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Talk:R. M. Hare

message: Corrected assertion that Hare's influence was in the first half of 20th century.  Hare left university in the early 40s and served in WWII.  I am pretty sure that his first published article was in 1949.  His most famous and influential work, The Language of Morals, was first published in 1952, after which he became well known among philosophers icut4you.
Added some biographical stuff, info on influences, on Kant and differences therefrom.  Most importantly, made point that Hare does not subscribe to a principle of utility in formulating ethical rules...though he is willing to take utility into account in making a universal prescription.  This is a critical difference between Hare and many other utilitarians. icut4u 01:51, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Recently, someone made the addition of Hare to the list of Christian Philosophers. A quick read of a non-wikipedia bio did not mention this. Can anyone cite a reference on this? Pjwerner (talk) 02:09, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'd be rather surprised if he was Christian. I'm deleting it, in absence of any reference. David Olivier (talk) 11:37, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: He did identify himself as a Christian, though rarely discussed this in his works beyond occasional references to the fact that he thought that true Christian moralist (and indeed, the true spirit of all moral judgments and respectable moral systems) boiled down to the golden rule, which in turn he thought supported a version of utilitarianism.  I'm not sure why you would think he wasn't a Christian.  He wrote one essay called 'Euthanasia: A Christian View', which along with other possibly relet essays can be found in his 1992 Essays on Religion and Education (Oxford: Oxford University Press).  For this reason I'm reverting to the earlier classification.--ScottForschler (talk) 19:51, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Christian? 

message: Today's featured article on the problem of religious language mentions Hare's parable of the lunatic, which does not appear to be discussed in this article. Unfortunately, I don't know enough about the topic to make much of a contribution here. Any help available? jxm (talk) 13:54, 12 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parable of the lunatic? 
Talk:National security directive/Archive 1

message: Should be merged with the more generalized subject article, presidential directives.  The word National Security Directive was unique only to the administration of President George H. W. Bush.  --Gerald Farinas 20:15, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge proposal

message: I think on this page there should be a specific list of directives, for example Reagan issued NSDD 145 in 1984, "National Policy on Telecommunications and Automated Information Systems Security".  There are many different directives which fall under different naming conventions.  E.G. NSDD 145 cannot ever be called PRD 145. RWilliamKing 19:23, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: List format
Category talk:Suicides

message: Do we want to combine "Activists" and "Lobbyists"? Sherurcij (Speaker for the Dead)  10:57, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Hrm

message: With all due respect, this set of categories seems to me to be more appropriate for lists -- see the :Category:Lists of people by cause of death for another example.  Particularly, defining this by profession is going to lead to problems where people have multiple professions.  In fact, every single other personal characteristic can be crossed with "suicide", thus doubling every set of categories in an article.  That's going to make it hard to find relevant categories. I'm opening this up for discussion, after one of the sub-categories was posted on Categories for deletion. --lquilter 02:38, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lists? 

message: I understand that using committing suicide does not have a positive or neutral weight 
Could all the categories using committed suicide be renamed? so, for instance, instead of "Ancient people who committed suicide" -->> "Ancient people who suicided"? Hoping that all the categories using "committed suicide" be renamed. Thank you Tortillovsky (talk) 14:57, 27 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Suicide as verb: commited suicide -->> suicided
Category talk:Fictional deities

message: Referring to "fictional deities" as "deity characters" is how I clarify the difference on disambiguation pages. It is a nontrivial distinction. 
Characters like Cthulhu, Lolth, or Sauron have never been called upon to justify killing real people in the real world, and have probably never been the subject of serious, sustained worship by any real-world group, i.e. such belief is non-notable. (Although the characters may easily meet criteria for fiction notability.)
Deities that have actual worshipers, in the most notable cases, have been called upon to justify wars and takings by real people upon other real people in the real world. This is underpinning of a great amount of documented human history, and it is irrelevant to the issue of inclusion in this category whether any (or which) of these deities was merely invented by somebody at some point. 
Interesting cases are Xenu (a featured article) and the Jedi census phenomenon. Xenu is traceable to the writings of a science fiction author with an intent to found a religion, while the real-world Jedi are fans that may have found a spiritual fulfillment in Star Wars, while director George Lucas may have intended nothing of the kind. Whatever their connections to fiction, these have become real world religious phenomena, with notable impact on society. Fictional deities, or deity characters are never the subject of genuine worship. —Yamara ✉ 07:55, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Just as real-world Pastafarians may have found spiritual fulfillment in the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Whatever its connections to parody, Pastafarianism has produced real world religious phenomena such as Pastafarian holiday pageants and ordained Pastafarian ministers performing Pastafarian weddings. Causing changes in public policy on several occasions also seems like a notable impact on society to me. ~ Robin Lionheart (talk) 23:05, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Deity characters

message: Unless there are fictional deities that lack powers, methinks we may wish for this category to be listed as a subcategory of the other.  Thoughts?  allixpeeke (talk) 05:57, 28 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should this category be added to the broader category [[:Category:Fictional characters who use magic|Fictional characters who use magic]]?
Talk:Florin Popențiu Vlădicescu

message: Hello,
I am the owner of the WEB PAGE.
Please put it back,
Sincerely yours,
Prof. Florin POPENTIU
: We assume that you are acting in good faith, and the content is restored. However with all due respect, please understand that this message is not a formal proof. Therefore please take your time to read Wikipedia:Confirmation of permission and Wikipedia:copyrights policies. Sorry for the trouble, but I hope you understand us. Mikkalai 00:35, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: -"Dime a dozen": So are rap and pop singers and their albums, proliferating in wikipedia. It will never stop amaze me how people of engineering and science receive only marginal recognition. Mikkalai 18:10, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)

text: -"Brian Randell": who stops you to "de-redlink" him, if you think he is deserving? Mikkalai 18:12, 9 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Nothing and nobody. Did I say something or somebody was? I just won't do it right now, because I have other stuff on my mind. Lupo 10:39, 10 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Fylgja

message: Great additions, Io.--Wiglaf 21:41, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. There's one thing which bothers me though. As I recall the fylgja is a being while hamingja has more to do with fate. (As when Kveldúlfur says that there is no use resisting the hamingja of Haraldur hárfagri, he is referring to Haraldur's destiny, not his guardian.) This is quoted from memory, however, but it may be a point to consider. Cheers Io 18:15, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds very likely. It should be possible to find information about that in scholarly work.--Wiglaf 18:32, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Could you dig that up, or should I? I'm tempted to change the article based on feeling, but linguistic gut feelings are notoriously difficult to apply, when the time in question is so long. (The language of the sagas looks and feels like my native tongue, but when you look closer, there are always small points to consider - hamingja in modern Icelandic would only mean happiness, not fate or destiny.) As an aside, I've been told that my fylgja is a black dog - gender unspecified. I won't comment on the accuracy of that. :-) Cheers Io 21:34, 23 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Done! We continentals have forgotten about the fylgjur:)--Wiglaf 16:13, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)

text: Yes, they do sound alike. What I did was to compile information from Nordisk familjebok and Nationalencyklopedin, so I believe the information is correct.--Wiglaf 18:13, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll mull it over. You probably know how you take turns reading krimis, historical novels, philosophy, language, whatever. Well, in my case it's been a while since I read the old literature. Its time's coming, but not quite yet. I'll stay out of editing that area for a bit until I've regained fluency, so to speak. (Unless I actually look something up, heaven forbid. :) I still think hamingja and fylgja are not the same, but then I'm a millennium younger than Egill Skalla-Grímsson. Cheers Io 18:33, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Additions

message: Fylgjas can also be of human form and examples of that can be found in Icelandic folklore and sagas. Modern fylgjas are usually family members that have passed and help their surviving relatives. They can also be guardian spirits, but that belief usually comes from spiritism.
-Hulda Sif
an Icelander
:Can you tell us where you read that? Pesticide1110 Lets wrestle! 09:14, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  An animal? 

message: The text says "swans are not native to Iceland". This is complete bollox, the Whooper Swan regularly breeds in Iceland (also Lapland). Who writes this stuff?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.153.118.175 (talk) 20:02, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Swans 

message: How Norsemen would know about such animals? --Manfariel (talk) 16:35, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lions, leopards? 

message: Hi, vardøger is an aspect of fylgja that might be incorporated. T 84.208.86.134 (talk) 08:29, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vardøger
Talk:Mona Lisa/to do

message: *Aesthetics section: "The Mona Lisa set the standard for all future portraits." — back up this assertion with facts and references.
*History section:
**Where was the painting hidden during the Franco-Prussian War?
*Popular culture section: more info needed.
**There are more songs named "Mona Lisa" by popular artists out there. (Indigo Girls; David Allen Coe; ?)
**Also, Da Vinci Code is a book, not a song as would be thought
** In one of the Wayside School Books by Louis Sachar is metions that one of the kid's father guards the Mona Lisa.
*Restructuring:
**Possibly turn the long bulleted list in the pop culture section into continuous prose.
***Did that. Paranoid 12:52, 3 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Mustard

message: Validation of article performed by WIKICHECK. August 17 2006 17:12pm. WikiCheck 17:12, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

message: I'm going to break this out between cullinary mustard and mustard plants, and a disambiguation page for cullinary mustard, mustard plants, MUSTARD, mustard gas and the color mustard.
:Culinary mustard is made from the seeds of several mustard plants, the different species making different types of culinary mustard. If you make sure that connection remains fully discussed, you'll be fine. Mustard gas has nothing to do with mustard: break that out to your heart's content. Mustard as a color seems like a rather slender encyclopedia entry, once it's separated from mustard: well defined below without using the word "mustard": a feat! A Mustard (disambiguation) page is always a good idea. --Wetman 08:15, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Gonna break it out

message: Someone should redirect this to the plant or the condiment and place this page at mustard (disambiguation). That someone who has just typed in "mustard" would be looking for anything other than these two is highly unlikely. Readers shouldn't be confronted with so much disambiguation cruft when seaching for such a common topic.
Peter Isotalo 16:03, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect 

message: For ease of navigation I added the link so "Cluedo" would reference directly to its article here in Wikipedia.  I'd never heard it called that here in the U.S. and the link would have been an easy way to find the info.  Greenbomb101 (talk) 18:03, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cluedo / Clue 

message: Per the comment above, I propose that the primary meaning of the word "mustard" is the condiment, and that Mustard (condiment) should therefore be moved to this title, with the current disambiguation page being moved to Mustard (disambiguation). Comments? bd2412 T 18:03, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't personally think it is clear enough to justify a move. Not too many incoming links to cope with either. DuncanHill (talk) 14:18, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  It has enough incoming links to have made this month's list of the 500 most linked to disambiguation pages, and it appears that new links are added regularly. bd2412 T 16:39, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It's far preferable to dab the links than move where the primary meaning is not absolutely clear. I took a quick look at some of the incoming links and even in a culinary setting it's not always clear of the condiment or the seed is intended. DuncanHill (talk) 16:49, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  Going through the links now, I must agree (although they lean heavily in favor of the condiment, there are enough to still make a perpetual task of fixing errant links), so I'll withdraw the primary topic proposal. Cheers! bd2412 T 17:58, 8 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Primary topic
Talk:Data Darbar

message: From VfD:
The person for whose tomb Data Durbar is not even listed. The page consists of a bunch of photos. It is not encyclopedic as is and there are far too many photos for it. Pitchka 22:17, Aug 30, 2004 (UTC)
*Keep, this vfd was listed by User:Pitchka on Aug. 30, but not properly added to the vfd pages.  The person for whose tomb Data Durbar IS listed, but the article itself is, well, crap.  Send to cleanup, but definitely keep. -Vina 06:25, 5 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Gwangju, Gyeonggi

message: can anybody please move this article back to Gwangju, Gyeonggi? - Nike787 (talk) 01:42, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've already logged a request a WP:RM. PC78 (talk) 23:03, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  move request
Talk:Zetta-

message: The spelling looks odd.  Instead of "Zetta", "Zeta" feels more in line with the other prefixes, which sound greekish, e.g. "Peta". 79.204.143.38 (talk) 14:22, 17 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Spelling

message: :It needs to be defined here. TechnoFaye Kane 02:39, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: What is the leftmost column (1000^M)?

message: "You're so Zetta slow" - This is how the word became popular. From the Nintendo DS game "The world ends with you". Without it, nobody including me would care about this article.
It's Zetta cool!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.27.113.54 (talk) 11:29, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cool Quote for Zetta 

message: Does anyone know how to pronounce it? We need a pronunciation guide. ··gracefool☺ 00:39, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation
Talk:1 E9

message: "6,377,641,642 - This number is believed to denote the total midyear population for the world in 2004." That's ludicrous over-precision. Rounding to the nearest million, and even that's probably over-precise. Consider that the most populous countries are often the least organized, and we should be lucky to get 2 sig. figures of accuracy. -- Karada 22:52, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Escape pod

message: Shouldn't this article be under the title of escape pod, rather than escape ship?  More pages link to the escape pod redirect than directly to this article, and outside of Alien, I've never heard of the term "escape ship" being used in science fiction or otherwise.  Every article linked directly to here is either Alien-related or links a different word in the article. Night Gyr 10:26, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I was thinking it should be "escape pod" as well, I think it was that way before and someone redirected it to escape ship. An "escape ship" could be anything - any ship used to leave a dying ship - like a shuttlecraft or starfighter, but an "escape pod" has a specific purpose - "to get the f*** outta there" when your ship is going down. Cyberia23 23:46, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  pod or ship? 

message: I was just wondering if anyone else remembers a movie where it is set in space on a casino ship. Terroists blow it up and the rest of the movie is set witha group of people occupying a escape pod? Dont tell me I dreamed it. --MattyC3350 (talk) 05:34, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You probably did dream it Towel401 (talk) 01:56, 3 June 2008 (UTC)

text: You did not dream it. This film is quite nice, it is “Lifepod”, a remake of Hitchcock's “Lifeboat”. But you have believed the evil bullshit about “terrorists”. --Nnemo (talk) 17:32, 15 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Escape Pod Movie 

message: Do we really need a list of every fictional escape? that just encourages trivia lists.71.116.108.183 (talk) 22:51, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  trivia list 

message: Should it not be called a more technical term like "Escaping Podzol" or "Crew evacuation podzol"?Towel401 (talk) 01:55, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Is this the proper name

message: maybe we should like the banner says merge the article 192.65.133.102 (talk) 16:55, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I personally dont think so. In my opinion the technologies are different enough to be separated into different categories. What I mean by this is the fact that the "Clam Shell Ejector Seat" is just an escape pod which closes, normally its just a chair. The Escape Pod on the other hand is built specifically to be used as an Escape Pod and doesn't actually change on takeoff.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cakehead-G (talk • contribs) 18:57, 29 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Closing, given the uncontested objection with no support. Klbrain (talk) 16:52, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  merging
Talk:Interstate 275

message: The Florida section had previously listed all exits for I-275 around Tampa. That seemed a bit excessive to me for an encyclopedia, so I deleted the section when I fixed the nesting of the sections. Does anyone disagree with the edit? Pentegamer 18:54, Feb 25, 2005 (UTC)
:I disagree with it - this is useful, and does not simply duplicate a map - by now most maps will show only the new numbers. If opening dates could be obtained, they can be added (along with converting the list to a table). --SPUI (talk) 01:05, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Florida Clean-Up
Talk:Panzer VIII Maus

message: "... the maximum speed achieved on hard surfaces was 13 km/h (8.1 mph) with full motor field, and by weakening the motor field to a minimum, a top speed of 22 km/h (14 mph) was achieved." 
What does 'motor field' mean? RedTomato (talk) 20:20, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for clarification
Talk:Adeline Records

message: If it refers to the record label and the village, which are both probably equally popular, why not make a disambig that links to, say, Adeline (label) and Adeline, Illinois? I just think it looks funny to have that village link at the top when the main article isn't big enough to be really important. LockeShocke 00:58, Aug 31, 2004 (UTC)
I changed Nesser to Armstrong, because she hasn't gone by Nesser for 12 years now.  If anyone can prove otherwise, change it back. --Jude 11:06, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Newton Rowell

message: Was Rowell the most influential member on the panel?  How much of the Commission's final report can be said to reflect his vision of the future of Dominion-Provincial relations c.1940?  Does anybody have any insight on this issue?— Preceding unsigned comment added by142.161.14.174 (talk) 21:03, 30 August 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rowell-Sirois Commission
Template talk:US currency and coinage

message: Why are United States notes included, but not silver certificates? --Seitz 05:39, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Silver Certificates 

message: Clearly I was WP:BOLD with the formatting changes I made to the template, so I wanted to leave a note here as a common spot for feedback/discussion.  Thx. — MrDolomite | Talk 20:02, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Glad to see you being bold! However, there were some problems with the text you changed from bold to italic.  Although bold text is used to indicate the current page of a template, it is also used for template heading titles along with the vertically stacked subheading titles. I do think it was a good idea to change "United States currency [and coinage]" to simply currency and coinage.  I'm not sure what the Wikipedia policy of using abreviations in templates is, though. --Kurt 04:27, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template formatting 

message: The last link, text "Obsolete denominations", links to Template:Obsolete_U.S._currency_and_coinage. In a brief search, I couldn't actually find an article on obsolete denominations - perhaps there should be one - but it doesn't seem useful to have a template linked to in place of an article. As I'm not aware of an appropriate article, am not about to create one, and don't know what an appropriate replacement link would be, I'll leave that to someone who is aware/will create one/does know one. :) - Somnior 21:46, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Obsolete Link In Template

message: I removed the link to the $50 American Gold Buffalo, and the link that said it was to a $10 coin, but actually linked to the First Spouse dollars. As of now it has all coins minted for actual circulation. If this list is to include every denomination of bullion minted, it would have to include the $5, $10, $25, and $50 Gold Eagles, the $50 Gold Buffalo, the $10, $25, $50, and $100 Platinum Eagles, and possibly more that I have forgotten. Harksaw (talk) 19:24, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current coinage 

message: I propose that we add a line for Bullion coins since they are "coinage" as in the title of this template. It would look something like this:
<noinclude>
If no objections, I'll go ahead with it. —Diiscool (talk) 00:51, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add Bullion coins? 

message: A few weeks ago, Purplebackpack89 changed the color of this template (see the old version here. I liked the idea but not necessarily the outcome. Then, 80.163.68.22 changed the template back to the way it was, standard colors.
I have tweaked the color changing idea a little bit and added the US flag. I would be interested in any comments or ideas people have about this.
Thanks —Diiscool (talk) 23:56, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I changed foreground color to black as green on green is difficult to read and makes links harder notice. — MrDolomite • Talk 18:25, 29 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Color change
Talk:Luo Xuejuan

message: The page has now been rewritten at Luo Xuejuan/Temp.  -spencer195 01:23, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled