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Talk:Blues

message: The term Kansas City blues redirects here - correctly. However, an additional note in the header would be nice for non-native speakers: The homonym Kansas City Blues is a completely different lemma but not everybody is aware of case sensitivity's influence on meaning here. Cheers, --Hodsha (talk) 11:20, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Solved, I think, by new use of the disabiguation page  Titusmars (talk) 22:21, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect unexplained 

message: The assertion supported by a Huffington Post blog article that the term "the blues" is connected to blue laws strikes me as absurd. For one, blue laws were not aimed primarily at prohibiting alcohol sales but at banning all secular activities on Sundays: the sales of non-essentials, sporting events, working, etc. Debra Devi, who wrote the HuffPost piece, is also the author of the book Language of the Blues. But an etymologist she is not.
The use of the word "blue" meaning depressed or feeling "low" can be traced as far back as Chaucer, to the 1300's. Devi, on the other hand, settles on a 17th century term "blue devil", which describes severe alcohol withdrawal, also known as delirium tremors. She then goes on to mention an 18th century work where the term "blue laws" was first used, but since nobody knows why "blue" was attached to the laws, it's a stretch - a leap, actually - to use this as an explanation for the term "the blues".
I have no problem mentioning the "theory" set forth in the HuffPost article, ridiculous as it seems, but it should be clearly offset (refuted) by more widely accepted explanations, sources abound, that point to the term's more literal, and therefore more obvious, meaning. Allreet (talk) 21:16, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Rather than placing a large template on the page, why not just amend the text yourself, based on reliable sources?  Ghmyrtle (talk) 23:07, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: @Ghmyrtle: That's my usual approach, but since Blues is not my area of expertise and the article could have a closer "following", I wanted to get some feedback from editors more knowledgeable on the subject. Regarding the wide interest in the blues, I'm surprised an article of this importance would include such a speculative (and illogical) explanation at its core for such a long time - since 2015. So on that thought, I'll give it another day or so to see who else chimes in, then I'll tackle it myself.Allreet (talk) 15:13, 27 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Blue laws" and origin of "the blues" 

message: — Assignment last updated by Legacyua (talk) 17:03, 9 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Black American Music 209
Talk:Bill Clinton

message: Last time I checked, Bill Clinton was not the ‘Democratic nominee for president in the 2016 presidential election.’ 206.127.185.1 (talk) 15:47, 5 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The article doesn't say he was.  It says his wife was, and it talks about activities he undertook in support of his wife's campaign. ~ ONUnicorn(Talk|Contribs)problem solving 20:21, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  ‘Presidential Nominee’ 

message: This article uses Bill Clinton.jpg as its lead photo, but I propose replacing it with this photo. I don't really have any major issues with the current photo, but what is kind of annoying is that its more of an initial headshot photo, like this one for George W. Bush. The photo I propose for Bill Clinton is more of an actual portrait. Rexxx7777 (talk) 22:39, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: We should keep the official portrait (as always). 2804:14D:5C32:4673:8477:9221:32BD:997F (talk) 02:45, 4 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead photo 

message: I’m cleaning up duplicate citation issues for Maraniss’s "First in His Class." This article has four full citations for the same book, and one for pp.40 has inadvertently (and incorrectly) become the source cited for 12 referenced details.
I’ll add short citations when I find correct page numbers. This will add 13 short citations to an article that only has three right now. Since Further Reading also lists this reference, what is consensus around removing all full citations for the book from the citation list? This is what WP:SRF recommends but isn't common practice for this article yet. Thinkinink (talk) 01:03, 12 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding Short Citations 

message: classfied = classified 2603:8000:D300:3650:7543:8720:9759:D33D (talk) 09:08, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Charliehdb (talk) 09:18, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 31 May 2024
Talk:Biology

message: Bold textI would like to edit this page to add something that I learned that isn't in this artical that I feel as if people should know. TownvilleWidgets12 (talk) 16:58, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  Not done: if you have a specific request, like change "xyx" to "abc" then please say so. Chiswick Chap (talk) 17:00, 19 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 19 January 2023 

message: In the 'Evolution' -> 'History of Life' section, the link to 'Microbial mats' is misspelled. Change 'Microbal mats' to 'Microbial mats'. Zhedeye (talk) 11:42, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: WanderingMorpheme 13:37, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 26 October 2023 

message: Muhammad Akram of Kohat (talk) 10:15, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Isla🏳️‍⚧ 10:33, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 31 March 2024 . Defining the Life. 

message: Organization of Atoms to Ecosystem--MoniqueChacon1 (talk) 20:00, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 3 May 2024. Organization of Atoms to Ecosystem.
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Elements

message: A new paper has announced the discovery of 15 new neutron-rich isotopes of elements copper through krypton and with mass numbers from 84 to 103.
* 
The new nuclides are 84Cu, 86–87Zn, 88–89Ga, 91–92Ge, 93–95As, 96–97Se, 99–100Br, and 103Kr. I cannot access the paper beyond the abstract and figures in order to get any nontrivial information that is not extrapolated in , such as a lower bound on the half-life of the new nuclides.
Also, some of the isotope lists affected by this update are extremely out of date; Isotopes of copper, for example, did not include 81–83Cu until I fully updated the list to , which is why I took the effort to update this one thoroughly. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 22:39, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I had seen this paper, though I've been too busy the past few days to update the isotopes pages – thanks for doing so. There isn't any mass or decay data in the article, though if you'd like a PDF copy I can email you. Complex/Rational 02:14, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: No thanks. In that case, I can just fill in NUBASE2020 estimates where appropriate. –LaundryPizza03 (dc̄) 03:05, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  15 new isotopes of Cu–Kr 

message: Sometimes it is filled with something, sometimes it is merged with the "Normal proportion" column. But most of the time, it just leaved blank. Why this column exist when it is completely empty in that isotopes page?
Completely deleting this column to all pages might be too disruptive, but IMHO this column can be removed for mononuclidic elements. There is only one isotope with abundance 100% for them, so they don't need this column. --Nucleus hydro elemon (talk) 06:50, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree for mononuclidic elements. As for the others, maybe at some point they'll stop being empty as IUPAC turns more atomic weights into intervals, but that'll take a while and might not affect all elements. Double sharp (talk) 15:27, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: "Range of variation" column
Talk:The Buddha

message: :The Buddha →  – I have gone through the previous two RM requests but I fail to understand how we still arrived at this conclusion. Although. Dwayne Johnson is more popularly known as The Rock, we can clearly see how the Wikipedia page is titled. And while I'm not advocating for the name change to Buddha, someone correctly said in a previous RM that there are many moons but the wiki page refers to our Moon. While, a case can be made that Captain America (please note, the lack of The) is a title for many characters but the page references to the character that is primarily known by that name (Steve Rogers), another case can also be made that Ant-Man is a title and many of the characters using that title have their own separate pages. So, what I'm trying to say is while Buddha would make sense, Siddhartha Gautama would make even more sense but The Buddha makes the least amount of sense. Since, Siddhartha Gautama was previously denied during a RM and the title of the article was not changed for over 15 years, I would suggest a RM back to Gautama Buddha. Wikipedia:If it ain't broke, don't fix it. CaseNotClosedYet (talk) 12:00, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 31 March 2023 

message: Though Josaphat may be a character inspired by Buddha, I think it would be wrong to derive Josaphat from Bodhisattva. I have already studied about this name in the Septuagint (Josaphat happens to be a name of one of the kings of Israel), and I believe it is correct to say it derived from Yeho-shafat, clearly meaning "Yah(weh) has Judged". 
Pax. 49.205.211.162 (talk) 18:39, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Please provide the sources for your statement, such as article, or book and Page number. I think it is mentioned that some sources consider Josaphat may be a character inspired by Buddha. A definite claim is not being made here. Thanks RogerYg (talk) 03:16, 18 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of Name Josaphat (The Buddha in Christianity)
Talk:Be

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: Moved (non-admin closure) >>> Extorc.talk 11:39, 11 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: BE →  – The discussion at Talk:Bé#Requested move 3 July 2022 brought attention to this page which was created on May 10, 2001, less than four months after Wikipedia's opening day. Since virtually every entry listed upon this disambiguation page is indicated as "Be", rather than "BE", there is no good reason to capitalize the "E". — Roman Spinner (talk • contribs) 22:29, 4 July 2022 (UTC)

text: Support, we should prefer words to abbreviations in the dabpage title.  See WP:DABNAME. 162 etc. (talk) 17:14, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 4 July 2022
Talk:Burundi

message: The main body of the article, in the sentence culminating in footnote #15, states that the population density of Burundi is 753 people per square mile, while the side bar states that the population density is 1,040.1 people per square mile.  That's quite a discrepancy.  Would someone like to take a stab at correcting it? I don't have time right now to determine which one is correct, but hopefully someone else will.  Thanks!
108.16.121.38 (talk) 18:20, 22 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflicting information needs editing: 

message: I would like to apologize for my recent edits concerning the Presidency of Burundi. I took down what I thought was unsourced and wrong edit. Part of my confusion was when it stated that “ absence or temporary impediment of the President of the Republic, the First Vice-President will assure the management of current affairs and if the First Vice-President is unavailable, then the Second Vice-President.” this lead me to believe that the absences also included death, but I later learned that it is different if the President dies. Another reason for me removing the edit was that I found no article’s relating to the new President of Burundi. So in good faith removed the edit from the article. But after further investigation, I found a article conforming the conformation of the new acting President and so I restored the original edit to way it was before I changed it. Again my dearest apologies to everyone.BigRed606 (talk) 21:59, 10 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  My dearest apologies 

message: Is it correct for the motto if a republic to refer to a king?  37.228.231.142 (talk) 13:44, 1 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Motto? 

message: Why is the census from 1980? There isn’t one accurate census since then? DirkjanenBert (talk) 18:58, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Census from 1980??
Talk:Bisexual (disambiguation)

message: The edit comment discussions are so much more fun, but tragically I don't have an edit to go with my comment this time.  To answer User:Marshman's query: when I say that "hermaphroditic" and "androgynous" are still used as synonyms for "bisexual" in botanical terminology I'm basing this on fairly technical, recently published books I have perused that use these terms, as well as widespread use on the WWW.  Botanical use of hermaphrodite is also supported be MerWeb.  MerWeb also basically indicates that bisexual, hermaphrodite, and androgynous are generally synonymous (including allowing "hemaphrodite" as an adjective :p).  I said "popular" use because you suggested they are no longer preferred by professional botanists; I wouldn't know; MerWeb is not a very technical source.  --Chinasaur 01:05, 8 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Hermaphrodite and Androgynous (botany)

message: Surely this should be at Bisexual (disambiguation), as bisexuality is a much more frequent use of the term. Also, the third bullet point (including the point about bonobo monkeys), isn't a separate term, merely a paragraph that should be added to the article bisexuality, surely? — OwenBlacker 23:48, July 24, 2005 (UTC)
: I was thinking the same thing. I am going to go ahead and move it, it has no sense being here. --Waterspyder 20:30, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  I agree. Moving it now. -- OliverL 10:43, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article title
Talk:List of major biblical figures

message: What about making a Genealogical Tree of Biblical figures?
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Lucioseki (talk • contribs).
: Done I've included an existing template with a genealogy from Adam to David, and rearranged the rest by categories in a way that is more likely to be useful. - Fayenatic london (talk) 13:25, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Genealogical Tree 

message: I added the template New Testament people, that shows the list here is pretty incomplete. That is a better list. History2007 (talk) 10:59, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Incomplete list

message: There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:List of Biblical names which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you.  —RM bot 02:00, 14 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Move discussion in progress

message: Shall we include Lot (biblical person)?
Twillisjr (talk) 20:01, 21 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lot
Talk:British & Irish Lions

message: Does anyone have any information on the controversy surrounding the 1980 games? — Preceding unsigned comment added by MacRusgail (talk • contribs) 20:07, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Apartheid controversy 

message: The official Lions website says "The Lions name was coined during the inter-war period, when the emblem on the players' jersey and lapel badges gave them their alternative title." This is earlier that we have in the Wiki article. PaddyBriggs 11:44, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: First use of Lions tag

message: Question: Sorry to bump this up to the top not sure where to add it, but can someone please explain why the page has a Celtic Nations Template at the bottom? This has to my mind very little to do with Celtic Culture, as Rugby Union is not a Celtic game? Surely a Rugby Union template would be better? A Wiki-user — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.140.125.169 (talk) 16:09, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I did not add the tag but I'm guessing that it is because Scotland, Ireland and Wales consider themselves Celtic nations and they are three out of four of the component parts. I don't have a particular problem with the template but I agree that its placement is a little strange. Unless lots of other wikipedians feel it should be removed.GordyB 20:43, 21 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Celtic template

message: I removed the 'tour' to France in 1989 as this one-off match was not a recognised Lions match
Ref: http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_union/international/4428321.stm
"A British and Irish side played France in Paris later in the year to celebrate the forming of the French Republic in 1789, but several leading players were absent and it was not officially recognised as a Lions team." — Preceding unsigned comment added by Battapieman (talk • contribs) 20:16, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: France match in 1989
Talk:Baby Boom

message: This page was nominated for deletion but a redirect was chosen instead, see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Baby Boom
Left a notice on the above about how screwed up this vote was.  All the below links were orphaned; There are three that point to the movie this was redirected too, all brief, hardly notable actors bios.
The following pages link to here:
View (previous 50) (next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500).
    * Oberlin College
    * University of New Brunswick
    * Sansei Japanese American
    * The Population Bomb
    * Medicare (United States)
    * Infant formula
    * Talk:Baby boomer
    * Generation gap
    * Sam Shepard
    * Sam Wanamaker
    * User:Jebdogdaddy
    * Kate Jackson
    * Harold Ramis
    * Indiana University Bloomington
    * Clark Kerr
    * Post-Confederation history of Canada
    * History of women in the United States
    * History of the United States (1988–present)
    * List of movies made into TV shows
    * The Night Flier
    * Category:The Beatles
    * Thirtysomething
    * 1988-89 United States network television schedule
    * Etch-A-Sketch
    * The Dalton School
    * Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 2004
    * Wikipedia:Today's featured article/June 18, 2004
    * User:Jkiang/University of Washington rewrite
    * List of child related articles
    * The Legend of the Lone Ranger
    * Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Baby Boom
    * Indian Head test card
    * Chris Noth
    * Palatine High School
    * User:Carl Henderson
    * Mary Kay Place
    * Prez (DC Comics)
    * Northeast Philadelphia
    * User:Fabartus
    * List of movies set in New England
    * Working Classics
    * MGM Television
    * List of Channel 8 programmes
    * Crime in Japan
    * List of Generations
    * The Crimea (band)
    * California Master Plan for Higher Education
Consequently, I'm changing the redirect to the next logical cultural home, Baby boomer,
which it is ICONIC FOR in any event. This idiocy should have never occured.
<B>Fra</B>nkB 09:20, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirect, vfd
Talk:Boolean algebra (structure)

message: In § 4, Homomorphisms and isomorphisms, why's isomorphisms being mentioned in the title, but not in the section itself? Are all homomorphisms also isomorphisms? That should be written then.
--Unknowledgeable (talk) 13:50, 18 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added the definition of isomorphism; not every homomorphism is an isomorphism.  Andrewbt (talk) 05:45, 31 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  About isomorphisms 

message: Another useful identity (theorem, not axiom) is:
:a ∨ (¬a ∧ b) = a ∨ b
:a ∧ (¬a ∨ b) = a ∧ b
Does this have a standard name? It follows immediately from distributivity, of course. Should it be mentioned in the article? --Macrakis (talk) 20:09, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Anti-absorption
Talk:Biblical canon

message: It seems that all 3 Books of Enoch are listed as canon for the Ethiopian Orthodox bible but from as far as I can tell, only the first book of Enoch is canon. Should 2 Enoch and 3 Enoch be removed or is there a source I am missing that claims that the latter 2 books are canon. As well, there are question marks next to both books with no citation, so it just leaves the chart in a very weird spot. Bus1226 (talk) 18:45, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: To my knowledge, 2 and 3 Enoch only survive in Old Slavonic and Hebrew, respectively. This makes their inclusion in Ethiopian canon extremely unlikely. 91.189.246.31 (talk) 22:43, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe you two are right.Rafaelosornio (talk) 23:19, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Books of Enoch in the chart 

message: has left the article with three undefined footnote errors for the names "Luther", "GrOrthodox", and "Sheba". Are you able to resolve these? -- Mikeblas (talk) 23:55, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  missing notes 

message: Under the Protestant column of the Old Testament canon the Apocrypha/Deuterocanonical books say "No − inc. in some mss. (Apocrypha) or No − inc. in RSV and NRSV (Apocrypha)" This seems a bit unnecessarily wordy for a simple field name.  Why not just us "No (Apocrypha)" with a tagged note description something like the following.  
"This book may be included in some of the modern published popular Protestant Bibles like the: CEB, ESV, KJV, MSG, NLT, NEB, NRSV, REB, and RSV publications as (Apocrypha/Deuterocanonical books) or included in CE (Catholic Edition) versions of these Bibles." 
 
This seems like it would be cleaner and more informative. I made the change to the table. I hope it is well received. 
Russell Rucadulu (talk) 17:43, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old Testament Protestant column proposed change to Apocrypha books.
Talk:Bill Watterson

message: I added "Citation Needed" beside the "net worth" part of the quick facts box. Apparently he's worth $100 million... really? Just from syndication rights and book sales? Where does this figure come from? Should it just be deleted?
:The figure probably comes from here: https://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/authors/bill-watterson-net-worth/ Paul F Villerius (talk) 20:23, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Net worth 

message: I know Bill Watterson personally, and if I remember correctly, he is German, French-Canadian, Scottis and Irish. His father's name was James Godfrey Watterson (maybe Germanic) and I think his mother's side is Italian, Croatian and Catholic (although he does not practice.) Can anyone add this? Thanks :) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.207.75.0 (talk • contribs) 14:57, May 18, 2019 (UTC)
: We need a reliable source for that and a reason to add it. He's not notable for his ethnicity so it's not really important to the article. ♟♙ (talk) 22:20, 3 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  His ethnicity 

message: I think that there should be a link to Niel Cicerigia / Lemon Demon's Wikipedia page, because of his 2006 song "Bill Watterson" 83.29.37.3 (talk) 13:31, 29 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestion for "in popular culture" 

message: In the career section it says…
“Watterson wrote forewords for FoxTrot and For Better or For Worse.”
There isn’t a reference yet. I’m new to editing Wikipedia and I’m not sure how to see when the content was added. Robservations247 (talk) 02:09, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Foreword for Lynn Johnston