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Talk:Blue Laws (Connecticut)

message: Blue Laws as opposed to a Blue law, are distinctly different.
"Blue Laws" generally refer to the Blue Laws of Connecticut, and a "Blue law" is a general term that may refer to other such laws.
WB2 08:12, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The first three paragraphs of this article desperately need a copyedit verging on complete rewrite; the actual list of the laws should be transwikied to Wikisource. I haven't got time to do this right now; I'll come back and do it later if nobody else gets to it first. -Polonius 13:44, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyedit

message: All else aside, this is patently notable. rootology (C)(T) 14:43, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Has anyone suggested otherwise?--Scott MacDonald (talk) 14:50, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The reference, I believe, is to the previous talk topic. So, yes, someone is suggesting otherwise, and User:Rootology (now retired, apparently) is responding to that suggestion. I'm noting this for the record because this article is important in relation to the main article on Blue Laws. Allreet (talk) 06:10, 28 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable
Talk:Donkey Kong Racing

message: This article survived an Articles for Deletion debate. The discussion can be found here. -Splashtalk 23:45, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Articles for Deletion debate
Talk:Calligraphy

message: Hello there, I made a writing push few years back expanding Western and East Asian calligraphies section. Since then the article got enriched with a lot of diverse traditions, which is nice. But this article has also degraded : fragmatation, over illustration, lack of overall organisation. I moved away from this field and can only do few minor edits as I did today, but this beautiful article is in need of an overall rewrite and clean up. May I suggest the following axis of improvements with the example of well documented East Asian calligraphy :
* Top level section for major tradition. Then level 2 === sections : 
** 0) Overview: few phrases
** a) Evolution/History: main content.
** b) Technique/Tools: basics on tools, their uses ; optional illusatration(s).
** c) Styles : major variations such as cursive, regular, etc.
** d) Influences/Schools/Traditions : groups the root tradition (Chinese) and other traditions. Mentions briefly Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Mongol with their respective differences.
* Illustrations : limit to 3 per gallery. Keep it minimal since we have 6 major tradition and ~20 national traditions to document.
* Move around: Vietnam should be with Eastern Asian group, in it's "Influences/Schools/Traditions" sub-section. Philippine in South Asia group. Eastern Europe could be into Western's "Influences/Schools/Traditions" sub-section. Yug (talk) 🐲 16:10, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Post-2023 clean up
Talk:List of kigo

message: :Image:Ume.jpg New photo - Plum blossoms (ume), one of the many different flowers used as spring kigo
:Image:Plum_flowers.jpg shows plum blossoms, not ume blossoms. The flower stalks are too long to be ume. Image:Ume.jpg shows ume blossoms. --163.139.215.193 16:00, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ume blossom photos 

message: In the absence of any indication to the contrary, it seems reasonable to assume that this "list of kigo" should ideally be a complete list. It should be made clear in the lead, in accordance with Wikipedia:Lists#Lead_section_or_paragraph, just what the scope of the list is. If it is indeed the aim to make a complete list, then this is much complicated (and perhaps rendered impossible) by the inclusion of "international kigo" as well as Japanese ones. While there is a large number of Japanese kigo, most of which are clearly defined as to their seasonality, to list them would perhaps not be a superhuman task; but once the task is widened to include "all international kigo", then its feasibility must be called into question. A spring phenomenon in one place is a summer one in another; there are innumerable culturally-specific season-signifiers around the globe; climate in many parts is not neatly arranged  into four seasons on the Japanese model.
At the moment the article seems to be neither one thing nor another. If the aim of this article is not to be an exhaustive list (even of just Japanese kigo), then its reason for existing may be questionable. There is already a representative sample of Japanese kigo in the kigo article.
I'd appreciate if editors interested in this article joined the discussion. Thanks. --Yumegusa (talk) 13:08, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. A list of "seasonal words" or something seems fine, but "non-Japanese kigo" seems a bit odd. Kigo is a Japanese concept related to the use of words in haiku. In English, iIt's not a general term for words associated with seasons all over the world. This article seems quite flawed to me too. Cheers, Nesnad (talk) 03:41, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree too.  Rosebowl parade?  Dominion day?  These are not kigo-related.  Exploding Boy (talk) 23:45, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, in view of the consensus expressed, I'll start excising references to non-Japanese items from the article. The question remains whether this "list" is a viable article, even if it deals only with Japanese kigo. --Yumegusa (talk) 01:03, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scope of this article? 

message: Kigo already includes a list of kigo, and WP:NOTDICTIONARY says we shouldn't have independent pages that simply list words. elvenscout742 (talk) 14:11, 31 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge?
Talk:Zesh Rehman

message: I just thought I'd say Zesh isn't the first muslim to play in the premier league, plenty of players from muslim countries, morocco, algeria egypt etc have already played for clubs.  Zeshan is the first British-Pakistani to play for a club.
:Possibly also the first British-born Muslim - almost certainly the first to be born a Muslim (perhaps there are British-born converts in the league?)--MartinUK (talk) 00:24, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: This section contains too much original research (or POV) and should be modified. I don't think it is very encyclopedic to say that his lack of England U-21 call-ups was a "kick in the teeth". Jogurney 21:21, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  International career section needs work 

message: Maybe add somewhere that he blogs for setanta sports?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by KaleemMyster (talk • contribs) 02:29, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Surely he no longer blogs for Setanta Sports as that company no longer exists? --Allanlewis (talk) 13:49, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Setanta Sports Blog 

message: I've added about 8 or so sources to help. I'm new to this so forgive me. Spiderone (talk) 17:00, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll add a few more citations to the QPR section as it is largely unsourced. Spiderone (talk) 09:00, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA nomination 
Talk:Puget Sound salmon recovery

message: I was going to add , because Puget Sound already contains a section on the salmon in Puget Sound. In fact, it contains several sections on salmon (and related flora/fauna):
* Eelgrass
* The Evolution of Pacific Salmon
* Degradation of Salmon Habitat in the Puget Sound
* The Needs of Salmon for Survival
* The need for salmon & steelhead hatchery reform
I reckon it would be best to split that out to a separate article, merging the content with this article. Not sure whether Puget Sound salmon would be a good place for the combination, though. Rl 10:04, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The article has been renamed Puget Sound salmon recovery because that is what the article is actually focused on.  This previous title implied a distinct type of salmon "Puget Sound salmon" which is not the case.  I will be reorganizing the article to bring it inline with MOS and focus the content on the history of salmon declines in the Puget Sound and the growth of and ongoing projects of recovery efforts. --Mike Cline (talk) 16:45, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikifying and restructuring the article 

message: Hey everyone,
Not sure if this connects fully, but for those editors more attuned - if this might help, have at it! - a brief Seattle P-I report of a wetlands purchase by the Nature Conservancy via a Salmon Recovery Funding Board grant in 2002.
Enjoy! Shortiefourten (talk) 16:45, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Potential source available but unsure if it fully fits under this topic
Talk:National Military Strategy (United States)

message: New article to discuss the National Military Strategy of the United States. Intended as part of a series of articles on US defense planning and budgeting. --Rev Prez 09:44, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Except to link to the GAO text for 10 USC 153, there are no other references to add except to the National Military Strategy itself, and I cannot confirm that I have clearance for that document, or that anybody reading this comment has that or a higher clearance either. So there. Hotfeba 09:08, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sufficient sources?
Category talk:Security

message: Added :Category:United States National Security Policy to elaborate on American national security policy, policymaking and implementation. Intended as part of a series of articles on US defense planning and budgeting. --Rev Prez 10:19, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category addition 

message: I would like to request a category for Automobile Anti-Theft technologies and or parts. I don't know how to do this yet, I read the write up but am not sure I entirely understand it. Thanks for any help! Lsjzl 19:43, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category request
Talk:Adolf Wagner

message: To place the entry for Adolph Wagner under Adolf is certainly wrong, it is ill-advised and makes research more difficult; I wonder why it was done, and apparently without checking the facts?  The German "ph" in names does not mutate into, or is ever transliterated into, "f", in proper names.  It is not a general rule, neither in English nor in Wikipedia (I don't see an entry on "Fotografy".  In this case, it is especially counter-productive, because the name exists in both spellings.  Adolph Wagner always spelled his name the correct way, in all letters, in all publications.  And finally, there actually exists an economist (of minor importance, but still) by the name of Adolf Wagner.  I hope someone can revert this. Clossius 11:01, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: When did the man become Gauleiter?77.162.130.139 (talk) 23:15, 23 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gauleiter 

message: He was obviously a member of the composer's family, since he spoke at the funeral of 
Eva Chamberlain, Richard Wagner's daughter. But there is no mention of his parentage. Where does he fit in? Valetude (talk) 19:27, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Family connection?
Talk:Tanjung Piai

message: Where does Tanjung Piai itself have restaurants? Those are in Kukup, no? Sejtam (talk) 05:21, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Restaurants 

message: The following coordinate fixes are needed for
1.155133, 103.304305
—121.247.140.120 (talk) 09:21, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: as existing coordinates appear to be correct. Please feel free to re-list and say why you think they're incorrect and why the ones you suggest are correct. — TransporterMan (TALK) 20:53, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I concur with the decline.  121.247.140.120 appears to have confused degrees-minutes-seconds with decimal-degrees.  Our current coordinates are 1°15′58″N 103°30′39″E and appear to be correct.  121.247's coordinates of 1.155133°N 103.304305°E correspond to 1°09'18"N 103°18'15"E which is 14 miles away, on the Indonesian side of the Malacca Strait, just north of the island Pulau Mentjes Besar.  If 121.247 had intended to suggest 1°15'51"N 103°30'43"E, then that point is only 800 feet to the SE of ours, and is a bit closer to the shore, but ours does a bit better job of centering on the region of land which includes the Tanjung Piai National Park. -- ToE 13:55, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coordinate error 
Talk:John Ford (Tennessee politician)

message: The resignation para belongs at the end of the article, not the beginning where it was put.  However, as long as events are flying this fast, I will forego a thorough reediting of the article for the time being.  Rlquall 12:07, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: I apologize in advance if my edit is too silly, but it must be pointed out that citation is given to a mainstream news source and any edit that noted the event would come across as silly given what has occurred.TGGP 04:28, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: Umm, this article needs sources.  Badly.  I'm going to remove nearly all of the content here, as WP:BLP compels that action.  If cited, as I suspect most of it can be, it should be readded to the article.  But until then, not citing a single source is simply not an option. · j e r s y k o talk · 03:23, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Just to be clear, I honestly believe John Ford is a corrupt politician, and a lot of the information I removed needs to be replaced.  But it must be cited. · j e r s y k o talk · 03:34, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources

message: Does anyone know what his middle initial stands for for redirect and disambig purposes? Tyciol (talk) 19:07, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Newton.  The TN Encyclopedia of History and Culture contains articles on John and Harold, Sr, and gives his name as John Newton Ford.  I believe NJ, their father, is Newton John Ford: at least I know that his N also stands for Newton.  rags (talk) 23:08, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The Harold Ford article gives their father's name as Newton Jackson Ford.  Harold calls one of his sons Newton Jake.  Would his name be Newton Jackson, after his grandfather?  Seems likely.  rags (talk) 23:53, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: N

message: There are also sisters, at least one of whom has held elective office (?Ophelia? not sure).  rags (talk) 23:16, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Sisters

message: OK, it's been a decade since Tennessee Waltz.  I doubt it's still true that one person has yet to be tried.  And who was that mysterious defendant, alleged bribor or acceptor of bribes?  Is the information even relevant to this article about John Ford?  Maybe not.  rags (talk) 15:09, 21 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Defendant
Talk:Split vote

message: this article doesn't perhaps cover the term well enough. For example, I'm trying to find out, what does a "split vote" mean in case of the European Parliament voting for or against proposals, and I don't see the answer in this article. Or am I just being too stupid  (not an impossible option)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.235.69.157 (talk) 12:36, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: EP meaning

message: Over on "spoiler vote", I see two votes pro, two anti, and two suggesting other courses: hardly an overwhelming majority in favour of a merge, but possibly an amusingly apt example of the "spoiler vote" in action.
A "split vote" is generally a very different thing from "vote splitting" (which correctly redirects to "spoiler vote").
It is normally used synonymously with "hung vote", or "evenly split vote". The meaning is "a vote in which no decision can be made". Unlike "spoiler vote" there is no suggestion that the split is caused by a third entity taking votes from an otherwise likely winner.
I feel that it is probable the "spoiler vote" sense of "split vote" is regional slang or political jargon, and do not think a merge is appropriate, as voting is hardly restricted to politics.
--DewiMorgan 02:30, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge with Spoiler vote?

message: There is significant overlap with the topic of the destination article and the content of this article requires the context of a broader topic. Besides, clean up, additional sources and perhaps little rewriting are advisable for this article. --DaniScoreKeeper (talk) 22:19, 30 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: There is not significant overlap between these two topics.  At least there won't be when the split vote article is improved.  The use of the term 'split vote' seldom refers to vote splitting.  So, I recommend first improving this article, and only then consider the possibility of merging the two articles.  VoteFair (talk) 16:12, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  These are two completely separate (opposite, even) subjects that happen to have similar names. Under WP:NOTDICT the suggestion to merge them is a misunderstanding of the encylopedia's organization. The tag should be removed, and replaced by disambiguation/distinguish headers.--Wragge (talk) 07:37, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with vote splitting
Talk:Great Salem fire of 1914

message: I have used the Bureau of Labor Statistics Inflaction Calculator to get some rough figures for illustration purposes. I am aware that inflation statistics are black voodoo magic. Rl 12:58, 29 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Alas, in practice the adjustment for a particular later year meant losing the actual figures.  If one must choose between adjusted and actual figures, better to stick to the actual ones.  This problem appeared in the article for the 1835 fire of New York, in which a late 19th century article was quoted as correcting for "today's money" which of course has little to do with today's money.  Adjusted figures are optional; real figures are what is mandatory.  Oh, and are there any Wentworth dates?  Jim.henderson 19:25, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Figures adjusted for inflation

message: User:IWPCHI suggested in an edit tag that the entire "Folklore" section be deleted: "I would have preferred to have removed the entire "folklore" section due to its naked absurdity; but a previous editor has provided a "source" for the nonsense, so I merely re-characterized it properly. If you can find even one citizen of Salem who would publicly admit to believing any of this crap I'd be astounded. Salem is full of con artists retailing "old" witch tales they embellish or make up from whole cloth for sale to gullible tourists." I think this is completely right: this is not a commonly held belief and it was not discussed (at least in print) at the time of the fire. It would be a big change to this article to delete it outright, so I want to raise it here to get a consensus on it, but I urge us to delete it. Remes (talk) 16:38, 29 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks Remes!  Tried to figure out how to contact you to thank you for your kind words but I don't have the time to spend a day figuring out Wikipedia's labyrinthine communications protocols. I don't understand why there would be a "folklore" section in *any* historical article. Perhaps those kinds of items should be put on a "Salem Folklore" page of their own? But I suppose that so long as the body of the article makes it abundantly clear that the "folk tales" belong in the realm of "cloud-cuckoo-land" they could stay. If your hoped-for initiation of discussion of the issue doesn't bear fruit in the next few weeks, perhaps we could delete the "folklore" section to provoke the defenders of it into coming out of the Wikipedian woodwork to justify its inclusion? IWPCHI (talk) 11:13, 30 December 2020 (UTC)

text: Okay. It's been two weeks since I posted this, and I see no objections. I'm going to delete the entire "Folklore" section for the reasons I stated above. Remes (talk) 20:05, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Folklore" section
Talk:Japanese phonology

message: Isn't the plural of mora morae? This article uses "moras" exclusively. Does this need copyediting? GiggyMantis (talk) 17:11, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: At least it is consistent. My dictionary says both are acceptable. Equwal (talk) 14:20, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moras or Morae 

message: Vance (2008: 58ff) backs up his claim of vowel rearticulation with waveforms. A glottal stop/constriction is also a possibility, but I would regard it as a possibility parallel to rearticulation, not a different description of the same phenomenon. Nardog (talk) 19:21, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for clarifying, I found it hard to tell whether the different descriptions were supposed to be referring to the same thing or not. In the case where glottal constriction is not involved, the transcription [ˀ] seems pretty inapt, but I guess there isn't any established IPA symbol for rearticulation.--Urszag (talk) 20:18, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Satooya
Wikipedia talk:Historical archive/Template:COTW

message: The target link on this does not work, as in WP:COTW a date is now given alongside the title. Talrias (t | e | c) 13:21, 29 May 2005 (UTC)

message: The old one didn't look too professional. What about this?
SoothingR(pour) 10:41, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: New image
Talk:Pantex

message: I thought I might edit the article if there are no objections.  The line "caused workers from all over the U.S. to flock to Amarillo for jobs building bombs" doesn't seem to fit the tone for Wikipedia, so I thought I might change it to "created a noticeable increase in employment opportunities in the Amarillo area."  There is also a small problem with the arrangement of the sections at the bottom--the Footnotes appears before the Controversy section is completed.  Are there any objections?  Gaedheal (talk) 13:58, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I went ahead and rearranged the Footnotes section, because it's hard to imagine that would be a problem.  On the off chance that the wording I mention above is intentional, such as a quote, I didn't change it.  If it is a quote (&c.), maybe it could be referenced?Gaedheal (talk) 13:58, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: edit
Talk:Blinking Lights and Other Revelations

message: Should the name of this article and all references to it changed to "blinking lights and other revelations"? The title of the album on the album itself and official website is written with all lowercase, so shouldn't it be referenced like that.
 http://eelstheband.com/eels_blinkinglights.php
Linkato1 (talk) 13:00, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: No We have our own Manual of Style here and it's not obligatory that we use non-standard English. See WP:CAPS for instance. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 19:29, 16 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Channeling

message: For the name change issue, see also Talk:Channelling_%28mediumistic%29#Channeling_or_Channelling Andries 08:23, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The problem is: The two pages this site links to spell it "channelling"... Either all three of them with two l's, or none.  ナイトスタリオン ✉ 16:41, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled