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Talk:James Gadsden

message: The book "Pensacola: Florida's First Place City" has the lines
(p40) "establishing his base at the Prospect Bluff fort, which he renames Fort Gadsden for his engineer and aide, Catp. James Gadsden" The "he" is Andrew Jackson--during First Seminole War
and 
(p48)He leaves behind a well-organized government and friends Brackenridge, Call and James Gadsden." Here "behind" is Pensacola (when Jackson accepted Forida from the Spanish).
I am not a historian. However it would seem natural to expand a bit on the brief comments about Gadsden's military career. There is currently a Gadsden, Alabama, and, in Pensacola, a Gadsden Street. My guess would be that the above were influential in choosing these names--of course the later Gadsden Purchase was a  factor as well.
This comment:  Gadsden had supported nullification in 1831. In 1850 he advocated secession by South Carolina when California was admitted to the Union as a free state. Gadsden considered slavery “a social blessing” and abolitionists “the greatest curse of the nation.”[6] is in an article about the Gadsden Purchase under a section about California.  I think this tells something about Gadsden's character and should be included int he article about James Gadsden.  I will leave that to the computer literate people.Mylittlezach (talk) 18:17, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: External link to "Another Weeping Time:..." redirects to a non-existent page on a memorial site sponsored by Ancestry.com. 192.55.55.56 (talk) 20:50, 2 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links
Talk:Mullet (fish)

message: Why do mullet jump out of the water?  I have not been able to find out.  Does anyone know? Because they are searching for a school of fish to swim with.They have exellent eye sight. They don't jump while swimming in schools.
I've been told many times by many people that they jump to avoid predators.  Tarpon really like to eat them.. 69.22.70.211 (talk) 19:05, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Shouldn't fishbase be followed? So shouldn't it be in the order of Perciformes? Dryke 19:15, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, an also this whole family has had an unusual series of articles created for each genus, which doesn't follow the conventions used for all other families/genera. Anyway, can i get a go ahead to move   the Mugiliformes into the Perciformes?. I might see if i can fix up the genera articles when i have some spare time, the tables listing species etc really don't belong and need to be put in the individual species articles in my opinion. Comments would be good. Cheers Kare Kare 10:10, 1 August 2007 (UTC)

message: It is revised as part of Perciformes, see Catalog of Fishes --Ykvach (talk) 07:56, 21 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Systematic revision
Talk:Schumann resonances

message: The first reference (Schumann Resonance from NASA) is a broken link, it redirects to the plain NASA website. I don't know if maybe Internet Archive has a saved version of the original reference or not, but thought I'd make note of that here in case someone has the time to look into that, as I don't. Moony483 (talk) 03:52, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken link 

message: You notice the image and the description have differing frequencies for the second order resonance? 2409:4073:200E:8B30:44C9:3771:2DD5:26B (talk) 10:11, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Also the third frequency, which the text gives as 20.8 and the image shows as 20.3. Actually, the image has larger problems: the colors in the key were mixed up when the image was convereted from PNG to SVG, thus the frequencies are labeled wrongly. Do I remove the image? Notify the author? I'll leave that up to more experienced editors. Msittig (talk) 21:08, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Those frequencies vary with sea level, weather, and solar activity. In other words: that 14.x Hz frequency is not a constant. tgeorgescu (talk)  22:02, 19 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  14.1 or 14.3?
Talk:Video Graphics Array

message: the articles speaks continuously of vga modes, but never says the mode number for that mode (or that other modes can change away from vga altogether)
the article gives only a discussion which is useless and cannot be used, the references likewise (no mode numbers, no assembler or C code to operate, and references are wanna-be's - not manufacturer documentation or industry documentation from "the people who adhered to the standard"
a good article (and past apparently deleted content!!!) either:
(1) gives history, associations responsible, location of documentation, uses in industry and home
OR
(2) only says what it intends to describe in a usable manner (ie, with code examples, which many wikipedia articles have)
this appears to be an attack (the direction to this page, the removal of past information) by cheap video card makers WHO DID NOT PUT REAL VGA ON NEWER CARDS TO SAVE MONEY - thus the attack is denial of information and denial it's still "THE STANDARD THAT WORKS MORE WIDELY THAN ANY OTHER TO THIS DAY"  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.219.207.25 (talk) 02:07, 28 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  article is aimless tech talk 

message: I spent some time trying to figure out why those VGA images greatly exceeded anything I could ever do with VGA16 despite having a inordinate amount of time to spend on it around 2000-2001. I counted six levels of step between black and white in Birds_VGA16.png, but the standard VGA palette only has four. I then thought OK maybe it's a simulation of what an image viewer free to load a custom palette per image could do, so I downloaded the image and asked ImageMagic and no way that's a 16 color image. An online tool says it has 50,000 colors.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.220.52.199 (talk) 21:32, 31 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Simulated VGA images are impossibly good
Talk:Grierson's Raid

message: This article is from .  How do we give them proper credit? RickK 22:38, 29 May 2004 (UTC)

message: I added an Additional reading section and Tom Lalicki's book. This is a good book for teens, younger children, or even adults who do not wish to get "involved" in Dee Brown's excellent book. It is short, has large type and numerous images. Plus I added this to the Talk page as I mistakeningly hit the enter key before finishing my comments before saving the page. "The Horse Soldiers" is my second favorite Civil War movie (after Audie Murphy's "Red Badge of Courage") despite all the historical inaccuracies in the movie. Thomas R. Fasulo (talk) 17:28, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional reading 

message: Does anyone know how many casualties the Brigade received during that raid?--78.49.60.99 (talk) 21:51, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I do, by reading the third paragraph of the article. Hal Jespersen (talk) 23:09, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Casualties?
Talk:Darlington Raceway

message: I really like what has been done with this page.  The content is just great!  It seems unusual to find such great text so soon in the life of an article. --Timc 23:19, 29 May 2004 (UTC)

message: --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 00:39, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  News article that might fit here 

message: The original configuration of Darlington was quite a bit narrower and the back and front straights were opposite where they are now. The wall at the entrance to Turn 3 (now Turn 1) it was especially narrow and the right rear corners of the cars would hit the wall and leave a multi-colored stripe of rubbed off paint, making THE Darlington Stripe. When the track was widened and the front and back straights swapped, the Darlington Stripe at the former Turn 3 entrance mostly went away. Then with the addition of the SAFER barrier, the track lost some width, making scraping the walls more common. Bizzybody (talk) 08:20, 14 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: As I recall, because of the high banks on the original track, someone found that the fastest way around the track was high on the turns instead of sticking to the inside as is the convention on other NASCAR tracks. As a result of this practice, many cars would come in contact with the wall. That's where the "Darlington Stripe" came from: brushing the wall with the side of the car body, not colliding with it. It was unique to Darlington, because the fastest way through the turns at other racetracks was to stay on the inside of the turn.TCav (talk) 01:11, 27 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  The original Darlington Stripe 

message: Make em show it, please. 2603:6080:C102:A7C0:E9DA:C477:5FFE:4763 (talk) 19:17, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  We have no channels today showing this race! Not ch9 or 3, or 36 etc. We used to see it. 

message: Why is John C. Reilly listed as a star alongside Tom Cruise in Days of Thunder when he wasn’t even in the movie? Did someone have him confused for Dennis Quaid? 2601:245:4500:110:F1BF:5361:AA4B:8C68 (talk) 20:56, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: John C. Reilly is in Days of Thunder, he is Buck Bretherton, Cole's car chief. glman (talk) 21:04, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  John C. Reilly listed as actor in Days of Thunder?
Talk:Richard Dedekind

message: He was born, lived most of his life, and died in Braunschweig (often called "Brunswick" in English).
:What part of his life didn't he live? --Ihope127 23:01, 8 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you serious? > (He was born, lived most of his life, and died) in Braunschweig. --euyyn (talk) 23:11, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  He lived most of his life? 

message: In the article you write "This[clarification needed] is known as Dedekind's theorem.[citation needed]". It should say: "This is known as the concept of Dedekind-infinite set; it appears originally in section 5 of Was sind und was sollen die Zahlen?"
As for Hawking, unfortunately he is wrong, Dedekind was the first to employ that definition -- he even mentions in a footnote that he presented it to Cantor in sept. 1882. See e.g. J. Ferreiros, "Labyrinth of Thought" (Birkhäuser, 1999) on this and related issues.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.137.219.152 (talk) 15:48, 10 December 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: He invoked similarity to give the first precise definition of an infinite set: a set is infinite when it is "similar to a proper part of itself,"
Wasn't that Cantor?  According to Stephen Hawking's book "God Created the Integers" he claims "Dedekind took the natural numbers as the paradigm example of an infinite set and defined a set as infinite if the natural numbers could be put into a one-to-one correspondence with that set, or a subset of it. ... Cantor ... defined a set as being infinite if it could be put into a one-to-one correspondence with a proper subset of itself." Boyton 06:39, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dedekind's definition of an infinite set 

message: This section is a copy-and-paste of Eric Temple Bell's book Men of Mathematics. Since Bell died in 1960, I imagine that this book is not in public domain. Albmont (talk) 18:02, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It is not; copyright was renewed in 1965 (). Thanks for pointing this out; I believe I have taken care of the paraphrasing. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 00:50, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Bell is notoriously unreliable and should not under any circumstances be used as a source of biographical information.  The whole section should be checked in detail and referenced to reliable sources. —Psychonaut (talk) 15:21, 5 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Life
Talk:AutoLISP

message: Do we need to list IntelliCAD based products as having AutoLISP functionality when IntelliCAD is already listed? There are two products already listed and there are many more that could fall into this. HughMillard 13:51, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  AutoLISP in other products 

message: There is some sample code in the Features section of the article.
* The comments above the defun forms suggest that the things being defined are macros.  In Common Lisp, these would be called functions.  Does AutoLISP terminology differ on this point?
* One of the comments ends with "without command-line interface exposed" and the other with "with command-line interface hidden".  Don't these mean the same thing?  IIRC, the "c:" prefix turns a symbol into a command that can be run from the AutoCAD command prompt without Lisp parentheses.  So I would expect the defun c:hello_world to expose a command-line interface and the defun hello_world to hide one.
* Does (= (type a) 'INT) really work?  In Common Lisp, the = function is only for numbers; to compare symbols, one uses EQ instead.  The AutoLISP FAQ also mentions an EQ function.
* Does (mapcar '(lambda (x) (princ (b x))) a) really work?  IIRC, in AutoLISP of AutoCAD 10, the form (lambda (x) (princ (b x))) returns the list ((x) (princ (b x))), which can then be called as a function.  If you quote the whole thing, then the lambda symbol is left in the list; is the result still callable?
I hope someone with recent AutoLISP experience can clarify these points.  85.23.32.88 (talk) 19:51, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Errors in sample code? 

message: * I agree that the comments should not use macro
* I also think that "without command-line interface exposed" and "with command-line interface hidden" should be changed.
* (= (type a) 'INT) works fine in AutoCAD
* This example I think would be better
(setq a '(1 2 3))
(defun b (x)
  (+ x 5)
)
(cond
  ((= a b) (princ "\n(a) and (b) are equal"))
  ((and (= (type a) 'INT) (= (type b) 'INT)) 
    (princ (strcat "\n(a)+(b)=" (itoa (+ a b)))))
  ((and (= (type a) 'STR) (= (type b) 'STR))
    (princ (strcat "\n(a)+(b)=" a b)))
  ((and (listp a) (= (type b) 'USUBR))
    (mapcar '(lambda (x) (princ (b x))) a)))
with this result
678
(6 7 8)
*"The language was appropriated (stolen)[citation needed] by Autodesk for use in AutoCAD Version 2.18 in January 1986" it is now. See this blog interview with John Walker. "And here was this thing called XLISP that was written by a fellow named David Betz who was, at the time, an employee of Digital Equipment Corporation in Massachusetts. And it was this tiny little PC LISP interpreter. Pure interpreter. And because he was an employee of Digital Equipment, their policy at the time was that, if you did any work on your own, you could either give it to them or you could put it in the public domain. He put it in the public domain. So that meant we were free to use it without any royalties or encumbrance."
Jimmy Bergmark (talk) 20:20, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments
Talk:European Union/Archive 3

message: Be sure to use the € (€) code from the wikipedia, for compatibility.
80.58.50.44
This isn't really necessary. The English wikipedia uses UTF-8. There's no problem with using it if you want to, of course. Mr. Jones 12:36, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, it isn't UTF-8, its still ISO-8859-1. Morwen 12:07, Apr 25, 2004 (UTC)
That's interesting. Do you know where it has been discussed?  There was some talk on the mailing list a couple of months back.  Anyone have a reference? Mr. Jones 14:00, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Use &amp;euro; 

message: Pre-2004 posts on this topic archived here. Zoney 23:22, 29 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: The right of abode and work and freedom of movement are two different issues. EU citizens have the right to settle and work in any EU country as long as they're not public charges, that's one thing. Whether they have to show passports/ID when crossing borders is another. David.Monniaux 13:45, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: The right to settle would be liberalised somewhat by the commission's proposed directive COM(2001) 257 (http://europa.eu.int/scadplus/printversion/en/lvb/l33152.htm). The EU Parliament voted in favour of it in early 2003, with various proposed amendments, including that the date of introduction is delayed until 1 July 2004.  See http://www2.europarl.eu.int/omk/sipade2?L=EN&OBJID=10629&LEVEL=3&MODE=SIP&NAV=X&LSTDOC=N for the parliament's report.  Hans Zarkov 11:50, 7 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: right to reside (post 2004)
Talk:Mercosur

message: if it includes New Zealand the ethnicity last is incomplete, a substantial proportion of their population is Maori & Pacifica who dint fit in any listed category, possibly indigenous needs to be rephrased or possibly there is a category missing. Irtapil (talk) 19:10, 14 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maori & Pacifica 

message: The article doesn't explain the difference. --166.82.104.10 (talk) 21:15, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Associate vs full membership?

message: Mercosur is a southamerican organisation, why are New Zealand and Mexico observer states? Are there special economy links between them and Southamerica? --2A02:908:C33:A180:FB1E:F2E8:DE72:9AD (talk) 14:20, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: New Zealand/Mexico

message: The map of Mercosur doesn't show Bolivia as a full member even though it became one in late 2023. Battlesheep1 (talk) 05:02, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: That's because Bolivia is not a member yet.  Mercosur completed their ratification, but Bolivia still needs to ratify.  See: https://www.mre.gov.py/index.php/noticias-de-embajadas-y-consulados/brasil-deposita-protocolo-de-adhesion-de-bolivia-al-mercosur  TDL (talk) 15:32, 4 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map
Talk:Inō Tadataka

message: I'm rather confused.  Is is family name Ino or Tadataka?  And what's wikipedia's standard for writing Japanese names - do we use the Japanese standard of SURNAME GIVENNAME or the English standard of GIVENNAME SURNAME?  -- Finlay McWalter |  Talk 00:52, 30 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Ino Tadataka or Tadataka Ino?

message: The 2022 Japanese movie 大河への道 (Taiga e no Michi) seems to feature him in a fairly central way, though historical accuracy is unclear. (Not yet out)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 36.11.229.190 (talk) 07:43, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: New movie
Talk:Adventure game

message: Splitting the history into Japanese and Western sections is undue and feels discriminatory. They should be merged into one restructured History section.
Also the genre differentiation used for game articles between text and graphical adventure games is about as useful silent and non-silent movies. IgelRM (talk) 08:12, 16 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Also the difference between narrative adventure game, "walking simulators" and interactive movie seems to overlap or not clearly defined. IgelRM (talk) 14:43, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Western Japanese structure 

message: The redirect First person adventure has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached.  Steel1943 (talk) 15:41, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "[[:First person adventure]]" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

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 (non-admin closure).  Jenks24 (talk) 09:51, 13 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Adventure game →  – The currnet article is about video games. But there are also adventure board game. Under adventure game, we can have a disambig for now, although ideally there should be a broader article about adventure games, which covers both video and board games. (Interestingly, based on my reading of the history sections of these articles, the board and video games developed nearly at the same time, with the first adventure board game being Dungeon! of 1975, and the first adventure video game, Colossal Cave Adventure of 1976 or lesser known Wander (1974 video game). Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 07:45, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

text: Oppose per @Zxcvbnm.  Killuminator (talk) 09:31, 6 November 2023 (UTC)

text: Oppose per @Zxcvbnm. Kind regards, Grueslayer 12:40, 7 November 2023 (UTC)

text: Oppose per PRIMARYTOPIC. Yes, there exists board games, but the amount of coverage of those compared to video games is trivial, that "adventure game" nearly always exclusively refers to video game versions. We are providing the hat note for the board game versions. --Masem (t) 13:04, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 6 November 2023
Talk:Anti-French sentiment in the United States/Archive 4

message: What about this more focused list (ie without analysis)?
* France has never had a military victory. Focusing on wars after World War I.
* France is a cowardly country that chronically prefers surrendering rather than to fight. Alluding to France's invasion by Nazi Germany in World War II.
* The French are ungrateful to the United States. Alluding to France's liberation with US help.
Marc Mongenet 03:03, 27 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I would suggest it's better with a one-line analysis! Otherwise it looks like you're presenting fact! E.G. France is a cowardly country that chronically prefers surrendering rather than to fight. Alluding to France's invasion by Nazi Germany in World War II.  is sort of suggesting it's a valid slur! Zoney 09:58, 27 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't like "Focusing on wars after World War I" as that is not what is ment (the joke makers say France didn't win WWI, USA did), and I think that rebuttels should be seperate from the listing, but I do think it would be appropriate to have a rebuttels section just following. Perhaps the format of providing a list is what is most bothersome? Maybe if we edited the list into a couple of paragraphs it would be more acceptable? Sam [Spade] 12:08, 27 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes - you may have hit the nail on the head there - I suspect the list format is indeed the main problem! Zoney 13:24, 27 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I like it this way... :( I will accept this compromise however, so long as no content is lost. Sam [Spade] 17:38, 27 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Alleged moral weaknesses
Talk:Enamel paint

message: "An enamel paint is a paint that air dries to a hard, usually glossy, finish. In reality, most commercially-available enamel paints are significantly softer than either vitreous enamel or stoved synthetic resins."
is effectively redundant to
"With respect to paints enamel simply is a term implying a hard surface paint. It is in no way a fanciful term trying to imply that an ordinary latex or oil-based paint has the same properties as true, fired vitreous enamel."
Which is not accurate.  It is not "in no way a fanciful term..." nor is it entirely a fanciful term.  So talking about it at all, without a reputable source is just silly.  That's why I removed the second paragraph.  If you feel it should remain, please justify. -Verdatum (talk) 17:18, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  redundancy 

message: "# Guitars - may be used as a DIY solution to dead and scuffy guitar."
buh whut?  Is the thought that enamel may be used on guitars to improve them?  As it is I can't understand the meaning.  Perhaps I'm dense. 23:40, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Guitars 

message: this needs to be mentioned. CorvetteZ51 (talk) 16:47, 10 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  enamel is a one-way reaction 

message: What if the enamel paint gets on your hands while you paint? Can you get it off again, and how? Water and soap? Or would it stick to you forever? 79.215.213.105 (talk) 09:39, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  how to you destroy it?