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Talk:Gravedigger

message: This article survived an AfD nomination of October 15 2005, found here. Marskell 17:01, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: I've seen a few people mention that the term "gravedigger" is used to brand those who essentially "dig" up old threads that would be considered dead due to a lack of interest and overall activity. Would that be relevant to cover in the article? 75.2.9.203 23:41, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not really.  Most people (in the real world) couldn't care less about stuff like this, but I wouldn't be suprised if it gets included anyway, as the majority of Wikipedia editors do. - 85.210.43.171 18:13, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gravedigger (forum context) 

message: "in the first three or fifty centuries of the Christian Era" is obviously wrong, but what should it say?  "the first three to fifth"?  "the third to fifth"?  Huw Powell (talk) 20:29, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error, but how to fix? 

message: hi. the section Gang culture was added in january 2009, and removed in may 2009 by Eleland as a hoax. in november 2009, the section was restored and exists in the current revision. problem is, the sources dont back up the assertions, and the whole section just sounds wrong. i, for one, never heard of this, but i dont know gang culture as well as others might. -badmachine 18:36, 16 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Gang culture" 
Talk:Battle of Santa Cruz (1899)

message: Does anybody know which place San Isidro in the last paragraph refers to? --seav 13:43, 29 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  San Isidro 
Talk:Lake Zurich High School

message: DAW0001 21:08, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is information about Wayne Kuklinski relevant? 

message: What does "(Lost in the preceding rounds)" mean?  --DAW0001 (talk) 13:22, 9 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Academics and Athletics 

message: Where did this Cannon story come from? I've never heard of it before. Can someone find a reliable source that talks about it?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.192.229.15 (talk) 01:09, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cannon
Talk:Filibuster War

message: Please consider incorporating any useful material from the above submission into this article. The submission is eligible for deletion in 6 months. ~Kvng (talk) 17:04, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Nicaragua National War]] 

message: Walker affair and Filibuster War are the same article, however the former is much less detailed. I thus propose that they get merged.--Catlemur (talk) 23:28, 3 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Klbrain (talk) 21:30, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger with [[Walker affair]]
Talk:Agacher Strip War

message: Why do so many Wikipedia articles like this lack maps? What's the point of this article if we cannot see on a map where the war took place?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.226.139.158 (talk) 22:08, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Two of the sources are dead links. This must be fixed.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.108.30.78 (talk) 22:33, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Dead links

message: The article overly uses the passive voice. For example, the following could be rephrased using the active voice.
Original version:
"Prisoners of War were exchanged in February and full diplomatic relations were restored in June. Despite this, the dispute was still unresolved. The case was taken to the International Court of Justice."
Version using active voice:
"As part of their negotiations, Mali and Burkina Faso exchanged prisoners of war in February and restored full diplomatic relations in June, but the dispute remained unresolved. The countries thus agreed to bring the case before the International Court of Justice."
JustJanani (talk) 02:32, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Passive Voice
Talk:After-action review

message: There was a comment on the page to the effect that spellings should be left British and not American English and referring editors to discussion here. Removed, as there is no actual discussion here, and it seems bizarre that a US Army practice should only be discussed using British English. -218.1.113.253 (talk) 03:37, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Anglicisms

message: Based on http://www.armystudyguide.com/content/bm~doc/the-after-action-review-p.ppt it appears that the distinction between formal and informal AARs has been dropped:
:Experience in the employment of AAR has resulted in the recommendation that the terms Formal and Informal AAR be dropped from the terminology of this subject.  It was found that the distinctions that were made between both types of AAR were misleading and caused confusion.
AAR will not be identified by type.  The duration and resources allocated to an AAR will be based on the complexity of the learning objectives to be addressed, the size of the audience and the time and resources available
This section should be edited to reflect this change.
Peter K. Sheerin 22:49, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Formal vs. Informal 

message: Suggest to merge with After Action Report. As these two are used synonymously in most circles, one article would be better suited. Chairborneranger (talk) 17:49, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge discussion
Talk:Internet Low Bitrate Codec

message: Possible copyvio, most of the text appears to be copied from ilbc's website.
:Rewritten, waiting for approval at ILBC/Temp --Shaddack 00:04, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
Talk:New Faces

message: Joe Pasquale#Before Fame claims that JP won New Faces.  Here it is claimed he came second.  Which is correct? Guinness 17:47, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Joe Pasquale

message: Someone should seriously post the theme tune here. Curvebill (talk) 20:44, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Theme tune

message: I am not aware of an "original BBC series" of New Faces:
* The reference in the Dave Allen entry is the only such reference in the whole article. 
* The linked article at UKGameshows.com makes no reference to "an original BBC series".
Was there one?
Brother Francis (talk) 20:43, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dave Allen and "the original BBC series" 

message: Did the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band appear on New Faces? The chronology seems wrong. New Faces started in 1973 whereas the Bonzos already had much TV exposure, a hit with "I'm the Urban Spaceman" in 1968 and their first reunion in 1972.
Brother Francis (talk) 20:52, 12 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Were the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band on New Faces?  

message: Having just put the articles on Opportunity Knocks and Britain's Got Talent in the category called "Talent shows", I thought I had better do likewise with the article on this programme (I am old enough to remember it). ACEOREVIVED (talk) 15:59, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Putting this in category called Talent Shows

message: The table of series 1-6 winners doesn’t agree with the prose section about the series. In the prose Lenny Henry is described as “the 1975 competition winner” while the table gives Marti Caine as the winner. If Henry just won an episode this should be clarified. I actually arrived here from the Les Dennis article which has a similar issue, describing him as the 1974 winner, but not according to this table. Again, did he just win an episode? danno_uk 21:00, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incosistency
Talk:Byzantine–Georgian wars

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. I’ve redirected the proposed move destination to the page. (non-admin closure) - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 22:58, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Byzantine–Georgian wars →  – Georgian kings initiated mostly the wars per claims over the north-eastern lands of Anatolia, that were absorbed by the Byzantine Empire. An emperor ✖ 05:52, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Srnec, how so? Should we make Russo-Georgian War into Georgian-Russian War based on that reason? An emperor ✖ 00:51, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: "Russo-" is a combining form. Also, Russo-Georgian War is an established term/name. We don't have to discuss the order because we aren't making it up. Our hands are tied. However, both "Byzantine–Georgian wars" and "Georgian–Byzantine wars" are descriptive titles. Neither is an established term. In other words, Wikipedians invented the title to describe the topic, which does not have a set description (name) in the sources. Such titles must be neutral. The title of the Russo-Georgian War does not, in fact, have to be neutral, so long as it is the established name. Srnec (talk) 01:03, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Srnec Thank you for voting. An emperor ✖ 13:03, 13 September 2023 (UTC)

text: Super Dromaeosaurus Thanks for voting. An emperor ✖ 13:03, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 10 September 2023
Talk:Colombian conflict

message: Hi
I think we should start updating this page (and other pages related to the topic, based on the new facts that have come to light in the newly published Truth Commission Report. Starting with the number of Casualties, below being the quote from the report presenting the updated count after the extensive investigation done by the truth commission:
BasilLeaf (talk) 01:09, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updating of the report based on findings of the Truth Commission Report
Talk:Muhammad Ismail Agha

message: The original article was non-neutral about conditions in Guantanemo, and also implied that the youngster was arrested by the Americans. This was at variance with the reference to the 
National Review article:
 Muhammad Ismail Agha, aged 15, is back with his family in Afghanistan after two months' imprisonment at Bagram airbase north of Kabul, followed by a year in the U.S. holding facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Human-rights groups have criticized the detention of minors like Ismail, but the lad seems to have profited from his time at Gitmo. He lived with two other Afghan boys in a house with several rooms. Each day the boys were taught English, Pashto, and basic math by Afghan-American teachers. Dietary and religious preferences were scrupulously observed. "For two or three days I was confused," Ismail testified, "but later the Americans were so nice with me. They were giving me good food with fruit and water for ablutions before prayer." Added the boy's father: "My son got an education in America." 
Joaquin Murietta 17:52, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Serious NPOV Issues
Talk:Perak War

message: The article starts with a nameless Sultan and ends with a Sultan who seems to be a village: in "capture of prominent leaders and warriors, such as Dato Maharaja Lela, Sultan Abdullah and Ngah Ibrahim", "Sultan Abdullah" links to an article about a village. Come on, Malaisia is full people, somebody must be able to do better than that.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.253.64.90 (talk) 11:06, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
Talk:Messenian Wars

message: I just rewrote a bunch under 1st and 2nd war, mostly adding references (and changing inaccurate info). Those sections can be expanded a lot just using those references. I'll come back to this, but it would be great if someone know actually *knows* something about this topic could take a crack at it! 
I haven't even started on the 3rd war section yet.Grease Bandit 04:22, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Chilean War of Independence

message: I retranslated exaltado to "extremist," from the previous "exited." I'm using the HarperCollins Spanish-English Dictionary. (An on-line version can be found here.) "Exited" is a correct, but general, translation, and in this context the political meaning is more appropriate. The term was used throughout the Spanish world during this period, for example during the Cadiz Cortes. TriniMuñoz (talk) 05:01, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The decisive contribution of the squadron of Chile formed by British captains and sailors to won the war at sea, that chileans lost before, must be reflected in combatants. Chile is not recognized by Spain. Unrecognized state until 1822 by the United States and for the United Kingdom in 1825. Therefore its flags have the value of a faction but not of a recognized state, before 1822.--Caminoderoma (talk) 10:50, 21 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Translation of ''exaltado''
Talk:Greek War of Independence

message: The article, as of now, states P1: "The news that the Greeks had revolted sparked murderous fury all over the Ottoman Empire". It adds a reference to a source, this being Q1: "Brewer, David The Greek War of Independence, London: Overlook Duckworth, 2011 pp. 100–101." 
DISCLAIMER: I don't have access to the source (Q1), so I cannot assess how P1 and Q1 are related to each other, or how Q1 warrants P1. It may be the case that Q1 solves all contentions stated below. 
The statement P1 includes the wording "murderous fury all over the Ottoman Empire". 
CONTENTION 1: "murderous fury" is not assessable objectively. It would require being privy to psychological states of people in the past. I am not sure such knowledge is accessible to any scientifically rigorous degree presently.
CONTENTION 2: granting that assessing "murderous fury" objectively be possible, the assessment of "fury all over the Ottoman Empire", even if it were possible, seems IMPROBABLE, given the size of the Ottoman Empire, and the amount of research that would be necessary to substantiate the claim.
CONCLUSIVE CONTENTION: P1 is not an assertion of fact, nor an objective description of an event. It is a sentence that expresses the feelings and position of the writer on the subject. Therefore, it doesn't belong in a section of the text where facts or objective descriptions are required. As the text is such, the statement should be amended for accuracy or removed. 240D:1A:DA1:500:8580:4865:E0C:124C (talk) 02:18, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "The Ottoman Reaction" section 

message: Greetings, This biography for Nikolaos Gioulekas has zero references, and needs at least one incoming link to remove the Orphan tag. Asking for help here as article states that Gioulekas was a captain in the Greek War of Independence of 1821. Regards, JoeNMLC (talk) 14:54, 27 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article - Nikolaos Gioulekas
Talk:Portland Wind Farm

message: Obviously, some of the information on the Pacific Hydro site needs an update, expected completion third quarter 2005 is no longer current! Either it happened or it didn't! I have emailed them asking for the latest information. Andrewa 18:01, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update 

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Snowtown Wind Farm which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RM bot 00:03, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Move discussion in progress
Talk:War of the Quadruple Alliance

message: Certainly "Austria" in this article should not link to the small, present-day state of that name, but I'm not sure what it should link to. I'd be inclined to link to Holy Roman Empire, but I believe that some states of the Empire were not part of the Alliance. - Jmabel | Talk 19:58, 14 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Austria 

message: First I would like to add that it is not mentioned in the article, that the Spanish Fleet was attacked by British ships wihtout the pertinent declaration of war being issued by the British Crown, betraying the traditional war code. Second I would like to point out that Spain defeated repeatedly the Austrian Army in Sicily, for example on the 15th of October 1718 in the Battle of Melazzo, on the 17th of June 1719 in the battle of Francavilla etc... The mistakes committed by the general Leide was not to pursue the retreating armies in any of the victories, but in my opinion, the performance of the Spanish Expeditionary Force cannot be considered poor.
Moreover, I think it's partial and therefore suggest to change the paragraph containing the information cited.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.217.143.198 (talk) 17:04, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Firstly, the traditional code of war mattered exceedingly little in an age where ships at sea shot at other nation's ships at sea more or less constantly in peacetime; given Spain's traditional power in the New World it was the most frequent target of that, and so it should have expected something like this. Especially since they had attacked Sardinia without a declaration of war themselves to start this entire sorry conflict. Yes, it's true that the Spanish armies repeatedly defeated the Habsburgs in Sicily and Sardinia, but ultimately their achievements were more than outdone by the intervention of the British, Dutch, French, and Savoyards and the failure of their navies in the Med and their men at arms in the colonies. Feel free to edit things about the performance of the expeditionary force in Sicily, but that does not excuse the poor showings elsewhere. 75.36.161.208 (talk) 01:27, 2 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Spain fared poorly in the war" 

message: Is there an alternate name for this war? Searching "war of quadruple alliance" spain philip -wikipedia returns virtually nothing on Google or Google Books. I can't believe this war actually happened, then the whole War of Spanish Succession would have been fought for nothing! --Gary123 (talk) 17:08, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Alternate name?
Talk:Abel Muzorewa

message: There appears to be a discrepancy between this page and Prime Minister of Rhodesia. gren グレン 18:12, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Muzorewa said they people were calling on him to lead the country and then repeatedly mentioned the 2008 election. Are we supposed to believe he was going to overthrow the government during the election? The author of the article was trying to argue that he was not spelling it out. Unfortunately, I am unable to find any other source mentioning Muzorewa or his statements. Perspicacite 04:18, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: So we just say what was reported: that he said people were calling on him to run. Obviously that's a good sign he has some intention of running, but it doesn't change the fact that he didn't actually say so. We can only report what the article actually says. Everyking 04:25, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Angolan Civil War

message: Sudan had supported the Zaireans during the Shaba invasions. The Shaba invasions had Angolan Civil War veterans in it. Did Sudan provide support during the Angolan civil War? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 23.17.101.129 (talk) 03:12, 20 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sudanese involvement? 

message: Hello Wiki users
I was checking into the matters of this war since a recent video, and i came upon a weird statement in the infobox on the actual wikipedia article that "50 000 Cuban soldiers deserted" during this war.
It seems rather... Weird since a little over 300 000 Cubans went over there during the whole war, almost 1 out of 5 deserted in Angola ? 
The only source for this statement is the following,
Horowitz, Irving Louis (1995). Cuban Communism/8th Editi. Transaction Publishers. p. 560
Which after research seems heavily biaised, the statement itself comes from a former Cuban General "56 000" (https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1987-06-30-8702250398-story.html), which could (or not) include people trying to escape the military service in Cuba itself and not in Africa, and the name in english i suppose is "Conscientious objector" not desertors in that case.
I was wondering if it was possible to remove the statement from the statistics until it is supported by some other (non biaised) sources, because it feels like just an error or an overestimation or a voluntary mixup by people who doesn't really like the regime.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.222.140.196 (talk) 23:57, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: It made its way back into the article, despite beeing flagged "dubious" in the Cuban involvment in Angola article 184.145.223.215 (talk) 09:36, 23 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed it several times already but someone keeps adding it back. Socialwave597 (talk) 10:05, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestion of removal "desertors" 

message: @Rajanrandvi can you explain why you reverted my edit without an explanation? NorthTension (talk) 17:01, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I was reverting the cross-wiki POV pusher SpinnerLaserzthe2nd and your edit got caught in the middle of it. Rajanrandvi (talk) 10:34, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: You have been blocked several times on other wikis for edit warring and making socks (which is a huge no no). SpinnerLaserzthe2nd (talk) 14:36, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revert 

message: Please change 
* Malaquias, Assis. Rebels and Robbers: Violence in Post-Colonial Angola, Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 2007
to 
*  Biblinsi (talk) 09:17, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Sungodtemple (talk • contribs) 18:31, 8 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 8 December 2023
Talk:Robert Meeropol

message: The second paragraph doesn't make sense. First it says where they stayed during trial and executions, Then later, after several changes in custody, it has them visiting their parents in Sing Sing. IMHO, This tragic story deserves better clarity on this one aspect.  Vaoverland 18:15, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Surely "Hebrew's Children Home" is a typo and should be "Hebrew Children's Home". But I lack a citation for this at all at the moment. The article has no inline references, so it is very hard to know where to look. - Jmabel | Talk 05:44, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Children's Home 

message: ""To this day, there is no credible evidence that he participated in obtaining or passing on ... the secret of the atomic bomb, the crime for which he was executed.""
I think the crime they were actually executed for was espionage and treason... not a specific piece of information. So... settles that then.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.73.33.20 (talk) 20:43, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Someone should tell Robert
Talk:Superstar (disambiguation)

message: this article seem to be either a joke or a very biased entry about some local public figure --Marc pasquin 18:16, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled discussion by Marc pasquin

message: I have organized the entries a bit, and removed a lot of bells and whistles as per WP:MOSDAB (particulary WP:MOSDAB#Individual entries). Equendil 21:02, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation pages, style
Talk:Paraguayan Civil War (1947)

message: There were two Paraguayan civil wars. See: http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guerra_civil_paraguaya_de_1922-1923  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dardanelle (talk • contribs) 03:06, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Dear wikipedians, could't identify any sources used for this article, so tagged "unreferenced". Any help in adding sources and citations will be greatly appreciated. Regards, DPdH (talk) 21:17, 7 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources please
Talk:Ndogboyosoi War

message: Though strongly implied by the name of one of the combatants, nowhere in the article is it explicitly stated where this battle took place (such-and-such district isn't, sadly, good enough for the average reader who's unfamiliar with Sierra Leone or African geography in general). I constantly run into this problem with my Japanese articles, as it's very easy to assume that you're writing for an audience who knows you're writing about Japan, and knows something of the geography and historical background - these are false assumptions. Thank you though for a fine start on an interesting subject. LordAmeth 21:58, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  WPMILHIST Assessment