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Talk:TARDIS

message: I came to this page expecting to see a mention of this acronym - as per 'The Next Doctor'. Should I try to squeeze in a reference? If so where would be best? 1.43.41.96 (talk) 14:05, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tethered Aerial Release Developed In Style 

message: I haven't edited the article directly because I know there have been some past issues relating to a certain writer and the extent of their contribution to the early history of Doctor Who, but I'm not sure about the accuracy of the following sentence from Conceptual history section.
"The idea for the police-box disguise came from a BBC staff writer, Anthony Coburn, who rewrote the programme's first episode from a draft by C. E. Webber." 
This sites two sources, one of them being Howe, David J.; Stephen James Walker (2003). The Television Companion: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who. I do not have access to this book. The second is a BBC News article where Jason Onion (a fan builder of a TARDIS replica) says that Anthony Coburn states that the police box design originated from Anthony Coburn.  However, the above sentence was already in the TARDIS Wikipedia page before this article was written – is it not possible that Mr Onion's information comes from this page itself?
Furthermore, I have in front of me Hearn, M. (2013) Doctor Who: The Vault: Treasures from the First 50 Years. This states that, while Anthony Coburn invented the name TARDIS while writing an Unearthly Child, the idea for the police box appearance of the "ship" is already cited in a document from May 1963, which would have been before Anthony Coburn did his draft of the first episode (The Giants was originally the first story, until it was scrapped in June 1963, which is when Coburn's story was brought forward and his draft of An Unearthly Child written). A copy of the document can be found in the BBC archives as page 1, page 2 and page 3. This would mean that credit for the Police Box exterior should go to Wilson, Webber and Newman, unless Coburn came up with the idea independently as well? However, it seems more likely to me that accounts of Coburn coming up with the Police Box idea came from him or others claiming credit after the fact or, perhaps more likely, misremembering. The Professor (talk) 15:25, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conceptual history: Police box exterior origins
Talk:Audio compression

message: yes, it should
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This page has nothing to do with speech compression.
There are two meanings to "audio compression", one of them level or loudness compression, i.e. dynamic range reduction, and the other bit rate reduction.
Speech compression is mostly different, in that audio compression uses sophisticated perceptual coding methods, and speech compression uses mostly least-mean-squares compression methods, which work well for speech because of the very limited gamut (mathematically speaking) involved in the spoken voice. Suggesting a merge is wrong on multiple counts, and would, frankly, constitute such a level of misinformation as to constitute vandalism in my opinion.
Woodinville (talk) 06:50, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Diving duck

message: Tony, is there a reason why the pic isn't in the taxobox? Just asking. I can do it for you if you wish but I didn't want to go ahead if there was a reason why you put it where you did.
Adrian Pingstone 12:20 7 Jul 2003 (UTC)
It mentions that they're part of the Anatinae family twice.. Should it say this? 
I thought this article was about 'diving ducks' and not 'dabbling ducks'. At the bottom of the systematics, this can be found: 
FAMILY ANATIDAE
Subfamily Aythyinae: dabbling ducks
I'm not knowledgeable on the subject so I don't want to edit it but it doesn't seem logical.
Regards, 
--ogenstein 02:39, 30 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Bucephala is mentioned in the article text, but missing entirely from the systematics section. --arkuat (talk) 00:10, 12 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's Merginae (or Mergini): seaducks, not diving ducks. Dysmorodrepanis (talk) 02:34, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Genus Bucephala not treated in systematics section
Talk:List of soccer clubs in the United States

message: What about indoor soccer? Rmhermen 13:34 7 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Should WUSA even be mentioned?  It's listed ahead of two active leagues - which makes no sense to me.  Megamemnon 23:43, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: For a list called "List of soccer clubs in the United States" there sure is a lot of Canadian clubs in there. --Eamonnca1 TALK 00:09, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The problem is that the leagues are sanctioned by a body in the United States but the teams in those leagues are located in Canadian cities. Walter Görlitz (talk) 00:54, 26 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  USA only? 

message: Has nothing to do with current NWSL teams. No Portland, Seattle, etc.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.189.80.18 (talk) 09:16, 1 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map under women's soccer is way off 

message: Moving your mouse over Greenville tells you that the link goes to a page for "Upstate South Carolina."  However, since both North Carolina and South Carolina have a city named Greenville, I think to make it easier to find out which state the page means "Greenville" should be changed to "Greenville, SC."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by EvanJ35 (talk • contribs) 13:08, 11 August 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Done, good suggestion. Jay eyem (talk) 21:00, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Greenville (Market 44 in the list) 

message: Because the USL League One page, which is transcluded in this page, uses the same level of headings that this page uses for leagues, teh subsections of USL League One -- future teams and team map -- aren't aligned properly here and show up in the TOC at the same hiearchy as leagues.
I tried a couple ways to fix this, but it only seemed to make it worse. Does someone know of a solution? Of course, there's always not transcluding, which we also don't do for the other league sections. Keith D. Tyler ¶ 11:06, 27 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transclusion of USL League One and headers
Talk:Dicyclic group

message: Dicylic groups are in general not nilpotent. Consider
the case where A is cyclic of order 6. In this case
the corresponding dicyclic group of order 12 is
not nilpotent. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.51.166.3 (talk • contribs) 16:00, 7 July 2003‎
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Is the restriction that n > 1 actually necessary? It seems to me like the dicyclic group of order 4 should simply be the cyclic group. —Caesura(t) 00:09, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

message: It appears different authors have different definitions. Some call all of these groups generalized quaternion groups. See my edits there for more info. RobHar (talk) 09:53, 7 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Different definitions 

message: I think "More generally, when n is a power of 2, the dicyclic group is isomorphic to the generalized quaternion group." is wrong. Because the conditions a^(2n) = 1 (if I interpret a^(2n) = 1 so, that a has order 2n) and b^2 = a^n for dicyclic groups implies order(b) = 4 and so it has the same presentation as sie quaternion group.  
Where is my mistake?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.51.131.52 (talk) 16:01, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmmmm.. this article isn't well referenced! I have a reference that defines the first part, "When n = 2, the dicyclic group is isomorphic to the quaternion group Q." but not on the second above, with the generalized quaternion group. Okay, Coxeter talks about it at  in Regular Complex Polytopes p. 82. But perhaps there are different definitions so maybe someone else can help clarify? Tom Ruen (talk) 23:52, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Connection between ''generalized'' quaternion group and dicyclic group
Talk:Herbicide

message: "The first widely used herbicide was 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid, often abbreviated 2,4-D. It was developed by a British team during World War II and first saw widespread production and use in the late 1940s. ..."
No. First herbicides used were probably salts (rock salt, sea salt, potassium salts) more than 2000 years ago (just think about the biblical mentioning of rendering fields sterile by salting the soil, or the same that Romans did around Cartago after its defeat).
First technical chemicals, used as herbicides were copper and iron sulfates, sulfuric acid and most importantly, chlorates (sodium, potassium, magnesium chlorates). These were used from the mid 19th century onwards. In early 20th century, petroleum- and tar-derived herbicides, such as creosote oil, the inorganic potassium cyanate (still used in some regions mainly as a defoliant) and first synthetic organic compounds (notably 2,4-dinitrophenol and 2,4-dinitrocresole) went in use.
2,4-D and related compounds were first synthetic selective herbicides.--84.163.98.9 17:06, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It may have taken 16 years, but hopefully this is better dealt with now. The literature does seem to make a distinction between generally toxic compounds (which kill everything) and those which specifically affect plants. SmartSE (talk) 15:15, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  First herbicide was not 2,4-D 

message: This article has been tagged since 2015 with the reason: . I am inclined to agree with this since the article still does not discuss any of the benefits of herbicides in terms of increased yield, food security, decreased costs etc. To fix this, we first need to find some suitable sources though. This is one possibility, but it is US-centric and the authors are pesticide industry advocates, which some may object to. Ideally we'd find a source which is itself more balanced and covers a worldwide viewpoint. SmartSE (talk) 14:14, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Another related but important omission is describing the problems that weeds cause. Herbicides and Plant Physiology has data showing yield losses > 90 %: Available via WP:TWL. SmartSE (talk) 15:10, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm inclined to disagree on the negative slant in the article; there's certainly room to talk about the benefits conferred by the development of herbicides, but the article isn't overly negative. I removed the templates reflecting that the viewpoint was skewed towards risk, did a pass over a lot of the prose, and added some references; if you think it's still lacking then feel free to add the template again, but it seems neutral to me. Reconrabbit 20:04, 27 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Undue tag - benefits of herbicides
Talk:Judicial functions of the House of Lords

message: "Normally, the Lord Chancellor presides at the trial. If, however, a peer is tried for high treason, the Lord High Steward presides."  According to our article Lord High Steward, if a peer was tried, a Lord High Steward was appointed to preside over the trial.  This was usually the Lord Chancellor, the usual president of the House of Lords. J S Ayer (talk) 13:26, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lord Chancellor and Lord High Steward 

message: So, current statement: "A panel of Law Lords—the Lord Chancellor, three former Lord Chancellors, a former Lord Chancellor of Ireland and a former Lord Chief Justice" were involved in reviewing O'Connell's case.
Okay, so the current Lord Chancellor in 1844 was Lord Lyndhurst; the former Lord Chancellor of Ireland was either Lord Plunket or Lord Campbell (it'd be nice to know which); two of the former Lord Chancellors must have been Lord Brougham and Lord Cottenham.  But I can't figure out who the third former lord chancellor or the former Lord Chief Justice might have been.  The other most recent Lord Chancellors were Lord Erskine and Lord Eldon, both of whom had been dead for some time by 1844.  So far as I can tell, there were no living former Lord Chief Justices, either - both Lord Ellenborough and Lord Tenterden were long dead.  Am I missing something? john k (talk) 15:31, 27 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  O'Connell 
Talk:Synecdoche

message: I need to do some research before I make any changes here, but I believe it is incorrect to say that Synecdoche is a form of Metonymy. Though closely related, I believe they are distinct figures of speech.
A Metonymy replaces the (dare I say) literal with something associated with the literal, vis:(this statement is close yet merly true, a metonymy substitutes a symbol for whole synechdoche in other words a part of a whole.)lets just say the idea is correct but the phrasement had been a little off.
"Can I have another cup?" When you are asking for more coffee.
"Nice mouth!" When you are retorting the cuss words used in a flame.
A Synecdoche, by contrast, replaces the (here I go again) literal with (basically) either a part of the something, or the whole class to which the something belongs. Vis:
Part put for whole:
"His feet are swift to shed blood." More than his feet are at fault for his evil ways; he is.
Whole put for part:
"Everyone hates her." In truth, only the speaker and perhaps the speaker's friends, from among the inhabitants of the whole earth, hate her.
user:jstanley01
:A slightly clearer use of synechdoche is the literal sense: "All hands on deck!", etc. Without needing a lot of interpretation, etc., this makes things a bit easier to follow, I think; good way to extend it deeper, though. user:zarquan42
Ten-Four. "All hands on deck" is a great Synecdoche! It is a better example to illustrate the figure of speech too, when a part is put for the whole. A part, the crewmen's "hands" are put figuratively to represent the crewmen.
"His feet are swift to shed blood" contains at least one more figure, a type of Metonymy called Metalepsis or Double Metonymy, where "to shed blood" is put for "to kill" or "to murder." Multiple figures make the statement deeper, but too complex when trying to isolate a good example of a single figure.
 Bullinger bears looking at on the subject of Synecdoche. His Figures of Speech Used in the Bible identifies 4 types: 1) Synecdoche of the genus, 2) Synecdoche of the species, 3) Synecdoche of the whole, and 4) Synecdoche of the part. user:jstanley01
I'd call the cup question an ellipsis, and the everyone indefinite. lysdexia 00:28, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Synecdoche vs. metonymy
Talk:Antonio Stradivari

message: There is this sentence relating to Stradivari's wife and her late husband: "Francesca was the young widow of the burgher Giacomo Capra, with whom she had two children, and who had been shot by Francesca's brother on the Piazza Garibaldi (formerly the Piazza Santa Agata)." The sentence doesn't make it clear as to whether Francesca or Capra was the one who was shot. I'm assuming it was Capra who was shot, but I don't have the book used as the source so I can't check this. If it was Capra who was shot, the removal of "and" in " and who had been shot by Francesca's brother...". Similarly, the sentence also suggests to me that Capra died because of this, but isn't clear in saying so and therefore I think a more definitive statement on this fact. Any help in clarifying this would be greatly appreciated.IrishStephen (talk) 20:05, 13 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slight ambiguity in a statement in Marrriage and Early Carrier 

message: The painting at the top of the page should be identified as a romantic painting, created long after his death, or removed.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1010:B124:7FEF:7462:15D1:42C0:1644 (talk) 22:43, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  top painting 

message: About a decade ago I started our article on Andrea Amati, grandfather of the Amati who may have been Stadivari's mentor.  I wrote that some of his violins can still be played.
I think this is an important question that all of the articles on the old respected luthier should link to...  What kind of maintenance is required to keep fine old instruments playable?  Is it true that fine old instruments need to be played, periodically, to remain playable?  Of course strings wear out, but over the course of centuries don't every other part wear out, doesn't the varnish wear off?  If an old violin has to have its backplate replaced can it still be considered a stradivarius?
If a previously fine old instrument is found, that is too fragile to play, can it be restored?  If the restoration is extensive, will it sound like a stradivarius?  If it does not sound like a stradivarius, would it remain more valuable as an unrestored artifact?
I am going to keep my eyes peeled for RS that address these questions, and I request other interested parties do so as well.
Cheers!  Geo Swan (talk) 20:24, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Playing old violins...
Talk:Romanian language

message: This page has been translated into Māori and the Māori translation needs to be linked: https://mi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reo_Romeinia Thomas Norren (talk) 06:25, 22 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: done Thomas Norren (talk) 22:03, 26 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Māori translation 

message: @Borsoka
Using Thraco-Dacian as the phrase for Romanian substrate is not POV, there are no reliable sources currently using another term and even previously only a couple used a different name for the substrate language. Can you sustain your decision to change to "native"? Aristeus01 (talk) 20:53, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Thracian, Illyrian, Dacian are also listed among the potential substrate languages. For further details, I refer to authors cited in the article about the History of the Romanian language. The "native dialects" is a neutral term and the subject is to be described in details in the linked article Substrate in Romanian. Borsoka (talk) 01:44, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thraco-Dacian 

message: Sources:[1]
[2]
[3] Doremon764 (talk) 18:34, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ukraine recognizing Moldovan as Romanian language
Talk:Centum and satem languages

message: This article is a mine (¿-field?) of information, but is way too technical for the non-linguist reader to get much out of.  Although I've spent many hours studying phonetics, the presentation of information here wearies me.  Maybe that's because it dives right into depths of detail after the lead?  Perhaps somebody with topic expertise could restructure the article to, first, deliver the main points, and only then, follow up with an exposition at a more detailed level.  I'll be happy to help if anyone wants someone to review their suggestions for improvement.  yoyo (talk) 15:48, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too technical 

message: s? Shouldn't it be ś? Muonium777 (talk) 08:48, 5 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  P.I.E. *ḱ ---> Baltic *s 

message: In the reconstructed vocabulary, do we have anything by way of minimal pairs contrasting k & k' ?
--B.Bryant (talk) 09:39, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  k vs k' minimal pairs?
Talk:BBC News (international TV channel)

message: The current logo (:File:BBC World News 2019.svg) should be restored to the infobox, since the newly uploaded logo (:File:BBC_World_News_2022.svg) is not in use yet. The new logo was sourced from a Fandom page that claims it is . — Newslinger talk 08:07, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: might as well say that the current will be used since the page states when bbc world news shuts down 2407:7000:98C3:4D00:2810:C83D:43E1:D0BF (talk) 08:35, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: current logo i mean 2407:7000:98C3:4D00:2810:C83D:43E1:D0BF (talk) 08:35, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Logo 

message: I was looking into the Venezuelan food crisis incident on 23th of feburary of 2019 and found that BBC had reported on it. However, some of the facts stated in the report have since been put into question by both The Intercept and the NY Times. I wonder if it might be a good idea to add a section about it into the article, or is it too small to be relevant? 193.183.194.67 (talk) 15:07, 16 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Intercept only mentions BBC coverage in passing. Can't see NYT as paywalled. UNDUE imho. BobFromBrockley (talk) 12:26, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Venezuelan food crisis report
Talk:Modelling

message: Need a disambiguation page here, to distinguish computer modeling, mathematical modelling, and scenic modeling (model trains and that stuff) from fashion modeling and similar. Andrewa 02:23 8 Jul 2003 (UTC)
On second thought, the disambiguation already exists in the model article. So I have changed links to this page from articles on two fashion models to point direct to model_(person), and then changed this redirect to the more general page. Andrewa 02:55 8 Jul 2003 (UTC)
We need to stop using the word 'modelling' which is misspelled. The correct word is 'modeling'. Operativem
Operativem you are wrong. Modelling is correct and accpetable spelling, please read about spelling differences. This page should redirect to model, just as Modeling currently does. Zarcadia (talk) 11:20, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
Talk:John Birch Society

message: Despite it's length, the page is missing a lot. Historian Matthew Dallek, who had access to the JBS archives, published a history last years, Birchers: How the John Birch Society Radicalized the American Right. 2600:1700:5B20:CAA0:AC89:82DE:AAB7:2978 (talk) 17:40, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dallek 

message: Fatherof-fuzzy-thecat, can you offer a footquote to this citation, to support the claim that the JBS is described reliably as mainstream conservative? It is not clear that the video section cited at 32:15 supports the claim sufficiently. Note WP:CONTEXTMATTERS. Perhaps other sources would support the claim more directly. Llll5032 (talk) 06:19, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: In any case, it's the equivalent of a conference paper and we don't use those. Removed. Doug Weller talk 11:57, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Footquote needed for claim 

message: @Doug Weller In 1968 didn't these gentlemen support the segregationist George Wallace? What about intervening? 93.45.229.98 (talk) 19:17, 29 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Segregation 

message: How the John Birch Society Won the Long Game and The John Birch Society broke the GOP’s brain — and laid the groundwork for Trump. Doug Weller talk 11:47, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Why are we including 3 staunchly leftist sources in the lede describing the GOP's supposed embrace of JBS theories? The Nation, Vox and The New Republic are all admitted leftist mags. I support their removal. TheLawMan85 (talk) 08:51, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I am mildly familiar with Dallek, as he is a notable historian with academic credentials. The JBS at one point had about 100 Republican delegates. Bias to the left or right has little bearing on whether these are reliable sources. Neutrality is discarded when basing reliability solely on political bias. DN (talk) 17:31, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two recent sources about its effect on the GOP 

message: You routinely put position labels on right-wing groups but also routinely omit them for left-wing groups.   For example, the SPLC is a undeniably a left wing/leftist biased group and should be labelled as such in the same manner you label right wing groups.  Fair is fair, and for an alleged information source you need to at least keep the appearance of being neutral. 100.7.194.57 (talk) 23:26, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: No rational sources consider the SPLC to be leftist. The encyclopedia does however mention if groups are socialist, anarchist or communist, which are by definition left-wing. TFD (talk) 00:32, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Southern Poverty Law Center [SPLC}
Talk:Swahili language

message: First of all, the infobox for this article says the numbers are for (2019-2023), yet each source says 2024 for its date.
Secondly, the L1 number here is 5.3, while https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_by_total_number_of_speakers lists 16 million for L1, yet this article combines multiple varieties of Swahili, so should be higher. Both articles give Ethnologue as their source. Please fix this contradiction. 84.78.248.230 (talk) 13:40, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradictory Ethnologue Numbers