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Talk:Vladimir Ivanov (politician, born 1893)

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: moved. Consensus met already. Disambiguating to the primary topic Vladimir Ivanov (non-admin closure) Safari ScribeEdits! Talk! 09:56, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 2 April 2024
Talk:Xueyantuo

message: After some further checking -- are you using a newer version of Bo's version of Zizhi Tongjian than the one that I use? The page citation you gave, in my copy, goes to somewhere in the vol. 50 range, not vol. 46, nor does it support your assertion that the surname was Yishi and not Xue. In any case, though, it's fairly well attested that at least Duomozhi used "Xue." --Nlu (talk) 13:02, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: OK.  The copy I have is the original "magazine" edition.  (My vol. 45 was printed in 1988.)  I assume Bo changed his mind later.  Thanks.  --Nlu (talk) 13:18, 2 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Well, the fact that the references to Xue Duomozhi/Duomo were to the same person seems fairly clear from the accounts in the New Book of Tang, vol. 217, part 2., particularly in light of Quan Xiancheng's assertion that both he and Xue were "barbarians."  Can you see what is the date that you have on the Yuanliu version that you have?  And are the page numbers that you used from the Yuanliu edition?  --Nlu (talk) 05:36, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

text: The edition I have was published, but was published legally as a a magazine to receive preferable postal rates and mail priority within Taiwan, in 1988.  Leaving the surname off might be a good idea.  --Nlu (talk) 13:34, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Citation to Bo Yang
Talk:North Walsham & Dilham Canal

message: It's interesting to read that the canal is still owned by the North Walsham Canal Company. I read elsewhere that no one knows who or where that company is. One would think that the NRA or IWA will take over it one day.
LewisR (talk) 00:25, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think someone must know who the canal company is, as the Old Canal Co have bought some of the canal from them. Bob1960evens (talk) 20:45, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ownership 

message: Although this maybe true by name, there IS a short section of canal from St. Olaves to Reedham simply called New Cut. It is arrow straight when viewed from the larger of the two bridges on the A143 from Haddiscoe to St. Olaves.
LewisR (talk) 22:09, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Cetainly the wikipedia article on Haddiscoe Cut states that it is a canal. The other half of that scheme, which linked Oulton Broad to Lake Lothing, and included Mutford Sea Lock, is of course in Suffolk. There is also the issue of the Bure Navigation, which ran for  and had five locks. The locks are now derelict, but the route can still be traversed by canoe. Nor can I find who the "officially" refers to, and there is no source given. I am therefore going to remove it. Bob1960evens (talk) 17:56, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Norfolk's Only Canal 

message: I have reviewed the article against the following criteria:
* Suitably referenced, with inline citations
* Reasonable coverage - no obvious omissions or inaccuracies
* Defined structure, with adequate lead
* Reasonably well written for grammar and flow
* Supporting materials - Infobox, map, images, POI table
* Appropriately understandable
Since it meets all of these, I am rating it as B class. Bob1960evens (talk) 23:18, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment
Talk:Bushy Parkrun

message: Many thanks to YoungRunner for setting up the page.  Have changed the Category from "Endurance" to "Events in Athletics".  5000m may be at the lower end of "long distance", but certainly isn't in the endurance category (Marathons, Half marathons, etc).  Any thoughts on an alternative category that better fits?
Chris 17:46, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Thanks

message: Should the page title not be "Bushy parkrun", with the lowercase? The parkrun organisation never capitalises their name, even at the start of sentences, and so naming the page as "Bushy Parkrun" is technically incorrect. AnselaJonla (talk) 22:49, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Page title
Talk:Peak Forest Canal

message: My understanding, supported by the article text, is that Bugsworth basin is the end of the main line and that Whaley Bridge basin is at the end of an arm. The map shows the opposite. I do not know how to edit the map, so perhaps someone more adept could do this. WhaleyTim (talk) 13:21, 6 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: This seems to have been done. Zin92 (talk) 19:11, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Map

message: I don't think that the use of this railway is clear. The relevant text reads as follows:
:"Nevertheless, at the end of 1796, funds from investors were still insufficient to finish the locks and the aqueduct at Marple and Outram was asked to suggest a temporary alternative. He produced two solutions, one to cross the arches of the aqueduct, the other assuming that the arches were unfinished. It was decided not to interfere with the ongoing construction of the aqueduct, so the railway ran from its Marple end to the proposed top lock."
Was the temporary alternative a railway? If so...
I suggest that this should be made clear and maybe a reference be added to transshipment between canal and railway being required at both ends of the railway.
Was this a light railway (given that it was temporary)?
I don't understand the two solutions. Solution 1 would have had part of the temporary railway placed on top of the aqueduct? Solution 2 would have had the railway bypassing the aqueduct? If so, the chosen solution seems to have been neither, ie it was a shorter solution (number 3) which was dependent upon a completed aqueduct (for use by boats rather than by a railway) and so it only needed to run from the aqueduct to the top lock of the Marple flight?
Thanks, Zin92 (talk) 19:10, 4 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Marple Railway

message: Can anyone identify where these pics:
File:Peak Forest NB Maria.jpg
File:Maria Towline.jpg
File:Boat horse at the Peak Forest Canal 1.jpg
were taken, and update their pages on Wikimedia Commons, please? Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 12:59, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The second one may be in the area around Marple Locks. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:34, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unidentified locations
Talk:Roy's identity

message: The terms need to be defined explicitly, when they are first used (e.g. where Y = the technology, or where Y = income, etc). The first paragraph also need to be more explicit about what Roy's Identity actually is.
166.250.9.231 (talk) 09:31, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Definitions of Variables in Equations

message: There's a slicker way to derive Roy's Identity just from the statement of utility maximization and the envelope theorem. Why don't we use that one?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.78.80.2 (talk) 16:27, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: alternative derivation

message: The following concern was brought up on the page (11:11, 18 April 2007 User:82.35.38.249):
I am concerned that the equation given above is innacurate. The expression is part of Shephard's Lemma and the right hand side will be the Hicksian or compensated demands. I reference Nicholson when I say that the actual Roy's identity should be:
-(dV/dPj)/(dV/dY) = fj(y, p)
Where V is the indirect utility function and Y is income. f(y, p) then represents the uncompensated demands rather than the compensated demands which are obtained as above by examining the amount by which the expenditure funtion needs to change with a price change.
I think that its just two different books with different notations and formulations of the same idea.  I'll look again later. Smmurphy(Talk) 17:47, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe the derivation is correct, but the problem is a little more than notational. There is a step "missing." We have \frac{\partial e(u,p)}{\partial p_i}=h_i(p,u), which is indeed the compensated demand. However, another identity is h_i(p,u)=x_i(p,e(p,u)). Replace e(p,u) with m as done throughout, and that's the last line. Coleca 08:39, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: concern

message: The article says "Rearranging gives the desired result:" and then three expressions separated by two equal signs. Can we be more explicit? Is Roy's identity actually a relation between three quantities? I thought it was just a statement about the equality of the second and third expression, where the first and third are identified through Shephard's lemma. A5 23:55, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is Roy's identity?
Talk:Waldron Smithers

message: My grandmother worked in the Houses of Parliament while this chap was about and told me the following little snippet.  At some point in his career Smithers was given a position in the BBC. Being a staunch Conservative in a largely liberal organisation there was a little rhyme knocking about at the time which went like this:
"Hithery Smithery, Tory me,
All alone in the BBC."
A quick Google search reveals what a colourful chap he was, including the following anecdote:
"Sir Waldron Smithers, who sat for Chislehurst, was an extreme Tory out of a vanished age. Deeply religious - he had an organ on which he played hymns in his house at Chislehurst and he preached whenever he could find the opportunity - he was also not insensitive to the consoling effect of alcohol. On one occasion Hugh Dalton, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, was winding up in a crowded House about the action he had taken to deal with one of the periodic economic crises of the time. In his booming voice, which was his greatest handicap, he quoted with self-satisfied emphasis, the particular date on which he had taken what he claimed was the necessary action. Sir Waldron, who was sitting on the back bench under the Gallery on the Opposition side, and did not appear to be very clearly following the argument, sprang to life at the mention of the date. 'My birthday!' he exclaimed in a voice as loud as Dalton's. It was some minutes before the Chancellor could proceed, and his peroration was ruined."  Source: 
82.14.87.70 12:39, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Good, I've sourced the quote and added a reference to it. Too long in itself to go in the article, unfortunately. Rbreen 14:24, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anecdotes
Talk:Malta national cricket team

message: Hi sir.... 
   My name is J. Obulesu I'm from  India. Sir give me one chance in malta cricket team. Please sir I'm very poor boy. No father no mother. Plz one chance sir.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2409:4070:4012:CC97:8AD9:875A:7A83:1F96 (talk) 18:31, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
Talk:Edith Frost

message: Edith Frost is the principle singer and probable songwriter of The Sundowners 1996 7" single "Singing Death Chants to the Stars", released on her label Drag City.  I'm not aware of any source for this other than the record itself, in which one can plainly hear Edith Frost singing. Straw Dogberry (talk) 06:20, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Sundowners 

message: She also did guest vocals on other people's records like Songs:Ohia (most notably "Captain Badass"), Jon Langford, Jim O'Rourke, Jenny Toomey, Sigmatropic, etc. (see Allmusic's credit section). There are some newer tracks available on Bandcamp []. Marika Hackman did a cover version of Edith Frost's song "Temporary Loan". -- 2003:E5:1739:53FF:38C0:420D:B1D5:3C0E (talk) 13:48, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guest vocals + new stuff
Talk:Walter de Frece

message: This section is very badly written: I have tidied up the grammar but it still sounds heavily biased. Is it a cheesed-off family member? In any case, the tone is not in keeping with a serious reference article. ‘Constantly on his feet’ sounds overly defensive, and most of the subject’s latter-day Hansard entries are actually “written answers” - there are no speeches recorded in his last year, and few the year before that. I think this needs further clarification and cleaning up as I doubt that John Cryer was misleading anyone.  TrottieTrue (talk) 12:10, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Political career 
Talk:Walter Smiles

message: This article conflates details of Sir Walter Smiles, MP for North Down, killed in the MV Princess Victoria disaster in 1953 with someone else. RodCrosby 00:37, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Confused

message: No, it doesn't. Walter Dorling Smiles was MP for Blackburn, and then MP for Down, and then MP for North Down, and then he drowned when the Princess VIctoria sank. His mother, Lucy Dorling, was Mrs Beeton's step-sister. Lucy's nephew was Geoffrey Dorling 'Khaki' Roberts, KC/QC, rugby international for England and member of the prosecution team at Nuremberg. Roberts was my own great-grandfather.
82.4.193.83 (talk) 23:13, 6 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not confused at all!
Talk:Ishtar Terra

message: The 11 km heigth above the average surface elevation compared to 8.8 km heigth above sea level of Mount Everest would be about the same if Venus had 10% as much ocean volume as Earth or Earth's ocean volume was reduced by 90%. Ccpoodle 17:52, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I found this interesting: altitude histograms of Venus, Earth, Moon, Mars. —Tamfang (talk) 06:35, 18 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: The main Venus article says there are 2 highlands regions while this article claims to be 3. Which one is correct?95.76.220.229 (talk) 08:07, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of continents 
Talk:Walter Preston (British politician)

message: Walter Reuben Preston has 35 patents . Is this the same person? Biscuittin (talk) 12:48, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Some applications were made jointly with well-known locomotive engineers such as Richard Deeley, John F. McIntosh and Wilson Worsdell. Biscuittin (talk) 13:55, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Patents 

message: "Daughter Ella married Walter Reuben Preston, an engineer, in April-June 1900 at Hayes". Biscuittin (talk) 18:53, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Family
Talk:Walter Rodney

message: Interesting that this article was started in 2008, and part of a section on important African thinkers, and such an important individual, yet there is no direct information about the explosion/ bombing. 
Who set it up??. I guess they still don't want others to know. I will be adding the information. About the President The infamous LF Burnham, who all Guyanese people feared in the 1970's (he was like Stalin)...from all the info that was possible gathered at the time...it all pointed to him...he set up the assassination.Starbwoy (talk) 00:07, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assassination by LF Burnham 

message: It's pretty odd that the first section of the page begins with "Later Life". Wouldn't it be better if the first section was an overview of his upbringing? Perhaps such a section was accidentally deleted but it does not appear so based on recent revisions. --Peacekeepurwar (talk) 04:17, 15 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strange order of page?
Talk:Eduardo di Capua

message: Eduardo di Capua died in Naples and not in Milan. The official reference comes from Enciclopedia Italiana (Treccani), which is the most authoritative encyclopedia in Italian language (can be compared to Encyclopedia Britannica).--L736E (talk) 13:04, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fixed: place of death 
Talk:Walter Walker (politician)

message: That was not done here today, but I will not make a strong objection as Walker was only a U.S. Senator 3 mos. A page name change of any kind is a major change, though, and cannot simply be "undone" with one click of the mouse. Jack B108 (talk) 13:14, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Notice should be given on Talk pages before renaming a page
Talk:Rochdale Canal

message: I know little of the Rochdale, but I do notice that there is no mention whatsoever of the Rochdale Branch, except in the map.  Could anyone update the page with more information?  1798: Rochdale town branch opened, 0.5 miles from Halfpenny Bridge to Richard Street basin.  Parrot of Doom (talk) 01:59, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rochdale Branch 

message: I have an old book on canals that shows part of the canal in Manchester being modified as a water park.  I assume that this has now been returned to navigation?  Is there any further detail on this? DiverScout (talk) 11:24, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I found a brief mention in Squires (2008), and have added it to the article. Bob1960evens (talk) 13:42, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Manchester shallow water play area

message: Between locks 91 and 92 the canal goes through a 70m tunnel which takes it under Deansgate (A56): according to a plaque at the eastern end, commemorating its restoration by the Manchester Corporation, it is called the Gaytborn Tunnel, but it is not named on the map nor is it mentioned in the article. Anyone know anything more? Moletrouser (talk) 11:34, 21 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gaytborn Tunnel 

message: I've removed the following external link as it fails WP:ELNO. However, the incidents referred may warrant mention in the article:
*News item about the farmer responsible for the vandalised sections
Dave.Dunford (talk) 17:42, 28 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dispute with farmer 

message: It has been popular for a lot more than 30 years - I went round it in 1981, when it was already popular. I think 'since the late 1970s' would be more accurate, and I think it's better to say 'since 19xx' because that doesn't go out of date with the passing of time. Mdrb55 (talk) 13:33, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Today - Cheshire Ring
Talk:1894 British Columbia general election

message: Noticed this:
:The requirement that knowledge of English be spoken for balloting was discussed but not applied.
I'm not sure whether voting was still by show-of-hands at this point, or if the secret ballot and voting booth were by 1894 part of the system; voting in the 1880s was still by show-of-hands; the language requirement discussed would have had to do with the viaability of the show-of-hands system in the same way a literacy test applies to the secret ballot.Skookum1 (talk) 14:57, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Language and method of voting
Talk:Rolle Canal

message: When we get around to mentioning the whole built across the common land without permission thing the act involved was "An Act to authorize the sale to and purchase by John Lord Rolle of the rights of persons claim to have divers Rights on such parts of Great Torrington and castle hill commons in the county of devon as now form part of the cut or canal called the Rolle canal". From 1835. Geni 16:43, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: the act
Talk:1898 British Columbia general election

message: There's something fishy here: in the results, there is an entry for James Kidd in Westminster-Richmond that links to Thomas Kidd (politician) who doesn't appear to be a British Columbia politician. In British Columbia general election, 1894, a Thomas Kidd appears for the same riding. --Big_iron (talk) 10:17, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, now both linked to Thomas Kidd (British Columbia politician): James Kidd was definitely a typo. --Big_iron (talk) 11:12, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thomas/James Kidd
Talk:The City and the Pillar

message: I have significantly updated this article trying to provide more reliable citations and better organization.  Specifically I have moved reactions, analysis, and The City and the Pillar Revised to their own sections.  There is one fact that I found 100% wrong - at least according to my 1965 source - the assertion that "In 1965, Vidal changed the ending to what he had originally in mind, no longer having to bow to the wishes of his publisher, in The City and the Pillar Revised." Bowing to publishers is specifically denied by Vidal in the afterword to The City and the Pillar Revised.  If perhaps this is not true and Vidal has made contrary statements in newer, verifiable, publications then this information can definitely be switched back.
I think the statements about Ben Hur need better citation and the themes, although I do not disagree with them, appear to be original research.  I have tagged these accordingly.
 Npd2983 (talk) 19:42, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update Rationale 

message: Since the form of the novel available now (cf. Vintage Press), and, presumably, most readily marketed post-1965, is the "revised" edition (not even described as such in current printings), it would appear that the viewpoint of this article is askew, i.e. the reader is being subtly persuaded that the earlier version of the book is the "real" version, and then, at the end, we are told, "oh, yes, there was this revision in 1965...". I suggest that the book, and especially the rape, not murder, at the end, be the main object of discussion, and that the differences in the earlier version be mentioned after that. After all, the article should be a description of the book as it now stands, not an historical account of how it developed.Jakob37 (talk) 11:01, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  ass backwards 

message: "Jim, to whom it has already occurred that girls do not appeal to him as much"
you can't have both "to X" (whom and him refer to the same entity) in the same clause; "as much" as what? Jakob37 (talk) 07:32, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  problem sentence
Talk:Edward Eke

message: Question: should the sort key for this page and the article really be Eke, Edward since that is the name that was chosen as the primary one and the one he seems to use professionally?; otherwise if he is better known as Edward Larrikin perhaps the article title should be changed?--FeanorStar7 (talk) 00:21, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Sorting
Talk:1907 British Columbia general election

message: This is presumably after the election....before use it could use a trim. .  this is the fullsize image to crop from.Skookum1 (talk) 04:44, 4 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  British Library archival image of 1907 MLAs 
Talk:1909 British Columbia general election

message: Would it be possible to request a bio for Mr. Hawthornthwaite? I think this is an important project and he is notable enough to warrant his own page.Rmalhotr (talk) 06:20, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Astonishing Tales

message: Wiki currently says:
"It! The Living Colossus, starring a stone giant introduced in an anthological science fiction-monster story in Tales of Suspense #20 .."
But according to the It! The Living Colossus' page, he was introduced in #14 (with a second appearance in #20).  I haven't read these so I can't confirm.  This needs to be fixed on one of these pages. Antmusic (talk) 17:50, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  It! The Living Colossus first appearance
Talk:1933 British Columbia general election

message: The list of MLAs is incomplete. There are supposed to be 34 Liberals but only 31 are listed. 65.95.118.13 (talk) 13:56, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Mick Lally

message: If you want to add more about his history in singing (60's and 70's), here are a few articles I came across in referencing Mickey_Finn_(Irish_fiddler):
[http://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/30340
Mick Lally - a man without measure] (obituary) Galway Advertiser Kernan Andrews September 02, 2010.“As a passionate Irish speaker, he was often to be heard singing a sean nós song or telling a folk tale."
Well, Holy God! Mick Lally to be celebrated with major concert at Monroe’s Live By Kevin Mcguire Galway Advertiser December 16, 2010 "He loved his comic songs and he had a vast collection of them. Mick would sing at the drop of a hat"
Jodi.a.schneider (talk) 11:27, 21 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Singing 