lflage/wiki-talks huggingface dataset:
Talk:Alfred Nobel

message: Add  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 45.206.10.213 (talk) 09:18, 27 February 2022 (UTC)

message: Alfred Nobel's brother did die in 1888 and a French newspaper did publish a premature obituary but it didn't call him a "Merchant of Death".  In fact, the term "Merchant of Death" was coined in 1932, 54 years after this obituary!  I wrote up my evidence in my webpage,    but I have a conflict of interest towards editing the page itself.  
I hope I am doing this right, 
Thanks,
Kathy
--Kathy Loves Physics (talk) 22:46, 21 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, it's almost certainly an urban legend. Here's an article from Smithsonian Magazine on it which, despite its title, essentially dismisses the story: . Here's a further discussion on Stack Exchange:     Mahousu (talk) 18:14, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  I have found proof that Nobel did not create the Nobel Prize because of a premature obituary... 

message: Alfred Nobel entertained a relationship for 15 years with Sophie Hess.
Google books
--Vanlister (talk) 17:54, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: It's already at Personal life ("Nobel's longest-lasting relationship was with Sofija Hess from Celje whom he met in 1876.") Of course the article seems to be incomplete in many aspects, and needs to be developed further. (CC) Tbhotch™ 18:58, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please add his relationship with Sophie Hess 

message: Hello, Wikifolks.  I have just uploaded my first image to Wikipedia.  It's a photograph of the small (gnome-sized) sculpture of Alfred Nobel, by Hungarian sculptor Mihály Kolodko, which resides in a park in Stockholm (I mean the sculpture resides there, not the sculptor).  The photograph was taken by a personal friend who is currently in Stockholm and has dual citizenship in Sweden and USA.  She has verbally given whatever publication rights may exist to me as a (partial) birthday gift.  So, other than assuring you (here) that no one other than me owns the copyright to this image (if there is a copyright to it), I'm not sure what else I need to do to officially put it here, copyright-wise. Is there some text I need to sign?  I tried to look this up but all I see is notifications that some rule has changed in some way; the notifications seem to have been posted more than a decade ago.
Please advise, and, if I've somehow broken or bent a rule in my ignorance, feel free to revert this contribution and let me know what's wrong about it.
Thank you, HandsomeMrToad (talk) 15:45, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture of the knee-high sculpture of Alfred Nobel by Mihály Kolodko 

message: If this hadn't already appeared on the main page,  would've made an excellent DYK. I hope DYK changes its rules to allow things like this someday.  talk 22:35, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: it seems this is an urban legend, and just hasn't been fixed in the article yet. See above. --Yurik (talk) 05:37, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  DYK potential
Talk:MathML

message: I know it is not about the article but can help who need it (like me): I've made a extension to mediawiki. Here is the link: ASCIIMathML4Wiki SSPecter ☎|✉ ♠ 01:55, 26 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mediawiki extension with MathML support 

message: I propose removing the “Browser support” section entirely.  The parts of it that are likely to be interesting are better placed in the History section.  It contains a large number of abandoned browsers, and even among those browsers that are still active, the information may be misleading or incorrect.  This is particularly true of the introductory text in that section, which is currently a hot mess.
One bit is worth rescuing; the final paragraph of text (“The quality of rendering of MathML in a browser depends…”) could (and likely should) be moved into the section “Presentation and semantics”.  Otherwise, it seems to me the article would be more timeless and less cluttered by the removal of this section.
Feedback on this proposal is welcome! EricAMeyer (talk) 20:23, 3 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: In the absence of feedback pro or con, I’ve gone ahead and done this just now. EricAMeyer (talk) 18:29, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of Browser Support section
Talk:Rover CityRover

message: I remember when the CityRover first came onto the market, i also remember hearing on TV that it was intended to be the new version of the Rover Metro.
80.192.246.56 (talk) 19:34, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  intended to be the new Metro 
Talk:South polar skua

message: I'm not totaly sure I've got the right Saunders, but he seems the most likely. jimfbleak 10:41, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I could be wrong but I would say the image in the Brown Skua taxobox is a South Polar.  Aviceda  talk 03:01, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Any objection to South polar skua?  That seems to be the norm in journals. ErikHaugen (talk | contribs) 21:06, 29 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Shouldn't it actually be South Polar skua (with S and P capitalized as in South Pole)? I find this usage in Lande et al. (2002), "Estimating density dependence from population time series using demographic theory and life-history data", AmNat. Q·L·1968 ☿ 20:12, 26 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Caps
Talk:Road infrastructure in Melbourne

message: I remember from my childhood in Glen Waverley the South-eastern Arterial... is that called something else now?
*See Monash Freeway — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.111.13.34 (talk • contribs) 10:58, 12 October 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Some of the highways mentioned in this article are also located in rural Victoria and not just Melbourne. – AxSkov (☏)
----
:Add *Support or *Oppose followed by an optional one sentence explanation, then sign your vote with ~~~~
*Support. As per above. – AxSkov (☏) 08:03, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested move
Talk:National Intelligence Service (Greece)

message: The sentence "The abductions, which allegedly took place prior to (and were probably related with security issues concerning) Greece's hosting of the Olympic Games," makes no sense, since the alleged abductions might be because of the terror attacks in Lodon past 911. Please see the greek embassy website statement for a very short mention.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.166.229.63 (talk) 23:47, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abduction of Pakistanis 

message: OK, I need to post the DETAILED History of the Hellinic Natial Intelligence Service ever since it's conseption... No offence, but the article seems like it was written from the PR deparment of the NIS...
:It was.  Please don't post anymore negative comments about us, or we will be forced to liquidate you.  Have a nice day.  --Gen. Megalopeos, Director of PR, NIP 04:14, 10 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Posting a DETAILED history is OK by me. Please remember to post only facts that can be verified through reliable independent sources, as per WP:CITE. 85.75.189.202 10:30, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of EYP/NIP 

message: The historical section abounds with uncited claims. Do some research in order to place proper citations or they will have to go. 84.254.15.97 (talk) 06:56, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Six months were abundant time to substantiate the claims with citations. Since this has not happened, the questionable "historical" section that read like the bastard child of Pravda with Αυριανή was deleted. 85.73.235.229 (talk) 17:52, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV 

message: The Greek military junta of 1967–1974 article states:
"In particular, the newly-founded Hellenic National Intelligence Service (KYP) and the LOK Special Forces (later actively involved in the 1967 coup) maintained a very close liaison with their American counterparts. In addition to preparing for a Soviet invasion, they agreed to guard against a left wing coup. The LOK in particular were integrated into the Gladio European stay-behind network.[2] Although there have been persistent rumors about an active support of the perpetrators of the coup d'état by the US government there is no evidence to support such claims.[3][4] It is however likely that the US military was informed of the coup a few days in advance by Greek liaison officers."
The above information seems relevant to this article.  I am not well informed about the issues, so I will leave the update to someone else.
Karl gregory jones (talk) 19:02, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Involvement in 1967 Coup? 

message: The article does not state who or what carried out the functions of NIS before its formation. 31.68.5.98 (talk) 17:21, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Precursor Agencies
Talk:Single malt whisky

message: All Bourbon is technically "Single Malt" so Wiki is wrong all over the place on this issue.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.21.99.173 (talk) 2006 March 17 (UTC)
::The above comment is completely wrong.
::Bourbon is absolutely NOT single malt as the only rule is that at least 51% of the mash consist of corn and Malted barley is ALWAYS part of the mash bill. Also the corn in Bourbon is NOT malted.
::The term "Single Malt", without a qualifier, generally refers to Malted Barley UNLESS another grain is specifically mentions: e.g., Single Malt Rye
::— Preceding comment signed as by Scotchblog (talk • contribs) actually added by Scotchguy (talk • contribs)
:I believe that the statement saying that malted barley is always part of the mash bill (outside of Scotland) is wrong. If you think you have any proof for that, I'd like to see it.
:—BarrelProof (talk) 16:57, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bourbon a single malt? 

message: Do you know if there are any sources giving peat content in ppm for Isaly whisky?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jonewer (talk • contribs) 18:51, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  A source for peat content? 

message: May be this is of any use for the article? 
Description (attention: word for word copy) from "Friends of the Classic Malts", FREPOST GW 4296, Glasgow, Scotland, G14 9BR:
"The Flavour Map will help you choose a single malt whisky based on its taste. Independent whisky experts have worked out that - when it comes to flavour in a glass of whisky - all Scotland's single malts can be plotted on a simple grid. The vertical axis show plots how smoky they are (flavours principally from the peat-smoke used in drying the barley, which all single malts are made from) down to Delicate malts that don't use peat-smoke in drying their barley.
On the horizontal axis whiskies are plotted as to how Light (whiskies with freash fruit and green grass flavours) or how Rich they are (flavours ranging from vanilla to nuttiness and dried fruiits).
Now you can see just how similar or different the taste of a whisky might be, allowing you to explore new malts with even greater confidence."
-- Tasma3197 (talk) 14:13, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Malt Whisky Flavor Map.jpg 

message: Whisky Connosr  is the fastest growing whisky site and it seems only social network dedicated to whisky. Is it worth a mention in this article?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pieltee (talk • contribs) 11:43, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I suggest not to do that. I don't see how linking to that site would help this article, and I dispute the assertion that the site is anything special. Fastest growing according to whom?  What makes a site a social network? Is that the same thing as a discussion forum? —BarrelProof (talk) 13:14, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Connosr
Talk:Abandoned railway station

message: I'm doing some more maintainance; listing VfD nominations that were "lost" because the nominator never actually listed them on VfD (Or maybe they were but didn't have a heading. I'm finding these through the Pages on Votes for Deletion category). For this particular page, I vote weak keep. Almost no useful content, but I believe it could be encyclopedic. Cool Hand Luke 04:37, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Superselection

message: Well, I think the run-up on the representations here is trying to talk about the decomposition into isotypic submodules, not into irreducibles.
Charles Matthews 11:50, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, but that is the least of the problems with the article! Geometry guy 22:41, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: 1

message: This is completely incomprehensible to someone well versed in basic quantum mechanics but not formal algebraic methods. It would be nice to explain things to people who don't already understand them! <end rant :P >  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.216.104.210 (talk) 07:59, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, the article ought to be made accessible to those who have studied quantum mechanics but not representation theory, possibly by adding a section that restates the section "Relationship to symmetry" in language like "consider states psi in a Hilbert space H, and a set of operators A that act on psi . . . "  If someone else can do it, great. If not I'll try to add something myself when I have a bit more time. -- Tim314 (talk) 00:21, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This could help: . Boris Tsirelson (talk) 18:07, 8 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: 2
Talk:Emotional intelligence

message: Request received to merge articles: Emotional competence into Emotional intelligence; dated: September/2023. Proposer's Rationale: These articles have significant overlap. In fact, the Emotional competence article states that emotional competence is the same as emotional intelligence.. Discuss here. Sundayclose (talk) 16:52, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: This is on the list of articles needing copyediting, but there is no tag on the page. What needs doing with it? MrBauer24 (talk) 21:40, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: This page has a number of inline tags for cleanup (e.g.,  and ) —Ost (talk) 04:59, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyediting?
Talk:Anamorphic projection

message: Presumable copyvio from
http://bridge.skyline.net/features/angel.html
Charles Matthews 12:07, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)

message: Tried a de novo search for info on "anamorphic projection", looks like the term is also used for other things such as cinema and video. New stub looks nothing like the original (alleged) copyvio in subject content or wording, only mentions anamorphic art almost as a footnote.  Should the original site which contained the previous "anamorphic projection" article be added to the "external links" section? --66.102.74.57 20:40, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Copyright violation deleted and replaced with new stub. --Michael Snow 17:27, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  new stub
Talk:Ratio

message: I agree on the pic not having much information. Nevertheless, I appreciate to have any pic, somehow related and nicely rendered, at the top of a page. It appears as a mouse-over, confirming a suitable link, it attracts the focus when getting rendered, it primes the thoughts when seen, ... Any article looks to me more inviting by far, if there is a pic at the top, and if the lead does not start right out with frightening math prose. Certainly, not for all math topics there are suitable pics, but this saturated red spot, depicting a well-known ratio, signalizes a welcome with an almost historic ratio.
I hope you do not mind my cheekiness of inserting the pic (I really have no personal relation to it) at a place with related content, but I honestly estimate the looks of the article higher, when having the pic atop - really better than an info-box in this case. May I ask to reestablish it at the previous place? Purgy (talk) 16:28, 6 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: For no reply I restored the long standing status of a pic before the recent edits. Purgy (talk) 14:55, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Content-less picture 

message: Please discuss at Talk:Proportion (mathematics)#Split. fgnievinski (talk) 18:43, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split [[Proportion (mathematics)]] 

message: The opening line is "In mathematics, a ratio shows how many times one number contains another."
The example given is  "if there are eight oranges and six lemons in a bowl of fruit, then the ratio of oranges to lemons is eight to six"
But while the bowl (total 14 fruit) contains 8 of one and 6 of the other, six does not 'contain' eight and of course eight _oranges_ cannot 'contain' six lemons. 
A better short description would be "a ratio shows the relative size of two numbers" SLR Ellison (talk) 10:43, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: To the best of my understanding, the word "ratio", from translations of Euclid's Elements, originally meant something like an ordered pair of related quantities (for instance two specific geometric lengths, or two specific numbers). Two ratios a:b and c:d were said to be in "geometric proportion" (a few centuries ago this was denoted a:b :: c:d) if ad = bc, or were said to be in "arithmetic proportion" if a+d=b+c. More recently, the concepts of "ratio" and "two ratios in geometric proportion" have often been conflated, so that the word "ratio" often means something more like «the equivalence class of pairs of quantities x:y such that x_1:y_1 is equivalent to x_2:y_2 whenever x_1y_2 = x_2y_1.». In my opinion the current article doesn't do a very good job of describing this though. –jacobolus (t) 14:32, 16 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Initial description of ratio is poor and is not matched by the example
Talk:County of Brant, Ontario

message: I think it needs to be made more clear that Brant is completely municipally seperate from (but statistically apart of) the City of Brantford.  I mean, it's there in the opening if you read hard enough, but I think it needs to be made more clear, and perhaps a sentence like "the single-tier municipality is statistically apart of, but municipally seperate from, the City of Brantford." would probably sum it all up. --Criticalthinker (talk) 09:04, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Single Tier

message: The link to Our Brant was removed by Versageek's bot. I understand now that I shouldn't add it myself, since I operate it. However, I do believe that it is appropriate for inclusion in this article because it is not a duplication of content from Wikipedia, and provides unique information about the County of Brant's history. I wanted to present it here to get opinions if someone else would like to include it.
Since I'm not completely familiar with policies here, I'm also wondering if this qualifies as a "non-controversial edit" under the recent changes to WP:CONFLICT. I am an archivist (and hence a subject professional), and Our Brant is part of my digital history/archives initiative here. Misty De Meo (talk) 16:39, 25 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Our Brant wiki link 

message: i SAY. tHE CENSUS STATS (ALTHOUGH PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED IN THE BEGINNING OF THE ARTICLE AS INCLUDING THE CITY OF bRANTFORD) ARE POTENTIALLY CONFUSING. i BELIEVE THIS AS THE POPULATION IS GIVEN AS THE REGION WITHOUT THE CITY INCLUDED (A SMALLER NUMBER) BUT THE DENSITY AND NUMBER OF DWELLINGS MUST BE INCLUSIVE OF THE CITY OF bRANTFORD AS THE NUMBERS DON'T FIT PROPERLY OTHERWISE.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.155.25.14 (talk) 14:06, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: sorry capitalising lock was on 134.155.25.14 (talk) 14:09, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  CENSUS STATS
Talk:Block-oriented terminal

message: That calls for some substantial reliable sources pointing out that web browsers might be mistaken for a terminal by people who are unfamiliar with either TEDickey (talk) 00:40, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: SPLAT shrugs SPLAT it's obvious to me, but if you want some sources, I'll try to find some. Like I pointed out on your talk page, I have no problems being reverted, but you could've stated the real reason in your summary when doing so. 85.207.110.58 (talk) 07:08, 15 September 2017 (UTC)

text: There's an obvious inheritance, just like the inheritance of CGI programming from CICS, but rather than a simple "see also" link, maybe a sentence or two in a section called something like "legacy." Peter Flass (talk) 11:32, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  web browsers equated to terminals?
Talk:GLARE

message: I see that Glare has again been pushed into the "composite material" category, when I clearly explain in the introduction that it is NOT!
If it must be classified, then "heterogenous mixture" is the only correct description.
Glare is itself a MIXTURE of a METAL and a COMPOSITE. The Wikipedia description of a composite material (at the time of writing) states quite clearly that a composite consists of reinforcement and matrix... which only describes the fibre layers, totally ignoring the metal layers which make up the majority component!
I will have to edit the article again since people seem unable to grasp this concept.
Geoff Morris, February 2006
:The above Wikipedia definition was not in accord with industry or materials science usage of "composite material"; the current WP article is, and quite properly GLARE matches the current (and industry and materials science) definitions of being a composite material.  I have put the category back in and fixed the description in the article intro.  Georgewilliamherbert 19:01, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Glare is NOT a composite!!! 

message: this is copied from its competitor material aluminium
*density gplstp=
*density gpcm3nrt=2.70
*heat capacity=24.200
*thermal conductivity=237
*thermal conductivity 2=
*thermal diffusivity=
*thermal expansion=
*thermal expansion at 25=23.1
*speed of sound rod at r.t.=(rolled) 5000
*Young's modulus=70
*Shear modulus=26
*Bulk modulus=76
*Poisson ratio=0.35
*Mohs hardness=2.75
*Vickers hardness=167
*Brinell hardness=245
*CAS number=7429-90-5
Andries 19:50, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: How about filling this in for Glare?

message: I see that the article has been flagged as missing sources. Well I used my own work and experience - so apart from the "Around Glare" book, there's not a lot of generic description to cite from. MossMan 09:50, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: References or Sources
Talk:Year and a day rule

message: From the article:
:In mediaeval England, a runaway serf became free after a year and a day. Hence the saying "Town air makes free."
How exactly does that saying following from the "year and a day" rule? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.92.67.68  (talk) 13:43, 12 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Solar updraft tower

message: "The chimney had a height of 195 metres (640 ft) and a diameter of 10 metres (33 ft) with a collection area (greenhouse) of 46 hectares (110 acres) and a diameter of 244 metres (801 ft)".  
The area of a circle 244 m in diameter is 46k  square meters or 4.6 hectares, not 46 h. 199.167.119.198 (talk) 15:00, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is there an error here?
Talk:Lennon Wall

message: Writing on the wall was not initiated nor by the death of John Lennon neither by the existance of the Beatles. The wall was a wall of complains and of poetry first.
ondra (talk) 10:41, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Please don't delete this page! While this entry may seem insignificant to some, I happened upon it while searching "Prague" and found it intriguing. If the structural issues could be remedied, I would vote for maintaining the entry. Scout1986 (talk) 13:46, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Low importance? Keep Lennon Wall. 