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Talk:Joseph Medill

message: I dispute the statement
: Medill was a racist who opposed slavery. In one editorial, Medill espoused putting strychnine or arsenic in the food of unemployed citizens.
on grounds that: 
# The term racist is POV.  Being part of an encyclopedia, this article should include factual information about Medill's views, and the reader left to form his or her conclusions.  
# The claim that Medill espoused poisoning vagrants is an old chestnut that never seems to die, and which is based on distortions made by enemies of Medill and the Chicago Tribune. The facts pertinent to both sides of this claim should either be backed up with factual data, or the statement removed altogether. 
The claim is based on an item that did appear in the Chicago Tribune during the 1880s as reply to a correspondent, wherein a Tribune reporter made what was a wholly improper "suggestion" about means to solve residents' problems with vagrants.  Detractors of the Tribune have claimed that it was editorial policy, while the paper's supporters have asserted that editorial policy was always clearly labeled as such, and the item in question was not.
I am probably in a good position to document the incident and rewrite the piece with NPOV, but for now I'm flagging the article, lest anyone not familiar with the indident assume the statement to be neutral and factual.
: — JonRoma 21:02, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV and accuracy disputed 

message: :Kate married diplomat Robert Sanderson McCormick. He was the nephew of Cyrus McCormick, founder of the Chicago Times and Medill's long-time adversary.
Hard to tell where this comes from, since there are no citations. But my sources all say Cyrus ran a company building farm machinery that became International Harvester. Should be fixed. W Nowicki (talk) 00:46, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: McCormick connection
Talk:San Mauro Torinese

message: As far as I can see, five languages now have a page on San Mauro Torinese. I've synchronised the English and German pages - there wasn't an English page, and updated all inter-language links. If anyone with any Italian is looking for something to do, there's a lot of information at The Italian Wikipedia that could be translated. Terrafire 21:05, 1 January 2006 (UTC)

message: Araldicacivica.it has an higher resolution version of the Coat of Arms here reproduced, and according to WP:ITALY it is fair use to upload it. Should it be changed?
---roroke (talk) 16:32, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updated coat of arms?
Talk:Slhanay

message: The picture in the mountainbox will do for now, but it hardly does the Squaw justice. It is dark and does not have the Squaw centred in the frame. I will try to get a better picture sometime this year when I am in Squamish. Otherwise, please upload a better picture if you have one.
Psi4ce 21:10, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Wiz 'n' Liz

message: The Amiga version also has bonus items which add time to the time limit, and wabbits that explode if they are not collected within a certain time. Do you have a reference to the Mega Drive version specifically having these as new features? — JIP | Talk 21:22, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The features you describe do in fact exist in the Genesis/Megadrive version. Nifboy 21:20, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Cutler Bay, Florida

message: I have moved the History section to this talk page until references are supplied
 per the Wikipedia Verifiability Policy. -- Dalbury(Talk) 21:22, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 
Talk:A Fish Called Raven

message: This page does not need to be deleated anymore since it has been edited to look like the others. Tcatron565
* The issue of deletion (or merge) is not about format, but about whether individual episodes of a U.S. cable television show are notable enough to merit their own articles. | Klaw ¡digame! 21:27, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Durendal

message: Just curious, why was my addition deleted? It contained information that was clearly relevant to the subsection it was posted under, and not at all dissimilar to the other information in that subsection. The deletion seems arbitrary.
I moved all outside references to the disambiguation page except for the Marathon one. I'll move that too.--Cuchullain 22:15, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Several years ago I made many contributions to Wikipedia.
These days I would not dare to edit an article anymore.
Francly, got a bit disgusted about the athmosphere here.
So, I'm writing it here, instead of in the article.
If you speak or understand several of Europe's languages, like French, Dutch and German,
it is plain:
DURENDal simply, and unambiguisly means: "Lasts forever"�
(Sorry, but forgot were to find the "Tildes" on an Apple-AZERTY-keybord to sign off)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.245.39.158 (talk) 01:08, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  About the name 

message: I had a good laugh when I read this section:
»According to the Song of Roland, the sword is brought by an angel to Charlemagne, who gives it to Roland. According to Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso it once belonged to Hector of Troy, and was given to Roland by Malagigi (Maugris). This is questionable, given that the swords of Hector's time were made of bronze.«
Anyone else deems this to be funnier than it ought to be? =D
77.184.71.238 (talk) 12:18, 9 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  so .this. is questionable? 

message: I tracked it down on Google Books, and the actual volume with the referenced information is labeled as "For the Years 1904 - 1905 - 1906" and was published in 1907.  I'm not sure how the entry should read.  "Proceedings of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia (1907)", or "Proceedings of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia (1904-1905-1906)"?
Although it might be better to specify the particular versions, such as the Karlamagnus Saga, that attribute Durandal to Wayland.
192.4.0.12 (talk) 18:12, 2 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proceedings of the Numismatic and Antiquarian Society of Philadelphia reference 

message: I can't seem to find it stated in La Chanson de Roland that Durendal is the sharpest of all, or sharper than any other, or is of sharpness beyond peer. Therefore I tagged this with .
In my jottings I do find that Durendal "was a sword whose worth surpassed all others, bright and shiny, sharp..." according to Grandes Chroniques de France, Bk 4, tr. Robert Levine.--Kiyoweap (talk) 01:04, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sharpest in all existence
Talk:Accidental death and dismemberment insurance

message: Could someone please provide a source for this statement?  Until now, I have never heard of AD&D being an abrivation for 'accidental death and dismemberment,' and I for one would be very interested in seeing if there is any backing behind this. Avador 21:33, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nevermind, I have researched the issue and decided to create a disambiguation page on AD&D to avoid the obvious confusion between the two meanings. Avador 21:49, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Source required

message: In 1884, German Reichstag allowed a bill for an accidental death and dismemberment insurance (Unfallversicherung).
Ureawvgwe (talk) 11:37, 23 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  History
Talk:European studies

message: I was wondering if perhaps trying to make the list of universities offering the course, or removing said list completely if it finding all the establishments teaching it is impossible. Keeping it as it is right now sounds a bit biased. Ordie 17:02, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm removing it again. Montessquieu (talk) 09:17, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
Talk:Waist Deep in the Big Muddy

message: I have moved the following sentence from the article to the talk page:
:In this song Seeger says that all of the generals in the Vietnam War are making the wrong decisions in battle.
Although the whole stub is unsourced, the rest of the piece seems uncontroversial, while this sentence seems dubious to me.  Feel free to add it back into the article with a reference.  --Allen 21:37, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That makes sense, since "the big fool" is a clear reference to the president.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Brittany Ka (talk) • contribs) 21:49, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no criticism of generals, as such, but of a specific "big fool".  The obvious target when the song was written was Johnson.  Of course Seeger sang the song in public in the 1990's, aiming at another president.  This should perhaps be referred to.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.197.15.138 (talk) 04:01, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Generals?

message: There is a song by Bruce Springsteen called "The Big Muddy" from the 1992 album "Lucky Town". Chorus says 
"Waist deep in the big muddy 
Waist deep in the big muddy 
You start out standing but end up crawlin'"
The song is not directly related to the Vietnam War (here is a link to the lyrics), but it could defenitely be that the Boss had his inspiration from Seeger's song. Maybe a reference to tis could be added.
--Pippotro 11:47, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Bruce Springsteen's song
Talk:Lower Silesia

message: would someone be so kind and speak out to whether my version of the article is better or the other one.Jadran91 (talk) 21:49, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Dear Jadran, simply, you added towns from Lusatia, not from Silesia. Both countries are different. Does you have proof of opposite? If yes, of course, add these Lusatian towns. As I understand, you probably by error confuse Prussian province of Lower Silesia and country Lower Silesia. --Yopie (talk) 16:56, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Historically the county of Glatz/Kladsko/Klotzko was part of Bohemia and not of Silesia, why wasn't Kłodzko deleted too? Karasek (talk) 17:47, 25 August 2009 (UTC)

text: *Did you have proof of this? I´m sure not and your POV is subjective original research.--Yopie (talk) 17:23, 31 August 2009 (UTC)

text: * Read WP:RS and WP:OR first. CoA of region isn't proof and because in CoA is Bohemian lion, I can assume with your logic, that region is in Bohemia.Czech republic have in CoA Silesian eagle and isn't in Silesia or whole Silesia isn't in CR. BTW you are in edit war and next time you will be reported.--Yopie (talk) 10:46, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Which version is better 

message: The question that is asked here concernes logical thinking. We all agree that the cities of Gorlitz&Zgorzelec are part of a historical region of Lusatia and precisely Upper Lusatia.
We all must agree that historical regions have some borders and when one historical region ends another one begins.
As the laws of logic say when a is a it cannot be b in the same time. The question is than is it possible for a town to lie both in two historical regions? Can both: Gorlitz&Zgorzelec be in Upper Lusatia and in Lower Silesia in the same time? It could be so only if Upper Lusatia would be a subregion of Lower Silesia but we all know that historical region of Lusatia was never part of a historical region of Silesia and historical region of Silesia was never part of a historical region of Lusatia. They were for some part of the history under the same rule but that connects them in a same way as Tuscany is connected with Liguria.
We need to decide something. If we agree that Gorlitz&Zgorzelec lie in Lower Silesia than they can't lie in Upper Lusatia in the same time, can they? If we decide opposite the conclusion also must be opposite. That is becouse towns can lie only in one historical region in the same time. 213.238.108.89 (talk) 17:47, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: As the laws of logic say when a is a it cannot be b in the same time.  You should perhaps review the laws of logic again.  john k (talk) 03:01, 9 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lower Silesia/Lusatia 

message: Is the image of the map shared correctly? It defines the lower Silesia as bright orange but is that correct? I remember Wrocław being in Upper Silesia. 2A02:1811:3611:9200:ED95:7D59:9C75:33DA (talk) 13:55, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image Upper and Lower Silesia
Talk:Septimal meantone temperament

message: If this is "septimal meantone", then what do you call the linear temperament with a generator of a narrow fourth or wide fifth, so the minor third approximates 7/6 and the major third approximates 9/7? Would that be called "reverse meantone"? —Keenan Pepper 21:48, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wouldn't that be a type of schismatic temperament? — Gwalla | Talk 05:23, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well in this case it would be tempering the septimal comma 64:63 to a unison, not tempering out a schisma.  'Meantone' would not quite be the right term unless the fifth was widened just enough to make 9:7 pure, leaving a wide mean tone halfway between 9:8 and 8:7.  69.7.77.20 (talk) 21:39, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Manuel Montt

message: I have read his date of birth as 4, 5, 7, or 8 of September 1809, and his date of death as 20 September 1880 or March 1881. Does anyone know which are right? Oswax 22:00, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Life Dates
Talk:The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism

message: I wrote a new summary of the essay, to replace the "table of contents" that was here before. Feel free to improve it (I'm leaving the "stub" tag for now).
The essay itself does not seem to have any section headings, so I think the "contents" listing was created by the website referenced at the bottom of the page. It wasn't particularly informative on its own, so I removed it. -Rbean 22:03, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Is it just me going nuts, or does not this article entirely contradict the Weber thesis that "protestantism" (per Weber definition) gave rise to capitalism? Rursus 21:55, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Essay
Talk:Jo Ann Pflug

message: user:24.170.132.130 keeps changing her birth year to 1940, from 1947.  IMDB is usually reliable and it has her birth year as 1947.   The NY Times also lists her birth year as 1947 http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/filmography.html?p_id=56472 . I don't know if he/she is a vandal or thinks that he/she has information to the contrary  --rogerd 22:13, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a conundrum. Now IMDB says she was born in 1940. However astrocharts.com says 1940 and astro-theme.com says 1947. These are trying times. 68.38.28.86 (talk) 04:03, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: To make matters worse, the NY Times link now says, “Page Not Found” 68.38.28.86 (talk) 04:04, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: She was a high school senior in 1958, so born in 1940. Nicmart (talk) 04:16, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Her birth date is not given in the (brief) biography section of her website (which is not defunct but available at the Wayback Machine). Altho it also gives no other pre-career info, it's reasonable to assume that it's not necessarily something she wants published. Given that, and that after all it is disputed, we should definitely not publish it. Herostratus (talk) 03:55, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, . Thank you for adding that comment. Eddie Blick (talk) 01:48, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jo Ann Pflug birthdate 

message: The entry says, Pflug was the "first woman to have a live weekly TV talk show in the late 1960s in Los Angeles, on KHJ-TV.” Evidence? Nicmart (talk) 04:23, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Talk show 

message: Mention she was a Christian on Johnny Carson show and Chuck was a blind date and Christian too and their spiritual connection is what made relationship so special 2603:6081:3C40:8B:2C56:4A5:1E66:B08F (talk) 00:44, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Christian
Talk:Albert Ayler

message: What is the origin of his surname? Badagnani (talk) 18:09, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Surname

message: From whence did Ayler's ancestors come before they lived in Cleveland? I assume somewhere in the American South. Badagnani (talk) 18:09, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Origin of his family

message: This is a very poor description of Ayler's music. Can we remove it from the opening paragraph?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.43.136.60 (talk) 11:09, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naked aggression 

message: Anton Mikofsky 207.237.105.111 (talk) 08:16, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Live performances including Slugs in NYC 

message: Anton Mikofsky 207.237.105.111 (talk) 08:21, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  add to musicians influenced by him 

message: Didn't Albert Ayler have at least one child (a son, named Curtis Roundtree)? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 01:46, 4 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Whether or not, two criteria should be met before including this in the article: Wikipedia:Verifiability and Wikipedia:WEIGHT. ---Sluzzelin talk 01:03, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Children
Talk:Heptaméron

message: The following was sent to the HelpDesk-l mailing list by Prof. Randolph P. Runyon of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio 
<runyonr@muohio.edu>
I'm not sure if I have the time or knowledge to do anything about it myself but did not want it to disappear
DickSummerfield 22:24, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Keebler Company

message: These crackers were the best I'm very disappointed they were discontinued 2601:4A:8200:6B70:3132:D5D2:3F32:F7D9 (talk) 13:56, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tuscan cheese 

message: Plan on company? Don't plan on Flipsides. Tastes great !,unfortunately,over 50% of product is damaged. Packaging solutions is in order. Heads Up... Mark 2600:1004:B097:104B:52F:D3AC:8E4F:5E97 (talk) 01:53, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flipsides 

message: I purchased this product yesterday not only does the picture in the bag deceive the cookies appearance. But the cookies themselves are just gawdawful . 24.146.168.141 (talk) 17:41, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Keebler Ginger Snaps 

message: What happened to the P&J crackers go 2603:7080:EB39:8E3F:1165:6F38:C276:25B4 (talk) 19:32, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disappeared  

message: Very upset you change them they use to melt in your mouth the filling is to greasy tasting now use to be my favorite won’t buy again not impressed with new taste 108.28.168.196 (talk) 15:58, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Viana finger cookies 

message: Where are they 100.1.239.67 (talk) 10:47, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oatmeal raisin cookies?
Talk:Miss Wyoming USA

message: Megan Starr Wigert 1998 finished Top 15.  Can you please update results in the results grid 2600:387:A:7:0:0:0:59 (talk) 22:39, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. —Sirdog (talk) 22:51, 20 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 20 May 2022
Talk:Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa

message: who are the founding states of COMESA? Dates of joining of the others? Alinor 22:36, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: In the preamble Libya is said to have joined COMESA in 2006 where in the list further below the date is 2005
:I don't think this is a contradiction. As I read it, Libya joined COMESA in 2005, but didn't join the COMESA Free Trade Area (which is not the same thing) until 2006. (For example, the Comoros joined COMESA in 1981, but also didn't join the FTA until 2006.) I will remove the 'self-contradict' tag. Terraxos (talk) 01:47, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Contradiction in Libya's Joining Date

message: :The following article:  makes it clear that South Sudan in fact did not join COMESA back in 2016 like was initially thought. This is despite articles dating from the time period (such as the following ) claiming that it had. Instead, it seems that what actually happened is that from May 2016 South Sudan started participating in some of the schemes/projects set up by COMESA without actually obtaining membership in the organisation. The situation is similar to that between Turkey and the EU, Turkey participates in some aspects of the EU (namely it is part of the EU customs union), but it is not a member of the EU. - Wiz9999 (talk) 02:29, 29 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  South Sudan 2019, not part of COMESA
Talk:Miss Arkansas USA

message: If anyone can confirm whether or not the Susie Owens linked here was in fact Miss AR USA it would be great! CarlyPalmer 00:32, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: In the paragraph about Stephanie Barber, change "a native of Dallas, TX" to "from Fayetteville, AR."  Stephanie lived in Dallas for several years (she was actually born in Austin), but she has lived in Fayetteville for the past 4 years.
Also, change the picture associated with this article of the 2007 winner to the attached photo of Stephanie, with a caption reading "Stephanie Barber, Miss Arkansas USA 2021"
 CopperCanyonFred (talk) 13:53, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. ― Qwerfjkl | 𝕋𝔸𝕃𝕂  (please use  on reply) 14:40, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 30 May 2021 
Talk:National Comics Publications, Inc. v. Fawcett Publications, Inc.

message: In order to uphold the quality of Wikipedia:Good articles, all articles listed as Good articles are being reviewed against the GA criteria as part of the GA project quality task force. Unfortunately, as of 
September 20, 
2007, this article fails to satisfy the criteria, as detailed below. For that reason, the article has been delisted from WP:GA. However, if improvements are made bringing the article up to standards, the article may be nominated at WP:GAC. If you feel this decision has been made in error, you may seek remediation at WP:GA/R. 
 Ruslik 08:51, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: GA Review &mdash; delisted

message: This article needs the B-Class checklist filled in to remain a B-Class article for the Comics WikiProject.  If the checklist is not filled in by 7th August this article will be re-assessed as C-Class.  The checklist should be filled out referencing the guidance given at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment/B-Class criteria. For further details please contact the Comics WikiProject.  Comics-awb (talk) 17:09, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: WikiProject Comics B-Class Assesment required

message: As this B-Class article has yet to receive a review, it has been rated as C-Class. If you disagree and would like to request an assesment, please visit Wikipedia:WikiProject_Comics/Assessment#Requesting_an_assessment and list the article. Hiding T  16:35, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: C-Class rated for Comics Project
Talk:Hurricane Gladys (1968)

message: Good content.  All that's really needed is a better intro. Jdorje 07:53, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Todo

message: References, impact pictures, better wikification maybe, more structure. Jdorje 17:14, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Todo2
Talk:List of mayors of Manchester, New Hampshire

message: This is a completely new Article. I hope expand the list of Manchester's mayors back to 1846 in the near future, but this is a start. Nhprman 22:51, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Great start, it's already more extensive than many other lists of mayors. -- User:Docu
Thank you! I appreciate the feedback. Nhprman 15:49, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled