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Talk:Vector potential

message: This article needs to include a relativistic treatment using differential forms as well. Phys 19:21, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: needs to include a relativistic treatment

message: This article, dealing with a more than 100-year old topic, is mostly original research.  The interpretation is certainly novel, and rests on at least one false assertion: The article states that a vector field which has the same direction at every point must have zero divergence. Also, the calculation of curl curl A in the example is wrong.  The whole thing should be rewritten from scratch. Brian Tvedt 01:25, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh dear, indeed, its a disaster, isn't it.  Unfortunately, many of the articles in WP are in a similar sorry shape; it becomes rather plainly visible when the topic is elementary. linas 05:59, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

text: I was too lazy though to theck the exact conditions when that theorem holds though. Meaning, how smooth the vector field should be and how fast it must decay in order to admit a vector potential. Hope somebody will get to it one day. Oleg Alexandrov 17:01, 18 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article needs a complete rewrite 

message: I'd love it if somebody could add a bit on what the heck use it is.  My experience so far involves a physicist who always worked with A.  I was running physical experiments on the device he had derived a theory for.  He insisted the device would have "no magnetic field".  I whipped out the gaussmeter and measured the magnetic field.  He would not accept the readings, as he considered the B field an illusion.  Yet he was unable to direct me to an instrument that could measure vector potential, and could not convert A to B due to the pesky gauge factor problem.  Tomligon (talk) 22:57, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no instrument that can measure vector potential, since only gauge-invariant quantities are measurable. If he cannot convert A to B, you should tell him that B=curl A. --Steve (talk) 04:58, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Use

message: (copied from above)
Hold on. It is a fact that _any_ smooth vector field defined on all of R^3 which has divergence 0, is the curl of another vector field, is it not? This is the Poincare Lemma. It does not require any assumptions on decaying at infinity! It is only the given formula that would fail to work if we didn't have some nice decay property.
Anyway, the first and primary thing the article should say is, having divergence = 0 and domain all of R^3 is sufficient. I'll start changing it soon, if nobody has any objections. Kier07 (talk) 15:07, 8 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I have only seen this stated with the proviso about decaying at infinity. What you say might be true but I suggest you find it stated explicitly. --Steve (talk) 02:12, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Must the field decay at infinity?

message: — Assignment last updated by Lzepeda12 (talk) 21:07, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: 4A Wikipedia assignment
Talk:Wilson loop

message: Isn't a Wilson loop the path ordered product taken over a closed path and which is then traced over (i.e. its character for some irreducible rep) (resulting in a complex number) while a Wilson line the corresponding untraced (so it still takes on values in the gauge Lie group) product over a path which needn't be closed in general? Wilson lines can be contracted with charged fields at both of its endpoints to give a complex number. Phys 19:28, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Rewrote the entire article, significantly extending it in all directions. After having done as much research as I could, I think that the resulting article is very comprehensive, touching on all the major properties and applications of Wilson loops. The sections of the Makeenko–Migdal equation and the one on the Mandelstam identities should in the future get their own articles, although the summary of them presented in this article should be kept. I'll keep a running tab on additional possible extensions to this article:
* Their role in non-commutative gauge theory (See Makeenko's textbook Chapter 16), 
* Their supersymmetric generalizations and their role in the AdS/CFT correspondance
* Generalized symmetries. 
Also some additional images can be added. OpenScience709 (talk) 22:41, 5 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Complete rewrite
Talk:Liberalism/old version Talk Political liberalism

message: I am planning to integrate the pages on political liberalism and on liberalism into one page, whereby I would try to integrate also the text of the talk page liberalism. I would also merge the talk pages.
Gangulf 11:06, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: The new pages can be found at Political liberalism in Germany, Political liberalism in the Netherlands, Political liberalism in the United Kingdom and Political liberalism in the United States. I deleted the remark in the Dutch page on Belgium. Gangulf 05:44, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)

text: Consequently, while far right wing politics often are debated and voiced in the political world, liberalism has been associated with far-left politics, whose agendas are often voided.
It depends, of course, on what "far" means; but if we interpret this WRT the people in political power, then militarist neoconservatism is not far-right -- while (say) Pat Buchanan gets less attention than the Green Party.
(Yeah, it's pretty sad -- compared to the rest of the First World -- that these are what's on the American political fringe, but still that's what's there!)
-- Toby Bartels 20:13, 14 Feb 2004 (UTC)

message: User:Wilfried Derksen has apparently radically refactored the material from this article. Wilfried, would you please put a note here letting us know to what articles the various parts have been moved, and whether there is any material you have deleted outright? Your 2-word change comment isn't much help to anyone who has had this article on their watchlist and now might want to add the various articles to which the material has been moved. Thanks in advance. -- Jmabel 04:12, Jul 23, 2004 (UTC)
:The new pages can be found at Political liberalism in Germany, Political liberalism in the Netherlands, Political liberalism in the United Kingdom and Political liberalism in the United States. I deleted the remark in the Dutch page on Belgium. Sorry that I didn't mention this before. Gangulf 05:44, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Refactoring

message: I am planning to integrate the pages on political liberalism and on liberalism into one page, whereby I would try to integrate also the text of the talk page liberalism. I would also merge the talk pages.
Gangulf 11:06, 23 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Integration of the articles political liberalism and liberalism with their talk pages
Talk:Yeast artificial chromosome

message: No it does mean Yeast Artificial Chromosome. Fayefox 14:57, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Greetings
I would like to express my respect to the article's author as a Molecular Biology Master's Student in USKUDAR UNIVERSITY ISTANBUL, I found the article quite interesting I had an assignment to edit an article, I was honored to work on this particular article and hopefully bring a simple "add value" to this work Course name: Recent Development in Biotechnology Code: MLC501
  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Djouhaynamaa (talk • contribs) 21:01, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Introducing Myself
Talk:Natasha

message: The part about Natasha in the main Macaque articles has been updated to make it clearer that this is not likely to be evolution, to bring it in line this one. --Zerbey 20:51, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Macaque 

message: In Russia "Natasha" is still a pet name of "Natalia". You will never meet girl with "Natasha" printed in her  birth certificate / passport / license. This is so obvious, that I doubt that it is mentioned in any Russian source. 134.159.163.135 (talk) 06:11, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Usage in Russian 

message: Tasha is a redirect to this page, but where is Tasha in here? Nowhere. If something is redirected, shouldn't it be then addressed? 85.217.46.172 (talk) 17:37, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tasha 

message: "The Indian Hindu name has several meanings in Sanskrit including, 'of subdued desire'." The editor who added this could only have been talking about the Sanskrit natāśā (नताशा) Naθɑːshɑː in IPA, nataashaa in ITRANS, which is नता+आशा nataa+aashaa "subdued desire" while the Russian one is pronounced NaTaaShaa I guess. In any case, there is not even remotely any question of being cognates here. As such this does not deserve an entry here.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Nidhishunnikrishnan (talk • contribs) 14:12, 8 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  About the Hindu Sanskrit origin
Talk:Qatna

message: The intact Royal Tomb of Qatna (the Royal Hypogeum) was a major recent archaeological discovery. So I'm disappointed that the article didn't even have a separate section for this, or didn't highlight it in any way. Y-barton (talk) 15:38, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: And now, as it turns out, there were two intact tomb surprises. The second one, the double-chambered Tomb VII was found in 2009, and it was also full of remarkable objects. I'll put this into the article soon. Y-barton (talk) 02:36, 30 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Royal Tomb 

message: We use archaeological periods when we have nothing else to go by. With the Kingdom of Qatna, we have a clear polity where the sub-headings: zenith - decline ....etc dont make much sense if the main section is simply: Middle Bronze. The readers are not archaeologists and naming the kingdom of Qatna by its corresponding archaeological period will confuse them. Also, it is important to note that Amut-Pi-Il I is not mentioned in connection with Qatna, and that the next mention after the story of Sinuhe is from Mari during the reign of Ishi Addu. Attar-Aram syria (talk) 13:39, 30 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Using Archaeological periods
Talk:Josep Borrell

message: I think that he is in the PSC (federated with PSOE) Llull 21:10, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: A question: is Josep Borrell really gay or bisexual? Where do you have this information? 22:43, July 7 2005 (CEST)
* I can't seem to find any evidence of this either... I'm trying to subcategorize :Category:LGBT politicians and need to "pin him down."  Unfortunately, I'm lost in a flood of Rocco Buttiglione scandal news. Cleduc 12:39, 17 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sexuality 
Talk:Ca' d'Oro

message: I haven't changed "Moorish" references the entry, but I think they are misleading. The "Eastern" look of Venetian Gothic is a reflection of Byzantine practice, and any Islamic influences are more likely from Egypt and the Levant rather than the western Mediterranean. Wetman 21:22, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)

message: rised to top importance as one of the most significant medieval palazzi in Venice. Amandajm (talk) 14:19, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Importance
Talk:Ovulation

message: From VfD:
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:Yes, you are right. wiki articles are intended to be approachable by a general audience. We need to work on addressing this issue. Thanks for bringing this up. Chaldor (talk) 19:39, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger

message: The recently added (and reverted) comment, "length of follicular phase is more variable than the luteal phase so the length of the menstural cycle in days minus 14 gives the most likely day of ovulation is true.  The length of the follicular phase can vary by many weeks - it is more variable than the luteal phase.  And subtracting 14 days from menstruation is a more accurate estimate of ovulation than assuming ovulation on day 14 of the cycle.  Nevertheless, a luteal phase is considered normal anywhere from 10-16 days, so even retrospective day-counting estimations are frequently going to be off by several days.
I support the removal of the sentence, because it's not useful in the context of that paragraph.  Sources could easily be found to support its assertions, but that wouldn't make it any more relevant to this article. Lyrl    Talk     C   01:17, 22 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Follicular and luteal phase length variation 

message: The duration of ovulation should be mentioned in the introduction. --93.223.20.79 (talk) 23:02, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  How long does a ovulation take? 

message: Ovulation and parturition 41.190.30.63 (talk) 10:14, 27 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Agric science
Talk:Holly Maddux

message: From VfD:
Non-notable on her own.  Redirect to Ira Einhorn.  RickK 22:44, Jul 24, 2004 (UTC)
*Delete:  Same situation as other murder victims.  I doubt that a redirect is needed, but redirecting would catch the few people who search fo information on her. Geogre 17:58, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Talk:List of literature on rural issues

message: All of the references currently listed are pretty strongly anti-corporate.  -- Beland 22:44, 24 Jul 2004 (UTC)

message: It's just a teeny bit of material, all US-specific as well as espousing a particular point of view. References to other wiki articles, not original sources, but those sources appear to be only individual articles. Not really "literature" the way it's usually used here, more like resources.
Family farm is the only possible place to merge it. (I wouldn't mind seeing it deleted.); I don't think we'd lose anything of value.
Lisamh 18:13, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This should be a category, not a list, in my humble opinion. I think you should nominate it for deletion, and recommend it be incorporated into a category. Then it could be expanded properly. Royalbroil Talk  Contrib 04:05, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge/Deletion
Talk:Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces

message: The official website of the Swedisd Armed Forces (mil.se) has an english page  on Gen. Syrén, where he is presented as "General Håkan Syrén, Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces" or the "Supreme Commander" for short. This page (also mil.se) mentions him as "The Swedish Supreme Commander, General Håkan Syrén, [...]" and with an acronym as "[...] SC General Håkan Syrén.". Should we totally abandon the Commander-in-Chief-thing or just mention SC as an alternative title? /Storpilot 23:52, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Supreme Commander

message: it would be interesting to know when the rank increased by one star becomming a four-star general rank
--Malin Randstrom (talk) 07:27, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: According to Swedish Wikipedia, Olof Thörnell was promoted from Lieutenant General (three stars) to General (four stars) on 1 January 1940, 24 days after his appointment as Supreme Commander, and since then all Supreme Commanders have been Generals. -- Jao (talk) 10:03, 29 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thank you for the reply, however, I was asking when all general ranks were increased by one star. That is, when a Swedish Lieutenant General previously represented by two stars increased to three stars. Similarily, when a General previously represented by three stars increased to four stars. Thanks, --Malin Randstrom (talk) 10:40, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Ah, I see what you're asking now. The 1952 uniform still had 1–3 stars, some time in the 1980s I know it was 2–4. Susning may be right that it happened some time during the 1970s, but at any rate the extra star predates the brigadier rank. -- Jao (talk) 14:25, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  From tree to four stars 

message: I removed this pragraph for the following reasaons;
1. I have found no source verifying that such a discussion has ever taken place.
2. Such a move would fall under the concept of "ministerstyre", which is a no-no.
3. The opscommander (C Insatsledningen) at Headquarters formally leads all operations (under the say-so of the SC) in Sweden in peacetime, from deploying a battalion to Afghanistan to having the Home Guard look for missing children (he does delegate the latter quite heavily).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hans Engstrom (talk • contribs) 02:20, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing speculation on Prime Minister being Supreme Commander in peacetime
Talk:Exurb

message: Does anyone have a reference for the claim that this term was coined in the 1950s?  Does anyone know who coined it?  -- Beland 02:41, 2 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources

message: From the "Planning" section:
    "...create heavy car dependency (a very deliberate design choice). "
Is there a citation or reference to that? Seems POV to me --Ozzykhan 17:40, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Car Dependency

message: The section 'Examples of exurbs'  is completely unsourced.  It should be rather easy to find sources, because whoever knows enough to add this kind of information probably has the sources in front of them.  At some point, per WP:V, it may be appropriate to remove material to the Talk page if sources are not provided in a reasonable time. EdJohnston 16:31, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources needed 

message: Please see and contribute to discussion at Talk:Commuter town#Merge proposal re: Exurb. Grumpyyoungman01 12:05, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Propose merge into [[Commuter town]] 

message: I question the current given etymology of "exurb," that it's a "portmanteau of extra and urban." Not that I think it's completely wrong per se, but that it could be more correctly described as being a combination of the Latin prefix "ex," meaning outside of, and "urban," in a directly parallel construction to the Latin prefix "sub" + "urban" = suburb. It's a really, really muddy distinction, especially because "extra" as a prefix can mean exactly the same thing, but I think "ex" makes a bit more sense semantically. This mostly comports with how Merriam Webster presents its etymology (although not quite — they say it's ex + suburban). https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exurb 
As this is Wikipedia, my own pet-etymology doesn't matter — the question is, are there sources that cite the extra+urban explanation? If Auguste Comte Spectorsky did in his originally coinage, then let it stand.Wemedgefrodis (talk) 21:44, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology 

message: The redirect Identify exurban census tracts has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached.  – bradv 23:28, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "[[:Identify exurban census tracts]]" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:Blizzard North

message: Acording to the timeline of video game, Blizzard North was knows as Condor. According to this page, they where named Slilcon & Synape. Which one is it?
Reub2000 00:53, 25 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Condor or Silicon & Synapse
Talk:George Lincoln Rockwell

message: The lead says that Rockwell was murdered, but he was a public figure and the likely motive was political in nature. Public figures who are murdered for political reasons are commonly called victims of assassination (see MLK and Malcolm X). Is Rockwell's ideology being used against him as a reason to not accurately categorize his death? 47.137.183.192 (talk) 04:03, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Nowhere does the article explain how this was politically motivated, nor does it give any motive at all. The John Patler article doesn't either. This information would require reliable sources. Assassination is a subset of murder, so just saying "murder" is sufficient and more neutral until such sources are provided. Grayfell (talk) 02:04, 10 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. I've eliminated references to assassination from the article for these reasons. João Do Rio (talk) 21:23, 6 December 2018 (UTC)

text: Belatedly, I have changed that article, as explained at Talk:American Nazi Party. I agree that this term is not strictly incorrect, but still do not think it adds clarity. The information is better presented in direct, simple language. Grayfell (talk) 01:47, 1 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assassination or murder? 

message: I ran a Google search for "How Malcolm X Helped Aryans". Doesn't exist. The only results were three identical Wiki entries with basically the same contents of this article. There isn't even a source for this. Which one of you put that there?2600:1700:E710:5D20:30E0:A3AE:F616:6819 (talk) 23:41, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: It was added by an anonymous vandal. I've removed it. Grayfell (talk) 23:54, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Publications 

message: I had reverted the addition of :Category:Assassinated Nazis, but was reverted yesterday with the rationale "Ignore all precedents". I don't believe an essay is a valid reason to edit war over a category that doesn't even seem applicable here, as it seems to be used for people who actually worked for and/or collaborated with the actual Nazi party before or during WWII. Pinging  to discuss. The WordsmithTalk to me 16:39, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The category is for Nazis, not simply Nazis from the 1940s. I think the category fits here, as Rockwell was a Nazi and he was assassinated. MagicatthemovieS (talk) 17:27, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Rockwell was a neo-Nazi, not an actual Nazi. There's an important difference. If there was a category/subcategory for that it would be appropriate, but it doesn't seem to fit here. The WordsmithTalk to me 13:29, 11 October 2023 (UTC)

text: A neo-Nazi is a Nazi, and Wikipedia says so.MagicatthemovieS (talk) 14:30, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assassinated Nazis category
Talk:Muk-jji-ppa

message: Is Muk-Chi-Ba (the New York variation) really famous?  A search with google only turns up Wikipedia and related websites.  It seems likely to me that the creator of Muk-Chi-Ba is using wikipedia to promote their variation. -- Tlotoxl
*You are right that this game doesn't turn up on Google (at least when the keyword "New York" is added to the search), but local games like this are often spread by word-of-mouth.  E.g. I remember Stupid Ninja Game was put up on VFD a while ago, but it was later proven to be not invented by the author.  Anyway, this game is so hilarious it would be a crime to delete this article. --Shibboleth 08:00, 26 Aug 2004 (UTC)

message: The article, in its present state is a good representation of what Muk-Chi-Pa is.
Muk-Chi-Pa is definitely an established Korean game.
I think that the person who wrote the New York section was just a little confused (but assume good faith)... they wrote as if New York was a variation of Rock-Paper-Scissors, therefore incorporating all of the differences between Rock-Paper-Scissors and Muk-Chi-Pa.
Without those differences, New York is no more than a cosmetic variation with a different priming method, and therefore not worth mentioning (unless we decide to mention the countless other cosmetic variations).
If there's one thing I might want to add, it would be my attempt to standardize Muk-Chi-Pa, but that's original research so I guess I shouldn't.
--Apatterno 03:31, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Your efforts to improve the article are appreciated, but you need to cite some reliable sources. I could find nothing in Google Books, and the vast majority of web search results appear to be derived from this very page. In this unreliable source, the game is described as being rock-paper-scissors but played with the feet. As it stands this is no more or less reliable than the description in our article, so I'm reducing it to a stub until reliable sources can be found. The old version is here which can be used to look for supporting sources before it's restored. (btw I checked the Korean article for Korean-language sources but that doesn't have any either)--Pontificalibus (talk) 08:22, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Finally correct 

message: just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on the romanization of this article name. Appleby 18:50, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: romanization