lflage/wiki-talks huggingface dataset:
Talk:Smilodontini

message: Hi, I am a university student who will be editing this article for a class. Please be nice. Thank you. AshleyEN (talk) 01:23, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Whereas the taxo box mentioned 4 genera, the article said there were only 3 (Smilodon + 2 others), which agreed with the only reference (paleobiology database). I found an article published in 2013 concerning the new genus, Rhizosmilodon, and so added a citation to its mention in the taxobox (I don't think I used the correct format) and then corrected the article.
However, a quick read of the recently published paper indicated that the various wikipedia articles on the machairodontinae may need some serious updating (I suppose it depends on how authoritative one considers this paper in comparison to early publications):
*Megantereon is considered to have only 2 species
*Rhizosmilodon is indicated to be the earliest genus in Smilodontini
*Paramachairodus, which has had its spelling corrected to Paramachaerodus, is an earlier machairodont than Smilodontini/Homotherini/Machairodontini (no idea if it is still considered a member of Eumachairodontia). Following a revision of the genus in 2010, the species P. ogygia has been renamed Promegantereon ogygia; however, the genus has gained a new 2nd species, P. maximilliani.
While I would be prepared to undertake this revision, as a layman, I feel it would be better handled by someone with at least an undergraduate education in the subject. Perhaps AshleyEN might be interested?Glevum (talk) 23:26, 26 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updating
Talk:Barbourofelis

message: An image used in this article, , has been nominated for speedy deletion at Wikimedia Commons for the following reason: Duplicate 
;What should I do?
Speedy deletions at commons tend to take longer than they do on Wikipedia, so there is no rush to respond. If you feel the deletion can be contested then please do so (commons:COM:SPEEDY has further information). Otherwise consider finding a replacement image for this article before it is deleted.
A further notification will be placed when/if the image is deleted. This notification is provided by a Bot, currently under trial --CommonsNotification (talk) 09:53, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: File:Barbourofelis.jpg Nominated for speedy Deletion
Talk:Nimravidae

message: Adding a link to WikiProject:Cats may or may not be suitable, but it should be pointed out that nimravids are not, in fact, cats, but a more distant group that was convergent on felids.
Cephal-odd 06:27, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nimravids & cats 

message: What's the evidence for "North America and Asia were connected by the Bering Land Bridge" during the Oligocene and Miocene? I don't think there is any. Macdonald-ross (talk) 20:11, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added a citation to this effect. Anaxial (talk) 21:33, 9 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bering Land Bridge as ''Deus ex machina''
Talk:The Cold Equations (The Twilight Zone)

message: This is not really a stub because mostly everythin in this ~20 minute TV is mentioned...--Frozenport 00:14, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

message: This page reads more like a review; it's too opinionated.
I've removed the following to keep it neutral.
"This is one of the better episodes of the otherwise unsuccessful remake of the original series.[opinion needs balancing] Partly because it is the Twilight Zone. A show which has a reputation for bizarre and or ironic twists. So the audience, knowing this (but not familiar with the original story) is expecting something to happen. Either resulting in the girl being saved, revealing in the end that she never really existed, or some other bizarre twist.
However nothing of this is sort happens. The girl, who has spent the entire episode tugging at the audience's heart, is finaly ejected. This in itself becomes the surprise, and emotionally devastating ending."
________________
While it goes without saying that the Twilight Zone does have a reputation for the bizarre and ironic twists, the above does read like a review. To make the comment more neutral, one can say that it was indeed one of the more emotional stories. A quick search for the short story it was copied from, The Cold Equations, and you'll find http://home.tiac.net/~cri_d/cri/1999/coldeq.html , which does comment on how and why said story was so emotional. I believe using this as a citation as well as changing the wording of the above paragraph would make it neutral.
I would put the following text in at the introductary paragraph.
"This episode, The Cold Equations, keeps up the Twilight Zone's reputation of the bizarre, ironic, and unusual by breaking the cliches that one would usually expect to happen in this story..."
"Here is one of the most popular and controversial hard science fiction stories of the last fifty years, a story that stacks the deck and then plays with the reader's emotions with carefully juxtaposed cliches that imply a deus ex machina - then frustrates that false expection......Godwin's story angered many readers when it appeared in the fifties, nearly all of whom wanted the problem solved by violating some scientific principle or law."[citation goes here]
As I do not know how to edit, I would very much like help on this. 72.47.31.146 (talk) 08:51, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  More of a review . . .
Talk:Cushman (company)

message: Was this U.S. mail vehicle manufacftured by Cushman? --Chief tin cloud (talk) 18:20, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Cushman vehicle? 
Talk:Fishing cat

message: From various secondary sources, I have found recently that fishing cat is classified as Endangered not vulnerable. Anyone please confirm and change its status. Heba Aisha (talk) 10:04, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Possible is also that these  are websites that have not been updated since 2016. I've seen a blog referring to the outdated status. -- BhagyaMani (talk) 15:34, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  IUCN status of Fishing cat
Talk:Documentary theatre

message: Could someone please provide information on Documentary Theatre from outside of USA? 
----  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.144.210.121 (talk) 13:34, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Isn't that last bit of text lifted directly from porteparole.org? Shouldn't there be something to say that it has been lifted?
I was looking on google for doc theatre and I found that page first, then wiki'd it up and found exactly the same info here.
The links to Victoria Theatre and New Victoria Theatre on this page are to the wrong theatres - they're not the North Staffordshire theatres to which the article refers. Steve Helling 15:32, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Plagiarism?

message: I don't feel strongly about this either way, but could we make a decision on whether this article should be British English or American English – i.e. whether it's Theatre or Theater – and apply that decision throughout, per WP:CONSISTENCY. The mixture is quite distracting at present. Most of the examples mentioned are in fact American. GrindtXX (talk) 21:57, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Varieties of English 

message: One of the students I'm assisting, , was questioning whether or not it would be best to merge verbatim theatre into this article, as verbatim is a subset of documentary theatre and the two articles aren't too overly large as to prohibit this. I am not arguing for or against - I'm posting the tags and discussion section to assist the student in gaining consensus. Shalor (Wiki Ed) (talk) 18:47, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge discussion
Talk:Golden cat

message: Is this really a disambiguation page?  Seems more to be a page that describes a group of related (or at least similar in appearance) species.  RJFJR (talk) 15:38, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, absolutely.  Done.  All links to this page have been pointed elsewhere. The Parson's Cat (talk) 17:21, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Disambig
Talk:Virginia Brindis de Salas

message: I've found some links with Google that seems to hint that Virginia B.d.S. was a real person who wrote poetry, but I can't seem to find a real reference.  Does that make sense?  For instance, I found a review of a book that probably excerpts her poetry.  But I don't have the book, and I can't  verify the few the facts stated in the article.  If someone has a reference, please add it to the article. Thansk, WVhybrid 00:21, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Onza

message: Does this creature actually have an official taxonomic classification?--Marhawkman 21:39, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: taxonomy

message: Why is this in WikiProject Paranormal? Just because it's related to cryptozoology?--Marhawkman 21:39, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It has not been proven to exist24.36.212.177 00:09, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  There are two possibilities: The onza exists, or the onza doesn't exist. Both hypotheses have nothing paranormal about them. No cryptozoologist observing scientific methods would add unnecessary paranormal (ghosts, UFOs, whatever) hypotheses to that - that's left to pseudoscientific I-want-to-believers. Therefore, I don't see any reason why this article should be classified as paranormal. --130.92.9.56 14:09, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The Onza is still a mysterious creature and many people believe its lack of 'evidence' suggests that its existence is other-worldly. PigeonPiece (talk) 15:46, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: class

message: So this animal isn't believed to be relict Miracinonyx trumani. That doesn't automatically mean it couldn't be any kind of Miracinonyx. Was it only tested against M. trumani (which is what the text implies)? Because honestly, M. trumani was not the only species of Miracinonyx; there was also M. inexpectatus, which was more puma-like than the cheetah-like trumani--so saying that the Onza was too puma-like to be trumani does not automatically disqualify it from being Miracinonyx. 76.94.135.239 (talk) 21:14, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yes or no for Miracinonyx 

message: The reference is from Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España, chapter 11 page 204 of the Ted Humphrey English translation.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jmstar (talk • contribs) 14:33, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Bernal Diaz Reference

message: "There's a cat that's like a cougar..."
Ok, so what's different about it in any way? "It's braver" (currently the only content on the page distinguishing the "onza") is not a species trait. It just indicates a hungry cougar. — LlywelynII 12:25, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge or clarify
Talk:Colocolo

message: There is a picture of a colocolo that appears to allow non commercial use at the following link:
http://tolweb.org/onlinecontributors/app;jsessionid=D2FFBE7E5EDEF313ED4465F3370C594B?page=ViewImageData&service=external&sp=29124
I don't know how to ad the picture or I would do it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.193.192.103 (talk) 08:18, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Non-commercial licences are not free, so it is ineligible for uploading. Editor abcdef (talk) 03:49, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Rusty-spotted cat

message: The recent records from Kashmir, Uttaranchal and ?Bengal? needs to be updated in the map. Trying to find refs. prashanthns (talk) 06:55, 30 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  North Indian records 

message: This article says the rusty-spotted cat is one of the cat family's smallest members. On a programme on BBC Four tonight called "Big Cats" it was said that the rusty-spotted cat is the smallest cat. Vorbee (talk) 19:15, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: In the Black-footed cat article, the weight of that cat is given as much more than for the Rusty-spotted cat. best, 167.98.48.134 (talk) 19:21, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Is the cat the smallest cat?

message: Hi : again nice of you to prepare a map. But am afraid, it looks like rusty-spotted cat is all over the place :), which is not the case. In Nepal it doesn't occur as far east and its Indian range is much more fragmented than indicated in the map; records in Sri Lanka are limited to date to a few sites in the south. So it would be much better if this fragmentation is depicted in the map. -- BhagyaMani (talk) 05:28, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm aware that the distribution is spotty within the range presented; unfortunately the data at  does not fragment the range into more detail. If you have an alternate source, I'm willing to use it. --PresN 05:53, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: The range map in the IUCN RL account is based on records published in essentially the same articles that are also referenced in this page's section on distribution and habitat. It has NOT been recorded in Thar Desert, Rajasthan and Indo-Gangetic Plain. -- BhagyaMani (talk) 06:12, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map
Talk:Hampton Roads Beltway

message: On the link that I give as a reference, a contributor says
     "At one point, there was discussion of renumbering the
      Interstates in that area, in order to make it less confusing
      for travelers to VA Beach and the Outer Banks, and to get
      more people to use the underutilized Monitor-Merrimac
      Bridge-Tunnel (I-664).  There used to be an entire
      web site about this.  The proposals included: 
      A) Renumber nothing.  Sign the I-64/664 beltway as the "Hampton
         Roads Beltway". 
      B) Renumber I-64 between Bowers Hill and VA 44/I-264 as I-664.
         Renumber VA 44 to I-64. 
      C) Renumber I-64 from Bowers Hill to VA 44/I-264, as well as
         VA 44 to I-664. 
      D) Renumber all of I-664 and VA 44 as I-64.  Renumber I-64
         from Newport News to VA 44/I-264 as I-864. 
      Predictably, option A was chosen, although later VA 44
      was dropped for an extended I-264."
I too remember this website; from this Usenet message posted on December 30, 1997, it appears that it was a VDOT page available through 1996.  Unfortunately, even the earliest version of VDOT's website at Archive.org (December 30, 1996) does not appear to have it as part of its contents.  I'll see if I can find the old URL to the actual page. Mapsax 00:29, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I just found one proposal for an I-864, but not for the full beltway, on pages 53 and 62 of the May 1996 meeting minutes. It was option 4, taking I-64 along I-664 and SR 44 to the Virginia Beach oceanfront and adding I-864 along I-64 between Hampton and eastern Norfolk. Action was deferred for a month, and again for an unspecified amount of time in June 1996 (page 106). Obviously they never did anything. --NE2 01:48, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

text: Redirecting is not wrong; the I-864 plan was part of the process that established the name for the beltway. --NE2 22:25, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sure, but now that there's no mention of I-864 in any capacity, it would seem to be a bit misleading to take somebody there with no explanation.  IMO either a mention of the unpicked designation should be there somewhere, at least for context, or I-864 should get its own page.  I'm leaning towards the former since the latter would probably produce a page with too little content. Mapsax 18:52, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interstate 864
Talk:Cyrus

message: What is the nationality of Cyrus as a surname? Daniel Christensen (talk) 08:57, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Or you could fix it and remove the claims. 76.66.197.30 (talk) 17:34, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Nationality

message: Kuros or Kyros? (the letter in question (υ) being an Ypsilon, so the classical transliteration should be Kyros, IINM) -- megA (talk) 17:04, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Greek transliteration 

message: in Latin language there is casing or ending for masculine nouns that is "us" ; there for the origin of the word could have been as "shiru" meaning lionly; I can compare it with the word dariush; that was a king in the same dynasty and it's persian spelling is "dara" means owner.
amir arab  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.157.144.74 (talk) 13:02, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  meaning of cyrus 

message: in one language that is derived in the very begining ; the uush suffix is used for changing noun to noun or adjective to noun.thanks .194.86.153.173 (talk) 07:07, 8 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: suffix uush
Talk:Richard fitz Gilbert

message: Is "Richard Fitz Gilbert" the name of a person?  The article should include a description, preferably in the first sentence, something like "Richard Fitz Gilbert was a member of the peerage who lived in England in the 12th Century..."  As it stands, the article just jumps into aliases and history.Michael DoroshTalk 00:37, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Hypercycle (geometry)

message: It seems that the bulleted list of properties were copied directly from http://www.math.uncc.edu/~droyster/math3181/notes/hyprgeom/node68.html, which is referenced in the article. -- SilverStar 05:30, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of properties copied? 

message: Can you say 2-hypercycle like a horosphere, except not tangent to the ideal sphere? Tom Ruen (talk) 22:10, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Higher dimensions? 

message: : The order-4 pentagonal tiling, {5,4} can be defined as an orthogonal grid of hypercycles.
A straight line is a special case of a hypercycle, but .... —Tamfang (talk) 08:33, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  {5,4} 

message: the article has the illusttration.
but I am wondering if this illustration is really usefull, where are the hypercycles? it looks more like (normal) hyperbolic lines than hypercycles 
Can somebody verify and explain?WillemienH (talk) 21:40, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed it. Those are straight lines. Tom Ruen (talk) 22:28, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wondering about image  

message: The page could benefit by directly stating somewhere that hypercycles in the hyperbolic plane are curves of non-zero constant geodesic curvature which intersect the ideal boundary in distinct points. 2601:14B:4500:5A90:ACEC:3A94:4129:DA84 (talk) 02:07, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed. Feel free to work on this. In my opinion "curve of constant curvature between 0 and 1 in the hyperbolic plane" is the most natural basic definition of a "hypercycle". While we're at it we should also mentioning that when the hyperbolic plane is taken to be the hyperboloid of 2 sheets embedded in pseudo-Euclidean space of metric signature (2,1), a hypercycle is the intersection of the hyperboloid with a plane not passing through the origin but intersecting both sheets. It would be helpful to have an article about geodesics, hypercycles, horocycles, and circles ("hypocycles"?) in the hyperbolic plane, analogous to the existing articles about (Euclidean) generalized circles and spherical circles, and it would also be nice to have an article about curvature in the hyperbolic plane. –jacobolus (t) 02:29, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: What has curvature 1? a horocycle? —Tamfang (talk) 03:44, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Right. Obviously this depends on setting up the curvature for your hyperbolic space such that a horocycle has curvature 1, but that's a pretty convenient choice. I need to find some better sources about curvature in hyperbolic space though. (If anyone has some to recommend ...) –jacobolus (t) 05:09, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Curves of constant curvature
Talk:Stonehaven Tolbooth

message: This is very confusing. The link goes to the article about the episcopalian church in the U.S, but the article is about Scotland. Episcopalianism is a branch of Anglicanism, and the Church of England was the established church in England in the 1700s and the Hanoverians were based in England. So why was there discrimination against the Episcopalians in Scotland? Golfcam 01:53, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Explanation of episcopalian
Talk:Tattoo (comics)

message: In regards to Tattoo's ID as Longstrike {of the New Warriors}....Is it possible to simply wait until the actual Issue is released before posting the latest "spoilers"..??  PaxHouse 17:16, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You're close...stuff that hasn't been released yet shouldn't be talked about -because- it hasn't been released yet. WP:Crystal Ball. Lots42 23:19, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Glob Herman

message: I rewrote part of the History section, but what was there was so confusing I couldn't tell what the writer was trying to say. Something about GH being burned with gasoline. Anyone familiar with the character, feel free to add some detail. ---   Noclevername 03:36, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rewrite 
Talk:Joel Elias Spingarn

message: Removed this sentence: In 1919 he was a co-founder of the publishing firm of Harcourt, Brace and Company.  Neither the online company histories of Harcourt Trade Publishers or Harcourt Assessment mention Spingarn as a cofounder, although Harcourt and Brace were mentioned as being friends at Columbia U., where Spingarn was a professor.  --Blainster 22:35, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The "external references" links to brief biographies in the Columbia Encyclopedia and the archives at the Metz Library of the New York Botanical Garden do list Springarn as a cofounder of Harcourt, so I will restore the sentence pending further confirmation. --Blainster 22:56, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hm, interesting. The plot thickens! --AW 20:39, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Harcourt Brace
Talk:Georgia's 2nd congressional district

message: A 2012 map needs to be at the top, not the old districts. --Mjrmtg (talk) 17:07, 18 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  2012 Boudaries 
Category talk:Former British colonies

message: The one next door? 194.46.248.90 23:27, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Ireland

message: Added Florida which was a British colony(albeit briefly) between the French and Indian War and Revolutionary War. Jcam 00:56, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Florida

message: In general, we want to put only the right time category in.  So "Florida" (the modern US state) is not a former Birtish Colony.  West Florida is and East Florida is.  See the difference?  I think I'll have to purge this cat.  Way too many wrong era articles included.  Kevlar67 21:30, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who to include: 

message: Basutoland (now Lesotho) should be listed under "B", not "T", or at least the name should be changed to "Territory of Basutoland" to avoid headscratching by readers. SteveStrummer (talk) 04:01, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Basutoland

message: I propose that the United States be removed. The nation as it is now was not a colony. Thirteen of the States were, and the appropriate pages listed. Only a fraction of the American states were started as English settlements, not even all of the original 13. The United States should be removed, and the Thirteen Colonies can be entered in its place. Boneyard90 (talk) 10:14, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: On US inclusion

message: Bangladesh and Pakistan were part of India when India was under British rule, so it is not right to say Pakistan and Bangladesh were former British colonies, the term using British India, covering present Pakistan, Bangladesh and Republic of India, is better. There was no British colonial Government in Pakistan and Bangladesh. They did not exist then. They were part of India. Any reply?Ovsek (talk) 13:40, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  British Raj