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Talk:Whippet

message: The article says "Whippets were then commonly known as "snap dogs" for their tendency to "snap up" nearby prey."... I'm pretty sure this is folk etymology. While not a native I live in the traditional heartland of the whippet... The North of England... I have pair of whippets myself (but no flat cap yet). The term "snap" is slang for food and every person I know who speaks Northern well enough to use the term "snap dog" uses it to mean any dog that, theoretically at least, is capable of putting food on the table. It applies to any sighthound not just whippets.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.78.66.211 (talk) 17:29, 16 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Snap dog" 

message: Popular culture - is being the mascot of some minor school really significant enough for the popular culture section? I propose deleting. 49.186.227.237 (talk) 22:55, 8 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popular culture 

message: "..highest running speed of any breed of its weight..."
Citation? Also, weight is not given in this article. (AKC says 25-40 pounds is typical but not Specified, https://www.akc.org/dog-breeds/whippet/ Hills Pet (food) says 25-40 lbs. and 20-35 lbs. (probably dog and bitch). ~~~ PRR (talk) 21:42, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weight?
Talk:Georges Danton

message: why is the 1911 Britannica being referenced for goodness sake? How is that useful. Research has moved a bit in the last 110 years. Plus why is the article so weirdly disjointed?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.150.112.52 (talk) 22:28, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  is this history?
Talk:Color constancy

message: I am having bum
 by the use of the word “discounted” in the phrase: “This illumination is then discounted” Is it a technical term? Can it be defined or “glossed” or better explained here? Would a word such as “normalized” be better? Would it be better to say that “the spectral characteristics of the illumination are estimated and this estimate is used to interpret the colors of the reflected light”? --Lbeaumont 13:55, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Is “Discounted” a special term?

message: Well, the example seems a little ridiculous.  Of course the cards seem to be of different colors in the two photos---at least one of the photos has been filtered.  The colors are actually changed, not just apparently changed, and the viewer sees them as changed.  So where is the illusion?CountMacula (talk) 11:45, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Double checked, no you're wrong. -- CFCF 🍌 (email) 12:11, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, exactly how and what did you double check?CountMacula (talk) 15:27, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I did a color-analysis in Gimp, and yupp they're the same. What it is you call a "filter" does not cover the pink color. -- CFCF 🍌 (email) 20:35, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, thank you.  The caption use some clarification.CountMacula (talk) 11:45, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Example of the man holding the colored cards 

message: Most of the editors of the article on the color "white" don't know what color constancy is, much less chromatic adaptation, and they don't even know there's a difference between "white light" vs a "white surface", or how these are related to the color  "white".  They see that article as being primarily about the cultural usage, figurative associations, and history of "white" (and "white" being no more fundamental than any other color like orange), rather than stating or explaining what white literally is as a color, which is well-understood in color science. Could any of you weigh in on the current dispute on the talk page talk:White there, which mainly is between just two editors about the lead and its first sentence?  One of them wants the first paragraph to rely first on citing illustrative examples of white like snow, chalk, and milk, before even defining white in any objective sense, and based largely on one colloquial dictionary definition of the word "white". 129.33.253.142 (talk) 16:54, 4 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  article "White" -- more color science needed, including weighing in on current dispute about how to begin the lead (and ultimately other parts of the article)
Talk:Yolanda Saldívar

message: The lede as it's currently written could be read to mean that that she was convicted on March 31, 1995. That's the same day as the murder, and unless the Texas justice system moves with frightening speed (which would call into question the term "justice"), that's probably a mistake in phrasing. Unfortunately I am too tired to figure out a better phrasing, so I'm just dropping this notice. Hppavilion1 (talk) 00:13, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ambiguous phrasing in the lede
Talk:Zend Engine

message: Currently, the article doesn't answer the most important question a software developer could ask about a piece of an alleged important part of the platform they're developing code on: so what the heck does it do?
Currently, the article states that it's a "Scripting engine" and a "virtual machine" (mentioned almost as an afterthough in the lead!) that's somehow related to PHP, it was written by two guys back in the PHP4 days, it rocked so it became popular, and verily, it is also part of PHP5. The very essence of the program isn't explained all; what is explained that it's part of the whole. Apologies for using such strong words, but this article is pure fluff!
Tell me, please, I'm clueless! What is Zend, when you really think about it? What sort of scripting engine or a virtual machine? How does it do what it does? How does it compare to other scripting engines? --wwwwolf (barks/growls) 17:52, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Hopefully my edit attempt will enlighten those in darkness. Renaissongsman (talk) 22:03, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  So what the heck does it do? 

message: I am puzzled by the phrase:
:...commonly known for the important role it plays in the web automation language PHP. 
THis suggests that as well as running PHP, it is also used for running something else. But I am unable to find any references to any such thing. What is meant here? -- 202.63.39.58 (talk) 03:41, 21 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  What else does it do? 

message: there's something wrong with the following sentence:h
As an open-source project, programmers from all over the world who volunteer their time and skills to expand and improve the PHP/Zend Engine codebase.
88.88.102.27 (talk) 19:41, 4 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  fix this sentence? 
Talk:Yolanda Vadiz

message: Dear Mr. Martin:
Thank you so much for writing on Yolanda Vadiz, an unrecognized name by the media, and the artistic community in general, who at the young age of 28, passed away, in 1987.  I'm sure if she were alive today, The NY Met, as well as La Scala of Milan, would be presenting the colatura soprano, they seem to be lacking these days. I will clarify, before making such a bold a statement, that a little while before she died, Yolanda had finished auditioning for La Scala, and was also getting ready for an audition at the Met of NY, where she had  been invited . And before all this, Placido Domingo, after having heard her, in the early 80's decided to record with her, the zarzuela, "La Francisquita", a production which did not come to pass because of the sudden earthquake in Mexico, which interferred with Sr. Domingo's plans. I feel that hearing information about this exceptional person does a bit of justice to the puertorrican community and the latin community in general.  There is reason to boast.  But actually it is for something much greater than the mentioned.  You can only experience it when listening to her latest CD, reproduced from her first and last album.  When you hear this CD, you will understand that the impact you experience when listening to her has all to do with the anointing of God in her voice.  It is unique and perhaps, without fear of exageration, the greatest musical experience you will ever have.   Annette -
A Christian since her teen years - what was she before, a Buddhist? RickK 06:31, 17 Aug 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:United States prison population

message: In short, it's very difficult to compare crime rates between counties, although that will get easier as the European counties standardize record keeping. [ http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/hosb502.pdf International Comparisions of Criminal Justice Statistics, 2000] and see generally [ http://prisonsucks.com/research.shtml#International_Incarceration_Comparisons International Incarceration Comparisons at Prisonsucks.com], of which [ http://www.unicri.it/icvs/publications/pdf_files/key2000i/index.htm  
Victimisation in Seventeen Industrialised Countries:  Key-findings from the 2000 international Crime Victims Survey] is probably the most immediately useful.
In short, jail is for people waiting for trial who can't make bail and those on short sentences. For U.S. national statistical purposes, jail is defined as sentences of a year or less. Practice, though, varies between states. But yes, 1.3million prisoners and 600,000 jail inmates in the U.S. Add in maybe another 100,000 or so juveniles to reach the 2.1million figure. (Does not add due to rounding, etc.) Beyond the prison/jail confusion, often the statistics will exclude the juveniles. Even the Bureau of Justice Statistics stats will tend to use very outdated juvenile numbers.
I'll try and come back soon and help straighten this stuff out, but in the mean time [ http://www.prisonsucks.com Prisonsucks.com] should provide some help.
A lot of stuff merged over. Robneild 18:02, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  International comparisions, prison and jail.
Talk:Affirmative action

message: See  Doug Weller talk 13:25, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Not sure I understand the point of this cite. Are you suggesting it be included in the article? It seems based on an ad hominem/ guilt-by-association fallacy from the author of 1 citation in a 119 page brief, and doesn't address the arguments on either side. Gumbear (talk) 15:11, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Harvard affirmative action challenge partly based on Holocaust denier’s work" 

message: — Assignment last updated by !777francis777! (talk) 18:14, 24 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Gender, Race and Computing

message: Why is this section's neutrality being disputed? Jarble (talk) 19:14, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Affirmative action in Sri Lanka

message: The lead paragraph currently says the Students for Fair Admissions ruling "does not explicitly apply to U.S. military academies..." I think it would be more precise to say: "the Court explicitly exempted the U.S. military academies and their use of race-based affirmative action from its ruling," which is more like how the WP article on the Students for Fair Admissions case puts it. Or: "the ruling explicitly left the door open for service academies to continue to use race-conscious admissions programs," which is how the Scotusblog source cited in that article puts it. 
The way it's written now makes it seem like the court just didn't say explicitly that the ruling does apply to the military academies, but actually the Court explicitly suggested that ruling may not apply to the military academies. The distinction seems important, but as a relatively new editor on WP, and recognizing this is a controversial topic, I hesitate to change it myself. Jameson Nightowl (talk) 05:34, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested edit to lead paragraph regarding military academies and the Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard case 

message: The British term for 'affirmative action' is 'positive discrimination', not 'positive action'. There's a difference between these terms!
Positive action is about helping marginalised groups, but one will not lower standards for them. An example of helping them would be including them in advertisements, hiring them if they meet the conditions, etc. מושא עקיף (talk) 02:10, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I just added again, I think whoever edited it thought they were synonyms. ComradeHektor (talk) 05:15, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Positive Discrimination 

message: — Assignment last updated by Esycgndur64sdikyv (talk) 17:50, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: ENGL 1301
Talk:Jean-Frédéric Waldeck

message: I have removed the following from the article:
: Waldeck subsequently influenced many generations of artists and explorers to come, including Dame Freya Stark and Helge Ingstad. 
If some source can be presented (eg, do Stark and Ingstad talk about Waldeck's influence in anything they've written?), fine, back this goes. As Stark and Ingstad are fellow centenarians, I'm not sure if Longevitymonger suggests that Waldeck inspired them about how old to live to ? :-) -- Infrogmation 13:12, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Influence

message: I have removed the hoax tag. I presume the tag is intended for situations where the entire article is suspected of being a hoax. The existance of Waldeck is well documented, and sources are listed in the article. Certain of Waldeck's own autobiographical claims are doubted and unconfirmed, but this is specifically mentioned in the article, which makes no assertion of truthfulness for dubious claims. -- Infrogmation (talk) 02:58, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, that's what I thought and that was the reason I removed the tag in the first place. I readded it upon being told that this person was just a French fairytale (so to speak), pending further research. So just to be certain, Waldeck WAS a real person even if some of his claims were BS, right? Cheers, CP 02:30, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, he existed alright. It's just that many claims made by and about him, are generally suspect and of the tall tales variety. --cjllw ʘ TALK 11:52, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Hoax
Talk:Time Person of the Year

message: Hi,
The further I scroll down the photos of the persons of the year the smaller their photos get and they get really small. And right when I get to the end of the list, suddenly it automatically scrolls down to the end of the page and doesn't let me seethe current person of the year. Same thing happens in the german version of the site. I'm on a Samsung tablet. I tried our mobile version but it hasn't changed. Has someone made the same experience? 2003:CD:5F3B:2900:AA9C:4002:ADEB:49 (talk) 18:54, 4 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error? 
Talk:Darling Harbour

message: Surely there's not point having a separate article for Cockle Bay? If it did exist, it would be merged with this article, wouldn't it? JPD (talk) 10:57, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cockle Bay link 

message: User:Adam.J.W.C. revertion to bad our own photography (WP:BOLD) Hpeterswald (talk) 19:16, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photograph 
Talk:2000 Camp David Summit

message: The quote from Shlomo Ben Ami's debate in Democracy Now! (2006) is misleading. The full quote says:
But the quote in the article omits the beginning, starting with:
Making it seem like it is Ben Ami's opinion, although it isn't (according to the debate and the book). The opinion is apparently attributed to some other diplomat mentioned in the book. Shilton (talk) 15:04, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I could be mistaken but he seems to be talking about himself. Even in his book he refers to himself in third person. VR talk 19:57, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misleading Ben Ami quote 

message: Why is the Gush Shalom material being removed? The edit summary says the material is unsourced. But it is sourced. Do you think the source is unreliable? Or it doesn't support the material in question? VR talk 02:31, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gush Shalom 

message: The video up top doesn't seem to work. I may be wrong, but could it be that, at the very end of the description of its file, "Video Recording of Photo Opportunity at Camp David - NARA - 6037428.ogv", that extension should instead read ".gov"? 76.236.220.28 (talk) 20:45, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problem with running the video 

message: It was added in 2014, but it seems like its pretty well balanced now. Both sides are given equal weight considering there is no real consensus as to who's responsibility it was. Should the tag be removed? MarkiPoli (talk) 08:09, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is the neutrality tag in "Responsibility for failure" still necessary?
Talk:William Rowan Hamilton

message: It seems that Hamilton was very devoted to Helen, and was in love with her till the end of his life. The reports of him being a drinker and heartbroken over his first love are seemingly wrong.
https://archive.org/details/lifeofsirwilliam02gravuoft/page/334/mode/2up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdwxpSInhvU
https://kathylovesphysics.com/quaternions-are-amazing-and-so-was-william-rowan-hamilton-their-creator/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Stsz (talk • contribs) 17:07, 8 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Love life 

message: "He was subsequently educated by James Hamilton (curate of Trim), his uncle and an Anglican priest."
- does this mean he was educated by his uncle, James Hamilton, who was an Anglican priest, or does
it mean that he was educated by three people, James Hamilton, an unnamed uncle, and an unnamed Anglican priest??? 84.66.32.134 15:30, 23 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Quote query

message: Hamilton used and apparently coined the cis notation in his "Elements of Quaternions" first published in 1866. (, ) To narrow the invention of this notation down in time, are there earlier works or notes where he (or someone else) had used this notation already? --Matthiaspaul (talk) 09:52, 23 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  First use of cis notation
Talk:Louis-Joseph de Montcalm

message: http://www.gutenberg.net/1/4/5/1/14517/14517-8.zip lists Montcalm's birthday as "twenty-ninth of February, 1712".  I assume this book is incorrect as that would be a leap day and that fact would've been noted elsewhere?  BTW, there's lot's of interesting details in this Gutenberg book that should be merged into this article someday. Samw 21:31, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the date difference is accounted for by the adoption of a modified calendar in 1752. (See explanation at Gregorian calendar.) Many people and institutions shifted a date to make a full year between anniversaries or birthdays. So, lets leave the Feb 28 date, since is the  New Style (NS) equivalent. Lou I 16:33, 10 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  But since he was born in France, where the Gregorian calendar had been in operation since 1582, of what relevance is the OS date at all?  OK, so he spent a lot of time in North America, which took till 1752 to make the change, but so what?  That has no relevance to when he was born.  --  Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 21:34, 23 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Birthday

message: this article didnt have all the general info i realy needed. i believe there is more to be disiered. i could find better information from my schools dictionary    and i have —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 216.227.91.126 (talk) 21:14, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  more wanted
Talk:The finger

message: Comedian Jerry Seinfeld has suggested that giving someone “the toe” would be worse than giving them “the finger”. He believes that showing someone your smelly, hairy toe is worse than a finger. Mitch045 (talk) 14:09, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jerry Seinfeld’s Alternate Gesture 

message: Should we address the commonly told story about the battle of agincourt and the chopping off of fingers of the archers? It's a common enough story to address and point out that it's apocryphal EdwinAmi (talk) 02:08, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Battle of Agincourt story
Talk:Pitcairn Islands

message: The breakdown of the economy is almost certainly incorrect. I could find no other source claiming that a major export of the Pitcairn Islands was Crude Petroleum.
74.202.112.4 (talk) 22:41, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: ? There's no mention in the article of crude petroleum. Or any petroleum. Or anything crude. Largoplazo (talk) 23:13, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Economy 

message: Do they have a school? How high does it go? 49.196.58.164 (talk) 05:08, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The article has an education section with this information. Largoplazo (talk) 11:50, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Education 
Talk:Positional astronomy

message: Would the Moon be said to transit the Sun during a solar eclipse? If not, is the distinction made because it's more than just a speck on the Sun, or because the Moon orbits the Earth instead of the Sun? -- John Owens
:Yehehe, in fact, using the orthodox definition, a solar eclipse is not an eclipse but an occultation. Tip: an occultation occur only in a narrow band, an eclipse is visible anywhere the body is above the horizon. A transit is just somthing reserved for Venus and Mercury (who can't occultate anything, because they far too small relatively to the sun).
*The article eclipse is not really correct.
**eclipse => a body go into the shadow of another body (lunar eclipse -> moon go the shadow of the earth)
**occultation => an occulting body goes in front of another (eg frequent occultation of stars by the moon)
: -- Looxix
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The 2004 and 2012 pages make it sound like there are several transits by Venus over that eight year span, which is in contradiction to what you have about transits here, that there are only two, eight years apart. Can you check that, and maybe fix those two pages up if need be? -- John Owens
:info seems to be correct in this page, the following one will only occur in 2117!
:I will check the info in the page 2004 and 2012 later. -- looxix 01:21 Apr 8, 2003 (UTC)
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I do not think I like the new page layout, with all the "meat" removed to separate articles. You don't get as much context from seeing the picture of the orbital layout without the descriptions of the subtopics. And it certainly doesn't make me feel better to see those separate pages started off with things like "...is an astronomical term...", or two separate "See also:" sections here, one right after the other. -- John Owens 21:23 10 Jun 2003 (UTC)
: It's even worse now that the meat has been hidden in the big list of related pages... Evercat 21:38 10 Jun 2003 (UTC)
: For a great intro (with lots of pictures) see the tutorials linked from Spherical astronomy. I'd think several of those belong in this article. MFago 01:55, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
Talk:William Mulock

message: I have a disagreement with the year of birth listed in the article.  His grave marker has his birth date as Jan. 19th 1843 not January 19, 1844.  Where did the information come from that was posted?  Is the marker wrong, or the article? (Jan 3, 2010)  Nanciq  —Preceding undated comment added 17:16, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: He was born in 1843. As reported in all his major newspaper obituaries, after Mulock's death his grandson William Pate Mulock stated that the family bible listed Sir William's birth as January 19, 1843, saying "somewhere in his life he dropped a year, and we didn't want to worry him, so we never mentioned the fact." The year, 1843, is correctly listed in all references written before around 1914. Unfortunately Mulock's only biography (Loudon) was written before Mulock's death and hence lists 1844 as his birth date. David C Bailey (talk) 14:44, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: When was he knighted? -- Zoe
I believe it was in 1937, when  Mulock left his post as Chief Justice. And thanks to the person who inserted the picture!--Longevitymonger
I think that he would have been knighted long before 1937, as the Nickle Resolution, which was adopted in 1919 bans Canada's monarchs from conferring titles, including knighthoods & damehoods.
- (Aidan Work 01:01, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The historical plaque is correct; he was knighted in 1902, as reported in Loudon and many other sources. David C Bailey (talk) 14:44, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: untitled