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Talk:Player Piano (novel)

message: I think the statement "technically science fiction" is suspect - basically it seems to be saying that science fiction doesn't cover characters or social themes. Good science fiction often does. Also "sci-fi" is a loaded phrase. This seems to be a repeat of the old mantra "this is literature, so it can't be science fiction, because that's trash"... Notinasnaid 07:24, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The novel makes quite a bit of the governmental "make-work" program for those displaced by technology, euphemistically called the Reconstruction and Reclamation Corps, and colloquially by the engineers the "Reeks and (W)recks".  It is apparently organized on paramilitary lines (much like the Civilian Conservation Corps of the 1930s New Deal) but is not regarded as a temporary response to an economic crisis but as a way of keeping those would otherwise be unemployed both occupied and too tired to form a truly credible threat to the system, which is an important plot point, since there is no longer a military necessity to have truly large armed forces in this world, and also it requires a bachelor's degree to be a even a noncommissioned officer and a doctorate to be a commissioned officer,  thus closing off a typical avenue formerly used by "common people" to get ahead in life.  2600:1004:B10D:5840:0:1B:D740:9701 (talk) 14:32, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Reeks and Recks"
Category talk:Assassinated people

message: Thw categorization is becoming overly broad, to the point that murder victims are almost equated to assassinated people. I suggest :Category:Assassinated people to only refer to assassinatations of people who either held some form of government position (diplomats, generals not active in a war situation, mayors) or are politicans. Clearly this would rule out the :Category:Assassinated journalists and :Category:Assassinated activists, as an example. Intangible 15:14, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  cat and subcats
Talk:2004–05 NHL lockout

message: I've put in a couple of ext links to "fan protest" sites.  Should there be a section, or a separate article, on fan reactions to the NHL lockout, or is this just blowing the story out of proportion? --Idont Havaname 03:42, 23 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Fan perspectives

message: This section appears to be problematic, due to its lack of references, and does not seem to written in a NPOV. It's more like a fan's rant of what's wrong with the NHL. It should be deleted. Richiekim (talk) 19:04, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Effects on the U.S. Hockey Market

message: I predict that in another 5 years we will be having another article like this one. It seems that since money is the biggest thing now and days, instead of just playing for the heck of it, they will keep going into strikes and lockouts every time the contract ends.
THE ABOVE STATEMENT IS MY OPINION. PLEASE DO NOT QUOTE ME OR ANYTHING ALONG THOSE LINES.
On another note, i think there should be a page that has every player suspended for the season.
--Kopicz (talk) 02:49, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Predictions 

message: Section: Effects of the Lockout, paragraph two focuses on the implications of ticket price changes on player salaries, with reference to past systems, uncited criticisms, and an article entirely centred around basketball tickets sales. I request/propose a revamp of this section. --219.89.8.9 (talk) 05:36, 23 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Effects of the lockout and Ticket Prices 

message: Can we include things other than sports-related impacts? Due to the fact most of its programming schedule was blanked by the lockout, the CBC network in Canada had to air extensive amounts of alternate programming, which resulted in the network becoming the first broadcaster in North America to air the revival of Doctor Who in April 2005, for example. 68.146.70.124 (talk) 00:56, 8 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Effects outside hockey section
Talk:Dune (franchise)

message: Hello, everybody. As the prequel book series has a separate page, I believe there should be one also for the main book series, and I made a draft on Draft:Dune (book series). What you guys think? Dabaduo (talk) 21:29, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, thanks for the work involved in this draft, but I personally agree with the reviewer 2pou that a split-out article is not necessary, and redundant. Dune (franchise) itself is already the main page about the original series of six novels. Dune prequel series is split out as a derivative series of 15 novels that would be cumbersome within this main article. Same for Dune short stories. Thanks.— TAnthonyTalk 15:23, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split part of the page 

message: :Talk:Paul Atreides#RfC on the infobox image has an RfC for possible consensus. A discussion is taking place. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments on the discussion page. Thank you. InfiniteNexus (talk) 22:51, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:Talk:Paul Atreides#RfC on the infobox image]] has an [[WP:RFC|RfC]]

message: The redirect Dune (franchise has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached.  Utopes (talk / cont) 01:04, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "[[:Dune (franchise]]" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:Randy's Donuts

message: Should a similar building, appearing in the Simpsons (I think?) merit a mention? Rhymeless
*Hmm..I think you're right.  Will do! - Lucky 6.9 03:21, 4 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  In Simpsons 

message: From the article: "One of only three similar buildings that survive in the area (the other two are in Los Angeles and La Puente), Randy's was built in 1953 as part of the now-defunct Big DoNut chain and is the lone remaining example."
According to the Randy's own website, that location was built in 1952. And it is not the lone example. At least three other Big Donut Drive-In locations still exist:
Kindle's Donuts at 10003 S. Normandie, L.A. is the original location, built in 1950
Donut King II at 15032 S Western Ave in Gardenia (date built unknown)
Dale's Donuts at 15904 S Atlantic Ave in Compton (date built unknown)
Each features Robert Graham's giant donut sculpture, each is still open. 
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Alphax τεχ 14:01, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  From a reader 

message: The caption for the aerial view photo near the end talks about how the donut is visible on the starboard side of the plane.  In the picture, it's on the left.   This means that the caption is wrong, or that the photo was taken looking backwards from the plane.    Either way, it might be better to say "visible on the left side of the photo", which makes the issue moot.   I would have changed it but I couldnt figure out how.
76.168.198.165 (talk) 10:15, 23 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  from another reader
Talk:Icky Flix

message: I ripped the DVD to my harddrive, and encoded the files to AVI. The DVD menu file in particular contains extra tracks. I assume these are easter eggs of a sort and not on the official track listing. But they ARE on the DVD, and SHOULD be counted, in my opinion, as they are tracks that are on it -- even if they aren't in the "official" list.  This includes: Wormwood (live) (1999 House Of Blues), with Conway Twitty - Night Music (live) (1990) (NBC), Pee Wee's Playhouse (1989) (ABC), Offbeat Night (1988) (Tele 5 Munich), Slow Bob (1991) (MTV) (from Slow Bob In The Lower Dimensions, by Henry Selick). Unlike the rest of the DVD, these bonus songs/tracks only have one audio track.
I know better than to put this in the actual article because then people like to get nasty with me. But someone else really oughtta do that... ClintJCL (talk) 16:25, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: I don't think the track listing is complete
Talk:Dan Inosanto

message: Here's an interesting bio from the Francis Fong Academy website. I'd love to see something about Dan's military service, how he met Bruce Lee, and how he got into the Filipino Martial Arts in the article. I'm busy this week, but I'll eventually get around the transcribing his interviews in the Definitive Inosanto Collection. Fascinating stuff! MoodyGroove (talk) 15:20, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Biographical information on Dan

message: Please someone explain how Chuck was trained by Inosanto when he was clearly trained by Korean martial artists. Please someone tell me Inosanto has a 10th degree black belt in Hapkido and Tang Soo Do.Ickesshadow (talk) 21:44, 30 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Chuck Norris?
Talk:Knäck

message: There is a serious error in this article. Knäck is really supposed to be hard rather than chewy. The core of the Daim bar is in fact very similar to the traditional Swedish knäck that is eaten at Christmas.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.238.197.249 (talk) 09:19, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Knäck is not soft 

message: Well, knäck can be either soft or hard. It all depends on how long you boil it. Many families make their own knäck for Christmas, and when you only do it once a year it's a bit tricky to get it exactly right. The result usually differs a bit from batch to batch, from family to family, and from year to year. // Lars  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.113.59.211 (talk) 14:21, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Knäck is not hard
Talk:RMS Scythia

message: Here is the original content of this article:
:I have written a short history of the Scythia,mainly because I wished to include into the history of the "1st.Kings Dragoon Guards". There was an inquirey in our local paper "Leicester Mercury" about a ship in Algiers harbour
in WW2. On November1st. 1940 the cunard White Star "Scythia" sailed from Liverpool to the middle east taking the First KDG to war.
This was the first time she had been used as a troop ship.
On March 11th 1948 the "Scythia" docked at Liverpool to bring home the 1stKDG,
leaving behind many comrades on the battlefields of North Africa,Italy and Greece.The Scythia was torpedoed by an aerial torpedo, she limped into harbour and settled on the bottom on November23rd.1942.Of the 4,300 men on board there were only five casualties.I have reports from local men that were onboard at the time and collated them into a little booklet, including photographs.
She was salvaged and taken for repair to New York in January 1942.
I should point out that I was on board for the Regimental return on March 11th
1948,having borded at Tobruk. 
amongst the anecdotes that I have recorded is one from Mr Norman Rich of Oadby
in leicestershire, he was abord the "Empress of Australia" anchored in Algiers when Scythia was struck,"the mail from home was lost and also musical instruments for use in forming a unit band for entertaining troops in North Africa,she just managed to stagger into harbour and disembark her troops" explained Mr Rich.On a happier note it was possible to salvage some of the musical instruments and with others obtained from street markets in Algiers a dance band was formed which in 1944 had Spike Milligan on trumpet.more details of the Scythia(which was scrapped in 1945 by Wards of Sheffield,so, built in 1921 she had an interesting life,if of interest to anyone,more details from me.
Brian Simpson. ex 1st.KDG. email brian@tankpark.freeserve.co.uk
Thanks for your contribution. It would be helpful if you signed off with typing 4 tildes, showing your name and a date.
I too sailed on the Scythia in November 1953 when I emigrated from the UK to Canada (yes, no draft there.) It delayed my further emigration to the U.S. in 1960.
JohnClarknew (talk) 03:15, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
Talk:Latvian language

message: Someone is trying to add an ablative case in this article (also Latvian declension) which does not exist in Latvian. As a native speaker of Latvian I first hear about it and I am very surprised of these attempts. Here is the explanation (in Latvian) of ablative in the data base of Terminology Commmission, Latvian Academy of Sciences saying that there is no ablative case in Latvian but the meaning of it is expressed with genitive:
 Dukurs (talk) 17:46, 5 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ablative case 

message: "in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia universalis (1544)" (title with small u)
"Cosmographia Universalis, 1544" (title with capital U)
Thus: The titles are contradicting, which is correct?
According to Cosmographia (Sebastian Münster)#Editions, there's only one, a German, edition of 1544, and its title page reads: "Cosmographia: Beschreibũg aller Lender důrch Sebastianum Munsterum [Nom.: Sebastianus Munsterus] in welcher begriffen, aller völcker, Herschafften, Stetten und namhafftiger flecken, herkom̃en: Sitten, gebreüch, ordnung, glauben, secten, und hantierung, durch die gantze welt, und fürnemlich Teütscher nation. Was auch besunders in iedem landt gefunden, unnd darin beschehen sey. Alles mit figuren und schönen landt taflen erklert, und für augen gestelt. Getruckt zů Basel durch Henrichum Petri. Anno M. D. XLiiij [1544]."
Thus, both titles (Cosmographia universalis and Cosmographia Universalis) or the year is wrong (that it's not 1544 from the first German edition, but some later year and edition). Also on which page is the prayer (or in which section if there are no page numbers)?
— Preceding unsigned comment added by  ‎ Der Zeitmeister (talk • contribs) 20:10, 2 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: What's the question here? Is it whether the "u" of "universal" should be upper- or lowercase? Seriously? --MF-W 20:43, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cosmographia universalis 

message: And we have 1 Raven black Labrador 
We’re not from america we own Lithuania all $ and And our address is Nottingham Forest Townhome 14333 Memorial Drive #57, Houston, Texas 77079 
We’re Labrite hello and from Munich Germany also 2601:2C0:8D01:D3A0:504B:5968:1EC3:7EAC (talk) 04:55, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Us 12 am 12.31.46 1 female 1 person finly name changed is Finly Finly & 5/15/2000 24 years old now 1 Allen Walter Manhard & 1 male grown good man is my husband is my husband companion he’s a texas atm journalism graduate all a’s and 1 47 year old 9/11/1968 and 1 male 1 st Walter
Talk:Ilunga

message: Sorry, User:Toytoy, the source for the todays translation is already (again) in Words hardest to translate, so there is no reason to include it into the Illunga article. Calling this vandalism seems a bit problematic to me. -- till we ☼☽ | Talk 11:36, 21 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism? 

message: This is about an obscure name whose only claim to fame is that an insignificant translation company mistook it for a common noun and further claimed it was hard to translate (although it isn't).  Today Translations is not even important enough to have an article, but some incorrect and insignificant thing they said once is important enough?
The page is not even valid as a disambiguation page for people called Ilunga, given that none of them have articles either.
This needs to be turned into a redirect to Translation. Chameleon 17:59, 10 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  Could we please find some sources suggesting that the translation company was incorrect?  I feel uncomfortable that the whole first half of this article frames a controversy that has no supporting evidence.  Webster100 (talk) 12:20, 15 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I completely agree with Chameleon.  This is a stupid press release making an unverifiable claim that happened to get picked up by BBC News, which is notorious for passing on idiotic pseudoscientific stories. (I will bet cash money the "linguists" they cite are random people who answered the phone when they called for comment; no actual linguist would make or support such a ridiculous claim.)  And what kind of "source" do you want? There's obviously not going to be a book out there debunking every random claim some self-promoting company makes.  There is no reason for this Wikipedia page to exist, and I hope it will be deleted. Languagehat (talk) 12:57, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirect
Talk:Quba District (Azerbaijan)

message: We need to expand this article by adding more information and pictures to this article. Baku87 19:08, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: took a stab at the history section, I will create a separate article for the Krasnaya Sloboda area since it probably would be a little big for a subsection of Quba. -- Bobak 22:59, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Expand

message: I believe changes need to be made to the Guba mass grave section of this article. It is completely biased and the sources used, some which are dead links, are all from Azeri news sites. Ninetoyadome (talk) 21:05, 4 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I am going to cut most of that content (pov unsuitable sources and undue weight issues) and move the remainder into the points of interest section. BTW, there is also something wrong with this talk page - it is linked to both the Quba city and Quba district articles. Tiptoethrutheminefield (talk) 19:23, 7 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guba Mass Grave 
Talk:Fibre Channel zoning

message: VSANs
Why are VSANs in this description?  I thought VSANs were Cisco Proprietary  - and I also thought that port based zoning was another Cisco thing.  I'm fairly new to Fibre Channel, so I'm not editing the article, but it seems to me to have been written through "Cisco-coloured glasses" so to speak.
Rednectar.chris (talk) 21:17, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I think this article should say that VSANs are something different than zones. This would be helpful. It shouldn't include outright endorsement of one vendor. It seems to me that the two sentences you are referring to are OK in both aspects. Can you improve them? --Kubanczyk (talk) 10:01, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cisco-coloured glasses?
Talk:History of sculpture

message: only the aegeaen prehistory sculpture is covered.
Romasn copied greek sculpture, and used greek sculptors to do it! This isnt fair!
:Perhaps there is no coverage of Greek sculpture because YOU have not done it yet? Still there should be something so let's see what can be found. Carptrash 23:02, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  WHY NO GREEK SCULPTURE? 

message: :"Moses' rejection of the Golden Calf was perhaps a decisive event in the history of sculpture." 
and moved it here and am NOT inclined to have it be returned without some sourcing.  And that had better be good.  Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 01:23, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  I cut this sentence out 

message: in the Americas section. "In South America, wood was sculpted for totems, totem poles, masks, and boats."  it seems to me that South should be North but who knows?  Do you?  I am inclined to change it pretty soon.  Einar aka Carptrash (talk) 21:43, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree, good catch...Modernist (talk) 22:12, 20 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  I found this sentence
Talk:Into the Fire (Babylon 5)

message: Is the director the Kevin Dobson who played in Knots Landing ? Lvr 15:16, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Kevin Dobson
Talk:Consonant mutation

message: Would Korean also qualify as having consonant mutation? It sounds like it has some examples similar to Japanese, but I'm not sure if they qualify. These do not occur between words and are not allophonic (but may merge or separate sounds):
Unreleased stops become a released stop, affricate, or fricative when followed by a vowel, such as the stem /it̚/ turning into /i.s͈jo/ when adding a politeness suffix. Which one it turns into is virtually always the same for a given morpheme, which is reflecting in their writing system. (In the example above, 있요 sounds like 이쑈, but even when the stem is alone, one writes 있- and not 읻-)
Similarly, an tenuis stop, affricate, or fricative can become fortis when preceded by an unreleased stop, unless it's a coronal stop → fricative sequence (in which case they turn into /s.s͈/) or ㅎ followed by an unaspirated stop or affricate (which makes them aspirated).
Unreleased stops followed by a nasal turn into nasals themselves. For example, /ip̚.ni.ta/ becomes /im.ni.ta/.
I would assume that since allophones are typically non-phonemic (the only phonemically significant ones occur when /t̚/ is followed by a vowel in a suffix or another word, which is sandhi, not consonant mutation), they would not count, despite most of them only occurring word-internally.
Blanket P.I. (talk) 19:14, 17 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding Korean? 

message: All discussions pre-dating 2017 have been archived at Talk:Consonant mutation/Archive 1 due to the newest post being from 2013 going back to 2005. – Dyolf87 (talk) 14:37, 2 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Archive 1
Talk:Roberto Heras

message: I have a really hard time figuring out Roberto Heras' birthdate. First it was Jan 01 OR Feb 02. I then looked on his homepage robertoheras.[com,net] and it said Feb 01. But Yahoo! Sports claims it's Feb 21?!?! Shouldn't we just leave it 1974 (without specifying the actual date)?
Yeah, I had the same problem when i was tyring to compile this article. I've seen it as 1/2 and 2/1, and have no idea whether that is in m/d or d/m format. 1974 might work best for now.
:If there's so much disparity in the sources it should be left at 1974. See also WP:NPF and WP:BLP#Privacy of personal information. Ruodyssey (talk) 08:46, 17 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Date of birth missing

message: The article says he's won the Vuelta three times, but has he officially been disqualified from the 2005 race yet?  As I understand it, there is an appeal taking place.  Shouldn't it be four victories until the outcome of his appeal?
: Not only was there an appeal taking place, Heras won it. (source: http://www.velonation.com/News/ID/8851/Roberto-Heras-2005-Vuelta-positive-overturned-by-Spanish-court.aspx ). He won it on a procedural mistake, but he still won it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.211.216.99 (talk) 00:40, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Vuelta victories
Talk:XM29 OICW

message: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XM25_Individual_Airburst_Weapon_System
That is the final result of this project. Nikurasu (talk) 09:35, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  OICW project is not dead, per se 

message: Officially, XM29 is not supposed to have a dash in it.  Any objection to me changing the name of the article?  I'll leave this question for a little while before I do it. Chuck 00:45, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title 

message: I happened to notice that a large portion of the text in the article (which appeared with the 5th or 6th version) seems to be copied directly from the following website:
http://world.guns.ru/assault/as40-e.htm
I am not sure which came first, but the author of the website posts a copyright notice on his page, and if we are infringing, the article should probably be rewritten.
If someone things it is appropriate to email him asking who the text originally belonged to, his email, from the site is this:
mailto:mpopenker@hotmail.ru
Blazotron 00:15, 13 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  copyright issues 

message: Do the weights listed at the end of the article (5.5 kg empty, 7 kg loaded) refer to the "block 3" prototype pictured at the top of the article? Redxiv 22:56, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: *That sounds more like the objective weight limits for the program.  The XM29 prototypes never came close, which is why they switched to a spiral development plan. D.E. Watters 03:49, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weight 