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Talk:Shanghai Jiaotong University

message: this reads like a typical chinese institution's description (big-noting, strange english), and is probably ripped straight from the uni website.  someone should rewrite it ASAP.  -- prat
I found this misplaced at the bottom of the entry:
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The following text was completely erased on Jul 18, 2004 by User:220.73.165.15 (talk page), and replaced by what became the above article. The text below should be re-merged into the above article.
Note: re-merger started. Merged parts were removed from article below.
It was founded in 1896 by Mr. Sheng Xuanhuai (盛宣懷). At that time, the name of the institution is Nanyang Public School (南洋公學). It is one of the oldest universities in China with more than one hundred years of history. Many famous figures in the history of China and figures of today are SJTU graduates. Of all the academicians of  China's Academy of Sciences and Academy of Engineering, more than 180 are the alumni of Jiaotong University.
Communication and electronic system, naval architecture and ocean engineering, automatic control, composite materials, metal plasticity processing, and mechanical engineering are recognized as traditional strong fields of SJTU. Large-scale integrated circuits, computer science, optical fiber technology, and systems engineering etc. which are relatively new disciplines are becoming noted world wide.
lots of issues  | leave me a message 19:33, 4 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Annette von Droste-Hülshoff

message: Who is she? -- Zoe
One of Germany's most important authors and poets (January 1797 - May 24, 1848). That is her image on the Deutschemark banknote until it was replaced by the Euro in 2002.Triton
Also said to be related to the important Droste family of the Netherlands, see Droste Chocolates in Haarlem, Holland who in turn are connected to the American Delano family of Franklin (Delano) Roosevelt.Triton
Note the change of date of her death. Please amend this if you have more definite info.Arcturus 19:05, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Much of the text of this page as it stands Tue Jul 27 19:10:45 EDT 2010 was copied from an old Encyclopedia Britannica: http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Annette_Elisabeth%2C_Freiin_von_Droste-Hulshoff . Which is OK I guess; it's out of copyright. But some evaluative comments like "but... one looks in vain for a touch of sentimentality or melting sweetness in it" are dated and not appropriate for the 21st century (leaving the implied sexism aside, nowadays that's considered a strength). The German Wikipedia has more and better information.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.118.94.188 (talk) 23:21, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  dated information 

message: The text mentions the well-known poem "Am Turme", in English "On the Tower". Here is a brand-new English poetic translation: http://satirist.org/poetry/text/me/on-the-tower.html . Project Gutenberg has an older rhyming translation buried in the book at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12351 .  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.118.94.188 (talk) 21:17, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: better pic here http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Droste-H%C3%BClshoff_2.jpg  Slowking4⇔ †@1₭ 04:28, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: i took the liberty of putting it there. need a legacy section for influence on others, and appearance on stamp and 20 dm note.  Slowking4⇔ †@1₭ 19:49, 4 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Am Turme
Talk:DuMont Television Network

message: :("channel 1" had been removed from television broadcasting use because storms and other types of interference could severely affect the quality of its signals)...
Who wrote this, the Motorola lobbyists?
Channel 1 was removed so that it could be reallocated to land-mobile radio. It's not that the TV broadcasters didn't want to keep it, given that VHF TV channels are already scarce enough.
The interference was a good argument (or an excuse) to use to lobby the FCC, but it's not the primary reason that analog OTA VHF TV permanently lost a channel.
(Digital TV is another matter... no one in their right mind wants VHF DT2 if anything else is available, but that couldn't have been foreseen in 1948.) 66.102.87.40 (talk) 19:10, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Motorola has lobbyists? – AndyFielding (talk) 01:12, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Channel 1 

message: :Although films submerged for decades have been successfully recovered… there have been no salvage-diving efforts to locate or recover the DuMont archive. If it survived in that environment, most of the films have likely been damaged. Other kinescopes were put through a silver reclaiming process, because of the microscopic amounts of silver that made up the emulsion of black-and-white film during this time.
So what does this mean—that the DuMont films could be salvaged, or not? I'm getting passive-aggressive vibes here… Could it be a coy gambit that the films may be salvageable if someone cares enough to look for them? – AndyFielding (talk) 01:12, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Salvageable? Not salvageable? 

message: The "See also" section seems to me to be very long and I do not fully see why some of the entries are there as their connection to this article is something of a stretch. For instance "Death on the Rock"  was an episode of  This Week, a British television programme broadcast several decades after the DuMont network had ceased broadcasting, so I fail to see how it's story is relevant to this article. Additionally the accompanying statement that it led "the loss of" Thames Television's "ITV franchise due to an alleged political motivations against airing it" is not something that has been proven - it has merely been suggested by some as an important factor in the decision, but this is certainly not universally accepted as the only cause and others have suggested other reasons.  Likewise the 1939 Temporary shutdown of BBC Television Service (which links to an article about a Mickey Mouse cartoon)  is in no way comparable to the demise of DuMount.  Dunarc (talk) 21:02, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  See also section
Talk:Mongolia (region)

message: The names (including placenames) in this article are spelled accordign to the Inner Mongolian dialect of Mongolian, which pronunciation differs in many ways from that of the official language of Mongolia (the independent country), also known as Khalkha dialect. It is legitimate to use the Inner Mongolian dialect when referring to names and placenames of Inner Mongolia, but for Outer Mongolia and Khovd region the names should be spelled using the Khalkha dialect (or at least its romanisation).
: Be bold and improve! :-) --Menchi (Talk)â 12:49, 21 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  About the spelling of Mongolian Names 

message: There is no such thing as "Mongolia (region)". Mongolia has been a country throughout the history inhabitted by mainly Mongols along with others but never Chinese until recent. The country has been divided in recent history into several pieces due to: 1. Manchu invasion; 2. Russian expansion and Chinese imperialism; 3. Spread of communism.
Not only the term and concept of "Mongolia (region)" are fabricated, this article here along with the "Inner Mongolia" article (especially the "history" part) are largely Communist Chinese government propaganda. Those who, I believe they are Chinese, if not government agent, should immediately stop doing this and the Wikipedia management should take some actions to stop this chauvinistic plots.
dugar 16:57, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: While the "propaganda" accusation may be a little exaggerated, a page named Mongolia (region) is just plain silly. Mongolia is not a region, and it never was. What is the purpose of this? Is it meant to list "historically mongolian territories"? If so, then it would have to look very different. As it is, I can't see it serving any useful purpose. --Latebird 17:27, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stop the Chinese chaunistic prapoganda on wikipedia!
Talk:Theatre technique

message: This was from [How to perform a play] (deleted). Merge as necessary:
When performing in a play, several important areas must be considered.  First of all, the actor must read the script, to get a feeling for the character.  After that, she should discuss the director's vision of the character, as well.  This interpretation by actors and directors is part of the consistent thrill of theater.  After all, there are millions of canned movies, but theaters still see enough business to break even.  This is because each play can be put on differently, changes can be made to the script, and the scene can change drastically.  In fact, some playwrights have made their living by creating works based off of famous plays (See Tom Stoppard and Charles Marowitz).  Once a character is established, actors often spend weeks or months learning to adequately play the role.  They must learn to walk, talk, and speak like the character.  One school of thought, method acting actually suggests that the actor attempt to experience all sensations as the character actually would or call upon past experience that mirror the character's own.  The external differences between the conceived character and the actor's appearance must be changed, as well.  This is often accomplished through stage makeup and costumes.  Finally, while on stage, the actor's gestures and speech must be suited to the situation and audience.  For instance, in a black box theater, an actor must behave on a more personable level with the audience, adapting almost natural speech and gestures.  However, in larger, less intimate settings, actors frequently exaggerate their movements and speech in order to properly communicate their intentions to a distant audience.
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Many thanks, Jiang, for this deleted original which is to be merged. I shall take what needs to to be added because some of it reduplicates items already present in "Theatre technique", so I won't have to merge everything, I shall work on it. Thank you again. --Dieter Simon 22:47, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  To be merged... 

message: This section now seems to provide a good overview of this aspect of theatre technique. If you have any more details to add, please consider expanding the relevant articles: Stage management and Stagecraft. - Dan 08:44, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stage management and stagecraft
Wikipedia talk:Approval mechanism

message: Let ordinary users approve articles first. some people might abuse the system. but we can also have approved approvers and unapproved approvers.
-Hemanshu 20:06, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Let ordinary users approve

message: To me the issue that we are trying to prevent is abuse of trust (eg, [Vandalism] ). It would seem to me that to do that, it would be better to improve the means by which improper changes are detected.
Rather than a complex approval process, simply make it possible for one or more users to "sign off"
on any given version, and allow filtering in the Recent Changes for articles that haven't been signed off by at least a given number of registered users. Then, users on recent changes patrol can
"sign off" on what appear to be valid changes, allowing reviewers who are primarily concerned about
combating malicious changes to more readily identify which articles still need to be looked at, and
which have already been found to be ok.
While malicious edits do occur from logged in users as well, this does seem to be much less frequent, and if you show who's signed off on a change in the recent changes, very easy to spot.
Theres no need for a "disapprove" on a revision. If you disapprove, you should fix the article, or
in case of a dispute, start a discussion.
- Triona 23:08, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Keep it simple... 

message: Let ordinary users approve articles first. some people might abuse the system. but we can also have approved approvers and unapproved approvers.
-Hemanshu 20:06, 14 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Let ordinary users approve

message: To me the issue that we are trying to prevent is abuse of trust (eg, [Vandalism] ). It would seem to me that to do that, it would be better to improve the means by which improper changes are detected.
Rather than a complex approval process, simply make it possible for one or more users to "sign off"
on any given version, and allow filtering in the Recent Changes for articles that haven't been signed off by at least a given number of registered users. Then, users on recent changes patrol can
"sign off" on what appear to be valid changes, allowing reviewers who are primarily concerned about
combating malicious changes to more readily identify which articles still need to be looked at, and
which have already been found to be ok.
While malicious edits do occur from logged in users as well, this does seem to be much less frequent, and if you show who's signed off on a change in the recent changes, very easy to spot.
Theres no need for a "disapprove" on a revision. If you disapprove, you should fix the article, or
in case of a dispute, start a discussion.
- Triona 23:08, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Keep it simple...
Talk:Vulcan

message: When one clicks on the vulcan (god) link on the vulcan disambiguation page it brings them bac kto the disambiguation page. What happened to the actual article? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wikipedian25 (talk • contribs) 20:19, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What happened? 

message: When one clicks on the vulcan (god) link on the vulcan disambiguation page it brings them bac kto the disambiguation page. What happened to the actual article? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Wikipedian25 (talk • contribs) 20:19, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What happened? 

message: its a nerf blaster, should it be added?Technetium-99 (talk) 01:22, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add Vulcan EBF-25? 

message: An astronomy book I had from the early 1900's talked of the planet Vulcan as being a small body about 13 million miles from the Sun.(84.236.152.71 (talk) 19:10, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: That's probably Vulcan (hypothetical planet)? Martinevans123 (talk) 19:34, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Planet

message: Shouldn't Vulcan (API) also be included here? Holland jon (talk) 08:54, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: No, That belongs (and is listed ) on Vulkan (disambiguation) with a "k" IdreamofJeanie (talk) 07:08, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yeah, I guess that makes more sense than my edit did.  Whatever, I guess.  It should not have been marked as VANDALISM, by the way, but if that makes you feel good, more power to you, I guess.  KJRehberg (talk) 04:17, 26 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vulcan (API) 

message: suggesting that the Roman god isn't the clear primary topic here? — LlywelynII 04:58, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The difference in page views is not very significant. While the roman god does garner more page views, it is not by a large margin and not more than all the others combined and thus fails WP:PT1. It might be possible to make a case based on long-term significance, but that would require data showing the roman god is the primary topic rather than a negative absence of data. older ≠ wiser 10:31, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Any data at all
Talk:The Tay Bridge Disaster

message: I'd always heard that McGonagall was bad, but I had no idea just bad.  I haven't laughed so much in ages.  Gosh. Maccoinnich 02:58, Feb 15, 2005 (UTC)
Hey, could we have a native Dundee Scottish speaker read the poem?  With all due respect, the current reader sounds a bit too south of England to me. --212.56.114.4 18:39, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think sources would be very difficult to find for those interested enough to search for them—I'm not one of them. This geocities-hosted bibliography might be a start. Searching Google, Google Scholar, etc, informally confirms that he is indeed widely regarded as the worst or at least very bad, even though I haven't dug up specific sources. And I concur. His poetry is essentially prose, broken up into lines that rhyme. EldKatt (Talk) 18:26, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wow 

message: The references were  mistakenly removed as vandalism. Restoring as per http://www.ciao.co.uk/William_McGonagall__Review_5333446 confirming existence. Maurog 09:40, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The order of presentation for the other two poems made it seem that both poems predated the bridge collapse, with the "New Bridge" poem written first. According to the book Very Bad Poetry, the "New Bridge" poem was written to commemorate the rebuilding of the bridge, hence the importance of it being able to defy strong winds. I have changed the order and added a short explanation. I think that fact makes the whole thing even more hilarious. Katherine Tredwell 00:17, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: The other two bridge poems

message: McGonagall's public declamation of his works cannot possibly have been the inspiration for Florence Foster Jenkins but it is tremendously easy to imagine otherwise. Snezzy (talk) 13:08, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Precursor of Jenkins? 

message: Buttresses doesn't rhyme with confesses.--Mr. 123453334 (talk) 08:51, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Buttresses - confesses
Talk:Tuple relational calculus

message: In the current page: 
Along with the tuple calculus Codd also introduced the domain calculus which is closer to first-order logic and showed that these two calculi (and the relational algebra) are equivalent in expressive power
However, to my knowledge, Codd only proposed Relational Algebra (RA) and Tuple Relational Calculus (TRC), but not Domain Relational Calculus (DRC). DRC was proposed by Michel Lacroix and Alain Pirotte in VLDB 1977. (Ref: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/vldb/LacroixP77.html, and also see Ramakrishnan's "Database Management Systems", 3rd ed., pp129). I've fixed that in the DRC wikipage (also provided the reference of Codd's article proving the equivalence of RA and TRC). 
 
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(I'm relatively new to Wikipedia, so I'm not sure what the conventions are - please excuse)
The link to Linda above either needs to point to something like LindaCoordinationLanguage or the page for Linda needs to contain information about the language. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about Linda to even start. Sorry.
: You are right. But Linda is not really a tuple calculus at all, but rather a process description language. Unless someone comes along with a good justification I suggest we remove it. -- Jan Hidders 15:35 29 May 2003 (UTC)
The linking of calculus is not really justified since calculus is used in a different meaning here than in the article. If no-one objects I will remove it. -- Jan Hidders 12:27, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the link should point to [[Predicate calculus] or Propositional calculus instead.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.142.63.207 (talk) 23:59, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

message: The algorithm given for determining if a query is a "safe query" seems
unlikely to be correct.  It makes no distinction between existential and
universal quantifiers.  (Assuming my browser is rendering the equations
correctly...)  Under this definition a query would remain "safe" if you
change any of its quantifiers from existential to universal or from
universal to existential.  This is in contrast to every other version of
the definition I have read, where the conditions for existentials and
universals always differ in some way.
QuasiQuote (talk) 22:31, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Safe Queries
Talk:Hindu units of time

message: The section on time dilation that gives Lord Brahma's year as = 311trillion 40 billion years is wrong. That is not his year but total life span.24.139.24.163 (talk) 22:50, 22 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Good find. I've fixed it. The values were based on 100 years as opposed to 1 year. Jroberson108 (talk) 01:56, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time dilation 

message: Time dilation:  
It has nothing to do with timespan of gods being very large multiple of human timespan. 
In Islamic theology, one day of Allah is said to be as long as 1000 human years,(some interprets it as 50000 years)
This similar idea is shared by Christians.
THAT IS NOT TIME DILATION! 
None of it is.
ChandlerMinh (talk) 02:12, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I can see where calling it "Time dialation" can become confusing. I do recall a story, probably in one of the Puranas, where a father and his daughter on Earth go to see Brahma to find a suitable groom for his daughter and had to wait for a performance to finish, only to find out that in the short time they were there, the suitors and many generations died on Earth. If I remember correctly, the suitable groom was chosen in a later yuga, Balarama of Dvapara Yuga. In this case it isn't just lifespans, but the experience of time by both Brahma and the humans on his loka (planet) relative to Earth. Also, refrain from using all caps and exclamation marks since it comes across as yelling. Jroberson108 (talk) 03:50, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Still the above story doesn’t match the scientific definition of Time dilation as it is defined on Wikipedia(or anywhere else that has encyclopaedic standards). Above story may fit with the definition Time dilation shown in sci-fi movies such as Interstellar, but not with present day physics. ChandlerMinh (talk) 16:10, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  I agree. Jroberson108 (talk) 17:21, 3 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed “Time dilation” 

message: Sir you say 1 yuga = 432000 but how ? One circle years 60 * 720 circle years = 43200 years but you set 432000 ? 27.7.64.204 (talk) 05:21, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I moved your question to a new discussion since it is unrelated to the section you added it to. Nowhere on the article page does it say 1 yuga = 432,000. What is there is a Kali-yuga = 432,000 years. When you say "circle", I assume you mean a cycle of the four yugas (catur-yuga or chatur-yuga), which lasts 4,320,000 years. I don't understand the rest of your question about 60 * 720. Can you rephrase? Jroberson108 (talk) 06:07, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  One yuga
Talk:Alexandre Dumas

message: This is not a genre I've heard of before. Searching it says it's specifically about dangerous outdoor activities (eg: rock climbing). Looking up the linked works, none of them say they're "high" adventure.  
I think whoever wrote that is using it to just mean "good" or "literary". I'm removing the the word "high". CrickedBack (talk) 23:19, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "High" Adventure genre?  

message: Both the introduction and the "Birth and family" section switch between talking about Alexandre Dumas and his father, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas. His family is significant, but their names are similar enough that it ought to be more clear which person is being discussed. 2600:1700:7F10:7270:AD91:5D91:14BB:462B (talk) 07:02, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thomas-Alexandre