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Talk:Scotland/Archive 6

message: Scotland fails the definition of country on many counts:
it doesn't produce its own money, regulate its trade, etc.
At the very least, there should be a section discussing
the countryness of Scotland. — the previous unsigned comments by User:207.81.169.16
:Your question, interesting as it is, isn't so much about the "countryness of Scotland" as about the countryness of the word "country." That is to say, there's no doubt that Scotland is not a sovereign state; but there is disagreement among various people as to whether the word "country" is synonomous with "sovereign state." Most of us don't think so, which is why the article calls Scotland a "country." I'm sure if you look through this talk page's archives (see the link at the top of the page) you'll see past discussions about this very question. Cheers, Doops |  talk 09:20, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Scotland produces its own money (there is a Scottish pound). Marco Neves 09:18, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

text: It's actually debatable that Scotland was a fully independent state between the Union of the Crowns and the Act of Union given that parliamentary legislation needed royal assent from a London based monarch who pre-1688 had "Divine Right of Kings" notions of absolute authority. Is the Kingdom of Ireland regarded as having been a fully independent state prior to the Union of 1801 in wikipedia terms? The siuation there was in many ways analogous to that of Scotland between 1603 and 1707. Benarty 10:11, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: See article: Personal union. Wikipedia articles used to be a bit vague, or downright inconsistent, on this topic, but the consensus in the last year or two appears to have firmly settled: members states of personal unions are treated as sovereign states.--Mais oui! 16:15, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is Scotland a country or not?
Talk:G.992.2

message: Australian ADSL is G.DMT, not G.lite.
G.Lite is ADSL which has a max of 1.5mbits downstream but does not require a line filter on analog devices.
The limit of 1.5mbits downstream on most Telstra-provided ADSL ports in Australia is a commercial decision by Telstra and has nothing to do with any ADSL standards apart from problems with guaranteeing a user will be able to get a particular speed regardless of line length --Mcbridematt 01:53, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Pyramid inch

message: Sacred Jewish Inch? If this isn't a joke, the article really needs more information... 81.232.72.53 01:57, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: To answer my own question, 1.00106 inches is 1/500,000,000 of the Earth's polar diameter.  What, you may ask, does the earth's polar diameter have to do with it?  This is a good illustration of how this "science" works.  It goes like this:  the side of the pyramid is 9140 inches, so all four sides total 36560 inches, which is suspiciously close to 36524 (days in a century), therefore it must have been exactly 36524 inches according to the inch used then, so the inch used then (the "pyramid inch") must have been 36560/36524=1.0009856 modern inches, which means that the polar diameter of the earth is 500,038,788 pyramid inches, which is suspiciously close to 500,000,000 pyramid inches, therefore it must be exactly 500,000,000 pyramid inches, so the pyramid inch must really be 1/500,000,000 of the polar diameter, which is 1.00106 modern inches, so the side of the pyramid must really be 9140.68 modern inches.  The coincidences now all come out exactly, which proves they are correct.  Get it?  The actual mean side of the pyramid is 9069 inches, but don't let the facts get in the way of a good trick.  McKay 15:16, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

text: This information is not correct. (1) The rate of change of the Earth's rotation is known accurately for the past 2000 years or so.  It is far too small for this explanation to be plausible.  (2) The corner stones have long since disappeared, so measurements are done on the horizontal stones that contain indentations that the corner stones fitted into. So sand is not an issue McKay (talk) 11:22, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

text: The word "coincidence" used in scientific writing just means things coming together, it doesn't imply it is accidental.  The explanation of the coincidence is a different question. McKay (talk) 11:22, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

message: The conversion to metric is done at the current value of 2.54 cm / imperial inch.
Should it not be done at the then-current value of 2.5399977, to give 2.542690098 cm ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inch
Thanks.
165.73.112.52 (talk) 09:03, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conversion to metric
Talk:Plusnet

message: "Plusnet plc is a British triple play internet service provider (ISP) providing broadband, landline and mobile services."
Oh no it isn't! This whole article badly needs a makeover, it sounds as if it dates from a time before the BT takeover. For now, Plusnet has been reduced to BT's cheap broadband brand. But will it even last? CatNip48 (talk) 18:20, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lede
Talk:Gushiken

message: The Brazilian politician Luiz Gushiken has this surname. He can be mentioned in the article. Regards, Carioca 02:07, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Luiz Gushiken

message: folks seem to have been adding a directory of external links to personal websites, linked in profiles etc. of people with the surname Gushinken.  I deleted them, most were either dead links, peopl who already have their own wikilinked article, or to obviously non-notable people.  But one was to a fighter who may be notable.  I don't know enough to be able to tell so i've moved the link here for others to consider:
http://www.bgushiken.com/
If he's suitable for the encyclopedia he should get his own article, not simply be externally linked to from this page.  -- SiobhanHansa 05:15, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: External links and Brandon Gushinken
Talk:Phil (Hey Arnold!)

message: Given that several other characters have their own articles, and that there is a category specifically for "Hey Arnold!" characters, I think the articles on the grandparents can be left as it. Kerowyn 02:10, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge proposal

message: How do we reference the claim that Phil won the battle of the bulge and has a monument in Washington? RJFJR 23:05, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 
Talk:Gold Base

message: For a place housing 1,000+ people, it only has usable parking for 14 vehicles. Most of that is taken up with trailers, boats, and blocked with a demountable. Leaving roughly 14 spaces free across the entire compound. For 1,000 people that sure is a big lack of mobility, which reaffirms the claims it's a forced labor camp. Agendabender (talk) 14:27, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  I was looking at Gold Base from satview's and noticed ... 

message: A new article has been written over at Gilman Hot Springs.    ▶ I am Grorp ◀  02:24, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Much of what was written is complete fabrication. This entry is filled with false information. It discredits Wikipedia as a reference site. Since this reference is so wrong and biased one can then assume much other entries of Wikipedia are untrustworthy as to facts. 2603:9000:8E03:F900:3D70:2AA8:F2D:507F (talk) 16:26, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text:  ...says the person with a Clearwater, Florida IP address.    ▶ I am Grorp ◀  16:49, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gilman Hot Springs
Talk:James Mann (writer)

message: This article needs to disambiguate CSIS and spell it out.  Also, the nationality of this guy would be relevant.  Guessing he's Canadian or American, but don't know which. NickelShoe 02:21, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Basic info

message: A paragraph appeared to be directly lifted from .  I removed the paragraph, but this would be a good resource to use to expand the article a bit, properly quoting, paraphrasing, and citing. NickelShoe 02:26, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed paragraph

message: This article has been reverted by a bot to  as part of a large-scale clean-up project of multiple article copyright infringement. (See the investigation subpage) This has been done to remove User:Accotink2's contributions as they have a history of extensive copyright violation and so it is assumed that all of their major contributions are copyright violations. Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions must be deleted. Contributors may use sources as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously. VWBot (talk) 14:20, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem 
Talk:Ratix Farrence

message: This REALLY needs tidying up and reformatting according to Wikipedia standards. Copysan 02:21, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

message: ...Don't even get separate character pages. And from the information I've seen, there's absolutely no reason that these characters should have them. Please merge into the main article.
--PrescitedEntity 18:43, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  More prominent games...
Talk:Coins of the Somaliland shilling

message: These "coins" are only made for numismatists and coin collectors. They don't circulate in Somaliland. 
80.220.104.62 (talk)  —Preceding comment was added at 00:48, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Tokens or play money

message: *Somaliland is not independent. It is not even recognised as a state. I have edited the article to reflect this. --Ezeu 02:23, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Independent?
Talk:Bicycle mechanic

message: Weren't the Wright brothers bike mechanics? Eugman 02:32, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a quotation. I'm not saying this, my source is. The language is clearly understandable as being hyperbolic, not literal. Wikipedia can and does contain "facts about opinions." In this case, this is a fair statement of what I believe to be an opinion widely held among cyclists, namely that Barnett's is to other books on bicycle repairs as the Oxford English Dictionary is to other dictionaries. If I'm wrong, and you know of references that rival Barnett's, then by all means add them to the article. Note that the only obvious rival, Sutherland's, is apparently no longer in print. Nope, I have no connection at all to Barnett's, except that I purchased it as a gift for someone I know who coveted the set and regarded it as the ne plus ultra. Dpbsmith (talk) 14:12, 19 January 2006 (UTC)

text: But, yes, I should have cited my source. I have now. Dpbsmith (talk) 14:18, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: I had though about what category we should place bicycle mechanic.  Should it be a under category:cycling or category:bicycle manufacturer? (should we ask for outside opinions on this one?)
*vote/comment: A mechanic could be, and would be more considered the final making process of manufacturing. Hence I would vote include it in the category:bicycle manufactuer. --CyclePat 23:17, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category. 
Talk:Kenny Vadas

message: Added the cleanup tag, as the article looks like a mess. Am also unsure as to how much that should actually be included in the article as well. Bjelleklang  -  talk 02:40, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Here are the issues I see that need cleaning up.
*The intro paragraph needs to be wikifyed, all the TV shows should be linked, use italics for TV show names instead of double quotes, link the various TV networks
*Second External links section right in the middle of the article.
*Favorite things section has completely the wrong tone, this is supposed to be an encyclopedia, not an article in Teen Beat magazine, the section should be removed.
*The tone of the update section is also not encyclopedic, the section should probably be merged into the intro paragraph, no need for "Updates" on a site which can be updated at any time.
*Resume section should be changed to use standard wiki formating, numbers removed.
*Several redlink categories, should either be removed or created properly.
Qutezuce 20:56, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup tag
Talk:Adverse pressure gradient

message: This article seems to assume that the reader is building an airplane or something and has already discovered the various issues and already knows what separation is and such stuff.  If  the article is part of a fluid mechanics text book then one can easily access the context but in an encyclopedia it seems the article needs to be more self-contained. Rtdrury 02:50, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Planetary defense

message: I added this section because of the huge amount of influence science fiction has in planetary defenses.  I don't know much scifi, but I thought I'd start it out anyway. - Rudykog 22:42, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Planetary defenses in science fiction

message: Asteroid deflection strategies currently has a notice "The following text needs to be harmonized with text in the article Planetary defense." Off-the-top-of-my-head logic suggests that Planetary defense is a more generalized topic, since it is not restricted to impactors. So it should cover other topics such as misbehaviour of the Sun (e.g. coronal mass ejection), natural threats from outside the Solar system (e.g. supernova at astronomically close range, for example within 20 light-years) and deliberate attacks by aliens or by human factions (invasion, bombardment, relativistic kill vehicles, etc.) That implies that Asteroid deflection strategies should contain most of the material about defence against impactors, and the relevant part of Planetary defense should summarize and link to Asteroid deflection strategies.
I'm not sure yet whether Planetary defense should contain "Planetary defenses in science fiction", for 2 reasons. First, it could just become a list of potentially enormous length. Second, there's little scope for reasoned analysis as most fictional methods are obviously unrealistic, e.g. an attacking fleet can go round ground-based or orbital defences, ground-based missiles suffer the huge disadvantage of having to lift against the planet's gravity, it's very difficult to propose a realistic method of invading a planet, etc. Philcha (talk) 16:51, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Relationships with other articles
Talk:David Wands

message: Thanks to all the glorious contributor to this page, for it now has been translated into french.
Hop !
Kikuyu3 (talk) 19:38, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thanks
Talk:Casino Lisboa (Portugal)

message: Yes, I know the current article sucks, but I just wanted to lay down the main ideas while they were fresh in my head (and before falling unconscious in bed :) I'll try to insert references and links soon. BogPoet 02:51, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opening heading
Talk:Canadian cultural protectionism

message: This doesn't sound very neutral! I'm altering it to "direct attempts at the Canadian market". Raggaga 02:52, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "direct American attempts to circumvent Canada’s cultural safeguards" 

message: Wasn't the Massey Commission appointed before 1950? HistoryBA 00:32, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chronology 

message: how can Canada promote and protect their cultural 2001:56A:F510:AA00:F1FE:FC8F:99E:A375 (talk) 21:26, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  promote cultural
Talk:Soylent Communications

message: Listing the names of every site the company hosts is just a way of weaseling the former external links in. Have any of the sites beyond Rotten and NNDB gained any notoriety? Not saying they haven't, but an indiscriminate list of sites doesn't make it clear why they are being included. Also, I watered down the motives part because it's a link to Rotten's censorship policy rather than someone observing the motivation behind such policies. Ombudstheman (talk) 03:40, 18 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sites 

message: I had to go to the Soylent site to even be sure what this company does. This Wiki article doesn't explain the company's goals, its history, its customer base, its importance. Then, going to their site, one discovers a single, half page of text. That's the whole site. This Wiki article is just free advertising for a web hosting company. A company, apparently, that is demonstrating its "opposition to internet censorship" by ignoring Wiki rules.[unsigned]
:Unclear as to what this posting proposes. NNDB is clearly notable. Whether a separate Soylent article is needed is indeed a valid question, because it appears that NNDB is all that they produce. Le Prof 73.210.155.96 (talk) 06:29, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is this article for?
Talk:Yield protection

message: I added the following sentence to this article:
"In fact, recently, there is speculation that Tufts practices yield protection far less than it used to, as it increased in rank and can no longer be used as a safety for students applying to Ivy league schools." I thought it was important to note that this is not really true for Tufts anymore. 
--chocolateluvr88 10:24, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Honestly, this explains why I was rejected at Tufts but waitlisted at MIT and accepted at a top 10 uni Ivy-like...I was so confused It all makes sense now.Rwat128 (talk) 20:01, 16 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: * http://uvaapplication.blogspot.com/2007/11/yield-protection.html
WikiManOne 23:25, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources
Talk:Sign relation

message: Peirce's theory of triadic sign relations
Jon Awbrey 03:32, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

message: I just made it so all the symbols will appear in retarded MSIE 7. It works in Mozilla FireFox too. Then I checked the history, didn't realize I had walked into the middle of a reversion war. The Tetrast (talk) 18:22, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: * That's the most succinct account of the whole sorry business I've yet seen. Well done. Guy (Help!) 20:03, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. WAS 4.250 (talk) 04:57, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Revert war

message: I suggest adding to the external links:
* 
It seems both introductory and comprehensive, succeeding to reach a hard-to-availe balance.
Physis (talk) 00:30, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: External link suggestion

message: Link...-->      --Faustnh (talk) 19:47, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  A convenient distinction of two kinds of meaning
Talk:Order of Saint Lazarus

message: More intuitively it should have been Simon the Leper, not the one from the parable of the rich man and Lazarus. The two were probably conflated into one, or the 'sores' of the parable Lazarus interpreted as leprosy and the explicit leper forgotten, maybe because the parable was theologically more attractive, but this needs an explanation. Arminden (talk) 11:14, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Patron saint: who and why?
Talk:Japanese battleship Ise

message: I apologize, forgot to mention in edit that I added the picture of the sunken Ise.RebelAt 03:38, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

message: The USS Ranger could not have launched the 60 aircraft that attacked Ise on June 24th because:
1. Ranger could not carry 60 aircraft.
2. Ranger never operated as part of the 3rd Fleet.  She spent all of 1945 as a training carrier, in home waters.
Bclough (talk) 01:57, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Attack on 6/24/45 

message: Good article for the most part, but why does it call the Vickers pom-pom gun an "AT/AA" gun? That means "anti-tank/anti-aircraft" gun. Calling the Type 96 25mm an "AT" gun can barely be justified because it in fact saw some very limited use as one, but I can't imagine a stubby-barreled, heavy, low-velocity Vickers 40mm being used as an AT gun. Did someone assume that because the Type 96 was called an "AT/AA gun", that that was what the Japanese called their AA guns? AnnaGoFast (talk) 20:32, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Various
Talk:Overspill

message: It would be helpful to have an explanation of why it's called "overspill." Intuitively, it seems to me that it has to do with the idea that if an internal set contains a certain set, it must also contain some other stuff as well. There's also a completely different statement of it in the context of nonstandard analysis, which is that if an internal set is bounded, it must have a supremum; it would be nice to have a discussion of how the two forms relate.--Bcrowell 03:57, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

message: The notation is used in the article without being defined, which does not help readability.  Katzmik (talk) 18:10, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  notation >>
Talk:Kyiv City Council

message: I suggest we change it to Kiev City Council. Let's stick to English unless there is a reason not to. --Irpen 03:44, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, since there were no objections for so long, I assume we can move the article, can't we? --Irpen 01:49, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. But we'll also need a Kyiv City Council redirect. It gives as many Google hits as the present name. Ukrained 15:46, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Name

message: I suppose this article is for very factual info only: convocations, composition, important decisions etc. All legal and political analysis is I think should go to Legal status and local government of Kiev, as well as to future Local government in Ukraine. Ukrained 15:46, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Content
Talk:The Hive (Stargate Atlantis)

message: Who was the actress who played the wraith queen in this episode, and who was the actress who played Nera (the brunette who suckered the team to save her, slowing them down against Ford's wishes?) Chris 04:12, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Jenn Bird played Neera, and Andee Frizzell played the Wraith Hive Queen. This info was taken from the article template and this link. Carioca 05:44, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Neera and Wraith Hive Queen
Talk:Cape Matapan

message: In ancient times both Pausanius and Strabo both mentioned many temples to many different gods in the area.  I fixed the wording.
By the way, these references are on line and could be linked to.
It is the use of the cave by Hades that legend speaks of.  The cave is real and not ledgendary. Nahaj 04:29, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: updates

message: The lighthouse is also functional and powered by 1000 watts of solar panels. I saw it last week -- is that original research? What is the reference to its disuse ? RobLandau (talk) 11:19, 1 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lighthouse
Talk:Milwaukee Road class EF-1

message: Page 8 of the July 1953 issue of Trains Magazine (Published by Kalmbach Publishing) has a photo of the two rebuilds for passenger service. The caption states that their new HP rating was 4500, that they recieved steam generators, engine trucks from scrapped F7 Hudsons, and high speed gearing.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.79.6.240 (talk) 06:10, 11 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added some information, not sure how to cite it correctly.
Talk:Thomas Ravelli

message: He's not married with three children. He is married and have got three children. He's not a pedophile.
Edited - you can change something like that without using a talk page --MartinUK 20:00, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: It doesn't sound like a Swedish surname, does anyone know where it roots? Gazh 11:34, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: 'Ravelli' surname

message: Is the proportion of this page spent on computer games really justified?
88.77.186.94 (talk) 15:18, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Computer Games