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Talk:Devanagari

message: Has anyone, or can anyone look into the similarities between the Greek alphabet and the Brahmi alphabet which then influenced the Devangari?  I absolutely see the similarity between the Devangari "थ", the Brahmi "𑀣" and the Greek Θ.  Or the Brahmi "𑀓", Devangari "क" and Greek "κ"?
Some like the Brahmi "𑀮" as a flipped "L"?
Is there a link between these scripts and Greek possibly?
I just did a search for the word "greek" on the Brahmi wiki at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmi_script and it appears 33 times.
Can someone expand on the possible greek origins of Devangari by way of Brahmi?
Thank you.
Temet Nosce (talk) 03:28, 1 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: This is covered at . Brusquedandelion (talk) 00:54, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Has anyone ever noticed these similarities? 

message: The consonant chart (section 3.2) does not quite make the exact alphabetical order of all the consonants in Devanagari clear. This order, following authoritative sources such as Monier-Williams' Sanskrit-English Dictionary, follows each row of the chart across from left to right, beginning with the top row, BUT only as far as the plosives and nasals! All of the plosives and nasals are ordered in this way first, and only then does the alphabetical order proceed to the approximants, going from top to bottom down the column, and then to the aghoṣa fricatives (the sibilant fricatives), again going from top to bottom down the column, and finally the lone saghoṣa fricative is the last consonant in this order. The chart does not make any of this clear at all, and there is no way a reader could be expected to figure it out from the chart and the article as it appears right now, even though section 3 (Letters) begins by talking about the "letter order of Devanagari". Skummafremdygest (talk) 17:47, 14 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need clearer consonant letter order 

message: Wouldn't it be much better to use for example /r/ instead of [r] ? In the case of /r/ र, even in Hindi it can also be [ɾ] intervocally, and in Classical Sanskrit it apparently was [ɽ], [ɾ] or [ɾ̪]. In Marathi the sound is given as [ɾ~r] on the phonology page.
As is well known, व can be [ʋ], [v] or [w]. And all this variation is not a problem for the clarity of the script, as they aren't different phonemes. Exarchus (talk) 19:40, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  use of phonological brackets /  / instead of phonetical brackets  [   ]  ?
Talk:Alcohol intoxication

message: The list of alcohol levels are all out by a factor of 10.  5 lots of 8 grams divided by 5 litres of blood is 8 grams per litre, 0.8 g/dL, or 800 mg/dL.  The confusion arises because the reference 22 ("Alcohol & Public Health: Fact Sheets - Binge Drinking") uses the unit "grams percent" - this can only be grams per centilitre.  This is the first time I've tried contributing to a Wikipedia page and don't want to do the live editing since I might foul it up - so can someone else do the actual edit.  Thanks.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by ExtremePedant (talk • contribs) 09:00, 16 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pathophysiology 

message: There is an active RfC underway on the Whisky talk page as to whether the article will include links to the Alcohol Intoxication wikipedia article, and similar articles
Specifically:
Should the whisky article provide direct links to articles about the effects of ethanol on those who consume whisky?
Here is a proposed sentence with hyperlinks:
Some effects of whisky consumption are due to its alcohol content. See: Alcohol intoxication, Short-term effects of alcohol consumption, Long-term effects of alcohol, and Alcohol and health.
sbelknap (talk) 21:19, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Hyperlinks to this article

message: "Islamic schools of law (Madh'hab) have interpreted this as a strict prohibition of the consumption of all types of alcohol and declared it to be haraam ("forbidden"), although other uses may be permitted.[67]" I'm not sure I understand the wordings in bold type (especially other uses), can anybody help elaborate? Thanks. I'm now translating this article into Traditional Chinese.ThomasYehYeh (talk) 11:21, 15 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need writer‘s (or anyone who's familiar with this article) elaboration in the part of ===Religious views=== 

message: The redirect Alcohol drinking 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.  Mondtaler (talk) 19:13, 27 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "[[:Alcohol drinking]]" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:Defense

message: Why is Cimetidine listed on this page? J04n(talk page) 23:30, 27 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cimetidine 

message: I'm American, and I was always taught to spell defence, defence. I recognized that the spelling was used in "department of defense", but thought that was some kind of archaic something or other. So is the American spelling truly American? Furthermore, I wonder how this "defense" spelling came about. From what I've read about spelling reform (the same spelling reform that made "colour" into "color", it seems like it would be more logical to spell it defence. Anyone know?   188.74.96.196 (talk) 16:12, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: You're asking in the wrong place. This page is for discussing changes to the Defense article. You could try asking at the reference desk (or should that be the referense desk?)  —SMALLJIM  17:54, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling - American spelling: is it really American? 

message: Describe crosshairs on g angles 
Eglassis 2604:2D80:B689:6600:7D19:E036:F285:946A (talk) 07:06, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  G angles 

message: Kristie Reed 2604:2D80:B689:6600:7D19:E036:F285:946A (talk) 07:06, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kristie Reed
Talk:Dagome iudex

message: When some of this information is actually edited into the article, the reference "Labuda's book" might be made more explicit for the Wikipedia reader. --Wetman 06:16, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Editing

message: The Dagome Iudex seems rather to be a documentation for Oda and her sons, in order to safeguard their territory, because, as it did turn out, Mieszko I's son Boleslaw I from another wife, expelled the widow Ote Oda von Haldensleben and Mieszkos sons, Boleslaws stepbrothers in attempts to gain all territory for himself.
Whoever insists on this being (one of the first) actual documents, please post a photo copy of the original document here and state its present location. Without that its just a myth.
By the way, what is the actual first document (other than this Dagome Iudex), please post photocopy also ?
Thanks so much. Labbas 19 December 2006
Labbas, please post photo copy of Thietmar chronicle. (hint: it was burned in Dresden). As for "whoever insists", why, it's just all Polish and all serious German historians.
Within two seconds I was able to find this: http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/1508/dagomeiudex2ns.jpg
Szopen 08:46, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is first actual document of State of Poland ? 

message: The mention of craccoa = Kraków without fines means that Lesser Poland is included, as Kraków was the capital of it.
And a straight line from Olomouc (alemura) to Lausitz Region (country of the milzi=Milceni) would have included Silesia. Look, between alemura and milzi the border does not touch river oddera, therefore it lies west of the river.--Ulamm (talk) 03:11, 19 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Territory
Talk:David Rice Atchison

message: AN IP editor cleaned up most of the original research problems with this article in March.  There was only one paragraph left that was still OR, and I've removed it, along with the OR tag that was on the article.
Please let's not re-introduce it.  Any commentary on the validity or lack thereof of the claim that Atchison was "President for One Day" should be accompanied by a cite to the published statement from which the commentary is drawn.  I note that nearly all of the discussion in the topics "Line of Presidential Succession", "The Presidential term begins on time" an "Acting President" are OR and WP:SYNTH. TJRC (talk) 20:05, 17 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  OR cleanup 

message: "On six occasions, a president took the oath of office one or (in Tyler's case) two days after the beginning of his term of office, either because the demise of the presidency was due to the death of the incumbent or because of religious scruples about swearing an oath on Sunday. These occasions are: Monroe 1821 (upon reelection), Tyler 1841, Taylor 1849, Fillmore 1850, Arthur 1881, Coolidge 1923. Although the oath is necessary for a president to "enter on the execution of the office," the presidential term itself begins on time. On several occasions the new president took the oath of office in public the day after the beginning of the term but, in view of the concerns voiced about earlier Sunday deferrals, had taken the oath in private (Hayes 1877 actually one day early). The beginnings of the terms are listed here, not the oath-taking dates. It may be noted in this context that there is no substance to the legend that David Rice Atchison was president 4-5 Mar 1849. (If not being sworn in as president is held against Zachary Taylor's being president already from noon on 4 Mar 1849, it cannot be argued that another person, however qualified otherwise, could have been acting president without being sworn in in that capacity.)" Gerard von Hebel (talk) 01:43, 26 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quote from rulers.org
Talk:Danzig

message: Danzig has 4 different meanings, must be a disambig page 23:06, 21 Jul 2004 User:PolishPoliticians
:Danzig is
:* the German name of the city of Gdańsk, Poland.
:* the name of a rock band formed by Glenn Danzig, its singer. See Danzig (band).
:* Kevin Danzig is an American folk musician.
:* Richard Danzig was the United States Secretary of the Navy from 1998 to 2001.
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:See also: Gdansk (disambiguation)
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I have signed your message for you, since you didn't. There is no must about it. Gdansk has several meanings, so has a disambiguation page as well as the main article. So does London. Similarly Danzig.  People can find the disambiguation pages from the top of the main article of the city.  --Henrygb 23:44, 21 Jul 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I do not agree with you that Gdansk is or has been an unimportant outdated city, though parts of it have needed to be rebuilt from time to time.  And for many of the times when it was important, it was and is called Danzig in English. No doubt Glenn Danzig ultimately took his surname from the city and then passed it to the band.  And people can still find the link.  --Henrygb 12:10, 22 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  4 meanings of Danzig 

message: I really don't care if the Gdansk article is called Danzig or Gdansk, that is something I don't know enough about the history to comment on. However, as the article is currently named Gdansk then it does not need/deserve the main use of the name Danzig. 
When performing google searches for the name Danzig, the band offers far more hits than the place.
That would make it seem as if the band should be the main article, especially as editors have decided that they prefer to use Gdansk, rather than Danzig.
Going to a disambiguation page seems like a nice compromise that will keep all but the most petty editors happy. Sennen Goroshi !  (talk) 18:39, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Page views in the past 90 days: 81090 for Gdańsk, 13969 for Gdansk (total about 95000), 156374 for Danzig (band), 31185 for Danzig (if you add to the two Gdansks, about 126000), 8087 for Danzig (disambiguation). TimBentley (talk) 02:46, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: By the way, doing a requested move at Talk:Danzig (disambiguation) would be the proper way to request the change to avoid a malplaced disambiguation page. TimBentley (talk) 02:56, 12 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  move to disambiguation page.
Talk:Dachau, Bavaria

message: Job well done for the translation. This article could be improved by increasing it's history section. The last 100 years or so could help. Kingjeff 00:57, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Expansion

message: Most links to Dachau actually should have a link to Dachau concentration camp. I plan to programme a means to semiautomatically change these links.  Andreas  (T) 14:36, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Done  Andreas  (T) 01:37, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pages linking to Dachau 

message: *Twin towns of Dachau according to the city of Dachau
*The Daily Mail on why it didn't came to be
--CE (talk) 04:06, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: And an article not from the Hate Mail ;-) --CE (talk) 04:23, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Before this continues ... 

message: In English, "Dauchau" overwhelmingly is used with reference to Dauchau Concentration Camp. That should therefore be the primary article.  DGG ( talk ) 05:25, 27 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I've never seen that spelling before today. I corrected it in the two articles I found in a search for that spelling. I'm also submitting a correction to a newspaper which seems to have gotten it wrong over the weekend.— Vchimpanzee •  talk • contributions •  16:49, 1 May 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  btw, the name is Dachau, not Dauchau. I want to discuss the article move to Dachau, Bavaria. This is inconsistent compared to all other cities in Germany. Has there been a in depth discussion?--Nillurcheier (talk) 08:19, 2 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: the page move should be reverted!--91.38.150.98 (talk) 14:35, 3 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirect?

message: Under Dachau you should exactly find that - Dachau! The KZ Dachau ist another site.--91.37.127.98 (talk) 10:23, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move back to [[Dachau]] 

message: A discussion is taking place to address the redirect :Dachau. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 July 4#Dachau until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  (t · c) buidhe 15:49, 4 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Dachau" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:David Bowman (Space Odyssey)

message: The following was removed:
The story for the movie and book were both jointly written by Clarke and Kubrick. They agreed that the movie would be presented as by Kurbick, and that the book would be presented as by Clarke. For an elaboration of their collaborative work on this project, see "The Lost Worlds of 2001", Arthur C. Clarke, Signet, 1972. ... The book "2010" was made into a movie.
:This is an article about David Bowman, not about the book or movie. (although, this might be a great addition for that article) maveric149
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The name of the sequal to the movie 2001, is "2010 The Year We Make Contact". The name of the book 2010 was "2010 Odyssey Two" (At least those are the titles on my respective 2010 DVD and 2010 Book -- Please respond if the movie was origionaly released as "Odyssey Two"). maveric149 
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I really like the addition of the etymological significance of David Bowman's name maveric149 (origional author of article)
Thanks for the compliment Aleksandar Guzijan
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From David Bowman/ToDo
1) Rewrite of 2001 paragraph to improve flow and readability.
2) Create paragraph on 2010
3) Get information on Bowman's role in 2061 & 3001
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--Vision4bg 01:37, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Wasn't there an American jazz pianist called Dave Bowman? (I can't imagine Arthur C. Clarke making that particular connexion, though.)
Hair Commodore 12:03, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another Dave/David Bowman? 

message: I just changed this phrase, "His first action is to trigger all the nuclear weapons in arms satellites that orbit the Earth, derailing the onset of a war." to "His first action is to trigger a nuclear weapon in orbit around the Earth, in order to absorb the energy contained within for his own use." The novel does not include the Cold War brink-of-destruction connotations that feature so prominently in the movie. He does, in fact, detonate one warhead (or weapon), but absorbs the energy into himself. Clarke describes him as "radiating wastefully" as he heads down to the surface from the satellite. Sorry about the lack of citation, I don't have the book in front of me ATM. Jedikaiti (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 23:06, 1 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  2010: the novel 

message: My guess for the etymology of the name is that the eponymous character of Homer's Odyssey (Odysseus ... duh!) was an archer -- at least, his bow was what he used to slay Penelope's suitors when he finally made it back home to Ithaca. And of course Odysseus was the sole survivor by the end of the story. Makes sense to me, anyway. Oh, and maybe HAL was Cyclops.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.140.84.147 (talk) 20:46, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bowman == Odysseus, surely.
Talk:Dynamical system

message: The term discrete dynamical system redirects here, but there is (almost) no discussion of the topic here. Would be nice for somebody to write it. Dmharvey Talk 19:43, 5 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  discrete dynamical systems? 

message: I changed the definition back.  A dynamical system is a smooth function from a manifold to itself dependent on one parameter, time.  While the manifold could be replaced by a more general set, loosing smoothness takes one to ergodic theory or symbolic dynamics.  The parameter needs to be a monoid traditionally written in additive form.  One could just formalize that definition, but the challenge is to re-write it so that someone with high school mathematics can follow the definition. 
From what I replaced, I liked the use of relationship instead of function and responding to their own values, which emphasizes the mapping a point of the manifold back onto itself.  But I could not get it to work.  Maybe someone else could try. XaosBits (talk) 05:53, 29 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition, again 

message: "definition" is the main aspect of any topic fgnievinski (talk) 21:03, 15 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge of [[Dynamical system (definition)]] into [[Dynamical system]]
Talk:Druze

message: (Disclaimer: I don't speak Arabic, so it would be nice to have an Arabic speaker corroborate or correct me.)
The Arabic words in the lead seem to contain extraneous ḍammāt word-finally, so that they say , , and  rather than , , and  (following the MOS's transliteration conventions for Arabic). So, I propose that we remove the ḍammāt to bring the Arabic text in line with the transliterations; i.e., change the beginning of the lead from the following:
to the following:
I checked some Arabic dictionaries, and none of the ones I found that include vowel diacritics put a ḍammah at the end: Pons, Almaany, Bab.la, Sakhr. LethologicalLinguophile (talk) 19:00, 3 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't speak Arabic either, but this has been uncontested for a month, so assume good faith. * Pppery * it has begun... 21:46, 7 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 3 September 2023 

message: 89.115.113.22 (talk) 09:18, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. M.Bitton (talk) 12:23, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 5 December 2023 

message: In Druze#Closing_of_the_unitarian_call, I see this confusing statement: "... state that this confusion is due to confusion about ...". Can someone elaborate and/or explain? Thanks, Crum375 (talk) 21:36, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah I didn’t get this 82.37.100.240 (talk) 22:38, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusion? 

message: "Adherents of the Druze religion call themselves simply 'the Monotheists' (al-Muwaḥḥidūn)" is already stated in the opening sentence ("The Druze, who call themselves al-Muwaḥḥidūn (lit. 'the monotheists' or 'the unitarians')..."). Remove the "Adherents of..." sentence, redirect "al-Muwaḥḥidūn" or "the monotheists" in the opening sentence to "The People of Monotheism", and move the source (Wendy Doniger, 1999) to after the phrase "who call themselves al-Muwaḥḥidūn (lit. 'the monotheists' or 'the unitarians')".
: Deltaspace42 (talk • contribs) 12:49, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redundancy in the Lead Section
Talk:Down

message: This is a perfect example of an article that wishes it were a dictionary definition, ignoring the fact that among the things that Wikipedia is not is a dictionary.  Now that we have disambiguating parentheses, we have no excuse!  Somebody, please help! --Larry Sanger
Care for a dictionary: (or dict:) namespace? --Magnus Manske
Not only are some of these definitions not encyclopedic, rather belonging in a dictionary, but the definition of down as a direction is incorrect. The direction down cannot exist without a reference point. Gravity has nothing to do with it; it just so happens that on Earth we typically define it to be the direction of gravitational force exerted by the Earth on objects. Down can exist in outer space as long as it is defined relatively; for example, you could define it to be the direction in which your legs are pointing (i.e. relative to yourself). Rishodi 01:33, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dictionary definitions 

message: Qiviut is the downy-undercoat of the musk ox;  yak wool is the down of the yak, and cashmere is the downy-undercoat of the goat.  What exactly does that mean?  What's the difference between down hairs and other hairs on these beasts?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.164.21.192 (talk) 19:09, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-feather down
Talk:ECHELON

message: La pagina andrebbe rivista: alcune fonti non sono oggettive, altre contraddicono l'esistenza stessa del programma negli anni 70 82.132.225.110 (talk) 06:44, 22 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Le informazioni sono troppo speculative