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Talk:Daemon (computing)

message: The acronym expansion appears to be an urban legend. This query:
: The first daemon (an abbreviation for Disk And Executive MONitor) was a program that automatically made tape backups of the file system. Does this sound about right? Any corrections or additions? Thank you for your time! 
to Fernando J. Corbato, head of the CTSS project where the word entered the computer lexicon, prompted the following reply:
: Your explanation of the origin of the word daemon is correct in that my group began using the term around that time frame. However the acronym explanation is a new one on me. 
The page (it's in the article) which has this also notes that:
: Professor Jerome H. Saltzer, who also worked on Project MAC, confirms the Maxwell's demon explanation.
So I'd say this one is pretty definitively "busted"! Noel (talk) 17:19, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: How is it busted?  It would only be busted if Corbato had provided the actual etymology; instead it only remains unproven. --148.84.19.92
I found the article, and Corbato also says it's from Maxwell.  See . Beinsane 21:43, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Acronym legend?
Talk:Wings 3D

message: Can you provide more detail?  Is this similar to ray tracers like POV-Ray or is it a modeller that is used in ray tracers as input data?  What capabilities does it have? - Tεxτurε 17:48, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: More detail

message: It looks pretty much like a review ripped off somewhere, plus notice the infinity of links below the article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 200.66.10.72 (talk) 23:55, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Obviously made up 

message: I dont think AoI should be cite as a simple renderer because if so, why not talk about Bryce 3D that is also used as a renderer for objects modeled in wings, and what about Blender ?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.81.167.56 (talk) 09:55, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  renderers ? 

message: I've made a number of changes to the layout, language and information supplied on this page in regards to the various comments made at various times by various people. I don't know that there is anybody I can confirm the state of the page now with, since the more critical comments were made by unsigned users. However, I will take constructive advice seriously and if there are any outstanding problems, I will attempt to correct them.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Optigon.wings (talk • contribs) 21:21, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The page is definitely much better now. Thank you! One question - where did the logo come from? It's not on the Wings3D website. Also, I think we need a bit more detail about the features available, although what precisely, I'm not sure. Leushenko (talk) 00:46, 8 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV? 

message: Since we know that SourceForge now hosts adware-infected versions of some Windows binaries, is there another place that we can list for users to download Wings 3D? --Guy Macon (talk) 09:02, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  SourceForge?
Talk:Northrop Grumman E-8 Joint STARS

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: not moved. per arguments that the aircraft continued to be manufactured post merger (closed by non-admin page mover) Polyamorph (talk) 08:44, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Northrop Grumman E-8 Joint STARS →  – Why does Northrop Grumman, a corporation formed in 1994, get credit for an aircraft that first flew in 1988? Rename per WP:AIR/NC. Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1992–93 Schierbecker (talk) 01:45, 23 May 2024 (UTC)

text: Note: WikiProject Aviation and WikiProject Military history have been notified of this discussion. Schierbecker (talk) 22:04, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Weak oppose I can see the arguments both ways on this. Per WP:AIR/NC, we should be "wary" of using "non-contemporary names". That would imply we should make the move. However, the JSTARS was produced up through 2005, meaning that it was produced by Northrop Grumman after the merger; and most sources that I've found that identify the manufacturer use the Northrop Grumman identifier, which strongly implies per WP:AIR/NC that we should use the name that is commonly used "by consensus". I don't think it makes a huge difference either way, but in that case I'd go with the name that seems to be most used by consensus, which is the current one. ⇒SWATJester Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat! 01:29, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

text: Oppose - Per WP:AIR/NC, "If the type has been produced by different companies or different company names then consensus should be reached on a case-by-case basis on which to use."  The Jane's source you provided above is from the year before the Northrop Grumman merger, so of course it will not refer to it by its latest manufacturer.  Most sources today refer to the aircraft as a Northrop Grumman product, and therefore WP:COMMONNAME applies. - ZLEA T\C 03:39, 24 May 2024 (UTC)

text: Oppose - Has has been stated, but Northrop Grumman is preferable to Grumman since the former continued to make the aircraft post-merger. In the same way that it's correct to call a Hawk (first developed in 1976) a BAE Systems Hawk, since that company continues to make the aircraft today. In contrast we wouldn't retrospectively rename Blackburn Buccaneer the BAE Systems Buccaneer since the aircraft was retired in the 1994 (and out of production long before that) and BAE, although the successor company, wasn't created until 1999.Mark83 (talk) 08:38, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 23 May 2024
Talk:Pyramid power

message: In recent findings, a scientist who entered one of the three great pyramids of giza, discovered an eaten apple in a garbage bin located within the king's chamber had not rotted much despite being left there for a while, creating more evidence for the pyramid power. However on the same note, he noticed that the room itself was covered in granite timber, different from the rest of the pyramid.
Experiments which re-created the king's tomb using this mineral, showed that any organic matter trapped by the rock, managed to slow the process of decomposition.
Recent experiments with pyramids in Russia by Alexander Golod should perhaps be mentioned here. -Magermagician  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.42.51.27 (talk) 18:15, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: You haven't stated where these 'recent findings' can be found. We base articles on published reliable sources, not vague statements posted on article talk pages. AndyTheGrump (talk) 18:28, 3 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent Findings 

message: I have some sense that this was a pop-fad of the 1970s, but that isn't really spelled out.  This silly 1977 cartoon I ran across (Donald Duck) is typical of pop culture references about it. .--Milowent • hasspoken 16:31, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  popularity period? 

message: They only debunked flowers wilting, food spoiling, razor blades, etc. However, could there be other types of power omitted or not tested and being swept away under the same umbrella? What about an effect on personal power, success, wealth, positive spiritual vibes, etc? There might be invisible energies which are more subtle and don't affect the tested items. So I am not satisfied that all claims are debunked, just the more outlandish ones.68.67.254.133 (talk) 14:58, 24 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, debunking is difficult when a power that claims to do absolutely everything is presented. Let's thank those same mystic powers for inspiring our editors to write our policy on exceptional claims. Edaham (talk) 07:26, 10 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bait and switch? 

message: I noticed that the article directly references unreliable primary sources like Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain which is also a type of original research (WP:OR/WP:SYNTH, WP:PRIMARY).  Ideally another source, independent and secondary, making those links and interpreting the book/author for Wikipedia editors to summarize would be used.  —PaleoNeonate – 11:15, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources
Talk:Jim Jones

message: According to Layton, one of the ways that members of the cult were controlled was by being sent to the "extended care unit". "Brave people who spoke out against the atrocities in Jonestown were taken to the 'medical unit' and put on coma inducing drugs," she said. These drugs included thorazine, sodium pentathol, chloral hydrate, demerol, and valium. Some of these people were used by Jones as sex slaves. "Others had a python wrapped around their neck. Children who cried about wanting to go back to the States were lowered into a dark well at night. One man was forced into 'the box' underground where he stayed for days/weeks." "The Box" was a punishment devised by Jones involving a 6-by-4-by-3-foot (1.83 m × 1.22 m × 0.91 m) plywood coffin-shaped box in which a person was confined and held underground while they were constantly berated and reprimanded for their perceived slights against the cult.
These claims are not found in Layton's affidavit, even though the passage has two footnotes pointing to them as a source (and cites no other sources). If anything, it is odd that she doesn't mention them there, since Layton is otherwise very critical in the affidavit and includes a lot of damning details, and yet the overall picture that emerges from her description seems noticeably milder than this. It's possible that she has made these claims somewhere else, so I googled part of the quote, but I only find it in four other pages on the web and they don't seem like authoritative sources - they look as if the information there might be copied from Wikipedia. I have moved the claims out of the article so hopefully someone can source them, if they are correct. 87.126.21.225 (talk) 13:18, 7 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moved out unsourced claims about the punishment techniques
Talk:Biophotonics

message: Can it not be clear that Biophotonics is a sub-discipline of science? I don't understand how that is controversial given the physicists and biologists at a lot of reputable universities who work in the field. 
Abedwayyad (talk) 10:58, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Biophotonics

message: *Instead of the report about the UC Davis group, I linked the group's homepage and put it on the top, as it is the NSF co-ordinator for biophotonics
*Added links to Strathclyde University and U Buffalo sites, as they have nice coverage
*I also removed the magazine link http://nextwave.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2001/09/18/3 - a compressed version of what's in that article, should go in the Wikipedia article itself!
*I condensed the three links ultimately lading to the Neuss, Germany group into one.
Pjacobi 20:40, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link cleanup 

message: Diurne, please delete your contribution from today. Biophotonics is not science, the same as electronics is not science. The sectarian junk of the Popp group has its place in "Biophoton". And this is already more than Wikipedia should tolerate. If you do not delete your stuff here, we will do it. BioMed 12:59, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cut out the sectarian junk ! 

message: I edited the applications section as part of a class project under drsusan1968 Dec 5, 2017 Greggoa (talk) 23:09, 6 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Applications
Talk:Rollo Armstrong

message: I had not entered this under his full name as he is mainly known just simply as Rollo.  Scraggy4
: I have added his full name to the introductory information. I agree that the article name should certainly be Rollo Armstrong. There is probably no point even in redirecting "Rowland Armstrong" here. Labalius (talk) 16:08, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Real name

message: Removed references to Felix - Rollo was NOT Felix, who was a guy from Chelmsford called Francis Wright.  He was a co producer of two Felix tracks, "Don't You Want Me" and "It Will Make Me Crazy".  He did not write either of these tracks, he simply co produced them - a quick listen to the original demo version of Don't You Want Me, which features the riff that made the record, makes this abundantly clear - Rollo had absolutely nothing to do with "Fastslow", "Stars" or any of Felix's other tracks - just the first two, which he helped to produce - not write, but produce.86.138.208.84 (talk) 14:03, 24 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Felix

message: Just how exactly is she supposed to be his sister?  She's white and he's black. It just doesn't add up.  Norum 06:52, 2 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Because he is white. . The other guy in Faithless is black. -DJSasso (talk) 18:35, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dido 
Talk:Thermoception

message: Part of the definition of  thermoception is, “…those that detect heat (i.e. temperatures above body temperature) and those that detect cold..”  Technically, the skin does not sense temperature.  It senses the rate of heat flow towards and away from the body.  Case in point, a piece of steel that is at 50 degrees Fahrenheit will “feel colder” than a wool mitten at the same temperature.  This is due to the steel conducting heat away from the body at a high rate.
WyomingSon (talk) 12:24, 23 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Is there a reliable source for that?  A higher rate of heat flow also results in a larger change in temperature over the same period of time, so the two are easily confused. -- Beland (talk) 00:15, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I concur with Beland's question.  There is a large difference between heat transfer and temperature.  I think will will need specific technical sources to clarify what sort of thermoception different types of animals are able to do.  (There is some lay evidence that the human finger pain response is a function of heat transfer, and NOT temperature.  There used to be a photograph of a scientist holding a high-temperature thermal protection tile for the space shuttle that had been just removed from a lab oven and was white hot.  I can't find that photo in a Wikipedia article right now, but it does provide a vivid illustration of the point we are discussing here.  Cheers.  N2e (talk) 14:24, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  THERMOCEPTION: TEMPERATURE VS. HEAT TRANSFER 

message: Where does this fit in How Humans Can Perceive Infrared As Visible Light--Kitchen Knife (talk) 21:09, 27 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: How Humans Can Perceive Infrared As Visible Light

message: — Assignment last updated by Kmv315 (talk) 17:40, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Perception
Talk:Marzipan (Homestar Runner)

message: are there not another three female characters at homestarrunner.com? the girls of the teen girl squad.
Aren't there four girls in the Teen Girl Squad?
They probably don't count, as they don't exist in the 'real world' of the Homestar Runner-verse; they are just characters created by Strong Bad.
Another thing. Should we mention that Marzipan's name probably comes from a candy too? AllStarZ 01:49, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

message: Since all of this info is in the HRWiki, it seems as it would make more sense to move any extra info from here to the HRWiki that isn't already there, and then remove all the info from this page aside from a one or two sentence description and a link. Same deal with all the other H*R characters, and other similar information. This info already exists on the internet and is already maintained by a separate group of people, no reason to reiterate it here. Seems like the same reasoning that we'd use when deciding to not, say, list a whole bunch of census results or statistics or something in a Wikipedia article when the lists are available and maintained elsewhere. --JCipriani 18:39, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  HRWiki Reference
Talk:Music of Washington, D.C.

message: I've requested an article about DC's "hand dance" phenomenon in the requests page under Dance; I don't know nearly enough about it to write an entry, but as far as I know it's a significant element in Washington's musical heritage.
See http://www.handdance.org/ et al.
Epimetreus 18:39, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Hand Dancing

message: Will someone create a redirect page, "Music in Washington, D.C.", since IP users can't perform that function?  Thank you.  75.93.145.185 (talk) 13:43, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  redirect 
Talk:An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer

message: These songs which are not on this album were listed as though they were.
#"I Wanna Go Back to Dixie"
#"The Wild West is Where I want to be"
#"The Old Dope Peddler"
#"Fight fiercely Harvard"
#"Lobachevsky"
#"The Irish ballad"
#"The hunting song"
#"My home town"
#"When you are old and grey"
#"The Wiener Schnitzel Waltz"
#"I hold your hand in mine"
#"Be Prepared (song)"
They are track 2 through 13 on Tom Lehrer Revisited.
Track 1 is an introduction and track 14 an 15 are from The Electric Company television show.
*L-Y
*Silent E 
Song highlights for "The Old Dope Peddler" moved to Tom Lehrer Revisited. -- WCFrancis 19:44, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Other Tom Lehrer Songs

message: All detail about the songs was deleted. I agree there were plenty of fluff and opinion statements, but it's still important to show the sources of the songs, since much of the point of the songs is their interplay with these sources. For example Poisoning Pigeons in the Park sounds simply macabre fantasy, until one knows that was actual US government practice at the time. I put in the sources which I had time to find and leave it to other editors to provide more. Numbersinstitute (talk) 22:50, 13 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 
Talk:Purple sulfur bacteria

message: The second and third paragraph of this text is copied from page 355 of the "Brock - Biology of Microorganisms" Tenth international Edition! 131.173.252.9 21:23, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: copied

message: Good, publicly accessible paper on bacteria population in meromictic Lake Cadagno:
Tonolla, Mauro, Peduzzi, Sandro, Demarta, Antonella, Peduzzi, Raffaele, and Hahn, Dittmar (2004).
"Phototropic sulfur and sulfate-reducing bacteria in the chemocline of meromictic Lake Cadagno, Switzerland," Journal of Limnology Vol. 63, 161-170.EAS 17:16, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional references for possible use in this article 

message: Talk of BChl a, BChl b and other photopigments (okenone, etc) would benefit this article, or simply the wavelengths of light frequently utilized.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.186.85.64 (talk) 16:29, 5 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chlorophylls and carotenoids 

message: Most of the article is not properly cited. A reference is needed for the discussion of the phylogeny, sulfur oxidation, meromictic lakes, intertidal microbial mats, and pigmentation. The two citations used are also several years old, and more recent references should be added, which would expand the knowledge of this article. 
Bakerkri (talk) 17:23, 28 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestions 

message: A discussion is taking place to address a potential problem with the redirect Chromatiales and it has been listed for discussion. Readers of this page are welcome to participate at  until a consensus is reached.  Artoria2e5 🌉 11:53, 12 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "[[:Chromatiales]]" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:List of Greek mythological figures

message: This list states that Sarpedon fought on the side of the Greeks during the Trojan War. This is incorrect. He fought for Troy and was killed by Patroclus in book 16 of the Iliad. This article needs to be changed from stating that Sarpedon fought for the Greeks to stating that Sarpedon fought for Troy. ChartreuseRegalia (talk) 12:00, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Liu1126 (talk) 20:28, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 17 March 2024 

message: isn't the Greek spelling for hades (άδης) not (ᾍδης, Háidēs)@ Sean gilfoyle (talk) 04:41, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  misspelling
Talk:Canada in the Cold War

message: Isn't the concept of an "American sphere of influence" inherently POV? HistoryBA 00:13, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: No. It's implicitly accepted in international relations practice and explicitly understood by political scientists of the realist persuasion. bobanny 19:43, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  American sphere of influence? 
Talk:Mary McLeod Bethune

message: Why isn't there more information about Mary McLeod Bethune helping draft the charter of the United Nations? As a crucial point in international politics after World War II, I believe there should be at least subheading within the general article, as well as links to more information. 2601:589:8401:C980:641B:2229:C35E:348F (talk) 19:23, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  United Nations Draft Charter
Talk:Gerðr

message: This page really ought to be merged with gastroesophageal reflux disease, which itself is a merge of GERD and reflux esophagitis.  JFW | T@lk 23:50, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Why? This page is about a giantess, not a disease. Noneofyourbusiness 20:56, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Just as a note, a disambiguation page at Gerd now handles this issue nicely. :bloodofox: (talk) 21:27, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

text: And I've fixed the page histories so the relevant edits are with the right pages. Graham87 10:21, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: GERD merge
Talk:De-Anne Kelly

message: Hi Adam: Why did you revert my edit? Which part did you consider illiterate .  I merely restructured the article a bit and added an external link and info about her family. I revert it back for now, please let me know your specific complaints, so we can work it out. -- chris_73 00:07, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Pledge

message: Where is the article for the pledge to the flag?? Please make Pledge a re-direct:
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. 66.32.65.129 01:10, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: In a talk, a filled circle is the first-level talk, an open circle is the second, and a square is the third. What is the fourth?? 66.32.65.129 01:29, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Level sub-divisions 

message: It is my understanding that a pledge is someone who wants to join a fraternity/sorority but is not technically a member until he/she is initiated into the fraternity/sorority.  A New Member would then be someone recently initiated.  Is this correct?  Do some groups use "pledge" and "new member” interchangeably?
If not, I would like to change the description to read:
:Pledge, someone who has expressed interest in - and is working towards - joining a fraternity or sorority.Tmpafford (talk) 19:38, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Never mind, someone added a line like the one I was proposing on September 12.  Since the line I had questioned is now a duplicate, I will remove it.Tmpafford (talk) 16:42, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Fraternity Pledge

message: An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect :Pledge Card and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 May 7#Pledge Card until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 09:04, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Pledge Card" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]