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Talk:Muqata'ah

message: I would like to contribute to this topic, but I have a problem with definitions used in the field, and I wonder if anyone else has any suggestions.
I understand that muqata'ah meant a grouping of tax resources into a unit that could then be collected or assigned by various means. Many Ottomanists define it in these terms; but they then go on to talk about it using the term 'tax farm', as if that definition implied a tax farm; it does not. I understand 'tax farm' to mean the same as the Wikipedia entry for this term, which requires that a resource be held on the basis of a fixed rent, i.e. 'keep all the profit, or bear the loss if there is any', whereas, for the period I know most about (to end of the seventeenth century), muqata'ahs were not held on such a basis at all, but on the basis of fixed or proportional fees, such as 'two akce for every cizye payment collected'; this is definitely not 'farming'. The fact that the contracts were auctioned off does not constitute 'farming'. However, it is impossible to cite Wikipedia-appropriate secondary sources for the correct meaning of the term, because so many of them call it 'farming'.
Could anyone advise, please?
A.V. Exelby (talk) 14:54, 21 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problems with term 'tax farm' in relation to muqata'ah 
Talk:Roy Plomley

message: A better photo for the info box would be appreciated. -- Snowman (talk) 17:35, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm sure there are many, but I used that one because it was copyright-free. BTW, why is this article designated as of stub quality? I did a fair bit of work on it and I thought I had polished it up quite nicely! Woblosch (talk) 17:16, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It would be ideal if the page had a "free image" in colour with Plomley looking to the right into the page from the infobox. Snowman (talk) 17:15, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image 

message: I wonder whether the bit about Desert Island Discs not being available on "Listen Again" would be better off in the article on Desert Island Discs than here. Just a thought. ACEOREVIVED (talk) 20:10, 6 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Is this the best place for information on "Desert Island Discs"?
Talk:Syria national football team

message: Someone please update the kits. Current ones are 116.97.246.210 (talk) 01:22, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kits. 

message: How? Syria currently is in the 89th rank  Whatsupkarren (talk) 11:27, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  How to update the FIFA ranking
Talk:Syrian Air

message: I'm pretty sure they changed the name to Syrian Air a long time ago. And plan to update the article accordingly. If anyone has any thoughts, please add them here. Thanks! Jasepl (talk) 07:33, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Check the website . The name is correct. Yazan (talk) 10:10, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep. And it says Syrian Air (or SyrianAir) everywhere. Jasepl (talk) 10:27, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Well this is muddy, here in the tenders section it's using "Syrian Arab Airlines", same in the AACO page, here. On the IATA page it says Syrianair. I guess you'll have to do a google check. Yazan (talk) 02:57, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Airline name 

message: http://www.syriaair.com/Offices/StationID/39/StationsMap.aspx
That's a list of their offices
WhisperToMe (talk) 09:09, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Airline offices

message: All users, please stop removing information, the information provided is updated by syrian airlines crew themselves. Do not alter or revert.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 27.99.0.167 (talk) 05:31, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Syrian Airlines Information 
Talk:Beer in Syria

message: This strikes me as a terribly subjective description of the taste of a beer in a Wikipedia article, suggesting that the whole article was written by someone who works for the Al-Shark beer company, and hence that this is covert advertising. "Delightful" would in any case be an untypical description of a product such as beer in English - as a native English-speaker, I really can't imagine anyone saying "this beer is delightful" - perhaps a mistranslation of the French word "délicieux", which is no less subjective and hence just as inappropriate. Someone should revise the whole article to bring it more into line with Wikipedia standards.188.230.248.85 (talk) 18:53, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  "more delightful than" 

message: Why is so much in the past tense? Is this perhaps an involuntary error by a non-native speaker of English, or ist there an unexplained reason, e.g. clampdown on alcohol sales ?  If you can shed light on this, perhaps due to familiarity with Arabic or events in Syria, please share your insights! Regards Guffydrawers (talk) 06:25, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Past tense
Talk:Syriac chant

message: Hey there. I added a lot of information to this page for a class I am in. I added it all at once by accident. I was supposed to add it section by section. If you wish to make changes place try and not just take out the entire parts of what I have added unless you believe they are all not correct. Apologies and I hope you enjoy the read!!!--Hugh Beresford1997 (talk) 16:29, 25 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added Section
Talk:Heidelberg Project

message: This article reads like an advertisement.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.173.204.197 (talk) 16:47, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV 

message: i visited the HP to document it for the Save Outdoor Sculpture project that was happening them.  I have discovered that my attempts to post pictures of sculpture in America created after 1923 has drawn the ire of the copyright police here and so am reluctant to post any of those pictures.  Any opinions?  Carptrash (talk) 02:08, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Around 1992-93 

message: I thought Black Bottom referred to an old neighborhood torn up by I-75. MMetro (talk) 20:58, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Black Bottom 

message: I thoroughly enjoyed going through the external links provided for this page, and thought that the use of google street view to allow readers to really explore the project was very clever. I did notice that a couple of the links are broken. 
I would agree that the 'Citation Needed' flags detract from the strength of this article, however they are few enough that it is still very compelling and reliable.
Abigailbarnes (talk) 12:48, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Links and Citation Needed
Talk:Ljubomir Popović

message: Ljubomir Popovic is Serb painter who lived in France. --Vojvodaen 15:01, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Serb
Talk:Stupid.com

message: Anyone know what happened?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.141.19.108 (talk) 02:39, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I looked on the way back machine. It seems that it closed down around 2020. I’m sad too since I was a child I used to browse it all day just to see all the silly stuff and I always told myself that when I was older I would buy something from it and I think I did buy something from it at some point a few years ago but I was thinking about it today, I tried navigating to the site, but it’s not there anymore. Looking at its archives from 2019 there’s a message on stupid.com that tells people they have a second site called glowsource.com, it can’t be Gary Apple work as he apparently sold the site back in 2009. Have a great day , Sanjev Rajaram (talk) 02:25, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why did it close down?
Talk:Tell Leilan

message: The entire article had been temporarily replaced with the below.  I'm not entirely sure this is article-relevant even if it can be sourced. -- Avocado (talk) 15:39, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  moved from article 

message: During the late third millennium, the site was known as Shekhna: this may be a modern association of the site with "Shekhna" in the Mari tablet archives. If so, the connection should be made explicit.--Wetman (talk) 18:10, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Shekhna" 
Talk:Authbind

message: * Is it Linux-specific?
* Does it have common uses other than those listed in the article?
* Is it generally considered a good idea to use authbind rather than chroot/sudo/suid/userland-TCP-ports?
* What if any potential security-related complications can arise from its use? MrZaiustalk 22:32, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've rewritten the article and may have answered some of those questions in the process. A quick browse though the source code might help with anything left unanswered. Tothwolf (talk) 12:06, 15 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Questions

message: Apparently this article is missing inbound links.  However, users are still finding it via search engines.  I just received an email from a potential user who had found stale links (to my long-dead cvsweb entry for authbind) via this Wikipedia page.  So I have fixed up the WP page.  But I don't really want to engage in the kind of self-promotion that would be involved in finding appropriate pages for inbound links.  Ijackson (talk) 16:41, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Inbound links?
Talk:Charles Joshua Chaplin

message: Some sources appear to have the artist's middle name spelled as "Josuah".  However, others spell it "Joshua". The Art Renewal Center spells it "Joshua", as does the Library of Congress Authority record (search for the name; deep linking is not possible there). The 670 record which lists a middle name reads:
:Thieme-Becker: |b v. 6, p. 374 (Chaplin, Charles (Charles Joshua); French painter, engraver, and lithographer; born of English parents in Les Andelys (Eure) 6/8/1825, d. Paris 1/30/1891)
If I can find a copy of that source, I'll add a reference for the middle name as a footnote. grendel|khan 20:54, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Josuah vs Joshua
Talk:Josefina Ayerza

message: A tag has been placed on :Josefina Ayerza, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done because the article seems to be about a person, group of people, band, club, company, or web content, but it does not indicate how or why the subject is notable: that is, why an article about that subject should be included in Wikipedia. Under the criteria for speedy deletion, articles that do not assert notability may be deleted at any time. Please see the guidelines for what is generally accepted as notable, and if you can indicate why the subject of this article is notable, you may contest the tagging. To do this, add  on the top of the page (below the existing db tag) and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would confirm its subject's notability under the guidelines.
For guidelines on specific types of articles, you may want to check out our criteria for biographies, for web sites, for bands, or for companies. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this.  Bobbyperou 22:42, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I nominated this article for speedy deletion because it did not seem to say anything about why its subject is a notable person (it first simply said that she is a psychoanalyst, which hardly fits WP:Notability). Recent edits have improved this somewhat, but the main thrust of the article is still about Jacques Lacan and Lacanian Ink. I think it would be much more appropriate to either find a place in the article Jacques Lacan, or even to make an article on Lacanian Ink, and I would fully support you and help you to get that article established. Beware, however, that it should not be the aim of ANY encyclopedia article to present a "French perspective," or indeed any particular perspective. Please see WP:NPOV for more information on this. For the moment, I'm going to change the tag to proposed deletion, which will at least give you 5 days to move the content elsewhere. You can also contest that deletion if you choose, but you should have reasons strongly grounded in WP:Notability to do so. Feeeshboy 00:43, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Akçaabat Fatih Stadium

message: == Fix circular redirect ==
Folks:
The Fatih Stadı article redirects to Akçaabat Fatih Stadium.  However, Talk:Akçaabat Fatih Stadium redirects back to Talk:Fatih Stadı.  Please figure out how to resolve this so we can arrange for the article page and the talk page to have the same name. Tim Pierce 17:31, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments 

message: Folks:
The Fatih Stadı article redirects to Akçaabat Fatih Stadium.  However, Talk:Akçaabat Fatih Stadium redirects back to Talk:Fatih Stadı.  Please figure out how to resolve this so we can arrange for the article page and the talk page to have the same name. Tim Pierce 17:31, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fix circular redirect 
Talk:Urkesh

message: This article needs the cuneiform spelling(s) of Urkesh. Someone may be able to read it off the foundation tablet (Nergel's name is recognizable there). —wing gundam 01:20, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need cuneiform spelling of Urkesh 

message: Could someone rewrite this so that it doesn’t sound like the mission statement of some American management consultant? The abstractions and passive-voice clauses invoke more yawns than a three-day conference of social-theorists. 2001:8003:3082:F500:6115:CBB6:170D:ECC9 (talk) 09:02, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Painful prose
Talk:WMIA-FM

message: Also perhaps of note is that they seem to have added a little bit of non-english songs. I heard Danza Kuduro today, an all spanish and Portuguese song. I thought it was 94.9 then I looked at the dial and it wasn't. B137 (talk) 02:35, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Latest rebrand (Aug 2014)
Talk:Randy California

message: According to writer Max Bell, the reason California was not invited to go to London was not because of his age but because he turned down the volume on Jimi's guitar during a gig:
"One night at the Café Au Go Go, California starts playing slide using the neck of a sawn-off 7-Up bottle while James/Hendrix guns down a fat riff. Suddenly the kid reaches across to his boss’s guitar and spins the volume control down to zero. Hendrix throws a fit, flings his Stratocaster across the room and walks out on to the street. A tentative invitation from Jimi for the kid to join him on his maiden visit to London is withdrawn, and Randy resumes fitful studies in NYC before his mother Eunice Pearl and Cassidy whisk him and his sisters back to LA in January 1967."  . 204.186.240.222 (talk) 10:09, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Reason for California not going to London

message: Both Robert Plant and Jimmy Page have stated in depositions under oath that they did not hear "Fresh Garbage" off the same album as "Taurus".  ,  . 50.22.135.181 (talk) 21:53, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Fresh Garbage"
Talk:Leibniz's notation for differentiation

message: In the absence of any talk here, I have implemented the proposed merger by moving the content of this article to Leibniz's notation. There is now a new (not fully developed) article at Notation for differentiation: the material from this article (now at Leibniz's notation) should ultimately inform this new article. I have made a similar move for the Newton's notation articles, where the issues are more straightforward, because Newton's notations for integration are not developed in wikipedia. Geometry guy 22:54, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Starting out the merger
Talk:J. Horace Round

message: You may want to mention that he had an M.A. & and LL.D.
:Do you have a reference for that, could be in one of his books or in a review? If so, you could add the point yourself or note the reference here and someone else can add it. If you had the university/ies he attended, all the better. Thanks very much. (BTW you are meant to sign your posts with four tildes  ~~~~, whether you have a username or not, and it adds a signature and date automagically.) Itsmejudith 21:49, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Juno and the Paycock (film)

message: The following paragraph (which I've just removed) was copied across from the play page: Like other Hitchcock films made for British International Pictures, its current copyright status is at best ambiguous and it is generally considered to be in the public domain.  Primarily due to its association with the still-popular Hitchcock, the film is widely available in the United States in the VHS format, generally at very low prices due to the fact that no copyright fees have been paid.  However, this also means that copy quality may be rather poor.  Many of the VHS copies available have been poorly cropped to fit the format, and the sound quality may also be poor, which is an important consideration for audiences who have a hard time following the cast's authentic Irish brogues in any event.  It is unlikely that any major restoration of the film will be undertaken, at least while its copyright status remains unclear, as there would be no financial incentive for anyone to undertake it, since others would be free to redistribute the restored version.
This seems to be a popular misconception about Hitchcock's early films -- the majority of his films from 1925-39 are currently under copyright in the USA and their rights were re-asserted in the late 1990s following the Uruguay Round Agreements Act.  In particular, this article published by the US Copyright Office on August 22nd 1997 states that UGC filed a "Notice of Intent to Enforce Restored Copyrights" for "Juno and the Paycock".  The UGC film library was subsequently acquired by Canal+ Image UK, who are the current copyright holders of the film.  Details for the copyright re-assertions of Hitchcock's other early films can be found in the documents linked to from this page on the US Copyright Office's web site. Davepattern 22:03, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  public domain 

message: The article currently states:
The Captain soon learns the inheritance was a lie by Charles to gain Mary's favors.
I will need to go back and watch the film again, but in the stage version (and I am pretty sure the film as well) this is untrue.  Charles Bentham never loved Mary, rather he courts her to marry into a family he believes is about to become wealthy.  He steals her heart and sires a child within her, then learns of a technical error in the will which will make the inheritence difficult (or likely impossible) to collect.  As soon as he finds this out, he shows his true colors by abandoning her.  The will existed all right, and Bentham believed it was valid, or he never would have courted Mary.Floggolozzo (talk) 20:07, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The will a lie by Bentham?  I think not!
Talk:Arbella Ewing

message: The last update on Arbella Perkins Ewing was last year, placing her on the top ten list is inaccurate, because she may have passed away six months ago, but, hopefully, she is still living and in great health. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.136.237.89 (talk) 22:53, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't make comments if you don't know what you're talking about. The SSDI updates once a month, so it is highly unlikely that Ms. Ewing passed away 'six months ago'... Ryoung122 21:43, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  That's true, but not everybody is in the "SSDI", so that's not entirely correct, Robert. Extremely sexy 15:26, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  It has been almost nine-and-a-half months, Seroiusly, this is getting rediculous, we do not even know if she made it in the top 11 oldest people living or if she outlived Myra Nicholson (12/14/1894-9/20/2007) 112 years, 280 days the most previous 11th oldest person in the world. Can someone provide the status of her? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.137.12.208 (talk) 21:54, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  95% of all deaths in the USA appear in the SSDI. Note that the last update was Dec 14 2006, so it's been less than a year. Clearly, the family doesn't want to be bothered. Consider a few other cases: Edna Parker (mentioned at age 109; no 110th or 111th birthday story; resurfaced at 112) and Gladys Hawley (109th birthday story; no 110th birthday story; resurfaced at 111). Ryoung122 00:16, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  That's true though regardless. Extremely sexy 01:19, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

text:  Ok, I verified that Ms. Ewing is still living. See http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/Worlds_Oldest_People/ (Sept 29 2007 messages) for details. Ryoung122 06:13, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arbella Ewing's whereabouts?
Talk:DPR Korea Premier Football League

message: The truth is...I made up some of the teams in the DPR Korea League. The teams Locomotive, Pyongyang City Sports Group, Chandongcha and Namp'o April 25 are real, but the others were made up. I realize making the other teams up was immature, and I apalogize. Yellowlime31 22:57, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Truth 

message: How we don't have data about 2020/21 league and 2021/22 league? Okarbouniaris (talk) 12:18, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  One question
Talk:Robert Christison

message: Prior to Freud, Sir Christison apparently lauded the use of cocaine/coca as a (then) modern medicine. This should be incorporated into the article, if he was indeed the very "first" to do so from a medicinal standpoint. Nagelfar (talk) 21:29, 31 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  His early (putatively the first) acclaim of cocaine as a treatment? 
Talk:Carl Eckart

message: Is it working? No age @ death. Ema--or (talk) 08:24, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox