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Talk:Joanna Gosling

message: I've spent the last few days re-writing Joanna Gosling's entire page... After leaving the BBC and starting at Classic FM, it felt like the right time. The page previously contained far too much trivia around 2010, but lacked significant events covered towards the end of her BBC career. I believe this balance has now been addressed. 
With the exception of a picture (can anybody help?), I think the page is now complete... Although, any further help/input would be appreciated!   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.77.224.149 (talk) 19:08, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Re-writing of entire page

message: Just spent the last hour or so referencing as much information as I can, but I'll leave the template in place because there's still some stuff that could do with sources. For example, her education. Cheers TheRetroGuy (talk) 20:09, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, I don't recall seeing her in Supervolcano, though it's possible she could have been in it. Kirsty Wark was in an episode of Spooks the other night, and various other BBC newsreaders appear in things like Doctor Who from time to time. If she did appear in the film a reference for this would be nice. TheRetroGuy (talk) 20:18, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently she did according to this along with Anna Jones and Gwennan Edwards. TheRetroGuy (talk) 20:25, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: Interestingly there is apparently also an author named Joanna Gosling (see here) who co-wrote books related to IT back in the 1980s with titles such as Master Pagemaker, Master Ventura and Mastering Wordprocessing. Not sure how notable she is, but it could be worth a look if someone wants to do that. TheRetroGuy (talk) 22:55, 15 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another Joanna Gosling 
Talk:Lowland Clearances

message: The big problem is that this term has been used in a number of different contexts.--MacRusgail 21:01, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Er, yes - where's the big problem, then? – Agendum 20:36, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This refers to only one of them. I have heard it used to refer to the slum clearances to out of town schemes, Border estates evicting folk in the last ten years etc, as well as the historical processes that occurred around 300 years ago or more. --MacRusgail 19:54, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Although no references are cited, the Further Reading and External Links should give a good clue as to the sources of the information contained here. Both Smout and Devine are known as respected historians of Scotland and its people. Please feel free to take your doubts up with them. Agendum (talk) 11:36, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  term 

message: Do we really need to have the Gaelic for "Lowland Clearances" here?  The Lowlands are not Gaelic speaking, and we don't have Scots for "Highland Clearances" in the first line of that article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.74.84.66 (talk) 22:08, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Some of the Lowlands were Gaidhlig speaking into the modern period. "we don't have Scots" - No, you don't. You have Lallans, Doric or Lowland Scots. There are two Scots languages.--MacRusgail (talk) 15:00, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Gaelic

message: I question the importance rating of this subject ("low") under WikiProject Scotland. For comparison, Enclosure, which is essentially the same process in England is rated "mid-importance" in the three WikiProjects for that articleincluding WikiProject History. Highland clearances is variously rated (high, top and mid) with "mid-importance" under WikiProject History.
Looking at sources, T M Devine in his The Scottish Clearances points out that the Lowlands were "the part of the country where the great majority of non-urban Scottish people lived, not only today but at the time of the evictions".(page 9) Yet Wikipedia gives much higher ratings to the article on the same process in the Highlands. The whole thrust of Devine's book is that the Lowland Clearances tend to be ignored but involved more people with a greater upheaval of the social structures of rural areas (providing the population for the rapidly growing great cities of Scotland in the process). He suggests that both the Highland and Lowland clearances were the foundation of modern Scotland. He also points out that the Lowland Cottar (who was cleared in the Lowland clearances) was once between a quarter and a third of the rural Lowland population. Given arguments of this sort, it is hard to see how the rating of "low" can be justified. I wonder what was in the mind of User:Dthomsen8 when this rating was assigned? ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 20:36, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Importance rating
Talk:Robert de Visée

message: In the article it's stated that:
Rousseau  reported in a letter of 1688 that he was a respected musician at Versailles, and also played the viol (Strizich and Ledbetter 2001). 
Jean Jacques Rousseau - as linked to - wasn't born until 1712. He could not have written a letter in 1688.
:I agree; more likely Jean Rousseau the composer is meant; but would need to check the Strizich and Ledbetter article...--FeanorStar7 (talk) 12:23, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Verified; the New Grove article says Jean Rousseau NOT Jean Jacques; so I'm fairly confident of the change to Jean Rousseau.--FeanorStar7 (talk) 23:47, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Farabundo Martí

message: why the hell is the contents box after the bulk of the article?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.230.234.79 (talk) 03:52, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Light heavyweight (MMA)

message: The original light heavyweight article is directed towards the sport of boxing, not mixed martial arts.  The two weight classes pertain to two completely different sports and feature unique histories that do not in any way intertwine and are complete unrelated.  The weight classes are only similar by name; by lumping the two articles together, you create a false sense of uniformity between the classes.  In reality, there is no uniformity; for instance, there are many weight classes in boxing that are not even recognized in mainstream mixed martial arts.  We've created these articles for mixed martial arts weight classes because there was a great deal of detail given to the sport by the state athletic commissions in regard to weight classes for mixed martial arts.  This, combined with the unique history of weight classes in mixed martial arts (read Mixed martial arts weight classes for more information) should merit the creation and maintenence of articles for mixed martial arts weight classes. Wyldephang 21:03, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article merging 
Talk:Mo Dutta

message: Hi,
I couldn't help noticing the abuse on this Mo Dutta article. I have just removed a very biased line: "There is Currently a Outcry for Mo to Replace Sarah Kennedy, hopefully this will happen soon. There are 3 Facebook Groups devoted to Mo by his loyal Fans." It looks like its already been moved once, looking at the history for this page. 86.29.139.73 (talk) 20:35, 26 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Not denying it, but can we have a citation for him being "known for his dry sense of humour"?  Rojomoke (talk) 09:27, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sense of Humour
Talk:Paul Louis Courier

message: I deleted two parts that had been added by user Aristofane di bisanzio back in November 2010. The problem is that both express a personal opinion. Here is what got removed.
:This thesis is maintained in his Coversation chez Mme. la comptesse d'Albany; other examples of his deplorable atitude towards military discipline and the Bonaparte himself are in his Advice to a colonel.
:Another proof, if it was needed, that Sainte-Beuve didn't understand anythig about literature.
-- KarlHallowell (talk) 02:40, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aristofane di bisanzio's comments
Talk:Fran Godfrey

message: Wikipedia is a serious, factual encyclopedia. I am sincerely doubtful that Ms Godfrey is not 90 next year; please can posts be kept sensible, please. I will remove it, unless anyone has proof of her age, and is prepared to back it up with hard evidence.--Jonfun 16:56, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As all good TOGs know, on her age, Fran will only say she is 'the wrong side of 40'. This means that anyone adding a year of birth to this article is probably doing so without knowing whether it is factual or not - and I doubt Fran would add one herself. 81.156.156.29 (talk) 20:04, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Someone has added her year of birth as 1953. To my knowledge Fran has never revealed her age, but in case it is correct I've left it in and requested a reference. TheRetroGuy (talk) 13:21, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Feasibility of Article 

message: I've had a go at tidying this up a bit, and adding the Sir Terry quotes as references. I think this article will need some more work doing to it though. TheRetroGuy (talk) 11:23, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  My recent edits 

message: Someone just changed this today , but I seem to remember it being "I'm in love with Fran Godfrey" rather than "I've fallen in love with Fran Godfrey". Listeners could have used both I suppose. TheRetroGuy (talk) 21:31, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fran poetry 

message: Moved to talk, any relevance? RJFJR (talk) 15:28, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Not as a section on her WUTW colleagues, but I suppose it could be included in a See also section. TheRetroGuy (talk) 19:53, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Companions

message: While I'm here, why is her BBC biography given as a reference for her date of birth? It says nothing about this. I know it occurrs at the end of June as it's often been mentioned on air by presenters if she's presenting bulletins on her birthday, but a year has never been given. TheRetroGuy (talk) 19:57, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of birth
Talk:Bantamweight (MMA)

message: The original bantamweight article is directed towards the sport of boxing, not mixed martial arts.  The two weight classes pertain to two completely different sports and feature unique histories that do not in any way intertwine and are complete unrelated.  The weight classes are only similar by name; by lumping the two articles together, you create a false sense of uniformity between the classes.  In reality, there is no uniformity; for instance, there are many weight classes in boxing that are not even recognized in mainstream mixed martial arts.  We've created these articles for mixed martial arts weight classes because there was a great deal of detail given to the sport by the state athletic commissions in regard to weight classes for mixed martial arts.  This, combined with the unique history of weight classes in mixed martial arts (read Mixed martial arts weight classes for more information) should merit the creation and maintenence of articles for mixed martial arts weight classes. Wyldephang 21:05, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article merging 
Talk:Denis Lambin

message: Renaissance_humanism#cite_ref-13 mentions a Denys Lambin, not linked here but probably is the same person. 
#Is this the same person & wikilinkable? If so...
#Are there sources for each spelling and birth year? The latter pair might be influenced by the calendar changes, if I got my time timeline right. 
#Please consider standardizing across the two articles which is the primary name/year and which should only be added in parentheses after the main name only on this page. 
BTW, there's a lovely quote by Erasmus soon after that concerning Christ and Epicurianism—lovely in my American-Presbyterian opinion. I smiled, gently. 
Sorry I can't do more than point this out due to real-life limitations, Geekdiva (talk) 04:39, 30 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Denis or Denys, born 1520 or 1519?
Talk:Featherweight (MMA)

message: The original featherweight article is directed towards the sport of boxing, not mixed martial arts.  The two weight classes pertain to two completely different sports and feature unique histories that do not in any way intertwine and are complete unrelated.  The weight classes are only similar by name; by lumping the two articles together, you create a false sense of uniformity between the classes.  In reality, there is no uniformity; for instance, there are many weight classes in boxing that are not even recognized in mainstream mixed martial arts.  We've created these articles for mixed martial arts weight classes because there was a great deal of detail given to the sport by the state athletic commissions in regard to weight classes for mixed martial arts.  This, combined with the unique history of weight classes in mixed martial arts (read Mixed martial arts weight classes for more information) should merit the creation and maintenence of articles for mixed martial arts weight classes. Wyldephang 21:05, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article merging 
Talk:Claude Capperonnier

message: Some suggestions for improvement as the article is expanded:
*Appropriate infobox should be added 
*Portrait should be added from a source with a free license, if available; other possible graphics would include cover images from his works
*Any further biographical information should be incorporated, eg details of death
*Article needs expanding and should emphasise reasons for notability of subject
*After expansion, article should be divided into appropriate subheadings
*Information on works should be expanded
*References should be expanded and preferably converted to inline format
*External links to useful online resources should be added if available
Espresso Addict 00:26, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Review comments
Talk:Fernando Sáenz Lacalle

message: The formatting of the article appeared odd and irregular on Dec. 30, 2008.  Perhaps text was inserted into a pre-fab text box because there is a lot of odd spacing, different fonts, and a dash-line border that appear on this article that do not appear on other Wikipedia articles, but I don't know how to fix it.  Carlos_X (talk) 16:57, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: This article is funky!
Talk:Lightweight (MMA)

message: The original lightweight article is directed towards the striking sports of boxing and kickboxing, not mixed martial arts.  The weight classes pertain to completely different sports and feature unique histories that do not in any way intertwine and are complete unrelated.  The weight classes are only similar by name; by lumping the articles together, you create a false sense of uniformity between the classes.  In reality, there is no uniformity; for instance, there are many weight classes in boxing that are not even recognized in mainstream mixed martial arts.  We've created these articles for mixed martial arts weight classes because there was a great deal of detail given to the sport by the state athletic commissions in regard to weight classes for mixed martial arts.  This, combined with the unique history of weight classes in mixed martial arts (read Mixed martial arts weight classes for more information) should merit the creation and maintenence of articles for mixed martial arts weight classes. Wyldephang 21:07, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article merging 
Talk:Évariste Régis Huc

message: Are there any coordinates for Hei Shui that Huc and Gabet reached and where they stayed on their mission between Beijing and Tibet? Or a map of their journey? 
All iwiki articles bluntly state it was Mongolia, but there are doubts if it was, and/or is, Mongolia proper. 
I ask this because Hei Shui is a name of a number of places, but mostly it was applied to the river Amur. This may mean that they may have crossed into what is now either Heilongjiang province, or even Priamurye in nowadays Russia. 
The weak point of this thinking is they both are way farther than 500 km north from Beijing. This does not solve the riddle of Hei Shui, as proper Mongolian territory closest to this distance does not seem to have places that can be called this way.
Another question is, the language Huc studied there. Since we may be sure it was not what we consider Tatar language these days, are there any clues for which language he learned to speak, if we use modern terminology? --Tar-ba-gan (talk) 23:31, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There's a map showing the route taken by Huc and Gabet at http://www.jeanguillemot.com/En/offres/Expedition_Evariste_Huc.htm Opbeith (talk) 15:59, 16 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hei Shui 

message: Evariste Huc is one of the subjects of a Dunhuang Project editathon at the British Library from 22-26 October 2012. Opbeith (talk) 15:23, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dunhuang Project Editathon 

message: is off topic. The lead section had these references
* .
* ; reprinted by Asian Educational Services, 1999, .
but (a) references don't go in the lead section and (b) these references have nothing whatsoever to do with the topic of this article or the claim that needs to be supported (that Huc was the first European since Manning in Lhasa, not that Manning ever went there). I mention it here to explain the removal of sources (usually a bad thing) and to provide the formatting if someone wanted to copy them to Manning's article, where they would be useful. — LlywelynII 02:20, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Manning

message: certainly looks like it could be Jiajing but (a)the Jiajing Emperor of the Ming reigned when Europeans were first arriving in southern China and before the missionaries were even established at Macao and (b)the original French version of the text makes clear that the persecutions of the Jiaqing Emperor of the Qing are intended, giving his regnal dates. — LlywelynII 20:35, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Kia-king
Talk:Welterweight (MMA)

message: The weight classes are only similar by name; by lumping the two articles together, you create a false sense of uniformity between the classes.  In reality, there is no uniformity; for instance, there are many weight classes in boxing that are not even recognized in mainstream mixed martial arts.  We've created these articles for mixed martial arts weight classes because there was a great deal of detail given to the sport by the state athletic commissions in regard to weight classes for mixed martial arts.  This, combined with the unique history of weight classes in mixed martial arts (read Mixed martial arts weight classes for more information) should merit the creation and maintenence of articles for mixed martial arts weight classes. Wyldephang 21:08, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the flip side to the argument is that the term welterweight within MMA is comparable only by name as well, since PRIDE, UFC, Shooto, etc. all have their own view on what welterweight is. The Welterweight article is moving along to expand to not just boxing, but MMA is the only sport which has its own article and I don't see a good reason for that right now. Generally, I think the weight class articles need some good looking over and needs a reorganization, and scope needs to expand beyond boxing, so that MMA doesn't feel it needs its own set of weight class articles. hateless 22:51, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article merging
Talk:Bleemcast!

message: Just to get this straight.  That is not the even the final Bleem! RIP image that was put on the Bleem! website.  The final one is just the tomb alone, no Sonic.
At least have the courtesy to get your documentation chronoligically correct.  As someone that actually had the nerve to document numerous events of emulation in 2001 I should know.  My website is more useful then even I thought long ago.  By December 23, 2001 they changed it to this:
Final Bleem RIP image
--EMU-LMAO (talk) 04:33, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong final Bleem! image used. 

message: So near the end of the article it makes a rather crazy claim that all three bleemcast! games were finally cracked in 2009, a whole 8 years later.  Yet, as far back as 2001 their was a blatent ISO made available of bleem! for Gran Turismo 2.  That was like only four months later.
So when did the full extent of this research for this article actually happen?--EMU-LMAO (talk) 01:08, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  I don't get it.
Talk:Luc d'Achery

message: This article should be moved to Luc d'Achery (i.e. "e" instead of "é"). The lastname Achery is derived from the equally named village in France whereas the "e" is not pronounced and consequently whereas this "e" is to written without accent. In the French literature the name is also given without accent. Take for example one of the scientific papers by Jeannine Fohlen: Dom Luc d'Achery (1609-1685) et les débuts de l'érudition mauriste, Revue Mabillon, volume 55 (1965), pp. 149-175. --AFBorchert 21:41, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The article has now been moved as proposed. --AFBorchert 13:58, 23 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Luc d'Achery
Talk:Middleweight (MMA)

message: The original middleweight article is directed towards the sport of boxing, not mixed martial arts.  The two weight classes pertain to two completely different sports and feature unique histories that do not in any way intertwine and are complete unrelated.  The weight classes are only similar by name; by lumping the two articles together, you create a false sense of uniformity between the classes.  In reality, there is no uniformity; for instance, there are many weight classes in boxing that are not even recognized in mainstream mixed martial arts.  We've created these articles for mixed martial arts weight classes because there was a great deal of detail given to the sport by the state athletic commissions in regard to weight classes for mixed martial arts.  This, combined with the unique history of weight classes in mixed martial arts (read Mixed martial arts weight classes for more information) should merit the creation and maintenence of articles for mixed martial arts weight classes. Wyldephang 21:09, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article merging 

message: I think you need to use some moderation when you're adding names to the list.  Make sure the titles are accurate, too.  Murilo Bustamante a "current" PRIDE contender?  He hasn't contended for a title since Shockwave 2005, and his next fight is in DEEP; it's arguably that Bustamante isn't even a PRIDE fighter right now.  Use some discretion when you start piling names onto the list, and really think about who is a noteable middleweight – that is exactly why we have the list, in the first place.  You might have a lot of favorites who are not necessarily noteable.  That's okay.  I have a lot of favorites that aren't on the list.  But where do you draw the line?  If you don't have any sense of discrepancy for the list, we could wind up having hundreds and hundreds and a list of every contender for every middleweight champion in every organization.  Just keep it somewhat in check; the point to having an article is to make sure it's readable. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.71.161.219 (talk) 17:55, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who deserves mentioning? 
Talk:ATHF Marketing Scandal

message: This article is clearly redundant and unnecessary. The above article is better sourced and better written. This one has no purpose. Xuanwu 21:14, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There is already a seperate article. Its up there ^ or down here: 2007_Boston_magnetic_light_scare. Work on that one or add to the ATHF one. Gdo01 21:20, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prodded