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Talk:The Best Democracy Money Can Buy

message: It is part of the style that book titles should be italicised, for example see;
Ulysses (novel), Finnegans Wake, The Shining, Night Shift, War and Peace, Anna Karenina.
Ams80
Moving all the quotes here, since they're completely uninformative. Stan 12:54 21 Jul 2003 (UTC)
: And they really don't serve much purpose here, either.  I'm deleting them.  -Joshuapaquin 23:59, May 12, 2005 (UTC)
This page looks like nothing more than an ad.  If there is no encyclopedic content to be added, I will move it to VfD.  Any objections from watchlisters? -Joshuapaquin 23:59, May 12, 2005 (UTC)
:My objection: . Kevin Baastalk: new 23:11, 2005 May 14 (UTC)
Don't understand why this warrants a "Category: George W. Bush".  Only reference I can find is on Books about George W. Bush, which is itself a candidate for deletion.  -Joshuapaquin 21:41, Jun 20, 2005 (UTC)
:Greg Palast is one of the first guys screaming at the top of his lungs about disinfrancised black votes in florida. All the controversy there about miscounts were not because of broken machines, there was evidence that tens of thousands of voters had their rights revoked wrogly, or illegally. The reason why it took so long to recount the votes is because the case against the private company that was assigned the task of deleting illigitamate votes kept bouncing around fom one county court room to another. it ultimately ended in the supreme court, and the remaining votes were never counted, weather they were for kerry or bush. palast and his team with bbc was all over this. he was the one who broke the story overseas. That is significant. --Pointyfingers 02:39, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: 2003-2005 talk topics

message: "The first chapter goes into great depth covering the Florida Central Voter File, commonly referred to as the Florida scrub list, starting with a Thomas Cooper who was prevented from voting in 2000 because of a supposed January 30, 2007 conviction date."  This sentence makes no sense in that the man "Cooper" could not vote in 2000 because of a prior conviction in the future...?  I have not read this book and have no knowledge of this; can someone who knows please change this? 98.145.66.137 (talk) 05:35, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That was in the book. The author seems to think that it makes no sense either, but he says that that was the contents of one of the records.75.111.30.138 (talk) 05:57, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusing Linearity 

message: I removed the following and have placed it here:
*Excerpts from Working for Change
*Excerpt
--Rajah (talk) 16:11, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: linkrot

message: Where is the article/mention/disambiguation for the film "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy", also made by Greg Palast? 98.14.15.215 (talk) 00:55, 18 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where is the article/mention/disambiguation for the film "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy", also made by Greg Palast?
Talk:Double negative

message: The article describes the example sentence as having the verb "to doubt", but it doesn't. The word "doubt" here is being used as a noun. 
Were it a verb, it'd be the "I have (never) not doubted..."
This completely breaks at least 2-3 paragraphs of the article. 2600:1004:B0B2:5D87:3445:9CE0:B615:D0CD (talk) 16:40, 9 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  The "I have no doubt..." example is incorrect. 

message: I'm not a linguist, but none of the existing categories seem to describe these double negatives that are pretty common in informal American English (although I am not sure whether they're part of Standard English.) To my ear, they're not uniformly intensifying (in the case of adding "I don't think" to an already negative assertion I would argue it actually softens it.) Is there a word for them? Are they part of a particular variety of English? Are they worth mentioning in the article? 2003:FC:D71D:E9B8:1C99:148A:B611:D0E1 (talk) 06:08, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  It seems to me that constructions like "not today you're not" and "that isn't true I don't think" are not covered yet 

message: This article uses "doubled negatives" instead of "double negative" three times. Which is correct? Ex in the intro:
"In some languages, double negatives cancel one another and produce an affirmative; in other languages, doubled negatives intensify the negation."
Should it actually be "...double negatives intensify the negation?" Is this a typo or was it intentional? DivineReality (talk) 09:31, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doubled negatives?
Talk:List of rivers of the Americas

message: What is the definition of 'major' rivers for purposes of this article?  With no definition, this article could become a deletion candidate as 'artibrary inclusion criteria'.   Hmains (talk) 00:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  major?  

message: What is the point of this list when better lists exist for each country.  Why not make this list just a list of country lists, with a list for each country that has a list?  Hmains (talk) 21:08, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  what is the point

message: It is shocking that such major [Navigable!] or long rivers as these were not even mentioned:
Allegheny River, Arkansas River, and Alabama River. (The latter is navigable for its entire lengths, as are the Mobile, Ohio, Tennessee, Apalachicola, Tombigbee, Illinois, Des Plaines, Chicago, Detroit, St. Claire, St. Lawrence, and Lowe Mississippi. 
This is one thing that is indisputable: one thing that makes a river a MAJOR one is being navigable. Also, during the early years of the United States, the Altamaha River (Georgia) was used by steamboats. Now, most of that part of the state is boondocks!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.156.78.205 (talk) 02:20, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unmentioned, shocking! 

message: Pittsburgh is a city of three navigable rivers: the Allegheny River, the Monongahela River, and the Ohio River, and so those three ought to come instantly to mind. I am not even a Pennsylvanian or a Northeasterner, but rather a Southerner. 
Other notable places in the U.S.A. where two rivers come together to form the third, navigable or not:
Rome, Georgia: the Etowah River, the Oostanaula River, and the Coosa River
Montgomery/Wetumpka, Alabama: the Coosa, the Tallapoosa, and the Alabama
Upstream from Mobile, Alabama: the Alabama, the Tombigbee, and the Mobile
Knoxville: the Holston River, the French Broad River, and the Tennessee
St. Louis: the Upper Mississippi, the Missouri, and the Lower Mississippi
At a relatively unpopulated place in southern Georgia, the Oconee and the Ocmulgee join to form the Altamaha River. At its mouth, the Altamaha deposits a large amount of fresh water into the Atlantic Ocean.
In the "Delta" part of California, the Sacramento River, the San Joaquin River, and the American River join, and the Sacramento River continues west to San Francisco Bay near Vallejo.24.156.78.205 (talk) 02:45, 30 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pittsburgh ! 

message: In an effort to rescue this article from deletion, I added the word significant rivers in the sections, added description of the longest rivers in each of the Americas and in the process of adding longest rivers in each country.  Also added some maps/images that illustrate the rivers and major drainage basins.  Some rivers that have no known significance have also been deleted.  Other things like widest river, largest flow rate, etc. could also be added.  Have used information referenced in the individual river articles and geography article on countries.  Should include references for everything.  Welcome any other comments or ideas.  -- Talk to G Moore 14:54, 21 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Significant rivers
Talk:Closer (Joy Division album)

message: I've removed a dubious claim this album spent 4 weeks at number 1 in the Australian charts. This source does not support this claim, and I cannot find a reliable reference to support this claim. If anyone wishes to reinsert this, can you please find a reliable supporting reference?--Kieronoldham (talk) 23:27, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spent 4 weeks at number 1 in Australian charts?
Talk:Nevermind

message: I was going through individual song articles from this album and I noticed there are two different sources with the same purpose, revealing that Mark Lanegan had written some of "Something in the Way" and Cobain writing at least a piece on Lanegan's debut album. The source used in this article directly comes from a book, while the article on the very song uses an NME article reporting on said book. I don't have a preference, just highlighting this one in case.
https://www.nme.com/news/music/mark-lanegan-co-wrote-nirvanas-something-in-the-way-3402866 Carlinal (talk) 20:45, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lanegan's co-credit (or lack thereof)
Talk:Battle of Leyte

message: The photo in the infobox in this article was not taken at Leyte, but in Lingayen, Luzon during the landings there.  All other photos of MacArthur wading ashore at Red Beach in Palo, Leyte show President Sergio Osmeña to MacArthur's right (which would be the left of the photo) with Carlos P. Romulo behind the general.  Osmeña is not in this photo.  Therefore this isn't the Leyte, Landing photo of October 20, 1944.  On the other hand, other sources like LIFE magazine list this as a photo of MacArthur wading ashore in Luzon.  This photo was originally taken by LIFE Magazine correspondent Carl Mydans on January 1945.  Here's a website crediting Mydans with the photo.  --Harvzsf 17:34, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo in Inbox

message: There should be some note of the high number of civilian casualties during this campaign, either in the information box or in the general text.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.123.28.20 (talk) 09:45, 23 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  No mention of civilian casualties 

message: I edited a sentence in the "Aftermath" section which read "Their losses in the campaign were heavy..." to read "Japanese losses in the campaign were heavy...".  Without this edit, the antecedent of "their" would seem to be "American."  I'm pretty sure my edit was correct, but someone should check me. Mcswell (talk) 15:12, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Japanese losses were much greater than the Allies - but the Allies lost thousands of lives and many wounded - this was a bloody victory and the casualties should not be under-estimated.50.111.19.178 (talk) 02:06, 20 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  My edit 

message: Does the Japanese casualty number include Leyte Gulf? Will Tyson for real (talk) 02:47, 23 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Leyte Gulf losses
Talk:United Nations actions regarding Iraq

message: This should be merged with United Nations Security Council Resolution 1441, because all of the UN action prior to the Iraq War centered around that resolution.  As it stands right now, the two articles are basically Wikipedia:Content forks.  -- I. Pankonin (t/c) 00:53, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Changed to The UN Security Council and the Iraq war.  -- I. Pankonin (t/c) 05:51, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. The same issues are spread across two or three different pages. It would be an act of consolidation. smb 06:02, 18 October 2007 (UTC)

text: Iraq disarmament crisis is really similar as well.  -- I. Pankonin (t/c) 07:25, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal
Talk:Jiffy

message: Jiffy is slang. The computing meaning of 1/100 second is from the Jargon File, a compendium of hacker slang. Other meanings are marked in dictionaries as "informal": IE, slang. Wikipedia is not a dictionary. -Martin
-really? I always thought it was a proper word. :-s -fonzy
:The 1/100 second reference is misleading, since 1/60 second is also very commonly used and should be mentioned. If you go to the current Jargon file or the Jargon wiki definition of a jiffy, it mentions 1/60 second. - Fandyllic
::This dab is composed completely of dictionary defintions, so what do we do with it? --Commander Keane 19:14, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: A dab page traditionally points the way to the specific articles between which disambiguation was required.  If there were such pages as Jiffy (computing) and Jiffy (electronics) then perhaps this page would have a reason to exist.  Without them, it does not, so I say its an AFD candidate. --Kgf0 23:19, 7 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old discussion 

message: What's a Jiffy (lemon)?  I've heard of Jif, but "Jiffy" is a new one on me, and I can't find anything pertinent on Google... — Haeleth Talk 16:45, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right - the company is Jif. The plastic squeeze lemons they use are commonly called jiffy lemons, though. I've changed the page to match. Grutness...wha? 23:24, 12 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: What lemons?
Talk:Timeline of computing 1950–1979

message: Pascal was most certainly "widely used" prior to 1984. If nothing else, there was the UCSD P-system that was started in 1978 and wound up being used as the Apple Pascal environment. That would almost certainly qualify as "widely used" in anyone's book. Nsayer (talk) 21:16, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pascal prior to 1984 

message: Except the 360 wasn't a 3rd generation machine - it used "flip chips" not integrated circuits.  HughesJohn (talk) 08:38, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: 360 was close enough (used Hybrid_integrated_circuits  p. 424,  Introduction)
--89.25.210.104 (talk) 14:24, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  System/360 3rd generation? 

message: How cute. HughesJohn (talk) 08:44, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Serbia, home of computing. 

message: Philco S-2000 was the first transistor computer, but was not included in the history timeline.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philco  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 136.182.2.25 (talk) 16:36, 15 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Among others first commercial transistor computers from 1958: UNIVAC Solid State, Electrologica X1, IBM 7070, Elliott 802, TRANSAC S-1000, TRANSAC S-2000/Philco S-2000/Philco 210, recomp II, RCA 501  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.25.210.104 (talk) 14:29, 22 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  First transistor computer 

message: No significant "world" event that needed all the computing power of earth to make it happen? I guess conspiracy theorists would say no there wasn't such an event :)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.155.159.15 (talk) 16:27, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nothing missing from 1969? 

message: I've nothing against the good people of (former) Yugoslavia, but none of the many listed computers from this Yugoslav institute seem to have seminal significance. In the name of rational selectivity, can't we delete them?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.167.213.169 (talk) 01:04, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mihajlo Pupin Institute 

message: See Russell A. Kirsch#Career.  Seems like we ought to add SEAC, and make an article on it, if this stuff is correct. Dicklyon (talk) 00:19, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I added SEAC and SWAC to the table, but no description.  Bubba73 You talkin' to me? 03:00, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I added a few words.  Thanks. Dicklyon (talk) 03:55, 18 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  SEAC missing 

message: Shouldn't this mention ASCII somewhere? It's a pretty notable format. Binarycat64 (talk) 23:53, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  ASCII
Talk:Code page

message: After reading the article, I failed to understand how are code page and encoding different, which is claimed by the article. --Voidvector (talk) 13:49, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have got to disagree with Pim. A code page doesn't just specify a character set, it specifies how this set is encoded as well. For example, code page 932 doesn't just specify the JIS character set, but also how it is encoded with single bytes, lead bytes and trail bytes. For a more modern example, different encodings of Unicode have been assigned code page numbers. And old code pages can be retroactively considered to be encodings of subsets of Unicode as well.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.139.82.82 (talk) 15:13, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I added a link to the relevant section of Character encoding from the intro. -- Beland (talk) 05:35, 25 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Code page vs Encoding 

message: The Spanish code page 854 is not from IBM, but what was the code page layout? IBM's code page 854 was probably DOS Latin 4, continuing the sequence created by code pages 852, 853, and 855. Alexlatham96 (talk) 20:23, 12 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: There was a DOS codepage for Spanish/Catalan that added À Á È Í Ï Ò Ó Ú Ŀ ŀ; it was supported by Wyse terminals, but I don't know exact layout. 178.49.152.92 (talk) 06:41, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Code page 854 

message: Given the decision at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Code page 875 to move nearly all articles on EBCDIC code pages to Wikibooks, are there other articles linked from this page that should be moved as well? -- Beland (talk) 17:05, 20 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability of individual articles 

message: In the Microsoft part, it says:
1200 – UTF-16LE Unicode (little-endian)
1201 – UTF-16BE Unicode (big-endian)
In the IBM part, it says:
1200 – UTF-16BE Unicode (big-endian) with PUA
1201 – UTF-16BE Unicode (big-endian)
1202 – UTF-16LE Unicode (little-endian) with IBM PUA
1203 – UTF-16LE Unicode (little-endian)
Making a clear anti definition with BE and LE conflicting around 1200 / 1201.
So, what is this mess? 77.159.196.124 (talk) 13:41, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflict between Microsoft and IBM codepage 1200 

message: Where can I find the full IBM PUA mapping? For example code page 1056 has many PUA characters.Alexlatham96 (talk) 03:17, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: IBM PUA mapping

message: Until somebody can come up with a specific reference to this manual, this should be regarded as apocryphal. Note discussion at https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/questions/14780/is-the-ibm-standard-character-set-manual-around MarkMLl (talk) 20:59, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "page numbers in the IBM standard character set manual"
Talk:Radical Faeries

message: I have made a minor adjustment to the intro para which, while not being a complete revert, is close to it. The sentence previously went:
which someone then edited to say: 
Now I really don't want to put off either editor from continuing to edit this page (especially since one of the editors in question has made several really great recent edits to this page), but the second edit is seems to me to be needlessly exclusivist in language, and besides, then very next sentence in both versions stated:
Which clearly states the radical faeries were founded by (and the majority of radical faeries continue to be) gay men - which is one of its strengths. But there are people who aren't homosexual (such as heterosexuals, bisexual and asexuals) and there are also both female and gender-variant (including intersex people and non-binary-gender identified) faeries, so I think the language should remain inclusive rather than exclusivist. I have therefore mashed together the previous two edits to read: 
 
★★Violet Fae (talk)★★ 09:09, 11 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Good move! I was the one responsible for the initial changes, but I think you've improved it :) (Midnightblueowl (talk) 10:11, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: No problem - glad to help! :)  ★★Violet Fae (talk)★★ 10:19, 17 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inclusive vs. exclusivist language 

message: These entries from the External Links section appear to be defunct:
*Paganism and Gay Spirituality: A Survey of Radical Faeries in Asheville, North Carolina
* Fairie Underground, A Radical Faerie organization providing communication mediums, privacy-advocacy, and journalism resources
I'm moving them here in case they resurface in the future. — HipLibrarianship talk 08:17, 21 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  dead links 

message: "The Radical Faerie movement was a reaction against the social emptiness that many gay men felt was present both in the heterosexual establishment and the assimilationist gay community.[9]"
Someone needs to decide which paragraph this text belongs in and delete the other instance.CherylJosie (talk) 20:37, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does it really need to be said twice? 

message: Is the red-linked "Amish-Mennonite" (in the "Foundation: 1978–79" section) the same as Amish Mennonite? FrankSier (talk) 22:59, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Amish-Mennonite
Talk:Pronunciation

message: Pronounciation is a mispelling (based on the spelling of forms like 'pronounce' etc), right? The redirect is classified as , though that was questioned. If it is a legitimate alternative spelling it should be given in bold, though I can find no evidence that this is the case. Richard001 (talk) 07:49, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right, it's a common misspelling - Rothorpe (talk) 14:44, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

text: Come on yourself! The word is unconnected to "noun". It is from the Latin pronuntiatio, from pro (forth) + nuntiare (report) -- meaning "report forth, proclaim, declare, speak, ...pronounce", from nuntius ("messenger"). Would you also have us say that when something is renounced it amounts to a "renounciation" or that someone who is denounced suffers a "denounciation"? --Picapica (talk) 08:19, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Spelling

message: It's racist how this article says pronunciation can infer ethnicity how one speaks. This surely isn't true and should be removed.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.148.164.29 (talk) 01:31, 15 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Racism 

message: I came here hoping to find rules that determine how loan/new words in English is pronounced by the way they are spelled. Unfortunately, all that is here so far states the obvious then goes into phonetics which is not the same thing.
If this article is to have meaning, it needs someone with a knowledge of the spelling/pronunciation rules for English to finish it. I state English here since this is the English version of Wikipedia. On the other hand, maybe in each language (but especially English since it is so complex) there should be a section on pronunciation rules (if there is not already). In which case, this article should point to the various sections of each language. Rod Lockwood (talk) 21:34, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  What Is Missing 

message: The article suggests that the way a person's speaks is a sign of "social class".  Social class is a man-made construct, that creates castes.  Although some people do pronounce words a particular way, and it can indicate their social-class, such a rule is not definitive.   The wikipedia article should indicate:  Pronunciation can be indicative of a person's social class, but judging a person's social/ class value based on pronunciation is a prejudice that humanity must evolve away from.--68.173.189.62 (talk) 14:06, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Social class?

message: I believe that it would be beneficial to include an Etymology section discussing the common and ironic mispronunciation of 'pronunciation' as 'pronounciation.'
This has been noted on the Urban Dictionary  (I'm not sure what Wikipedia's policy on using such sites as references,) but I have also come across this misconception in my own experience, and it has already been mentioned on this talk page.
However, none of this has been added to the actual article section and I think this should be remedied. Luke.wilson59 (talk) 22:00, 30 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology - Pronunciation vs. 'Pronounciation'