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Talk:Copyright/is copyright worthwhile?

message: In 1984, The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that "When one considers the nature of a televised copyrighted audiovisual work ... and that time-shifting merely enables a viewer to see such a work which he had been invited to witness in its entirety free of charge, the fact ... that the entire work is reproduced ... does not have its ordinary effect of militating against a finding of fair use."
Well, you can kiss it good-bye.  Recently, the cable industry premium networks (HBO, SHOWTIME, ect.) have begun transmitting a copyguard encription in their broadcats.  Older VCR devices should still be able to record their programs under fair use.  However, newer machines -- especially DVD recorders -- will abort recording off these networks.
They just had to cut us off from fair use.  They just had to have their control.  This is a step backwards.  -- Jason Palpatine 08:29, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: New Development

message: Perhaps its a marketing strategy which is the only reason it should be worthwhile. But I don't think it should be the law. --µWiki   Talk / Contributions  (YouWiki) 17:53, 12 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does it have anything to do with the economy?
Talk:Red Army Faction

message: Earlier this month an IP user removed the unsourced 1981-08-07 attack from the article. That got rolled back, and I added a citation needed tag; that in turn led to few odd edits (incl an unverifiable Ref tag) by @Dergeistertutanota, but no actual source.
As far as I can tell, the only places on the internet that reference this attack seem to be scraped from (some version of) this article; there is abundant English-language press about the other attacks in that period, but no references to an attack on US personnel in Kaiserslautern that day, let alone one matching this extremely detailed description.
I'm inclined to just remove it again, but I'd be curious where this even came from. ShadyNorthAmericanIPs (talk) 22:33, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious unsourced attack 

message: Red Army Faction is the usual English translation of the German Rote Armee Fraktion, but in my opinion it is not true to the original meaning. It's a mistranslation.
A faction, in English, is "a group of persons forming a cohesive, usually contentious minority within a larger group."
A fraction, in English, is "a portion", "a part of a whole".
The same happens in other languages, such as Italian (fazione, frazione), Spanish (facción, fracción), French (faction, fraction), Portuguese (fação, fração) and Dutch (factie, fractie), but not in German, which has only one word with the two meanings, Fraktion.
In this case Fraktion should be translated as Fraction in English, not Faction, which would suggest a contentious minority or a splinter group.JBarreto (talk) 16:19, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Faction or Fraction?
Talk:List of letters used in mathematics, science, and engineering

message: I don't know which kind of efficiency eta is supposed to stand for.
Someone should disambiguate the link.
: Done. 213.66.223.179 22:23, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: "Iwasawa algebra" is a red link. Is Iwasawa theory a suitable entry at upper-case lambda? __ Just plain Bill (talk) 16:43, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I've redirected Iwasawa algebra to Iwasawa theory for now. RobHar (talk) 18:17, 11 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lambda and Iwasawa algebra 

message: Currently the "More" section (which would perhaps be better titled "Other alphabets") includes the letter ш (lowercase Cyrillic sha) for the shuffle product and the symbols ∂ and ∇ used in multivariable calculus.  However, the latter two of these are not actually letters; they are mathematical symbols derived as modifications of a lowercase d and an uppercase Δ respectively.  Similarly, according to the page Shuffle algebra the shuffle product is actually denoted by ⧢, which is a distinct Unicode symbol, though derived from ш.  Is the intent for this page to also list mathematical symbols that are not actually letters but were derived from letters?  If so, then there are plenty more to include, such as ∈ derived from ε, ∏ derived from Π, ∑ derived from Σ, and so on.
Michael Shulman (talk) 05:09, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Letter-derived symbols 

message: I don't understand why this page coexists with Greek letters used in mathematics, science, and engineering and Latin letters used in mathematics.  I don't have any opinion on whether it's better to list all alphabets on one page or have separate pages for each alphabet, but it seems a waste of effort to do both.  Of course the very short list of non-Latin-or-Greek letters on this page couldn't go on either of those other pages, but if this page were removed in favor of those then there could be a separate page like "Letters used in mathematics from alphabets other than Latin and Greek", or even separate (even shorter) pages like "Hebrew letters used in mathematics" and "Cyrillic letters used in mathematics".
(Also, is there a good reason for the inconsistency in naming?  "...in mathematics" vs "...in mathematics and science" vs "...in mathematics, science, and engineering"?)
Michael Shulman (talk) 05:15, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed! I have renamed to Latin letters used in mathematics, science, and engineering to reflect the actual scope, and will rename this article now. -- Beland (talk) 23:43, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duplication? 

message: Does graviton (Hypothetical particle) fit into the section for capital G? Gioguch (talk) 22:21, 15 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Graviton
Talk:Don Foster, Baron Foster of Bath

message: Is he entitled to the style "The Honourable"?
:The Honourable says "In the House of Commons and other lower houses of Parliament and other legislatures, members refer to each other as honourable members etc. out of courtesy, despite the fact that they are not entitled to the style in writing", which I think is correct. In wikipedia I don't think MP's articles usually use "The Honourable".  I'd say remove it. Rwendland 12:24, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Vitamin D

message: Vitamin D is a group of secosteroids. Amounts in IU and μg and given throughout the article, but I only see one case that states which form it refers to (D3). At a guess they're all D3 but this should be explicit. According to
this https://walrus.com/questions/converting-micrograms-mcg-of-calcitriol-to-international-units
one IU of D3 is equivalent to one IU of D2, but it makes no sense to talk about an IU of calcitriol as no amount of it can be said to be equivalent to one IU of D3. The URL above does not look like a citable reference, despite looking very scholarly, so I won't edit the article, but someone more knowledgeable might want to, to say something like "all references to IU are to D3" and something similar for μg if that's true. Housecarl (talk) 00:31, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: - New talk topics go to the bottom of the page, WP:TALK. This section of the article explains thoroughly the relationship between μg and IU for D3 and D2 food or supplement sources, which do not distinguish a possible difference in vitamin D production between the two substrates. Calcitriol is not expressed in the article in units of μg or IU. Zefr (talk) 17:28, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  My point was "Vitamin D" is a group of things and the quantities given do not identity which of those things they refer to. But now I see the Types section says "Vitamin D without a subscript refers to either D2 or D3, or both, and is known collectively as calciferol.[citation needed]". Housecarl (talk) 21:36, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Do μg and IU refer to D3? 

message: Vitamin D absorption from sunlight differs from absorption from supplements. When absorbing 3 minimum erythema doses (the time it takes for the skin to turn red), with the whole body exposed to UV light:
* Within 24 hours, serum vitamin D levels rose from 15 nmol/l to 149 nmol/l.
* After 1 week, serum vitamin D fell back to its initial value, while serum 1,25-(OH)2-D reached its peak.
* Between 2-3 weeks, serum 25-OH-D concentration reached its highest level, while serum 1,25-(OH)2-D fell back to its initial value.
The study does not mention the time it takes for serum 25-OH-D to return to its initial value.
In another study comparing the difference between 1 MED, 625μg D2 (25k IU) supplement, and 250μg D2 (10k IU) supplement{{cite journal |access-date=2024-04-05 |date=2011-08-01 |doi=10.2310/JIM.0b013e318214ea2d |first=Michael F. |issn=1708-8267 |last=Holick |pages=872–880 |periodical=Journal of Investigative Medicine: The Official Publication of the American Federation for Clinical Research |pmc=3738435 |pmid=21415774 |series=6 |title=Vitamin D: a d-lightful solution for health |url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21415774/ |volume=59}, they found that vitamin D from the sun lasts significantly longer than supplements. Vitamin D from supplements returned to baseline levels within 2 days, whereas vitamin D from the sun returned after 7 days. EidenNor (talk) 08:02, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Absorption in the body from the sun
Talk:Dating creation

message: Hello.  Do others agree that the order should be 1) Sumerian and Babylonian 2) Egyptian 3) Greek and Roman  such that they better reflect chronology?  Also, that "the scientific consensus" would be more appropriate than "scientific estimates" in the lead?  Thanks, 76.10.128.192 (talk) 22:13, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Done — PaleoNeonate — 19:42, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested improvements 

message: "The Hindu cosmology and timeline is the closest to modern scientific timelines[49] and even more which might indicate that the Big Bang is not the beginning of everything,[50] but just the start of the present cycle preceded by an infinite number of universes and to be followed by another infinite number of universes.[51]" this is a ridiculous, subjective opinion.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.194.210.143 (talk) 03:23, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I've removed the obvious speculative part of that sentence. More could probably be done. HiLo48 (talk) 03:38, 10 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hindu Cosmology 

message: I doubt that if reassessed this article would still be considered start-class.  Thanks, — PaleoNeonate — 20:07, 15 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assessment 

message: I think the first sentence could use a little love:
"Dating creation is the attempt to provide an estimate of the age of Earth or the age of the universe as understood through the origin myths of various religious traditions..." 
This sentence says that dating creation is an attempt. An attempt to do what? To date the creation of the Earth. So the sentence could be paraphrased, "Dating creation is attempting to date creation." This has obviously gotten sticky. If "attempting to do X" is the same thing as "doing X" then it is the same thing as "attempting to attempt to do X", "attempting to attempt to attempt to do X", and so on.
Wikipedia has a good convention for how to divide a topic into how it is seen from different points of view. For example, there is Madonna (entertainer) and there is Madonna as a gay icon; there is Church of Scientology and there is Scientology as a business. Perhaps this article could be retitled along those lines. Omphaloscope talk 17:26, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Disambiguating "Age of the Earth" between scientific and religious/traditional-belief methods could be a trap. "Age of the earth" and creation beliefs are two different things. They seem to be giving the same "information" but they aren't. Implying the scientific method is a point of view on the same footing as traditional belief as to "Age of the earth" is to misconstrue science. As to "attempt": because all methods including scientific are estimates, and because there are so many of them, and are open in many cases to further revision, the word seems to be appropriate. 106.69.190.248 (talk) 23:57, 23 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  First sentence
Talk:E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (video game)

message: Value of game 71.72.27.166 (talk) 15:12, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's the value of this game 

message: *Jeux & Stratégie #19https://archive.org/details/jeux-et-strategie-19/page/40/mode/2up
8.37.179.254 (talk) 18:03, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Review
Talk:Montgomery County, New York

message: the article says "along the same river plain, it superseded the canal, which was filled in some areas."  This implies the Canal is currently non-navigable, which is false.  The Erie Canal has been widened and deepened twice, once in the late 19th Century, and once in the early 20th.  Some older sections of canal were bypassed and filled in, in favor of new construction.    — Preceding unsigned comment added by Woogawoogawooga (talk • contribs) 11:47, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Need to Correct Something
Talk:County of Tripoli

message: Hi. I've done my best to copyedit. I'll come back to improve the references if I can. I welcome any comments and suggestions. Regards, Myrtle. Myrtlegroggins (talk) 10:27, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I continued improving references and saved the page with still some more work to do, It would be great if an historian could check for accuracy. Regards, Myrtle. Myrtlegroggins (talk) 11:27, 10 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyedit
Talk:Mong Kok

message: Could someone please clarify what the phrase "with a development multiple of four" means? I couldn't find a definition anywhere and according to Google this page seems to be the only one using this wording. Is it an urban planning technical term or just a mistake/mistranslation? Thank you very much. 85.180.2.34 (talk) 05:52, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Development Multiple

message: Google shows:
* 16,500 "Mong Kok"
* 24,200 Mongkok
Move? --Menchi 03:28, Aug 5, 2003 (UTC)
:It doesn't really matter; the two are completely interchangeable. However, when written for Westerners, the words tend to be joined (because it looks more like English, probably).—Wing 22:45, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move 

message: Temple Street (廟街, sometimes referred to as Men's Street), extending into Jordan, is also in the area, however, the area famous for the Hong Kong specific goods are only in the section between Yaumatei and Jordan.
What does Jordan has to do with Mong Kok? Is it a faulty hyperlink?
please I need explanation. --- Omernos 16:10, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jordan? 

message: What happened to this page?  On my browser there are four gray blocks in the History section, and the two left blocks only has "==" in them. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by TexWiki (talk • contribs) 10:05, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Layout problem 

message: The naming section says it was "named for its plentiful supply of ferns". Where do the ferns come from in the name 望角? 14.0.173.234 (talk) 17:31, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ferns?
Talk:Wan Chai District

message: This page should be a general page about Wan Chai, Wan Chai North, Causeway Bay, Happy Valley ad Tai Hang. Too little useful information is included in the page, lacking comprehensiveness. Some contents are even a bit subjective. New York City would be a very good example to follow, so as to tidy up this entry.
-- Jerry Crimson Mann 10:54, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rewrite 

message: :File:Wan Chai District Council Logo.svg is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.
Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a non-free use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Non-free use rationale guideline is an easy way to ensure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.
If there is  other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page.  Note that any fair use images lacking such an explanation can be deleted one week after being tagged, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.
-- Marchjuly (talk) 00:51, 5 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for File:Wan Chai District Council Logo.svg
Talk:Jacob Johan Anckarström

message: Nationalencyklopedin and :se:Jacob Anckarström calls him Jacob Johan Anckarström. Why did Mic move him to Johan Jacob Anckarström? I think he should moved back to Jacob Johan Anckarström or perhaps Jacob Anckarström. --Martinl 09:41, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Answer from User:Mic: "Possibly it was an attempt to adjust to practices used elsewhere, probably also Swedish Wikipedia at the time, but in vain as it may seem. The convention used in Nationalencyclopedin, and currently Swedish Wikipedia, is good enough for me, feel free to change it back. -- Mic 07:27, 29 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move? 

message: Did the king and his assassins really speak French on this occasion? It seems rather peculiar... --- Someone else 06:00 16 Jul 2003 (UTC)
:Not to me; until recently, French was a common language in royal courts across Europe. - Montréalais
:Neither to me; Gustav III spoke French most of his time. --Martinl 09:41, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Nothing strange about that. French was à la mode at the Swedish court and among the Swedish nobility at the time. Jonas Liljeström 23:26, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

text: The king did speak Frech after he was shot, to be precise. He did, in fact, quote the French king Henry IV, who said "ai, je suis blessé" when being assassinated in 1610. Gustav III was a great fan of Henry IV. Gustav's first word, though, was "aj". You would have said it too, if you were shot in the back. Gösta Sandell 06:56, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Really French? 

message: I have no reason to think the Swedes are lying about it, but we could use a cite for the DOB, since Britannica has him being born in a different year. — LlywelynII 02:46, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sourcing 

message: :"The murder weapon was loaded with two balls, five shot and six bent nails."
and
:"Anckarström . . . had thrown the pistol down as he left.[1] These were brought around to several gunsmiths the next morning and one who had repaired them for Anckarström recognized them and identified him as their owner." [My bolding].
An obvious contradiction here. Can anyone check some Swedish sources? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 185.74.232.130 (talk) 09:43, 27 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: There were two pistols; he discharged one and intended to shoot himself with the other, but when the king did not die as expected, Anckarström threw away the second one. Gösta Sandell 06:59, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  How many pistols?
Talk:List of newspapers in Hong Kong

message: The list has a serious WP:OR issue. Where is the citation to classified newspapers into Pro-democracy, Localist, Financial? Also, some newspaper can be both Financial and Pro-Beijing. Matthew hk (talk) 14:07, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original research 

message: User:DZ-NYU-2020 is repeatedly adding Asia Environmental Daily to the list. This does not appear to be a genuine publication, but one of countless similar spam websites that simply copies content from elsewhere in order to generate ad revenue. All "stories" on the site are links to other publications. The "Editorials" are similarly copy-and-pasted from elsewhere on the Internet (example: "editorial", apparent source material from genuine newspaper "Dawn" with different author listed). I also don't see any connection to Hong Kong. User:DZ-NYU-2020 likened the site's content to that of Yahoo News, but Yahoo News is a news aggregator, not a newspaper, and also wouldn't belong on this list. This user has been blocked in the past for spamming links to similar websites, and so I suspect this is either a case of undeclared paid editing, or simply an inability to identify genuine journalistic publications. In either case, "Asia Environmental Daily" does not belong here. Citobun (talk) 08:43, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Repeated addition of "Asia Environmental Daily"
Talk:Education in Hong Kong

message: Under the section, Primary and secondary education: School years. It is listed that high school is the school for University study. I believe this is a mistake as high school is generally regarded as S4-S6 years. I'm not sure if there are exceptions and whether 'high school' has another meaning? ZeroApocalypse (talk) 04:16, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  High School should be equivalent of S4-S6 study
Talk:Dynamic range compression

message: The "Music production" and "Marketing" sections seem somewhat reduplicative. They should probably be combined. —Christian Campbell 02:22, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't see an issue here currently. Probably was improved somewhere in the last 16 years. ~Kvng (talk) 02:11, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Music production" and "Marketing" sections are reduplicative 

message: The Use section needs some work. There are other important reasons for using compression. I've removed the incomplete summary of uses from the lead until I have time to address this. --Kvng (talk) 12:36, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Uses section has been reviewed. I've now added a summary paragraph of this section to the lead. ~Kvng (talk) 02:29, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use 
Talk:Scientology controversies

message: Please remove the section beginning "The following letter, written by L. Ron Hubbard". There is no source cited for the claim that the letter was seized in an FBI raid, and I'm sure that's incorrect anyway. The first public appearance of this letter was in an affidavit filed by Gerry Armstrong (activist) in 1982 as one of many supporting documents he said he removed from Scientology offices while working there, but the only sources I can find for that explanation are not what we would call reliable.
Unfortunately, I don't think there can be any reliable source to support the claim that the letter was actually written by Hubbard. I'm sure Armstrong is telling the truth, but that means nothing here.
In theory we could say "the following letter was allegedly written by Hubbard," but that's weak sauce and not, in my opinion, up to Wikipedia standards. 67.188.1.213 (talk) 08:55, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Aaron Liu (talk) 19:25, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 10 December 2022 

message: https://web.archive.org/web/20120214130628/http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=3048935 2404:4408:638C:5E00:E1A3:D1FA:ADD3:8ABC (talk) 14:06, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: . I took the live url from Scientology status by country. Grorp (talk) 06:23, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  NZ link archive address, please add
Talk:Tex Schramm

message: The article says that Schramm was the first person inducted into the Hall of Fame who wasn't a player, coach or owner.  This isn't true.  Hugh "Shorty" Ray was inducted as Supervisor of Officials and technical adviser on rules.  I am removing this part of the article  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.194.5.103 (talk) 16:31, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Hall of Fame