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Talk:United States Department of Housing and Urban Development

message: A Wikipedia user has suggested that there should be a section discussing the predecessors of HUD and explaining the reason why it was created.
Capitalistroadster 02:37, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion of predecessors

message: A couple things here might improve this section:
1) Is this taken straight from HUD? It does not read Wikipedia-like. If it were in a blockquote, e.g.
HUD's mission statement reads:
HUD’s mission is to create strong, sustainable, inclusive communities and quality affordable homes for all. HUD is working to strengthen the housing market to bolster the economy and protect consumers; meet the need for quality affordable rental homes: utilize housing as a platform for improving quality of life; build inclusive and sustainable communities free from discrimination; and transform the way HUD does business.http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/about/mission
then I think it would be a bit clearer.
Second: the last phrase is "and transform the way HUD does business," which can be distilled into "HUD's mission is to... transform the way HUD does business," which is a tautology. Perhaps this is an error? Wainstead (talk) 16:09, 9 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Mission

message: A request has been submitted to WikiProject United States for a new article to be created on the topic of Housing in the United States. Please join the discussion or consider contributing to the new article. Best regards, -- M2545 (talk) 08:47, 4 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Notification: [[Housing in the United States]]

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thread_title:  Invitation to [[Wikipedia:Meetup/US_housing/December_2020|US Housing Edit-a-thon]]
Talk:North Tustin, California

message: I don't suppose anyone knows how exactly Tustin Foothills and North Tustin (for which name there was no automatically generated article) relate? These unincorporated areas have always been a bit of an amorphous blob to me; I grew up inside the city limits. --Brion 06:05 Oct 26, 2002 (UTC)
:Tustin Foothills is a name generated by the United States Census Bureau through local agencies. It just happens that several unincorporated poorly-defined communities are located within the boundaries, thus each community did not qualify to be it's own CDP.  --Moreau36 17:48, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

message: I remember a few years ago that there was a lot of fuss about making "North Tustin" an officially acceptable alternative to "Santa Ana" when referring to a 92705 mailing address. I have been having difficulty finding a source for this info but noticed this quote "In mid 2005, the Tustin Chamber of Commerce reported that the U.S. Postal Service has approved the use of "North Tustin" as an acceptable address for the 92705 zip code." at this page but I do not know whether this is an acceptable source. 69.105.108.160 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 11:57, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mailing address 

message: My understanding is that the 2000 census called this Census Designated Place "Tustin Foothills". This was changed to "North Tustin" for the 2010 census. So, Tustin Foothills and North Tustin are the same place. The census data includes the unincorporated area of zip code 92705. The unincorporated contiguous community includes the unincorporated areas of zip codes 92705 and 92780; the latter has a significantly smaller area.  The post office designation of North Tustin for the unincorporated part of zip code 92705 was a project of the Foothill Communities Association (FCA). See www.FCAhome.org.   
Richard Nelson, rnelson@FCAhome.org 
--Rnelson100 (talk) 15:15, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  North Tustin Name Change
Talk:Kosciusko County, Indiana

message: I'm aware that residents of Kosciusko County do not pronounce their county's name in a way that old Tadeusz's countrymen across the pond would recognize. That doesn't make it wrong, funny, or invalid, of course... just different, and not as a Polish scholar would recognize. There are a lot of American cities like this... Coeur d'Alene, Idaho's name is pronounced in a way that isn't quite Parisian, and there are similar tales to tell about the pronunciations of Cairo, Illinois, Paris, Texas, and other places. This is a long-winded comment to request that someone--preferably a Kosciusko County resident--put up an IPA explanation of the local (and therefore correct) pronunciation of this county's name. Prosze. Xenophon777 22:16, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I was watching the news on several stations in South Bend, and I think they were pronouncing it . I don't have a proper source for it unfortunately. —/Mendaliv/2¢/Δ's/ 16:44, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Correct Pronunciation
Talk:Kosciusko, Mississippi

message: How is it pronounced? Our (Australia's) highest mountain is also named for him,
we pronounce it Kos-ee-osk-coe, apparently this is nothing like the Polish.
:Does "kah-zee-ESS-ko" .correspond to IPA ?
:Carnby 12:56, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: According to polish friends, the pronunciation is /KƆ ʃUkɒ/ Paul Roberton (talk) 01:41, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Here in Mississippi, we pronounce it "koz-ee-es-ko". - ALLST✰R▼echo wuz here @ 20:04, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

text: It is locally pronounced Kah-zee-ESS-ko.
I don't know what kind of respelling is that, so I need an IPA transcription or (better) an audio file to know the exact local pronuciation of the town.--Carnby (talk) 16:23, 12 October 2009 (UTC)

text: It is ESS for the third syllable. Born and raised there. 50.255.116.105 (talk) 16:54, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation

message: Hello. Would it be possible for somebody who lives there or close to take more pictures of the main buildings, main roads, etc. and upload them to Wikimedia Commons please? I won't add a "reqphoto" tag as there is one picture, but more would be good. It would just give a better sense of the place and greatly enhance this page. Thank you.Zigzig20s (talk) 09:32, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  More pictures needed 
Talk:Henry Rollins

message: In the body somewhere it says he hasn't been in a romantic relationship since his 20's, but in his recently published book Sic he says he was dating a woman recently. 2003:C0:70A:7700:74EC:E979:33FE:70B6 (talk) 21:27, 20 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  romantic relationship
Talk:Auguste Comte

message: Footnote 7 and 14 are the same. Some wikipedian (more knowledgeable than me) may wish to combine them. George963 au (talk) 15:00, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Footnotes 

message: Several scholars recently asserted that Comte did not coin himself the word "Sociology" but actually borrow it from Abbé Sieyes who wrote that word "Sociology" in 1788 unpublished papers. 
JLM 27 December 2006.
Comte is not even mentioned in the wikipedia entry for praxeology, FWIW.Ramonflynn (talk) 16:02, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comte and Sieyes 

message: काँम्त यांनी सांगितलेला तीन अवस्थेचा नियम स्पष्ट करा 2401:4900:5605:8610:9D40:40AB:FFEA:E4ED (talk) 05:00, 4 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  समाजशस्त्र 

message: This article says that Comte coined the term "sociology". The article on Emmanuel Joseph Sieyes, and, indeed, the Simple English Wikipedia article on sociology say Sieyes did this. Which is correct? I had always thought the term was coined by Comte, but my background is in psychology rather than sociology. YTKJ (talk) 21:21, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Who coined term "sociology"?
Talk:Copyright infringement of software

message: For an article ostensibly about a legal topic, there isn't much law in this article.  Copyright infringement is not always piracy, and with such broad, vague definitions you could technically infringe software if you write down bits of code by hand to take notes for the purposes of studying coding (unauthorized reproduction, unauthorized derivative work, though arguably a transformative fair use).  I propose adding a legal section that actually defines infringement. The legal section reads like a magazine article written by a record exec. trying to sound unbiased.  Arttechlaw (talk) 06:21, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legal article with no law? 

message: The GPL is not an "open source license", as described in "3.5 Copyright and open source". RMS makes this absolutely clear http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/open-source-misses-the-point.html . If no one objects, I would like to modify the wording here; "open source" is irrelevant when talking about copyright law.
Zbuhman (talk) 02:24, 18 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  GPL (general Public License)
Talk:Strong acid

message: Why is this a separate article from acid, please?  And why do we need a separate article for "strong base" when we don't have any article yet for base?  Giving "acid" two articles and "base" none doesn't seem very NPOV, if you know what I mean.  -- isis 18:25 Oct 26, 2002 (UTC)
:There is an article called Base (chemistry), so named to distinguish it from other base articles.  There is also an article on strong base.  H Padleckas 11:15, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree.  I'd suggest wiping out that paragraph, and wikifying pH where it occurs later in the article.  Csari 21:42, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The order is supposedly strongest to weakest, but according to the entries for HI, HBr, and HClO4, the order is wrong - HClO4 is last among the three and I am editing the article accordingly. Ataru 03:26, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, the order is ridiculous because it's very difficult to verify which one is the strongest. I have found 3 different values of pKa of nitric acid from 3 different sources (-1.3 ; -1.44 ; -1.5 and -2 in Wiki). Moreover, should we add some more like HCOOH and H2C2O4 because they're really popular (much rather than one like HFSbF5). Causesobad --> Talk) 14:23, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: formic acid and oxalic acid are not strong acids (magic acid is).  Also, I will fix this article when I have time. 208.4.152.131 22:19, 5 February 2007 (UTC)

text: Assuming the previous unsigned commenter means aqueous solutions, this depends on solubility only. For barium, sulphate and HCl will be formed, for silver - chloride and sulphuric acid. (and, for the record, I don't see a point specifying any kind of order for strong acids in water) Cubbi 23:40, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Order? 

message: I'm going to edit out the incorrect sentence about oxygen having a formal charge of +1 in H3O. But I think the hydronium ion should be removed from the strong acid list entirely because most definitions of strong acid rely on the qualitative Arrhenius definition that a strong acid fully is an acid that completely dissociates in water. H3O is the zero between strong and weak. aevea (talk) 06:29, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  H<sub>3</sub>O inclusion
Talk:Napoleonic Code

message: The Code Napoleon was codified in 1804.  Louisiana became one of the United States in 1803.  Precisely speaking, Louisiana was never subject to le code Napoleon; rather, Louisiana law is an amalgam of les cotumes de paris (French law prior to the Code Napoleon) and Las Siete Partidas (the Spanish civil code).  This is perhaps one of the greatest misconceptions about Louisiana law.  Davisbi (talk) 17:01, 4 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Louisiana was never governed by the Napoleonic Code 

message: This is almost certainly a result of translation from fr.wikipedia. This is not a fundamental flaw, as a plethora of secondary sources definitely exists, but they do need to be added. 
This is a critically important concept that merits extensive analysis and is foundational to all other articles about the French legal system. The work required to add the secondary sources is more than DUE. For now I am going to focus on documenting the importance of the code Elinruby (talk) 05:30, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Over-reliance on primary sources 

message: Hello there, in my edit, I was referring to the influence of Maliki Fiqh on the Napoleonic Code. It has been highly underaddressed because of its Islamic roots. Also, I have provided proper citations for that. Napoleon did order the translation of Maliki books into French. I never claimed that the whole Napoleonic Code was based on Maliki Fiqh; I was simply pointing out the influences
One editor has added content purporting to show that the Code Napoleon was heavily influenced by the Maliki school of Islam. The sources were poor  (one PhD thesis, a youtube video and and an untranslated article in Turkish. Given that none of the major histories of the Code Napoleon mention such an influence I have removed the new content and have invited the editor to seek consensus for the new material here. This is consistent with the Bold, revert, discuss cycle.
Happy to discuss Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 12:43, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: The claim that the Napoleonic Code was heavily influenced by the Maliki school of Islam is an exceptional claim because none of the major scholarly works on the code support this. Any exceptional claim requires multiple high-quality sources. WP:Exceptional. Your sources are one article in Turkish, a youtube video and an unpublished PhD thesis. Some of the sources do not appear reliable and one explicitly states that its purpose to instil pride in Islam and counter western influence. This is not enough to overturn the consensus of eminent scholars in the field. If sometime in the future a consensus emerges that the Napoleonic Code was indeed influenced to some extent by the Maliki school of Islam then we can mention it in this article. But at the moment there is no room to include fringe theories. Aemilius Adolphin (talk) 00:04, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maliki school of Islam
Talk:Brothers Grimm

message: The last sentence of the lead section seems to imply that the Grimms sanitized the tales after Bruno Bettelheim published his psychoanalysis thereof. It would perhaps be better to rephrase ?
Noliscient (talk) 10:51, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: good point.  at least, there should be a citing for how the Grimms themselves may have eventually sanitised their works, and a mention of which ones, perhaps? Stjohn1970 (talk) 14:33, 15 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  … eventually ? 

message: No mention of "Grimm's Law". Also each brother has a page so the links should be more visible. Exoir (talk) 09:17, 4 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: 5 minute 169.159.175.218 (talk) 15:57, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Grimm's law is mentioned in the Jacob Grimm article. This article is more of an overview about the two brothers, but I'll look into some of the sources and maybe add something here. Victoria (tk) 21:17, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grimms Law?
Talk:Non-proportional font

message: Shouldn't this page be called monospace font instead? That page redirects here, but it seems like it should be the other way around; monospace is the traditional usage afaik, and the example on the proportional font page even uses the word "monospace". -- Merphant
:Monospaced font, I should think. -- Evertype·✆ 10:35, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Sniper

message: The article makes no mention of the medieval crossbow (or longbow) as a weapon used by snipers in the pre-gunpowder era. -- GreenC 01:07, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: That's because the concept is inapplicable. ⇒SWATJester Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat! 16:13, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Medieval crossbow
Talk:Finite-state machine

message: I understand this is pretty much the real deal but like the entire first half of this page has no references. --Sgtlion (talk) 21:49, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  References anyone? 

message: i cant get through the mathematical fsm its just so confusing can anybody explain it in an easy way ?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Syed Faizan jaffri (talk • contribs) 14:58, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  mathematically FSM  

message: The article currently has both "a FSM" and "an FSM". Only one should be used. Which one is correct depends on how it's pronounced by those working in the field -- do you say "an eff-ess-em" or do you expand it in full? 195.157.65.228 (talk) 15:28, 5 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: both pronunciations are used; that's why there's confusion. Glrx (talk) 21:51, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  A or an? 

message: Why, when referencing figure 4, does the the acceptor section say that state 7 is the only accepting state?  It says accepting states can either accept or reject input, and in the figure four other states can accept or reject the input. So aren't all states, except state 6, accepting?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 184.2.141.98 (talk) 19:19, 2 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Acceptor issue
Talk:Choke (novel)

message: The code on this page is jacked... reference section isn't there....
PS. Three's company info is legit.. check the link -- that would be showing up in the reference section! 
can someone fix the page's code?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.215.82.171 (talk) 20:15, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: It appears Denny's transformation late in the book is based on Ferdinand Cheval.--Han 14:43, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not quite sure where to add this little nugget of information --Han 15:01, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Denny 

message: My problem was not with the accuracy of the information, but with its appropriateness for an encyclopedic article about the book. It's a bunch of ephemeral, nonessential, poorly written information that also, frankly, makes the page look lousy. If someone wants to start an article on the film, perhaps all that stuff could go there, but it really isn't, I think, very useful here.--ShelfSkewed Talk 18:58, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I see that there already is a page for the film--I'm moving the stuff there.--ShelfSkewed Talk 19:00, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Film shooting info 

message: I read the book and I don't remember the line "Build God, Then We'll Talk." Can someone delete that it's named after a line from the book.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.203.49.107 (talk) 02:50, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Panic At The Disco Song 

message: Could someone please clarify what this sentence:
As Choke is episodic in character, individual chapters deal with different aspects of the narrators life and the lives of those around him.
could not be said about any novel ever written. I'm not being sarcastic, I honestly don't understand what the sentence is trying to say.
Ashmoo 22:35, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Have you read the book? A lot of the time the chapters are not back to back chronologically or contextually. Usually it's sort of metaphorical.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.152.60.80 (talk) 13:07, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have read the book (it was some time ago) and I find that statement, that the narrative is presented out of chronological sequence, to be accurate. I have re-cast the sentence. Han 14:46, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Plot summary sentence
Talk:Days of Our Lives

message: "Due to the series' success, daily episodes were expanded from 30 minutes to 60 minutes on April 21, 1975."
This is incorrect. To make it correct:
"The networks wanted to double the ad revenue they received, so they expanded the shows from 30 minutes to 60 minutes in the 1970s."
Elana Levine. (2020). Her Stories: Daytime Soap Opera & US Television History (pp. 94–95). Duke University Press. Shallotpeel (talk) 17:39, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Network expansion to one hour
Talk:Western Pennsylvania English

message: This statement and it's sources don't reflect this article properly. To say that Pittsburghese is only documented and limted to white Pittsburghers' is extremely wrong and ignorant! Being of multiple ethnicity's myself, I grew up in the South Side, across the bridge from downtown Pgh. It's a very diverse neighborhood, where heavy Pittsburghese is found, and where I've picked up mine. I grew up using multiple Pittsburghese terms, picked up from family and friends from our very diverse neighborhood. Speaking Pittsburghese has nothing to do with race. It's all geographical, and to summarize a segment on such a broad term, with this narrow statement is invalid, deceptive, and fallacious. I think this segment needs edited, or removed altogether, as it's portraying another point entirely, that is not relevant to the Pittsburghese English segment.Surpmutin (talk) 23:09, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe the accent itself is white (cf. White South African English, Indian South African English and Black South African English, all perfectly distinct from each other), whereas the lexicon isn't. Sol505000 (talk) 19:59, 14 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pittsburghese is "white only"? 

message: I'm from Pittsburgh and I've never heard anyone call sprinkles "jimmies". I'm aware of the term but as far as I know it's not part of the regional dialect. The source attributed to that only mentions advertisements for Just Born candies in Pittsburgh in the 1920s and 30s, it doesn't say that the term is or ever was commonly used here. Hunter12396 (talk) 04:30, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I am also from Pittsburgh, and I can confirm that "jimmies" is a common word for sprinkles; although I will say that it appears to have fallen out of favor with the younger generations, and is not unique to Pittsburgh. Calling them "jimmies" is also quite common in Philadelphia and Boston. So I would support the removal of that term from this page due to the fact that it is not unique to the Western PA region. Shticker (talk) 16:28, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jimmies 

message: This article which I just added to the "Further reading" section mentions that the book New Pittsburghese was what created the modern interest in the accent. This should probably be referenced somewhere in the article, but I don't know where and how. Mapsax (talk) 00:27, 23 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: ''New Pittsburghese'' book
Talk:Skepticism

message: In my Master's degree studies, I've come across a book article that mentions "sceptic" is typically reserved for those who doubt information because of their beliefs, which is the opposite of skeptic that doubt commonly held values until good evidence is supplied. 
It seems that there needs to be a strong distinction described in this article that differentiates between skeptics and those who are science deniers or disbelieve evidence that is presented to them because of their beliefs, i.e. sceptics. Leitmotiv (talk) 04:35, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello  and thanks for raising this point. As far as I'm aware, the two terms are used as synonyms with the difference being English variant, see , , and . It's possible that some theorists distinguish them but this may not be standard. I don't think that the main sources used in the article discuss this distinction. If you have a reliable source, we could add a footnote. Phlsph7 (talk) 07:56, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't find the book article again. Not surprising since I have like 5 articles to read per class. But it may be that sceptic as a denier is not universal, and it may just be better to mention denier instead. A lot of folks think "skeptic" is a denier and a small statement noting the difference would be handy. Leitmotiv (talk) 15:24, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't feel comfortable about adding a statement if we cannot present a good source to support it. After a short look, I found the following, which states that this distinction is a misconception. Phlsph7 (talk) 08:18, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Skeptic vs. Sceptic