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Talk:Katorga

message: Originally katorga was a rowing vessel, like a galley, where conditions were quite harsch.  — Monedula 10:31, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I see this word (katergon) for a galley only in Russia-language sources. I've also seen a term "katergos/katergon" as applied to criminals and also in relation to hard labor. But google search gives me nothing convincing yet. mikka (t) 22:07, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Etymology

message: Who was the Tsarist Minister sentenced to katorga by being chained to a wheelbarrow?  Nobs 20:29, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: What else do you know about him? Mikkalai 21:13, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: From memory it was in Gulag Archepelago in the Katorga chapter, I'll have to run upstairs to try and find it. I beleive it was in the 1890's. Nobs 21:31, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Russian minister at katorga

message: 1830 : 8000, 
1870 : 20.000, 
1900 : 30.000 
1921 : 150.000 (Soviet Gulag)
1937 : 1,19 Millions
1953 : 2,5 Millions (or more)
(Joel Kotek, Pierre Rigoulot:Das Jahrhundert der Lager, Propyläen 2001 (Le siècle des camps, Éditions Lattès 2000), 
--172.177.61.176 23:06, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: How many prisoners?

message: You could add the Decembrists, at least initially. Prince Volkonsky for one was subject to forced labour in a mine near Chita for roughly the first two years of his exile; after that he was in an ordinary prison in Petro-Pavlovsk (Source: museum in the Volkonsky house in Irkutsk.) 
Question: what  was the Russian term for a katorga prisoner, by analogy to zek? 
JamesWim 17:14, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not that I am aware of: katorzhnik, katorzhanin are common adjectives. `'mikka 21:32, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Noteworthy katorga prisoners

message: I don't understand the point of this section:  the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union issued the decree Presidium "О мерах наказания для немецко-фашистских злодеев, виновных в истязаниях советского гражданского населения и пленных красноармейцев, для шпионов, изменников родины из числа советских граждан и для их пособников"
There is no translation and no explanation and I don't speak Russian.  But then, I wouldn't expect to have to given that I'm reading an English Language Encyclopedia. - 98.140.8.233 (talk) 10:05, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cyrillic question 

message: Parts of this article are pretty much unintelligible: I tried to edit it, but gave up after half an hour.  This needs to be re-worked by an English speaker with good Russian competence.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.162.246.47 (talk) 16:23, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Translation?

message: The caption reads "Prisoners at an Amur Cart Road camp, between 1908 and 1913." If you examine the picture's data, it turns out this the Amur Railway, and not the Amur Cart Road. These are two totally different projects. The date range given is also correct for the railway but not the cart road, construction of which ended in 1910.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.74.108.75 (talk) 18:32, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Caption wrong on "Cart Road" picture
Talk:Kidnapping and killing of Margaret Hassan

message: Does Margaret Hassan actually hold Irish citizenship? She was born in Dublin, and is certainly entitled to it, but all the reports that I have seen describe her as holding dual Iraqi and British citizenship. Perhaps it is the case that all people born in Ireland are automatically Irish citizens unless they specifically revoke it? Blorg 11:11, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Well the papers here (the Irish Independent in any case) refer to her as Irish so I guess she is. Blorg 12:06, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citizenship 

message: The following text (removed from the article) is a direct copy & paste from this BBC story. It needs to be rewritten/summarised. I'll do it myself if I get a chance, otherwise someone else could have a look at it. Blorg 11:19, 12 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copy & Paste needs rewriting 

message: CNN is reporting a statement by CARE International that Hassan has been executed. See http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/11/16/iraq.hassan/index.html . 23skidoo 18:43, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death 

message: Execution implies some for of legal or quasi-legal process.
:I believe that it implies some sort of formality or procedure in how the killing is carried out, although  Wikipedia seems to disagree with me. — Darco 05:26, 19 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Murder not 'execution'

message: The last section in the article aiming at "the response of the arab media" specifically is not exactly neutral. As it seems to criticize the arab media for blaming the US for the marine incident while ignoring the murder of Hassan. It should be noted that a Marine represents a government - the US government - therefore it was important to point out the incident. While the actions taken by the  rogue iraqi militia doesn't represent the actual view of any government , or the view of arabs in general. I suppose ALjazeera made a correct decision by not viewing the murder as it could have been unreal. --Thesamo 04:12, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Neutrality of last section

message: Almost all of the other entries for Iraqi beheading/shooting victims (especially the really high-profile ones) have links to video clips showing the deed, but Hassan has none even though she is probably the most high-profile hostage after Nick Berg.ChildeRolandofGilead 08:40, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anyone have a video link?
Talk:Patricia Beer

message: Her date of birth is variously given as 1919, 1924 and 1926. Charles Matthews 11:28, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Despite the various birthdates, 1919 seems to be more frequent, and an obituary quoting her husband also indicates 1919 as the birthyear.
See http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4196/is_19990824/ai_n10538642
Quatrocentu 20:47, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Sources to include: , , , A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry by Jane Dowson, Alice Entwistle, , , , , , , , , , , , , . Therapyisgood (talk) 01:59, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources to include:
Talk:Gradient-index optics

message: GRIN's CAN be flat. Many are not.
Spin coating is also a common method for producing GRINS
--65.202.227.151 (talk) 20:45, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  More detail required 

message: The notation in the theory section implies that L=n*(S-S_0) for the case where n=const.
This is not correct if S is also supposed to be the length of the curve and if S_0 is nonzero.
It's probably better to use an actual path integral sign and either change the S in the limits of the integral or to not state that S is the arc length of the curve.
2001:16B8:22BE:1200:E441:AA70:34E0:E518 (talk) 21:50, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Theory section abuses notation
Talk:Geoffrey Trease

message: Hi!
Geoffrey Trease was my great uncle and I built the site, www.geoffreytrease.co.uk.  I had a quick browse on Wikipedia to see if anyone had entered any information about Geoffrey and found a couple of references to him but no dedicated page.  As you point out, I merged the copy I had from the homepage and biography of geoffreytrease.co.uk.  As I own the copyright, we are free to use this on Wikipedia.
Many thanks for being so vigilant!
Best regards,
Phil Trease.
:I've sent an e-mail to the e-mail address on that website asking for confirmation. Lupo 07:26, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: And that e-mail bounced. If you are who you say you are, please post a valid e-mail on your site! Lupo 10:23, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  The email address has been sorted out now!  Please try again.  Cheers, Phil. 12.28, 29 Oct 2004 (GMT)
All right. We finally got our act together, and I received the following confirmation by Phil through e-mail:
From:    "Phil Trease" <e-mail elided>
To:      Lupo's e-mail elided
Subject: RE: Wikipedia article on Geoffrey Trease
Date:    Sat, 30 Oct 2004 11:49:41 +0100
[...]
1) I am the copyright holder of the text 
2) Yes, that's fine to use the text on Wikipedia
3) I authorise the text to be used under the GNU Free Documentation License
[...]
The original text of the article came from  and , and it's use on Wikipedia
is now ok. Lupo 08:18, 1 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus Mingus

message: User:Ianw was nice enough to post the lyrics to the poem "Freedom", but I'm afraid this might be a copyright violation.  I'm going to remove the poem in question until further notice. --Viriditas 11:55, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Freedom 

message: I don’t think an anonymous review published without editorial oversight on the Sputnik wiki belongs here.  That section is generally reserved for original critical reviews published at the time of release and for retrospective reviews published by credentialed writers in publications that have editorial oversight. Viriditas (talk) 20:05, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I’m removing it per Wikipedia:WikiProject Albums/Sources: “For sites such as AbsolutePunk, Sputnikmusic, and Jesus Freak Hideout, be sure to select only the staff-written reviews.” Per the site URL, the review is written by a non-staff member. Viriditas (talk) 20:10, 10 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Reception
Talk:Poplar Forest

message: If this material were in the context of Jefferson as an architect, say an entry Thomas Jefferson, architect with a redirect from here and from Thomas Jefferson, then the informatioon that will eventually come here would be more meaningful. --Wetman 12:50, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I reverted edits that were made without new or additional sources here.
I have gone through and made terminology and other edits that don't require a source. After reviewing the differences more closely, there were changes made with a different source already used in the article and also a new source.
It would be good to find source for: 
* visits began in 1809 (cited source says 1810)
* ...couple inherited the full 4,819 acres and eleven enslaved people when Wayles died in 1773.
* Most frequently, he traveled with Burwell Colbert, his enslaved manservant who is the only individual to come to Poplar Forest on every visit Jefferson made. Israel and Gil Gillette, two enslaved men, drove the carriage and act as postilion when he traveled.
–CaroleHenson (talk) 21:43, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Here's the difference after the edits that I made diff.–CaroleHenson (talk) 21:54, 30 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Carole, I appreciate your feedback and understand your concerns. I'm Director of Education at Poplar Forest and can verify that the changes I made are accurate and necessary, including the pieces I removed. Interpretation changes constantly and I'm trying to ensure the more accurate information is presented. I will work on sources for these three suggestions asap.  Mcmassie10 (talk) 18:55, 3 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent edit 

message: — Assignment last updated by Elizabethhawkins21315 (talk) 21:40, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: ARH 371_The TransAtlantic_Cross-Cultural Representations
Talk:History of modern Sarajevo

message: how much anyone of us can sympathize with the civilian population of Sarajevo during the war, the phrase "thanks to the heroic defense of the government army inside it" is POV. I'm changing it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.140.22.68 (talk) 21:06, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: POV

message: The file :File:Sarajevo Twist Tower.jpg, used on this page, has been deleted from Wikimedia Commons and re-uploaded at :File:Sarajevo Twist Tower.jpg. It should be reviewed to determine if it is compliant with this project's non-free content policy, or else should be deleted and removed from this page. Commons fair use upload bot (talk) 12:46, 3 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fair use candidate from Commons: [[:File:Sarajevo Twist Tower.jpg]]
Talk:Alaska Railroad

message: The article states the ARR's route is between Seward and Fairbanks. Doesn't it actually continue (freight only) to North Pole? I'm not 100% sure so I didn't want to edit the article.
And then they're finishing building the extension to Fort Greely to serve the new missile launch site there, so we'll need to watch for that...pretty soon, someone'll get to edit it saying the ARR's met with the Canadian rail system! :-)
cluth 02:52, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC)
:Answering my own question: yes, there is an 18-mile spur from Fairbanks to North Pole and Eielson AFB. I'm planning to get around to adding a bunch of info to this page someday soon... cluth 21:20, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Route extension? 

message: :This is listed as a B-class article. This means it should conform to the assessment criteria for the class. #1 involves citations that include:  Inline citation tags mean there is clear evidence some sections of the article are more than "likely to be challenged". There are other issues including outdated material (April 2010 "is planned") and multiple un-sources paragraphs. The "Routes" section only has 2 out of 6 items sourced. Some of these may be covered by the "General references" subsection but who knows. The "Historical references" is far too long as to violate What Wikipedia is not and entries like the "University of Washington Digital Collection" (in the "External links section) might qualify as a reliable source. Some corrections would prevent an article demotion.  --  Otr500 (talk) 22:10, 26 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The lede could be shortened with most of info in the 3rd and 4th paragraphs incorporated into similar language in the History section.Casey (talk) 11:31, 27 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article issues
Talk:Henry St John Fancourt

message: The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. --KenWalker | Talk 23:49, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This sounds like a good idea to me. Extremely sexy 19:30, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 

message: Newspaper obituaries refer either to Henry St John Fancourt or to Henry Fancourt. So it's incorrect to refer to him as "St John Fancourt". "St John" is used as a surname or as part of a double-barrelled surname. Sometimes double-barrelled surnames are not hyphenated, as (probably) in this case (see  - and the Daily Telegraph should know!) Folks at 137 (talk) 13:47, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Article move
Talk:Emotional Freedom Techniques

message: Someone has recently attempted to use a 2022 review article by Church to claim that EFT is now 'evidence based'. We cannot use this source on Wikipedia - the conflict of interest held by Church has been well documented in the talk page archives. This review was also published in 'Frontiers in  Psychology' -  Frontiers is a predatory publisher, and this journal is not indexed in MEDLINE. Per WP:MEDRS we cannot use it for medical claims. This series of edits also conflated APA sources about Emotionally focused therapy with Emotional Freedom Techniques - despite the similarity of acronym these are not the same thing. MrOllie (talk) 13:57, 29 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The acticle appears in a PubMed search - I asume that is the same as being indexed on MEDLINE. The authors interest is declared in the publication. Is it policy for editors to make judgements as to whether conflicts of interest should determine eligibility? Nigeln42 (talk) 15:08, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: You assume incorrectly. MrOllie (talk) 15:15, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for putting me right. I am still curious about the answer to my second question (albeit it is not relevant this instance). Nigeln42 (talk) 14:23, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  2022 review article by Church
Talk:Ohi Day

message: Aren't the operations on Greek soil during World War II already covered in detail at another site? They shouldn't be covered under the name of a holiday. Shouldn't this entry simply set the holiday in context, with sufficient linking to the fighting that ensued? --Wetman 14:23, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Okhi Day

message: The transcription of Greek όχι as Oxi is not standard, see Transliteration of Greek to the Latin Alphabet. Oxi would be read as [oksi'] in English and in most other languages, whereas the real pronunciation is .
:Well "Ochi" would mean its pronounced like the "ch" in cheese which is just as bad. I propose "Ohi", its much closer. See below. Grk1011/Stephen (talk) 00:18, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Ochi is the transliteration. Although Okhi is better, Ohi is closer to /oxi/. 23:48, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ochi or Okhi 

message: This article, in its current form, describes the most (but not all) the events around October 28th, 1940. It's a very specific subset of the events of the Italian war, and it deserves its own article. +MATIA  ☎ 19:13, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  about the suggested merge 

message: *In that case, it has to be OHI. Politis 11:50, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Ohi
Talk:Old Man of Hoy

message: The height should really be metric. Charles Matthews 15:35, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: Added a link to the sketch with two legs from Fine Arts Museum of SF --Apanagar 16:21, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  William Daniell Sketch 

message: As this is a geographical feature, I thought it may need a map. So I have pulled together this one, but rather than add it directly to the article, thought it would be courteous (it being a new GA etc) to see what people think. Jokulhlaup (talk) 17:26, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: That's very helpful - although we could also use Template:Infobox Scottish island, which allows for an automatic map placement - see e.g. Eday. Ben MacDui 18:06, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I think a map would be useful, and less cluttered than a full infobox. Jamesx12345 18:33, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I must admit I didn't think of an infobox, the map can be moved around within the article - giving a bit more flexibility on location.  Jokulhlaup (talk) 18:50, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: The infobox is reasonably flexible. Its standard practice to include a map and sometimes an image but you can put the map elsewhere if you wish. Ben MacDui 09:01, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair point, but I think that as Jamesx12345 is the main contributor, he has the final say on what is used. Jokulhlaup (talk) 18:54, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: An interesting re-interpretation of WP:OWN! Ben MacDui 09:28, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

text: I was about to say something like that :-). I'll just add the map and remove the darker photo in Geography. Jamesx12345 17:59, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map 
Talk:Salaf

message: Thanks to Leo for cleaning this up -- a bit of actual knowledge is much better than any amount of list processing. -- The Anome 16:00, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: They are the same person.ZaydHammoudeh 08:34, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

message: Interesting question. Do you know if we can incorporate diacritical marks into Wikipedia text? I don't know if it's worth using ' before certain vowels to indicate their glottal nature e.g. 'Ali. 
I have a feeling that it's Uqbah ibn 'Aamir i.e. with a long vowel but will have a look through some original arabic to make sure.
:Yes, we can; for example in "Shi'a Islam". Any chance you can type up the original Arabic names whilst you're looking them up? It would be great to have the original spellings of these transliterated names in this list in brackets following the English versions: this will also aid interwikiing the articles in the future.-- The Anome 01:13, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transliteration 

message: I think the Need Classification section should be removed. The list is incomplete anyway and the names can be added again if anyone knows their classification.
Of the last 3, we know for sure that Tariq ibn Ziyad and Abd al-Rahman al-Ghafiqi have met the tabi'i Musa ibn Nussair, but don't know if they met with any of the Sahaba. Should the be placed in the third generation anyway? Also, if Amir Ibn Abdullah Al-Tamimi is Amir ibn 'Abdullah ibn az-Zubair, then he is a tabi'i. --198.166.20.167 23:50, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need Classification? 

message: What is the etymology of the term salaf as used here? Faro0485 (talk) 21:33, 17 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology of the term 

message: Zayd bin Ali is not in the list??68.100.170.227 (talk) 01:14, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zayd bin Ali 

message: I am willing to explore. Ujjie104 (talk) 14:11, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Salaf? Quran and Hadith's.
Talk:KBS-3

message: I had to stare at this for a long time to figure out what is meant by After 100.000 years of storage, the radioactivity level of the waste is at the same level as that of uranium ore.
I think it's probably true (allowing for the European numeral, I'd write 100,000 years), in fact I'm surprised it's such a low figure now that I think I understand it. But it's also true that after less than 3,000 years the waste will contain less radioactive material than the ore bodies did. How can these both be true? 
I think the trick is that the article as it stands is talking about the level of radioactivity of encapsulated, intact PWR fuel elements, which have quite a high uranium content even allowing for the encapsulation material. These fuel elements are much smaller than the ore bodies that were mined to produce them, which are typically much less than 1% uranium (0.20% of oxide by weight is rich, 0.05% has sometimes been commercially viable depending on the market). So, by the time they have decayed to the same level as these ore bodies, there will be much less radioactive material left in them than there was in the ore bodies when they were mined.
It may even be that at the 100,000 year mark the level of radioactivity is at a minimum, and then increases for a while! That could explain why it's such a low figure. These things happen. For example if you want to dispose of an unused fuel element, its current level of radioactivity is harmless, you could stand beside it without danger. But in a few hundred years time when the U-235 decay products that were separated from the uranium in the mill and refinery have built up again, standing beside it will be very quickly fatal. (Thorium is even worse.) 
I'm not quite sure how or even whether to incorporate any of this explanation into the article. As it stands I think it gives a needlessly conservative picture of the period of time for which we need to keep the waste out of the environment, although not quite as bad as some others admittedly. Andrewa 16:26, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments
Talk:Thomas Washington

message: DANFS states that he served in Endeavor. However, no record of a United States Navy ship of that name exists. This may be an oversight or a typo. Jinian 16:43, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Endeavor'' 

message: Again, the DANFS history says he served onboard Patterson, although the earliest ship of that name was commissioned in the 1930s, well after the time frame indicated. Jinian 02:22, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Patterson''