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Talk:Canadian Rangers

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:Unfortunately, that's not good enough. The licence that Wikipedia gives to its users (the GFDL) does not discriminate against field of endeavour (commercial reproduction is OK).  Therefore Wikipedia cannot incorporate material licensed under a discriminatory licence, like stuff from the Forces' web site (commercial reproduction not OK). If you rewrite the article in your own words, everything will be tickity-boo. Indefatigable 14:59, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: This articles needs sources 

message: The summary section reads more like a promo essay from the organization than an encyclopedic article. I'm not able to rewrite it myself right now, but I wanted to leave this note with the hope it might prod someone else to do so. Jmbranum (talk) 02:08, 10 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Non-encylopedic tone in the "summary" section
Talk:Dongba

message: Into what language have the Dongba books been translated? Heron by the Sea (talk) 03:26, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
Talk:Liam Botham

message: Oh purlease... surely he doesn't merit a mention as a 'rugby player' on the strength of playing a couple of seasons!
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Nao* (talk • contribs)||.
:1997-2005 is more than a couple of seasons. Grinner 15:19, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:3D Space Cadet Pinball

message: I love space cadet pinball!! I still play it several hours a day.  My highest score ever is 9,105,000!  Also, I would like to see a picture of 3D Space Cadet Pinball.  This page should have a section where people post their highest scores!
:Uhh...no. This is an encylopedia entry, not a GameFAQs message board. High scores are NOT relevant. I'll try and upload a screenshot later, though. ~ Oni Lukos c 21:04, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Vest

message: This article could really use a disambiguation page, but I'm not sure how to do that. 67.54.136.95 01:17, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I found the "For the cryptographic primitive, see VEST." part quite silly. Why would the majority care about a cryptographic principle. Quite obscure. --Leladax (talk) 10:25, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Disambiguation

message: The nature and scope of the referrent of the UK word does not overlap as perfectly with that of the US word "vest" as the US word "Tank Top". For example, many US undershirts are T-shirts, and a UK vest has no sleeves.  Therefore "Tank Top" should replace "undershirt" in the lead, because the UK word implies sleevelessness, which the US word "undershirt" does not. Chrisrus (talk) 17:08, 14 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Many men wear T-shirts (including V-neck ones), instead of, what in the US, is called an A-shirt or tank top as undershirts. "Undershirt" is more a function that a name for the article of clothing. I'll rewrite a bit (and go for a more specific link) to make that more clear. oknazevad (talk) 13:33, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Excellent. But also, of the two terms, which predominates, "I-shirt" or "tank top"?  Because I personally never say "I-shrit", and I don't seem to hear it all that often in comparison to the term "tank-top".  Another one that comes to mind is "wife-beater", which I think dates back to the TV show Copss. Chrisrus (talk) 21:00, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, with both listed, it's okay as is. The technical name is "A-shirt" (from "athletic shirt"), while "tank top" (which derives from it being the upper half of early 20th C. .men's swimwear; "tank" in this case is from the archaic term "swimming tank") is commonly used, but is understood as much to refer to the outerwear version, especially on women. So, in short, "tank top" is a common nickname. It doesn't really matter too much, as it links to the proper section of the specific article, while this is really a fancy disambiguation page. oknazevad (talk) 18:02, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Tank tops and undershirts in the USA 

message: I've boldly merged information from flannel vest into this article. Northamerica1000(talk) 00:09, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger complete
Talk:Reflecting Absence

message: Does anyone know what the timeline for completion is on the memorial? Have they even started?
: I don't believe the construction of RA has started. As for its opening date, according to this, it will be in 2009. -- 08:57, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

message: This one is obvious:  The wining design name is now being used as a synonym for the memorial. patsw 03:48, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge Discussion
Talk:Music of Arunachal Pradesh

message: There should be more information on this article. Most of it is just copied and pasted from other sites.
42.106.115.86 (talk) 15:06, 11 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  More Information
Talk:Czech bluegrass

message: I think I recall seeing some eastern European home-made cold-war era instruments at the International Bluegrass Music Museum. Possibly the banjo Marko Čermak made? (I don't recall specific instruments.) Cmadler 15:59, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: In downtown Owensboro, Kentucky. Here's the IBMM website (useless).  Cmadler 17:51, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

text: Removed "cleanup tag" after going through most links and checking, relinking. Re-wrote first line, you may want to keep at that. Readers need to know what the article is about in the first sentence, it's tricky having to refer to American bluegrass, consider leaving of the "emerged in south...." as correct link is now provided. Alf 22:08, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Home-made instruments 

message: As I was linking the Czech music article to this, I realized that this one is incorrectly named, "Czech Bluegrass" should be "Czech bluegrass" (wikipedia naming convention is that unless it is a proper noun, which this is not, only the first letter of the first work should be capitalized). I don't know how to fix this. (Move content to the correct page and then make this a redirect?) Cmadler 00:39, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article title 

message: "Rangers" and "Plavci" are two names of the same band, so are "Greenhorns" and "Zelenáči". The bands were renamed because of communist regime's disapproval of the English names. (Of course, they go under their original names now.) - Mike Rosoft 20:43, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Band names

message: I am trying to get things going on the Bluegrass music article to work it up to Featured Article level. One particular thing we are looking for is the social and/or musical impact of bluegrass. For example, what social role did it play in Czechoslovakia during the Communist regime? (underground/protest music?) Has bluegrass impacted Czech popular music? etc. This kind of commentary would also make a good addition to this article. See Talk:Bluegrass music for more. Cmadler 12:08, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bluegrass social/musical impact 

message: The following sentence needs updating; 
'Most significantly, perhaps, are the metal parts produced by banjo-makers Jaroslav Průcha, Láďa Ptáček, and Pavel Krištůfek, which are used throughout the world, most notably by Gibson and other established U.S. makers.'
Gibson stopped banjo production in 2010.Dean1954 (talk) 20:43, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Outdated reference to Gibson 

message: — Assignment last updated by Bidgoodl (talk) 17:06, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Bluegrass, Old-Time and Roots Music History I
Talk:Merrie Monarch Festival

message: Added neutrality dispute tag in section referring to the line, "For Japanese people, Hula acts as an outlet and helps them forget the stresses of their everyday lives."
This is too general of a comment, as the author is not licensed to speak on behalf of all Japanese people. As an editorial comment, this must be revised and rewritten in a neutral manner. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.215.201.170 (talk) 07:30, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  01 AUG 2019
Talk:June Jones

message: Despite the early release from the Honolulu Advertiser, June Jones is still the coach at the University of Hawai'i according to later reports from himself, his agent, the University of Hawai'i, and Southern Methodist University. This article should be changed to reflect this fact until a true source is confirmed. —C A Morris (talk) 06:22, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change In Coaching Position 
Talk:Oxenholme Lake District railway station

message: My edits made on the Oxenholme Lake District, Lancaster and Preston stations were reverted. Baisically, I repelace Lancaster from the next stop bit of the Windermere line with (West Coast Main Line). This follows the format of the individual lines' pages, and indicates that although the line ends, through services move on to the other line.
At the moment, these boxes contradict the lines' pages as they suggest Lancaster is on the Windermere line; it is not. I feel that my changes would give Wikipedia more consistency. Below is the example of my box:
Robdurbar 16:02, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Line change
Talk:SPD (disambiguation)

message: SPD should redirect to the party (Social Democratic Party of Germany), as clearly the primary topic (Special:Whatlinkshere/SPD). There's a link back to here at the top of the party page. Rd232 16:13, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Looking at Special:Whatlinkshere/SPD suggests that many English-speakers do associate the abbreviation with the political party.  --R'n'B (call me Russ) 13:57, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: You mean particularly German Users who can speak and write in English. That would be the point. -- Adherent of the Enlightenment 10.0 (talk) 15:26, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  No, that's not what I mean.  --R'n'B (call me Russ) 23:29, 31 January 2010 (UTC)

text: Perhaps you're looking at it the wrong way.  WP:PRIMARYTOPIC asks whether we can identify a particular topic that is associated with a page title and is "much more likely than any other, and more likely than all the others combined" to be intended when a user searches for that title.  It is possible the German party is the primary topic for SPD not because there are more English-speakers familiar with this abbreviation than are familiar with CDU, but because there is no other common term in English using that abbreviation; while there might be other terms abbreviated CDU in English that are in more common use.  (I highlighted "common" because, obviously, there are other terms in English that can be abbreviated SPD, they just may not be used very often.) --R'n'B (call me Russ) 23:29, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: SPD
Talk:Animal Magic (TV series)

message: Am I going completely mad, or do I remember Nutkins having some kind of baby seal or sealion at one stage? It was called Gemini and after some dispute about how to pronounce the name, they even released a song about it with a refrain about, "Geminee, Geminai". I can find nothing on the web about this, but I'm sure that he looked after it as it grew, and they'd send the cameras up to--hmm, west Scotland, perhaps--to follow its progress. And then I think it was released? This is all a bit murky in my head and I can find nothing written down to confirm this, so I daren't put it into the article as fact. But does this ring bells with anyone else? Telsa 16:47, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Very, very vague bells. I'm 32, so was only 8 when AM was discontinued. But the "Geminee, Geminai" thing does ring something of a bell. 86.143.48.9 01:59, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Gemini the sealion
Talk:Meskel

message: The current wording says "[Meskel] celebrates the 4th Century discovery of the True Cross in Ethiopia". This implies the True Cross was found in Ethiopia, but I don't think this is the viewpoint of the Ethiopian Church (or any others). I think this is probably a misplaced modifier (i.e. Meskel is celebrated in Ethiopia) but I can find out for sure later. -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 16:58, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Regarding my previous comment, the festival does commemorate the same Saint Helena and her discovery of the True Cross in Jerusalem. Anyway I have re-written the article, followed by more re-writes of my re-writes. -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 06:19, 14 September 2005 (UTC)

text: Meskel isn't only an Ethiopian / Eritrean festival. It is celebrated all over the world by Orthodox and Catholics alike. According to the Gregorian calendar the feast day is September 14 and in the Julian it is September 27. --Tiqur Anbessa 20:00, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Re: "'Meskel' is Amharic for 'cross'." Is it actually an Amharic word, or does it go back further, perhaps to the Ge'ez language? The holiday is also celebrated in Eritrea, where it is called Meskel as well. Perhaps it is Amharic, but a shared word (similar to "Noel"). -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 06:19, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Mesqel is Ge'ez so this should be changed in the text. --Tiqur Anbessa 20:00, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: "Meskel:" Amharic?

message: The Chibo article is of very low importance and I think it would be better if it was included in this article rather than having one of it's own. Pixelatedbro (talk) 02:08, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, there are actually three articles to which it might be merged, since it is used during those holidays.  Only one of those is attributed to a source, though I've previously raised concerns about that source.  But I agree that this is currently a DICDEF. -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 17:36, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Chibo

message: I am assuming that Queen Helena and Queen Eleni are one and the same, but if so this should be made explicit. PurpleChez (talk) 14:41, 28 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Queen 
Talk:Argobba language

message: I added some information on the language today. I would like to expand it in the future but cannot do it at the moment. Since I am currently doing my PhD on the language I can just confirm for the time being that the language is still spoken. That is the reason why I deleted the sentence about its extinction.
Driss
:Thanks, Driss. I hope we can expect more from you in the future! — mark ✎ 18:54, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: See Adelung & Vater (1806-1817) Mithridates, vol. III, p. 120-121 for some quite early Argobba examples, including me 'Wasser', auadseh 'Mann', indáki 'Weib', anáthién 'Vater', Endentjän 'Mutter' (unaltered transcription). Adelung and Vater draw some parallels with what they call 'Haúasá in Tigre'. — mark ✎ 20:43, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Data dump
Talk:Dirk Coster

message: The original version of this article included the senatance "He was later disgraced after a torrid affair with a 35 year old society woman." It also includced several inaccurate statements (Giving Coster's nationality as British; stating that he was a chemist rather than a physiscist; saying that he lived in the 18th Cent rather than the late 19th and early 20th cents). I have not been able to verify this allegd fact, but I found no verifiabl sources other than those dealing solely with the discovery of Hafnium. This could be a fact, for all i can tell, but without a source it does not belong in the article. 
Several basic facts are still needed. Coster's birth and death dates, and any information about his career aside from the discovery of element 72. DES (talk) 17:21, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: is an unreliable source. Coster obtained his PhD in Leiden, and then spent a few years in Lund with Siegbahn, and in Copenhagen with Bohr, and was then appointed in Groningen, in the Netherlands. We need a native speaker of Dutch to fix this up, since all the relevant info is in the Dutch biography JdH 09:10, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:On War

message: A reference was removed without explanation.  It has been re-added, as it was used to add content to the article on August 23, 2005.  Per Wikipedia policy, a reference must be provided when information is "gleaned from an external souce."  As that is the case here, to remove the reference would put the article in copyright violation.  Uriah923 17:31, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference re-added 

message: The content added from the ON reference remains in this article, but the reference has been removed. This action is disputed and a conversation is ongoing here.  Uriah923 06:25, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Value of ON content and quality of reference 

message: As the title suggests, I fixed the article by adding on to it more general ideas and information about the book. Also there were couple spelling mistakes I fixed.
Xelnanga 15:48, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  General Information about Vom Krieg and Clausewitz' ideas + spelling errors. 

message: well 'The Art of War' was actually written 2400 years earlier. So for it to be 'one of the first' i think that it would at least be in ancient times instead of 19th century europe.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.63.119.116 (talk) 03:22, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  One Of the first books on war ???

message: The final paragraph: 
On the other hand, Clausewitz never saw these 20th-century states and armies--the states with which he himself was familiar were quite different. In any case, the "Clausewitzian Trinity" that Van Creveld condemns as consisting of a rigid statistic hierarchy of "People, Army, and Government," does not in fact consist of those three concrete actors. In fact, the words people, army, and government appear nowhere in the paragraph in which Clausewitz defines his famous Trinity. Rather, the Trinity of forces that drive the course of real-world war in Clausewitz's view are 1) violent emotion, 2) the interplay of chance and probability, and 3) political motive acting on reason. It seems unlikely that emotion, chance, and rationality will cease to play a role in war any time soon, whatever the fate of the state.
Doesn't list or note references and appears to be an original defense of Clausewitz's Trinity of forces. Does this originate from the Brodie text?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mouseodoom (talk • contribs) 21:44, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: The final paragraph appears to be original work about On War
Talk:Freshness date

message: Freshness dates are also used on milk and various other perishable foods. This article is a bit too beer-specific at present.
:That's kind of the point, I thought there was enough information on freshness dating that it warranted its own article.  There's already info on best before dates.  Would you rather it be at Freshness date (beer)?  For other foods the terms "best before" or "expiration date" are often used, "freshness date" and the redirects I've made such as "Born-On date" are more beer-centric.  Many people see this as an advertising gimmick by the beer companies so I thought we should provide some information on the subject.  
:And please sign your comments with four tilde's (~~~~).  Dismas 18:19, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I do normally sign my comments, not sure how I forgot. I wasn't aware of the articles on best before dates. I think the best thing would be to merge the two articles, but failing that, each should have a link to the other, IMO. DES (talk) 18:27, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I have now added such cross-links. DES (talk) 18:31, 1 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Like I said, I think there's enough info for its own article.  I found a bit more info on the net so I hope to expand it a little this coming weekend maybe... if I get the time.  Dismas 18:36, 1 September 2005 (UTC)

message: I have removed this entire section. All beer in Europe has by law to have a best before date. To include in this section every single beer brand would be an endless and frankly pointless task. SilkTork 13:05, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date codes section 

message: Freshness date is the same as Best before date. The wording Freshness date or Born on, or some other such makes no difference to the essential nature of what the words are saying. SilkTork 13:07, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge
Talk:List of tallest buildings and structures in the Birmingham Metropolitan Area, West Midlands

message: With 217,522 bytes of markup, this page is now far too big, and needs to be subdivided. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 18:03, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: 217,000 Bytes isn't so much, there's no urgency to subdivide the page when there are several pages close to or over 500,000. N1TH Music (talk) 06:36, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: This list is now at 386 KB. I think it's a bit of a problem not only for this list but also the other pages that are this big or larger. This page feels harder to navigate because there's a lot of scrolling to get to the actual lists. In the spirit of Wikipedia is not a crystal ball, I'd recommend dropping the lists of approved, proposed,  emergent, and unbuilt buildings. Likewise, I'd delete prose talking about future buildings or just listing buildings that are also on the actual list. Some of the skyline photos which only have one tall building can also be consolidated into the list or the articles on those buildings. -- Beland (talk) 21:57, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page size 

message: An explanatory footnote says that "the suburban tower blocks located across the region have been omitted from this section". Is that because they are below 35 meters high? If not, that seems rather arbitrary. -- Beland (talk) 21:58, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Omitted towers
Talk:Judiciary Act of 1789

message: I doubt the original author included the last line of the first paragraph stating that Wikipedia can't be trusted. Either way, it isn't germane to the article and should either be removed or added as a note at the bottom.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ejm634 (talk • contribs) 02:00, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Removing Anti-Wiki Slurs!

message: Is this image entirely necessary? I feel that unless a higher resolution can be shown for reading purposes, the use of such an image is lost. Absolute Zerr 00:22, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Picture of the 1st Page 

message: I've recently introduced a gallery which depicts the original Supreme Court, and despite my best efforts it renders (for me) a bit too much whitespace before the segue into the next section.  I encourage any user with technical suggestions on how to reduce this whitespace to do so and/or let me know what the hack is.  MinnesotanUser (talk) 01:44, 24 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Gallery Whitespace

message: How do U.S. District Courts get their jurisdiction from the "U.S. District" (28 U.S.C. §§ 157 and 1334), when said District is in the Union states and Congress is without authority to legislate there? Essentially, Congress manufactures jurisdiction for a "District" that is outside of Washington, D.C. in order for the "District Courts" to be Constitutional. The Constitution (Judiciary Act 1789 and G. Wash) never had the authority to create a U.S. District in the states. ovA_165443 (talk) 12:20, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Jurisdiction