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Talk:Caucasian agama

message: This article says Ladakia caucasia.  The list of lizards in Europe names it Agama caucasica, but refers to this article.  Which is it? Caeruleancentaur (talk) 23:14, 17 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Which is it? 
Talk:Caspian cobra

message: Seems like there is some new research on the potential use of snake venoms (including N. oxiana) for therapeutic purposes, namely as an anticancer agent.
Wwwwwwwd (talk) 22:03, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Venom subsection for potential therapeutic use 

message: I believe some sources have been twisted in favor of the Caspian cobra (N. oxiana) being "the most venomous cobra species".
#NONE of the sources concludes that N. oxiana is the most toxic. What I read in the venom section are pieces of data from DIFFERENT studies listing  values of SOME Naja species a given project covers. Dilution scales, environmental factors, species of animals to be tested on, etc may NOT be identical, so it is not accurate to directly compare statistics from different literatures. For instance, N. oxiana on this league with an i.v. value of 0.96 mg/kg is the second least toxic Naja species, only above N. nigricollis while N. atra is the most toxic among the nine true cobras it covers. I suggest to remove such comparative statements to leave all the data & species a particular project covers. We could only state that Species A is the most toxic among A, B, C & D tested by this project while E is the one among E, F, G & H the other project concludes.
#Some sources do not support claims that they are made to support. I personally have a copy of the book Snakes of Medical Importance - Asia-Pacific Region (Ref no.33 & 36, duplicated) on hand. The purported pages mention NOTHING about the mortality rate of N. oxiana, nor does this source mention anything about the most toxic Naja at all. Verification or clean-up ought to be done on this section to ensure all the statistics are valid.
RoyalRover (talk) 17:25, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misleading Venom Section
Talk:The Quiet American (1958 film)

message: As in The Quiet American (2002 film), an anonymous editor added a statement about the South Vietnamese government having been infiltrated by North Vietnamese agents, with the implication that this undermines the novel's political message in hindsight. I've removed that remark, as it is (a) vague, (b) unsourced, and (c) not particularly relevant to the issue of the film having changed the novel's premise around 180 degrees. ←Hob 22:58, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: POV

message: Shouldn't the article be named The Quiet American (film, 1958) since there are two films of the same name?  And the second is actually much closer to the novel than this one.  -- Paul Pogonyshev 14:25, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article name 

message: There is no sense in this film that Pyle is a CIA agent.  Compare the language in the French Wiki page:
Fowler découvre progressivement la véritable personnalité d'Alden Pyle, agent sous couverture de la CIA apportant du soutien logistique au Général Thé qui commettra des attentats contre les Français, attribués au Viet Minh.
Perhaps someone can point this out and/or amend?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Andarin (talk • contribs) 23:16, 19 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  French page with inaccuracy
Talk:The Quiet American (2002 film)

message: I've removed the following text added by an anonmyous editor: With the hindsight of 2002, this seems less venal than it does quixotic, with the knowledge that the South Vietnamese government was (even then) already thoroughly compromised by North Vietnamese intelligence agents. "Venal" and "quixotic" are statements about Pyle's intent, which can't be affected by information he (or Greene) couldn't have known about - and as the claim about North Vietnamese infiltration is vague and unsourced, it's not clear how the editor or reader would know about it either. It's an even odder statement since, in both the book and the 2002 film, Pyle is clearly portrayed as both venal (or at least unscrupulous) and quixotic. ←Hob 22:49, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  political POV 

message: I've made some additions, although there's probably a few problems because A. I'm just going from what I remember from the movie, and B. I'm not used to the typical wiki-format (especially how to do spoiler warnings). So please edit what I've put down.
64.16.162.161 03:57, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  my additions 

message: Is Diolacton real?
Is there an article about it?
--Error (talk) 16:13, 1 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Good question. 99.228.43.228 (talk) 18:24, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diolacton 

message: According to the DVD documentary, the film recreates a genuine Saigon bombing, and provides a date.
I expected to find a link for the incident here.
No luck. 99.228.43.228 (talk) 18:28, 14 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  The bombing in the square
Talk:Ptyas mucosa

message: *Proposed corrections for Ptyas mucosa (LINNAEUS, 1758).
I saw this enormous snake during my field work on cotton fields in Tajikistan near the border with Afghanistan. I noted it in a large irrigation ditch (channel) about 5 m wide and 1.5 m deep, densely overgrown with reed and other grasses. Suddenly I heard a snarl (loud purr) and saw a huge grey-brown snake in the middle of ditch. The snake was swimming with a speed of pedestrian, keeping its fore part with a head above the water. This part was like a hand together with forearm of adult men (30-40 cm long and the same diameter like the forearm). I followed the beast close along the ditch about 100 m, trying to measure its length with my steps. When I finally came abreast with its head, it dove under water and disappeared. As for me, this animal was at least 4 m long, maybe 4.5 m. Unfortunately, I had no camera that time. Returning home, I identified the snake as Ptyas mucosa by use of Bannikov A.G., Darevsky I.S., Rustamov A.K. Amphibia and reptiles of the USSR, Moscow, 1971. But to my great surprise, I read that this species was the largest snake in the USSR with the length up to 2 m, being absent in Tajikistan. Just recently I found a book (S. Shammakov, Ch. Ataev, On snakes of Turkmenistan, Ashakhabad, 1972) with a photo of the Ptyas mucosa 2.3 m long; and another handbook (P.V. Terentyev, S.A. Chernov, Keys to reptiles and Amphibia of the USSR, Moscow, 1949) with the size of the snake 3585 mm (3.6 m) between snout and anus, and ratio between body and tail about 3. It means that the full length of the snake can reach 4.5—4.8 m. Now I am happy that saw once the largest snake in the Palaearctic Region. It is a pity that this information about the size and distribution of the species is absent in the Internet databases.Grichanov (talk) 07:41, 8 August 2018 (UTC)

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thread_title:  [[:File:Indian Rat Snake (Grey and Yellow).jpg]] scheduled for POTD
Talk:Desert monitor

message: The paragraph "body features" is a copy-paste plagiarism and needs to be rewritten completely. Jurzi (talk) 15:16, 9 December 2011 (UTC)
Talk:Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919

message: I think the article is fairly good, but it needs some work for me to pass it as a Good Article:
* Structure- The article should have a Background, Provisions, Use of (or Applications), validity/history/controversy, and perhaps a future/significance section.
* Once organized better, the article needs a longer intro that briefly covers the entire text of the article.  In other words, the intro should provide a brief overview of the entire article in one or two paragraphs.
* Which sections of the act have been repealed?
* Please look at Parliament Acts to see an example of a well-written and organized article on this type of subject. Cla68 07:26, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It has been five days without any improvements made to the article so I'm going to fail it for GA based on the reasons listed above. CLA 00:45, 5 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Good Article review
Talk:List of Old Boys of St Joseph's College, Hunters Hill

message: Check out recently added articles : Steve Williams 1971-1976 & Arthur Tonkin -Sticks66 13:11, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: And check it out : Latest JoeBoy article added on Wallaby, Parliamentarian and soldier Edward Larkin (drawing heavily on the tremendous work of Jimmie Gray as published in SJC News vol46#2 2008).-Sticks66 11:20, 3 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: And here's one who isn't a sportsman: Victor Warren Fazio - the good doctor.-Sticks66 13:02, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Just added 

message: I very much doubt that the mountaineer Alex Lowe was a JoeBoy. Nothing in the article supports this as likely. Cite in the article please or I will delete.-Sticks66 13:00, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: If Adam Hollioake moved to England when he was 12 then when did he go to Joeys ? Can't have been for long , if at all. Again the article doesn't hint at this.-Sticks66 13:00, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: If Ben Hollioake moved to England at age 6 and started playing for Surrey at aged 18, then when was he at Joeys ? And the article says his childhood school was Wesley Perth ! All too confusing for me-Sticks66 13:00, 5 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: All I can see is that Adam went to St Patrick's Ballarat. Time to remove from the Joeys Old Boy List.-Sticks66 03:05, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not so sure 

message: It's simple really. If the subject already has a WP article, just link it - no need for refs. But if the subject doesn't have a WP article then we need an in-line ref verifying the achievement that gives rise to notability -Sticks66 01:39, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability criteria & references 

message: College archivist Jimmie Gray wrote in the Nov 2016 Cerise & Blue that Tom Robertson became SJC's 55th old boy Wallaby.  We have 48 on the list to this point Sticks66 03:30, 13 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  #55 Wallabies
Talk:List of Old Boys of St Aloysius' College

message: Was there any consensus to have this page moved to this name? -- Chuq 07:22, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "Alumni" seems to be an American term, perhaps List of St Aloysius College former students. Having said that there is List of alumni of Wesley College, Melbourne, List of Melbourne High School alumni, List of Old Xaverians and List of Riverview Old Ignatians, so there is a bit of variety! Given that I think there is only one article on a past student of my school (at this stage at least) I guess it is something I won't have to worry about for a while. :-) -- Mattinbgn\talk 01:50, 22 January 2009 (UTC)

text: "Old Boys" is the description used by the former students themselves. Their association is SACOBU (St Aloysius College Old Boys' Union). The term "Alumni" is an American usage.203.31.52.137 (talk) 06:57, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Page move

message: I have removed unreferenced material from this list. Rhodes Scholars aren't of themselves notable unless they are notable later on in their lives and so I have removed them. Those that remain are listed elsewhere because they are Prime Minister etc. Some names are linked but even their bios don't reference their schooling. Please be very carful to reference names correctly before adding them or reverting what has been removed. Castlemate (talk) 08:28, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: References
Talk:List of Old Knox Grammarians

message: We need refs for a B. Pics would be good. Importance placed as high as impressive alumni. Welcome Victuallers 14:28, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: ....is a current year 12 student at Knox, and has not YET conquered the world, so save his mention till then aye? 60.227.197.231 07:51, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adrian Mak 

message: I'm not quite sure if 'Peter Garrett' is a Knox or Barker graduate. Maybe someone can help. CEP78 00:24, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As an Old Knox Grammarian m'self, I'd say Barker's more likely... Cheers, Ian Rose 10:04, 17 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peter Garrett 
Talk:Cristian Mijares

message: It appears though someone has readded some information back into the article. The information is mainly about Mijares' defenses prior to adding the WBA title with his WBC title. Should stay there or are they redundant? 124.106.201.49 (talk) 13:15, 15 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I had reinserted relevant information which had been removed without an explanation other than " Made some clean up. Telling just of the important stuff. I bet.". I'm assuming that person isnt familiar with Mijares' career because the information removed included his win over former and current champion Jorge Arce, which was one of the biggest wins of his career thus far. His win over Olympian Jose Navarro is also very notable.SamChambers (talk) 04:59, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Probably redudant information 
Talk:Dawn Penn

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thread_title:  Copyright problem removed
Talk:SCSI connector

message: Why is there no mention of SCA? It's WIDELY used. I have no idea of the standardization of it but it seems pretty darn standardized to me! [unsigned, 20-sep-2006]
: it is mentioned, under parallel scsi, internal connectors. -- Akb4 22:40, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  sorry, I was drunk when I was reading that page... alcohol and wikipedia don't mix!!!
This page would be much more useful with bigger, better quality pics!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.100.245.75 (talk) 02:45, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No, this page would be much more useful with an introduction.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.201.100.166 (talk) 17:58, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  unsigned comment 

message: What is the name and type of the odd SCSI connector used in SGI Challenge servers?
Typical IDE-like pins, but in 3 rows of seemingly 100 of more pins each. The devices were sled-mounted, although unlikely to be hot-swap. -- unsigned
: um, not sure what you mean by "IDE-like pins"; do you mean header connectors, like one would find on a pc motherboard for parallel IDE, IRDA, floppy, etc? A quick web search implies that it was a custom interface (the combination of the connector and how it was wired up); I'm sure SGI had a name for it, but not one that anyone else would recognize. They almost certainly used an off-the-shelf connector for it, but I haven't found any photos good enough for me to see what it is. -- Akb4 22:44, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: huge 3-row SCSI

message: why were the SCSI DB68 Connector pictures removed (internal and external) I think it is helpfull...)
somewhere in Jan 2008 Pweltz (talk) 19:33, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: pictures removed?

message: I looked this article up so that I could identify the SCSI connector on some equipment I have. I can see a picture with my connector in it, but the caption says just "some connectors" without identifying which is which. Please someone make the necessary edit!
Thanks, Newmikeman (talk) 14:09, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Really needs pictures with identity
Talk:Snap fastener

message: Maybe we could get a photo showing the active (rather than the back) side of the male half of the snap. — President Lethe 02:09, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm about to add some photos of all the different little bits and pieces as well as one type of tool for sticking them together. Nate Wessel (talk) 04:12, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  The photo seems OK to me. If not I'd be happy to provide one. Fritz Jörn (talk) 09:57, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo

message: Does anybody have a clever idea how loose snap fasterners can be made to stick together better? Pls. reply to Fritz at Joern com
--Fritz Jörn (talk) 09:57, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Pull it and install a new one. Nate Wessel (talk) 04:10, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Repair? 

message: Snap fasteners are used a lot on baby clothing for safety reasons: draw cords, laces, zips and buttons all have safety issues. I think it would be worth mentioning this and perhaps, also, how Velcro has seen a fall in usage.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.155.42.138 (talk) 22:06, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Baby clothing
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Accessibility/Infoboxes

message: Geographical infoboxes derived from template:infobox city or template:infobox country are likely candidates for using this technique.  All templates in :Category:Geography infobox templates are listed below and are being examined to find and fix current instances of this problem.  Already checked and, if appropriate, fixed templates are listed in strikethrough font.  -- Rick Block (talk) 02:13, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What technique? Andy Mabbett 19:41, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The technique of creating a multi-line infobox using matching embedded HTML <BR> in adjacent cells.  This creates a visual row not reflected in the HTML table structure.  This is a problem for blind users because screen readers read cell by cell, html row by html row, not visual row by visual row. -- Rick Block (talk) 22:58, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you. I understand why that's a problem; just didn't see what you were referring to. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 00:07, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of geographical infoboxes 

message: The tables in  need to be subdivided (examples: 'Senior career' and 'teams managed' in Andy Preece). Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 06:29, 24 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Ditto . Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 15:08, 14 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template:Infobox Football biography
Talk:Minnesota Kicks

message: I am working on the template of the Football club info box for the Minnesota Kicks. As it is not complete, I will keep it here until it is. Feel free to add or subtract info. Alf rules 00:46, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Edits
Talk:Arctic Hospital

message: It seems that the official Semble-site-link brings you to a page where you can buy the domain name "semble.co.uk".
However, I won't delete it because it might be a technical problem on my side, but if someone finds the real site, feel free to replace it with the current one.
Thanks for reading (although no one probably ever will), and have a good one! :) 2A02:2455:4E0:1100:657F:EB8F:3AE:2FB6 (talk) 19:36, 23 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Small external-links-problem...
Template talk:Ainur

message: Shouldn't it be Melkor a.k.a. Morgoth?  Only the elves call him Morgoth.---user talk:hillgentleman 12:30, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes it should be, especially in keeping with the naming convention for Gandalf, Saruman and Mandos, I've edited it Carl Sixsmith (talk) 17:53, 6 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Melkor/Morgoth

message: I removed Ungoliant, whom (like Bombadil) Tolkien does not identify as an Ainur.  (The closest we get is Silmarillion p. 73, where he says she might be "one of those he corrupted to his service" -- and even here it is not clear that he means "one of the Ainur".)  Elphion (talk) 18:22, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Ungoliant

message: Template:Ainur has been merged to Template:Middle-earth per Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2020 March 28, and all incoming links from articles updated. – Fayenatic London 17:36, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merged
Talk:Triaxial shear test

message: The test is commonly known as "Triaxial test".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robert Hack (talk • contribs) 18:12, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Rename this page

message: Reference ASTM WK3821 (2011): New Test Method for Consolidated Drained Triaxial Compression Test for Soils (under development)
is dated 2011, but at the bottom of the page it's 2003... both of the years cannot be true. Edwardando (talk) 15:04, 9 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Reference incorrect
Talk:Neutral Bay

message: This article contains references to Nutcote and the Kurraba Point ferry wharf.  These are both in Kurraba Point, which has been a separate suburb from Neutral Bay since 2010.  Is there any reason to keep them here, rather than simply having them in the Kurraba Point entry?--Gronk Oz (talk) 09:10, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: In the absence of any comments, I have moved most of this information to Kurraba Point.  I left a brief mention of May Gibbs and Nutcote for continuity. --Gronk Oz (talk) 08:27, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing references to places that are no longer classified as Neutral Bay 
Talk:Podium Sans

message: Is it known whether Podium Sans exists in a vector version, or is it only bitmap? Has it ever appeared any larger than the bitmap version showed in the picture? --kidbritish 02:26, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Bitmap or vector version?
Talk:Waverton, New South Wales

message: It seems more than likely to me that the station was named in 1929 as Waverton after the estate, and the suburb/area came some time later.  After all, the progress associate that renamed the station was the "Bay Road Progress Associate".  I've tagged the fact that the suburb was known as Waverton from 1929 as needing cite.  --Inas66 (talk) 01:34, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  suburb after the station..