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Talk:Evolutionary Air and Space Global Laser Engagement

message: User:Orangedayday imported a large amount of text to the article, which requires cleanup. Additionally, some of it looks to be lifted straight from a news agency, so it may not be licenced under the GFDL.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nneonneo (talk • contribs) 19:17, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've reverted the whole text dump due to license questions. User:Orangedayday only edited on one day, and didn't even attempt to format or rewrite his additions. The text is still in the history if anyone wants to try to clean it up and re-add. - BillCJ (talk) 18:11, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 

message: Can't find any recent references to this on Google, and no test flights appear to have ever taken place. Can anyone update it? Michaelmas1957 (talk) 18:38, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is it defunct? 
Talk:3-in-1 Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet

message: anyone remember how fast you had to press the buttons to get your man to run in track meet? and the special floor paddles that made it seem like you were there...
:Someone needs to find a the box cover, because the both the game cartridge and the in-game screen just refer to it as "Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet" (no "3-in-1"). TJ Spyke 05:28, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: How about #REDIRECT Duck Hunt#Packaging and music?  Eh?  --Jaysweet 22:45, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, nevermind, nothing links here, and nobody is ever going to type in precisely "3-in-1 Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt/World Class Track Meet" into the search bar.. Derp! --Jaysweet 22:47, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Instead of delete...
Talk:Centurion (disambiguation)

message: Primus Pilus - First Spear, alt. name for Pilus is Triarius. I'd be inclined to agree with "rank", except every bit of information I've ever heard on the subject has said "First Spear". - Chris5369, 3:04AM EST, 12/28/04
What ! No reference to the Centurion from Battle Tech / Mech Warrior !!
72.145.157.248 22:52, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

message: their track Bullwinkle Pt. II was on the Pulp Fiction soundtrack.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.45.217.196 (talk) 20:21, 7 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  the band Centurions
Talk:Port (computing)

message: I was looking for information on "Ephemeral port". It redirects here but there is no mention of it. :(
:Ditto.  Somegeek 16:24, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ephemeral port 

message: Can we split this into different pages for hardware ports and network ports?  Articles like Nmap link here, and it would be confusing for someone to learn that a port scanner looks for open ports, then comes here to discover what a port is.  They might think that it looks for ethernet jacks and audio sockets in the side of their laptop! Ojw 22:46, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: TCP ports are indeed a completely different concept, and is should indeed get it's own article --LimoWreck 13:18, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Split page?

message: I agree in that a split is necessary.  TCP/IP ports differ quite completely from hardware ports.  It is too confusing for the computer illiterate to make sence of the difference between physical and internet ports.  However, it might be a better idea to integrate the ideas of internet ports into a different article, such as Internet or Computer networking, and make this one solely about hardware.
Nick2253 21:36, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Split is necessary 

message: It looks like there's concensus to split, so I went ahead and split the article. Helvetica 18:50, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Went ahead and split it 

message: I've merged the remaining disambig to Port (disambiguation) and redirected.  Disabig pages are generally understood to be for people who are lost and need to figure out where to go.  Readers who are lost are almost certainly going to wind up at the main port disambig looking for computer ports.  Also, as far as I know, disambig pages aren't usually (ever?) broken out by subject area, but are instead grouped under an appropriate header on the main disambig page.  --Interiot 00:57, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. I redirected all the links to this page to the correct page, except for some on user Talk pages (which are mostly from SuggestBot, so should probably just be removed). The next step is to request deletion of this page. --Rick Sidwell 16:55, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

text: Forget the deletion request. The page has non-trivial edit history. (I'm still learning here...)  --Rick Sidwell 17:12, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merged remaining disambig to [[Port (disambiguation)]]
Talk:Chagatai Khan

message: The two sections need to be articles on their own. I am on Wikivacation and trying hard to stay that way. Might add stuff when I get back, if no one else has by then.—iFaqeer (Talk to me!) 09:54, Dec 28, 2004 (UTC)
:I've taken the liberty to fix much of the grammatical, spelling, and punctuation errors within the two articles. Xym 02:31, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Why is the Ilkhanate labeled "Domains of Timur" when he wasn't born until the mid 1300s? 76.173.0.112 (talk) 12:08, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  1294 map 

message: The source A History of the Moghuls of Central Asia: The Tarikh-i-Rashidi is the most used source in this article. The  had cited only page 696, which is invalid because there are only 538 pages in the book. Furthermore, it doesn't seem likely that all of that information would have been found on just one page. Unfortunately, it appears the original editor  who added that source is no longer active. —howcheng  {chat} 18:10, 29 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  missing page numbers 

message: Which year did his reign begin? Article states both 1225 and 1226, while Genghis Khan died in 1227. H2ppyme (talk) 10:41, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: 1225/1226/1227

message: The first section is lifted directly from the cited text, as you might suspect from the antiquated style. --Lazar Taxon (talk) 07:47, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: The book is in the public domain because it was published in 1895 and the author died more than 70 years ago . Of course it would be better to summarise the source in Wikipedia's style, but we allow using relevant public domain text as a starting point or placeholder. For now, I'll add a template to make the attribution clearer. – Joe (talk) 07:31, 31 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plagiarism 

message: Dughlat's A History ... was written in 1840 - and for all intents and purposes, should be looked at as a primary source - although a work full of good information, we've picked up a thing or two over the past 180 years or so. This is just ridiculous. Compare with the Cambridge History of Inner Asia, for example. This book is used as the main source of this article.  Needs to be re-written to match modern scholarship's most up-to-date outlook.  Just ... awful.  50.111.19.21 (talk) 15:16, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  terribly outdated source ...
Talk:True Colours (Split Enz album)

message: I'm in the process of adding chart statistics to the Enz catalogue in Wikipedia. I know most print sources state that True Colours reached #42 in the UK but I have cited an online source that claims a position of #38.  Perhaps there was more than one chart in use in the UK in 1980?  There are similar discrepancies with the UK chart position for "I Got You" (usually cited as #12) being listed as #10 in some print sources. 
Muzilon (talk) 12:02, 11 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: UK Chart Position?

message: I note a correction from my listing of this as SE's sixth album to fifth. I realise "Beginning of the Enz" is regarded as a compilation of previously unreleased material, but it still counts! Mental Notes, Second Thoughts, Beginning of the Enz, Dizrythmia, and Frenzy were all released before True Colours, therefore it was SE's sixth album.  Grutness|hello?  10:23, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  
Talk:Dahisar

message: At first, I thought this article was on a railway stop, as indicated by the first graf. However, it looks as if Dahisar is some sort of suburb/village. The article should mention this first (with whatever official designation [suburb of Mumbai?]), not the railway stop. BuddingJournalist 07:52, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rewrite needed 

message: Please remove this section or at least make sure this has only notable personalities.  This had a list of local doctors, politicians, etc, so I cleaned it up.
--Anshul (talk) 09:34, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Prominent Personalities

message: As This area has small temples, There are so many companies have been established around dahisar area. one of the famous Organization that offers online jobs without investment.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Manojcool65 (talk • contribs) 10:29, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Companies At Dahisar area 

message: Dahisar is a very peaceful area at the extreme end of Mumbai towards North, away from the noise of Mumbai and you can enjoy living in Mumbai. Needs some good malls and some other good resorts towards the coastal area which is barren as off now.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 182.73.31.38 (talk) 12:16, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  N.L.Complex 
Talk:Ideographic Research Group

message: Moved from Wikipedia:Copyright problems:
*Ideographic Rapporteur Group from  and . I'm not sure what the Hong Kong government's copyright status is, but I figured I'd report it just to be safe. - Vague | Rant 08:35, Dec 24, 2004 (UTC)
**Anon at Talk:Ideographic Rapporteur Group claims to have sent a permission request. --rbrwr±
End moved text
As no action has been taken on this in a very long time, I've gone ahead and deleted the article as copyvio. -- Cyrius|✎ 03:38, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyvio 

message: The Japanese version of this article is considerably longer.  It's difficult to tell from Babelfish alone, but it appears to take a militantly anti-Unihan position.  I wish someone would reconcile these two versions of the page in some way (any way).  I can't do it because I don't know enough Japanese. 24.174.30.146 (talk) 05:47, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Japanese version?
Talk:Office of the future

message: " The Bluespace prototype seems like the perfect environment for an ambitious young IBM salesman, thus betraying the salesman (or saleslady) centric culture prevalent within IBM ."
How can a saleman culture be 'betrayed' by developing a prototype described as 'perfect' for salesmen? Surely the prototype would be seen as a positive step?
Yes, most certainly.  The term betrayed is employed here in a figurative way.  The Bluespace environment is, in my personal opinion, a nearly ideal one for this particular kind of employee.  I had to restrain my enthusiasm about it (or about the Starfire video prototype, or about the Broadbench prototype and its Longhorn demo...) to try to write a balanced encyclopedia article about it and the other prototypes.  In the first draft it came out as a very drab, very grey article, so I tried to enliven it with some stylistic elements like saying "betrays" instead of "exemplifies" or "supports" or something else.  --AlainV 19:45, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Nicholas Rowe (actor)

message: He starred in one of the earliest films to use CGI, a film that was directed by Barry Levinson and produced by Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment.  He has maintained a steady career in notable films and television projects.  I'm not understanding why this article is marked for notability and not say his co-star, Alan Cox, whose only notability seems to be that he is the son of actor Brian Cox.   Ladydayelle 21:23, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:House of Representatives (Japan)

message: Could someone please translate http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%A1%86%E8%AD%B0%E9%99%A2 because it has more information.--Youssef 12:00, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Translation request

message: Do multi-member districts contain the same number of people? Or is the amount of representatives determined by the population of the district? Or do they have different amounts of people but each elect the same amount of representatives? These questions need to be addressed in the article.
SteveSims (talk) 05:13, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Proportional representation in multi-member districts?

message: When do the members of the House of Representatives terms begin: on election day, on the first day of the special special session, or some day in between? I ask because the constitution says that their term is four years, so one would need to know when their terms begin to know when the term expires, starting the clock for a general election. -Rrius (talk) 08:55, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Terms 

message: The colours of the parties in the graphics do not match with those in the legends. Kaihsu (talk) 11:35, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Not only the colours don't match: As the file name and file date indicate, the graphics in the infobox shows House of Representatives caucuses as they were in February 2019. The list in the infobox lists parties with apparently freely invented numbers without reference and without date. The section "current composition" lists the current composition by kaiha/caucus/parliamentary group [or if you prefer HR.go.jp.Engrish: "in-house group"] as given by the House of Representatives website. [or almost current – that was briefly before the DPFP-LP merger, but that didn't affect caucuses, as the two parties had already formed joint caucuses in both houses of the Diet earlier this year] An (unreferenced, but more likely correct) current numerical breakdown of the caucuses into members by party can be found in :ja:衆議院#院内勢力. --Asakura Akira (talk) 14:17, 6 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  party colour mismatch 

message: Is the translation of 超然主義 "transcendentalism" correct?
jawp has it  240D:1A:4FB:1E00:DF95:DC6:90EC:FBDE (talk) 04:53, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  超然主義
Talk:Isabella of Aragon, Queen of France

message: Here it says that Isabella had four sons. But her husband's page states that they had only three sons, though Philip did have three more children with his second wife. In addition, Charles, Count of Valois is said to be Isabella and Philip's third son.
It seems that Robert's the odd son out. Did he ever exist? What's the scoop on this discrepancy? Randee15 12:52, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure... the French article included Robert, so I did as well when I translated it. I thought he was probably just left out of Philip's list, because he died young and apparently wasn't important, but I don't know. Adam Bishop 21:47, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: This article gives Isabella's date of death as 1271, accompanied by some very specific details which suggest the timing is well documented. However, her father's will, dated 25 August 1270, refers to her as already dead (and calls her Elizabeth). Can anyone who knows more than I do about medieval Iberian history throw some light on this? Mikeindex (talk) 14:01, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Could you please quote the will? Is it possible that James was referring to another child, possibly an illegitimate one? At the time, it was far from unusual to give the same name to two or more children, even if the older namesake was still alive when the younger one was born. Surtsicna (talk) 16:08, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of death
Talk:Prime Minister of Iraq

message: The name of the first prime minister of Iraq is Sayyad Abd ar-Rahman Al-Gillani as mentioned in the book Tazkar-e-Qadriah written by his  named " Sayyad Tahir Allauddin Al-Gillani" , the Muslim world Spirtual Leader and the Grandson of SayyadAbd ar-Rahman al-Gillani
Also the name Rashid Ali al-Kaylani should also be corrected, His name is Rashid Ali al-Gillani.
Why are some of the terms in parenthesis and others not? --65.4.105.166 20:36, 28 May 2005 (UTC)

message: We need to have an article about Hajim al-Hassani when someone have time. 
: Done. - Seth Ilys 13:56, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  speaker of Iraq's parliament 

message: This article states that Nuri as-Said was Prime Minister of Iraq 8 times, but the Nuri as-Said article has him being Prime Minister 14 times.  Which is correct?  It would be nice if someone supplied a source for the information, either on this page or on Nuri as-Said. NoIdeaNick 05:01, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Replied on Talk:Nuri as-Said. Palmiro | Talk 16:00, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inconsistency 

message: I propose that the content of List of Prime Ministers of Iraq be merged into this article because both the articles are not sufficiently sourced and are rather short. - TheMagnificentist 17:00, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: His article tells he was Prime Minister in 1979-1991 and 1994-2003. Somehow the latter years are totally missing from this list. 91.154.188.185 (talk) 03:22, 24 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Saddam Hussein?
Talk:Watazumi Doso

message: I moved this page from Watazumi Doso Roshi to Watazumi Doso, because roshi is a title and this is conventionally not included in the title of an article.  I also removed from the article a statement that Watazumi Doso became the kanjo of the Fuke sect of Zen, because every source I can find not relating directly to Doso says that Fuke was abolished in 1871, before he was born. - Nat Krause 14:29, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Why does it still say Fuke in the infobox on the right, then? 173.89.236.187 (talk) 16:28, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Notes

message: Why does this article say he was born in 1910 when the Japanese Wikipedia says 1911? 173.89.236.187 (talk) 16:29, 29 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Year of birth
Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation)

message: I have proposed a consistent naming convention for census pages. I'd value your thoughts on whether there should a naming convention, and what it should be. Iveagh Gardens (talk) 06:26, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Census page titles 

message: Is this the right forum to write in? I'm not sure, but I'll give it a try. I'm wondering what the custom is for naming an article about a defunct ministry that has had different names. The Ministry for Rural Affairs was known as the Ministry of Agriculture for over 100 years (1900-2011) and as the Ministry for Rural Affairs for four years (2011-2014). Should I move it to "Ministry of Agriculture" or leave it as "Ministry for Rural Affairs" since that was the most recently used name? Saftgurka (talk) 14:30, 27 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: This seems as reasonable a page for this question as any, though it could also be posed as a WP:RM request at the article's talk page, if you wanted to make a case to move it. In a situation like this, where there will be few English-language sources that treat the subject at all (i.e. no way to be certain of a WP:COMMONNAME) it probably doesn't matter as long as Ministry of Agriculture (Sweden) also redirects there, and there is an entry at Ministry of Agriculture that gets readers to the right article (both of these conditions are presently true). I think I would prefer the modern name to the abandoned one, since the name did change and there's no overriding reaason to prefer the anachronistic name. There is no principle at WP:CRITERIA to prefer a name that is older or that was used for a longer time-span. The two names are going to have about equal [un-]recognizability in the anglosphere, but the newer one has the benefit of additional precision in needing no disambiguation string tacked onto it, which also makes it more concise. The consistency criterion isn't really applicable since this isn't part of a series of similarly named articles (unless one considers articles on Swedish ministries as such, in which case I would bet the newer name is consistent with using the current not historical names of the other ministries).  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  02:55, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the reply. Then I leave it with the name it has now. Saftgurka (talk) 20:40, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Namning an old ministry, old name or last name?
Talk:Charles Nall-Cain, 3rd Baron Brocket

message: I don't think the current page title is how he's best known at all, but he's one of those peers who has spread confusion over how he is best and correctly known - despite what the front cover and copyright page of his autobiography say, he is not "Lord Charles Brocket" (though I've created a redirect from that page). The cover of his autobiography is also a little unclear about whether we should call him Charlie or not! And almost every conceivable variation of Charles + Brocket pops up on either the dust jacket or front pages...
Can I suggest we have this at either Charles Nall-Cain, 3rd Baron Brocket or even Charlie Nall-Cain, 3rd Baron Brocket (we have Frank Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford not Francis Pakenham, 7th Earl of Longford for instance). Timrollpickering 16:09, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: It is very important, as for all other Peers and noble families, show the names of his children (and possible heirs), especially the daughter that is now a Princess (as wife of a Prince of Royal Blood) and the relations with the descendants of Queen Victoria and foreign Royal Families (Hohenzollern, King of Prussia). Alternow (talk) 10:42, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Descendants
Talk:Castor oil

message: you guys should mention that castor oil is used to repel gophers.... https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00CAO3XNA/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:302:D173:BAA0:A5D5:6E9D:E4BE:A612 (talk) 20:46, 27 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  gopher repellent 

message: I have removed the assertion that the use of castor oil as a punishment by colonial officials in the British Raj "replac[ed] more inhumane local punishments", since the quoted source does not indicate anything of the kind.
The assertion was added on on 20 Nov 2019 by the anonymous user at 213.205.240.150. From a quick look at his/her contribution history, he/she seems to be very fond of adding his/her own opinions to Wikipedia articles, with no attempt to back them up with evidence.  
This particular statement is typical of the kind of evidence-free claims made by those who seek to defend the more violent actions of the British Empire on the grounds that "the natives" were far worse before "we" turned up and "civilised" them. Even if that were true in this particular case (and, as mentioned, no evidence has been presented to suggest that it is), I don't see how it contributes to the reader's understanding of the subject of castor oil.
HairyDan (talk) 19:13, 4 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  This is supposed to be about castor oil, not about standing up for The White Man 

message: Should there be a section about castor oil in popular culture? It was referenced in Mary Poppins (in the song Perfect Nanny). It's the only reference I can think of, so maybe not significant enough to be worth noting. But maybe someone else can think of other references? Samsmachado (talk) 18:47, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Castor Oil in Popular Culture 

message: In the Etymology section there is a link reading CASTOR SEED to a site selling them. I don't really know the rules about this sort of thing, but it seems like borderline advertisements wouldn't be permitted. 
Torowam (talk) 23:59, 17 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advertisement? 

message: I'm wondering if the sentence indicating that Castor oil has not been shown to be effective for labor inducement is accurate. I see research out there that supports the use of Castor oil, e.g.: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14767058.2017.1336223. I'm not qualified to adjudicate the disagreement, though. Perhaps the section should be more qualified?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Seaucre (talk • contribs) 20:01, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Castor oil for labor inducement