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Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2006-04-10/In the news

message: If Nature gave Britannica the full information they want and Britannica reanalysed it (neutrally of course :) ) it would be grossly misleading to publish it as a comparison of Britannica and Wikipedia as they are now as the article versions used are probably now more than five months old. I think Britannica is simply trying to intimidate other publications into not carrying out such studies in the future, which are likely to be more favourable for Wikipedia. I compare Britannica's biography of the day with the Wikipedia article on the same person, and increasingly often the Wikipedia article is better - and Britannica couldn't complain about the selection of material in this case. 62.31.55.223 15:18, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Kidding Aside

message: *Already sourced with a website when I found it so I removed the tag. IMO though, this is borderline forumcruft...--Isotope23 15:22, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: * I am formally proposing a merger now. If you would like to add your comments, please visit the discussion here. --B. Wolterding 10:51, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: *Have responded over there and updated the article.  Notability is not an issue. Mr. Analytical 10:14, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: A note

message: *Stop Terrible Human Over Population Disasters (eCards website to limit human population growth)
*WiseArt Cybernetics (On-line artistic slideshow about limiting human population growth)
Hallo Joyous! I have a question about your message: You ask me not to add inappropriate external links to wikipedia.
When I compare the 2 links I added to other existing external links on certain webpages, I see that the 'appropriate' links (i.e the ones you leave alone), are also links to external -third party- organisations, such as our European organisation (STHOPD) is too. Our non-profit organisation works with volunteers and stands for certain principles which are similar to the 'appropriate' organisations on the webpages concerned, such as: Decreasing human overpopulation in an ethical way, having no children, warnings about the worldwide consequences of overpopulation such as the destruction of ecosystems.
Please explain to me what would make our links appropriate. Friendly regards, 213.84.166.83 18:30, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: External links

message: Its website (www.kiddingaside.net) seems to have lapsed ! 80.229.222.48 14:01, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Does this organisation still exist
Talk:George Pruteanu

message: Hi. Before putting the dispute tag and removing affirmations from the article, please say why. If you think that the article is incomplete and therefore skewed against Mr. Pruteanu, you are welcomed to add more information about himself and his work. 
But please do not remove information unless you know it's wrong. His older problems with the law are well known (being published in many important Romanian newspapers) and AFAIK are not denied or disputed by Mr. Pruteanu. Meitner 15:22, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:The Philosophy of Time Travel (book)

message: If anyone had travelled back in time, would we not have evidence of this in history.
Space and time are linked, you cannot change one without the other. i.e. If I was displaced in time to appear in the future, the world would have moved happily along on it's course and when I reappeared I would be floating in space. bummer.
:You assume the wormhole stays fixed relative to the universe. The problem is rather conveniently solved under the simple assumption that the wormhole's position shifts concordantly with the Earth. If you wish, Occam's Razor dictates it is merely a movie and hence not subject to true serious analysis. CABAL 22:57, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
Talk:John Grosvenor

message: I'm honestly not quite sure if 'Worcester' refers to Worcester Grammar School in Worcester, or Worcester College, Oxford. If anybody has any idea, feel free to help. Eixo 15:23, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The ODNB says: "Grosvenor trained under a Mr Russell of Worcester, and was possibly apprenticed to William Grosvenor of Bewdley, Worcestershire" so it's not Worcester College despite Grosvenor's other Oxford connections. Addedentry (talk) 17:13, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Variable-gain amplifier

message: Then we can cover both voltage- and current-controlled amps. — Omegatron 15:29, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I moved it. — Omegatron 14:58, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I get the impression that this page focuses mostly on discrete applications and designs, and even more so on those aimed at audio and other low frequency applications. No mention of the use of VGAs in AGC loops for communications systems, gilbert cells or other manners of variable gain amplification. 
I suggest a quite thorough clean-up of this page. There are hundreds of applications for variable gain amplification, and if anything, the ones listed here are all focused on one narrow application (looking at external links, it seems to be written by someone with a background in audio synthesizers). As I myself worked on VGAs in an R&D context very recently, I think it's not appropriate for me to make significant contributions as my views might be skewed to the results and findings of my work.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheUnnamedNewbie (talk • contribs) 15:46, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Focus on discrete and audio?
Talk:Đàn nguyệt

message: The Vietnamese word for playing a stringed instrument is đánh, which phonetically is pronounced almost like đàn, the instrument. Đánh means to strike or hit. Spanish use the word tocar which means to touch. To each language its own. This is part of the Vietnamese mystic of words closely spelled or sounding alike, with the possibility of offending someone if you mispronounce a word.
Đánh most easily is pronounced like the English "done" but with the voice inflected slightly upwards as indicated by the tone mark over the a.
Đàn is pronounced more like don, but more safely like done with a downward inflection. No one can pronounce "nguyệt" because of that opening "ng", but most closely like "newyit" with the word pronounced like one syllable and cut off quickly as indicated by the dot under the e.
So when saying "play the moon lute", it's "dóne dòne newyit." Just a little phonetic fun! Magi Media 14:12, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Interesting aside
Talk:Alexis Christoforous

message: Alexis, 
I hope you like this article!
69.121.69.166 15:30, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Alexis Christoforous

message: I realize this article has had cleanup and wikify tags in the past, and people have improved it based on that, but I added a copy-edit tag because it still reads really informally.  For instance, "Last Summer she was seen wearing a tight bright orange Minidress while videotaping outside NASDAQ at Times Square."  Please!  If someone could follow up on this, and then remove the tag.  Thanks.--Slyguy (talk) 16:58, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copy-editing 

message: I will try to get an image of her in that dress.
69.121.68.125 17:40, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Dress

message: What?
69.121.66.66 19:34, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: ???
Talk:Place Jacques-Cartier

message: What's the name of the botanical garden located at the top of Place Jacques-Cartier? We should include that in the article. And just below the garden is a venue used for changing exhibitions during the high season.
Atlant 15:33, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Botanical garden? 

message: Surely the objections of Quebec nationalists and sovereigntists to the Nelson column was not british imperialism but the dominance of the commercial and political life of the province by the english speaking minority. The resident english speakers of Montrteal and Quebec had little to do with British imperialism (sic)
I think the term is a cheap throw away that could be replaced with a more accurate term, or better left out as a tangental political opinion does not add to the purpose of the article.
The role of French British wars in Europe and their impact on their colonies is a highly arguable point, and is more complex than brtish imperialsm. For example is New France , french imperialsm ?
--Sic Transit 06:46, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  British Imperialism
File talk:Three Musketeers-1933-001.png

message: I've checked the Wikipedia:Image_copyright_tags page, and I can't find a more appropriate tag.  It used to be possible for films to slip out of copyright, as in the case of It's a Wonderful Life, The Wizard of Oz, and this film.  It's not that the author died, but that the corporation didn't follow through with copyright laws at the time and the movie fell into the public domain.  proteus71 16:37, 11 Apr 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyright tag
Talk:Maria Komnene (daughter of Manuel I)

message: I have edited to sharpen the story of her engagements (but the German and English negotiations are still omitted) and to explain more exactly 'born in the purple'. Also, although Maria and Renier must in some sense have wanted to 'seize power', I don't think it's known that they wanted to 'seize the throne'. Andrew Dalby 15:39, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes - the Garland & Stone article (in external links) suggests she wanted the regency. Silverwhistle 20:15, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Subdivision (land)

message: Needed topic created: 
Subdivided Lands Law vs. Subdivision Map Act
See: 
http://www.dre.ca.gov/files/pdf/refbook/ref17.pdf
http://www.dot.ca.gov/hq/row/landsurveys/Study_material/Laws_Surveyors/Subdivision_Map_Act_and_Division_3.pdf  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2605:E000:8301:600:D998:49FB:E56F:5120 (talk) 11:18, 29 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Subdivision in California

message: *what as the markham image to do with subdivision? 
**it is named "suburbs" but labeled here "subdivision"
**is the term used outside the US for what the article describes?
Tobias Conradi (Talk) 15:44, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it's an odd choice, to illustrate an article that is entirely about US law and says nothing about whatever laws may apply to the pictured place.
Jim.henderson 07:16, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The Markham photo shows a classic suburban subdivision.  The concept of subdividing land is not limited whatsoever to the U.S., and the fact that the text of the article desperately requires to be broadened to have a more global perspective should not serve as justfication to make the image selection even more U.S.-centric. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 18:20, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The Markham subdivision pic caption says "... Markham, Ontario ..." which is in Canada, not the USA.  The article also has a picture from Sydney, apparently Australia, and a picture from New Zealand.  Under the section "Definition", there are subsections covering the Philipines and Alberta, apparently in Canada.  If you know about land subdivision outside of the USA, maybe you can expand the article to give a more worldly view.  H Padleckas (talk) 21:51, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Markham image

message: If I recall correctly the first residential subdivisions were in fact in the Regents Park area of London in the 17th century!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.73.35.125 (talk) 12:34, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: There was an "globalize/USA" which I removed, since "subdivision" is almost entirely a term used in the United States and Canada. If you search Wikipedia for single family housing built as multiple units at one time on land by dividing one large parcel of land into smaller parcels, then you will find nothing but this one.
Also the "Subdivision" article is only about the political subdivision of political entities, particularly countries.
Nick Beeson (talk) 06:58, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed Tag

message: A subdivision should be a part of some whole. That would properly be a comprehesive regional master plan and a municiple plan which is a part of that.
DAB (talk) 19:02, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Definition of Subdivision
Talk:Star Ocean

message: It's almost Feb of 2014 and Star Ocean supposedly has had updates since then. For the first update, SO was featured in a game engine demo a few years back for what I believe was on the PS3 (some argue it was the PS4). The second update would be how there is a TCG in Japan, however I can't seem to download and play it due to the fact that they limit it to Japan only (Star Ocean Material trader).
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be an official website for anything. I don't understand what is going on with Tri-Ace and while I would love to rant and say how much I hope they're not giving up on their SO franchise, I'd hate to admit that they don't do a good job at advertising new updates as they should. Joystiq and IGN are good places to get info on Material trader. I'm not a good writer so I leave the rest to you guys :)
20:11, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  It's 2014, this article needs revision! + Material Trader 

message: The article says that some names were changed in star ocean 2 and 3 for the US release ,it would be nice if the article showed the original names as well as the names they were changed into for the us release.
:No it wouldn't, because the actual name changes are already listed in each game's respective articles.--Claude 21:23, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: feel free to add this news into the article:
http://www.gamespot.com/pages/news/story.php?sid=6170405&part=rss&subj=6170405
:I'm guessing you people aren't actually reading the article (or template), because this info is already included.--Claude 18:32, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Star Ocean PSP 

message: Okay, so the article mentions that the manga's been scanlated/fan-translated, but by what group? It's not licensed (or going to be anytime soon), so is there any harm in announcing that? After all, the group that fan-translated SO1 was announced in the article, so...--TheSweet 05:16, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The translation patch for SO1 isn't illegal, but the scanlations are.--Claude 21:25, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Manga translation? 

message: Can Star Ocean really be classified as space opera (it currently is)? Having seen the anime series, while there is space opera like universe in the background, almost all episodes are more of a fantasy than sci-fi (and hardly fulfill any definitions of a space operam which requires the heroes to adventure across space, not on a single planet).--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk  18:11, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Space opera? 

message: Why is the Publisher listed as "Square/Enix"? I assume this is an error. At the time this game was developed and published, "Square/Enix" did not exist. The company that published this game was simply Enix.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.134.41.209 (talk) 21:05, 24 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Publisher 

message: This section points out that Star Ocean: The Last Hope was the first game to show unique weapon graphics, but each weapon appeared on the character model in SO3. 24-Apr-2012  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.94.174.5 (talk) 16:53, 24 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Design
Talk:Marlin (disambiguation)

message: I would think that "Marlins" should redirect to the baseball team, rather than the fish -- if you are searching for the fish, you'd use the singular, whereas if you're looking for the team, you'd use the plural.  I am not going to change this now, but I think we should consider it.
i added a wiktionary link for marline, it could probably use a proper wikipedia article but i don't know enough about the stuff to start one.notatoad 06:26, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:John Moores (British businessman)

message: Ok, there is one problem with the inscription below the photo of Mr. Moores' statue....which one is Mr. moores in the statue, the one to the left, or the one to the right? The inscription does not indicate, and I for one wanted to know! It should be clarified, right there on the caption-inscription....Antonio I want even Mooresex! Martin (loser talk 12:42, August 31, 2013 (UTC)
John Moores is on the left.  Cecil Moores is on the right. (86.184.32.10 (talk) 16:20, 21 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture inscription
Talk:Group C

message: Was the final year for this class 1993 or 1994?
: The last year for Group C competition was 1993. In 1994, Group C cars were allowed to race at Le Mans, alongside the GTs and the new WSCs. --Pc13 17:47, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Final Year

message: Hello. A small contribution:
I found out that in this article most units of measurement (particularly speed and distance) were not expressed in SI units. Units like "miles per hour (MPH)" are currently used mainly in the United States and to a *now* lesser degree in the United Kingdom. The proper way to express speeds of an european race class, based on european race courses, with records set by Continental European cars should be in the worldwide most used measuring units system, the SI, using Kilometers/hour (Km/h) as a measure of speed.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Flurry (talk • contribs) 17:04, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Measuring units American biased 

message: Why does IMSA GTP redirect here??? This article has nothing about the class appart from that they are "broadly similar", which in itself is reason enough to not redirect it here. They are completly different. IMSA GTP should direct you to the GTP section of the IMSA GT article SchellZ (talk) 06:53, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  IMSA GTP 

message: I removed the last line in the "Rise and fall" section. It was unsourced and doesn't fit what I know about the history of the sport.
:Afterward, prototypes nearly disappeared from Europe, resurfacing again in the mid-1990s.  Recently, interest in Group C cars resurfaced as more of these cars have appeared on historic racing events.
The last year Group C cars were in use was the first year for the new LMP classes: the first year LMP1 cars were ex-Group C cars. To say they "nearly disappeared" doesn't make sense when there was no gap. 
The second sentence probably fits somewhere in the article, but it would have been an orphan without the first. It also doesn't really fit in this section.
-Athaler (talk) 16:42, 8 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  History & LMP 

message: As per every other article on Le Mans or the Mulsanne Straight, the article reports a WM Peugeot doing 407 km/h and actually cites a reference showing 405. As per every other article on Le Mans or the Mulsanne Straight, I have altered it to accurately reflect the reference material. Wikipedia is not a resource for validating unsubstantiated rumours, nor is it a forum for bidding wars. Flanker235 (talk) 15:35, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speeds
Talk:Tourist Trap (film)

message: This article is missing citations on its material and several sections are underdeveloped and need to be expanded. More information on the film's production should be added and reviews from notable critics added as well. The article's lead section should be developed a bit more since it is insufficient. All of these fixes and changes need to occur in order to bring this article to its full potential.--Paleface Jack (talk) 15:40, 14 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation and Expansion
Talk:South Western (rail franchise)

message: If in the end the new franchise turns out to not have the name South Western, please can someone move\merge this into the correct article. Simply south 16:03, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

message: :The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the debate was move to South Western (rail franchise) for the time being (see Thryduulf's comment below). This page will become a disambig page. — Mets501  (talk)  19:07, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  AfD 

message: what should happen to this article now etc etc? Simply south 16:31, 8 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps integrate anything new into South West Trains, maybe creating a section called "Franchise renewal". Then redirect this article to that. MRSC • Talk 09:45, 9 February 2007 (UTC)

text: I'd suggest that this is re-named into "Stagecoach South Western Trains", which is the absorbed name for SWT and Island Line, which are still running under their respective brandnames... Tubechallenger 15:18, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where now?
Talk:Canopy piloting

message: This article has a bad case of link rot. In at least two cases, the links lead to pages that have been hacked and are, therefore, unsafe. -- Brothernight (talk) 08:54, 1 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  LINK ROT 
Wikipedia talk:Downtime

message: This is being discussed here for now.
Reason for this page: I for one find it very strange for there to be no obvious recognition of downtime on the site after it happens: either it's completely broken or it's whiter than white. We now have error pages (which is handy) and a reasonably obscure page detailing what happened but that's all. This page - although this is completely open for discussion - is meant to just be a recognition of downtime and (almost) nothing else. Things I think would be useful additions are:
*A rough estimation of the downtime period;
*Either a one sentence reason of the cause, or a link to discussion about what actually happened (ie. the village pump (technical) - right?);
*The scale of the downtime: did it affect just one US state, everyone, etc?
An idea (to prevent the page being used for random status comments) could be to have the most recent downtime 'note' on Special:Statistics and then each of those can be moved to the article page, making it an archive of past downtimes.
- Drrngrvy 16:07, 11 April 2006 (UTC)

message: This page is currently inactive and is retained for historical reference. I think it would be worthwhile to revive it. Does anyone know where I can find the information I would need to do that? My impression is that in recent years we have only had brief planned downtime while various upgrades are made, but I would like to see a page documenting the great job the server wranglers are doing. --Guy Macon (talk) 23:33, 15 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is anyone up to the job of helping me update this page?
Talk:Calico Light Weapons Systems

message: That's a mighty rare usage of the word sunset which normally wouldn't be a problem, but as that meaning lacks desciption in the article on the astronomical phenomenon of "sunset" to which the word is linked, I would suggest changing the word or removing the link. 
There's also a disambiguation page for the word, which could be used instead. I won't change anything at this time, or possibly ever. PerEdman (talk) 16:44, 22 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sunset? 

message: Any thoughts on adding a blurb about the coming .40 S&W model? Surv1v4l1st (Talk|Contribs) 14:32, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  .40 S&W Model? 

message: Seems like the View section is somewhat biased, perhaps written by the manufacturer? Unohoo09 (talk) 12:54, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  View 

message: The Calico shotgun got cancelled for unknown reasons JerryTheBoyz (talk) 13:06, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shotgun