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Talk:The War of the Worlds

message: "The show uses a ground breaking interactive blend of virtual reality, volumetric holograms and live theatre to take visitors into the heart of this classic science fiction story like never before."
"The fighting machine (also known as a "Martian Tripod") is one of the fictional machines used by the Martians in H.G. Wells' 1898 classic science fiction novel The War of the Worlds."
Is it ok to call something a "classic" as a factual statement in an encyclopedia? Isn't it more of a subjective thing rather than saying "it is widely regarded as a classic"? Is it against NPOV? I'm asking out of curiosity. Dornwald (talk) 02:55, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I would say not. Slatersteven (talk) 11:13, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text:  User:Slatersteven you mean it's not ok? Dornwald (talk) 12:29, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, maybe "Called classic", but not in our words. Slatersteven (talk) 12:39, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Classic" 

message: It seems that at least some of the citations are short-form, particularly in the lead. Since I'm excerpting the lead section for the First contact (science fiction) article, I've chosen to change the lead's citation style to be more consistent with both articles. At the moment, I have no intention of doing the same with the rest, as I am focusing on completing my work on the first contact article. Ships & Space(Edits) 01:25, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation consistency
Talk:Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet

message: What are C.B, K.C.B and G.C.B.? -- Zoe
Order of the Bath indicates these are - Companion, Knight Commander and Knight Grand Cross ranks of that order. Kd5mdk 06:44, 12 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Il est fait en 1853 Chevalier de l'Ordre "Pour le Mérite" Allemand 88.139.190.124 16:26, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Il est aussi Chevalier "Pour le Mérite" Orden 1853 

message: Needs a lead, sources, and NPOV modern language. – Quadell (talk) (random) 18:59, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  cleanup
Talk:Emperor of India

message: The title did not come with any official role. The role of the monarch was identical before and after the 1876 act. The role of the King in India and Pakistan between 1947 and 1948 was also totally unchanged between 1948 and 1950 in India and 1948 to 1952 in Pakistan. DrKay (talk) 15:48, 15 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Role 

message: The caption under the cartoon of Queen Victoria and Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli claims that one headgear is a crown and the other is the Coronet of an Earl. It can't be. Its rim looks wrong, but the definitive diagnosis is that it has arches holding up a central ornament (orb, sphere, finial, marble, jewel, etc.). The Coronet of the Heir Apparent (who is often also Prince of Wales and often also Duke of Cornwall, but not necessarily either of those) and the Crown of the Monarch and some spouses of Monarchs (and possibly some spouses of Heirs Apparent) have arches, but the Coronet of a noble such as an Earl does not have arches. I believe the number of arches in the cartoon are two intersecting (i.e. four half-arches springing from compass-points on the rim and all meeting at the central finial), which would eliminate any headgear other than Monarchical. The rim has fleurs-de-lis and I think crosses patonce, but not strawberry leaves. Furthermore, the title of the cartoon was "New Crowns For Old", and that wouldn't include a Coronet being exchanged. Please discuss why anyone thinks this can POSSIBLY be the Coronet of an Earl when it doesn't match ANY of the specifications of the Coronet of an Earl. Or, if you want to waste your time and mine, rig up one of those messages that reaches me the next time I access any Wikipedia article, so that I'm personally told that Comments of this kind, although 100% true and correct on the facts, are still wrong of me to type, for some hidden reason of etiquette and manner which nobody at Wikipedia will ever reveal to me.2600:1700:6759:B000:1C64:8308:33BC:E2D6 (talk) 04:23, 7 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Incorrect caption under cartoon with Victoria, Disraeli, and Crowns

message: No legacy section, with a bit of balance, such as criticism of this phenomenon? Seems, from this article, like it's the most natural thing in the world. Must be many reliable sources who've thought otherwise. I'm no expert. Just asking. SergeWoodzing (talk) 14:17, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legacy?
Talk:Báb

message: This article is white-washed to an extreme level.  No mention is made of the Bab's violent and intolerant teachings, nor its contribution to a period of anarchy resulting in over 20,000 deaths.  Evidence of mental illness should also be discussed with respect to his aberrant behaviour, including hypergraphia, self-identification as God, the drawing of pentagrams, and refusal to take action to halt the bloodshed brought on by his teachings. Drcombo (talk) 01:10, 24 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: This is nonsense. You are pushing Iranian government propaganda. Cuñado ☼ - Talk 05:53, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Instigation of violence and evidence of mental illness 

message: I'm curious what you think. If you look at Báb, Bábism, Subh-i-Azal, Azali, and Baháʼí–Bábí split (needs a name change). They all need some serious work. But in particular, I don't think we need a page for Bábism. It is mostly repeated on other pages. The biography of the Báb covers the history of his life (with subpages for teachings, execution, and it could include one on his writings). The main value of the page on Bábism is the upheavals, which don't fit nicely on the Bab's biography. There is really a lot of repetition among all those pages. Cuñado ☼ - Talk 05:52, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Or maybe merge Baháʼí–Bábí split into Bábism? Cuñado ☼ - Talk 01:08, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:  Hmm... without having looked at all the details, in principle I think all five pages are on notable topics. That said, I agree that at the moment, there is a lot of overlap. Looking at Baháʼí–Bábí split, a lot of what's in there is out-of-scope, but there is a fair amount that's on topic and would probably be WP:UNDUE at Báb or Bábism. Perhaps it could be trimmed down and then moved to Baháʼí–Azali split? Azali could potentially be merged into Bábism, or else moved to Azali Bábism? Gazelle55 Let's talk! 17:04, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: Here is the source used in the lead, Hartz p. 35:
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This is a bit dramatic but pretty typical of how it is described. Cuñado ☼ - Talk 16:23, 13 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Execution
Talk:History of the British penny (1901–1970)

message: Non-native English speaker here. Enjoyer — talk 03:31, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Minted. Created. Produced.--Wehwalt (talk) 07:33, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  What does "struck" in the context of this article mean?
Talk:List of computers running CP/M

message: Is this list really needed?
If it is, then at least all articles that link to CP/M operating system should be consulted, otherwise the list is worth nothing.
 Click here for list
Also, the Wikipedia naming conventions must be obeyed. A suitable title could be List of machines running CP/M or something like that -- Egil 11:15 Apr 11, 2003 (UTC)
Point taken - F1lby
The HP 9816, too.
The Altos 580 link goes to a page about a place named Altos and has nothing do to with the computer company.  [REL June 22, 2007]
:Fixed. You can fix this sort of thing, too. Get a user account and you can sign your name with  --~~~~. The Altos 580 has nothing to do with the Xerox Alto, an altogether vastly more powerful computer.  --Wtshymanski 15:46, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: is it true that almost all modern PCs run CP/M 86? Helpsloose 18:57, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: I'm looking for info on a CP/M based pesonal computer that (I think) was known as the "On Computer" or "On Machine" (though it might have also had a more formal name or product ID).  IIRC it had static RAM and a static RAM disk all battery backed and was to kept powered up at all times.  I doubt it sold in quantity as it (again IIRC) it came out after the IBM PC was displacing CP/M as the mainstream business personal computer OS and it was probably expensive.  I'd like to use it as an early example of an interactive personal computer without mechanical storage, which now seems prescient.  I was hoping to find it on this list, but no luck and my first few web searches haven't turned up anything at all.  (I may need to try The Wayback Machine or start flipping through old hard copies of Byte.) If anyone has links to articles that mention this machine, I suggest adding it to the list.  It might even merit an article.  
BTW: No, I don't know the manufacturer's name. 
Ericfluger (talk) 17:27, 1 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I recall seeing a demo unit at our user group meeting, mid-'80s.  I think the company may have been called "Oneac" but the only think that shows under that name now is a UPS builder. Don't recall seeing a review in BYTE but that's definitely the place to look. I also no longer have my club newsletters from that era - at least that would have given a year. Good hunting. --Wtshymanski (talk) 18:05, 1 March 2015 (UTC)

text: Thanks for that...don't suppose you've got a musty old magazine article that talks about it? Who knew 22 years later that I'd be looking for the pamphlet on this thing? --Wtshymanski (talk) 01:38, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  Short news about upcoming ON! Computer is in Byte, vol. 11, n. 6 (June 1986), p. 36. However, it seems this computer was not available until early 1987 (The Computer Journal, issue 28 (January-February 1987), p. 20: "...and the soon-to-be-available ON! computer from Oneac" Pavlor (talk) 06:24, 19 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  The "On" Computer? 

message: Ref for Eracom ERA-50 & ERA-60:
https://books.google.com/books?id=MdBP83DW6g4C&pg=PA90&lpg=PA90&dq=&source=bl#q=Eracom
--Guy Macon (talk) 01:53, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eracom
Talk:Highly composite number

message: The asterisk behind 2,4,5,9,10, ... doesn't seem to be explained anywhere.
Maxiantor (talk) 14:47, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: They link to Superior highly composite number but it's probably too subtle. PrimeHunter (talk) 19:53, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  What are the * for in the table? 

message: The article is about a number "with more divisors than any smaller positive integer".  And there's a big table of "the initial or smallest 38 highly composite numbers".  But the table doesn't tells us what the divisors are!
For example, the 5th row of the table is for the number 12.  And 4 is certainly a divisor of 12.  But the number "4" doesn't appear anywhere in that row of the table.  Seems to me that rather than listing the prime factors of numbers, or anyhow as well as, we should list the divisors.   --johantheghost (talk) 08:16, 16 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The largest number in the table is 720720 with 240 divisors. That seems too much to list but I have  added a table with divisors of the first 15 highly composite numbers. If we added it as a new column in the existing table then the cells would become up to 32 lines high on narrow screens. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:21, 16 February 2020 (UTC)

text: OK, thanks!  Yeah, 240 is rather a lot... :-/  But this makes sense to me, we can at least see what divisors look like now (for folks who might be wondering).  --johantheghost (talk) 16:46, 22 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Table Doesn't Show the Divisors! 

message: The term "antiprime" or "anti-prime" has been added and removed as an alternate term several times throughout the article's history. The term has gained popularity since Numberphile's video on the topic. As much as I like the word, I'm not sure that this term has any use in scholarly contexts, but then again I'm not one to read the latest academic journals. Should it be removed from the article for not being used academically? Or has the term become popular enough among casual mathematicians for that to not matter? MathWorld, for example, recognizes antiprime as a synonym for a highly composite number. Saucy[talk – contribs] 09:17, 19 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I think that recreational mathematics is kind of its own thing.  Not all recreational math concepts have to be taken up by academic mathematicians to be suitable for Wikipedia... AnonMoos (talk) 21:04, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: In addition to not being scholarly at all... the term "antiprime" isn't even a good term for what a highly composite number is! If you want something that is truly the opposite of a prime number, the best thing for that would be a superior highly composite number. No sensible mathematician would ever refer to highly composite numbers as "antiprimes". Until one does (Brady Haran is a journalist, not a mathematician), it does not belong in this article. --172.88.48.178 (talk) 10:17, 24 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Antiprime?
Talk:Goguryeo

message: Can we agree on a single uniform style for MOS:ZH and MOS:KO? Or is there already a style we agreed on? There are several different styles which did or did not include: Hangul, Hanja, Old Korean, IPA, RR, MR, Yale, and Chinese, which makes the article very frustrating to read. 00101984hjw (talk) 03:57, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: someone needs to go through this article and pick one korean romanization and one chinese romanization (pinyin)—if there are additional ones needed, they can be added after that. Remsense诉 08:52, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uniform Style 

message: Change "Along with Baekje and Silla, Goguryeo was one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. (Korean: 한국 삼국시대)" to "Along with Baekje and Silla, Goguryeo was one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea. (Korean: 삼국시대)"
In South Korea, almost nobody calls the Three Kingdoms period "한국 삼국시대." They just call it "삼국시대." This may be similar to what British people often call Queen Victoria (who reigned from 1837 to 1901), just "Queen Victoria," instead of "Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom." And in fact, South Koreans also just call "삼국시대" when even they indicate the Three Kingdoms period of China. 211.46.232.7 (talk) 08:23, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you provide a reliable source for this?  Changing it just based on your knowledge, no matter how well informed, isn't how Wikipedia operates. PianoDan (talk) 22:54, 8 April 2024 (UTC)

text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. M.Bitton (talk) 00:24, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 6 April 2024 

message: Article needs to be cleaned up. Tons of MOS:OVERLINK problems. For cases where it's clear to a person reasonably familiar with Korea and China that given non-English text is likely Korean, we likely don't need repeat language labels. Set labels=no if so. I can't edit the article but I would do it otherwise. 73.173.84.93 (talk) 21:15, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup
Wikipedia talk:Sound help

message: As per the discussion on Wikipedia_talk:Sound_and_Wikipedia, and since there was no dissent after letting sit on the request for comment page, have created a new page: Wikipedia:Sound that redefines the Wikipedia sound policy.
Moved the bulk of the content for this page to Wikipedia:Ogg Vorbis help
--Zarni02 09:41, 16 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Replaced by Wikipedia:Sound
Talk:List of diseases (S)

message: I removed Spina bifida from this list because it "may affect as many as 1 out of every 800 infants." Kingturtle 15:37 Apr 11, 2003 (UTC)
Do we really need this list? just a quick glance - shock sure isn't rare ... Alex.tan 17:05 3 Jul 2003 (UTC)
:I just asked myself the same question. This list has been around for more than two years, but hardly anyone has written articles, and the one I came across -- Schmitt Gillenwater Kelly syndrome -- is useless babble.
:However, I don't understand the above comments either, neither the reason given by Kingturtle for removing the name of one disease nor Alex.tan's remark that "shock is not rare". Does it say List of rare diseases anywhere? Or was that the old title? <KF> 18:44, 4 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: I
Talk:List of Finns

message: I suppose Neil Finn wouldn't be allowed? Deb 17:20 Apr 11, 2003 (UTC)
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Moved from Talk:Famous Finnish people: -- Timwi 18:41 18 Jun 2003 (UTC)
:Page created by me despite lack of knowloedge, mainly so removing Tove Jansson from the Famous Swedish people page would be matched by adding her to a Finnish page. -- User:OlofE — Preceding undated comment added 14:37, 21 September 2002 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Why isn't the alternative classical band Apocalyptica listed?  I wanted to add them, being famous Finns, but I wasn't sure if there was a reason why they don't appear. . . .  I know that for some reason, even on Finnish web sites where they list famous Finns, they seem to be skipped. -- (CloneArmyCommander 18:46, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Apocalyptica 

message: The most additions here are vain. 192.194.238.242 22:25, 17 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you be more specific, such as naming certain sections of the article? Prolog 10:44, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vanity 

message: These two sections should be combined (and placed next to each other) in some way. 83.76.153.54 16:47, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Composers and conductors vs. Musicians 

message: Here is a start that can be used to trim this list to the (currently) most famous Finns or at least organise this list based on order of contemporary fame. --Espoo (talk) 10:41, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  organising this list 

message: Nico Rosberg is a German F1 driver not a Finn.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.104.75.65 (talk) 05:21, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nico Rosberg
Talk:Wang Anshi

message: Someone should integrate the content of this page with the content of the Song Dynasty and History of China pages.
172
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Wang An-shih (now a redirect) moved here (Wang Anshi).
Deleted stub's history:
* 11 Jun 2003 . . TakuyaMurata (Wang Anshi)
** content was: 'Wang Anshi in China is a Chinese official who propelled a reform movement during the Song China.'
--Menchi 09:44 12 Jul 2003 (UTC)
I have created an entire section in the History of the Song Dynasty article about Wang's chancellorship, and his followers' rivalry with later Sima Guang, with the two political camps of Reformists (that were led by Wang) and Conservatives (that were led by Sima).
--PericlesofAthens 05:04, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The article makes a confusing declaration with the phrase "according to Wang..." The way it is used comes off almost as if it is quoting him directly rather than seeking to build a picture of his philosophy of governance with various references. It did partially confuse me initially as well (see: my edit notes where I only note Mary Nourse and don't comment directly on ChinaKnowledge.) I corrected part of the issue with Mary Nourse's writing.
I do think by splitting ChinaKnowledge's and Mary Nourse's descriptions however that this confusion is resolved.
Mary Nourse's utilization of present tense lended itself to far more potential confusion on its own. Whereas the utilization of past-tense in the ChinaKnowledge reference makes it fairly clear that the article isn't quoting Wang Anshi directly.
A bit of clean-up could be done but, as is, I believe any reasonable confusion that could be derived from this presentation is resolved. AyaKho (talk) 00:31, 11 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error and confusion in Objective
Talk:Luís Carlos Prestes

message: This article forgets, that this brazilian was also an eugenicist.Former Soviet Union gave support to eugenics since its creation.Prestes ever was at the side of Soviet Union, since 1920 decade, until his death, in 1990.From late 1930 decade, Prestes gave support to soviet eugenics, the Lysenkoism.Agre22 (talk) 13:43, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: This man was also an eugenicist
Talk:Outline of sustainable agriculture

message: I'm working on launching a sustainable technologies wikiproject. If you'd be interested, check out the project page draft, sign up and let me know what you think. —JwandersTalk   21:42, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sustainable technologies project 

message: This is more of an outline than a list- Outline of sustainable agriculture may be a better name so it fits with the other "Outline of..." series  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.45.208.146 (talk) 23:48, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rename to "Outline of sustainable agriculture"
Talk:Carl Lewis

message: How does anyone know how much Carl weighs? It doesn’t say he DID weigh that in a given year. Nicmart (talk) 03:25, 5 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Height & Weight 

message: Both the lists of "Olympic Games / World Championships..." and "100 m / 200 m ..." are headed "Event."  Rather than using the same word to mean two different things so close to each other, I'd like to see the first one headed "Competition," but I don't know how to change it...
Pbackstrom (talk) 01:22, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Medal Record Headings 

message: If the article reference to his US National Anthem singing is about the time where he infamously did it really badly (he started an octave too high and so couldn't reach the high notes or something) then that should be said;
When US Olympic Legend Carl Lewis Completely Botched Singing America’s National Anthem - www.essentiallysports.com/us-sports-news-watch-when-us-olympic-legend-carl-lewis-completely-botched-singing-americas-national-anthem/
The singing, followed by the hosts of ESPN Sports Center laughing hysterically at how bad it was - www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZV0dC6WjKA
Given that awful pubic singing of it by invited celebrities at sporting events etc isn't the norm, it should be mentioned.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.99.210.174 (talk) 15:04, 15 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Says who? The reference you provide actually says the opposite, not that we should be using it given it's quality. --Hipal (talk) 23:48, 21 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  National Anthem singing 

message: This statement is physically impossible. With the team running 37.40 seconds, the average time for each of the four runners is 9.35 seconds.  So the fastest split cannot possibly be 9.85.  If this is a misprint, and the time was 8.85, I could believe that is was the fastest leg. 2606:5D00:4801:900:6595:91AD:E042:6193 (talk) 19:27, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lewis anchored another world record, in 37.40 s, a time which stood for 16 years. He covered the final leg in 9.85 seconds, the fastest officially recorded anchor leg.[73]
Talk:Gaylord Nelson

message: "Gaylord Nelson was born in Clear Lake, Wisconsin in 1881." I'm pretty sure the date is wrong here. It says he was born in 1916 next to his name.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.225.132.27 (talk) 18:53, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I have added some section headings and improved the readability of the quotes. The article as it stood was a bit hard on the eyes, especially given the large number of wikilinks. The heading "Life after politics" isn't ideal - Nelson remained a political activist long after he lost his Senate seat - but I couldnt think of any thing better. Suggestions? Euryalus 10:40, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Formatting 

message: Most sources (including all the ones cited in this article) credit Nelson with being the founder of Earth Day. The Earth Day article also notes that the concept was Fred Dutton's, first outlined in a memo to President Kennedy. Both of these are correct - Dutton came up with the idea but it was Nelson who was the force behind making it happen. 
I have reworded the article slightly to say Nelson was the principal founder of Earth Day - this recognises his central role without disregarding the involvement of other such as Dutton. Comments welcome. Euryalus 10:46, 26 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Earth Day founder 