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Talk:Ivan Maisky

message: Do we really need the virtually meaningless word "iconic" - practically everything these days is "iconic", with the result that absolutely nothing is!Malcolm535 (talk) 22:50, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: As the ambassador to Great Britain and prominent Soviet diplomat Maysky should be known by his most common English name.
Results of google tests:
*Ivan Maysky Web 99 hits, Scholar 3 hits, Books 9 hits;
*Ivan Maisky Web 3520 hits, Scholar 352 hits, Books 655 hits. The book reference includes Maisky's memoirs.
I think the results of google testing are definite enough to say that the established English name of the guy is Ivan Maisky.
:Alex, just so you know for future occasions, WP:RUS#People explicitly prohibits using search engine tests to determine which name is conventional (see item #4).  This, of course, does not include Google Books, but the results of the Google Books search would fall under #1 and #3 ("the person is an author of works published in English" or "the person is the subject of English-language publications").  So, to substantiate the "Maisky" spelling, a link to Maisky's memoirs would have been sufficient as it meets #1.  Sorry for being such a pain in the rear about this, but it is my intent to eventually minimize the silly unending spelling debates by putting the practice on a firm foundation.  Thanks and cheers,—Ëzhiki (Igels Hérissonovich Ïzhakoff-Amursky) • (yo?); 13:18, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maysky vs Maisky 

message: "Before the outbreak of World War II, Maisky dealt with a number of crises including intense British hostility towards the Soviets as a result of the Winter War with Finland."
The quoted sentence appears not to make sense — the beginning of WW2 (1 September 1939) was BEFORE the Winter War, which started on 30 November 1939. Moreover, the Winter War was itself a part of WW2, being a direct consequence of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, in the same way that the German-Soviet invasion of Poland was. I would propose the following corrected sentence:
"After the outbreak of World War II, Maisky dealt with a number of crises including intense British hostility towards the Soviets as a result of the Soviet military actions against Finland ("Winter War")." 88.203.176.7 (talk) 03:55, 6 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: The same is true with the reference to the 1969 Sino-Soviet war. I'm not certain what is has to do with Maisky, but it is rather peculiar that talks about Maisky's role in commissions to plan for a post-war world, and then jumps ahead in about 25 years to 1969 to talk about the Sino-Soviet war, which does not appear to have anything to do with Maisky, who was in retirement at that point. --A.S. Brown (talk) 08:41, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chronology problem 
Talk:Ivan Petrovsky

message: after the article is expanded, this nice quote could be added:
Отсюда, будучи  достаточно хорошо  знакомым со  статистикой,  я с полной  ответственностью  могу   утверждать,  что   количество  добрых  дел, сделанных  им за все время пребывания на  посту ректора, должно быть порядка 10^4
(from the book "Echelon" by Iosif Shklovsky). Translation:
Therefore, being reasonably well familiar with statistics, I can assert with full responsibility that the number of good deeds done by him during his tenure as rector should be of order 104.
Sasha (talk) 16:36, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  citation from Shklovsky
Talk:Posterior atlantoöccipital membrane

message: That shouldn't be an ö, should it? AFAIK there's no ö in latin. --Svedala Fried Chicken (talk) 08:49, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Correct. I moved all content from this page to Posterior atlantooccipital membrane and changed this site in to a redirect. --JakobSteenberg (talk) 16:01, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ö
Talk:Sphenomandibular ligament

message: The article states "The sphenomandibular ligament is most often damaged in an inferior alveolar nerve block". Does this mean
# "when an inferior alveolar nerve block is applied the sphenomandibular ligament is frequently damaged", or
#"the most common cause of damage to the sphenomandibular ligament is an inferior alveolar nerve block" 
# something else? 
This isn't just semantics; reading 1 says that "a frequent - or even almost unavoidable, by one reading of "most often" - corollary of a form of local dental anaesthesia is an unspecified amount of damage to a ligament" while reading 2 doesn't say this at all. Tonywalton Talk 23:20, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification needed for ambiguous statement
Talk:Quantum chemistry composite methods

message: I understand the recent edit that removed the term "ab initio" as that involves no parameters. There are two points to mention. First, not all composite methods involve parameters. However, the emphasis so far in this article is on ones that do. The correlation consistent composite method and the W1, W2, etc methods do not. The former are only mentioned and that mention needs expanding. The latter are not mentioned and need to be. Second, the term "ab initio" is rarely used that strictly. It is for example often used to describe DFT methods even though some of them, like B3LYP, do contain parameters. The reference to the GAUSSIAN code was, I think, added by me. It was not intended to be advertising that code. It is, as far, as I know the only code that includes G2, G3 and G4 in an automatic way, doing all the separate calculations and combining the results in a single run. Other programs can run the individual steps, but do not automates the calculations. GAMESS(US) automates only one method, G3MP2, if I recall correctly. Perhaps this is notable enough to include in a way that does not appear to be advertising. --Bduke  (Discussion) 07:25, 24 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parameters and ab initio 

message: This should also include the HEAT method (High accuracy Extrapolated Ab initio Thermochemistry).
[1] A. Tajti, P. G. Szalay, A. G. Csaszar, M. Kallay, J. Gauss, E. F. Valeev, B. A. Flowers, J. Vazquez, and J. F. Stanton. Heat: High accuracy extrapolated ab initio thermochemistry. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 121(23):11599–11613, 2004.
[2] Y. J. Bomble, J. Vazquez, M. Kallay, C. Michauk, P. G. Szalay, A. G. Csaszar, J. Gauss, and J. F. Stanton. High-accuracy extrapolated ab initio thermochemistry. ii. minor improvements to the protocol and a vital simplification. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 125(6):064108, 2006.
[3] M. E. Harding, J. Vazquez, B. Ruscic, A. K. Wilson, J. Gauss, and J. F. Stanton. High-accuracy extrapolated ab initio thermochemistry. iii. additional improvements and overview. The Journal of Chemical Physics, 128(11):114111, 2008.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hydrated Wombat (talk • contribs) 00:42, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing Methods 

message: The current order of sections/methods is rather arbitrary. What order do you think would be best, date of first paper on method, alphabetical, or what? --Bduke  (Discussion) 23:39, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Order of methods
Talk:Anterior atlantoöccipital membrane

message: That shouldn't be an ö, should it? AFAIK there's no ö in latin. --Svedala Fried Chicken (talk) 08:48, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Correct. I tried to moved it just now, but a could not do so because an redirect named atlantooccipital membrane exist. I do not have the "licens" to delete this page and THEN move it. I will copy/paste the content over to the redirect and make this article into a redirect. This will however blank the page history. If anybody have a better solution please undo my two edits. --JakobSteenberg (talk) 22:41, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ö 

message: All content have been moved to Anterior atlantooccipital membrane since Anterior atlantoöccipital membrane is a clear misspelling of title, there is no "ö" in the Latin alphabet. The page could however not be moved directly since Anterior atlantooccipital membrane used to be a redirect to this page... Hence the swapping of content --JakobSteenberg (talk) 22:48, 16 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Move of ALL content
Talk:Ivo Vojnović

message: His grandson was the noted Russian writer and dissident Vladimir Voinovich. - that is not truth. Vladimir Voinovich never said or wrote it.--Montegorn (talk) 07:55, 12 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vladimir Voinovich and Ivo Vojnović 

message: Why do some of you keep calling Vojnović Serbian? He did not have much to do with Serbia, he only visited it a few times. I hope you guys know the difference between Serb (srpsko) and Serbian (srbijansko).  Notrium (talk) 00:06, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: For the same reason Krleža is Croatian writer and not Yugoslav, even thought he lived in Yugoslavia for the biggest part of his life. Vojnović was a Serb and wrote in Serbian. Why should we have double standards? This sound horrible - was an ethnic Serb Yugoslav writer. Sadko (talk) 10:07, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:  , Krleža lived in Croatia, the geographical area, even though it was never an independent state during his life. By calling Vojnović "Serbian" you are basically calling Dubrovnik a part of Serbia. Note that even the Serbian Wikipedia does not call him Serbian (srbijanski), they call him Serb (srpski). If you do not like the word "ethnic" maybe we could come up with an alternative wording that you would like? Notrium (talk) 10:27, 15 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Serbian"
Talk:Tom Byers (athlete)

message: I don't know much about athletes, but the repeated adjective "excellent" seems to be NPOV to me. (80.121.12.61 (talk) 19:21, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV? 

message: According to the article "Former Coffman Athlete Byers hit, killed by train" from the Columbus Dispatch from Thursday, August 25, 2005, Tommy was "A regional track champion in the 800 meters as a senior" I do not know how to proerly use wiki markup to cite, or how to do a proper citation of the newspaper in the article, so I will leave the tag until someone comes along and does these things.Andrew.kintz (talk) 13:08, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation for Excellent qualifier 

message: Perhaps this is not a good way to write about career marks.  Either they have to be qualified with a meaningful point in time such as "at retirement" or some other durable reference point that is not merely a date, or simply listed as times without "n-th best".  New marks are inevitably set later that render "second best" incorrect on a regular basis.  
At this time.  The 1000m has dropped one place, second to third, and that has been the case for about 18 years, the new mark set in 2002.  The mile mark cited has also moved from seventh to eleventh in the meantime.
As of July 18, 2020
3:46.91    Alan Webb 
3:47.69    Steve Scott  
3:48.38    Bernard Lagat
3:48.83    Sydney Maree
3:49.31    Joe Falcon
3:49.80    Jim Spivey
3:50.34    Todd Harbour 
3:50.40    Steve Holman
3:50.53    Matthew Centrowitz
3:50.64    Leonel Manzano
3:50.84    Tom Byers
Jszigeti (talk) 03:42, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Describing marks as n-th best all time
Talk:Ivor Darreg

message: Just wondering, which guideline was being followed when the link to Frog Peak was removed? See edit here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ivor_Darreg&diff=243749680&oldid=242315299 Was it the guideline http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:EL "[avoid] Links to sites that primarily exist to sell products or services..."? If so then shouldn't the Frog Peak link also be removed from the References section? On the other hand, when the products for sale are the works of the article's subject, Ivor Darreg, which are not easily located (being that he is both deceased and obscure), and the single page being linked to doesn't promote any other products, isn't the URL valuable information appropriate to leave in, maybe with an advisory note next to the link? 
Also wondering, the footnote following the sentence "Frequently he [Ivor Darreg] published his writings in his own Xenharmonic Bulletin.[1]" points to John Chalmers' page on Frog Peak, perhaps because copies of Xenharmonikon are sold there, but those publication titles are different and no mention is made of Ivor Darreg as creator of, or contributor to, Xenharmonikon on John Chalmers' page, and the Xenharmonic Bulletin is not mentioned there either. Is there confusion between publication titles? Even if the external link is removed, the title issue should be cleared up and cited in this article. Does anybody have a copy of either of those publications that carries Ivor's name that they could cite? That would help. -- Another Stickler (talk) 16:43, 8 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: External links
Talk:Ivy Benson

message: Fine by me when someone edits to improve, but imo, something was lost in this removal including red link to Crissy Lee who from a UK/Europe/early female musician perspective could be worth making an article about later:  & scroll down to "Tell us about your first season with The Ivy Benson Band"  It's a first-hand description of some Benson production and training style, mentions other names in the band & arrangements; and why the band was fading.
Someone could mine it later. Cheers, Manytexts (talk) 00:44, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a nice article but I'm not sure if an article mainly about someone other than the subject meets the external links guidelines, although if an article is created on her it would certainly be relevant in the see also section. It would be worth adding it to WP:Requested articles and providing the source there. January (talk) 11:22, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: You make a good point in the strict definition of WP:EL, yet I've seen links that offer more information than included in an article at its time of development, that are left there for others to use & expand later. In this case, it wasn't meant to distract from Benson's content but to give it detail from an eye-witness if you like. It's up to future editors and afai'm aware it's okay. You might like to get another opinion if it helps the article. Manytexts (talk) 16:21, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I would consider the talk page the appropriate place to put links that are intended for future expansion since this is the collaboration area for article improvement, that's what I usually do. January (talk) 17:07, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  removed external link 
Talk:Ivy May Pearce

message: The article mentions in two places that she was 18 when she took her A-licence enabling her to take passengers. However, from  we know her A-licence and first flight with passengers took place in 1935. She was born in 1914, so how could she be 18 in 1935? Similarly there is the mention of the difficulty of finding her first passenger yet that same newspaper presents Archibishop Duhig as apparently quite enthusiastic and makes no mention of difficulties in finding a passenger. Kerry (talk) 16:23, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Age on taking A-licence
Talk:Proximal radioulnar articulation

message: I can update this page if someone feels it is appropriate. There is much that can be written regarding the proximal radioulnar joint. SteveD. 12.55 am. 3rd November 2008.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.106.18.140 (talk) 01:56, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Izrael Poznański

message: Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSmid=46785965&GRid=13378227&. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you.  Moonriddengirl (talk) 11:32, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem removed 
Talk:Distal radioulnar articulation

message: I can update this page if someone feels it is warranted. Like its proximal relation, there is much that can be written regarding the distal radioulnar joint. It is a matter of what amount of detail is wanted. SteveD. 12.55 am. 3rd November 2008.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.106.18.140 (talk) 01:57, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Lady (disambiguation)

message: I removed the following entries from this disambiguation page per MoS:DAB#Examples of individual entries that should not be created:
* My Fair Lady, a musical theater production and film
* Lady Marmalade, a 1975 #1 hit single recorded by LaBelle for the Epic Records label
* Lady Une, a fictional character in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
Removed for WP:NOT#DICT (and I am reluctant to transwiki this info to wikt:lady):
* Cocaine ("Lady" is used as slang for cocaine)
– sgeureka t•c 11:03, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:J. B. van Heutsz

message: I erased the part about the letters of Colijn since they have nothing to do with van Heutsz or even the Atjeh War as a whole. Colijn wrote those letters while he served in the Lombok Expedition. References to that can be found in 'Netherlands in Twelve Murders' by Jan Blokker, Jan Blokker Jr. and Bas Blokker. They reference to Bijvank, Brooshooft, Colijn, Cool, Fasseur etc. etc.
85.148.36.113 (talk) 18:53, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Dalbergia mammosa

message: This species has now been determined a synonym as in POWOPlants of the World Online (retrieved 8 October 2020) Roy Bateman (talk) 09:22, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge proposal
Talk:J. C. Mardrus

message: Some of the controversy of this article includes the label of Orientalism used and regarding the revisions to stories (via translation) that was done by JC Mardrus (which are unknown in terms of quantity), in order to hyper sexualize or include more homosexuality. I added a note to the talk page incase anyone wants to discuss this here. Jooojay (talk) 23:13, 20 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Controversial
Talk:Metacarpophalangeal joint

message: "... the movements of abduction and adduction are very limited, and cannot be performed when the fingers are flexed." I don't understand how the link referenced at the end of this sentence is relevant. I don't know to what "info box" the writer is referring.
If that statement is true, can provide a clear reference? If I correctly understand to what motion ab/adduction refers in the context of metacarpophalangeal joints, "very limited" is appropriate, but flexion does not even inhibit (let alone prohibit) these very limited articulations. When ab/adduction occurs with the fingers extended, the tips of the fingers are displaced farther than when ab/adduction occurs with flexed fingers, but the angular displacement (and therefore, I'd guess the non-visible metacarpophalangeal articulation) is the same.
Hopefully someone with a medical expertise can verify either the current version of the article, or what I perceive in my own hand.
PS This is my first time to comment on a talk page, so I hope I am not about to violate some formatting protocol when I click "Save page". Lanceallenhall (talk) 14:56, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The lead sentence doesn’t properly introduce this article, making it very confusing. I’m going to try to look up elsewhere and fix it. –jacobolus (t) 20:18, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks , I've tried to fix this issue. If you find this on any other articles, please feel free to leave a message on my talk page or on the talk page at WP:ANATOMY. --LT910001 (talk) 23:19, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article needs to lead by saying which joint the metacarpophalangeal joint is.
Talk:Carpometacarpal joint

message: The movements in the first CMC are sometimes described in relation to the plane of the palm, and sometimes in relation to orientation of the articular surfaces of the saddle-shaped joint.  These descriptions fail to consistently describe these movements.  In the article, I picked a reference (Thompson 2001) more or less arbitrarily.  I'm not sure if this reference represents the mainstream view in anatomy, if there is one.  Any ideas?  --Fama Clamosa (talk) 13:52, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Movements of first CMC 

message: Male and female thumb CMC joints are different in some aspects. In women, the trapezial articular surface is significantly .... radioulnar direction than the dorsovolar, female CMC joints are less globally congruent than male joints.
um, can you turn that into a party game?  Seriously, you're saying the bones of a hand are different in girls and boys.  What does  it translate to in real life?  Can girls bend their thumbs  back to their wrists  but boys can't?  or vice versa?  something about the lengths of the fingers?  sorry I'm just a little rusty on my radioulnar directions.  
OsamaBinLogin (talk) 22:12, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: occasional layman contacts with reality
Talk:J. D. Beresford

message: His father was a clergyman in Castor, now in Cambridgeshire near Peterborough. He was affected by infantile paralysis, which left him partially disabled. He was educated at Oundle
Who? JD or his father? I can't find any references to this anywhere to fix it. Wenttomowameadow (talk) 06:30, 29 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: JD was the one disabled by polio. Many sources can confirm that, though I don't know how many of them are online.--T. Anthony (talk) 04:25, 14 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusion
Talk:Dalbergia oliveri

message: Having trouble finding copyright free photos of Dalbergia oliveri.  Many examples can be found on google that are verified 'Thai Rosewood' by searching in Thai: ไม้ชิงชัน, perhaps someone could navigate those pictures to find one that qualifies to wikipedia's TOU. Quash-asia (talk) 09:27, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: This is probably fairly easily fixed - when I know which species I am photographing! Roy Bateman (talk) 04:18, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture Source 

message: Any objections?  One comment here: Roy Bateman (talk) 04:18, 11 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks like there were no objections and the merge was completed; I've removed the template. Klbrain (talk) 10:33, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Merging synonyms to this page
Talk:John Frederick Coots

message: Here, I read "Santa Claus is coming to town" was written by John Frederick Coots - period.
In the Wikipedia article on Haven Gillespie, I read the very same regarding Haven Gillespie.
None of either article mentions the other.
Apart from feeling half- if not disinformed twice (in fact, they co-wrote the song), I'd also like to know who did the lyrics and who the tune, or if both did words or music or everything together. Like one should get to know when visiting a source which requires contributions to be encyclopedical.
: 80.123.161.11 (talk) 13:59, 19 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Santa: who wrote what?
Talk:J. O. M. Roberts

message: I gave this page a thorough re-work - thought it needed a few references - sorry if I trod on anybody's toes, Pip Pip!Pafcwoody (talk) 17:05, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled