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Talk:Pith

message: What is the function of pith in plants? To carry water, or is it just leftovers from the outer layers?
Blakeops 00:20, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Could someone with definite knowledge of the function/lack of a function please edit that into the article?  I'm thinking of the Appendix article, which states "The most common explanation for the appendix's existence in humans is that it's a vestigial structure which has lost its original function." Simple and to the point, near the top of the article.--MuséeRouge (talk) 20:08, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Function of Pith 

message: I propose to merge Pith wood into Pith. It appears as though Pith wood is really a page that discusses the use of pith and should really be made as part of a new section under pith. --Caorongjin (talk) 21:20, 5 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:   One possibility is to add the section Pith#Uses and create a WP:Redirect for Pith wood to Pith#Uses. Besides, I would think having a section on Pith#Uses would be very useful, including its usage as a cleaning tool or something else. Perhaps take a look at the rationale for why articles should be merged if there is an WP:OVERLAP. --Caorongjin (talk) 23:19, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:   I am a bit of a fan of the subject affinity templates like that cleaning tool one at the bottom of that page. They work well with the way I use wikipedia in that they allow me to browse from one topic to another along different dimensions. Your suggested solution of leaving a re-direct solves the category problem, but it doesn't really solve the template one. I am not sure if it would work well to e.g. put that template at the end of a Pith#Uses (or even Pith#Use as a cleaning tool) section. How do those usually get handled for merged pages? Tenbergen (talk) 20:22, 13 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text:   There may be other views, but I think you should very easily keep a redirect page listed in the subject template; or you can simply call it "Pith wood" but have the wilink directed to the section in Pith (so Pith wood. Also, it is worthwhile for the section in the Pith article to have a manually defined anchor, in case somebody decides to change the name (see Wikipedia:Redirect#Technical notes), and include the Template:R to section. —Caorongjin (talk) 10:03, 14 January 2019 (UTC)

text: Klbrain (talk) 07:49, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal
Talk:Block chord

message: Didn't block chords originate with Milt Buckner?  -- megA (talk) 18:04, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Father of the Block Chord 

message: The article seems split between two views of block  chords--the guitarist's simplistic view that they are just non arpeggiated chords, and a more complicated theory from jazz piano.1Z (talk) 00:02, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: =Ambiguity

message: I took out this because I wasn't sure what it meant:
palo addition to George Shearing, [ing a non-moving chord in his left hand, then an octave in his right hand, with 1-2 notes in between. Fine examples of this can be heard on various recordings of his time with the Miles Davis quintet. Bill Evans is also remembered for his use of block chords when he played in Miles Davis' band in 1958. write for four horns...or four trumpets: this is called four-way close."
It could be rewritten like this:
George Shearing would play a non-moving chord in his left hand, then an octave in his right hand, with 1-2 notes in between. Fine examples of this can be heard on various recordings of his time with the Miles Davis quintet. Bill Evans is also remembered for his use of block chords when he played in Miles Davis' band in 1958.
but I'm not sure if that's even true and plus i had to take out that last bit cause it really didn't make sense. Eman235/talk 01:55, 22 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nonsense? 

message: I see this stuff all the time in much older keyboard lit. All three example types given in the scores here existed at least as early as 200 years ago, and the first one goes back at least 300 years.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.72.74.168 (talk) 15:37, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origins much older 

message: Well it takes real skill to produce a Wikipedia entry as obfuscated and confusing as this one. Carefully evading any attempt at a simple definition. Fascinatingly looking at the musical example, the difference between 'block chords' and 'shearer' chords seems to be that the latter have a single bass note added with no sign of arpeggiation? Also, since when has G# been in a C-major scale? Bollox such as I never have seen, eh Yoda? Stub Mandrel (talk) 19:46, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, no, not quite. As explained (in what I think is, by default, the least obscure sentence of an amazingly unclear article), Shearing (not "shearer") chords double the melody at a lower octave in the bass. It would be helpful, though, if somebody could sort out how "block chords" are different from "homophony". I can't see any difference, myself, but my PhD in music theory is probably getting in the way.—Jerome Kohl (talk) 23:03, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wow
Talk:Law of the Sea

message: Right now Law of the sea redirects to Admiralty law, and this page (Law of the Sea) is a disambiguation page with 2 links: Law of the sea (the redirect); and  United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.
I'd prefer to make Law of the Sea follow Law of the sea, but there are too many links to this page intending the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, see Special:Whatlinkshere/Law_of_the_Sea, so I'm going to make it a redirect and add a see also at the top of that page. Ewlyahoocom 11:49, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirect to UN Conv.
Talk:Paul Cosgrove

message: Is the reference to a Judge Hargrove near the end a mistake, i.e. it should say "Cosgrove", or was their another similar case that was affected by the outcome of this one. I assume the former, but I left it because I wasn't absolutely sure.
I'd like to see someone with knowledge re-edit this, coz some of it was written while the events were still current and some when the case was over. There was only so much I could do to smooth it all over without more acquaintance with the case. Metamagician3000 11:56, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Cyclo-cross bicycle

message: The writing could generally use some improvement, and someone with time should go through and link the various specific bicycle components to their relevant wiki pages. Some sections like components could be further improved and organized in a logical fashion.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.233.86.180 (talk) 07:04, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: General Improvements

message: Does the UCI ban disk brakes? If so can we have a statement? Nick Wallis 12:03, 07 Mar 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks Will! Kellen T 12:50, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

text: Done! Will.law 16:01, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

text: Post script. I appreciate that the value of 14.99 lbs was calculated from 6.8 kg automatically using the built in Wikipedia template for making such conversions. This merely highlights, however, that the Wikipedia template for making such conversions is faulty and needs to be amended accordingly because the number of significant figures must be maintained always in any such conversion. 101.163.21.119 (talk) 23:04, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

text: Further, it would appear that the reason that the Wikipedia template for making such conversions is faulty is because whoever wrote it failed to differentiate correctly between the number of significant figures in a value and the number of decimal places, a different thing entirely. 101.163.21.119 (talk) 23:38, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Rules

message: i don't reallty understand the point in this paragraph.  yes, of course it is possible to modify a stock bike to be illegal by uci rules!
the point is that a number of stock "cyclocross" bikes you can walk into a store and buy violate UCI regs without modification by the customer(lemond poprad disc, various salsa models with disc brakes, etc).  Thewalrus 20:30, 22 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that the point is "without modification".  imho, it would be enough to just make a point of disk brake equipped bikes being available.  the parts about tire width & studs aren't really necessary. --Will.law 23:46, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: bikes that violate UCI regs
Talk:Evelyn Reed

message: The entire first sentence displays overt bias, particularly this: "...male supremacist view of the evolution of homo/gyno sapiens and establishes through voluminous the anthropological research that women/mothers were the creators of the social skills necessary to evolve primates to hominids. This view is now supported by modern neurologists and geneticists. She also documents that women were the first artists, linguists, architects, writers and farmers and that they were the sex to tame fire".
"Male supremacist" is a biased term; "gyno sapiens" has no scientific validity in describing any part of humanity; the conclusions "documented" in Reed's writings are also in dispute lacking correlation from other sources.Spider Jerusalem (talk) 01:05, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I always wondered what the evidentiary basis was for Reed's assertions on this issue. How in a material sense do we reconstruct the social relations of humans who died eons ago   without leaving any written record?  Surely the findings of archeologists will not sustain such sweeping and politically self serving conclusions.  Moreover, selective extrapolations from the culture of certain "primitive" tribes today are exactly that.  On balance, while Reed's speculative conclusions may be in fact correct, her recitation of them was on balance a caricature of "politically correct" feminist cant.  Moreover, what these eccentric personal ideas of hers had to do with the business of building a socialist movement is unclear.Tom Cod (talk) 23:36, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Neutrality
Talk:Costigan Commission

message: Kind of shocked and surprised the level of criminality of the Dockers and Painters union is not exposed more, so added further info.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 118.174.180.184 (talk) 06:18, 26 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree this article is very limited in its content.--Jack Upland (talk) 08:55, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Most of the articles involving Australian Royal Commissions don't go into too much detail with a couple of notable exceptions. Gusfriend (talk) 09:53, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Added more info

message: Any particular reason the official name is not being used? Dankru 12:13, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The Commission is universally called the Costigan Commission. The official name is quite long-winded and is never used. Occasionally, a name along the lines of 'Costigan Commission into the Painters and Dockers Union' is used, but this has no official status and no standard form. Moreover, as the article explains, the Commission was far from merely investigating the union, so the official name is misleading.--Jack Upland 23:34, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Katherine Parkinson

message: Ive been trying to find this actresses agent information to request a proper headshot for the profile.  If anyone is able to find that information and get hold of them that would be great.Tyhopho 12:47, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo 

message: I'm not a native speaker, but I find her accent fantastic. What's it called and where could I learn to speak like that? :)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.12.70.11 (talk) 14:21, 30 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's that accent? 

message: The references for her educational background are both from a brief bio in the Evening Standard... 
However, I'm 99.99999% certain that the LAZY journo cribbed his (unverified) facts from Wikipedia rather than doing his own research. The proof? The newspaper article was published in the Evening Standard on the 2nd Jan 2008 - here's the Wikipedia article as of 1st February 2007. Notice any similarities? Her pre-LAMDA education isn't mentioned anywhere else on the web. 91.106.167.126 (talk) 10:58, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Education 

message: i wanted to say can someone look into putting her work on the malteaser adds in the uk on this  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.12.1.201 (talk) 17:57, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Maltesers]] 

message: The statement that she is of "English, Russian and Mongolian" descent seems to be supported by a circular reference - is this truly a verified source (other than celebrity 'gossip')?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.84.112.173 (talk) 20:48, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: She is most definitely not of English Russian and Mongolian descent.  That's a joke.  Her mother is English and teaches at a school.  Her father is from Northern Ireland, and is an academic, and the author of books like "Belfast's Holy War" (2004).  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.57.35.222 (talk) 03:21, 7 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personal history / descent 
Talk:Christian burial

message: And how are Protestants buried? And Mormons? And other non-Catholic and non-Orthodox Christians? 68.36.120.7 (talk) 18:07, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Well I have added a bit to the lead, re cremation, & started a Protestant section, though generalization is difficult.  Mormons etc I don't know about. Johnbod (talk) 18:37, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Protestant burials

message: I find "When the deceased is a baptised child under the age of seven the priest wears white vestments ...".
Years ago, when I would read the obituary of a Catholic, I would then read about the time and place that a Requiem Mass would be celebrated.  EXCEPTION: When the deceased was a young child, I would see reference to Mass of the Angels, not to Requiem Mass.  I don't think I know quite enough about this to make insertion in the article we are discussing, but I am thinking we need to make reference to Mass of the Angels.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.63.16.82 (talk) 16:17, 12 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mass of the Angels? 

message: An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Hallow ground. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so.  Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 10:27, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Hallow ground" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: The article on Grave_goods#Famous_grave_sites briefly mentions the burying of such goods for the Christian dead, and that this practice declined during the 5th and 6th centuries. This makes sense because, unlike any pagan afterlife, buried tools, food, etc. would be of no value in the Christian afterlife.
Can this topic be expanded upon? RMcPhillip (talk) 18:28, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grave Goods
Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship/Christopherlin

message: What's the deal with this edit?  Regards, Ben Aveling 12:59, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure.  Christopherlin notified me on my talk page that my vote had been removed by Axiomm.  I restored my vote and made the note on the RfA page.  I also left a message on that user's talk page, but unfortunately I never got a reply.  I'd like to just assume good faith and take it as an accident but that fact that Axiomm went to the effort of decreasing the Oppose vote tally is odd. However, I am willing to let the issue be dropped as long as there are no further issues.  My note on the RfA was to just make sure that people were aware of what took place. --PS2pcGAMER (talk) 13:12, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Standard Yoruba

message: While I think Yoruba language is the best place to expand on the linguistic features of Yoruba, this article could detail some things that are peculiar to Standard Yoruba as opposed to the regional varieties. Especially Fagborun (1994) is a great source on the linguistic features of Standard Yoruba; Hair's (1967) survey goes into more historical detail but he is overly enthusiastic about the literary quality of the first translations (going so far as likening Crowther's work to what Luther did for German). — mark ✎ 13:05, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment
Talk:Jammy Smears

message: What is the wording in the speech balloon?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.25.168.110 (talk) 19:03, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If you look closely it says "Yours & Oblig Ivor Cutler". Yours & Oblige being an old way of signing a letter now fallen into desuetude. Twizzlemas (talk) 10:11, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
Talk:Teruyoshi Uchimura

message: I removed the following sentence from the article: "In 1999 the duo crossed the English Channel with their show, Utchan Nanchan no urinari!! (ウッチャンナンチャンのウリナリ!!) and the couple's popularity soared."
I'm sure the phrase "crossed the English Channel" has some metaphorical significance, but as an encyclopedia uses literal phrasing, it has no place here. In the literal sense, I don't even know if it's significant for things that cross from England to the European mainland, or from the mainland to England. In the metaphoric sense, it's not clear, was the Japanese TV show shown in England or France? Or was it mainland Asia? I can't even correct it, because I don't know what it's supposed to mean. So I removed it. Boneyard90 (talk) 23:12, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  English Channel?
Talk:BTEC

message: According to the Framework, HND is a level 5 course yes, but so is HNC. I think there might have been a mistake here somewhere?
Amlder20 13:10, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  HNC and HND are the same level 

message: Yes it should be changed....
As mentioned above, the T in BTEC stands for Technology and NOT Technician...
It should be "Business & Technology Education Council"
cite: http://acronymfinder.com/acronym.aspx?rec={955CB520-89E8-11D4-8351-00C04FC2C2BF}
I am aware that the "Technician Education Council" was separate from "Business Education Council" before they joined, but I'm pretty sure that it's Technology and not Technician for the acronym
Thanks,
92.9.75.111 (talk) 23:35, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it's technology. Changed. Norvo (talk) 22:18, 22 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The T in BTEC stands for Technology, NOT Technician...
Talk:William Graham, 7th Earl of Menteith

message: "but the patent being withdrawn in 1633" What does this mean? Can someone expand please. ::Supergolden:: 13:33, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:John Culshaw

message: I like this article, but would it not be worthwhile to mention "sonic stage"? I would do it myself but I'm afraid my English is not good enough. Thanks - Rolf of Erkabo 13:35, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point. I am gathering additional material for the article and will include this. - Tim riley (talk) 12:39, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: And now done. Tim riley (talk) 15:41, 6 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sonic stage 

message: I have again removed the incorrect entry that Culshaw was manager of Decca's classical division from 1967 to 1975. The cited source does not say that. It says (correctly) that he was in that position at Decca from 1956-67 and Head of Music Programmes at the BBC from 1967-75. - Tim riley (talk) 21:18, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Years of Decca employment 

message: This article is now at least B-class.  I recommend submitting it for promotion to a higher level.  -- Ssilvers (talk) 20:11, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Very encouraging! Thank you. I'll put it up for peer review. Tim riley (talk) 13:58, 6 December 2010 (UTC)

text: But first could someone sort out the duplicated (and sometimes wrong?) note and reference numbers? EEye (talk) 19:02, 27 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment
Talk:Hyperon

message: CERN (Centre Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) is another huge laboratory that uses the most powerful particle accelerators for the study of matter.
Yes I saw that omission, but didn't fix it.  I do remember reading at one time that CERN's budget was several times Fermilab's, and since the SSC was cancelled, I suppose it must be the main world laboratory, but I have not really been following it recently.  I will try to help the wording.  David R. Ingham 01:50, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The question of whose accelerator is biggest is totally irrelevant to the question of who is studying hyperons. You don't need a big accelerator to produce them. Does anybody actually know which lab is more focused on hyperon research? -- Xerxes 23:21, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  CERN 

message: While I edited the article mentioning that hyperons don't have heavy quark content, I know of a bunch of places where people refer to charmed hyperons. I think it would be nice to have some opinions on this matter, given that the term probably originated in the days before the heavy quarks were identified and there does not appear to be a complete consensus what this term exactly refers to. (Therefore my edit might not be very correct.) Erkcan 17:28, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Charmed Hyperons 

message: The article defines: "any baryon containing one or more strange quarks, but no charm quarks or bottom quarks".  Should we add that it also contains no top quarks?  RJFJR (talk) 17:20, 21 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  specify no top quarks? 
Talk:Phenylalanine hydroxylase

message: Phenylalanine is also an ingredient in a popular drink. That drink is diet Snapple Iced Tea, among other diet drinks. If you look carefully at the label there is a warning under the nutrition facts to make consumers aware. **Phenyletonurics - Contains Phenylalanine
* Most artificially sweetened drinks containing aspartame contain Phenylalanine. Just FYI --Edw28 16:20, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: We talk about how pku facts my life 155.254.196.69 (talk) 16:30, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pku
Talk:James Bourne

message: Someone needs to clean this up a bit. The article gives the impression that he's written tracks solely by himself for other artists when infact they've been co-written.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.44.84.234 (talk) 09:14, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrote/Co-wrote 

message: Does anyone else think this article needs a bit of a clean up? Happy to lead the charge on this one, but if anyone has any ideas - brain storm them here. EditHelp62 (talk) 19:03, 5 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clean Up? 

message: I am now claiming 3RR exemption to revert continual addition of unsourced content to this BLP. --Krenair (talk • contribs) 18:51, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Forgot to mention in my latest edit summary
Talk:Keaton (The Legend of Zelda series)

message: How about summat on the family name "Keaton"? And the Japanese mythology JayKeaton 13:49, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

message: Oh, should there be a disambiguation page added? That would probably be helpful... I am Girl 03:03, 13 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation?