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Talk:Infiltrometer

message: Infiltrometer is a trademarked term by a Canadian / American company named Retrotec.
:The article is about devices used to measure water infiltration into soil.  A Retrotec Infiltrometer is apparently a device for measuring air infiltration into building envelopes for fire protection design. Not sure where that leaves us.  Any clues? -- Paleorthid (talk) 03:27, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Trademark

message: The second "problem" has me completely mystified - I have no idea what this is referring to.  Rainfall is irrelevant to infiltrometer tests or analysis.  Suggest deleting this entirely. AlbionWood (talk) 00:58, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: 2nd problem was rainfall - addressed now with intext cite. -- Paleorthid (talk) 03:27, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Rainfall
Talk:Hydrophobic soil

message: There are two PDFs linked as references, but not referred to in the text. If anything came directly from the text, then it needs to be cited in the text. Also both PDFs are dead links, and I'm not sure if they are still available at a different link. Links should be available to make sure no plagiarism is taking place. Spongylumps (talk) 18:28, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Gas diffusion in soil

message: I have in the past sampled and analyzed soil gas for environmental monitoring purposes - Specifically for characterization of groundwater contamination by VOCs, to monitor decomposition products (or O2 uptake) from oxidation of hdyrocarbon fuel contamination, to evaluate the direction of solute phase transfer (gas-to-groundwater vs. groundwater-to-gas), to evaluate migration of biogas from buried waste or from soil contamination by fuels, and for assessmenet of the oxygen demand of sulfide mineral oxidation (Acid Rock Drainage).
At the risk of making this broader than just soil science, would these environmental areas of application be appropriate for inclusion?
65.204.131.66 01:21, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Field capacity

message: There is an important cultural story in the wide-scale rejection of use of a field or plot's field capacity in scheduling irrigation. In 2010, our collective awareness of our impacts to the environment, due in degrees of magnitude greater in agriculture than in any other societal enterprise, one can only make one wonder "why didn't they irrigate with greater precision?  A new study by the USGS estimates that 50% - 70% of the water applied to landscapes and farms is not beneficially used by the plants.  Additionally, nitrogen fertilizers are leached and rendered unavailable to the plants above, while often polluting the water tables and aquifers below. The 1938 Agricultural Yearbook (pg. 708) admonishes irrigators to know and use field capacity to time irrigation.  Soils & Men Yearbook of Agriculture 1938, USDA,.
Because determining the field capacities, which generally becomes a permanent field characteristic, take work, mankind has sought out short-cut methods for timing irrigation.  These methods utilize complex algorithms to calculate what balance of available water remains after the last irrigation. These methods possess sufficient error that they must be corrected periodically, re-set to an actual field-measured soil cmoisture content, then manually inserted in place of the "running water balance" which the model has predicted.  Many would argue, that if you must continually correct the model with ground-truth data, why bother to caluculate it at all?  It would be like calculating the fuel remaining in the gas tank instead of just measuring it directly. Fortunately, new, practical soil moisture monitoring technologies which transmit the data via wireless networks appears to be gaining some attention. That does not excuse the 70 years where probably fewer than 10% of the irrigation managers globally timed their irrigations with regard to soil moisture content, which is based upon field capacity.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.208.178.86 (talk) 23:18, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Water holding capacity (WHC) is redirected to this article. The problem is that WHC is used for more than soil, for instance WHC of snow and of meat. JohannaSorensen (talk) 09:01, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirection of water holding capacity
Talk:Capillary fringe

message: As I was expanding the references, I decided to temporarily organize by which of three definitions the reference adheres to]. Unsaturated capillary flow is very important to understanding salinization of soils, b/c sometimes capillary action delivers salts several feet vertically to accumulate evaporation on the soil surface. If you went by a saturated-only definition, the article might not appreciate that behavior in groundwater. Yet I can see how unsaturated capillary flow would not be at all important to a geologist for understanding groundwater flow, contamination, plumes and such. -- Paleorthid (talk) 23:46, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Definition
Talk:Visby lenses

message: The lenses were dated to the 10th century, but when where they found, and who found them? Where can they be seen now? How do we 'know' what they were for? ~Bengaley
On a funny note--did anyone else get the mental image of the stereotypical hairy scary Viking with a monocle? It popped into MY head, anyway... 142.157.62.144 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment was added at 22:01, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: What needs to be added

message: A lens with a focal length of 22 mm and F-number of 0.5 is practically useless for building a telescope, spherical aberration or not. It would do better as a burning glass, although for that purpose spherical aberration is irrelevant, diameter is everything (and 50 mm diameter is ok-ish, not great.)
The thing that these lenses would be good for, if indeed they are lenses, is as a "chart glass". That is, you lay it on a page of text and read a magnified view of the text. Good for reading fine print on nautical charts, and probably ok for reading books when your eyes are failing (but rather awkward compared to spectacles.)
On the other hand, so far as I am aware 12th century Vikings didn't have books ... -- 202.63.39.58 (talk) 17:33, 16 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  A small dose of cold water ... 

message: The second paragraph under "Description" mentions "an angular resolution of 25–30 μm", which is as self-evidently ridiculous as anything ever gets.  Angular resolution is measured in angular units and not linear ones (duh).  Maybe what's quoted is the spatial equivalent of angular resolution, but if so, then please also indicate where it is measured with respect to the lens.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.83.51.215 (talk) 17:38, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please correct the units 

message: These two pages contradict each other on the optical quality of the Visby lenses:  
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspheric_lens:  The Visby lenses...exhibit a wide variety of image qualities....
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visby_lenses:  (The lenses) are so well produced that even computer optimisation has not been able to improve their performance.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lriley47 (talk • contribs) 03:20, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction with another page
Talk:Craig Simpson

message: "During the 2006–2007 season Simpson was the recipient of the "Most Handsome Man in the NHL" award."
I don't remember anything about this.. can we get some sources?? Thanks
BAHHAHAA LMAO i know right? hes soo awsome!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.233.208.216 (talk) 01:55, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question about 'facts' 

message: There are no sources in Wikipedia about this event. Can anyone verify this 'fact'?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by AWDRacer (talk • contribs) 20:34, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: His separation from wife
Talk:LDAP Data Interchange Format

message: The article should discuss the two subformats providing examples of both.  Kdz 00:06, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  LDIF content v. change records 

message: Would someone of some authority in the LDIF standards community please provide specific instructions or a chart on how to handle non-alphanumeric characters (eg, ampersand, single quote, etc.). For example, Yahoo! still insists on encoding all ampersands as extended HTML characters (ie, "&" --> "&") which, of course, fails to decode properly when an LDIF-compliant application tries to read the file. They've been contacted several times over the years but apparently are unable to understand the technical nature of the problem. I routinely import my Yahoo! address list into Thunderbird and if we could just get this one issue defined clearly enough for them to understand and act accordingly, it would save me literally hours of editing each time. The problem has been compounded now that they have discovered Base64 encoding finally but it means I have to edit twice; once before importing and then again after importing to catch the errant translations in the data that were Base64 encoded. Thank you ever so much. JimScott (talk) 16:35, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  mis-handled non-alphanumeric characters 

message: The listed limitations seem to be a limitations of the tools processing the LDIF file and have nothing to do with the directory itself. For example, with Apache Directory Studio, the examples work fine with an OpenLDAP directory. This should be changed. Mudi2000 (talk) 10:14, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  LDIF limitations
Talk:Highsider

message: Isn't it called a highside, not a "highsider?"
:Yes it is.  Also it's "lowside", not "lowsider".  These two articles should be combined, since they are so closely related.
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The external link "James R. Davies. Dynamics of the 'Highsider'. Retrieved on 2007-01-13." seems outdated. The adress gets redirected and the target of the redirect doesn't
provide any useful information concerning the highside dynamics. I suggest to remove it.   Powerman77 (talk) 10:59, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: "slowly roll-on the throttle."
What does that mean? Its not self-explanatory.
Tabby (talk) 09:47, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Clarification

message: " If necessary, locking the front brake to deliberately cause a lowsider is recommended. "
I've never, ever heard this from any legitimate motorcycle safety source - the friction and braking coefficients of a sliding motorcycle vs one under braking are clearly in the favour of applying what braking force is possible to lower collision speeds.
This sounds a lot like the 'lay it down' advice wrongly circulated by many - the best way to avoid the crash is to stay in control all the time.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.11.171.7 (talk) 20:44, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: When you are about to highside, the transition from slide to grip is near instantaneous. Even the best riders in the world have difficulty with this, so the best advice is to have a good photographer standing by. In fact, if you aren't sure you can regain full control, it is best to continue with a lowside, and not fight it. No mention was made of the fact that if you do it right, then you can actually land UNDER the bike. That HURTS...:-D 82.6.1.85 (talk) 22:57, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:   If necessary, locking the front brake to deliberately cause a lowsider is recommended. 

message: "Forces occurring between the motorcycle and the road (such as accelerating, decelerating and turning) are transmitted by friction occurring at the contact patch. There is a limited amount of force that the contact patch can transmit before the tire begins to lose traction, and therefore slide/ skid."
Acceleration (or deceleration), and turning are not forces. They are changes in velocity, and they are caused by forces. Additionally, these forces are applied through both normal forces and friction. Finally, it may be better to say that the forces are applied to the vehicle through friction between the road and the tire at the tire's contact patch:
"Forces occurring between the motorcycle and the road (such as those that result in accelerating, decelerating and turning) occur at the contact patch through friction and normal forces. There is a limited amount of force tangential to the road that the contact patch can transmit before the tire begins to lose traction, and therefore slide/ skid."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.83.155.28 (talk) 20:26, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice, done, and feel free to make such changes yourself. -AndrewDressel (talk) 20:52, 9 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Forces
Talk:German submarine U-754

message: moved to Talk:List of U-boats to get more input--Chaser T 07:54, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  move? 

message: If the U-boat returned for a resupply on 2 Feb., wouldn't that mean the damage in March was during its second mission? 2605:59C8:2247:8310:9910:1B35:6EAC:D45A (talk) 18:29, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dates
Talk:WXCW

message: This entry forgets to mention that WTVK was a UPN Affliate from 1995-1997 before it being sold to Acme Television from Second Generation Ltd. I'll rewrite this later this week to reflect this. Tsubasa 00:17, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: WTVK in the 80s was an NBC affiliate assigned to Knoxville, TN on channel 26. A screenshot can be seen here. Windoze96 (talk) 03:20, 27 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Forgot to mention affilate
Talk:John Abele

message: Hello, per John Abele's request, I recently submitted the bio below on his behalf, however I see that it has been deleted. Please advise as to how to post this onto Wikipedia (he had read the bio previously on Wikipedia and wanted to replace it with the one below--please advise on the appropriate procedure to post): 
[copyvio redacted--Jezebel'sPonyobons mots 22:30, 3 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines

message: How do you feel about creating a new page "Proficiency"? I would like to be able to compare different ideas of language proficience, as they vary between European, US, and other standards, and do not feel that either the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages or the ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines pages would be sufficient. (Note: I am cross-posting this to several discussion pages, but would like responses on the ACTFL Proficienca Guidelines page) samwaltz 00:30, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: New Page: Proficiency

message: Sub-subdividisions are also made within one level, I believe.Kdammers (talk) 21:21, 16 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  subdivisions
Talk:Air Force Falcons football

message: How exactly is the USAFA football helmet the "second most recognizable helmet in the nation"? I have a hard time believing that one..... please show me some evidence or strike it. I got a crazy feeling that the bolt is probably somewhere closer to 100th most recognizable, somewhere between Texas Tech and Hofstra.
:No way. It's recognizable to a serious college football fan, but no way would it rate second. Any of the helmets that have the school's name on it (i.e. LSU, California, Illinois, etc.) is obviously more recognizable. Not to mention the Texas Longhorn, the Michigan stripes, USC's Trojan...Air Force is nowhere near the top. Jsc1973 (talk) 21:37, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Helmet

message: For what it's worth, the Academy's fight song is not "The Air Force Song" ("Off we go..."), although that is certainly the most recognizable song you hear at games, and may even be played more frequently than then the fight song for that reason.  The official fight song is entitled simply "Falcon Fight Song" and the lyrics start with "Fly, you Falcons, down the field; tear the enemy asunder...". - Tarfu92 17:12, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fight Song
Talk:Fistandantilus

message: This article is flawed does not correctly atribute Raistlin Majere as the true master of past and present.  Fistandantilus was slain when Raistlin Majere used a counterspell to reverse the effects of the Bloodstone on the day of the catyclysm (Time of the Twins).  Thus Raistlin actually assumed Fistandantilus' identity and all of what was attributed to Fistandanilus as Master of Past and present, subsequent to the cataclysm was really Raistlin Majere.  Raistlin sacrificed himself to the Dark Queen when is brother Caramon showed him what the world had become due hius war with the gods and his destruction of them to become the only god (Test of the Twins). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.83.131.47 (talk • contribs) .
:The alternate future is not the focus of the article, although it needs a mention for sure. -- ReyBrujo 00:47, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Flaw
Talk:The Format

message: I think the article should still be in "Is" tense, although i don't know about WP Music policies, these are links that deal with movies/tv articles:
*Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Television/Archive_4#Was_vs._Is
*Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Entertainment/2007_March_5#Is.2FWas
*Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (writing about fiction)/Archive 3#Tense
Peachey88 (Talk Page | Contribs) 07:59, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure how applicable those discussions are, since they refer to fictional works. In music articles, we tend to use the past tense once the band has broken up: See The Beatles, or (FA-class articles) The Supremes or Sly & the Family Stone. If we are describing their songs or albums, however, we would still use the present tense. --Paul Erik (talk)(contribs) 12:47, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Is vs Was
Talk:Album track

message: Some POV problems here; an analysis of the quality of 'album tracks' is highly subjective. One could argue the opposite opinion, that the singles off an album were designed for commercial value and not for quality. Crystallina 00:49, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps it would be better to say that the term "album track" is used as a euphemism for a below par song, which would make this a dictionary entry. Dancarney 10:40, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

text: I agree that this can be deleted, but not as a neologism (which it isn't), but as a dicdef. Fram 08:06, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Japanese aircraft carrier Zuihō

message: Originally posted at Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Requests, but noting here as it may not have been seen before archiving.
The article meets the B-class criteria, but any steps towards higher article classifications should probably include a meatier lead section, and (if possible) an overview of the quantity, mix, and type of aircraft usually embarked, in addition to or instead of the case-by-case information provided in the ship history. -- saberwyn 00:06, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comment following B-class assessment 

message: How did she navigate without any superstructure? --88.152.151.37 (talk) 02:56, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  No Island?
Talk:Kingswood House School

message: Start with an infobox...refs, pictures? Victuallers 21:54, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Assess

message: No rationale has been given for this proposed merge. A lack of references is no reason for a merge. This is an old school with a long history and ample references will be available so a merge would be inappropriate. Dahliarose (talk) 17:33, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I detest drive by merge tagging. Pointless and unjustifiable. Oppose. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 22:55, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge

message: The heads are undated, I know that Bill Thorne was head in the late 50s/early 60s. I know Malden was head in the early 50s. And I know there are heads missing. forenames or initials are also notably absent. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 09:07, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heads 
Talk:Biquinary

message: Who invented this? What is it used for? Who uses it? Where? Why? 74.99.167.47 09:58, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Abicus and several early computers. See Bi-quinary coded decimal. This page should be merged there.--agr 16:36, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've checked the content and found it's the same as Bi-quinary coded decimal.  I'll change this article to a redirect if nobody is against it.  Or, we may expand it to explain the general idea of biquinary, such as the abacus, banknotes and coins, and numerals in Wolof and Khmer, not only bi-quinary coded decimal. - TAKASUGI Shinji (talk) 00:54, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Konrad von Feuchtwangen

message: This article should be moved to Conrad of Feuchtwangen, or Konrad of Feuuchtwangen. It is common in English to translate the names of nobility, especially when concerning German names. Hence it's William II instead of Wilhelm II and Albert Frederick, Duke of Prussia instead of Herzog Albrecht Friedrich von Preußen.
The preposition "von" can easily be translated with the English "of" as these are (or originally were) titles, not surnames. Rex 15:50, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Move
Talk:DOD Electronics

message: Article is nothing more than a list.  Wordy McWordWord 01:02, 11 June 2006 (UTC)

message: I've been removing this material because:
*It is unsourced (see WP:V and WP:RS)
*It reads like original research (see WP:OR)
*It is "how-to" advice (see WP:NOT#HOWTO)
*Most of it (e.g. the inane details about the history of the serial numbers of one of the components) is way out-of-place for an encyclopaedia article.  It doesn't impart any useful info to the casual reader, nor even a fairly-involved reader.
As long as these concerns exist, I'll continue to remove this material. Oli Filth(talk) 15:06, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pot dating 

message: It's awfully odd that when talking about a company with as many products as DOD, there's some random paragraph about the Big Pig being some limited run (100 units only?) pedal that's supposed to be a nod to Dave Gilmour when the pedal was marketed as an extremely grungy distortion.  The information has absolutely no references and I wonder if it's bogus.  Anyone? 75.48.5.163 (talk) 07:11, 8 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Big Pig (FX70P) information?
Talk:Cyborg 009

message: 1. Make articles or sections which separate the storyline and characters of the original manga and its screen adaptations. In particular, the developments of the main characters in the 2001 anime (The Cyborg Soldier) have been oddly spliced and cobbled into the character profiles section, making it hard to tell which events were in Ishinomori's original story and which were Cyborg Soldier fabrications.
2. Expand, expand, expand. If there's anyone who can contribute things related to the '60s anime version, the '70s anime version, the movie Chō Ginga Densetsu... anything... step right up!
3. Changing the title picture for more truthful for the series' artstyle. The current realistic styled artwork doesn't portray the true artstyle of the mangas and animes, since this image has been used only in one poster in 1980s movie advertisement.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Yogosan (talk • contribs) 17:18, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestions 

message: In Making Comics (p226), comics theorist Scott McCloud draws a direct comparison between Cyborg 009 and Tezuka's Mighty Atom. He doesn't provide sources, but he claims that there's a clear Atom influence on 009, particularly visually. Worth mentioning? Kelvingreen 21:11, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Astro Boy/Mighty Atom 

message: Prove it, please... Seigi Choujin (talk) 01:30, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: 2008 Live Action film

message: Hi folks, I'm pretty sure the US release is more than what you refer to as the "first arc" here. They totally got into the Greek myth stuff and it goes up to the original ending where [spoilers]some main characters die.[/spoilers] US Tokyo Pop just never picked up with the retcon that undoes that original ending. The 10 volumes are not the same as the chapters listed here.
206.40.49.92 (talk) 22:48, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tokyo Pop US Manga Release 

message: Do you think Plot should be changed to Story? There basically the same thing. Galefuun (talk) 22:51, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name change