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the page on which we leave a message. As to the specifics, I believe we are squared away. Thanks for the revert on the Irish bit -- as you say on your page, "Folks, this is a worldwide encyclopedia, and as such should be written so that anybody in the world (who knows English) can understand it. ... assuming that people know something ... is antithetical to the Knowledge (XXG) mission." Best.--

104:. Eventually, the northern part of the mandate went to Nigeria and the southern part (where this happened) went to the French mandate territory of Cameroon. This happened in 1961 (at the end of the Anlu, not coincidentally). It is still a problem to this day with the British part and the French part in an uneasy arrangement. Hope that helps clarify the point...and cheers! 424: 1128: 1033: 899: 533:. But for two. "of the Irish name" is in the ref, and since as you point out we write for a wide audience, I think it appropriate. Similarly, I thought the inclusion of the Harvard record -- which you deleted -- was not an improvement; the record shows how many games the unbeaten team had, and that it had one tie. Thanks.-- 1460:, illegal drugs) is truly "confiscated"; the term suggests that the items seized were contraband. But here, they apparently weren't. It seems to me that using "confiscated" implies that the seizure was justified, while it seems that here, it wasn't. "Stolen" is more of what happened, but that might be a bit strong.-- 1434:

of yours as a statement "it was all fine to take the property of someone else and move it to Germany, it was nothing illegal". I know, I misread your comment :) You on the other hand understand the word "confiscate" as in "The police confiscated the guns from the bad guys". All dictionaries out there

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Thanks. Not disparaging IMHO, just descriptive. Agree w/second point, which pointed to what I had not seen. (BTW -- no need w/most of us to reply on separate p ... most editors keep an eye on p where they left a message, having it put automatically on their watch list ... and then there is no need

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how the parasite reached its temporary host. The answer is that the sources that I came across did not say. Either the researchers found it on the host or it was on the seabed. Many fish rest on the bottom and then climbing on would be relatively easy for the isopod. In the research in Germany, the

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In answer to your comment, it appears that it was ignited by static electricity (a common hazard with high-velocity gas spewing out of a blowout), but since I couldn't find mentions of the ignition source that could usefully be cited (blogs and random stuff on the Web were where I saw this), I left

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I have no problem with using one footnote for several sentences in a row, even a whole paragraph, if each fact in it comes from the same source. I do have a problem with uncited sentences, paragraphs, etc. Simply citing the same source (again and again, in necessary) would be a big improvement.

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I would have seen your message had you left it under my message on your page. In my experience, that is what most of us do. Copying messages so that two versions of the conversation appear, on two different pages, is not what I tend to see in conversations -- as there is no need, if we watchlist

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I note that you have chosen to add a relatively large amount of cite tags to the text there (looks real bad now, in my opinion). Most or all of the things you are asking about are covered by Sandra Lee Stuart's book. Shall we change it from being the source of only one detail to being a general

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I'm not a native speaker and perhaps that's the problem. To me the verb to confiscate explains who does the action of taking something (namely: the authority or someone to pose as such), and not to what is being taken. And that's how I understand the dictionary definitions I could find. Indeed,

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The "Irish" seemed pejorative and obvious, but if you think otherwise, fine. The (second) mention of the team's record repeated the same information (in the same level of detail, down to its W-L-T record) from a few sentences earlier, and was thus redundant; it seemed extra verbiage that didn't

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it out. I had a lot of trouble sourcing it properly, not surprising for something from 1962. I did read the transcript from John Glenn's three orbits, in which he mentions seeing fires and smoke in north Africa: obviously, others made the correlation with the Gassi Touil well fire at the time.

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suggest that the word means "appropriated by, or as if by authority". As in "all private radios were confiscated by the occupying powers". "Seized" would imply that it was a pretty neutral thing, while it was not. I guess it's a minor problem, but IMHO "confiscate" fits better here.

626:, how much of the preceding text did it cover? Previously the paragraph was all covered by the cybertuffle reference, and as I can't access your source and there's no quote I can't tell if it covers all the text preceding in the paragraph or just the one sentence. Regards, 1713:

which is the samples I provided photos of. However, Stickley, the father of oak fuming, would have been using American white oak. Both can be fumed. Couldn't guarantee that that applies to all the species listed though, although it probably does.

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Do you have Questia access? Information relevant to your question should be on page 42 of the Cracraft book. The Barrow reading also has some information on it. It will be a while (a couple days to a week) before I have the time to add that

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page (and while we're on the topic, many thanks for the fixes in the intro!). But the region of Cameroon in which the Anlu happened was a part of a German colony which became part of the mandate governed by the British after World War I, the

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But it might be untrue. I don't know how it gets onto its host but others may know this. The article is not comprehensive in other ways, for example I know nothing about the isopod's reproduction. I prefer to leave the article as it is.

1356:, the host is a shark or cod and in that case I guess the isopod would have to swim to reach one of them. But in Antarctic waters with the temperature below zero, such a sluggish organism seems unlikely to swim much in search of a host. 1603:, TWL’s monthly newsletter. We're sending you the first edition of this opt-in newsletter, because you signed up, or applied for a free research account: HighBeam, Credo, Questia, JSTOR, or Cochrane. To receive future updates of 1782:, "A towhead (a long, thin island) approximately...". As to the date of the channel shift, I'd suggest simply saying that the date of the shift is unclear, just to head off questions like mine. Keep up the good work, BTW. -- 582:

Copying the previous message allows easy back-reference, and allows others (who may happen along later, after the other participant has possibly deleted half of the discussion) to see what the discussion is about, as I see

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Good catch. The sentence I had in mind for that new ref was the one right before the note. I wasn't sure about the text before that sentence. Thank you for pointing that out; I'll 'jump' the footnote

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Just as a general thing, the Wright (1987) work is a comprehensive overview of the ownership-and-control issue (as of then), and its 200-plus footnotes include many sources that are useful in their own

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Well, however fantastic a source it is, I can't use it if I can't access it! I suppose it's up to you to spread that source's knowledge throughout wikipedia.

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Parenthetical note added. I'm loth to say that the shift's date is unclear: I'm sure it's recorded somewhere, such as at the library

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Basically a sandbar, I assume, but I'm using it in the sense of "a small river island that's lots longer than its width".

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Perhaps a note to the effect that is is unknown or unclear how the isopod finds/gets to its host would be good... --

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