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Talk:Comping (jazz)

message: This article seems reasonable to me, but wouldn't it be nice to have a Wikipedia entry covering "comping" in the sense of assembling a vocal (or other solo) track from a collection of different takes? This use of the term is probably more widespread amongst contemporary popular musicians.
:Counsell, as for assembling a recording's track, I think that comping is just a contraction of compositing. --How M 04:12, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have added an entry to the disambiguation page Comp noting this sense of the term. --Lph 16:24, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Assembling a vocal track

message: Zamoja, I think that your editing of this page has distorted the relative importance of the guitar in comping.  In the section starting "in combos with a guitar player..." of the page, you make it sound as though guitar is the main comping instrument in jazz, and piano, if present, plays a secondary role.  This is just not true in practice.  In practice, most jazz combos feature a piano as the sole chordal instrument.  Very seldom do they feature both piano and guitar as comping instruments.  And if both are to comp at the same time, the pianist usually takes the dominant role.  Mark Levine's "The Jazz Piano Book" attests to this, if you need a source.  Perhaps it would be better to refer to a "chordal instrument" in general discussions about comping, and to specific chordal instruments in specific sections.  
Also, I'm not sure that the rock comping section is necessary, as I'm not aware that rock musicians use the term "comping".  In the rare case that they did, I would imagine that it would be in music of sufficient improvisational character as to fall under some type of jazz classification.  
In general, I think this page needs to be reorganized.  I might do it soon if I have time. Adumbratus 11:19, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Guitar and rock

message: *To me, 'comping' means the hobby of entering competitions. The first result in a Google search for "comping" where I am (UK) is www.winspiration.co.uk/topten.htm, bearing this out. Possible split for this article?
:I have added an entry to the disambiguation page Comp noting this sense of the term. --Lph 16:45, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Entering competitions

message: It is used as an abbreviation of "competition entering" and people who enter competitions are called compers.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 163.1.109.94 (talk) 10:18, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  ANOTHER MEANING OF COMPING
Talk:Supercross (film)

message: A ficticious film? It looks like it's an actual one! Hoverfish 16:10, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Whoever wrote this worded it terribly. A fictitious film would be, for example, something of the author's imagination. Which would make it too irrelevant for Wikipedia.--Surfaced 09:22, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

message: I've removed an old neutrality tag from this page that appears to have no active discussion per the instructions at Template:POV:
::This template is not meant to be a permanent resident on any article. Remove this template whenever:
::#There is consensus on the talkpage or the NPOV Noticeboard that the issue has been resolved
::#It is not clear what the neutrality issue is, and no satisfactory explanation has been given
::#In the absence of any discussion, or if the discussion has become dormant.
Since there's no evidence of ongoing discussion, I'm removing the tag for now. If discussion is continuing and I've failed to see it, however, please feel free to restore the template and continue to address the issues. Thanks to everybody working on this one! -- Khazar2 (talk) 00:14, 21 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  removing POV tag with no active discussion per [[Template:POV]]
Talk:John Calhoun Johnson

message: :See Adjutant_General_of_California#Adjutant_Generals_of_California. John Calhoun Johnson was never the Adjutant General of California certainly not during the El Dorado Indian Wars of 1850-51. William H. Richardson held that office at the time. Asiaticus (talk) 19:09, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Saint John's Island

message: I will be editing and adding citations over the next few days. Let me know if there's anything I can improve. Thank you! Rabbitson2001 (talk) 03:38, 9 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: @Rabbitson2001 It might be a bit too late but you might want to nominate the article for WP:DYK. It will be a good showcase of your work and something on Singapore. Thanks! Justanothersgwikieditor (talk) 01:44, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks! I've tried nominating it. Rabbitson2001 (talk) 02:36, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations
Talk:Travellers and Magicians

message: I have not been able to find a title transliteration online.  The best I could come up with on my own is Chhanga Huba Thengasa Gachiga Gi 'Athrula Snanga, but that puts a space for every syllable separator, which may be incorrect. --Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 10:13, 13 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: , the correct transliteration seems to be "chang hub thengs gcig  gi  ’khrul snang". It's the result given by online Unicode to Wylie transliteration services. It's also used in "Great Journeys in Little Spaces:  Buddhist Matters in Khyentse Norbu’s  Travellers and Magicians" by Georgios T. Halkias published in International Journal of  Buddhist  Thought &  Culture  Vol. 28. No.2  (December  2018). TryKid (talk) 08:19, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: It's seems to be Tibetan transliteration though. If the title is in Dzongkha (I'm not sure it is), the more appropriate scheme would seem to be the van Driem scheme, and it looks like you were trying to transliterate using that scheme. If you have access to "Travelers and Magicians" book by Noa Jones, you can find a lot of information. Regards, TryKid (talk) 08:25, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: The box says that the film is in Dzongkha, so I was trying to transliterate it based on Dzongkha tools online. It seems really long and wordy, but I know next to nothing about the language, which is one of the reasons I suspected I may have made a mistake, in the spacing if nothing else. --Scottandrewhutchins (talk) 17:28, 29 October 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps it's worth mentioning that the original title has nothing to do with travellers or magicians: ཆང་ཧུབ་ཐེངས་གཅིག་གི་འཁྲུལ་སྣང (chang hub thengs gcig gi 'khrul snang) means more or less "Beer-gulping hallucination". 2.37.165.174 (talk) 15:41, 25 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Title Transliteration

message: I didn't archive the previous page and it's down now. A new page has come up on the redesigned site but the numbers are different. TryKid (talk) 08:13, 27 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  BoxOfficeMojo changed to BoxOfficeMojo by IMDbPro
Talk:Sisters' Islands

message: What do the Sisters' do at the Sisters' Island. 121.7.163.112 (talk) 13:42, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Sisters Island
Talk:Singapore Island

message: There reads: With a population of 5,076,700 and an area of 710 square kilometres
That 710 figure is not possible, since Singapore has the whole country's area as 710. The only place with a different figure seems to be List of islands by area, which has 697 km², though there is no individual cite for that. 82.141.119.37 (talk) 11:31, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: According to https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sn.html the surface of Singapore (as a country, so including some smaller islands) is 687 km² + 10 km² water. Rbakels (talk) 19:57, 11 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Jurong Island

message: The external link (www.jurongisland.com) is not working! Should we remove it? --Shorty23sin (talk) 02:14, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Link is still not working so I removed it. --Shorty23sin (talk) 01:58, 4 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Link is not working 
Talk:Puritan migration to New England (1620–1640)

message: Like much under the category of "US" history, this article is far too simplistic and conforms to views and nationalistic idealism of a modern US which completely disregards the views, ethics and idealism of these ENGLISH settlers.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.50.220.218 (talk) 17:43, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Too simple

message: There are numerous issues with this article:
* Referring bluntly to "Puritans" is really no good. There were different non-conforming or anti-Laudian views.
* Obviously the migration was affected by religious policy under James I, but the matter neither starts nor ends under him.
* The term "Great Migration" needs to be attributed.
* It was not a one-way migration at all - there were plenty of people who left England and then returned at a later point.
Charles Matthews (talk) 08:40, 24 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I have given the article a thorough rewrite and expansion, and moved it. I feel that it now is more neutral and acceptable. Charles Matthews (talk) 09:13, 7 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Article Issues

message: This article title is too ambiguous and not recognizable per WP:NAME, suggest moving it to Puritan migration to New England (1620–1640). 64.85.221.15 (talk) 18:26, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move 

message: As far as I know, Puritans settled themselves in 1630.
https://www.britannica.com/place/Massachusetts-Bay-Colony
Those who came in 1620 were Pilgrims.
Cristian.nt (talk) 01:30, 30 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: The Pilgrims were Puritans, however. Technically, the terms Puritan migration and Great Migration are generally used to refer to the 1630 period, and generally do not include the Pilgrims settling Plymouth Plantation. However, the article begins with the Pilgrims and moves into the later time period, so the title should probably continue to reflect that. —Dilidor (talk) 13:51, 23 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change the name of the article to Puritan migration to New England (1630-40)
Talk:Lensey Namioka

message: Trivia about name: invented by father
"Lensey Namioka is the only person known to have the first name "Lensey." Her name has an especially unusual property for a Chinese person born in China: there are no Chinese characters to represent it. Lensey's father, Yuenren Chao, was cataloguing all of the phonemes used in Chinese. He noted that there were two syllables which were possible in the Chinese language, but which were used in no Chinese words. These syllables could be written in English as "len" and "sey." His third daughter was born soon after, and he named her "Lensey."" source: Goodreads
Awards: "Parent's Choice, Washington State Governor's Writer's Award (at least 3 times), ALA best list, and the Edgar Alan Poe Award for Village of the Vampire Cat." source: Paper Tigers 
Children birth years in infobox (Aki '59, Michi '61), husband death year (2019) 
Info about degrees and work as lecturer
Angelicarraignment (talk) 19:41, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Potential information to add
Talk:Khoikhoi–Dutch Wars

message: Frankly I’m not impressed. The bulk of the article is based on a 1888 publication, which is scant for an article, and not exactly up-to-date. However, citing a travel agency (theculturetrip) as a source is pushing the envelope beyond breaking point. Travel agencies are not reliable sources. Kleuske (talk) 19:46, 23 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources
Talk:Eastern black crested gibbon

message: I am aware of Michael Geissman's suggestion that Nomascus nasutus be considered conspecific with N. hainanus. Because Groves vide Wilson & Reeder (2005) questioned the inclusion of N. nasutus in N. concolor, I agree with Geissman that the Eastern Black-Crested Gibbons comprise two separate subspecies (N. hainanus hainanus [Hainan Gibbon], and N. h. nasutus [Cao Vit Gibbon]). The two subspecies are told apart by only their vocal sounds.
Was the decline in Cao Vit Gibbon numbers caused by the Vietnam War other than habitat destruction? What were the historical ranges of N. hainanus hainanus and N. h. nasutus?
Wilson, D. E., and Reeder, D. M. (eds), 2005. Mammal Species of the World, 3rd edition, Johns Hopkins University Press. 72.194.116.63 17:15, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nomascus hainanus 

message: The Eastern Black Crested Gibbon article is a stub meaning that it only contains a few short paragraphs in the lead about the animal and then a list of the references used for the limited information. This article could use sections such as evolutionary history, evolutionary history, anatomy and physiology, behavior, ecology, and conservation as well as cultural references. While the article does contain a picture of the map showing where Eastern black crested gibbon lives, it contains little information on the climate. Pictures should also be added to the article to give the reader an idea of what both the species and its habitat looks like. The conservation section would be especially interesting as the species’ status is critically endangered and it is listed in the lead as one of “The World’s24 Most Endangered Primates.” Since no behavior section exists, this could be added by our group. Despite its high importance status, there is little discussion in the talk section about how to improve the article. E.middlebrook (talk) 19:53, 25 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments on expanding article 
Talk:Henry Pachter

message: New article, started 21 NOVEMBER 06, soon to come: (1)photo. (2) more biographical data, esp. education and regarding works. (3) we need a political theorist infobox. (4)redirects from Henry M. Pachter, Henry Maximillian Pachter, Heinz Pachter, Heinz Pächter, Heinz Paechter and the other pseudonym he used...began with an R. —ExplorerCDT 16:35, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: New Article
Talk:Independent software vendor

message: For:
"Companies that make the platforms, such as Microsoft, AWS, Cisco, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, Red Hat, Google, Oracle, VMware, Apple, SAP, Salesforce, Nutanix and ServiceNow encourage and lend support to ISVs..."
This is coming across as an advertisement for 14 different software platforms. I suggest we either:
# Cull the list down to the top 5 most notable software platforms, or
# Remove all platforms and direct readers to a (perhaps needs to be created) software platform page, or
# Some combination of the above
One further thought. From Talk_page_guidelines "Article talk pages should not be used by editors as platforms for their personal views on a subject." I believe many of the "off the record" and "contrary view" comments below fall into this category and should be removed. 
--UploadPanda (talk) 15:00, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: untitled

message: Articles are not ads.  I've removed the listing of unknown companies and limited it to household names.  If you want to list companies that aren't household names, there needs to be a very good reason.  The household name companies reflect the general ideas quite well. 128.211.169.246 (talk) 16:17, 28 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not an Ad
Talk:Wild Boar in Britain

message: I propose that this article be merged into the boar article. Otherwise, we could have a multitude of pages of "Wild Boar in [insert country here]", which seems rather pointless. There's nothing that makes Wild Boar in Britain appear particularly noteable. Indeed, the only page that links here is the Boar article.Lilac Soul 13:15, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks a sensible idea, as long as we retain the detail from here and make it better referenced. The Boar article is also in need of a good cleanup. --mervyn 07:58, 16 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal
Talk:David Wheeler (computer scientist)

message: Wheeler is often quoted as saying "Any problem in computer science can be solved with another layer of indirection. But that usually will create another problem." 
In his Turing Award lecture at  Butler Lampson attributes the quote to Wheeler using the word "level":
 Any problem in computer science can be solved with another level of
 indirection.  (Wheeler).
But the "layer" term is also often seen.  Is there a good citation for it?  Or should we change the quote?
--NealMcB (talk) 06:52, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't have a good citation. I chatted with David about this quote a few weeks before his death and I think he used the word "layer" then. But I don't think he would have considered minor stylistic differences such as whether the word "layer" or "level" is used significant in this context, and it is well possible that he has said both in the past. He did however stress that he considered the inclusion of the – often omitted – second part "But that usually creates another problem." as significant. It is more the spirit that counts than the exact wording. Markus Kuhn (talk) 13:08, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Can there be a mathematical proof that any problem in CS can be solved with another level of indirection? Thanks, --Abdull (talk) 11:48, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Strictly speaking, no (of course).  But for an informal illustration, consider the (central) role of variables in lambda-calculus, and that each variable binding is an extra level of indirection.—141.150.23.3 (talk) 01:14, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  indirection quote: layer or level? 
Talk:Transport in South Africa

message: "Roads
Main article: National Roads in South Africa
Main article: Regional Route (South Africa)
Approximately ten thousand people die on roads in South Africa yearly"
It isn't the best way to start the section about roads. It's creating negative emotional effect instead of giving objective information and such number means nothing without other data like the road network kength and number of automobiles which should comes first.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.29.119.32 (talk) 06:09, 25 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Hi everybody. On behalf of the teams behind the Wikipedia Primary School research project, I would like to announce that this article was selected a while ago to be reviewed by an external expert. We'd now like to ask interested editors to join our efforts and improve the article before March 15, 2015 (any timezone) as they see fit; a revision will be then sent to the designated expert for review. Any notes and remarks written by the external expert will be made available on this page under a CC-BY-SA license as soon as possible, so that you can read them, discuss them and then decide if and how to use them. Please sign up here to let us know you're collaborating.
Thanks a lot for your support!  --Elitre (WPS) (talk) 15:30, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Wikipedia Primary School announcement

message: What areas of south africa do have many transport links?  Reason for the answer 209.203.23.94 (talk) 13:06, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  What areas of south africa do have many transport links? And reasons for the answer
Talk:Devi Kanya Kumari

message: IT HAS BEEN MENTIONED IN THE SRIMAD BAGAVATHA MAHAPURANA 10TH SKANDHAM THAT LORD BALARAM ,LORD KRISHNAS BROTHER CAME AND WORSHIPPED THE KANYAKUMARI AMMAN . DURING THE WAR PERIOD BETWEEN PANDAVAS AND KAURAVAS SO HE SKIPS THE WAR.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.174.119.39 (talk) 15:37, 30 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  information present in srimad bagavatham  
Talk:Beyond the Chocolate War

message: Someone provide a summary of the book please 64.236.245.243 16:50, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

message: I'm not convinced that this book even exists.  The ISBN does not return any results on any of the search engines.  There are two possibilities:
# The ISBN number stored here is incorrect.
# The book does not exist.
I am leaning toward the latter explanation, as the title and write - up don't seem to describe a book worthy of being published.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.191.169.117 (talk) 18:07, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Um, the book exists, we just finished reading it in our English class. I don't know the ISBN number off the top of my head, but I can find out.--Gen. Quon (talk) 15:58, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  ISBN
Talk:Trumpet Concerto (Haydn)

message: I removed the following:  "The highest note of this concerto occurs in the first movement (super E flat) and is pitched at 1108.73 Hertz."  I didn't think it was particularly noteworthy.  Michael Haydn's concerto contains higher notes (F sharp I believe) and the Hz number depends on your reference pitch (which was a half-step lower back in Haydn's day).  Joseph Haydn's concerto is notable for its low notes anyways (or at least its chromaticism in the lower region.  Documenting the removal here in case someone would like it restored. DavidRF 16:51, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  High notes and pitch 

message: I added a citation-needed tag for the negative reviews of the original instrument.  Also, there should be a note that regardless of how bad (or odd) the modified instrument sounded, the surviving score with chromatic notes has proven to be very important because the trumpet was eventually successfully modified with valves to play chromatically throughout its range.  Its frequently performed and recorded on modern trumpets.  DavidRF 15:03, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weidinger's Instrument 

message: The scoring mentions that the non-solo trumpets are ripieno trumpets.  What are those?  Is there an article we can link to for that?  Trumpet technology is important for the article with all the discussion of keyed, valved and natural trumpets.  Thanks. DavidRF (talk) 00:29, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm sorry. I used a concerto grosso term without realizing how easily in this context it could lead to confusion. Perhaps there is a word in English that more clearly explains that these two trumpets function as part of the orchestra and that virtuosity is not expected of them, just competence? Horn of Plenty (talk) 22:24, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If its just an issue of playing competence, I'd leave out the adjective.  I think its assumed in any concerto that the solo part is more prominent and virtuosic than any parts played by that same instrument in the "tutti".  My question pertained to whether it was a different instrument.  Much is made about the fact that the solo trumpet was a keyed trumpet and could play extra notes.  Were the orchestral trumpets the valveless variety or Natural trumpets?  Or maybe it doesn't really matter?  Thanks.DavidRF (talk) 22:52, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: They could very well have been natural trumpets 'crooked' in Es. Their parts are pretty much limited to the (written) pitches C, D, E, G (with a C-E dyad being predictably followed by G-D and viceversa), while the solo trumpet part freely goes up and down the scale and even has the occasional flat or sharp. Horn of Plenty (talk) 23:18, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  ripieno trumpet 

message: I added in a sentence to the end of the top section to include the date of the first performance of the concerto. The source that I found was a online data base so so hopefully, that will be enough.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jcorrad (talk • contribs) 00:59, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added The first performance date
Talk:Black crested gibbon

message: I added subtopics to the behavior section including group living, mating, and singing. My goal was to explain these behaviors and why they evolved, yet the primary research on the subject (evolutionary reasons) was not complete. I did make one or two assumptions based on logic for kin selection.
Katims90 (talk) 01:08, 26 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Behavior Section Updated 

message: — Assignment last updated by Student973668 (talk) 03:16, 14 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: BSC 4052 Conservation Biology