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Talk:Rolandas Paksas

message: Can anyone find a non-copyrighted photograph to post here? --Yekrats 17:08, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: General comments

message: The article omits few main facts of  Rolandas Paksas biography, making this person a caricature.  It's very bad style to scrutinize curse words, said by a person in a private conversation (not publicly!), not saying something essential from his biography at the same time.  The most essential fact from his political biography before the presidency is  that he was the chairmen of  Vilnius branch of the Homeland_Union_%28Lithuanian_Conservatives%29 (that's why he became the city mayor) and, although for the short period, the chairmen of  of the Homeland_Union_%28Lithuanian_Conservatives%29 after it (that's why he became the Prime Minister; in fact he was the executive chairmen of the Conservators, for Vytautas Landsbergis, who promoted Paksas then, remained the main leader of the party all the time after the founding of the party).  
This fact is true and no doubt, that knowing of it may affect attitude to Paksas of not Lithuanian users.  It's also clear, that the article is badly biased without mentioning of this fact.  By the way, in  a result of this fact, many people in Lithuania believe, that data, that  were get from the secret surveillance over Rolandas Paksas, had been never published the whole nor interpreted objectively, remaining  this way simply a revenge by Vytautas Landsbergis to his former comrade after their  conflict in 1999. The suspecting was  supported also by facts, that conservator activists  published all incriminations to Paksas before the formal starting of the  surveillance  and that the  surveillance itself was controlled by then chairmen of the Security department of Lithuania Mečys Laurinkus, who was known as pro-conservator politician. - There's also other data, that is for Rolandas Paksas and against his prosecutors, but all except the previous are more probable versions than facts. The only thing appears real  without any doubt, that all it reveals existence of super-corruption among the present leaders of Lithuania. 
The article needs an essential improving.  
Linas Lituanus 16:09, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Proposition many people in Lithuania believe that is not based on any fact but only on someone's opinion unfit for an encyclopedia. If Lithuania's Supreme Court made resoliution that Paksas was guilty - it means that is a fact and that it is what article should contain. Please keep in mind what you are posting here. Baltic 18:11, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biased! 

message: I appreciate that I'm not Jumbo or Dannyo and the BLP buissiness irks me, but I've removed some suspiscious text from the articel in this edit. 68.39.174.238 23:39, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Huge revocations 

message: Rolandas was the fourth president of restored lithuania, for some reason he is mentioned as 7th. In lithuania you count the presidents from the independence in 1991. The before ones are referred as head of state.
Please fix it Jonathan311 (talk) 12:49, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rolandas paksas
Talk:Cornucopia

message: Lots of suggestions for expanding this are at "What links here" Wetman 17:59, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: "Our Lady of the Roses has also warned against it." sounded like a proselytizing statement so i purged it. aamir malik (talk) 15:35, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed Lady of Roses Comment 

message: There are some better pictures on the Italian disambiguation page: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornucopia. In art history, these are famous images of cornucopia iconography. I would add them to this page, but don't know how.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.41.50.13 (talk) 09:40, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pictures 

message: "Some evangelical Christians warn against wearing the symbol, or the similar Italian symbol of male fertility, saying it is actually demon-infested or unlucky, and equating it to the "little horn", a figure described in the Christian Bible sometimes considered to be the Antichrist."
Does this look like it has anything to do with the article to you? Me neither.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.113.117.148 (talk) 02:30, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed Antichrist Nonsense 

message: It would be nice if there was some summary of the development of the iconic imagery.  Modern depictions (absurdly giant "horn" with grapes and gourds cliche) are strange and don't depict the mythological origins very literally at all.  How did this very particular exaggeration develop?  The article gives no sense of whether the familiar form is from ancient times (contemporary with the myths?), or since the Renaissance, or what.  Did the current Giant "horn" first appear with one particular artist or work?  It's not clear why this one particular bizarre representation is repeated so relentlessly.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by DKEdwards (talk • contribs) 18:58, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Timeline of depictions  

message: An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Cornucopia (god). Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so.  signed, Rosguill talk 23:01, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cornucopia (god) listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:The Six Million Dollar Man

message: Steve Austin is an astronaut and should be famous, yet almost no one seems to recognise him.(90.164.52.212 (talk) 18:30, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The vast majority of astronauts are not so famous that people will just recognize them on the street.  I would argue that 90% of people couldn't identify a single astronaut from a photograph. Rcarter555 (talk) 19:37, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Fame
Talk:Harbord Collegiate Institute

message: "Harbord has been a diverse multicultural school for many years. From the 1920s to the 1950s, about 90% of the student body was Jewish and many prominent Jewish Canadians attended Harbord."
How, exactly, is having 90% of the population made up of a single identifiable group "diverse"?
"Today, the student body largely consists of, but is not limited to, students of Chinese and Portuguese descent, which is representative of the surrounding neighbourhoods."
Again, what exactly is so diverse if the population "largely consists" of only two identifiable groups?  
I'm also skeptical of the school's attempt to "promote diversity" by providing Cantonese, Mandarin, and Portuguese classes to the students "largely...of Chinese and Portuguese descent". That's money well spent!
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.233.152.46 (talk) 03:56, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Multiculturalism

message: We should add a list of teams (not just clubs) Harbord has to offer. (ex. the wrestling team) LordofPens 00:39, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, we should have a more complete list of teams. LordofPens 00:44, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article expansion 

message: Who was the Harbord after whom Harbord Street was named?  This should be mentioned in the article.  Deipnosophista (talk) 10:35, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Harbord
Talk:Functional equation

message: Although this part says nothing but the truth, this solution is not complete. f(x) = a x^2 for any positive a is also a solution (as can be quickly checked). The way this result can be achieved is by induction. I'll try to fix that now in one of my own pages. Jotomicron | talk 17:02, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the error is by assuming f(0) not to be 0, but am not sure. I changed the example to another. If someone corrects the old example feel free to restore it. googl t 14:06, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  It is interesting to note that in The Use of Integral Transforms by I.N.Sneddon (pub.: McGraw-Hill (1972)), the author demonstrates solutions of various functional equations, by means of a range of integral transform methods. Hair Commodore (talk) 20:08, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Solving Functional Equations 

message: Hi. If I'm not wrong 
f(x)={f(x+1) \over x}\,\!
it is a function not equation. Am I right ?--Adam majewski (talk) 09:30, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: f(x) is a function, f(x) = f(x+1)/x is an equation, indeed a functional equation. RobHar (talk) 16:01, 2 November 2008 (UTC)

text: I removed the virtually incomprehensible inserts of 8 September 2008, by Math1353, as decidedly non-standard and unhelpful in illustrating the conventional canon of functional techniques. A committed proponent of the stuff might try to incorporate them, with lots of work to make them pedagogically accessible, into a new stub---or else a new section. But there should be some consensus reached beforehand that this is indeed material that can be usefully flung on the novice who comes to this page to learn what functional equations are all about. Would anyone here hurl this to their students at their first exposure to the subject?  I concur with the move of User:124.170.241.132 four months ago to protect the reader, and strongly disagree with unwarranted revert thereof. Cuzkatzimhut (talk) 19:59, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Examples
Talk:West Slavic languages

message: My addition is a widely referenced trivia, e.g.: Tamaš Julian, Rusinska Književnost, Matica Srpska,  Novi Sad, 1984, p.11-12 --Compay 11:55, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pannoian Rusyn 

message: Whereas Kashubian and the entire Pomeranian group are obviously separate from the Polish dialectical family, separating Silesian from it and not the other languages/dialects spoken in the territory of early Poland (and,in some cases, for a long time afterwards) can be misleading as to the relation between various members of this group.  I believe that Mazovian, Masurian and other dialects spoken in the territory of early Poland should get at least the same treatment as Silesian if dialectical variations of Polish are to be included here.  Now, this is not a question of wheather Silesian and other dialects/languages are part of what is considered modern day Polish or not; it's a question of putting the language family tree as it should be, i.e. of illustrating accurately internal relationships between its members.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Colddance (talk • contribs) 22:03, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Divisions in the Lechitic group 

message: What does the Izbicko sign have to do with West Slavic languages? 
--206.207.225.18 (talk) 21:46, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polish-German? 

message: Could someone please add in the scheme the Silesian and extinct Slovincian language. I tried but unsuccessfully. Ентусиастъ (talk) 11:15, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Silesian and Slovincian
Talk:White Separatism/Archive 1

message: I have completely rewritten in an attempt to follow Jimbo's advice on the mailing list -- . I have also preemptively added a note that the neutrality of the article is disputed. Feel free to remove it if you feel it's NPOV enough. I imagine that it will be mercilessly edited in eny event.
Cheers, BCorr ? Брайен  03:41, 26 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewrite

message: In practice it is hard to imagine how a separatist society could be organised without being also racist. Either all races must occupy entirely separate areas of land, and interact only only as equals (as two countries sharing a border) or one race must hold supremacy over the others in that it controls those aspects of society that cannot be separated, such as military, land rights or pollution control.
Actually its clearly not research at all, but either way its not based on fact, but rather editorial opinion. The wiki has no place for this. Sam Spade 19:45, 31 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  this is original 'research'
Talk:Lighting design

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: Moved. (non-admin closure) Adumbrativus (talk) 08:11, 15 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Lighting designer →  – Our standard convention appears to be for topics that apply to both a profession and the occupation to be named after the profession. This fits with the WP:BROADCONCEPT guideline, as noted by an editor on Discord, not all productions will have a dedicated lighting designer.  talk 06:05, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 8 January 2023
Talk:Magic cookie

message: I have submitted the article HTTP cookie for peer review (I am posting this notice here as this article is related). Comments are welcome here: Wikipedia:Peer review/HTTP cookie/archive1. Thanks. - Liberatore(T) 16:56, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  HTTP cookie 

message: This article is pretty good, but it is inappropriate to rely on a single source. Mrschwen (talk) 08:21, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: I have removed the "Security" section that contained:
:Some cookies (such as HTTP cookies) have a digital signature appended to them or are otherwise encrypted, thus hostile users or applications are unable to forge a cookie and present it to the sending application, in order to gain access to that which the hostile user is otherwise not entitled.  Depending on the nature of the encryption algorithm used, users may be able to verify that a cookie is authentic.
That will need some strong sources as it flies in the face of how cookies are normally used. --Marc Kupper|talk 21:23, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Security
Talk:Tutti Frutti

message: Does Evercat's comment on removing the only photo of the page ("That's a gratuitous and unnecessary image") mean it has been removed because it shows nudity? If so, I'm tempted to put it back on the page. <KF> 20:02, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)

message: I just removed most of the overly detailed info on this dab page. Remember that this is a disambiguation page, not an article page; most of the information that was here previously belongs in articles like Tutti Frutti (German TV show), not on this page. (I didn't move it myself because nothing was cited.) For reference, please see MoS:DAB. --SuperNova |T|C| 06:39, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rewrite 

message: "Tutti i frutti" would be "all fruits". Tutti frutti just doesn't make sense. --Exephyo (talk) 12:35, 7 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: 'All fruits' would be 'tutte le frutte' in Italian, actually - 'tutti frutti' is really fake Italian for 'all fruits', and 'frutti' is only used in 'frutti secchi' to refer to dry fruit, but not to fresh fruit. I have tried to edit this page to reflect this fact and it has been reverted back without reason whatsoever. Would appreciate if anyone did change to reflect that 'tutti frutti' is actually not an Italian phrase. 2A02:6B67:6628:0:A069:14E4:99D5:3CC3 (talk) 13:05, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: In fact frutti (plural of frutto) is also used with the meaning of fruits, although rare: :wikt:frutto. The 1838 New Sicilian-Italian Dictionary (Nuovo dizionario siciliano-italiano), by Vincenzo Mortillaro, already cites tutti-frutti, describing it as "una maniera di sorbetto, ov'entrano dei minuzzoli di frutti, e conserve, senza averne la forma" (from :it:Tutti frutti (gastronomia)). —capmo (talk) 20:04, 4 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation
Talk:Settle–Carlisle line

message: A recent edit has added the text "the first regular scheduled service with a steam engine for more than half a century on the British rail network" - what about The Jacobite service between Fort William and Mallaig, that has been running timetabled services (daily or even twice daily) every summer for over thirty years; or GWR steam rail motor no. 93 which worked all services between Liskeard and Looe for a week or so in 2012? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 21:09, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: BBC News are reporting it so there is a reliable source even if it's debatable. --Northernhenge (talk) 22:15, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I've adjusted the sentence to make it more probably true, but I agree that it needs checking, especially the Liskeard and Looe service in 2012.  I recall sitting on the end of the tunnel to watch the last scheduled steam train on the line on August 11th 1968, and maybe journalists are thinking of this and not checking the facts properly.  There have, of course, been regular special steam services on the line for many years.  Dbfirs 23:24, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I watched the report on BBC News at Ten tonight, and they qualified it by saying "... in England", which of course means that even if they are aware of The Jacobite, they're not glossing it over. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 01:30, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I support 's improvements to the article, except that the line is not yet open beyond Appleby.  Dbfirs 20:53, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. I'd entirely missed in the sources that the line was not completely reopened. Yngvadottir (talk) 21:09, 15 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  First regular scheduled service with a steam engine? 
Talk:Markov chain

message: I am studying the Markov chain now and I found some possible typo.
> π(k) approaches to π as k → ∞ 
I believe it should be "π(k) approaches a1*π as k → ∞".
> In other words, π = ui ← xPP...P = xPk as k → ∞.
It should be π = u1 instead of ui. Here, u1 represents the eigenvector of P corresponding to lambda1=1.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Jgdyjb (talk • contribs) 05:02, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for this. I believe you are correct and that I've fixed it here. In future, when you find a problem you need to fix it yourself as generally no-one else will. — Bilorv (talk) 09:33, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Convergence speed to the stationary distribution 

message: Students may need to understand how to apply Markov Chain computations to the following example. A shepherd has a flock of sheep, three pastures and two sheep dogs, to graze seven days a week. He grazes the pastures on a rotating basis, working one dog at a time on alternating days. Say one is black and one is white. My student needs to compute when will the shepherd will work the black sheep dog in pasture 1 on a Thursday/all Thursday occurrences. I can make the chain more interesting by adding variables, and apply it to retail sales, cell phone tracking and re-stocking needs, for a mathematical application. 
My interest in this discussion derives from an appreciation of exactly how good the IDEA encryption algorithm is, understanding that it derives from substitution on a password dependent Markov chain with an astronomical period/periodicity. 
While it may be theoretically vulnerable, it is exceedingly difficult to cryptanalyze, and it should be understood by ENTRY LEVEL USERS to be very adequate, even for life and death uses. Formfollows (talk) 04:45, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  This can be far more comprehensible for students.
Talk:Scorched earth

message: There could be an etymology section for the term. 
"Scorched earth military strategy is 1937, translation of Chinese jiaotu..." - etymonline.com
The quote is a bit longer but I don't want to run afoul of copyright rules.
I didn't realize that somebody had mentioned this very thing way back in 2008: Talk:Scorched_earth#Origin_of_the_Term.— Preceding unsigned comment added by AllThatJazz2012 (talk • contribs) 08:13, December 2, 2015 (UTC)
:I agree that an "origin of the term" or similar section would be appropriate -- the article seems like it's essentially a list of instances scorched-earth in practice, and it lacks a discussion of the history of scholarship about the practice. As I recall from my high school history, the term originated with the Russians' strategy of retreat from Napoleon, but the article doesn't actually say that. ~ Waidawut (talk) 08:05, 9 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology section 

message: Removing an unsubstantiated claim. : "adopted the first modern form of what we know today as guerrilla warfare,"
I have been reading the attached reference ( which is awful, the writer is a fool ) and there is no mention of "modern" guerrilla warfare. So I'm deleting it. here is a link to the reference https://home.gwu.edu/~downes/CIVWARS9_4_DOWNESDRAININGSEA.pdf
removing "An eloquent description of this comes from an Army officer at the time.[41]" Well and good but you failed to include it in the wikipedia entry so I'm removing it.
removing "astonishing" from "Goldman officially determined that an astonishing number" because no reference and Neutral Point of View.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cheezypeaz (talk • contribs) 22:04, 23 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes to the Boer War section 

message: In section 1, the ending part is introduced
    In the year AD 363, the Emperor Julian's invasion of Sassanid Persia was turned back by a scorched-earth policy:
inside the block quote is the phrase:
    ...the grass and ripe corn were consumed with fire...
Corn didn't exist in Europe at that point; it came from the Americas shortly after 1492.  OsamaBinLogin (talk) 23:50, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: , this reply is months late but better late than never. "Corn" in European English meant, and mostly still means, any edible grain. What is called "corn" in the Americas is called "Maize" in European English. See the note at the top of Corn_(disambiguation) for more. I hope this helps. Eggishorn (talk) (contrib) 18:13, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ripe Corn?
Talk:Eva Herzigová

message: Does anyone have a picture of her? --Kpalion 21:34, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: Herzigova was hardly the first famous model from Eastern Europe. Paulina Porizkova, for one, was well known before Herzikova had even reached her teens. MK 04:35, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not first famous E Euro model 

message: I seem to find this picture rather disturbing and offensive. I think this has reason to be questioned! --66.82.9.79 19:54, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: So do not look at it and everything will be OK. Pavel Vozenilek 01:30, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Playboy picture 

message: If somebody is interested there is a more flattering, and freely available, image available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/alanpixx/3803784917/ thanks/wangi (talk) 00:42, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox image 
Talk:Makassarese language

message: Added some words learnt from travelling to Makassar - Tony Krauss, Australia
Fixed up the words added above which had some non-standard spellings - Anthony Jukes, North Sulawesi
The word Billa = far away should be Bella - Adi Putra, born, raised and lived in makassar for 17 years. Oh can also add "jangang = chicken", "Lompo sala = childish, not mature" " Juku' = fish" "tette'= applying to time, as in Tette' rua means 2 o'clock (rua means two in this context)" "solong= melting" "tado'do= sleepy, half asleep" "tindro= asleep"  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.62.26.155 (talk) 16:02, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Makassarese words 22Feb2006
Talk:Sorbian alphabet

message: This is cribbed from the polish one, with the haceks added. The pronounciation is probably wrong and will be fixed tomorrow ;) Secretlondon 22:05, 6 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: If Upper and Lower Sorbian are considered to be different languages and their alphabets aren't the same, shouldn't the article be split into two? Kbb2 (ex. Mr KEBAB) (talk) 12:04, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split into Upper and Lower Sorbian alphabets?