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Talk:Publius Rutilius Rufus

message: The section "Bankruptcy law reform" relies only on a misreading of a single 1918 article by "Professor Levinthal" (Louis Edward Levinthal, a lecturer in law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a judge but probably not a professor). The article only mentions a Rutilius twice, once in a footnote referring to a Publius Rutilius as a praetor in 105 BC and once in text as simply Rutilius, and then as "the Praetor". This article's Publius Rutilius Rufus was a consul in 105 BC and should have been a praetor before he first sought to be consul in 115 BC.
"The Development of the Praetor's Edict" (Jounal of Roman Studies, CUP, 2012) focuses on the uncertainty as to both the date and the praetor. Even without access to the full article we can see not only the opening but also footnotes 172 and 173, floating Publius Rutilius Calvus (praetor 166 BC), another in 93 BC and mentioning but dismissing another in 49 BC.
We can't safely use Levinthal for a claim he doesn't directly make and which later scholarship contradicts. (Also, arguably we shouldn't be quoting him at such length anyway, with the quotation utterly dominating the section (overuse according to WP:QUOTEFARM)). Levinthal's the sole basis for the entire section. I'll remove it. NebY (talk) 20:37, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bankruptcy law reform
Talk:Kava Kava

message: The Kava kava page, rather than refer to the herb of the same name, seems like an advertisement for a relatively unknown music group. The language is loaded and seems heavily biased. For instance: "turbo charged rocked out and funked up live dance act" sounds like it was written by the band or a fan.
:I agree, the article is definitely not NPOV. I added a link to Piper methysticum at the top of the page, I will also clean up the article slightly, I also feel that "Kava kava" should redirect to the plant, and that there should be a link on the plant page to this one (or more preferably - a disambiguation page). --Mark PEA 17:59, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I also think this page should direct to the plant with a link to current content. The plant by this name is much more notable. --Xris0 (talk) 08:51, 1 January 2008 (UTC)

text: Follow-up - I set "kava kava" to redirect to the plant (Kava), and added a link up top to the band from the Kava page. I'm new to these type of wiki edits so please correct if I did anything improperly, thanks! --Xris0 (talk) 22:22, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Barbara Osborn Kreamer

message: The problem here isn't that the specific facts are in question.  
So I'm not saying the highlights listed in the article are flattering.  But I think some of the language might need to be tweaked by other editors.  Just my gut reaction reading the article.  Dugwiki 21:00, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article might need POV review 

message: thanks for the additions about cases against Kreamer. Could you please try to use the following template to replace the case detail citations with proper inline citations: . I'd attempt it myself, but the list of numbers and abbreviations don't mean anything to me. -- Fyrael (talk) 19:35, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, I should've also linked you to the template so you could see examples: Template:Cite court  -- Fyrael (talk) 20:07, 23 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Case citations
Talk:Karam Khamis Sayd Khamsan

message: I just merged Karama Khamis.  --  Geo Swan 11:12, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge

message: Replaced transcluded image with inline image -  tag as per dispute on Template talk:Combatant Status Review Tribunal trailer image and caption.  Geo Swan 07:15, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  disputed picture 
Talk:Khalid Abd Jal Jabbar al-Qadasi

message: These links to the page numbers within the OARDEC documents may be useful to other contributors.  Geo Swan (talk) 22:28, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Another useful source is the The Guantanamo Docket. It is an interactive database provided and updated by the New York Times. The database is searchable and has the Pentagon documents (CSRT and ARB) included. Additional documents and reliable New York Times research regarding the detainees at Guantanamo are also provided. This is the link to the documents and research regarding Khalid Abd Jal Jabbar Muhammad Juthman al Qadasi. IQinn (talk) 09:20, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  rough work
Talk:Cloth merchant

message: While this article is merely a stub, it seems to me that it is already confusing several different occupations.  In my historical experience, a clothier was some one who organised the production and sale of cloth, that is buying wool, having it spun, then woven, then fulled, and perhaps also sheard and other finishing processes.  Finally he sold finished or semi-finished cloth to drapers or other cloth merchants.  This is not my subject, and it would be much better of some one whose subject it is could improve this article.  I note that there is a disambiguation page for clothier, which also directs one to tailor.  My experience is that tailor was a quite separate occupation in the early modern period, but I am less sure about more recent usage.  Peterkingiron 21:01, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Clothier/cloth merchant
Talk:Khalid Abdullah Mishal al Mutairi

message: Replaced transcluded image with inline image -  tag as per dispute on Template talk:Combatant Status Review Tribunal trailer image and caption.  Geo Swan 14:02, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Replaced transcluded image with inline image - {{tl|npov}} tag as per dispute on [[Template talk:Combatant Status Review Tribunal trailer image and caption]] 
Talk:Khalid Hassan Husayn Al Barakat

message: Replaced transcluded image with inline image -  tag as per dispute on Template talk:Combatant Status Review Tribunal trailer image and caption.  Geo Swan 06:05, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  disputed picture 

message: I think default sort is a mistake for individuals with Arabic names.
People with Arabic names don't inherit a surname, like people with an European do.
Traditionally the closest thing they have to a "last name" is their father's first name.
And it is absolutely clear to me that it is a mistake to use default sort for the Guantanamo captives -- because the US Department of Defense can't consistently figure out what their names are. 
Therefore I just reverted an edit where a well-meaning contributor imposed default sort on this individual.
Please don't impose default sort on these guys without discussing it first. 
Cheers!  Geo Swan (talk) 05:26, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  I think default sort is a mistake for Arabic names
Talk:Khalid al-Asmr

message: Replaced transcluded image with inline image -  tag as per dispute on Template talk:Combatant Status Review Tribunal trailer image and caption.  Geo Swan 07:15, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  disputed picture 

message: I think default sort is a mistake for individuals with Arabic names.
People with Arabic names don't inherit a surname, like people with an European do.
Traditionally the closest thing they have to a "last name" is their father's first name.
And it is absolutely clear to me that it is a mistake to use default sort for the Guantanamo captives -- because the US Department of Defense can't consistently figure out what their names are. 
Please don't impose default sort on these guys without discussing it first. 
Cheers!  Geo Swan (talk) 04:15, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  I think default sort is a mistake for Arabic names 

message: I reverted a recent edit  as per this discussion.  Geo Swan (talk) 06:07, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  revert  -- see talk 
Talk:Laura Ashley

message: This is a very complete and informative article, but the language is a bit too flowery for an encyclopaedia entry. Describing things as "tragic" or "torrid" would fit more properly in a magazine article. Tomsintown 21:04, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Badly phrased

message: This is just a big block of text, could someone find some pictures? Fwed66 16:49, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Pictures

message: Does this article belong in wikiproject Industrial design? -- Cl3phact0 (talk) 21:35, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Industrial design?
Talk:Khalil Rahman Hafez

message: One person two articles. Khalilur Rehman and Khalil Rahman Hafez.
I will merge them in a few days. Anybody thinks that is not a good idea? IQinn (talk) 14:59, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I merged Khalilur Rehman into this article. IQinn (talk) 03:25, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  merge
Talk:Critolaus

message: I will suggest that Critolaus should be merely a possible spelling of this name, "Kritolaos" is an alternative spelling.  Also there existed a Greek army commander with the same name ca. 160 BCE.69.92.23.64 (talk) 13:16, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: All good points. I've added the Greek version of his name, and added in a link to his military namesake. Singinglemon (talk) 18:06, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Critolaus
Talk:Gentius

message: The reference is on the communist period and the latest edit is pov and misleading so it should be reverted.Megistias (talk) 20:30, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Anon rightly removed that section since it doesn't belong in an article about an Illyrian king at all. 3rdAlcove (talk) 19:32, 25 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Latest edit 

message: Hello, fellow wikipedians. I am trying to write an article on the river Cem. I'm trying to focus on Cem as an ecosystem, but every ecosystem also includes humans and their history. Now, I'm trying to write some short bits on the Cem basin history and I've come across a hoard of coins (in the village Selcë). They were minted by King Gentius. Here's my question: From what I've been reading this person belonged to the Labeates tribe, but this page here on wiki places him in the Ardiaei. Can someone clarify this detail?Maleschreiber (talk) 16:19, 9 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: There is much confusion on this aspect, both in ancient sources and among modern historians. The only certainty is Labeatan coinage, which shows that they had an independent polity. – Βατο (talk) 18:14, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ardiaei or Labeates
Talk:Ptolemy VII Neos Philopator

message: "Occasionally, the numbering is reversed, and Ptolemy VIII Physcon is numbered as Ptolemy VII, with the boy-king Neos Philopator numbered Ptolemy VIII"
According to the Physcon article, it seems more likely that in that case Ptolemy VIII would have been Ptolemy Memphitis; Neos Philopator "reigned" in 145 BC (before Physcon), while Memphitis "reigned" in 131/132 BC during the interregnum of Cleopatra II. Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 14:10, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Numbering

message: The infobox claim under "Coregency" that he reigned with Arsinoe III is not mentioned anywhere else in the article and seems impossible. Arsinoe III is known to have died in 204 BC, but the possible Ptolemy VIIs mentioned here would have been born long after she died. I suppose it is possible that there another possible candidate for Ptolemy VII not mentioned here who might have reigned with Arsinoe III, but chronologically this seems unlikely even given the known problems with numbering the Ptolemys and Cleopatras. Based on what is here Cleopatra II would seem to be almost certainly his co-regent along with Ptolemy VI Philometor if he was indeed his father. Dunarc (talk) 16:23, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I should also note Arsinoe III was likely his great-grandmother. Dunarc (talk) 16:24, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coregency claim in Infobox 
Talk:Nothing to Lose (Billy Talent song)

message: I have taken the liberty of removing the lyrics from this and other singles pages, because song lyrics are copyrighted (because it is a creative work, see What is copyright?). It is also not very fit for an encyclopedia. We must respect this. If you want the lyrics that bad, go buy the album and support the band at the same time, they're in the booklet. -- Reaper  X 21:11, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Lyrics

message: I was just wondering about that part's reliability, because there aren't any sources I could find verifying that it was originally written by Christopher A. Tremblay, or his comment about it... could someone help clear this up, please?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.75.114.209 (talk) 03:03, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Christopher A. Tremblay? 

message: There is no source cited for the $1000 thing. That seems to be a lot of money....  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.69.132.224 (talk) 00:25, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kids Help Phone
Talk:Oliver Brown (American activist)

message: Do we know anything about him next to he was in the case? --IAMTHEEGGMAN Temp Sig.
:He was a reverend and he apparently worked for the railroad. I have found several sources saying he worked for the railroad, but not one I found respectable enough to add. I haven't found much more yet, but there are interview of his daughters online so that'd be something.--T. Anthony (talk) 04:00, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: This article needs a new title. Oliver Brown is not a civil rights. Oliver Brown is a civil rights advocate, historic figure, or something, but he is not a civil rights. Anomalocaris (talk) 18:14, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  New title 
Talk:Maasoum Abdah Mouhammad

message: I suspect that there was a translation problem.
In answer to the fifth allegation -- that one of his aliases was found on a list -- he replied:
:"This is likely a mix up in names.  If you find a Bilal on this list, I ask, am I the only Bilal in the world?  I told the interrogators that I am a Kurdish Bilal, and that there are a lot Syrian Bilals.
This suggests to me that the word "alias" was not translated properly.  It sounds to me as if
Bilal was not an alias, at all, but a clan name, or a tribal name.  --  Geo Swan 17:52, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  list of known aliases? 
Talk:Aqua Marcia

message: Unfortunately, no ancient or recent modern source supports the idea that the aqueduct authorised and (maybe) part built in 179 BC but blocked by M Crassus is essentially the same as the Aqua Marcia. It's a very tempting idea, and I for one find it quite attractive, but can find reference to just one scholar who argued for it, way back in 1945, and a whole lot more who have been happy to mention and demolish it. Alas! Haploidavey (talk) 16:19, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced speculative connection
Talk:Sam Husseini

message: The tone of this section is clearly not objective. Example: "It ignored the possibility that Iraq had actually complied. This was the case even though Husseini in other instances had questioned the U.S. government claim that Iraq had not complied."
Maybe a "Controversy" section would clear this up.
The subject (Husseini) admits starting this entry himself despite knowing it is proscribed, and that fact is actually linked to (it's on his private blog) in the External links section. In his blog entry, he seems to claim that he "compensated" (my choice of word) for violating the self-editing policy by deliberately criticising himself. Unfortunately he used the term "crited", and from the context one cannot tell whether he meant "cited", i.e. made a typo, or "criticized", i.e. used some obscure journalist-speak abbr.
As for the actual 'controversy', I'm not sure I see it... someone help me with this?
TimProof 14:25, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed the text quoted in inverted commas above - it seems like POV editorialising to me. I think the article is now fairly neutral - does anyone disagree? If not, the POV template ought to be removed. Robofish (talk) 12:53, 4 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Simon Thassi

message: How come there's no mention of Simon the Hasmonean razing the ophel to ground level? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.234.213.31 (talk • contribs) 01:21, January 23, 2016 (UTC)
:Do you know of reliable sources such as scholarly papers or textbooks that discuss Simon razing the ophel? We need such sources to write about the event. Huon (talk) 10:20, 23 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: He didn't raze the ophel, did he? Guy over here says he razed the old citadel (acra/akra, Zion) and fortified the ophel. — LlywelynII 03:14, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Razing the ophel 

message: This edit and this nonstub edit established the usage of this page as . Kindly maintain it consistently, pending a new consensus to the contrary. (That may be swift in coming given that the guy was a major Jewish leader, but the previous editors had been misapplying WP:ERA so far.) — LlywelynII 03:08, 14 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: [[WP:ERA]]
Talk:River Below

message: yeah... EvErMoReNeVeRmOrE 00:37, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Amazing Song

message: I have taken the liberty of removing the lyrics from this and other singles pages, because song lyrics are copyrighted (because it is a creative work, see What is copyright?). It is also not very fit for an encyclopedia. We must respect this. If you want the lyrics that bad, go buy the album and support the band at the same time, they're in the booklet. -- Reaper  X 21:13, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Lyrics
Talk:Mahmoud Abd Al Aziz Abd Al Mujahid

message: Replaced transcluded image with inline image -  tag as per dispute on Template talk:Combatant Status Review Tribunal trailer image and caption.  Geo Swan 14:27, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Replaced transcluded image with inline image - {{tl|npov}} tag as per dispute on [[Template talk:Combatant Status Review Tribunal trailer image and caption]] 
Talk:John Shillito Company

message: I purchased a suit at a good will in Ohio near the Dayton area about 4 years ago and only recently did I try it on as I bought it as an incentive to lose weight (bad idea, I know, however I lost the weight for other reasons anyway). The tags inside say The American Designer John Weitz and on the opposite side, Shillito's and underneath the Shillito's in smaller lettering of a different font it says New Haven Shop. The l in the label for the suit is no where near as tall as in the department store logo on this wiki, however it is very similar in design. Does anyone know if Shillito's ever sold John Weitz suits or had possibly a short lived mens department that would have used the name New Haven Shop with shorter ls in the Shillito's logo photos for reference of the suit (worn by myself) as well as the labeks inside. to This update would also pertain to the John Weitz wiki as well since his wiki doesn't mention branding as 'The American Designer John Weitz' either, Just 'John Weitz Inc'. Ducky10.1981 (talk) 16:10, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Oops, my bad, his label he created for men's wear was John Weitz Designs, Inc. Not too far off from what I remembered it as. Ducky10.1981 (talk) 16:20, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Potential new addition to this wiki
Talk:Majid Mahmud Abdu Ahmad

message: I removed the "Identity" section with the "Captive  41...", there i no good reason or need for such a section in this article and it was dehumanizing and based on WP:OR by WP:SYN. IQinn (talk) 03:28, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Identity 
Talk:Lucius Licinius Crassus

message: A more detailed (but also more speculative) biography with plentiful citations is available here.  I hesitate to add this link to the article itself as I don't know the criteria for providing external links in articles.
- 88.97.22.112 (talk) 19:42, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: 'Brutus mentions contemporaries and acquaintances: he notes that he was friends with the tribune of 54 BC, Quintus Mucius Scaevola, at whose house he would often meet Gaius Rutilius; he says that he was pleased to have heard Licinia, daughter of the great orator Lucius Crassus, speak'
105.226.203.142 (talk) 13:35, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: From Brutus: Caesar's Assassin by Kirsty Corrigan

message: Nowhere does it say that Lucius Licinius had 3 daughters, where do you get the information for this statement? Besides, it is not specified that any of them was married to Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius. --BlaGalaxi (talk) 17:25, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Brill's New Pauly gives him two daughters, and does not mention Q. Caecilius Metellus Pius in connection with him; I have rewritten the section on Licinius' family to match that Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 22:05, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Three daughters?
Talk:Francis Thompson

message: According to the Wordsworth Book of Literary Anecdotes, Francis Thompson committed suicide after Thomas Chatterton appeared to him in a vision and commanded him to do so.
::Ok. No reply. I'm changing it. (Yes, I have an off-line, printed source).
:::I disagree with you.  According to many sources (including the two I added to the main article) "Thompson attempted suicide in his nadir of despair, but was saved from completing the action through a vision which he believed to be that of a youthful poet, Chatterton, who had committed suicide almost a century earlier." -- Michael David 14:33, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death by suicide
Talk:Spottswood William Robinson III

message: A temporary subpage at User:Polbot/fjc/Spottswood William Robinson III was automatically created by a perl script, based on this article at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges. The subpage should either be merged into this article, or moved and disambiguated. Polbot (talk) 19:35, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Bot-created subpage
Talk:Ottawa/Embrun Aerodrome

message: The only airport I knew of was the Prescott-Russell Airport on St. Pierre Road in 1970's and maybe up to the early 1990's.  The Emrun Airport does exist because I will be going to a fly-breakfast there.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.138.3.106 (talk) 02:52, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: There is no airport in Embrun, Ontario anymore. It closed down a few years ago! They no longer use it.
Loghead1 13:27, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well according to NAV CANADA's current Canada Flight Supplement (23 November 2006) and Transport Canada (search for CPR2) this airport is in operation. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 13:24, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: How about gliders and hang-gliders? The CFS says both are active in the area. Also page 77 of this pdf from Transport Canada, dated 26th Oct uses Embrun Airport as an example. CambridgeBayWeather (Talk) 12:34, 24 November 2006
 (UTC)
Most likely it is still running, like you said, but it probably isn't using airplanes anymore. I did some research, and nothing said that Embrun Airport didn't exist anymore. So it probably does still use gliders and hang-gliders, but no airplanes.
Loghead1 16:29, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

text: And what is your source for that? You can't just say things like that here, you must give a source, either a book or a reliable website (sorry, Freewebs website don't count). Before you put it in an article, give a source. See WP:V for help on how to cite.
If you haven't noticed, I haven't actually that fact on the site. If you notice I put, they PROBABLY only use gliders and hang-gliders. I am not sure of that, and therefore did not, and will not put that on the article. Please don't tell me things like that. It is rather annoying when people constantly assume. I hate it when people assume things. I WAS NOT GOING TO PUT THAT INFORMATION ON THE ARTICLE IF I DID NOT KNOW IT WAS TRUE, I MADE A PREDICTION. And why did you ever start talking about unreliable websites, and Freewebs websites? Be organized in your writing (because you were talking about Freewebs sites and unreliable websites for no apparent reason), and don't assume please. Whoever you are, your unorganized paragraph was very confusing. 
Loghead1 22:32, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: The Airport