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Talk:Transnestria

message: My name is David Storobin. I am the editor of the Global Politician. In the past, my articles have been "stolen" by people who posted them on Wikipedia. However, I do not have a problem with that so long as people cite back to the site for which I work as the editor, The Global Politician (http://www.globalpolitician.com).
I would like to make the content of Global Politician to be available to Wikipedia. If you have any questions, you can actually email me via the "contact us" page on Global Politician or at editor@globalpolitician.com.
Also, please let other wikipedia editors know that I will be posting parts of articles on the Wikipedia site. Please do not delete.
: All you need to do when you use copyrighted material with permission is to note that in the article's talk page. Also, you can put a notice on your own site releasing your copyrights into the public domain or under a GNU license. --Polynova 02:16, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Please note that there is already a page Transnistria. It probably would be best if a redirect was set here and contributions be posted there. Martg76 02:38, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)

message: Moved from Wikipedia:Copyright problems
*Transnestria from . - Vague | Rant 01:54, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)
**Now on VFD; Jmabel believes there is no copyright problem, as it was posted by the original author. --rbrwr± 17:30, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problems
Talk:Bathtub hoax

message: this article needs a great deal of work. no where does it explain that this was a hoax, and what the intent of the hoax was. Kingturtle 02:22, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Work needed 

message: This article is a candidate for BAJODN.  We could transwiki it to Wikicomedy or retain it on Wikipedia's BJAODN. --SuperDude 02:43, 27 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I thought that was for bad jokes and nonsense internal to wikipedia, not a description of hoaxes in the world. Martijn Faassen
It's definitely not a hoax about a hoax.  This is a famous Mencken story.  How many articles on this website are hoaxes?  Is there a catalogue of articles people have tried to plant here? It worries me that anybody can write anything here. The quality of the articles here is really, really good so I suppose there are moderators who perform fact-checking. --Rosejpalmer 03:58, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:BJAODN]] 

message: The text says: "It was a completely fictional account of how bathtubs were introduced into the United States as recently as 1842, only having been introduced in England in 1828."
The dates (years) are wrong, or the writing is. When "only having been (something)" is said, one usually expects what follows to be in a later date than whatever precedes it. That was a terrible description ;) but to make it clear, here goes an example:
"Bathtubs were introduced as recently as 1842, only having been introduced in England later than that".
:Hm, my understanding of the English language is different; your example looks really odd to me. I'm curious to see more about this. Perhaps though we should rewrite this text entirely, as evidently it can give rise to confusion. Martijn Faassen 23:06, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dates 

message: This article survived an Afd, the discussion can be found at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bathtub hoax.  Friday (talk) 21:17, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Afd 

message: I don't know how to properly cite a source here, but this link here:
http://www.cjr.org/issues/2007/2/Love.asp
mentions this hoax about 2/3 the way through (ctrl-F bathtub). The CJR is a pretty reliable source, so...have at ye.129.237.90.54 00:17, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Source

message: What does the 'Fillmore Days' part have to do with the rest of the article??  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.178.74.86 (talk) 00:54, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Made it clear, at least I hope so. - DavidWBrooks (talk) 01:56, 7 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Fillmore Days
Talk:Muroidea

message: Big edit here.  I'll do my best to do this all correctly.  Everything historically relating to the article for the family Muridae was actually referring to the superfamily Muroidea.  Many authors have treated them as synonyms in the past mostly as a convenience.  It was incredibly difficult to determine how they are related based strictly on physical characteristics, but most proponents of putting all muroids in a single family agreed that the diversity warranted treating them as several families.  They just couldn't determine how to split those families.  The most current literature based on genetic work (i.e. Adkins and Steppan in a 2004 Systematic Biology article) splits the Muroidea into several families.  So whatever used to be relating to the article Muridae is now under Muroidea, and Muridae is restricted to the subfamilies Murinae, Deomyinae, Lophiomyinae, and Gerbillinae.  Aranae 3 December 2004.
:There are more dan 1500 spp. and probably many more, I believe, however, that's not the most important thing.
:I think it might be a good idea to make a taxonomic list (such as at :nl:Muridae (taxonomie)) (I'll soon make it :nl:Muroidea (taxonomie). You may copy and paste it from there, although a few changes are already necessary. I've also made a few pages about sigmodontines (from :nl:Sigmodontinae to the tribes and genera). The pages about muroids are very good, I think. Ucucha 19:17, 29 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: Please. check Wilson and Reeder, 1993, Mammals species of the world (Smithsonian, also in  web), for the present taxonomy of Rodentia. (From User:84.230.204.158 on 4 May 2005) - comment moved from article page.
:Musser and Carleton (1993; muroid chapter in Wilson and Reeder) use a much older taxonomy that incorporates almost none of the extensive molecular work that was conducted in late 1990s and early 2000s.  Steppan et al. (2004) propose a taxonomy based on a host of genes and consistent among many studies.  There is little doubt that the new Mammal Species of the World which is in press now bears much closer resemblance to Steppand et al. (2004) than to Musser and Carleton (1993).  --Aranae 21:20, May 4, 2005 (UTC)
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It ain't clear from this article what distinguishes Muroidea from other rodents.  I find this deficiency quite often in biotaxonomy articles, so there is a job for someone who knows about these things.  --212.56.114.4 22:52, 12 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Please see [ITIS taxonomy] to correct this page. --83.199.108.96 14:03, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: ITIS is woefully outdated.  It's based on Musser and Carleton (1993).  Musser and Carleton (2006) incorporate much up to date information including molecular results.  --Aranae 21:39, 16 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Taxonomy
Talk:Hurstbridge line

message: The map of the railway line needs revision. It has no compass direction, there is a break in the rail line, and Eltham and Greensborough stations are transposed.
--B.d.mills 02:39, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Early text

message: Does anyone know if Hurstbridge station is a "premium" station? Last time I was there, there was someone working there with the little office open selling tickets/etc..., but it doesn't appear as a premium station on Wikipedia or various other places. Is it just part-time staffed, or is it a 'premium' station? Somebody in the WWW 04:03, 24 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: No it's not, at least according to all the maps I've seen. Eltham is the last premium station on the Hurstline. Maybe its status changed recently, maybe it's a 'host station', (the official Metlink maps aren't always right), but I doubt it would be staffed full time, considering it's literally out in the countryside. The Connex website seems to say there is a convenience store or something like that at the station though. If that's the case, they could be selling tickets there independently of Connex, like milkbars and newsagents do almost everywhere. T.PK 07:48, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Not a convenience store, there was someone there in Connex uniform working at the station last time I was there. According to  there is a BoM at Hurstbridge for selling tickets, as well as the usual Metcard machines/validators. There used some "part time" staffed stations with similiar facilities to premium stations, most of those have become host stations now, perhaps Hurstbridge is still a part-time staffed station? Somebody in the WWW 07:55, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Well I guess it must be an unofficial, part-time-premium station then? I've never actually been out that way myself, so I can only go by the maps... T.PK 06:45, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hurstbridge - premium? 

message: The history section is missing some works near Watsonia station that occurred in the 1970's or 1980's when the Greensborough bypass was built. Has Watsonia station been lowered, or has it always sat in a deep cutting? The road overpass was also not there; the Greensborough-Watsonia section now includes a road tunnel for the Bypass that wasn't always there. It may be helpful to provide some history of these changes. --B.d.mills 03:12, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 
Talk:Radeon R400 series

message: I changed all the instances of ATi to ATI.  I'm a big fan of ATI cards, don't get me wrong, but in print ATI is a lot more readable and typable than ATi.  --Alexwcovington (talk) 02:49, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: ATi vs ATI

message: an editor may want to check the validity of the information added in this diff, as the author has a record of vandalizing articles. –MT 08:06, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  potential vandalism 

message: using phrases like "ATI's excellent blah blah" isn't in line with wiki's guidelines. this article needs serious work.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.160.140.17 (talk) 20:42, 3 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reads a bit like an ATI Advert in places 
Talk:Jenna Haze

message: This is listed as a "Good article" so could someone add some summary content to the lead to negate the need for a "Short lead" tag? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Otr500 (talk • contribs) 18:15, 7 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article lead 

message: The link in reference 18 is permanent dead link, and can be swapped with the following link which is a working article about the topic. Hitalicktwice (talk) 12:51, 28 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Done DannyS712 (talk) 05:39, 5 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 28 October 2018 

message: Reference 18 leads to a 404 page, I've found similar content in the following link: https://ispa.co.il/adult-film-industry-might-determine-the-victor-in-hd-dvd-format-wars/ FutureBoi (talk) 13:54, 19 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 19 January 2020 

message: Her birthday is 02/22/1982 74.102.50.243 (talk) 08:56, 1 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 1 April 2024
Talk:History of Ethiopia

message: The section on bronze age contacts only mentions trade with the land of Punt. Although there is some contention about where exactly that lay, most scholars agree that the most likely location was Puntland, at that time one of the major sources of myrrh and frankincense (the latter is not found in Ethiopia); especially given the lengthy sea travel described in records of the Egyptian expeditions to 'Pwenet'.
I believe this section does not belong here. I have now qualified it by indicating that the location of the Land of Punt is not certain.
Robert Kluijver (talk) 08:01, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is Somali history taken as Egyptian History? 

message: Shouldn't this part of history under Menelik be mentioned?  (See article on William Ellis.) Kdammers (talk) 23:31, 17 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abyssinia Affair 

message: The theory that Ezana did somehow appropriate the name after the conquer of Nubia makes no sense, he doesn’t refer to them as Ethiopians and secondly does not use the name to reference themselves thereafter. That theory does not wash. 2A02:C7C:36FF:3600:E5C3:603F:84F6:78D0 (talk) 05:02, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name Ethiopia
Talk:One weekend a month, two weeks a year

message: moved from Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/One weekend a month, two weeks a year:
Should be merged with Army National Guard. -- Paul Richter 03:30, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: * hmm.. Wikipedia:Deletion policy#What to do with a problem page/image/category Problems that don't require deletion -> Article is biased or has lots of POV: Solution:- List on Wikipedia:Pages needing attention Add this tag: . It's already too long to help the National Guard article and whilst, in my belief it's important since hundreds of thousands of people have joined the national guard after having heard it (whether they believed it or not), it's not an issue which should have such a long section of that article. Please instead, make the effort to point out what is inaccurate on the talk page and to add what is missing. A good source for this might be the army recruiting page which has some warnings about what service will really be like. You will have to look back in archive.org since otherwise you won't be sure what they said at the time. Mozzerati 21:05, 2004 Dec 8 (UTC)
* Keep: As a former member of the Home Guard in my country I always wondered what the US equivalent is and what it entails. From time to time I have checked the different articles about the National Guard without getting a good explanation. But today I found this article and it explained it. So normally it entails "One weekend a month, two weeks a year". Unless there is "war" and you are sent to full time duty for some months or more. And I like that this article mentions the issue of if the planned wars abroad should be included in the service for the members of the National Guard or not. Here in Sweden the Home Guard members can't be ordered to service abroad. Only our regular military and volunteers are sent to Kosovo, Afghanistan, Somalia, Libya, Mali, etc. Our Home Guard is an actual "Home Guard" or "National Guard": It stays at home guarding the country against invasion. (And I know I am 16 years late to this discussion.) --David Göthberg (talk) 16:49, 27 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Navy Reserve?::
I'm not American, but why isnt there a navy national guard to go along with naval and air force reserve units? At least, merged into the same overall structure as the others. 58.7.204.212 09:59, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  VfD 

message: MST3k was the first place I heard this variant, back in 1993.  Not sure if that directly contributed to the Iraq War photo. IMDB link Canute (talk) 17:00, 1 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  One weekend a month, my ass! 

message: As far as I can tell, as of 2020 the plan outlined in this section to expand annual drill time to 7 weeks never materialized. Not sure what to do with that. Is the section even still relevant if it never actually came true?
Jason.W.Watkins (talk) 02:01, 2 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems like a significant part of this article is out of date. Canute (talk) 16:22, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove or edit "Army's future annual drill plans" section
Talk:Alison Stewart

message: Just saw Stewart today on PBS and she's a different person.  I'd like to know someone's take on just what she's trying to accomplish with the changes.Godofredo29 (talk) 01:44, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Stewart A Chamleon

message: There were some accusations inside the article, with source... an article in a blog. As per WP:REF and WP:BLP this is not acceptable. Deleted, and please don't reinsert. David.Monniaux 19:14, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accusation 

message: I couldn't help but notice that the first sentence of this article identified Alison Stewart as "an African American journalist", but I checked around and also discovered that, in fact, none of the other biographies I looked at identified their subjects as "Caucasian American journalist" or "German American journalist", or any similar wording, which seems to imply that the only reason it's used here is because she's black and somebody wanted to highlight that fact.  Given that Stewart's race, as far as I know, has never been a significant factor in how she has presented herself, her career, or other noteworthy aspects of her life, and the rest of the article seems to agree with this assessment, the inclusion of this particular specifier on the first line of the article, giving it particular emphasis, seems to be somewhat inappropriate, uncharacteristic, and smacks of racist pidgeonholing, so I have removed it.
If her race is indeed important in some way to the noteworthy aspects of her life, I would suggest adding it as a separate section with some further explanation of why it is relevant to the Wikipedia article. -- Foogod 20:51, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Racially-biased wording 

message: http://www.npr.org/blogs/bryantpark/2008/05/welcome_little_big_isaac_stewa.html
The World News Now Google Group is reporting that she just had a baby? MMetro (talk) 02:15, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Baby
Talk:Holme-on-Spalding-Moor

message: This "little" village is notable for in the past being listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest village in Britain. I live nearby and it does take an awful long time to drive through, but I have no direct proof whether this record still stands or is still listed in the book. X2qat 13:59, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:The Bothy Band

message: I deleted the sentence about Kevin Burke being replaced on Old Hag...; my copy has him listed as a member on the recording. -R. fiend 03:51, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Basic information to add to this article: in which city this band was based. 98.123.38.211 (talk) 01:55, 23 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: To add to article
Talk:Alternating knot

message: Stuff that should be added to this article:
* Who invented the concept?  Who first proved something non-trivial about alternation?  Who first proved a knot to be non-alternating?
* How does one prove a knot is non-alternating?  I suspect the polynomial invariants identify non-alternating knots, but I don't know.
* What's the simplest non-alternating link?  Pictures?
* Are there any theorems that have "alternating" as a hypothesis?
--Dbenbenn 03:53, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: It seems to me the picture is of an alternating knot, just with a nonalternating drawing. By contrast the knot 8_19 on Knot Atlas (http://katlas.org/w/images/c/c9/8crossing-symmetrical-nonalternating.png) does seem to be nonalternating. Should we use this picture instead?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:644:402:440:CD6E:FA45:389B:2496 (talk) 08:11, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does the picture shown actually depict a nonalternating knot?
Talk:Hidden variable

message: Hidden variables are important in statistics, so instead of redirecting this to the Hidden variables theory (in physics), as now, I suggest to make this page a disambiguation page. Cema 04:18, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I have no problems with this proposal - especially because I feel that they're not *that* important in physics - perhaps only in philosophy of physics, and even there, they are a marginal direction. --Lumidek 12:45, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah. Uh...so? Will someone please take it up? :-) Cema 03:06, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Hidden variables
Talk:Nagata–Smirnov metrization theorem

message: Coming soon, the Proof!  --Dbenbenn 04:25, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: For some large value of "soon".  --Dbenbenn 01:53, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Is the value finite? --Zundark 21:33, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proof 

message: Now one can add the link. Russian Wiki: Смирнов, Юрий Михайлович (учёный) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Roundabout (talk • contribs) 11:12, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yuriĭ Mikhaĭlovich Smirnov
Talk:WriteNow

message: I had always figured that the disappearance of WriteNow was due to its being written in 680x0 assembly. Once Apple made the move to PowerPC, moving it to the then-new architecture would have meant a complete rewrite. -- Hawaiian717 00:04, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Power PC

message: WriteNow is the first word processor I know of to implement stylesheet-type character styles. The other advanced word processors of its day that I used had paragraph styles, but character styling was done on a one-off basis. Global character styles were a big advance because they allowed global updating.
Does anyone know if there were any prior examples of modern character styles, on the Mac or elsewhere?
Verdant C 02:03, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Character styles

message: Mac OS 9 is not emulated in Mac OS X's Classic mode. It is Mac OS 9! Lavenderbunny (talk) 08:03, 14 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Emulation
Talk:Dole Pineapple

message: from VfD:
Relatively sure that this is a redundant entry for Dole_Food_Company, but not 100%. Made it VFD instead of making it a redirect because I wasn't sure, hope thats the right action. 'Redirect' or 'Keep' ? Chaz 04:37, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)
*Just make it a redirect.  If it isn't already in Dole Food Company, it should be.  Will make it a redirect myself.  Geogre 15:51, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Talk:The Hoito

message: from VfD:
A Finnish restaurant in Canada.  "World famous" status should be confirmed.  Following advice on Wikipedia:Deadend pages.  Peter O. (Talk, automation script) 05:50, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)
* This restaurant is the subject of a travel article in the Washington Times by Harvey Hagman,  June 28, 2003.  "The Hoito seats 110 and daily serves 500 to 800 meals. Often a line of locals dragging guests, curious tourists and homesick Finns makes the wait 30 minutes to get a stool at the counter or a seat at wooden tables."  It's a tourist attraction.  Keep. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 13:52, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Particularly the 'where is it' section looks like advertising, right down to having the phone number so you can call for a reservation.  Does this belong in an encyclopedia?  I'd remove it but there wouldn't be (almost) any article left!
* I agree, the phone number/ reservations info and maybe even the street adress should be removed, otherwise it is nothing but an advertisement. A brief article is better than an advertisement.  Paradiso 00:55, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Is this advertising?
Talk:Montecito, California

message: Michael Jackson does not live in Montecito.  He lives in Santa Ynez, which is 30 miles north of Montecito on the other side of Santa Barbara county.
:Yup, I think if he lived here I'd know it.  Thanks for pointing it out.  I  took his name out. Antandrus 06:12, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: The list of notable residents includes Tipper Gore, but the news article cited says Al Gore. Geoffrey.landis (talk) 02:20, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: They separated in 2010; Tipper lives here (I think) (e.g. ) while Al lives elsewhere, probably Tennessee. Antandrus  (talk) 02:41, 11 March 2012 (UTC)

text: What part in particular do you object to? Antandrus  (talk) 19:03, 22 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tipper but not Al?
Talk:2004 Atlantic hurricane season named storms

message: from VfD:
Unnecessary article, duplicates information at 2004 Atlantic hurricane season, and only deals with the ones that hit the USA anyway. --Golbez 06:30, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)
*This definitely doesn't need its own page. Delete. Mo0[talk] 06:47, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)