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Talk:Georges Simenon

message: Hello all
I have changed the title to something more descriptive and less clumsy. I have added sourced information and have removed some unsourced and incorrect information. Happy to discuss. Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 00:16, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early career (1919-22) 

message: Hello all
I have expanded this section considerably. I have added new sourced information and have replaced some unsourced and incorrect information with reliably sourced information. I have added sub-headings to make the contents easier to follow. Happy to discuss. Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 06:31, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  France, 1922-45 

message: There isn't anything described in the "Mad Years" section that makes the title make obvious sense. Why are we calling these years the "mad" ones? Tuptastic (talk) 21:32, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I see your point. The French equivalent for the Roaring 20s is Les années folles, but I thought a French sub-heading would be too obscure on the English language Simenon page. I'm not wedded to the sub-heading, but couldn't think of anything better. Happy for any suggestions. Perhaps it would be easier if I put a reference to it in the section. Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 23:19, 3 February 2023 (UTC)

text: I have changed it to "Literary apprenticeship". It still doesn't seem quite right, seeing that Colette advised Sim to be "less literary"! Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 23:28, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Mad Years" 

message: Hello all,
I have changed the birth date in the info box to 12 February. This is the birthdate recorded on his birth certificate. Simenon later said that according to family legend his was actually born at 12.10 am on Friday, 13 February and that his mother made his father falsify the date on the birth cetificate due to her superstition about Friday 13th. However, Simenon later conceded that he wasn't sure about his real birthday.(See Simenon, Georges (1978). Au-delà de ma porte-fenêtre. p. 183). The Belgian National Biography gives his birth date as 12 February. So I think the most reliable evidence supports the 12 February birthdate. Happy to discuss. Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 04:50, 10 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth date 

message: Hello all
I have added a Btitish English template because this is the predominant form of English used in the article and it is best to keep this consistent. Although Simenon lived in the US and Canada for several years, the article has no strong ties to any particular form of English. Therefore I think it is best to go with the current standard.
Happy to discuss Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 02:19, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  British English
Talk:Honky

message: The word listed in Category:Profanity. I don't think I should accept that. It's not a cuss word. Who said it is? Spencer H. Karter (talk) 04:33, 10 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Listed in Profanity Category 

message: Worked on this article years ago. Would need to find good sources but as with "nigga/nigger" this word can be used as a term of endearment between whites (media and music examples already provided within the article) and not only in a negative way. Its use in music and film (ie. cowboy/western references) as mentioned within the article is not derogatory. 2600:1702:1690:E10:1CC6:9EDD:42E:91BF (talk) 06:41, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Per recent edit, "Honky Cat" by Elton John means 'white man' or 'country boy' and Honky Chateau means 'white house' or 'country manor' also. Depends on individual interpretations. Maybe 'white country boy' and 'white country house' are suitable translations/substitutes if anyone disagrees per the lyrics of the song and the studio the album was recorded in (see the article for the French building as an example). 2600:1702:1690:E10:9C40:1339:5A58:3BD4 (talk) 19:47, 7 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification 

message: With this edit, I have tagged the article with the template:In popular culture and added comments with inclusion criteria for the section "Notable uses", "Use in music and entertainment" and "Use in television and film". The comment says:  Nothing in the two uses sections meet this criteria and so I will deleting them. I will wait at least two weeks to give people time to comment or improve. (In which time I will forget about it and it will be months before I get around to it.) Richard-of-Earth (talk) 18:28, 17 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uses in music and film sections to be deleted
Talk:Pood

message: Merged from Talk:Pot (mass measure):  I think "pood" is the most common transliteration, and should be the main entry.
I cant read it, but in the Russian Wikipedia see
pood ru:Пуд
funt ru:Фунт (единица измерения)
Gene Nygaard 19:55, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Done.  Completed merge of article and talk, fixed links to those pages.  Gene Nygaard 12:48, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

message: Mikkalai has removed this, which I characterized as rare, perhaps too hastily.  It should probably be discussed--though I'd just as soon not see it restored as well.
*In particular, I'd assume that there is some reason why the original entry under that spelling was made.  Perhaps also a reason why a few other articles linked there; at least somebody found that spelling to which to make the links (and they didn't use the pood spelling in those articles).
*The recently added "Tatar" units in Medieval weights and measures include this same unit under the pot spelling.  (Perhaps Mikkalai can help clean up that article as well.)
*The word "pot" is far too common with many different meanings in English for me to bother trying to verify its use under that spelling as a unit of measure with this meaning in an internet search.
*Can anyone find interwiki links in languages other than the Russian language Wikipedia, which was only added here with the merge from "Pot (mass measure)", where I had added it before?  This was a fairly widely used unit, and I'm sure it would have had local variations in various local languages (some of which may not have been written in Cyrillic alphabet), so the variant spelling "pot" might come from a language other than Russian.  Gene Nygaard 16:50, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Alternate spelling "pot"

message: As part of an alt history timeline I was writing, I tried to come up with a 'scientific' definition of the pood based on the weight of a volume of water.  It turns out that the mass of 1000 cubic inches of water is one pood to within four digits of accuracy.  Does anyone know if Peter the Great standardized the pood at the same time he imposed definitions for the Russian units of length, area, and volume based on the English inch and the mass of water? Carolina wren (talk) 06:32, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Serendipitous coincidence or deliberate definition?

message: "Since 1899 It is approximately set to 16.38 kilograms (36.11 pounds)."
This is very odd, if true. It would seem more likely to have been set approximately to something than to have been approximately set to it. There's definitely a difference.
Jack Vermicelli 2601:407:4180:40E9:6C45:61AC:1F7D:A049 (talk) 22:38, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Approximately set to, or set aproximately to?
Talk:Indiana University Kokomo

message: I added the fact box and tried to clean the article up a bit. Some of the info is a bit sketchy and the offical website for the school isnt very helpful. Acaides 03:58, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Fact box

message: I propose that the section IU Kokomo Cougars be split into a separate page called IU Kokomo Cougars. For me to update it I need a separate page. This is a good idea because the original article needs a complete revision. Also with the speed of growth of the athletic department makes more since on it's own. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kickmehardonatreadmill (talk • contribs) 18:44, March 24, 2021 (UTC)
:Ordinarily I'd say to just go for it but you have a conflict of interest so it wouldn't be a good idea for you to directly create the article yourself. Create the draft article in a sandbox and we can look at it. Or you can go through the formal process for creating an article but I think they have a pretty long backlog in reviewing new submissions. ElKevbo (talk) 22:47, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Splitting Proposal
Category talk:Japanese military leaders

message: I don't know what others think of this decision, but I created a separate category :Category:Japanese samurai leaders, and took many articles out of here, replacing them into the new category. Considering the vast vast differences between Japan of the last 150 years or so and the Japan of earlier centuries, culturally and politically, as well as in terms of military technology, modes, methods, and motives, it only seemed right that someone like Hideki Tojo or Yonai Mitsumasa be placed in a separate category from Minamoto no Yoshitsune and Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
I decided to make the cut-off point the end of the Meiji Revolution - I'm really not sure whether or not the battles of the Meiji period can be considered to be in modern modes, or simply feudal samurai modes with the superficial trappings of modern warfare; but the Sino-Japanese War, Russo-Japanese War, and the two World Wars, I hope most would agree, definitely involved a significantly modernized Japanese military. The only entry I've come across thus far that was difficult for me to classify as 'feudal/samurai' or 'modern' was Saigō Takamori.
LordAmeth 04:10, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Uzi

message: The infobox lists wars in which the Uzi has been used.
a) Most of the list entries are unreffed.
b) The list includes The Troubles and the Falklands war, where the linked articles give no indication of who used the weapon or for what purpose.
c) The list includes warious 'metaphorical' criminal wars such as Miami Drug Wars, which actually pipes to an individual drug 'baron-ess', who did have the Uzi used against her on at least one ocassion.
Are these inclusions valid and/or remotely useful? Pincrete (talk) 10:27, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Used in wars" in infobox 

message: Who the heck uses this weapon in the Syrian civil war? If it was it really should be sourced. ColorfulSmoke (talk) 11:21, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Syria on war list 

message: Hello
The main article photo, as well as the one titled "Uzi with folding stock", are both semi-automatic versions licensed to a US retailer (Action Arms LTF) and sold to the public.  Im not sure any of the pics are actual original military UZI's from IMI. MI tried finding some public domain pictures but with no success. Ive swapped the main pic to one in the wikimedia which while im not sure where it is from, I do know its not a US version. If anyone could get some photos of actual Israeli versions it would be a good upgrade. Oemurray (talk) 10:00, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference Photos
Talk:Decision model

message: On 2013.02.12 I (Sam Holtzman) revised this article to reflect up-to-date terminology and the better understanding that now exists.  I had trouble creating the needed format for a reference.  Please help! Once I see how to do this properly, I plan to add other references. I am eager to see comments and suggestions from the decision-analysis community. (sholtzman@qudec.com)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sholtzman (talk • contribs) 05:00, 14 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Phil McGraw

message: : Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 08:15, 19 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 12 February 2022 

message: In February 2022, around a dozen current and former Dr. Phil employees accused McGraw of mistreating people involved with his show. Speaking anonymously with Buzzfeed News, these people claimed that they experienced "verbal abuse in a workplace that fosters fear, intimidation, and racism." Seven current employees also claimed the show's guests are often brought onto the show when they’re already in a vulnerable state, and are manipulated and treated unethically. Attorneys for McGraw and his co-producer Carla Pennington categorically denied every allegation made. However, a spokesperson for ViacomCBS told Variety, among other things, that "creating safe and inclusive working environments is a top priority" and that “We encourage any employee who believes that they or others within the company have been treated unfairly to report it without a fear of retaliation. We take seriously all such reports.” 2601:447:4000:220:5EB:69E8:5A8B:EAF7 (talk) 23:01, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Allegations of Hostile Work Environment

message: Change “Ph.D. in clinical psychology” to “Psy.D. in clinical psychology” 47.144.241.191 (talk) 01:20, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: The sources in the article say Ph.D. RudolfRed (talk) 02:07, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 27 April 2022 

message: For starters the reference listed is not credible and in addition to that if you read the referenced source it does not say the made up libel Petsemetary claimed, this user has repeatedly done this kind of thing, he created an entire article on Sexy Vegan just to bash him with made up stuff. 2601:586:CA80:B260:5401:35C8:6A93:210D (talk) 09:40, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The libel about Sexy Vegan under the controversy section is made up by a known Sexy Vegan hater named Petsemetary, please delete it and block Petsematary 

message: In the controversy section it starts in 1988 not 1998 24.153.59.157 (talk) 23:19, 8 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed in 2022. - 63.226.203.53 (talk) 23:39, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Someone edit
Talk:Tourism in the Maldives

message: * Some of the passages in the article seem to be replicated from this page, thus I have considered a re-write. I have also omitted a few passages that I feel are irrelevant; please revert them if you feel that I have dropped an important point. Thanks. Xumm1du 11:00, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyright violation

message: Following section has been moved from article to discussion page
This section is not relevant to be published under Tourism in the Maldives. The publisher of the content may create a relevant article for this. --Oblivious 17:31, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: There could also be a possible copy-vio here. Check this site. Please re-write this, if there is any possible copy-vio.  If anyone would like to create article for this topic I suggested article to be named Ithaa   --Oblivious 17:56, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  removed section 

message: About how the tourists arrange 123.176.15.9 (talk) 04:05, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tourism in Maldives
Talk:Beatmatching

message: Removed a lot of linking here. It's not necessary to:
#Link back to the current article
#Link a word once you've already linked it before
Akchizar 05:37, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Unnecessary links

message: This article seems a bit too much like a how-to guide, but I cant see how to re-write it so that its more like what an article should be without cutting a large chunk out of it. Any suggestions? StealthFox 22:13, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Cut away. Rootless 05:01, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reformatting 

message: I added sectoins from the page "beatmixing" because they describe the process of beatmatching, and I have never heard the term "beatmixing" used in the DJ world. DJ mix page already exists. 
The sections I added are ugly but I don't have time to fix them at the moment. I think I will adopt this page(Drn8 (talk) 18:35, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added Sections 

message: I'm not a clubber, but a partner-dancer.
To me, constant beat sounds as though it would be at best monotonous, at worst 'cruel and unusual punishment'.
Is there no equivalent of 'slow movements', ritardando, accelerando etc in classical music ?
"constant beat when a new DJ takes over" - that I can understand
--195.137.93.171 (talk) 16:13, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "it is standard practice in clubs to keep the constant beat through the night" - really ? 

message: There doesn't seem to be a section about the proposed merge, but for what it's worth, I support it. Beatmixing is an archaic term, I doubt anyone uses it anymore. Quaestor23 (talk) 00:05, 21 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge Beatmixing into this page
Talk:Abraham Goldfaden

message: At first I was accumulating some of the remarks on contradictions and vaguenesses in sources in the article itself, but I can see that this is a subject where there could be a lot of these, so I've moved two of them here. -- Jmabel | Talk
* His (short) New York Times obituary claims that he graduated from the University of Odessa, but Israil Bercovici's reasonably detailed biographical sketch makes no mention of this. 
* Bercovici mentions another writer named Bernstein as an acquaintance during his early manhood in Odessa, but provides no further identifcation. (Jan 2005)
I wrote most of this article before we were being scrupulous about footnoting; a great deal of it comes from the cited book by Bercovici, which is a pretty rare book; I was lucky to get hold of a copy for a few weeks and doubt I could again. The book has only been published in Yiddish and Romanian; I don't read Yiddish; there are only three Romanian-language copies I'm aware of in U.S. libraries (though I'm sure there are rather more in Romania). The University of Chicago was nice enough to lend me their copy on interlibrary loan via the Seattle Public Library, but university libraries don't often lend to public libraries, so they probably won't do so again; hence, unless someone gets hold of a copy, it is going to be very hard to properly footnote this. - Jmabel | Talk 00:00, 6 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradictions and vaguenesses in sources
Talk:Dinosaur Hill Park

message: Removed the Ghosts section - this sounds like encouraging troublemaking. I have a really nice panorama from this park, which I will post, Leonard G. 06:02, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: no, the ghost is legit, i saw it.  it was really scary. Jm51 02:44, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)

text: "sounds like encouraging troublemaking" is not a valid reason to remove a section of an article.  The section on the ghost is a completely valid piece of lore about the park.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.131.62.115 (talk) 16:14, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Volvo Super Olympian

message: I fail to understand why a Volvo B10TL with a specific type of bodywork requires a whole article to itself when another article exists on the B10TL chassis itself.  Bus chassis can appear with many variations of bodywork built by a range of manufacturers, that should all be detailed in the article about the chassis type, not a separate one for each combination.  I can understand the Wright bodywork style having its own entry, but a B10TL is a B10TL, regardless of who built the frame on top of it.  And why just the Wright bodied one, is there something particularly special about it that differs so drastically from other B10TLs?  I'm reasonably well scoped on who builds what in the road transport industry, but even for me this is confusing, so how will someone who has come here to reasearch or learn find it?  --Ayrshire--77 19:28, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Volvo B10TL and Volvo B10TL (Wright-bodied)
Template talk:Toronto landmarks

message: I have added these two articles into the template, but DoubleBlue had deleted them.  These places are landmarks because they are indeed unique, since they are museums featuring footwear and ceramics respectively.  If Atlanta's World of Coca-Cola for example is a landmark, then Bata Shoe Museum would definitely be a landmark.  DoubleBlue, explain how some places, such as Robarts Library, Honest Ed's, or Sam the Record Man, are landmarks.  If Robarts Library is a landmark, then the Toronto Reference Library would definitely be a landmark. If the Toronto Islands are a landmark, why are the Scarborough Bluffs not a landmark, since the sediment from these bluffs created these islands, or Leslie Street Spit? If the Royal Alexandra Theatre is a landmark, why are the Poor Alex Theatre or the Bloor Cinema not landmarks? If Nathan Phillips Square is a landmark, why not Mel Lastman Square?  If San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, London's Tower Bridge, Sydney's Harbour Bridge and New York City's Brooklyn Bridge are all landmarks, how about the Prince Edward Viaduct, the Leaside Bridge, or the Hogg's Hollow Bridge?  How are parks landmarks?  If they are not landmarks, then remove them. Johnny Au (talk) 21:27, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Since no one responded, I have included Scarborough Bluffs and Prince Edward Viaduct into the list. Johnny Au (talk) 21:26, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Bata Shoe Museum]], [[Gardiner Museum]], and other potential landmarks 

message: Um.. Is Scarborough Town Centre really a landmark? No, I really don't think so. It sure is a local attraction, but when someone visits Toronto, Scarborough Town Centre usually isn;t on the top of their list... I'm removing it, but if you really think it's an attraction, add it back. Gambolling (talk) 03:30, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It is just a local attraction, as Scarborough Town Centre is no different from most suburban malls (despite the fact that it contains Scarborough's Walk of Fame, which is considered local interest).  Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 04:17, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scarborough Town Centre 

message: How would people feel about splitting this table into several more manageable ones? It has become quite big and unwieldily. - Epson291 (talk) 20:44, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  It's been a couple of months so I'll go ahead and do it. - Epson291 (talk) 18:02, 22 September 2014 (UTC)

text: Ok, I went ahead and split it into these templates and cleaned up this template.  The difference before and after.
**Template:Sport venues in Toronto
**Template:Museums and galleries in Toronto
**Template:Parks and squares in Toronto
**Template:Neighbourhoods of Toronto
**Template:Shopping malls and neighbourhoods in Toronto
**Template:Theatres in Toronto
**Template:Public institutions and infrastructure in Toronto  - Epson291 (talk) 19:38, 22 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Splitting
Talk:Megathrust earthquake

message: This article doesn't state what scale the magnitudes are for. I suppose it's the moment magnitude scale? Brianjd 06:10, 2004 Dec 29 (UTC)
:Did moment magnitude scale exist in 1700? Or was that 9.0 figure for the 1700 quake guessed (guess, since it can't be accurate) much later on? Cascadia Earthquake says 9.0 on the Richter scale, but Richter magnitude scale says it can't be used for magnitudes > 8.0. -- Paddu 21:03, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  What scale are the magnitudes for? 

message: The current wording reads, "...no other type of known tectonic activity can produce earthquakes of this scale." Does this mean that 
* no other type of known tectonic activity is known to produce > 9.0Mw earthquakes
or is the assertion, as the wording would imply, that
* no other tectonic activity can possibly produce earthquakes of this scale?
If it is the latter, wouldn't that need sourcing? Zach99998 (talk) 12:56, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Activity causing > 9.0 Mw 

message: That section is very US-centric and it isn't of much importance for non-US inhabitants. 200.90.235.185 (talk) 06:12, 5 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: The Big One

message: , I reverted your edit because it was a bare statement with no reference to back it up, not because I thought it was dubious. 
You clearly know more about editing Wikipedia than your short contribution list would allow; perhaps you forgot to log in?— Gorthian (talk) 19:07, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm, maybe you don't know as much about editing here as I thought. No need to be so rude.— Gorthian (talk) 19:33, 7 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  American terminology 