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Talk:Centre-du-Québec

message: I've clarified the usage of the name Bois-Francs somewhat; let me know if this is clear enough.  "Bois-Francs" was used as part of the now-defunct Mauricie-Bois-Francs administrative region of Quebec, but I suspect the name is particular to Victoriaville and area (more specifically, to now-also-defunct Arthabaska County, which comprised Arthabaska and Érable RCMs), while Drummondville and area was traditionally subsumed by the Eastern Townships and had no other particular regional identity.  When the Mauricie-Bois-Francs region was created in 1987, perhaps it was felt that "Bois-Francs" would be suitable enough as a moniker for the entire south shore of the St-Lawrence at Trois-Rivières... any comments on this? --dragfyre 05:59, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bois-Francs and regional identity 
Talk:Solving for pattern

message: i think that solving for pattern is widely enough used outside the context of wendell berry that it deserves to stand on its own and be separately defined on its own page.  would be great to have the berry page link to this one though.  unless anyone objects, i would like to remove the merge proposal.  Openlander 06:00, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you have any other particular instances of the term. I can think of many instances of use of pattern say A Pattern Language or Design patterns in computer science. But I'm not aware of anything else which specifically uses this term. It might be a good idea to have a dab link to Pattern (disambiguation) a I guess people might be looking for something else when they find this page. --Salix alba (talk) 08:32, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: stands alone
Talk:Randall Park

message: I might be able to add more information on his personal information since there has not been much written on him. What do you think? 
http://www.laweekly.com/arts/randall-and-jae-suh-park-baby-makes-three-4431756  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tsangdouglas (talk • contribs) 03:10, 4 November 2015 (UTC)

message: I will soon edit the lede, as it is currently just a listing of roles that he has previously done. Is there usually a standard template for actors/actresses?
ChunyangD (talk) 20:09, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Not sure of any template but will try to make it more useful. This goes for the rest of the article too. — BriefEdits (talk) 03:37, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  The lede is a mess 

message: Pretty sure citation for birthday violates sourcing standards as noted on Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons. Unless there's an alternative, I'm going to have to remove the birthday. — BriefEdits (talk) 07:58, 13 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  dims[] == 'at the park families of the world at the great green berets and at the fa and julie park less hana park the one that I don't even know"  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:19C:4A01:BE26:9489:C5E2:36A6:FF47 (talk) 20:12, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Birthday
Talk:Drexell R. Davis

message: Does anyone here know what the middle initial "R" stands for?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.205.192.153 (talk) 12:29, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Middle Name?
Talk:Han Sui

message: I'm going to revert the birth and death dates to what I had before, taken from Japanese wikipedia. I looked on the internet, and the dates were taken from this page: 
The biography that the dates were taken from, as the site says, are based on Romance of the Three Kingdoms. The Kongming site even says: "Because the Romance of the Three Kingdoms (SGYY) is a fictional novel it cannot be used as a historical reference, even though the events presented within are usually derived from historical people, places, and events."--Alex Small 11:17, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth and death dates 
Talk:Xu Shen

message: I'm getting ready to beef up this article a bit. For anyone who might be interested, here are some useful sources:
    Phonology, Critical Concepts in Linguistics, Volume 1. Written by M.A.K. Halliday
        In chapter three of this work there is a fairly thorough treatment of the layout of Xu Shen's Shuowen Jiezi. I think it would be a good resource for a section on Xu Shen's methods.
        Very sparse biographical Information
    Chinese Lexicography: A History from 1046 BC to 1911. Written by Yong Heming.
        An exhaustive source on the history of Chinese writing.
        Written by a Chinese scholar in English.
        Goes much more in depth, giving the cultural and historical situations that led to the dictionaries creation.
        Also references a biography of Xu Shen in the classic "Book of the Later Han" (5th century). I should be able to find a translation.
    Language and Society as seen by Xu Shen, an Ancient Chinese Lexicographer. Written by Xu Guozhang.
        This is an article published in the International Journal of the Sociology of Language. Volume 1990, Issue 8. B.C. apparently has this in its collection.
    Original work by Xu Shen himself:
        There are several different titles which I have come across.
        The most important is obviously the dictionary itself. Xu Shen wrote a preface which would be fruitful to read... maybe I can find it in English... or even modern Chinese.
        He also wrote an interpretative dictionary of the 5 Classics. Not sure if this will be of much use besides as a topic in its own right on the page.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Seeaphone (talk • contribs) 02:10, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Liu Xin (scholar)

message: A taiwanese source transmits us the following interpretation of the text: there are apparently 10 inches to a chinese foot, so diameter is sqrt(50)+0.095, where 0.095 inches is the gap between the corner of the square and the circle. Assuming the area is 162 inches, the pi comes out to be 3.1547 --- close but not nearly as good as Archimedes three hundred years earlier with his 22/7 < pi< 223/71.  See here: http://episte.math.ntu.edu.tw/articles/mm/mm_03_2_08/page2.html Kotika98 (talk) 03:22, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: This seems to imply the formula  \pi = \frac A { r ^2} =  \frac {162} {(\sqrt 50 + 0.095) ^ 2 } , though diameter and radius appear to be confused and the area should be in square inches. Checking with a calculator I see 162÷(√50+0.095)² ≈ 3.154664564 PJTraill (talk) 15:32, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pi 

message: Could it be that Liu Xin used no mathematical theory but gave figures based on measurement?
If this doubt can be scattered, it would be good to mention it, along with the reasoning, in the section #pi.
PJTraill (talk) 13:04, 6 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Did he calculate π or just measure?
Talk:Edward Canby

message: This article contained (and may still contain) unfortunate and inaccurate remarks about the NYC draft riots of 1863, calling the riots an attack of ethnic Irish upon blacks. Most of the city didn't riot in 1863, including its immigrants.  Native-born WASP commercial interests connected to the South incited trouble and workers resisting a class-privileged draft.  Immediately prior to the draft, the city's large militia force was mobilized and sent to Pennsylvania leaving only the under-manned police to deal with malcontents. The police, many ethnic Irish, were able to protect the city's blacks for the most part, but not their property.  Most of the dead were the rioters, killed by feckless troops from the harbor forts and the few militia remaining in the city. Canby had no involvement in any of the mayhem so his inclusion here is a gratuitous manifestation of old nativist prejudice.  For generations we've had this sort of blame switching to cover up miscalculation by the Lincoln administration -- holding a draft during the Gettysburg crisis -- that led to significant loss of life and property. The lost lives among "rioters" including many who turned out to be women and children. Canby relieved the army officer responsible for the civilian deaths.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8800:4A02:2F00:C458:9C10:D0F5:A468 (talk) 23:30, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Draft Riots Bigotry

message: article defending a man who was as bad as Hitler, stealing land by conquest from Native Americans in California. his death , while a cowardly act, was a fight against evil like white rose resisting Nazi German. such Facts needs to be added  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.38.155.134 (talk) 19:19, 27 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  missing info about evil
Talk:Liu Xiang (scholar)

message: I think there has been a mix up between father Liu Xiang and son Liu Xin in this article. In his bibliographical essay on Shan hai ching (in: Early Chinese Texts. A Biliographical Guide edited by Michael Loewe, , p.356-367) Rifccardo Fracasso studies thoroughly the authorship and textual transmission of the text. According to this scholar it was Liu Xin who wrote a preface and it was Liu Xin who produced a definitive text. There is no mentioning of Liu Xiang at all in his essay. Guss2 (talk) 14:49, 7 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  On August 12th 2009 a reference (Rewriting Early Chinese Texts, pp.2-3) was added which should prove Liu Xiang was the editor of 'Shan Hai Jing' and his son finished it. The reference in note 4 says: ... Liu Xiang's son Liu Xin completed the work, we know for instance that Liu Xin edited the Shan Hai Jing. With work however isn't meant Shan Hai Jing, but Bie Lu (or Seperate Records). This is what Liu Xin completed by editing for instance Shan Hai Jing, Guss2 (talk) 17:40, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shan Hai Jing 

message: From wiki under "Waidan"
"The erudite Han official Liu Xiang (77-6 BCE) attempted and failed to compound alchemical gold. The Hanshu says that in 61 BCE, Emperor Xuan became interested in immortality and employed numerous fangshi specialists to recreate the sacrifices and techniques used by his great-grandfather, Emperor Wu. In 60 BCE, Liu Xiang presented the emperor with a rare alchemical book entitled Hongbao yuanbi shu 鴻寳苑祕術 (Arts from the Garden of Secrets of the Great Treasure)–which had supposedly belonged to the Huainanzi compiler Liu An–that described "divine immortals and the art of inducing spiritual beings to make gold" and Zou Yan's chongdao 重道 "recipe for prolonging life by a repeated method [of transmutation]". The chongdao context is also translated as "a method of repeated (transmutation)", or reading zhongdao as "important methods by Zou Yan for prolonging life". Emperor Xuan commissioned Liu Xiang to produce alchemical gold, but he was ultimately unsuccessful despite having access to the best available alchemical texts in the imperial library, the expertise of numerous fangshi and metallurgist assistants, and unlimited imperial resources. In 56 BCE, the emperor ordered Liu to be executed yet later reduced the sentence. Dubs concludes that a "more complete and adequate test of alchemy could not have been made"."
~~Ed~~ 2607:FEA8:4A2:4100:EDC8:79FC:5018:C0C9 (talk) 03:56, 25 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alchemist 

message: There is no mention of Liu Xiang's achievements as an Astronomer. What is the evidence of his disappearance for 2 years? 
eg. 'The Missing Astronomer' article https://www.asiaharvest.org/not-without-witness-excerpts-from-our-new-shaanxi-book Zohre6 (talk) 14:57, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Astronomer
Talk:Zhang Zhongjing

message: *Merge: This page was changed to a redirecting page without discussion.  I reverted and ask for discussion for the merge issue. This person is more commonly referred to as Zhang Zhongjing, not Zhang Ji.  According to Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names), Zhang Zhongjing should be the title of the article. Furthermore, Zhang Zhongjing has a much longer edit history than Zhang Ji (Chinese physician). --Neo-Jay 20:16, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have no objection to doing the merge the other way - but please, don't retain two different articles about the same person under different names. Mike Serfas 00:03, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. I have merged these articles. --Neo-Jay 04:32, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge [[Zhang Ji (Chinese physician)]]
Talk:Ban Zhao

message: Is there anything that comes after this statement that is actually wrong? Is not the book a moralistic tome telling women how to behave well in a traditional culture? If not, then surely the reference to Orientalism can be thrown out. LastDodo (talk) 15:58, 3 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  According to classic Western Orientalism
Talk:Kings of the Han dynasty

message: A list of the Liu family tree, their titles, their posthumous regnal names, and dates. — LlywelynII 21:12, 29 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources for article expansion

message: This should probably either have reference citations or be moved to "List of [take your pick: kings, princes, or wang] of the Han dynasty", or both. Dcattell (talk) 13:48, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  References or list
Talk:Glauber–Sudarshan P representation

message: I understand that you are saying that the Glauber-Sudarshan P-Representation is one in which one looks at density matrices which are mixtures of coherent states. Right? But what is the significance of the exponent "2" over the "d" in the integral? JRSpriggs 06:07, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It is shorthand for  \rm{d[Im(} \alpha)] \rm{d[Re(} \alpha)], since  \alpha  is complex.  If you think it is confusing the way it is, you can write it out explicitly. Waxigloo 14:04, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This makes it sound like α is just a complex number. But it must actually be an element of an infinite dimensional space, which space is a subset of the set of functions from R3×{-1,+1} to the complex numbers (and that is only the real photons, not the virtual ones). JRSpriggs 07:47, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  It is just a complex number.  The basis is the coherent state basis, which are completely characterized by a single complex number.Waxigloo 20:30, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Exponent 2?

message: Calling this representation Glauber-Sudarshan seems unreasonable, since Sudarshan discovered it first (see the references).  Also Glauber in his paper acknowledges that Sudarshan got it first, yet renames it to P-representation.  
Glauber argues (Sec. X) that the "P-function" must be positive, and criticizes Sudarshan for letting it be negative for quantum effects.  In this case Glauber is wrong, the function is only positive for classical light.  Hence the classical correspondence theorem.  It cannot be strictly positive for quantum effects.  
I think the representation should be called Sudarshan-Glauber representation. Sudarshan discovered it and Glauber popularized it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.90.165.130 (talk) 20:36, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changing the Title 

message: This is what in the mathematics literature is called the upper symbol of rho in connection with the Berezin-Lieb inequalities.  See, for example, http://arxiv.org/abs/1106.5966
Bsimonca (talk) 18:22, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Berezin Lieb inequalites 

message: What is the meaning of rho(alpha, alpha')?  Is this just <alpha|rho|alpha'> ?  If so, this definitely needs to be stated explicitly.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.14.192.201 (talk) 03:51, 26 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question about density matrix with coherent states
Talk:Prince of Dai

message: Given that the Han are (basically) princes, the Tuoba are kings, and the Tuoba list has a natural home on the Dai (Sixteen Kingdoms) page, it might be worthwhile to just move the Han list to something like Dai (Han dynasty) and have this namespace redirect to the dab list at Dai#Places. — LlywelynII 01:07, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Breakup?
Talk:Dong Zhongshu

message: I'm looking for ideas on an art piece I can create in this subject.
Anyone got any suggestions??? Pontiacjax (talk) 03:09, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ying Yang art exhibition
Talk:Frances Wisebart Jacobs

message: Un yeah, did you read the article? There is all of one sentence about Kentucky, she was born there, that is it! I highly doubt most Kentuckians would be interested anyway. This is far more of a Colorado related article.--DO11.10 08:07, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This has been here a long time, but she was born in Kentucky. There's a category for people from the town she was born in.–CaroleHenson (talk) 17:19, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of Kentucky tag
Talk:Roque González y de Santa Cruz

message: How could he be "...the first European person to enter the region..." when his parents were "Filipino"? Were his parents of 100% European stock (presumably Spanish by their names, and Spanish being the most likely nationality of European in the Philippines at the time)? None of this is answered in the article.
--TechnoDanny (talk) 19:47, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parentage
Talk:Nokia 1600

message: I would like to see what sort of alarm and reminder system this has.  Anyone up to finding out and posting it in the article? Shoreu (talk) 01:27, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alarm and reminders 
Talk:List of units of the Canadian Army

message: I think the title is ambiguous/misleading. What are we listing here? Are we going to list all the units in Canada, or just the actual regiments? I notice we have Field Engineer squadrons and Artillery batteries, but not Service battalions (which are what Arty, Armd, and Engr regiments convert into when you drop the cavalry terminology). Are we limiting units by size (Bn/Regt), or are we using "regiments" because that takes in the entirety of the "named units", i.e. the RCAC and the RCIC, and that's realy all we want to list? Do I delete the Field Engineer Sqns and Artillery Btys, or do I add the Communications Regiments and Service Battalions, some combination of both, or do I add the entire Canadian ORBAT? --SigPig 06:15, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looking at the initial article stub, 'twould seem your opinion is correct.  --SigPig 15:26, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well the, I've gone and done it, and tried to clean up the redirects as best I could. I see a list of units is duplicated at Structure of the Canadian Army, so I moved them from there onto this page.Michael DoroshTalk 16:18, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Scope

message: I think we should delete the section on the RCMS - none of those units fall under the command of Canadian Army. Thoughts? Indefatigable (talk) 22:10, 14 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  RCMS units
Talk:Henry Massey Rector

message: Though I'm sure that he had English ancestry on both sides of his family, the Rectors were of German descent. See the Germanna Foundation site for more information. I am a cousin of his.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Garyclayrector (talk • contribs) 13:18, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Irvin S. Cobb

message: i remember seeing an Irving S. Cobb corn cob pipe for smoking tobacco at drug stores 30 years ago.
They used his picture and silhouette in the card board backing.  They were made in Washington, MO by the H&B corn cob pipe company then by Missouri Meerschaum, unless i remember it wrong.
i dont know which section this tidbit would fit under though, and i do not have a picture to add.
50.203.253.60 (talk) 21:31, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tobacco Pipe
Talk:Isaac Burns Murphy

message: Since I could find no mention of such a place in the citation or on the Pimlico Race Course website (although there are Jockey Club and Hall of Fame dining rooms at Pimlico), I'm going to remove it; the article's author may have confused the Pimlico facilities with the Jockeys' Hall of Fame at the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame.--Miniapolis (talk) 14:05, 26 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  National Jockey's Hall of Fame 

message: Another reference about Isaac Burns Murphy. McDaniels, Pellom III, "The Prince of Jockeys: The Life of Isaac Burns Murphy" (2013). UPK Current Titles. Book 141. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_book/141 Sydney Poore/FloNight♥♥♥♥ 19:25, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Another reference
Talk:James Taylor Jr. (banker)

message: Really needs help.  Needs to be wikified, and subsections need to be added to break up the text. Soldan 19:40, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Even worse, this page seems to have conflated James Taylor V with James Taylor Jr (or James Taylor II). Skinrider (talk) 17:12, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup tag
Talk:Maruthas of Martyropolis

message: The audio file on this page for the "Chaldean Rite Martyrs prayer - Monday Vespers, attributed to Maruthas." is mistaken for the Lord's Prayer recited in Western Syriac. I've never edited an article before so I'll leave it to someone else so I don't mess it up.
This is the link for what should be on the page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chaldean_Rite_Martyrs_prayer_-_Tuesday_Matins.ogg taken from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Syriac_Rite
I have also verified this is the right hymn using the breviary the hymn originates from. 
Another comment is that while they both reference the same time of the day, the same hymn is called the "Monday Vespers" on this page and "Tuesday Matins" on the audio file, not sure if somebody wants to make them the same to avoid any confusion.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nochiya1 (talk • contribs) 04:08, 8 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chaldean Rite Hymn - Monday Vespers incorrect link
Talk:John B. Breckinridge

message: Although Breckinridge served in the United States Army during World War II, no reliable sources found as of yet state that he served overseas in a war zone during the war. More specifically, the sources do not establish defining role in World War II. Accordingly, :Category:American military personnel of World War II was removed from the article. Semper Fi! FieldMarine (talk) 01:53, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: World War II service
Talk:John Bullock Clark

message: - would this article be eligible for MILHIST a-class review when I finally get less busy in early August, or is Clark's militia service too fleeting for it to be "MILHIST enough"? Hog Farm  Talk 01:22, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Appears to me to be MILHIST, without room for doubt. One need not be a direct combatant or field commander to be an important part of military history. –♠Vamí_IV†♠ 02:11, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that he is MilHist notable, given his wartime activities and commands. Gog the Mild (talk) 16:51, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I have changed the assessment to A class=pass. If I have omitted a step or made a mistake, please correct it and/or let me know. Donner60 (talk) 00:52, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  A-class review
Talk:John Harper (Kentucky politician)

message: Although Harper served in the Air Force during the Korean War era, there are no reliable sources found as of yet state that he was in a war zone during the war. More specifically, the sources do not establish defining role in the Korean War. Accordingly, "Category:United States air force personnel of the Korean War" was removed until a defining role is established. Semper Fi! FieldMarine (talk) 14:40, 2 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Korean War service