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Talk:World Assembly of Muslim Youth

message: The section heading and three paragraphs in italics, that I have pasted in below, were excised from this article, here, and here.  I wrote about half that passage.  I don't think my prose is sacred, or anything special.  But I do like to see an explanation when a whole sub-topic is removed.
I have attempted to initiate discussions with wikipedia contributors who hold various points of view, in their personal lives, about material they excise.  Over on the Talk:Tablighi Jamaat, a year and a half ago, I made many attempts to provide coverage of the fact, referenced from verifiable and authoritative sources, that there are strong elements within the counter-terrorism establishments around the world who assert there is a connection between TJ and terrorism.  
Initially my correspondents on Talk:Tablighi Jamaat wanted to wholesale excise, to suppress all coverage of these allegations, justifying the suppression based on their perception that the allegations were flimsy, far-fetched, contradicted the stated principle that the TJ movement was non-political.  My response was that so long as the coverage of the allegations conformed with the wikipedia's core policies, like WP:NPOV, WP:NOR and WP:VER, it should stay.  Suppressing coverage of material because, in the personal opinion of one, or several, wikipedia contributors, that the material is not credible, is a violation of WP:NPOV, when the material complies with the wikipedia's core policies.
I am going to wait a reasonable period of time, for the wikipedians who excised the material, or for someone who agrees with its excision, to offer an explanation why it should remain exicsed.  And if I don't get one, I think it should be restored.
Cheers!  Geo Swan 17:49, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Section deleted without discussion

message: Many of the statements in this article give discoverthenetworks.org as the source, which is not reliable in itself, although it often draws its information from reliable sources. In addition, there are many direct quotations from this source. Someone with the time and interest (unfortunately not me) should replace those citations with citations to the original, reliable sources of the information posted. In the meantime I am flagging as unreliable.  Jazzcowboy (talk) 13:18, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I've fixed some of these, but it still needs some work. Jazzcowboy (talk) 14:11, 25 October 2016 (UTC)

text: I have removed material cited to discoverthenetworks.org. Snuish (talk) 21:57, 14 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Unreliable Sources
Talk:Christmas stocking

message: Thanks for trying to add a little humor to wikipedia. However, we here at wikipedia want our encyclopedia to look as professional as possible. If you want to test out editing, feel free to use the sandbox. You can post anything you like there. GregNorc (talk) 
       
       
     
Are you referring to the person who captioned 
a picture "Stockings hung by the chimney  with care"? 
I was wondering if that belonged too. Pizzadinosaur (talk) 17:07, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: To whom it may concern:

message: I've never heard of this tradition--items for the 5 senses--in any personal interactions or in any reading or nowhere nohow.  Can you cite the culture or society in which this is a common tradition?  Elf | Talk 23:21, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Tradition/5 senses

message: It should be called Christmas socks instead of stocking. Bennylin (talk) 21:31, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stocking or socks? 

message: I came in looking for country-specific origins of the custom. I'm still not sure if the stockings are more of an American custom or if there are long traditions of Christmas stockings other countries from before the late 19th century/early 20th century or so. So is it the Americans who popularised the tradition, or was it a long-standing thing in Europe before? Can anyone shed more light on this?--Snowgrouse (talk) 23:27, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Country-specific origins? 

message: I feel like this article is eccentric in several ways.
-The "History" section goes off on a random legend about the origin of stockings. It seems unnecessary, or at least poorly introduced. I think it ought to be condensed or removed.
-The paragraph after the legend ("This led to the custom of...") is just a mess. Unprofessional tone, poor sentence flow, doubtful significance.
-The last two lines of that section are not "History." More like modern cultural information.
-I feel weird about the "World's Largest Christmas Stocking" section. Should this have its own section? Seems like a fun fact, perhaps worth a sentence or two in a different section. This section alone makes me doubt the significance of the whole article a little bit.
Anyway, I fixed a couple of things, but it's midnight and I'm going to bed. Maybe I'll take another hack at this later. Isaaclyman (talk) 05:58, 12 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sort of a weird article 

message: Is the section concerning the history of largest recorded stocking correct?
It appears to me that it may have gotten out of proper order due to edits.  It appears to claim that the record in 2010 predates the record set in 2007.  I.e. it says the current record was set in 2011, the prior record in 2007, and (presumably the prior record to THAT) in 2010.  I don't have time to do the research right now but wanted to put this up so it isn't forgotten and left unaddressed.
Forbin1 (talk) 20:32, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of largest stocking... needs edits?
Talk:Social equality

message: S no word about it here  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Doganaktas (talk • contribs) 14:54, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: they don't even mention gay rights and they should  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.29.5.15 (talk) 16:49, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: They prefer it when you don't identify them. EyePhoenix (talk) 04:35, 8 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who are the founders of the philosophic basis of social Equality? 

message: That article is currently all about social equality and some phrases auch as positive action are redirected there so I have suggested moving it here and merging. This article should be mainly the lead to the contents of that article. See Talk:Affirmative_action#Social_equality also ~ R.T.G 08:53, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Affirmative Action]] 

message: i see origin and race, but ethnicity isn't listed. thoughts?Paolorausch (talk) 08:12, 28 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ok if i add ethnicity? 

message: — Assignment last updated by CoVo2023 (talk) 03:05, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: The Economics of Social Justice and Injustice
Talk:Loren Shriver

message: I came across this article today, and it seems that the contents of this article have been taken directly from an outside source, verbatim. This article was stolen from http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/shriver.html, and is in violation of Wikipedia policy and should be removed or rewritten immediately. Acaides 21:51, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article Integrity 
Talk:German (studies)

message: I just spent over an hour translating and correcting/commenting on the whole German version.  I put it hereon editing talk for others to clean up.  Instead it's gone. Kdammers 2 July 2005 09:15 (UTC)
I'll try it again, but I'm not translating the whole thing again at one fell swoop.  The way I'll do it is  paste it here (editng talk) and I and others can gradually translate it if it doesn't disappear. Kdammers 4 July 2005 08:23 (UTC)  Some of the content is  not right on, so it should be changed before or after translation.  Comments are  |thus.|  In addition, some additional material should be added for non-German-speakers (e.g., re Hochdeutsch).
Well, I see my change have disappeared again! "Sysiphos." Kdammers 04:05, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Translation

message: To venture comment on the origins of the linguistic efforts, perhaps it is necessary to acknowledge that terminology which describes maintenance and repair of original structures is different from that used to describe the building process.
Germany has a number of ancient castle-type structures having extremely remote or otherwise high-altitude/mountaintop locations, which became a cause for contention when 'the English' thought to claim them from afar with intent to update and repair them for themselves.  Similar to controversies about the construction of the Egyptian pyramids, the original scen-arios of castle construction give some insight about how to maintain and repair them, but need modern-day linguistics to conceptualize such activity  --  'Germanistics' as a term pro-vides allusion to issues of floral 'loft' necessary to sustain ongoing repair and maintenance protocols, as well as to the physiological state of human populations which is necessary to sustain such protocols.   11/19/2005  00:24, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  interpretation  

message: To include every university in the world which offers studies in Germanistics (or whatever it is supposed to be called) seems to be beyond the scope of a page like this. It would include thousands of institutions. up+land 08:18, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: List of institutions
Talk:Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli

message: There are two copies of this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_von_B%C3%B6hm-Ermolli
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Freiherr_von_B%C3%B6hm-Ermolli  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.132.27.108 (talk) 10:07, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: It is noteworthy that in the photograph dated 16 March 1941 in which Bohm-Ermolli appears with Raeder, von Brauchitsch, Keitel, Milch, Hess and Himmler, Bohm-Ermolli is in fact also holding a Field Marshal's baton.  It is the Austro-Hungarian Field Marshal's baton he was awarded in 1918.  This style of baton awarded to k.u.k. officers at that time was not the same as German, French, or British marshal's batons; they were longer, and had an ivory head with a wooden (typically an exotic wood) shaft, brass hardware, and tassels.  I think it would be pertinent and useful information to note that fact in the caption for the photograph.  I do not claim it is informative as to discussions elsewhere on this page speaking to his loyalties. 104.3.33.218 (talk) 22:58, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Baton in photograph
Talk:Monash University

message: I'm a representative of Monash University and would like to submit for consideration three updates to our main Wikipedia entry and campus entries following the official close of the Berwick campus. See: https://www.monash.edu/about/our-locations/berwick-campus
1.
Could I ask that the Monash University page and the Berwick campus page be changed to reflect that this is no longer a Monash campus. Federation University has taken ownership of the campus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monash_University#Berwick_campus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monash_University,_Berwick_campus
2.
The Monash University template appearing at the bottom on multiple campus pages also includes Berwick campus.
Could this be updated to remove Berwick as a campus?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monash_University,_Berwick_campus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monash_University,_Caulfield_campus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monash_University,_Clayton_campus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IITB-Monash_Research_Academy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monash_University,_Parkville_campus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monash_University,_Peninsula_campus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monash_University,_Prato_Centre
3.
As a result of the close of the Monash University Berwick campus, could we request that on the Peninsula campus page the text "The Peninsula campus of Monash University is Monash's fifth-largest campus" be changed to "...is Monash's fourth-largest campus"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monash_University,_Peninsula_campus
Thank you for your consideration.
Ddgbrown (talk) 23:28, 21 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update mentions of Berwick campus 

message: "For international applicants, however, the entry standards are lower, with many enrolled students having very poor English,[70][71][72] and international students compose 39% of the university's student body."
Citations 70 and 71 refer to Australian universities in general and do not specifically mention Monash university. Citation 72 also does not state or infer specifically to Monash university's supposed low standards, rather it has a quotation from a Monash professor talking about international students in general.
This part should be removed as it is not specific to Monash university. It should be moved to the "Tertiary education in Australia" page (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertiary_education_in_Australia) Aqaz110 (talk) 01:10, 14 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect admissions section 
Talk:Optometry

message: How much do they pay 41.116.17.171 (talk) 18:15, 10 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Do they travel 

message: The occupation type for optometry is listed as "medical specialty" however this is not accurate. Optometrists do not go to medical school or hold an MD or DO degree. This is misleading and confusing to the general public. Titanfreemont (talk) 20:27, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Optometry listed as medical specialty 

message: . 195.187.108.130 (talk) 16:24, 14 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is it evidence-based? 

message: There's plenty with regards to optometry as a medical practice and career, but not much with regards to the actual practice of measurement. For instance, what units of measure are used, and what do those units mean? How are they taken?
Should this page really be exclusive to the medical practitioners, without any regard to the taking of measurements themselves, with the title revised to "Optometry (medical practice)"? Should the "what" and "how" of taking these measurements really be moved to another page, with some disambiguation text on the top of each page, to make clear the distinction?
It appears that there's an educational interest that isn't being served, here. Can something be done about it, please? 108.7.205.216 (talk) 18:48, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where's the "metry"?
Talk:Cross-breeding

message: Deleted and redirected this:
Cross-breeding is the idea of two different (genetically) beings, that breed together to raise offspring, which combine the abilities of both parents.
Many modern dog-races are actually a mixture of previous races, but emerged as separate races.
Article already exists and is better explained at hybrid.  All this information is contained therein.  The reference to hybrid vigour is fully explained at heterosis.
Quill 21:58, 18 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Land ethic

message: way too short for such a common topic in philosophy and environmental studies. Alba 13:59, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I'm not versed enough in the work of J. Stan Rowe at this point to enter Rowe's Critique of Leopold into the entry (or the ecocentricism entry), nor have I sufficiently studied Leopold to appraise Stan Rowe's position relative to Leopold's Land Ethic, but just to make it available, here is a paragraph from J. Stan Rowe's piece "Ecocentricism: The Chord that Harmonizes Humans and Earth" <http://www.ecospherics.net/pages/RoweEcocentrism.html> 
"Wherever our sense of greatest importance lies, there also will our ethics be. The attempt to build ethical concern for the Ecosphere from the inside out, by add-ons starting with our selves and the human race, may soothe consciences for a little while, but it will be the kiss of death for wild nature. Aldo Leopold has been the influential exponent of ethics-by-extension, rationalized as an expedient for human survival. Unfortunately this approach only strengthens anthropocentrism, making it certain that land, air, water and other organisms will always in the crunch take second place to the welfare of self, family and friends. More sensible, but more difficult, is the ecocentric ethic that confers highest valuation on the Ecosphere which, by proxy, bestows ethical merit and concern on its subsidiary contents according to their compliance and cooperation. The self finds its ecological values in the welfare of the non-self."
Rowe is a proponent of ecosphere thinking and he is the author of A Manifesto for Earth.Stephen Mikesell 22:33, 24 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stan Rowe's critique 
Talk:Law French

message: Sorry, but I don't know if it's the good expression in English but I believe there's an error it's "prochain ami" the good orthograph. I don't know the law expressions. --Locusfr 04:23, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, prochain ami would be the standard spelling in French of France, but the Law French expression (or sometimes prochein amy) preserves an alternative spelling. Man vyi 06:11, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Okay, I didn't know this expression--Locusfr 20:21, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: prochein ami

message: I have started the migration of the French terms to a wikitable similar to the Latin terms. I will add the TOC shortly and will start adding proper references -- for example, the Doctrine of Laches. Bruxisme (talk) 05:29, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moving toward wikitable for terms 

message: How about privity, or the "dehors the will" theory in Equity? —Brigade Piron (talk) 13:08, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Or charterparty (charte partie)? —Brigade Piron (talk) 21:26, 18 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additions 

message: I think that “La Reyne le veult” and the “small number of Norman French phrases that continue to be used in the course of parliamentary procedure” (i.e. in law-making) should be mentioned here as well.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.183.44.120 (talk) 11:50, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of French in Parliament 

message: I found the following in "Textbook on Legal Language and Legal Writing", page 260:
:Until the early fourteenth century, Law French largely coincided with the French used as an everyday language by the upper classes. As such, it reflected some of the changes undergone by the northern dialects of mainland French during the period. Thus, in the documents mentioned above, 'of the king' is render as del rey, whereas by about 1330 it had become du roi ...
This is verbatim what is in the article. I have not looked further to see what else is being plagiarized.
--165.204.77.11 (talk) 05:32, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plagiarism 

message: As of today in Britain, are these terms pronounced as if they were French, or spoken in an anglicized way?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:C0:DF02:1B00:D97A:7936:1008:C321 (talk) 14:36, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation
Talk:Disadvantaged

message: I have POV'd this article as the current content is poorly written and highly contentious for such a wide-ranging term as 'Disadvantaged'.
Eddie.willers 01:07, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia articles are never deleted - they only go to join the Wikipedia Ghosts!
--Mike 11:23, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV 

message: This article is a grabbag of two different topics. They should be split apart, and a disambiguation page put in its place with the two concepts here, and a link to disadvantage (politics); and a see also for drawback (disambiguation).
I suggest the two topics be titled disadvantaged (disability) and disadvantaged (economics). Most of this article would be "disadvantaged (economics)" while a stub from the bullet point for "disadvantaged (disablity)" would be created. 
Alternately, the "disadvantaged (disability)" should be deleted, since it makes a mess of this article.
:too small to split, already basically a stub and likely entirely redundant with other articles; splitting would be a move in the wrong direction. This isn't wiktionary. 98.4.112.204 (talk) 06:20, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Split (2022)

message: advantages and disadvantages 223.231.159.238 (talk) 16:25, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  poverty
Talk:Amicus (trade union)

message: :Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one-sentence explanation, then sign your opinion with ~~~~
*Oppose - The "what links here" function indicates that Amicus is the primary topic. --Muchness 09:03, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: It is incorrect to call Amicus the "biggest" "private sector" union. Unite is not a private-sector union, but one which organizes most greatly within private industry and this is where most of its membership are based. However, Unite has a large NHS contingent including most NHS biomedical and pathology staff, plus Health Visitors.
Tim Sandle  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.139.172.126 (talk) 11:07, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Biggest private sector?
Talk:Religious art

message: Needs more informed detail, particularly examples from before and after the Renaissance. +sj+ 11:11, 2004 Feb 22 (UTC)
*..."It can be an object to be venerated not for what it is but for what it represents, though venerated objects are more properly called sacramentals. Idols, which are worshipped in and of themselves, are not considered sacred art." Astonishing! "Idols" covertly redirected to idolatry. The expression "cult image" is new to Wikipedia! I have made this more neutral. --Wetman 19:02, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Why does religious art redirect here, rather than the other way around? "Religious art" gets twice as many hits as "sacred art" on Google, and obviously whether or not art is "sacred" is much more dependant on one's POV than whether or not art is "religious". -Silence 23:31, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Religious art?
Talk:Lenticular galaxy

message: Please help to expand this article, if you can.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.116.43.139 (talk) 12:38, 26 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Article needs expansion

message: Just a quick note to let everyone know.  The Astronomy 533 graduate astronomy class at the University of Michigan is updating a small number of astronomy-related wiki pages, this is one of them.
The page will be significantly changed; please feel free to have a look when it comes online in mid-December.  EFBell (talk) 20:42, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks good overall. Thank you for the expansion. Regards, RJH (talk) 03:58, 23 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Upcoming major edit