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Talk:Outline of The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

message: For a May 2005 deletion debate over this page see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Outline)
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I would like to see which chapters go with which volume.  I downloaded the gutenberg editions and some chapters seem to be missing between the V and VI volumes.
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thread_title: Untitled

message: I've used Gibbon's spellings for everything, even though many of the foreign names are now spelled differently.  I've tried to link everything to the correct pages.
Just a note: I have the H. H. Milman edition, but it says it was published in 1854, not in 1846. It is the 6 volumn set, printed in Boston at Phillips, Sampson, and Company, and stereotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry. B. Stephenson, Margate, Florida.
70.149.86.122 (talk) 03:37, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Spelling

message: "Outline" is short for "hierarchical outline". There are two types of outlines: sentence outlines (like those you made in school to plan a paper), and topic outlines (like the topical synopses that professors hand out at the beginning of a college course). Outlines on Wikipedia are primarily topic outlines that serve 2 main purposes: they provide taxonomical classification of subjects showing what topics belong to a subject and how they are related to each other (via their placement in the tree structure), and as subject-based tables of contents linked to topics in the encyclopedia. The hierarchy is maintained through the use of heading levels and indented bullets. See Wikipedia:Outlines for a more in-depth explanation.  The Transhumanist 00:01, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quick explanation of Wikipedia outlines 

message: The "Gibbon Chronology" in this article doesn't seem to be within scope, and is largely (entirely?) covered in prose at Edward Gibbon.  It has been in the article since 2007, but the addition was not explained at the time.  Is their any objection to its removal? Caeciliusinhorto (talk) 20:32, 30 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds reasonable; there are better places for it than this article.  P Aculeius (talk) 02:23, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  The "Gibbon Chronology"
Talk:Spanish Colonial Revival architecture

message: Many of the names listed here do not meet the Wikipedia definition of notability, per WP:NN, and should likely be removed. WikkanWitch (talk) 12:39, 20 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable architects 

message: The "See also" section links to several categories. For the general reader this is distracting and cluttered. For those digging deeper, like researchers, I would think either including the list in the category section or linking to relevant articles that provide additional categories would be sufficient. Otr500 (talk) 15:55, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  "See also" section
Talk:Hampden, Baltimore

message: Anyone from Hampden willing to get (or already have) a picture for the cool christmas lights set up they have here? I like away from Baltimore now so I can't really... gren 05:24, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Can anyone provide any sort of reference that the southern tip of the triangle of Hampden is called "SoHa"? I live in Baltimore City and I've never heard anyone use this phrase; it's certainly not in use in any official capacity. The link on this page goes to an unrelated neighborhood in New York. -Jfruh (talk) 15:37, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  SoHa? 

message: Can someone explain the slo-mo edit war in which this bar keeps getting deleted and then added back into the large, unweildy list of Avenue establishments?  I mean, I'm sort of against having huge lists like this in general, but if the article's going to have one, surely Fraziers belongs in it. --Jfruh (talk) 18:14, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I dislike the large list as well. Personally, I would remove them all rather than have it get to this size. The article may emphasize a vibrant commercial area that has numerous restaurants etc. without giving examples. GcSwRhIc (talk) 18:25, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fraziers on the Avenue 

message: These sections are similar and contain common content. They should perhaps be combined into one section. Thoughts?WikkanWitch (talk) 13:06, 13 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  History AND Background?
Talk:E3 Visa

message: Interestingly the US refers to the E3 as a general category of visas whereas it is being spoken about in Australia as a seperate visa.  It may actually just be a seperate quota but it does seem like no one else is getting a visa deal like this  (not even Canada although there is no limit on the number of TN visas which may be issued).
I think there is value in an "E3 visa" article though as many Aussies want to know more about this :)
It may be that this article will become part of a larger article on US visas but to date I have not found much specific visa information in wikipedia.  I have quite a lot of knowledge in this area and am looking at putting it somewhere.  Robertbrockway 05:32   May 15 2005 (UTC).
: The E series of U.S. visas is based on treaties and E3 therefore fits the pattern.   It could perhaps be extended to other countries later, or even merged with the TN at some future date.  JAJ 01:55, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Pharmacogenetics

message: I think the science content is about right - it certainly doesn't need condensing further, it could go into a great deal more detail to be honest.
There are at least 200 ADME genes (Absorption, Distribution, Metabolism, Excretion) which cause variation in response to drugs in humans and we really are only just beginning to understand which ones (and which variations) contribute the most to those differences. The sequencing of the genome was only the beginning - the next stage is identifying all of the SNPs which make each one of us different (see HapMap project which is already linked from this article). When HapMap Phase 2 is complete (end of 2005?), we should have a fairly comprehensive list of about 5 million SNPs which will represent all of the common variations (>5% prevalence) which occur in the human population and a large percentage of the rare ones too. Unfortunately, there are many other differences in our genomes besides SNPs. Our genomes are riddled with insertion/deletions (INDELS) as well as larger scale deletions, duplications and rearrangements, all of which might affect drug response. Most are probably irrelevant but it is going to be a difficult task to identify the ones which are really important. I have great hope for pharmacogenetics (or PGx, as it's called in the Pharmaceutical industry) but I have read a lot of hype about it in recent years which might give people the impression that 'personalised medicine' is on the doorstep. I do think it's coming but it is going to be a slow, incremental process of change.
What is the future of this research? Where are we going with it and what can we say about the ethical/racial factors associated with this? Perhaps discuss marketing and that new drug, BiDil that is supposed to be just for African Americans.
I made a few minor changes today August 20. The page as it currently stands does not do the topic justice and I plan to continue working on it. I'm not sure yet where to pitch it on the continuum of writing  for scientists and writing for a lay audience. By way of disclosure I work for a company that does pharmacogenetic testing so I will be especially careful to reference what I write. Biotechtrendy 21:09, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  More science please, this is a BIG subject! 

message: Both articles mention that the two terms can be used interchangeably (my -personal- impression is that people looking at more than one gene use the more impressive sounding "genomics"). It therefore makes no sense to have two articles that broadly overlap each other. As pharrmacogenetics as a term has been established much longer than pharmacogenomics, I propose to merge to pharmacogenetics and to redirect pharmacogenomics there. Randykitty (talk) 17:27, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I think Pharmacogenomics is small enough that a merge makes sense.Hardkhora (talk) 17:16, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[Pharmacogenomics]]
Talk:Ott (record producer)

message: Surely OTT is also an abreviation of over the top. Origination from the First world war when it meant to go over the top of the trenches during an attack on the enemy. It has come to mean excessive behaviour.--Alun 11:10, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Over the top?

message: --Rare HurtZ 00:36, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: His blog - http://twisted.co.uk/artists/ott/ - strangely twisted have done away with anything resembling normal bios. Stevekeiretsu 00:10, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Dose Anyone have any more information about OTT ? 

message: I will soon provide more information about him...
Ott was born on October 3rd 1937 in Swansea. He's a hermit who drinks far too much tea and should wash his trousers more often! It's a little known fact that his first band named 'Spectrum RAM Pack' were Regional Heats finalists for Eurovision 1992. Their song was 'The Protochicken came first!', which was an evolutionary biological answer to the philosophical conumdrum 'Which came first the chicken or the egg?' The band, all 37.5 of them (1 amputee trombonist and a timpanist dwarf comprising the fraction) were all dressed as chicken. Ott himself, playing the waterphone, was cutting a dash as a Buff Orpington cockerel. The band were however disqualified after Ott gored Terry Wogan's shins with his spurs.   - Guess who :-)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.111.83.135 (talk) 11:32, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  More info 

message: Ott does NOT mean spear carrier in German. What the hell is a spear carrier? I looked up "Ott" in the german Wikipedia and they don't even have it except for a surname.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.14.100.170 (talk) 03:37, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Spear Carrier
Talk:WA-7

message: Seems that there are a lot of articles on both major and minor characters from the Star Wars, some of which have single line entries.  Though some characters clearly have enough content to merit an individual entry I wonder if it would be more useful to readers to consolidate information on some of the less-known characters onto a single page instead of having one for each.  
If I was more familiar with the Star Wars characters I might tackle it, but unfortunately I'm not.
Tobycat 06:10, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: organizing this content
Talk:Rules of construction

message: I've cleaned this up as best I can. The citation used in the first rule has an obvious problem, but I cannot fix it.  If someone else can find the correct legal citation, I think the cleanup tag could come off. Jekoko 17:12, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikified and heavy copy edit 

message: removing cleanup tag  Jekoko 03:37, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  found last legal citation 

message: cleaned up the sections 68.17.145.44 broke out and added context and links. I don't exactly see why they needed to be broken out but it wasn't such a big deal to cleanup the situation. However, we now have a red-link on this page, which I hope someone can address.   Jekoko 18:06, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  clean up after break out
Talk:Water Ice

message: * Capitalization of the "I" in Ice is bothering me.  I'm just feeling nit-picky.
"Water ice" already exists, however, as a redirect into the Ice article. WoodenTaco 06:42, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I think this ought to be merged and redirected to Snow cone instead - that already deals with this same subject in more detail. Water ice could be redirected there too. sjorford →•← 09:31, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. violet/riga (t) 21:21, 21 May 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Benedictine (disambiguation)

message: May I suggest to reconsider the need for a separate article "Benedictine Sisters"; but, if a discussion of their traditional distinction from "Benedictine nuns" is thought to merit that much space, rather make them a sub heading elsewhere.
Portress 06:58, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Trying to access the article about the liqueur opens the "Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name" page.
The same also happens when i try to access it from the list_of_liqueurs article, perhaps this has something to do with the spelling.
Falcor84 14:32, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bénédictine, a liqueur - broken link
Talk:Apology

message: is it just me or does this article read like an essay? there's not much I can do right now; my return key is broken D= kaiti-sicle 04:24, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Tone

message: Hi:
I think the previous version of the “Apology” entry should be retained, for two reasons. First, there is absolutely no relevant content here related to the subject of “apologies” or “apologizing” the topic of this page. It is more than a little peculiar for Wikpedia’s editors to include and retain a Seinfeld link/reference but to delete content related to apologizing. Second, there are no relevant links from this page directing readers (and students) to relevant material on the web dealing with the subject. I (and the students in my ‘sociology of human interaction’ class to whom I recommended the Wikpedia “apology” page) also found the perfectapology link very useful and appropriate to the subject. The material is entirely consistent with Wikpedia’s interest in providing links to relevant content. The deletion was brought to my attention by those student who could not find the material “on apologizing.” Without it, there is nothing on this page that is of relevance to anyone wanting to find information on “apologies.” —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.7.142.185 (talk) 15:25, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  On Apologizing (13 February edit) 

message: Hello,
I will be working on editing this article for my relational communication course with the Univerisity of Alabama. I'll be editing/adding sections to relate apologies to relational communication. These are the following sources I'll be using:
         1) Chiles, B. W., & Roloff, M. E. (2014). Apologies, expectations, and violations: An analysis of confirmed and disconfirmed expectations for responses to apologies. Communication Reports, 27(2), 65-77. doi:10.1080/08934215.2014.890735
         2) Bachman, G. F., & Guerrero, L. K. (2006). Forgiveness, apology, and communicative responses to hurtful events. Communication Reports, 19(1), 45-56. doi:10.1080/08934210600586357
         3) Ebesu Hubbard, A. S., Hendrickson, B., Fehrenbach, K. S., & Sur, J. (2013). Effects of timing and sincerity of an apology on satisfaction and changes in negative feelings during conflicts. Western Journal of Communication, 77(3), 305-322. doi:10.1080/10570314.2013.770160
         4) Frandsen, F., & Johansen, W. (2010). Apologizing in a globalizing world: Crisis communication and apologetic ethics. Corporate Communications, 15(4), 350-364. doi:10.1108/13563281011085475
         5)   Susan K. Opt (2013) Apology as Power Intervention: The Case of News of the World, Western Journal of Communication, 77:4, 424-443, DOI: 10.1080/10570314.2013.767471
         6)  Douglas Kelley (1998) The communication of forgiveness, Communication Studies, 49:3, 255-271, DOI: 10.1080/10510979809368535
Paddyiranmanesh (talk) 18:49, 5 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bibliography
Talk:Helpfulness

message: There is an article on altruism which talks about psychology and sociology. I'm unsure what to do here - do we move this article hjh to Altruism (psychology and sociology)? That might be a better name. The article also needs a rewrite... I have not got enough knowledge of the subject area or wikipedia to do this though. --82.152.248.87 (talk) 17:10, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Altruism

message: I'm here to tackle a an issue that is quite paradoxical.Is helping someone do a terrible thing is still helping, only one that one person benefits, while others suffer? Unsigned
:What do you mean? Is helping what? helping is a very unspecific term. Try Altrusim --82.152.248.87 (talk) 17:10, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who to help? 

message: I marked this article with the refimprove template because there are many parenthetical references in the text that do not have corresponding references in the reference section. There are also references that have no matching citation in the body of the entry. I can't take the time right now to fix them, but will check back to see whether I might be able to resolve some.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dana leighton (talk • contribs) 21:42, 5 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  References problem
Talk:May 2005 unrest in Uzbekistan

message: On the main page, the first point on the news claims Uzbek troops kill over 300 but on the article it is perhaps 300, this means the actual number is unknown, just estimated. It disturbs me because lies and false claims to fix impact on a title, are for the news media not for Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia Mexaguil 07:42, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Many other news sources (just check Google news) are reporting at least 500 dead. --Berkut 08:44, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

text: The reason why claims are vague is because it's very difficult to get factual information on this: reporters were forced out of places where confrontations occured, the government does not release true counts, hospitals release no numbers at all, and so on. In any case Wikipedia has to relly on "news media" simply because wiki doesn't have a reporter in every place on Earth to bring factual info. --Berkut 11:23, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
Talk:J.B. (play)

message: ----
Having created this article, I recognize that the plot summary may be a bit POV. Since it's hard for me to identify myself I'd like an outside opinion: by all means, change the summary and interpretation if they're too biased. Reediewes 07:33, May 15, 2005 (UTC)
:It looks like a pretty straightforward presentation to me.  As long as God, Satan, History, Science, and Religion are the standard interpretations, I don't see anything that could be biased. Isomorphic 08:17, 15 May 2005 (UTC)

message: I know of no such word in German. It might be accurate to say "zuss is also an English phonetic approximation of the German süss 'sweet'," if the writer can document that this was what MacLeish intended. Billfalls (talk) 05:44, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  '...zuss is also German for "sweet"'
Template talk:Great awakenings

message: Few scholars accept the fourth great awakening as having taken place and the fourth great awakening article is terrible. Thus, I removed the link. --Zantastik 08:04, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed.   ∴ Therefore  talk   01:49, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

text: I am not a specialist of American religious history; consequently my opinion on the matter is hardly authoritative. That said, I think this conversation has gotten off to a rather unhealthy start. The term "Great awakening" to describe periods of increased Protestant activity is certainly not only used by Evangelicals. Some historians may indeed debate the schematisation of American religious history into a series of "awakenings"; this objection should be noted and discussed in the article(s). As for the putative "first great awakening", if it is not generally accepted by scholars in the field then its article can be about the history of the idea that such an event occured. (The template can be modified to display the "1st grt awakening" in italics, with an *, etc.) That's my perspective, anyway.--Zantastik talk 07:27, 31 July 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Banto Zame

message: This needs to be culled down so it is not a synopsis of The One Doctor but only relates the portions of the story relevant to the character of Banto Zane. --khaosworks 08:04, May 15, 2005 (UTC)
Is he really relevent enough to get his own page?(Black Dalek 18:47, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think so - one appearance in a Big Finish audio. I'm going to redirect it to The One Doctor. --Brian Olsen 21:51, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Shotcrete

message: Some people mistakenly refer to shotcrete as "shockrete".  Perhaps a redirect from the later would be helpful.
 ~Kvng (talk) 19:57, 31 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect for alternate name 

message: I don't know why the article shotcret machine i created missing. each time i seaced for shotcret machine ,the engine led me to shotcrete page.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Loney tulip (talk • contribs) 09:41, 4 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  How to redirect a page to another page 

message: Do others think it should be mentioned that a large (at least consumer) use of gunite is for inground pools? - MSTCrow 19:11, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gunite Pools 

message: 'Sprayed Concrete' is the term which is used most widely outside of the USA, rather than 'shotcrete' which is trademarked. Perhaps this article has been written by the trademark holder, shouldn't it be renamed 'Sprayed Concrete'? --81.133.189.88 (talk) 12:46, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Tradename]]?  

message: "Shotcrete inTunnel Construction
Introduction to the basic technology of sprayed concrete" 
by  Jürgen Höfler and Jürg Schlumpf
appears to be available at the below URL as a paid service
or as a trial offer as of April 13, 2017.
The article doesn't mention Heidar Rizouki who supposedly invented the product in 1914. I can't find any historical information on Heidar Rizouki, so I suspect contemporary vandalism. Mdmcginn (talk) 19:49, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead Link to One of the Sources 
Talk:Boston-area streetcar lines

message: Something's obviously gone wrong with this page; I'm guessing the {mb} template was redefined?  I don't know enough about templates yet to fix it myself.  --ScottAlanHill 21:20, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I figured it out and fixed it; the page used Template:mb, but that was redirected to be an alias for {Mfd bottom}.  I first created Template:MBTABus to replace it, and changed all the {mb}s to {MBTABus}s on this site, but then I noticed that {mb} was actually in widespread use on MBTA pages, while the redefinition was just done today.  So I reverted {mb} back to its original definition.  But maybe {MBTABus} is a better name for the template than {mb}, and we should change it in the affected pages, but I'm not going to make that decision as I'm not a major contributor to the MBTA pages.  :)  Anyway, both templates are set up to work now. --ScottAlanHill 21:46, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template issue? 

message: I have changed the  template to a new  template (which is identical to the old  template) so that  can be used for , in the same way that  can be used for  —Mets501 (talk) 22:20, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: <nowiki>{{mb}} to {{MBTABus}}</nowiki>

message: User:SPUI/New England streetcar companies may be of interest. -- Beland 14:47, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of area companies 

message: An older version of this article has for some reason been archived at Boston-area streetcar lines/old. -- Beland 03:17, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I just tagged that version for merging into this one. I'm not sure why User:SPUI split this version off, and I can't really ask him, because he no longer participates on Wikipedia. ----DanTD (talk) 11:55, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old version