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Talk:Norway lemming

message: from VfD:
I thought the suicidal lemming myth had been pretty much debunked by now, and without that there's not much of an article. --fvw<SMALL>*</SMALL> 00:26, 2005 Jan 4 (UTC)
** Comment: That is good reason for a rewrite, not deletion.  This is a well-known myth, and it needs to be covered, not ignored. -- 05:04, 2005 Jan 4 (UTC) [claiming attrib of my comment -- obviously i made the dreaded 5-tilde typo!--Jerzy(t) 17:39, 2005 Jan 4 (UTC)]
* Keep. It has indeed been debunked, e.g., for 18 months in our article Lemming; this article satisfies a former red link there, and should have its text replaced by the Norway Lemming 'graphs of the Lemming article, which should have (instead of the moved material) a 1- or 2-sentence summary linking to Norway Lemming. More text, e.g., distribution, unique morphology, etc. can of course be added. --Jerzy(t) 05:04, 2005 Jan 4 (UTC)
*Keep, just needs a re-write, not deleting. Dan100 17:20, Jan 4, 2005 (UTC)
*Keep.  Agree with Dan100.   GRider\talk 19:11, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Not a wiki guru, but if someone feels this article warrants a change, then it might be helpful for someone.
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2008/11/norwegian-lemmings-climate-change.php?daylife=1  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bvguitarplayer (talk • contribs) 04:11, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updated source about threat to climate 

message: In the article lemming and Norway lemming is cited a 3-4 years population cycle, but here is mentioned a 20-30 years cycle.
Has anyone any other information? --Dia^ (talk) 20:04, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cycle
Talk:Kowloon-Canton Railway Corporation

message: I've started a discussion on the MTR-KCR merge at WPHK (so we can have one consolidated discussion about it instead of having the same discussion across the few relevant articles).  .  Hong Qi Gong (Talk - Contribs) 16:16, 15 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  MTR-KCR merge
Talk:Trend (disambiguation)

message: There is probably a decent encyclopaedic article to be written on trends. This isn't it, nor is it a beginning for it. --fvw<SMALL>*</SMALL> 02:20, 2005 Jan 4 (UTC)
* Comment: I agree that there is probably something to be said on trend. I stubbed a piece on statistical trends.  Is this useful or would a direct link to trend estimation make more sense? --Tony Sidaway|Talk 02:36, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep... Wyss 05:12, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: ''from VfD:''

message: The links (for example from bear market) don't appear. --Pgreenfinch 10:31, 26 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  A bug in "what links here"? 

message: Nothing has been noted about conventions for displaying trends. Is the data displayed left to right (as in earliest to current as numerical hard data, or as a graphical display.  66.193.169.195 13:43, 28 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  displaying trends
Talk:Anthony Downs

message: I've just checked the thesis about Downs’ axis-model.  The article is right describing Downs’ definition of the right-left-Antagonism in an oconomic way. However there are two mistakes. At first Downs’ definition depends on market regulation by the state, not on the question how much private ownership it grants. Secondly Downs places communismus on the left, but Liberalismus on the right. He notes that this were a soft spot, because in the common sense "right" is connected to fashism, but he wants to accepte this as a premise.
My advise to correct the article: 
:On the left there are communistic partys, who want a entirely state-planned economy, on the right those liberals, who claim for a entirely deregulated economy. 
Downs, Anthony: An economic theory of democracy. New York 1957. page 116.
It's a plessure to help wikipedia! 95.115.62.20 (talk) 23:31, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Axis-model 

message: The Career section is promotional.  We need to simply list his publications and any commentary by NPOV sources.  Hamiltonian25 (talk) 03:11, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV  
Talk:Sex assignment

message: There seems to be an avoidance of clarifying what is actually being described since 'assigning' describes the act of a person making a choice or decision which subsequently describes a state, whilst 'discerning' describes a person recognizing a state that already exists. Yet one term is used in the explanation of the other, leaving a muddle. If nothing clearer can be formulated the whole matter leaves the subject of the article in a somewhat fragile state that does not bear scrutiny.
The consequence is that the article conveys the impression that no one knows exactly whether sex is something that exists, a priori, or something that only comes into being as a result of a person's stating it.
Special contributions/2A00:23EE:1550:27ED:90D0:271A:E059:2E88|2A00:23EE:1550:27ED:90D0:271A:E059:2E88]] (talk) 16:12, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: What actual change would you want to happen to the article? Whatever your philosophical or definional quibbles with the term, it is widely used in academic and medical contexts, in news reporting, and in legal writing, and as a matter of general policy, wikipedia reflects that. Wikipedia is not a dictionary, it doesn't need "perfect" definitions. Usable working definitions of terms are often included to make sure that the important content of the article is properly understood, but they are not the point of the article. Waitingtocompile (talk) 15:09, 27 April 2024 (UTC)

text: I would also refer you to the archives of this talk page, the "discerned not assigned" argument has been hashed out plenty of times before, and you may want to familiarise yourself with those discussions and make sure that you actually have something new to bring to the table. Waitingtocompile (talk) 15:12, 27 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Assigned Vs Discerned
Talk:The Godmakers (novel)

message: this is a very bad article, little more than a bad summary of the novel
:Thank you for your suggestion! When you feel an article needs improvement, please feel free to make whatever changes you feel are needed.  Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the  link at the top. You don't even need to log in! (Although there are some reasons why you might like to…) The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes—they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use the sandbox to try out your editing skills.  New contributors are always welcome. --fvw<SMALL>*</SMALL> 04:32, 2005 Jan 4 (UTC)
I'll second the badness of this article.  The book is much more interesting than this article makes it sound.  I think the article should be deleted until a better one comes along.  I would write it myself, but I read this book over twenty years ago.  I'm ordering another copy now, so a review may be forthcoming.
And I will third it. The person who wrote this article sounds like they read a summary of the book written by a tabloid newspaper. Some of the articles content clearly misses the point, some of it is just POV and some of it is just not true. For example it mentions nowhere in the book that the Priests on Amel - which is how it is spelt in the English version, not sure about American - created Lewis Orne at all, infact it describes his family history in much detail, with nothing to do with priests. Anyway had my rant now. I am deleting this article until someone writes something that gives it justice.
I revised the summary, bringing it more in line with what was actually in the book.  It is still very short, but given the length of the book (221 pgs. in my copy), it didn't seem to justify a longer summary.  I also deleted the "Reception" part, since that quote was nonsense.  I think a section relating this book to other works by Frank Herbert would be entirely justified, and would also be a great way for fans of Herbert to begin exploring his non-Dune books.
--98.247.142.237 (talk) 17:18, 16 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Bad
Talk:Rizzo the Rat

message: His accent is New Jerseyian. In Muppet's Christmas Carol he says: "I'm from New Joisey!" [unsigned comment]
:Ironically, most people from New Jersey don't say "New Joisey"--it tends to be something non-New Jerseyians say much more often, and we (as in New Jerseyians) in general only say it when mocking the people who say it to mock us. //MrD9 23:15, 3 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: FRANK RIZZO I SAID — Preceding unsigned comment added by Harvardgraduate1987 (talk • contribs) 15:18, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Accent
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Music/Wikipedia OmniMusica

message: Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory.  This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you.   B2T2 14:05, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project directory 

message: Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention.  Badbilltucker 19:05, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia Day Awards
Talk:Ramarama, New Zealand

message: Well I've just created my first ever stub, I'm sure it shall probably be falling far short of what is expected for a wikipedia article. But then that is one of the reasons it is a stub, and I'll most probably tidy it up a bit (or have some pointers in what I may have done wrong). Or even more likely get changed without me even realising it seeing this is after all wikipedia.
Noticed that on the WikiProject:New Zealand page it mentioned articles need to be started for those which don't have one on the 'List of towns in New Zealand', so when I saw there wasn't anything about a place which I know about (I frequently cycle through there (and have even done some races from the Ramarama Hall)) I thought I might as well create a stub for it.
Yes I do realise I ought to create an account instead of posting anonymously, I'll get around to that when I'm not feeling so extremely tired. Mathmo 4 January 2005
: And good on you, too. It's no longer a stub; I have reassessed the article as start class. Schwede66 17:15, 20 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Abraham Kovoor's challenge

message: This page was origically part of Abraham Kovoor and it got deleted during an editing of that page. Atleast one user,Andries in his comment on 7 Dec 2004 in the talk page of that page expressed that the details of the challenge were informative but for some reasons he did not reinstate the paragrah.  Even the user, BM who deleted that paragrah during the editing war agreed that he had no objection with the details of the challenge being published in the pages of Wikipedia. His stand was that it should not have been part of the page Abraham Kovoor and it should have been titled Abraham Kovoor's challenge. But he did not create that page for some inexplicable reasons.
I still find the challenge important not only as a historical fact, but as very relevant at present, at least in India. Godmen in various hues mushroom in my country claiming precisely the miraculous powers which Dr. Kovoor (and later others) challenged.  The fact that nobody could successfully contest this challenge during his life-time also means that they are pure nonsense and those who claim that they have these powers are mere frauds.
Hence the creation of this page.
MANOJTV 05:07, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article derivation 

message: I've added an  tag to the article to encourage readers to provide a source for this information. Besides the standard Wikipedia policy of no original research, I'd like to get a specific answer to the question of what the original amount of the challenge was. The quoted number, "1, 00, 000 Srilanka rupees", does not conform to any numeric denotation that I'm familiar with in the English-speaking world. Standard English numbers use either commas to separate sets of 3 terms of positive magnitude and periods for decimals (American-style), or the reverse, periods and commas respectively (European-style), if I'm not mistaken, and neither style includes spaces. The quoted number has two commas separating varying amounts of digits and no periods, so it's unclear whether this is supposed to be 100,000 (incorrect 1st comma), 1,000,000 (missing zero), or something else. (This list of numbers suggests why spaces are bad within a number, given the overloaded use of both commas and periods.) A source would help editors to eliminate this confusion. Thank you. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 00:51, 26 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the problem lies in that subcontinent numerical notation may differ from European notation in using the lakh instead of the million as the virgule point. thefamouseccles 02:00, 29 Mar 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sourcing and number
Talk:Tanya Sloan

message: This article is a mess.  It totally needs cleanup. Andros 1337 05:19, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)

message: I thought they went BACK IN TIME to old-timey Africa and switched Aisha and Tanya.. but regardless of how it went, how on earth did they explain it to Aisha's parents?
:I know. It's confusing. IIRC, time was altered or something, so Aisha's parents also went with her. Ophois 20:12, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: They didn't go back in time. Master Vile turned the ENTIRE EARTH backwards, not just Angel Grove. When Tanya became a teenager along with the other rangers, so did Aisha. Aisha probably called her parents or something.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.184.10.38 (talk) 21:49, 4 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  wait, what? 

message: from watching the episodes when she first appears it seems to me that she and her parents are american citizen not native africans.cause she says that the villagers took her in anter her parents disappered. can anyone clear this up for me cause i don't see anythng that talks about it on the page.  Inferno17 (talk) 17:01, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: TANYA
Talk:Transfer operator

message: Micheal,
You added a link to Gauss map but the gauss map in this article is unrelated to the one that is linked to.  What is the appropriate thing to do?
Let me rephrase that: I'm not sure that disambiguating Gauss map is worth it right now.  It makes sense only if/when an article on GKW is written.  
(I suppose the right name for this is the Gauss Kuzmin Wirsing map,maybe)
linas 05:19, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to Gauss map 

message: I'm wondering if there should be an example of the creation of this operator here, so people can understand it better. --204.56.135.2 (talk) 17:49, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Example? 

message: This page is pretty much all over the place. A disparate, grab-bag. It needs filling out/rewriting. Sorry to complain. 84.226.214.17 (talk) 20:53, 7 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Status 

message: The last paragraph of the Applications section begins with this sentence:
"The transfer operator of the Gauss map h(x)=1/x-\lfloor 1/x \rfloor is called the Gauss–Kuzmin–Wirsing (GKW) operator and due to its extraordinary difficulty, has not been fully solved."
There is no meaning in mathematics that attaches to "solving" an operator, so it is entirely unclear what this sentence is trying to convey.
I hope someone knowledgeable on the subject can rewrite this so that it has a clear meaning. 2601:200:C000:1A0:84:5053:5F05:8298 (talk) 02:26, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sentence needs rewriting
Talk:Hamish Carter

message: To say that he was favoured to win is a rather overly nz bias to the article.
Why mention he is 33? People can easily see that from his birthdate. It isn't as if there is anything overly special about winning an Olympic triathlon at 33. It isn't like winning one in your late 40's or as actually  happened winning the world champs mere days after your 20th birthday (as one Australian did).
"Comfortably"?? I might say the finish was a little too close for it to be called that - Mathmo
: I've addressed those issues.  -- Jonel | Speak 01:12, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Should mention his large degree of success in XTERRA races. Also here are a few other sources that go into great depth which I've come across during this search:     Mathmo Talk 00:43, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Another good source. Schwede66 05:01, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Future expansion of the article. 
Talk:Toy camera

message: Could there be a section in here about more recent history? The article lists the cameras in the 1960s, but what have happened to them? I would imagine they have been made obsolete by point and shoot camers. Are any still in use?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.74.35.199 (talk) 15:00, 27 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  More History? 

message: Is it possible to talk about toy cameras and not about Lomography?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.63.244.17 (talk) 11:02, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point, thanks for making it. I'll take a look. -Lopifalko (talk) 11:38, 24 June 2020 (UTC)

text: This is what has gone wrong: this edit, "Merged content from Lomography to here". -Lopifalko (talk) 11:40, 24 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  It seems to be an advertising for Lomography.
Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/September 11, 2001 attacks/archive1

message: To Dr Zen, jguk and Everyking: I find some of your comments to be irrelevant and unproductive. I ask you to confine your comments to the topic at hand. If you disagree with anything I do, that is fine. To criticize me because we disagree is not fine. Maurreen 05:46, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: If you are not told that others find your conduct unsatisfactory, how can you know, Maurreen? I genuinely don't feel it's a decent reason for voting against a featured article.Dr Zen 06:39, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Regardless of that, you accused me of selectively choosing sources. Maurreen 06:47, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I said you selectively gave them. You did not note any that did not agree with you. Are you suggesting that all sources that give an opinion agree with you?Dr Zen 06:58, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You assume that I chose them selectively. Even if you suspect I did so, you could have raised the issue in a more productive manner. Look, we've both given our thoughts on this, why don't we close it now? Maurreen 07:10, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't tell me what I assume. I said you gave them selectively. I'm happy to close it. It was not worth your bringing up in the first place, because the comment you made could only be calculated to cause conflict.Dr Zen 23:07, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Inappropriate comments
Talk:Espagnole sauce

message: I have rated this as a top importance start article. As one of the mother sauces in French cooking, it has significant cultural impact and is an important aspect of French cuisine. --Jeremy ( Blah blah...) 02:47, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  WPFood assessment 

message: I removed the capitalization (i.e. "Espagnole" to "espagnole") because that's the way LaRousse Gastronomique has it. I also tried to alway call it "expagnole sauce" for the same reason.
Thoughts?
DanielVonEhren 05:51, 4 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, personally I feel that when one is writing a title in French, as opposed to an English translation thereof, one should adhere to French capitalization conventions, although many translators do not do so. Oddly enough,  Crown Publishers who published translations of both Le Guide culinaire (1941) as well as Larousse gastronomique (1961), adheres to French capitalization in Larousse but not in the Escoffier. Perhaps it took them the twenty years to figure out how to do it correctly. In French only the first article and noun are capitalized; adjectives are only capitilized in titles if they occur before the first noun e.g. La Grande Dame but La Dame espagnole. Unlike English, adjectival forms of nations are not capitilized. Proper nouns are always capitalized of course and this may cause confusion for a non-francophone when it involves the names of sauces e.g. it is Sauce Albuféra, not Sauce albuféra because Albufera is a proper noun but it is Sauce vénitienne because again adjectival forms are lower-case. It would be correct to write Sauce de Venise however. Clear as mud? :-) Mike Hayes (talk) 06:54, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Spelling changes

message: I added Escoffier's recipe (to Wikibooks) but simplified it slightly because it is unecessarily complicated when it comes to skimming and simmering. Mike Hayes (talk) 06:59, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why the wrong recipe? 

message: Could people please use metric when they write in Wikipedia? I know that certain nations (I name no names) adhere to their funny little measuring systems, but in an international project like Wikipedia, it behoves us to use grown-up measurements. One may as well use ells or cubits or fathoms in Wikipedia articles. Metric is the only internationally recognised system of measurement. Please use it. 220.233.178.130 (talk) 04:17, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Using Metric
Talk:Pisew Falls Provincial Park

message: Sorry folks, the whole licensing thing just confuses me... Please leave a note here if adding the GDFL licence excludes WikiTravel from using this text and images Weaponofmassinstruction
:WikiTravel has gone corporate. I guess I won't be wasting my time there anymore. Weaponofmassinstruction 22:19, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Alford plea

message: Most of the article consists of defining the concept over and over in different words. Many different people are quoted giving their own definition; all the definitions having the same meaning.
I tried to find any other information in the article, but every section seems to be infected with this definition-mania.
I don't know anything on the topic so I don't know which definitions to keep and which to remove. But I do know that this article is badly in need of an overhaul. InspectorMendel (talk) 12:31, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article is wordy to the point of being unreadable