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Talk:William Vernon Harcourt (scientist)

message: Did this person give name to "Harcourt's standard pentane lamp" ? Who knows? --LA2 23:12, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Family tree of Genghis Khan

message: I stumbled on this article as one requiring cleanup.  Seems to me that the content here might be better placed within the Genghis Khan article, either as some sort of table, or composed with complete sentences.  The format here presently is confusing to me. OscarTheCat 23:14, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Certainly the format can be improved, but merging with Genghis Khan is a bad idea as that article is plenty long enough already. siafu 02:44, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge? 

message: why are Alan Γoa and Temülin missing in this article? Alan Γoa is by far the most prominent of Temüjin's more legendary ancestors from the Secret History of the Mongols, and Temülin is Temüjin's sister. Strictly speaking, Temüjin's lineage begins only with Alan Γoa, as Bodonchar was not conceived from Dobun mergen at all (who was already dead by that time), but by a strange glittering visitor. Yaan (talk) 11:25, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: missing

message: I've been working on that tree since early 2007! Too slow, I guess. -- OsirisV (talk) 19:45, 1 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  too late. 

message: The following categories were deleted with agreement to listify the contents here:
Category:Descendants of Jochi
* Dörbet (Borjigin clan)
* Golden Horde
* Jochi
* Batu Khan
* Orda Khan
Category:Descendants of Toqa Temur
* Astrakhan Khanate
* Hayder of Crimea
* Crimean Khanate
* Giray dynasty
* Hacı I Giray
* Jalal ad-Din khan
* Janybek Khan
* Khanate of Kazan
* Kazakh Khanate
* List of Astrakhan khans
* List of Crimean khans
* List of Kazakh khans
* List of Kazan khans
* Nogai Horde
* Qasim Khanate
* Tokhtamysh
Category:Descendants of Shiban
* Abulghazi Bahadur
* Ibak Khan
* Abu'l-Khayr Khan
* Khanate of Bukhara
* Khanate of Sibir
* Khanate of Khiva
* Kuchum
* List of Sibir khans
* Muhammad Shaybani
* Shaybanids
* Shiban
Timrollpickering (talk) 22:03, 18 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categories listified 

message: Mohammed (founder of Islam) should not be in this family tree. Looks like this page has been vandalised. A previous comment mentions that Jesus was in the family tree. 2A01:4B00:9D05:4F00:F473:9A78:B17E:496E (talk) 10:49, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mohammed?
Talk:2006 Green Party of Canada leadership election

message: I added the NPOV-section template to the declared candidates section because there have been various statements added (such as those around "GPC whistleblower crisis") which seem to reflect a particular POV. The whole section will probably be subject to various POV issues, given the potentially contentious nature of these campaigns. —GrantNeufeld 23:30, 9 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with you here Grant. Wikipedia is not a soapbox. Ardenn 06:25, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

text: So how do we make it more neutral? Ardenn 22:12, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV check 

message: Should I remove the  tag? The election is finished. FellowWikipedian 03:08, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Naturally. —Nightstallion (?) 11:21, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ongoing? 

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:British Columbia Liberal Party leadership contest, 2011 which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. 117Avenue (talk) 04:20, 7 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move discussion in progress
Talk:Biritch

message: I think this needs to be split into two articles; one for the old Russian occupation, one for the card-game.Diverman 05:05, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Split

message: :биричь — глашатай или провозвестник, упоминания о котором в наших письменных памятниках, начиная с Х в., восходят до конца XVII ст. Под 992 г. в Лаврентьевской летописи рассказывается, что Владимир, вызывая охотника вступить в единоборство с печенжским богатырем, посылал "биричи по товарам" (полкам). В 1148 г. Изяслав Мстиславич на свой пир приглашал новгородских мужей через "подвойских и биричей". Эти летописные известия прямо указывают на исключительную обязанность Б. объявлять волю князя. Таково было их назначение и при московских царях. Последние через них обнародовали свои указы: и о новом наборе охочих людей в полки, и о сыске беглых, о запрещении держать медные деньги, ловить капканами бобров и выдр и т. д. К их посредству обращалась и власть духовная, когда хотела провести в народ какие-либо свои постановления. Обыкновенно Б. в таких случаях должны были "кликать" "по торгам" (на многолюдных торговых площадях) "не по один день", "по многие дни", иногда в течение нескольких месяцев. Каждый наместник, воевода и даже губной целовальник имел в числе своих "пособников" и Б., которые очень часто упоминаются вместе с палачами и тюремными сторожами и состоят на жалованье (получая "по полуденге", или "по московке"), которое выплачивали "земские люди".
:Относительно производства слова "бирюч" положительных сведений нет. В. Н. Татищев в своем словаре считает "бирич" словом татарским, переводит его "высоко клич" и толкует так: "бирич, — называлась публикация, когда что в народе объявляли, то тот шапку или орел деревянной на посох подняв, кричал, еже ныне чрез барабан объявляется". Языков в лексиконе Плюшара сближает это слово, с одной стороны, со скандинавскими и англосаксонскими beira, beiring, bearer — носчик, "который носил на посохе шапку или другой знак", и с другой — с старопольским bieracz, что значит собиратель податей, и bi é rcy (польск.) — берущий под стражу, и на основании этого заключает, что "биричи — сборщики и полицейские служители".
`'mikka (t) 22:44, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for your updates of this article, but can you please translate the above into English? This is the English version of Wikipedia. Diverman 10:05, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Efron
Talk:Brandon, Wisconsin

message: I added the Famous People section and actress Laura Ramsey.  She and her connection to Brandon are mentioned in the local media every time a film she's in is released.  But I'm not aware of anyone else famous who is from there, though disability activist Jon Feucht may be worth a page soon -- though he maybe was from nearby Waupun, Wisconsin, I can't remember (I grew up near there myself).--Andymussell 01:41, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  famous people 
Talk:Ballcock

message: Some attempted clarifications that were added in parentheses don't improve the article's clarity. I removed them. I also tried to reposition (and fix) the comment mentioning that the mechanism represented is not common in Europe. Pr. Ultracrepidarian (talk) 01:59, 28 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 

message: Perhaps add a see also - bollocks for the use of ballcocks as a substitute? "no, i said 'ballcocks' not 'bollocks'!" —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.130.74.104 (talk • contribs).
Nothing to do with a dildo, right? --Damian Yerrick (☎) 18:02, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Term 'ballcock' 

message: This is a really confusing image. Any volunteers want to make a new one? Calcified (talk)
I found the article frustrating because it is filled with diagrams of toilet mechanisms but does not indicate the "ballcock" (="balltap"="float valve") in any of them.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.67.113.51 (talk) 16:05, 30 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image 

message: The feedback is not proportional.  It is non-linear, with hysteresis. NCdave (talk) 23:46, 17 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Hysteresis implies positive feedback. Valve starts to close normally until a tripping point is reached, and then it snaps closed. Electrical analog: Schmidt trigger. Glrx (talk) 00:27, 18 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  it is negative feedback, but it's not proportional control 

message: This article covers two things, only one of which is a ballcock.
Toilet cisterns have two valves: one (the "ballcock") for filling, one for flushing. It's reasonable to cover both in one article, but it needs to clearly distinguish them.
The ballcock predates 1790. It was used (probably elsewhere too) with Newcomen steam engines at the early part of that century. Nor is the flexible diaphragm valve type illustrated here an 18th century design.
The article here describes only one, late eighteenth century, type of leak-prone flapper valve. It's highly US-centric. In the UK and Europe these went so far as to be forbidden by water by-laws, as they were so wasteful. Instead the UK developed systems like Thomas Crapper's leak-preventing valve, a siphon (the one toilet part Crapper did invent). Bramah also invented several advances. Although these awful US valves have returned, illegally, to the UK market they're far from popular with the water supply industry and their current status was railroaded politically, not accepted on technical grounds.
This is far from a good article for its coverage and accuracy. Andy Dingley (talk) 11:38, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  US-only view 

message: I was wondering what you think of potentially merging the pages into some sort of page dedicated to the concept of valves using this mechanism, rather than specific applications?  If not just adding it to the "See Also" section may be of use
--Eric Lotze (talk) 20:27, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Potential for a Merge With / Internal Link to the [[Float chamber]] Page
Talk:The Simpsons: Road Rage

message: This game got Player's Choice on GC, Greatest Hits on PS2 & Platinum Hits on XBOX?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.99.54.105 (talk) 00:39, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Didn't anyone say that... 

message: Since there are not too many levels, how about somebody listing these levels?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.131.65.60 (talk) 00:36, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Levels 

message: In the side-board, the engine is listed as Crazy Taxi. This implies that the game is actually using some Crazy Taxi sourcecode, which I don't believe is the case (especially considering the mentioned lawsuit.)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.171.191.60 (talk) 23:51, 28 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Engine" is Crazy Taxi? 
Talk:Clandestine Marriages Act 1753

message: The section of the main page entitled "Modern Misinterpretations" says that Lawrence Stone's Road to Divorce, on p. 132, interprets the Act as voiding any marriages of a minor without parental consent whereas the Act actually voided only those marriages of minors without parental consent that were celebrated by licence. I have not read the Act, but I have read Stone,and he does not say this on p. 132, where his main topic is the annulment of marriages on account of trivial errors in the wording of licenses or banns as to age. If Stone says this elsewhere, the citation should be corrected. If he says it nowhere, as I think is the case, the criticism should be deleted. I assume, of course, that the section's account of the Act's requirements is correct.Ellen Stanley (talk) 23:32, 13 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm quite concerned about this section.  It seems to really come out swinging on "incorrect" takes on "common-law marriage", apparently based entirely on two sources both by the same (UK) legal scholar.  This seems (to this non-lawyer) to contradict what's said in Marriage law#Common law marriage, and be problematic in the light of these being an established legal fact in "the colonies", on the basis of definitive court findings to that effect.  The article common law marriage itself seems to be a self-contradictory mishmash, saying in one place that 'common-law marriages continued to be recognized in the future United States and Canada', and later, 'In fact, neither the name nor the concept of "common law marriage" was known at this time.'  I've no idea which of these is (the more) "correct", but it seems to be that in each place in each article we should be trying to better-balance the range of available sources.  84.203.32.187 (talk) 02:27, 23 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Have to agree with the above, it seems heavily biased towards one scholar's views, and apparently as self-described they're views for which there isn't a wide scholarly consensus for. The phrasing is also far too undefined 'Prior to the passage of the 1753 Act' covers all of history and time before that date, that's inherently inaccurate as an assertion.Number36 (talk) 10:13, 24 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Modern Misinterpretations
Talk:ATCO

message: What oither complanies of the same name? Septentrionalis 20:11, 10 May 2006 (UTC)

message: The header of this article seems a little biased. Is there anything we can do to improve this to comply with guidelines?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jokrez (talk • contribs) 12:17, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality
Talk:Philip Yancey

message: Hasn't C.S. Lewis sold more books than Philip Yancey's 14 million?  C.S. Lewis was a Christian writer, creating the children's Chronicles of Narnia series, which must've sold more than 14 million copies worldwide.?The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kilnerad (talk ? contribs) 00:03, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I added the  template ... please see WP:Biographies of living persons for WP:Verifiability issues about WP:Reliable sources to satisfy WP:Notability (people) ... and see WP:Manual of Style (biographies) for the proper format of such articles. — 09:34, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability:Biographies 

message: Why on earth would someone question the "notability" of an author who has sold more than 14 million books? Isn't that notable enough? Is there some Wikipedia rule that excludes best-selling authors? Perhaps the notability posting of 8 Jan 07 has an ulterior motive behind it? 69.19.14.34 20:59, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why? 
Talk:Detroit Symphony Orchestra

message: Changed some obsolete information: (Jarvi no longer music director, Daughtery no longer composer-in-residence, etc)
Needs more history as well as information on current affairs such as the Max Fisher Music Center.
A selected Discography would be helpful as well.
MarkBuckles 00:04, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The article Detroit (orchestra) that has been proposed for merger with this article is being discussed on Talk:Montreal Symphony Orchestra. __meco 07:08, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I would like to strenuously register my opposition to this idea.  This change will confuse people.  The recordings after all are by "Detroit Symphony Orchestra," not by "Detroit (orchestra)."
There are plenty of orchestras that might be called by the city and 'orchestra' with 'Symphony' dropped.  However, Wikipedia has a strong tradition of sticking with traditional and official names.
We should stick with the official name, "Detroit Symphony Orchestra". Respectfully, Dogru144 23:37, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regarding proposed merger 

message: I have toned down the PR-like and overly hagiographic tone of the prior version.  It cannot be repeated often enough that the purpose of wikipedia is to present "just the facts" and not be a fan page for an organisation or person.  DJRafe (talk) 18:28, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Hagiographic tone
Talk:The Little Girl I Once Knew

message: Request Not Available
Try requesting "The Little Girl I Once Knew" on an oldies station.  I was told it was "not available".  Perhaps it's sort of like the verse in the Incredible String Band song "Koeeaddi There" :
... Ladybird, ladybird, what is your wish?
Your wish is not granted unless it's a fish.
Your wish is not granted unless it's a dish.
A fish on a dish, is that what you wish?
----
It "wasn't available" meaning the station didn't have the song on its playlist.
Most oldies stations these days, and most music radio stations, period, play only "safe," conservative, well-known songs, not great gems that listeners might like.
So instead of 10-20 Beach Boys or Temptations songs, you'll only hear 5-6 regularly.
Such a shame. With all the great Top 40 music from 1955-1980, you'd think radio would find a couple of minutes an hour to spotlight a lesser-played (but equally well-known) song such as the great Little Girl I Once Knew.
--Don1962 (talk) 02:07, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: "he later said that the song "should've" gotten more attention than it should have."
not sure which is correct - that it should have gotten more attention than it did or shouldn't have gotten as much attention as it did  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kevintimba (talk • contribs) 03:16, 12 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  ambiguous sentence
Talk:David M. Shoup

message: A very minor note that the ship Matsonia (formerly SS Malolo) was indeed owned by the US government during WWII, which is why it was entered as "USS Matsonia" in this article until a recent edit trimmed it back to just Matsonia. At the start of the war, the US government bought a number of private ships for troop and supply movement, and in many cases offered them back to their original owners at a bargain price after the war. This is the case with Matsonia (ex-Malolo), though I don't know if the ship was specifically designated 'USS' rather than 'USAT' or similar; diaries and journals of the period often get this detail wrong. Binksternet (talk) 10:24, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: ''Matsonia''

message: I enlisted in the Marine Corps in June 1955 , serving in 2/5 Camp Pen. ;Amtracs Yokosuka ; 9th Mid - Camp Fuji and Oki.; then, in 1959 untill discharge in Oct, at Div. Comm.Camp Pen. I am not aware of how closely or, distantly related I and the General might be and that is not the subject of this posting . I have entered the foregoing merely to pre - answer anyone who may be curious about our shared last name. That said, I would be most honored were I to learn that the General and myself were very closely related .RE: General Shoup's Bio . I recall that Gen. Krulak was 3rd Div. C.O. while I was in Japan : Feb.1957 to (Oct?/Nov?)1957,my time split between C Co.Amtracs at Yokosuka and the 9th at Fuji. Following the first Sputnik, the 9th Regt. took us to Oki.. This is where my own memory gets a bit cloudy , as to who our Div. C.O. was and, (my memory) is'nt helped any  (a) Due to a couple of TAD's ,which, at the end of each, we were told , "gather 'round Marines, this never happened ,right !" ..., "aye aye sir". And (b) I have looked through a few Gen. Shoup Bio's ,some saying he was C.O. 3rd Div. in 1958 . I do not recall the same being the case . I do recall that he commanded the 1st Div. in 1959 while I was there . The "few" Bio's all seem to differ not only from each other but from the perspective of my own memory . Case in point : As an enlisted man (Div.Comm.-1959 I rec'd a piece of mail simply addressed to "D. Shoup 1st Marine Division Camp Pendleton , California ." Opening the envelope I realized (the stock offering) was sure not intended for me but for the General .I walked across the (100 ?) yards to Div.Headquarters and put the envelope on the Adjutants desk, no one being around and I was perfectly happy about that . In my very young mind I did not want to go through any explanations etc... . "Very young" as I had enlisted at the age of 16 .Can anyone firm-up an EXACT Bio of the General's locations of Command, for 1955 - 1959 , inclusive ? Thanks to any and all who endeavor to put the history of this Marine in correct sequence.   Dennis38 (talk) 04:17, 23 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: General Shoup Bio

message: I am not sure if this is important enough to include in the article, but the bridge over the Wabash River at Covington, Indiana, is named for General Shoup.  Omnedon (talk) 03:27, 5 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bridge
Template talk:Gilmore Girls

message: On what basis are Sookie and Lane "major characters" and the elder Gilmores "minor characters"? john k 00:13, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That's a good question.  Whoneedspants made the template originally so you could ask him/her.  I just added Christopher_Hayden and Max_Medina since they both appeared in several episodes and now have their own Wikipedia pages. Alchemistmatt 05:27, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Kyuss (Greyhawk)

message: Verified appearance: Dungeon magazines, issues #135 and #150 (the final issue). His stat block (three pages) is the longest ever printed in the magazine.
This character appeared in the 1st Edition of the Fiend Folio.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.152.13.135 (talk) 18:56, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources

message: Is it not accurate?  (I'm a D&D fan from back in the day and I'm a Kyuss (band) fan today).  The timely delete without explanation is unexpected.  Why? Kennonv 05:13, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No, its trivia. Unsourced trivia. I've removed the blatantly inappropriate parts and I'll check back to see if you can source your edit. Deiz talk 23:31, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: What is wrong with the Kyuss reference?
Talk:HMS Swiftsure (1903)

message: Apologies to Johann Wolfgang and others for requisitioning their contributions.
John Moore 309 00:20, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Welcome to the ''HMS Swiftsure (1903)'' Talk Page

message: Are there any experts on early British ironclads who could create some text the HMS Swiftsure (1870) article? John Moore 309 00:20, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: ''HMS Swiftsure (1870)'': Help needed!

message: Any comments on this photo, and its description at Commons? Andy Dingley (talk) 21:14, 19 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I originally identified this through discussion with others on the 1914-1918 WWI forum : http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=96947&st=0&p=908234&hl=+7.5%20+inch%20+gun%20+swiftsure&fromsearch=1&#entry908234 . Reasons : the tractor and special trailer were used by Reginald Bacon to transport heavy coastal guns in France & Belgium; the possibilities for the gun based on what Bacon had are 12, 9.2 or 7.5 inch, and it appears closer to 7.5 than 9 inch and only requires a single tractor to tow it; 7.5 inch would make it one of Swiftsure's guns. Rod. Rcbutcher (talk) 05:29, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  I was thinking more of its suitability for an addition to the article. There's a lot of interesting history to the re-use of naval guns around the Great War (the monitors, even the Boer War guns).  There could be a section added to this for what happened to them afterwards (did they have a significant combat history?), we might even get a whole article out of re-use in general. Andy Dingley (talk) 07:45, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Certainly British recycling of naval guns for land use was an important part of its strategy : as soon as the Navy said it didn't need a gun it was offered to the Army, but it's been sadly under-represented in the literature. I understand that the authoritative text on naval guns ashore in Flanders in WWI is Bacon's own book, but I don't have access to a copy. I understand that the artillery duel with large German guns along the coast was important for the Allies, to keep the northern ports open. There is a one-line entry on the topic in the page for the 7.5 inch Mk III gun, but I think access to Bacon's book is essential to upgrade the topic in Wiki articles. regards, Rod. Rcbutcher (talk) 08:31, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  7.5 guns re-used on land?
Category talk:Christopher Wren buildings

message: Someone please change the Picture of the Chrisopher Wren Building (at W&M) below.  Although it is probable that the building was designed by Wren, it was severely damaged in a fire in the 1800s, and was restored the building we have presently pictured, including the uncharacteristic addition of the ialianite towers on the front of the building.  The building was (again) severely damaged in a fire, and the towers were removed, and the building was restored to something closely resembling the original design.  The picture on this page should either be of the original building or the current building, as the intermediary one in the 1800s certianly does not reflect the architectural style of Christopher Wren.  
--Orang55 00:20, 10 May 2006 (UTC)