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Talk:Electric ray

message: Man, my friends and I went snorkeling this past weekend in the Gulf of Mexico off of Alabama's beaches and we were stung by these electric rays all day. When we were standing we would feel something soft and squishy rub against our legs and then sometimes we would step on them and they would send an electric shock through our feet and sometimes when we were under water digging through the sea floor, we would come across one and it would sting us on the hand. The sting does not hurt and is more of a shock than anything....it's like "Oh, something just shocked me." Kind of like when you scoot across the carpet and then touch metal. Maybe these were little rays or they were just giving is a "warning" shock. We never saw them b/c they blend in with the sand and plus the water was not clear enough to see them.
Dizzyd3 14:08, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  I got stung by one of these! 

message: opening paragraph says 69 animals in 4 families... only two are listed in the infobox.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.177.6.205 (talk) 23:15, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  families?
Talk:Jannes and Jambres

message: Switched the names to Jannes and Jambres, which are the most popular names, the names identified in the bible.  Next used the names Johanai and Mamre which are them names used in the referenced Chronicles of Jerahmeel and equate to Jannes and Jambres.  I have no name where the names Iannes and Mambres come from.  --Evmore 09:09, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Common Names

message: Regarding the final paragraph of the article: 
Apart from their opposition to Moses there are other legends about these two Egyptian sorcerers...they lost all memory of the event after that.
I'm curious to know where this information came from. It's very interesting and I went through all the references but couldn't find any mention or cite of it. 
Ilovetoberandom (talk) 02:35, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cite for the final paragraph 
Talk:Vertical-lift bridge

message: I have put a request for a photo of Pretoria Bridge in the Up position, in Wikipedia:WikiProject Ottawa.  It has been removed from the Lift Bridge article as someone did not believe it was a lift bridge.  The Bridge is a lift bridge, not a tilt bridge, although the mechanism is located underneath. cmacd 14:57, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo Removal
Talk:Audley, Staffordshire

message: Giving distances in (approximate) munutes isn't very accurate; could a proper distance be provided? --Mel Etitis  (Μελ Ετητης) 15:03, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  

message: "A brief history of Audley Village"
--Oldontarian (talk) 14:22, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  This appears to be a dead link. 
Talk:Cedar Creek Reservoir (Texas)

message: I've upgraded the class on both Lake and DFW tags.  There has been much added to article since first assessed.   Jacksinterweb (talk) 16:33, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Upgrade

message: Perhaps a mention should be made of the other Cedar Creek reservoir in Fayette County. Griffinofwales (talk) 17:19, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: two reservoirs
Talk:William Gull

message: I have amended this slightly because as it stood, the spoiler warning appeared even before the title of the work it applied to was mentioned, which is a bit useless.  Also the paragraph seemed to say that the idea that Gull was disturbed following strokes was invented for the film adaptation, when in fact it is clearly in the graphic novel.  I have however left the latter bit untouched because I have not seen the film.
Thermaland 15:04, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: From Hell paragraph

message: Hi! I am personal unable to review this, so could please anyone of you do so? abf /talk to me/ 11:06, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Removal/rewrite

message: "Gull has been suggested as a suspect in the Jack the Ripper murders, related to an alleged royal/masonic conspiracy. At the time of the frenzied Whitechapel murders, Gull was in his seventies and already had suffered a stroke. For this reason, he features in a number of Ripper-related works of fiction:"
Was he featured because of the stroke?  How many people who had strokes were featured in these works?  How did he become a suspect and what does that have to do with his stroke?
4.249.3.107 (talk) 18:15, 15 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Huh?

message: Having long thought that this article did not do justice to the subject, I have provided a major rewrite and trust this meets with approval.  The main amendments are: (1) extended structured biography; (2) addition of a "contributions to medical science section, which describes Gull's significant medical work (entirely missing from the previous version); (3) rewrite of the Whitechapel Murders section, focussing on the history of how Gull came to be linked to these crimes; (4) removal of the fictional elements of the Whitechapel murders to a new "popular culture" section; (5) addition of photographs and graphics.
Achilver 04 January 2010  —Preceding undated comment added 20:16, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Excellent. However, I think the Jack the Ripper stuff is to be quoted in the introduction, since the contemporary general public knows Gull mainly for this (however unfortunate that may be). JJ Georges (talk) 08:48, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. I reluctantly agree with your comment about the Jack the Ripper stuff.
Achilver 05 January 2010  —Preceding undated comment added 19:44, 5 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Major rewrite

message: The article states that, "Stowell studied under Sir William Gull as a young man...".  This statement is unsourced.  If it is both correct that Sir William Gull died in 1890 and Stowell was born in 1885, Stowell must have been under five years old when he did these studies. CatherineEH (talk) 14:19, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I have deleted the statement, which as you correctly say, cannot be true.  Thank you for pointing it out.Achilver (talk) 17:30, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thomas A. Stowell (See Section 1970 - Criminologist Article (Thomas Stowell))
Talk:Carol Shaya

message: There's enough information added in that I think it hits B-class. Still needs some fixing up to hit GA status. Wizardman 01:29, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment

message: Articles about people notable only for one event
Policy shortcuts:
WP:ONEEVENT
WP:1E
WP:BLP1E
Main article: Wikipedia:Notability (people)
Further information: WP:NOT#NEWS, WP:BIO1E, and Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not#Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information
See also: WP:WI1E and WP:WIALPI
Wikipedia is not a newspaper. The bare fact that someone has been in the news does not in itself imply that they should be the subject of an encyclopedia entry. Where a person is mentioned by name in a Wikipedia article about a larger subject, but essentially remains a low-profile individual, we should generally avoid having an article on them.
If reliable sources cover the person only in the context of a particular event, and if that person otherwise remains, or is likely to remain, low profile, then a separate biography is unlikely to be warranted. Biographies of people of marginal notability can give undue weight to the event, and may cause problems for our neutral point of view policy. In such cases, a merge of the information and a redirect of the person's name to the event article are usually the better options.
If the event is significant, and if the individual's role within it is substantial, a separate article for the person may be appropriate. Individuals notable for well-documented events, such as John Hinckley, Jr., fit into this category. The significance of an event or individual should be indicated by how persistent the coverage is in reliable secondary sources.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Snuff ele uf a guss (talk • contribs) 14:45, 27 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Articles about people notable only for one event
Talk:Atala

message: Ok but it is also a company that produce bicycles... please respect !
Atala is a desert doom band formed by Kyle Stratton in 29 Palms California, U.S.A. idependent and relentless. The band features, members of Rise of the Willing, Son's of Serro, and Forever Came calling.Their debut self titled was recorded and produced by Scott Reeder (Kyuss,Obbsessed). Their upcoming release, "Shaman's Path of the Serpent" was produced by Billy Anderson (Sleep, Melvins, Mastadon) and is due to release in May of 2016. They will embark on a full U.S. tour to support it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.49.122.131 (talk) 15:01, 19 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The bike company now has its own article. The band is unlikely to be notable, at least not while unsigned. They might become notable later. --DanielRigal (talk) 10:38, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Lur

message: The article contains the following interesting line under the title "Bronze lurs":
:Bronze lurs were frequently found in pairs, with the "sex" of one instrument going in and the other going out.
I'm not sure what this means, I'm afraid, and there wasn't a source I could consult to get clarification. What does the "sex" of a bronze wind instrument look like, and where does one look for it? I've been unable to locate legs or a tail in the picture. ;-) Does anybody know what this could mean? —CKA3KA (Skazka) 22:02, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sex? 

message: The wooden Lur sounds and looks very much like the Tweants Mirreweenterhoorn. Is it possible there is a connection, and if so, what would the history be? Woolters (talk) 07:17, 9 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I might be -- there is not connection with the original Lur though.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.130.79.38 (talk) 19:20, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Similarities

message: To add to article: is "lur" a Germanic word, and what is the origin/etymology of this word? 173.89.236.187 (talk) 10:08, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Etymology
Talk:Stone ship

message: Having Susning.nu as a source is not really a good idea, since it's a wiki, just as Wikipedia. The information given there could have been written by anyone (now you have to be registered at Susning.nu to edit articles, but this was not always the case, and so many articles have unknown authors), and the article in question does not state its sources at all. - Gustav  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.255.200.42 (talk) 17:49, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki as Source

message: It is clearly a sundial (=solar clock). Solar clock are built this way. I do not have any source about those scandinavian "stone ships". Anyway, I can be dead sure they're just sundials: just look at Sundial. Please someone help me showing it is a sundial... I cannot find evidences of researches about this topic. --MarcelloPapirio (talk) 17:14, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Pesky as they may be for half-baked personal diatribes and general Bob G. Lind-esque personal illumination/nuttery, Wikipedia is just not out to show those know-it-all scholars that their so-called "stone ships" are in fact Bronze Age egg timers, as much as you and I know the truth (Wikipedia:No original research). :bloodofox: (talk) 22:19, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sundial
Talk:Azizi Johari

message: What does it mean that Ms. Johari was "the first to have distinctly African features"? Julie Woodson, who was in Playboy two years earlier, looks very African to me.
VickieP 15:23, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Wouldn't it be best to note in the Measurements info box that those were her measurements in 1975 (most likely). I doubt anyone has reliable information on her today at 62. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mantisia (talk • contribs) 22:53, 2 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Measurements?
Talk:Runemaster

message: The article states that most read runes and most wrote messages.  I can't refute this, but I expect that most (that is more than 50% of all adults) in Scandanavia were illiterate during this period.  The reference cited makes the claim about reading, but I am unable to confirm that it makes the same claim about writing (I am unable to read Swedish) Volunteers? I did find one reference which contradicts the above claims for Iceland, claiming that the Laws were oral traditions even in the 11th Century and that the transition from oral to literary tradition occurred with the conversion to Christainity in all of Scandanavia (which generally occurred in the 12th Century, NOT the early medieval period.  This is more in keeping with my understanding of the general educational accomplishments during the first Millenium in Northern Europe. (talk) 06:20, 10 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Somebody needs to confirm most Scandanavians were literate in the Early Middle Ages (400 - 900 AD)
Talk:Jimmy Shand

message: "He was awarded an MBE in 1962, the same year that he appeared on "Top of the Pops". 
This sentence can't be true since TOTP didn't start until 1964. MFlet1 15:26, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I am just reading A.S. Neil's Book Radical Approach to Child Rearing where he reveals that Shand had been an anonymous benefactor of Summerhill:
"When we opened the school, the difficulties were especially grave. We could only take children from the upper and middle classes because we had to make ends meet. We had no rich man behind us. In the early days of the school, a benefactor, who insisted on anonymity, helped us through one or two bad times; and later one of the parents made generous gift - a new kitchen, a radio, a new wing on our cottage, a new workshop. He was the ideal benefactor, for he set no conditions and asked for nothing in return “Summerhill gave my Jimmy the education I wanted for him:’ he said simply, for James Shand was a true believer in freedom for children."
-Nicolas
n.lamoure[at]web.de  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.155.124.76 (talk) 03:35, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Jimmy shand and A.S.Neill
Talk:Oklahoma's at-large congressional seat

message: I've just created unique content for this article.  But the sources are unreliable.  Can someone help?—Markles 14:44, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:The Death of Grass

message: Would like to make a note on a similar book, but where the grass took over the world.  Also 50s SF.  Ideas?   TCO (talk) 23:32, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: "Greener than you Think" by Ward Moore? 1947, not 1950s, but it is grass taking over the world... 98.194.41.7 (talk) 18:13, 6 July 2010 (UTC)

text: Incidentally I've heard somewhere or other the hypothesis that, if not for Chicxulub, the dinosaurs would have died anyway because grasses were crowding out their preferred food plants. —Tamfang (talk) 06:23, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trying to think of the inverse book 

message: I'd like to edit the opening paragraph to mention that the novel was serialized in The Saturday Evening Post.  However that opening paragraph has no edit button. Allan Marain 22:27, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Just hit the Edit button for the whole article.  I just did.  After a lot of computerese is the opening paragraph/ GcT (talk) 12:17, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  edit the top? 

message: I think I read (in 1976–7) a French translation, under the title Terre Brulée (Burnt Earth). —Tamfang (talk) 06:21, 25 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  translations
Talk:Rosenbrock function

message: The external link "Minimization of Rosenbrock's function using the BFGS, DFP, and Steepest Descent Algorithms 2D plot" is broken.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.137.2.148 (talk) 23:09, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

message: Not perfect, i.e. the axes are missing... --RokerHRO (talk) 14:13, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  work on a higher resolution image... 

message: I've seen the Rosenbrock function be written in the form f(x, y) = (a-x)^2 + b(y-x^2)^2. Would it perhaps be better to introduce it in this more general form in this article, then say that usually a = 1 and b = 100? Thanks, A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 07:35, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: No thoughts? Very well, I'll just be bold and make the change. A Thousand Doors (talk | contribs) 02:27, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  General form
Talk:The Demon in the Freezer

message: Saying that the material on the 2001 anthrax incidents is "somewhat awkwardly" interwoven with the rest of the narrative is patently POV. Please feel free to reinsert this if you can attribute that view to a review or other source. Zefryl (talk) 00:15, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV 

message: Too much editing has been done to this article by those who have forgotten to Sign In.  Please remember to do so.  Thanks. SFFrog (talk) 17:47, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please Sign In
Talk:USS Pickerel (SS-177)

message: I rewrote this
:"Pickerel was the only American submarine in that area at the time, but she could not both have been sunk on the 3rd and also sunk the cargo ship on the 7th.
:"A possible explanation is that she was damaged on April 3rd and was lost sometime after 7th April."
to this
:"A large quantity of oil floated to the surface, which was often enough for Japanese ASW ships to believe their target was sunk. It is likely Pickerel's bunkers leaked. Since there were several other ASW operations in the area in that period, Clay Blair, Jr., Silent Victory (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1975), p.409. and Pickerel was the only American submarine in that area, one of these other attacks, sometime after 7th April, probably claimed her."
I base that on extensive reading in this area, including the named sources, as well as Goldstein & Dillon's Pearl Harbor Papers.
I added these as sources:
*Beach, Edward L. "Ned", Jr. Submarine!. Henry Holt, 1952.
*_____. Run Silent, Run Deep (a novel). Pocket Books, 1972.
*_____. Dust on the Sea (a novel). Dell, 1972.
*Grider, George W., as told to Lydel Sims. War Fish. Little, Brown and Company, 1958.
*Holmes, Wilfred J. "Jasper" Undersea Victory. Doubleday, 1966.
*O'Kane, Richard H. Clear the Bridge!. Rand McNally & Co., 1977.
*______. Wahoo: The Patrols of America's Most Famous World War II. Presidio Pres, 1987.
If anybody's wondering, I've read them all at least once...  Trekphiler 15:39 & 17:29, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sunk
Talk:Coccyzidae

message: Please someone check the "DNA evidence". If it's Sibley-Ahlquist, odds are it's not good. Coccyzinae should either redirect here, or this page should be moved there. Dysmorodrepanis 15:40, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: it was indeed Sibley-Ahlquist. The book I was working from was based on that. MY only excuse is that I was new to Wikipedia at the time. Totnesmartin 14:05, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Valid?
Talk:Village Academy

message: So this page is great, but I think someone should edit it to include more stuff.  I personally go to this school, so I might edit it, but I recommend that the people in charge spruce the page up.
Link465 15:43, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Nen-ryū

message: Is there a good reason for us not to merge the Maniwa Nen-ryu and Nen-ryu articles?--Mateo2006 20:52, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The only good reasons would be that although I believe Nen-ryu essentially ceased to exist when it was "renamed", the names are separated by over 200 years, and there are other arts whose lineage is specifically tied to the older name.  For example, Kamiizumi Nobutsuna specifically studied Nen-ryu (because he lived in the early 16th century, and Maniwa Nen-ryu wasn't "founded" until the very end of the 16th century).  I think that this is unlike Yagyu Shinkage-ryu, which was renamed within a single generation, by the founder's very first student. Bradford44 20:12, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Separate Maniwa nen-ryu and Nen-ryu articles? 

message: Hello Patar knight -- You assert that there are sources in books to support this article. This is the same implicit assertion as has existed for ten years.  Nonetheless, the article stood original research for all that time.  At what point is the article to be doubted?  Our readers have an expectation that the content is factual  and backed up by secondary sources. A claim that sources exist gets old after ten years.  I reject the WP:NODEADLINE argument after a decade.  If you disagree, then tell me please, what time frame you would propose. Rhadow (talk) 15:18, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: It's literally possible to prove the assumption that reliable sources should exist by doing a Google Books search that takes no more than 30 seconds. And then taking a couple extra minutes to filter the results and identify the books which are from reputable authors/publishing houses.  The deadline lies somewhere between WP:NODEADLINE and WP:DEADLINENOW, but nominating pages on obviously notable topics solely because there are no sources in the article should not happen (see: WP:NEXIST). For most notable subjects, it's possible for you to find reliable sources yourself and add them to the article, instead of nominating them for deletion and wasting everyone's time. ---- Patar knight - chat/contributions 07:09, 26 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Verifiability
Talk:The Discworld Mapp

message: A looong time ago I read an interview with Pratchett (Imagine magazine??) where he stared he's not want to see/make a map/atlas of the Discworld, or if there were to be one, perhaps it should be in four dimensions. I'm having difficulty tracking this down, but I *night* have the magazine in a box in my loft...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.40.214.249 (talk) 15:11, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pratchett's early views on an atlas...
Talk:The Dungeon Master

message: As it currently stands, this article doesn't actually discuss what is in this book. The book was written to correct certain misconceptions that then existed about D&D, but this article mentions only the misconceptions - not the corrections, or even the fact that Dear knew they were misconceptions.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.71.127.54 (talk) 08:04, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Care to fix it? :) 108.69.80.49 (talk) 08:52, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  I don't own the book, so I am poorly positioned to do so. I am just going by what I've heard of it elsewhere (originally from Stackpole though I was reminded of it by another Wikipedia article). 65.71.127.54 (talk) 04:44, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, that's unfortunate. I don't have it either, unfortunately. Checked GoogleBooks? 108.69.80.49 (talk) 04:46, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Content

message: It should be more clear whether the book is fictional, and how the book is structured. --Wjmelements (talk) 02:01, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Whether or not the events in the book are fully factual, it was written as non-fiction, which is how it should be presented. 2601:249:8A00:CB6:4AF1:7FFF:FEE5:C031 (talk) 02:55, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fiction or Non-fiction?
Talk:The Duplicate

message: I read a whole lot of William Sleator books when I was in middle and early high school, and I noticed that in nearly all of them the characters were stated to be about 16 years old and it seemed to me that he was writing with the expectation that his readers would be about that age too.  I know it's not hard science fiction, but I would never have thought of calling this a children's book either.  <FONT COLOR="#800000"><B>Haplolology</B></FONT> Talk/Contributions 19:46, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, I'm taking my own words back now, I didnt realize Young Adult went up to 18.  <FONT COLOR="#800000"><B>Haplolology</B></FONT> Talk/Contributions 14:04, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this really a childrens book?
Talk:Maniwa Nen-ryū

message: The Nen-ryū page states that Nen-ryū was renamed as Maniwa Nen-ryū in 1591. So they are one and the same style. Given this fact, shouldn't the two articles be merged?Rossen4 (talk) 14:16, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled