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Talk:Arthur Paget (British Army officer)

message: Have removed a claim that he served as a diplomat in Belgrade, as the cited online source makes no mention of it (and if it was after the Curragh Incident it seems a little unlikely). On the same page there is a Spencer Henry Paget in the list above him, of whom these things are true. If anyone has another source, feel free to add back in.Paulturtle (talk) 22:43, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: In his 1977 biog of Kitchener, which I'm reading at the moment, Cassar confuses the two Pagets apropos of early 1915 intrigues to get Greece, Romania and Bulgaria into the war on the Allied side. Don't think this is anything to do with Arthur Paget's near-mission to Russia. Paulturtle (talk) 03:13, 27 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Diplomat who served in Belgrade 

message: Section should be cleaned up/ moved on the page. Tesseractyler (talk) 16:50, 3 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

message: Have just included a mention of his near appointment as military rep to the Russian STAVKA in October 1914. The book specifically quotes from a Kitchener letter mentioning "General A Paget" which Cassar takes to mean Arthur Paget in the index. No idea where or when he became "persona grata" with the Tsar, though - maybe at some stage in the Edwardian era when the Tsar visited the UK and was invited to inspect some maneouvres. No mention in his ODNB biog by Ian Beckett either. There is only one General Arthur Paget listed on the wikipedia list of British generals, so, bizarrely, it does look like him.Paulturtle (talk) 21:15, 20 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Persona grata with the Tsar
Talk:John Birch (Roundhead)

message: (a) General consensus is the term Roundhead does not reflect current (ie post 1950) usage; so resurrecting it for this individual is a retrograde step. If you want to invest time, I suggest changing the others is a good start.
(b) I'm happy to collaborate but this article has been extensively rewritten by me, using a format and usage employed elsewhere, and assessed as B class. So this drive by editing without any explanation or discussion seems extremely discourteous.
(c) There is no good reason for changing the format; after four years of editing, what I've found is everyone tells you their preferred version is Wikipedia policy.
(d) If you're going to make additions, can you please ensure they're spelt properly.
Robinvp11 (talk) 12:44, 18 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Format changes
Talk:Thermogenics

message: Adult humans (at least the vast majority) do not have brown adipose tissue. So what is it that the thermogenics are actually doing? Harperska 21:58, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Aren't thermogenics supplements that supposedly increase metabolism and burn body fat. I don't know anything about brown adipose tissue vs white, but I have heard claims made by manufacturers about ingredients like ephedra. Maybe the article shoudl focus on those claims. Brad T. Cordeiro 19:01, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I removed the section on methane, see below. Thermogenics is not really a term used in geology, although Thermogenic is sometimes, but only in the sense that something was generated with heat (and it does not have to be methane). Methane formation is covered in a number of places on WP. It also seems that this page is about "stimulants which produce heat" and therefore the intent was not to talk about non-specific term in geology
Start removed section 
Methane
Thermally generated methane (CH4) is referred to as thermogenic, originating from deeper sedimentary strata. Thermogenic methane formation occurs due to the break-up of organic matter, forced by elevated temperatures and pressures. This type of methane is considered to be the primary methane type in sedimentary basins, and from an economic perspective the most important source of natural gas. Thermogenic methane components are generally considered to be relic (from an earlier time). The more important source of methane at depth (crystalline bedrock) is abiotic, meaning that the methane formation took place involving inorganic compounds, without biological activity, magmatic or created at low temperatures and pressures through water-rock reactions.
End removed section
Waughd (talk) 21:20, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Methane section removal
Talk:Sun Yee On

message: What were the charges laid in 1987?Royalcourtier (talk) 02:18, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  1987 charges 

message: I want to you join your group ans work for you with honest Husnainkiller (talk) 09:34, 20 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hi boss
Talk:Colin Mackenzie (British Army officer)

message: The following (to be found at ) makes me think that Mackenzie's responsibility for the above debacle has been overplayed:
"The loss of 20,000 British soldiers killed during the Somme attack on 1 July 1916, highlighted the need to apply pressure elsewhere, hence the direction from Sir Charles Monro GOC 1st Army to Lieutenant-General Haking GOC XI Corps, to undertake the limited attack using two division supported by artillery, with a view to prevent
the Germans withdrawing units from the existing lines and despatching them to the Somme. The task given by Haking to McCay and the British GOC Major-General CJ Mackenzie, was poorly defined, and inadequately planned as it did not have any significant objective, and as events soon showed, the artillery support that was so vital to the success of any operation conducted across open ground against well-defended enemy trenches and concrete pill-boxes, was lacking both in the preparatory phase and during the battle itself."
45ossington (talk) 07:40, 12 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Battle of Fromelles]]
Talk:Richard Bowen (Royal Navy officer)

message: I don't think the first sentence under the heading "Santa Cruz and death" is accurate. Agreed, Dr John Campbell does say this in his biography of Richard Bowen in the seventh volume of The Naval History of Great Britain, but I think he has the day right (18th) but the month (June) wrong. The visit took place in April and the cutting out (for which I have added a section) on the night of 17/18 April. My evidence for this is a letter from the Terpsichore's First Lieutenant George Thorp to his father dated 18th May, of which I have a copy, which he wrote when the Terpsichore was once more off Cadiz, in which he describes the cutting out expedition in detail, having been in command of the three boats from the Terpsichore. -- Scribes52 (talk) 09:49, 28 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bowen's first expedition to Santa Cruz, Tenerife
Talk:Sir William Houston, 1st Baronet

message: The merge of 23 September 2009 introduced a large-scale copyright violation from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (unfortunately the mergefrom is not explicitly given). The two middle paras of "Military career", at the least, are straight copies from the ODNB. The article can be reconstructed by going back, and adding back in the infobox and extra succession boxes. I can make the old DNB article available at Wikisource in due course, for a public domain version with which to expand. Charles Matthews (talk) 19:29, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree the existing article should be deleted - I have started preparing a new article from alternative sources at Sir William Houstoun, 1st Baronet/Temp. Admin: Please delete existing article with copyright violation and insert new one. Dormskirk (talk) 22:39, 2 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:David Rodney

message: I removed the link to leadingauthorities.com because:
* the content is primarily promotional not biographical, therefore is not a reliable source
* it is a commercial site not an authority (see link guidelines)
* the site has been widely linked by user  (see spam guidelines)
* other, better links are included to support the article's content
Please don't reinsert it. At present there is a period of watchful waiting to see if we need to request this to be added to the spam blacklist.  Guy 18:11, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to commercial site
Talk:Berkeley Milne

message: while researching this page I came across some entries that Lieutenant A B Milne RN was involved with the zulu wars, the events of Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift. I saw a discussion about whether this was the same man, and someone confirming that it was. for info on milne see eg  Sandpiper (talk) 00:27, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zulu wars
Talk:Lapse rate

message: Why are the dry and saturated rates given in different units? The dry rate is given in degrees C/km and degrees F/1000ft, while the saturated rate is given in degrees C/1000 feet. Obviously, this makes it impossible to compare one rate to the other without doing some math on the reader’s part. 73.90.91.93 (talk) 00:59, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  inconsistent units 

message: The adiabatic lapse rate section says it assumes "a still vertical column at equilibrium". Elsewhere I've read that at thermal equilibrium, the temperature is uniform even in a gravitational field. My intuition says gradient, since it seems to me the molecules should pick up speed as they fall. But I genuinely don't know the truth. Is there a reference for this? Would an isolated column of ideal gas in a gravitational field g have a temperature gradient proportional to g? Spiel496 (talk) 21:25, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Equilibrium?
Talk:George de Lacy Evans

message: Although his full name was of course "George De Lacy Evans", he was known during his lifetime by his second name, including the particule, which admittedly looks rather odd. See contemporary sources Hansard, The Vote of Thanks to Sir De Lacy Evans, 1855, and an example from The Spectator, 1854. Opera hat (talk) 00:39, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article title
Talk:Thomas Dutton

message: This article states that "Sir Thomas Dutton married Anne Touchet. Their children were: Margaret Dutton who married Sir William Veneable ... son of Roger De Veneable of Kinderton, and his wife, Alice Pennington."
However, it is not clear that the Margaret Dutton, who married William Venables (i.e. Veneable), son of Roger de Venables and Alice de Peninton (i.e. Pennington), was the daughter of Thomas Dutton and Anne Touchet. Neither of the two references included seem to refer directly to the connection between Margaret and her alleged parents. It would be helpful if such references could be included. 
The first reference given here, "VCH Lane, 1911, IV, 305", is a bit terse, but presumably refers to a volume of the "Victoria County History". Investigation reveals that none of the editors of the Victoria Histories were named Lane. It is presumed that this is a typographical error, and that "Lane" should be read "Lanc", the abbreviation for Lancaster. The intended referenced is then assumed to have been "Victoria History of the County of Lancaster", Vol. 4, p. 305. A search of the 1911 edition of this volume reveals no reference to Margaret, or her parents. The only Thomas Dutton mentioned is in reference to an event from 1368, long after Margaret's parents were dead. Thus, I see no case presented here to accept the claim that the Margaret Dutton who married William Venable was the daughter of Thomas Dutton and Anne Touchet. 
However, it may be worth giving some consideration to the following two sources, which name Margaret's parents as a different Thomas Dutton and his wife, Philippa de Standon:
1) "Collin's Peerage of England", Vol. 8, p. , by Sir Egerton Brydges (1812).
2) "History of the County Palatine and City of Chester", Vol. 1, p. 477, by George Omerod (1819).
Margaret is also given as daughter of Thomas Dutton, without mention of Philippa de Standon, in the following source:
3) "History of the County Palatine and City of Chester", Vol. 3, pp. 67, 103, 106, by George Omerod (1819).
Though some of the sources given here are a bit older, it is not clear that better supporting evidence has been cited in this article in regard to the identity of Margaret's parents. Clarification of this matter would certainly be appreciated. 
G3NCR42Y (talk) 15:52, 15 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  QUESTIONS REGARDING THOMAS DUTTON AND ANNE TOUCHET AS PARENTS OF MARGARET DUTTON
Talk:John Norton-Griffiths

message: Any source for the nicknames and their origins?SovalValtos (talk) 06:23, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nicknames 
Talk:Francis Smith (British Army officer)

message: I noticed this was flagged for neutrality, and I was curious why. Colonel Smith has, in recent history, had his name dragged through the mud, and there is an abundance of sources with strong conflicting opinions. Out of the sake of the facts, I am wondering what the debate over this section is. 74.39.174.2 (talk) 00:22, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality
Talk:Frederick Sykes

message: At present we have "It is believed that Sykes is the only man in British history to have been a serving officer in all three of the military services - the army, the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force". This seems unlikely - it's not that rare for an officer to transfer from one service to another. Although I cannot think of another example of someone serving in all three services, with the vast numbers of people who have served as British officers from 1918 to the present day it seems very likely that there are others apart from Sykes. However if a citation can be provided from a credible source ... Greenshed 20:48, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Definately wrong - Michael Torrens-Spence for one served in all three. Kernel Saunters 13:07, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Army, navy and air force service 
Talk:George Charles d'Aguilar

message: I have been looking at the d'Aguilar family tree and I have found an article from the Calcutta Gazette - Thursday 31 October 1799
"36 Foot - George Charles D'Aguilar, Gent to be Ensign without purchase, vice John Fraser, Promoted in the 88th foot. 24th September 1799."
This is claiming he was going into the 88th Foot "Connaught Rangers" and he was coming from the 36 Foot (Herefordshire) Regiment. The fact that he did not purchase his commission, would suggest he earned it on merit  in the 36 Foot.
That article is available on the BNA
LMRT (talk) 15:46, 6 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  First commission.
Talk:Adolf Berman

message: He found piles of shoes in Treblinka.... two years after the camp was closed. Does anyone consider him credible? 105.12.3.92 (talk) 18:51, 12 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  children's shoes from Treblinka?
Talk:Alan Feinstein

message: Almost all of the text in this bio was copied from two sources: the March 2004 article in The Providence Journal and the Feinstein Institute page on the Roger Williams University School of Law website.  It needs serious copyediting.  — Athaenara ✉ 05:46, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyvio (posted from [[Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard#Alan_Feinstein|here]])

message: The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Jreferee (Talk) 18:24, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 
Talk:Sir Henry Floyd, 5th Baronet

message: This article uses The Peerage as a source. In Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Perennial_sources#Sources this source has been designated unreliable. Because it was already in use and I do no know where to find a suitable source, I have left it as it is, although Wikipedia advises to remove the reference. JHvW 09:10, 10 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources
Talk:Robert Lundy

message: since when is "cowardly poltroon" acceptable encyclopedic language?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.70.203.118 (talk) 14:29, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This should indefprotected because it is a high risk ip vandal target People in public (talk) 00:56, 29 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Then get off me 

message: We're given a year of death but no circumstances or cite. Chuunen Baka  (talk  • contribs) 16:03, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death?
Talk:William Forbes Gatacre

message: Sure about Stirling? The Herbertshire Castle page implies it's in Falkirk and the Falkirk Local History Society have a nice article about it. I assumed this page was right, so I categorised the photo of Gatacre's memorial accordingly. That will need correcting too if it's in Falkirk. Sjwells53 (talk) 21:07, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I've decided to correct it. The Falkirk location is born out by several other Wikipedia articles and by the OS map of the area. Sjwells53 (talk) 21:14, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Birthplace

message: I have added further detail on Gen Gatacre's various campaigns. I have also made a few other small changes, including removing that "his men loved him". No reference is provided, and and I can not find a source.  I have said that his men "recognised that his activities were generally benevolent and on the whole thought well of him" which is taken from Ziegler's referenced book and seems more accurate given Gatacre's style of leadership. 
I have changed the date of the report on the Bubonic Plague of Bombay as the source states 1897, not the 1887 originally quoted in the article.
H-sq, 13 March 17  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Helensq (talk • contribs) 17:38, 14 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing 'Loved by his men' and other changes

message: I have removed the sentence “He commanded the 23rd Bombay Light Infantry as part of the Upper Burma Field Force during the Third Burma War and was mentioned in Sir George White's despatches of 10 March 1887” as this relates to William’s brother, John Gatacre, an officer in the Indian Army at the time.  The London Gazette entry for 2 Sept 1887 refers to “Lieut Colonel Gatacre commanding the 23rd Bombay Light Infantry”. Although no christian name is given, John’s  Indian Biographical Dictionary entry confirms he commanded the unit mentioned.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Helensq (talk • contribs) 16:46, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusion with his brother
Talk:Albert Göring

message: The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article.-- Jreferee 00:26, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 

message: "Among his paternal ancestors were the Eberle/Eberlin. "  This sentence makes no sense at all since the link to Eberle and Eberlin adds nothing but confusion  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.159.134.243 (talk) 20:20, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early life 

message: A Fox network cable TV program has just been broadcast.    Tabletop (talk) 11:55, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cable TV program 

message: a picture of albert. why it's not appearing? Ben-Natan (talk) 12:00, 12 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tried to upload a picture 

message: I found this documentary on YouTube: "Goering's Last Secret : Revealed 2011" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUr-klBANp8  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.162.100.178 (talk) 18:21, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Documentary film 

message: "Von Epenstein began an affair with Franziska Göring about a year before Albert's birth.[8] A strong physical resemblance between von Epenstein and Albert Göring even led many to believe that they were father and son. If this were true, it meant that Albert Göring was half-Jewish.[8] However, Franziska Göring had accompanied her husband to his post in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and lived there with him between March 1893 and mid-1894, which makes this seem extremely unlikely.[9] In 2016, Albert's daughter (Elizabeth) told the BBC that her mother (Mila) said that Albert told her that Von Epenstein was his father.[10]"
So, if he was born in March 1895, why is it considered unlikely that he was conceived in "mid-1894" - isn't that about the usual timeframe?
Also that first sentence takes the "about a year" as a definite fact, but then it must have begun during the Haiti trip - through correspondence perhaps? - and this is not clarified.
Anyway, maybe someone with access to these sources should come up with clarifying details from them, because I'm pretty darn confused. 
A. J. Luxton (talk) 07:59, 21 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradictory/poorly explained paragraph about parentage speculations
Talk:Frank William Foster

message: The vast majority of this Wiki entry is copied from an obituary written for the Newbury Weekly News, by Harold Foster (Frank Foster's son). --Jaycey (talk) 16:30, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Acknowledgement 
Talk:André and Magda Trocmé

message: WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive
The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 20:59, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 

message: There's a fair use photo of André and Magda Trocmé at . We already have a free image of André, so I'm not sure if we should add it. If you think we should WP:BeBold and go for it. Sondra.kinsey (talk) 13:39, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fair Use Image 

message: — Assignment last updated by Brian (talk) 17:41, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Christian Ethics
File talk:Pluto discovery plates.png

message: I've translated (not yet on-line) the article "Planets beyond Neptune" from en.wiki into it.wiki. I'm having a problem in accessing this picture from it.wiki. I wonder if it could be moved to Commons.
Thank you anyway. Raff.fio (talk) 11:50, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture needed in a translated article 

message: Someone should crop this photo and remove the title, if this does not infringe on the copyright protections. Pluto no longer meets the defining criteria for being a planet, since it has not cleared out other objects near its orbital path. It is a 'dwarf planet' and part of the Kuiper belt of objects. Secondly, This photo is used in many non-English Wikipedias, and the title isn't necessary. Danski14(talk) 19:43, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title needs to be updated 

message: Theo's Little Bot scaled the image on 2015-08-25 such that it now is utterly useless for illustrating the point of taking two telescope photographs days apart to be able to detect motion of celestial bodies. The individual plate images need to be at least 800x800 pixels to be able to see Pluto, a small, faint object at best. — Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum)T @ 20:01, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Useless image
Talk:John Drewienkiewicz

message: It would be good to have an article on the Mission, which was an OSCE enterprise, I believe.  Article should mention that his army nickname was DZ. He gave evidence to various human rights trials - perhaps someone could sumarise Google searches on that. In haste Vernon White . . . Talk  10:07, 17 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Kosovo Verification Mission
Talk:Seal of Arizona

message: "In the background is a range of mountains with the sun rising behind the
 peaks. At the right side of the mountains is a water storage reservoir and a
 dam, with irrigated fields and orchards. There are cattle grazing on the
 right, and a quartz mill and a miner with a pick and shovel on the left."
 
That part of the article is from
  I can't tell what az.gov's use policy is regarding this content.  I don't feel like re-writing it, nor do I really know how to handle this.  Equant 22:10, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: 2006 comment