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Talk:Acetamide

message: Why is the Russian for acetamide given on this page?  Are all compounds' pages supposed to have this?  What's going on?! :)
Ben 23:25, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Russian?

message: According to Wikipedia:MOS#Chronological Items, one should try to avoid words like 'recent' or 'recently'. 
'Recent work on the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope has resulted in the discovery of several organic (carbon-based) compounds near the center of the Milky Way galaxy.'
It would be good if someone who knows more about the subject than I do could improve the sentence. Nirmos (talk) 04:16, 19 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Avoid words like 'recently'

message: Why can't the page titles be changed to the universal names, rather than have the American names. If someone types in Acetamide it should redirect to Ethanamide, not the other way around.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.185.147.54 (talk) 17:29, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  IUPAC 

message: Acetamide is soluble in more things than just water; i'm noticing that this is frequently omitted in many articles. Can we get more attention on solubility of various chemicals in common solvents? -- Waveguy (talk) 20:16, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: How many and which do you suggest?  Recall that this is an encyclopedia, not a user manual. --Smokefoot (talk) 01:13, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  "not a user manual" is strange and surprising.. certainly unexpected, as though you find that enabling people is, in some way, offensive? A chemical is not a piece of technology; and i'm not proposing to add recipes for making stuff. But, a thorough discussion of the properties of a chemical should help people to distinguish it from other chemicals. -- Waveguy (talk) 02:01, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  "not a user manual" is strange and surprising."  I was kind of surprised by that policy too at first, but there it is together with a lot of other policies, such as WP:TEXTBOOK (not a textbook) and WP:UNDUE (avoid disproportionate emphasis within certain topics - e.g. "a thorough discussion of solubility" - vs big picture).  I think that a source on the solubilities of a compound might be welcome, but there are lots of ways one can go - mixed solvents, temp dependence, effects of salts, ...  --Smokefoot (talk) 03:22, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  most sources I've read limit discussion to naming three solvents, not mixtures of solvents, and giving qualitative remarks, insoluble, slightly soluble, sparingly soluble, moderately soluble, soluble, very soluble, extremely soluble having meanings roughly a magnitude apart, in sequence. the choice of which may be a bit fuzzy. if something is soluble in water, it is likely soluble in other polar solvents, too, so it is helpful to name solvents for which it is slightly soluble, sparingly soluble, or insoluble in. -- Waveguy (talk) 01:41, 15 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  solubility
Talk:Tauragė

message: Oh Halibutt, what is your proficiency in the Lithuanian language, that would have you re-add the childish banter (in Lithuanian), bordering on vandalism, that I removed. Dr. Dan 23:27, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Hi Halibutt

message: Lysy, before I re-add the Important information that Tsar Alexander I, stayed there in the Triva section, in 1807, can Lysy tell me if it was for the whole year, or just a night or two? Dr. Dan 22:19, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Lysy, where in the world is the town of Redstart? Dr. Dan 19:02, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good question, I've read it was in Germany but could not verify this. Seems wrong to me. --Lysytalk 19:28, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Lysy

message: I'm sorry for my poor grasp of the language but what does "element in the town" that rebelled mean ? --Lysytalk 13:56, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A little clearer? Dr. Dan 03:56, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

text: Hi Lysy, its been a while. I have no "big" problems, with your recent copy edits of my recent copy edit. Two small things though, expelled seems better than replaced to my ear (check Webster's Online Dictionary, it's a very useful and speedy tool), because "kicking their asses out", is too vulgar and inappropriate for an Encyclopedia. Two, the proximity to the Memelland, or even Memel Territory, is in the present-tense, and that is no longer the case, and again seems overkill or TMI, for the puposes of the article (even in the trivia section). The German name for Taurage was the same in the Sudetenland, as it was in the Memelland or in Aix-la-Chappelle (oops, Aachen). Dr. Dan 22:22, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Element in the town 
Talk:Planet Stories

message: Added Planet Stories information announced today by Paizo.
Completeblank 00:59, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: I deleted the following section:
Some covers featured the iconic and (presumably) impossible image of a woman in space, wearing a bikini and space helmet.  In this Planet Stories was following the lead of its competitor Startling Stories, whose frequent cover artist Earle Bergey pioneered this imagery and is cited as the inspiration for Princess Leia's slave girl costume in Return of the Jedi.  
The reason for the deletion is that, on perusing a complete collection of Planet Stories cover art, I find that the number of covers exactly matching the description "a woman in space, wearing a bikini and space helmet" is precisely zero. RandomCritic 16:15, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As you say the wording was incorrect.  However, I think something along those lines could be put back in.  This cover, for example, is close to the intent of the deleted material, and has been widely reproduced.  Scantily-clad women certainly feature heavily on the covers, which wasn't true of all the competing magazines.  Mike Christie (talk) 18:42, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Deletion

message: Notes as I edit the article:
* Clean up dangling ref info in publication history section
* Ref last para just added; add page number for Clareson ref
* Add info about Philip Dick starting his career in Planet
-- Mike Christie (talk – library) 03:51, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  To do 

message: I've just reverted the recent additions related to Poul Anderson.  I've no objection to mentioning Anderson, who was a prominent author, but we need a secondary source that mentions him as a notable contributor.  If we have that it would be easier to mention the Flandry stories, but I don't think we should; we don't give this much detail to most of the well-known authors mentioned in the article. Mike Christie (talk - contribs -  library) 00:42, 23 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poul Anderson edits reverted
Talk:Ludus (band)

message: Hello.  I hope I've done this right.  I attempted to read all the relevant articles.
I should have made all three edits at once, but anyway, today I added these things to the Ludus Wikipedia entry:
-The singer's name was listed simply as 'Linder', and the link directed to the American politician John Linder's entry.  She went (and continues to go) by Linder Sterling, so I added her last name.
-Arthur Kadmon didn't actually play on very many of the available Ludus recordings, as he quit the band in 1979.  Ian Devine, who replaced him, is playing on most of the songs you can hear on record.  I added Ian in.
-Since the information about Ludus is fairly sparse, I thought people might find it informative that Morrissey, of The Smiths, was a very big fan?  The Smiths song 'Cemetry Gates' is said to be about Morrissey and Linder's walks in cemetaries.
Cheers!
Math Tinder 23:33, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Why is this article, about some obscure punk rock music band, the main article for a Ludus (ancient Rome), which has existed at least a thousand years before this punk band (let alone punk music) was ever conceived of? —Eekerz (t) 21:27, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  should not be main page 
Talk:Tail recursive parser

message: I don't see any reason for this to be it's own article.  This is a common optimization that the dragon book doesn't bother to give a distinct name.  Even the recursive descent parser article's implementation uses this technique.  I don't see anything interesting in the Dr. Dobb's article that isn't already covered in the dragon book.  15.227.137.69 21:50, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge into recursive descent parser 

message: The grammar is a) stupid and b) ambiguous.
Either you do normal left-recursion for such operator-expressions:
  F → F + I | I
or you use the LL(k)-compatible workaround:
  F → I (+ I)*
But the example does not make sense…
Could you explain it?
--Chricho (talk) 13:06, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stupid and ambiguous grammar 

message: The source code that's provided on the page besides demonstrating functionality does a few other things, like using system() to invoke gcc on generated code, compiling a binary that only prints the result of parsing. It also contains commented unused code and information/statements in a language other than english. As such, it does not succinctly demonstrate the capabilities of the parser and that is why I reverted the edit in the first place. I think the best solution is to just leave an outline of the code unless someone wants to clean it up. Dithpri (talk) 15:47, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source code 

message: What sense does it make to use a language, which does not eliminate tail recursion, to illustrate a tail recursive algorithm? Ceving (talk) 08:42, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tail recursive example with a language not eliminating tail recursion
Talk:Josh Miller (American football)

message: Please referr to Wikipedia:Manual of Style (biographies). If you want to referr to Miller's ethnicity in the article, that is fine, but it shouldn't be done in the header/first sentence unless it's of special note. Thanks! Tom 04:20, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Jewish American

message: Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: http://archive.patriots.com/alumni/index.cfm?ac=alumnibiosdetail&bio=28188. 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) 16:57, 25 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem removed 
Talk:T'ai Fu: Wrath of the Tiger

message: This isn't gamefaqs.com people. This article as it currently is is absolutely unacceptable. Choked with trivia and original research. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superman_(1999_video_game) is a better article (but not a better game). Lots42 (talk) 11:46, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  No
Talk:Wide area information server

message: WAIS should link to this article
- brad s — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.1.15.107 (talk) 23:54, 27 February 2006‎ (UTC)
:It does. Benn Newman 03:18, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Should searches for WAI serVICE go here for now, too? Jodi.a.schneider 14:47, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If that is/was used to refer to WAIS, yes. --Benn Newman 02:30, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  This page is difficult to find 

message: Does WAIS now only have historical significance?  If so the article should plainly state so. Mathiastck 17:07, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There are a few WAIS servers running. WAIS is difficult to setup/use using "modern" software; it is not really used. Benn Newman 18:29, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This page should be tagged with the appropriate internet history categories. I think it's important to preserve information about WAIS before it is lost. Jodi.a.schneider 14:47, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Feel free to help. ;) --Benn Newman 02:30, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Agreed. I came here to find out whether WAIS is dead technology now and what happened to it after the 1990s, and the article doesn't really have any info. --Ef80 (talk) 15:33, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Only historical significance? 

message: Is GPOAccess still using WAIS? Jodi.a.schneider 14:47, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably not. --Benn Newman 02:30, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requesting more information on relationship to U.S. government documents 

message: My goodness, this page is skimpy. Not even any mention of the participants of the WAIS project, or how it preceded the WWW and was competing with Gopher for being the most successful distributed information service. I suppose the FAQ from comp.infosystems.wais - http://www.uni-giessen.de/faq/archiv/wais-faq.getting-started/msg00000.html for example - could be used as a starting point for expanding this article. What is the Wipipedia policy on including or recycling stuff from Usenet FAQ lists, that are not otherwise marked with copyright information? I think it should be in the spirit of those Usenet FAQ lists, but that doesn't mean it's officially acceptable? --Lasse Hillerøe Petersen 18:14, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expand using comp.infosystems.wais FAQ list - would that be OK? 

message: It could be mentioned that WAIS, Gopher, and the WWW were seen as equal competitors in the early 90s.
68.144.96.168 (talk) 05:17, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Interesting. Any citations to suggest on that, or any way to verify? Jodi.a.schneider (talk) 20:17, 8 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  San Diego IETF Living Documents BoF - BoF Notes, the follow-on discussion WAIS-WWW-day2 and resulting spec for Uniform resource locator (URLs)  66.30.113.247 (talk) 02:37, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  vs WWW
Template talk:User grammar-nazi

message: This template is offensive and I don't think it really is appropriate for wikipedia. I take jokes about Nazis super-seriously as they are racist. Does wikipedia have a policy on racisim?Myrtone (the strict Australian wikipedian)(talk)
:I don't find it offensive. In fact, I will use it, if maru dubshinki will let me steal his/hers.
:Besides, I don't think the Nazis themselves were racist--if you're referring to the Jewish genocide (is that the right word?), that was really Hitler using the Jews as a scapegoat to gain popularity, in my opinion. Aside from the unnecessary killing and such, I think the Nazis were a nice bunch.
:I just started reading the Nazism article, and I think that one or both of us my intend to say Facism, not Nazism. --SheeEttin 21:15, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
Template talk:University of California, Berkeley

message: The blue used in the Cal logo is darker than the one depicted in the template. However, being a Wikipedia noob, I don't know how to change it.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.179.109.161 (talk) 04:35, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I may have originally been using an approximation of Cal's athletic colors when I did my first overhaul of this template.  I've changed the colors now to those mandated for the seal of the University here, converting from Pantone to HEX as closely as I can.  --Dynaflow babble 12:28, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  The colours currently (October 5th 2008) used for the UC Berkeley template are those of the UC system, not UC Berkeley. UC Berkeley's official colours are Yale Blue and Golden Yellow, as I have indicated and referenced in the infobox. I shall take the liberty of changing them to the correct colours?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by WorldAtlas (talk • contribs) 00:53, 5 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The official (university, not athletic) recommended colors from the Cal campus style guide are as they were before, per page 1.2.1 of http://identity.berkeley.edu/downloads/ucb_design_style.pdf, as translated from pantone to hex.  (874 metallic doesn't translate well to screen colors, so I'm using the 540 blue/139 yellow combination.)   --Dynaflow babble 07:44, 6 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Color

message: First, great work on the template, it looks great! However, it is huge, and while for some pages this is fine, on others it's 3 or 4 times larger than the article! It would be alot of work, but might I suggest sub-templates? Such as having this template on the main article, and then little templates for each section. Like the Athletic pages would have an athletic sub-template that only links to: 
Big Game • California Memorial Stadium • Haas Pavilion • Oski • Stanford Axe
I think it might be cleaner.
Anyway, good work! --Falcorian (talk) 23:58, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, I'm not sure which template to use for pages like UC Berkeley School of Optometry.  Should it be the smaller 'academics' template or the main large one? Is there a rule? Paul Haymon (talk) 07:50, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Normally I'd say use the small template that has a link to the article, so that's what I've done! --Falcorian (talk) 08:21, 29 March 2008 (UTC)

text: Thanks! Unfortunately, I altered the other school and college pages for UCB in that same way already.  I'll revert them. Paul Haymon (talk) 10:12, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Template size

message: Also, not allowed to use the Fair Use Logo in the template as per Wikipedia:Fair_Use#Policy #9. So I'm removing it. --Falcorian (talk) 01:03, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair Use

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These templates are all duplicates of the content in this template. I propose that they all be merged to this one template. --Zackmann08 (Talk to me/What I been doing) 03:47, 28 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duplication & merge proposal
Talk:History of the United States National Security Council 1977–1981

message: This is taken from here, which I suppose is not a copyvio, because almost everything done by the federal government is in the public domain.  --Cyde Weys 23:59, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article's source 
Talk:Elizabeth Barton

message: There appears to be a discrepancy involving Elizabeth Barton's date of death. The Wikipedia Article lists it as being April 20. However, the Talk Page on Edward Bocking states it was April 21. Edward Bocking was executed on the same day as Barton. The Britannica & several other sources list it as April 21. What are your thoughts on this? Michael David 23:59, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This text:
:Anne Boleyn also visited Elizabeth Barton once in her lifetime. She asled her to prophesy for her. Barton came back with the prediction the Anne would have a happy marriage to Henry the VIII, and bear him a son. Reassured by this projection, Anne shared this news with Henry, and they were both fortified in their quest for marriage and an annulment of the marriage between Henry and Katherine of Aragon. Up until this point, Henry had been losing heart, and this prophesy was a huge part of what made him decide to keep pursuing a divorce. Therefore, however indirectly, the "Mad Nun of Kent" contributed to the downfall of Anne Boleyn (her prediction of a son never came to be, which ultimately led to Anne's execution by the sword), and the separation of England from the Catholic Church.
...is not included in any of the references provided and so requires an independent reference to be included in the article.  Can the person that added it please provide their source? -- Roleplayer (talk) 11:00, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsourced edit 

message: I placed a public domain image of Sister Elizabeth Barton into the article. The image was published in 1835 making it public domain. Prsaucer1958 (talk) 00:00, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image
Talk:Foxy Lady

message: In this article, it is stated that the song might be about Kathy Etchingham, Jimis girlfriend from 1966-1969. I'll add a sentence to the article. Saemikneu (talk) 13:17, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: But in this article (The Guardian) and this one (Los Angeles Times) the song is described as being about Lithofayne Pridgon (1940–2021), more likely than Kathy Etchingham. O'Dea (talk) 21:26, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Identity of the woman who inspired the song 

message: where's the usual list of cover versions? just heard one on KALX, prompting me to recall the cure taking a run at it, early 80s, as a b-side iirc. the one I just heard was a live rendering by 'odd job' featuring shelley hirsch.
https://www.discogs.com/it/artist/724750-Odd-Job-2
duncanrmi (talk) 21:39, 4 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  cover versions
Talk:Indiana State Road 126

message: This article says that routes inside the new 231/52 bypass are gone, but does not list 126 among them, at least not in the free section of the article. Couldn't find a relevant INDOT press release. Is 126 still there or not? Mapsax (talk) 16:14, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Still around? 
Talk:Daniel Day-Lewis

message: In the article it is written "In winning the Best Actor Oscar, Day-Lewis joined Marlon Brando and Jack Nicholson as the only Best Actor winner awarded an Oscar in two non-consecutive decades." This is incorrect, as Anthony Hopkins has won the Best Actor Oscar in 1991 for The Silence of the Lambs and in 2020 for The Father. Bakhtary (talk) 19:25, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inaccurate information on Best Actor Oscars 

message: Change nationality in opening line to Anglo-Irish, for consistency with nationality in box. 2401:7000:DAAD:2C01:5855:4586:8F53:1D1B (talk) 20:31, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Thickynugnug (talk) 04:01, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 11 March 2024
Talk:Winnipeg White Out

message: The White Out is so common in sports now that I believe this article should be renamed Whiteout (sports) or something like that. The first section could be about how it started in Winnipeg, and then other sections about how it has spread. I think the first non-hockey usage was by Texas A&M in football against Oklahoma.
--65.27.34.181 15:40, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If you look at the date, that was a three year old suggestion, that obviously was never enacted.  I doubt very much that this article will be moved, though I do think a lot of the stuff that is irrelevant to the Winnipeg version could be pruned. Resolute 05:32, 16 May 2009 (UTC)

text: There isn't any real need to list every time the fans of a team has worn one colour en masse. Resolute 17:33, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article should be renamed
Talk:Snuffleupagus

message: I see that this was once a redirect page to Aloysius Snuffleupagus.  Should it be again?  I am not sure this article can ever have more information than it already does (not being an expert in Snuffleupagupii, I can not say for certain, however).  Comments or thoughts?  --Hansnesse 00:18, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I vote consensus...ize... yes. I can't see anything else really coming here, since he's the only notable one of them. -Goldom (t) (Review) 16:04, 15 June 2006 (UTC)