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Talk:Al-Abbās ibn Said al-Jawharī

message: I rolled back a copyright violation, where an anon user pasted in text from 
Please don't resort to this. It can be detected and will be removed when found. Ian Cairns 17:36, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems this was re-reverted again immediately after Ian's original revert and it has been like that since then (ten months)... I'll make another attempt to get rid of the copyvio. Suede 19:26, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyvio
Talk:She Walks in Beauty

message: Note that the wikisource article for this poem has been deleted, and according to the deletion log, didn't contain the actual poem anyway. --Trovatore 17:39, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: wikisource

message: "Contrmechanisms": I'm not English, but is this word correct?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.42.103.76 (talk) 08:46, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Word use

message: Suede's song "heroine" begins in the line "she walks in beauty, like the night", which is obviously a reference to this poem. If you bothered mentioning Glee in this article, I suppose Suede would be appropriate too.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.159.182.135 (talk) 13:29, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Cultural references
Talk:Con Heir

message: I'm trying to remember whether the episode mentioned either oompa loompas or chumba wumbas. If the former, it's a reference to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, if the latter, it's a reference to the Family Guy episode "Wasted Talent" (two references for the price of one). Cromulent Kwyjibo 17:48, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Should the fact its guest voiced by the same person (in the same voice) who did Spotswoode in Team America be mentioned? I find it ironic considering the South Park/Team America creators dislike American Dad, yet they have this as common link Mackay64 (talk) 00:11, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guest Voice of Jack
Talk:Henry S. Lane

message: Page 120 or "Biographical and Historical Sketches of Early Indiana" by William Wesley Woollen states that the date of birth of Henry Smith Lane was 11 February 1811; however, his tombstone at Oak Hill Cemetery, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, Indiana clearly shows a date of 24 February 1811 (http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8477).  This date is also at the entry for him on Political Graveyards (politicalgraveyard.com/bio/lane.html).
While being carved into his tombstone does not prove the date, it is strong evidence compared to a biography written in 1975.
Comments are welcomed.
Cub bear 3165 (talk) 02:52, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It is Feb 24 according to Gugin. —Charles Edward (Talk | Contribs) 02:27, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of Birth for Henry Smith Lane 

message: Regarding the move of this page, Henry S. Lane (72%), Henry Lane (21%), and H. S. Lane (5%) are the only iterations of Lane's name that constitute over 5% of references to him on newspapers.com in Indiana from 1840 to 1885. Star Garnet (talk) 21:14, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Common name
Talk:The Murders in the Rue Morgue

message: I have removed the information that says the issue of Graham's that included "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" as April 20, 1841, despite it being sourced. The magazine was monthly and, therefore, would not have had an exact date. In fact, an April issue would have been available before the month of April. According to the Poe Log, at least two reviews of the story were published in other publications before April. See this page for info. --Midnightdreary (talk) 00:12, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Publication date
Talk:King's Quest IV

message: I deleted the sentance saying this game was the first game with a female protaganist. According to Wikipedia, Metroid (which has a main character who is female) predates it.
I have reverted your change.  The article states that KQIV was the first computer adventure game with a female protagonist, not that it was the first game of any kind with a female protagonist.  Metroid was not a computer game, so the fact that it had a female protagonist before KQIV is irrelevant. CKarnstein 23:35, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, the first computer adventure game with a female protagonist would be Plundered Hearts (1987). KQ4 might be called the first graphical computer adventure game with a female protagonist, but I don't know if that is still notable enough to be mentioned. TerokNor 21:41, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, it was not even the first graphical computer adventure game with a female protagonist. That would be Amelie Minuit, a 1985 Amstrad CPC game. I have changed the sentence to "first major graphical computer adventure game". -- 213.47.127.75 01:42, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error 

message: There's a quote in the article indicating that the game supported VGA graphics.  I don't see how this would be possible considering that VGA wasn't released until two years later in 1990.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.208.159.17 (talk) 15:16, 26 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Video card support 

message: I changed the sentence about sound card support from "the first PC game" to "one of the first PC games". While it may be true, of the games that came out in the same year, at least Times of Lore had sound card support too. The exact date is often very hard to pinpoint, I found none for TOL, and for KQIV Wikipedia gives August, while MobyGames gives September. Since no source was given for the statement, I thought it better to err on the safe side. — 213.47.127.75 18:01, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sound card support 

message: I can understand that there were remakes of the first three of King's Quest, but here's the stumper: Do you think there may or may not be a remake of the 4th King's Quest? --LooneyTunerIan (talk) 00:27, 24 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  No Possible Remakes? 
Category talk:Airports in Taiwan

message: I flew into an airport in Taiwan in 1978. I don't remember which one (I was 7 or 8 years old then), but there were buildings near the end of the runway, which from where I sat it looked liked the plane barely cleared. The instant the plane was wheels down, the pilot had the thrust reversers on - all the way down the runway, through a big U-turn and still slowing down. I remember being pressed forward hard against the seatbelt all the way until the plane stopped. Later the same day for takeoff, the plane was positioned as close as possible to the start of the runway with the engines screaming at full throttle. It was like a dragstrip launch. ;) IIRC, not too many years later a plane failed to miss the buildings. I dunno if the runway was extended or if the airport was closed after that. I heard some other people saying they hated flying in and out of that airport due to the short runway and the buildings that made it even worse. Bizzybody (talk) 10:44, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major crashes?
Category talk:Kazakhstani people

message: Continued from the previous Cfr discussion: Since Kazakhs account for 53% of the population of the present-day Kazakhstan (30% are Russians, according to demographics of Kazakhstan), and there's over a million of Kazakhs residing in Xinjiang, PRC, and more than 0.7 million in Uzbekistan (see demographics of Uzbekistan), there are Kazakhs who are not Kazakhstanis, and vice versa. Therefore I would like to propose to keep two separate categories, one for people of the ethnic group, and one for citizens of the country.   — Instantnood 18:20, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Category talk:Kazakh people

message: Continued from the previous Cfr discussion: Since Kazakhs account for 53% of the population of the present-day Kazakhstan (30% are Russians, according to demographics of Kazakhstan), and there's over a million of Kazakhs residing in Xinjiang, PRC, and more than 0.7 million in Uzbekistan (see demographics of Uzbekistan), there are Kazakhs who are not Kazakhstanis, and vice versa. Therefore I would like to propose to keep two separate categories, one for people of the ethnic group, and one for citizens of the country. (Please reply at category talk:Kazakhstani people. Thanks.) — Instantnood 18:20, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. --Erkin2008 08:23, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:On-to-Ottawa Trek

message: This article is factually incorrect.  The Trekkers rode trains all the way to Regina, where they were stopped by the federal government -- the leaders of the Trek were then taken to Ottawa by train where they met with the Prime Minister, who refused to listen to their demands.  The leaders were returned to Regina, where the tragedy occured
Looks like that's been addressed. I also added in the Commies - whatever people may think of the Communist Party, they were critical to how things shaped up in these event. True, unrest and protest would likely have happened regardless, but not in the same way and possibly not with the same consequences. This article could still use some polishing up.Bobanny 16:55, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I'm returning the term "agitators" to describe the Communists. It's not POV, since whether or not its viewed as pejorative depends on how you feel about what it describes, just as "communist" has a negative connotation for people opposed to communism. It's especially appropriate for this period, which the Communist Party considered an era of revolutionary working class upheaval. It's also how Communists thought of their own work; the term agitprop for example was coined by Communists in this period. Bobanny 21:47, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I was just going to do the same thing. They considered themselves agitators, so I can't imagine it would be offensive to anyone. - TheMightyQuill 23:28, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: agitators?

message: I may put time into this in the future.. but it is unlikely. 
It is impossible for the Regina Police and RCMP to be using MP-40s in 1935. The dates are ambiguous as to when they storm the square. It one occurrence (June 28th?) they also stormed out of the Regina Police Station rather than ice cream trucks (Waiser, 2003, 171). On June 30th, they may have meant furniture vans (177) 
On June 30th the city police had 38-calibre guns.. whereas the RCMP made sure none of their members had sidearms when leaving the barracks (178) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.225.26.231 (talk) 04:13, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Many factual errors 

message: As of right now, there are no citations in the Regina Riot section. I suggest this section be removed unless at least one or two sources can be added. I also suggest the Effects section be shortened unless another citation can be added. Listen1st (talk) 17:29, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Motion to remove the Regina Riot section
Talk:Ancient Roman units of measurement/Archive 1

message: You should expand the introduction more and give better citations for the measurements - citations go on the bottom of the article, also.  See the wikipedia style guidelines to see how it's done. Xaa 23:49, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good, but... 

message: :Batista
===Disputed===
See User:Egil/Sandbox/rktect#Articles_under_attack -- Egil 15:31, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Greek Orders of Architecture were copied by the Romans 

message: See User:Egil/Sandbox/rktect#Articles_under_attack -- Egil 15:31, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Disputed

message: We are making good progress with this page. To add on something more besides it would be nice to see some of the variations on Roman units as for example.
===architectural units===
The Corinthian orders of architecture, possibly as compared to the Greek orders they derived from.
===measures of area===
Roman areas compared to Greek and European areas as the use of the horse as a plow animal led to changes in crop rotation. The origin of the agros or chain and the nautical mile.
===industrial measures === measures related to industrial specilization in Roman mills such as board and cloth measure, the size of ingots for metals, barrels for beer, ale and wine, and amphorae for oil and wine, and the Roman use of the talent, mina and shekel as well as the Roman coinage and Biblical Imperial measures such as the bushel, quart, pint and gallon.
Rktect 13:44, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rktect's proposals 

message: Roman areas compared to Greek and European areas as the use of the horse as a plow animal led to changes in crop rotation. The origin of the agros or chain and the nautical mile.
===industrial measures === measures related to industrial specilization in Roman mills such as board and cloth measure, the size of ingots for metals, barrels for beer, ale and wine, and amphorae for oil and wine, and the Roman use of the talent, mina and shekel as well as the Roman coinage and Biblical Imperial measures such as the bushel, quart, pint and gallon.
Rktect 13:44, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: measures of area
Talk:Kate Austin

message: I came upon this page because of the Lost character, and then expanded it based on some limited web research, just because I thought Austin sounded interesting.  However, I really know very little about anarchism or social movements of the late 19th century, so it's possible that some errors may have slipped in unbeknownst to me.  If a scholar comes across this page, I hope that he or she will improve my feeble effort. —Josiah Rowe (talk • contribs) 20:15, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: March 2006 expansion
Talk:Wellington Church

message: If I read this (not overly clear) page correctly, the original Wellington Church was on Wellington Street, which Google Maps places just west of the city center. So I'm thinking this is the same body; that they moved from Wellington Street to Hillhead, but kept the name. Is this correct? -- Finlay McWalter |  Talk 18:48, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Why Wellington?

message: I'd like to nominate this article on WP:DYK (which means it is quite likely to appear on the main page, and receive lots of visitors).  To do that, I need to cook up a pithy factoid for the "did you know" line.  I was hoping to use:
:...Glasgow's Wellington Church was founded in 1792 as an Anti-Burgher congregation.
but we don't have an anti-burgher article, and I've no idea if we have it under some other name.  Is there a sensible article for that subject? -- Finlay McWalter |  Talk 22:37, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: "Anti-Burgher"

message: Although the University maintains its own chapel in the nearby Gilbert-Scott buildings, the Wellington hosts both religious and secular university events.
Which ones?  Any source?  More importantly perhaps, I believe the Wellington acted as the University chapel after the University's move to the West End, before the chapel was built, which would be the best part of fifty years -- well worth mentioning.  But I'm reluctant to add this without a source.  Can anyone supply one? Flapdragon (talk) 20:21, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relationship with the University
Talk:Riprap

message: I disagree with merging this article into Coast Management.  Riprap has many other uses besides Coast Mangement (sp?), such as biofilters, bioswales, dam spillways, drainage fields and drywells. --Duk 18:56, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Coast Management article merge tag

message: These seem to be the same thing ...? Saint|swithin 18:47, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Revetment merge

message: This is the preferred page for civil engineers. The items concerning bank defence works on rivers, lakes and beaches should be taken from the "revetment" page to the "riprap" page. Only the items concerning fortification should perhaps be left in the "revetment" page but this is not my field of knowledge. See also the well written Coastal management page.Artreve 19:15, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Riprap

message: Do not merge with revetment.  Riprap is a material used in many erosion protection structures including but not limited to revetments. A revetment is one type of structure that may or may not contain riprap.
/s/ Professional Engineer
:I've removed the merge tag --Duk 20:13, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Gary Snyder, a major American poet, has a poem called, "Riprap," and he claims that riprap is also the stone trail made for horses on steep slick rock in the mountains. He worked in parks for many years, so even if that definition isn't exactly correct, the word was obviously in use for that meaning also.  Readers of Snyder's poem will be searching for this page too, so thanks for deciding not to merge. Deanya Lattimore (talk) 02:28, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Do not merge with revetment 

message: In light of the cyclical interest in curling, should a refrence or link be made to the term 'shot rock' which is used in curiling?
rem486 Yea, I know i didn't sign in.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.255.86.240 (talk) 15:06, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Curling anyone?

message: I am planning on adding a brief section that details some of the environmental consequences of the implementation of rip-rapsBiostudent2 (talk) 19:07, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Environmental consequences
Talk:Coastal Management

message: I disagree with merginr riprap into this article, it has many other uses besides Coast Mangement (sp?), such as biofilters, bioswales, dam spillways, drainage fields and drywells. --Duk 18:56, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I too oppose the merge on the basis that revetting things is by no means exclusive to coastal defences eg peristalith. adamsan 17:32, 30 March 2006 (UTC)

text: I also disagree with merging this article.  It serves it's purpose most relevantly as it's own article.  I got here from concrete ships.  Soulsrocker 20:57, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Article merges

message: I noticed that there is a spelling mistake in the diagram Coast Mangement.png. It reads "Additionally, there usually cheaper..." whereas it should say, "Additionally, they're usually cheaper...". Is there any way of easily changing this or does the diagram need remaking? --Matthew Dingley 17:38, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Spelling Mistake in Diagram

message: The term "revetment" applies to much more to slopes in general (slopes, riverbanks AND shorlines) and should stand on its own or be merged with another geotechnical topic.
(also...revetments are also used as barricades against shrapnel in warfare)
:Keep it. There is nothing wrong with having an article on revetment provided the whole subject is covered, perhaps by links between articles. The technique of revetting is used in river management, coastal management, road and railway cuttings as well as in ancient, medieval and modern fortifications. Even the shoring of a pipe trench in the road or a mine gallery is a form of revetment.
:The Revetment article itself would be well adapted to dealing with questions of the relief of hydraulic and other pressure and the variation of these forces with the height of the revetment and so on. Links should then be made between it and other articles such as Coastal management, Fortification so as to illustrate the significance of revetment in its various contexts. Be patient and the present, unbalanced state of affairs will even itself out. A little nudging such as by this merger proposal, is part of that process. (RJP 08:39, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  About Merging "Revetment" with "Costal Management" 

message: I'm against it. A breakwater has a role in coastal management but breakwaters are also used for entirely different reasons - building artifial harbours and protecting anchorages - so breakwaters deserve an article in their own right.  193.115.188.2 12:52, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merging with Breakwater
Talk:Techwood Homes

message: Techwood Homes was an early government-owned housing project, yet it probably was not the first one to be constructed in the United States. It may have been the first one in Georgia.  
The Administration of U. S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt constructed government-owned housing projects in Western Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh around 1934.  
The Lincoln Administration constructed Freedmen's Village on General Lee's estate named Arlington where Arlington National Cemetery is now located.  Freedmen's Village is often regarded as being the first government-owned housing project.  TooPotato 18:57, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Not the first
Talk:Virginia and Truckee Railroad

message: I wrote to the V&T, and on Oct. 4, 2005 received this reply:
Lots of good things are happening, we have purchased a 1914 Baldwin locomotive, have filled the Overmand pit and laid the first rail since the 30's.  We are now working on tunnel two.  We hope to have the railway up and running by 2009-2010. 
Simesa 19:09, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Letter

message: The Virginia and Truckee's locomotives and equipment appeared in numerous Westerns, since the V&T operated obsolete equipment into the cinema age.  Need a good history of their appearances. Matthew Brown (Morven) (T:C) 21:40, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Todo

message: In my VERY SHORT search, I have come to the conclusion that V&T railroad went north as far as Reno but never came anywhere near Truckee. Was there an initial plan to bring the northern end farther west to Truckee? ~~LPMeissner@msn.com~~  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.201.191.1 (talk) 23:31, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why Truckee?
Talk:Endosperm

message: endosperm location function
There is something incorrect in the entry: aleurone is the outermost layer of the endosperm, and it is not of maternal origin. I think it has been confused with the pericarp  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.133.139.161 (talk) 22:30, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

message: No strong feelings concerning merging, as such. It looks to me as if both "seed" and "endosperm" could do with additional work, and some additional pictures. I am assuming that adding information will be easier if these are two separate entries, so I would tend to favor not merging, but as a matter of strategy rather than principle. Brya 18:04, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I would discourage a merge.  The seed article will grow too large. Endosperm also has room for growth. David D. (Talk) 19:42, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merging

message: i took out the image after finding out that avocado have no endosperm -LadyofHats (talk) 12:20, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: IMAGE