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Talk:History of French Guiana

message: :After the attack on the World Trade Center in 2001, the French Guianese government closed all unsupervised roads in an attempt to prevent anthrax from passing across the border.
Any reference for this? I don't see any other site but WP mentioning this, including no site in French. Furthermore, what is the French Guianese government? The prefect? David.Monniaux 11:14, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: "After the fall of France to Nazis in World War II the local government declared its allegiance to the Vichy government, despite widespread support for Charles de Gaulle. This government was later removed by the Allies in August 1944."
"removed" how? Invaded/by force? Or did they just see which way the wind was blowing and agree to leave quietly? BillMasen (talk) 23:16, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: thank you for this info. 98.48.163.211 (talk) 20:30, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  I have a question, what was the first presidnt in french Guiana
Talk:William James Sidis

message: "raised in a particular manner" ... "their methods of parenting" ... "Sidis's manner of upbringing": excruciatingly vague phrases paired with noisy apologetics for that which is not stated. Enough teasing! Just what were his parents' methods? Did they beat him? Ground him? What? 67.180.143.89 (talk) 05:52, 29 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah this article has some vagueness about it. Jjazz76 (talk) 18:39, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: His parents' methods

message: IQ is a ranking score, that states the ratio of people that a smarter than you
an IQ of 100 have a frequency of 1:2, meaning that 1 in 2 persons will have a higher G-factor (generalized intelligence) than that individual.
an IQ of 130 have a frequency of 1:50 (Mensa level)
an IQ of 180 have a frequency of 1:20 million
an IQ of 200 have a frequency of 1:75 billion
an IQ of 210 have a frequency of 1:9 trillion
an IQ of 220 is hard to calculate as you reach the numerical maxima of double precision computation
In other words.. No, 250 is just not possible and would be in the ballpark of 1:observable universe given all planets in it were inhabited as densely as earth. 84.238.46.248 (talk) 23:23, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, these articles about individual savants on Wikipedia and other places are always full of improbable and ridiculous claims. There also seems to be COIs sometimes even on long dead subjects. You almost have to treat it as a pseudoscientific field. This isn't to say though that modern research on human intelligence isn't legitimate. — THORNFIELD HALL (Talk) 07:11, 14 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah - got to agree with. Sidis is interesting because he is well documented and went to Harvard. But I added the part about his grades because he did decent, but not fantastic, while there.  Jjazz76 (talk) 03:38, 28 January 2024 (UTC)

text: Agreed, it's nonsensical. Like claiming someone lived to a thousand or they're 50 feet tall. There's no good evidence (obviously given the sensational claim) for it other than his family members claiming as such. Is there any scholarly treatment of this? All that I see are junk articles that at best reference this Wiki page. Mathlogsci (talk) 23:10, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  IQ Score 

message: The amount of detail in this section feels like it gives "authority" to his ideas - especially the "found notes" section. Perhaps this would be best deleted unless any of it is peer-reviewed literature or summaries of peer-reviewed literature? I'm honestly not sure what the standard is for inclusion in these sections. 2601:1C2:1600:22E0:1426:54D7:F14B:679 (talk) 02:08, 23 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Amount of detail in Writing and Research section
Talk:Horse Guards Road

message: # Do we have a map of this road (and the park in general?)
:I added a link to the Google map which shows both. BuzzWeiser196 (talk) 17:53, 16 March 2021 (UTC)

message: Greetings Wikipedians! With today's revisions, I believe the article now contains enough references to reputable sources to warrant its removal. Cordially, BuzzWeiser196 (talk) 17:53, 16 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed "contains no sources" template
Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/Template

message: I've been bold and have deleted the legalese on the template page. Arbitration is not a legal process before judges. It is a group of people selected by the Wikipedia community deciding, at their complete discretion (subject to community uproar) how to deal with certain disputes. RfAr's areimportant as we need an efficient way to deal with persistent disputes, but they are not court cases, jguk 13:04, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it would be useful to note explicitly that the role of each participant in the dispute will be considered - it's certainly something I hadn't realised for a long time. Also I've removed a bit that I just couldn't understand. If it's important, I'm sure it'll get reworded and re-added,  jguk 19:59, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Lancaster Gate tube station

message: I'm surprised by the comments on low patronage at this station. In the days when I was a commuter into Paddington station, I used to walk the 1/4 mile to Lancaster Gate to get on the Central Lines relatively fast (compared to the Circle Line) service to the City; and I used to see many other people doing the same. Does this no longer happen?. -- Chris j wood 13:31, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Patronage 
Talk:Spanish poetry

message: This article states at the beginning that it concerns poetry in the Spanish language. However it includes poetry from other languages in Spain and (before my edits) it includes at least one author who writes in Spanish but was not born in Spain. This means the article is a strange combination of Poetry in Spain and Poetry in the Spanish language.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mantis Orquida (talk • contribs) 00:53, 5 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Problem with the scope and the title

message: I really think this page should be merged with Spanish literature or some content of Spanish literature should be merged here or something. I think there is no point in having more and more stub articles with the same content. I propose this solution: I think Spanish literature is a good link reference for someone to really write an article about Spanish literature, where he probably will mention some poetry. Then if it grows to the point when it deserves a separate article, great, I'm totally in support.--hhanke 16:29, 25 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: This article should really dig deeper into the qualities of spanish language poetry, with details as simple yet important as the fact it uses syllabic verse. As it stands right now, it's just a timeline of works and genres in spanish poetry. 185.163.103.83 (talk) 19:50, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Qualities of spanish poetry
Talk:German Romanticism

message: Personal chat. No relationship to existing articles. --Wetman (talk) 19:22, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]
Wikipedia talk:Requested moves/Min edit count

message: After some searching I finally came accross a location for discussing feature requests on meta. I have now subitted the ideas for the feature (along with a bit of expansion from my thinking on the matter while making the request) at m:MediaWiki feature request and bug report discussion#Page move rollback. Thryduulf 10:33, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That page will not be viewed.  Please vote for this bug: http://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1546 for the same thing.  You must register an account to do so. -- AllyUnion (talk) 12:57, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Page Move Rollback feature request

message: Incidentally in the light of User Wheee! we will need a solution for restricting new page creation too. DJ Clayworth 22:47, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: We've got to be very wary of restricting new user's page creation, as its a fundamental feature of the Wiki. My only suggestion at this point is an ability to rollback all of a user's contributions that are still listed as (top), and then those that become (top) after the first tranche of rollback. This second (and third, etc) phase will be necessary to combat a vandal defeating the rollback by editing their creations. I have no idea if this is possible or not. I don't know how it would cope when a different users who have editing in the mean timel, or if a vandal created a pair (or more) of users to edit each other's creations. Thryduulf 23:10, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)

text: Is it really that difficult to delete pages? --Carnildo 01:25, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: restricting new page creation

message: Now that page moves are limited only to accounts which are not in the newest 1%, we can expect to see the more persistent vandals create accounts which can be used at a later date. Roughly how long do we have before such accounts "mature"?
Before these accounts mature, we need a better solution, along the lines of the minimum edit count suggested here. Accordingly, this page is not dead, we have just bought ourselves some time.-gadfium 03:55, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: 3 days.  There are currently approximately 210,250 users.  In the past 18 days, approximately 13,400 new accounts were created, or an average of 750 a day. --Carnildo 05:22, 13 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: What next?
Talk:Sibelius (scorewriter)

message: In 1996 or so there was still a (small) RISC OS market and Sibelius being a killer app meant people were willing to buy Risc PCs just to use Sibelius, so I imagine a RISC OS version could have worked. But I recall reading in Acorn User that the new version of Sibelius was not available for RISC OS because the platform lacked a C++ compiler of acceptable quality (Acorn C/C++ not being good enough for reasons I wasn't knowledgeable enough to understand). The cancellation of the Risc PC 2 and then collapse of Acorn was just the final nail in the coffin. Hairy Dude (talk) 17:04, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sibelius discontinued for RISC OS 

message: The national anthem of the USSR as an example score... really?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.129.85.61 (talk) 11:44, 14 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  USSR
Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/JonGwynne

message: Having read JG's edits to Global Warming I have to agree that his edits have a strong POV smell. Phrases like "it is important to remember that climate models are simply speculation" or "Though what role a popularity poll plays in the science of global warming is unclear" are outright pushy and suggestive with zero factual value. They were reverted out for good. --Trapolator 04:05, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)

message: I am not sure that I agree that JG's problem is POV pushing, yes he is pushing a POV, one I happen to agree with (skepticism about the seriousness and proposed solutions to the global warming "crisis"), but he is so unskilled in scientific argumentation from the literature and so simplistic in his understanding of the concepts that they become misunderstandings, that even someone who agrees with his "ultimate" POV, such as myself, cannot support him, and find his persistence in his contributions embarrassing and repetitively disruptive.  Unfortunately, his support for our shared POV does not seem to be based on sound understanding.  He does seem to have an intuitive grasp that "consensus" is not the way to determine truth in science, and made some valid points there.  In his repetition he does become petulant and ad hominem in his comments, although he is less directly "naming calling" in his ad hominem attacks than in the past.
I cannot speak to his contributions on non-scientific pages, perhaps there he is better skilled at supporting his position.  If so, it may be that a ban on editing science pages or climate topic pages would be a more limited solution to this problem.--Silverback 16:14, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unskilled and petulant 

message: Apologies if I have used the incorrect format. I copied the PSYCH case ( when I put mine on) and assumed that was the correct form. I'm still a bit confused - it says in the rules be brief and put detail on the sub page. However, I have added 3 examples to the brief case here (William M. Connolley 10:33, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Commentary moved from request
Talk:Ellipsometry

message: Hi everyone interested. I'm working on providing a full article on Ellipsometry, from basic principles to complex modelling of data and maybe some particular cases of organic films or metal oxides.
Any suggestions appreciated. Askewmind 02:09, Feb 20, 2005 (UTC)
: Some of this work may be delay a few months now, I'll try to keep an eye and add material as soon as I can, in the mean time contributions are more than welcomed. Askewmind | (Talk) 01:50, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: This is not true. You indeed get only 2 parameters, but you could get these for different wavelengths and angles, ending up with whole matrices of parameters. With these, you can model multiple layers for sure! 84.195.248.116 (talk) 10:41, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

text: To answer your question about not requiring calibration above. An ellipsometer will initially need to be calibrated after it is manufactured and/or installed. The comment in this article was referring to NOT needing to calibrate on each sample. Like other methods that are intensity base you need to calibrate first. Ellipsometry uses change in polarization NOT change in intensity.
A correction to my statement above: Not all ellipsometers use moving parts to determine the optical constants, e.g. Stokes ellipsometry or when the polariser are made with liquid crystals.  Benkeboy 09:37, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ellipsometry Plans 

message: Should an wikipedia article contain a list of manufacturers? anyway Jasco Inc and Ellipso Technology seem to have disappeared, at least their websites were down now. Benkeboy 09:37, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of manufacturers 

message: As Benkeboy said, a wiki page should not be commercial. As a result I suggests not including pictures of any commercial ellipsometers in this article.
Anybody having a picture of a "homemade" ellipsometer is welcomed.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bixente44 (talk • contribs) 15:02, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ellipsometer Pictures 

message: Wouldn't it be good to mention Ludvig Lorenz at some point? He discovered that light reflected by a thin transition layer between two media becomes elliptically polarised in the first place. The article about him on Wikipedia already links to this page after all. Geoffpointer (talk) 23:45, 27 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historical Interest
Talk:Jens Martin Knudsen

message: I had some few lectures with him a few years ago. I miss him already :(. Thue | talk 17:19, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Seawaymax

message: Woops.  The information in this article is incorrect.  The 13 x 1000 foot vessels I listed here are the maximum size that can fit through the locks of the Great Lakes Waterway, but they are too large to fit through the canals of the St Lawrence Seaway.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Geo Swan (talk • contribs)  17:27, 19 February 2005‎ (UTC) 
: The Soo Locks (Sault St. Marie) are 1100 feet x 105 x 27'9" (http://www.duluthport.com/port-stats-facts.php).  How common is the usage of Lakers (for ships confined to the Great Lakes) and Salties (ocean-going)?  I know those terms are used at the Duluth harbor, but is it used elsewhere?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nerfer (talk • contribs) 20:49, 29 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Category talk:English science fiction writers

message: *This category was listed for deletion on February 7, 2005. Consensus was to keep.
===:Category:English science fiction writers===
Childless. Redundant with :Category:British science fiction writers. --jag123 11:08, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: it isn't redundant. It is part of a long term project to make all UK writers accessible from both the British people menu and the menus for each of the home countries. This is a time consuming (but more of my time than anyone else's recently), but important system to reflect national sensitivities in the UK and also to achieve a comprehensive and accessible overall classification. Before I started to sort it out, there were completely separate category systems for British writers and writers from each of the home nations, and it is very likely that some people used one without even being aware that the others existed. There are already numerous English writer subcategories, and this one is required for consistency. I will shift a few across now as a start. Philip 19:08, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: This is now a sub-category of :Category:English writers, and one of four subcategories of :Category:British science fiction writers, and it contains twenty articles so far. Philip 19:59, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  CFD discussion 

message: Childless. Redundant with :Category:British science fiction writers. --jag123 11:08, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: it isn't redundant. It is part of a long term project to make all UK writers accessible from both the British people menu and the menus for each of the home countries. This is a time consuming (but more of my time than anyone else's recently), but important system to reflect national sensitivities in the UK and also to achieve a comprehensive and accessible overall classification. Before I started to sort it out, there were completely separate category systems for British writers and writers from each of the home nations, and it is very likely that some people used one without even being aware that the others existed. There are already numerous English writer subcategories, and this one is required for consistency. I will shift a few across now as a start. Philip 19:08, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: This is now a sub-category of :Category:English writers, and one of four subcategories of :Category:British science fiction writers, and it contains twenty articles so far. Philip 19:59, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [[:Category:English science fiction writers]]
Talk:Shahr Banu

message: The person who wrote this page should objectively explain that this is a Shia myth and no a factual description. The way the caliph Omar is depicted in this narration matches typically the opinion of the Shia on this personnage. I would appreciate more distance and objectivity.
:#That is why the sources of the info used to write the passage were given, so that people can check the factuality of the passage by referring to the sources.
:#Shahr-Banu has no significance from a Sunni perspective. She is not an important figure to them.  
:#I added a comment to reflect this. (That the recount is from a Shia perspective).--Zereshk 22:28, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)

message: Though I think the English form most seen is Shahrbanu, all one word. That's the form in which I see it as a woman's name. Suggest both articles be moved to Shahrbanu. The material I gave, re the academic view of this as legend, should be given as well. I'm willing to have the Shi'a POV there -- most mentions of Shahrbanu would be incomprehensible if you didn't know the story. But it should not be presented as fact. Zora 23:22, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yes, merge 

message: I told wikipedia to merge these two articles (Shahr banu and Shahrbanu binte Yazdgerd III) because I didn’t like having two articles for Bibi Shahrbanu and why wikipedians should talk about the same thing on two different pages. We should all contribute to one page and share our ideas about what we think and believe about Bibi Shahrbanu. I apologize because I wrote the article (Shahrbanu binte Yazdgerd III) about Bibi Shahrbanu on wikipedia because I thought wikipedia didn’t have any article about the wife of my 3rd Imam and the mother of my 4th Imam. I even searched on wikipedia before actually writing the article but I couldn’t find an article on her because her name was misspelled. So when I came across the other article (Shahr Banu) that as written on Bibi Shahrbanu, I told Wikipedia to merge them because I didn’t like the fact that wikipedians were writing about the same person on two different pages. So I say merge! Thank You Salman
:Then merge it is.--Zereshk 15:02, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Agree
Talk:Christo and Jeanne-Claude

message: It is usual in the Wikipedia biographies that I have read to provide the precise birth and death dates in parentheses immediately after the person's name., month, date, year. This article doesn’t do that, it gives only the birth and death years. The omission becomes even more jarring when the author adds the the two people here were born on the same day!Wis2fan (talk) 03:26, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The vital year range is sufficient since the full dates are covered in the article's body (MOS:BIRTHDATE). Agreed that it's distracting to mention the "same birthdate" in the lede—I've removed it as tangential to the lede, which should be an overview of the most important elements of their lives/careers. czar 05:04, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth and death dates 
Talk:EMD F59PH

message: I have removed the following unsourced paragraph:
:The EMD F59PH suffers from excessive wax build-up on the upper cooling fans.  The increased use of sweet high sulpher diesel leads to large deposits that require caution when removed.  The engine exhaust design did not take into account the common use of rattan in evaporative cooling pads and thus the deposit of wax was accelerated.  EMD has subcontracted an Iranian/Turkish firm to remove the sweet wax from the rattan baskets and remarket the by-products.
Please find a source for this (and some clarification might be nice too). Matthew Brown (Morven) (T:C) 00:39, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Unsourced paragraph

message: How much do they weigh? A rather important (and basic) bit of information in an article about a locomotive. 64.185.130.217 (talk) 16:06, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weight? 

message: The following has taken place for both fleets, but of course no one's allowing me to add it until I find the sources. If someone finds the proper sources, please add the following information:
*Metrolink has retired all of its F59PHs AND F59PHIs, except for one that is now used solely as a switcher.
*Metra 94-96 are rumored to have been delivered and now in service, so there should be 6 in the fleet. If that's not true, please change the numbers back to 97-99 until 94-96 arrive and enter revenue service.
--Davidng913 (talk) 01:57, 18 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fleet updates for both locomotives 

message: I've noticed two discrepancies while copyediting the article:
*It's fairly well established that GO Transit bought 49 F59PH locomotives and Metrolink 23 - a total of 72. However, the article previously said 73 were produced. I think that's just an error and the actual value is 72.
*Reliable sources do not agree on whether the F59PHI has 3,000 or 3,200 horsepower:
**3,000: FRA study, Metrolink fleet plan, Brian Solomon re Sound Transit
**3,200: Amtrak history, Brian Solomon, GM ad, Railway Age, WSDOT fleet plan
:I'm not quite sure what to do here. Pi.1415926535 (talk) 01:45, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Greg McDonnell's The Field Guide to Modern Diesel Locomotives says both the F59PH and F59PHI have 3,000 horsepower. Meanwhile, the foamers at the locomotive fandom site  claim that the F59PH is 3,000 hp, while the F59PHI is 3,200 hp. "The differences between these two locomotives are only skin-deep. Most features introduced on the F59PH, like the separate HEP genset, were carried over to the F59PHI. However, differences include: A lighter, streamlined body (made of fiberglass and composite material) An increase in horsepower (12V710G3C-EC engine compared to the F59PH's 12V710G3A) 3200hp vs 3000hp" I wonder if some were re-engined to 3200 hp? Trainsandotherthings (talk) 02:33, 6 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discrepancies