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Talk:St. Mary River (Alberta–Montana)

message: My map lacks important detail. Does anyone know where the St. Mary River goes on Alberta? On my map it could flow into the Bow, Little Bow, Saskatewan or Oldman Rivers. Rmhermen 14:02, Nov 23, 2003 (UTC)
:Oldman. --Qyd 20:08, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I was wondering if there was a discussion somewhere where I can read the rationale for renaming this article. From what I can see on the Saint Mary's River dab page, this is the only article that is St. Mary River (without the apostrophe). As such, I don't see why it needs to be disambiguated. Were readers having trouble finding it? --Kmsiever (talk) 15:25, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You missed the "St. Mary River (British Columbia), tributary of the Kootenay River". Rmhermen (talk) 16:42, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed. Thanks. Perhaps the page needs a different organization. --Kmsiever (talk) 17:28, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Article renaming
Talk:Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie

message: The French page on this is an utter stub.  Could a native French speaker translate what we have here?
seglea 20:59, 23 Nov 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I have pointed the link on "Romans" (town in France) to Romans, Deux-Sèvres. If anyone believes this to be incorrect please revise the link. ("Romans" as such is a disambiguation page, not an article.) Thanks. --Disambiguation link repair - You can help! --Iggle 08:35, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Identification of "Romans, France" 

message: This article and the bibliography seems to be very similar to the section on Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie in Marnie Hughes-Warrington's Fifty Key Thinkers in History. Perhaps a reference is needed if that is true?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ekkr (talk • contribs) 23:39, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Key Source 

message: The reference to Bukharin's reason for confession requires citation, in my opinion, and the fact of his torture by the NKVD far as I know is not supported or at least contested. See, for example:  Hellbeck, Jochen. “With Hegel to Salvation: Bukharin's Other Trial.” Representations, vol. 107, no. 1, 2009, pp. 56–90. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/rep.2009.107.1.56 
I would remove the phrase "but the truth was rather more brutal and sordid: Bukharin had been psychologically "broken" after months of torture by the NKVD, and had been reduced to such a state that he was willing to "confess" to anything", what to replace it with, if anything.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by LemuelCushing (talk • contribs) 13:51, 11 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The entire lengthy paragraph explaining the contents of Darkness at Noon in detail has no place in this article, except for the initial and last two sentences, which contain ELRL's take on it. Even so, the importance of this episode remains to be demonstrated and can hardly be a substitute for a factual account of ELRL's involvement in PCF's politics. VampaVampa (talk) 12:16, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bukharin's torture
Talk:Sacred Harp

message: I can see this was already addressed by a editor above, but it doesn't appear to have been fixed yet. It says that "the Sacred Harp tradition originated in the South". I think that is clearly incorrect, not even a matter of different perspectives. The shape notes and the whole tradition of singing masters and tune books started in New England and spread south, even as the Better Music Boys were making inroads in the urbanized North. The tradition remained in the South and then re-spread to the rest of the country, but the tradition clearly didn't originate there. The Sacred Harp itself was originally a later attempt at making the same sort of tune books that were previously published in the North, where most publishing activity took place in the early years of the US. AnnaGoFast (talk) 10:58, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Place of origin 

message: The image showing the song Windham says it "shows the traditional oblong format". That may be technically correct, but its a little misleading as it makes a reader think that is is saying that "this is how the song Windham appears in the Sacred Harp". It is not. Windham is a single 4-staff song filling the botom half of a traditional oblong page. AS it is depicted here it would fill an entire page of the book. The caption is correct in that yes, a Sacred Harp page is laid out more or less like that, with two 4-staff brackets of music, but Windham is not written to fill the whole page when it can easily fits on a half page. A minor quibble. To my eye it seems like even that image is not quite as oblong as the Sacred Harp, being a bit too wide and tall, but I'd have to compare them next to each other to be sure.
Idumea47b (talk) 07:51, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Traditional oblong format" 

message: I found the source of the quote "This notation was invented [...] Smith," which is currently quoted within footnote #9. The source is Warren Steel at https://home.olemiss.edu/~mudws/wyethnotes.html . However, I cannot figure out the coding for a reference within a note and hope that someone else will put it in.
Rhetoricalray (talk) 23:37, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source for footnote
Talk:Westboro Baptist Church

message: While I hate these guys as much as anyone, this article is very biased.  It is almost a polemical article rather than a descriptive article. 184.98.244.77 (talk) 01:47, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Bsoyka (talk · contribs) 02:55, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: For one, in my opinion the first line should be about how it's an unaffiliated Baptist church in Topeka, Kansas.  Then the second line can say it is listed by the SPLC as a hate group, etc. etc.  But right now the whole page just states a bunch of adjectives as facts, which is the exact opposite of NPOV and not what the wikipedia is here for.--Mrcolj (talk) 21:38, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Made some edits and put a comment below about my concerns  ProfGray (talk) 17:40, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 28 May 2021 

message: In reference to the “Mormons” please change the phrasing to the proper name for the church: “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints” 66.111.124.59 (talk) 00:18, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: The church now styles itself as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.  Its adherents are still commonly referred to in most reliable sources as "Mormons".  The context used in this article is a reference to the people, not to the church, and will use the common name for those people, not the "official" name of the church.  General Ization Talk   00:23, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no such distinction between the church and its adherents in usage.  The Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Latter_Day_Saints frowns on, but allows, the term "Mormons."  Most modern style guides do not. There are arguments you could make, but "I'll use the common name for those people" is precisely why the Wikipedia has policies against it. Just sayin...--Mrcolj (talk) 21:35, 17 June 2022 (UTC)

text: The WBC use the terms "Mormons" and "Mormonism", and while the LDS church is by far the biggest group to fall under that banner (and one that WBC at times has directly targeted), they are not the only ones. I think it would be wrong to assume that when they are using the term, they refer only to that church and not to the fundamentalist Mormons as well. --Nat Gertler (talk) 06:21, 6 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 20 March 2022
Talk:Gene Bilbrew

message: http://americanfetish.net/ has Robert Bienvenu's PhD dissertation on it -- I haven't had a chance to read it, but it should have a full bibliography. This might be useful for these articles. -- Karada 00:17, 24 Nov 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Bilbrew illustrated a lot of gay pulp covers for Unique and other publishers - books like Male Madame, Queen of the Road, and The Gay Rebels. His signature's on the covers but I can't find any third party reference to this part of his work (which I suspect was done near the end of his life). Does anyone know of one? --NellieBly (talk) 07:46, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gay pulp work 
Talk:Anaphora (rhetoric)

message: I'm splitting off the liturgical sense of the word into its own stub article.  There's much that can possibly be said about the development and form of the ligurgical anaphora, but it would be clearly inappropriate here.  In any event, the liturgical term is not a sub-meaning of the rhetorical.  See Csernica 6 July 2005 22:54 (UTC)
Yes it so and it is used in the catholic elementary church. okay.
If these are not good examples, can you give some? LT marching flute 22:35, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Liturgical use 

message: "Anaphor" which is a grammatical term for the words "herself" "himself" "itself" and others, probably should not be directed to "anaphora", despite the similarity in spelling. I would do it myself, but I have absolutely no clue how. Sorry! Elle121 03:49, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Wherever you find this, correct the link to anaphor(a) ᛭ LokiClock (talk) 19:19, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anaphor 

message: Would it be appropriate to add more examples?  "Charge of the Light Brigade", especially "cannon to the left of them, cannon to the right of them" would be excellent.  Mathwhiz90601 (talk) 20:34, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional examples 

message: WHAT the hammer? WHAT the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
WHAT the anvil? WHAT dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?
...WHAT does that mean?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.234.112.5 (talk) 05:33, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[The Tyger]] 

message: I am trying to find where this quote from Obama belongs, whether here in Anaphora, or in Epanalepsis, or a different speech structure.
“One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.”  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.51.167.44 (talk) 02:37, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible Barack Obama usage?
Talk:William Rosecrans

message: Rosecrans sounds like a German name. Has anybody data about his ancestry?
: Added info on his parents. Feel free to expand. Hal Jespersen 17:26, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. Thanks for pointing this out. Hal Jespersen (talk) 19:48, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ancestry 

message: The article's introduction contains this sentence:
He was briefly considered as a vice presidential running mate for Abraham Lincoln in 1864 but the telegram correspondence Rosecrans sent back to Washington that stated his interest, was intercepted by Stanton, who buried the message. As a result, Lincoln never received his response and began looking for other candidates.
This is contradicted somewhat later:
During the 1864 Republican National Convention, his former chief of staff, James Garfield, head of the Ohio delegation, telegraphed Rosecrans to ask if he would consider running to be Abraham Lincoln's vice president. The Republicans that year were seeking a War Democrat to run with Lincoln under the temporary name of "National Union Party." Rosecrans replied in a cryptically positive manner, but Garfield never received the return telegram. Friends of Rosecrans speculated that Edwin M. Stanton, Secretary of War, intercepted and suppressed it.
Since this is only speculation, not fact, I suggest that the sentence in the introduction that claims this as fact be deleted.TH1980 (talk) 03:38, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Since no objections have been raised, I have deleted the sentence in question.TH1980 (talk) 03:32, 20 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed Deletion From Article Header
Talk:Anthropophage

message: so how do they eat people then? JackLynch 02:29, 24 Nov 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: I removed some obvious vandalism, and I shudder to think why people think such vandalism is funny. 152.31.229.30 (talk) 16:13, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Vandalism

message: Maybe something should be mentioned about this book? The Anthropophagi is the main antagonist in it and the use of the creature is what lead me too this page, checking if shakespeare really did write of it. http://www.rickyancey.com/monstrumologist/index.php  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.143.183.34 (talk) 04:19, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Monstrumologist
Talk:Blowing Rock (land feature)

message: But i am not inclined to add the romantic and patronizing legend involving local Indians unless there is some scholary folklore research showing it's more than an fabrication for the benefit of tourism. --Jerzy 04:47, 2003 Nov 24 (UTC)
The AAA 2002 tourbook for Georgia, NC, and SC says that the legend about the rock involves a Chickasaw maiden, whose prayers brought her lover back to her on the winds after he jumped.  However, this article refers to a Cherokee brave as the leaper...  I don't know anything else about it, so maybe the legend does involve two different tribes, but maybe somebody familiar with the story should check on that...  --Steve-o Stonebraker 01:35, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legend
Talk:Great Zimbabwe

message: Is the term "city" really justified for something this size? Wouldn't "village" be more accurate?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.195.1.165 (talk) 13:06, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  City or village? 

message: Ndebele State 217.15.117.118 (talk) 18:05, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  History
Talk:Blowing Rock, North Carolina

message: Please review the following:
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# Please document your source by citing a reference to prove your text is verifiable.
# Please add text that has a neutral point of view instead of sounding like an advertisement.
# Please ensure a person meets Wikipedia Notability requirements before adding to the "Notable People" section.
# Please read the "Editing, Creating, and Maintaining Articles" chapter from the book Wikipedia : The Missing Manual, .
• Sbmeirow • Talk •  07:05, 7 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Important Tips Before Editing This Article 

message: If anyone knows which county the Moses Cone Estate is in, could you please add the appropriate category to :Commons:Image:Moses Cone estate.jpg? Thanks. - 00:19, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. - Ken Thomas (talk) 02:40, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moses Cone Estate 
Talk:Bob Welch (baseball)

message: Really should mention the time he beat the Reds and Mario Soto (then one of the most dominate pitchers in all of baseball)1 to 0. Welch threw a complete game shutout and drove in the games only run with a home run.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.82.126.103 (talk) 04:41, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mario Soto 

message: Who nuked all the content on his battle with alcoholism, and more importantly, why?  Those are not rhetorical questions: detailed responses with references to refute his admissions of and battles with alcoholism, and references showing he never published his book and never gave the many interviews discussing the same must be provided to justify the deletion of significant material. The single sentence remaining on this page mentioning his personal battle and book is a depraved act. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.100.23.77 (talk) 22:24, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you saying this page had sourced information in it before and someone removed it? I cant find record of that.. could you point to when it was removed?Spanneraol (talk) 22:51, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why was this page scrubbed of key information? 

message: He had died from a heart attack.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.237.34.211 (talk) 02:53, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cause of Death 

message: On June 17, 1983 against the Cincinnati Reds he drove in the games only run with a solo home run off of Mario Soto.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.237.34.211 (talk) 03:11, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Driving in the only run in a pitchers duel. 
Talk:Sound board (music)

message: Do pianos have one too, or does it have a different name?
:I don't know. In Russian they both have the same name and it's obviously an acception from Italian (or French or some other Latin-based language). What's about English - I don't know. You shoud probably ask Google for this =) Arseni
::Yes, pianos definitely have soundboards. How else do you think their sound is produced? +ILike2BeAnonymous 02:41, 29 January 2007 (UTC)

message: I removed the fluff/nonsense about "resonance", which has little, if anything, to do with how a soundboard works. Resonance is a specific aspect of sound mechanics which has to do with the frequency of maximum amplitude of a system. What happens with a soundboard is actually much simpler: it has a larger surface area than a string alone, and therefore can move a larger volume of air, hence a higher volume of sound.
Also removed this business of instruments having "two soundboards". While it's true that the back of an instrument (say, guitar or violin family) has a profound effect on the sound, the back isn't a soundboard per se, but rather just another part of the instrument that happens to vibrate. (Here, resonance does play a part, although the physics involved aren't simple at all.) +ILike2BeAnonymous 02:41, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Clean up article

message: The "plate" in a piano is not the soundboard, it's the heavy cast-iron frame that maintains the tension of the strings.  (See Piano#Construction).
151.201.225.237 (talk) 19:57, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: And hence the word "plate" shouldn't be used to describe what the sound board in a piano is. Who would like to fix that sentence? —Wegesrand (talk) 12:52, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plate vs. Soundboard 

message: An amplifier is a device that adds energy to a signal.  A soundboard is passive, it does not add any energy (indeed, a bad soundboard robs the signal of energy).  A soundboard makes a vibrating thing (e.g., a string or a tuning fork) sound louder because it provides an effective path to couple the vibrational energy of the thing to the air.
151.201.225.237 (talk) 20:00, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  A soundboard is not an amplifier 

message: The interwiki link to the German article Korpus (Musikinstrument) is not correct. "Korpus" is the term for the whole body of an instrument. This article should link to Decke (Saiteninstrument) instead. --91.34.45.85 (talk) 07:25, 4 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interwiki Link 

message: An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect :Decke and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 March 5#Decke until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  eviolite (talk) 23:40, 5 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Decke" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:Cetacea

message: @Waughd and @Deantifanizer have been undoing each other's edits on whether climate change (mentioned in summary) is supported as a threat. It's appropriate in the summary, since the sections on Strandings and Environmental hazards both address climate change, through its effects on currents and acidification. Those sections are where the citations belong, not in the summary. Maybe they could be better organized. Kim9988 (talk) 17:32, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Environmental stresses Suggestion Comment 

message: In the dolphin anatomy diagram used in this article why does the anus connect to the stomach, and the intestine go off on a different path? Is it just mislabelled?Regularuk (talk) 13:22, 19 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Well spotted, yes it's just wrong. It looks like the oesophagus connects to what is labelled kidney then to anus... It is more than a labelling issue though as the urogenital opening should be anterior to the anus. I need to find a reliable source as the internet has spread this one far and wide. Are you any good at editing SVGs? |→ Spaully ~talk~  09:02, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I've had a go at improving it. Any suggestions/comments welcome. |→ Spaully ~talk~  10:33, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anatomical issues 

message: The lexical level and language of much of the anatomical description, such as ears, is well above a university level to the point only a Ph.D could decipher it.  Wikipedia is a reference and if readers need another reference to understand it, the purpose is lost. 2001:CE8:143:8CEE:59AD:BA25:7415:3257 (talk) 20:32, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes it was pretty ridiculous. I've rewritten the Ear section at a more normal level. Chiswick Chap (talk) 15:52, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reading level  

message: A sentence in the article currently reads, “The sperm whale has a particularly pronounced melon; this is called the and contains the eponymous , hence the name "sperm whale". 
The missing first noun appears to be ‘junk’ per an article in the Encyclopedia Brittanica. The missing second noun appears to be ‘spermaceti’. 2A00:C280:101:41:6800:6D10:2028:38 (talk) 11:18, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Both appear to be in the text, please try clearing your cache. CMD (talk) 11:59, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sentence regarding sperm whales is missing two nouns.
Talk:Tubular pin tumbler lock

message: I intend to edit this article, but start here to see if there is any feedback.
The article says: "Such locks can be picked by a special tubular lock pick with a minimum of effort and a lot of time..."
In my experience as an ordinary citizen, with a not-even-amateur interest in locks, "a lot of time" is incorrect.  The article should read: with a minimum of effort and time.
I asked my locksmith about the security of the "Ace" lock.  He went into the back room and brought out an "Ace" pick.  This device was invented, he said, by a high school student many decades ago.  He used it to open a lock in about five seconds.  Then he taught me how to use it. It took me a couple of minutes to learn how to use the pick.  After learning, i opened several different locks.  Each time it took me much less than a minute to open the lock.
:: I agree with you. I'm editing this article. Please add your info to this article - Tubular_lock_pick. By the way, it also states that opening an Ace lock is an easy and quick task. Kirils 18:52, 25 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picking a tubular pin tumbler lock 

message: In all my googling, I have been unable to find any diagrams which actually show the inside of a tubular pin tumbler, so the illustrations in this article are mostly guesswork. I would be much obliged if someone familiar with this type of lock could steer me on the right path if I got them wrong. Thanks! -- Wapcaplet 15:42, 24 Nov 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Illustrations

message: The illustrations added by Wapcaplet are great, but need some formatting.  I think something like this would work:
thumb|The key pins (red) and driver pins (blue) are pushed towards the front of the lock, preventing the plug (yellow) from rotating. The tubular key has several half-cylinder indentations which align with the pins.
I tried, but I just ended up screwing everything up.  Someone better with formatting might want to give it a shot. :-) — Frecklefoot | Talk 15:48, Aug 12, 2004 (UTC)
*Damn, I could have sworn I went back and made these into thumbnails after uploading the larger versions. I will fix. -- Wapcaplet 20:40, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Great illustrations

message: We could do with a history section on the tubular lock? I will try and find a book or resource on it. Willh26 (talk) 08:57, 15 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  History