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Talk:Optical isomerism

message: I started in on a "systems of naming" section because some text without it was confusing and confused, and ended up moving chunks of other text in there because it seems a good way to organize.
Added some discussion of D/L versus R/S.
Removed text that seemed partly redundant, partly far afield:
"Since it is rotated a small amount each time it interacts with or passes through the atoms and particles that make up an optically active molecule. This assumes that it will pass through an equal number of dextro and levo molecules. The rules of entropy should assure such a system, and give us equations to calculate the rotation of the polarized light based upon the concentrations of all of the optically active isomers in the solution, and the amount of solution that the polarized light passes through. "
Eub 09:15, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  reorg around "systems of naming" 

message: I'm referring to a statement in this article:
It was suspected, and has been widely reported, that one enantiomer was responsible for the teratogenic effects, but this turned out not to be the case.
This seems to contradict what I've read elsewhere: Thalidomide
and in the second link provided by JoeAnderson above (although the statement I quoted seems to agree with what's written in the first link)
It also seems to contradict everything my professors have been saying (that it is one enantiomer that is the source of the teratogenicity, the other one is not teratogenic; although administration of the pure 'good' enantiomer will also cause the problem due to racemisation within the body).
So I'm really confused. Is teratogenicity the effect of one specific enantiomer or do both enantiomers have this effect (even if assuming racemisation in vivo does not occur)?
Thanks.
--DFLee 22:07, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Enantiomers of Thalidomide 

message: In the main article... "Glyceraldehyde is chiral itself, and its two isomers are labeled D and L. Certain chemical manipulations can be performed on glyceraldehyde without affecting its configuration. For example, it can be converted to the amino acid glycine: glycine has two optical isomers, and they are labeled according to which isomer of glyceraldehyde they come from."
Glycine is NOT chiral, therefore it does not have two optical isomers. Change glycine to alanine and it's fine.
Cave Draco 19:28, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Glycine
Talk:O Canada

message: 加拿大國歌全華語及全粵語版：
:紅楓之林！齊共建我家園！
:随遇慎遠  以公德心相献。
:憑熱愛熱誠  愿这新國度，
:似火千山遍葉紅!
:從遠至近  四海以内，
:萬民歡呼和應。
:励精趨明 向天(心)于求！
:社會開化進步到永久。
:世間欣欣向榮喜寰(同)球。  — Preceding unsigned comment added by BnaiBrithChai (talk • contribs) 07:06, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Cantonese (and Mandarin) version of the Canadian anthem

message: Change True patriot love in all of us command to True patriot love in all thy sons command. XQuixaq (talk) 20:44, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: This is already covered in the section "Inclusive language debates" RudolfRed (talk) 21:16, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 3 March 2024 

message: Hi all, wanted to get some opinions on this before any changes were made to the wiki. It regards the IPA transcription for the French verse of the anthem, see here O Canada#Lyrics.
As I am led to believe, through cross reference with the Quebec French phonology page, and through my own use of Quebec French, we can see that in almost every circumstance, Quebecois will make t and d into ts and dz, i.e. affricate the dental stops before high and semi-high vowels like /i/ and /e/. While the IPA transcription is correct for Metropolitan French and formal registers of Quebecois French, in daily conversation this transcription would be relatively incorrect.
Therefore, I am suggesting adding either a second transcription of the IPA to match the commonly used Qubecois French pronunciation, or amending the current transcription to be in line with that correct pronunciation. Examples include /pɔʁ.te/ to /pɔʁ.t͡se/, and /de/ to /d͡ze/.
I do understand speakers of Canadian French in provinces other than Quebec and New Brunswick do learn and speak the Metropolitan variety more closely than the Quebecois variety, however the anthem was written in Quebec and is considered by many to be the unofficial anthem of the French Canadians, thus I would only see it as appropriate to amend the IPA transcription to that of Quebecois French.
Let me know any thoughts. Feel free to correct me on anything that may be incorrect, my accent is rural in nature anyways so it may possibly differ from accents in Montreal, Quebec City and Chicoutimi.
Thanks, PC. PKWCurtis22 (talk) 11:01, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  IPA Transcription for French Verse Amendment Question
Talk:Old English

message: They seem to interpret fremedon as a plural of "freme" (meaning profit) when in actuality, fremedon is the plural to "fremman" (meaning perform or commit). The fremmen interpretation is much more accurate in context. https://bosworthtoller.com/12260 Vulturevalentines (talk) 07:12, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The current interpretation is a verb ("promote"), but if you think it isn't very accurate, you certainly can rephrase it. — Eru·tuon 19:08, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mistranslation on the translation that includes constructed cognates? 

message: The article's title image is showing up as the Israeli flag for me. I'm not confident editing the page itself, and when I went to edit it described the image as something from Beowulf. Is this a glitch in my mobile app, or something that needs changing? Cheers. 109.180.83.49 (talk) 06:42, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: There was some similar vandalism mentioned on the Helpdesk yesterday. I don't see the flag, so you could try a null edit to refresh your version of the page. TSventon (talk) 08:02, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect image 

message: The redirect 0ld English has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached.  Bearcat (talk) 19:51, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "[[:0ld English]]" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:Oxymoron

message: This refers to the stagename of the former main vocalist of the Dead Kennedys. (The bulk of this text also appears on the Talk page of this recording artist.) Given that Jello (what in the UK would be called jelly) is an effete dessert food, typically eaten at children's parties; and Biafra, which owing to its being blockaded by Nigeria became in the 1970s almost a by-word for starvation: might not Jello Biafra be in effect an oxymoron? Uniting two mutually opposite values (abundance and famine) into a single, absurd but at the same time poetic protest.
Nuttyskin (talk) 09:15, 22 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jello Biafra 

message: The theory of binary relations has been able to defuse a pair of oxymorons that arise in the calculus of functions. A source set A and a target set B are linked by a relation R, designated by certain xRy, \quad x \in A, \quad y \in B . The source set A contains the domain of R which is \{ x : \exists y \in B \ \land \  xRy \} . When the domain is all of A, then it is a total relation.
A relation R is called univalent when xRy \ \land \  xRz \implies y = z. The algebraic logic of relations, begun in the 19th century, has been widely disseminated in the textbooks of Gunther Schmidt. In these books a function is a total, univalent relation. The mathematical oxymorons are partial function, contradicting totality, and multivalued function, contradicting univalence. Usage of the oxymorons can be replaced with better described binary relations. — Rgdboer (talk) 00:46, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Relation cure

message: I'm going to go ahead and remove the section about the "Queers for Palestine" slogan. Queer and Palestine are not inherently contradictory terms, in fact there are queer Palestinians. I feel that keeping it as an example confuses the reader as it doesn't match any definition or example in the article.
Note: @124.150.67.252, this is the second article I've found where you needlessly insert content about the Israel-Palestine conflict into unrelated articles based on loose associations. Please stop doing this, as it violates WP:INDISCRIMINATE. Much appreciated, friend! -Avery Trashmouth 22:32, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Queers for Palestine
Talk:Otaku

message: The NRI classification list bears no mention of military otaku. Considering the volume of otaku-related media that caters to this demographic, Girls und Panzer, Strike Witches, Kantai Collection, etc. I think it bears some mention. There's a complex history here that includes alternate history narratives (kakuu senki ja:架空戦記), especially postwar, the invention of the airsoft gun, and the Japanese-domestic military plastic model industry, most famously the output of Tamiya Corporation. Zetagaming (talk) 22:51, 17 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  No mention of Military Otaku
Talk:Omnipotence

message: This question is more than 800 years old. In asking this question, the questioner had already assumed the existence of gravity because of the word “lift” in the question. What is “lift”? My definition for “lift” is: Moving an object to the opposite direction of gravity. By definition, God created everything. Hence, God created gravity. Since God can create gravity, he can certainly make it disappear. So God can “lift” any stone. Put another way, this question could become: if God were to have an arm wrestling match between his left arm （gravity）and right arm (to “lift” the stone), which one would win? Both arms belong to God. This is not a contest; there is no winning or losing. Therefore this is a stupid question.
If God is omnipotent, God must be everything, everything must be God. Since "Outside everything" is an oxymoron, therefore “Outside God” is an oxymoron: if there is God, then there will be no “outside”; if there is an “outside”, then there will be no God. There is no gravity “outside” God. God doesn’t live in a gravitational field. For an omnipotent God, there is no such concept as “lift”. “Lift” only exists in human experience. Gravity, like everything else, exists inside God. For an omnipotent God, there is no such concept as “stand” either, because there is no ground “outside” God. By the same token，for an omnipotent God, there are no such concepts as “breathe”，“eat”，“drink”，“excrete”, “wear clothes”, “walk”，“sit”, “lie down”. God doesn't have a body. All bodies have skin, skin is the boundary of the body. God doesn't have boundary. Therefore, God doesn't have a face，nor shape. An ant looks at you while you are talking, it could see your lips and tongue moving. The ant asks you: “How do you lift your lips and tongue?” You reply: “It’s a stupid question.” A man sees that the Moon is moving, he asks God: “How do you lift the Moon?” God says: “It’s a stupid question.” —Teng Wang, Social Phenomena
Let's just say; it's something beyond our comprehension Classical josh (talk) 23:00, 15 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Can God Create a Stone that He Cannot Lift?

message: You say “If the number of universes is unlimited, then the power of a certain god-like entity is also unlimited, since the laws of physics may be different in other universes, and accordingly making this entity omnipotent”
 How would unlimited universes give a certain God like entity unlimited power? David147147 (talk) 06:24, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  omnipotence
Talk:Oligarchy

message: The sentance, "Oligarchy is a form of government where most political power effectively rests with a small segment of society (typically the most powerful, whether by wealth, military strength, ruthlessness, or political influence)," is bordering on tautology. Dustin Asby 10:54, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discrepancies 

message: What does it mean???
:You probably mean "layman's terms", although your version might soon be adopted by hack3rz.  A layman, technically, is a person who is not a cleric (an employee of the church).  More generally, it is a person who does not have specialist knowledge of the subject under discussion.  "Layman's terms" are therefore words that a non-specialist can understand. --Heron 16:26, 27 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  lamens terms 

message: "for which another term commonly used today is plutocracy."
This is OR.
"One of the first oligarchies in history is that of Sparta, which developed the concept alongside its rival Athens, and essentially provided a counterpoint to Athenian democracy."
I am going to remove this. No sources given. Violates WP:NOR. A better wording should be "Greek author X said that Sparta is..." or "Historian X said that blah blah blah". Neko Cherise Sapphire Star (talk) 11:57, 3 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious claim in Overview 

message: I think there really should be a "History" section, covering the origins of Oligarchies in classical Greece, and explaining how the concept evolved up to modern day oligarchies. It's mentioned in the article that Aristotle coined the term, perhaps that can be used as a start. Combustible Vulpex (talk) 06:25, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of oligarchies 

message: Seems this section was jammed into a section with the only source referring to tropical African oligarchies. I'm unsure to if there is more evidence to this beyond personal bias. 69.66.33.215 (talk) 20:23, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Canada Under Capitalism? 

message: Scince this is not a monotheistic topic, I'm so sure that the only decision to leave behind assets are only durring and directly right after divorce. When court is held, only those permissive few retain from arms the legallity of spoken decissions; not choices left ahead. If for at any reason attributing careers make a difference in people's salary I get often. Don't be let down just because this doesn't allow for comic book type of relief, such as how to dress or where to go. Every time the issue of archology is mentioned, some born lucky and some born poor get throttled like a baby during and just right before a baby shower. So: I CAN SEE WHERE YOU ARE COMING FROM.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:6011:C8F0:45F0:DF6A:93D3:8DED:D19 (talk) 03:44, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Career Choicd Made Easy
Talk:Populism and nationalism

message: LS, what might you suggest as a better title for this one?  And I am signing off tonight...needeth rest.  -- Invictus
I really don't know. --LS
History of...?  Origins of...?
Exact text from LS (moved from the article)
This article seems mistitled.
(I am posting it because I didn't want to remove it from the article entirely)
---
URH?  Wha?  Mambo dogface to the banana patch?  That's about as sensible as this article appears in the context of calling it "populism and nationalism". Dogface 20:40, 12 Mar 2004 (UTC)

message: :I merged the article w Populism, w/o deleting any content. Sam [Spade] 01:35, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Populism]]
Talk:Political spectrum

message: I believe that the three-dimensional model from the game NationStates is more understandable and detailed than the current three-dimensional model. Please state your opinions on whether the model should be implemented on this Wikipedia page.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.85.200.227 (talk) 15:28, 21 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: You would need to show that it has entered the literature on political science, which seems unlikely since it was developed for a game. TFD (talk) 00:12, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I very much doubt that academics would embrace it, if only because of the breezy nature of the descriptions: "Father Knows Best State", "Psychotic Dictatorship", "Civil Rights Lovefest", "New York Times Democracy" and so on.  Entertaining, and therefore appropriate for game usage, but hardly rigorous or authoritative. Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:33, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  NationStates Model 

message: Hi,
The "Inglehart" part of the "Other double-axis models" part contains a chart with data from 2004.
A new one from 2022 is available here: Inglehart–Welzel cultural map of the world
Should we update it ?
Thanks Corentin208263 (talk) 14:17, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should this 2004 chart be updated ? 

message: This is coming from a kid who wants to be a politician one day. There is something which would require LOTS of people due to the sheer scale of how widespread this issue is, but a fix is badly needed and I cannot do it by myself since it would require the changing of Wikipedia's standards for a Political Position. Wikipedia currently uses a simple left-right divide under the "Political Position" For a Party or Faction, but this causes a lot of problems and we need a more detailed section for the political position. I am going to write this on other talk pages just so more people can see it. Anyone wanna help? Petjayso (talk) 02:35, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The correct page to discuss this is Wikipedia:Village pump. TFD (talk) 09:17, 13 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ik this is on the wrong page but the improvements go for thousands of them
Talk:Political liberalism

message: Page redrafted
The pages on political liberalism and on liberalism have been integrated into one page, the page Liberalism, together with remarks on the talk page liberalism. 
The new text takes into account the position of political liberals and of classical liberals. The labeling of progressive liberal views as being social democratic views have been deleterd.
Old versions of the pages can be found at
*Talk:Liberalism/old version Liberalism
*Talk:Liberalism/old version talk Liberalism
*Talk:Liberalism/old version Political liberalism
*Talk:Liberalism/old version Talk Political liberalism
Gangulf 20:44, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Given the fact that this page can never be more than a stub now (either that or it becomes redundant with the main Liberalism article), shouldn't we turn it into a redirect? -- Mihnea Tudoreanu 11:58, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree and did it. --Gangulf 13:48, 16 Oct 2004 (UTC)

text: Perhaps the redirect should be replaced with a disambiguation page, or at least have a disambiguation page be reachable by clicking back on the redirect. People could be searching for John Rawls' book 'Political Liberalism'. I don't know how to create disambiguation pages, though. --Frekja 00:11, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

message: I object to the recent changes to this page. It has now, once again, been "claimed" by one particular stream of liberalism, as if the others are not "liberal" (in particular, in the focus on individualism and negative rights). - Jmabel | Talk 03:57, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: User:Electionworld has again made this a disambiguation to Liberalism and the John Rawls book, which is fine with me. - Jmabel | Talk 05:49, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Recent changes
Talk:Peter Altenberg

message: It is different from the one at Find-A-Grave. Lincher 19:43, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of birth 

message: Does not make sense as of now:
"People who are interested in something they are not interested in at all".
elpincha 13:27, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Please correct this quote
Talk:Partial order

message: A general remark for editing order theory topics: please consider using ^ and v instead of the html-special symbols ∧ and ∨. 
I used to advocate html-math earlier too, but I just changed my browser, finding that it wont display them properly (orders and some arrows work, but all set-theoretic signs are broken). I also looked at other computers, and it did not work there either, so I think it is a general problem these days. The trouble is that on most browsers, you cannot even distinguish the problematic characters from each other. I switched from Mozilla to Firefox (both Linux), but the problem are the (true-type) fonts, not the browser. I checked some IEs too and they did not work correctly either. On one other IE it worked, but the symbols where ugly and way too big for the font size. My old Mozilla was perfect, but it used bitmap fonts which causes other weaknesses. The only things most browsers seem to be able to are ≤ and ≥, maybe also →, but no more.
The WikiProject Mathematics also recommends to be conservative about these issues, so it is probably a general problem.
--Markus Krötzsch 23:17, 11 March 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Would you like to add those two bits of information? Be bold in updating pages :-)  --AxelBoldt
Ok, I took the oportunity to add some other things. -JB
Thanks! Could you also explain the notion of "upwards closed subset"? --AxelBoldt
Which relation does "is a subobject of" refer to?  -OJarnef — Preceding undated comment added 12:08, 16 November 2001 (UTC)

text: Maybe, for the starters, an example on this: consider the powerset of some set M and take the usual subset ordering. Then M is an upper bound of all elements of the powerset, but these elements are not totally ordered. OK? --Markus Krötzsch 23:17, 11 March 2004 (UTC)

text: It is probably a little ambiguous indeed. However, in most contexts of the Wikipedia the intended meaning should be clear. If there are articles that only talk about ordered sets, without using more specific terms, then it might be a good idea to change the wording a bit. --Markus Krötzsch 23:17, 11 March 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled
Talk:Poetry

message: The History section of the article, Poetry is missing some historical information on poetry (such as biblical poetry) and also has information that possibly should be in another section (such as information on poetics). The History section is under-represented and could use some love. The citations in this section are well presented and there isn't any missing citations that I can tell. EmilyReNew (talk) 17:47, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  History Section of Poetry 

message: I felt article Islamic_literature is in bit of neglect so I added my note on talk page there, requesting to take note of Talk:Islamic_literature#Article_review. If possible requesting copy edit support. Suggestions for suitable reference sources at  Talk:Islamic_literature is also welcome. 
Posting message here too for neutrality sake
Thanks and greetings
Bookku (talk) 07:28, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Requesting wider attention

message: When did people start writing poetry  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.113.171.118 (talk) 11:35, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: -> WP:Reference desk. (CC) Tbhotch™ 16:12, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poetry 

message: I am proposing changing the second sentence from this:
A poem is a literary composition, written by a poet, using this principle.
to this:
A composition written in poetry is called a poem, and one who writes poetry is a poet.(or, anyway, something like that.) Apmh 16:49, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article lead change 

message: moon light of the day 41.121.39.89 (talk) 20:27, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: The only one 41.121.39.89 (talk) 20:28, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moon