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Talk:Maggie Out

message: Finding references for this old article is taxing because many, many places use it as a reference however I will seek to perserve when I find the time. Have not removed the no references tag, I'll leave that to someone else. 86.186.146.248 (talk) 19:26, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Adding References

message: It's a chant, surely. It has no tune. -- Wgsimon 01:33, 18 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Song? 

message: I have contested the proposed deletion of this article but don't have the time or inclination to add sources at the moment. If anyone doubts notability then I would invite them to look at these sources. Phil Bridger (talk) 22:03, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: If anyone, including the article creator, removes a  tag from an article, do not replace it, even if the tag was apparently removed in bad faith. This excludes removals that are clearly not an objection to deletion, such as page blanking or obvious vandalism, and tags removed by banned users may be restored. If you still believe that the article needs to be deleted, or that the article should be deleted but with discussion, list it on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion.
(Boldface in the original.) I'm about to revert the readdition of the PROD template. -- Hoary (talk) 04:47, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contested deletion  

message: In this edit, new but apparently adept User:Saloon.cat (contributions) readded a PROD template. I removed this. User:Saloon.cat then readded it, with the edit summary "Undid revision 529047468 by Hoary (talk) obviously not notable, please discuss in the talk page if needed".
I draw User:Saloon.cat's attention to this policy page, notably: 
:If anyone, including the article creator, removes a  tag from an article, do not replace it, even if the tag was apparently removed in bad faith. This excludes removals that are clearly not an objection to deletion, such as page blanking or obvious vandalism, and tags removed by banned users may be restored. If you still believe that the article needs to be deleted, or that the article should be deleted but with discussion, list it on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion.
(Boldface in the original.) I'm about to revert the readdition of the PROD template. -- Hoary (talk) 04:47, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: And again in December 2012
Talk:Thames Trains

message: James, the question is, was Thames Trains about Thames Trains, the company, or the franchise it owned. I think it was about the former, though you culd be forgiven for thinking it was about the latter; the state of Franchises versus Companies on the Wikipedia is not good. But in this case, I'm not sure I agree that the new franchisee should take over the old company's wiki article; rather, a new article should be written for the new company. Just my half penn'th. best wishes --Tagishsimon 01:19, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)

message: can someone find a photo with the Thames Trains not First great western (link)
Yes the photos blatantly a First group train!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.84.125.40 (talk) 18:10, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  photo
Template talk:Kentucky

message: I put the metropolitan regions on a separate line from the physiographic regions to show that difference. jaknouse 02:04, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Metropolitan regions 

message: Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. states/state templates lists and displays all 50 U.S. state (and additional other) templates. It potentially can be used for ideas and standardization. //MrD9 07:16, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: U.S. state templates

message: There is currently an ongoing discussion regarding standardization of state templates (primarily regarding layout and styling) at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. states/state templates. An effort was made earlier this year to standardize Canadian province templates (which mostly succeeded). Lovelac7 and I have already begun standardizing all state templates. If you have any concerns, they should be directed toward the discussion page for state template standardization. Thanks! — Webdinger BLAH | SZ 22:44, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Standardization of state templates 

message: Maybe we should consider a cutoff point for inclusion in this list.  Maybe pick a number, 25.  Currently, the list includes 28 cities.  Of course, if there's a reasoning for including all 28, we could discuss that as well. Stevie is the man! Talk • Work 16:26, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Major cities
Talk:Chirnside Park, Victoria

message: It is probably named after Chirnside, Lothian, Scotland. There cannot be that many Chirnside's around?
:I suppose that's the long way around. I have just learnt that Chirnside Park was named after George Chirnside, son of the Australian pastoralists Thomas and Andrew Chirnside. I don't know how far Lothian is from Berwickshire where the brothers' family came from. This happened, though, only in 1962, before it was called Mooroolbark Park after the property.
:See here: [Chirnside Park by Andrew Stockley|http://derekstockley.com.au/chirnside-park.html] by Andrew Stockley, a (2002) Grade 6 student.
:--EuropracBHIT 03:05, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Forbes list of billionaires (2005)

message: I have created articles for two of the people on this list recently (George Argyros and Arnon Milchan) and see that there is much work needed to be done in helping to complete this article. I think this is a very important list considering the role of money in society and I am hoping some other users would want to get organized to complete the article.
I propose the work of creating articles for the remaining people on the list be divided among interested users ranging from 5-20 pending on how many users are interested. I doubt alone I will have the time or patience to complete each person promptly.
Anyone interested? Arminius 09:08, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll definately help out during the holidays. - Jerryseinfeld 10:14, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Helping to Complete the Article

message: *the list is made in to a html table
NameCountryEstimated value US$Estimated value in currency of country of origin
*That for anyone listed that is not from the USA their estimated valus is shown in their native currency and in US$.
--Clawed 07:02, 9 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed changes

message: Under (Needs to be arranged according to new ranks for 2005), what is this list?  Should it be merged with the first list and the numbering changed? --Fjmustak 22:53, 17 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, since there has been no talk, discussion or explanation, I have removed this second list. If anyone knows the reason, explanation, etc for this second list, please revert and explain. Otherwise, it was simply confusing for everyone. Thanks. Tiggerjay (talk) 22:13, 24 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Second list 

message: The entire List of Billionaires as presented by Forbes magazine is considered to be copyrighted. The list has been removed and edited to only the Top 15 individuals. This is per the discussion result at Talk:List_of_billionaires#Fair_use_limitations. The small subset will comply with Wikipedia's fair use policy and does not infringe on the copyright of the original. The larger list should not be restored.  — CactusWriter | needles 16:11, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyright problem removed
Talk:Destroyer escort

message: This needs a picture of a DE and comparative outlines of DD and DE.
Specifications would be nice - I'll try to add these later.
The book has a great prose style and an amazing story.
Leonard G. 03:34, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: The US had 450 such in WWII? it doesnt say.
Carlw4514 09:57, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Number deployed

message: This article contains a lengthy paragraph on the action of a single ship of this type. However heroric and notable that action was, it was not representative of this type of ship, and should therefore not be in this article. Vgy7ujm 00:08, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: USS Samuel B. Roberts

message: The Royal Navy apparently did not classify all of their destroyer escorts as frigates. The Hunt class destroyers were destroyer escorts.--$1LENCE D00600D (talk) 04:49, 6 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Escort destroyers are not the same as Destroyer escorts - see the escort destroyers thread above. --Thefrood (talk) 22:19, 22 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Royal Navy

message: I intend to restore deleted text from the introduction pertaining to parallel development of frigates and Kaibōkan, since this helps explain the destroyer escort concept and mission to readers with previous knowledge of Japanese and British naval history of the period. I see no reason to delete this cursory mention simply because these conceptually similar warships have separate articles and are covered in greater detail later in this article. The purpose of the introductory paragraph includes summarizing the contents of the article.Thewellman (talk) 21:33, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok. Sammy D III (talk) 21:40, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Kaibōkan
Talk:Janpath

message: Note:  Project Banner with Delhi workgroup parameters was added to this article talk page because the article falls under :Category:Delhi or its subcategories. Should you feel this addition is inappropriate , please undo my changes and update/remove the relavent categories to the article -- Amartyabag  TALK2ME 13:15, 29 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[WP:INDIA]] Banner/Delhi Addition 
Talk:Range coding

message: Range coders can be very simple, nevertheless some example codelets would be nice and ease understanding. -- 89.247.44.39 (talk) 11:07, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: maybe take it directly from Martin's DCC paper, or add at least some reference mentioning the sample? -- 89.247.44.39 (talk) 11:10, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

text: not wanting to contradict you much, but from as far as I've implemented range coders (only once..) I believe that they can not be very simple. Still, source rarely hurts.. Harold Aptroot (talk) 01:12, 23 July 2008 (UTC)

text: I added some source code which I think is pretty simple. It's a little weird using base 10 but I did that to align with the numerical example worked through in the article, and the source code produce the same results as the example.--98.247.148.214 (talk) 06:58, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  You should just write out the decoder section in one chunk. The paragraph explaining the differences between the encoders and decoders is confusing  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.63.194.183 (talk) 15:51, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pseudocode/Sample code
Talk:Sturgeon

message: (quite a handle), let's work at getting accurate information about the status of sturgeon. For example according to California Dept of Fish & Wildlife: "White Sturgeon are not state or federally listed, but they are categorized as a state Species of Special Concern."  We don't want to conflate specific populations of sturgeon with the global population, either.  You might also read this IUCN updated assessment. Atsme 💬 📧 17:19, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updating information
Talk:Mount Edith Cavell

message: The Photo labeled "North Face of Edith Cavell" is of the North Face, you can see ghost glacier which is on the north face of Edith Cavell.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.7.151.159 (talk) 21:21, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  North Face Photo 
Talk:Río Muni

message: I heard it was called Rio Mui, can anyone clarify?--131.216.165.95 05:46, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps a typo or confusion? I've never heard it as "Rio Mui", nor has Google. Stan 06:14, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks i think it was a typo
The land area of Rio Muni that's quoted here is not Accurate. its Accuracy is disputed by me. The total Land area of Equatorial Guinea is 10,830 miles according to its page on this wikipedia . If Annobon (6.75 miles) and Bioko (779 miles)  are excluded then Rio Muni would be more of the size of 10,044.25 miles. the figure quoted here on this page is 26017 Kilometers which comes to 16166 miles. so you can see why im disputing the land area that quoted here on the rio muni page. i need accurate land sizes because im trying to create a gazetteer of Land areas of the world for my Project on Nations of the year 1900. 76.244.150.123 (talk) 17:28, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

text: Please note that is 26017 km2 and using template:convert, . Vsmith (talk) 18:00, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Spelling

message: The population of Río Muni is given as 1,350,000 on this page, but the entire population of Equatorial Guinea is given as 622,000 on the country's page.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Emblaisdell (talk • contribs) 17:56, 16 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population
Talk:Colony

message: Could someone produce at least a couple of countries that consider Puerto Rico to be a US colony, as the article states at the bottom?  It's true that the US Congress can (and has) pass laws pertaining to Puerto Rico without PR's consent, but most internal matters are handled by the Puerto Rican legislature, and Puerto Rico isn't subject to US income taxes: 
The article seems to imply Iran is one, but it also implies there are "many" more.
Same comments apply for Guam, etc. Quicksilvre (talk) 14:06, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The member countries of the Non-Aligned Movement recognize Puerto Rico's current colonial status and demands its independence.  I believe that's more than just a couple of countries... --Agüeybaná 12:47, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I added a "disputed" tag to Puerto Rico's inclusion. See Political status of Puerto Rico#Controversies --LucasGK123 (talk) 00:38, 14 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Puerto Rico was a colony, but today it is more accurately described as a semi-autonomous territory. Of course it is not fully autonomous, for if it were it would be a country. It does have its own elections for a legislature and governor. (The now-elected Governor of Puerto Rico was formerly appointed by the President of the USA. The last President to appoint a Governor of Puerto Rico was Harry Truman!) The Mysterious El Willstro (talk) 07:36, 17 August 2021 (UTC)

text: Expanding on the comment above dated 12:47, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Puerto Rico 

message: The newly created article List of colonies is the better suited location for the contentious list here. I just dont have the time to move it. Anyone? Nsae Comp (talk) 22:28, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge list
Talk:London Naval Treaty

message: It would be helpful to give some geopolitical context on why these particular countries were making a deal. What of Germany, Russia, Spain, China ect.? Skomorokh 16:47, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other powers? 

message: Since the only difference between "light" cruisers and "heavy" crtuisers was their armament, main guns of 6-inches or less being "light" as against 6.1-inches to 8-inches being "heavy" the claim that building light cruisers with large numbers of guns approaching 10,000 tons was a "circumvention" of the treaty is unsupportable.
For a real attempt at circumvention consider the Japanese Nachi Class heavy cruisers, that displaced some 3,000 tons over the 10,000 ton limit, or the Mogami Class, designed to be converted from carrying 15 6-inch guns to carrying ten 8-inchers.--Al-Nofi (talk) 14:53, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  On "Circumvention" 

message: While the NYT article referenced at note 5 is hidden behind a paywall, the referenced text is clearly incorrect in claiming Italy was to scrap the only two battleships it owned, as at this point in time the Regia Marina included four battleships: Andrea Doria and Caio Duilio of the Andrea Doria class and Conte di Cavour and Giulio Cesare of the Conte di Cavour class, all four of which were still in service during World War II. Reference to other articles turned up by a search for 'Italy Will Scrap 130,000 tons', all of which are in US newspapers and apparently derived from a single agency report, shows that the proposal was simply to de-man the two battleships and place them in reserve, which would not count as deletions under the terms used by the interwar naval treaties. 
The article may have meant to imply that the reality was that this was political manouvering rather than actual scrappings, by the reference to 'retiring' them being in quotation marks, but this is not at all clear unless the reader is familiar with the general history. As it stands the article will lead the casual reader to believe Italy had abandoned all use of battleships in 1932, where in fact they were about to upgrade the four in service and soon (1934) to start the construction of Littorio and Vittorio Veneto, later followed by Roma and Impero. 
Until the article can be given a comprehensive rewrite by someone familiar with the history, I would suggest the entire reference to Italian scrappings be removed.
92.238.224.101 (talk) 14:32, 6 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference to Factually Incorrect Claim of Italian Scrappings 

message: world war I? I would write world war II. 151.29.8.247 (talk) 07:20, 21 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  context
Talk:Lightbulb joke (university)

message: seriously?! lightbulb jokes should be memorable, but few of these are :P is this stuff serious enugh to be in the wikipedia? Noone 08:45, 21 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Well as with all lightbulb jokes, you have to have knowledge of the particular group for it to be funny. The bellman 04:46, 2004 Dec 1 (UTC)
---
Can we add extra entries for other unis? E.g.
Birkbeck
None - they use the lamp. Timrollpickering 11:16, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)

message: I concur with the above editor.  Most of these jokes are not notable enough to remain in Wikipedia under the notability policy.  Wikipedia is a reference work, not a normative work, so it is not Wikipedia's job to make them notable.  Any admins reading this? --Coolcaesar 02:49, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I went ahead and tagged this article for transwiki. The topic of lightbulb jokes is not important enough for subarticles. The solution to the overflow in the main lightbulb jokes article is to remove some of the jokes.  [ +t, +c, +m ] 04:56, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transwiki this garbage to WikiBooks and get it outta here!
Talk:Duality (mathematics)

message: Dual graphs are discussed in the article, but only in the case where the embedding surface is a plane (or equivalently a sphere). There is no mention of dual graphs in other surfaces, although the term is used in WP articles, e.g. Dyck graph. In view of this omission, it is not surprising that there is also no mention of Petrie duals. Maproom (talk) 22:21, 2 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dual graphs 

message: The  order-theoretic duals  link is missing
Chris2crawford (talk) 15:18, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing Link 

message: ... in the sense of 6 Flows, 6.5 Flow-colouring duality, textbook *Graph Theory* by Reinhard Diestel. Is this one covered in this article, plus in List of dualities § Mathematics? I am a student yet, but I think this duality is omitted in both.
--Szozdakosvi (talk) 13:49, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flow-colouring duality
Talk:Andrea

message: My name is Andrea, and I visited Italy for 2 months once.  It was very odd being female, yet having a common male name.  I was suddenly able to understand how my brother feels being named Taylor in the US, where Taylor is most commonly used for females!  Perhaps it is time we took a move toward the unisexation of naming, so as to avoid the embarassment and confusion that gender-specific naming creates so often in our global comunity.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.14.247.138 (talk) 16:42, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed Andrea is a common male name (in 2004 it's the third most used male name for new born child's), but it is also used sometimes as a female name. The only other country I know about it's use in the male form is Albany.AndreaPlanet (talk) 13:10, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Andrea in Italy

message: Serbia is mentioned as having Andrea as a female name, below that the male name is Andreja. I ask someone who is competent to clarify and unify the statements. --KnightMove (talk) 12:38, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Serbia? 

message: How do spell andrea 72.142.15.113 (talk) 20:27, 2 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Word concern
Talk:Warm reboot

message: This text has been removed from the article:
:On these PC's soft rebooting should be done in the following way: (Real Mode)
:1. Write 1234h to absolute memory location 472h (This will inform the BIOS to do a soft reboot)
:2. Make a long jump to ffffh (like so in AT&T syntax: ljmp  $0xffff,$0x0000 )
Is it really appropriate to include code on how to soft reboot every different operating system in existence?  That will make the article quite long.  Furthermore note that if we limit ourselves to just "major" operating systems, that nowadays excludes those where the above code will actually work. -- 81.138.100.115 18:17, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Operating system specific code of dubious worth
Talk:Xerxes I

message: I would suggest the removal of the word "fictional" when describing Ahasuerus. Billions of people around the world adhere to the Bible and don't see it as a work of fiction. 
If anything, make reference to the disputed status of his historicity, but I would highly advise against simply saying he is fictional. In so doing you risk alienating many people by stating that their holy book is inaccurate, a book which they believe to be true.
Also, saying that Esther is "broadly considered to be fictional" is not very conciliatory. It is telling people who believe in this book that "most people" think it's fake. Even though that is a claim that is hard to prove. Thank you. XanderSt9898 (talk) 21:26, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: WP:NPOV applies, we do not write from the perspective of religious people; and "holy books" are, as pointed out above, "largely fictitious" RandomCanadian (talk / contribs)  15:25, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Then can you please not write from the perspective of the religion of atheism, because I don't know where it's pointed out which holy books are "largely fictitious" outside your imagination.Cornelius (talk) 05:34, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: User:Renassault refrain from personal attacks. The sources on the Book of Esther is "a work of fiction, its vivid characters (except for Xerxes) being the product of the author's creative imagination." This is not controversial. Dimadick (talk) 18:10, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 26 February 2021 (2) 

message: If there's a cuneiform saying Xerxes was killed by his son, this seems to me to confirm Ctesias' version over Aristotle's, which is later and seems less likely (Artabanus just whacks a bunch of the royal family, but leaves other sons of Xerxes alive)? Cornelius (talk) 03:57, 26 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death 

message: Since it's uncertain if the king portrayed in the relief shown by the infobox image is actually Xerxes, I propose it be switched out for the confirmed depiction of Xerxes found on his tomb. I'm thinking either this one or this one. There's also the option of this/this relief at his palace in Persepolis. Any objections? Sinclairian (talk) 17:12, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, didn't see your comment. I mean, it's not that "uncertain" since it's described as "most likely". I think it's also much more visually appealing than the others. HistoryofIran (talk) 22:50, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox picture replacement proposal