A mid-importance article supported by WikiProject Actors and Filmmakers that was reviewed by Version 1.0 Editorial Team and selected for Version 0.7 and subsequent release versions. The article has come a long way from a fan boy mish mash to a fair enough GA. Now is the time to take it to the next level. Currently it's going through another peer review. Serious help is needed to clean up the copy. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE. Aditya(talk • contribs) 10:19, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
Hi. I saw that you deleted some popcult items from Exhibitionism. I'm not going to contest the deletion, becauise they were borderline notable, but I did want to point out that WP:IPCEXAMPLES, which you cited in your edit summary, is an essay, and is not policy (which must be followed) or a guideline (which it is recommended to follow). Thanks. Beyond My Ken (talk) 16:21, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
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Hai, this Indian film article Loham needs copy editing for grammer and writing style. Previously submitted for GA but failed due to language problem. See Talk:Loham. I invite you to help a hand on it.--Charles Turing (talk) 13:04, 21 October 2015 (UTC)
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Hi Matt, I approve of your edit, shortening the refs to a modern silent film, Silent Times. In fact, I contemplated removing the entire section - it smells strongly of self-promotion. Other notable films, e.g. world-famous, Oscar-nominated Aki Kaurismäki's Juha (nomination declined, however - interesting story) are only mentioned in one or two sentences. Do you agree that the section seems promotional? The nominations/awards are from quite minor venues per IMDB. Shall I remove, or at least shorten the lengthy Silent Times synopsis? Regards, --Janke | Talk 09:09, 25 January 2019 (UTC)
The only reliable source for what this book is about would be JRR Tolkien.
As Tolkien has now sadly passed away, it must be left to other scholars to suggest possible meanings and allegories for the Lord of the Rings.
If you were to check the reference sources quoted, you may discover a number of similarities between the symbolism for the 'Order of the Garter' and the 'Lord of the Rings'.
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Bill Stradling — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bill stradling (talk • contribs) 13:13, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
Hi Matt,
The Lord of the Rings is full of puzzles and riddles.
The title of Tolkien's book is clearly another riddle to be solved...
I've not come across a better solution to this riddle than the one proposed by Drew Maloney - [1]
Even the founding location of the Knights of the Garter is closely connected with Oxford where Tolkien was Professor of English.
What would be your definition of a reliable source in the context of explaining the meaning behind the book title of the 'Lord of the Rings'?
As I pointed out earlier, Tolkien would be the only person who could truly answer this puzzle.
I suggest you leave this possible interpretation for the meaning behind the Lord of the Rings on the Wikipedia page unless you can come up with a better answer to this riddle.Bill stradling (talk) 14:22, 19 February 2019 (UTC)
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I am not in favor of unnecessary dead-naming, but what is the policy you were citing in this edit? Cheers, --SVTCobra (talk) 22:53, 11 June 2019 (UTC)
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Hi - the only way to deal with the sock edits was to revert deeply, which removed this. I couldn't figure out where to put it. Sorry. Doug Weller talk 10:19, 7 August 2019 (UTC)
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Goodness knows how I managed that. Thanks for the catch. GorillaWarfare (talk) 03:53, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
Hi Matt.I fear that this question might get lost in the noise, so I wanted to ask you directly here. Do you see any issue with the wording in the lede of this version of Moroni (Book of Mormon)? --FyzixFighter (talk) 18:03, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
The flag with the sun and the lion was used by the Mughals. I verified it from following sources
The flag of the Mughal empire is a rectangular green triangular banner with a lion in front of a sun, both motifs being gold. It is surrounded by red.
The first two carry the lion with the sun behind it. Lion (or "Babur" in Persian, the lingua franca of the empire) was also the name of the founder of the Empire, Zaheer-ud Deen Muhammad Babur.
The Lion and Sun is an old Persian emblem that was re-used by the Mughals that identify strongly with Persian culture.
The Mughal Empire had a number of imperial flags and standards. The principal imperial standard of the Mughals displayed a lion and sun. The Mughals traced their use of this flag back to Timur [19]. About the historical Persian flags, it can help us the Encyclopaedia Iranica website [20]. Both the Sun and Golden Lion are symbols of kingship and royalty
The principal imperial standard of the Mughals was known as the alam (Alam علم). It was primarily moss green.[1] It displayed a lion and sun (Shir-u-khurshid شیر و خورشید) facing the hoist of the flag. The Mughals traced their use of the alam back to Timur.[2]
What could have I done if somebody uploaded the flag image with that name.
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Hi MackMauler! I'm related to Frederick Remington. Our paternal lineage comes from a Puritan who departed from England in about 1633. Please refer to Richard Remington who was a pastor at St Mary's Church, Lockington, East Riding, Yorkshire, England. I'm not sure how to get you my email in a less public way The Pete's (talk) 07:55, 10 February 2021 (UTC)
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Dorothy Pitman Hughes was not a founder of Ms. magazine. The article about Dorothy and Gloria Steinem in Esquire magazine helped demonstrate the need for a women's-controlled media outlet. This fact is based on the Dorothy Pitman Hughes archives at Smith College. Please see Laura L. Lovett, With Her Fist Raised: Dorothy Pitman Hughes and the Transformative Power of Community Activism. Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 2021. Professor Lovett's research is based on interviews with Pitman Hughes. She arranged to have the material donated to the archives. This claim is just false and should be removed! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.98.201.145 (talk) 18:05, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi, regarding ur edit at Mehmed the Conqueror, Laonikos Chalkokondyles is not a secondary source. To quote WP:USEPRIMARY:
- A primary source was a source that was created at about the same time as the event, regardless of the source's contents. Laonikos Chalkokondyles lived and wrote his works during the life of Mehmed and it's knows to have personally witnessed some of the events regarding Mehmed.
- [secondary sources] it describes, comments on, or analyzes primary sources. Laonikos Chalkokondyles does not describe, comment on or analyzers primary sources, because he's the primary source.
- The first published source for any given fact is always considered a primary source. At this point, they make it obvious. Laonikos is the first one to explicitly describe the Sultan's sexual tendencies and his relationship with Radu the Fair. There are others things that suggest it, like Radu's nickname in Romanian ("the Beautiful", referring to effeminate features).
Now a quick question: What type of source is a book from 1992 about Mehmed II (Babinger, Franz (1992), ""Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time"")? It's beyond any doubt a secondary source. Please check all sources before targeting only the sources you don't like. Thanks! Cheers! --213.233.110.242 (talk) 08:55, 19 May 2021 (UTC)
I undid my own mistake. I added the producers before I realized they were already listed as executive producers so it was just unnecessarily repetitive. Generally when undoing my own edits after realizing I made a mistake I don't add a reason to my edit as I'm erasing my own edit. Thanks. Samurai Kung fu Cowboy (talk) 23:40, 9 June 2021 (UTC)
The article You Can't Live Forever has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:
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I've posted a new thread on the talk page, as per your suggestion, but I was wondering how I could source the information, as the link to the instagram post seems a little messy. Also I'm not sure how the neutrality of the article could be affected by adding something that ContraPoints has posted publicly.
Thank you so much in advance! — Preceding unsigned comment added by LivvyPool (talk • contribs) 08:35, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
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Your statement is not the way the Development section of the film says it happened when you state: "Schlosser's book Fast Food Nation was compared to the The Jungle, not There Will Be Blood". It says it was a two step process; that he first read The Jungle and then read the book "Oil". He then only used the first 150 pages of Oil, and the rest was developed from his other readings of Sinclair's books starting with The Jungle. If you can word it better then that's fine, though reverting it fully does not seem correct. HenryRoan (talk) 02:52, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
The film There Will Be Blood has been compared to Sinclair's The Jungle, which is false. Even in the There Will Be Blood Wikipedia article, it does not say that the film was compared to The Jungle.
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Hi MattMauler: Pardon my ignorance, but I have looked at tutorials online, wiki wizard uploads, and what not. Not sure how to load a public domain video from circa 1894: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN8ohCW00fs and add it to Fun in a Chinese Laundry (memoir). Can I load it onto my flashdrive? Nothing seems to work. Know a good sport who might educate me? Lord Such&Such (talk) 19:00, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
Dear MM: Perhaps I'll limit myself to literary contributions and pics rather than Utube: so far, so good. Your comments are welcome and appreciated, nonetheless.--Lord Such&Such (talk) 19:28, 28 May 2024 (UTC)