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Talk:General Certificate of Education

message: O level grades in the mid 60s were A - E, then O, all passes. Then F fail. That was in 1967
In 1968, the grades changed to A, C, and E, passes. and F fail. I'm sure of that change because I took english and maths in 67 and a load of others in 68 and the grading system was different between the two sittings.
After that they went to A, B, C, passes. I'm not sure which year. I suspect that this was a preparation for the current situation where most people who sit the exam get given a certificate. 
Currently there are A - E, passes, but everyone distinguishes between and A - C pass and a D or E pass.  F is still a fail but very few do that badly.
The O level GCE Certificates did not show the grade attained. That was on a small slip of paper that could easily be lost! So in reality, there were no grades, only passes.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.30.6.220 (talk) 20:01, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pass grades and AS 

message: "which was used in Britain" - shouldn't it be changed to "used to be at Ordinary and Advanced level in the UK", or deleted altogether, because GCEs still exist in the UK as AS and A2. Amlder20 12:56, 26 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Was GCE O level used in Scotland?  Northern Ireland?  I profess ignorance of this but I thought it was mainly an England and Wales thing. --TS 15:05, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Er ... England + Wales = Britain so, indeed, it was an England and Wales thing. (Britain + Scotland = Great Britain, and Great Britain + Northern Ireland = UK.) HairyWombat 02:48, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: No.  England and Wales are just that.  Britain refers to the island, i.e. the British mainland.  The "Great" prefix is optionally used to signify that it is the largest island in the British Isles: this is true of many archipelagos and has no political significance. Crispmuncher (talk) 04:00, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad Terminology 

message: There is a lot wrong with this article. The "Baker Act" was 1944, not 1943, and said nothing at all about grammar, secondary modern, or technical schools. GCE's were introduced in 1951, CSE's not until 1965, so not "along with" GCE's. The school-leaving age did not become 16 until 1972. The SQA is the Scottish Examinations Authority, not Association, and didn't exist until 1997, long after the demise of O-levels. This is just from a cursory reading, I suspect there are many more such errors. DuncanHill (talk) 12:33, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I've taken out some of the more egregious errors, and tagged several sections as needing references. DuncanHill (talk) 12:38, 10 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lots wrong with this article 

message: 92.10.147.127 (talk) 22:41, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shouldn't the lead be in past tense?
Talk:Modulo (mathematics)

message: I'd hardly call this "general use". More like "jargon". - furrykef (Talk at me) 11:18, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks fine to me. - furrykef (Talk at me) 17:27, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)

message: I came to the web looking for the right way to spell "modding out (by/the ...)" (which must be spelled right because it redirects to modular arithmetic).  This seems to be the place to put that additional jargon, so that's where I'm putting it. --Yoda of Borg (✉) 14:31, 27 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional jargon 

message: I have moved the pages. I moved Modulo operation to Modulo, but not sure if that is correct. Should "Modulo operation" remain with the same name and have a WP:PRIMARYREDIRECT from "Modulo"? Vpab15 (talk) 17:46, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Post-move actions
Talk:Grumman F4F Wildcat

message: I personally think that the info-box doesn't appear right in all browsers. The font is awfully small in my Opera. Someone might want to resize a bit. All the other boxes seem to behave okay. This particular box is tricky. 212.50.134.60 11:21, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Infobox

message: The assertion that the Hellcat could beat the Zero in low speed is a very suspicious claim. Even the the TAIC Report have noticed: "The Zeke 52 was greatly superior to the F6F-5 in slow speed turn at low and medium altitudes, its advantage decreasing to about parity at 30,000 feet. In slow speed turns it could gains one turn in three and one-half at 10,000 feet." And recommend not to dog-fight or the attempt to outmaneuver it. Regards Bouquey (talk) 03:07, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, there is no source that can really support this one.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.11.3.98 (talk) 15:02, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  TAIC Report No.17, Nov 1944 

message: 178 losses was, AFAIK, the figure for the Wildcat lost in combat only until the end of 1943 vs about 900 kill claimed, and NOT for all the war.
Apart this, the amount of airplanes lost to fire or destroyed at the ground is ridicolously low. Just think to the examples bombed at Henderson Field, the ones lost with Lexington, Hornet, Yorktown, Wasp and some other ships. Cleary, this is an information partially and highly biased, even if the last FM-2 Wildcat had an excellent kill-loss ratio.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.11.3.98 (talk) 15:50, 23 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  True losses underrated.
Talk:Epstein–Barr virus

message: Appearantly it's linked to other diseases too, see https://www.cincinnatichildrens.org/news/release/2018/mono-virus
I'ts not a MEDR reference so I haven't included it in the article, but perhaps worth checking out.
Genetics4good (talk) 17:33, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: EB and other diseases

message: New paper with further evidence on multiple sclerosis.  https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abj8222 Yaris678 (talk) 19:51, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: EBV as causal factor for MS

message: The lead seems to have changed greatly since I last looked at it in detail, and not all for the best. Would anyone object if I edited/reorganised it? What level of referencing is preferred in the lead? Personally I go for minimal (ie only as required by MoS Lead), but I'm aware others disagree. Espresso Addict (talk) 14:18, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Please do. The sea of blue needs attention too. Graham Beards (talk) 15:21, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead 

message: Multiple sclerosis - should this not be added as the preponderance of evidence says EBV is involved? Rustygecko (talk) 03:22, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: It is mentioned at the end of the second paragraph of the lead "In 2022, a large study (population of 10 million over 20 years) suggested EBV as the leading cause of multiple sclerosis, with a recent EBV infection causing a 32-fold increase in the risk of developing multiple sclerosis." Yaris678 (talk) 22:33, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Multiple sclerosis 

message: — Assignment last updated by Prm09 (talk) 04:56, 27 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Comparative Developmental Biology
Talk:Coptic

message: Will someone please revert this page to (08:13, 29 Jan 2005 Afanous) User_talk:Afanous#Coptic_et_al.--Alif 12:04, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)

message: Coptic polyhedron and coptic polygon wikilink to the articles Polyhedron and Polygon respectively. Unfortunately, the term coptic does not appear in either article, nor is it in the current talk pages. However, I was able to retrieve an archived version of the Polygon Talk page, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk%3APolygon, which has several discussions from 2010-2015 mentioning coptic as a synonym for self-intersecting. The upshot seems to be that coptic, while attested, "is more concise, but outside Grünbaum it doesn't appear to have generated a large following". There is also an archived discussion at https://db0nus869y26v.cloudfront.net/en/User_talk:Steelpillow showing that the usage is cloudy and not well attested.
As the issue seems to have been resolved some years ago in favour of dropping the term, and the definitions of the types of polygon have some ambiguities, I am not going to resurrect the term. I will delete the orphaned lines. --D Anthony Patriarche (talk) 01:43, 20 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other uses - polyhedron, polygon orphaned 

message: Alphabet Coptic 217.180.201.235 (talk) 16:33, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coptic 

message: Voice Coptic 217.180.201.235 (talk) 16:41, 17 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alphabet Coptic
Talk:Angel Records

message: This page was voted on for deletion at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Angel Records.  The consensus was to keep it.  dbenbenn | talk 12:39, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Keep 

message: Do you wanna get a label shot dating from 1953? Stephan KŒNIG 17:49, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Angel Records 12 inch... 

message: Now that Warner Classics has absorbed EMI Classics, we have yet to determine the fate of Angel Records.  We should keep an eye out as to the fate of Angel Records. Steelbeard1 (talk) 19:48, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Status of Angel now that Warner Classics has absorbed EMI Classics 

message: http://www.angelrecords.com is a dead link. The Universal-EMI-Warners purchase and reorgs need to be incorporated into this article. I do not have the expertise (or time, after all these years) to do so. Fantailfan (talk) 11:56, 2 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Angel Records current status
Talk:Seraphim Records

message: This page was voted on for deletion at Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Seraphin Records.  The consensus was to keep it.
The title is wrong; the page should be moved to Seraphim Records, which I've listed for speedy deletion.  Once that link turns red, anyone can make the move.  dbenbenn | talk 12:48, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. There weren't any edits in the copied article's history that appeared worthy of merging. (If I'm mistaken, just give me a hollar. Page history merges are permanent, so I didn't want to mess up the visible history needlessly.) -- Hadal 13:25, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Battle of Day's Gap

message: While the events described in the article's text represent everything that occurred in the campaign (including all of the events AFTER the Battle of Day's Gap), the battlebox on the right is only supposed to describe the events of that one battle.  Therefore, although they ultimately surrendered, they did not surrender at the Battle of Day's Gap... Therefore, the battlebox should say one thing, while the text should say another.  Get it? --brian0918� 12:49, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Confusion about events

message: The article is well written and the author's efforts are appreciated. In the second paragraph of the Aftermath section the author claims the name of the artillery lieutenant who shot Forrest in a pique of pride over his transfer. I have two Forrest biographies (That Devil Forrest by Wyeth and  Hurst's NBF: A Biography) and neither cares to identify the man. Could you cite your source for the claim as it is a rather exciting idea having to do with some private papers. Thank you  Porzitski (talk) 20:04, 4 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Seeking Confirmation
Talk:Vienna Game, Frankenstein–Dracula Variation

message: This is not the Vienna Game, Frankenstein–Dracula Variation. That is 10 moves.  This is the 3.Bc5 variation of the Falkbeer Variation of the Vienna game. Surely there a more appropriate, earlier version? Perhaps the "excellent little article" referred to below.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by MikeDoyle (talk • contribs) 04:26, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: It is a stub, and it is too technical. -- Cyrius|✎ 05:11, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Please don't change other people's comments. AlbinoMonkey (Talk) 12:17, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)

text: I've expanded the article a bit; maybe people will find it less tehcnical now. It's hard for me to judge, because it didn't seem too bad to me the way it was before. It's really hard to make articles like this accessable to everyone, of course (people who don't know how to play will probably need to at least read rules of chess first), but I think this isn't too bad as it stands. --Camembert
this is an excellent little article. this is the kind of article that makes wikipedia so great. Themindset 07:14, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: old talk
Talk:Tung Chung line

message: On some maps it's marked that there will be a Tung Chung West Station, extending the Tung Chung Line westward from the Tung Chung Station. Is there any information from official sources? — Instantnood 10:28, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It was a proposed station, but seems the plan would not come true in the forseeable future. -- LR4087 07:16, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Tung Chung West Station
Talk:Life as We Know It (TV series)

message: Life As We Know It was an American television teen melodramatic semi erotic drama on the ABC network during the 2004-2005 season.
Uhh what. Its annoying that I have to ASK if this is serious, but is that serious? iv never seen it... --Viva43 08:32, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: teen melodramatic semi erotic drama
Talk:Cissy Patterson

message: There seems to have been something of a slow-motion edit war over her birth year. Could we pick one particular date? Mangoe (talk) 20:22, 10 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth date: 1881 or 1884?
Talk:Split (Unix)

message: "output is derived from standard input." Eh? Rich Farmbrough 13:55, 29 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: Does the snippet
 cat xa[a-c] > filename
not refer to brace expansion in bash, in which case it should be
 cat xa{a..c} > filename
I won't change this since I may have overlooked something. --BiT (talk) 18:54, 2 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Problem with syntax

message: File spanning (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_spanning) could be mentioned.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 178.128.100.221 (talk) 19:49, 2 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: File spanning

message: Sadly split 8.21 doesn't work with a directory as an input. It will say "split: [folder name]: Is a directory" --73.3.132.105 (talk) 22:07, 13 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Folder / Directory
Talk:Pumice

message: Is there an article for the use of pumice or other stones for use in wearing down calluses? Since pumice is so often used for this, I think it would be good to interlink the topics. Thoughts? Tyciol 05:41, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Pumicing stones?

message: Does anyone have any idea when pumice began to be used to remove dead skin/abrade feet etc? Did Victorians use pumice for such purposes? Was it commonplace in well to do Victorian homes?
is it possibly mixed with clay?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.52.143.17 (talk) 01:07, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of pumice use 

message: Where is this rock found? Im doing this for an assignment and maybe im not looking hard enough?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.118.211.222 (talk) 22:04, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It is an igneous rock so it is probably found by any volcano. Nutty Gorilla  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.111.49.163 (talk) 03:32, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Found 

message: Is it the ONLY type of rock that floats? If not this is a common misconception. Zarano (talk) 02:33, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Buoyancy 

message: pumice is a extrusive rock it cools very rapidly.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.191.151.149 (talk) 22:39, 1 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pumice 

message: I removed the image "File:Pumice On Plastic.jpg|A piece of processed pumice resting on a plastic bag."  from the gallery. I think it shows a commercial product of a foam material resembling the properties of pumice, and I can imagine the product is called "pumice stone" in the context of cosmetics. If it does indeed show a processes sample of pumice, it could be put back with a detailed explanation how it was processed, and for what purpose. Volker Siegel (talk) 21:23, 1 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image not actually showing processed pumice? 

message: For practical purposes I was investigating if there were any given melting point for rock or powdered pumice.
The samples Ive seen is uniform enought to believe it would have a universal decomposition and melting point, but I am not a geologist.
I also would like to have a more specific explanation of the constituents and the respective amount of the most widely used and found floating upon shores.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by So Calle H (talk • contribs) 06:07, 7 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Melting point 

message: this has a few more pictures of Kutkhiny baty and a bit about where the name came from, is it worth a stand alone stub, or should pumice rafts, and this outcrop get more expansion in the article ? EdwardLane (talk) 06:51, 3 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kutkhiny Baty 

message: A probably copyright violation was introduced with this revision. The material added appears to a word-for-word copy of the cited source. I've removed this pending more thorough investigation (Is the article somehow in the public domain? Was the author himself the editor who introduced the material? Citogenesis?)  --Kent G. Budge (talk) 00:27, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Probable copyright violation
Talk:Nivkh language

message: нивхгу Nivxgu
This term refers to the people, not the language. It consists of the root нивх (Nivx) 'Nivkh; human being' plus the plural suffix -гу (-gu). The Nivkh term is /mer nivx tif/, that is, 'we people language', in the Southeast Sakhalin dialect: /ñiγvn duf/ 'Nivkh language'.
[] []
I'd like to add a section on phonology, but the sources I have are from the Rosetta Project, and don't show proper bibliographical information. These are not public domain works.
http://www.rosettaproject.org/live/search/showpages?ethnocode=NIV&doctype=phon&scale=six&version=1
http://www.rosettaproject.org/live/search/showpages?ethnocode=NIV&doctype=phon&scale=six&version=2&allpages=1
Nivkh has a three-way distinction of stops, which are found in the bilabial, dental, palatal, velar and uvular positions:
* Voiced stops: b d ɟ g ɢ
* Voiceless plain stops: p t c k q
* Voiceless aspirated stops: pʰ tʰ cʰ kʰ qʰ
There are four nasals, with the uvular member not represented: m n ɲ ŋ
Fricatives may be labiodental, alveolar-sibilant, velar, uvular or glottal:
* Voiced: v z ɣ ʁ
* Voiceless: f s x χ h
The other consonants are continuants: There are palatal and lateral members, plus two rhotics: one a voiced trill, the other a fricative similar to a voiceless form of Czech ř.
* Glides: l j rʃ r
There are six vowels:
* High: i u
* Middle: e ə o
* Low: a
Nivkh is written in Cyrillic characters, but contains several letters not encoded in the current Unicode standard. A PDF document displaying the Nivkh alphabet can be found here: http://ee.www.ee/transliteration/pdf/Nivkh.pdf http://transliteration.eki.ee/pdf/Nivkh.pdf. (updated web address —Coroboy (talk) 18:25, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Term

message: There are brief phonological notes in the two dictionaries by V. N. Savel'neva and Ch. M. Taksami (the most famous literary figure of the Nivkhs):
"Grammaticheskie tablicï nivxskogo yazïka". In: Savel'neva, V. N. and Ch. M. Taksami. Russko-Nivxskij Slovar'. pp. 469-479.
"Kratkoe grammaticheskoe prilozhenie". In: Savel'neva, V. N. and Ch. M. Taksami. Nivxsko-Russkij Slovar'. pp.504-536.
--149.159.2.14 19:14, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  sources 

message: There needs to be a correlation between the letters and the sounds.  —Coroboy (talk) 05:50, 29 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Othography & Phonology
Talk:Arch Deluxe

message: It seems the Big n Tasty is a direct offshoot from this product.  --24.249.108.133 16:51, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Big 'n Tasty an offshoot? 

message: It's interesting that Burger King's Angus Burger has become extremely successful whereas the Arch Deluxe failed to catch on, despite the conceptual similarities. This leads me to wonder whether bad marketing was solely to blame for the flop. 217.34.39.123 11:57, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good concept, poor marketing? 

message: "When studies showed that its first set of advertising was unsuccessful, and was possibly even hurting its existing branding, it switched to a more conventional McDonald's-style commercial, featuring Ronald McDonald doing adult activities, such as playing golf and dancing at a night club. Such advertising, however, combined with the focus on the "adult" McDonald's, led to late night TV jokes and skits involving Ronald McDonald visiting pornography shops.[citation needed]"
I may be wrong, but growing up I remember that the advertisements described (Ronald doing "adult" things, came before the adverts with the confused children in them (before the product itself, in fact, as a teaser)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.215.193.185 (talk) 01:54, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chronology 

message: I remember hearing of this also being used as a nickname by friends to taunt Marilyn Manson, around the time of the Antichrist Superstar album. I think he mentioned it in his book but I have lost track of the reference. Zaphraud (talk) 19:23, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nickname 

message: Any idea when the AD was withdrawn? The article doesn't say.
70.88.213.74 (talk) 22:26, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Lifespan?

message: This article would seem to be the same as the [] article. 72.88.58.234 (talk) 05:32, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Redundancy

message: I remember that two weeks after McDonalds ceased selling the Chicken McGrill, a study of fast food items was released which listed that sandwich as the single most healthy (or least unhealthy) fast food item sold at any fast food restaurant in the USA. Oops! Had McDonalds waited a couple more weeks they could have heavily capitalized on that. I suspect that study led to the introduction of McDonalds current premium chicken sandwiches. How long was it between the end of Chicken McGrill and the intro of Premium Chicken? All the McGrill production and promotional stuff was probably quickly done away with and the company would have had to re-do everything from coming up with a new product name, any tweaks to the sandwich, a whole new promotional campaign etc. Giving a product the axe only to find out just too late that shouldn't have been done makes bringing it back an expensive process. Bizzybody (talk) 07:13, 7 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chicken McGrill cancellation 

message: Where else was this burger sold beside the USA? Also why can't it be more specific about when the burger was phased out?--TangoTizerWolfstone (talk) 14:36, 21 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Countries of availability and discontinuation date
Talk:À Hauteur d'homme

message: *  de : haut 
*  wiktionary : homme 
*  hauteur 
*  wiktionary : hauteur 
*  haute 
*  wiktionary : haute 
*  wiktionary : haut 
*  haute couture 
*  hatuey 
*  haughtiness 
*  haughty 
*  wiktionary : haughtiness 
*  wiktionary : haughty 
*  wiktionary : hautomo 
It would've helped me.
 hopiakuta  Please do  sign  your  signature  on your  message.  %7e%7e   Thank You. - 17:30, 2 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[ de : haut ]]
Talk:Gillian McKeith

message: The same or similar content was added and is being edit-warred over at least four articles:
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All but the last are BLPs. All are FRINGE-related.
There's a discussion at Talk:Hulda_Regehr_Clark#Contested_deletion, where BLP doesn't apply. I think it would be best to see how we can resolve it there before going into the BLPs.  --Hipal (talk) 16:58, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clayton College description
Talk:Hespèrion XXI

message: As I undertand it, the recordings made before the year 2000, were recorded as "Herperion XX", and the later ones were recorded as "Hesperion XXI". The title of this article should therefore be "Hesperion".
*By all means the two articles should be merged. IMO need to keep the (most recent) number, as it seems to be part of the band's name, and only necessitated changing because of the new century. In any case, redirects need to be made from all possible names when the articles are merged. Softlavender (talk) 02:21, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge?