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Talk:Howard Brown (Halifax Bank)

message: In June 2005, this article was nominated for deletion. The result was to keep. See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Howard Brown for a record of the discussion. — Trilobite (Talk) 15:31, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Votes for deletion

message: gave this article a complete overhaul, also linked to it from the Halifax page. Grunners 23:01, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  nice one! UkPaolo 07:11, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expansion 

message: Howard Brown has never sung this. It appeared in a Halifax advert that featured a different employee, and the adverts featuring the animated Brown, which are voiced by an impersonator. BillyH 11:46, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who Gives You Extra 

message: Is it for real? C'mon? The first reference doesn't seem to shed any light on his early life and the second 'Reuters' link just goes straight to tiscali.co.uk or whatever. Really? He was shipped to Halifax in a cargo of Guava fruits? Funny but not factual. Londonsista (talk) 20:33, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Early life

message: here; it could possibly be incorporated into the article.--h i s   s p a c e   r e s e a r c h 20:06, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Guardian source 

message: I'm pressed for time right now so can't actually pop this in the article, but here is better than nowhere:
:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/celebritynews/2515362/Halifaxs-Howard-dropped-as-recession-bites.html
:http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/3083233/Halifaxs-Howard-buys-800000-second-home.html
:http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/tvandradioblog/2008/aug/07/toughtimesforhowardbrown
:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1042504/Halifax-dumps-Howard-TV-ads-hes-jolly-recession.html
:http://www.thestudentpocketguide.com/2006/09/music-film-tv/tv/howard-brown-the-halifax-man/
Hopefully I shall be able to come back later and put them in but I'm not very good with references so I would appreciate it if somebody beats me to it :) MorganaFiolett (talk) 13:51, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some sources
Talk:Emily Gilmore

message: Smith College, though one of the Seven Sisters, was not affiliated with Yale University (even in its early days, much less the mid-twentieth century). Unless I am very much mistaken -- and if I am, feel free to correct me -- I have snipped that from the sentence so that it now reads: She was raised by a strict social code and graduated from Smith College, one of the "Seven Sisters".
Firebreeze 22:20, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minor nitpick, but. 

message: Great work with the article so far! I just wanted to point out that there has been criticism of the character's interactions with her maids, which several media outlets deemed racist. This was primarily focused on her storyline with Berta in the revival, but there are some references to the original show as well. Here are some sources about this that can be used in the article: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6. Aoba47 (talk) 15:18, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: *Thank you!:-) Yeah I definitely remember there being a lot of backlash about Berta the new maid; I'm actually a little susprised (and overwhelmed) but just how muchhhh coverage this character has received on the Internet, my browser has at least 75 tabs open right now lol. But it's coming together slowly :)--Changedforbetter (talk) 17:03, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: *Thank you for your response. I am actually quite pleasantly surprised by how much coverage this particular character has received online. I just wanted to make sure that you were are of the more negative reviews of the character and her related storyline to make sure that the article stays balanced as it can be quite easy to stay focused on purely the positive reception. I also wanted to include some links from reliable sources just to make it easier for you and help you out a little there. You have done a lot of excellent work with this, like always, and definitely take your time with this as I can assume this will take awhile for everything to come together. Good luck with it!  I would suggest putting this as its own paragraph in the Reception section. Aoba47 (talk) 17:27, 20 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism of the character 

message: I apologize for the random message, but I was wondering if you are planning to take this to GAN. You have done a lot of excellent work with this article, and I could see it having a shot there. Aoba47 (talk) 20:23, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Hey, no worries, always good to hear from you. Yeah I have in fact thought about finishing up this article and getting it to GA at some point, but it's on the back burner right now simply because there are a few more articles I'm a little more passionate about. But it's definitely on the list.--Changedforbetter (talk) 03:05, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Makes sense to me. Thank you for the response! Good luck with your current and future projects. Aoba47 (talk) 03:26, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: GAN?
Talk:FM Rail

message: I am producing a detailed report on FM Rail for a financial institution and have found this article very interesting. It has helped to fill in the background details I could not find elsewhere. However, I do have a number of queries and would like to get in contact with 'Artdoyle'. Any ideas?? Adrian DavisAdraindavis (talk) 16:48, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ha Ha! Yes you're right. Wikipedia is not for publishing original research, but there is room for current events. If you were (or we were) eye witnesses to some major event our observations, reported from a neutral pont of view (of course) would be suitable for inclusion. Gossip is a non-neutral point of view. Neutral reporting is acceptable. Artdoyle 12:17, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Gertrude of Poland

message: Needs categories, vital dates and more details of her life. --Theo  (Talk) 15:49, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Expansion

message: Why :Category:Polish astrologers? --Hob Gadling (talk) 16:23, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Astrologer?
Talk:Nelchael

message: Hello,
Fellow angel hunters and Supernatural believers alike. I am looking for an image of the fallen angel Nelchael, as I have been told that he is my guardian angel. 
Whether it be images of Nelchael you found online or elsewhere, or whether it would be an image drawn by one of those people with the unique ability to see angels. Im interested in all.
send Nelchael Images to:
adeliamay@hotmail.com
Thank You
:This doesn't help the article at all. That's the sort of thing you post on a forum, not an encyclopedic talk page. TheMadChild (talk) 20:39, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

message: I have reverted to the last non-copyrighted version by Martpol, as the version that replaced it was lifted from http://www.novareinna.com/constellation/cancerangels.html. I can't find a license to clarify whether copying it is acceptable or not, so I have Been Bold and reverted it.Shouriki (talk) 22:26, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyvio
Talk:Bruce Catton

message: If anyone has a public-domain photo of Catton, please add it. Hal Jespersen 15:56, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo?
Talk:Jackie Gleason

message: I have tried to include Jackie Gleason's nickname "The Great One" for reference and it keeps getting reverted by other users.  Unlike these admins, I am old enough to have actually seen Jackie Gleason live.  He called himself "The Great One" and there are books written about him as such:  https://www.amazon.com/Great-One-Legend-Jackie-Gleason/dp/0385415338  Grow up people.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:243:CC00:FF30:5D13:4F27:654B:3211 (talk) 03:50, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: INSANITY

message: The lede mentions he is a musician and there is a section devoted to this yet there is no mention of playing any instrument. I seem to recall seeing him play the piano on television but it was from the front of the piano, never showing his hands.
IMDB lists him as a composer and conductor and I will change the lede to reflect this. Arbalest Mike (talk) 15:10, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Musician 

message: Websites quote an older version of this Wikipedia page where it mentions that Gleason read The Urantia Book. I am trying to find the source of that information (or was there no source - that that's why it was removed?) "Gleason was a voracious reader of books on the paranormal, including The Urantia Book, parapsychology and UFOs.  He even had a house built in the shape of a UFO which he named The Mothership.  During the 1950s, he was a semi-regular guest on the paranormal-themed overnight radio show hosted by Long John Nebel, and he wrote the introduction to Donald Bain's biography of Nebel.  According to Gleason's second wife, Beverly McKittrick, he told her that U.S. President Richard Nixon took him on a secret visit to Homestead Air Force Base.  There, Gleason allegedly saw an alien spaceship and dead extraterrestrials.  After his death, his large book collection was donated to the library of the University of Miami."  (from Wikipedia).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.10.225.248 (talk) 13:50, 18 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Urantia reference was removed. (?) I'm looking for source
Talk:Fission-fragment rocket

message: How could this be possible that it would get an ISP close to that of an antimatter rocket?  In antimatter, all of the mass gets converted to energy.  In fission, only a very small percentage of the mass in the reactants gets converted to energy.  Sounds like someone misread their source.
Hmm, looking some more, I found the problem: There's one extra zero in that ISP  :)  Check out http://www.batse.msfc.nasa.gov/colloquia/abstracts_summer05/rsheldon2.html for a reference. 129.255.141.196 (ISP is roughly 1/10th MN/kg) 16:29, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: Is this someway related to the fission-fragment motor by Carlo Rubbia named "PROGETTO 242" (project 242), from Italian Space Agency? See http://www.crs4.it/Areas/cfd/P242.pdf and http://www.rai.it/Contents/eventi/600/ASIProgetto242.ram.
:It does seems similar but I'm not sure if it's the exact same thing as in this article. Whatever it is, this "Project 242" probably deserves its own article.--Hibernian 18:57, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project 242 

message: Well written article.  Organizing into distinct components and starting reference section. --Rev Prez 14:34, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clean up
Talk:Bob Dylan/Archive 1

message: Should we just list all the Bob Dylan albums? 'Recommended' is a POV issue, I personnaly like 'Hard Rain' very much. Can I just add a headline dicographies? --georingo 10:51, 2 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: List albums?

message: Umm...  Isn't "Obsessive" (Re: "Loyal and Obsessive Fanbase") kind of POV?  -Thorns among our leaves 17:36, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: "Loyal and Obsessive"?

message: I think the article needs a more recent picture of Dylan in addition to this one of when he was like 20. Mlessard 03:38, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent picture 

message: Took a bit of POV out of Oh Mercy description. bgk 05:22, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Update

message: I hate to respark an old debate, but I think the neutrality needs to be considered in this article.  The section on Dylan's recent tours is particularly slanted, as I (and many others) agree that he isn't performing as well lately.  With that said, I love Dylan (I, personally, think he is the greatest living artist in the world today) but the neutrality of the article is something to consider.  I'm going to clean up the paragraph about his recent concerts right now, but if there's any objection we can revert.  Gsgeorge 06:44, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality 

message: Why was :Image:dylan_jams_with_campbell.jpg removed from the article under the "Recent live performances" section?  Gsgeorge 05:36, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image removal 

message: I was trying to figure out a place to mention Bob's son, but it doesn't seem to obviously fit anywhere. Any ideas on where it can be worked in? --Improv 22:16, 1 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mention of Jakob Dylan 
Talk:Mira

message: Not my area of expertise, but the clause "fusion of hydrogen continued along a shell surrounding the inert helium shell" strikes me as incorrect; shouldn't that be "inert helium core"? Peter Delmonte (talk) 01:02, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: changed shell to core; seemed like a typo. --warnthepenguins  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.244.144.141 (talk) 21:32, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "helium shell" should be "helium core"? 

message: what does the word Mira mean? Other articles on planets etc. mention this particular question. Why not with Mira?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aquarius2283 (talk • contribs) 18:23, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mira Means what as far as names go 

message: The pronunciation is /ˈmi:rə/, , not /ˈmaɪrə/, somebody please change this.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.24.235.200 (talk) 07:23, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Ref, please.  Lithopsian (talk) 13:15, 5 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Phonetics 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) BilledMammal (talk) 12:56, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Mira →  – Confusion of given names Οοβεττττμεντττσααβ (talk) 19:43, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 29 January 2024
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Stub sorting/Stub redirects

message: *Lao-stub isn't from a misspelling - "Lao" is the name of the country in Laotian.
**If you haven't already changed it, I will.  Thanks. Courtland 00:27, 2005 Jun 27 (UTC)
*Shouldn't it be "Redirect from alternative name"? Alternate means swapping between two; alternative means other. Grutness...wha? 08:19, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two points 

message: I note that Singapore-stub redirects to Sg-stub and Sg-geo-stub redirects to Singapore-geo-stub. Can I suggest we swap one around for consistency? (My vote would be making the Sg ones the redirects.) Grutness...wha? 10:06, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Singapore

message: suggest linking Anthro to Anthropomorphic and Athropomorphology, and have each of those link to Anthropomorphism.  (Additional info on Anthropomorphology: the study of Anthropomorphism.)
Foxy 11:20, 07 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Um...I'm not sure if you realise what this list is - it's a list of redirects to stub templates. There is no stub template on anthropomorphism, anthropomormology or anthropomorphic; neither could we redirect one template to three others. What's more, since there's unlikely to be anywhere near 60 stubs on anthropomorphism, it wouldn't be reasonable to have a stub template for it, especially since it can quite easily be convered by other stub templates. Grutness...wha? 00:47, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anthro 

message: I have started a discussion on replacing this page with the use of redirect templates now that they work again. Caerwine Caer’s whines 18:36, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible deletion 

message: All the links on this page have now been checked and relevant templates added to . Please do not use this page any longer to list stub template redirects; add redirected templates to  by using Category:Stub template redirects Cheers, Her Pegship  (tis herself) 05:33, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That category has been renamed to , and the direct coding replaced by . – Fayenatic London 11:26, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  All listings checked
Template talk:Film-director-stub

message: this stub is not named according to the conventions for stubs. Should probably be "film director-stub" or simply "director-stub" --MarSch 16:38, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree. I will change it and all articles that use it. The new name will be film director-stub (I don't want to use director-stub because I think that director can be applied to other things apart from films). Paulo Oliveira 13:28, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

text: I decided not to change all the articles because, apart from being extremely time-consuming, the redirect serves that purpose. Paulo Oliveira 13:31, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)

message: The redirect Template:Filmmaker-stub has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached.  Bearcat (talk) 01:37, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "[[:Template:Filmmaker-stub]]" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:Swedish

message: I was actually serious about Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. A Google search for "swedish medical center"  lists it as top entry . In Seattle, "Swedish Medical Center" is often referred to as just "Swedish". 
Article history: (05:21, 22 May 2005 (rm Swedish Chef and Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, Washington, please be serious.)
People, please at least do a Google search before accusing others of not being serious. 
-- Jwinters | Talk 16:53, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Swedish Medical Center
Talk:John I Tzimiskes

message: Can someone explain the distinction between "last name" and "surname" in the first paragraph of this article? --Jfruh 28 June 2005 21:33 (UTC)
:Kourkouas (Gourgen in Armenian, still quite popular) is the family name. Tzimisces was the nickname he was given. ----Eupator 17:03, 18 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name(s) 

message: I have created a stubby little placeholder of an article on the marginal Byzantine general Curcuas, a catepan of Italy. Is Curcuas a Latinisation of Kourkouas and, if so, is he a relative of the emperor John I? Srnec 06:19, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: See Kourkouas.-- Ευπάτωρ Talk!! 19:39, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Curcuas

message: I take it that English was widely spoken in X century Crete?....lol...how dumb do you need to be to create an article like this?  Norum 20:06, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds like someone didn't get their 1,3,7-Trimethyl-1H-purine-2,6(3H,7H)-dione this morning. WP:Use commonly recognizable names. - SummerPhDv2.0 17:56, 1 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  John? 

message: First off, you shouldnt revert. since you made the new changes you must bring it to the talk page, secondly according to the links I sent to you, your edits are describing very minor references (in this case a comic book), see MOS:POPCULT, also heading should be written as "Popular culture" not what you did, also you shouldn't capitalize each word, see WP:NCCAPS, thirdly your writings are unclear why write ISBN there, this isnt normal Danial Bass (talk) 09:32, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you. I have removed the comic books, capitals and ‘isbn’. I hope that the edit is now acceptable. Effomatus (talk) 13:50, 23 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poor quality inclusion of popular references
Talk:Saponaria officinalis

message: The paragraph in the article that describes the saponin content appears to be missing a few words.  I am unclear as to what was intended so I am hoping that the writer or someone else who knows what was meant has an alert set on this page.
Please come back and modify it.  I will check back and if no-one appears in a month or so I will undertake to make it more comprehensible.  Yes, I know it is perhaps minor in the scheme of the whole encyclopia but it is important to ensure that facts like these are correctly stated irrespective of any translation process.Celsius100 (talk) 02:35, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Syntax & Semantics
Talk:Matthew Wright (presenter)

message: On June 1 2005 this page was nominated for deletion. The result of the debate was to redirect. See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Matthew Wright for discussion. Mackensen (talk) 16:50, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  AfD 

message: Is the bicycle arrest section real or just spam? If its real, can we have a source for this section?
Andy4226uk 09:09, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It is indeed very realRepublicUK 04:08, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re: Bicycle arrest 

message: It doesn't matter if there is a reference - it simply isn't relevant if an album changed his life or what bands he likes!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ohnoudidntttt (talk • contribs) 14:34, 16 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Disagree, Wright makes a big deal about music, is a Hawkwind obsessive/anorak and frequently mentions them in completely unrelated topics, is also the regular host of the hippy-oriented prog-rock awards every year. Have restored. Rodericksilly (talk) 02:01, 17 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pointless Trivia
Talk:Kilij Arslan I

message: Was he really born in 1079?  That would make him still an adolescent at the time of the First Crusade?  Didn't he have grown sons at the time of his death? john k 16:51, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I have no idea where I got that date from...I can no longer find anything that mentions his age at all, but he seems to have had a family already in 1092 (Anna Comnena seems to imply that, anyway). Sorry! Adam Bishop 19:37, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

text: The Crusades Through Arab Eyes, by Amin Maalouf, mentions that he was "not yet seventeen when the invaders arrived" (p 3). That would fit with a birth date of 1079. Maalouf wrote the book in 1989, so he can't have picked up the date from the Wikipedia article (like every other source now on the net seems to have done). --Jesuisse 22:09, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Birthdate 1079
Talk:Mec Vannin

message: Please note that a certain person seems intent to vandalise the pages on Bernard Moffatt, Mec Vannin, Celtic League (political organisation). It seems each time, information that they are uncomfortable with for some reason, is removed. The vandalism has come from two separate IPs, and has removed links and historical facts. ImpartialCelt 17:16, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Vandalism

message: From the article:
"It is sometimes referred to as the "Manx Nationalist Party" (usually not by members), but this can lead to confusion with the Manx National Party, which was a name used by two other parties."
On the Mec Vannin website, they claim that they are the Manx Nationalist Party.
"Yn Pabyr Seyr is published by Mec Vannin, the Manx Nationalist Party."
 (see this link)
I would suggest changing the statement about this in the article.Jimjamjak (talk) 09:54, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Name of party