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Talk:Ilorin

message: I've pulled the hotel phone numbers as non-encyclopedic; this info seems more appropriate for a travel site than an encyclopedia.  Best, --Dvyost 08:20, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: If the phrase "second-largest city" is taken to mean population (and I see no reason to believe it means size, or anything else), then it looks to me like there are still several cities in line ahead of Ilorin, notably Kano, Abuja, and Ibadan, with which it can't begin to compete.  Check out here and here.  So I'm watering down the phrase for now, but if somebody has some more up-to-date, reliable sources on this, feel free to switch it back (with citation of course =)).  --Dvyost 05:48, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ilorin's size rank 

message: I removed claims that the Saraki Family controls the state through vote buying.  I don't believe controversial claims such as that should be reported in the article without following WP:CITE.   Didn't see any sources supporting the claim in a cursory google search. --Mysidia (talk) 17:08, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Politics
Talk:William Fuld

message: These statements are not substantiated in any sources I've read.  I'm not sure if the only source for an article attempting NPOV should be a book named Ouija: The Most Dangerous Game
:When faced with a toy tax Fuld went to court and won his claim that ouija boards were not toys but were occult devices.
Not true.  Charles Cahn and Gilbert Michael were responsible for that court case with their own Ouija company.  And, though it went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, talking boards were determined games and are still taxable as such.
:Fuld became a practitioner of the Ouija Board although he would deny it...He also followed the board slavishly whenever he used it for business advice. He asked how business was going to be and it told him that it was going to be booming and so he built a bigger factory.
My impression is that his skillful marketing and publicity stunts led to these outrageous claims.  There's no evidence that Fuld was cynical/honest/possessed/etc. with respect to talking boards so let's just stick to facts here.
:Soon after his new plant was underway he "fell" off the roof of the new building.
He fell to his death.  He didn't "fall" or fall or even fall.  He just fell.
:His brother Isaac took over the business and continued mass producing the boards. Isaac died in 1939.
No he didn't.  They hated each other.  Willy's kids took over the business.
 
-- Krash 15:41, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed material
Template talk:Politics of Singapore

message: I was thinking if it would be more appropriate to edit the constituency link to a page showing the electoral divisions in Singapore, eg List of Singaporean electoral divisions or List of Singaporean constituencies. It would be somewhat similar to List of Australian federal electorates and List of Canadian federal electoral districts. Seems much more logical compared to linking to just group representation constituency and having single member constituency redirected to group representation constituency. What do you guys think? =Travisyoung= 08:47, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Link to constituencies

message: I replace the coat of arms image because its use is very restrictive. Please refer to Coat of arms of Singapore for information. Because, the template is shown in articles such as political parties, I feel it is inappropriate to show the coat of arm in these articles. I replace it with a free image of the Parliament building. --Vsion 16:59, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image: coat of arms
Talk:Plaxton

message: It would be great if anyone could add more depth to the article on this company.  The "Coaches" section picks up from Paramount range that was introduced in the 1980s, but there's no mention of the hugely successful Panaroma or Elite styles from the 1970s, or their predecessors dating back to the 1950s.  Similarly on the bus side, nothing is said about the Derwent range.  It would be interesting to find out more about the history of the company, and how it managed to aquire rival [Duple] and it journey into and out of Transbus International if anyone can provide it. --Ayrshire--77 08:52, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Greatly expanded and improved article, much more interesting!  --Ayrshire--77 06:31, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for Expansion 

message: It seems as if in this edit you added the information "In March 1987 Plaxton was taken over by Kirby Bus & Coach, who were Plaxton's largest dealer.  Kirkby soon invested in modernising the Scarborough factory and addressed some industrial relations problems." 
I don't think that is quite right but it remains in the article as if it is correct. Is it possible that Kirby became a dealer of Plaxton products (because Plaxton had bought Kirby Bus and Coach, i.e. exactly the opposite)? Eddaido (talk) 12:22, 6 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taken over by Kirby Bus & Coach
Talk:Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse

message: See Noms de véhicules et de navires for the standards. Rama 08:56, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Since this is likely to be a question of general interest, I have taken the liberty to bring the question to the dedicated Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (ships). I was under the impression that the convention for French ships was not to use the article if not part of the name itself, in coherence with the article names themselves, but since there is no explicit policy about this, it might be wise to ask for external opinion. Thank you for bringing the question. Rama 06:42, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  French ship names 
Talk:Augustus Gloop

message: I have only seen the 2005 movie .. I was wondering, is it clarified that he is German, from Düsseldorf in the book and in the first movie?
I'm also *highly* suspicious of the Düsseldorf they showed us .. it looked (a) Bavarian (b) like a village .. Düsseldorf is neither. The stereotypes they showed us and the suits definitely were Bavarian .. I'm just wondering if they were stuck to Düsseldorf by the book but still wanted to use German clichés known to people in the US .. which will mostly be Bavarian or even Austrian or Swiss and will seem just as weird to "normal" Germans as they will to Americans
: this is a fantasy film and it's loosely base on the 1970's and the book version, it's not being true to the actual things in real time but rather the storyline of the actual events in the book, many of the things you see in the book are veige at best and there nothing to gain form watching this movie but learning the morols it gives out now and again
ChiLlBeserker 08:56, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Origins

message: I propose that this article be merged to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory because it does not seem to have the potential to grow beyond the stub that it remains. —Theo  (Talk) 14:31, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger

message: I noticed that in the 1971 film, they say Augustus is from "Dussleheim". But, as far as I'm aware, there is no such city in Germany. Were they suppose to say Düsseldorf or did they make up the town to avoid sensitivity with (back then) West Germany?- B-101 10:26, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: POrobably thought it best to create a fictional town to avoid trouble i'd agree. PMA 12:39, 11 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: B-101
Template talk:Las Vegas Radio

message: There isn't consistancy on what is parenthetical after the stations.  For instance, KOMP and KXPT have the same owner (Lotus Broadcasting); KOMP has a link to independent radio station, KXPT has a link to classic rock, it's format.  KLUC, one of 4 FMs owned by Infinity/CBS, has a link to CBS, where as the other 3 Infinity stations link to their formats. Which makes more sense to list, a station's affiliation or its format? -Satori 18:07, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Network affiliation is meaningless (for commercial stations) in today's radio marketplace.  Unless the station is running a satellite-delivered format 24x7, a station will purchase its programming from whichever syndicator offers it.  The only thing a "network affiliation" in the traditional sense gives a station is a top-hour newscast (which many stations don't run) and access to news actualities and features which are irrelevant to most formats.  I've taken a stab at updating based on industry sources.  121a0012 20:48, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Formats/Owners 

message: I have been deleting the addition of satellite broadcasts since they are not FM.  Does someone know something new? Vegaswikian 21:02, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not FM or AM; however, it mentions information that people may find necessary in the market area.  No need to be strictly defined if it is mention as SatRad and not falsely claim as FM.TravKoolBreeze 04:47, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not buying that.  If you follow that logic forward, the same entry belongs in the AM and the TV templates as well.  Considering that someone just split AM and FM, adding in satellite simply seem totally opposite of what other editors are trying to do.  Bottom line is that it has nothing to do with FM.  Right?  Vegaswikian 06:33, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  When did satellite become FM?
Talk:Australian Technology Network

message: Should this page really have the paragraphs about "look how cool we are"? I've snipped the worst of it, (Curtin, for instance is less world-class than many other unis according to international perception rankings); but surely either the links to the uni pages are sufficient or paragraphs that say something more substancial should be written. matturn 09:21, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Lower North Shore (Sydney)

message: This article has a lot of information but no references at all. --WikiCats 09:15, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original research 

message: Since when is Ryde part of Lower North Shore - it's part of the western suburbs. Always has been. [wanders off to go find some references]...
JL
I agree. The whole City of Ryde area isn't part of the Lower North Shore and it never has been. I'd fix up this article but I'm really tired... put it on my list for another year...
John Wormell (talk) 09:38, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Update - this article was Lower Northern Sydney, but was changed to Lower North Shore. Lower Northern Sydney is, if nothing else, a Statistical area used by the ABS. I think the name has no cultural usage, unlike the ill-defined Lower North Shore. Lower Northern Sydney as defined by the ABS does include the LGA of the City of Ryde. It seems a shame that the original article has been lost as it would have been quite useful when describing statistics. As it stands it probably should be deleted. It has information from both articles, but represents neither well. Bleakcomb (talk) 03:45, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: =

message: What the?? No wonder it was red-linked. Changed to Port Jackson (not red-linked). I agree that there is a lot unreferenced phooey in this article. Needs a copyedit. Bleakcomb (talk) 23:18, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Port Jackson Harbour? 

message: Well, well. Where do you start?
*The fact that the 2007 Granny Smith Festival turned into a political bun-fight(if, in fact it did) is I assume not a regional tradition and has been deleted from that section.
*The article is Lower North Shore, but the text refers to Lower North Sydney or Northern Sydney. Needs more care and focus.
*Sounds like a brochure? I'm sold. I'll buy one. Needs a copyedit to remove all the flowery language and topics. I think though removing all the make-believe and unreferenced tosh first will make a copyedit a shorter job.
*Global Sydney, Sydney Global Corridor - don't make me laugh. I can't think what prevented me from deleting this. Perhaps it was the whole two Google search results. I'll delete tomorrow, though.
*Haven't the The Lane Cove Azalea Beds been removed?  Bleakcomb (talk) 01:14, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Update - this article was Lower Northern Sydney, but was changed to Lower North Shore. Lower Northern Sydney is, if nothing else, a Statistical area used by the ABS. I think the name has no cultural usage, unlike the ill-defined Lower North Shore. Lower Northern Sydney as defined by the ABS does include the LGA of the City of Ryde. It seems a shame that the original article has been lost as it would have been quite useful when describing statistics. As it stands it probably should be deleted. It has information from both articles, but represents neither well. Bleakcomb (talk) 03:45, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Partial copyedit
Talk:Suretyship

message: No merge should be done: because suretyship is used in Insurance domains, and bonds are one domain of suretyship.
*This unsigned comment appears to refer to a proposed merge with surety bond. (-- Creidieki 17:10, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed merge with [[surety bond]]
Talk:Undergraduate degree

message: Do we need this article as well as academic degree? Loganberry (Talk) 09:51, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Possibly, possibly not. Academic degree is about degrees in general, whereas this is just about undergraduate. The term is certainly common enough (even if all undergraduate degrees are often mistakenly referred to as bachelor's degrees). There seems to be an article for every other type of degree, so why not? - Green Tentacle 10:12, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Duplicative with article about academic degrees?

message: I fixed the spelling of a few words in the United Kingdom section, although I am not 100% sure that they aren't just the British dialect of English way to spell them. I changed "programme", "programmes" and "enrol", to "program", "programs", and "enroll", respectively. Fireheat624 (talk) 23:49, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling 

message: I find the 'South America' section to be terribly off topic. Someone decided to write huge paragraphs about general aspects of education in the region, but not related to the undergraduate degree.
Should we delete that?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 175.143.63.7 (talk) 00:09, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  South America section is off-topic  

message: "The most common type of these undergraduate degrees are associate's degree and bachelor's degree."
This made me think that me having Bachelor's degree means that my education is "Undergraduate degree",
not "Graduate degree" and i got in trouble because of this.
(I am not native English speaker)Andrej7~enwiki (talk) 18:00, 11 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusing 

message: Joyous! | Talk 03:06, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal
Talk:Martina Navratilova's 74-match winning streak in 1984

message: How come her streak started on 16 January, yet the first tournament mentioned began on 20 February? Unbeaten runs are usually quoted from the first win to the first defeat, so if there were no matches played between 16/1 and 20/2 that time should not count. Loganberry (Talk) 10:09, 16 August 2005 (UTC)

message: Shouldn't this article really merge with Martina Navratilova career statistics. Or perhaps shouldn't this be on a yearly page as we do with Roger Federer? Fyunck(click) (talk) 09:41, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with Martina Navratilova career statistics?
Wikipedia talk:Grapefruit

message: Isn't slapping on a link to a non-existent category just a convoluted way of being snippy? — Xiong熊talk* 16:35, 2005 August 17 (UTC)
:That old comment needs the edit history: ,
:it was only a missing s in :Category:Essays. -- Omniplex 20:21, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Essay? 

message: I would care for a propper Wikipedia article on this fruit.
:See Grapefruit; this is an essay about writing articles. SCHZMO ✍ 22:01, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Being lazy?

message: This is a good concept, but it doesn't actually give many guidelines on how to implement it. What, for example, am I meant to put in the article for Pornography? Should I simply offer the reader some? While demonstration is very useful, this article makes it sound like it is the only possibility. Suggest changes, perhaps? Daniel (☎) 20:33, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Pornography and some other topics like spam are often "defined" by I know it when I see it, but obviously that's not always the best approach for an encyclopedia. WP:HORSE is apparently a counter-example (but I'm not sure). -- Omniplex 20:16, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good concept, but flawed. 

message: * The best example of the scientific name of the grapefruit is Citrus x paradisi. In other words, many readers will need to know how human history has approached a subject, not just how an example of it can be perceived. —Dystopos 04:42, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Corollary

message: A discussion is taking place to address the redirect :Wikipedia:GRAPE. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 April 17#Wikipedia:GRAPE until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  𝟙𝟤𝟯𝟺𝐪𝑤𝒆𝓇𝟷𝟮𝟥𝟜𝓺𝔴𝕖𝖗𝟰 (𝗍𝗮𝘭𝙠) 22:53, 17 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Wikipedia:GRAPE" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:15 February 2003 anti-war protest in London

message: The stop the war book (Stop the War:The story of Britain's biggest mass movement) claims that the ICM poll translates into around 1.25 million househoods and that since many households would have more then one person going this backs up the 2mill mark. I'm not sure if this is correct interpretation of the data. The book also wroungly assumes that some of those servayed might have ment they were going to scotland protest, however question is spesific in saying London demo. What do people think?
I think the servay is claiming that 6% of people (rather then households) had a person from their household go on march.
Population of England says that in 2001 (latest figgers avalible) there were 49,138,831 people in England, 6% of which is 2,948,330. So almost 3 million people (extraporlated) would have either gone or had some one else from their house hold go.
However, what if some people survayed lived in the same house?
I'm in a statistical tissy. Prehaps this is straying to far into orriginal research--JK the unwise 11:04, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: ICM Poll
Talk:List of lightweight markup languages

message: - Add reference to Perl documentation format (POD) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hirzel (talk • contribs) 07:07, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: Previously, it had been suggested that this page be merged with Comparison of lightweight markup languages, but nothing ever came of that proposal. There was no discussion and no consensus was reached. I'm renewing the proposal to merge, but instead, I think it is more appropriate to merge both this article and Comparison of lightweight markup languages into the more general article, Lightweight markup language. Please debate this proposal so that a consensus can be reached and the topic put to rest. —Animated Cascade talk 08:47, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge Proposal
Talk:French ship Franklin (1797)

message: The latest edit is interesting, I wonder whether there were different rates in the French Navy at the time... I think that there was typically an emphasise on manoeuverability over firepower, so they tended to be smaller on average (the French were quite obsessed with the 74-gun...).
I need to find a big, authoritative book on the subject ! :p Rama 11:19, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rate
Talk:Old Pulteney distillery

message: I reckon article content would be better positioned in Wick, Highland, near info about Pulteneytown. Laurel Bush 11:20, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirect

message: Seems to me that Old Pulteney should be an article, and a redirect. NYCRuss ☎ 13:53, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Changed back to article
Talk:Just Say No

message: It appears to have been made up. I have done some browsing, and couldn't find any video evidence of this claimed Dynasty guest appearance.2601:447:4080:10:F00D:331C:4B77:A09F (talk) 00:23, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Despite claims, there doesn't appear to be any record of Nancy Reagan guest starring on Dynasty
Talk:The Brentford Trilogy

message: Moon Under Water reference
I removed it. Seemed kind of irrelevant, plus it's drawing a long bow to compare the work of this D-list author to Oscar Wilde. If the books themselves make the reference, then put it back in I guess. 121.214.142.48 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 11:56, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, the cover of some editions of The Brightonomicon list it as the eighth book, so eight is now the number (until another book is released). —James 11:28, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
Talk:List of NHL players

message: The list I created was designed as a reference for myself as I worked on Hockey articles. If you want to move the list out of my User Space and into the article space that would be fine with me. However, the user space article should not be linked from the article space. Kevin Rector (talk) 17:45, August 23, 2005 (UTC)
:So, you would have no problem if I moved the lists? If you have no problems with the lists being moved, I can do that. Masterhatch 25 August 2005
Shouldn't this be a Lists of category page since there are no actual people and just a list of lists? 216.84.45.194 22:10, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  My List
Category talk:Deities by continent

message: I've recently cleaned up the Deities by culture category to first feed into a number of regional categories before getting to most cultures. This was already being done in some cases, so I just carried the idea over to the other deities categories that were currently feeding directly into Deities by culture. The benefit is that months or years down the road, we won't have a helplessly bloated main category. Cameroon alone has over 200 ethnic groups, each with their own traditional gods and goddesses; seeing a parent category with thousands of sub-categories didn't seem like a good idea to me. :)
But now I see that this exact same situation (minus most of the regional categories) exists for Gods by culture. So my question is: Why do we even need "Gods by culutre"? Isn't it enough to have, say, Akkadian deities and then within that to have Akkadian gods and Akkadian goddesses? Even should we create regional subcategories under Gods by culture (and Goddesses by culture), having Akkadian gods feed both into Akkadian deities and into Ancient Near Eastern gods seems like a redundant parallel categorization tree, to me. BrianSmithson 11:57, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Gods by culture category
Talk:Paris Las Vegas

message: Someone has suggested this merge.  Kind of makes sense given that the article on the tower really says very little.  If the tower retains its own article then would we need a new article for every design feature like the Statue of Liberty?  Vegaswikian 21:04, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Las Vegas Eiffel Tower]] merge here 

message: I thought this page looked much better with the logo on the left (e.g. ). However, the casino infobox template was changed so that for every casino, the logo now has to go in the infobox. See Template talk:Infobox casino#Changes. --Mathew5000 23:33, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  layout issues -- do we like the logo on the right? 

message: According to the Harrah's website () the height is 460, not 540 feet.
And even 540 feet is not 5/8 (=0,625x) of original Eiffel Tower, because that's at least 300 m (984 feet) and that's ~0,55x (roughly 5/9).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.217.40.51 (talk) 03:47, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Height of the Las Vegas Tower