lflage/wiki-talks huggingface dataset:
Talk:Learning theory (statistics)

message: I'm not sure what is meant by "mind changes" ? Is this talking about VC-dimension (or fat-shattering) bounds? -- hike395 15:41 17 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Moved from article, User:Michael Hardy suggests ---
:Should this page be merged with statistical learning theory?
I would suggest not. Statistical learning theory is a specific, poorly-named, form of computational learning theory, established by Vladimir Vapnik. It turns out that the practitioners of the different brands of learning theory (e.g., Bayesian, PAC, etc.) have strong philosophical and practical disagreements with the Vapnik-style theorists, and would not agree that they are the same thing at all.
One possibility is renaming this article "Computational learning theory", which is the name of the main conference of the field. That may be clearer. What do people think? Another possibility is putting "Vapnik" into the title of "Statistical learning theory", but I am not sure how to do that without being idiosyncratic and making that other article hard to find. --- hike395 02:00, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Gears (disambiguation)

message: Gears was a disambig, which is unnecessary because gear is the most important meaning and we already had gear (disambiguation).  Now, gears redirects to gear, gears (disambiguation) redirects to gear (disambiguation), and gear points to gear (disambiguation) at the top. Superm401 - Talk 09:20, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move
Talk:Pareto principle

message: This really needs an example.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264717454_Even_birds_follow_Pareto%27s_80-20_rule￼
https://www.gibraltarfarm.com/amp/2017/07/22/fecal-egg-count-the-pareto-principle
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0072611
https://www.theweathernetwork.com/en/news/nature/animals/the-largest-earthquakes-ever-recorded-and-the-pareto-principle
https://aiam.org.au/resources/Documents/2012%20Workshop%20presentations/Paper%2014.pdf  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 47.221.223.208 (talk) 04:33, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Example 

message: In January 2022, CBS News reported that a single suspect was "responsible for more than half of all reported hate crimes against the API community in San Francisco last year," and that he "was allowed to be out of custody despite the number of charges against him."[18] 2001:9E8:143B:6B00:8EDC:9F02:4D80:BAE4 (talk) 23:09, 25 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: It's an example of the Pareto principle. SquirrelHill1971 (talk) 18:24, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

text: In January 2022, CBS News reported that a single suspect was "responsible for more than half of all reported hate crimes against the API community in San Francisco last year," and that he "was allowed to be out of custody despite the number of charges against him."Questions Raised After Suspect In Dozens Of Hate Crimes On SF Asian Businesses Found To Be Out Of Custody, CBS News, January 26, 2022, Archive
user: shibbolethink deleted it, and commented, "WP:UNDUE"
What do others here think of this?
Also, I have since come across this New York Times article, and I think it should be cited. What do others think of this idea?
https://web.archive.org/web/20230415180138/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/15/nyregion/shoplifting-arrests-nyc.html
SquirrelHill1971 (talk) 18:24, 16 April 2023 (UTC)

text: Thank you for your comment. I agree with you that neither article mentions the Pareto principle by name. But the basic idea of the Pareto principle is mentioned in both articles. I don't think I'm making a connection or doing original research. I do appreciate your comment. I won't add it back unless other people support doing so. SquirrelHill1971 (talk) 04:28, 18 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  How is the crime section an argument for anything? 

message: The stuff about income is at the very least out of date 50.35.71.203 (talk) 04:16, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  literally bullcrap
Talk:Conspiracy theory

message: This article has WP:RECENTISM issues. It is severely lacking in information about conspiracy theories before the 20th century. It also doesn't give an answer as to why that is, because there is little to no coverage on the history of conspiracy theories or the origins of conspiratorial thinking in societies, other than one or two sentences about them becoming more commonplace in the 20th and 21st centuries. PBZE (talk) 04:22, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: As I mentioned in the topic above, the topic "Conspiracy Theory" is very controversial, especially when it comes to academic articles like Wikipedia, so it was kind of to be expected, there would be generalized ideas on the subject, so even if the article is 'WRONG', I don't think it's a disaster like many say, but, it is undeniable that there may be mistakes in the article. 177.105.90.20 (talk) 20:31, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article needs more coverage on history
Talk:Bulletin board

message: While I'm not a fan of "vision boards," they are semantically distinct from "bulletin boards," so this redirect is highly misleading. Clocke (talk) 03:03, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  (Redirected from Vision board)

message: the actuall cork board is a slice of bread not a cork board please investigate --91.87.217.65 (talk) 07:07, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  cork board 

message: §2 is silly and should be deleted.  Deipnosophista (talk) 12:09, 7 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Universities
Talk:Giovanni Leone

message: This appears to be the same as can be found at http://english.camera.it/_presidents/schede/leone.asp. This is an official Italian government website, but I can't find their copyright policy.  RickK 02:27 18 Jul 2003 (UTC)
:Either can I, so I presume that means it's copyrighted, unless there's a blanket Italian government policy to put all publications in the public domain (which seems unlikely). --Delirium 02:33 18 Jul 2003 (UTC)
----
Corna
I haven't been able to find any photos of the "corna-behind-the-back" thing. According to the article, "This act was well documented, as all journalists and photographers were right behind him." If it was "well documented" and photographers were present, then where are the photos? Anyone have any info? -71.201.59.110 08:30, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Bathing machine

message: One question about the origin of bathing machines: did they come into being because people became more modest, and couldn't bathe out in the open any more? Or was there an upsurge in the interest in bathing? -- ESP 05:04 18 Jul 2003 (UTC)
: If I remember correctly it was an increased interest in bathing in the open. The article also fails to mention that the main reason for using a bathing machine was for use in beaches where it was shallow for a long way out. The use was mainly so that you wouldn't have to walk a long distance. // Liftarn
::A bit of both, I think. Both an increase in interest in bathing per se - prior to this bathing for pleasure or for curative reasons was not common; if you needed to go into the sea (as a boatman, for example) you did but it wasn't an activity in and of itself, plus ideas of modesty gaining ground. Tonywalton 22:15, 10 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: I saw one in the movie "the Ghost and Mrs. Muir" which was set in the year 1901.  My company and I made guesses as to what it was and it's specific use. so this article helped to understand that particular scene in the movie. It also helps in understanding a later scene when a portrait of Mrs. Muir in her "bathing costume" was discussed.  Captjacktar  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Captjacktar (talk • contribs) 05:07, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: I saw one in a movie

message: I removed the uncited phrase "without violating Victorian notions of modesty" because bathing machines existed well before the Victorian age. A better phrase, if a source is found, might be "in keeping with the then-accepted standards of respectability". I also rewrote parts to match what the sources support, including a sourced mention that men sometimes bathed nude. -84user (talk) 11:53, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Victorian morality
Talk:Porno for Pyros

message: Porno for Pyros was not a solo project. It was a band. It featured ex-Jane's Addiction's drummer Al Perkins as well as guitarist Peter DiStefano and basist Martyn LeNoble. Nahum 05:40 18 Jul 2003 (UTC)
:Great! You should add that in! Jeez, there's practically nothing there now. -- ESP 05:43 18 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Porno for Pyros (named after the orgy of destruction that was the Los Angeles/Rodney King riots) -- I am wondering if that is indeed accurate. I have other information (no reliable attribution right now, however), that Ferrell was browsing a pyrotechnics catalog when the name came to him. Can someone confirm or discredit that? --JG Santa Cruz CALIF USA--66.166.22.146 17:13, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:List of patriarchs of Antioch

message: I have a question...when the list gets to the point where Antioch becomes a Crusader state, will there be a list of both Latin and Greek Patriarchs? Or should there be a separate article for the Latin ones? (On the other hand, it may not matter...I can't remember if there were two at the same time, or if they just kept alternating depending on the political situation...) Adam Bishop
:Adam, as I started on this article, I soon discovered that the lineage of this Patriachate is very much a mess. Only yesterday did I at last understand where the Syriac/Jacobite Church & the Greek Orthodox churches forked in their lineage, & my most recent edits reflect this. (Although there are still some points in this list where I've probably made the wrong decision in names & dates.)
: My plan at present, is to list in this article the undesputed (well, more or less) line of this office, then link to the Syriac/Jacobite Church & the Greek Orthodox lines, from which there will be linked the branches of the Marionite & Latin lineages. If I can show this to be the cleanest & simplest way to present this information, maybe it will be adopted in the articles on the patriarchs of Alexandria & Jerusalem. (Or maybe I'll show that their way is the best.) -- llywrch 00:10 20 Jul 2003 (UTC)
I would like to add some clarification here, if I may. I think the lists are in good shape, but I think that anyone who is not aquainted with the church traditions of the Near East might just find it a bit awkward to work out who is who.
: Gareth Hughes 17:24, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Multiple Patriarchs?

message: There appear to be problems with the dates on this page, for at least two entries that I looked at. These need to be checked with more rigor. In one case, the martyrdom was in the Decian persecution, and Decius died before the date listed here. The second case is the death Euphrasius, which is here dated 528. I noted the source I consulted; looking further shows that Emperor Justin died in 527. My addition of Nicephorus to the references needs formatting; please lend it the help it requires.
Mallonb  —Preceding undated comment was added at 05:33, 25 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: As far as Justin is concerned, it it the original historian quoted who was wrong not the 528 date. There is a footnote in the new reference explaining this. But thanks. Could be misleading.Student7 (talk) 14:26, 28 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Chronology
Talk:Patti Smith

message: Why do we have a Legacy section? She's not dead. GA-RT-22 (talk) 19:01, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: @GA-RT-22 no need to be dead to have a legacy section.  For example see Mick Jaggar, still alive but has a legacy section because he/his work has influenced other notable musicians.  Same is true for Smith. S0091 (talk) 19:10, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why do we have a Legacy section?
Talk:Breast cancer

message: I proposed the merger above. Despite being a popular article there was very little discussion and no dissent, so I have completed the merge. 
Content from the other article has been included in the section Multiple primary tumours. A lot of the material on the other page duplicated information that was already here so I have deleted a lot. The complete contents of the other page is available here for anyone who wishes to restore any content I have deleted.
The other article had no talk page and no articles linked there. 
Hopefully this new section fits well with the existing article. --Mgp28 (talk) 18:46, 3 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge from Multi-centric breast cancer 

message: *In a removed edit,  tagged that this page is the subject of an education assignment. A number of other pages have also been edited, per the users in question, because of said assignment. The instructor for this assignment (no known username) has not engaged with WP:Education program. Experienced editors should be prepared for a large number of noncompliant edits from participants. —C.Fred (talk) 13:18, 29 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Apparent class assignment
Talk:Penalty area

message: "It is rectangular and extends 16.5 metres (54 ft) to each side of the goal" <- i'm not sure about this. other sources say the total width of the area is actually around 40 meters, for example, the 'association football pitch' wiki page. does anyone know for sure what the actual official width of the area is, if there is any strict rule on this? Bazkie botsauto (talk) 18:04, 13 December 2011 (UTC)

message: The article appears to relate to one small section of a larger article and could easily be merged in to the main article.--Lucy-marie (talk) 15:58, 10 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger 

message: The picture used in the "function" section should be replaced. You can barely see the lines on that picture, all I could see without zooming in was a green picture (at least on mobile) 2804:7F2:5A4:CA2F:B8DE:D471:3A1F:2CBC (talk) 22:26, 3 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: I believe it is the case that a ball that overlaps the penalty box line (even a little) is considered inside the penalty box.  If so or if not, please modify the article accordingly.  —Quantling (talk | contribs) 21:26, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I've edited the article.  If you have an applicable reference, it would be much appreciated.  —Quantling (talk | contribs) 14:01, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is the line itself inside or outside the penalty box?
Talk:Trench art

message: "TRENCH ART BY Nicholas J. Saunders" - appropriate content?
217.155.21.238
The article is a wholsale steal from a good book- and presented in a big chunk without illustrations it's boring.--Saxophobia 11:49, 1 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyright

message: *Tone - needs to be written in a neutral, encyclopedic manner.  The current tone of the article sounds like it was copied from a third party source.  A complete rewrite may be necessary.
*Citations - inline cites needed to verify assertions made, such as the definition and the 4 categories of trench art.
Please do not remove the maintenance tags until the issues tagged for and those outlined above have been sufficiently addressed to warrant removal.  --BrokenSphereMsg me 22:32, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article issues 

message: The link doesn't work. Here is one that does but It's a long time since I've added a link on wiki and never on a mobile so I'm hoping someone else can do it: https://www.trc-leiden.nl/trc-needles/organisations-and-movements/charities/bradford-khaki-handicrafts-club
 Dakinijones (talk) 14:13, 13 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bradford Khaki Handicrafts  Club link
Talk:Emotivism

message: Hi everyone. I've been working on cleaning up meta-ethics articles lately, getting them all to agree with each other and match in formatting and presentation, and I have to say that this is the best-written one I've come across so far. Clear and precise, cohesive, with references and even illustrations. Congratulations to the editors here. We could use people like you on some of the other meta-ethics articles. -Pfhorrest (talk) 07:03, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Excellent work 

message: Is it worth recording that RM Hare did not like the term "emotions" applied to moral, or indeed aesthetic, judgments? He said you could be emotional or calm and emotionless when delivering such a judgment, like "eating people is wrong". The judgments themselves were not emotions. This surely is true, but I am afraid the horse has bolted. It is also OR, being based on personal memory, and so can't go into the article. Seadowns (talk) 11:31, 2 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title 

message: Both Emotivism and Quasi-realism state that these two meta-ethical positions are in opposition, but they do not give an explanation. Can someone help? Lboukoko (talk) 05:20, 15 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quasi-realism & Emotivism
Talk:Kary Mullis

message: There's no reason to put death details on the opening paragraph.--Katya72918 (talk) 07:22, 22 October 20
I like to see a response  from you on this.--Katya72918 (talk) 08:44, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The lead section is meant to be as summary of the entire article. Mullis's death is part of his biography, so why would we omit it? --Sangdeboeuf (talk) 09:47, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  But it is very unusual to put the deatils of death in the lead section.The death is not at all a noteworthy one.WP:Manual_of_Style#Lead_sectionKatya72918  (talk) 12:20, 30 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Why put death details on the opening paragraph

message: Mullís was a PhD, not an MD.  He could not be a “Pediatric Cardiologist” if not an MD, although he could have done basic research in the field.  This should be clarified.98.183.25.236 (talk) 23:31, 6 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pediatric Cardiology 

message: I edited the following sentence to conform with the preexisting cited source by deleting the text “role in the” and I’ve been reverted twice by @bon_courage, seemingly without reason, though I explained my reason:
“In recognition of his role in the invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) technique, he shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Michael Smith“
All relevant Cited source text:
“Mullis received the award for his invention of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR)…
“Mullis began his Nobel Prize-winning research while at the Cetus Corporation. He claimed that he invented PCR by accident—the idea occurred to him while he was driving one Friday evening in April 1983 to his home in the California redwood country for the weekend. By the end of that Friday evening, he knew that if he could make his idea work in the laboratory, it would have the power to transform biological research. He described his technique for the first time in the December 20, 1985, issue of Science and received a patent in 1987.”
https://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(11)62225-8/fulltext JustinReilly (talk) 15:05, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:LEDEFOLLOWSBODY. While there's no dispute he has been cited as "the" inventor (and for technical reasons there is usually one "inventor") or that he claims to be; but as the article makes clear there is a lot of controversy about that, so Wikipedia's current solution is a neat summary that downplays nothing unduly. (In some ways this is a textbook case of attribution controversy.). Bon courage (talk) 15:30, 5 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sole Inventor of PCR according to source
Talk:Luton

message: To try to be a bit more organised, I made a subpage in the Bedfordshire WikiProject here, if anyone's interested. At the moment it's mainly just a to do list with what I had in my mind.
I thought it's not worth starting a new WikiProject, the Bedfordshire one is pretty dead but I made a new page to keep the Luton bits separate.
Feel free to add or change anything on there. I'd like to make Luton and related articles really good!
- odg (talk) 12:22, 24 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject page 

message: There is a discussion at talk:Milton Keynes#"Large" town that may be of interest to editors of this article (since it also uses the phrase "large town"). --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 11:06, 12 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Large" town 

message: I think this article would be best moved to the Luton page and mentioned on Dunstable and Houghton Regis page as it is just a subdivision and has not many notable sources...it be best merged into either the geography page of Luton or a new tab which links the page to and from each three towns... DragonofBatley (talk) 14:47, 29 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge of [[Luton/Dunstable urban area]] into [[Luton]] 

message: This proposal is being discussed as part of a more general discussion about the principle, at Wikipedia talk: WikiProject UK geography#Debate on merging "urban area" ("built-up area") articles into the primary settlement area. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 12:47, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion moved
Talk:Afrikaans

message: Is it relevant to point out that there are 36 speakers in Mauritius and 122 in Finland?  I think we should stick to countries that have at least 1,000 speakers on the table. 2600:1702:6D0:5160:59CC:F3DA:7940:1F39 (talk) 01:51, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geographic distribution
Wikipedia talk:Avoid weasel words

message: Given that a consensus has been claimed (but is currently 50-50) for merging this page into "words to watch" I will try to facilitate the process by replacing the article as standing with the sentences it is being reduced to. This will give people the chance to see what if anything is missing. --BozMo talk 20:02, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wholesale replacement of weasel 

message: There is currently an ongoing discussion about the future of this and others MoS naming style. Please consider the issues raised in the discussion and vote if you wish GnevinAWB (talk) 20:50, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  MoS naming style 

message: I'm not sure if this is the proper place to bring this up, but some have said that many weasels strongly object to the term "weasel words" as it presents their species in an unfavourable light based on false negative stereotypes and prejudice. There is a general Consensus among both the Mustelid Council of Europe (MCE) and North American Coalition for the Social Progress of Weasels, Ferrets and Ermines (NACSPWFE) that this term is outdated, inaccurate and unfair to weasels and their kin. Perhaps the authors' of Wikipedia's "Avoid Weasel Words" policy should seriously consider replacing "weasel words" with a more modern, less offensive descriptor that does not carry such blatant connotations of speciesism.
67.142.172.26 (talk) 01:02, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mustelaphobia? 

message: "It is a generally accepted..."  This is a weasel phrase, by the page's own definition. No deception intended, just sloppy.Sometimesage (talk) 22:51, 21 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: But context matters. Wikipedia can make generalising statements reflecting the consensus of its own editors in Wikipedia namespace. The editors can decide, collectively, what is "generally accepted by them, and then describe that in a guideline, and that is not weasel wording. (Unless the guideline means not generally accepted by editor consensus but by academics at large or something, in which case that WOULD be weasel wording, and indeed be ironically placed). 2600:1702:4960:1DE0:AD80:F27C:76D:C5D0 (talk) 03:51, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  How ironic