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Talk:They Might Be Giants

message: Should this article include something about Jonathan Coulton collaboration with They Might Be Giants? Benjamin (talk) 06:35, 15 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jonathan Coulton  

message: The article looks pretty good.  I'm just wondering if the lede needs so much detail on awards received.  Any other opinions?  Ragity (talk) 20:27, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lede 

message: i am fan of TMBG but this sentence is a huge stretch and an opinion: "The duo has been credited as vital in the creation of the prolific DIY music scene in Brooklyn in the mid-1980s" -- even if a writer from Rolling Stone thinks so, the entire idea of DIY music is DIY, musicians were DIY-ing it themselves way before and way after TMBG -- even in Brooklyn! 98.167.186.78 (talk) 21:42, 11 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  A stretch? 

message: I noticed looking at the TMBG singles chronology that "Twisting" is listed in the discography as the second single off of Flood, but in other places "Istambul Not Constantinople" is listed as the second single. Looking at the TMBG wiki (https://tmbw.net/wiki/Twisting), I see that, according to that, "Twisting" never received a commercial single release, only promo and test releases (which would explain why it had no chart appearances).
I don't usually meddle with these technical matters, so I'm not sure whether promo and test releases count as a "release as a single", but at the least someone might want to figure out whether "Twisting"'s single release(s) were before "Istambul..." and make our information on that point consistent.Brianyoumans (talk) 17:17, 10 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Quibble re Twisting

message: I noticed that for a good 3-4 sections in History, there is little to no sources, I added a marker at the top of the history page, but it would be great to get an expert on Dial-a-Song or whatever working on that. Adeeta (talk) 20:29, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation in History section 

message: The same picture of the Johns from 2020 is used at the top and bottom of the articles. Is there a better pic that could be used for the start? Adeeta (talk) 20:35, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Johns picture dupe
Talk:Mucilage

message: The problems with this entry are (a) that it is similar to a dictionary definition, and (b) there are dictionary definitions "out there", but it's important to choose different wording. If somehow this could be fleshed out then it would become easier. David Martland 07:38, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)

message: Not stated that there are two types of it: pectose and callose and also nothing is stated about them individually in wikipedia. There is a great deficiency in the article and it needs instant help.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.68.50.100 (talk) 00:48, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  chemical structure 

message: The first sentence says mucilage is produced by nearly all plants and some microorganisms. But the second sentence says it is an exopolysaccharide, implying that it is produced only by microorganisms. Which is it? If the mucilage in plants is produced by microorganisms within that plant, that fact should be explicitly stated. If not, the second sentence (or the article on exopolysaccharide) should be corrected. Frappyjohn (talk) 19:14, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarify: Produced only by microorganisms or by other plants too 

message: As far as I know filmjölk is made by fermentation with bacteria. According to Swedish Wikipedia it is species from  the Streptococcus, Lactococcus (a subsection of Streptococcus) and Leuconostoc bacteria groups that are used. A special variety called långfil with a very special consistency was traditionally made in the northern part of Sweden. According to Swedish wikipedia it contains  Lactococcus lactis i addition to the bacteria found in normal filmjölk. Swedish wikipedia claims that its action is to form polysaccharides form the milk carbohydrates. I have have previously heard a claim that the consistency is due to bacteria that cling together into long chains.
Common butterwort (Pinguicula vulgaris) has a persistent reputation for being involved in the formation of långfil. This appears to go back at least to Carl Linnaeus who in his diary from a journey to the north of Sweden describes that butterwort leaves would be used to start the fermentation process. Other rumours have involved cows eating the leaves. Today the role of butterwort has been rejected, experiments have failed to reproduce the process and no relevant bacteria have been found on the leaves. However, Swedish wikipedia claims that botterwort leaves contain protelytic enzymes that can be used as vegetarian rennet. I have not previously heard the claim that sundew (Drosera) would be used for making långfil but Swedish wikipedia gives a reference from 1867. My guess is that this claim wouldn't be any more valid than that for butterwort.150.227.15.253 (talk) 15:30, 9 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Filmjölk
Talk:Bury St Edmunds

message: I too had wondered about the place name and St Edmundsbury.  I could not find evidence (though I am not saying it doesn't exist!) for this usage as the name of the town. As someone bolder than me has now zapped it, I'd be interested to hear if there is any good evidence for this usage. My feeling was that it was the abbey and borough only but I'd be interested to hear anything to the contrary. Nevilley 07:51, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: User:Edmund Patrick thank you for your edit summary when replacing the gallery of 20+ images. I do not agree that it "serves as an image based introduction to the site" particularly placed as it is near the end of the article. More importantly there is a Wikipedia policy WP:GALLERY which says "Generally, a gallery should not be added so long as there is space for images to be effectively presented adjacent to text." It is possible that some of the images currently in the gallery could be used to illustrate the text in the article, if you think so please move them to the appropriate sections and remove the remaining gallery.SovalValtos (talk) 08:30, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the reply, will read the link and start if happy. In next week or so, if ok? Edmund Patrick –  confer 13:59, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Fine, I am removing the gallery now and you can add back appropriate images at your leisure.SovalValtos (talk) 19:22, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia:Image use policy 

message: It seems a little odd that there is no mention in the article of DJ Peel, given his connections with the music scene in the town and the fact that his funeral, at St Edmundsbury Cathedral, was attended by "approximately a thousand people including many artists he had championed"? Martinevans123 (talk) 18:03, 29 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[John Peel]] 

message: There seems to be conflicting information as to whether footballer Andy Marshall is from Bury St Edmunds or Bury, Greater Manchester.Joenthwarls (talk) 03:33, 11 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: He was born in Bury St Edmunds, e.g. see here:   86.187.164.131 (talk) 11:12, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable people 

message: I have pasted the following and temporily removed it from the article as although it is correct it needs references. - Bury St Edmunds features prominently in the book Suffolk Summer, a record of the summer of 1945 by United States Army Air Force serviceman John T Appleby who was based at the nearby airfields RAF Lavenham and later RAF Thorpe Abbotts from March to November 1945. The Rose Garden in the Abbey Gardens was funded by the royalties of his book, first published in 1948. - Edmund Patrick –  confer 10:58, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suffolk Summer
Talk:David Popper

message: I do not think that "incredibly difficult" is the right way to describe Popper's book of cello etudes. Does anyone agree with me, or am I just underevaluating their difficulty? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by TrogdorPolitiks (talk • contribs) 02:37, 6 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  high school of cello playing 

message: Some cites show his date of birth as 9 December 1843 – , , , etc.  (This cite gives both dates of birth!!!)   Our article used to say 9 December, but it was changed to 16 June by this edit, with no edit summary or citations.  So, where do we stand?  Which is the correct date?  And how would we decide between the 2 competing dates?  --  JackofOz (talk) 07:54, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, Hollomis.  I missed your reply at the time.  Grove's 5th edition (1954) said 9 December, but the 1961 Supplementary Volume changed it to 16 June, with the footnote "Not 9 Dec., as in Riemann and elsewhere".  From what you say, it seems Riemann has since changed its tune, also to 16 June.  So we seem to have a consensus among the major references now.  That's good.  But rather than just asserting one particular date, as if no other candidates had ever existed, I think we need to acknowledge what some earlier sources had to say.  It would be good to get to the bottom of how the wrong date got into the literature in the first place.  --  Jack of Oz  ... speak! ...  00:19, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Date of birth
Talk:Froude number

message: This document explains Length and Depth Froude numbers, and appears relevant to development of the article.
http://www.qub.ac.uk/waves/fastferry/reference/MCA457.pdf
I have added an external link to it from the article. GilesW 13:26, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Length and Depth Froude numbers 

message: The wavemaking resistance increases near the critical Froude number, but above it drops significantly. Which is why planing is a desired condition for, for instance, small sail-boats. -- Crowsnest (talk) 21:31, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wavemaking resistance for planing boats 

message: I can't decide whether to add a section on Froude's Law here or create a new (small) page.  Perhaps a more experienced Wikipedian will know what to do.  Here is a start on the content:
Froude's law states that the velocity of a water-born creature or craft is proportional to the square root of it length.
Reference:  Thompson, D W., 1992. On Growth and Form. Dover reprint of 1942 2nd ed. (1st ed., 1917). , p. 31.
Links:
http://froude.sdsu.edu/ and
http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/froude.htm
Cjfsyntropy (talk) 03:54, 17 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Froude's Law 

message: Suggest merging two pages - Froude resistance curve has almost no content, and no references. Weakopedia (talk) 08:02, 30 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal 

message: I'm wondering about attributing Wave-Line Theory to Froude.  I refer to a recent article in Physics Today (July 2017) that talks about John Scott Russell developing the theory, starting from work begun in 1835.  Froude's work apparently went a long way to discrediting Wave-Line Theory, in part based on testing done with the Raven and Swan models shown in the article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Normd (talk • contribs) 14:34, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: As long as that Physics Today article backs up all the info that ends up in the article, I don't see why not. WP:BOLD and all that. DanHobley (talk) 09:07, 31 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wave-Line Theory 

message: If this was true:-
Dynamics of vessels that have the same Froude number are easily compared as they produce a similar wake, even if their size or geometry are otherwise different.
All ship geometries would be rectangular.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.143.72.26 (talk) 13:29, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bogus statement? 

message: He towed planks of assorted lengths, painted differently, back in 1860 - to arrive at **FRICTION** formulas.  This entire article seems to be talking about drag and other aspects which are not the same thing.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.143.72.26 (talk) 13:34, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  This all seems wrong
Talk:Extended graphics array

message: It's generally considered appropriate to put the main article at the full name and the redirect at the acronym. But in this case, I think we should make the exception, as everybody knows what "XGA" is (well, everybody knows it's something to do with computers and monitors, at least), whereas noone outside the industry has ever heard of it by its full and formal name. Tannin 09:56, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: It's generally considered appropriate

message: This may be a dumb question, and as a "computer person" I should already know it, but I'll never know if I don't ask.  Does XGA refer only to the software technology or is it linked to a particular type of hardware as well?  SVGA (AFAIK anyway) always uses a 15-pin mini-DIN connector, though it may be different for non-PC hardware.  Does XGA use the same type of connectors, or different ones?  From reading the article, I would guess the same, but it seems like there should be some explanation of this in the article.  ZZYZX 12:00, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  XGA hardware 

message: The original XGA, "XGA-1", DID NOT support 800x600, only 640x480 and 1024x768. XGA-2 added support for 800x600 resolution (See http://www.mcamafia.de/mcapage0/xgsetup1.htm ). Also, the IBM Hardware Maintenance Manual ( http://ps-2.kev009.com:8081/ohlandl/books/ps2-hmm.pdf ) provides some useful information on pp. 401-2.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.196.216.11 (talk) 02:25, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Incorrect resolutions listed

message: This article mixes two completely different topics – the XGA graphic adapter (a piece of hardware) and the XGA resolution (1024×768). -- Sloyment (talk) 14:11, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two different topics
Talk:Lorena Bobbitt

message: This article has a paragraph beginning, "Ten years after the conviction", yet according to an earlier paragraph Bobbitt was acquitted.  So which was it?  —Psychonaut 10:21, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I removed the recent thumbnail of the penis in question as it was a bit "in your face" for the casual reader. It certainly put me off my breakfast. It is of course entirely relevant, so I kept a link in "See also". While having no wish to nanny visitors to the page, we have no cause to be flagrant and prurient. Dizzley (Peter H) 11:28, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  The image of the severed penis 

message: Are you sure she was born in Venezuela? I have always thought she was from Ecuador. --200.93.196.236 19:25, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Venezuela?
Talk:Theocracy

message: An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect :Eugene VioletÞ2DcTheocracy and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 December 29#Eugene VioletÞ2DcTheocracy until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Veverve (talk) 12:59, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Eugene VioletÞ2DcTheocracy" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect :Eugene VioletTh2DcTheocracy and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 December 29#Eugene VioletTh2DcTheocracy until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Veverve (talk) 12:59, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Eugene VioletTh2DcTheocracy" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect :Religious authority and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 December 29#Religious authority until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Veverve (talk) 13:21, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Religious authority" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: I would like to suggest that the United Kingdom may be considered somewhat of a theocracy, if not historically a theocracy, if with a parliament, the head of state was the head of church.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 125.165.105.11 (talk) 09:40, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: No, reliable sources do not describe the UK as a theocracy (at any period)! Or good luck trying to find any. You may be aware that even the top clergy in the Tudor period were frequently in trouble with the government. Johnbod (talk) 04:09, 16 February 2023 (UTC)

text: I agree that the UK is not a Theocracy. Unfortunately the same people that agree that the UK is not a Theocracy, mischaracterise Israel - which has lesser religious aspects (ie Head of State can be any religion, Faith ministers are not automatically in legislature) - as a Theocracy. Montie12 (talk) 22:35, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  UK?
Talk:Diagonal matrix

message: Why does the page for "Simultaneously diagonalizable" redirect here, when there's no mention of the topic here? 131.215.105.153 (talk) 20:47, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Simultaneously diagonalizable 

message: In the opening, it says, "Thus, the matrix D = (di,j) with n columns and n rows is diagonal if:", but I think it should say "if and only if", otherwise it's not making a strong enough claim.  Can someone confirm this?  If so, please make the change.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.207.156.13 (talk) 14:16, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Logical Force

message: This article might be the right place to mention the operator diag(u) that takes creates an (n \times n) diagonal matrix D from an (n \times 1) vector u such that D_{ii} = u_i. Or perhaps it deserves an article of its own?
It's already in use on wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commutator_subspace 
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Michael.Clerx (talk • contribs) 05:44, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Support mentioning diag() in the present article. fgnievinski (talk) 19:16, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Operator diag()
Talk:Janet Young, Baroness Young

message: I have heard a story that aged 13 she was excluded from the Dragon School's boys 1st XV rugby team for being too violent.  It would be nice to include if true. The BBC certainly has her playing rugby and cricket there, as well as some other details of her life. --Rumping (talk) 14:30, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Rugby player
Talk:Arthur Eichengrün

message: Fact check:
*In 2000, a Dr. Walter Sneader published a paper entitled The discovery of aspirin: a reappraisal in the BMJ (British Medical Journal) 2000;321:1591-1594 (23 December). In this paper, he re-examined claims made by Arthur Eichengrün in a 1949 paper and came to the conclusion, that
**Eichengrün was Hoffmann's direct superior,
**Hoffmann worked under Eichengrün's direction,
**Hoffmann used methods developed by Eichengrün to synthesize ASA and thus
**that Eisengrün should be credited as the "true" inventor of Aspirin.
:Online responses to that article: .
*Sneader apparently had presented that interpretation already in 1999 at the Royal Society of Chemistry in Edinburgh.
*In Sept. 1999, Bayer denied this theory in a press release. Bayer states that
**Eichengrün was not Felix Hoffmann's superior, having joined Bayer in 1896 and thus was still in his probation time in 1897. (Felix Hoffmann had joined Bayer 18 months earlier.)
**Eichengrün, however, became later the head of a group in which a Fritz Hoffmann worked.
**Eichengrün never laid claims on Aspirin, even long before the Nazi reign in Germany. He only did so in his 1949 paper. Before, he never challenged the attribution of Hoffmann as the inventor (U.S. patent in 1899), which he could have done anytime (I guess that should mean "anytime before the Nazi era" -- Lupo).
*Sneader's version has been taken up and reported around the world, but so far I have not found a second independent source that would back him up. Nor have I found a second independent source that would debunk his theory and back up the counter-claims of Bayer.
As of March 2004, the jury is still out on this case: Bayer sticks to the mainstream version crediting Hoffmann, and there is only Sneader's paper arguing  for Eichengrün. I feel that resolving this question would still need serious original research by some historians. The article in Wikipedia should make clear that there is an as yet unresolved controversy.
The "life dates" given in the article seem to be correct.
Lupo 12:00, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:International Healing Foundation

message: This page is identified on Wikipedia:Cleanup as 'needing massive NPOV', but I have to say it seems fine to me.  It's clear from the introduction that the views presented are those of the IHF, and there doesn't seem to be any particular endorsement or rejection of those ideas, except perhaps implicit in the word 'helped' in the last line, which it is also made clear is the IHF's opinion.  PlatinumX, can you point to anything specifically POV in the article? -- Karl Naylor 13:51, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I retract my statement and will remove from cleanup; I did not notice "The following outlines the IHF's theory," and the Table of Contents implies that the "outline" is the substance of the article.  Perhaps a no-table tag until there are enough sections to create a ==IHF's theory== section? It could be a little clearer -- PlatinumX 22:10, 17 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point.  I've removed the TOC. -- Karl Naylor 15:35, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)

text: The old organization of the sections was confusing and unorthodox.  I reorganized the article to fix this.  Between this and Ifnord's addition of a criticisms section, I will tentatively remove the NPOV tag. Fireplace 05:40, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

text: International Healing Foundation needs massive NPOV treatment also -- PlatinumX - I disagree, see talk page Karl Naylor
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IMHO what the article needed was a statement of criticisms of this organization's support of Reparative therapy. I have included this, and replaced the TOC. Ifnord 23:18, 26 June 2006 (UTC)

text: I like Fireplace's use of the {main} template to link to Reparative therapy. Well-organized articles, that's what we need around here. --Uncle Ed 00:59, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Frits Bolkestein

message: There is an RfC on the question of using "Religion: None" vs. "Religion: None (atheist)" in the infobox on this and other similar pages. 
The RfC is at Template talk:Infobox person#RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion. 
Please help us determine consensus on this issue. --Guy Macon (talk) 06:37, 24 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Template talk:Infobox person#RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion|Request for Comments]] 