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Wikipedia talk:Writing better articles/Avoid making your articles orphans

message: Supporters of this rule include: Clasqm,
Larry Sanger, Damian Yerrick,
Josh Grosse, 24
Opponents include: AxelBoldt (a chain of links is desirable, but orphans really don't pose a problem, since most people use the search engine anyway) and David Cannon.
My opinion: It's a good guideline, but shouldn't be taken as a hard-and-fast rule; doing so may result in more spurious links, in cases where related articles are sparse. Categories help too. Derrick Coetzee 23:44, 11 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: At present there are many articles in the Wikipedia namespace that seek to give guidance on how to write better articles. I propose consolidating these into a much smaller number. On User:Jongarrettuk/Better writing guide I propose how these could be consolidated. The proposal is not to change advice, just to consolidate it. If I have inadvertently moved what you consider to be good advice that is currently in the Wikipedia namespace, please re-add it. I'm hope that the proposal to merge all these articles, in principle, will be welcomed. Of course, it may be preferred to have 2, 3 or 4 inter-connected articles than just one and would welcome advice on how this could be done. (In particular, perhaps all the guidance on layout should be spun off into one consolidated article on layout.) I'm also aware that putting lots of different bits of advice together may throw up anomalies or bits that people now disagree with (including bits that I myself disagree with:) ). I ask for support for the consolidation. Once the consolidation has happened, the advice can be changed in the normal way. Please feel free to improve on the current draft consolidation, but don't remove or add advice that is not currently on the Wikipedia namespace. If all goes well, I'll add a new Wikipedia:Guide to writing better articles page on the 19th, though maybe some bits of the new article will need to be phased in over a longer period. I'll also take care to preserve all the archived discussion in one place. jguk 19:36, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Talk:William Tecumseh Sherman

message: I suggest providing more detail under the "Slavery and Emancipation" subsection of this article, regarding the 1888 essay General Sherman wrote defending civil rights for African Americans. Having read the essay, I suggest including that Sherman predicted another Civil War if white southerners continued to block Afr. American suffrage through violence. To quote Sherman: "Ask the abrogration of Article XIV. of the Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, or allow the negro to vote, and count his vote. Otherwise, so sure as there is a God in Heaven, you will have another war, more cruel than the last, when the torch and dagger will take the place of the muskets of well-ordered battalions" (p. 366)
Here is a source for the full, primary source article: Sherman, W. T. “Old Shady, with a Moral.” The North American Review 147, no. 383 (1888): 361–68. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25101627. BJAllTheWay (talk) 05:14, 20 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done for now: Please provide secondary sources showing that this is noteworthy. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 11:19, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:   I added the quote in the form that it's used at the end of a recently published and well reviewed book (Dickey's Rising in Flames, from 2018). - Eb.hoop2 (talk) 06:01, 24 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 20 June 2022 

message: The opening paragraph opines negatively on the supposed scorched earth strategy General Sherman employed against the confederate states in open rebellion against the union. It should be rewritten without this pro-confederate bias. For example: “General Sherman used tactics that, while extreme, were permissible under the law of war as it was read at the time. While controversial, his strategies were critical in ensuring a Confederate surrender, reunification of the Union, and a lasting peace.” 100.16.234.26 (talk) 09:13, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. •Cyberwolf•talk? 15:36, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 15 November 2023 

message: The sentence: “According to historian John D. Winters's The Civil War in Louisiana (1963), at this stage Sherman…” should be updated to: “According to historian John D. Winters' The Civil War in Louisiana (1963), at this stage Sherman…” 2600:100B:B021:7805:1881:D5D6:2196:4E74 (talk) 09:51, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammar Correction  

message: Joseph M. Sherman is a Great Great Great Great Grandchild 74.74.77.165 (talk) 01:45, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grandchildren
Talk:Blind drunk

message: I have concerns about the seriousness of this article. Eclecticology
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I think it's interesting and if someone wanted to know what 'blind drunk' ment then why not have it tell them.
I had always assumed though that blind drunk came from people drinking methanol (instead of ethanol, the non toxic usual alcohol) because they were alcoholics and could not afford regular alcohol.  I am doing research on this now.  --ShaunMacPherson 04:20, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

message: On 5 July 2005, this article was nominated for deletion. The result was redirect to Drunkeness. See Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Blind drunk for a record of the discussion. – ABCD 18:11, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: VFD
Talk:High-speed rail

message: The history section (at least for recent history) seems to be a collection of sections on each country. I think it would be more helpful to have a single history across countries to have a general idea of developments of HSR across time. As it is, this is just a repetition of the HSR history in each country's article, which is not really useful Ita140188 (talk) 10:32, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  History section divided by countries? 

message: High-speed rails are considered to have speed above 250 km/h for new lines (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_rail). Therefore, all lines with speed 250 km/h and below should be excluded from this article “High-speed rail”.
116.110.42.83 (talk) 04:11, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  What speed is high-speed? 

message: Is Acela an high speed rail? Or it's by definition.
2601:204:EA7F:220:E159:45BB:B700:8EB5 (talk) 04:04, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Acela
Talk:Dream

message: Alternate means to-and-fro, rotating, not something which can be chosen as a different option.  Please sort out 'alternate reality' which should read 'alternative reality'.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.39.166.176 (talk) 21:05, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternative / Alternate 

message: This article is specifically about human dreaming. Should there be a separate article about animal dreaming? Most mammals, most birds, some spiders, octopuses, cuttlefishes, etc. dream. We need to have encyclopedic work about that as well. Kingturtle = (talk) 12:09, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you have any reference to the empirical evidence that some spiders dream? Or in fact sources for any of the claims for other animals? Many thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 09:21, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Human dream 

message: I want to please edit the wikipage of dream , i want to add more research based information to it , and it is a part of wiki medical project by Amin Azzar.
So i kindly like to get grant/access to edit this semi protected page. Rathod Dharmarajsinh (talk) 08:43, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: this is not the right page to request additional user rights. You may reopen this request with the specific changes to be made and someone may add them for you, or if you have an account, you can wait until you are autoconfirmed and edit the page yourself. Tollens (talk) 09:16, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 22 March 2024 

message: The information saying it cannot be proven that animals dream is incorrect. See: https://news.mit.edu/2001/dreaming 97.151.160.203 (talk) 02:12, 13 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done for now: please establish a consensus for this alteration before using the  template. In particular, you need to show why your source should be used over the current one. HansVonStuttgart (talk) 12:38, 16 April 2024 (UTC)

text: That was 13 years ago. Here's another link. But the full details of the paper(s) in Neuron are not given. Seems to have been work at MIT by Matthew A. Wilson, on rats. Martinevans123 (talk) 12:47, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 13 April 2024 

message: How do we know this? As long as the parts of your brain are there and can be stimulated some OTHER way, other than your eyes feeding you the images (such as when someone has a visual hallucination, for example, it's not coming from their eyes) It's just that they'd have no way to describe what it is, as they can have no concept of what colors and shapes are, unlike people who can see. 173.76.166.185 (talk) 01:11, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: People blind from birth do not have visual dreams
Talk:Computer number format

message: I see that many people describe and compare fixed-point number formats using Q (number format) notation,
where one system has "Q1.14" fixed-point numbers while another system has "Q7.16" fixed-point numbers.
I see that some people use a similar notation (without naming that notation) in List of computers with on-board BASIC and probably other Wikipedia articles,
describing one system as having "FP:31/8" floating-point numbers, while another system uses "FP:64" floating-point numbers.
I see that (other?) people use a different notation (without naming that notation) to describe
G.711 as having effectively "seeemmmm" floating-point numbers and describe
single-precision Microsoft Binary Format as having "xxxxxxxx_smmmmmmm_mmmmmmmm_mmmmmmmm" floating-point numbers.
Is there a name for either of these notations?
Is there any other named notation used by people to show the differences between binary16 vs. bfloat16 vs. other floating point formats?
--DavidCary (talk) 23:47, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  notation to describe floating-point formats
Talk:Magnesium

message: Where does this come from? The link provided there seems unrelated. Coffee and tea contain about 0% of the recommended magnesium daily intake. Cocoa indeed is rich on magnesium as per USDA (link). Since this page seems to be semi-protected, and my English is far from perfect, I'd like to ask someone else to review this and make corrections. Thank you. Ri hwa won (talk) 06:08, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed. I can't access the source to verify it, but the statement in the article definitely contradicts  and , and cocoa solids are already mentioned as well in the previous paragraph. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 06:09, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beverages rich in magnesium are coffee, tea, and cocoa 

message: It looks like this article has been semi-protected for well over 5 years. It seems like this was done around a time of numerous edits which were adding questionable content.
It's not clear to me that this would still necessarily be a topic that would attract significant controversial edits or outright vandalism. What is the process for having the semi-protected status reviewed? 220.235.82.123 (talk) 04:00, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Contacted the protecting admin. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 06:01, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you. You are a gentleman and a scholar! 220.235.82.123 (talk) 15:28, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

text: I think PC would be a better option than full unprotection here. TheRichCapitalist (talk) 05:46, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time to remove semi-protection? 

message: I think a significant amount of magnesium metal is used in steelmaking to lower sulphide levels. Is the tonnage used for this enough to make it to the introduction of the article? 147.161.230.115 (talk) 11:40, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Magnesium in steelmaking
Talk:Cuneiform (disambiguation)

message: Why is this page not just a #redirect to cuneiform script? As the list of pages that link here helps demonstrate, that is by far the most common usage of the term. What would someone typing "cuneiform" into the Search box want: the script, the bones, or the obscure record label? —E. Underwood]] 03:33, 16 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Finite Mathematics

message: I want to redirect this page to discrete mathematics. Any objections? -- Miguel
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Yes, I object.  Finite Math is not the same as Discrete Math. On pages 7 and 8 of the following pdf, the "inventors" (Kemeny, Snell, and Thompson) of the term explain it's meaning: 
A few years ago [1950's], the department of mathematics at Dartmouth College decided to introduce a different kind of freshman course, which students could elect along with [the] more traditional [pre-calculus] ones. The new course was to be designed to introduce a student to some concepts in modern mathematics early in his college career. While primarily a mathematics course, it was to include applications to the biological and social sciences and thus provide a point of view, other than that given by physics, concerning the possible uses of mathematics.
In planning the proposed course, ...[o]ur aim was to choose topics which are initially close to the students' experience, which are important in modern day mathematics, and which have interesting and important applications. To guide us in the latter we asked for the opinions of a number of behavioral scientists about the kinds of mathematics a future behavioral scientist might need. The main topics of the book were chosen from this list.
Our purpose in writing the book was to develop several topics from a central point of view. In order to accomplish this on an elementary level, we restricted ourselves to the consideration of finite problems, that is, problems which do not involve infinite sets, limiting processes, continuity, etc. By so doing it is possible to go further into the subject matter than would otherwise be possible, and we found that the basic ideas of finite mathematics were easier to state and theorems about them considerably easier to prove than their infinite counterparts.
So, the fact that Finite Math avoids concepts of infinity, does not mean that variables can only take on discrete values. One topic covered in Finite Math is Gaussian Elimination, to solve systems of linear equations. Here the variables are generally real numbers (not just integers), and so they are continous. While there are an infinite number of real numbers, the concept of the infinite need not be discussed to apply Gaussian Elimination, and hence it can be included in a Finite Math course.
--DavidUhland (talk) 12:28, 21 January 2009 (UTC)
Talk:Interstate Highway System

message: Part of the version 21:57, 20 July 2022‎ 92.22.184.183 of this article is translated into Chinese Wikipedia to update an existing older translation.--Wing (talk) 10:51, 28 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation into Chinese Wikipedia 

message: Why is Interstate 96 a different shade of red than the rest of them? NintendoTTTEfan2005 (talk) 15:58, 6 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: That data is pulled from a couple dozen different GeoJSON files.  It appears whomever made the file for interstate 96, which is  here, used a different color from the rest. If you can compare that file from one from the another interstate highway, maybe you can find the offending code and change the color in that GeoJSON file to be the same as the others. Dave (talk) 00:08, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks like it was already fixed, just today. Comparing this map file with the one used for I-70, they are both color #cc0000.  However, the wikipedia server must be using a cached copy of the old version. Should be fixed next time the cache is flushed or refreshed. Dave (talk) 00:16, 7 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  I-96 

message: — Assignment last updated by Thecanyon (talk) 05:32, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Technology and Culture

message: I just reverted this incorrect edit on 19 October 2023, which was not supported by a source as required by WP:NOR, WP:V, and WP:NOT. 
I skim articles in most major American English news publications every week and have done so for over 25 years.  I have never seen "the Interstate" used to refer to the system as a whole.  Unless someone can produce one or more sources verifying that unusual usage, it should stay out of the article. --- Coolcaesar (talk) 18:13, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: @Coolcaesar  Thank you for your edit (too old and busy to go source hunting all the time, reversion is easier). Incidentally, on this side of the country, "the Interstate" is indeed quite popularly used to refer to any or all parts of the system (i.e., as a whole); in fact, you are the first and only person I have witnessed to object to this colloquialism, online or otherwise. At any rate, it may serve better to omit it from the lead and include this info elsewhere in the article if/as appropriate. Happy editing! Kehkou (talk) 01:20, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reverting incorrect edit by [[User:Kehkou]] on 19 October 2023
Talk:Malaysia

message: i cannot explain this right reality that the official name is just malaysia without addition like kingdom. Just in case for indonesia full name is republic of indonesia. Cmiiw.2404:8000:1027:B639:611B:CA2D:FAE0:9222 (talk) 18:59, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: hopefully, this note will answer your question. (side note: i made the latest edit to this note in which i updated the citation.) there is also a discussion on the official name in the talk page's archives. The G Wikian (talk) 07:40, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: huh smlj. i swear 6 years ago i read the article it says federation of malaysia. how come now only malaysia. i lazy read 2406:3003:2002:2D79:9916:164:82CC:9CF8 (talk) 11:39, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Malaysia, why just malaysia alone? 

message: 176.42.140.28 (talk) 14:57, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: this is not the right page to request additional user rights. You may reopen this request with the specific changes to be made and someone may add them for you, or if you have an account, you can wait until you are autoconfirmed and edit the page yourself. Liu1126 (talk) 15:02, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 12 May 2024
Talk:Age of Earth

message: In the “Early calculations” section it says that Lord Kelvin's calculations were wrong because he didn't know about radioactive decay, but mostly (“more significantly”) because he didn't take into account the convection in the mantle. I'm no geologist, but physical logic would imply the opposite: convection accelerates cooling, rather than delaying it. True, it transfers heat from the core to the base of the crust, increasing the gradient in the crust, but this is only temporary, and if it weren't for radioactivity the Earth would have cooled long ago. David Olivier (talk) 08:29, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Surprising assertion about convection and temperature decrease
Talk:Reichstag

message: This article is a mess -- is it about the institution or the building?  Also, all of the information about one scholarly group's work on collecting, collating, and editing the Reichsakten is interesting, but also demonstrates a basic misunderstanding of research methods and the types of sources available to historians.  JHK
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Some questions:
* when was it built?
* who was its architect?
* what was its first purpose?
* fire in 1933?
* when was it rebuilt?
* with whom as architect?
* what was added?
* wrapping by christo?
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2002-04-27 I split the page up and added a lot about the history of the institution. Will work on the building next; I hope to be able add some pictures too. :-) djmutex
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2021-04-24 The article says "Reichstagsgebäude" is a "god specific" word. What does "god specific" mean in this context? The word itself translates to "Reichstag building" in English.
xuinkrbin. (talk) 17:58, 24 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: I propose a new article be created for the Reichstag during the Nazi Period. There are already separate articles for the Holy Roman Empire, German Empire, and Weimar government. The NS Reichstag is clearly a different body. In addition, it is currently officially listed in the German Empire article, but the photos and details are mainly in the Weimar article, which is not only confusing but out of historical sequence. The articles should flow in the following way, as they do in the German Wikipedia. The addition of the Austrian and Bund periods is a smaller but important distinction that can wait until the Weimer, Empire, and Nazi content is appropriately sorted out. When done, this page would then look something like this:
*Reichstag (legislative body)
**Reichstag (Holy Roman Empire) 754–1806
**Reichstag (North German Confederation) 1867-1871
**Reichstag (Austria) 1848-48
**Reichstag (German Empire) 1871–1918
**Reichstag (Weimar Republic) 1919–1933
**Reichstag (Nazi Germany) 1933–1945
*Reichstag (building)
**etc....
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Ultracobalt (talk) 23:15, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Seperation of Concepts
Talk:Yogi Berra

message: I just read that Yogi left school after 8th grade to support his family. Additionally, there's a reference to a school (South Side Catholic) he went to that's now known as St. Mary's high school; i'm assuming that it was a primary/grammar school back in Yogi's era, and over the years became a high school. 2nd paragraph -- https://www.authenticmanhood.com/blog/20-great-yogi-berra-quotes; not sure if this is a good enough source...if there's any supporting documentation, that would be of interest. 2603:7081:2602:DB00:55C0:E2F1:1311:A2D2 (talk) 17:40, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  child hood - clarification
Talk:Deep Throat

message: About the movie (not the Watergate guy): This was not the first porn film to be widely screened in theaters, as any Russ Meyer fan will point out.  :)  Also, I'm uncertain of the filn's gross -- but $600 million?!?  The Godfather's box office take of about $135 million was the biggest box office hit of all time, one year before Deep Throat.  Does anyone know what this movie really made at the box office? --Modemac 15:19, 12 Aug 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Oxford English Dictionary says that the term "deep throat" origins with the 1972 movie (though they don't mention the sexual technique). AxelBoldt 17:15, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right - surprisingly, the film-makers seem to have coined the word Random House word maven. Guttlekraw 05:09, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Success of the film

message: Let's get this straight -- the names of two tv show episodes and a Japanese videogame character are important enough to be disambiguated but not a German rock band which was only big back in the vinyl era?  I guess I should be happy that the Beatles haven't been edited out of Wikipedia yet? IanHistor 17:44, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The only reason it isn't listed is that there doesn't seem to be an article about this band. Anyone is free to make it, and if there are enough realiable sources, the article is likely to survive. As far as I can tell from the deletion logs, Deep Throat (band) has never been "edited out" — it just wasn't made in the first place. Articles can only be made one at a time … ;) \sim Lenoxus " * " 19:06, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: German rock band

message: I can't see what this has to do with Deep Throat. Can someone explain? Murderbike 00:48, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gray Fox? 