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Talk:Vehicle registration plates of Hong Kong

message: Have cars used in films or on commercial photographs special (illegal) numbers, not used on normal vehicles? I can remember of VC955 in a movie. -Toshi 11:21, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Hong Kong was a British colony. Were there different plates earlier on?49.178.124.124 (talk) 07:19, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  British 

message: FU and FV plates are not necessary cross border cars from China to Hong Kong.  Some registration marks issued around 1993 for local cars are also FU and FV.  My previous car, first registration in 1993, had an "FV" number, although it was 100% local.  I retained the number for 3 cars later, without any problem.  For cars from with their basic registration in China, since they cannot change the Hong Kong registration marks even they replace with a newer car, but local cars usually will retire their registration marks after scrapping.  That's why there are less and less local cars with "FU" or "FV" plates. Buhin (talk) 21:02, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  FU and FV plates
Talk:Probabilistic method

message: I removed the reference to the 1959 origins of the method because other examples came earlier, but I'm not sure when the actual origins are.  Some sources sited Erdos' 1947 paper, others Szele's hamiltonian cycle result.  Quite a few places seem to dodge the issue entirely (perhaps because the line between a "probabilistic" and a "counting" proof is so vague?
:A striking example, dating back to 1909, is the normal number theorem, due to Émile Borel, that could be one of the first examples of the probabilistic method, providing the first proof of existence of normal numbers, with the help of the first version of the strong law of large numbers. I am not convinced that the terminology should be limited to results in combinatorics (perhaps to the favourite topics of Erdös, including number theory). Chassain (talk)12:59, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: What is the connection of this article with this entitled "Probabilistic proofs of non-probabilistic theorems"?  Pierre de Lyon (talk) 16:00, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I would say this article is about probabilistic proofs in combinatorics, whereas the other article is a list of examples in other areas of mathematics. Charvest (talk) 19:05, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article [[Probabilistic proofs of non-probabilistic theorems]] 

message: In the title and definition you write only about probability. However, both examples use Expected value . Is it accidentally?  :ru:МетаСкептик12  — Preceding unsigned comment added by МетаСкептик12 (talk • contribs) 10:41, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Expected value ]]  

message: In the counting version of the first example there are {n \choose r} r-subgraphs and 2 "bad" colorings per r-subgraph but how can we conclude from this that: "the total number of colorings that are bad for some (at least one) subgraph is at most 2 {n \choose r}"? For any of these subgraphs and for any of its two "bad" colorings there are 2^{{n \choose 2}-{r \choose 2}} different colorings of the other edges. So shouldn't the upper bound of the total number of "bad" colorings be 2 {n \choose r} 2^{{n \choose 2}-{r \choose 2}}, instead?
If we use this upper bound instead of 2 {n \choose r}, a necessary condition for having at least one "good" coloring is that this upper bound is less than the total number of colorings: 2 {n \choose r} 2^{{n \choose 2}-{r \choose 2}} < 2^{n \choose 2}, that is, 2 {n \choose r} < 2^{r \choose 2}, which is the same as with the probabilistic method.
--Renaud Pacalet (talk) 09:44, 18 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Counting version of the first example
Talk:Anthony Wong

message: Anthony Wong, Born June 15, 1981 for second degree murder of Damian Burbaby. He surived three years in jail before being released due to not enough evidence in which a jury could place a full conviction.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Corrheag (talk • contribs) 18:35, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anthony Wong, Wrongfully Arrested 

message: See Metamizole - Dr Anthony Wong of the University of São Paulo, Brazil is referred to here making comments about metamizole, but i don't know if that makes him notable... Boud 16:52, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Dr Anthony Wong of the Univ of São Paulo
Talk:Unipolar induction

message: * http://www.geocities.com/terella1/
* http://mywebpages.comcast.net/Deneb/muller.htm
* http://www.physics.umd.edu/lecdem/outreach/QOTW/active/q218unipolar.pdf 
* http://www.distinti.com/docs/homopolar.pdf 
* http://www.andrijar.com/homavi/
* http://www.andrijar.com/homopolar/index.html  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.117.196.131 (talk) 00:04, 25 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links
Talk:Yamal (icebreaker)

message: Helicopters and zodiac boats are mentioned earlier the article and I found this picture of a Mi-2:
http://www.citycruisebreaks.com/arctic/north_pole/p-arctic12.jpg
And this of a Mi-8:
http://www.birdholidays.co.uk/images/images/NORTH%20POLE/Bell%20Island2184_RJ.JPG
Both types seem to have been based on the ship at different times.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.70.211.86 (talk) 21:04, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added information about vehicles carried on board. 
Talk:WITN-TV

message: Hello, Please do not add unreferenced names as entries to the list of former employees in articles. Including this type of material in articles does not abide by current consensus and its inclusion is strongly discouraged in our policies and guidelines. The rationales are as follows:
#WP:NOT tells us, Wikipedia is "not an indiscriminate collection of information."  As that section describes, just because something is true, doesn't necessarily mean the info belongs in Wikipedia.  
#As per WP:V, we cannot include information in Wikipedia that is not verifiable and sourced. 
# WP:Source list tells us that lists included within articles (including people's names) are subject to the same need for references as any other information in the article. 
#Per WP:BLP, we have to be especially careful about including un-sourced info about living persons.
If you look at articles about companies in general, you will not find mention of previous employees, except in those cases where the employee was particularly notable.  Even then, the information is not presented just as a list of names, but is incorporated into the text itself (for example, when a company's article talks about the policies a previous CEO had, or when they mention the discovery/invention of a former engineer/researcher). If a preexisting article is already in the encyclopedia for the person you want to add to a list, it's generally regarded as sufficient to support their inclusion in list material in another article.  cheers Deconstructhis (talk) 02:04, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding unreferenced entries of former employees to lists containing BLP material
Wikipedia talk:Charitableness

message: Heretofore, I have failed repeatedly at this. I call upon all and sundry to remind me when I fail, and to help me regain me feet when I stumble. -- Uncle Ed (talk) 13:01, Jun 19, 2005 (UTC)
heartwarming - Xed 17:41, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ed Poor, you shall not stumble - I know. --Bhadani 12:55, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Charity surely. Kittybrewster  ☎ 19:40, 15 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: No offense, but this guy Ed Poor confused decency with charitableness. I was actually looking up charitableness because I wanted to see if there was an article that explains why editors never help you when you leave a comment on a talk page, and leave it unanswered for months (possibly forever); and then I find this rubble (no wonder people fall in line to invoke other ethical standards and policy guidelines, and ignore this one!) I'm seriously going to take this up with an administrator; because this is ridiculous! Lighthead þ 04:10, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  What the hell was that?!
Talk:Culture of Sweden

message: On pages 121-122 of Herman's book (sorry I neglected to add those page numbers to the citation) we read about the "great pagan complex at Uppsala" as "the center of human sacrifice", where people joined in "the mass pagan rites". I suggest our article text quote him about that and then readers can interpret his words as they please. I cannot find the more precise wording right now where the old temple is specifically referred to as a place that drew people there and am willing to pass on that. "Mass" rights could hardly take place unless a lot more people came to Old Upsala than there were residing there then.
:Uppsala as a pagan center is a small part of the historical overview. There is no need to go into detail, when the aim should be to present a broad-strokes history of Swedish culture. The right article for details and nuanced presentations of differing views is Uppsala temple. There is no direct contradiction between the current article and Herman, in contrast with unfounded claims about it being the "main religious site of the Scandinavian peoples" and "a site of pilgrimage" which you tried to insert. 
:Andejons (talk) 14:22, 13 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: OK now. I didn't try to insert it, I did insert it & I still could find the exact source for it, but the current wording will do for now. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 01:19, 14 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Uppsala Temple

message: On the cited pages (69, 106 & 407-408, now removed again by incessant edit warring) Herman clearly defines the Nordic influence on the area mentioned. Those wordings too can be quoted. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 01:19, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Footprints in Kievan Rus area

message: Someone deleted my edit for no reason whatsoever just because I used sources that is up to date. Melledelle (talk) 09:02, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: You kind of contradict yourself there when you say "for no reason" and then allege a reason. Anyway, I reverted you because you used a source for one choir association to imply that they represent all choir singers in Sweden. Do you really think it has gone from 600,000 to 10,390 in less than 20 years? TylerBurden (talk) 09:23, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Choirs Question 

message: I believe that a photo of Swedish folk dancing is relevant & will restore one unless there is any constructive objection here. It should, however, not be at the top in the info box. --SergeWoodzing (talk) 01:56, 27 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Images
Talk:Oxwich Bay

message: In case anyone is wondering: 
* http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Article11732.htm
* http://www.cybergeography.org/atlas/cw_uk_network_large.gif
* http://www.iscpc.org/cabledb/atlan_page.htm
The last one is another splendid example of "Wales, England", but oh well. 
--Telsa 13:42, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources for the cables

message: Removed this sentence, which I can't turn into anything useful atm. It's POV, addresses the reader ("you can.."), and is generally much more a candidate for wikitravel than for here.   
"The Old Post Office inland on the road about a mile from the beach does good food, and has a craft shop where among other things, you can buy representations of the main buildings of LLaregub, which fit flat along a wall."
Telsa 08:04, 26 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed tourist info
Talk:2006 Georgia gubernatorial election

message: This article has been kept following this VFD debate. Sjakkalle (Check!) 13:43, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The official list of candidates, which is now final as qualifying ended on April 28, does not list Hayes, the libertarian candidate.  It seems clear he will not be on the ballot.  I have noted this in the article. Ataru 13:36, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Um, besides the fact that I didn't note this like I said I did, I think I'm wrong anyway, damn third party candates.  Hee hee!  Ataru 12:54, 30 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Candidates
Talk:Anthony Young (baseball)

message: This article has been kept following this VFD debate. Sjakkalle (Check!) 13:50, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Martin Scott (politician)

message: I'm not sure whether this deserves its own page, but I created it after turning Martin Scott into a disambiguation page. Will June 19, 2005
(government) tag should be changed to (Georgia Politician) to give a more accurate description. Natsmith9 (talk) 22:59, 7 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Dead Brain Cells

message: No AllMusic entry for this band.  Please provide citations:  what record label?  What years?  Geogre 14:06, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=27391832 Official Dead Brain Cells Community in Orkut
RJFJR 19:00, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:SABIC

message: 46.213.224.184 (talk) 21:48, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  I want to communicate with the director of SABIC for construction iron 

message: I want to communicate with the director of SABIC for construction iron 46.213.224.184 (talk) 21:50, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  I want to communicate with the director of SABIC for construction iron
Talk:The Best of Youth

message: Shouldn't 'La Meglio Gioventu' be the primary title for this article? Outside anglophone communities, not many people know it by the title 'the Best of Youth'
Ah, but this is an anglophone encyclopedia. Pelegius 22:00, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This note is to any wikipedians who saw this when it aired on Italian television. The current edit reads that this fine film (sorry POV I know) aired in four 90 minute episodes. Having just rewatched the film on DVD, and in looking for info about it on the web, I have a couple of observations which make me question this assertion. 
#As the run time in Italy is 400 minutes that would mean that a four part showing would be 100 minutes each, not 90.
#My viewing seemed to find a natural break in the storyline at, or around, the 60 and 120 minute mark on each disc. The best example being when Matteo has gotten on the train after the events with Giorgia and the next scene has Nicola in Norway. 
Now this is not hard evidence and there was a time variance from section to section (at least part of which may be due to losing 34 minutes from the original film) but I am posting this in the hope that any Italian, or Italian, speaking wikimembers who saw this in its original formmight stumble accross this question and make a correcting edit to the article. My thanks in advance to anyone who can clear this up for me.MarnetteD | Talk 20:39, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The film on Italian television 
Talk:Play-Yan

message: If the release is supposedly confirmed, then why is it in qoutes ('confirmed')? That makes it confusing. Either it's confirmed or not.Peter Tangney 18:34, 27 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Because although such a promise was made, it has yet to be fulfilled. --172.202.94.79 19:39, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confirmed? 

message: I don't know about the Play-Yan, but the Nintendo MP3 Player released in the UK is an awful, awful, awful piece of equipment.  I can overlook the protruding cartridge (but only just - what happened to the Japanese talent/penchant/obsession for clean lines and miniaturisation, and why waste space with a second headphone jack?!), I can ignore the lack of touchscreen support, but I simply cannot and will not overlook the appalling sound quality, inability to listen to music and play a game at the same time, and the need to buy and insert an SD card (would it have been so difficult to build-in 1GB of flash?).  I am not alone on this: just look at the bad reviews across johnny-interweb.  An absolutely terrible peripheral and I have given mine away.  I suggest you all avoid like the plague and force Nintendo to release a good player - with video support - for our fantastic little handheld. 86.17.211.191 00:06, 12 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism 

message: If Play-Yan himself has a page for the games he appears in, why not a page for himself? Why does Spunky the dog have one, but not Play-Yan? Anyway, Play-Yan does need a page for himself. I hope someone can put a picture of him there as well!  GingerTheDogYT (talk) 20:16, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  We need a page for the character, not just the media player! 

message: he hates when he gets called a media player
GingerTheDogYT (talk) 23:13, 13 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please don't call him a media player! 

message: All of the games were released in 2005, so couldn't a not just be added to the top or bottom? | NJ (talk) 12:39, 10 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are the years in the games list really necessary?
Talk:Kshana Kshanam

message: Titled Sridevi sizzles, Indian Express - 1992. Shahid • Talk2me 16:30, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Review
Talk:Cockayne Hatley

message: My source:
says abbey of oignies for most of it which is in about the right place.©Geni 05:55, 30 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Where the stuff in the church came from
Talk:List of lemmas

message: To expand the list today, I searched Wikipedia for "lemma" up to the first 700 results. DFH 21:20, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expansion 

message: There are a number of lemmas that are still Wikipedia:redlinks.  This is suggestive that there are articles about such lemmas waiting to be written by mathematicians in these fields. DFH 20:43, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: See also Wikipedia:Requested articles/Mathematics. DFH 20:03, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redlinks 

message: The areas of mathematics shown in parentheses for each listed lemma should ideally be formated in italics, just as they are in List of theorems. DFH 22:56, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done some days ago.  Still some to be added. DFH 19:43, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Italics 

message: The main page might benefit by being divided into sections for alphabetic letter ranges, in the same manner as (e.g.) the List of eponymous laws. DFH (talk) 14:23, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sections
Talk:Bobby Fischer

message: I removed Iceland from the "country" entry in the infobox. As it's been there since 2007, I should explain why. There've been recurring discussions about how to describe Fischer's nationality (here, here, [[Talk:Bobby_Fischer/Archive_6#american_grandmaster_->_icelandic_grandmaster_-_change_made_anonymously|here]], here and most recently here), but the "country" entry in  refers to the chess federation(s) the player was or is affiliated with, not the player's nationality or citizenship. (It doesn't say so in the template documentation (maybe it should), but you can see in articles where more than one "country" is listed (e.g. Fabiano Caruana) that that's how that entry is consistently used.) Fischer was never affiliated with the Icelandic Chess Federation. As mentioned in several of the above-linked discussions, he never played for Iceland and in fact didn't play any official games while he lived there. His FIDE page still lists his federation as USA, and the FIDE archive of transfers doesn't list a transfer for him. Joriki (talk) 17:38, 2 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fischer didn't play for Iceland 

message: Here is my my long understanding of William Lombardy's place in the story of Bobby Fischer.  
Fischer was disqualified from the world championship with Spassky for not showing up for the qualifying match and so the right to challenge went to Lombardy. Lombardy knew that Fischer, not him, had best real chance of beating Spassky so he stepped aside. 
I think this is interesting to know about Lombardy and his vital role not just as Fischer's second but in insuring that the U.S.A won. 2601:589:8101:2560:7179:8FA0:A095:6E0D (talk) 03:58, 25 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  William Lombardy
Talk:Mutual majority criterion

message: Has this criterion been used "in the literature", and if so where?  Who first used the term? CRGreathouse (talk | contribs) 06:37, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would guess Mike Ossipoff or someone he was in contact with coined the term. It was referenced by James Green-Armytage in an article in Voting Matters. Douglas Woodall uses "Majority" to refer to this criterion. I'm certain he used it (the criterion, not this name) in "Monotonicity of single-seat preferential election rules", Discrete Applied Mathematics 77 (1997), pp. 81–98. KVenzke 15:12, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  References?
Talk:Operation Bodenplatte

message: Can the relevant page for Operation Hermann get de-linked from that one so an article on that can be properly created and worked on? I'd do it but honestly I get lost when it comes to moving and de-redirecting pages.radek (talk) 21:21, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The operation was still known as 'Operation Hermann' in some English-language publications until some time in the 1970's until the correct German name 'Bodenplatte' became more widely known.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.149.55.68 (talk) 18:35, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Operation Hermann 

message: Hi everybody. There are some references (Caldwell 1991, Price 2001, and maybe others I didn't notice) that do not correspond to any book in the bibliography... anyone able to fix that? --M.L.WattsAir Mail ✈ 18:11, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: No, wait :) I found Caldwell 1991 in German and Allied order of battle for Unternehmen Bodenplatte, even though Price 2001 is still missing --M.L.WattsAir Mail ✈ 18:42, 13 June 2012 (UTC)

text: IIRC, Melsbroek had a number of visiting Lancasters, Dakotas, and a B-17 that had made precautionary landings there after being damaged in operations over Germany, and several of these were destroyed in the attack.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.149.55.68 (talk) 18:18, 4 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing references
Talk:Sancho II of Pamplona

message: What is meant by "He was regarded as first or third king of Aragon"??
*a mistake? should it really be "of Navarre"?
*what is the source? original source, please.
Aragon was regarded as county at that time.
Navarre became later as the common name of the kingdom. At that time, Pamplona was used much.
Is this to mean that he was the first to use the name Navarre in titulary? 62.78.106.199 15:22, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I have books that shows Velasquita Daughter of Sancho II of pamplona or the navarra, as being marry to the 2nd Lord of Viscay. And being of the lineage where the Mendoza, Haro, And Zambrana family names began.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_creation/Fortun(o)_Sanchez_(Sangiz)_Grandee_Zambrana
Help me make my wiki look good for wikipedia. thanks  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Itzcoatzin (talk • contribs) 20:05, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Velasquita

message: In response to the IP's changing/removing of "Count of Aragon":
*The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 3, C.900-c.1024, ed. Timothy Reuter, Rosamond McKitterick, page 689;"To the west of the heartlands of the kingdom surrounding Pamplona lay the county of Aragon, which had been administered for the Navarrese monarchs by a line of hereditary counts since the early ninth century. Around 940 Garcia Sanchez I married Andregoto Galindez, daughter and heir of Count Galindo AznarezII, and their son Sancho Garces is recorded as ruling the county under his father from 948. By this time his parents' marriage had been dissolved, and Garcia Sanchez was remarried(in 943) to a lady called Tarasia, whose family connections are unknown. Sancho Garces II succeeded his father as king in 970, and the county of Aragon was retained under direct royal rule." --Kansas Bear (talk) 22:03, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Count of Aragon