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Talk:Vasily Kalinnikov

message: While it's certainly encyclopedic to talk about a particular classical composer's radio play, I don't yet have enough information on this to put in the article. But I wanted to put down what I do know somewhere I could remember later:
Detroit's defunct classical station, WQRS 105.1, occasionally played Kalinnikov's Symphony No. 1 in G minor, but always the recording by Neeme Järvi (with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, if I remember correctly), who was at the time music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. In the last few months, North Carolina's WCPE has played the same Kalinnikov Symphony quite often (not that I'm complaining, it's one of my favorite Symphonies). As I write this, they're playing a recording with the Russian State Academy Orchestra conducted by Yevgeny Svetlanov. Dmetric 15:31, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Note about radio play
Talk:Oar

message: IMO this article needs serious revision.
Oars are an ancient means of marine propulsion.  This article implies oars are a relatively recent invention.  
The article says oars are attached to the vessel via metal outriggers.  Isn't this true only on rscing skulls?  I believe that the oars for conventional boats are typicallt attached via oar-locks.  And prior to the use of oar-locks oars were placed between a pair of wooden dowels.  This attachment method has a name too.
An oar is not a paddle.  The article, as written, doesn't make clear how oars differ from paddles.
Oars come in many lengths.  The oars used in ancient galleys could be something like ten meters long.  --  Geo Swan 16:18, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Distinction between modern and past oars

message: Surely oars are 1st class levers, not 2nd class. The blade of an oar at each stroke is fixed (within limits) in the water, effort is applied to the handle and the boat is levered past the blade using the oarlock as the fulcrum.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.174.42.190 (talk) 20:22, 17 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The fact that the blade is, as you say, fixed (within limits) in the water makes the blade (rather than the oarlock) the fulcrum, hence it is indeed a second class lever as the reference in the article confirms. - David Biddulph (talk) 03:05, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  There's a webpage from Oxford University arguing that the class depends on the frame of reference: the boat, or the shore.http://eodg.atm.ox.ac.uk/user/dudhia/rowing/physics/index.html I think it's worth saying so in the article. I know I assumed an oar was "obviously" a 1st class lever and was surprised to find Wikipedia and the World Rowing rulebook defining oars as 2nd class. I'll put it in there. Publicly Visible (talk) 20:50, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Class of lever

message: It is used for rowing so you are able to move 37.231.102.68 (talk) 08:19, 6 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oars
Talk:Lindbergh operation

message: *It is a disgrace that no one has bothered to edit this article since it has been created.
*Then please grace it with some good edits.  Kenahoo (talk) 18:00, 14 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Edits?

message: Experts believe that a time delay of 330 milliseconds would be the maximum acceptable delay, but thanks to years of research and development by France Telecom, this was cut down to a mere 150 milliseconds for the operation.
I found the above. Is that one way lag time or lag time for the video to come back to the viewer? --Gbleem 22:31, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lag time 

message: Somebody seems to have posted a press release from the companies involved with the operation. Though some of the information is helpful, much of it does not belong in an encyclopedia. Nrbelex (talk) 13:39, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Press Release 

message: I've added  to this article. The article needs a better introductory paragraph that explains what exactly this technology does. The information is sprinkled throughout the rest of the article, but it makes for a very confusing read to not be told flat-out in the beginning what exactly it is so the reader has some context in their mind with which to understand the rest of the information. --Icarus (Hi!) 19:11, 4 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've done a major copyedit on the whole article, so that it fits better with Wikipedia style guidelines. It should read less like an advert/press release now, and provide the key information in the introductory paragraph. I'm also going to remove the merge tag, as I think this definitely merits a separate article in and of itself, particularly as it was an historical event. -Kieran 10:59, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Context 

message: I read through the article once just now and did not come away with any inkling of why this procedure would ever have to be done.  Is there anything that can be added to clarify this? Either it's just a proof of some other principle, or is there some situation where a surgeon would want to control a robotic instrument far away?--Skoch3 (talk) 05:31, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Motivation?
Talk:St Ives

message: I guess all that remains to be found out is, Who was Saint Ives the person?. knoodelhed 18:33, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Saint Ives was a saint (of course.) 210.54.196.132 10:10, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Saint Ivo apparently, though I don't think there is an article on him yet. A Persian priest who came to England, according to the Cambridgeshire article... --TheGrappler 19:10, 17 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Olof Palme

message: "Göran Björkdahl, a Swedish diplomat, had done independent research on Palme's assassination, leading to South Africa's apartheid regime."? What could this mean? South Africa's Apartheid regime predates Palme's assassination. Pkanella (talk) 21:48, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I've simplified it to remove that wording. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 22:39, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assassination 

message: Hi,
There are two erroneous links in the assissnation section that are supposed to link to Lars Larsson and Thomas Pettersson. I would have modified them myself but unfortunately I do not know how to do this.
Regards,
Mark. MarkEustace (talk) 12:22, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link Errors
Talk:David Hönigsberg

message: Only 14 Google hits but I think he at least scrapes in to being notable. Neoclassical music is not well represented on the WWW. Andrewa 18:59, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Joseph Tainter

message: Hmm... This is turning more into a review of Collapse... than a Tainter bio. Anyway. I think what's still missing is Tainter's definition of the term "collapse" (to avoid Mad Max-type associations for people who haven't read the book). --Plek 19:17, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I find Tainter's understanding of diminishing returns both compelling and well researched, but the language used is sometimes unclear in describing or perhaps understanding the difference between returns and marginal returns. The semantic distinction seems picayune, but is significant.
More fundamentally, it seems the argument is not solidly made, that collapse must follow declining returns. Why cannot society retrench to a reduced state of technology, interdependency and complexity?  The difference being the broad scope, massive degree of reduction, and decimation of population implied by "collapse."  I don't think this word misused: societies collapse. But why can't they just back up a little instead, or even make a smooth landing at the "top" of the Returns/Investment curve?  I look unsuccessfully for a keystone argument of irrevocable commitment to the complexity, a position that brooks no retreat, that would precipitate collapse instead of something more graceful and moderate.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.99.220.25 (talk) 11:08, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion of "Collapse" theory 
Talk:World Cricket Tsunami Appeal

message: "First ODI" section looks more like a commentary. needs to be re-written. i would do it, if i wasn't so busy with other things more important than wikipedia :) ! Jam2k 19:18, Jan 13, 2005 (UTC)
: I would argue that it looks like a commentary on the match because that's actually (by and large) what it is. It's a report on what happened during the game, and it's difficult to write that without it looking like commentary. I'd be happy to perform surgery on it if you're too busy, but if you've got the time to make some suggestions (either here or on my Talk page) as to how it can keep being a report on the match and cease being commentary, that would be a great help. BigHaz 22:22, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, it is a commentary. Squash 02:36, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Again, if anyone has any constructive suggestions as to how to "de-commentary" it, then I'd be happy to run those changes through. Just saying "It's a commentary" doesn't exactly help anywhere, since (as I said above), that's sort of the point. BigHaz 22:36, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)

text: I don't see anything wrong with it having a reasonable commentary section. Perhaps cutting the commentary down slightly would be a good thing - some of the detail is perhaps unneccessary - but I think that since the main part of the appeal was the playing of a match there should be a reasonable summary of what happened in the match.  Grutness|hello?  00:10, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Exactly my point. The article on the Border-Gavaskar Trophy (test series between India and Australia) contains descriptions of each series because that's what the trophy is all about. Likewise, this article should contain a reasonable description of the match, since if the match hadn't been played then there would be no World Cricket Tsunami Appeal. I daresay that once the second match has been played, there'd be various editing that could be done to this article to cover both matches, but in lieu of that I think we've got a reasonable thing going here, unless Jam2k or Squash would like to make the odd suggestion about what can/should be done to improve it. BigHaz 01:03, 28 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Now the second ODI has been cancelled, I'm putting this page on peer review, as I'd be interested to see if it could be worked up to be featured on Wikipedia:Featured articles, jguk 07:54, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Peer review
Talk:Autobiography

message: You could probably improve on this, Gentle Reader:
:For example, the autobiography of an American Civil War general might include sections on the nature of slavery, the origins of the Civil War, and the political career of Abraham Lincoln. But the memoir of a Civil War general would focus on his personal reasons for joining the battle, the effect of the war on his mind and soul, and the joy and fear he felt on the battlefield.
A quick characterization of a particular autobiography and a particular memoir, and the contrast between them would be much better here. Give it a try. --Wetman 19:19, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: "Compare and contrast"

message: In tidying up the article I have removed the section 'notable autobiographies' to a new article List of autobiographies, for two reasons:
*1) General WP articles should not contain long, distracting, lists (see WP:Lists)
*2) There is no way of defining 'notable' - better therefore to have a separate NPOVcomprehensive list, to avoid pointless argument.
--Smerus (talk) 15:48, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[List of autobiographies]]

message: This section implies that autobiographies started with Babur, which is not NPOV. Earlier works can be considered as much autobiographical as his diary.I´m going to fix that
--Knight1993 (talk) 18:13, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early autobiographies 

message: I felt article Islamic_literature is in bit of neglect so I added my note on talk page there, requesting to take note of Talk:Islamic_literature#Article_review. If possible requesting copy edit support. Suggestions for suitable reference sources at  Talk:Islamic_literature is also welcome. 
Posting message here too for neutrality sake
Thanks and greetings
Bookku (talk) 08:12, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Requesting wider attention
Template talk:Foreign ministers of Russia and the Soviet Union

message: These is a slight problem with this template. In order for the template mechanism to work right, the entries must be exactly the same as article titles. Then the current entry would be automatically turned from link into bolded text. Compare how this template look on the pages Leon Trotsky (correct: same link and title) and Yevgeny Primakov (incorrect: different link and title). --Gene s 08:30, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slight problem with the template 

message: Why isn't Vyshinsky included? Everyking 14:03, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vyshinsky
Talk:Pierre Puvis de Chavannes

message: He is known widely by his birth name, Pierre-Cécile Puvis de Chavannes, and consideration should be given to renaming the article. 83d40m 14:33, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  name of the article 
Talk:Orval Faubus

message: The site used as a source for that endorsement is ourcampaigns.com. I am a member of that site, I personally removed the listing of the endorsement there so it no longer exists. That site itself was citing another source but that source was a newspaper article that actually said Faubus insisted he DIDN'T endorse Jackson. He merely wrote a letter saying nice things about him.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.35.254.154 (talk) 20:13, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Did not endorse Jackson 

message: "Fables of Faubus" is cited under "See also," but does it deserve some explanation within this article? Ishboyfay (talk) 21:56, 7 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I added the link to the 'See also' section at the time, because I saw no easy way of fitting it in the article, but of course its inclusion would be welcome. ---Sluzzelin talk 21:26, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Fables of Faubus" 

message: How does one pronounce "Faubus"? TuckerResearch (talk) 20:57, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: or  See this and that for audio examples. ---Sluzzelin talk 21:17, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: What I thought.  I'm glad you spelled it in IPA, etc.  I put it in the article, if that's okay.  I wish there was a book to footnote it to.  Thanks again. TuckerResearch (talk) 21:29, 24 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation? 

message: To add to this article: Faubus's ethnic background. Is Faubus a German (or Jewish) name? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 01:45, 3 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: To add to article
Talk:Svengali deck

message: Currently, Trick deck redirects here, which isn't all that good, since there are many types of trick decks beyond the simple Svengali deck, including
* Rough-and-smooth decks (which can be combined with a Svengali deck to make a Svengali deck that you can also fan out on the table
* Stripper decks
* Double-face and double-back decks
* Various Marked decks, including the infamous Deland's Automatic Deck (which is also a Stripper deck)
(Can you tell that magic tricks are a hobby of mine?)
I propose breaking the redirect and writing either a master page on trick decks, or separate pages for the above.  Any volunteers?  If so, leave me a message on my Talk Page.  -- Kaszeta 20:28, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway

message: I thought I should put here a word of explanation as to why I did such a hutchet job on the original article. To put it simply I found it to be too dismissive of the line altogether. Here are some observations to back that up (I'm not quoting directly):
* the article stated that the SMJR was one of the smallest of the lines going into the 1923 Grouping, I felt that this was much too sweeping a statement: there were well over 120 smaller lines, and my copy of the 1912 Railway Year Book lists them and shows their statistics. SMJR is given its own article including map, whereas the others were simply in a table appendix
* it was not a maze of branch lines: there were only two connecting links to other company's lines
* the tenor of much of the article was that, if a railway doesn't carry passengers and like this one goes through empty countryside, then it is in some way a failure. Until relatively recently, with the advent of competing road transport, the line occupied a premier position, offering as it did a cross-country link for FREIGHT: its initial reason
* in 1911, the company's books showed £43,000 income; £27,000 expenditure; and it paid a dividend
* I don't believe that it was kept going by 'local business men' - once the iron-ore traffic was gone, it was of little use to the local economy
* the dates given were all guesswork: no definite date was ever quoted
* ( a minor point)I did not care much for the fact that the huge Kineton MoD depot was called an 'arms dump'!!!!! And the link is almost five miles in length: definitely not a 'short spur' ...
Peter Shearan 20:58, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I've added a route map for the lines.  It's as accurate as I could get with what websites I could find, and with some help from Google Maps.  I'm keen to hear any thoughts or corrections. Hertzsprung 19:49, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Good work! The junction at Ravenstone Wood for the Bedford to Northampton line is pointing the wrong way. It was 'facing' coming from Bedford. This could be named; Cockley Brake Junction too. 86.183.83.192 (talk) 02:27, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: . --Redrose64 (talk) 12:14, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Good work! 86.183.83.192 (talk) 14:24, 28 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Route map 

message: I have standardized the spellings of the various railway companies to match those used in the official journal of record The London Gazette, namely:
*Stratford-upon-Avon and Midland Junction Railway 
*East and West Junction Railway
*Evesham, Redditch, and Stratford-upon-Avon Junction Railway
*Stratford-upon-Avon, Towcester, and Midland Junction Railway
*Northampton and Banbury Junction Railway
-- Picapica (talk) 16:30, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Company names
Talk:Bleed Like Me

message: Mike, on my talk page you make the first utterance I have seen you make on this issue since I intervened: "No, I wasn't only trying to get into an edit war again."
That is not enough.  Explain yourself or stop edit warring. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 23:12, 7 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Explain myself? OK. The reson why I kept reverting this page is because those IP address users may not be liking my version, please see. He also thinks that I'm the one in the wrong, but I'm not and I don't know why keeps restoring the version that isn't mine. That's why the user needs to be banned or blocked. -- Mike Garcia | talk 16:37, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Your "explanation" is not particularly coherent.  Just what is wrong with the other version?  As has been mentioned by others, your preferred version is, while technically accurate, not complete; North America is not just the USA, and the non-North-America world is not just Europe.  As for a version not being yours, nothing here is supposed to "belong" to any individual; we're all supposed to be collaborating to create a well-written encyclopedia.  Certainly, it makes no sense to ban or block somebody just because they disagree with you on which version is better. *Dan* 16:55, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Mike Garcia confirms

message: I've unprotected the article.  Now the album is released people have their own copies and will want to write about it. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 21:00, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Unprotected

message: I think that the article needs to be cleaned up a bit with information being better organized and maybe put under headlines. Underneath-it-All 21:15, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clean up 

message: |-
| Danish album chart
| 26 
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| Polish album chart
| 36 
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| Czech album chart
| 53 Breakinguptheguy (talk) 22:58, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Unconfirmed charts

message: Where in the article could the following be added: ()
Or would it a better addition to the BLM section of the band's article?  --Lapadite (talk) 08:59, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  2012 commentary from Vig 
Talk:Usury

message: The passage quoted from the NT - And if you lend to those from whom you expect repayment, what credit is that to you? Even sinners lend to sinners, expecting to be repaid in full. But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them, expecting nothing in return - isn't obviously a prohibition on usury; it doesn't mention interest at all. It appears to suggest lending, even if you don't expect your principal to be repaid. If it is usually interpreted as prohibiting usury, then it needs a ref to support that interpretation.
The lead-in text to that quote - The New Testament likewise teaches giving rather than loaning money to those who need it: is also confused William M. Connolley (talk) 20:29, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Testament 

message: Using a single Parisian document from 1799 to show the treatment of an entire ethnoreligious group across an entire continent is just deliberately and obviously misleading. What editor was that, and why are they not being held responsible or accountable in any way? 206.174.198.66 (talk) 13:58, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  How has this article been allowed to become such a sad, sick joke
Talk:Nitrogenous base

message: I suggest a merge from this article (Nitrogenous base) to: Nucleobase. --Smoken Flames (talk) 17:33, 5 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: Agreeing with the above comment to merge with the nucleobase article, especially since this article does nothing but discuss the biological functions of nitrogenous bases. While this article is around, though, could someone who knows how to do this kind of stuff label all the pictures of nucleobases on the right-hand side of this article? It's a little bizarre and non-typical for wikipedia to have pictures with no labels on them. Reminds me of my middle-school powerpoint slides.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.98.234.237 (talk) 01:43, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge agreement/Picture labeling 
Talk:Li Dazhao

message: how did Li Dazhao effect Mao?
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I read that Li Dazhao was killed in Beijing, not Guangdong - can anyone confirm or deny?
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How in the world did he reject the Bolshevik government in the Soviet Union? Vandalism? Radchenk (talk) 09:01, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled