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Talk:BT Tower, Birmingham

message: "It has become one of the most important communication towers in the world." - that needs backing up. Secretlondon 17:37, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed.  I've inserted a 'citation needed' because I too am sceptical of this assertion.  If one doesn't turn up soonish I propose removing that paragraph entirely. Matthew 16:30, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm searching for a source. I know I read it somewhere on the net. Typical of me not to include it in the article. - Erebus555 17:14, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed the statement as I can't find the source now. I remember seeing it but either the website or page has been deleted or I am not searching hard enough. - Erebus555 18:29, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The tower does not actually stand over the canal, or even adjoining it.  Oosoom Talk to me 14:22, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Canal 

message: Just before an edit war begins, I thought the matter of the number of storeys within the building should be discussed. At present, the article says that there are 35 storeys but this says there are five, which is added with the statement; "Contrary to popular belief, the Birmingham BT Tower does not contain regular floors through it and is mainly nothing more than a concrete core with stairways built into it." However, this says there are 35.
This may whittle down to, which source do we believe? I'd say the skyscrapernews source is more believable due to the expertise and focus of the website. But, virtualbrum is also quite a reliable source. So what should be done? - Erebus555 19:00, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd agree Erebus555.  I use SSN and SSC quite a lot, and have never come across any incorrect info on the site.  I think the point is that whilst there may be 35 "storeys", only 5 of them are actually useful for offices or otherwise, the remainder being simple stairwells for roof access for maintenace, and cannot be counted as such.  (This shows it quite well).  L.J.Skinnerwot|I did 19:41, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I reverted the edit back to 5 storeys, and left a message on Pigsonthewing's talk page here quoting the source.  He seems not to have reverted, so I'd assume that leaving it at 5 is OK.  L.J.Skinnerwot|I did 15:44, 12 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Both sources are inaccurate. This is the trouble with secondary sources. I've gone back to a contemporary primary source and amended the article accordingly. The web is no substitute for a good reference library. --Harumphy 17:37, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of stories
Talk:Westmore family

message: Is Michael Westmore related to this family? Adam Bishop 17:42, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Related? 

message: The article says that George Westmore "fathered three legendary and scandalous generations of movie makeup artists," but doesn't include anything about them being scandalous.  What was scandalous about them? -- Pemilligan (talk) 18:52, 5 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: After 20 months I have removed "legendary and scandalous" as the first seems like wikipuffery and the second is unsupported. -- Pemilligan (talk) 00:18, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scandalous? 

message: There seem to be multiple family members editing, and the sole source is a book by a family member. —valereee (talk) 12:30, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  COI tag (October 2021)
Talk:Carlo Cafiero

message: I unilaterally removed this article as a candidate for speedy deletion, as this could turn into an interesting article.  68.236.56.59 17:43, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The quotation that begins "Carlo was first of all great for his inner nature, for the affect treasure" reads very oddly.  Are these the exact words of Errico Malatesta, as the quotation marks suggest, or are they a (bad) translation?  Adlestrop ant (talk) 09:32, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quotation 
Wikipedia talk:Historical archive/WikiReader/A History of the 20th Century

message: Currently underrepresented regions include Africa and especially Latin America.  I'm not really well versed on either, but if we want to explore some specific countries that have been focal points of activity or serve as examples of general regional changes, then we might want to include information on any of the following:
Decolonization is an interesting article containing information on all colonies and their independence.
*Africa - Decolonization of Africa
**Southern Africa
***History of South Africa#Independent South Africa
***History of South Africa#Apartheid
***History of South Africa#Post-apartheid
**Eastern Africa
***Rwandan Genocide we've got already
**Western Africa
***I honestly don't know what would be particularly relavent here.  Both Nigeria and the Congo have been rather turbulent. 
**Northern Africa
***History of Libya perhaps
*Latin America
**South America
***History of Argentina - I think this is a must
****The Dirty War
***History of Colombia
**Central America
***History of Nicaragua - lots of turmoil and relevant to Iran-Contra Affair
***History of Panama
**Caribbean
***Cuba's probably covered in the Cold War series, but Cuban Revolution also looks good.
***History of Haiti#Haiti in the 20th century is quite thorough
I've added to the outline right now only those I know belong and can place in the current outline.  I just wanted to sort some ideas here by region for the purposes of evaluating our potential geographic coverage. 
A proposed way to organize this section of the outline would be:
*Cold War series
*Decolonization and Consequences
**Decolonization of Africa
***Rwandan Genocide series
***etc.
**Latin America
***History of Argentina
***etc.
**Asia
***India, Pakistan and Kashmir
***others topics that aren't covered by Cold War
*Information Age/Recent History
The idea behind this organization would be that as much as possible would be grouped thematically to highlight trends and commonalities at the expense of chronological ordering.
Something to consider also how our outline compares to this one--Laura Scudder | Talk 17:46, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)

message: You can use Wikipedia:Stable versions to select your articles. -- Zondor 14:50, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:Stable versions]]
Talk:Stadion (running race)

message: What distinguishes the stadion from other kinds of foot races? - furrykef (Talk at me) 17:48, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Well it's like the 100 meters in the modern Olympics - it was the shortest and fastest, and the one all the spectators wanted to watch. Adam Bishop 00:13, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: This topic is worth a separate disambiguation page. I will create it now, and move this page to "Stadion (ancient sports)". I first thought of "Stadion (ancient foot race)", but as the article is about both the foot race and the building, and it seems reasonable to keep those two topics in one article (this one), I found "Stadion (ancient sports)" to be a reasonable article name. Reimgild 07:37, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Disambiguation

message: if they started upright, how could they have used "starting blocks"? DGG (talk) 19:53, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Is it just me, or does the thing in the map look like a cock? 74.138.156.155 (talk) 18:04, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Starting block
Talk:Mo lei tau

message: A more literal translation would be "Nine comes after eight, but eight has nothing to do with nine".
:I don't speak Chinese but I doubt that three characters (none of which are "eight" or "nine") actually translate into a sentence that long. --feitclub 17:51, Jun 14, 2005 (UTC)
:: see here = http://www.hkfilm.net/schow.htm
::OK, but it still sounds like a figurative translation to me. --feitclub 04:49, Jun 18, 2005 (UTC)
I speak Cantonese and yes it does. Gaau = nine; m = "negation" [doesn't]; daap = follow, to be next to; baat = eight 75.30.230.217 01:33, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Literal" Translation? 

message: My most recent encounter with something described as "Mo lei tau" was a short piece in a TVB-USA magazine program . It described a court case in the USA in which a woman sued for damages and won against a furniture store , because she claimed that she was being harrassed by an unsupervised child , from whom the store failed to protect her. The "Mo Lei Tau" element comes from the fact that the child was her own . Goes to show you don't have to be Chinese or from Hong Kong to be "Mo lei tau" .Cetot 18.29 BST 23rd August 2005
== Line 1 ==
I wonder if the "mo lei tau" in the first line needs to be in italic font. Deryck C. 07:07, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it should be, since it is still a phrase from another language, regardless of where in the article it is mentioned. I can't find anything in the style guides stating otherwise. Other examples of this can be found at cha chaan teng and dai pai dong. :) Javacava | leave a message! 22:01, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Non film references to Mo Lei Tau

message: I wonder if the "mo lei tau" in the first line needs to be in italic font. Deryck C. 07:07, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it should be, since it is still a phrase from another language, regardless of where in the article it is mentioned. I can't find anything in the style guides stating otherwise. Other examples of this can be found at cha chaan teng and dai pai dong. :) Javacava | leave a message! 22:01, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Line 1
Talk:1986 NBA draft

message: * I did NOT put in the Ken Barlow link! I am not the only contributor to edit this page. User:Dale Arnett put in the link to Ken Barlow.
 
* I worked for the Portland Trail Blazers, and I was there when Walter came to camp. “Millions” of readers don’t even know who the heck Walter Berry is. They have not a clue.
* I did NOT remove the link to Johnny Newman and Kevin Duckworth. They were just never put in. (There were links for them in the “rounds” table.)
* An eight-grade boy in Melbourne, Australia, trying to learn about the NBA and the NBA draft might not fathom the fact that the goal of an NBA team is attempt to draft in order to reach the NBA Finals.
* I worked intimately analyzing basketball during this time. I have an in-depth knowledge of the NBA from 1980 to 1995.
* To anyone who was there, and watched the 1990 NBA Finals with basketball intelligence, Vinnie Johnson was the difference. He came off the bench time and again to hit a crucial three-point shot to push a tight game in favor of the Pistons. What it has to do with the draft is, the “goal of the draft is to get to the finals.” And sometimes you need to look back at the drafts, and forwards a few years to the Finals and do an analysis of what the key factors were between the two.
* This article is not so big that we can’t try and educate that eight-grader in Melbourne to the details between the draft, and the finals. And help fill in the gap between the two. This article is an analysis of the 1986 NBA Draft and what happened with certain picks, what there outcomes where. Not just a table with a list of names, teams, and links. It attempts to explain why certain things happened with certain picks and teams.
* I am not the only contributor to make mistakes. I can find some of yours also, but I can do it in a constructive context.
* I sign in and don't hide behind an anonymous IP address.
* I try to communicate with other contributors in a civilized manner about corrections. 
* I stand behind my entire body of contributions to Wikipedia, with some comprehensive research. 
WikiDon 08:29, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Ken Barlow link / Walter Berry / etc.
Talk:Swallow's Nest (delicacy)

message: It's not really the nest of a swallow, though.  It's the nest of a swiftlet.  Which is not a swallow.
:That reminds me of pencil lead. I'd support the merger, anyhow, as long as a subtle consensus is reached eventually. :) -- Jerry Crimson Mann 21:23, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Would this be a more popular name for "Swallow's Nest"? Many thanks. :) -- Jerry Crimson Mann 13:31, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bird's Nest 

message: I think a lot of people who look up "swallow's nest" are after the delicacy, not the bird. I changed the link to a disambig page that points between them. Have a look and edit the disambig if you think it needs it. -- ben 11:29, 30 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  disambig
Talk:List of transmission sites

message: What counts as famous? Secretlondon 17:58, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I was thinking the same thing. None of these are all that famous to me. I would have expected common locations for transmission towers, such as the John Hancock Tower, Mount Washington, Telecom Tower... even still, "famous" doesn't quite cut it. - Keith D. Tyler ¶ July 7, 2005 22:30 (UTC)
The list is optimized for Europe, but it can expand to the whole world!—Preceding unsigned comment added by User: (talk • contribs) 
I agree, famous is asking for POV. Possibly the antenna on my car is famous?? Suggest to rename article to List of Transmission Sites Arnoutf 11:26, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Famous?

message: HAARP in alaska should be in here, no?
24.3.123.191 (talk) 04:52, 2 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  HAARP 

message: "Outside of Europe senders and repeater stations are emphatically presented from international services."
Er, what?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.34.135.230 (talk) 12:53, 15 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  What does this sentence even mean?
Talk:Blue wall of silence

message: Underlying it all, in every police department except perhaps in the smallest municipalities, Tammany Hall kingdoms exist.  We live in a weak democracy where the mayoral (our mayors) provide no supervision over the police. Because of this, police departments are super overemployed, with about 80% of all policemen sitting at home, year after year, like volunteer firefighters, collecting $150,000 to $200,000 wages. New policeman right out of the police academy work for a few years, but as those at the top retire and the new ones move up, they will be asked to sit it out after just a few years.  When I took my municipality to civil court on "official misconduct", providing wage lists, shift information, and math (I have a corporate background in both Personnel and Payroll), the case ended in an early dismissal, I was fined $17,000, and the judge was immediately promoted and made my county prosecutor to cover up the crime.  To stop this, we must wake up, get the media involved, and make government transparency and public oversight the biggest thing for society in the 21st Century.  Here's where to start: Link
Lord Milner (talk) 18:56, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Blue Code of Silence is Just the Tip of the Iceberg
Category talk:Wikipedia requested images

message: This category was renamed from :Category:Articles needing images, in a consensus vote. See the archive here.  <>Who?¿? 18:03, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: New Name

message: I would like to request a page showing, in-depth, how to make a request for things, as I cannot figure it out. Move this to wherever is appropriate. 08:30, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Requests

message: How about a sub category for requesting maps?  With a template like  RJFJR 14:42, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No feedback so I created  and .  I hope this doesn't cause a cascade of creations of new subcategories.  Diagrams refers to images that are drawn to illustrate an ariticle.  Like a diagram of how an air-conditioner works.  It can also include graphs.  We can always remove them if it was a bad idea. RJFJR 23:13, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add sub category for Maps? 

message: Do we really need to distinguish the difference? please see: 
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Photography#Requests for Pictures, Images and Photographs
Traveler100 (talk) 18:33, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images and Photos 

message: It's far to obscure to get to the actual list of requested images from the community portal. Clicking on "more" should show more images which have been requested, not a tangle of guide pages. -Craig Pemberton 08:40, 26 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Is this what you are looking for? :Category:Wikipedia requested photographs. Click on the main sub-categories.--Traveler100 (talk) 07:05, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Actual list? 

message: I suggest track articles without an image or picture. And, using big data with Wikidate, see the most interesting for the Wikimediasphere (Commons, Wikipedia... as a whole). And make campaigns to upload these images. WikiProject Photography could help. BoldLuis (talk) 11:55, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Articles without any image or picture
Talk:Judaize

message: 1. The opposite of Judaizing is Hellenizing or Marcionism, somewhere inbetween is Gnosticism.
This should be obvious to anyone familiar with the history of the period. The Second Temple period was all about Judaism versus Hellenism. See Josephus and Philo. According to Marcion, Jesus rejected the Law and Prophets, i.e. rejected Judaism, see Marcionism. According to Gnosticism the Jews misunderstood their own scriptures, see Gnosticism.
2. Pauline Christianity and Jewish Christianity were different.
See Pauline Christianity. Also see The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity by Hyam Maccoby.
:Could you please quote someone saying this directly?  Otherwise it's original research. Jayjg (talk) 17:41, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: requests for sources
Talk:Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt

message: The CADTM states, e.g. on the page http://www.cadtm.org/article.php3?id_article=1448 that its licence is:
:COPYLEFT - Articles of CADTM may be reproduced and distributed freely provided the author and the source are mentioned.
So to comply with this: The source of the first version of the wikipedia CADTM article is the CADTM's web page as of today. IMHO the licence allows conversion of a copy into GFDL - it's really more like public domain than copyleft, and in any case, converting to GFDL is certainly not against any typical defiition of copyleft. Boud 18:17, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: (section header added) Boud (talk) 17:09, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sourcing for 2005 initial stub
Talk:Ignition (video game)

message: This article says "Lost Ruins" is in Brazil, but according to this page: http://www.bobulous.org.uk/ignition/ruins.html, it's an Aztec temple. :|
^
While the above comment is correct, the real track name is "Lost Ruins". So the full description would be "Lost Aztec Temple Ruins" or something along those lines.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.105.213.141 (talk) 15:32, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Track

message: Is this game abandonware now? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.119.217.157 (talk) 17:33, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abandonware? 

message: There seems to be some conflict on the date the game was published, on IGN it says it was released Dec 12 1996 (the date on the actual article) but steam and an aforementioned fan page both say it was some date in 1997
JamesKnowsJames (talk) 13:44, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Release date?

message: there game was originally only released for windows 95 and dos, with the option of using a 3dfx graphics mode.
there was later a patch released for more modern versions of windows such as windows XP
After 2017, additional patches may have been developed to help the game run on Linux and Mac 77.105.213.141 (talk) 15:37, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  platforms
Talk:Dvorak

message: There should be a link to the Dvorak simplified keyboard article in my opinion. Mnitn (talk) 20:47, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: 2009

message: Can someone explain the purpose of the diacritical marks on the r and the a ? --Jerome Potts (talk) 18:05, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  spelling / pronunciation 

message: I feel that when someone types in "Dvorak", Wikipedia should lead them to the composer Antonin Dvorak as his fame far eclipses the others'. Of course, a reader could click to the disambiguation page if they weren't looking for Antonin. 72.93.195.137 (talk) 12:57, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree. What evidence do you have that his fame "far eclipses" the others'? --Geniac (talk) 17:18, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Link totals from http://stats.grok.se/en/201112/Dvořák and similar follow. TimBentley (talk) 21:17, 5 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Straight to the composer 

message: Tomáš Dvořák is a young Czech composer and artist, becoming well-known and popular.  See:
http://fulcanellinewworld.blogspot.com/2010/07/machinarium.html
http://www.floex.cz/en/floex-short_bio-en.pdf     
Lriley47 (talk) 17:18, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: If he is notable, then write an article on him and add him to the page.  However blogs do not count as WP:RS.  Peterkingiron (talk) 23:50, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another Dvorak
Wikipedia talk:Be bold/Archive 1

message: I added a bit to try and clarify that "Be bold!" generally means edits to a single article, recommending a bit more caution when doing things that have wide-spread effects. If someone thinks the idea can be presented better, feel free to edit mercilessly. If someone thinks I've mis-interpreted the general consensus, we can move it here and try and hash out any objections. I've just been spending too much time recently cleaning up after ill-advised and/or un-followed up page moves and template changes, and would rather have the newcomers warned in advance, instead of getting a 'please don't ___' when they apply 'be bold' beyond article edits. Niteowlneils 02:55, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I haven't read what you've done, but I definitely agree with the idea. Maurreen 10:37, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Clarifying we're talking about article edits

message: Because I've recently seen some authors make major changes to articles without showing other editors of the article any respect, I'd like to see a blurb like this added:
:Show deference to the article authors who came before you.  If the content changes you make to a long-established article are significant, err on the side of explaining your changes in a reasonably detailed manner on the article's talk page.
— Stevie is the man! Talk | Contrib 23:49, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Deference to other authors

message: In many cases contributers are interested in editing an article, but distance themselve from this because they're not 100 percent certain if the edit the're about to do is completely correct (that is, not everyone is a PhD in what he/she would like to edit). This reflects Wikipedia:No_original_research. --Abdull 13:19, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Be bold vs. Original research
Talk:Northwest Herald

message: The first version of this page contained a lot rubbish. I've drastically reduced the content in order to keep it NPOV. UkPaolo 18:55, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV

message: A discussion is taking place to address the redirect :Enola Homosexual. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 September 28#Enola Homosexual until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Soumya-8974 talk contribs subpages 18:37, 28 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Enola Homosexual" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]