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Talk:Dane County, Wisconsin

message: *Are the political divisions of Dane County really called towns and not townships?  To a reader, seeing that Perry, Wisconsin is a town that has "a total area of 93.0 km²" could be confusing.  Minnesota's counties are divided into smaller units called townships for instance.  If this is really what they are called, I guess we have to leave it as it is.  Does anyone know for sure?  And if so, is this the standard all across Wisconsin?--Hraefen Talk 17:18, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Towns or townships?

message: A small population speaks Colognian dialect. Kdammers (talk) 05:36, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Languages 

message: Why were the municipalities removed? What does that have to do with the county template? 2600:1700:B270:20F0:1C45:FB90:9F61:7D8C (talk) 00:33, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism?
Talk:List of counties in Washington

message: How were the county codes in the map generated (like "WK" for Wahkiakum)?  Is there a standard or an algorithm?  Who did it?  (I only looked cursorily in the history, but didn't see anything).
Tx
Forkandwait (talk) 22:14, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: They are not official as far as I can tell! , how did you come up with these in Template:Washington County Labelled Map? CR for Clark seems the most unusual to me. I have replaced them with the full names. Reywas92Talk 19:07, 12 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: County Codes in the map?

message: Wondering how to edit this U.S. County Entry?
The WikiProject U.S. Counties standards might help.
No, no, no, no, no!  These counties HAVE to be in alphabetical order!  How is anyone supposed to find them?  RickK | Talk 05:06, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: It seems to me that a list of counties would be both more interesting and more useful if it had something more than the FIPS codes to offer about the counties. Such as... County seats; population at last census; area; highest point; largest city (if not same as county seat); date (or at least year) of creation/organization... --Haruo 05:21, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for your suggestion. When you feel an article needs improvement, please feel free to make those changes.  Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the Edit this page link at the top. The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold in updating pages. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes — they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use the sandbox to try out your editing skills.  New contributors are always welcome. You don't even need to log in (although there are many reasons why you might want to).   --Lukobe 06:36, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: County codes and that's it?

message: Some helpful information on U.S. county lists can be found at WP:COUNTYLISTS. Tompw (talk) (review) 16:32, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikiproject help
Talk:List of cities and counties in Virginia

message: * The 2016 supernatural horror film The Autopsy of Jane Doe is set in Grantham County, located close to the city of Richmond. 
* The Netflix drama miniseries Echoes takes place in Easton County and the county seat of Mt. Echo.
* The Playstation game series Syphon Filter has a fictional Virginia municipality by the name of Langley Virginia where the main character Gabriel Logan is from.
* The historical drama TV series The Waltons is set in Jefferson County, specifically in the fictional community of Walton's Mountain.
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Here's the current section (shown above). The 3rd bullet point is vague. 
It does not imply whether the fictional municipality is a city or town (which is important because towns can be part of counties). According to the the Syphon Filter article, the game takes place around Washington DC. I suspect that the fictional municipality called Langley is a fictionalized version of the unincorporated community of Langley, itself part of the census-designated place McLean because Langley is where the CIA is located (and therefore a metonym). Because the aformentioned entry on the list does not specify what municipality (unincorporated communities in Virginia such as CDPs are assumed to be towns or cities), this is an ambiguous case. I deleted the bullet point, but if they assumed it was a city, it might be worth putting, though that's ultimately moot if this fictional municipality is simply assuming that a real-world unincorporated community is a municipality, as some websites refer to unincorporated places like Tysons or Reston as cities or towns (both are census-designated places).
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18:19, 14 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fictional counties page 

message: Should the list of counties include a form of government column? It seems Virginia has a variety of government structures for counties that may be beneficial to list and sort here. See sources here: 
--Gimelthedog (talk) 16:26, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Form of government
Talk:Crawford County, Wisconsin

message: Reading Wikipedia entries on Wisconsin counties, it looks like Crawford was one of two original counties...but surely not in its present boundaries.   Where but Wikipedia can one learn about the history of Wisconsin counties to see how Crawford came to its current size?  I realize Michelle Obama's wardrobe is also prime encyclopedia material, but this seems like an area that's lacking...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.245.131.67 (talk) 15:17, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Feel free to add to the History section if you feel it's wanting: History of Crawford and Richland Counties, Wisconsin. Springfield, Ill.: Union Publishing Company, 1884. 32.218.46.4 (talk) 17:23, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historical
Talk:Calumet County, Wisconsin

message: It is very helpful to genealogy research if the parent county is shown, along with the (hopefully some day) page that shows all the counties in the state with their incorporation date and parent counties.
76.102.31.185 (talk) 06:22, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The parent county is shown on every city, village, and town article in the state. You just need to click "show" on the county infobox at the bottom. It is hidden because it's fairly long. There is another hidden State of Wisconsin infobox on the very bottom that lists all the counties in the state. The county incorporation date is placed in the county article, and most counties don't have it at this time. You should be helpful and place it in each article! There are only 72 counties to do in Wisconsin. Royalbroil 13:22, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Need Parent County

message: On September 11, 2017, the user 50.58.179.242 listed Appleton as the largest city in Calumet County; despite being the community with the largest population, it is mostly located in Outagamie County. However, I was unsure whether to list that or Chilton (the largest community entirely within Calumet County) as the largest city, so I included both. What would be the largest city in this regards? I am also looking to know which criteria makes a city the largest in any given region.
 TNats  3  07:44, 23 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: It may be the city having the largest population in the county, but I doubt that it has the most Calumet county residents. It's confusing and I think that the largest city shouldn't be listed. Royalbroil 03:07, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

text: I relisted Chilton as the largest city now.  TNats  3  21:25, 8 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Largest city? 

message: What a idiot... 197.245.225.245 (talk) 19:59, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Idiot...
Talk:Burnett County, Wisconsin

message: The actual county seat of Burnett County is the incorporated village of Siren, as cited by numerous sources referenced on the appropriate pages, and as listed in the table on the Wikipedia page "List of Counties in Wisconsin". Some confusion arose due to a .pdf document on the Burnett County website that is labeled "County Seat - Town Of Meenon Government Center", laid out in a fashion that makes it appear that the county seat is the "Town Of Meenon"; however, the actual address on this document confirms the location as Siren, Wisconsin. Without exception, county seats in Wisconsin are the incorporated municipalities, or unincorporated CDPs in a couple of cases, wherein the county courthouse resides; they are not the townships, which is what Meenon is. This information is further confirmed by all Rand-McNally and Google maps. Porterhse (talk) 08:23, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  County Seat
Talk:Hugh J. Schonfield

message: "A Jew who termed himself a "Nazarene," meaning that he believed Jesus Christ was the Messiah, he believed that Jesus did not found Christianity, that St. Paul did, because he was mentally ill and thought he was himself the Messiah."
This is ambiguous: Who was mentally ill and thought he was himself the Messiah?
S.
suggested rewrite:
"A Jew who termed himself a "Nazarene," meaning that he believed Jesus Christ was the Messiah. He believed that Jesus did not found Christianity, *but* St. Paul did. *Schonfield thought St. Paul* was mentally ill and believed himself *to be* the Messiah."
Janosabel 17:40, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I read somewhere (possibly in a book by Schonfield himself) that later in life, he recanted his following of Jesus.Toddsschneider (talk) 09:06, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recantation 

message: though the notability charge was justified in the form the article was in.In ictu oculi (talk) 00:17, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: As I was editing the article, I found you were editing at the same time, so I exited. Glad for what you have done to the article. Schonfield is certainly notable.Pete unseth (talk) 11:51, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Delete tag removed, as allowed following edits
Talk:Kitsch

message: I was confused to find William-Adolphe Bouguereau listed as a notable example of kitsch. There are articles out there that do claim that some of his works share characteristics similar to kitsch, but there is by no means a wide consensus on the matter, at least from what I have gathered (https://www.artrenewal.org/Article/Title/the-great-bouguereau-debate for example). I think it would be better and safer to instead include somebody like Jeff Koons, whose Banality Series was created with the intent to appear as kitsch. Maybe including Bouguereau somewhere else would be acceptable, but I think including him as a notable example is misleading. Ryzcheese (talk) 20:20, 11 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree - I'm no great fan of W-A B, but this is inappropriate. Johnbod (talk) 00:15, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

text: Bouguereau is not particularly kitsch,  Jeff Koons' works were "created with the intent to appear as kitsch". Many observers consider them kitschy, yes, however the author has always said there's no hidden meaning in his sculptures. In interviews, Jeff Koons systematically refuses the qualifier of "kitsch". He says that's first degree for him. We can mention Koons' artworks as example here, but please be exact about the statement. -- Basile Morin (talk) 00:35, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

text: I was kind of thinking myself that even Koons is not the best example, so I agree that it might be best just to leave him out altogether. Thanks for the feedback everybody.Ryzcheese (talk) 04:18, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  William-Adolphe Bouguereau as a notable example? 

message: It would seem that Kitsch takes itself seriously, and camp recognizes itself as parody. Kitsch may offer itself as an allusion to economic success or political orthodoxy; camp is a spoof of such. Kitsch pretends either to some undeniable reality beyond judgment or to esthetic greatness; camp is more of a spoof.Pbrower2a (talk) 16:02, 11 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Camp versus Kitsch
Talk:Bennington County, Vermont

message: Bennington County has at least two incorporated villages, according to the articles on Manchester (village) and North Bennington, so the footnote on the list of cities (none), towns, and villages needs to be changed.  121a0012 (talk) 03:20, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorporated villages 
Talk:Caledonia County, Vermont

message: Wondering how to edit this U.S. County Entry?
The WikiProject U.S. Counties standards might help.
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The "footnote" link at the end of the first paragraph is practically useless. I am going to delete it unless someone has other ideas. We have plenty of practical ideas in Vermont. Student7 03:06, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Chittenden County, Vermont

message: I find the phrase population was "spread out" clunky. "Distributed by age" may not be perfect, but not nearly as clunky. Student7 (talk) 12:02, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: "Spread out"

message: The 1790 census list of towns in Chittenden County also contains the towns of Franklin County, Grand Isle County, and Lamoille County. Were these counties once part of Chittenden County? Someone the Person (talk) 20:40, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There were originally a small number of counties, maybe two, in Vermont, which got split up several times over the next 30 years or so, until they reached (roughly) their current boundaries. Yes. That history should be included here, even though it is essentially the history of a good chunk of Vermont in 1790.Student7 (talk) 23:06, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

text: Just adding that the original Chittenden County also included the western parts of Orleans and Washington counties. --Polaron | Talk 21:07, 28 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Counties that may have formerly been part of Chittenden County
Talk:Heads or Tails

message: Removed:
:It is the favourite game of the boys of London and the vicinity, now, however, considerably, if not entirely, discontinued through the vigilance of the police and the severity of the magistrates.Not long ago, however, I witnessed a sad and striking scene of it at Twickenham. It was on a Sunday morning. Several boys surrounded two players, one of the latter being about 14 years of age, well dressed, and the other of about 10 years, all in tatters and shoeless. The younger urchin had a long run of good luck, whereat his antagonist exhibited much annoyance, swearing intemperately. At length, however, his luck changed in turn, and he went on winning until the former refused to play any longer, saying -- 'There, you've got back all I won from you.' The bigger boy became enraged at this refusal to continue the play, and seemed inclined to resort to fisticuff, but I interposed and put a stop to the affray. I then questioned the elder boy, and gathered from him that he played as often as he could, sometimes winning or losing from eight to ten shillings. 'And do you generally win? was my next question.' 'No, sir,' he replied, 'I oftener lose.' I shuddered to conjecture what would be the future of this boy. The word of warning I gave him was received with a shrug of the shoulder, and he walked off with the greatest unconcern.
This sort of material is inappropriate for a modern encyclopedia. I recommend that we go through and update these articles before adding more - the source is obviously old, and can't be dumped in verbatim. Critical review and editing are needed. -- April 16:35 Oct 2, 2002 (UTC)
Does anyone know why the non-heads side of a coin is called "tails"? Growing up in Australia, I had always assumed it was because the other side of the coin had an image of an animal on it - but now that I see this article and think about it, it's obvious that this is not true for many other nations' coins. So where does "tails" come from? - dmmaus 09:25, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I have added a note to this article about the origins - the British 10p coin, which is always used for this game in the UK, has a lion on the back with a big tail. However, this is only since decimalisation, so it's not certain... --taras 22:07, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  The reference to tails coming from the lion on the English ten pence has been removed as this does not reflect the true origin of the expression. Heads or Tails predates decimalisation of the Pound in the UK. Ozdaren 14:55, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

text: I think so.--Ssola (talk) 17:24, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed Material

message: Seems to me there needs to be some kind of entry / subsection on this colloquialism but I have no idea how to cite and or insert such a topic. 66.102.206.234 (talk) 02:16, 5 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about the expression "can't make heads or tails of this"?
Talk:New York divorce law

message: This page should probably have a section on proposed reforms, as well as information about the arguments for/against reform.  For instance, I seem to recall a number of women's groups being opposed to reforming the divorce law, but do not recall the specific arguments.  --8.11.254.188 (talk) 15:43, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reform Proposals 

message: The new information about no-fault divorce, at the top of the article, needs to be incorporated into the body.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.64.125.136 (talk) 22:35, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update
Talk:Hazard (game)

message: The original article, including the section removed by April, is a verbatim copy from Andrew Steinmetz's The Gaming Table. This is available on Project Gutenberg, and thus presumably out of copyright (it was written in 1870): but it's not the easiest reading. --Franey 14:11, 20 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Andrew Steinmetz 

message: I find it hard to believe that odds were paid off to the caster on his original stake if he made his chance. This would make the game quite favorable to the castor. According to http://heyerlist.org/theconvenientmarriage/hazard.html and other sources,  side bets at those odds were made, much as they are done in craps. I have made a change to reflect this. Rjljr2 (talk) 22:43, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Odds payments in Hazard 

message: I made a quick calculation of the probability of winning with each main. The calculations are very much like the standard calculation for craps. Unfortunately, I made the edits as anonymous (didn't know I wasn't logged in). Does anyone think more detail is needed? I think it is interesting that 7 is the best main. Rjljr2 (talk) 19:26, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mathematical Analysis 

message: I strongly suspect that with the French name "Hazard" and the Arabic name "Azar", the H and D are silent. It would be handy though if the article had a pronunciation guide at the start so English speakers know if the word was pronounced as an English word or a French word. Owen214 (talk) 09:35, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation
Talk:Horus

message: Ra-Horakhty has been mistranslated the real name is Hor-Ra. Hor was fused with Ra as others such as Amun were and received sun attributes from him. 
Hor absorbed a number of Gods including Er (Haroeris) to give light and truth attributes and Ur (Ophois) to give war attributes.
Akhet translates to horizon or on the horizon (in the afterlife) so that line translates as Hor who is Ra on the horizon.
The hieroglyphic name for Hathor translates to house of sky not house of Horus. The bird hieroglyph represents freedom (sky, big blue). 2A00:23C8:AB80:8001:9C0B:6767:B29E:80BD (talk) 03:11, 30 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ra-Horackhty 

message: Discussion:
The article on Horus is, at times, difficult to follow, as it tries to put disparate information together into a coherent whole, which may also mean it is including a measure of interpretations of Horus by later civilizations and also later writers. 
I suggest changing the article to show the ancient views of Horus but listed in the order of the extant texts (based on scholarly-based dating).
And so, I suggest that the article largely or primarily begins with and mentions – and include translations of – the actual source texts themselves, starting with the oldest found; and then work up to more-recent texts and interpretations (such as to those that the ancient Greeks and/or Romans had).
I for one want to understand Horus from the onset, not largely from some syncretization of any number of religions or myths. 
I'd rather see the article speak of Horus's first appearances in the texts and artifacts/artefacts. 
This method of ordering the article could help untangle the weave of later Horus interpretations, not to mention help untangle a lot of current misunderstandings (and even conspiracy theories) that seem more prevalent than actual understandings, historically, of the appearance of Horus in the ancient literature.
What expert of the textual order would love to take this on!  
Misty MH (talk) 02:32, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion: Article is at times difficult to follow: Suggest change to the order of the texts 

message: In the third paragraph of this page, there's a sentence: 
"However, Plutarch, elaborating further on the same tradition reported by the Greeks; specified that the one 'Horus'..."
There should be a coma not a semicolon. Project Apollo (talk) 20:40, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  No reason to have a semicolon  

message: Add the coptic "ϩⲟⲗ" name to the page's languages 87.221.216.165 (talk) 23:27, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Already done M.Bitton (talk) 22:04, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 9 April 2024
Talk:Fruit tree

message: How the hell do almonds and walnuts classify as fruits? They're nuts, surely!--Launchballer 11:56, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nuts?
Talk:Babadag

message: The main article picture (and also the one entitled ”Northern access road” from the gallery) is not from Babadag, Romania. They are from Babadag, Turkey (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babada%C4%9F,_Denizli)
== Name ==
Is it Babatag or Babadag? The article title reads Babatag. -- JeLuF 21:37 Oct 2, 2002 (UTC)
: It's Babadag. Bogdan | Talk 09:44, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments 

message: Is it Babatag or Babadag? The article title reads Babatag. -- JeLuF 21:37 Oct 2, 2002 (UTC)
: It's Babadag. Bogdan | Talk 09:44, 28 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name
Talk:E. O. Wilson

message: This is regarding the subsection I just re-added regarding Wilson's support of J. Philippe Rushton. 
Following up on #Comments on correspondence between Rushton and Wilson, I don't think the content added by  (and restored by ) got a fair shake. The editor who removed that has since been blocked. In my opinion, that block was the same pattern of obstructionist editing we saw on this page. I did not feel comfortable restoring it as it was, since it did have some significant issues with editorializing language. I have tried to fix those, but either way, the content should be discussed on its own merits instead of via oblique threats, wikilawyering, or similar.
As I said before using too many words, I think these newer sources are good enough to show lasting significance.  Grayfell (talk) 23:36, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rushton (again) 

message: Reference number 73 VickiMeagher (talk) 00:32, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed! Good catch. Thankfully there's an archived version there too. Generalrelative (talk) 01:20, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead link: Midland College talk