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Talk:Single-speed bicycle

message: Hi, this page is pretty awful right now as of Sept 2, 2005.  I am going to re-write the whole thing from scratch in the next few days.  If you want to try to coordinate, please email me at Raymond.Crew@gmail.com
I am also going to write a page on the Single Speed World Chmapionships.  
:Hey, good work! Looks heaps better. :D Like the picture, looks very similar to my own ss mtb Mathmo 19:50, 16 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe that this is more of an issue specifically with fixed-gear bikes, due to the extra work of continuous pedaling as well as the lack of brakes most fixed-gear bikes have, forcing additional stress on the knee during back-pedaling to stop.hotdiggitydogs 08:09, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If there's any problem of knee damage from riding SS, it's purely to do with trying to push a gear that's too high eg going up a steep hill, and in the case of fixed, overuse of back pedalling. Also it is mistaken to think that most fixed bikes don't have brakes (I mean bikes that are used on the road not track bikes used for track racing). LDHan 19:03, 23 August 2006 (UTC)

text: People ride singlespeed in cyclocross for simplicity in a harsh environment.  Kellen T 10:15, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

message: "Another type of advantage not often admitted by single-speed cyclists is an emotional one. Many enjoy nonconformist feelings taking pride in riding the same roads or trails without gearing systems. Many single-speed cyclists portray the refusal to purchase highly marketed gearing systems as an anti-establishment action. As single speed bicycles have become more common and more expensive, these advantages are being eroded."
This seems very subjective and not appropriate for the article?Neosophist 12:28, 25 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Advantages

message: Recommend changing the lead-in sentence, in order to improve the article.  Not every feature of a product places it into a different "type" designation.  
Also, suggest inclusion of the ordinary bicycles that also were single speed (usually).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.183.224.2 (talk) 01:40, 2 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Single-Speed - a "Type" or merely a feature?
Talk:Apollodorus of Athens

message: To quote the proposal on Wikipedia:Requested moves:
Apollodorus of Athens → Apollodorus -- Reason: Apollodorus is a disambiguation page, but most (I believe 95% - I see a half-dozen exceptions) of the 150 links to the page refer to Apollodorus of Athens. He was a mythographer, and all the mythological articles could refer to him as authority. Rather than adjusting all the links to him to Apollodorus, it will be much simpler to leave them alone, and add a note There were many ancient Greeks named Apollodorus. This article discusses the mythographer. For Apollodorus of Carystus.... see their articles. For other men named Apollodorus, see Apollodorus (disambiguation. ('Apollodorus of Athens' is also an anachronism; he would have been refered to by his deme.) Septentrionalis 21:32, 27 May 2005 (UTC
This article has been renamed as the result of a move request. violet/riga (t) 22:52, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: In the article he is categorized in :Category:1st century BC deaths. Is there any foundation for the assumption that he lived to become 80 years or older? Shouldn't he rather be categories in :Category:Year of death unknown? __meco 10:52, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Time of death

message: The character from the Cleopatra story is a different person, who might be called Apollodorus the Sicilian. I removed that paragraph. --Cam 16:49, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Apollodorus and Cleopatra

message: The article now says that Apollodorus was the "son of Asclepiades". Asclepiades is currently linked to Asclepiades Pharmacion, in which it says that this Asclepiades lived during the 1st & 2nd centuries, NOT 1st & 2nd centuries BC - so how could he be his father? Liadmalone (talk) 23:45, 13 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Son of Asclepiades
Talk:Rule of four

message: I don't see why the "The" is important; according to Wikipedia style, even the White House doesn't get a "the". See precedent set by Rule of Three, also (although in that case, there is also some spurious capitalization).
I would move the page myself, but I'm not a lawyer and maybe someone has a good reason to keep the "The" in the title of this page. Any takers?
*I vote Move. --Quuxplusone 20:10, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move request
Talk:Trap–bath split

message: I find this claim particularly troubling:
* The main exceptions are parts of New England (see Boston accent), where the broad sound can be used in some of the same words as in southern England, such as aunt, ask, bath etc 
Is there any evidence that the broad-a exists in natural dialects of New England in words like "ask" and "bath"? It is very contrary to the general knowledge of locals of the area, and such should be deleted if unsourced. 38.32.32.42 (talk) 21:22, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Listen to Richard Trethewey say "bathroom" in this 1985 episode of This Old House (around 9'55"). He clearly uses the broad a. The same broad a can be heard occasionally from Roger Cook in other episodes. —Sangdeboeuf (talk) 12:58, 2 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broad-a in New England 

message: * https://www.dictionary.com/browse/la-de-da - affected gentility. Also Lardy-dardy, from about 1830.
* Londoners don't turn cat into cart, or fat into fart; but they do turn pass into parse. Ergo this style was originated by people who had not studied Grammar.
* The ubiquitous drawled A sound is now also used in words not even containing A. e.g. Showers pronounced Sharze, on Radio 3, Also Flowers -> Flarze.
78.144.82.214 (talk) 00:30, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Loose Ends
Talk:Pierre Pilote

message: Everyone is coached by *someone*, but even given the shaky premise that this is a notable fact (in a surprisingly scanty article about an all-time great like Pilote), the only "Frank J. Durante Sr." I could find on Google was a Connecticut fellow who died in 2002 and was twenty years younger than Pilote.  "Frank Durante" + "baseball" turned up empty as well.    Ravenswing  04:29, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Baseball coach?
Talk:Fill–feel and fell–fail mergers

message: I think that is actually useful information that you've removed, angr. So, I've reverted it and added quotation marks.
:As I said at Talk:Horse-hoarse merger, it's a copyvio. Adding quotation marks doesn't change that, because it's way too much text to be quoted within the guidelines of fair use. (And you still didn't say where the quote was from!) But I've added a link to the original page so the interested reader can read it there. --Angr/ 04:51, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

message: Is it true the these mergers mainly describe Texas? 152.163.100.14 03:46, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Texas
Talk:Card–cord merger

message: I think that is actually useful information that you've removed, angr. So, I've reverted it and added quotation marks.
:Useful information or no, it's a copyright violation, and adding quotation marks doesn't change that. The quote was far too long to fall under fair use, and you didn't even say where the quote was from. But I added a link to the original page so the interested reader can learn more there. --Angr/ 04:56, 31 May 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Lynch (surname)

message: Actually, Lynch is a surname of Anglo-Norman origin. Lynch is the form used on several Irish surnames that sound similar to Lynch but are actually something else entirely. Fergananim
: Thanks for the info, but please clarify.  What do you mean by "the form used on several Irish surnames"?  If we have a person named "John Lynch", what does that indicate about his ancestry?--StAkAr Karnak 21:30, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  The name Ó Loingsigh is definitely Irish Gaelic. It means "descendant of Loingseach", which is an old Gaelic name that long precedes the Anglo-Normans; cf. Loingsech mac Óengusso. Angr (talk) 14:56, 20 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Origin

message: I'd like to make addition of a hispanic famous person whose grandmother was a Lynch, I'm talking about Ernesto Guevara Serna Lynch, also know as "el che". How can I add him. 
regards  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.159.2.86 (talk) 05:20, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: See entry in article for Patrick Lynch, ancestor of Che Guevara. Cjc13 (talk) 14:49, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guevara 

message: The 'de Linch' pedigree is pseudohistory and should be deleted, or at least referenced as such. The Lynch surname is common in Ireland and very common in nearby Clare. The Galway Tribes' genealogies were pure propaganda at a time when a Norman pedigree was a big prestige boost. Genealogists of the era were basically erudite and respectable paid liars. "Came over with the Conqueror" was the starting point, and they filled in the rest from there. Of the two Tribe genealogies not traceable to "the Conqueror" one traced to "the Milesians" and the other to "King Arthur at Tintagel", which will give an indication of their historic merit. 
The D'Arcy pedigree is provably false, their being annalistic references to their origins in Roscommon, and many of the others have no evidential backing either. Deane is another common anglicisation and is 10 times more common in Mayo than anywhere in England. The cities of Ireland were enthusiastically English at that time, but many of the names were actually transliterations or phonetic anclicisations of Irish names -- Deane, Lynch, Joyce and D'Arcy all fall into that category notwithstanding the fact that there were a few "genuine" D'Arcys, Deanes etc. 88.151.27.235 (talk) 18:51, 10 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Don't Rely on Galway Tribes' Genealogies

message: I replaced the templates here with , which is the standard for this kind of page.--DThomsen8 (talk) 17:30, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Templates
Talk:Nels Stewart

message: Sorry, I'm not very good in English, I'm more on wiki in french. The subject is that I saw in French that Nels Stewart is an honoured member of the Hall of Fame since 1962 and you in your infobox say 1952. But in the section Playing career you say 1962. If it's in french we have reason you will also have to correct the arrival year in the members of Hall of Fame also, and on the picture. If I'm wrong and it's 1952, can you leave me a message on my talk page in wiki french (page de discussion) to tell me that. You can leave me a message in english. Thanks. --Danielvis08 (talk) 07:59, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Double checking a couple other sources I have, they say 1962 as well.  I think some publications were in error.  Thanks for the alert! Resolute 15:03, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  There is a article from 1957 upon his death that says he was a member of the hall of fame. I guess we have to investigate. The problem is that the Toronto Hall of Fame did not exist then. But the Kingston organization was doing the inducting. Alaney2k (talk) 17:26, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  The IIHOF didn't induct Stewart.   Ravenswing   18:18, 3 May 2015 (UTC)

text: The Toronto Hall of Fame building didn't, but the Hall itself did.  And hmm.  Now I'm definitely all confused. Resolute 02:59, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

text:  I guess we have to write to those people. I can write to the NHL Media Guide people, if it is not already corrected. Alaney2k (talk) 18:49, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

text: You can also see this link on Google Newspapers August 19, 1952 Montreal Gazette Alaney2k (talk) 17:38, 4 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hall of Fame
Talk:Nute Gunray

message: A passage should be added describing the origin of the name "Nute Gunray".  It is highly likely that the choice of the name is meant to be a political statement by George Lucas critical of Ronald Reagan and Newt Gingrich.
Consider that if you switch the syllables, "Gunray" is almost phoenetically identical to "Reagan".
And "Nute" is phoenetically identical to "Newt".  (Please note that the movie was produced while Newt Gingrich was the Speaker of the House.  By the time the movie was released, Dennis Hastert was the Speaker.)
An editor with a good knowledge of Star Wars and 1990s politics should add an appropriate passage.
The Nute part of it is more than likely a reference to Reagan's movie, "Knute Rockne, All American. I read several years ago that it was in retaliation to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Defense_Initiative DeathWeed (talk) 09:55, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Connection to Ronald Reagan & Newt Gingrich

message: I've removed the three cleanup tags:
#Excessive summary - I pared as much from the plot summaries as possible while still retaining a brief synopsis of his roles in each.
#Sources - I added a source for the racism controversy and removed the weasel-worded excuse at the end of the section. If further sources are needed, please use  tags at specific points.
#In-universe language - I think the way the article is organized into sections, each dealing with a different film/book/game, along with the removal of a lot of the unnecessary plot points, should take care of this. 
Those were the big changes, along with some reorganization and general cleanup. As with pretty much all pop culture articles on Wikipedia, I'm sure there's still plenty more that could be fixed. Kafziel Complaint Department 06:50, 1 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleaned up 

message: Shouldn't this article also include brief summaries of his role in the ongoing Clone Wars television series, such as his attempt to bribe the capture of Senator Amidala and his caputre and then later rescue by Ventress?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.90.238.126 (talk) 18:31, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Star Wars: The Clone Wars 

message: I've redirected this to List of Star Wars characters. While the information is verifiability, there is only fleeting third-party coverage to indicate any significance -- and that's only a tangent to larger attention aimed at Jar-Jar Binks. I've merged this content to the List of... --EEMIV (talk) 18:56, 19 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirect
Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/64.62.161.12

message: I am taking this user's reply with a grain of salt. I know for a fact that this user has made edits in perfect English before. I also know that some of the edits that were made were of a very American nature (example: the talk page with "your mom"). Linuxbeak | Talk | Desk 21:02, May 30, 2005 (UTC)
:His attempts at imitation of a non-native speaker of English look pretty comical to me too. It's all contrived cave-man speak mixed in with more advanced phrases like "brown nose" (Me no assume bad faith! Speedy deletion candidate I no think so!). The guy is a troll, let's ban him. — Trilobite (Talk) 21:21, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Java 2D

message: For simplicity, the examples in this article have assumed ... What examples? I couldn't find any in the history. Did this come from a larger article? Should this be reworded? -dvs- 21:03, 30 May 2005 (UTC)

message: Which java flatforms support the API? How is it related to AWT? etc? Oyd11 23:17, 3 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This is 2d, so of course it supports all flatforms.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.56.161.129 (talk) 15:36, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Support 

message: The AWT library that Java2D is built upon, was deprecated as of Java 9. What is it superseded by?
DouglasHeld (talk) 14:02, 21 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deprecated
Talk:Interstate 305

message: According to the FHWA Route Log, I-305 is 8.44 miles long. Kurumi concurs, saying it was increased from 5.3 miles in 1999. Any idea where the extra 3.1 miles came from? This would take it north on SR 51 to roughly SR 160, south on SR 99 to roughly 47th Avenue, or east on US 50 to roughly Watt Avenue. SR 160 seems most likely, but I have no evidence of which way it actually goes. The plan for I-80 to bypass the substandard North Sacramento Freeway would have taken it to SR 51 just south of the river - my guess is that the road was actually built to Interstate standards south of SR 160. --SPUI (talk - don't use sorted stub templates!) 13:59, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: 8.44 miles?
Talk:Foothill Freeway

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: Moved (closed by non-admin page mover) BegbertBiggs (talk) 22:02, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Interstate 210 and State Route 210 (California) →  – This should be moved over the redirect to simplify the title. Since the Foothill Freeway encompasses both Interstate 210 and California State Route 210, it should be no different than Capital Beltway, Massachusetts Turnpike, Summerlin Parkway and other similar pages where their respective route numbers (, , and ) are redirects. Several Southern California freeways such as the Foothill are also commonly referred to by their freeway names instead of just their route numbers like the Hollywood Freeway and the Ventura Freeway. Zzyzx11 (talk) 19:08, 9 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 9 January 2021
Talk:Sir George Williams affair

message: *Talk:George Williams Computer Riot — George Williams Computer Riot → Sir George Williams Computer Riot – The name of the university was "Sir George Williams", short name was "Sir George" - 132.205.45.148 21:43, 30 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: WP:RM

message: This article is supposedly about a riot, yet this is what it says:
*"Most of the occupation was quite peaceful: the police were not involved, and negotiations continued...The occupation continued until February 11 when negotiations broke down and riot police were called in. A fire broke out in the computer lab"
So what about the riot?  Shouldn't there be something about that?  Scolaire (talk) 09:33, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: What riot?

message: According to the Turning Points in History episode, it was caused by marking in the Zoology 431 course, in September 1967 76.66.203.138 (talk) 12:11, 16 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zoology 431 

message: "saw police confiscating locking doors and exits"
could someone change the word confiscating to something else? were the doors removed? were the locks disabled?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.205.102.112 (talk) 18:40, 16 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  please clarify wording 

message: I've rarely read a Wikipedia article that so clearly failed to adhere to a neutral point of view. The article goes out of its way to defend the student actions during this event without giving serious consideration to any other perspectives. I would recommend a complete rewrite of the article by someone who has carefully studied the "Sir George Williams Affair" but is able to present the events in a more even-handed manner without trying to advance a partisan agenda. (In case anyone responds to my comments by making the ad hominem argument that I'm engaging in right-wing griping, my politics happen to be left-of-center. But I don't want Wikipedia to be a mouthpiece to propagate specific political positions, whether they're my own or anyone else's.)
----MaMe  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.130.95.6 (talk) 08:08, 27 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article Fails to Adhere to Neutral Point of View
Talk:Naive Set Theory (book)

message: I truly liked the book when I first got it. I realize now that it was because I didn't understand ANYTHING in it and was filled with awe bacause of the tone of the author. Now (a few years later) I do understand a little bit of it (all? - well you get it, see below;).
My reaction now when I try to read it as a reference is like "oh my god, how can anyone learn from that?" Maybe someone can, but I didn't. Contrary to what the article say there is hardly a single mathematical proof in the book. The author confirms this himself in the preface. "There is no math here guys. It's a long series of hints. You do the math yourself."
The whole book is like that. The easy parts appear as immensly difficult (because of the lack of math) and the truly nontrivial is often tossed off as exercise (because of the lack of math - it would probably make the book too long). I'e seen others get the same reaction.
Put it this way: The book is not mathematically incorrect. But it also is not mathematically correct simply because there is no math to be found. Or - some still think it makes a great companion book to a mathematics book on naive set theory. YohanN7 (talk) 15:40, 16 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism? 

message: This might be useful:   Deltahedron (talk) 19:27, 31 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: Does this article really need a section on Errata?  That section has no (inline) citations, and, most importantly, no reference to a specific version of the text.  It unequivocally strikes me as violating WP:NOT, but I can't put my finger on what sort of work an "Errata" section would be appropriate in.  So I'm coming here to propose the same, rather than boldly editing.  2601:240:C400:D60:25E9:DC5:567C:2499 (talk) 22:42, 29 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Errata
Talk:Interstate 580 (California)

message: Thank you, Zzyzx11, for editing the article to show that the express lanes are now open, and providing an excellent reference (currently #11). However, I am revising your edit on an important point. You had "Solo drivers are required to use a FasTrak transponder", implying that carpools do not require a FasTrak transponder. I had heard differently, so I went to ref. 11, which appears to be authoritative. According to ref. 11 and a linked page, all users of the express lanes must have a transponder. Furthermore, the requirement for those exempt from tolls (especially carpools) is stricter if they want to benefit from their exemption. They cannot use the standard Fastrak transponder, but instead need a "FasTrak Flex toll tag". This is a lot of detail for a Wikipedia article. To provide at least a partial improvement, I have simply edited the sentence from: 
   Solo drivers are required to use a FasTrak transponder. 
to:
   All drivers are required to use a transponder. A new version of the transponder is needed in some cases. (ref. 11) 
Ref. 11 is a web page, so I have changed the access date. My edits may not be correct, and Zzyzx11 and others are encouraged to revise further if needed.  Oaklandguy (talk) 10:04, 26 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Section 1.2, Express Lanes, will need further attention
Talk:Interstate 780

message: This article has failed the USRD GA audit and will be sent to WP:GAR if the issues are not resolved within one week. Please see WT:USRD for more details, and please ask me if you have any questions as to why this article failed. --Rschen7754 (T C) 02:37, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: USRD GA audit