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Talk:St. Joseph and Grand Island Railway

message: The article on the main page is very poor and misleading. The article gives the impression that the railroad was a short line in Nebraska, while most of the railroad was in Kansas and reached Missouri. I would suggest it be replaced by the following-
The earliest predecessor of the St. Joseph and Grand Island Railroad was the St. Joseph & Western Railroad, chartered by the Territorial legislature of Kansas. Construction began across the Missouri River from St. Joseph, Missouri during 1860. During 1862 the name of the St.J&W was changed to the St. Joseph & Denver City Railroad. By December 1872 it was completed to Hastings, NE, a distance of 227 miles. The name was changed to the St. Joseph & Grand Island Railroad during 1879 following an extension to Grand Island, NE and a connection with the Union Pacific Railroad. Union Pacific gained control of the St. Joseph and Grand Island during 1880. The St. Joseph Bridge Building Company completed a bridge over the Missouri River during 1873, and this was acquired by the St.J&GI during the 1880s. Total length of the railroad from St. Joseph, MO to Grand Island, NE was 249 miles. Union Pacific continues to operate the majority of the former St.J&GI. Abandoned portions run 32 miles between Elwood and Robinson, in Kansas, as well as a segment between Hastings and Grand Island.
And this reference source should be added-
http://tacnet.missouri.org/history/encycmo/rrstjoseph.html
Dale Qualicum
: The problem is the original author wrote an article about the Hastings and Grand Island RR, not the St Joseph and Grand Island RR.  I've totally re-written it to include the 227 miles of railroad the original author ignored.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.48.95.185 (talk) 21:40, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misleading content
Talk:Little Brown Jug

message: Disambiguated. --Bobak 20:52, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Game sweatshop

message: I have archived all the previous discussion here to allow a fresh start. Please try and keep comment concise, and try to avoid large blocks of text. Cheers Kevin 03:34, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fresh start

message: This article certainly does cite references and sources now — Message box removed. Lars T. 12:07, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  No longer "Unreferenced" 

message: I've revised the page a bit so there isn't all this "further research" and Q&A-like junk gumming up the page. 208.127.155.92 (talk) 03:39, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rearranged parts of the article 

message: Anyone with even a slight understand of how the mostly Communist country of China works will understand what I am saying. There is almost literally NO WAY any gaming "sweatshop" could ever operate in China. There are thousands of reasons why it wouldnt work. Not only is the entire idea of gaming sweatshops ridiculous but its just not plausible in a Communist country like China. 
Added the following:
However, this, in no way, can be proved. The idea that an insignificant company such as Jagex would have sufficient foreign affairs to aquire these details from otherwise communist countries is absolutely absurd. On top of that, the government of China enforces many strict rules regarding internet usage. The country itself actually uses their own firewalls which block many things. The idea that any company in China would have the resources to buy numerous computers, networks, and pay for internet usage (not to mention paying for the "slave" labor) is preposterious. The most logical assumption we can make is that Jagex lied about this entire story in order to gain player support for new updates. The facts are staring us all in the face - the costs to run a "gaming sweatshop" far outway any monetary gain. Thats even if it was possible in a country like China; which it clearly is not.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.37.228.61 (talk) 07:16, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes made to information regarding Jagex/Runescape 

message: I don't understand, why don't the Jagex/Blizzard/etc. staff just change the values of the items that get affected by gold farmers? For example, if sharks get reduced to 200 gp, Jagex staff could place a temporary override that jacks up the price to 600 no matter how many are out there (or even just have a permanent code that controls how much an item market price can change).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.237.222.73 (talk) 21:20, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Affecting Game Economies
Talk:Randal Cremer

message: Could the Norwegian honour be The Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav? --JBellis 20:48, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This article (an English-language Nobel Peace Prize) is unexplainable short.--79.152.14.137 (talk) 22:41, 26 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Article
Talk:Canon PowerShot S3 IS

message: Would this be classified as a compact or bridge digital camera? JIP | Talk 20:49, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure what you mean by 'bridge' camera, but it isn't compact.  It is much smaller than a dSLR, however. --Mechcozmo 22:00, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia has a separate article on bridge digital cameras. JIP | Talk 10:00, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

text: With the new third party add-on, you can shoot in raw mode, which means you can easily correct the purple fringing by shifting individual color channels fractions of a pixel. (H) 15:00, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Compact or bridge 

message: This article seems duplicated. The data on the infobox is pretty much the same as the features section... Peter 01:30, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  duplicated data 

message: Neither of the two photos is particularly interesting (the 2nd doesn't even follow the rule of thirds!), with very limited colours and with a theme that isn't very memorable. Rather than just delete these (and they ought to go), do people have some others they'd to submit. How about a "normal" shot, a zoom into the same scene, and maybe a super macro? ThirteenthGreg 09:58, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Will look thru my gallery for a better pic.  You do know the rule of thirds is only a guideline right.... -- Tawker 23:13, 13 January 2007 (UTC)

text: I prefer to call it the style of thirds, it is far from a rule. HighInBC (Need help? Ask me) 23:14, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: These pictures should show color swap and other things relating to the camera, instead of just some "blah" shots. 76.192.218.138 23:49, 29 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Color swap is a gimmick, something you could just as easily do in Photoshop. (H) 15:01, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  sample photos 

message: For trying to improve the usefulness of the article to S3 owners and potential S3 owners by adding information about add-on software that significantly expands the features of the camera, I've been accused of being a spammer and CHDK has been accused of being "warez". I'd like to note that I'm not affiliated with the people who made CHDK or anything, I just found it while I was researching cameras to buy, and the features it added are what made me decide to go for the S3 IS over something with mechanical zoom and focus rings.
I'd like to see you back up your statements about CHDK being "warez", since all it is is software that runs when the camera starts to add extra features to the camera. I'd also like a full explanation for why you don't feel such information should be included in the article. Isn't the goal of Wikipedia to be useful and provide information for people looking for it? If you're going to call the information I added spam, then you might as well remove the entire article, since that's just spamming for Canon's camera.
-74.57.109.13 21:09, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Third party software
Talk:Joanna II of Naples

message: The following statement is confusing:
:"Her reign mas marked by the power in the court of his numerous favourites and lovers, the first being Pandolfello Alopo."
What is meant? Is Pandolfello his first lover or his first favourite? It sounds like a masculine name, so I assume the latter, but was William homosexual? Srnec 20:50, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would guesses that his lovers are also his favorites, and that he was homosexual, from the context.  Usually "mistresses" is used for female lovers. john k 23:19, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: More importantly, though, why would the favorites of her dead husband be important in his widow's reign?  Perhaps it should be "the power in the court of her numerous favourites and lovers." ? john k 23:20, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Confused

message: There is something wrong with the birth date. Some sources say it was 25 June 1371, while other sources claim it was 25 June 1373. We should find out the correct date ASAP.--Fabrizioberloco (talk) 07:48, 19 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth date
Talk:Boolean expression

message: WHAT DOES BOOLEAN EXPRESSION AND, and BOOLEAN EXPRESSION OR MEAN
I added links.  Timcrall (talk) 18:07, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

message: :
XOR is a binary operator and NOT is unary, so I guess (though unacquainted with the languages in question) that these need swapping. —Tamfang (talk) 22:32, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, the PL/I logical not is a prefix ¬ and the PL/I exclusive or is an infix ¬. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 14:26, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  mismatch 

message: What is the "size" of a boolean expression? Is it the number of binary operators in it? The article on the parity function says that the size of a Boolean formula computing parity must be O(n^2) and so I hoped this article would explain what the size is. 67.198.37.16 (talk) 07:44, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: That question is best addressed in talk:Parity function, since that is where the term is used. FWIW, I don't cosider the term to be meaningful for expressions. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 13:11, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Size of boolean expression?
Talk:Nice (Unix)

message: and the difference between renice and nice is????? - that should certainly be in the article, since both link there. --62.41.129.19 20:51, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I just came across this page today and I'd be glad to update it with a section for 'renice.' I don't think that quite merits its own article...but the way it's setup now, with 'renice' just pointing to 'nice,' doesn't seem very professional. 
Haha, I'm new to this Wiki thing. =p Andewulfe 05:07, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nice and renice 

message: This really needs to be redone.  There is some incorrect info in this article.  nice goes from 19 to -19.  See Unix SystemV by Ken Sobel.  Also see your Linux documentation.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Spectre65 (talk • contribs) 04:25, 21 November 2006
:That depends on the OS - AIX nice manpage shows this: 
 ADJUST is 10 by default.  Range goes from -20 (highest priority) to 19 (lowest).
--Unixguy 10:52, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: But what does it say for renice(1)? My nice(1) page agrees with yours but the renice page says the range is -20 to 20. Additionally, my kernel defines PRIO_MIN=-20 and PRIO_MAX=20. It may be that PRIO_MIN<=niceness<PRIO_MAX, but I don't see anything to that effect anywhere. hikeda (talk) 23:18, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Redo this page

message: I'm afraid I don't understand the C example - is it intended to indicate the manpage? Because it isn't C code; but 'man getpriority' on my system gives
     int
     getpriority(int which, int who);
in section 2, so getpriority(2) would make sense but no with that signature.
86.6.2.185 23:33, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  C bindings 

message: I think it would be great if someone could find the history of why this command and concept is called "nice" and why they diddnt just call it "priority" or something like that. Mkid1 (talk) 22:25, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Sometimes, though perhaps only in fiction, people faced by a threatening dog will nervously attempt to soothe it by saying things like "nice dog", or "nice doggy".  I speculate that there is a hint of humour behind the naming, having users give commands like "nice bzip2 largefile", in an attempt to "pacify" the program, and stop it aggressively hogging the system resources. CountingPine (talk) 19:17, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of the name 

message: This article has existed since 2004 and has never once actually described what nice does. The main thing that nice actually does is invoke/execute a utility, yet nowhere in this article do we mention that. It only talks about how it changes process priorities. Kaldari (talk) 22:38, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I've tried to fix the lead to be more clear about how nice is actually used. Kaldari (talk) 22:51, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  A poor description
Talk:Snake wine

message: Googling "lobster blood wine" results in only two pages: wikipedia and its mirror. Could anyone give a verifiable source? --BorgQueen 20:52, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed it, since no source has been provided so far. --BorgQueen 16:33, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lobster blood wine 

message: A friend of mine took a shot of snake wine, from our Vietnamese neighbours, back in the early 90s, and he claimed it gave him intensive hallucinations, much like LSD, for two days.  KevinOKeeffe (talk) 12:43, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Psychoactive properties?
Talk:Rock Climbing

message: An adequate start, but contains inaccuracies that need revision. There is a lot of overlap with the other article. Silentrunner 20:52, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Exactly - there's no justification for having two articles on the same topic. They should be merged as soon as possible - the problem is deciding how to do so, as there are good and bad aspects of both articles. I assume this one was created in error. --Blisco 21:10, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

text: Discussion about the proposed merger should continue on the Talk:Climbing page. Rwxrwxrwx 14:13, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Gregor Robertson (politician)

message: Currently, this page focuses almost entirely on Gregor's time as mayor of Vancouver - which, while undoubtedly a crucial part of his career, deprecates his prior experience as a BC MLA and ignores entirely his career path since he decided not to stand for another term as mayor in 2018.  Perhaps, his term as mayor could be deprecated under a new heading "Career" and create new sub-sections: "Early career" "Term as BC MLA" and (maybe) "Post mayoral career" or similar. On the other hand, maybe his time as mayor should not be deprecated.  If so, then should his time as MLA be subsumed under "Early Career"? In any case, I think that it is timely that a new section (or sub-section) be formed to record his post mayoral career - currently as Executive Vice President of Strategy and Partnerships at Nexii Building Solutions:
* Nexii leadership team
Comments, feedback?
ps: Incidentally, I discovered that "Nexii" is currently a redirect to the disambiguation page Nexus.
Enquire (talk) 18:24, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Propose to restructure career section(s) 

message: I could not find any evidence that Robertson and Wanting Qu were "partners". It seems all sources referred to Qu as his "girlfriend" throughout their relationship. Here are a few examples:
 
*"Wanting Qu is the girlfriend of Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson" CBC News - Jul 26, 2016
 
*"Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson and his girlfriend, Chinese singer-songwriter Wanting Qu, have separated" CTV News - July 7, 2017
 
*"Pop singer Wanting Qu, girlfriend of Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson" Vancouver Sun - Jul 20, 2016
 
*"Vancouver mayor Gregor Robertson with girlfriend Wanting Qu in Vancouver" The Globe and Mail - April 24, 2015
 
*"Vancouver’s Mayor Gregor Robertson has broken up with girlfriend Wanting Qu" South China Morning Post - 7 Jul, 2017
 
I also found this article in which Robertson confirms that Qu was not his "partner".
 
I have gone ahead and removed Wanting Qu from the infobox where she was incorrectly mentioned as domestic partner. Streazy (talk) 15:41, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wanting Qu
Talk:Showdown at Cremation Creek (Part I)

message: Of note: Dr. Venture says that Dr. Girlfriend was the first to have him in 18 years. Considering that Season 1 is 2 years prior to this episode. and Dr. Venture is currently 44 years old. This would mean that Dr. Venture's last was when he was 24 (44 - 2 - 18 = 24). I think it's safe to say that Mira and Dr. Girlfriend are they only two women he's slept with. -th1rt3en 06:50, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: we'll, we know that they boys original bodies would be older than 16, based on the comment Hank made about his license. Mira and Doc did sleep together, confirmed by Doc. If you want to take into account the condom Doc was going to use had pretty much fossilized, you can argue that he hasn't had sex in QUITE a while. And if this is all true, that would mean that Mira IS the mother of the Venture Brothers. D: -th1rt3en 18:21, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

text: Sorry man, but you misheard. Dr. Venture said that she was the "...finest woman in 18 years...", not "first." So it does not really help us in this department. 70.40.150.89 06:54, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Rats. :( -th1rt3en 07:01, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  More age timeline analysis 

message: I think the Soveriegn is David Bowie considering he had a wedding to go to and this is the first time David Bowie is even seen in the series. The only occasion hes really been mentioned was in the Incredible Mr. Brisby. Gwag 15:42 EST 12 October, 2006
But not the first Bowie reference in the series. Certainly in Ghosts of the Sargasso there are enough of them. Especially since an entire chunk of dialogue is taken directly from Bowie lyrics. And of course Showdown at Cremation Creek (Part II) proves your thought to be correct. TheLoverly 06:26, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Soveriegn 

message: Sergeant Hatred's girlfriend, Princess Tiny Feet, has GOT to be based on the Land O'Lakes character. yes?--Deglr6328 11:50, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Land O'Lakes?
Talk:Chaand Raat

message: Even though CR is celebrated in India, the community who celebrate don't use nagari, so I think it is safe to remove it.  Otherwise, we could put Gujarati, Punjabi, Sindhi, Telugu, Assamese, Bengali, Tamil, etc. all on one page, since these all are official indian languages. Mar de Sin Talk to me! 21:03, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Nagari?
Talk:Chand Raat of Karachi

message: Even though CR is celebrated in India, the community who celebrate don't use nagari, so I think it is safe to remove it.  Otherwise, we could put Gujarati, Punjabi, Sindhi, Telugu, Assamese, Bengali, Tamil, etc. all on one page, since these all are official indian languages.Mar de Sin Talk to me! 21:03, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Nagari?
Talk:Paralympic football

message: I removed this "sentence" from the trivia section.
"For 7-a-side Paralympic football, England or Scotland wins the slot in the European Paralympic qualifier can represent UK in the Paralympics, without losing the individual Home Nations status in CPISRA (the governing body of 7-a-side Paralympic football), which unlike the case of the Home Nations FA's worried a unified UK team mean losing the individual status in FIFA."
It is written in a way that makes it incomprehensible.  Perhaps someone who understands what it is meant to mean will edit it and put it back in the article.
I suspect the entire "trivia" section is getting into unnecessary detail.
Wanderer57 (talk) 12:11, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incomprehensible sentence 

message: For five-a-side, how do players know where to goal is located? Does it beep or something, like the ball? Tad Lincoln (talk) 23:42, 23 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know for certain, but I assume they can just infer the goal's position (as well as the pitch's boundaries) from tracking their own movements. Blind people are often very good at that. --Roentgenium111 (talk) 13:46, 29 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: the guide stands behind the goal during play presumable shouting that the goal is there. and for penalties he taps the 4 corners of the goal so the kicker knows where it is.194.176.105.135 (talk) 12:50, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The goal 

message: Several of the external links on this page are broken.  Sorry not to have enough time to look for alternatives, but I hope someone can.  Crinoline (talk) 20:52, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken Links 

message: Paralympic association football has been mentioned on this discussion. Memasa (talk) 11:49, 20 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2013 June 17#Disability swimming]] 
Talk:Don't Let It Show

message: Did Dave Townsend do the vocals on "Don't Let It Show"? This article states that the first half of the song has Alan Parsons's vocal, but the I Robot album was produced and engineered by Alan Parsons. Lenny Zakatek, Allan Clarke, Steve Harley, Jack Harris, Peter Straker and Jaki Whitren, and Dave Townsend did the vocals. —Gm1121983 21:06, 11 September 2006 (UTC)

message: The opening doesn't sound anything like a piano on my CD.  It sounds much more like an organ, possibly a pipe organ.
Joe (talk) 02:15, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd have to agree. --Mark Lessig (talk) 21:42, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: opening
Talk:Football at the 1920 Summer Olympics

message: Is the 4th place designation for Italy official? If so, is it original or a latterday award by FIFA or IOC? If not official, is it a reconstruction by Wikipeditors or by one of our sources? And based on losing the semifinal repechage match, or based on the Final ranking by "points"? France was quarterfinal winner over Italy and semifinal loser to Czechoslovakia, thus a deserving 4th place, and Italy an astonishing one, if that is unofficial. 
Beside noting the status of Italy's 4th place, we should try to explain why the actual silver/bronze rearrangement did not include France. 
Was it the original design, if the gold medal winner had played four matches --originally, any one of the 14 teams other than the host Belgium-- that the four losers of those matches would play off for silver and bronze medals? Thus or otherwise, the gist of the Bergvall system should be explained here, not left entirely to that article. If the Bergvall system was "modified" originally, before Swiss dropout and Czechoslovak disqualification, then the linked Bergvall article will not be adequate anyway. --P64 (talk) 15:41, 27 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bronze, silver, and 4th place
Talk:Micarta

message: Best I can figure, "...and decorative Koekjes applications." literally means decorative cookies [Dutch].  Can anyone provide a reference for this?  If not cookies, was a different word intended?  I'm going to mark with a REF request for now.CheMechanical (talk) 00:36, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Koekjes? 

message: I've reverted to a previous version. We don't need a long quote from an old source nor a list of patent apss in all caps. If the quoted material is currently relevant, then summarize briefly rather than simply doing a copy/paste of supposedly "out of copyright" material. If the patents are really relevant, then simply summarize in prose the critical info. Vsmith (talk) 23:55, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Loong quote and "shouting" removed 

message: A claim has been made on commons that the knife handle pictured is not micarta.  The knife was made by a friend of mine years ago.  A note that he included with the knife says that the handle is micarta.  I don't know.  Is is micarta?  Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 02:55, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  knife handle