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Talk:Br'er Rabbit

message: * Br'er = Brother
: The article should mention this clearly in the lede.
* Word Origin and History for br'er
: in Brer Rabbit, etc., 1881, Joel Chandler Harris' representation of U.S. Southern black pronunciation of brother. 
* US  dialect - Used as an informal title before a man’s name:
:: ‘Brer Jean’
:: ‘Brer Rabbit’
There seems to be an historic connection between these published stories and the written word in English, BRER. The article should mention this. If Joel Chandler Harris first popularized this written spelling, the article should say so.-71.174.180.38 (talk) 18:40, 5 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  BRER equals BROTHER 

message: This article mentions Uncle Remus frequently without introduction. Who is Uncle Remus? Where did he originate? When did he first get connected to the Br'er Rabbit stories? Please don't reply here, but instead edit the article with this information. Daask (talk) 03:06, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uncle Remus introduction 

message: What is the cant/creole/accent/dialect that B'rer Rabbit is told in?  Does/did it actually exist, or is it fabricated?
Again, is it a language that people identify (/have identified) with? Is it stereotyped? Can one recognise the specific region (eg "Georgia Tobacco", "Alabama Cotton", etc)  that determines it, or is it a generalisation of many different (but related/similar) dialects?
(20040302 (talk) 12:32, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  cant/creole/pidgin/accent/dialect that B'rer Rabbit is told in 

message: The pronunciation given at the top of the article, /'brɛər/, represents the popular American pronunciation. The spelling br'er was originally intended to represent a British English interpretation of the African-American dialect, using the combination er to represent the sound "uh" - as in "bruh". The correct pronunciation is /brə/ in IPA.
Should this be added to the article? 2607:FEA8:3DE2:2C00:4C0D:7034:A57B:1D0F (talk) 17:40, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation - lacks context/explanation
Talk:Periscope

message: The article says "for use in the American Civil War (circa 1891)". Last I checked the War had been over for about 26 years at that point. However, I don't know enough info to correct this sentence to whatever it's supposed to be.--Asimperson 06:18, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Civil War? 

message: The instructions on how to make a demo periscope are nice, but they seem like they belong somewhere else, say, a wikibook module on optics. Should we take them out? Night Gyr 01:11, 4 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove demo info? 

message: Why prisms instead of mirrors for the more advanced periscopes? this isn't explained anywhere and it isn't obvious to me
:The silver or Aluminum on mirrors degrades (oxidation, rubbing, scratching) over time and has to be replaced like telescopes. Prisms use optical qualities and not materials and are generally sturdier. 143.232.210.150 (talk) 16:46, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why prisms? 

message: Who was the scientist who invented it? 24.77.42.48 01:03, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added some names. Samw 03:50, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scientist 

message: the article mentions magnification but there is nothing on how this is done. 
Have you noticed that when at crowded events nowadays that rather than push to the front people simply use their cameras - especially video cameras, zoom in, then alter the angle of the viewing screen and hey presto. So I want to name this phenomenon handiscope. It differs from a periscope as this method was not designed as a periscope, there could be two mirrors and they could be prisms, but I do not think that this is the design or the intended design. I have seen it in action before, but at the weekend - I was in Rome and entered St Peters, minutes later the Pope arrived in the room, and I have posted the video on my blog, plus people using their handiscopes. 
David White 18:02, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If you can cite your references, go for it!  IMHO the term "handiscope" is new and thus violates Wikipedia:No original research.  The phenomena itself is certainly worth documenting as part of the periscope article as it accomplishes the same fucntion.  Samw 21:53, 10 April 2007 (UTC)

text: I agree with Samw, although no intention to violate Wikipedia. It is a fun development and application of modern technology that a lot of people use. I have put a picture on my blog, not sure it is appropriate here - and that, plus other observations is the sum of my research! David White 21:51, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  handiscope - a new phenomenon.. 

message: It is obvious, but for now, will place a link to Coincidence rangefinder. The page mostly thinks naval and cute for kids toys, but lots of professional use is by parallax. 143.232.210.150 (talk) 16:49, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section really needs a photo of stereo periscope
Talk:Phonation

message: The following may be of interest in ref'ing or editing this article: 
*Gerratt & Kreiman, 2001. "Toward a taxonomy of nonmodal phonation", Journal of Phonetics 29:365–382
— kwami (talk) 23:42, 12 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additinoal ref 

message: It would be very nice to have sound samples for not just separate phonemes, but also for variations in laryngeal setting. It's kind of hard to judge from text alone what's the acoustic difference between breathy and slack phonation, for example, or what does stiff voice actually sound like. These could feature the same segment spoken in each laryngeal setting.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.237.127.17 (talk) 19:17, 6 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Built In Play Buttons for Variations in Laryngeal Setting? 

message: In order to get anything from reading this article, you need to know so much about the subject already that you really don't need to read this this article. PiCo (talk) 06:14, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Write an article that readers can understand? 

message: Does this article really need to have a section on neurochronaxic theory? It was discredited at least 50 years ago. It's a bit like having a section on flat-earth theory in a geography article.  RoachPeter (talk) 12:00, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neurochronaxic theory 

message: Reading this (on the mobile app) quite prominently features the top picture of vocal folds, which I find to be a bit offputting. Perhaps they don't need to be featured quite as prominently (I.e., they perhaps don't need to be a banner above the article.) Jnfrank (talk) 16:54, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Banner photos of vocal fokds 

message: dont know how to fix it but just making people aware 104.148.141.169 (talk) 21:11, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I've purged the cache so it should be fixed now. Nardog (talk) 02:11, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  hovering over link shows israeli flag?
Talk:Diabolic square

message: I've figured that the following add to 34:
*rows and columns (8)
*any two pairs of opposite corners of 3-by-3 squares (28) - includes the two diagonals, six broken diagonals and four 3-by-3 squares
*each of the 2-by-2 squares within it (9)
*the four corners of the whole square (1)
*a pair of adjacent numbers on the top row, plus the corresponding pair on the bottom, and similarly on the sides (6)
That makes 52.  Time to try and find the other 34.... -- Smjg 12:30, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  34 

message: * Halló! Do you know when the "term" "diabolic square" was used first time? Gangleri | [ Th] | T 13:25, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[meta:Template:4x4 type square/T/all#T093|#T093]] 

message: Is the Magic Square shown in Magic square talk and on my user page also a panmagic or diabolic square? Marburg72 04:08, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  72 another panmagic square?
Talk:IBM AS/400

message: Consider my edit: Convergence title makes more sense than Consolidation, evidenced by words in this section, somewhat modeled on article Technological convergence.
EWLwiki (talk) 22:38, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Convergence Section, previous name Consolidation 

message: I am impressed with the style shown in articles Linux kernel,History of Linux and Linux kernel version history
I think the articles on IBM AS/400 and IBM i and IBM Power Systems could benefit by incorporating some of the style shown in the Linux articles.  What say you?
EWLwiki  — Preceding undated comment added 22:26, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Consider the way Linux articles are written 

message: There should be a discussion of the role of the CREATE PROGRAM instruction, which compiles a TIMI template into a program object. I don't know about AS/400, but on S/38 that was the only way to create execurable code. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 16:51, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  CREATE PROGRAM instruction 

message: A citation was requested for "Although announced in 1988, the AS/400 remains IBM's most recent major architectural shift that was developed wholly internally." with the comment "...while POWER 7, 8, 9 and 10 were still developed in-house".
New Power processors aren't architectural shifts - they run newer versions of the Power ISA, but they don't support a completely new ISA.
But I'm not sure what the AS/400 is a shift from.  Much of it is the same system architecture as System/38.  The instruction set shift did switch from the developed-wholly-internally IMPI to the developed-internally (if you don't count Motorola and Apple's contributions to PowerPC) PowerAS (or whatever term refers to the AS/400-only extensions to PowerPC/Power ISA), but that wasn't part of the switch from System/38 to AS/400, that happened later in AS/400 history.
So the question remains - what does "architectural shift" mean here?
And, in any case, a citation is called for. Guy Harris (talk) 19:19, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Architectural shift developed wholly internally"
Talk:Gael Turnbull

message: WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive
The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 13:14, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 
Talk:Ian Fleming

message: I thought Fleming only had one son Casper, the info box says two children, who was the other? 2.27.34.120 (talk) 20:14, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The other child was his daughter Mary, by Ann Rothermere as she then was. Mary was born prematurely by caesarean section in Edinburgh on 27 August 1948 and died the same day of lung complications. Seemingly Lord Rothermere, Ann's husband at the time, believed the child was his, but she was conceived on Ann's visit to Ian at Goldeneye that January. Ann's daughter Fionn, by Lord O'Neill, said it would be strange if Rothermere didn't know, but Mary 'definitely wasn't his.' Rothermere was hoping for a son, who would then inherit the Daily Mail, and had no idea that the child was actually Ian Fleming's. (Shakespeare 2023, pp.432-4)Khamba Tendal (talk) 19:05, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two sons.? 

message: Request that Robert Fleming (financier) be added as Ian Fleming's grandfather under "relatives" DingleTingles (talk) 00:38, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. voorts (talk/contributions) 02:48, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Ian Fleming is listed as Robert Fleming's grandson on Robert Fleming's page. isn't that enough?PhilomenaO'M (talk) 20:05, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: No. Wikipedia articles are not reliable sources. Nikkimaria (talk) 05:04, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 8 September 2023 

message: The 1941 Carson McCullers novel Goldeneye is set on a US Army base in the state of Georgia. There is no reference to the use of British naval bases in the Caribbean by the US navy (ref 67). I did check the book. 2001:999:50C:847E:5F6F:B612:CED1:1C4F (talk) 09:04, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of Flemming estate name Goldeneye.
Talk:The Link (UK organization)

message: See Talk:Rudolf_Hess; There's no other source for the claims about Rudolf Hess than The Man Who Was M: The Life of Charles Henry Maxwell Knight by Anthony Masters, 
:I would to concur with the above. It is well known that Rudolf Hess who was a muddled thinker to put it charitably went on his celebrated flight to Scotland in May 1941 with the aim of effecting an Anglo-German peace by contracting the Duke of Hamilton. Hess's message was that the two "Aryan" peoples should not be fighting and killing each other, and that Germany would be launching Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, in the very near-future, so now was the ideal time for Britain and Germany to join forces. The British politely ignored his message and interned him. This chapter has an ocean of conspiracy theories about what prompted this bizarre gesture on the part of Hess that are too numberless to list him. But the claim that this was a "sting" operation by British intelligence to lure Hess into making his flight is not generally accepted. All of the evidence suggests that British officials were surprised and confused by Hess's outlandish peace mission which is hard to square with the claim that this was all planned out in advance. A telling point is the claim that this was planned by Ian Fleming, who was the executive assistant to the director of naval intelligence, Admiral John Godfrey. If Fleming had never written his James Bond novels, none of these claims about his wartime achievements would be made today. To be fair, Fleming seems to have done a good job as the executive assistant to Admiral Godfrey, but he is credited with all sorts of fantastic feats during the war that he never did. It is safe, but true that most people's ideas about intelligence work is based upon the James Bond films, which are completely unrealistic to say the least. A detailed critique of the Bond films is not germane here, but sufficient to say that the character of Bond-though he is described as a spy-is more alike to an assassin than a spy. The purpose of a spy is gather intelligence, not going around and killing people. Because Fleming wrote the novels upon the Bond films are based, there are a number of unreliable stories making all sorts of claims about Fleming's supposed wartime career that have no basis in fact. Fleming's job in naval intelligence was to find the location of German warships and submarines. Tricking Hess into making his flight to Scotland would have been well outside of his line of work. --A.S. Brown (talk) 02:04, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Effective mass (solid-state physics)

message: This article could use some discussion about how effective masses are calculated theoretically (e.g. k.p method), but I am not the person to write it.  Alison Chaiken 20:03, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I added a little "theoretical" methods section too, at least so that we can have a link to the k·p perturbation theory article etc. --Steve (talk) 14:45, 6 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  More theory needed 

message: I'm also confused by some of the reported effective mass values. According to the reference book:
Madelung, Otfried (ed.), Semiconductors--Basic Data (rev. 2nd ed.), Springer, 1996
...electron and hole effective masses in ZnO are 0.24-0.28 and 0.59, respectively. Should effective masses used for DOS calculations be different somehow? Willtiz 06:19, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There is indeed a difference between conductivity effective mass and density of states effective mass.  I don't really know enough at the moment to write it up, but http://ecee.colorado.edu/~bart/book/effmass.htm is a good reference on the topic.  Essentially the difference is that for density of state calculations one takes a geometric mean of the effective masses, but for conductivity it is a harmonic mean. Mattski (talk) 04:12, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect effective masses reported 

message: Why would anyone use the first derivation? And shouldn't it be noted, that the second derivation is only valid since we consider a parabolization of the (k,E)-curve. And what's with the epsilons? Why not use E for energy as the rest of Wikipedia?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.236.15.92 (talk) 12:40, 6 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Derivation
Talk:Video Tape Recorder

message: I hate to be so critical without doing anything about it, but the current entry doesn't rate as an article. What is a VTR? What does it do? The current entry—a bit of trivia of Ampex taking their device to Russia—does nothing to explain what a VTR is. Adding stub notice, but is there someone who can expand on this entry? —Frecklefoot 15:26, 16 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Article
Talk:Great Purge

message: I reverted  recent changes by @FictiousLibrarian because no source saying that - User talk:FictiousLibrarian#February 2024 . ManyAreasExpert (talk) 18:45, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not in source 

message: Crimes against humanity is a specific legal concept. In order to be included in the category, the event (s) must have been prosecuted as a crime against humanity, or at a bare minimum be described as such by most reliable sources. Most of the articles that were formerly in this category did not mention crimes against humanity at all, and the inclusion of the category was purely original research. MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 07:49, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crimes against humanity category removal 

message: The section, contra WP:DUE, presents a biased account containing largely only the views of a specific camp of historians. While those historians certainly exist and do have those views, the section incorrectly presents their views as consensus or as fact in Wikivoice. The section should be revised to (1) point out that there is a lively and ongoing scholarly debate as to the extent and character of Stalin's involvement and (2) summarize the views of all sides in this debate. Notable voices excluded from this discussion include the views of J. Arch Getty, Sheila Fitzpatrick, R. W. Davies, Stephen G. Wheatcroft, Jerry F. Hough, Lynne Viola, Moshe Lewin, Bob Allen, and undoubtedly others. Brusquedandelion (talk) 03:47, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, the article in general seems to need a serious overhaul with more recent and quality sourcing, like the new Harris book that seems to have been well received. (t · c) buidhe 03:24, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[WP:NPOV]] issues with "Stalin's role" section 

message: I was reading through the article and noticed the following claim "The officials were mandated to arrest and execute a specific number of so-called "counter-revolutionaries", compiled by administration using various statistics but also telephone books with names sounding non-Russian" [76], I looked through the source that the claim comes from, Stéphane Courtois Black Book of Communism, without a page number and could find no mention of this method of choice with the closest being the NKVD looking through Ukrainian schoolbooks to identify possible members of the OUN during the Second World War (229). If a source could be found for this claim it would prove deliberate ethnic cleansing through the campaign however I was unable to find it in this source. Drgerke (talk) 07:55, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not in source
Talk:Aventurine

message: Why is McLarens Bay Mica Stone Quarry, a commercial interest, mentioned in this wikipedia article?  The multiple mentions of McLarens even include a URL link within the text of the article (as opposed to below in the links section, as is usually the case).  This seems to be an abuse of wikipedia.  Will the author please address this matter? -- Rodney L.
:Thanks for pointing that out - I just removed it. The promotional bit was added by an anon. editor back in May and I had overlooked it, got too many pages on my watchlist :-) Cheers, Vsmith 22:16, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shamless Ad. in Wiki Article ??? 

message: Should we have a piccy of Aventurine, I've got one of some green aventurine lying around. If you could tell me how to upload it &c. I'll sort it out
--Tc1415 21:47, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: Please can someone give an idea of size, such as a scale bar. This is very basic stuff. Not including these is bad practice and makes the images of very little value. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.153.64.39 (talk • contribs) 
:I have answered here. Best regards Rhanyeia 12:36, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Images

message: Gem-fanat (talk) 19:39, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I have undone the merge.  See Talk:chalcedony. — Hyperdeath(Talk) 20:39, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge with Chalcedony
Talk:Steven Weinberg

message: This seems to be written in a way that overly concerns itself with putting him at odds with Right Wing Evangelical Christianity. Even the term "worldview" is used extensively in this niche subculture, and the text seems targeted to mark him as an enemy of that subculture. My feeling, reading it, is either the section should be greatly expanded to eliminate the narrow focus on topics only of concern to this subculture, to give it a less biased feel, or eliminate it entirely, because as written it feels very POV  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:7C00:AC50:AC10:2CC8:B135:3AD5 (talk) 05:15, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Worldview section? 

message: We should study the visceral motion of both quarks and gluons (including all their virtual apparitions) inside a static atom core (that doesn't travel if compared with the observer), and make quanto-relativistic comparisons among the viscera of different atoms by using vectorized group theory and combinatorics. Also we have to analyze all the different fields and try to create a mathematical model that allows all subsequent fields be expressed as aspects of the "superfield".
quoted by him
We should add more data on this subject! The main article isn't analytical enough!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:587:4109:6700:4CE4:9261:7DC2:6BE2 (talk) 16:11, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  quanto-relativity and the superfield 

message: There is a Steve Weinberg who is a journalist, and a separate person from the subject of this article. Here are some links related to him that I am parking here in case we ever make an article for him. He is currently linked as Steve Weinberg (journalist). 
*https://steveweinbergauthor.com/
*https://www.c-span.org/person/?steveweinberg
KConWiki (talk) 20:28, 1 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Steve Weinberg, journalist
Talk:Thomas Hughes

message: I note this name is linked to the Thomas Hugehs who was killed in the World Trade Center attack. HIs name is listed here:
Casualties of the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks: City of New York
I think we need a disambig page. I would do it myself but am too depressed from reading the names of the dead.
--Paul, in Saudi 17:51, 16 January 2004
I note there is a Blue Plaque to Thomas Hughes on a house where he lived in Deal, Kent. Worth noting?
86.146.189.254 (talk) 23:23, 21 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Disambiguation