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Thank you for protecting the page. It seems this dispute has gone back to 2015. Would you, or another admin, be willing to remove it in accordance with the consensus reached at Talk:Flag of Earth#International Flag of Planet Earth? I’d like to note I didn’t participate in that debate at all, so I feel appropriate to make this request. I’d also like to note that the IP’s addition is entirely unsourced as well, which is a second concern. Garuda28 ( talk) 18:02, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
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Hello! Just wanted to let you know the RfC at Talk:Peppermint (drag queen) was just closed. I'm not sure if you intended the full protection you placed on the article to last beyond that or not, so wanted to let you know in case you did not. GorillaWarfare (talk) 23:52, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
Uncalled for and unhelpful. Snide actually. If you have nothing positive to contribute, don't. -- Dweller ( talk) Become old fashioned! 11:09, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
Na, it's my fault. I think it's my ego. I should get out more. Except I can't. Lol. -- Dweller ( talk) Become old fashioned! 21:10, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
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That's transient teenage slang, which was largely confined to certain age subgroups of a certain socioeconomic status (and may in fact owe more to the movie Clueless than to real-life prevalence), so it doesn't necessarily illuminate traditional territorial dialect forms such as "wooder". AnonMoos ( talk) 22:33, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
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Looks like you reverted the comments you added just as I was doing so. We definitely will welcome those kinds of comments once the RfC is opened, though for now we are just looking for comments on the structure of the draft itself. We will widely advertise once the RfC is open. Thanks for your contributions :) GorillaWarfare (talk) 19:48, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi there ju wondering why you undid my piece on Jeremy Chapman (ulick Browne) his titles are self styled and yes he was born Chapman I have research this evidence before amending a lot of users refer to burkes peerage here. This company is not factual based and there for should not be used Joshmae ( talk) 09:47, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
Everytime I contact Sony Pictures Home Entertainmemt by email, they never reply. Here are their emails from their website. 86.128.175.64 ( talk) 18:30, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
I don't know. What do you suggest? 86.128.175.64 ( talk) 18:38, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
Maybe call them on the phone? 86.128.175.64 ( talk) 18:42, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
Although I suppose that Wikipedia is not about personal feelings, I want to express that I really felt harassed by that editor and that I'm very thankful that someone (you) protected me from harassment that I feel was undeserved. Such things really make me a bit nervous. Rsk6400 ( talk) 14:45, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
"Wouldn't bat an eye", huh? Now that you mention it, I guess I am rather a little more straitlaced on-Wiki than I am in real life. (But you're right, it was out of character. But I'm beyond fed up.)
Anyway, sorry for the nuisance. I expected to either get played along with, or reverted. That someone might suspect account compromise never crossed my mind. — Steve Summit ( talk) 18:22, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
Jimmy Neutron, Crashletes, All That, Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? and The Dude Perfect Show are all Back on The Schedule, Here's My Source: https://www.tvpassport.com/tv-listings/stations/nicktoons-hd-east/11445/2020-05-01 Snesboy12 ( talk) 14:46, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
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Earlier today, you undid edits on the Y.A. Tittle page. I do know what I'm talking about, and the photo on the page is not the better-known image. It is not the one in Life Magazine, nor is it the one in and on Tittle's book, which credits it to the Associated Press. What happened is this: Dozier Mobley of the AP published his image (Tittle looking forward, stunned) ahead of Berman's (Tittle looking down); Mobley's ran in Life in 1964, not Berman's. Berman then entered his in some contests and did some other self-promotion. Meanwhile, the image that is most commonly reproduced — again, as in Tittle's own book — is Mobley's. I'm a journalist — 10 years at the Virginian-Pilot, 20 at NPR — so I take this stuff seriously. I'm sorry you failed to see that. AndOneForMahler ( talk) 22:48, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
I'm glad you find this interesting, because it is! Here you go. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/10/556786699/football-legend-y-a-tittle-dies-at-90
https://www.sltrib.com/sports/2017/10/10/hall-of-fame-qb-ya-tittle-dead-at-90/
If you actually look at the issue of Life Magazine (the cite's right there), and Tittle's book, the image is *clearly* Mobley/AP, as shown in the NPR report. The images are often confused, but the provenance is clear. Wikipedia is giving Morris Berman credit above and beyond what his photo deserves. The point is that what you call the "second" image was actually the first. AndOneForMahler ( talk) 23:33, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for your response, and amending the article — though the photographer is Dozier Mobley, not Dexter. Here's a cite for the Mobley image: https://apnews.com/fcffb6da1be3482b8730d6b4c3af928d "Tittle never won a championship, but came to personify the competitive spirit of football, thanks to an iconic photo taken by Dozier Mobley during Tittle’s final season in 1964.
"The frame caught the then-37-year-old quarterback, who looked older than his years, after throwing an interception returned for a touchdown by Pittsburgh’s Chuck Hinton. Tittle is seen kneeling in exhaustion and pain from an injured rib, blood dripping down his face from a head gash."
And one other thing. The Berman image "does not hang in the Hall of Fame, not in the exhibit spaces" according to Jon Kendle, Director of Archives & Football Information at the Hall in Canton. The more accurate way to phrase it, he says, is "the Berman photo resides in the Hall of Fame archives, because he submitted it to the Hall of Fame's yearly photo exhibit." Jon.Kendle@profootballhof.com. AndOneForMahler ( talk) 18:15, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
In this case, the LA Times is wrong, unfortunately. Here's another example. Elsewhere in the same article, it says: "While other photographers recorded Baker’s hit and Tittle as he was later helped to his feet by teammates, Berman was apparently the only one to capture Tittle alone, battered and bleeding and sitting back on his knees," which is obviously untrue. AndOneForMahler ( talk) 20:16, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
Well spotted. I knew there wasn't something quite right about him from the off, and I actually asked him about it on his talk page back in 2018. But I never made the C3 connection. -- Viennese Waltz 09:42, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
Hi, you were an admin who supported unblocking at Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/IncidentArchive1035#Block_review_request based on the user stating they will refrain from the issues that led to blocks. Floquenbeam is the unblocking administrator, but it appears they are on a wikibreak at the moment. Could you review this based on subsequent violations of NOTBROKEN that have occurred since the user was unblocked? Eagles 24/7 (C) 17:13, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
Hello! Could you please take a look at the history of edits by User:Oliver Wendell 2009? A large portion of their work involves road junction lists on highways in New England. Unfortunately, the edits do not comply with WP:RJL; the editor is routinely changing the listed destinations away from what is visible on the highway signage. I have made numerous attempts to discuss the situation with the editor and have had no responses. The only interaction so far has been in an edit summary ( Connecticut Route 2). I've taken the issue to WT:USRD, where members reiterated the importance of abiding with the road junction list standards. Oliver refrained from editing for about a week but has now returned to reverting to their preferred edits. I want to avoid 3RR. Thank you for your help. -- Ken Gallager ( talk) 10:13, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
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In the TV series The Tudors, Mary (played by 16-18 year old Sarah Bolger) remained unmarried from toddler to the age of 30 at the end of the series. In the first few episodes of season 1, she was to be married to King Francis' son but was declined. She was then betrothed to Charles of Spain but declined as well. In the final episode of season 3, she fell in love with Philip of Bavaria but he was sent away, which broked her heart. In the first few episodes of season 4, Catherine Howard was surprised that Mary was still not married and she broke down in tears with Eustace Chapuys comforting her when she realised she will probably never get married. And in the final episode, the ghost of her mother tells Henry that Mary ought to be a long time married by now and have her own children. ( /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Humanities#Young_Princess_Mary_never_getting_married) 86.129.17.70 ( talk) 19:29, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
Can this page be unprotected (Or at least downgraded to extended protected)? I noticed you protected this page back in February pending discussion about "Christmas episodes", but that discussion never started and never happened, and it's now about 4 months later. (And I ran across this due to wanting to perform an unrelated edit ... fixing the bare URLs on the page.) Steel1943 ( talk) 21:13, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
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...could use a couple of rev-dels due to the libelous comments by a sock. [2] ← Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 17:14, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
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Hi Jayron, I just learned you are an admin. Can you look at the [3] humanities last post and check if is a problem - it cites an earlier question that was deleted for being banned. Looks like an attempt to test the medical advice guideline under discussion. Ta 70.67.193.176 ( talk) 16:49, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
Hello, asshole speaking. I'm sorry that my comments went down that badly: they hadn't been intended as patronizing. (They may have resulted from a mind that was somewhat rattled at the time: RL was impinging on my consciousness, and not in a pleasant way.) I notice now that I wrote for example "'Education' is a noun", which could have sounded extraordinarily patronizing in a way that "'Education' being a noun" would I think not. Anyway, do please stick around there: I think I'll give myself an indefinite break. Indeed, right now I think I'll turn off this typewriter thing and relax with some popular beat combo. -- Hoary ( talk) 06:42, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
I think I understand now. The two books I recommended are descriptive. They assume that their readers already have an advanced tacit knowledge of English grammar. It would be perverse to use the shorter book as a textbook to "teach English grammar" to learners of English as a second language or nervous users of English as a first; as for attempting to use the longer book for this, anyone proposing such a notion would be insane -- it's a reference grammar with 1800+ densely printed pages! The authors have no more interest in improving anyone's ability in English than the authors of a book about the solar system have in suggesting that Jupiter really ought to get its act together, lose some helium and up its radon. The books are for learning about English grammar. I think it's perfectly healthy for native speakers of a language to have little or no interest in the language; but most speakers do seem to have an interest and these books are good for such an interest. (Again, the books have nothing to do with wanting to learn how to speak English properly -- though each does have a certain number of asides in which prescriptivist myths about grammar are dismissed.) What does worry me is that I find myself citing Huddleston and Pullum (H&P) about as automatically as a Party member in a kolkhoz might cite Marx and Engels: has a certain approach to descriptive grammar become unthinking dogma? I hope not; I hope I remain open-minded (and can point to several places where H&P falter). -- Hoary ( talk) 12:36, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
Actually Coedo isn't outstanding; it's just good, which separates it from any other beer I noticed at Bar WM Commons. For decades there were seven brands: Kirin, Sapporo, Asahi, Suntory, Ebisu, Yoro, and Orion. Yoro was merely a (very minor) brand of Sapporo; Ebisu was/is the slightly less boring alternative brand of Sapporo; Orion was particularly feeble but viewed indulgently because it was brewed in the Ryūkyūs. Orion hasn't improved since. Kirin makes a good lager named Braumeister that's hard to find even here. Suntory makes one named "Master's Dream". Suntory also sometimes sells small quantities of an IPA. The rest of the macrobrewery stuff? Forget it. Small breweries started up a decade or so ago and proved their worth (?) by making decent imitations of the macrobrewery swill. But they have branched out into more interesting beers. It's hard to believe that they could represent good value when bought in the US. Still, if you're in a restaurant with Japanese pretensions (or of course realities), ignore anything that (probably truthfully) is described as popular in Japan (notably Asahi Super Dry) and look for names I haven't mentioned (or Coedo). -- Hoary ( talk) 00:02, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi! Can you put on the previous state of this article [ [4]] there are 5 RS. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.136.83.115 ( talk) 09:04, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
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Hello, so at this time there has been no official submission for route designation I-885 with AASHTO, which we keep a list here: Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Resources/AASHTO minutes The Autumn Meeting is coming up, so I do anticipate a request on this meeting and it is my understanding that FHWA is aware of the designation which is why its been going through as a foregone conclusion at this point. NCDOT also keeps good record of route changes in one depository located here. So officially I-885 is not existing as of yet, but it will soon be once the birth certificates are signed-off. -- WashuOtaku ( talk) 16:56, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
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If you decide to create an article about him, I'd be willing to contribute to it. Also note that he is mentioned in 35 WP articles: [5]. It is unlikely that I can be reached at this IP talk page; I'll check your page for any response, or try User_talk:107.15.157.44. -- 2606:A000:1126:28D:D448:69F6:26C2:125 ( talk) 17:07, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
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Hi. It isn't often that I come across poetry in edit summaries, so I wanted to drop by and thank you for brightening up my day just a little bit with this! MANdARAX • XAЯAbИAM 18:17, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
No conflict from my point of view. Your dates are more precise than mine. Should "edit conflict" be deleted? -- Morinox ( talk) 13:02, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
Sorry, but I don't understand why you closed the 'arbitrary break' part just now. – Sca ( talk) 16:01, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
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Do you think that Benito Mussolini still eventually comes to power in Italy if there is either no Bolshevik Revolution in Russia or if the Bolshevik attempt to seize power in Russia in November 1917 fails? Futurist110 ( talk) 21:29, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
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I read your comments on the multiverse today and was sufficiently interested to take a look at the Sean M. Carroll article to see if it had some links to his lectures which you recommended. It turns out that both "videos" in the External links section at the bottom of the article no longer work as they are, apparently, now pointing to an account on youtube that has been deleted. However, there certainly are some videos at "Sean M. Carroll on youtube".. Rather than try to fix these issues myself, I thought I'd ask you to do so, since you are clearly more expert in this field than I am and can perhaps select the best of his available lectures for the article. Thanks in advance. Mike Turnbull ( talk) 15:17, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
Hi Jayron32, just notifying you that in the above discussion, I've de-indented a post of yours by 2 colons to clarify that it's a reply directly to a post by the OP, rather than to my own reply to a reply [sic] by Baseball Bugs to the OP. If you disagree with my amendment, feel free to reverse it without further discussion. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 2.122.56.237 ( talk) 02:42, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
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Please see Uyghurs#Origin_of_modern_nomenclature. The ethnonym "Turki" was pretty much ubiquitous from Anatolia to East Turkestan starting from the cultural Turkification of the latter the until colonial powers decided to engage in their divide-and-conquer strategy, and before that it's generally accepted that the inhabitants of the region were the Saka (an Iranian people), who were still unrelated to the Uyghurs of ancient fame. The closest relatives of the latter are the Yugurs.
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Thank you for all your help on the Reference Desks, in general. The Wikilink that you added to the discussion on Swearing On a Bible [7] is to a disambig page. I believe it should be United States Capitol. Cheers. -- Thomprod ( talk) 14:13, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
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You also commented concisely on my first question. I am currently "working" on Lawrence Blum, err, de:Lawrence Blum. Fossa ?! 20:10, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
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I'm VERY afraid of asking this question on the Wikipedia Reference Desks for fear of me getting banned/blocked from posting there, so I figure that I might as well ask this question on your talk page, given that you're an American and all. Mitt Romney recently proposed a child allowance:
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22280404/mitt-romney-child-allowance-tax-credit-biden
If Romney's plan–or something similar–will actually pass, will it become SIGNIFICANTLY easier for poor and needy custodial parents to get financial aid from the United States government without them actually being compelled to seek child support from their children's non-custodial parents? I know that seeking child support is a requirement for going on welfare here in the United States of America as a result of Bill Clinton's welfare reform, so I wonder if Romney's plan is actually going to change anything in this regard, especially if it will abolish TANF or make TANF (near-)irrelevant. Futurist110 ( talk) 07:51, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
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I didn't mean to lambast you. I just interpreted Nishidan's comment differently than how I thought you had interpreted it. Sorry about that. Peace. --- Sluzzelin talk 13:42, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
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I figured while I was at it I might as well try to track down the other pages with active sanctions and see if the admins who placed them might also be interested in doing a similar review. The following list might not be complete, but it's the best I could come up with by tracking usages of the American Politics AE template. (Perhaps you can compare it to whatever system you have for tracking your active sanctions.) For convenience I'll put links to the edit notice page and the talk page.
I'm hoping that removing some of these restrictions can help restore some sense of normalcy to the topic area. In any case I hope this list is helpful. ~ Awilley ( talk) 00:05, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
I think the content I just undid needs a revdel. [8] ← Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 20:37, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
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There are about a dozen other diffs where Ken has "improved" all the non-improvements; please don't touch those, as a testament to ... never mind. -- Skews Peas ( talk) 00:16, 23 April 2021 (UTC)
I noticed that you made a lot of improvements to Louis III of France, which I had worked on for a long time. I just thought I ought to say thanks, since now the article is way better than it was when I stopped doing things to it! xdude ( talk) 11:31, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
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this edit made me laugh loud enough that I had to explain what was happening to my kids. But the thing is, this guys is a pretty new editor, who almost certainly doesn't understand how things work around here.
Do you think I could ask that you go ahead and close that thread with an admonishment to return to the talk page and actually discuss the issue? I'd be more than happy to help this person out, if they would just be receptive to it. Hell, I've posted a few times to talk, hoping they'd notice and jump back in since this started. I never really got the chance to explain why the section I removed was not appropriate to that article, because they jumped from discussion to edit warring to forum shopping so fast.
FWIW, the content was a subsection which was almost as long as the entire rest of the article, and covered a rather minor controversy in the grand scheme of things, but one which right-wing political pundits tried unsuccessfully to turn into a big deal. And rather than being properly placed in the history section, it was shoehorned into the accuracy section, despite it not saying anything about the accuracy of the site. In short, it was an NPOV nightmare. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 00:39, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
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Hello! Just wanted to let you know the RfC at Talk:Peppermint (drag queen) was just closed. I'm not sure if you intended the full protection you placed on the article to last beyond that or not, so wanted to let you know in case you did not. GorillaWarfare (talk) 23:52, 21 March 2020 (UTC)
Uncalled for and unhelpful. Snide actually. If you have nothing positive to contribute, don't. -- Dweller ( talk) Become old fashioned! 11:09, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
Na, it's my fault. I think it's my ego. I should get out more. Except I can't. Lol. -- Dweller ( talk) Become old fashioned! 21:10, 26 March 2020 (UTC)
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That's transient teenage slang, which was largely confined to certain age subgroups of a certain socioeconomic status (and may in fact owe more to the movie Clueless than to real-life prevalence), so it doesn't necessarily illuminate traditional territorial dialect forms such as "wooder". AnonMoos ( talk) 22:33, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
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Looks like you reverted the comments you added just as I was doing so. We definitely will welcome those kinds of comments once the RfC is opened, though for now we are just looking for comments on the structure of the draft itself. We will widely advertise once the RfC is open. Thanks for your contributions :) GorillaWarfare (talk) 19:48, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
Hi there ju wondering why you undid my piece on Jeremy Chapman (ulick Browne) his titles are self styled and yes he was born Chapman I have research this evidence before amending a lot of users refer to burkes peerage here. This company is not factual based and there for should not be used Joshmae ( talk) 09:47, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
Everytime I contact Sony Pictures Home Entertainmemt by email, they never reply. Here are their emails from their website. 86.128.175.64 ( talk) 18:30, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
I don't know. What do you suggest? 86.128.175.64 ( talk) 18:38, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
Maybe call them on the phone? 86.128.175.64 ( talk) 18:42, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
Although I suppose that Wikipedia is not about personal feelings, I want to express that I really felt harassed by that editor and that I'm very thankful that someone (you) protected me from harassment that I feel was undeserved. Such things really make me a bit nervous. Rsk6400 ( talk) 14:45, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
"Wouldn't bat an eye", huh? Now that you mention it, I guess I am rather a little more straitlaced on-Wiki than I am in real life. (But you're right, it was out of character. But I'm beyond fed up.)
Anyway, sorry for the nuisance. I expected to either get played along with, or reverted. That someone might suspect account compromise never crossed my mind. — Steve Summit ( talk) 18:22, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
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Earlier today, you undid edits on the Y.A. Tittle page. I do know what I'm talking about, and the photo on the page is not the better-known image. It is not the one in Life Magazine, nor is it the one in and on Tittle's book, which credits it to the Associated Press. What happened is this: Dozier Mobley of the AP published his image (Tittle looking forward, stunned) ahead of Berman's (Tittle looking down); Mobley's ran in Life in 1964, not Berman's. Berman then entered his in some contests and did some other self-promotion. Meanwhile, the image that is most commonly reproduced — again, as in Tittle's own book — is Mobley's. I'm a journalist — 10 years at the Virginian-Pilot, 20 at NPR — so I take this stuff seriously. I'm sorry you failed to see that. AndOneForMahler ( talk) 22:48, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
I'm glad you find this interesting, because it is! Here you go. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/10/556786699/football-legend-y-a-tittle-dies-at-90
https://www.sltrib.com/sports/2017/10/10/hall-of-fame-qb-ya-tittle-dead-at-90/
If you actually look at the issue of Life Magazine (the cite's right there), and Tittle's book, the image is *clearly* Mobley/AP, as shown in the NPR report. The images are often confused, but the provenance is clear. Wikipedia is giving Morris Berman credit above and beyond what his photo deserves. The point is that what you call the "second" image was actually the first. AndOneForMahler ( talk) 23:33, 4 May 2020 (UTC)
Thanks for your response, and amending the article — though the photographer is Dozier Mobley, not Dexter. Here's a cite for the Mobley image: https://apnews.com/fcffb6da1be3482b8730d6b4c3af928d "Tittle never won a championship, but came to personify the competitive spirit of football, thanks to an iconic photo taken by Dozier Mobley during Tittle’s final season in 1964.
"The frame caught the then-37-year-old quarterback, who looked older than his years, after throwing an interception returned for a touchdown by Pittsburgh’s Chuck Hinton. Tittle is seen kneeling in exhaustion and pain from an injured rib, blood dripping down his face from a head gash."
And one other thing. The Berman image "does not hang in the Hall of Fame, not in the exhibit spaces" according to Jon Kendle, Director of Archives & Football Information at the Hall in Canton. The more accurate way to phrase it, he says, is "the Berman photo resides in the Hall of Fame archives, because he submitted it to the Hall of Fame's yearly photo exhibit." Jon.Kendle@profootballhof.com. AndOneForMahler ( talk) 18:15, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
In this case, the LA Times is wrong, unfortunately. Here's another example. Elsewhere in the same article, it says: "While other photographers recorded Baker’s hit and Tittle as he was later helped to his feet by teammates, Berman was apparently the only one to capture Tittle alone, battered and bleeding and sitting back on his knees," which is obviously untrue. AndOneForMahler ( talk) 20:16, 6 May 2020 (UTC)
Well spotted. I knew there wasn't something quite right about him from the off, and I actually asked him about it on his talk page back in 2018. But I never made the C3 connection. -- Viennese Waltz 09:42, 5 May 2020 (UTC)
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Hello! Could you please take a look at the history of edits by User:Oliver Wendell 2009? A large portion of their work involves road junction lists on highways in New England. Unfortunately, the edits do not comply with WP:RJL; the editor is routinely changing the listed destinations away from what is visible on the highway signage. I have made numerous attempts to discuss the situation with the editor and have had no responses. The only interaction so far has been in an edit summary ( Connecticut Route 2). I've taken the issue to WT:USRD, where members reiterated the importance of abiding with the road junction list standards. Oliver refrained from editing for about a week but has now returned to reverting to their preferred edits. I want to avoid 3RR. Thank you for your help. -- Ken Gallager ( talk) 10:13, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
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In the TV series The Tudors, Mary (played by 16-18 year old Sarah Bolger) remained unmarried from toddler to the age of 30 at the end of the series. In the first few episodes of season 1, she was to be married to King Francis' son but was declined. She was then betrothed to Charles of Spain but declined as well. In the final episode of season 3, she fell in love with Philip of Bavaria but he was sent away, which broked her heart. In the first few episodes of season 4, Catherine Howard was surprised that Mary was still not married and she broke down in tears with Eustace Chapuys comforting her when she realised she will probably never get married. And in the final episode, the ghost of her mother tells Henry that Mary ought to be a long time married by now and have her own children. ( /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Humanities#Young_Princess_Mary_never_getting_married) 86.129.17.70 ( talk) 19:29, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
Can this page be unprotected (Or at least downgraded to extended protected)? I noticed you protected this page back in February pending discussion about "Christmas episodes", but that discussion never started and never happened, and it's now about 4 months later. (And I ran across this due to wanting to perform an unrelated edit ... fixing the bare URLs on the page.) Steel1943 ( talk) 21:13, 18 June 2020 (UTC)
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Hi Jayron, I just learned you are an admin. Can you look at the [3] humanities last post and check if is a problem - it cites an earlier question that was deleted for being banned. Looks like an attempt to test the medical advice guideline under discussion. Ta 70.67.193.176 ( talk) 16:49, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
Hello, asshole speaking. I'm sorry that my comments went down that badly: they hadn't been intended as patronizing. (They may have resulted from a mind that was somewhat rattled at the time: RL was impinging on my consciousness, and not in a pleasant way.) I notice now that I wrote for example "'Education' is a noun", which could have sounded extraordinarily patronizing in a way that "'Education' being a noun" would I think not. Anyway, do please stick around there: I think I'll give myself an indefinite break. Indeed, right now I think I'll turn off this typewriter thing and relax with some popular beat combo. -- Hoary ( talk) 06:42, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
I think I understand now. The two books I recommended are descriptive. They assume that their readers already have an advanced tacit knowledge of English grammar. It would be perverse to use the shorter book as a textbook to "teach English grammar" to learners of English as a second language or nervous users of English as a first; as for attempting to use the longer book for this, anyone proposing such a notion would be insane -- it's a reference grammar with 1800+ densely printed pages! The authors have no more interest in improving anyone's ability in English than the authors of a book about the solar system have in suggesting that Jupiter really ought to get its act together, lose some helium and up its radon. The books are for learning about English grammar. I think it's perfectly healthy for native speakers of a language to have little or no interest in the language; but most speakers do seem to have an interest and these books are good for such an interest. (Again, the books have nothing to do with wanting to learn how to speak English properly -- though each does have a certain number of asides in which prescriptivist myths about grammar are dismissed.) What does worry me is that I find myself citing Huddleston and Pullum (H&P) about as automatically as a Party member in a kolkhoz might cite Marx and Engels: has a certain approach to descriptive grammar become unthinking dogma? I hope not; I hope I remain open-minded (and can point to several places where H&P falter). -- Hoary ( talk) 12:36, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
Actually Coedo isn't outstanding; it's just good, which separates it from any other beer I noticed at Bar WM Commons. For decades there were seven brands: Kirin, Sapporo, Asahi, Suntory, Ebisu, Yoro, and Orion. Yoro was merely a (very minor) brand of Sapporo; Ebisu was/is the slightly less boring alternative brand of Sapporo; Orion was particularly feeble but viewed indulgently because it was brewed in the Ryūkyūs. Orion hasn't improved since. Kirin makes a good lager named Braumeister that's hard to find even here. Suntory makes one named "Master's Dream". Suntory also sometimes sells small quantities of an IPA. The rest of the macrobrewery stuff? Forget it. Small breweries started up a decade or so ago and proved their worth (?) by making decent imitations of the macrobrewery swill. But they have branched out into more interesting beers. It's hard to believe that they could represent good value when bought in the US. Still, if you're in a restaurant with Japanese pretensions (or of course realities), ignore anything that (probably truthfully) is described as popular in Japan (notably Asahi Super Dry) and look for names I haven't mentioned (or Coedo). -- Hoary ( talk) 00:02, 21 August 2020 (UTC)
Hi! Can you put on the previous state of this article [ [4]] there are 5 RS. Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.136.83.115 ( talk) 09:04, 25 August 2020 (UTC)
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Hello, so at this time there has been no official submission for route designation I-885 with AASHTO, which we keep a list here: Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Resources/AASHTO minutes The Autumn Meeting is coming up, so I do anticipate a request on this meeting and it is my understanding that FHWA is aware of the designation which is why its been going through as a foregone conclusion at this point. NCDOT also keeps good record of route changes in one depository located here. So officially I-885 is not existing as of yet, but it will soon be once the birth certificates are signed-off. -- WashuOtaku ( talk) 16:56, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
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If you decide to create an article about him, I'd be willing to contribute to it. Also note that he is mentioned in 35 WP articles: [5]. It is unlikely that I can be reached at this IP talk page; I'll check your page for any response, or try User_talk:107.15.157.44. -- 2606:A000:1126:28D:D448:69F6:26C2:125 ( talk) 17:07, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
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No conflict from my point of view. Your dates are more precise than mine. Should "edit conflict" be deleted? -- Morinox ( talk) 13:02, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
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Do you think that Benito Mussolini still eventually comes to power in Italy if there is either no Bolshevik Revolution in Russia or if the Bolshevik attempt to seize power in Russia in November 1917 fails? Futurist110 ( talk) 21:29, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
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I read your comments on the multiverse today and was sufficiently interested to take a look at the Sean M. Carroll article to see if it had some links to his lectures which you recommended. It turns out that both "videos" in the External links section at the bottom of the article no longer work as they are, apparently, now pointing to an account on youtube that has been deleted. However, there certainly are some videos at "Sean M. Carroll on youtube".. Rather than try to fix these issues myself, I thought I'd ask you to do so, since you are clearly more expert in this field than I am and can perhaps select the best of his available lectures for the article. Thanks in advance. Mike Turnbull ( talk) 15:17, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
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Please see Uyghurs#Origin_of_modern_nomenclature. The ethnonym "Turki" was pretty much ubiquitous from Anatolia to East Turkestan starting from the cultural Turkification of the latter the until colonial powers decided to engage in their divide-and-conquer strategy, and before that it's generally accepted that the inhabitants of the region were the Saka (an Iranian people), who were still unrelated to the Uyghurs of ancient fame. The closest relatives of the latter are the Yugurs.
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I'm VERY afraid of asking this question on the Wikipedia Reference Desks for fear of me getting banned/blocked from posting there, so I figure that I might as well ask this question on your talk page, given that you're an American and all. Mitt Romney recently proposed a child allowance:
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/22280404/mitt-romney-child-allowance-tax-credit-biden
If Romney's plan–or something similar–will actually pass, will it become SIGNIFICANTLY easier for poor and needy custodial parents to get financial aid from the United States government without them actually being compelled to seek child support from their children's non-custodial parents? I know that seeking child support is a requirement for going on welfare here in the United States of America as a result of Bill Clinton's welfare reform, so I wonder if Romney's plan is actually going to change anything in this regard, especially if it will abolish TANF or make TANF (near-)irrelevant. Futurist110 ( talk) 07:51, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
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I didn't mean to lambast you. I just interpreted Nishidan's comment differently than how I thought you had interpreted it. Sorry about that. Peace. --- Sluzzelin talk 13:42, 5 March 2021 (UTC)
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I figured while I was at it I might as well try to track down the other pages with active sanctions and see if the admins who placed them might also be interested in doing a similar review. The following list might not be complete, but it's the best I could come up with by tracking usages of the American Politics AE template. (Perhaps you can compare it to whatever system you have for tracking your active sanctions.) For convenience I'll put links to the edit notice page and the talk page.
I'm hoping that removing some of these restrictions can help restore some sense of normalcy to the topic area. In any case I hope this list is helpful. ~ Awilley ( talk) 00:05, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
I think the content I just undid needs a revdel. [8] ← Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 20:37, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
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I noticed that you made a lot of improvements to Louis III of France, which I had worked on for a long time. I just thought I ought to say thanks, since now the article is way better than it was when I stopped doing things to it! xdude ( talk) 11:31, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
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These lil birds and I want to thank you for bringing a close to that discussion at RSN. "Going nowhere fast" was an understatement! Firefangledfeathers ( talk) 16:52, 3 May 2021 (UTC) |
Tnx for adding me in your article Ujjwal 20 ( talk) 17:18, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
User:Emir of Wikipedia was apparently trying to archive the discussion and ended up deleting parts of it, including your close. The fragmented discussion is now open again, and commenting has resumed. Just FYI. Generalrelative ( talk) 17:37, 3 May 2021 (UTC)
Thank you for taking out time to enlighten me on Wikipedia's paid editing policy. I look forward to more edits. Bibihans ( talk)Bibihans — Preceding undated comment added 12:45, 7 May 2021 (UTC)
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this edit made me laugh loud enough that I had to explain what was happening to my kids. But the thing is, this guys is a pretty new editor, who almost certainly doesn't understand how things work around here.
Do you think I could ask that you go ahead and close that thread with an admonishment to return to the talk page and actually discuss the issue? I'd be more than happy to help this person out, if they would just be receptive to it. Hell, I've posted a few times to talk, hoping they'd notice and jump back in since this started. I never really got the chance to explain why the section I removed was not appropriate to that article, because they jumped from discussion to edit warring to forum shopping so fast.
FWIW, the content was a subsection which was almost as long as the entire rest of the article, and covered a rather minor controversy in the grand scheme of things, but one which right-wing political pundits tried unsuccessfully to turn into a big deal. And rather than being properly placed in the history section, it was shoehorned into the accuracy section, despite it not saying anything about the accuracy of the site. In short, it was an NPOV nightmare. ᛗᛁᛟᛚᚾᛁᚱPants Tell me all about it. 00:39, 14 May 2021 (UTC)
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