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Talk:Jean Barraqué

message: Regarding Foucault being the lover: http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/11/mar93/foucault.htm Seems to be right. -- JeLuF 00:08, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: au dela du hasard is part of the death of virgil.
Nietsche should be Nietzsche.
i believe the apartment fire was in late 1968. either in the fire or in the process of relocating, he lost the dossier for a work that seems to have been nearly complete:  portiques du feu (the gates of hell), a choral work that was part of the death of virgil.
barraque might not have destroyed all or most of his early works, as griffiths' book suggests.  it is true that he did not "acknowledge" any of them before the sonata.
i believe that barraque also did not acknowledge, or disavowed, his electronic etude, considering only his six major scores to belong to his true oeuvre.
a few opinions:
the cpo recordings by klangforum are not so "fine."  aside from several sonata recordings, not including the one in the cpo set, there are no outstandingly good recordings of barraque's works that are commercially available.
the more excessive claims that have been made for barraque are not in my view excessive.
boulez is a much-overrated composer, and he has done much to bring this about.
barraque's relative obscurity is due in part to the lack of good recordings and frequent performances of high quality, and due in substantial part to boulez's influence and position in the industry.
Royalgardens 17:35, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  a few points 

message: We say absolutely nothing about his private life, yet still categorise him as LGBT.  We really do need to explicitly justify why he's in those categories. --  Jack of Oz [your turn] 19:54, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: LGBT

message: Why were there attempts, stretching over years, to get his sonata performed? Couldn't he just have played it himself?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.173.223.43 (talk) 09:54, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I take it that you are not familiar with the score, which is of ferocious technical difficulty. Besides, according to Paul Griffiths's article on Barraqué in the New Grove, "Barraqué himself was not a performer".—Jerome Kohl (talk) 17:15, 7 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Piano sonata 

message: The NYT article linked to, in its opening paragraph's final sentences, makes clear that Barraque had recently completed a few movements of his "Death of Virgil" cycle, including the work whose premiere is reviewed in that article -- as "a few points" below also states. 100.14.35.44 (talk) 19:40, 21 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Footnote 8 should not be "failed verification"
Talk:Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties

message: To WikiSource, surely? Matthewmayer 01:07, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The external link to "Vienna Convention on the United Nations/ILC web site" is broken. Someone should fix it!
--Apolloourson 14:35, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed. --Edcolins 08:02, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Link 

message: "105 states have ratified the VCLT. However, even those that have not may still recognize it as binding upon them in as much as it is a restatement of customary law. The United States is among these."
Does anyone have a citation to support this claim?
Raggz 06:59, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: restatement of customary law

message: There's a lot here about how the convention came into being, about who has signed up to it, and about the definition of "States". There's next to nothing about what the Convention actually says. Mhkay (talk) 16:56, 15 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  So what does the Convention actually say?
Talk:Try This

message: What do you think P!nk is doing in the album?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.212.195.163 (talk) 14:58, 3 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Don't Try This 

message: Since we must prevent edit warrings, we should discuss before genre changing. 
 do not use again this source  in order to add R&B in the infobox: when classifying music, sources must explicitly attribute the genre to the work as a whole, not to one song in the tracklist (WP:EXPLICITGENRES)
Blueberry72 (talk) 22:34, 10 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: The source that we cited says: "into harder-rocking territory, the end result isn't quite as simple as Try This being a straight-up rock & roll album" and " With Try This, Pink has firmly established a voice of her own, and in doing so, she's made another tremendous modern pop record" so pop and rock'n'roll are the most appropriated genres. Blueberry72 (talk) 13:26, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Genre
Talk:Academic art

message: Could you work in a link to the Beaux-Arts movement, which would link up many entries? Or is it a term you're avoiding? (This entry is so good I hesitate to interfere... Wetman 03:41, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)

message: Hey, I don't think this article counts as not verified, as there are books and a few external links, but it would be great if there were more references that other Wikipedians could check on the internet without access to those books. You can use inline references, which are easy-to-use, automatically numbered, and allow the user to easily go back and forth from the text being referenced to the references. Armedblowfish 16:08, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the lack of references is the main reason the article is not yet a good article. - Ilse@ 10:21, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Referencing 

message: It's missing dates... like when things happened, when it was officially established, and when they closed up shop. Also fails to mention how much control The French Academy of Art had over artists, and so on...--Hitsuji Kinno 17:50, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Dates

message: What do universities have to do with it? They are only mentioned a couple of times, but there they are in the first sentence. Why? These art academies were not universities. I've added a citation-needed tag. Andrew Dalby 14:50, 28 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I've just removed them. Some older academies may have been part of universities, but this was certainly not typical. Johnbod (talk) 01:54, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Universities 

message: This looks like a finely wrought article, but it's too problematic to merit a B class rating: there's nary a reference. It appears to have been written of whole cloth some time ago, and it's time for reassessment and addition of sources. JNW (talk) 01:14, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article issues 

message: Who wrote this article? 212.129.77.200 (talk) 20:32, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: All these people. Why do you ask? --𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 20:52, 22 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Who wrote this article?
Talk:Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

message: Oh, and I found a webpage that gives reference to a section that needs a citation: http://www.army.mil/article/101170/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Omnisxiii2 (talk • contribs) 04:14, 2 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Citation help

message: I found this report of ridership confusing:
"In 2022, the system had a ridership of 216,329,500, or about 757,000 per weekday as of the second quarter of 2023 ...."
Do these rider counts pertain to 2Q23 or to full year 2022? Bookerj (talk) 14:50, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Also found the per-day arithmetic confusing. How many weekdays are included in this calculation?  A full year (without holidays) has 260 weekdays (+/- 1).  The T has reduced service levels and ridership on holidays, so we might count 250 weekdays of service. But even using 260 days, 216.3 M runs about 832,000 per weekday, about 10% higher than reported. Looks like the calculation used 286 days as the weekday count.  If the numbers came from the T, they might reflect a more complicated approach, figuring in some of the weekends/holidays in their weekday counts. Bookerj (talk) 15:12, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ridership counts in 2022?
Talk:November 27

message: --mav 00:52, 1 Mar 2004 (UTC)

message: not added.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.249.45.250 (talk) 02:31, 28 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Casey Calvert death 

message: Park Soo Jin redirects to Sugar (Korean band). Although there is no mention of Park Soo Jin's birth date in that article, a Google search produces a number of references that indicate that her birth date is November 27, 1984. I do not know whether that is sufficient to retain her entry in this article. --Dan Dassow (talk) 23:02, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Not sufficient.  The entry must be the subject of a bio article at a minimum per WP:DOY.  -- Mufka (u) (t) (c) 23:21, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Park Soo Jin]] 

message: 1912 - Connie Sawyer, American actress
72.189.56.110 (talk) 11:01, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: According to the page's protection level and your user rights, you should be able to edit the page yourself. If you seem to be unable to, please reopen the request with further details. Kharkiv07Talk 21:27, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 4 May 2015 

message: I don’t know if Harry and Meghan getting engaged counts as a notable event: a couple gets engaged.
But I think the last time a member of the British Royal Family announced getting married to an American divorcee was notorious: I thought I should add it, as our opinions have deeply changed, over the years.
Oh, I wasn’t too sure: but thought I’d add this link: the BBC news announcement.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42137179
Cuddy2977 (talk) 12:13, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Harry and Meghan 

message: "celebrated on the Sunday nearest to St. Andrew's Day"  This is purely a hortological coincidence, but as stated it implies a relationship.  Any reason for it to stay? --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 17:58, 27 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  first Sunday of Advent 

message: Is he not more notable as a politician than as a soldier (at least in the English speaking world)? Jackiespeel (talk) 17:17, 4 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alexander Dubcek 

message: I’ve removed Vito Genovese: as his article show he was born on the 21st of November.
Cuddy2977 (talk) 16:34, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vito
Talk:Distribution (mathematics)

message: No one looking for a straightforward explanation of distributions will be able to get through the current article.
As far as the continuity of distributions is concerned, all one needs to say in this article is that a linear functional T : \mathcal{D}(U) \to \mathbf{R} (or \mathbf{C}) is continuous if and only if it is sequentially continuous i.e., if \varphi_n \to \varphi in \mathcal{D}(U) (supports of all \varphi_n are contained in a compact subset K of U and the sequence and all of its derivatives converge uniformly on K), then T(\varphi_n) \to T(\varphi) in \mathbf{R}. Explanations of sequential continuity vs. continuity in TVS can be given elsewhere.
Alternatively, you could say that T is continuous if and only if for every compact subset K of U there exist C > 0, n\in \mathbf{N} such that |T(\varphi)| \le C\sum_{|\alpha|\le n} \|\partial^\alpha \varphi\|_\infty for every \varphi supported in K. But I think the sequentially definition is more accessible.
However, these changes would require a lot of rewriting of the first part of this article.Reader634 (talk) 07:45, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Completely agree about moving discussion of TVS topologies to another article 

message: I think the recent changes are absolutely in the right direction. I made a few minor edits, mostly to remove "scare" quotes about the difficulties of defining the topology on the space of distributions (it's enough to refer to the relevant article). Also, I think more of the discussion on topologies can be moved elsewhere, and all (or nearly all?) of the material on C^k spaces can be removed from this article, since C^\infty test functions are the fundamental ones for distributions. As a minor point, I'd denote the regular distribution associated with multiplication by a locally integrable function f by T_f rather than D_f (which could be confused with differentiation) but I don't think there's a standard notation here. Reader634 (talk) 09:08, 31 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comment 

message: Same as in Spaces of test functions and distributions: notation L^p_c first appearing in 6 (Spaces of distributions) seems not to be explained anywhere on this page. Mamuka Jibladze (talk) 17:23, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some notations not explained 

message: "Tempered distributions" is used but not defined in this article.  I've heard they are "distributions that are upper bounded by polynomials", which I'm not quite sure how to make precise. I've also heard the more and difficult definition in terms of (the extension of?) linear functions on Schwartz function. Needs to be made clear in this article. Jess_Riedel (talk) Jess_Riedel (talk) 19:07, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tempered distributions
Talk:Hansraj Morarji Public School

message: This page is an archive of the discussion surrounding the proposed deletion of a page entitled HMPS.
*Another school that doesn't need its own article.  RickK 05:52, 21 Nov 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Deletion
Talk:November 26

message: The Chinese attack on Chosin did not start until the night of 27th, per Roy Appleman's work on Escaping the Trap: The US Army X Corps in Northeast Korea, 1950. This should be corrected. Jim101 (talk) 05:05, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I move the entry back because the Battle of Ch'ongch'on River started on 26th. Jim101 (talk) 17:50, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move the Chosin date back to 27th 

message: Do you think we should be mentioning it both in the events section and the deaths section? I was about to remove it from the deaths section but wanted your thoughts. Kees08 (Talk) 07:57, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: No, I don't. We could name the notable dead in the entry for the event but I expect we will end up with people re-adding it under the deaths (and vice versa). But I would support the idea of removing it from Deaths.Deb (talk) 09:00, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mumbai attacks
Talk:Totalitarian religious group

message: This reads almost word-for-word like the kind of "cult warning" propaganda that was directed against the Unification Church in the 1970s and 1980s. Especially the section marked How can I find out whether a group is totalitarian? They just changed the word cult to totalitarian -- as if nobody would notice. Ha! 
This article is sheer advocacy and should either be deleted, or re-written so that its points of view are clearly attributed to their proponents. Also, would someone please look up the references? I've seen that checklist somewhere else, but since I'm "on vacation" I must leave it to others to find it. Try googling for "cult characteristics". --Uncle Ed 19:43, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Ed, yes, this article should be merged with cults but DO NOT DELETE its contents but instead improve it. I had already listed this article as such wikipedia duplicate articles I have to agree with your removal of the link about bigotry though.Andries 13:19, 10 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Easily misapplied

message: I deleted everything that was unattributed POV. With a few minutes of on-line searching, anyone could easily trace which organizations or individuals advocates these points of view. Please do so, then put the info back in properly attributed.
Also this external link is about bigotry, not cults:
* THE NATURE OF RELIGIOUS BIGOTRY
--Uncle Ed 20:18, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Lots of big cuts
Talk:Football chant

message: Per WP:V everything here needs to be sourced to valid third party sources. After a reasonable time, I'm going to start removing unsourced stuff, which at present is most of the article. --John (talk) 07:32, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Did the first trim today. Eventually, everything here has to be referenced per WP:V. I'll come back in a few days for the rest. --John (talk) 23:26, 18 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources? 

message: It is correct this is part of the tradition of blason populaire, but it is also part of a much older tradition - flyting. This was a traditional battle of wits - it had to be poetic and humorous - which took place before a battle. A famous eg of which is The Battle of Maldon. In order to "win" you had to win two things: 1. the battle of wits and 2. the actual battle. The goal was to achieve "fame" and fame meant going down in history. Being a good warrior was only part of this. In this sense, football is a ritualised battle and the supporters are continuing the tradition of flyting, where each side insulted one another and egged their comrades on. Flyting thus performs two functions, as do football chants. 1. to bond the group 2. to psych out the opposition. A simple insult is never valued as much as wit. I hope this information adds to your origin story - the roots of the chants go back to Viking and Anglo Saxon times. A good piece of research was done by the Centre for English Cultural Tradition eg see http://centre-for-english-traditional-heritage.org/TraditionToday4/TT4_Luhrs_Blason_Populaire.pdf Although this is a European tradition (flyting) the chant has now become part of the culture of football and has thus been exported with the game. There are strong associations of dance and singing with sport (because it is ritualised battle) eg the haka in rugby clearly fits within this tradition.SandrinaHatman (talk) 13:41, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: If you have a source that relates football chants to flyting, then by all means add it to article.  The source you gave makes no mention of flyting. Hzh (talk) 16:58, 19 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Folklore category
Talk:Gauss map

message: I believe the range of the Gauss map is the unit sphere, not the unit circle: the normal vector is a three dimensional vector. I did an edition, but please check whether it's correct. --Anša (talk) 19:16, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The range of the Gauss map 

message: The Grassmannian page does talk about unoriented k-subspaces, so the notation here isn't yet consistent with that there.
Charles Matthews 13:01, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grassmannian 

message: I think the generalization given here should be limited to Euclidean n-space,
the generalization for manifold formally works, but it does not seems to be used at all, so if it is useless for me it is defenately useless for reader who wants to know what is Gauss map.
Tosha 04:32, 5 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Generalizations

message: given a plane curve, take all the radiuses of tangent circles and move them to the origin. The end points forms what's called the radial curve of the given curve. Xah Lee 01:49, 2005 May 1 (UTC)
: Thanks for mentioning. A nice article on that (and a link from this article) would not hurt. Oleg Alexandrov 02:13, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  radial of a curve 

message: The degree of a Gauss map is mentioned in this article and elsewhere, for example in Smale's paradox, but is not defined here. Can this be added? — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 08:17, 4 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Degree of a Gauss map
Talk:Saint Clair

message: After whom was Saint Clair named? --Kaihsu Tai 15:42, 2003 Nov 27 (UTC)
:No-one. It's Norman French - Sint Clair, meaning "clear pool". The surname Sinclair comes from the same source.  Grutness|hello?  (living in St. Clair, New Zealand)
::On the contrary, the Sinclairs are named after a "Saint Clair" (albeit in a round-about fashion) - Saint Clarus, who was beheaded at what is now called Saint Clair-sur-Epte, which is where the Sinclair family has their early roots.  LeeNapier 13:53, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, looks like there are two different sources then :) The place I live was definitely named from the old term for a clear well, according to every reference I've ever seen about its name's derivation. Grutness...wha? 01:24, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

text: Possibly.  The "Sinclairs" of Roslin still call themselves "St. Clair" - though they are related by blood to the Sinclairs of Caithness and elsewhere. LeeNapier 14:02, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Nimitz-class aircraft carrier

message: [] --The Space Enthusiast (talk) 20:37, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Because we don't know where it's from, or if it's a reliable source. BilCat (talk) 20:52, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: So the precise ship lengths are unknown? The Space Enthusiast (talk) 00:55, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Why don't we use this for the lengths of the ships?
Talk:New Providence

message: Information provided by Michael Doran, who has visited the Bahamas many times since he lived on Grand Inagua as a child in the early 1950s.  He earned the doctorate in geography from the University of Oregon in 1974 and has contributed to the scholarly literature on the West Indies.
:Maybe you want to create a user account then the contributions you make will be listed under your name in the page history, rather than the IP you are currently at. --snoyes 16:52, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: Compass Point (Bahamas) redirects here.  Can someone familiar with why add some text to the article to indicate what Compass Point is in this context? -- JHunterJ (talk) 14:32, 2 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Compass Point 

message: I'm lost. This article lists New Providence as having the same area as Nassau, yet 80,000 more residents -- the exact same population as The Bahamas' total (according to the article). Something seems to have slipped through the cracks. – anna 12:08, 28 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusion
Talk:Ancient Greek coinage

message: I think this article is easily in contention for GA.  With just a quick glance, inline refs seem to be the biggest factor.  Alittle wikification, pic realignment and expansion of the minting and market of these coins, and we'll be good to go.  Joe  I 20:39, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Collaboration

message: This source says 6 obols to the drachma.
~ender 2007-03-09 19:06:PM MST
Hi!!!:)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.103.208.129 (talk) 00:18, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Conversion Issue

message: "This is a fairly crude technique and produces a high failure rate, so the high technical standards achieved by the best Greek coins - perfect centering of the image on the disk, even relief all over the coin, sharpness of edges - is a remarkable testament to Greek perfectionism."
Crude?  I hand strike my own replica coins, and I get over 99% success rate using this technique.  Sure, they don't turn out like industrially produced modern coinage, but "high failure rate" is a gross exaggeration.
The last comment was unsigned. Please remember to sign comments. I just edited the entire article and I removed this passage because I also believe it to be false. First, there is no high failure rate. Second, very few coins exhibit perfect centering and even relief. Sharp edges are a characteristic of counterfeit coins struck in a collar (not invented until modern times). I think that it is a false statment. That's not to say that the Greeks weren't perfectionists or didn't have high standards - in most cases, they did - but the justification given here is just not true. --75.3.200.22 (talk) 00:39, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Failure Rate

message: This article currently uses both the BC and BCE format in the page. For consistency's sake we probably should change it to use either all BC/AD or all BCE/CE instead of mixing them. Sakura CarteletTalk 15:40, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. The article is now consistently using BC/AD era designators. Paul August ☎ 20:23, 21 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Era format