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Talk:Foul ball

message: If a batted ball hits the pitching rubber and is then caught by a fielder before it touches the ground is this an out?
: No. :-)  See the definition of in flight. --Locarno 22:06, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Batted ball hits the pitching rubber

message: Is a ball foul if it lands in foul territory, touching no part of the foul line, but a portion of the ball is above the foul line? Billt4 (talk) 00:43, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Ball Above Foul Line 

message: Is a ball foul if it is struck by the batter and hits in the catcher's box or batters box? Billt4 (talk) 00:43, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Catchers Box or batters Box 

message: I notice the article makes no mention of the entire phenomenon of catching foul balls in the stands at baseball games (especially Major League Baseball games).  Given that fans (1) face danger from batted balls that go into the stands, (2) regularly go to strenuous measures to grab foul balls, and (3) prize foul balls as souvenirs, does the foul ball subculture deserve mention? I'd write about it myself but I'm leaving it to the professionals to decide whether the language is best suited to be inserted somewhere else.  [After all, fans go after home run balls as well.]  68.82.197.245 (talk) 16:28, 24 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stands Subculture 

message: Where is "foul"? As in "A foul fly shall be judged according to the relative position of the ball and the foul line" however I don't know what a foul line is either. This may make sense if you're already familiar with baseball, but I can't figure it out. Perhaps draw a diagram that shows all the fair and foul lines and areas? Wapiti (talk) 01:06, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Using a word in its definition 

message: When a ball leaves the park foul but curves into fair territory past the foul pole it is still foul although this situation is NOT covered in the rules as stated. I've read (but do not have a reference) that prior to 1920 such a ball would be a home-run but modern rules designate it a foul ball. Shouldn't this be mentioned in the rules as stated at the beginning of the article?? (Roricka 10/27/13)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roricka (talk • contribs) 04:33, 29 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  foul territory 

message: The article is about baseball, but the definition at the start begins with "In shot put,...". Clearly wrong? 92.40.179.51 (talk) 17:26, 23 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article starts with shot put
Category talk:Politics of the United States

message: This category needs to be split into the present titled category and a separate "Government of the U.S."  I never liked the idea of using "politics" as a descriptive blanket term for official government institutions, and especially now that articles on clearly political subjects such as Reaganomics and Culture Wars are being included in it, the topic needs to be split to end the equivocation.  If there is no disagreement, I will start the move soon.  A less important issue, but I also think that this category should be renamed to "politics in the U.S.", because it appears that with the government articles split off, it would then be a category for the conduct of politics within the United States, as opposed to the government of the U.S.  Postdlf 23:37, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Tropical and subtropical moist broadleaf forests

message: The graphic that shows where in the Holdridge Life Zone classification this biome lies could be improper synthesis of sources. As far as I can tell, this biome was defined by the WWF. What sources do we have that shows that this biome maps to the area shown in the Holdridge diagram? If there are other definitions of the biome, adding material and references to the article are more than welcome! —hike395 (talk) 14:59, 17 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Holdridge life zone graphic?

message: I undid 's undiscussed page move. I don't believe it's correct, per sources. Guettarda (talk) 13:10, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page move
Talk:Donovan Bailey

message: It seems that Maurice Greene holds the current 100m record, achieving 9.79 seconds at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, clearly defeating Bailey's 1996 record.:)
—
In fact, Green set that record at a meet in Athens in 1999, he ran 9.87 to win the gold medal in Sydney. Bailey is still the Olympic record holder in the event.
And Jamaica's Asafa Powell and America's Justin Gatlin co-hold the world record at 9.77.
--Johnny Canuck 04:16, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  100m record 

message: Someone vandalized this page and wrote that Bailey moved to Canada at age 12. Administrators if this keeps happening please take the necessary measures to prevent it.--190.10.76.226 (talk) 17:33, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

message: I heard rumors that donovan baily is married and has children. Does anyone know whether that is true or not?
99.238.83.174 (talk) 01:31, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Check out www.donovanbailey.com - says he has two kids.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 131.111.200.200 (talk) 01:44, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Family 

message: I don't see any sources listed for this information. It should either be sourced or removed. 99.242.184.42 (talk) 03:10, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken bone in foot 

message: Where did Donovan Bailey go to secondary school 2001:1970:4C57:F000:5858:64CA:9514:7D53 (talk) 03:47, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Donovan Bailey
Talk:Millennium Group

message: For an August 2004 deletion debate over this page see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Millennium Group
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This article is great and really fascinating! -- 66.2.146.89 20:12, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I cleaned up a couple grammar mistakes, but this article needs a lot of work. It's full of sentence fragments, they style is juvenile, and it needs to cite sources. I barely watched Millenium so I don't know where to go for the sources. thx1138 05:20, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs a lot of work 

message: It's a while since I saw the show, but I think some episodes (e.g. The Hand of Saint Sebastian) as well as some of the episodes in the end of the second series and some third series episodes hinted that the Grouop has Gnostic origins. Autarch (talk) 20:46, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Gnostic references

message: While the Millennium group used an Ouroboros as their logo, it looked nothing like this one, with a much simpler design. Can we use a shot from the show itself? 2620:117:C080:520:5E26:AFF:FEFE:6AF8 (talk) 13:50, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image Needs Replacing
Talk:1990 NHL entry draft

message: Perhaps I'm confused, but wouldn't this be a primary source document, and thus not belong in wikipedia? -Rcsheets 01:37, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Correct me if I'm wrong, but the 1990 draft was held in BC Place Stadium (football stadium), not the Pacific Coliseum, where the Canucks played. J21 19:18, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  BC Place, not Pacific Coliseum 

message: Multiple players in the first round have a † next to their name, but there is no legend available noting what that means  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.128.214.98 (talk) 16:45, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  What does the † mean? 

message: *Chris Longo (ice hockey) - 2
*Robert Guillet (wikidata:Q1303458) - 1
*Mike Bodnarchuk - 2
*Randy Pearce - 2
*Petr Kuchyna (wikidata:Q17138348) - 1
*Jeff Parrott (ice hockey) - 2
*Claude Barthe - 3
*Kurtis Miller - 2
*Daniel Jardemyr - 1
*Henrik Andersson (ice hockey) - 1
*Roman Mejzlik (wikidata:Q22668784) - 1
*Pat Mazzoli (wikidata:Q46112096) - 6
*Troy Neumeier - 2
*Patrik Ross (wikidata:Q6080606) - 1
*Mike Boback - 1
*Petr Korinek (wikidata:Q8432639) - 1
*Scott Malone (ice hockey) - 1
*Brett Lievers (wikidata:Q11854605) - 1
*Sergei Selyanin (wikidata:Q24352793) - 1
*Sami Nuutinen (wikidata:Q42901777) - 1
*Sergei Martinyuk - 1
*Brad Rubachuk (wikidata:Q2923421) - 2
Note: Articles must also meet WP:GNG. --75.88.89.194 (talk) 04:05, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  These redlinked draft picks meet [[WP:NHOCKEY]] 
Category talk:Gay villages

message: Park Slope? Really? I mean, I suppose there's a disproportionately lesbian population, but I think of it as more Yuppie than gay. ♥ «Charles A. L.» 01:47, Aug 26, 2004 (UTC)
Vancouver's West End and Davie Village are redundant. Davie Village is within the West End.--Westendgirl 05:37, 18 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Shouldn't the Andersonville neighborhood of Chicago be added to the list of Gay villages?
This should definately have Kemp Town in Brighton, Hebden Bridge in Yorkshire and the Merchant City in Glasgow.  Could someone add these please?  I'm not sure how.  86.1.199.36 17:42, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gay Villages, Andersonville neighborhood in Chicago 

message: I think that Homo Hill in the neighborhood of Itaewon should be listed.  Homo Hill has an enclave of 6 gay bars on one block and there are more scattered thruought the neighborhood.  In a country that sees homosexuality as a myth, in the year 2006 thier "Oscar" winning movie was about a past king who fell in love with a male jester (King and the Clown).  Please see http://www.utopia-asia.com/korseoul.htm to verify my information.  I do not know how to add, therefore am beseeching a seasoned Wiki to help add this wonderful place for gay men and women to socialize.
this is stupid. you shouldn't label a place as "gay" just for the fact that people with that sexual orientation lives there. according to you, then the other places are "straight villages?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.139.98.139 (talk) 04:33, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gay Villages, Seoul, South Korea
Talk:Robert Cecil 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood

message: The note at the bottom of this article is causing me a bit of concern:
:(To cite this document, always state the source as 'From Nobel Lectures, Peace 1926-1950, Editor Frederick W. Haberman, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1972.')
So the text of this article is from that book, that much I understand. So is that note copied from the book as well? In other words, does that book say that you can use segments of it as long as you credit the book? Does that work with the GNUFDL?  Under the Wikipedia's GNUFDL license, anyone can come in here and remove that notice from the article (hence the note at the bottom of the edit page about "If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly"). Furthermore, anyone can reproduce this article as long as they cite Wikipedia, they don't necesarily have to cite Elsevier Publishing Company as well. Anyone granting permission to put their copyrighted work in the Wikipedia has to agree to the GNUFDL, otherwise the Wikipedia couldn't be reproduced freely. I don't think that permission can include extra restrictions that aren't in the GNUFDL. Maybe I just misunderstand what that note means. - Eisnel 01:51, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Whistling duck

message: Is Dendrocygninae really a subfamily? I think that is a family (Dendrocygnidae). Results of Google search:
"Dendrocygninae" = 1.680 hits
"Dendrocygnidae" = 8.750 hits
Mario and Dario 12:47, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dendrocygnidae 

message: Move done as requested. Fences&Windows 17:36, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Dendrocygninae →  — Request move to most frequent, and unambiguous, common name. If this page should go at a scientific name, it should be at the genus Dendrocygna, per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (fauna). Relisted. Arbitrarily0 (talk) 19:50, 15 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 

message: Why the name? Do they whistle?89.80.194.201 (talk) 11:44, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology?
Talk:Robert Forster

message: Your sourcing seems weak for BLP. New York Times apparently provided no independent verification of the statement made by a "longtime friend of Mr. Forster who handled his publicity." But I'm not a BLP expert so I'll leave that to you and others. 
If accepted, the name change needs to be addressed below the lead, and we're currently showing that his father's name was Forster, an obvious error if Jr. was born Foster. But I don't care enough to resolve these things myself, I just dropped by when I saw the headline and wanted to check his picture to see if it's who I thought it was (it was). ―Mandruss ☎ 08:07, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I found a number of places in searches for it, which all seemed to corroborate that story, and which predate the obituary, but they're not in the same "class" as NYT (for instance IMDb, TV Guide's Bio , Encyclopedia.com , etc. Given that it's (a) believable since it happens all the time, (b) widely mentioned outside of the context of the current events, (c) sourced by a reputable news outlet from someone who should be credible and have no reason to lie on this point (his established publicist), I think it should stand. It's possible someone may want to dig deeper to build a below-the-lede paragraph explaining the name-change, but it doesn't seem all *that* worthy of analysis, IMHO. I, too, only came here for much the same reasons as you and got sucked into the vortex of "is this data point real or not". LOL :-)  DBalling (talk) 08:53, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name change 

message: You have his full name twice at the beginning of the article where you could 
just say "Robert Forster" at the beginning.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.237.64.88 (talk) 01:58, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Full Name
Talk:Ashmyany

message: http://www.polishroots.org/slownik/oszmiana.htm was full of lots of good historical information, but as I don't know very much about the area and the general history, I quickly became lost.  We need someone to "translate" to make this a pretty decent article.
lunaverse 02:35, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Magic (Discworld)

message: I'm sure there was a female wizard in the Colour of Magic. Didn't she command that flying disc with the hydrophobes on? Had some powerful magical artefact, too (a staff maybe?), and actually knew that Rincewind was completely incompetent. Haven't read it in a while... Vimescarrot 21:56, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Female wizards 

message: I personally think that this article can use more ... commentary regarding the "real world", i.e. why Terry Pratchett as an author chose to do something, as opposed to the "in-world" rationale for why something happens; apart from anything else, I notice there's no reference of any kind to the fact that Terry Pratchett didn't want magic to become a deus ex machina of "A wizard did it" proportions, which I'm pretty sure was one of his reasons for making, say, the "law of Conservation of Reality". --Yar Kramer 00:27, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Real world" discussion 

message: There is some duplication here. I think this article should be split into two; the bits dealing with intrinsic magic and the power of belief really belong in Discworld (world)#magic, while this article's main focus, the different types of magic users, should be its main topic. Serendipodous 10:28, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Duplication
Talk:Voorhees Township, New Jersey

message: It's good to flesh out the history, but these additions are lifted verbatim from the history page on the official Voorhees web site without attribution to the site or the author.  Under Wikipedia policy this content can't be here without permission.  It's also longer than the recommended 32Kb limit.  Best to link directly to the page, or maybe put it on a separate page if the township is willing to release it.  Since Wiki would provide a wider audience, maybe they would.  ishu 03:43, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Unattributed History
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Numbers/Archive 1

message: I wish to make you all aware of a disturbing trend. The militant deletionist User:Eloquence, upset that the vote on the number pages didn't quite go his way, has sent several users, (User:Guillman, User:Cimon avaro, myself among others) form letters insinuating that they didn't think their votes all the way through and urging them to reconsider their votes. I should never have to tell anyone that I thought my vote thoroughly and that I take it seriously; that should be implicit. The vote has taken place and the issue needs to be brought to closure and relegated to archive talk pages. Correct information will never hurt Wikipedia's reputation. Militant deletionists will.
You are doing an excellent job creating a resource that is intuitive, entertaining and highly useful. Thanks to the number pages on 1 to 101 I have made myself simple mnemonics for phone numbers and my bank PIN numbers. Del arte 13:36, 27 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: They don't like the way the vote goes, so they insinuate the people didn't think their votes through. Simply apalling. PrimeFan 16:47, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deletionists' Lobbying 

message: I've added multiplication dots (·) in the 200 and 300 pages where there were only spaces, but suddenly I realised that no everyone might consider this an improvement. Is there any chosen standard about that ? Should we write :
15 = 3 5 (that which existed before my change)
15 = 3x5 (obviously not)
15 = 3·5 (that which exists after my change)
15 = 3 · 5 (as seen on another page)
Anything else ?
I'd also like to ask, shall we write :
8 = 2^3 (current way of doing it)
8 = 23 (seems to look better)
I hope it's the right place to talk about that.
slord 13:36, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Those items you added dots to are very short stubs, intentionally so. Once someone decides there's enough information on a particular stub to make a full article, then every care should be taken to adhere to the template. But otherwise, I wouldn't worry about it. PrimeFan 22:08, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, thank you for the tip. The template isn't clear about the notation to be used in the factorisation line. Maybe the multiplication and exponent questions remain interesting for that template, then. slord 19:24, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notation standards 

message: The page on the number 1729 is now unprotected, but I don't know for how long. I took advantage of this window to add that 1729 is a Zeisel number and also to add the links to the Spanish and Italian articles on the number. I also want to add that handy number bar to the Docuan table, but I don't know which one is appropriate here. PrimeFan 17:08, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  1729 is now unprotected
Talk:Sukerchakia Misl

message: The buildings and their tombs 47.9.76.157 (talk) 16:13, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  About their construction
Talk:Maza, North Dakota

message: A city with 5 people? RedWolf 05:44, Aug 26, 2004 (UTC)
:City can mean any incorporated community.  Legally speaking Pedant
::Since its incorporated, article is now tagged with WP:CITIES -- Hdt83  Chat 06:37, 21 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: City?
Talk:Mariner 2

message: There are several places in the article where non-standard units are used.  For example, the bare symbol 'μ' is used for microns (i.e., micrometers), where SI 'μm' is correct.  A notation 'γ' (identified as "10-5 gauss") is used, rather than the SI nanotesla (nT).  The energy unit "Kev" should be written "keV" (for "kilo-electron volt").
As I have not contributed to Wikipedia before, I don't feel comfortable editing the article text directly, without some feedback from the original author or editorial group.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kelseymh (talk • contribs) 05:49, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of standard units 

message: The first paragraph of this section regarding scientific observations states that, "The scans with the 19 mm band revealed peak temperatures of 490°K ± 11°C on the dark side, 595°K ± 12°C near the terminator, and 511°K ± 14°C on the light side."  However, we know today that the mean surface temperature on Venus is 464°C.  Therefore, the temperatures being reported in the article are incorrect and need to be revised to degrees Celsius and not degrees Kelvin. - C. Remley, August 27, 2013.
:Oops; for some reason I want to associate all the Mariner flights with Mars, though some went to Venus. Mea culpa. JustinTime55 (talk) 15:32, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Results - Scientific Observations 

message: Using a lot of verbiage I developed for Mariner 1, this article is now a B class. Eventually, I will get it to GA and maybe even FA, which it deserves. But not today... --Neopeius (talk) 03:23, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Got it to B class! 

message: https://www.si.edu/object/engineering-model-mariner-2:nasm_A19760027000
©Geni (talk) 16:17, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: uploaded, thanks! Artem.G (talk) 19:30, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Smithsonian has some good CC0 photos of the engineering model
Talk:Scientific American

message: The magazine industry is collapsing. National Geographic no longer employs any writers.  What are the current circulation figures for SA?  How do they compare with peak? Impact figures?  Staff numbers?  Page numbers?
And at the same time, WTF? Three paragraphs on a staffing controversy at an associated blog site? Anybody adding actually useful content is welcome to cut that cruft as well. 124.187.219.128 (talk) 04:38, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Circulation?
Talk:Monument to the People's Heroes

message: (68.33.100.92 (talk) 23:36, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: The monument has a estimated height of 37.94 metres
Estimation? Just 6 cm short of 38 meters? Seems ridiculous. 85.217.40.65 (talk) 06:05, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Height
Talk:1944 Summer Olympics

message: Should this page be used to talk about the "Olympics" held by the prisoners held in Woldenberg, a Polish POW camp, or would there be a better page for it? Rascalb 07:07, Aug 26, 2004 (UTC)
Also, the link for the source of this, is dead, if anyone could find another one.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.73.27.151 (talk) 01:23, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Woldenberg Olympics

message: * We need expansion on the Lausanne events 132.205.45.110 20:54, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Lausanne Olympics

message: The article says that the 1948 games were awarded to London "without election".  However, the 
page for the 1948 Summer Olympics says that there was indeed a (postal) election, and that
London beat out several other cities, mostly in the United States.  The citation given on the
other page is the IOC's official website, and it lists 5 other "candidate cities".
What's the true story? Molinari (talk) 19:23, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: "Awarded without election"
Talk:Christopher Hitchens

message: *British-American British and American. Per MOS:NATIONALITY "The opening paragraph should usually provide context for that which made the person notable. In most modern-day cases, this will be the country, region, or territory where the person is currently a national or permanent resident; or, if the person is notable mainly for past events, where the person was such when they became notable". It is clear that the place where Hitchens was a permanent resident when he passed was the United States, however his notability is sufficiently established by events prior to him becoming a US permanent resident. As such I think we need to acknowledge both. Notably Hitchens was a dual citizen of both Britain and the US. TarnishedPathtalk 08:27, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey