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Talk:Mr Benn

message: * didn't the series also say "and with that, the shopkeeper was gone" or something?
: yes! Exactly those words, and well worth including.  Great page, Fabiform. - bodnotbod
* pinstriped suit?  I always thought it was black
* wasn't the second door (the one leading to magical adventure) inside the changing room?
* shouldn't the intro say that Mr Benn never actually buys anything in the shop?
-- Finlay McWalter |  Talk 17:36, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: You've never seen it? Wow! (shows how prevalent the "as if by magic" phrase is).  I don't think they show it any more, so we'll have to wait on someone with the aforementioned video. -- Finlay McWalter |  Talk 11:14, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: questions

message: :This article is about the cartoon character. For the politician, see Tony Benn.
Is that really necessary? Why not list every single man whose surname is Benn and has an article on Wikipedia? Mr Benn the ex-boxer, for example, or Mr Benn the comedian. I doubt anyone is ever going to visit this page hoping to find information on Tony Benn.
Psychonaut3000 05:37, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tony Benn link? 

message: Soontaste 08:53, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not a gay icon 

message: According to the article, I noticed that the copyright given was 1970. How could that be, considering that the show was produced and seen in 1971 and 1972 (besides the 2005 one-shot)? -- azumanga 19:33, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright 

message: Five (UK), various Disney channels, CBC (Canada) and PBS (USA) are currently showing Franny's Feet, a preschool animated series in which a girl visits a shoe repair shop, tries on some shoes and is magically transported a relevant adventure (snow boots take her to the Arctic and so forth). Are these shows related in other ways? For example do they share writers, have IP licencing agreements etc? Andrew Oakley (talk) 14:44, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Similarities to Franny's Feet 

message: Unnecessary 
;Credits
* Created, Written & Produced by: David McKee
* Drawn by: David McKee, Ian Lawless
* Narrated by: Ray Brooks
* Music by: Don Warren (a pseudonym for Duncan Lamont, who is credited by name in episode 14)
* Musicians (episodes 1-13): Ken Baldock, Harry Stoneham, Art Morgan, Pete Hughes, Kenny Wheeler, Terry Emery, Ray Swinfield
* Musicians (episode 14): Alec Dankworth, Brian Dee, Duncan Lamont Jnr, Noel Langley, Rob Millett, Nick Moss, Andy Robinson
* Sound: United Motion Pictures (London)
* Filmed by: Zephyr Film Productions
* Directed by: Pat Kirby
* © King Rollo Films Ltd / Zephyr Film Productions  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.159.166.27 (talk) 19:11, 27 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moved from article
Talk:Lord George Gordon

message: My compliments, Adam, you were quicker in sorting out the scanning and links issues.  JFW | T@lk 17:47, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: The article is somewhat messy; there are two different life stories that should be intertwined, the beginning of the Judaism section is repetative, etc. --Meamcat 04:48, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Organization 

message: Apparently Scottish Jews wear the Gordon family tartan in honour of him.
"In the latter part of the eighteenth century there lived an English [sic] nobleman in London named Lord George Gordon (1751-1792), son of the third duke of Gordon. He accepted the Jewish faith.... It was customary in those days for pious Jews to travel abroad, in order to see with their own eyes the actual living conditions of their brethren in the Diaspora, so Lord Gordon traveled to the lands where most of his new co-religionists lived. He visited the city of Vilna, known as the Jerusalem of Lithuania, and there he became known as the Ger Tseddek (the Righteous Proselyte). His name quickly became a byword in the Jewish world. Parents came to use his name when blessing their sons, and many families adopted his name as a surname. It was thus that my grandfather changed Gordomy to Gordon." "  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.1.39.114 (talk) 23:23, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: if this is a quote where is it from?
4.249.63.21 (talk) 18:56, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Tartan

message: The article states "in 1787 he was convicted of defaming Marie Antoinette, the French ambassador and the administration of justice in England".
Please have the article expand on this. How could he charged with defaming a French queen? Was this three charges or one? What was the maximum sentence? Was it because of something he wrote or was it something he said in public or private? WikiParker (talk) 12:33, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Defamation conviction 

message: Harman says, of Birmingham:
-- Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 19:45, 19 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Location of conversion to Judaism
Talk:Permission to Land

message: Check this out. Tenacious D Fan (talk) 21:02, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dave Grohl is fan 

message: Could someone add that? the video is located here and is actually a continuation of the "I believe in a thing called love" video, no idea why it was never released though.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.135.20.180 (talk) 14:17, 8 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Music Video for "Friday Night" 

message: After an argument with a friend and some digging through CD's, it has come to my attention that there are substantial differences between releases of the album.  Most notably, the US version of "Growing On Me" opens with a gained-up guitar note before the hi-hat, and Hawkins distinctly shouts "Oh yeah!" over the end of the "sleeping in an empty bed" line.
Can't readily cite a source clarifying the differences, and many online retailers have things all mixed up (audio previews of the differences mentioned above can be found on Amazon, but don't correspond to the proper release).  If anyone can find reliable information, a lot of us would welcome a bit of clarification!
73.252.40.55 (talk) 21:46, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Information on differing versions 

message: The redirect Stuck in a Rut has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached.  Aaron Liu (talk) 12:21, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "[[:Stuck in a Rut]]" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:Restriction fragment length polymorphism

message: what is the difference between RFLP and VNTR(various number tandem repeat)?
to my understaning RFLP measures the length of the dna segments after treated with restirction enzyem,
and VNTR measures the number of repeating tandemes,  so shouldnt they be equal?
i mean,if the tandem repeats are the same i would think that the length of the dna segments is the same.
my only solution to this is maybe that the regions between the tandem repeats are not equal and than the length is different.
if some body could help that would be great.
--M siterman 19:38, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You are right in thinking the two terms are related: in fact, VNTRs were often detected as RFLPs by Southern hybridization, though now more usually a PCR technique is used. The term VNTR refers to the variable sequence rather than to the method used to detect it. - Nunh-huh 19:59, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  the relation to vntr??? 

message: Botstein, White, Skolnic, Davis (1980) Am. J Hum. Genet. 32(3) 314 defined RFLPs before the 1985 Jeffries citation listed currently  —Preceding unsigned comment added by GCdeQR (talk • contribs) 06:46, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Any idea if that's the first mention of it? Can we attribute its first use as a full assay to Botstein et al. in 1980? Qwerty0 (talk) 15:57, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Oops, sorry, Botstein et al. didn't invent RFLP; they just referred to it. However, they claim that Grodzicker et al. 1974 did. Qwerty0 (talk) 16:58, 20 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discovery 

message: couldn't the red link in
: ... It refers to a difference between samples of homologous DNA molecules that come from differing locations of restriction enzyme sites, and to a related laboratory technique ...
actually link to restriction site?
212.126.224.100 (talk) 17:47, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems like a good place for it to link to, so now it does. Thanks for pointing that out. - Nunh-huh 21:59, 21 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Restriction Enzyme Site link 

message: Like a lot of technical articles on Wikipedia, this one is spectacularly weak on history. Not just who discovered it, but when it became widely used, and when it became obsolescent. The science end of the article is great; the social end is largely absent. If anyone can supply just a few sentences charting its discovery, emergence, expanded use, and then obsolescence, that would be great. Theonemacduff (talk) 00:17, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  History largely missing
Talk:Hughes Aircraft Company

message: Hughes was split up into pieces by GM.  Part was sold to Raytheon.  Part to Boeing (Satellites) , etc.  Hughes Aircraft was a non profit corporation until it was sold to GM in mid 1990s. 184.103.183.41 (talk) 06:12, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The passage in the lead that I presume you're objecting to has proper citations. WP:PROVEIT applies if you think it's wrong. Also, Hughes Aircraft was owned by a non-profit, HHMI, for most of its history. This is an important distinction from being a non-profit itself; it certainly wasn't according to anything I've read. Carguychris (talk) 01:06, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Data shows you said that Hughes was sold to Raytheon.
Talk:Pushchino

message: Accents in Russian names are necessary to determine correct pronunciation. Even if your computer cannot display them, it is not a reason to remove them. — Monedula 22:18, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: The fact is, Unicode makes use of "combining diacritical marks", which are inserted after the main letter, but displayed above (or below) it. The only correct way to accentuate Russian text is to put "combining acute accent" (U+0301 or ́) after the stressed vowel. Unicode-compliant browsers should then display the accent mark above the vowel. If you see the accent mark not above the vowel or see something else at all, then you simply got a bad browser or a bad font. Perhaps changing fonts will do it. — Monedula 12:04, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, you're right. Thanks, I stand corrected. --Azazello 13:57, 27 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Methodology

message: This article is riddled with original research. In particular, the entire "Examples" section ought be deleted. 24.126.199.129 04:58, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Cool 209.105.137.204 (talk) 18:58, 21 January 2024 (UTC)

text: (please sign your comments).  I agree with whoever wrote the paragraph directly above.  The examples help the reader understand what a methodology is.  It sure helped me.    The Transhumanist    07:42, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

text: @ 2806:106E:1C:C00B:4A2:FD01:B768:B83F (talk) 03:33, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Original research

message: I believe most people would benefit from the revelation that (in today's use -- not necessarily understanding to those that lack it) a method is supposed to be one repetitive instruction (or instruction-list) to conduct in order to attain a solution to a problem from the method-associated problem class. Examples are: stacking bricks, PLU-factorization, cooking, Scrum/Agile. This insight is not yet clearly presented on wikipedia, neither on method nor in methodology. Having this insight would help people avoid and rule out ill-advisable methods.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.17.92.45 (talk) 12:14, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: This point is covered in the subsection "As method". I added a short explanation to make it more explicit. Phlsph7 (talk) 08:19, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Relevant missing insight

message: importance
 of research methodolog 102.91.46.244 (talk) 20:32, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Research methodology
Talk:Robert Boyle

message: Is this supposed to indicate that Boyle was a Cavalier (i.e. as opposed to a Roundhead), an adherent of Charles I? From the context it appears so. I couldn't find any other references to this in relation to Boyle. Since, as I say, it does appear to relate to the Cavaliers, why is it given in the French form here? No source is cited so checking isn't possible either. To be honest, that entire paragraph is written slightly oddly.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.144.78.132 (talk) 00:01, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for your attention. Despite its presence unmodified in the article for 14 years, this passage is of extremely dubious provenance, added by a disreputable IP editor, and so I have removed it for lack of a reliable secondary source, with no prejudice to re-adding if such a source is turned up. Elizium23 (talk) 00:10, 2 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: "Chevalier"

message: Robert Hooke should be added as one of those influenced by Boyle. TheLittleTramp (talk) 15:32, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made.  Darth Flappy «Talk» 15:37, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 8 June 2020 

message: Add the following source to the list of Further Reading:
* Bulleted list item
Banchetti-Robino, Marina Paola, The Chemical Philosophy of Robert Boyle: Mechanicism, Chymical Atoms, and Emergence, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. ISBN 978-0-197-50250-1 MPBanchetti (talk) 19:50, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: We shouldn't link a book for further reading if it hasn't yet been published; and even if it is from OUP, I'd like to wait for some form of review about this book to ascertain how useful it is. RandomCanadian (talk / contribs)  21:53, 23 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The book by Banchetti-Robino has now been published (by OUP in 2020) and widely reviewed by top scholars for top journals in the field (for example, by Alan Chalmers for 'Foundations of Chemistry', by L.S. Keating for the 'Journal of the History of Philosophy', by Antonio Clericuzio for 'Ambix', by William Eaton for 'History of Philosophy of Science', and Ashley Inglehart for 'Isis').  It is now regarded as the definitive study of Robert Boyle's chemical philosophy and 'Studies for the History and Philosophy of Science' is currently devoting a book forum to this book. MPBanchetti (talk) 20:10, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Could you provide links to those reviews? Actualcpscm (talk) 10:16, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 23 June 2020 

message: Genes are contained in the egg as well. This is equally important. 22 chromosomes each plus an x or Y chromosome. I don’t think skin complexion has been isolated to “semen” or the Y chromosome specifically as the science stands today. It’s underway. Google “which genes control skin color” Dbuckleywiki (talk) 02:16, 26 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re “ genes, which are actually contained in the semen” accuracy
Talk:Zgierz

message: please do not destroy wikipedia pages... the ability to edit entries should not be abused... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.26.248.205 (talk) 22:28, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  vandalism 
Talk:Wigner energy

message: But what is it? Rmhermen 00:51, Apr 27, 2004 (UTC)
I did some tidying to this page (anonymous as I hadn't created an account) and I think perhaps the "what is it" question might be answered in enough detail now. If not then someone (me?) needs to do some googling to get more. I also did some work on the last para about the Windscale incident. It might be better to point people to the Windscale article or perhaps even create a page for the Windscale incident. I added an external link (lifted from the Windscale page) and this is a good reference IMO. --Ioliver 17:43, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

message: This article contained a lot of inaccuracies as well as an excess of spurios information. I rewrote the wigner effect article and included more and more-correct information. I think the topics are too closely related to seperate them and the small size of the article doesn't require a split so I simply created a redirect. If someone feels strongly that this should be a seperate article they can extract the information for the wigner effect article. Vicarious 22:49, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Changed to Redirect
Talk:Horizon

message: Eb de Ng g Ed evuhxg de bhcy was no 2001:D08:1395:3737:50BD:D052:F7A1:D8E7 (talk) 12:43, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Horizon  

message: I am confused by the space shuttle photo. If it is the Earth's horizon we are seeing, why is it curving downward, rather than upward as the horizon, as we view it, usually does? 
Apparently, because what we see in the photo is not the horizon as we normally view it from a position on or close to the Earth's surface, but from up in space, where it is not the horizon as we think of it, but simply the curvature of the Earth. 
Is that too considered the "horizon," meriting inclusion of the photo in this article? That seems counterintuitive. 
Or, does it mean that the terms "horizon" and "Earth's curvature" are in fact entirely interchangeable? And when from yet much higher up in outer space the *entire* Earth is seen, what is being observed is simply a "360-degree horizon"? That doesn't seem right at all. 🤔 Toddcs (talk) 18:22, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The space shuttle has its top side toward earth, hence the horizon looks upside down. Constant314 (talk) 20:05, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Space shuttle photo 

message: I don't think the first sentence in the aforementioned section needs a citation, as the next section is the derivation of the formula supporting said statement. Catreplicators (talk) 01:27, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree and removed the cn. Constant314 (talk) 02:16, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Distance to the horizon > Other planets [Citation Needed] 

message: The current article does not include a section that accounts for this.
Found a corresponding citation: https://pubs.aip.org/aapt/ajp/article-abstract/50/9/795/1051974/How-far-away-is-the-horizon?redirectedFrom=fulltext ;  Catreplicators (talk) 01:40, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: It does have such a section and the section does have references.  Perhaps you could elaborate. Constant314 (talk) 02:18, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: My apologies, I am an idiot. Catreplicators (talk) 16:38, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: We all are, from time to time. Constant314 (talk) 01:12, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation for accounting for atmospheric refraction?
Talk:Toronto subway

message: , please see the discussion at Talk:Ontario Line#New Line 3 Logo and Colour, where it's clear there's no consensus as yet about using the purple (3) roundel. It's not controversial (that I know of) that they are planning to call the Ontario Line "Line 3" but the recently added icon  still the subject of debate. I reverted your edits because you added it, not because you referred to the Ontario Line as "Line 3". —Joeyconnick (talk) 18:39, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with  that it is fair to call this line Line 3 tentatively, but the purple roundel is buried very deep in the technical document as a placeholder and is not agreed upon in various reliable sources, making it inappropriate for use. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 01:12, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Forgive me if I'm missing something but since line 4 is purple, won't line 3 be another colour? I swear I saw it as blue in some old technical report. Mattximus (talk) 02:39, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: A purple  showed up in an obscure wayfinding planning document and some editors got a little eager with its usage on Wikipedia. Yes, the blue 3 has also been used by the TTC in planning documents. BLAIXX 02:47, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of the unconfirmed purple 3 roundel icon 

message: Is "light metro" really the best descriptor for the Ontario Line? None of the official government sources seem to use this term for it and only ever refer to it as a subway, and the linked article refers to systems that will uniformly have narrower and shorter trains than the Ontario Line (3m x 100m). The capacity will also be in line with the other heavy rail subway lines. Reecemartin558 (talk) 22:48, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree – the Ontario Line is only "light" compared to the existing Toronto subway lines. News sources consistently refer to it as a "subway" project, with the exception of some international sources which call it a "metro" (but never a light metro). BLAIXX 01:29, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I also agree with both of you. I've never heard this term before or seen it for any official documents. Replaced with subway in the article, as its the most parsimonious definition. Mattximus (talk) 02:28, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. I also agree with all of you three. By the way, I like your YouTube channel, Reece Martin. Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 13:57, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Light Metro" Descriptor for the Ontario Line
Talk:Pinky Lee

message: The following text was moved from the article.  
:  Pinky Lee was most noted for his famous phrase: "pinky choudai, pinky choudai" in the Japanese candy market
It may refer to a less famous person of the same name; a Google test on  
: "pinky choudai"
produced "hits 1-4 of about 60", all on 
: Cafeglobe.com 
and in those 4, the longest scraps that looked like they were meant to be interpreted as Roman characters were a few words like "Show Us Yours!", or a date and time.
Perhaps someone can find something fit for an article on this other Pinky Lee; it seems unlikely this is significantly connected.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jerzy (talk) 01:41, 27 April 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: We do NOT put two people in the same article.  Where two people share the same name we create two distinct articles, and the use a disambiguation page.  I am about to remove the porn starlet and place her in her own page, and create the disambiguaton page after placing a link to this note on the editor's page who has added her here.  Fiddle Faddle 10:40, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another person of the same name 

message: i was 5 in 1953 when pinky lee came to my house on Selfridge Air Force Bace in Michigan  he came to cheer myself and two older brother up  we all had chicken pox  i never forgot that he did that for us  i too am glad to know he lived a long life  he was a good man for what he did i never forgot it long live the memory of pinky lee   i might be wrong in the year but it was very close to that time  Darrell Lubahn  Michigan  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.56.203.156 (talk) 17:51, 17 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I, too, watched every show I could (I watched lots of TV in the 1950s--I tolerated the bad and enjoyed the good). I loved his intro and some of the skits. Although he was a great comic, the skits were very dumbed-down and predictable. At the time I read somewhere that he had died of a heart attack on-camera (believable since George Reeves, who was even more popular, suicided or was killed only several years later). I, too, am relieved to know that he had a long life. David Spector (talk) 02:53, 19 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  On-air collapse 

message: the date of the collapse isn't given?...according to the Boston Globe it was Tuesday, September 20, 1955...71.162.113.226 (talk) 23:18, 18 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: We need more specific information that "the Boston Globe". Sundayclose (talk) 01:08, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  any reason why...