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Talk:Shooting

message: The page Iron sights links to Cant (shooting) which redirects to "Shooting#Canting".  However, the entire canting section was recently removed by WWGB because it had no source citations, like none at all.
I'm a big fan of removing unsourced material, but now the chain of links leaves the original Iron Sights page with a link to a Shooting page that now doesn't even mention what the link in Iron Sights was referencing.  If somebody knowledgeable about canting would like to correct the links and provide some useful sourced information, it'd be great.  (I'm not fixing it myself because I have zero knowledge of the subject; that's why I was reading Wikipedia in the first place.)
98.29.142.35 (talk) 18:41, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Canting section removed, breaking other links

message: The redirect Shootings has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached.  Mdewman6 (talk) 21:13, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "[[:Shootings]]" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: The redirect Shooshing has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached.  Mdewman6 (talk) 21:44, 27 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "[[:Shooshing]]" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 
Talk:Queensland University of Technology

message: The sheer number of ranking metrics is too large. It's a wall of text with far too many ratings to be helpful.  If anyone has the inclination, it could use thoughtful thinning. Orville1974talk 08:15, 23 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rankings section out of proportion 

message: As per the article linked to the term, this is a USA / Canada practice. Having studied and worked in the sector for decades (including at QUT), I am unaware of this or any other Australian university being known by nicknames derived from the names of the university sporting teams. The culture of "college sport" doesn't occur in Australia, where sporting teams do exist, but are not a focal point for the institutions nor the bulk of their students. By all means, mention the sporting teams in the article (appropriately cited) but I think putting them in the infoxbox gives them a prominence they don't have in Australian university culture. Kerry (talk) 08:36, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nickname field in the infobox not needed
Talk:QOS

message: From VfD:
The article here is pointless, since nothing links to it other than the list of TLAs. 82.6.10.139 02:10, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Jeez, can't you lot wait until people finish posting the proposals? ;-)  (Perhaps I need some QoS on this LAN ...)
* Changed my mind.  Make it a disambig for Quality of service and Queen of the South F.C. (which, although it doesn't exist, is linked from List of football clubs in Scotland) -- Finlay McWalter |  Talk 02:21, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  VfD discussion (2004)
Talk:Animagus

message: The article says that the only known registered animagus is McGonagall; though Dumbledore's page also lists him as registered.... anyone can confirm which page is wrong? Ghilz
Do references to Harry Potter games/trading cards really belong in this article? neatnate 02:04, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: If properly marked as such, I don't think there's any real reason not to include them. Moreover I've noticed that info contained in these games (I have the "Prisoner of Azkaban" electronic game) has been identical with information offered on the "wizard/witch of the month" thingy in J.K.Rowling's official site. I think it's been done under her supervision. Aris Katsaris 02:11, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)

message: Where was it mentioned that the Animagus had no choice as to what animal they became?  As far as I can remember, Sirius and James specifically chose large animals, so as to keep werewolf Lupin at bay, while Pettigrew specifically chose a tiny animal, so that he could prod that knot on the Whomping Willow.  Plus, how likely would it have been that Rita Skeeter would have gotten a beetle, which would be perfect to spy on people for her job.  I think, based on said evidence, that the witch or wizard does get to choose which animal they turn into... does anyone agree? PantherFoxie 22:24, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It has been mentioned. I remember reading in the book by Galadriel Waters that analyzes the HP novels that according to J.K. Rowling (in an interview) that a witch or wizard does not choose their animagus form and it is a reflection of their inner personalities. I'm recalling this from memory and would have to look it up to substantiate it. This seems to contradict what was written in the HP novel, but I did read that, and Galadriel Waters' books are well documented, and it supports what the original Wikipedia author wrote. Anyone else have info on this? PNW Raven 18:05, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  No choice as to what animal? 

message: I don't know if this is confirmed (and I might need to go back and re-read it), but didn't it seem like Snape was a bat animagus, in Deathly Hallows?  He falls out the window and flies away.  What else could it have been? Kirobaito
:He learned how to fly with Voldemort, as Minerva believes. And the "bat-like" passage is more like a metaphor. - 200.209.169.81 20:05, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Snape 

message: Both Pettirgew and Sirius lose their cloths when they turn into animals, but McGonagall does not. Is she actually taking on her animagus form, or is she just using a transfiguration spell on herself?
Maybe but as far as I know Mcgonagall was born an animagus where as Pettigrew and Sirius found a way to make themselves an animagus. So the clothes not transorming maybe a side effect of not being a natural animagus.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.157.78.104 (talk) 18:19, 12 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Do you get to keep your clothes?
Talk:Sun Yun-suan

message: Anyone want to try to decipher the following, taken from :
educ...Engr. Tng. in Tennessee Valley Authority 43-45; Hon. Ph.D., Asian Inst. of Tech., Thailand 86; Engr., Nat. Resources Com. 37-40; Supt., Tienshui Elec. Power Plant 40-43; Head Engr., Elec. & Mech. Dept., Twn. Power Co. 46-50, Chief Engr. 50-53, V. Pres. & concur. Chief Engr. 53-62, Pres. 62-64; CEO & Gen. Mgr., Electricity Corp. of Nigeria 64-67;
Please do so and add the text to the article. --Jiang 02:58, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Sweet potato

message: This article doesn't inform if sweet potato can/should be eaten raw, instead of boiled.--MisterSanderson (talk) 19:58, 6 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a reason you don't see raw sweet potatoes being eaten. Don't be fooled by nutrition assessments that don't account for bio-availability. Humans aren't designed to break down the cells like these and raw potatoes. UserTwoSix (talk) 00:59, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Raw foodism 

message: Hypervitaminosis A is caused by ingesting too much vitamin A. The difference between a recommended intake and a toxic intake is not very great. A Wikipedia article says that taking in excessive amounts of beta-carotene will not cause hypervitaminosis as the body regulates its conversion to Vitamin A. On the other hand, the body cannot protect itself against ingesting too much actual Vitamin A, which will cause hypervitaminosis. 
The second table in the article indicates that sweet potatoes have very high levels of vitamin A per portion, nearly three times the upper daily dose limit even in as little as 100g. Is this true? Does it really contain actual vitamin A, or only the harmless precursors such as beta-carotene? 92.3.54.10 (talk) 12:42, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: This https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/VitaminA-HealthProfessional/#h3 suggests that Vitamin A is not found in vegetables, only beta-carotene. It could be more explicit and clearer. 92.3.58.255 (talk) 14:53, 18 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sweet potato and hypervitaminosis A: does it contain actual Vitamin A or only its precursors? 

message: I do believe that sweet potato is actually one word - sweetpotato. -Indy beetle (talk) 20:36, 10 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: The opening sentence of the article makes it clear that it can be spelt either as "sweet potato" or "sweetpotato", and at least in my country (the United Kingdom), it is more commonly known as "sweet potato". Vorbee (talk) 16:22, 17 April 2020 (UTC)

text: I've never seen it like that. But I like it! UserTwoSix (talk) 01:00, 21 February 2022 (UTC)

text: I'm British and have never encountered the 'sweetpotato' variant before reading about it here. Maybe it's an American thing, like calling swedes 'rutabagas'. --Ef80 (talk) 14:24, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naming 

message: Please see Template_talk:Comparison_of_major_staple_foods#Fresh%2Fdry_comparisons regarding a proposed change to the template transcluded in this article. SmartSE (talk) 12:13, 13 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: , it was a worthy change. THank you. UserTwoSix (talk) 01:01, 21 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Staple crop comparison table
Talk:United States Revenue Cutter Service

message: The USCG's own FAQ says this "1905-1911 Captain Worth G. Ross, USRCS, Captain-Commandant (the office of Captain-Commandant was first created in 1908 and Ross therefore is the 'first' officer to hold that office and the title of 'Captain-Commandant.')"  I think the article should be changed, thoughts? --Awiseman 19:10, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  First USCG commandant? 

message: I really haven't got time to go through the whole process but I did run across the needed citation and thought that I would append it here for someone with the Wiki-know-how to add the citation.
"The Jefferson (Captain William Ham) enjoyed a number of successes.  She made the first seizure of a British merchantman by capturing the brig Patriot in June 1812."
Irving H. King., "The Coast Guard Under Sail: The U.S. Revenue Cutter Service 1789-1865," (Naval Institute Press, Annapolis. 1989.) p 54
Thanks,
John
11 March 2008  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.59.43.155 (talk) 19:29, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation for War of 1812 statement 

message: Should include image and explanation of the "Revenue Ensign"... AnonMoos (talk) 00:23, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Flag

message: The primary points of interest in this page relate to early USCG history, but would it be appropriate to add this page to the categories "taxation in the United States" and "revenue services"? Daruete (talk) 01:08, 2 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Additional Categories?

message: Links to resources to create USRCS rank insignia, and pinging  in case they are interested in creating any of them:
* 
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 . -- Cdjp1 (talk) 14:28, 29 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rank insignia
Talk:Kellermann

message: This page appears to be not much more than a rant in support of Dr Kellermann with a bunch of mumbo jumbo about how the misspelling of his name is to distract people from finding articles in support of his work.
Keeping this page would set a precedent which would encourage the development of slighty-off spelled pages with various political agendas.
: Aecarol 03:54, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: I would support it staying in the context of examples of the art of social manipulation.  That is, covering the concept of mispellings to trap people into searches they want you to find.  That's actually pretty interesting.   If we keep this article specific to Dr Kellermann, we are opening the door to other POV articles which will round-about attack/defend whom ever using the same justification.  The encyclopedia should not host rebuttals to off site attacks, which this article in effect is.
: Aecarol 04:11, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  On social engineering the article has merit.  On Dr Kellermann, it's not encycolpedic
Talk:Portland Linux/Unix Group

message: Portland Linux/Unix Group survived vfd. I count 4 votes to delete, 3 to keep, which is not a consensus one way or the other. See: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Portland Linux/Unix Group -- Wile E. Heresiarch 04:05, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)

message: I just modified the founding date back to 1994.  It had been changed to 1992, but I am unaware of any evidence supporting that date. A google groups message supports the March/April 1994 date.  -- Russell Senior
:The 1992 date came from another early pdx.computing post  -  "Who wants give linux a PLUG?. A few months back, I talked with Ian and he assured me that post was not the origins of the PLUG group. So, you're right. Here's what appears to be Sean's first post on the subject:  "Linux Users Group!!!". -- Rasp 20:55, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Currently this article does not demonstrate notability and as such is subject to WP:AFD unless reliable third party sources are added. Aboutmovies 18:42, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Notability
Talk:IRC takeover

message: This is all already treated at IRC. Marnanel 04:28, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)

message: Too lazy to go digging right now but isn't there some official RFC's we can cite as a reference for this article? -- OlEnglish (Talk) 02:35, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  References needed 

message: IMO this article could be merged into Internet Relay Chat.
104.228.101.152 (talk) 10:52, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Necessary article?
Talk:Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth

message: We need confirmation that Robert Andras was the minister responsible for the status of women. This is stated on one online source but no mention of it is made in his biography on the Parliamentary website. We also need dates. AndyL 04:40, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: We

message: I have just removed material about a lawsuit that was added about ten years ago in this edit.  Assuming that the username identifies the person accurately, the editor who added it appears to have been the plaintiff in the lawsuit, which indicates a Wikipedia:Conflict of interest risk.  I have been unable to find any WP:Independent or WP:Secondary sources about this particular lawsuit (for example, any regular newspaper article that mentions it).  Including it therefore puts WP:UNDUE emphasis on what seems to be a relatively unimportant lawsuit for this organization.  WhatamIdoing (talk) 20:12, 12 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: COI
Talk:Spanish language in the Philippines

message: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t5db8507t;view=1up;seq=13
None of what you quote about Henry Ford was in his book
Woodrow Wilson, the man and his work; a biographical study, by Henry James Ford 
Published 1916--BuhayPinoy (talk) 08:08, 28 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The citation is not specifically attributed to that book in the page. --Jotamar (talk) 17:28, 3 January 2019 (UTC)

text: , I saw that Henry Ford didn't mention those statements, so I have decided to eliminate them and replace them with statements that are actually written in his report. Stricnina (talk) 22:14, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

text: I don't think that the text you quote and the one in the page are necessarily in contradiction. One compares Spanish and the local languages, the other compares Spanish and English. In any case, if you suspect that the reference to a source is fake, you could do a little of research to prove it; meanwhile we have to rely on the source. --Jotamar (talk) 18:34, 4 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  How low can you go? Makeup a story if there is none. 

message: Please see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Languages#Spanish language in the Philippines vs. Philippine Spanish as a separate variety or dialect. — MarkH21talk 21:43, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion on Spanish language in the Philippines vs. Philippine Spanish as a separate variety or dialect 
Talk:Flesch–Kincaid readability tests

message: It seems that the formula stated on this page for calculating the Flesch-Kincaid readability score does not match the formula stated in the source document being quoted!
The quoted source has a plus sign after the first term of the equation, whilst the wiki page has a minus sign after the first term of the equation.
Kind regards,
SR.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Begbie1975 (talk • contribs) 09:20, 2 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong formula! 

message: "Cwm fjord-bank glyphs vext quiz." Is presented as a pangram (a sentence with all the letters) but it hardly seems relevant to a discussion of an American English or even generalised English reading score when "cwm" is Welsh and the sentence is just a bunch of convenient words, and that also seems to excluded it from being a heterogram" since both are forms of sentence and sentence communicates something. 188.31.40.73 (talk) 20:56, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed that, as it's unsourced. And yes, it does look like "just a bunch of convenient words". Martinevans123 (talk) 21:13, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should it make sense?
Talk:Evan Thornley

message: Following passages are POV or unverfiable and were removed.
Evan Thornley uses the personal gain he reaped from selling Looksmart stock at high prices as a platform for credibility in commenting on Australian business and exports. 
:POV - Thornley uses business knowledge obtained from being head of Looksmart. 
Looksmart company filings also reveal the use of company structures in the known low tax regime of Barbados, ahead of a planned IPO of a subsidiary. Looksmart did not ever operate a business from Barbados and arguably incorporated there for the purpose of avoiding taxes. At the time of the deal, Barbados appeared on the OECD blacklist of nations who refused to co-operate in crackdowns on money laundering and tax avoidance.
:Unverifiable - I looked the SEC filings. I couldn't find anything like this. 
Evan Thornley remarked in a speech to graduates of an Australian university "You only get to sell your integrity once, so if you feel compelled to do that I suggest you try and get a very good price for it."
:Unverifiable - Again, no evidence.
...a company which was once worth billions of dollars but later collapsed in value. Prior to its decline, Thornley sold over $100 million of stock in the company, to small investors who lost the bulk of their investment.
:Unverifiable - No evidence. Contributors are continually contending without citation.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.240.143.193 (talk) 03:12, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup
Talk:STS-69

message: Update needed. LanceBarber (talk) 23:30, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: What about the alien spacecraft, which is described by author William Kliner?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.229.224.129 (talk) 13:13, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alien spacecraft
Talk:Mycroft Holmes

message: Was the protagonist of the movie "sherlock holmes' smarter brother" ?
Speculation: was Mycroft from the Heinlein novel an inspiration for the name Microsoft?
likely not. Pedant 06:31, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, Moriarty was M to begin with, but Mycroft became M in issue #6. The statement in the article that Mycroft Holmes appears as M in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is the truth and nothing but the truth; it's not the whole truth, but the whole truth would be a spoiler and is arguably not necessary in this context. --Paul A 03:10, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

text: I'm removing it.  Yes, we need supporting references. No, we don't need ambiguous ugly tags. ike9898 15:09, 7 October 2006 (UTC)

text: You're right – Wikipedia's article is about the film director Lewis Gilbert, not the actor who was in the Sherlock Holmes films. —Paul A (talk) 02:21, 16 December 2009 (UTC)

message: Does anyone happen to know what the word/ name "mycroft" means etymologically? Is it orginally referring to the place of origin of some person or to the profession of his ancestors? I'm curious to learn, so please don't let me in the lurch. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.34.13.172 (talk • contribs) 29 March 2007
As far as is known, Mycroft is an Old English compound of mype=waterfall and croft=farming field. As a surname it is common in the Midlands and it is theorized it may have been a town there. No proof of a town exists. Jane Mycroft ca. 1601 is the first recorded use of the name. So to answer the query, the etymology of the name is Old English and I would have to go further back and say Saxon. I believe it is possible Doyle may have been also referring to this symbol from the I-Ching of water-over-field. One might say "Mycroft" means "Waterfield".75.21.159.227 (talk) 18:23, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology of "Mycroft" 

message: Mycroft was the pseudonym of the "setter" of questions for the Brain of Britain quiz until April 2002. See Brain of Britain. 
Perhaps worth inclusion under references in popular culture? Everybody got to be somewhere! (talk) 23:14, 20 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brain of Britain 
Talk:Sensō-ji

message: I was under the impressions that macrons were not used in the titles of pages. Maybe this is outdated, though? // Habj 02:00, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: We discussed it thoroughly at Wikipedia Talk:Manual of Style (Japan-related articles) and the consensus was to use macrons. Fg2 07:38, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  OK, thanks for the link - I will keep it. I can not see that discussion specifically mentions page titles, though. The least you can do is make a redirect from the version without macron, which I have done here. // Habj 08:56, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's all in the archives --- #15 or 16 or both or more; we've debated it up, down and all around. Regarding redirects, the easy way is to initiate the article with the title without macrons, and in the first line write it with macrons (e.g. using Template:nihongo). Then copy the spelling with macrons to the clipboard, and rename (or in Wikipedia dialect, "move") the article. Paste the name from the clipboard into the new title box. Renaming a page automatically makes the old page a redirect. (But you probably knew all that.) Fg2 12:08, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Macrons in the title of the page 

message: Doesn't Nakamise-dori mean something like "street of the central shops"?
If so, please add the gloss to the section.
--Error (talk) 16:36, 2 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: No. It is 仲見世通り, which translates to "The road of the inside". ”中店通り”would mean central shop street.  JthomasP (talk) 03:28, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nakamise-dori
Talk:Jason Robertson (activist)

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: Moved   (t · c) buidhe 22:15, 23 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Jason Robertson →  – no clear WP:PRIMARYTOPIC Joeykai (talk) 15:52, 16 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 16 May 2021