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Talk:Hamilton and Alexandra College

message: I am going to revert the most recent edits for the following reasons:
The sentences:
:Established in 1871, the College has a long history of academic excellence and a tradition of high achievement. With emphasis on small class sizes, the College provides a nurturing yet challenging environment for students from the Early Learning Centre through to Year 12.
are far from neutral. Specifically:
*Who says the college has a "tradition of high achievement"? Just about every school/college prospectus ever written says that - it's marketing guff and it needs an independent secondary source to stay.
*"With an emphasis on small class sizes" is more marketing-speak - How small is small? Small relative to what? Wikipedia is international - "small" in the UK where I teach is under 30 for the state sector, under 15 for the private sector; "small" in the developing world may be considerably higher.
*"the College provides a nurturing yet challenging environment" - At best, these are both value judgements and need an independent source. At worst this is more marketing.
In addition, there's no point adding:  since the template doesn't exist - I'm unsure what was intended here.
I've also re-added a link to the school website since it was removed without explanation.
CIreland 10:38, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed the above promotional material again mmj (talk) 01:09, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality 

message: This article could benefit from some information on the school facilities and buildings, such as the murray hall, the new gym, the shilliday hall, the science center, the library and technology centres, and more. mmj (talk) 01:43, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Facilities
Talk:James Goodfellow

message: "is widely acknowledged as"
Sounds like weasel words to me - any reference for that claim? Acknowledged where and by whom? 81.101.3.247 (talk) 01:47, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Boom vang

message: A boom vang (US) or kicking strap (UK) is a system on a sailboat that typically uses a block and tackle or similar system to exert downward force part way along the boom so as to control the twist of the mainsail from its foot to its head, increasing the sail's power and the boat's speed. In windy weather it improves controlability and safety when running. 
An older term is  martingale. 
Was the martingale used as a boom vang? {citation required}
The vang typically runs from a low point on the mast (or a geometrically equivalent point on the hull) to a point about a third of the way along the boom. Due to the great force that can be needed to control the height of the boom in strong winds, a multi-purchase pulley system is often employed, sometimes incorporating a lever. 
===Rod vang===
Yachts are increasingly using rod vangs which incorporate spring loaded rods that can be used to support the weight of the boom, instead of using a topping lift. This makes it quicker, easier and safer to set, drop, or reef the mainsail particularly when short-handed or in an emergency. 
 
A rod vang typically incorporates a metal spring or gas spring, its length being controlled by block and tackle. 
On a larger boat a hydraulic vang may be used, incorporating a hydraulic cylinder controlled by a manual or electric hydraulic pump.
In light weather the rod vang can be used to lift the boom slightly to allow the sail to twist somewhat.
-Updated GilesW 13:00, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed revision

message: Yachts are increasingly using rod vangs which incorporate spring loaded rods that can be used to support the weight of the boom, instead of using a topping lift. This makes it quicker, easier and safer to set, drop, or reef the mainsail particularly when short-handed or in an emergency. 
 
A rod vang typically incorporates a metal spring or gas spring, its length being controlled by block and tackle. 
On a larger boat a hydraulic vang may be used, incorporating a hydraulic cylinder controlled by a manual or electric hydraulic pump.
In light weather the rod vang can be used to lift the boom slightly to allow the sail to twist somewhat.
-Updated GilesW 13:00, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Rod vang

message: On larger sailboats, the boom vang is often a combination of a spring loaded rod controlled by a block and tackle system as shown in this picture.  GilesW 12:52, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture title

message: The term "Boom Jack" is also used. Should this be added? Scatophaga (talk) 11:07, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Boom Jack
Talk:Grand design spiral galaxy

message: M101 pinwheel galaxy is listed in both grand design and flocculent spiral galaxies. they can't both be correct, so one or both has to be removed. to me it looks like a multi-armed galaxy, so that both should be removed.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nnnu (talk • contribs) 15:33, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  M101 pinwheel galaxy 

message: We give the names of several of these galaxies, but a picture for only one of them.  That's in contrast to the page for Flocculent spiral galaxy, which has pictures for several.  Grand designs are very photogenic.  Would somebody who knows how (better than me!) like to insert some more grand-design pictures? Jmacwiki (talk) 03:58, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  More pix?
Talk:Jeff Kwatinetz

message: Is this page really a Wikipedia article? Where are the sources? Where is the balance? Who wrote this crap??? Someone please mark this page either for serious editing or even deletion if this is the best anyone can do!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.127.96.32 (talk) 05:14, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: One or more portions of this article duplicated other source(s). The material was copied from: http://www.usanetwork.com/series/royalpains/theshow/productioninfo/jeffkwatinetz.html. Infringing material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you.  VernoWhitney (talk) 21:53, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem removed 

message: I've removed an old neutrality tag from this page that appears to have no active discussion per the instructions at Template:POV:
::This template is not meant to be a permanent resident on any article. Remove this template whenever:
::#There is consensus on the talkpage or the NPOV Noticeboard that the issue has been resolved
::#It is not clear what the neutrality issue is, and no satisfactory explanation has been given
::#In the absence of any discussion, or if the discussion has become dormant.
Since there's no evidence of ongoing discussion, I'm removing the tag for now. If discussion is continuing and I've failed to see it, however, please feel free to restore the template and continue to address the issues. Thanks to everybody working on this one! -- Khazar2 (talk) 13:27, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  removing POV tag with no active discussion per [[Template:POV]] 

message: The paragraph doesn't make any sense. It includes a sentence about how controversial Kwatinetz is in the industry, but it has no apparent relevance to Spears.
SwampZombieCult (talk) 20:11, 27 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Britney Spears
Talk:Jennifer MacLean

message: It's not clear to me that this article satisfies the criteria at WP:BIO.  Richard Pinch (talk) 19:01, 30 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability 

message: I found a link to this page in the list of pages under the Biography Wikipedia project. It is clear that this individual meets WP:BIO, but there has been a lack of effort to update the page. I will be working on it over the next few weeks. KrackenUni (talk) 15:26, 11 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Work in progress..
Talk:Johann Baptist Chiari

message: This entry is translated from the German wiki. There is conflicting information between that and another sourse
In  p123 footnote 1 the spelling is Baptist Johann Chiari. Redirect added.  
The same footnote also says that Chiari was son-in-law of Johann Klein, Semmelweis' superior in Vienna. Power.corrupts (talk) 10:12, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There is conflicting info re which universities he worked at.  Power.corrupts (talk) 09:12, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling and conflicting info
Talk:John Glad

message: From my talk p.:
::The bibliographic references prove  his accomplishments; the cataloging is done by  reliable third parties and establishes that he is the author of the works listed,  and who it was that published them, and the number of libraries that hold them.  The formal evidence that he   meets WP:AUTHOR are the third party reviews of his works in academic journals which I cited. Supporting evidence is the publishers;   academic publishers use peer review.  Further supporting evidence is the number of libraries that hold them and the languages they have been translated into. This provides the necessary notability for WP:AUTHOR. It also establishes notability as an authority in his field by WP:PROF.  It would be really peculiar that we could not establish notability for any full professor at Harvard; that's not a formal criterion, but I don't think any such has ever been deleted and almost none have ever been to AfD.   
::These indexes of notability are much stronger for his earlier academic writings  on Russian literary history than for his later writings on genetics. It is the academic work on literary history that establishes his notability. It would be somewhat more difficult trying to say that he notable based only on the work in genetics. I could probably do it, but there is no need to.  
::I have restored some of the material that was removed. It describes the topics of his later books, and the languages they have been translated in, and WorldCat is an excellent third party source for this material.  The books themselves will also serve as a suitable source for the actual content of the books, a third party source is no more needed for that than for describing a plot, I've left that out for the moment, because I haven't read them, and the best way to support the material is by quotations.  
::I notice some of the routine facts in his biography were challenged. On what basis? 
 DGG ( talk ) 01:06, 6 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  notability 

message: I was curious, how come John Glad can translate other people's books from Russian, while his own book was translated to Russian by someone else?--24.203.108.54 (talk) 13:28, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translating
Talk:John Laroche

message: This needs to be larger and it needs some sources and... more informationGingermint (talk) 06:11, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  So when did all this happen? 
Talk:John Loughlin (political scientist)

message: Credentials are amazing but article seems written resume-style. Any ideas? Quis separabit? 02:13, 2 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Resume-style
Talk:Dialectics of progress

message: This article describes a very familiar phenomenon, but this is a curious name for the phenomenon, apparently coined by the translator of this Dutch work, and not used by anyone else. I certainly don't think it has anything to do with dialectics. --RichardVeryard 08:55, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: An anonymous user has found another article on the same topic and merged it here. I think Law of the handicap of a head start is a more meaningful title than The Dialectics of Progress which is just pretentious jargon. I think the merger is useful but I'd prefer to use the other title. --RichardVeryard (talk) 07:41, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello, I'm the anonymous user who merged the articles. If you think another name is appropriated, you can always move (WP:MOVE) or make a request for it. I also noticed you added a link to an external website which seems completely unrelated to the subject, except for the words "Dialectics" and "progress" (the article deals with a book named Dialectics of progress and the website is about the link between Dialectics and progress), so I removed it. It seems to me you just typed those words in Google or somewhere.... Anyway, if you prove me otherwise, I'll appreciate it. Cheers,--79.179.135.105 (talk) 12:47, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  The article I added has a lot more to do with dialectics than this obscure and badly translated concept. I complained about this two years ago, and I haven't seen anything that justifies the use of the word dialectics. I think the best course of action would be to move the whole thing across to Law of the handicap of a head start and do the redirect in the other direction. --RichardVeryard (talk) 16:57, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you misnamed the word "external link" as an "article". Anyway, if, like you said before , what you added has nothing in common with this article but rather to dialectics (the notability or obscurity of an article is another issue, you can use template messages in the article instead), then just don't add it. I see you didn't do so again and I hope you already understand why it shouldn't have been included. The use of the word "dialectics" is simply a translation of the Dutch word "Dialectiek", included in the subject book mentioned in the article. I agree with you that this can confuse some people who can attribute this wrongly to the subject of dialectics, which is unrelated.  Cheers --79.179.135.105 (talk) 20:03, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Curious name?
Talk:John Punnett Peters

message: His other son John Punnett Peters (Dec. 4, 1887 - Dec. 29, 1955) was a famous medical doctor. He initially described the Cerebral salt-wasting syndrome. --Dr. Hartwig Raeder (talk) 11:43, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  His son John Punnett Peters
Talk:John Scurfield

message: I think this needs to go to AfD, at the very least. On my reading of WP:JUDGE, he would indeed be presumed notable, as he is a judge of a provincewide court, which is specifically covered by that notability guideline:
"The following are presumed to be notable:
Politicians and judges who have held international, national or sub-national (statewide/provincewide) office, and members or former members of a national, state or provincial legislature".
I will de-PROD all the articles of judges of provincial courts for the same reason. RebeccaGreen (talk) 12:27, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  PROD removal
Talk:Jola Sigmond

message: The company has only one employee and had an average annual turnover of €1500 in 2015-2017.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.217.102.11 (talk) 16:28, 27 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  One employee, € 1500 annual turnover
Talk:Jonas Quant

message: At least it's not the famous character of Nabokov's masterpiece. Calle Widmann (talk) 00:25, 11 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who's Dolores Haze? 
Talk:Jonathan Coleman (author)

message: Reasons for adding NPOV tag: Page seems to be written like advertisement for subject.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.88.163.98 (talk) 04:15, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
Talk:José Barreiro

message: I read Taino: A Novel by Jose Barriero which is likely the same as Taino: The Indian Chronicles. I highlighted many passages in the book that is significant to history. However, what makes it real and genuine versus what makes it a fictictious pseudo novel? Jose Barriero himself calls it the true story and he also explains how he found this information from a local village friar in Cuba as you read  into the book and listen to some of his interviews. The reason why this is important is because introducing the source Taino: A Novel on wikipedia may get the book denied as good source material based on the life on Dieguillo "Guaiken" Colon. Not to mention I had a dispute with a wikipedia editor/user who means well and has contributed to the Taino page of this website. In my opinion, I believe its very real in terms of what Dieguillo thinks and witnessed during 15th and 16th century. Another problem is that the book by Jose Barriero may have re-imagined the accounts of Dieguillo, even though this is the journal of Dieguillo written in 1st person narrative. 
What is your opinion? (Californianscholar (talk) 20:04, 8 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fiction/Non-Fiction or both
Talk:José Villa Soberón

message: In my opinion, this article either lacks sufficient Attribution that it satisfies the Notability criteria for , or it may violate the Conflict of interest guideline, or perhaps it is a Copyright violation. 
Wikipedia articles must be based on reliable sources to verify any claims of notability. Even though the lack of reliable source attribution in an article is not grounds for deletion in itself, an article with absolutely no sources (or only external links to unreliable ones) suggests to some editors that multiple reliable sources may not, in fact, exist.
Although I am considering tagging this article for deletion according to the Deletion policy, I am nonetheless willing to assist User:, and other recent contributors to this article, to make constructive improvements to it ... I do not have time to examine this article in depth at the moment, and it may improve over time, in which case this warning was premature.
Please respond on this Discussion page, instead of on my Talk page, in order to avoid fragmenting the conversation. — 03:11, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added some references for various public sculptures around Havana. A google search indicates that there are several others. I think this makes the artist notable.--Ethicoaestheticist (talk) 22:10, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: References are a Good Thing ... I have added  tags to clean them up ... please see Category talk:Cuban contemporary artists#Continuing deletions, and maybe you'd like to add your name to this fledgling project. :-) —72.75.72.63 (talk) 23:03, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article lacks [[WP:A]] to establish [[WP:BIO]] 

message: Please see the Cuban artists checklist and update it with any changes that you make to this article ... Happy Editing! — 04:57, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup needed 
Talk:Josef Šíma

message: * :Josef Šíma →   — I would like to create a disambiguation page listing Josef Šíma (Czech artist) and Josef Šíma (Czech economist) but I can't as I am a new editor. I would like to create the Josef Šíma (Czech economist) page after that. — 
*Comment no need to move the painter in order to write about the economist. In any event, the painter can stay put for now with a hatnote to inform browsing readers of the economist. --AndrewHowse (talk) 01:15, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There's no need to include the nationality in the parentheses either - (painter) and (economist) are sufficient for disambiguation. Knepflerle (talk) 13:11, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds fine! Knepflerle (talk) 21:43, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Move?
Talk:Joseph Bradish

message: A quick internet search turned up this  that has more information on Bradish. The sources mentioned there are unclear on how they relate to Bradish.John Pack Lambert (talk) 03:16, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  More sources 

message: Former article needed too much work to bother rewriting it, so I began fresh and wrote an entirely new one. Problems in the old article:
* Bradish was not one of Kidd's company
* Bradish was aboard Adventure, not Adventure Galley (which was Kidd's)
* Bellomont wrote that Pierson voluntarily surrendered the loot
* Treasure was almost all recovered (instead of "never found")
* Kidd and Bradish didn't sail together a year later, they were both in jail by this time
* Bradish captured in Boston, recaptured in Maine, not NY
* Most of the article was apparently paraphrased from this site, which reprinted it from "East Hampton History," by Jeannette Edwards Rattroy. Country Life Press, Garden City, NY, 1953.
Easier to start from scratch.
:TheLastBrunnenG (talk) 13:37, 12 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Replacing entire article; former article was poorly sourced and too full of errors for a simple rewrite.
Talk:Josef Warkany

message: # I understand Dr. Warkany was also an artist, and produced etchings, etc., which are considered quite valuable now.  Beyond that I don't know any further details, but someone familiar with the subject should amplify this article.74.239.2.104 (talk) 18:59, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Further on Warkany
Talk:HEART 103.2

message: Hi there! I have moved all the content over from the article 'FM 103.2' to this new article to signify that the radio station does in fact have a new name and station identity. The old article 'FM 103.2' now simply contains a redirect to this one.
I also might add in more details about the station soon.
Anthonyeden 09:21, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Wouldn't it have been better to use Wikipedia's built in move function, so that the revision history and talk page would stay intact? Perhaps someone should do this now before any edits are made to the new HEART 103.2 article. 59.167.36.190 02:41, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Josh T. Pearson

message: This article contains way too much irrelevant info and could use a clean up / restart. Is it okay to do that?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sasalap (talk • contribs) 20:05, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup
Talk:Joy Garnett

message: Moved "She is married to visual artist Bill Jones." to the end of the first paragraph to remove the strange gender disparity between her entry and that of Bill Jones. In his bio, the marriage is noted after his work is discussed.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.167.99.135 (talk) 16:18, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Juan Enríquez

message: look it up
ElThomas (talk) 18:47, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Commas in a list of quoted materials go outside of the quotes 

message: http://www.arcfusion.org/about/advisory-board/juan-enriquez
ElThomas (talk) 18:50, 3 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this page plagiarized? 
Talk:Juan Germán Roscio

message: This article was edited as part of the San Francisco WikiWomen's Edit-a-thon. The editor who attended the event may be a new editor. In an effort to support new editor's & a healthy environment, please assume good faith to their contributions before making changes. Thank you! Sarah (talk) 20:23, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article was edited as part of an edit-a-thon 
Talk:Judith Elliott

message: I think this needs to go to AfD, at the very least. On my reading of WP:JUDGE, she would indeed be presumed notable, as she is a judge of a provincewide court, which is specifically covered by that notability guideline:
"The following are presumed to be notable:
Politicians and judges who have held international, national or sub-national (statewide/provincewide) office, and members or former members of a national, state or provincial legislature".
I will de-PROD all the articles of judges of provincial courts for the same reason. RebeccaGreen (talk) 10:55, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  PROD removal