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Talk:List of founders of religious traditions

message: Shouldn't he be considered "semi-historical" in the same way we treat Abraham? Both are not confirmed outside religious sources. Of course we know there has to be an individual who came up with the idea of worshipping a single God. 83.11.2.22 (talk) 19:13, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zoroaster 

message: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandaeism
Don't see them included here. Founded some time between 1st and 3rd century CE. Personally can't find details on a single founder but they attribute their beliefs to John the Baptist and believe they descend from Noah, via his son Shem. Bhargav mr (talk) 21:13, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: @Bhargav mr Mandaeism is the last item in the first section (legendary founders). Blainster (talk) 22:27, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mandaeism 

message: I attempted to award the editors of this list article a Teamwork Barnstar to recognize your diligence in maintaining this important list. Somehow I fumbled the attempt, and it did not display properly.  Please correct it if you can, let me know why it didn't work if possible, and consider the award made! Blainster (talk) 20:42, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Teamwork Barnstar 

message: Very interesting list. But of course it ought to be much longer. No description of the religions in Africa, the Americas, Australia and other islands, the big part of Asia that consists of Russia and China. Is that because the founder is not known to western researchers? Ingrid Eckerman (talk) 10:26, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Cosign. Ethiopian Orthodox comes immediately to mind. Tuntum2 (talk) 20:31, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  How many religions, from where, are missing? 

message: If I have vandalized the list by adding [medieval] Celtic Zen, I apologize.  I may have left out the "Celtic" part, so please forgive me. Unitarian9999 (talk) 00:06, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zen
Talk:Wassailing

message: This account is lacking in several known tours of wassailing in England as well as other forms in Wales Isle of Mann etc.
At least one of the links is broken
This link should be added:
Wassail Epicenter 
http://mysite.verizon.net/cbladey/wassail.html
Hutmanfawkes (talk) 04:07, 23 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Opinion/Boken link

message: "The traditional practice of wassailing came to an end with the development of industrial capitalism and a wealthy and powerful bourgeois class with little interest in continuing this age old holiday tradition of symbolic exchange they saw as undermining mundane economic exchange in the market economy."
Yikes, someone is a bit bitter.  Not clear how this lasted this long.  Anyway, opinion such as this has no place in Wikipedia, as I think should be obvious.
If someone wants to extract some verifiable fact from this, feel free; I just removed it completely.
--71.235.102.239 04:05, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: An anonymous user deleted the quote above from the talk page and just inserted the word "wrong". The quote is at best highly dubious and doesn't have a place in the article unless there are sources to back it up. but just because it is probably wrong doesn't mean that it should be deleted from the talk page.--RLent (talk) 15:51, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opinion 

message: Article notes "An old rhyme goes:" - does somebody have a reference to where the rhyme might be found? thanks mgaved (talk) 12:54, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: It probably comes from here, though that's not much of a source. MichaelMaggs (talk) 14:36, 5 January 2021 (UTC)

text: I have found it in a Victorian poetry collection, attributed to Robert Herrick. My version has slightly different spelling - perhaps modernised. I haven't been able to find the first publication online anywhere; and it's not in Hesperides. MichaelMaggs (talk) 14:59, 5 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Reference

message: https://traditionalcustomsandceremonies.wordpress.com/tag/wassail/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kappasi (talk • contribs) 20:22, 18 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  House-Visiting Wassailing 

message: An actual alcoholic drink (formula), a cocktail of an ancient recipe! 138.207.175.112 (talk) 21:48, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wassail
Talk:Then Play On

message: Does anyone know which artist is responsible for the cover art?
Stonnman (talk) 19:51, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it's Maxwell Armfield. It's supposedly titled "Domesticated Mural Painting", and dates from 1917. I'd always refrained from putting this detail in the article because I couldn't find a decent source, but on looking, I see there are one or two out there now, so I'll add it. Cheers, Bretonbanquet (talk) 20:08, 10 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The title is erroneous - "Domesticated Mural Painting" is the title of the article in The Countryside, not of the mural. DuncanHill (talk) 14:05, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Cover Art
Talk:Architecture of Ireland

message: "Liam McCormick (24 October 1916, Derry – 28 August 1996) is regarded as one of the founders of the modern Irish architectural movement and one of the most important church architects in Northern Ireland. McCormick is noted for designing the modernist Met Éireann headquarters in Glasnevin, Dublin, which was built in 1979.[18]" 2001:BB6:2D1D:C200:B59C:802D:A1C7:75D9 (talk) 23:14, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Liam McCormick
Talk:All-figure dialling

message: There's only one "l" in "dialing" in America. I was going to "fix" this article, then realized this is one of those England-vs-US spelling differences. - DavidWBrooks 16:06, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Dialing
Talk:Bristol International Balloon Fiesta

message: The bridge was not closed entirely in 2004; I was in a car that drove across it on the Sunday! Loganberry 16:33, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:C. Mark Greene

message: Please see this talk page for discussion about turning this article and the articles for the other losing primary challengers from the WA senate race into redirects or submitting for WP:AFD. And, of course, make your opinion known on the topic on that page as well. --Bobblehead 17:18, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Change to redirect or submit for [[WP:AFD]]
Talk:Roodmas

message: the reason someone got upset about the neutrality of the article is two-fold... first of all because Roodmas is not in May, its in December... and secondly because the other holiday mentioned (beltane) which is may 1st is a fertility holiday, not a day to impune christianiity and worship the devil as implied in the article...
:The Christian feast of Roodmas, or Holy Rood Day, is in fact September 14, not in December or May, and is an archaism for the Feast of the Cross (Exaltation of the Cross). See Robert Chambers (1869) http://www.thebookofdays.com/months/sept/14.htm and William Hone (1825-6) http://www.uab.edu/english/hone/etexts/edb/day-pages/257-sep14.html . It is not to be confused with May 3, the Catholic feast known as Invention of the Cross, anciently known as Crouchmas, which commemorates the finding of the True Cross. I suspect the author of the original article has confused the two dates, as May 3 is close to May 1, the pagan Beltane. Alpheus 13:37, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  pagan viewpoint
Category talk:Caprids

message: The description of this category begins: "This category contains articles in the subfamily Caprinae - goats, sheep and tors." What does tor mean? (I'm guessing not a "high craggy hill.") -- Itai 18:04, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: It's been a while (I only just found this category page myself) and the "tor" was still included, so I removed it. (It has nothing to do with caprids, nor does the category actually contain articles about it, like it said.) Somebody can always add it back once there's a relevant page. Retodon8 18:19, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I wrote that.... I can only assume I meant tur but made a typo. A tur is a species of goat though so "goats and sheep" is fine. Pcb21| Pete 19:43, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: 2004
Talk:Sock puppet

message: :For sock puppets on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Sock puppet.
Are sock-puppets in the second sense a type of Mary Sue?
: Not in my understanding. The second sense of sockpuppet is more of means of ballot stuffing; someone makes an arguement (for example, in support of an article on Wikipedia that's been flagged for deletion) and then creates a few alternate accounts which are used to add support to that arguement. Undetected, the sockpuppets add the appearance of greater support for that arguement than may really be the case. Carter 18:30, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Does anyone actually USE this term, ever since the slang term "suckpuppet" came around?
Even "hand puppet" sounds lewd to me, given the various porn uses.
I accept they were both common in the past but surely they've suffered the same fate as "niggard" in recent years, no?  I can't imagine using any of these in pleasant company. 66.105.218.30 (talk) 01:53, 2 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Offensive? 

message: Found a tech bug that can have any User be falsely declared to be a sockpuppeteer.
I (or any one else) sigs.: Martial Law, this mess appears:123.890.456.958. This is a known bug.Martial Law 07:01, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Tech Bug

message: A massive category name change just caused all Wikipedia "sock puppet" categories to become "sockpuppet" categories. Should we change all references on this page to match?--Mike Selinker 13:38, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Sockpuppet" 

message: I find it quite odd that an anime picture is used as an example of a sock puppet's use. Is it impossible to find an actual photography?
*I thought the same... though I'm a big fan of Wikipe-tan's use, its too much of a self reference.  I've removed it for now. —Dark•Shikari[T] 02:36, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anime picture? 

message: We need to get them in there.  Is this user on the talk page.  We need some cites and notes for this page.
--Complex-Algorithm-Interval 15:48, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations/Footnotes 

message: I followed the external link to Danielle's Space and found that it is a faith based site on creating and using puppets for Christian Bible-based learning. Is this an appropriate external link -- a religion based site on a non-religious topic such as Sock Puppet? I created an account just to ask this question since I found the link a little odd. Cmello 18:38, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current external link
Talk:Republican

message: This explains the complexities.  I'm not sure Fianna Fail should be there - it claims the heritage of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, but so do most Irish political parties.
--GwydionM 19:14, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added a link to "Irish Republicanism" 

message: The two were not clearly linked until the early 19th century.  Republics mostly limited their citizenship or voting rights.  Or they were very unequal, as with the Roman Republic, in which the rich had far more votes than the poor.
I added a link to the Icelandic system.  Someone should do more on it.and the love for it<3
--GwydionM 11:50, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Distinguish republicanism and democracy 

message: How do we get away with Advocates of a republic, a form of government based on the rule of laws, not a monarchy or dictatorship. Monarchies are compatible with the rule of law. Even the wiki article on monarchy in the "absolute monarch" bit talks about the ability to promulgate laws William M. Connolley (talk) 23:20, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You're interpreting the statements as a little too connected: Republics are (theoretically!) based on the rule of law.  Republics are not monarchies or dictatorships.  Now, republics are defined wildly differently, but those two are the biggest constants.  Obviously, dictatorships with something approaching a rule of law exist too, but that isn't precluded if you take each of these statements separately. SnowFire (talk) 04:18, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Then I think they need a re-write. As it stands, we're implying that monarchies are in general not based on the rule of law. Thats wrong William M. Connolley (talk) 07:24, 4 August 2008 (UTC)

text:  i see one more problem. republic is not the form of government. it is kind of community, ie political community. in classical republicanism there are three basic forms of government: of one person - monarchy, of few persons - aristocracy, and of all - democracy. and of course there is mixed government. but all this forms are possible as government of republic. --discourseur 22:21, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  First sentence 

message: The GOP is only arguably conservative. First, we have to define "conservative" and we also need to look at the moderate/centrists in the GOP as well (there are several out there...) 192.12.88.7 (talk) 18:39, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: "Arguably conservative"

message: This article should include that Christians are more Republican because the duality of the law matches their ideas of heaven and hell. EugeneKantarovich (talk) 03:03, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: This is not an article, this is a Disambiguation page.  That said you shouldn't add that to the Republican Party (United States) article either as that is not a very common or easily sourced explanation of that phenomenon. SnowFire (talk) 04:26, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Christianity 

message: William howard taft was born in cincinnati ohio in 1857 2603:7080:59F0:CD0:25EF:161E:EEFE:31D8 (talk) 12:00, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taft is the only president to become a supreme Court justice.
Talk:Roger Martin du Gard

message: Incorporates text from http://www.nobel-winners.com/Literature/roger_martin_du_gard.html (All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License). olivier 18:37, Nov 15, 2004 (UTC)
-Why no mention of his latent homosexuality ?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.128.106.157 (talk) 11:46, 20 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Link-state routing protocol

message: I'm getting really tired of seeing the Cisco marketing balderdash about EIGRP being a "hybrid" of link-state routing and destination-vector routing spammed across Wikipedia, and even more tired of seeing repeatedly inserted after I keep removing it. I'm therefore going to spam this across every Talk: page where I see this claim, and a shorter note to the effect that EIGRP has no link-state stuff at all, in the articles.
Nothing could be further from the truth than the claim that EIGRP has any link-state aspects.
EIGRP is simply a multi-metric, event-driven, destination-vector routing protocol. Neither the "multi-metric" part nor the "event-driven" part has anything to do with link-state.
Link-state protocols have the following characteristics:
* they distribute topology maps, not routing tables
* nodes run a shortest-path algorithm such as Dijkstra over the map to produce the routing table
EIGRP does neither.
Clearly, one can design link-state protocols to be either event-driven, or not; all done to date (from the original "new" ARPANet routing algorithm) have been so, but that's purely a design decision. Event-driven or not-event-drive is a completely separate design axis.
Now stop adding this bogus nonsense! Noel (talk) 05:00, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: EIGRP is '''not''' a link-state protocol

message: A link-state routing protocol is one of the two main classes of routing protocols used in packet-switched networks for computer communications.
*Witch is the other main routing protocol??? Maybe distance-vector routing protocol?? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 88.214.181.212 (talk) 08:54, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sugestion 

message: This phrase is misleading: 
"This contrasts with distance-vector routing protocols, which works by having each node share its routing table with its neighbors. In a link-state protocol the only information passed between nodes is connectivity related." 
It suggests that the information needed to be exchanged by a link-state protocol is less than what it is needed to exchange in a distance vector protocol... which is not true. Yes, the only information passed between nodes is connectivity related, but this information is sent to all the nodes in the network.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Anih (talk • contribs) 15:24, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestion 2 

message: The algorithm section should mention what happens if there is a tie; i.e., which node from the candidate list should be moved into the tree if two or more candidate nodes are equidistant from one of the nodes in the tree?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Spookycave (talk • contribs) 12:56, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestion 3 

message: The article says
"The link-state protocol is performed by every switching node in the network "
Is this true? --Jbarcelo (talk) 17:46, 29 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are all routers link-state?
Talk:Ring modulation

message: Shouldn't there be a separate article about the use of effects called 'ring modulation' in modern sound equipment? It seems to me that this article should be about diode ring modulators, not something that takes the name from them.
:Agreed.  This page should be something like "Ring Modulation (Electronic Music)", linked from a page that just covers the technical aspects of ring modulators from the purely electronic point of view.  The current article, being the only one in Wikipedia on the subject, gives a heavily biased view of ring modulation which many readers may not pick up on and thus be falsely lead into believing that ring modulation is only extensively used in electronic music, which it most definitely is not.  Nejo17 (talk) 14:02, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Frequency mixer covers the topic from the purely electronic and mathematical point of view. We are covering Ring Modulation (Electronic music) here but there is no other related article that wants to call itself Ring Modulation so the (Electronic Music) bit is unnecessary. ~Kvng (talk) 19:37, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong topic? 

message: See discussion at Talk:Ring modulator.  yoyo (talk) 09:45, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Note: although it is traditional to discuss proposed merges on the talk page of the "merge to" article, thgis is one of those exceptions where there is an existing discussion at the "merge from" article talk page. --Guy Macon (talk) 13:33, 9 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge 

message: I added McLaughlin's use on Visions of the Emerald Beyond.  Truth be said, I don't know enough to be ABSOLUTELY SURE I'm correct, but my Dad always said the strange effect on the track "On the Way Back Home to Earth" was a ring mod, and I believe him, especially as he said and I've read others who have said "the ring modulator is not very musical", and it seems to me McLaughlin is "trying to tame" the effect in the song.  I also thought the best place to put the reference before the reference to Davis's Aghartha, as it is chronologically right b4 it.  Not sure having it as a separate paragraph was warranted, but that's what I did.Slarty1 (talk) 22:23, 29 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: John McLaughlin

message: The sentence "Multiplication in the time domain is the dual of convolution in the frequency domain, so the output waveform contains the sum and difference of the input spectral components. For the basic case where […]"appears two times shortly after one another in slightly modified versions. Is this intended, or is this essentially a copy-and-paste-error (a left-over of the merging of pages)?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ruediger.kupper (talk • contribs) 19:04, 13 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I find only one occurence of "Multiplication in the time domain" in the article. ~Kvng (talk) 19:37, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Double Sentence?
Talk:Triumph GT6

message: The article seems a bit opinionated against the MGB and needs revision.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.149.152.145 (talk) 01:16, 20 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opinionated 

message: I disagree that the article is opinionated and needs revision.  There has always been debate about the relative merits of the GT6 and the BGT and this is not likely to stop.  It is evident that the article was written by a GT6 enthusiast but I don't think there was anything very controversial in it.  Try both, then decide for yourself. 
What irritated me was the choice of photo's: illustrating this kind of article is only helpful if the pictures are representative.  In this case the "Mark I" is a Mark II, and all of the cars pictured have been modified or messed about with in some way.  Including a picture of a open-topped (i.e. home-made) 'GT6' is especially pointless.  
Since there are plenty of original cars left, why not use pictures of these?
J.C. Perfect, Aberystwyth, U.K.
87.112.99.133 (talk) 20:41, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  A matter of opinion, and a matter of fact. 

message: Who cares about "the writer's opinion". It's not backed up by any evidence and I have never seen these claims made elsewhere. The whole paragraph should be deleted unless the author gives sources.81.147.126.174 (talk) 22:35, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Differential stuff
Talk:Colony of Virginia

message: I had captured my own copy of the lead of this article in June of 2017 (which I filter and reformat for my narrower purpose). On comparing the old lead to the current lead just now, it's much improved. Kudos to those who contributed over the past three years. — MaxEnt 23:04, 7 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improved lead 

message: I don't think the motto is right because all of the Virginia Colonial arms I've seen read "En dat Virginia Qvintam" which means Virginia gives the fifth which makes more sense because Virginia is the fifth realm not the fourth 99.197.192.186 (talk) 18:45, 3 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Motto
Talk:Eugen Bleuler

message: Sorry, Eugen Bleuler has published most of his work in German, he is from the german-speaking part of Switzerland, so I don't see a need for the "EugeneE". But it is not so important. He is outdated anyway.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.133.113.196 (talk • contribs) 19:44, 15 November 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Surely he isn't 'outdated' (not officially, anyway) till the fat lady supersedes? --londheart 09:11, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

text: yes but where did he die? and from what cause did he (bleuler) die?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.92.172.84 (talk • contribs) 20:02, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Pottery Barn rule

message: This is a fairly common concept, is it not?  I recall that the phrase "You break it you bought it" was uttered by Ricky Jay's character back in 1997 in the movie Tomorrow Never Dies, and it certainly did not originate there.  What's so special about this instance? Mackensen (talk) 19:45, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think the point is that Friedman or anybody invented the concept, it's that it was used in an Iraq context that's important. In other words, this article isn't about merchandise policies, it's about a bit of political jargon. It's slightly amusing that there isn't actually any such rule at the Pottery Barn, too. The fact that it was used by Powell and Kerry, not just journalists, gives it historical relevance. --Dhartung | Talk 10:56, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not even really a piece of political jargon, it's more of a now long forgotten slogan, a nine days wonder.  24.16.164.253 (talk) 08:02, 5 November 2008 (UTC)

message: The image of Powell adds little utility to the article. --mtz206 03:54, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm 50/50 on that. Better would be Kerry at the debate, maybe. --Dhartung | Talk 10:56, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image 

message: Shouldn't there be some criticism or discussion of the drawbacks of such a policy?Ggb667 15:51, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion