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Talk:Cynthia (butterfly)

message: Do we need such a detailed taxobox? - if it was a bird, I'd chop it dramaticallay, but I don't know the consensus for insects.jimfbleak 07:05, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Removed some of the taxobox clutter. DGERobertson (talk) 15:41, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Taxobox

message: I took this out of the gallery; I don't think it is V. virginiensis as it lacks the distinguishing wihte spot inside the forewing orange field.  Although the pattern of blue pupils on the hindwing is unusual, the orangeness of the leading edge makes me think this is V. anabella.  On the other hand, since it was shot in North Carolina I would tend to say it is V. cardui.  cardui sometimes has the blue pupils in summer, and this was shot in September.  Opinions?  --User:Chinasaur
:Good points. See  my talk page response for my take on this identification.--Cotinis 16:24, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Additional note. I just looked at Glassberg, Butterflies Through Binoculars--the East, and he gives a character to differentiate, saying that in V. virginiensis two prominent dark bands on forewing above are not connected, but in V. cardui, they are. His photo of V. virgiensis matches mine on that character, and, incidentally, has its white spot on the orange ground almost non-existent. Glassberg's photos also match mine on the forewing-notch character--V. virginiensis has a slightly falcate forewing, V. cardui's is more rounded. So, yes, I am confident (now!) my photo is V. virginiensis.--Cotinis 03:09, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: See this BugGuide page, where I did a detailed comparison. --Cotinis 19:09, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Vanessa virginiensis

message: Added more information regarding host plants and nectar sources.  Some information from personal experience (I raise Painted Ladies and Monarchs as a hobby) and others from a field guide I own. chalicerae 17:02, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Host plants & nectar sources

message: * https://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/article177123731.html
::October 2017
69.181.23.220 (talk) 17:20, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Migrating Painted lady butterflies in a 70-mile-wide wave is caught on radar
Talk:The Icicle Thief

message: what the original Italian title?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.66.16.12 (talk • contribs) 
Original Italian title is 'Ladri di Saponette', found this on the french cinema library www.bifi.fr, see this url; http://195.115.141.14/catalogue/index.php?collection=F&Textfield=savonnettes
According to this reference the movie came out in 1988 and not 1989, but suppose 1989 refers to when the English title came out.--Jkleene 09:46, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: No subject

message: I believe a translation from italics to plain language might improve this article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.183.224.2 (talk) 23:24, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shouldn't the name be "Icicle Thieves" instead of the other 
Talk:Delivering Security in a Changing World

message: I'm not sure about the following:
'Overall cuts will see personnel levels drop from 108,500 to 102,000 - this compares to a total strength of 255,000 prior to the 1993 Options for Change cuts.'
Is this a confusion between current British Army strength (before/after former) and overall armed services 1993 strength (latter)? 
I can't find an accurate, modern overall figure anywhere. :Clue
:Currently deleted 'overall strength' comment --Clue 04:22, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Lancia 1ZM

message: This text originally is from , which is, according to , effectively public domain. Lupo 07:44, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Should Nazi Germany be added to the list of operators as the last paragraph of the In combat section seems to indicate they did use this vehicle.  --Thefrood talk 22:23, 8 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Operators

message: According to the Italian WP, this should be called 1Z (and 1ZM), not IZ. <B>Warren</B> (talk) 18:02, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong name?
Talk:Ansaldo armored car (1925)

message: This text is based on , which according to  is effectively public domain. Lupo 07:54, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original source 

message: Wikipedians, after a long online search I was unable to locate any "Fiat-Ansaldo" armoured vehicle prior to 1935 (this is better explained in the  Italian Wikipedia). I've checked the only source indicated for this article (in this "Talk Page", not in the article itself), and this vehicle is mentioned only as "Ansaldo Armored Car". So I'll rename thsi article accordingly, and will try then to expand the content a little bit (if I can find additional sources). Regards, DPdH (talk) 07:00, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article needs to be renamed 

message: I've completed the renaming of the article as explained above, and added structure to the article to move from "stub" to "start". Now I'm looking for additional verifiable sources to further improve it. Any help will be appreciated! Thanks & regards, DPdH (talk) 08:15, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article renamed and reworked
Talk:Honda Shadow 600

message: What is a 'mkg' and who uses it?
Bobblewik 07:55, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: It is actually Nm / 9.81. 9.81 is G on earth. At least the websites of Yamaha Motors Brazil and Europe use it as the torque measure unit. In fact I don't know the right symbol. Some write mkg, others kgf/m or kg-m... Ukuk 11:41, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Themis (hypothetical moon)

message: Philip Latimer, in his novel Missing Men of Saturn, has Themis collide with Titan, "getting rid of the little nuisance once and for all", according to the introduction. CFLeon 22:34, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Latimer's Story

message: When and how exactly was Themis proven to not be a moon of Saturn? That info should rate a couple of sentences in the article, more than just 'However, Pickering was mistaken...'. There isn't any info on it on the Saturn's natural satellites page either.
Bird of paradox 13:10, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: They now know that Saturn has 146 moons.  Is it at all possible that one of them is Themis re-discovered?  Did Pickering provide any data that might suggest its orbital location, and we could now extrapolate to see if one of those 136 other moons they now know of is close enough to match? GBC (talk) 17:45, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: A quick look at Moons of Saturn should make it clear that there's no moon orbiting between Titan and Hyperion, where Themis was said to be. The recently discovered moons are all distant irregular moons. SevenSpheres (talk) 19:05, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Themis disproven 

message: The word is being misused here.  Themis' "existence" was not based on a hypothesis, but on a, presumably incorrect, observation.
90.219.103.203 (talk) 01:29, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes and no. In modern English usage (and yes, this is the English-language page) the word hypothesis is nigh-on synonymous with theory. So in that sense you are right. However, in its original sense (which is still current in French, for example) the meanings is somewhat wider, including possibilities one is willing to entertain. We are still not quite sure just what he saw on those plates! (Or are we?) Something of this wider sense survives in English. For instance, when you ask for advice on an embarrassing issue, you may pretend it is "for a friend" - your interlocutor will not be fooled and typically refer to "this hypothetical friend" of yours, and not your "theoretical friend" (although that would not be impossible).
I have a question about this and I ask it because the answer would deserve to appear on the main page: if these original photographic plates have survived, the nature of the "incorrectness" might have been determined. Is this known? Did he incorrectly interpret the physical traces, and have these now been found to be attributable to something else - and is the something else known? Or, more mysteriously, is the photographic evidence entirely in line with the existence of this hypothetical moon? For in that case, we have a mystery of evidence that never turned up again, and we might entertain the thought that it was a falsification (but the context of the story would very strongly suggest that the guy was sincere in his discoveries true and false). 2A01:CB0C:CD:D800:1CAF:55D1:AFCD:2445 (talk) 15:35, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hypothetical
Talk:USS Hoel (DD-533)

message: There are phrases in this article such as:
*However spirited gunnery and perfectly timed radical simultaneous turns enabled the American vessels to thwart the attackers
*the fearless destroyer
*the valiant ship
*she demanded the attention of her antagonists by peppering them
*stouthearted captain
Can anyone improve on the text? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobblewik (talk • contribs) 08:16, August 17, 2004
* This is typical of material sourced from the DANFS; see Wikipedia:WikiProject Ships/DANFS conversions for general advice. More serious than this POV is the absurd claim, "Although Japanese records deny that these torpedoes hit the cruiser [Haguro], there is no evidence to indicate any other explanation for the geyser effect observed" — as if the crew of Haguro wouldn't know if they had been torpedoed or not! Gdr 09:33, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: DANFS text
Talk:Irene van Dyk

message: She is 1.93m. It said on the Netballnz profileNetball 00:37, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Basketball at the 2004 Summer Olympics

message: "The reigning gold medallists from the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, in both the men's and women's event, the United States failed to retain its men's title, which went to Argentina, but successfully defended its women's title. Both the men's and women's gold medal games were held on August 28, 2004."
"The United States failed to retain its men's title" is a nasty way of denigrating the efforts of the Argentinian team and the team that finished in second place, too. There is no justification behind assuming that the championship somehow "belonged" to the Americans to begin with. All of the teams entered the tournament on an equal footing, and the Argentinians simply played to the best of their abilities, and they won the gold medal fair and square, including with an 89 - 81 face-to-face victory over the Americans.
Likewise, the Italian team that won the silver medal fair and square on their own efforts.
There is no need to insult the Argentineans, the Italians, or the Americans.  
If someone does not change the slanderous way that this article is presently written within a couple of days, then I will. 98.67.110.231 (talk) 04:00, 28 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  What a nasty and thoughtless way of expressing things 
Talk:Blam Blam Blam

message: The primary source of information in this page was Simon Grigg's Propellor records bio of the blams, rewritten into my words and with additional information. Simon Grigg has seen this entry and agrees that it's ok.
Ross-c 09:21, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The label on my cassette version of Luxury Length credits the album as "Paul Streekstra and Blam Blam Blam". Googling him suggests that he was/is mostly an engineer. Does anyone have more information? dramatic (talk) 04:09, 23 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Paul Streekstra? 
Talk:Jane Barbe

message: *Any american please link to a sound file of the message "please hang up and try again" since many people from abroad never heard it. - anon comment removed from article
*In response to the above request, I have linked to a page that contains some sample recordings. --Nothlit 20:52, 9 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Because Jane Barbe was primarily a voice recording artist, do you think perhaps external links to examples of her work (e.g.: on YouTube) are useful and more appropriate here than on typical Wikipedia pages? ElmerCat (talk) 01:31, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The concern with YouTube is always copyright. That link you added seems suspect - a "mashup" that will claim fair use, which doesn't mean much. I agree, though, that a sound recording is the point with her. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 12:11, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  YouTube
Talk:Service pack

message: A big part of this article is a list of the service packs currently available for Microsoft products. While this can be useful information in itself I don't think it should get too long and that it belongs here in Wikipedia; by the way it is the sort of thing that will require continue maintenance. What about removing it and add a link to Service Packs at the end of the article? --Gennaro Prota 18:55, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does the list of available service packs make sense? 

message: "Many companies, such as Microsoft or Autodesk, typically release a service pack when the number of individual patches to a given program reaches a certain (arbitrary) limit."
"A notable exception to this 'rule' concerned Windows 98 SE"
What are these talking about? Josh (talk | contribs) 19:18, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Windows '98SE essentially was a Service Pack to the original Windows '98 but released as a paid, new version, rather than a free update. I would think this is probably what some people mean. It did introduce some new features, like Windows XP SP2 did, but was largely a bug-update. 86.161.196.216 (talk) 22:14, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Windows 98 SE 

message: It seems to me that "Service Pack" is mostly a term used by Windows OS and Windows software. On the Mac side, we don't say "Service Packs". We simply say "updates".
From a user perspective, Windows lingo looks more technical while Mac lingo seems more friendly.
The term "service pack" seems appropriate for a technician or someone with a tool belt.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 154.20.65.141 (talk) 21:14, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It is probably mostly a Windows term, but Windows has "updates" too; a Service Pack is a collection of updates. Apple sells you the next point release of OS X for $129 every year or two, and with that kind of turnover there's no need for Service Packs.
I agree that "service pack" is mostly a Windows term, but it also applies to Office. I just removed a link to a non-MS site offerings downloads of service packs for Windows & Office, and added a link to a MS Windows SP page, since it would seem most users would benefit from getting the correct information on Windows SP's from the company responsible for the bits. Let me know if there are concerns.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by RE OBrien (talk • contribs) 18:56, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mostly a windows term 

message: When installing the pack it says there are other applications being running.  I thought that I have closed down all the apps.
This demonstrates that the installer is not intellegent enough to directer me what the exact problem is, right...???--124.78.209.178 (talk) 12:48, 6 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Windows XP Service Pack 3 (KB936929) has got bugs 
Talk:Allen Carr

message: We need a citation that Carr was a "five pack per day" smoker. This means that if he were awake for 16 hours a day, he would smoke more than 6 cigarettes in an hour. Is there a reliable source for this information?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.202.69.141 (talk) 02:41, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Citation

message: There were some issues with the article regarding Wikipedia:No_original_research: unless someone can come up with a citation for there being "comparatively more" people claiming success via Allen Carr's methods, it does not merit inclusion.  Same for the claimed 80-90% success rate.  
Furthermore, the graf which addresses the philosophy of Carr's program suffers from POV bias (and/or NOR, Verifiability)...again, unless someone can come up with citations for the claims within, some of which were stated as fact rather than as claims, assertions, etc.  Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view
Nothing against Carr, and in fact, he has my sympathies.  My father died of lung cancer almost a year ago, and I lost a friend to it this summer...and I myself am trying to quit!  Snackycakes 18:13, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree; his website shows none of the scientific studies that he claims, so therefore can not be a reliable source. 69.123.131.5 02:12, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV and NOR 

message: it is true that Carr smoked for 33 years because he mentions this several times in his book, but it says here that he started when he was 18 and ended when he was 48. Eugene-elgato (talk) 16:59, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  inconsistency
Wikipedia talk:Offline reports/This article links to a redirect back to itself

message: Fixed:
10:50, 17 Aug 2004 (hist) Zeist (merged in Austerlitz) 
10:46, 17 Aug 2004 (hist) M Zaanstad (top) 
10:43, 17 Aug 2004 (hist) M Valkenburg aan de Geul (top) 
10:42, 17 Aug 2004 (hist) M Utility (top) 
10:41, 17 Aug 2004 (hist) M Undergarment (1920s) (top) 
10:40, 17 Aug 2004 (hist) M Undergarment (1930s) 
10:39, 17 Aug 2004 (hist) M Tram (United States) (top) 
10:38, 17 Aug 2004 (hist) M Train (Types of trains) (top) 
10:36, 17 Aug 2004 (hist) M Stupidity (top) 
10:35, 17 Aug 2004 (hist) M Soest, Netherlands (top) 
10:33, 17 Aug 2004 (hist) M Schouwen-Duiveland (top) 
10:32, 17 Aug 2004 (hist) M Rijnwoude (top) 
10:27, 17 Aug 2004 (hist) M Heerlen (top) 
10:25, 17 Aug 2004 (hist) M Giessenlanden (top) 
10:13, 17 Aug 2004 (hist) M Drinking (top) 
10:04, 17 Aug 2004 (hist) M Drawing (top) 
10:03, 17 Aug 2004 (hist) M Drimmelen (top) 
09:59, 17 Aug 2004 (hist) M Curve (Length of curves) 
09:58, 17 Aug 2004 (hist) M Chocolate (top) 
09:55, 17 Aug 2004 (hist) M Channel Tunnel (top) 
09:54, 17 Aug 2004 (hist) M Cambodia (History) (top) 
09:52, 17 Aug 2004 (hist) M Alphen aan den Rijn (top) 
09:50, 17 Aug 2004 (hist) M Leidschendam-Voorburg (top) 
Patrick 10:59, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Category talk:Atheists

message: This category is potentially a POV problem category - see Wikipedia_talk:Categorization#New category policy and various discussions under Wikipedia:Categories for deletion
I think it should only be used to label people who are 'first and foremost atheists', or are important in the development of atheism. It should not be used to label people who 'happen to be atheists' as that just dilutes the usefulness of categories. -- Solipsist 11:18, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: In fact I see this cat has been added to Wikipedia:Categories for deletion today. -- Solipsist 11:20, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: What does "and of whom it is known how they define their atheism" mean and why does it matter for the purpose of inclustion? -Rrius (talk) 01:22, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Its there to define the cat so that people don't get put in the category without a degree of understanding of what their Atheism means to them, I imagine that this is there due to the fact that there are a lot of different ideas as to what atheism actually means, some call it a religion and some say it is the absence of religion, you can easily find around the web many discussions of this kind, so the definition of their atheism is simply to clarify what is a word with differing interpretations. This is of course especially important when dealing with living people.Off2riorob (talk) 01:39, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: That still doesn't answer why it matters. If the person says "I'm an atheist" or "I don't believe in God", then they're an atheist. How they "define their atheism" is immaterial to whether they in fact are atheists and so can be included. -Rrius (talk) 20:11, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question 

message: There is an RfC on the question of using "Religion: None" vs. "Religion: None (atheist)" in the infoboxes of individuals that have no religion. 
The RfC is at Template talk:Infobox person#RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion. 
Please help us determine consensus on this issue. --Guy Macon (talk) 18:47, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Template talk:Infobox person#RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion|Request for Comments]]
Talk:Justice

message: I have made a substantial set of edits to this article, to improve the lead a bit so it reflects the article as a whole, to make some copyedits (for example, Plato wouldn't be talking about the Abrahamic God, but rather the gods), and generally to try to impose a bit of organizational consistency to the article. It needs a lot of work, and I won't suggest my edits are perfect but they were needed
As it stood, and as large parts of it still stand, the article breaks up theoretical frameworks into multiple pieces.  For example, divine command and other religious theories of justice were broken into two pieces and I've put them in one place.  
Big issues remain. The section on Theories needs to be cleaned up and probably belongs up at the top, maybe as a replacement for History (some text can be kept). I'm done for now and hope to come back later.  This is an important article and it needs some TLC. Oblivy (talk) 01:15, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: "Plato wouldn't be talking about the Abrahamic God, but rather the gods" Rather unlikely for Plato to speak of multiple gods. Like other Greek philosophers, he apparently believed in a single creator deity. Per the main article on monotheism:
** "Also from the 6th century BCE, Thales (followed by other Monists, such as Anaximander, Anaximenes, Heraclitus, Parmenides) proposed that nature can be explained by reference to a single unitary principle that pervades everything. Numerous ancient Greek philosophers, including Xenophanes of Colophon and Antisthenes, believed in a similar polytheistic monism that bore some similarities to monotheism. The first known reference to a unitary God is Plato's Demiurge (divine Craftsman), followed by Aristotle's unmoved mover, both of which would profoundly influence Jewish and Christian theology. " Dimadick (talk) 07:29, 3 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Big picture issues with article
Talk:Quantum information science

message: I've been doing research in quantum computation for a few years, and I haven't heard the term "Quantum Information Science", only "Quantum Information Theory".  In the classical case, it's always "Information Theory", not "Information Science".  Have other people heard "Information Science"?  Otherwise, I'm tempted to move the page.  -- Creidieki 11:51, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Second, an other common term is quantum computing but this one excludes quantum crytpography and other non-computing applications of quantum information. This is why I choosed this not-yet so widespread name for the category: It is the only of the right breadth. Simon A. 12:25, 17 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  article title

message: Hi everyone,
I am working on improving the readability of the article. I found that the Spanish version of the article is much clearer. I wanted to give them credit on this page. I know that there are templates that can be added that says something like - part of this article has been translated from ... - and then it has the link to the wiki page. Anyone can tell me how to flag that? Thanks! Fracchiolla (talk) 17:57, 19 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: indeed, thank you. corrected --Qcomp (talk) 16:05, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation