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Talk:William Colgate

message: I've reverted to a previous version, removing a paragraph which appears to have been cut-and-pasted from here, which leads to copyright questions, if nothing else. Cheers, LindsayHi 17:16, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cutandpaste 

message: In the history section, it says "he gave the following account to the writer of this sketch".  Colgate died in 1857 and this is in fact coming from the first external link of the article.  I guess it should be rewritten.85.1.37.174 (talk) 12:26, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks like the external link may have, in turn, copied the text from Everts's 1883 The Baptist Encyclopaedia. That would make the text public domain. We should credit the original source, but have no obligation to rewrite it. Pburka (talk) 13:45, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, thanks.  What do you think of removing the words "to the writer of this sketch"?  This is to not surprise the reader as to the author/date of the article.85.1.37.174 (talk) 23:51, 28 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Go ahead. I have no opinion on the quality of the article, just on its legality. Pburka (talk) 01:01, 29 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cut and paste #2 

message: Most of this article seems to have been copied from this web page:
http://www.reformedreader.org/colgate.htm
I would suggest that the article needs a complete re-write, with large sections deleted due to copyright violations. Much of the (copied) text is rather archaic in tone in any case. There is an air of hagiography about it, too. 
Marchino61 (talk) 04:10, 25 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plagiarism? 

message: I cannot find mention of Colgate's founding of Biblica. I think that is noteable. Nikolaih☎️📖 20:50, 24 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biblica Inc 

message: The anecdotal quote in "Personal life" states that he went to New York City at the age of 16 looking for work. That would have been in 1799, but the "Career" section has him going to New York in 1804, when he would have been 21. I also agree with Marchino61 on the hagiographical bent of the "Personal life" section -- I understand Wikipedia articles are supposed to be objective and neutral as concerns religious or political matters but this sounds like a sermon. Death Bredon (talk) 20:06, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  When to New York?
Talk:Vila Real District

message: Can post-2011 election results be added. Jackiespeel (talk) 17:32, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Elections 
Talk:Truncatable prime

message: article does not address if there are prime truncatable both right and left, or for that matter a proof they eithr do or do not exist. -- Cimon Avaro; on a pogostick. 18:32, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have added "two-sided primes", primes which are both left-truncatable and right-truncatable, to the article. PrimeHunter 15:12, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  All but four of these are also left-and-right truncatable: 2, 3, 5, 7, 23, 37, 53, 73, 373, 3137, 3797. Would these be "three-sided"? -- DewiMorgan (talk) 15:21, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  I haven't found any use of that name. They are in OEIS:A284060 with no name. Wikipedia does not invent names. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:53, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Two-sided primes

message: How can it be known that there is a bound on the number of truncatable primes? 85.166.78.90 (talk) 20:03, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's easy to make an exhaustive computer search in base 10 by starting with one-digit primes and trying to add digits to the start (left-truncatable) or end (right-truncatable) while keeping it a prime. I and many others have done it. I think my exhaustive search took less than a second on a PC. It gets harder for bases significantly above 10 when there are a lot of possible digits to add. There are left-truncatable base counts in oeis:A076623 and right-truncatable in oeis:A076586. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:06, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The rules must be changed to give something computationally challenging in base 10. http://www.primepuzzles.net/puzzles/puzz_131.htm studies a case where the truncation doesn't have to end with a one-digit prime (or equivalently that addition of digits can start from a multidigit prime). There I wrote: "96842946512633189183337876922083307 is the smallest (and only known) prime which can be truncated more times than the largest left-truncatable prime". The truncation ends with 76922083307. The next number 6922083307 is composite. PrimeHunter (talk) 01:20, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Bound on count
Talk:John Bois

message: John Bois and John Boys are about the same person, so they should be merged.  The article can be under either name (I don't know which one is more appropriate), but the two articles should be merged. -- Natalya 18:37, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: They don't seem to be the same person at all.  One is a military commander, the other is a translator. Deb 12:02, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oops!  My mistake, I meant to address this article and John Boys (scholar).  You've already made a redirect to this article though, so it's all set.  Thanks for pointing out the mistake. :) -- Natalya 19:54, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merging articles

message: An IP user keeps replacing a reference to one Jon Bois here.  This Jon Bois is a sports blogger and appears not to be notable (he has no wiki page).  I've reverted a couple of times, but don't want this to degenerate into a slow-speed revert war.  COI declaration: I am a remote descendant of John Bois (scholar).  In view of the potential COI, can others please comment on whether Jon Bois (blogger) needs to be referenced in the hat note lead.  Thanks. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 16:51, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jon Bois (blogger)
Talk:Carbon in pulp

message: I'm with Dannown on the spelling of adsorb and desorb.  Is this a British English vs. American English thing?  I didn't think so, I think it's just wrong.  Adsorption is correct.  Adsorb and adsorbent are correct.  Ditto desorb.BSMet94 18:37, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling adsorb 

message: What is the pulp ? eg. is it the ore, or something that holds the activated carbon, or the source material for the activated carbon ? - Rod57 (talk) 14:17, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is the pulp
Talk:Roger Sweet

message: This page is (hilariously) mean-spirited in its language and veers a bit too close to original research. MKV 18:38, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not seeing mean-spirited language (looks like there's been a lot of editing going on), just an insanely long and largely off-topic screed which smells distinctly of personal involvement.  The primary section (weirdly titled "The Originator: The Proof.") strongly feels like it wasn't originally written for Wikipedia.  The second section (even more weirdly titled "Reply – No Controversy – The Proof") is some kind of message board rebuttle to criticism of the primary section, and it most definitely does not belong in the article itself.  The whole article is laughably inappropriate for Wikipedia, reads like the website of a mild schizophrenic, and doesn't even include biographical data on its subject.  I'm halfway to nominating it for deletion. 159.53.110.142 16:51, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV 

message: Seriously, this thing needs major attention or I'm just gonna cut it down to the bare essentials.  It's far too long, sourced entirely from one book and written extremely poorly.  As it stands it is useless as an encyclopedia article. Rhindle The Red 03:43, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Please take a look at Wikipedia:Guide to writing better articles.  There are many ways that this article is deficient.
#It lacks a proper introduction.
#It lacks a proper tone.
#Paragraphs are alternatively too long (rambling on and on) or too short (one sentence).
#Sections are too long and unfocused.
#It is, frankly, poorly written.  (Example: "The Mattel Most Creative Toy award in 1984 was received by Sweet for his origination creativity of the Masters Dragon Walker.")
#It strays off topic, discussing the nature of creativity, which is not relevant to the subject matter.
#Extrene POV: It declares many things to be the "best", "most creative", etc., which is a subjective opinion, not properly encyclopedic.
#The entire "Reply – No Controversy – The Proof" section has absolutely no business being in an Encyclopedia article.
You say there are several sources, yet I see none listed or mentioned (besides reviews of the book, which are not actual sources).  If you understand the subject so well, feel free to fix the article.  If not, please do not interfere in an honest attempt to make the Wikipedia a more successful endeavor. Rhindle The Red 03:55, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup
Talk:Buchen

message: Energyworm (talk) 16:32, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation from the German Wikipedia 

message: I have translated the paragraph on Media with some difficulty, since I am not familiar with transmitters; I believe I have conveyed the sense of the original German Wikipedia article, but I have misgivings about the phrase 'fed from the nadir':fußpunktgespeister selbststrahlender Sendemast diente und gegen Erde isoliert ist. Maybe someone will correct it if I have the phrasing wrong. Energyworm (talk) 10:49, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Media 

message: Hinz är en kranaffär i Borlänge.
Chef just nu heter Magnus Hinz. 
Hans barn jobbar mycket där.
Jacob Hinz & Linnea Hinz.
PLATS: Romme  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.233.98.207 (talk) 20:11, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hinz 

message: I removed the Translate tag as it didn't point to the correct page and there doesn't seem to be an obvious way of making it do so. It links to the German page Buchen which corresponds to Beech. It needs to link to Buchen (Odenwald). SiGarb | (Talk) 16:23, 22 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation tag
Talk:List of lieutenant governors of Alberta

message: As of today she is not yet the LG. She will take office at an unspecified future date. I am therefore changing the article to state that Lois Mitchell remains in office.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:246:CB00:3110:E000:E6F4:9A21:F82 (talk) 19:31, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Salma Lakhani
Talk:List of census divisions of Alberta

message: A good faith move of List of census divisions in Alberta to List of census divisions of Alberta, without discussion, with the rationale of "to be consistent with other census divisions lists", has resulted in an inconsistency. It is now inconsistent with, possibly among others:
*List of communities in Alberta;
*List of cities in Alberta;
*List of towns in Alberta;
*List of villages in Alberta;
*List of summer villages in Alberta;
*List of hamlets in Alberta;
*List of designated places in Alberta;
*List of settlements in Alberta;
*List of unincorporated communities in Alberta;
*List of municipal districts in Alberta; and
*List of Indian reserves in Alberta.
Any suggestions on how this inconsistency should be resolved? Hwy43 (talk) 18:53, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I can understand the difference, there are multiple towns in Alberta, but the province isn't divided into towns, it is divided into census divisions. For another example, there are multiple mayors in Alberta, but no one is a mayor of Alberta, there are premiers of Alberta. 117Avenue (talk) 20:10, 4 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: 117 Avenue, Forgive that I have found your comment and associated edit summary a tad ambiguous.Are you advising that you support the move to "...of Alberta" in this case?And are you suggesting that since the sum of all census divisions (in terms of area) equals the province (in terms of area), using of would be favourable over in this case? Hwy43 (talk) 03:57, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. I believe that a census division is "of the province" and not "in the province". The province has been divided into these census divisions, hence the name. 117Avenue (talk) 05:39, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay. I see your perspective. So the 10 list articles I provided above are things "in the province", whereas census divisions are "of the province". This is satisfactory and my reservations are quelled. I'll go through what links here and avoid the redirects.I wonder if there are any candidates at Index of Alberta-related articles that should be changed from in to of or vice versa based on this discussion. A task for a rainy day perhaps. Hwy43 (talk) 06:12, 5 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Undiscussed move
Talk:Demographics of Alberta

message: Badly, badly, needed.  Kevlar67 02:15, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ported over the mother language-2001 census data from statcan. --Qyd 18:19, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needed: Language section 

message: if somebody can,we need a page showing birthrates, deathrates, net migration, age cohorts, like on all the demographics pages.Raspberrysnapple 04:20, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add a statistics page 

message: I added info on language from 2006 census. 
Do you think we still need to keep the 2001 data on the page?
--Paulalexdij (talk) 21:57, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Languages and Population geography 

message: I've just cleaned up this section, dividing the original three-in-one table into separate tables based on StatCan geographic type. I also revised the thresholds for census subdivisions from 12,500 to 10,000, and urban areas from 6,250 and 5,000. The new thresholds are more logical and common thresholds for population lists. Although it may not have been intended as promotion, the previous milestone endpoints concluded with Leduc County and Devon, where coincidentally the latter is within the former. Therefore, the threshold revisions address any perceived promotion of this sub-area within the Edmonton Capital Region. I intend to continue verifying/adding population numbers from past censuses in the coming days. Cheers, Hwy43 (talk) 06:37, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population geography 

message: Other than 50,000 reportedly to stated "USA" or having United States/American origins, it's not fully known how many Albertans are of American or United States origins, due to a large influx of settlers from the United States of America in various times came into the province during the 19th (farmers and homesteaders) and 20th centuries (ranchers and oil refinery workers), along with an open border between the two countries. Calgary is said to hold the largest American-Canadian population in Canada by percentage (about 10%), but Edmonton and Red Deer may hold higher numbers of persons whose families had originated from the U.S. American-Canadians in Alberta includes white Europeans often of Southeastern background, many are Black or African-Americans, some Mexican-Texans from Texas and Mexican immigrants as well, Chinese and other Asians unable to become U.S. citizens in the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Acts, and American Indians from Oklahoma and other states.  67.49.89.214 (talk) 19:10, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  US Americans in Alberta
Talk:Nordic Figure Skating Championships

message: I'm a bit puzzled by the Junior ice dancing/pairs results tables. While the references seem to support them, I still can't see what Germans, Czechs, Brits, Estonians or Hungarians would be doing in a Nordic competition? While the definition may vary, my understanding of Nordic would be Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Danish or Finish. Assuming that the tables are accurate, some explanation for this 'irregularity' might be helpful.
More importantly, the link for John Horne is currently to a page about a long since deceased Scottish geologist, which is clearly... 'not as intended.' I can't find a page for the skater & I don't know if it's possible to get the link to be red (I.e. to a page stating that "Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name") since there is a page with 'this exact name.' However, the current situation is probably worthy of remedy (?)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.229.172.13 (talk) 06:13, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Links & eligibility
Talk:Politics of Saskatchewan

message: This article should be careful not to duplicate History of Saskatchewan.  Instead of (only) a timeline, it should mention political cleavages (e.g. white-native, urban-rural), political culture (parties and their ideologies), and how sask ridings vote federally and provincially. Kevlar67 20:52, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not a Timeline 

message: The "SDAP" isn't even an official political party in the Province of Saskatchewan, has never held a seat in the legislature, and isn't even a force.  At best, its a spoof of the NDP and the Saskatchewan Party.
Any comments entered by this 'SDAP' vandal should be removed at once.
207.195.45.62 21:39, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Furthermore, if this really is being edited by someone from within the SDAP I can hardly see how that is objective.Wolfrock 23:39, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "SDAP" 

message: I'm just curious as to why Jim Pankiw has been removed (by an unregistered editor originally) from the list of nationally notable federal politicians from Saskatchewan. Pankiw was in the national news for criticizing official bilingualism, as well as for his controversial stances on Aboriginal rights. Certainly among Aborigianl Canadians he is nationally recognizable. It seems like the anonymous editor who removed him is trying to present an overly positive view of politicians from Saskatchewan. Theres no need to "whitewash" things here.
As for Saskatoon mayor Don Atchison being voted "Craziest Mayor in Canada" by Rick Mercer's Monday Report, I don't see why this shouldn't be included under municipal politics as the editor also removed (see Don Atchison). Its not point of view, its a fact that a nationally known satire show bestowed this "honour." 
Wikipedia should be impartial and not shy away from highlighting the bad with the good. Any thoughts? ==Wyldkat==
The one thing about Pankiw is that is he going to be notable in a few years amognst the general population? There is nothing wrong with including an individual whose image is not the most positive but I am not sure if Pankiw is really notable.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.197.233.28 (talk) 04:33, 2 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Don Atchison and Jim Pankiw
Talk:Geography of Manitoba

message: Please look at this section for a start. It really could use some extensive editing.--Stormbay 01:43, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Landscape past and present - rewrites 

message: Several articles, including the main Manitoba article, say part of the NWT borders Manitoba too (the article 60th parallel north indicates 400 m). This article should reflect this. 70.72.215.252 (talk) 23:36, 22 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: NWT bordering?

message: The article now says "In elevation, Manitoba ranges from 490 ft (150 m) to 980 ft (300 m) above sea level. Baldy Mountain, the highest elevation, is at 2727 ft (831 m)." On the shore of Hudson Bay, it is at sea level and if Baldy Mountain is the highest point, 2727 ft is the highest elevation. I propose changing it to read  I can't find a reliable source on line, and I recognize that this is original research, so let me know if I'm missing something. Thank you.   SchreiberBike | ⌨ 
:Change made.  SchreiberBike | ⌨  22:49, 27 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Elevation 
Talk:List of regions of Manitoba

message: What is the purpose of regions in Manitoba? Do they have an administration, a capital city, a regional parliament? Or do they only exist for statistical reasons. Kallewirsch (talk) 15:54, 4 August 2011 (UTC)
Talk:Rancho Seco Nuclear Generating Station

message: I've found and watchlisted this starter article, which can be fairly easily expanded.  Since I may not get to it very efficiently, here's some suggestions to anyone who passes through:
The article reference structure needs some fixing, and an entry should be put in the WP article List_of_civilian_nuclear_accidents#1970s, to note the 1978 generator dryout incident, which is notable per the NRC source.
There are numerous apparently reliable sources (Sacramento Bee, etc) readily available through online search that describe the maintenance and safety failures that occurred at the plant (many of which were not publicized until years later).  
Separately and similarly, there are also sources online that discuss how the plant was not economical, never reached its planned level of productivity, and led to the huge increases in utility bills to SMUD's customers that sources indicate likely prompted the successful ballot initiative which ultimately closed the plant (rather than or at least in addition to emergency incidents and safety concerns). Steveozone (talk) 23:39, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm sure some article somewhere mentions that the contractor was Bechtel, along with other pertinent information that should be included.  Personally, I worked on this monstrosity when I was in college as a summer job and in my opinion it was a clusterfuck of the first order.  Wastrel Way (talk) 02:18, 12 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  General Article Improvements 

message: Is SMUD truly the "operator" of this thing?  It is NOT operational anymore.  They are charged with keeping the area safe for recreational and presumably other uses, but is "operation" truly the correct term for this since it isn't operating as what it was designed to be.  2600:1004:B16D:C243:4CD3:E8C8:7183:9BCC (talk) 02:34, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  "operator"?
Talk:List of male bullfighters

message: Why is there both a List of bullfighters article and a List of female bullfighters article? Shouldn't this article be a list of "male bullfighters"? I've added a note to the lead explaining the difference. Donna Spencertalk-to-me⛅ 17:14, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Female bullfighters in separate list?
Talk:Arare (food)

message: Arare existed in Hawai'i far earlier than the 1990's. It was spoken of 
as always having been there in the 1950's.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.235.26.253 (talk) 06:31, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arare in Hawai'i 

message: Nearly 8 years ago, someone placed a tag on this article. In part, it reads
Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Something should be done about this or the article redirected to another, say "List of Japanese snacks". A redirect would preserve the text to make it easier for resurrection. Vanguard10 (talk) 19:12, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  sources needed