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Talk:Openlaw

message: Is the Design Science License ( which this article is released under, see  ) compatible with the GFDL? -- 213.66.62.xxx
:I contacted the author, Graham Lawton, with a link to this page and his email suggested that it was ok - "Good." Having written about Wikipedia in the article presumably he knows the implications of the license. (Comment made by 62.252.160.xxx 16:51, February 25, 2002. Attributed by Ben  T/C  17:07, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I couldn't locate the copyleft information that the link in the article referred to. Ben  T/C  17:07, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyleft?
Talk:Anorexia nervosa

message: Three students (including @kgt11 & @VelenWu) will be building out the redlinked article "Atypical Anorexia" as part of a Georgetown WikiEdu course over the next 3-4 weeks.
: What is the status of that project? I am interested in contributing to it. Darcyisverycute (talk) 09:14, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Student Editors for New Atypical Anorexia Page 

message: — Assignment last updated by Savannaj13 (talk) 03:10, 19 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Psychology Capstone

message: — Assignment last updated by Snqadri (talk) 01:59, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Psychology Capstone

message: May I suggest that it is not good writing to use abbreviations like AN in an article for a general audience like Wikipedia? This bad habit is found in scientific journal articles, and is best thought of as jargon (and undesirable) in even that writing genre. When publishing in a biology journal, it makes sense to shorten deoxyribonucleic acid to dna - every reader knows the polysyllabic word, and dna has a long history of use. Here, the average Wiki reader thinks in terms of 'anorexia,' and has never seen 'AN' before. 'AN' makes the reader stop and think 'what the heck is that?' before clicking that it's an abbreviation. And AN doesn't even have the saving grace of dna once had that it saved characters back when authors were charged by the character to publish their articles. To sum up, if you mean anorexia - or anorexia nervosa - you should say so. There is no possible benefit to the writer or reader to abbreviate (unless it's the pleasure of the writer to show that he/she knows the insider jargon). Plain, explicit language is always best. 
MarkinBoston (talk) 22:14, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia's Manual of Style does not forbid such abbreviations as long as the abbreviation is defined earlier in the article. That's quite common in most styles. In this case, I added it to the first sentence. That's sufficient. That being said, there's nothing stopping you from spelling it out when you see it, as long as it doesn't create clunky sentences. Sundayclose (talk) 23:15, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abbreviation disease 

message: Not all medical definitions agree on whether or not the trouble can be present at any weight.
The Mayo Clinic gives this definition:
Anorexia (an-o-REK-see-uh) nervosa — often simply called anorexia — is an eating disorder characterized by an abnormally low body weight, an intense fear of gaining weight and a distorted perception of weight.
Medline Plus:
Anorexia is an eating disorder that causes people to weigh less than is considered healthy for their age and height, usually by excessive weight loss.
So let's not assert on the Wiki page that the definition doesn't necessarily relate to actual weight. This is just objectively false. Some definitions do, not all of them, there is not a consensus. Jeanvaljean001 (talk) 20:11, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition
Talk:Civil and political rights

message: The lead currently states: "Civil and political rights are a class of rights" linking to Rights. Would instead human rights make for a better link? Are civil and political rights human rights or just rights?--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 11:46, 7 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I've long been kind of unclear on why exactly wikipedia has separate articles on Rights and Human rights. The latter are obviously a subset of the former but also clearly the largest subset of the former; only animal rights would be non-human rights. So it seems like for the most part the contents should be identical, but obviously they are not, and I've never really been sure what to do about that. --Pfhorrest (talk) 09:46, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rights or human rights? 

message: I'm confused as to why these aren't separate articles? Why are they conflated in this manner? DN (talk) 00:44, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Rights are sometimes divided into two different groups: the group of civil and political rights, and the group of economic, social, and cultural rights. See for example the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the  International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, which form complementary parts of the  International Bill of Human Rights. Wikipedia's articles are structured to follow that convention. --Pfhorrest (talk) 09:43, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Difference between civil & political rights? 

message: "These organizations serve a variety of causes one being the AFL–CIO," - I don't see how the previously mentioned organisations can be said to serve the cause of the AFL-CIO. Masonmilan (talk) 15:55, 18 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: True. Could it be that two sentences got combined by accident? Maybe they were trying to say: "Another one being the AFL–CIO, which is America's union that represents the working-class people nationwide. These organizations serve a variety of causes." 23impartial (talk) 18:22, 5 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Civil and political rights organizations
Talk:Biological anthropology

message: You may find it helpful while reading or editing articles to look at a bibliography of  Anthropology and Human Biology Citations, posted for the use of all Wikipedians who have occasion to edit articles on human genetics and related issues. I happen to have circulating access to a huge academic research library system at a university with an active research program in these issues (and to other academic libraries in the same large metropolitan area) and have been researching these issues sporadically since 1989. You are welcome to use these citations for your own research. You can help other Wikipedians by  suggesting new sources through comments on that page. It will be extremely helpful for articles on human genetics to edit them according to the  Wikipedia standards for reliable sources for medicine-related articles, as it is important to get these issues as well verified as possible. -- WeijiBaikeBianji (talk, how I edit) 17:51, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations list useful for updating this article and related articles 

message: I can't help feeling that Phrenology should probably be listed here - regardless of what it actually is as a discipline. Measuring the skull and expecting to find accompanying intellectual or cultural traits seems pretty linked to Physical Anthropology to me... —Brigade Piron (talk) 08:10, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Phrenology 

message: I'm pretty sure that's a big NPOV. Otherwise we should call the "out of Africa" theory scientific racism as well. Hamstergamer (talk) 20:05, 25 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Belief in a European origin of humans is "scientific racism"? 

message: Does anyone object to adding Forensic anthropology under branches or does anyone propose a better alternative for placement?
Anthropology has it listed under 'Key topics by field: archaeological and biological' so I feel like it should also be mentioned here.Kuiet (talk) 23:37, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Go for it. Boneyard90 (talk) 05:58, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding Forensic anthropology 

message: I have found a website about biological anthropology (The Society for Nordish Physical Anthropology), but I do not know whether Wikipedia will accept it. תיל"ם (talk) 14:02, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  External link
Talk:Fiestas Patrias (Mexico)

message: "Dolores" means "sorrows": I'm putting that in the translation. Vicki Rosenzweig
Actually, dolores means "pains," in a very general sort of way, and it refers to the Virgen de los Dolores, the Virgin Mary in her role as the grieving mother, because she's the patron saint of the town of Dolores, where the Grito was done. (Because of the double meaning, there are a lot of —generally bad— puns on the phrase El Grito de Dolores, making fun of the roaring indigestion and hangover on the morning after the celebrations).
Anyway, I originally edited this entry because one of my pet peeves is that non-Mexicans think that the celebration of La Batalla de Puebla (a.k.a. Cinco de Mayo) is the most important Mexican national holiday. Here it only rates a day off work and a token military parade downtown, while El Grito is a smashing 16-hour party all around the country.
Then, for completeness, I dug up the official list of national holidays and put them in. NOTE: I did not include religious holidays because they're not fiestas patrias. So if anyone wants to add Easter Week, the day of the Virgen de Guadalupe, or Christmas, then the entry would have to be changed to "Mexican Holidays." mzamora
The page title seems completely inaccurate to me, and this is confirmed by the interwiki links, which both link to Mexican holidays. If the page's about that, why not rename it accordingly? Chilean holidays seem out of place here, altough they surely deserve their own page... as much as every (Spanish-speaking) country's. Amorim Parga 01:52, 7 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments
Talk:Baltic

message: A popular mistake I have run into is people confusing "Balkan" and "Baltic". Would it be appropriate to make a note on the disambiguation page in this regard? I was just going to add the clarification but then thought I'd first solicit some editorial opinions. —PētersV (talk) 23:47, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  versus... 

message: This information is already a section on the 'Baltic' dab. Does anyone else think this is therefore unnecessary? Boleyn3 (talk) 20:32, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge

message: :Baltic → Baltic (disambiguation) — To allow "Baltic" to redirect to the obvious primary topic, Baltic Sea. The Sea is the intended target of most of the existing links to "Baltic" (hopefully all of them now, since I've just done a cleanup job on the others). Kotniski (talk) 14:43, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: But "Baltic" or "the Baltic" always refers to the sea. If you want to refer to the states or the languages, you say "the Baltic states" or "the Baltic languages" or some such phrase. We're talking about the primary usage of "Baltic" on its own, not about phrases containing Baltic. If Baltic is left as a dab page, then we're going to have to keep correcting the links that people make, assuming (hardly unreasonably) that Baltic points to an article about the sea.--Kotniski (talk) 07:02, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: For the record, I have no problem with The Baltic pointing to the sea article. Jafeluv (talk) 09:28, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested move
Talk:Weregild

message: I guess every culture had similar custom: Slavs had "glowczyzna" (glowa == head) which was much the same. Should that be reflected in article? szopen
I've mentioned and linked it. Now all it needs is an article on glowczyzna :-). sjc
I don't think German Wehr is related.  I'd guess that this is related to Eng. war, cognate to Romance guerra, etc.--Fitzaubrey 04:30, 28 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree - the "were" more closely corresponds with "wer", or 'who' in modern German, and geld orginally meant "worth", not "money". In modern German you have the phrase "er gilt" which means "he is worth" or "he counts for" that I think is more closely related. Elle121 02:34, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: While I understand that women had a weregild it seems to me like the etymology meant "male person." Were didn't mean man as in person, because they had the word "man." It meant male. Weremen were male persons and wyfmen were female persons, if I remember rightly.75.73.32.46 (talk) 16:22, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

text: Similar payments are required under Sharia law. Pustelnik (talk) 01:00, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: According to modern German, money is "Geld" and not "Gild". Shouldn't this article be renamed as Weregeld?
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Gauravjuvekar (talk) 14:05, 27 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename 

message: If a solidus is 4.5g of gold, then a wergild of 200S works out as £28800 today, which is a little over the current average UK wage.  Was the contemporary value comparable? (I.e. was the wergild for a common man roughly equivalent to the average annual earnings of the same)? I think this would be a useful statistic to include, if its known Iapetus (talk) 10:18, 7 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  What was the value of wergild in practical terms?
Talk:Figure eight knot

message: I think a knot theorist would say that a knot that looks like the figure eight is the trivial knot, ot the unknot. You just take a cirle and twist it in the middle and you have an eight, no? AxelBoldt
:That does confuse some people, sure.  But the figure-eight knot isn't defined as "a knot that looks like the figure eight".  And if you take a look at the Figure-eight knot, you'll see that it indeed looks like a figure eight--with a band passed through one of the loops to prevent untwisting it into the unknot. 35.11.50.219 22:37, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trivial knot
Talk:Flare

message: I have removed the military POV of this article, maybe that will remove some objections.  The Hokkaido Crow 17:33, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed military POV 

message: I saw this new stub and i was pretty sure that distress rockets were the same as flares.  Also the story about the titanic seems not correct. Thanks Leah (talk) 17:19, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: distress rockets are not same as flares, to that's a no to the merge--mrg3105 (comms) ♠♥♦♣ 00:19, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Distress rockets are a subset of flares, and this article doesn't adequately cover them. However the real problem with Distress rockets is that it is vague, unsourced and in some cases simply wrong (for example, the story about the Titanic). I'd suggest we write a section on this page regarding distress rockets (essentially, flares capable of being fired into the air), then redirect, rather than merge, the other page. Euryalus (talk) 04:53, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Merging distress rockets into flares

message: Why have military use included when there is a separate article on countermeasure flares?  --THE FOUNDERS INTENT TALK 12:28, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Duplication

message: Do somebody know when the supporters started to use flares to build up the atmosphere? I think the ultras in Italy was first but when did they start? -- Lindberg47 (talk) 11:37, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of flares in football games? 

message: The flare kit I bought included pistol with a white flare for practice and five red flares, and two hand-held red flares for use when rescuers are closing in. Instructions for disposal of out-of-date flares included firing the flares horizontal across water under circumstances that precluded mistaking the firing as a distress signal (vertical firing of red flare). How much detail is too much for the article? Naaman Brown (talk) 14:04, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maritime distress signal 

message: * Support changing flare (pyrotechnic) to primary article: As per discussion below. Samwalton9 (talk) 16:17, 11 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey
Talk:Real Madrid CF

message: Change "35 La Liga titles" to "36 La Liga titles." 103.29.124.126 (talk) 18:40, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Kante4 (talk) 19:20, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 4 May 2024 

message: In the third paragraph of the article (the lead), please fix the following link: change  to  This would be a link fix, thank you! 2603:8080:B8F0:5360:E051:B69D:2F31:F768 (talk) 03:42, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Jamedeus (talk) 04:26, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 8 May 2024 

message: update to UCL trophies from 14 to 15
Real Madrid have won a record 32 trophies: a record 15 European Cup/UEFA Champions League titles, a joint record five UEFA Super Cups, two UEFA Cups, Danikhan632 (talk) 20:52, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: When the game is over. Kante4 (talk) 20:53, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 1 June 2024 

message: Request to fix a spelling mistake in the rivalries section.
Millionarios to Millonarios.
“while playing for Los Millionarios in Bogotá, Colombia, during a players' strike in his native Argentina. Soon after Millonarios' return to Colombia“ AdamantReverie (talk) 02:30, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: User:CanonNi (talk • contribs) 02:46, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 2 June 2024 

message: I think it should be mentioned that not all football fans/pundits consider Madrid's UCLs to be legitimate. In fact, most serious football supporters don't view this satanic institution as a legitimate institution at all. CalfRaiser150 (talk) 08:43, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Illegitimate UCLs 

message: Kylian Mbappé contracts with Paris SG until June 30, 2024. Although there has been an official statement, he will not officially be a Real Madrid player until July 1. 213.143.49.6 (talk) 19:43, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: The kit number is not official too. 213.143.49.6 (talk) 19:44, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kylian Mbappé
Talk:Tobacco

message: I question the edit of even date by "2601:2c4:c700:4f37:3d68:bbee:7c4:5084" to replace "thousand million" with "billion".  It is not a typo; it is explicit usage.  "Billion" unfortunately is consistent with usage throughout the article, but it is ambiguous: In North America 1 billion is one thousand million, but in most of the rest of the English-speaking world it is not:  1 billion = one million million.  "One thousand million" is unambiguous.  I am not going to revert the edit, as "billion" is used passim in this article (presumably in the American sense) and I am certainly not about to change the whole article, especially as I suspect this ambiguity is very widespread in WP; but I wanted to make the point that not all WP users are North American and will interpret "billion" differently.  en.wikipedia allows both American and Received English spelling and other usages; I would recommend the Received English usage wherever possible ("one thousand million") because it is unambiguous and can be understood by all. It may also help avoid errors in translation, e.g. French milliard vs. billion. D Anthony Patriarche (talk) 21:18, 9 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Billion Usage 

message: I came here to learn about the health effects of tobacco consumption. Why isn't there a section on that? nhinchey (talk) 03:08, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  health effects in humans section? 

message: I’m not even sure how to describe it… it’s like they just copied and pasted excerpts from a religious text, with zero citations or attributions, and no context. It’s a narrative about demons and enlightenment written in nonstandard English, with what appear to be prayers included? It does not seem like something that belongs in an informational article. 2600:1700:6D80:1B4F:7D0A:573F:B389:A954 (talk) 20:51, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mythology section is bizarre
Talk:List of English-language poets

message: It's like a sort of pre-shock.  Graeme adds a poet.  Put your hands on the desk.  Breathe normally.  Exhale.  Maybe he'll go away...
Bang!  Graeme deletes an external link to a web page that seems to have nothing to do with poetry.
BANG!  Graeme finds a poet listed twice.  Run for cover!  The big one is coming soon!
CRASH!  Graeme makes a change so big, so deep, and so tall that your mother will not like it; she will not like it at all!
I'm done, now.  You can all sit down.
--GraemeMcRae 00:16, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Run for cover!  Graeme is coming! 

message: Dead Links have been removed, if you wrote this article please add full articles for each new link, don't just list names where no information exists and please put dates with the names. Thanks WayneRay 19:09, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: cleanup

message: I will be removing the dead red links on the article page and placing them in here. PLEASE do not add a name unless you have written an article about the person, Thanks WayneRay 16:42, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Dead Red Links

message: Should this not be a category, rather than an article? MrMarmite 13:20, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category 

message: Please note there is a book illustrator Jim Burns born 1948 who is not the poet Jim burns born 1936 . A number of poet references have been linked to the wrong person. I have removed the wrong Jim burns link from this list, but there are probably lots of mistaken links. Sandpiper (talk) 11:06, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jim Burns 

message: This should be moved to "English-language poets". They are poets who wrote in the English language, not English poets. Likewise with any similarly titled pages. — 194.74.1.82 (talk) 16:49, 1 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page title 

message: Friends,
I find in this discussion that much has been said already regarding this article's relation to one about English poets; this article once was, it seems, titled as such, but that was rightly changed. The possibility of categorizing the poets in this list by nationality has apparently been discussed. But would the community look favorably upon a separate list-article for English poets, even with such an edition as that? There are lists already for American poets and Canadian poets; also, although the List of Portuguese-language poets is divided by nationality, there remains a separate list of Brazilian poets. Please let me know your thoughts on the matter.
Sincerely, 
Twozenhauer (talk) 01:36, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: English poets
Talk:National Guard (United States)

message: Are there rules for info-boxes for individual states? California, Texas, Navada, and Massachusetts all have detailed info-boxes for their National Guard. On the other hand, states like Utah, Alaska and, Rhode Island have short articles without any info-boxes. I attempted to add an info-box to the article on the Utah National Guard, but the edits were reverted. Also, many of the info-boxes are not the same and are unique. Is there a specific way in how infoboxes should be made? LuxembourgLover (talk) 01:06, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  States info-box
Wikipedia talk:MediaWiki (archive)

message: Sorry if this is the wrong place to bring this up. There appear to be a number of en.Wikipedia pages which are broken or uneditable. They are not protected, just the server never responds when the editor hits "save page". Friendly interactive shell and Sort (Unix) are two examples I've found, simply because they contain typos which cannot now be fixed. This appears to be a software bug; no matter where I edit from, these pages cannot be edited. Is this something the developers can fix? Firsfron of Ronchester 02:55, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Broken pages