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Talk:Black Mischief

message: "After a civil war with his father, Seth, grandson of Amurath, the Nestorian brigand who united the local tribes into a nation, is the victor."  Excuse my ignorance, but which one is the "Nestorian brigand" here?  Amurath, right?  I'd make it clearer, but I'm not sure.  And also, is "brigand" really the best word? Picaroon9288 22:21, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusing Sentence 

message: "it is a thinly veiled reference to the then empire of Abyssinia, now Ethiopia"
Is this actually the case? I have a copy of Black Mischief here with a 1962 preface by the author in which he says that "the scene of the novel was a fanciful confusion of many territories ... it was natural for people to suppose that it derived from Abyssinia, at that time the sole independent native monarchy ... there was never the smallest resemblance between Seth and the Emperor Haile Selassie." Fipe 05:16, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abyssinian Reference 
Talk:GOVA

message: Would it be possible to add a map and the times? I can't find this on any other website including the city's. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.186.95.89 (talk) 12:12, April 19, 2007
: The schedule can be found here by clicking on the "Regular Service Schedule", "After 10pm service", and "Sunday and holiday service". Route maps are on their respective pages as well, though I' not sure where to find an overall map of the city routes. (Just as an FYI for you; I don't think it's information that qualifies to be on Wikipedia itself.) --Scani 01:02, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
Talk:New York State Route 33A

message: This article was changed to bring its intersection template to the NYint format. No other changes were made. It is important to verify, update and/or correct as necessary.Fwgoebel 16:51, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change of Intersection Template 

message: I reassessed this article as Start-class instead of B-class.  One sentence of history isn't enough to qualify for B-class.  If nothing happened after the 1930s, talk about what happened before the 1930s then.  What was it before it became NY 33A? -- Kéiryn talk 20:20, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Resolved. – TMF 09:11, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment
Talk:Shewhart cycle

message: The Shewhart cycle is also known as PDSA: Plan, Do, Study, Act. There is a difference between PDSA and PDCA. Study is used to maintain the original intent of Dr. Shewhart in the cycle being a learning method based on the Scientific Method. Check implies only that the desired results occurred and that potential learning may be overlooked. The origin of Shewhart's concept is in epistemology and the work of C. I. Lewis. Shewhart was presenting a theory of knowledge. 
Shewhart never labeled  the steps of the cycle as PDCA which seems to have originated in Japan in the 1950s/1960s. Shewhart did not use PDSA. Deming insisted on PDSA as opposed to PDCA to return focus to Shewhart's original intent of learning. To add to the confusion some call the cycle the Deming cycle. Deming never used that term as he always called it the Shewhart cycle. Leaders100 12:42, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  PDCA/PDSA 

message: I added the buzzword template to the article.  The entire article seems to be made to lend the appearance of system and rigor to obvious and uninformative statements about planning. - Smerdis of Tlön 14:07, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Buzzword template added 

message: I've tagged this article and the PDCA article to be considered for merging
--Prainog 03:06, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with [[PDCA]] 

message: The entry needs to start from a slightly 'higher' (i. e., more distant) level.  Yes, PDCA and PDSA are closely related, and yes, the four words do not clearly explain the steps & stages of the development.  They can't, without a lot more explanation.
This (or these) approach comes from the Scientific method (Wikipedia ref), consisting of 3 steps - hypothesis, experiment, evaluation.  Francis Bacon (Wikipedia ref) viewed the cycle as starting with observation - his experiment.  When we do a production problem solving scene, or a straightforward statistical test like a Student 't' test, we start with an hypothesis, the testing of which drives the experiment.
PDCA, PDSA, Ford's 8-D, Six-Sigma, my own A2Q Method (TM), and a host of other step-wise sequences all come from the scientific method and the fundamental concept of feedback (review, evaluation, Check or Study) that it embodies.
Whether you 'check' or 'study,' plan thoroughly or intuitively (not in writing), is secondary to whether you complete the scientific method cycle, start to finish and back to start again.  I urge the editors to put the nit-picking in one corner, and focus on the core benefit of using a clear expression of the scientific method.  "Clear expression" = understood by the user.
I will be happy to write a draft for Wiki general review (and chewing up? :), but not for 2 more weeks.
Jay Warner
--Jay Warner, Racine, WI, USA -  quality@a2q.com ---
20:36, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with [PDCA] con't.
Talk:Tree (disambiguation)

message: Should be merged under Tree (disambiguation) and Trees should be a redirect. No point having two disambiguation pages for two forms of the same word. SCHZMO ✍ 22:36, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As I mentioned on the Trees page, I'd argue for keeping things as they are. Not as tidy, perhaps, but more useful. The problem is that the four articles under "Trees" (a poem, a song, and two bands) are not really plurals of "tree" in the semantic sense. If searches on those topics lead to a "Tree" disambiguation page (or, worse, a botanical article on trees), people will tend to assume that these articles don't exist. No-one is likely to enter the precise search terms for those articles ("Trees (poem)", "Trees (folk band)" etc.) unless they already know that they exist. So the effect of this proposal would be to reduce the accessibility of those four articles quite dramatically.--Chris 17:34, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

text: *I merged them without knowing this discussion existed.  As it was, the "Trees" page was listed at :Category:Disambiguation pages in need of cleanup (which is how I came on it) and most of its links were also listed on this page.  I second Schzmo's arguments and there is precedence for this kind of merge.  However, I redirected "Trees" to "Tree" after a survey of the incoming links showed that "Tree" was what people were referring to.  — Reinyday, 08:26, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: A well-intentioned editor just did a cleanup of things not known as just **tree**.  I think I see both sides of whether to remove or retain decision tree (for example):  "it's not just a plain tree" is the argument for removing; the argument for keeping is that in some contexts, a "decision tree" would be referred to simply as "tree", hence the need for being able to find it here.  Thoughts?  —EncMstr (talk) 16:22, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  terms containing tree 

message: A discussion is taking place to address the redirect :Árbol (disambiguation). The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 October 28#Árbol (disambiguation) until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  signed, Rosguill talk 15:54, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Árbol (disambiguation)" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:The Oklahoman

message: As a matter of information, please note that on March 18 The Oklahoman launched a second website, oklahoman.com, for subscribers only.  The newsok.com website also continues with limited general access.  "The Oklahoman launches Oklahoman.com website", newsok.com, March 18, 2012.  Since it is strictly for subscribers, I am not sure that there is any point in adding this additional website to the external links section of the article; see WP:ELREG and WP:ELOFFICIAL for applicable guidelines. --Arxiloxos (talk) 17:59, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Second ''Oklahoman'' website

message: The detailed list of awards is in danger of becoming a spamfest. It should be pruned down only to those awards that are notable.--ukexpat (talk) 15:09, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I have the same concern about the length of that list; I have some doubts about whether all those Addys, for example, are of encyclopedic note.  The newspaper has a list of its awards from 2007 to 2012 (but not yet 2013) at http://newsok.com/awards, and this list is already linked from the text. --Arxiloxos (talk) 15:18, 26 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: List of awards

message: Sometime after 1983 the paper apparently changed its name from The Daily Oklahoman to The Oklahoman.  When did that happen? — QuicksilverT @ 20:14, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, the name was changed in October 2003.  2003 is also mentioned as the year of the name change in a Poynter Institute interview about the paper's next redesign, in 2008.  --Arxiloxos (talk) 20:26, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name change
Talk:Finite verb

message: A few weeks ago I put some notes on the talk page of non-finite verb which are relevant here too. These two articles need to be edited in parallel. --Doric Loon (talk) 16:53, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Some notes

message: Doric,
I challenge your contention that most linguists would view am going as a single verb. It is true that am going is a single periphrastic form that expresses present tense and progressive aspect, but it consists of two words, each of which is a verb. We know that we are dealing with two separate words because we can split them with an adverb, e.g. I am certainly not going to accept that claim. I will now revert your edits. If you can back up your claim with more than one well-established source, then we should seek a compromise. --Tjo3ya (talk) 17:32, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: One verb?

message: Mon fre're et moi, nous quittons la maison de bonne heur parce que  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.190.4.154 (talk) 20:06, 15 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  underline the verbs, the articles and the noun it qualifies 

message: In "this sentence is illustrating...", "illustrating" is marked as a non-finite. However, this is contradictory to an example given by the Cambridge dictionary: She was waiting in the room, where "was waiting" is marked as finite.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kent-Tong-MO (talk • contribs) 05:33, 16 June 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: The cited reference is identified under a Finite and non-finite verbs heading, where "this sentence is illustrating..." qualifies as what Cambridge terms as a finite verb form. I suppose we should credit Cambridge with good linguistic instincts but semantic equivocation. Instead of terming "this sentence is illustrating..." a finite verb form, I would have termed it a finite verb phrase. Incidentally, I recommend shunning any references to a "main verb," which is an outmoded and casual term either for a finite verb (i.e. absent a verbal complement; hence the only predicate verb within its clause), for an infinitive that complements a finite verb, or for a participle that complements a finite verb, depending on the clause. --Kent Dominic·(talk) 16:21, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  the main verb is non-finite? 

message: This article's lead sentence, currently formulated as "A finite verb is a form of a verb that has a subject (expressed or implied)," has a hard time justifying how "form of a verb" is a better articulation than just plain  "verb." Also, the sentence has difficulty reconciling how a verb has a subject. The concepts are apropos; the semantics are in need of emendment. Sorry for not making the adjustments myself. I'm just sayin'. --Kent Dominic·(talk) 17:16, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  The lead sentence needs attention
Talk:Kurt Harland

message: The author needs to edit this page considerably.
Insoc released an album in 2007, "Synthesizer". IMO, the best damn album they ever made, and Kurt did vocals and lyrics on most of the songs.
Also, need to cite their new "Apocryphon - Electro Roots" 2 cd set, an anthology from 1982 - 1985 of never before heard music from their very beginning.
2.5L
Twopointfive (talk) 02:10, 9 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kurt and Insoc 
Talk:Vz. 50

message: The pic isn't correct.  It is a '70 with a '50 grip on it.  The slide looks like is marked 70.  It doesn't have the right circled 7.65 cal. marking on it, the serrations go too far forward on the slide, and the cut at the trigger guard are the blended cuts of the '70.
Why is it incorrect to refer to it as a CZ 50?  So far as I know all pistols made by Česká Zbrojovka a.s., Uherský Brod are called CZ followed by a number, usually the year of first production.  "Vz", being model, is surely another way of saying the same thing.  It's like "Beretta 92f" versus "Beretta M92f", isn't it?  Both are correct depending on your preference.  On the production history page of the CZ site (http://www.czub.cz/index.php?p=8&lang=en) a picture of the Vz 70 is captioned as "CZ 70 pistol in 7.65mm cal." which seems fairly definitive.  With this in mind, I'm getting rid of the "incorrectly" bits. -- Anonymous
Vz 50 is the official designation of the pistol as accepted by the Czech military. CZ 50 is a colloquial expression. The production history page of the CZ website is itself inconsistent and often switches between official designations and popular names. BroadArrow 05:46, 21 May 2006 (UTC)

message: Most firearms articles name caliber and capacity in the specifications section Mr kitehead (talk) 03:38, 6 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  specifications
Talk:OU Daily

message: Who says the newspaper is not popular on campus? With a circulation of 25,000 I don't know if that's an accurate statement.
I'm the source of that statement. The "circulation" is free distribution. Because it's free, a lot of people read it. By "popular," I suppose I meant "well-liked" -- and The Daily is pretty certainly not that. Lobosolo 16:42, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popularity 

message: This article has NO references. It needs to have references in order to comply with the Wikipedia rules (WP:Citing sources). If it doesn't get resolved in the next 30 days, I will file the article for deletion. Thanks! Corkythehornetfan (Talk) 21:27, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 
Template talk:User its-it's

message: Why should the text, "So should you." remain? Ardric47 22:44, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Because it's true. Anyone who thinks they are capable of making an edit without making an arse of themselves should know this rule. There is an ordinary version of the userbox; this is intended as the humourous version. Graham 05:35, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Right. The whole reason I chose to use this version of the userbox is that it's a little sassy, a little sarcy. If it gets blandified again, I guess I'll have to stop using it altogether.--Firsfron 06:06, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Nissan Quest

message: My wife and I call it the Jem'Hadar console because its circular shape resembles the control pedestals used on Jem'Hadar warships on Star Trek: Deep Space 9. We would decline to buy one even if we could afford a new vehicle. GBC 22:54, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Quest 2004-2006 center console

message: As covered on the Villager talk page, I am proposing it be merged into this article since the Villager is simply a renamed Quest and their differences are mainly in trim and options. I don't believe the Villager is unique enough from the Quest to warrant it's own coverage, as most of the content in it article is redundant with what's already covered in the Nissan Quest article. It seems there is an emerging consensus that Mercury variants of vehicles are not notable enough to warrant their own entries and are getting merged into parent articles, such as Mercury Sable being de facto merged with Ford Taurus, Mercury Topaz being merged into Ford Tempo and the Mercury Mystique article being merged into the first-generation Ford Mondeo article. Reattacollector (talk) (via public computer) 64.85.150.114 (talk) 17:36, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: If anything, Mercury Villager should be merged with Nissan Quest, especially given that the Quest had a much longer production run than Villager, with two additional distinct generations besides what Mercury offered. 17:01, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Oppose This merge request came out of merging the vast majority of the automotive articles together several months ago.  By the same logic presented, does this need to be merged with Nissan Elgrand, its JDM counterpart?  Absolutely not.  Especially if the Lincoln-Mercury vehicle was included.  Neither of these are stubs, nor are they duplicates; leave them as they are (to edit for the future)  --SteveCof00 (talk) 12:24, 21 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge Mercury Villager into this article
Talk:Madurai Veeran

message: Moved to Madurai Veeran Anthony Appleyard (talk) 10:49, 18 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Madurai Veeran (Deity) → Madhuri Veeran — Per WP:PRIMARYTOPIC —Redtigerxyz  Talk  11:50, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move
Talk:Niagara (painter and singer)

message: WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive
The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 08:49, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 

message: Because of factual errors or vandalism on this page, I have semi-protected it.  If you are a new or unregistered user, you may discuss changes on the talk page.  Please leave me a message if you are unable to contribute and wish to add or change information.  Bastique▼parler voir 22:57, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protection 
Talk:The Monday Night Miracle

message: Yeah, first time making an article.  I'm probably gonna need some help. Megarockman 23:00, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: the article should really be two, with a page for each the hockey and the nfl games... The Hemogoblin 05:13, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split these 

message: I haven't heard that Bears-Cardinals game referred to as a "Monday Night Miracle".  I think to be on here, it needs to be reference in some articles - please find some.  Remember, wiki-users cannot dub it the "Monday Night Miracle", only creditable sources.  Thus, any great (even miraculous) game on a Monday night doesn't necessarily qualify.Ags412 02:42, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Bears?
Talk:Oklahoma State University–Tulsa

message: Is OSU-Tulsa in the Greewood area?Fconaway 21:38, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. -steventity 22:12, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Rambler Marlin

message: It would be good to have a source for the section describing the Chrysler Norseman and the Chrysler Turbine car as the direct inspirations for AMC's Marlin. There were numerous previous production models featuring a fastback design that could have been used as guides. In the case of the Norseman, the concept car was never even shown to the public.
:"AMC's closest competitor Chrysler had been developing the turbine engine for use in automobiles during the fifties and made a prototype turbine powered showcar named "Norseman" in '56 that featured a flowing fastback roofline that gradually tapered more narrow down to the rear bumper area. By the early sixties Chrysler was threatening the entire US auto industry with a full production turbine powered car and made a limited run of 500 cars named simply "'64 Chrysler Turbine car". The intermediate sized '66 Dodge Charger fastback was to be the full production model. Struggling to improve their public image, AMC was able to release their intermediate sized Rambler Marlin roughly six months before the Charger to claim some of Chrysler's charisma beforehand. By looking closely to compare the styling of the all new '64 Rambler American and the '65 Rambler Marlin to Chrysler's '56 Norseman, the '64 Turbine car and the '66 Dodge Charger, one may verify that the similarites in styling do tell of this particular competition."
Until this information can be verified and that it is not original research, it is pasted here. — CZmarlin (talk) 18:57, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Original research?

message: I have made some changes to the lead section, also to the Origin and Press Reaction sections. I think they're improvements but your mileage may vary. The article seems somewhat overblown and unwieldy to me, and could use more neutral and encyclopedic wording here and there. Great if other editors would do some weeding, finessing and paring down. Writegeist (talk) 03:36, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes
Talk:List of congenital disorders

message: This page has been listed since 2005 in Category:Articles lacking sources As a list it doesnt need sources however the individual articles that it lists should all have sources that establish them as Congenital disorders  or be taken off the list, that is more reasonable otherwise it is an editorial mess that no one would be willing to take on.--Matt 11:41, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of Reference section and tag 

message: Is Diabetic a kind of congenital disease?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.185.51.25 (talk) 03:00, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is Diabetic a kind of congenital disease? 

message: This list seems rather redundant to :Category:Congenital disorders.  I suggest that this list be merged into the category. --Una Smith (talk) 04:16, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: List vs category

message: I removed 'biracialism' - nothing in the linked article (Multiracial) implies anything about being biracial is a disorder. I checked the history afterward, and it looks like someone keeps trying to add it to the list. Anyone have any thoughts on this? - LafinJack (talk) 00:20, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I have also removed 'biracialism', but will not be surprised if it returns.- Bill Freese (talk) 17:35, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Biracialism

message: Did someone put that into the B category as a joke? Please tell me where I can actually learn about "Breathing Genitalia"? 2604:3D08:3480:EC0:E58C:EDB1:6171:1E3F (talk) 08:24, 16 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Breathing Genitalia?