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Talk:Allan R. Bomhard

message: This doesn't seem like an article at all, it's merely a list of publications. Even IF it could have grown to be a proper article, this list is far too long and would have made it unreadable. Maroux 11:50, 2004 Mar 3 (UTC)
Moving the page discourages the creation of an article on the person (since it leaves a redirect). If a bio were made, then this info would belong there. Moved back. --Jiang 22:25, 7 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Rationale for moving this page

message: From reading the comments of Wikipedia contributors, both in relation to my biographical entry as well as the entry on Nostratic, it is clear that several of these contributors are not familiar with the most recent scholarship across several fields. For example, Altaic/Transeurasian is hardly a dead or rejected field.  It has recently received new attention on the part of several reputable scholars.  "Contoversial" perhaps, but hardly a "fringe theory".  And so on, and so forth in other areas.  This makes me question the credentials of some Wikipedia contributors and whether they are really entitled to the opinions they are so confidently expressing. Arbomhard (talk) 09:22, 20 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Observation 

message: I've tried making Bomhard's status as an independent scholar and his work on a fringe theory slightly clearer, though I'm not trying to downplay his contributions to the field. I (sincerely, is there a policy that applies here?) don't know if it's appropriate to use the title "Comparative linguist". Specifically, @David Eppstein pointed out:
:"The biosketch writes "is a retired linguist", which strongly implies a retirement from a career as a professional linguist. Is that an accurate implication, or would we be misleading readers by suggesting that?"
and
:"in the sales flyer is a list of three universities at which Bomhard was educated, but not what degrees he might have earned from them or when, making the relevance of this information difficult to ascertain"
I think between these and the fact that the vast majority of the biographical information we have is self-published and has very consistent and careful phrasing I think we need to tread carefully around some WP:WEASEL and 
WP:PUFF concerns and do our best to neither parrot them nor try to "correct" them in the absence of any other evidence. I'm genuinely going to try to proceed carefully here, it's not my intention to come across as WP:HOUNDING in the aftermath of the last ANI, but my approach here will be to (carefully!) try to proceed as cleaning up any other BLP article, since I was waiting for the ANI to conclude. If anyone takes issue with anything I've edited please let me know, it isn't my intention to editorialize or antagonize with my edits. Warrenmck (talk) 00:56, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some content updates
Talk:GNU/Linux naming controversy

message: The last sentence in the opening section says: "Several distributions employ the FSF-endorsed name, such as Debian, Trisquel and Parabola GNU/Linux-libre." but GNU no longer endorses Debian, so this should be corrected. It is not included in their list of endorsed distros, and they even explain why here. --Blue.painting (talk) 20:59, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: The FSF has never endorsed Debian, that is not what the section is about, it is about the distros using the "GNU/Linux" naming that FSF endorses. - Ahunt (talk) 23:57, 29 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Blue.painting has a point though; the wording could be confusing. I've changed the wording to ensure it doesn't cause any misunderstanding. SebastianTalk | Contrib. - 23:27, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that actually makes it more confusing, not less. Let me give it a try on clarification. - Ahunt (talk) 00:07, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks  & , I think this change to "the name that the FSF prefers" indeed does make it more clear. - Blue.painting (talk) 07:26, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  FSF does not endorse Debian anymore 

message: Ethical  hacking 2402:8100:3846:9FCB:1:1:408:676B (talk) 11:23, 28 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ethical hacking 

message: "particularly when using Stallman's preferred pronunciation" - which is?? (guessing he might pronounce G-N-U, but either reference it, or don't mention it)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.98.131.223 (talk) 09:27, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Like this. - Ahunt (talk) 12:19, 27 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: Doesn't the article name kinda endorse GNU/Linux as the "correct" name? Why not use something more neutral like "Linux-based operating system naming controversy"? 64.193.85.1 (talk) 21:29, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The name is "GNU/Linux naming controversy" meaning that use of the term "GNU/Linux" is the controversy. - Ahunt (talk) 21:41, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article name
Talk:Scotia, Nebraska

message: Does anyone have any clue what the Happy Jack Salt Mine has to do with this town? If so, could they please mention it in the article? - Fennec 15:46, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I have a very old rifle and have found historical pieces of papers within the rifles body
that was owned by a Milford Smith of Scotia Nebraska. To the best of my knowledge the time
period would be between 1906 and 1940's... if anyone, or any family decendents of Smith have
information I would love to meet or discuss! Post back here or email info@bucsko.com
Kind Regards, —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.172.117.208 (talk) 03:29, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Looking for information about historic Scotia Village member
Talk:Berlin Blockade

message: This article still has uncited paras and citation needed tags. It therefore will not pass GAN. I suggest it is withdrawn until it is ready. Cheers, Peacemaker67  (click to talk to me) 04:02, 19 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not a GA yet 

message: Robert Lovett, who is listed above Clay and Robertson but otherwise unmentioned in the article, had nothing to do with the airlift. According to Clay biographer Jean Edward Smith, Lovett was part of an anti-Clay cabal at State, consisting of himself, Marshall and Kennan, who tried to replace Clay with Bedell Smith, in January 1948, but were blocked by Congress. On 24 June Clay was firmly in charge.  The credit Lovett gets is spurious.  Unless there's objection, I move to delete it. J M Rice (talk) 05:49, 30 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spurious Lovett Credit 

message: Throughout the article, amounts of goods delivered by the Airlift are expressed in "tons". What are those? Are they short tons (2000 lbs./907.18474 kg)? Are they long tons (2240 lbs./1016.0469088 kg)? Are they metric tons (2204.622621848776 lbs./1000 kg)? That needs to be made clear, and whichever tons they are, they need to be converted to the other ones. Kelisi (talk) 06:10, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  >>>Tons?
Talk:Dubna

message: I think it would add greatly to this article if a map of its location was added. A photograph of something in the city might also be added to improve the quality of this article.
:I've tagged the article with the Image request boxes. Grimhelm 06:26, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Addition of a map and/or photo? 
Talk:Ontario Mills

message: Discussion about fame from VfD:
**Delete - "famous"?  Name the largest shopping mall in Idaho.  Name the smallest shopping mall in Kansas.  Can't?  Then it isn't famous.   Name the actor from "The Terminator" who is now governor of California.  You know that one?  That's because he is famous. - Texture 16:10, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: :The mall is so enormous, that at each entrance, the automatic doors continuously play audio reminders of which entrance one used (in both English and Spanish).
How does this work? How does the door "know" which entrance a particular shopper used? (Reminds me of the Heart of Gold, actually...)
:The use of this audio service has been rare in recent times.
Then isn't it a bit misleading to say that the doors play the audio "continuously"? Loganberry (Talk) 01:24, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Automatic doors 
Talk:List of amphibious assault operations

message: Dave-
There is certainly no harm is this page. As The Great Helmsman said 'Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom,'
On the other hand, it is simply a subset of the Military Operations list. Do we need this one too?
At the least, this page should be linked to the other one. Is there an article on Alligator Warfare? Could you provide one as a header to this list?  Are all these operations listed on the Military Operation list. 
I have an entry for all these operations on my Mac and will add them to the Vast Database as the Muse strikes me.
:Should Axis and Allied assults be listed cronologically or should there be seperate lists under the Theatres? --Philip Baird Shearer 11:20, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Incomplete list

message: Would Gallipoli qualify as a WWI amphibious assault operation?  I seem to recall there was also an amphibious landing planned in support of Third Battle of Ypres -- involved landing tanks on barges somewhere beyond Nieuport.  I think they got as far as practicing to climb sea-walls in the tanks.  I don't know if it had a codename. Geoff 07:01, 4 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: World War I

message: The only Wikipedia template for a nation is for Australia.  Should there be templates for the national forces participating, or for the landing places, both, or none?  Beyond that, the list itself is not in a table, and does not show the forces or landing places or even, in most cases, the date, just the war, and the names of the battles or landing places.  I do not object to this list, but I am doubtful about its utility in its present form.  
Any editor who decides to remove the Australia template, rather than add the long series of nations that might be added, please feel free to do so. --DThomsen8 (talk) 01:05, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiPedia Templates
Talk:One World Trade Center

message: Using the “counting the spire as part of the building” the height is 1792 feet.
There is (currently) nothing in the article (or in the link at [5]) to explain why the “tip” is 1792, but the cited height is 1776.
Note: The link at [5] says Height is measured from the level of the lowest, significant, open-air, pedestrian entrance to the highest point of the building…
… irrespective of material or function of the highest element (i.e., including antennae, flagpoles, signage and other functional-technical equipment).
:Explanation at thetowerinfo.com
:In the original design there’s a spire installed atop the roof, but was replaced by a bare antenna in 2012, confusingly CTBUH still maintains the height of 1776 feet for the tower even after the spire had been replaced by the plain antenna, which always doesn’t count in architectural height. The number 1776 of the height in feet represents the year of 1776 when United States Declaration of Independence was signed, in fact the total height of the tower is 546m or 1792 feet as there’s a little skinny component of the antenna beyond the point of 541m, as shown at []
MBG02 (talk) 06:31, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Actual height is 1792 feet.  

message: as an addition to the line that says it is the tallest building in the western hemisphere, add that it is also the second highest freestanding structure of any kind in the western hemisphere, second only to the cn tower in toronto, canada 76.132.30.242 (talk) 19:19, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. M.Bitton (talk) 21:49, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 27 January 2024 

message: The article currently says:  with a reference to SkyscraperPage. But the source actually says floors 103-105 are mechanical floors. So is this source wrong? Other reliable sources, like Skyscraper Center don't say. Mokadoshi (talk) 16:40, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: As @Epicgenius pointed out in their latest edit on the page, the official 1WTC website lists the 104th floor as the top floor. For this reason, and because SkyscraperPage appears to be WP:UGC (but I can't tell for sure), SkyscraperPage appears to be unreliable for this article and I'd suggest we replace it with better sources. Mokadoshi (talk) 17:04, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the ping, and good point. I've replaced SkyscraperPage with another source. – Epicgenius (talk) 17:19, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  105th floor?
Talk:Yes-no pen

message: Isn't this more suited to a dictionary? We seem to have written one article about four entirely seperate sorts of pens: at a minimum, we should have some disambiguation going on. Martin 18:57, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Four different dictionary definitions still does not suit it to be an article.  No disambiguation is appropriate for something that is both a dicdef and has no created articles to disambiguate. - Texture 19:11, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

text: Yes, that is what you said.  I agreed.  I see your diambiguation page and still feel it warrants deletion. - Texture 19:35, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  Oh, I see. When you said "still", I thought you were expressing disagreement, my apologies. Martin 19:36, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

message: *Yes-no pen - another obscure Boyerism. --Wik 17:45, Feb 29, 2004 (UTC)   
**Again with the Boyerism. If I had really invented all the stuff Wik et al. think I did I would be the most brilliant genius in history. --Daniel C. Boyer 18:34, 29 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  From VfD 

message: [Reply to Josh Cherry]: The "yes and know" pens accompany the "Yes and Know" books.  --Daniel C. Boyer 16:13, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Further discussion
Talk:Act Without Words I

message: "the play was originally written in French being translated into English by Beckett himself"
How the hell can a play without words be translated? Kent Wang 19:14, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: LOL, now that's amusing. I hope the translation comment was intended as a joke, as it's a good one. :-) Jwrosenzweig 19:15, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)

text: "I'm not sure what's a joke and what isn't" - this sums up all of wikipedia in a single phrase. Slow Riot (talk) 10:27, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment
Talk:Buggy (carriage)

message: Should this be deleted, revised, redirected, or what? Jwrosenzweig 19:31, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Query

message: I removed the Lancaster County categories because the horse and buggy is not specifically associated with those counties.  If we want to put it in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, we should also put it in a ridiculous number of other county categories.  My own county, for example, has at least four different Amish bishopricks, and there are other counties in Ohio with far more Amish — not to mention many places in many other states!  Nyttend 16:02, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As a Lancaster County native, I gotta agree -- it's a slippery slope if we include one. --Thisisbossi 23:49, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lancaster County categories 

message: "Therefore, until the popularization of the automobile, the buggy was the most common means of transport in towns and the surrounding countryside."
I think the bicycle during a brief period before mass use of automobiles was probably about as popular a transport option as the horse and buggy. I'll put in some text to that effect.
I know of no evidence that suggests that the bicycle, though a significant fad in the late nineteenth-century, ever achieved the numbers that would have supplanted the buggy.  At no time were bicycles "the most common means of transport" anywhere in the US.  --Patchyreynolds 16:12, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bicycle 

message: Tossed a tag that seems irrelevant here. Is there an Amish project that might be suitable as a replacement? Montanabw(talk) 01:06, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project tags 

message: The opening paragraph says, "...it was made with two wheels in England and the United States (also made with four wheels)."  This phrasing seems to deprecate the four-wheeled versions, yet all 15 illustrations currently in the article show four-wheeled carts. Should two-wheeled illustrations be added, or should the opening paragraph be revised? ajad (talk) 00:44, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: The page needs rewriting and it's on my list of things to do (along with dozens of others). Smith page 25 tells the basic story. This article seems to have started out as a simple definition of "horse and buggy", then morphed into an article about the American Buggy, but never really lost the "horse and" part of the name. The term "buggy" wasn't as common in England as it was in the USA. I will probably rename the page to Buggy (carriage) at some point. Lots of WP:OR in the current article.    ▶ I am Grorp ◀  08:11, 25 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text:  I went ahead and did the move, and some cleanup. It needs more... another day perhaps.    ▶ I am Grorp ◀  10:39, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two or four wheels
Talk:Decoder pen

message: See also: Talk:Yes-no pen
Should this article really be in the past tense?  It hasn't been that long since I used one (though in my case I used the bundled pen to make a drawing, not with the book).  --Daniel C. Boyer 19:51, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect :Yes-know pen® and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 April 15#Yes-know pen® until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  BD2412 T 04:45, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Yes-know pen®" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:Joseph P. Allen

message: The June 10, 2016, issue of the Greencastle Banner Graphic has a more recent photograph of the retired astronaut at the following url:
* https://www.bannergraphic.com/story/2312684.html
Can this photo be incorporated into the article? -- 108.71.214.235 (talk) 11:18, 6 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  A more recent picture
Talk:Gay bathhouse

message: What's the point of the Notable Patrons section? 
Does the article on New York's Central Park have a "notable visitors" section? Does the article on the Sound of Music (on Broadway have a list of "notable attendees"?  
So why list the "notable patrons" of gay bathhouses? Is this just for the sake of gossip? Or are we trying to say that since these famous people frequent bathhouses, it's OK for others to do it? In any case, this this seems unnecessarily sensationalist. This belongs in a tabloid, not an encyclopedia.Omc (talk) 23:28, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable patrons 

message: The image of the Jermyn Street Hammam (at 76 Jermyn Street) should be removed as these baths (all to often confused with the Savoy baths at No.92) were never gay,"Sexual activity in the Jermyn Street Hammam" http://www.victorianturkishbath.org/_3TOPICS/AtoZTopics/Social/GaySex/3HistEng.htm and were destroyed during the Blitz. An image of the Everard baths, the Savoy, Bermondsey, or Harrow Road would be much more appropriate if they could be found. Ishpoloni (talk) 08:44, 3 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images 

message: — Assignment last updated by LivMourning (talk) 21:53, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: History of Sexualities
Talk:United States two-dollar bill

message: The article says this:  "Currently, stamped Series 1976 $2 notes typically trade for about twice their face value. If the bills were stamped in a city with an unusual name, the value may be slightly higher. However, no first-day-issued 1976 $2 bills with postage stamps are especially rare or valuable."  If one checks Ebay/Auctions, Sold items, these stamped Series 1976 $2 notes are trading for between $5 to $13, depending on the grade and condition.  For example, the JFK Stamp first day of issue with the date sold for $8.99.  A graded Gem PCGS 65PPQ went for $54.00.  Though, not rare, ALL of them sold for more than $4.Easeltine (talk) 09:16, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cancel Stamp with first day date on Bill  

message: There is story about a customer going to taco bell and the employee didn't accept it? Can that be added? I'm sure it is just a made-up story. http://www.bestshortstories.com/story/233961/2-bill-at-taco-bell/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/taco-bell-two-dollar/ Cwater1 (talk) 01:41, 6 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I doubt that source would pass WP:RS.  Even if it did, I don't see any merit in including the story.  Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. - ZLEA T\C 02:10, 6 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I thought I could ask on the talk page before making an edit on the article. I don't think it is needed as it is trivial.Cwater1 (talk) 02:30, 6 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two Dollar Bill Taco Bell 

message: I'm wondering which date we should go with for the first bills. They were authorized (and the Series Date) is 1928, but they weren't released into circulation until April 1929.  To my mind, either of those dates would work, but I figured this was one of those small things that should be set by consensus. Almostfm (talk) 07:47, 13 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Small-sized bill date
Talk:Woodlawn, Chicago

message: : I'm not sure why this is a sub-title, and for the record, it existed before I made the first post in it.  Does whoever created the "Inner City Chicago" sub-title know where Woodlawn is located? If they think that Woodlawn, Chicago is in inner city Chicago, then Inner city needs to be redefined. 173.75.117.35 (talk) 05:26, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Inner City Chicago

message: *http://www.chas.uchicago.edu/healthdata/atlas/ca42.html
*http://cdhs-ycic.chapinhall.org/cap/ycic_cap_42.html
*http://www.chipublib.org/008subject/012special/wcc.html
*http://www.cagis.uic.edu/commarea/carepts/carept_42.txt
Hello,
I've lived in Woodlawn a long, long time and I wonder about the article's references to "improvement" in Woodlawn. *In the part of the neighborhood adjoining the University of Chicago,* it is true that crime has dropped, and that students are no longer officialy discouraged from living here.  But that's mostly because of the University Police patrolling that area, and because wealthier, often white professional families are moving in.  Gentrification here is not a unilateral "improvement." The shrinking of the rental housing market and the rise in property taxes have been displacing a lot of longtime, lower-income African American residents.  Affordable housing is now in even shorter supply.
Marykderr 00:46, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Where it could go
Talk:Yawn

message: can we include that your voice gets deeper when yawning Dinoroki (talk) 20:27, 10 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  deep voice  

message: There were a few statements in the section about empathy that weren't sourced, particularly related to whether autistic people struggle with empathy.
I added citation needed tags, but I'm not an experienced Wikipedian so feel free to remove them if they aren't relevant.
Also, I feel like it's unclear what kind of empathy is being discussed. Squoop (talk) 11:17, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Relation to empathy" citations.
Talk:1825

message: This has really helped me a lot with a report i am doing on the year 1825, thanks so much for you wonderful info, i didnt copy it but i used the info in my own way, thanks again -marissa
:I have made some year layout proposals which would affect a significant proportion of the year pages: an example of proposed style is 1850. It is detailed on my talk page.
:If no-one flags where I have put the discussion on my talk page that they object in a month I will start making everything consistent. It may take some time... --BozMo 10:05, 7 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: :: [See: Talk:1850#Format.  -Wikid77 06:55, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Format