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Talk:Crosshead

message: The crosshead isn't an exclusively diesel thing.  In fact, it's very old, and a part of steam engine technology for a long time.  Most stationary steam engines and steam locomotives have them.
I'm going to be writing an update for this sometime soon, I think. --Morven 10:23, 1 Sep 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Finally got around to that rewrite.  I have removed some of the diesel engine info because I think it's not about crossheads but about big diesel engines.  If you disagree, please feel free to re-add it. —Morven 12:29, 10 Feb 2004 (UTC)

message: What is the story behind Watt's linkage and crosshead bearings?  Was there a dispute over patents or was the crosshead linkage simply not practical in Watt's time? njh 08:43, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  relationship to Watt's famous linkage 

message: I know of no case where the statement in the first paragraph of the Usage section "On smaller engines the connecting rod links the piston and the crank directly, but this transmits transverse forces to the piston, since the crankpin (and thus the direction the force is applied) moves from side to side with the rotary motion of the crank" is true. The smaller engines described have oscillating cylinders which adapt to the the variable direction of force. Very large oscillating cylinders were employed in the middle of the 19th century on ships, usually paddle steamers, in order to save space. Re. "Watt's famous  linkage (i.e. parallel motion), it was not quite accurate in its movement as the piston rod end moved in a very shallow figure 8. At low speeds with very low steam pressure and hemp packing, this was no big issue, but already in Trevithick's engine of 1798 working a 40 psi pressure he fitted a crosshead and guides. One final point: it may be useful to modify the title of this article to make it clear that the crosshead and guide(s) are inter-dependent components of one unit.--John of Paris (talk) 09:34, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Direction of force
Talk:Its

message: ITS came out in the very late 60's (like '69 or so) and was mostly used in the 70's and early 80's, so I don't think that charactertization as a 60's OS is really correct. Also, most of the really novel features of ITS (e.g. the shared file systems, etc) weren't in the early versions, but only were added in the 70's. Noel 15:00, 1 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Talk:Patrol chess

message: OK, Patrol Chess is not in the second edition of Pritchard, at least not under that name.
But I'm wondering if it wasn't dropped because it isn't a playable game.  Since a piece has to be protected to give check, a king can move to squares where it would normally be in check.  That is going to make checkmate difficult. Bubba73 You talkin' to me?
:Yeah, here's the entire Pritchard (1994) entry: Patrol Chess F. H. von Meyenfeldt (1975). Problem theme. To capture or give check, a piece must be 'observed' (guarded) by a friendly piece. In Beasley's intro (second paragraph), he pretty much makes clear that it was dropped, and why. 
:The EL on problems indicates it's an active theme for compositions. There are articles on Helpmate, Selfmate etc., so it seems the article could be retained also on basis it is problem theme. Maybe the article s/b edited to emphasize it's a theme, not variant. (Wasn't aware the article existed until yesterday!) What do you think? Ok, Ihardlythinkso (talk) 18:20, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Well, it is referenced, so it is OK.  But I wondered if anyone plays this game.  It is going to be pretty hard to force checkmate.  Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 19:43, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  OK
Talk:Nintendo Family Computer

message: I have no problem with having separate articles for Nintendo Entertainment System and Nintendo Family Computer, but if they're going to be virtually the same, then what is the purpose? The tech specs are identical (leading one to believe that they are in fact the same system); the differences in their respective careers is good to see, but since large chunks of both articles are copy-paste work, it seems like there is some duplication of effort here. -- Wapcaplet 16:38, 1 Sep 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:John II of Castile

message: I can't find his article in the Britannica. Can someone please give me the link? --Rbraunwa 05:50, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  1911 Britannica 

message: This article has been put in the above category. I can find no evidence in the article, beyond possible 1911-era innuendo, that the said king was homosexual, bisexual or transgendered. I note that the article has been flagged as lacking citations. Until a more explicit statement of his sexuality, with appropriate citation, can be provided, I have removed this article from that category.--Iacobus (talk) 03:48, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  LGBT royalty? 

message: "It was one of the many misfortunes of Castile that the long reign of John II—forty-nine years—should have been granted to one of the least capable of its kings. John was amiable, weak, and dependent on those about him. He had no taste except for ornament and no serious interest except in amusements such as verse-making, hunting, and tournaments.". This could be added to the article, but only as the opinion of someone, not as a fact. So NPOV tag added until that issue is resolved.--HCPUNXKID 14:43, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV tag
Talk:PDP-6

message: I am unable to find a reference that says definitively whether or not the PDP-6 had any memory-management hardware for support of time-sharing. It would have been, at most, a base/bounds register pair type arrangement, the same kind of thing the KA-10 had. My suspicion, from allusions in the ITS manual, is that it did not. However, until we know for sure, I'll leave the mention of such support in this article for now. Noel 17:10, 1 Sep 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: An article I was looking at provided the details. It had a single base/bounds register pair, unlike the KA-10 which had two of them, allowing the Unix model of separate read-only code segment, and read-write data/stack segment. Will update the article. Noel 03:42, 13 Sep 2003 (UTC)

text: Also, the claim about support for batch was incorrect. The Bell book (cited) says explicitly that there was little/no support for batch. Noel 12:42, 13 Sep 2003 (UTC)

text: I was there (at Livermore which purchased an early PDP-6) and can confirm the above including details on the two relocation registers from DEC. Dave Pehrson at Livermore built a paged memory map for the PDP-6 for the [| Octopus project]. NormHardy 00:46, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Memory management

message: I removed the following:
: BBN used their PDP-6 to develop the completely new TENEX operating system, which was later purchased by DEC and renamed TOPS-20.
because it's not correct (as far as I can ascertain). The long Origins and Development of TOPS-20 article by Dan Murphy points out that BBN didn't even buy a PDP-6 (which is confirmed by
the list of PDP-6 serial numbers, see links added to the page), and various TENEX sources (the Murphy article, plus TENEX, A Paged Time Sharing System for the PDP-10) say that TENEX from the start used the KA-10, and the paging box built for the KA-10. Perhaps the now-deleted text above resulted from a confusion with ITS, where early versions were developed on the PDP-6?
Also, I haven't been able to find explicit documentation on the name of the OS used on the PDP-6; Bell, Mudge and McNamara has a table of its capabilities, compared to the OS's on the later PDP-10
processors (pp. 507), but gives no name. I doubt it was called TOPS-10, because that name came in with the (later) PDP-10. Perhaps TOPS-10 was a descendant of the PDP-6 code, but I suspect they were quite different - see the B/M/M table for all the differences (in addition to the different memory mapping capabilities of the PDP-6 and KA-10). Noel (talk) 03:58, 11 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You are correct, the operating system software on the PDP-6 was called the Monitor, or sometimes the PDP-6 Monitor. John Sauter (talk) 04:35, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Errors in recent re-write
Talk:Macmillan Co. v. King

message: cool
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Alex, what does the [*866] means ?
I am quite surprised by the closing of the case, not so much because the teacher was using it for educational purpose (which the original author probably also was, meaning the copies implied a loss of money for him), but rather because the teacher asked the students to buy the book.
My memories is that when we were required to buy a book, it was checked we did so (hence, no money loss for the original author). I also have memories of whole chapters of other non-mandatory book given to us as copies.
Did the defendant tried to evoke fair use ?
Anthère 14:00, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: The [*866] is the page number of the original printed version, they put this in digital copies so that lawyers who need to cite cases in legal briefs and memorandums. This case is interesting because it comes to an extreme conclusion. Yes, it is a fair use defense case (fair use is always a defense). Would all judges follow this today? I doubt it, but it does show that fair use can be a mindfield for the unprepared. Alex756 17:54, 21 Sep 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Central shutter

message: There is a mix between central shutter and leaf shutter.
The article should be splitted.
You can't really describe a central shutter in a useful way without discussing the shutter blade, but OK, I'll try splitting them and see what you think... - fabricator4
On medium format and small format systems a separate viewfinder, rangefinder, or twin lens reflex system has to be provided for focusing and composition.
The meaning of this sentence is unclear. Central-shutter SLRs do exist.
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Also a disadvantage wrt a moving mirror was mentioned. This is not correct, this disadvantage is for an SLR, regardless of shutter type. There are focal plane shutters without a moving mirror. The classic Leica, and many others. -- Egil 18:05, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)

message: "a central shutter is a type of camera shutter location."—oh, so it's not a camera shutter but a location? Rintrah 16:25, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: New section
Talk:Colin Fox (politician)

message: This is very funny, but very not wikipedia.  I have idea who he is though, so I'll leave it to someone else to fix. -- Steinsky 19:01, 1 Sep 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Binding of Isaac

message: Would a Popular culture section be appropriate? 
Bob Dylan's Highway 61 could be added for example? 
"What about the capsule version of the Akedah that kicks off the title track on 1965’s Highway 61 Revisited?" 
http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/249338/with-new-album-released-time-to-grapple-with-dylans-christian-period
EDLIS Café  13:13, 13 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popular culture section? 

message: I've removed the following from the end of the "Muslim Views" section because it's a noun phrase rather than a sentence, and I can't parse out the intended meaning:
:In Islam, the site of Marwa near the Kaaba which rhymes with the Moriah mentioned in the Book of Genesis.
--Atkinson (talk) 19:01, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed ambiguous sentence fragment 

message: Just wanted to say that I removed the part where it said that the sacrificed son was Isaac according to the Qur’an and that there was a contradiction with Genesis. In reality, the Qur’an doesn’t say that the son was Isaac, so there isn’t a contradiction with Genesis. I don’t know why people go out of their ways to lie and cause division. We also need to distinguish between what the Qur’an actually states and what so-called “mainstream Muslim tradition” holds. The two are not necessarily the same. 2A04:4A43:437F:B738:E828:ED5C:57E4:36B1 (talk) 18:21, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Please be aware that your edits appear to be those of a WP:SOCKPUPPET. Users who have been blocked should not edit.NEDOCHAN (talk) 01:01, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Isaac was NOT the sacrificed son according to the Qur’an
Talk:Bob Ross

message: I have just watched an episode of The Joy Of Painting called "Nature's Splendor in which Bob Ross said, "Shoot if you want violence, turn the news on!" Here on Wikipedia, the line is "Shoot, if you want the bad stuff, watch the news." I believe the earlier line is more correct. 97.84.184.49 (talk) 01:34, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Is there some reason why this quotation is better in some way? The one currently in the article, (the quote starting at 17:58 here) appears to be from an earlier episode (S17E12) than the one you reference (starting at 8:15 here), which is S17E12. I would think that the earlier quote is more appropriate here unless there's a particular reason otherwise. Tollens (talk) 08:02, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 22 April 2023 

message: In the British TV series Peep Show - Peep Show (British TV series) - the main characters make decisions via reference to what Bob Ross, whom they call 'God', is doing on that day's show: 'Mark and Jeremy refer to Bob Ross as God ("What's God up to?", "If's God's doing mountains or sky or water I'll call"' - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0672476/movieconnections/ 203.220.28.164 (talk) 11:46, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legacy 

message: 104.245.135.177 (talk) 00:42, 27 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I assume you mean carpenter? The article already mentions this in the Early life section. Tollens (talk) 01:02, 27 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 27 October 2023 

message: The article mentions what seems to have been some special event in 2015, rebroadcasting "The Joy of Painting". As of 2024 there is a twitch channel running episodes 24/7, maybe that would also be worth mentioning in the article. --BjKa (talk) 13:04, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Twitch
Talk:History of French Imperialism

message: What's the point of this page?  French colonial empires is actually, well, an article, and covers the same material. john 20:45, 1 Sep 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. olivier 04:27, 2 Sep 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Ought we, then, to delete it?  Or make it a redirect to the other page? john 17:23, 2 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Talk:Unsafe at Any Speed: The Designed-In Dangers of the American Automobile

message: :This 1965 book made the author famous nationwide. It claimed that the Chevrolet Corvair, an air-cooled rear-engine rear wheel drive car, was totally unsafe, even while parked! This is either an exaggeration, or a lie. Like the VW Beetle, the links on the rear wheels would not prevent a rear wheel from folding inward under extreme conditions. The publicity later caused GM to correct this problem.
I suggest that a pre-requisite to work in this article is to have read the book !!  Milton 13:20, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Another reviewer

message: "A 1972 safety commission report conducted" ... from chapter docs is also mostly contained in the criticism chapter.
these might be folded into one single place - like a chapter on alternate technical fact collection and insights by third party.
--Alexander.stohr (talk) 13:45, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  mostly duplicate content
Talk:Andrew Lang

message: The cause of death reported as "angina pectoris" is not recognized as such.
Angina pectoris is the description of a typical chest pain due to blockage of the coronary arteries.
Pain (angina pectoris, headache, arm pain, etc.) is not a cause of death.
Thus, more precise is "...died of a heart attack..."
Hortas 18:00, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  angina pectoris 

message: The link is incorrect - it refers to a Canadian parliamentarian. It should be to John Ferguson McLennan, a Scottish ethnologist. I fixed it. Irish Melkite (talk) 07:31, 7 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  McLennan 
Talk:Basil Fawlty

message: Do we really know that Basil was in the catering corps? I always though it was just part of Sybul's joke. Arkyopterix 16:35, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that Arkyopterix was right - why do we simply assume that Sybil is telling the truth when she says that he was in the catering corps? I think that we should just assume both were over-exaggerating or downplaying the event. We should also assume that Basil served in the army and was responsible for the deaths of four men. What he actually did and the means by which he killed the men are pure speculation. Grieferhate (talk) 16:59, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: We can't assume either is correct. He could have falsely claimed to have killed four men to boast that he's capable of killing. She could have falsely claimed he poisoned them in order to discredit his statement. We should say that they said those things, without assuming they are either true or false. Jim Michael (talk) 01:58, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Catering Corps

message: Which mental disorder does he have? He is very neurotic and has emotional dysregulation. His overreactions include furiously thrashing his car with a tree branch when it breaks down. He is paranoid at times, but at other times hires cowboy tradesmen and fails to notice a conman in the hotel. 188.28.50.109 (talk) 12:54, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Narcissistic personality disorder, bipolar disorder and generalised anxiety disorder? 188.28.156.45 (talk) 14:03, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mental illness 

message: I cannot find any evidence of this sister, Carol; I'm going to remove her until evidence comes up that she does exist. 86.13.106.148 (talk) 12:12, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sister? 

message: I think a lot of this section qualifies as original research, and so should be removed. Mark and inwardly digest (talk) 10:17, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personality section
Talk:Col legno

message: I've taken out this: Another percussive technique is when the twisting the hair of the bow on the string.
It was added by the same person who added the note on col legno tratto, which was a good addition, so I'm intrigued as to what is meant by this. I'm afraid I don't understand it at all though. Can anybody clarify? --Camembert
:Hi there. Just expanded this page. The above doesn't relate to col legno (it uses the hair not the wood) but is occasionally asked for: it needs an very heavy hand on the bow to overload the string, so that the normal fundamental frequency isn't allowed to speak. I'll do some research (find the name of it) and see whether it's discussed on another bowing technique page. JH(emendator) 22:48, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Edit

message: Col legno tratto is often executed with both the stick of the bow and the edge of the hair touching the string, which gives a more "tonal" sound. (so the bow is not turned 180 degrees, but only 90.) Sometimes this is called "1/2 legno tratto", if the composer wants to differentiate it from "full" legno tratto. (e.g. by Mauricio Kagel.) -- megA (talk) 15:03, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yet another variant 

message: ...and the plain marking col legno is invariably interpreted to mean battuto rather than tratto.  Except when there are long, sustained notes written, which would indicate "tratto" instead of "battuto", which is notated with short (usually staccato) notes. (see the beginning of the second scene in Albann Berg's "Wozzeck", which has long sustained chords with plain "col legno" indication.) -- megA (talk) 15:05, 10 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Distinction between "battuto" and "tratto" 

message: This seems to be almost as characteristic of it as the enlarged percussion section and the piccolos; see for example Mozart's contredanse KV 535, where he writes for the cellos and bases in the coda "mit dem Bogen schlagen". Double sharp (talk) 10:14, 24 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  in Turkish music (the Classical kind)
Talk:Dubrovnik

message: The article has contained this for a while now:
: There is also , a Celtic name for water (Gaulish , Irish , Welsh , Cornish ), akin to the toponyms , Dover, and , which can also explain the name.
I can't find a source that actually says this, so I'm removing it as WP:OR that conflicts with sources that specifically discuss the etymology of the word. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 15:23, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  fake Celtic etymology 

message: I've altered the first sentence, and the first paragraph accordingly, to reflect the nation status of Croatia at the top of the article. It seemed odd to simply describe Croatia geographically as a 'semi-enclave' there. I also note the lack of references to modern Dubrovnik. See Bruges for example. I might come back and insert some detail in due course. Emmentalist (talk) 08:08, 28 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Croatia and modern Dubrovnik

message: As stated in the article for the word "argosy" the word comes from "Ragusa." Wastrel Way (talk) Eric Wastrel Way (talk) 12:44, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  More etymology
Talk:Wind

message: I was reading the ENSO article and got confused about what an 'easterly' wind was.  I came here and there was implications, but no explicit statements, so I added one.
In the process, I split the second intro paragraph topically into three: first overall classification, the second about Meteorology classification, and the third about solar wind.  Took out an inapt sentence about spreading seeds, as that was present below, and tweaked that.
Hope you like it.  OsamaBinLogin (talk) 00:33, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Direction terminology 

message: I could just change this, but considering this article is being reviewed and I could be wrong, I'll ask here first.
I feel the use of the word "role" in the heading and/or text feels a bit off to me.
For example the sentence "The role of wind is to erode rocks, or carry seeds" sounds like it is doing it on purpose, or it was designed to do this. Would other word not be better, like "effect" or "use" or something else. I suppose "role" might not technically be wrong, I just think there may be better words. What do others think? Am I talking nonsense? is my view of the word "role" wrong?
 Carlwev  05:55, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: removed from heading Chidgk1 (talk) 08:44, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: "Role" in the natural world

message: Introduction 
Type 
Explanation 
Conclusion 
advantage
 diagram
Disadvantages 2409:4081:E80:A7A7:0:0:34C8:3815 (talk) 15:29, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Winds