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Talk:Lymond Chronicles

message: I have a few ideas about improving/expanding this entry, and am wondering if there are others with strong feelings about the page?
Miriam123 19:23, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd say go for it. I'm going to merge in the content from Game of Kings into an overall fictional and historical character lists for the series as well as a location list. This can then be built on for the other novels - good idea? Madmedea 14:06, 11 January 2007 (UTC)

text: I think anything you could add would be an improvement. If you know any active Lymond Chronicles communities (mailing lists, forums, etc) on the web, perhaps you could ask them to contribute. I'm sure they would be happy to spread the word. Cathryn 11:08, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I think there's an active Yahoo newsgroup called Marzipan...could certainly solicit input from them. My guess is that detailed plot summaries would be a bit problematic, given the complexity of the stories and the loads and loads of spoilers. But I like the idea of resources, like character lists and location lists. Along those lines, I've been thinking about how to format a timeline. In addition to the inevitable issue of spoilers, there's the issue of citations (too many = boring, too few = potentially frustrating). Color-coding would allow you to identify source (each book = a different color font), but might also be overkill. Thoughts? Miriam123 05:16, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

message: Should Francis Crawford of Lymond be merged into this page? There's actually a good bit more detail here, and it seems largely duplicative. -DrGaellon (talk | contribs) 13:21, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed; much better here; couldn't find anything worth merging, so I've redirected.  Klbrain (talk) 21:09, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge proposal
Talk:Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland

message: It is mentioned Percy was appointed Constable of England on King Henry IV coronation (1399). However the article Lord High Constable of England does not list Percy as one. Reference (and correspondent change) is needed, here or there. ירון (talk) 23:30, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Constable of England? 

message: According to Geni.com and some other sources, he also had a daughter called Isolda Percy, who became the great-grandmother of Sir Roger Kynaston. Mr. boo (talk) 14:13, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  His children
Talk:Andrew Truxal

message: WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive
Good references, but any article about an academic who died in the late 20th Century that neither lists nor explains why the birthdate is missing, cannot rate as a GA Biography. (IMHO.) B class.
And get a pic and an infobox, for heaven's sake. It doesn't look very GA!
The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 01:06, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 

message: With only very limited exceptions (I believe hyphens), inline citations always go after punctuation, without a space between the punctuation and the reference. This alone, in some editor's eyes, would constitute failure of a Good Article candidate. -- Kicking222 21:31, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, I wasn't aware of that.  Metros232 01:12, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  References and punctuation 

message: A bot  has added class=GA to the WikiProject banners on this page, as it's listed as a good article.  If you see a mistake, please revert, and leave a note on the bot's talk page. Thanks, BOT Giggabot (talk) 04:42, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Automatic addition of "class=GA" 
Talk:Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland

message: Much of this articles seems to be copied from http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/HenryAlgernonPercy(6ENorthumberland).htm  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikiwikiwakoo (talk • contribs) 00:40, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Possible Source

message: I'm no specialist, but: There is no cause of death mentioned here.
Whereas in this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrimage_of_Grace
it says that he was executed for taking part in the 1536-1537 popular uprisings against the dissolution of the monasteries, which would correspond with his year of death.
At the moment this bio seems biased in that it insinuates that Henry Percy somehow 'wasted' himself... 
While he could just as well be seen as a proto-socialist who shared his wealth and gave his life in the commoners' cause. Max Nemo 11:39, 12 May 2009 (GMT)
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Also he did have a surviving heir that was brought to America.  If you go to Dawnpiercy.com I wrote an article on it. It's my family. So this basically said that I don't exist.  Dawn M Piercy (talk) 04:38, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Bias/Inconsistency

message: "Having 45 children that he totured" looks like vandalism to me. It doesn't even make sense.
--Bee King (talk) 02:29, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for spotting that, now changed back to what it said before! Richard Nevell (talk) 09:01, 1 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Vandalism?

message: As I have noted at Talk:Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland there is an inconsistency between the succession box for Earl of Northumberland in this article and that in the article for Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland. Personally, and as I have broadly explained in the other discussion, I think what is here is OK. However, depending on changes being made to the other article it might be the case that the successor should be changed to  - "Vacant (Nextheld by [[Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland]|Thomas Percy]])". Dunarc (talk) 18:38, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Earl of Northumberland succession box
Talk:William de Forz, 3rd Earl of Albemarle

message: I have encountered a drawing of the William de Fortibus, 3rd Earl of Albemarle's Surcoat in The Project Gutenberg eBook, Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving, by Grace Christie, Fig. 95.  As it is on Gutenberg, that makes it public domain. I need help with 
:1) double-checking that yes, William de Fortibus, 3rd Earl of Albemarle IS this William de Forz
:2) If yes to #1, could someone comfortable with Wikicommons upload the image there and here?  Thanks!Kenalynn (talk) 17:06, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Illustration for William de Forz
Talk:Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick

message: The Rous Roll scans by the British Library show  different image for Guy, Earl of Warwick: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_48976_f001ar
"Guy, Earl of Warwick, in chain-mail, holding a battle-axe in his right hand and a shield in his left, and a lion rampant pawing at his shield, and trampling three defeated enemies and a dragon underfoot."
Compare the images; maybe an update is merited?
Cheers. --Eorr (talk) 05:21, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternate image suggested 

message: The Rous Roll scans by the British Library show  different image for Guy, Earl of Warwick: http://www.bl.uk/manuscripts/Viewer.aspx?ref=add_ms_48976_f001ar
"Guy, Earl of Warwick, in chain-mail, holding a battle-axe in his right hand and a shield in his left, and a lion rampant pawing at his shield, and trampling three defeated enemies and a dragon underfoot."
Compare the images; maybe an update is merited?
Cheers. --Eorr (talk) 05:33, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternate image
Talk:Beledweyne

message: the information about darwiish in beledweyne is a lie created by revisionist psuedo intellects.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by Abshir1000 (talk • contribs) 00:07, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The text in question cites Said S. Samatar, Oral Poetry and Somali Nationalism (Cambridge: University Press, 1982), p. 133.  As such, it is a verifiable source (regardless of whether this is true or false).  Do you have a reliable source you can cite that refutes this claim? It is better to cite that source rather than continuing to delete the text. -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 17:03, 6 February 2011 (UTC)

text: I saw some portions saying that the Darwiish efforts are over-emphasized, but nothing that specifies Beledweyne or the Darod regions.  The index only gives pages xi, xiv-xv and 75 so if there is some other specific mention of Darwiish, you'll need to provide a page number. (Searching the document did not find any other ocurrences besides these.)  In any case, rather than deleting the Said Samatar reference, I would suggest adding it in a manner such as: "However, authors Abdi Kusow and Mohamed Mukhtar disputes the extent of the Darwiish role in Somali nationalism" (although this doesn't refute, or really even address, the statement in question). -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 23:01, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments
Talk:Thomas Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick

message: Wikipedia's Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick is listed as the 3rd Earl of Warwick at stirnet.com and thepeerage.com what is correct I wonder?  Daytrivia 14:34, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick 

message: What is this Siege of Calais in 1369? There is no other reference to it anywhere else on wikipedia, nor is there any other reference anywhere on the web. In July 1369 an English Army lead by John of Gaunt had marched out of Calais and pillaged much of Picardy departing back to England in November and leaving behind a garrison in Calais. There is no mention of any Seige of Calais in 1369, and the French Army refused to engage in battle.
http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofengland00sanduoft/historyofengland00sanduoft_djvu.txt
http://www.archive.org/stream/johngauntkingca00armigoog/johngauntkingca00armigoog_djvu.txt --John lilburne (talk) 19:22, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Siege of Calais
Talk:Nikolay Kokorin

message: * 1st line: Никола́й Кири́ллович Коко́рин; 21 May 1889 – 16 May 1917
* Infobox : Died 28 May 1917
* World War I: On 29 May 1917, Nikolai Kokorin … took a bullet through his chest from shoulder to shoulder. His remains and his aircraft fell to the east of Podgaytsy
Now: what’s right??? -- 95.88.188.130 (talk) 19:41, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Died - but when?
Talk:William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford

message: Wasn't it Fitz Osbern, with a space? I am learning this at school and am sure it had a space... LucarioAuraSphere (talk) 11:37, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name? 

message: Under the Marriage & progeny section, it says:
Secondly it must be assumed that he also married Richilde, Countess of Mons and Hainaut shortly before the Battle of Cassel in 1071.
Why must it be assumed, & what is the source for the assumption? ScarletRibbons (talk) 20:28, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assuming? 

message: I'll first admit that my surname is Crepon, one of very few left on this Earth today descended of this man and his kin. However, I'd like to ask if William FitzOsbern may be at least secondarily written in the text as William FitzOsbern Crepon to signify he was of the Family Crepon. Thank you. I believe I've tried just changing it in the past- but it was reverted. 2601:19A:4400:1A02:893C:48F8:1B77:305A (talk) 17:04, 5 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: You would need to identify already published reliable sources, independent of the family, that use the name William FitzOsbern Crepon.  We cannot rely on original research.   Ghmyrtle (talk) 14:06, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Surname of Crepon
Talk:William Montagu, 1st Earl of Salisbury

message: :1. Well written?: Pass, although it needed some clean up
:2. Factually accurate?: yes
:3. Broad in coverage?: yes
:4. Neutral point of view?: yes
:5. Article stability? yes
:6. Images?: yes
article needed some clean up, and clarity, especially the section on the coup -- it was originally worded that Mortimer executed the coup, not the King and Montagu. Nice effort, though, thanks for your hard work!  --Auntieruth55 (talk) 18:52, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Roger Mortimer, 2nd Earl of March

message: Please refer to Douglas Richardson, Kimball G. Everingham. Magna Carta ancestry: a study in colonial and medieval families, Genealogical Publishing Com, 2005. pg 831. Google eBook. There is no Margery Mortimer listed as a wife of John Tuchet or mother of John Tuchet, 4th Baron Audley. Please check sources when adding info. Thank you. -- Lady Meg (talk) 07:02, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Margery Mortimer 

message: In the golden chief of the shield of the coat of arms in the illustration it shows two blue pallets on the gold. The caption for the arms has it correct. In the article's text there is the statement "Heraldic coat of arms:" and a statement that the number of golden pallets is three, not two, which is wrong. Please LOOK at the illustration, and count. Also the caption of the illustration gives the color of the blue things in the gold chief as "of the second" (i.e. azure, i.e. blue, just as "of the first" means "or" i.e. gold, since gold is the first color mentioned and blue is the 2nd color mentioned) rather than "based on the second". Why would we write this as "based on the second" instead of "of the second"?2604:2000:C6AA:B400:1D38:73A9:69D2:E52E (talk) 08:39, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Blazon
Talk:Alarmism

message: Apologies for my edit summary. I put it in there as a pointer but then went back and did it myself after a preview of changes. Otherwise - played with wording to make it read "nicer". Added some flesh to some common alarmism (eg, everything causes cancer! Obama / the democrats / health care will destroy the world! Etc) 203.58.120.11 (talk) 08:23, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: older entries

message: I fail to see how an oil crash in the future is alarmism. It is pretty real.
:You'll find people willing to say "It's pretty real" about everything on the list. 220.239.88.91 03:24, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oil crash 

message: It would be great to sort the list into categories like "economic," "political," "environmental", etc. The problem is that so many of the items belong in several categories (nuclear war, for example, could be something affecting all three). What, if anything, might be done about this? Perhaps a sot of Venn diagram or the like? --Lenoxus 15:26, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sectional sorting 

message: Alarmism  –  The production of needless warnings. Use of the word implies that one does not share the concerns of the person giving the warnings, and that the anticipated danger is overstated. Some warnings that have been called alarmist include:
•	The threat of terrorism 
•	The 2002-2003 SARS incident
•	The prediction of end times events from the Bible
•	Mutually assured nuclear destruction causing mass extinction
•	The possibility of a bird flu epidemic killing hundreds of millions
•	Population explosion or Malthusian catastrophe, causing mass starvation
•	The Y2K bug causing a breakdown of the world's computers and life itself
•	Nuclear meltdown scenarios on a larger scale than 3 Mile Island or Chernobyl
•	The possibility of an asteroid collision with the Earth, causing mass extinctions  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.234.69.28 (talk) 23:14, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quick summary of Wikipedia's alarmism page 

message: The article seemed to be just an uncited laundry list so I have knocked it back to s stub, based upon a journal article which seems to make some attempt to discuss the general nature of the topic.  Material of this sort is what we need most, please. Colonel Warden (talk) 13:24, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks about right. Guettarda (talk) 13:34, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Laundering

message: All that's here is a definition. Try expanding more on the subject. Look a more references/sources. Melaniebruns (talk) 17:18, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Psych 101 edit

message: The article only provides the definition of Alarmism. This article should provide more sources and should include what symptoms Alarmism does to a person. The article needs to give a better description and explanation of what Alarmism does to a person.
Kristino11 (talk) 20:17, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Psych 101 Edit
Category talk:Airport stubs

message: Airports are definitely not buildings or structures -- they're open spaces where aircraft can land.  Like a park or a town, and airport can contain buildings -- the larger ones contain dozens of them -- but that does not make them buildings themselves.  Many airports contain no structures at all.  Does anyone object to this category from :Category:Building and structure stubs? David 19:41, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please discuss: remove from [[:Category:Building and structure stubs]]
Talk:Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers

message: Death of Ricahrd Savage's brother, Thomas Viscount Colchester:
I've just found his burial in the parish register of St Osyth - Thomas died 16th Oct 1679. I don't know if anyone wants to add that? It's from the record held by Essex Records Office, fiche D/P 322/1/1. I'm not sure how to reference it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Helvissa (talk • contribs) 22:09, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography gives his birth date as "c.1654".  I will amend the article accordingly. Greenshed (talk) 20:34, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of Birth
Talk:Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield

message: The article currently gives an unsourced date of March 1698, but the at http://www.opsi.gov.uk/chron-tables/private/p-chron05.htm I find a reference to it in 1697.  Is 1698 wrong or was the process just very drawn out? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ewx (talk • contribs) 12:55, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Divorce
Talk:Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby

message: There is a reference to "Thomson 2004" used in the article, but it is not defined. It was added by an IP editor in January 2017. THe IP has not edited since. Can anyone identify the source? Yet another duff short citation, they really are far more trouble than they are worth.  DuncanHill (talk) 23:43, 1 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference "Thomson 2004"
Talk:The Borgia Bride

message: This redirects from Sancha de Aragon, who is a real historical figure and deserves to have a bio page.  I think that's not a good redirect.  The editor might think about making a page for Sancha, then having a sections on Sancha as a fictional character, which could then link to The Borgia Bride.  Also, the summary is not finished, and it's been sitting unfinished for quite a long time.  Not sure this book deserves a Wiki on its own, especially if it works as a teaser for an ad for amazon.com.  It should probably be marked for speedy deletion if someone doesn't de-orphan it properly.LeValley 04:48, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
Talk:Saved by the Light

message: "purportedly describing his purported near-death experience"
I deleted both purpoteds. Reason:
*"Purportedly describing" would be correct if the blurb said it described his experience, but actually, the book is about something else.
*What is a "purported near-death experience"? He did not experience that? Did he invent the whole thing? No, it is just his experience, and unless there is good evidence that he did not actually have it, we say he had it. That does not mean something spooky is going on.
Skepticism is my thing too, but that one is just silly. --Hob Gadling (talk) 05:44, 6 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: OK; I get that the second "purported" is justified, but the first one still says: "the book is about something else entirely, but people claim it is about describing his purported near-death experience." --Hob Gadling (talk) 06:53, 7 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: The use of purported is due to the fact that the very idea he was dead has been challenged due to inconsistencies and changes in the story of his claimed NDE. RobP (talk) 16:19, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Purported
Talk:Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

message: To say of Chesterfield that he 'was selfish, calculating and contemptuous; he was not naturally generous, and he practised dissimulation until it became part of his nature' is an extraordinarily one-sided way to begin an analysis of his character. It reflects a moralistic C19th indictment of Chesterfield (following Cowper + Dr Johnson). He had a bastard son and (unlike so many others) he wasn't a hypocrit about it. More balance needed!! --OhNoPeedyPeebles (talk) 11:00, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV 

message: To add to the comment above, the article is full of sections like these:
:The Letters are brilliantly written, full of elegant wisdom, of keen wit, of admirable portrait-painting, of exquisite observation and deduction.
These and other inappropriate value judgements appear to be remnants of its original source (Britannica). Although well-written, the tone doesn't match Wikipedia and is anything but neutral.
Lacking an account I'm hesitant to go in with simple removal of objectionable phrases like these (reverts are just around the corner), so I'll just have to be lazy and point it out. 31.169.57.1 (talk) 13:57, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tone 

message: Johnson could often contradict himself. On one occasion he said this of Lord Chesterfield's letters. "Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his son would make a very pretty book. Take out the immorality and it should be put in the hands of every young gentleman." From Boswell's "Life of Dr. Johnson", pp.36, 1949 edition, for the year 1776. 47.232.145.208 (talk) 16:38, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  More Dr Johnson re Lord Chesterfield
Talk:Income tax in Singapore

message: Are the tax rates listed marginal tax rates or overall tax rates? --JHP (talk) 17:00, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tax rate details? 

message: Please note that this edit is an undisclosed paid edit to include a link to "www.3ecpa.com.sg". --Lemongirl942 (talk) 15:15, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Undisclosed paid editing
Talk:Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury

message: The uncited statement at the end of the summary that Robert De Belleme's cruelties "may have inspired the legend of Robert the Devil" I doubt applied to De Belleme. My understanding is that it was given to William Conqueror's father Duke Robert of Normandy (aka Rollo).Cloptonson (talk) 18:23, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Robert the Devil
Talk:Feng Boyi

message: Documentation of the claim that he is among most important is crucial, especially in light of 
* the tendency of the Party to deform the marketplace of ideas that often establishes these things elsewhere, and
* his apparent apparent bomb-throwing in the title "Fuck Off": bomb-throwing in art can contribute to notability, but it is so much more often in the art world a desperate and fruitless attempt at attaining notability that in his case it does more to suggest n-n than notability.
--Jerzy•t 19:51 & 19:54, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled