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Talk:Robert W. McChesney

message: Editor "The Mack Attack" is the subject of and major contributor to this article in contravention on Wikipedia guidelines. Be aware, we will have to carefully revisit the article. Capitalismojo (talk) 03:46, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: what an unholy conflicted piece of shit that article was.   Will have to work on rebuilding a real article on the guy. Jytdog (talk) 04:32, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: You made a good start. As they say "brevity is the soul of wit." Capitalismojo (talk) 04:36, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflict of Interest 

message: Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: Robert W. McChesney, "The Struggle for Democratic Media: Lessons from the North and from the Left" in The International Political Economy of Communication, p 13. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.)
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thread_title:  Copyright problem removed
Talk:Tone contour

message: Concerning this: , how to summarize, then, these conflicting facts in better words:
*Tone (linguistics)#Africa: 1=high, 5=low
*Tone (linguistics)#The Americas: 1=high, 5=low
*Bench language#Sounds: 1=low, 5=high
What I wanted to write was just a simple warning. Knowledgeable writers please expand. -- Felix Wan 00:39, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it does address that now. You can make it a more obvious warning if you like; I only objected because it sounded as though the systems were inconsistant on each continent. AFAIK, Asia is reliably one way, and Africa/America reliably the other. kwami 01:48, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other usage weasle words 

message: The following block of text was placed under  Chao's Tone Letters .
Jack Gandour (1977), Counterfeit tones in the speech of Southern Thai bidialectals. In: Lingua, 41, p. 125-143: This article is mentioned in Victoria A. Fromkin (1980), Errors in Linguistic Performance. Slips of the Tongue, Ear, Pen, and Hand, and in this book in her Introduction (p. 1-12) where she says (p. 8), Gandour shows "that tones or tonal features are anticipated, persevere, or reverse as do segments" in speech errors. Tone in tone languages discriminates the semantics of words (of the same sounds: consonants and vowels) and therefore it is underlying errors in the same way as do semantic features in not-tone languages (showing tone contours over more than a word: a phrase).
The number of so-called tones in Asian tone languages differs. There are e.g. the tones (concerning the pitch contour of a vowel) 'high rise', 'low rise', 'high fall', 'low fall', 'high level', 'low level', 'mid level', and their combinations concerning one vowel of the (one-syllable) word (s. Lisa Schiefer in the late 1980s).
For Chinese, which is a tonal language, the pronunciation of a syllable in a particular tone gives information that a listener in that language fluently is able to discern. For Mandarin Chinese, there are four basic tones.
I've removed it here, because it is badly written, rambling and has nothing to expand or elucidate what Chao's Tone Letters are. Dylanwhs (talk) 09:15, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Text removed to discussion page. 

message: Forgot to put an edit summary: "Order didn't seem to matter".174.3.123.13 (talk) 22:21, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  My Edit 

message: It looks like Checked tone is not detailed under Tone contour#Transcription. Changsha dialect#Tones uses the notation "˨˦ʔ (24) or aʔ". The ʔ and prime symbol (if that's correct?) should be explained in the Transcription section. -- Beland (talk) 18:02, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Checked tone notation
Talk:Tetracameralism

message: I didn't know if law or government stub fit best here so I included both. go ahead and switch them or remove on if needed. Felixboy 18:39, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

message: I'm removing the following because it is not an example of tetracameralism, where there are four chambers that vote on bills:
The most important example of tetracameralism is the Directorate regime in France (beginning of the 19th century, the period between the French Revolution and the First Empire of Napoleon Bonaparte). There was an inneficient Parliament with 4 chambers: Senate, House of Representatives,Tribunate and Legislative Council. The 5 directors (heads of state) had the right to initiate laws, then the Legislative Council wrote them in a professional style; the Tribunate discussed them in a public session, and after that the law is (most certainly) sent to the 2 main houses (Senate and House of Representatives) for voting. This complicate system was abolished by Napoleon after his proclamation as emperor.
As I understand the above-given example, only two chambers actually vote on bills, although they are discussed and written up by two other chambers. It seems to me that the other two "chambers" are committees, one that writes up the laws in professional style, and the other that discusses it publicly. In Scandinavian tetracameralism all four chambers vote on proposed bills. Similarly, in the tricameralism of Apartheid South Africa, Simón Bolívar, and the French Ancien Régime, each of the three chambers voted on proposed bills.
Boreanesia 07:05, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: French Directorate Regime Example
Talk:D'ni wildlife

message: I don't ever recall seeing dragons in Myst.  Can someone clear this up for me? Alksub 01:01, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Dragons

message: I had to coin the names "pseudo-bamboo", "Kemo moss" and "umbel trees".  If anyone knows the official names for these or the ground-cover plants, please supply them!Cactus Wren 22:40, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Plant life names

message: Negilahn is officially out in Uru Live, and fireflies (Kiri?), the Urwin and a monkey (maybe the Pumi?) have all been sighted in game. Should we just change the Uru:ABM section to Uru Live, or create a separate one for the online game? Luiswulf 20:47, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Negilahn
Talk:Indian Laser Association

message: * Obviously written by someone involved with the ILA - reads like an advertisement. I will propose deletion unless it is rewritten neutrally. Escheffel 01:11, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: My name is tabish (laserdude1).
I am 13 years old and I wanted to know if I can ship a 100Mw laser from America and if it is legally allowed to ship and come in to India.
Thank you 
Yours sincerely Tabish (laserdude1). Laserdude1 (talk) 07:03, 29 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lasers
Talk:Mithridates III of Pontus

message: Pontus, as it were, did not completely disappear from history however.  Its conflict with Antiochus III, the Seleucid king of Syria and Mesopotomia (and subsquent descendent of the general Seluecus who campaigned with Alexander of Macedon) greatly reduced Pontus however to continued to exist after Mithridates' death.
:Nobody doubts the kingdom and the dynasty continued to exist: but simply there is not a single source for ANY event between 220 BC (a marriage) and 183 BC (take of Sinope). Acient sources simply don't mention Pontus in these years. Aldux 11:26, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love

message: "Gloria is about to tell Burns that she is breaking up..."
Like a ship?  Not breaking up with him, because after all it is their first date. Brainhell 01:15, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: confusing

message: I'm pretty sure that the menu at the Chinese restaurant says "sweetened" in any of these, but the video quality wasn't good enough for me to be sure it says sweetened - I know it starts with s, ends in -ed and looks like "sweetened" but I'm not 100% sure that's the word - if anyone is sure of the word please change it or confirm it on here. JW 04:03, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  I'm not 100% sure 

message: Can someone please tell me what does Hunka Hunka mean exactly?
Norum 07:35, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hunka Hunka  
Talk:Defrag

message: Thinking this entire article can be scrapped and "defrag" redirected to "defragmentation."  Historical trivia can be incorporated into that article if needed.  Both articles are hideous incomplete, ex: neither article mentions Diskkeeper which was popular NT 4.0 era (and current?) defrag utility.  Once windows started it's auto-optimization, defrag has been less and less prominent in computer services.  Used to be a default lazy tech answer (ie:  did you reboot?  relog?  re-install?  defrag?) but it's rarely justified today.
::As of today, Diskkeeper was mentioned in the defragment article.  In fact, Diskkeeper has a full and well written article of its own.  This information is of historic interest, and the tools mentioned herein are still in use by a sizable portion of the global population.  Google for OS market share, and you'll find that there is still a considerable pre-NT kernel, FAT-only install base. 159.218.12.161 16:08, 1 November 2006 (UTC)

message: In my opinion, this article contained how-to content when listed things as .. "Move the files blah blah blah etc", altho being introduced in another way. Styled the list in this format: "the used methods include -- moving the files, ..." 
I think it's more acceptable now than it was. Santtus 09:46, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  howto content 

message: NT didn't offer a defragmenter because they were strongly pushing use of NTFS at that time, which isn't as vulnerable to fragmentation. --Improv 15:35, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  NT and defrag
Talk:List of universities in Peru

message: Considering that La Libertad region has seven universities and they are all located in the same city (Trujillo), I think it could the name could be City of Trujillo, because it's the same thing that in Lima (all the universities are located in the main city of the region).
Mr. Anonymous, if you take a look at the list, you will notice that many of the regions only have one city with universities. There are two reasons for the city of Lima being separate from the region.
# It is not part of the Lima Region it is part of the Lima Province which does not belong to any region
# It is the capital of the country. Being the capital gives it special privledges
Thanks, Vivaperucarajo 07:54, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This article needs a lot of cleanup.  talk 06:26, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Headings are messed up
Talk:John James Shepherd

message: Why is this page called John James Shepherd but it is about Adam Ward?--69.143.110.238 01:31, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Brendan Canty

message: Who is his wife? Is it the guitarist from Bikini Kill? Kathi Wilcox?
Updated information on the Burn to Shine series. Chris Berry 06:08, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Prior

message: Dunno, if it helps you, but "a priori" means "before" AFAIK. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.60.9.170 (talk • contribs) February 14, 2006 (UTC)
:Trying the following may also help. Click on Prior disambiguation - full description then available. Hope it works for you.--24.196.130.147 17:08, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The order should not be alphabetical. It should be by likelihood of getting clicked on. Srnec (talk) 00:08, 9 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Order
Talk:Eglinton Subway Line

message: What color is this line most likely?? It can't be yellow, green, blue, or purple because those are the colors of the already-existent lines. Georgia guy 01:54, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

message: This article seems to discuss the same proposed subway line in Toronto as the referenced article Eglinton West subway, and the referenced articles seems to better comply with wikification. WVhybrid 19:22, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge
Talk:Surin province

message: I edited the sentence in the History section that previously stated "Some temple ruins are all that remain from this period" (the Khmer Empire Period).  A very important cultural and linguistic remnant from this period is the people themselves.  The sizable Khmer population of Surin Province is also remnants from this period.  I changed the sentence to read  "Scattered temple ruins and a large ethnic Khmer population are remnants from this period."  I'm still not happy with the wording but I'm really liking this article so far and didn't want to change the feel of it too much.  Any comments or suggestions?--WilliamThweatt 02:01, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Excellent point.  As I said, I still wasn't happy with the wording...now even less so.  I don't have time now but I will try to fix it later this evening if somebody doesn't do it first. --WilliamThweatt 15:01, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

text: I was born in this province, Surin, of Thailand.  I've always identified my Hometown as Thailand because I didn't even know that this province Surin still exsisted.  But with the advance technology of the internet (Wikipedia), I actually learned something profoundly new about my birth place...How exciting is that! I just wanted to share my thoughts....now I plan of visiting my Province birthplace of Surin, Thailand. (User: Cindy Ith) October 11, 2006.
I have made some major and minor changes to the Surin province page. I have expanded the history section, relying on information from the new Surin Museum, a booklet published by the Museum, and displays in the various government offices in the town. I have also made an effort to revise the grammar and syntax of page.
Ian@large 17:40, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: An anonymous user repeatedly inserted the claim that 70% of the population is of Khmer ethnicity, but without any source. I doubt that number to be way to high, but as the 2000 Thai census apparently did not contain anything on ethnic I can not provide any source on my feeling either. Does anyone have any reliable source for the minorities in this province? andy (talk) 07:52, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Khmer minority
Talk:Caloundra

message: Can someone familiar with this community add information as to the pronunciation of the name?  Richwales 07:01, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done.  Thanks to Arnzy for providing this info.  Richwales 17:15, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation of "Caloundra" 

message: I edited the pronunciation to show that the 'd' in Caloundra is pronounced as a J sound. Someone reverted this to a d sound (but did change the final schwa sound to an ʌ sound and I do agree with this change). Now, I'm an Australian, and I have friends in Caloundra. The ONLY time I would see the d pronounced as a D is from a foreigners perspective. But no Australian would ever pronounce it as a D, always a J. Instead of reverting the other party's revert of my edit, I'm bringing this discussion here as I'm 100% sure I'm in the right but don't want to start a revert war KesshouRyuu (talk) 23:33, 27 December 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: "but don't want to start a revert war" – which . /dʒ/ produces a sound like "jam", which is not how "dry" (Macquarie: /draɪ/) or "Caloundra" is pronounced in any dialect. Following WP:BRD, I'm going to restore the original pronunciation until your version finds consensus. This page is not widely watched, so I suggest you raise the matter at some project talk page, e.g. at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Australian places or Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Queensland. -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 05:41, 28 December 2019 (UTC)

text: I am no expert with IPAC but I am a long time Queensland resident and native Australian English speaker and visited Caloundra most of my life and the D in Caloundra does not sound remotely like "jam" to me. Kerry (talk) 04:59, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation disagreement 

message: I have removed the table below and following sentences because it was uncited and, when I tried to find citations, I can't find census records that match these numbers. To begin with, there is no UCL data (what you normally use for a town) for Caloundra in the 2021 Census at all (which is somewhat curious, but it is what it is). The 2016 value is the number of people in the Caloundra state electorate (not the town). There is no value in the 2011 census that matches the population value for 2011 below (possibly it's the addition of some of the values?). Happy to see a population table restored if the data is cited and appropriate. 
Year	Population
1933	271
1947	1,718
1954	2,124
1961	2,807
1966	3,657
1971	6,150
1976	10,602
1981	16,758
1986	16,215
1991	22,959
1996	29,096
2001	34,879
2006	41,293
2011	47,762
2016	51,095
Census populations for the Caloundra urban centre have been recorded since 1933. Since the 2001 census, it is divided between the Caloundra North and Caloundra South statistical local areas. The drop between 1981 and 1986 reflects an adjustment of the boundary with the Kawana Waters urban centre.
Kerry (talk) 05:43, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population data
Talk:Fullback

message: Should this page be broken into several smaller articles? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Cardshark04 (talk • contribs) 22:09, 14 February 2006
:Yes. —Disavian (talk/contribs) 23:30, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Not necessary Mayumashu 15:43, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Split?

message: The quarterback, halfback(s) (not used much in modern football), and fullback derived their name from the fact that they originally lined up with the quarterback closest to the line (about a quarter of the way back), and the fullback furthest away with the halfback(s) in between. Eventually, the halfback became known as the tailback or running back and moved to the back of the backfield, with the fullback moving in between the quarterback and tail/running back. Can we cite a source for this and mention it in the article? Thanks... 4.242.147.146 23:58, 11 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  How does the fullback relate to the (obsolete) halfback?
Talk:Woodinville, Washington

message: Why is an image of the Ste. Michelle Winery identified as a skyline? - Jmabel | Talk 03:57, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Skyline 

message: I'm confused why the notable residents include lots of famous people who were born and reside on the east coast (Jon Bon Jovi, who is from NJ, Al Roker who is a New Yorker, Jim Varney who was from the southeast...) and midwest (Tim Allen who apparently is from Michigan...) If there is no citation for any of these people having ties to the Northwest I am going to remove it, it strikes me as someone playing a prank. –71.35.141.45 (talk) 21:53, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  notable residents? 

message: I was right, it _was_ trivial. http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=20051013&slug=crowe13 --SarekOfVulcan (talk) 06:16, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crowe 

message: There is a local free passed out medium sized newspaper depicting local events like school events and fairs. --Clark89 (talk) 22:36, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Woodinville Weekly 

message: Not sure what's the source of the error, but the notion that Woodinville's population in 1990 was more than double its population in 2000 is just wacky. (see inset box under "Demographics") --Haruo (talk) 22:46, 7 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Just speculating: does the 1990 figure perhaps include all areas with Woodinville ZIP codes, but 2000 & 2010 only the incorporated city limits? --Haruo (talk) 01:33, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historical population data error
Talk:Michael Czugaj

message: How do you say this suckers name?--Steven X 02:15, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation

message: Should we add something about how he's lucky he didn't appeal further, and therefore escaped a possible death penalty? 58.178.95.43 05:58, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No. See No original research. -- Longhair 06:06, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional Stuff. 
Talk:Joan Fuster

message: It seems odd to me that Paisos catalans is translated as Catalan countries but Pais Valencia[no] is the land of Valencia.
Neither is exactly ... English.  Catalan countries is as close as we're gonna get, but I don't see any reason to adopt "land" as a translation for pais (from the Catalan or from the Castilian).
Blondlieut 02:16, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, the translation of "País Valencià" is "Valencian Country". The name of "Land of Valencia" is a denomination used from valencian autonomous government as "Valencian Community" is so ambigous. Cheers. --Joanot Martorell ✉ 13:09, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Translations

message: Can someone with authority over Wikipedia please, please, please spread the word to contributors that 'in Catalan/German/Russian language' is NOT good English, in any context? It should be 'in THE Catalan/German/Russian language' or, far more naturally, 'in Catalan/German/Russian'. I keep coming across this error in otherwise well-written articles, and I can only suppose people copy it from each other on the assumption it must be correct.188.203.49.105 (talk) 18:51, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  'in Catalan language' 

message: ::It is noted apropos of nothing else, that Joan Fuster is a homosexual. It does not add anything to the article and I wonder if the information can be deleted as irrelevent? Thank you bobdog54 (talk) 21:21, 8 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: This is an important matter that should be further expanded. As the Spanish Wikipedia article on Joan Fuster now indicates, "Aunque nunca hizo declaraciones públicas al respecto, Joan Fuster era homosexual y tematizó esto en su poema "Criatura dolcissima".​ El cantautor catalán abiertamente gay Lluís Llach ha musicalizado este poema" (While he never made public declarations regarding this matter, Joan Fuster was homosexual and thematized this in his poem "Criatura dolcissima". The openly-gay Catalan singer-songwriter Lluís Llach has a song based on this poem). The citation is the Spanish Wikipedia article is the same as in the English one, Monton, Albert (9 April 2013). «L'últim tabú sobre Joan Fuster». El Matí digital. See https://elmati.cat/l%C2%92ultim-tabu-sobre-joan-fuster/ --Lawrlafo (talk) 19:56, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is the Sexual Orientation of Joan Fuster important?