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Talk:Cattle mutilation/Alternative explanations

message: I remember reading somewhere about electrical discharges similar to lightning but over a wider area.  (A similar total charge moves, but instead of forming a narrow lightning bolt, it covers a radius of a few feet.)  Could these discharges ("plasma streamers"???) account for some of these incidents?--64.232.164.53 00:36, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Another explanation

message: while in the US this may be attributed to aliens and other rather exotic concepts, in europe it is generally accepted that cattle mutilations a) exist and b) are perpetrated by human sexual predators.
this not only a rumour, it is court proven in many cases (i remember several cases in germany in recent years).
this article is suitable for the national enquirer (yikes) or snopes.com (much better) more than the wikipedia. an ancyclopedia does NOT have to present every available explanation for a given phenomenon, even more so when the explanations are spurious at best (aliens probing cows' behinds?  pu-lease....).
not every opinion deserves to be mentioned, guys - there are way too many black helicopter articles on the english wikipedia as it is (see crop circles e.g.).
Snottily 23:00, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Misc. comments

message: During a incident of this nature, in the US and certain other nations, the ranchers and/or farmers will purchase new weapons, ammo, and/or fix and oil their old weapons, "lock and load" and wait for the UFOs and/or aliens, Black Helicopters, etc to appear, then they'll shoot at it, and/or the "skeptic"/idiot who tells them they're "full of it", lying, that sort of thing, especially if they have lost a $500,000 stud horse and/or a bull to whatever is vivisecting the animals. I've seen some incident reports concerning human mutilations as well. One case is that a US Army Sgt. was found mutilated after he was taken into a UFO that was seen over the US ARMY's White Sands Missile Range/Ft. Bliss area. This is one reason that some people give for arming themselves everytime something like this happens in their area. Martial Law 03:31, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Why can't people accept the fact that there are people, especially in the U.S. who will shoot at UFOs, and the like ? Martial Law 20:26, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm in Texas, and it is full of these people. They'll shoot first. I do apologise if I've been offensive, but the truth has to be told. Martial Law 20:30, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: When farmers, ranchers find mutilated animals, especially the $500,000 stud horse, the $250,000 prize bull mutilated, that is when they go around armed. A LC Wyatt of Hope, Arkansas lost cattle to this phenomenon, and UFOs were seen. Martial Law 00:35, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Weapons Use
Talk:Cattle mutilation/Notices

message: I've heavily edited the section on natural causes to make it more scientific and even handed, and I've moved the section about Ruby Brouma to a new section about people critisising the idea of mutilation by natural causes.
If you want to revert any of this, could you please discuss it here first.
Could somebody also please check what I have done for POV, suitability of language, and general spel/gram.
perfectblue 13:00, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Edits

message: I've deleted the following as it is a hoax, and will replace it with a brief summary.
An account by Alexander Hamilton of Leroy, Kansas, supposedly occurred about April 19, 1897, and was published in the Yates Center Farmer’s Advocate of April 23. Hamilton, his son, and a tenant witnessed an airship hovering over his cattle pen. Upon closer examination, the witnesses realized that a red "cable" from the airship had lassoed a heifer, but had also become entangled in the pen’s fence. After trying unsuccessfully to free the heifer, Hamilton cut loose a portion of the fence, then "stood in amazement to see the ship, cow and all rise slowly and sail off." (Jacobs, 15) Some have suggested this was the earliest report of cattle mutilation. This was part of a larger wave of so-called mystery airship sightings. (In 1982, however, UFO researcher Jerome Clark debunked this story, and confirmed via interviews and Hamilton's own affidavit that the story was a successful attempt to win a Liar's Club competition to create the most outlandish tall tale). 
perfectblue 16:46, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Hoax

message: I've retitled 'mundane' and 'fringe' to conventional and unconventional (there is nothing mundane about killing cattle).
My intention is that all of the 'regular' things like freaks, pervert and wild animals can be labeled 'conventional', while anything to do with conspiracies, aliens and the supernatural can go under unconventional.
perfectblue 12:30, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Titles
Talk:Emmett Grogan

message: In "criticisms of counterculture": Ringolevio is not critical of Allen Ginsberg at all, while it's heavily, heavily critical of Abbie Hoffman.  I changed this once before about a year ago and saw someone changed it back; not sure why.
I also removed the bit about him being killed by the 3rd St. Hell's Angels because I heard complaints from several people that this theory is definitely not true.  Henrychrist (talk) 23:10, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Grogan
 fled to Ireland, where he fell in with a faction of the IRA and helped blow up a couple of bridges. From there he went to pre-swinging London, where he dabbled in porn, attempted a last big heist, and once again fled just ahead of the law. All this happened before Grogan was 22----IAN MCGILLIS, "The Tough-Guy Hippie Who Helped Define an Era," Globe & Main, Oct. 02, 2009--Hodgdon's secret garden (talk) 22:15, 13 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Backstory needs filling in 

message: As it stands today, this article mostly echoes the material in the article on the Diggers. It should have more specifically on Grogan. Perhaps some material from Peter Coyote's intro to Ringolevio would work. Paulmlieberman (talk) 13:37, 9 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs more biographical info
Talk:Feargus Urquhart

message: Removed Feargus from the category of computer and video game designers, as he is a producer and not a designer.  -- Solberg 10:04, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually he was credited as designer of Fallout 2. Mike R (talk) 22:58, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed from category
Talk:Cattle mutilation/Notices2

message: I have reread this article carefully and began citing each sentence that contain a POV statement, a weasel word, a passive voice hedge or other such inadvertant weasel devices and the list got so long as to be unproductive.  I have come to the conclusion that this article needs a total re-write to come into compliance with Wikipedia standards and style.  I know perfectblue has worked long and hard on this article and I mean no disrepect by making this suggestion.  I simply feel that a citation here and an added specification there are inadequate to bring the quality of this article up to par.  I would ask however, that we not delete this article or tamper with it too much until I've had time to come up with some sample opening paragraphs for perfectblue to look over. Give me a week.  if I don't come up with anything suitable, then continue patching and fixing the article as is.  I believe we can do this right and still use perfectblue's basic layout.  In addition, beefing up other articles on related topics and then linking to that material could help us with length and tangents.Lisapollison 06:01, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Article needs a total overhaul
Talk:Michael Tracey (producer)

message: I'm not going to edit this, but this word alone makes the rest of article dripping with POV.  Inappropriate.  Mdoc7 10:28, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: "Crockumentary"

message: Shouldn't he have an article by now? Rqe1 (talk) 22:50, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I propose a "Michael Tracey" disambig page with a link to here (renamed "Michael Tracey (British-American television producer)"), a link to the Graffiti artist, and a quick mention of the political columnist while we wait for someone to actually create an article on him. 109.148.221.124 (talk) 03:07, 8 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  The political writer Michael Tracey
Talk:Kranji War Cemetery

message: Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 11:45, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008 
Talk:Not happy, Jan!

message: What year was this commercial shown? It'd be good to say in the article. --The WebDruid 11:07, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 08:59, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Year aired
Talk:Docklands Light Railway rolling stock

message: Source 30 is linked in section "Problems experienced" for hunting issues. It has the wrong timestamp. The link to the external video contains a timestamp to second 600, but the hunting issue is mentioned starting from second 398 --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfQEyU75wNQ&t=398s 129.247.247.239 (talk) 11:19, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: . Thank you. Thryduulf (talk) 11:55, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source 30 timestamp wrong 

message: In the lead we currently have the wording "" which is more accurate than the old version "" but rather clumsy.
The wording needs to convey that:
*Door operation is always manual
*Driving the train is normally automatic, but can be done manually when required. "When required" is all the time in depots, and can be at any time elsewhere (e.g. first trains of the day, during high winds, when staff are working alongside the track) but that's too much detail for the lead.
Thryduulf (talk) 10:30, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Manual operation
Talk:Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury

message: I recently uploaded (right) an engraving of Lord Herbert by Wenceslas Hollar. Feel free to use it or not. Dcoetzee 08:25, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  New image 

message: A section on Deism should be included! Jim Lacey (talk) 12:56, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed! (I came to this page trying to discover which Lord Herbert of Cherbury ‘determined the scope and character of the English Deistical movement’.) Ian Spackman (talk) 11:00, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deism 

message: A lost play of Herbert's has been discovered according to the BBC.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.152.135.179 (talk) 23:52, 26 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: New play

message: Elsewhere he seems generally referred to as Cherbury. Chirbury seems to be the preference of User:Phoebus de Lusignan. Ian Spackman (talk) 11:04, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Cherbury was the spelling given in the Letters Patent authorising the title but it is accepted to refer to Chirbury.Cloptonson (talk) 22:50, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cherbury or Chirbury 

message: I have amended the postnominal "KCB" to "KB" as the Order of the Bath was not divided into its present classes (GCB, KCB, CB) until the early 19th century.Cloptonson (talk) 22:52, 28 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Order of the Bath
Wikipedia talk:Wikington Crescent

message: I have proposed this is a deletion page. I have been told self-references are banned, why should we have to stick to one rule and Wikipedia to another? I think it is sick HoOhMajor 10:53, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Speedy deletion is not appropriate in this case. I have listed this page at WP:MfD. Caknuck 15:25, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I would say this game shamefully misses the point. 83.87.230.137 (talk) 20:45, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Speedy Deletion

message: I've been doing something similar since before I heard of this article. I posted on a forums betting $20 that you can find a link from any Wikipedia article to Hitler. Habnabit 17:52, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A similar game 

message: As has been pointed out, this is a very easy game, once you get the hang of it.
In the spirit of the original on which it is based, do we need a few more rules, to increase the level of challenge, and to confuse the uninitiated? Riversider2008 (talk) 14:12, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  More Rules Needed 

message: Wouldn't it be lovely if someone artistic created a banner with a suitable image that we can stick in our user pages saying Wikington Crescent Player with a link to the project page Riversider2008 (talk) 14:52, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  User Page Icon
Talk:Achnacarry

message: I have lived in Lochaber for over 30 years and never heard it referred to as "New Achnacarry" and I don't think I have seen that on maps.  --jmb 22:05, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I just had a look around the Web and the only references to "New Achnacarry" as a place are those derived from this article on Wikipedia.  There are a number of references to "new Achnacarry" but these are just about the new house being built in the early 19th Century.  I suggest that the name of the article is restored to "Achnacarry".  --jmb 11:02, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: New ?

message: Can this page be reverted back to Achnacarry and a page to redirect from "New Achnacarry" to "Achnacarry".
I have found no reference to the name "New Achnacarry" except the renaming of this page.  I put the comment above on here a couple of weeks ago and no one has justified the renaming.  --jmb 07:32, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Moved back from Achnacarry, Scotland as there were no other Achnacarries to disambiguate, and in any case this one is the source of the name elsewhere in the world, and has enough claims to international fame to deserve the primary article name. Le Deluge (talk) 13:24, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Move

message: Proposing merger as there is significant overlap between the two articles as they currently stand. --Haruth (talk) 02:54, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal 
Talk:Blagdon Lake

message: Since nothing has been done since around the time the above note was left, I am ending the hold and failing the article.
Once fixed to Lincher's satisfaction, it can be renominated. Daniel Case 03:44, 1 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Failure
Talk:Maria Koepcke

message: The redirect is wrong (sort of). Maria's name was known, internationally and in private, without the umlaut (i.e., Koepcke) since the 1950s. Dysmorodrepanis 11:48, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I didn't really know; the only reason I made the page was because I was looking at her daughter's page and found it odd that despite the fact that she was a famous person, there was no page. I took the name format from her daughter's page, in order to keep them consistent. If both pages would be better off without the umlaut, then go for a page move; I have no issue with it. --UNHchabo 16:39, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This article with recollections by her daughter says "she also survived the crash but was badly injured and she couldn't move. She died several days later." Based on that, the 24 December death date is too early. Doremo (talk) 08:46, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: True. It's easy to change the opening sentence, but there's also a template, and it doesn't seem possible to change that. I've left a question at Wikipedia talk:Age calculation templates. Girlwithgreeneyes (talk) 22:21, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death date
Talk:Chief Bender

message: 'he faced discrimination throughout his career, not least of which was the stereotyped nickname ("Chief")' -- Is there a cite for this? My grandfather played baseball in the 1930's, had no Native American heritage that I know of, and was nicknamed 'Chief'. He took it as a sign of respect. 159.169.242.3 (talk) 22:05, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I would say the nickname (which, after all, is the given name for this biographical article) probably was the least of the discrimination that Bender faced. Lot's of sports figures in the first half of the twentieth century had nicknames based on their heritage and "Chief" would hardly be an especially demeaning one. Allie Reynolds who pitched a few decades later was known as "Superchief" without, apparently, suffering any great resentment over it. Badmintonhist (talk) 15:49, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:No. 30 Commando

message: The use of 30th Assault Unit, as opposed to 30 Commando Assault Unit is actually incorrect. It started off from NID30 (Naval Intelligence Division) based in room 30 of the Admiralty Citadel, then a field unit of NID30 was named 30 Commando Special Engineering Unit.
Patrick Dalzel-Job(e) who was a Naval Special Agent attached to 30AU always referred to the unit (incorrectly) as 30th Assault Unit.
But the correct title has is always been 30 Commando Assault Unit. Then because it was such small unit it could not be accepted as a full Commando brigade so the Commando was dropped. Which left 30 Assault Unit. Which was also amended towards the end of the war to 30 Advance Unit. But never with (th).
http://www.30AU.co.uk
:I moved the page to 30 Assault Unit. maxrspct ping me  18:14, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: A quick search on Google books shows the name as No.30 Commando which was then changed to 30 Assault Unit.[]  For consistency with all other British Commando units I have changed the name to No. 30 Commando then the text documents the name change to 30 Assault Unit.--Jim Sweeney (talk) 08:13, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: According to the research by O' Keefe, the unit was called/part of 40 Commando at Dieppe, only gaining the name 30AU when officially formed after Dieppe.
Should this article be updated to recognise this?
--176.27.169.129 (talk) 01:48, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unit name at Dieppe 
Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship/Werdna

message: For you keeping score at home:
Username	Werdna
Total edits	3004
Distinct pages edited	1608
Average edits/page	1.868
First edit	01:53, July 25, 2005
	
(main)	774
Talk	58
User	308
User talk	863
Image	7
Template	28
Wikipedia	898
Wikipedia talk	40
Portal	28
:Hey, cool! Since when did I have 3000 edits? — Werdna talk criticism 13:53, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably your 3000th edit was something related to this very RfA. Newyorkbrad 13:57, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Edit count
Talk:Hamama

message: Please stop changing the history by removing "palestinian"  word with no reason, i think you have to read more about Hamama's history and  people, why r u that much upset from the truth , even that the i said "WAS" and it's now still under the zionist occupation which you have change it to israel, u have no right to remove palestinian and keep Israel, i'll keep changing it up to death, and I'll tell all my friends to keep watching it and changing ,plz stop doing that, thanks
:It was a town in Israel/Palestine, Ubai - we've been over this. Changing Wikipedia won't change the world, so leave it how it was. HawkerTyphoon 12:16, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

message: Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, 1977, p. 142 has a mistake about this place...they write that total revenue is 6,800, but they only list 500 (occasional revenues) and 300 (goats and bees). So where did the other 6000 Akçe come from? It looks as if they missed some posts, Huldra (talk) 21:03, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hütteroth and Abdulfattah, mistake
Talk:Irish Daily Mail

message: Should some mention be made of the British version's "anti-Irish" stance.  You'd need referemces and I@m not sure how it could be worded but don't think it should go unmentioned as it is a huge factor in stopping some people from reading it Dodge 12:04, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: British version

message: Is this a different newspaper to the Daily Mail, or just a different edition of the same newspaper? According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations  it's a different edition of the same newspaper. Demiurge 09:51, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's essentially a different edition, with its own editor, but borrows heavily from the UK version, from what I know. Cordless Larry 09:01, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps this could become part of the main Daily Mail article, as with the Irish Sun. I don't know enough about how the UK and Irish editions differ though to judge whether or not it merits a seperate article. Cordless Larry 14:10, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A separate newspaper? 

message: A comment is made that Mary Ellen whatshername has controversial views on travellers. The word travellers is linked to an article on tourism. I suspect that what was intended was that she has controversial views on The Travellers, an Irish ethnic minority.
But I could well be wrong, so I'll make no change myself. I merely throw this out as a possibility.
TRiG (talk) 17:47, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Columnists 

message: The first paragraph states that the paper was launched in 2006.  The second says that circulation had fallen by 2006.  Should that be 2008?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.240.7.42 (talk) 17:11, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dates? 
Talk:Ten Attendants

message: Regarding the "Inappropriate tone" message: the information is fine, and the piece is nicely written. However, it's written too much like a story, with spoken quotes and details that are unlikely to be verifiable. Because I'm not an expert here, I won't muck up the entry by cutting things out, but it would help if somebody could make it more encyclopedic. Jlg4104 (talk) 16:32, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Source::
I'd like to point out that the single reference for this article is "Three Kingdoms: A Historical Novel: Volume I.  Seriously, when in the hell did books that proclaim themselves as fiction in their own titles become acceptable source material?  This article seems like the poster child for speedy deletion.KVND 14:26, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

text: The novel is just an (albeit awesomely) fictionalized and expanded version of the Sanguozhi - why not just find the corresponding passage and swap out the citation?  The information that it "refers to" is correct, anyway.  P.S. I'd do it but I'm sinking my teeth into the featured Three Kingdoms page translation and will be some time in finishing it.  White whirlwind (talk) 00:32, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:John Davies of Hereford

message: The 'lover's complaint' material dominates this article (which is okay), but can nothing more be said about Davies? (fotoguzzi)69.64.235.42 (talk) 09:19, 10 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added tags. This article has very little to do about Davies and more to do with pushing an agenda. Tom Reedy (talk) 16:10, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lover's complaint complaint