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Talk:Purple Earth hypothesis

message: Just getting started. I plan on adding a little bit at a time when I have an extra couple minutes. Feel free to participate if this interests you at all. Thanks! VroomanGL 01:30, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Status

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thread_title:  Copyright problem removed 

message: The information detailed in the Evolutionary History Section is at minimum missing context. (Plants absorb almost 80% of green light). The section restates common myths (addressed in part here https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00219266.2020.1858930), when it suggest that plants are incapable of utilizing green wavelengths of light. They can and fact do use them. See also https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-are-plants-green-to-reduce-the-noise-in-photosynthesis-20200730/ and the associated science article for more recent theories as to why. Ethan801 (talk) 00:03, 30 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Evolutionary History Section is incorrect and unsourced
Talk:Rhapis excelsa

message: 'It is not known in the wild; all known plants come from cultivated groups in China.'
This is wrong. Even in Hong Kong there are still a few wild populations of this species: http://herbarium.gov.hk/FloraOfHK/Species/3175/3175_S_E.pdf
See also Flora of China's entry: http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200027109
219.79.75.206 (talk) 16:45, 9 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wild Status 

message: "R. excelsa grows up to 4 m in height and 30 mm in diameter"
30mm in diameter?? Surely this can't be right. And if it only refers to individual leaflets (or whatever they're called) shouldn't it be mentioned elsewhere rather than in a sentence that commences by referring to the total height of the entire plant?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 27.33.121.123 (talk) 07:40, 8 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Width
Talk:Pella (municipality)

message: Alexander the Great was born in ancient Pella and is mentioned there.  Andreas  (T) 13:51, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alexander 

message: Excharchists is a wonderful word which has no meaning  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.16.109.107 (talk) 01:32, 19 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Excharchists
Talk:Screech owl

message: Under “Ecology and Behavior” at the beginning of the third paragraph,change “Northern screech owl” to “Eastern screech owl.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:5B0:50ED:D308:BD81:AC46:39D3:C31D (talk) 16:03, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

message: This article provides facts with some reliable sources; however, the description section needs more sources.In addition, for reference number 9, the link to the source does not work. It will be helpful to add more recent resources. Mwils (talk) 00:12, 9 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Screech owl
Talk:U.S. Open 9-Ball Championships

message: The Women's Champion category may not be appropriate in this article.
The U.S. Open Nine-Ball Championship is owned by Barry Behrman, the promoter.  Women are not allowed to compete in the U.S. Open Nine-Ball Championship, as it is a men-only event.
However, the current WPBA has their own U.S. Open Championship, different format and different rules than the men's U.S. Open Nine-Ball Championship.  Barry Behrman actually paid for and owns the rights to the "U.S. Open Nine-Ball Championship."
RailbirdJAM 10:57, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Rough set

message: Perhaps this article should be merged to somewhere in :Category:Fuzzy logic.  It appears to be a (somewhat fuzzy) description of one of the concepts there.  — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 14:24, 21 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update 

message: This article needs an good introduction like that in Set (mathematics). It's not useful to anyone who is not an expert the way it is. -- Dougher (talk) 04:46, 15 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs down to earth introduction 

message: I have made some changes (relatively minor I think) to improve the readability and flow of the article. I have not, intentionally, changed content except in terms of grammar, spelling and improved sense/tense of the language. A key reason for this change is to provide clarify as to the initial framework of roughs sets - as distinct from the more recent extensions and generalizations. As an example, the sub-section Rough Membership Function is moved to Extentions and Generalizations as this approach is a later development of classical descriptions of rough set theory. Happy to discuss further if needed. Next step is to get the references on the page appropriately structured. Mari370 (talk) 06:39, 18 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Readability and Flow 

message: In particular, notation introduced of the form  [x]_P is not explained or defined, making the article very hard to follow.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by JoshLemer (talk • contribs) 17:11, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: "The equivalence classes of the ...-indiscernibility relation are denoted ..." -- it is explained! 194.113.250.4 (talk) 09:07, 8 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mathematical notation is not obvious or explained
Talk:Maniraptoriformes

message: J.Spencer wrote: "liked except 1 line about Harpy, something like Ornitholestes or Coelurus is probably closer in form to the first maniraptoriforms than a relatively specialized animal." I based the notion of Harpymimas being closest to the ancestral Maniraptoformes on the Harpymimus-Deinocheirus split being 3 morphological changes away from the ancestral Maniroptoriformes (which is very close) as opposed to 7 morphological changes to the Ornitholestes-Maniraptora split and to the Pelicanimimus split, according to Senter (2007). I'm aware that that's an unreliable guide, in part because there's no information about how far Harpymimus is from the Harpymimus-Deinocheirus split, and in part because I haven't looked up other research articles. Why do you say that Harpymimus is relatively specialized? Mollwollfumble (talk) 05:26, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Cladograms don't really represent number of morphological changes, just order of morphological changes. There could have been two or a thousand between the basal maniraptoran and Harpymimus. From what we know, Ornitholestes is more plesiomorphic--which means more primitive, that is less changed from the ancestral condition. Dinoguy2 (talk) 12:49, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That's about right.  Judging from the basal members of maniraptoriform groups, the first maniraptoriforms were probably bipedal carnivores with relatively long arms and gracile legs, a meter or two long overall, and lacking the specializations of the various groups.  Something like Ornitholestes or Coelurus fit the bill reasonably well, although each is odd in its own way (stocky limbs and small head of Ornitholestes, extreme gracility and hyperelongate legs of Coelurus); perhaps the compsognathids (real group or hypsilophodont-like grade) instead? J. Spencer (talk) 23:45, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Don't like Harpymimas? 

message: To discuss the proposed merge with Coelurosauria, please see here. A Cynical Idealist (talk) 00:07, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge Proposal
Talk:Tarantula (The Smashing Pumpkins song)

message: As one can tell from the discussion below and on various internet forums, the cover art seems to have stirred up quite a bit of controversy. Should it have it's own section? Corgan recently gave an interview where he discussed the photo shoot, it appears he took the actual photo of Paris:
http://www.stereogum.com/archives/billy-corgan-opens-up-about-the-paris-hilton-singl.html
PAT or JK 18:16, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Because she's in front of a mushroom cloud, but most viewers would notice Paris Hilton first.  I think it's a pretty potent statement on our priorities.  What that has to do with the song, who the hell knows.  Same goes for the title, for crying out loud. -Werideatdusk33 18:57, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow, I just saw a video where he talks about it, and you're right, he does pronounce it that way - he even emphasizes the "u" as he leads into talking about how it's sort of an homage to the Scorpions (like it's a Tarantella in the style of the Scorpions).  Although the meter and the pronunciation make it almost certain that this is what was intended, and although there are dozens of wikipedia articles with far worse sourced statements than this, I still hesitate to do anything.  Anybody else wanna chime in, or have any other sources on this? ;)71.61.64.113 14:06, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Why is Paris Hilton the cover?

message: Is the song title a reference to the Dylan experimental novel, Tarantula?  StevePrutz 15:23, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bob Dylan reference? 

message: Anyone want to go around the forums to verify?
:Forums are not reliable sources per Wikipedia guidelines. WesleyDodds 19:10, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reception of 30-sec Clip 

message: Can we get a reference for that? Godlord2 01:59, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chart position 

message: The CD has arrived in the UK but the vinyl seemingly hasn't made it yet. 128.240.229.67 12:04, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  vinyl availability 

message: Is it me or does the song sound like something written by Wolfgang? Philippine Rock music fans know who I am talking about. 202.65.191.138 (talk) 07:55, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Influence?
Talk:Intelligence officer

message: Sometime around 2000, the United States Intelligence Community adopted a more "corporate" vocabulary and began referring to agents as assets.[5] Intelligence Agents can be of several types...
There is evidence that it goes further back than the footnote mentioned...
see http://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/12/obituaries/james-angleton-counterintelligence-figure-dies.html?pagewanted=print
& the use of the phrase "Isreali account"  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.188.154.38 (talk) 21:59, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of Corporate Jargon 
Talk:Incense clock

message: I'm trying to figure out what publication the reference "^Richards" is meant to refer to. It's the very first reference listed, but there's no actual information about the source. This appears to have been a problem since it was first added to this entry in September of 2008: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Incense_clock&direction=next&oldid=241184279
Ewhetstone (talk) 17:32, 5 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing reference information
Talk:Kochanek–Bartels spline

message: Shouldn't all P_{i} differences be divided by the distance (\Delta x_{i})? For example  P_i - P_{i-1} -> \frac{P_i - P_{i-1}}{x_{i} - x_{i-1}} Sednodna (talk) 11:20, 23 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Normalized

message: May 9, 2007.  Discovered my article referenced here.
The article of mine referred to is extracted from a Quick Basic program I developed back in the 90's to examine and compare the behavior of all the types of piecewise polynomial interpolation.  It has over 30 types of basis matrix.  It includes all the common types and some I developed myself.  I also developed a relatively simple method of interpolating between two curve types.  That is, an additional parameter is defined which when varied from a value of zero to 1, makes the curve go from the behavior of one type of interpolation smoothly to the other.  It also allows going between basis matrices of different order.  eg. going from quadratic Bezier to cubic Bezier.
Regards, Steve Noskowicz  Email enabled.
EngineerSteve 03:45, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Provincial Assembly of the Punjab

message: Heavily reworked the sections about the site history.  My intention was not to change the factual content, only presentation.  Knowledgeable editors should check carefully. :)sinneed (talk) 21:37, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copy work 

message: zxzv--> Subhaniyah (talk) 10:38, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Cannolis (talk) 10:42, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 21 July 2022 

message: the speaker has suspended like 27 seats on court order. (SIC reserved seats issue). Does this page reflect that? 3catsmumu (talk) 09:04, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reserves seats
Talk:Conestoga Senior High School

message: "Because of its performance on the Pennsylvania System of School Assessments, Conestoga received extra funding from the state."
Needs verification
Miserlou 02:03, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Old comments

message: The school keeps deleting all references to this. It should stay. Miserlou 01:10, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: how do you know it's the school? and i think it should go just to get rid of all the trouble. -Colorfulharp233 19:54, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

text: I disagree.  That a teacher was, in the recent past, convicted or pedophilia is relevant to the school's article.  --ElKevbo 02:30, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

text: The actions on an institution's employees, particularly when those actions are completely contrary to the person's professional ethics, are appropriate topics in an encyclopedia article about that institution.  It's unfortunate and there may not have been any way for the institution to know but the fact remains that a high school teacher was convicted of "a misdemeanor charge of corruption of a minor for having sexual contacts [with a 16 year old girl]."  --ElKevbo 01:25, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

text: The goal of wikipedia is not to reflect positively on the school. If there is a relevant claim with a verifying source, it should be included. Miserlou 05:48, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Genovese 

message: I have moved the discussion from the old page to this one. The freddinator 03:00, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move Page
Talk:Zamzama

message: It is rubbish.
Fatidiot1234 (talk) 04:06, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Someone should delete this article 
Talk:Comics & Games Retailer

message: Usually I'd go in and change it, but I figured it's better of discussing here since it's a difficult call.  This article has the Category:Collectible Card games; I see no evidence of this being a collectible card game.  I propose removing the Category; however, I have nothing to replace it with except "Card Game Publishing Companies" and even that seems a bit out of place.  I'll return to this page later with more suggestions on Category replacements and leave it untouched for the moment.  Cadwal 06:14, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Elvis (comic strip)

message: Is it certain Elvis is middle-aged? I'd always assumed he was 30- or 40-something, based on his video game interest and pop culture savvyness. 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 16:21, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: He also recently got a daughter (3-4 years old now). So I always assumed he's around 30.--Christoffre (talk) 10:52, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Middle-aged?
Talk:Searsport, Maine

message: Actually, if I recall correctly, David Sears of Boston did not give that much money to the town.  It was named in his honor, since he maintained an estate there, on Sears Island.  He donated something around one thousand dollars in recognition of the honor, towards the building of the original town hall.
143.229.136.192 03:19, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This is amusing and I was looking for more info, but found nothing about it in the citation listed: "In 1747, when fire destroyed the Province House in Boston, General Samuel Waldo advocated, unsuccessfully, that the capital of Massachusetts be moved to Searsport, which was part of the Waldo Patent he purchased about 1720." Does anyone have any more details or a source of this story?  Also, I didn't see any fire listed in 1747 for the Province House of Boston. TurilCronburg (talk) 15:38, 31 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation for proposal to make Searsport the capital of Mass?
Talk:Operation New Life

message: What does this paragraph from the Wiki article mean?
I went to the site reference provided wwww.globalsecurity.org/military/ops/new_life.htm and viewed a longer version of the wiki article including the following quote.
Does this indicate that there were refugees who changed their mind and wished to return to the newly socialist Republic of South Vietnam?
Also, I tried to access the two source sites listed by www.globalsecurity.org on the above referenced site.
:www.cidss.af.mil: Operation Babylift and New Life by Lea Arakaki - 15th Air Base Wing historian
:www.cidss.af.mil: The Commander's Humanitarian Efforts by Anne M. Bazzell PACAF Office of History
And received the following message instead of a page.
I've never received such a message before and I access numerious U.S. ".mil" sites and never was denied entry except where it required sign-on. Would someone else try the sites and report back to me. I realize that this is kind of dumb, but as I said, I've never received such a message before.--TGC55 (talk) 18:20, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Politically-sensitive refugees?
Talk:Diane Borchardt

message: Except for the last paragraph about the car and the son changing his story, this is the exact plot of Seduced By Madness: The Diane Borchardt Story.  I came here to find out how accurate the movie is.  We can't just except everey detail to be true.  I think this page should be fixed.  Maybe say that it's based on a movie and add a spoiler alert. KannD86 03:25, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: This is the summary of the tv movie based on Diane Borchardt

message: A trampy woman? Trampy? No wonder Britannica isn't feeling the heat.KhProd1 (talk) 09:29, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Somebody didn't really write what I think I read, did they?
Talk:Full Tilt (novel)

message: Post here if you know any thing! please!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.175.77.18 (talk) 00:10, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You mean, like, the storyline and stuff? I do and have been working on the article, but it still needs work. I was going to update to plot, but my internet was out for a few days.WhiteArcticWolf (talk) 01:43, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've forgotten almost everything from when I read it, but the current recap needs lots of work, it kinda glosses over things too much, reveals things out of order, etc.etc. Came here to try and figure out the name of the characters for a fanfic. ηoian ‡orever ηew ‡rontiers 22:46, 28 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ful Tilt Recap 

message: School Bus yellow
Osiris = Mythology (also maybe how Set deceived Osiris)
Cassandra from fall of Troy.
ηoian ‡orever ηew ‡rontiers 06:26, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mentioning themes, symbols 

message: This talk page's edit history shows early domination by worthless and otherwise vandalistic entries], since removed.   Since then, two good-faith talk contributions in the 1st months of 2008 (that i'd have retained) were also discarded, IMO opinion insignificantly harming its purpose.--Jerzy•t 17:29, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Casual audit
Talk:Gretsch Drums

message: I have started cleaning up this article. It may not be perfect; some information is still un-updated, and some parts of the article still needs to be reformmated. I'm quite busy at the moment, so I hope for people who are able to help. Optakeover 03:28, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clean up

message: The Gretsch Nighthawk Drums are missing.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.6.119.211 (talk) 20:06, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Nighthawk series

message: If you look carefully at the discussion above, the notability of the article is questioned but there seems no logical or policy-based reason for this, and no evidence is given despite an easily-tested claim of notability. The contributor who originally posted the notability tag  gave no rationale at all.
So, I'm removing the tag. If you reinstate it please give a rationale. Andrewa (talk) 23:23, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Notability tag

message: From above At present it gives undue weight to their range of equipment.... 
This isn't really an undue weight issue. Wikipedia:Neutral point of view#Due and undue weight reads in part An article should not give undue weight to any aspects of the subject but should strive to treat each aspect with a weight appropriate to its significance to the subject. Read in isolation this could be seen to justify the comment above, but read in context gives a completely different sense. The section, and the entire page, is about POV, not about the absence of balance just because other relevant information has yet to be added.
The question is not whether the information on current product range is unbalanced, but whether it is encyclopedic. Similar material appears in the Pearl Drums article, in a very similar format. It seems to me that such information should be added to several other articles on other drum companies, rather than removed from this one.
But this lack of balance is one of the several reasons the article currently reads like a sales catalogue. It does need addressing. It's just not an undue weight issue as Wikipedia uses the term. Andrewa (talk) 18:56, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Undue weight

message: Can anyone be specific as to what the problem is here? The only references that seem to be self-published at the time the tag was added  seem to be to the official website.
WP:SELFPUB does state as one of the five criteria for such sources being valid the article is not based primarily on such sources, and that was and still is true, so I'm guessing that's the problem. But that's not a matter of the sources not being acceptable, it's that we want others as well. The sources all meet the other four criteria. Andrewa (talk) 16:47, 5 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: In that nobody speaks, I'm removing the tag. Please provide some rationale if you reinstate it. Andrewa (talk) 23:13, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Self-published sources
Talk:Du Bois-Reymond lemma

message: * Merge: this is very close to the fundamental lemma of the calculus of variations as I learned it, and may even be the fundamental lemma of the calculus of variations for some readers. I vote that we merge the articles and make "Du Bois-Reymond lemma" a redirect to the FLCV. Sullivan.t.j 03:33, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Rehmeyer's Hollow

message: So does anyone have any good stories about what has happened to them at Rehmeyer's Hollow?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.117.51.106 (talk) 23:45, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Is the movie "Apprentice to murder" based on this? 62.47.42.183 (talk) 06:10, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments