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Talk:Prolate spheroid

message: I have two questions about this article if anyone is watching:
*What is the difference between and an oblate spheroid and a prolate spheroid?
*What does 'polar' mean in this context?
Abtract 23:09, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: This difference between an oblate and prolate spheroids are that oblate spheroids bulge at their equator and prolate spheroids bulge at their poles. Polar refers to the poles, simalar to the North and South pole. Kamope · talk · contributions 15:08, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: For the 2nd question, polar diameter means "the diameter mesured between the poles". Kamope · talk · contributions 15:10, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

text: I believe the orientation ("markings") of the spheroid is determined by the shape...not the other way around.  Consider Earth, itself:  It is tilted at an angle, thus what we consider north-south on the planet is not north-south relative to the solar system (and, probably, what is north-south to the solar system may not be north-south relative to the universe——whatever that may be!).  As for what is the equator and what are the poles, if you look at the face of a football, if it is pointed end up-down, it would seem to be prolate, but if it is laying on its side, it looks like it could be oblate.  But now spin it sideways, so that one of the pointed ends is facing you:  The shape is such that the pointed ends can only be the poles and the mid-vertical circle is the equator, regardless of the football's tilt.   ~Kaimbridge~ (talk) 14:18, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Questions

message: "The prolate spheroid is the shape of the ball in some sports, the most popular of which are Australian Football, Rugby Football and American Football."
For an american football to be a spheroid, to start with it has to be elliptical in shape.  The gridiron ball has two disticnt pointed ends and therefore it is not a prolate spheroid.  Eno1 14:44, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a prolate symmetric top. --Kkmurray (talk) 20:52, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: American football?

message: Just wondered if the Gherkin in London is prolate spheroid. If so, perhaps it could be added to the text as an example of this shape.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.249.219.131 (talk) 11:27, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Gherkin
Talk:Billy and the Boingers

message: This fictional band was just genius.  Independent of the comic strip, it was culturally significant.  On ebay, there are over 50 current listings for the book - the flexi-disc commands an extra 10$ generally.  A google search of blogs pulls up over 5000 hits on "Billy and the Boingers".  It's a cultural touch-stone.  I don't know how that fits in to Wikipedia's mission, but I think it should.  "Fundamentally Oral Bill" - how funny is that!173.8.220.209 (talk) 17:15, 11 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deletion?  No way 

message: I suggested a "Billy Vera and the Beaters" reference in this edit.  Anyone know if there's anything Berkeley Breathed said about it? Mapsax 23:14, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Billy Vera reference 

message: Considering that the image illustrating the article actually contains the text "let's roll over Lionel Richie with a tank", perhaps the song name in the article should be adjusted accordingly and have its [sic] cured?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.230.148.3 (talk) 14:33, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quote adjustment? 

message: Doesn't exist outside the comic so should be part of that article. RJFJR (talk) 20:36, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Argento Surfer (talk) 21:06, 14 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposal: merge to [[Bloom County]]
Talk:Jeffrey Kofman

message: Being gay has nothing to do with being a news anchor which is the sole reason he has an article. It is inappropriate to degrade a man in public by saying he's gay
4.142.45.84 00:26, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Brian Jones (poet)

message: The source of some of my recent addition is commercial, so I didn't want to place it in the main article.  It's a London bookseller, Ash Rare Books. --Mel Etitis  (Μελ Ετητης) 17:34, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  My recent additions 
Talk:Shintaro Katsu

message: This article sort of makes me despair. The people who wrote it don't seem to care at all about writing "an encyclopedia article about Shintaro Katsu" but just want to stick any old junk in a lazy way. The list of films is copy-pasted from IMDB! It is just a bunch of trivial junk about someone who is actually an important actor and deserves at least a respectable article. JoshuSasori (talk) 01:22, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  What a mess 

message: I'm looking for "Ryota" Actor's Name [A child from "Zatoichi Challenged" MOVIE]. Anybody knows?
Napoleon03@gmail.com  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Napoleon03 (talk • contribs) 14:17, 3 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shintaro Katsu's curiosities
Talk:Wiccaning

message: These were linked but have since been unlinked. Neither of the links go to specific pages - both re-direct to a vague disambiguation page for High Priest which isn't Wiccan-specific. In fact, the only reference to Wicca is the very last entry.
Useful links will help people navigate around but those don't really help people understand anything else about Wicca. 
Happy to work with someone to create Wicca-specific High Priest / Priestess pages but this probably needs to happen before we start linking other pages. Happy to discuss. 
Stalwart111 (talk) 01:38, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: [[High Priest]] and [[High Priestess]]

message: I am moving this page to the title Saining. As it currently stands it is a stub which states that Wiccaning is a group specific word for a larger rite common among neopagans. Darker Dreams (talk) 13:52, 7 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Saining has a specific meaning in Gaelic cultures. The fact some Wiccan groups use the word might be worth noting, but it's not the predominant meaning. This should go back to Wiccaning. - CorbieV☊ 17:01, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move page to Saining
Talk:Bacardi Superior

message: My bottle of Bacardi Superior states a 37,5% alcohol content, the article says 40%. So, does this vary by area or is the article wrong? Muad 22:30, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ABV 

message: I wanted to flag this article with a translation template due to the Spanish content that someone put here, but I realized that this article would be deleted if I flagged the article.  My limited grasp of Spanish says that this content is not important to Wikipedia and it also looks like it's original research.  If I'm wrong, please revert the article so it has the original Spanish content and flag it as such, but I don't want to lose this article because of some unnecessary Spanish content. THE evil fluffyface (talk) 21:30, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spanish content
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Biology

message: Clarification needed (in-line template includes reason) from article Chronic wasting disease.
 [...]
 Regards, Thinker78 (talk) 03:07, 29 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Chronic wasting disease: clarification needed

message: I looked on various places and there's literally only Quora that says these:
"Most animals have no whites of their eyes showing, as humans do, and so it is difficult to see the epicanthic folds. They seem to be in young animals like puppies and kittens."
"They have, but you did not know about them.
Also, some have even evolved an extra transparent eye lid for even more protection and so forth."
But, there's no reliable info on this in animals, so I tried looking clearly into puppy and kitten eyes especially those of Asian breeds, and I think they have them? I'm not really sure, but I'm inclined to think they do?
If anyone is able to find more info please tell me. I desperately need to know. LoverOfAllAnimalsActivist (talk) 07:55, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Most mammals have the sclera of the eye showing, so I'm not sure how accurate any of that is (and the sclera isn't always white). In humans,  epicanthic folds don't hide the sclera completely either. Either way, I believe the term "epicanthic fold" is exclusively used for the condition in humans, so there simply doesn't exist any such info on animals. FunkMonk (talk) 09:15, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Epicanthic Folds in other animals? 

message: There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Hypoxia (environmental)#Requested move 10 February 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ❯❯❯ Raydann(Talk) 02:17, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move at [[Talk:Hypoxia (environmental)#Requested move 10 February 2024]] 

message: Over on Wikipedia talk:Notability‎, several editors are working on a draft proposal to replace our current notability guidelines for species (all species are notable) with something much more restrictive (only species that go beyond certain limited pieces of information would be allowed their own articles). If you have opinions on this issue, now would be a good time to weigh in there. —David Eppstein (talk) 00:20, 3 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Potential significant change to species notability
Talk:Taillten Fair

message: I'd like to see more scholarly references for this. The books currently cited sound like pop pagan material, and there are a lot of egregiously unreliable pop pagan books. - AdelaMae (t - c - wpn) 23:26, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This article really needs incorporating into the Tailteann Games page as it discusses one of many revivals of the same event. Historically, I would suggest that the Assembly of Tailtiu would probably be the most notable and original name for this event sourced from the Book of Invasions so I would further suggest both pages are merged into that. I would prefer Talti as easier to pronounce and also possibly more common in usage along with the Assembly or Fair of Talti, but this would mean big changes to established pages, so Tailtiu will have to do. Comments and suggestions welcome. Paul Bedson ❉talk❉ 21:26, 3 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I agree totally. Akerbeltz (talk) 17:15, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, perfect timing for Lughnasadh. I'll get to work on it... Paul Bedson ❉talk❉ 23:02, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposal to merge Taillten Fair
Talk:Artin Penik

message: What are the views of whatever his Armenian church was on suicide?
Christian views on suicide says nothing about Armenians.
Was he buried in holy ground?
--Error (talk) 22:12, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Tall Armenian Tale has a picture of a cross with his name, so it seems he was buried in a Christian way. --Error (talk) 22:22, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Christian view on suicide
Talk:Theodore Tiron

message: I have extensively revised this article, based on  modern dictionaries of saints and especially on Christopher Walter's book (cited) on the Byzantine Warrior Saints. I have deleted the reference to Start Class in the hope that it may now be re-assessed. Waysider1925 (talk) 12:32, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: should change avkhat in avkat? as is suggested by ----> http://www.princeton.edu/avkat/ ??  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.40.120.251 (talk) 04:08, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: What? — LlywelynII 17:12, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Avkat" 

message: This guy is St Theodore. The only reason to park him at Theodore Tiron instead is because it's a WP:NATURALDAB and the person who selected this one was Greek and/or didn't know how to use Google Ngrams. Sadly, our misplacement seems to have started killing off the historically correct Latinate form (Theodore Tyro) in favor of a random use of modern Greek, but 'Theodore the Recruit' still remains more common than any of those. At some point, we should move the entire article to one of the better natural dabs: Theodore the Recruit, Theodore Tyro, or Theodore Teron.
In any case, the lead sentence should start with his actual most common English name (simply St Theodore) and then just prominently mention the form that we're using as his dab. — LlywelynII 17:12, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: [[WP:LEADSENTENCE]]

message: More on other topics in the sources provided as refs for the different names used for this guy.
Also, these 
*  The Book of Saints (a dictionary of servants of God canonised by the Catholic Church) compiled by the Benedictine monks of St Augustine's Abbey, Ramsgate (6th edition, revised & rest, 1989).
*  Farmer, David Hugh: The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (4th edition, 1997).
* B. Fourlas, "Eine frühbyzantinische Silberschale mit der Darstellung des heiligen Theodor", Jahrbuch des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums Mainz 55, 2008 [2011], pp. 483–528 (on the iconography before iconoclasm).
*  Grotowski, Piotr L.: Arms and armour of the warrior saints: tradition & innovation in Byzantine iconography (843-1261) (Leiden: Brill, 2010).
were listed as "sources" but completely unusued by the article. Kindly restore them once they're actually being used as references for some information in the article. — LlywelynII 01:01, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources for future article expansion
Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship/Peregrine Fisher

message: Peregrine_Fisher's edit stats using wannabe Kate tool as of 23:36, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

message: 16 Requests for adminship/Peregrine Fisher
 14 Articles for deletion/The New and Improved Carl Morrissey (The 4400 episode)
 11 Articles for deletion/List of Smallville episodes
 11 Articles for deletion/Ultimate X-Men (story arcs) (2nd nomination)
 6 Articles for deletion/Airdates of Desperate Housewives
 5 Featured list candidates/List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes
 4 WikiProject Dungeons & Dragons
 3 Articles for deletion/List of Smallville allusions
 3 Help desk
 3 WikiProject List of Television Episodes/to-do
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 3 WikiProject Comics/Comiccharacterbox example
 3 Peer review/Star Cops
 2 WikiProject Comics/Participants
 2 WikiProject Canadian TV shows
Yuser31415 (Editor review two!) 04:21, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Breakdown of Wikipedia namespace edits
Talk:Kevin Conway (racing driver)

message: This is not a neutral article.  Every statement in it slants positive toward the subject.  For instance, he won the "Raybestos Rookie of the Race" in every race, because he was the only rookie racing that year.  Everything in the article is factually correct, but appears to have gone through the PR factory.  78.26 (I'm no IP, talk to me!) 17:23, 27 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Article bias
Talk:The Culture Show

message: can we make a mention in the article that this show is terrible?WildlifeAnalysis 23:36, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I love it. 80.47.128.213 15:08, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It is appalling. It should be renamed 'The Pop Culture Show', because it hardly ever contains items on art that's genuinely challenging. Particularly noteworthy is its almost total neglect of contemporary classical music. Just look at the list of musical acts that have performed on the show. 90.205.92.145 (talk) 06:56, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I thought "culture" was "what people like". Of COURSE they will have pop music etc. Obscure stuff may well be better, but it is obscure, and destined to remain that way, until some suits steal the idea and manufacture a pop version 10 years later anyway. Anyway anybody know the name of the current music segment host bloke? He was on last night (8th March) interviewing some women who have released 3 albums in 20 years or something. 82.153.230.138 (talk) 14:57, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Gizmodo

message: I think there should be a section regarding the common criticism that Gizmodo has gone from reputable tech site to being an Apple fanboy's wet dream. Just about every article on it for the past few years have been praising Apple endlessly and criticizing everyone else. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.116.91.139 (talk) 
:I'd agree, but unless there are verifiable sources you can't include it in the article. Plus, it'd be pretty difficult to represent it neutrally. --Topperfalkon (talk) 17:45, 2 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blatantly obvious Apply fanboyism 

message: So we've added the #whitenoise section.  It looks pretty nice.  Feel free to edit anything wonderfully new in, as is your right.  If anyone feels like getting rid of it, let us know here, perhaps we can talk.  Four tildes now?
Sithishade (talk) 07:13, 4 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  First Talk Page Post About Something! 

message: Generally when a company has broken laws (as with the iPhone) and caused controversy and disruptions (as with the TVBGone thing), we call that controversy, not coverage. It would be biased to call it anything else. 174.112.18.193 (talk) 01:58, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversy 

message: https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/08/media/univision-sells-gizmodo/index.html
https://www.thedailybeast.com/deadspin-editor-quits-rails-against-bosses-ive-been-repeatedly-lied-to-and-gaslit
This got very little publicity and affects a lot of articles.   I don't feel qualified to edit these articles. StreamingRadioGuide (talk) 16:43, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Univision unloaded the digital properties from Gawker 

message: Would the citation about Ted Cruz, citing it during the facebook hearings count?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.201.184.88 (talk) 03:14, 10 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ted Cruz?
Talk:Senya Fleshin

message: There is a book which could prove useful as a source for this article:
* -- Marek.69 talk 13:47, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: If you are thinking about expanding this article and have difficulty tracing this book, please get in contact with an OTRS agent (perhaps through the OTRS noticeboard) and point them to . —Tom Morris (talk) 13:48, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: A potential source
Talk:Hesya Helfman

message: Her father's name will have been Meyer, patronymic Meyerovna as given in Russian Wikipedia. A Russianised variant Mironova (from the baptismal name Miron, more common as a surname than patronymic) is plausible. "Mirokh", unknown as a Jewish first name, is most likely corrupt transcription 92.24.32.248 (talk) 20:45, 11 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Father's name

message: She wasn`t russian, that`s why her name was Hessia Helfmann. But in the russian language there is no H. That`s why they call her Gesya Gelfman. But this is not correct. Nobody will call Heinrich Heine in Geinrig Geine. Only in Russia. Berlin, 15.4.2012  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.20.6.200 (talk) 08:55, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: correct writing

message: Since the statement "At a personal level, Helfman practiced then-revolutionary free love" seemed to me extremely unilikely (and, frankly, rather annoying), I coudn't help purchasing at JStore and downloading the article it was allegedly founded upon. 
Robert H. McNeal writes therein:
Any conclusion drawn from the above to the effect that Hesya Helfman may have practiced "then-revolutionary free love", appears to be not only improper and rash, but certainly bogus. I have therefore removed the statement.--Jeanambr (talk) 14:51, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Helfman's alleged "free love"
Talk:Grigory Gershuni

message: I found tons of material on this man, especially about Manya Shochat, his lover, 
and much about his beliefs and actions, even about his time in jail. 
The Internet includes pictures of the people in the Okhrana, 
and many authentic documents about this man and his colleagues. 
I hope I get the time to work on it. IMHO It is fascinating material. פשוט pashute ♫ (talk) 22:56, 17 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Tons of material
Talk:Warnier/Orr diagram

message: I would like to see a section added to this article: a listing of software utilities that construct Warnier-Orr Diagrams.
I think Warnier-Orr Diagrams, Flowchart, and structure chart are all examples of visual design abstraction.  Additionally, all of these visual design abstractions can be used in knowledge representation, such as representing computer programming languages.  These opinions could serve as a basis for linking Warnier-Orr Diagrams in more places.
----
For some reason a bot seems to have deleted a few of the diagrams for copyright reasons. This is extremely annoying, as they are referenced from the text, and essential for understanding the concepts. Without diagram 13 for example, the elegant solution to parallel but conflicting abstractions is completely lost. Can someone please fix this, as I don't know where to retrieve the images? --Lasse Hillerøe Petersen 14:48, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it's pretty pointless even having an article about a diagram-based model without visual examples. Mrstonky (talk) 02:46, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

message: Translation of Jean-Dominique Warnier please... TYIA 151.40.251.236 (talk) 13:50, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Attention to people with enough knowledge of French (minimum 3 on Babel scale)
Talk:Dmitry Karakozov

message: We have "On April 4, 1866", and we later have this man's execution.  The execution date matches the old-style (Julian) date at the top of the article, so apparently we need a remark (parenthetical?) that the April 4 date
is old-style (assuming it is old-style).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.63.16.82 (talk) 16:35, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Julian & Gregorian calendar
Template talk:User t

message: The left-box is too big, and the content doesn't appeal much to me.  What about something like ?  It would still get the same point across, would be smaller, and a little more classy.  --NThurston 20:50, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  LH Box Too Big 

message: Please see the March 7 2007 UCfD: Wikipedia:User_categories_for_discussion#0-level_categories.2C_part_2_.26_3. Thanks. Xiner (talk, email) 00:37, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please don't add 0-level category. 

message: This needs something akin to the way that  would work in a normal userbox. The code here looks complicated enough that I'm not sure just enabling that parameter would do much.  The issue is that if someone puts a userbox like this in a user subpage and then transcludes it onto their main userpage and user talk page, all three pages will be categorized. nocat can be used, with simpler templates, to prevent categorization except on one page (e.g. by |nocat=true). — SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 12:47, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  nocat 

message: I want to nest this in Babel.  I tried, but I discovered the secret proficiency level instead.  How do I nest this template in another? MutantPlatypus (talk) 09:56, 23 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: *Just put , though if you're wondering how to do higher, see below  —CodeHydro 16:40, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nest in another template 

message: I'd tell you how, but I won't because I think of it as an initiation rite to figure out how on your own ;) Currently, up to User t-2 can be used on Babel using the standard Babel format, but, as you may have noticed User t-3 or higher do not exist currently. While it's easy enough to make them, I think it should stay that way so it is reserved for those who truly deserves to use them since it's possible already with some coding (just see my user page). I wonder if we should do something for fun like the following which would add you to :Category:User template coders who passed the Babel initiation, producing a box with the added word "Babel" before "user" like:
I can do it myself, but I'd like to see whether other people think this is meaningful. —CodeHydro 16:40, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Using level 3 or higher in Babel
Talk:Mikhail Petrashevsky

message: Wondering if there could be an agreement on removing one of the two identical references to Evans, John L. 1974, by using a short note linked to the full citation, and adding a link from the existing short notes to the full citation of Figes, Orlando 2014. Thanks. Carlotm (talk) 01:10, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  References