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Template talk:User Anglophile

message: Can someone make a border around the image on this template, or change the background to black and the text white? Thanks.Maprov 00:24, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done (well, made the background blue for aesthetics, but close enough) Ryan McDaniel 00:53, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

message: Please, change the template in some way to give it a bit of "english Understatement". It screams "I AM AN ANGLOPHILE". I would like this (and indeed use it on my page): 
Thanks in advance.-- ExpImptalkcon 19:33, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I was trying to use a blue somewhat closer to the color (colour, I suppose) in the flag of the United Kingdom.  If it's really that objectionable, can we come up with a light color that is somehow significant to England (and, no offense intended, less unattractive than the light blue above)?  What about grey?  —Ryan McDaniel 00:02, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The blue is not at all acceptable
Talk:Aaron Stainthorpe

message: 'Ran a great underground 'zine during the late eighties. The death of his mother had a profound on Aaron, leading, in part, to the deapair of his lyric's.'
I have never seen any references to an underground zine or the death of his mother. Also, Aaron has never (to my knowledge) detailed any of the real life inspiration for his lyrics.
--Ad Nauseam 00:40, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: I have removed the following from this page 
Talk:Resistance

message: Interesting to note that a disambiguation page contains links to nonexistent pages!  I've tried to find a suitable link for "fluid resistance"—and, although I know exactly what it means, I haven't found one.  I think it's probably somewhere in fluid dynamics but someone who knows more than I will have to take that one.  Meanwhile, I'll concentrate on the electrical references!  :) · Rassilon 00:38, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Downtown Portland, Oregon

message: I added a section on Portland's success vs. "Urban Hollowing".  I'm not at all satisfied with it (especially the heading), but it seems an issue worth mentioning.  Constructive criticism/edits welcome. -- Gnetwerker 00:41, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: — Assignment last updated by Jr2154 (talk) 15:59, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Writing 1 MW
Talk:Ninja Burger

message: I added the RPG infobox as part of a drive on WikiProject Role-playing games to add boxes to all articles related to RPGs, but it was removed. I know that Ninja Burger is more than an RPG, but since the article belongs to the category "Comedy role-playing games" I think an infobox would be nice. We could either split off the RPG material to an article called "Ninja Burger (role-playing game)" or we could put the infobox to the right of the RPG section of the current article, if a box to the top right is out of the question. Jonas Karlsson 09:46, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Role-playing game infobox 

message: Please merge any relevant content from [ Day of the Ninja] per Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Day of the Ninja.   (If there is nothing to merge, just leave it as a redirect.)  Thanks. —Quarl (talk) 2007-02-25 05:43Z
Done. aeonite 07:28, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge from [[Day of the Ninja]]
Talk:Chucky Mullins

message: On January 14, 2006, this article was nominated for deletion; the result of the debate was Keep. The discussion can be found here. DS 00:44, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Hove

message: "Hove is a seaside resort." The opening sentence of this article. Is Hove really, first and foremost, a seaside resort? As in: Mars is a planet, Paris is a city, the Atlantic is an ocean and Hove is a seaside resort? In other words, Hove's raison d'être above being a place, for instance, where people live and work is as a place where people bathe in the sea and use the beach? I've never been to Hove so I can't confirm either way, but it seems an odd categorisation for the first sentence and article descriptor. Songofachilles (talk) 23:06, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seaside resort
Talk:Allegheny Mountains

message: There is a nice image  that may be usable in this article. - cohesion★talk 00:55, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It was deleted for not having a confirmed source for more than seven days. SCHZMO ✍ 23:20, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Image

message: It looks like this article has been vastly improved since first being assessed as a start class, I therefore have upgraded its Virginia assessment to B and also added it to WikiProject West Virginia with the same assessment.  I recommend that other WikiProject members upgrade their assessment of the page as per their own criteria. Arbogastlw (talk) 15:34, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article Class 

message: The article says that part of the Allegheny Mountains are in Virginia, but according to the map they are not.ZFT (talk) 18:09, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The map needs refining. 69.255.153.126 (talk) 02:15, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction 
Talk:The Stunt Man

message: I changed it from stating this as a fact to saying he thinks he may have.  He threw a bolt at the car and the car veers off which it was supposed to but he didn't know that.  Later, reviewing the underwater footage with the head stunt man he remarks upon the broken glass and his boss said probably from the impact but in any case it didn't matter.  I believe this scene is designed to make it clear that he had nothing to do with the stunt man's death.  (Yes, the car was supposed to go off the bridge anyway, but his thrown missile COULD have been why the driver didn't get out.  Now we know it had nothing to do with it.)  This is based on viewing a 35mm print today.  I should add that to sources.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.244.48.182 (talk) 23:17, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: "Caused the Death of the Stunt Man"

message: The politics of the making of this film are very interesting. This article could be expanded greatly.
:They were and it was - once upon a time. Then an obedient Wikipaedian took them/it out. Classic Wikipedia.
===Want to see one where I'm driving the Duesenberg?===
Am I right every scene Eli shoots was a lift from a real film released around 1968 (about the year the film was set)?  And what was the putative name of the project (if it had one...)? Alan Swann 20:47, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Expand

message: Am I right every scene Eli shoots was a lift from a real film released around 1968 (about the year the film was set)?  And what was the putative name of the project (if it had one...)? Alan Swann 20:47, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Want to see one where I'm driving the [[Duesenberg]]?
Talk:Richard Rush (director)

message: Hi:
This article rambles. A slight reorganization to give it more structure would improve it greatly. Secondly, I recall reading that he had a heart attack a year or two after The Stuntman came out, which may have also affected his career path. A cite should be found before including that.
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.157.183.179 (talk • contribs) 16 January 2006.
This reads like it was cribbed from somewhere. There are a lot of precise quotations with no source given, and punctuation that looks like it follows someone else's style. - Jmabel | Talk 06:08, 2 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Nowhere Girl

message: Just wondering...
What is this comic actually about ?
Zuiram 05:03, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I added a bit, although I'm unsure about the reference I used: It's what Google displays as the webpage's summary, apparently taken from the page's meta tags. Could someone with more knowledge than me please check if this is okay and if not correct it? --141.77.225.60 (talk) 13:40, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Unreal (demo)

message: Stifle 01:07, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Uh, that's the game, which this demo is unrelated to.  Unreal (disambiguation) and :Category:Unreal do their jobs just fine.  --Vossanova o< 15:54, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Olympics/Summer templates

message: A complete list of Olympics-related templates with red links that need to be filled (as of Dec. 2005) can be found at Wikipedia:Templates with red links/Olympic. Cheers! bd2412 T 01:10, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Great work.  Thanks! -- Jonel | Speak 23:18, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The page "Wikipedia:Templates with red links/Olympics" has been moved to Wikipedia:Templates with red links/Athletics.EmanWilm (talk) 17:09, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Templates with red links

message: I created this template. It's similar to , but instead of linking to a country, it's used to link to an event. I had some problems with subcategory links, but it works good now. RaLo18 (talk with me • my contributions) 20:13, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Great job, RaLo18. I think this can be of good use, namely in the results sections in "Country at the Year Season Olympics" pages. Parutakupiu (talk) 21:49, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  {{Tl|OlympicEvent}}
Talk:Dennis Taylor

message: Taylor is a Catholic, and since he has an English surname that isn't obvious. Which of the two traditions people come from is a thing you always wonder (at least as a non-Brit) when reading about people from Northern Ireland, so it would be helpful if it could somehow be inserted. In the article about Alex Higgins it is stated in the "Life and career" section, but it's also more comprehensive, including what his parents did for a living etc., so not sure where it could fit in in this article.--Batmacumba (talk) 09:37, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Catholic 

message: The article talks about Dennis lifting Joe Davis Cup after winning the WC. I've never heard this name put on the cup before, and cant find any evidence that that is what the trophy is called....User:Stonecold21
:Hi, you are correct. The trophy was donated by Davis, or bought by Davis, but I think I was wrong to say that it is the "Joe Davis "Cup". Safer for now to revert to a more generic description. bigpad 17:28, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Trophy

message: While I was looking at the Canadian Masters article I saw that Taylor had won the event twice, and in the infobox on his article it said that he had won only two non ranking events in his whole career which is obviously incorrect. He has won the Masters as well as the World Trickshot Championhsip, but should the World Trickshot Championship count as a non-ranking event as it is a different skill altogether? Really each Irish Professional Championship should count as an individual non-ranking event as that is what has been done other articles of players who have won their national championship. So basically how many non-ranking wins should we say he has? There is similar problems on many other snooker player articles of his era, including Terry Griffiths, Doug Mountjoy and Alex Higgins. Samasnookerfan (talk) 18:41, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  How many non-ranking wins? 

message: I wonder if it might be worth creating a separate section for these, instead of bunging them in with his "personal life" (a section which consists almost entirely of TV stuff anyway)?
On top of numerous sports/documentary/game-show appearances, he has also done some "real" television. He appeared for a rather extended cameo in a season 4 episode of Lovejoy, and while he was "merely" playing himself, it still counts as acting in my book; or at least is proof of his showmanship skills.
Otto von B. (talk) 13:32, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  TV appearances
Talk:ColossalCon

message: The only source for this article was myself as a staff member from 2003 onwards.
Is there a proper way to cite individuals? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.21.140.154 (talk • contribs) 21:45, April 11, 2007
:No. Reliable source must be referenced. Using yourself as a reference is original research and other readers will not be able to independently verify it. --Farix (Talk) 23:33, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources
Talk:Sweat lodge

message: It's fine to note that the practice is a spiritual one with specific rituals linked to it, but to imply that it's dangerous if it isn't performed according to those traditions is dishonest. It's surely dangerous if precautions aren't taken but that has nothing to do with spirituality, culture or tradition. Prayers don't protect anyone from harm. Knowledge of dangerous medical conditions and the ability to recognize signs of distress do, and a white person with no knowledge of indigenous culture can learn this. The article is going too far in seeking to protect cultural practices from appropriation by making claims, in Wikipedia's voice, that are obviously untrue. 100.40.29.79 (talk) 00:13, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too protective of cultural practices
Talk:History of writing

message: Under "Writing systems", it is claimed: There are considered to be three writing criteria for all writing systems. The first being that writing must be complete. It must have a purpose or some sort of meaning to it. A point must be made or communicated in the text. Second, all writing systems must have some sort of symbols which can be made on some sort of surface, whether physical or digital. Lastly, the symbols used in the writing system must mimic spoken word/speech, in order for communication to be possible. 
Everything seems reasonable to an amateur, except for the statement that writing must be complete.  In what way?  Do the next two sentences form a definition?  In that case it could be made more obvious.  Fomalhaut76 (talk) 18:52, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: It must be complete in the sense that every word someone wants to write in their language can be written. (In case you're interested in this topic, read John DeFrancis's Visible Speech. The Diverse Oneness of Writing Systems. He uses the term "full writing systems.") What would be a better wording for amateurs like you? Love —LiliCharlie (talk) 19:22, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Writing must be complete"? 

message: Could someone please take a look at this webpage (which I have accidentally came upon: http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/tel-lachish-inscription-09571.html (entitled: Archaeologists Find 3,450-Year-Old Alphabetic Inscription in Israel) in order to DETERMINE what UPDATE CHANGES-if any at all, are needed/necessary for this Wikipedia page?
Thank you! :)
AK63 (talk) 20:55, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: a link to a scientific publication website-reg. update about a new (most ancient to date?) verified archaeological inscription discovery

message: This article quite disturbingly seems to all-but ignore the history of the independently-developed writing systems of Mesoamerica, with only a tiny section on it. Instead, it seems almost enitrely to focus on the history of writing in Afro-Eurasia. This is not an area I have much knowledge in, but information could perhaps be directly added from the article Mesoamerican writing systems. AvRand (talk) 20:23, 17 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expand Mesoamerican Writing 

message: What is this passage saying? How relevant are "money" (idealized exchange value) or "currency" (signified exchange value) to the history of writing, that they should be mentioned in the lead? Neither money nor currency imply writing, see coin, cowrie, tally stick. Is this just someone jamming in a plug for cryptocurrency? 2601:642:4600:BE10:28D4:17DB:75E1:C3E6 (talk) 06:29, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Good catch -- I removed it -- that had been here for a ridiculously long time too. I don't think editors review this article much despite its importance. SamuelRiv (talk) 06:52, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Lead: "genres … digital currency"

message: Is it worth having a section on historical alternatives to writing? The only examples I can think of are oral tradition and the Incan Quipu Alexanderkowal (talk) 08:59, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternatives to writing
Talk:Virginia Division of Capitol Police

message: This article contradicts with police and Texas Ranger division as to which is the oldest police department.  BlueGoose 01:39, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The Virginia Capitol Police, while tracing its origins back to 1618, was effectively dissolved in times it was still being called the Virginia Public Guard. It was disbanded in 1869 and reconstituted again in 1884, thus rendering the claim at the VCP article invalid in terms of "being the oldest law enforcement agency". The assertion of being the oldest "police department", which is entirely different, can be debated here. Reference: Virginia Historical Society. - Phædriel ♥ tell me 01:56, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A police department is a subset of a law enforcement agency.  The Texas Rangers article said that the Texas Rangers was the oldest law enforcement agency.  As the Texas Rangers were founded in the 19th century and the VCP was founded in 1618 as the oldest police department, there is a contradiction since a police department IS a law enforcement agency (but a law enforcement agency does NOT have to be a police department (I think)).  Now if some reference (with citations given) were made about the Texas Rangers being the longest continually serving law enforcement agency, that would be OK (if that were factually correct.)  BlueGoose 17:58, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Contradiction
Talk:Named parameter

message: I think it is misleading to claim that MATLAB has named arguments.  If whoever included MATLAB is referring to the varargs convention like foo('par1', 5, 'par2', 34),  that is hacking named arguments, and does not constitute language support (since to use it requires explicit parsing).
I've removed MATLAB from the list.  If some one can justify it (and give a cite) then put it back. 70.179.23.194 (talk) 04:42, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  MATLAB 

message: I may get to it someday. dr.ef.tymac (talk) 04:01, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  this article could use some work 

message: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Subprograms#Named_parameters
Janburse (talk) 11:00, 30 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  ADA has also Named Parameters 

message: I don't think "pass-by-name", as listed in the first paragraph, is an appropriate alternate term. A quick Google search turns up that this is considered the same as call-by-name, which is not at all like named parameters. See Evaluation strategy. Call-by-name is when you pass an entire expression in as a parameter, and its evaluation is delayed until it is used, and re-evaluated each time it is used. We should remove "pass-by-name" from the list in the first paragraph, unless anyone can name a language that uses that term for named parameters.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Qseep (talk • contribs) 03:23, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pass-by-name?
Talk:Chennault International Airport

message: We need a source cited for the "mission statement" quote. If anyone knows it, please add it as well as a ref. section. --DanielCD 01:54, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

message: I removed an erroneous claim that Chennault's 10,700 ft runway was the "longest of any airport between Houston and Cape Canaveral." Aside from the ambiguous nature of the claim (how far North of the line between them counts? Along the coast? ATL? BNA? ORD?,) any reasonable interpretation of the claim is clearly false. Orlando has 12,000' runways, TPA has 11,000'. Eglin AFB has 12,000'. Others likely also exist, but those are just off the top of my head. Vbscript2 (talk) 17:51, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Longest runway claim
Category talk:American people of Mexican descent

message: This category is meant for Mexican-American people (ethnicity), not Mexican-American schools, organizations, slang words, etc. These categories should be categorized in :Category:Chicano ---> Sagitario 02:17, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, but it;'s going to take some work to get the two categories straightened out. A good place to start may be with the articles, Mexican American and Chicano, which seem to overlap. -Will Beback 02:25, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Mexican-American-related articles

message: Can someone please add the subcategory :Category:Mexican American actors to the list?
ThanksRoniRay (talk) 05:29, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Mexican American Actors
Talk:Eddie Johnson (soccer)

message: I heard that Benfica offered USD 6 million for Johnson and were turned down by MLS... can anyone confirm?
Another thing worth mention might be the goals-to-games ratio he had in his first few starts for the Nats...
Would anyone object to this page being located at "Eddie Johnson (soccer)"?  He is always referred to as Eddie including in his bios at all the pages listed (e.g. ussoccer.com). Jon Stockton 03:53, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Midland F1 Racing

message: Should number of races not be 18 (and 0 for Spyker)? In "Spyker MF1 Racing", Spyker was just the title sponsor. I believe the team remained Midland for 2006. Otherwise, we'd be declaring McLaren a new team now that Vodafone replaces West.
--192.171.3.126 10:07, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with you. I think it should be 18 races for MF1 Racing (the registrated constructor's name for FIA was not Midland F1 Racing) and 0 for Spyker. Spyker applied his name to the head as title sponsor (Spyker MF1 Racing), because it was not able to change the name during the season without permissions by all other teams. Therefore, Spyker didn't enter the races in 2006 as a team, on the record.--Morio 21:33, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  When is a new team a new team 

message: Do you think the article should be moved instead to Midland F1? Midland F1 Racing is certainly better than MF1, but I think the "Racing" is superflous. A number of articles are still redirected here from Midland F1 suggesting that is a form that editors prefer to use.
There is a precedent for this styling set by other F1 teams:
*Toyota F1 ("Panasonic Toyota Racing")
*WilliamsF1 ("WilliamsF1 Team")
*Honda F1 ("Honda Racing F1 Team")
Erath 12:21, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Article name
Talk:Dosaku

message: There is already the article Honinbo Dosaku.  We should merge this artlce into that one.  "Honinbo Dosaku" is the proper name (see the Japanese artilce of Honinbo Dosaku) because "Honinbo " had been the family name granted to the head of Honinbo school before it became a Go comeptition. And in the relevant categories, Honinbo should be showed as the family name of the go players.  See the Japanese category of Go players.  After merging this article, we can redirect "Dosaku" to "Honibo Dosaku".  Thank you.  --Neo-Jay 02:23, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge into [[Honinbo Dosaku ]], and [[Honinbo]] is a family name
Talk:The Brunettes

message: Hi just fleshed out the article with a little info from the band's website, first article I've done so any comments helpful.
ShaiOne 02:29, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Paul Paddick

message: I have expanded this stub.
As I've done with all The Wiggles pages, I have completely re-vamped this page--adding sources, fixing links, cleaning up the content.  I was only able to find, however, two (2!) articles about Paddick.  If anyone else knows of more sources, help!  Also, I could find no suitable pictures; the current one is horrible, IMO.  The photos on the two articles from the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age are copyrighted and as per Wikipedia policy, shouldn't be placed here.  The only other photos I found of Paddick are of him with others--other Wiggles, other Wiggles friends, pirates, etc.  That's why I put one of my screenshots, which will have to be adequate for now.  Again--help! Figureskatingfan 05:07, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re-edit