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Talk:Closed captioning

message: The symbols ⚞ and ⚟ appears in the Unicode block for Miscellaneous Symbols.  The wikilinks ⚞ and ⚟ redirect to this article, but the article itself nothing whatsoever to explain what ⚞ and ⚟ are or any other information about these glyphs.  I request either that this information necessary information (preferably with references) be added to this article, or the redirects changed to lead to a more appropriate article. - Gilgamesh (talk) 13:39, 21 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect for Unicode characters ⚞ and ⚟
Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries/April

message: I think someone has been screwing with these. If not, many are unintentionally hilarious. --Helenalex (talk) 04:07, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  I do believe that Wikipedia should cancel the April Fools traditions this year out of respect to the Coronavirus victims. SpinnerLaserz (talk) 21:30, 31 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  1 April 

message: Why was Easter removed from the front page in OTD? - Therealscorp1an (talk) 22:56, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Easter
Talk:Flint and steel fire

message: Please explain why this needs to be an article distinct from Campfire.  In this self-admittedly skeletal form, it already duplicates some of the content there.  Flint and steel is just another way to light fires.  You can write an article on the method itself if you want (but do try to avoid How-to-ness), but IMHO a "flint and steel fire" is just another campfire. --Smack 06:06, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Talk:M. Night Shyamalan

message: The recently added section is a complete rewrite of 's section titled "Racism". While there is material in the sources added discussing racism, there was significant other material which one of the two sources identified as being part of the criticism of Shyamalan's career. I've [added some discussion to Stillwater's talk page, explaining a few problems I had identified and invited additional work on the section.
That said, the material in "Criticism" is rather oddly placed and probably should be merged into the existing "Critical analysis" (discussing a director and their work frequently blends and, to an extent, confuses the two). I'm asking for Stillwater's take on the new material (and others') before combining the two. - SummerPhDv2.0 23:16, 10 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  New "Criticism" section 

message: Hey, there used to be a section on this in the Talk page, not sure if it was archived or where it went. But just heads up, per MOS:Ethnicity specifications for biography leads, place of birth, previous nationalities, and/or ethnicity are not included in the lead unless directly relevant to notability. Specifically, the nationality rules for bio leads are: "In most modern-day cases this will be the country of which the person is a citizen, national or permanent resident, or if the person is notable mainly for past events, the country where the person was a citizen, national or permanent resident when the person became notable." This subject's notability occurred in the United States as a U.S. citizen only, as India does not permit dual citizenship. Furthermore, his primary/foremost notability is as a producer/director, not due to his Indian heritage or birthplace. Therefore he is most aptly described as "American", not "Indian-American". We also discuss his heritage just a few lines down from the first sentence, so it's not like we are not acknowledging it up-front. Apoorva Iyer (talk) 16:28, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Whether or not India permits dual citizenship is irrelevant as to whether someone can be described as "Indian American, as that term is frequently used to describe an American with ancestry from India. However, I'd agree with you that it doesn't belong in the short description; it's sufficient to mention Shyamalan's birthplace as the article already does. OhNoitsJamie Talk 13:37, 26 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree @OhnoitsJamie Stephanie921 (talk) 05:01, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ethnicity and/or place of birth in the lead 

message: he adopted "Night" as his second name.
This would be his middle name, would it not? Second name is synonymous with surname. I was going to change it, but I'm aware that while the US and the UK share a language, they do not share a single culture.
Nuttyskin (talk) 23:43, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Second name?
Talk:Lithuanian language

message: 1) That doesn't go along with the 1528 army census where the vast majority of soldiers from Grodno, Lida, Molodechno, even from Vilkamir, have slavic names-lastnames.
2) Why do you call language spoken by balts in XVI century a lithuanian languageg, when foreigners usualy referred to state language of GDL as lithuanian language?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.64.70.193 (talk) 22:57, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  areas where Lithuanian was dominant language (XVI map in the article) 

message: "By studying place names of Lithuanian origin, linguist Jan Safarewicz concluded that the eastern boundaries of Lithuanian used to be in the shape of zigzags through Grodno, Shchuchyn, Lida, Valozhyn, Svir, and Braslaw."
All these names are of genuine Slavic origin, no Lithuanian.
And "Safarewicz's eastern boundaries were moved even further to the south and east by other scholars" ;-)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.233.220.41 (talk) 07:13, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zigzags of lithuanian linguistics
Talk:Wang Wei (Tang dynasty)

message: Some of what was on this page (WW the poet) was the same as http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/W/WangW1ei.asp (also on some other sites), which says it's copyright "Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, Copyright (c) 2004."
I've edited out or rephrased those bits, but it's something to bear in mind if any of it is re-added. 
The page I've linked to from the southern school doesn't actually mention it, but it should. 
I'm suspicious of the phrase "The few surviving paintings attributed to him "; as far as I know all we have are a few dodgy copies.
Markalexander100 09:00, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I've also seen a source that lists his birth and death dates as 699 and 759. I'll change that now. I Feel Tired (talk) 18:19, 20 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Would there be any objection to moving this article to Wang Wei (8th-century poet)? Since 8th and century are working together as a compound adjective before the noun poet, it should be hyphenated. Wang Wei (8th century poet) would remain as a redirect to the new title. If there's a consensus, or at least no objection, I'll make the move in about a week. Thank you. SchreiberBike (talk) 05:14, 19 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''(8th century poet)'' to ''(8th-century poet)'' 
Talk:Diffusionism

message: Hi. I don't know anything about this stuff. I just felt that a claim such as...
For example pyramids appear in Egypt and Meso-America. But despite the efforts to prove otherwise by diffusionists such as Thor Heyerdahl, the evidence is that they developed quite separately.'
...could use some evidence. From the perspective of an outsider, knowing nothing about the subject, this looks like hand waving.
Is there any reason this page couldn't be incorporated into Diffusion (anthropology)?  The examples we have on this page are essentially anthropological.--TurabianNights 23:00, 27 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've gone ahead and redirected, for the time being, at least.  This article was poorly written and did not address anything the Diffusion (anthropology) article doesn't.--TurabianNights 23:47, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Livilla

message: This redirect is confusing.  Livilla is usually meant to be Livia Julia (~13 B.C. - 31 A.D.), granddaughter of Livia (Livia Drusilla or Livia Augusta), wife of Gaius Caesar (the son of Agrippa). No pages link to this one, but it is a problem when searching directly for Livilla.  Could this page be removed, please.
CharlesS 09:19, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: If you'd like it deleted, you should list it on Wikipedia:Redirects for deletion. Presuming nobody objects, the redirect eventually will be deleted after a week or so. -- Hadal 09:24, 14 Mar 2004 (UTC)

text: There are no multiple Livillas, or at least all the references to Livilla in the Wikipedia point to the same person which is not Livia.  I have now changed this redirect to become a separate article about Livilla.CharlesS 01:08, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I have in mind a Roman naming convention proposal that will hopefully clear up some of the confusion, gotta write it down soon. Stan 05:09, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)

text: I looked at the history of the Livilla page (I should have done so to start!): Before the Livilla page was turned into a redirect it was a stub which, short as it was, had all the correct information.  Except that the link to Livilla's second husband, commonly referred to as just Drusus, went straight to Nero Claudius Drusus (brother of Tiberius) instead of Drusus (Drusus Junior or Julius Ceasar Drusus, son of Tiberius) and for whom I think there is no page.  So the real confusion is perhaps caused by the use of the name Drusus for the page on Nero Claudius Drusus.CharlesS 09:50, 19 Mar 2004 (UTC)

text: This is now fixed :) Adam Bishop 05:07, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I have checked Dictionary.com reference guide, done Google search and I can't find an explanation of the expression "blossom years". What does this mean and can you rephrase so more people will know what is being talked about? 69.125.134.86 (talk) 22:51, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strange idiom
Talk:Rimutaka Incline

message: I assert ownership of the above paragraph. (Wikipedia sucks, they should stop automatically logging you out without warning) PatrickDunfordNZ (talk) 06:41, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Try using Preview before clicking Save to make sure you are still logged in.  – Matthew25187 (talk) 22:25, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article tagged for possible copyright problems 

message: Correction: the book "A Line of Railway" is not referenced in the article. The book "Rimutaka Railway", which it does reference, was not actually authored by W N Cameron; it draws on the content of the original book, but was compiled from that publication by another author. PatrickDunfordNZ (talk) 06:48, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article tagged for possible copyright problems 

message: As of late, I found some ideas for the railway as seen: Fell Garratt Gear Garratt Incline garratt Garratt and a Climax Garratt  — Preceding unsigned comment added by SomeWeeb+trains (talk • contribs) 21:09, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed locomotives
Talk:Mouvement Souveraineté-Association

message: After numerous verifications, Mouvement Souveraineté-Association appears to be the correct spelling. It is spelled like that on the history section of the Parti Québécois Website and it was spelled like that on all official PQ documents. The confusion arose from the fact that normally, in the French language, only the first letter of a title is capitalized. All other letters are lower case, except for proper nouns. In the Radio-Canada online archives, it is spelled Mouvement souveraineté-association. -- Mathieugp 14:43, 20 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitals
Talk:Meir Har-Zion

message: Whilst the facts of this article may for all I know be true, they are written in what reads to me a distinctly anti-Sharon way, leading me to suspect that they are not written from a neutral point of view. Logically we should at least hear from the Sharon camp? Or is it indisputable that Meir Har-Zion is the Israeli Rambo, and Sharon a surrender monkey?
:The article is basically crap and will be replaced by a proper biography when I get the time (or someone else does). --Zero 10:45, 16 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: I moved this quote below off the main article. While the quote describes may him, it doesn't give any situational background or explains why. It may or may not be mis-representative of him. Need more information.
"laconically killing Arab soldiers, peasants, and townspeople in a kind of fury without hatred." [1] Elon, The Israeli Founders, Fathers and Sons, P241
:: Morris gives this quote referenced to Elon p.234. I will check in due course. Padres Hana (talk) 11:15, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference 

message: Anyone else think this article is a little fluffed up? A "military commando" but only served 3 years! Not to mention the toothpick arms. This guy's a clear-cut REMF. 24.190.209.14 (talk) 04:21, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Over-exaggeration
Talk:Survivor: The Australian Outback

message: Might I suggest that the wikilinks Survivor Australia and Survivor: Australia be redirected to Australian Survivor, given that the Australian version of the format has been revived for broadcast in 2016. People searching Survivor Australia will be redirected here to the second season of the American version, when the overwhelming majority will be wanting articles about the Australian version of the show. -- Whats new?(talk) 04:44, 27 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggest Survivor Australia redirect 

message: There is a proposal at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Television/Survivor task force#Jury vote tables to list the vote totals in the same order as the names in the finalist row immediately above the vote totals. All interested editors are invited to join that discussion.  Since the Survivor task force appears to be inactive, I'm notifying Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Television/Reality television task force and the talk pages for each Survivor season in order to reach interested editors.  Schazjmd (talk) 16:36, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Survivor jury vote table discussion
Wikipedia talk:Arbitration/Archive 2.1

message: Bravo for coming up with a clear and fair policy (not that I had doubts you would).  I am sure we could quibble all day long on minor issues, but the core of it is, I believe the policies here are fair and will result in fair arbitration.  Whether or not it is "optimal" is not the point (I say this in an attempt to forestall an interminal argument here over the minutiae of the policy) -- it is good, and that's what I want.  Thank you.  Jwrosenzweig 00:32, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks Jw. If a few more people respond along similar lines, we should be able to get onto a solid basis pretty soon. :) Martin 01:35, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Looks good

message: Instead of the word "trial", perhaps a better term would be "hearing"? The first word implies that law is being meted out, while the second does not imply that, & is less formal or intimidating. After all, the worst the Arbitration Committee can is ban someone  from Wikipedia, not to deprive that person of life, liberty or property. -- llywrch 03:18, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: That sounds like a good idea, Llywrch. I'll make the change. Martin 21:15, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. Now to change the words in the body. (I'd do it myself, but I don't want to set a precedent for non-Arbitration folks messing witht he meta page.) -- llywrch 00:25, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Done it (I think, unless I missed some). --Camembert 00:34, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Terminology

message: I wish to call for a purge of the arbitration committee. All active members have demonstrated partiality, and three in particular have been so derelict that nothing short of their immediate expulsion or resignation would be acceptable.
Before I take the trouble to spell out the charges, however, I would like to be told where such complaints should be filed. Shorne 19:54, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Purge required 

message: The current  Arbitration archives looks like it is mostly organized for the benefit and convenience of the Arbitrators. Having dug through those archives so that I could get a better idea of how the Arbitration Committee makes their decisions, and what those decisions might be, I know that it is a tough slog through the archives. It would be great to have some sort of more organized summary of the Arbitration decisions. Creating this summary would be a great way for a couple of the Members Advocates (such as User:Imaglang) to become more familiar with the Arbitration Committee's decisions. It would be nice if the decisions were grouped by the type of decision, and then some sort of template created so that each dispute could be easy understood, with links to the Dispute, Talk, Evidence, and Proposed decision pages, rather than the much condensed format that the Arbitration archives uses. I am also going to put a copy of this suggestion on the talk page for the Assoc. of Members' Advocates. gK ¿? 10:24, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: A suggestion for a summary page of Arbitration Committee decisions
Talk:Aria of chianti classico

message: ----
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I come from Germany.
This articles ist my first article in English. I would like to add myself:
I would like to translate slowly my article from German into English that is difficult.
Would you like to help me for this article.
I'm looking for further informations, because I spend often times my holiday in Tuscany.
--Pz-engl 19:19, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, Pz-engl, your text should go under Chianti. people will find it better there. Wetman 17:48, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi Wetman,
thank you for your answer. This text doesn't mean the vine. It is the countryside of this vine. I would like to add a link to Aria of chianti classico
--Pz-engl 17:59, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/User conduct/Archive

message: I see this was suggested above but never done. I think older discussions should be moved to subpages linked from the main page, as is done on pretty ,much every other page like this. Any objections? Beeblebrox (talk) 23:34, 9 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, per WP:SILENCE I am going to create archives and begin moving older discussions into them. I'm thinking the first one will be all the unformatted stuff from the bottom of the list, then the rest split by year, leaving only 2012 and 2013, with the idea that each year be archived no earlier than July of the next year so more recent discussions are still very easy to find. While I'm at it this page could stand to be archived as well... Beeblebrox (talk) 18:40, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: . Beeblebrox (talk) 19:50, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  split this monstrosity 

message: This was mentioned way back in 2006 when the table was introduced and I think, if anyone is paying attention, that it might be worth discussing again. What is the reasoning behind listing the certifiers? If a user is curious about who it was they can easily click the link and see, and doing the formatting for th etable is annoying enough without it. I propose that a cut-off date be established and that after that date we start a new table that does not require this parameter.  Beeblebrox (talk) 20:47, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: You know what, I've got one to archive right now, I don't want to do the extra part that is a pain in the ass, and I don't believe a consensus was ever established to require this field in the first place. Since it seems like nobody is watching this page anyway I am changing the format right now so that the certifier's names are no longer a required field. Beeblebrox (talk) 20:35, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: . Beeblebrox (talk) 20:44, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  listing the certifiers 

message: I'm surprised to see the relatively few cases listed here and was wondering if this was still an active area of Wikipedia. Are people bypassing RfU and just going straight to ANI now? Might this be a duplication of effort that is part and parcel of any bureaucracy? Newjerseyliz (talk) 15:00, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Usefulness
Talk:High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program

message: We only get told another Alaskan haarp facility and they act like it is only a single research facility now in the hands of the university but actually there are many many haarp sites around the world. Can you find one in your country. 49.197.220.108 (talk) 08:01, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I have found 4 so far in Australia but have been told there maybe a couple more. 49.197.220.108 (talk) 08:05, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

text: There's only one HAARP facility. However, there's 2 ionospheric research facilities in other countries that are active. 172.58.182.49 (talk) 03:51, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Only one or many  

message: There are some dead links I've found while browsing the page: links to the references 36 and 40, in the conspiracy theory section. What do we do about this ? There's probably more, since some of them are dated to the 90's, but I haven't checked them all. Would be a good idea to do that, and fix the dead links. Scarletwisp (talk) 09:26, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I have fixed one here. It's easy: search the story title and byline on Google, or try the Wayback machine. Replace the url in the citation. - LuckyLouie (talk) 13:16, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead links
Talk:George W. Bush/Archive 4

message: I think the links are somewhat POV. There are way more links that call Bush a Chimp, etc. than there are simple informational or Republican-biased links. I myself have a Republican/Moderate (See my User page) POV, but I certainly don't force them on everybody else by adding links to Bill Clinton's page. I think we should start a cleanup of this article (or at least the links section). Ilyanep 23:54, 27 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: We aren't resonsible for external links and don't need to guarantee that they're NPOV. If they're oppositional, we can label them as such. Of course, we don't want too many links...--Jiang 04:16, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)

text: Agree with Jiang.  This article has plenty of content; having a large number of links is OK.  If you want to add more pro-Bush links, feel free; taking some out would not be productive, in my opinion. Meelar 05:24, 28 Jan 2004 (UTC)

message: I feel that any section we have on this is going to be even more POV, as 
# None of us know him
# It's really hard to be objective, even if we did know him
It doesn't really add that much to the article either, being somewhat non sequitur (spelling?).  I'm going to remove it. Meelar 19:34, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Personality

message: Is it just me, or does anybody else think like 10 links for that cocaine issue is ridiculous?
It's not just you.  RickK 06:28, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cocaine
Talk:Lonely Mountain

message: Despite being nominated for deletion (or redirect), this article still exists. I'd like to see more description of its outward appearance and inside features. 
#There is a secret entrance, which Bilbo finds with help from a bird and a special sunset
#It was inhabited by a dragon and contained an immense hoard of gold. This hoard sparked a war after the dragon was no longer alive.
#What happened after the treasure was distributed, and the Dwarves restored it to its former glory? --Uncle Ed (talk) 15:09, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
Talk:X86

message: The overview of the processor registers uses bad colors, that are not clear enough for color vision deficiency. Actually, the first few colors look like they come straight from a color vision test.
Also the organization is not intuitive.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.219.179.13 (talk) 16:09, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad colors for processor registers
Talk:Bronze Age

message: How can the Copper Age replace the Stone Age?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.0.233.134 (talk) 21:18, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: That’s weird. I have never heard of the “Copper Age”. Should this be replaced? 2001:569:5657:1000:EC90:F2E8:7CC2:86DE (talk) 22:35, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a term used in some periodizations of some regions. Remsense诉 02:24, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Huh?