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Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship/Archive 27

message: Is the process of deciding on the making of admins working well, or does it need new, explicit guidelines?
====Working well. Bureaucrats are trusted to make difficult decisions====
#— Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 17:16, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Poll: Is Bureaucracy in Need of Reform

message: #— Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 17:16, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Working well. Bureaucrats are trusted to make difficult decisions

message: #--Unfocused 17:36, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Guidelines would be helpful, but should not be in the form of explicit instructions

message: # I have drafted a replacement proposal. Talrias (t | e | c) 18:02, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  The procedure for RfA should be changed 

message: * I don't think that anything is wrong...the general public presents their opinions on whether the person should be made an admin. It shouldn't be an elite clan. There are processes for dealing with troublesome admins. — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 17:16, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: I know that at least two other users tried to update the Candidate questions template and got reverted 1 and 2, but I have fixed the general problem with naming of sub-sections.  
See my proposed solution: RFA addition template.
:To use:  (not specifially with name of RFAC).
:In use: see here.  
I welcome any suggestions or changes (you can edit the page). ∞Who?¿? 22:13, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe the reason for not using headings for the different sections is that it expands the ToC too much. Talrias (t | e | c) 22:28, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Thats true, and hiding it would make it difficult to scroll down. Mainly just trying to make it easier to vote, granted section editing doesnt really alleviate edit conflicts, but helps.  ∞Who?¿? 22:30, 24 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the ToC won't end up too big if you use headings. — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 00:32, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The more I think about it, I am inclined to believe you. Although it seems it would make it longer, the actual comments make the page very long.  With sub-headings, you can goto the vote section rather quickly, and dont' have to scroll down through all the other votes or comments to vote.  Sometimes by the time i get to the "comments" section while editing, someone else has already edited and you get an edit conflict.  This way there is no scrolling through the entire RFA of a user while editing.   ∞Who?¿? 00:46, 29 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed new template for nominating
Talk:Purulia district

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This free flow style is not suitable for wikipedia. I will try to copyedit. --Bhadani 13:16, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Purulia

message: There is not much information on Purulia as such. The focus of the article is on the Purulia Arms Drop Case. Perhaps someone could create a new page under that topic and add more Purulia specific information. Besides, the Arms drop case properly belongs to Purulia District, rather than the town of Purulia.Priyatu 05:47, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  No information on Purulia! 
Talk:Robert Patlock

message: I can't seem to find any information on this guy online.  Multiple sites have the same entry as in Nuttall (which I assume is the same as in EB1911), but nothing else at all. Did Nuttall make this guy up? Or is he just so obscure that nobody really cares about him... ?  ;-)  129.170.131.244 16:52, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Aha! His name is actually Robert Paltock (Nuttall (or the people proofing the PG version) flipped the 'L' and the 'T') Womble 16:55, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
Template talk:M. Night Shyamalan

message: Could I please draw contributors attention to User:The JPS/Director templates. Thanks. The JPS 16:53, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: where is his first film, Praying with Anger?  It was shown on HBO before the movies listed here. --166.205.133.92 (talk) 00:21, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: missing film?
Talk:Joe Gibbs Racing

message: This section does not need to be a part of this article. The article is about the 15 year history of Joe Gibbs Racing... now honestly, was this little incident SO significant that it needs to be mentioned here? In its own section, no less?? It would fit, at least when written without bias, in the 2008 Dan Lowry 400 article, or even briefly in the 2008 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series page. But not here. And for any disgruntled Jr fans who just cant seem to get over this, i seem to remember Jr once spinning himself out on purpose at Bristol to get a caution he wanted. It's not even close to the first time this type of thing has happened, it's nothing new. But like anything else, when Dale Jr is involved, it seems that things need to get blown out of proportion for some reason. --MP 103 06 (talk) 16:41, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  11/18 "controversy"
Talk:Ottoman wars in Europe

message: Hi, I think the article should be total rewritten, it is very messy, there are many duplicated info and many jumping in the timeline all the time. I think the problem is that the article list separatelely the countries and this cause the duplications. But this is unnecessary because there are subarticles like "Hungarian-Ottoman wars" and others. I think the article should be written in one timeline and not separated by countries, but rather separate the chapter by centuries. OrionNimrod (talk) 16:55, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need rewrite the article
Talk:Carlo Resoort

message: I think the title for this page should be changed to 4 Strings. I think it is safe to say that most people know the group by it's name and not by the people actually in it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.125.163.72 (talk • contribs).
I agree, 4 strings is also Jan De Vos. http://www.discogs.com/artist/4+Strings
I third that.  Not only is Carlo Resoort not the only member, but he is not known under that particular alias. Vdeogmplyr2000 16:59, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title Change 

message: Carlo Resoort has also released the tracks A Deeper Love and Beautiful Child under the alias Madelyne. Beautiful Child is quite renowned in the trance scene, especially its Hiver & Hammer and Milk Inc. remixes. I think that it deserves at least a mention in this article. Ideally, a disambiguation page should also be created for Madelyne linking to the article.
References: , 
--Ayla 22:26, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Madelyne 

message: Is there any good place to mention that both "Take Me Away (Into the Night)" and "Diving" were featured on US PS2 installments of the Dance Dance Revolution series? 12.42.50.52 18:20, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Appearances in American DDR games 

message: What about Vanessa?  Why is she not talked about ANYWHERE in the article, despite that fact that she was the main vocalist on "Believe" and "Turn It Around"?  And how about Tina Cousins and Janson Lunar, two people who've done guest vocals?  I'm not even sure who the woman on the cover of "Mainline" is either. Vdeogmplyr2000 17:09, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other Members 

message: Why does it seem like all of the hard information is in the "Introduction" section, where they are supposed to briefly touch on the subject at hand?  And why does that section end with what seems like an advertisement instead of factual information?  I'm all for loving 4 Strings, but this is supposed to be like an encyclopedia article, not a band's web page promoting themselves. Vdeogmplyr2000 17:13, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Content
Talk:Google Ads

message: I want to know what "gclid" is. A different page brought me here (Redirected from Gclid).
But this page does not contain the word "gclid".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Guettli (talk • contribs) 10:32, 7 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Google Ads#Conversion tracking PaulT2022 (talk) 08:24, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is gclid? 

message: I've seen information about Google starting with pay per view and later pay per click. But nothing on a fixed monthly fee. I think that the fees would be charged monthly, but writing it like this could be confusing. Jeco1991 (talk) 08:28, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Monthly fee may be referring to the ad management fee rather than the payment for the ads themselves. I agree that the way it's written now is confusing and the claim itself isn't evident from the referenced sources. PaulT2022 (talk) 10:49, 11 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Google Ads monthly fee? 

message: Recent press coverage:
* https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-25/google-double-click-deal-at-center-of-doj-antitrust-lawsuit
* https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/24/technology/google-ads-lawsuit.html
* https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/24/23569127/google-advertising-monopoly-antitrust-lawsuit-federal-government
PaulT2022 (talk) 23:19, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Feel free to add that in here and on Google litigation. InfiniteNexus (talk) 07:03, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Antitrust lawsuit
Talk:The Kumars at No. 42

message: This show is shown by Sony Entertainment Television (available on pay satelite TV) and appears to be very similar. It is in Hindi. Can someone with some knowledge of this show please add it to the article (I'm not sure if it is a parody or a clone of the show). Show home page  Softgrow 05:15, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Hindi version?

message: The two paragraphs about Boy George at the end don't seem to contain anything particularly noteworthy. Does anyone mind if they're deleted? --87.82.23.233 18:23, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Boy George 

message: Probably due to edits introduced throughout the article's life, two sentences now make no sense:
Seven series of the programme have aired on BBC Two, with the seventh shown in 2006. In August of the following year, NBC entered a deal (...)
That would make it August 2007. 
Does anyone know if "the following year" applies to "2001", which was mentioned earlier, or if it applies to another year which has been edited out at some time? MIP | Talk 10:19, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chronological inconsistency 

message: I really don't think we need an episode/guest list here. It makes it look so untidy. Secondly, the "Writers:, Starring: etc" has just been copied from the BBC Comedy website, which is not permitted. For now I'm removing the section. — Gary Kirk // talk! 19:49, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As the editor who added the credits section, I'd just like to say that it was based on the on-screen credits and was NOT copied from the BBC Comedy website - if it turned out the same as their credits, that's simply because there's only so many ways you can arrange a list of four names. Pure coincidence, not plagiarism. --Bonalaw 08:44, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guest list 

message: I don't know this show, but reading this article about it has convinced me to find it. What was the reason for cancellation? Alpha Ralpha Boulevard (talk) 04:55, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Reason for cancellation?

message: An Ip editor added Sanjay's new wife, Dorin, to the family.  I can find no other mention of this character, so I've removed it.  Rojomoke (talk) 11:52, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dorin?
Talk:Idols (Finnish TV series)

message: This page should be merged with Pop Idol — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.248.115.238 (talk) 17:46, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:An Instinct for Dragons

message: After watching "Quest for Dragons on the History chanel I must agree with some of david jones's theories. However I only agree on it for some cultures. It still amazes me how legends of dragons are world wide. How can  big, reptilian, bones cover all this teritory? Could a skink be a shadow of his ansestors, dragons? Like so many other survivors of a world long gone, could he or another lizard have once been a "mythical" beast?—The preceding unsigned comment was added by  (talk • contribs).
:Legends of dragons are only world-wide if you take every monster you can think of in any mythological story and just label them as dragons despite the major differences between them. The Inuit claims are especially bzarre and dubious. I at least changed it to say that he claims that there are dragon stories there, but without seeing what he's even talking about I don't know how to look it up. I'd bet he's completely off base, as my readings of Inuit myths has nothing at all like what would typically be called a dragon. DreamGuy 06:21, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: I'm wondering if the cart isn't before the horse here, but in a slightly more complicated way. Rather than explain our mythologies in terms of a paleontological hypothesis that assumes the biggest thing was prevailing against the monster and we're just regressing when we pass along these stories, the question is how in the myths that we follow, what the old monster has come to symbolize and where it carries meaning. What does "slaying the dragon" mean that speaks to people? How is it that we can successfully transplant a monster from one social/economic/technological arrangement to a more modern one?  How we carry over our instincts via symbols into ideologies that support (narratively legitimate) successive economic and political arrangements? Is it merely a matter of manipulation of the popular narrative by the prevailing interests? I don't think that would be logistically possible (consider, e.g., "divine right"). Unpundit (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 01:47, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Short lived

message: Please note that articles on Wikipedia do not take sides. To claim that this author proves anything, or that his examples are real and undisputed when we know they aren't violated the WP:NPOV poliicy here. I did an edit job that gets rid of most of the worst examples. DreamGuy 06:21, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV
Talk:Cobb County Public Schools

message: This article seems to be severely biased to the teachers and staff of Cobb County. Phrases like "His acid-tongued, blatantly rude assistant Kathie Johnstone is also extremely unpopular" don't seem to conform to the Wikipedia Neutral point of view guidelines.
--Põtåtõ §ålåÐ 18:00, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV
Talk:The Right Stuff (film)

message: I don't really like some wording in the "Historical accuracy" section.
* Although The Right Stuff was based on historic events and real people, as chronicled in Wolfe's book.
Well, Wolfe's book is not a "chronicle", it's a "journalistic investigation". We must compare the film with the actual events, not with a book (which, although labelled as non-fiction, is full of "poetic license").
* Re. Grissom and the hatch: However, Kaufman was closely following Tom Wolfe's book, which focused not on how or why the hatch actually blew, but how NASA engineers and some of Grissom's colleagues (and even his own wife) believed he caused the accident; much of the dialogue in this sequence was taken directly from Wolfe's prose.
Again, "Wolfe's prose" is not history. The film actually shows Grissom panicking and blowing up the hatch, which, obviously, is historically inaccurate. This is what must be mentioned in this particular section. The comparisons between the film and the book belong elsewhere. P.S. I'll make the necessary tweaks if nobody minds. Taurus Littrow (talk) 14:18, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The film actually doesn't show that... the filmmakers were very careful to show him inside the hatch, he doesn't hit the button, then a shot from the outside where it APPEARS he MAY have hit it.  It's deliberately left ambiguous to the viewer. 137.188.108.55 (talk) 18:43, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historical accuracy 

message: The DVD of Philip Kaufman's 1974 film The White Dawn contains commentary by Kaufman. In  that commentary, Kaufman states that he used the tune sung by the old Inuit woman in The White Dawn as background music during part of John Glenn's flight in The Right Stuff. MathPerson (talk) 18:15, 6 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the commentary in The White Dawn, that woman's name is Akshooyooliak. MathPerson (talk) 20:39, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Music
Talk:An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews

message: I just removed a phrase saying Shamela is "believed to have been written" by Fielding. I've never encountered any controversy surrounding the authorship of this book.--Ibis3 23:04, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That would be because the book was published pseudonymously. I'm not quite sure this is a reason for skepticism. Schissel | Sound the Note! 09:59, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Authorship 

message: References 2 and 3 (3 is a duplicate of 2) are illegible - fix? Schissel | Sound the Note! 10:00, 2 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  References
Talk:SYN

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I've removed the Synaspismos link because, first, as I said before, "SYN" doesn't in fact seem to be an accepted abbrevistion for it (it's used in the Wikipedia infobox to save space, but I don't think that that's enough), and because it's a link to a redirect. --Mel Etitis  (Μελ Ετητης) 18:12, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The link could probablly do with a bit more explanation. but the fact that someone sent a link for the party here is imo sufficiant to warrant its inclusion. Its not as though this disambig page is annoyingly big or anything anyway. Plugwash 20:44, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't really understand "the fact that someone sent a link for the party here".  In any case, the claim that "Syn" is an abbreviation of "Synaspismos" is unsourced and doesn't appear in the relevant article; that is in itself rason not to include it, but when we add to that the fact that "Synaspismos" isn't even the name of the article, but a Greek abbeviation of the title, I think that that settles it.  (Your addition, by the way, didn't really make sense, and was full of errors.) --Mel Etitis  (Μελ Ετητης) 23:53, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
Talk:List of comic book supervillain debuts

message: Hi!  Thanks for visiting.   Please also visit Superhero Chronology.
Dawn22 19:09, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: I'm thinking we should split of the Dick Tracy villains.  There's so many of them they could have a page of their own.  Also, are they all supervillains, or are some just villains? - Peregrine Fisher 18:50, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dick Tracy villains 

message: Roderick Kingsley debuted in 1980, but he didn't become the Hobgoblin until 1983.  I currently have him at 1983, should he stay there or be moved to 1980? Thanos6 (talk) 03:46, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hobgoblin placement 

message: Females are included here, yes? There is a long list at this subpage, for anyone looking for idas (note, none are cited or have debut info).YobMod 12:43, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Villainesses

message: What is the criteria for which villains are notable enough to be included on this page?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.85.172.6 (talk) 14:52, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Criteria
Talk:José Barreto (Brazilian footballer)

message: Never heard of him. Is he known in India? If not, this should be VfD... Rfredian 19:12, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: He's arguably the most famous player ever to play in India Spiderone (talk) 15:25, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This is a very good article but it contains a number of unsourced opinions and shows that the writers like the player.  RobbieG 10:08, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality 
Category talk:Computer security specialists

message: I'm curious why there is such a fancy index ordering?  For example, for "A" there are two people (both named Alexander) who have their surnames begining with a different letter (e.g. Alexander Peslyak should be listed under "P", IMHO). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.141.204.58  (talk • contribs) 03:51, 20 November 2006
The reason the indexing is wrong is that articles in categories are by default listed in alphabetical order of the articles. For people, the category tags should be tweaked to avoid this. For instance if you see that Alexander Kornbrust is categorized under A, then go in his article, edit, and change  Category:Computer security specialists to Kornbrust, Alexander . Pascal.Tesson 03:58, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Index order

message: Many on this list do not belong and many who belong are missing.  This is the wrong list and needs to go.  Those on the list may disagree?  John 06:21, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggest we delete this list
Talk:Raimond van der Gouw

message: Has he made any appearances for Holland?--GingerM 14:40, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Caps

message: That pronounciation can't be correct, can it? It is definately not the way any Dutch person would pronounce his name
:In England it was always pronounced 'van der how', which fits with other Dutch players such as Ed de Goey and Ulrich van Gobbel.--MartinUK (talk) 14:19, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronounciation

message: A TV advert in the UK used around 2000 featured a muck-up of the Manchester United squad and as they run out from the changing rooms to the pitch there's a goalkeeper and on the back of his shirt it say "Van Der Graaf" - an obvious parody of Van Der Gouw. Can't remember which company the advert was for so not very helpful but if anyone does it could be added as a trivia point for this advert. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.128.237.24 (talk) 18:41, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  TV advert 
Talk:RD-180

message: Clarified and structured the article a little bit.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.176.155.71 (talk) 07:17, 17 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin, specs, etc. 

message: It seems a bit odd that the first reference to Atlas V does not appear until the end of the third paragraph in this (as of now current) version of the article. (sdsds - talk) 03:46, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mention of Atlas V 

message: See this Reuters article:  http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/13/us-usa-russia-engines-idUSBREA2C2CL20140313  This article might need updating to reflect this development, the info about RD-AMROSS may be a bit out of date as well.. ++Lar: t/c 20:51, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: By now, mid-September 2014, the article has been significantly updated to reflect both the availability concerns, and political involvement in those concerns as you mention, and the decision taken by ULA to select a new engine to replace the RD-180 on a successor to the Atlas V.  So, in the event, it does not appear as if ULA and Rocketdyne will implement the contract provision that (for a few years at least) would have allowed them to manufacture the RD-180 in the US.  Cheers. N2e (talk) 15:43, 20 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Defense Secretary Hagel cited saying RD-180 manufacturing in US needs to be looked at 

message: T me it is unclear what the Date in the sidebox represents. I think generic labels such as Date should be avoided. I suggest using something like "Development period" or "Usage period" or something along those lines - more specific.
francesco3 (talk) 19:57, 19 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Perhaps 'First flight' date is more appropriate. Like for the RD-170.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.73.224.250 (talk) 17:41, 11 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date in info box unclear 

message: Can we add something about the price history of the RD-180 - What GD paid, what ULA pay, and if people have commented on the cost being high or low ? - Rod57 (talk) 08:19, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: ULA were keeping the price they pay RD-Amross secret in 2014 . :  says Energomash "made nine RD-180s in both 2014 and 2015 at a price point of about $10 million a piece, Luzin estimated" (but RD-Amross may sell them for more to ULA). Reuters Nov 2014 say RD-Amross buy them from Energomash for $20.2 million each on averages and sell them for $23.4m each. - Rod57 (talk) 08:50, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is the price history of the RD-180 - what commentary has that attracted