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Talk:Output budgeting

message: [The first sentence below is not only not a sentence at all
(one of the most frequent newby mistakes) but is incomprehensible.
I was going to fix that problem but I can't tell how to fix it.
Should I write "Editing Planning, Programming and Budgeting System
is output that budgets a wide-ranging management technique"
or "Editing Planning, Programming and Budgeting System
is an output-budgeting, wide-ranging management technique",
or what?  And could you have meant "Editing, Planning, Programming,
and Budgeting System?  And why the capital letters?  Wikipedia
articles usually only capitalize the first letter except in
proper nouns and the like. The second paragraph is also
incomprehensible.  These articles are supposed to be written
in English!)]
The comment above was moved here from the deleted article "Planning, programming, and budgeting system" on 26 May 2006. --Busy Stubber (talk) 00:30, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

message: The PFM blog at the International Monetary Fund "aims at sharing the IMF staff's vast experience with PFM practitioners in Ministries of Finance and other fiscal agencies, academia, students, non-governmental organizations, as well as with the general public." I've reverted the three blog references twice and warned the IMF ISP about the COI. Now the same blogs are coming back as an identicle list from an anon. The article itself is full of buzzwords and practically incomprehensible. Suggest delete. --Busy Stubber (talk) 00:54, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Advertisement

message: Not sure what to do with this if it isn't an advert. I can't keep reverting the IMF links -- I've already done that twice. What to do? Ignore it? --Busy Stubber (talk) 03:06, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The IMF is a fairly well established international organization ( http://www.imf.org/external/about.htm ). I'm not sure about the status of their official blog though. The book reviews seem relevant. fwiw, --Versageek 03:16, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have no doubt that the IMF is a well-established international organization. That doesn't give them the right to advertise their services or books via Wikipedia. What does "fwiw" mean? --Busy Stubber (talk) 03:29, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

text: (FWIW= For What It's Worth.)   Anyway, IMF  publications may well be notable, and listing of them for a relevant subject is not necessarily spam. I suggest trying to find additional references, including outside reviews of the books mentioned. And I rather doubt they are the only ones to have published on this topic. If necessary, ask for help from the economics of other WikiProject. There are lots of ways of editing and improving articles, and nominating for speedy deletion is not one of them. If you find there are no additional references possible after doing a reasonable search, then the final resort is AfD, where the article will be discussed with the community. But that's only if you cant improve it enough yourself.    DGG (talk) 03:45, 15 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Output budgeting]]
Talk:Tick

message: This sentence is incorrect (doesn't even make logical sense) and is not an accurate representation of the source: "During droughts, they can endure dehydration without feeding for as long as eighteen weeks, however, ticks with limited energy reserves may succumb to desiccation after thirty-six weeks." 98.97.12.3 (talk) 11:34, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Good catch. That was completely garbled. I fixed it to reflect the information in the source’s abstract, but I question the value of the factoid. Something about survival in a real drought (as opposed to weird, 2-day, unnaturally wet/dry cycles) would be more informative, I think. Strebe (talk) 17:19, 7 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, OP here - thanks for fixing. Agree with you on factoid, it's "reaching" a bit. May want to just delete. 2605:59C8:1018:AD10:1212:1E2D:CA31:288A (talk) 11:12, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dessication 

message: I take issue with "A common misconception about ticks is they jump onto their host or they fall from trees, however, they are incapable of flying or jumping." Falling does not require jumping or flying and there is nothing to keep a tick from dropping. To the contrary, it makes no sense for them to climb down from perches, rather than simply drop. Also, they are well suited to parachute via extending all of their legs, or controlled dives via trailed back legs. Furthermore, my wife and I have found ticks on us many times after being no where near vegetation to brush against. >> some ticks do drop from trees. 
Low spreading branches - such as beach trees have - seem to be preferred, for obvious reason. MongoPawn (talk) 03:37, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Can’t change an article with an anecdote as a justification, but the passage you give is not cited and not logical, so I deleted the bit about falling from trees. Strebe (talk) 05:24, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  ticks - at least some adult ticks - absolutely drop from trees.  

message: Explain 197.211.59.13 (talk) 22:07, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Please explain on the topic 197.211.59.13 (talk) 22:08, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pest and diseases of crops and live stocks
Talk:List of countries involved in World War II

message: See Talk:World_War_II/Casualties for a possible improvement of the list.
-- Ruhrjung 22:23 10 Jun 2003 (UTC)
I made some minor changes to the lists, including putting France in the list of Allies, which it certainly deserves. Also corrected a few inaccuracies - India was in the war long before it was attacked.
I also took the decision to remove separate references to British Colonies, not because I wanted to downplay their contribution (which was enormous) but simply because if we list one we should list them all (and there were a lot).
I still have trouble with this page. For example, I don't see that Poland was neutral before it was attacked, any more then Britain or France. I would like to think that if Hitler had attacked France first, the Polish would have come to their aid.
The Phillipines had US troops in place when they were attacked.
Any thought on a better classification?
 DJ Clayworth 17:47, 1 Oct 2003 (UTC)

message: For something that is supposed to be a simple list, this is getting very complicated. 
I want to make a solid proposal; since this is supposed to be a list, each country should appear only once. I know that some of the Allied Powers were invaded, and supporters later became Allies and so on, but the idea of a list page is that someone should be able to come to this page and get a simple list of which countries took part. For more complexity they can go to World War II or the history of the country.
ChrisO, I think some additions are getting a little complex. I don't think Slovakia should be included - it didn't exist as a country at the time. Nor did Croatia. "The four main Allied powers all experienced partial or total occupation." needs some real explanation. Most people list five main powers, and I'm unaware that the US was occupied at all. Please feel free to correct me. DJ Clayworth 15:57, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Simplicity

message: Shouldn't Poland be in the section: Countries that were attacked, occupied, or switched sides during the war? Philip Baird Shearer 10:24, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Poland

message: The annexation of 1910 technically conforms with "Countries that were annexed by, or at war with, Axis Powers before World War II," virtually had nothing to do with World War II! --Nanshu 01:02, 1 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: 1910

message: Should this be merged with participants of World War II? Oberiko 16:46, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: In my opinion that would make the most sense. -- Joolz 17:17, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge with participants?
Talk:Lakota mythology

message: :The comment below was originally posted in the article namespace at Yuwipi. After being listed on VfD, it was moved here for discussion.
As a native Lakota speaker with CRST, Lakhota.com, I can tell you the word "Yuwipi" means "many little clear stones."  These stones can be found on the top of ant hills, and have been used in a Lakhota ceremony called "Yuwipi," a Sacred work (Wakan Wicoan) where the dreamer is freed by magic.  A Lakhota medicine man is called, "Pejuta wicasa."
--Kipruss3 16:47, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This should be an overview article of Lakota mythology, not a redundant list that should be available via categorisation anyway, if anyone has the sources and the inclination... Simon Burchell (talk) 15:31, 20 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  This should be an article 

message: — Assignment last updated by MildActsOfMayhem (talk) 04:33, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: HUM 202 - Introduction to Mythology
Talk:Demi Moore

message: Guynes was Demi's stepfather's surname, whom her mother married after Demi was born, so her maiden name wll actually be Harmon, her biological father's surname. She was not born Demi Guynes, despite what the info box says, nor is she née Guynes - she's née Harmon formally Guynes. 2407:7000:9025:1800:2119:72D1:6926:F4CD (talk) 17:24, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maiden Name
Talk:Corked bat

message: RE: "However, contrary to the last note in the episode, the reason players 'cork' a bat is to keep it as long as a heavier bat, but make it lighter; which cannot be done without some kind of non-wood filler in the sweet spot of the bat."
I find this last comment pretty pointless and unsubstantiated. So what, players cork their bats not because they want the ball to go farther, but just because it's easier to carry a lighter bat around? I don't get the purpose of this statement.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.196.60.50 (talk) 15:54, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsubstantiated/pointless claim at end of article 
Talk:Alta

message: Egil: the population of Alta, Utah is misleading.. It is a major ski resort in Utah that gets 500,000 skiers every winter.. I don't know Alta, Norway, but I would guess it does not get that many tourists...
Would you mind if I changed it back? -- hike395 04:52 11 Jun 2003 (UTC)
:Went ahead and changed it back -- hike395 15:40 11 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Hi: 
This is my first Wikipedia edit, feel free to let me know if I violate something, or if there are better/preferred methods. =) 
Adding Alta, Iowa, USA to the list. I'll add it after Alta California. -- Bread Dog 17:13, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

message: Bungie Studios (now Bungie, LLC) had an member named Alta Hartmann at one point. It seems like there should possibly be an entry here about the name itself, but I don't know anything about it (such as whether it's common or unusual). --DocumentN (talk) 21:01, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alta (given name)
Talk:Rafael Trujillo

message: Refugees from Europe broadened the Dominican Republic's tax base and added more whites to the predominantly mixed-race nation. The government favored white refugees over others while Dominican troops expelled illegal aliens, resulting in the 1937 Parsley Massacre of Haitian immigrants.Legg, Kathleen. "Haitian massacre." World History: A Comprehensive Reference Set, edited by Facts on File, Facts On File, 1st edition, 2016. Credo Reference, https://login.avoserv2.library.fordham.edu/login?url=https://search.credoreference.com/content/entry/fofworld/haitian_massacre/0?institutionId=3205. Accessed 23 Oct. 2019. Mdiallo1 (talk) 14:46, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: .  It's not clear what changes you want to make.  Please describe the desired edit precisely.  –Deacon Vorbis (carbon • videos) 16:24, 23 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 23 October 2019 

message: Imprisonments and killings were later handled by the SIM, the Servicio de Inteligencia Militar, efficiently organized by Johnny Abbes. Some cases reached international notoriety such as the Galíndez case and the murder of the Mirabal sisters further eroding Trujillo's critical support by the US government.
After "Some cases...support by the US government" a sentence should be added such as "After Trujillo approved an assassination attempt on the Venezuelan president Rómulo Ernesto Betancourt Bello, the Organization of American States (OAS) was formed and the United States blocked Trujillo’s access to U.S. sugar quota profits." to further explain how the US government began withdrawing support for Trujillo. Meaa834 (talk) 22:38, 18 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Done OhKayeSierra (talk) 07:58, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 18 November 2019 

message: "targeting the mostly black inhabitants of his neighboring country" It's not true. He did not TARGET them. --Yomal Sidoroff-Biarmskii (talk) 00:41, 15 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Haiti. 

message: The article has many claims that it traces to this source:
* ["The Kaplans of the CIA - Approved For Release 2001/03/06 CIA-RDP84-00499R001000100003-2"]( (PDF). Central Intelligence Agency. 24 November 1972. pp. 3–6. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
This is not a CIA document. It is a pamphlet written by Frank A. Capell in the 1970s. It is a self-published sort of tract. Maybe the things that it says are true, I don't know. But it is not a reputable source. 
It is part of the CIA's CREST database because the CIA has copies of basically any articles — true or false — in that database. It was not created by the CIA, nor was it ever classified. One can see it is part of a file of a bunch of miscellaneous news clippings about the CIA. It should not be listed being created by the CIA; at the very minimum it should be correctly cited. But better, scholarly sources ought to be found for these claims. --24.38.221.243 (talk) 02:40, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  bad source
Talk:Jewel of Four Souls

message: "Sacred Jewel" is way too generic a name, and Shikon No Tama / Jewel of Four Souls are specific enough that I fail to see the point in actually merging the two articles.  Since it has been a while since anyone manifested anyway, I decided to remove the merge proposal notices and rewrite both articles.  My apologies to anyone who thinks I overstepped my bounds, please tell me so if I did. Luis Dantas 20:16, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Please be more careful next time, you removed the cleanup tag as well. --Zeno McDohl 21:23, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  No need for merging 

message: The page says Her final adversary and the one that claimed her life was created by many yōkai joined and anchored within the evil heart of a human who secretly lusted for her. From what I remember, there is no "final adversary". It was just an army of yōkai that attacked her. --Zeno McDohl 03:28, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect details? 

message: Someone seems to have misunderstood my request. I want to know why the article calls the original demon/hanyou/whatever enemy of Midoriko's by the name "Magatsuhi". I've only seen the manga apply this name to a later manifestation of the jewel/demon's evil will. Magatsuhi appeared long after the creation of the jewel, and seemed to die without affecting the evil demon-stuff inside the Shikon no Tama. Dan (talk) 05:12, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Magatsuhi
Talk:Friedrich Christoph Oetinger

message: Can someone verify his authorship of the Serenity Prayer? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 58.84.82.12 (talk) 10:02, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Serenity 

message: His name is of Jewish origin. Had he Jewish roots?--84.169.208.133 14:23, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jewish
Talk:Pope Clement V

message: Why was the papacy moved to Avignon? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.100.164.170 (talk • contribs) 11:49, 11 June 2003 
:The answer is here. Moonraker12 (talk) 14:12, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: O have retrieved the recently deleted sections and entered then at 
 Franco-Mongol alliance; they'll need some editing there to settle ther information into place. Finally, the concise summary here should be checked that it accurately represwents the moved text. I saw no reason merely to discard carefully edited, illustrated and sourced text, simply because someone felt the subject was obver-represented here. --Wetman (talk) 02:12, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Franco-Mongol alliance]]

message: I've moved a detail about the court being in Carpentras out of the introduction, as it seemed to give a minor point undue weight. I've also re-structured the Biography section, to make it more navigable. I trust that is OK with everyone. Moonraker12 (talk) 14:01, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent edits 

message: The article has this: 
"(The move to Avignon) marks a point from which the decay of the strictly Catholic conception of the pope as universal bishop may be dated". 
How so? I would have thought moving the papacy out of Rome would emphasize the church's univerasality, not diminish it. Is that what the source actually says? Or is it post hoc ergo propter hoc? Moonraker12 (talk) 14:07, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious 

message: Is this the pope Dante mentions as particularly scandalous in the Divina Commedia? If so, shouldn't it be mentioned?Campolongo (talk) 19:24, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, and he even prophesies that the "Holy Father" will soon be dead and sent to Hell. According to some researchers, Inferno had been published by 1313, which would make it a real prophesy and not simply a literary device inserted after the event (in the fictional frame, Dante's journey through the underworld takes place in the spring of 1300, but he began composing the poem only several years later). Dante certainly disliked Clement and saw him as an unworthy pope. Strausszek (talk) 07:42, 11 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  In the Divina Commedia 

message: No, he was actually a "subject" of the Duke of Guyenne, who happened to be the King of England, and who was vassal of the King of France for this Duchy ....
 --Chilbaric (talk) 01:35, 29 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  " Bertrand de Got was actually a subject of the King of England" 

message: — Assignment last updated by Tesb1983 (talk) 01:48, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Introduction to Classical Archaeology
Talk:Focus

message: I removed this in the hopes someone would be encouraged to rewrite it:
A kind of attractor with complex exponent that suggests oscillatory behavior of the dissipative system before reaching equilibrium.  Pizza Puzzle
Should there perhaps be a page on focus in terms of sticking with a task and not getting distracted?  Perhaps a link to "attention" or "persistence" or something like that would suffice.
Iain Marcuson
:Checkout the link to the wikitionary. WP:Disambig pages are about helping people find enyclopedia articles, not dictionary definitions. Megapixie 15:03, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Can anybody please create an article about focus? I've tried to find it, but found only this useless page.--Dojarca 11:37, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Focus 

message: The South-American (and also European) urban guerilla groups of the 60s believed in the (Guevarist, but propagated by Regis Debray focus, foci theory  of revolution: Fires rapidely and unstoppably igniting. The Weather Underground's 70s manifesto was not called called: Prairie Fire for nothing.--Radh (talk) 12:00, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  foci theory, Debray, 60s Guevarism 

message: I added “Anti-Nazi Council”, a 1930s organisation operated by a group known as Focus in Defence of Freedom and Peace sometimes called the Focus Group, including Winston Churchill.  It is also properly listed at Focus Group (disambiguation) but that would not help people here who are unaware of that nickname, i.e. the full title “Focus in Defence of Freedom and Peace” does not include the word “Group”. Anythingyouwant (talk) 19:32, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Focus in Defence of Freedom and Peace
Talk:Moment of silence

message: I have no knowledge as to outside of the UK. This article refers to the UK and USA alot. Is this an international ceremony or just commonwealth and US?
Would be interesting to have views from other continents, or alternatively, links to their equivelants. Bamkin (talk) 19:02, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: International

message: Apart from being rather general, unfocused and having over-emphasis on a particular topic regarding prayer or silence in US schools, this article includes a lot of information about the Two-minute silence introduced to commemorate Armistice Day at the end of World War One. For consistency this information should be reviewed, anything useful added to the other article, and content removed from this page apart from a brief reference to the practice.Laterthanyouthink (talk) 12:09, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I have now edited extensively to remove most of the information relating to the Two-minute silence, which I will incorporate into that article if not there already.Laterthanyouthink (talk) 02:29, 13 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overlap with Two-minute Silence 

message: This came about at sporting events because of the tendency of some spectators to disrupt the "moment of silence" by shouting. FL Carpetbagger (talk) 01:42, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moment of applause
Talk:Birthday problem

message: The text says, “The problem of a non-uniform number of births occurring during each day of the year was first addressed by Murray Klamkin in 1967.” which points to a paper from 1967 by Klamkin and Newman. This paper does not actually address the problem of non-uniform numbers of births. So I think this sentence should be cut, or the proper citation should be tracked down. 100.36.247.162 (talk) 22:52, 5 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed.  Klamkin does not have any other relevant papers on MathSciNet, either.  For the moment, I have tagged the statement as failing verification. JBL (talk) 18:50, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:  Well, this goes way, way back.  The attribution to Klamkin was added by  in April 2005, without citation.  The footnote was added by  in May 2020.   Can you take a look at the discussion above?  Thanks. --JBL (talk) 19:49, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect citation 

message: I just noticed this, which I don't see in the article:
 \frac{\log(1/2)}{\log(364.25/365.25)} \approx 252.83 \approx \binom{23}{2} 
—Tamfang (talk) 18:01, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: So what? --Macrakis (talk) 20:37, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: 364.25/365.25 is the probability that a given pair do not share a birthday.  253 is the number of pairs among 23 people.  I never knew before why the threshold number is 23. —Tamfang (talk) 06:15, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: So you're saying that this is more than a coincidence? --Macrakis (talk) 15:45, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

text: Much closer, but equally meaningless: 365*log(2) = 252.999. --Macrakis (talk) 21:17, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

text: OK, I think I'm beginning to follow you here. Small detail: article says that leap years aren't taken into account, so it should be 364/365. --Macrakis (talk) 15:08, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  logarithms and combinations 

message: To me, the partition problem at the bottom of the article does not seem sufficiently related to the birthday problem. Is the motivation behind the inclusion that both problems have the "answer" 23? Zaspagety (talk) 13:59, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm inclined to agree with you: although the content has been in the article a very long time, it doesn't seem actually relevant to the topic of this article except in a hand-wavy way.  The unique citation does not mention the birthday problem.  --JBL (talk) 18:03, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is partition problem relevant to this article?