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Talk:Digenes Akritas

message: What is the correct pronunciation and correct spelling of the name? I have an academic book, summariazing a symposium about Digenes called "Digenes Akrites" (Robert Beaton and David Ricks, eds. Variorum 1993).
Shouldn't there at least be some redirection page?
: There's no standard term. Latinization before translation yielding Digenis Acritas or Digenis Acrites seem to be more popular, but Digenes Akritas or Digenis Akrites or others are also widely used. I guess a redirection page would be usefull. Though the weakeness of this page is that its unknown. This article needs to be linked with more Wikipedia pages. Colossus 13:24, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: Is this "epic" not simply a retelling of the legend of Heracles and his labours, adapted to the context of the Greek/Byzantine/Arab conflicts of the Middle Ages? There are so many parallels that it's hard not to see a connection:
* Digenes kills/encounters many of the same animals that Heracles did (lion, hind, dragon/hydra- plus the three warriors/three heads of Cerberus)
* Maximu is obviously Hippolyte
* Heracles is the son of a god who disguised himself as a mortal man to win over Alcmene, likewise Digenes is the son of an emir who "disguised" himself as a Christian to win over the Byzantine woman
* Heracles is "twice-born" (as mortal and god)
* The "wrestling with Death". Heracles does eventually die, but not before encountering Hades/Charon when he went to the underworld to rescue Theseus and capture Cerberus
It seems the story of Heracles as a Greek superhero survived in oral tradition, to be written down again centuries later in the guise of a medieval warrior.Walshie79 (talk) 23:54, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Digenes=Heracles?
Talk:John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee

message: The legend of Dundee has done much to obscure the details of his career.  Properly speaking Killiekrankie was the only time he led an army to victory in independent command.  Up to that point his military career had not been one of great distinction.  By precipitate action, and ignorance of the terrain, he allowed his troop of dragoons to be badly cut up by ill-armed rebels at Drumclog.  He performed no decisive role at Bothwell Bridge in the army commanded by Monmouth.  In the early 1680s he was little more than a policeman, chasing desperate peasants around the countryside of Ayrshire and Galloway.
Rcpaterson 02:11, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  An only Victory 

message: Sir Walter Scott wrote a famous poem about him, which was parodied in "Alice Through the Looking-Glass". AnonMoos (talk) 08:55, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Cultural references

message: some one disputed the part about Dundee recommending lenient treatment of the convenanters, why? is that fact wrong? or is did the tagger think that the juxatpution of that fact with the mentioning of his nickname "Bluidy Clavers" suggests that it(the nickname) is unwarranted. Tinynanorobots (talk) 12:22, 21 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Just to say that to comply with WP:NPOV neither a Jacobite/Tory or Presbyterian/Williamite perspective should be adopted by the article, although both should be explained. Probably the main issue is a lack of reliable sources to support the significant points.--SabreBD (talk) 10:56, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: You seem to have misread my argument here. I am not arguing that Claverhouse should be treated like a tyrant, quite the reverse. The later part of your statement reads like an argument for bias "because it is true". What is much more important in a Wikipedia article is balance. To quote that section of the guidelines: "Neutrality assigns weight to viewpoints in proportion to their prominence. However, when reputable sources contradict one another and are relatively equal in prominence, describe both approaches and work for balance. This involves describing the opposing views clearly, drawing on secondary or tertiary sources that describe the disagreement from a disinterested viewpoint". The bit that follows on tone may also be important here.--SabreBD (talk) 07:44, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  neutrallity and treatment of covenanters
Talk:Aldo Novarese

message: It would be nice to have an article on that font, especially since it has seen nearly as extensive use in most forms of science fiction, video games, tech/electronic products and many other things where a "futuristic" style is desired, especially as a logo font. The Neo Geo video games Pulstar and Blazing Star used it in the game logos, the font was used extensively in the original "Battlestar Galactica" TV series, just to name a few of its many uses. An early copy of it for computers was named Galactican, after the TV show. Bizzybody (talk) 08:10, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article on Stop font.
Talk:P. K. Vasudevan Nair

message: There is an RfC on the question of using "Religion: None" vs. "Religion: None (atheist)" in the infobox on this and other similar pages. 
The RfC is at Template talk:Infobox person#RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion. 
Please help us determine consensus on this issue. --Guy Macon (talk) 19:55, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Template talk:Infobox person#RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion|Request for Comments]] 
Talk:Ambient 4: On Land

message: My CD of On Land has the Brian Eno essay that is currently cited in the article.  However, I used to own a vinyl copy which had completely different text, plus a diagram, on the back cover.  This was Eno's description of a three-speaker setup that he had found useful (and cheaper than quadraphonic systems, a recent phenomenon when On Land was released). As I recall the sytem involved wiring a small third speaker to the positive terminal of the left output and the negative terminal of the right output (or vice-versa).  Perhaps it's worth mentioning this other text in the article.  Unfortunately the $%#@* moving company lost my vinyl copy, so I no longer have it for reference.  I'll poke around the web and see if I can find more info, unless someone else can post it in the meantime. -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 04:14, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Liner notes 

message: I've taken out this ridiculous statement:
"Interestingly, the track is probably the one that "stands out" most, containing as it does many startling effects that elevate it above the ambient noodling of the rest of the album."
Bad in so many spectacular ways. --IRONY-POLICE (talk) 13:11, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rubbish 
Talk:Stress intensity factor

message: *Can you transfer the image to commons, so every language wiki could use it? abakharev 09:27, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

message: The sentence: "This relation breaks down very close to the tip (small r) because as r goes to 0, the stress \sigma_{ij} goes to \infty." might be correct in a mathematical sense, but in reality a crack wouldn't be much smaller than the size of an atom, wouldn't it? And then one still has normally "blunt" cracks which are probably ways broader at the tip than one atom. Peterthewall (talk) 11:23, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crack tip radius goes towards zero. 

message: "If the crack is not located centrally along the width, i.e., d \ne b, the stress intensity factor at location A has the form
:
   K_{\rm I} =  \sigma \sqrt{\pi a}\left[1 + \sum_{n=2}^{19} C_n\left(\frac{a}{b}\right)^n\right]
 
where the factors C_n can be found in tabulated form for various values of d.  A similar expression can be found for tip B of the crack."
:This is of exactly NO help at all!
:It does NOT "have" this form. It can be "approximated" (quite well, I guess) by this form - given that one is in the possession of the 20 C_ns. But as these are not given here + no reference to them, then this formulae is as helpful as saying "...it takes a form that Google knows. Good luck.".
:A real analytical solution can be found in Kathiresan 1984, freely available here: http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA150420
:Scroll down to case 26 on p 175 and combine it with case 11 on p 172. This should do. I don't have the 20 minutes at the moment to type in these formulae, unfortunately. Peterthewall (talk) 15:07, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks, Bbanerje for including all this! Peterthewall (talk) 13:44, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Examples, Uniform uniaxial stress, crack unsymmetrically 

message: The stress intensity factor is non-sensical term.  "Factor" implies a scalar multiple to a variable.  This is not a unit-less entity.
What this page is describing is the STRESS INTENSITY. 
The stress intensity is the stress CONCENTRATION factor PLUS the applied stress.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.178.166.126 (talk) 21:24, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  This page is wrong in nomenclature
Talk:Opera Mail

message: What PIM components does M2 have?
:Per contact, it has fields for name, address, phone, homepage, notes and a picture. 4.242.60.195 10:16, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: According to the RSS Agregators Comparison article, Opera Mail supports Windows Mobile.  I can't find any mention of this on the Opera website.  Is this true? --Fredrik Coulter (talk) 13:29, 6 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Windows Mobile? 

message: The current screenshot is of Opera 9 (or earlier), to which the current version bears little resemblance. I could update it to a screenshot of Opera 12, but it is probably slightly better if a windows/mac user could screenshot the standalone client. —WOFall (talk) 18:58, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updated screenshot needed
Talk:Nikah halala

message: Jami’ Tirmidhi, Chapter : About the Muhil and Muhalal.
Hadith n 1120 : From Abdallah ibn Mas’ud who said : “The Prophet saw cursed ( la’ana) the Muhil ( the one who makes halal) and the Muhalal lahu ( for the one it is made halal)”
Abu Issa ( Imam Tirmidhi) said : “ This hadith is Hassan Saheeh” …This hadeeth has been reported from the Prophet saw from other way than this, and the people of knowledge acted on this hadeeth from the companions of the Prophet saw among them : Umar ibnul Khattab, Uthman ibnu ‘Affan, ‘Abdallah ibn ‘Amr and other, and this is the saying of Fuqahas from Tabi’in, and this has been said by Sufyan Thawri, ibnul Mubarak, Shafi’I, Ahmad, Ishaq
--Striver 16:40, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: hadith

message: I have added a verse along with commentary from secondary source that is 
When iddah has passed in case of 1st or 2nd divorce
Smatrah (talk) 14:45, 29 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: addition of well referenced information

message: I’ve now added more comprehensive information with reference.
The Quran states:
According to well known commentary bu Ibn Kathir 
Smatrah (talk) 09:45, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  more authentic information

message: Quran elucidate it in Surah Baqarah, verse number 230 like this,
If a husband divorces his wife (irrevocably), he can't after that, re-marry her until she is married to another husband and he divorces her.
When a man divorces his wife thrice, she completes her iddah. When she is done with her iddah, she can marry with another man. After sexual intercourse, if this man divorces her too, now she can return to her first husband by tying again the knot of Nikah.
People make bypasses everywhere. Sometimes husbands after divorcing thrice their wives, hire a man to marry their wives and divorce her after. So that they might return to them. This is called Halala or Hulla.
Holy Prophet disliked Halala and said, “May Allah damn those who make Hulla and those for whom Hulla is made.” (Ibn e Majah, Nikah 33; Abu Dawud, Nikah 14). Therefore Neither it is part of Islam nor it’s mentioned in Quran.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 103.72.75.58 (talk) 19:43, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Moved by me to bottom (new sections go at bottom on wikipedia), and given a relevant header, feel free to change it Nosebagbear (talk) 19:57, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Halala Concern

message: The Quran is interpreted as prohibiting the consumption of alcohol but some Muslims do anyway so "prohibited in Islam" is not a valid reason to remove content.   –Skywatcher68 (talk) 16:30, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prohibited in Islam?
Talk:Greek-Catholic Melkite Church

message: Oops. Yes merge. I just noticed on religious leaders it had no information on Melkites.--T. Anthony 09:40, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The article on the Melkite Catholic Church, the one I created so there'd be a link at the list of religious leaders, does not say they are Oriental Orthodox and might be more accurate. However a merger could eventually lead to inaccurate statements in both articles being dropped and that's why I supported it back when.--T. Anthony 13:02, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

text: This article is misleading. The Melkites are Byzantine Christians in/from the Levant and Egypt who converted to Catholicism. They generally use Arabic as their liturgical language. They are not Oriental Orthodox in the slightest. The article on Melkite Catholic Church is talking about the same body, but is more accurate. I believe a merge should take place, but most of the misinformaton in this article should not be carried across. The merge should go ahead because we do not want two articles about exactly the same subject. The inaccuracies of one article should not prevent this. --Gareth Hughes 14:30, 5 October 2005 (UTC)

text: I've changed Melkite from a redirect to an article on the term. I felt that this was important because the term covers a little more than this church. It might also be a good basis for improving this article. --Gareth Hughes 16:14, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Avery Haines

message: Regarding the footnote "She is also a beautiful woman": My first thought was that this didn't belong in an encyclopedia article about a newsreader.  But then I thought: articles about porn stars include their physical measurements, and articles about comic-book superheroes include the number of tons they can bench-press.  Perhaps a comment about a female newsreader's beauty is really a sardonic statement on the double standards that allow networks to fire female newsreaders as soon as their first wrinkle appears, but keep right on employing male newsreaders until they drop dead (or get caught criticising the government, whichever comes first).  It's not sexism; it's satire!  ... Naah.  Kill it.  --Eric TF Bat 09:53, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The Esclator Over The Hill link isn't working. I have no idea how to fix it.
142.163.43.250 17:19, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  adklsfjaklsd links 
Talk:Polytomous Rasch model

message: "Partial Credit Model" is noted because the polytomous RM is frequently referred to by this label.  However, the article is about the polytomous Rasch model, the terms of which were resolved by Andrich in a way that allowed for its application. Now, Andrich (2005) clearly defines the nature of response processes compatible with the model, and gives a detailed and explicit explanation of the reasons for the compatibility.  Interpretations that are incompatible, such as those involving 'steps', thurstone thresholds, etc. should not appear in this article because the article is about the polytomous Rasch model, which preserves sufficiency and entails ordered thresholds. I would suggest that other interpretations should appear in different articles Holon 09:53, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
Template talk:Orders, decorations, and medals of India

message: Among Civilian Honours also, it would be better to have sub-divisions. Hence, re-organising and re-ordering the same. In Sports, I've added Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna at the top as it is the country's highest sporting honour. I've put Dronacharya Award at the end in Sports section for two reasons - i] It is not a sports award and a sports coaching award & ii] No article on that exists yet.
Gurubrahma 10:10, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Sub-Categories

message: hi, Currently the template has the gallantry awards in the order of precedence, i.e. first in war time gallantry (Param Vir Chakra), first in peace time gallantry (Ashoka Chakra), second in war time gallantry (Maha Vir Chakra), second in peace time gallantry (Kirti Chakra) etc. Would it be a better idea to separate them into Gallantry awards - War time followed by Gallantry awards - Peace time?? I thought of doing it myself but since the changes in the template effect changes elsewhere as well, I thought of posing this question on the talk page.---Gurubrahma 13:11, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gallantry awards - suggestions pls. 

message: Hi, I've included the national flag in the template for 2 reasons: i) As these are Government of India awards, it would be great if the flag is also visible.
ii) Adding colour to the template.
Please lend me your sugestions. ---Gurubrahma 14:56, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  National Flag 

message: This template lists only official Government of India honours and awards (see Wikipedia:WikiProject Orders, Decorations, and Medals).  Please do not include private awards like Jnanpith Award or Godfrey Phillips National Bravery Awards.  Thanks.  Fowler&fowler«Talk» 11:43, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Please no private awards!
Talk:St Mary's Star of the Sea Catholic School

message: there must be a couple hundred "St Mary's Star of the Sea" catholic schools. SaltyPig 10:20, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: which?

message: You are not going to believe this, but some people who read this are not actually Australian. Some of those (us, actually) don't know what a DUX award is? Can you enlighten us here or in a separate stub, if it is common? Student7 23:44, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the category ought to be deleted, on second thought. Except for the principals, I don't think that anyone else should be memorialized except for extra-school activities, i.e. district sports, brain bowl; an activity that showed that St. Mary's students did better than some other (un-named!) school. All schools have validictorians, leaders, etc. The article should be about important and interesting differences that St. Mary's has. Student7 20:38, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: DUX
Talk:Swirl (band)

message: This is not the article I expected when I searched for Swirl. Swirlix 10:32, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: "Talk:Swirl" redirects here...is that allowed? To redirect a talk page?
Also - what about swirl (design)?
RebDrummer61 23:46, 2 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Talk redirection
Talk:Hans Tropsch

message: Is it really appropriate to identify Tropsch as a Czech chemist without qualification, considering he was an ethnic German, born in a then German speaking area (Plana/Plan) of Bohemia in Austria-Hungary, who lived a considerable portion of his life in Germany and attended German educational institutions (though I suppose the German technical University in Prague could be considered both German and Czech)? I haven't edited the article yet because I've seen how messy similar articles have become and I'd like to avoid that.
--Toph99 11:05, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The German wikipedia classifies him as a German chemist. Albmont (talk) 10:44, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  might help--Stone (talk) 19:10, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: How did Hans Tropsch die at age 46? What severe illness? 71.103.229.12 (talk) 20:48, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Death
Talk:List of U.S. cities with large Vietnamese-American populations

message: Does anyone know what the criteria for Major and Medium cities was for this list? Long Beach, California had 1.1% Vietnamese in the 200 census (see ) and had a total population of 461,522. BlankVerse ∅ 11:28, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Okay, yeah. So my own town doesn't have that much of a Viet pop. than the first one on that list, but it's still a contribution till some others come at least, huh?
The Texas Drama King 02:32, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brenham 

message: Chicago is a city with more than 15,000 Vietnamese. It should be included in the first chart. 
http://www.vatv.org/VAP.html
Drex44 (talk) 15:32, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The list you used counts the number of people in the metropolitan area, not in the city proper.  According to the US census, the number of Vietnamese Americans in Chicago in 2000 was 8,221, not enough to be listed.  Its population had grown to 11,158 in 2006, but we don't use those figures yet. DHN (talk) 15:41, 4 September 2008 (UTC)

text: Updated. Chicago still not in list. DHN (talk) 07:52, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Chicago

message: I'm not sure the statistics exist for what I'm looking for. I would like to source how many Vietnamese are in Northern Virginia, say sometime in the last five years. I can find census data from 2000 to say there are about 40,000 immigrants born in Vietnam living in Virgina, and I could sort that by counties to get NoVA. But that's not the numbers I want, because I'm looking for statistics that include Vietnamese born in America (or wherever).  Has anyone any advice where I might get this.  I'm trying to update the number on the Virginia article from 1997 of "99,000", which I feel is probably dated.--Patrick «» 04:54, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The number of people reporting "Vietnamese" as their ethnicity in Virginia is 37,309 as of the 2000 census.  This number includes people born in the United States.  According to the 2005-2007 American Community Survey 3-Year Estimate, their numbers increased to 48,74.  The 99,000 number possibly included some other places in the Washington metro area. DHN (talk) 08:15, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Northern Virginia 