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Talk:Larry Ellison

message: Comment to "Jawed" "added photo of Larry Ellison", not very flattering picture. - Jerryseinfeld 23:59, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: It is the best picture of him in existence. Jawed 08:23, 6 Jan 2005 (UTC)

text: It's a funny picture to be sure, but it wouldn't be very flattering to use that photograph in an encyclopedia. We can use a different picture without adding any sort of bias, so I think we should. - furrykef (Talk at me) 20:53, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images 

message: Mr Ellison's entry needs to include his military service.  Men his age were going to Vietnam everyday, and his Father, evidently, served in the USAF.  What about Mr. Ellison, the younger?  Perhaps that is where he learned to fly.
There is no easily available record of his having served. Was he ever drafted? Did he flee to Canada? Was he just lucky his number did not come up? More info needed. 2A00:23C3:E284:900:65BF:9B44:E4FD:3C1A (talk) 12:58, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Military Service 

message: Larry Ellison’s mother was an unwed 19-year-old at the time of his birth. After he contracted pneumonia at the age of nine months, his Jewish mother allowed her aunt and uncle to adopt him.http://www.jspace.com/news/articles/the-jewish-billionaires-of-forbes/8044
Who is a Jew? -According to halakha, a Jew by birth must be born to a Jewish mother. Halakha states that the acceptance of the principles and practices of Judaism does not make a person a Jew. But, those born Jewish do not lose that status because they cease to be observant Jews, even if they adopt the practices of another religion. Major Torp (talk) 17:07, 7 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Category addition - background

message: Sir im very poor please help me
For life change im bangladeshi 103.108.61.219 (talk) 14:13, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help
Talk:Doug Allison

message: *1846 (revised from 1845) --SABR Biographical Research Committee March/April 2005 Report --P64 22:05, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Birth and Age

message: Maybe there should be an article or section --say, Catcher#the_early_role-- explaining some aspects of the job once, for many cross-references to phrases such as "He was a catcher at a time when ...".  Something similar may be useful for the bare-hand days and earliest glove use at every fielding position.
There will be lots of repetition across biographies in any case (when there are lots of biographies) but some good non-biographical articles might yet have a big impact. 
--P64 23:07, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: catcher, weak batsman
Talk:Saul Alinsky

message: /* "The myth of Saul Alinsky" */  Frank Weissman doesn't have an entry? https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/14/nyregion/frank-riessman-79-dies-promoted-self-help-movement.html
71.11.254.3 (talk) 04:28, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Frank Weissman doesn't have an entry? 

message: This page is highly incomplete by not showing the ties between the gangster Frank Nitti and Alinsky.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 179.186.143.9 (talk) 17:39, 7 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nitti liaisons... 

message: Last month, to do justice to Alinsky, I inserted the category of 'Articles' under the heading of 'Further reading'. Doubtless those who are more familiar with Alinsky's legacy than myself will know that many more articles that have cited him have been published. I decided to stop citing articles arbitrarily, when I felt that I had cited enough of them. Perhaps other Wikipedians might have an opinion about whether it is appropriate to preface the articles that I have cited with a related disclaimer and/or to delete undeserving articles in favour of deserving ones. I should be very grateful for anyone's advice. John Desmond (talk) 09:53, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Further reading
Talk:North America Nebula

message: The J2000 coordinates listed at the top-right of the page needs to be fixed.  The right ascension is off by 1 second (17.1 doesn't round up to 18), and the declination is way wrong - should be 44d31'44", and not 44d30'60".  Besides, when would you ever list a position as being 60 arcseconds???  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.99.185.239 (talk) 20:30, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coordinates 

message: The infobox has 4.0, while my book has 16! I know magnitudes vary by source, but 12 is too much. I wonder if there can be a reasonable justification for the 16 figure. 85.217.34.203 (talk) 02:32, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  apparent magnitude 

message: In the infobox, I have placed a new free-use image with a very detailed high resolution source, which I believe is more representative. Moved the multi-paneled "changing face" page to the gallery section. If any issues with this change, please comment. Assambrew (talk) 01:14, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  New image
Talk:Xylorimba

message: In marimbas the resonator is tuned to reinforce the fundamental pitch of the bar.  In xylophones the resonators are more usually tuned to reinforce the first overtone, and octave above the fundamental.
Which is it for xylorimba?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.89.176.249 (talk) 21:43, 27 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Resonator pitch?
Talk:Washtub bass

message: The washtub bass is not a Double bass, any more than an acoustic bass guitar is a double bass. Furthermore, washtub basses are not always in the double bass register, sometimes they are in the cello register. Do not remove the category for a *fourth* time, thank you. Badagnani (talk) 20:23, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Removal of category

message: I have made some edits to try to contain the commercialism that this page seems to invite. Makers of "improved" washtubs abound on the internet, and some are using Wikipedia to promote their product.  While I applaud their enthusiasm for the instrument, Wikipedia's neutral-point-of-view, non-original-work and non-commercial policies make many recent edits inappropriate.
To those wishing to promote your version of the instrument, you can do better by putting in a few hours of needed research and adding useful info to this page.  Doing so will help to promote the instrument in general, which is good for you because it is good for everyone. 68.144.70.5 (talk) 18:01, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Commercial edits

message: I believe this article should be merged with tea chest bass. It is functionally the exact same instrument with a metal tub in place of a wooden chest. A simply subsection can cover the difference in construction, culture and use. There's not enough information to support two articles and there's no reason to split it up. TheHYPO (talk) 12:37, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge
Talk:Tromboon

message: Image request fulfilled; template removed. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 14:01, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I play the bassoon.  It worked for me, although it's been more than thirt-five years since I've tried it.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.147.160.78 (talk • contribs) 
Hey, actually, my friend and I tried this a few days ago, and I never knew it actually had an official designation of some sort. --User:Clorox (talk) 03:32, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Could you make a little sound clip of your tromboon? Willi Gers07 (talk) 18:16, 7 May 2009 (UTC)

message: When Peter Schikele, promoter of P. D. Q. Bach, described this instrument, he said it's, "a hybrid ... that's the nicer word ..." 140.147.160.78 13:36, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Schikele's description
Talk:Synclavier

message: I don't recall ever hearing of Kate Bush using a Synclavier (she was always a heavy Fairlight aficionado). BenedictPoole (talk) 13:19, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable Synclavier users 

message: Does't anyone have a better photo of a Synclavier? They looked quite pretty, design-wise. The current one looks like a 1960 tone generator – no keyboard, no monitor... Are Synclavier company photos still under copyright? -- megA (talk) 17:39, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photograph 

message: The intro says 1975, the body says 1977-1978. Which is it? Does the Alles Machine pre-date it or not? Maury Markowitz (talk) 13:35, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  When did it ship? 

message: "There is absolutely no doubt that the Synclavier System was "the" pioneer system in revolutionizing"...
Please check out the Wikipedia Style Guide. Otherwise, good article :)
Atom Bomb Speedster (talk) 09:35, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed the offending text - see WP:BEBOLD  --hulmem (talk) 01:12, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Words to watch... 
Talk:Slide whistle

message: I will be  removing this part of the article 
“like the clarinet, the only closed-end, cylindrical Western orchestral instrument.” As it is incorrect that the clarinet is cylindrical, closed on the end, in a way similar to a slide whistle.
In addition (as time allows) I hope to organize the article so that it is laid out as follows.
# Short definition
# History
# Physical description
# The slide whistle in music 
# References
:The clarinet is effectively cylindrical (thus its harmonics are different from the saxophone), but otherwise I agree that the similarities are distant.--Curtis Clark 04:25, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I know that Louis Armstrong played slide whistle on at least one record with King Oliver, but I've never read or heard about him using this instrument with his own Hot Five. Can anyone confirm the statement in the article that Armstrong played slide whistle post-Oliver? /FredrikT (talk) 14:14, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Armstrong 

message: The slide whistle has been used in comedy for a while now but there's nothing in this article to mention that; it'd be great if someone could add a section for that here (unless it's mentioned elsewhere).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2409:12:6DA0:5100:70E4:2331:4DE2:6AFE (talk) 04:43, 14 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: In Comedy

message: Siren whistle, the instrument Dylan plays in highway 61 revisited, redirects here.  I don't know that it has really any similarities with a slide whistle other than being a cheap children's instrument that is powered by air. Does it make more sense to add a section on this page for it, or to write an entirely separate page? 63.231.58.87 (talk) 18:09, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why does siren whistle redirect here? 

message: The opening summary says "Thus it has an air reed like some woodwinds...." What? Is "air reed" simply a term I'm unfamiliar with, for the action of a column of air in a fipple flute... or is it a total misnomer? It dates from the very first version of this page in 2002. This summary appears in Google searches, so it would be nice to get it right. AbdiViklas (talk) 16:05, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Air reed"
Talk:Metallophone

message: I replaced the assessment tag. This was assessed this as a top-importance article for the Wikiproject Musical Instruments, being a common percussion instrumente. It is a start class article, but needs references. If you improve it and want reassessment or need help or have questions, please drop me a line.Jacqke (talk) 02:51, 10 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment, stub class for now

message: While I see the need for additional images, I reckon there would have to be a lot of them in order for it to be of any use—a glockenspiel looks rather different from a celesta. Unless this article were expanded very much, I'd actually prefer to see it without any picture at all. EldKatt (Talk) 16:10, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Additional Images
Talk:Lasso d'amore

message: I think Craig Ferguson sometimes twirls one on the Late Late show... AnonMoos 01:40, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Late Late Show

message: Why is there a link to "Bugle". It's not relevant in any way.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.233.158.204 (talk) 17:16, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Bugle
Talk:Gayageum

message: I'm still going to add more sections to this article, probably techniques and styles.
postmoderncore 10:45, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Great work so far!  -- Visviva 11:01, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Under construction 

message: I think according to Samguksagi, the history of Gasil goes like this. One day he heard someone playing the chinese instrument Zheng and says that why do we need a chinese instrument to play our music? We have our own culture. So, to better suit the taste of the korean music at that time, he ordered his craftsmen to make the korean version of the zheng under his supervision. Later he named the instrument gayatgo to distinguish between the instrument he invented in the Gaya kingdom and the Zheng. The Hanja for Gayatgo is comprised of the word 'Gaya' for Gaya kingdom and 'Go' for stringed instrument, implies the instrument is originated in the gaya confederacy.
In a different reference, a legend says that the arrival of zheng to korea. A chinese king  has two rivaling daughters who both wants to inherit a 25 string Se. In a struggle they broke the instrument into two pieces of 12 and 13 strings each. The king later banished the fighting daughters from his kingdom. The younger daughter with her 12 strings part of the instrument flees to korea while the older daughter with her 13 stringed part of the instrument went to japan. Thats why the gayageum has 12 strings and koto has 13 strings.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.53.20.98 (talk) 18:34, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: I reverted to the image which was in this article as of Special:Permalink/620610987. That image had been in the article for seven years without any opposition. Additionally, I think it's a better image in visual terms because the subject has high contrast with the background. In contrast, the other image features a person wearing white clothes on a white background, and the editors who inserted it (and removed the old image) and keep blowing it up to very large sizes seem to be interested solely in promoting one specific gayageum player rather than contributing to Wikipedia in general. In any case, any uninvolved editor should feel free to pick another better image or even use both images if they feel in good faith that it would be an improvement. 210.6.254.106 (talk) 12:03, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Switched back to earlier image 

message: Traditional Korean Music isn't immediately perceived as harmonious, but it might have some deeper soothing effect, if one is tolerant  towards it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:2149:821A:3100:F9E1:2DDA:4FE8:40F6 (talk) 22:48, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''pun'': [[Gay]] + [[age]] + [[-um]] 
Talk:Conga

message: I was under the impression that "macho" and "hembra" were the names for the two drums in a set of bongos. I'm pretty sure that the different tippes of congas are requinto, quinto, conga and tumba. —Preceding unsigned comment added by  (talk • contribs) 
:In Cuba people call the tumbadoras macho, hembra and tercera. A quinto is a special kind of tumbadora. ROGNNTUDJUU! 11:57, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Don't know why the new first para.(re: dance vs. drum) is back in here, since it re-ambiguates. I'm taking it back out.--Silverlake Bodhisattva 19:33, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: In that case, the article needs a link to a disambig page at the top. --Perimosocordiae 02:06, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I am trying to do a bibliography for this cite but i cant unless i know who the publisher is 1.145.102.83 (talk) 05:30, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re-disambiguation re; drum/dance 

message: "Muffled tone: like the open tone, is made by striking the drum with the four fingers, but holding the fingers against the head to muffle the tone (which combined with the first is called the tumbao - played in most salsa and rumbas today)."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the tumbao is principally composed of slap and bass notes, not open and muffled notes. James barton 10:08, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Playing the Congas 

message: If we need to have this list at all, it should be limited to those persons who are famous for their conga playing. It should thus exclude Stevie Wonder and Richard Feynman. (Anyway, I read that Feynman played the bongos, not the conga.) TheScotch 09:05, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Famous conga players

message: Somebody has to revise the version before it was shortened. The editor on November 21 deleted a lot of information pertaining to the conga drum without any logical reason. Can somebody please fix this mistake? Cancionista78 (talk) 02:48, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Revision

message: Could someone please finish that sentence? whoever it was that was writing it.Domsta333 (talk) 10:44, 21 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Afro-Colombian 

message: This should really be at conga (drum) per less than half of page views In ictu oculi (talk) 17:49, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: [[WP:NOPRIMARY]]
Talk:Bazooka (instrument)

message: A sound clip would be nice as well. – Adrian Lozano 14:02, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: sound clip

message: we need a picture.
what does it look like?
69.166.29.13 (talk) 15:02, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks like a vuvuzela. --damiens.rf 13:32, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: A case could be made for fair use of this image in the article for the purpose of identifying the instrument, without diminishing the image's value to its originator. Just plain Bill (talk) 22:35, 15 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  picture 
Talk:HMS Juno (F52)

message: A local news report said HMS Juno and HMS Fife locked through the St Lawrence Seaway and visited Chicago in mid-May 1987. Was this the same ship? With no weaponry?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.136.29.223 (talk) 01:41, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chicago visit
Talk:UnrealEd

message: Wouldn't it be better if the Edlogo.JPG was renamed to UnrealEdLogo.jpg or something along those lines? --DanielPharos (talk) 19:24, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename image logo? 

message: This article needs to be merged to be here. It is not notable enough to have a separate article.--SkyWalker (talk) 15:00, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Kismet (gameplay scripting)]]  

message: With a quick look, the Basic premise section is out of date, taking into consideration the changes of Unreal Engine 3. The world doesn't start off as a full mass anymore, BSP geometry is largely discouraged since many years ago (while the section focuses a lot in describing exactly how one can do a lot of stuff with this kind of geometry) and generally needs improvemenet. Is there anyone willing to correct it or rewrite it? I could do it myself, but I'd prefer somebody who knows the engine more. TEO64X 16:56, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Out of date 

message: Does this need to have a separate article?. Should we merge it?. --SkyWalker (talk) 07:18, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not convinced either way. On the one hand, the current article is rather short, and merging seems to be the best thing. On the other hand, similar articles (like QuakeC and ZZT-oop) have sections about the actual scripting language, with code example and details. If somebody does that to UnrealScript, it would merrit a separate article.So I'd say: merge if nobody (wants to) expand it. (I don't know UnrealScript, so I can't volunteer.) --DanielPharos (talk) 15:09, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[UnrealScript]] 

message: BTW, I wouldn't refer to a Kismet diagram as a script. The textual equivalent of the diagram -- THAT is a script. ToolmakerSteve (talk) 21:52, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  to me, a diagram is not a script
Talk:Roussillon

message: I am currently proposing that the Garrigues page should be replaced by the content now found on the Garrigues (disambiguation) page and the the material presently on the Garrigues page should be moved to a new page to be titled Les Garrigues, Catalonia If you have the time I would appreciate your comments on the Discussion page at Garrigues. I hope you will agree. Sincerely, GeorgeLouis (talk) 20:18, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Garrigues 

message: I added the template due to the fact that only one reference is provided, with no inline citations. It's not a bad article, and has plenty of links, but the statements could use more verifiable and reliable source citations. — ★Parsa (talk) 20:12, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inline citation template 

message: I have found a reference to a very different blazon for Roussillon which I think is worth mentioning: De plata, dos fajas de azur, cargadas cada una, de tres flores de lis de oro (Or in English (my translation, sorry for the mistakes): Argent, two fesses Azure, each charged with three fleurs-de-lys Or.). At first, I thought these arms pertained to a "Roussillon" or "Rosselló" family — a name quite common here in (French) Catalonia — or were late, attributed arms with French connotations (the three fleurs-de-lys on a blue background). But I recently saw them displayed inside the Mairie de Perpignan next to the traditional Aragonese arms, and also on the tomb of King James II of Majorca, Count of Roussillon and Cerdanya, Lord of Montpellier, inside the Cathedral of Palma de Mallorca which he founded and where they seem to represent only the county of Roussillon without Cerdanya... Therefore, I think they should appear here but I have neither the time nor the skills necessary to draw them myself. Anyone interested?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.79.174.112 (talk) 14:56, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another coat of arms? 

message: The usage of  is under discussion, see talk:Rousillon (horse) -- 70.24.244.158 (talk) 04:43, 12 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: {{noredirect|Rousillon}}

message: "It is part of the region of Northern Catalonia[a] or Catalonia (the former used by Catalan-speakers and the latter used by -speakers), ..."
What is meant by "-speakers" here? Is it in error? By which speakers is the latter used by?
The meaning here is certainly unclear. Not sure how to fix this. WikidKev (talk) 02:10, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible error in introduction
Talk:Versatackle knot

message: After some fiddling around, I came up with a version of this knot that is simpler and faster to set up, by replacing the two fixed loops with a slip knot in the middle of the rope, and bight passed around the anchor replacing the end loop. (the free end then goes through the slipknot loop to start the winding.
Here's an animation of tying the tackle: 
I haven't tested this version yet but I'm interested to hear if anyone else has tried the same or similar modifications?
Nuez 05:45, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hey, that's good! A fine piece of original research. It really seems useful and at the same time easier than that versatackle. I've been looking for something like that. Thanks. --Cspan64 (talk) 18:13, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Simplified versatackle