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Talk:Omoseye Bolaji

message: As a writer and poet based in the Free State here (South Africa) I can vouch for the accuracy of this article on writer Omoseye Bolaji. I was present when he was given the Lifetime Achievement award by our government. However I will just add ("edit") something to what writer Pule Lechesa has written on Bolaji for wikipedia (veracity of what I'll add can be simply checked on: worldcatlibraries.org) Thank you
Raselebeli Khotseng
Raselebeli Khotseng 07:09, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: It is hard to find reliable sources online for Mr. Bolaji's various awards. The South African Small Publishers' Blog seems to be one reliable third-party source, that could be linked from the article. It is not acceptable under Wikipedia rules to add comments to an article on the lines of "Please google for such and such a phrase". The sources must be referred to directly. However, there is nothing that says that sources must be available on the Internet. A reference to a South African newspaper or magazine that mentions the awards would be fine, even if the articles are not available on the Internet. --Bonadea (talk) 13:29, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: And again, articles do not have to be on the Internet to be considered sources. --Bonadea (talk) 17:59, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources
Talk:Jay Marshall (baseball)

message: A Google search returned no Kennedy High School in St. Louis. There's a John F. Kennedy Catholic High School in Manchester, MO. Could this be the HS Marshall attended? --Sanfranman59 07:13, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kennedy High School in St. Louis? 

message: Yeah he’s the best dad ever 2600:1700:9F80:16D0:11A7:4045:F029:577 (talk) 17:16, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thats my dad.
Talk:Jun ware

message: There are too many images in this article, the captions are also not done properly. There should be no more than one or two images per item that needs to be illustrated. Anyone curious to see more can go to the Commons. Gryffindor (talk) 09:44, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't agree at all re the number, and you have edited the captions to your satisfaction. Johnbod (talk) 13:15, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: You are overloading the article with images of the same type. This is in conflict with WP:IG. Gryffindor (talk) 12:40, 21 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: No it isn't. Read it. And you were specifically asked not to replace the images with dodgy retouched versions, but you have. I'll accept the one that had the string, but the others should go.  Really, can't you find something useful to do? This stalking is just wasting everybody's time.  As I'm sure you are aware, this article has been submitted to DYK so I will remove the pointy tag again, and restore the pic version used in the DYK nom, which should be used. Johnbod (talk) 10:46, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images
Talk:Tom Mitchell (Australian politician)

message: Please look at this site .  He was Attorney-General of Victoria from June 1950-Oct 1952 and Oct-Dec 1952 and Solicitor-General from June 1950-Dec 1951 and a member of its parliament from 1947 to 1976.  He was the Captain of the Australian skiing team (yes people ski in Australia), wrote several books and had a range of other accomplishments.  Yes the article sounds fantastic, but it has the merit of being true. Nick mallory 07:21, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: This is a notable person
Talk:Robert Farquharson

message: In what regards the first paragraph of this article:
I think it is rather inappropriate to refer to this man as an "Australian father", given the circunstances and the natures of his crime. "Australian convict" would make more sense, yet the the same sentence already used the word "convicted", so it might sounds repetitive. Perhaps "(...) an Australia convict" and then "sentenced" instead of "convicted"?
Just a thought.
193.63.81.79 10:30, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Father?
Talk:List of New Zealand Warriors results

message: In this article you use all the current names for stadiums (eg Jade Stadium not Lancaster Park as it was in 1996). Any particular reason? Not saying I think they should definitely be changed but just wondering if there was any reason. Mattlore 07:42, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've always thought it's best to use the name at the time, ensuring of course that the link is right. It would be difficult to find a source listing the Brisbane Broncos' first match being at Suncorp Stadium.--Jeff79 (talk) 22:47, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Stadium Names
Talk:Saalumarada Thimmakka

message: There are many sources that list here age to be more than 100 such as Hindu, NDTV,  NewsMinute (echoing the BBC age ), MidDay. In light of overwhelming sources, I'm restoring the former. - Fylindfotberserk (talk) 15:24, 27 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Age confusion
Talk:Russian–American Telegraph

message: This is merged from the original here and the Western Union Telegraph Expedition article creating this  here. Then I expanded and cleaned it up a lot and included most of the original material in some form or another. However, I could not find the source this paragraph below (or much more about the Alaska section at all, for that matter) and therefore, I am putting it here on the talk page until someone figures out what to do with it:
"However, maps indicate that the territory of Alaska was served by a telegraph line that ran along much of the original route surveyed by Kennicott in 1865-66. Hudson Stuck's 1917 map of Alaska, drawn at the scale of 1:5,000,000 or eighty miles to the inch, shows the telegraph and cable line from St. Michael to Copper Center and ending at Chitina."
Also, while I'd realized the Collins Overland telegraph was an important part of British Columbia history, I'd never researched it to this extent before and am frankly astonished at the impact that it had. If Alaska, the Yukon and Russia were equally affected, I've neglected it here, not out of any BC bias, because I simply don't have/coudn't fine the material. I think more expansion might be neccessary to properly flesh it out.CindyBotalk 12:41, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: New article after merge

message: Shouldn't this be fully capitalized, i.e. Russian-American Telegraph, which is the usual way it's seen in sources?  ditto Collins Overland Telegraph.  Can't just do the move, there's a redirect in the way....Skookum1 (talk) 01:35, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Capitalization move

message: And its predecessor, forgotten the name....the company is a somewhat different subject, i.e. as a stock venture with a board of directors, CEO etc.  That title could just be redirected here - given the full-capitalization proposed in the previous section, but it's somewhat like BC Hydro being a different article than WAC Bennett Dam; one is the company, the other the product/project....Skookum1 (talk) 01:35, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Russian American Telegraph Company]]
Talk:Iteratively reweighted least squares

message: It looks like the objective function stated at the very beginning of this article is incorrect.  The objective function given there is just a weighted sum of squared errors, which is the objective function used at each weighted least squares step of IRLS, but not the class of objective functions addressed by the algorithm.
It is also misleading to write "It solves objective functions of the form...".  It would be clearer and more accurate to instead say something like "It solves optimization problems of the form...".  That is, IRLS does not solve the objective function.  Rather, it solves the minimization problem with that objective function.  I do not feel qualified at this point to actually edit the article, but perhaps someone who does feel qualified will see this comment.  If nobody makes the edits after a while, I will decide my expertise is sufficient and try to make the edits myself.
Jasonrudy (talk) 21:13, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I solved it for the moment by taking out some words and fusing two sentences. Problems still remain: The lead is too long, should be one or two paragraphs preferably devoid of (big) formulas, one should be able to read it out loud. There is scarcely a description on how the method works, and even less on why it works, on when one can expect what kind of convergence. Which should be essential for a method that has "iterative" already in its name.--LutzL (talk) 09:57, 17 March 2014 (UTC)

text: And feel free to edit, this is not an ideologically entrenched article. Just stay encyclopedic and on topic, that is, make generous use of links for topics that are not directly core parts of the method.--LutzL (talk) 10:02, 17 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks.  I think the wording is more correct now.  However, I still think the first equation is incorrect.  For example, the L^p norm linear regression example later in the article contradicts it.  Unfortunately, I do not know the general class of problems that can be solved by IRLS.  It's something I've been trying to find out, and one of the reasons I was looking at the IRLS article in the first place.  If I do find out then I will fix the article. Jasonrudy (talk) 21:03, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong objective function?
Talk:Tucson High Magnet School

message: Tucson High is a school completely filled with history. I was a little shocked not to see anything even about the movie, "Can't Buy Me Love" with Patrick Dempsey, which was filmed at Tucson High, mostly in the Main and Vocational Building. (The Tech wasn't built yet.) I.Bleed.Audio.Blood (talk) 05:54, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: 2008 comment
Talk:Gleison Santos

message: Soccerway incorrectly listed the player in China was Gleison. Instead Celio Ferreira dos Santos was played at Shaanxi Zhongjian Chanba. He is known as 塞里奧 (Chinese pronunciation of Celio) Matthew_hk tc 18:18, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: China
Talk:Thomas H. Davenport

message: If I was writing an article about Tom Davenport I'd include
* More about Davenport's career history and trajectory
* A briefing of his role in CSC Index and the rise of business process reengineering
* His work on knowledge management and the attention economy before he moved into data analytics and AI
* A chronological listing of Davenport's book publications (you can find a partial listing of his books and papers at https://www.babson.edu/academics/faculty/faculty-profiles/thomas-davenport.php 
Lauchlanmack (talk) 05:03, 11 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  It's a pretty thin article ...
Talk:Robin Hood, West Yorkshire

message: Created this stub page so that various links could lead here rather than to Robin Hood or to Robin Hood (disambiguation).  PamD 08:55, 28 May 2007 (UTC)

message: :Could you put something in the article about it's past link with mining and quarrying, also I think it had a railway line at one time. 30 May 2007
::  I really don't know much about the area - if you've got the info, you could add it yourself perhaps?  Feel free!  PamD 14:33, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I've expanded the article slightly from my knowledge as a Robin Hood native: could have written a lot more but currently not able to provide citations, eg some locals say the village was actually named for the first pit there, in around 1800. I won't add this unless I can document it, however. Occamsghost 16:46, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggestions
Talk:Moving sofa problem

message: Is it proven that the greatest sofa possessing the described properties exists? Suppose one proves that no such sofa has an area bigger than A and on the other hand one finds a sequence of sofa's with increasing area where the areas converge to A. Then it is proven that no largest sofa of this type exists.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.235.146.47 (talk) 11:39, 13 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Existence of the sofa 

message: it's necessary to insert a reference to Dirk Gently !
:Again a great graphics addition. Thanks Rocchini! Don't understand your last remark (Dirk Gently). JocK 17:21, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Aha... this link was more informative about the connection between Dirk Gently and the problem of moving sofas. Indeed deserves a link from  the article! ;) JocK 22:43, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Douglas Adams 

message: Also, I may suggest the (rather trivial) upper limit of the 'sofa constant' by 2√2 (2.828427124...) to be included.  —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 63.196.132.64 (talk) 22:52, August 23, 2007 (UTC) 
:I don't see a reason for that being a trivial upper limit, unless you assume convexity; it does not need to be contained in a box of length 2√2 (indeed, the Hammersley sofa is longer than that).  Still, I agree that the article should mention at least a trivial upper bound, and ideally the best known upper bound (with reference).  76.201.140.116 (talk) 22:19, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Bounds

message: Judging from a peek at Guy's book, even the restriction to convex sofas is an unsolved problem; I find this surprising.  If true, then it might be worth mentioning this variant of the problem, along with known bounds.  Joule36e5 (talk) 21:59, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Variants
Talk:Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (Japan)

message: Killing of dolphins cruel an barbaric inhumane must stop 120.18.174.88 (talk) 08:29, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dolphin killings
Talk:Lithuanian orthography

message: As it must have evolved from Martynas Mažvydas' Catechism to the current alphabet (or there's an older LT written sample?). Moreover, this Catechism was based on a variety of Lithuanian language spoken at that time in Lithuania Minor and it could be that the alphabets of LT and Samogitian have the same origin from the same Catechism (or Samogitian alphabet is just a remake of LT alphabet?)...Kazkaskazkasako (talk) 09:13, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about the history of LT alphabet? 

message: This article extensively mixes LT alphabet and LT phonology. I think creation of Lithuanian phonology article would help to unmix these two different things (written language versus spoken language). Kazkaskazkasako (talk) 12:04, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another question: alphabet versus phonology? 

message: There is such statement in an article:
The consonants preceding vowels [i] and [e] are always moderately palatalized, a feature common to East Slavic languages and not present in the Latvian language.
But reference to East Slavic languages is bad here, because such a property is characteristic only for Russian. Consonats before 'e,i' in Ukrainian are nearly always not palatalized and in Belarusian it depends. So I will remove this reference if nobody complains. 195.150.224.191 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 22:15, 13 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  A little error 

message: I may be a bit over-sensitive here, but the use of the word "surprise" in relation to the collating sequence of the letter Y in the first paragraph seems to be in violation of WP:TONE and is not culturally neutral.  (A native speaker of Lithuanian would not find the collating sequence surprising.)
Language along the lines of "notable variance from Latin alphabets" may be a more culturally appropriate choice. Donperk (talk) 20:55, 3 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I have changed it to say that it is unusual, which it certainly is among Latin alphabets. Double sharp (talk) 04:10, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "...surprise..."
Talk:List of ice storms

message: I put the  boilerplate up, because I'm not sure whether I got all the articles. --Slashme 09:12, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Expand list

message: I think it makes sense not to include storms in the list that are not notable enough to have their own WP articles. --Slashme 09:12, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Inclusion criteria

message: Has anyone else heard about this?  I was actually in it; thank God for underground power.  Anyway, is it notable enough to have its own article?  It did cut a lot of power.
Also, what about the Midwestern ice storm going on as I type this?  (No, the rain is frankly not very shiny.)  Is that notable?  According to Y! News, it's cut power to 1,000,000 homes.  --68.92.140.116 (talk) 13:51, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  KC area ice storm of 2000? 

message: Is it me or do these ice storm only occur in North-America?
I cannot find anything about that in the main article about ice storms.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kanaiken (talk • contribs) 09:13, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Location
Talk:Council of Ministers (Iraq)

message: In February 2011, Iraqiyya's Raad Shallal al-Ani was named as Iraq's electricity minister - see Reuters' 13 Feb "Maliki fills power, trade, other Iraq cabinet jobs".  147.188.129.99 (talk) 09:09, 3 May 2011 (UTC)

message: You guys got the defense and interior ministers mixed up.Ericl (talk) 17:11, 12 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: How do you change ministers?
Talk:Beulah, Victoria

message: Hi all. I have removed the entire "Nazi flag" section from this article. This is as clear cut a case of WP:Wikipedia is not a newspaper as you are likely to ever see. 
:News reports. Wikipedia considers the enduring notability of persons and events. While news coverage can be useful source material for encyclopedic topics, most newsworthy events do not qualify for inclusion. For example, routine news reporting of announcements, sports, or celebrities is not a sufficient basis for inclusion in the encyclopedia. While including information on recent developments is sometimes appropriate, breaking news should not be emphasized or otherwise treated differently from other information. Timely news subjects not suitable for Wikipedia may be suitable for our sister project Wikinews. Wikipedia is also not written in news style.
Before adding back, please demonstrate on this talk page how the "Nazi flag" is of enduring notability. -- Mattinbgn (talk) 03:28, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair enough. Bacondrum (talk) 05:48, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I think a section was overkill but I do think it probably warrants mentioning: even the town's rally about it got more press coverage/public attention/taught more people that Beulah exists than the town's probably had in about the last decade. Not too bothered either way though. The Drover's Wife (talk) 22:12, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I tend to agree that some mention is warranted, it essentially put the place on the map. Such a tiny and remote town making national and international news is noteworthy - though I accept that the section was too detailed. Bacondrum (talk) 22:26, 20 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nazi flag content removed
Talk:List of diplomatic missions of Iraq

message: There is now a discussion at WP:FOR on the formatting and content of "List of diplomatic missions" articles. As this discussion ostensibly could affect this article, editors are encouraged to provide their opinions on the WP:FOR at this link - Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_International_relations#Formatting_of_diplomatic_missions_lists - please do not discuss on this article talk page as valid points for consideration may very well not be seen by editors at large. Thank you, --Russavia Dialogue Stalk me 00:20, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion at WP:FOR on formatting and content of "List of diplomatic missions" article 

message: I removed the image of Iraqs diplomatic missions because it was not accurate.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Contracontrol64 (talk • contribs) 18:39, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Image of diplomatic missions

message: Iraq has NO diplomatic missions with Saudi Arabia,Libya,Kuwait,etc.There must be some references,but I know for a fact Iraq has not established diplomatic relations with these nations.
Signed by:LonelyOx,Oct 1,2008  —Preceding unsigned comment added by LonelyOx (talk • contribs) 21:51, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  I think I will remove some nations from the list.
Talk:List of diplomatic missions of Estonia

message: The picture Estonian Embassy in Helsinki does not depict Estonian Embassy in Helsinki, which is a  building dating back to 1930s: http://www.estemb.fi/cat-439/suurlahetysto . The house on the picture in the article is one of the nearby buildings... 213.35.237.103 09:21, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Removed Kransky 02:26, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

message: There is now a discussion at WP:FOR on the formatting and content of "List of diplomatic missions" articles. As this discussion ostensibly could affect this article, editors are encouraged to provide their opinions on the WP:FOR at this link - Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_International_relations#Formatting_of_diplomatic_missions_lists - please do not discuss on this article talk page as valid points for consideration may very well not be seen by editors at large. Thank you, --Russavia Dialogue Stalk me 00:34, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion at WP:FOR on formatting and content of "List of diplomatic missions" article
File talk:Synptidude.jpg

message: Hate to say it, but it should be 'Made by my student Don Duncan and I (John Schmidt).' not 'Made by my student Don Duncan and Me (John Schmidt).' Not sure if I can chnage that sorta thing, or if its good wikiket, so I didn't. 87.112.13.209 09:41, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Cumberland Valley Railroad

message: References?
I started this by cutting down and restating the "History of Franklin County" account and then checking it against the the explorepa.com accounts, while adding details from them.  After doing this it's clear that I could have done the process in reverse - i.e. cutting down and restating the explorepa.com accounts and adding details from the "History of Franklin County."  The 2 non-linked books are from explorepa and I haven't used them directly.
My question is - should I put explicit inline references in each paragraph to the 2 sources.  It would be pretty boring (to read as well as to do), but once others start adding material it might be necessary.  Opinions?  Thanks Smallbones 09:41, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:KDE Personal Information Management

message: Isn't KJots part of KDE-Utils? See http://websvn.kde.org/branches/KDE/3.5/kdeutils/kjots/. As well in the upcomming KDE 4 it is still located in the KDE-utils module, see http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdeutils/kjots/. So is there another reason to sort it into kdepim in Wikipedia? Arnomane 09:42, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Blockade runner

message: Some of the dates a clearly wrong e.g.
* unidentified small sloop, with cotton and turpentine, lost near Fort Moultrie, Sullivan's Island, November 5, 2009.
since i have access to that book can some kind soul please correct it ? A1000 09:53, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Were there no blockade runners against the British blockade of France during the Napoleonic wars?  —208.54.87.236 (talk) 04:27, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Napoleonic wars? 

message: Any particular reason why there's no mention of the blockade runners during the Spanish Civil War? LesleyMitchell (talk) 20:09, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spanish Civil War