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Wikipedia talk:Special characters

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Does anybody know if there is a way to copy and paste Cyrillic characters? Whenever I try, I just get a row of question marks - is it possible at all? -- Cordyph 18:49, 29 Jul 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: It works for me with Mozilla - I did it several times with russian cosmonauts before, see e.g. Vladimir Komarov. Maybe your browser does not convert the russian characters to the Unicode numbers like Б. -- andy 21:23, 29 Jul 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Wait a moment, I just activate my Mozilla browser - yes, that works fine. I just tried this in Opera 7, but next time I will activate my Mozilla for correct character conversion - thanks a lot for the hint. (Hephaestos just told me that he has entered all the unicode values directly - appears to be a lot of unnecessary work) -- Cordyph 21:44, 29 Jul 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Iam facing a problem with these chars(АаБ...Яя), when use in IE, it is treating as normal latin char(range from 192-255), but actual vals for these are 1040-1103 given.. pls help me as how we can treat these in IE...А  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.163.216.217 (talk) 07:38, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Cyrillic characters

message: Could someone give me info on how to display characters not on the standard US keyboard on Wikipedia.  First of all, what is the best way to display such characters?  I have seen a few ways in the past.  Second, is there a listing or website somewhere which shows a table or something of all the different characters and their codes?  MB 18:12, Aug 8, 2003 (UTC)
:Does the table on Wikipedia:Special_characters help? —Frecklefoot 18:17, 8 Aug 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: And what about Start/Programs/Accessories/System Tools/Character Map, if you have it? (Might need switching to Unicode.) (Or, just install a lot of keyboard layouts.) Ксип Cyp 18:21, 8 Aug 2003 (UTC)

text: Charmap is fine for one or two characters otherwise a bit tedious to use. For several European languages you'll find a 'World Keyboard' at Bable Fish. Erik Zachte 23:14, 8 Aug 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Un-typeable characters

message: We need one place to develop MediaWiki documentation so I'm starting a project-neutral MediaWiki User's Guide in meta and think it would be a good idea to cross wiki redirect this page to meta:MediaWiki User's Guide: Creating special characters as soon as I'm done with the conversion (before that I will change each link to this page to a direct one to meta so that it appears correctly as an external link). --mav 04:11, 7 Sep 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plan to move this page to meta soon 

message: Around a year ago, it was suggested that this page be turned into a redirect to the copy at meta.  Is there any reason this has not happened yet?  If I get no objections, I'll do it. JesseW 10:50, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Is there any reason this page has not been turned into a redirect?
Talk:Adam of Balsham

message: What is the point of linking to Adam's alternative names?
S.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.168.172.214 (talk) 12:54, 9 February 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Eurovision Song Contest 1962

message: Ole Mortensen is given as both commentator and spokesperson for Denmark. His role as a commentator seems to be properly sourced, the spokespersons seem unsourced. The Denmark country page says that Mortensen was spokesperson, and that Skat Nørrevig was commentator, without any sources. Should Mortensen in the role as spokesperson be removed ? --EurovisionLibrarian (talk) 15:00, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: A lot of the spokesperson content on Wikipedia is unsourced, and most likely should be removed unless a reliable source can be found to verify the claims. The same is still true for the commentators for a lot of articles on here. I spent a good deal trying to find reliable sources for the broadcasts sections, and I do have aspirations to do the same for the jury spokspersons, however you are correct that unsourced information on spokesperson should be removed. Sims2aholic8 (talk) 15:13, 8 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks ! --EurovisionLibrarian (talk) 17:49, 10 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ole Mortensen
Talk:Climatic determinism

message: This article seems to have a bad title: there doesn't seem to be any paradox involved and "Equatorial paradox" gets few hits in a web search. -( 16:33 Feb 9, 2003 (UTC)
:Philip Parker's 2000 book Physioeconomics calles it the equatorial paradox; that's how I ended up here, by doing a search for that term. --Sadi Carnot 16:08, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment 1

message: I think the effect is only applicable to large countries with clear climate zones. Singapore is a small island. Also, the fact it was founded by the British and is dominated by Chinese culture adds to it being a special case.
The effect is only applicable to large countries like the US, India, China, Brazil, and Australia with noticeable climate zones. In general, the tropical zones are less developed than the temperate zones. Once you get too far north (Russia) or south (Argentina) the effect reverses.
The paragraph on the two American civilizations actually supports the theory. I presume the author is talking about the Aztec and Inca. These advanced civilizations developed in more temperate climates than their less developed tropical neighbors. The climate difference being due to elevation instead of latitude. The Aztec developed in the high temperate Central Valley of mostly tropical Mexico. The Inca occupied the temperate Andes highlands of equatorial part of South America.
Also, advanced ancient tropical civilizations like the Maya and Angkor seem to be more vulnerable to periodic environmental collapse. This suggests the temperate climates are relatively more stable and further supports the theory.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.213.133.156 (talk) 02:40, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment 3
Talk:Breidablik

message: ...In mythology? In what? :S -- Sam — Preceding undated comment added 17:04, 9 February 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this mythology? If so, please state 

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: no consensus. (closed by non-admin page mover) — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 17:03, 7 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Breidablik →  – Convention is to use the non-anglicised version of the name for example in Skaði, Þrúðvangr and Útgarða-Loki. Ingwina (talk) 18:47, 22 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The most commonly used form would be the Old Norse form. In this case, it's primarily scholars who have discussed this topic over the years, and they generally use the Old Norse form (for example, Simek's handbook or any number of scholastic papers discussing Baldr). :bloodofox: (talk) 16:26, 31 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I second this. In the research I did when rewriting the page, "Breiðablik" was by far the most common form in academic papers. Anglicisations were mostly only seen in translations of texts, when the name wasn't literally translated (which was roughly as common). Ingwina (talk) 09:40, 1 November 2022 (UTC)

text: Relisting comment: Argument-wise, there is a split on whether to use the proper spelling vs. a more common (but not Old Norse) spelling. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 17:16, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 22 October 2022
Talk:Gulf War (disambiguation)

message: Text moved to talk:Military preparations for 2003 invasion of Iraq— Preceding unsigned comment added by DanKeshet (talk • contribs) 15:19 & :40, 14 August 2003
: Specifically, 
:: contributed 18:52, 20 May 2011 by Xeeron, and 
:: moved to #Very inconsistent redirects/disambiguation pages: new section).
:--Jerzy•t 06:52, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  (Misplaced discussion) 

message: Try:
*Second Gulf War
*second gulf war
Different pages for different capitalisation. 
** These are correct - redirects allow users to reach the intended page, even if they use slightly different spelling/capitalisation.  --NSH001 (talk) 16:31, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Very inconsistent redirects/disambiguation pages 

message: While editors of the Dab pages for any names applicable to at least two of the three wars should be aware of each others' work, the attempt to disambiguate on one page all the names that are ambiguous among some of the three wars is grossly misconceived, and could be remedied by creating a separate Dab page for more-or-less each ambiguous title. That may be too extreme for variations that share a pattern of applicability; in theory, i can easily imagine 4 Dab pages being needed: one for the terms that plausibly apply to both of the first two, one for the last two, one for the first and last, and one for terms that apply to all three, but i wouldn't be surprised if even that were overkill.
   I'm gonna start work here on this talk page, and hope for consensus before editing the mainspace pages needed.--Jerzy•t 07:45, 13 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Multi-purpose Dab?? 

message: I just finished a major cleanup of this disambiguation. It seems like this page got way too confusing with a series of sections on the numbers of each Gulf War. That is completely unnecessary. You have to keep in mind that this is a disambiguation, and the only purpose of it is to guide people to the respective articles. I feel like this page did not do a good job of this, because it was cluttered with hypothetical numbering. The way I have it now is a lot better. People can read very short summaries of the different wars and conflicts that have been referred to as "Gulf War" (numbering doesn't matter here) and then can go to the article they want. I also added an infobox to help with this process. Leave everything else to the individual articles. Tavix |  Talk   23:09, 11 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Numbering removal
Talk:South Bohemian Region

message: Budéjovický kraj the same territory as what was previously known as Jiro Cesky?  If so the old name should be mentioned, and if not perhaps a short explanation of the difference would be helplfull. -- Infrogmation
:According to  obsolete names of Jihoceský are Budejovický and Ceskobudejovický. Can anyone from Czechia conform this? andy
::Checked this at the official sites. The Czech regions naming conventions is a big mess - in 2000, the (I guess 10) former communist era regions have been transformed into 14 new regions (incl. Prague), and some of them changed their name the following year. This was the case of Ceskobudejovicky -> Jihocesky region. Matt Borak 08:38, 18 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Apollo/Domain

message: Am updating this page as memory comes back to me. Will keep doing so from time to time. It may be that I have documentation still stashed away somewhere which would help. I definitely still have some hardware in the garage.
Proper info really requires input from several people, especially from the US (I'm from the UK, so my perspective may not be a typical one), and I wasn't acquainted with Apollo throughout the whole of its history, so I can't provide details from early on or after around 1992.
 User:AlexSwanson  21 July 2005
Two things I remember (may be inaccurate) about the Apollo systems was that
1) They were virtual memory using a single 68000 (which was not designed for VM). This was performed by using a Z80 as the memory management CPU! On a memory fault, the 68000 clock was halted, the Z80 took control, paged in the missing block, and the 68000 restarted, completing the memory read/write operation. An interesting solution.
2) The Apollo Token Network and the disk drives operated at the same serial speed. A single controller(?) and driver software was able to work with both. This eased the software problems involved in networking (virtual) disks. 
 User:HenriSocha  2006 Sept 20
This article really needs some sources. It's been too long to depend on memory. Some of the information here is wrong but without sources all I can do for now is remove it. Rees11 20:20, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled comments 

message: I've added a bunch more info based on my experiences ordering, maintaining and administering an Apollo network of almost 100 machines from 1987 to 2000.  I am cited in the Apollo FAQ (Phil Pokorny)
Nician (talk) 06:58, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional info 

message: Early DN Models (circa 1983) like the DN440, DN460 and DN660 are based in a proprietary 32-Bits processor implemented using "bit-slice" technology (reference = APOLLO Products Guides at WWW.BITSAVERS.ORG PDF Archives APOLLO/BROCHURES/N440_460_Brochure_1983.pdf)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.1.171.220 (talk) 12:48, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  More Info 

message: supposedly the apollo domain is the origin of the @ (at) sign and usage of double forward slashes (//). Latter used in URLs with scheme such as http, URL schemes that involve the direct use of an IP-based protocol to a specified host on the Internet use a common syntax for the scheme-specific data.
According to http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-urlni/index.html
 and see http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Axioms.html  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Naxa (talk • contribs) 08:49, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  // and @ double slash and at symbol
Talk:Treaty of Nice

message: Removed line claiming that the Nice Treaty amendment to the Irish Constitution would enable future Treaties to be passed without the need for a referendum. Such a claim was made during the Nice II referendum and denied by the Irish Government. If it had included that, the referendum would have been voted down by 80%+ of the electorate.  Even if it got through with such a provision, public anger at not holding a referendum on any future occasion would have been such that no political party would dare to vote through a new Treaty merely by putting it through parliament, for they would be committing political suicide. (And Europe would have guaranteed that Ireland would block every subsequent Treaty without exception in anger.) It would have been a very very very stupid clause to have included. JTD 01:31 Feb 10, 2003 (UTC)
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Suggest that this page could do with re-structuring. Content is good and generally NPOV, but the current structure intermingles straightforward factual descriptions of the treaty's provisions with various criticisms. Suggest three headings: (1) Treaty provisions [purely factual]; (2) Discussion of Treaty [or similar] [with criticisms etc]; (3) Ratification [pretty much as it stands]. If I get a chance, I might look at some of these reworks, but time is pressing at the mo. Toby W 10:35, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The article is disambiguated as Treaty of Nice (2001), yet there's no disambiguity notice at the header and the basic Treaty of Nice redirects here. If there's another such Treaty, it should be noted in this article's header, or the basic title should be made into a full diambig page. If not, why the parenthesis? Radagast 03:30, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've moved the page back to just Treaty of Nice. I have also started the other article (the 1892 article). People typing Treaty of Nice will, in 99.99 % (or even more) of cases be looking for this article, so they should be taken here directly, not to some ambiguation page. Those should be used when a reasonably large minority of people will be looking for non-majority articles. The few people (I'm guessing one or two a year, excluding the ones clicking the link out of curiosity) looking for the 1892 treaty can then just click the dablink. Lilac Soul 09:06, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title 

message: "In response to the failed sanctions against Austria following coalition including Jörg Haider's party having come to power, and fears about possible future threats to the stability of the new member states to be admitted in enlargement, the Treaty of Nice for the first time adopted formal rules for the application of sanctions against a Member State."
These rules were adopted by the Amsterdam Treaty (ref.: Fiala, Pitrová - Evropská Unie, 2004, page 149)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.194.171.149 (talk) 10:22, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  This is not true 

message: This is nice.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.220.162.177 (talk) 11:18, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nice
Talk:Paw Paw Lake, Michigan

message: Paw Paw Lake is not a town. Paw Paw Lake is the name of the lake that is bordered by two towns. On the West side of the lake is a town by the name of Coloma and to the East is the town of Watervliet. Paw Paw Lake is often thought to be in Paw Paw, Michigan but, it is not. Paw Paw Lake is a spring fed 900 acre, All Sports lake that is dam controlled by the Army Corp. of Engineers. Thanks so much. 
A proud resident of Coloma.
:The present revision of the article does not say it is a town. It is however designated by the census bureau as a place for statistical purposes. In fact, there is no official meaning to "town" in Michigan. The only official designations for municipalities are villages and cities (and perhaps charter townships). Townships and counties are other forms of local government (along with some assorted others like school districts). BTW, if there is no entry for Paw Paw Lake, feel free to create it. older≠wiser 21:19, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Actual Town
Talk:Hutterite German

message: These German Hutterite communities are referred to as "colonies" throughout this article. Thats inconsistent with the descriptions of other diaspora language communities and is certainly not a linguistic term to referring to exclave language groupings.  The term may have been applicable in the Colonial Era, but its 2010 and the wording should reflect contemporary usage, linguistic basis and common understanding of the word "colony".Napkin65 (talk) 17:46, 4 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Hutterite settlements are widely referred to as "Colonies". This has nothing to do with the Colonial Era. Dan Holsinger (talk) 17:37, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Calling these communities colonies

message: I recently encountered a woman from a Hutterite colony in Minnesota who specifically and emphatically said their dialect is of low German origin.  Can the upper German suggestion be cited to verify?  Alternatively, could there be more than one Hutterite German dialect? 97.116.5.37 (talk) 06:10, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Upper German or Low German?
Talk:Prepuce

message: The following text was amputated (get it?) from the article:
Note: For historical and cultural reasons, there are two articles on the male and female human prepuce, respectively. Please see the talk page for a discussion of this topic.
This article should only contain material about the prepuce which is common to both sexes.
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When I clicked on the female prepuce article, there was only the vestige of a stub there. Ironic, eh? --Uncle Ed 19:14, 18 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Excised material

message: Agree with this Oct 2014 suggestion. Klbrain (talk) 14:58, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Klbrain, I agree as well. I don't think there is a need to ask for input from WP:Anatomy in this case, but you can. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 15:02, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Great. I have also modified the Prepuce descriptions slightly to distinguish Foreskin and Penile sheath, based on the header sections of each page. Klbrain (talk) 15:06, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Klbrain, okay. And I removed the merge tag. Flyer22 Reborn (talk) 15:46, 9 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge in Preputial sheath
Talk:Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003

message: I highly doubt this'll pass. 1ne 05:45, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: With the advent of the 110th US Congress...
Talk:Hui people

message: Basic information to add to this article:  in which provinces of China they live, with a breakdown by approximate percentage of the total Hui population for each province. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 18:06, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  To add to article 

message: Hey all, I started editing part of the Ancestry subsection before realising much of the information contained in it is either duplicating other subsections or would be better located within them, and generally have come to the conclusion the whole article is pretty confusingly organised. I'm going to start reorganising aspects of it, initially to make the 'definition' and 'history' sections more relevant to their headings, as well as to try to keep things better organised within subsections. I'm not broadly well-read on the subject so I'll do my best not to change or remove text itself except where it's plainly redundant or I have actually been able to dig properly into the sources on them, and I'll go through in stages to try to make each aspect clear to any editors looking over the history. Initially I'm going to be aiming to reduce the size of the definition section, moving significant chunks of it to history, and moving history up to immediately follow definition, as well as some reorganisation within subsections of each. I am a bit torn on where to include 'Genetics' (though I'll be trying to consolidate most of 'ancestry' with it) but my plan for now is to move it to be within the History section. It might be more appropriate to give it its own section (or do something completely different!) so any feedback on its placement is appreciated. If anybody disagrees or has concerns with any of my decisions or what I've foreshadowed please let me know, it feels like a lot for somebody relatively inexperienced as an editor to bite off so I'm happy to have some help to chew! Chaste Krassley (talk) 08:42, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Hey, good on you! If you need any help, let me know. Remsense诉 09:24, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article organisation
Talk:Hand of Omega

message: I propose to merge Hand of Omega into Remembrance of the Daleks and re-direct his page to the relevant section of that article. This article is entirely related to a plot-device mentioned in that episode and no-where else, and with no notability separate to it. As such this is duplication. FOARP (talk) 15:56, 14 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: No response so redirecting as a WP:bold merger. FOARP (talk) 12:36, 26 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger Proposal
Talk:List of islands of Sweden

message: - Do we really want a comprehensive list? 
- I think that an island that is worth mentioning is also worth a note about its location. Otherwise there will numerous (read: hundreds of) Prästös, Björkös etc. with no useful information at all to those entries. Kosebamse 19:23 Feb 10, 2003 (UTC)
How many islands are there in total in Sweden? 72.71.5.157 07:43, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Nothing about that here or in Swedish article, but Finnish one says there are 221831 islands in Sweden. And, it also has a source. 82.141.118.6 (talk) 17:44, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Notes
Talk:Literature of Wales

message: I propose a 'move' to Literature in Wales - it makes more sense and we are dealing with writers of Welsh and English. The current "Welsh Literature" could easily be seen as Welsh-language literature. --Matt Lewis (talk) 14:51, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That seems reasonable to me. garik (talk) 16:17, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd support that proposal.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 23:54, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

text: I've now created this page as a disambiguation page, per the discussions here.  However, this page does need some expansion now, in order to give a brief overview and show the relationship between the literary traditions in the two languages (and other languages, such as Latin, as appropriate).  Over to others - I'm not qualified or sufficiently engaged to do that.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 19:06, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguate