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Talk:Aztec Bowl (game)

message: According to the official Aztec Bowl site the game has been played every year since 1946. This article says 1950. Does anyone know what the real date is?  --djrobgordon 22:53, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Drug harmfulness

message: Thanks for working on this article. I have some reservations about describing some of these drugs as legal as they are not available to the general populace and use if heavily restricted. I am interested in knowing what countries have legal MDMA and LSD. It would probably be good to add some references to the list. Sizeofint (talk) 01:34, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Oops that was a typo, I meant they were "illegal"Mangokeylime (talk) 00:04, 30 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legal drugs 

message: There is no evidence that some drugs are "hard" and that others are "soft". This distinction does not exist in any field of science.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zouloum (talk • contribs) 04:09, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: There is probably more of a spectrum than rigid categories, but the distinction is still made in everyday language. This article does have serious sourcing problems however. Sizeofint (talk) 05:46, 20 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Validity of the article
Talk:Peasant's Quest

message: guess what I just realized...the Kerrek in peasant's quest is named after the guy who wrote strong bad in sb email: interview
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I redirected "Rather Dashing" here.  I was going to merge its content but found that there was really nothing new to merge.  NTK 03:59, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

message: I would argue that this is a notable work of interactive fiction. Firstly, Wikipedia says that articles about web content are generally considered notable if the site they are from a notable site and/or if the content has been referenced or distributed through a source online different from its creators. See Google for a list of such sites, which includes an entire Google directory dedicated specifically to this game (). -AtionSong 01:05, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reason For Removal of Template 

message: When was this article voted to be merged? There was a vote for deletion a little while ago, but that ended in a keep. I see no other pages that discuss a potential merge with this page. -AtionSong 21:17, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge?
Category talk:Chemical elements

message: For categorization purposes, "Chemical elements" and "Elements" have been considered synonymous for some time.  The redundant :Category:Elements has been created and deleted several times and re-creation of this redundant category is discouraged.  If you have good reasons for creating the :Category:Elements, please discuss them here so that additional needless trips to Wikipedia:Categories for deletion are avoided.  Thank you. Courtland 23:39, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:Category:Elements]]
Talk:Phthalic acid

message: pH data should be included?
*pKa data should be included when we can find some... Physchim62 (talk) 10:03, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: pH

message: The BP is in the text but not the column on the right. If somone could add it.
*The boiling point in the text was for phthalic anhydride, not phthalic acid: phthalic acid decomposes before it even melts, let alone boils. I have removed the data as it was obviously causing confusion, and can in any case be found in our article on the anhydride. Physchim62 (talk) 10:03, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: BP

message: Why is Dimethyl phthalate redirected to this page?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Christian75 (talk • contribs) 01:14, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I suppose because there is no article on methyl phthalate yet, but there were some links pointing to it. With the redirect, readers can at least deduce its structure from that of phthalic acid (assuming a very basic knowledge of organic nomenclature). If you want to write an article on methyl phthalate, you are welcome to replace the redirect. --Itub 09:12, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Dimethyl phthalate]] 

message: I happened to notice that says in the infobox, the melting point in a sealed tube is given at 167 degrees Celsius. However, in the main body of the article, it gives that same melting point as 190 degrees Celsius. Which is it? --128.193.15.52 (talk) 20:31, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Well that's a good point.  Aldrich chemical catalogue lists the mp as 	210-211 C with decomposition (to the anhydride?).  Ullmann's Chemical Encyclopedia indicate 191 C in a sealed tube.  A randomly selected MSDS gave 200 C. JTBaker's MSDS says "230C (446F) Forms anhydride and water" ([]).  So that is a 40C range, a problem.--Smokefoot (talk) 21:05, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I wonder if it would be worthwhile to include multiple melting points, each with its reference, in the chembox?  Just to indicate that there is a broad range of reported data. -- Ed (Edgar181) 21:58, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: SciFinder lists a range from 70+ to 200+ °C. CRC reports 230 °C (dec.). --Rifleman 82 (talk) 04:01, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Melting point 

message: Would it be a good idea to have an IPA pronunciation of phthalic? Does anyone know how to pronounce it? I'm having trouble finding one answer. Saltedcoffii (talk) 01:08, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation
Talk:Maria Skobtsova

message: Sorry, I was mislead by some of webpages that praise her. mikka (t) 23:51, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Nobility

message: She is generally known as Maria Skobtsova, with "Mother Maria" being a religious title, and a vague one (there are many "Mother Marias").  I think this article should be retitled "Maria Skobtsova." 24.188.131.155 (talk) 08:44, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. I merged information from my articlee on "Elizabeth Pilenko".Pustelnik (talk) 14:38, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Article Title

message: Dmitry Kuzmin-Karavayev's article says he later converted to Catholicism. It states no source, but it seems to make more sense in context that he was Orthodox and then became Catholic. I believe the current version is just a typo: someone meant to say he converted to Catholicism. Does anyone disagree with me? Jadbaz (talk) 15:56, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marriage to Dmitriy Vladimirovich Kuz'min-Karavaev
Talk:Mission Chicago

message: The true nickname of this opération is Operation Albany.  Operation Chicago is a later landing of gliders.
Reference : http://www.6juin1944.com/assaut/aeropus/en_page.php?page=para —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.247.161.21 (talk) 19:32, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Correct. Many many errors in this stub. Also, it was, per the operations order, mission Albany. There is a source for this (and also for the misnomer Mission Detroit in another article) and when I can I will clean up both if no one has done it before me. The US airborne missions were:
*parachute - Albany (101), Boston (82) - early on D-Day, 800 aircraft and 6 regiments
*glider - Chicago (101), Detroit (82) - pre-dawn D-Day 100 tugs and their gliders, support
*glider - Keokuck (101), Elmira (82) - evening of D-Day 200 tugs and their gliders, support
*glider - Galveston and Hackensack (both 82d) - D+1 morning, 200 tugs and their gliders, 1 regiment--Buckboard 06:37, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Operation Chicago is not the correct nickname 
Talk:Poor Cow

message: I really sugest that the "poor cow" main article is about the novell. It is the orignal poor cow, and the movie only disorts from it. Many people still read the novell (i do think:), and therefore Poor Cow (Movie) should be under the "disambigiuous", not the other way around.
128.39.93.100 11:58, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I think so too. — MY, OH, MY! 21:43, 18 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why does Poor cow direct to MOVIE not ORIGINAL NOVELL?
Talk:Electron donor

message: This article is pretty much lifted from here .  I didn't see any copyright information, though its lack perhaps doesn't mean it can be used here.  I'll let those smarter than me deside.  --KSnortum 00:22, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It's from the U.S. federal government, which is usually public domain. -- Kjkolb 01:07, 2 February 2006 (UTC)

message: — Assignment last updated by CHEM 300 UBC CJA (talk) 18:01, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: CHEM 300
Talk:The Navigators (film)

message: Removed all of the links to the lesser-known actors appearing in this film as they don't have their own entries in Wikipedia and it made the page look dreadfully untidy. mikejamestaylor (talk) 16:49, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank-you. 153.48.247.250 (talk) 02:46, 6 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Memorylessness

message: In the lead section I have put a suggestive but shallow second paragraph in place of the following.
: wherein any derived probability from a set of random samples is distinct and has no information (i.e. "memory") of earlier samples.
What does that mean?
In order to improve this article much, we need commitment whether the subject pertains to probability or to something modeled by probability (perhaps a trial or a process or "sampling") or to both. This category error or category ambiguity plagues some neighboring articles, perhaps all of the articles with "process" in the title? --P64 (talk) 21:33, 4 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  need help 

message: Memoryless has 2 different meanings that evolved separately in different branches of probability; one the Markov property , second the one related to conditional expectation when the distribution is applied to stopping time. We need to make sure both uses of the term are not mixed up  Limit-theorem (talk) 10:50, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: As far as I can tell, they are essentially the same - that the marginal probability is equal to the general probability of the outcome from current state. Just in a stochastic process, P(A) is meaningless, it has to be P(A|state). Markov memorylessness is simply that P(A|state&previous-states) is equal for all values of previous-states. SamBC(talk) 16:35, 17 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ambiguity 

message: In contrast, let us examine a situation which would exhibit memorylessness. 
Imagine a long hallway, lined on one wall with thousands of safes. 
Each safe has a dial with 500 positions, and each has been assigned an opening position at random. 
Imagine that an eccentric person walks down the hallway, stopping once at each safe to make a single random attempt to open it. 
In this case, we might define random variable X as the lifetime of their search, expressed in terms of "number of attempts the person must make until they successfully open a safe". 
In this case, E[X] will always be equal to the value of 500, regardless of how many attempts have already been made. 
Each new attempt has a (1/500) chance of succeeding, so the person is likely to open exactly one safe sometime in the next 500 attempts — but with each new failure they make no "progress" toward ultimately succeeding. 
Even if the safe-cracker has just failed 499 consecutive times (or 4,999 times), we expect to wait 500 more attempts until we observe the next success. 
If, instead, this person focused their attempts on a single safe, and "remembered" their previous attempts to open it, they would be guaranteed to open the safe after, at most, 500 attempts (and, in fact, at onset would only expect to need 250 attempts, not 500).
Obviously, it's less efficient to repeat failure, on the supposition of a fixed function. In my opinion, this narrative really adds little more than that.  Note that counting has the magic property of being able to encode your entire history in a compact integer (as opposed to picking a set of contiguously numbered balls out of a bubble-headed Dalek). — MaxEnt 17:21, 25 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Excess exposition in lead
Talk:Grand Admiral Zaarin

message: Quoted:
"As Zaarin fled in an experimental corvette (CRV Vorknkx) which had a cloaking device Zaarin had been allowed to steal previously, the hyperspace engine on the ship malfunctioned and exploded (due to sabotage arranged by Thrawn himself), killing all on board."
From my experience playing TIE Fighter, cutscenes had revealed that the cloaking device was actually unstable in hyperspace, and thus could only be used for normal flight.  Though it was stolen by Zaarin in the course of the game, Grand Admiral Thrawn cared little about it, since he knew that Zaarin wasn't aware of this problem.  He thus knew that by attacking the ISD Gloria, Zaarin would either go down with the ship, or attempt an escape into hyperspace using the cloaked corvette, thereby blowing himself up.
That's my opinion on the story.  I've played the game several years ago though, so I decided to put that suggestion on the Talk page and have my version of the story confirmed (or infirmed) by others if possible, rather than arbitrarily edit the article.
--Shurikane 00:24, 12 November 2005
:Yes, AFAIR this is how it was described in the game. I'd say go ahead and change the main article. NLoriel 10:29, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cloaking & Hyperdrive 

message: Where does much of the background on Zaarin come from? I played through the X-Wing Alliance campaign only once, so I don't remember much there, but I know TIE Fighter referred to Zaarin only as Admiral, not Grand Admiral, and it never gave him a first name. Since TIE Fighter covered the period between Hoth and Endor, any earlier promotion should have been noticed.
:There was an expansion pack and strategy guide were there not? --maru  (talk) contribs 04:27, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Background sources?
Talk:Gangster No. 1

message: I'm taking out the part of the article about homoerotic as most anyone who looks at the move in depth can see this is not the case. Its more of how Gangster 55 idolizes and seek's to be just like him, i.e taking the pin with his initials. He nevers sees may's sexually, nor does he seek to be physical with him. He is infatuated with his image and is main goal in life was to be just like him. Furiso 21:10, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well there's none so blind as will not see. I'd say that there are enough hints that it is a valid reading. First the gift of the pin. Then Freddie invites a couple of girls to join them as camouflage AND explicitly mentions it looks suss. Then there's the looks. Also the protagonist is never seen with a girl, and makes several rather hmm misogynisic comments, in striking contrast to Freddie. I don't think it is the only interpretation, but it struck me that way on first viewing. Good film except for the end. Greg Locock (talk) 12:09, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Taking out
Talk:The Player (1992 film)

message: Is there a category for films about the Hollywood filmmaking industry? Aside from The Player, there's The Day of the Locust (film), Singin' in the Rain (film), Get Shorty, The Party (film), The Last Shot, State and Main, and King Kong (2005 film). See also Sunset Blvd. (1950 film)#Other films about Hollywood. --Mathew5000 23:01, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  category idea 

message: I just did a minor edit on the page of the first paragraph, changing the text from saying "A well-known feature of the film" to "One of the more notable features of the film".  It's a minor edit, but the Wikipedia community should consider that entertainment might not be "well-known" within the mainstream, and the features of such entertainment could not then be considered "well-known".  I'm in my mid-20's right now, and most of the people my age barely know who Robert Altman is, or even his films.  Regardless of this film, people should shy away from the phrase "well-known" when describing certain subjects, or at least describe who the fact is well-known to—such as, "Well-known to film buffs for featuring over 60 cameos...", etc.
Fermentor 08:18, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestion for future editing of entertainment subjects 

message: Was the name of the studio Mill worked at given in the original novel? Robert K S (talk) 21:46, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Griffin Mill's studio?
Talk:Voyage of the Damned

message: Is this article about the book or the movie?  Shouldn't there be a separate article for each?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.90.165.126 (talk) 19:27, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: yes, as long as both the book and movie are notable, they should have separate articles linked to each other. in this case, the book is notable as well.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 18:29, 27 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Article

message: No critic reviewed this film? Autodidact1 (talk) 02:36, 27 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why no "Reception" category? 

message: Audiences in these countries may remember how this film was viewed and received, esp in the countries where the people came from, and where they had lived previously, i.e. Germany, France and Holland.Philotrio (talk) 19:28, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, you may add this information if you have sources and write it yourself - you can't just add whatever headings you want and leave them blank. Please stop making this edit.  parqs (talk) 20:24, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reception on TV
Talk:Royal Flash (film)

message: I am moving this to Royal Flash (film), as I'd like to make an article about the book with this name. I think this is better than having RF (book) and RF (film) and a disambig page. Guinnog 22:05, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The top says "Though it received good reviews for its performances and action scenes", but the actual Reception section includes no positive reviews. Are there any, or should the top section be changed?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:B011:1005:B771:747B:64C4:24DC:BB7F (talk) 07:33, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good reviews? 

message: The redirect Royal Flash(1975 film) has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached.  Steel1943 (talk) 20:48, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "[[:Royal Flash(1975 film)]]" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:Sensation play

message: While I agree that there is an emotional edge to sensation play, I don't think brining pet play or sexual humiliation into the article is relevant.  Those activities are typically not considered to be sensation play.  The discussion of them just muddies the water here.
Also, I don't think Painslut is a particuarly approprate "See Also" here, since Sensation play is usually referring to play that is not focused on pain.  It would be better on the page for impact play, perhaps.  Though since there is only a tiny stub of an article associated with painslut anyway, it doesn't make much sense to referr anyone there.
Ocicat 00:58, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:
Talk:Klácelka

message: The name ((Klacelka)) describes a cave and a complex of sculptural works, placed among rocks, in a forest near ((Libechov)), in the region of ((Melnik)), in the Czech Republic. The actual name "KLACELKA" was given by ((Vaclav Levy)), who was the sculptor, to  honour and to remember  ((Frantisek Matous Klacel)). Both Levy and Klacel are of great importance. At the time of the work Levy was an untutored young man. He later studied in Munich and became an accomplished artist and the teacher of Myslbek, who is probably, today, the most well known of Czech sculptors.The word "Klacelka" means "cave". It is in fact a room chiselled into sandstone rock. On the walls of the cave are chiselled fairy tales in relief depicting characters from the writing Bajky Ferina Lisak by Klacel. About the cave Levy carved figures recalling former Bohemian glory bringing back to memory days before the Battle of Bila Hora when Bohemia and the Czech Lands became part of the Austro-Hungarian ((Hapsburg)) Empire. These figures , allegorical, portrayed legendary heroes - Zbynek from Zasmucky, Commander of the Blanik Army; Jan Zizka of Kalich, Leader of the Taborites, and Prokop Holy, a renowned warrior. Blanik, in Czech myth and history, is a "Hall of Sleeping Heroes", who when danger threatens the land, will be summoned from sleep to drive out the invaders. Klacel is of note for although he was born in Ceska Trebova on April 7, 1808, he was to die in Belle Plaine, Iowa, on March 17, 1882. He is buried in that city. Early on in his life, Klacel was a member of the Abbey at Brno, but his "freethinking" became a problem for both Church and State. In generality Klacel develped ideas of "Freethinking Humanism". He would in to-day's terms be called a "dissident". He also was in charge of the Abbey Garden at Brno, and there is evidence that it was probably he who set Gregor Mendel on the way to his Pea Experiments in Genetics in the Monastery Gardens. Klacel's nationalistic views and actitvities led to his expulsion from the monastery and later from Holy Orders. Disillusioned, in 1869 he emigrated to America. He adopted the name of Ladimir Klacel and sought to form a community of Freethinkers and Just Men in the Black Hills of South Dakota. An intellectual, there was very little possibility for him in frontier life. Conflict and poverty followed and he died alone though respected to such a degree that a remarkable memorial was erected to him in the cemetary at Belle Plaine by some of his followers in Chicago. (Reference  "The Klacelka In A Slavic Woodland" by Stacey B. Day. Int. Foundation, N.Y. 2002. ). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.84.252.219 (talk • contribs) 02:18, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: The Klacelka In A Slavic Woodland
Talk:Miskel Spillman

message: I've been trying to track these down, if for no other reason than the accuracy of trivia.  On many websites, she is reported to have died on February 15, 1985 when she would have been around 87.  However, another website quotes her at age 92, very much alive, in an interview in People Magazine, September 25, 1989.  Yet another website, which seems to have been last updated around 2002, lists her among deceased former hosts.  At that time she would have been around 105, so it's a reasonable assumption.
IMDb and related websites
"First Church of Dan Aykroyd"
Saturday-Night-Live.com, a personal website
Bruxism 01:22, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You must be right.  1.  It's a very uncommon name.  2.  We know the SNL host lived in New Orleans.  3.  The birthdate is consistent.  4. The new date of death is consistent with the People Magazine evidence.  I've made the changes.  Bruxism 00:04, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of birth/death
Talk:Ali ibn Isa al-Asturlabi

message: I can't find any information on this person; is he the same as Ali Ibn Isa, the 9th century ophthalmologist/oculist?
Can anyone please confirm his notability? --tyomitch 11:17, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: NO! This one is an astronomer who worked with Chalid Ben Abdulmelik. --Lanov 03:58, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:The Padlock

message: The article is deficient because it claims that this is not the earliest blackface performance, contrary to what some sources say, but all it uses as evidence is an example of one of the sources that does cite this as the earliest. There is no evidence of earlier performances included. ChikeJ (talk) 22:53, 12 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Earliest blackface

message: I see that "El celoso estremeño" by Miguel de Cervantes is translated here as "The Jealous Husband". That may be the name under which an English translation exists, but we should probably also explicate.  Estremeño is presumably an archaic form of Extremeño, someone from Extremadura, a region of Spain. I'd suggest that we just link estremeño to Extremadura. Any problem with that? -- Jmabel | Talk 01:40, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: None at all. I know no Spanish, let alone archaic Spanish, so I just went with Nathan's translation. —BrianSmithson 05:18, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Spanish title