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Talk:Viperinae

message: I need to do some research (in other words, I might be wrong), but I don't think that 'pit viper' is synonomous with 'viper'. The redirect from 'Pit viper' to 'Viper' might (or might not) be suboptimum. I'll see what I can dig up. Brian Rock 16:18, Apr 3, 2004 (UTC)
:What is described here is not one species of viper but all vipers. The bushmaster is a viper with its own article. The pit viper which is not only a snake but also a "a remotely operated cleanup system". Of the snake there are apparenly several among them Tropidolaemus wagleri, Wagler's pit viper. In an article I found this to identify "pit vipers": "The term "pit viper" refers to heat-sensing "pits" which occur on each cheek - these are used to locate prey. As with other pit vipers, this species has haemotoxic venom, meaning it is poisonous to the blood system.
:You are right pit viper deserves its own page. GerardM 22:06, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:List of confederations of Germanic tribes

message: regna or regnum?
--Yak 16:22, Apr 3, 2004 (UTC)
:My guess is that regna probably is in the nominative case, while regnum is in the accusative or dative case, but that is just a guess. 惑乱 分からん 00:36, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regn- 

message: The most famous and important confederations are not mentioned: Franks, Alemanians, Saxons, Bayuvarians. Truchses 20:32, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Frankly, I would support removing or merging the confederations list; it doesn't really seem to have much to do with the Sippe.  The Jade Knight (talk) 10:23, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, the conferderation list is not partulcarly related to the sib in this context. I suggest separating the two, and creating an own sib article. –Holt  T•C 13:07, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Important confederations left out

message: Olbia was not located in modern Odessa, I fixed that.--Igor "the Otter" 20:30, 23 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Olbia
Talk:Shota Rustaveli

message: We should be as accurate as possible in selecting the English terms used to translate the original Georgian title. If the best translation is "Knight in the Tiger's Skin" we should use it throughout and note somewhere that the use of "panther" is not entirely accurate. Can someone with a thorough knowledge of Georgian of the period when the work was written offer their opinion on the best English translation of the title? Also, are two separate terms used for "panther" and "tiger" in Medieval Georgian, or is one term used for all big cats? --Picatrix (talk) 07:55, 8 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Panther vs. Tiger 
Talk:Josef Mysliveček

message: According to , Mysilvecek had his nose removed towards the end of his life in a rather strange attempt to cure his VD. Obviously, it would be interesting to put this in the article, but as I've not found a corroborating source, I've left it out for now. Can anybody else find one? --Camembert
:I quote verbatim from The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, Vol. 3, page 541: "In 1777, however, he was invited to return to Munich by the Elector of Bavaria, who sponsored a production of his Ezio which was well received. While in Munich, Mysliveček sought treatment for venereal disease that resulted in his nose being burnt off. Mozart visited him in a Munich hospital in the autumn of 1777 and reported to his father that he still retained his dynamic personality ('full of fire, spirit and life') in spite of this ghastly disfigurement." Regards. --Francesco Malipiero (talk) 18:51, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Question

message: Could someone add a pronunciation (or pronunciations, if more than one is correct) of this composer's name?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.106.103.249 (talk) 18:21, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation of name
Talk:Ogdensburg, New York

message: There seem to be three bridges mentioned near Ogdensburg. Do they all exist, or are they different names for the same one? They are Ogdensburg-Prescott International Bridge in this article, and Seaway Skyway and St. Lawrence Bridge both listed (with different stats) in List of largest suspension bridges. --Scott Davis Talk 10:39, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bridges 
Talk:William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw

message: So when precisely was he created Viscount Whitelaw (on or before 1983, obviously, but when?) orthogonal 19:08, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. rbrwrˆ 20:31, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: :It was Whitelaw who managed to dissuade Thatcher in 1980 from going to Leeds to take charge of the Yorkshire Ripper inquiry personally.
Is there a source for this? its tone would appear to me to be something from a typicaly exagerated political anecdote, and not terribly reliable. Iain 28 June 2005 13:46 (UTC)
:I was wondering where that came from too, I've found and added a reference for it now. -- Joolz 16:32, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yorkshire Ripper 

message: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2863814/Willie-Whitelaw-ordered-police-scrap-inquiry-VIP-child-sex-abuse-ring-Police-launch-probe-sensational-new-cover-claims.html
Just read this online, and came here to find no mention of it, so I'd thought I'd drop an early heads-up.Jonny Quick (talk) 00:20, 14 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Willie Whitelaw ordered police to scrap inquiry into VIP child sex abuse ring 

message: No crest or supporters in the picture.
What is an erect bee, anyway? 2A00:23C7:E284:CF00:C150:4E88:C7A0:E6AC (talk) 13:13, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Arms

message: A lecture by Lord Norton "What if Ted Heath had resigned in October 1974 and Willie Whitelaw had become Tory Leader?" was delivered at the Speaker's House and shown on BBC Parliament and iPlayer from Monday 18 March 2019.94.126.214.51 (talk) 10:05, 29 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speakers House Lecture
Talk:Scientific skepticism/Archive 1

message: I'm removing the previously removed reference to "discontinuance" of "Mathematical Games" for three reasons:
# It is a detail almost entirely without relevance here
# The desire to include is suspect as a countering of the fact of the long-running column potentially  adding to Gardner's stature with false suggestion that it turned out to be a bad idea after all.  Although the title of the column has changed as different people have taken it over, that is more a reflection of reverence for Gardner:  "I'm not the new MG, bcz no one can replace him"
# The subject of what happened with "Mathematical Games" is far too extensive to be covered here, tho it could make a good article in itself, beyond the single 'graph in mathematical games; for starters, it would explain the relationship between Gardner and Hofstadter, and the significance of Hofdstadter's column title. 
--Jerzy 03:37, 2004 Feb 8 (UTC)
: relevance? it's just a note that it was not "MG" anymore ... (YMMV on it's relevance though)
: suspect fact to  make a false suggestion? Mabey some reader's inference is a bit more than just what it was intended to be ... =-]
: What happened with "Mathematical Games"? That'd be neat to see IMO ... 
: The line reads basically the same to me ...  mabey a note on what it's called now would be good? mabey not  ... JDR 14:24, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Martin Gardner
Talk:Ahmose (queen)

message: Well, there is no explicit statement in both pages that the names were used interchangeably to refer to one person. But based on the description of these supposedly different individuals (mother of Hatshepsut, wife of Thutmose I), then likely, the articles are just referring to the same person. Moreover, an article about a pharaoh (I think it was Ahmose I, or his wife Ahmose-Nefertari) discusses Aahmes being a granddaughter. And this same description is found on this page. So that also affirms it. Joey80 14:09, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge with [[Aahmes]]

message: "It is not known who Ahmose's father and mother were. "
It would seem that we have a family tree preserved in Manetho's book of Sothis; it implies Siamun , son of Kamose, as her father.
https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Manetho/Appendices/4*.html
10. Amasis, 2 years. Ahmose
11. Acesephthrês, 13 years. Ahmose Sapair
12. Anchoreus, 9 years. Ahmose Ankh
13. Armiÿses, 4 years. Ramose
14. Chamoïs,​ 12 years. Kamose
15. Miamûs, 14 years. Siamun
16. Amesêsis, 65 years. Queen Ahmose
17. Usês, 50 years. Hatshepsut 2601:58B:E7F:8410:486F:7B47:9612:D023 (talk) 15:44, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Family Tree of Ahmose
Talk:List of television shows set in New York City

message: I don't have the research right now, but this page omits the 1960's series "East Side West Side". One citation, in a writer's obituary:
http://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/11/arts/millard-lampell-78-writer-and-supporter-of-causes-dies.html   Stagehand (talk) 14:43, 6 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: East Side, West Side

message: I was surprised to see Madam Secretary included in this list, since the show's primary locale is clearly Washington DC.  Of course, many other locations come into play in the show due to the main character's travels and various world events, so I would not be surprised that NYC has appeared in a random episode here or there.  Nonetheless, it seems a stretch to say that the show is set in NYC.  Should it be removed from the list? MuskieDan (talk) 20:48, 14 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Madam Secretary? 

message: The entire show is set in the New York Metropolitan Area, with the two main storylines set in Westport/Greenwich, and Brooklyn/Lower Manhattan. The title sequence is nothing more than the name of the show, a sweeping shot of lower Manhattan, and then credits for the show-should be added  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cobylefko (talk • contribs) 06:16, 4 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Billions? 

message: Bronx Science HS,
Bronx 2603:7000:863F:5B2:4D1F:86D3:692:C670 (talk) 21:00, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Head of the Class
Wikipedia talk:Quickpolls/Rules

message: This is still set to removal after 15 votes. Should this be increased? Martin 22:26, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Absolutely it should. Recent changes is the only reasonably reliable way of drawing more votes, and the listing should not be removed until the quickpoll has a quorum to make a decision. --Michael Snow 23:41, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)

text: Pardon my ignorance, but wouldn't I have to be an admin to alter those messages? --Michael Snow 23:57, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)

text: Well, maybe I should have used "one" instead of "I" then, to be more precise. The point being, you (plural) don't have to be an admin to start a quickpoll, and the methods for advertising the quickpoll shouldn't require admin privileges either. --Michael Snow 23:56, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)

text: Both suggestions sound fair to me. --Michael Snow 23:56, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  recent changes removal 

message: : a signed in user confesses to deliberate trolling
I don't think we want to give trolls, who are out to stir up trouble, the benefit of their names in lights on recent changes. If we want to block folks for trolling, is this really the best way? Martin 23:50, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: So why did you revert yourself? anthony (see warning) 17:04, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  Because I wasn't sure. Hence the question-mark. Martin 17:09, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: trolling

message: The new rules say you can only start one quickpoll at a time. What is meant by "one"? In the past, we have had dual quickpolls where both subjects had made many reverts to the same page. Are we now going to require two different people to sponsor quickpolls in these instances? It seems to me that in these situations, we should allow both offenders to walk the plank together, rather than giving one the satisfaction of watching the other go first. --Michael Snow 23:53, 3 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: It seems that people have been happy with people to create such twin quickpolls in recent times... not that both offenders have typically walked the plank... Martin 12:41, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Rules question

message: The current removal guidelines are, I think, not quite ideal. I propose the following replacement:
* If no action is taken within 24 hours, remove the quickpoll.
* If action is taken, remove the quickpoll when the action expires or is reversed.
The former ties in with the fact that quickpolls must be started within 24 hours of the behaviour in question, and are meant to be for emergency action. The latter ties in with the fact that quickpolls cannot be reimplemented once reversed.
Comments? Martin 18:42, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of quickpoll listing 

message: I have made a proposal to address the problem of asymmetric application fo the 3-revert rule. Details at Wikipedia talk:Quickpolls#Alternative proposal: Symmetric 3-revert rule. -- Cyan 14:43, 6 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Alternative proposal: Symmetric 3-revert rule
Talk:Rangers F.C.

message: Year founded should be 2012 not 1872 2A00:23C7:4097:4A01:4615:1D23:5839:8EBD (talk) 15:37, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: read history section Cannolis (talk) 18:20, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 5 November 2023 

message: Rangers FC is a Scottish Football Club in the SPFL, Based in Ibrox/Govan, in Glasgow. And the Best in Glasgow. ThatRFCFan (talk) 17:54, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  Wikipedia should express no opinion on which team is best.Maproom (talk) 18:21, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 21 November 2023 

message: please fix instagram link as it goes to false account 2402:B801:284A:39F0:0:0:0:1006 (talk) 22:22, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: There is no Instagram link in the article that I can see, and if there is it should be removed WP:ELNO RudolfRed (talk) 02:40, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 14 March 2024 

message: I'd like to bring a question related to the accuracy of this article. Rangers football club was originally founded approx 150 years ago. However, that club went into administration and was closed. The current club was founded in 2012 following the failed administration. 
With that in mind stating, without qualification, that the club is 152 years old is inaccurate. It's also inaccurate to say it's the fourth oldest club in Scotland as the original club no longer exists. 
Following administration this club was founded with a different name. 
I recommend minor changes to the article to reflect this in points about the age e.g. RFC is 152 years old (original club 1872 - 2012; RFC 2012 - present)
Recommend qualifying the points about the club's relative age too: Fourth oldest club in Scotland (combined age of pre-administration and post-adminstration clubs)
As it stands the article is misleading and inaccurate. 
As a neutral I would like to be able to understand the facts about the club at a glance. Misterfitzy (talk) 18:32, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: @Misterfitzy This has all been discussed at great length before on this talk page.  Reliable sources, and official bodies, treat the club as a continuation, with a change of owning company.  Therefore, so does this article. Escape Orbit (Talk) 19:27, 6 April 2024 (UTC)

text: Welcome back, after 14 years. Seasider53 (talk) 19:51, 6 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Club heritage and age
Wikipedia talk:IRC/Cloaks

message: A policy discussion was conducted here which concluded that status symbols in user cloaks was undesirable. See page history for details. - Fennec 02:21, 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)

message: As it seems to be the general consensus that cloaks should follow a flat scheme, I have directed the Freenode staff to set all existing cloaks to just username.wikipedia. Fennec 02:13, 10 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Status of Cloaks
Talk:General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

message: Both archived Talk Pages show a suggestion to add a Controversies headline. Some of the research by Michael Parenti, PhD would be appropriate. For example, from the 9th edition of Democracy for the Few (pp.157-158):
"One way to elevate the giant transnationals above the sovereign power of democratic constituencies is through “free trade” agreements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), and similar agreements. As presented to the public, free trade does away with irksome regulatory laws, integrates national economies into a global trade system, and thereby creates more trade, more jobs and prosperity, a process called “globalization” that is treated as a natural development beneficial to all. The GATT agreements created the World Trade Organization (WTO), an international association of over 120 signatory nations. The WTO has the authority to overrule or dilute any laws of any nation deemed to burden the investment and market prerogatives of transnational corporations. It sets up three-member panels composed of “trade specialists” who exercise a decision-making power superior to that of any nation, thereby ensuring the supremacy of international finance capital. These panelists are drawn mostly from the corporate world; they meet in secret, are elected by no one, and operate with no conflict-of-interest strictures. Their function is to allow the transnational companies to do as they wish in pursuit of profit. No free-trade restrictions are directed against private business; almost all are against governments. Signatory governments must treat foreign companies the same as domestic ones, and honor all corporate patent claims made on the world’s natural resources. Should a country refuse to change its laws when a “free trade” panel so dictates, it can be fined or deprived of needed markets and materials. Free-trade edicts forced Japan to accept greater pesticide residues in imported food, prevented Guatemala from outlawing deceptive advertising on baby food, and suppressed a Guatemalan law that encouraged mothers to breast-feed their children (the law interfered with baby-food product opportunities)."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:5CF:8000:6B60:883B:6D7:A3A7:2EA8 (talk) 13:42, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversies Section
Talk:Social mania

message: This article is tremendously prejudicial. It marks communism, fascism, and basically every other mass movement in the twentieth century as a mental illness. I think it needs to be totally rewritten or else it should face deletion. It is incredibly elitist and NPOV.189.180.106.97 (talk) 07:12, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Not necessarily, but they're similar enough that I've added mutual see-alsos. --BDD (talk) 21:24, 5 September 2012 (UTC)

text: I also looked for more information, it doesn't seem that this term is currently being used in mainstream literature or in any psychology-related topics that I have read regarding the concepts spoken about in this article. Seems to be more like a combination of mass movements and moral panic. LemonLawrence (talk) 16:26, 9 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Perhaps a mention of the huge demonstrations and mass marches that took place in Europe denouncing Paedophilia, and 'National Debt' marches in the U.S. etc. Paedophilia was no more prevalent at the time of the demonstrations than at any other time. But rumours and myths of 'Satanic Cults' involving prominent members of Society inspired huge demonstrations in Belgium, with mobs trying to storm Police Stations. In England, illiterate ignorant demonstrators smashed every window in a Pediatrician's Office believing the word somehow meant 'paedophile'. In the United States, huge demonstrations took place denouncing The National Debt. At the time, in real terms, U.S. National Debt, was the lowest  in the Industrial World.Johnwrd (talk) 23:41, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modern Examples.
Talk:Pocahontas

message: The introduction and infobox list Amonute as the birth name and Matoaka as the alternative, but the former is not mentioned again throughout the rest of the article and is therefore without a source. Furthermore, for completeness, perhaps its colonial name could be added to the introduction. 93.65.247.189 (talk) 19:37, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Born name Amonute 

message: Pocahontas's public formal name was Amonute Ruanel22 (talk) 16:31, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Jamedeus (talk) 19:07, 1 May 2024 (UTC)

text: Restored a prior citation of this. Hyphenation Expert (talk) 19:31, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 1 May 2024
Talk:Feed forward (control)

message: The lede reads: "Feed-forward is a term describing an element or pathway within a control system which passes a controlling signal from a source in the control system's external environment, often a command signal from an external operator, to a load elsewhere in its external environment."
I consider this formulation quite weak. I think that the principle of feed-forward should not be identified with elements or pathways. The article's scope clearly is control theory, thus it seems to be a good idea to rename it to "feed-forward control"—I think this would also simplify the definition: feed-forward control would be definable as a concept in control theory. Morton Shumway—talk 21:01, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition of the term 

message: Moved the note below from the article. Jim1138 (talk) 06:29, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moved from article
Talk:Xunantunich

message: The location given in the article can't be accurate. It states that it's in Belize, about 80 miles (130 km) west of Belize City. But when I measure that in Google Earth, I find that this puts it 18 miles inside Guatemala. The Border with Guatemala is only about 62 miles (99 km) west of Belize City. -- MiguelMunoz 06:26, 25 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hm. Possibly 80 miles by road? -- Infrogmation 10:52, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

text: The distance from Belize City to Xunantunich (in a straight line) is approximately 69.25 miles, so I'm going to change it from "about 80" to "about 70". Kaldari (talk) 04:51, 24 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Location of Xunantunich
Talk:Assistant referee

message: Hi Arwen,
Thanks for your updates here. A couple of (semantic) points:
The change of name from "Linesman" to "Assistant Referee" wasn't primarily to do with geneder-neutral language; rather it was to better reflect the modern emphasis on the role of the AR.
It is for this reason that I have also put back the fact that "referee's assistant" is an incorrect term, as this term was deliberately avoided as it is not considered to reflect the task of the AR.
Any comments?
Cheers, Dave.
--DaveB 02:45, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Hi. The one main problem with this proposal from the perspective of this article as I see it is that the other article, Referee (football), is specific to Association Football. The article Assistant referee is split between Association Football and Ice Hockey. Therefore you first need to decide what you are going to do with the perfectly valid information on the Ice Hockey assistant referee. Personally I would prefer no merger. The article as it exists today is actually longer than many of the stub-class articles within Wikipedia at the moment, which was one of the proposer's points made to back up their proposal. Refer to Talk:Referee (football)#Merger. Thanks. Ref (chew)(do) 01:57, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Per this consensus, it is now proposed that Fourth official and Fifth official be merged with this article to form Assistant officials (Association football), and making existing articles redirects to the new article. Please leave any comments on this page. Thanks. Ref (chew)(do) 01:51, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed merge into Referee (football)