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Talk:List of bridges in the United Kingdom

message: Are there no bridges in Northern Ireland?  seglea 01:23, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: northern ireland bridges

message: The Humber bridge has the longest span in the UK, but it is not the longest bridge. That honour goes to the Second Severn Crossing. Should this be mentioned in the article? Thryduulf 11:46, 27 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: bridge with longest span

message: This has a link to Victoria Bridge, which until an hour or so ago described a rail bridge across the Saint Lawrence River in Montreal, Canada. I have now made Victoria Bridge into a dab page, and the canadian bridge is at Victoria Bridge, Montreal.
Trying to remove references to the now disambiguation page, I came across this one. Redirecting it back to Victoria Bridge, Montreal is obviously just compounding somebody else's previous error. On the other hand, I cannot bring a Victoria Bridge in London to mind. I know there is a very recent Royal Victoria Dock Bridge, and also a Victoria Bridge, Datchet, but neither of these really fit. So perforce I'm leaving this link pointing at the redirection page, in the hope somebody else can help. -- Chris j wood 14:57, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I think I just answered my own question. The article on Grosvenor Bridge says that it is sometimes known as Victoria Railway Bridge, although I've never heard it so called. Changed accordingly. -- Chris j wood 15:08, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Victoria Bridge in the London sub-list 

message: Just to note, i have created a list on railway viaducts and bridges in the UK. I think if any appear in here, they should be moved to the article i.e. List of railway bridges and viaducts in the United Kingdom. However, they are still bridges. Is there any way to avoid duplication? Simply south 16:40, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Railway bridges and viaducts 

message: This claim that the "Scammonden bridge, the longest single span non-suspension bridge in the world when built". seems very dubious. M62 was built in the 70s. There a number of single span non suspension bridges that are obviously longer an older: Sydney Harbour Bridge, Hell Gate Bridge.   It might need to be further qualified, for example it might be the longest concrete arch bridge. Georgipetrov 19:37, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scammonden bridge claim 

message: I see that this list excludes railway bridges but what about canal bridges/aqueducts eg Avoncliff Aqueduct & Dundas Aqueduct which carry a canal over a river?— Rod talk 09:43, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Those two canal bridges were without WikiProject Bridges on the Talk page, but I fixed that, a decade after the comment by Rodw.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 04:11, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  ? Canal Bridges/Aqueducts 

message: Under northern Ireland there is Queen Elizabeth II Bridge||County Down||, but this entry redirects to a bridge complex in England. What should it be?--Dthomsen8 (talk) 03:59, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Queen Elizabeth II Bridge]]||[[County Down]]||
Talk:Cambyses

message: if we're going to discuss the etymology of the name, we'll do it here (Cambyses (name)), so this isn't necessarily a disambiguation page. dab (ᛏ) 17:34, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't you think the fact that the name travelled as far as Cambodia is encyclopedic? ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 03:58, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: dab page?

message: Like some other works on Persian history around the time, this one needs attention from an expert, on these grounds:
1. It is based on very dated sources, late 19th century, we need more from more recent scholarship.
2. If there as much to be said about the earliest Cambyses as this article states then he deserves his own biography, not just inclusion in a disambiguation page.  Do we know much about him?
3. Does the shadowy brother of Cyrus deserve his own article?
4. Is the numbering of the 2 later Cambyses well-established, or can we re-number them to take account of the previous one? PatGallacher (talk) 17:11, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Expert attention needed
Talk:List of schools in Ottawa

message: For the love of almighty God, can we not link to the principals and vice-principals? Please? --Jiang 01:29, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Linking to principals and vp's

message: And why in the hell are there even articles for the schools anyway? This is getting ridiculous. Adam Bishop 20:50, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps all the existing articles should be merged (and then redirected) here...or some of them, at least. The one about Lisgar Collegiate seems alright I suppose. Adam Bishop 23:50, 23 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, maybe, or they can just be listed without links, e.g., A. Y. Jackson Secondary School, Kanata, Ontario or Gloucester High School, Gloucester, Ontario.  From what I can see, these articles don't say much else than the name of the school and what part of the city it's in, and I don't think having the names of principals/VPs is really essential. Darkcore 05:36, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Articles for every school

message: I think this should be sepearated into different lists, based on what criteria, I don't know. 72.138.248.37 20:22, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Split
Talk:Chomsky (surname)

message: I don't think so Wetman 02:55, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Opus33 22:32, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Chomsky as word chomsky

message: 17-April-2009: This page had been named "Chomsky" from February 2002 through 2008, but it was renamed (moved) as "Chomsky (surname)" on 12 December 2008. -Wikid77 (talk) 13:23, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Page renamed as: Chomsky (surname)

message: 17-April-2009: I have added subheaders above as "Topics from 2003" (etc.) to emphasize the dates of topics in the talk-page. Older topics might still apply, but using the year headers helps to focus on more current issues as well. Afterward, I dated/named unsigned comments (such as "Pointing name Chomsky to Noam Chomsky") and moved any entries into date order. -Wikid77 (talk) 13:23, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Retrofit talk-page year headers

message: 17-April-2009: His entry did not mention MIT, transformational grammar, or A.I. So, even though the entry became much longer than the others, I have expanded the entry as follows:
:* Avram Noam Chomsky (born 1928), American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, political activist, author, lecturer, professor emeritus at MIT, known for early work in transformational grammar and A.I.
I black-linked the other terms (such as MIT, using ""), because the MOS:DAB forbids blue-links beyond the first title (in an effort to focus attention on the name article). -Wikid77 (talk) 13:23, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Expanded Noam Chomsky

message: An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Chomsky (surame). Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so.  Regards, SONIC678 04:35, 24 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Chomsky (surame)" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:McDonald's urban legends

message: So my sister actually used to WORK there. Well, one day she had the job of working in the back room which is where you cook and see what is cooking. Well, ALL of those things were in the food!! And another one I don't think you guys have heard of, there were old meat bits in the ice cream that we all love!! But that's only before she quit after seeing that for the first time.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.167.167.159 (talk) 18:19, 28 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  I can't believe what people do to our food without realizing it!! And I have proof that they do it!! 

message: Because when I looked it on YouTube and I watched this video, it said that they saw McDonald’s factory human body in there and they take their meat and make it as McDonald’s hamburger so my question is is McDonald’s meat really from humans because if it is I’m going to stop eating McDonald’s. I just really don’t know. 2600:8803:BC03:9800:8986:EA06:430D:9E06 (talk) 02:17, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are McDonald’s meat really from humans?
Talk:Fisherman's knot

message: (The original poster left no headline. I made up one. --Netizen 14:10, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Is this the "True love knot"?

message: (The original poster left no headline. I made up one. --Netizen 14:10, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd recommend 2 Strangle knots instead of 2 overhand knots if there is to be a lot of adjusting. Cheers, Netizen 14:03, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Use as an adjustable bend

message: a nice article, could be used to improve this one kwami (talk) 20:41, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  German wiki
Talk:Vote-rigging

message: "(such as when Democrats attempted to use “hanging chads” to steal the 2000 U.S. Presidential election in Florida)"
The above statement needs to be supported. A dispute doesn't necessarily mean that one side is trying to steal the election, just as it would be unfair to say that Republicans were trying to steal the vote by stopping recounts. Evil saltine 05:56, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Talk:Pabst Blue Ribbon

message: , your point is well taken that the word "anilingus" does not appear in any of the sources. But the slang term eat ass redirects to the page. What I am adding I see as a definition for readers not familiar with the term, versus any sort of interpretation of the original tweet. The phrase only refers to that one thing, so all my previous edit is doing is defining the two phrases (Dry January and eating ass). Perhaps better phrasing that doesn't overclaim a definition would be "'Not drinking this January? Try eating ass', referencing Dry January and using a slang term use to refer to anilingus." --Cerebral726 (talk) 13:01, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Slang expressions are not always meant to be taken literally. When Bart Simpson says "eat my shorts" he does not expect someone to start chewing his underwear. Likewise, telling someone to "eat ass" does not necessarily mean that oral-anal contact is expected. I don't agree with the redirect to anilingus, which appears to be the unchallenged opinion of one editor. We don't need to interpret tweets, that would be WP:OR. Just let the tweet stand by itself, and let the readers draw their own meanings. WWGB (talk) 03:24, 8 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure your comparison tracks. "Eating ass" is a very well defined term in modern slang (including in the parent article anilingus, and is the entire crux of the incident: the fact that a brand made an "X-Rated", "NSFW" (as the headlines say) reference to a sex act. The general reaction to the tweet doesn't make sense unless the reader understands the meaning of the term "eating ass". The addition should at least read "'Not drinking this January? Try eating ass', referencing Dry January and using a slang term often used to refer to anilingus." I also found a source that makes the connection between the term and the sex act. --Cerebral726 (talk) 13:53, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the article should not mention anilingus, it's an unwarranted interpretation of a tweet that was not meant to be taken literally.  Going a step further, it seems to me that the material about the Dry January tweet can be removed from the article entirely.  While I admit that I personally found it to be of some interest -- I believe I even chuckled briefly --  I think this is a case of recentism, and not important enough to mention in the article.  — Mudwater (Talk) 22:42, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Since I'm outnumbered on this one, I will drop the inclusion of specific prose, but the significant coverage from several reliable sources seem like in the scope of the Marketing of PBR (the section where this is included), this is a significant event. --Cerebral726 (talk) 23:42, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Defining tweet terms
Talk:Konrad Kujau

message: "He was aided by the fact that most "collectors" of Nazi items were highly secretive, since possession of these items was illegal under German law."  Untrue. Public display of Nazi symbols, and trafficking in Nazi regalia, are illegal, but mere private possession is not a crime.Solicitr (talk) 03:32, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Amended to "trading" rather than "possession", and link to Strafgesetzbuch section 86a. dawkeye (talk)  16:53, 10 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  TR militaria illegal

message: :
Would that be Kurrent? —Tamfang (talk) 08:57, 13 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  script 

message: Article says, he altered his date of birth by two years, could someone that has the cited book or knows add earlier or later to the sentence, I'm only curious and it's not hugely vital to the article but if we're bothering to mention he altered his birth date by two years, we may as well add one more word to explain if he made himself younger or older.  Carlwev  19:43, 25 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Altered year of birth, younger or older?
Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Japan-related articles

message: Wouldn't it be better for the manual of style to endorse the translation of cited sources over simply providing the romanization of its title? Of course not everyone can read Japanese, but it's not like reading the same thing in romaji would make it easy to decipher the meaning if one doesn't speak the language one bit.
Also, I haven't checked but, what are the guidelines when working on articles related to other languages that use non-Latin writing systems? For instance, I never saw any romanization for sources that use Ciryllic or Arabic scripts, so I don't get why Japanese would be any different. NicoSkater97 (let's talk!) 21:34, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't use the visual editor so I don't now whether that makes a difference, but there are four parameters that can be used when citing a source written in Japanese which can help make a citation easier to understand: , ,  and . These parameters seem to work with many of the more widely used citation templates like  and , and there are examples on who to use them given on most template documentation pages. Whether the person adding the citations decides to use them all, use only some of them or not use any of them, I guess depends on the person. The same information can also be added to citations that don't use citation templates; it's just a bit more cumbersome. Of the four parameters, the  is probably the one that almost everyone ends up using, but it's not always being used in the best way possible (at least in my opinion). There's nothing stopping anyone else from coming by later and tweaking a citation if they think doing so would improve it (as long as they don't completely change things per :WP:CITEVAR). Based on my experience, the same parameters/format style also seem to work well for other non-Latin writing systems, but the  and the  parameters might be a bit trickier to handle for someone not competent in the citation's source language. -- Marchjuly (talk) 22:27, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Romanization and references 

message: There's been a lot of back and forth with the naming of lines/stations on the Sōtetsu and Tōkyū Shin-Yokohama Line (see Talk:Sōtetsu Shin-Yokohama Line), so I would like to add this bullet point under MOS:JAPAN#Train and subway stations:
* Names of the form 新〇〇 should be romanized Shin-〇〇.  Example: Shin-Yokohama Station (新横浜駅).
Hopefully this is clear enough that nobody tries to rename Niigata as Shingata, but open to changes and/or wacky exceptions. Jpatokal (talk) 23:04, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Going once, going twice... Jpatokal (talk) 03:13, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed addition: Handling of 新 in station names
Talk:The Peanut

message: The Peanut is not really significant enough to warrant its own article and should be combined into another article that talks about the Don Valley Village neighbourhood in general.  This new article should talk about how the area is a low to middle income area, inhabited predominantly by immigrants, and is the home of Fairview Mall, one of the largest malls in the Toronto area.  --Darkcore 10:29, 23 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Object language

message: Request received to merge articles: Object theory into Object language; dated: 08/2021. Proposer's Rationale: The page Object theory is entirely predicated on a misunderstanding of a description given by Kleene in his text Introduction to Metamathematics, which is frequently cited throughout the article. Kleene describes in this text how one theory (in the sense of model theory) may be interpreted in terms of another, and when doing so uses the the terms "metatheory" and "object theory" to refer to these two theories respectively. Kleene is here using the phrase "object theory" precisely in the sense of Object language, but it seems that somebody has created the page Object theory under the grave misapprehension that there is a specific area of mathematics called "Object theory". Of course, there is not - and subsequently much of the rest of the page is transparently a very low-quality attempt at explaining what an object language is by means of "examples". I do not think much if any of it is salvageable, and that the correct procedure here would be to simply blank-and-redirect the page. Discuss here. Jackcrawf3 (talk) 12:38, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: If so then the actual concept here is metalanguage (or interpretation in the model theory sense) and both pages could be redirected or merged to that. Sesquivalent (talk) 19:36, 5 October 2021 (UTC)

text: I agree with the analysis by Jackcrawf3, and I also agree that both pages should be merged into metalanguage. It looks like quite a bit of work, though, and I don't know when I would get to it. Felix QW (talk) 11:56, 9 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger discussion

message: ړزنبمیکیکینینیکیجثحت ی یړنطمن 152.36.218.74 (talk) 15:06, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  دشیانو ژیهطدطړطنینینینیدیدیدیدددطدیړړیړ
Talk:Lucky Luciano

message: Oh c'mon. Howcome wikipedia is filled with euphenisms about the connections between american security machinery and organized crime? He was supposed to protect the New York harbour from "trouble", which meant probably illegal means to oppress strikes and such.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:14BB:81:A198:FCAB:64B:65F4:DA22 (talk) 18:00, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Protect from U-Boats"???? 

message: Believe i saw American Justice episode that mentioned he sold weapons to the Nazis, Italians, Austrians and possibly the Japanese. Fairly important if true. He was tasked with moving them to our latin and south american allies but sold some to the axis, and maybe extorted money from our south of the border allies in exchange for the weapons instead of simply trafficking them to them like he was to do. The last part I’m unsure of. Sorry if way off. Brad41071 (talk) 08:00, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trafficked weapons to axis 

message: The fight was at the Polo Grounds in Upper Manhattan, not the Bronx as the Lucky Luciano article states. 2601:1C0:6601:B8D0:0:0:0:9114 (talk) 08:45, 16 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dempsey - Firpo Fight September 14, 1923
Talk:.177 caliber

message: The WPMILHIST tag has been removed due to this item not being military related.--Oldwildbill 13:06, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  WPMILHIST 

message: A discussion is taking place to address the redirect :4.5. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 December 12#4.5 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Mdewman6 (talk) 01:01, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "4.5" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:Babinet's principle

message: :"N.B., take care to use a low-powered laser (class 1 only) "
Where am I to find one of these class 1 lasers? I don't think I've ever seen a class 1 laser. Laser pointers are usually class 2 or 3B. Now I'm all for safety, but isn't this a bit excessive? -- Tim Starling 13:24, Dec 23, 2003 (UTC)
*"Examples of such products (containing class 1 lasers) include laser printers and compact disc players" (reference: http://www.hpa.org.uk/radiation/faq/laser/laser9.htm)... other classes of lasers may be used, but safety precautions must be taken. AquaDTRS (talk) 14:37, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: About Class 1 Lasers

message: "In places where the undisturbed beam would not have reached, this means that the radiation patterns caused by B and B' must be opposite in phase, but equal in amplitude."
I think the author meant "In places where the undisturbed beam would have reached, .... "
Rdankwort (talk) 01:02, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Zita of Bourbon-Parma

message: The following page contains this wiki article in an almost identical form . At the bottom of this site I read the following statement: The contents of this web site are Copyright © 2003 Otherground, LLC and World-War-1.info. All Rights Reserved. Please review our Privacy Policy. I am quite sure, that this is not compatible with GNU-FDL. I have no idea how to react. What would you suggest? 143.50.212.219 16:21, 29 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: While no longer identical (or nearly so) to the link mentioned above, this article is currently similar to this one, which bears a copyright notice. One would appear to be an infringement of the other, not sure which has the actual copyright. Hipgnostic (talk) 20:32, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  GNU-FDL infringement 

message: This article has been reviewed as part of Wikipedia:WikiProject Good articles/Project quality task force. I believe the article currently meets the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. This article is excellent, and but for the slightly odd form of referencing, would almost certainly make FA. The article history has been updated to reflect this review. Regards, Jackyd101 (talk) 01:20, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have had an academic colleague totally flummoxed by the bizarre referencing system used in this article. It is neither standard for Wikipedia or anywhere else. It would be far more helpful if, for example, you could see where page 8 of a source was being cited in the article. Fæ (talk) 22:39, 23 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA Sweeps 

message: Felix, born 31 May 1916, died on 6 September 2011 at the age of 95. Source: German Wikipedia.  - Andrea - --62.47.190.117 (talk) 19:41, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Felix (1916-2011) 
Talk:Georgian language

message: I know that Georgian doesn't use masculine and feminine genders.  However, according to grammatical gender there are many other types of "noun classes" that are also "genders" in linguistics.  I don't know if Georgian has any of these other distinctions, so I was hesitant to simply say that "Georgian nouns have no gender."  If anyone can clarify or expand, that'd be appreciated. Isomorphic 18:22, 26 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Good question. AFAIK, Georgian has nothing at all resembling grammatical gender or noun classes -- it's rather like Turkish or Hungarian in that regard. --Marnen Laibow-Koser (talk) 13:40, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Gender

message: Georgian is believed to have separated from Megrelian and Laz in the third millennium BC. Based on the degree of change, linguists (e.g. G.Klimov, T.Gamkrelidze, G.Machavariani) conjecture that the earliest split occurred in the second millennium BC or earlier, separating Svan from the other languages. Megrelian and Laz separated from Georgian roughly a thousand years later.
"Believed" by whom?
:The linguists whose names are cited, I'd guess. Anyway, where do you see a "contradiction" here? --Marnen Laibow-Koser (talk) 14:54, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Ouch. On rereading, I see the contradiction. This really needs cleanup. --Marnen Laibow-Koser (talk) 13:16, 30 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction?