here. --Thetriangleguy 19:11, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge Suggestion
Talk:Sonic the Hedgehog (video game)/archive 1

message: Redirected from "Sonic the Hedgehog" (copied all the content from there over here) - please see discussion of that article for further information.
Maybe someone could do the same (changing the "the" in Sonic The Hedgehog to a capitalized "The" - see discussion mentioned) for the other Sonic The Hedgehog titles? I'm pretty sure it should be changed for ALL occurences of the term in all articles, but I'm in the middle of writing a paper for university (yes, actually on Sonic & Knuckles for Genesis ;)) and it is due tomorrow so lots of stuff to finish there for me... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 207.6.255.183 (talk • contribs) 02:49, 10 August 2005.
I've checked the article this was moved from, and the general consensus on that talk page was that it should not have been moved at all. It seems someone acted unilaterally in this, so I'm going to act unilaterally and move it back again. Since most articles link to Sonic the Hedgehog (Genesis) and not Sonic The Hedgehog (Genesis), and since this is in keeping with other Sonic articles, I feel this is justified. -- Supermorff 20:28, 3 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sonic the Hedgehog --> Sonic The Hedgehog
Talk:Chief Justice of India

message: Radha Binod Pal needs to be linked in somewhere to a list of Indian justices.  Perhaps someone who knows the pages on India better than me can do it ... I've had a look and can't find a suitable place.
Radha Binod Pal was never a judge of an Indian Court and therefore it seems to me that he cannot be linked to judges section. However I think that it is better to place him in the list of Indian jurists. So am placing it accordingly.
hope thats the better way. Tarun2k (talk) 23:04, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Linking of Names

message: Chief justice of india Rocky kumar Mahato (talk) 14:53, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  N.V. Ramana
Talk:British Standard Whitworth

message: The contributor of the original article is an American, so I'm going to assume his comments on BSW no longer being used apply particularly to the USA. It's certainly not true in Australia; Nearly all the bolts and machine screws available for sale in hardware stores here are still BSW. Andrewa 06:37, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Amazing! Are there special cars, appliances , bicycles etc. made for Australia? Each of these industries converted to ISO standard (metric) screws long ago, even Detroit. How do you find bolts for stuff manufactured abroad? 82.181.150.151 19:59, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

message: There was a wrong link to the article :de:Whitworth-Rohrgewinde, which in fact describes BSP thread for pipes (R + Rp, not W). As far as I can see, there is no article on W (BSW) thread on German Wiki, except an equally erroneous redirect. --Sokoljan (talk) 21:16, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  IW 

message: The distinguishing feature of Cycle Thread is that it is 26TPI regardless of diameter. 185.13.106.94 (talk) 23:01, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cycle thread 

message: Here is an example: http://www.wire-brush.co.uk/wirebrushstore/prod_1646675-Steel-Wire-Tube-Brush-40mm-x-W12.html. It says: "Thread size: W1/2". 
If so, could someone who knows about this add something to the article about this notation? 
192.38.5.154 (talk) 18:40, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does "W 1/2" mean Whitworth? 

message: The picture contains a wrong angle. BSW has 55° so half of it is 27°30' but not 22°30' as the picure states.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.38.70.28 (talk) 21:01, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong thread angle in picture 
Talk:Hamilton, New Zealand

message: This should probably be updated since it's 10 years out of date:
A new cancer hospital is due to open in November 2010 on the previous Braemar Hospital campus. 
 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 49.224.165.81 (talk) 01:48, 12 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for bring this to our attention. The old Braemar Hospital was replaced by Lyons Lodge, a facility giving accommodation and support to people receiving cancer treatment. It's not a hospital itself, as far as I can tell. I've removed the sentence from the article.-gadfium 01:51, 21 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hospital 

message: I am not sure what the bolding in the article is about, which is why I am questioning the inclusion of more bolding in different sections of article. Surely it's about certain subject stuff? Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 02:26, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bolding 

message: Hamhole anyone?
I see it as urgent that one of Hamiltons nicknames, well known among the youth, is properly displayed. Proper representation of Hamilton by its residence is of foremost importance. Mackmack11306 (talk) 09:47, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: We need a reliable source.-gadfium 18:47, 9 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nicknames
Talk:Josiah Vanderbilt/Whitney Hornblower

message: Would someone please add a photograph of Josiah. 
Please include more biographical information on him.
Please indicate how he is related to the Vanderbilts, Whitney's, and Hornblowers.
(Plus how did he get that slash in his name? How can I get one too? --Wetman 09:05, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Hiroo Yamagata

message: This article apparently conflates two different, both clearly notable Japanese figures whose names seem to be transliterated into nearly identical forms. To use the most common forms for each:
Hiro Yamagata (b.1948), extremely notable visual artist who, among many other credits, is coauthor/illustrator of a collaborative work with Allen Ginsberg
Hiroo Yamagata (b.1964), notable writer on software-related matters who, in English translation alone, meets audience requirements (eg, , ) and is Lawrence Lessig's Japanes translator.  
Needs disambiguation, division, and expansion, not deletion —Preceding unsigned comment added by Monicasdude (talk • contribs) 
:And, as always, someone else has to do it. Gee, thanks. ➨ ≡ЯΞDVΞRS≡ 20:45, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I prefer, in the first instance, to have articles in specialized areas written by people who are familiar with the subject matter. You seem to differ. Monicasdude 21:41, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prod objection 

message: This article survived an Articles for Deletion debate. The discussion can be found here. -Doc ask? 23:46, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Articles for Deletion debate
Talk:Battle of Thapsus

message: Why, for gods' sake, there is reference to battle of Bagradas in battlebox? the Battle took place almost 200 years before Ceasar's Civil War, nor any Roman took important role in it! I suppose it should be replaced with "Rubicon".--MWeinz 07:08, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled 2

message: I was looking at this link and they use the same date as this article for the landing at Hadrumentum, but instead of the February date for Thapsus, they have April 4th. Anybody have a better reference? Jolomo 22:38, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Months? 

message: I know Encyclopedia Britannica names February 6. But all other sources i found say April 6. E.g. Meyers Konversationslexikon (sorry, it's German), but also: , , ,  and so on and so on (these are just the english sources);  only says April. But there are a lot of German sources as well.
--Susu the Puschel 14:32, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of the Battle 

message: Have reverted the dates as per WP:Style. Sesesq changed them a few months ago and they should have been changed without consensus. Please refrain from such things in the future. Alexandre8 (talk) 04:08, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  WP:Style
Talk:Vehicle registration plates of Singapore

message: 1. Where do the numbers on class 3 and 5 on heavy/good vehicles come from? Why not class 2 and 6 for example.
2. Are there for film production or TV-productions special - generally invalid - plates for privacy protection? In Germany there were the letter "O" and "I" regularly used for this purpose since they could not be used in normal plates (it was easy to mistake them as the numbers 1 and 0 (zero)). -Toshi 07:10, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: To avoid confusion. --ZhongHan  (Email) 11:35, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Some questions

message: 1. The numbers come from Singapore driver's licences and indicate which vehicle(s)he is allowed to drive. Respectively, they are:
Class 1   - Invalid carriages (such licences are rare/non existant and this class appears to have been scrapped)
Class 2B  - Motorcycles not exceeding 200cc
Class 2A  - Motorcycles between 201cc and 400cc
Class 2   - Motorcycles exceeding 400cc
Class 3A  -  i) Motor Cars without clutch pedals of unladen weight not exceeding 3000 kilograms with not more than 7 passengers, exclusive of the driver; 
              
ii) and Motor Tractors and other Motor Vehicles without clutch pedals of unladen weight not exceeding 2500 kilograms.
Class 3   -  i) Motor Cars of unladen weight not exceeding 3,000 kilograms with not more than 7 passengers, exclusive of the driver; 
              
ii) and Motor Tractors and other Motor Vehicles of unladen weight not exceeding 2,500 kilograms.
Class 4A  - Omnibuses
Class 4   - Heavy Motor cars and Motor Tractors the weight of which unladen exceeds 2500 kilograms.
Class 5   - Motor Vehicles which are not constructed themselves to carry any load and the weight of which unladen exceeds 7250 kilograms.
Reference - Classification of Motor Vehicles
- ZhongHan 08:25, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Some answers

message: The recently added comment (under 'SH for taxis/street hire cars') saying 'SJE - Singapore Johore-Express' looks suspiciously wrong? SJE is just a normal part of the SJ series for private cars, no?   Sejtam (talk) 09:58, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Claims that need to be checked?

message: Should that not be 'except on' or 'excepting'?  'absent' is confusing (and possibly even wrong), making it sound like those letters won't appear (which would be perfectly clear from the preceding half-sentence)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sejtam (talk • contribs) 05:20, 28 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "absent on" ?
Template talk:White House Chiefs of Staff

message: I believe this template should be titled "White House Chief of Staffs", as it's a list of the various WHCOSs. This is apparently the standard, judging fromthe Sec. of Defense and Vice President templates. -b 07:13, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Title

message: I have removed "fictional" WHCOS from the template as the list should contain actual chief of staffs.  --Hurricane111 21:45, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Fictional

message: I think this navbox would benefit from including which chief of staff worked with which president. Legoktm (talk) 07:01, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Organize/mention President?
Talk:Massive compact halo object

message: The term 'MACHO' was proposed by Kim Griest (now on the faculty at UC San Diego) as a tongue-in-cheek challenge to the other favored dark matter candidate 
at the time, WIMPs. The term stuck.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.69.246.40 (talk) 11:26, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Backronym

message: I'm also concerned by the lack of citations in this article. Frankly, MACHOs are just as pseudoscience-y as Dark Matter itself... No wonder they can't find any in the universe. One would think we could at least list a few citations of where the pseudoscience was published? Mgmirkin 00:05, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The article could indeed use some citations.  I have added one.  You might also consider reading the papers before dismissing the work of others as pseudoscience.  Or if you have already read them - how about some help in adding citations to the articles?.  FYI, some MACHOs have been found, just not enough to dominate the mass of the galactic halo.  --Reuben 02:30, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Citations?

message: After looking at several listings for 'MACHO' on dictionary.com, it would appear to me that it stands for Massive astrophysical compact halo object.  Should the "astrophysical" be included in the subject of the article? Im.a.lumberjack 01:29, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What the acronym stands for 

message: I'm concerned that there are two usages of MACHO being used in this article:
* MACHO=something that explains dark matter
* MACHO=a massive compact halo object
I think the problem is that there is confusion about the definition and the original purpose.  The article explains that MACHOs cannot account for *all* of the "dark matter" in galaxies, so it's use as *the* explanation of dark matter is failed.  Therefor, I believe the article would benefit from a consistent usage of the term MACHO to mean "massive compact halo object", and usages that imply it explains *all* of dark matter should be reworked.  70.247.169.197 (talk) 18:06, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Varying definitions 

message: Nobody calls these objects "Massive compact halo objects". The title of the article needs to be changed to something that people do use, either "Massive astronomical compact halo objects", "MACHO", "MACHOs", or "Macho (astron.)".Mollwollfumble (talk) 17:49, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: My Internet search finds several sources that use "MAssive Compact Halo Objects". Please start a discussion (see WP:RM for instructions) to decide whether it should be "Massive astronomical compact halo objects". – wbm1058 (talk) 20:29, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong article title 

message: The conclusion "Therefore, the missing mass problem is not solved by MACHOs" is not substantiated in the article. Based on this article, brown dwarfs or smaller objects, such as black snowballs, could still account for the missing mass. Experimental arguments should be cited ruling out brown dwarfs and Oort like objects or the text should be modified to leave open this possibility.
Aoosten (talk) 14:50, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsubstantiated conclusion
Talk:Tina Ambani

message: "the girl with a past"---nothing on that?
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.248.69.31 (talk) 16:24, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: * 
Just see http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tina_Ambani&diff=562112196&oldid=562072362
My version gives the ref - http://www.boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=186&catName=MTk4MA==</ref - proving  Karz was a success and http://www.boxofficeindia.com/showProd.php?itemCat=187&catName=MTk4MQ== says Katilol Ka Katil was hit. Though Rishi-Tina did 6 films - rest 4 are not even mentioned in the site proving they were not in top 20 and hence other four not successful.
* Whereas in the earlier  version not only user NeinN removed these two refs but also claims - Rakesh Roshan repeated Tina in films, such as Aap Ke Deewane (1980) and Aakhir Kyon? (1985) - where the fact is Akhir Kyun was of J.Om Prakash and Rakesh Roshan was only a supporting actir and the film was not produced and directed by Rajesh Roshan. Have the users bonadea and NeinN provided any citation for this claim?
* What I had added - for tat refs are there but for the info you have put is original research and not a fact and so remove it!!!Lionbase1234 (talk) 04:27, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:OR applies to this article just like all others, and the removed information violated that guideline, as shown by the synthesis of sources above. (Please note that the comments above are made by a blocked sockpuppet whose modus operandi with her or his many confirmed sockpuppet accounts is to add original research and minor trivia details to articles; whether by ignorance of the guidelines despite many attempts over many years to educate her or him, or because s/he is aware of the guidelines but chooses to ignore them, is unknown.) --bonadea contributions talk 16:18, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: In addition, and more importantly, WP:BLP applies to all articles about living people, and adding unsourced or badly sourced gossip about living people really is not acceptable. Ambani and Khanna had a relationship - that is well-sourced. Minor details about their breakup, or possible reasons why she chose not to continue filming, phrased in gossip-magazine terms and with very weak sources indeed, simply are not encyclopedic information or appropriate for Wikipedia. --bonadea contributions talk 16:23, 18 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Issues
Talk:Rolf (Ed, Edd n Eddy)

message: This should be merged into the characters section of Ed, Edd n Eddy, but I don't know enough about the show to do it. the wub  "?/!" 07:55, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: There's even less a point to this article than the Eddy one. I think it's clear where I stand on this. Krazykillaz 23:25, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Hiroyuki Sakai

message: - The article claims he has the best record of any of the iron chefs. the bio for the first iron chef french reported 7 wins and 1 loss. i think an actual percentage/record shold be reported for sakai if anyone can find one. (Edit: A final tally can be determined from the first external link...but it's more work than I care to do :))
:The Iron Chef article claims 70-15-1, which would be worse than Ishinabe; but he could still be the best record of the final iron chefs, or the 'longstanding' iron chefs... either way, it needs ot eb altered. TheHYPO 09:01, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Best record?

message: This article needs to be entirely deleted and restarted by an expert. Lots42 (talk) 22:31, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Delete 
Talk:Rolando Galman

message: This nonentity would be perfectly well served with a brief mention at Ninoy Aquino. --Wetman 08:07, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I have turned this page into a redirect. If there is more information the page may be restored, but for now everything it says can be found on Ninoy Aquino. Conscious 16:55, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Past Discussions
Talk:General Scales

message: The Developers had to ruin things for us by having Andross kill General Scales for the Krazoa Spirit inside of him and deprive us of the opportunity to fight General Scales which would have been a kick-ass fight. Instead, we, the people who played this game, got kicked in the balls expecting the grand fight that never came to be. --Arima 08:08, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  What a rip man...
Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/12.144.5.2

message: Now while I understand and respect Carnildo's impression of the matter, "I consider the en/em dash commands to be vandalism,not "correct"." and "the simplicity advantages of hyphens are overwhelming and the HTML commands an obnoxious conceit." seem, to me at least, to make the issue of browser of choice entirely beside the point.
Regardless of how Lynx does or doesn't "break" them, Louis is changing them deliberately, no doubt for the same reason as his "spaces after punctuation is obselete" view.
Now it could be that he is changing them solely because they don't display correctly for him under Lynx, but I hope that's not the case, as that makes him out to be, quite frankly, a selfish bigot.
But I digress. The main thing is, judging by his response I can't believe that this is Lynx's fault. GarrettTalk 08:10, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes,I deliberately remove the HTML commands when it is convenient to do so.They cause me inconvenience as a Lynx-using editor and make no difference to me as a Lynx-using reader,thus their only impact on me is negative.I work with line length limits other browsers may not have,and wasted characters are wasted characters.--Louis E./le@put.com/12.144.5.2 02:17, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

text: That strikes me as remarkably self-centered. Even if their only impact on you is negative, most of the world does not browse using Lynx. --Prosfilaes 07:48, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: However,the additional characters to page through when editing are a negative effect on everyone even if they don't share my line-length-limit problems.--Louis E./le@put.com/12.144.5.2 03:17, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Blank lines, such as the one above your comment also increase the "paging through" cost. I suspect that others share my thought that the "paging through" cost is outweighed by the enhanced readability. After all, we are hear to enhance the spread of knowledge, not to make editing simpler. --Habap 15:14, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion of Outside view by [[User:Carnildo|Carnildo]]