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Talk:History of the Constitution of Brazil

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: not moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) – robertsky (talk) 08:11, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: History of the Constitution of Brazil →  – WP:CONSISTENT with the most articles about other countries in :Category:Constitutional history. Waltermaid (talk) 07:50, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

text: * Oppose, see History of the United States Constitution for example. Not sure what consistency OP is referring to. PhotographyEdits (talk) 18:50, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 5 August 2022
Talk:AT&T Communications

message: [1951] "inaugurated the Long Lines network," sounds iffy.
Coast to coast voice existed long before then. L1 was installed in the 1930's. Further, there was K-Carrier back to the late 1920's.
166.84.1.1 (talk) 17:56, 28 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  inaugurated? 

message: I propose that AT&T Communications (2017) be merged into AT&T Communications as they are the SAME company just from different times. I think the best approach is to Move AT&T Communications (2017) to AT&T Communications and move AT&T Communications to AT&T Communications's history section. 
—  BrandonALF   (talk) 01:43, 5 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal
Talk:Mackie Academy

message: I added Stonehaven before Aberdeenshire, this can easily be verified by the mackie academy site,
here's the URl for the location section of the site http://www.mackie.aberdeenshire.sch.uk/Location/location.html
i think that citation or something or other should probably be added but i'm not the person to do that as i've no clue how...
Will 20:51, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Voere VEC-91

message: One thing I've read about caseless ammunition is that they're quite fragile compared to conventional rounds, requiring feed systems like the G11's top-mounted magazine. But the VEC-91 seems to use a more conventional bolt action, which, as I understand it, should run the risk of damaging the round as it's loaded, or make it more difficult to extract a failed or unfired round. It would be interesting to see more information on how it avoids this.--31.98.10.55 (talk) 08:58, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
Talk:Death in Venice (opera)

message: Can we add some information about critical reviews/reception?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.201.165.87 (talk) 15:13, 22 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:John Morris (historian)

message: This article omits mention of his controversial The Age of Arthur: A History of the British Isles from 450–650 (1973) -- which might be a kindness to the late scholar. It was subjected to devastating & detailed criticism by D.P. Kirby and J.E. Caerwyn Williams in Studia Celtica, 10 (1975/6) 454 - 486. -- llywrch 21:05, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No it doesn't - it's mentioned in the first paragraph. --Nicknack009 21:54, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Visteon

message: I can't work out from the description of Automotive Components Holdings when it is talking about plants still in Visteon and when about those ACH - can the author rewrite this more clearly? From the Web, there still appear to be several Visteon (formerly Ford UK) plants and other facilities in Britain. Pterre (talk) 15:06, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It does not make any sense to me either. I have just been phoned by a job agency about a post at Visteon in Chelmsford, UK. Yet reading this article, one would think Visteon have no pressence here. I wonder if it would be better removed until it is more accurate?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.147.226.131 (talk) 09:42, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confused 

message: Does anyone know why this article was tagged for copyright and then subsequently cleaned? The article used to have a structure previous to this but now it lacks a great deal of detail and overarching presentation. Can we revert back to a previous version and remove copyright concerns only?
Kurjagger (talk) 16:55, 15 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright Reversion
Talk:Haplogroup NO1

message: Has somebody read the paper of Siiri Rootsi et al.: A counter-clockwise northern route of the Y chromosome haplogroup N from Southeast Asia towards Europe? The NO* clade obviously stems from southern China/northern Burma! Centrum9982.100.61.114 (talk) 15:45, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The Y-tree on this page needs to be rewritten, at least, haplogroup N has been greatly altered. Nagelfar (talk) 22:00, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  2006 ISOGG to 2008 ISOGG 
Talk:Bromham, Wiltshire

message: This is a revised version of the Amenities section. It still needs sources and citations as well as some further revision and added information. If anybody could see to bringing this up to encyclopedia standard, I would be much obliged. :) (Dead-In-Horrorwood 21:16, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Amenities 

message: With the best will in the world, this article is more like a Parish Magazine than an encyclopedic article. There's virtually nothing about its history, especially the Baynton family, nothing about the fame of locally-cured ham, and the section on the football club was simply too much for a casual reader. However, as a start, it's not that bad; it has an infobox, and a good, representative image. Since I'm working on North Wilts history at present, I've pencilled this in for attention. As regards the above amenities, with the best will in the world, we just don't list every small business in every location; there are other websites for that. --Rodhullandemu 00:53, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Rejig
Talk:Hummel figurines

message: Although there is a photo of a large Hummel statue, and it is similar in shape, it is not representative of the Hummel figurines. --Emana (Talk) 16:56, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Photograph

message: I have not heard anybody refer to figurines in general as "hummels" or even use the word hummel to describe anything by M.I.Hummel brand figurines. I HAVE heard people say "figurines like Hummel" and "little children like Hummels". Are there any publications out there that may support generic usage? -- Emana 21:22, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not exactly a publication, but all references to these figurines in Better Call Saul involve the usage of "Hummels" as a reference to a bunch of the figurines or the figurines as a class--so I'd suspect it's used often enough that works of fiction use it this way to imitate life. This isn't the greatest of sites, but here are some lazy captions from the show that you can Ctrl+F through here and here. 96.41.225.223 (talk) 18:42, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Kleenex?
Talk:Campeonato Mineiro

message: I have twice reverted edits attempting to delete recognition of Cruzeiro's 2002 state title. I understand that rivaling teams may dispute the winner of that competition. However, independent sources recognize the 2002 title as "divided", as does the Wikipedia page for Cruzeiro, so in the name of consistency and relying on the independent sources, this page should recognize 2002 as divided as well. See, https://www.otempo.com.br/sports/futebol/campeonato-mineiro-ja-teve-ate-titulo-de-campeao-dividido-saiba-quando-1.2843726 GreenComputer9 (talk) 03:19, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  2002 Mineiro
Talk:Nadine Gordimer/Archive 1

message: The current wording is intended to imply that Gordimer's mother was not Jewish, which is untrue.  It is furthermore untrue that she was "raised a Christian," as the article currently states. On page 33 of "No Cold Kitchen: A Biography of Nadine Gordimer," Ronald Suresh Roberts writes "Gordimer's mother was named Nan (her real name was Hannah, née Myers).  Her father went by Isidore Gordimer...  Isidore and Nan were both products of the large Jewish migration to South Africa in the last decades of the nineteenth century (he from the Eastern European Pale, she from London)."  Much of the chapter entitled "Wellsprings: Ancestry" deals with the Jewish backgrounds of both sides of Nadine Gordimer's family.  She and her sister did attend a Catholic parochial school, where "Nadine and Betty were the only Jews" (Roberts, page 47), but she is not a Christian.  In an article on Gordimer in "Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century," Marcia Leveson quotes Gordimer as saying "I have never denied that I'm Jewish and have no desire to deny it.  For me, being Jewish is like being black: you simply are.  To want to deny it is simply disgusting." Jinfo 06:42, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Nadine Gordimer's Ancestry
Talk:Knee cartilage replacement therapy

message: A lot of these procedures are not exclusive to the the knee and can be done in other joints, such as hip and ankle (MACI). Will rename unless there are any objections.
Sebinsf (talk) 04:57, 3 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename to cartilage replacement therapy? 

message: I removed the following new section
::Exercise
::The primary treatment of anterior knee pain or chondromalacia of the patella is a strengthening program of the quadriceps muscle.  Strengthening of the quadriceps muscle when done properly often results in approximately 90% cure rate for this condition.   The reason that strengthening of the quadriceps muscle is effective is that it takes the pressure away from the knee cap cartilage and puts it into the muscular tissue.  Also strengthening of the quadriceps muscle assures that the kneecap is tracking properly and distributing the load evenly inside the knee cap-thigh bone joint. http://www.pamf.org/sports/king/condromaliciapatella.html 
The above was actually a quote lifted from the given reference, so is copy violation.
The reference is dubious.
And it is nonsensical physics to say that "strengthening of the quadriceps muscle ... takes the pressure away from the knee cap cartilage and puts it into the muscular tissue". Sorry, wp med needs more accuracy than that.
However, my sports doctor advised me to even up the strength of my quads (my lateral muscles have become shorter than my 'inside' muscles, which lengthened with multi-hour bicycling), saying that the unevenness might cause poor tracking and contribute to the chrondal flap behind my patella.
So if anyone has nice secondary sources...
BenevolentUncle (talk) 03:06, 24 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed new Exercise section - can we do it better? 
Talk:RA-4 process

message: Hey Ron... Give me a hand here! Discpad 21:41, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

message: Which color developing agent does RA-4 use? I presume either CD-3 or CD-4.  I would like to link to the appropriate article. Gah4 (talk) 05:40, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  CD?
Talk:Arab al-Samniyya

message: The section 1948 War has the phrase: "its inhabitants were completely ethnically cleansed". This usage is incorrect: people are not "ethnically cleansed," places are. "Ethnic cleansing" is a euphemism (of 1990s coinage) meaning the "forcible removal of an ethnic population."  As listed on the Operation Hiram page), the fighting took place on Oct. 30-31, 1948. So what particularly happened to the inhabitants of Arab al-Samniyya on those dates, at the time the village was captured? Were they present when the buildings were demolished? Were there casualties? How exactly were the inhabitants removed, or had they left before the hostile forces attacked? What were the refugees' destinations? These factual details would provide an accurate and objective description of the fall of Arab al-Samniyya, thus determine the use of the term "ethnic cleansing" or otherwise. -- Deborahjay (talk) 21:57, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Further note: the term "ethnic cleansing" is a journalistic usage, but possibly inappropriate language for an encyclopedia entry. -- Deborahjay (talk) 06:02, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: note: the term "ethnic cleansing" is a term used in Human rights law and so is suitable for an encyclopaedic entry....Ashley kennedy3 (talk) 10:30, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ethnically cleansed 

message: I've reverted my edit to retain the original usage dunums for the plural of the land unit. The English Wikipedia page on dunam is titled according to the conventional, contemporary Hebrew-to English transliteration, but two mainstream (though not unabridged) English-languagedictionaries—Encarta and Merriam-Webster's Collegiate—don't show it accepted into English under either spelling. Suggestion: not to reword here pending outcome of further investigation. -- Deborahjay (talk) 06:12, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dunums vs. dunam 
Talk:Inconfidência Mineira

message: Please see: http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alferes
There is no way this is equivalent to the rank of lieutenant colonel!189.38.128.180 (talk) 16:13, 28 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: :Inconfidência Mineira →  – English name, or some variation of it. Torimem (talk) 20:46, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Strong Oppose. Inconfidência is by far the WP:COMMONNAME for the event, as is clear in an English-language Ngram search and searching in English on Google Scholar: 682 for Inconfidência vs. 61 for Minas Gerais Conspiracy, 31 for Conspiracy of Minas, and 122 for Minas Conspiracy. It should be noted that many of the latter three options were found as parentheticals to Inconfidência Mineira. —Carter (Tcr25) (talk) 21:42, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: @Tcr25, yes, but should this rule really be applied here? You're comparing English terms with non-English ones. I suppose the English Wikipedia should give priority to English terms in this case. It's just weird to have a random name in Portuguese like that, it feels out of place. Torimem (talk) 22:09, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: No, because it's the name the event is commonly referred to in English. It may look like a "random name in Portuguese" in isolation, but if you are looking in English scholarships for information about the Inconfidência, then that's the name you would use to find the majority of WP:RS sources. —Carter (Tcr25) (talk) 23:02, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: @Tcr25, many of the results shown in English on the Google Schoolar search are actually abstracts of Portuguese papers. Torimem (talk) 23:06, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: In a quick spot check, that seems to be about two (on average) per page of returns, so even if a quarter of the results are Portuguese-language articles, it's still much more common than a translated version. —Carter (Tcr25) (talk) 23:11, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 21 May 2024
Talk:Bitangent

message: Isn't a Bitangent by this definition the same as a secant line?  How does it differ mathematically?  Also, I've heard "bitangent" and "binormal" used interchangeably in the context of a graphics programming applications (such as parallax mapping).  Is this idea at all related to the definition provided here? --Tim Ambrogi
:Secant lines, in general, cross a curve twice. Bitangents have two points where they touch the curve but do not cross it. The article could do a better job of making this more clear; I will work on rewording it and linking to secant. —David Eppstein 21:54, 22 February 2007 (UTC)

message: The caption on the diagram is somewhat unclear, especially the phrase 'symmetric with respect to the origin'. To me, symmetric with respect to the origin means symmetric with respect to a 180 degree rotation about the origin. Since 4 of the tangents pass through the origin, 16 lines would be needed to include all 28 as either in the diagram or in the diagram's symmetric image. If any rotation about the origin is meant, then 8 lines are needed. If the full symmetry group D4 is meant then only 6 lines are needed. Would the diagram be too complicated if all 28 lines were included? Maybe a simpler curve with a single bitangent would be clearer (if less cool).--RDBury (talk) 17:00, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I changed it to "symmetric with respect to 90° rotations through the origin." Does that help? —David Eppstein (talk) 17:13, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Issue with diagram
Talk:Convocations of Canterbury and York

message: Since the references for this article will depend mainly on a few detailed sources, I propose to use  style references as illustrated below which link via a short foot–note to a bibliography.  Is this ok?— Jpacobb (talk) 23:24, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Footnote style 

message: In the book "Lord of the World", R. H Benson says:
"the Ritualists, as they used to call them, after a desperate attempt to get into the Labour swim, came into the Church after the Convocation of ’19, when the Nicene Creed dropped out; and there was no real enthusiasm except among them. "
Is there something historic about this sentence? (Page 5 or so)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.91.51.235 (talk) 15:44, 25 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  History in novels.
Template talk:See Wiktionary

message: Why/where is this preferred over ?  I guess this does seem to be a little more in the style of de.wikipedia.org sister-links, but on enwiki, most of our links to sister sites seem to be in the larger boxes.  (eg. see :de:Vorlage:Wiktionary and its use at the bottom of :de:Atom or :de:Automobil, and compare/contrast to the box on the right at George W. Bush#External links) --Interiot 21:50, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Ridicule (an example) 16@r 09:43, 24 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why another template? 

message: How about using customary English quotation marks instead of guillemets? —Fleminra 22:25, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Oups! Corrected. 16@r 17:35, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guillemets? 

message: The documentation needs to mention that Wiktionary does not have initial capitalization on; it, unlike English Wikipedia, is able to distinguish between "mercury" and "Mercury" which are separate and distinct Wiktionary entries, for example.  That means that 
#The documentation for this template should warn editors about that.
#The default with no parameters should perhaps be eliminated.  When it is used, it will much more likely be used for a common noun or adjective which is not normally capitalized, so the default always-capitalized PAGENAME parameter will often be wrong.
Gene Nygaard (talk) 02:00, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Guess I should have looked closer first.  The default actually lowercases the first letter.  That's probably good; it still needs mention in the documentation so that when the uppercase initial letter Wiktionary entry is desired, it can be used.  Or at least I'm assuming it can be, without looking in detail at the actual programming of this template.  Gene Nygaard (talk) 02:07, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiktionary does not have initial capitalization on

message: What would people think about changing the default value of parameter 3 to "term" if the second parameter contains more than one word?  There is probably a bit of Lua somewhere that we can use for that purpose. Yaris678 (talk) 08:55, 28 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Term
Talk:Electronic voice phenomenon/Archive 4

message: In the new "Milestones" section at the top of the talkpage, I've added links to all of official discussions thus far that I knew about.  If there have been other peer reviews, those can be added too if someone points out the links.  And if/when this article meets the standard for an official Good article or Featured article status, those discussions can be added too.  :) --Elonka 21:52, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Fantastic addition, Elonka!  I like the way it expands when needed, we definitely were beginng to suffer from "too many tags" syndromw.  Um, I have no scientific data or citations for that claim, but trust me - just this once!  :) Dreadlocke  ☥  22:07, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: New Article History template
Talk:St Paul's Church, Bristol

message: Both are used in the article - which is it? 82.32.238.139 18:46, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: St Pauls or St Paul's?

message: How high is the tower? It looks enormous. Its design makes me smile - it looks a bit like the architect couldn't quite decide which gothic design to go for, so went for all of them, getting progressively smaller as he went up. Rob (talk) 19:08, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  The tower 
Talk:Golf (billiards)

message: ...on the basis of no sources and non-notability; the Internet gamer nicknames of one of the variants' alleged originators is a dead giveaway (as is "deathmatch", an e-gamer term).  The especially-offending second entry is not only a self-confessing "distant cousin" to the article topic but clearly unrelated in any way at all.  The entries (with cleanup, and with further cleanup-tagging):
==="Woburn short-course" variant===
 This alternative, with many regional variants, involves a predetermined arrangement of three to five balls with a predetermined par. Each arrangement constitutes a hole, with eighteen holes to a game. No hole is like any other, and pars range between three to five per hole.
<nowiki>==="Blind man's deathmatch" variant===
This distant cousin of pool golf was developed by Mr. Mooney and The Beast. The rack consists of ten to twenty balls (depending upon availability) arranged in a straight line (touching each other) with the far ball touching the  at the  end of the table and extending towards the  through the . In this fast-paced, low-skill duel between archenemies, balls are kept in continuous motion until the table is cleared.<nowiki>
SMcCandlish (talk), 09:46, 7 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Unsourced variants removed...
Talk:List of Maine county seats

message: Why was the list of Counties numbered? A list should not be unless those numbers reflect some order, for instance if the counties were listed here in order of creation seniority, or population, or land mass, etc. and that reference was explained.
As it is, what did the numbers add to this list? Nothing. They were removed as per the Wiki editing guidelines quoted below dealing with lists.
Bulleted lists
Do not use bullets if the passage reads easily using plain paragraphs or indented paragraphs. If every paragraph in a section is bulleted, it is likely that none should be bulleted.
Do not mix grammatical styles in a list – either use all complete sentences or use all sentence fragments. Begin each item with a capital letter, even if it is a sentence fragment.
When using complete sentences, provide a period at the end of each.
When using sentence fragments, do not provide a period at the end.
Numbered lists
All the rules for bulleted lists apply also to numbered lists.
Use numbered rather than bulleted lists only if you will be referring back to items by number, or the sequence of the items is critical (for example, you are explaining step 1, step 2, etc. of a multi-step process).
JackME 22:14, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject California/San Francisco Bay Area task force/Templates

message: If you know of any Bay Area-related userboxes that have not yet been added to this list, feel free to add them. — Emiellaiendiay 21:55, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have been creating and revamping some of the Bay Area alumni userboxes.  I do requests.  --Dynaflow 22:14, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I am starting a series of Userboxes related to eight of nine counties within the scope of this WikiProject (viz., WikiProject San Francisco Bay Area); four are already catalogued as of 05:38, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Update:  All eight catalogued as of 15:03, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Add to list