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Talk:John George Bourinot (elder)

message: His parents were Elisabeth Blampied born in St. Helier, Jersey and Jean Bourinot born in Grouville, Jersey.  His parents were marriedin St.Helier, Jersey. Jean was a Conducteur in General Don’s Army.  He is listed in the Muster List in Jersey.  He then worked for the Robbins Company of France. He spent about 6 monthe of the year on the East Coast of Canada buying, and ordering building of, small fishing vessels, usually schooners, for the Robbins Company.  
As a young man, his son, later to be the third man appointed to the Confederation Canadian Senate, namely John Bourinot, came for the summer and didn’t return with his father to Jersey.
I am unable to to remove the word George fro the header.  I am tired of making these corrections obtained from records in Jersey about my gt-gt-grandparents and my great-grandparents.  Whoever you are making these corrections not based on reliable data, please contact me at rswal@pobox.com to discuss this problem and let this correct data be. J B Wallace (talk) 04:11, 17 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Senator John Bourinot does not have a middle name.  His correct date of birth is July 28, 1813.
Talk:John Gibson (sculptor)

message: https://doaj.org/article/a2dd967164b948eb9d703d617f10417e
https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2015/11/ferrari.pdf
although I'm a bit non plussed by a journal being hosted on wordpress.©Geni (talk) 05:57, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Potential source
Talk:Barrie Cassidy

message: Unlike Americans, Australians do not capitalise office holders' titles in perpetuity. Once they leave office, they become lower-case ordinary citzens. The corollary would be to call Malcolm Fraser "Prime Minister Fraser" for life, which would be unacceptable and un-Australian. CallMeHenry (talk) 21:04, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalisation 

message: "Moving to Washington, Cassidy worked as a correspondent for The Australian (owned by Rupert Murdoch)..."
I'm no Murdoch fan but is this necessary? --TUSWCB (talk) 07:37, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I've just changed that, mainly to put the word "newspaper" in there. I also added a brief description of his book The Party Thieves and 2 external links, and made some other minor changes. Cheers, CWC 14:36, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article content 

message: During a mid-2015 episode of ABC TV "Insiders", Phil Coorey commented about "Barrington" being right about an issue, in a brief oral one-liner.  Was Phil jesting with Barrie, or do Cassidy's parents have something else to take responsibility for ? 121.127.209.141 (talk) 14:07, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Barrie - Given Name ?
Talk:John Gilmary Shea

message: Undid revision 565608093 by PBS-AWB (talk) bot is not working; substitutes non-existent template for a good one
PBS-AWB is not a bot account I use it to run the semi-automated took WP:AWB. Rather than reverting the whole edit please explain what "non-existent template for a good one" means and then revert only that part of the edit. -- PBS (talk) 12:46, 2 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Substitutes non-existent template for a good one
Talk:Winifred Edgerton Merrill

message: One or more portions of this article duplicated other source(s).  Infringing material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you.   ascidian | talk-to-me 14:02, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem removed
Talk:Witold Hurewicz

message: To say that it "was mainly populated by Poles and Jews" is to imply that Jews are a nationality of their own. Like any other people, a Jew's nationality is determined by the country in which they were born and/or live. If Wilno was in Poland at the time, then presumably most of the Jews there were Polish. Don't 'other' Jews as a 'race apart.' Hanamizu (talk) 01:57, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  PLEASE correct the sentence about Wilno's population
Talk:John Gould

message: I reverted to an objection to a section here as malformed, the remedy is to apply tags to facts without citations using . — cygnis insignis 13:58, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  revert
Talk:Alfred Baxter-Cox

message: He was injured in WWI on 1 August famliy was originally notified in error that it was serious this rectified 1 month later. The injury was to his right ankle after slipping in the officers mess. there 8 page in his service record about the investigation to ensure the injury wasnt self inflicted deliberately. He recieved British War medal and Victory medal in WWI. Digital image of his WWI service record is available on line via http://www.naa.gov.au/the_collection/recordsearch.html service record indicates he died early February 1959. Gnangarra 14:05, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WWI - injury
Talk:John Hanks Alexander

message: Orindatus Simon Bolivar Wall was also a line officer in the regulars.  Anmccaff (talk) 19:44, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orindatus Wall 
Talk:Yousef Alavi

message: Unprodded. "Yousef Alavi" OR "Y Alavi" "graph theory" gets a high number of hits on google web, google books and google scholar. Charvest (talk) 21:13, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Google cites 
Talk:Yusuke Hagihara

message: Over the last year and a half I've added biographical information and references to this article. I've upgraded its quality class from "Stub" to "C". I think it still needs more information about Hagihara's scientific contributions and a fuller bibliography of his publications. There doesn't seem to be much biographical information on Hagihara in English. It would be helpful if someone who knows Japanese could check for sources available in that language. Rustlet (talk) 23:12, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Issues
Talk:John Heathcoat

message: It might be an idea to indicate the pronunciation of his surname. I can forgive foreign readers from pronouncing it literally (heath-coat) but in Nottingham, at least, it was always pronounced heth-cot. It was rather shocking to once hear a non-Nottingham presenter on the local radio station pronounce Heathcoat Street incorrectly - heresy! :-)   TonyP (talk) 07:40, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation
Talk:Andrew Szydlo

message: Zbigniew A. SZYDŁO, Teaching Experimental Chemistry in English Schools, CHEM DIDACT ECOL METROL. 2012;17(1-2):7-25
DOI: 10.2478/cdem-2013-0001
Abstract: An historical background to the teaching of chemistry is presented, together with examples of great teachers from the past. Some aspects of the modern English school chemistry syllabus are discussed, both from the point of view of its theoretical content and its aim in helping children to develop practical skills. Chemistry Clubs, Open days and popular science lectures are also mentioned as a means of stimulating interest in chemistry as taught in schools.
dozens of pictures, starting with Boyle (1627-1691) and colleagues 
The article (19 pages) can be reached as the PDF-file: cdem-2013-0001.pdf via google.com  --Helium4 (talk) 16:22, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article  

message: The REDIRECT page isn't properly doing it's work. Currently, both Beata and Zbigniew are both target of the REDIRECT, it should be either one or the other. The best solution would be an DISAMBIG page, from where to choose either one or the other person. Both personalities seem important enough. 2A02:1205:503D:5690:9415:FCCE:C838:53E9 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 15:46, 21 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  REDIRECT
Talk:John Henry Anderson

message: I only made the photo of the grave, so I'm not really an Anderson-expert, but the article says, he was an orphan at the age of ten. The stone on the grave says his mother died 1830, so he was 16, or do I miss something here?
Thanks - Tom
Soulman hh (talk) 10:32, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned at wich age?? 

message: On the quiz show Qi, series 1, episode 3, they have mentioned John Henry Anderson to be nicknamed 'The Wizard of the North'. They also claimed he was the first to perform the rabbit out of a hat trick. I wondered if we take QI into significance?
Some of this may be here: List of QI episodes (A series) Unwisely (talk) 14:16, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: QI isn't always a reliable source of information. My partner is a scientist and pointed out to me in one show that they made a couple of significant goofs over the history of her particular specialism. So I guess you could report what QI said, but it would have to be just that, an account of what QI said rather than using QI as a source for an assertion that he was the first to do the trick.Circusandmagicfan (talk) 09:48, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Qi
Talk:John Henry Challis

message: DAB gives Challis's death on 28 February 1880. Every contemporary newspaper reference (Trove) has 29 February (which may have been 28 February in London). ADB alone has 18 February. Doesn't necessarily make ADB wrong, but 10 days does seem rather a long time for the news to come from Ghent to Aix. I've changed the dated and notified ADB. Doug butler (talk) 06:05, 16 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  DOD
Talk:John Henry Foley

message: I have added a gallery as his works are so famous in London and Dublin. I note 'WP:NOTREPOSITORY' but the list is a partial one – enough for a student to get started with before examining wikicommons. And enough for others to see at a glance if he is who they are looking for.Red Hurley (talk) 17:13, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Does anyone know for sure whether he was buried at Westeminster Abbey see this and this, or at St Paul's see this. I'm inclined to believe the latter, as Turpin is an expert on scupture.Red Hurley (talk) 13:08, 25 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:John Henry Livingston

message: [H]e sold the plantation and over two hundred slaves bound to the property in 1784.
:A Jamaican sugar plantation would naturally have been worked by slaves, so why is this a notable mention? It sounds like points on your criminal record. Valetude (talk) 10:35, 15 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability
Talk:John Pratt (archdeacon of Calcutta)

message: This:
can't be correct.  The original work is more than 600 pages, and the matter of the figure of the earth is only a small part of it. Perhaps it should say an excerpt was republished under the title...? catslash (talk) 22:34, 10 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Pinging  [who wrote most of that.] Shyamal (talk) 02:56, 28 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Expanded and renamed
Talk:Mikhail Kovalyov

message: Article reassessed and graded as stub.  I'm sure there has to be more information available for this office for his service in WWII --dashiellx (talk) 11:59, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008 

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: not moved. Consensus not to move per WP:RUS and WP:COMMONNAME. (non-admin closure)  ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 18:26, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Mikhail Kovalyov →  – This should be switched to make the more common transliteration the page name and the less common the redirect. Havsjö (talk) 10:02, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

text: Any evidence to back up the assertion that this is a "more common transliteration"?  — Amakuru (talk) 10:41, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Noting that Mikhail Kovalyov (politician) has also been moved without discussion by this user. Probably justified, but some sources would be nice. 162 etc. (talk) 16:27, 23 April 2023 (UTC)

text: And even for this specific surname... Dr. Vogel (talk) 10:37, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

text: As of GOST 7.79-2000, "ё" is indeed transliterated into "yo", but that wasn't the case during this subject's lifetime. 162 etc. (talk) 16:32, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

text: This is a contested technical request (permalink). EdJohnston (talk) 00:30, 27 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 27 April 2023
Talk:Mohammad Zeki Mahjoub

message: I expanded the piece, and there's more to come. Previously this article was merely a mention that Mahjoub was being held on a security certificate on some sort of suspicion re al-Jihad. It made no mention of why the certificate was warranted. There are various interesting reasons. :D
LDH 14:06, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks good, I removed the long prose, though if it's a Federal court decision we could host the entire work on Wikisource and link to it for interested readers. More details on his alleged relationship with the Vanguards would be appreciated. Sherurcij (Speaker for the Dead)  22:09, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments from 2007 

message: The information is correct but it must need to expand some information from the news in own words. Thank You --Mohamed Aden Ighe (talk) 17:37, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Note 

message: The note that CsIs has disclosed no public evidence about Mahjoub is incorrect. A good deal of evidence has been made available through Federal Court rulings. However, there is a serious problem of secret evidence in security certificate cases.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.148.0.235 (talk) 17:13, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments from 2013 
Talk:John Hookham Frere

message: " edited by Gifford."  What is Gifford's  first  name?
100.15.120.162 (talk) 16:29, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  who? 

message: 1808 was created Marques de la Union of Spain, reference Burkes Landed Gentry of Great Britain, 1906 edition.
[User talk:Comte_de_Sayn].  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Comte de Sayn (talk • contribs) 08:26, 10 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Addition
Talk:John Horrocks (politician)

message: His gravestone in St Mary's Church, Penwortham clearly shows his date of death as 1 March 1804. But equally clearly gives his age as 36 years. So his date of birth may not have been 27 March 1768. The self-published source in the Refs , however, supports the dates given. Is there any better source? Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 22:03, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Year of birth
Talk:John Humphrey Noyes

message: This charge that caused him to flee - do we have any more details ? Was he guilty ? -- Beardo 19:52, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Most of this article was removed about two weeks ago, without explanation and for no good reason that I can see.  Unless a convincing explanation appears shortly, I may reinsert the excised material. J S Ayer (talk) 01:34, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Evisceration 
Talk:John J. Allen (judge)

message: I significantly expanded some related articles, but had problems using ancestry.com to examine possible slaveholdings in the 1850s and 1860s. I don't have time to prepare an article about his father, who seems to have owned slaved in the 1810 and 1830 censuses, but only had a single free colored person in his household in 1820, and two slaves along with 2 free colored persons in his household (as well as 50 students (!) 1840. Part of the problem might be the common name, or that Shenandoah County had three different prominent Allen families. Plus, this library's history of Shenandoah county that I looked at years ago may have been lost.Jweaver28 (talk) 00:41, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  more work needed
Talk:John James Blunt

message: To not qualify as a stub, the article needs 1 of the following:
* a particularly useful picture or graphic 
* multiple links that help explain or illustrate the topic 
* a subheading that fully treats an element of the topic 
* multiple subheadings that indicate material that could be added to complete the article 
It has none of these and it is a stub. -- SECisek (talk) 08:13, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Stub
Talk:John Jamieson

message: By Lindsay McIntosh, The Times, 2 May 2011:
... now a dictionary written by James Boswell himself has been found after 200 years. And, significantly for a writer criticised for forsaking his Scottish heritage in favour of England, it is a Scots language dictionary. The unsigned manuscript, confirmed by Boswell scholars as being in his writing, consists of 39 pages including about 800 Scots words and phrases... Although the existence of the dictionary was known of through the journals, held at Yale University, its whereabouts were a mystery until Susan Rennie, a Scots language expert, stumbled on it while researching John Jamieson, the 19th-century Scots lexicographer. She uncovered the manuscript in the Bodleian Library in Oxford and compared the handwriting with Boswell’s letters in the National Library of Scotland. The Bodleian had bought it as part of Jamieson’s papers in 1927... More details about the Boswell manuscript are available on the internet at boswellian.com
--Mais oui! (talk) 07:43, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Boswell’s Scottish dictionary discovered in Oxford after 200 years' 

message: The text correctly quotes the Dictionary of National Biography in referring to Pictish as follows:
"The introductory dissertation, ingeniously supporting an obsolete theory regarding the Pictish influence on the Scottish language, has now a merely antiquarian interest".
But the 40 page dissertion in Jamieson's dictionary is really more about Jamieson's pet theory that Scots has its origins in ancient Gothic. Pictish or Gothic however his theory was to say the least eccentric. Cassandra  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.5.2.230 (talk) 11:45, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pictish or Gothic?
Talk:John Jeffcott

message: Is a reference available regarding whether Anne Kermode, Jeffcott's fiancee, was his cousin.  One reference for this article, Australian Dictionary of Biography, says she was the daughter of Jeffcott's "kinsman" Willian Kermode, not cousin.  The other references do not mention Anne Kermode.
Hiraffe (talk) 06:55, 22 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Flesh

message: Hi, Chiswick Chap. Regarding this? Do you mind explaining why you removed WP:Biology? I certainly don't consider the topic just a food and drink topic. 
Please don't ping me if you reply. Flyer22 Frozen (talk) 05:00, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Do as you think right on the basis of the evidence. I checked carefully, and the term is really not used by biologists other than as a common metaphor (putting flesh on the bones of a theory, etc). If you have reliable evidence to the contrary, describe and cite it in the article and put the WP back. All the best, Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:12, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Chiswick Chap, I know that there isn't much to state on this topic. I looked for sources on it years ago. I'm just saying that it does concern biology, as seen by what was in the article before and what is currently in the article, and that it may be of interest to some biology editors. One or more editors from WP:Biology may be able to improve the article in some way. My opinion on the article today is that the page should simply be tagged with Template:Wiktionary redirect. Flyer22 Frozen (talk) 04:44, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  Indeed, if it's a Wikt (Support) then the problem doesn't arise. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:39, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not biology? 

message: Regarding this edit by Johnbod, it does clarify that this article is about the term. I noted with this edit that I "was going to remove the 'is a term for' wording per WP:ISAWORDFOR and WP:Refers to because the article is not about a term. But it was presented as a terminology matter before Johnbod's edit." So, Chiswick Chap and others, I guess this is a term article? If we are agreed that this is what it is, it should be put in a terminology category. We should also keep what WP:WORDISSUBJECT states in mind. And, above, I did question whether we even need an article on this matter. Flyer22 Frozen (talk) 00:26, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, as I wrote in the thread above, it looks as if this could be a WP:DICDEF in which case it belongs in Wiktionary, not here; I take it that "a term article" means a DICDEF. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:20, 8 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it doesn't. That's especially the case when there are numerous meanings in different areas, as here.  I suppose it is a "term" article. What it isn't is an article on a valid concept in areas of biology, except perhaps mycology? Johnbod (talk) 16:42, 8 October 2020 (UTC)

text: Chiswick Chap, per WP:WORDISSUBJECT, we can (and do) validly have articles on terms. Flyer22 Frozen (talk) 01:02, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article about the term or topic?
Talk:Talhaiarn

message: There has been, for a while, a hatnote on this article linking to the John Jones disambiguation page. There has developped a disagreement between myself and Deb, another editor, about whether or not the inclusion of the hatnote on this article is justified. We have stated our rationale to each other on each other's talk pages and we still disagree about whether the hatnote should be included, therefore I thought it best to bring the discussion here in order to open the discussion up to other editors.
I believe that the hatnote should be removed from the article because of the the guideline about not disambiguating article names that are not ambiguous. The rationale behind this guideline, applied to the current case, is that no user who is looking for one John Jones would end up at an article about another. When a user types "John Jones" into the search bar, the user is provided immediately with a disambiguation page that lists all the people named "John Jones" about whom we have aritcles. No one looking for another John Jones would end up at this one because they would have been provided with the option of choosing between the two before arriving at the article. Even if they accidently chose the wrong one on the disambiguation page, they would know about the disambiguation page because they were just at it and they could easily just go back. If they arrived at the article via an internal link, they would have been directed to the correct article because that would have had to have been specified on the preceding article or else it would have directed them to the disambiguation page. Not disambiguating article names that are not ambiguous is an established editing guideline on Wikipedia and there is nothing special about this particular case that suggests that an exception should be made for it. Neelix (talk) 19:49, 4 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hatnote
Talk:John Keate

message: There's a generous sprinkling of bias in this article. "Beneath an outwardly rough manner the little man concealed a kind heart...", for example. I'm not knowledgeable enough on this subject to fix it up with any real rigor. JHMM13(Disc) 00:42, 25 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed some of the more flowery language and opinions.— Rod talk 16:09, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV