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Template talk:USPoliticalDivisions

message: Template:United States has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:United States. Thank you. 
Template:United States 2 has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at Wikipedia:Templates for deletion#Template:United States 2. Thank you. 
Template:USPoliticalDivisions & Template:United States topic appear to be duplicates, and there are additional US political regions beyond those listed at Template:USPoliticalDivisions. 71.219.179.179 (talk) 15:14, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: TfD notices

message: I've partitioned the content out into a separate template so that the content can be included in United States without the footer style.  One of the complaints when trying for featured article status was that the footers in the middle of the article were just too jarring.  So, this template has been separated into two parts, the content at Template:United States 2 and the footer wrapper, here at Template:United States.  The content is directly included in United States and in the wrapper (this template), and the footer is used in all other articles (which, presumably, put it at the bottom, where a footer traditionally goes).  Future changes to the content or content style should be made at Template:United States 2, whereas changes to the footer/wrapper style should be made here. -- Dpark 12:52, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Conversion to use [[Template:United States 2]]

message: There is currently an ongoing discussion regarding standardization (primarily regarding layout and styling) at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. states/state templates. An effort was made earlier this year to standardize Canadian province templates (which mostly succeeded). Lovelac7 and I have already begun standardizing all state templates. If you have any concerns, they should be directed toward the discussion page for state template standardization. Thanks! — Webdinger BLAH | SZ 22:34, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Standardization of state templates

message: I want to use this template to work off of to create a different template for a different project. However, when I click on edit, I don't see an editable template. Where do I go to see the editable version of this template? Kingturtle (talk) 13:59, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Here.	Greetings!, Daniel dj87 (talk) 05:06, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: help

message: Is there an actual portneuf valley? If so it should be added Beantwo (talk) 20:26, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: ¿Que? Rennell435 (talk) 06:12, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Portneuf Valley
Wikipedia talk:Unprotected page

message: Can we get rid of this page please?  It's better to keep the protection and unprotection details of a single page in a single list. silsor 20:43, Feb 19, 2004 (UTC)
:Wikipedia:protected page was too large with both listings. What about if the list of temporarily protected pages was split off from the rest of it? Would that help much? Angela. 08:17, Feb 23, 2004 (UTC)
::I would like that. silsor 06:37, Mar 3, 2004 (UTC)
:::I'm not sure now whether that is a good idea. The non-temporarily protected stuff only takes up about 6kb anyway, so removing it doesn't really solve anything. Angela. 13:11, Mar 4, 2004 (UTC)
from the village pump
The current situation with Wikipedia:Protected page and Wikipedia:Unprotected page is untenable.  There are multiple listings for pages and it is difficult to coordinate between the two.  It is better to have the history of a page's protection and unprotection in a single list.  Angela proposed keeping the main list in a separate page on Wikipedia talk:Unprotected page. silsor 18:44, Mar 3, 2004 (UTC)
:It's cumbersome. But it is a vast improvement on the old. single page system, which was absolutely hopeless. Tannin 20:04, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I would submit that, if admins took the 30 seconds necessary to cut an article's listing from Protected page and paste it to Unprotected page when unprotecting, there would be nothing cumbersome at all.  What is needed here isn't page reorganization -- it's admins taking a little extra time and trouble to make sure things remain organized.  Saying that as an admin who is giving himself advice as well as others, Jwrosenzweig 20:06, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Talk:First class travel

message: I added some links about adjective usage. This page could be about the noun usage: I travelled in first class. Also: I sent the letter in first class. There is clearly a single concept (or two concepts, if you prefer). 
The computing-related articles are of separate concepts, so they shouldn't all be on this page. But as the use is adjective, you can append basicly any term to get a phrase a visitor might try to look for, and they're likely to search for this "first class" to find out what it is about. That's why I added the disambiguation to this page.
There are further articles with "first class" in their name, I suppose some of those should be linked as well, if it's not clear that the visitors know the full name phrase.
--82.181.66.63 11:56, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Additions

message: I have amended a fairly large amount of text and corrected spelling and formatting mistakes.  This article only deals with First Class travel - not First Class mail, degrees etc.  If these pages do not exist they should be created by people knowledgable on these subjects.  If a user types 'First Class' into seach, they will be presented with a list of articles matching their criteria.  Links to First Class mail etc. do not, therefore, need to be added to this article. Genius12 19:35, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Article Re-write

message: I have amended this quite poor article, and it was deleted without any mention in the history... How comes? This article needs much improvement, amendment and links.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roydefrance (talk • contribs) 10:28, 21 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Article Re-write (2)

message: In the United Kingdom section, "On some overcrowded commuter services First Class seating is identical to Standard class. However its higher cost ensures the First Class ticket holder a better chance of finding a seat." Although I'm not sure that is actually true.
- 86.171.195.38 (talk) 12:12, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad wording? 

message: The “First class (aviation)” and “First class travel” pages should be merged into a single page since they are both concerned with first class travel.  
174.22.31.193 (talk) 22:56, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page Merging 

message: Not a notable list; could easily be merged. ««« SOME GADGET GEEK »»» (talk) 03:56, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Klbrain (talk) 14:12, 12 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[List of first class commuter transport services]]
Talk:Racist hate speech

message: Much better effort at this article. However, it includes all the inaccuracies, POV, and disputed material that was deleted from the other articles. - Texture 22:18, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: When I did get to read the whole article I added msg:vfd to it - Texture 22:28, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)

text: He just got banned - does this at all qualify for fast deletion? - Texture 22:28, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the title is inaccurate; it calls for a quick move, at any rate.  Got any ideas? Meelar 22:32, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I took the lead from a suggestion on VfD - I redirected to a valid article Hate speech (since the similar rant was removed from there) - Texture 22:39, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)

text: Well, that may not work... like to write an article describing real racist hate speech?  I can offer my own father as an example... :( - Texture 22:48, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)

message: *Racist hate speech - racist rant that was deleted when added to many other pages - Texture 22:22, 19 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Votes for Deletion
Talk:Moe

message: In Japanese, "Moeru" means both To Burn and To Sprout. "Moe" used in this area is from the later, though it certainly contains a connotation of To Burn, witch is used to express  feverishness.
Is is an expression used like "It's so Moeeee" to say we're excited (sexually).
The animation studio used this expression and named their company after it.
I don't think that this is the company itself that created the trend!
But just in case, it's better to verify, if someone knows.
:I rewrote the entire article and I don't know how the original writer came up with that explanation.  It could not obviously came from a company's name and it's probably other way around.  Revth 13:46, 1 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Talk:XPointer

message: No offense intended here to either the authors of this, or the W3C's documentation, but, Huh!?  I fully understand the need for precise wording when talking about such complicated issues, and I don't necessarily advocate the dumbing-down of these topics to a 5th grade level, but surely a middle ground could be reached. A large portion of people who will be reading this page are going to be Web Developers. Dreamweaver jockeys wanting to figure out all this XML craziness. A big thing that's missing here is; What is it good for?  Who needs it? First in technical terms, then in layman's terms.  I only state this here on the discussion page so that I can gauge opinion on the subject before I make any changes to the current page.
*Actually, someone with spare time and a good understanding of it should elaborate on the example, imho. This is not a 'dumbed down' article, but it does resemble a stub.
**I have to agree--with both of you.  In particular, it would be good if the article could answer the first poster's questions, like "What is it good for?  Who needs it?" To which I would add, what's the diff between xpointer and xpath? Mcswell (talk) 13:58, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I find this article confusing.  (I guess I should add that I often fumble around with xpath, so maybe I'm just confused in general...)  Anyway, some questions:
(1) "XPointer is divided among four specifications..."  Only the second of these specs (the "positional element addressing scheme") is discussed in this article.  
The rest of my Qs have to do with the description of that scheme (in the sxn currently entitled "Positional Element Addressing"):
(2) "This is similar to a simple XPath address, but subsequent steps..."  What is the notion of a "step" and "subsequent" here?  I would have thought that each xpath (and in particular, each path in the xpointer examples) was independent of the others, meaning that there is no notion of "steps" and therefore no notion of "subsequent."  Apparently I would have thought wrong (not unusual), but some explanation of what these terms mean seems necessary.
(3) "For instance, given the following fragment: <XML frag here> results as the following examples: <examples of xpointers here>."  I can't parse this sentence.  I *think* what it's saying is "For instance, given the following fragment: <XML frag here>, the following example xpointers result in the outputs shown: <examples of xpointers and outputs here>."  (The notion of "output" presupposes some sort of processing, obviously, and it would be good to mention some programs that work with xpointers.)
(4) Does the 'xpointer(id("foo"))' *really* only extract the name of the first element?  Perhaps that's what 'id' means, but some explanation seems necessary.
(4) 'element(/1/2/1)' The explanation of this path runs off the right-hand side of the page (at least in Firefox v3).  I would try fixing it, but that goes beyond my wiki skills.
Mcswell (talk) 13:58, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Questions
Talk:Carbonic acid

message: This is not accessible to a lay reader. Azbookmobile (talk) 16:55, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: So what do you propose for a solution? Also, if you look a a technical article in Encyclopedia Britannica you will find the same "problem". When I was a kid we had a neighbor who had a set of Britannicas. I was fascinated by them - stuff I did not understand challenged me to dig deeper and learn. When I graduated high school and got a job, my first purchase was a set of Britannicas -- and I learned. Vsmith (talk) 18:07, 5 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  What? 

message: Random thought: is it more stable at pressure in the deep ocean? The reaction H2CO3  CO2 + H2O would sort of imply that it would be, assuming dissolved CO2 got down that far. Project Osprey (talk) 10:03, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: No expert here, but one has to assume that dissolved CO2 "gets that far" for sure, but I dont think that its partial pressure is greater at depth than at the surface.  With all the interest in ocean acidification, smart people somewhere must be thinking of this aspect.  --Smokefoot (talk) 14:58, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The article doesn't give a equilibrium constant for dissolved CO2  carbonic acid, but there must be one. Le Chatelier's principle would surely mean more carbonic acid at depth, but would that mean the ocean would be more acidic at depth? With the acidity just fizzing back out as you went up? It sounds reasonable but also weird. I don't think I'm right. --Project Osprey (talk) 15:53, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pressure dependence? 

message: Materials that sublime have a melting point and a boiling point that coincide.  The boiling point listed for carbonic acid is actually its decomposition temperature. I am new to commenting on Wikipedia articles, so I don't know if this is just an issue of article construction that was settled long ago.  However, it would be more logical to enter enter "N/A" for the Boiling Point entry (or use the same value as listed in the Melting Point entry. Likewise, for materials that decompose upon heating, shouldn't there be a separate entry for Decomposition Point. 2601:647:CA00:F4B0:19AA:D1A6:EED0:515D (talk) 19:18, 18 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misuse of the phrase, boiling point
Talk:Sportive lemur

message: Maybe the article should include a bit about why these are called "sportive lemurs" and what makes it distinct from other families of lemurs. --Svartalf (talk) 23:53, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I apologize... this article is in its infancy.  If I weren't tried up with several other projects, I would spend the next couple of days researching your questions (as well as a lot more) and writing the article.  I am hoping to do this for each of the major lemur families later this summer, so please watch for it.  The quick answer to your questions (without citations) are: 1) I have no idea why they are called "sportive lemurs".  None of the major lemur books say anything about it, so I will probably have to comb a bunch of old manuscripts from the 1700s and 1800s to find out.  2) They are the smallest type of folivorous lemur, they are nocturnal, and they are vertical clingers and leapers.  Besides appearance and phylogeny, I would have to do more research to see what else distinguishes them from the woolly lemurs.  Hope this helps. – VisionHolder « talk » 00:28, 16 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: In case anyone wants to know, Ucucha, Dr. Colin Groves, and I teamed up to write an article about the etymology of lemur names.  It should be published in February of 2012 in Lemur News.  In the article, the origins of the name "sportive lemur" will be discussed.  In time, I will re-write this article, answer this question, and cite that source.  Sorry for the suspense. – VisionHolder « talk » 20:28, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why "sportive? 

message: Note to self (or anyone else wanting to contribute): Usefully information about range restrictions within the genera can be found at the beginning of the following article:
* 
I will try to add this when I re-write the article at a later date. – VisionHolder « talk » 20:28, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Future reference 
Talk:List of theoretical physicists

message: We already have List of physicists, which can mention whether a particular physicist is a theoretical one, so this page seems a bit redundant. --Lexor|Talk 00:05, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I suggest such a section be created to deal with fictional physicists, such as "Gordon Freeman", who are currently listed with real physicists.--Lord of the Ping 19:04, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Theoretical physicists in pop culture 

message: I cannot see this section doing anything but diminishing the genius and exemplary contributions that real people made over the millennia.  Just because certain individuals have their whole universe tethered to the popular media, does not justify polluting advanced achievement.
This section should be deleted, or relegated to some popular English media page.
thanks,Baden
41.63.140.52 (talk) 10:13, 7 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fictional theoretical physicists - DELETE 

message: Although the popular term, Theoretical Physicists are physicists theoretically, while physics theorists are those who theorise about physics. Why not the distinction? Is confusing confusion not confusing? I think it is slang. ~ R.T.G 18:53, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slang 

message: I think notability criteria should be applied in this article. Otherwise, this may be become a forum for self-promotion, trolling etc. Ema--or (talk) 01:50, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup
Talk:Hazel

message: Is the hazel a tree? --Yak 00:13, Feb 20, 2004 (UTC)
Yes, some are, notably Turkish hazel (Corylus colurna), which can reach over 30m tall with a trunk over 1.2m diameter - MPF 23:33, 23 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Tree?

message: I knew it was a plant, but isn't it a color? -- BaconBoy914 (talk) 11:11, 2008 April 21
:It is an eye colour; see Eye color – Hazel.  — Who R you? (talk) 02:09, 23 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Color??? 

message: Does anyone know if you can plant hazel trees in the California high desert?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.119.151.233 (talk) 04:57, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Hazel article. I suggest you seek gardening advice elsewhere. Ypna (talk) 00:34, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  where can you plant them? 

message: That's really interesting about the mythology of the tree and the fish. The Russians have a similar tale of a golden fish imparting wisdom to those who catch it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.119.151.233 (talk) 04:59, 18 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mythology 

message: This is easily done. Just place a bit of pollen directly from a hazel catkin (not sure, likely the common hazel growing wild here in Western/Central Europe) on a microscope slide, add one or two drops of water, and then place the cover slip on top, press slightly and place the mount under the microscope, starting with the lowest magnification. Focus on a grain or groups of grains, and increase magnification accordingly, and refocus. Use backlight, I have a reflector mirror set up and a useful condenser to adjust, with natural light or a LED flash light as light source. 600 X magnification was sufficient to recognize the pores clearly with my vintage microscope, it's beautiful. Birch pollen are similar but lack the granular structure of the exine. The diameter of the hazel pollen grains is about 20-30µm. (Osterluzei (talk) 14:13, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Hazel article. Ypna (talk) 00:34, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Microscopic mount of hazel pollen grains 

message: Minor cleanup is needed to get away from the article's current focus on rural Britain and Harry Lauder when this tree & its fruit have apparently been central to Anatolian/Turkish agriculture for millennia but that goes entirely unmentioned on this page. Inter alia, Corylus avellana says Turkey is the largest hazelnut producer in the world by a wide margin, specifically its Giresun Province in Pontus, which has been so central to the production of the stuffdespite apparently being at the very fringes of its distributionthat a large part of the world's words for hazel and hazelnut ultimately derive from the ancient Greek for Pontic nut. Even moreso that they were apparently so common that they make up Iberian languages' words for meatballs and a large part of Africa's words for long guns, derived from Arabic use of 'hazelnut' for crossbow and sling pellets and early bullets. — LlywelynII 22:27, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: [[WP:BIAS]]
Talk:Ummagumma

message: It's not an approximately-infinite sequence, which a true Droste effect would produce: in addition to the main image, the wall hanging shows three similar images with each band member moving around by one position (so that, for example, David Gilmour is successively: on the chair; in the Sarvangasana position on the grass; standing up; sitting on the doorstep, with the others following the same sequence but beginning in a different place); after three such images, the fourth (innermost) image is the front cover from A Saucerful of Secrets. Has the cited source mentioned that in their book? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 19:29, 8 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cover artwork
Talk:Woolly lemur

message: The text talks about "grey and white fur" while the image looks red-brown... What is true?
:According to The Pictorial Guide to the Living Primates, both can be true, as the color can vary from greyish brown to reddish.  I edited the content accordingly.Rlendog (talk) 15:48, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image and description don't match 

message: We don't need the entire history. Mammal Species of the World 3rd ed 2005 (MSW3) lists 3 species, and that is the canonical source for mammalian species taxonomy. Only the species not listed there need some explanation. - UtherSRG (talk) 17:14, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  taxonomic history 
Talk:ʿApiru/Sources

message: *User:Benwbrum/Hapiru -- I'm reporting myself on this to solicit comment on pages made up almost entirely from quotations.  I'm pretty sure that all the quotes on this page are small enough to qualify as fair use, but wanted to raise a red flag anyway. Benwbrum 03:09, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Let me assure you that the list isn't an attempt to "shirk" anything -- it was just the result of me going through my library of popular history, typing up every occurence of the term.  Unfortunately I ran out of time to edit the article itself after compiling the sources page -- I'm very pleased with the work you guys have done in the last few days, and the organization (here's the term, here's the context, here are the different interpretations of what that means) is almost exactly what I'd hoped for.  For the record, I have no emotional investment on whether the hapiru were Hurrian speakers or not, though am skeptical of any over-hasty attempt to identify any ancient people with a modern ethnic/national group.  I suspect that in this case you'll convince me, though.  Benwbrum 16:26, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  From possible copyvio 

message: This page cannot exist in the main article namespace in its current state.  The relevant information should either be moved to the parent article with the personal comments removed, or the entire page should be moved to the User or Talk namespace. Khatru2 01:59, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Attention needed