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Talk:March Madness (disambiguation)

message: I'm thinking we should merge Final Four, March Madness, and NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship.
This comment is cross-posted onto all associated talk pages.
JnB987 20:25, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I concur. Please let me know when you set up a vote page, or just 'boldly make your changes. (I'll back you up if it gets ugly). I would suggest leaving some words of disambiguation at March Madness since the term means more than 'basketball craziness.'   MPS 13:18, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger 

message: I have never posted anything to the WIKI before so forgive me if I am not following protocol.
I may add the entry if i get the time to read the how to, etc.
Originally I believe the term refers to the breeding period of the European hare which is in March. Hence the 'Mad March Hare' in Alice In Wonderland. So I don't believe that the term could have been coined in 1939, perhaps it was adopted in 1939.
Another usage of the term in the UK is to refer to the period before the end of the financial year in which councils use up the remaining part of their budgets so that they receive the same allocation every year. The madness in this sense refers to the frivolous ways in which the budgets are used up. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Markburnsemail  (talk • contribs) 07:32, 25 May 2005
: I agree, and so I updated the article with this information. Feel free to boldly change it to make it better. btw, sign your posts with 4 tildes(~) MPS 13:18, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original term for March Madness 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: There is no consensus for the proposed move at this time.  Colin M (talk) 14:58, 19 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: March Madness (disambiguation) →  – The NCAA's addition of the women's tournament and championship game to the March Madness brand obviates the current redirect to the men's event and makes this disambiguation title unnecessary and archaic. I'm suggesting that the NCAA's decision renders the men's event no longer the primary topic. I'm aware ghit searches won't reflect the need, but will certainly reflect the trend. The enormous increase in television coverage, especially for this year's Final Four weekend, makes it clear at least ESPN (ergo Disney) is betting on applying the brand more evenly across gender. I'm merely asking content-area contributors to make the same move the brand managers have already made, Wikipedia doing its part by bringing more equal coverage to the extent Wikipedia's consensus permits. To my mind, this isn't an "if" but more a "when." While I'm convinced, I'm interested in hearing discussion and even opposing views. BusterD (talk) 03:49, 4 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 4 April 2022
Talk:Orthogonal projection

message: Doesn't the formula become the identity matrix?
M(M^\top M)^{-1}M^\top = M M^{-1}{(M^\top)}^{-1}M^\top = E
-- Bernhard Bauer
No, because M is not a square matrix, but rather M has (typically many) more rows than columns. Michael Hardy 19:05, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Gone to Texas

message: We're delighted to have new contributors, and look forward to finding out about Gone to Texas - but please don't create an article until you have something to put into it! Articles shouldn't have comments and discussion - that's what Talk pages (like this one) are for.
And while you're at it, why not create an account so it's easier for comments to find you? You can remain anonymous within the account, if you wish. - DavidWBrooks 14:48, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Isn't this supposedly one of Davy Crockett's remarks when he is not re-elected to congress? According to legend, he told his constituents: "You can all go to hell, and I will go to Texas." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.147.83.187 (talk) 05:05, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: That remark is certainly attributed to Davy Crockett, but "go to Texas" isn't "gone to Texas" and I don't think they're related. This article is about the specific history attached to the phrase "Gone To Texas," which has a specific usage during a defined time period -- not about every quote that mentions going there.—e. ripley\talk 12:12, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Question
Talk:Freesia

message: My gardening encyclopedia says "at least six species" in Freesia but only mentions this one by name. Stan 17:45, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: A check of google for Freesia site:.za (since the genus is South African) soon reveals there's 14-16 species - MPF 11:14, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: All species formerly in Anomatheca are now included in Freesia. As of now, the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families lists 16 species. Peter coxhead (talk) 20:04, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: At least six species

message: I am from North Texas USA and that some woman in UK has these, but do they grow in the US?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 1992FaithGrubb (talk • contribs) 02:09, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where do these grow?
Talk:Bruce Willis

message: Bruce Willis is dead so needs changing to is to was! Cheshiregaylad (talk) 21:47, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Troutfarm27 (Talk) 21:49, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 1 June 2023 

message: Although health status obviously affects the career of a public person, and Bruce Willis' health decline became known via trouble in his work life, it's a mistake for it to appear only under the "2020s: Critical decline, health problems and retirement" section, but be absent from the Personal Life section. It could easily be re-worked to balance both sections, and would strengthen the article. I came to Wikipedia today to check on his health status, and was surprised to not find it in his Personal Life section, which is the logical place to put it. Do the usual editors of the article approve? Denstat (talk) 23:58, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is health status only in Career? 

message: Can someone please correct hos profile in regards to his daughters.
His youngest 2 daughters are Mabel and Evelyn. AussieFirecracker (talk) 02:19, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia policy is to only name children who are notable in their own right. The most common way that is determined is if they have their own Wikipedia article. His eldest daughter, Rumer, does have an article because of her own acting career. That doesn't appear to be the case for the two daughters you named above. HiLo48 (talk) 02:49, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Daughters 

message: can someone confirm that his first name is Walter?? Have never heard this before Rasojp (talk) 01:56, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name
Talk:List of horse accidents

message: I don t understand the Prussian statistics, while I should PaulDehaye 10:21, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Prussian statistics

message: Question -- I'm interested in adding a chronological list of horse racing accidents (which lists the number of horses injured or killed) -- is it appropriate for this page or should it be on a separate page?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rowena1999 (talk • contribs) 19:50, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question -- I'm interested in adding a chronological list of horse racing accidents 

message: should this single entry have its own category? 67.176.160.47 (talk) 17:46, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  jousting 

message: need to add the following: keiren kelly killed at kilbeggan (2003), sean cleary at galway (2003) and tom halliday at market rasen (2005) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.194.27.23 (talk) 23:59, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: All added now along with some others.--Bcp67 (talk) 20:28, 31 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  More 

message: Can a fall off a toy horse be considered a horse accident? Thats how Louis, Duke of Burgundy (1751–1761) died.--Queen Elizabeth II's Little Spy (talk) 17:07, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably not, it's a toy accident.  Sort of like how a kid falling off a toboggan isn't having a snowmobile accident.  Montanabw(talk) 19:40, 27 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Toy Horses 

message: The good man also died from falling off a horse (see Justin 27.3.12). It has also been established in his own Wiki page (see last paragraph) Ninjason (talk) 09:40, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  add [[Seleucus II Callinicus]]? 

message: Why does he link directly to damien Oliver with no explanation? TheMaskedGecko (talk) 21:23, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ray Oliver
Talk:Cyclamen

message: Adding this to DYK b/c we needed something with a good pic. Could someone please give it a taxobox? Thank you! jengod 18:42, Mar 23, 2004 (UTC)
Cyclamen species have been used medicinally, e.g. applied to the skin as an emetic. A hoax? This isn't sensible.Wetman 17:22, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)

message: Hullo...I took a pic of my cyclamens.  If anyone likes it, go ahead and pert it in the artickle.  Tomertalk 04:03, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  image 

message: Do we really need to specify temperatures in Kelvin?  Cyclamens don't normally grow in a laboratory environment.  If there's no protest, I plan to remove this specification the next time I come past thihs way.  Groogle (talk) 22:17, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Temperatures

message: Somalia is in the Horn of Africa, way over in the east central part of the continent.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.186.143.169 (talk) 10:06, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Northeast Africa

message: Looking like a tuber, It is in fact an expanded hypocotyl.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.254.84.110 (talk) 22:48, 16 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  It's not a tuber 

message: I added a phylogeny and I have a reference for it, but it's in wrong language format. Help?
:: 
:Peter coxhead (talk) 12:39, 20 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Phylogeny
Talk:Territorial changes of Poland immediately after World War II

message: According to the large German minority in Poland, I just don´t get this sentence: "The expulsion of Germans was much more thorough than that of Poles in Poland's former eastern territories; today Lithuania, Belarus, and Ukraine still have significant Polish minorities.".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.201.85.193 (talk) 00:12, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: *Compromise. Instead of merging an article that people have strong feeling about just changing the name to reflect the subjects discussed. -- Esemono (talk) 12:43, 2 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge

message: I've removed some trivia and marked the article NPoV - the final three paragraphs seem to be editorialising, and are uncited. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 07:22, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV 

message: That's wrong, right? It shouldn't be 1943, right? Calle Widmann (talk) 14:49, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Potsdam 1943? 

message: This phrase isn't English. The English version is changes to.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.189.103.145 (talk) 13:03, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: changes of
Talk:I Saw Poland Betrayed

message: For an August 2004 deletion debate over this page please see: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/I saw Poland betrayed
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An article on a book should discuss the contents of the book. Instead what I find is the contributor's personal POV repeated, word for word, from other articles e.g. Poland's betrayal by the Western Allies. This article should go unless it can be rewritten to describe the book contents. DJ Clayworth 19:01, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Kata Tjuta

message: The issue of the appropriate name for Australian landmarks such as Uluru/Ayers Rock and Kata Tjuta/The Olgas is a sensitive one that has been debated for a number of years.  Wikipedia has no role to play in that debate.  It is appropriate that Wikipedia sidestep the debate by adopting the official name.  In this case, the official name, according to the Gazetteer of Australia (link) is Kata Tjuta. Snottygobble | Talk 02:05, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Article name

message: These rock formations are a remarkable group of 36 domes (now only 28), made from... Where are the missing 8 domes gone? --62.176.232.130 14:05, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Number of domes

message: "Along with Uluru, 25 km to the east, Kata Tjuta forms one of two major landmarks within the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park." 
Perhaps I should ask not what it means, but what it is meant to mean. The statement is also made on the Uluru page. 
What this actually means is that Uluru and Kata Tju together make up one (yes just one) of the two major landmarks. And the question must be, well, if they are one of the landmarks, what is the other one? 
If this isn't what is meant then it should say either:
: Kata Tju and Uluru make up the two major landmarks of... 
: Kata Tju and Uluru are the two major landmarks of...
: Togther with Uluru, Kata Tju is a major landmark of... 
When someone has fixed this, please fix Uluru as well. 
--Amandajm 03:33, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Although I think the wording is ambiguous, I think the first wording you suggested is better so I've altered the page. Robert Brockway 08:13, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: What does this mean exactly?

message: Is Kata Tjuta the name of the entire range, as the introductory sentence says, or just Mt. Olga, as it says later? We should clarify it, I think. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 21:38, 10 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name
Talk:DNA/vote

message: Vote has not started yet. We are waiting for an addition from POM, and perhaps reactions/discussions from others. Please add anything you feel is important to the current discussion. Thanks :-) FirmLittleFluffyThing 06:12, 24 Mar 2004 (UTC)

message: Feedback and criticism welcome
On what do we vote ?
* Do you wish to vote soon according to a system like B . 
* Do you wish to vote for the more traditional set of paragraphs 
* any of the two systems will be okay (default if no opinion is given)
Please add you names and opinion :-)
#for voting on alternatives : Peak
#for voting on simple sentences : Lir, Bensaccount 
Voting system
I suggest that in both cases, the voting system be the same. 
If there are 4 sentences for each point, you list all of them by order of preference. The favorite is given 4 points, the least appreciated 1 point. The one with more points win. 
For example, there are 4 options : optionA, optionB, optionC, optionD
User:Toto
#optionB (yes, this option is really the best ihmo) -> 4 points
#optionC -> 3 points
#optionA -> 2 points
#optionD (this option is ihmo really the least interesting one) -> 1 point
User:Tata
#optionA (yes, this option is really the best ihmo) -> 4 points
#optionB -> 3 points
#optionC -> 2 points
#optionD (this option is ihmo really the least interesting one) -> 1 point
Option A gets 6 points
Option B gets 7 points
Option C gets 5 points
Option D gets 2 points
The option A will be the one on the page.
Yes, there is a risk that two options get the same number of points. In this case, we'll secondary separate both.
Who vote
Only the people involved in the edition of the DNA may vote. This is not meant to say that other people opinion is not relevant, but I think here, we try to find a solution for you first.
:see argument below
Poll or vote ?
It is a vote, not a poll. And it will be binding. For a full month. Hopefully, you will be able to focus on other matters meanwhile. Editions will be open again after one month.
I wait for your input to indicate when the vote start. Do you think you need much more time ? FirmLittleFluffyThing 05:53, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Ant proposition
Talk:Double-byte character set

message: Since Unicode supports all the major languages in East Asia, unlike many other codepages, it is generally easier to enable and maintain software that uses Unicode.Does this mean there are some other codepages that do? —Frungi 03:17, 11 July 2005 (UTC)

message: Why are almost all double-byte character sets from East Asia? --84.61.7.180 16:11, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably because most other cultures either use the Roman alphabet for writing, and thus mainly just need some accented versions of Roman-alphabet letters (thus requiring only 104 or so code points, so they can continue to use one byte), or use another small alphabet (thus also requiring only one byte); Chinese, Japanese, and Korean all use logograms or syllabaries, which require a lot more code points, thus requiring more than one byte. Guy Harris (talk) 23:28, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Always in East Asia? 

message: I work for a software company that builds software for the IBM System i (formerly AS/400 and iSeries).  DBCS is certainly a complex topic but not one which I would described as particularly controversial for users of this platform.  Poorly understood and hard to comprehend, perhaps. Also, using the term DBCS-enabled with other IBM System i users would not be ambiguous. Most applications that run on the IBM System i today use DBCS rather than Unicode as it rather late comer to this platform and has at least one major restriction on the System i platform that prevents it's rapid adoption. That should be clarified. If DBCS is controversial and non-deterministic on other platforms I would suggest separate section to talk about DBCS on per platform basis. I'm new here so I did not want to go nuts editing this article without feedback or guidance.
Marty Acks 00:41, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps the article used to say DBCS on System i was controversial, but it no longer does so. Guy Harris (talk) 23:31, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  DBCS on  System i not terribly controversial 

message: IBM supported a true two-byte DBCS encoding, based on EBCDIC, back in the 1990s. (For example, the code X'4040' was the DBCS encoding for a space character, corresponding to the single-byte EBCDIC X'40' character code, and to ASCII X'20' and Unicode U+0020.) IBM COBOL (VS II) supported it with the PIC G(n) picture clause specifier, where G presumably stood for a 16-bit "graphic" character, as well as the IS DBCS class condition expression. Based on some of the documents I have for it, this character set was intended mainly for Japanese/Asian applications. Here are some online references: 1, 2, 3, and 4. — Loadmaster (talk) 19:00, 27 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  IBM DBCS
Talk:St. Louis Blues (disambiguation)

message: This page was created from content copied from the most recent edition of Saint Louis Blues. For previous revisions please check the history preceding that edit. None of the entities listed on the disambiguation page used the full spelling of "Saint" so it made no sense to use that as the title of the disambiguation page. GT 09:02, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have merged the histories of this page and "Saint Louis Blues", so all the history for the disambiguation page is now in one place. I have also moved the history that was at the title "St. Louis Blues" in 2004 to Talk:St. Louis Blues/Old history. Graham87 15:35, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Content moved 

message: This was changed to a redirect to "St. Louis Blues (hockey)]]".  The main title should either be an article or a disambiguation, not a redirect.  If someone thinks one of the various "St. Louis Blues" articles should be moved to the main title, please discuss here and give notice on relevent music, hockey, etc formus for other opinions to be made known. -- Infrogmation 02:45, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Title and redirect discussion redux

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:St. Louis Blues (ice hockey) which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RM bot 22:15, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Move discussion in progress
Talk:Instanton

message: Given the importance of the topic, not being the highest, it is sufficiently technical in its description, compared with other articles such as Quantum Chromodynamics. It has a variety of sources, and as such, I have seen it fit to remove a nearly decade-old banner at the top. Any objections will be heard; this decision may be reverted for any reason if deemed fit.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by SpiralSource (talk • contribs) 19:46, 3 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of issues banner 

message: The WKB expression for the probability for the particle to tunnel should be real.  The i should be replaced with a 2.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/math/5/c/7/5c719dcaa6e7112fb76f501b5f57a598.png —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.136.90.228 (talk) 13:03, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Typo 

message: I deleted the factor of two in front of the cosine in the proof of the BPS-bound. 
Matrix1329 11:42, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Factor of two mistake corrected 

message: Is it possible for the introduction to explain the concept in a way that relies on neither mathematics nor physics PhD-level knowledge? This article is as good as gibberish to anyone without that knowledge. Like, it could all be a giant joke, and we wouldn't know. If it's not explainable in terms nonphysicists will understand, it simply isn't, but in that case is it really notable for Wikipedia's purposes? 134.10.18.182 (talk) 08:25, 9 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I've noticed this about many Wikipedia articles, particularly physics and mathematics articles. An Encyclopedia is supposed to be written in such a way that someone with basically a High School education can understand it. Or at least link to articles designed with such people in mind. Blooddraken (talk) 10:24, 7 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Nonmathematical explanation?

message: Could anybody explain why Note 1 is included? In field theory equations of motion tend not to refer to translations, rotations or oscillations.
GaramondQ (talk) 14:52, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is the purpose of note 1? 

message: Both in the initial summary of the topic and in a later section (Further studies) a few lines have been recently added:
"On 1 October 2023, astronomers proposed a new, more comprehensive, view of the cosmos, and which includes all objects in the universe, and suggested that the universe may have begun with instantons, and may be a black hole."
This being current ongoing research, I don't think it should appear in the summary of the article, and possibly not at all. It seems to me advertisement of someone's research rather than informative material. MatthiasCarosi (talk) 12:55, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speculation in the summary
Talk:The Gray Race

message: This article seems to be focused on the negative reactions of Brett and has an overall negative tone. It is important to note Graffin was not on good terms with Gurewitz especially so short after his departure. His opinions were probably out of anger. Alot of this article infers it was a forgetful album which it was surely not, it is generally regarded as easily the best album without Brett.
It's reaction with fans seems pretty mixed. Alot liked the unique, melow, and melodic, feeling to the album. I have not been a fan of the band for long so perhaps someone with more knowledge can fill us in on the reaction this album had upon release and it's reputation amongst fans.
Jabso 10:38, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Negativity of this article 

message: I don’t know how to fix it, I tried. Sorry! UsersLikeYou (talk) 06:13, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Under the references subsection - ??? 

message: I've loved this album for a while now but never really understood the album cover or if there is any meaning behind it. 2600:1700:EC87:C090:C4F3:FA4C:E4CC:1C0 (talk) 16:56, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is the meaning of the album cover?