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Talk:Great blue heron

message: i live in greensburg indiana, and i have 30 if not moe great blue herons that just showed up out by my pond one day. I have never seen this many together could someone please explain these great birds to me?? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Crazy67 (talk • contribs) 02:18, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  30 blue herons 

message: I live in Beamsville Ontario, there is a small creek at the back of our yard.
We have a resident Blue Heron who shows up most days even now in winter time.
This Heron is always alone so don't know if he or she has a mate somewhere around.
Can anyone advise how to tell difference between male/female Blue Herons,are they  
usually in pairs or is this the case only during the mating season.  
Any info appreciated; John24.36.197.170 (talk) 20:13, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This page is for discussing improvements to the article. For questions about the topic, please try the Wikipedia:Reference desk. Thank you. Walter Siegmund (talk) 01:29, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blue Heron-Niagara Region 

message: I think the colours in the map are wrong. Yellow is breeding, green the year round and blue only winter.--88.5.134.155 (talk) 22:22, 30 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: OK.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.151.143.228 (talk) 21:23, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Mapcolours

message: * :Great Blue Heron → 
* :Black-headed Heron → 
* :Chinese Egret → 
* :Chinese Pond Heron → 
* :Goliath Heron → 
* :Great Egret → 
* :Green Heron → 
* :Green-backed Heron → 
* :Grey Heron → 
* :Indian Pond Heron → 
* :Malayan Night Heron → 
* :Black-crowned Night Heron → 
* :Purple Heron → 
* :Striated Heron → 
* :Whistling Heron → 
– Requested move as the consensus and guidelines recommend not to capitalise the common (vernacular) names of species. See Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style#Bird common name decapitalisation and Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Animals, plants, and other organisms. Regards, Sun Creator(talk) 15:45, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested moves 

message: The current image of the 'dark form near Tarpon Springs, Florida' , is what I'm talking about. Though I'm inexperienced with the white morph, I'm wondering why this is not an intermediate morph? It has a lot more white than most Great Blue Herons that I regularly see in the Northeast. Do other birders have insight?
Aythya affinis (talk) 15:35, 25 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Accurate Image?

message: thumb 
What variety is this?  Spotted in Lane Cove National Park, Australia.  Dicklyon (talk) 10:41, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Great blue down under
Talk:Island Line, Isle of Wight

message: What consideration has been given to the fact that Ryde tunnel currently has insufficient clearance for D78 stock that will form the basis of class 484? 87.75.117.183 (talk) 16:55, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Class 484 and Ryde tunnel 

message: Will 4 Carriage Class 484’s run after upgrades on Busy days as with the old Class 483s?? Or will it be only 2 carriages always from now on? Nethertown station (talk) 15:20, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  4 Carriage units after upgrades 

message: The Passenger numbers section quotes statistics for the use of the line as a whole and appears to have been calculated by taking the number of entries and exits for each station along the line and adding them together.
I think this methodology is flawed. The line is self-contained and every entry at one station has a corresponding exit at another. Therefore to estimate the total number of passenger journeys for the line as a whole you would need to add the journeys for each station and then divide by two.
This section is rightly flagged as requiring update, but there is no point in merely incorporating more recent figures into the narrative if it perpetuates an incorrect methodology. Edenlaridae (talk) 10:36, 5 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Passenger numbers
Talk:2006 Middle East Crisis

message: Hi.
It is written "Lebanon", "Israel" and "Israeli". I am also a nonnative English speaker so, in case of doubt, I suggest you to google the word (or whole expressions) or to look for the correct spelling in Wikipedia.
Place this signs   (AltGr plus the [ key) to link keywords.Randroide 13:22, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: the article looks like a POV-fork of 2006 Israel-Lebanon crisis. Pecher Talk 14:05, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  It was not ment to be POV (and I don't think it is). I just initiated it hoping for others to come and help writing it. That's all. The article's scope is much broader than 2006 Israel-Lebanon crisis.--Welondekaw21:43, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Khatkar

message: This stub regarding Jat clan is one para at present but likely to expand in future. Each clan contains in itself history. Some clans have been recorded and some have not been properly recorded. If a stub is kept on wikipedia with request to expand people tend to expand them. It has so happened with some clans but they became good article over a period.  Deletion will not serve any purpose. Hence it may not be deleted. burdak 13:24, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Note:  Project Banner with Rajasthan workgroup parameters was added to this article talk page because the article  falls under :Category:Rajasthan or its subcategories. Should you feel this addition is inappropriate , please undo my changes and update/remove the relavent categories to the article --  TinuCherian     (Wanna Talk?)   - 07:19, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[WP:INDIA]] Banner/Rajasthan workgroup Addition
Talk:Dalton, Huddersfield

message: Removing Picture
I find it nessecary to delete the picture from this article as it does not actually show Dalton, it shows Lower Houses and in the distance the East of town.
:Aah Quite correct! I must have selected the wrong thumbnail in Explorer whilst uploading it.  It won't be necessary for you to do it as I've already sorted it and arranged for it to be deleted from the database. I will replace it when I have been down that area of town again.  Richard Harvey 17:06, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Ninja Senshi Tobikage

message: I notice the reference to the U.S. dub information provided by an old Google Groups post has been removed. It's a pity that the note was flagged as needing a citation for so long bfeore one was finally added - only to have the whole note removed shortly afterwards. Priorities, anyone? 81.155.50.120 18:39, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  U.S. dub info 

message: I edited a lot of formatting and grammatical errors in the characters section. I'm waiting to receive the DVDs and will make more edits after I can confirm the details I'll be adding/changing by watching the series over and over. Tasrayryn (talk) 14:00, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  General Page Information 

message: My name is Duane Flynn and I was the voice of the princess in 43 episodes of Ninja Robot. This is very exciting for me to hear it after all the years. I am glad that so many people enjoyed the series. I just wanted to set the record straight. Thank you.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.101.43.2 (talk) 21:45, 25 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Princess Rowena @ Sonic lll Studios, Miami, Fl.
Talk:Satellite Party

message: This doesn't qualify for a speedy delete as WP:BAND says that one exclusion is: "Contains at least one member who was once a part of or later joined a band that is otherwise notable; note that it is often most appropriate to use redirects in place of articles on side projects, early bands and such."  (aeropagitica)  (talk)  13:56, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

message: Shouldn't it just be Satellite Party, no 'The'? The website has no the and that seems like the most official source.86.129.0.201 09:58, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  band/article name? 
Talk:Toci

message: Toci and Teteoinnan are quite frequently described as alternate names for the same deity, and both are also associated with or alternate names for Tlazolteotl. It's not clear to me whether there are sufficiently distinctive characteristics or aspects per name in order to warrant these being separate articles. May need to investigate the primary sources eg Sahagun on these, not clear under which primary name these should go (if they are to be merged).--cjllw | TALK 14:15, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In her destructive aspect Teteoinnan is known as Coatlicue. While Coatlicue was the destructive feminine force, Teteoinnan was the creative feminine force.
--cjllw | TALK 08:43, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  merge proposal
Talk:Teteoinnan

message: Toci and Teteoinnan are quite frequently described as alternate names for the same deity, and both are also associated with or alternate names for Tlazolteotl. It's not clear to me whether there are sufficiently distinctive characteristics or aspects per name in order to warrant these being separate articles. May need to investigate the primary sources eg Sahagun on these, not clear under which primary name these should go (if they are to be merged).--cjllw | TALK 14:15, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  merge proposal
Talk:Throwing stick

message: Aboriginal Australians used a heavy non-returning throwing stick as well as the returning boomerang, I think.58.178.126.236 08:09, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

message: What about the weet-weet, n. [Native name in Victoria (Australia). A throwing toy, or implement, of the Australian Aborigines, consisting of a cigar-shaped stick fastened at one end to a flexible twig. It weighs in all about two ounces, and is about two feet long. It is described by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) in Following the Equator, CHAPTER XXI, Project Gutenberg EBook #2895. --Pawyilee (talk) 07:46, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weet-weet
Talk:Realgar

message: I have removed the following text
:Mixed with two parts of slaked lime, orpiment is still very commonly used in rural India as a depilatory. It is also used in tanning industry to remove hair from hides.
and placed an edited version in the entry for orpiment.--King Hildebrand 14:01, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orpiment is not realgar 

message: Was realgar made from the sandarac tree's resin?--عبد المؤمن (talk) 20:06, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: No. While the mineral realgar (red arsenic sulphide) and later red lead as well were called "sandarach" in the past, the plant resin was sometimes distinguished as Arabian Sandarach. NRPanikker (talk) 01:28, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Sandarac]] 

message: If it's found in China, Peru, and the Philippines, why not add a mention of that to the "Occurrence" section? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 22:17, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: To add to the "Occurrence" section

message: The article states "it was sprinkled around houses to repel snakes and insects, as well as being used in Chinese medicine.[13]"
There is only two occurrences of the word "snake" in the reference [13] and both instances reference the use of Orpiment for snake bites. Only one occurrence of "insect" is present referring to the use of Orpiment for insect stings. Nowhere can I find any reference to sprinkling Realgar around to repel snakes and insects. Perhaps the reference [13] is for the Chinese medicine comment and not the the sprinkling comment, in which case there should be a reference for that comment. It is quite a fundamental claim to claim that there is a written record of Realgar being used as an insecticide or insect repellent, so this would be very interesting.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.65.154.51 (talk) 14:05, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed the snakes part.  Most of the "uses" section is suspect in my opinion. Realgar is so insoluble that even its toxicity is questionable. Bottom line: realgar is a minor ore of As, its pretty, and that's all there is.--Smokefoot (talk) 16:32, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference for "repel snakes" comment
Talk:CD/DVD authoring

message: Writing one article that handles both cd and dvd authoring would be like creating an article:'The conduct of vehicles' that both handles pushing a wheel-barrow and flying the space-shuttle.
Both being 'Optical media' and physically very much looking alike, cd's and dvd's are actually a world apart in their way of authoring.
Cd authoring goes like this: you 'sample' the analog sound (At a certain frequency and bit-with) and then burn the obtained bit-stream onto the media - done!.
Discribing what has to be done in order to obtain a playable dvd - starting from scratch with an already digitized feature-film - takes many, many, many ..... pages of text, diagrams and drawings.81.245.178.139 14:02, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with you, and removed the corresponding merge(s).  I originally suggested go create the DVD authoring (and CD authoring) articles.  Apparently they already exist.  This page is now a redirect to Optical disc authoring now anyway, which ought to concentrate on the pressing of discs (and thigns common to both). Reswobslc 14:14, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

text: Apparently CD authoring is a redirect back to Optical disc authoring - I suppose that if anyone has any significant content to add there, they can - otherwise I removed the (circular) link from that target page. Reswobslc 14:18, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nonsense
Talk:St Georges Terrace

message: Suggestion from the see-saw that is the history of this page - this street needs more than the skeletal nature it currently has, but certainly not what proceeded it! SatuSuro 14:04, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Why is it spelt without the apostrophe, as in St Georges Terrace rather than St George's Terrace? -- I@n ≡ talk 14:23, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe this is the saturday night epiphany, a new article with the correct title (just think of the wierd and wonderful red links you will create) ready for a new template and all !SatuSuro 14:30, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Government decree. Part of the socialist dumbing-down of a nation. Grassynoel (talk) 07:17, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: A dumb question

message: The photo of the old government buildings - they were state govt not federal offices in that building correct title "Former State Treasury buildings" SatuSuro 04:42, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's not a very representative photo for the Terrace anyway as the Treasury bldgs are more oriented towards Barrack St.  The Palace, or a view up the hill towards the Barracks would be better.  See List of historic buildings in Perth, Western Australia (shameless plug).  A new photo is really needed.  — Moondyne 16:40, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: there was(circa1990 last time i checked it was there) a plaque on that corner that says 0km as is was the starting point for all distance measurements from Perth. Gnangarra 17:12, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Originally where the Govt Buildings stand was the Original GPO before it moved to Forrest Place. The Govt Buildings were originally mixed Federal/state inasmuch as the State was responsible for Tax collection etc till after WW2. John Curtin had his War Cabinet in these buildings when in WA. My Uncle Joe's old office when he was Acting Director of the (then) State Tax Office in the 1980's, has the flag pole out the front next to the main enterance on St Georges Tce - It is the window on the left of the main stairs in this photo. The (then) State Treasury had the enterance on Barrack St and is not the building pictured. The (then) Lands Office had the enterance on Cathedral Ave. The R&I Bank had an enterance on Hay St and Barrack St until it was demolished. There are old WW2 bomb shelters underneath the footpath.  My office is in the Law Chambers Building adjacent behind St George's Cathedral. petedavo 13:02, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo Caption
Talk:Orpiment

message: Is there any more information on the toxicity of this?
removed this text
:Mixed with two parts of slaked lime, orpiment is still very commonly used in rural India as a depilatory. It is also used in tanning industry to remove hair from hides.
from the entry on realgar, and have reinserted a similar text here.--King Hildebrand 14:05, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: there should be a link to the Chinese article, 雄黄, on zh.wikipedia.org —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 209.6.229.150 (talk) 23:35, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  interlanguage link. 

message: There's a conflict with the entry on realgar, which states that realgar decomoses to pararealgar, and NOT to orpiment.  The identification of the product as orpiment has been deemed incorrect, according to the realgar page.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.173.53.167 (talk) 22:40, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Formation from realgar? 

message: Can we get an example of something (like a painting) where orpiment was used as a pigment? Lockesdonkey (talk) 14:50, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sample picture of use as a pigment? 

message: — Assignment last updated by Colorresearcher (talk) 19:45, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: A History of Color
Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/July 26, 2006

message: The links after point to pages about languages, so maybe it could link to Gujarati language? Icey 14:09, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's been done. Icey 12:47, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Gujarati' link goes to a disambiguation page
Talk:Thrasyllus of Mendes

message: I wonder what is the source that gives Mendes as Thrasyllus' city of origin/residence?  The Oxford Classical Dictionary gives Alexandria.Isokrates 14:13, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:5th Infantry Brigade (United Kingdom)

message: The article suggests that the brigade was established in WWI but is it not the same as the 5th brigade of the 2nd division that formed a part of the Natal Field Force during the Second Boer War?  It makes me wonder when exactly it was formed as a unit.  LameCat (talk) 16:44, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Origins

message: Structure 1989 (before merger):
* Headquarters 5th Airborne Brigade and 216th Signal Squadron, Royal Corps of Signals
* Life Guards
* 1st Battalion, Parachute Regiment
* 2nd Battalion, Parachute Regiment
* 1st Battalion, 2nd King Edward VII's Own Gurkha Rifles (The Sirmoor Rifles)
* 1st Battalion, Royal Regiment of Fusiliers
* 7th Parachute Regiment Royal Horse Artillery
* 36th Engineer Regiment, Royal Engineers
* 23rd (Parachute) Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps
Sammartinlai (talk) 04:30, 6 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not needed
Talk:Color (law)

message: not sure i understand the term 'under color of'--
is this similar to 'under the influence' -- which it seems suggestive of?
that so and so individual was acting under the influence of so and so state law?
or perhaps that the person was acting under a false understanding of this law?
a person who does not know that smoking is prohibited at a certain place begins to smoke a cigarete thinking that this is within their rights is 'acting under the color of law' (the law being their understanding of their right to smoke at this place).
---
also, the similarity between the above section 'color of law' and the following which refers to 'appropriation of name or likeness' i am not sure i understand.  i think it would have to be clarified.
--- 
The term originated in 13th century English usage referring to the flag or coat of arms of the king was carried by his officials/soldiers to signify their authority. Same usage is preserved in the modern term "color guard" meaning a small crew ceremonially presenting the flag at an official event.  I think the facts contained in fn. 13 & 14 and the accompanying text in this article holds the key, but I am on the road and can't get it done until tomorrow. <ref>Steven L. Winter, The Meaning of "Under Color of" Law, 91 MICH. L. REV. 323 (1992).<ref>  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mahoopes (talk • contribs) 13:06, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Color of

message: I think we should add some kind of mention to "Permanent resident under color of law," which is an article that exists on Wikipedia under Prucol. This is another common use of the term. Midtempo-abg (talk) 16:34, 28 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  PRUCOL 
Talk:200th Street (IRT Third Avenue Line station)

message: Although I have not proposed this article for deletion, I am not convinced that it could ever be developed into a robust article. In general, I think that defunct train lines should be covered once, in an article about the entire line, rather than creating separate articles for each station, which invariably won't have much to say—as this article amply demonstrates.
Note that someone has also created a page for 204th Street on the same line, but none of the 3rd Avenue El's numerous other stations have articles at present, nor are they likely to. Marc Shepherd 14:48, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Encyclopedic?
Talk:204th Street (IRT Third Avenue Line station)

message: Although I have not proposed this article for deletion, I am not convinced that it should be a separate article. In general, I think that defunct train lines should be covered once, in an article about the entire line, rather than creating separate articles for each station, which generally won't have much to say.
This article is more robust than the 200th Street article. Still, these are the only two stations on a long-gone line with separate articles. Much that is said here could be incorporated in the IRT Third Avenue Line article. Marc Shepherd 14:54, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Membership function (mathematics)

message: The article mentions Aliasker Zadeh.  I went to Berkeley where he taught.  I never heard him called anything but Lotfi Zadeh.  I had to check to make sure this was the same person.  If you click on the link you see that it's the same person.  I wonder if this could be clarified? MarkWegman (talk) 15:24, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lotfi Zadeh
Talk:Nancy Woods

message: Would have to be one of these or something earlier:  Archie's Girls Betty and Veronica (1950) #188; Jughead (1965) #195 (both August 1971) --Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 21:59, 31 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: First appearance

message: Does anyone know which episodes she appeared in?
66.67.99.61 (talk) 18:25, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Archie’s Weird Mysteries
Talk:Cheryl Blossom

message: This article talks more about Cheryl's history and relationships, but doesn't talk about what kind of character she is.  It seems to cover the bare basics and little else.Rebochan 18:58, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I added some information on her character, but Cheryl's character is hard to peg because she is sometimes rude and other times considerate. Sorry if it's not particularly well-written; I'm not quite used to writing in encyclopedia-style.  Flowertea 21:07, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Stubby?
Talk:Betty Snowball

message: When I start on a biography or piece of women's history, I like to leave my thoughts and intentions on the Talk page. It's a way for myself and others to see what I have planned, as I may be working on and off on a page for some time.
Betty Snowball:
* Separate the page into readable sections (complete)
* Some actual sources
:– Her cricinfo is a good start but it's not enough for a full biography
:– Find actual books and biographical sources
:– Add a proper obituary, if it can be found
* Rewrite the new sections with the new material
MsJoat (talk) 17:18, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plan for Improvement