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Wikipedia talk:Block on demand

message: The second bullet under "Pro" reads "The frequent attempts by admins to block themselves suggests that there may a significant number of users who would like to have enforced wiki-vacations."  This proposed policy would have no effect as far as enforcing an admin wiki-vacation.  Admins can unblock themselves at any time.  The only thing keeping a blocked admin from editing is integrity (and the threat of community backlash).  I can't see anyone telling an admin they couldn't return to fight vandals simply because "You said you wanted to remain blocked for two more weeks."  SWAdair | Talk  10:10, 16 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Strike the second Pro

message: I see this proposal has been dead for over 7 years now and I would like to revisit the idea.  I've read the pros and cons of it and had a thought.  What if instead of "block"ing the user upon their request, the admin instead edited the users common.js and added the wikibreak-enforcer script for them.  Wouldn't this in essence have the same effect for 97% of users and requests? A script could be created for admins to be able to visit any of the user's pages and click the dropdown and select "EnforceWB" or something.  Good idea?  I look forward to input from admins and others here! Technical 13 (talk) 15:07, 13 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  HELLO HELLo HEllo Hello hello..... 

message: Thank you for cutting out a lot of stuff, Floquenbeam, and making the page simpler to understand. I've removed the rest of it. Well, not quite, but I've slashed the historical stuff because I thought it was merely confusing for people seeking information about how to proceed. ("The proposal was rejected? Isn't it allowed after all?") Feel free to revert if you disagree. Bishonen | talk 00:57, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Aw, I was considering adding a history section to many policy/guideline pages, explaining how we got to where we are today. Well, not actually considering doing it, but considering how cool it would be if someone else did the work and then I could read it. --Floquenbeam (talk) 15:21, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: The page is shrinking. Concise is king!

message: With current blocking policy, it's technically possible for users to get the Arbitration Committee or Jimbo Wales to lift their self-requested block, if neither the blocking administrator nor other admins (usually) will lift the block on request. Should we publicize this fact, or should we keep it a secret like it is now? Gparyani (talk) 18:11, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  ArbCom or Jimbo can theoretically lift self-requested blocks
Talk:Independiente de Bigand

message: I've researched a little bit about this club, and it turns out to be a sports club in a small town 70 Milometres from Rosario. They play different amateur leagues (football, voleyball), but I couldn't any reason to consider it notorious in any way.
The most remarcable thing is that angel Tulio Zof coached them in 1963 and 1964!
Should I request a Vote for Deletion? --Marianocecowski 09:03, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Should this be in Wikipedia?
Talk:Catch 22 (band)

message: I thought that they are a ska-punk band, perhaps even a third wave ska band in some albums, thus I wonder if they should be listed as a ska band. Even their myspace page states that they play ska/punk/reggae. A true ska band would select ska/ska/ska.
Should it be changed?
Agameofchess (talk) 02:59, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Ska or ska-punk or third wave ska?

message: This article needs a rewrite because it is blatantly factually incorrect and also includes fan speculation as fact. I plan to rewrite it myself but if you know what you are doing and want to feel free. Also please first check the work in progress section of my user page as I may have started to write an improvement and not had time to finish it so dumped it there, and you might be able to work off of what I have done so far. Ian Moody 09:20, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewrite

message: In the interview at http://www.angelfire.com/sk2/catch22/a/int6.html, it says the following: 
"Basically, when the Catch 22 demo came out -- the first demo -- about a year and a half ago, we sent a million of them out.  Tomas sent them out to labels he got off the internet. You know, smaller labels. He came upon a small label called Toybox Records. It turns out that the owner and the guy that run's Toybox Records, works for Victory in their art department. He played the tape and it happened that the president of Victory heard the tape through, actually, the wall. He heard it and said "I really like this, I'd really like to sign these guys."  He called us up, faxed Tom something, and within a month it was set and we signed the contract and it was over."
That's considerably more interesting than what's currently in the article, but is this a credible enough source to warrant a change in the article?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.241.75.121 (talk) 23:16, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: How they got signed to Victory

message: I've never seen any facts to support that and if I remember correctly, catch 22 was with Victory records for the whole time they were a band, excluding the "Rules of The Game" demo which was released before RISC started. Unless there is facts to support this, I think it is safe to remove the "RISC" tag from the "labels" tab. But I'll search the article before that happens.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by SkaPunkMan89 (talk • contribs) 00:14, 7 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Catch 22 with RISC?
Talk:Usa

message: This makes no sense. "usa" should redirect to United States as that is a far more common search than Oita Usa, lowercase or not. Peter 17:25, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I updated it to redirect to USA (disambiguation), which seems to cover just about everything. --Grinning Fool 19:50, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The apparent consensus for US was to have that redirect to United States and to have three disambiguation pages: US, USA, and United States listed at the top of that article. The United States is just so much more notable than all of the other things on that list that it makes sense. If you take a look at WP:NAME, it instructs us to think about what most users are looking for when they type a term into their search bar. Please do not change this back without consensus. savidan(talk) (e@) 06:19, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair enough, but (for future reference) where can I find info on this kind of consensus? I looked under Talk:US, and under Talk:United States, but no luck...--Grinning Fool 20:32, 9 May 2006 (UTC)

text: I am changing it back to linking to United States because that is what most users are looking for when searching 'usa'. There is a disambiguation page at the top of the target article if you were, in fact, looking for something else. BhamBoi (talk) 03:48, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirect target

message: Shouldn't one of the highest used redirect pages be protected? Easily subject to vandalism and cant harm to put a semi-protect on it. 92bob (talk) 04:05, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: was viewed 1,775 times last week.  For comparison,  had 2,739,379 views.  The page has been vandalised once in the last three years.  We don't normally protect in such circumstances but, if you feel it's necessary, WP:RFPP is the place to ask. Certes (talk) 10:30, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protection
Talk:Wing Gambit

message: The Tartakower book was translated into engish, the title is "A breviary of chess".
Lynxup07 (talk) 07:24, 19 April 2011 (UTC)

message: Under that definition, surely the Benko Gambit counts, and is not rare. Double sharp (talk) 19:58, 11 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: That's true, you are so sharp! ;) --Little bishop (talk) 00:24, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Or in which Black plays ...b5, but Wing Gambits offered by Black are very rare" 

message: A wing gambit is a generic gambit on a side (wing) of the board, capitalization is not required and lead to confusion. The expression cannot be limited only to the b4 and b5 squares: in fact Krejcik Gambit and Hobbs Gambit are wing gambits too.
In the Sicilian Defense there is a "Wing Gambit Variation" as in other openings we can find an "Advance Variation" or an "Exchange Variation" or "Fianchetto Variation", "Classical Variation", "Modern Variation"... Just generic names.
English Wikipedia capitalizes every possible chess variation and I am fine with that, but when we talk about a generic wing gambit I cannot see the reason for the uppercase. --Little bishop (talk) 00:17, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  wing gambit (No Uppercase)
Talk:Bramble

message: The etymology needs to be included.174.3.125.23 (talk) 07:08, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology
Talk:Longus

message: I don't want to immediately edit this page (though if no interest/argument is made against my doing so, I shall), but surely the entry for Daphnis and Chloe should be entirely separate from this entry on Longus himself (much as with Xenophon of Ephesus and his Ephesian Tale)? -> Wiper 17:18, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, and as this posting has attracted no comment, am proceeding on that basis. Neddyseagoon - talk 17:41, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Two Articles in One?

message: This article appears to have been copied from http://54.1911encyclopedia.org/L/LO/LONGUS.htm. The content on that page comes from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica. The terms of use on the website say:
"Although linking to this site is encouraged, reproducing Contents on another site or redistributing Contents is forbidden. Taking Contents from this site and editing it and posting it on another site is forbidden and will result in swift legal action. You may not copy, modify, publish, transmit, participate in the transfer or sale of, reproduce, create new works from, distribute, perform, display, or in any way exploit, any of the Contents of this site in whole or in part."
—MementoVivere 09:59, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You only get a copyright on the material if you add creative input; that website didn't. It is not in any way shape or form a copyright violation. I doubt that license would hold as binding in the US, and even if it did, it would only bind the copier, not Wikimedia.--Prosfilaes (talk) 01:50, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyright violation
Talk:East Renfrewshire (UK Parliament constituency)

message: There are three other constituencies to be moved in the same way - please discuss all of them together at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject UK Parliament constituencies#Constituency_names. sjorford →•← 16:04, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it is the same constituency with no boundary changes - see  (note that the detail is in a PDF file). I assume therefore that the SP constituency does have the same boundaries. sjorford →•← 16:06, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Most significant bit

message: Lately I've started seeing another usage of MSB == "Main Stream Blogosphere".
See for instance 
http://outsidethewhale.blogspot.com/2005/04/drudges-lament-dispatches-from-msb.html
http://www.tnr.com/blog/theplank?pid=4284 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Infrogmation (talk • contribs) 9:32, 10 June 2005‎
:That would belong on the MSB disambiguation page, not here, as it's not relevant to significant bits or bytes. Guy Harris (talk) 01:35, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternate meaning of MSB 

message: It's possible to mathematically calculate the greater of two numbers using the MSB without having to use code branching:
If Y is greater than X then Y-X will have an MSB of 0
If X is greater than Y then Y-X will have an MSB of 1
Therefore (Y x NOT(MSB(Y-X)))+ (X x MSB(Y-X)) will return the larger number.
Proof:
3 - 2 = 1, MSB(3-2) = 0, NOT(MSB(3-2)) = 1, therefore (3 x NOT(MSB(3-2))) + (2 x MSB(3-2)) = 3 x 1 + 2 x 0 = 3
Have fun with that!!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.120.253.12 (talk) 16:12, 5 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Furthermore

message: The binary example image at the right states: "The msb in an 8-bit binary number represents a value of 128 decimal."
Should this read "The msb in an 8-bit unsigned binary number..."?  I know the word unsigned is mentioned earlier, but it would make sense to use it here as well (to me).
--Iaindb (talk) 05:49, 12 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsigned? 

message: Might be worthwhile noting the historic use of MSB in storing negative numers digitally, now replaced by Two's Complement. Another bit would be added to a number (on the left, effectively a new MSB) and would be used to indicate polarity; 0 for positive, 1 for negative.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by A - J - Hadley (talk • contribs) 23:01, 12 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: That's signed magnitude notation; in two's complement, and ones complement, notation, the MSB acts as a sign bit as well. Guy Harris (talk) 01:40, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Use of MSB in negative calculations
Talk:Scott Armstrong (wrestler)

message: * Scott James or Scott Armstrong? Elpaw 10:32, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Device Manager

message: I am still confused about device manager  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.76.130.54 (talk) 10:35, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I just performed a major edit adding information on how to start the Device Manager in 2000/XP with the command prompt and batch files, and how to use these to use the non-present devices setting. However I am not a frequent wiki editor, so the format needs some work as well as some wording/tone. Additionally, some fact checking need be done on what I said about ANSI and batch files. Additionally, it is unknown for which windows versions other than XP this information applies.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.226.250.63 (talk) 00:25, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Hidden Settings Section, Batch and Command Invocation

message: The display of non-present devices is very useful, especially with the plethora of COM port devices created every time you plug in a USB device into your PC!
In Vista:
Control Panel > System > Advanced System Settings
Click on Environment Variables Button
Create a new System Variable
  Variable name:    devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices
  Variable value:   1
Close and restart Device Manage, Show Hidden Devices and non-present devices are visible 'greyed out'.
Taken from http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=867
The comments indicate this process should also work in XP SP3 and Windows 7.
In Windows 2000 - see http://support.microsoft.com/kb/241257
Andru Witta (talk) 02:26, 23 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Non-Present Devices
Talk:1588

message: Within births and within deaths submitted under year '1588', please re-check to see if there really was a 'Robert Crowley' born on June 18, 1588 and another 'Robert Crowley' who passed away on the very same day? 
I suspect the reported death on that day is accurate as an article to substantiate the existence of this 'Robert Crowley' who passed away on this day is already listed. 
Was there really another 'Robert Crowley' born on this day?
63.228.163.7 16:50, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Robert Crowley(s)... one born and one died on same day in 1588? 

message: Sometime during this year Philip II, King of Spain, launched a major defensive plan in the Carribean involving many new forts and repairs on old ones. Can someone give an exact date for this, or even put it in the article? If so, I'd appreciate that. Look up Osprey's Fortress series, "The Spanish Main 1492 - 1800" for help if you need to.
With thanks,78.16.154.188 (talk) 19:56, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fortification Plan of 1588
Talk:Regirock

message: I have changed the comments on the description of each of the Regis looking like androids, to robots.  I made this choice by the simple fact that the word "android" implies that they somehow look strikingly human.  The Regis do not, by any means, look like humans.  MasterXiam 21:59, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Android/Robot

message: The name should come from "resist" instead of "regis" or whatever it is. The name is in Japanese, so it would be natural for them to use a word that an average Japanese would know, instead of some Latin word which not much people understand. Unless there is some evidence from the game/official website saying otherwise, it should be changed to "resist". Louis 06:27, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  レジ (Regi)
Talk:D&B Hoovers

message: Declaration of interest: I am a long-time Hoover's employee. The purpose of this proposed change to this entry is to offer more information on the subject and to improve the balance of the current article. (E.g. in the context of such a short article, the reference to Hoover's UK would make it seem like a particularly important development, when in fact Hoover's UK was and is a tiny part of Hoover's business.)
I invite comment from Wikipedia editors on whether the proposed complete text (below) meets standards for references, neutral point of view, and anything else you think is germane.  Regards, Timwalkerjr 23:11, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for comment: Expanding Hoover's entry
Talk:Ladies' man

message: This article is pretty bad -- I'm gonna rewrite it. --Michaelkpabst 22:55, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Please do. This is a mess of NPOV, no sources, and just irrelevant junk. The real content should be moved to a separate page and this should just be a disambiguation page. --24.184.72.20 02:46, 19 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewrite

message: This disambiguation page was created due to the following VfD debate:
Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Ladies man. Sjakkalle 11:33, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Disambiguation

message: The man does not belong to the ladies, so the apostrophe is not needed. A beer man, a wine man, a tits man, a ladies man.213.254.90.177 21:37, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Grammatically, the phrase refers to a man of the ladies, thus requires the posessive (genitive, not possessive) apostrophe. See Encarta, Oxford English Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, and American Heritage Dictionary. All use the possessive apostrophe. Sanguinity 22:20, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: …nonetheless, Ladies man redirects here.
209.212.1.114 (talk) 22:21, 24 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Superfluous apostrophe
Talk:Hydrate

message: {Chemical drawing needed} - Notice removed as drawing has been added. Dirac66 03:07, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Drawing

message: "The opposite of a hydrate is an anhydrate, such substances contain no water or form no water upon heating." I am pritty sure they can from water from heating but, but the prosses is ireversible, for instance when sucrose caramleizes.
I have now rewritten this sentence to include the possibility of loss of further water upon strong heating.  Dirac66 19:49, 28 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Opposite of hydrate

message: As far as the removal of the reference box: I also did not see a book or a website reference, but this is pretty basic chemistry. The references to construction, passive fire protection, refractories, such as sodium silicate and space physics are all internal to Wikipedia by now. As far as the hydration energy, there is more than one way to look at that. If you look at the topic of heat of hydration in cement chemistry, as well as the energy it takes to liberate hydrates, which thus takes energy photons away from the fire or the heat that is experienced during atmosspheric re-entry, it will shed light on the subject matter.--Achim 22:29, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Recent Edit For Fire Protection and Construction Issues

message: Or perhaps factories?  OlavN 07:21, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Refractories?

message: There is a section on terminology, but I think it would be useful to indicate how hydrates are named eg penta- decca etc. anyone else agree a brief list of the why and wherefore would be useful.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Merlin-UK (talk • contribs) 13:29, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: There was a list of numerical prefixes (mono, di, tri, etc.) in the inorganic section. I have added the corresponding numbers to make it clearer. Dirac66 (talk) 18:58, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Maybe useful here or at water of Crystalisation
Talk:Uvarovite

message: Uvarovite dose not tracer mineral in the search for diamonds because it dose not commonly occurs with diamond in kimberlite pipes.
Commonly occurs with diamond in kimberlite pipes pyrope, with hight Knoringit content - red garnet. for example see:
http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/diamonds/indicator.html
Stepanovas 12:01, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Both uvarovite and knorringite (high Cr pyrope) are used as kimberlite indicator mins. Vsmith 17:09, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: As I put on the diamond talk page, I tend to agree that Uvarovite isn't a common indicator for garnets (but chromian pyrope and knorringite are). There has been a lot of misuse of the term 'uvarovite' to cover any chromian garnet, many old references carry this error, and claim 'uvarovite' from all sorts of places. Most such samples tested have been proven NOT to be uvarovite, but to be either pyropes or grossulars. Uvarovite itself is a rare mineral really restricted to metamorphosed ultrabasic rocks where there has been some mechanism for the input of calcium ions during the alteration process, such as at Sarany in the Urals, and in northern Finland. --Jolyonralph 23:11, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Uvarovit never used for searching kimberlites. I know it because I familiar with diamond prospectors and had been at diamond deposits, and searched diamonds by myself.
Diamonds searched by red as blood garnets. Green garnet in kimberlites are rare and usually are not uvarovit (I agree with Jolyonralph).
But question is not so easy. Any garnet from kimberilit contain Ca, Fe, Mg and Al , Cr (Si of course). So garnets may be considered as mixture of Uvarovite -Ca3Cr2(SiO4)3 and Pyrope - Mg3Al2(SiO4)3, but same way it may be considered as mixture of Grossularite - Ca3Al2(SiO4)3 and Knorringite Mg3Cr2(SiO4)3. Haw we should name nature garnet with difficult composition? For solving this question we must determin content of pure components Uvarovite, Pyrope et. al. In Russian mineralogy exist term minal. It is pure components in mineral which once does not exist. Composition of mineral may be evaluated different ways. Depending on method we may to receive different minals content. Determination of minals content very important in thermodynamic geochemistry. 
Stepanovas 05:10, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kimberlite pipes
Talk:Ducky

message: Despite rubber ducky being a partial title match, I believe it is still one of the most likely targets for readers who have ended up at this page. The item can be referred to as ducky or duckie, as in "Put Down the Duckie". So I'd like to suggest a local consensus to include it at the top of this page as a special case of the first point of MOS:DABORDER. Ibadibam (talk) 23:03, 6 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Rubber ducky