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Talk:Natal Native Contingent

message: 1. The force in question (i.e. the six native mounted troops at the beginning of the Anglo-Zulu War) were evidently and clearly designated as Natal Native Mounted Contingent.
2. Out of a saddening mixture of lack of knowledge, indifference towards the native units and habit back then, it was almost exclusively but nonetheless informally referred to as NNH (or as the equally wrong "Durnford's Basuthos" for that matter).
3. To add confusion the troopers would rather refer to themselves as Zikhali Horse (Troops No. 1 - 3), Edendale Troop (No. 4), Hlubi's Horse (No. 5) and Jantzes Horse (No. 6).
4. But the actual NNH was mustered only after the disaster at Isandlwana from the remnants of the Edendale Troop (No. 4) and Hlubi's Horse (No. 5) of the old NNMC. Command took Lieut. Cochrane.
5. The three troops known as Zikhali Horse (No. 1 - 3) amalgamated with Thomas Carbutt's Border Rangers and after an influx of new recruits reformed as Shepstone's Horse under Captain T. Shepstone from the Natal Carbineers.
Sources:
Castle, I.: Zulu War - Volunteers, Irregulars & Auxiliaries (MAA 388). Oxford: Osprey Publishing 2003.
Laband, J. & Knight, J.: The Anglo-Zulu War, 1879. Archives of Zululand. (Vol. I). Archive Publications International 2000, p. 282.
Laband, J.; Singer Thompson, P. & Henderson, S.: The Buffalo border, 1879: the Anglo-Zulu War in northern Natal. Durban: Dept. of History, University of Natal 1983.
Smith, K.I.: The commandants: the leadership of the Natal native contingent in the Anglo-Zulu war. Thesis (M.A.). University of Western Australia 2005.
Snook, M.: Notes on the Composition of the British Force at Isandlwana.Link
--IsandlwanaTW (talk) 12:02, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Natal Native Mounted Contingent (NNMC) is not the Natal Native Horse (NNH)
Talk:West Valley High School (Alaska)

message: This page was badly vandalized. Im not sure what is fact and what is false due to vandals.. I tried to revert it back to a state where the article is truth but i cant seem find a point where that is, other than at the articles creation. This page fails to site its sources. Dillard421 02:56, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I tagged it as Disputed. Dillard421 06:05, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

message: Someone just started a notable alumni section, containing the text "Not yet."  That is too goddamned funny, considering that I was talking with a fellow WVHS alum just the other day about that very subject.  I can't think of very many, if any.  Debby Fickus, who was Miss Alaska USA in 1980, as well as her sister, may have attended WVHS.  They're both older than I am, so I can't confirm that firsthand.  The only other possibility is Kathy Stockholm, a student who was murdered in 1987 by an employee of the long-since-demolished gas station at West Valley Plaza across Geist Road from the school.  It's quite possible that there are some people out there who don't wish to be reminded of that, however.RadioKAOS (talk) 06:53, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Found some yearbooks this evening.  Linda Fickus did graduate from West Valley in 1983.  A recent piece in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner mentioned that Vivica Genaux also graduated from West Valley.  I had half a notion that Judy Rabinowitz also attended West Valley (or at the very least, West Lathrop), but I couldn't find any evidence of that.  It appeared that she may have attended high school away from Fairbanks.RadioKAOS (talk) 08:46, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Notable alumni
Talk:Nagqu Town

message: The redirect Nagu town has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached.  Certes (talk) 12:23, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "[[:Nagu town]]" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:The Young Magicians

message: (Relying entirely on our collection articles; see also Golden Cities, Far and its Talk.) I think I would say that #6-7 are companion volumes in the series, as jointly released anthologies of "early" and "modern" fantasies, edited by Lin Carter. And #22, #35 not so much companions as continuations of these two, respectively. More or less. We say this one #7 is "modern", 19th-20th century, and #35 is "modern", 18th-20th century. --P64 (talk) 19:16, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Companion volume
Talk:Chamdo

message: I recently proposed a new set of Tibetan naming conventions which could end up affecting the title of this article. Please see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Tibetan) and Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Tibetan)#New naming convention proposal. Your comments and feedback are requested.—Nat Krause(Talk!·What have I done?) 23:36, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  New proposal for Tibetan naming conventions 

message: Qamdo Prefecture →  – Spelling consistency as per Wikipedia:Naming_conventions_(Tibetan)#Use_consistent_spellings. The case of Chamdo is explicitely mentioned in the naming convention, I think this should be a rather technical and uncontroversial move. The same move request has been made at Talk:QamdoPseudois (talk) 22:30, 14 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 

message: :Feel free to state your position on the renaming proposal by beginning a new line in this section with *Support or *Oppose, then sign your comment with ~~~~. Since polling is not a substitute for discussion, please explain your reasons, taking into account Wikipedia's policy on article titles.
*Support - per WP:NC-ZH#Disambiguation of settlements and administrative units: "settlements ranked higher administratively are primary topic over those ranked lower". -Zanhe (talk) 19:14, 7 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey
Talk:John William Boone

message: john wiliam was born to a former slave near the end of the civil war  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.233.1.108 (talk) 14:45, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I added a photo sourced from a period newspaper.  The newsprint makes it fairly low-res.  I would like to get a higher quality photo, but I couldn't find any better public domain images.  If someone finds a better photo, please swap out this one.  HornColumbia (talk) 03:16, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo 
Talk:Karub, Qamdo

message: I recently proposed a new set of Tibetan naming conventions which could end up affecting the title of this article. Please see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Tibetan) and Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Tibetan)#New naming convention proposal. Your comments and feedback are requested.—Nat Krause(Talk!·What have I done?) 23:36, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  New proposal for Tibetan naming conventions 

message: The population in the table must be wrong - not only is it too low to support a mining town, but one has a population of 0, one of 2.5 and another of -6 5.173.233.45 (talk) 08:09, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Census table
Talk:Chengguan, Chamdo

message: I have the impression that many the Lonely Planet Books served as the many (until now maybesingle) sources for this lemma. How reliable can they be? I hold the Lonely Planet Guidebooks in high esteem, but quality differs much with the authors, and we should be aware that guidebooks inform about almost every aspect - and who can know every aspect?
* I found the distance between Lhasa and Chamdo and the altitude of Chamdo were wrong, and the number of monks and inhabitants should be related to some historic sources, as should some other information.
Please be more careful with data. As for instance, in sources I know Chamdo at the beginning of the 20th century was related to as a small garrison town. I doubt it had 12.000 inhabitants and 3000 monks by then. 
* Furthermore, we should ask the one who wrote: "At the turn of the 20th century..." at the turn of what to what? does he mean at the turn of the 19th to the 20th or 20th to the 21st century?
* In my eyes, sentences like "Chamdo, and the region around, it is the centre for the fierce Khampa tribesmen." belong to an adventure book, but not ton encyclopaedia of the 21st century. Hoohoo, the firce Khampas!! Are they all alike? who said that? Heinrich Harrer, yes, and some Lhasa people who look down on east Tibetan barbarians. Is that what we want to perpetuate?
--Wickipedinger (talk) 09:42, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  How reliable are Lonely planet books as historic sources? 

message: While investigating the names of the river confluence in Qamdo for OpenStreetMap I stumbled upon the meaning of Qamdo being "where two rivers converge" - since I don't know chinese I leave this up to someone else to verify... but nonetheless: here seems to be the start of the Lancang River (Mekong). --katpatuka (talk) 05:59, 13 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, "Chamdo" is Tibetan, not Chinese. I believe that mdo means something like "confluence of two rivers" (there are several towns in Tibet with this as part of their names). I'm not sure about the chab part, though.—Greg Pandatshang (talk) 15:05, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meaning of Qamdo ?
Talk:USS Reuben James (FFG-57)

message: the convert|30|kn|mph km/h|-1 shows 30 knots as 30mph/60kmh which is not that accurate. Should be more like 35 miles/h and 56 km/h.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Seifried (talk • contribs) 10:31, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  knots conversion is wrong 

message: list of shipwrecks in 2016 and SM-6 say that it was sunk by a new variant of the SM-6 missile.  BUT the section USS Reuben James (FFG-57)#Final disposition says that the SM-6 test successfully hit and significantly damaged the James, but did NOT sink it.  That section claims it took significant further actions by other means (including the use of scuttling charges installed before the test began)  I found no references that justify this claim, so I do not know the real story here.
  All three pages (USS Reuben James, SM-6, and shipwrecks of 2016) site the same reference, but it is advertising the success of the missile test and does not specifically say the missile sank the ship.
2600:8801:8500:EC8:8D86:3408:9796:D6FD (talk) 01:44, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  How did the USS Reuben James sink?
Talk:Golden Cities, Far

message: As I understand the text, the first 22 volumes of Ballantine Adult Fantasy contain three "such anthology assembled by Carter", of which this one and another are "companion volumes" and the other is not. Does that mean two are marketed as companion volumes, whereas our editors notice that three are in fact anthologies ed. by Carter? --P64 (talk) 19:04, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: All of the anthologies of "classic" fantasy short stories published as part of the Ballantine Adult Fantasy series could be considered to form a kind of sub-series, though obviously they were not numbered as such, or necessarily formal "sequels" to each other... AnonMoos (talk) 10:13, 25 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  Is #35 the last of them? At Talk:New Worlds for Old#Companion volume, modern, I wondered whether "this volume #35 with its 18th-20th scope actually contains all of the leftovers that Carter deemed most valuable to the series." (As Carter and Ballantine are deceased, however, we can't know what Carter deemed to say it just so.) --P64 (talk) 00:07, 5 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Such anthology, Companion volume
Talk:Fencing rules

message: Somebody created Fencing tactics. The content may be suitable as a section in this article. It needs a bit of copy ed. I'm not familiar with the sport, so I can't really do it. It is a speedy delete nom, so get it while it's hot. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 04:56, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fencing tactics 

message: An article [] already exists.  This page should be deleted or merged.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Antifencer (talk • contribs) 12:53, 1 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recommend Deleting this article - or merging it with the rest of the Fencing Article. 

message: This article is different from the main fencing article in that it goes into detail on the competition rules, probably at a level that is too detailed for the main article.  I propose keeping this article, but renaming it Fencing Rules and Competition to reflect the main focus.  
In so doing, I also propose moving all of the "techniques" section either to the Fencing tactics article or to the main fencing article.  Techniques is really quite a different subject from rules, and I think it makes sense to keep the two separate.Geoffrey.landis (talk) 15:02, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Propose Renaming 

message: The section on electronic scoring, and it's criticisms, is a verboten copy from here () without an attribution.  I think one should at least be added.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.246.102.251 (talk) 18:31, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Note that the site is a mirror of the content here; they attribute back to us at the bottom of the page. Kuru (talk) 23:45, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Electronic Scoring section needs citation 

message: I've added the POV check template to the section entitled 'Right of Way rules ("priority")' because I'm not sure if the section has a neutral point of view. Please feel free to discuss this here.Ntmamgtw (talk) 18:34, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section entitled 'Right of Way rules ("priority")'
Talk:New Worlds for Old

message: I agree with User:Moonraker reservations expressed 6 years ago.
I would call #6-7 companion volumes, as "early" and "modern" fantasy anthologies edited by Lin Carter and released together. But we say those selections span Medieval-19th and 19th-20th centuries. That "early" selection #6 includes one excerpt from the [1914?] Kenneth Morris early-20c retelling of the Mabinogion. And includes the 1906 Kipling poem "Puck's Song".
At a glance it appears to me #22 continues the early selection broadly defined, and this volume #35 with its 18th-20th scope actually contains all of the leftovers that Carter deemed most valuable to the series. 
Cf. Talk:The Young Magicians, Talk:Golden Cities, Far.
--P64 (talk) 19:30, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: , that was , who I fear put himself out to grass a couple of years ago, but he and I usually saw eye-to-eye on things, and in this context I find "modern" absurdly ambiguous. We have a rich language and can surely do better. Moonraker (talk) 22:42, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Companion volume, modern
Talk:Samzhubzê, Xigazê

message: Following Pseudois's "consistency" favor, I moved this page to Xigaze: 
* Following WP:NC-CHN#Place names, Xigazê is one of the cities used as example of "places without a well-established English name and have competing names from transliterations of pinyin vs. ethnic minority languages". It current says: "Shigatse but not Rikaze", due to the fallacy of not engaging Xigaze in the search. When all three engaged, there're 415 Xigaze results but only 24 Shigatse results, and only 2 Rikaze results. So when account "use the name preferred by Xinhua or similarly authoritative organs", we use Xigaze as the name of the article. ––<Span xml:lang="zh-Hant-CN" lang="zh-Hant">虞海</Span> (Yú Hǎi) <Big>✍</Big> 09:05, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think we should refer to the Chinese naming conventions at all when Wikipedia already has the more specific Tibetan naming conventions.—Greg Pandatshang (talk) 03:47, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naming 
Talk:Shigatse

message: I recently proposed a new set of Tibetan naming conventions which could end up affecting the title of this article. Please see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Tibetan) and Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Tibetan)#New naming convention proposal. Your comments and feedback are requested.—Nat Krause(Talk!·What have I done?) 23:37, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  New proposal for Tibetan naming conventions 

message: Fhah4 has stated here that the map I made highlighting Shigatse Prefecture is incorrect and/or out of date.  He/she seems to be right, but I wanted to ensure that the edit to the map was being made with as much inclusion as possible.  Please leave a note if you support or oppose the edit to the map.  Thanks! --Keithonearth (talk) 06:22, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  map error 

message: Why the inclusion of Nepalese name in the article? Nepalese language has no official status in the area. And the region has no recorded Nepalese minority population. And Nepal has no historical claim over the city anyways.
If the name originates from Nepalese (or other languages of the subcontinent) please create an etymology section and add the description. Otherwise, I am removing the Nepalese name.
BasilLeaf (talk) 20:31, 4 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why the inclusion of Nepalese 

message: The town's English common name is Shigatse, so all references to the town should also use this name.  I know the "official" name is "Xigazê", but this is rarely if ever used outside PRC government-linked sources. Jpatokal (talk) 07:39, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naming
Talk:Ngari Prefecture

message: I put up a new locator map for the article.  While it's not a huge improvement over the one it replaces, I do think it's an improvement.  I think that the image itself is a bit of an improvement, but the main thing is it's an SVG, so it will make editing easier. If people don't like it and want to change it back I'd appreciate a word or two here.  Or if you have tweaks you'd like to see done.  I've got these for the other Tibetan prefectures too, I'll probably be putting them up over the next few days.--Keithonearth (talk) 05:02, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  SVG Map 

message: It doesn't seem like this talk page is much used, the only other comment here being made by me four years ago.  All the same I would like to point out that Fhah4 has stated here that the map I made highlighting Ngari Prefecture is incorrect.  He/she seems to be right, but I wanted to ensure that the edit to the map was being made with as much inclusion as possible.  Please leave a note if you support or oppose the edit to the map.  Thanks! --Keithonearth (talk) 06:18, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes needed to the map
Talk:Nyingchi

message: user:虞海 recently changed the svg map I made back to the old less detailed png one, with no comment.  On this page and also on Lhoka Prefecture and Nagqu Prefecture.  I fail to understand why this was done.  If there is not some reason I will change them back to the svg version.    --Keithonearth (talk) 08:17, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: No explanation?  I'm changing back to the svg version, on all the pages. --Keithonearth (talk) 06:11, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  map 

message: About the revert: the RS has political re-education in its title, not "detention". So, political re-education is the accurate term. If the issue is with the word "camp", that would be another issue than what the edit summary states.
The title and RS also state monks and nuns, not just nuns. So, "Detention of Larung Gar nuns" is not an accurate section title per RS. The deleted text which is accurate per RS includes, The Tibetan Review states that some nuns and monks are under "continued political re-education ", while those allowed to return home face six additional months of political re-education, and are not permitted to rejoin monastic institutions.
Also notable, the edit summary does not mention the simultaneous revert of edits in "Tourism" section, which has already been presented in talk  for . Looking forward to building consensus and understanding where the issues are - in both talk discussions. Pasdecomplot (talk) 23:15, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Your prior edit intentionally distorted the TAR government's treatment of nuns as , subsequently corrected by . Yes, both Tibetan Review and HRW have stated that the nuns were briefly detained, so the section title is representative of that. CaradhrasAiguo (leave language) 23:21, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

text: Hi : I attempted a synthesis regarding that section and it is now reflected in . I have included this page in my watchlist to help with any future discussion. Normchou 💬 04:16, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Political re-education awaits monks and nuns..."
Talk:USS Copeland

message: An irrelevant comment is in the "BOX" that goes with this class of warship:
"Note: As of 2004, Mk13 systems removed from all active US vessels of this class."
This warship was given to Egypt much earlier than that, in 1996 specifically.
Furthermore, quite a few additional fast frigates of this class have been given to Egypt, Turkey, Poland, and maybe other countries. 
One stated purpose of removing the Standard Missiles (SM-1MR) and their launchers from all of the American ships of this class was to be able to maintain supplies and spare parts for this Mark-13 missile system for the foreign users, including the Royal Australian Navy, the Republic of China Navy, and the Spanish Navy, too. To be brief: these are the only warships with surface-to-air missiles that those navies have, and they are primary warships. On the other hand, the U.S. Navy has scores of guided-missile cruisers and destroyers that are equipped with large numbers of Standard Missile SM-2MR missiles as part of the immensely-good AEGIS air-defense and missile-defense system - plus the new SM-3 ABM missiles that are coming into service. Thus, the U.S. can spare the SM-1 for its allies.98.67.164.50 (talk) 05:05, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

message: With the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 having resulted in the overthrow and departure of President Hosni Mubarak, it can be anticipated that the ex-Copeland will very shortly be renamed. Watch out for this. Rif Winfield (talk) 10:18, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Probable renaming
Talk:USS Doyle (FFG-39)

message: The US Navy History website is messed up at the moment and doesn't list a proper index, but there are a number of command history reports there similar to this one from 1994. search google using the terms doyle site:history.navy.mil/content/dam/nhhc/research/archives/command-operation-reports/ship-command-operation-reports/d/ to find some more, if interested. --Dual Freq (talk) 15:31, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Command history reports
Talk:ORP Gen. K. Pułaski

message: The article USS Clark (FFG-11) should be merged here. It's about the exact same ship - only serving in a different navy with a different name. Neither article is too long to prevent justifying a merge, on the contrary - both articles are quite short. Even most of the infobox is duplicated in both articles. JIP | Talk 19:27, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Support  This is an uncontroversial merger IMO. Ships in similar situations almost always have a single page with redirect from the other name, and then a single history about the ship. One example of this would be , which  redirects to. I don't believe there's really a standard of which article gets merged into which—of course the article's main title should be the more notable of the two. I believe as she is still in service as the Pułaski it should be that, though the Clark has hundreds of pageviews/month while this page only has a few, so there may be some disagreement there. I'll be happy to start the merge myself sometime soonish. - - mathmitch7 (talk/contribs) 12:29, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Please do, if you have intended to do it anyway. JIP | Talk 12:43, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  I've executed the merge, if you are interested in taking a look at the now-merged page and want to make any edits. - - mathmitch7 (talk/contribs) 19:37, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal
Talk:Gallaher Group

message: Just wondering I smoke Amber leaf with years I buy 50gr but that's stopped then I used to buy 12.5 gr but that's stopped to so I'm buying 30g I don't mind but I was looking for 12.5g pouches cause it's easy to put into my amber leaf tin my one is nearly knackered? Any news? Terryc25 (talk) 23:17, 10 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Looking for