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Talk:Jack Thompson (activist)/Archive 3

message: :"He also attempted to link the game "Manhunt" to the murder of Stefan Pakeerah, 14, by his friend Warren Leblanc, 17. After it was later found that Leblanc's actions were due to a drug addiction, Thompson then clamed that a gaming magazine reported that he tried to link "Manhunt" to the killings rather than the police."
This is all wrong and needs fixing; perhaps even ommitting. It was Stefan Pakeerah's mother who claimed that Manhunt provoked LeBlanc to kill her son. The police never once cliamed any link - on the contrary, they maintained throughout the case that there was no link to the game. There are dozens of reports from the time on the BBC's website had anybody cared to check - you'll notice that he doesn't feature in any of them until after these claims were reported, because he simply jumped on the Anti-Manhunt bandwagon after it started rolling. A single line saying as much would be more factually correct. --—The preceding unsigned comment was added by  80.225.9.99 (talk • contribs) October 11, 2005.
::Was this the case where they later found the game in the murdered boy's room instead of the murderer's? And then they started to run rumors that the murderer was denied by the murdered playing the game and that's why he killed him? That was good stuff. I love how people twist things to fit their agenda, no matter how lousy it sound and how fabricated it has to be. I think Jack will end up arrested for paying an officer to place a box of Bully in a murder scene so he could scream "rockstar did it!". Seriously. Know what I love about bandwagons? They're made of wood. One shell of logical-reality incindairy and they burn down. Viva la intelligent-violene. ^_^ --82.80.1.104 07:44, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pakeerah Murder Case 

message: This article is fantastic. Can someone link me to the vote where blatant POV became policy? --211.28.82.49 04:39, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It is fantastic, but what I love even more is when folks recognize a problem with an article, but choose to make pithy comments instead of contributing, or even pointing out specific issues! --Fox1 13:49, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Everything in this article is a fact, as far as I can tell. If you actually like Jack Thompson, and think that the facts are presented in a biased way, then feel free to edit the article. But don't go around removing true statements just because they make him look bad. Making the article biased in favor of Jack Thompson won't help anything. --69.141.141.174 23:51, 17 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  <sarcasm>This article is fantastic</sarcasm>
Talk:Ō-yoroi

message: Perhaps this article should be moved to Japanese armour? (Parallel articles at Chinese armour, Korean armour and Mongolian armour.--Confuzion 03:52, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I see no reason why there shouldn't be separate articles for Asian armor pieces.  There are plenty of individual articles for European armor pieces. Durova 00:43, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Move to [[Japanese armour]]?
Talk:Neighborhoods in Louisville, Kentucky

message: These are based on an official PDF map of Louisville's neighborhoods, created by LOJIC .  I'm sure there are better sources, but the boundaries given in the map are completely accurate as far as I can tell.
I have seperated the list into neighborhoods with and without articles, I think it just looks better that way.  Some of the neighborhoods without articles may never really have articles, I mean, Hawthorne, Hayfield Dundee, Jacobs etc... they are official neighborhoods but really aren't all that well known... maybe even to the people who live there!
Lastly I think it would be nice to sort the neighborhoods by the part of town they are in.  Highlands, west end, south end, central, east end, etc.  But as far as I know those (except for the highlands I guess) are pretty subjective labels... not sure how to go about it.
Anyway just putting this here so perhaps someone from the handful of people working on this unofficial project might have some ideas!  --W.marsh 04:04, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Some notes

message: For a non-Louisville reader, it is necessary to have a bit more information to know what the merger is. Is it the merge of 2003 with Jeferson County, which are told in the History of Louisville article? One sentence intro til Pre-merger would be fine. Helge Høifødt (talk) 15:50, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Pre-merger

message: Some are rather large. Should they really be considered neighborhoods if each one may contain multiple neighborhoods? 74.128.246.35 (talk) 14:51, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  CDPs
Talk:Arundhati Roy

message: Can someone please add the following at the bottom of the Bibliography-Nonfiction section:
* The Doctor and the Saint. In 2014 Verso Books released an annotated edition of B.R. Ambedkar's Annihilation of Caste with a 100+ page introduction by Arundhati Roy. 
Thanks! 83.115.40.95 (talk) 20:34, 15 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: . While Roy's bibliography isn't particularly long, it still only lists books she herself wrote. I apologize for the length of time it took to get a response to this. CityOfSilver 18:44, 23 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 15 November 2017 

message: In the third paragraph of the section titled The God of Small Things, it says "The Guardian called the context "profoundly depressing"." The cited source, a BBC article, says "One Guardian journalist described the whole contest as "profoundly depressing"." I think these differences are enough to warrant a change. Wa11abiter1989 (talk) 15:54, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed it myself :) Wa11abiter1989 (talk) 05:10, 7 February 2024 (UTC)

text: Already done Thank you! Happy editing,  NotAGenious (talk) 06:08, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 6 February 2024 

message: The state she was born in doesn't seem to have been Meghalaya at that time, but Assam. So a wording like "Arundhati Roy was born in Shillong, Assam (now Meghalaya), India" would be better. 90.142.52.139 (talk) 20:48, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 1 May 2024
Talk:GD Graphics Library

message: In my personal wiki, when I try to make a thumbnail image, it says "Incomplete GD library configuration: missing function imagecreatefromjpeg" instead of the image.  Can anyone help me? --Fezir 00:39, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Help with GD Library in Wiki. 

message: Thomas Boutell forwards to this page.  Does anybody know if he ever had his own page?  Considering he created PNG, did early web pioneering efforts, etc. etc. I would think he might be worthy of a page of his own. Centerone (talk) 18:41, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thomas Boutell 

message: The current link, under References, takes you to some page about loans for students in the UK.
A better link for the FAQ might be https://libgd.github.io/pages/faq.html
Son of eugene (talk) 22:23, 5 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad FAQ Link in References
Talk:Kim Newman

message: This was added (inappropriately, in my view) to the article Übermensch: it doesn't shed much light on the Nietzchean concept. It lacks a date and any publication information. If someone can fill that out, it probably belongs here and maybe at Superman. "More recently, Kim Newman's short story Übermensch deliberately combined the two words with an alternative history in which Superman was brought up in Germany and eventually imprisoned as a Nazi." -- Jmabel | Talk 04:27, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Short story ''Übermensch''

message: It does seem odd, now that you point it out, but Kim Newman's official bibliography really does say that Nightmare Movies: A critical history of the horror film, 1968-88 was first published in 1985. (Maybe the first edition didn't have the subtitle?) --Paul A 03:00, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Nightmare Movies
Talk:Bathsheba

message: nude picture of prophets wife.
Spwwchless Insha'a Rabbi (talk) 03:21, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

message: The age listed in Wikipedia at which Bathsheba gave birth to her second child, Solomon is beyond ridiculous… no one believes this! 217.180.201.98 (talk) 14:53, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  birth to Solomon
Talk:The Onion threatened by the Bush Administration

message: From Wikipedia:Criteria for speedy deletion:
1. Any article whose contents consist only of an external link, "See also" section, book reference, category tag, template tag, interwiki link, or rephrasing of the title. 
:Not exactly but the sheer amount of external links raises an eyebrow
2. Articles which serve no purpose but to disparage their subject.
The short summary of the conflict between President Bush and The Onion already in the main Onion article should suffice. --Easter Monkey 04:37, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think this should be speedied.  Merging is certainly a possibility, though.  Friday (talk) 04:41, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Tent map

message: :
  x_{n+1}=\left\{
    \begin{matrix}
    \mu x_n     & \mathrm{for}~~ x_n \le \frac{1}{2} \\ \\
    \mu (1-x_n) & \mathrm{for}~~ \frac{1}{2} \le x_n .
    \end{matrix}
  \right.
If x_n = \frac{1}{2}, both values apply. Which is correct? ☢ Ҡieff⌇↯ 11:49, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, the function appears to have two values when x_n = \frac{1}{2}, but the values coincide - they are both \frac{\mu}{2}. However, I have changed the definition in the article to avoid confusion. Gandalf61 15:41, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are these equations correct? 

message: There really ought to be a picture of the defining function right at the beginning of the article.
:Done. Gandalf61 12:23, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot 

message: What is an 'orbit'. The article just uses this term without explaining it. 09:37, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: See orbit (dynamics) and orbit (group theory). In this case, the orbit of a point is the set of images of that point under repeated iterations of the tent map. So the orbit of 0 is {0}, whereas the orbit of 1 is {1,0}. Periodic and eventually periodic points have finite orbits; non-periodic points have infinite orbits. Gandalf61 (talk) 12:42, 15 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orbit?
Talk:Bondi Junction

message: Very good article, and a big thank you to the person who added the extensive history updates. -- All the best, Nickj (t) 05:08, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: to "shoot through like a Bondi Tram" reputedly comes from the way Bondi services climbed out of the city on Liverpool and Oxford Streets. It does seem a little incongruous though as these services would be climbing up a slight hill and so hardly barrelling along... --60.225.29.83 10:41, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

text: I've seen the origins of this term debated quite a lot, other suggestions I've heard relate to the downhill run from Bondi Road to Bondi Beach (particularly the longer loop used to help deal with the grades for uphill trams) or a completely alternate version which says it relates to unhappy commuters along Bondi Road seeing tram after tram heading into the city from the beach already packed full of commuters, hence not stopping, but "shooting through like a Bondi tram".   --Rob.au 05:10, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Is it really needed here, again? Surely its place would be in an article on Bondi and, possibly, Bondi Beach, but to do it for Bondi Junction, North Bondi etc seems absurdly repetitive... - Hornetfig 13:31, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aboriginal meaning of the word "Bondi" 

message: Ed User:Adam.J.W.C. revertion to bad or own photography (WP:BOLD) Hpeterswald (talk) 19:18, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photograph 
Talk:Redemption game

message: What about those machines where you direct a claw to try and pick up prizes, what are they called (Otto is seen using one in The Simpsons episode Team Homer (where Homer creates a bowling team).
:Those are called claw vending machines.  Kamezuki 23:05, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Skill tester

message: Does some of this information really need citing? It doesn't take a rocket scientist to realize a token that costs a quarter is worth more than the 5 cent lolipops that are purchased by arcade owners in bulk. --Teram10 13:26, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source Citing
Talk:Game of skill

message: IMHO, the following page is a better chiace than the present one: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeu_de_hasard_raisonn%C3%A9. --Japarthur (talk) 23:54, 2 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  French page
Talk:Higman–Sims group

message: Is there any value to having the presentation for HS on this page? It has been copied from the Atlas (http://brauer.maths.qmul.ac.uk/Atlas/spor/HS/) and is hopeless (because completely unmotivated) as a definition. Unless I hear strong objections, I shall remove it.
:I have removed it. The previous content was:
::HS can also be defined in terms of generators a and b and the following relations:
:::a^2 = b^5 = (ab)^{11} = (ab^2)^{10} = [a, b]^5 = [a, b^2]^6 =
[a, bab]^3 = 
:::ababab^2ab^{-1}ab^{-2}ab^{-1}ab^2abab(ab^{-2})^4 =
:::ab(ab^2(ab^{-2})^2)^2ab^2abab^2(ab^{-1}ab^2)^2 =
:::abab(ab^2)^2ab(ab^{-1})^2ab(ab^2)^2ababab^{-2}ab^{-1}ab^{-2} = 1.
:--Huppybanny 09:48, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Presentation 

message: The Mathieu group M22 occurs as a maximal subgroup of HS. One permutation matrix representation of M22 fixes a 2-3-3 triangle with vertices (024), (5,123), and (1,5,122). A non-monomial matrix is needed to complete generation of a representation of HS. Scott Tillinghast, Houston TX (talk) 21:28, 21 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Representation 

message: Not if the origin is one vertex. Rather a translation of a 2-3-3 triangle. It would define the same vector space over the rationals as the original triangle, but not the same Z-module. Scott Tillinghast, Houston TX (talk) 15:56, 15 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  A 2-3-3 triangle? 

message: For some reason my new table of conjugacy classes goes to the end of the page. Scott Tillinghast, Houston TX (talk) 21:25, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Format problem 

message: An involution class 2A (trace 8) transposes 40 non-edges, fixes 20 vertices in the Higman-Sims graph.
The stabilizer of an edge includes the group M21 = PSL(3,4), fixing the 100th vertix C and one of the 22 points. It seems the full stabilizer PSL(3,4):2 of that edge is generated by an involution class 2B (trace 0) which would transpose 50 edges. Scott Tillinghast, Houston TX (talk) 05:53, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stabilizer of edge
Talk:Jonathan Vaughters

message: I put the seperate teams to show there was some distinction. Slipstream sports, Slipstream sports powered by Chipotle, then Garmin Chipotle, then Garmin Transitions, and now Garmin Cervelo after the merger of the two pro tour teams. Having it purely as Garmin-Chipotle since 2007 (which is now innacturate) doesnt show that distinction. Whilst I appreciate Slipstream/Garmin were one team with different sponsors, perhaps the Garmin/Cervelo should be distinct. I suppose it is a similar problem to the Us Postal/Discovery issue. Is there a clear wiki decision regarding cycling teams and name changes. It does make for confusion, for instance, Mark Cavendish is still shown as riding for T Mobile who are long since defunct. 
:: Can I propose "Garmin/Slipstream 2007-2010" and then "Garmin-Cervelo" 2011- 90.200.209.156 (talk) 21:37, 22 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Teams
Talk:Sylvain Chavanel

message: It's not clear to me what the entries "WD" mean in the table in the last section.  Maybe this could be explained there? Papppfaffe (talk) 09:31, 29 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  "WD"? 
Talk:Saint John (electoral district)

message: There's no reason that Saint John—Rothesay should have a page separate from the Saint John (electoral district) page. The district's boundaries are almost entirely unchanged from its previous incarnation, and a mere name change of an electoral district does not necessitate the starting of a new article. Note the extensive histories listed on the pages of most Canadian electoral districts, spanning changes to boundaries and district names over numerous redistributions, while remaining contained together on a single page. Only when districts are dismembered or radically altered (i.e. redistributed to contain little of the previous incarnation) should a new page be started.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.251.250.241 (talk) 19:13, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, the riding is 97% the same, apparently. Pretty much just a name change, as Rothesay is already in the riding. -- Earl Andrew - talk 22:27, 23 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Combine with Saint John—Rothesay

message: why does the Election choices for Saint John NB exclude Radical Marijuana candidate Michael Moffat?
if the List is going to be included in Wiki it should at least be Accurate of Elections Canada.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 156.34.64.188 (talk) 00:30, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Miramichi (electoral district)

message: I propose to merge Miramichi (electoral district) into Miramichi-Grand Lake. I think that the content in the Miramichi (electoral district) article can easily be explained in the context of Miramichi-Grand Lake, and the Miramichi-Grand Lake article is of a reasonable size that the merging of Miramichi (electoral district) will not cause any problems as far as article size is concerned.
A new page for an electoral district should only be created if the previous electoral districts have been radically altered, merged, or dismembered. Only 17% of the current Miramichi—Grand Lake wasn't a part of the previous Miramichi electoral district, and much of that 17% has, at one time or another in the past, been a part of the Miramichi electoral district in previous representation orders. A new page is therefore not warranted: note that the Miramichi electoral district changed in substance almost as much in the 2003 redistribution as it did in the 2013 redistribution (with 15.4% of its electors being "new" after the 2003 redistribution), and yet no separate Wikipedia article exists. Also note that, throughout its history, the Miramichi electoral district has incorporated a number of different rural areas bordering the main Northumberland County part of the district; the mere fact that one of these adjoining rural areas now finds its name in the name of the electoral district does not make it a different riding.
For precedents on this, see the layout of the articles for Toronto Centre (which also incorporates previous incarnations, Toronto Centre-Rosedale and Rosedale, into the representation history covered by the article), Dartmouth—Cole Harbour (also covering Dartmouth and Dartmouth—Halifax East), and the Fredericton electoral district (also covering York—Sunbury).  
Omertop (talk) 02:10, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal
Talk:Tynset

message: Why is the neutrality of this article disputed? Looks to me that it is more a question of cleaning it up de meet wikipedia standards
:Under wikipedia dispute rules, the POV tag has been left on this page for more than 10 days without (any) discussion, I am therefore removing it. --JDnCoke 23:23, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Paris–Brest–Paris

message: Wasn't Jiel-Laval riding solid rubber tires in 1891?  AHands 17:25, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The fastest finishing time ever was just under 39 hours. So how can this event be classed a "One-day race" in the infobox? Schwede66 17:56, 18 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Type of race 

message: Is this the PBP that people mention on recumbent bike forums? If so then I think there should be mention of the fact that recumbents can take part. Forgive me if their PBP is completely different. I see no recumbents in the linked video documentary . But there are photos of recumbents on the race page. --Timtak (talk) 03:11, 12 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: One and and the same.  I was a DNF on the 2007 event on an HP-Velotechnik Speedmachine.  You can ride anything you like as long as it's solely human-powered and passes the pre-event inspection. Mr Larrington (talk) 13:20, 3 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Recumbents
Talk:The Abolition of Man

message: Interesting article, but it doesn't explain the book's title. (Why "The Abolition of Man"?)
:Does the latest addition help? --Lavintzin 14:50, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Does a detailed outline like that CleverOaf inserted belong in this article? My own reaction is that probably not. It could be posted elsewhere and linked to. What do the rest of you think?
If it is to remain, there are a number of changes I would propose. 
A less detailed outline might be helpful, though to some extent it would recapitulating information already in the article. 
--Lavintzin 17:18, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Outline 

message: I've removed this section from the main article, since I doesn't appear to have a NPOV. DLWormwood 20:22, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Lewis's relevance to the present?

message: I submit that it is a lot harder to write a notable book on Christianity which survives for 60 years than to fashion a rock band that is out of fashion a few years after it starts. The book was around a long time before "popular" music and may survive into other genres. The presence of the bands here is an attempt at WP:PR and is WP:SPAM for them here. They may be notable in their own right, but if they were to write a song about Barack Obama, it should not be placed under his article IMO. That would be merely an attempt by a band supporter to derive publicity for an otherwise failed song. Student7 (talk) 23:29, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: "Popular" culture

message: Hey, I'm new to all this editing business, and I don't really know how to add an image to a page. Anybody?
RGRIV (talk) 04:29, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image 

message: I posted something in the Wikipedia forms entry but between the current state of both articles "upper forms" as used here is not clearly defined. If C. S. Lewis meant the equivalent of High School, then why does he go on about things that I might expect the students to have learned in the lower grades? Hackwrench (talk) 23:31, 2 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Upper forms 

message: I think it's worth pointing out that the misleadingly titled organization the "Intercollegiate Studies Institute" that ranks this book as the 2nd most influential book of the past century on its own website calls itself, among other things, the birthplace of the modern american conservative movement. It's a bias that might be worth pointing out to readers who might assume this book is more generally influential or valued than it actually is, academically or otherwise.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A01:4A0:2D:0:0:0:0:4 (talk) 07:56, 11 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Rankings" 

message: it looks like there is original research in footnote three.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Abolition_of_Man#cite_note-3
"um ACTUALLY if you look carefully you'll see that C.S. Lewis didn't understand the book." a bit of editorializing going on there, unless I've misunderstood wikipedia's policy. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.161.114.172 (talk) 22:16, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original Research?
Talk:Transcript (law)

message: "Less formal courts" - many courts worldwide use digital recording technology rather than court reporters for formal hearings - edited to reflect this. LPBearian 00:21, 14 July 2007 (UTC)

message: A transcript as a written record of spoken language is not limited to legal usage. Depending on the circumstances, sometimes after interviews the academic researchers or journalists also produce a written record of the exact words said by the interviewees. I think we can include such usage in this article as well.--Quest for Truth (talk) 17:31, 29 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is legal purpose different from other purposes?