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Talk:Baltic Sea campaigns (1939–1945)

message: Is such a name used in historiography? This substub needs expansion.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  19:20, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: No it wasn't "liberation". Replacing one occupation with another occupation is not liberation. But as I am not really feeling like having long edit war over such issue I didn't use term "re-occupied" and inserted as NPOV term as possible. I dont see anything wrong with term "captured". But if you dont like it, use whatever neutral military term(captured, conquered, took) there, but not "liberation".--Staberinde (talk) 10:12, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The territory at the time of the invasion was part of the Soviet Union. The occupation of it by the Soviet Union was not a matter for Germany to resolve, nor were the Baltic republics invaded to be liberated by Germany, they were occupied. So, during the war as far as planning of Red Army was concerned they were liberating the territory and not capturing it. In any case, capture is used for people, and occupation and liberation for territory. You think conquered is neutral?! Conquest is only possible as a means of initial offensive action. Where the action is undoing the effects of the offensive, what do you call that? All the Baltic states were incorporated into the Soviet Union. You may not like that, but that is how it was.--mrg3105 (comms) ♠♥♦♣ 13:39, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Aww, not this s??t again.(no offence) This occupation thing has been argued to death in Talk:Occupation of the Baltic states, and probably will be argued there in the future too. Soviet POV is that it was "liberation", Baltic POV is that it was "re-occupation". Easiest and most logical solution is to pick apolitical term and let that subject to be discussed in detail in appropriate articles. I have seen "captured" being used for towns, territories and stuff too, so I dont agree with it being limited to personel.--Staberinde (talk) 14:10, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: not liberation

message: For editors who are interested, there is an RfC over at Talk:Continuation War about which name we should use for the town of Vyborg/Viipuri during World War II. This will affect this article, as well as quite a others on the Finnish/Soviet conflict. Some of the other articles affected include Winter War Continuation War, Battle of Tali-Ihantala, Battle of Tienhaara, Battle of Vyborg Bay (1944), and Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive. If you could comment, it would be very much appreciated. The RfC thread can be found here. Regards — Mr. Stradivarius ♫ 15:01, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Viipuri/Vyborg naming RfC
Talk:Second Battle of the Somme

message: “The second battle began on August 21 with the opening of the Battle of Bapaume to the north of the river itself. That developed into an advance on a broad front, about 40 miles wide, from south of Douai to La Fère, south of Saint-Quentin, Aisne”
That statement is not right. La Fere was in the Hindenburg line and farther north, Douai was east of that line. On August 21 at the battle at Bapaume the front extended from Arras, which is west of Douai, and down to Noyan, which is west of La Fere.
“On the way, the earthworks of the incomplete Canal du Nord and the defences of Péronne were overcome.”
Thats a bit like saying that Texans, on the way to Florida, go through New York. The Canal du Nord, farther north, was breached by the Canadians with the British First Army on September 27.
No the policy did not work.There was never a Campaign that began with the battle of Bapaume which included the St. Mihiel battle. The Somme strategy was not to push the Germans behind its strategic railway because it was behind the Hindenburg position. The distant objectives of cutting the rail supply lines were part of the strategy when the British were confronting the Hindenburg line but the strategy more than a month earlier had nothing to do with that later objective.The St. Mihiel salient was only to be reduced to free the French lines of communication and was not to press on to the strategic railway at Metz. After the Germans withdrew and the salient was eliminated the Americans held the line at the base of the salient in front of the Michel portion of the Hindenburg line and that was it until the last days of the war. There was no German advance in the spring in this area and therefore they were not well in advance of the Hindenburg line. After the breach of the Hindenburg line at the beginning of October by the British the objectives of cutting the lines were not quickly achieved because of the exhaustion of the British Armies at this point and the tenacious rear guard actions of the Germans. When the American army had finally breached their part of the Hindenburg line at the end of October the Germans had already been forced to withdraw far enough back by the other Allied Armies, the British had by that time rested and pressed on, that by the time their rail lines were threatened on all fronts they were saved by the bell. 
There was however a counter offensive decision at the end of July to free three rail routes that did succeed. The Paris to Verdun rail to be achieved by the on going French counter offensive started in July, the Paris to Amiens rail by Haig’s proposed Amiens offensive and the Verdun to Arricourt rail by the reduction of the St. Mihiel Salient. Brocky44 05:09, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The article is about the Second Battle of the Somme (1918). The battle of Bapaume was part of it. "That developed into an advance on a broad front," etc. (RJP 22:00, 1 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: "Well, wasn't that special?" This is a total cluster that needs to be unwound.LeadSongDog come howl 17:30, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirects
Talk:Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade

message: I just realized that even after merging, the title still won't be right.  It should be Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade.  So after the merger, it'll just have to be moved. Static3d 00:19, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Correct Title
Talk:Bakewell pudding

message: This article is rather obviously a thinly disguised advertisement for the shop to which most of the content refers. The Bakewell Tart article already makes a reference to the variant Bakewell Pudding, and I would suggest that it may be appropriate to further expand the Bakewell Tart article (without compromising its neutrality) and leaving a redirect here. Bakewell Tart 08:07, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree w/ above--FRS 19:43, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Bakewell Tart and Bakewell Pudding are very different things. Surely each deserves its own article with a link saying "there is also a thing called a Bakewell......"??? Vhjh 23:00, 24 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger Nomination
Talk:Syrian pound

message: I'm having trouble uploading a screenshot of the display problem on Syrian_pound that I was trying to fix. Here's an imgur link: https://imgur.com/a/TWOc3Au
Best I can tell image_left:  is rendered differently without a file. Adding image_left: File:blank.png (as I did here) fixes the problem.
cc  Elimen (talk) 21:38, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: odd. I just saw a big blank patch that looked for all the world like deliberate disruption. Maybe best ask the Teahouse? 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 23:00, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blank images for Syrian Pound
Talk:Sweeps

message: There was no O.C. delay this year. What gives? -l
This guy has a point. Fox started all it's new seasons in September this year, including The OC, Simpsons, Family Guy, and American Dad (although they've since resorted to reruns because of baseball season). --ZeromaruTC 18:58, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: Why are the weeks of Sweeps published? Surely it would make the channels more competitive and therefore better for viewers if good programming was on all the time, not just four weeks a year. Plus, it leads the figures being exaggerated, which presumably harms the advertisers who fund the monitoring! smurrayinchester(User), (Ho Ho Ho!) 15:01, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  A question
Talk:Solar desalination

message: I would like this page to include the failures already documented in the field of solar desalination.  Not as a means of discouraging further research, but as a means of ensuring that a fresh look at this area does not cover old ground. --203.63.128.25
:Please do. Be bold. --Sinus 15:15, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Failures

message: Would be really great if someone could have a look at the German page http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solare_Meerwasserentsalzungsanlage and translate this to english. Loads of useful information there!!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.74.245.154 (talk) 05:43, 16 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Nothing done as of 2023. The German page appears more structured with more scientific info in it. The English language page has a lot of info too but is less structured. However to merge both pages would take a lot of work. One point which would be useful in the English language page, maybe in tabular form, is the amount of water produced per m2 of solar capture. E.g. although direct thermal solar distillation may be less energy efficient than e.g. reverse osmosis, solar PV is typically only captures about 1/5 of the available solar energy, so there would be less energy available to perform reverse osmosis. Also the implementation cost of different systems would be useful too.Lkingscott (talk) 11:59, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: German page

message: The range in the template given below applies too all instances of copyvio. I had simply ran out of space to fit in all the copyrighted works (and there are still 2 or 3 more that I didn't fill in!) Dark-World25 (talk) 12:52, 1 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyvio
Talk:Real image

message: The page rating obstructs one of the images on the page, could someone move it?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.163.43.206 (talk) 21:44, 23 September 2011 (UTC)

message: From the picture, it seems that the real image will be distorted in the axial direction. Is that correct?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by BenFrantzDale (talk • contribs) 02:37, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Distortion? 

message: I want to clarify before changing anything, but the Mirage is not a straigtforward example of a real image. A concave mirror forms a real image when the object is to the left of the focal point on the optical axis, and a virtual image when it is to the right (the distance from the object to the mirror is less than the the focal distance of the mirror). See the Wikipeida article on virtual images for an explanation. The Mirage operates in both regimes. The focal point of the mirror is actually beyond the case of the toy. This can easily be verified by moving a finger away from the bottom half of the Mirage and noting the point at which the image inverts. Actually the top mirror is forming a virtual image, and the bottom mirror is forming a real image of the virtual image, which is how it creates the illusion of the object floating above the case of the toy.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.245.127.15 (talk) 12:42, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mirage Example is Wrong
Talk:Anchovy

message: i would really like to know if anchovies have scales or not.. any one?
They have scales like other fish. They are just really tiny scales.
Are anchovies and sardines the same thing?
: Anchovies and sardines are related, but sardines are significantly larger.
Well, according to the dictionary [various ones say virtually same thing] the anchovy is small, herring-like marine fish [from Spanish anchova] where the sardine is small herring or similar fish canned in oil [from Greek sardinos]; as to taste - [various subjectively]; as to scales, these grow with the fish, therefore do not exist as such on these smaller fish - visible, but not scaly.
I was under the impression that anchovies were considered eels but I forget where I heard this. Can anyone verify one way or another? Ehrichweiss 20:39, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  do anchovies have scales or smooth skin? 

message: "In parts of Asia such as Korea and Japan anchovies are used to produce a rich soup similar to "Setipinna taty". But before it's ready for such consumption it is sun-dried."
The soup is sun dried?!
GeneCallahan (talk) 09:23, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sun-dried Soup? 
Talk:Marcel Griaule

message: Hey! There is a typo here-somewhere- at the beginning it says he died in 1965, at the end it states he died in 1956!! Oooopsh! Does anybody know what is the correct date?? Huldra 00:35, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Typo 

message: No need to be, Dougweller: the person who wrote the info should have added his or her source. I have many other interests and tasks here, thank you.--Jumbolino (talk) 16:49, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: No, I was serious. And that edit was over 7 years ago, we were nowhere near as rigorous about sourcing then. It was really simple to look at the Dogon article and add sources, particularly as this isn't even contentious and the article with the sources is linked to this one. If something is really dubious I add fact tags, but normally I try to source, even for articles in which I have little to no interest. Adding sources is generally a better way to improve Wikipedia than adding fact tags, although they are needed at times and I certainly add them. Dougweller (talk) 18:14, 5 August 2012 (UTC)

text: Ok, apologies, but what you've been doing sounds more satisfying than chasing copyvio, pov editors, etc., so I envy you. Dougweller (talk) 20:42, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Snarky 
Talk:International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience

message: the logo in the article is the old one (see http://www.iaeste.org) can someone please replace it?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.111.182.82 (talk) 10:25, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Hey, be bold :) -- just put it straight into the article and, if the information's good, someone will fix any formatting or layout problems for you. --132.185.240.122 09:56, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: IAESTE Logo

message: Any IAESTE students and trainees interested in adding, pleade do!  Need more national links, maybe some stuff on different IAESTE countries? --Kristod 22:27, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: IAESTE students, and trainees

message: Central European Convention is an annual meeting of IAEST.  The current article is essentially a series of lists and is orphaned and unreferenced.  It is unlikely that many articles will link to the CEC article or that there will be many references other than IAESTE material. Drawn Some (talk) 15:40, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed merge
Talk:Heartburn (film)

message: This page was moved from "Heartburn (movie)" to "Heartburn (film)" as per the naming convention set out at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (films) – Ianblair23 00:48, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page move 
Talk:Sensory ataxia

message: I don't agree that sensory ataxia is a stub. The article defines and describes it, how to identify it, how to distinguish it from cerebellar ataxia and gives examples of conditions causing it. It's a pretty rare phenomenon in neurology and there really isn't much more to say about it. If you think there is more to say, please let me know  what you think needs adding (here or on my talk page)and I will happily add it. Dubbin 01:11, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree it is too long for a stub. I added a category. Would you be able to provide a reference that deals somewhat comprehensively with this? JFW | T@lk 16:16, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: I
Talk:John Adam

message: This is the thing about Wikipedia; whatever you might have the idea to do, someone probably already has a template for it that you didn't know about.  anyways, the splitting is a good idea; what should we use as the names of the three articles?  John Adam (architect) for one seems obvious; I'm not sure what good choices for the other two would be. -- Antaeus Feldspar 01:49, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: * John Adam (administrator) and John Adam (prisoner) seem to be good to me. I would have put the information into other articles when i cleaned up the disambig but didn't feel like it. :-P — Wackymacs 06:20, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split request
Talk:Blue Paul Terrier

message: There's a lot of terminology herein, perhaps obsolete, with which I'm not familiar and can't find in current dog books. I linked them but perhaps they're better translated to modern dog terminology? In particular, "overchanging",  "ribbed up", "roached" (is this "arched"?), "haw" (is this "inflamed nictitating membrane" or maybe "turned to one side" (as in gee/haw)?).  Elf | Talk 20:31, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Terminology

message: There is a weird paragraph in this article where someone has clearly got annoyed and spouted a lot of garbled disgruntled rubbish. i.e. "The truth is not as of the above The Blue paul was never a distinct breed that there was a dog dark blue in colour and named Paul is true but this individual was no different to those found the odd time in litters of the Black & Tan terrier(Manchester terrier) the black and tan colouring often throwing out dark blue dogs and some weighing over 30 lbs. This being the reason they never bred true too type. The fanciful ideas of pirates and scotland and dogs still in Ireland is nothing but lies to feed the whims of dreamers." Suggest this be deleted for obvious reasons, possibly to be replaced by a paragraph mentioning that some people have a different viewpoint.109.255.208.135 (talk) 19:17, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Poorly-written "rebuttal" section 

message: Quite interesting  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.8.132.200 (talk) 15:11, 6 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uhm... 

message: After careful research it appears that the section that was removed is the only factual evidence in the article.  Fallacy65 (talk) 22:49, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  rebuttal section 

message: , please can you confirm if this edit is genuine?  Cavalryman V31 (talk) 14:14, 5 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Having reviewed the history this page I have determined the above edit was bogus, so I have removed that source. Cavalryman V31 (talk) 10:40, 24 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Genuine edit?

message: Hello , I notice you have recently added M. Homan's A Complete History of Fighting Dogs as a reference to the lead of this article. What specifically are you citing from that source? As you can see from the above section, that book was used as a bogus source to cite the entire page by a very sub-standard editor who was subsequently topic banned from editing any articles about terriers and was afterwards blocked for an amateurish attempt at sock puppetry. Cavalryman (talk) 22:44, 9 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  M. Homan's ''A Complete History of Fighting Dogs''
Talk:Waterdeep and the North

message: I haven't had much success trying to find additional reliable and independent sources for this article. As the outcome of the AfD was redirect, I merged the content of this article into Waterdeep (city).—RJH (talk)
:Hey RJ; bear with me. That AfD was an old one, and IIRC the merge was never done, so in the meantime someone added a cite to Heroic Worlds.  I've been working with that source, so I'm going to add some more to this article tonight or tomorrow. You can merge back into the city article afterwards if you like. BOZ (talk) 22:59, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with Waterdeep
Talk:Wolf (1994 film)

message: This page was moved from "Wolf (movie)" to "Wolf (film)" as per the naming convention set out at Wikipedia:Naming conventions (films) – Ianblair23 01:56, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page move 

message: The film made extensive use of the Bradbury Building, as the setting for their offices. Might add this to the article later but it would be better to have more than one point about the locations to justify adding a section about it. -- Horkana (talk) 20:09, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Locations 

message: This article and the IMDB trivia page say that this movie was delayed to re-shoot the ending, which was poorly received, but there are no details about that ending. My own dim recollection is that the last shot of the film shows us, some days or weeks after denoument, a pair of wolves in the forest - and the female has hazel eyes just like Michelle Pfeifer. Does anyone else recall this or have more info on the original ending? Sussmanbern (talk) 11:33, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original ending 

message: I remember in the end he is a 4 legged wolf, werewolves are bipedal humanoids, seemed like just a wolf to me, though yes I know the stories go you have to be bitten by one to become a werewolf, but he turns into a plain wolf.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.184.110.64 (talk) 00:10, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Completely false. Better check old legends about what a werewolf is, instead of Hollywood. 50.111.11.25 (talk) 18:33, 8 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Werewolf or just Wolf
Talk:Toyota Hilux

message: ,
Looks like we need to discuss this. Drum brakes and disc brakes are both quite safe. Drum brakes can be made massively strong (by making them wider) but suffer from brake fade due to heat dissipation (the best drum brakes have finned covers). Disc brakes have much better heat dissipation but are size limited within the diameter of the wheel (drums can be made bigger sideways). Drums also have a self-servo action, so do not need the brake booster (and potential vacuum leaks and other problems). Saying either one is safer than the other is not valid because it depends on the circumstances. Race cars tend to favour disc brakes due to the fast moving air keeping them cool. Big trucks (Mack, Kenworth, etc) tend to favour the sheer stopping power of massive, massive brakes with the self-servo operation. You need a reference that explains why rear disc brakes make the HiLux safer. And we need to qualify whether any reference(s) about which models have them apply to all models worldwide or just certain models and/or markets.
PS: I'm not against a simple statement in the section where other options are listed saying that certain models or markets have disc rear brakes. It's the highlighting it in the safety section that I'm against.  Stepho  talk  07:09, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The disc brakes are noted in an Australia section, but it gets lost there. Trigenibinion (talk) 13:14, 21 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  drum vs disc brakes 

message: …for the Sixth Generation. Boscaswell talk 08:46, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you have references from reliable sources? Without references we can do nothing. See WP:FACT and WP:RS.  Stepho  talk  09:27, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  5LE engine to be added…
Talk:TextWrangler

message: what does FAQ's have to do with ANYTHING?
--jacobolus (t) 02:02, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Inuyasha the Movie: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass

message: Ok, I like made a temp page without copyvioed information at InuYasha the Movie 2: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass/Temp.....and stuff. Bumm13 02:08, 22 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled