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Talk:False balance

message: This piece reads like a high school essay of dubious quality, marked by many vaguely expressed opinions and few concrete facts,  Is it possible to clean it up?  Is it worth cleaning it up?  Is anybody watching this page? --TS 18:17, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think so. I'm reading up on deletion policy right now. Not that I'm unsympathetic to the concept but it appears to be a neologism. Abbenm (talk) 02:22, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree.  This piece is less an exposition of false balance than it is a piece on the 'truth' of anthropogenic global warming.  Even the link to 'scientific consensus' is laughable on the basis that science either is or is not; consensus does not make inconclusive data and results any more valid or make it so.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.9.236.190 (talk) 16:43, 19 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Zombie article/essay

message: Numerous examples on the internet and journalism use the term "False Equivalence" for precisely this topic.http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/03/npr-tackles-false-equivalence/253712/http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/listeningpost/2013/10/obamacare-reporting-distorting-2013101271333346740.html At the moment, the term "False equivalence" only leads to a mathematical topic. Perhaps a synonym/disambiguation should be added? Ghostkeeper (talk) 20:31, 15 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Before realizing there was this article on False Balance I expanded the False Equivalance article. In the meantime I've added cross-links but I guess there is a case to be made for merging the two (although the mathematical piece should not be part of any such merger). The Seventh Taylor (talk) 03:43, 18 November 2013 (UTC)

text: The False Equivalence article states in the end: "It should not be confused with false balance – the media phenomenon of presenting two sides of an argument equally in disregard of the merit or evidence on a subject (a form of argument to moderation).". Jjk seems to make it clear in the page history (of False Equivalence) that they're not the same.https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=False_equivalence&oldid=608981860 It would be nice if the False balance article didn't start of with "False balance, also referred to as false equivalence," because that's confusing. seriema (talk) 06:52, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Synonym: False Equivalence 

message: The headline makes a statement so weak that it is unsurprising that there is a an overwhelming consensus. That something exists does not say whether it is interesting, important, or urgent. I don't know how to get rid of this tomfoolery statement of the obvious, or at least rephrase it so that it actually means something informative. Greglocock (talk) 21:29, 21 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:   in fact there is an [[Scientific consensus about global warming|overwhelming scientific consensus]] that anthropogenic global warming exists.
Talk:Castries

message: Isn't this page way too broad?  i think most of the content here should be in the main Santa Lucia page, since it's not specifically about the city or quarter of Castries  --Doviende 04:45, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: This is probably the population of Castries Quarter rather than the city of Castries.--Vivenot 10:57, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: old comments from 2005 on scope

message: Why aren't the images on commons? Aaker 10:44, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Because they were not uploaded there. The licenses are perfectly legitimate for WP use though. Chensiyuan 14:45, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The images 

message: The first sentence of the second paragraph of this article starts out with "Castries is in a flood gut". I did a quick Google search to find out what a "flood gut" is, but half of the results I got were websites quoting this article (or it's source) verbatim. The rest were unrelated. It seems that the internet, at large, doesn't know what a flood gut is. So my question is, what exactly is a flood gut? Or, what should the sentence really say? KelvinJT (talk) 04:26, 27 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll second this point, which also jumped out at me, and I did the same search, which lead me to this talk page. Rick (talk) 19:19, 13 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is a flood gut or what should it be changed to? 

message: The text previously said that La Carénage was renamed Castries in 1756. This is possible, Castries having recently arrived in St Lucia, and this is still the date given in the article about him.
The text now says the renaming took place in 1785. That seems highly unlikely, because the English had captured St Lucia -- and this harbour and fort in particular -- from the French in 1778, and retained it from then on, and are unlikely to have wanted the place to be renamed in honour of a French soldier. Is this date really given in the cited source? Andrew Dalby 17:00, 6 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of renaming
Talk:Marine life of New York–New Jersey Harbor Estuary

message: From Geography of NY Harbor talk: My feeling is that the Marine life of NY Harbor should be renamed Environment and Ecology of NY Harbor. This would then be an ideal place for tides, since that is a big part of estuaries.
additionally: This only includes multicell fauna and no flora. Since the environment is constantly changing, it would be good discuss the contributing factors in the same place, namely the physical oceanography and urban stressors.rmo13 00:46, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Retitle
Talk:Rotation matrix

message: Can't find this section anymore. I referred heavily to it 3 years ago. Thewriter006 (talk) 16:10, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: This article never said much about that 3 years ago: see for yourself. You may be thinking of the deleted article 2 × 2 real matrices (deletion discussion from February 2021) which was linked from there. –jacobolus (t) 18:28, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

text: To be honest that deletion decision seems pretty weak. The article (copy via the wayback machine) arguably did a poor job of contextualizing and sourcing all of its content, and was missing some of the more basic material that it should include, but nothing there was remotely "original research". Much more of that type of content – explaining various specific geometrical interpretations and uses of a common algebraic object – should be added to Wikipedia, as it can be very helpful for readers. –jacobolus (t) 19:19, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  What happened to Complex planes in M(2,ℝ) ? 

message: Pure polarization states of light can be represented as complex 2d vectors corresponding to points on the Poincare sphere, and rotations along the surface of this sphere can be represented by complex 2x2 matrices. I find it remarkable that a point in "3D" (according to this article) can be represented by a complex 2d vector. I don't fully understand how making the vector complex produces the holonomy of a sphere, but it seems like a rather elegant way of encoding the rotation that should be included in this article. 162.246.139.210 (talk) 19:41, 10 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rotations as complex 2x2 matrices 

message: > (Bar-Itzhack 2000) (Note: formulation of the cited article is post-multiplied, works with row vectors).
Unless I misread the matrix, the matrix in question is symmetric, and so should have left and right eigenvectors that are the same (aside from the transpose, of course). 2600:1700:3D2D:8810:5CCE:ABD5:83C0:8045 (talk) 22:28, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Symmetric Matrix Eigenvectors 

message: This article contains a number of full-stops and commas at the end of the equations. To me the full-stops look like a mistake in the equation. I would be inclined to either, remove them all together, or at least move them outside of the <math> tag. 217.28.11.247 (talk) 08:42, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Please, don't do that, as this goes against MOS:MATH#PUNC. D.Lazard (talk) 09:00, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Full-stops after equations
Talk:Dockweiler State Beach

message: I added some information about what I feel makes Dockweiler such an interesting beach to visit.  Unfortunately, some of it seems a bit "unprofessional" if not badly written, but it's the only thing that comes to mind.  I would also add the part about the water treatment plant, plus power generating station, but that might be too over-the-top...I think.
In any event, if anyone else who has been to DSB wants to add their observations in a NPOV fashion, or clean up my shoddy additions, feel free! --Sirimiri 05:08, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Uniqueness of DSB
Talk:28 Days (band)

message: Spelling error corrected and sentence changed to NPOV ( 28D had problems with drumemrs departing since Scott Murray died in 2001, but now they have got a great drummer (Adrian).) Serrin 05:34, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Feel free to do it then!  -- Chuq 12:26, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Commentary

message: I've suggested Upstyledown be merged to here, the album is not notable enough to have it's own article and will never be more than a stub.
Elomis 06:33, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: I'm making the changes now. comment was added by Ajones47 19:41, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: 28 Days has Broken Up
Talk:Gamble and Huff

message: I would propose expanding this article to include influences as a separate entry, and maybe include a discography of songs that were based on the Gamble/Huff "sound"... "It Only Takes A Minute" by Tavares is one example... 74.249.4.45 14:52, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Influences?
Talk:Comparison of IRC clients

message: The table under "Release history" has an error I can't figure out. It's pretty visible. Would someone better versed in this take a look? Thanks. Jessicapierce (talk) 17:27, 29 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: (Resolved.) Jessicapierce (talk) 17:49, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken table 

message: Hello,
It seems strange to be linking to Wikipedia:Verifiability in the lead of this article; therefore, I'm going to remove that link. There's also a link to someone's personal website in the listespecially considering no other item in the list has an external link, I'm going to remove that too. Please let me know if you object to either of these changes here. Thanks, DesertPipeline (talk) 11:58, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Linking to project-space in an article (plus external link) 

message: ircii had the original xdcc script authored by some idiot whose name slips me 158.59.127.130 (talk) 20:03, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  xdcc in ircii 

message: Adiirc irc-client is missing from the page, here's the homepage of the client: https://www.adiirc.com/ . Earg (talk) 22:55, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Adiirc is not missing, it fails the selection criteria for inclusion. For starters, it has no own article on the English-language Wikipedia. Without such article, it can not be included. Sorry. The Banner talk 23:23, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adiirc irc-client missing from the page
Talk:Bring 'Em In (Mando Diao album)

message: While more detailed info regarding Bring 'Em In is most welcome, I'd say that the story of all the different releases is better summarized in the main article, not least because they don't seem to be notable on their own. So I went ahead with a merge. Happy edidting! --Tikiwont 10:06, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I am adding the singles and albums as separate entries to create a chronological Mando Diao discography, just like most popular bands on Wikipedia have. I don't agree that singles and albums should be summarized in one article. Singles are a separate entity to albums all together and should be classed as such. That's my two cents.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by MarJtyn (talk • contribs) 14:18, 2 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mando Diao album/singles dispute
Talk:Margate, Tasmania

message: Perhaps it would be better to have more of an encylopaedic entry for this page. Such as, the history of the town, instead of what schools and services it has. Just a thought.Caleb Osment. 06:16, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree it's time for a big tidy.Knobbly (talk) 10:11, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs to be wikified? 
Talk:Wiyot

message: Please cite your sources. I'm trying to figure out how to repair this page back to a state where the few references that are cited are cited correctly without undoing other useful edits. I suppose I'm going to revert back to the 23:56, 18 November 2006 verion by Mike Dillon and then try to recreate the sections and categories that were added later by others. Vampyrecat 06:42, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: THE NORTH COAST: A Kayak Adventure, GOING HOME AGAIN, San Francisco Chronicle, Paul McHugh, September 20, 2005 
:Thank you for the suggestion, the article has been cited.  Ellin Beltz (talk) 19:04, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: An article to use as source

message: There seems to be some disagreement about the phrasing of the sentence discussing how the influx of Europeans affected the Wiyot. Perhaps we should discuss it here. I am planning to put back in the reference to the Spanish American war, and try to make the point of view more neutral. Vampyrecat (talk) 02:43, 6 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Introduction and settlement by Europeans 

message: I made several edits to the page today, including: 
*checking all the citations and providing information and citation templates where needed.
*removed "southwesternmost" as the Wiyot geographical limit of Algic languages, because as eastern Algics (e.g. Potawatomi) occurred much further south than Wiyots.
*added Josiah Gregg information & citation.
*added "citation needed" to statement...  "The resolution of the Mexican-American War..."
*fixed date & added citation for establishment of Fort Humboldt, previous date was uncited and in error.
*fixed statement which implied Gunther bought the entire island which is not supported in the citation.
*fixed two sentences beginning with "The day before the massacre, 25 February,..." as the prior edit had lost the citation due to editing.
*removed a "see also" which was adequately linked without the separate line at the end of the paragraph.
*removed wikilink and individual names due to lack of citations and notability issues.
There is still much to be done to this article (see comments above), but progress is being made.  Ellin Beltz (talk) 19:04, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  December 2013 

message: To add to this article: the recent repatriation of Wiyot remains. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jan/28/wiyot-tribe-remains-returned-california-ucb 173.88.246.138 (talk) 19:48, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: To add to article
Talk:The Handsome Family

message: The article does describe the Handsome Family live show experience very well. --Diablorex 03:12, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  regarding live shows 

message: I'm not sure of the rights and wrongs of the speedy deletion of this article as a copyvio but I have rewritten it from scratch. I'm planning to expand it but in the meantime if anyone else wants to chip in, the following sources may be useful: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , .--Michig (talk) 19:25, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: What was the violation?  Weasel Fetlocks (talk) 17:08, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently the old article was 'blatant copyright violation', though there's no indication in the deletion log of the source (which is always useful to record as it can point to a useful source if nothing else). I came here and found that it had been deleted. If someone had come along and cut and pasted text into the article from elsewhere, I suspect that the article could have just been reverted to an earlier version, but maybe not. These things happen.--Michig (talk) 19:45, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article recreated
Talk:Chan Wah-shun

message: There are no dates in this article.  When did it happen? RJFJR 15:20, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: When

message: The start of the article says "Chan Wah-shun (c. 1849 – 1905)", which is corroborated by the infobox to the right. However, under 'Background' it is said that "Chan died of illness in 1913 and was buried there."
Which date of death should a reader rely on? 1905 or 1913? 
Jaysee101 (talk) 13:53, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  2 different dates of death?
Talk:New York City Police Department Medal of Honor

message: Doesn't this medal have an image of Teddy Roosevelt in it, as he was the city's first police commissioner? -unsigned by User:Matthew238
:No, it's the NYPD Purple Shield that has an image of Roosevelt. (He technically was not the first commissioner, by the way.)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nelamm (talk • contribs) 10:50, 7 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: The picture on this page comes from the NYPD Homepage.  I dont know about the older versions of the medal. -Husnock 15:58, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Allouis longwave transmitter

message: Does anyone have a definition for a "reusen" aerial. No particular help on the internet and I can't find any reference in 2 paper dictionaries. It would be good to have a new page on this too. Chris 07:30, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Definitions?

message: I have removed the request-for-copyedit notice, having done some work aimed at improving the English style, grammar, etc. of this article (which appears to be based on a German-language original). I removed the first reference to "Reusen aerials", as I couldn't make sense of it. Article could do with further attention from a radio-transmission specialist. Note (as I have discovered, since doing the work above) that there is a far worse chunk of "English" at the article Allouis (the village) which is probably the (machine-translated?) ex-German original text of this article. It needs moving from there and merging with this article. -- Picapica 18:25, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks - much clearer now. Chris 23:12, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Just to know: how it is based on a German article, and it's a French article about a small French village? It's weird.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:E35:8A8D:FE80:34C9:26C4:EFE0:5288 (talk) 21:13, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: "Clean-up"
Talk:Epic Pooh

message: If he wrote the article in 1978, and republished it in 1987, how could he write anything about J. K. Rowling? --Boxinaboxinabox 08:41, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: new revision —The preceding unsigned comment was added by LamontCranston (talk • contribs) 06:48, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  J. K. Rowling 

message: I assume these are direct quotes
<quote>
...are successful. It is the tone of Warwick Deepings Sorrell and Son, of John Steinbeck at his worst, or, in a more sophisticated form... and from the revised version ..are successful. It is the tone of many forgotten British and American bestsellers, well-remembered children's books, like The Wind in the Willows, you often hear it in regional fiction addressed to a local audience, or, in a more sophisticated form...
</quote>
but they are not placed in quotation marks, rather appearing in italic.  Warwick Deepings needs an apostrophe (Deeping's) or a note that it is incorrect in the origial [sic].  The truncation of the quotes seems odd, but the use of italics instead of quotes means that the titles can't be italicized as they should (as in the revised original, anyway), instead being reverse italicized.  
I will make the changes, but the original version needs to be checked for the possessive and properly cited.  It would look better as block quotes since they are meant to be compared, but that violates most block quote guidelines since the quotes are only a couple of lines long. --Moretz (talk) 13:57, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I added those quite a long time ago and wasn't too sure how much quoting would be considered fair use. OF course it would be permissible to use the entire paragraph from the original and the revision. It may be a good idea to compare both paragraphs as almost the entire section between "It is the tone..." and "...it contains little wit and much whimsy." are different. Let me know and I can copy the section from the book, and yep it was supposed to be Deeping's. Enter CBW, waits for audience applause, not a sausage. 04:45, 15 June 2010 (UTC)

text: I have just read the "Revisions" section four times and haven't a clue what it means. Tigerboy1966  20:09, 28 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  direct quotes 

message: If this is just an article in a collection, shouldn't it be quotated rather than italicized? 75.201.145.204 (talk) 03:38, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Italics 

message: I don't think this is a sentence: "As an example, from the original "... are successful. It is the tone of Warwick Deeping's Sorrell and Son, of John Steinbeck at his worst, or, in a more sophisticated form..."[1] and from the revised version "... are successful. It is the tone of many forgotten British and American bestsellers, well-remembered children's books, like The Wind in the Willows, you often hear it in regional fiction addressed to a local audience, or, in a more sophisticated form..."[2]" SharkD  Talk  02:23, 27 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammar
Talk:Earldom of Orkney

message: I started this entry as it was presented as a request in the commons. I will add as much information as I can when I have time (very soon, I hope) to do so. I encourage others to also add information. I apologize that I have not even began the Scottish era of the Earldom, which I know is what most people are probably interested in.
--Mike 07:56, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: There's already a (brief) article at Earl of Orkney - this content ought to be merged into there. sjorford #£@%&$?! 08:40, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't oppose the merge of these, but would want someone other than myself to make this call. After all, someone posted a request for this article. --Mike 09:12, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

text: No, I disagree. The Earl of Orkney is simply the person who was the ruler of earldom, and we need an article on the actually territory. Neutralitytalk 20:34, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

text: The article about the territory should be, and seems to be, under title Orkney Islands. Earl of Orkney deals also with the position of the earl. This page is redundant. Finlandais 14:03, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: It seems to me that having two very similar articles can only be confusing for readers and may well lead to some info being duplicated or missed. I strongly propose a merge.Abtract 19:53, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: To avoid duplicating the discussion, I suggets you put your comments on Talk:Earl of Orkney and not here.Abtract 22:49, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge discussion

message: See Earl of Orkney talk page per the above.  Ben MacDui 16:26, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal
Talk:André Neher

message: Histoire biblique du peuple d'Israël (1962; Biblical history of the people of Israel) — by André Neher and Renée Neher is one of the few works of scholarly biblical history published in modern times that starts with the premise that biblical history and chronology are absolutely true and thus normative for the history of the Ancient Near East. This work is mentioned by Ferdinand Berthoud in his paper on Heinrich Bullinger. DFH 20:47, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biblical history 

message: Could we add tab "biography"? MichaD306 (talk) 08:12, 1 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add Biography