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Talk:Stirling Moss

message: I recently made an edit, reverted by SchroCat, which removed the statement that Moss' family was Jewish. I replaced the sentence with a clarification that his paternal grandfather was Jewish, which so far as I can glean from the other sources available on this matter is the extent of his Jewish roots. The source for the claim (more of an implication really) that his entire extended family is Jewish is a single unsubstantiated sentence in the Jewish Chronicle's obituary, which also states that the family name was changed from Moses to Moss. The second part does indeed corroborate the well-established fact that his father was of Jewish descent, however this does not account for his mother (née Craufurd, a Scottish name). As I can find no other sources to support the suggestion that his mother was Jewish, I question the veracity of this statement and strongly suggest that we stick with the already well-founded consensus that his father was of Jewish descent on his father's side. I do not wish to engage in an edit war, so I'd like to resolve this in the talk page if possible before I restore my edit.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Icegrommet (talk • contribs) 21:59, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: As I said in my edit summary: you need to provide references from WP:RELIABLE SOURCES that back up what you say. You may well be right, but without any other sources that say otherwise, we go with what the only other source says. - SchroCat (talk) 23:08, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: There are plenty of sources. The Guardian talks about Alfred Moss being a "descendant of a family of Ashkenazi Jews" , while Car and Driver states "Moss, whose mother was Scottish but whose father was (apparently) part Jewish". There is no need to incorrectly infer that his entire family was Jewish. Bretonbanquet (talk) 23:22, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: That's fine - feel free to make the changes with the sources. The reason it was reverted first time is that Icegrommet changed the text without bothering to change the source, which is a no-no. The burden is on them to bring the sources to the article. - SchroCat (talk) 05:36, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Jewish Ancestry

message: In 1992, at Targa Tasmania, Moss was driving on the wrong side of the road in Bonneys Hill, Moriarty and crashed into Joy and Malcolm Murray as they were returning home. It took two hours to cut Joy Murray from the wreckage, and she spent nine days in hospital after receiving cuts around her eyes, temporarily blinding her. Malcolm Murray suffered permanent memory loss. Moss was charged with driving on the wrong side of the road.
https://www.theadvocate.com.au/story/676672/public-roads-no-place-for-racing/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by SiobhanL (talk • contribs) 00:19, 13 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Targa Tasmania 1992
Talk:Vow of poverty

message: The article should not be moved to wiktionary. There is much to say about the vow of poverty, especially with regard to the history of Christian monastic orders during the Middle Ages. Burschik 14:32, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)

message: The re-direct to "simple living" is mistaken; and I have therefore removed it. The Christian vow of poverty – vow of poverty – is one of the three Evangelical Counsels and taken in imitation of the kenosis of Christ, a point that merits expounding.
Alternatively, re-direct to Evangelical Counsels (which I have now done, if only as a temporary measure) and there make sub-headings for each of the three vows individually (viz. chastity, poverty, obedience).
02:08, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article needs restoring and expert attention
Talk:Taff Trail

message: Unfortunately, I haven't travelled the trail further than Merthyr, and I don't fancy just "researching" that info from other websites, so I'll leave it for people who have first-hand experience to flesh out that part. 
It could really do with a map, too, but all the ones I know of are copyright. Varitek 14:41, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:From Here to Infirmary

message: My UK edition has a track entitled "Standard Break" before "Hell Yes". —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.40.131.66 (talk • contribs) 09:12, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: "Standard Break"
Talk:Changeling (Star Trek)

message: A distinction should be made between Changelings and Founders.  Changelings are an alien race.  Founders are a political entity.  The obvious distinction is personified by Odo, who is a Changeling but is not a Founder.
I'll be happy to edit the page to make the distinction, just as soon as I figure out how to word it. MrItty 15:05, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Because though Martia was a shape-shifter she wasn't of the same species as the Changelings (there are several shape-shifting species within the Star Trek universe).--65.113.254.219 20:32, 24 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Leonard Birchall

message: I was so impressed after reading Leonard Birchall's obituary that I went to the library and borrowed the book "Hell On Earth, Aging faster, dying sooner"; Canadian Prisoners of the Japanese during WWII, by David Mcintosh.  Its a fascinating book about what it was really like for those men.Smb45 15:19, 9 November 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Book

message: Connection to Matsuhiro Watanabe found here. -Location (talk) 06:35, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: For future reference

message: This article is well written and very informative about one of Canada's most important military aviators. It should be checked for a B class article and further improved for a good article nomination in the future. This article reflects the best of what wikipedia can be in my opinion. 172.56.11.75 (talk) 02:14, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definitely not start class anymore 
Talk:Liouville function

message: One of our more capable anonymous users changed attribution of the positivity conjecture to mention Paul Turan, removing attirubtion to Polya. Are there cites/references for this? The change is in direct contradition to mathworld, see Polya Conjecture, which states: The conjecture was made in 1919, and disproven by Haselgrove (1958) and cites Haselgrove, C. B. "A Disproof of a Conjecture of Pólya." Mathematika 5, 141-145, 1958., so it would seem that Haselgrove thought it was Polya's conjecture ... linas 21:58, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, never mind. I can't read. There are two conjectures on this page, one is Polya's and one whose origins are vague. linas 22:03, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Conjecture attribution

message: Back in 2010, an IP edit inserted 
  It has since been shown that L(n) > 0.0618672√n for infinitely many positive integers n, while it can also be shown that L(n) < -1.3892783√n for infinitely many positive integers n.
but with a (valid) reference only for the first part. The referenced paper by Borwein et al. does not seem to have anything related to the second claim, and other sources (such as MathWorld) still, after almost six years, say that it is unknown whether infinitely many sign changes occur (whereas this question would be answered positively if the above claim were correct).
I'll tentatively add a "citation needed", but am afraid the claim should in fact rather be dropped.--Hagman (talk) 13:07, 1 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infinitely many sign changes? 

message: The article mix Dirichlet power with term-by-term power, in the formula
The Dirichlet inverse of Liouville function is the absolute value of the Möbius function, \lambda ^{-1}(n)=|\mu (n)|=\mu ^{2}(n),
(\lambda ^{-1} is is Dirichlet power, while \mu ^{2} is a term by term power)
2A01:E0A:9D1:7200:D3FF:6D19:95C6:5618 (talk) 20:14, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  ambiguous notation
Talk:Placebo (Placebo album)

message: I wonder what the sources are for claiming that Bionic and Hang On To Your IQ were released as singles in 1994, when the album "Placebo" was still two years away from being released. Even the band's website cites Bruce Pristine as their first single (1995).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hermanoarnoldo (talk • contribs) 00:15, 2 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Singles 

message: I added some refs from the Placebo discography article here, and took out the citation needed tags. Also updated the dead link. PaintedCarpet (talk) 21:53, 3 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copy Edit 
Talk:Laser guide star

message: When you create an artificial guide star in the mesosphere, why doesn't the laser beam get distorted by atmospheric convection just like the light of stars does when it comes down through the atmosphere (Seeing disk)? 193.171.121.30 15:45, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Distortion

message: Indeed, the laser is affected by astronomical seeing. It breaks up into speckle patterns (like the one shown here: :Image:Ast_seeing_20r0.png), and these speckles move around. The adaptive optics system tracks this pattern of speckles (mostly the brightest speckle) and does its correction of the shape of the incoming wavefronts. But as you point out, the speckle pattern changes and moves around. Because of this, even a laser guide star AO system needs a real star to do the tip-tilt (pointing) correction and remove the effects of the laser speckles moving around. Because only tip and tilt need to be corrected, it can be a much fainter star than is required for normal adaptive optics (where the shape of the wavefront is also measured using the real star).
Rnt20 13:33, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Explanation of all this stuff about seeing 

message: The sentence  "the use of fluid gain media including toxic chemicals is a disadvantage" is only true if bad and sloppy engineering leads to dye spills.  Also this type of assertion should be referenced.  The same applies to the consumption of electrical power.
And the advertisement of particular commercial products is not part of the Wikipedia culture.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.101.163.28 (talk) 19:20, 4 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Liquids and commercial ad
Category talk:Water

message: Water intoxication needs to be added as a page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_intoxication
I could not see a category under which it fits.  "Water's effect on the human body" might make sense, but I hope someone could come up with a less cumbersome category name.
--AU-R.O.T. (talk) 16:15, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: . -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 22:57, 24 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Water intoxication
Talk:Co-determination

message: 'In Britain, the proposals for co-determination were drawn up, and a command paper produced named the Bullock Report. This was done in 1977 by the Harold Wilson Labour Party (UK) government.'
This is completely wrong. Harold Wilson was not the Labour Party Leader in 1977, Jim Callaghan was.
How can somebody know about the Bullock Report, yet fail to know who was Prime Minister in 1977? 
Bloody idiot.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.30.74.96 (talk) 16:57, 6 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  WTF? 

message: Dr. Brown has reviewed this Wikipedia page, and provided us with the following comments to improve its quality:
We hope Wikipedians on this talk page can take advantage of these comments and improve the quality of the article accordingly.
Dr. Brown has published scholarly research which seems to be relevant to this Wikipedia article:
*Reference : S Oxenbridge & S Deakin & W Brown & C Pratten, 2001. "Collective Employee Representation and the Impact of Law: Initial Response to the Employment Relations Act 1999," ESRC Centre for Business Research - Working Papers wp206, ESRC Centre for Business Research.
ExpertIdeasBot (talk) 13:32, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dr. Brown's comment on this article 

message: Codetermination seems most popular here. InedibleHulk (talk) 21:21, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree, and even the lede uses codetermination without the hyphen. lizthegrey (talk) 00:43, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Informal move request 

message: Nearly identical subject matter; the BLER article has a much more comprehensive formulated table of regulations by country that is written out in prose here but for many fewer countries. lizthegrey (talk) 00:43, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Where we would want to eventually be would be a summary list BLER practices/laws by country and an article with an overview of BLER practices/laws.  We have the bones of that structure.  The BLER article would appear to be an appropriate list article, the history section could be moved here and the article renamed to reflect list status. Regards, Goldsztajn (talk) 21:54, 12 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge of [[Worker representation on corporate boards of directors]] with [[Co-determination]]
Talk:Billerica

message: The Town of Billerica,Ma originally named Shawshin by the Native American settlers,is located at 42.33 N - 71.16 W. This historic and picturesque "New England Town",town was settled in 1637 and incorporated in 1655, it is located in Middlesex County, 18 N.W.of Boston, Ma. The land area of Billerica is 27.8 sq. miles. Several lakes and two major rivers run through the town, the historic Concord River and the Shawsheen River. The oldest homestead in the town is the Manning House, built in 1655 but the town is home to many 17th, 18th century homes. One of those homes is the Asa Pollard house which was the birthplace and home of Thomas Pollard who was the first soldier to die at the battle of Bunker Hill. The song "Yankee Doodle" was written to honor Revolutionary soldier and Billerica resident Thomas Ditson who was captured by the British, tarred and feathered and sent back from whenst he came. The song and the title "Yankee Doddle Town" has been adopted by the town as their theme song. Billerica is the location of the oldest canal in the United States, The Middlesex Canal, circa 1793 - 1853 which was used to transport goods to and from Lowell, Ma from Boston and points in between. Billerica also has a Native American burial site dating back to 1000 B.C.. 
Billerica uses a Town Manager and Town Meeting form of government. Although Billerica is predominently a rural bedroom community it has also become a hub of "high tech" industry and development.
++++++++++++++
What's above was originally here, and then moved to the article. (These predated my own first visit.) I revised the text above within the article but then noticed that there was another article on Billerica, Massachusetts and therefore moved most of the content there and converted the article into a disambiguation page. Hoary 07:46, 20 Nov 2004 (UTC)

message: hi =]  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.216.161.54 (talk) 19:45, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Billerica(y)
Talk:Romanian Armed Forces/Archive 1

message: : Romania abolished conscription in 2003, being a forerunner in the region in these types of democratic reforms.
That is incorrect. In 2003, Romania adopted a new constitution that allows the parliament to take this decision. As of 2004, conscription is not yet abolished. Bogdan | Talk 18:26, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: The Romanian army includes land forces, airforces and naval forces. This page needs special attention. Here is a public statement of the MOD about the restructuring which will take place until 2015 . Constantzeanu 17:29, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Kisa, Hiroshima

message: OK, I've spend about an hour trying to track this down, without any success. What does this mean:
:The town has a legend that it received its name when retired Emperor Go-Toba stopped off in Kisa on the way to an island in the Sea of Japan after he was sent there by the government for instigating a rebellion.
Does "Kisa" have something to do with Go-Toba, the Sea of Japan, the island, rebellions, or what? func(talk) 18:33, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Talk:The Double Life of Veronique

message: Help, please: Where can i buy a DVD with this film?
:Check here. :) Halibutt 19:55, Nov 9, 2004 (UTC)
::It's two years later, Halibutt, but in case you haven't noticed there's a nice new DVD edition available in Poland.  ProhibitOnions  (T) 15:26, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: And an upcoming special edition by the folks at the Criterion Collection.Count Ringworm 16:54, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Does anyone know the name of the song that Veronika was singing when she died..?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.136.115.226 (talk) 08:12, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: The Song
Talk:Arctic

message: List of deserts by area points here and Template:Deserts is transincluded, and Arctic Desert links here for disambiguation, but this desert is not explained in the article. A map and overview: . There is also a much smaller Arctic desert ecoregion. -- Beland (talk) 08:30, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: maybe merge parts from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_desert to this article? Technoferret303 (talk) 03:30, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arctic Desert 

message: In this article, it says "United States". Should this be changed to "United States of America" to have more clarification? Technoferret303 (talk) 03:34, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  United States to change to United States of America?
Talk:Albert Square

message: Someone's ashes are buried in the gardens. Is it Debbie Bates? This could be mentioned here. anemone│projectors 12:16, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ashes 

message: When it says it is "known as the Bench of Tears", is this within the context of the show or just a term used by the viewers? It isn't clear and needs clarification.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.17.53.21 (talk) 20:57, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The "Bench of Tears" 

message: This article dosent look that good... Could we combine it with another article to make it better maybe create a article; Eastenders Setting. Im sure AP has said that before.... whoops!--MayhemMario (talk) 19:11, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, see Talk:Walford#Businesses and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject EastEnders/Archive 14#Walford and Albert Square :-) (best place to continue discussion is at the latter) –anemoneprojectors– 22:20, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I definitely still think we should merge this with Walford, and some of it could go under EastEnders#Production. –anemoneprojectors– 15:36, 12 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I finally did it! Merged real-world information with EastEnders#Set and the rest with Walford. anemoneprojectors 15:25, 12 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Just saying...
Category talk:Tanks

message: Right. this category is definately a mess at the moment, with little structure in subcategories.
I think there need to be several classification schemes, which need to be adhered to rigidly:
*Tanks sorted by nationality (German, US, USSR/Russian, UK etc)
*Tanks sorted by weight (Light, Medium, Heavy and Main Battle tanks)
with the last category being used ONLY for post-World War II tanks, as 
this name was not used during WWII or before.
*Tanks sorted by period
This can be done in two ways: by decade or by sorting them into World War I, "between wars", World War II and "post-war" groups. by decade has as advantage that knowing the date of origin, you can always easily find the tank you need, but the groupings itself will not be logical perse, e.g. splitting the German tanks that served during World War II into a group 1930-39 and a group 1940-49. 
Sorting them the second way will lead to some confusion (e.g. Centurion: world War II or post-war tanks) and will lead to bigger groups, but will also lead to more "human logical" groupings. 
I have created a new subcategory :Category:Tanks by nationality and hung the various country subcategories under it. I have also created a subcategory :Category:Tanks by classification under which the subcategories on medium, light, etc, tanks have been hung.
--Martin Wisse 19:42, 9 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Politics of Palau

message: Killing President of country with 20.000. people?!?!?!?Dzoni 08:42, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Who would do it

message: "Each state also elects its own governor and legislature."
WTF? Of the 39 citizens of the State of Sonsorol, how many are in its legislature? —Ashley Y 09:20, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  State legislatures? 

message: Does anyone have any information on WHY the capital was moved from Koror to Melekeok? I've been looking for anything I can find and nothing says anything about the reason or purpose of the move, only thing I can find are questions as to whether the capital is Melekeok or Ngerulmud.
All I have is a personal guess that (given that Melekeok seems no more unique an area than the rest of the island and the new capital building stands fairly alone) the government may be trying to construct a new (possibly planed) capital away from established population centers.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.202.113.212 (talk) 01:37, 20 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: You are correct. Koror, which is the main and biggest city (in Palau it is referred to as "State" by the locals) is too over-populated and so in hopes to control population in a specific area, our former president decided to move and build the actual capital building to Melekeok. The capital of the republic of Palau as a whole is Ngerulmud. 24.206.68.15 (talk) 07:51, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reason for move of capital
Talk:Cultured pearl

message: I have made this edit in the past and it was reverted. Stating that more than 95% of pearls sold on the market today are cultured is grossly misleading. The true percentage is greater than 99.9999%. There have been less than a dozen natural pearl sales in the last year (as they are auction only), yet China has produced more than 1500 metric tons of cultured freshwater alone. With an average of 33 strands per kilo, well, you can do the math.
I understand China sells more LaFern (talk) 12:38, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: A note

message: Who changed it from Song to Sung  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:448A:1082:7B30:E4C2:97CF:5C4D:783E (talk) 07:31, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Song Dynasty

message: This sentence was added in September 2012, so it should have referred to 2010-2012, unless it was from an even earlier source. ~~  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:1700:90C0:9CA0:2E3B:70FF:FEAA:21F7 (talk) 14:41, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  When "the last two years" was