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Talk:Magic: The Gathering/Archive 1

message: Just a warning: The Magic card images posted (6 magic cards from various editions) may fall under copyright. I say "may" because I don't know for sure. Mike Church 15:15, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: They do fall under copyright, but historically the copyright holders have been lenient in allowing websites to use images of cards; most of the popular strategy and vendor websites (Star City, Brainburst, Find Magic Cards, Anycraze) post full images of thousands of individual cards, and I cannot recall a single case where Hasbro or Wizards asked a site to take their images down. Six cards should be alright. Andrewlevine 17:03, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: thats interesting because I added a picture of a black lotus on this page a few months ago and some paranoid pedian complained and took it down. Vroman 19:58, 26 Mar 2004 (UTC)

text: Don't know if I like the pictures posted, mostly because they don't show the card borders. I may come back and edit, be nice to show a selection of cards (Alpha, 8th edition, Unglued, etc.). -- Netoholic 21:46, 28 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Card Photos 

message: Could www.Magic-League.com be added to the "Playing Magic on the Internet-section" and/or to the related links section? E-League actually hasn't got a ratings system anymore. We also run some tournaments with Magic Workstation, another online play application. But it is still in beta stages. Koen 20:29, 7 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Magic-League.com 

message: "People who own more than $1000 in Magic cards are empirically more likely to get septed than those who do not, by a margin believed to be roughly 75 percent."
what the hell is this about? Vroman 02:06, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know either, but I reverted it. Someone trying to be funny I suppose. -- Netoholic 04:27, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Septing 

message: How about doing an article about every Magic set? That's what I'm going to do. Some help is needed though. Want to participiate? See User:Grue/MTGSets for more information. Grue 09:07, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Magic: The Gathering Sets Project

message: The article says "Lands are colorless, and are never considered spells."   (my italics)
Is it accurate that Lands are colorless? RJFJR 14:23, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep, they are. Grue 16:19, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for confirming this. RJFJR 16:52, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Colors of Lands

message: If Magic has Medium rules complexity and strategy depth, what are some examples of games with High?  Very few games have been infobox'd, so I have no idea what the scale we're looking at is.  Also, is "Some" a consistent term when the other terms are things like High/Medium/Low?  Shouldn't all three categories, in fact, be High/Medium/Low?  (I noticed Monopoly (game) uses "Easy" for Rules Complexity, but I'll take it up with that Talk page :) ) 209.114.249.74 20:01, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Game Infobox
Talk:Opacity (disambiguation)

message: Opacity (Environmental) - is the attenuation of light.  As a light source of intensity "Io" is transmitted through a medium, particulate within the flue gas blocks, i.e, attenuates, the energy of the transmitted beam resulting in beam of less intensity "Ir". The difference "Io - Ir" is referred to as the amount of opacity. Ddelmo (talk) 19:00, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That should go into the article and make it more than a disambig page, certainly. Also of note, I think the under used word "Pellucid" is the opposite of "Opaque", since "translucent" is a measure of some kind of passage of light but not a tendency in that regard. 67.5.157.160 (talk) 08:42, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

text: That usage is now covered under the link for Opacity (optics). Jason Quinn (talk) 18:46, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Optical opacity
Talk:Héctor Germán Oesterheld

message: Is Misterix really a French magazine ? From what I read, it is a magazine from Argentin. Is there somebody here to confirm that ? Lvr 12:57, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Seams you are right. Though it was also edited in Spain, Italy and france during the 1970s. -Mariano 13:47, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Misterix
Talk:Kazimierz Skorupka

message: 1. In my opinon it is doubtful whether this guy deserves an article. One on hand he was part of the resistance movement, but then again so where tens of thousands of other Poles, many of whom where also killed by the Nazis. The question here is whether his contribution was important enough to warrent an article. Based purely on the information here, I would say probably not. Although him being awarded a medal for his actions is probably the strongest case for inclusion. It would be better to try to find some other sources. In any case, if included the article probably should be alot shorter.
2. The original text most likely comes form a book of important figures in the Polish Boy Scouts. Firstly this might lead to copyright problems (I don't really know much about licensing matters). Secondly we dont have the actually source and as the text was posted by an anon, we probably won't find it. Thirdly, I have a strong suspicion that the original text may be heavily bias, which leads to my third point.
3. Assuming this is from Boy Scout literature, which to me seems to be of a Communist vintage it is highly likely that there are exaggerations and omissions, to bring the text in line with official State and Boy Scout propaganda. Again, this is impossible to verify. A lot of the time the text reads like a eulogy. I've left some of the more blatant stuff untranslated (things like "he was a cuorteous and upstanding man, loved by all who followed the Scout code to the letter, ect.) 
Overall, does not lend itself to become a strong enclycopeadic article, but perhaps with some work from critically minded wikipedians, it might be turned into something decent. --BadSeed 13:26, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problems with the Article 

message: As I am unfamiliar with Boy Scout terminology, having never been part of that dubious organisation myself. Hence I'm uncertain of may of the term used in the text. In most cases I have left the Polish in parenthesis. If this article is accepted and gets wikified, it would be a good idea to get someone, preferably a bilingual former scout to proofread the translation. --BadSeed 13:26, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notes to the Translation
Talk:Accelerated language learning

message: I agree with the sentiments of the guys below.  Perhaps not in the detail.  There is a plethora of information out there on so called accelerated learning.  Most of it conjecture.  I do not think that should mean we dismiss it out of hand, but it should be clear what is proven by research and what is not.  I think the best thing to do is to change the title to Acclerated learning rather than specifically focussing in on language. (Dave Catlin 10:54, 11 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's been a long time coming, but I've merged this to Suggestopedia, as the language part seems pretty much directly related to it, and I can't find any clear explanations of it in its own right. I'll make a redirect from accelerated learning to Suggestopedia too - someone can turn that into an article later if they feel like it (and can find the sources). — Mr. Stradivarius ♫ 14:43, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Saffron (Firefly)

message: I've just created this article on the rather amusing character Saffron from Firefly, and I feel a bit too enamored of my own writing. I think it may be a bit fancruftian at the moment. Can someone give it a more objective editing? Thanks. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 13:12, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

message: Isn't the stuff above the spoiler warning actually a pretty big spoiler for OMR?
: Good point. However, I'm not sure what to do about it. Starting off this article describing her misleading initial appearance to the crew doesn't seem right for an encyclopedia article introduction. But placing a spoiler message at the very top of the article seems bizarre and unlikely to serve its purpose. (Have you ever tried not looking at something shoved in your face?) Any suggestions? ~ Jeff Q (talk) 21:46, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Spoiler

message: There is an active discussion about merging this article into Minor characters in Firefly at Talk:Minor characters in Firefly#Merger: Saffron. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 08:07, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger
Talk:Parisi v. Davidson

message: "freeing the District Court to consider his petition". So was he ultimately successful? Tearlach 13:23, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Outcome?

message: ẮḺ‿þąŔíŹį  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 36.81.131.3 (talk) 03:00, 7 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  tyewwre
Talk:Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec

message: The sentence beginning "Until last year, when General Motors shut its doors"
needs to be rewritten to use a specific date or year,
since it will become outdated within a year (if it has not already).
However, my web searches haven't turned up any references to the closing
mentioning the actual date, so I can't fix this.
Steve Summit 13:31, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: GM

message: I can't speak to possible locations in Western Canada, but I know that Volvo has long since operated a successful assembly plant in Nova Scotia. Thus, the statement that it was the only Canadian automobile assembly plant outside of Ontario is wrong.
:It's probably meant to speak about Auto-Pact companies (GM, Ford, Chrysler) 70.51.10.188 (talk) 03:22, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, as far as I know, the GM plant was part of Boisbriand, the neighboring town. So someone should probably remove that statement. 24.203.73.70 (talk) 02:38, 3 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Only Assembly Plant in Canada Outside of Ontario
Talk:Mock object

message: I hope I managed to make this article more accessible to laypeople; in particular, I felt that the e-mail client example was too technical for this article.  I realize most of us Wikipedia geeks are, well, geeks, but really, this isn't Slashdot. Ataru 18:51, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rework 

message: Would a reference to the fact that many people would still use the term "stub" make everything clearer.
A stub is a "mock object" a "mock object" is a stub.
Stubs are used in both procedural and OO languages. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.206.19.160 (talk • contribs) 
: Despite the fact that 90% the distinction makes little difference, proponents of Extreme Programming usually assert that they are different entities, on the ground that while stubs only act as placeholders for volatile services, mock objects can also have expectations attached to them. Martin Fowler wrote a very good piece on this: http://www.martinfowler.com/articles/mocksArentStubs.html — Edward Z. Yang(Talk) 01:31, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. The article shouldn't say that mocks "are" stubs, but it's probably a good idea to include a section comparing them to stubs or at least mention that they're similar, instead of just having stubs in the "see also". Babomb 17:47, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stub vs Mock 

message: I'd like to suggest a change to the final link in the list of external links ("Mocking the Embedded World"). I am the principal author of the original paper.
Methods & Tools Newsletter (the current destination of the link being discussed) approached me asking if they could publish the work. I agreed and provided an edited and condensed version of the original paper.
The full paper AND an executable example project can be found at another link (http://www.atomicobject.com/pages/Embedded+Software#MockingEmbeddedWorld). Perhaps this is a more useful external link; as such, I offer for consideration that the link be updated. Mkarlesky (talk) 18:24, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Having not seen any objections, I've gone ahead and updated the 'Mocking the Embedded World' external link to the one suggested above. Mkarlesky (talk) 21:21, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestion: 'Mocking the Embbedded World' external link change?
Talk:GeoCities

message: This currently reads like a series of adverts for each of the archive websites.  Is it possible to compare them and reduce the number recommended? Tim (Xevious) (talk) 09:05, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Would be nice to see a comparison, but I do not see urgency of reducing the number. --Zblace (talk) 17:04, 21 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Archive section needs tidying 

message: https://www.geocities.cc/
As of 2021 this group is trying to use geocities but with a .cc address.2601:640:C600:3C20:E460:BABD:B56B:7C8C (talk) 02:16, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: There is a group out there trying to use the name Geocities
Talk:Southampton

message: Is Soton/Sot'on really a nickname or just the abbreviation used on road signs and markings? in 35 years in the city I've never heard it actually voiced. Can someone find a reference for this claim. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 19:20, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I never heard anyone say it when I lived there 1960s and 1970s. (If anyone did say it, they wouldn’t have pronounced the t in any case!) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Northernhenge (talk • contribs) 20:35, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a fairly common abbreviation, and was especially common in the 1990s/2000s when the University's domain name was soton.ac.uk - and of course a person from Southampton is called a sotonian. That said, I wouldn't call it a nickname as such, just a common alternative name / abbreviation. WaggersTALK 10:24, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi 148.74.78.43 (talk) 23:40, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nickname 

message: the titanic sinking 2 made in uk 7,000&die icehit of ano eto MOVIE lang buo set 31 day 112.206.56.19 (talk) 09:14, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  titanic
Talk:Sarada Devi

message: "Sarada Devi was a spiritual giant in her own right"? "Those who associated with her were overwhelmed by her unconditional love and selfless service. All were her children irrespective of nationality, religious affiliation, or social position. No one was ever turned away. She accepted all"? I'm afraid that's not a suitable tone for an encyclopedia. I'm, however, so overwhelmingly ignorant of the subject of Devi's life that I'm not willing to edit it. 62.57.4.185 14:00, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I have rewritten the lead, it had an unencyclopedic tone, dwelt with her biography in greater detail. — Nvineeth talk 12:09, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead rewritten 

message: * Quote in infobox needs a ref
* "Ramchandra's earned his living as a farmer and through the performance of priestly duties". Something is wrong shouldn't it be "Ramchandra earned his living as a farmer and through the performance of priestly duties"
* "and was considered generous by ________" Fill in the blanks
* "She is said to have started meditating on the Divine Mother": Shakti, Devi, Kali?
* "was practicing spiritual austerities at that time" vague. yr?
* "According to Saradananda" who is he?
* "addressing her as the Holy Mother" Did Ramakrishna know english? There must an accurate Bengali term, Holy Mother may be a translation. Shouldn't Sri Maa used throughout?
--Redtigerxyz  Talk  14:13, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestions 

message: Can I create an article on 'Mayer Bari', Udbodhan? I'm afraid that I don't have much information presently.--Soumit Banerjee (talk) 09:47, 21 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Already there is a small article. I have linked it to the title "Udbodhan". Please develop it. The best source would be the website of Udbodhan. —BlisSalvation (talk) 09:21, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: An article about [[Udbodhan]]
Talk:Liberty Stadium (Swansea)

message: This article is about the ground of Swansea City A.F.C.. As you can see it doesn't have much information! Bornintheguz 14:06, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

message: It's not brilliant, but it's about the best I could do from the window of a passing train on the up line.  I might see if I can get a better picture from the down line next time I head some. Chris talk back 19:19, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo 

message: This article is showing up in :Category:Articles with unsourced statements due to the comment "However, many fans still prefer to use the working title of White Rock." Whilst I appreciate the idea of carrying on the name (copper works and all that), the most common name I hear is the Morfa. So can we either find a cite or lose this? Telsa (talk) 21:31, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently we couldn't find a cite so I nuked it. Telsa (talk) 13:37, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: The name

message: Practically since it was created, the article has said 20,280 for the capacity. BBC last night reported 20,530, and during the game (Ospreys v Aus), the television showed the higher number come up on the board in the stadium. It's mentioned in the press today. So where did the figure 20,280 come from? Telsa (talk) 13:37, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I remember the figure of 20,280 coming from news reports but checking on the web now the figure varies depending on which site you look at.  The number of seats can be anything from 20,000 to 20,580.  There is also talk of increasing the capacity by 3,000 seats or so, since at the moment they have to turn fans away from Swans matches due to high demand.  I don't think you can ever put an exact figure on it as they can put in temporary seating sometimes to cope with demand.  I also wonder if the VIP boxes/rooms are taken into account when counting seats since they can have loads of variation in temporary seating.  Maybe the most accurate thing that can be stated is that the stadium has just over 20,000 seats. (Sloman 17:30, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  When I head down to the Stadium tomorrow to purchase Crewe tickets I will ask for the official seating figure Craig Map 00:36, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Did you get a chance to do this, Craig Map? Because the latest number is different again. The BBC reported the Boxing Day derby crowd as "sell-out" and "20,500". Telsa (talk) 14:37, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  When I was at the Liberty Stadium today I asked in the Ticket Office for the official attendance which was quoted at 20,532 Craig Map 23:43, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Capacity
Talk:Matthew 2:1

message: Why are the Bible quotes in pseudo-verse layout? DJ Clayworth 22:31, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Mainly for aesthetic reasons. It looks good, and makes explicitly clear that the text of the verse is not part of the encyclopedia article. These articles also contain frequent quotes from scholars, and having a somewhat different formatting for the verses from the standard one for long quotes is also useful. There is also an alternate method, used at Matthew 2:16 and some other verses, of placing the text in a table. - SimonP 23:11, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: For some reason my last edit (13:20, 18 December 2005) was unsigned.  It is per User_talk:SimonP. NTK 13:29, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  WEB
Talk:Matthew 2:11

message: :According to the chronology in Luke the magi must have visited only a few days after Jesus' birth
Why does the article bring up the matter of consistency with the chronology of Luke? Luke doesn't mention the Magi Pictureuploader 21:46, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The magi are not mentioned, but the Gospel of Luke states that the family left Bethlehem within eight days of Jesus' birth. - SimonP 22:14, 22 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Luke
Talk:Matthew 2:15

message: "This verse contains Matthew's third direct quote from the Old Testament. This brief line is from Hosea 11:1. It is not a direct copy from any extant version of Hosea. The most important change is that the author of Matthew replaces "my children" with "my son". This verse in Hosea is fairly clearly a description of the events in the Exodus, and not a piece of prophecy. Why Matthew seems to take this brief quote out of context and away from its original meaning has been long disputed by scholars..."
Ummm... I have checked several versions of the Bible and none of them have Matthew replace "my children" with "my son": "When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and out of Egypt I called My son..." (Hosea 11.1 the Hebrew Bible in English - http://www.mechon-mamre.org/e/et/et1311.htm). "The Lord says, “When Israel was a child, I loved him and called him out of Egypt as my son." "where he stayed until Herod died. This was done to make come true what the Lord had said through the prophet, “I called my Son out of Egypt.”(Hosea 11.1 & Matthew 2.15 Good News Translation) 
Yes, Hosea 11.1 was clearly referring to the the children of Israel, not to a literal son of God. But while the story in Matthew is about Jesus, Matthew does not actually replace "my children" with "my son" (that first part is simply omitted).
And since Hosea was not referring to a literal son of God, would Matthew have used that verse to mean that Jesus was the literal son of God? Given that the overwhelming majority of Matthew's gospel tells us that he did not believe that Jesus was the divine son of God, neither should Matthew 2.15 have originally meant that Jesus was the literal son of God. (Or it might not have originally been a part of Matthew's gospel). Alan B25 (talk) 15:48, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hosea 11.1
Talk:Dirty joke

message: On a pedantic note, let me just state that "Superman was flying over a city. He saw Wonder Woman on top of one of the buildings with her legs wide open. I'm feeling horny, he thought to himself. I'll just swoop in at the speed of light, do my thing and be out of there. So he swooped down at light speed. Got himself done and flew away without being noticed. "What was that?" asked wonder woman. "I don't know but I got a sore ass", replied the Invisible Girl." makes no sense. The Invisible Man is drawn from the H.G. Wells story of the same name, while Superman and Wonder Woman are DC Comics trademarked characters. The fact that they are all in the same continuity, in the same era, is illogical. ;) jglc | t | c 14:19, 22 July 2005 (UTC)

message: This article was redirected after merging as a result of a Vote for Deletion. The discussion can be found here. -Splash 02:49, 31 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Vote for Deletion