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Talk:Fortune (Unix)

message: Does anyone have information about the origins of this program? When and on which flavor of *IX was it first written, who wrote it, etc?
:*It seems to come from BSD. My manpage says: BSD                                   April 19, 1994                                   BSD
--vidarlo 21:16, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's much older: http://minnie.tuhs.org/UnixTree/V7/usr/src/games/ - No credits, no manpage but V6 didn't have it so i'd think it's safe to assume that it was first written for V7. --FelixNawothnig 01:47, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: Does anyone know what it means when certain words of a fortune are written in all caps?  I can't find information about that anywhere.
Thanks
:Mad Libs. æ² ✆ 2006-10-17t16:43z
I don't know. Maybe it's to add emphasis? Stale Fries 18:29, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for clarifying that, but I'm a little disappointed... Thought it was some kind of riddle... 84.58.172.185 19:01, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capital letters in fortunes 

message: how about some links to fortune library repositories? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 199.90.15.3 (talk) 16:32, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  fortune file 

message: Why does the quote have [sic] in it? I don't see any errors. Bugefun (talk) 16:14, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sic 

message: The link to rc at Bell Labs is broken:
" in the rc documentation"David.daileyatsrudotedu (talk) 04:02, 19 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  broken link
Talk:List of mental disorders in the DSM-IV and DSM-IV-TR

message: Well people, it has happened. It had to happen someday, and I had a few days off, so I decided to do it.
I have retitled DSM-IV codes to List of mental disorders in the DSM-IV and DSM-IV-TR. The reason is obvious: there is no such thing as a DSM code. The codes featured in the DSM-IV and DSM-IV-TR are ICD-9-CM codes. Except for Appendix H, which has the ICD-10 codes.
The fact that this page has existed since 2005, yet no one ever thought of fixing its name, speaks volumes of Wikipedian interest in the areas of psychiatry and psychology.
This page had been neglected for so long, it even still had these "Top" links at the end of every section. I almost can't believe that. Having such anchor links on your website was hip in the 1990s and early 2000s. They are basically fossils!
I actually wanted to clean up this page years ago, but I knew that a bunch of Wikipediots would have the page deleted at some point. My prediction was proven correct in 2020, when it was decided to delete the entire ICD-10 from Wikipedia!! See here for the AfD. The cited reason was copyright, and the general assumption that Wikipedia shouldn't be a dictionary. Both are policies that I am very happy to ignore when it comes to the ICD and the DSM. If the WHO or the APA would send DMCA takedown requests to Wikipedia... fine, then we delete the pages. But I honestly doubt they would bother.
What the deletionist morons overlooked was that, aside from the ICD-10, Wikipedia also features the ICD-9; see List of ICD-9 codes. To this day, no one thought of deleting that. Of course, they undoubtedly would the moment they spot it.
I am actually surprised that this particular DSM-IV[-TR] page escaped the attention of the compulsive pro-copyright users for so many years. But it will one day be deleted. So then why would I even care about it? I honestly don't know. Maybe it will stand a few more years, maybe it will be removed in few more weeks. We'll see. This is an important historical document, describing a classification system which many humans were involved with, and to this day still are involved with, for better or for worse. This is important information, and Wikipedia should document it. Alas, some Wikipedians think rules are more important. - Manifestation (talk) 17:33, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  I have retitled and cleaned up this page
Talk:Rodney Rowland

message: According to his imdb entry, Rodney Rowland was born in Newport Beach, California on February 20, 1964 and is the youngest of 4 children.  Other than that, this article is wonderful.  RickK 06:37, Jan 11, 2005 (UTC)
: The original writer of the article seems to be nowhere in sight, so I decided to rewrite the article (and remove the unnecessary filmography section, as we can use IMDB for that). Let me know what you think.  Thanks! -- Joe Beaudoin Jr. Think out loud 18:39, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I added the filmography section back in because I don't think that people should have to go to another source to find that information out.  Plenty of other biographies for actors have this information readily available on Wikipedia.  Stolenbyme 23:51, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:House Party (1990 film)

message: Added a section about the House Party movie(s). --Jazz Remington 06:41, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Doesn't it make more sense to give the character names as they appear in the credits in the film?--Barend (talk) 08:28, 16 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Cast"
Talk:Yehoshua Sobol

message: As of the January 10, 2005 edit of this page, its content seems to have been copied verbatim from the ALMA website. This was (a) unattributed (i.e. provided as an External link, not cited as a Reference) and (b) possibly a copyright violation, and I've alerted the editor. The content is valuable and would benefit from further editing, particularly Wikifying with internal links and conformance for style. -- Deborahjay 01:21, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source of page content; need for Wikifying 

message: I have reprint permission of the texts by Joshua Sobol and Paulus Manker, both are personal friends and were informed of using these texts on Wikipedia. I hope that's enough for clarifying the copyright situation. Regrads - UrsulaR UrsulaR 04:02, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source of page content; need for Wikifying??? 

message: I've found citations of this play's production abroad, e.g. by the New York Municipal Theater, with its title given as "iWitness" [sic; bold type mine]. This play-on-words only exists in the English, as the Hebrew title literally translates as "Eyewitness" (one word). I've tried to indicate the dual title in the Playwright section where it's listed, and will try to confirm the usage, then cite it herein. Meanwhile, would appreciate other users' input on this.  -- Thanks, Deborahjay 03:57, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eyewitness = ''iWitness''? 
Talk:Miele

message: Miele also built motorcycles and auxiliary motors for bicycles before WW2. --Chief tin cloud (talk) 10:03, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Motorcycles 

message: Do you think it is worth including a section on distribution? Sometimes these companies have very strange set-ups from country to country. In Australia, for example, they don't sell online and only distributed through Winning Appliances for a long time. M0z (talk) 22:37, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Distribution 

message: The Infobox says Miele obtains ~3 million € in revenues annually, but the German version has 'billion' (Milliarde (Mrd.) on the short German scale). I suppose German Wikipedia is right here.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.192.40.72 (talk) 18:41, 15 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Revenue 
Talk:TransFender

message: from VfD:
Car mod shop from Grand Theft Auto. Possible merge there. DCEdwards1966 07:20, Jan 11, 2005 (UTC)
*Merge with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and cleanup. Mgm|(talk) 09:40, Jan 11, 2005 (UTC)
*Merge as above. 23skidoo 14:56, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Wailea-Makena, Hawaii

message: To Nyttend: Hi, I created this page originally on 11/11/05 and contributed the bulk of the non-statistical information, and my contributions you are removing represent valid and useful external links to reference materials not covered here such as Hawaiian cultural resources, books, film festivals, as well as urban planning guidelines for "Wailea" which is a master planned community on Maui.   I believe your deletions violate the spirit of Wikipedia policy in that my contributions do not represent vandalism.    When I created the Wailea page in 2005, which later someone merged into a "Wailea-Makena" page which also had only very minimal dry statistical information at that time, the intent was to provide more cultural depth to the resources made available to the Wikipedia visitor.   Although technically the film festival site and the cultural Hawaiian book sites may be for-profit businesses, I would suggest to leave it to the intelligence of the Wikipedia user if they choose to go there or not.   The external links are at the end of the page and if the reader is at that point and still reading that may mean he/she is seeking additional information in which case those external links may be useful to him/her.   P.S.  The Hawaiian language dictionary link has popup ads but it is still a highly useful cultural resource as Hawaiian words are used in place names throughout the islands.    The popups are outweighed in my opinion by its benefit as a cultural resource.    When I created the Wailea page in 2005, which later someone merged into a "Wailea-Makena" page which also had only very minimal dry statistical information at that time, the intent was to provide more cultural depth to the resources made available to the Wikipedia visitor.   I read all the instructions at that time although I am not highly skilled in Wikipedia policy but everything I did seemed to be in keeping with policy at that time.   Your slashing out large parts of my 2005 contributions seems to be not in keeping with the editorial policies I looked at recently. Wailea 19:06, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: My reply to this: these extra links are spam, and Wikipedia is not a directory of external links.  Nyttend 23:02, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Deletions
Talk:Linear prediction

message: User 128.125.232.47 made a number of good improvements, but I think there was one mistake. The autocorrelation matrix is very, very rarely a circulant matrix. Indeed, as a speech coding researcher my life would be sooo much easier if it were a circulant matrix:) Anyway, I decided against an immediate revert in order to hear out if there was something I was missing. --Tbackstr 08:40, Jan 11, 2005 (UTC)
On reflection I think you are right here...  the Yule Walker equations are not quite circulant though appear to be on first glance.
--Richard Clegg 15:36, 6 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, the symmetry came from the equations, but in real data this doesn't happen because the data is not perfectly AR. Inverse-filtering your signal should give you the lowest-energy possible with a FIR filter, that's what the algorithm guarantees!... We should add some lines about this in the article. -- NIC1138 22:52, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

text: This will change the signals of the vector a. It depends if you want directly the coefficients of the filter or the coefficients of the polynomial in the z space. -- NIC1138 22:52, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Autocorrelation matrix form 

message: I changed this formula:
:\ R(i) = E\{x(n)x(n-i)\}\,
To this:
:\ R(i) = \sum_{n}x(n)x(n-i)\,
since I think that's what was meant (it's describing an autocorrelation, and a sum would be used here). I'm not familiar with the notation in the first version; somebody correct me if my change was wrong. - furrykef (Talk at me) 17:34, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  The expectation notation is probably better -- I have added a link to expectation for those not familiar.  --Richard Clegg 17:48, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You're sure that's correct? I'm not sure I see the connection with expected value, but I'm probably just a n00b. - furrykef (Talk at me) 18:18, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Checkout the page on autocorrelation.  There are lots of definitions for ACF (they are all related but not the same).  The one given here is not my preferred definition but it is better than the summation. --Richard Clegg 18:46, 12 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changed notation in a formula 

message: There is a wikilink in this article to filter theory which is actually a redirect.  It used to go to digital filter but I have changed it to point to filter (signal processing) which makes much more sense to me.  If this article really needs the link to go to "digital filter" a pipe could always be used.  Ideally of course, someone should write an article at "filter theory".... SpinningSpark 23:43, 27 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Filter theory
Talk:Emergency action principles

message: This page makes the common mistake of addressing the reader in first person. This is highly unencyclopedic style, and just annoys. Perhaps the reader is a 90-year old with osteoporosis, for whom it would be unwise to attempt resuscitation of fellow nursing home residents for the risk of breaking her own arms. JFW | T@lk 09:06, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Stylistic problems

message: How-to is an obvious concern here: however, as demonstrated by the comments above, there are international agreements, making this not very different from therapies for any medical condition. It's like the guidelines for treating heart failure or something, but just in first aid. I'd like to see what others think: if you go to RfD, please notify WP:MED and WikiProject First Aid.--Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 21:22, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed deletion 

message: The article, as written, seems to be original research. The only mentions of "Emergency action principles" that I've found online have been related to first aid training. The phrase doesn't appear to be used for any other type of emergency response, so the current, general article appears to fail WP:VERIFICATION. I've changed the article to a redirect to Emergency#Emergency action principles (EAP) and will start a similar discussion at Talk:Emergency. Feel free to replace the redirect if you feel it can be rewritten as an WP:ENCYCLOPEDIC article about EAP's in first aid. G. C. Hood (talk) 01:49, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Verifiability
Talk:Small hydro

message: The following moved here from the article as they are really a discussion on its future. Possible sections to be added to this article:
* History
* Environmental costs and benefits
* Role of automated controls in expansion of
* Use in developing countries
* Regulatory issues and status
--Lumos3 09:23, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sections to be added to this article 

message: In Canada, small hydro definition goes to 50-MW, (ref). Thus suggest change to the text in first para – "The definition of a small hydro project varies, but as a generality, a generating capacity of up to 10 megawatts (MW) is the upper limit of what can be termed small hydro. This is extended to 30 MW in the USA, and 50 MW in Canada..."  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 155.13.48.17 (talk) 19:54, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: . Updated article. Rehman(+) 11:41, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Small hydro (definition) 

message: Every hydro development is "corresponding to river discharge and potential", if that phrase has any meaning at all. Three Gorges was developed "corresponding to the river discharge and potential". That is not a defining characteristic of small hydro. Small hydro is a development less than 50 megawatts (in many areas), or some other reference threshold.  --Wtshymanski (talk) 22:13, 14 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Weak, wordy, vague prose is a hallmark of Wikipedia writing

message: — Assignment last updated by Juniper37 (talk) 18:50, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Geographies of Energy and Sustainability
Talk:Emo glasses

message: from VfD:
Very recent slang applied to a very old style, and even then it is not that common. A short definition with an excerpt from an external website, no real potential to become anything more. Maybe deserves a mention in the main Emo article at most, but a separate article is excessive and unnecessary. →Reene✎ 09:27, Jan 11, 2005 (UTC)
*weak delete, possibly merge with an article on stereotypes? Thryduulf 18:13, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Advanced Info Service

message: Even AIS itself can't decide if it's called "Advance" or "Advanced".  Opinions? Jpatokal 09:54, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I think our only option is the Google Test. Advanced Info Service gets 42,400 hits, Advanced Info Service gets 1,440 hits. This is a considerable difference. One of those 42,400 hits is the Stock Exchange of Thailand, which calls the company "ADVANCED INFO SERVICE PUBLIC COMPANY LIMITED". Aecis 18:28, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Papa (slang)

message: Reasons for deletion request (as of Deletion Policy):
* This article can never be more than a dictionary definition, and therefore
* it has no potential to become encyclopedic.
This article covers several unrelated topics at once, consists of trivia-like information with no support at all, and has no potential for cleanup -- if you clean it up nothing remains. Papa and Mama and papa already cover the points of interest cited here. --Pablo D. Flores 11:34, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Papa (slang)]]
Talk:Le Train de Nulle Part

message: I took out all of the verbs from the text in this page, making it alot harder to read yes, but i think its a fun thing to do regarding to the book. It's not really koscher wikipedia-style, so if you want to revert it go right ahead. But, please, try to change the text instead, keeping the verbs out of it :D
By the way, if i made a mistake somewhere, an is perhaps where it doesn't belong, correct me please. 
Gkhan 11:48, Jan 11, 2005 (UTC)
:Hrrm.  I'm surprised nobody's gotten to this to revert it yet.  I'm not going to be the killjoy; I just know that the E-Prime talk page had an argument about that sort of thing.  It also looks kind of weird to have the author's quote itself contain verbs.  Azure Haights 19:20, Jan 25, 2005 (UTC)
:Now that I think about it, I am gonna be the killjoy.  It's not like the article gets much attention either way. Azure Haights 21:02, Feb 16, 2005 (UTC)
:Thanks for reverting, people like me would like to learn something about the topic, so being able to understand the article is key. Providing quotes from the book is also good because it illustrates the point. putgeminmouth 15:07, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion
Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/Kenneth O'Keefe

message: The human shields page that Christaan says references O'Keethe was largely written by Christaan, and the human shield action was not a notable action.  Furthermore, O'keeth himself does not seek notability, if you read his diatribe on the talk page "Popularity is completely and utterly unimportant to Paul and in this we are one."  There were probably some press releases and notices when the Norway scholarship winners were announced too.  This is very like.--Silverback 12:00, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It's interesting that, when you nominated it for deletion, you cite Kenneth O'Keefe as a vanity page and now you're trying to argue that he's not notable because he doesn't want to be. This line of argument is irrational; whether a person desires notability or not, or even if they are in fact vain, has nothing to do with whether that person is notable or not. It's seems rather obvious that your desire to have this page deleted is politically motivated, which is very unfortunate. The human shield action to Iraq was of course notable and any cursory search of the myriads of commentary and news articles surrounding the subject is evidence of that. It also featured on around half a dozen global news networks. If you'd done some research you'd know this. Please don't waste people's time with these politically motivated attacks. --Christiaan 14:35, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Even if the human shield actions were notable, the leaders weren't.  The human shields were not a cohesive pacifist group, some even openly supported the Saddam regime.  So where was the leadership and what was the notability?  I doubt these pages would be here if you and O'Keefe yourselves had not wanted to memorialize your failed efforts.--Silverback 17:36, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually the human shield action was noted on Wikipedia long before I started editing on Wikipedia or elaborating on the topic. It just happens to be what got me into Wikipedia, i.e. something that interests me. Your comment that, "There were probably some press releases and notices," just proves your complete ignorance of the topic, or worse. Ken O'Keefe isn't notable so much for leading the action but for instigating  and organising it. That you're in denial about the notability of the human shield action is no skin off my nose. -- Christiaan 23:08, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Cache coloring

message: Looks like this article is a slightly modified version of this: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/vm-design/page-coloring-optimizations.html 70.82.141.92 18:05, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed this introductory material from article. Burschik 12:07, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

text: Removed Minor quibble. Meredith 14:34, 11 Dec 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]
Talk:Omnibus

message: : probably this concerns material now in bus or wagonette -P64 2012-06-19
The caption Omnibus - Project Gutenberg eText 16943.jpg is incorrect - the picture is not late 18th early 19th C - check the Gutenberg text it is taken from. The text was about Paris in the age of Napoleon III. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 156.34.47.213 (talk • contribs). 02:36, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Omnibus picture 

message: Does anyone have an example use of omnibus for "Anthology, a collection of literary works"? 
I suspect that is a sloppy version of "Anthology#Omnibus ..." which I understand to mean a single-volume edition of previously published works by one author (or co-authors). Moments ago I moved this one up from "Media & entertainment" to "Publishing". --P64 (talk) 14:07, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anthology
Category talk:World War I poets

message: I am building this page at the moment. I now have a better idea of how to use Category in Wikipedia, so I will return soon to sort this out. Diz 13:17, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)

message: I have identified these poets to add to this category:
*Herbert Asquith
*Laurence Binyon
*Edmund Blunden
*Vera Brittain
*Rupert Brooke
*G K Chesterton
*Jeffery Day
*Walter de la Mare
*Eva Dobell
*Geoffrey Faber
*Gilbert Frankau
*Robert Graves
*Julian Grenfell
*Ivor Gurney
*Thomas Hardy
*F. W. Harvey
*A. E. Housman	
*W. N. Hodgson
*David Jones
*Ernst Junger
*Rudyard Kipling
*D. H. Lawrence
*John McCrae - In Flanders Fields
*Robert Nichols
*Wilfred Owen
*Edgell Rickword
*Isaac Rosenberg
*Siegfried Sassoon
*R. H. Sauter
*Alan Seeger
*Charles Sorley
*Edward Thomas
*Arthur Graeme West
* And more to be added...
To continue, add the category to the poet's article page,then delete it from this list.
Diz 14:07, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of Poets to add to Category
Talk:Lake Kyoga

message: I've been adding a brand new map and a nice satellite picture. Now go write some more text! :)  — mark ✎ 13:35, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Needs expansion

message: The size of the lake is actually 1720 sq. miles, not square km.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.153.173.116 (talk) 11:53, 15 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  size 