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Talk:Old, declining or expired Australian vocabulary

message: This is about the most wildly inaccurate page I have yet come across in Wikipedia.  Which is a shame.  Similarly the list of Australian words is also full of errors. The trouble with this type of page is that contributors tend to rely on personal experience rather than any academic research.  The fact that in one's own daily life a certain word is not heard very often does not necessarily mean that it is obsolete.  For instance "cooee" is still common used as a call of contact in the bush, by hikers, bushwalkers, rural people, etc.  If you don't get out into the bush much (and most Australians are urbanites) then you won't know this. Also the phrase "(not) within cooee" is still in current use in both city and country areas. Certainly the term can be found in literature as well (1989, Adrian McGregor, Wally and the Broncos, xiii. 179; 2001 John `Bluey' Bryant, Real Aussies Drive Utes II, 73) and Google searches, searches of newspaper databases, etc. will reveal more examples.  So, "cooee" is not dead by a long shot.  But is it declining - well, to determine this would also require some research - the current entry says it was once "ubiquitous" - but what evidence is there to back up this assertion? Does ubitquitous mean it was on the lips of Aussies on a daily basis? When exactly? etc., etc.
The entry for "bodgie" is partly correct. Yes, as a word to describe a type of Australian 1950s hoodlum or teenage deliquent is no longer common (except in historical contexts), but the use as an adjective = falso, phoney, counterfeit, is still current and extremely common in Australia.
Perhaps it would be better for this page (and one's like it) to require the citing of relevant academic or lexicographical publications. For instance, the Australian National Dictionary (OUP), the Macquarie Dictionary (Macqaurie Library), the Macquarie Slang Dictionary (2000 edition), the ABC WordMap database, the New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (Routledge, 2005) [the older Partridge Dictionary editions, 1 to 8, are less reliable], all of which are backed by solid lexicographical research, as opposed to anecdotal evidence.  Also, the citing of current literary sources containing word or phrases is also a good way to back up some assertion.WikiLambo 10:03, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Lee Vann Corteza

message: Making the last 32 of the World Championships in his sport makes him notible enough in the first place. 
WP:BIO states Sportspeople/athletes/competitors who have played in a fully professional league, or a competition of equivalent standing in a non-league sport such as swimming, or at the highest level in mainly amateur sports or other competitive activities that are themselves considered notable, including college sports in the United States."
The article is now expanded and has it sources to prove his notibility in even more than what was stated by the original creator. SportsAddicted | discuss 10:06, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability 
Talk:Carisbrooke Castle

message: the link to Sir George Carey previously went to a page aboue George Carey - these are not the same two Carey's, so I have altered the link to Sir George Carey instead - just to mark a difference so that this article doesn't imply that the former archbishop of Canterby somehow went back in time and built a mansion in this castle :)
Someone might want to change the link destination to something more appropiate - I wasn't quite sure what best to send it to as as I have no real knowledge of Sir George Carey.
Bods 10:23, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sir George Carey 

message: Are you sure there's a well in the church? Having just spent a week in the EH holiday cottage, I didn't come across any well in the church at all. There's definitely one in the Well House - by definition - and the one in the centre of the keep isn't reputed to be deeper. It is.
petsco  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.73.132.82 (talk) 09:43, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chuch Well 

message: I don't remember a church well but could be wrong. And the donkey powered courtyard well is depper I think, because the keep well kept running dry.
Xhavnak (talk) 10:47, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wells 

message: Is there a source available for the claim that FitzOsbern both built the castle and used it as his main residence? Chiswick Chap (talk) 10:41, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[William FitzOsbern, 1st Earl of Hereford]]
Talk:Haverford Middle School

message: Someone (I might, if I get time) should add PSSA test score info: http://www.pde.state.pa.us/a_and_t/cwp/view.asp?A=3&Q=121446 and http://www.pde.state.pa.us/a_and_t/cwp/view.asp?A=3&Q=121656 --michael180 03:55, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Test results
Talk:Aimé Avignon

message: This information is correct.  Whether it's notable is another issue.  Generally the GRG starts these cases at age 110, and Mr. Avignon still has three months to go. 65.81.27.134 10:40, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Important notice

message: According to the page List of the verified oldest men,all men whose claimed age is above his is disputed.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.8.82.91 (talk) 17:35, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  He is oldest undisputed man ever so I created an article for him.
Talk:Ísafjörður

message: The city has a logo with all 4 logos from the cities now incorporated in Isafjördurbaer. It can be found at
http://isafjordur.is/isafjordur/upload/images/templates/isafjordur_logo.jpg but I do not know if a copy can be made for the WP. --WiseWoman 15:37, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Logo of the city 

message: The image on the page comes up as a red link. Can this be fixed?
--Royalmate1 (talk) 04:03, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image 

message: English doesn't have the letters í ö amd ð so why isn't it written Isafjorthur?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.157.171.19 (talk) 06:59, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a redirect in place from Isafjordhur to this article. Generally if the name is in the Roman alphabet (including þæð) then the article is thus named in Wikipedia with proper redirects in place. --Stalfur (talk) 11:01, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling 

message: Rated High for importance as Ísafjörður is a notable town even outside of Iceland as one of the most important towns in Vestfirðir. I think more references for external source would bump this to a B class.  --  -- JNC2 14:05, 15 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article Rating 

message: Isafjordur change time zone, so, UTC-02 like time zone. It's always yes. 2A02:8440:C11E:8955:0:51:E282:8701 (talk) 18:28, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Isafjordur change time zone, UTC-02 like time zone. I say yes 2A02:8440:C11E:8955:0:51:E282:8701 (talk) 18:31, 4 May 2023 (UTC)

text: Ísafjörður is in the UTC+0 timezone. Alvaldi (talk) 20:04, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Isafjordur change time zone
Talk:Méthode pour la Guitare

message: It is true that Coste revised Sor's treatise. However, 'travesty' means to 'make ridiculous' - too strong a viewpoint in this case and one not supported here by any citation. Nevertheless I personaly agree will Gregory that Coste's 'improvements' were a diservice to his teacher's legacy, if not to his memory. RichardJ Christie 10:53, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree with you completely. Napoleon Coste's version presents numerous stunning miniature pieces (that take into consideration the progression of technique). I find it extremely disturbing that people are critical of Coste: As if Sor belongs into some museum! Sor himself has written in his method, that he does NOT explain how things MUST be done (in art there is no MUST), but that he simply explained what has worked for him; and that he will hold it in much higher esteem if the reader use reason (rational reasoning) to form an own valid opinion, than a blind following of a "teacher".Coste's revised work is thus Coste's take and it's brilliant! (So is Sor's - and Coste would have thought the same, and the mentioning of Sor is a sign of respect!) MySorAccount (talk) 19:56, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
Talk:John Safran vs God

message: An interesting fact: the freemason interviewed in episode 2 appeared on an episode of Burt's Family Feud (air date 30/11/06).
---
His official website with his girlfriend is a parody site, and while official I want to put the quotes into context. To wit I have changed "On his official website his ex-girlfriend/webmistress says about the series" to "On his official website, a parody site featuring an ex-girlfriend as webmistress," Nazlfrag (talk) 08:00, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Ortho Pharmaceutical

message: Creation of this article to clarify the history of the pharmaceutical division of JnJ. Pvosta 11:07, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: This article

message: No mention is made of products other than contraceptives. The plant in Arlington, TX (from 1974 to the early 1980s) produced exclusively pregancy test products. That plant was eventually merged (and renamed) with the Surgikos plant next door. — Loadmaster (talk) 19:12, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other products
Talk:East Area Rapist

message: I'd like to merge the article for Original Night Stalker with this article.  It's the same perpetrator.  If/when he's apprehended, these pages will both be redirected (as would Goleta Murders 1979, 1981, if he confesses to these) to the individual's own article, so these two pages should be merged, as they've been forensically proven to be the same offender.  I'll wait seven days for input.  If no one objects, I'll perform the merge.
 ARTEST4ECHO (talk) 18:34, 4 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Merging EAR with ONS
Talk:Beneficence (statue)

message: More discussion of the ethical concept of beneficence; material on the Ball State University motto/statue probably belongs at the university page. Claudine C. (talk) 11:24, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expansion needed 

message: I might be out of line here, but how is it that an article about a statue called Benny at an American university takes priority over one of the four core areas of medical ethics? I would have thought a dedicated page to the ethical principle should come up first for beneficence, or at least the disambiguation page. It surely has a far wider relevance outside of Indiana? McPat (talk) 05:54, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Priorities? 
Talk:River Loxley

message: I've reversed the reference to the Loxley flowing into the Rivelin because Ordnance Survey maps name the course of the combined rivers below their confluence as "River Loxley" (see OS pathfinder map SK 28/38)--Mabzilla (talk) 14:45, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Loxley/Rivelin

message: "The upper river is marked by the presence of four large reservoirs, used for the impounding of drinking water", so the article says, but one dam, Dam Fask is a compensation reservoir rather than one used for drinking water, and the other dams are on the Dale Dike, Strines Dike and Aden Dike, not the Loxley. Does this part of the article need changing?2A00:23C4:D891:1100:1D77:E6E3:F739:BFF4 (talk) 04:15, 2 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tributaries and Reservoirs
Template talk:Adelskalender leaders women

message: Evert Stenlund's page is a good source for this.  Here are the leaders, chronologically, as distilled from that page; last appearance as leader is starred and used for the ordering in the template.
 PETRUSJOVA Natalja
 SCHÖNE Andrea
 *PETRUSJOVA Natalja
 ENKE Karin
 *SCHÖNBRUNN Gabi
 SCHÖNE Andrea
 *ENKE Karin
 *SCHÖNE Andrea
 EHRIG Andrea
 *KANIA Karin
 *EHRIG Andrea
 NIEMANN Gunda
 PECHSTEIN Claudia
 *NIEMANN Gunda
 *PECHSTEIN Claudia
 *FRIESINGER Anni
 *KLASSEN Cindy
Oliphaunt (talk) 10:05, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Source
Talk:Abortion in Guatemala

message: The section (title stated above) is highly inaccurate. Recent estimates (see Religion in Guatemala) show that not even 50% of the population considers themselves Catholic, and what's more the current president of Guatemala (Jimmy Morales) isn't Catholic either. Sure the Catholic Church has had a negative effect on the access to Abortion in Guatemala but the role of evangelicals and other religions and philosophies in Guatemala should be discussed as well. Inter&anthro (talk) 16:31, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Role of religion section

message: Please would PRehse or another interested editor assess the material added at User:Tdixon13/sandbox, incorporate what is useful, blank that page as WP:COPYARTICLE, and leave a note here when done? – Fayenatic London 10:04, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abandoned user draft
Talk:Dallas College

message: The name change to "Dallas College" isn't just a name change.    It's now officially one college with multiple campuses, whereas previously it was officially seven different colleges.
Previously, students had to complete 25% of their credits at a single campus to get a degree.   Now, students can take classes at any campus toward their degree.
* http://eastfieldnews.com/2020/09/09/dallas-college-is-officially-here-what-does-it-mean/
* https://dallasinnovates.com/introducing-dallas-college-dcccd-gets-single-accreditation-approval/
* https://www.ccdaily.com/2020/06/meet-the-new-dallas-college/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.185.31.57 (talk) 19:44, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name change and accreditation
Talk:Kumaraswamy distribution

message: Can anyone get the log likelihood estimates of a & b?  b as a function of a is pretty easy, but a doesn't seem to have a closed form solution. Martin (talk) 11 November 2006
I think you are right - about the best I can do is this - Define
:f(a)=\ln\left(\prod(1-x_i^a)\right)
:g=\ln\left(\prod x_i\right)
Then the likelihood function is
:L=a^Nb^Ne^{(a-1)g+(b-1)f(a)}\,
and the log likelihood function is
:\ell = N\ln(a)+N\ln(b)+(a-1)g+(b-1)f(a)\,
The maximum occurs at
:\frac{\partial \ell}{\partial a}=0=N/a+g+(b-1)\frac{df}{da}
:\frac{\partial \ell}{\partial b}=0=N/b+f
Eliminating b we get
:\left(N/a+g\right)da=\left(N/f+1\right)df
Integrating, we get
:N\ln(a)+ga+K=N\ln(f)+f\,
where K is some constant (I think it can be determined). That  equation cannot be analytically solved for f(a). If it could, we would still have to substitute that into the defining equation for f(a) and solve for a. PAR 16:57, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: \frac{df}{da}=\frac{N/a+g}{N/f(a)+1}\,
and you would equate that to the derivative of the defining equation for f(a) and solve numerically for a. PAR 23:49, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Max likelihood estimates of a and b 

message: I tried to find the variance of this distribution from the moments given in this paper, but it became negative! Can someone check their accuracy? --Pejman47 (talk) 15:38, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  the moments 

message: The example lacks any detail that would give it any meaning.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.24.215.138 (talk) 01:17, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  An example of motivation?

message: The pdf and cdf look wrong (even to a casual glance). Not sure what was going on I looked up other references and it seems other sources have a different equation.
  
eg: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/ebb0/60dbf9ab0b847a0736e17f255716f7c941b5.pdf
It seems the expression  (x − c)/(b − c) occurs often in the pdf/cdf and is given as z = (x − c)/(b − c)
for many explanations. This article seems to have erroneously put x instead of z and left out the formula for z.
Anyway, I have no idea how to fix this in wikipedia, so I report the issue here.
124.179.235.21 (talk) 06:58, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Errors in PDF & CDF given.
Talk:Contraception in the Republic of Ireland

message: Is it reasonable to say "Despite the law reforms, some Irish people still publicly oppose the use of contraception within marriage, including sports personality Mickey Harte" without some indication of how numerous this opposition is?  Furthermore, Harte resides "outside the jurisdiction".  - ClemMcGann (talk) 11:44, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: He does, but would probably describe himself as an "Irish person", so I worded it that way.Red Hurley (talk) 10:37, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Is "a few" better? I've linked to Brandsma and Dr McCrystal's essay. He also lives in NI but his Irish charity has an address in Dublin 1.Red Hurley (talk) 10:59, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: ok, forgot about the american-funded HLI, although I still reckon it givs them undue prominence - ClemMcGann (talk) 12:45, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a minority view now, but wikipedia should cite differing opinions IMHO.Red Hurley (talk) 07:56, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: opposition
Talk:Eighth Amendment of the Constitution of Ireland

message: Why was my insertion into this article reverted? Emmetfahy (talk) 13:53, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: See the edit summary. There's already a linked article about the death of Savita Halapannaver, and the addition you entered made little sense in the context of a section on the campaign to repeal the eighth amendment. BastunĖġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ! 17:10, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Reversion

message: I rerated this article down to a C. It was informative, but is entirely unreferenced. How do i know if any of it is true?!Yobmod (talk) 15:02, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There is an article on the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Act 2013, which is where it should belong. This article is about the 8th amendment. Not the entirity of Irish abortion law and cases, just that constitutional amendment. I know in common speech "the 8th" is used to refer to Ireland's abortion laws, but this should be about this constituional change. There is a separate article for Abortion in the Republic of Ireland, perhaps you'd like to look there? ____Ebelular (talk) 10:08, 24 April 2018 (UTC)

text: Also, , as mentioned several times to you now, you can't just copy-and-paste content from one place to another. What do the "[3]" and "[4]" in your insertion refer to? We've no way of knowing, but we do know it's not the references actually numbered 3 and 4 in the article. BastunĖġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ! 10:15, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Whoever wrote this article was a little confused about the Offences Against the Person Act 1861, which codified the common law and didn't criminalize abortion in itself. Abortion was illegal in England since time immemorial, and I suspect that was also the case in Ireland. Wereon (talk) 23:40, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Offences Against the Person Act 1861
Talk:Martin Ball

message: There's a "Martin Ball" listed as guest star in the series premiere of Doctor Who series 4. Does anybody know if it's him? Laz (talk) 23:14, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: He obviously was. Edited. Laz (talk) 16:46, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems unlikely, as series 4 was first shown in 1966. 2.31.162.99 (talk) 23:43, 21 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doctor Who? 
Talk:List of things named after Carl Friedrich Gauss

message: I was hoping to learn the pronunciation of Gaussian: Gowsian or gorshian? I've heard it both ways.
59.167.0.133 11:55, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Neither. Gauss rhymes with louse, and Gaussian is the same with the normal pronunciation of the -ian ending. In IPA, [ˈgaʊsɪən]. Algebraist 11:43, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Listed here as Gauss gun, linking to the coilgun article which gives the primary alternate term as Gauss rifle. Which should be used here? --64.236.208.27 (talk) 20:51, 17 November 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Both things exist as far as I'm concerned. One uses a number of coils to accelerate a load, the other one uses two powered rails and the Lorentz effect. Don't cite me though. --FUZxxl (talk) 10:51, 18 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gauss gun vs rifle 

message: Currently, the first two chapters are organized by what word ("Gauss, "Gaussian", "function" or "map") occurs in the topic. That provides no valuable information, as anyone can simply type that name in the search box to get the same otherwise unorganized results; we don't need an article for that. To make this article somewhat useful, I will therefore try to arrange the topics in a topical way. ◄ Sebastian 08:49, 30 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Better organization needed 

message: Was this mountain named after him? 2001:569:FCDC:7800:B9D5:A881:B198:5520 (talk) 15:17, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Following fr:Mont Gaussier in the French Wikipedia, the origin of the name is of the 11th century. --Dioskorides (talk) 17:54, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mont Gaussier, France
Talk:Advanced American Telephones

message: The article says " VTech Innovation does not produce "VTech" branded telephones. " but VTech Innovation is part of VTech which does produce "VTech" branded telephones?
The VTech website says their telephones are "sold under the "VTech" and the "AT&T" brands". http://www.vtech.com/about_vtech/history.php
75.33.68.44 11:58, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Today
Category talk:Abortion-rights activists

message: This is not intended to be a laundry list of celebrities who happen to support the pro-choice cause. A category like this was deleted in November 2005. The primary objective of this category is to serve as a list of individuals whose major claim to notability is their involvement in the pro-choice movement. Please take this into consideration when adding people to this category. -Severa  (!!!) 11:58, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Pro-choice celebrities
Talk:Vinaya Piṭaka

message: I've deleted the remark about the survival of the teaching depending on the Vinaya, because, as stated here, it's not correct in terms of the Pali version, which clearly states that survival depends on both scriptures nad rules of discipline. I'm not in a position to check the Chinese and Tibetan versions. Peter jackson 11:59, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: untitled
Talk:Kireedam (2007 film)

message: The "Box Office" section in this version reads "Despite a soft launch, Kireedam audio sales overtook that of Sivaji in just three weeks.[2]". The reference provided reads "The music is a big hit, with most of the music shops reporting that the nephew (G.V Prakash) has beaten the uncle’s (A.R Rahman) Sivaji audio sale, last week!".
I take it to mean that in the last week more cassettes/CDs of Kireedam were sold than of Sivaji -  not that Kireedam in three weeks sold more than Sivaji did in so many weeks. Tintin 13:02, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too much reading between the lines ? 
Talk:Gagea serotina

message: On page 33 of the biography of Evan Roberts (written by Robin Gwyndaf), it states that "without exception, all those interested in the Snowdon Lily would be refereed to Evan Roberts as the person who could guide the to where it grew.  
Evan Roberts also understood and read the work of Edward Lhyd who first discovered it in Cwm Idwal this is where the term "Mountain Spiderwort" came from, it was then rediscovered by Evan Roberts later on.  They both fully understood that it was a lily.  Evan Roberts also understood that later on the term "Snowdon Lily" was more popular, but he did not like the name "believing that the old form descibed it more precisely." He also wwrote "The Welsh term brwynddail y mynydd is similary descriptive".   Apologies for messing up the formatting, will try to put that back. (Gowron 12:04, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

message: There must be a good reason it has survived in Britain only in Snowdonia, not the Scottish highlands where many Ice Age relicts are found. Perhaps the summers are too cool and wet further north? It doesn't seem to be present in Scandinavia either, just the Alps and Carpathians in Europe. And it goes further north in America than Europe, like the Mediterranean/dry summer climates do. So introducing it to Scotland might fail, perhaps the Lake District or North Pennines are better options?Walshie79 (talk) 22:44, 3 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Scotland