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Talk:Sid Vicious

message: (Supposedly his mother was trying to smuggle heroin in the ashes at Heathrow Airport in London but disposed of them in the air conditioning system before being searched when fearing that she had been rumbled).
So that widely told tale can presumably added to the Myths After Death section - http://brooklynbugle.com/2014/10/07/what-happens-to-sids-ashes-lets-ask-john-lydon/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.16.72.221 (talk) 15:48, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add to Myths section - his cremated ashes were put in the air conditioning system at Heathrow Airport 

message: Sid's birth name was Simon John Ritchie - not the oft-reported "John Simon Ritchie" - and this can be easily confirmed by viewing his birth certificate, which is available widely online, including at this lin; https://outlawjimmy.com/outlaws/too-fast-to-live/ It would be nice if Wikipedia would stop ill-informed vandals from "correcting" this.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.201.61.202 (talk) 05:15, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The "Beverley" surname comes from his mother remarrying when he was a child and him adopting his stepfather's surname prior to being christened "Sid Vicious" by Lydon. Either way, despite what the Sex Pistols' website says, it has been firmly established that Vicious' birth name was Simon John Ritchie, and not John Simon. The birth certificate confirms this, and so does Lydon in his 2014 memoir, "Anger Is An Energy" where on page 51, he writes "His real name was Simon, but he never liked it, so he was using his other one, John." In addition, he is referred to as "Simon" in every single interview his mother, Anne Beverley, gave during her lifetime, and in her book, "The Sid Vicious Family Album". The "John Simon Ritchie" name originated from a NYPD police report typo after Sid was arrested for Nancy's murder, and the Associated Press ran with it. Considering there is so much definitive proof out there that his legal birth name was "Simon John Ritchie" in the form of his official UK birth certificate, Lydon's memoir, and Sid's mother's book, this should be enough for Wikipedia to make this the default, despite what misinformed people believe by default due to the American press misreporting it. 216.201.29.14 (talk) 21:22, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth name 

message: Sid’s status is somewhat up for debate in the punk community as to whether he should be thought of as an “authentic” punk. This is because punk is often associated with left wing politics and Sid’s use of Nazi imagery has left some questioning him and his ideals. 75.134.234.52 (talk) 17:25, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nazi imagery 

message: See discussion on school Talk page - unsourced info about school attendance. Have removed - that section of this article is poorly sourced. Tacyarg (talk) 13:10, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Clevedon School]]
Talk:University of Oxford

message: In the world, it's third. People need to remember the period that the University of al-Qarawiyyin spent as a madrasa that handed out internationally recognized diplomas and doctorates for a millennium before getting the name "state university". --Dashboard breaker (talk) 22:42, 2 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: See the extensive discussions of this point at List of oldest universities in continuous operation, the associated talk page, and the talk page archives. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 07:48, 3 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Guiness book of records places Moroccan former madrasa as world's oldest educational establishment. Dashboard breaker (talk) 18:27, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: See the extensive discussions of this point at List of oldest universities in continuous operation, the associated talk page, and the talk page archives. Guiness  is not a reliable source for the history of universities. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 18:52, 12 September 2022 (UTC)

text: Just to note that Dashboard breaker has now been indefinitely blocked by Widr for long term abuse. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 21:11, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: 2nd to 3rd oldest university in the world

message: "The two English ancient universities share many common features, are jointly referred to as Oxbridge."
Grammatical error: A 'which' is missing after 'ancient universities'. Meilxn (talk) 16:43, 25 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Meilxn, thank you for the suggestion, the sentence previously had an and after 'features', so I have added it back. TSventon (talk) 18:26, 25 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 25 November 2022 

message: EmyRussell, thank you for updating the article, however I disagree with this edit, which changes the University (consolidated) endowment from £1,701.7M to £1,259.1M. I believe that the expendable endowment of £442.6M is also part of the endowment. TSventon (talk) 14:40, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: TSventon, apologies, I incorrectly mistook the expendable reserves figure for the restricted reserves figure. I agree that for Oxford, the endowment figure is made up of both the permanent and expendable components. EmyRussell (talk) 23:54, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

text: After revieweing Charity reserves: building resilience from the Charity Commission for England and Wales I agree with this interpretation. Jonathan A Jones (talk) 16:00, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Endowment 

message: The following coordinate fixes are needed for
—2409:4088:BEBC:FF61:0:0:C34A:8302 (talk) 05:55, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: You haven't said what you think is wrong with the coordinates in the article, and they appear to be correct. If you still think that there is an error, you'll need to supply a clear explanation of what it is. Deor (talk) 22:43, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coordinate error
Talk:Whatì

message: In case, like me, you thought the translation "Excrement Lake" must be some kind of a joke, it does appear to be corroborated by this official-looking site. Why would anybody choose to call their town such a thing?  Maybe this is where "Excrement Creek" ends up. --GrahamN 23:14 Dec 15, 2002 (UTC)
Hey, Graham, as the guy that wrote the original article, all I can say is: "I don't make this shit up!" ;-) Danny
:An anomalous situation has arisen: , a Natural Resources Canada site, claims that Wha Ti means "Marten Lake" just as the original French did. - Montréalais 02:39, 19 Sep 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: I have checked with the NWT Place Name Database, and I find that Wha Ti means "Marten Lake," same as the French. There is an alternative name, Tsoti, which means "fouled water lake," which may have led to the confusion. - Montréalais 01:18, 13 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RM bot 01:16, 15 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Move discussion in progress
Talk:Charles VII, Holy Roman Emperor

message: There might be something wrong here. I don't think Francis succeeded him, Charles VI daughter, Maria Theresa did. She was Holy Roman Emperor, not her husband Francis who was only the Duke of Lorraine.
:I don't think that's the usual understanding. The Pragmatic Sanction sought to make Maria Theresa the Habsburg heir, but Holy Roman Emperor was an elective office, not a heritable one.  Maria Theresa was never elected Holy Roman Emperor, though her husband was, on September 13, 1745. Francis was Duke of Lorraine when he married Maria Theresa in 1736, but he exchanged his ancestral duchy for the right of succession to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany because of French objections to the union of Lorraine with the Habsburg lands. -- Someone else 02:17 Dec 16, 2002 (UTC)
Basically, what he said, yeah. They never elected her. She did pretty much lead it all, though, with her husband, and then her son, as figureheads.
-Alex 12.220.157.93 09:40, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The correct title was Holy Roman Emperor and German King. An elective office to which a male German Prince was elected by the Prince Electors of the Empire meeting as the Imperial Diet (Reichsrat).  The Imperial diet met at the city of Ratisbon (Regensburg.)65.206.122.30 (talk)  —Preceding comment was added at 23:49, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Queary

message: which birth date is accurate 7 april or 6 august? --FPP (talk) 04:43, 23 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  birth date
Talk:Firefly (TV series)

message: This edit by Canterbury Tail reverted changes I had made to the spelling of the names of characters who occur only in that episode. My sources are the DVD subtitles. Canterbury Tail refers to "all sources" without actually saying which they are. -- UKoch (talk) 14:59, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Canterbury is correct. All sources, including the Art book, scripts, and writing on the episode, spell it that way. My own DVD subtitles also spell it that way. ~Cheers, TenTonParasol 20:40, 21 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling of names (Ep, 13 ''Heart of Gold'') 

message: IAW the request atop the "Fandom" section, I present the following for vetting and incorporating.The multiple-award-winning podcast The Signal was developed by fans as guerrilla marketing to promote Serenity.—  Fourthords | =Λ= | 05:18, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fandom addition 

message: I added a line about the song In by Horrorshow, which features a sample of Nathan Fillion as Mal. I don't have any references for it beyond the song simply existing. Would a reference link to the song on youtube be a valid reference or would that be against WP:PROMO
Kaotac (talk) 01:54, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The YouTube link would not be valid because it's a self-reference. That piece of information is fairly trivial so you'd need reliable third-party sources that talk about it to establish its notability; otherwise it's just trivia. Drovethrughosts (talk) 13:09, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Also for us to claim that the song is using a sample of Mal, would be original research if we're just listening to it and saying "yup, that's a Firefly sample." We'd need a third party reference to back that up. And even then, I'm going to be honest, a minor sample in a song isn't exactly anything significant to be in such a section, it's trivial. Canterbury Tail talk 13:45, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Horrorshow 

message: I deleted that paragraph. I hate to be that guy but I think it's justified in this case.
First of all, the link was dead. Secondly, it's needlessly inflammatory to include every person's moral objection to a franchise. Sometimes there is a well-documented controversy that warrants inclusion, but that doesn't seem to be the case here.
If I'm wrong, and there is something notable about Firefly's racial makeup, then surely the deleted material can be replaced with something better. There are Asian American anti-racism groups that regularly screen media for Asian representation, maybe they can provide a more nuanced take on a 20-year-old series that was canceled before half a season? 2603:7081:1603:A300:F12B:7FA3:29AF:8D5E (talk) 01:27, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The lack of Asian characters is mentioned in the article, in Critical response section. -Fnlayson (talk) 01:47, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  No Asian characters, Firefly is racist
Talk:Hyder Ali

message: There seem to be many disagreements on this article. I am not going to get into why or whether or not certain editors have an agenda or a specific belief. Let's just say that this topic evokes strong opinions. It is possible to disagree and still collaborate successfully on an article. One approach is to include both sides. For example: Author X says...., while Author Y says....  Presenting both sides gives readers a broader understanding of the topic and reduces disagreements as to "who is right". By agreeing to include the opposite opinion as well as your own, you also end a cycle of debate and anger toward other editors. That being said, I encourage those involved in these disagreements to take a break from editing and monitoring this article for a month or so. Let it go, cool off, and work on other (different) articles for a while. I think everyone involved is a passionate and capable editor. However, the cycle of your disagreement is not healthy for you and is not what Wikipedia is about. Rublamb (talk) 13:58, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: OK thanks Rublamb, for your efforts. Probably it's better to remove that particular sentence, as well as the particular source above. Sutyarashi (talk) 14:39, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  Please, let it go. I know it is hard to do so, but it really is the best thing in this situation.Rublamb (talk) 15:02, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Give it a break
Talk:Recording Industry Association of America

message: An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect RIAA afiliated music artists. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so.  Reyk YO! 18:26, 11 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "RIAA afiliated music artists" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 
Talk:Postmaster General of the United Kingdom

message: Edited page to get rid of Ernest Bevin as Postmaster General 1957-59. Though it is clearly inadequate to have "???" in place of an actual name in the list (and I'd invite anyone in the know to submit the real name), it's also pretty bad to include the name of a man who died six years before talking up a post. Oxymoron 10:12, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Reginald Bevins

message: I have converted the list to a wikitable in the style of those used for MP list in constituency articles.  This will enable the parties to be added, to verify how true the statement that the two posts were split between parties is.  In doing this I have relied on the Falmouth Packet Archives website for the names of Postmasters General.  Some were already identified in a previous version of this article; others have been identified from the articles on their titles as peers or from Burkes Peerage (1939 edition).  I am not clear whether the Earl of Leicester (who held the post in 1786) was the 1st (died 1786) or 2nd Earl, and have left this linked to Earl of Leicester.  The Falmouth Packet Archives website seems to be missing some names and others appear to be incomplete there.  I have left these as a "?".  Many of the biographic articles on individual Postmasters-General do not indicate that they held the office.  Others do not indicate that the person had a colleague.  These are all matters requiring attention.  A more authoritative source would also be useful.  Peterkingiron (talk) 21:32, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Correct Earl of Leicester now identified.  Peterkingiron (talk) 22:33, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two Postmasters General period 
Talk:Pre-Columbian transoceanic contact theories

message: Pre-Columbian coconuts in Panama, whose few ancestors come directly from the Philippines and not from Polynesia.
See in: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_plants_and_animals_of_Austronesia#Cocos_nucifera_(coconut)   --95.208.105.105 (talk) 21:24, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Asian or Austronesian contact 

message: I checked out several of the entries that looked odd and removed them. What is "Further reading" meant to offer readers? I would expect it's sources that are either too primary or too focused on possibility rather than probability. A lot of this stuff seems to be neither. Would it be better to cut the section if it serves to attract nonsense? Rjjiii (talk) 04:30, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I think so. They can be useful but I don't think they are in this sort of article. Doug Weller talk 14:17, 16 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Further reading
Talk:Central pontine myelinolysis

message: Don't merge This article needs to have it's own page and not merged, as it is a specific disorder and not part of another. -Nodekeeper (talk) 19:39, 7 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: The article currently states that a patient should be limited to a max increase of 8-10 mmol/day.  This would be less than 250 mg of sodium.  This probably should say 8-10 mmol/L/day.  There was no reference for the range in this article, and the references that I have seen recommend not exceeding 8 mmol/L/day. Rmosler | ●  02:37, 4 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Max saline limit per day 

message: Our medical disclaimer seems misleading to the point of dangerousness. The clear implication is that any licensed physician knows more about medicine than Wikipedia does, and won't find our articles to be informative. But the very syndrome described in this article is a counterexample to the insinuated claim. Normally iatrogenic in origin, it typically arises as a result of a medical error by a physician attempting to correct hyponatremia, entirely avoidable if they had read this article beforehand. Moreover, articles which couldn't be utilized in formulating treatment decisions would be of no practical value. The disclaimer should be revised to reflect several important points:
#The legally required language: medical information provided by Wikipedia is of a general nature, and does not reflect an attempt to practice medicine by diagnosis or treatment of any specific symptoms. No usurpation of the prerogative of medical profession is intended. Although this should be obvious, let's assume it has to be said anyway.
#Using medical information on found on Wikipedia safely: the very nature of these articles suggests the reader is interested in them for more than entertainment value. Yet making a treatment decision on the basis of whatever text is currently present in an article on a publicly editable wiki is an extremely dangerous practice since the accuracy of the information hasn't been assured. Therefore, the content needs to be verified by the end user, line by line, to ensure that is supported by the sources cited.
#Even if they follow a scrupulous verification procedure, non-physician readers have a substantially heightened risk of not understanding what the cited sources say, or applying it inappropriately.
The contribution of Wikipedia to the practice of medicine is that it organizes the information available in the peer reviewed medical literature in a coherent and useful manner, more comprehensively than any textbook. Although medical information in Wikipedia cannot be relied upon directly, the text and references cited form a far better guidebook to finding relevant WP:MEDRS than random search results. 71.131.14.150 (talk) 06:05, 7 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why Wikipedia is smarter than the average doctor...
Talk:Surrey

message: Whist is might be quaint to have a piture entitled '"Dragons teeth" antitank obstacles by the River Wey' in the article, without any context in the article itself it is about as meaningful as having a picture claiming to be a foootpath created by alien invaders on their way through England.
Really, such context-free quaintness has no place in an actual encyclopaedia. 86.142.227.36 (talk) 20:47, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: You mean apart from the bit that says:  Right next to the "quaint" image? Murgatroyd49 (talk) 09:03, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quaint, but meaningless
Talk:Aztlan Underground

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thread_title:  [[User:LinkBot/suggestions/Aztlan_Underground|Link suggestions]]
Talk:Ammonia

message: I think that an image should be added (given how important ammonia is), possibly similar to the pages for nitrogen or oxygen where the image shows the condensed liquid boiling. Sticklink (talk) 20:16, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I've checked commons and the existing options are poor. Aqueous ammonia is a common laboratory reagent, so I don't think it would be too hard for someone to take a picture of a Winchester of it . Liquid anhydrous ammonia is trickier and also not very impressive to look at (clear colourless liquid - dull). The only way to make it interesting is to drop a shard of sodium in to make it look like this Project Osprey (talk) 21:48, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image of ammonia (maybe liquid) 

message: The article indicates that the same source indicates two different H-N-H angles:
... with an experimentally determined bond angle of 106.7° and
... therefore the bond angle is not 109.5°, as expected for a regular tetrahedral arrangement, but 106.8°.
As far as I know, both angles are wrong. In all the literature, I know (e.g. C.E. Mortimer und U. Müller: Chemie – Das Basiswissen der Chemie, page 130), I just saw that it's 107.3°.
Can someone confirm that? FailXD (talk) 17:02, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  ammonia angle 

message: The LD50 is given as 0.015 ml per kg, which is far too low.  The figure 0.015 would make sense if it referred to ml of liquid ammonia, or mg of ammonia, but not ml of gaseous ammonia.  Someone knowledgeable in editing chemboxes should correct this to mg per kg or indicate that it refers to liquid ammonia, rather than the gaseous form ammonia has under standard conditions.  Ammonia gas is about 1000 times less dense than liquid ammonia.  The ICSC0414 data sheet cited farther down in the chembox gives a permissible level of 14 mg per cubic meter, which is equivalent to 0.014 mg per ml. CharlesHBennett (talk) 22:47, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I wasn't able to find a human LD50 and the permissible level isn't really equivalent. I substituted a rat oral LD50 from a gas supplier SDS. Reconrabbit 19:28, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  LD50 

message: Most sources agree that ammonia does not have a traditional flash point, as it is a gas a standard temperature and pressure and the definition of flash point relies on the temperature at which liquid fumes become flammable. What is currently listed is the critical temperature, which is the temperature above which ammonia cannot form a liquid. The more relevant standard for ammonia flammability would be the lower explosive limit, which is the concentration in air at which ammonia becomes ignitable. 2601:281:8000:78E0:309D:DD9D:FB1F:A521 (talk) 18:34, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks like the explosive limit is already listed at 15.0%-33.6%. Reconrabbit 19:27, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flash point
Talk:Toucan crossing

message: http://utc.nottscc.gov.uk/tttoucan.htm:
Toucan crossings are where pedestrians and cyclists share a wide and unsegregated crossing area.  Cyclists can ride across - all users should avoid changing direction suddenly.  Cyclists should keep their speed down and be prepared to give way to avoid possible conflicts. 
Patrick 02:00 Dec 17, 2002 (UTC)
:That's what I thought. So why is the article something else? --Lezek
"Signalled cycle-only crossings also exist" - these would not be Toucan crossings, nor a variant of a pedestrian crossing, but light siganals for the control of vehicular traffic (TSRGD 33(2)) - I propose that this whole line is deleted 194.106.220.86 (talk) 11:11, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

message: I found a nice shot of a more complex (bad) one.
A088-05733 Pedestrian crossing and cycle lane infrastru - Construction Photography.
I guess (C) and 'Royalty-free' mean they want paying for its use ?
"Unlimited usage for a one-off fee"
Yes
--195.137.93.171 (talk) 15:44, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not always so simple in practice