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Talk:Electronic voice phenomenon

message: The telephone is the oldest technology that was used for EVP.
With the invention of telephone there was first time a device that could transmit human voices over long distance and convert between sound waves and electric signals. So in the telephone research labs of Graham Bell, people first time perceived yet unheard electric noise phenomena turned into sound through the phone receiver. 
Bell himself was agnostic but sympathized with Unitarian belief. Particularly he was engaged in spiritualism and attempted to contact his dead brothers. Although his assistant Thomas A. Watson made seances as a medium, Bell sought scientific truth, so questioning fake stage magic tricks of psychics and the human tendency of self-delusion, he struggled to use his acoustics knowledge to develop technical means to directly communicate with the spirit realm - hoping to create a tool for more objective answers. Reports of his experimental discoveries raised interest in spiritualist groups; so e.g. "phone-voyant" mediums claimed to hear ghost voices in the crackling noises of early telephones.
Later Thomas Edison challenged Bell and Nikola Tesla who can first build a spirit phone. Although no device was found, the invention of telephone (talking to a person without seeing etc.) remained associated with ghosts. E.g. the German language word "anrufen" (to make a phone call) was previously solely used for calling a god or spirit being.
* https://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/opinion/columnists/mabel-tells-bell-about-her-belief-in-spiritualism
* https://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/opinion/columnists/bell-discusses-spiritualism-with-mabel-i-havent-a-particle-of-belief
* https://www.ozy.com/true-and-stories/the-greatest-turn-of-the-century-inventors-really-wanted-to-talk-to-ghosts/221925/
* https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dial-a-ghost-on-thomas-edisons-least-successful-invention-the-spirit-phone
* https://www.salon.com/2017/10/08/who-you-gonna-call-edison-and-the-science-of-talking-to-ghosts/
92.193.22.221 (talk) 19:52, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:  WP:SYNTHESIS of sources, none of which explicitly discuss the article topic (EVP). - LuckyLouie (talk) 20:17, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:  The early telephone laboratories first time researched technology for transmission of voices through electricity; hence the historical spiritualist application of that knowledge is by definition even the origin of EVP research. Therefore this clearly belongs to the core topic of this article. 92.193.107.75 (talk) 16:11, 17 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  invention of telephone 

message: ITC not mention? EVP is part of ITC.
~~ED~~ 2607:FEA8:483:8E00:1078:240D:8BA0:6B4A (talk) 21:14, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: It’s mentioned 3 separate times in the article. - LuckyLouie (talk) 22:47, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Instrumental Transcommunication (ITC)
Talk:Grand Excursion

message: ----
The Grand Excursion is still going on for another week, so I was thinking wait until the event was over before finishing the article.
:JesseG 04:08, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Talk:FleetBoston Financial

message: LOL. And I always thought this was a toothpaste brand.-- ExpImptalkcon 12:35, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Toothpaste

message: If you think this page should be replaced with the Bank of America page, then there are better ways to go about it.
First, you should request a merger. If that's successful, then you should replace the text on this page with a redirect. 
I have reverted the edit that replaced this page with the text from the BofA page. I'll let more experienced folks determine whether a merger is appropriate. (since it survived a VFD, I'll take that as a comment that this article should stay the way it is.) -- TomXP411[Talk] 00:12, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Someone simply replaced this page with BofA
Talk:List of islands in the Baltic Sea

message: Fasta Åland should be listed there too! --213.186.255.15 11:02, 14 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Subaru BRAT

message: Over a decade after its production run ended, it is more popular than ever, with modifications and major upgrades (including a lift kit) now available. For all things BRAT visit www.SubaruBrat.com, and www.USMB.org for more broad Subaru matters.
For general trivial information: In the later 1980s and early 1990s at the wrecking yards (auto salvage yards selling used auto parts) where I worked very few BRAT parts were sold. What WAS in great demand were the seats bolted into the BRAT's bed. Owners of pick-up trucks bought them to allow passengers to ride in the pick-up bed in semi-comfort and to allow them to wear seat belts to increase passenger safety. I rarely see a BRAT on the road in the USA today.Obbop 01:43, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: older discussion

message: [someone else] removed these sections today. Placing here just-in-case. 
:==Notable owner==
:President Ronald Reagan owned a 1978 BRAT until 1998, which he kept at his ranch near Santa Barbara, California. The vehicle has since been restored and returned to the ranch, which is now owned by the Young America's Foundation. "The Presidential BRAT", Drive – The Magazine from Subaru, Winter 2009
:== In popular culture ==
:In the television show George Lopez; Ernie Cardenas, George's best friend, drives a Subaru BRAT.
:In the television show My Name Is Earl, Joy drives a Subaru BRAT painted with the American flag.Photos of BRAT from My name is Earl at IMCDb.org
:In the online comic Achewood, it is implied that everyone who goes to hell receives a 1982 Subaru BRAT. Achewood § December 1, 2003
I'll add an imcdb EL, which should cover a few of these. -- Quiddity (talk) 18:26, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed trivia

message: Approximately 90,000 second generation (EA81) BRAT's were imported into America between 1981 to 1987.
Approx 300,000 were imported into Australia between 1981 to 1994.
1991 and 1992 Subaru Australia released an "Aquip special" Brumby utility.
58.166.107.161 (talk) 10:59, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trivia
Talk:Bathroom Monkey

message: Since there is already an entry Saturday Night Live opening commercial, it seems dead-end to put this in its very own entry, no? Wetman 07:32, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)

message: For the deletion debate related to this article see Talk:Bathroom Monkey/delete -- Graham  ☺ | Talk 01:05, 14 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  VfD debate
Talk:New International Reader's Version

message: Some one had marked this for PROD.  I would suggest that all widely-circulated translations of the Bible, the most widely publihsed book in the world are notable.  I do not know this translation, but that is not surprising since I am a native English speaker.  Translations of this kind (including the Good News Bible are designed primarily for whom English is a second (or subsequent) language that they do not speak or understand well.  Such people manage better with a version using a smaller vocabulary and simplet syntax.   Peterkingiron (talk) 22:25, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Contesting PROD

message: In this edit  an editor  has added NIRV as an alternative to NIrV. I reverted the bold edit because those are the same thing, and because the sources provided actually use NIrV. The Bible Gateway uses NIRV in an all caps heading but NIrV in all sentence case usage. Nevertheless this edit has been reverted back in. Please would you, per WP:BRD, now self revert and discuss here until we find a consensus. Why does it make sense to list this alternative capitalisation?  How is the reader informed by this? Thanks. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 11:58, 23 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Sirfurboy, my curiosity was aroused when I saw NIrV in use: I would be interested to know why the lower case 'r' is used, as the standard form of the abbreviation would be NIRV. The word "Reader's" remains capitalised. I had thought that the Biblica site (reference [3] in the article) would have helped but this refers to NIV now, not the New International Reader's Version. However, the capitalised abbreviation is used by Biblica at https://www.biblica.com/bible/nirv/genesis/1/ etc. so I think the reader needs to be informed that both forms are in use. The article should perhaps state that NIrV is more "official", and ideally could explain why. - BobKilcoyne (talk) 05:40, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I presume the lower case is asserted because there is a definite NIV brand, and the publishers wish to assert that the NIrV is the readers version of the NIV, in the same way that they branded the NIV 2011 as the NIV, rather than "revised NIV" or similar. I don't have a source for that, but NIrV does appear to be the official abberviation, as per the sources. Biblica also use that form when talking about the version, and that "read online" section appears to merely show an inconsistency. I simply do not see what the reader gains by putting "or NIRV" all over the place either, as that usage comes under the heading of "obvious".Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 08:35, 24 January 2023 (UTC)

text: Happy to leave the abbreviation as it is. BobKilcoyne (talk) 21:07, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abbreviation
Talk:Radical (Chemistry II)

message: There is a suggestion to merge Radical (chemistry) with Free radical.
*There is definately no need for both, so I think the question is "how", rather than "if" 
*I would prefer making the main page Radical, and have Free Radical point to it. Free radical is more of a biology/biochemical/buzzword term and doesnt differentiate from non-free radicals.
*The second definition of radical in Radical (chemistry) is (IMHO) antiquated, and no longer used.
Zwa 01:31, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

message: This is a blatant misuse of wikipedia.  It is misleading to put this advertisment for a research centre in a section that is supposed to be informative for the public.  The definition of free radical and background on it's discovery and uses are covered under radical(chemistry) which is the same as the implied meaning under the title 'free radical'. The implication that this one research centre deserves such a favoured position under this diverse topic is an insult to a generation of scientists who have worked on free radicals.  The radical was not discovered within this centre nor has the defining work of the last 50 years been done there (the centre is only 2 years old). I suggest free radical be linked to that page and that this ridiculous attempt at free advertising be deleted. 128.250.91.230 09:28, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Free Radical Centre

message: Does someone know about a good image to post here? And perhaps also in the FRTA page. Jotomicron | (talk) 00:46, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Images
Talk:Download.ject

message: Anything of use/ interest in this article from The Register? Andy Mabbett 09:15, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Suit

message: Why are the two pictures of suits at the top of this article both pictures of autocratic tyrants? Erdogan and Modi are both highly controversial demagogues. Putin is a secret policeman with a reputation for bumping-off adversaries in foreign countries. 
You don't have to be a dictator to wear a business suit; I have one in my wardrobe. I propose to delete these pictures, which are not anything to do with business suits, and are rather about the people the suits contain. I'm going to do this tomorrow, unless someone shouts. MrDemeanour (talk) 03:12, 7 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dictators 

message: In my opinion, information needs adding to the 'Shirts with suits' sub-title in the article as the only thing under the sub-title is a link, whereas the other sub-titles have both information and links on them. I feel that adding information to said sub-title may help to maintain the consistency of the article. Xboxsponge15 (talk) 14:02, 2 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Information needs adding to the 'Shirts with suits' sub-title in the article 

message: An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect :Menswear and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 July 16#Menswear until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Anarchyte (talk) 07:14, 16 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Menswear" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: I understand that there's a codified system of Western dress norms, under which a suit is called "informal wear," but in everyday language a suit definitely falls under "formal" clothing. Can we clarify this without removing the reference to traditional Western dress codes? AdamPronouncedAdam (talk) 19:13, 25 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can we clarify the "informal wear" designation in the lead?
Talk:Kunio-kun

message: I moved it to the current title in accordance with the Wikipedia:Manual of Style for Japan-related articles - This series has no official spelling (since it was "broken up" into different unrelated games in English-speaking countries) WhisperToMe 11:20, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Moved

message: Please someone familiar with Japanese review game titles in the Technos Japan Corporation article. How do you write: Koha or Kouha, Kunio Kun or Kunio-kun? It would be good to syncronize titles, references and screenshots with the Nekketsu Koha Kunio-kun article. --kAtremer 11:27, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Related article 

message: There is the following entry in the table:
熱血高校サッカー部 ワールドカップ編 Nekketsu Kōkō Soccer-bu: World Cup-hen 	Game Boy 	26 April 1991 	Nintendo World Cup
I would say World Cup Soccer is an article that is about this game. --Abdull 13:09, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Game Boy Soccer game 

message: Is it possible to give River City Girls its own page? I know that numerous gaming outlets have praised the game, but I don't exactly know what the qualifications are to making a page. (2607:FCC8:B0CA:8A00:4DD0:2735:FA0E:88F4 (talk) 02:42, 19 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I would recommend asking that question at the WikiProject discussion page for more visibility.2A01:E0A:18F:6570:A9C5:249D:FB30:860 (talk) 19:22, 22 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  River City Girls
Talk:Ballyfermot

message: I think your map is upside-down :-)  Ballyfermot is south of Chapelizod & north of Walkinstown, not the other way around.  --AndrewH 12:07, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Donna Summer

message: I am from Germany, doctor of medicine, born 1964, and I know very well the German film serie "11 Uhr 20" from 1970 (once more on German TV in 1985), in which Donna Summer has a small role als a singing female dancer. So I have corrected the chapter "filmography" in this wiki-article.
Donna summer has a role as singing dancer in the German crime serie "11 Uhr 20", that is right. But she performs in the FIRST episode "Mord am Bosporus" (engl: Murder at bosphorus-side), NOT in the third episode "Tod in der Kasbah" (engl: Death in the kasbah). Accordingly, she was not dancer in a kasbah. She performed as dancer in an indecent bar in Istanbul, which in the film is owned by a criminal. The gag of the scene: While the innocent main actor (Hans-Joachim Fuchsberger) is fighting in the bar, handling a revolver, throwing chairs, the female dancer (Donna Summer) continues singing. 87.163.191.168 (talk) 00:36, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Filmography 

message: Birth name is LaDonna Adrian Gaines, not Donna. And  reverted it stating it is "possible vandalism" when it is not. TheGreatestLuvofAll ( chat with me ) 17:43, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you have a source for this information? CodeTalker (talk) 18:00, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: A user also did this redirect in the article. Sources:, , public records also list her name as that only in aliases only like in find a grave or ancestry or whatever else, more sources , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,  Summer changed her first name from LaDonna to Donna as listed in one of these sources. I don’t really care if they are not or are reliable sources at all, even if they aren’t, it is not a good source for that info.  TheGreatestLuvofAll ( chat with me ) 18:20, 28 December 2023 (UTC)

text: The page used the birth name LaDonna until this edit earlier in 2023, which claimed that "Her own daughter, Brooklyn Sodano, found her mother's birth certificate. Her birth name was Donna; LaDonna was a family nickname. Sodano says the misunderstanding came from her mother's own book" - sourced from this interview.  Official Massachusetts birth records (primary sources) give the birth name Donna.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 19:46, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh ok. Thanks.  TheGreatestLuvofAll ( chat with me ) 20:15, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth name changed
Talk:Douglas DC-3

message: Hi People:  Interested parties are directed to: "Diverse Photos Added to DC-3 Article on 17 May Deleted This AM; Other Opinions, Please?" near the top of the Teahouse.  I'd be most interested on how my photo changes are viewed from this group. Based on comments mainly from Fabrickator, my photos are down from 7 additional ones, mainly in Whitespace, to 4. All comments welcome and have a look at the updated article, please. BrettA343 (talk) 20:47, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Courtesy link: WP:Teahouse#Diverse Photos Added to DC-3 Article on 17 May Deleted This AM; Other Opinions, Please? (Hohum @) 21:35, 30 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo Edit to DC-3 Article Recently Done - Discussion at The Teahouse; Can We have More Opinions, Please? 

message: Cuurent text states:
: Before the war, it advanced air travel as it could more readily cross the continental US, made international flights economically feasible, carried passengers in greater comfort, and was reliable and easy to maintain
I think we should consider reverting all the way back to the text from this edit]:
: It was fast, had a good range, was more reliable and carried passengers in greater comfort. Before the war it pioneered many air travel routes. It was able to cross the continental US from New York to Los Angeles in 18 hours and with only 3 stops.
Fabrickator (talk) 10:39, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Click  to view. Fabrickator (talk) 07:18, 21 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  suggestion to revert to older text (completed) 

message: I understand that we don't want to lump them all together, but to many people, "DC-3" implies the DC-3, C-47/53, Li-2, etc, not just the civilian DC-3. Perhaps we could list the production numbers of each variant separately, but all on the "DC-3" page.  Pabst blue ribbon led zeppelin (talk) 00:11, 30 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Total production numbers 

message: In the paragraph starting "During World War II ..." we learn that "Licensed copies of the DC-3 were built in Japan as the Showa L2D (487 aircraft)". Seems a tad unlikely that the Japanese would have gone through the courtesies of obtaining a license from a country they were at war with. I suspect that somewhere we've switched to talking about the post-war period, but it's not very clear where. Somebody fix, please. GrindtXX (talk) 20:18, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: There's nothing to "fix", as the license was obtained in 1938, prior to WWII. The details are given in the Showa/Nakajima L2D article, where they should be covered. BilCat (talk) 22:28, 28 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Japanese copies 

message: I thin the primary users of the dc 3 should be added below its status, Can anyone help me with that? Ca we agree on that?
UselessDude123 (talk) 07:22, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Difficult, with many thousands of operators it would not make sense. MilborneOne (talk) 08:38, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Primary users of the DC-3
Template talk:Ivy League

message: what a horrible green... Sky 13:24, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, changed it to a pale green. If you still don't like the color, feel free to change it as you please. However, keep it a shade of green to suit "ivy". MementoVivere 18:08, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)

text: your green looks fine :-) Sky 10:54, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Color

message: Yale keeps getting bumped down to a third line for me — I can't figure out why it doesn't just expand; there's no forced width that I can see. Doops |  talk 17:48, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: by removing the forced spaces at front and end of the second line, I got the problem to go away. Then to add some padding back, I turned on cell padding. Seems to work. Doops |  talk 17:56, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Layout

message: I have removed :Image:IvyLeague 100.png from this page as per our fair use policy, which expressly forbids the usage of fair use images outside article space. This includes all templates, even those included on articles. Johnleemk | Talk 15:33, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Too much time on my hands, even compared to other editors

message: Shouldn't this template be about the schools, not the teams?  The academics of the schools are much, much more notable than their football teams.  Who the hell cares about school-level sports?  There ought to be a navigation template about the schools themselves, and that template should probably have this name.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.153.8.75 (talk) 15:49, 1 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, technically this is a football conference although that's certainly not what popular culture is familiar with.RevelationDirect (talk) 02:31, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Football
Talk:Joe South

message: Would think it is in the U.S., so why does this article use UK English, e.g., "honours," spellings?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.158.48.90 (talk) 18:42, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: See MOS:ENGVAR. Opencooper (talk) 21:40, 18 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Where is Georgia?

message: Most sources list Joe South as living in Buford, Georgia, at his death.  However, PeopleSmart.com, which almost never makes a mistake, lists Joe South as having lived in Flowery Branch, Georgia, among other places, but no listing for him in Buford, Georgia.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.151.174.67 (talk) 22:17, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Buford or Flowery Branch?
Talk:Debout Congolais

message: According to the french wikipedia, http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debout_Congolais, the correct title is "Debout Congolais", which is way more logic.
:The title is indeed 'Debout Congolais', according to both the old and the transitional constitution of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I have renamed the article accordingly. Pepicek 16:58, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Title

message: Pleese add English translation of the lyrics. Propatriamori (talk) 23:59, 17 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  English translation
Talk:Collineation

message: :Section title added. —Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 00:48, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Only basic 

message: I know the article is incomplete but I was taught at uni that the fundamental theorem says something different.  Suppose you have two projective spaces and a collineation from one to the other.  Then their dimension is equal, and not only are the two fields isomorphic, there is an semilinear nonsingular map from the first space to the second inducing the collineation.  This nonsingular map is unique to multiplication with a scalar from the second field.  Basically, when the geometric dimension is n , a set of n+2 points no three of which collinear, can be mapped onto another by a collineation in the second space , in just so many ways as the fields have automorphisms.
Do you agree?
:Well, that sounds like an extension. Do we have a good discussion of collineation yet? By the way, please sign with ~~~~ for a time-stamped signature. Charles Matthews 12:35, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  different statement 

message: I’m not totally clear on the distinction between projectivity and collineation; PlanetMath notes that in some definitions there is a difference, but in others there is not. An example would clarify matters, if anyone has one forthcoming.
:—Nils von Barth (nbarth) (talk) 01:55, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Projectivity vs. collineation