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Talk:Sociological naturalism

message: The first sentence needs revision.  It states that "christine passerelli is a flaming homo and evelina woljaksghajksh is pmsing all day every day."  Can somebody please improve upon this?  Thank you.  Terry Brighton (talk) 05:44, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: A google search turns up mostly references in free sorts of publications - only a couple of passing uses of the term (that i saw) in sociological literature. The notion seems a valid one as it relates to early positivism in sociology. 
The text of the first version of this article is the same as that on this page, including links selected: 
Sociological naturalism
http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Sociological+naturalism 
It seems possible that this was copied to WP from thefreedictionary.com, as the definition is referenced on multiple pages in the thefreedictionary.com and related publications.
Should this be rewritten with references or dropped? What to do? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Reswik (talk • contribs) 02:51, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Source of this entry: thefreedictionary.com. What to do?

message: The article currently says:
In modern sociology, naturalism has been replaced by antinaturalism, as most sociologists agreed that the social world, based on human actions, differs from the natural world, governed by laws of physics.
Really? Sociologists think that humans aren't governed by the laws of physics? I highly doubt this. 86.143.239.106 (talk) 00:58, 11 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disputed 

message: This article is unreferenced, a bit of a mess, and although the concept of naturalism is discussed in sociology in discussions over the scientific method, I'm not really convinced 'sociological naturalism' forms a coherent or official term. Bearing in mind the sociological positivism article needs so much work as it is, I'd recommend any decent nuggets from this article be merged into that, and this replaced with a redirect --Tomsega (talk) 23:20, 8 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge into sociological positivism
Talk:Mohra Sharif

message: Before making changes to this page, let's have a discussion. Darbar-e-Aaliya Mohra Sharif is not devoted to only one school of thought. The presence of two different ideologies is a fact and the purpose of an encyclopedia is to present the information without any bias/affiliation. I lend you my hand in friendship to collectively work on this page to present the true information in an un-biased and neutral manner. Hope this will be accepted.
--خرم Khurram (talk) 15:44, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Facts Without Any Bias 

message: article without reference can't be anything SaneFlint (talk) 18:12, 6 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs citations.
Talk:Takelma

message: I am in the process of adding cultural data. --Nan Hannon 03:29, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: nice. thank you for contributing. – ishwar  (speak) 04:47, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: adding

message: I appreciate the continued efforts to add information to this article, as there is little known about one of the most turbulent time periods in Oregon history. The Rogue River Wars were a devastating reminder of how shifting Indian Policy in the West was unable to control the vast majority of ignorant settlers who decided to take the law into their own hands. While this statement is biased, it is certainly not without merit. To have knowledge is to gain a small semblance of wisdom. Perhaps then, our children can learn the truth of how this great nation was formed on the lands of its first inhabitants.
S. Scott —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.216.254.252 (talk) 07:02, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Appreciation 
Talk:Mangalorean Konkani

message: This page needs to be expanded to chronicle the separate but parallel history of the Hindu and Christian Konkanis of Mangalore-Tuluva. WikiSceptic 03:32, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

message: Dear Konknni friends,
Konkani Wikipedia has been started and been in test stage since August 2006.
Kindly contribute towards the Konkani wikipedia. We intend to make it a multiscript 
Wikipeida. At least tri-script with Roman ,Devanangiri and Kannada scripts since these are the most popular ones.
We would like to get more articles/templates in place. 
We also need volunteers to do the thankless and boring job of transliterating it to different scripts .
As of now only two members are making active contributions. The more the merrier. Your contribution is vital to its success.
The url is given below:
http://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Konkani_Wikipedia
Dev boro dees deum! -Deepak D'Souza 05:38, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Konkani Wikipedia
Talk:Maxillary sinus

message: I'm in the process of expanding this page.
I changed info on hiatus semilunaris.  It's torus tubarius and the auditory canal that communicate with the middle ear, and that's farther back in the nasopharynx. Stinkbeard 06:53, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: In evolutionary terms or just a functional description?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.81.147.173 (talk) 06:17, 9 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: What is their Function?
Talk:The Parson's Tale

message: A sermon is a talk on a religious or moral subject given by a member of the clergy as part of a religious service; a long and tedious talk, especially one telling somebody how or how not to behave. In his prologue he says that he wants to tell a story of “virtuous sentence”. When he says sentence he means sententious. Sententious means tending to use, or full of, maxims and aphorism; inclined to moralizes more than is merited or appreciated; expressing much in few words. Sententious has the connotation of being pompous which is how he acts. That is why he tells a sermon. He wants to moralize people and since he is pompous, he talks in a rather haughty tone.
uyuigjjh ijskfjkfngiqrhey heyhehy  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.183.148.220 (talk) 17:01, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Sententious
Talk:Lake Ruataniwha

message: Fixed up some incorrect info regards the rowing connection and Man Made Hill - I was there at the time so I'm fairly sure that I'm right :-)--Snori 03:52, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably worth getting a proper reference on this. It's not that the lake wasn't planned, per se, but that it was built before the plan had been approved. Or at least that's my understanding, which is supported by at least one dubious interweb reference  and an acquaintance who was there.Limegreen 21:22, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The lake is named after Ruataniwha Station, there seems to be no question about that, but where did that name come from?
* The Maori name for Ben Ohau 
:Seems pretty likely - it's the dominant peak in the area.
* This peak was named for "...a Maori chief who was drowned when the canoe Arai-te-uru sank near Moeraki in the 12th century..." Sheridan, Page 309, and , and 
:So, all is clear? 
:Except that other suggestions also exist:
* Allegorically for two strong brothers 
* A placename: "den or pit of the taniwha" "History of a Great River", by Nick Karaitiana"
:The least likely is simply that "...in Maori the name means two monsters". While this seems credible because everyone learns both rua/two and taniwha/water-monster at school - in fact none of the credible sources here give that meaning.Snori (talk) 16:38, 14 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Name

message: Is it worth distinguishing this article from the one on Ruataniwha Water Storage Scheme? Johnragla (talk) 19:00, 14 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Distinguish from Ruataniwha Water Storage Scheme?
Talk:HaOlam HaZeh

message: Matzpen wrote about Ha-Olam ha-zeh:
: “Name of an Israeli weekly magazine. Usually, a party issues periodicals. In this case a periodical issued a political party. In peacetime this party is always for peace; in wartime it is always for war.” Matzpen: אנטי-אולפן Anti-Ulpan, 1969.
Which war(s) were they referring to? --Babel fish (talk) 16:17, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Matzpen
Talk:Rhinarium

message: The presence of a rhinarium is associated with general features of the skull, especially the lateral placement of the eyes, and its absence with front-facing eyes
ummm, I'm not an anatomy expert, but don't dogs have forward facing eyes? I know they have a rhinarium and not an absence of one. Perhaps it should say "a tendency towards absence". Anyone who knows more should look at that.
:This is indeed nonsense and so I've removed it. I think the author was perhaps trying to make the point that haplorrhines with their missing rhinarium rely more on vision than on smell, but haplorrhines are clearly not the only mammals with forward-facing eyes and while all primates are pretty visually inclined, they don't all lack a rhinarium. It's a shame Wikipedia has this kind of poor scholarship lying around. 79.68.223.68 (talk) 17:56, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Forward-facing eyes

message: Can anyone find anything about the appearance of the rhinarium? Am I right in thinking it is a therian synapomorphy? Marsupials seem to have it, but having a duck bill like a platypus would seem to preclude its possession. Needs a source though. 79.68.223.68 (talk) 18:28, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Evolution of the rhinarium

message: The initial first sentence before I started work here was lifted word for word from Websters' Quotations, Facts and Phrases. Don't do that. What good is that? We don't need to repeat things that already repeated on the Internet dozens of times. I do see any advantage whatever. Why would you steal for us without getting anything for it? And then someone later has to fix it. You discredit Wikipedia and yourself for zero advantage, so why bother? Learn different habits, you'll like it better, I guarantee it.Dave (talk) 17:48, 13 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Plagiarism
Talk:Coryphaena

message: I disagree with merging this article with Mahi Mahi.  The family Coryphaenidae contains 2 species, and Mahi Mahi is only one of these; the Pompano dolphinfish is the other one.  Merging the family article with one of its species would confuse things.  Fishal 04:02, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

message: What is the heraldic creatures template doing here? Bagunceiro (talk) 18:43, 25 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heraldic Creatures
Talk:Crown jewel defense

message: I removed some of the editorial comments in the article as they really didn't belong there.  Here's the text.  "In 2005, Japan’s Livedoor warned the Nippon Broadcasting System Inc against the adoption of a “crown jewel” takeover defense (why?). Livedoor called upon the target company to retain the key assets of the radio broadcast station while it (who, Livedoor or Nippon Broadcasting System?) battled Fuji Television for takeover bids; the assets included major stakes in Fuji TV, Japan’s top television network, and music label Pony Canyon." --Phoenix Hacker 04:06, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Pre-algebra

message: I changed the word "topic" to "course" here, but this may be a Yank/Brit difference. To my ear it sounds very strange to say pre-algebra is a topic; that implies a logical unity that it doesn't have. Factorization is a topic, manipulation of equations is a topic; pre-algebra is a collection of topics that, for reasons sound or otherwise, are taught to the same students in the same year by the same teacher.
But do British users understand "course" in this sense? It could be that either choice will confuse somebody. Can someone find a solution that works for everybody, or do we have to explain the linguistic differences in the article, off-topic as they are? --Trovatore 04:26, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I was taught at least some of this in third grade and (I think) all of it by fourth grade. The seventh grade article says most people are introduced to pre-algebra then...I'm not familiar with when everyone is taught what, so it'd be nice if someone else clarified the extremes and the norm. Ergbert 01:37, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: course, topic
Talk:Richard of Salerno

message: The page originally called him a son of William Iron Arm and Maria of Sorrento.  In fact, William's wife was a sister (Guida according to some sources) of Maria.  Maria married Wm's half-brother Wm of the Principate.  The page now calls him a son of Drogo, Wm Iron Arm's brother and Altrude of Salerno.  The Dizionario Biografiche degli Italiani gives Wm of the Principate a son named Richard.  This is all very confusing, especially when there exist so many poorly researched genealogies (especially on the web) to add to the confusion.  Can anyone shed any light on this Srnec 19:55, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Parentage

message: Some (online) sources (French and German Wikipedias, Lexikon des Mittelalters) indicate that he was the seneschal of Apulia and Calabria in 1101 (this date may be off). That contradicts what I assume comes from Beech. I have left the contradiction in the article as is. I will correct it as soon as I have an answer. Srnec 15:38, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Contradictory sources

message: This article is the result of the merging of two different historical figures, in fact Richard of Salerno or Hauteville (1060-1114) was son of William of the Principate and was the one who participated at the First Crusade; his homonym cousin Richard of Hauteville (1045-1110) was the son of Drogo of Hauteville and was the one who was appointed seneschal of Apulia and Calabria in 1101. Because I've not time to proceed to separate the two figures and create correct article about both can someone do it in my place?---kayac71- (talk) 10:53, 11 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Merging of two different historical figures
Talk:Basic Rights Oregon

message: This article needs a complete rewrite because it is promotional material. Rhobite 04:38, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Somebody recently placed a "notability" tag on this article. I'm removing it -- it's not even close to a grey area. See all the news articles listed here, including one that clearly identifies BRO as "the state's largest gay rights organization". I spent about 30 seconds on this search; ideally, such a search is conducted before placing a banner like this, not after. -Pete (talk) 18:01, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability 

message: * https://oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/basic_rights_oregon/#.WTtgKRiZNPM ---Another Believer (Talk) 02:58, 10 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source 

message: It took a few times reading the same few sentences in the background explanation to realize that the background is primarily about a different organization who's only origin story to BRO is in having had inspired others to organize in response against their advocacy. The distinction between the two isn't made clear enough, it really needs to be explicitly distinct. Maybe I will have some time to come back here and help rewrite. I'm hoping someone will read this, who is familiar with the related history, and they can make the improvements. I was referred here from pages related to the current events in Portland. Roxanne-snowden (talk) 13:36, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Background & OCA
Talk:Manny Mota

message: I've removed the stats from this article and replaced them with a link to Mota's page at baseball-reference.com, from which it's pretty clear the stats were taken.  I believe that's a copyvio (the stats are PD but they're arrangement is not), and in any case the link is more in keeping with Wikipedia convention for baseball players.  It's not necessary to include all stats any more than it would be to include an entire poem or story (wikisource is for that).  Chick Bowen 04:48, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:John Harlan (announcer)

message: : There are disputes that he was a sub-announcer for Wheel of Fortune during its early years, but this has not been confirmed.
bcz it doesn't sound like a notable fact in the context of his bio -- or in any context but obsessive fan-cruft.  Further, my research has turned up no hint of what a "sub-announcer" is; it is used a handful of times in WP as a barebones description and does not appear in Wiktionary or a Webster's Collegiate. The contexts suggest it is not the equivalent of "substitute announcer", a term it shares on his IMDb page.  With a verifiable definition or explanation, it probably can be used in WP, but at present it is as useful in our articles as "whatchamacallit".
_ _ FWIW, it should be noted that that IMDb article includes 
: "Wheel of Fortune" (1975) TV Series .... Sub-announcer (1975) 
(meaning the show began in '75, and he appeared on it either (not sure which) in '75 or in the '75(-'76) season). If there is a credible dispute with IMDb's version, the article would have to say what circumstances render unreliable that high-resource site. (They can afford to look at libraried videotapes to see which announcers were credited, and compare voices in the unlikely case that there are two announcers with the same name.)--Jerzy•t 04:57, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This article needs some serious reorganizing... I will try to divide it into sections and locate some more data, but I may need some help.--Coingeek (talk) 00:59, 1 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Layout 
Talk:Landgrave

message: Landgraf → Landgrave - Rationale: English WP uses English, not German... There are articles for Margrave, references for Altgrave, etc... This article title needs to be in English. - Charles 00:13, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. —Nightstallion (?) Seen this already? 06:34, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 

message: * Support As nominator and per WP rules for use of English. Charles 00:16, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. —Nightstallion (?) Seen this already? 06:34, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Survey and discussion 

message: There were landgraves in colonial South Carolina.  See Cassique.  This article should mention them.  J. D. Crutchfield | Talk 18:09, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Colonial South Carolina
Talk:Kharian

message: With the ethnic background of the majority of Norwegians with Pakistani background being in and around this city, I have ventured to add this article to WikiProject Norway. I realize this may be controversial and that some may find this not to be a sufficiently compelling reason for this extraordinary selection. I believe doing this will conceivably facilitate an increased focus on this link which in turn may lead to a better coverage of the connection between Norway and Pakistan which is manifested through this segment of the Norwegian populace. I was prompted to this decision when reading this article in a Norwegian newspaper in connection with the ongoing trial of Anders Behring Breivik. I will appreciate if the placement of the project banner is discussed here if someone strongly disagrees, rather than it simply being removed. __meco (talk) 09:53, 27 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Rationale for adding article to WikiProject Norway
Talk:Dirac measure

message: I suggest that the element x in the definition of the Dirac measure be replaced by a different element (say, a), so that it is easy to distinguish it from the set X. Currently, the use of both the uppercase and the lowercase symbols is confusing, especially when one is used in subscripts.
I'll wait 3-4 days to see if there are any comments before making this change.
Arcenciel 05:20, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

message: Consider a delta sequence Dn(x)and consider an integrable function 
f(.) such that f(0+) and f(0-) exist. 
Then the integrals of Dn(x)f(x)dx converge to [f(0+)+f(0-)]/2, not to f(0). In fact the value of f(0) is of no influence on the limit
of these integrals.
Leocat 30 September 2006
: This is not a contradiction. The delta sequence D_n converges weakly (or vaguely). This means that, for every bounded continuous function (or cont. function with compact support) f, the sequence of integrals converges to the integral w.r.t. the limit-measure:
::\int f(x)D_n(x)\, dx \to \int f(x) \, d \delta_0(x) = f(0)
:But this need not be true for non-continuous functions. (More exactly, it is true for all functions which are continuous everywhere except on a set which is a null set for the limit measure. This is not the case for the function you mentioned.)--Trigamma 12:16, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  is the Dirac measure really an atomic measure? 

message: The current article says that any sigma-algebra does. However, since the singleton {x} is to be assigned a measure, ít clearly must be included in the sigma-algebra, right?
--Kaba3 (talk) 18:50, 27 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Restrictions on sigma-algebra 

message: The page on the Dirac delta function already has a section on the delta function as a measure.  Isn't this page duplicative?  128.135.100.105 (talk) 11:20, 21 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with [[Dirac delta function]]? 

message: The expression,
\int_X f(y) \delta_x (y) \, \mathrm{d} y = f(x),,
is often referred to correctly as an abuse of notation. Despite its widespread use, it is mathematically confusing and misleading. Specifically, if \,\mathrm{d}y\, is to be read as Lebesgue measure then the value of this integral is zero for all f, because the support of delta is a set of Lebesgue measure zero. So the question remains, what theorem of Lebesgue integration theory does this statement refer to and how was it intended to be read symbolically? I claim there is no justifiable notation for the quoted notation to make sense, and hence the correct reason it is dubbed an abuse of notation, because it is either redundant or contradictory. M. A. Maroun 13:57, 4 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Holds as a theorem of Lebesgue integration?
Talk:Academic procrastination

message: lol...I found this page while procrastinating. I should be finishing the at-home portion of a test right now!
:Ditto.—jiy (talk) 10:16, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

message: Why is this an article? Shaggorama 11:28, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  AfD? 

message: I don't want to step on whoever's toes wrote this, but I do not feel the following paragraphs are either encyclopedic or relevant to the title of the article. I have removed them, and pasted them here, and welcome discussion. Prehaps the ideas herein could be more usefully merged into International students. Tranzid 21:26, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  International students 

message: Merge - There's no reason why this should be it's own article, seperate from Procrastination.  It admits in the first line that there is no distinction, diagnostic or otherwise. Trnj2000 17:34, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge
Talk:Andhrímnir

message: As far as I remember the Norse mythology, Andhrìmnir did not kill Særimner (sorry, Danish spelling), but rather meat was cut off the live pig, and as soon as it was cut off it grew back on. There might be regional differences on the issue, but the animal would have to be pretty large if it should feed all the einherjar (given that Valhal is built so that 800 people can exit each gate at a time, and there are 540 gates, there would have to be more than 400.000 people in Valhal). --Jakob mark 13:06, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Grimnismal (stanza 18) and Gylfaginning are both quite explicit in stating that the boar is boiled or cooked so yes, it would've been killed. Gylfaginning further states that it is whole again by evening, so just think of it along the lines of a Phoenix being consumed in flames and then being resurrected from the ashes. As far as its size I'll just paraphrase an American expression and say that everything's bigger in Asgard. Cerdic 21:29, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was Særimner killed?