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Talk:45 Commando

message: Currently, this article includes a photograph of ground crew with the Commando Helicopter Force (CHF). That is a separate unit from 45 Commando. That image is also part of the wikipedia CHF article. I suggest deleting it from this article and replacing it with a photograph that shows people or things of 45 Commando. 
--Dreddmoto (talk) 15:01, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Commando Helicopter Force photograph. 

message: The lists of commanding officers and the list of where the unit has been on active service are a bit of a mess. The active service one should and can be incorporated into the article but the CO's is a list of non notable persons which if 45 Commando goes on for another 100 years would become longer than the article. If no objections I will delete them --Jim Sweeney (talk) 18:54, 23 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lists 

message: While en route to Afghanistan aboard HMS Ocean, a platoon from 45 Commando performed an exercise in amphibious assault on Gibraltar. Except they landed on a beach in La Línea, Spain, a bit to the north from their intended target. There they scared some locals, were told by police they are in the wrong country, apologized and left. Some diplomatic embarrassment followed.
The error was blamed on bad weather. What with the Rock of Gibraltar being extremely visible, this is the only explanation I can think of. Hilarious quote: The wrong landing, a corporal pointed out, was due to "one of the most dangerous things in the world – an officer with a map".
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/a-beach-too-far-british-marines-invade-spain-by-mistake-661280.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2002/feb/19/gibraltar.world
Zeev.tarantov (talk) 01:42, 1 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unintended Invasion of Spain in 2002
Talk:Janice Peaslee Bridge

message: This reminds me of the Merriam Street Bridge.--Appraiser 13:08, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like that was once the style, yes?  I really liked this bridge when I saw it, especially how it's in wonderful condition.  Oh, I better add the WikiProject template... Denimadept 13:59, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: doesn't work any more.  Could anyone in that area find the archive copy?  Or find a similar reference? - Denimadept (talk) 00:39, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference failure 

message: I'm presuming the bridge is named after Janice L. Peaslee ... if so, it would be good to have a link from the article to the biography. thanks --Tagishsimon (talk) 04:01, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Good idea!  :-)  - Denimadept (talk) 08:24, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: But wait, it's already linked!  It's not linked in the lead, but in the first paragraph after that.  WP:MOS prevents it from being linked in the name or the heading. - Denimadept (talk) 08:24, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah. Hadn't spotted that. Was going theough eponymous bridges toofast last night. as you were, Denimadept ;) All in aid of this, btw. --Tagishsimon (talk) 16:21, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Named after?
Talk:Scottish Parliamentary Constituencies before 1918

message: I am seeing, potentially, four separate articles, covering periods 1708 to 1832, 1832 to 1868, 1868 to 1885 and 1885 to 1918.
The next period is 1918 to 1950, followed by 1950 to 1974. Laurel Bush 13:12, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split article? 

message: Content seems to be covered now by Scottish Westminster constituencies, Scottish Westminster constituencies 1708 to 1832 and Scottish Westminster constituencies 1832 to 1868. Merge with Scottish Westminster constituencies? See also Talk:Scottish Westminster constituencies. Laurel Bush 14:40, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merger
Category talk:Villages in Newport, Wales

message: Villages in Newport? How do you intend to define them? There is no universal definition of village. Does Celtic Horizons count? Owain (talk) 13:17, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Any settlement in the city of Newport outside of the town proper, i.e. not a suburb, so no, I wouldn't count it. Marky-Son 18:24, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: But what is the "town proper"? The ONS keeps changing its definition of what distance between built-up areas is significant for them all to be the same built-up area or different built-up areas. Personally I think the definition of villages inside a city is a can of worms! :) Owain (talk) 12:38, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Illicium ternstroemioides

message: to the article, if their copyrights are not breached
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&sa=1&q=%22Illicium+ternstroemioides%22&btnG=Search+Images&aq=f&oq=
--222.67.205.85 (talk) 09:05, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Could someone please add the following infos...
Talk:Ministry of Transport (China)

message: There is no name controversy. Before the PRC, in the Qing and ROC era. The transport portfolio was part of the Ministry of Communications and Transportation. Since the PRC era, the Chinese official name has not changed but the Ministry of Communications has come to define transport, traffic, civil aviation, postal service related responsibilities for the state.--Zhongxin 13:25, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Name Controversy
Talk:Point of No Return (TV series)

message: Its the characters who die, fall in love etc not the actors, If I can find the character names I'll do it myself, but can somebody substitute the actor's names in the synopsis for the character names.Thanks KTo288 13:23, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Character names
Talk:Duck, Duck Goose

message: I have my doubts that "Duck, Duck Goose" is a good title for this article because "Duck, Duck Goose" is also a name for a childhood game in the US (and other countries) and so people looking for an article on that childhood game would also come here instead of to the article they are looking for. Jon 13:26, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Presumably the title of the episode is a reference to the game (and to mechanical geese and the suggestion to duck).  However, we could rename it to "Duck, Duck Goose (Eureka episode)". RJFJR 15:50, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Title of article
Talk:Earth mover's distance

message: It seems that the EMD is very similar, if not identical, to the Wasserstein metric.  Perhaps the two articles should be merged?  
Note however that the EMD is typically used for distributions over a discrete region M (e.g. the bins of a histogram, or the pixels of an image), so the "dirt moving plan" is a matrix rather than a 2D continuous distribution.  Also, in many applications of the EMD, one must allow for "dirt" to be created or destroyed (at a specified penalty cost), rather than transported.  Is that reason enough to keep the articles separate? --Jorge Stolfi (talk) 19:19, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wasserstein metric 

message: This distance has been first introduced by Gaspard Monge in Mémoire sur la théorie des déblais et des remblais. Histoire de l’Académie Royale des Science. Année 1781, avec les Mémoires de Mathématique et de Physique.--Joannes Vermorel (talk) 14:17, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gaspard Monge 

message: I changed the wiki project link from "physics" to "Computer science" because, as far as I know, it is not related to physics despite its name, but it is a mathematical techniques used to compute distance between points in multidimensional space.
I choose the computer science project since it appear to be the one where the concept is used but perhaps mathematics could be better.
G.Dupont 13:27, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Physics or computer science? 

message: The Hungarian algorithm is used for the assignment problem only, not the more general transportation problem. If someone else agrees, please remove the link to the Hungarian Algorithm 129.10.245.173 (talk) 22:33, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hungarian Algorithm 

message: The article states only that "In particular, if D is a one-dimensional array of "bins" the EMD can be efficiently computed by scanning the array and keeping track of how much dirt needs to be transported between consecutive bins."
It is actually not obvious how that works, and there are no links to sources explaining it in more detail. It would be good if this could be expanded so much, that it becomes understandable.Rubybrian (talk) 08:12, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  1D Case 

message: The Theory section seems to be plagiarized from . J. Finkelstein (talk) 15:30, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Theory section seems to be plagiarized 

message: It seems to me that constraint 2, \sum_{j=1}^n f_{i,j} \le w_{pi} is equivalent to \sum_{j=1}^n f_{i,j} = w_{pi} given constraint 4. (And ditto with constraint 3.) If this is correct, I think writing \le is quite confusing. Am I missing something? --87.123.205.58 (talk) 16:31, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Detail in Theory section
Talk:Warminster

message: Hello everyone, me and Worm are going to attempt to re-write this article. Help would be appreciated but please be aware that we will be editing over the next few hours so it will be a work in progress therefore edit conflicts are possible. ツStacey (talk) 18:44, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Unarchiving. Will try to get this sorted. WormTT(talk) 14:14, 3 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article re-write
Talk:Danton's Death

message: if you're going to promote your show, at least you could create a half decent and informative article, no? DionysosProteus 13:39, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  self promotion 
Talk:Amr ibn al-As Mosque

message: What about that of Negash, built by the migrants in Aksum/Ethiopia at the time, predating the Hijra? Nothing of it remains that I'm aware of, but it would predate the Mosque of Amr ibn al-As. — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 08:58, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: First African mosque?
Talk:Belgian military ranks

message: I am concerned about the suggested translations for the various ranks. 
I am a translator and have a professional interest in ensuring that mistaken or incorrect usages do not acquire official or semi-official status. 
My concern in this particular instance is the use of the phrase "ship of the line" in the translations of the naval ranks. 
This seems to be suggested as a translation for Dutch "ter zee" or French "de vaisseau". 
I must quibble with this. "Ship of the line" is a term formerly used in English to describe a ship capable of standing in the line of battle. The actual size and armaments of such ships changed over time. 
The term "ter zee" means "at sea", while "de vaisseau" means "of a vessel". 
Here the emphasis seems to be on indicating whether the officer is shore based effectively serving at sea. 
In the British navy no such distinction is made. 
I suggest that instead of using the archaic and misleading "ship of the line", comprehension and utility would be better served by the words "sea going": 
*Lieutenant sea-going
*Captain sea-going 
*Ensign (midshipman) sea-going 
Please comment. In event of no comment being made within 30 days I shall edit the rank names to reflect the above. Augusta2 22:09, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I was also concerned and unsure about the translation, but I got it from the articles Ship-of-the-Line Captain and Ship-of-the-Line Lieutenant, which suggest that they are proper translations.--Ganchelkas 08:11, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  In ay case, capitaine de vaisseau etc. are ranks, not functions: there are capitaines de vaisseau who never command anything but a desk, as Alain Bombard recounts near the beginning of his book Naufragé volontaire (The Voyage of the Hérétique, I suppose), where a desk-bound capitaine de vaisseau bawled him out about his intention of crossing the Atlantic on a dinghy without provisions, and then just outside this first officer's office, an other one of the same rank, but heading a ship, warmly encouraged him. — Tonymec (talk) 11:01, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

text:  P.S. After reading the lead of Ship-of-the-line lieutenant, I conclude that this is the right translation for lieutenant de vaisseau (and likewise about capitaine): a capitaine de vaisseau outranks a capitaine de frégate who outranks a capitaine de corvette just like a corvette, a frigate and a ship of the line, which they are entitled to command (even if they actually sit at a desk), are successively bigger warships. — Tonymec (talk) 11:10, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translations 

message: The following two websites may be of use for creating the historic ranks used by Belgium for its military personnel:
* http://www.bemil.be/PASS-FR.htm
* http://uniforminsignia.org/index.php?option=com_insigniasearch&Itemid=53&search_id=main&state=85&search_id=top
- Cdjp1 (talk) 09:32, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historic ranks
Talk:The Golden Chain

message: This thing has been copied and pasted from here:
http://www.investigateur.info/zines/textes/176_alqaeda.html
Even the name of the page was copied:
L'investigateur - tous droits réservés
"Tous droits réservés" means "All rights reserved".
Gawd.
LDH 13:49, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I first excised, and then restored the phrase "scores of" from a description of OBL's brother.  The article on his father Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden says OBL had 53 siblings.  Forty of the 53 would have to be male for him to have "scores" of brothers.  But when I removed this claim which didn't seem credible to me I didn't notice it seemed to be a quote.  If it is a quote, which can be referenced, it doesn't matter that it is not credible.  
On the credibility question -- were all OBL's siblings wealthy? Did they all inherit a share of dad's estate sufficient to all them "wealthy"?  OBL founded al Qaeda over 20 years after his father's death. How many of his siblings remained wealthy after more than 20 years?  Geo Swan (talk) 15:30, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  OBL's "scores of wealthy brothers" 

message: This page is highly problematic.
# The information in this article is largely unsourced
# The 5 sources in the References are mostly meaningless
# For example "Wall Street Journal, 3/18/2003" does not tell us much. No link, no title of the article, no author
I welcome any help to add reliable sources. Alternatively we might have to delete the article.
Amin (Talk) 01:20, 30 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problematic article, barely any sources
Talk:Moshe Tery

message: This article has been revised as part of a large-scale clean-up project of multiple article copyright infringement. (See the investigation subpage) Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions must be deleted. Contributors may use sources as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously. Diannaa (talk) 02:25, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible copyright problem 
Talk:Israel Securities Authority

message: Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: http://www.secinfo.com/d14D5a.u4k4x.d.htm. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.)
For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, and, if allowed under fair use, may copy sentences and phrases, provided they are included in quotation marks and referenced properly. The material may also be rewritten, providing it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Therefore, such paraphrased portions must provide their source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you.  Diannaa (talk) 17:37, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem removed 

message: I have added a short, referenced section on this subject of growing concern. Cpsoper (talk) 19:39, 4 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inactivity on binary options fraud 
Talk:Zvi Chalamish

message: Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: here. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you.  Diannaa (talk) 02:02, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem removed
Talk:Harajuku Girls/Archive 1

message: There was a Wikiproject Japan tag here b4 archiving--ZayZayEM 14:04, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It is a completely a western term, but it has validity because its so widely used (like many japanese terms that are used in the US without much care for what the Japanese would say.) Denaar 04:07, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If that's the case, the article should be edited to reflect that. I will get on it. adamrice 15:27, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No reason I believe though to delete the infobox which brings together comparable phenomena and which is a good reference. I restored the infobox and slightly adapted the phrasing of the article to reflect the non-Japanese nature of the expression. LHOON 15:49, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's a userbox, and userboxes do not belong in articles. adamrice 16:54, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

text: You are right on this one, but probably the Japanese subcultures box was initially designed with userbox code. It should be recoded in the proper infobox format on all affected pages. The presence of this box is useful and informative on this and on the other pages, but it should be properly coded indeed. I would propose to leave the boxes untouched until someone gathers the time to do so.  LHOON 17:05, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

message: the page for harajuku already covers subculture and fashion. This page should be blanked and redirect to either stefani or that page.Lotusduck 21:22, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  this article is not good 

message: The info here should be redistributed to the harajuku article and the stefani article, this page becoming a disambig page to those.Lotusduck 04:01, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps outside-Tokyo, anglophone fantasies about girls in Harajuku aren't limited to Stefani and her credulous fanbase. If they aren't, this article might be a useful dumping ground for such fantasies. Perhaps the article would benefit from a clear statement that "Harajuku girl" doesn't (as far as I know) correspond to any Japanese term or concept. -- Hoary 16:05, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  disambig 

message: should they stay or go? my instinct is to toss them, but they may be legit. --Thespian 05:59, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Myspace
Talk:Savoia-Marchetti SM.78

message: Is the correct designation for this aircraft the S.78 or the SM.78 - although the references I have don;t say a lot about this aircraft, they do suggest that it was designated the S.78 rather than the S.M.78.  The reason why I'm not sure - although it may have something to do with the fact that it is earlier in design.Nigel Ish 20:16, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  SM78 or S.78
Talk:Hugh De Lacy

message: This page originally had details of Hugh de Lacy, Lord of Meath, which I've moved, as there are several Hugh de Lacy's, and he wasn't the first. I've also deleted the redirect as it isn't appropriate. Moonraker12 14:10, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see why it's inappropriate, anybody coming on here loking for Hugh de Lacy (the Irish figure) would type in just the name - without the link they would assume there is no page.--Tuzapicabit (talk) 01:12, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Move
Talk:Parrel beads

message: Whilst there are still plenty of in-service small boats that have the simple parrel beads referred to in the caption, there are still many examples of the heavy-duty parrels that are made with ribs and trucks (the proper name for the beads, even if not much used by weekend yachtsmen). We also see the more complex varieties of parrels in archaeological investigations: , Vasa. In reproductions, we have examples in , Götheborg, etc. I don't think tidying up the terminology will do anything to impact the weekend yachtsman who sails a traditionally rigged boat. They tend to talk about "parrels" more than "parrel beads" - see the reference Nichols.
So, with plenty of examples of the more complex parrels in existence, with the technical name of a parrel bead being a "truck", no real claimant to the article title "Parrel", I propose that this article be moved to "Parrel".
Sources:
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ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 14:12, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article name
Talk:Lloyd's Register

message: I have made a start to try and expand this article by putting in a company infobox and expanding the Classification Rules article. I'll try and get more done soon. Xtrememachineuk (talk) 01:37, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Classification Rules

message: Could we not have a few lines describing how LLoyd's goes about in its registers (over time) naming, referencing, classifying, detailing ships? Broichmore (talk) 11:11, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  More content required
Talk:Reason Foundation

message: Hi. Has anyone noticed that the references section has references to articles that are impossible to locate? Virtually all of the other references refer to articles in publication that are found in the subject of this article. It's like Wikipedia using itself as a reference. Is that legal, ethical or acceptable for an encyclopedia (or at least a portal that purports to be an encyclopedia)?  Stevenmitchell (talk) 00:04, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: References Section needs to be Redone