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Talk:United States military pay

message: Article now says: 1st and 15th of the month. --Pmsyyz (talk) 07:22, 2 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Are they payed monthly or weekly?

message: I've unsuccessfully tried to find some good sources on the history of our current military pay system.  As I heard it, Eisenhower went way beyond the "New Deal" when he created our modern military compensation model: Where else in the US does the CEO (General) get paid less than 10x the pay of his/her lowest paid employee (Private) who lives in a free house a block away from him/her? Where else in the US does an employee get paid more if he\she has more dependents to support? In addition to full socialized healthcare, free college, and a generous structured retirement plan? Pretty much nowhere else, AFAIK... "From each according to his ability, to each according to his need" seems to closely resemble the guiding principles of this system.
I say this as an old soldier myself, but it's always seemed remarkable to me that one of the most socialist institutions in our society turns out so many of the most conservative members of our society!  
--User:Brycemilton  — Preceding undated comment added 03:27, 25 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  we should add a History section 

message: Given that the title of the article is descriptive and not a proper noun, as well as per WP:MOSTITLE, shouldn't this article be at United States military pay?  —  pd_THOR | =/\= | 16:40, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep, you're right, that makes more sense. --AzureCitizen (talk) 00:22, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  capitalization 

message: I am not sure if this is the same for all services but in the US Marine Corps, single Marines in the rank of SSgt and below are still issued meal cards.  They do recieve BAS, but it is then deducted.  I am not sure why they do this but after checking the Leave and Earning Statement of one of my junior Marines I saw it for myself.  Bunns 1775 (talk) 15:45, 18 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Basic Allowance for Subsistence

message: Someone alerted me that the numbers on "Pay gap" haven't been updated since 2010. Perhaps someone can update it? Kind regards, --Gyanda (talk) 23:54, 27 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historic pay raise chart 

message: Does the Base pay includes Saturday and Sunday? If employee is on Active duty 103.39.244.199 (talk) 22:53, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Military pay base pay 

message: I don't have the knowledge to handle this, but having read the article, I get the impression there's been an unintential 'double-up' of information, so could someone with the needed knowledge please take a look and make any corrections needed?
Sections 4, 5, and 6 are 'Special pay,' 'Historic pay raise chart,' and 'Other types of pay' respectively.
Sections 4 and 6 both appear to cover much the same type of information, and both cover 'Imminent danger pay.'
Even if they shouldn't be combined into a single section, it would make sense for section 6 to be moved above the table in section 5.
TIA.
Mathsgirl (talk) 11:22, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two sections should probably be combined into one
Talk:Paul McEuen

message: Doubtlessly this is a very smart guy. I am an outsider from the field and cannot discern a basis for this subject’s notability in the content of the article. I am impressed by the cv. Could someone more knowledgeable elaborate?Edivorce 02:33, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Edivorce, as a materials physicist, I can affirm that his profile meets the WP notability requirements. I will be adding some content also, regarding his contribution to revealing the Schön scandal, and also his contribution in writing Chapter 18 of Charles Kittel's "Introduction to Solid State Physics", 8ed (which is a very widely used textbook of the field). Cheers, -- Blue.painting (talk) 19:31, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Notable?
Talk:The Man in the Moon (film)

message: This movie deserves a better write up.
There's already another page for this film: The Man in the Moon. Someone should join the two articles together. 90.129.1.64 17:48, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. I addede mergeto- and mergefrom-templates on the respective pages. --Bensin 16:02, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Philip Vanbrugh

message: From the "Family" section:
Philip Vanbrugh married Mary Griffith in Arnold, Nottinghamshire on 24 July 1715 and they had one known child, Philippia, born 1716, la belle consulesse, who married Burrington Goldsworthy of Down House, Dorset, British consul at Leghorn, Italy and later at Cadiz. Their son, Lieutenant-General Philip Goldsworthy, became a favoured equerry to King George III and from 1772 his unmarried sister, Martha Caroline was sub-governess, under Lady Charlotte Finch, of the 15 royal children. That is to say, Lady Charlotte supervised Miss Goldsworthy's supervision of both the children and their large squad of educators including J C Bach. Miss Goldsworthy was Queen Charlotte's personal appointment. Miss Goldsworthy's personal assistant, Miss Gomm, was simultaneously raising her brother's orphans, the eldest of whom became Field Marshal William Maynard Gomm.
Having read this paragraph two or three times, I've worked out that Field Marshal Gomm was Philip Vanbrugh's grand-daughter's personal assistant's nephew. This doesn't seem very relevant to an article about Philip Vanbrugh.Chuntuk (talk) 14:43, 9 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: We seem to have drifted rather from the point
Talk:Nolinoideae

message: where has all the use ful info gone? of course, if it was ever there... Botanists like to know about characteristics of the genus, normally not the history of it!
"and a whole lot more things that nobody could care about."
Well, I care...
62.113.159.156 01:17, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

message: Dahlgren included Streptopus in the Convallariaceae.  Does anyone know why it's currently listed on WP in the Liliaceae? --EncycloPetey 01:39, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Kew World Checklist has it there: . Several genera formerly in the Convallariaceae didn't go to Ruscaceae and then Asparagaceae: Nolinoideae in the APG systems, based on molecular evidence (I think). Peter coxhead (talk) 09:37, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Streptopus]]

message: Nolinoideae was the name used by APGIII on 2009, wich was a correct name according to the ICBN (Vienna Code) of 2005, since there the correct designation is based solely upon publication date. But, Melbourne Code (2011) introduced changes to that, and in Article 19.5 we can read:
 
Art 19.4 deals with family divisions including the type of the name of the family (Asparagus in this case), so does not apply here. Since Nolinoideae includes two types (Dracaena and Ruscus) of family names listed in Appendix IIB (Dracaenaceae and Ruscaceae, resp.), the correct subfamily name should be based on Ruscus or Dracaena, depending on which was published earlier: 1866 for Dracaenaceae, and 1840 for Ruscaceae. So, according to Melbourne Code, the correct name should be then Ruscoideae, which means that the article should be renamed accordingly. 
--Xavier (talk) 18:12, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It may or may not be that reliable secondary sources will change the name. However, we can certainly not do so based on original research, which an interpretation of the Code would be! Peter coxhead (talk) 18:19, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Nolinoideae'' should be changed to ''Ruscoideae''
Talk:Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt

message: Grant's much longer discussion of Pierre in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography (vol. 10 [1974], pp. 532-540) notes that the Bacon references are doubtful. The oldest manuscripts have the reference to Petrus only in the margins, that is, it is a later addition and not by Bacon. This then gets incorporated into the text of later copies, masking the fact that the attribution is not by Bacon but by someone else.
This is also noted in my article, "Peter Peregrinus" in Medieval Science, Technology, and Medicine, ed. Thomas Glick et al. (New York: Routledge, 2005), pp. 388-389.
This tends to be the latest opinion among scholars.
Ron B. Thomson (talk) 21:30, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Roger Bacon on Pierre de Maricourt
Talk:Mary Delany

message: How can they have married in June of 1743, been married for 25 years and he died in 1754?
:His date of death was incorrect.  It's now been corrected to May 6, 1768. Mdmalon (talk) 20:22, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The absence of any examples of Mary Delany's artwork or flower pressings is a substantial deficit in this article. 24.255.155.226 (talk) 05:03, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It would be nice to add how Mrs. Delaney became good friends with the Dowager Duchess of Portland.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.250.243.234 (talk) 02:43, 8 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments
Talk:Michel Blavet

message: I believe this article contains an error in the date Blavet began working for Louis, Count of Clermont; according to other sources I have seen, the date should be 1731, not 1721.  The source from which Wikipedia's data is taken (http://www.musicologie.org/Biographies/blavet_michel.html) does indeed list the date as 1721, but it appears to be a mere typo: dates on this webpage are listed in chronological order, and the beginning of Blavet's service under Louis is listed between other events happening in 1728 and 1731-35. I am cautious about making a change to the Wikipedia article directly without further musicological corroboration that this hunch is correct; so I will simply put it forward here.BenjaminShute (talk) 18:44, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, indeed, that is a typo in the cited source. Thanks for catching it. I have corrected the chronology and added a reference to the New Grove article by Neal Zaslaw, as well as an editorial cautionary note in hidden text mentioning the typo.—Jerome Kohl (talk) 22:13, 9 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  date error?
Talk:TerraMax

message: ==Untitled==
Hi.  I'm Zephyr, and this is the first article that I have created.  I originally made it in the early summer because of a report on the Darpa Grand Challenge that I was writing for school.  I eventually decided I should come back here and add something to the discussion page.  Please let me know if I have done anything wrong.Zephyr817 01:30, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Created TerraMax Page

message: Hi.  I'm Zephyr, and this is the first article that I have created.  I originally made it in the early summer because of a report on the Darpa Grand Challenge that I was writing for school.  I eventually decided I should come back here and add something to the discussion page.  Please let me know if I have done anything wrong.Zephyr817 01:30, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Uploaded picture: :Image:Terramax-DARPAChallenge04.jpg and added it to the main article. Zephyr817 02:26, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Several more cc-by-sa images available at http://hobbiton.thisside.net/darpa/ (about half-way down). GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 11:48, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Image

message: Five cars finished the course of  the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge:  TerraMax & Kat-5 & Stanley & H1ghlander and Sandstorm. It is interesting to compare them to the earlier VaMP robot car of Mercedes-Benz and Ernst Dickmanns. My sources are mostly Wikipedia and the rest of the web. In 2005, the DARPA cars drove 212 km without human intervention.  In 1995, the VaMP drove up to 158 km without human intervention. The DARPA cars drove on a dirt road flattened by a steamroller. The VaMP drove on the Autobahn. In both cases the road boundaries were easily identifiable by computer vision. Like many commercial cars, the DARPA cars used GPS navigation, essentially driving from one waypoint to the next (almost 3000 waypoints for the entire course, several waypoints per curve). Like humans, the VaMP drove by vision only.  The DARPA cars reached speeds up to 40 km/h. The VaMP reached speeds up to 180 km/h. So the VaMP was more than four times faster although its computer processors apparently were 1000 times slower. The DARPA cars did not encounter any traffic but there were a few stationary obstacles. The VaMP drove in traffic around moving obstacles, passing other cars.  Interestingly, the 2007 Urban Grand Challenge is trying to repeat something the VaMP was already able to do 12 years ago. Willingandable 17:29, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[VaMP]] vs [[TerraMax (vehicle)|TerraMax]] & [[Kat-5 (vehicle)|Kat-5]] & [[Stanley (vehicle)|Stanley]] & [[H1ghlander]] and [[Sandstorm (vehicle)|Sandstorm]]
Talk:Philo of Byzantium

message: This section on De septem mundi miraculis is very intriguing, but it definitely needs a citation
:A treatise conventionally titled De septem mundi miraculis, on the Seven Wonders of the World, is ascribed to Philo of Byzantium, but belongs to a much later date, probably the 6th century A.D.[citation needed]
Cobham1 (talk) 18:56, 24 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Almost every other Internet source identifies the mathematician as "Philon of Byzantium", so which spelling is correct? Should the page title be changed? Perhaps someone with sufficient knowledge of the Classical Greek world could confirm the right title to use (and if "Philo", explain why/how the use of "Philon" also came about). Pete Hobbs (talk) 17:10, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I suspect the problem is casued by some one who did not know enough about Greek grammar.  He probably found the genitive Philonis (or some other case) and wrongly assumed the nominative would be Philon.  I have checked W. Smith, A smaller Callical Dictionary and find the article's current title to be correct, Philo.  Peterkingiron (talk) 21:08, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Not quite... "Philon" would be the direct transliteration of his Greek name, while "Philo" is the latinized form. It's the same as with the Greek god Apollon, whom everyone knows as Apollo. Constantine   ✍  22:54, 2 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, guys! I asked because I came across two references to said person on the 7WotAW page, the first as Philo (hyperlinked) in the Intro and the second as Philon (unlinked) in the Background section - and wasn't sure which way to correct (figuring that the second needing hyperlinking too as much farther down the page and at a point of particular interest). The Apollo comparison was useful too - I see the wikipage has a double translation (Ἀπόλλων, Apollōn). Perhaps it would help the Philo page to have a similar double translation, rather than just the single Φίλων ὁ Βυζάντιος? But I'll leave that for an expert on Greek grammar to insert! Pete Hobbs (talk) 06:22, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

text: Or Plato, whose Greek name was actually Platon. — LlywelynII 01:35, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Philo or should it be Philon? 

message: So (a) What is this actually abbreviating?  ("On the Ancient Mathematicians")? or something else? Thevenot's 1693  in the wrong order?
(b) Does that citation mean that Philo wrote something sometimes known in Latin translation as "On the Ancient Mathematicians"? or does it mean some early modern scholar compiled a book on Greek and Roman mathematicians and the cite is pointing at Philo's section in that collection?
Any ideas? — LlywelynII 01:38, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Philo Math. Vet.
Talk:Kathleen Connell

message: Is there a reason to have the list of controllers on this page. Its kind of goofy looking and no other page has it. I'm very tempted to remove it Alamar2000 01:31, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Article appears to have been rewritten in order to seem to be a CV of the subject. I could use a little help in repairing the article. Cheers V. Joe (talk) 17:47, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Problematic
Talk:Ralph Lapp

message: Did Dr Lapp coin the phrase "The China Syndrome"?  If so, then credit should be given to him.  A comment on IMBD--in regard to the film by that name produced by Michael Douglas in 1979--states that Dr Lapp did coin the phrase.  If so, it may have been in an article in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, because I remember reading articles in the Bulletin in the early '70s about the China Syndrome dealing with the question of whether a nuclear reactor whose core was exposed would melt through the earth to China or would instead hit the water table and then explode into the atmosphere and render a large part of the earth permanently uninhabitable, as the Chernobyl reactor did.
rumjal 20:20, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: For the record, while i don't regularly see BotAS, i've known a subscriber who surely would have spoken differently about it if it had discussions like whether it "would melt through the earth to China". I respect it as the sort of pub that might discuss how far toward the center of the earth a meltdown could progress. Imputing to it discussions that took comic-book physics seriously is an intellectual crime; on the positive side, it's also kinda like not noticing that you sat down in a pool of your murder victim's blood.--Jerzy•t 23:33, 28 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Nuclear reactors
Talk:Prosper-René Blondlot

message: Correct Name is Prosper-René Blondlot as has been confirmed from multiple original sources, see :de:René Blondlot -- 85.179.217.214 (talk) 23:47, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name wrong
Talk:Baaba Maal

message: What Senegalese languages does Baaba Maal sing in? Pulaar only? Please add answer to article. Dblomgren 01:38, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: According to The Leopard Man, which is usually reliable, Baaba Maal is an ethnic Fulani, and this article says he sings in Fula language (Pulaar). I'll add that information to the article. --Ezeu 03:25, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you! --DBlomgren 04:45, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Language information request

message: Is it true that this guy's music is in Far Cry 2?--99.52.197.62 (talk) 13:36, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Far Cry 2?

message: These sources do not belong in External links. I have moved the link farm from there to this talk page where they do belong. Warning: I didn't check them over, so be careful in choosing any references here. Thank you! --Leahtwosaints (talk) 02:38, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources belong here, not in external links, unless used inline citations 
Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/November 21, 2006

message: Today's FA is awesome, because it's a symbol: for all the surprising vitriol by some Wikipedians towards Colbert and particularly whatever appears on Wikipedia from his comedy show (Elephant-gate being the most infamous), there's also a good number of us who find him to be a refreshing spirit; some of whom have taken pains to pump this article up to one of our best.  Too bad the show is on break this week.  Maybe we'll see this article get a nod on the show?  Who knows, but if it does there will inevitably be an edit war over whether the mention on Colbert should be mentioned in the article.  Oy-vey.  --Bobak 01:38, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
Category talk:Wikipedia articles needing romanized Korean

message: What exactly makes articles appear here? Why are articles such as Chwinamul and Gapsinjeongbyeon listed? Wikipeditor 01:40, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: (sorry, didn't notice this comment when it was posted)... Template:Koreanname automatically adds articles to the category if one or both romanization fields are left blank.  -- Visviva 07:38, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inclusion
Talk:Robert C. Duncan (astrophysicist)

message: Old but very informative page by Robert Duncan https://solomon.as.utexas.edu/magnetar.html  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.216.26.2 (talk) 22:27, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: New Link

message: I suspect this guy is the son of Robert C. Duncan (engineer), whose  biography lists a son of this name in Austin, Texas (where this guy was a professor). Someone needs to confirm, though. Noel (talk) 21:16, 11 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Family
Talk:Fairless High School

message: === The Game? ===
Is this fact about the High School banning the mind game true? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.51.33.47 (talk • contribs) 06:01, December 3, 2008
:In all likelyhood, no, this school has no done that. www.losethegame.com/strategies.htm#fairless This website probably caused this edit. -PatPeter 18:32, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Game 

message: Is this fact about the High School banning the mind game true? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.51.33.47 (talk • contribs) 06:01, December 3, 2008
:In all likelyhood, no, this school has no done that. www.losethegame.com/strategies.htm#fairless This website probably caused this edit. -PatPeter 18:32, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Game? 

message: Once directed to the disambiguation page for "The Game", now directs to the "The Game" being reference, which is the mind game.
Makazehikari (talk) 03:40, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changed the "The Game" Link. 
Talk:Eucalyptus obliqua

message: Need someone with some botanical knowledge to add to this article, I have started it with what I know from a cabinet-makers point of view. Somebody added a tag to the effect that it was not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. I have to say that was not very helpful! I have tried to be concise and to the point, using plain English. If any one can add to this please doMarkAnthonyBoyle 01:48, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hesperian 05:19, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

message: Could someone explain the difference between "light brown" and "pale brown"? Surely they are synonymous in general usage - so saying one type of wood is one and another type the other is rather unenlightening?
Scyrene (talk) 22:30, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Colour
Talk:Opiliones penis

message: The title strikes me as inappropriate, because this organ seems to be found only in Opiliones. Why call it "penis (Arachnida)" then? If no one minds, I would like to move it to a more specific title, such as "penis (Opiliones)". IronChris  |  (talk) 01:49, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Title fixed, seven years later. Kaldari (talk) 18:31, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Inappropriate title?
Talk:Don Imus at the 1996 Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner

message: Before anyone acts on the reaction I suspect, which is deletion, I suggest someone with more knowledge of this expand it. I mean, if the Colbert article is worthy of being featured, this event is worthy of at the very least its own article. --GeneralGreene 01:54, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

message: be rolled into the article on Don Imus.  Postcard Cathy 01:55, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  I suggest it....
Talk:Ontario Highway 420

message: Is it just a coincidence that this article is featured near the 4/20 weed day?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:A601:A782:3700:1D71:B2EA:1A76:643E (talk) 02:04, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: No. Imzadi 1979 →  02:17, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: 420

message: nice
-That guy with way too many userboxes -c o r t e x 02:27, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  . 

message: This image doesn't seem feature worthy as it's too small to discern any detail or summary of the route. It's confusing that it might be some or all of the gray lines and the red dot indicates the national border. B137 (talk) 17:27, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  new map image