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Talk:Zmeu

message: Any relation to Tolkien's dragon Smaug?
:well, in any case, chronologically, Zmeu was way before Smaug. :) IleanaCosanziana 00:13, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Smaug

message: I think the title "Romanian dragon" is not very good because zmeu is not the only type of Romanian dragon, as we also have the balaur. We'd better move it back to zmeu. bogdan | Talk 20:21, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. To me a Balaur is as much a dragon as a Zmeu is. DEX even defines Balaur as "a Dragon", among its definitions. ---Decius 20:24, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Romanian dragon 

message: Hercules "retrieved" the golden apples only in the loosest sense; the apples grew in the Hesperides and were not stolen.  Much closer analogies are:  Tsarevitch Ivan, the Fire Bird and the Gray Wolf, The Golden Bird, The Golden Mermaid, The Nine Peahens and the Golden Apples.  Though the zmeu does appear to be unique in that, from this article, it doesn't appear to be even bird-like.  Goldfritha 17:55, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Hercules

message: Has the Zmeu been somehow linked to vampires? I have read that its been the case.
Heres the excerpt I found. Zmeu= Area from/Nationality: Moldavia. Vampiric figure that takes the form of a flame and entered the room of a young girl or widow. Once inside the flame became a man who seduced her The Unbeholden (talk) 18:28, 11 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Zmeu is an unhuman creature, like a big, tall, sturdy, disgusting ogre with reptilian skin, it has a great physical strength. Sometimes there are 3 zmeu brothers and Făt-Frumos must fight each one of them in order to <something>: first the little one, then the middle one, last the older one, which is the most powerful. Sometimes a mother-zmeu is involved, if so, she is usually the strongest in the family. Unlike a zmeu, or zmeu-brothers which usually have only great physical strength, the mother-zmeu (and zmeu-daughters/daughters-in-law if ever involved) is much more frightful: she can morph into poisonous trees or fountains, or flowers, she can fly at high speed and blow fire or hot air etc. No connection with vampires. Unlike dragons, they are antropomorphic, although both are reptilians. --Alex:D (talk) 19:21, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Zmeu and Vampires

message: No matter how hard the Romanians try to prove that zmei is an Romanian or any other ancient fantasy word,it remains a non-sense and clear speculation. Daco-trakian languages are very unknown because they had no letter to write,and just a few tracian words are known for us."Zmei" is not from them. Zmei in russian, bulgarian and serbian languages means "snake". The word Zmei comes from the Slavic word for earth which is zemia. The root is proto-slavic rood "zm""zum". Zmei means a snake, or animal dwelling on the the earth (zemia),so that is called a zmei.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nix1129 (talk • contribs) 14:21, 29 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  No matter
Talk:Doxapram

message: In accordance with Wikipedia:WikiProject_Drugs naming policy, I propose we move this page to the INN doxapram. If you have any concern with this proposal, please discuss it on this page. Matt 16:12, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

message: The addition of a pharmocodynamic section would benefit this article greatly. It would allow the reader to better understand the mechanism of action of Doxapram. 
----
Edited second sentence of introduction/summary on this page.  It initially read: 
"Administered intravenously, doxapram stimulates the respiratory rate, leading to an increase in tidal volume." 
As a second sentence, this immediately led me to distrust the rest of the article.  An increase in resp rate (RR) does not *cause* an increase in tidal volume (Vt); in fact, it can do the reverse.  (Increased RR (or Vt) does lead to an increase in *minute* volume (unless it's offset by another effect), but that is not what the sentence was saying). 
I checked various sources to ascertain doxapram's effect on RR and Vt.  The March '08 British National Formulary, and Rang & Dale's Pharmacology 6th Ed. (2008) were silent.  Drugs.com  states the Vt increase is the primary effect, with RR increase taking a secondary role.  As I did not want to change an introductory sentence on the basis of information from one other website (despite the weight of its source info (Physician's Desk Reference etc)), I also found a journal article on Doxapram in cats. .  This found an increase in both Vt and RR (amongst other effects).  Clearly, one still cannot be causal to the other.
I therefore settled for not explicity stating that one had a greater increase than the other, but did place Vt first, so as to insinuate its greater importance.  I retained the correct hyperlinks, and removed the cause/effect wording, which appears to stem from a misunderstanding of Vt versus RR.  Please amend if I am incorrect (I'm new to editing Wikipaedia)!   Shane Wilde (talk) 08:02, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mechanism of action
Talk:Ultima X: Odyssey

message: I think that example about the virtue system is very faulty. It lacks in substance and is too subjective.
--Sheng Long Gradilla 16:44, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Virtue System 

message: The article states: "...the real reason behind the cancellation was the fact that EA decided to move the UXO development team from Austin, Texas to another facility in California. Most of the developers couldn't cope with the move because it would mean they would have to go away from their families and friends in Austin. Since the developers didn't move and EA chose not to give time to the new developer team based in California to figure out the already existent code, it was decided to cancel the debut of the last game of the Ultima Series." This seems to contain either speculation or insider information. At minimum, these claims need a citation. My recollection from the time is that there was considerable speculation that the game simply wasn't turning out to be fun. Baldrake 22:13, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reasons for Cancellation 
Talk:GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders

message: This is just a quick note that past entries for this article were wrong about the meaning of the acronym 'GLAD', (saying that it is a play on the word 'gay'). 'GLAD' is nothing more than an acronym for Gay and Lesbian Advocates and Defenders. Hey8 17:16, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Shoals, Indiana

message: Sounds like a tiny town, but there are a lot more than 807 people who call Shoals home.  There are hundreds more in the rural areas within the Shoals school district who list Shoals as their home and who use the stores and services in Shoals.  Shoals has a good school system (K-12), a nice library, a modern supermarket, an old-fashioned but well-supplied dime store, a clothing store, a couple of eating establishments, a bar, two gas stations, a hardware store, a bank, video rental store, and probably a few more things I haven't thought of.  It's a great little town!— Preceding unsigned comment added by  138.162.0.37  (talk • contribs)  17:19, 22 December 2004‎ 
: The population of a municipality refers only to those who live within the corporate limits. Kurt Weber 14:01, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Trzebinia

message: During Second World War.
--Molobo (talk) 21:26, 22 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  I added on German massacre  

message: Very Poor Standard article. Extremely lacking in links, references and documentation
"One of the largest camps", yet no numbers given? One link as reference?? Nunamiut (talk) 07:34, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Very Poor Standard article.
Talk:Golem

message: The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker (2013, HarperCollins Publishers) is a wonderful book about a golem and should be added to the book list regarding golem. 72.76.133.254 (talk) 16:43, 21 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  the golem, fiction 

message: Per MOS:POPCULT, entries in an "in popular culture" section need to include reliable sourcing indicating the entry's significance to the subject. It's up to those wanting to add content to provide sufficient sourcing. Nikkimaria (talk) 00:13, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: By continuing to edit-war over this section you risk being blocked from editing. Policy is quite clear on the matter: it's up to you to provide appropriate sourcing for what you want to add, before it can be added. Nikkimaria (talk) 14:12, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  In popular culture 

message: Not sure if someone selected the wrong photo or what, but there is an image of the Old New Synagogue captioned "with rungs of the la leading to the attic", but there is no ladder anywhere in the photo. Yes, it's the same synagogue, but the caption is totally confusing. I found several other photos that actually show the ladder as described, and which would be much better choices for the caption, so readers don't have to waste time poring over the image trying to figure out where the ladder is, and then going to the article to try to figure out the mystery. 
Idumea47b (talk) 22:05, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I undid the edit that changed the photo. If reverted, it definitely needs a new caption. --Onorem (talk) 23:38, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Old New Synagogue" 

message: Addition Printphi (talk) 03:16, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Film and television 

message: There are a lot of games Golem exists in like Terraria and Minecraft and you should add it like other popular culture. 176.59.164.169 (talk) 11:37, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Golem in popular culture: Games
Talk:Slipway

message: I'm posting this on the talk pages of the related articles, in the hope of unifying them.
I've just discovered the very haphazard nature of articles relating to the various methods of (for want of a completely neutral discriptor) removing a boat or ship from the water. There is lots of crisscrossing going on between dry dock, slipway, patent slip, marine railway, shiplift .... There isn't even a page for the most common name of one method (albeit a brand name), Travelift, or lift ship, as used for the USS Cole.
I suggest the following reorganization:
*Drydock - with Floating Drydock and Graving Dock as subsections (pretty much as-is)
*Lift Dock - with Shiplift as a redirect (this because the same basic concept is applied to vessels from the smallest to the really big)
*Marine Railway - with Patent slip as a redirect
*Boat Ramp - with Slipway as a redirect
*Travelift
*Lift Ship
Each article would have a common set of links to the others. 
Also, I think a distinction needs to be made between launching ways that have no means to haul a vessel out, and a true marine railway.
Comments? Pjbflynn 06:53, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think it is too regional. As I understand it from my own experience in the United States, the American usage is the same as the Australian one: a "slipway" implies heavier things, with a keel-supporting structure, whereas a "boat ramp" implies a small craft area using a trailer or hands (in the case of kayacks or canoes). Perhaps there is a technical dictionary somewhere to answer this? Morgan Riley (talk) 23:28, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Various hauling methods 

message: In his book "Fifty Years a Shipbuilder" (published by The Memoir Club in 2006)Macrocompassion (talk) 16:31, 19 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slipway launching described
Talk:Hispano-Suiza 12Z

message: I'm reasonably certain that the "hp" (horsepower) that were original to this article were CV or PS (735.5 W) rather than the British horsepower (745.7 W), so the conversions from "hp" to kilowatts are off by a little bit.  Gene Nygaard 19:33, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Arsenal VG-33

message: I'm reasonably certain that the "hp" (horsepower) that were original to this article were CV or PS (735.5 W) rather than the British horsepower (745.7 W), so the conversions from "hp" to kilowatts are off by a little bit, as are the "kW" in the table without any horsepower equivalent.  Gene Nygaard 19:35, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Southern Netherlands

message: The names should be changed to match the names of the period:
* the Netherlands -> the Low Countries when referring to the 17 provinces
* the Netherlands -> The Union of Utrecht/the United Provinces when referring to the independant provinces of the Low Countries
:: This should be okay now. --Joy [shallot] 01:54, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  I moved it all to "Southern ..." because that seems neutral enough to encompass "Spanish ..." and "Austrian ...", and then redirected those two terms over here (previously the latter was inaccurately pointing at the Seventeen Provinces). I guess if "Southern ..." is also too specific, the years could be included in the title. --Joy [shallot] 01:54, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Names

message: A map might be useful to illustrate this subject.  What about this one?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:The_Low_Countries.png
Indisciplined 12:18, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Map

message: Just some snapshots of bombastic peacock wording:
:section Place in the broader Netherlands:
:* Netherlands in general were a jewel in ...
:* in their proud defence of ancient privileges ...
I'm neutral towards the sides this old war, so I don't like being maneuvered into a certain emotional attitude (imagine a tone of deep scorn here!) when neutrally reading what they did in the late 1600ths. In wikipedia language the above examples are WP:PEACOCK wordings, and deviates from WP:NPOV. Rursus dixit. (mbork3!) 15:16, 31 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Peacock wording
Talk:Cottage industry

message: -- not much of an article yet, but this was on the article request list...
I'll look up the origins of the term and include something more specific...Morris 19:41, Dec 22, 2004 (UTC)
no domestic and cottage mean two entirely different things.--Rsrikanth05 13:28, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

message: I have looked at the comments in which someone else proposed merges.  There are lots of assertions that they are different, but no further detail.  Please sign in, agree or disagree, provide detail why, and then sign your comment (4 tildas) Ehusman 03:26, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge discussion
Talk:Potassium permanganate

message: There's a section in this article entitled "Medical Uses" (a subheading in the "Uses" heading) that contains  a link to a second article entitled "Potassium permanganate (medical use)" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium_permanganate_(medical_use). 
While the second article does add important information, it repeats some the information already in this article, and it's lacking in key technical details that are already in this article. It also contains a subheading entitled "medical uses", which is already the title of that article. That just adds to the confusion. 
The second article seems redundant and potentially confusing to the reader. 
Unless there are objections, I propose merging the other article into this one. For simplicity it might make sense to just create a dedicated "medical uses" heading, then bring everything over from the second article, and delete extraneous information that is already mentioned elsewhere here. 
I'll give this a try. Will post an update on progress. Betsy Rogers (talk) 22:44, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal
Talk:Great Depression/Archive 1

message: *I just read this article for the first time, and was immediately struck by how biased it is. Much of the text is judgmental and does not present a "neutral" point of view. For example, the phrase "maldistribution of purchasing power" contains an assumption about what would be "good" or "bad" distributions. Putting to one side the debate about how purchasing power was actually distributed ( in itself a difficult subject, and one that continues to be debated ), it would surely be more in keeping with the spirit of Wikipedia to avoid making judgments of this kind. - IM.
**Exactly the same as my first thought. - 20:04, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Maldistribution" 

message: You may not be able to convince anyone of anything hat they don't want to believe. Just put the numbers there and let people decide for themselves. Here are some of them, 
, I'll try to find all of them. - Jerryseinfeld 20:34, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Just put the numbers there

message: Longwave Economics (see Kondraitiev wave) researchers document that similar Great Depressions, Persistent Recessions and Panics have occurred cyclically in regular 40 to 65 year cycles in Capitalist Economies; documented in academic papers and books based on records back to 1763 BCE. The Code of Hammurabi, for example, confirmed that Depressions (periods of high inequity) were corrected by "Jubilees" (wealth distributing Government Policy) every 50-years as required to prevent revolution and social collapse problems proactively.
This section is lacking and does not reference what was originally called the "Great Depression" and now is called the Long Depression. This Depression hit Europe in the late 1800's, and was long and severe there, but mostly missed the US.
Historians seem more then a bit confused on what happened in the US during this period. Some seem to think it was a period of slow growth full of panics, others that is was the most exceptional period of growth in US history. The US passed England as the #1 economic power during this time frame which supports the fast growth camp.71.174.141.198 (talk) 22:06, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: it was the decade BEFORE world war two (which started in 1939). Rjensen (talk) 03:48, 17 April 2014 (UTC)

text: Not done: this is the talk page for discussing improvements to the page :Great Depression/Archive 1. Please make your request at the talk page for the article concerned. SparklingPessimist Scream at me! 22:14, 10 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section on Other depressions
Talk:Marshall McLuhan/Refactoring discussion

message: Several folks have noted that this article needs serious work.  I propose the following tasks:
# Build a new 'basic' outline and 'ideal' outline
# Fill out the basic outline
# Move the basic outline into the main article
# Add to the article to bring in the content from the 'ideal' outline
--Chris vLS 20:22, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed work

message: Whaddya think? --Chris vLS 20:22, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: One model we can look to is the outline for Noam Chomsky.  --Chris vLS 20:22, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Task 1A: 'Basic' outline

message: This section should remain blank until we agree on the basic outline above. -- Chris vLS 20:22, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Task 2: Fill out the basic outline

message: This section is for discussing whether the section above is ready to go live. -- Chris vLS 20:22, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Task 3: Move the basic outline into the main article

message: Probably don't need this section, really. It will just be normal operations here. --Chris vLS 20:22, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Task 4: Add to the article to bring in the content from the ideal outline.
Talk:Sharon Osbourne

message: How come does neither this nor Ozzy's article mention their recent separation?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.145.195.17 (talk) 08:27, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: give them and the family respect.. Think about it,, let's post my family and yours, now that would be scary, but no one would care or take time to posts 2600:100B:B008:B17F:59B2:5075:82F0:3A71 (talk) 23:35, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ozzy and Sharon separation 

message: Here is where Sharon says 6 months, not 3 https://    youtu.be    /1HTpFIpdpIo?t=1092  Zdawg1029 (talk) 02:10, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Attempted Murder part 

message: So fuck Anne Frank? 2600:6C52:4000:7DD8:61D9:1B46:3777:1CEF (talk) 03:16, 12 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Most successful autobiography "
Talk:Penalty shoot-out (association football)

message: As mentioned in "Some Notes" the rule about the second coin toss is only summarised in the article.  The full text in the source cited is:   "The referee tosses a coin again and the team that wins the toss decides whether to take the first or second kick"
This is significant since a recent study in Games and Economic Behaviorhas shown that winning this toss is a strong predictor as to who will win the shootout.
04:20, 25 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coin toss 

message: Under Origin, Pavllo Bukoviku scored all 5 penallties in KF Tirana's (then named "17 Nëntori") win against KS Besa. BeerBaron20 (talk) 09:36, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 12:27, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 17 January 2022 

message: "kickers" links to Placekicker which has nothing to do with Association Football. 2A01:4C8:1481:901F:1117:A2CB:F7D1:1A65 (talk) 08:06, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: @2A01:4C8:1481:901F:1117:A2CB:F7D1:1A65 I'd change this myself if I wasn't on mobile! 2A01:4C8:1481:901F:1117:A2CB:F7D1:1A65 (talk) 08:07, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove link to Placekicker in first paragraph 

message: Are the first 5 pairs of kicks. and/or their early termination once a victor is determined, really called "best-of-five kicks"?  In contrast, a "best-of-five series" of matches is one that ends when a team achieves 3 victories ... which isn't what is happening with penalty shootouts. —Quantling (talk | contribs) 16:52, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Best of five kicks
Talk:Philadelphia Highway Patrol

message: A police buff here, but not from Philadelphia; anyone with more info on this unit is encouraged to lengthen the article, especially in regards to the HP's status as a hyper-elite unit in the 1960s and its present-day status. The PPD website gives no information on this unit -- is it more secretive now, or possibly defunct? Sol. v. Oranje 20:39, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Highway still exists, it is listed on the PPD site. I don't much about them either except their cars were numbered beginning with X, and I think they used to be based out of the same building as the 7th.RobTalk 04:34, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I read the article a little more closely, I don't know if the unit was disbanded.RobTalk 04:36, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Unit
Talk:New York City Police Department Highway Patrol

message: Learned of this unit after moving to New York, but feel there could be more info on it. Anyone familiar with the HP feel there's anything to add here? Sol. v. Oranje 20:41, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)

message: A lot of the content on this page was directly copied from the NYPD Highway District Website.  The article is great, so I don't want to change it...I just question whether or not we are allowed to do that.
--Alphachimp 21:46, 25 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The homepage for 'em shows the Patrol Services Bureau logo with "Highway District" -- is this incorrect? Bullneck 03:12, 14 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Directly Copied 

message: Suggestion that the Auxilliary Highway Unit be moved from this page to the NYPD Auxilliary Police page, or brought down on this page deeming a lower priority in lieu for sworn officers. Hwy505 04:56, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've no problem moving the Aux section down the page to better reflect on sworn HWY members. Is there a third in support? Sol. v. Oranje 19:53, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  AUX HWY Section 
Talk:Timothy O'Hea

message: What's "during the Canada"?  Was this supposed to refer to some particular event in Canadian history?
For now, I have changed it to "stationed in Canada" which would appear to be true even if there is some specific event supposed to be referenced here.  Gene Nygaard 20:45, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled