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Talk:Spirit of Communication

message: A friend who worked at AT&T told me that the statue was "anatomically correct" when first made and installed at the top of 195 Broadway.  However, at the Madison Avenue location it was a lot closer to the public and viewed from a different angle.  He claimed that AT&T management then added a "golden fig leaf" for modesty reasons.
Since I have no references for any of this I will not add to the article, but perhaps someone else has additional information  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.66.72.13 (talk) 16:39, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Golden Fig Leaf? 

message: A friend who worked at AT&T told me that the statue was "anatomically correct" when first made and installed at the top of 195 Broadway.  However, at the Madison Avenue location it was a lot closer to the public and viewed from a different angle.  He claimed that AT&T management then added a "golden fig leaf" for modesty reasons.
Since I have no references for any of this I will not add to the article, but perhaps someone else has additional information.
A friend recently informed me (1/09) that the statue is no longer in its outdoor Bedminster, NJ location. Perhaps it is already enroute to Texas.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.66.72.13 (talk) 16:41, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I work in Downtown Dallas and can confirm that as of July 2009, Golden Boy is in the newly renovated lobby of One AT&T Plaza (the company's new HQ). 75.20.163.138 (talk) 17:52, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Golden Fig Leaf?
Talk:Ratold of Italy

message: The article notes that "Nothing more of [Ratold] is known" after he was forced to flee Italy in 896. If this is so, then there is no apparent reason for this article to be in the "929 deaths" category, as the date of Ratold's death is presumably also unknown. I'll remove the category for now, as there is nothing in the article to support it. Videoscones (talk) 01:13, 14 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category "929 deaths"
Talk:Lazy bed

message: Why are the beds called lazy? O'Dea (talk) 17:31, 29 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: In "Team Cultivation with the Spade in Scotland" (1977) Alexander Fenton claims it comes from an obsolete use of "lazy" meaning "uncultivated," referring to the fact that the beds are built by piling material on top of untilled ground. I couldn't find a reference to this use of "lazy" on the Oxford English Dictionary or anywhere else that I looked, but I did find it in the Dictionary of the Scots Language ("fallow, untilled") along with an example from 1721: "He that trusts to bon Ploughs, will have his Land lye lazy." Interestingly, the Dictionary of the Scots Language also makes a reference to such a use of "lazy" in English. Ericdyn (talk) 01:02, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology
Talk:Body Count (1986 film)

message: The article mentions a 1986 U.S. release.  This is false.  The film circulated amongst bootleggers for years specifically due to its lack of a U.S. release prior to the Severin DVD 2601:602:880:9A40:4004:5E96:29A0:C048 (talk) 09:34, 23 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Hello. Not sure about the full details, but that seems to be true. Sources do seem to indicate it was released somewhere in 1986. More research needs to be done I guess. Andrzejbanas (talk) 04:38, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  This film had no U.S. release
Talk:Sidewalk Sam

message: As a relatively new member and editor of Wikipedia, I have been visiting various pages and analyzing for minor changes such as spelling and grammar.
On this particular page, I noticed that the subject Robert Charles Guillemin ( May 4, 1939–January 26, 2015) became deceased on January 26, 2015, and therefore, I have made the following corrections and updates.
I have changed, "Sidewalk Sam is the pseudonym of Robert Charles Guillemin ( May 4, 1939–January 26, 2015), a Boston-based artist who resides in Newton, Massachusetts."
to the following; "Sidewalk Sam is the pseudonym of Robert Charles Guillemin ( May 4, 1939–January 26, 2015), a Boston-based artist who resided in Newton, Massachusetts."
Dr. Damian Stone.
The Ecumenical Theological Seminary.TheEcumenicalTheologicalSeminary (talk) 23:19, 15 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Resides to Resided. 

message: Can we add a source for "Computer scientist Ernst Guillemin was his uncle, and he is the younger brother of MIT mathematician Victor W. Guillemin"?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Thatsme314 (talk • contribs) 04:26, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source for family
Talk:Albert Ferber

message: I do not believe that the Albert Ferber article is a candidate for speedy deletion. The entire article asserts the significance and importance of its subject, so cannot meet this criterion for removal.(Adx946 14:13, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree and have removed the speedy tag. In the future, if an article you have created is nominated for a speedy delete, please add "hangon" surrounded by curly brackets () to the article so administrators will know that you're contesting the deletion. Natalie 16:10, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

text: No worries, we're all new once. Natalie 18:08, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I have tagged :File:Young_Ferber.jpg, which is in use in this article for deletion because it does not have a copyright tag. If a copyright tag is not added within seven days the image will be deleted. --Chris 07:20, 27 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:File:Young_Ferber.jpg]] may be deleted
Talk:USA Wrestling

message: This should discuss John Eleuthère du Pont's involvement with the USA Wrestling team.  See for example, "His foremost passion was wrestling, and he gave hundreds of thousands of dollars a year to USA Wrestling, the sport's governing body.  He also spent generously to aid the efforts of top individual wrestlers, paying them a monthly stipend to live at Foxcatcher, his sprawling estate near Philadelphia, and train at a 14,000-square-foot facility he had built there." from . Superm401 - Talk 07:43, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  du Pont 

message: — Assignment last updated by Jmorris 27 (talk) 17:24, 5 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: LLIB 1115 - Intro to Information Research
Talk:Neville Gruzman

message: Apparently he claimed to have been born in 1928, but at his funeral service it was made clear the correct year was 1925.   The only specific date I've come across is 14 November; the third-hand source  refers to ASIC records having him being born on November 14 in 1924 and in 1928 (but no mention of 1925). 
Given that he was a little prone to muddying the chronological waters, is it in order to synthesise these sources and come up with a birth date of 14 November 1925?  Or would we need positive confirmation?  -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 00:02, 27 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Date of birth
Category talk:Organisations based in New Zealand

message: Is it time to start some, or should that be the preserve of the New Zealand Wikia? Robin Patterson 14:18, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Regional subcategories

message: There's an inconsistent mixture of "organisations in" NZ and "organisations based in" NZ. Has there been other comment on that, or any attempt to move towards consistency? Robin Patterson (talk) 22:09, 21 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  "based in" or just "in"?
Template talk:United Rugby Championship

message: Why are the Caledonian Reds listed as a defunct team? Surely teams like Bridgend, etc. would need to be added too, if the Caledonians are?
:Caledonian Reds never played in Celtic / Magners / Pro12.  Are not in template.  Hamish59 (talk) 09:19, 17 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Caledonian Reds
Talk:1979 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season

message: OK, somebody tagged this page for tone, but didn't leave any comments about it? Helpful. Anyway, I think I see what they mean. Most of the Buccaneer season pages lack references and have a tone more appropriate for a fansite than for an encyclopedia. They also have first-draft-quality writing. I'm working on this, and 1979 and 1976 are my top priorities. Along with 1987, which is largely complete. Resources are a little difficult to come by for the Bucs' earlier years: the relevant newspapers' online archives don't go back that far, and the same for the A.P. coverage that the N.Y. Times provides. Available material is going to be almost totally limited to the St. Petersburg Times and Sports Illustrated, but I'll dig up what I can and put together a good page. With all thanks and respect to the original author.GuySperanza (talk) 16:46, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comment 
Talk:1987 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season

message: Open to suggestions regarding length. Maybe the draft section or scab team needs its own page? Maybe some of the Ray Perkins hiring information needs moved to the Ray Perkins page? I understand that this is a long page for a 4-11 football team, but it's an interesting season. The team had a change in coaching and philosophy, massive personnel turnover including the drafting of a star player, and the NFL strike in which replacement players were used. I'm trying to capture the history of a season that started with hope and optimism, was interrupted by a bizarre strike, and then crumbled into the dust.GuySperanza (talk) 14:58, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comment 
Talk:1992 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season

message: Concerning the following:
Bucs finished the season they way they started it, with a win over the Arizona Cardinals.
I'm not sure how that is possible, as the Bucs and Cardinals have NEVER been in the same division at any point in either teams' history, and if I remember correctly, the only time a team plays another team twice is if they are in the same division.  WAVY 10 Fan (talk) 18:20, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Statement at end of article
Talk:Iwan Müller

message: It seems possible that
" On the basis of this performance, the composer Philipp Jakob Riotte wrote a concerto dedicated to Müller. "
is meant, not Philip Riotti. but -- having trouble finding evidence for this statement, too... so... leaving is here, too, for now.
Schissel | Sound the Note! 05:22, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Riotti??
Talk:McHenry station

message: Data in this article is from Autumn 2014.  Metra has published Autumn 2016 data, and has counted (per informal conversation), but perhaps not yet confirmed, Autumn 2018 data. (Confirmation is required in order to check whether the count was performed & recorded correctly.)  Metra typically publishes its Autumn count data in PDF format on its website in the following Spring. the Regional Transportation Authority of Illinois typically soon after publishes selected values on its own website's database.  See https://metrarail.com/about-metra/reports-documents/operations-ridership-data/station-level-data . (I myself managed the 2006, 2010, 2014, & 2016 counts, but am now happily retired.) Acwilson9 (talk) 22:30, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Station passenger count
Talk:2002 Tampa Bay Buccaneers season

message: With the fact in mind that 2002 was the Bucs' Super Bowl season, I have taken the task of expanding the article to include the game summaries.Doctorindy (talk) 19:30, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Super Bowl season
Talk:Gilera Runner

message: Error in the Article: SP only means 2-Color-Paintjob, DD stands for DoubleDisc (which means, that the rear wheel has a disc brake, "Darkdream" you got to be kidding me.....)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.84.176.57 (talk) 20:42, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Error in Article

message: During the last three weeks I have been driving on Rhodes Island a two stroke liquid cooled 80cc Gilera Runner (gen.4 according to the rental company) at 75km/h on flat road  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.75.239.201 (talk) 17:38, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Correct models?
Talk:Walter Boeykens

message: In standard English "knight" is not used as an honorific or as a form of address. 
The use of Sir for a non-British knighthood is disputed. Those who really want to know should apply to the College of Arms. 
Chevalier is acceptable, although many Flemish speakers would probably object.  
I'm altering the page to Chevalier. Everybody got to be somewhere! (talk) 21:23, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  Upon further reflection, and after consulting the Wikipedia article about Knighthood and the section on Knighthoods in the Netherlands and Belgium, I conclude that it is probably alright to use the honorific "Sir". Everybody got to be somewhere! (talk) 21:54, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Knight!!!!!!
Talk:Adam Applegarth

message: I tagged the article as potentially unnotable. The only reason he is mentioned is because of one incident. Steve Dufour 10:54, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: And I've removed that tag again. Being a central figure in the biggest banking crisis Britain has experienced in a decade or so is quite sufficient for the notability requirements. If you disagree, you can nom the article at WP:AFD. Valentinian T / C 13:03, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Notable?

message: This article is written like a hatchet-job on the guy - the tone is entirely inappropriate.  The Dissident Aggressor 21:16, 29 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[WP:COATRACK]]
Talk:Eviation Jets EV-20 Vantage Jet

message: The VisionAire Vantage article is up and running unlike this one which covers a small part of the Vantage story. I propose that they merge and any salvable bits of theis stub be incorporated in VisionAire Vantage.Petebutt (talk) 03:12, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge
Talk:95th Air Assault Brigade (Ukraine)

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thread_title:  External links modified
Talk:Borough of Stockton-on-Tees

message: Given apparently Middlesbrough isn't allowed a borough article. I think we should merge Stockton on Tees Borough page with the town article and have villages and towns listed in a wards tab. Then that solves the argument. RailwayJG (talk) 20:32, 17 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I would agree with the Hartlepool and Darlington mergers you proposed but not Stockton. Mainly because Yarm which has a built-up area population > 10,000 is in the borough but is outside Stockton's built-up area. Eopsid (talk) 16:47, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge Stockton on Tees Borough and Town Page
Talk:Open (system call)

message: My man page for "open" indicates that the information here on O_CREAT, O_EXCL is incorrect.  The information here also ignores the O_TRUNC flag.  My understanding is that O_CREAT will not overwrite an existing file.  In order to do that you use the O_TRUNC flag.  Further, if O_CREAT | O_EXCL is used, the open will fail if the file already exists.
Dwkimery 15:37, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

message: Lets leave all the C details in the referenced C library POSIX page. DG12 (talk) 19:09, 12 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Details in Clib posix 

message: The article seems to be mainly about the UNIX/POSIX open() system call. We can talk about the abstract concept of "API call to open a file", and UNIX/POSIX open() is one example of that. In C under UNIX/POSIX, fopen() is another, albeit at a higher level of abstraction. But other systems have other file open APIs, e.g. CreateFile and NtCreateFile on Windows (which despite its name actually opens an existing file). I think we should be clear whether we are writing an article about open-in-general or POSIX file descriptor open() in particular. The stuff on Perl is somewhat out of place if the later, since Perl can run on non-POSIX platforms (nowadays mainly Windows, historically several others) in which Perl "open" is not necessarily implemented by the C open() function. If the former, we could talk about "OPEN" statements and calls in many other APIs and languages (C++ std::fstream::open, Java FileInputStream/FileOutputStream/NIO/etc, OPEN statement in BASIC/FORTRAN/COBOL/etc, OPEN macro in IBM MVS assembly, Tcl's open command, MS-DOS Int 21,0F/3D, OS/2 DosOpen, Win16 OpenFile, classic MacOS FSOpenFork, etc).
So I really think there needs to be some clarity about what the actual topic of the article is ("file open" APIs in general vs POSIX open() API call in particular) 180.150.79.82 (talk) 05:55, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The page is in the categories  and , as are Close (system call)/Read (system call)/Write (system call). So at least it roughly it corresponds to POSIX, but it does seem to have a bit wider scope in it. --Pokechu22 (talk) 06:14, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is this article about?
Template talk:Taxobox name

message: Please replace the existing code with the following:



the subst:s I used in the original did not work as expected; this more streamlined version should do the job properly! Thanks. Verisimilus T 15:40, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Cheers. --MZMcBride 17:31, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  {{tld|editprotected}} request

message: I have noticed that this parameter doesn't actually work on Genera and species which Have a † in front of the name thus Australodelphis for example doesn't become italicized.  Is there a way to fix this?--Kevmin (talk) 22:24, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The simplest way would be to remove the †.  What information does it provide that is not implicit in the fossil range? Martin (Smith609 – Talk) 16:50, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Use of the cross is standard in Wikiprojects and the wider world as a quick indicator that a taxon and all the taxons below them are extinct.  At this point there are many articles without the fossil range template.--Kevmin (talk) 18:52, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Slight problem

message: There is a discussion about italic titles and the taxobox templates. Celefin (talk) 19:17, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion at [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Tree_of_life#Did you know that you can italicise titles?|WikiProject Tree of life]]

message: Per the recent modifications to , it has been advised this faster and more capable template take the place of  where possible. Because  is a structural template at the foundation of the code of this template, this edit could potentially cause havoc if not evaluated first for soundness.
I'm requesting anyone who has enough know-how to evaluate this proposed modification respond to the RfC listed at Template talk:PAGENAMEBASE. The template is being used in this template. Bob the WikipediaN (talk • contribs)  03:29, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Upgrading to the next version of {{tl|str find}}
Talk:Christmas Steps (composition)

message: Xmas steps and Christmas steps are essentially the same song, surely they can be discussed together to highlight the differences? Jonathan Oldenbuck 15:22, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  merge 

message: This creator of this section deserves a medal. I've never seen such time and effort dedicated to documenting a song.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.106.225.183 (talk) 17:05, 5 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Musical composition' section 
Talk:HM Prison Brixton

message: Is there any point in having a notable inmates section? John Bodkin Adams for example was held there during his trial at the Old Bailey.Malick78 15:46, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. Other articles have lists of notable types.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.113.204.94 (talk) 17:22, 21 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Notable inmates section?

message: If anyone's interested, I've proposed a new wikiproject for the creation and improvement of articles regarding specific prisons, internment camps, and detention centers here. --Cdogsimmons (talk) 01:56, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikiproject Prisons 
Talk:1997–98 Serie A

message: Just a note, since somebody missed it (can't blame them!) that Sampdoria also qualified for the Intertoto cup during the 1997/98 season. It was back then when more than one club from each country could enter. Ironically in the end it was Bologna who then eliminated Sampdoria in the UEFA Intertoto Cup 1998. --Simon Lamb 15:48, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intertoto Qualification
Talk:St Katharine Cree

message: Katherine or Katharine? Omassey (talk) 15:57, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It derives from the cult of St Katherine of Alexandria. The 'a' version is commonly used - so, can probably be considered an alternate - but Museum of London, Soc of Geneologists, all use 'e' version. HTH Kbthompson (talk) 12:26, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Diocese of London, use 'a' - so, moved ...Kbthompson (talk) 11:33, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Name?
Talk:Muhamed Mehmedbašić

message: To the recent IP editor - I looked up the source on Google Books again, in order to double-check the contents. Here's what it says:
:*Jedan od učesnika u sarajevskom atentatu bio je i Stočanin Muhamed Mehmedbašić (1886-1943), revolucionar i borac za bolji život naših naroda. Njegov životni put, trnovit i interesantan, išao je linijom naprednog čovjeka i pregaoca, spremnog na najveće žrtve. Umro je 29. maja 1943, od posljedica mučenja koje je podnio u ustaškom zatvoru. Ime Muhameda Mehmedbašića danas nosi jedna ulica u Stocu u kojoj se nalati njegova rodna kuća.
- Anonimski (talk) 10:45, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quote from Historijski Pregled
Talk:Multilateral development bank

message: How about a mention of the United Nations Development Programme somewhere on this page? I think it's a major development institution, even if it's not a "bank" as such.Imran7 (talk) 22:40, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not a development bank, so it doesn't belong on this page.--Bkwillwm (talk) 04:57, 10 July 2008 (UTC)

message: I believe this page should be moved to Multilateral development bank, without capitalization. The phrase is not a proper noun and making it lowercase would make it easier to link from other articles. Does anyone object? Foobaz·o< 16:05, 23 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have requested the move at Wikipedia:Requested moves#28 September 2007. Foobaz·o< 19:37, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Nope. You're right. I started the article so its my fault. Thanks for catching that.--Bkwillwm 20:11, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Moved. Duja► 08:45, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move