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Talk:Changi Prison

message: Let's be sure this page isn't being sanitized. This is the camp the James Clavell spent 3 years in. It is the camp he writes about in the novel King Rat. It is the camp that is referred to in Clavell's New York Times obituary as a camp where only one out of every 15 prisoners survived. It may take someone doing further research but this is just too much of a stark contrast to what is claimed on this wiki page.Jackhammer111 (talk) 02:03, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The specific section of which the period Clavell was sent to here at is Changi Prison#Conversion into a prisoner of war camp. I don't think it is just a stark contrast to what is claimed on this wiki page or sanitised, conversely, what is needed is an expansion of the section. This page has had a chronic lack of research and expansion done. I had done the expansion for the initial history, and anyone else is free to expand on the rest of the article. I am happy to circle back on this article, but only when I have the free time to potentially having to dig through archives at the national library. – robertsky (talk) 05:26, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  whitewash

message: The content of this page has been defaced from a prison to a slaughterhouse, alongside some bold irrelevant text. 116.14.54.22 (talk) 17:00, 11 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  This page got vandalised.
Talk:Wasfi Tal

message: I found this on the web. I thought it should be confirmed before being included:
"While Tal lay dying, one of the assassins knelt and lapped with his tongue the blood
flowing across the marble floor. That grisly scene, reported in The
Times of London and other major newspapers..."
"Four of its members assassinated Wasfi al-Tal,
Jordan's prime minister and the enemy of the Palestinians, on the
steps of the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo. Tal's last words were: "They've
killed me. Murderers, they believe only in fire and destruction."
<Uriya Shavit, Haaretz Newspaper, May 28, 2002>
"On 28 November 1971, an organization which was to leave
an indelible mark on the history of political terror and the modern
Middle East committed its first murder. Four armed Palestinians,
operating in broad daylight and without the benefit of masks, shot
dead the Jordanian Prime Minister, Wash Tel, as he returned to Cairo’s
Sheraton Hotel from an Arab League meeting. The assassination itself
was followed by a gruesome ritual as one of the killers knelt down,
lapped up and drank some of Tel’s flowing blood and shouted several
times that he and his accomplices belonged to Black September. "
<Cedar Land, a Lebanese Site
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Parliament/2587/black.html> —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.251.34.73 (talk • contribs) 
your sources are not reliable (3rd) quote or biased (1st and second), I will scan and post some articles on egyptian newspapers about the incident, just ask. The 'blood licking' line should be removed.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.224.229.9 (talk) 23:12, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: It looks like Mandatory Palestine wasn't established until 1920. So where was he born? Best I can figure, it would be part of the Ottoman Empire still, since the dissolution hadn't completely happened. Would that or Ottoman Syria be a better country identifier for the place of birth? —C.Fred (talk) 21:26, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Technically it was Occupied Enemy Territory Administration. Just “Transjordan” as a geographical region would suffice. Makeandtoss (talk) 22:38, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Does anyone know the accuracy of his birth date in the Wiki article? The New York Times and The Jordan Times say he was born in 1920 . Wafflefrites (talk) 18:51, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: This source also says 1920  so I will make the sourced changes to the birth year on this article. Also both this source and NYT say that he was born in Irbid, which is in Jordan, but the Wiki lead say he was born in Turkey. I think this should be changed to Irbid. Wafflefrites (talk) 20:26, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Born in 1919, so where?
Talk:Tamborim

message: Removed link cause it refers to a shop, the other too but i did not find other sources and I left it. Do you think you should remove it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.141.121.245 (talk) 23:48, 11 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Link?

message: Removed the reference to maracatu as the tamborim is never used in maracatu. Mona-Lynn 14:40, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Council of Canadians

message: Once again, User:Michaelm has visited an article as part of his campaign to paint everything that he can as being social democratic. The org's website (( is )Redundant --Richard416282 20:33, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

message: Hi, I was unable to find the Council’s page on here a while ago so I started one under:
“The Council of Canadians”.  We should obviously merge the two pages, I’ll look into doing it.  The page I started doesn’t have much, mainly just headings to be filled in  but there are some useful things.  I wrote much of it off the top of my head.  
Harris77 20:11, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Double article 

message: Broken weblink detected 2006-05-01. Seeking corrections / modifications until page is fixed. Currently is still "Under construction from web hosting Service"
Richard416282 20:25, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken weblink - Toronto Chapter 

message: A previous editor wrote:
"The group is strongly opposed to most forms of increased social, economic, and political integration with the United States, especially on matters such as free trade and the Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars").  The Council was against the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, and the North American Free Trade Agreement, "
-Revised opening page from a NEGATIVE view to a POSITIVE view.
Richard416282 20:47, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  From Negativism to something positive 

message: edited the article to remove the "non-partisan" label from the opening sentance, as well as changing the opening of the second paragraph from "protect Canadian independence by promoting" to just "promote". Please explain why these edits should be made on the article (as the pre-edit statements do seem accurate to me). Thanks. —GrantNeufeld 20:38, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unexplained edits 

message: Phrases like "so-called “seniors’ benefit,” which would have robbed seniors of millions of dollars in retirement income," are hardly neutral, are they?  Either this article should be revised, or the {pov} tag should be added.  If I don't hear any objections and/or fixes to the article in a day or two, I'll probably add the tag.  (I'm not familiar enough with Canadian politics to fix the neutrality issues on my own) --Jaysweet 15:37, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  pov tag 

message: Whether one supports the Council's work or not, this is an encyclopedia, not free ad space. Escheffel 03:52, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality
Talk:Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

message: Another example of User:Michaelm's campaign to plaster the "social democratic" label all over Wikipedia. If he had bothered to do research on the organization, say by checking the website linked at the bottom of the article, he would have found this: 
:The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is an independent, non-partisan research institute concerned with issues of social and economic justice. Founded in 1980, the CCPA is one of Canada’s leading progressive voices in public policy debates.
Notice how it says "progressive", and not "social democratic"? Kevintoronto 15:04, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Depends what you mean by "Left." The CCPA follows Keynesian theories on economics which are centrist; they seek a compromise between the Left and Right. But today Keynes would probably be labled a Leftist, if not directly called "socialist" or "communist."  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 154.20.31.118 (talk) 16:05, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  So let's just leave out the opinions on this topic (whether the majority of members or contributors have one leg shorter than the other) all together, shall we? And focus on providing some verifiable, reliable, third party references to support the contents of the article. I will try to get back to this, time permitting. Garth of the Forest (talk) 18:30, 29 May 2012 (UTC)

message: I think the article can be cleaned up without too much effort, grouping the existing information into subsections such as History, Publications or Projects, etc. I can also add more complete citations, though they may still be mostly primary sources. Mattramsden (talk) 15:28, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clean up and Infobox
Talk:Astros, Greece

message: Excellent job!  You did great work with that little stub.  The only problem is that we seem to have two articles smashed into one: Northern Kynouria and Astros, which are related, but not the same thing.  We need to create a Northern Kynouria template. --Jpbrenna 15:28, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Donald Segretti

message: His law license was supended, but he was never disbarred:
http://members.calbar.ca.gov/search/member_detail.aspx?x=39856  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Lambejim (talk • contribs) 20:20, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Disbarment

message: It may not be significant, but it may want to be made clear that Segretti's original work, as employed by Chapin, was done for the White House and not for CRP. The only source I have to back this up right now is Jeb Magruder's autobiography, "An American Life".
129.62.81.241 (talk) 06:23, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Employment

message: The article states in the first paragraph that Segretti wrote the "Canuck Letter" that effectively derailed Muskie's presidential bid. But in Woodwood & Bernstein's "All the President's Men", as far as I can recall, White House aide Ken Clawson claimed credit for writing the letter, and I don't recall there ever being a suggestion that Segretti was involved. I could be wrong. Can anyone clarify this with new information? If not, then the statement should probably be cut from the article.121.214.47.47 (talk) 09:34, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: No problem, and thanks again for bringing it to BLPN. Roscelese (talk ⋅ contribs) 18:28, 13 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Activities -- Canuck Letter 

message: First sentence under this section is not an activity but media depicting an event. Also it is unclear if the actor playing Segretti or if the character in the film was the one who "downplayed the dirty tricks..."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.32.23.63 (talk) 20:29, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other Activities section
Talk:Victorian era (Great Britain)

message: Oh God this be crazy! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.30.17.114 (talk) 16:41, 21 February 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: February 2005

message: Twice in this brief article, the word "reactionary" is used to describe or modify something (elements; phenomena) that are also labeled "hedonistic".  I find this usage a bit odd or unusual, since hedonism is usually associated with liberalism or at least "decadence/sin", whereas "reactionary" is almost always associated with extreme conservatism or conservative backlash.  I could maybe see using the word "reactive" as being more appropriate, but it probably needs even more work than that. How was their hedonism reactionary? Did it seek to return to a previous state or condition of things, or was it merely a backlash against a hated oppression? 173.16.124.196 (talk) 09:41, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe this person did use those words too many times, but he was referring to the fact that because of the restrictions on social interactions, hedonistic pastimes became the "reaction" of the people, much like a rebellious child will "react" to a strict parent.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jmannc3 (talk • contribs) 03:39, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: No, I don't think so! Johnbod (talk) 02:48, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Reactionary hedonistic?
Talk:Francis W. Tancred

message: "Francis Tancred" was a pseudonym used by Francis Thompson. I can't find any evidence that a real Francis Tancred (with or without the "W") existed. Phil Bridger (talk) 23:17, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you have a source?  The best I can find is http://www.archive.org/stream/lifeoffrancistho00meyn/lifeoffrancistho00meyn_djvu.txt , which isn't as definitive as I'd like. --Ronz (talk) 23:16, 24 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: This can't be the same person, if Thompson's death year is correct. According to this source , Tancred was at meetings of a group of poets in 1909, spending hours with T.E. Hulme searching for just the right phrase for haiku poems and taking in Ezra Pound's cape and flaming red beard. These are not the activities of mouldering dead people. -- JohnWBarber (talk) 00:02, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Pseudonym
Talk:Implied volatility

message: What is "the forward rate for 2 year into 1 year LIBOR"?--Jerryseinfeld 15:24, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Example 

message: I think a better approach for this article would be to:
# better motivate how to generate implied volatility from pricing models, 
# describe the inability to invert pricing models that causes the use of root-finding techniques, 
# discuss which root-finding techniques are used and why,
# why quoting options on a volatility basis is a more useful measure of relative value than quoting on a price basis.
This is a fairly major rewrite I've got in mind. Any objections and/or comments, etc.? Ronnotel 14:31, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Silence interpreted as consent. Changes have been made, please review, comment & revise as appropriate Ronnotel 16:03, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed rewrite 

message: The person who wrote this article has a gross misunderstanding of the relationship of the components of the BS model.
It is GIVEN THAT OPTION PRICES ARE CORRECT, therefore,  it is implied volatility that is the single unknown that is to be solved for.
This is indirectly supported by the comment:
"Implied volatility is so important that options are often quoted in terms of volatility rather than price, particularly between professional traders."
These professional's are quoting implied volatility because THAT IS THE UNKNOWN.
The option price is both known and accepted as being correct.
67.150.140.250 (talk) 04:05, 3 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Incorrect description

message: The statement "Implied volatility is useful for forecasting the market" needs to be supported by some evidence. I'm not saying it's wrong, but this assertion its own it doesn't help very much. Can you elaborate? Also, it doesn't belong in the example section - can you find another place to put this idea? Ronnotel 15:03, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: IV as forecast tool

message: Behshour, I reverted your change because it's inaccurate to describe iv as belonging to the underlier. I understand what you're getting at - i.e. it's the volatility of the underlying asset's price, not the option. However, each of the multiple options written on an underlier can implied a different volatility, so saying that implied volatility is the volatility of an underlier seems odd. I think it's better to associate it with the option on whose price the iv is calculated. Ronnotel 03:23, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: IV on option or undelier

message: Just popped in to remove the word "futures" with respect to how the VIX is derived. It is derived from SPX options, not SP or ES-- which are futures.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.21.129.111 (talk) 22:39, 7 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: VIX definition error
Talk:Glossophobia

message: It's claimed in the article that up to 75 % of population suffer from glossophobia. This interpretation is totally wrong.
Of course, every one of us is more or less afraid of public talking, but a phobia is considered a real psychological problemness, that invalids person. And there aren't many suffering from a real phobia of public speaking, that really harms one's life and ability to normal living.
Please, try not to confuse these two differents things.
Santeri Lauren, Finland —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.100.32.203 (talk) 18:09, 21 February 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps it could be restated as a very mild form of glossophobia --Landon 01:10, 14 December 2005 (UTC)

text: The article says "citation needed".  I remember reading this in my public speaking textbook and it's almost the exact same line.  I'll try to find it when Thanksgiving break is over. Lightblade 09:39, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well you cannot say a very mild form of glossophobia either. That would be like saying he's got a mild form of death. A phobia has an exact definition and should not be thought of as being a spectrum ranging from normal to increasingly disabling. Dermotmallon —Preceding undated comment added 14:34, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

text: Stage fright is just a common term that is used interchangebly with glossophobia. Stage fright is for any type of performance, doesn't have to be acting to speaking, it could be as simple as playing an instrument. Stage fright is glossophobia. Gflores Talk 18:50, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: 75% statistic

message: I'm going to merge stage fright with glossophobia in approximately three days, unless someone objects. The stage fright article even says, the technical term for it is glossophobia. Stage fright is the common man's term for glossophobia, whether it's very mild or extreme. Gflores Talk 21:09, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with the merge, but I think it should be the other way. "Stage fright" is much more common in English than "glossophobia"; Google nets 1,040,000 results for the former and 11,600 for the latter. — BrianSmithson 18:30, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm... maybe you're right... I don't know. Gflores Talk 16:51, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge

message: It currently says "Glossophobia or speech anxiety is the N/A of public speaking". 81.151.207.119 (talk) 07:37, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  First sentence needs fixing 

message: — Assignment last updated by Ashley444 (talk) 07:06, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Human Cognition SP23
Talk:Iraqi resistance

message: I think this page should include the stuff that keeps getting taken out of the Iraqi insurgency page about nonviolent resistance groups.  Some of the information on polls on that page should be updated and included here as well.  In addition, the historic protests on April 9, 2005 should be included here, or perhaps they need their own entry.--csloat 09:26, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No I think you're right csloat, developing this article is probably the best way to deal with POV warriors. —Christiaan 13:10, 16 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Talk:English phonology

message: In the whole article the only reference to any sort of devoicing of initial lenis obstruent devoicing in any accent of English is where it says that (phonemically) voiced initials can be "partially or entirely voiced" but in GenAm, there is hardly ever any real voicing in the initials of words like "bus" or "day". Perhaps a footnote in the phoneme chart regarding this, mentioning that they are typically realized as [b̥,d̥,g̥]? Ametalbaby (talk) 02:06, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  More about lenis initial obstruent devoicing in GA? 

message: Currently, the vowel phoneme tables show RP as having central vowels for GOOSE, FOOT and a back vowel for START, but GA as having back vowels for GOOSE, FOOT and a central vowel for START. I question whether this is a real distinction: while the position of START in American English varies, I think the Northern Cities Vowel Shift is generally not considered to be default "General American". Would a front vs. non-front setup work better? I also am not sure ɑ ɜ ɔ fit well into the lax/tense binary, given that ɑ functions as the lax counterpart of oʊ in the context of correspondences like "trisyllabic laxing". Does anyone else agree that the GA table should be revised? Urszag (talk) 17:36, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vowel phoneme chart for General American 

message: I added the glottal stop /ʔ/ to the chart, but I also added /x/ to the chart in this article. While the glottal stop /ʔ/ and /x/ are not standard phonemes, I decided to be like a comprehensive linguist and added both to both articles. If you want to remove either one or both from either this article, this one, or both, pleade feel free to do so. But if we/these can't stop these marginal phonemes from continuing to occur in English, then I don't know who/what will. JordiLopezboy (talk) 23:11, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  /x/ and glottal stop /ʔ/
Talk:GM Family 1 engine

message: GM is now using the Ecotec name just as extensively as Ford uses its Duratec. It may come unnoticed by US public, but the entire range of Opel diesels is produced by Fiat, yet it is marked as Ecotec CDI, and obviously different low-displacement petrol engines in use by Opel and Vauxhall are dubbed Ecotec TwinPort in the same confusing way.
GM Europe Media Online - Opel - Products&Services  doesn't mention internal RPO codes of the engines used in Opel cars, so I just couldn't consistently classify them as in the rest of the article. Anyone who can possibly make a better classification out of their specs should click the Media link above and choose a car model to download a Technical Data document, these have plenty of data on every possible trim/engine combination.  --DmitryKo 20:31, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Opel/Vauxhall Ecotecs

message: This Spring, Opel will be introducing new 1.8L Ecotec with VVT. The official PR is here: media.gm.com. Model codes are still unknown. DmitryKo 19:25, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  New 1.8L Ecotec 

message: If 1.4 Twinport is Family 0, , what family is the older 1.4 L? --DmitryKo 20:50, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  1.4 L non-Twinport 

message: GM do Brasil seems to have also a 2.0 (Astra and Vectra) and a 2.4 16 V (vectra with automatic transmission) engines which are FlexPower. Could anyone get some more specific information about those engines and put it into the article? The Vectra 2.4 16 V motor seems to be the first flex-fuel engine in the world above 2.0L Loudenvier 06:42, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Oops!!! Sorry for messing this up! I really thought they were Family I engines... But actually I know very litle about engines... Loudenvier 16:15, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't worry... i put your commments in the GM Family II engine page... you can find them in GM Brazil. Regards
--->I have noticed that it's been suggested merging the C16SE page into this more general one. Can I suggest _not_ doing this. There are lots of details specific to each GM engine and I for one would support the expansion of pages on each engine. I'm going to continue to improve the C16SE page. Any other takers for the myriad other engines?!? Cheers, Aeronell (talk) 13:02, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chevrolet Astra and Vectra have FlexPower engines 

message: There seem to be some major similarities between the Family 1 engine and the Isuzu G engine. VX1NG (talk) 14:42, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relation to Isuzu G engine? 

message: Opel_Astra#Saturn_Astra links via a "U18XER" link to GM_Family_1_engine#Generation_III but there is no U18XER listed on this page. Is this an omission in the list or a typo? shadyman (talk) 06:04, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  U18XER