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Talk:Slowpoke (Pokémon)

message: Brace for vandalism! —Preceding unsigned comment added by ThisIsRealPuma (talk • contribs) 11:45, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed.  I am working on this page now, restoring the damage done and improving the content and sourcing. Colonel Warden (talk) 17:58, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Vandalism

message: is the 118 DESUs necessary?i haven't watched pokemon in a long time,dont remember that much desus. Adaobi YELL!!done 10:52, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You can never have too much DESU. Snarfies 02:15, 25 July 2007 (UTC)

text: It's usually because the meme isn't popular enough to warrant it; for benchmarks see All Your Base Are Belong To Us or Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny. -Jeske (v^_^v) 23:57, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: DESU

message: I have been working on this article over the past few weeks but had to suspend activities due to TTN's disruptive edits and the consequent Arbcom case in which he has been warned off.  Urutapu seems to have picked up his baton and dismissive attitude:  he calls for discussion but then fails to discuss.  I have discussed this article before as you can see above but I cannot see any discussion points from Urutapu or TTN.
For Urutapu's benefit, the reference to The Economist refers to a recent detailed article in which they said that Wikipedia had detailed articles on many hundreds of Pokemon.  Its many readers might form a poor impression of our project if they checked and found that this was apparently not so.  I plan to remedy this and restore our reputation. Colonel Warden (talk) 15:41, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Content
Talk:Sand Hill Road

message: Under the category of History of Sand Hill Road your explanation for the final approval of the road's widening is wrong.  As a City of Menlo Park Council member in 2001, the year the road was approved for widening I think I have a correct observation of what happened.  True the first pass by Stanford University to widen the road was contested by Menlo Park as our residents were worried about the increased traffic, noise and polution.  Howver, not mentioned in your description was the fact that Stanford University was asking for reimbursement from the City of Menlo Park of up to $1.5 million dollars for the road work to be completed in the jurisdiction of Menlo Park.  In addition, there were engineering charges of an additional $500,000.  After several years of negotiation between the Council and Stanford University all costs were borne by the University.  This fact had a large effect on the 3-2 vote in favor of completing the roadway.  In addition, there were a number of environmental factors added to the original design such as sound walls to buffer close in residential properties and landscpae plantings to visually buffer the impact.  The Stanford Golf Course was also reconfigured and a pedestrian foot bridge was realigned.  Going back to your original statement does not do justice to what really happened.  I would hope you would correct your statement in this regard.  
Chuck Kinney
Moved comment from article page to discussion page.
Ajhendel (talk) 17:34, 2 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comment from City of Menlo Park Council Member 

message: *Sorry, I thought there is an article in German, but German VC is a little bit on the dark side of the moon. I will try my best, to translate it and get it into the german Wikipedia in the next days, but it is not as easy as in the US ;) entrepreneurship has to cross the bridge of "relevance" ^^ --Martin17:55, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Link on German Article

message: The only comparison in the lead that appears to be cited to a good source is the comparison to Wall Street. I propose to delete the rest.
Also, the correct term for the industry is venture capital, not venture capitalism.  
Any objections? Coolcaesar (talk) 20:02, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Hearing none, I fixed the lead. --Coolcaesar (talk) 20:47, 10 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposing to remove unsourced/poorly sourced comparisons and to fix terminology
Talk:Edina, Missouri

message: Wow, i almost threw up after seeing this page.  Honestly, it looks like some 4th graded copy and pasted their report about their hometown into wikipedia, and then added a few bold headings to make it look legit.  This article needs some serious, SERIOUS cleaning up.  I wish i had more time but i am walking out the door right now, so will not have a chance to begin until tomorrow.  Thanks, and godspeed to anyone who reads this.--Gephart 02:41, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Clean Up
Talk:Portable Distributed Objects

message: This article seems to be horribly biased to me, and inaccurate as well:
* It seems to be claiming that Objective C is a naturally superior language to anything else, and that because PDO was written in Objective C it is substantially better.
* The claim that PDO was ignored because it didn't work with C++ and everyone ignored anything that didn't use C++ even if it was "better" is laughable
* It seems to take every opportunity possible to take a swipe at MS's COM, OLE and DCOM technologies, which is described as having "limited functionality" (without source).  It also seems to get the history of COM wrong; COM was not evolved from OLE, but written as a basis for a new implementation of OLE (OLE2).
* The description of CORBA as being larger and requiring more code can probably be substantiated, but needs a source.
Also needs substantial cleanup work by somebody familiar with the subject.  Text like "At the time PDO was [...]" with no indication of what time is being discussed. JulesH 18:57, 17 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Some of this just needs to be stated better.  Objective C is a has a minimalist object model, and as such it is simple to make simple and easily extensible distributed object implementations.  Whether any of this is desirable and well how such features work is something else that might be measured by different metrics depending on the context.  The claim that adoption of distributed object techologies was influenced by the languages used in available implementations seems sound but needs to be linked at least to solid product references from that time.  In retrospect it does seem pretty clear that C++ ended up in more commercially available object oriented software than Objective-C. -- M0llusk 19:43, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Horribly biased article
Talk:National Basketball League (United States)

message: Section 1 History begins with a contradiction. Previously independent teams in 1937? or merely a name change for the MBC established 1935? 
Robert W. Peterson (writer) covers the maybe-predecessor Midwest Basketball Conference in Cages to Jump Shots: Pro Basketball's Early Years (U Nebraska, 1990, ), chapter 9, "Seeds of the NBA", pp. 124–25 (Google Books).
--P64 (talk) 01:37, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Midwest Basketball Conference 

message: Why nationalistic nationalized? Do you even know what a nation is, a race?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.174.114.43 (talk) 12:45, 12 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why nationalistic nationalized? Do you even know what a nation is, a race? 

message: The redirect National Basketball League (United States has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached.  Utopes (talk / cont) 06:48, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "[[:National Basketball League (United States]]" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:Borandukht

message: Her name is simply spelled as "Boran" (or "Buran") on all her silver drachma, as well as on her special issue gold coinage where she is shown in a frontal pose. For instance one can look up any book on Sasanian numismatics like Göbl. I have cited publications of Dr. Daryaee. Therefore this is what she was called in her lifetime.
"B" and "P" look entirely different in Pahlavi, so her actual name could NOT have possibly been "Poran". That is something that simply appeared in latterday, possibly post-Islamic works (such as Shahnameh). Borandokht (بوراندخت) appears mostly in modern Persian literature, as far as I am aware of.
Encyclopedia Iranica uses Boran (as do many major publications – books of Dr. Farrokh, for instance). So I am moving the page to Boran which is more elegant and more accurate.--Grinevitski (talk) 13:05, 8 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name
Talk:General Motors P platform

message: I have a period Wheels magazine which refers to the Isuzus as GM R-cars. Thoughts? Stombs 02:57, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: That would seem correct. This should probably be split accordingly.  ⊂| Mr.choppers |⊃  (talk) 08:40, 25 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: P or R?
Talk:QuickDraw GX

message: “Out of the text management architecture came the TrueType Specification and out of the color management architecture came the ICC International Color Consortium specification.” GX extended the capabilites of TrueType, but it existed (and was specified) earlier, so that seems to be bogus. I was under the impression theat ColorSync was seperate in origin to GX, but I’m prepared to be corrected on that. -Ahruman 17:42, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Me too actually, this needs to be explored. Maury 15:18, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Questionable assertions 

message: In the statement:
:Cary Clark was the architect and technical lead. He was an early member of Rocket Science and WebTV.
To what does "Rocket Science" refer? — The Storm Surfer 20:10, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Rocket Science" 

message: Everything in this section is either wrong or irrelevant, but I'm hesitant to simply nuke it outright. The PostScript comments are probably worth saving. KenshinWithNoise 20:18, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Problems With QuickDraw" 

message: Hi, David Van Brink here (one of Skia's original coders). It's a pretty good recap! Not sure if the side-commentary on the management style endemic to Apple at that period is appropriate... but it sure is accurate. (And yes, "skia" was the original (code) name of the package. skiaShape and skiaStyle, taken from skiagram, a shadow puppet or drawing I think, since skia used outlines for everything. The name survived as the name of a font.)
Polyomino (talk) 20:01, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  looks good 
Talk:Amortization (accounting)

message: "In business, amortization refers to spreading payments over multiple periods." 
Not when applied to amortization of assets –– no payments are involved.  I will think of a better form of words.
Toby64 (talk) 17:05, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: This definition doesn't work

message: ɳÜ
Something is very wrong here. The first formula has no equals sign and no variable fo
This article is very technical.  Please try to add more clarification. --65.170.158.66 14:07, 13 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Wrong

message: There's a saying: "Anything is possible when you don't know what you're talking about." In that sense, part of learning is limiting an amorphous cloud of effectively limitless possibilities to a functioning structure limited only to what is or what could be useful. I admit, I looked this article up because I don't know what I'm talking about, but that's what the article's for: people who don't know what they're talking about look it up and learn something. Amortization is a human institution, and, being so, is subject to whatever rules humans apply to it, so, unlike a physical body, it can have pretty much any feature whatsoever. This leaves a great opening for confusion among the uneducated.
I've noticed something that seems confusing to my lay sensibilities: the article begins: "In business, amortization is the distribution of a single lump-sum cash flow into many smaller cash flow installments[…]" It strikes me that, by definition, a single lump-sum cash flow can't be distributed into smaller installments. If it is a cash flow, then the cash is flowing, and if it is a single lump-sum, cash flows only once; as soon as cash starts flowing, it stops flowing instantaneously or at most as long as it takes to process the one transaction. Defining it as "the distribution of a single lump-sum cash flow into many smaller cash flow installments" reads a little like "to drink is to remove liquid from the empty, filled glass."
Should it be worded something like, "the distribution of what would otherwise be a single lump-sum cash flow into many smaller cash flow installments"? You know what I mean?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by DTM (talk • contribs) 17:34, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: , thanks for pointing out the problem. - Fayenatic (talk) 12:59, 18 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: I don't mean to quibble, but...
Talk:Repair permissions

message: Wasn't this a separate utility in Mac OS X 10.1? I believe it was called "Repair Privileges". I think this article could mention that as a historical fact and perhaps link to OS X 10.1. 58.107.191.210 08:32, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The following external links look more suitable to be embedded as inline citations.  WLU (t) (c) Wikipedia's rules:simple/complex 11:09, 5 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Embed as inline citations 

message: There is no real reference to how permission repairs are conducted in El Capitan.  There remain a number of situations in which it is appropriate to command a permission repair, even with the system integrity protection running.
The syntax for a repair (as before, there is no real point to running a 'verify' alone in any Mac OS X permissions-repair utility) is as follows:  From a Terminal window, enter 
sudo /usr/libexec/repair_packages --repair --standard-pkgs /
to perform permissions repair on the root.  Instead of the last backslash, you can specify
-- volume PATH 
(where you specify the full path to the volume involved) if you want to repair permissions on a particular device that has a bootable copy of OD X installed on it. e.g. if you are troubleshooting a system on a remote machine or you've booted from a recovery partition or device such as a USB stick.
The current description in the article itself appears to follow Apple propaganda in that 'no permissions repair is needed' and that the system will maintain itself properly with the designed-in utilities.  That appears to be far from the truth in an interestingly large range of circumstances, and I think it is appropriate to describe the method that users can employ to run the permissions repair correctly.  (Someone knowledgeable can compare the usual manpage for this, describe what the individual arguments do and why they are constructed as they are, etc.)
This particular syntax is reported from an article in MacObserver, but there are multiple places on the Web that provide it or a similar version.
2602:306:36CF:2950:589B:5D82:7002:1526 (talk) 02:14, 25 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Permissions repair in El Capitan
Talk:Richie Kavanagh

message: Good article. One problem, though: what's the proof that the image is public domain? Seems unlikely, when it's in the Photo Gallery at the Richie Kavanagh official website. Tearlach 03:00, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure. Maybe you'd change it for me if possible. I'm unsure how to. I assumed if it was on a website for free public viewing it was in the public domain.--Johnfullerton 03:16, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Unfortunately not (Wikipedia picture sourcing would be so much easier if only it were true): current images are generally copyrighted unless explicitly shown otherwise. Easiest thing would be to ask Focal Records, via their contact link, if they have a promotional image they'd release to Wikipedia. Tearlach 03:31, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyright
Template talk:US patent application

message: The link in this template was generalized from a specific example.  If someone knows a cleaner way to link to the patent site for an application rather than a patent that has already been granted, please clean up this messy attempt.Coleopterous 03:02, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: As far as I can tell, you use this template thus, . If this is correct then could somebody please update the doc page. HairyWombat 19:53, 3 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Usage
Talk:Hugh MacColl

message: Regarding:
* "Early in his acquaintanceship with Gladstone, Malcolm MacColl persuaded the Liberal politician to provide funds for Hugh's education at Oxford. It was proposed to send him to Oxford University's St. Edmund Hall, but Gladstone made this conditional on Hugh MacColl agreeing to take orders in the Church of England."
This strikes me as dubious. Scottish Episcopalians like MacColl were still frowned on by the English establishment (this is long before the reconciliation which took place between the Church of England and Scottish Episcopalians when the Anglican Communion was formed in 1867) and this stipulation would have been imposed by the Oxford University authorities themselves, not by Gladstone. They weren't too keen on Presbyterians either during this period.
Either way, a solid ref and clarification is needed. --Mais oui! (talk) 13:56, 31 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification needed regarding Scots admissions to English universities in the 19th century 

message: Other sources has his year of birth as 1837 and not 1831.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.254.109.186 (talk) 20:16, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Year of birth
Talk:Kundi (Pashtun tribe)

message: this article is nonsence with full of tamil sexual slang words. refer Sri Lankan Tamil slang. 
* Kundi - Ones back side. Although it is a literal not a slang term it is rarely used in public discourse hence attaining the status of slang term when used.
* Pundai* - Used to boys/men to describe a female genitalia in a non friendly manner. It is considered to be rude to use this word when directly spoken to a girl/woman. Can be used by men to refer to each other also.
--கோபி 20:46, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Article is not nonsense.  At this moment, I'm standing here with a doctor whose last name is Kundi, is from that region of Pakistan (NorthWest Territory), and who comes from that tribe. Glacialfury 19:36, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This page was flagged as a dead-end page, due to absence of inline citations. I've now added those where appropriate/possible. Note that some of the 'notables' don't currently have Wiki pages about them and that I have added an external sources for verification required banner, as I think these are needed to give the article some authority. Libby norman 19:40, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Inline citations
Talk:Metal (disambiguation)

message: metals redirects to metal. But "metals" is an old British term for the rails of a railroad. Do I change the redirect to go here (the metal disambig page)? Create a new disambig page for metals which points here and to the railway def? -- Akb4 00:25, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: ok, I changed the metals redirect to point here. But then I read the road metal entry, and I am now not sure if the railway sense of "metals" might mean the roadbed and not specifically the rails. The cite for the railway usage is the Sherlock Holmes story The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans. -- Akb4 23:56, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  wiki structure question; metals, plural 

message: I believe that instead of only the genre heavy metal, the (for lack of a better word) “types” of music which include (only these; the word include does not mean only a select few) Hardcore and Extreme. WikiJanitorPerson (talk) 17:46, 2 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  New item
Talk:Dpkg

message: rpm isn't really based on dpkg, but a direct predecessor, pms, which predates dpkg:
"In late 1993, Rik Faith, Doug Hoffman, and Kevin Martin began releasing the first public betas of the BOGUS Linux distribution. BOGUS was notable for the package management system (pms) software that was used with it for installation and uninstallation of all software on an application-by-application basis. Shortly thereafter, in the summer of 1994, the first public betas of Red Hat Commercial Linux were released. Red Hat initially used Red Hat Software Program Packages (RPP) as the basis of its Linux distribution. Like pms, RPP was a system-management tool that allowed for easy installation and uninstallation of applications. In late 1993, Ian Murdock founded the Debian Gnu/Linux distribution. He began seriously developing its dpkg application-management software by the summer of 1994. Like pms and RPP, dpkg made it possible to manage each application on the system."
xxxxxxxx
Where does dpkg keep the file of installed packages?
— Chameleon 03:00, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Hanna Verboom

message: Almost empty infobox rv based on the following from WP:MOS: “The most important group to consider are the casual readers of Wikipedia, who will never do any significant editing. Infobox templates that contain many blank fields, question marks and unknowns present an unprofessional appearance, diminishing Wikipedia’s reputation as a high-quality encyclopedia.” Quis separabit? 14:09, 21 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Infobox
Talk:Francis Nicholson

message: The College of William and Mary was chartered in 1693.  Nicholson did not move the capital of Virginia to Middle Plantation until 1705.  Clearly he did not help found the College after the move, which is how the article currently reads.  Could somebody with a little more knowledge on this subject please clarify?  Also, was Nicholson ever married, and did he have any children? Gnosticdogma 01:51, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  William and Mary question 

message: He was a bachelor...It would seem that he could not have had a connection with the college but I couldn't confirm. Stormbay 01:28, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "On July 25, 1690, Lieutenant Governor Francis Nicholson authorized several gentlemen to take subscriptions in Virginia for the proposed college" .  Apparently, he was involved to some extent prior to the move of the capital. --Gnosticdogma 18:00, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  answer to one question 

message: Were Gregorian and Julian calendar really a year apart in those days, or are the death date years given in this article simply a mistake? --WolfD59 (talk) 10:27, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The new year began on March 25 in the Julian calendar.  As a result, dates between January 1 and March 25 fall in the year before that of the Gregorian calendar. Magic♪piano 12:10, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Calendar? 

message: It seems that many places of the article give him a knightly title, calling him "Sir Francis Nicholson". However, at the very end of the article there is a note that says that he was never actually knighted, and the claim that he was knighted was misattributed centuries after his death. If that is true, I believe that this article should consistently not use a title that neither he nor any of his contemporaries ever attributed to him LutherVinci (talk) 03:25, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed (and fixed). Magic♪piano 10:51, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of "Sir"
Talk:Andrew Ladd

message: Why was this removed as spam?  I believe this is a valid reference which is relevant to Andrew Ladd and provides additional information that isn't available on the other external links.
HockeyNerd.com Andrew Ladd
Sorry if this was the wrong place to put this question but I wasn't sure how/where else to ask this. 
Skeight (talk) 17:57, 15 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to HockeyNerd.com removed 