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Talk:Queen's Road, Hong Kong

message: What made Hong Kong Government change both English and Chinese names in 1967?  — HenryLi (Talk)
:The road was actually rerouted. — Instantnood 10:08, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The road was rerouted after name change. — HenryLi (Talk) 05:51, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: When, respectively, was it rerouted and had it name changed? — Instantnood 20:45, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The road was re-routed between 1974 and 1975.  Former nick of 金鐘道死亡彎角 also suggest the road was re-routed after the name change. — HenryLi (Talk) 17:14, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why this the name changed in 1967
Talk:Parlor guitar

message: "The defining feature in terms of classification is that of a concert or below".
Could someone please explain what a 'concert' in this context is ? I clicked on the link but only got the 'live performance' definition.    84.130.108.136 21:21, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

message: The term "parlor guitar" does not seem to have been used before 1964 or so. To try to find out when people started saying "parlor guitar", I've done some searching of various online sources. Google Books search does not turn up the term "parlor guitar" or "parlour guitar" before 1964. The 1964 reference is in the New Lost City Ramblers Song Book by John Cohen and Mike Seeger, on page 14. Unfortunately Google Books doesn't show an image of the page. [Any of you have this book to look in?] Some of the 1970's references refer to "parlor guitar music" and "parlor guitar style", not necessarily referring to the size of the instrument.
Here is a 1971 collection of the "Old Time Music" newsletter, with a screen shot. It's hard to tell from the context, but it appears to be more about playing guitar in a parlor than the size of the instrument. The same may be true of the New Lost City Ramblers Song Book 1964 reference above: Mike Seeger, one of the authors of the book, was very active in the "Old Time Music" world.
I've done the same search on the New York Times archive, which goes back to to 1851. It includes the advertisements in older papers. There are plenty of references to "parlor organ" or "parlor organs" starting in 1855, and the first ones are in advertisements. But "parlor guitar" is not mentioned in the NY Times until 2001.
I have also looked through a bunch of old musical instrument catalogs you can find here. None of them use the term "parlor guitar".
My own surmise about all this is that since smaller guitars were regular guitars during the time they were played in parlors, there was no reason to label them as such. It's now necessary to distinguish smaller guitars from the typical dreadnought or OM, and so the term came into common use. "Parlor organ" is a good example of similar coinage: there were big organs, and then there were smaller organs that were appropriate for a parlor, so the term started being used. Calling a guitar an "acoustic guitar" wasn't necessary until electric guitars were invented, so old catalogs will of course not refer to "acoustic guitars". Same for typewriters: the term "manual typewriter" needed to be coined to distinguish them from electric typewriters.
Agroten (talk) 15:08, 4 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Very interesting, thank you! Maikel (talk) 00:01, 21 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  First use of "Parlor"
Talk:Sea Venture

message: "...double-timbering, and she may have been the first single-timbered... ship..." Apparently this is an important point. Perhaps it is the lasting feature, in what is otherwise a historical anecdote.  Could it be expanded to explain what "double-timbered" and "single-timbered" entail?  Hull construction of some type, one imagines...--Wetman (talk) 01:04, 25 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: "double-timbered"? "single-timbered"? apparently important

message: There is some odd content being added to this article. The theory that the ship leaked because "Sea Venture had a critical flaw in her newness" is not consistent with proper historical study nor the archaeological evidence. The place of build as Aldeburgh is also called into serious question. I am not familiar with the sources from which this content originates, but have at hand Jonathan Adams' book A Maritime Archaeology of Ships. Adams is one of the lead authors of an interim report on the archaeology of the Sea Venture wreck site. He concludes, from the historical record, that Sea Venture was likely to have been built in 1603, which fits better with the archaeology than if the ship was brand new.
I do feel that at least some of this article should be based on the readily available accounts by the noted archaeologists who have published on this wreck. ThoughtIdRetired  TIR 21:42, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: The bit about the Bermuda cedar seems somewhat dubious to me. Even if some was used in building the two ships built by the survivors, its properties were completely unknown. The article is off-topic by making any substantial mention of this timber. I note that this part of the article is unreferenced on this point. ThoughtIdRetired  TIR 22:09, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some odd content being added
Talk:Inter-Entity Boundary Line

message: OK, I be'd Bold. This is my first page move, so hopefully I wasn't too bold. I re-renamed this article back from Inter-Entity Boundary Line (BiH) to Inter-Entity Boundary Line. I reasoned that appending a parenthetical BiH (the 3-letter code for Bosnia and Herzegovina) doesn't add anything to the article: all Google hits for "Inter-Entity Boundary Line (BiH)" were scraped from Wikipedia, so the "BiH" doesn't appear to be a common, let alone official, part of the name. Also, there appears to be only one Inter-Entity Boundary Line in the world, so we don't need the "(BiH)" to resolve some ambiguity. Again, this is my first page move, so fell free to berate gently admonish me on my talk page if I caused something to go horribly awry. Thanks! Fried Gold (talk) 07:20, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move back to "Inter-Entity Boundary Line" 

message: Could information be added as to what the line is called in the local Western South Slavic diasystem speak? --80.164.41.45 (talk) 00:43, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Local name

message: There are three maps that show the line: 
File:Bosnia and Herzegovina division 2005.png
File:Map Bih entities.png
File:Bosnia and Herzegovina, administrative divisions - en (entities) - colored.svg
 
The first seems to provide visually the most information including cities and conton boundaries, and so I chose that for this article.  Should we use another? --Bruce Hall (talk) 11:10, 1 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changed map 
Talk:WAFB

message: Some of the statements on this page are very biased towards the station. Take a look at this section of statements:
"Today, WAFB brings its viewers 25 hours of news programming each week. Presently, WAFB is the only network station in the market to air a complete rebroadcast of every locally produced newscast, plus a live weekend noon news product on their second cable station, News Channel 9. Their anchors, reporters, producers and photographers have won numberous awards from the Associated Press and the Louisiana Association of Broadcasters. A number of investigative reports by WAFB 9 News on various topics have even resulted in changes in state law.
While news and programming are our broadcast trademarks, WAFB is constantly being honored for its community service. Channel 9 donates over $1.25 million in public service air time each year. The list of station promotions to help local non-profit organizations is lengthy, with the St. Jude Dream Home Giveaway, the St. Vincent de Paul Uniform Drive, the Volunteer! Baton Rouge Volunteer recognition program and Kids Comforting Kids, to name a few.
The station's news broadcast easily defeats local rival station WBRZ in ratings. More than twice as many people watch WAFB's broadcast."
--CFIF 21:28, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Neutrality Dispute

message: Hello, Please do not add unreferenced names as entries to the list of former employees in articles. Including this type of material in articles does not abide by current consensus and its inclusion is strongly discouraged in our policies and guidelines. The rationales are as follows:
#WP:NOT tells us, Wikipedia is "not an indiscriminate collection of information."  As that section describes, just because something is true, doesn't necessarily mean the info belongs in Wikipedia.  
#As per WP:V, we cannot include information in Wikipedia that is not verifiable and sourced. 
# WP:Source list tells us that lists included within articles (including people's names) are subject to the same need for references as any other information in the article. 
#Per WP:BLP, we have to be especially careful about including un-sourced info about living persons.
If you look at articles about companies in general, you will not find mention of previous employees, except in those cases where the employee was particularly notable.  Even then, the information is not presented just as a list of names, but is incorporated into the text itself (for example, when a company's article talks about the policies a previous CEO had, or when they mention the discovery/invention of a former engineer/researcher). If a preexisting article is already in the encyclopedia for the person you want to add to a list, it's generally regarded as sufficient to support their inclusion in list material in another article. cheers Deconstructhis (talk) 13:53, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding unreferenced entries of former employees to lists containing BLP material
Talk:Earl Manigault

message: many people believe that he was the best player on the world , that nothing can't stop him , but , ... drug , criminal ,
The quality of this article is unfortunately very low.
::This is Wikipedia...what do you expect?
It's also very innacurate...it says he used to practice hundreds of shots each day and he was a deadly 3 point shooter...only problem is there was no 3 point shot then so he couldn't be a deadly 3 point shooter. He could be a deadly long-range shooter though...
::inaccuracy is the hallmark of Wikipedia.
Is there any actual photos or film footage of the double dunk? Is there any reputable eye witnesses (national sports journalists, coaches or NBA players) who will attest to this feat? I've never heard or seen any other account by a player in the NBA, NCAA or high school who could do this --- if it could actually be physically possible. That would mean Earl the Goat was a better dunker than Michael Jordan, Julius Erving, David Thompson, Dominique Wilkins or Vince Carter. Not likely.  He said himself that it was not true. There's a CNN report about him not long before he died that he said it was hog wash and not even the goat could do that—Preceding unsigned comment added by 167.102.228.16 (talk) 23:25, 18 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: one of these things is not like the other  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.61.91.40 (talk) 01:37, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Land of the Lost (1991 TV series)

message: An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect :Land of the Lost (1991TV series) and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 December 3#Land of the Lost (1991TV series) until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Regards, SONIC678 21:52, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Land of the Lost (1991TV series)" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:Knight Ridder

message: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1381528/Knight-Ridder-tablet-looks-just-like-iPad-17-YEARS-OLD.html  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.201.6.186 (talk) 10:49, 2 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Important Fact?

message: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Stay_on_topic
This is not relevant to an article on the company Knight-Ridder.  Wikipedia isn't just a collection of irrelevant and loosely relevant trivia and it's not a Dutch-English dictionary either.  If the fact that ridder meant knight had played some role in the history of the company, then I might see your point, but it hasn't.
Ortcutt 21:37, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree.  I do not see it as a prerequisite of relevance or notability that the name has to have played a role in the company's actual history; I believe that the very existence of such a rare coincidence (and its funny nature) is enough.  However, Knight Ridder is not a high-enough priority for me to get into a big fight over the interpretation of the relevant Wikipedia policies.  I already have my hands full with fixing the huge mess of overlapping and disorganized content in Lawyer, Juris Doctor, Law school, etc..  You win for now.  --Coolcaesar 05:05, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

text: I also find it interesting enough - it's just a funny coincidence is all, and I don't think the article claims that it has any greater significance. Wikipedia is not just a collection of trivia, but that doesn't mean that trivia is completely banned. — sjorford (talk) 22:14, 24 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: At the risk of waking a sleeping dog, I agree, it is just a mildly interesting coincidence, not particularly rare even, and does not belong here. That's the whole point to having a style manual in the first place. If "I happened to chuckle at this" should be an exception, revise the style manual accordingly. 
Tahrlis (talk) 20:44, 21 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trivia about Meaning of Ridder in Dutch 

message: what exactly was founded in california in 1933? the article doesnt mention where they were at this time.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 04:32, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: 1933
Talk:Three Kings, New Zealand

message: What do think of putting these pictures from the top of Big King:
- 1 north
- 1 south
- 1 east
- 1 west
If they didn't get a good pic of the plaza and quarry, and a good pic of the sky tower, and maybe Mt Albert/Mt Roskill, I would take some liberties with the compass directions.
:I'd prefer pictures of items of interest in Three Kings. The quarry and plaza would be good starting points. A better picture of Big King would be good too. The existing picture doesn't need to stay if you have better ones to illustrate the article. By the way, please sign your name on talk pages.-gadfium 23:43, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Damn, keep forgetting to sign my name! Ok, so more specific photographs. Quarry, plaza, and one of Big King from a better angle/range --BakugekiNZ 04:08, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pictures 

message: What would be required for this to no longer be a stub? --BakugekiNZ 04:09, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: See Wikipedia:Stub. I'd say the article is already large enough so the stub tag isn't strictly necessary. Feel free to remove it.-gadfium 05:09, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Stub removed --BakugekiNZ 07:41, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stub status removal 

message: Would anyone mind if I separated this page in to two pages; one for the volcano and one for the suburb? This would bring it into line with other Auckland pages. Haminoon (talk) 09:56, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Cheers, I'll take that as a yes. Haminoon (talk) 00:16, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Separating page out
Talk:V7ndotcom Elursrebmem

message: the only source that this exists is a forum post?!?! Dsol 21:42, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, this doesn't help, sorry.  These are all forum and blog posts.  There is no way of verifying that this is for real.  So far as I can tell, the guy who made the original post has not demonstrably declared any contest in any legal binding sense.  There is no jurisdiction where the law forces him to pay someone, no fine print, no legalese, no accountability, no way of verifying this contest is legit, no way of verifying that previous ones have paid out; in sum, nothing notable at all and nothing meriting a WP article.  Dsol 19:49, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

text: This is not just my opinion but also WP policy.  No can just delete this article, not even an admin (which I'm not).  Instead I've voiced my concerns at this article's deletion page.  Dsol 11:28, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

text: Please read WP:V and WP:NOR, and please don't make rude comments about other users, whatever criticisms you may have.  Dsol 15:59, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: that's it?
Talk:Monterey International Pop Festival

message: I read somewhere (possibly the "NME Encyclopaedia of Rock") that Paul McCartney was invited to perform at Monterey, POSSIBLY with Ringo Starr, though exactly what he was going to perform was never discussed. It was widely believed that Macca later declined the invitation and insisted that he be replaced by Hendrix, as Macca was very impressed by him at a number of gigs in London.
Taff Hewitt (talk) 21:25, 24 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hendrix replacing McCartney???
Talk:Bowling for Dollars

message: San Francisco's CBS station, KPIX, had a similar show called Super Bowling, but it was not part of the Bowling for Dollars format (in fact, KBCW, back when it was still KBHK, aired the Los Angeles-area version at one time), and was played under different rules, including using a specially-built bowling lane that had no guttars.  Could this be included, or is this limited to the specific Bowling for Dollars format?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by That Don Guy (talk • contribs) 00:25, 19 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Super Bowling (San Francisco)
Talk:Slew rate

message: I don't think slew rate is even majjorly about electronics. It is the rate of change of slew. We haven't slew acceleration, though, but I think this is a bad definition. Unfortunately in the absence of anything better, it must stay as WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, but I'm inclined to try to DAB it because I don't think it is just about slew as seen on an oscilloscope. Guided radar antennae, for example, or telecoms antennae if they have physical moving motors, have to slew onto target and in doing so the servo motors etc have a slew rate that is purely a physical measure (angle over time) and nothing to do with this in the electronics sense. (and beamforming often uses a combination of the two.) So I think this term is genuinely ambiguous. Obviously it is PRIMARY for now, but I would like there to be maybe a DAB if I can find other articles that mention it. I'm won't to forget to I thought it best to post here as a memorandum ipset. Si Trew (talk) 20:50, 20 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not just electronics 

message: * Specific text to be added to or edited: "where Vout(t) is the output produced by the of amplifier as a function of time t."
* Reason for the change: Typo/Missing Information/Grammatical mistake
* References supporting change: "by the of amplifier as" makes no obvious sense.  Could it be referring to 'operating frequency'? It is extremely unclear.
AndrewJRigg (talk) 15:35, 11 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I've reverted the typo that was introduced here Ptrnext (talk) 07:18, 12 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error/confusion found in text
Talk:Lake Ella

message: I'm not sure exactly what to put, and therefore haven't changed anything yet, but the bit about the Monks' visit should be... ah... updated.  I can recall at least three seperate visits by the monks to Lake Ella, the most recent being in late 2005, and the earliest I recall being in, I believe, mid 2001.  I'll try to find more exact dates. --Luthwyhn 15:24, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. BTW, I'm going to get a better image than that, um... well-intentioned map. =P —Keenan Pepper 17:49, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well the somewhat cheesy "map" (not really a map) just gives an idea of the lake's shape. I'd use a Google or Yahoo screen capture but I'm unsure about copyright issues. What can be done in the map department for this page?  Noles1984 16:39, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm going to get my sister to take a photo, but I don't know where we can get a free map. If you put some roads and the gazebo on the current one it would be a lot better... —Keenan Pepper 18:09, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tibetan Monks 
Talk:PSP-OSS

message: Pretty sure this does not meet notability requirements.  22,100 hits for "PSP-OSS", and not found on Download.com. But maybe someone will beef it up. --Fang Aili 21:59, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: questionable notability

message: This article has been merged with PlayStation Portable homebrew. This page should now be removed. Here are the reasons for this:
* There are many PSP shells. PSP-OSS does not contain any more features than others and it has around the same popularity as other shells, as seen by homebrew sites.
* PSP-OSS was not the first PSP shell.
* It may be open source, but so are other shells.
As explained above, it is not notable. There is nothing notable for this shell that makes it deserve an article, and that is not an opinion. Please delete this article. --TheEmulatorGuy 03:44, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merged
Talk:Cabiria

message: How exactly was my edit to this article unconstructive? I was merely attempting to explain the political viewpoint D'Annunzio's film expresses, otherwise only alluded to in the article. It is quite clear - the film fits within the main themes of Italian post-unification nationalism: the restoration of her historical grandeur via imperial expansion in the Med and the civilizing mission, common in all European imperialist ideology. Not quite sure why anyone would delete the addition. I am going to re-add much the same content with references.99.240.139.189 (talk) 22:50, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: June 29 2009

message: To the person who deleted the following:
::Cabiria was therefore one of several films of the period that "helped resusitate a distant history that legitimized Italy's past and inspired its dreams" and which "delivered the spirit for conquest that seemed to arrive from the distant past", thereby presaging the "political rituals of fascism" (wars of conquest, the Roman salute, parades and the fasces itself).[3]
This was relevant and referenced. This kind of text should not be arbitrarily deleted, especially with no comment made in the discussion forum.99.240.139.189 (talk) 02:44, 7 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: August 7 2009

message: Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that :File:Cabiria 1914 poster restored.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on April 18, 2013. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2013-04-18. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. Thanks! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:08, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:File:Cabiria 1914 poster restored.jpg]] to appear as POTD 

message: In the section titled Distribution, remake and restorations, it's claimed that "Cabiria was the first motion picture to be screened on the grounds of the White House." However, this contridicts a similar claim for the movie The Birth of a Nation. On the Wikipedia page for the latter, it says, "Under President Woodrow Wilson, [The Birth of a Nation] was the first motion picture to be shown at the White House." Can anyone clarify this? Thanks. Billertl (talk) 03:11, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably because Cabiria (1914) was shown on the White House lawn and not inside the building... however Cabiria remain the first film shown at the White House. Jasc Fox (talk) 03:18, 31 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Disputed Claim