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Talk:Nic Kipke

message: Since Pat Corcoran has been determined on the article about him to not fit the "Paleoconservative" label and has, fittingly, been deemed a standard conservative, I am properly identifying him here as the conservative he is and removing the false label of paleoconservative. Furthermore, Nic Kipke is, idealogically, virtually identical to Pat Corcoran for all intents and purposes, as evident in the eerily similar wording of Kipke's new site compared to Corcoran's.
VaVaVertigo 23:59, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: "and the Anne Arundel County portion of Baltimore."
What is this supposed to mean? There is no "Anne Arundel County portion of Baltimore". Baltimore is an independent city; no part of it is part of a county. In any case, Baltimore City was separated from Baltimore County, not Anne Arundel. Perhaps they are referring to the areas that use Baltimore in the address line that is outside of the CIty, but again, these are not part of the city and included many areas. I'm assuming in this case the writer means Curtis Bay, which is still part of the county and not the city. I'm removing this line because it's inaccurate.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.48.196.17 (talk) 03:55, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled2
Talk:Hock (anatomy)

message: On April 26, 2005, this article was nominated for deletion.  The result was keep.  See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Hock (zoology) for a record of the discussion. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 12:52, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: VfD

message: Some dinosaurs, like velociraptor, had a hock in both of its legs.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.238.133.210 (talk) 18:01, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: No, they didn't.  Look at the actual skeletons, not crappy artistic reconstructions. Mokele (talk) 18:13, 7 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  hox
Talk:IC50

message: In the context of "a graph saying more than a thousand words", the IC50-plot should be clear and unambiguous. How can you explain that when increasing the inhibitor concentration (x-axis), percentage inhibition drops (y-axis)?
Please edit so that units in y-axis are the correct ones, i.e. initial reaction velocity.
--  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.193.187.5 (talk) 09:57, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  IC50 - important concept - flawed definition 

message: I removed information in the lead paragraph relating to inhibitors.
"An inhibitor is a small molecule that lowers enzyme activity. In general, the higher the concentration of inhibitor, the more will enzyme activity be lowered. At any given concentration, two different inhibitors will have a different effect on the activity of the same enzyme. It is thus necessary to have a number which can be used to compare the potencies (i.e., how much a certain molecule will lower enzyme activity)." 
This article is about IC50 which is a pharmacolgical constant. Inhibitors have IC50 values so I tried to reintegrate it with information already present in the article. I think that including it in the lead paragraph would mislead people into thinking it was a discussion about inhibitors not The IC50 concept Lilypink 19:04, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: IC50 is not a pharmacological constant! pA2 is a constant. IC50 changes with agonist concentration (see cheng-prussoff)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.51.48.1 (talk) 03:52, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Info about Inhibitors

message: Should we merge in the page Pic50 - it is very poorly written, and the section here explains it well. Mirams (talk) 20:15, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, definitely. pIC50 is simply the negative log of IC50. There is no reason for there to be a separate article about it. --Aurochs (Talk | Block) 20:33, 9 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge in Pic50 

message: This article needs some considerable cleanup.  In particular, the discussion of computing IC50 values from competitive binding assays is hard to follow (as well as being partially copied directly from some of the references).
Some indication of the Cheng-Prusoff equation is also needed.  Actually, it rejjjjjjjjjjally needs its very own page.Clayt85 (talk) 20:23, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Multiple issues 

message: In 'Functional antagonist assays' it says "In general, the higher the concentration of inhibitor, the more agonist activity will be lowered." This seems redundant or misplaced so I've just italicised it for now. Can anyone delete/move/improve this wording ? - Rod57 (talk) 12:48, 17 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible redundant/misplaced sentence
Talk:Intergenic region

message: I have added some rough percentages as opposed " a large number" but the paper is out of date. Will change this once i find a more suitable reference DesiLady (talk) 12:50, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the quoted percentage is completely incorrect. The cited source names those percentages in the context of "genome [that] does not code for proteins". That would include e.g. introns which even according to the article are not inter(!)genic. That's a pretty big error as ~26% of human genome are introns... --Maxnoka (talk) 18:20, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Percentages of intergenic regions in human?

message: : The article looks like it needs a better picture. Alexbateman (talk) 12:04, 29 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Image needed

message: Statements in the current (Aug. 17, 2022) version are in quotation marks.
"Historically intergenic regions have sometimes been called junk DNA suggesting that they have no function. However, it has been known for a long time that these regions do contain functionally important elements such ..."
What's the point? Can both of these sentences be true? No, there are no knowledgeable experts who ever said that all intergenic regions are junk DNA. The mainstream science viewpoint is that there are all kinds of functional elements in intergenic regions and that's been known for more than 60 years. 
The rest of the 'Functions' section describes some of the known functional elements in the part of the genome that lies outside of genes. But this is not the place to describe those elements. Besides, some of the most important ones ones are missing. Let's leave that description to other Wikipedia articles that can do a better job.
I propose to delete (again) the entire section unless someone can come up with a good reason to keep it.
 
Genome42 (talk) 18:57, 17 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Functions 

message: This figure is not helpful. What is a "gene cluster"?
Deleted. Genome42 (talk) 20:09, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Figures
Talk:Tinsel

message: PVC is far too soft for tinsel.  Most tinsel would be made from some kind of polyester film, usually polyethylene terephthalate, which has much higher heat resistance, better rigidity and far higher tensile strength (PVC stretches at the thickness needed for tinsel).
71.241.74.20 (talk) 05:25, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: PVC tinsel?

message: The following sentences are twice in the article :
"Modern tinsel was invented in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1610, and was originally made of shredded silver."
"Tinsel was invented in Nuremberg around 1610.[1] Tinsel was originally made from extruded strands of silver."
To me, the whole article looks a little like being just a copy-paste of different sources.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.220.75.31 (talk) 17:47, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The article used to be split into sections, hence the repetition. I've restored the lost "history" header. --McGeddon (talk) 19:42, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Double content 

message: I'm fairly certain the two are different things.
Tinsel being individual strands of metallic fiber.
Garland being whatever material chosen bunched up along a string.
Some tinsel may be attatched to a string for ease of decoration... but it all still faces the same direction... (like a hula skirt) unlike garland which manifests as more of a rope-like consistency.
The article has an image of what would without a doubt be classified as a garland, identifying it as tinsel, and I am forced to disagree.
71.194.207.38 (talk) 21:03, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tinsel vs Garland
Talk:Stand down

message: , earlier today you changed this page from a redirect pointing to Termination of employment to an article which did not cite any sources, and, quite frankly, did not make a ton of sense. I realized that the term has at least two uses, so instead of reverting back to the redirect I turned it into a disambiguation page.  The way you are attempting to use the term, in a fire and rescue context, could well be a valid use and a valid entry on the disambiguation page, if there was an article for it to point to.  I suggest turning this back into a disambiguation page, and if you can provide sources for its use in the fire and rescue context, creating a new article, Stand down (fire and rescue). ~ ONUnicorn(Talk|Contribs)problem solving 21:09, 8 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect vs. Disambiguation vs. Unreferenced and confusing article
Talk:Running on Empty (album)

message: Who is the guy who joins JB and sings "Stay" at the end of the album??? I can't seem to find out. One source http://www.warr.org/browne.html#RunningOnEmpty says David Lindley, but I had heard it was someone else. 65.40.167.36 18:21, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Port (nautical)

message: There is another sailor's mnemonic for starboard and port, having to do with  channel markers, which goes "Red on right returning."  Thought it might be useful. O0drogue0o (talk) 09:47, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mnemonics 

message: Though I've held a Commercial Pilot rating for over 25 years, I've never heard any flight instructor or other pilot refer to the left side of an airplane or helicopter as "port", or the right side as "starboard".  This may be true for seaplanes, but certainly not for land-based aircraft.  The concept is totally meaningless in spacecraft, where there is no "up" or "down".  Who makes up this stuff?—QuicksilverT @ 21:13, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Regarding spacecraft, try this NASA google search I can see "attached to the port side of the S0 truss", "the port side of the Space Station", and it says, 245,000 others. Let's try Boeing... There's "spraying pod mounted under port-side wing", "The Lufthansa brand name on the port-side nose" and 111,000 others. So it's not that uncommon. --Nigelj (talk) 21:39, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aircraft and spacecraft
Talk:Siege of Fort Meigs

message: How does a failed siege work out as a British Victory? I could see indecisive but victory? Sheesh fix this! --Tirronan (talk) 16:33, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Seeing that Procter couldn't continue the sige after the indians left, I think it is a defeat. In more ways than not, he failed to take the fort necessary for him to advance unharrassed. InternetHero (talk) 21:44, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: British tactical victory?

message: Ya, I'll fix it in a couple of weeks. As for now, please don't revert since it is very informative as well. Pierre Berton's references were like 50. InternetHero (talk) 02:01, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, we've heard this before.  I know of articles where the creator said that last February which haven't been touched since. This should have been created in your userspace before putting it out in article space. dougweller (talk) 05:55, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I wasn't aware we had a WP:DEADLINE. 208.245.87.2 (talk) 14:11, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's never too soon to fix an article. The real point is though that this article doesn't belong to anyone, so there is no reason to wait before making changes. Internethero's version is not encyclopedic, that's the long and short of it. And the other version uses more than one source dougweller (talk) 14:43, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Story-like article

message: To this very day, a Barbette embrasure dug by the British can be seen in Fort Meigs Cemetery, which is approximately a half mile to the east.
Musicwriter (talk) 04:12, 25 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Barbette embrasures

message: In this time period, the Maumee river was known as the “Miami of the Lake”.  See Treaty of Greenville, 1795, 7 Stat. 49Treaty of Detroit, 1807, 7 Stat. 105Treaty of Brownstown, 1808, 7 Stat. 112 Act of Dec 12, 1811, 2  Stat. 668 Act of April 27, 1816, 3 Stat. 319.
“Miami du Lac River” is an anachronism from the 1680s of Frontenac.  Roseohioresident (talk) 17:42, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Miami du Lac River

message: Please explain how this is a British victory of any sort before changing the results back.  I don't see how the refernce posted confirms it was a British tactical victory.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.141.205.106 (talk) 16:49, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  victory
Talk:Dick Durbin

message: There should be a section added for his involvement with Jeffrey Epstein.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:9001:6303:2C7:A8EA:E20A:B78F:278C (talk) 21:39, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps you are referring to the partisan attacks attempting to associate Durbin with Epstein. Durbin has in fact  The English Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons policy does not permit us to add allegations based on rumor & innuendo. Any information added to a biographies of living people must be neutral, verified by reliable sources, & not original research. You have not provided no verification from any reliable sources, so it is unclear how you could expect us to proceed with your request. Peaceray (talk) 22:21, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: December 2023 suggestion
Talk:Dominion Police

message: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/When_did_the_RCMP_start
I am moving the above link here from the face of the article, as it's not a WP:RS. I haven't taken the time to look for better sources. – Fayenatic London 17:31, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Origin

message: What did their kit look like and what equipment did they carry on the beat? Just wondering in case someone wanted to make a movie or other project. - knoodelhed (talk) 22:20, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uniform?
Talk:Maximum Security (comics)

message: I attempted to clean up some of the descriptions but without knowing the details of the story line it is still choppy.  It needs to have some background of the characters added so that someone who isn't intimatly familiar with the characters can better understand the premise and story line.--Stockwell 02:41, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: cleanup

message: Accordig to most websites this is the complete list of Maximum Security issues and the ones that are featured in the article:
*Week 1:
:Maximum Security: Dangerous Planet (done)
:Maximum Security #1 (done)
:Avengers Infinity #4 (done)
:Thor (vol. 2) #30
:Uncanny X-Men #387
*Week 2:
:Amazing Spider-Man (vol. 2) #24 (done)
:Black Panther (vol. 2) #25
:Iron Man (vol. 3) #35
*Week 3:
:Maximum Security #2 (done)
:Captain America (vol. 3) #36
:Captain Marvel #12
:Bishop #15
:Incredible Hulk (vol. 2) #21
:Peter Parker: Spider-Man (vol. 2) #24
:Thunderbolts #45
:X-Men #107 (done)
*Week 4:
:Avengers (vol. 3) #35 (done)
:Gambit #23
:Marvel Knights #6
:X-Men Unlimited #29
*Week 5:
:Maximum Security #3 (done)
So are we going to take the relevant info from all of them, or miss some out?--GingerM 22:08, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Issues
Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/C.A.L.M.

message: I'm entirely curious why an article about C.A.L.M., a free and non-commercial health care center, could ever be considered an advertisement. CALM is a center where thousands of people have received free health care and never, ever been sent a bill or harassed for payment. Further, CALM has given free training to people who express interest in health care training.
CALM functions at the annual Rainbow Gatherings in the summers. It is an entirely non-commercial event. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Bstone (talk • contribs) 03:13, 21 April 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Xenophon

message: The  introduction to The Expedition of Cyrus (Oxford World's Classics, 2005, page xiv), quotes Xenophon saying he had come as philos to Cyrus not as  general, company commander or a soldier - ranks whose pay he had described shortly before.  That is not in a relationship of "service for cash". In this context is it correct to describe Xenophon as a mercenary? 
All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 21:57, 28 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Mercenary

message: This article presents scholarly argument as simple fact (e.g. that Xenophon was "pro-oligarchic," which is disputed; that the Education of Cyrus was written "to outline his political and moral philosophy. He did this by endowing a fictional version of the boyhood of Cyrus the Great, founder of the first Persian Empire, with the qualities of what Xenophon considered the ideal ruler"-- this is pure interpretive argument, and not anywhere set out in the text, etc., and certaintly does not reflect the rich range of arguments about what Xenophon is doing in the Cyropaedia. An encyclopedic article on Xenophon should present a balanced, comprehensive view of various scholarly interpretations and argument of his work, etc., along the NPOV guidelines, and not simply take the arguments of one scholar, or possibly one editor, as the fact of the matter.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Claroche (talk • contribs) 23:54, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: You may well be right, but just as a first step I propose (1) reversing the small deletion you down, which we can re-reverse later, and (2) calling for sources to support various ways of handling this topic. I propose this partly because it is clear that you are also clearly aware that SOME scholars think he was pro oligarchic and pro Spartan. I think in the end we will need a new paragraph summarizing both sides of that old argument. WP policy tells us to simply report such arguments, but definitely not to ignore tham (which is done in some types of encyclopedia).--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 15:04, 26 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Many problems
Talk:Brother (Final Fantasy X)

message: Formidable blitzball player? He sucks!  →  JarlaxleArtemis 03:46, Apr 21, 2005 (UTC)
: xD LOL! Well he was one of the best in my team - shows how good I was at blitzball :P Feel free to change that, but include something about his role in blitzball seeing as its where he features primarily in most people's games. ...He was damn fast though!! :P -Erolos 19:02, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: My best player was Datto. My second-best was Tidus. I managed to get Datto's level into the 90s. I fired Brother because he was too slow, and I hired better players. I also fired Botta and, much later, Jassu. I kept the rest of the Aurochs, though. Oh, and did I mention I equipped Tidus with Jecht Shot? I also won over 150 blitzball games total. Sorry to brag, but I just couldn't help myself.    →  JarlaxleArtemis 03:04, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
Removed the "despite being her cousin"-part. Seeing as the "incest"-taboo surounding cousins is more of an american phenomenon than a global (in all of Europa it is not forbidden to marry even a first degree cousin) it has no place in an encyclopedia for an english-speaking audience which is not US-exclusive
I'm British, and I'm fairly certain I wouldn't be a respected member of society if I married my cousin. It IS a taboo! SAM-EL
Added a trivia section for him, revealing fun, random, yet completely useless facts. HS Yuna 19:49, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Devan Nair

message: The person is question is almost universally referred to as just "Devan Nair", so that's the correct name for the article.  The Chengara Veetil bit, which I'd never even heard of before Wikipedia, is trivia and can stay in the content. Jpatokal 03:58, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: That's my question: I read somewhere that he got arrested during the late 1950's, for among other things, along with Lim Chin Siong for being involved in stirring unrest. Is this the same one? I just got confused, because only now did I realise if that if they were two separate persons, they have the same name. -- Natalinasmpf 20:18, 15 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, the union leader C V Devan Nair. Thats the turning point of his political carrer as well, when he realised the leader of PAP is one that is reliable and persistent, and decided he will align to him and although with much hesistation over the reducing of his militant stand, he eventually become NTUC founder. He was a close ally of Lim Chin Siong and Fong Swee Suan during the pre-merge years though, and turning against them when Lim and Fong form the Barisan Sosaslis. Slivester 15:56, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this the same Devan Nair that got arrested? 

message: That's my question: As per my knowlege, am from Champad, still his relatives are in my native place.
I came to know his ancetors belongs to cherukunnu in kannur district.
I would be interested in any knowledge of his ancestors/relatives from Kerala - please message me (Nair relative) Drrian (talk) 03:09, 2 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this person's Mr. Devan Nair family relatives still lving in Tellicherry nearby Champad??
Talk:Vasily Sokolovsky

message: Is this the same Sokolovski who commanded the Kalinin Front during theSecond Rzhev-Sychevka Offensive and the Battle of Velikiye Luki? — B.Bryant 04:05, 21 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. Andreas 10:56, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Very delayed, but here's some extra info. Glantz is referring to some of the newer archival documents, the "Доклад Комиссии ГКО тов. Сталину" date 11 April, 1944 if I understand correctly. The official report by was compiled by a Special Commission to investigate the Western Front's poor advance in the last half year, despite being very well equipped. D2306 (talk) 15:43, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Fifteen (band)

message: Okay, terrific. 
Removing the line "Fifteen is arguably viewed as the leader in the political-punk music scene". Absurd and weasel-y. -24.128.49.39 00:10, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing POV 

message: I wrote the majority of this page because the original entry was just a cut-and-pasted paragraph from  another website. I noticed that there was some editing which was reverted as being vandalism, and it looks like it actually came from Jeff Ott himself. What he wrote probably should have been addressed on the talk page, but I wanted to respond here in case it still concerned him, as he has a right to contest anything inaccurate being written about him.
1) Describing Fifteen as an "American" band is a Wikipedia convention and only serves to describe the geographic place of origin of the band. It isn't meant to suggest that the band is politically aligned with the US government or even acknowledges its validity, which I assume is the issue with calling the band "American".
2) The word "career" isn't being used to suggest that playing music is supporting you financially. As the article states, it doesn't and that has been the main impediment to the band's existence.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.230.158.123 (talk) 01:42, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Vandalism" 

message: In light of contested validity of both the Jeff Ott and Fifteen articles, I put a little work into them. Both could still use some clean up. Ways that editors can help:
* More biographical info on Ott and band members, supported by good sources (books, liner notes, online or print interviews, with links)
*Better discographical information, also supported by good referential sources
*Check for grammar, punctuation, and redundant information, often the result of contributions from multiple editors 
*Photos that are not copywritten and therefore free to be included on Wikipedia
Help do these things and this articles will be more than just stub or start-class.  Morganfitzp (talk) 21:22, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Improvements