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Talk:Larry Hyman

message: I created this stub a while back to explain the references to Larry Hyman in Bamileke languages. I agree it doesn't say much, but on the other hand, experts on African linguistics aren't exactly two-a-penny. My feeling is that as an acknowledged expert in a field which WP covers, he deserves a place in WP. It wouldn't break my heart to lose the article though, as long as Bamileke languages was suitably adjusted..
Just to complicate things, however, I've discovered that the Bamileke languages article may be a copyvio and marked it as such. Colonies Chris 23:27, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Who is Larry Hyman?
Talk:Cantinflas/to do

message: *More information on his personal life.
At the end of the first paragraph, Caninflas is refered to ar "Reyes". In Spanish custom, his proper surname is "Moreno", that being his father's surname. This is followed by his mother's surname of "Reyes". In English custom, "Reyes" would precede "Moreno", hence the confusion.216.188.227.109 02:58, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Lola Álvarez Bravo

message: To Bookistan, thanks for adding much info, but could you please also add the reference(s) from which the information came? Thanks. Pinkville 23:58, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: Given WP:SURNAME, what name should be used for her? The article uses "Álvarez" apart from in the External Links section where "Bravo" is used. -Lopifalko (talk) 13:49, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: In Spanish names the surname is the father's family name. The 2nd surname is the mother's family name, (which is only used to identify who her parents were). She would never have been referred to by Bravo, except by an English speaker who did not understand Spanish naming customs. It is quite unusual for a woman to adopt her husband's surname as Álvarez did, so I did not use the template for Spanish name. Technically and legally, her surname was Martínez, her father's name. The formal way to depict her name would have been Lola Martínez de Anda de Álvarez Bravo; Lola Martínez (mother de Anda) (of spouse Álvarez Bravo). As she adopted her husband's name as a professional name, her surname was Álvarez. SusunW (talk) 17:48, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks SusunW. I have amended the "Bravo" in External Links. -Lopifalko (talk) 17:56, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Surname? 

message: This is has been reviewed and accepted as a Good Article. While it is great that a google doodle adds to the traffic that might come to the article, it in no way adds to her notability. It has been added and removed numerous times and the IP user above just reverted my removal of same with the notation that it has been added to other articles. To me, that is a deflection, as we aren't discussing other articles, but rather whether a google doodle adds anything to Álvarez's notability. As I don't see the point in edit wars, I am posting it here to see if there is consensus for keeping it. Pinging NinjaRobotPirate, who was the last person before me to revert addition of a Google Doodle to the article. SusunW (talk) 22:22, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a banned editor.  He'll keep coming back to edit war over it, so I've semi-protected the article. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 22:31, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you. It seems like such a trivial detail to keep adding to a file wherein notability is clearly already established. SusunW (talk) 23:11, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Google Doodle
Talk:Forge World

message: Perhaps the content of this page should be split into two articles, one for the fictional meaning from 40k and another for the company? Pacey 00:02, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The 2 are inherently linked - and as this page is short I don't think splitting would be very advantageous. -Localzuk (talk) 00:07, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair enough. Personally, I don't think that they are linked inherently, but I take your point about the lack of info. It might be worth doing at a later date if the article is expanded. Pacey 04:13, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, now that it has come to it, I have split it :) It is now part here and part at the new Planets of Warhammer 40,000 page -Localzuk (talk) 14:02, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Split

message: The easiest way to show notability for a publicly-traded company is to reference financial analyses.  Forge World is occasionally mentioned in third-party financial reports regarding Games Workshop, being as it is a subsidiary with a substantially different business model than its parent company.
http://www.thisisbusiness-eastmidlands.co.uk/news/nottinghamshire/games-workshop-half-year-sales-up-to-%C2%A361m.aspx
The problem is that it is rarely going to get much coverage in this respect, since the company has never had reason to step out from underneath GW's apron strings.Khanaris (talk) 05:38, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Notability
Talk:William Law (Latter Day Saints)

message: I'm having a hard time finding a good reference for the actual day Law died.  I can only find the year.  If someone could find it, it would be appreciated.  Also, I can't find much information about his time as president of the reformed church or how he was selected and such. Epachamo 00:02, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I still think Joseph Smith's murder was especially brutal.  They shot him while inside the room, he jumped out the window and they shot him some more, then they took his dead corpse and layed it up against a well and riddled him with more bullets.  Was it brutal?  If this cannot be given the label brutal, then I don't know what can. Epachamo 23:21, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I also read through the letter and found no evidence of boasting either. Epachamo 23:21, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I've changed the sentence "For many years, Law was falsely accused of being a member or a leader of the mob that killed Smith" to remove the word "falsely". That takes a stance on the truth, whereas this issue is inconclusively discussed in the rest of the paragraph. According the rest of the paragraph, Law was not in Carthage at the time of the killings, though he had been there earlier that day. As noted, it's unclear from the accusations whether the some accusers were claiming he was actually in the "mob" or whether they were saying he was a behind-the-scenes leader for the mob action. As far as I know, the issue of whether he was a behind-the-scenes leader is unresolved and will probably never be known one way or the other. Good Ol’factory (talk) 05:09, 27 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: POV problem

message: Why does the first reference have a future date (August 15, 2014) for the retrieval of the information? Obviously this is a mistake--is the reference itself correct?
JohnnyBeRealGood (talk) 07:51, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like it was supposed to be "2013"—the edit in question was made on 2013-08-15. The reference itself seems fine. Good Ol’factory (talk) 21:48, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Bad Reference?
Talk:Mata Gujri

message: I did not violate a copyrighted material, all I did was give the site http://www.allaboutsikhs.com  credit for taking material from there site. As I mentioned in the beginning of the the article that according to http://allaboutsikhs.com/women/matagujri.htm .
So there for I did not infringe on the copyright violation. It doesn't make sense if I gave that site credit for borrowing material  from their site, how could it be ready for speedy deletion.
: Even if you credit them, it's still a copyright violation. I deleted the article according to the policy for copyright violations. bogdan 00:12, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Janica Kostelić

message: I don't think we can say that Kostelic is "the most succesful female skier of all time". It's hard to compare athletes from different generations (Kostelic/Schneider or Pele/Maradona). However, I belive she indeed is the most succesful female skier of her generation. You can't really compare someone as versatile as Kostelic with Renate Goestchl (altough Goetschl's results in downhill & SuperG are very impressive). Speaking of Anja Paerson, she hasn't beaten Kostelic "consistently over the last 2 world cup seasons". Kostelic didn't even compete in 2003/04 World Cup because of health problems, when Paerson won her first World Cup. In 2004/05 season Paerson won by mere three points ahead of Kostelic (slimest margin ever). Also, I don't think Paerson has any chance of catching Kostelic this year in World Cup. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.139.82.171 (talk • contribs) 00:41, 19 February 2006
: Well, the fact is she has the greatest number of gold medals... I think that approves the use of the phrase "the most successful". --Dijxtra 11:57, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  You can say that she has the most gold medals of any female skier, but you can't say that she is the "most successful" without a reference. Sue Anne 06:49, 6 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The fact she won 3 gold medals at one Olympic games and 4 in total which are both records for female skiiers is a reference enough. Afrika Paprika 05:16, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The most successful 2

message: How can she be the only human with six winter olympics medals when Felix Gottwald has six winter olympic medals?? AnonMoos 11:51, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, she obviously can't be :-) --Dijxtra 15:16, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Only human with six winter olympics medals
Talk:Vampire (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

message: In the past we (or at least I) have deleted passages about poisons and whatnot that were invented for a single episode and never mentioned again.  I'd similarly omit the following recent additions:
* Vampires usually do not possess the ability of shape shifting except those who are skilled with powerful magicks such as Count Dracula.
** That "showy Gypsy stuff" (as Spike calls it) is independent of his vampirism.  Vampires also usually do not treat their hair as Spike does.
* However, in the episode "The Harsh Light of Day ," reveals that if a vampire acquires a mystical ring known as the Gem of Amarra, it would remove all known weaknesses of the creature, essentially being invincible as long as he or she keeps wearing it.
** Was this ever mentioned after "In the Dark"?
* Some private residencies may be entered by loophole, Angelus once successfully entered a privately owned library because it had a sign that invited all who sought knowledge to enter.
** That was a public building (a school), not a residence (nor a residency).  Better loopholes in "Rm w/a Vu" (Cordelia invited Angel to her apartment before she found it) and "Guise Will Be Guise" (Wesley, impersonating Angel, is invited; Angel later acts on that invitation).
* When pregnant, Darla's endurance, speed, cravings for blood, and strength are magnified resulted by the hormone produced to control her reproductive cycle, in addition of sharing soul with her unborn child.
** Darla's pregnancy is unique, and so this detail, if accurate, will likely never be mentioned after her fourth death.
* In the episode "I Will Remember You from Angel, it is discovered that regenerative blood from a Mohra demon can restore an ensouled vampire as a human again. In the canonical comic book series, Angel: After the Fall, demonstrates that powerful magic from the Senior Partners of Wolfram & Hart can also rid vampirism as well. The Shanshu Prophecy, which is a great interest to champions like Angel and Spike, foretelling that a vampire with a soul will play a pivital role in an apocalyptic battle (for good or for evil) and may become human as a reward for his efforts.
** In summary: Writers can, at their convenience, contrive ways to cure vampirism or sidestep vampires' weaknesses – though they tend to be forgotten after first mention.
—Tamfang (talk) 23:58, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Nem.con., I have cut these passages. —Tamfang (talk) 07:10, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  canonical trivia 

message: :
Usually not attributes and qualities such as compassion! —Tamfang (talk) 06:55, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  what attributes and qualities did you have in mind? 

message: :
I think I wrote that sentence .. Any new info on garlic in the continuation comics? —Tamfang (talk) 02:31, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  garlic 

message: How many times must it be reiterated that this article concerns only the vampires of Buffy/Angel and not all vampires of every other canon?  Seems to me a clear notice to that effect at the end of the intro should suffice. —Tamfang (talk) 05:59, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  in the series
Talk:Merchant

message: This article's kinda short.
-__-;;
Should there not be a list of people called merchant or are there too many????--The penfool 08:32, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well… that kind of makes sense. I also needed this for school, but it has not enough good information for me to use… I absolutely agree with you. 2001:569:50F9:7D00:B9BA:3DD6:FC3A:2E12 (talk) 02:43, 15 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: According to WP:HYPHEN, "A hyphen is normally used when the adverb well precedes a participle used attributively (a well-meaning gesture;" In the text "The Phoenicians were well known amongst contemporaries", the participle "known" is not used attributively, so a hyphen is not needed. It would therefore be clutter. I am not the only editor who regularly removes useless hyphens. Removing punctuation that does not help the reader is not "making unnecessary changes". But one might argue that inserting useless hyphens is "making unnecessary changes". Chris the speller yack 05:00, 29 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hyphen in "well known" when not used attributively 

message: This article has a dozen paintings to illustrates Dutch commerce and merchants, but barely even mentions the merits of Arab and other merchants.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.36.175.217 (talk) 11:22, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eurocentric/European focused article 

message: ...if you look at Trader (finance) you can see it's supposed to refer to a specific thing in futures markets (some traders are called "locals" or "local traders") and not just to your neighbourhood shopkeeper as described in this article here. 2A00:23C5:FE0C:2100:64EE:A829:1748:DCF (talk) 16:08, 15 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "[[Local trader]]" redirects here, but...
Talk:Geneva Steel

message: Posted simply because I'm surprised no one else has. Better article when I get more time for actual research. Howdoesthiswo 00:32, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Improved through the magic of Wikipedia!  Ford MF (talk) 22:14, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Agent–object–verb

message: There is an inconsistency between the V2 word order page and the Subject Object Verb page. The V2 word order page states, "in otherwise SOV languages, such as German and Dutch, the verb is placed after the object." The Subject Object Verb page (this page) states, "German is basically SVO, but employs SOV in subordinate clauses." Considering only main clauses, is German an SOV or SVO language?
I have placed a copy of this comment on the V2 word order page.
:I have changed it to the following: "German and Dutch are considered SVO in conventional typology and SOV in generative grammar."  Actually we don't have to mention conventional typology if all linguists have agreed that they are SOV languages. - TAKASUGI Shinji 01:28, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: SVO, unless the sentence contains a modal auxiliary verb, thus: "I drink beer" translates as "Ich trinke Bier" (SVO), while "I have drunk beer" translates as "Ich habe Bier getrunken" (SAuxOV). 惑乱 分からん 12:06, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

text: I removed portuguese from the list of languages which "are SVO, but use SOV when a pronoun is used as the (direct or indirect) object". This is not a generic characteristic of the portuguese language, although it may occur in brazilian portuguese.Prfigueiredo 23:04, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inconsistency 

message: Might this better be "watashi wa hako o akemasu"? I'm no expert, but I have been told that "wo" when used as an object-marker is Romanized as "o". But I'm no expert. -- user:Cevlakohn 7 Sept 2006
:I think it's romanized as "wo", though it's generally pronounced as "o". 惑乱 分からん 17:41, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, Japanese is not. It has a pitch accent, though. 惑乱 分からん 16:42, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  watashi wa hako wo akemasu 

message: objects are the main part of the sentence and the object in the follow up of the sentence  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.67.136.50 (talk) 22:04, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  what are they 

message: The article says that SOV is occasionally employed in English 'under poetic license especially by William Shakespeare'.  I'm not an expert, but I had always assumed that V2 word order was once a feature common to several Germanic languages including English and that it was still permissible in the vernacular of Elizabethan English.  Does anybody know?
Rdr0 20:23, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  V2 word order in English 

message: maybe some relation with postfix notation can be raised.
  person thing relation
  12 35 +
english is infix
  person relation thing
  1 + 25  
there has been some people who though same. googling SOV postfix notation gets you there. thanks.
btw. prefix(
   polish notation -
   + 2 3 - sum two three -
   printf("subjects", objects) - well there it is a bit recursive for stuff in string " " relates the objects ... ;)
) is easy to parse   
[[User:cc..aa..ll]  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cc..aa..ll (talk • contribs) 03:13, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  mathematics - sov - postfix notation
Talk:Fleet review

message: To increase each year heading, refer to ships in What links here - often gives their position in the line-up, for example
neddyseagoonNeddyseagoon 00:37, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: They need to be AWB wikified to here, and then used to increase this article. (For USN ships, wikify to Naval Review.) Neddyseagoon 19:55, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unwikified Fleet Review references on RN ship pages 

message: New public domain image of The Queen and Admiral Sir Alan West onboard HMS Endurance placed at .  Best wishes, Des Desk1 15:18, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images 

message: Fleet review redirects to this article. I believe it should therefore not be limited to fleet reviews in the Commonwealth Reals and be globalized. – Editør (talk) 12:48, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Globalize text 

message: I changed it to     4 August 1889    regarding the newspaper "The Sunday Herald" Salt Lake City edition from 4. August 1889 Page 1 (https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85058130/1889-08-04/ed-1/seq-1/).
77.0.118.204 (talk) 15:05, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change of date from 5-6 August 1889 fleet review
Talk:Nicholas Shackleton

message: This page should be merged with Nicholas John Shackleton, who is the same person. Will nominate for delete. Badgerpatrol 00:44, 16 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Request: a Wikipedia search for Nick Shackleton should find the page for Nicholas John Shackleton, since that was how Nick was always known. Thanks! --Orbitalforam 15:50, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Delete

message: Ernest Shackleton was Sir Ernest Shackleton, not plain Ernest Shackleton.The Geologist (talk) 15:35, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sir Ernest Shackleton 

message: There appears to be no reference for the significant statements made in paragraph 5, starting: "Much of Shackleton's later work focused on constructing precise ...". Is there a suitable source?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by BlueSulla (talk • contribs) 00:11, 17 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation Required
Talk:Silva

message: Do we really need, say, Roberto Carlos da Silva here? He is almost universally known as "Roberto Carlos" - that would be like putting Emma Watson at a disambiguation page for Charlotte. – ugen64 03:42, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Why was Silva compass removed from this list? Silva is the name known by everyone.. before I created the article I never knew it was Silva compass, as on all their equipment is named 'Silva'. It needs to be on this page. --Dom0803 19:23, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What about Aravinda de Silva, the Sri Lankan cricketer? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Adi87tya (talk • contribs) 
What about me, Sergio Silva, born August 8, 1968?  Wait a minute...I'm not world-famous...yet.
The Portuguese language article from which this English translation is derived says it is possible the Silva Surname is the most common in Portugal, Brazil and elsewhere as noted. It is certainly widespread in those places, but without a better source or a more credible opinion, this additional word should be inserted in the interest of accuracy.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Grandcross (talk • contribs) 01:22, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: General

message: Nice try. I'm sorry you don't think Anderson Silva is legitimate, but he certainly isn't "Notorious." I deleted that and placed him in athletics. Does that hurt your feelings? Jackbox1971 (talk) 05:42, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Notorious People" 
Talk:Partial evaluation

message: As it stands, this article almost requires .
It should mention, by way of example, this is (as I understand it) how some Lisps (and probably many other interpreted languages, as implied by the existing article content) compile stand-alone executable programs, as well as being the process (at least to some extent) in "normal" compilation, and especially for an optimising compiler, not just a theory.
: Of course this is notable. Sexy stuff. See MetaML (MetaOCaml nowadays) for example.132.198.12.129 (talk) 15:42, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You're kidding. This is a technique whose applications include program optimisation, compilation and compiler generation. It may not be well-known but it is definitely important. -- Derek Ross | Talk 06:54, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why isn't this just Compilation? 

message: Is the second Futamura projection equivalent to the Hart & Levin strategy used to create the first self-hosting compiler? "Compiler generation by self-application" sounds like just what they did: write a compiler in the source language and run it on itself in an interpreter for that language. --FOo 06:17, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I read the relevant article and no, they are alternatives.  The second projection does "Compiler ← Specializer(Specializer, Interpreter)", while Hart & Levin did "Compiler ← Interpreter(Compiler-source, Compiler-source)".  Hart & Levin's strategy just needs the compiler written in its own language.  The second projection needs a good specializer, which I imagine is much harder to write if not incomputable in general. Hashproduct (talk) 06:25, 4 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  2nd Futamura projection == Hart & Levin compiler? 

message: Futamura's idea is stunning. -- Derek Ross | Talk 05:00, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wow! 

message: The article previously said Futamura's elegant idea was first published in 1983. I changed that to a 1971 publication in Japanese--a really early contribution that escaped notice until much later.
I can't read Japanese, so I am relying on the title to indicate that at least the third projection (a compiler-compiler) is discussed there. I can attest, though, that it is all succinctly spelled out in the 1973 report to Ben Wegman available on Futamura's website. Mdmi (talk) 21:27, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  First publication
Talk:West 4th Street (Manhattan)

message: Eh?  West 4th runs through most of eastern Manhattan?  Umm, then it isn't all WEST 4th is it?  Shouldn't the word "West" be dropped from the name of the article, as it is for other streets that run across this little island?  I hereby suggest it.  Jim.henderson (talk) 06:03, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested Move