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Talk:Battle of the Network Stars

message: Um, why are there no WINNERS listed for each show? Seems like pretty important information! 128.230.239.88 19:29, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Winners?

message: The Battle of the Network Stars included members from each network.
The networks would alternate the networks that would broadcast them. I suggest this tidbit of interesting information be included in the article as this was unique and showed true cooperation among them. 
98.64.246.71 (talk) 23:47, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broadcasting networks 

message: How exactly is Caitlyn Jenner's gender transition in 2015 relevant to something that occurred in 1976 in an article that isn't about her? Even as a footnote, her gender transition and name change are not the subject or even tangentially related to the subject of this article. Absurdist1968 (talk) 04:49, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Jenner issue 

message: The competitors were not all from series that were on at the time; some competitors competed for networks based on TV-movies.
The Tug of War did not always determine the winner.  Events were usually scored 100 for first, 75 for second, and 50 for third, except for the Tug of War, which was 100 to the winner and zero to the loser.  If the leaders led by more than 100 going into the Tug of War, at first an extra $1000/competitor was given to the event winner; later, the rule was that the teams not in the lead would compete against each other for second place.
Also, in Season 1, the NBC team nearly walked out of the competition after a controversy in the running relay where an ABC runner moved back a few yards so he could get the baton from his slower teammate earlier; the NBC competitors considered this cheating, especially as it was done by ABC, which was hosting the event.  To settle the problem the NBC and ABC team captains had a 110-yard dash to determine the event winner.  The following year, "passing zones" similar to those used in track meet relays were added to prevent a repeat of this problem. -- That Don Guy (talk) 20:15, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Loose definition of "network star," Tug of War rule correction, and Season 1 controversy"
Talk:S.W.A.T. (1975 TV series)

message: Does anybody remember the commercialized board game based on the SWAT series?  Players raced their SWAT vans to a crime scene where a culprit was standing, and on arrival had to take two figures out of the van and move them along footpaths to surround the culprit.  But at any point in the game, a roll of a die could move the culprit to another part of the board, turning the game into a wild goose chase.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.117.131.51 (talk) 23:59, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Board game
Talk:Dragon Ball Z: Bardock – The Father of Goku

message: The current given translated name is "Dragon Ball Z: A Lonesome, Final Battle - The Father of the Z Warrior Son Goku, who Challenged Freeza", which contains an ambiguity whether it is the "father of the one who challenged freeza" or the "father of Goku and the one who challenged Freeze".
My guess would be that the last one is the proper translation, but I guess neither would be an untrue statement. Anyway, why guess? There's probably someone who knows enough Japanese to clarify this. Also, I think it would be good to look into a wording that lacks such ambiguity (even as that's tricky, considering it is a translation). My name is Jasper (talk) 23:52, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Translated Name
Talk:Richard Sher

message: Because the "other" Richard Shers for whom this DB was apparently created have been commented out (no relevant article for either), should this page redir to Richard Sher, and the hatnote there be removed (since it directs the user here)? Canonblack (talk) 01:38, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: NM, I'm going to just do it.  It seems pointless to have a redirect page listing only the subject of the original article by the same title. Canonblack (talk) 01:41, 1 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect?
Talk:Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Reggio Calabria-Bova

message: In the new Matteo Ricci (archbishop) article, David M. Cheney is referenced for the idea that the first name of Ricci was Matteo. In Cheney's article on Matteo Ricci, he references Eubel, Hierarchia Catholica II, p. 222, but Eubel gives the name as 'Antonius de Rizzis', not Matteo.  Cheney therefore seems to contradict his own source.
Gabriel Chow, GCatholic, also names 'Matteo' Ricci, but provides no reference.
Both of these authors are self-published.
The only place where I can find 'Matteo Ricci' is on the archdiocesan website: Diocese of Reggio Calabria: "CRONOTASSI DEI VESCOVI DI REGGIO CALABRIA", but the list is unreferenced, and no author takes responsibility.  It appears to be self-published.
The published and editorially peer reviewed material should take precedence: Eubel, who uses the name Antonio. Other published sources also use the name Antonio. Consider, for example the tradition of the Chancellery of Aragon, which used the name Antonio Ricci (letter of Ferdinand I):  The Catholic Encyclopedia uses Antonio Ricci.
Ricci's own funeral monument in Naples uses the name Antonio Ricci:  Ferdinando Ughelli, U. Coleti, Italia sacra 2nd edition Tomus IX, p. 532.
--Vicedomino (talk) 19:40, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  First name: Antonio or Matteo Ricci?
Talk:Super Magic Brothers

message: Completely absurd article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.104.142.31 (talk) 06:43, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The mixup has been sorted out now. It looked very odd indeed. The article still lacks information on why the football club held the same name as a governmental import company, but I guess it must have been a sponsorship thing. __meco (talk) 10:26, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  What does football clubs have to do with the importation of essential goods?
Talk:Reichenau Island

message: The lead paragraph contains the following two sentences:The word Bruckgraben has no meaning in the English language, and what its meaning might be is not at all evident either from its similarity to any English word or from the context. The result is that the meaning of the second of the two sentences quoted above is completely unintelligible. It raises but does not answer at least the following questions:
# What is a Bruckgraben?
# From what does the Bruckgraben separate the island? The wording of that sentence, especially introduced by "Nevertheless," implies that the Bruckgraben separates the island from the causeway, which was the last item mentioned in the preceding sentence and the natural antecedent of "it." But "it" may instead mean the mainland, which also is mentioned in the preceding sentence.
There may be other questions as well, but that is enough. Someone who knows both German and English needs to replace Bruckgraben with the equivalent English word or expression. Someone also needs to clarify what "it" is that is separated from the island by the Bruckgraben. I will add a Clarify tag to the article with a link to this comment.--Jim10701 (talk) 21:12, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Bruckgraben is the name of the waterway that separates the island of Reichenau from Schopflen on the Reichenauer Damm causeway, so it should not be translated. Graben means ditch. Schopflen with its famous ruin of a 12th century castle (see de:Ruine_Schopflen) looks like it could have been a separate little island before the construction of the causeway, but literature refers to it as a former shoal that became site of the castle. But, obviously, the castle was not built in the water, which leads me to the conclusion that a small artificial island was created centuries ago at that site. When the Reichenauer Damm was completed, it seems that the waterway separating Reichenau Island from Schopflen was not filled but spanned by a small bridge. Unfortunately, online literature on this topic is scarce. One I find out more, I shall report here.--Ratzer (talk) 06:19, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

text: This document mentions Schopflen and the causeway (there called dam, which seems to be an incorrect translation), but unfortunately it does not mention the Bruckgraben.--Ratzer (talk) 06:43, 25 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bruckgraben
Talk:New Georgia Encyclopedia

message: It would be a GFDL encyclopedia, if paid with public funds. --Mac (talk) 08:20, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  GFDL 
Template talk:OlympicEventRow

message: This template makes 29 calls to #ifexist and is used many times per page.  As a result, many pages are going to be annhilated by the pending limit on calls to #ifexist.  Please rewrite it to make far fewer calls to #ifexist.  Dragons flight 23:13, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  #ifexist limit
Talk:Ubay, Bohol

message: Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from:
*http://www.bohol.ph/mun47.html
*http://www.aenet.org/bohol/aboutboh.htm
*http://www.ubay.gov.ph/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=162&Itemid=110
*http://dirp4.pids.gov.ph/ris/dps/pidsdps0702.pdf
*http://ubaybohol.byethost3.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=885&Itemid=282
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replies: text: Yes, there is a CCI in progress. --Stfg (talk) 10:13, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem removed
Talk:Talibon

message: :Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this subsection with *Support or *Oppose, then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's policy on article titles.
*Support, no disambiguation necessary BegbertBiggs (talk) 12:11, 30 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey
Talk:Oswego Speedway

message: Why is this track part of a NASCAR project? It would be more appropriate in the open-wheel project. 68.221.241.12 16:30, 1 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Because it has hosted numerous NASCAR Modified races. Which open wheel series have raced at the track? I can be added to WikiProject American Open Wheel Racing too if it is appropriate. Please update the article to show which series have raced at the track. Royalbroil 19:18, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

text: No that's Shangri-La Speedway in Owego. Royalbroil 04:10, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why NASCAR?
Talk:Sikatuna, Bohol

message: I have tagged this for rewrite by someone who knows the subject better than I do. There are multiple issues of POV, the tone in which the article addresses the reader directly, and the lack of citations - the 'Political History' section seems to be attributed in the body text to 'Source: Mr. FORTUNATO O. AHAT, Retired School Principal, Sikatuna Central Elementary School.', rather than any verifiable, published source. Carminowe of Hendra (talk) 22:31, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tagging for rewrite 

message: This article was previously a cut/paste job from these two posts:
I've cut it down and made the tone more neutral. Could use some updating about modern history. PaintedCarpet (talk) 15:40, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyedit 

message: ga 49.146.132.143 (talk) 23:52, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia articles aren’t meant to be essays. However, someone might be able to add a section about Sikatuna Plaza. Brachy08 (insert welcoming to chat with you message here) 23:57, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  give essay sikatuna plaza
Talk:William MacGregor

message: 'subject races'?  129.125.103.83 00:31, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Unattributed text has now been superseded.–Q8682 (talk) 16:01, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Phrase query 

message: Captain Robert COCKS was recorded predominantly as COCKS, not COX.  This is evident per later in life when Annie died in 28 July 1889 in Sydney, aged 56.   
Article corrected to be COCKS.–Q8682 (talk) 16:01, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  COCKS vs COX 

message: Did William MacGREGOR have a first wife?  The National Library of Australia system Trove has a photograph of MacGREGOR's father-in-law Captain Robert COCKS.  There is a note on the page:
::Cock's  Mary-Jane married Sir William MacGregor (1846-1919) in November 1883, becoming his second wife. They had two daughters who were born in Fiji.
Was there a first wife, and if so, when and whom?  Ancestry.com entries suggest MacGREGOR was married to Mary THOMSON (married 04 Oct 1868, Towie; died 09 Feb 1877, Fiji).  However... no printed reliable publicly-available source found.–Q8682 (talk) 16:01, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need authoritative source(s) for first wife 

message: One daughter (A)lpina Viti MacGREGOR was married to Admiral PAGET and died in 1918.   Another daughter was still unmarried by that date and referred to as Babs (short for Barbara?). Babs had a place in London, a cottage in Bognor, and looking after her orphaned niece Honor PAGET.   
The obituaries for Sir William MacGREGOR indicate he was survived by a son and three daughters.   Yet for Lady MacGREGOR, nothing at all.  Who was the surviving son and a possible third daughter (and if so, did she survive past 1919)?
One Ancestry.com family tree indicates: William MacGREGOR (1846-1919), Mary Jane Cocks (1839-1919):
: Alpina Viti MacGREGOR.  Birth 28 Sep 1884 – Suva, Fiji.  Married 07 May 1906 – London, Alfred Wyndham Paget (1852–1918).  Death 13 Sep 1918 – Kensington, London, England
:: Honor Cecilia Paget.  Birth 18 Jun 1907 –  St Marylebone, London.  Was married twice.  
: Mary Jane 'Babs' MacGREGOR.  Birth 1886 – Suva, Fiji.  Death 12 Dec 1934 – Marylebone, London, England.  
However, another records them with half-siblings, to Mary THOMSON (married 04 Oct 1868, Towie; died 09 Feb 1877, Fiji): 
: James Robb MacGREGOR (1869–1936), born 27 Jan 1869 – Towie,Aberdeen,Scotland
: Helen MacGREGOR (1874–) – Curieuse Island, Seychelles
This would give one son and three daughters, although only two daughters alive at time of MacGREGOR's death in 1919.  However... no printed reliable publicly-available source found.–Q8682 (talk) 16:01, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need authoritative source(s) for four children
Talk:Columbia Motors

message: There is also a "Columbia (automobile)" in wikipedia.  Is this the same company?  If so, these two pages should be combined.
This is not  the same company as the Columbia (automobile) page.  This company (1917-1924) was a gas only company using Continental engines.  The other company (1898-1913) was initially an electric car builder but later added gas engine cars.  It was part of the United States Motor Company.  This is all from the David Burgess Wise Encyclopedia of Automobiles.HornColumbia 22:35, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:List of exported Arabic terms

message: Why has this page been created? Setting aside the Wikipedia policies against list pages what intellectual purpose does this really serve? One could come up with a very huge list of words that were borrowed in various languages from Arabic and similarly could come up with huge lists of such words from other languages but it's not clear how this is valuable.
--Mcorazao 23:46, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why? 

message: I've replaced the article with a redirect (from: List of exported Arabic terms to: List of Arabic loanwords in English) as this appears to be a very simple and easy case of one article superseding the other.--Bxj (talk) 09:08, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Superceded
Talk:Paul Ignatieff

message: The article says:
Ignatieff was the only top minister of the Tsar to escape execution by the Bolsheviks.
In what sense is this meant?  Sergei Sazonov, who was Foreign Minister until 1916, escaped execution, as did Nikolai Pokrovsky, the last foreign minister of Tsarist Russia - and the Foreign Minister would surely be a "top minister".  The last two tsarist prime ministers, Alexander Trepov and Nicholas Galitzine, also escaped execution.  So did Vladimir Kokovtsov, who had been Prime Minister and Finance Minister until 1914.  Pyotr Bark, the last Finance Minister, also survived.  Of War Ministers, Vladimir Sukhomlinov survived and went to the west.  Alexei Polivanov actually ended up joining the red army, but died of typhus during the Russo-Polish War.  Dmitry Shuvayev stayed in Russia and survived until 1937, when he was executed in Stalin's purges - I'd say that doesn't really count as "executed by the Bolsheviks" which I would interpret as meaning "killed during the Civil War".  Ivan Grigorovich, the last Tsarist Naval Minister, stayed in Russia until 1924, then moved to France, where he died.  And that's just what I could find on Wikipedia.  There's tons of Tsarist ministers who survived the Civil War era, either inside or outside Russia. john k (talk) 15:57, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Old talk

message: While this may follow some kind of standard form for Latinisation of his Russian name, surely we make a special case of Russian expatriates who adopted a particular "nonstandard" Latinisation upon their entry to the West?
The count's name was, as far as I know, consistently written "Paul Ignatieff" following his flight to Canada, and it is this spelling of the surname which his descendants employ. --Saforrest (talk) 21:46, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Pavel Ignatiev?
Talk:Hiroshi Wajima

message: I've been unable to track down Wajima's complete career record--all I can seem to find is his top division record. If anyone knows his scores from his debut I'd be grateful if they could update the info box. Thanks! Pawnkingthree 00:01, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done! --Auximines 23:35, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Career Record

message: Could you change this article since he is dead?
Ext2a (talk) 04:39, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  His death
Talk:Jan Mazoch

message: He has a very heavy skull contusion
*I updated and expanded the article and removed the update flag.Doctorfun (talk) 22:17, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article Needs Updates 
Talk:Transgressive (linguistics)

message: I think the English translations could be more precise, but I am not sure about the correct English grammar in this case. Someone more fluent in English should check this proposal and then include it in the page:
* Usednuvši u okna, začala plakat. (Having sat down at a window, she begun to cry.) — past transgressive
(meaning: She sat down at a window, and as she did it, she started crying. The most important part of the sentence is "she started crying", the rest of the sentence specifies under what circumstances it happened.)
* Děti, vidíce babičku, vyběhly ven. (Children, having seen grandma, ran out.) — present transgressive
(meaning: The children saw their grandma, and as they saw her, they run out (to greet her, etc.) The most important part of the sentence is "the children ran out", once again the rest of the sentence specifies the circumstances.)
Also I think both cases are past transgressive, but that would have to be confirmed by a linguist.
:Although I am not so fluent in English too, I think that your translations are O.K. So, I decided to place them into the article. I think eventual corrections will be made more probably there than here. --Pajast 14:54, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

message: In my opinion, trangressives are not an exlusive matter of Czech and Slovak only. They originate from the Proto-Slavic language and I am sure they could be found as archaic forms in all Slavic languages. Trangressives were "dead" in spoken Czech long before the 19th century. They were used in the Czech literature thanks to the national awakeners' (Josef Dobrovský, et al.) work at the turn of the 18th century. They codified a grammar of the language used in the Bible of Kralice (published in the 16th century!), which was regarded as an ideal of literal Czech. --Pajast 15:35, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trangressives in Slavic languages 

message: :"Someone has written this, but I do not agree with them. You can still hear transgressive in Czech. - Artists are using this often, because transgressives are a useful tool for descriptions.)
That was added in the articel in reference to Transgressives coming out of use. I'll remove it soon. 91.66.42.138 (talk) 23:14, 7 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed it. I've asked a linguist friend who is Czech and he told me that these forms are rare and archaic even in writing and never used in colloquial spoken Czech. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 19:58, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  possible vandalism 

message: Why Transgressive (pusdalyvis) and Gerund (padalyvis) are mixed on this page? Transgressive is Transgressive and Gerund is Gerund, why Gerund is even mentioned here? 91.198.17.200 (talk) 11:58, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lithuanian
Talk:Vampire Rites

message: As the only sources quoted for Vampire Mountain are about the series rather than the book, a merge seems a logical move rather than the current unbalanced and unjustified split. Fæ (talk) 07:26, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge
Talk:The Comic Strip

message: I think the television and film work should be separated out from this article put on its own page, as this is a page about the stage show and performers and it seems a bit cluttered to me. The stage act was called The Comic Strip, the TV work is called The Comic Strip Presents... and really bears little relation to what went on at the Comic Strip club night. Kaleeyed (talk) 20:57, 10 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stage show and televsion 

message: I was thinking of adding running times to (most of) the TV work in the table.  They are accessible from the DVD package.  However, they would be the running times reflecting any re-editing for DVD, and any changes for the US market.  I still think it would be useful info, though.  I might mention those caveats in a footnote.  Thoughts? Huw Powell (talk) 22:52, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Running times 

message: This whole article totalling nearly 4,000 words has been given a mere 10 sources at the foot. Claim after claim, detail after detail are stated without supporting citations. This entire piece should be junked if we cannot justify its many "facts".
217.155.200.241 (talk) 19:09, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extraordinary lack of ref sources throughout
Talk:Popular Liberation Army

message: I read the Semana interview  and another source that refers to the interview  (English).
After doing so I had to remove the following statement
:Megateo denied any involvement in drug trafficking and said the EPL's struggle was a political one
because that truly appears nowhere in either source and also feels like the opposite of what the sources actually say. That (at least in 2013) the PLA charges a tax on coca leaves but is not involved in processing. The leader explains that that is how they fund their expenses and the revolution. In the interview there is no "denial of involvement" and I can't find anywhere where the struggle is described 'as a political one', either.
122.106.36.46 (talk) 01:47, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  2013 interview