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Talk:Louis Kahn

message: According to the biographical documentary My Architect, Louis Kahn told his son he was not sure if he was born in 1901 or 1902.  I'll change the article to reflect that.  --Wechselstrom 04:31, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Birthdate

message: "Jatiyo Sangshad Bhaban (National Assembly Building) in Dhaka, Bangladesh, is perhaps the most important building designed by Kahn." A truer statement couldn't be said... so where's a picture of the dang thing? Gingermint (talk) 21:56, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Pictures of his most important work

message: I see no links to the category Modern architecture. I will put them in, hopefully to no objection. It is a shame to have him out of that list. He many not be Internatianl Style but was certainly modern.Brosi 01:31, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: He's really Mid-Century modern. Lentower 02:28, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modern architect 

message: According to this article
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/cm/main/viewArticle.html?id=10910
He was indeed born in 1901, the son of a Jewish paymaster in the czarist army—but not on the Baltic island of Saaremaa as he claimed but in the somewhat less romantic venue of the Latvian mainland. Nor was he born Louis Kahn but rather LeiserItze Schmuilowsky, an evidently embarrassing name, unknown until recently, that was changed in 1915, a decade after the family’s emigration to Philadelphia.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 143.48.6.11 (talk) 15:55, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birthplace 

message: I am at a loss how to officially pronounce his first name. Would you tell me how you pronounce Louis - LOO-iss or LOO-ee? --ThinkingBlack (talk) 02:28, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: AFAIK, if you pronounce Louis with "s" in the end, then it should be written "Louise" and is a lady's name. So it's "lo-ee" 195.50.204.81 (talk) 18:09, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

text: Which is exactly what I said.. 195.50.204.81 (talk) 12:48, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation

message: The current description for the Richards Medical Research Laboratories in this article consists almost entirely of a direct quote that does not have an inline citation to its source, which is against Wikipedia policy, per Wikipedia:Verifiability.  I can't find the source for that quote, so I am substituting a summary of the article on the Richards Labs, which is more helpful anyway. I also removed the offsite link to photos of the building because that link is already available in the Richards Labs article, where it is more appropriate.  Bilpen (talk) 17:55, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Richards Medical Labs 

message: What language did the family speak? Possibilities include Russian, German, Yiddish, and less likely, Estonian. Did the family have have any relation to Estonia or the Baltic governorates apart from being stationed there? -- Petri Krohn (talk) 11:23, 4 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mother tongue?
Talk:Midnight sun

message: If the term "midnight sun" sounds poetic to you, that's because it was first written by a poet.
The provocative term "Midnight Sun" was first written and published by Yukon poet Robert Service. The term appears in the opening line of his famous poem, "The Cremation of Sam McGee". Published 1907.. "There are strange things done 'neath the midnight sun By the men who moil for gold."Bonsaijerry (talk) 20:58, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: What if it sounds neither poetic nor provocative to someone, but simply like a straightforward description of the phenomenon? I, for one, see no objective reason why it should sound poetic or provocative, unless you do not know that the phenomenon really exists. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 21:39, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

text: Where's the contradiction? Also, except in the highest latitudes, you still get at least a bit of twilight around noon even at the winter solstice. And even in days of total darkness (which are only found close to the poles where almost nobody lives), you frequently get not only moonlight, but also northern lights livening things up! --Florian Blaschke (talk) 18:13, 18 June 2015 (UTC)

text: In the southern hemisphere, the midnight sun can only be observed in the Antarctic, where there are no settlements apart from the personnel of a number of research stations, so a northern hemisphere bias is inevitable. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 18:13, 18 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: (Untitled)

message: There seems to be a conspiracy to downplay Barrow, Alaska as a place where Americans experience the midnight sun. The mention of any part of USA close enough to the North Pole to have daylight for 8 or 9 weeks is buried so far into the article, that if I weren't a determined reader I never would have found it. Is it really necessary to be so international as to avoid promoting this valuable information?
It's even worse in the Arctic circle article, which is where I originally came today - looking for the midnight sun. It was a lot easier to find off-site. --Uncle Ed (talk) 13:29, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: What about America?

message: The picture of Pori was not taken at midnight. תיל"ם (talk) 07:30, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correction 

message: — Assignment last updated by T.p.amalfitano (talk) 23:44, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Information Literacy and Scholarly Discourse-2002

message: The last paragraph in the Time zones and daylight saving time section ("When it rotates on its own axis…") is more of a joke I guess which should be deleted. Javítgató (talk) 08:09, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nonsensical paragraph
Talk:Frailing

message: It says here that frailing is also known as claw-hammer, yet there is a separate article about claw-hammer (also linked from banjo) that describes a different style. Which is the true claw-hammer?
: See also [the Frailing Guitar Homepage] for frailing in the guitar world, which is supposedly different from banjo frailing.  It claims that for the banjo, frailing and clawhammer are synonymous, but guitar frailing involves up-picking instead of down-picking.
Since there seems to be confusion over frailing and clawhammer, I've marked both  and I'm planning to research the topic. IceKarma 15:41, 2005 Apr 14 (UTC)
You'll never win the frailing/clawhammer argument.  I've been involved with discussions about these terms on various web forums for years, and there's simply no clear consensus among banjoists traditional or contemporary.  I encourage cross-linking the two articles, and leaving it at that.  --RobHutten 14:06, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Frailing vs clawhammer?
Talk:Delft University of Technology

message: There's not much information in the article, I'll try to expand it in the future.
Gemertp 15:13, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Expand article

message: Does this university have a history of any sort?  What was it?  Stevenmitchell 11:47, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes it has, as you can see at the Dutch wikipedia. I'll suggest you try and find someone who is willing to translate that information into English. SietskeEN 14:34, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I translated most of it. Gemertp 22:32, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

text: User has put all the information right back in. This Delft University graduate seems to disrespect guidelines and rules and took ownership of the article, without willingness to join this discussion on the talk page, and without considering COI, tone, OWN, 3RR, NPOV, etc. I have added a tone warning to the article, as peacock seems still too strong. Please compare the current intro with, for example, that of Harvard. gidonb (talk) 11:40, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  '''DOES THIS UNIVERSITY HAVE A HISTORY?''' 
Talk:Ramesses

message: Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ancient Egypt#Ramses/Rameses/Ramesses. –Hajor 18:05, 26 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That has been archived to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ancient Egypt/archive3#Ramses/Rameses/Ramesses Eric Kvaalen (talk) 12:07, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The above comment by Ian Chattan was added May 25, 2006 but most of what he wrote was removed a few days later. See here. Eric Kvaalen (talk) 16:37, 8 February 2018 (UTC)

text: Can you support your claim that "Ramsès" is derived from Coptic? Eric Kvaalen (talk) 12:07, 17 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Request for comments: Ramses/Rameses/Ramesses

message: I read somewhere that one of the earliest deciphered egyptian texts read "Hello Ramses. How are you? I am fine". Is there anything on that on Wikipedia, or am I just terribly mistaken? Amit@Talk 07:27, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hello Ramses
Talk:Thutmose

message: I guess this is the right spelling to use for these guys, although most Egyptologists now seem to be using either "Tuthmosis", with some using "Thutmosis". However, according to Google, for pages in English we have: 
* Tutmose - 562
* Tutmoses - 276
* Tutmosis - 474
* Tuthmose - 407
* Tuthmoses - 141
* Tuthmosis - 4,260
* Thutmose - 17,500
* Thutmoses - 439
* Thutmosis - 1,920
* Thuthmose - 88
* Thuthmoses - 43
* Thuthmosis - 154
Sigh.... Noel 22:44, 20 Aug 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Amenhotep

message: At last, a relatively unproblematic New Kingdom name! Hallelujah! Google gives:
* Amenhotep - 23,400
* Amonhotep - 1,530
* Amenophis - 16,000
which is great because all Egyptologists use Amenhotep. I have seen on Wike some instance of Amenotep but I think this must be a typo, as Google has only 76 for this variant. Noel 23:31, 20 Aug 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge

message: Locally the bridge is simply known as the Verrazzano and I think it should be added to the header. La Fuzion (K lo K) 20:19, 6 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name of bridge locally 

message: In the "construction" section of this article there is a photo which is dated 1960 that shows one tower completed and the suspension cables already "strung" across the top toward the other tower which MUST be in place to "catch" the cables. However, there is another photo below it dated 1962, which shows the tower as not anywhere close to complete, and also no cables at all! What gives?? 47.7.240.106 (talk) 23:44, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: . Good catch! According to sources in the article, the first steel was not placed until late 1961 and cables were not strung until 1963. I removed the 1960 date from the caption since it must be wrong. Station1 (talk) 04:20, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  There is a discrepancy in the photo dates
Talk:Milled coinage

message: Doesn't "milled coin" refer to the miling or reeding on the edge of a coin, put there to deter shaving of the edges? - Dominus 03:19, 21 Aug 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Technically, I believe they are two different terms: milled coinage for the machine struck process and milled edge for the reeding, etc. Were there any milled edges before the advent of milled coinage? I don't know. --Qwertypoiuy 02:58, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

message: I've read a claim that Newton thought of milling. Is this so?  --  Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 11:38, 9 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: It certainly says so in Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency but then again, in the very same sentence Newton is also credited with the invention of the cat flap so it may be unwise to take the statement as gospel. Mr Larrington (talk) 19:48, 21 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Isaac Newton?
Talk:The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

message: I changed a couple of passages to remove the assertion that Wolfe traveled with the Pranksters on their trip across the country because I have seen no evidence that he did this.  I also at first thought that was the case because of how it is written, but I think he must have interviewed them and may have watched their footage and met up with them at some point, probably after they returned.  So he may have been present at some of the Acid Test functions, but I have seen no verifiable, published sources that confirm that he was actually on the bus, and he doesn't appear in any of the footage I have seen, which he should if he was actually there.  For example, he doesn't appear anywhere in the recent Magic Trip documentary.  And I may have missed some spots in this article that mention him being on the bus.--70.174.41.41 (talk) 02:44, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Much better! Thank you very much Monkey Tennis 11:40, 23 November 2005 (UTC)

text: Its a book. Don't know much more than that, though. - David Stewart 09:03, 21 Aug 2003 (UTC)

text: I had a go at NPOVing the intro and deleted the final thoughts, which seemed particularly POV. The summary section isn't so bad, but the influences bit doesn't seem to make much sense. It basically says: "In writing this book Tom Wolfe was obviously influenced by his life. But he didn't travel on the bus much and rarely took drugs. He did some interviews for this book." I'm not sure what to do about it. Thoughts anyone? Monkey Tennis 14:10, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Changes noted

message: It's a long time since I've read the book, so I perhaps am mis-remembering, but I don't believe this characterization is accurate.  I will add a tag.  I welcome input. Dlabtot (talk) 01:35, 10 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Christ figure
Talk:Boletales

message: Is it Boletes or Boletales? Text uses "boletes", but article is named "boletales". -- Cimon Avaro on a pogostick
Bolete is the common name.  Boletales is the scientific name.  I'll go make that clear in the article.  - Rei
Boletales is an 'order' which is a high-level classification and includes more than just Boletes!  It also includes gilled mushrooms such as Paxillus and Gomphidius.  I think that Boletes correspond to the family Boletaceae (plus the newer small family Gyroporaceae which used to be considered part of Boletaceae).
So I have made a new page 'Boletaceae' and moved the following text there.  I hope you agree with this change.
Strobilomyces 16:36, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)

message: First, the authority is
:Gilbert, E.J. 1931. Les Livres du Mycologue Tome I-IV, Tom. III: Les Bolets. :1-254
He included gilled species in the order.  If some one wants a copy of it let me know.  
Second, the bolete mycologists that I  know use "bolete" as a general name for any member of the Boletales.  Also, pigment data placed quie a few gasteroid and secotioid species into the order well before any molecular data.  In fact, Rhizopogon was placed there before molecular data, partially with pigment data I believe, just like Chamonixia.   
I also do not understand why the defunct Strobilomycetaceae is mentioned.
M.E.Nuhn (talk) 00:59, 1 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Boletes," "Boletales," confusion 
Talk:New Delhi

message: This article is a bit confusing:
:...built from 1912 to become the new capital of British India, eventually replacing Calcutta on February 10, 1911.
When did the building begin?  Did the British establish the city after already making it the capital of British India?  I think there must be a typo here -- maybe 1912 should be 1902? -- Tlotoxl 11:32, 21 Aug 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. - Patrick 12:11, 21 Aug 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: When did building begin?

message: As I said on Talk:Delhi, could someone sort out the precise differences between Delhi (the city, not the union territory) and New Delhi and make them clear in the entries? -- till we *) 12:18, Aug 21, 2003 (UTC)
* I think New Delhi does deserve an article. with more importance on the natinal administrative functions and the delhi page can be with a perspective on the city by and large. 203.94.241.97 10:21, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Disambiguation

message: "Now there are plans afoot to give New Delhi complete statehood."
eh? Does this refer to Delhi NCR?, and if so it should be moved to the Delhi article. Imc 17:34, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, it refers to the Delhi NCT. I've removed it from here. -- Paddu 08:39, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Statehood
Talk:United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine

message: * What I think should be changed (format using ):
 
The original quote can be found here: 
Additionally, please fix the same quote in Jewish exodus from the Muslim world#1948 Arab–Israeli War 
* Why it should be changed:
   1 - The quotation marks in Morris' book are referring to the original document where Douglas Busk paraphrases Nuri.
   2 - Out-of-context quotation flips Nuri's position. He is clearly against such measures in the full quote but seems to be saying that they should happen in the current version.
   3 - At that point in time, it was not already decided "if a satisfactory solution of the Palestine case was not reached severe measures should be taken against all Jews in Arab countries". But rather that they might decide.
You can verify the quote by searching through google books: google books search
* References supporting the possible change (format using the "cite" button):
Bowad91017 (talk) 10:38, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text:  This is a good proposal and I have confirmed the text. I'll make the edit tomorrow if nobody does it first. Another copy of the telegram this "quotation" comes from, and lots of other cool stuff, is here. Zerotalk 12:40, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

text: Zerotalk 08:10, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I like the cool stuff, not seen that before. Selfstudier (talk) 10:54, 30 March 2024 (UTC)

text: Thanks so much for the archive.org link. Bowad91017 (talk) 01:14, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request: Out-of-context quote / possibly misleading attribution (Benny Morris)
Talk:Maple Leaf (train)

message: Really takes two hours to cross the U.S./Canada border!? Damn!
:They have to check the ID and search the baggage of every passenger. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Plasma east (talk • contribs) 
::They check documentation, but they do not search everyone's baggage.  dcandeto (talk) 13:33, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That bit of time would pass quite nicely sleepin.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.78.218.60 (talk) 07:45, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  2 hours!? 

message: This should probably be renamed to Maple Leaf (passenger train), should it not?Plasma east (talk) 11:55, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it shouldn't have, since whole different Maple Leaf existed once. ----DanTD (talk) 21:16, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename 

message: Is anyone else having a problem where the route map, when shown, hangs out and over the table of station stops? If "Adirondack and Ethan Allen Express to Montreal and Rutland" had a carriage return in it it'd be a lot better, but as it is it's pretty distracting for me. Am I the only one who's experiencing this? GTD Aquitaine (talk) 15:13, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This now looks a little better. Not perfect - but better. -Secondarywaltz (talk) 01:34, 24 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Route Map 

message: I think the recent additions are inappropriate--aside from the name, the Lehigh Valley's train used a completely different route between New York and Buffalo. Far from being a reintroduction, it's a new service which used an obvious name, one used by several other trains. Note the Amtrak route guide, which gives more weight to the old Grand Trunk train. Mackensen (talk) 16:58, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lehigh Valley train
Talk:Daniel Barenboim

message: Several references have had archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/... added. I find that at the time of writing with one browser (Firefox with extensions), clicking these links results in "ReplayWeb.page could not be loaded due to the following error: SecurityError: The operation is insecure." Another browser (Brave) brings up the archived page. So there is a problem that doesn't happen with Wayback Machine archives. Best wishes, Pol098 (talk) 12:54, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Archives at //ghostarchive.org/archive??
Talk:Universe (mathematics)

message: A former version of this article was rather weird, and nobody understood it: so it was nominated for deletion, until Toby Bartels saved the day. Three cheers for Toby! :)
: Gosh, thanks. ^_^ -- Toby Bartels
From the deletion nomination:
* A mathematician should look at this - it seems like oddball city to me. --mav 04:56, 15 Aug 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weirdness 

message: power set notation: is it clearer to write PX or P(X) ? Martin
I prefer the simplicity of "PX".
Actually, I really like
:  \mathcal{P}X \! ,
but that would be unnecessary dependence on images IMO.
I would hope that "PX" is confusing only to those poor benighted souls that believe that function application is always denoted by parentheses, but a little reflection on one's days in trigonometry can usually cure that.
To be sure, there's nothing at all wrong with "P(X)", and I would hardly change an article that already used such notation!
-- Toby Bartels 07:20, 24 Aug 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notation 

message: I think that the "In Computer Science" section should be moved to the logic gate article or to another new entry all by itself, since the entire rest of this article is concerned only with the mathematical concepts of Universe.
-Loadmaster 23:27, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Moved to a top sentence; there wasn't any content there. I guess someone could start an article on expressive adequacy. EdC 03:58, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  In Computer Science 

message: It would useful to make a distinction between a "universe" in set theory and a "universal set" in set theory - especially since the current Wikipedia article on "Universal set" says:
"In set theory as usually formulated, the conception of a universal set leads to Russell's paradox and is consequently not allowed."
Tashiro~enwiki (talk) 00:13, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Universe vs Universal Set

message: "It is related to the concept of a domain of discourse in philosophy". But Domain of discourse: "In the formal sciences, the domain of discourse, also called the universe of discourse..."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Fractaler (talk • contribs)   12:45, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: , "domain of discourse" is not mentioned in the article itself, so I've just removed it per MOS:LEAD and MOS:INTRO in particular. —⁠andrybak (talk) 16:17, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! —⁠Fractaler (talk) 06:54, 5 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  domain of discourse: in philosophy or in the formal sciences?