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Talk:Government agency

message: There is a real confusion here (proliferating through other related articles, too) as to whether U.S. federal agencies include those of the main exective branch or are independent of them.  In this article here, it is claimed that "Although usage differs, a government agency is normally distinct both from a Department or Ministry, and other types of public body established by government." However, many (even a majority) of the New Deal agencies that it mentions by way of example are a part of federal executive Departments.  Furthermore, the in the U.S., even those departments are defined as federal agencies.  Then we get to the U.S. section.  It says "The Congress and President of the United States delegate specific authority to government agencies to regulate the complex facets of the modern American federal state."  But then it lists the article on the Independent Agencies of the United States Government as being the main article, but that's only are the agencies which actually are independent of Deparments, which is inappropriate.  Confusion abounds! Pigkeeper 01:21, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Serious problem with U.S. agencies section 

message: This article has a distinct geographically bias and needs to be improved to include other examples of government agencies. Davidkinnen 12:26, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV

message: como ago para comunicarme con ustedes gracias  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.148.81.228 (talk) 21:01, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  saludos 

message: Government agencies are widely believed to be extremely inefficient.
Benjamin (talk) 06:40, 13 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  inefficient 
Talk:Mnemonic link system

message: ...remember the list (dog, envelope, thirteen, yarn, window), one could create a link system, such as a story about a "dog stuck in an envelope, mailed to an unlucky black cat playing with yarn by the window". 
It would be much more simple to remember the items (which are all nouns) by making them the only nouns in the phrase, rather than inserting extra nouns and making one of the nouns on the list a euphamism and omitting the word altogether. -SD  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.55.215.220 (talk) 18:27, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No it wouldn't. Destynova (talk) 23:36, 10 July 2012 (UTC)

text: --Destynova 16:51, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

text: --Destynova 22:09, 15 December 2007 (UTC)
Talk:The New School for Social Research

message: I'm a little dubious about the dates when the university as a whole was officially the New School for Social Research -- was it really as late as 1997? I've put it in anyway because that's the only date I can find. Polonius 12:31, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't swear it was retained that long, but that was certainly the name in the 1970s. - Jmabel | Talk 05:19, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
Template talk:PMC

message: See Help talk:Citation Style 1#Format of PMCID is incorrect ---— Gadget850 (Ed) talk 11:53, 18 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Format of PMCID is incorrect 

message: Please change http:// to https:// as for HTTPS Everywhere LeadSongDog come howl! 18:44, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: The page's protection level has changed since this request was placed. You should now be able to edit the page yourself. If you still seem to be unable to, please reopen the request with further details. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk, contributions) 19:14, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you. Done. LeadSongDog come howl! 20:15, 21 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit request 

message: See
* Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Access locks: Visual Design RFC
* Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Access Locks: Citation Template Behaviour RFC
Headbomb {talk / contribs / physics / books} 17:03, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  RFCs on citations templates and the flagging free-to-read sources
Talk:Transport Canada

message: Seems to me that the Department of Communications was part of DOT until the early or mid 1970s ... anyone have the 411?  --plaws (talk) 01:53, 19 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: What exactly are you asking? if you mean communications as in media, that is rather different to the marine communications in the bailiwick of the Canadian Coast Guard. 70.49.18.153 (talk) 18:50, 21 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Communications?
Talk:Expected utility hypothesis

message: The section "Savage's Representation Theorem" should be fixed or dropped. It does not say what assumptions P1-P7 are nor explain the notation, so it is too incomplete to be useful. Shall I delete the section? 
--editeur24 (talk) 21:07, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  The section "Savage's Representation Theorem" should be fixed or dropped 

message: This edit is puzzling. It uses some very odd notation, thus:
: f < g ⇐⇒ Z Ω u(f(ω)) dP ≥ Z Ω u(g(ω)) dP
My best guess is that this was intended:
:  f<g \Longleftrightarrow \int_\Omega u(f(\omega))\, dP \ge \int_\Omega u(g(\omega)\, dP. 
However, the cited work by Li, Loomes, and Pogrebna has nothing about this. Michael Hardy (talk) 05:48, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Puzzling edit 

message: I think this section is mis-titled. The Tversky and Kahneman research that is summarised accepts the assumption that rational agents maximise subjective expected utility. Instead they say that people's behaviour doesn't follow SEU theory and so people choose irrationally (or that SEU isn't an appropriate normative standard). So it's confusing to label this a "criticism" of expected utility. Technically it's a criticism of the descriptive application of the expected utility hypothesis, rather than its normative application. There are different consistent positions one could take, including:
* SEU describes what rational agents do, and - most of the time / well enough - what humans do: the "Homo Oeconomicus" idea.
* SEU describes what rational agents do but not what human beings do: Tversky and Kahneman and a lot of subsequent psychological research.
* SEU doesn't describe rational agents or human beings.
* If you have total freedom in how you set utility functions and probability functions, then SEU can be fit to any behaviour, thus it doesn't say anything about rational versus irrational (I think this has come up as an option in John Broome's work).
For now I'm just raising this issue for discussion. I don't know what the solution is; it has to not just involve a change of heading but further explanation. MartinPoulter (talk) 15:07, 26 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Criticism"
Talk:Iota Horologii

message: This article appears to be presenting speculation as fact.
The phrase "this planet might have rings, maybe a Venus-like moon" seems to imply that there has been some detection which could be one of these things. Since we have no direct detection of the planet itself (only indirect radial-velocity measurements), any talk of rings and moons is at this point purely speculative. "If the planet has a large moon, then the environment might be like that of Venus" might be a better phrasing.
The chemical composition of the planet's atmosphere is unknown. As far as I can tell there is nothing in the literature which suggests that a gas giant can have sulfuric acid clouds, in the Sudarsky classification system which is about the best thing we have for predicting the appearance of extrasolar planets, the planet's temperature is in the range for water clouds (class II). No mention is made of sulfuric acid in this scheme.
This appears to be an analogy to Venus, which at a similar degree of insolation has sulfuric acid clouds, but Venus is a terrestrial planet, where the environment is oxygen rich, and the sulfur is in the form of sulfur dioxide and trioxide (from volcanoes), which can react with water vapour to form acid. On Jupiter the sulfur is in ammonium hydrosulfide (hydrogen rich compounds), and I don't see how to get from that to sulfuric acid. Chaos syndrome 13:07, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Limit of knowledge 

message: Is there any reference to Iota Horologii c in the literature? I've never come across it, and the Extrasolar Planets Encyclopedia does not list a second planet. Unless you can find a reference this should be deleted. Chaos syndrome 19:12, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iota Horologii c? 

message: For those of you who don't know how to pronounce Iota Horologii.  It's pronounced (Eye-oe-ta / Hor-oe-loe-gee-eye).  I got this data from this. — Hurricane Devon ( Talk ) 13:33, 20 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation 

message: How can a main-sequence star just three percent more massive be fifty percent brighter than the Sun?  Sounds like a subgiant to me, yet the age is listed as 300 million to two billion years old.  68Kustom (talk) 06:00, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Luminosity correct?
Talk:Mammary ridge

message: I'm translating the page from the German site. I should be finished soon. samwaltz 13:02, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This article states that third nipples are rare, but the article on Supernumerary nipples states that 1 in 18 people have them. So how rare is rare?
 -- CowplopmorrisTalkContribs 14:12, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Third nipples 

message: Think this merge was meant to be the other way about - Milk lines to Mammary crest. --Iztwoz (talk) 07:16, 22 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge
Talk:Daddio

message: This article is biased and needs to be edited. 207.200.116.9 07:49, 7 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV 

message: Daddio was filmed at Walt Disney Studios, Burbank, CA.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Petergriffin2003 (talk • contribs) 13:26, 29 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:   Filming location
Talk:Luther Terry

message: In the opening paragraphs, it mentions that one of Terry's "earliest memories" was of "driving his father in the family's Ford Model A".  I would have expect that he would be riding as a passenger in the Model A since "earliest memories" implies that he was still a juvenile and not likely the driver of the Model A.  -- 71.198.189.137 02:30, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ealiest memories 

message: Hello, there is an article here, http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1241, that might merit an external link. Thanks, Justin --Duboiju (talk) 15:56, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Link?

message: Any particular reason why we don't title this just "Luther Terry"?  That's what the world knew him as.  --  Jack of Oz [your turn] 02:02, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: No particular reason, apparently.  In that case, consider it moved.  --  Jack of Oz [your turn] 13:41, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Luther Leonidas Terry?
Talk:Clan Livingstone

message: The article claims that Livingstone/Livingstone is derived from the placename. 
This is a rudimentary and lazy error. Livingston didn't exist until 1960-something, which is at least several centuries too late to account for the surname.
It's also located no-where near the original clan holdings of the MacLeas.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C5:A005:CA01:DD63:5C3:93C6:E57D (talk) 16:59, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The placename and derived lowland surname existed for centuries before 1960. It was also the basis of an important title in the lowland Scottish nobility. The mystery is how it came to be attached to a highland clan. It may have been relatively recent, probably in the 18th century. But it is not so surprising given the way lowland surnames were enforced in the 18th century highlands.--Andrew Lancaster (talk) 18:34, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: The surname Livingstone is misattributed

message: I noticed this added to the page today.  If anyone has added information on the role of the Clan MacLea in that battle, it would be appreciated! Isoxyl 13:40, 18 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Battle of Pinkie Cleugh

message: Added some footnotes and the DNA project.  Should probably look at a way to link from lowland Livingston/e page if there is one...  Also, is there a page for Scottish Clans to link from as well? Probably should try to flesh things out a bit more with the text and make it more conversational than like it is now, more like a list...  Isoxyl 13:14, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Added redirects from McLea, MacLea, Clan McLea, Highland Clan McLea, Highland Clan MacLea, McOnLea, and Clan McOnLea. Isoxyl 19:40, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Footnotes and DNA project

message: I have had private correspondence with W. David H. Sellar Bute Pursuivant of Arms over the theory that MacLea comes from Son of the Physician and he agrees that this is unlikely.Young Bachuil 07:49, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Son of the Physician  
Talk:Konstantin Savitsky

message: Is the Stasov mentioned in the article Vladimir Stasov (the critik) or Vassily Stasov (the architect) or both or neither 13:26, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stasov? 

message: Most people are trying to put in the top right corner something that represnt the whole subject. For the artist it might be either his portrait, or the most famous painting (or even better a well-know self-portrait). I am not sure his gimnasium represents him the best way - I assume he was not choosing his gimnasium based on the architecture of its building? abakharev 13:26, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Top Image

message: Is it possible some Web Links or  book sources to the article? abakharev 13:26, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources
Talk:DES

message: ----
People looking for DES the drug likely will not see the header on the 
Data Encryption Standard page.  That is what happened to me.
I only found it because I googled "des birth defect", then found
the name of the chemical, then found the chemical name in 
wiki.  I want to make it easier for people to find it in wiki
and it is most commonly referred to as DES.
I made changes to make it go to the disambiguation page directly
instead of going to the Data Encryption Standard page.  
So Matt Crypto, Why do you keep changing it back?
Please leave it with the fixes I have made, or if you want to
change it back leave an explanation here.
John
Plano, TX, USA
: Thanks for your comments, John. On Wikipedia, the strategy of putting a header at the top of a page is quite standard (it's called "primary topic disambiguation"), and people learn to look out for it. Anyway, to compromise, I've added an explicit mention of Diethylstilbestrol into the DES header, but I think there's a case for primary disambiguation here, not equal disambiguation. — Matt Crypto 16:20, 27 September 2005 (UTC)

message: There is no reason to arbitrarily assign importance of Data Encryption Standard over Diethylstilbestrol.  Both are common uses of the acronym DES.  Perhaps if one of them was very rarely referred to as DES, or was very non-notable then a primary disambig would be appropriate, in this case I feel that equal disambiguation is appropriate.  To avoid an edit war, I suggest that we leave things as they are until this resolved.  I also recommend an RfC if and only if we are unable to come to a consensus here. Peyna 16:15, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: While I think there's some case for primary disambiguation here, I don't think it's particularly crucial, and I'm happy to let this page become a disambig page once we've fixed all the incoming links (most of which are meant for Data Encryption Standard). — Matt Crypto 23:11, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'll get on that Peyna 23:18, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Completed, I'm going to go ahead and remove the redirect and replace DES with DES (disambiguation) and then remove the primary disambig from Data Encryption Standard. Peyna 23:46, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks for doing the hard work with the incoming links (I did a dozen or so, and then my Internet connection went down). — Matt Crypto 10:30, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

text: I think it makes sense to move the RfC now! InvictaHOG 13:36, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambig 

message: Is there a degree called DES?  If so then it should be mentioned here. Bwrs (talk) 15:36, 22 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: If there is an article about a degree called DES, then it should be listed here, otherwise not - see WP:DDD. Mitch Ames (talk) 09:17, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: And we do have an article for Bachelor of Design (B.Des), so I've added it to the disambiguation page. Mitch Ames (talk) 09:24, 23 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: academic degree?

message: uhkokhtdthjnopppú  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 176.61.232.45 (talk) 07:53, 18 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  adrian   dalog
Talk:Martín de Goiti

message: This sentence
"There the Spaniards captured Limahong and his fleets in the river of Pangasinan and executed them."
seems to be wrong compared with the article about Limahong himself
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limahong)
where is clearly described that the siege in Pangasinan was 4 month and Limahong could flee with little ships being built in the fort passing a new channel and passing fire poles of the Spaniards. This flight is even described in a special chapter.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limahong#The_escape_of_Limahong)
So at the end Limalhong died on Tocaotican Island. Limahong was never captured nor killed as it seems. This should be controled or corrected in the article.
Michael Palomino
Logic and analytic historiography since 1992
--213.196.208.44 (talk) 14:14, 15 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Limahong could flee and was not killed
Talk:Resolution of the Dreyfus affair

message: On the Jewish Encyclopedia - terms of use page sect. 3.2 seems to forbid this... not to mention POV aspects.  I found nothing citing that it was taken from there or that permission was given.  If I am wrong please remove the copyvio and make the source of the material clear.  gren グレン 07:55, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyright?

message: This article seems to "start in the middle". The first line of text begins "On the same day as this arrest...", but never gives any context as to what arrest it is talking about. It looks like it was taken from the middle of a longer article. I've read through the Dreyfus affair series listed in the sidebox, and it seems like there is a gap between the Zola trials described in the "public Scnadal" page and the beginning of this page. It's a bit confusing. KeithHearn (talk) 18:27, 25 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Something is missing here 

message: The content of this article is covered by the Dreyfus affair, no need to have an article that duplicate parts of it. Ulflarsen (talk) 19:34, 14 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should be deleted
Talk:Florida Street

message: Someone could upload a good picture...--Zzzzzzus 13:56, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Oddly enough, most of us are not from, or don't currently live in Buenos Aires. Mariano(t/c) 14:03, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pictures 

message: The pictures of Galeria Pacifico, are they actually fresco? I recall them being "seco" paintings, but my recollection is very faint. Anybody? elpincha 21:03, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No ideo, amigo. Mariano(t/c) 07:22, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Fresco or Seco?

message: In the “Calle Florida” article, the word “Mall” or “Shopping Mall” is synonymous of a mall accessible only by motor driven vehicles with ample parking lots in suburbia and furthermore, it denotes the phenomenon of “Suburban Sprawl”, therefore the word “Mall” is not a good selection when we speak of a city designed on a pedestrian scale, in particular when the article refers to a pedestrianized street, for this reason i feel that  “Shopping Arcade” would be a better choice, its internationally adaptable, effective with the new tendencies in urbanism and city planning, plus it gives a flavour of quality and  elegance to the street. 
En el artículo sobre la calle Florida, la palabra “Mall” es sinónimo de un centro  comercial en los suburbios accessible solamente en vehículo y con playas de estacionamiento, ademas denota el fenómeno del impacto negativo de la ciudad del “desparrame urbano”, por eso creo que es una mala selección de palabra cuando hablamos de una ciudad diseñada a escala peatonal y más aun, de un area peatonalizada, por eso remplaze la palabra “Mall” y “Shopping Mall” por “Shopping Arcade”, cual ademas de ser internacionalmente adaptable, es vigente con las nuevas tendencias de urbanismo y le da un sabor elegancia y calidad a vuestra querida calle. - Moebiusuibeom-en 18:16, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: “''Mall''” versus “''Shopping Arcade''”
Talk:Cosmic Osmo and the Worlds Beyond the Mackerel

message: My dad was cleaning out his old computer stuff & found it. It was originally called "Cosmic Osmo" (with out the "and the..." extension. Would you mind if I added some to the article? Cheers, Her Pegship 17:07, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I guess it's probably a bit late to say this, but for the record, it's written: "Be bold.". --DocumentN (talk) 06:55, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  I have a floppy version 

message: *Interview
JimmyBlackwing (talk) 03:31, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source
Talk:Columbia Pictures Television

message: Lots of good information here, but it's all glommed into one long paragraph, which makes it hard to read. I can do some cleanup on this later tonight, but if anyone else is interested in reflowing this and making the details a bit easier to follow, feel free. -lee 14:07, 27 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Some cleanup needed

message: I'm not trying to nitpick, but don't you think the information about the many logos CPT used over the years are pretty unnecessary for this article? Maybe they should be removed (not trying to tick off the logo fans here); that's basically my opinion.--67.149.21.173 (talk) 21:32, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Logo information 

message: A discussion is taking place to address the redirect :Closing logos of Columbia Pictures Television. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 January 20#Closing logos of Columbia Pictures Television until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Dominicmgm (talk) 00:00, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Closing logos of Columbia Pictures Television" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]