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Talk:M4 carbine

message: Floating the idea here first but what about using this image for the infobox? :File:M4 PEO Soldier.jpg
The tilted image with the fugly ass grip-pod and the sopmod stock that's not really available to most joes just never seemed to represent what the average soldier/marine/airman out there used. Jasonkwe (talk) (contribs) 00:07, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Switching out infobox image 

message: The M4 carbine (officially Carbine, Caliber 5.56 mm, M4) is a 5.56×45mm NATO, gas-operated, magazine-fed, carbine developed in the United States during the 1980s.
Are the commas correct here? Maybe they are, but I'm looking grammar nerds to double-check things. Electricmaster (talk) 19:21, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The second comma was incorrect, so I removed it. Although I'm not really sure if it's necessary to mention being gas-operated and magazine-fed in the lede to begin with, seeing as (unless I'm mistaken), all ARs/carbines are both of those things. Loafiewa (talk) 19:27, 23 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: AR, whether you mean AR-15 or Assault Rifle, isn't mentioned yet by the article.  And no carbine is just a shortened rifle.  It goes back to refer to shortened muskets and bolt action rifles, but also lengthened pistols like the WW1 era Lugers and C96s with stocks and handgrips attached.  That said, it is a bit wordy, maybe change magazine fed to select fire?  I think that's more accurate to its role and capability, I mean, how many gas operated select fire carbines form the 1980s aren't magazine fed. Wozrop (talk) 00:13, 18 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  query 

message: Both the Colt Advanced Piston Carbine and the Jim Sullivan Enhanced M4 aren’t actually M4 variants adopted by the DOD in any capacity, so I would move their descriptions to separate pages. Steve7c8 (talk) 02:12, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I’ve noticed that these have been added back to the article, albeit in a different section. I’m still not convinced that this article is the right place for them, given that they are distinctly different firearms, and especially Jim Sullivan’s ArmWest modified M4. Steve7c8 (talk) 04:53, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing the last two “variants” 

message: Why is the manufacturer's name not included on this firearm? JTC22 (talk) 02:00, 14 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  M4 carbine to Colt M4 

message: The phrase "Following the military adoption of the AR-15 as the M16 rifle" is causing a lot of people to think that the AR-15 is a fully automatic weapon.
That's not the same AR-15 that is talked about on the evening news.
Can we maybe insert the phrase "Armalite AR-15"? The M16 article says "Armalite AR-15" not "AR-15".
It's making the anti-gun people think every AR-15 is an M-16.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jgwinner (talk • contribs) 15:54, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Whoever added the AR-15 link didn't pay attention to the redirect's target, or didn't know there was a difference. BilCat (talk) 17:56, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Query - riling up the masses
Talk:Alpha male

message: The Alpha Male. 
What I wanna know is what is the alpha male...what makes men strive to be this standard of masculinity? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.107.186.22 (talk) 17:51, 3 February 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: What is?

message: There should be an article for this. It is a notable part of social dynamics and society. I like filipino women (talk) 02:57, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  article
Talk:Cheering

message: This is of course totally dated, but some of the bits are just too good to pass up, and a quite a bit of it is actually still true today. It should be updated to reflect 20th-century changes, and the etymological stuff could mostly go to wiktionary. Stan 18:08, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Notes

message: opinions? Tedernst 23:07, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually what you will find is that in most of the free world, football refers to one game and one game only. The beautiful game. Sadly our former colony likes to think differently. But wtf do they know? They have been about for five minutes and, having turned up late for the last two World Wars, contrive to make up by inviting in Dubya to try and be really punctual for the next one... Sjc 20:23, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

text: Comment I do agree on that point, and I would be in favour of moving the sections not related to football (soccer) into the cheering article (or even into some new article). These sections (Chants in North American sports, Rugby union and Other sports) clearly don't belong in this article, which should only contain information relating to football (soccer). I do think it's important to keep this article though, because chanting in the context of football culture is unique, and well worth expanding beyond what we have already. I wouldn't oppose renaming it to something less ambiguous like Football (soccer) chanting though. - N (talk) 21:47, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Just to be clear, I was agreeing with Joestynes, about the current ambiguity and the need to seperate certain information, rather than the comments by Sjc. While I have sympathy for the sentiment expressed, it probably isn't that relevant or helpful to this discussion to start mentioning wars and things. Also, the suggestion of moving to British football chants is, I feel, not the right way to go. This page is linked from Football culture as an extension of that page, and limiting this to British chants would mean that we would have no page talking about the concept (and history) of chanting at football in general. It would also limit the scope to add information about other countries in the future (a topic that is actually more interesting IMO, given the thin line between politics and football in some countries). Saying that, practically all of the football (soccer) information is related to British teams atm, so a worldwide view is perhaps needed. - N (talk) 18:15, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

text: Seeing as nobody objected, I have performed the merge. - N (talk) 18:55, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger from [[Football chant]]? 

message: As this has been dragging on a while now, would anyone have any objections if I just moved the sections not related to football (soccer) into Cheering? - N (talk) 03:26, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Seeing as nobody objected, I have performed the merge. - N (talk) 18:55, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge of other sports

message: I think this is a ugly example. Can sb put another one? 147.84.199.21 (talk) 11:51, 8 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Russian troops cheering Ura!
Talk:Silver chloride

message: I'd like to see some discussion of getting silver chloride into soluble, analyzable forms. When I was investigating and developing flame atomic absorption methods, the not-well-known knowledge that AgCl dissolves rather readily in concentrated HCl would have saved me a bunch of time. As it was I went to sites on jewelsmithery to learn this and confirmed it analytically. If wikipedia had had it, it would have been a lot nicer. Let's make this a true resource for chemists and analysts! Thanks, Nick Lockard 21:36, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: resource for analysts/chemists

message: I'm moving the old infobox here as I am replacing it with a new chembox.
Ben 21:06, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox 

message: From the book "Understanding Batteries" by R.M. Dell, published by the Royal Society of Chemistry:
"[Silver chloride] is an unusual inorganic material in that it can be cast and rolled like a metal..." page 87.
This sounds hard to believe; a salt being ductile.  I could not find any other confirmation of silver chloride's ductility.  Maybe someone with some silver chloride can confirm this interesting fact.  I will continue to search for another explanation... Kevin Schostek (talk) 01:13, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ductility of AgCl 

message: Silver chloride is used in deodorants (e.g. Degree Silver Ion Technology). If anyone knows what for, please illuminate this on the article, I'm probably not the only one looking it up on Wikipedia to figure out why. Vikingurinn (talk) 14:00, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use in deodorant 

message: This article on Photography, section "Precursor technologies" states that Georg Fabricius discovered silver chloride. The article on Fabricius contains no indication that he experimented with chemistry.
The reference given is: <ref< Georges Potonniée (1973). The history of the discovery of photography.  Arno Press. p. 50. </ref<
It would improve this article, the "Photography" article as well as the "Fabricius" article if the first discoverer and/or documentator was cited.--TGC55 (talk) 11:38, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who discovered or first documented silver chloride? 
Wikipedia talk:N degrees of separation

message: As in, I am a one. Sorry, I misunderstood the rules, and thought that it was enough that there be a link between the one page and another in either direction. Of course that's not true, you have to be able to go from one to the other following the links. Belly Button fluff links to Autralia, but not the other way round, funnily enough. :) So I've moved some of the ones I finished back to the main page and removed my links. Foolish boy. --Bwmodular 11:21, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Muppet

message: A recent entry (Cloud N. Candy --> Caruse Mille-Rêves) features an orphaned page. (Caruse Mille-Rêves)
I think this means that you can't complete this one without editing another page to link to the orphan.  Is that correct? --Bwmodular 12:47, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Orphans

message: Couldn't you just put a link there, call it one degree, and it be good? Or am i hitting the sake too hard? --MilesProwler 16:41, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Cheating

message: How could I create a template that would allow anyone to simply add this code to a page: 

Which would then display as:
== --> ==
*Start: Start (example)
*Goal: Goal (example)
Contributed by: ~~~~ 
 -->  -->  -->  -->
Finished by:  
---- 
I have a good idea how to go about making a template but I'm stumped on how to make it display the start and goal. Jaberwocky6669 00:39, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It could work, perhaps we should look at some other templates and figure out how we can do something like this. Perhaps look at the copyvio template would help. --Penwhale | Blast the Penwhale 08:30, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Template:N Degrees

message: *Start: Example
*Goal: 
Contributed by: 
 -->  -->  -->  -->
Finished by:
----
|}
Dammit!!!!  Jaberwocky6669 00:31, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Ahh, thanks man! Appreciate it... now I'll try that...  Jaberwocky6669 00:52, 4 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Example --> {{{2}}} 

message: Are the rules for this ambiguous? I would love to change them and make them better for everyone. In fact, you could change them! Go ahead, be bold, I won't tell anyone. Jaberwocky6669 | ☎ 17:03, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Ambiguity
Talk:Fred Gwynne

message: I just found today that Fred Gwynne was also a great illustrator and writer of children's books.  Amazing guy...
:I know! The reason I looked him up just now is due to a freaky coincidence. I'm a new teacher...well at a new school at least...and yesterday I was getting my room set up. Had the TV on to TV Land and was watching bit and pieces of the Munsters and the Addams Family. Later I came across a book someone was getting rid of -- "A Little Pigeon Toad" by a Fred Gwynne. I'd never heard that the Fred Gwynne had done kids' books, and this book had no "about the author" information on it. So of course I came to Wikipedia to check things out, and I find out that he was a singer, artist, and childrens book author. He apparently was a really great guy...too bad that he got typecast as Herman, but he seemed to have overcome a good bit of that before he passed. His role in Cousin Vinny is a hoot. And I'm perhaps one of the only people who loves the film Water. PurpleChez 10:33, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I enjoyed this article until the last paragraph that calls Mr. Gwynne's performance in My Cousin Vinny the most memorable of his career. The statement is, in my opinion, a ridiculous opinion in light of the totality of Mr. Gwynne's work. It must have been made by a very young person, or at least a person unfamiliar with Mr. Gwynne's earlier career. Regardless, it's someone's opinion and it taints the rest of the article. I think it should be reworded.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.54.95.126 (talk) 13:21, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "most memorable" 

message: Does anyone know why he is buried with an unmarked grave? SurgeArrest (talk) 11:46, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Unmarked Grave ??
Talk:Lemonade Joe

message: Lots of POV language here.  RickK 20:45, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)
:Like what?
It seems to me that there are too many unnecessary references to politics, which are really not relevant to plot or message of the movie (if there is any). Yes, I saw the movie too. --62.77.100.41 22:49, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: POV

message: The Lemonade Joe stories were adapted as a stage play allready on 20th March 1944 in the theatre Větrník in Prague, directed by Josef Šmída, with Zdeněk Řehoř as Lemonade Joe (99 times replayed). -- 145.40.209.251 (talk) 03:20, 2 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stage Play
Talk:Armor piercing round

message: The article currently says depleted Uranium rounds explode on impact.  I thought that Uranium dust was flammable, like magnesium, and that hot, tiny fragments of Uranium, stripped off by friction during the impact, would flare.  That isn't quite the same as an explosion, is it? -- Geo Swan 20:56, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right, I changed it. Securiger 10:53, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC)

message: I think this page should be merged into Armour piercing ammunition. This page seems to focus more on penetrators, while the other page is more about HE penetrators. However, since these two pages have such similar names and cover similar topics, why not merge them? The other page could mention in the introduction that armour-piercing ammunition varies from explosive to non-explosive, then it will have subsections on explosive rounds (like it already does), then make this page the subsection on non-explosive rounds. In fact, down the bottom, it aready makes a bit of mention of small-calibre non-explosive AP rounds. This page is short enough to fit in as a subsection within a larger page, methinks. Thoughts? CeeWhy2 04:40, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge?

message: Merged content to Armor-piercing shot and shell.Kville105125 17:46, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge notice
Talk:Glasgow University Union

message: "last students union in the world..." Ah come on, thats not verifiable, is it?! Grayum 17:46, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Admiting Women 

message: I would advise people to be cautious about adding names to this list.  All male students prior to about 1980 will have been members, and probably the majority since then.  We have a list of GU graduates, any list here would be substantially similar.  I suggest restricting this to people who played an important role e.g. they were president. PatGallacher 17:03, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Notable members

message: Is this organisation actually a debating society? The article does not make it clear, so I've removed it from the category. I'm fairly sure it shouldn't belong in both Category:Studept debating stcieties and Category:Student unions. DJ Clayworth 17:18, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Debating Society?

message: Completely irrelevant and insignificant content in the larger context of the Union's history. Moptakmike 15:32, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversy 

message: This whole article needs to be refined for neutral point of view, it's a bit like an advertisement in places ;) Sean 20:24, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV 
Talk:Haute Route

message: I added a link to an external site that includes informational content that is highly relevant, useful & pertinent to the topic, but which is not appropriate to actually post in the article, i.e. Google Earth coordinates, photos, guidebooks, etc. It was deleted. What is the actual difficulty here? Additional information is mandatory to anyone interested in actually repeating this tour. Why is it a problem to provide some direction? Can I repost the link?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.71.154.154 (talk) 22:42, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: External links

message: I think that a map with the classic route and variations would be a plus (some schematic ones can be found in P. Cliff's book). I do not know yet how to do it properly, but I'll try. --Olivier Debre (talk) 11:57, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Map
Talk:Metaplot

message: This article does not seem to need much more explanation; metaplot is a pretty simple concept.  Metaplot is not limited to White Wolf games, all systems that have over-arching stories are considered to have metaplot.  The Dungeons and Dragons game setting Forgotten Realms (by Ed Greenwood, et al) is an example of a system with metaplot, as is the setting-advances used in BattleTech's transiton from Third Edition (by FASA) to Classic BattleTech Fourth Edition (by Fantasy Productions/WizKids).  GURPS does not have metaplot, because there is not an over-arching storyline to it, and therefore metaplot advances are not needed. 00:00, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Metaplot concept

message: I feel this article would be improved if there was a section on the negative aspects of metaplots too, as to answer the question "why doesn't all rpgs have 'em?".
I'll start:
Metaplots may make earlier released material obsolete and/or incompatible (storywise).
If players get later modules, that might spoil things. This limits the market.
...
78.82.28.8 (talk) 19:17, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That may be a valuable section to add, but Wikipedia articles must not contain original research. If such a section on reception/criticism can be supported by citations to reliable sources, it might be good to add. (I don't think it'd be suitable to include a section just for negative opinions about metaplots, because the rest of the article is not pro-metaplots either. Negative opinions should not be given undue weight. V2Blast (talk) 23:07, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Although this is a reply to a comment from over a decade ago, it may still be valuable to anyone reading the talk page in the future. 2601:249:8B80:4050:DC2B:6DF7:CF88:4464 (talk) 03:31, 18 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  lack of criticism 

message: Okay, so this article is not up to standards right now. It lacks references. It effectively claims "metaplot is only for rpgs" which is even dodgier than if the article just happened to bring up rpg examples only (compare a U.S.-centric article; those usually don't say outright "this happens only in the U.S." 213.66.219.48 (talk) 08:36, 6 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, "metaplot" is definitely used in literary contexts as well as RPGs, and probably in film/TV as well.  I don't know where to look for references, though. --Jim Henry (talk) 20:58, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  quality 

message: On 6 March 2020, the Metaplot page and its complete edit history has been exported from here and imported at RPG Museum (page link), a growing wiki on Fandom that intends to be a resource for all tabletop RPGs. RPG Museum is using this content under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license. Thanks, all. -- Supermorff (talk) 12:59, 6 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Exported to RPG Museum
Talk:One-Balled Dictator

message: This page was voted on for deletion at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/One-Balled Dictator.  The consensus was to keep it.  dbenbenn | talk 22:25, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)

message: As there is nothing that I can see that warrants the NPOV flag, and there is nothing written on the talk page on this issue, I am removing the NPOV flag from the main page.--jrleighton 11:41, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree. The article could use a bit of referencing. Valentinian (talk) / (contribs) 16:09, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV dispute
Talk:DDRMAX Dance Dance Revolution 6thMix

message: Didn't Candy have a 3x modifier on MAX? I know Kakumei and Dance Dance Revolution both have 3x modifiers on their OMES. Can someone check? (I'm pretty sure it's consistent on all three versions of DDRMAX) --Poiuytman 22:46, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Nevermind, it was on 1.5. --Poiuytman 11:45, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Candy One More Extra Stage

message: The article claims "Bye Bye Baby Balloon" was never repeated on any arcade or console mix and is exclusive to DDRMAX, but Konami's official North American website for their music games confirms that "Bye Bye Baby Balloon" will in fact be on DDR Ultramix 3 for the XBOX. - 159.91.114.73 05:44, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: BBBB not repeated?

message: I added a small piece to the article about them, on how they don't have official foot ratings. ToyoWolf 11:52, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: FLASH IN THE NIGHT/FOLLOW ME

message: There was a word missing in a sentence so I just added it in.  Danny231 (talk) 07:09, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I praise your enthusiasm but you don't need to comment on the talk page with every edit, unless it's possibly contentious. In this case, however, adding "of" was incorrect. The sentence is saying that you can sort settings, not that it's similar to settings (which is what sort of means). Anarchyte (work | talk) 08:57, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  There was a word missing
Talk:Demographics of the Soviet Union

message: Pretty sure the ethnic make up is wrong.
-G  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.117.158.83 (talk) 06:19, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Is it? What makes you think so? --217.172.29.4 (talk) 07:50, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Ethnic make up

message: Andreev, EM, et al, Naselenie Sovetskogo Soiuza, 1922-1991. Moscow, Nauka, 1993.  was published by the Russian Academy of Science and is available at the NY Public Library Slavic Studies division.--Berndd11222 02:08, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I would guess they don't accept the 8 million figure as proven. Many of the missing from the famine period were probably never born.~Mack2~ (talk) 05:33, 26 January 2010 (UTC)

text: Late Tsarist figures overstated the population. I think the 1914 figures counted 178 million excluding Finland. I think McEvedy and Jones give the Russian Empire 170 million including Finland, which works out to 167 million excluding Finland. 173.66.5.216 (talk) 06:33, 27 May 2017 (UTC)

text: Rummel's methodology is questionable and many of his sources obsolete. As I recall, he claimed that Stalin's era resulted to some 40 million deaths - blatantly impossible when you compare it to actual demographics of Soviet Union; one needs to figure in 27 million war losses in addition.--Mikoyan21 12:26, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source for Update on Stalin era population 

message: Anyone know where these figures came from? They look like they're from the factbook but they're not cited to anything. I updated the section according to the 1990 factbook for now, but if anyone has a link to the 1991 edition (which I can't find), then we can use that. LokiiT (talk) 21:05, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: demographic statistics source

message: False - the death rate was high during the time of hungers, great terror and wars and low between them. Xx236 (talk) 10:20, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  The crude death rate had been gradually decreasing as well - from 23.7 per thousand in 1926 to 8.7 in 1974 