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Talk:Paul Schrader

message: Schrader's version of "The Exorcist" will be released as a world premiere at the Brussel's International Festival of Fantasy Film on Friday, March 18th, 2005. See 
Awesome. I'll get in my Time Machine and travel to the past. Gingermint (talk) 10:39, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: So what was his involvement with the designers and film-makers, Charles and Ray Eames? Gingermint (talk) 10:39, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Eames

message: Does anyone have a source that he's of significant German ancestry? I've removed the category until someone provides one. JackO'Lantern 05:15, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Given his surname, he is clearly either of German or German-Jewish ancestry. And since he is a Calvinist, he has to have German ancestry.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.153.221.249 (talk) 12:48, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: German ancestry

message: Although Schrader was raised as a Calvinist, he has said that he no longer holds those beliefs. Is it proper to categorise him as a Calvinist?PhilipC
:Is his renunciation of Calvinist principles verifiable? If it is, then I certainly think that that category should be removed. I wouldn't blame the man for not liking Calvinism if the article is correct in how it was presented to him as a child.--Eva db 06:27, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Here's part of an interview at http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue422/interview.html
Q:You were raised in a very religious household, with strict Calvinist beliefs.
Schrader: I certainly was raised to believe in a very real devil, a real Satan, and a real hell. Though I don't believe in the physical reality of those things anymore. But I still believe in their power as metaphors. And I certainly understand why they came into being as metaphors and their ongoing function in human psychology and in human spirituality. ... If I used any kind of inspiration, it's all of the religious intellectuals I was raised with, professors. Because when I went to Calvin College, which is a Dutch Calvinist college. My minor was theology. It had to be, everyone's minor was theology.
PhilipC 10:25, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Calvinism
Talk:Korean garden

message: Korean gardens → Korean garden — title in plural —70.131.218.145 18:26, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No need for the full request; this one is uncontroversial. --Stemonitis 18:38, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 
Talk:The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix

message: THis page contains information from "Il Tempo Gigante" which was on the votes for deletion page. The debate is on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Il Tempo Gigante and the result was to merge with this article. Sjakkalle 10:38, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: This page...

message: The pod race in the Phantom Menace is well known to be based on the chariot race in Ben Hur. TharosTheDragon (talk) 05:34, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Star Wars? 

message: According to the internal linking, Charles Patey, the Cinematographer of this movie, had been dead and buried almost a century before this movie was made… - TorSch (talk) 06:08, 10 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fun Fact -
Talk:Aberavon (UK Parliament constituency)

message: Is Aberavon primarily a constituency, or does the article confuse the history of a constituency with that of a town, village or settlement centre? Laurel Bush 10:46, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You beat me to it, Laurel. I believe this article, especially given its title, ought to confine itself to Aberavon the parliamentary constituency; there is enough historical information here to form the basis of a separate article on Aberavon the town/village. -- Picapica 15:42, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Article scope
Talk:Parquetry

message: "The parquet général is the prosecution service of a cour d'appel or the Cour de Cassation."
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Cour_de_cassation#Parquet 
"The word literally means "wooden floor""
This is disputed. Apokrif 10:47, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Lithia (The Outer Limits)

message: I removed the criticism section. It's not that I don't agree with it -- I do agree and I find the episode rather annoying because of it. It may be ok to reference it this way: "The episode has been criticised for..." -- if you can find a source for that criticism other than: "This is a what I think". See NPOV. Motor 10:48, 2005 Mar 18 (UTC)
Why am I not surprised?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.158.1.165 (talk) 19:54, 28 January 2015 (UTC)

message: There seems to be a mismatch in technology levels, in that they don't even have electricity, yet somehow cryogenic chambers and artificial insemination with frozen sperm exists. Is this explained somehow ? Perhaps some "enclaves" could be anti-technology and others be OK with it ? SinisterLefty (talk) 16:25, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Technology ? 

message: This episode presents all men as evil warmongers, and all women as pacifists. Is the writer an ultra-feminist ? That would seem odd considering the writer is male (Sam Egan). SinisterLefty (talk) 16:28, 28 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ultra-feminist ?
Talk:Aberavon

message: Is Aberavon primarily a constituency, or does the article confuse the history of a constituency with that of a town, village or settlement centre? Should we have a disambig page rather than a redirect? Laurel Bush 10:49, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I have created a new Aberavon (electoral ward) page to make Aberavon consistent with other wards in Neath Port Talbot. and moved some of the factual info from here to the new page. Intend to summarise history of local politics here if no one objects. Macs15 (talk) 11:12, 17 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Government and Politics
Talk:Hampstead and Highgate (UK Parliament constituency)

message: Not clear from article's text whether the constituency is in the UK and represented in the UK parliament.  (Maybe it is Scottish? Represented in the Scottish Parliament?) Laurel Bush 10:55, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I rather feel that the reference to "London Borough of Camden" rather gives it away. By convention and practice 'Parliament' refers to the Westminster one unless otherwise stated too. --Vamp:Willow 11:58, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Helicoid

message: Could someone explain what exactly the following sentence mean?
"Since it is considered that the planar range extends through negative and positive infinity, close observation shows the appearance of two parallel or mirror planes in the sense that if the slope of one plane is traced, the co-plane can be seen to be bypassed or skipped, though in actuality the co-plane is also traced from the opposite perspective."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.112.54.158 (talk) 02:54, 11 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  unclear sentence 

message: This article DOES have a single reference / citation (though at the bottom, the relevant section is currently titled "notes") As such, I would like to gently urge fellow wikipedia editors out there: Please use  where appropriate in place of misuing   (the later of which is meant for articles with ZERO citations) --Kuzetsa (talk) 22:35, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I took the liberty to remove the   as for two years nobody has neither argued against the contents nor added references, and as one reference seem perfectly sufficient. Bo Jacoby (talk) 11:59, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  refimprove VS unsourced 

message: Article says: "The helicoid is shaped like Archimedes' screw, but extends infinitely in all directions."
I wonder if this is quite right? On Wolfram math world (http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Helicoid.html) it's described as "The (circular) helicoid is the minimal surface having a (circular) helix  as its boundary.", and their parametrization mentions nothing about infiniteness.
If no one objects I'm changing this. --Riyaah (talk) 07:07, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: If you truncate it, it can no longer be called a ruled surface. Tkuvho (talk) 09:15, 19 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infinite by definition 

message: Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that :File:Helicatenoid.gif will be appearing as picture of the day on November 13, 2011. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2011-11-13. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks! howcheng  {chat} 00:27, 12 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:File:Helicatenoid.gif]] to appear as POTD soon
Talk:Leytonstone High Road railway station

message: Thanks for correcting the service times. They must have reduced the service since I last travelled on it - useful to know! --194.73.130.132 11:00, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal

message: Surely there should be some mention of the controversy over the creation of this medal. When it was announced there was a lot of criticism suggesting that it was created for political reasons, to help tie the popular War on Terrorism in Americans' minds to the decidedly less popular war in Iraq. That criticism is surely what prompted the creation of the separate Iraq and Afghanistan Campaign Medals. 68.47.234.131 02:40, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It could certainly be mentioned if you could provide some good sources for that info. --Pmsyyz 21:51, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversy over the creation? 

message: Is there a user box for people who have reviced this medal? I've seen boxes for Iraq/Afghan medals but not this one. I deployed with OEF in 02'.
FLJuJitsu 12:47 15 Sept 07  —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 16:47, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Userbox
Talk:Concordat of 1801

message: Weren't bishops appointed by the French government on proposal from the Pope? (i.e. the government could refuse candidates presented by the Pope?) David.Monniaux 11:20, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Bishops

message: According to French Revolutionary Calendar, the calendar remained in use until 1806.  Therefore I have deleted the statement in this article that the Concordat abolished the revolutionary calendar.  If you want to change it back, please indicate your source. RussBlau 22:26, Apr 4, 2005 (UTC)
:Both editors who added that erroneous info misunderstood the Concordat (actually the Organic Articles). Only the Sabbath or Sunday was reestablished, not the entire Gregorian calendar. Here is the specific sentence in the Organic Articles (III.41): "No religious festival, with the exception of the Sabbath, can be established without the permission of the Government." — Joe Kress 03:40, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revolutionary Calendar 

message: Is this article in English or in American ?
On the same line I read “favour” and “favor”:
“...tilted firmly in Napoleon's favour. Now, he could win favor with the Catholics ...” BruKerst (talk) 16:49, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Spelling
Talk:Nullar

message: I'm not a grammarian, and I'm not a native English speaker, but I think you Enlish can say both:
* I have no cars (using plural).
* I have no car (using singular).
Is singular poor English here? Try also with the word "cigarette" insted of "car".
It seems to me the plural is the only choice when the question is how many X'es you have, where as the singular can be used when the important thing is whether you have any X'es at all.
--Niels Ø 11:25, Mar 18, 2005 (UTC)
:I'd say you're right about the use of singular and plural here, though it would be more natural to say "I don't have any cars" and "I don't have a car".  "I have no cars" would have to be emphatic to sound natural. e.g. "I have no cars". Damezi 00:31, 31 Mar 2005 (UTC)

message: I am proposing a merger of plural, nullar, trial (grammatical number), paucal, collective noun and singulative with grammatical number. Here are my reasons:
* Most of those other entries have very little in them. They could easily become sections, or even paragraphs in 'grammatical number';
* One exception is the plural entry, which does contain quite a bit, but a lot of what it has could just as well be in a general entry about 'grammatical number'; 
* I think that some of what is currently in the plural article might be used to improve the quality of the 'grammatical number' article;
A related page which is probably best left separate is the one on the dual number, which seems too large to merge with 'grammatical number'. FilipeS 14:40, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal
Talk:Royal Canadian Medical Service

message: i have assigned the voted for deletion tag on this page because it is just a title and a logo. thats not really encyclopaedic :P
- rem120
:Haven't had the time to write anything down.Glenlarson 17:40, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)

message: On 2 April 2005, this article was nominated for deletion. The result was keep. See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Canadian Forces Medical Service for a record of the discussion. – ABCD 00:12, 8 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: VFD
Talk:History of yoga

message: Shouldn't there be some mention or admission that this is limited to written history?
Isn't it possible that yoga "existed" (i.e. was taught and practiced) in the period before the advent of writing? 
Smithfarm 11:48, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This article does not discuss anything about Jainism and yoga, considering the fact that Yoga is one of the most importnat concept in Jainism and many texts of authors like Haribhadra and Hemacandra to name a few are dedicated to yoga. Furthemore, Patanjali seems to have borrowed five Yamas from Jain Mahavratas. As long as this article neglects the influence of Jainism on Yoga, it will remain POVish --Anish (talk) 07:05, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Jainism and yoga
File talk:Light-wave.png

message: From the page of the image:
The picture is wrong. The phase between the Electric and the Magnetic fields should be 90 degree and not zero degree, as shown on this picture.
Regards,
Boris Spasov,
bspasov@yahoo.com
------
The picture is not wrong, the phase is really 0 degree.
-- Harp 11:59, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Johnson Beharry

message: Johnson Beharry is a member of Queensman Lodge No. 2694 in Londond 2A00:23C8:3A0A:2F01:B568:3D62:74D3:AE49 (talk) 22:30, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you have a reliable source for that? AntiDionysius (talk) 22:32, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Freemason
Talk:Pteridophyte

message: Article is at Pteridophyta or ferns. --DanielCD 14:23, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: While Pteridphyta is a deprecated term due to being paraphyletic, a large number of pages have navboxes which point to this page. Therefore it is worth spelling out the history and current treatment of this group here. --Michael Goodyear (talk) 15:16, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The page doesn't have to cover the taxon "Pteridophyta", just the English term "pteridophyte", with additional explanation. The word still show up in nunerous articles and textbooks, even though it is not longer recognized as a taxon. It's just going to be a long slow road to figure out what the article should cover. Thanks for stepping in and getting the changeover started! --EncycloPetey (talk) 17:08, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: There was a recent discussion about shifting ferns over to using automatic taxoboxes. There's been little progress so far, but it's something I aim to work on in the next few weeks. Currently, ferns using automatic taxoboxes have a piped link that display Pteridophyta, but pipes to Fern. I'm not entirely sure that is the best way to do things, but the advantage of using automatic taxoboxes is that it is very easy to change the taxonomic hierarchy in a large number of articles with a small number of edits. Shifting to automatic taxoboxes will reduce the number of links to this page. Plantdrew (talk) 20:16, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Status 

message: A pteridophyte is a vascular plant (with xylem and phloem) that disperses spores. Because pteridophytes produce neither flowers nor seeds, they are sometimes referred to as "cryptogams", meaning that their means of reproduction is hidden. Ferns, horsetails (often treated as ferns), and lycophytes (clubmosses, spikemosses, and quillworts) are all pteridophytes. However, they do not form a monophyletic group because ferns (and horsetails) are more closely related to seed plants than to lycophytes. "Pteridophyta" is thus no longer a widely accepted taxon, but the term pteridophyte remains in common parlance, as do pteridology and pteridologist as a science and its practitioner, respectively. Ferns and lycophytes share a life cycle and are often collectively treated or studied, for example by the International Association of Pteridologists and the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group. 139.5.27.169 (talk) 17:31, 11 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  science 

message: Label a sorus  in pterophytes 105.245.120.26 (talk) 15:27, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I assume "pteridophytes" is meant. A sorus, defined as a cluster of sporangia with or without an overall covering (indusium), is a characteristic of ferns, rather than all all "pteridophytes". Peter coxhead (talk) 17:26, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Life science
Category talk:Individual sailing vessels

message: I feel that this category should be renamed. 
Certainly a random inspection of the articles contained with it show that they are about the ships themselves and not especially about their names. This doesn't overly surprise me, as I suspect that the etymology of sailing ship names is a pretty specialised subject even for Wikipedia. The text of the category suggests that this is a case of a misleading category name, rather than a case of misuse of the category by the articles. 
Also I've always been brought up to believe that it is a gross insult to describe a ship as a boat, and clearly most of the articles are about ships. However I'm not sure if this is a UK English/US English thing (I'm a Brit).
So my proposal would be to rename this to Sailing Ships if a consensus agrees with my second point, or to Sailboats if not. Comments please. Chris j wood 14:34, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: earlier comments
Talk:Tom Hayden

message: Is this the same Tom Hayden from the Chicago Seven (eight) ? 
- Yes. Dapoloplayer 04:16, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: "In June of 2007 on Comedy Central's Colbert Report Hayden publicly apologized for his participation in the opposition to the Vietnam War."
I haven't seen that episode, but I'm thinking there might have been some element of sarcasm there -- but it reads completely straight, so that someone who doesn't know what the Colbert Report is would think this demonstrated a 180-degree change in Hayden's attitude.  Can someone who knows more clarify the context?  I somehow doubt that his opposition to the war fills Hayden with remorse.
Wordie 23:22, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Apologized for opposition to Vietnam war? 

message: So why does this particular article need an "in popular culture" section, which are generally discouraged (though allowed), and, in this case, are just crap? --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 06:35, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, removed. - Crosbiesmith (talk) 11:43, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "In popular culture" 

message: I hope nobody minds, but I have cropped the photo of Hayden and Fonda (with child) and have improved the lighting and shade.--andreasegde (talk) 11:03, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Mind? I applaud you! And will send you a reward! GeorgeLouis (talk) 21:38, 20 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo 

message: Hayden has written of Northern Ireland "the Social Democratic and Labor Party [SDLP], drew heavy support from the Irish establishment, including Irish-American political leaders, but their nonviolent electoral strategy was no answer to the British occupation." If with the benefit of hindsight and experience Hayden can write "nonviolent electoral strategy was no answer" then how does he qualify as a 'peace activist'?--Flexdream (talk) 20:21, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Hayden has certainly been an activist for certain peace in certain circumstances but that hardly makes him a "peace activist". I'd agree that he isn't philosophically a peace activist and so I'd have no problem with you removing him from the list. GraniteSand (talk) 23:46, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Peace Activist?
Talk:Air India Trial

message: "Feuding between the RCMP and the then-newly organized Canadian Security Intelligence Service marred the investigation from the beginning. CSIS staff members erased documents, withdrew surveillance of a key figure in the alleged conspiracy hours before the bombs were set and did not tell the RCMP, according to government investigative reports disclosed last year."  63.135.26.221 14:53, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: In 2000 a former secret services officer told the Toronto Globe and Mail newspaper he had destroyed the 150 hours of tapes rather than hand them over to the Mounties, because he feared the identity of informants would be revealed. This article is more explicit on the weakness of the witness. I have to say that CSIS are horribly useless. 
Is Canadian Aviation Safety Board the correct government agency name? I googled it but found nothing that was a convincing match. SD6-Agent 20:44, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry

message: He is normally known in history as "Charles Stewart."  Although he did change his surname to Vane, this was only after he inherited the marquessate of Londonderry, and so was never known as "Charles Vane".  I would support moving this article to Charles Stewart, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry.  Any thoughts? john k 15:11, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. Done. Proteus (Talk) 11:59, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree. His surname was Steward from 1778-1829 and then Vane from 1829-1854. He wanted to be called Vane.Johannes Schade (talk) 07:59, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: The exhibition in the Scrabo Tower says "He was commended for bravery at the Battle of Talavera". His book "Narrative of the Peninsular War" describes this battle in Chapter XVI (p328-348). No particular brave action of his is mentioned.Johannes Schade (talk) 07:59, 4 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Talavera 

message: The section headed "Early Life" does not make sense.  The dates don't work, the spelling "Stuart" must be wrong, and the paragraph is not about his early life at all but about his father and brother.  Deipnosophista (talk) 19:45, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early Life 

message: The user Eoghanmcgarvey on 7 October 2019 changed the name of the subject in the infobox from Londonderry to Derry. The heading of the infobox therefore now reads The Marquess of Derry. Eoghanmcgarvey did not carry this change through elsewhere in the article, which might indicate that this is a suggestion rather than a definite correction. Such a change might need consensus among the various known editors involved in the writing of the article. According to the stats page Tryde, 62.254.32.9, Choess, Phoe are among such Wikipedians. I myself believe that one cannot change a historical person's title to make it agree with the modern usage of the name of the town. Johannes Schade (talk) 07:28, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marquess of Derry