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Talk:Bari

message: I’ve seen that the air quality here is one of the worst in Europe but I fail to see why. The spread of this area of this defiled air spreads southeast to cover a decent area. It’s fine if it may seem irrelevant to the city itself, I just can’t get rid of this seed of curiosity. Lladdusaw (talk) 15:58, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh boy, you just have a QUESTIONABLE life here, huh? I imagine how bad it must be to live in a place like that, rlly bad, man. 177.105.90.10 (talk) 15:10, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Air Quality 

message: Near the end of this section on Bari's history, a contributor published an odd paragraph that stating that "Water first arrived in Bari in 1915" and that the city of Bari had "twenty years of Italisn fascism" to thank for the development of its "seafront."
The subject of "water" arriving and the development of Bari's seafront seem to be contributions made with small errors in English: the contributor clear mean "running water" or plumbing when saying "water arrived" and should have used the word "waterfront" instead of "seafront." These changes have been substituted.
However, it's unclear to me whether the contributor meant to "thank" the efforts of a mayor for development of the waterfront, or "Italian fascism." Either way, the statement was too subjective to remain reliable, and one that simply listed the time, the mayor, and the developed waterfront has been substituted in its place. Mjflanagan0 (talk) 19:46, 12 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  On the Subject of "Water arriving in Bari" and Other Choices
Talk:Light value

message: Although code readability is desirable, I think it's secondary to readability of the rendered article. With sans-serif type, there is little difference in appearance between HTML and ASCII quotes, but ASCII quotes look hideous if the article is printed using a serif typeface. WP guidelines allow either style; using HTML quotes provides acceptable rendering independent of typeface.
Linking luminance value to luminance and incident light value to illuminance is somewhat misleading, because the 'value' terms are the logarithms of the physical quantities. I'll concede, however, that there is little likelihood of (or need for) articles on luminance value and incident light value, so I've pointed these links to the APEX article where the definitions are given. I agree with Fru1tbat that the previous linking was excessive for an article of this length, so I've removed the redundant links.
JeffConrad 02:19, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Edits of 26 January 2007
Talk:Teri Hatcher

message: She is Part Asian, this should be noted.
Could we please put a more flattering picture of Teri Hatcher on the page?
:Image:Teri_Hatcher_is_Lois_Lane.jpg
hello!
i love Lois & Clark it's the best show ever
That picture of her (from Lois & Clark) is unbelievable!  WOW!!!
:::I'd of picked a Desperate Housewives photo. But it's still better than the one we have! Bubble bunny
(Moved from main article)
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What mark of panties was it she endorsed? I remember it created a big fuss at the time but I dont remember the mark. It would be good to know to include hat information on the article too. By the way, I loved those panty commercials!
Antonio Controversy Bound Martin
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I removed a number of links that were quite obviously advertisements for some porn sites. Anon user 4.250.198.92 put them back in, and said:
:Don't tell me you think these three are x rated !
I can only say that this user seems to have totally misunderstood. The links were removed since they were really not interesting, just a large collection of presumed copyright violations, with no further interest. And gateways to porn sites.  They add nothing of value. Wikipedia is not a link farm. Egil 20:26, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Part Asian
Talk:Little Belt

message: An alternate terminology could be "Little Belt".
:Which seems a little more plausible to me, although I can´t say why. Somebody with an English-language atlas might look this up. Kosebamse 22:53 23 May 2003 (UTC)
::My two nominally English atlases only use Danish, but Google knows all - "little belt" + denmark is 10-to-1 more popular than "small belt" + denmark.  So I moved it.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Stan Shebs (talk • contribs) 
:"Little Belt" is the form that conforms to the Danish name. Two of the Danish three Danish straits are named "Storebælt" and "Lillebælt", i.e. the Great Belt and the Little Belt. The two names go together as both of them border Funen. Valentinian T / C 11:03, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lillebælt 

message: Translated the page from the Danish Wikipedia and added it to the existing content. Also reworded the paragraph about the German song references. Jbvejle (talk) 00:00, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation complete 
Talk:Ape

message: The preferred spelling of "catarrhine" is with two Rs. Please fix. 2601:200:C000:1A0:50A5:DDF:73A6:A4D3 (talk) 04:29, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Peter coxhead (talk) 05:42, 20 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prefer preferred spelling 

message: The first sentence in the article claims that apes are native to Africa and Southeast Asia. Since humans are also apes (which is how it is treated in the article), the first sentence cannot be true. It is true that humans originated in Africa, but that doesn't mean they're native to Africa Pajo96 (talk) 15:46, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I assume the article is using the term "ape" to exclude humans.--Mr Fink (talk) 15:53, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

text: A native species is a species that is found in a certain ecosystem due to natural processes, such as natural distribution and evolution. So humans originating in Africa, does mean that they're are native to Africa. But since it is unclear what exactly natural means when talking about ecology of humans their range outside of Africa is left out. The natural range is about the other extant species of apes besides humans - gibbons and orangutans in Southeast Asia; Chimpanzees, Bonobos and Gorillas in Africa.Kardoen (talk) 15:59, 4 October 2021 (UTC)

text: I don't think the term "native" in the biological sense is useful applied to humans, since it is opposed to "introduced" meaning 'introduced by human agency as opposed to the species' own agency'. This makes no sense when "species" = "human". Peter coxhead (talk) 16:08, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  How are apes native to Africa and Southeast Asia? 

message: I expanded the last paragraph of the lead, and removed the citation needed tag. Citing references would put 27 tags here, one for each of the non-human species. This seems like overkill, when the references can be found on the relevant species articles. I think my expanded text will help the reader reach the references more applicably than just inserting a large block of references. However, I'm not opposed to finding a better way. - UtherSRG (talk) 14:56, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Threatened extinction 

message: Request to remove "(though this is the subject of much debate)" in refrence to apes also being part of the clade catarrhini and therefore called monkeys in addition to apes. There is no debate in the scientific community that we are part of the nested hierarchy that includes both apes and monkeys. 2600:1700:72A5:C010:CCCC:1D9F:3D90:42DA (talk) 00:41, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the  template. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 05:32, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

text: Actually, it has already been done by . Peter coxhead (talk) 06:59, 2 June 2023 (UTC)

text: There's no debate that it's correct according to strict cladistics, but there's sometimes debate as to whether strict cladistics is always useful for practical terminology. AnonMoos (talk) 21:29, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 2 June 2023
Talk:Anti-France sentiment

message: *An account of the phenomena that the anti-French sentiment is, who embraces it and why.
*NOT an account of French history of foreign relations.
*NOT a list of criticisms.
This is to avoid the complications that came up in the Anti-American sentiment article, although much less people are touchy about anti-Frenchism, so this should be less problematic.Jules LT 20:32, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: What this article is
Talk:TV (disambiguation)

message: Hmm, though like I indicated in the comment, I do think it's a better idea to disambiguate here than to put Transvestite on the Television page, of course, I see that Transvestite is itself a disambig. Should we copy the list from there to here, and add a level to their listings, or just accept a double disambig? -- John Owens 13:27 Apr 14, 2003 (UTC)
:I think the double disambiguation is probably best.  BTW, I've just finished fixing the links to this page and all 80something referred to television.  I don't think "TV" will be used in an article to refer to transvestite without explanation, and this page is going to pile up links again pretty soon.  But, despite that, I think that the disambiguation is necessary and you are right that this is the best way to do it.  -- sannse 16:39 Apr 27, 2003 (UTC)
I've just added the .tv as in the Country-code_top-level_domain#T of Tuvalu then noticed the iso is on the list already not sure if its redundant or not? any one got any thoughts? theonhighgod (talk) 20:48, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
Talk:Kittiwake

message: These are eaten in rural Newfoundland.  Anywhere else?  I can't find an internet source for it. --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 20:02, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  food? 

message: To add to the lead paragraph:  the pronunciation of this word. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 16:47, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: To add to article
Talk:Right-wing politics

message: As it stands, a specific poster from early 20th-century United Kingdom is a way too specific image to illustrate this subject on top of the article, and it date more than a century after the original use of the term.
  — Preceding unsigned comment added by BookNotion (talk • contribs) 19:03, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: And the term wasn't used until the 20th century.  TFD (talk) 19:40, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposition : Putting the Estatesgeneral.jpg image on top of the article. 

message: Many people who identify as social/cultural liberals would object to being counted as right wing. Since the conception of left/right, social liberalism was usually a leftist project.
The political compass suggests splitting the political spectrum into an egalitarian (leftist) vs. economic liberal (rightist) dimension vs. an authoritarian/social liberal dimension. This reflects that eg. nazism is generally considered right wing and authoritarian, Soviet Union style communism is left wing and authoritarian. DarthBarth (talk) 07:30, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The article does not mention social/cultural liberalism. It does mention "liberal conservatives" who stress small government and free markets, but that is very different from social or cultural liberalism. Rick Norwood (talk) 10:29, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is social/cultural liberalism listed as right-wing? 

message: We have a single paper presenting a WP:FRINGE view of the politics of the CPC hinged off a single book by a minor academic. h-index - 9 - doesn't indicate he's particularly influential in his field. I didn't delete this when I did my first pass on the China stuff because I was more focused on the failed verifications but now I'm asking: does anybody think this is due a specific pullout? Simonm223 (talk) 12:37, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Christer Pursainen due?
Talk:Banana republic

message: The sources cited under 'United States' don't actually suggest the US is a banana republic. Citation 24 literally argues why the US is not a banana republic. Citation 25 is using the term 'banana republic' as an insult or perjorative rather than trying to convey that the US falls under the political science definition of 'banana republic. It's like calling a country 'fascist' or a 'dictatorship' as a perjorative. It's an expression rather than a serious claim that said country falls within the technical meaning of the word.
In any case, I don't think the latter of these citations is in line with the Wikipedia:Weight policy.
I would suggest removing the United States from this for lack of supporting material. At most, maybe a section can be included instead on how the term 'Banana republic' is also used as a perjorative expression in modern times.
Edit: I have removed the sentence in question. I think a case could be made to add it back if the article included a discussion on how the term is sometimes used in political discourse and commentary to criticise aspects of a government, but otherwise, it would be misleading. If anyone wants to add it back feel free to discuss your reasons here.
Combustible Vulpex (talk) 08:02, 22 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section on 'Modern interpretations' 

message: I'm starting this topic to address a series of edits I'll be making to the first reference, to Cabbages and Kings:
# I'm replacing the Google Books URL with a link to an Internet Archive holding, as the pages parameter was previously linking to IA anyway. I'm doing this for consistency's sake and because both the Google Books and prior IA links were to a 1913 edition, not the first edition as cited.
# I'm moving the reference to appear after "coined the term" per WP:TSI; as it stands, its placement suggests it is a citation regarding Chiquita.
# I'm going to add a citation that says explicitly that this book coined the term, because the fact that the book contains the phrase -- even if the books is the earliest example of it -- is not sufficient to support that statement.
– spida-tarbell ❀ (talk) (contribs) 21:42, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cabbages and Kings citation 

message: @AKS I know IP edits that delete stuff without explanation should be nuked pretty much always, but I actually agree with the edit in this case, kind of. The former prime minister of Pakistan's comments over his arrest warrant are probably not a serious source in the context of the content of this article. JackTheSecond (talk) 19:11, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pakistan, Bananas and IP edits
Wikipedia talk:Neutral point of view/Examples

message: Is there a stated policy on the use of AD and BC versus CE and BCE for discussing dates on Wikipedia?
I think the CE/BCE terms are much more in keeping with the NPOV policy, although I know AD/BC terms
are more familiar to most. AD="In the year of our Lord" implies the superiority and truth of Christianity
over other religions or non-religions for that matter. Not commenting about truth of Christianity,
but it doesn't seem appropriate for Wikipedia to use those terms when neutral terms exist, such as
BCE=Before Common Era and CE=Common Era.
Before I start revising articles for this, I'm curious if there is a Wikipedia policy about it.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.255.18.137 (talk) 21:03, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  AD/BC versus CE/BCE 

message: I cut "can be validated on demand in such a way that a reasonable person would accept the evidence beyond a reasonable doubt" from what is a fact and replaced it with the idea a fact is an undisputed item.  If this is a problem, please comment (or revert). Tom - Talk 06:22, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the original "can be validated on demand..." version is closer to the spirit of what "facts" are compared with merely "undisputed", even if it is wordier than your replacement.  But given your comment was made 2 years ago and apparently no one care to either comment or revert, I am not motivated to revert anything at this time. 24.19.184.243 09:03, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is a fact? 

message: This is not a valid abbreviation used anywhere and probably constitutes a WP:HOAX, have substituted with the widely recognised form '£ stg'. TheCurrencyGuy (talk) 02:31, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: That is a clear violation of your topic ban. Don't do that. --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 19:21, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: So you're happy to retain patent nonsense. This is not a currency-related page. There is no verifiable reliable source that can be cited for "GB£" in the way there is for "£ stg", it clearly does not belong in an encyclopaedia. TheCurrencyGuy (talk) 10:58, 18 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  GB£
Talk:William Allen (cardinal)

message: The entry states: "The large majority of English Roman Catholics sided with their own nation against the Spanish, and the defeat of the Armada, in 1588, was a subject of rejoicing to them no less than to their Anglican countrymen." Is this true for sure? We all know about Elizabeth I of England persecutions and how many Catholics were executed as traitors during her reign..Mistico (talk) 19:37, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't know whether that's true -- but what is true is that by that time many Catholics were getting mighty tired of the combination of Cardinal Allen's endless labyrinthine scheming cynical conniving political manipulations to bring about the invasion of England, together with his amazing bloodthirsty ranting tirades which revealed him to be completely out of touch with the situation within England, and on the whole they would have rather been without his supposed "assistance" (whose main effect was to taint English Catholics with a suspicion of political treason, without providing substantial compensatory benefits). AnonMoos (talk) 13:26, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Historical Accuracy

message: Are you going to add the source for all the 's you added. Righ now they are Harv errors. —¿philoserf? (talk) 19:10, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for catching that. AWB Preview doesn't run the HarvErrors script, but that's a feeble excuse! David Brooks (talk) 16:56, 26 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  chisolm
Talk:Thinking processes (theory of constraints)

message: * Good start and just a pointer to a bunch of Goldratt material.  Where is the originality?  What about other authors -- de Bono, Buzan, the system dynamics folks at MIT?
** The TOC-TP specifically deals with the techniques pioneered by Goldratt. Ironwolf 10:03, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: * The title of this page seems to be a bit misleading as it seems that it would contain thinking processes in general. I propose that this page be nested within the Theory of Constraints page.Letranova 03:38, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title may need revision
Talk:Cholistan Desert

message: The map is just an unhelpful satellite photo of the entire Indus Valley. The Cholistan Desert, if it is in the photo, is not marked at all. 209.162.56.97 (talk) 04:35, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

message: Very specific environmental event that is unlikely to have lasting Notability, would be better integrated into the larger article -- drawing connections between the article and extreme weather. Sadads (talk) 17:35, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Would it be better to merge with 2022 heat wave in India and Pakistan? VR talk 01:52, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I wouldn't have objection to merging in that direction -- but I think this information is way more relevant to the political geography (the Heat Wave article is already very long and nuanced). But either direction for the merge is fine for me -- just very unlikely that this article will have lasting encyclopedic relevance, and it would be better to be maintained as part of a larger article, Sadads (talk) 17:18, 30 August 2022 (UTC)

text: Klbrain (talk) 10:28, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge of [[2022 Cholistan water crisis]] into [[Cholistan Desert]] 

message: I 've to write a report 39.32.116.235 (talk) 12:59, 30 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cholistan desert water crisis 2022
Talk:Chris Kirkpatrick

message: Is this the Chris Kirkpatrick referenced in the Eminem song "Without Me" at approx 3:00 into the song?
:I would like to know from this article too if this is true, it is the reason I looked up Kirkpatrick. Walterego (talk) 05:38, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Eminem Lyrics reference

message: Why is NSync such a tiny portion of the "career" section?  This should be expanded.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by KaJunl (talk • contribs) 00:01, 27 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  NSync 

message: http://www.vitaeonline.com/chris-kirkpatrick-93/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8807:A700:A7E:19AE:75F3:6FE7:61DD (talk) 18:30, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Could an auto-confirmed Wikipedia user please add this to the article?

message: More details have been added with references to his early life and career (during NSYNC and post-NSYNC) Katerpillarfly (talk) 02:09, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expanded sections on early life and career
Talk:John le Carré

message: The publication date of the last book in the list (Agent Running in The Field) is given as October the 15th. Surely that should be the 17th? 108.171.128.180 (talk) 19:11, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Typo(s) 

message: I have added the recently deceased template because it is highly likely that there will be an increase in edits following his death. Feel free to remove it if it is deemed unnecessary. Thanks, Giraffer munch 22:20, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Since his article is a candidate for In The News on the Main Page and will most likely undergo many edits to improve its chances, the tag should remain till, possibly, in the morning. Wyliepedia @ 23:53, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death template 

message: This Guardian article by their son Nick Cornwell says that his parents formed a writing team for their fifty years together. I think reference to this is worthy of inclusion & suspect it may feature in future biography.
 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/mar/13/my-father-was-famous-as-john-le-carre-my-mother-was-his-crucial-covert-collaborator
Mattymmoo (talk) 12:13, 13 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  second wife Alison as collaborator and de facto editor 

message: We'd already acheived consensus long ago that This author's novels should be listed chrinologically. The current categories are untenable and absurd. TheScotch (talk) 20:13, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. The only novels that can be meaningfully grouped are those in the Smiley Versus Karla trilogy. Easthillian (talk) 06:25, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bibliogragraphy 

message: --— ⦿⨦⨀Tumadoireacht Talk/Stalk 08:48, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the encyclopaedia Britannica, John Le Carré was English.Halbared (talk) 19:22, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

text: According to the man himself, he refers to himself as 'Englishman.'Halbared (talk) 19:34, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Irish Author ?
Talk:History of the Jews in Russia

message: The greatest source of Jewish migration to Israel by far has been Russia and the Soviet Union. And in fact this article states, "During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Russian Empire had not only the largest Jewish population in the world, but actually a majority of the world's Jews living within its borders," but I am unable to find any explanation of how this came to be. The article does say that there was a period when Jews tended to migrate from western to eastern Europe, but how they got from there into Russia or why they expanded so much there despite lengthily described persecutory policies is a mystery. It would be great if someone in the know could add a bit of background here. 2001:14BA:A02C:4200:503B:C8AF:7ED7:CCDE (talk) 15:24, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add information on why/how Russia ended up with most of the world's Jewish population