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Talk:Alternative medicine/Archive 10

message: Can I add a link to Ben Goldacre's often hilarious and very rigorous weekly column for The Guardian, "Bad Science" under 'critiques of alt.medicine'? It's very well written, but I suppose its serial nature makes it a less good encyclopedic reference... --Si 20:51, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Addition of another critique of alt. medicine 

message: I don't think it's correct to say or imply that conventional medicine is always based on a known biochemical mechanism.  For example, I think there are several areas of nutrition where suitable double-blind studies have established, to the satisfaction of the scientific community, that a particular nutrient is protective against a particular disorder, but nobody really knows how.  I softened the statement to say only that conventional medicine is usually based on known mechanism. JamesMLane 03:31, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Basis of conventional medicine

message: Tim Starling- Your view of alt. medicine as "not new, not speculative, not scientificince"  and thus not protoscience is debatable and thus is not NPOV. Since their is no agreement as to whether it is pseudoscience, protoscience, or a mix of both, it was previously agreed that both catagories be applied (see discussion above). Thus I reverted your change. Cab88
:: (for the record I wold rathe rniether catogry was there but no matter) It was suggested above that much of alt med was protoscience. How many forms of alt med cane you name where this is the case? In the cases I've seen it is very much the exceptionGeni 22:08, 27 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Not Proto-science?
Talk:Breast fetishism

message: As a paraphilia, breast fetishism (also known as mastofact, breast partialism, or mazophilia) is a sexual interest that focuses exclusively on the female breasts, and is a type of partialism. The term breast fetishism is also used in the non-paraphilic sense, to refer to cultural attention to female breasts and the sexuality they represent
fet·ish
noun
fetish (noun) · fetishes (plural noun)
# a form of sexual desire in which gratification is strongly linked to a particular object or activity or a part of the body other than the sexual organs: "a man with a fetish for surgical masks" · "a foot fetish"  an excessive and irrational devotion or commitment to a particular thing: "he had a fetish for writing more opinions each year than any other justice"
# an inanimate object worshiped for its supposed magical powers or because it is considered to be inhabited by a spirit.
Mis-characterizing sexual attraction to breasts or non-paraphilic cultural norms pertaining to breasts as a fetish with no credible source. shiznaw (talk) 16:13, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Leading Paragraph fails to meet definition of fetish.
Talk:Jean Calas

message: I tried to add the French entry to the side of the article (which redirects to the entry "Affaire Calas",), being surprised that it isn't on there yet, but an error message appears and prevent me from saving the change: "Could not save due to an error. The link frwiki:Affaire Calas is already used by item Q28650272. You may remove it from Q28650272 if it does not belong there or merge the items if they are about the exact same topic."
Does anybody know how solve this problem? E-Ping Rau (talk) 08:47, 8 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Inability to and link to French-language entry?

message: I've removed the link to "wheel" as the article on "Wheel" at present makes no mention of the instrument of execution.--172.189.144.24 04:04, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: My encyclopedia (Stora Focus, in Swedish, the article on Voltaire) says later examinations once again cast doubt that maybe Calas after all was guilty. I add that to the article. / Habj 22:29, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Someone seems to have deleted your remark from the article. Anyway, the Catholic Encyclopedia also says "there are weighty reasons to doubt [Jean Calas'] innocence" and cites Charles Barthélemy's Erreurs et mensonges historiques, Vol. 2 (1876). Muzilon (talk) 02:27, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Guilty or Not Guilty?

message: Is there any particular reason why the governess' surname is spelled here as "Jeanne Vigneire", as opposed to "Jeanne Viguière"? Syphrose (talk) 13:33, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Vigneire" or "Viguière"?
Talk:Tantalus (Oahu)

message: Shouldn't this be named Mount Tantalus? --Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 07:27, 12 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Possibly, or at least there should be a reference to here from Mount Tantalus. (And now there is). I've just been to that article due to seeing a "Mount Tantalus" subtitle in a Hawaii Five-0 episode (S02E01), but found that it's the mountain in Canada and has no mention of the Honolulu volcano. My particular interest is in residences on the cone, whether it's a formal neighbourhood and, if so, what its demographics are. 78.149.25.6 (talk) 16:28, 16 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Mount?
Talk:Diamond Head, Hawaii

message: The article states "Many tourists visiting Hawaii believe that Diamond Head is a volcano although it really isn't." 
This seems a bit odd. The opening sentence says that Diamond Head is a "Tuff Cone" which redirects to volcano.
So, is it a volcano or not? And if NOT, then could this be reworded to something more neutral like "Diamond Head is often mistaken for a volcano, <and here's why it isn't>." 64.173.240.130 22:39, 23 February 2007
:It states in the intro that it is a "tuff cone" and the reader is one click away from learning the difference between what a true volcano is compared to a tuff or ash cone. The geology section goes on to describe it further... --Travis Thurston+ 01:52, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Volcano or Not?

message: While the Koʻolau Range is about 2.6 million years old, Diamond Head is estimated to be about 150,000 years old and extinct for 150,000 years.
I don't understand what the second part of this sentence is trying to say.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.230.167.170 (talk) 20:48, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  GEOLOGY 

message: Seems that the page has become overrun with media. See WP:NOTREPOSITORY Many of these images are of poor quality and I'd suggest that we move the gallery contents to as wp discourages galleries unless they are important to the article. See WP:Galleries. I propose we weed through what's there and find a home for the rest (perhaps a sisiterlink to wikimedia if people want more). Any thoughts? --Travis Thurston+ 01:52, 3 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images 

message: The existing link shows Diamondhead as only a dot.  If it's going to be a topographic map of that feature, you need to zoom in.Will (Talk - contribs) 09:21, 13 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  The topographic map in the infobox should be more zoomed in
Talk:Mount Olympus (Washington)

message: If I'm not mistaken, this site says some Juan Pérez named the mountain (or the range?) “Monte de Santa Rosalía”. If anybody can confirm this, and if the name is older than the current English name, perhaps it should be mentioned in the article. Wikipeditor 15:20, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that is mentioned in the "Historical Atlas of the Pacific Northwest", I think the book is called.. I'll look it up when I get a chance. Pfly 16:28, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Earlier name 

message: I think it would be relevant to include summiting information such as most expeditions depart the Hoh River basin along the Hoh River Trail, and mkae camp at Glacier Meadows.  However, I'm not sure about how to go about doing this. (~16 miles up the trail) Guided tour page--Shporang (talk) 07:54, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Summiting Information

message: These resources were included in the article as external links but they are not specific enough, IMHO. They are of significant interest in a general sort of way and so I moved the links here.
* University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections:
** The Mountaineers Collection Photographic albums and text documenting the Mountaineers official annual outings undertaken by club members from 1907–1951, primarily on the Olympic Peninsula, in Mount Rainier National Park and on Glacier Peak. Includes 7 Mt. Olympus albums (ca. 1905-1951).
** The Pacific Northwest Olympic Peninsula Community Museum A web-based museum showcasing aspects of the rich history and culture of Washington State's Olympic Peninsula communities.  Features cultural exhibits, curriculum packets and a searchable archive of over 12,000 items that includes historical photographs, audio recordings, videos, maps, diaries, reports and other documents.
*** 1920 Outing to Mt. Olympus Includes images of camps, maps, and excerpts from the 1913 essay Melodious Days by Elmer Brown.
Specific entries might be useful in expanding the current article.  –droll [chat] 19:55, 6 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Digital Collections
Talk:Mount Constance

message: This article has been revised as part of a large-scale clean-up project of multiple article copyright infringement.  Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions must be deleted. Contributors may use sources as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously. —hike395 (talk) 09:38, 25 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible copyright problem
Talk:Minarets (California)

message: importance stems from not just height of peaks but iconic status (eg ansel adams) of this image to california identity Anlace 22:59, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: assess

message: I forget where I read it, I think at the Minaret Summit display where you can overlook the entire valley, that the Minarets are actually basalt and not granite, left over from long ago when the area was actually covered with lava and an ancient sea. I'll go back there sometime soon when the summit is driveable again, get the info and correct at that time. Kidshare (talk) 05:37, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Basalt, not granite 

message: "Minarets Caldera" is on the map at the article for Walker Lane, but is not mentioned here.  Searching the web, I found this article abstract confirming it as real.  Should info on it be included in this article? ZFT (talk) 20:27, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minarets Caldera
Talk:Glacier Peak

message: This article could use more images for GA. Black Tusk (talk) 22:57, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: √, I think. Ceran→→ 23:04, 14 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images 

message: The ‘Geology’ section states, “In the Dusty Creek, located by the mountain, there is a lahar at least 6 km (3.7 mi) thick“.
That is nearly 20,000 feet, which makes no sense. Could it be referring to the width?73.164.63.46 (talk) 12:20, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you. I have reviewed the source and corrected the value. —¿philoserf? (talk) 15:57, 20 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Probable error in the Geology section.
Talk:Mount Washington

message: This removed text, from the ext links,
: , the only railway in the world built entirely on trestles, 3.1 miles (5.2 km).
is either incoherant or just wrong.  The tracks are laid on the ground at the summit, at the crossing with the Gulfside Trail, and apparently all the way between those two points; also at the Base Station and presumably large stretches between there and Gulfside. --Jerzy(t) 19:36, 2005 Jan 18 (UTC)
----
Modified avalanche text
: and which have killed more than 130 people since 1849, largely in Tuckerman.
This number is more than all of the recorded deaths from all causes in all of the Presidentials,
including falls, heart attacks, plane crashes, and railroad accidents.  There were 2 Tucks avalanche deaths in 1954, 1 in 1956, and 2 in 2002, for a total of 5 , unless you add the one in 1996 on Lion's Head (which of course is 5 too many). Ref  Howe, Nicholas(2000). Not Without Peril pp.299-304. and 11/29/2002 news at timefortuckerman.com.  If we really need a fatality number, maybe it should cover all of Mt Washington, but maybe an external link to a compendium is sufficient. (updated talk) Lupinelawyer 01:45, 20 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Hi , the source for Mount Mitchell's rainfall is: —which was for 139.94 inches of rain in 2018. This is clearly higher than the "record high for a calendar year anywhere in the U.S. east of the Cascade Range of " cited for Mt. Washington. It's probably better to leave off the "anywhere in the U.S. east of the Cascade Range" bit, because it appears to no longer be true and may be WP:OR, since it is apparently the conclusion of an editor looking at the data in the source, rather than reporting what another author wrote. Cheers, HopsonRoad (talk) 14:01, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Great, thanks for the source. I'll add the ref to the article. Were you the editor who put up the statement? --Ken Gallager (talk) 15:38, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: No, that must have been someone else. I recommend simply deleting "anywhere in the U.S. east of the Cascade Range" and leaving it at that. HopsonRoad (talk) 15:41, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay, thanks. --Ken Gallager (talk) 15:42, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Record precipitation? 

message: The key col ridgeline prominence goes all the way to the Champlain Canal on the New York border over 100 miles away. The real prominence is more like 5,200 ft from the circa 1,000 ft elevation valley on the west side. B137 (talk) 08:38, 2 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  6,100 ft prominence...
Talk:Trident Volcano

message: The last sentence in the Composition is very hard to understand. Someone needs to research what it is meant to say.  The article name is probably incorrect. The policy of WikiProject Mountains is to use the official name determined by by the United States Board on Geographic Names but I'm not in fighting mood. --DRoll (talk) 00:07, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Problems 

message: All the authoritative site I've visited refer to this feature as Trident Volcano. Among them are:
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* 
 –droll [chat] 04:45, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources in support of page move
Talk:Mount Washington (Oregon)

message: This does not look like a shield volcano! Are you sure it is one? --89.51.83.122 17:09, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes.  That's what a shield volcano looks like after over 100,000 years of glacial erosion has worn away the flanks almost completely, carving huge cirques on all sides and leaving only the hardened volcanic plug in the central conduit.  --Seattle Skier (talk) 23:01, 6 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you! Didn't expect an answer anymore! --89.51.93.189 11:39, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Shield volcano?

message: I removed the paragraph that provided climbing insturctions. I don't think Wikipedia should should try to be this authoritative. A reader would be foolish to rely on this source of technical climbing information. I think it would be fine to include the difficulty of the easiest route in the infobox. --DRoll (talk) 20:07, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Climbing route 

message: FYI, I know from experience that the GNIS usually underestimates elevation, so I went with the elevation of  given by Wood & Kienle (1990) and Hildreth (2007). As another good resource, here is a Forest Service map that places the elevation only a foot lower. Jsayre64 (talk) 04:42, 13 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Elevation
Talk:Blue-tailed day gecko

message: I'm wondering if the section 'Protective Coloration and Behavior' should be removed or changed. It certainly needs a different source, as the source listed (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/arl023) is for a completely different species (Acanthodactylus beershebensis). I can't find any studies on a similar change in Phelsuma cepediana. In herpetoculture circles, it's considered common knowledge that Phelsuma species have less color when they're stressed for long periods, however I do not see any studies that specifically reflect this. For the time being, I would say it's likely best to remove this section to avoid misinformation, however I would like to get some feedback before making such a major change. 
BlitzarExotics (talk) 19:36, 14 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Looking for Input on Information Change 

message: Hello!
Very good article overall! There was not much to edit at all. I mainly just added more to the lead section and changed minor sentence structure and grammar mistakes I found. I also added more hyperlinks for reader use along with some relevant pictures for the coloration and enemies section!
Joshuachenwustl (talk) 05:24, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  comments! 

message: I just saw one here in Silver Springs, Florida.  8/23/2019 Solocanoejake (talk) 13:21, 23 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blue-tailed day gecko 

message: I have added more information on the blue-tailed day gecko (Phelsuma cepediana). Specifically, I have created multiple new sections as well as added to the few sections that already existed. I have cited all of my sources for each piece of new information and fact checked in order to ensure that all the information added was accurate. All of the edits that I have made can be considered to be major edits.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Eliyamak (talk • contribs) 17:20, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  New additions 

message: I made a few word choice changes to make the article more precise (ex. Beautiful to vivid or physical traits). I also rearranged a few paragraphs that fit better subject-wise with different headings (such as shifting diurnal behavior to Behavior instead of Habitat and Distribution). Overall a thorough and diverse article with precise poignant information!
Quill Quips
The headings covered a wide range of topics and were thoroughly discussed given the current information available about this lizard. However, I made some changes to the organization. More specifically, I created a more cohesive behavior headline and added a subheading to consolidate the discussion around behavioral characteristics. Ritusidgal (talk) 02:13, 19 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Class Edits

message: I have no idea if these guys are endangered or not. Please help wikipedia editors!!! 2600:1014:B131:C301:0:6:47CB:E301 (talk) 17:26, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is it endangered?
Talk:Operation Sealords

message: Discussion on renaming page, from WP:RM
SEALORDS → Operation Sealords (for consistency with the other operations; see :Category:Vietnam War operations and battles) Gdr 09:59, 2004 Oct 18 (UTC)
*Support. Neutrality (hopefully!) 14:49, Oct 19, 2004 (UTC)
*Support. ..  – Quadell (talk) (help) 13:29, Oct 20, 2004 (UTC)
** Done. I elected to swap them since there was significant history on the old "Operation Sealords" redirect page. Noel 18:24, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Centum

message: The Satem page wikilinks to Centum like this "By contrast, in the remainder of the Indo-European family (the then-called Centum languages), palato-velars lost their palatal component and merged with plain velars, while labio-velars remained distinct." Wouldn't it be an idea for Centum to wikilink to Satem in a similar way? --Nantonos 17:04, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I didn't realize there was a separate satem page. I think the two should be merged into a single page, as neither group really makes sense independent of the other. How about merging them both to Centum-satem division or the like? --Angr/ 18:24, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Centum/Satem
Talk:Kisha club

message: Context please! This article talks about some controversy regarding the Japanese press and kisha clubs, but what is a kisha club?  — Gwalla | Talk 07:08, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: yes, it would be nice if some Japanese literate person would put in what 'kisha' actually means. It would make wording it easier. I'm pretty sure its just Japanese for press club. --Eean 20:36, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: wait a minute... you took Japanese, you look it up! --Eean 21:33, 27 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: "Kisha" means "reporter" (or a kind of train), but that still doesn't explain what kisha clubs areor how they work.  — Gwalla | Talk 02:21, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: No it doesn't, but it does make wording the sentence easier. I actually tried looking up kisha at assorted online romanji dictionaries and came up with train, partly why I wasn't sure. :) --Eean 05:48, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Context?

message: I've added the NPOV tag to this article, as I feel that the information from the Japanese wikipedia is a little unbalanced. --Grgcox 23:24, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I suggest adding specific reasons you think the page is unbalance, or attempt to fix them. Other editors cannot help fix the problems if they are not explained. For now, I am removing the POV tag. Antonrojo 02:39, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: POV