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Talk:Fruit machine (homosexuality test)

message: This article has been linked to by this week's b3ta newsletter Woo! CLW 17:37, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link from b3ta.com 

message: Does anyone know the actual name or number of the device? If so, that should be used as the article title, with a link from fruit machine. Jimaginator 17:25, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Actual name of the device? 

message: anyone know about the scientific uselessness/fraud of such a machine, who could document this in the article? Hmains 21:50, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  uselessness 

message: This is inherently a suspect article.  I wonder if someone just made it up. 70.78.82.195 19:51, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The article already has several references and external links, and it is certainly not made up. If there are specific statements you think are suspect, please note them here and we'll address them. Jokestress 20:02, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There's two legitimate sources in the references sections. Yeah, page numbers could be dug out and the article expanded generally to improve it, but the ridiculousness of the article stems from the crackpots in the RCMP, not Wikipedia.Bobanny 21:09, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  No cititations, no speculative proof 

message: I just re-removed the "artist's rendition" image. This image detracts from the article. The rendition is cartoonish and admittedly from a flyer for a gay night of the same name at a club. Certainly subjects did not stand before the machine with buttocks bared.
An actual photo of the machine probably would not add to the article. Its functioning is unimportant and I'm sure it was nothing to behold in the first place. If an artist's rendition were required, a much less fanciful rendition could be had. If I'm reverted again, I think it should be with justification spelled out here. —Christian Campbell 15:56, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Fine. The club was named for the subject of this article and an artist's take on what one would look like, comical/cartoonish or not can certainly aide the reader to understand how such a machine is viewed in hindsight, much like the machines created to aid relief hucksterized throughout the last several hundred years. The argument of no image is better than one I don't approve seems unhelpful. Your opinion that the image detracts from the article is just that. I obviously added it twice as i think it adds to the article. And we are arguably unqualified to judge how someone was dressed or not when using the machine but if bare buttocks are of such concern that can easily be addressed with a qualifying statement in the caption. Benjiboi 16:11, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Artist's rendition" image
Talk:TAT-14

message: All the knowledge on the TAT-14 site is correct, 16 wavelengths per STM-64 per fiberpair, 4 fiberpairs per ring.
It's a consortium between several telecom providers, like BT, AT&T, KPN, France Telecom.
I'm an engineer in the station Katwijk for the TAT-14, keeping the ring Segment-I and Segment-J working and alive.
If you want to know more about this cable system please leave a note. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Meurkes (talk • contribs) 19:58, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Looking at the archive.org captures of the now defunct website, it looks like the original design capacity was 1.87 Tbps (although I wouldn’t be surprised if that was not really the original design capacity way back around 2000, 10 Gbps per wavelength at that time seems high) and the 3.xx lit capacity was the relevant number at the end. If I get no objections I’ll make these changes soon. BGPexpert (talk) 12:26, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  TAT-14 

message: "...is considered part of many critical points in a logistic chain"  This simply doesn't parse.  I'd fix it, but have no idea what it was supposed to be saying.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.243.22.211 (talk) 02:50, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incomprehensible sentence 

message: Numbers don't add up at present.
"TAT-14 uses four pairs of fibres—two pairs as active and two as backup. Each fibre in each pair carries 16 wavelengths in one direction, and each wavelength carries an STM-64 (9,621,504 kbit/s as payload)."
suggests that the total capacity is 9621504kbit/s (per wavelength) x 16 (wavelengths / fibre) x 2 (active fibres) = 293.625Gbit/sec - nowhere near the quoted 9.38Tbit/s
More research required!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.52.21.236 (talk) 08:19, 27 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  System construction / data rates
Talk:Straw bale

message: Some clarification needed to the sentence
"Because bales are tightly compressed, the final plastered walls offer excellent thermal mass, good structural strength, and low flammability."
Straw bales are sometimes used as structural elements to build load-bearing walls, in which case they are plastered; other times, the bales are simply inserted into post-and-beam walls, in which case they might be finished with drywall, siding, etc.  I'm no builder myself, but if I've understood correctly, I think it's the bales themselves that have good thermal mass etc.; they don't necessarily have to be plastered to have that effect.  So perhaps the sentence could read
"Because bales are tightly compressed, they offer..."  or
"Because bales are tightly compressed, walls in which they are used offer..."
Thoughts?
Wordie 16:04, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ref to plastered walls 

message: A better picture of straw bales is needed. Round bales are not constructive to article:
# Straw bale construction uses a traditional block bale shape.
# Those look to be hay bales - too green to use for construction. -- Paleorthid 12:21, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Round bales illus should be replaced 

message: Hay is generally of greener crop material and suited for animal feed.  Alfalfa and a large number of prairie or cultivated grasses might be harvested and baled--all known as "hay."  Straw is commonly the dried, often yellowish or tan, stalks of harvested (grain seeds have been removed) grain crops  (The soda straw nomenclature, no doubt, comes from the hollow center of individual plants, which is typical of wheat, rye, barley, and oats.) The diameter of individual straws would never exceed 1/4 of an inch.  The hollowness, or the airspaces, is what creates the desirable insulating value.  For purposes of construction insulating value, it might be useful to consider a straw bale to a similar volume of plastic bubble-pack.  However, a wall of stacked straw bales has considerable greater mass and load carrying capacity.  A house sized rectangular shaped wall of straw bales (around 8 feet hight) has strength  great enough to support a ceiling and roof assembly.  Homebuilding 207.178.98.32 (talk) 02:37, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Difference Between Hay and Straw
Talk:European Monetary Union

message: We already have euro, and at the moment this article just has the same information as euro does. So lets just get rid of this article, or reduce it to a short explanation of what the term "European Monetary Union" means, and just have a link to euro for the rest. -- SJK
:If you think you combine the two articles, go ahead. But UK and 2 other European countries are staying out of the EMU, for their own reasons. It might be better to have a separate article, if for nothing other than to explore their reasons for opting out. --Ed Poor
I agree we could have room for multiple articles on the euro, and different aspects of it--e.g. a Euro debate (can anyone think of a better term?) article on the current debating in the UK, Denmark & Sweden on whether to join. But EMU isn't going to be it -- "EMU" is just a technical term meaning roughly "the situation that several EU members have agreed to adopt a single currency, the Euro". Maybe we could discuss comparisons with the more general phenomena of monetary unions, e.g. the Latin Monetary Union in the 19th century. But this article isn't the place for the membership debate.
Okay, I replaced the content of this page, and moved the links to euro. I think the rest of the content was already in euro anyway, in a different form, but if I missed anything important feel free to dig it out of the history and add it to the euro article.
I just thought of one use this article might have: a history of the efforts that led to the creation of the euro (which were reffered to as european monetary union), if we don't want to fill up euro with too much. - SJK
There is a significant problem with this page: EMU doesn't stand for "European Monetary Union" it stands for "Economic and Monetary Union". The 'E' confused you.
Aris Katsaris 21:29, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Talk:List of Interstate Highways

message: Should this article be changed to List of Primary Interstates Highways? I am a pretty bad roadgeek, and have not seen past archives, however, the auxiliary highways are on a different page, which could confuse people looking for all interstates, including the 3 digits. TomMasterRealTALK 16:33, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: That's possible, although that might be better brought on the main roads project talk page. ChessEric 21:59, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name switch
Talk:Staccato

message: The bassoon articulations would be clearer if the tempo remained the same. To the unitiated, hearing the staccato example at a faster tempo than the following example can be confusing.
The same comment applies to the slurred example. The question is just what is the difference between the last two examples other than tempo?
Aarossi (talk) 18:41, 13 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  staccato examples 

message: The text of the article mentions a dot over a note indicating staccato. In the example, the dot is over two notes. Are both played staccato, or is the lower note of the pairs played legato? I suspect it is the former. If so, the text of the article should make that clear.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by JohnOFL (talk • contribs) 14:55, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It would be better to have single notes if there is to be only one illustration. The dots in this illustration don't look much like dots to me, by the way--more like short vertical line segments. TheScotch (talk) 05:43, 22 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  scope of staccato dot 

message: Why and where does this article need additional citations for verification? What references does it need and how should they be added? Hyacinth (talk) 23:50, 4 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Additional citations

message: Twin 172.75.161.59 (talk) 01:39, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stanza 

message: Not sure if this is an error or vandalism, but the image preview given when hovering over a hyperlink to this article shows the flag of Israel (^∙w∙^)/ Gale + talk 13:27, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: It's vandalism, it's been reverted and will be fixed when the cache expires. Nardog (talk) 18:54, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article hover-over-hyperlink image preview
Talk:The Flaming Lips

message: I just recently checked the Lip's website and have heard no mention of a new album. I was wondering if anyone knew where this information was derived. Thank you. Hoekenheef 16:04, 19 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  At War With the Mystics 

message: Scott Booker redirects here, but there's no mention of him on the page. I believe he's the manager. He's now involved with the development of a contemporary music school in OKC, so perhaps he needs his own page, but his relation to the Flaming Lips should be established somewhere. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.245.24.137 (talk) 16:23, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scott Booker
Talk:McCarthyism

message: The sentence  appears to be circular since "Second Red Scare" is essentially a synonym for McCarthyism. Volunteer Marek  07:11, 3 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Circular? 

message: There exists  McCarthyism and  section Second Red Scare (1947–1957) in Red Scare. Are the both terms synonims or there exists a difference between them? Both texts quote different sources, perhaps some integration is needed? Xx236 (talk) 06:45, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Second Red Scare (1947–1957) vs. McCarthyism ? 

message: The picture suggests close connection between the McCarthyism and the leaflet, is it true? Xx236 (talk) 06:27, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  American anti-communist propaganda of the 1950s, specifically addressing the entertainment industry 

message: The sources for this quote aren't transcripts or official documents, they're books written some time after the fact. Not that I doubt the question was asked -- obviously it was -- but how are we sure that this is the precise way it was said? I think we should have a source that unambiguously says that this is the exact phrase used in questioning, or else not have it in quotes in the article. I mention this only because it's a very well-known phrase, quoted often, but it seems strange for there to not be direct quotations of it.
By way of comparison: tons of people watched Star Trek, and tons of people think that "Beam me up, Scotty" is something Captain Kirk said in that show, because he is always asking Scotty to beam him up, but it turned out years later (once we got transcripts and home video and et cetera) he actually never said it once. jp×g 11:58, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is "are you now, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party of the United States" a verbatim quote?
Talk:Non-violence

message: There is a problem with the non-violence topic. This article, Non-Violence (with capital V), works fine, but the Non-violence article (with small v) is redirected to Non-violent resistance.
I'm not sure about how to fix this. I suppose this can be done deleting Non-violence and then moving Non-Violence to Non-violence. Does someone know if this is correct? -- Juan M. Gonzalez 03:54 Sep 10, 2002 (UTC)
:That depends on what you're trying to accomplish. Do you want this article (currently at Non-Violence) to live at Non-violence instead of Non-violence being a redirect to Non-violent resistance? If so, then yes. --Brion
:: That's right. I'm thinking, instead of deleting and moving, another simpler possibility is to cut and paste the text from Non-Violence to Non-violence, and redirect the first to the second. Anyway, both history pages are short. -- Juan M. Gonzalez 04:08 Sep 10, 2002 (UTC)
:: On the other hand, deleting-moving would keep better the history than copy-paste. Of course, being careful to delete only Non-violence (now just a redirect page), and not Non-Violence (with an article). -- Juan M. Gonzalez 04:42 Sep 10, 2002 (UTC)
:: All right, mav has done the moving. Thank you! -- Juan M. Gonzalez 05:10 Sep 10, 2002 (UTC)
: It seems to me that we have three articles on essentially the same subject: pacifism, Non-Violence, and Non-violent resistance. -- Soulpatch
:: Well, I think those are similar but not the same. -- Juan M. Gonzalez 04:08 Sep 10, 2002 (UTC)
::: Hmmm, well, there might be differences of emphsis, but in any case it seems like there is a lot of overlap between the three articles.
They are more than just similar; we have three articles on the exact same subject. This is ridiculous. An encyclopedia will be useless if every topic is fragmented in such a fashion. There should be one main entry, on pacifism. All the topics mentioned in this page should be moved there; the same goes for everything in non-violent resistance. If one of the sections in this article becomes specialized and lengthy, then at that point it would be appropriate to spin-off that one particular topic into its own entry. RK
: No, they are certainly not the same subject; if they appear to be, it is an indication that at least some of the articles need substantial improvement. Much of the pacifism article looks like it would go better here at Non-violence. -- Infrogmation 07:23, 6 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Database download

message: I note that your recent edits removed many of the inline external links. This makes the page much harder to use: statements such as "If it doesn't work, see the forums" and "The SQL file used to initialize a MediaWiki database can be found here" aren't useful without their external link. This is technical documentation aimed at technical users, not an encyclopedia article, so I'm not convinced that applying the MOS strictly is a good idea. Are you able to redo your edit without losing the external links? -- John of Reading (talk) 08:04, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: undone —¿philoserf? (talk) 08:05, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing inline external links 

message: Unfortunately the link to the wiki-as-ebook is no longer available. Link needs to be removed.
E-book
The wiki-as-ebook store provides ebooks created from a large set of Wikipedia articles with grayscale images for e-book-readers (2013). Tibor Brink (talk) 15:44, 1 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: -- John of Reading (talk) 16:34, 1 March 2023 (UTC)

text: Also  -- John of Reading (talk) 15:45, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 1 March 2023 

message: this pages states that pages-meta-current.xml.bz2 is over 19GB compressed witch although true is highly misleading due to it now being 36.6GB is size when compressed. 73.249.220.113 (talk) 02:31, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The page doesn't say anything about the size of pages-meta-current.xml.bz2. The page mentions 19 GB in the context of a different download, pages-articles-multistream.xml.bz2. The latest dump index says that the 19GB file is now about 22GB. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:06, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 15 October 2023 

message: i would like ask to all of you how i can download the wiki for PC. 152.206.175.101 (talk) 19:35, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Download Wikipedia to PC offline
Talk:Alcohol (chemistry)

message: Borneol - 1,7,7-Trimethyl-bicyclo[2.2.1]heptan-2-ol
Isoborneol - (1R,2R,4R)-1,7,7-trimethylbicyclo[2.2.1]heptan-2-ol
Fenchol - (1R,2R,4S)-1,3,3-trimethylbicyclo[2.2.1]heptan-2-ol aka (1R,2R,4S)-1,3,3-Trimethyl-2-norbornanol
etc. There is many other important natural simple alcohols. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2a02:168:2000:5b:bff5:ca65:7f9e:4032 (talk • contribs) 19:59, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Borneol et al 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: There's no consensus what (if any) the primary topic of "alcohol" is, so the page will be moved off primary and a dab will be placed there.   (t · c) buidhe 02:54, 5 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Support retargeting to either dab or drink. Though from the page views Hemiauchenia presented it would seem that the dab is the better choice. Gonnym (talk) 19:42, 29 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 28 December 2021 

message: You can probably remove semi-protection from this page, now that it's no longer the redirect when you search for "Alcohol". MichaelBijanAfghani (talk) 03:43, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Requested at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 04:07, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:  3 months of pending changes will show if this page really still needs protection. ~ ToBeFree (talk) 07:14, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deprotect? 

message: Would you mind if I've changed 2 words (catalyse) from UK English to their US English version added the "Use American English" template, in this edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alcohol_%28chemistry%29&diff=1193270702&oldid=1185209041
I'm not a fond of a particular English variant. If you would like to use British English, I'm OK with that, just change the template and change all the words which differ between the US and the UK English. However, I found out that the article uses mostly US words, so it was easier to change UK to US by replacing just two words.
Anyway, we should have a consistent English version usage, we should not intermix US and UK. Maxim Masiutin (talk) 23:25, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Use American English" template 

message: — Assignment last updated by PinkiRani001 (talk) 19:34, 4 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Introduction to Community Economic and Social Development II
Talk:Eternalism (philosophy of time)

message: Who first postulated this theory this theory? Cleverfellow (talk) 02:55, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of theory 

message: The “In Fiction” section refers to “a clause of eternalism” and “the rules of eternalism” when referring to things that, as far as I can see, do not form a necessary part of eternalism, and are referenced as if there were some “eternalism” text that lays them out.
Is it that these fictional works have their own things that they call “eternalism”, of which they say these are clauses or rules? Or are Wikipedians just getting over-excited talking about things they like?
Either way, we possibly do not need what looks suspiciously like the old “in popular culture” section.
90.242.137.43 (talk) 16:35, 4 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  “In Fiction” 

message: I'm thinking that the movie Arrival might belong in the section on popular culture, as the movie is well known for featuring extraterrestrial beings that "remember" the future and enable the protagonist to do the same. They omit chronology in their linguistic rules and conceptualize time in an arguably eternalist perspective. Further, the structure of the film signals that the past and future are on equal grounds, given the non-chronological interpolation of scenes and ambiguity about the order of events. Quesoteric (talk) 09:30, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add mention of Arrival (2016)?
Talk:Internet Group Management Protocol

message: Please update the picture, jpegging it made it look awful.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.183.48.131 (talk) 08:43, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It is PNG now and looks reasonable. SVG would be even better. -—Kvng 00:14, 7 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Shouldn't the line for IGMP be between the router and the end host and not beteween the router and the switch, and then again between the switch and the end host? The switch doesn't talk IGMP -- well... it does snoop on the traffic and supresses certain messages when it sees a good reason for it, but still. Tommiie (talk) 06:50, 3 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, showing it pass through the switch as the UDP/RTP does would be an improvement but if we made that change, we'd need to find a way to graphically express the snooping. ~Kvng (talk) 14:07, 6 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Image

message: I have deleted the vast majority of this article on the basis of it being a blatant copyright violation (bolted together RFCs). The RFC license is not GFDL compatible. ed g2s • talk 14:16, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: CV report looks good now. ( and  are clearly copies of this article.) ~Kvng (talk) 23:30, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleted 

message: "The Linux operating system supports IGMP...." and other operating systems??? why is this in the article?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Johndoeemail (talk • contribs) 02:00, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Linux