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Talk:Extreme points of North America

message: I don't know for sure, but I've always been taught that the farthest east point is in Alaska, one of the Aleutian Islands that crosses the International Dateline.  Has anybody else heard anything like this?? --Dan2119 00:59, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That depends on whether you use the 180th meridian as your east/west divider, as is more common, or the International Date Line, which is generally less common.  But your option is already included as a footnote. Warofdreams talk 02:25, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If it's less common, the Eastern Hemisphere article should be corrected:  it refers to the boundaries of the eastern hemisphere as the Prime Meridian and the International Date Line.Vulcan's Forge (talk) 02:09, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: East-West

message: Using the date line or any meridian as the definition of a comparative easternmost is flawed. Think about it. If an alien came to earth, would he know anything about the Greenwich observatory? No. And using such definitions basically makes the most east and west points nearly coincide, which is just stupid. 
A more proper definition of easternmost point is the point at which, if you travel east, you can't stay in north America. For the contiguous continent, that's all you need to say.
If we concern ourselves with Islands, then one must find the largest gap in longitude for all the extreme points of the collection. The easternmost longitude of that gap is the westernmost point on the collections of continent and islands, and vice versa. In the case of North America, the gap is obviously over Asia. 172.58.27.198 (talk) 14:17, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alaska is not the easternmost point
Talk:Sun Journal (Lewiston, Maine)

message: The partnership with the Bangor Daily News should be mentioned. It's been in place for a few years now I think. Dtaylor05 (talk) 00:24, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Bangor Daily News]] Partnership 

message: It should be mentioned that the Sun Journal now charges for access to a substantial amount of their articles posted on their website. I think you also have to subscribe if you want to comment on articles. They also offer the print edition/version online. https://members.sunjournal.com/clickshare/subscriptionCenter.do Dtaylor05 (talk) 00:29, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Online subscription service
Category talk:College football players in the United States

message: Maybe there should be a page for St. Louis University.  Although they don't play football anymore, there are several references in Wikipedia to St. Louis University, because of that team's origination of the forward pass in 1906.  St. Louis played major college football for at least 50 years, ending in the late 1940s.Ruedetocqueville 01:04, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Live Shots

message: Hey MrFizyx, I'm confused about the alleged CD backing vocal credits that you have restored after I deleted them based upon the liner notes on the original vinyl. What does the CD say -- exactly -- that leads you to include those credits? They do not make sense to me. Thanks. Cloonmore 02:12, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, I don't have the disc on hand any longer (also borrowed from the library I'm afraid--I could try to get it again).  As I recall the CD notes were damn confusing, it was hard to decipher which credits belonged to the Live Shots album and which belonged to Texas Special.  Somehow Lloyd Maines name was left out entirely except for a caption on a photo that showed him playing on the tour (Maines was listed on the sleve for the vinyl that I ran across in used record store).  I do recall, however, a list of guest vocalists that included among others, The Clash (without naming them individually).  I would have been refering to this directly while writing the article. -MrFizyx 17:15, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I figured it might be confusing if they did what often happens w/CDs: reproducing the album sleeve liner notes at 1/5 the size. The liner notes on the inner sleeve of the original vinyl are handwritten and small.  Here's what they say, in relevant part: "SPECIAL THANKS TO: The Clash, Joe, Mick, Paul & Topper; Carlene Carter, additional vocals; Micky Gallagher & Reese Wynans, Keyboards; ..."   FYI, "Joe, Mick, Paul & Topper" ARE the Clash. That's why this entry's separate credits for "the Clash," "Paul and Topper" and the mysterious "Joe Mick" strike me as plainly wrong. Only Carlene Carter is actually credited with backing vocals. Methinks a revision is in order.Cloonmore 01:56, 7 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Doh!  I don't know why it didn't occur to me that those were the members of the clash.  Also, I don't know if it was my error or the error or whoever created the cd liner notes (it was new text not just a small reproduction).  In any case, I'm going to assume what you've written above is more correct. -MrFizyx 19:52, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Cheers MrFizyxCloonmore 22:51, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: vocal credits
Talk:Christianity in Azerbaijan

message: Goldorack, please stop adding wildly inaccurate, long obsolete, or POV material to articles. There is no active Armenian Apostolic Church outside of Nagorno Karabakh, and there are not "around 20,000 ethnically Armenian believers" in Baku. Are you using Soviet-period sources for those claims? And Molokans are not necessarily "Russian". Meowy 16:57, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Meowy, I don't add any "wildly inaccurate, long obsolete or POV materials" to articles. I improve them, whilst you are engaging in POV and edit warring. Molokans are nearly all Russian, a few non-Russian Molokans are an exception to the rule. The 20,000 (or more, up to 30,000) ethnic Armenians in Baku and other large cities is according to the annual US State Department reports - it's easy to check and verify, if needed. There are several, perhaps 3 or more, Armenian churches in Baku and other large cities of Azerbaijan. Whether they are "active" or not doesn't matter, since they don't cease being part of Christian heritage if they are a museum, for example, and continue to enjoy their special status as a Christian church, a place of worship, recognized by both all the people and by the government as such. --Goldorack (talk) 10:48, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Goldorack 

message: What do khachkars in Nakhichevan have to do with Christianity in Azerbaijan? Is there any evidence that they were destroyed (if they were at all) for religious reasons? Plus, they were just tombstones, not religious facilities or temples. Grandmaster 05:49, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I also think that whole section should be removed unless a source is found alleging that the destruction was an anti-Christian act as opposed to an anti-Armenian act. There could be a case for a (brief) mention of the incident if it were placed into a wider context such as the destruction of monuments related to Azerbaijan's Christian heritage. There are a number of such incidents, such as the recent destruction of the Russian Cemetery in Baku, the widespread demolition of Armenian churches, the physical removal of evidence of Armenian identity from others Armenian churches for political reasons, etc. Meowy 18:07, 13 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Khachkar
Talk:Red Road (Glasgow)

message: It isn't good to have one page called Red Road (film) and another called Red Road (Glasgow). The film is set in Glasgow, and is fiction. The flats
are in the real Glasgow.
I am redirecting Red Road (Glasgow) to Red Road (flats). As it happens, the postal address of at least many of the flats (perhaps all) is not Red Road, but Red Road is how they are referred to.
It is also an error to have the article on the flats redirect to Balornock. Why? Because some of the flats aren't in Balornock; they're in Barmulloch!!
158-152-12-77 01:09, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Pleasant Valley High School (California)

message: entire article is a copyright violation "© Copyright 2003 Diverse Network Associates" with each section from:
*Awards http://www.pvhs.chico.k12.ca.us/index.html
*Administration http://www.pvhs.chico.k12.ca.us/__administration/index.html
*Departments http://www.pvhs.chico.k12.ca.us/__departments/index.html
new temp page at Talk:Pleasant Valley High School (California)/Temp Zedla 01:10, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[WP:COPYVIO|Copyright violation]]
Talk:Nensebo (Aanaa)

message: The Barnabas Fund reports of Islamic radicals in March attacking a church here with knives, killing one, injuring 17. Is this a widespread problem or a one off incident? Andycjp (talk) 12:52, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There have been a growing number of conflicts between Christians & Muslims in Ethiopia. You'd have to look thru the articles on the various woredas of the Oromia Region to find them; I haven't been keeping track, but have added them piecemeal to these articles. -- llywrch (talk) 04:08, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Database transaction

message: The transitive verb "persist" is used but not defined. Wegesrand (talk) 12:25, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Terminology 

message: This article is badly in need of references. SqlPac (talk) 04:25, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: the syntax "BEGIN WORK" is so riduculously unsupported by db vendors that we should not mention it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.66.134.54 (talk) 13:43, 17 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, most (relational databases) handle transaction start implictly, and the text should probably reflect that. For now, I've changed BEGIN WORK to START TRANSACTION, to at least use the sql standard's statement. TroelsArvin (talk) 00:10, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  sql syntax 

message: A question about how it looks from a application programmer perspective. E.g. using Python on a PostgreSQL server, using the psycopg driver. 
Beginning and ending a transaction, is that something you do on a connection or on a cursor? Or maybe it depends on the driver? Or on the dbms? Can you start a transaction in 
213.165.179.229 (talk) 16:14, 6 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  For a cursor or a transaction? 

message: Why does LUW redirect to this page? I came here expecting to see a definition after I saw someone use it on another talk page, but no reference is made to LUW here... GoBusto (talk) 17:02, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: It means "logical unit of work". It should probably be incorporated into this article. Mindmatrix 20:55, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  LUW 

message: I would like to see a definition of transaction that can be used to prove integrity properties in specific database applications. This means it must be formal and sufficiently simple to use in theorem provers. The scientific literature contains no usable definition so far.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stefjoosten (talk • contribs) 07:05, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, if literature doesn't contain such a definition then it would be WP:OR. Wikipedia is not the right place for that. -- intgr [talk] 08:25, 23 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semantics of Database Transactions 

message: — Assignment last updated by Harrisondonnersbach (talk) 04:17, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Research Process and Methodology - FA23 - Sect 201 - Thu
Talk:Argungu

message: The history section on this page is almost identical to the text found at the first external link (List of Emirs of Argungu).  Deleting the Argungu.html off the end of the URL yields  which has the following copyright notice at the bottom.
 Copyright 2000 - 2003 by Bob Hilkens. Permission to use for non-commercial
 purposes granted on condition credit is given and copyrightholder notified 
 of intended use and user.
I have sent him an E-mail with links to this page as per the request in the notice and suggest that this be left on the talk page as notice of the creator.  -AndrewBuck 01:34, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyright Issues
Talk:Mercedes-Benz SL-Class

message: I asked this on the R129 page but this might be a better place to ask. It says 1994 in the article but I have seen 320 SL's for sale that claim to be as old as 1991. For example, this one http://carsireland.ie/55245 - it's not a great photo, but it definitely looks like a 320SL to me. Could it really be 1991? thanks  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Brian Fenton (talk • contribs) 18:05, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: According to Kittler, Deutsche Autos seit 1990, vol. 6, p. 215, the 320 SL appeared in May, 1993; in calendar 1992, 3 cars were built, probably prototypes. Volume production began in 1993. And according to Covello, Standard Catalog of Imported Cars, the SL 320 was introduced in the USA for model year 1994, i.e. in autumn 1993. Why this Irishman is advertising a 1991 320SL, a car that apparently cannot exist, I don´t know. Maybe it`s a case of Tullamoredewitis? Or a typo? Or? --328cia (talk) 03:53, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  When did the 320SL first come out? 

message: Links are to be verified. Those to official sites are broken and this in particular:
"Mercedes Benz SL Model Breakdowns"
points to a used cars selling site, which I think violates Wikipedia rules.
Mccarver (talk) 22:06, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links 

message: Unlike the Ferrari F12 Berlinetta or FF, Aston Martin DB-Series, etc., or even Mercedes' own CL-Class, the SL is a SPORTS car, not a GRAND TOURING car. Everyone says it's a sports car. Heck, even Mercedes calls it a sports car. Hey, I know Chevrolet calls its Corvette a GT car, but AFAIK, it's a little too small to be called a GT car too. 166.137.208.18 (talk) 17:35, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Mercedes SL is NOT a grand tourer 

message: I removed the "notable drivers" list.  It was getting out of control.  Not many references, no explanation of why the ownerships were notable, and some opinionated commentary for good measure.  See WP:WPACT (Trivia and popular culture sections).  --Vossanova o< 14:46, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable drivers 

message: Anyone else think that the article would benefit from generational nicknames and/or notable models being placed in the headings, such as the first-gen SL-class's header mentioning the Gullwing or the second-gen header mentioning the "Pagoda" nickname? -Xterra1 22:11, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  More prominent nicknames?
Talk:Black-necked crane

message: What is the answer? How big is a group. I want to know. 2A00:23C6:690B:FA01:BDE3:CD09:EDC9:D2F3 (talk) 15:19, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Black-necked Tibetan Crane Group Size
Talk:Comp check

message: it seems like a very good article could be created if the Comparables article and this were merged. Minnaert 01:49, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Good idea to merge. Do you want to go ahead?  With appropriate cross refs. it makes sense.  First define the term and its usage, then relate to appraisers' use via comp check. Viva-Verdi 20:01, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Ditto.  I've significantly updated the Comparables page.  --Thesurveyor 02:26, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Abdulla Afeef Didi

message: The name of Afeefu's grandfather was Elha Didi from Hitadu, not Elhe Didi. 'Elha' means 'young' but 'Elhe' means pit or ditch. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mohonu (talk • contribs) 02:03, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Name of Afeefu's Grandfather

message: This page now redirects to Abdullah Afeef, as consensus is that was his preferred formal name. Content from this article has been merged into that one. Terraxos 02:43, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirected to Abdullah Afeef
Talk:Monasteries on the slopes of Popocatépetl

message: Despite the name, which is apparently officially sanctioned by UNESCO, some of these are so far away that the felicity of referring to the slopes of Popo is certainly questionable. Tetela del Volcán is on the slopes: Yecapixtla hardly; Atlatlahucan certainly not (it's across a valley, on the slopes of the divide going into the Valley of Mexico), much less Tepoztlán or Cuernavaca, for instance. --Lavintzin 01:57, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slopes? 

message: The article refers to Tlayacapan, Puebla. Is is Tlayacapan, Morelos? Or one of the sites in Puebla?
--Lavintzin 02:18, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tlayacapan Puebla 

message: A number of the picture captions are unhelpful in that they don't identify which monastery they are from. I can't fix it, but whoever posted the pictures presumably could.
--Lavintzin 14:17, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Captions 

message: The coordinates need the following fixes:
* Write here
These coordinates are several hundred kilometers from the location they're purportedly representing.
74.14.27.123 (talk) 05:47, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  These Coordinates Are Wrong 
Talk:Kushikatsu

message: This article is categorized under Taiwanese cuisine, but doesn't say how kushi-katsu is served in Taiwan or how it got to Taiwan from Japan. Wl219 02:46, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: With Yakitori, "a Japanese type of skewered chicken". "Kushikatsu can be made with chicken, pork, ..." So? Merge them. --176.239.20.233 (talk) 21:49, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Kushikatsu are deep-fried. Yakitori are not. Different foods. EvergreenFir (talk) Please  21:51, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The first sentence of Kushikatsu says "grilled". How is the taste of each one? Got some? I'd like to try and decide for myself. --176.239.20.233 (talk) 22:00, 12 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I fixed that. The Japanese article on it says in the first sentence "串カツ（くしカツ）は、肉や野菜などを串に刺して、衣を付け油で揚げた日本のカツ料理である". Translation is "Kushikatsu are skewered meat and vegetables, battered and deep-fried Japanese cutlets." EvergreenFir (talk) Please  23:04, 14 February 2016 (UTC)

text: Objection I noticed that Kushiyaki is incorrectly merged with Kushikatsu to date, and that could be another reason behind misunderstanding here. 
*Yakitori is a grilled food on skewer, and basically uses parts of chicken.
*Grilled food such as vegetable, meat including pork and beef, and seafood on skewer is kushiyaki. 
*When those food above are battered, topped with finely shredded bread crumb and deep fried, they are kushikatsu. 
*Neither yakitori nor kushiyaki is deep fried or even battered. 
Need to correct and unmerge kushiyaki from kushikatsu. --Omotecho (talk) 19:35, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 
Talk:Doonan, Queensland

message: Doonan is an ancient Irish name O Dunain (talk) 03:48, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doonan Queensland
Talk:Hurricane Gaston Predictions

message: Why would you waste your time on such a page?  Why wouldn't you spend time writing about a more interesting and notable storm instead? — jdorje (talk) 19:06, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, I don't mean to sound negative.  I just find it frustrating that you keep adding new articles on non-notable storms when there are so many notable ones that have very poor articles. If you have particular interest in a storm because you were in it, then I can understand your interest in the article (myself, I actually drove through Hurricane Gaston on the way home from Savannah to Wilmington on Sunday night).  But all the article stubs you've written seem to have no particular connection (covering the Carolinas, Florida, Cuba, and Canada), so I doubt that's the case. — jdorje (talk) 19:24, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well in the Hurricane Katrina article there were subpages like the one I wrote. And since I found more info on the storm (like the timeline and why the storm was so unpredictable, etc..), I figured out that some of the sections might need subpages (like again in the Katrina article). Storm05 19:38, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, the hurricane Katrina article is obnoxiously long (which the gaston article may be close to, but isn't at yet).  It's also 100x more notable than Gaston (having done 100x the damage and killed 100x as many people) and so is deserving of 100x more content.  Not that I'm defending any of the mess that is the katrina articles...but let's not duplicate the problem.  The end result of most sub-pages is to never be updated and to remain very low quality. — jdorje (talk) 19:45, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. It's too small, and there is so little information for such a non-notable storm that it really should be in the storm article. Hurricanehink 21:52, 10 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This storm isn't even close to notable enough for subpages like this. Purge them all, none are nessesary. -- §HurricaneERIC§Damagesarchive 22:38, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll get my axe out. Hurricanehink 22:41, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Why?
Talk:Buffalo Rock State Park

message: I edited the stub and kept the original ideas, I just expanded and rearranged them into the headings that I made and sought fit.  I kept the original infobox, and introduction that was originally there.  I simply rearranged the sentences throughout my history to make them fit better with how I arranged the overall information.  I think that the stub class should be removed, because I expanded quite thoroughly.
Escatel1 (talk) 16:55, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

message: I found that this photo of a picnic shelter in Hyner Run State Park in Pennsylvania is used in this article. While the article does not explicitly claim the photo is of Buffalo Rock State Park & Effigy Tumuli, I think the average reader would assume that it is. Is this really the best use of the image? Would no image (other than the Buffalo and map) be better? I know the Buffalo image was also not taken in this park, but buffalo look pretty much alike. My guess is that the picnic shelter in Illinois is not identical to the one pictured in Pennsylvania. Ruhrfisch  ><>°° 17:54, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of Pennsylvania Park photo 
Talk:List of diplomats of the United Kingdom to the Ottoman Empire

message: The article lists Sir Robert Liston as being ambassador from 1794-95, yet links to an article about the surgeon Robert Liston who was born in 1794. Unless he learned English and Turkish pretty early in life then I'd assume this wasn't the same person! I believe they were both from the Kirkliston area though, so are likely related. Incidentally I believe that the ambassador Robert Liston lived 1742-1836. I'm not sure if I know enough about this subject though to construct a proper edit, so will post here for now, and mibbe do a bit of research.
Rossclark 00:13, 25 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sir Robert Liston
Talk:Modular curve

message: To do: 
#most importantly, a picture of modular figure (for the modular group itself);
#algebraic definition of modular curves (Nick Katz's approach);
#towers of modular curves, adelic interpretation, Hecke correspondences;
#examples of modular curves mod p, short description of Eichler-Shimura;
#other applications, e.g. Drinfeld-Vladuts, Ramanujan graphs.
Feel free to contribute to any of these! Arcfrk 02:15, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

message: I feel that this section is out of place here, even aside from its inferior quality. It should be enough just to mention that modular curves of genus 0 are connected with the Monster finite simple group and refer to the reasonably well-written article on the moonshine conjectures for details. Arcfrk (talk) 17:09, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see a serious problem: the order of material should probably be switched around, though. Hauptmodul, as the German terminology suggests, goes back to the Klein-Fricke era, and is quite classical therefore. Perhaps some comments first on how the genus of a modular curve is calculated, and then the genus 0 case (happens only finitely often); and then some mention of the interest from the finite group side. Charles Matthews (talk) 19:11, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Monstrous moonshine