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Talk:Rampage World Tour

message: I've never played the game, but a tourist trap list seems excessive to me. Unless it's something stated for fun in the game it's blatantly NPOV and should be removed. 82.58.169.151 11:56, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tourist traps 

message: I remember reading something about the Sega Saturn version having an alternate ending. Has anybody ever seen it, 'cause I can't find anything about it. Maetch (talk) 22:59, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extra Ending?
Talk:Bill Gates Wealth Index

message: (1 June 2006) It is proposed that this article be deleted, because of the following concern:  A link on the bill gates page should be adequate to cover this 
No, I don't agree, I added it because I read an article (outside wikipedia)
referring to Bill Gates Wealth Index without any link.
I wanted to know what it was. Ie it needs to be in the wikipedia index.
Also this is a much slimmer description of the expression than the full article.
teadrinker 21:44, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Cray Operating System

message: Does anyone have info on whether the later versions, i.e. 1.14-1.17.2 were also released to public domain? Dalrymple 21:44, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Public Domain

message: I did some restructuring to the lead to make the opening more about what the OS did (ran on Crays) than what OS it succeeded.  I think there's still a nuance here: can it really be considered to be the "successor" to Chippewa OS, when both the OS and the systems it ran on were from a different company?  Would "it was derived from" be more accurate?--NapoliRoma (talk) 22:35, 22 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "It succeeded the Chippewa Operating System"
Talk:Hephaestus

message: The inscriptions in Linear B  A-pa-i-ti-jo and Pa-i-to probably relate "Hephaistos" with "Phaistos". If someone has a reliable reference he can add it. (In Greek the relation is obvious). Jestmoon(talk) 15:37, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Ήφαιστος vs. Hephaestus. Compared with the original Greek spelling/sound, it seems the English/Latin version has an additional sound of h at the beginning. Could anyone explain this h sound? --Roland (talk) 19:53, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The "classical" Greek alphabet doesn't have a letter "h" but ancient Greek had the consonant. The "h" in heuristic, Hellenic, Helen, hydration, hyperbole and many more has indeed come down to us from the Greek roots. Our article Ancient Greek phonology goes into detail. If these things interest you, you'll also find there that our pronounciation of the "ph" in Hephaestus as a sort of "f" is very different from the old Greek pronunciation. NebY (talk) 20:39, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

text: @ Roland: Just to clarify, the the "h" sound is indicated by the comma-like symbol at the beginning of the Greek word. Moonraker12 (talk) 14:32, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology 

message: I've read before, that although most Greek myths say that Aphrodite & Hephaestus' marriage produced no children, in a few versions either Eros (as noted in the article) or Harmonia was the child of Hephaestus.--Splashen (talk) 03:55, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Eros or Harmonia?

message: These references seem confusing, Vulcan's relation to Hephaestus could use an explanation, maybe in a footnote?
22jcampb (talk) 14:36, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: That's described in the second sentence of the article and in the infobox. NebY (talk) 14:39, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Found it, thanks. 22jcampb (talk) 13:27, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  References to "Vulcan", particularly in captions 

message: Hi I think the infobox should have a new image. First of all, the current image isn't ancient. Second of all, I can barely see his face because of it's positioning. I think that :File:Vulcan by Bertel Thorvaldsen.jpg would work better because it's positioned better and it's ancient. Ghost_Cacus (talk) 23:14, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Why do you say Thorvaldsen's statue is ancient? NebY (talk) 00:29, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I thought it was. It's a mistake on my part. Ghost_Cacus (talk) 00:32, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  New image
Talk:Impossible Missions Force

message: What is the IMF. An Independent Agency or a Black Ops Division of the CIA? Leader Vladimir 1 June 2006 
:In the original 1960s version the opening tape concluded with the phrase (paraphrased) "if you fail, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of your existence." Assuming the IMF is an American-operated agency (very likely) that would rule out the CIA. The CIA is not run by a Cabinet-level official. The obvious string-puller, especially considering their foreign operations, is the Secretary of State. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.237.2.65 (talk • contribs). 02:06, 15 October 2006
::I figured it'd be the Secretary of Transportation :D ~Kylu (u|t)  03:13, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The Voice said the Secretary would disavow their actions not their existence. Actual quote fromt the series: "As always, should you or any member of your IM Force be caught or killed, the secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This tape will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck, Jim." -- The Voice (Bob Johnson). Another note: I reject the movies not only for what they did to Jim Phelps but what they did to the who premise. That's problem with movies based on TV series they are never true to the series. MI was never about over the top, unrealistic action sequences.  Or excessive violence.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.88.44.85 (talk) 00:57, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Under what department?

message: I am watching the DVD of the first season, and it is definitely Impossible Missions Force, not Mission, so have changed the article title accordingly. 23skidoo 02:35, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Name (Mission/Missions)
Talk:Ebirah

message: I always thought of it as a lobster - especially w/ the giant crushing claw & the smaller sharper claw ... not to mention the fanned tail. 152.23.77.38 14:01, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No it's a shrimp. Some shrimp have those too. Also Shrimp are native to the waters around Japan. Lobsters aren't.--Marhawkman 16:47, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shrimp?
Talk:Fascia of Scarpa

message: can someone confirm, im not sure 'deep fascia' as an alternative is correct.
The term "deep fascia" is also called "investing fascia," which is the fascia directly covering a given muscle. I believe Scarpa's Fascia directly adheres to Camper's Fascia (the adipose connective tissue just beneath the skin of the abdomen) and connects to underlying tissue, such as the aponeurosis of the abdomen and the Gallaudet's Fascia, which directly invests the External Oblique mm., making Gallaudet's deep fascia. I do not believe the term is correct when applied to Scarpa's. Also, the article states that Scarpa's is thicker than Camper's, when it is actually thinner. (Scarpa's is membranous, while Camper's is a thicker, adipose connective tissue.)
Gordonhovercat (talk) 01:46, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Martin Rathke

message: There was a piano factory named Rathke in St Petersburg, that built pianos from 1868 - 1917 to my knowledge. 
So page named "Rathke" should not just redirect here, but should be a disambiguation.90.190.225.121 (talk) 11:10, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Rathke disambiguation needed

message: I will return to complete this once I can gather appropriate citations.  There was indeed a piano manufacturer, Rathke, (confirmed in a reference on justanswers.com, as part of a professional appraisal of an 1882 upright Rathke) working in St Petersburg, Russia, from the 1860s until -- I believe -- the late 1890s (as I said, sources needed).  In keeping with a general style of pianos made during this time in parts of northern and eastern Germany, Estonia, and Poland, many Rathkes were upright and highly decorated.  There are further investigations needed due to the presence of several musicians active during the same period and in the same geography, all with the surname Rathke.  This calls into question any connections amongst these individuals, as well as the origin of and any connections to the piano company.
I am also aware of another Rathke of St Petersburg with clear demarcations and small internal writing that align with sales during the period.  This piano, purchased in St. Petersburg, was moved to a town in Poland close to the Russian border, in 1918.  It is now in Tbilisi, held by the same family that purchased it originally.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.185.41.220 (talk) 02:48, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Confirmation of Rathke Pianos
Talk:Motezuma

message: Can someone explain why the spelling of the title has changed? Grove give Montezuma and indeed the rest of this article uses the 'n'. - Kleinzach 22:06, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks to VivaVerdi for the references. Motezuma is evidently correct! - Kleinzach 09:45, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Montezuma or Motezuma?

message: As written, this is a mess.  I have edited it considerably, but the issue of the chronology appears.
If the manuscript was found in 2002, what has the TV production of 1992 to do with all this??
I'm leaving it in, but hope that someone can clear this up.
Vivaverdi
Later: I removed the reference.
Vivaverdi 00:31, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's still a bit confusing.   The rediscovery of the libretto occasioned Alejo Carpentier's novel about the original premier, Concierto Baroco, and also made possible a pastiche 'premiere' with, as I understand, newly composed recitatives and parodied arias from other Vivaldi operas which was recorded in the early 90's, I think. I had no idea a score had since resurfaced! Sparafucil 04:32, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chronology of this account 

message: I thought the world premiere of this production was at the  De Doelen Centre in Rotterdam in 2005. That is at least what is on the biographical account of singer Marie-Nicole Lemieux who was in the production. It also says that on her bio at the following  .
What is the truth? This article says different. Nrswanson (talk) 14:22, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Premiere account?
Talk:Raritan Inc.

message: You (Raritan1 and Vsevold4) can not be expected to be objective in your opinions or neutral in your point of view regarding your employer.  Please take a moment to read the NPOV policy guidelines: WP:NPOV and WP:NPOVFAQ.  The recommended process is for you to submit proposed changes to the talk page so more neutral parties can actually edit the article.  All articles in Wikipedia are expected to be notable and written from a Neutral point of view.  If you are concerned that the articles listed above do not meet these guidelines, feel free to make the necessary edits.  (Be Bold!)  If it becomes controversial, those edits should be discussed on the talk pages.  -- Austin Murphy 17:23, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: POV 
Talk:Russian opera in the 18th century

message: Wouldn't this article be better named as Russian opera in the 18th century than the present Opera in Russia in the 18th century? It would avoid the double "in" and harmonize with Russian opera. Melchoir 10:40, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree and moved. Circeus 01:00, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Talk:HMS Prince Albert (1864)

message: The word "Freeboard" in the article was a link (Freeboard, which redirects to Freebord). As you can see, the link is utterly irrelevant so I removed it.
I am amazed that there is no Wikipedia article on Freeboard though; I think it's the height from sea level to deck level, but I don't really know...
--Rich 09:57, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Freeboard
Talk:Coccolithovirus

message: Is this virus only restricted to ehux? I'm fairly certain that viruses (which are ubiquitous in the ocean) also affect other coccolithophores, but they may well be endemic to their respective species. Badgerpatrol 02:17, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's only been directly observed in ehux I think; I'm trying to get some of the original researchers to add some further material specific to the wikipage. I'll forward your query on to them in case they aren't checking the discussion page ;) MattOates 18:56, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Host Species Affected

message: Phycodnaviridae or Coccolithoviridae? Wiki Species page MattOates 18:56, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Though this is 9 years old and the link is broken, ICTV has Phycodnaviridae, and that is the accepted convention here. Bervin61 (talk) 21:46, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: What Familia

message: I think the references should list all the authors.  First of all, every style guide I have ever seen, and every scientific paper I have read (thousands), uses et al. only in the body of the article, and lists all authors in the Reference section. Anything else is a disservice to the unlisted authors.  Second, WP:NOT#Wikipedia_is_not_a_paper_encyclopedia—there's no practical reason not to provide the information.
As for the pointer to Molecular Biology and Evolution, it is a subscription service (my comment said "for-fee" not "funny").  This seems anti-thetical to "Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia", and very few WP readers can access it anyway, so it's a useless link. —johndburger 19:45, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree with the first point, all the authors should be listed (actually I got a note about this on my last essay). With the second point, I don't necessarily agree. Many libraries/higher education institutes in the UK have access to athens . This provides an easy link for those who have access, and besides, the full citation is given anyway, so people who want to look it up in their library can. Might be better to link to the abstract. If the link wasn't hear I'd just take the citation and shove it in google scholar, which probably wouldn't work anyway because of the citation format, then I'd have to fiddle about with the names and do it again. - FrancisTyers 20:07, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

text: TBH I have no problems with listing all authors but to say it's a disservice is a bit strong. It's only a reference to a complete work and the authors are there for the sake of identification. Specifically with that paper there was rather a lot of authors and I felt it confused the page. As to the non-free link: It's not part of Wikipedia it's an external reference, I could take the link out if you like but the reference should remain for people to look up. With Athens in the UK and access to a library there shouldn’t be a problem. Wikipedia is free as in information not money, I've started to pay with my time. Ultima 21:25, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Further reading
Talk:Anchorhead Story of Star Wars

message: I've redirected this content. It is plot summary for cut scenes (i.e. trivial), and the real-world significance was marginally cited. Trivia better suited to IMDb and fan sites, but it has no apparent encyclopedic value. --EEMIV (talk) 20:25, 12 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Why do that? Are you saving a handful of bytes on a webserver? This is of interest. Leave it be.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.10.50.113 (talk) 19:37, 13 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirect
Talk:Mine exploration

message: I Just did a little reformatting and added links to related Wikipedia pages Tascio 22:18, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  1.Formatting 

message: I have edited the external links into alphabetical order. It seems that a degree of editing had occured to bump certain sites to the top of the list and this seems the fairest way of doing it. On a similar theme, the SubBrit link was to a search result, so I've changed this to the SubBrit home page. Vanoord 13:15, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  3. External Links 

message: Removed "These statistics are very minimal compared to many other popular forms or recreational activities." The statistics it refers to are only the raw number of people injured in mine exploration---it provides no information on how many participate, which is necessary for comparing it to other activities.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.173.60.239 (talk) 20:59, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  4. Safety Statistics 
Talk:R-value

message: There should be a mention of the r-value in ideal gas laws. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.68.11.254 (talk • contribs) 05:55, 30 October 2006
:The gas constant is not normally referred to as "r-value". Argyriou (talk) 16:09, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Our Lady of Mercy School for Young Women

message: If you decide to tackle this project, check Catherine McAuley and Sisters of Mercy. Then the article will come into some focus. Stormbay 22:26, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Catherine McAuley]] 
Portal talk:India/Languages

message: Is there any reason why Mahl and Sinhala were on the list? They are both not official languages of any state in India, and both have, if any, very minor populations of speakers. These should go in Portal: Maldives and Portal: Sri Lanka, respectively, not Portal: India. That is the reason that I have removed them.
Bmaganti 22:34, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Iota adscript

message: I wonder if the contributors to this article could add anything on the discouraged use (by the Unicode consortium) of the Prosgegrammeni (which I think is the same as the Iota adscript). Unicode  has the ‘Combining Greek Prosgegrammeni (Aͅ U+0345) and the Greek Prosgegrammeni (ι U+1FBE). The latter is among the canonical decomposition compatibility characters and maps straight to iota (U+03B9).  which means its use is discouraged and its inclusion could be lost to some lossy normalization routines in text processing software. The subscript seems to have a slightly different appearance in the font I'm viewing it in, but there could be recent historic reasons for that (such as computer font makers trying to distinguish the two before they had been equated). It also could be an issue where Unicode expects font producers to produce a glyph variant of the iota for the releveant contexts where it serves as an adscript.
From these facts is it fair to say that an Iota adscript is the same as the Greek Prosgegrammeni? Also is the Iota adscript simply an Iota (with the adscript term used to differentiate it from the subsequen use as a subscripts)? Does an Iota become an adscript Iota only in certain contexts (when it appears next to particular letters)? Indexheavy 03:13, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, they are synonymous. After all, prosgegrammeni and adscript are calques, as are ypogrammeni and subscript. Iota adscript is any iota following an η, ω or long α (except iota with diaeresis, ϊ). --Nema Fakei 15:05, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unicode and the discouraged/compatibility character: Prosgegrammeni
Talk:Pentosan polysulfate

message: As pentosan polysulfate is a synonym for pentosan_polysulphate, would it be worth moving the content to the other page and adding a redirect?
Or vice versa?
Jonathan Silverlight 22:41, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: 2006 comments

message: i want to buy pentossan , may i know price ? Chintit (talk) 12:47, 5 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  price ? 

message: I recently saw an attorney ad regarding Elmiron as causing "serious eye damage".  Says "call for free test".  What's the story, Wikipedia-wise?  – S. Rich (talk) 22:55, 20 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Longterm (>5 years) daily use  in some people with interstitial cystitis appears to cause an increased incidence of a maculopathy. The mechanism is unclear. Drmobs (talk) 12:05, 26 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Law suits for eye damage?
Talk:Thorfinn Torf-Einarsson

message: He is probably better known as Thorfinn Hausakljuv than Thorfinn Turf-Einarsson. I think the primary sources are consistent in using the former Fornadan (t) 22:43, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree on Hausakljuv as being more common. It's altogether different question should any nicknames be in the article title, but if should, the the most common one. Marrtel 22:47, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wiki policy is to put pages at their most commonly known name, and many Norsemen are primarly known under their nicknames. There is precedent from other pages (Canute the Great, Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Vlad III Dracula, Caligula...) Fornadan (t) 22:55, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Nobody has written about "Thorfinn Hausakljuv" in English. Skullsplitter, yes, but you are the people who chose Sigurdsson for the other Thorfinn, and Hlodvirsson for his father, rather than Thorfinn the Mighty and Sigurd the Stout. Angus McLellan  (Talk) 23:05, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not that big deal anyway. I'm more interested if there's any mention in Scottish sources about this Earl Dungad of Caithness who's daughter he is supposed to have married Fornadan (t) 23:13, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Once upon a time I had a translation of Orkneyinga saga, and Burke's peerage appendix about Norse earls of Orkney - both with notations. Should I dig? - they may still be somewhere in my archives. I cannot vouch to remember exactly, but a reminiscence whispers me that the Dungad in question was a dim and difficult target for scholars too. Possibly meant just some landowner. Caithness' position as part of Scotland was far from clear. No good evidence of earls (or mormaers) in Caithness before the Orkneys themselves, a century or so later. Marrtel 23:27, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  The Scandinavian sources give a large number of Celtic jarls who do not appear in Scottish or Irish sources; some of these could well be Mormaers of Caithness. I'll need to look up this Dungad (Dúnchad? Donnchad?). You have to remember that the Orkney Earldom is itself the descendent of a Pictish kingdom - we have no idea how Norsemen took it over. It will be argued in a forthcoming book that the expansion of Pictish Fortriu into Orkney brought the Norsemen into the islands (as allies, as political scavengers?). - Calgacus (ΚΑΛΓΑΚΟΣ) 23:45, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  He's mentioned in Saint Olaf's Saga, just in passing: "[Of Thorfinn Skullsplitter's sons] ... [t]heir mother was Gréloth, daughter of Dungath, the earl of Caithness."  Angus McLellan  (Talk) 00:41, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Page name

message: Is there any reason not to have the page name simply "Thorfinn Turf-Einarsson"? Ben MacDui 10:39, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move Suggestion
Talk:Lobkowicz family

message: There seems to be an important connection with Gluck and this is mentioned at the Lobkowicz Palace in Prague. Although the Gluck article mentions the connection, it lacks citations so more work is needed in that article as well as this one on this subject. Truly this was a very musical family and they were generous patrons of music for generations.
Budhen (talk) 10:01, 16 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Gluck

message: Who was the dedicatee person of Beethoven's Razumovsky Quartets; Lobkowicz or Andrey Razumovsky? — Hamid Hassani (talk) 08:10, 11 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Q
Talk:Lights Out (UFO album)

message: Whoever edited the page mistaken “Billboard 200 albums” charts with “Billboard Hot 100 Singles” Chart. UFO charted at number “23” on “Billboard 200 albums” 
Source: https://www.billboard.com/charts/billboard-200/1977-10-01 Ilovelife68 68 (talk) 05:08, 10 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Charting
Talk:Ali Esbati

message: Ali Esbati can most definitely be categorized as a Stockholmian. Definition on the category page:
:This category refers to people who were born and/or grew up in Stockholm, hence have the Swedish Capital as their hometown. The category doesn’t include people who moved to Stockholm at an adult age, or only lived in the city for a short time.
As he moved there at the age of ten, I would deem that he grew up in Stockholm. It is most definitely his hometown. Jobjörn 22:45, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stockholmian 