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Talk:Birthright: The Book of Man

message: 3/11/2006  - Removed reference to the claim that this book mentions fiction as being a peculiarity that only humans possess.  I read through the entire book looking for this reference, and couldn't find it, I'm guessing the original author of this page was thinking of another book.  I also removed the note that the two encyclopedic references the book makes before every chapter are occassionaly dead wrong.  I could not find one instance where a chapter had both the alien and human encyclopedia references where both were wrong.
5-27-06 - "The same or similar themes are the basis for the short story With Friends Like These and The Damned trilogy by Alan Dean Foster - ironically the same author who also wrote the book on which the Alien movies are based."
Is there a source for this?  I know that Foster wrote the novelization for Alien, but I haven't heard anything regarding his works as being the inspiration for the Alien movies. ---Anon80
:: I apparently mistook the novelization of the movie for the opposite case, I'll change the entry. --Brazzy 15:37, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Chimney Rock National Historic Site

message: Can we get a better picture of the rock, please? :Image:DSCN5172 chimneyrock e.jpg is small and has heavy JPEG artifacts. —Keenan Pepper 00:29, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo request 

message: The map of the US with the red dot currently has it marked waaay to far west and south in the panhandle. Anyway to change that? possible to where it actually is. --Xiahou 01:35, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  map picture 

message: I know at the bottom there is a link to the national park in North Carolina, I was actually brought here looking for that article, page, I think it might be smart to state that they are two different entitys in the lede paragraph. Might avoid confusion as it was a little hard to have to search the whole page and find at the very bottom the link to the other article. Just a thought, I could even do it.21:09, 30 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: chimney rock national park
Talk:Julia (wife of Marius)

message: @Anriz, again: don't overwrite precise quotations by generic ones. Where there two different "Gaius Julius Caesar II" - one a father, one a brother? --Francis Schonken 08:45, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: :I solved the Father II/Brother II issue (it appeared to be Brother III) --Francis Schonken 09:11, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Congruence bias

message: I'm not grasping the difference. In confirmation bias, people look for evidence that confirms their existing beliefs. It seems that in congruence bias, people do not try experiments that would refute their theories. Sounds like a special case of confirmation bias: avoid contrary evidence. How is it different?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.54.86.137 (talk) 04:32, 27 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, I've updated the lead to reflect that7804j (talk) 14:43, 29 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vs. Confirmation Bias 

message: The button example makes the wholly unwarranted assumption that the experimenter told the truth. Someone who'd lock you in a room for "science" wouldn't hesitate to lie. Dan 06:26, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Point? 24.222.232.244 15:37, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: button

message: I want to suggest another interpretation of Wason's example: the investigator is demonstrating congruence bias. The investigator believes that people exhibit certain trait, namely: people are liable to incur into congruence bias. In order to confirm his believe, the investigator sets a confirmatory experiment. He runs the test involving the numbers 4,6,2, and interprets the result in light of his previous believes, without considering alternative hypothesis, such as poorly wordy instructions. In this particular example, the reference to the three numbers 4,6,2 as "the number sequence 2,4,6" and the reference to "particular rule" are very misleading, because the word "sequence" suggests some underlying ordering, in which each element follows the previous ones, and is generated from the previous ones by some rule. Had the investigator instructed the subjects by saying: "a rule has been apply to the numbers 4,6,2 as a result of which the sequence 2,4,6 is obtained" and had asked the subjects to find such rule, the outcome of the experiment would had been entirely different.
Watson's example shows beautifully how the failure of the investigator to consider and test alternative hypothesis to his believe that people exhibit certain traits led to bias results. The congruence bias is exemplified by the investigator. 
Baron's suggestions apply to Wason's investigator, particularly the second suggestion.
One more point: in Statistics, the probability of a positive result when the hypothesis tested is not true is referred to as the Typer II error. Good test have low Type I error (probability of negative result when the hypothesis tested is true) and low Type II results. 
In Statistic notation, Baron's suggestions can be rephraced as:
1) mind Type II error
2) restrict alternative hypothesis to interesting cases
 
66.11.91.153 18:48, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Reinterpretation of Wason's example
Talk:Franklin Square station

message: Does anyone know when the station closed for the first time? --Boothy443 |  trácht ar 09:34, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's hard to judge what's the best version to put in the article. The station's operating dates were probably something like "1936–1939, 1943–1946, 1952–1953, and 1976–1979." Unfortunately, the online info is pretty murky (especially for the WWII period), and none of these 6 sources can be considered precise & reliable enough by itself. Until someone finds a more-solid reference, I've edited the Wikipedia article to cite all 6 sources and say "approximate years of operation ... with sources varying on the details." See what you think. —Patrug (talk) 08:47, 21 August 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Below, #3 and #4 appear to be the most-reliable sources supporting the summary statement in the article. So, I trimmed back the footnotes to just those two, and added a "better source needed" tag. All six sources below shed some light on the situation, until we find something more reliable. —Patrug (talk) 08:51, 28 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Station closings
Talk:Fort Laramie National Historic Site

message: Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 18:30, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008 

message: Hi everyone. The Walters Art Museum recently contributed upwards of 15,000 images to Wikimedia Commons. I'm working on categorizing some images and I came across a painting by Alfred Jacob Miller, called . It turns out that Miller was the only artist to actually document the Fort in its original condition before it was torn down in 1840 and replaced in 1841. I think it'd be fabulous to have it in the article. While I could "so fix it," I wanted to share it with the article watchers because I'm not too sure where it could fit (especially with the nice computer image of the fort). So, I hope you can find some use in it. Sarah (talk) 06:07, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow...thats a lot of images...I added the one you suggested to the article...please adjust as you see fit...and thank you!--MONGO 06:32, 31 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Looking great! Thanks for doing that! I also found this one, which is one of the inside of the Fort ever recorded before it was replaced:  Pretty cool! Sarah (talk) 04:58, 2 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I added that one as well...hum...have to wander over to Commons and see what else Walters Art museum as donated...thank you!--MONGO 03:14, 3 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  New image on Commons 

message: — Assignment last updated by Mpalomo1 (talk) 22:35, 12 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Architectural History
Talk:2005 Brazilian firearms and ammunition referendum

message: I translated this article from Portuguese (see :pt:Referendo sobre a proibição da comercialização de armas de fogo e munições) but it could use work on many levels, including style, clarity, explaining cultural and political references, etc.  So I put a cleanup tag in from the outset.  Schoen 09:44, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I've just removed a great amount of unsourced information from the article. It's been almost exactly an year since I tagged this article with many parametes (I even forgot I did that) but nothing has been done from people interested in this page. Since it is unnacceptable that such a controversial subject stays unsourced for so much time, I'm removing the sections and leaving only the data, which is unsourced too, I might add. Victão Lopes I hear you... 21:36, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major cleanup 

message: "Among the world's countries, Brazil has the second largest number of people murdered annually by firearms, second to Venezuela. Each year about 39,000 people in Brazil are shot to death. However, worldwide statistics do not show unambiguously whether this number would be reduced by the prohibition of the sale of firearms and ammunition."
I'd add that it would be necessary to prove that the number of *people murdered* would go down. If the number of people shot to death goes down, but the total number of people being murdered doesn't, then it just means people are being now stabbed, strangled or kicked to death, which is hardly an improvement of any situation. Ricardo Dirani (talk) 17:47, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Effects of the Prohibition 

message: "The gun ban proposal received broad support in the press, while celebrities were generally in favor of it, only Brazil's anti-ban social groups and right-wing press, most importantly Veja the Brazilian news magazine (indeed weekly publication of any kind) with the largest paid circulation in the country."
I suspect that the anti-ban social groups and right-wing press were against the ban, but I'm not going to assume it. Someone with better Portuguese understanding than I will need to fix it. Linktex (talk) 11:20, 7 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sentence fragment in background section
Talk:Alexander Fu Sheng

message: Wisekwai 09:48, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Rudy Pompilli

message: As you surely don't know I almost speak and write Italian fluently: I can tell ya the "Y" (but known as "ypsilon") does not exist as well as the "X" and the "W" (as "doppovu" in Italian)...
Nowadays and almost from time to time one can see TAXI instead of TASSI. OK?  Stephan KŒNIG 10:49, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Rudy was an American. If you want to dispute how the man himself and his family and his friends spelled his name, you just go right ahead. 23skidoo 15:45, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  RUDI 

message: Aside from tenor saxophone and clarinet, he played flute as well. Here's an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mwcetEiJRc Alvabass (talk) 20:38, 7 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flute
Talk:Kaz (cartoonist)

message: Very Famous socor player in ACS
I think should be added disambiguation, because there are a lot of KAZ and no fair only this sr. use that name...and the another?--Maestrotaku 17:22, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment 1

message: this pages should be join them:
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAZ_%28disambiguation%29
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaz_%28disambiguation%29
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAZ
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaz
--Maestrotaku 20:17, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  kaz 
Talk:Number Resource Organization

message: User:Stalepie wrote (As to the date of founding, Margaret Newsham mentions the NRO in a 1999 article "ECHELON Was My Baby," see external link.
I was peripherally attached to the process that created it - they talked about the thing for a few years before formalizing it, and for parts of that period, they referred to the fact that they were talking informally as the "NRO". So the name may have been heard before its founding date.
But the article you're citing refers to the National Reconnaissance Office, which I believe was a precursor of the NSA, not the Number Resource Organization.  --Alvestrand 10:58, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of founding 

message: A short article only connected to Regional Internet registry - merge it into that page?  Only 11 other IP pages link to it ().  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.170.128.65 (talk) 14:59, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge into Regional Internet registry?
Talk:In the Name of the Father (film)

message: "However, the film is not a true story as widely believed, merely based in part on actual events." The film is autobiographical; not all events depicted really happened, but the underlying story (pub bombings, Guildford 4 trial, imprisonment, release after appeal) is all true. Removed.  --duncan 11:25, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Change

message: * To me the London setting reminds me of some corners in Dublin. Which scences are filmed in London?
For example the whore#s robbery is in ------ street and the hippies house either.
Do you think it#s a good idea to change places for tension on this page?
Foreshadowing means something else!--Danaide (talk) 08:33, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubliners 

message: Gareth Peirce is a solicitor as is apparent from the wiki entry for that person.   
It is also reasonably apparent from the film that she is a solicitor and indeed from the plot summary in this article: she does factual research of a kind not ordinarily carried out by barristers.
She also does some advocacy in the Court of Appeal in the film; I don't know whether she in fact did in real life.  The wiki article on Ms Peirce states that it is a composite character.
From memory Emma Thompson has a wig in her car (thus indicating that she is indeed a barrister) - but doesn't wear it in Court!  I like to think that there was then a big argument between (1) props, (2) wardrobe, (3) continuity, (4) Emma's agent (who presumably thought that the wig was either unattractive and/or annonymised the wearer, their client) and/or (5) legal advisers to the film at the preview, but I can find no third party source to confirm this.
86.166.129.141 (talk) 17:09, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gareth
Talk:Pattern 1908 cavalry sword

message: I realise this article still needs some work. I will go back over it referencing properly when I get time Epeeist smudge 11:28, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This is generally a fine article, IMO. Assertions of "arguably the best" or "ultimate expression" cannot be included in encyclopaedia articles, however, as they state the author's opinions. We can say "So-and-so argues that it is the best" etc., but we can't say it. --Fire Star 06:32, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with your criticism. I need to work through this again attributing these comments to the authorative authors. I expected to be able to do this within a couple of days of the posting, but sadly it hasn't happened. Watch this space. Epeeist smudge 14:48, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

text: It would be interesting to have links to reviews of the swords perhaps by the sword manufacturers, the British military, soldiers who used them, etc., if any are available. --Fire Star 17:00, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I haven't much of that type on these patterns, partly because they were hardly used in anger and partly because I think they were rather good, and the Army only seems to put pen to paper to complain! There are several such comments on other swords which were widely criticised. These will be in future articles. Epeeist smudge 05:15, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Thanks to who ever made the reverts on this. I have a few comments on this but I'd like the (anonymous) editors view on this if possible.
1. Is the official US military designation "Saber"? Fine if it is, but if not I wouldn't say that the Patton blade fits the strict definition of a sabre.
2. The phrase "last" expression came from an earlier edit. I'd originally used "ultimate" but this was changed by an earlier as being POV, changing the meaning of the sentence. I may revert this to something closer to my original intent.
3. The Edit refers to "heavy cavalry". I'm not that familiar with the US Army history, but I didn't think there was any distinction between cavalry grades. 
I would like to see an article on the Patton sword (or saber!) as well as his cavalry swordsmanship system if anyone has the time and expertise. Epeeist smudge 12:38, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Patton Sabre

message: While the section of the sword makes it relatively stiff for its weight, these swoords do have a remarkable 'spring' and degree of flexibility, especially towards the tip. This was no doubt intended to allow them to flex if hitting a hard surface and also to facilitate pulling the sword without snapping it. Not a pleasant business. Stub Mandrel (talk) 14:15, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Flexibility

message: To make this a B-Class Article please:
*Put Citations
*Put more Images
Flubeca 18:32, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: B-Class Review
Category talk:Catholic Church sexual abuse scandals

message: I propose that the title of this category be changed to Category:Roman Catholic sex abuse cases in line with the change of the name of Roman Catholic Church sex abuse scandal to Roman Catholic sex abuse cases. See Talk:Roman_Catholic_sex_abuse_cases#Title_2 11 March 2006 User:WikiCats
If there is no objection I will change the title of this category to Category:Roman Catholic sex abuse cases --WikiCats 14:03, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I wonder why this wasn't done? It is blatantly a pov category. Student7 19:48, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I added a formal request for a name change (Smallvillefanatic (talk) 19:31, 7 June 2009 (UTC)

text: Favor. This is a start in the right direction. It should be named "Sex abuse cases of the Roman Catholic Church" or something with the general cat first, the specific cat second. It would seem less pov, but this is a good start! Student7 (talk) 01:24, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I would personally prefer Roman Catholic sex abuse cases instead of Sex abuse cases of the Roman Catholic Church because the first name indicates that the cases are being committed by certain deviant individuals, and not by the Church itself. The Church is comparable to a large human corporation, which includes both laity and clergy with all their faults, and so to imply that the abuse cases are of the Roman Catholic Church would be like writing Sex abuse cases of the United States of America or Sex abuse cases of the People's Republic of China, which is technically inaccurate, at least in human terms. ADM (talk) 01:47, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

text: The current title is Catholic Church sexual abuse cases. Dimadick (talk) 17:34, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Title change
Talk:Information warfare/Archive 1

message: This article is wholly U.S. in its slant, dismissing Britain's long history of IW (at times directed against the citizens of the United States) while treating information warfare as a uniquely American invention.  Some sources of British information warfare are:
Nicholas John Cull's "Selling War: The British Propaganda Campaign Against American 'Neutrality' in World War II", Oxford UP, 1995.
David Ignatius's "Britain's War in America: How Churchill's Agents Secretly Manipulated the U.S. Before Pearl Harbor" in the Washington Post (section C), 17 Sep 1989, pp 1-2.
Philip M. Taylor's "If War Should Come:  Preparing the Fifth Arm for Total War, 1935-1939" in the Journal of Contemporary History 16 (1981): 27-51.
:Note - the URL given above is no longer valid, but the original still exists at Cornerstones of information warfare. howcheng  {chat} 00:38, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Qinpu

message: Someone has written to me saying that the article looks a lot like the page cited at the bottom of the article, Christopher Evans's table of qinpu. I now have removed some bits which seem to be copied from his site, namely the QQJC references (they aren't that important anyways) and have introduced more additional referencing, such as the location field, to make it as further from it as possible. Any suggestions to render the table will be helpful. --Charlie Huang 【遯卋山人】 12:35, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyright
Talk:The Big Bang (Busta Rhymes album)

message: Is the song about his past or is he referring to someone else. I'd like to know, because the man in the coffin near the end seems to have the same voice as Busta Rhymes. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 58.163.128.121 (talk) 10:43, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Song: "Legend Of The Fall Offs" 

message: i don't know about the others but "I'm Serious" is definitely a FAKE track, it uses Dr. Dre's verse from "Fast Lane (Remix)" and 50 Cent's verse from some other song, the only one on that list that i know for sure is real is "Imagine".
i'm pretty sure a lot of the others are fake too.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Siwhat (talk • contribs) 06:00, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Leftovers 

message: What happened to the song why is it not on the album it got leaked then what happened next?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Trollface476 (talk • contribs) 09:48, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The song - ill hurt you