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Talk:Extraneous and missing solutions

message: The domain is given as the set of all {x : x \in \mathbb{R}, x > 0}.
Given the domain, and given
:x2 - 3x + 5 = 0
Find x.
Using the quadratic formula, it is easy to find the solutions
:x = 7 and x = -4
where x = 7 is the solution to the problem, and x = -4 is an extraneous solution because it is not pertinent to the problem.  Tparameter (talk) 17:46, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this an example of an extraneous solution? 

message: I expanded on this idea a bit, starting with some very simple examples, including discussion of operations that remove solutions, and outlining a more general and (hopefully) more understandable categorization of what operations do what to the solution set. Feel free to revise. Dcoetzee 20:31, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  My changes 

message: I see a couple of things in this article that don't seem right. Firstly, with the example \sqrt{x}=-1, the article says x=1 is not a solution. That means \surd is being used to mean positive square root (as is common), but in that case the equation has no solutions by definition, so is a rather poor example. Secondly, at the end it says multiplication is surjective by not injective. It's quite clearly not surjective since it's image is just {0}. Am I missing something here, or should I just fix it? --Tango 
(talk) 23:24, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed the last section because it is mostly incorrect, not easy to fix, and essentially OR. I wish the article had not been expanded to cover missing solutions, which makes everything a lot more complicated, and as far as I know is not a common term to describe errors that may arise in solving high-school algebra problems.  --Lambiam 15:45, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

text: Removed the incorrect example \sqrt{x}=-1, where the article stated x=1 is not a solution: -1 is most certainly one of the second roots of unity. The missed solution x=1 stems from the fact that roots cannot be treated as "unknowns" that have an explicit value. Taking the nth root of x is precisely the statement, "at least one of the n roots of x satisfies this equation" -- the "positive square root" operator does not exist for just this reason. Sorry, your calculator lies to you :-) 68.42.7.184 (talk) 07:32, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible errors 

message: There is another type of extraneous solution, that is not mentioned in the article. A solution to an equation arising from an applied problem may be considered extraneous if it is not physically meaningful. A negative length could be an example of this. See http://mathcentral.uregina.ca/QQ/database/QQ.09.02/paul2.html 66.41.7.193 (talk) 05:00, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extraneous solutions in applied problems 

message: Is this a useful example? It got me confused for a while just now:
We know that \frac{1}{i}=-i. However,
\frac{1}{i}=i^{-1}=((-1)^{\frac{1}{2}})^{-1}=\sqrt{(-1)^{-1}}=\pm i
But only -i satisfies the original equation, +i is an extraneous solution.
--MTres19 (talk) 19:38, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Example with the imaginary unit, ''i''
Talk:Eritrean Army

message: asd'Bold text'asdasdaasdasd  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.1.121.170 (talk) 01:05, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  <nowiki>Headline text</nowiki>#REDIRECT [[asd]] 

message: What this article needs is more comprehensive list of ground formations and also commanders. Unfortunately I couldn't find any articles that were even remotely what you'd call reliable and furthermore most of them are very badly outdated. If someone can find any articles, please let the rest of us know too (at least I would appreciate it)! After reading few articles, I realized that apparently (at least in the past) instead of having one single commander to the ground force, entire ground forces had four, one from each military region. Is this correct or am I missing something? --Dyaros Talk 08:20, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Commanders and formations 

message: Because the army equipment section was so big of a mess and included vague terms such as "reported" and no references of any kind, I rebuilt the section to some extent. I only included equipment and arms that have actually been mentioned somewhere. I know there are massive holes in the list, so I hope others will contribute more stuff to it too. --Dyaros Talk 23:35, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I am getting somewhat tired about this, but just to let anyone modifying this article know, you're not supposed to make shit up. If you're going to add some outrageous numbers on weapon systems or claims, you need to have them sourced right. Also, please try to see that you're actually using right citations and not just copy-pasting whatever you found from the article. I had to waste a lot of time to recheck many sources and then just find out linked article was not even about the subject. --Dyaros Talk 07:47, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: This vandal has been doing the same to heaps of articles on African and Central American militaries. Nick-D (talk) 10:06, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rebuilding army equipment statistics 

message: There are multiple links in the Eritrean Army history section whose links are broken. If these links are not fixed, I believe they should be deleted.
Ericandude (talk) 18:03, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eritrean Army - History
Talk:Noah Daniels

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This page was redirected per the discussion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Noah Daniels.  If you believe you can overcome the concerns voiced therein, please create the article in a user subpage (directions can be found here and bring the issue up at Wikipedia:Deletion review. SkierRMH (talk) 01:05, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Note on Redirect

message: #REDIRECT Minor characters in 24#Noah Daniels
I'm asking this be changed from the current page, as I'm working to make the disambiguation links go to the proper sections, as in, it would now go to Noah Daniels's section, right now it goes just to the Minor characters in 24 page. Steve Crossin (talk) 10:05, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: -- lucasbfr talk 11:39, 16 February 2008 (UTC)

text: Done. --- RockMFR 06:49, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

text: -- lucasbfr talk 07:48, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  editprotected
Talk:48th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (United States)

message: >>It was inducted into federal service on 16 September 1940 at Macon, and was and redesignated on 16 February 1942 as the 30th Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop while remaining assigned to the 30th Infantry Division. It was redesignated 11 August 1943 as the 30th Reconnaissance Troop, Mechanized. It was deactivated on 17 November 1945 at Fort Jackson, South Carolina.<<
I am fairly certain that the 30th Recon was redesignated the 30th Cavalry Reconnaissance Troop, Mechanized, not the 30th Reconnaissance Troop, Mechanized, on 11 Aug 1943.  I am almost finished writing a book on the unit and will verify my assumption and provide a reference.  
As it is, I am good friends with a 91 year old man who served with this unit (the actual subject of the book) and he his records show the unit's name as I have mentioned.
JW (talk) 15:51, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redesignation of the 30th Cavalry Recon
Talk:Martinez beavers

message: We need a . this would be the top article.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 03:21, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: New Project
Talk:Utricularia minor

message: Surely the photograph on this page is not Utricularia minor? The thickness of the peduncle, the overall nature of the the flower....it looks vastly more like a somewhat distorted U. vulgaris or U. macrorhiza flower. Any other opinions on this?--Plantphotographer (talk) 23:00, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That was the USDA's identification. I've known them to be inaccurate on identifications in the past. If you doubt it at all, by all means remove the image and edit the photo description. It's not a very good image, anyway. The only other public domain image we have for this article is :Image:Uricularia minor.jpeg - is that positively identifiable as U. minor? Cheers, Rkitko (talk) 23:17, 26 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I noticed the USDA ID. Unfortunately, in the western USA, any "small" Utricularia will often get the U. minor ID, even if the problem with the specimen is only that too little was collected. In other words, take a nice big U. macrorhiza, split it up into parts, and you get U. minor!  :) The other image you suggested is, while not definitively U. minor, at least not inconsistent with a U. minor identification--Plantphotographer (talk) 15:42, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Nicki (singer)

message: Hello,
Please don't delete this page.  I tried to make it #REDIRECT to the de.wikipedia.org article, but it doesn't seem to be allowed.
If it is possible to make such a redirect, please feel free to do so.
Weasel5i2 (talk) 01:27, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Typically, we don't redirect articles to other languages, because we hate them.  Okay.  Just kidding.  We love the Germans.  We link to other languages through WP:INTERWIKI links, which I've just done.  Now, I can't read German, so that's all I can do.  Please quickly translate some text to establish the notability of this singer. hbdragon88 (talk) 02:13, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Hello,
Thank you for taking care of that for me.  I'm still learning the WP rules.
I added information taken directly from the Google-translated version of the German WP page on Nicki.  One single sentence, the list of her singles, was lifted from AMG (allmusic.com), but not verbatim. I wikified it and omitted the albums.
How does one add citation for a foreign wikipedia article? I'd do it if I knew how.
Weasel5i2 (talk) 05:48, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation Needed 
Talk:Bayside High School (Queens)

message: I don't know about you all, but this article sounds like an administrator decided to make BHS sound all great and all. Care to comment? --Ecstacy Xtcy3 04:19, 25 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Start editing this article!! :3
Talk:List of George Lopez episodes

message: Multiple things are wrong with it—inconsistency when introducing a guest star, not enough details, etc. What are your guys's thoughts about this? --96.231.22.134 (talk) 01:38, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  This Article Really Needs to be Fixed Up 

message: I apologize if I don't add a comment correctly, this is my first time.
I think this article needs a lot of revising, like said by the guy above me. There are many grammatical errors, plus the inconsistencies.
"Disaster strikes when George's mom forgets about a lit cigarette, and her house is burned down, as well as her $53,000 life savings goes in the ashes as well."
Rpgoof (talk) 03:22, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article Needs Revising 

message: No source that proves the show is returning... ♣ Makaveli ♣ 21:46, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah so why is it there for?? Digiron!  —Preceding comment was added at 00:20, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: 2008-2009 Season?

message: 1] There are three "Season 3"s. The first 'Season 3' is the first 8 episodes of the 3rd season. The second and third 'Season 3's are both duplicates of episodes 9-28 of the 3rd season; one needs to be erased, and the other needs to be joined with the first 'Season 3'.
2] 'Season 6: 2006-2007' as it is should actually be the missing 'Season 5: 2005-2006' as evidenced by the airdates.
3] Revision as of 02:52, 12 August 2009 68.90.236.235 to Revision as of 03:18, 12 August 2009 98.216.163.245. This revision removed ALL of the actual season 6's episodes. I was unable to undo this revision due to wikipedia claiming it was dangerous, so someone else will have to do so.
4] Less important, but all of the seasons should have the same table-format.
<Br>--LayzAyzn (talk) 22:04, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article needs to be cleaned up A LOT. 

message: I've started the overhaul on this article.  I think other articles will need it as well.174.3.111.148 (talk) 17:40, 3 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overhaul 

message: I've noticed this a lot when watching George Lopez...
Has anybody ever noticed that most of the time, Carmen and Max will get home from school and it will be, like, pitch black outside? Should this be mentioned?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.60.210.32 (talk) 10:38, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time in the show 

message: George Lopez (season 1), George Lopez (season 2), George Lopez (season 3), George Lopez (season 4), George Lopez (season 5), and George Lopez (season 6) should be merged into this article. Each season article is unsourced, only has episode plot summary and lacks the notable information needed for them to warrant separate articles like ratings, production notes, receptions, casting, crew changes, setting, etc. This article was not that long anyway before the splits.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.2.255.224 (talk) 21:07, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal
Talk:Japanese occupation of Guam

message: "Chamorros were forced to endure the hardships of the military occupation in a war not caused by them."
This seems to imply that the United States or Americans in general caused the war, rather than the Japanese unilaterally declaring a war of aggression and conquest.
It is plain that the Japanese intended to permanently annex Guam. They banned English, enforced Japanese culture and institutions and re-named the Island 'Great Shrine Island'.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by LikkerdySplit (talk • contribs) 13:35, 27 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Curious Implication 

message: What shrine was "Omiya-jima" named after?
The cathedral?
--Error (talk) 12:45, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shrine
Talk:River Heights, Saskatoon

message: The article Canarama Mall Shootout I do not believe is notable enough to warrant its own article. I explain my reasoning in detail on that article's talk page. There is already a section on the shootout in this article (and even then I moved it because it was too prominent), so the pertinent details should be merged here. 23skidoo (talk) 16:24, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: No need. It was PROD'd and the contributor appears to be inactive now. --Drm310 (talk) 20:00, 9 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: There's no enduring notability for the event anyway, and it's unsourced, so I've removed it. --Drm310 (talk) 18:23, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger proposal
Talk:Serials crisis

message: It's better to mark them non working in the hope someone can fix them. I'm sure the harnad one can be found at least, and I'm going to search for the Okerson. DGG (talk) 01:53, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This article reads like a list of problems and proposed solutions, rather than like an encyclopedia article. It needs some serious reorganization to meet Wikipedia's article guidelines for a quality article. Furthermore, there are quite a lot of potentially debatable assertions that are not cited. — λ (talk) 18:39, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reads like a list, not an article 

message: The article is not very balanced. I don't see, for example, the fact that researchers churn out ever more and more papers and the resulting increase in numbers of pages published (and, hence, publication cost) as a factor in the increase in the cost of many journals. In many instances, this size increase is larger than the price increases (so counting for inflation, many journals have actually become cheaper on a per page basis). Unfortunately, this is my own OR, so if somebody has a reference for this, it could be added to the journal to provide more balance. And publishers certainly have had a thing or two to say about this, so we need to cover their responses, too. Finally, the OA section not only doubles a lot from the article on open access (publishing), but also presents many opinions that are not substantiated in any way by sources. --Crusio (talk) 16:58, 31 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV problems 
Talk:Tyro

message: What happened to Cretheus for Tyro to marry Sisyphus? No information is given regarding this.
ICE77 (talk) 02:29, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Information about Cretheus 

message: It might be interesting to know if the noun "tyro" (meaning beginner or rookie) is in any way related to this mythological character. 92.79.101.164 (talk) 06:41, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Any relation to the noun "tyro"?
Talk:Hiroshima Maidens

message: Need help cirrecting my error. The link is valid, but my handling of the format seems a dud. Catnug (talk) 09:31, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Cite error" Can anyone please assist? I'm utterly new to editing on Wikipedia, but have just now viewed a video that is referred to as "missing as of 2004". I wanted to offer the link to the relevant video, but have been quite clumsy in my effort.
Talk:Max Stern Yezreel Valley College

message: One or more portions of this article duplicated other source(s).  Infringing 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.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. Thank you.  Moonriddengirl (talk) 00:31, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem removed
Talk:Salmoneus

message: 1. "At first, Tyro submitted to Sisyphus, married him, and bore him a son". Is there any information about the name of the baby?
2. The article on Tyro says she had two babies. There is a source there. Right here there is no source. I assume the article on Tyro is more reliable and the number of babies should be two.
ICE77 (talk) 02:08, 30 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Names and number of the babies
Talk:Aegialeus

message: I'm going to split this article and make it a disambig, just so we can sort out the interwikis that are also disambigs (having them as interwikis to a non-disambig also messes up the robots) Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 21:48, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Please make sure when you do this in the future that you attribute the original article when creating the page. The easiest way to do this is in the edit summary (e.g. "split from Aegialeus"). This attribution is required by the GFDL (to credit the original authors and not make it appear that you're the only author). Thanks! — madman 15:35, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intention to split 

message: I propose that the page, if it is to continue to be a disambiguation page, should read as follows:
----
Aegialeus (also Aegealeus, Egialeus) is the name of several individuals in Greek mythology or literature:
* Aegialeus (king of Sicyon), one of the sons of the river god Inachus
* Aegialeus (king of Argos), elder son of Adrastus, a king of Argos
* Aegialeus, an elderly fisherman in the Ephesian Tale, an Ancient Greek novel
* Aegialeus, an alternative name used by some scholars for Absyrtus, the son of Aeëtes who was murdered by Medea
----
Please note that the footnotes for the last sense are in Absyrtus. Although a foolish consistency may be the hobgoblin of little minds, consistency between disambiguation pages is not necessarily foolish; it is grounded in the logical purpose of such pages to serve as quick navigational guideposts. Cheers! bd2412 T 13:18, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep, that would have been proper all along. But some topics just seem to have this inescapable je ne sais quoi about them that can blind us all to the obvious stuff like that. Regards, Til Eulenspiegel /talk/ 13:43, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

text: This looks OK, except the link to Greek mythology is unneeded. older ≠ wiser 14:39, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes, of course. bd2412 T 21:02, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal for page contents.
Talk:Coach America

message: Fixed a lot of DAB links, but the one for trolley seems irrelevant unless a page for trolley-style buses is added. A trolleybus is not the same, since it's a city-only kind of thing. Duncan1800 (talk) 14:47, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Fixing links

message: Coming off a major rewrite of the Coach USA article, over the past week or two, I did a complete rewrite of this article in the same fashion, resulting in a completely different look. --AEMoreira042281 (talk) 16:52, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Recent complete rewrite
Talk:Ono Academic College

message: , , , , , , ,  Since OAC is now operating on its new campus that should be reflected in the photos and in Ono Academic College – Haredi Campus. Mcljlm (talk) 20:06, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: @Mcljlm: Hi there!  Feel free to take your own new photos and upload them to Wikimedia Commons via the Wikipedia:File Upload Wizard.  Happy editing! GoingBatty (talk) 20:35, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I would if I could but I don't live near Kiryat Ono.  Meanwhile perhaps the photo captions should be edited. Mcljlm (talk) 04:20, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  New campus
Talk:Conus textile

message: In the season 4 episode of Hawaii Five-O called "Cloth of Gold," a man used this animal to kill the 3 men who had murdered his daughter. It took the police quite a bit of work to determine their cause of death. At the end, the man used the animal to commit suicide. It's a very good episode. Grundle2600 (talk) 02:42, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Used in Hawaii Five-O

message: The living animal of Conus textile can extend its proboscis well beyond the spire of its own shell. Handling a living animal like this is tantamont to playing with a loaded gun. These things are not as shy as some other venomous cones and will readily extend their proboscis in search of someone/thing to 'harpoon.' "When all you've got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
Makuabob (talk) 20:34, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Not safe to handle

message: This sentence is misleading and should probably be removed, or at least edited: "In 2021, a teen nearly died after picking up a live textile cone"
If you read the cited article, the teen in question was not stung/envenomated. He simply picked one up and remarked on his TikTok that it was a reckless thing to do. 64.121.214.166 (talk) 02:16, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "teen nearly died in 2021" is misleading
Wikipedia talk:Hope

message: I think this is more of an essay than a policy or guideline, but nonetheless, I support it. Well put. Terraxos (talk) 02:43, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's important that this be a policy, because people frequently say, "That's just an essay." ☯  Zenwhat (talk) 03:04, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe, then, we need to create a category other than policy, guideline, or essay, in which it should fit :) e.g., advice. GracenotesT § 14:24, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

text: It will never be more than an essay. It can't be policy because you can't require people to be hopeful while they edit. -- 68.156.149.62 (talk) 22:22, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This was a retarded idea. I'm going over to Citizendium, folks. This is going to back to being a redirect to Esperanza -- a failed project that demonstrates the failure of the Wikipedia community itself. ☯  Zenwhat (talk) 01:28, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Why, because they're hopeful there? GracenotesT § 04:02, 20 January 2008 (UTC)