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Talk:Hadhafang

message: No offense to the author of this page, but I think it is pretty misleading.  Hadhafang is not mentioned in LotR (the novel) proper, and I don't recall seeing it in any of the other literature, such as the Silmarillion.  Even if it is mentioned by Tolkien, that it was borne by Arwen is a plot change of the filmmakers, and thus to imply it is Tolkien's work is erroneous.  
More gravely, much of this text appears to be lifted straight from the promotional text of United Cutlery, which sells a reproduction of the film prop.  I don't know how an issue like that is handled because I am new here.
Also, it's debatable whether or not a page about a minor prop in a film based on a fantasy novel is good use of server space.  It's like having an article about Wolverine's socks.
RR
:Well, that depends. Do Wolverine's socks have a name?  :)—Paul A 03:31 27 Jun 2003 (UTC)
::But of course.  Jim.  Everybody knows that.
::RR
Hadhafang is not even mentioned in the first two LOTR movies, so it hardly counts at all really. ...Lee M 01:44, 16 Aug 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: ...in spite of which, I've taken it upon myself to flesh out the article a bit. Lee M 03:16, 15 Oct 2003 (UTC)
Talk:Yip Harburg

message: The lyrics and accompanying POV made a mess of the article.  This is not a fan site!  Tried to make better order of the sections.  There's a major gap between the early 60s and Harburg's death, which someone needs to fill. J M Rice (talk) 20:02, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup

message: Since "Yip" is a nickname, it would be nice to have at least a redirect from "E. Y. Harburg", which is how I first searched for him (fruitlessly - I had to work around through the Vernon Duke article.)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.228.42.18 (talk) 18:17, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirect?

message: "Progressive" is a POV term for Harburg's political sympathies.  I have changed it to "leftist", which seems to me a neutral term not likely to offend persons of any political persuasion.  173.16.252.154 (talk) 14:03, 10 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: "Progressive" and "leftist"

message: The article doesn't mention his poem "On That Great Civilized Morning", a fairly bitter satire that criticizes the condescending attitudes Westerners showed to the independence of African countries in the 1960s.  The poem became lyrics (along with lyrics by Pete Seeger often called "Wimoweh") for a song by the Chad Mitchell Trio called "An African Song (On That Great Civilized Morning)" which was popular enough to make it onto The Best of the Chad Mitchell Trio.  Is that notable enough to be mentioned in this article, and if so, where do you think it would fit in best? Jwrosenzweig (talk) 08:19, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Mention his poem?

message: ATHEIST
Poems are made by fools like me, 
But only God can make a tree;
And only God who makes the tree 
Also makes the fools like me.
But only fools like me, you see, 
Can make a God, who makes a tree. - Yip Harberg
--Rex Diablo (talk) 19:56, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: God
Talk:Dysprosium

message: Dysprosium can be reacted with iodine metal under nitrogen to produce DyI2. This compound can then be thrown in some DME (under N2 of course) and heated to produce DyI2((DME)3. This stuff can reduce Naphthalene! This crazy reaction should be included in this article. Check out 
J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2000, 122, 11749-11750  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.207.120.212 (talk) 03:47, 10 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  The amazing reducing agent  

message: In one paragraph the article states that annual global production is about 100 tonnes, 99% of which is from China. In the next paragraph, it states that the Browns Range plant in Western Australia is producing 50 tonnes per annum. Which is 50%. To be sure, the first figures date from 2009/2010, while the second is from 2018. But it is a discrepancy that needs resolving to make this portion of the article credible. To compound the issue, the ABC article cited which is the source of the 50 tonnes per annum in Western Australia statement, goes on to say this is 15% so the source itself needs verification. Ptilinopus (talk) 21:49, 10 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Production discrepancy 

message: The 84th edition of the Rubber Bible says it is "soft enough to be cut with a knife". Double sharp (talk) 14:05, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I know the CRC bricks, but why isn't there a single wikilink that lists: "CRC ed 84=1962"? -DePiep (talk) 16:15, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hardness 

message: "kozoite-(Dy)" and "tengerite-(Dy)" - no such minerals are known and the cited paper is WRONGLY UNDERSTOOD and/or wrongly cited (e.g., with repeating this obvious error here). No approved dysprosium-dominant minerals are currently known at all. A mineral is, exclusively, a substance that is crystalline and formed naturally - not with a purpose, in a lab. This was wrongly introduced here. These dysprosium carbonates are SYNTHETIC and, as such, ARE ONLY SIMILAR to minerals like tengerite-(Y) or kozoite-(La) or kozoite-(Nd); and, as such cannot be named using mineral names. The more, the International Mineralogical Association is the only institution to approve/disprove mineral names. These imaginary names are now deleted. This is yet another example where mineralogy is completely wrongly understood in Wikipedia. Mineralogical names are reserved for minerals (confirmed, existing, approved by the IMA commission - exclusively). Even if some day such Dy-dominant minerals are to be found, they first need to pass the acceptance process within the IMA commission. To anticede the possible local "concrete" and drawing back my edit - I kindly suggest reading this: https://www.ima-mineralogy.org; and this: https://www.ima-mineralogy.org/Minlist.htm; and this: https://www.ima-mineralogy.org/Mission.htm Eudialytos (talk) 22:49, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Imaginary names reserved for (non-existing) minerals
Talk:Phutball

message: I am fairly certain that the official name of this game is Philospher's Football and not Phutball, but I don't happen to have a copy of Winning Ways lying around to check it.  Does anyone? Phil Bordelon 23:03 24 Jun 2003 (UTC)
: I checked the book.  The article heading is Philosopher's Football, but in the article they refer to it three times as Phutball, so the terms are clearly meant to be interchangeable. --Fritzlein 20:06 10 Jul 2003 (UTC)
:: Works for me. Phil Bordelon
I proposed a move. The title should be the formal name. savidan(talk) (e@) 20:16, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

message: The article states "theoretically one of the players has a winning strategy".  It isn't immediately obvious to me why this should be so, given that stones can come off the board as well as being placed on the board.  How do we know that perfect play by both sides doesn't return the game state to the starting position?  --Fritzlein 18:54, 10 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Theoretical Win?

message: Instead of Ohs and Eks, why not Oh and Ecks? --Kjoonlee 16:56, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  O and X 

message: "It is never worth jumping just one man - your opponent can replace it as his next move." Is this true? It seems to me that jumping a single man changes the state in two ways: a piece is removed, and the football moves. If the opponent uses his next move to replace the jumped piece, this still doesn't cancel out the single jump entirely. Factitious 10:51, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You are correct, it can be advantageous to jump a single piece, although it rarely is.  For example, if the football is on the edge of the board, and you jump diagonally away, and the other player replaces the jumped man, you can place a man on the edge of the board where the football came from.  This makes a return jump impossible, as the football would go off the edge of the board.  --Fritzlein 20:07, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Single jump claim

message: Are there "official" rules and where to find them?
Is it allowed to jump over the corner, e.g. jump a stone on a19 with the ball on b18?
Is ist allowed to move the ball over the own goal line, i.e. jump onto the virtual line 0 or 20 and back onto the board again: e.g. the ball is on c2 and black stones on d1 and f1; is it then allowed to move c2-e0-g2 ?
--79.216.243.35 (talk) 09:52, 9 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rule question
Talk:UB40

message: Hi all,
I have removed the individual members' infoboxes from the main page (in the biographies section for the following members: Astro, Duncan Campbell, Earl Falconer, and Norman Hassan). The reason for this is as follows: these infoboxes were a hangover from the merger of their individual pages with the main UB40 page in 2016 (as per the discussion topic 'Merger proposals' on this page), and given the lack of information on the individual members' (which was what led to the merger of their pages with the main page in the first instance) these infoboxes are surplus to requirements. All of the information found in them is listed elsewhere on the page: their birthnames, birth dates, place of birth are featured in the written content of their biography, their genre is all cases is given as 'reggae' which is UB40's principle genre, their occupation is given as 'musician' which goes without saying, their instrumentation is already listed in the personnel section of the page, their years of activity are identical to the band's (except in Duncan Campbell's case, where his years of activity are given as the year's he joined and left the band), and their associated acts are given as 'UB40' or, in Astro's case, both UB40's.
Kind regards,
Sburbridge92 (talk) 14:34, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Entirely agree - I don't think any of them are individually notable outside of UB40, and there's no need for them.to have their own sections that are just sources from the band's own website anyway. Richard3120 (talk) 14:51, 5 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of individual members' infoboxes 

message: I've just created a basic article for Ali Campbell's 1995 album Big Love if any UB40 fans or contributors want to improve it or add any further info! --Geach (talk) 19:34, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Big Love'' by Ali Campbell 

message: Brian had Green Eyes, very green, there is a lot of mistakes in this information. 80.192.104.214 (talk) 09:39, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brian Travets
Talk:Amsterdam Airport Schiphol

message: # Adding flags for decoration purposes is a violation of MOS:FLAG
# Adding the 11th till 20th busiest connections (passenger and freight) serves no purpose, especially when unsourced. The Top Ten is enough.
I request more eyes on this, to prevent an edit war. The Banner talk 11:29, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Superfluous additions 

message: In the article, the listed etymology is that it comes from "Ship's Hell", where ships would be pulled underwater and sink. According to Schiphol's own website, this is not true Reilandeubank (talk) 03:11, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for noticing this. I have corrected the vandalism. The Banner talk 09:44, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology
Talk:Romano Scarpa

message: "Later, when Disney Comics took Gladstone's place; they published some more of his stories, and in 2003, the same happened with Gemstone Publishing, that is publishing his stories in the US at the moment."
I'll bet this, and other sections, sounded good in some other language. The info is also wrong (by about 15 years). Why risk instant obsolescence by writing "at the moment"? 2A02:AA1:104D:1981:3D63:4A71:6678:977C (talk) 10:28, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unencyclopedic
Talk:Eusko Abendaren Ereserkia

message: Does abenda mean "homeland" or "race"? -- Error 01:29, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Hiztegia 3000 gives etnia. But Spanish etnia is not translated as abenda. Enda is "race". I leave it as "ethnicity". -- Error 02:26, 5 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Abenda
Talk:Inverse function rule

message: Isn't the inverse of y = ex y = ln(x) and not x = ln(y)? -beasty401
:If, by any chance you are still looking at this page: both are valid. x = ln(y) describes the exact same relationship as y = ex, though, whereas y = ln(x) describes the inverse relationship (x and y swapped). When working with inverses, you may swap the x and y at the beginning, or you may swap them at the end. Either way works. Not ever swapping them works too, depending on your goal. --69.91.95.139 (talk) 03:13, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inverse of y = e<sup>x</sup>? 

message: This is disapointing, almost nothing is here, this is not even the dust of the tip of the iceberg. No theorems of inverse functions are here, nothing is mentioned about the matrix derivatives, its inverse, nonsingularity of the matrix, the one to one property related to the nonsingularity, boundness and openness of the inverse matrix and thus the inverse derivative of the function and the function itself, the continuity of both functions, inverse matrix of the derivative function and the derivative is no where to be found, and the list goes on. Truely disapointed.
I also highly urge that Euler's notation should be inroduced and the concepts be developed using it.--Gustav Ulsh Iler (talk) 03:21, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Completely Empty 

message: Since there are two variables in the introductory section, there should be at least one notation that refers explicitly to which variables the derivative is with respect to. Since this is an introductory page, writers should not assume readers will pick up on implicit (really, lazy) notation.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.84.199.178 (talk) 05:37, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notation is extremely confusing
Talk:Lee Teng-hui

message: I removed the following from the article:
In 2014, Lee said in a Japanese right-wing magazine SAPIO published by Shogakukan "China spreads lies such as Nanjing massacre to the world ... Korea and China use invented history as their activity of propaganda for their country. Comfort women is the most remarkable example."
I can't find anything about the source at all, it doesn't seem to be RS. Best would be to get the original interview. DrIdiot (talk) 06:55, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Also just realized I cited BLP but subject is not LP anymore... either way, I think the reasoning stands. DrIdiot (talk) 06:57, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  Never mind, I think the linked source is somehow affiliated with Shogakukan?  But some clarity on the issue would be nice, and other citations (e.g. to Taiwanese media?). DrIdiot (talk) 07:02, 1 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interview? 

message: Taihoku High School was not a "high school" in the modern Western sense of the word. "高等學校" also cannot be translated as "high school". There is a lack of English sources regarding this particular institution, and so it is difficult to find an English source to verify the name "Taihoku High School". However, the name "Taihoku High School" has still been commonly used by other English editors; e.g. at Wikimedia Commons' Category:Taihoku High School and Category:Students of Taihoku High School. Ideally someone would add a reliable English source and just change the name to whatever was cited, but "Taihoku Higher School" is not an appropriate translation because "higher school" is not an English noun. Taihoku Institute of Higher Learning is a possible suggestion, but that does not seem like the best translation. Wiktionary also suggests "Japanese high school" for 高校, but I'm not going to pretend I am an expert and say Taihoku should be considered a high school. Bottom line is, anything is better than "higher school" because that sounds like a bad translation. CentreLeftRight ✉ 03:30, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taihoku High School (臺灣總督府臺北高等學校) 

message: That's a helluva euphemism, CIA stooges! 174.95.50.192 (talk) 13:14, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Under Japanese rule"
Talk:Thomas B. Costain

message: You have left out his 1963 novel about Napoleon and "Betsey" on St. Helena.  The title is "The Last Love" and it is as good as any of his others, which are all fantastic!
Yes, they are all really good novels. Whoever wrote this biography doesn't know Brantford. They said: "He attended high school there as well as the Brantford Collegiate Institute." Well, Brantford Collegiate Institute - commonly known as "B.C.I", IS a high school. In fact, it was the only public high school in the city up until about 1960 when the baby boomers started reaching high school age, and two more high schools were built. Koolkatkiwi (talk) 10:43, 20 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: He also was involved in the Canadian History Series, which was a series of five volumes on the history of Canada published in the 1950s.
* The White and the Gold: The French Regime in Canada. 1954
* Century of Conflict: The Struggle Between the French and British in Colonial America (with Joseph Lister Routledge), 1956
* The Path of Destiny: Canada from the British Conquest to Home Rule 1763-1850 (with Thomas H. Raddall), 1957
* From Sea Unto Sea: The Road to Nationhood, 1850-1910 (with W.G. Hardy), 1959
* Ordeal By Fire: Canada 1910-1945 (with Ralph Allen), 1961
Philologick (talk) 05:17, 21 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Canadian History Series
Talk:Active site

message: Hi, I am a final year university student (studying Biology) and I decided to edit this page. 
Yuexuezhihuang (talk) 6:24, 22 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Educational assignment

message: Hmph.  After adding the additional inhibition info, it appears to all be over on the enzyme article with diagrams to boot.  Leave it here or nix it? Ed Cormany 01:44 25 Jun 2003 (UTC)
I think the point on inhibition should be developed somewhere else, even in another article as the active site not always where the inhibitor binds! In addition the subject of the article is the active site, therefore the topic on inhibition should not be such an important part of it.
--Blastwizard 14:10, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: User:TimVickers produced the following image which I nominated for deletion last week because it wasn't being used anywhere.  User:Deryck Chan was nice enough to look through the nominations at my request and thought that this one was worth saving, and might be useful on this article. ~ BigrTex 15:33, 5 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible image 

message: An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect :Main site and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 February 1#Main site until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Steel1943 (talk) 06:45, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Main site" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect :Functional site and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 February 1#Functional site until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Steel1943 (talk) 06:47, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Functional site" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:Clarke's three laws

message: In the interests of accountability, I am going to credit "Clarke's Third Law for Science-Fiction Writers" to David Langford (rather than, as the anon. contributor has done, to Clarke himself), on the grounds that
#I have found no other reference to Clarke having said it; and
#I have found a reference to Langford having said it under circumstances that suggest he made it up.
If you find an earlier reference than mine, feel free to correct me. --Paul A 01:30, 2 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Langford reference 

message: So, we have both
Raymond's Second Law: Any sufficiently advanced system of magic would be indistinguishable from a technology.
...and...
Terry Pratchett refers to the law in his Discworld books by having wizard Ponder Stibbons state that "Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology."
Seems like it's stating the same thing twice, no?  Perhaps these should be combined somehow, or at the very least, placed next to each other in the list. Rhomboid 00:33, 2005 Mar 6 (UTC)
:"Seems like it's stating the same thing twice, no?" No. Raymond's formulation is more precise, and, to be blunt, shows signs of having had some thought put into it, whereas "Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology" is a rather obvious joke that was around years before Pratchett used it. That said, I agree that they're too similar to really be listed separately. --Paul A 03:12, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redundant 

message: Rule 3 - Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
One could also make the suggestion that  ..  
Any technology which is distinguishable from magic, is therefore not sufficiently advanced 146.200.7.104 (talk) 20:12, 22 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  As a counter point of view
Talk:Langston University

message: What percentage of currently enrolled students are African-American?  The reason why I ask is that I know a caucasian girl who goes to school there.  Maybe it is 50/50 these days - I don't know.  Thanks in advance to anybody who knows and can put it in the article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.148.130.125 (talk) 08:03, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The most recent data available from the Department of Education has Black or African American enrollment at 84% and White enrollment at 10%: http://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/?q=Langston+University&s=all&id=207209#enrolmt.  If you think that it would be useful information for this article, please feel free to add it!  ElKevbo (talk) 12:59, 4 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Current demographics of student body

message: 2C2KPhotos (talk) 02:49, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  School Images