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Talk:Makhan Singh (Kenyan trade unionist)

message: This article cites several articles incorrectly. The citations under "Post Independence Life" point to articles that have almost nothing to do with Makhan Singh. Or in the first few lines: "was a Punjabi-born Kenyan labour union leader who is credited with establishing the foundations of trade unionism in Kenya" points to another wiki, not a proper source. 
In the line "the Gujaratis adopted him as a fighter in their folk culture although Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru were against him for no known reason, and they asked for his arrest", the citation points to a blog. The claim itself seems improper on its face, ascribing prejudice to Gandhi/Nehru for "no known reason" without pointing to any scholarly appraisal of the claim 64.224.255.86 (talk) 03:41, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poorly sourced and spurious claims
Talk:Makonnen Endelkachew

message: From the Wikipedia Manual of Style MOS:UNLINKYEARS 
"Date elements that do not contain both a day number and a month should not generally be linked; for example, solitary months, solitary days of the week, solitary years, decades, centuries, and month and year combinations."--Editor2020 (talk) 00:25, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: What the MoS states is not enforcable policy. And even if it is, WP:IAR can always be invoked. -- llywrch (talk) 16:57, 8 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Linking Years
Talk:Gerard Wallop, 9th Earl of Portsmouth

message: This is the joining together of an individual (Gerard Wallop) and a group (English Array) - would it not be better to split the two? --Captain Trifle (talk) 14:20, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

message: My name is Mike and I live in the United States and I have a book from 1812 Joan of Arc that was owned and signed by the 3 Rd or 4 the Earl and I was trying to find someone from his family that might like to have the book it is over 200 years old and has his signature in it my number is 8653068113 Mike Gilmore if any one can help me thanks Mikegilmore (talk) 00:26, 4 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Book owned and signed by the 3rd Earl of portmouth
Talk:Gerhard Wagner (physician)

message: There is a bishop of the same name, a disambig would be useful.  ADM (talk) 01:26, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Bishop

message: "The cause of his sudden death is to this day unknown". Really ? Not cancer ??? - Details please.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.211.142.27 (talk) 02:16, 4 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  death
Talk:Gerónimo Salguero

message: The page should be renamed (moved) to the common name for which he's known, and which is used in streets named after him: Gerónimo Salguero (with or without the accented "ó" is another story), instead of the complete name including mother's maiden name. Comments? -- Alexf(talk) 20:44, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Common name
Talk:Malcolm Shepherd, 2nd Baron Shepherd

message: Today (31 July 2013) I have begun to expand this article based mainly on the 1999 Who's Who entry. I intend to add some supporting material from the obits published in UK newspapers to add some detail especially of the policies Lord Shepherd was associated with during his two periods in Government.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kusala1952 (talk • contribs) 16:26, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expansion
Talk:Malcolm Toon

message: The NYTimes and others missed the death of Amb. Toon for some years while Wiki did not. Wiki's source has since had to be changed to a new url-link at the same source so the normal 'Retrieved' date is in 2017 and doesn't communicate the much-earlier, original citation date. I think Wiki's good work is worthy of, and I've added, an 'Originally retrieved' addendum to the citation. It's an accomplishment for which the encyclopedia can be proud.
This rather unusual but I think good addition has been back-and-forth in-and-out and evolving a bit in the past month-plus. It's also been discussed now at some length on my Talk page. In short, if consensus is achieved, the addendum will read: Originally retrieved March 26, 2009 with a different, now-dead link to The Pilot. 
I support the addendum. Swliv (talk) 17:28, 6 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Originally retrieved' addendum in obituary citation
Talk:Gerry Fiennes

message: It seems that when Fiennes wrote I Tried to Run a Railway, Stanley Raymond (the chairman of the British Railways Board at the time) tried to suppress it - but when it was published, Raymond sacked Fiennes immediately. Within a week, Raymond (who had been appointed in 1965 as Beeching's successor) was himself sacked by Barbara Castle, Minister for Transport. This triggered a change at the top, with Raymond being succeeded by Henry Johnson; but the Transport Act 1968 was soon passed, bringing about more of the changes that Fiennes had criticised in his book. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 09:52, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''I Tried to Run a Railway''
Talk:Gerry L'Estrange

message: L'Estrange was universally known, and referred to, as Gerry. In virtually all references he is styled Gerry.  In the Ireland Civil Registrations Index, Mathew Gerrard L'Estrange has birth registered March Qtr 1918, Granard, Vol. 1, Page 129. His wedding only shows his middle initial, G.  www.Oireachtas.ie dB refers to him as L'Estrange, Gerald. Keomike (talk) 20:03, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 
Talk:Dave Thomas (skeptic)

message: I thought Thomas was most notable as a skeptic. Does a bachelor's degree in physics make Thomas a "physicist"? It looks like this stub (identifying Thomas as a "physicist") was created exclusively to legitimize Mr. Thomas skeptical viewpoints. I can't find a scientific paper he's published, and his employer, "Quatro Corporation, now defunct) for which he claims to have been a "senior scientist" appears to have been some kind of VC or business development firm. What's up here?    —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wndl42 (talk • contribs) 05:14, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article name...physicist? 

message: I intend to improve this page. If anyone has any comments or has anything they want me to add, please leave it here. Deubug (talk) 07:07, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Deubug - Looking forward to seeing the changes. Sgerbic (talk) 04:41, 24 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page Improvement 

message: I'm going to tackle the copy edit of this page and clean up the reference list code in the process. Will update when finished. Light&highbeautyforever (talk) 20:25, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copy edit/clean up references list 

message: Discuss here if you have any disagreement. A. C. Santacruz  ⁂  Talk 16:12, 5 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  PROD
Talk:Malkhaz Akishbaia

message: Ethnic Abkhazian.
So could we say that Akishbaia is an ethnic Abkhazian? Did he say that he is an Abkhazian? Of course his surname is Abkhazian and he is of Abkhazian descent as many other samurzaqanian people, but does he feel himself Abkhazian?Segnor Bugatti (talk) 11:41, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Corrado Segre

message: Segre was a geometer that made little reference to applied mathematics. The physicist tag has been removed. Currently the article says that Segre's work contributed to understanding relativity through the Ricci tensor, but no reference is given. If no reference is forthcomming, the statement will be removed.Rgdboer (talk) 00:35, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This mathematician was very instrumental in the development of internationalism in mathematics; any one that looks into the sources will benefit from their findings. Math tag added today.Rgdboer (talk) 21:15, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Physics
Talk:Mama Koite Doumbia

message: I found the following articles which might help provide information from which the article could be expanded:
*World People's Blog World-Wide Asian-Eurasian Human Rights Forum
*Radio Steve Bantou Biko (in French)
*MaliWeb Mali news site
--Plad2 (talk) 20:05, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources for expanding this article 
Talk:Gerry Wood

message: Gerry has been named as Gerald and Gerard in this article but I can find no evidence of the use of any name other than Gerry, even in the list of members of the NT Legislative Assembly. Can anyone name him correctly, with a source. I also added two sources, but the articles needs sources about him being Shire President and many other points. --Bduke 02:14, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Name
Talk:Gershon Agron

message: A few weeks ago I emailed the YIVO archive regarding access to the suggested source of Present Tense  vol 6 no. 3, and they very helpfully sent back a pdf file of photographs of the respective pages! I will using this source to expand on particularly the Jerusalem Post section. Kingsif (talk) 00:03, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Present Tense 6, 3

message: Agron and Ze'ev Jabotinsky would have met in the Jewish Legion. In 1919, Agron praised an article written by Jabotinsky. In 1920, Agron was living in the Jabotinsky house in which all male occupants were arrested for collecting weapons seemingly to fight the British mandatory officials on behalf of Zionism, as part of the aftermath of the 1920 Nebi Musa riots; Agron would have likely been arrested, as all occupants were, but either was not or was one of the five left arbitrarily at the house and picked up later, as he corresponded from outside with the nineteen during their detention. () In December 1921, Jabotinsky wrote to Agron in New York, asking him to help a Zionist writer to publish in the United States. However, by 1935, the two had fallen out over matters of political parties; Jabotinsky wrote to a different publisher to suggest "it may be desirable to attack Agronsky" professionally.
:Kingsif (talk) 17:25, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: *I incorporated some of this into the article. No source for being "friends", per se. Kingsif (talk) 15:52, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jabotinsky-related information 

message: It says he "". Impossible. As far as is known, only people on the ship and (possibly) the Russian submarine that fired the torpedo watched it sink. I could be that he was in Turkey at the time of the sinking, but the rest is probably a mistranslation or misreport. What does the source actually say? Zerotalk 01:46, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:  Right, there was a long saga with the Struma in port unable to move under its own steam and only a handful of refugees being allowed off. (The full story is more complicated, as always.) Then Turkey towed it back into the Black Sea and set it adrift. Soon it was sunk by a Russian submarine with only one survivor. Zerotalk 03:02, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Struma
Talk:Clifford Truesdell

message: Hi, I noticed that the external link to Ball's article on Truesdell was broken.
Here is a link address that works :
http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/~ball/Miscelleaneous%20Articles/truesdell.pdf
I did not make the change.  Thanks, Terry Bisson 138.92.13.85 (talk) 17:58, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The link works for me, but I'm testing it from the campus of a University that probably has access to the journal.  Can someone test the link and see if it works for them?  --Charlesreid1 (talk) 06:16, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I performed the 2 changes evoked at the end of the above section "POV issues":
* changed section title to "Critics of Truesdell's Support of Rational thermodynamic"
("Critics of Rational thermodynamic" would have been misleading, meaning critics by Truesdell)
* removed unneutral & unreferenced sentence (previously 1st sentence in section)
denis 'spir' (talk) 12:25, 30 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes of discussed section 
Talk:Gertrud Scholtz-Klink

message: According to German Wikipedia Scholtz-Klink married a Swiss headmaster in 1920.--Ukas (talk) 22:53, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Gheorghe Cristescu

message: This is a little shorter than I usually like in a GA class article, but the basics all seem to be covered and it is well sourced.  More detail would be the way to move this article up the class heirarchy.  ludahai 魯大海 13:55, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: rating
Talk:Hugo Grotius

message: Rostock was never a part of swedish-pomerania - it always was the largest city in the duchy of Mecklenburg. During the 30years war it was part of the realm of Wallenstein, besieged by swedish fleets and never given up by the danish kings, who were forced to retire from their feudal claims since 1224 by the germans. To occupy or annex Rostock as a part of the swedish realm would have been a severe break from the peace of Lübeck in 1630.--77.187.249.84 (talk) 06:55, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm quite ignorant in this matter, but I find at Rostock#15th to 18th century this: "Danes and Swedes occupied the city twice, first during the Thirty Years' War ..." but I can see that that probably didn't mean that Rostock became part of Swedish Pomerania. Should the item in the infobox be changed to Mecklenburg, or Mecklenburg-Güstrow, or something else? -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 11:24, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Place of death 

message: To better understand the conflict with the States, it is good to explain exactly what Oldenbarnevelt's 'tolerance' entailed: very strict guidelines about what could be said and published about which topics and how. This would have effectively ended the free press in the Republic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 45.138.36.202 (talk • contribs) 14:05, 1 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oldenbarnevelt's Tolerance 

message: As currently written it sounds like Heinlein is an 18th century scholar! In addition the whole 18th century reactions section (half of which is Heinlein) doesn't really explain how he was perceived in the 18th century. Worth a rewrite by someone more skilful than I? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.37.8.6 (talk • contribs) 12:40, 14 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heinlein
Talk:Gheorghe Manu

message: Sources in the Manu family confirm that Gheorghe Manu was a Prime Minister but cannot confirm the interval 5 November 1889 – 15 February 1891. He does not appear on the list of Prime Ministers: neither on the English nor on the Romanian Wiki. That interval appears to have been covered by Lascăr Catargiu. Find an expert! -- Victor Blacus 13:54, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prime Minister or not?
Talk:Charles Fabry

message: Deleted sentence stating Charles Fabry won the Valz Prize in 1897; it was his brother Louis Fabry that won the Valz that year for his work on comet orbits. See Nature, Vol. 57, p. 287, January 20, 1898 Carl Henderson (talk) 03:25, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
Talk:Harding

message: I saw that the line for James A. Harding said "and noted pedophile" which seemed a bit strong.  There is no mention of this on the page for James A. Harding and it was added by an IP editor (24.23.71.117 at 00:38, 5 July 2008) so it looked like vandalism and I removed it.
FerdinandFrog (talk) 18:51, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Probable vandalism removed
Talk:Johan van Oldenbarnevelt

message: WikiProject Biography Assessment
On the heavy side of "Start"-- needs citations to go to a "B"
The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 05:38, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 

message: This article was tagged back in May with a pov-check tag, but I see no comments about it.
From a cursory scan, I suspect that the issue may simply be that parts of the text come from Encyclopedia Brittannica 1911 edition. Paul Koning 21:39, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hearing no support for it, I removed it. Paul Koning 20:42, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV-check 

message: I have to agree about the POV complaint that seems to have been made: the article clearly takes the point of view of the people (like me) that are still enraged about this judicial murder after 390 years :-) However, I think it could be toned down a little. The fact that the accused were brought before an ad hoc tribunal in itself does not signify an unfair trial. This was just a solution for the problem that the Generaliteit did not have a judicial branch. There are plenty examples in the Dutch national archives of similar ad hoc judicial commissions, often in trivial cases. Hence my edit.
I have added the anecdote about the notation (by Anthonie Duyck?) in the register of the States of Holland, apparently praising Oldenbarnevelt. After that praise there follows the cryptic sentence Die staet siet toe dat hij niet en valle. I have always taken this to mean a defiant statement that the State (of Holland) would not allow the reputation of Oldenbarnevelt to suffer:-). However, Motley's awkward literal translation (which I have not copied because it makes no sense) makes me think that it probably is a proverb. Literally, it says: "He who stands (better) makes sure that he does not fall". I now think this is a different version of "Hoogmoed komt voor de val" (or Pride comes before the fall), which would make sense in the context, especially as the notation is written by one of Oldenbarnevelts opponents. But I may be wrong, of course.--Ereunetes (talk) 20:02, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: What was he convicted of? Rmhermen (talk) 00:34, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  subverting the country's religion. SAE (talk) 01:07, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trial section edit
Talk:C. Bruce Tarter

message: There is also an article on Curtis Bruce Tarter who is the same person. Oaklandguy (talk) 05:09, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two articles on same person 
Talk:Bryce DeWitt

message: Eh, not that it really fits anywhere on this page (might be more fitting on Booker DeWitt's/Bioshock's page), but Mr. B. DeWitt is clearly Booker DeWitt's namesake. Especially so, since the game deals with multiple universes.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.74.131.246 (talk) 03:50, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Was thinking the same thing Codegrinder (talk) 19:33, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bioshock Infinite 
Talk:Manoranjan Bhakta

message: Note:  Project Banner with Andaman and Nicobar Islands workgroup parameters was added to this article talk page because the article  falls under :Category:Andaman and Nicobar Islands or its subcategories. Should you feel this addition is inappropriate , please undo my changes and update/remove the relavent categories to the article --  TinuCherian     (Wanna Talk?)   - 05:42, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[WP:INDIA]] Banner/Andaman and Nicobar Islands workgroup Addition 
Talk:Joop den Uyl

message: Hello all you Dutch and english-speaking wikipedians,
I would like to draw your attention to the fact that Johannes is Dutch (and German) for John, colloquially referred to as Joop, whereas the Dutch for Joseph (ie. the long form of Joe) is Josef, nicknamed as Joost. Based on this, the translation of den Uyl's colloquial name should be Uncle John.
George Adam Horváth 21:01, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually John would be translated as Jan in the Netherlands, which is short for Johannes. But any translation would be original research So i've removed them. C mon 21:09, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Joop vs Joe. 

message: Hi! I am thinking we need to expand on the "quote" section. Was there something special about "two things:..." The way it stands right now, it doesn't sound like a very memorable quote, for obvious reasons. We might as well quote "hello" and "goodbye" then... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Konstantin3307 (talk • contribs) 23:47, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done.  --  Iterator12n  Talk  06:31, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Explain importance of quote/remove quote 

message: This article needs refs.  Pls help.  --  Iterator12n  Talk  06:30, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  References
Talk:Gianni Agnelli

message: This stuff in the current article may well get Wikipedia sued for libel:
"Edoardo suspected committed suicide on 15 November 2000 by jumping off a bridge in Turin; but the truth is he was killed for covering the fact he's a moslem. Gianni himself joined police at the scene."  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.17.50.44 (talk) 17:25, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Gianni's son

message: His mother was not a member of the royal House of Bourbon. She belonged rather to a noble family that happened to share that surname. Nor was she a dynastic princess. Nor was the woman he married a princess or a royal. Their families, although distinguished, belonged to Italy's nobility, and never ruled a kingdom or principality, although there is some evidence that her paternal ancestors held palatine powers over the marchesato of Monte Santa Maria in Perugia until 1806. FactStraight (talk) 07:36, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Maternal ancestry
Talk:Manuel Belgrano

message: The article Battle of Campichuelo reports it as a victory for Belgrano.--Wetman (talk) 01:19, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it does. Belgrano prevailed at Campichuelo, but lost at Paraguarí and Tacuarí, and those defeats marked the defeat of the Paraguay campaign as a whole. Cambalachero (talk) 01:30, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Battle of Campichuelo]] 
Talk:Willem Drees

message: There is an RfC on the question of using "Religion: None" vs. "Religion: None (atheist)" in the infobox on this and other similar pages. 
The RfC is at Template talk:Infobox person#RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion. 
Please help us determine consensus on this issue. --Guy Macon (talk) 19:38, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Template talk:Infobox person#RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion|Request for Comments]] 

message: The lead is very big, I think a lot of the things there could be moved to the relevant sections, as leads are meant to be a summary Lochglasgowstrathyre (talk) 17:57, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Big lead
Talk:Hand dancing

message: I think the current content should be removed (it was copied verbatim from http://www.dchanddanceclub.com) and be redirected back to Hand Jive
Joneboi 03:09, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The dance called "hand dancing" is not the hand jive, which might have been clear from the text you erased. Hand dancing (or DC hand dancing) is a style of swing dancing that developed in the Washington, D.C., area in the 1950s. That's why the two links to the topic "hand dancing" on other pages are in sections about swing dancing. I agree the text shouldn't be verbatim from some website, so I'm going to turn this article into a stub. --Largo Plazo 15:48, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Remove and redirect back to Hand Jive
Talk:August Beer

message: This article is ridiculous. It's an online translation of an article that seems to have been written in first person, making it inappropriate for Wikipedia to begin with. I'm going to remove the entire biography. Tserton (talk) 11:48, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Biography
Talk:Ashok Gadgil

message: I am the author of the text that was earlier shown on the Wikipedia entry for "Ashok Gadgil" and which is now quarantined (and will be removed) because it also appears on a page at UC Berkeley's SouthAsia Center.
I have no idea of how the SouthAsia Center obtained that text -- may be they copied it from Wikipedia.
In any case, I wrote the text summarizing my own CV, and authorize it for display on the Wikipedia page.
I also sent an e-mail to  permissions-en at wikimedia dot org  to that effect a couple of days ago.
Ashokjgadgil (talk) 02:17, 1 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comment (March 31, 2014 ) on Suspected Copyright Violation   