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Talk:Bismarck

message: I've deleted the comment "The following were named in honor of him:", as a number of these were not named in honour of him.194.176.105.40 09:49, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Misc

message: BBC Radio 4's In Our Time is a 45 minute discussion programme about the history of ideas, with three eminent academics in their field, hosted by Melvyn Bragg. Each edition deals with one subject from one of the following fields: philosophy, science, religion, culture and historical events. It is akin to a seminar. The entire archive going back to 1998 is now available online in perpetuity.
An edition about Bismarck was broadcast with Richard J Evans, Professor of Modern History at the University of Cambridge; Christopher Clark, Reader in Modern European History at the University of Cambridge; and Katharine Lerman, Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at London Metropolitan University.
You can listen to the programme on this link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00775pm. Would you be able to include this as an external link?--Herk1955 (talk) 12:42, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit Request - BBC Radio 4's In Our Time broadcast
Talk:Global 200

message: After spending time wikifying the whole list, I noticed that it's just a word-for-word copy and paste of one of the external links. I'm not sure what we should do with this, as there are a ton of wikilinks (though the majority are redlinks). As such, I've moved the list here for now: –Dvandersluis 17:40, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of Global 200 

message: The consensus at List of ecoregions (see Talk) seemed to be to leave List of ecoregions as a full list of WWF ecoregions, and this list as a list of WWF's Global 200 ecoregions. I am removing the "merge" template from this article. Tom Radulovich 18:00, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge

message: The List of mangroves is not perfect. Sometimes you find some on the map, sometimes not. NT1427 Pará mangroves, NT1402 Amapa mangroves, NT1411 Guianan mangroves must be there, but I could not see them.
Neotropic: Guianan - Amazon mangroves 
NT1401 Alvarado mangroves; NT1402 Amapa mangroves; NT1406 Belizean reef mangroves; NT1411 Guianan mangroves; NT1427 Pará mangroves
--Chris.urs-o (talk) 07:14, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mangroves 

message: The Congolian coastal forests, are made up of Cross-Sanaga-Bioko coastal forests; Sao Tome and Principe moist lowland forests; and Atlantic Equatorial coastal forests. See here. --Mario1952 (talk) 14:15, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Congolian coastal forests 
Talk:Woody Guthrie

message: Isn't it redundant? Should be only "singer-songw" Cornerstonepicker (talk) 06:29, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. Fixed. SilkTork ✔Tea time 09:58, 20 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Singer-songwriter and musician 

message: Pretty self explanatory  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8803:802:E400:5973:8093:F680:2ED (talk) 03:07, 10 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  The top part of the article is broken 

message: The personal life section of the article appears to be missing but is included in the table of contents  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mariojack3 (talk • contribs) 21:07, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for raising this.  I'm not a technowikipedian but it looks like a queer (yes, I'm using that in the old sense of the word) bug.  I've done a workaround.  Some technical genius might be able to fix it and retain the quote box, too. sirlanz 00:07, 26 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personal life
Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (slogans)/Archive 1

message: As we did with the great Country Reorganization 
Discussion, I suggest that each Wikipedian indicate their 
preferences. This is _similar_ to voting, except you can voice your approval or disapproval any way you want. 
One way that worked well with the country reorganization, was for people to "sign" their usernames (with three tildes ~~~) by _each_ proposal they favored. --Uncle Ed 22:20 Mar 26, 2003 (UTC)
: "each" - IE, approval voting...
I think we should wind up the discussion. It has been more than a year already. Can't we formulate a current policy and accept it for now? Paranoid 20:23, 27 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion
Talk:Total war

message: "Hard war" redirects to this page, but no mention is made in the article and no distinction is made between the two phrases. Imagine Reason (talk) 18:53, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I've never seen the expression "hard war" used.  What does it mean?  Is it the opposite of a "soft war" which is fought by diplomatic, cultural and financial means, with  a negligible military component, or none at all? Beyond My Ken (talk) 02:43, 20 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no distinction between the two terms.  "Hard war" is simply General Sherman's own name for the style of war he favored (in marked contrast to his fellow generals) -- using all resources and targeting civilian infrastructure that supported the enemy war effort, epitomized by his March to the sea.  Later historians identified this as the first modern example of what is now called total war.  I'm not sure if this merits a specific mention in the article, or where it might go.  --A D Monroe III(talk)  16:17, 11 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Added hard war to article in this edit.  So, Done.  --A D Monroe III(talk)  18:59, 22 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Distinction between total and hard wars 

message: The article completely lacks the discussion of the moral and legal status of total war. Not trying to push any opinion by myself, but there must be a lot of discussion about the tension between the total war and the idea that the sole legitimate objective of the war effort is to eliminate military strength of the enemy. Or the relationship between the just war and the total war. Ceplm (talk) 09:39, 10 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion of the legal and moral opinions on the total war
Talk:Suburb

message: Voice 117.249.152.164 (talk) 08:21, 8 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suburban community 

message: What is after the suburbs 31.52.131.57 (talk) 19:37, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suburb 

message: How does a picture of a random school in New Jersey demonstrate New Jersey suburbs (or a specific NJ suburb)? Threestepsback (talk) 10:35, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  NJ high school picture 

message: My recent edit was removed and I was given a message on my talk page of non constructive editing. I found a better reference from NPR for white flight being done by the U.S. government. This is what shaped the American suburbs and cities to what they are today and they are much different than European suburbs and cities or other countries. 136.37.188.43 (talk) 03:52, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  White flight  

message: Let’s take the first sentence: 
“A suburb is an area within a metropolitan area which often contains most of the area's economic activity”
Firstly, it’s not grammatically clear if the area containing the economic activity is the suburb or the metropolitan area.
Secondly, I doubt the word “most” was meant to be used here, because that would mean that in order to be a suburb it would have to contain >50% of the metro area’s economic activity, so you could only have one suburb per metro area. Either that or the rather vague “area” is not referring to the metro area but rather the area including and surrounding the suburb.
Thirdly, even if you allow it to just mean that it contains it contains higher density of economic activity - and jobs, as mentioned later in the paragraph - …how is that what a suburb is??? My impression is the in the US people’s idea of suburbia is a residential area with lots of single-family detached houses. This paragraph makes it sound like the commercial or business areas.
Fourth, even if this is what it means in the US, I think it should be made more clear that it is a US specific definition (tbh the definitions seem so different in different places that it almost doesn’t make sense for them to be in one article) Transient Being (talk) 06:24, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Just stumbled upon this article and I thought the exact same thing. Needs a rewrite for sure. EucalyptusTreeHugger (talk) 12:04, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  The first paragraph makes absolutely no sense
Talk:Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

message: I've seen various other things criticized:
*Lack of progressive rock
*Neglect of backing groups
*Emphasis on rap in recent years
This will need proper sourcing/citation of course, but I just wanted to mention this. Wolf O'Donnel (talk) 05:07, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Other Criticisms

message: Perhaps the editor who made this revert can explain why. --2603:7000:2143:8500:9908:4467:7D2D:5F71 (talk) 04:38, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Sure.  The term "gossip blogger" is un-encyclopedic.  It is not a neutral term. KitHutch (talk) 22:47, 19 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revert 

message: I thought the rule was changed to the record has to have been released at least 26 years ago. RyanDalziel (talk) 07:31, 18 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  25 years 

message: I'm not a fan of the organization, and I'm not the biggest rock fan either, but it says right there in the name "Hall of Fame". It doesn't say "Hall of Quality", "Hall of Authenticity", or "Hall of Genuine Contributors". Perhaps the name is intentionally this way. TooManyFingers (talk) 01:18, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Critical of some criticism 

message: As of the date and time I'm typing this, the article contains "The groundbreaking opening ceremony took place on June 7, 1993". That's an oxymoron. When there is a ribbon-cutting ceremony (such as the one described occurring at a LATER date in this same article), that's almost always the same thing as "opening ceremony". "Groundbreaking ceremony" is a completely different thing. It's when fame-seeking celebrities and petty government officials desiring a photo-op don hi-visibility vests and hard-hats and turn over a few shovels-full of soil to "begin construction" the first part of which is excavating below original surface level. So it's almost impossible for there to be such a thing as "groundbreaking opening ceremony". The word "almost" is in my typing because if I try really hard I can think of how people might rebuke me if I left it out. If the word "groundbreaking" is a metaphor for something like the first time a citizen of Estonia was invited to a U.S. event, then it's possible. Also, if there is a self-serve diamond-mine such as Arkansas's where diggers pay to sift dirt at the surface and keep their finds, the necessary buildings for a cashier, tool-rental, and bathrooms might be constructed first, with the first paying customer's first stab into the dirt with a shovel being considered both "the groundbreaking" and "the opening". But that's not the case here.2600:1700:6759:B000:D8B6:4F13:141:8567 (talk) 22:24, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for spotting this. I removed "opening ceremony" altogether from that section and linked to the actual Groundbreaking page. There's also now a dedicated reference for the 1993 ceremony in the article. Doc StrangeMailboxLogbook 22:41, 13 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Incorrect English
Talk:Correspondence theory

message: This seems to be a paper written by a group of students whose language is not English. I tried to anglicize but was stumped by phrases like "the language turn". Also, problems with objective viewpoint.
zadcat 03:52 Mar 21, 2003 (UTC)
----
Is there any reason the content of this page should be preserved? Not only is it not NPOV, it isn't even about the correspondence theory; they seem only to mention it so they can reject it and move on to their pet theory, pragmatism. --Ryguasu 03:59, 12 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Talk:Ecdysozoa

message: The article currently says: "The Ecdysozoans lack locomotory cilia, produce mostly amoeboid sperm, and their embryos do not undergo spiral cleavage as in most other protostomes."
So what are "mostly amoeboid sperm"?
The article amoeboid says nothing about sperm.
It does say: "Myxomycotes use amoeboid gametes, as well."  But we have no other articles that use the term "Myxomycotes".
I am going to wait, return here, and if no one has addressed this question I may change the link from amoeboid to a link to amoeboid sperm.
Cheers!  Geo Swan (talk) 18:08, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Myxogastria has a section on "Myxomycota", which I think contradicts what this article says about "amoeboid sperm".  Geo Swan (talk) 18:34, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  question: what are ''"mostly amoeboid sperm"''? 

message: Perrier in 1897 and Seurat in 1920: I surmise that there are Wikipedia articles for this Perrier and this Seurat.  Can some editor more competent than I provide full names and wikilinks? Footnotes giving the book titles would be a generous and thoughtful gesture. That way we can all be included in the discourse.--Wetman (talk) 20:37, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Perrier (1897) and Seurat (1920) 
Talk:List of Medieval European scholars

message: Who is Peter the Archbishop? The name has been on this list for years. But it seems unclear who is intended. Charles Matthews (talk)  —Preceding comment was added at 09:55, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Peter the Archbishop

message: I started this list some years ago and this is (apparently) my 494th addition!
I think the title should now be generalised to something like 'Medieval European writers' BevRowe (talk) 16:45, 12 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article title
Talk:Fermat's spiral

message: :Header added. —Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 16:39, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  TeX not parsing 

message: I moved the following from the article to the talk page:
:: It is a type of Archimedean spiral.
This is only true if we adopt a more general definition of Archimedean spiral than the wikipedia article does.  So it doesn't make sense to link it in this way.--81.99.202.66 (talk) 13:47, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Archimedian? 

message: The citation to our "Heliostat field optimization: A new computationally efficient model and biomimetic layout" is not quite accurate. We did not use n^{0.5} but rather optimized for the exponent.
I am one of the authors of the cited article, so I would rather not edit the entry.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Alexander.mitsos (talk • contribs) 15:04, 23 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  CSP 

message: This article is in my opinion too esoteric for Wikipedia. The subject is not too esoteric, it's the presentation. Don't write an article for your circle of enthusiasts, make thousands of enthusiasts by explaining this subject in a way that reaches out to a person who has never heard of this subject before. Or, let somebody who can explain things well do a complete rewrite. Thanks--71.36.123.89 (talk) 06:02, 22 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definitely not for the general reader 

message: The content I'm reading here about the phyllotaxis sounds like it might be productively merged with phyllotaxis content at the golden spiral article, but I'm unsure which article the resulting content should live under.
I'll attempt to nudge this article in that direction with a link.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.40.48.159 (talk) 12:36, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Phyllotaxis Nexus?
Talk:Noble (English coin)

message: According to Eliphas Levi- Histoire de la magie, p. 336 some nobles for Edward was made by Ramon Llull from the gold produced alchemicaly and called raymondines. Does they exist so they could have been noticed here?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.196.28.168 (talk) 19:50, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: im gonna go with no, seeing as no gold has ever actually been produced alchemicaly.Tuseroni (talk) 03:46, 23 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Raymondine

message: Were all issues of the Noble in 24 carat gold ? Rod57 (talk) 00:54, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Purity of gold
Talk:The Golden Helmet

message: "The helmet has a similar effect to J.R.R. Tolkien's One Ring but the reason lies in their minds rather than any magical curse."
Could you expand a little? The effect of the helmet seems to be very similar to the effect of the one ring. Magic, as Galadriel explains in LOTR, is just a human concept, and she seems actually insulted that the term magic is used both for what she can do and for the 'tricks' of the enemy. Also, the ring was not cursed per se, but had power put into it.
The difference seems to be that the one ring takes characteristics of a person that may be good in themselves, then twists them for evil purposes. For instance, Sam fantasizes for a moment that with the power of the ring, he would turn the whole world into a beautiful garden, then realizes that that would be bad too: the world does not need to be a garden.
From your article, it seems the helmet is more like the mask in the movie The Mask.branko
:The helmet is an object that creates ideas of power in the owner's mind. The moral of the story is that mere men aren't meant to have such power. 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 04:38, 19 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Monster chess

message: White has excellent chances by keeping the King and the Pawns close together.
Note that it is impossible for the Black King and Queen alone to checkmate the lone White King. SNowwis
:: In that situation, Black can force a draw by putting the Black King in a corner and planting the Black Queen on the square diagonally next to it. Just don't move the Queen from then on. Cybersecurityczar (talk) 13:32, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: The page states this rule:
: If a King is in check, the King must be placed out of check.
This is ambiguous.  Suppose that Black, on its move, places the white King in check.  White now has two moves.  Does the rule require that White un-check the king on its first of two moves?  Or does this rule merely require that the White King not be in check by the end of White's second move? — Lawrence King (talk) 03:53, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  This issue has to be resolved. It contradicts the caption for the chess problem on the page that explains that white mates by advancing a pawn to d6. According to this rule as written, black can at least delay the mate by using the queen to check the white king. Cybersecurityczar (talk) 13:01, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ambiguously stated rule 

message: What happens when White's pawns get to the eighth rank? If they promote as in FIDE chess, Black is immediately toast (and this ought to be mentioned). Double sharp (talk) 12:52, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: There are some pitiful positions where the black king can wall himself in and hold off mate a very short while. Would make an interesting study.Cybersecurityczar (talk) 13:12, 25 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Promotion
Talk:Adam's Song

message: Can anyone find a reliable source that tells what the title of the song is a reference to?  A couple "theories" have previously been presented in the article, but they weren't cited. Justin W Smith talk/stalk 22:57, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title is a reference to ...? 
Talk:Merrie Melodies

message: Does anyone know where a better quality version of the Blue Ribbon Title Card is? It should preferably come from a public domain short.
Nerd 101 10:03, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Blue Ribbon Title Card

message: Shouldn't this page be somewhere in there? I mean, it seems fitting, since 10 of those cartoons are Merrie Melodies. EAB 23:31, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Censored 11? 

message: When most people use Looney Tunes they are including Merrie Melodies also right? 199.117.69.60 (talk) 20:09, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Looney Tunes is an umbrella term. 

message: The entire section of the article titled "elements plastered over" is very difficult to read with many long sentences containing parentheses. It seems to bog down the overall article with a lot of tedious and perhaps unneeded detail about the different opening and closing titles. It might benefit from some revision. Maybe that information could be placed in a separate article?
--Qwiglee (talk) 20:36, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article needs some refinement? 

message: I like old cartoons a lot. And so far, the funniest is Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies! See my other comment here! --Looney kid (talk) 13:16, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: MERRIE for MERRIE MELODIES!

message: The chronology of the different versions of the opening and closing is a bit confusing the way it's scattered throughout the article. Some versions do not get mentioned until it is explained how they were used in reissues. I think this topic might merit its own section based on when each version was introduced, with descriptions of later uses (if any) incorporated into that chronology rather than the other way around. Richard K. Carson (talk) 04:46, 28 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opening and closing 

message: A PROD for Detouring America was declined due to an award nomination indicating notability. Since that information is already on this page, it doesn't seem worthwhile for the short to have its own page. Argento Surfer (talk) 12:31, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: A brief search did not turn up many reliable sources, and I was unable to find enough information to justify a standalone article. Argento Surfer (talk) 20:38, 29 September 2016 (UTC)

text: If you think the discussion has been thoroughly discussed (I don't), you could close the discussion and remove the banners from the article pages, but this "stupid" discussion should not be deleted. If nothing else, it may prevent another editor from suggesting a future one (or performing it without a discussion). Argento Surfer (talk) 12:39, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal 

message: hello Abdella Edris (talk) 19:22, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hi
Talk:Liberal Catholic Church

message: I propose merging this article with Liberal Catholic movement. This can be explained in that page.
The merger will cause no WP:WEIGHT issues. FatalSubjectivities (talk) 13:34, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: @FatalSubjectivities You had no opposition in months, and I support the proposal. I think you can perform the merge as soon as you want, the sooner the better. Veverve (talk) 21:55, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge