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Talk:Condorcet loser criterion

message: "IRV fails CLC"
Consider the following sequence of ballots:
a>b>c>d
b>c>a>d
c>a>b>d
d>a>b>c
d>a>b>c
D is the (unique!) Condorcet loser (3-2 in all races) but wins by IRV (a,b, and c are eliminated in the first round since they have the fewest first place votes). 
How is this not a proof that IRV **fails** to satisfy CLC?  Aweyhau (talk) 03:49, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Instant-runoff voting always eliminates one candidate at a time. Markus Schulze 08:47, 2 April 2010 (UTC)

text: FPTP is equivalent to a rank ballot method in which equal ranking is disallowed and only the top preference of each ballot is regarded, so that the candidate is elected who is the first preference on the greatest number of ballots. This is how e.g. Woodall analyzes it. I don't see what can be gained by analyzing it differently. KVenzke 23:50, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

message: I reworked this article significantly, since it seemed quickly written and incomplete.
I left in two added sections on specific methods, although I'm too impatient to actually read them in enough detail to see if they make sense!
I wondered about cases where there was no condorcet loser, but a sort of bottom smithset condorcet loser, a set of candidates who are mutually defeatable, and each will lose to ANY candidate outside the set. I believe such an expanded definition would exclude IRV (and all runoffs) from passing (since the final two might have been in this bottom set), and I don't know whether Borda would pass.
To me mostly this criterion seems cute more than useful EXCEPT to judge BAD Condorcet method rules for breaking pairwise cycles. Runoffs pass merely for being only able to elect a Condorcet runnerup loser.
Tom Ruen (talk) 00:49, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rewrite
Talk:Magdalen Island penny token

message: This is the name it is commonly referred to in coin collector references. I've never heard of the current title ("Trader's Currency Token of the Magdalen Islands") being used in any of the Canadian coin books I have access to. The current title is more a generic description of what it is rather than it is commonly known as. Captmondo (talk) 15:44, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggest renaming article to Magdalen Island penny token

message: At the time of the issues of coins in question, the British Commonwealth did not yet exist.  What did exist was the British Empire.  Collectors of British Commonwealth coins are likely to also collect British Empire coins and vice versa, but the article must be accurate. Hu 04:35, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Empire or Commonwealth 

message: Please can you redirect this to Trader's Currency Token of the Magdalen Islands? - (Numismaticman 09:54, 26 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirection request
Talk:Joseph Legwaila

message: I took the German version and put it through Babel. That's basically all this is plus a few touch-ups. So I'm guessing it's a tad off. If anyone at :Category:User de-N, or just generally someone who knows of this person, can do a better job I'd appreciate it.--T. Anthony 04:37, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Maladaptation

message: Isn't the third example one of mal-acclimation, as opposed to maladaption? Remove or mention mal-acclimation... (which I don't think is a proper term anyway)
Yeah, I don't know... the examp,es are not very good. The concept itself has suufered from knee-jerk treatment throughout its history, I have revised the antibiotics example which was previously equalling maladaptation = lack of adaptation which obviously is BS. Dysmorodrepanis 21:37, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Mal-acclimation

message: A primary example of maladaptation would be the thousands of years humans have spent living under famine. Our tongues have grown to enjoy high sugar and high fat foods as a means to encourage our bodies to consume high calorie foods and to store energy as adipose tissue "for later" when there is no food around to supplement our diets. However, in many societies today, because of our stable economies and decent agricultural foundations, famine is rarely seen. BUT - we still have the inclination to consume these (what are deemed as unhealty) foods. Thus diseases such as type two diabetes and obesity are poppping up all over the world in industrialized/stablized countries. AND on top of that a good portion of the american population does not have a job that requires much physical exertion... —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Sallisandra (talk • contribs) 22:15, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you should try to dig up a review on this from some scientific journal to source it, and add that. It beats the examples hitherto provided hands down. Dysmorodrepanis 21:37, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diabetes and Obesity 

message: 1. The sentence- "This is because it is possible for an adaptation to be poorly selected or become less appropriate or even become on balance more of a dysfunction than a positive adaptation, over time." - is poorly worded. Its a little confusing and hard to understand. I would revise it as- 
"This is because adaptations can become less appropriate over time, causing them to become more of a negative factor than a positive one." 
2. The sentence- "It is a term used when discussing both humans and animals..." seems too narrow. I think it should also include basic organisms such as bacteria, plants, etc. as well, since maladaptations can occur in more than just humans and animals.
3. Need more examples: Perhaps include any studies or experiments on maladaptations. Maybe add extra modern information- Are there any leads as to how specific types occur? Are there any prevalent maladaptations that affect us or any species of animal we interact with on a daily basis?
Rummer.17 (talk) 00:44, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: General Suggestions
Talk:Fand

message: Aren't Fand the fairy and Fand the deity the same person? The Iron Age Celtic gods developed into the Tuatha Dé Danann, according to a very widely-held theory, and subsequently the latter developed into the fairies. The distinction between Fand 1 and Fand 2 would just be from the age of the literature in which her story's recorded; I believe it's a false distinction. QuartierLatin1968  04:39, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, same individual, false distinction. --Kathryn NicDhàna 20:34, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

text: Right on! Good work. Q·L·1968 ☿ 13:53, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:New York World Building

message: Previous version of this page stated "The World Building was rebuilt at an unknown date after a fire completely destroyed it. In turn the rebuilt building was demolished ..." I think this is wrong and is just a confusion with a fire on January 31, 1882 that destroyed a building that had previously been the location of the World. That building was also known as the World Building or the Potter Building and stood at the location of the current (terra cotta) Potter Building. The World newspaper had moved out from the building a "few months" before the fire.
KHirsch (talk) 17:19, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems there was a fire at the New York World Building, but it was not serious and did not "destroy" it. See Escape Barred By Smoke, New York Times, September 13, 1895 One possible reason for the confusion might be a fire in the World building is a plot point in a fictional work Time and Again (novel).
173.87.157.34 (talk) 01:54, 11 May 2010 (UTC)

text: The fire in January, 1882 destroyed "the Potter, or old World, Building, at Park-row, Nassau, and Beekman streets". The current Potter building on that block is described in the Landmark Designation Report as "35-38 Park Row (aka 2-8 Beekman Street and 139-145 Nassau Street)". (I don't know why the Park Row addresses include both even and odd numbers. The New York World's address at that time was apparently 35 Park Row.) The address of the building that is the subject of this wiki article (aka The Pulitzer Building) was 53-63 Park Row, on the corner of Park Row and Frankfort, where the Brooklyn Bridge entrance ramp is.——KHirsch (talk) 15:08, 30 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fire? 

message: The article says it's claimed as 20 stories, but is only 16 or 18 by modern standards - what exactly does that mean?  What is the difference in modern standards that accounts for this discrepancy?  Does the 20 count the basement floors or something?  Were some floors just double-height?  Were they counting mezzanines as full floors?  Article could use some clarification on that point. 97.100.235.208 (talk) 03:51, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Explanation for the differing floor counts
Talk:Victoria Street

message: -----
Hi,
Reasons why I change the title to just HK
1. Style
Currently, the entries are about the same length -- having 'hk island, hk, prc' all spelt out make the HK entry much longer than the others -- it looks ugly.
2. Detail
UK and Aus is much bigger than HK -- so having some more detail to narrow down the region is reasonable.  HK isn't very big to start off with -- don't need to put in all the detail to narrow it down.
That's all.  Revert if you want - but you can see the reasoning now.  novacatz 04:44, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not a good idea. Since it is always England, United Kingdom or London, England, United Kingdom, I don't see a point to just narrow down to China as it is much bigger than the UK. The current name would be fine for now. --Terence Ong Talk 16:05, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Hubbard Association of Scientologists International

message: It's really unclear from this article why was this organization replaced with IAS. Can anybody please clarify it? Thank you. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 01:47, 30 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  When and why did it end? 

message: This page stated "was the original corporation founded in 1954" which I have corrected to 1952 based on the Church of Scientology Wikipedia page claim of, "By that time, the Hubbard Association of Scientologists International (HASI) had already been operating since 1952[27][28]" 
Also corrected the date here: "Category:Religious organizations established in 1952" to 1954 --[]
--Jdmumma (talk) 07:18, 3 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corrected
Template talk:List of publications intro

message: Important publications are the core of every academic field. In that sense they have special status, so perhaps this is not an "average introduction." I am confused by Steinsky's apparently contradictory characterization that "these are introductions to average wikipedia articles." Perhaps he misspoke: Is it the articles being introduced that he's calling average or is it the introduction that he's calling average? -DoctorW 04:55, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Pages like List of publications in law (I did clearly state the Wikipedia articles, not the publications were average) have no distinguising features that require them to have special formating on the introduction.  Joe D (t) 01:05, 7 January 2006 (UTC)

text: Concur, this template should certainly be changed to bring it in line with policy, guidline, and style.  --TeaDrinker 01:27, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Important publications

message: Since this is now a subst-only template (which has already been subst'd everywhere in article space), we can no longer use Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:List of publications intro to see articles tagged with this template. So now consult Special:PrefixIndex/List of important publications in for a list of pages where this template was subst'd. (Well, until all the pages get mass-moved to some other naming scheme, which is probably coming eventually, and then their mass deletion after that — although I'm sure this template will get deleted before/as that happens.) See also Template:Important publications in science. - dcljr (talk) 01:41, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of lists of important publications
Talk:Nicholas Kaldor

message: It should be enough to mention a few but not all important papers etc. he wrote. Someone who knows more about Kaldor please shorten this list. I for one think that one paper on the K-H-Criterion should be enough to cover that topic, for example.--Asdirk (talk) 15:04, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Works

message: Does anyone have a picture of him? It sure would be a nice start for a box. --Asdirk (talk) 15:04, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture

message: I am rather surprised by the recent change of Kaldor's School tradition to Neo-classical. My feeling is the earlier post-Keynesian label might have been more useful or accurate but I am not sure how we define these things. I quick look at the Post-Keynesian economics has Kaldor central there. (Msrasnw (talk) 08:40, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kaldor A neo=classical or a PK economist ? 
Talk:Udo Jürgens

message: * he is sometimes compared to Billy Joel, but unlike him is backed not by a rock band, but by a full 18-piece Big Band.
This must have been a joke. --84.174.135.143 21:17, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Udo Joel

message: -Open air Symphony mit Anscheissen (1992)
I think it is without "Anscheissen". That must be a joke.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sylke Rohrlach (talk • contribs) 10:00, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It actually was part of a series of vandalism edits from 2011, of which only some parts had been reverted until now. Thanks for noticing. --YMS (talk) 08:12, 5 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discographie 

message: .. is far better known than singer Andrea Jürgens and ought to have an article. Stephanie  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.128.11.218 (talk) 17:22, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Daughter Jenny Jürgens .. 

message: I can't find any mentioning of "Griechischer Wein" originally planned as "Türkischer Wein". Stephphie (talk) 20:17, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: This is indeed not correct. There is no reliable source that support this statement. Therefore it needs to be deleted. Griechisher Wein was written like it is, with no political support or whatsoever. Mvanhorck (talk) 12:10, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Türkischer Wein?
Talk:Cemetery Gates (Pantera song)

message: So who is it that can't spell "cemetery", Pantera or us? - Nunh-huh 05:24, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks like us (along with almost half of the internet).    Amazon, All Music, and the back cover of the cd all spell it the right way, though, so I moved the page.  Nice catch. ×Meegs 13:32, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

text: Cemetry is the way its spelt by The Smiths, it might be a British thing. XdiabolicalX 00:16, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: So who is it that can't spell?

message: I have talked to many singers that say the outro is not falsetto and is actually sung from the diaphragm and the head (similar to Halford's singing). Any thoughts? BrainRotMenacer 01:54, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Falsetto 

message: I'm quoting from the article:
"The song also features Vinnie Paul on drums and Rex Brown on bass. Although the drumming and bass-playing is less of a factor than the guitar-playing and vocals, they still add to the song's overall effect."
This has basically no meaning at all. 
88.241.143.16 17:16, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What does this mean anyway? 

message: Does anybody have any idea?  There are obviously some pretty sinister themes at play here.  The "Reverend" character and the part about throwing the narrator's youth away make me wonder if the song has something to do with child abuse, possibly even molestation.  It is pretty clear that the speaker is dealing with some painful memories or unresolved issues from the past and has determined to confront his worst fears, i.e. walking through the gates of the cemetery.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.63.58.179 (talk) 04:21, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What does this song mean? 
Talk:Herding

message: Cut the crap guys. Calling Fascism part of the herding instinct is non NPOV. its unfair and wrong. 68.114.100.70 05:31, 6 January 2006 (UTC)

message: H 103.167.162.242 (talk) 16:05, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Types of Heding 

message: This article should be merged into Animal husbandry and redirected. It means the same thing. 136.25.214.97 (talk) 19:52, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge into Animal Husbandr
Talk:German African Party

message: I have reworded the text according to the respective article in the German Wikipedia.
On the other hand, I have also included a reference to the extensive work of Dr. Klaus Dierks on Namibia, which mentions this "German African Party" just incidentally. References on this subject are really rare.
Consequently, I must say that I do not think this subject by itself deserves a whole entry in the Wikipedia. 
In any case, if it is to be kept, it should conform to verifiability standards.
I would greatly appreciate any correction to be stated in this page.
Kind regards,
Zack Holly Venturi 13:57, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: This article provided no reference at all
Talk:Habesha peoples

message: Change Hegira to Hijrah اخسجہ (talk) 13:28, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 18 June 2022 

message: The line should properly read “Oriental Orthodox” or “Miaphysite”, as “Orthodox Christian” actually means Chalcedonian Eastern Orthodox. GabrielAugustine86 (talk) 22:05, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it could mean either, but you're right that in this context, it does not mean both.   Done I have changed the verbiage. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 22:44, 3 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  “Orthodox Christian peoples”  

message: Where is evidence that oldest inscriptions are on Yemen, no proof of such they are dated to the same time as those found in horn. 149.90.75.126 (talk) 11:18, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: The right question for Wikipedia isn't 'where is the evidence' but rather 'what is the source'. You're right, tho: For a long time the assumption was that Epigraphic South Arabian appeared in Yemen long before the it was used in Africa. More recent research suggests that the appearances were very close together in time. Pathawi (talk) 14:08, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  oldest inscriptions
Talk:History of British Columbia

message: Is there actually a source for this? As far as I know, he didn't get further north than Oregon. Is this just speculation, or is there some substance behind it? OhSoHeartless (talk) 01:27, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The various theories are discussed in New Albion.  TFD (talk) 06:08, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: So, once again, its just Bawlf and his pure speculation. That's what I thought. Do you suggest we move it, given there is no convincing evidence whatsoever that he reached that far? OhSoHeartless (talk) 16:18, 25 January 2011 (UTC)

text: I have done my research idiot. I've read his book already. It's mostly nonsense. There's ZERO substance behind it. None. Don't be so simple minded next time. Thank you. OhSoHeartless (talk) 21:26, 21 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: An RS is an RS; there's lots of twaddle all over Wikipedia masquerading even as academic citations....there's been stories of bronze plaques in trees in Sooke else.  Don't be such a snark; a publication is a publication; even if it's only a theory an RS is an RS...... there's also indications in something else around, the title of which I don't know, about Drake's journals of this trip which were kept secret and only Queen Elizabeth and certain others saw them; they didn't want to announce anything because of Spain's power at the time and the weight being Spain's assertion that the Pacific was a "Spanish lake".  Dubious though it may be to you, it is part of the apocrypha of BC history and belongs in this article; I'm removing the dubious-discuss template.Skookum1 (talk) 14:31, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: This March 4 2014 article in the Daily Mail is about coin discoveries that corroborate Bawlf's theory; it doesn't quite fit as a cite but is among the other-than-Bawlf sources for this theory out there (though it does mention him).Skookum1 (talk) 14:55, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Drake and the BC coast 

message: "bloat" sums it up..... a lot of these could be to separate lists, if made..... every Spaniard it seems, only certain British and Canadian ones, and that's only a partial list of native leaders of note...but does all this belong on the main history page for BC?Skookum1 (talk) 13:22, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  bloat in See Also section 

message: This article could use one or more maps from the 1700s or early 1800s. -- Beland (talk) 22:42, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early maps
Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler

message: The following is just my refactoring of the discussion for thinking purposes, and doesn't represent anything else. - brenneman(t)(c) 05:49, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  scrat pad 

message: *Alexa 110,245, 0 google news, nn/vanity/advertisement Skrewler 13:00, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  from main page
Talk:Tart card

message: Removed un sourced edit A similar sort of card may be found littering the streets of |Las Vegas.--Dakota ~ ε 05:44, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opening comment 

message: I live in the UK, and while you do see a few in many cities, they are by far the most common in London. I've never seen anything like the dozens you get in London boxes in any other UK city. Apparently Brighton has them, but Birmingham and Manchester hardly ever do. 86.136.250.42 03:33, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Most large cities" in UK??? 

message: Interesting that last month was the 10th anniversary of the Home Office crackdown on these, mentioned in footnote 2.  I assume it was a great success. ;-)  --CliffC (talk) 04:55, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Crack down

message: An image from the Prostitution in Brasilien article in the German Wikipedia was added to this article. Polly Tunnel (talk) 13:19, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image from Brazil 
Talk:Almaty Region

message: Almaty already exists. Prashanthns 05:45, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Just noting that this was resolved on his talk page. :) --Golbez 06:19, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments
Talk:Bobst Boy

message: I made a minor edit removing the link to homelessatnyu.com. Steve decided to let domain registration lapse, as he was no longer updating the site. I mention the edit only because I am personally related to the situation and want to avoid any potential bias. --horsedreamer 05:16, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  homelessanyu.com is gone 

message: I removed the other dead links.  The LJ is been purged and the articles on the newspaper site are also no longer. --Drmike (talk) 21:02, 21 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed the other dead links 

message: If you looked at the sources, you would see that this is not a case of "normal student whose friends probably made a page for him for fun." This was reported all over on national and international news, and even made the front page of the New York Times.
This person is not notable according to WP's policy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_%28people%29#People_notable_only_for_one_event
National coverage for what was barely an event doesn't mean he should have his own article.  Gino Castignoli received more coverage for his stunt at Yankee Stadium and his article was properly deleted as should this one.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Senormime (talk • contribs) 19:20, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Candidate for deletion 