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Talk:Halloween/Archive 5

message: Dear all,
this article requires a complete rewrite due to the fact that some sentences are very high-level and then there are sections that dive deep into local customs. If we mention two camps in Saudi, we should also mention some Halloween pockets in South Mongolia. Be more factual on the main points. 
15.203.169.124 08:19, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requires complete rewrite 

message: The introduction currently says,
:In Christian folklore, because it is an eve, the magic breaks at midnight, with the transition to All Saints' Day — a rare case where midnight brings beneficial effects.
Goldfritha added this same claim to the Wikipedia article on Midnight. Yet all Christian-era folklore I have seen held that midnight was the height of occult activity, not the end. It did not end until sunrise. — Walloon 03:21, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not just boggarts and witches but the devil himself freely roamed his reign on earth lasting until cock crow, when, warned of the day's approach, demons took flight much as the ghost in Hamlet (ca. 1601). "Then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad," observed the character Marcellus. This belief was at least as old as the fourth-century writings of the Spanish poet Prudentius. According to the Newcastle antiquary Henry Bourne, centuries later, "Hence, it is, that in country places, where the way of life requires early labour, they always go cheerfully to work at that time [cock crow]; whereas if they are called abroad sooner, they are apt to imagine every thing they see or hear, to be a wandring ghost." Worse was to frequent those hours on certain nights of the year. All Hallows' Eve and the Eve of St. John (Midsummer Eve) in the British Isles, for example . . . .
From the end of the Roman era until about the 16th century, when town clocks became widespread in Europe, the day was reckoned to begin at sundown or sunrise, not at midnight.
— Walloon 13:26, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Midnight

message: I added "Snap-Apple Night" to the Nicknames section at the top of the page. Snap-Apple Night is a traditional nickname of Halloween (If you need a reference for this it would be "Death Makes a Holiday," a book already cited on this article. 
I also suggest that searching for "Snap-Apple Night" redirects to the Halloween article.
Vyarnect 16:49, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Quick Little Edit Note

message: When I began to read the section on "Trick or Treat", I was quite pleased about the way in which this custom had been contextualised, but my pleasure was lost when I reached the section stating that in England, this custom is generally frowned upon as an American import. That may be true, but this is actually based on a popular but somewhat blinkered view of "Trick or Treat". In fact, some folklorists claim the custom derives from children begging for Soul Cake on All Soul's Day, which, being on November 2, is about the same time as Hallowe'en. ACEO 19:11, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Clearing up misconceptions about "Trick or Treat" as a custom
Talk:Donggang, Pingtung

message: The romanization of this town is "Donggang" according to the following government website: www.moiland.gov.tw/translation/Pingtung.htm 
The page is down however, so here's a copy of it: 
 Shawnc 03:13, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Unfortunately there are a lot of gov.tw websites, most of which show the name as Tungkang.  See, for example, the external link in the article. The Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Chinese)#Place names says "Place names in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, and overseas (such as Singapore) should be romanized in whatever way is commonly used for those places."  The Roman character form regularly used in Taiwan for 東港 is Tungkang.  I have merged the two articles under Tungkang. --Bejnar 22:59, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Name
Talk:Birgu

message: Hi My name is John. I was born in Quarter Street Vittoriosa and emigrated with my parents to Australia in 1965 when i was about ten. I came across this page recently and have tried to improve the contents of the Birgu page by adding some more discussion about the origins of Birgu. I think that it would be an idea to move the two paragraphs relating to St Lawrence and St Dominic churches out of History and into a section of their own ==Churches== perhaps? Anyway, I am new to editing in wiki and am not sure how to go about doing this. Also thought that the history section is short on detail of the period Knights to current date. What about the French? English dockyards, ww2 bombing etc.
Also thought that more pictures would be advantagous. The english and spanish curtains, the cottenera, aerial view of the three cities, etc the older the better. Modern redevelopment of vittoriosa gives no reference to what the area was historically used for.  58.179.4.206 (talk) 03:55, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Birkirkara

message: So is this a city or not? The first sentence of the article claims it is. List of cities in Malta does not have it, and country article's header has this: The de facto capital city of Malta is Valletta; the largest town, Birkirkara. Though, the infobox has it as a city. Go figure... 82.141.95.124 (talk) 02:28, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Officially it is not a city, despite being the largest settlement in Malta. Xwejnusgozo (talk) 15:42, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Question
Talk:Għargħur

message: The first section of the article has a number of issues:
: it is mostly about festi generally, not about Gharghur
: it's written in a chatty, non-encyclopedic style
: it shouldn't be the first section, which would normally be about the origins of the subject.
I'm not sufficiently au fait with WP to rework this or even to put in the right tags to alert users.Chrismorey (talk) 18:14, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Festa section
Talk:Tiropita

message: My grandmother is coming over from Greece tomorrow, so I'll have a picture of some fresh tiropita up here within the week. 8D Merpin (talk) 20:57, 19 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: I think this article should be merged with börek. Tyropita is a Turkish food that has been appropriated by the Greeks, and the history supports this. This article is very low quality and only has one reference, this deserves to be part of borek as it is the same, Turkish food and it is a short enough article to merge into börek.Yallayallaletsgo (talk) 01:07, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with Börek 

message: There is currently a separate article for Kasseropita, which is simply tiropita made with kasseri cheese. I see no need for a separate article. Remember, WP is not a dictionary -- just because there is a separate word for a (trivial) variant, there is no need for a separate article. --Macrakis (talk) 17:24, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Same for Kolokythopita which appears to be the version made with cheese and zucchini. Spudlace (talk) 15:24, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Kasseropita
Talk:The Stormy Present

message: "It was made clear that Newman lost a bid for re-election to Lassiter"
Where in the episode does it state that? EJB341 23:13, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

message: The 21-gun salute follows the playing of TAPS in this episode. The proper sequence is for the 21-gun salute first, then the playing of TAPS.
74.74.240.133 (talk) 02:31, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error in protocol during funeral
Talk:Mqabba

message: Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: http://mqabbafc.webs.com/about-us http://www.mqabbafcyn.org/Club_Info.html http://www.talgilju.com/Pages.asp?PageID=1 http://santamarijamqabba.webs.com/aboutus.htm. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you.  MER-C 12:52, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem removed
Talk:Mtarfa

message: Has the council met since 2007/8? Jackiespeel (talk) 19:02, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks  - they have indeed following further elections in 2008 - article updated (finally!!) Kilbosh talk 16:41, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I do things 'elsewhere in the wikiverse' so tend to spot some oddities in passing (without necessarily being able to resolve them). Jackiespeel (talk) 19:28, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Politics and Administration
Talk:Qrendi

message: * Merge - I created the page for Maqluba_(Malta) in response to a translation request on the WikiProject Malta page. I believe that the Il-Maqluba with its rich history, folklore and geological and environmental interest merits its own page and that the merging of the information from the Qrendi page would help to enrich this page while tidying up the Qrendi page. Beckettnoti (talk) 23:11, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with Il-Maqluba Malta discussion 
Talk:San Ġwann

message: San Ġwann, Malta (also known as Saint John) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_John St. Johns Co-Cathedral (Maltese: Kon-Katidral ta' San Ġwann) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._John's_Co-Cathedral 91.61.203.159 (talk) 15:27, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology : John / Yohannes  

message: Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: http://lc.gov.mt/Page.aspx?catid=75&pid=184&lid=1. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you.  Moonriddengirl (talk) 15:31, 11 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem removed 
Talk:Siġġiewi

message: Some parts of this article seem to promote tourism in the area or to praise the town ("Website about this beautiful village", "Siġġiewi has a lot to offer to the hundreds of tourists who visit each year.") which is outside the scope of an encyclopedia. I've therefore added the tone template so we can bring the style more in line with Wikipedia standards.
LaPrecieuse (talk) 21:26, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: This has been ignored for a long time. I hope it's better now.--Zahnradzacken (talk) 23:10, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: How on earth could that be conceived as vandalism?--Zahnradzacken (talk) 14:51, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unencyclopedic tone concerns 

message: This article needs a panorama for the infobox.--RM (Be my friend) 05:00, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image 

message: This article has a 13K+ word section on St Nicholas the content of which would be better placed in the article St Nicholas, where it is not included already, in terms of WP:SPLIT. Please consider.
Demdem (talk) 16:47, 24 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that it isn't necessary to include it here (the section above already covers his relevance to the town), but I'm not at all sure the Saint Nicholas article would benefit from it very much either. All 13K of it is unsourced, and basically consists of one person's opinionated rewrite of his life story as told in the main article plus various legends, most of which are already better described in the main article (where Siġġiewi is also mentioned). I would be tempted just to completely remove it. Alzarian16 (talk) 20:29, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section on St Nicholas 
Talk:Ta' Xbiex

message: Tas Biesh ?? Where did this come from?
IT MUST BE A MISTAKE.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.188.46.254 (talk) 15:33, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Munxar

message: I think the paragraph dealing with Prof Aquilina deserves a separate Wikipedia entry. Comments anyone?
Demdem (talk) 05:30, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Info on Prof Joseph Aquilina

message: I reverted edit by User:Kyarichy since Monsciar is not an alternative name for Munxar (c.f. Revision as of 20:39, 30 July 2008 vs. Revision as of 10:04, 31 July 2008.--Joelemaltais (talk) 20:27, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Monsciar
Talk:San Lawrenz

message: Note that Saint Lawrence is the 4th smallest village in the maltese islands. 1st Mdina, 2nd Bidnija, 3rd Ghasri and 4th Saint Lawrence. I can confirm this from the last documents that were made in the beginning of this year. I would appreciate if you take notice of this, Thanks!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.158.109.155 (talk) 11:10, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: I just moved the page from "Saint Lawrence, Malta" to "San Lawrenz". I did this because the village is always known as San Lawrenz, even in English (for example see local council website). Similarly, the San Ġwann and Santa Luċija are not referred to as "St. John" or "St. Lucy".
The exceptions would be St. Julian's () and St. Paul's Bay (), where the English name is in wide use so it is acceptable here. Xwejnusgozo (talk) 22:30, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move from "Saint Lawrence, Malta" to "San Lawrenz"
Talk:Diagonal magic cube

message: I added an introductory paragraph.--Harvey Heinz 23:42, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Jody Schecter

message: Sorry, this page should be deleted.  It arose out of a spelling error on my part - I tried to check it using Google, but my erroneous spelling was confirmed by the search I carried out.  Sorry.  Please someone delete this entry. --Amedeo Felix 15:31, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've changed it to redirect to the correct article so that if someone types in "Jody Schecter", it will take them to the right place. DH85868993 15:16, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Ganton

message: There is far too much game cruft in this article as far as I'm concerned, particularly in the Points of interest section. Stuff like these is supposed to belong in Wikibooks, but the rest can be merged with Los Santos (Grand Theft Auto). Besides, there really isn't necessity to create articles for EACH neighborhood in San Andreas. ╫ 25 ring-a-ding 15:40, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Totally unnessesary info here
Talk:Għar Dalam

message: Today the article says: "The cave was first scientifically investigated in 1885. It was included on the Antiquities List of 1925...."
So is the assertion incorrect that, in the cave in 1917, 'paleotonogist', 'naturalist' Giuseppe Despott found two fossilized teeth, latter attributed to Neanderthals by Sir Arthur Keith? And the third found in 1936, also incorrect? Were these finds misidentified? (I found said assertion in several places on the net today). Is there evidence of a land-bridge between Sicily and Malta during the last ice age? Twang (talk) 19:54, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Unmentioned/disconfirmed finds??

message: British Empire Exhibition 1924 – Malta Pavilion 
 ‘Prehistoric Malta’  had two paintings by the Maltese artist Robert Caruana Dingli  (younger brother of Edward Caruana Dingli).  These are now displayed in the museum at Ghar Dalam in Malta.
http://agiusww1.com/empire/ EnriqueTabone (talk) 11:43, 9 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources to consider adding to this article
Talk:Dames of Malta

message: IN RE: Emma, Lady Hamilton (1765-1815) Wife of Sir William Hamiltonhttp://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.thecultureconcept.com/circle/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/EmmaLady-Hamilton-Johann-Heinrich-Schmidt.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.thecultureconcept.com/circle/love-jewellery-regency-to-revival-pt-3&h=702&w=560&sz=45&tbnid=9tdGx0TBPdbIBM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=72&zoom=1&usg=__M7soH33usHR9vRSi4EBCc6jFalg=&docid=lv6sKKv6IBawOM&sa=X&ei=3T-ZUqeqOIrxoATU0ILYCw&ved=0CFgQ9QEwBwt,
::: Yes, I get that there is a drawing of Hamilton with the words "Dame of Malta", because she is shown wearing a Maltese cross, but this does not appear to be dispositive that she converted to Catholicism and became an actual Dame of Malta. Quis separabit? 19:36, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  What's more there is no mention of any conversion of Damehood of Malta in the subject's article (Emma, Lady Hamilton), nor via Google/Bing search. Quis separabit? 19:50, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Emma, Lady Hamilton]]
Talk:Mnajdra

message: The article needs to tell what the origin of the structure is--who built it? Ancient Maltese people? If so, this should be said. If not, the real answer should be stated. Rychach (talk) 22:53, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin 
Talk:Queen of Malta

message: "No other country has retained a foreign monarch as the head of state". Not true at all! By my calculations there was at least SEVENTEEN countries who had retained a "foreign monarch" as their head of state at the time of this act of treachery. Why did Malta drop the Queen? Just 20 years previously they had wanted to integrate fully into the United Kingdom... Christopedia (talk) 01:04, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: The Queen had a personal flag for use in Malta. See the flag on the front of the Queen's car here and on top of the car in this video (at 0:15) during her visit to Malta in 1967. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Peter Ormond (talk • contribs) 
:crwflags.com appears to be a webforum. What makes it a Wikipedia:Reliable source? I see a flag in the image, which shows it was used once in 1967. I cannot see which flag is in the video. I see a flag but the detail is not visible. DrKay (talk) 14:45, 12 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Royal Standard
Talk:Solent TV

message: The 'Criticism' section of this article is based on personal opinion and reflects individuals beliefs after Solent TV had shutdown. As Solent TV and its parent company Island Volunteers have ceased trading it can be considered cowardly to dress many of the subjective comments in this section as fact.
I think this is unfair- I want to know why Solent TV went down and this addresses some of the reasons which would otherwise leave the article with an air of mystery. 
I felt that the over reliance on radio shows filmed "behind the mike"
added little to simply listening to the radio and the black & white films were possibly aimed at an ageing, if not senescent population.
I know it is cheap to buy in old programmes, but there must be back numbers of Quincy or something- or even Hancock, which would have been more attractive.
Streona (talk) 10:29, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: There are no references in this article! Thats why I have marked it as a stub... However if anyone disagrees with this feel free to change it. Once references are added I think it would be ready to rise to start or higher... Editor5807speak 19:08, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment
Talk:First Contact (1983 film)

message: My understanding was that the Australian prospectors had found hunter-gatherer societies in the P. N. G. Highlands, none of which had progressed beyond Stone Age technology.  In what way, then, do you say that they were "prosperous".Mwidunn (talk) 04:44, 15 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: "Prosperous"
Talk:Voluntary Service Aberdeen

message: I feel that this organisation warrants inclusion because of its long history and notable structure (the merging of several charities in different fields to share costs).  I am attempting to find suitable independent references for this.  I am still new to wikipedia so am still familiarising myself with the policies - if this article is still not likely to meet the criteria as notable then I understand that it will be deleted.  A1asdair 00:36, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: With the extra info you added after I tagged the article it already demonstrates enough notablity to avoid a speedy delete. As such I've deleted the tag and your hangon. All the best --WebHamster 00:39, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

text: That's great, thanks, I'll keep working on it. A1asdair 01:18, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speedy deletion 
Talk:Perfect magic cube

message: Added a bit to alternate definition (Nasik) and references --Harvey Heinz 00:36, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: The first sentence reads as follows:
"In mathematics, a perfect magic cube is a magic cube in which not only the columns, rows, pillars and main space diagonals, but also the cross section diagonals sum up to the cube's magic constant."
This is an encyclopedia article, not a guessing game. So can someone knowledgeable please replace "cross section diagonal" with a clear unambiguous explanation of exactly which diagonals are being referred to?   Many thanks.75.25.141.89 (talk) 03:13, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can someone please replace the phrase "cross section diagonal" with a comprehensible phrase? 

message: I'm not a mathematician, and the first thing I met in this article was "Perfect magic cubes of order one are trivial; cubes of orders two to four can be proven not to exist"
WTF is order? I thought - but I worked it out, because a bit lower down there's an example "Order 4 cube by Thomas Krijgsman, 1982; magic constant 130."
Hang on though, "cubes of orders two to four can be proven not to exist" and yet here is an example.
:I agree that using the word order without first defining it as the length of a side is not helpful to anyone unfamiliar with the specific terminology, which may even include most mathematicians. With regards to the discrepancy that has been pointed out, simple calculation shows that the example "Order 4 cube by Thomas Krijgsman, 1982; magic constant 130." is not a perfect cube by the definition given in the article, since the main space diagonals do not sum to 130 — for instance, 32 + 64 + 16 + 48 = 160. The citation for this example is also a 404 link, and so I believe this example should be removed. 90.244.184.188 (talk) 18:05, 4 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Am I missing something here...