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Talk:Tau cross

message: I couldn't find an ISBN number for this book:  
"Church Symbolism" by F.R. Webber, published in Cleveland by J.H. Jansen in 1938.  
My personal copy is this 1938 second edition version.  The first edition was released in 1927, in case that information is helpful.  Dulcimerist 01:35, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: Granted the Christians certainly use this symbol, but is it fair to call it a "Christian cross" if so many other cultures have used it?
yes  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.229.114.93 (talk) 01:33, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I would like some sourses on this. I want to beleive it, it makes a lot of sense, but I have to get the facts first, I'll do some research to confirm or deny this latro... "The Tau cross was a symbol of the Roman God Mithras and the Greek Attis, and their forerunner Tammuz, the Sumerian solar God, the consort of the Goddess Ishtar." Sanitycult (talk) 11:19, 26 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Exclusively Christian?

message: I edited a misstatement that Tammuz was killed and resurrected every Spring; the rituals related to that occur in the month named after him, which is the summer.  I did not edit the claim that the custom of ashes on the forehead stemmed from Tammuz, even though it sounds like the sort of strange claim made by polemicists like Alexander Hislop.  Is there any verification of this?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.204.183.211 (talk) 12:42, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Hyslop's bad research slipping in?

message: I am not sure what is meant by the following line in the article "These crosses are rare, and only a few are left in the world, the most well known being the cross on Tory Island in County Donegal, Ireland." The Tau cross itself isn't rare.  Almost all Franciscan churches have them in one form or the other.  Does anyone know what is meant by this?  Either this sentence needs to be clarified or removed. Marauder40 (talk) 17:06, 27 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rare Crosses 

message: I have encountered the tau cross under this name in many, many books, but have never read of this symbol being referenced anywhere as the cross of tau. What's its provenance?
Nuttyskin (talk) 16:37, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dispute title of article
Talk:Ward Melville Fencing

message: Guy, this isn't notable enough a subject for a stand-alone article, as far as I'm concerned and as far as I read prevailing sentiment among editors generally for this sort of article. All you've done since the tag was added was to triple its length. If you DON'T merge it, it's likely to be put up for deletion and the decision of what to merge taken out of your hands, or even having the article deleted completely. So if I were you, I'd start figuring what important parts can be transferred to Ward Melville High School and what can be safely left behind. Disk space may be practically unlimited, but reader patience isn't, at least when it comes to extraneous detail. --Calton | Talk 06:39, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge
Talk:Siege of Sidney Street

message: There is a jarring contradiction within the section entitled "Latvian emigre gang". It states in the first paragraph that "the small group of Latvians ... were not anarchists". Then in the second paragraph, "The probable leader of the group was George Gardstein ..., who probably was an anarchist". Perhaps the solution is to write that the group were not ALL anarchists, but I would not make that edit without knowing the evidence for each claim. Jmchutchinson (talk) 07:40, 30 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Not that jarring: the group weren't, but one member was. Anyhow, I've tweaked accordingly. – Gavin (talk) 09:17, 30 August 2016 (UTC)

text: Just because you didn't fall off your chair doesn't mean he didn't. ;) Jyg (talk) 21:25, 10 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction in whether they were anarchists
Wikipedia talk:Featured article candidates/Star

message: pasting here as I am getting a zero byte error:
Thanks for effecting some of the changes:
*Wikipedia:Image use policy#Format states that static diagrams should be in the .png format. PS I'm happy that some of the diagrams are svg. Excellent work!
**I'll see what I can do about converting the .gif image. There's a better image available, IMO, and I'll see if I can get the license accepted. — RJH (talk)
* About the sectioning: I can't quote a style guide off hand, but in all my work editing over the years, I have come across the rule that to have a sub section, you must have at least two subsections. The text before the first subsection becomes the overview of the following sections. Take a look at any printer manual or magazine article. 
* Unfortunately the FA guidelines require completeness, and this is a large topic – sadly, most FAC editors get stuck with this point. See #4 of WP:WIAFA. (staying focused on the main topic without going into unnecessary detail). 
**By moving extraneous content here to the sub article, and summarizing that content here, you can get the daughter article featured with a little extra work. It's referenced after all :)
*** I'm still somewhat reluctant about this, although I moved some of the more technical details of the evolutionary tracks to the stellar evolution page. The topic is sufficient large to fill several books. It seems almost a little too brief to me right now. — RJH (talk)
*=Radiation= & Nuclear fusion reaction – Well not all articles are the same. Roche limit for example would be more tuned for a person with a science background reading it. Afterall you need a knowedge of trignometry to calculate it. The formulae are currently essential as it is used in context, but to remove it you would have to rewrite it so that the need for the formulae is obviated. 
** None of the formulae involved trigonometry. But I moved most of the off to other pages that are more technical in nature. The nucleosynthesis entries are pretty easy to grasp, so I left them in place. — RJH (talk)
* Use − to mark out the minus sign
** Done. — RJH (talk)
* ...to our eyes, only because it is merely 8.6 light-years away from us, while Canopus is much further away from us at 310 light-years. --> "...to the eye only because Sirius (8.6 light years) is much closer to earth than Canopus (310 light years). (Don't use our)
* Context needed for many terms. I'll give you one example: As the cloud collapses, individual Bok globules form... --> ... as the cloud collapses, dark clouds of dense dust and gas called Bok globules form...
** That entry has already been updated, and a number of the other entries have been modified. It helps when I have another person's viewpoint, however, since I'm already a little too familiar with this material. RJH (talk)
*{Main article} clarification: The first letter of the linked article should be capitalized. (star formation --> Star formation; Stellar evolution). So that this is consistent with the usage in other articles on wikipedia. Regards.
** Done. Thank you. — RJH (talk) 19:45, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
Talk:South Carolina Supreme Court

message: I went ahead and merged 'South Carolina Supreme Court' in with 'Supreme Court of South Carolina'.  When I was reading over the two articles, I saw no information that needed to be added to the merged article.  If anyone disagrees, please salvage the previous info.
Wdflake 02:15, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: Does anyone know if the governor of S.C. plays any role in the selection/nomination/approval of justices as compared to other states or at the federal level?
--69.143.30.224 (talk) 20:22, 8 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gubernatorial Role
Talk:Ruins of São Miguel das Missões

message: What is the source for the "historically accurate version ... supplied by a Brazilian"? None is given.
It also seems a little odd that this uncited account is juxtaposed with a film (The Mission) with loose basis is fact, though implicitly set-up here as being "historical" in nature. Seems something of a straw man argument.
D.brodale 01:57, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflicting Accounts 
Talk:Churches of Chiloé

message: Hello. My English is insufficient to properly edit this part:
"Built in the 18th and 19th centuries when Chiloé Archipelago was still a part of the Spanish Crown possessions, the churches represent the fusion of European Jesuit culture and local native peoples' skill and traditions: an excellent example of mestizo culture."
The only remaining churches of colonial Spanish and Jesuit period are churches of Achao (its building began c. 1730) and Quinchao (c. 1735). Fourteen of sixteen World Heritage churches were built in 19th and 20th centuries, under Chilean rule and Franciscan priests. However, all of them exhibit an evolution of Jesuit style, . That common traits form an "Escuela chilota de arquitectura religiosa en madera." ("Chilote School of Religious Wooden Architecture" ? ) Please, add a line explaining this subject. Thanks. --Lin linao (talk) 03:13, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not only Spanish and Jesuit 
Talk:H1ghlander

message: Five cars finished the course of  the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge: H1ghlander & TerraMax & Kat-5 & Stanley & Sandstorm. It is interesting to compare them to the earlier VaMP robot car of Mercedes-Benz and Ernst Dickmanns. My sources are mostly Wikipedia and the rest of the web. In 2005, the DARPA cars drove 212 km without human intervention.  In 1995, the VaMP drove up to 158 km without human intervention. The DARPA cars drove on a dirt road flattened by a steamroller. The VaMP drove on the Autobahn. In both cases the road boundaries were easily identifiable by computer vision. Like many commercial cars, the DARPA cars used GPS navigation, essentially driving from one waypoint to the next (almost 3000 waypoints for the entire course, several waypoints per curve). Like humans, the VaMP drove by vision only.  The DARPA cars reached speeds up to 40 km/h. The VaMP reached speeds up to 180 km/h. So the VaMP was more than four times faster although its computer processors apparently were 1000 times slower. The DARPA cars did not encounter any traffic but there were a few stationary obstacles. The VaMP drove in traffic around moving obstacles, passing other cars.  Interestingly, the 2007 Urban Grand Challenge is trying to repeat something the VaMP was already able to do 12 years ago. Willingandable 17:32, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[VaMP]] (1995) vs [[H1ghlander]] & [[TerraMax (vehicle)|TerraMax]] & [[Kat-5 (vehicle)|Kat-5]] & [[Stanley (vehicle)|Stanley]] & [[Sandstorm (vehicle)|Sandstorm]] (2005)
Talk:Chan Chan

message: I believe there is a grave spelling error in describing chan chan 'Ciudadelas'. From spanish, the term 'Ciudadela' translates into Citadel. Hence, the term 'Cuidadela' is a dyslexic misspelling and was corrected accordingly (Evidence of usage of the term 'ciudadela' in the official heritage website). --WikiDrive (talk) 19:49, 3 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Ciudadelas not Cuidadelas

message: Location:
Chan Chan is centred at 8° 06' 20" South, 79° 04' 30" West, which is five kilometres west (slightly north-west) of the centre of the town of Trujillo.  Source: Google Earth. FitzHugh 22:08, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: You're sloppy, some of the information you provide is confusing and incorrect.
Opening section:
1) "The Chimor empire, a conquest state,[3] developed from the Chimú culture which established itself along the Peruvian coast around 1400 AD."
Incorrect and in contradiction to what you said in the previous sentence.
2) "An indication of the great Chimú wealth is seen in a sixteenth century list of items looted from a burial tomb in Chan Chan; a treasure equivalent to 80,000 pesos of gold was recovered (nearly $5,000 US dollars in gold).[8]"
You mean contemporary dollars? That would be 4 ounces of gold, give or take, the gold content of 4 double-eagles. That's not much. And I guess you also meant contemporary pesos, because a peso of the 16th century contained approximately an ounce of silver which was worth close to 2 grams of gold, in those days.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Daniel4679 (talk • contribs) 07:37, 13 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some mistakes 

message: Recent work at Chan Chan uncovered a mass grave: https://phys.org/news/2021-11-archaeologists-pre-columbian-mass-grave-peru.html  this should be incorporated into the article.199.127.133.181 (talk) 16:54, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Human sacrifice 

message: Moved this out of the article as it is not relevant for general readers, but it explains the use of our metadata and may be helpful for researchers: ~Maplestrip/Mable (chat) 10:45, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Coordinates

message: I have reacently improved the etymology section in the Spanish version of the entry. As I explained in the Spanish discussion page, offered supposedly Quingnam etymon Jiang 'sun' is just not existing. Actually, there is no consensus about what the word for 'sun' might have been in Quingnam. On top of that, it seems to be just a misquoting of Ernst Middendorf's Mochica etymological hypothesis. As such, I am going to replace entirely the current section with an abbreviated translation of the recent Spanish version.--2001:1388:4463:C2AA:815A:4D3F:CE5A:E029 (talk) 15:07, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fake etymology
Talk:Ravensburg State Park

message: http://www.sungazette.com/page/content.detail/id/507990/Ravensburg-State-Park--caws--to-you.html Ruhrfisch  ><>°° 13:12, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice find.  It is very interesting to read about Cherokee in Pennsylvania.  Never heard of that before.  Lots of the info seems to be legend rather than fact. Dincher (talk) 16:51, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I know the Iroquois would head south to fight the Cherokee in the Carolinas. I assumed that the Cherokee were heading north to return the favor, but also never heard of them living long term in Pennsylvania or even traveling through. Ruhrfisch  ><>°° 18:55, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

text: I asked him on his talk page. Dincher (talk) 19:11, 19 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. I checked the book "Indinas in Pennsylvania" and although it mentions the Cherokee a few times, it is always in a context of them being outside of PA. Ruhrfisch  ><>°° 02:55, 20 December 2010 (UTC)

text: Hey guys, I agree that the story appears to be legend rather than history. According to the note at the end of the newspaper article, the story comes from the writings of Henry W. Shoemaker, who collected Pennsylvania folklore. So if you wanted to mention the tale in the article, you might say something like "According to folklore recorded by Henry W. Shoemaker, ...." —Kevin Myers 03:08, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks very much and thanks for the helpful suggestion on how to present this material in the article. Ruhrfisch  ><>°° 15:34, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, thank you very much.  I didn't catch that bit at the end.  Dincher (talk) 18:07, 20 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source for history
Talk:La Fortaleza

message: Is the building a castle? From the picture in the Infobox it certainly looks like one since there is evident fortification (which would differentiate it from a mansion) and if so, it should be noted somewhere in the prose. Remember that "palace" = "official/royal residence" and any building, even a non-fortified one can be a palace as long as it serves as the house of a functionary. Which means that describing it as a palace does not state which kind of building it actually is. 107.77.216.176 (talk) 20:53, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Castle?
Talk:Ganjifa

message: It seems that Dashavatari Ganjifa is a particular version of the game, and I believe it could be merged to this article without loss. Regardless, the other page should be moved to Dashavatari Ganjifa if the merge is not agreed to. Jlittlet 02:33, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge Proposal

message: This article has grown quite rapidly in the last few months so I propose to split it into smaller articles. Ganjifa for the deck, As-Nas for the deck and game, and Hamrang and Ekrang will get their own articles as well. One question is how Ganjapa relates to this article. Isn't it the same thing? If it is it should be merged into this article. 
Another question concerns the surviving Persian Ganjifeh cards. I believe they date from the early 19th century and have suits not like the ones described in the article: lions, cattle, polo-sticks, archers, farmers, etc. Does anyone have more information about them?--Countakeshi (talk) 18:06, 11 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: If the Ganjapa patterns are different from other Ganjifa patterns, then it should stay as it is. As-Nas should definitely have its own page. Regarding the polo-sticks, I was referring to the cards found in the Austrian National Library: http://www.altacarta.com/deutsch/research/ZentralAsien.html --Countakeshi (talk) 14:13, 13 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Split Proposal
Talk:Dashavatari Ganjifa

message: It seems that Dashavatara Ganjifa is a particular version of the game, and I believe it could be merged to this article without loss. Regardless, the other page should be moved to Dashavatara Ganjifa if the merge is not agreed to.Jlittlet 02:33, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge proposal
File talk:Siberischer tiger de edit02.jpg

message: this is my kind of animal! and my name is alexandra phan if you know me i am in Willow school in third grade mr.theleritis class
What makes this a featured picture? Is it just because of the really high quality? Or is it because of the straight-on face shot? -dogman15 04:35, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: See Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Facial Markings, Siberian Tiger and Wikipedia:What is a featured picture?. Conscious 05:58, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not that easy to photograph a Polar Bear or a Wolf face to face. :) 194.46.239.220 16:45, 12 October 2006 (UTC)

message: Looks to have a slight bluish cast to me. Reub2000 10:08, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Grays look good to me, check your monitor. -Fcb981(talk:contribs) 18:08, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  White Balance? 

message: Sorry to have missed the FPC, but this image could do with cropping on the left. The subject not being in the centre is not encyclopaedic. - Samsara (talk • contribs) 10:27, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Why is an unentered subject unENC? This image is perfectly composed IMO-Fcb981(talk:contribs) 18:07, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cropping? 

message: 12345 130.193.214.183 (talk) 18:58, 21 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arin asasn
Talk:Time-variant system

message: Does not have an impulse response in the normal sense. The system can be characterized by an impulse response except the impulse response must be known at each and every time instant.
- dont we have to know that it is linear for that to be true?
:" Linear time varying processes such as amplitude modulation occur on a time scale similar to or faster than that of the input signal. In practice amplitude modulation is often implemented using time invariant nonlinear elements such as diodes. 
The Discrete Wavelet Transform, often used in modern signal processing, is time variant because it makes use of the decimation operation. "  - I dont think this is good example of time variant SYSTEM... 62.245.124.84 10:19, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Right, there aren't any good examples. That's the problem with this page, it doesn't refer to anything or you could say it refers to practically everything except the interesting problems, the ones we can solve. Interferometrist (talk) 14:10, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Normal sense 

message: This topic is not notable and the page should be deleted for that reason. However failing that we can merge any useful content on this page (if any) into the actual subject where time invariance is an issue. Then the significance of "time-variant" (a term not used in practice) is that it isn't time-invariant, which I guess can be pointed out in case some reader thought that everything was.Interferometrist (talk) 14:48, 6 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge into Linear time-invariant system‎
Talk:Mount Isolation

message: The function used in the body to convert feet to meters is incorrect. 4000 ft should be 1220 meters, and would reconcile the difference between the text in the body and the text in the information box. This error is particularly poignant since the elevation of this mountain is roughly 4000 ft and the elevation in meters is off between the two sources on the same page.
R0ss0027 (talk) 14:54, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It's just significant figures.  I've changed the 4000 foot one to be more precise. --Ken Gallager (talk) 12:27, 25 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Feet to meters conversion incorrect
Talk:Aoandon

message: I understand that there are external links presented here, but they need to be formatted properly in order to function as citations, cheers! Duende-Poetry (talk) 14:50, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Poorly Worded Sentence Structure Is the Least of the Problems With This Article

message: When hyaku monogatari is held, in order to create a suitably eerie atomsphere, blue paper is pasted onto the andon lamps, and 
And what? there should be a conclusion to this sentence.--Thirteenfury67.175.111.232 03:04, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You can always fix other peoples' typing errors, you know. But I cleaned up the article today anyway so it doesn't matter. Kotengu 23:06, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: More
Talk:Sihanouk Trail

message: The article has a lot of citation needed tags and missing some topics covered in reliable sources, such as the long-term effects of  Agent Orange. Similar issues to Talk:Ho_Chi_Minh_trail#A-class_status but this article seems to be in somewhat worse shape. (t · c) buidhe 05:02, 14 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  A-class status
Talk:Albert Campbell Collegiate Institute

message: Redford Cheng - First Year Law Student at Harvard University
-the only acc student will ever amount to anything, congrats
This I deleted from the main article. thought it was worth a smile.Duinemerwen 03:08, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

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thread_title:  Copyright problem removed 

message: My edit listing her as a notable alumnus was taken out; strongly disagree; by Wiki criteria she can be considered notable. Mwinog2777 (talk) 05:49, 17 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Andrea Crossland