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Talk:When Trumpets Fade

message: In the second paragraph under Plot the article states that Manning goes on patrol with his platoon, however, this is inaccurate for he goes on patrol with his squad (a platoon normally would be about 40 guys, a squad about half a dozen guys).  Also, the article might mention that the battle of the Hurtgen Forest is where Private Slovik was executed, the only soldier executed in WWII.  And here's some interesting info:  the battle of the Hurtgen Forest is the longest single battle in the history of the U.S. Army, with about 30,000 casualities on our side.  However, hardly anybody knows about the battle because it was a strategic defeat for us. The Germans decimated us, implementing a successful delaying action.  General Omar Bradley really failed big time on this one, and America only likes to advertise its victories (I think Bradley was the last five-star General; he was a capable general but was pedestrian and had nowhere near the genius of Patton).  I'm not familiar enough with Wiki guidelines to add to the article in accordance with the rules but I think you war historians out there could add significantly to the article; it's an absolutely fascinating topic and "When Trumpets Fade" is one of the best war movies I've ever seen and deserves a lot more attention and study.  The battle of the Hurtgen Forest really needs to be brought to the attention of the American public.  These days it seems all anybody knows about WWII is D-day and the Battle of the Bulge.  There's a vast storehouse of history about WWII out there that receives no attention.  This could end up being a top-notch article for Wikipedia.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.122.182.221 (talk) 21:02, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi there. Platoon -> squad is an easy enough fix. It has been years since I saw the film but I recall it being a squad as well. In regards to the rest, you might be interested in Battle of Hürtgen Forest and Eddie Slovik.Cptnono (talk) 05:27, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Platoon Compared to Squad; Private Slovik; Inept Command; Longest Battle in History of U.S. Army 

message: Does anybody know if they used "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas" in "When Trumpets Fade" because it was the code song played to initiate the evacuation of Saigon in Operation Frequent Wind April 29-30, 1975, when Saigon fell and the Vietnam War ended?  It just might be a sly artistic addition to the film which works extremely well.  "When Trumpets Fade" is a really great movie, better than "Saving Private Ryan".  Dwight Yoakum turns in a superb performance.  71.154.158.137 (talk) 20:16, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "White Christmas" Was Evacuation Song For Saigon 

message: One odd feature of the film is that the effective range of a Garand seems to be about 20 feet (instead of 300 yds), a Thompson about 10 feet, and a flamethrower about 6 feet (instead of 20-30 yards), 88mm about 100 yards (instead of a couple miles).  It is filmed as though WW2 were fought with paintball.198.229.238.140 (talk) 23:11, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Odd Feature Not Explained
Category talk:War art

message: Is there a reason the bayeaux tapestry isn't listed here? 94.197.89.95 (talk) 08:10, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It is listed under the parent category, :Category:Military art. The distinction between the two categories isn't super-clear, so perhaps it belongs in this one instead, or maybe the two categories should be merged. --RL0919 (talk) 22:23, 20 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Bayeaux Tapestry
Talk:Marx Edgeworth Lazarus

message: Marx Edgeworth Lazarus descended on each side from two prominent slave-holding families. His father was a slave owner. Is it known if Lazarus ever owned slaves? As an abolitionist activist, did he ever have conflicts with his family over his anti-slavery views? He did serve for the Confederacy. More detailed information should be added concerning these matters. Bohemian Baltimore (talk) 20:40, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Slavery
File talk:Fog&Sunny.png

message: As of the time I posted this, this image wouldn't load. I instead got a red x in the upper-left hand corner. -dogman15 04:37, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, MediaWiki sometimes has a problem generating thumbnails for SVG and PNG images. howcheng  {chat} 16:45, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Outline of geometry

message: If you want to view trigonometry basic concepts, perhaps that could be linked from academic disciplines. I think the basic list should be combined with geometry topics. Please consult a mathematician. --gatoatigrado 04:39, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I do not feel my expertise is enough to say so, but classes such as Linear Algebra show similarities between trigonometry concepts such as a perpendicular angle, and the extension to the more general concept orthogonality. A lot of links (deleted) are more than trigonometric concepts, such as Great-circle distance. Also, when excess links are removed, there are only 11 links. . --gatoatigrado 04:48, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Some mathemeticians consider trigonometry as a part of geometry, while others consider it a subject unto itself.  And since there are school courses specifically named "trigonometry", that means there will be students looking for this subject who may not know to look under geometry.  Therefore, trigonometry should have its own list.  The tag has been displayed for a month, and this thread of discussion now lacks consensus.  Therefore, I'm removing the merge tag (it merely clutters the page).  The Transhumanist 11:53, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  trigonometry list 

message: See Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Major rename proposal of certain "lists" to "outlines".
The Transhumanist 01:52, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major rename proposal of certain "lists" to "outlines" 

message: See the proposal at the Village pump
The Transhumanist 09:18, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename proposal for this page and all the pages of the set this page belongs to 

message: Do we need to mention topology here?  It is related to geometry but is neither a subset nor a superset of it.  It is kind of geometry without the distances or geometria situs as it was known in the 19th century.
Yaris678 (talk) 13:07, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Topology 

message: "Outline" is short for "hierarchical outline". There are two types of outlines: sentence outlines (like those you made in school to plan a paper), and topic outlines (like the topical synopses that professors hand out at the beginning of a college course). Outlines on Wikipedia are primarily topic outlines that serve 2 main purposes: they provide taxonomical classification of subjects showing what topics belong to a subject and how they are related to each other (via their placement in the tree structure), and as subject-based tables of contents linked to topics in the encyclopedia. The hierarchy is maintained through the use of heading levels and indented bullets. See Wikipedia:Outlines for a more in-depth explanation.  The Transhumanist 00:06, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quick explanation of Wikipedia outlines 

message: Duplicate article. Currently List of algebra topics is redirected to Outline of algebra, this will eliminate the dup article and maintain naming convention  // Timothy :: talk  11:31, 16 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge of [[List of geometry topics]] into [[Outline of geometry]]
Talk:Rodney Hall (writer)

message: I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates for books and articles, as well as tables for organising short stories, poems and/or book reviews. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. ISBNs and other persistent identifiers, where available, are commented out, but still available for reference. This is a work in progress; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 00:15, 13 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bibliography
Talk:Arthur Worsley

message: The infobox, which I recently added to this article, has been removed with an edit summary of "rm, please gain consensus before re-adding". No reason for its removal was given (see WP:DRNC). It should be restored. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 15:04, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't understand why not have an infobox. I think it is a common practice to add infoboxes on persons. Especially when there is a photo, I always convert the plain photo to an infobox. In fact I never encountered similar conflict in the past. I strongly support the use of the infobox. Right now it is like something is missing from the page. -- Magioladitis (talk) 15:49, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox
Talk:The Two Mrs. Carrolls

message: If anybody wants to put this into the article, here's the actual painting of Bacall that serves as a plot device in this movie:
The Angel of Death
Kar98 (talk) 22:07, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Good idea.....will someone step up to the plate and Wiki-up! Luigibob (talk) 01:10, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Note for possible inclusion in article
Talk:Michael Redgrave

message: The section "Film and Television Work" could use a lot of expansion. Also, the large Theatre section should be copyedited to remove random lists and bullet-points. Lists are better done in a chart -- see for instance the Theatre Credits charts in articles such as Jude Law or Ian Charleson. Softlavender (talk) 02:15, 5 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi I've recently created charts for his Filmography and Theatre credits (similar to Jude Law). I hope it's helped. HerbertGP36 (talk) 18:43, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Needs work 

message: Isn't "The Big Blockade" a 1942 (instead of 1940) film? IMDB.com and The Big Blockade both state 1942. Thx & Greetings from Austria --WFL65 (talk) 02:43, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Big Blockade 
Talk:Peace of Thorn (1411)

message: It seems odd that both "groszes" and "groshes" are used in the same paragraph, apparently for the same thing.  I don't know beans about them, though, so I don't know what the right word is.
Jordan Brown 04:51, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Neither was, its Groschen. -- Matthead discuß!     O       21:14, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Groszes vs Groshes 

message: Called "First Peace of Thorn" in recent sources 1411 "first peace of" date:1993-2007. The town of Thorn did not change its name to a Polish one anyway, not in 1411, not in 1466, but only after 1919.-- Matthead discuß!     O       21:33, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Feel free to start a WP:RM. Olessi 14:17, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naming 
Talk:Maya medicine

message: For All of Humanity: Mesoamerican and Colonial Medicine in Enlightenment Guatemala by Martha Few University, 2015, Arizona Press "Topics include how indigenous healing practices influenced public health campaigns in Guatemala and adjacent areas in the 18th and early 19th centuries." per Chronicle weekly book list Jodi.a.schneider (talk) 13:55, 17 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  This book may be relevant
Talk:Ancient Maya cuisine

message: Like Cjll mentioned over on the Agriculture in Mesoamerica talk page, it might be easier to just start this article over.  So i've done that - putting up a stub and placing the old text here for future reference
-- Oaxaca dan 14:43, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Old text

message: Maya civilization Maya civilization, is better to study about mayas not mesoamerica.If you want to enter wikipedia and make your own thing, study of mayas, it is the best topic :)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.184.24.6 (talk) 01:59, 1 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mayan history 

message: Someone should revert that
68.132.45.102 (talk) 03:36, 30 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disney land?
Talk:Popery Act

message: I've got a book in front of me that says it was passed in 1704; it's called A History of Ireland, by Peter and Fiona Somerset Fry. It's on page 166. Veinor 04:59, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

message: How long was this law on the books? -- 92.230.24.6 (talk) 08:58, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  When revoked? 

message: How many of the eldest sons took advantage of this law or was the number of converts so low that the act can be regarded as unsuccessful? Some information about this would be nice.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.247.48.174 (talk) 14:11, 24 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Was it successful?
Talk:Birthright citizenship

message: This article isn't about birthright citizenship, it's about birthright citizenship IN THE US. Title should be changed to be more reflective.
:Your contention is correct if the term was in common usage in the UK or other country. I was thinking it was more or less particular to the US. Give me a couple of days to do some research, or if you want, go for it. Brimba 05:17, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:The Profit (film)

message: diff = this edit by  is inappropriate. Per WP:LEAD, the intro/lede should be able to function as a standalone summary of the entire article's contents, including every single subsection of the article. Please, do not do this again without discussion on the talk page. Thank you, -- Cirt (talk) 23:07, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:LEAD states: "The lead should be able to stand alone as a concise overview of the article. It should define the topic, establish context, explain why the subject is interesting or notable, and summarize the most important points—including any prominent controversies. The emphasis given to material in the lead should roughly reflect its importance to the topic, according to reliable, published sources, and the notability of the article's subject should usually be established in the first few sentences." Please make sure to adhere to this. Thanks. -- Cirt (talk) 23:14, 24 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intro size 

message: Mr. Hunt played by Lanny Fuettere,  Mrs. Hunt, his wife, not credited, played by Sandra(Sandy) Mitchell not the name listed.  Thank you for correcting Mamahunt1002 (talk) 22:57, 22 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  actor credits incorrect
Talk:Patrick Roscoe

message: Please note that the article that was prodded was the result of vandalism; prior to July 13, this article was about a legitimately notable Canadian writer, but on that date a non-notable person of the same name blanked the original article and rewrote it to be about himself. What I've now done is to restore the original article. Bearcat 05:15, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Prod notice
Talk:Mayflower Hotel

message: A photo would be nice. Edward 05:30, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo request

message: The paragraph about the annex addition seems to have an error with regards to start and end dates. I don't know what the actual dates should be.
Construction began in October 1925, and within six weeks the 40-foot (12 m) deep foundation had been dug.[32] The addition opened on May 31, 1925.[31][32] BluesTunes (talk) 20:10, 24 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Annex Construction Begin and End Dates Don't Make Sense
Talk:Protector (novel)

message: An equally valid viewpoint is that Brennan killed the Martians because he believed that they were a potential future threat based on the two examples cited, as opposed to in retaliation for them. It's also at least plausible that, despite not posing much of a threat to humans on Earth, they would have slowed the colonization/exploitation of Mars, and Brennan wanted humanity to have the opportunity to develop that resource as quickly as possible to better enable them to face other potential threats (such as, say, the sudden arrival of additional Pak ships following Phssthpok, which didn't happen... or a warlike alien race, which did). In later works Protectors are depicted as not necessarily rabidly hostile towards other sentient species, provided that those species are helpful to whatever they regard as their gene line.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.105.71.75 (talk) 03:12, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Inherent xenophobia" 

message: Has anyone found any references to how this should be pronounced? Knowing Niven's sense of humour with names, I wonder if it's "Spock" with the S replaced by a raspberry (i.e. a Bronx cheer). Can't find this referenced and I may be way off beam. Having noticed this, I can no longer read this book without cracking up.
I have in mind Basil Fawlty's "<phssth>poons!" but the latter was way later than 1973.
: The audiobook has it as written, F S TH POK --Pmsyyz (talk) 01:32, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation of Phssthpok 

message: I don’t recall Brennan destroying Kobold, but wouldn’t that imply that Alice Jordan perished in the destruction? That would cause her boyfriend/protagonist to be opposed to Brennan.75.148.103.49 (talk) 09:22, 14 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alice Jordan on Kobold
Talk:Dying Inside

message: The main character, David Selig, is makes an appearance in Gregory Benford's 1980 novel Time-Scape, a few paragraphs into chapter 27. A character in Benford's novel is visiting Columbia University  in 1963 and sees Selig - an old classmate - who scurries off, but is dismissed as an "odd bird".
24.21.60.192 (talk) 00:21, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  References in other works
Talk:To Your Scattered Bodies Go

message: I was going to suggest some corrections, since the lengthy plot description is very much at variance with the book I've just read. (The reason why the Cetians destroyed life on Earth, the time of Burton's first meeting with the Mysterious Stranger, the location of his interview with the Ethicals, the spelling of Kazz, etc.)  But now I see this is a "low importance" article, so I guess it doesn't matter.
Strange, though, that an award-winning novel that developed into a famous novel series, inspired adaptations in other media and drew contributions to its universe from many famous authors should be "low importance".  What do you have to do reach "medium"?  209.179.80.66 (talk) 00:12, 21 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does anyone care? 

message: I could not find this book's international standard book number. Someone should add it.
Wethana (talk) 04:54, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  No ISBN
Talk:Tau Zero

message: :"Incidental to the main themes is the political situation on the Earth from which the protagonists set out: a future where the nations of the world entrusted Sweden with overseeing disarmament and found themselves living under the rule of the Swedish Empire."
That is not strictly true, in that there is no Swedish Empire (the word "empire" itself is found nowhere in my copy of the book). What happened was that Sweden was seen as the only country that could be trusted with overseeing the general disarmament of the world, which led to the establishment of "the Control Authority" and over time:
:"you [Sweden] become the richest country on Earth, with all that that implies. And the diplomatic center, goes without saying. And when every reactor, spaceship, laboratory is potentially dangerous and must be under the Authority, that means some Swede has a voice in everything that matters. And this leads to your being imitated, even by those who no longer like you. Ingrid, my friend, your people can’t help turning into new Romans."
I suppose it's that final bit that led to the comment about the "Swedish Empire." Idontcareanymore (talk) 23:11, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Themes

message: First paragraph:
"Tau Zero follows the crew of the starship Leonora Christine, a colonization vessel crewed by 25 men and 25 women aiming to reach a distant star system. The ship is powered by a Bussard ramjet, which was proposed shortly before Anderson wrote the book."
NO! Robert Bussard published his 'Interstellar Ram Jet' in 1960, Anderson did not use the idea until 1970, that is ten years later.
The original paper is : Robert Bussard, “Galactic Matter and Interstellar Flight,” Astronautica Acta Vol. 6 (1960), pp. 179–94  — Preceding aajacksoniv (talk) 02:14, 14 June 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: It depends on what one considers to be "shortly before". Circa 2016, I personally don't think one decade necessarily amounts to a very lengthy stretch.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.223.130.32 (talk) 19:30, 10 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Something odd
Talk:Tom Alter

message: Please Sir Make a Dard Ka Rishta DD National TV Serial Article Please.. Dhr90 (talk) 14:18, 18 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Make a Dard Ka Rishta DD National TV Serial Article
Talk:Mattress (rocket)

message: Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 18:59, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008 

message: This whole section seems uselessly vague. Which Allied nation developed this? What year? What was the official model designation? What is the origin of the "mattress" name?
I also find it highly suspicious that a single rocket launch system of early design could possibly fire 800 to 1000 rockets in 45 seconds since the crew would probably be sheltered some distance away from the firing blast and could not do any reloading manually, while rockets by nature have no recoil to function any automatic reloading mechanism. Did one launch system consist of 1000 launch tubes?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.239.51.44 (talk) 23:02, 19 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: It was Britain who developed the systems. I have made that clearer in the article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.149.173.52 (talk) 10:18, 8 December 2017 (UTC)

text: See Landing Craft Tank (Rocket).  "Did one launch system consist of 1000 launch tubes?"  - yes it did. The tank deck was outfitted with around a thousand launchers, and the rockets were fired in ripples, so as not to overstress the deck.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.149.173.52 (talk) 10:10, 8 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sea Mattress