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Talk:Such a Long Journey (novel)

message: I have reverted the two recent edits  as they do not conform to Wikipedia guidelines or policies. Though not identified as such, the plot summary is incomplete. I recommend it be reintroduced when complete. The character section contains information on a single character and is also incomplete - like the plot summary, it ends in mid-sentence. "Topics for Discussion" appears to be intended as a teaching aid and is clearly unencyclopedic. Finally, "fixed by sephiroth kills" has been removed as such credits are not permitted on Wikipedia. Victoriagirl 19:56, 17 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Edits by Sephiroth kills

message: Under "Reception" this article states that Such a Long Journey was selected for Oprah's Book Club in November 2001. This is incorrect, it was actually another Rohinton Mistry novel A Fine Balance that was selected for Oprah's Book Club in November 2001.  Such a Long Journey was never in Oprah's Book Club.
50.15.247.253 (talk) 14:33, 26 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Such a Long Journey NOT in Oprah's Book Club
Talk:John Jacob (East India Company officer)

message: This article has been tagged as needing additional citations and the Legacy section has two specific citation needed tags - can anyone provide sources for this otherwise it will probably need to be removed.— Rod talk 09:14, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: As no references have been found I have removed the paragraph in the legacy section.— Rod talk 16:19, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  citations needed
Talk:Sula (novel)

message: Under the characters section this article describes Sula Peace as the main antagonist and says that Nel Wright can be considered the main protagonist. This claim in purely opinion and is not supported by the majority of critics. nor does it contain any source at all. In fact, I would argue the exact opposite of this. Since, this is a debated topic, I would suggest calling them both main characters instead.
This article should probably be reorganized in accordance to other more polished articles.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.140.203.1 (talk) 13:18, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Let's see the winning formula requires racism (white slave owner), miscegenation, feminism, defiance of gender norms, normalization of deviant behavior, slutty behaviour, adultery. Hmm but there is no homosexuality or other LGBT themes! How could this book possibly have won an award? 49.207.53.88 (talk) 20:13, 30 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Start a section on Wikipedia for dumb books that won prizes
Talk:Chapter Two of the Constitution of South Africa

message: Hi, the current content has the structure of the entire chapter. I am working on the missing content
Gregorydavid 13:31, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This doesn't belong here, this belongs on Wikisource. Luigi30 (Ταλκ το mε) 14:37, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Rewritten. CanadianCaesar Et tu, Brute? 05:22, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I have added the list of rights contained in this bill. with quote (maybe sometimes to long, please cut down as appropiate), and context (e.g. BEE, languages etc). This still needs a lot of work but does the bill more justice. The bill is unique in terms of its detail, hence I think worth quoting, among constitutions and human rights instruments it is one of those placing most emphasis on economic, social and cultural rights.
--SasiSasi (talk) 21:39, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Rights contained in the Bill

message: shouldn't this be merged with Constitution of South Africa? Chabalala 08:24, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  merge?
Talk:Hurley Weir

message: I've put up a picture, but it's not very highres or well exposed. Cameraphone pic - if any other playboaters have got better pictures, please add/replace.
--Jamsta 13:32, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: I'm going to remove a bit of jargon from this article, so it makes more sense to people who are not kayakers.
For example... believe it not kayaking people...  to a lot of the english speaking population the word 'paddling' actually conjures images of taking off your socks and walking around in shallow water (which isn't really something Hurley is known for! hehehe)
I'm a kayaker myself, and hang around with a lot of kayakers. It often surprises how they will use kayaking jargon all the time without realising it.
Some more non-kayak related info would make the article more balanced too (if anyone can think of any notable facts to say about a weir!?)
By the way, there's a 'Hurley Weir' article on kayakwiki which certainly should be kayak focussed, if anyone's interested in contributing there -- Nojer2 15:05, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kayaking focus & jargon
Talk:Stratified sampling

message: The real-world example below does seem correct:
A real-world example of using stratified sampling would be for a US political survey. If we wanted the respondents to reflect the diversity of the population of the United States, the researcher would specifically seek to include participants of various minority groups such as race or religion, based on their proportionality to the total population as mentioned above. A stratified survey could thus claim to be more representative of the US population than a survey of simple random sampling or systematic sampling.
The reason is because old polls used to have these quotas for religions and income, etc, and the accuracy of these polls were far worse than those from Gallop using simple random sampling. Using simple random sampling with sufficient sample sizes results in a representative sample.
somebody please define the diffrence between stratified and clustered random sampling???  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.95.199.124 (talk) 15:51, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The first mathematical formulae in the article are introduced with the phrase "The mean and variance of stratified random sampling". However "mean" and "variance" are quantities that are defined for random variables, not for sampling procedures. Unless a sampling procedure employs a unique and universally understood random variable, it doesn't make sense to refer to the mean and variance of that procedure.  
In the case of stratified sampling, there are examples on the internet (e.g. https://jkim.public.iastate.edu/teaching/book5.pdf Example 5.1) where the random variable associated with stratified sampling lacks the factor of 1/N that is suggested by formula given in the article. The article would be improved by stating explicitly what random variables are involved.  
In particular, the meaning of  s^2_h  should be explained by stating what random variable it refers to.  It appears to be the variance of the random variable defined by taking a random sample of size 1 taken from (the entire population of) strata h (as opposed to the variance of the random variable that is the mean value of a sample of size  n_h  taken from that population.
Tashiro~enwiki (talk) 12:43, 16 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lack of clarity about what random variable is used 

message: The results in this article are all found in the book "Sampling Techniques, Third Edition" by William G. Cochran (https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Sampling+Techniques%2C+3rd+Edition-p-9780471162407) I have no experience editing Wikipedia pages, but perhaps someone else with access to the book and knowledge of how to edit could follow up on this comment. WpeditTscott (talk) 18:58, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible citation for math in this article
Talk:Sunset Song

message: This page needs revision... one part claims it is told in "Flashbacks" and is mistakenly thought to be written in the third person, and in the section immediately afterward it says the novel is written in the third person.  Really "who" the narrator is is ambiguous.  It is definitely third person in the sense that it can't be the first person of Chris because it refers to her as "Chris" and not "I" or "me," but on the other hand, Chris is most of the time the center of consciousness for the narration, but then again at other times it seems to be the community at large's consciousness.  This style of narrating in the third person but as if through the consciousness of someone or some group in particular is called free indirect style.  Also, the part where it says "many women have been known" to say the description of childbirth couldn't have been written by a man definitely needs some sort of reference.
Frazerho 22:46, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

message: Does that mean first on BBC Scotland?
Regards to all,
78.144.162.132 (talk) 16:28, 1 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  'first nude scene' 

message: Indeed, it is a "key text" in both Scottish secondary schools and Scottish University literature courses. Astonishing, then, that the Wikipedia article for this book is so piss-poor.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1.152.105.179 (talk) 15:20, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "widely regarded as one of the most important Scottish novels"
Talk:Beccles bell tower

message: In the flat area of East Anglia known as the Norfolk Broads, the Beccles bell tower can be seen from locations twenty miles in every direction.  The tower is five hundred years old.  True, it isn't 110 storeys tall; it doesn't have a revolving restaurant (complete with tropical-fish aquarium) at the top; it isn't sponsored by some American corporate behemoth for its "naming rights"; it doesn't have a flashing neon advertising sign; it doesn't even have a nightly fireworks display.  By American standards, the bell tower at Beccles doesn't amount to much.  Nonetheless, I'm guessing that the bell tower will be standing long after ...
Clearly, space in Wikipedia is precious.  Space is needed for every three-chord garage band on the planet.  Space is needed for every Japanese manga and anime character ever conceived.  Space is needed for every self-promoting widget-maker, no-credits actress, and beauty spa west of the Potomac.  Beccles just clogs up progress.  Off with its tower! PeterHuntington 00:11, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability? 

message: I second this. This excellent article deserves to remain, in spite of the usual knee-jerk Anglophobia it has inspired. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.100.182.43 (talk) 17:31, 15 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: ...yes!

message: The result was: The topic is notable. --B. Wolterding 09:00, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expert review 
Talk:Oben am jungen Rhein

message: It would be good if someone could translate the anthem's version till 1963 into English. Thank you.
Well, they changed "german Rhine" - which referred to the language but was seen inappropriate then I think - to "young Rhine" (in the sense of upper Rhine). That's all. --83.135.233.85 20:26, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: English text

message: They "stole" the tune? I thought the english "stole" the tune from a frenchman?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.204.165.182 (talk) 08:39, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Melody

message: The lyrics displayed when playing the anthem are from the old imperial German anthem. Not the current Lichtenstein ones.
130.0.124.29 (talk) 14:05, 7 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Lyrics of Anthem
Talk:Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union

message: I think that the AEEU deserves a larger article due to its size and influence in the movement over more than a century. 213.120.56.41 13:59, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Just 9 years later, I am about to add a snippet with a link to pictures of an ETU contribution card dated 1950 found in a wallet lost for 65 years. JRPG (talk) 16:31, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Request for expansion
Talk:Louise

message: This is a name that was very famous in France during the Roman period and meant a strong, brave person. The name started to die out but has made a come back in the last ten years.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.166.242.12 (talk) 14:53, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Completely wrong there. The root of the name is actually Germanic and it did not exist in the Roman empire. The male name Louis/Ludovicus entered Gaul with the Franks in the 5th century, and the female form Louise emerged only later during the high middle ages. I don't think it became widely used until the 16th/17th centuries. These days it's more common in English, Danish and Swedish than in French, at least as the primary name (the one the person is called by in everyday life). 195.67.149.170 (talk) 09:20, 3 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Heatwork

message: Nice one! Now you need to do something on temperature equivalent. Regards, Nick. Nick 14:03, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Prescientific system

message: Jon Awbrey 14:04, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Notes & Queries

message: Why do you keep reverting without discussion? Your actions maybe considered vandalous.--Hughgr 17:19, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: because I put the tag there. it's up to you to discuss, not remove it. Why is it NOT a dictionary entry? Mccready 18:44, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

text: What your reverting too would be a dictionary def, but it was expanded upon, thus that no longer applies.--Hughgr 19:26, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mcready
Wikipedia talk:Cruft multiple

message: Hi, I think that the last C should've been a G?   At least, I think that was the point you were trying to make.--Deville (Talk) 14:06, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I came here to say the same thing, saw your comment and decided to fix it. Of course because is C is unobservable, this formula is open to abuse. Pcb21 Pete 14:15, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Romeo!

message: does any one know why the nanny of the show 
Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of
--------What????? What does that mean?!?!?!?!?!
Anyways, If that fragment is supposed to ask why Mrs. Rogers left, I don't think that was ever explained on the show. 
I request this article be tagged with "This article may need to be wikified", "May have weasel words", "...Requires Cleanup". Any one of those tags because it is written like a fan site or magazine article. Perhaps it should be tagged with "This article is written like a fan site and magazine article".
Seriously, look at the confusing character guides!! 
I am also interested in ratings, reviews, and why it was cancelled... 
It says "This show was cancelled because it was too black."
I doubt anybody ever said that.
And what is all the junk at the beginning of this talk page?????????
In-Correct (talk) 17:35, 11 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Princess Benedikte of Denmark

message: Shouldn't Benedikte be at Princess Benedikte of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg, as that is her married name? Doesn't seem to make sense to have her at her maiden name if she is married. Prsgoddess187 14:21, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree because the Danish Monarchy's official site lists her in the Royal House, and the Denmark title is senior to the marital title, as Denmark has a reigning monarchy.  --Ashley Rovira (talk) 23:38, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title of article 

message: Is anything known about her education? The official Danish Monarchy site says nothing, but maybe there are articles with information about her education. I don't know, but I think she spent some part of her education in the United states. I don't any verifiable source for this yet but I am looking around. --Ashley Rovira (talk) 23:40, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Education 
Talk:Tarka the Otter

message: I'm sure glad this article included in ending of the book  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.131.253.108 (talk) 20:02, 14 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  ending 

message: How did this differ from the original? Puffin books were intended for younger readers. Chemical Engineer (talk) 18:00, 6 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revised Edition 1962
Talk:List of high schools in Indiana/Stub boilerplate

message: The following text is a boilerplate for starting Indiana high school stub articles.  It includes a customized version of Template:Infobox School3, an opening sentence, plus category tags.  More detail always can be added to the template and/or narrative.  For suggestions on how to expand a school article, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Schools and Wikipedia:Schools.
Here's what I use with some comments. Rfrisbietalk 14:51, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Stub boilerplate

message: Four Star Schools can use this note and reference. Rfrisbietalk 15:28, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Four Star School boilerplate
Talk:Slough (poem)

message: :Surely the reference to the poem in The Office should be mentioned.--MartinUK (talk) 01:21, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Just added a reference to the Office. Tony Corsini (talk) 11:49, 15 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: The Office

message: :The poem caused an uproar when first published.
That's easy to believe. But did it? Where? (Evidence?) -- Hoary (talk) 21:56, 11 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: My thoughts too. I've just tagged that sentence with . Qwfp (talk) 16:43, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Note the poem was published two years before the outbreak of World War II and the 'blitzes' Britain would experience.  Had he written it during the war or after, the poem would probably have been even less well received.Cloptonson (talk) 21:22, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Uproar

message: There is currently an external link on this article to a full copy of the poem. Neither the text of this page nor the linked page mention any reason the poem would not be subject to copyright. Is it in fact out of copyright, or is this link technically an illegal copy which we should not be linking to? - IMSoP (talk) 13:39, 22 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyright of external link

message: My desperately trying to find confirmation that this was Betjeman's best known (or at least, one of the best) poems threw up many other references. The poem is mentioned on lots of poetry sites, but I suspect none that might pass muster as a reliable source.
Also of interest (to me) was that the text appeared as the subject on a number of study aid sites, suggesting that it is a chosen text for certain English exams.
Is this sufficiently important to be mentioned?
I would have thought that selection as a syllabus text indicated a certain notability.
EdJogg (talk) 23:47, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Academic study text?
Talk:Markandeya

message: http://www.surasa.net/music/harikatha/#kota_markandeya_songs —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 194.176.105.39 (talk) 00:44, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for the link and I appreciate your edits, however the language made them very difficult to read, and I was unable to take any relevant information from them that could be added into the rest of the story. Do you know of any written sources for this story? Gouranga(UK) 09:33, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Audio link in telugu for Harikatha about Markandeya  

message: This article could benefit from more sourcing and general improvements, but to me, the introduction currently reads okay. I don't see the point in chopping it up any further? Maybe further changes could be first discussed here on the talk page? Best wishes, Gouranga(UK) 09:01, 23 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent Changes 
Talk:Ayudhapurusha

message: (This is "duplicate" here for when the review is no longer transcluded)  
Congratulations.   This article has passed as a Wikipedia Good Article.  Nice work!  North8000 (talk) 22:27, 9 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks User:North800. --Redtigerxyz  Talk  06:37, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Congratulations.   This article has passed as a Wikipedia Good Article
Talk:Coalesced hashing

message: If you maintain a freelist of unused buckets, the search for the next collision bucket - and hence the whole addition process - is always O(1).  The buckets as described already have a 'next' field to do this.  On removal, the now unused bucket can just be put back at the head of the freelist again.
The only problem with this is if the collision buckets are also used as normal buckets - in this case, a non-colliding addition may want to snarf a bucket out of the middle of the freelist.  To avoid an O(N) search for the preceding bucket in the freelist, you need to institute a back-pointer for the list - but since this is only needed when the bucket is unused, you can union() over the normal value data.
:: If you do that, than how can you distinguish between a free and and an used bucket? Usually, the bucket stores a *key pointer to data that is NULL if the cell is free. So you can use this technique only if you have larger data, and you can somehow mark it as invalid and signal that some part of the data is actually a back-pointer. 85.204.119.88 14:59, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  One reason would be to keep the average linked list within reasonable bounds. Otherwise a value can "fall" indefently long to the end of the list, making it's retrieval more expensive. Sure, this means you've made the path to other keys shorter, so it's the same on average.85.204.119.88 14:59, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  O(1) addition 

message: The "Bob Jenkins' One-at-a-Time hash algorithm" link goes to a page with many links, none of which appear to describe "Bob Jenkins' One-at-a-Time hash algorithm". This is confusing, and prevents the page from being self-contained. Since the actual hashing algorithm isn't important for the purposes of the example, it might be better to use something simple, such as "take the first character of the string".-crms (talk) 23:39, 12 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: . I changed the link to the hashing algorithm used in this example so that when you click on it, it now goes directly to a section of a Wikipedia article that gives a short self-contained description of the algorithm. --DavidCary (talk) 13:36, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unclear example
Talk:Anasuya

message: :Support merging, Article Anasuya and Anusuya are about the same person . So no harm in merging them.Pronunciation Anusuya  colloquial change  spelling etymology of Anasuya is more correct,So we will redirect  Anusuya name article to Anasuya by merging both texts Mahitgar (talk) 12:57, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled