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Talk:Santo (art)

message: I take issue with this genre of art being identified mostly with New Mexico. It was and continues to be a practice throughout Latin America.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Daniel the Monk (talk • contribs) 13:53, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Then improve the article with sourced material.  :-)  By the time I got to it, it was almost entirely dominated by Philippines-related content, and still does not cover Latin America.  There's a strong and distinct tradition in Puerto Rico, and at least one in Mexico, that I know of, but I don't have much if any material about either.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  21:58, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: New Mexico focus

message: I don't know about mainstream use in Mexico, but some research I did for anthropology classes a few years ago suggested that the santero tradition has all but died out in northern Mexico.  In central Mexico, however, there still seems to be a strong bastidor tradition, especially among only partially-Hispanized indigenous people, that involves parading around a litter/shrine with a large saint statue, I forget which one, to pray to for crop success, and it also involves giving money to the statue. All this amid dangerously large fireworks going off on the ground, and some very detailed sawdust painting, rather like a giant's version of sand painting, forming a pathway through the village (surely over a mile of it) that got trampled and turned into mush. I know some mainstream Catholics have condemned this ritual as a pagan Indio fertility rite survival, and blatant idolatry, but the locals consider it all properly Catholic.  I was privileged, as a gringo, to have been allowed to be there for it.  It was followed by a church service (not in Spanish, as I recall), then outside, a "Moorish" dance: a combination of faintly Arabian-inspired costuming (with face veils, and, as in English "Morris" dancing, lots of jingly stuff), but danced in a style and to music that was clearly indigenous.  I'm guessing their ancestors saw the Colonial Spanish doing Moorish/Arab-derived dances, and then just ran with the idea without much further input.  Anyway, I may have pics of the bastidor on one of my SD cards. I would think most of the RS material about what's going on with these uses of large bultos in Mexico is probably in Spanish sources I'm unaware of.  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  21:58, 30 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mexico
Talk:Pinecrest Gardens

message: Unless there is some material that is independent of Parrot Jungle (such as pictures showing the current state of the park, the entrance/entrance sign, and so forth), I cannot see why this cannot be merged into redirected to Parrot Jungle Island. This needs much more to establish its own identity, and I don't see it here, starting with getting more about the present than is already mentioned about the park's past (for example, is the second picture necessary? It would be better to show something like the current landscaping or something that wasn't there in the Parrot Jungle and Gardens days). B.Wind 19:41, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The next time I go there I'll take some updated photos.  Those are the only ones I have (from the old park).  When I take the new ones I'll replace whats there.  The old ones should be better than nothing at all, for now.   -   Marc Averette 20:16, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Wikipedia talk:You are probably not a lexicologist or a lexicographer

message: Some people, including some WP editors, are lexicologists, lexicographers, etymologists, linguists, or some other relevant expert. — SMcCandlish [talk] [cont]  ‹(-¿-)› 07:20, 23 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Problem...

message: A recent edit to this essay supports quoting a copyrighted definition. Fair use is relative partly to the length of the original. Although it's common in many media to quote entire definitions, I'm not sure that the original against which fair use would be judged wouldn't be the entry, rather than the whole dictionary. For example, quoting an entire song even though you got it from a songbook of many songs would often be a violation, although that might be because every song in the book was originally separately copyrighted, not usually the case with dictionary entries. Entries, especially in the more authoritative dictionaries, typically include more than definitions, so maybe there's no legal problem with copying only definitions, and only in a few cases. I'm just raising the legal question in the hope that someone else can answer it and edit accordingly or decide that no editing is needed. Thanks. Nick Levinson (talk) 20:32, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  whether quoting dictionary entry possibly illegal 

message: The use of terms in literature is often markedly different from dictionary definitions... and wikipedia often cars about the literatures rather than a dictionary. Obviously to avoid interminable conversaion deference must be paid to literature, but it's fairly easy to be more familiar with the use of terminology within a specific literature than most lexicographers. Talpedia (talk) 18:26, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Don't really agree
Talk:For LP Fans Only

message: The digital version of this album on sites like amazon and spotify is 12 songs; appending "I Don't Care if the Sun Don'T Shine" and "Let Me" to the end. can we update the tracklist accordingly?—Preceding unsigned comment added by Bawtyshouse (talk • contribs) 21:58, 3 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Digital version of this LP
Talk:Amelia Osborne, Marchioness of Carmarthen

message: Since there is no discussion of the oddity of calling her "Baron Conyers" I'm going to change it to "Baroness Conyers", unless someone can post a source stating that she had this odd title. Wjhonson (talk) 21:17, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Baroness Conyers
Talk:Elizabeth Medora Leigh

message: "legitimizing both children"  Both of what children?   There's only one, Elie, listed from her relationship with the servant.  You can't tell me that a child is legitimized when the mother marries somebody she took up with only after the child was born.  Even if that's what the source says, it's nonsense.
108.18.136.147 (talk) 19:34, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  say what?
Talk:Mokhovoye, Kaliningrad Oblast

message: origins of 'Kaup' could be finnic - 'kaup' in estonian means 'trade' & 'goods', 'kauplus' - 'shop'(est)(also 'doing trade'), 'kauppa' in finnish means 'trade' & 'shop' —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.65.192.23 (talk) 02:15, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Finnish and Baltic words were borrowed from Germanic languages. --Ghirla-трёп- 08:48, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  origins of Kaup 

message: Just an answer to Ghirla, kauppa is shop, kauppias is shopkeeper or trader, kauppapaikka is trading place, kauppala is town like settlement, kaupunki is town. Non of these have nothing to do with Deutsch. You find places with kaup also in Norway and connected to ancient trade. The area east of Elbing was,
according to old Vafthrudner Jotunland (Odoland), and the border between Jotunis and Gutas (Gothos) run on Elbing River. These kaup places appear in history before the Deutch. Your (Slavic) Staraja Ladoga (Vanha Laatokka) was infact  known as Laatokankaupunki before there were a single Slav origin inhabitant. Novaharad (Novgorod) is Crivitai version of Karelian Uuslinna (Newcastle). See more details from title Votes Red Book of Endangered Languages in Imperial Russia, of the used language in old Novgorod. Kauppasaksa mean Hanseatic (Hansa) trader. Estonian and Finnish languages do not have Deutch at all for Deutsch(land). That what is in Porusski Nementsy is in Estonian and Finnish Saksa named after Saksi (Saxony). From where comes an idea of Kaup Deutsch origin? Old Prussian language was not the same than Deutsch language. It was much closer to old Lithuanian and Latvian even Crivitai or as you call it Krivitshi language. Just for your notice, Crivitai language words are preserved as loan words in many modern Finnish words. Do you want a list of them? You would be suprised.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.113.116.245 (talk) 14:16, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Kaup / Kauppa
Talk:The Heartbreak Kid (1993 film)

message: Questioning the claim in the introductory matter that much of the film was shot in Prahran. A lot of the street locations early in the film are recognisably Brunswick (on and around Sydney Rd), and the school buildings strongly resemble Brunswick High School. Furthermore, there are no sources in the article for the claim that Prahran was the filming location. 119.17.152.39 (talk) 09:53, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Filming Locations
Talk:Bohemian Flats

message: Information regarding the Bohemian Flats appears in the article Washington Avenue Bridge (Minneapolis).  It should be transferred here from that article.  J. Peterka 23:14, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

message: A request has been submitted to WikiProject Minnesota for a new article to be created on the topic of Housing in Minnesota. Please join the discussion or consider contributing to the new article. Best regards, -- M2545 (talk) 13:17, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Notification: [[Housing in Minnesota]]
Talk:The Best of Bread

message: The article's track listing section contained a "bonus track" (#21) with a "citation needed" note.   I have been unable to find any citation for this bonus track.  All references I can find indicate the re-issued album on CD had 20 tracks (only) and none indicate that David Gates' "Goodbye Girl" was ever included on the The Best of Bread, Their 20 Finest Songs or on the Anthology of Bread albums - so I deleted this track from the article today.   Pugetbill (talk) 18:04, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bonus track #21 ??? 

message: Best of Bread had two equally "legit", or standard covers: the US/Canadian one pictured, and the European color cover that presumably sold millions as well. The UK had both covers, though the initial pressing was the color cover. [All this info I got from Discogs.com.]  So Wikipedia should show both covers, with the color cover being the "alternate cover".  Adding this pic is beyond my Wkpdia skill level at this time, unfortunately. Fp cassini (talk) 03:01, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  two album covers
Talk:Mandolin Brothers

message: What type of changes are needed and what do you recommend?
The Media References section needs to be changed. It reads like a list of testimonials at the bottom of an advertisement, not an encyclopedia article. Wikipedia is here to present facts, not to convince people to go to a store or purchase a product. Narcisse (talk) 17:56, 12 September 2008 (UTC)
Talk:List of New York City manhole cover abbreviations

message: At 2nd Avenue & 110 Street, on the southeast corner sidewalk, there is a manhole with the acronym DBW. It is very similar, almost identical, to the common DPW (Department of Public Works) manhole designs. It is the only DBW manhole I've seen, but I'm curious if anyone has seen any others. The style of the curved, serifed lettering is identical. It contains concentric rings of squares very similar to nearby DPW manholes, though with only six rings instead of DPW's seven. Steve Duncan pointed out the mystery to me, and I'm now taking it upon myself to solve it. Anyone have a clue?
My fantasy story is that, due to a mistranscribed phone call, a series of DBW covers was engraved and cast before the error was caught and corrected to DPW.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Unitof (talk • contribs) 18:59, 4 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: The Mysterious D.B.W.

message: "This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it." it says. Why? Why would you want to expand it? Seriously who gives a hootily-hoo what it says on manhole covers in new york, or anywhere for that matter.
--87.112.7.76 19:54, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Workers who need to dig, or need to identify what is underground, do need this information. --DThomsen8 (talk) 01:25, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Why?
Talk:Vermentino

message: Under the Wines heading, there should be a subsection for US, which would encompass California and Southern Oregon. In California, Unti in Sonoma County makes a Vermentino wine. Chriskalexander (talk) 17:44, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Lodi vineyards also produce this wine 2603:8000:4E00:6000:919C:D447:F1D1:67AB (talk) 01:29, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wines
Talk:Wireless vehicle safety communications

message: Based on the information provided on this stub article, I am first going to recommend cleanup of the content, and then consider merging (or re-directing) to "Telematics".  Please note that wireless vehicle safety communications have already been developed (see Telematics) - as such, it is no longer a system that could exist in the future -- feedback is welcome. --Lperez2029 20:03, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge
Template talk:Tantric chakras

message: This has no reference, no citation, and is erroneous. Changing it to as told by Swami Lakshman Joo in "Kashmir Shaivism: The Secret Supreme", chapter "Kundalini and its purpose". The only difference between Patanjali's lotuses and Tantrika chakras is one less chakra, not one more; they are experienced as wheels in rotation.
ॐ नमःशिवाय Śaiva Sujīt सुजीत ॐ 20:06, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chakras vs. Lotuses
Talk:Transport in Trinidad and Tobago

message: # To the best of my knowledge $50 does not include a cabin, but rather general accomodation.  If that has changed, can you provide a reference?
# "Mainly" between PoS and Scarborough?  What other ferry service is there?
# International flights to Crown Point are not only to London.  Guettarda 20:10, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Ferry service

message: The Guardian has some nice key-statistics which I think in the future would make for a good addition to any article on the new "light-rail" / "rapid-rail" system being planned in Trinidad. I think the contract is to be awarded in January if my memory serves me correctly.
This is a time-sensitive link.
*$6.8 billion project
*"In this year’s budget Prime Minister Patrick Manning said the rapid rail would serve more than two-thirds of the population and be in full service by 2011."
*the rapid rail will cover 72 miles at a cost of US$15 million a mile.
CaribDigita 04:48, 28 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Key stats from the Guardian on the new light rail. 

message: Article says that the service should be in operation by mid 2008.  Anyone know what the story is now?  Tagged as .  -- Zappa26 (talk) 09:50, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Water Taxi Service

message: According to this source, the new People's Partnership government announced the rapid rail project as being "officially axed" on 8 September 2010. However, apart from this terse statement I have been unable to find any substantial coverage of the matter on Trinidad and Tobago news sites. I gather, though, that this decision apparently was pretty much in line with the general PP position on the issue.
-- Svenman (talk) 21:45, 24 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rapid rail project axed? 

message: I was about to nominate this page for deletion because of how generally bad it is but since it seems to be in WikiProject and all that I decided to just post it here.
The entire page has a total of 4 sources, all of which are referenced in 1 sentence which is concerning railways that were never built. 
Some of the other information on the page is not even correct. There are no references for the statistics either.
Mosaicberry (talk • contribs) 19:26, 16 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: This page desperately needs improvement or even [[WP:TNT]]

message: The Woodford Lodge sugar factory was located on the state railway and had its own Decauville network. The St. Madeleine sugar factory also has a dense network of Decauville tracks, so that no plot of cane was more than five miles from a sugar factory.Philippe Mioche: Histoire du chemin de fer sucrier de Beauport, 1863-1990.  In: Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire de la Guadeloupe,
Number 165, May–August 2013, p. 12. Jean-Claude Giacotino: Trinidad et Tobago. Etude géographique, Thèse de l’Université de Bordeaux III, 1977, three volumes, p. 409. NearEMPTiness (talk) 18:55, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Narrow gauge cane trains
Talk:Bitter Tongues

message: From what year is this album?--Fisherjs 12:07, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Year?
Talk:Gleba

message: There’s an episode on Friends in which Emma says her first word, which happens to be ‘gleba’. Ross doesn’t think it counts because he thinks it’s not a real word, but Rachel looks it up and proves him wrong. Should this be mentioned? Siúnrá (talk)   — Preceding undated comment added 20:35, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: No. See WP:Trivia. Sasata (talk) 21:08, 2 November 2014 (UTC)

text: No. See WP:Other_stuff_exists. Yes gleba was once mentioned in a joke on a sitcom series, but that event isn't notable enough to grant mention in the article. --78.9.138.74 (talk) 09:17, 25 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Mention on ''[[Friends (TV series)|Friends]]''
Talk:Alexander Ross Clarke

message: I intend to expand this page considerably over the next few weeks. The structure that I put up today will give some impression of my intentions. I hope that this page has some watchers who will declare an interest: your comments would be appreciated. I would be grateful for copy editing but please bear in mind that the text will be polished as I proceed. Also note that I will use British spelling. Please check that references are ok as they are added. I have added as many web references as possible but please check them.  Peter Mercator (talk) 19:49, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Upgrade 
Talk:Henri-Georges Clouzot

message: The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Edofedinburgh 11:14, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 

message: Hi everyone. I totally re-wrote this article. It was fun! Please anyone feel-free to copy-edit it. I haven't read over it entirely and I'm sure it needs some re-phrasing and cleaning up. I'll tackle more of it later. Cheers! Andrzejbanas (talk) 04:55, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I did a run-through of the article and fixed up what I saw as grammatical errors or issues with style. -Krasnoludek (talk) 20:56, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! It's greatly appreciated! Andrzejbanas (talk) 02:36, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re-write
Talk:Snow Bunny

message: I've heard various intriguing stories of Snow Bunny:
* A pioneer family settled here
* A ski lift operated for decades here
* Several ski jump competition were held here
* There was a lodge
Even after grabbing the Internet by the lapels and shaking hard, I couldn't find anything for this Snow Bunny.  Perhaps Oregon Geographic Names or the Oregon Historical Society have something?  — EncMstr 20:42, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes there was a lodge, I think until around 1990. I only have memories, though there may be some old Boy Scout pictures floating around in the family, and maybe an Oregonian article from the closing. Aboutmovies (talk) 11:22, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of Snow Bunny
Talk:Mr. ZIP

message: As of June 2012, Mr. ZIP is not shown on the United States Postal Service web page for looking up ZIP Codes. Bill S. (talk) 05:39, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mr. ZIP no longer on ZIP Code lookup page 

message: There's a lot of unreferenced stuff here and so I tagged it. The one reference given is quite short and doesn't cover:
* -- really? I've never heard or seen anyone all him "Zippy".
* -- it's not apparent to me. What's the source for this?
* -- none of the various examples in the article or the one ref show either of these.
* -- What hair? He looks bald as an egg to me. And do we have to bring race into this? Source? 
*This list is not necessarily exhaustive. Herostratus (talk) 08:17, 2 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: References, please

message: Probably not notable, but preserved in "the nation's attic" is the Mr. ZAP puppet briefly used by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.
--Lent (talk) 04:58, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mr. ZAP - Postal Inspection Service
Talk:Leibniz-Keks

message: It may look that way from the edit history, but this is not my vanity page. I believe notability (of the biscuit) has been established. How much more notable can a cookie be? Leibniz 20:55, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

message: I'm not sure this popular culture section should be on this page at all. After all, no direct reference is made to a Leibniz brand in that episode, and he could have been referring to just about any 'expensive German biscuit' on the market.
Plus, Choco Leibniz really aren't expensive at all! --Itsnoteasy07 (talk) 11:23, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peep Show? 

message: Petit Beurre is the original name of these biscuits and is older than this brand, so how come it doesn't have an article while Leibniz-Keks does? Why's the corresponding page to this in French Wikipedia "petit beurre?" Why not create a seperate page for Petit Beurre or "Plain butter biscuit?" So many questions.--ecgecg (talk) 08:52, 29 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Petit Beurre
Talk:Pac's Life (song)

message: I think it only ever got to the high 20s in the UK charts, which is nowhere near #1. Is it likely to climb at all higher? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 217.44.111.155 (talk) 00:22, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  predicted to hit #1 in the UK? 
Talk:Yaoundé

message: This page says Yaounde has 1.4 million and is the 2nd largest city in Cameroon but the Wikipedia page for  Douala says that city has 1.2 million. Which is the largest city?
4.142.96.98 00:16, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old talk 

message: Much of the article (such as schools neglecting english...) are unreferenced. i don't care to find the correct template to add, so if someone else could... (the lack of capital letters is a protest against capitalism, my english is otherwise perfect.)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.204.77.24 (talk) 16:39, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  lack of references 

message: I just added some of them, actually, but it seems like English-language sources have agreed on an 1887 or 1888 founding date for the settlement that (according to the detailed and presumably correct treatment on the German and French wikis) is simply wrong. I've left the dispute and the cites in the running text so far since Wiki ain't a source but we should find some English-language treatment of this error and explain it. — LlywelynII 10:30, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Bad references

message: * This page has a map of Jaunde's set-up c. 1890 when it was still an ag station.
It's probably under copyright but there should be an original somewhere that isn't at this point. — LlywelynII 10:57, 17 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources for article expansion
Talk:Norstrilia

message: Please see http://www.ulmus.net/ace/csmith/cspronunciation.html
The use of an -i- to render the phoneme [ai] when roughly representing other languages in English literature of the 19th and early 20th century was fairly common, and as Elms points out, it's in accordance with actual Australian pronunciations. There is still a residual prejudice against "Cockney-sounding" pronunciations (from which Australian is actually derived) among some "literary" readers, which may account for the persistent tendency to say "norstrillia" among some commentators. I can't cite any sources as this comes from personal observation at reader conventions and long term reading. Any updates welcome. 212.159.59.41 (talk) 15:07, 3 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: You're probably right, but there would be no way to document it unless someone who knew Linebarger's original pronunciation of the name was interviewed... AnonMoos (talk) 16:00, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation of 'Norstrilia'