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Talk:Center for Progressive Christianity

message: This has been tagged for being written like an advertisement for ages, but there hasn't been any real discussion. I have attempted to make the language more neutral in the past. What specific sections still seem problematic, or can we remove the advert tag here? WeisheitSuchen (talk) 20:48, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advert tag 
Talk:Mervyn Dymally

message: I got to this page from the Indo-Trinidadian page.  This page says that he's African American and a person of Indian origin.  Is he of mixed race?  It's a bit confusing as is. --Jfruh 01:53, 23 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Indian, African, both? 

message: Please get your facts straight,
Neither Mervyn Dymally (D-CA) nor Bobby Jindal (R-LA) are the "first person of Indian origin" to serve in the U. S. Congress -- that was Dalip Singh Saund (D-CA) who served 1957-1963.
:Thanks for the info.  I read everywhere the Jindal was (academic journals and all) and I knew Dymally pre-dated him... Guettarda 19:58, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dymally was not the first .... 

message: I'm curious as to why this page was moved here, from "Mervyn Dymally" - is he better known as Mervyn M. Dymally than Mervyn Dymally?  Unless that is the case, according to the naming convention the page should be there rather than here.  Guettarda 03:02, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page name 

message: This page makes no mention of Dymally's first term in the California State Assembly from 1962-1966. Would someone with more time like to research the succession box info? I don't know who preceded or succeeded him or anything about California 60's politics. Thanks... gohlkus 00:14, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  First term in Assembly 

message: On the multiracial people list, he is also cited as being part white.   Is this true? Michael 20:00, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's probable - his mother was Venezuelan mestizo, iirc, so it's probably that she had white and Amerindian, in addition to African ancestry.  Of course, that's pure OR, unacceptable in the main namespace without a source.  So remove it or tag it with  - the onus is on the person adding the information to support the statement.  Guettarda 20:41, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. Michael 21:03, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  White? 

message: http://blogs.sacbee.com/capitolalertlatest/2012/10/former-ca-lt-gov-mervyn-dymally-dies-at-86.html // Internet Esquire (talk) 05:15, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  RIP Mervyn M. Dymally 
Talk:By-law

message: I think this article may need a change of emphasis; I think the rarely referred to historical context needs to come in a sub-paragraph rather than the lead, and more focus should be detailed on the constitutional nature of the various types of by-law. --Legis (talk – contribs) 11:14, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. The term seems to have specific meaning for some governments, and a more general meaning for other organizations. The distinction needs to be spelled out by someone with expert knowledge. Lou Sander (talk) 16:38, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Emphasis 

message: What about this: By-Law on The Notification of The Technical Legislation and Standards between Turkey and the European Union?
If an instrument with this name was adopted by a government (board of ministers), is this a wrong use of the word by-law or does this article just miss this kind of word usage? (I mean, this is neither local nor corporate by-law). 62.65.192.82 (talk) 01:48, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I found that in this title the word probably referred to a EU directive.62.65.192.81 (talk) 02:15, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  A possibly missing meaning 

message: I came to this page looking for the difference between these two types of documents.  Perhaps this could be a future update that is made. --Robthepiper (talk) 05:17, 31 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  By-law versus Constitution 
Talk:Absorption spectrum

message: "However, this is emitted in all directions, not just in the direction in which the electromagnetic radiation was originally travelling."
:How does this conserve momentum? lysdexia 23:42, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: In the case of annihilation, conservation of momentum requires the two emitted photons to travel in opposite directions. So I would assume that in this case, whatever momentum the photon has, the atom's momentum changes by the same amount in the opposite direction. --Shinglor 10:34, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conservation of momentum 

message: I propose merging the contents of this page into the Absorption spectroscopy page. This would then be a topic within that page. The spectroscopy page would be enhanced by increased discussion of the spectrum and this version of the spectrum article feels insufficient and incomplete without some of the information on the spectroscopy page. ronningt (talk) 03:09, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree that this article goes hand in hand with Absorption spectroscopy.  The last real edit for this page was in November of 2009, and this article is not likely to be expaned soon. So I don't think it will be a problem to merge it. I will go ahead do the merge. I usually go ahead and merge the page ( as per guidelines Help:Merging) if it seems appropriate. In the guidelines there is usually the motto "Be bold" (take action). Also, if it looks like this "new" section in the Absorption spectroscopy article can be expanded to a stand alone article then it can be split off a later time - with a summary left behind. Steve Quinn (formerly Ti-30X) (talk) 04:37, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merger
Wikipedia talk:Spam/arbcom elections

message: Please vote at Software and features, to approve an exciting new feature that allows users to control whether or not they receive campaign message. --DV 10:46, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: If it turns out to be too technically cumbersome to modify the software to support this feature, but you still want to indicate your willingness to accept campaign-related messages on your user talk page, please feel free to copy the  tag onto your own user talk page. --DV 13:52, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: A technical solution to the issue of campaign messages
Talk:Antonio Machado

message: Spanish Sections
It would be awesome if someone could include translations of the spanish poetry sections.    —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.125.110.131 (talk) 06:45, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Please see this article on Catholicism and Freemasonry to get a feel for the conflict on being a freemason and Catholic. Ronbo76 06:41, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Catholicism and Freemasonry]] 
Talk:Plenty (brand)

message: The article says the name was changed in the UK. This implies there are still a place where it's called Bounty.
Either add info on the Bounty brand or rephrase to "the brand was renamed" de-coupling the name change from the information on where it is sold. 213.66.219.48 (talk) 09:33, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plenty or Bounty 

message: There was a Wiki article for Bounty and it has been redirected in error to this page. Bounty and Plenty are different products - both paper towels - owned by two different companies. The story is this:
In 2007 Proctor & Gamble who make Bounty in the USA in 2009, sold their Bounty brand in the UK to Swedish manufacturer SCA on the understanding that SCA would rebrand Bounty (a brand name still in use by and owned by P&G) within a reasonable period of time. That time came and Bounty in the UK became Plenty manufactured by SCA. Bounty in the USA is still manufactured and sold by P&G.
In view of the above I will now attempt to separate these two different products and recreate the Bounty article. Fk27jh (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 22:28, 11 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: PLENTY IS NOT BOUNTY
Talk:Armored Trooper Votoms

message: Copyright, some categorizing or general definition? Otherwise one would likely say WTF or similar, when first spotting the article.
:It's a copyvio article, original article's URL included in notice. Check history to see the original article for comparison. - Mailer diablo 01:06, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Why was this article originally split in the first place? Other than the TV series, none of the sub articles have any form of notability as they lacked coverage by reliable, third-party sources. The main article itself has not notability outside the TV series as well. The main article may need to be restructured, but creating all these stub articles of non-notable aspects of the series is not the way to do it. —Farix (t | c) 01:26, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, agreed. Much of the content simply duplicates this article anyway. Furthermore, Armored Trooper Votoms (TV series) at least was split from this article without the attribution required by our copyright licence. Unless attribution is provided I suggest merging it back here immediately. Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 09:09, 19 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 
Talk:Vanuatu vatu

message: I removed the following comment:
:The hundred vatu coin is similar in shape and size to the Australian and New Zealand dollar coins.
I don't like removing things without making them better, but this comment doesn't make any sense: the Australian and New Zealand dollar coins are quite different sizes. I hope someone can clear this up, because it would be useful encyclopedic information. Ben Arnold 00:50, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Size of coin 

message: Local residents sometimes refer to a notional dollar, equal to 100 vatu, without specifying which country's currency they have in mind - has there ever been any talk of officially introducing a "Vanuatu Dollar" with the vatu as a subdivision? Nik42 06:32, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dollar 

message: I've noticed that it is stated that there is a V100 note and a coin. I know sometimes countries have a note and a coin for the same denomination, but is this the case, or are V100 notes actually replaced with the coin? Tarcus 22:40, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I believed the notes were replaced by the coin. Enlil Ninlil 08:00, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  100 vatu note 
Talk:Zhao Ziyang

message: :File:Zhao Ziyang tiananmen.jpg
In the Tiananmen Square protests section, the last part of the photo caption read, "On his back right is future Premier of China Wen Jiabao." Isn't Wen the guy on Zhao's left with dark hair and a dark jacket, not the guy behind him and to his right wearing a blue & white cap? I changed it to "to the right of Zhao and near the center of the photo is future Premier of China Wen Jiabao." Phlar (talk) 05:55, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: @Phlar: I think "back right" was supposed to mean "behind him, on the right". Your wording is clearer though, thanks for bringing this up. Yeeno  (talk) 🍁 06:32, 18 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tiananmen Square photo caption
Talk:Pantomime

message: I find this hard to believe and substantiate. My guess is that some celebrities perform UK pantomime, which we'd like to accentuate. But I think "often" is incorrect. --ESP 01:19, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: No, you have the wrong end of the stick. It is not that some UK celebrities often perform pantomime -- in fact, making a habit of appearing in pantomime is a sure way to attract jokes about the state of one's career -- but that many UK celebrities have performed pantomime at some time. The given example of Ian McKellen appearing as Widow Twankey is the first time McKellen has done panto, and may well be the last; but is far from the first time some celebrity has appeared as Widow Twankey. If it helps, think of it as being like cameo appearances. --Paul A 08:04, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)

text: To be fair, though, Ian McKellen is a distinct anomaly; pantomime "celebrities" are usually distinctly second-rate. --Paul A 08:23, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion 

message: I feel quite strongly that something on John Morley (1924-1994) and John Crocker (1925-2015) (deleted in its entirety by Ssilvers, 25 February 2020) is important. They don't have their own Wikipedia entries as yet, but that doesn't make them any less significant. Morley especially was the subject of multiple obituaries in the national papers. The stars that performed in their plays - Ken Dodd, Frankie Howard et al - are surely worth a mention in this article as well. There's also an interesting BBC Radio documentary on Morley available online that readers of this entry should know about. John Morley obituary in The Independent, 11 August 1994 Dunn, Richard (producer). Pantomime, BBC Radio 4 documentary, broadcast January 1981 Otherwise this whole period is a huge hole in the article's coverage. Sfjohna (talk) 12:19, 2 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Addition of material on the Pantomime in the UK, last 50 years
Talk:Nintendo DS launch titles

message: Why are Ridge Racer and Rayman DS listed here if they weren't available on launch day? BluesX 01:20, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Launch game?

message: This article in and of itself is not worth a page on Wikipedia. There's plenty of space on the main DS page. 132.205.94.190 23:24, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge back
Talk:Guinea baboon

message: Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that :File:Papio papio and juvenile Port Lympne Wild Animal Park.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on April 12, 2018. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2018-04-12. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 12:08, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:File:Papio papio and juvenile Port Lympne Wild Animal Park.jpg]] to appear as POTD soon
Talk:Pinus wallichiana

message: I just edited the way this shows up in the category "Pinus."  It had been set up to alphabetize there under the common name, "Blue Pine."  But this didn't make sense since it showed on the list with the binomial (scientific) name.  So I changed it to realphabetize it that way.  But I added the Redirect page to the Category.  So now, the common name does show.   140.147.236.194 (talk) 15:35, 9 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edited for categories
File talk:Icefishuk.jpg

message: That's going to give people nightmares.
:What, just cause they swim around the dark waters, silent, with only an alluring drop of light to draw fish into their needle-sharp jaws?  Because they're vicious predators that are virtually impossible to see under water? Andrew 06:58, Nov 23, 2004 (UTC)
:If you think this guy's scary, you probably shouldn't take a look at this guy. -- Hadal 07:04, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: Which species of icefish is this, and is it really a larval form or simply a young fish? 124.169.60.250 (talk) 07:00, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Provenance
Template talk:Magic-stub

message: Does this stub include magick? If so, a pentacle may be an appropriate image for the stub. Also, if so, I'll be going through several divination related articles and changing Stub to Magic-stub. --Morningstar2651 16:52, Feb 7, 2005 (UTC)
There's a distinction between what's offensive and what offends some people.  A wizard's hat and a wand would also be likely to offend some religious people, as would the inclusion of any article dealing with magic.  I'd stick with the pentagram; it's relevant to the subject, simple, and easily recognisable. Mel Etitis (Μελ Ετητης) 23:39, 11 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does this stub include magic (paranormal)? 

message: This stub message links to magic (paranormal). However, it is being used on stubs such as sleight of hand that have nothing to do with "paranormal" or ritual / occult / religious magic(k), and everything to do with stage magic. Confuse! Sleight of hand and Max Maven simply do not fit in the same category as Babalon Working and Hermeticism.
Either way is fine -- although it seems to me that an "Occult-stub" would be better for the ritual-magick bits, leaving "Magic-stub" for the stage-magic ones. For that matter, we can keep the pentacle as the icon for Occult-stub while using, say, a top hat or rabbit for Magic-stub.
And we also have a Para-stub for "parapsychology", but everyone knows that doesn't exist:
Any objections? --FOo 07:33, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stage magic vs. occult
Category talk:Skills

message: I'm not sure that this makes sense as a subcat of Category:Learning.  The content does not relate to learning, but rather things (skills) which can be learned.  By that logic, the entire Wikipedia could be a subcat of Learning.  -- Visviva 02:50, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Learning 

message: No consensus, no change, see discussion for details.  It is recommended to cleanup the category to define what constitutes a skill.  ∞Who?¿? 00:59, 31 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cfd 23 Aug 2005 

message: I was looking over some technique categories, and noticed that there are alot of them with almost no internavigability between them. In my considered opinion, some categorisation is needed.
My first thought was a :Category:Techniques but there is already :Category:Skills, and technique itself is a disambiguation page that points to skill (and other listings).
My 2nd thought is that if one were to add all of the technique categories into Category:Skills it would swell the category greatly. While not everything needs a new category because of WP:subcategorisation (i.e. :Category:Musical techniques is under :Category:Artistic techniques which is already part of this category) enough categories would join this umbrella that is a consideration.
So I propose that we do one of the following:
# The existing technique categories, and any individual technique lists not part of one of those categories, be added into :Category:Skills. With due consideration not to add both a category and it's subcategories.
# We create :Category:Techniques, and add the categories and pages (as 1).
# We create :Category:Techniques as a subcategory of :Category:Skills, and add the categories and pages (as 1).
# We leave the system as is.
--Andrewaskew (talk) 03:13, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Currently :Category:Skills contains a strange assortment of articles and categories - for example it has Shipfitter, but not thousands of other occupations that require some skill and its subcategories include articles like Potash which aren't about skills at all. If driving is considered a skill then what about reading, swimming, walking - in fact virtually every human (and animal) activity ? This category needs a clear definition of its scope, or maybe even taking to WP:CFD.  Articles that are about the acquisition of skills should be in :Category:Learning. A "Techniques" category might be useful (e.g. :Category:Navigation has a lot of articles that could go in a "Navigation techniques" category), but it should have a clear definition (especially as there isn't an article of that name).  There's also a :Category:Procedural knowledge. DexDor (talk) 21:53, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categorisation of techniques
Talk:Traditional satanism

message: Article needs to be rewritten from a neutral point of view. Wolfman 03:34, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: went ahead and reverted it back to state before tag.  as pointed out below, the rant was just a copy/paste job from a satanism site.  so, likely a copyvio.  but, pointless at the least, since that's what an external link is for. Wolfman 01:16, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)

message: I suggest we merge this article with the Religious satanism article.--– sampi (talk•contrib) 06:25, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge
Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/Arminius

message: I included detail in evidence on the Wolfman block questioned by Guanaco and the reblock of GNAA Popeye questioned by Sam Hocevar.  Arminius objects that these are "bogus".  Indeed, they are not part of the main complaint.  Rather they are intended to establish pattern — Arminius's behavior was not a one-off event on a bad day. The point is not whether these blocks were warranted.  The point is a perceived (by me) pattern that Arminius is not respectful or responsive to those who question his actions as sysop.  In these cases Guanaco and Sam Hocevar, respectively.   Wolfman 03:59, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: On the contrary Arminius, I have no grudge about the block.  Nor have I raised it as a complaint in this case; quite the opposite, I expicitly noted in evidence that I raised no complaint about the block itself.  Also, I left you a very respectful note expressing concern about the Chameleon block.  I was however quite appalled that after several users, including me, noted that the block was against policy that you re-blocked him.  Rather than attacking my motivations or responding to complaints I have not made, you would be well served to address the substance of the complaint raised by Neutrality and Theresa Knott. Wolfman 05:28, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Slipknot (band)/page 2

message: When Slipknot reunites in 2008, are they going to record a new album, as well? If they do, what kind of metal can we expect to hear? Are they going to return to their extremely brutal, shocking, heavy (as in, like, deep guitars! Special message for anyone who can't agree on what "heavy" means) and curse-word saturated sound? Or will they experiment, like on Vol.3? Maybe there'll be Stone Sour influence, the same way that Come What(ever) May contains Slipknot-esque music, tempo and vocals. Maybe there'll be a Murderdolls or Ministry (band) influence on Joey's drums. Anyone care to add? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.34.223.112 (talk • contribs) 
:At the moment, there has been no public announcements or any small hint that Slipknot are to release another album. If they are, well they better start saying something. But for now, since nothing has been said a new Slipknot album, it will stay out of the article. --Spebi 07:58, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Album Possibilities
Talk:Computation problem

message: I'm very confused by the first sentence of this article.  A computation problem is "determining whether or not there exists a computation procedure"?  So the computation problem is "given a class S of questions, determine whether an algorithm exists to solve this class"?  And then you'd have to design a Turing machine that figures out whether algorithms exist to solve certain classes of questions?  That sounds like the wrong level of abstraction.  Is a computation problem actually the same as a function problem?  I guess I just don't understand how "determining whether an algorithm exists" has to do with the definition of a problem as a mathematical entity.  -- Creidieki 20:58, 1 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  First sentence of article 

message: I think the previous revision was trying to say that a computation problem was a problem where something is "computed", i.e., a function problem.  The current rewrite seems to be saying that a computation problem is the same as a computational problem, i.e., including both function and decision problems.  I'm not very clear on the naming here, frankly. -- Creidieki 12:39, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh I wasn't aware that the latter existed. Then this page should be a redirect. I don't think I've ever seen the term "computation problem" used in the context that the earlier version suggested. Moreover, there is no article linking to it. So I'll just redirect to computational problem. Pascal.Tesson 14:11, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  rewrite: computation vs. computational vs. function