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Talk:Pronoia

message: ...pronoiars began to extract rents from the paroikoi, turning back to the old Thema system.
Making the corelation that the Pronoiars where homogenous to the higher officers of the thematic system, the above would prove to be false as these did not tax soldier-tenants under there leadership. If by the statement it is meant that the Pronoiars where akin to the soldier-tenant, albeit the more prominent ones, taxing any tenant of there own (wich would prove to be a quagmire of legal ownership, considering that the military tenants would be renting land not of their own) this should be specified due to its rarety in the height of the thematic system. This system seems similar to the feudal practice of "Bookland".--Dryzen 14:41, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problematic senstence
Talk:Dengue fever

message: There has been a maintenance tag on the article for two years, and almost all of the sources are outdated, and in breach of WP:MEDDATE.  Listing at WP:FARGIVEN. SandyGeorgia (Talk)  22:23, 30 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: @SandyGeorgia Review in progress. As you say, many sources are out of date. There's also too much reference to primary sources, many of which are paywalled. There are lots of good secondary sources available currently,  perhaps this is an improvement since the last review. Bob (talk) 12:26, 17 February 2024 (UTC)

text: I think I've finished now!Bob (talk) 20:20, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Featured article review needed 

message: I have downgraded references to a fifth serotype. It appears to have arisen as an unconfirmed single occurrence about 10 years ago; current sources only list four serotypes. Bob (talk) 17:42, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Serotype 1 to 4, and maybe 5 

message: I'll soon get to review these sections:
* Diagnosis
* Laboratory tests (to be demoted from section to paragraph)
* Management (to be renamed Treatment)
They currently read like a medical textbook - lots of very specific detail which someone a few years ago put a lot of effort into compiling. I hate to replace large chunks of another editor's work. I don't have access to some of the sources nor am I confident I would understand them well enough. But I think WP:TECHNICAL, WP:ORIGINAL, and  WP:NOTTEXTBOOK apply and these sections should be updated, trimmed and simplified. Bob (talk) 18:27, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diagnosis and treatment 

message: My husband and I have a very good friend down in the Dominican Republic, who lives there now from Nevada and he has contacted. Dinu has been hospitalized. We heard from him, and he has been extremely ill from this. I’ve never heard of it before. How do you prevent it if you wanted to go down to the DR and visit your friends and end up with something like this? 67.235.177.231 (talk) 16:09, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, Wikipedia does not give medical advice. Graham Beards (talk) 17:11, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dengue
Talk:Radio horizon

message: We were learning this thoery at college today and a question came up that could not be answered:
Why do you add the horizons of the two Antennas, if Antenna A has a horizon of 8 miles and the second 10 miles, why can they be more than 10 miles apart? How does the signal get from the horizon of the first (say 8 miles) and arrive 10 miles farther at the second atennna?
--Crossmr 16:09, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Because the top of antenna A can just barely see over the edge of the Earth that the tip of antenna B is showing. It cannot see the base of B. Both heights are needed. So they can be up to 18 miles apart for communications between A and B. Sagittarian Milky Way 18:13, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding up horizons 

message: Hello,
I think this article should first give the exact formula of the radio horizon then the formula for the KM distance on the same line as the Miles distance. That would be clearer for our readers in the scientific community who mostly use the metric system. However, I do not have the time right now to do these modifications. I will probably do these modifications within a couple of days, if no one object this proposal. The best way to object my proposal is to reply to this message.
Regards, Xionbox (talk) 04:10, 10 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request rearrangement of article 

message: One picture, etc. - maybe there's something on Commons, but even I can draw a circle with a couple of lines and some labels; and if no-one beats me to it, and I can't find anything on Commons, this is a reminder that this article needs a diagram. --Wtshymanski (talk) 17:06, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Better yet, let's merge in Earth bulge which has the diagram and the maths. --Wtshymanski (talk) 17:24, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: That's surprising.  It's the same topic - why are there two articles? It would be a better presentation to have all the maths and figures in one article. --Wtshymanski (talk) 20:07, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: This guy  talks about "earth bulge" and stresses the effect it has on atmosphere, not just geometry; since both effects are related, they should be discussed in a unified way. --Wtshymanski (talk) 15:54, 14 February 2011 (UTC)

text: The reason the articles were merged is that it's the same topic under two different names. The two pieces were incomplete and fragmetary; the combination, less so.  The edit history of Earth bulge will remain as long as the redirect remains, so it's not lost ( just like this 5-year old merger []). An encyclopedia generally discusses a topic under one heading, not in separate fragments named as if by whoever came into the office that day. Can you illustrate by any references to sources that discuss "radio horizon" without mentioning "earth bulge" or the reverse?  What do you think of merging all of this to Line-of-sight propagation? --Wtshymanski (talk) 19:50, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Needs a diagram
Talk:Naruto, Tokushima

message: We need a section on this. Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 08:41, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Bandō POW camp|Naruto World War I Germans]] 

message: It says in the article for kamaboko that it is also called "naruto" because it often is patterned with swirls that are reminiscent of the Naruto whirlpools. Having heard from someone else a few weeks ago that Naruto Uzumaki (from the manga/anime series Naruto) is named after a kind of fish, I'm now wondering if he was actually named after kamaboko, and by extension this city. Does anyone know? P.S. I will also post this question in the kamaboko discussion, since I've just realized that it's probably more relevant to that article than to this one. NoriMori (talk) 00:24, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: In Japanese, "Naruto uzumaki" means the Naruto whirlpool. -- Mantokun (talk) 05:42, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'm not a Japanese speaker, but I'm fairly sure that uzumaki うずまき means spiral.  NinetyNineFennelSeeds (talk) 21:34, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I created a stub of narutomaki (naruto), a type of kamaboko, often served on ramen. There are different forms of kamaboko. kanikama is another. Yes, uzumaki means spiral in Japanese, and naruto has a spiral pattern resembling the Naruto whirlpools. Although the origin of naruto is unclear, it is said to be named after the whirlpools. --Shinkansen Fan (talk) 06:49, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relationship with Naruto Uzumaki? 
Talk:Blue Ajah

message: What is this page about? The two lines on it are right off the site http://rinoa.nu/blue/. I can't find a lot of information on Ajahs on the internet. Does anyone know anything about this?
:I've added introductory text and links to clarify this. The author seems to be a newbie who hasn't figured out the rules yet (and I speak as a veteran of two months...) -- Lee M 03:53, 17 Aug 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Cup of Solid Gold

message: I translated the lyrics this before knowing the existence of this article. It offers a more literal translation:
<TABLE BORDER="0" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="10">
  <TR>
    <TD>鞏金甌﹐<BR>
      承天幬﹐<BR>
      民物欣鳧藻﹐<BR>
      喜同袍﹐<BR>
      清時幸遭﹐<BR>
      真熙皡¹﹐<BR>
      帝國蒼穹保﹐<BR>
      天高高﹐<BR>
      海滔滔。</TD>
    <TD>The Cup of Solid Gold,<BR>
      With a heavenly cover.<BR>
      People have objects, so are as happy as ducks have waterweed.<BR>
      Joyful ones are intimate.<BR>
      Lucky experiences occur during the Qing Dynasty,<BR>
      Truly prosperous and brilliant.<BR>
      The Heaven protects the Empire.<BR>
      The heaven is high above.<BR>
      The waves are overflowing.</TD>
  </TR>
</TABLE>
¹ 皡 or 皞 (hào "brilliant") is sometimes written as 嗥 (háo "holler") on computer
Feel free to edit the grammar or translation error. --Menchi 04:41, Aug 17, 2003 (UTC)
does anyone have the music to this? a midi-file anywhere, on some website? i am very curious... Antares911 21:50, 8 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I wonder if 喜同袍﹐清時幸遭﹐ actually meant, "Joy to our people, the Qing has been there to see."--Samuel di Curtisi di Salvadori 18:37, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Translation
Talk:Historical Chinese anthems

message: Zhào(兆) usually means one trillion (1012). However, in the song "Praise the Dragon Flag", the lyrics uses a strange construct "四百兆" 4-hundred-zhào to describe the 400,000,000 population at that time. (The more proper construct should have been "四億" or "四萬萬".) So zhào should mean one million (106) here in the lyrics. I am trying to rephrase the footnote for clarity. -- Felix Wan 20:11, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The meaning of zhào

message: Is there anyone aware of reliable sources that refer to 茉莉花 being used as a substitute (since there weren't any concept of national anthem then) in mid-late 19th century? Kommodorekerz 15:57, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  茉莉花 as unofficial anthem 

message: I am wondering whether we should keep the tone marks in those Pinyin transliterations.
Since anthems are always sung instead of read, the tone marks are a bit irrelevant. Ahyangyi (talk) 18:35, 17 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tone marks?
Talk:Necktie

message: I think two graphs would fit in well in the history section from the 1920s onward, showing the changes in regular width and length over the years respectively. According to the section, ties were wide in the 1920s, the 1940s, and the 1970s, about regular in the 1980s and 1990s, and extra-slim in the 1950s up to the mid-1960s and again since about the late 2000s. --2003:71:4E3F:3390:89F5:A5B8:5FA:E638 (talk) 10:14, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Graphs for width and length 

message: Shouldn't School tie merge into Necktie#Ties_as_a_sign_of_membership?  PPEMES (talk) 23:31, 16 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge? 
Talk:Daemon

message: Deleted:
a daemon is the same thing as a demon
:um no they are not, copied right out of Daemon (classical mythology)'s lead: "The words daemon, dæmon, are Latinized spellings of the Greek δαίμων (daimôn) used purposely today to distinguish the daemons of Ancient Greek religion and mythology, Hellenistic religion and philosophy, good or malevolent "supernatural beings between mortals and gods, such as inferior divinities and ghosts of dead heroes" (see Plato's Symposium), from the Judeo-Christian usage demon, a malignant spirit that can seduce, afflict, or possess humans" Smitty1337 (talk) 23:02, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
Talk:Necklace problem

message: Please someone who understands the problem explain it with "a little more calm" and maybe some examples, for us poor non-mathematicians. --euyyn 21:30, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I am a mathematician and I can tell you I don't understand the description either. I guess the first stage you are told that there is a white bead on distance n from itself and a black bead on distance n from itself, as far as the necklace contains both beads. The second stage you are told for each k if there are two white beads with k beads in between, a white bead and a black bead with k beads in between, two black beads with k beads in between, and a black bead and a white bead with k beads in between. The third stage you are told for each k and each l if there are three white beads with k beads between the first and the second and l beads between the second and the third, etc. Just a guess. --131.174.22.39 (talk) 05:39, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Clarity of statement

message: The previous talk-page section is over a decade old, and the Formulation section has been totally rewritten since then, and yet: I cannot for the life of me decipher what the information is that you're supposed to be given in this problem.  I have read the Alon--Caro--Krasikov--Roditty reference, and I believe I understand it; is this problem supposed to be what they call the "cycle problem"?  --JBL (talk) 18:57, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Update: ask, and ye shall receive. --JBL (talk) 20:47, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarity of statement, again
Talk:Trent's Last Case (novel)

message: This description of a detective novel has a great big spoiler!  Surely this is a non-no in Wikipedia as much as elsewhere?  And without even a SPOILER warning.Dandrake 09:23, 17 Aug 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Having read the novel (and wikified it for Wikisource!), I can assure you that this summary gives away nothing of import. By the time Trent sits down to dinner, he has managed to thoroughly confuse the reader with quite logical deductions that turn out to be flawed. I could write a more detailed summary — which would be a real spoiler — but not right now. (The book's a good read, BTW.) --Quuxplusone 03:52, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion about spoiler

message: Please note that this article's infobox is retrieving an ISBN from Wikidata currently. This is the result of a change made to  as a result of  this RfC. It would be appreciated if an editor took some time to review this ISBN to ensure it is appropriate for the infobox. If it is not, you could consider either correcting the ISBN on Wikidata (preferred) or introducing a blank ISBN parameter in the infobox to block the retrieval from Wikidata. If you do review the ISBN, please respond here so other editors don't duplicate your work. This is an automated message to address concerns that this change did not show up on watchlists. ~ RobTalk 01:26, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Addition of ISBN from Wikidata
Talk:Edmund Clerihew Bentley

message: The article alluded to several sequels to Trent's Last Case.  I'm aware of only one, Trent's Own Case.  Does anyone have bilbiograhic data here?
Dandrake 09:39, 17 Aug 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sequels 

message: Consider the following:
First come I: my name is Jowett.
There's no knowledge but I know it. 
I am Master of this college, 
What I don't know isn't knowledge
This appears to be a clerihew. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations says it appeared in a Balliol masque in the late 1870s. It gives other examples from the same source.
:Clerihews usually have irregular line length and don't scan well. The one you give has equal line lengths (eight syllables per line) and scans in perfect trochaic tetrameter: "first come I, my name is Jowett, there's no knowledge but I know it" et cetera, so it isn't really a clerihew; the fact that it's written in first person is also unusual for a clerihew. However, such things may have been the precursor to the clerihew as we know it today. Thefamouseccles 09:21, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Did Bentley invent the clerihew? 

message: The sentence beginning  "Born in London, and educated at St Paul's School and Merton College, Oxford, Edmund's father John Edmund Bentley, was professionally a civil servant .." is totally unclear.  
Who was born in London and educated at St Paul's and Merton: Edmund C. Bentley, or his father John E. Bentley?  Either way, this is awful writing. --Tdent (talk) 13:21, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  E C Bentley or his father? 
Talk:Anglo-French

message: I'm not entirely convinced that "Anglo-French" is a term used to describe the Norman French spoken in medieval England. Deb 10:03, 17 Aug 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Anglo-French can refer to international Anglo-French relations, but may also refer to the French used in England following the decline of Norman.  The OED defines Anglo-French as such.  To use it for Norman is incorrect.  The Jade Knight 09:55, 21 July 2007 (UTC)

text: Were the OED to confuse French and Norman entirely, calling Norman French, it would also be incorrect in this.  Norman is not French.  This has recently been shown linguistically quite conclusively—but sometimes old misconceptions die hard.  The Jade Knight 10:35, 21 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Ancient talk threads

message: In Linguistics: the Norman-French language of medieval England.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.9.68.227 (talk) 03:23, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Anglo-French

message: Previous users have written "*Linguistic – may be used to refer to the dialect of French that developed in England following the decline of the Norman language there.  It may also be used erroneously to describe the Anglo-Norman language."  Are you sure you're talking about two different things there? How precisely is a distinction being drawn? I looked it up in WP:RSs and found no support for the distinction and for the allegation of "erroneously". I'm changing it. If you can beat my edit with more scholarship, feel free. Quercus solaris (talk) 00:45, 24 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Update: Details of disabuse at Talk:Anglo-Norman language#20161224T1849. Quercus solaris (talk) 18:56, 24 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Spectrum, not discrete boundaries
Talk:Project MAC

message: This page is pretty pathetic; needs serious upgrade. Noel 11:46, 17 Aug 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Withdraw the comment! Noel (talk) 03:46, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Older Discussion

message: I deleted the following paragraph, per Bob Fano:
:In the late 1960s, internecine warfare (of an academic sort) broke out between those in the project who desired operating systems that could continue to be customized and tinkered with, and those who desired a stable computing environment so that they could concentrate on their research in other fields of computer science.  This culminated with the secession of Marvin Minsky's artificial intelligence group in 1970, leaving Project MAC to form the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.
This story is the official version told in, for example, the book by Garfinkel and Abelson mentioned in the references.  According to Bob, however, the real reason for the split had more to do with Institute space allocation politics than tinkering with operating systems, so I'm updating the main article to reflect Bob's recollection of events and leaving this version here for future reference. User:18.24.0.120 01:41, 7 Feb 2004
: Different people see things differently, so perhaps to some people, this was part of (if not the entire) reason? It was certainly the common explanation at the labs in the late 70's. Of course, if it really were true, then why were DM, MC and ML all running ITS? :-) So perhaps Fano is right after all. Of course, that was after Multics was too expensive for ordinary mortals to use, and DM/ML were acquired after AI (is my impression anyway), so perhaps ITS looked pretty good after the split. Noel (talk) 03:25, 13 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Paragraph deleted

message: I have nominated MIT AI Lab and Project MAC to be merged into the CSAIL article and dropped the proposed merger into MIT School of Engineering pending the state of the newly merged article. Let's aim for a merge of the 3 lab articles by August 28 and then take up discussion of merging CSAIL into MIT SoE then. Madcoverboy 19:55, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger
Talk:Karplus–Strong string synthesis

message: I think the basic Karplus-Strong algorithm actually initializes all the taps in the delay lines to random values, though modifications of the algorithm do use the derived impulse responses of real instruments (which is a different thing again from an 'impulse' -- a physical impossibility in a real instrument).  The diagram is a bit deceptive, too, since the Karplus-Strong algorithm (and almost all physical modeling string synthesizers) use only low pass filters (typically first order) in the feedback loop.  I imagine that the filter pictured is indeed a low-pass filter, but it might also be confused with a bandpass filter. -- Tlotoxl 11:54, 17 Aug 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Now that I realize that what I originally called an "impulse" should have been an "excitation", I'd like to point out that the basic algorithm is identical to that of echo, which had been used with excitations other than white/pink/brown noise long before the invention of digital delays, as some recording artists ran a performance through a tape delay line to create echo. When I first experimented with KS, I used Cool Edit's "echo" effect, and it was an easy step to trying to echo other waveforms such as a square wave, a saw wave, or a sine sweep. It appears that some people classify everything before Julius O. Smith III's patent as "KS" and everything afterward as "waveguide"; I just hope the echo effect in audio editors such as Audacity doesn't infringe Stanford's waveguide patents. --Damian Yerrick 04:31, 11 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a murky area, I think.  The KS algorithm (and all LTI DWGs) are really just comb filters (as are echoes), after all, with relatively short delay lines.  Comb filters are widely used in most synthesizers these days - with some synthesizers like Absynth relying heavily on the comb filters for many of its presets - but I can't imagine that these synthesizers have paid (or should have to pay) Julius Smith III/Stanford for DWG patents, even though the end result can be very similar.  Implement dual delay lines, though (one for +ive going waves and one for -ive going waves) with some non-linearity (as in a bowed string or a woodwind) and I suspect it would be hard to deny patent infringement, though.  --Oarih 09:32, 1 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Dual delay lines is the same thing as 2 taps off a single delay line, which in turn is the same thing as a delay line feeding a 2-tap FIR filter (with a large gap between the taps). If you move the filter out in front of the delay line, then the filter becomes part of the excitation and you get commuted synthesis, as mentioned in the digital waveguide synthesis article. So using this kind of comb with anything but white noise as the excitation might be an infringement, and that's what worries me. --Damian Yerrick 01:34, 28 October 2005 (UTC)

text: Older methods such as the Karplus-Strong 1D comb are still used, especially in free software, because they are less likely to be subject to government-granted monopoly problems. --Damian Yerrick (☎) 00:54, 19 December 2006 (UTC)