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Talk:Strand, London/Archive 1

message: I didn't want to interfere, but surely Strand begins at Temple Bar and follows the curve of the river... It was the river road to Westminster originally, was it not?Wetman 09:21, 22 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: How did anyone ever get back? -- Ian Dalziel (talk) 14:33, 30 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Direction

message: I thought that the idea that Londinium was abandoned at the end of the Roman era was now trashed. Maybe an archaeologist might comment? Ludenwick was roughly at the site of Aldwych, so how can this connect city and that ...
*changed lineage to explicitly say City of London and Palace of Westminster
*still no mention either of the Temple, or of the Royal Courts of Justice. Both worth a mention.
*Oh, San Souci Theatre was in Leicester Place, owner had previous 'rooms' here used for musical entertainments. 
No time now, I shall return .... Kbthompson 15:21, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ludenwick 

message: Would you say "on the Strand" or "in the Strand"? Google has more hits for "in" but this article seems to prefer "on." I ask because it was just changed on the Savoy Hotel article. Rees11 (talk) 02:22, 17 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi - see the discussion above - the confusion appears to arise because 'strand' is a noun in its own right. My inclination would be to use what ever flows naturally in the particular sentence, rather than apply a consistent (but artificial) style that may occasionally trip up the reader. HTH Kbthompson (talk) 07:23, 17 April 2009 (UTC)

text: Historically, it was "in the Strand." But your confusion comes from the fact most addresses don't have the origin that the Strand does (i.e., as Kbthompson says, that it is a noun in its own right). One would never say a building is "in Smith Street" (say), but "on the Strand" is traditional (but never "on the Strand Street"). zafiroblue05 | Talk 18:56, 5 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "On" or "In"? 

message: What this article does not mention is that Strand was, and according the A-Z still is,  a district of London. MRSC (talk) 12:43, 4 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Erstwhile neighbourhood
Talk:Desert planet

message: This article survived a Vote for Deletion. The discussion can be found here. -Splash 16:18, 13 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Vote for Deletion

message: I've been thinking is a desert planet capable of sustaining life impossible? My view is that nothing could live on one because there is nothing to regenerate the oxygen. (note that the Dune series addressed this problem stating that there is plant life/fungal on the planet that fills this gap)
....
NO, life would not be impossible; there would be little photosynthesis, and it might take place slowly. The scarcity of plants would imply also the scarcity of their consumers. 
It would also be possible that the desert zone is the only one in which habitability is possible for complex life forms due to excessive heat in the tropics and excessive cold (glaciation?) in the polar regions. Meltwater from polar ice caps or water flowing from hyper-heated, but rainy equatorial zones that can support only simple heat-adapted life) might give some natural irrigation to some favored spots -- oases and galeria forests.  Such suggests a planet having harsher extremes of temperature than the Earth, either on the cold or hot side, with the congenial zones (as defined by temperature) for complex life existing entirely in desert areas.  
Worth noting -- the Earth during the Ice Age came close to being a desert planet due to the expansion of existing non-polar deserts and their appearance in places where they do not now exist Between the Scandinavian Ice Sheet and what passed as tropical non-desert vegetation were polar desert, steppe-tundra (few plants due to the cold and drought), cold steppe where one now finds the Mediterranean climate zone, semi-desert, the expanded Sahara, and semi-desert tropical steppe.  Meltwater from Alpine glaciers might have provided some oasis effect in such places as southern Germany and northern Italy... but that was about all that one would have found between modern-day Germany and modern-day Nigeria. Animal populations were much smaller then. --Paul from Michigan (talk) 04:35, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Impossible? 

message: Does Mars or Mercury or Venus qualify as real-life desert planets? 76.66.193.69 (talk) 15:04, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Real 

message: Right now, this article deals almost entirely with science fiction. I suggest that it be overhauled to resemble the page for ocean planet. I'll try, but I don't think I have quite the scientific knowledge necessary to properly write it. KnowitallWiki (talk) 19:31, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the main problem is that "desert planet" is mostly used informally. Without even a definition that's reasonably agreed upon by multiple sources, this article is going to remain in the twilight zone. Someone not using his real name (talk) 11:19, 10 February 2014 (UTC)

text: What kind of precipitation are we even talking about? It rains with sulfuric acid on Venus and with methane on Titan. Someone not using his real name (talk) 11:23, 10 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Making this article more scientific
Talk:Overachievement

message: From Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Overachievement:
From Cleanup: Overachievement is a 2-sentence sub stub, and if NPOV'd right now would end up as 1 sentence dict. def. (moved from Cleanup by SimonP)
*Keep.  --Daniel C. Boyer 15:28, 24 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed deletion - 2004 

message: Who is Catherine Raley, and why was her name considered relevant in reverse?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.169.19.121 (talk) 09:50, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question 

message: This article is rife with npov issues - seems extremely biased against high achievement in some sections (specifically, university students and workplace). This issue was apparently raised before based upon the talk page history. -- Seppi333 (talk) 17:07, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV 

message: — Assignment last updated by Jskalski (talk) 21:28, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Adult Development Fall 2023
Talk:New England Revolution

message: Hi- my goal has been to improve the overall quality/coverage for the Revolution. If anyone is interested in establishing a task force under Wikiproject football, let me know so we can organize efforts improve this article and others.
Also, I've created a userbox for Revolution fans! Insert  on your user page to use this template.
 Brindille1 (talk) 02:43, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I am interested! I think that's a good idea. I've been putting quite a bit of effort into sourcing the "history" section recently, and documenting seasons that were previously not called listed. I'm by no means done but I plan to continue to hunt for sources for claims and add more detail. EmperorQuingus (talk) 19:12, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interest in New England Revolution task force?
Talk:Tabula Rasa (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

message: The article states that 'tabula rasa' doesn't translate well..
Oddly enough, there exists a french expression stating 'faire table rase' - eventually accompanied with a sweeping gesture as if you were sweeping stuff off from a table - and which meaning is to indicate to start with anew a blank sheet. I'm quite convinced 'faire table rase' and the Latin expression 'tabula rasa' must somewhat be connected..
Ivan Scott Warren (talk) 16:08, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tabula Rasa - not translatable - French view 

message: Does anyone know if these people were actually given star billing? (And if they weren't, should be listed under "guest stars"?)
Geordie White as Vamp #1
Stephen Triplett as Vamp #2
David Franco as Vamp #3
Thanks!  -- TyrS  chatties  05:20, 26 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guest stars (?) 
Talk:Babylonian captivity of Judah

message: Why was this material moved from Babylonian captivity? That is the more familiar name for this subject. I find no discussion either here or at that other article why this change was made. -- llywrch 04:05, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: The page on Babylonian captivity confuses the topics between the Christian Papal "Babylonian captivity" and the Jewish Biblical one. The page on the Babylonian captivity is now basically a disambiguation page, why is that a problem? IZAK 08:53, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

text: I appreciate what you are saying. I have refined the opening sentence by emphasizing the words Babylonian captivity ONLY in the introduction as a way of making it specific. Many times on Wikipedia a name of a subject will be introduced as "so and so of so and so" even though it may not be the absolutely most commonly used name most of the time. In addition it also helps to differentiate from the "Babylonian captivity of the papacy", a major well-known chapter in Catholic history, which is refered to as such on the Babylonian captivity page itself which cites at least three major usages of the term, so having this one here on the Babylonian captivity (of Judah), should actually be helpful in the long run. IZAK 08:01, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Mare Moscoviense

message: Our article quotes Audouin Dollfus in a Nature article, who claimed that "Moscow" is a state of mind.   Was that a diplomatic compromise, or a plain joke?   If he was serious, we should link to the article Moscow (state of mind) (once we have written it). 
--Austrian (talk) 21:20, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I only know what is in the article, but Nature is a 100% reliable source, the highest level journal in natural sciences.--Ymblanter (talk) 21:42, 20 December 2015 (UTC)

text: I do not know, I am not an astronomer. We can attribute the statement to Dollfus explicitly in the article.--Ymblanter (talk) 08:32, 26 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  State of mind?
Talk:Desmond Bagley

message: Didn't he have an early novel set in Tahiti that wasn't published until after his death?  Is this one of the two books that the article said were published posthumously?
When I asked Google" the question they sent me back here.--SqueakBox 22:55, Feb 26, 2005 (UTC)
The 2 book published after his death were Night Of Error (1984) and Juggernaut (1985). Night Of Error is set in the Pacific Islands. Though I have not read the book in a number of years, I believe Tahiti is one of the islands used.
:One of Bagley's early novels, "Wyatt's Hurricane", does take place on a fictional Caribbean island, quite a bit like Cuba in that it has a US military base on it, although IIRC the fictional island may be divided into 2 nations. Perhaps this is the one you're thinking of, set on "Tahiti"?--Peter Knutsen 04:53, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Takehiko Inoue

message: Removed: This manga has received 35th Tezuka Manga Awards on 1988.
As far as I could find this award hadn't begun until 1997. Rmhermen 04:14, Jun 25, 2004 (UTC)
: That's the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize that started in 1997 -- there's a different Tezuka Award that started in 1971, which this probably is. However, till someone can find a citation, we shouldn't put it back in. —Quasirandom 22:46, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  First header 

message: Hello
Hello. Could someone please add a photo to Takehiko Inoue's article? I'm unable to do it myself. I suggest this photo to be used:
http://sites.psu.edu/partssy/wp-content/uploads/sites/33811/2016/03/Takehiko_Inoue.jpg  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Agnos890 (talk • contribs) 22:30, 14 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hello 
Talk:Luke Helder

message: I was wondering if anyone knew of a connection between Luke Helder and Bobby Sands. Currently it is implied by this sentence, "He was born on May 5, 1981, the day when convicted IRA terrorist Bobby Sands died on hunger strike in prison." Did Helder cite Sands as an influence or is this just a coincidence, in which case I think it should be removed. Benjamin Goldenberg 04:18, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I wanted to say it would be okay to add his writting to this database as a way to let people know more about him and where his words and inspiration come from.  Although at the time of these actions he was not in the proper frame of mind, he is a very knowledgeable and talented person with much to share with people.  I speak on his behalf when I say he would like his words to be spread with the general public.  Please be sure that you have the original writtens that have not been tampered with if you are to post them.
-Helder  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.208.215.220 (talk) 19:45, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thats nice but we'd need written permission from him directly that acknowledges he is releasing all of his writings into public domain. The Parsnip! 21:13, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Helder 
Talk:Yo Hitoto

message: Made some edits on this page ... mostly grammatical in nature.  Other changes:
* Removed her height ... seemed like unnecessary information since she is not unusually tall or short.
* Changed "Pekinese" to "Mandarin Chinese" ... although the term 北京語 is used in Japanese and I assume Chinese as well, I don't think we use the word Pekinese to refer to the dialect of Mandarin spoken in Beijing.
* Changed "Faculty of Environmental Information" to "Department of Environmental Studies" (a less accurate translation of 環境情報学部 but one that I think is more easily understood to English speakers.
* Changed romanization of 大家 to da-jia since the pronunciation in Japanese reflects that of Chinese.  I did the same for ポルカ, changing it to the English "polka."
* Removed "Yumenakaba" from the Edo Polka single title to match the Japanese language version of the page (I hope this is accurate).
* I added the name of her songs in kanji/kana.
* I added her most recent album.
I hope this helps! CES 05:17, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits 
Talk:Joseph Strauss (engineer)

message: The Golden Gate Bridge was the first construction site in the world that required workers to wear hard hats.  Can this be added to the article?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Thisnamestaken (talk • contribs) 08:19, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hard Hats 

message: This is Not the Joseph Strauss that wrote books about chiropractic issues. Those were actually written by a Chiropractor with the same name in the 1980s or 1990s 204.93.122.115 (talk) 20:18, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chiropractory Books
Talk:Shōjo manga

message: :A nitpick - shouldn't it be "most shōjo manga (Japanese girls' comics) were written by men?" as we are talking about the plural here? - 159.196.100.171 (talk) 23:33, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Corrected. Morgan695 (talk) 23:34, 3 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Did you know nomination

message: Should we make a list of shojo manga magazines to list on this page? lullabying (talk) 22:14, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: My gut reaction is to say no, per WP:NOTDATABASE and the fact that it's just duplicating information that already lives in a more searchable format on List of manga magazines. The list that was formerly on the page was also entirely uncited, and not that this is a reason to not include it, but restoring it would require a lot of banal referencing work that I'm not sure is worth the payoff. Morgan695 (talk) 23:04, 5 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Magazines 

message: A ton of biblio links to books that were really journals and mis-typed stuff like that, tried to find DOIs for the journals and such.   All the errors from people using "work=" in templates are gone now.  I deleted one biblio item, I'm considering deleting the french language books from there too since they don't really add much on the English wiki.  French isn't a commonly spoken language in the US (It's not super common in Canada where it's an official language) but getting the books would be even more difficult assuming you could read them.  I honestly don't care about manga (although I care about anything Marvel comics has or will put out far less by default) so if I broke something and you revert the whole change...  oh well.  The citation style on the inlines is really distracting (i.e. the gigantic references table) given how few actual refs there actually are but I'm not touching that. A Shortfall Of Gravitas (talk) 08:36, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Just fixed
Talk:William Jefferson Blythe Jr.

message: The article is "William Jefferson Blythe, Jr.". The article says "William Jefferson Blythe II". That is wrong, please change it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.90.16.81 (talk) 01:39, 27 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jr. or II 
Talk:Salvino D'Armati

message: Salvino D'Armate survived vfd. See: talk:Salvino D'Armate/Delete -- Wile E. Heresiarch 06:13, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

message: I have deleted the material on this page because the claim that eyeglasses were invented by Salvino D'Armate of Florence has been exposed as a hoax.  The evidence will be found in:
(1)  Edward Rosen (1956) "The invention of eyeglasses," Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, volume 11, pages 13-46 (part 1) and 183-218 (part 2).  
(2)  Vincent Ilardi, Renaissance Vision from Spectacles to Telescopes (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:  American Philosophical Society, 2007), pages 13-18.
Cwkmail (talk) 07:45, 2 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Delete this page 

message: As a very new contributor, it seems to me that this page contains very important information that counters and corrects a widely held belief that Salvino D'Armate invented eyeglasses; and gives some interesting background history of how that original mistaken belief may have come about. The page seems to serve a useful purpose. It may be on the boundary of being "encyclopedic" - including someone for what they did not do - but is still useful to vistors seeking information. I would not delete it (but I'm more than happy to be told I'm wrong by someone more knowledgeable). Certainly, if someone searches for "Salvino D'Armate," all (or most) of the information in this page should be easily found.  MyrtleDene (talk) 11:58, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: A notable hoax or fraud is still notable. It's proper for us to cover it.--Srleffler (talk) 02:21, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Lol. Words like hoax mustn't be used on wikipedia. I think this case can't be resolved on the talk page. We many need take here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_noticeboard/Incidents  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Aresmobil8890lk (talk • contribs) 13:40, 29 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Nonsense. We have reliable sources that say that the claims of invention are a hoax. One of your sources is not a reliable source, and the other doesn't even seem to mention eyeglasses or D'Armati. To be of any use, a source claiming that D'Armati invented eyeglasses would have to be a reliable source, and would have to specifically address the published work that says that D'Armati's claimed invention was a hoax. A source that does not do this is of no value here.--Srleffler (talk) 02:03, 30 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Don't delete this page
Talk:Array slicing

message: Array slicing survived Wikipedia:VFD. See: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Array slicing -- Wile E. Heresiarch 06:27, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)

message: This section is still wrong. The code in the example is Fortran 77, not Fortran 66 which did not let you do (*) dimensions or * default formats or PARAMETER statements. I'd move that example to the F77 section and put in something that used the standard DIMENSION VEC(1) for variable length arguments. John L (talk) 18:46, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Slices in Fortran 66
Talk:Keto–enol tautomerism

message: As revealed by an Internet search, there is a marked difference in the German and English versions of the ER. The essential differences are 
* German: organic chemical compounds bearing more than one alcohol group on a carbon atom are not stable , translated from this typical example of "Erlenmeyer-Regel" in German lit.; geminal diols tend to convert to a carbonyl group, giving off a water molecule in the process. , Translation of "Erlenmeyer-Regel" from German WP.
* English: all alcohols in which the hydroxyl group is attached directly to a double-bonded carbon atom become aldehydes or ketones.
A similar discussion entry appears in the German WP.
Probably need an original source (horse's mouth, i.e. notes) to get this resolved. -- Canarris 11:12, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Erlenmeyer Rule (ER) in German 

message: Keto-enol tautomerism survived vfd. See: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Keto-enol tautomerism -- Wile E. Heresiarch 06:31, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge from [[Erlenmeyer Rule]] 

message: Is this last part of the intro really intro material?
"However, it is reported that in the case of vinyl alcohol, formation of a stabilized enol form can be accomplished by controlling the water concentration in the system and utilizing the kinetic favorability of the deuterium produced kinetic isotope effect (kH+/kD+ = 4.75, kH2O/kD2O = 12). Deuterium stabilization can be accomplished through hydrolysis of a ketene precursor in the presence of a slight stoichiometric excess of heavy water (D2O). Studies show that the tautomerization process is significantly inhibited at ambient temperatures ( kt ≈ 10−6 M/s), and the half life of the enol form can easily be increased to t1/2 = 42 minutes for first order hydrolysis kinetics."
173.25.54.191 (talk) 20:56, 28 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  INTRO
Talk:Extreme performance art

message: Extreme performance art survived vfd. See: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Extreme Performance -- Wile E. Heresiarch 07:11, 25 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: VfD
Talk:Ion N. Petrovici

message: The place where he was born: a city, a province, what?
By the way, could you say more about some of his colleagues, or make articles about them? The Romanian medical system is an enduring interest for me (or shall become so)!.
Also what is the thing with central hemispheres, just before language?
EuropracBHIT 04:58, 27 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Issues arising from cleanup
Talk:Port Klang

message: Just wondering if this article is about the ports at Port Klang or is it about the settlement/town called Port Klang? Or both? Or is it about the port called Port Klang (if it still exists)? Because if it is about the town, then we would need the relevant infobox, etc. I think it should be about the town of Port Klang, just like Port Moresby or Port-au-Prince which are cities with the word "port" in it. And of course, we may include a sizable section about the shipping port and its history. Furthermore, there are separate articles already about the ports at Port Klang namely Westport, Northport, etc. ќמшמφטтгמtorque 16:52, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay. So this article will be about the settlement/town of Port Klang. Regarding the article about the port, i think the existing articles of West Port, Malaysia, Southpoint, Malaysia and Northport, Malaysia would suffice? Another thing: i think that the Port Klang should be a disambiguation page with links to Port Klang (town), Port Klang Authority and to the 3 ports at Port Klang. I think most people who types "port klang" in the searchbox are more interested to know about the port(s) instead of the town. This means that we may need to rename this article. Any comments? ќמшמφטтгמtorque 11:12, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  the ports in klang 

message: Why is the words 'Port Swettenham' bolded? BejinhanTalk  13:17, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Very, very late responding, I know, but: Because it is the target of a redirect, per WP:BOLD. --Kent G. Budge (talk) 16:56, 4 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Port Swettenham 