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Talk:Merrell Jackson

message: There is no obituary on this guy? Died at the age of 39... it would be nice to know the reason for such an early death.--76.204.179.73 10:50, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It would be nice to know that information — do you have it? We editors don't know where he died, or what he died of. No obituary appeared for him in the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Sun-Times, the New York Times, or Variety. If he died in Illinois, a death certificate is not obtainable until twenty years after the death unless one is a member of his immediate family or has a legal reason. P.S. He died at 38, not 39. — Walloon 14:41, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Obituary 

message: ProQuest Historical Newspapers has fully indexed newspapers online. I checked for Merrell Jackson in The Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, and The New York Times from 1970 to 1991, but found only four references in the Tribune, 1972-1973 (one misspelling his first name as Merell); and one in the NY Times review of the movie Godspell. The Chicago Defender, that city's leading weekly newspaper for the black community, had no mention of Jackson in the two weeks following his death. Walloon (talk) 22:28, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Newspapers

message: Incomplete sentences, poorly organized, sloppy, artless. Lazy writing. We should do better. Zengalileo (talk) 18:58, 22 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is this article so poorly written?
Talk:Zadok

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Zadok which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RM bot 09:45, 26 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: how do we participate?! (the link does not work!)--Marecheth Ho'eElohuth (talk) 19:35, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: That was last year, when the title of the article was Zadok (High Priest). Dougweller (talk) 20:04, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Move discussion in progress

message: I have made multiple insertions to the page along with numerous edit's, but much work is needed in terms of cleanup and 'removal of repetitive information', pls help if you can.  I hope to be able to tidy up soon..--Marecheth Ho'eElohuth (talk) 23:13, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Construction 

message: Please see Talk:Sons of Zadok.  In ictu oculi (talk) 04:02, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Related rename

message: Seems to be blatant speculation based on a naïve perceived similarity between "zedek" and "tzadok". Rubbish! Propose to delete section as lacking citations, as being ridiculous and silly. Rursus dixit. (mbork3!) 12:45, 10 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Why not insert s and then, if demand is not met within a reasonable time, delete? PraeceptorIP (talk) 19:55, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead Sea Scrolls section 

message: The article says that the 1 Samuel 2:35 prophecy was by Elkanah. What is the support for identifying the prophet as Elkanah? It seems that the Bible only says "a man of God came to Eli and said to him..." in 1 Samuel 2:27. Cmcqueen1975 (talk) 02:58, 13 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a good point. I changed the article to use the passive tense without attribution to anybody, so that it is now neutral. Perhaps there should be a footnote to 1 Sam 2:27 and explanatory parenthetical. (?) PraeceptorIP (talk) 19:51, 24 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Elkanah prophecy 

message: I don't know much about this, but it interests me...Although it sounds like most scholars think Zadok existed, it would be good to have a section, or a couple sentences, addressing that. For example, what do scholarly bible skeptics like Israel Finkelstein think about Zadoks historicity? Rich (talk) 20:31, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historicity of Zadok
Talk:Leeds International Piano Competition

message: The logo on coloured background was striking but difficult to "read", and the logo with words, as used throughout the website, seems clearer. Unfortunately I could not copy the image into Commons - it came out as black on black - so I made a screenshot. Someone else could doubtless create a better image and upload it with the appropriate Commons permission statement: I note that the coloured version of the logo was uploaded as "own work" which implies either WP:COI editing by a member of staff of the competition or ignorance of copyright law (making a copy of a logo designed by someone else does not make it your own work). PamD 14:47, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  logo
Talk:Zuph

message: I don't think this is a disambiguation page.  It isn't a page with the sole purpose of linking to multiple articles that might alternatively be titled "Zuph"; it simply explains two related meanings of the term.  This seems to me to be a reasonably straightforward article stub.  I'd propose we remove the disambiguation template, which will also mean that people can stop using :Template:Page d to link to it.  Any objections?  TSP (talk) 19:23, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation?
Talk:Zur

message: I removed a sentence "A wiki list of biblical names says this means "stone; rock; that besieges". I don't even understand what this article is about, so I don't want to edit it, but this sentence obviously needs to be rewritten somehow.--Tired time (talk) 07:39, 19 November 2009 (UTC)

message: any approximate dates for these earliest Arab Israeli battles Hammondwest (talk) 15:22, 20 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  approximate dates
Talk:Shortwave relay station

message: This page needs to exist to compliment the existing pages related to shortwave broadcasting.
Without it shortwave broadcasting articles may be more confusing.
Eyreland
: It has nothing to do about shortwave broadcasting, it only talks about a brand of antennae and its manufacturer. -- Iván Sánchez(talk) 08:02, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I appreciate that you try to keep a neutral point of view. However, that is not the only thing needed to create a good article - you have to assert that the subject is notable, per the Wikipedia notability guidelines (WP:N). No assertion of notability, article proposed for deletion. Sorry. -- Iván Sánchez(talk) 08:37, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Thomas Gordon (psychologist)

message: From Nobel: "According to the Statutes of the Nobel Foundation, information about the nominations is not to be disclosed, publicly or privately, for a period of fifty years. " 
http://www.nobelprize.org/faq/nominations.html
Scotmbenton (talk) 04:26, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Unless there's something special about the nomination besides it existing (a committee of government leaders makes it, for instance), it's not notable.  This one in particular is unreferenced.  It's outta here. - Richfife (talk) 19:27, 19 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Aphek (biblical)

message: Added here by ± copying "dubious" and "cn" tags from the article text, placed there in 2015 (!) and as yet ignored and unaddressed.
:"A more recent theory has focused on regarding this same Aphek also as the scene of the two battles against the Philistines [Q1] mentioned by the Bible - the supposition [Q2] being that the Syrians[Q3] were invading Israel from the western side, which was their most vulnerable."[Q4]
Q1: The ARAMEANS were based at nearby Damascus, whereas the PHILISTINES were based on the Med. coast SW of here, with the latter fighting the Israelites centered on Shiloh (see sons of Eli) and Saul based in Benjamin, so both sides quite far away to the S and SW. Why would both sides march far outside their respective territories to do battle? Then the sentence jumps back to "Syrians", i.e. Arameans. Chaotic, counterintuitive, and unsourced - so confusing & useless for now. I'm leaving it on this - basically disambiguation - page, but won't use it on the Fiq, Syria page with the rest.
Q3: See Q1: Sentence jumps back and forth: Arameans - Philistines - Syrians = (again) Arameans.
Q2, Q4: unsourced. Chaotic, w/o source to help rewrite and make sense of it it's only confusing and basically unreliable & useless. Arminden (talk) 11:29, 30 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Confusing, unsourced mishmash
Talk:Ataroth

message: Ataroth is identified as TWO places?! The paragraph makes a distinction between a place and massacre at Ataroth, and one at "Nebo (Ataroth)". Why? Also, where does Nebo come in? Arminden (talk) 14:38, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  TWo Ataroths on Mesha Stele?!
Talk:Azekah

message: Great page overall! I would put a link in the intro after "Biblical Azeka" which takes you directly to your explanation in biblical history. Also, the “Extra-biblical mention” heading is a little confusing- maybe, Non-Biblical sources?  Also, what kinds of artifacts did they find? Iagofan1616 (talk) 16:38, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: Hi Loew Galitz. I noticed your recent edit on this page, which is fine, but I wanted to ask you what is your source for the spelling "Tel Azka" (instead of "Tel Azeka")? The reason why I ask you this is because I have never seen it spelt that way. Could it be a transliteration of the Hebrew from someone who has never read the Hebrew vowel assignments for this word? Just curious, as it seems very strange. Be well.Davidbena (talk) 01:07, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I was surprized too, but this is given by Google translate of the corresponding hewiki article, and I just mindlessly copied it.  And as I see there are a couple google hits as well. Fixed. Loew Galitz (talk) 01:10, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, that would explain it. Uncommon Hebrew place-names, such as when translating an article written in Hebrew by using Google Translate, cannot possibly know the accurate way of spelling in all cases. Here is where human oversight must be taken.Davidbena (talk) 01:56, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source for spelling "Tel Azka" 

message: Before my edit the article said "According to Epiphanius of Salamis, the name meant "white" in the Canaanite tongue", which is a misquote, which I fixed. Quote form source: "But it is now called in Syriac Hewarta, for the reading Azekah is Hebrew; and it is translated into Greek as "white." " In any case appears that Epiphanius was wrong. He-wiki gives different etymology, unfortunately unsourced. I will try to find sources. Loew Galitz (talk) 00:46, 4 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name meaning
Talk:Baal Hammon

message: This article was shorter than the section on the god in the overview article Baʿal. I've incorporated some of that material here, if it's sourced, but I don't claim to have verified it independently. Cynwolfe (talk) 14:31, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  incorporating additional content 

message: This article has fallen victim to "Citation policing" and information removal, resulting in information missing on Baal Hamon. A important deity. 
Yet, claims that Baal Hamon was famous for "Child Sacrifice", a Roman smear campaign allegation against the god to demonize him, remains in the article. 
Editors should refrain from Deleting information, and instead adding a "citation needed" template for people to confirm the information, and not destroy the article, as is the case with many editors these days. 
Biomax20 (talk) 08:34, 10 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: There is new archaeological evidence that suggests that it was not a smear campaign by the Romans, and that there were in fact Child Sacrifices committed by the Carthaginians https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jan/21/carthaginians-sacrificed-own-children-study Deni Mataev (talk) 23:43, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  Hi!  I do not have expertise in this field, so if you do, I'll happily defer to your thoughts. The 2014 article you linked doesn't specifically mention sacrifices in the name of Baal Hamon. It does mention Cronus (who seems to be the Greek equivalent), but even then only in the words of an ancient historian, not the academic paper itself. I tracked down the academic paper [here]. They conclude there is evidence for Carthaginian child sacrifice in general and cite 2 ancient historians' specific mentions of child sacrifices to Kronos (Plato and Kleitarchos); as well as inscriptions near the tophets "specifying that something has been given, dedicated, done, vowed or offered, usually to the god Baal Hamon (sometimes with the goddess Tanit)" but only some mentioned what was sacrificed (a child). Baal Hammon isn't mentioned specifically in their conclusions though. Not sure if that's enough to keep the claim in, esp. given that there seems to be a lot of academic papers arguing about whether there was child sacrifice at all dating back to the 1960s. Again, not an expert, so just gonna leave this here as food for thought. Carla.Abra (talk) 04:10, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  Since Greco-Roman sources DO explicitly say this, the blithering moron who put the tags on should remove them. 2601:547:C000:D240:AD4B:1053:7C5A:5989 (talk) 12:35, 28 October 2020 (UTC)

text: Check Tophet#Carthage_and_the_western_Mediterranean. User:力 (power~enwiki, π, ν) 02:14, 21 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  2020 Not enough information relating to baal hamon 

message: If not, then the section that states that its name was mentioned in the Song of Solomon should be removed.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 191.111.39.109 (talk) 04:03, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is בעל חמון the same as בעל המון?
Talk:Nazi racial theories

message: Why put this in the article:
"unlike mid 19th century English race theorists, who believed they were superior to the Catholic Irish and tried to claim that Celts were less evolved as subhuman nonwhite others"
Ignoring the juvenile prose, exactly what do "mid 19th Century race theorists" have to do with Nazi racial views? And who are these "English race theorists"? English "race theorists" held a range of views although it is certainly true that the "Anglo-Saxonists" thought the Celts were inferior. But "Celts" were not just Irish -they were Welsh, Cornish, Highland Scottish. And it is one thing to say "English race theorists" thought Celts were "inferior", but to leap to "non-white" is theoretical overreach. 
How about sticking to what Hitler and the Nazis thought about Celts and leave "mid 19th Century English race theorists" out of it? Jonathan f1 (talk) 09:47, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  British section 

message: “In June 1935, Nazi politician and Reich Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick argued that "non-Aryan" should have been replaced with "Jewish" and "of foreign origin". His recommendation was rejected. Frock then commented, "'Aryan' and 'non-Aryan' are sometimes not entirely tenable... From a racial political point, it is Judaism that interests us more than anything else."
From the Racial hierarchy, Aryan: Germanic and Nordic section
I assume “Frock” is a typo of “Frick” 2A00:23C6:95CE:B401:E0E6:5C5D:9021:9D7B (talk) 16:00, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: . Typo fixed. Thanks for catching it. A. Randomdude0000 (talk) 16:11, 2 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request: typo 

message: — Assignment last updated by J2singh (talk) 04:43, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Gender, Race and Computing
Talk:Alamuchee-Bellamy Covered Bridge

message: Maybe a UWA student can get us a photo...JodyB yak, yak, yak 13:48, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo?
Talk:Rightmove

message: as it currently stands, the Controversy section reads as not having a neutral point of view; further not helped by a lack of references. It comes across to me as being a personal attack by an individual.
If we can find reliable sources to back this view up (within the next week), then by all means, keep it. Otherwise, I believe it should be permanently removed. -- Ratarsed 08:08, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The points you raise in detail are pretty much why I believe the section should be removed (which I already have done once, but it was reinstated). I thought it was best to reach a consensus first rather than risk an edit war... -- Ratarsed 11:19, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I've removed it until it can be properly sourced and conform to WP:NPOV -- Ratarsed 11:47, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversy POV 

message: I think a lot of people have a problem with this article because it seems so unbalanced. It's important to hear the positive and the negative in an encyclopedia.
Articles for Microsoft, Nike and Coca-Cola all have sections on Competitors and Criticisms, whereas it would appear Rightmove staff have done their best to delete those sections from this article under the "spam" pretense. What we end up with is a glowing whitewash that merely provides promotional figures on how they are apparently the market leader. There is no comment on the user experience or anything else relating to the merit of the site.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.232.19.118 (talk) 18:02, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Wrong, the text was removed because it failed to comply with fundamental Wikipedia policies. This is an encyclopedia; deal with it. 212.84.101.155 (talk) 00:38, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversy (not POV) and Competitors 

message: Hey there Piano non troppo,
How come the previous version of the rightmove overseas external link was allowed but the edited (working) version not?
I added the Holidaylettings link as it's part of the Rightmove group, hence I didn't consider it promotional spam, but link to a related business within the Rightmove group.(Brotherharry (talk) 11:45, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Links (not SPAM)
Talk:Gilliland-Reese Covered Bridge

message: Rated as a start class, but with the addition of inline citations and a little more detail I think it could easily be a B.  Altairisfartalk 00:16, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Rating
Talk:Cabul

message: The "two Cabuls" listed are one and the same, albeit referenced from different as well as overlapping sources.   Is it not therefore one place mentioned in two places in the bible, rather than two places?   Can they be combined so as to make clear that the regions suggested are in fact the same? Mlevitt1 (talk) 18:17, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, the article should present them as most likely to have been just one location - BobKilcoyne (talk) 05:31, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Two Cabuls?
Talk:Jason Isbell

message: The text states Isbell first played with DBT after leaving the band was in 2014.  Here is a video of Isbell with DBT in 2011.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z6brcNFJoI  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.231.177.67 (talk) 20:54, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Questionable Statement of Fact 

message: Hello, 
I uploaded a photo to Wikimedia Commons that I would like to be added on this page. I took the photo myself at a concert! 
Here is the URL: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Jason_Isbell_at_Bowery_Ballroom.JPG
Please review it and let me know what you think.
Thanks! Franzthemogul89 (talk) 01:28, 11 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo for review 

message: This article has been revised as part of a large-scale clean-up project of multiple article copyright infringement. (See the investigation subpage) Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions must be deleted. Contributors may use sources 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. Ninja Diannaa (Talk) 16:51, 31 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry to any of the Jason Isbell fans on here looking for a richer entry. Despite the fact that I used quotes and faithfully and fully cited sources, much of that content was deleted. All of my contributions on Wikipedia are being heavily scrutinized due to a misunderstanding (that I immediately fixed). Due to this problem, many of the pages I have added significant content to have been scrubbed of much of the content that made them interesting, at least to me. That said, the citations are all there so if you want more information, please definitely click through to the articles. There's not much I can do to fix this situation and I'm sorry that the fans who are looking for information on their favorite bands will have less information. -- Erika BrillLyle (talk) 05:53, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible copyright problem 

message: Was Jimbo Hart erased?  There is no mention of his enormous influence in the band.  Just replaced as bass guitar with no explanation.  Not right. 2600:1003:B03F:7FEF:E876:DAE0:A790:F575 (talk) 03:37, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Previous Unit 400 members 

message: The "current lineup" probably needs to be updated, as it is questionable whether Amanda Shires is still in the band given their pending divorce. She is not playing with the band on their current tour, but I haven't yet seen reliable source which states that. ~~~  Jameson Nightowl (talk) 06:29, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Current Lineup" needs to be updated
Talk:Eben-Ezer

message: its also one of the four parts of  the shulchan aruch  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.250.151.81 (talk) 19:21, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  No section 

message: Should this include that this place is mentioned in the hymn Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing?  I would find it useful, and it seems relevant.  According to the page on Come Thou Fount, the hymn is about the place, and it may be where most people hear the phrase, if not a Christmas Carol.
Treyofdenmark (talk) 01:18, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing Reference? 

message: The search word "Izbeth Sartah" leads automatically to this page. There are three issues here.
1. "Izbeth Sartah" is MISSPELLED. It should read "Izbet Sartah", without -th. Thousands of google hits vs. close to none are the quick proof, hundreds of academic articles the long one. So please, change the link to "Izbet Sartah".
2. Izbet Sartah is only one possible, if likely, location of Eben-Ezer, because Eben-Ezer's identification depends on that of Aphek. Eben-Ezer is indeed Izbet Sartah only if Aphek is Ras al-Ayin. (See Avraham Negev and Shimon Gibson (2001), Eben Ezer (p. 149) and Izbet Sartah (p. 250), in Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land (New York and London: Continuum, )
3. The Izbet Sartah ostracon (an Iron Age I abcedary in Proto-Canaanite script) is quite an important find, it deserves its own article, and for the time being, definitely more info right here.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Arminden (talk • contribs) 16:26, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Izbet Sartah: link, identification, importance

message: ... for Izbet Sartah. See for instance the spelling in the title of the PhD thesis of Israel Finkelstein. Arminden (talk) 18:07, 4 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Automatic link needed
Talk:All Saints Catholic Senior College

message: More required to avoid deletion Victuallers 19:30, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I attended this school 2008-2009. It is a safe and excellent school, add your opinions here. Zonedestruct (talk) 20:45, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  I was here...