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Talk:Geotechnics

message: It has been suggested that this article be merged into Geotechnical engineering.  I very much disagree with this suggestion.  The term Geotechnics existed before the term Geotechnical Engineering. It is true that geotechnics and geotechnical engineering have similar definitions. However, engineers have chosen to use the term Geotechnical Engineering instead of Geotechnics to describe their field. Engineering Geologist have always used the term geotechnics to describe the geotechnical aspect of their field.  By merging the definition of geotechnics into geotechnical engineering, you would essentially say that geotechnics is not part of engineering geology, since in most States, geologists can not practice engineering without being a PE. However geotechnics is considered part of the practice of engineering geology in those States that regulate engineering geologists. The term geotechnics was coined by geologists, and we use the term more often than engineers do. If geotechnics is merged anywhere it should merged with Engineering Geology. Essentially, Geotechnics is a Geology word, and for anyone to assume otherwise implies some lack of knowlege of the history of the term. The term Geotechnics is a stand-along term in most geology and geotechnical engineering glossaries, and should be a stand-along term here on Wikipedia. The definition which I have provided is accurate, with adequate references, and I have provided links to both Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology if the reader would like additional information. Wikipedia is about providing information, not limiting it.  The only reason to merge Geotechnics into Geotechnical Engineering is to define ownership of the term to engineer.  Wikipedia should not be about "turf" warfare, but rather about providing information to the public.
-Geohumphrey 22:31, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Palestrina

message: Hi all,
I just spotted this sentence (May 2022): "From 373 to 370, it was in continual war against Rome or her allies, and was defeated by Cincinnatus."
There's a problem here that may boil over to the preceding sentences. Cincinnatus was 5th c. B.C.E. figure, and dead for around 60 years before 373. So somehow this chronology needs to be worked out.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.128.203.121 (talk) 04:53, 26 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problematic chronology 
Talk:Palk Strait

message: "...a number of babys have studied the proposal..." That can't be literally true, and I can't guess what was intended. Art LaPella (talk) 21:55, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Babys

message: The article starts with Palk Strait (Tamil: பழக ஸ்ட்ரைட்). I think it is meant to show the translation of Palk Strait to as it is referred to in Tamil both in India and Sri Lanka. It is therefore "பாக்கு நீரிணை" as it is written in Tamil wikipedia: http://tawp.in/r/6yr . 
But if it is meant to show only a transliteration into Tamil then it could be "பாக் ஸ்ட்ரைட்" though there can be some variations in both parts of the name due to pronunciation differences.  But the transliteration of Palk to பழக as shown now is definitely wrong and should be corrected
--கா. சேது (talk) 15:57, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Palk Strait in Tamil 

message: The lede mentions the strait having a "minimum depth" of 9m, but this makes no sense to me - How can a body of water have a minimum depth? I think the source implies 9m to be the maximum depth, but it is of questionable reliability. What gives? AviationFreak💬 18:49, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Minimum depth"
Talk:Tito Gobbi

message: An IP editor added a note to the article that Gobbi's papers were archived at the HGARC. It was taken out as trivia. I've added this as a category. There is also a fairly extensive biography of Gobbi hosted by the ARC: . Should this be added as an external link?
:Don't know when the above was added, but a quick glance today at the website confirmed for me that the Gotlieb Archive is a great source for expanding the article, and I have been using it to do just that.Viva-Verdi (talk) 01:25, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added [[:Category:Papers archived at Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center‎ ]]
Talk:Donna and Marvin Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

message: Just getting this started; more information to come. AUTiger ʃ talk/work 18:51, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have some sources for you, if you'd like.  They're from newspapers and Emory publications that tell about the Schwartz Center and its inauguration.  I can scan them and email them to you.  Just let me know how to get the info to you.  I think it'll help with the article.  Schwartzcenter 15:33, 1 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Use the Wikipedia email feature to send an email to me. Send me your email address that way and I'll contact you directly to get the scans. If you have any trouble with that, leave a message on my talk page. Btw, I did manage to find a couple of online sources and expanded the article a bit. I didn't pay for the access to the old AJC or Boston Globe articles though, sorry. :-( AUTiger » talk 05:56, 3 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: More coming
Talk:Digest (Roman law)

message: Hi there. I was searching for Pandect and came across this article, after I was reading about this Greek Pandect from the 11th century. Perhaps we should remove the redirect, or create a disambiguation page for Pandect, since this isn't the only "pandect". Thoughts? SarahStierch (talk) 05:37, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Disambiguation is needed only where there are more than one WP article so named and there might be confusion between them. Feel free to create an article on pandects in general, if you think it may be required.  --Wikiain (talk) 03:01, 9 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  11th century Greek pandects 
Talk:Hailes

message: There surely needs to be a disambiguation here. Hailes was for centuries a large estate in the parish of Colinton, 4 miles from the GPO in Edinburgh. These lands were originally held by the monks of Dunfermline. In the 19th century they were in the possession of Sir Thomas Carmichael, Bart. In addition, there is another Hailes, sometimes called New Hailes, an old seat of the Dalrymple family near Musselburgh. And then there is Hailes Castle, at Prestonkirk parish in East Lothian. Regards, David Lauder 18:53, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Panegyric

message: "and reserved the funeral oration exclusively for the dead"
Isn't this statement tautological?  Who but the dead would receive a funeral oration? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.137.138.246 (talk • contribs) 12:49, 24 October 2011‎
:I think it means "and reserved the funeral oration alone for the dead". But I agree, it's (at best) ambiguous as it stands. Perhaps it could be recast as "the panegyric was reserved for the living, while the dead would have only a funeral oration". Thoughts, anyone? 
:Alec 15:36, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: That statement is taken directly from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica. What might help here is finding a second source which makes the distinction clearer to contemporary readers. It could also be that they were using "funeral" as an adjective as opposed to a noun, using the meaning "funereal", i.e., sad and serious. This would contrast with the panegyric which, per the Britannica, was meant to be rousing.  But I agree, the difference is not at all clear as it is currently written. --GentlemanGhost (converse) 19:51, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with Alex Brady. Tbat a dated, substandard encyclopedia has been used a source cannot be reasons for not rewording the passage so as to make sense. No second source is required for this. Str1977 (talk) 22:24, 29 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redundant
Talk:Partonopeus de Blois

message: An edit has changed "an ambiguous passage in the prologue to the 'Vie seint Edmund le rei' " to read "an ambiguous passage in the prologue referring to the 'Vie seint Edmund le rei' ". No the same thing of course. This may have been inadvertent. A competent editor might vet this.--Wetman (talk) 04:02, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: an inadvertent change?
Talk:Mammut Sports Group

message: I don't quite see where this page should be " blatant advertising for a company, product, group, service or person"? As far as I can see, I only brought up objective facts about it. (Awanhyr, author of the article)
I don't think this is advertising either... There are a lot of articles about enterprises - look at the Nike, Inc. article for example. Why should this one be any worse? (Sturmknecht)
:Yup, I think we are going to have to reconsider the phrasing of the  template; we are currently using it to cope with the large number of uncritical articles about businesses that aren't notable. Essentially, the emphasis appears to have shifted from tone of content towards not demonstrating notability. Anyway, regarding this article, the subject is certainly notable, for example there is plenty of news coverage. I've removed the speedy in the finest traditions of ignoring rules. Addhoc 20:07, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:María José (singer)

message: WikiProject Biography Assessment
The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 19:06, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 
Talk:Patter

message: This is still a common term in Glasgow.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrlithic (talk • contribs) 18:41, 6 April 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Pauperism

message: Umm... This article is really dated. I think the term "pauper" is pretty deroggatory and obsolete. It seems that part of the article was written in 1913? Maybe rewriting this with some reference to negative connotations and the dated nature of this term?Fokion (talk) 03:54, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dated and Offensive? 

message: I belive that since "pauper" is a reference to the non working poor in England that were classified under "Poor's law". The picture should reflect that of the homeless in the UK.
Osummer (talk) 15:26, 29 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture of homeless person in Moscow?
Talk:Afemai people

message: "Afemai" is categorized as a language but is written about the ethnic group, so I would like to propose moving this article to Afemai people to disambiguate. -Uyvsdi (talk) 05:47, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Disambiguation in this case is helpful. There's nothing wrong with that. The article is no longer categorized by language because I removed that category last night. -Uyvsdi (talk) 17:32, 12 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Helpful:  Why is it even necessary when the language's name is a different word, i.e. the 'n' in the middle of Afenmai?? The only possible parallel primarytopic for "Afemai" is the region, as yet uncited and without an article.Skookum1 (talk) 15:59, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Move proposal

message: made this change under history, as this seemed to be the the intended meaning. Original too slangy. Noting here in case I am wrong. Doing other small edits for English, but only this one approaches a guess, imho. But for the record, I don't know the place or the language; just spending a little time on general improvement of the writing/links/references in west Africa articles. If I do make a mistake, please feel free to correct without discussion Elinruby (talk) 02:11, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  it is cool -->all is well
Talk:Wheely Willy

message: There should be an article on Willy on Wheels. The most famous wikipedia editor ever. Ironically a title that every wiki admin strives for lol.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.72.70.171 (talk) 00:39, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia used to have articles on its vandals in order for the Admins to familiarize themselves with vandals and their tactics. Who knows why it changed?69.243.42.251 (talk) 21:55, 21 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Willy on Wheels 

message: Willy's probably passed on.--Edtropolis 20:34, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Chihuahuas can live up to 18 years so he could still be around 74.229.215.99 03:57, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There's a calender of events on his website that shows he was an honoree at a celebration of the 17th anniversary of the ADA just yesterday. -- The_socialist talk? 10:51, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where is Wheely Willy? (Not the vandal) 

message: I've updated the images so they are in line with policies. Even though they do nicely show the helium balloons and the K9-cart, they are probably replaceable with various freely-licensed images as the above discussion indicates that Willy is still alive. However, as that discussion also notes, he is quite old now, so, no offence intended, if we want a freely-licensed picture, we should try and get one pretty quickly, otherwise the book covers (or a publicity photo) will be all we will ever be able to use, unless someone wants to write to the owner and ask for freely-licensed pictures. It is possible that no pictures exist of the helium balloon incidents, and that was the first book, so that book cover picture may be justifiable. The other one can probably be replaced by a free picture of Willy with his K9-cart. If this is disputed, pleas take to WP:IfD, rather than restoring the tags. Thanks. Carcharoth (talk) 10:13, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Free pictures 

message: Read in the Long Beach Press-Telegram today that Willy died. Updated the page, but since I'm inexperienced it looked pretty bad. The article also listed his age as 22, but I'm not sure that part is correct, so I didn't change it in the article. Can anyone clean up my mess?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Posikyle (talk • contribs) 22:44, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Willy's Death 

message: Look I suck at this Wiki thing but I spotted major vandalism:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disputation_of_Paris_on_Round_Things
That should be "Disputation of Paris," which now redirects to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheely_Willy.
Disputation of Paris is an "on this day" entry.
This is clear vandalism (probably having to do with the subject matter being Jewish, but I'm just guessing). Jersey John (talk) 04:09, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  MAJOR VANDALISM 

message: I think I fixed it. Can someone please check my work? Jersey John (talk) 04:13, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Did I fix it?
Talk:Petits-Chevaux

message: Petits-Chevaux and Jeu des petits chevaux are two different games. Rsalen (talk) 22:20, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, I they seem to be totally unrelated (except for their names, which may motivate a "See also" link or an "otheruses"-template - but not a merge! Unless support and arguments for the merge appear shortly, the template should be removed as clearly mistaken.--Noe (talk) 12:44, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll now remove the merge tags.--Noe (talk) 16:25, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion of proposed merge of [[Petits-Chevaux]] and [[Jeu des petits chevaux]]
Talk:Petrarch's library

message: This article is virtually copied from a couple of public domain sources, linked to in the "notes" section, without proper attribution. This needs to be thoroughly rewritten. --Akhilleus (talk) 05:32, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Article needs cleanup

message: Compare our text: "When Petrarch broke up his personal collections at Parma and Vaucluse he had formed the habit of travelling with large bales of manuscripts in a long cavalcade. In his middle age he became tired of carrying his large collection of manuscripts and books around in his extensive travels. He came to the conclusion that he would offer his collection of manuscripts to the Republic of Venice, on condition that it should be properly housed, and should never be sold or divided. This was in exchange for a permanent residence that he and his daughter's family could live in."
And that of Elton & Elton, The Great Book-Collectors:
"Towards the end of his life Petrarch became tired of carrying his books about. When he broke up the libraries at Parma and Vaucluse he had formed the habit of travelling with bales of manuscripts in a long cavalcade; but he determined afterwards to offer the collection to Venice, on condition that it should be properly housed, and should never be sold or divided. The offer was accepted by the Republic, and the Palazzo Molina was assigned as a home for the poet and his books."
Thankfully, Elton & Elton is out of copyright, so there is no legal problem here; but there is exact and nearly exact quotation here without an indication of quotation or proper attribution; this is plagiarism. --Akhilleus (talk) 17:50, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plagiarism 
Talk:Petrarch's testamentum

message: I thought you had dropped those names by accident. They are listed in Petrarch's testamentum, however if you want those names out it doesn't make any difference to me. Actually I believe it looks better without those names. I was just correcting what I thought was an accident. We'll leave them out then, since I didn't realize this was an issue with you. Was only trying to fix an accident, didn't realize it was that you intentionally wanted those names left out of his Will. You didn't mention that anywhere that it was important that those names be left out of his Will (for whatever reason), so I had no way of knowing.--Doug talk 21:30, 2 July 2007 (UTC)
Template talk:Rating system of the Royal Navy

message: The fourth-rate was no frigate. It was classified as a ship-of-the-line. Since the end of the 18th century they weren't used in the battle line because considered as too weak, but nevertheless they hadn't been classified as frigates instead. Blinder Seher 20:05, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: The fourth-rate was no frigate - it was classified as a ship-of-the-line

message: There is no need to mention gun-brig and cutter, because they only had been two of a variety of vessels classified as sloops. Therefore it is clearer and sufficient to mention only the sloop-of-war below the rated vessels. Blinder Seher 20:11, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Sloop-of-war
Talk:Kearsarge-class battleship

message: IMO, this article is marginal for completeness because it has barely more technical description of the ships than do the individual ship articles. The class article is where you need to cover armament layout, specifications of the guns and their ammunition, background to the design, etc. and the histories of the ships themselves get significantly shortened. Forex see any of the FA class articles by either me or Parsecboy. I would strongly urge you not to submit it to GAN until the missing material has been significantly expanded.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 06:58, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment
Talk:USS Kearsarge (BB-5)

message: This ship has turrets in superpositions which was very high tech for it's time, it didn't arrive on Royal Navy battleships untill well after dreadnought.
This is where a turret is placed behind and above another.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.247.12.181 (talk) 14:19, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: The design is better thought of as a two-story turret as the upper part couldn't rotate independently. Super-firing turrets were entirely independent and far more useful in combat.--Sturmvogel 66 (talk) 15:46, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Turrets in Superpositions 

message: The designation "BB" only came into existence in 1920. When commissioned she would have have been "Battleship #5; in 1909 "B-5" would have started to come into use. She was converted to a crane ship in 1920 and redesignated IX-16 (briefly) and then AB-1. "BB" came into use on July 17 1920, the same day she was recommissioned as a crane ship so she never went under the "BB" designation and was never listed as BB-5. Any source that says otherwise would be anachronistic and wrong. Herostratus (talk) 09:30, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is this vessel a "BB"?
Template talk:Solano County, California

message: contra costa county has school districts, while san francisco county shows parks and other articles of interest; maybe rename to topics relating to solano county, california?Cholga 20:14, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I know there are some other counties that use the :Template:US county navigation box that include sections beyond municipalities and communities.  This is because they were existing templates that had the :Template:US county navigation box applied to them.  These additional sections should be removed.  Templates need to have a limited scope or they will continue to grow beyond the point of functionality, and this navigational box is intentionally designed to be limited to municipalities and communities.  Only 5 of the 58 California county navboxes have listings beyond municipalities and communities, so those five need to be brought into compliance.  VerruckteDan 14:22, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: scope
Talk:Donaghmore, County Laois

message: In anticipation of the calls for citations this is a photo of a sign (with an unfortunately jolly drawing of two very healthy looking inmates) outside the Famine Museum at Donaghmore Workhouse. 
(Sarah777 20:18, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Reference

message: It was the regular British army ( the 2nd Gordon's batallion) who were billeted in Donaghmore  NOT the Black and Tans 84.252.109.10 (talk) 21:00, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  It was the regular British army ( the 2nd Gordon's batallion) who were billeted in Donaghmore  NOT the Black and Tans
Talk:A Pair of Brown Eyes

message: Well, I don't know what the "infobox stuff is about, but I was a fan of this song as a resident of Thatcher's Britain too poor to afford a TV. I'm going to watch the YouTube line and comment appropriately. I can IMAGINE where McGowan et al would have poured vitriol, but I'd like to SEE.
I haven't heard ST&TL for over a decade, and I'm celebrating in a manner McGowna would heartily approve of! <HIC, not sic>
A Karley (talk) 09:06, 12 January 2008 (UTC)