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Talk:Scripture

message: Hello there! I found it a fantastic omission that none of the external links to went to actual Scripture of the Hebrew and Christian Canons. By about year 350 A.D. the Christian church of various cities had produced an authoritative list of accepted books of the faith, roughly 66 books or 39 for the Law, Prophets, and Writings, and 26 for the Gospels and Letters. In the rowdy days before the destruction of Herod's Temple Saducees accepted only Moses five books, known as torah or Law, while the Pharisees accepted all the T-N-K. Modern Judaism inherits the oral tradition of the Pharisees, which disputes that Paul the Apostle of the Christian Church was a member.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bwildasi (talk • contribs) 10:43, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: untitled

message: Listed under scripture: Bhagavad-Gita, Bible, Book of Mormon, Douay Bible, Holy Scripture, Holy Writ, King James Version, Koran, Revised Standard Version, Revised Version, Septuagint, Testament, Vulgate, canon, sacred writings, the Book, the Good Book, the Scriptures, the Word.
Obviously we're not going to get definitions of what scripture is not, listed under scripture, for example: apocrypha, psuedepigrapha, creeds, mysticism and so on, normally included under religious texts.
There's an interesting blurry area, since Roman Catholic respect for commentaries by certain Church Fathers, Jewish respect for the Talmud and various Indic traditions of commentary, while not strictly classed as scripture are clearly closer to scripture than other religious texts. Other examples, just from para-Christian traditions include the writings of Ellen White and the Watchtower. Are these scripture? They are certainly religious texts.
All hands on deck! There's a mountain of reliable sources on this subject ... even if they are not scripture. ;) Alastair Haines (talk) 10:16, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moby thesaurus
Talk:Samal, Davao del Norte

message: There is a discussion regarding the removal of the word "city" from the article titles of Philippine cities.  This may imminently affect the article name for .  For city names which are not unique, disambiguation alternatives are also being presented.  Formal request for page move may follow after a reasonable time of discussion.  If you wish to participate, please post your comments here.  --JinJian (talk) 04:47, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: <Cityname> 
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message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Science City of Muñoz which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RM bot 06:16, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Move discussion in progress

message: Based on the History of IGACOS formerly known as Samal Island, what is your
point of view on the new name of the Island? 175.176.93.48 (talk) 07:19, 28 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Samal 1
Talk:David Lowell Rich

message: According to a non-reliable source (an IMDb post, actually), David Lowell Rich died in 2001. It would be great if anyone could find an obituary to confirm this. Meanwhile, I can recategorize him as "Possibly Living" since he's over 90 and no recent signs of being alive have been found. OscarL 14:39, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Moved to possibly living. I'll have a look to see if there are any sources for the 2001 death. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 17:23, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: This source at least confirms that he is deceased, so we can at least move him to "Year of death missing". I suspect the IMDb post is accurate, but of course that's original research. Canadian Paul 16:22, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

text: Thanks Paul. Lugnuts Dick Laurent is dead 17:49, 31 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Died in 2001?
Talk:Illicit drug use in Australia

message: I've started this article off, and at the moment, its rather unbalanced and unreferenced. I intend to keep building it up, and hopefully a range of people from a variety of backgrounds will help with this.  So, please, dont delete this misformed little monster just yet.rakkar 15:16, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Article 

message: Temazapam seems to be getting a large amount of coverage in this article, but I've noticed that many other benzos get more use in Sydney at least.  I removed the part of the article that said it was a major drug.  maybe we should get some data from NDARC or somewhere that has figures on use.--rakkar (talk) 07:57, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  temazapam 

message: I have not only changed the heading of the section to "21st century", as this is accurate and specific, but I have removed sections of detailed information that is unverified—I have replaced the removed section with verifiable content.--Soulparadox (talk) 09:56, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current situation 

message: Initially the page said : The 2012 United Nations World Drug Report published data that indicated that Australia and New Zealand contain one of the highest global prevalence of cannabis use.
This is not true and misleading. It actually says: "the highest prevalence of cannabis use being reported in Oceania (essentially Australia and New Zealand) at 9.1-14.6 per cent." It is the average among the continents that are being compared, not countries. The prevalence of many countries exceeds that of Australia, and New Zealand ties with Italy at 14.60%."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jnker (talk • contribs) 19:24, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accuracy: UN World Drug Report 

message: Is the accusation of CIA drug trafficking really suitable to be presented unqualified? This is not a matter where there is clear historical evidence. 14.202.12.7 (talk) 13:00, 25 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  CIA drug trafficking allegations 

message: The heroin "drought" of 2001 (in reality it was just the end of a decade-long glut; it was still widely available) ended within a few months. Heroin has still been widely available since; it took only a few months for smugglers to adapt to the new realities of post-9/11 security measures. Prices did rise - Australia has both the highest purity and highest prices of any western nation - but aside from a couple of weeks during the early COVID-19 pandemic, there has not been a time where heroin has been particularly difficult to locate for experienced users in major Australian cities.
This section implies that it is still difficult to source today - it is not, and will likely never be; as all but the most trenchant anti-drug moralists have understood for some time, the War on Drugs is and has been an utter failure, and prohibition doesn't work any more for drugs than it did for alcohol in the US in the 1920s and 30s. Khardankov (talk) 06:38, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heroin "drought"
Talk:French ship Hercule

message: I think the title of this page could be improved. Here are some of my suggestions:
1. List of French ships called Hercule
2. List of ships called Hercule (because I doubt there are e.g. Croatian ships called Hercule, and if there is it could be a good idea to merge pages)
3. Hercule (French ship)
4. Hercule (ship)
Does anyone have any suggestions? EvanTaylor1289 (talk) 17:52, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Oppose any title change. This is one of a series of SI articles about French ships. Not Croatian ships or American ships. If you wish to create a page called List of ships called Hercule and link to this page, much like List of ships named Nautilus that has links to the respective German, British and American SI pages, go right ahead. No need to change the name of this article. Llammakey (talk) 19:32, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Comment I agree wholly with your argument having read it, but what about “Hercule (French ship)” or (because I think this should be clarified as a list) “List of French ships called/named Hercule”? EvanTaylor1289 (talk) 23:27, 27 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Your first suggestion is a non starter because you are now going from a page that doesn't need disambiguation to a page with a disambiguator. Your second suggestion would make the List of ships named Hercule irrelevant, because they could all be put on that page, and just eliminate the French bit. Please read WP:NCSHIPS that states that countries without a naval prefix will have article titles starting with "<country><ship type><name>" like "Algerian transport ****" or "Japanese destroyer ****". This is a set index article of all those articles seems like making work for no reason and would require you to change all similar pages. Good luck with that. On the basis of those arguments, I will once again oppose any title change. Llammakey (talk) 13:56, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title change?
Talk:French ship La Réale

message: I'd like to question the utility of actually having separate articles for all editions of the Réale. It seems to me that each vessel is not nearly as important as the tradition of the royal galley itself. I also have serious doubts that each and everyone of the article will actually have enough information to merit separation, and most will likely never have anything but a stub to them. Why not keep them all under the same title to begin with and if someone starts taking serious interest in any of the specific galleys, a split could be made.
Either way, the main topic seems to me to be the tradition of the royal galleys of the French king, not the physical aspects of each separate galley.
Peter Isotalo 15:14, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lotsa ships, one article
Talk:Security detail

message: Why is it called "detail"?  Is there any connection with the more common notion (something like a small part)? Can a "detail" consist of tens of people?  Is it still called a "detail" when you have a group of hundreds of soldiers/agents protecting a large group of people (say, the security personel at an international conference or at the UN)? 
-- Austrian (talk) 23:21, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology, numbers 
Talk:Wolfgang David

message: I searched the Washington Post archive for the quote in the article and could not find it. We need a citation for that and the strad comment. Toddst1 15:30, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, sort of.  They're not in the Post archive and you haven't provided a proper wikipedia quote. (see Wikipedia:Citation_templates).  Are you quoting an advertisement placed in the Post? Can you give at least an author if not a full citation? Toddst1 16:42, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Washington Post]] quote 

message: That article is about Wolfgang Sengstschmid.  Nowhere is it asserted that these two violinists are the same or the artist changed his name.  Moving to talk:
According to the 15 September 2000 edition of the Washington Post, David "scaled the heights of music making." 
Is the Strad article any better?
Toddst1 16:56, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Wolfgang Sengstschmid

message: The Strad quote does appear as indicated in the article, if they're the same person:
Cutts, Paul.  "Out With a Bang." Strad Mar. 2001 v. 112, iss. 1331 p.299.
Glorious tone was a hallmark, too, of Wolfgang Sengstschmid's Wigmore Hall recital (7 December). The violinist put his 1731 'del Gesu' through its paces in a hefty programme spanning Mozart, European Romantics, Schoenberg and a modern work by Johann Sengstschmid (a relative?). Sengstschmid's extraordinarily high and stiff bowing arm belies a very sweet and focused tone. His Schoenberg Fantasy op.47 was as emotionally wide-ranging as one could hope for, giving his reading an improvisatory air that captured the work's complex essence. By contrast his Mozart (the K304 Sonata in E minor), despite its structural cohesion, seemed emotionally disengaged.
Sengstschmid's Dvorak (the Sonata in G major) fared better, benefiting from a delicacy of touch from pianist Daniel Grimwood. After such interesting fare, the Elgar, Kreisler and Sarasate that closed the recital seemed little more than audience-fodder -- as charmingly played as they were.
Not adding it to the article itself b/c I haven't verified the name situation Some jerk on the Internet (talk) 15:45, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Strad Quote

message: I have removed a substantial portion of this article as it was a direct copyright violiation from his agent's site.  --Deskford (talk) 09:37, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyvio
Talk:Gauss–Legendre algorithm

message: I can't understand how that doubling of correct digits works in base-2 (or how this algorithm works). Does the number of them grow faster, or is the "initial value" larger? --82.141.93.182 15:31, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  In base-2? 

message: The algorithme itself only uses O(1) memory (i.e. constant), but the description says that it is memory hungry. While it is true that you need a very large memory to store the digits, that has nothing to do with the memory requirements of the algoritm itself.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.226.87.164 (talk) 14:09, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The algorithme only uses O(1) memory 

message: Using the algoritm  I did not get a correct pi; Comparing it with the algoritm in Strang's book about calculus ( which is incomplete) i think that the following changes are neccessary:
t_{n+1}= t_{n} + p * ( a_{n}^2 - a_{n+1}^2)
π ≈ (a_{n}^2 +b_{n}^2)/ (1 - t_{n+1})
Herman Koolstra (talk) 07:37, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error in algoritme?
Talk:USS Mendota (1863)

message: Please note that the photo shown at this WIKIPEDIA web page is not of the USS Mendota, but of another gunboat in that class (the SASSACUS class double ender gunboats), namely the USS Agawam.   I have complete evidence for this statement, as I have four photos, including the one shown, which were from the collections of Heman P. Babcock, the surgeon of the USS Agawam.   Furthermore, there is actually a photo of the USS Mendota, and the differences from the Agawam can clearly be seen, such as the steam pipe next to the funnel, on the USS Mendota, which was not on the Agawam.   Also, the wheelhouse design of the USS Agawam and the USS Mendota are different, and this difference can be clearly seen, as well.   There are several other differences that can be noted, on closer examination of the photos of both vessels.   Thank you for your kind attention in this matter.210.49.64.121 (talk) 07:58, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you provide an accurate photo of Mendota?  Thanks in advance. Bonewah (talk) 14:08, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  USS Mendota (1863) photo
Talk:Virtual representation

message: In countries with democracies we would think of "virtual representation" as a charade and an excuse to give no representation; but this is a good start for an article.  I suppose that this is not NPOV because it uses phrases like "the theory went" and "of course" which are weasel words.  Oh, and if anyone wants to add material, cite references, or edit the point of view, this is always welcome. Midtempo-abg 15:31, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Neutrality of article is disputed?

message: The article leans heavily towards the perspective of the American colonists rather than presenting virtual representation as an idea to be considered one way or the other. The article uses potentially combative words and phrases such as "phony excuse" which are inappropriate in an objective article and should be changed or removed.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.67.66.80 (talk) 23:31, 13 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Neutrality of Article (2013)

message: The claim in the article that the Suffolk Resolves requested representation in parliament at first glance seemed doubtful. Upon further examination of subject, primarily reading the full text of the Suffolk Resolves, I can safely state that the Resolve did not request representation. The article should be edited for accuracy.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.238.36.183 (talk) 08:47, 18 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suffolk Resolves Inaccuracy 

message: Very little in the article is about the theory of virtual representation, almost everything is refuting it in the specific case of the American colonies – which would perhaps be better included in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_taxation_without_representation article? 
Spieling (talk) 14:16, 18 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Off subject
Talk:Hans Christian Andersen Award

message: I have deleted this listing because it is neither on the official list "Winners 1956-2010" nor supported by any note or evident link on that page.
* 1991 - Maria Elena Walsh (Argentina)
--P64 (talk) 16:05, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  1991 Award for Writing 

message: I have deleted this paragraph which belongs in the IBBY article if anywhere.
: (quote) Beside the Andersen Awards, IBBY publishes a biennial "Honor List" of excellent new children's books, which are selected by the different national sections of IBBY, and recognize excellence in writing, illustration and translation of children's books.
--P64 (talk) 16:51, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  IBBY information 

message: I have recently reassessed this article as high importance to the child lit project as it is known as the nobel prize for childs lit.  Coolabahapple (talk) 07:18, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Importance to child lit project
Talk:Cenotaph (Regina, Saskatchewan)

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thread_title:  Copyright problem removed 

message: The fountain was initially moved elsewhere in town. Does it still exist and if so where? Masalai (talk) 15:45, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nicholas Flood Davin fountain
Talk:National Central University

message: I am removing the list of colleges and departments per WP:NOTDIR (point no. 7) and WP:UNIGUIDE: Because Wikipedia is not a directory, do not attempt to list every major, degree, or program offered in this or any section.... Phlar (talk) 16:18, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of colleges and departments
Talk:Cutout (espionage)

message: Is it "cutout" or "cut-out"? Make up your mind! The article goes back and forth.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:B84A:86D0:B4B1:5EE5:6FDC:A2B6 (talk) 08:33, 28 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Both Merriam-Webster and Dictionary.com say it's "cutout", not "cut-out".  Msnicki (talk) 21:57, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pick a version
Wikipedia talk:List of infoboxes/Proposed/Infobox window covering/doc

message: Sorry, but this merely looks like a fancy framing for an image & caption, and not an actual Infobox (which is supposed to provide a "consistently-formatted table which is present in articles with a common subject to provide summary information consistently between articles or improve navigation to closely related articles in that subject").  --ZimZalaBim talk 16:14, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Fancy image, not an infobox
Talk:Entity concept

message: This article is linked from the main Accountancy article, and I'm concerned that this article is talking about the wrong thing.
Separate Entity appears to be a different name for a company's separate legal personality. This is not an accounting concept, but rather a legal concept relating the limited liability of shareholders.
The accounting concept is "Single Entity" concept, ie that the directors of a company should be held accountable for all the resources that they control, not just the holding company. Unless anyone has a strong objection, I will rewrite this article accordingly later this month. AnthonyUK 16:18, 3 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Separate Entity, or Single Entity?
Talk:Ōyama Sutematsu

message: The current draft of the article says she was born Yamakawa Saki (山川 さき) on March 16, 1860, but there is no citation for that information. The only source I've found which mentions a birth date and name is Nimura's book, which says her first name was Sakiko and the birthday was February 24. I am updating the article to that information for now, but welcome additional sourcing to explain or resolve the conflicting information. ~ oulfis 🌸(talk) 00:40, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth name & date 

message: The following don't seem like good suggestions for "further reading" to the general encyclopedia audience, but they may be worth investigating to improve the article, so I am moving them from there to here. ~ oulfis 🌸(talk) 20:46, 8 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Noting other sources 

message: ...her options were limited, especially because she could not read or write Japanese...
...did not attend school, but was taught to read and write at home...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.95.85.247 (talk) 11:22, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Nimura's biography indicates that Sutematsu quickly forgot how to read and write Japanese once Japanese texts were no longer available to her; she in fact only barely retained the ability to speak Japanese, and spent several months after her return to Japan struggling to communicate. I suppose I could try to find the page number to add that clarification to the article. I personally find this one of the interesting contradictions inherent in the mission she was sent on, that in order for her to fully learn American ways she was intentionally deprived of Japanese knowledge (eg making sure she lived separately from Shige so they couldn't speak Japanese at home) with the seemingly-predictable outcome that life in Japan was initially very difficult for her. ~ oulfis 🌸(talk) 21:40, 15 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spot the contradiction 

message: , I don’t understand why you are changing the lead to say she was one of six girls sent on the Iwakura Mission. The lead is meant to summarize the information cited in the body of the article, and the body of the article clearly states with citations that there were five girls. We even have a photo of the five of them! Can you explain why you think your change is more accurate? With sources that can be used to revise the body of the article if needed? ~ L 🌸 (talk) 18:37, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Five girls sent on Iwakura Mission