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Talk:Tony Sarg

message: OK, look: the first thing i gotta say about him is the least important, let's get it out of the way:
: His "google test" is a wretched "106 of about 187".
But he died over sixty years ago; your mother probably never heard of him, and how many Web pages has she created, in case it happens she does remember who he was?
Bil Baird worked for him 5 years before going out on his own; he did the first balloons for the Macy's Day Parade; his cumulative audience at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair was 3 million; he's got a 1988 small-press bio (but spiral bound, i'm afraid, out of print, and about 2/3 of that is appendices). (And he's in the NYT crossword for yesterday (Saturday).) But there is no mention of even his last name in the article space.
If no one with an interest in puppets expands my stub, maybe i will.  Here's enough to base the stub on, and then some: 
:Tony Sarg "Puppeteer Profile" by Karen Backes 
--Jerzy (t) 02:35, 2005 Apr 10 (UTC)
Caution: the Madison Square Garden mentioned in the ext ref above is one of the first two, not either of the more recent uptown ones. --Jerzy (t) 05:56, 2005 Apr 10 (UTC)
I am new to Wikipedia and I don't know if I am doing this properly; I welcome any coaching.
The Nantucket Historical Association has a small but wonderful collection, much of which is available online in facsimile. Tony Sarg was a summer resident of that island for many years and is represented in the NHA online collection with a variety of work; writing, drawings, paintings, designs and objects. They are all documented and dated, often with commentary. Anyone who wants to know more about this fascinating, if minor, artist would find much that is interesting there.
Would a link to that site be appropriate? http://www.nha.org/
Also, there is a direct link to a long article originally published in Historic Nantucket magazine, vol. 53, no. 4 (Fall 2004) which includes more biographical information and the text of a long letter, complete with illustrations, written in 1906 by Mr. Sarg to his future wife, Bertha McGowan. That link is http://www.nha.org/history/hn/HNsarg.htm
In many ways he was the Jim Henson or Dr. Suess of his day, although without as much economic success!
I await the input of someone with more experience than I.
--Kguido (talk) 21:55, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Age/sex/location

message: Hmm, the link to RFC 1855 has been replaced by a link to Netiquette. Note that the latter is currently actually inferior to the former, to some degree, at this point in time. Kim Bruning 23:57, 10 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Inferior link replacement

message: I just removed some original research and uncited commentary.  If you can cite a published article where the use of "ASL" is criticized then go ahead.  I think it's actually somewhat borderline as to whether or not this article should be merged into the main internet slang article. Blackcats 07:27, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Original research

message: The history goes back a little further than this article suggests. BBS systems with chat, plus services like CompuServe CB Simulator and The SOURCE had chat programs. There, "MORF?" and "A/S/L?" were used frequently. -- Mikeblas 05:48, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: This article is entirely unsourced.  This is bad.  --Xyzzyplugh 14:31, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The only references are Acronym Finder and Urban Dictionary and these have been deemed not reliable enough for the List of Internet slang phrases. /Jiiimbooh 19:15, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: All unverified

message: It would be nice to have a serious article to link to, but isn't this general knowledge and therefore doesnt need citations? 141.154.23.165 22:22, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: General knowlegde must be cited, too. However, we mustn't be too fierce on general knowledge articles, as it isn't easy to find sources.--Orthologist 15:30, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: General Knowledge

message: This article is in abysmal quality. It's obviously a notable topic, but I've just removed a bunch of content that isn't provided by suitable sources. The remaining sources are questionable in their quality and there certainly isn't balance compared to what is available online. 
I've attempted to give it at least an acceptable standing until someone is in a position to improve it sufficiently. Nosebagbear (talk) 12:26, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abysmal
Talk:Lipoic acid

message: My edit, in which I added a mention of alpha-lipoic acid causing insulin autoimmune syndrome, was rolled back due to the use of a "doubtful" journal. Would then this reference pass the mark? This is a 2010 review published in Diabetology International, the official journal of the Japan Diabetes Society. --CopperKettle (talk) 22:10, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: "Association" in a limited number of cases is weak evidence. I looked, and found no WP:MEDRS sources for a cause-and-effect relationship between LA and IAS. Zefr (talk) 22:28, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  Why shouldn't it be mentioned? The syndrome is rare, it may take decades before anybody runs any kind of study to support cause-and-effect. It is mentioned in endocrinology textbooks and in reviews, that's a fine enough reason to mention it in an encyclopedia to me. --CopperKettle (talk) 22:39, 20 July 2023 (UTC)

text: Mention of a possible association and unproven theory is unencyclopedic. For medical content, we use WP:MEDASSESS - those sources would be in the orange section of the levels of evidence. Zefr (talk) 23:05, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: If you read into it, you will clearly see that it's not "association", and it does bring on the condition. I used the term "association" just once, by myself, to couch it in a less definite light. There's no need concentrate so hard on the word I've used once. --CopperKettle (talk) 04:11, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

text: It's mentioned in textbooks, which are good secondary sources, thus I see no reason to avoid mentioning it. --CopperKettle (talk) 04:12, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

text: Let me quote from the MEDASSESS page you've provided the link to: "A tertiary source summarizes a range of secondary sources. Undergraduate or graduate level textbooks, edited scientific books, lay scientific books, and encyclopedias are tertiary sources." --CopperKettle (talk) 04:17, 21 July 2023 (UTC)

text: Another quote: "Medical textbooks published by academic publishers are often excellent secondary sources." --CopperKettle (talk) 04:18, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Association with insulin autoimmune syndrome
Talk:Seiza

message: It would be good to explain this, as people could confuse the two since both involve being on the knee. The key difference seems to be that kneeling has the bottom of the foot touching (even if it is only the ball or the bottom of the toe) whereas, being in seize is sitting because the only part of the foot that touches is the top. The foot is plantar-flexed at the ankle so the top is an extension of the line of the shin, whereas with kneeling the foot is dorsi flexed and forms a 90 degree (or so) angle. There might be other differences I'm not picking up on here too.
I am confused as to what the difference between kneeling and kiza is though. Can someone explain that? Tyciol (talk) 01:51, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Versus [[kneeling]]

message: Just wondering if this page could do with a disambiguation. "Seiza" can also transliterate 靜坐 which means "quiet sitting" rather than "proper sitting" and is used in the Confucian tradition. In Chinese (Pinyin transliteration) it is "jing zuo" and there is a wiki page for this. Jing zuo Hundovir (talk) 00:10, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, I think a "hatnote" would be sufficient. -Hundovir (talk) 17:12, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Have added hatnote. - Hundovir (talk) 18:47, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation 

message: While I know how much you Wikipedians love to include pictures of yourself in articles, there really isn't ever a situation in which one should sit seiza baring any leg. Even in classes in which jeans are allowed for convenience's sake, shorts are greatly discouraged. 206.29.182.210 (talk) 00:50, 14 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bare kneed 

message: I tried to follow the first link in the external links section and got a 404 error.  I removed the direct link in my browser to go to the flashmavi webpage and it seems that the entire Ninjutsu section of their page is currently giving a 404 error. I was just going to remove the link entirely but noticed in the page history that the link had been fixed on 23 Feb 2014 so I thought it may be important to someone.  Since this was my first visit to this page I've decided to leave it in the hands of a regular contributor.  Also, IMHO the second page linked to also seems a little messy and hard to read and doesn't mention Seiza by name (kneel sitting?).  Again, I'm leaving that to a regular contributor to this page.  Wolfhound668 (talk) 17:15, 31 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Links section
Template talk:Usercomment

message: This template duplicates : 
Worse, its wording is more specialized, so its range of applicable use is restricted. In any case, it's been pointed out that most skins have tabs that provide this function, without the chatty comment. — Xiongtalk 03:42, 2005 Apr 10 (UTC)
This template was on TfD, blahblahblah you know the drill ;) See Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/Not deleted for more info.  Evidently, the template was kept. -Frazzydee|✍ 14:40, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duplication of {{[[Template:Add|add]]}} 

message: When I use this template on my talk page, the tildes are not litteral so instead of "-- ~~~~" I get "--Tiger Marc 06:07, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That's due to known glitch in the template parsing; I fixed it. // Pathoschild 06:12, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  nowiki not working  

message: Please change  to .
Also move the usage to a seperate /doc page. —MC10|Sign here! 00:44, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 10:28, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editprotected 

message: To remove lint errors of type obsolete HTML tags, please change
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*  to 
— Anomalocaris (talk) 03:58, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Done  using  — JJMC89 (T·C) 05:03, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks! But please remove the stripped </center> tag. —Anomalocaris (talk) 08:00, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  Oops. Fixed. — JJMC89 (T·C) 20:32, 24 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 24 November 2017 

message: This template has 2 missing end tags for italics (). The appearance will be preserved, and the missing end tags corrected, by inserting  just before  and removing  from the end of the "Start a new talk topic" line. Anomalocaris (talk) 07:51, 20 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Done — JJMC89 (T·C) 07:59, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

text: JJMC89: Thanks! —Anomalocaris (talk) 01:15, 21 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 20 May 2018
Talk:Leap week calendar

message: One of the advantages is apparently "For leap week calendars without months, each date of the year can be completely specified with three data (week, weekday, year), instead of four (weekday, month, ordinal day, year)." Call me old fashioned, but I only need 3 pieces of data NOW to reference any day in any year. Day of month, month, and year. MrZoolook (talk) 00:28, 14 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. This should be changed. Feel free to go a head and be bold! –Cup o' Java (talk • contribs) 01:27, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: That's what I was thinking. Jimp 10:38, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. I remove the sentence, as there is no advantage (three data for both). Kiwipidae (talk) 10:29, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advantages
Talk:Middleham Castle

message: "...caused it to become known as "the Windsor of the North" An unlikely style of comparison before the 19th century. Who called it "the Windsor of the North"? --Wetman 04:13, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 16:48, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008 
Talk:List of Major League Baseball progressive career hits leaders

message: There seem to be mistakes in this list. Try and compare it to List of Major League Baseball players with 2000 hits. There are several differences, even in the top 10! Please fix! Happy138 21:42, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The top 10 for which year? As noted in the intro, this list is based on the officially recognized totals, which can be hard to track down. The other list suggests that it uses Baseball-Reference and the official MLB site as sources. Honus Wagner's career total, for instance, is widely debated, though is officially recognized total is 3430 (see his Hall of Fame page), although both Baseball-Reference and the MLB site list him with 3415. (I know it's difficult to comprehend that the MLB site doesn't actually display its officially recognized stats.) Total Baseball lists him with 3420, as does The Sporting News Official MLB Record Book. MisfitToys 22:07, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mistakes 
Talk:Smoked beer

message: Brauerei Spezial and Brauerei Heller (Schlenkerla) are fairly unique in that they both produce their own smoked malt.
The mantra in Bamberg is that you have to drink 3 before you will like the flavor; having tried it, I could barely make it through the first.  Having a second was out of the question.  You can taste the beechwood smoke in the beer, very distinctly.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.210.216.19 (talk) 23:47, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: I have a book where it distinguishes between Rauchbier (smoked malt) and Steinbeer (hot stone method in the first paragraph). I think they should be separate articles. I shall check in the book as not 1000% sure about how to spell Steinbeer BUT different bears. Bradley10 (talk) 16:09, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  rauchbier / steinbeer 

message: Dovetail Brewery in Chicago,  IL brews an excellent Rauchbier. Dkelber (talk) 18:57, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing US Brewery
Talk:Blue Point Brewing Company

message: I have deleted the redirect that led Sixpoint Craft Ales to this page. I am not aware of any affiliation between Sixpoint and Blue Point. If I am in error, feel free to put it back. Too bad Sixpoint doesnt have a page, they make great beers but I must admit I dont know that much about them. Nsoderblom (talk) 04:54, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirect
Talk:Gordon Mumma

message: Coulisse means slide in French. Hyacinth 05:30, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: ''Coulisse''

message: Added external link to liner notes, and for full disclosure I work for the non-profit educational resource linked to. The notes provide reference for several facts in this article.Ribbonabaca (talk) 16:43, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: added another Ribbonabaca (talk) 20:10, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: reference, disclosure
Talk:Fantasy Warlord

message: The third paragraph does not have a neutral point of view. I suggest:
Fantasy Warlord featured some unusual game mechanics that were superior to warhammer such as excellent simultaneous movement and fog of war rules. It was also featured better balanced magic and troop choice systems than the 3rd edition warhammer rules that were around at the time. However other aspects of the game did not work so well, notably the combat system which was prone to throwing up statistical irregularities.
which leaves us with:
Fantasy Warlord featured some unusual game mechanics such as simultaneous movement and fog of war rules. It also featured balanced magic and troop choice systems. However the combat system was prone to throwing up statistical irregularities.
Wgsimon 05:39, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This needs cleaning up: I can't make out what the complaint about racial-types is supposed to be. Orcoteuthis 08:21, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Critical Reaction
Talk:Maude Barlow

message: RE: "Despite a majority of Canadians (and the Liberal party) opposing the deal, the Conservative minority passed the FTA in 1988."
There is something misleading with that statement.  Is the writer saying that all Liberal Party MPs opposed the deal or just the majority of the Liberal Party?  And why single out the Liberal Party - ALL of the NDP MPs opposed the FTA because of its exclusion of Worker and Environmental standards.  Ask Bill Blaikie if you don't believe me.  I know that Maude Barlow ran for the nomination for the Liberal Party once (which justifies mentioning Liberals  - but to be historically accurate, the NDP opposed the FTA (not just some of the Liberals). 08:04, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Misrepresentation

message: I looked at Wikipedia in hopes of getting a short summary of her beliefs about water and perhaps how her beliefs evolved from her life's experiences.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.104.139.203 (talk) 21:05, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is her philosophy about water?
Talk:Duane syndrome

message: Please read  regarding the copyright status of this page
Information on the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) Web site genome.gov is in the public domain. Public domain information may be freely distributed and copied, but, as a courtesy, it is requested that the National Human Genome Research Institute be given an appropriate acknowledgement: "Courtesy: National Human Genome Research Institute."...
Copyrighted material carries a credit line indicating that it did not originate at NHGRI.
Given that the page from which this was copied does not have a credit line, this text is in the public domain.
--Pipian 05:47, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds good, missed that on my check. DDerby 06:32, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Please

message: Per this permission page, Duane syndrome's initial content from  is public domain and may be used freely on wikipedia. DDerby 06:49, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copy permission 

message: For reference, synonyms and number of Google hits:
*Duane syndrome (18,600)
*Duane's syndrome (771)
*Duane's retraction syndrome (753)
*Duane's co-contraction syndrome (2)
*Co-contraction syndrome (7)
*Retraction syndrome (20,100)
*Stilling-Turk-Duane retraction syndrome (28)
AED 04:32, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Synonyms
Talk:Unmanned aerial vehicle

message: — Assignment last updated by Thecanyon (talk) 05:33, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Technology and Culture

message: There's an oddity in the difference between "small" and "medium" UAVs in the table in the article. Small are defined as <2m and medium as >5m. Are there NO drones in the middle?
Looking at the citation, it appears that the classification is done by weight rather than size.  So should the article reflect this? The quote is:
:"The medium UAV class applies to UAVs that are too heavy to be carried by one person but are still smaller than a light aircraft. They usually have a wingspan of about 5-10 m and can carry payloads of 100 to 200 kg."
Chris55 (talk) 15:21, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Classification of medium UAVs
Talk:Wholism

message: I reverted to the version just prior to the article being redirected.  Googling "wholism" gives 8,710 hits.  To avoid those pages where someone may have written "wholism, or holism" I googled "wholism" minus "holism" and got 7,680 hits.  It may not be easy to discern a clear distinction from the current state of our articles on the two, but this article probably deserves a chance to expand independently.  SWAdair | Talk  09:50, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd like to see some evidence that wholism is something other than a synonym for holism. My strong suspicion is that it is nothing other than our anonymous editor's website. --goethean 15:58, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: In the absence of any evidence that wholism is indeed a "religion/lifestyle" distinction from holism, I have added a disputed tag to the article. I don't appreciate anonymous editors using the wikipedia for PR purposes for their pesonal website. --goethean 19:01, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)

text: Funny. That fact is that you are using wikipedia for promotional purposes, which is wrong. --goethean 13:34, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)

text: I'm not interested in feuds, real or imaginary, only in the quality of the article.  At the moment, though it's probably doing enough to stay, it's just a list — that's not suitable for an encyclopædia article.  It needs to be written as a connected explanation, and needs to include critical material as well as pure exposition.  Reputable sources are also needed; without those it's likely to be deleted. Mel Etitis  (Μελ Ετητης) 10:00, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Reverted prior to redirect

message: I would prefer the use of "contend" or "believe" rather than accept.  Wholists "accept" gives the impression that the subject of discussion is an undeniable truth.  Using accept suggests to me that the author is not coming at the subject from a NPOV but is promoting his own beliefs.
--User:Jeremy P Lewis
:The article is on VfD now, and I suspect won't survive.  If you can improve it significantly, and supply citations, then that might change the result. Mel Etitis  (Μελ Ετητης) 10:56, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accept ? 

message: I have added a summary to the wholism article but won't add any more at this time because people seem to have already made their minds up as regards the deletion of this page.--Ogb 04:30, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Summary added 

message: I have added some citations.--Ogb 03:31, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations Added
Talk:Installment plan

message: needs to move to Installment plan? - Stoph 06:47, 10 Apr 2005 (UTC)

message: I've redirected Layaway to this page, since its the most closely related concept, the only difference in the case of Layaway is the store retains the merchandise until its been paid off. Ewlyahoocom 18:44, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Lawaway

message: You are absolutely right about that, I would say by definition "Installment Plan" is more closely related to mortgage or auto loans than anything. Lay away is nothing near a loan or credit, other than the fact that some buisnesses may require the customer to pay a fee or deposit. No credit is extended to the customer, only stock space.M jurrens 13:56, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Re: Layaway

message: Is instalment or installment also version of software like in
:The Priory also makes an appearance in the third installment of the popular Gabriel Knight adventure game series by author Jane Jensen, Gabriel Knight III: "Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned".
? This was from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priory_of_Sion
80.235.69.204 20:39, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Version of software
Talk:Southridge High School (Beaverton, Oregon)

message: This page was recently nominated for deletion, and the consensus decision was to keep it. The deletion debate is archived here. ugen64 20:12, 26 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Votes for deletion

message: A page move to Southridge High School (Beaverton) is imminent, followed by a disambiguation page placed here, unless someone can show why this Southridge is significantly more notable than the one in Kennewick, WA (Southridge High School (Kennewick)). Matt Yeager 01:30, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Moving the page

message: The number of high schools in the BSD has changed from 7 to 8 as the International School of Beaverton has/will extend[ed] into the 9-12 grades, and is recognized as a high school by the BSD.Twigge 17:27, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of high schools in Beaverton School District 

message: I'm removing the following because it isn't sourced. Given sufficient sources, it can and should be re-added.
Cheers, tedder (talk) 00:00, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  unsourced section that could/should be readded 