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Talk:Overdriven fluorescent light

message: On April 12, 2005, this article was nominated for deletion.  The result was keep and cleanup.  See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Overdriven fluorescent light for a record of the discussion. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 12:24, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: VfD

message: This article needs someone that understands the technical/electronic aspects properly. I dont have time to sort it now, and suspect it would get reverted by someone relying on information from inexpert sources.
"Only electronic ballasts can be used for this; magnetic ballasts will self-destruct."
This is not correct. I heavily overdrove a twin 5' fitting using mag ballasts. Resistors were added across the filaments to prevent them overheating.
Any mag ballast expects certain conditions to remain within its safe operating limits, and if you change those you may need to tweak the circuit to keep both tube and ballast happy. It is certainly possible to destroy tubes and ballasts by ill-designed overdriving, but that is not because the ballasts are magnetic, it is because someone failed to design the system to work correctly.
Electronic ballasts have some degree of self regulation and selfprotecting action, so less deliberate design is needed to (mis)use them.
"Each electronic ballast normally drives either two or four tubes. The ballasts are wired with their outputs in parallel such that a normal two-tube ballast drives a single tube; a four-tube ballast drives either one or two tubes."
Thats just one possible way to do it, and I doubt one any electronic engineer would recommend. This type of operation is a no-no for anyone but hobbyists as it creates multiple problems that lead to high failure rate and fire risk.
"The reason that this only works with electronic ballasts is that they use current mode programmed control to limit their output based on legislation for energy efficiency passed in 1992 in the United States."
The way an electronic ballast works is not a reason to not use magnetic ballasts. Also US legislation has little to do with ballast use in the other 95% of the world.
This article needs someone that understands the technical/electronic aspects properly, and is willing to search for basic electronic expertise offsite to use for references.
Tabby (talk) 07:48, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed the how-to tone of the article. This needs more references - preferably published in a book, not blogs and web sites. I don't think Wikipedia generally gives hotrodding advice anywhere else.  --Wtshymanski (talk) 18:51, 31 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expertise needed
Talk:Second Lateran Council

message: This should probably be moved to wikisource and we should just have an article about it here... not really everything with exact text listed... am I rght? gren 12:38, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Please verify the source to be sure this english translation is in the public domain before moving to Wikisource.--Birgitte§β ʈ Talk 17:35, 1 February 2006 (UTC)

text: This article should redirect to Second Council of the Lateran. Where is the text on Wikisource that was originally here, and why wasn't it linked on at least one of these pages? Gimmetrow 22:09, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Daniel Keys Moran

message: Apparently, the currently list of works is terribly out-dated, see http://danielkeysmoran.blogspot.com/2010/09/560-comments-need-to-be-moderated.html for reference.
I would do it myself, but I still lack a complete overview of all published Continuing Time books and short-stories.JaredThornbridge (talk) 10:06, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Things that need to be included 

message: The entirety of the section "Concepts in the Continuing Time" seems to be original research. I suggest it should be cut to a minimum.
It also possibly slides toward violating WP:NPOV with wording that suggests opinions, rather than facts, such as "an interesting twist on non-violent protest" (interesting to whom?") and " Surprisingly, the most significant battle in the series is a..." (surprising?) NumberC35 (talk) 14:12, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed Dan Bloch (talk) 19:16, 3 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  OR and NPOV
Talk:Culture of Richmond, Virginia

message: Do you have a source for Richmond being "top" in STD's? Just interested. Also good idea for creating this page. --MaxPower 13:13, 2005 Apr 25 (UTC)
: RVA was top in Chlamydia and Gonorrhea according to this Henry J. Kaiser Foundation article:see Table VIII on p9
:"HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) have had a disparate impact across the country, with some regions being harder hit than others. The southern region of the U.S., which includes 16 states and the District of Columbia, has been disproportionately affected by the HIV/AIDS and STD epidemics." ( numbers in new cases per 100,000) 
**Chlamydia       - -   Gonorrhea    - -  Secondary Syphilis
**#Richmond, VA 1175.5   - -   Richmond, VA 923.6 S   - -       Nashville, TN 37.7 S
**#Milwaukee, WI 995.1 MW      - -   Rochester, NY 894.8 NE  - -   Indianapolis, IN 37.1 MW
**#Philadelphia, PA 958.2 NE  - -    Baltimore, MD 885.6 S      - -          Baltimore, MD 34.5 S
**#Baltimore, MD 858.7 S     - -   St. Louis, MO 862.1 MW   - -     Memphis, TN 28.2 S
**#New Orleans, LA 828.1 S     - -    Detroit, MI 766.7 MW    - -      Detroit, MI 21.9 MW
**#St Louis, MO 811.8 MW  - - Norfolk, VA 659.7 S    - -    Oklahoma City, OK 20.0 S
**#Detroit, MI 797.0 MW   - -     New Orleans, LA 654.1 S    - -   Norfolk, VA 16.4 S
**#Atlanta, GA 746.2 S   - -  Kansas City, MO 595.2 MW    - -   Atlanta, GA 15.6 S
**#Minneapolis, MN 724.3 MW  - -    Philadelphia, PA 578.3 NE   - -   Newark, NJ 9.9 NE
**#Kansas City, MO 692.7 MW   - -   Milwaukee, WI 567.8 MW   - -   Chicago, IL 9.8 MW
::Secondary source   here: "In 2002, the last year for which statistics are available, Baltimore had the third highest incidence (new cases per year) for Chlamydia (at 6,267 cases, behind Detroit, Mich., and Richmond, VA.) and gonorrhea (at 4,873 cases, behind St. Louis, Mo., and Richmond, VA.)"
:::MPS 14:47, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

message: RE: B103 and Kiss FM, what is "A/C"? Lachatdelarue (talk) 15:14, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Adult Contemporary (btw I compiled that list from other internet sources so it's probably a bit out of date)... MPS 16:03, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  question
Talk:LinuxQuestions.org

message: I dont think the wiki at LQ is powered by Mediawiki as claimed by the article here. Somebody who knows, please correct the info. Thanks
--Bigbossman 05:47, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I just looked it up. The LQ Wiki does use MediaWiki -  http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Special:Version .---Admetus 03:33, 12 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Does the Wiki at LQ.org run MediaWiki?

message: As explicitly stated here* by Jeremy Garcia, LinuxQuestions.org runs as a for-profit business, even if Jeremy sustains that the revenue doesn't cover costs.
 * www.linuxquestions.org/questions/lq-suggestions-and-feedback-7/is-this-site-for-profit-or-non-profit-377461/#4
Medende (talk) 20:43, 22 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  LinuxQuestions.org is for-profit
Talk:A9 road (Scotland)

message: I have just added the section In Caithness. Anyone got some details for other sections of the road? Laurel Bush 13:17, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: In Caithness

message: The A9 keeps being called the most dangerous road in Scotland but it appears to have about the same number of fatalities as the A82.  Some years they are the same, sometimes the A9 has more and other times the A82 has more.  The A9 is longer than the A82 so the number accidents per mile must be lower? 
Shouldn't the main article include the length of the road?  --jmb (talk) 09:20, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Just say that they (A9 and A82) are the joint most dangerous road in Scotland, but the A82 has more accidents per mile. Roads4117 (talk) 09:19, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Most dangerous road?

message: When did the northern part of the A9 move from passing through Wick to John o' Groats to passing through Thurso ? -- Beardo (talk) 17:13, 19 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change of designation 

message: There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Highways#Major junctions debate yet again that may affect the content of this article. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 10:17, 22 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Please note that I have reduced the amount of major junctions on this article from 14 to 12, by removing the A835 and A836. The amount of junctions in the infobox should really be ten or ,if possible, then less than ten, so if anyone could reduce it by deleting two or more major junctions, then I would be grateful. If not, then I will do it in the new year. Thanks,  Roads4117 (talk) 09:27, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't have any strong feelings about the junctions in the infobox, but the new table that has been added to the article looks fab. Garuda3 (talk) 10:53, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: @Garuda3 I have to agree with you, it looks fantastic. Thank you Matthewshill for taking the time to make that. Roads4117 (talk) 20:26, 17 December 2022 (UTC)

text: BTW Matthewshill has reduced the amount of major junctions on this page from 12 to 6. Roads4117 (talk) 19:29, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Junctions debate 

message: I propose to split the A9 road (Scotland)#Upgrades into a new page titled A9 dualling project (draft). This is because the major dualling project feels like it should be its own article given that it is a very unusual and a huge project to dual the remaining 80 miles from Perth to Inverness. Many reliable sources cover this project, including this BBC article highlighting the start of the works when it was anticipated to end in 2025. A draft (linked earlier) has been made for this purpose. I also had a conversation at the Teahouse in which I will (or have) notified. JuniperChill (talk) 14:54, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Splitting proposal
Talk:Mary Renault

message: I've corrected an obvious error in the new paragraph about Demosthenes (Renault couldn't read Greek – see her entry in the old DNB) and have re-punctuated what appears to be a quotation. This needs to be checked and a source added. Wilus 13:21, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Speaking of that, do her "theories" about Demosthenes' relations with Philip and Alexander appear in her non-fiction or only in The Fire from Heaven?  If the latter, they're not theories she proposed, but an imaginative recreation that she may have believed was consistent with Demosthenes' character but not necessarily true.  —JerryFriedman 20:34, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Seems like there's a bit too much about Demosthenes in this article--he's a minor character in one of her books, when the major characters (real and fictional) of most of her books aren't even mentioned. Nareek 05:44, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Demosthenes 

message: Does anyone want to weigh in on the problem at Quintus Curtius Rufus?  It's a conflict that started out as a revert war and has moved anywhere since--we need more input. Nareek 14:17, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quintus Curtius Rufus 

message: Mary adopted the name Renault when she published her first book, apparently to keep her identity secret from her nursing employers. I have heard from more than one reasonable source that she pronounced the name "renolt", not in the French fashion, and would like some input on this from someone who knows her history better than I do. (Passing reader, 5 July 2006.)
:Not that I know her better, but I actually came to this page to see whether they had a pronunciation here because I have heard it is pronounced "Renalt" too. → JARED (t)  01:47, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It is pronounced 'Ren-olt.'  I added and cited this, but I don't know how to convert it to IPA. —Celithemis 02:23, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Renault name 

message: Over-written, over-emotional, non-encyc. Valetude (talk) 00:13, 7 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, and I have rewritten that section. Bigturtle (talk) 01:56, 15 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too much on her death
Talk:Sustained silent reading

message: While I was adding a pop culture reference, I noticed the word "ecurriculum." Is this a typo, or does it refer to students working over the Internet? (In that case, it should be "ecurricula.")
I think this article would be stronger if we at least mentioned the controversy, the valid critiques of SSR. Darkfrog24 15:54, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible Typo, Controversy
Talk:GarageGames

message: Remember Tribes?  The original jetpack shooter?  Yeah, you probably know what game I'm talking about.
Well Tribes is coming back!  We have obtained the IP for the entire Starsiege Universe including Tribes 1.  We'll be showing Tribes 1 off at GDC this next week in San Francisco, so if you will be there, be sure to stop by our booth and check it out.
InstantAction blog
=> Tribes 1 is back !!! :'D --90.60.183.47 (talk) 22:12, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  ENTIRE TRIBES UNIVERSE IP ACQUIRED 

message: GarageGames changed its name to TorquePowered, but they haven't changed its logo yet, I think. Should anybody edit the article? 68.80.13.51 (talk) 15:25, January 2, 2010  —Preceding undated comment added 20:26, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  GarageGames changed its name 

message: Any reason for mentioning this?  I can see it being brought up on ZAP's own wiki page, but I don't see why it's on the GarageGames wiki.  This page is mainly about the games and technology of GarageGames.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by EvanVolm (talk • contribs) 02:54, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bitfighter? 

message: I don't see how this article is "written like an advertisement." Can someone explain this to me please?
Maximus23623 (talk) 13:16, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Like an advertisement? 
Template talk:Nuttall

message: These articles will be mainly stubs. Note that many of the articles in Nuttall (1907) have a more complete entry in the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica. Eugene van der Pijll 15:07, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Stubs; 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica more complete

message: I have updated the template so that it looks like many others and takes similar parameters.
In many cases this template is used inappropriately, because non of the current text in the Wikipedia article in which it is placed is derived from Nuttall text. In cases like that replace this template with  -- PBS (talk) 16:53, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  June 2012 

message: The template source code should be modified to add all articles where "article name needed" (i.e. there is no "|title=" parameter), to a Hidden category.  This would make it easy for editors to find & add the missing names. — Lentower (talk) 06:27, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add Hidden category for "article name needed"
Talk:Ellen Burstyn

message: Add section about teaching at Actors Studio and New School ! .... 0mtwb9gd5wx (talk) 10:33, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add section about teaching at Actors Studio and New School ? 

message: Plays one of the wagon train girls, as Polly 1962 Gunsmoke “The Widow”. Uncredited. Name like  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 167.224.207.239 (talk) 18:10, 29 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uncrefited in 1962 Gunsmoke “The w
Talk:Response spectrum

message: Time history analysis for a structure gives us the Action/Displacement with respect to time.
So, in this respect how the Response Spectrum Analysis for a structure is different from Time History Analysis.
i.e, what more or less is done when we perform Response analysis for a structure?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.52.146.226 (talk) 10:52, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  There is something new called Uniform Hazard Spectrum (UHS). Can anyone tell me how to use it in a modal response analysis and in a time history analysis? Thanks. Zymogen (talk) 17:00, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Need to organize the uses of Response Spectrum

message: Hi, 
We need to add why it is important to estimate the predominant period and frequency and how to do it.
RB  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.177.81.47 (talk) 23:46, 2 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Predominant period and frequency 

message: Need a discussion on what damping is, is not well defined here or on other pages it seems Jtyler277 (talk) 17:31, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Damping 

message: The following statement:
"If the input used in calculating a response spectrum is steady-state periodic, then the steady-state result is recorded. Damping must be present, or else the response will be infinite."
Should only be true if the response spectrum contains the natural frequency of the oscillating mass, correct? 208.181.64.249 (talk) 16:39, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Presence of damping required for steady state?
Talk:List of LGBT rights articles by region

message: Resolved. 
Shouldn't the article titles be Gay rights in Iran not Gay Rights in Iran? Also, wouldn't this article be more aptly named Gay rights by country since it seems most other articles use that format... or do you you plan to address things that make that title not fit... and, if you do, I would still recommend Gay rights by country to house the references to all of the country articles while any issues that are not related to countries could go here... otherwise this would overflow with country and supra-country issues..... gren 08:58, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: uhh, well, I changed them all... and added "the" where it was necessary... and fixed some other things... gren 09:43, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  A few things 

message: I was thinking of creating new articles called "Gay rights in Canada," "Gay rights in the United States," etc. by moving sections from "Gay Rights." Would that still be okay given the reorganization you are doing?
Are you removing all the existing "Gay Rights in (individual country)"? If so, where will that content go? 
Wuzzy 19:42, 19 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Will Gay rights by country be deleted? 

message: There is no explanation of why, for example, Nigeria comes first in the Africa column, or China in the Asia column. My guess is that they're ordered by population, which is a really strange way of doing it as most people won't know by heart exactly where in a column to look for, say, Panama. Why on earth not put them in alphabetical order? I've downgraded its rating from B to Start for this reason, and because there's just the one line of introduction, which itself does not explain the order. 81.153.106.191 17:33, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why not use alphabetical order? 

message: The current list is hard to navigate and is basically messy. Can we ditch it and replace with sections in alpha-order? Benjiboi 19:52, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As I think about it a table by each continent might be useful. If you are working on this presently you might want to use  or . Benjiboi 00:07, 16 March 2008 (UTC)

text: Perhaps we do have an alpha list and wikilink to the appropriate table? Benjiboi 00:08, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ditch the table, replace with alpha-sorted sections?
Talk:Doom (1993 video game)/Archive 1

message: What is "Labyrinth of Death" and how is it related to DOOM? The paragraph as it stands provides no context whatsoever and there are no references for it. Fredrik | talk 17:08, 19 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a fictional follow-up that appears in the works of the author mentioned. Probably doesn't need to be a Wikilink really, though, so I'll remove that. -- Schnee 03:09, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Homages
Talk:Nuer language

message: I have moved the nice field work data below out of the article. — mark ✎ 16:54, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: If you are a native speaker of Nuer then you can help translate this template into your own language:
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--Amazonien (talk) 02:40, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Nuer language template

message: From what I've seen, "h" only exists as part of "dh", "nh", and "th". Should it be in the table as a "distinct letter"?  Leviavery (talk) 23:21, 14 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is "h" a letter?
Talk:Gérard Genette

message: Reverting my edit has put the format back to an earlier, non-standard form. It has made it harder to read, by reducing it to one paragraph. If you don't like the wording changes, please discuss them here. But my edits do not do nothing.
Charles Matthews 16:59, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The article matches only a part of Genette's work because it only talks about his narrathology theory.
His theory about palimpsestes, intertextuality, paratexts is only mentioned, and his latest works on analitic philosophy are not even mentioned.
I think there is no point in writing so much about narratology if the rest of the work is kept outside the article.
My english is so bad I can't repair. I ask some good samaritan to expand the article, or to remove a part of the overweighted narratology section.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.116.91.22 (talk) 14:44, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  No Palimpsestes 

message: There was I link here to "narrative mode," but narrative mood and mode are not the same thing.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.209.14.15 (talk) 05:04, 3 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  narrative mood
Template talk:User el-1

message: el-1
Ο χρήστης έχει μικρή κατανόηση της Ελληνικής γλώσσας.This user has a basic understanding of Ελληνικά
Storing this here until formatting Babel standards issues are addressed.  --Jpbrenna 17:06, 25 Apr 2005 (UTC)

message: Why has this been moved? There is now a dead link on the template and a link to a category that does not exist. Pjposullivan (talk) 19:31, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Move from el-1 to ell-1
Talk:Calling convention

message: This article lists some uncommon architecture but the probably second most used architecture (after ARM when counting phones) is missing.
46.5.255.82 (talk) 22:41, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I added a section that mostly relies on x86 calling conventions#x86-64 calling conventions (just as the section on 32-bit x86 relies on x86 calling conventions). Guy Harris (talk) 06:58, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  AMD64 / x86_64 

message: I got to this page from WSGI, which describes itself as well as CGI, FastCGI, etc. etc as calling conventions.
these seem somewhat distinct from the lower/compiler level calling conventions described in this page, as they they're somewhat higher level, mapping routes to functions rather than dealing with registers and the actual stack.
However, they still deal with how to pass input to functions, what output should be expected and parsed.
I don't actually know enough about the subject to say for sure, but perhaps a section could be added in this article, or a separate article made on these kinds of calling conventions? 31.193.185.15 (talk) 14:24, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Unsure if it's appropriate to call the mechanism for remote invocation a 'calling convention'.  Microsoft referred to the address-binding-contract in WCF, and there's the notion of marshalling for data in other phraseologies.  There's a bunch of stuff over at Remote procedure call, with dozens of related terms for different languages and frameworks, but 'calling convention' is conspicuous by its absence. Chumpih t 18:03, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Server / Routing level calling conventions