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Talk:Francis Drake

message: Just saw a TV show (mysteries of the museum) where they show a brass plate attributed to Drake. It was discovered in the 1930s, but more recent investigation show it was made with techniques from the twentieth century. They found documents describing a prank where it was created to fool the professor who vouched for its authenticity. 24.116.117.129 (talk) 04:46, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: See Drake's Plate of Brass. By the way  was any museum mentioned as having the plate now? Mcljlm (talk) 12:44, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: It's on permanent exhibit in the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley. Ynizcw (talk) 18:48, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks . Mcljlm (talk) 21:23, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brass plate in Northern California
Talk:Vulvovaginal health

message: Wear skirts without panties or pantyhose whenever possible, for example at home or when driving. Sleep without panties: eight hours a day is better than nothing.
: Is this kosher? It sounds rather suss to me. Dysprosia 07:15, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Wear

message: The following measures are advisable for keeping the vulva and vagina healthy: Washing once a day or so with water but without soap, since soap disturbs the natural pH balance of the vagina.
:  The vulva should be washed with soap, but not inside the vagina.
: The whole section needs a rewrite.--Surv1v4l1st (Talk|Contribs)  01:32, 9 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Maintaining health

message: Surely this should be deleted? It adds nothing, sounds like an instruction manual and is not written in Wikipedia style. --Michael Goodyear (talk) 19:14, 17 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Status 
Talk:Lincoln Continental Mark III

message: Based on my Everything2 writeup, wikified and a few POV comments removed. --Morven 07:23, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Talk:Whooper swan

message: I noticed User:jimfbleak's plea for a better photo inside a recent summary comment. Jim, if you're listening, I saw several Whoopers whilst in Iceland recently - they're by far the most common swan over there. If my girlfriend got a decent picture, I will plead with her for GDFL permission tonight. Pete 08:45, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: I added a picture but sadly it is slightly out-of-focus. I invite interested parties to decide between the drawing and the picture! Pete 21:38, 1 Sep 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo

message: Why is "whooper swan" capitalized several times throughout the course of this article? It should be changed to lowercase, unless Whooper is a proper name I'm not aware of. Paul Davidson (talk) 07:44, 12 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalization 

message: According to the Guinness Book Of Records, there has been at least one case, where a whooper swan has attacked and killed a human being. Does anyone have any info on this? Sounds pretty unbelievable, unless the human killed was a small child and/or there were several birds. They're not even known as an aggressive species. I remember standing just a meter or two from an adult bird and its nest and it didn't attack. (Vehement (talk) 20:05, 8 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Attacks on humans? 

message: What is a "taiga zone" please?Vernon White . . . Talk  22:54, 24 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I added a link on the word taiga to the Wikipedia page. But the short version is that it's a northern hemisphere biome dominated by coniferous forest. Danikat (talk) 22:32, 2 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: taiga zone
Talk:Bayer

message: A question. Section 9. of this article "Legal" is wholly concerned with the litigious aftermath of Bayer's acquisition of Monsanto. Bayer has certainly had a plethora of legal issues in the past which are not recounted here. Would the existing "Legal" content be clearer if it were moved to 4.5 "Acquisition of Monsanto?" Cleveland Todd (talk) 15:58, 14 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: That sounds reasonable it was only split out yesterday. There should probably be only brief mention of it here anyway per WP:DUE, with more information in Roundup (herbicide) and Monsanto legal cases. SmartSE (talk) 16:05, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

text: The legal section is all about the legal issues with Bayer ~ the Acquisition sections is about Acquisitions ~ the reader has to know of a particular case in order to read about it  in the Acquisitions section, that is why I started the legal section ~ so if the reader just wants to know the "legals" ~ they can read just that section instead of reading the whole page Mitchellhobbs (talk) 16:07, 14 May 2019 (UTC)

text: Cleveland Todd ~ the only reason I put legal is most of the pages I've seen here on wiki calls that section Legal ~ I do see your point, but I'm just trying to keep it similar to other pages ~ Mitchellhobbs (talk) 13:48, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Cleveland Todd, thanks do you want to add it, if not let me know and I will NY Times Mitchellhobbs (talk) 14:15, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: 9. Legal

message: In light of the current situation in Ukraine it needs to be clarified what activities, if any, Bayer took over when purchasing monsanto. Monsanto had once bought land in Ukraine (as part of an aid package I believe). They also established labs but of course these are usually shrouded in secrecy. 
What needs to be clarified now is: Where were these labs, and which ones are still active? What exactly did they research? The land which monsanto bought, is that now owned by Bayer or was it separated out so it is  still owned by an American company? 
Today we read that the US representative in the UN says there was no financing or support by America for labs in Ukraine, but these things go through companies in America. 
She did not say that there were no official or private enterprise connections to labs in Ukraine. 2001:8003:A070:7F00:E93C:B981:47CD:E24D (talk) 23:28, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ukraine activities? 

message: AG (/ˈbaɪ.ər/, commonly pronounced /ˈbeɪər/;[3] German: [ˈbaɪɐ]) is a German multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology company and one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world. Headquartered in Leverkusen, Bayer's areas of business include pharmaceuticals; consumer healthcare products, agricultural chemicals, seeds and biotechnology products. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index.[4] 119.92.224.134 (talk) 14:48, 2 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bayer
Talk:2003 London blackout

message: Britain's slavish copying of the latest fads in America goes too far! But of course we don't do it a such a big way (500,000 people for 30mins rather than 50m for two days)... it is tempting to suggest the event doesn't really need an article here. Pete 11:15, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Doesn't need an article? I think it will be informative to be able to compare the two blackouts. Andy G 18:29, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Talk:Music radio

message: There should be some more discussion about radio stations' income model. In particular, I think there should be a mention about the illegal practice of Payola with a link to the relevant Wikipedia article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.45.124.24 (talk) 16:25, 11 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Payola 

message: It seems this page is far too oriented towards describing commercial radio practices related to rock music in the United States to justify the title "Music radio".  The introduction, at least, seems to imply that the only forms of music radio are the various commercial radio formats, and they are all US formats at that.  It's good to hear them described, but it it would be better as part of enlarged discussion of college radio, public radio and community radio (which currently get a couple of brief paragraphs at the end).
I would be in favour of moving much of the discussions of the various "commercial music radio" formats to a new page, leaving a summary on this page (perhaps commercial rock music radio), and beefing up coverage public, college and community radio music programming.  e.g. all-classical stations such as the various BBC (UK) radio formats and ABC's Classic FM  also ABC's and Triple J "youth radio" (Australia) and influential music radio and radio programming such as KCRW (US, Santa Monica, CA) "Sounds Electic", the many commercial and underground radio stations broadcasting electronica such as techno and techno all throughout in Europe, and the vast array of hip-hop, rap, and R&B stations all around the US (which, in certain areas, have larger listenerships than their rock counterparts).  The article as it currently written lacks the kind of diversity as the kind of radio that it describes.  -- Lexor 11:35, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  US vs. International 

message: User:Super Grand Am was a vandal on other pages.  They did this to this page, it may need adjusment or removal. - Peregrinefisher 18:47, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandal 

message: Approximate counts (post date as the counts will change over time) will show relative popularity of each format.  There are a little over 6000 stations in the US and about 1/3 are country.  (cite needed) looking for the rest of the breakdown.  Ghaller 11:05, 16 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Counts would be useful
Talk:Near-Earth asteroid

message: The article states:
The Atens, which have average orbital radii closer than one astronomical unit (AU, the distance from the Earth to the Sun) and aphelia of greater than Earth's perihelion, placing them usually inside the orbit of Earth.
But Apoheles are subclasses of Atens, and do not cross Earth's orbit.  Isn't the article misleading? 24.68.180.163 06:23, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Apoheles 

message: In the heading "The NEA Threat", it states that "Small collisions, equivalent to a thousand tonnes of TNT, occur a few times each month.". I have doubts about this, mostly because I have done a lot of research on this topic and found that to be inaccurate, but also because it is stated that "they estimated that similar sized asteroids come as close [42,600 km] about every two years" in the same section. So, if a small asteroid (30m) only comes within 42,600 km of the Earth every 2 years, then how is it that "small collisions, equivalent to a thousand tonnes of TNT, occur a few times each month"? Can an asteroid of fewer that 30m really cause a 1000 tonne explosion?     E.boyer7 01:39, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: A 30-m object produces a MEGATONNE explosion, not a kilotonne.  The kilotonne figure is for few-meter objects, which airburst in the stratosphere.  This figure is very well based, from US Air Force monitoring satellites. The flux of megatonne explosions is less well constrained, based on only a few events over the last century. Michaelbusch 03:21, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Frequency of impact 

message: Is there any possibility that an asteroid could, rather than passing by or colliding, be catpured by Earth's gravity and pulled into orbit? 71.203.209.0 08:34, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Generally not.  You can contort the dynamics such that this is possible, but it is rare and requires either very specific trajectories or a binary object. Michaelbusch 16:05, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Binary object?  Would this include the Earth-Moon system?Abramul 01:32, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

text: No.  You need a binary asteroid. Michaelbusch 02:22, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

text: I believe it can happen with just the Earth/Moon, though it does require one of a few "very specific trajectories".  The asteroid must initially enter the Earth/Moon system at very low velocity (with respect to the E/M system center of mass) and pass fairly close to the Moon, on the front side of its orbit, so that it loses energy.   Then it will be bound for a while, so that further solar and lunar perturbations have a chance to move it to a stable orbit. Wwheaton (talk) 21:02, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Capture

message: As I said in the main page for the Tunguska Event, I find the consensus lacking as to the cause of this event.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by ChiefinspectorClousea (talk • contribs) 01:42, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have replied on the Tunguska Event page. What theories do you think should be given more weight, and why? Verbal chat 09:11, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tunguska Event
Talk:Soft money

message: Supposedly soft money was already illegal for nearly a century. We're always hearing about corporations and other wealthy sources giving huge campaign contributions.
I guess the "loophole" is that this money supposedly is not used "in connection with" any specific federal election -- an evasion which is laughably obvious. If you give a party a million dollars, they're gonna spend it in a way that gets their candidates elected, no matter what. For example, there's no such thing as a non-partisan voter registration drive or get-out-the-vote campaign: party workers do these things for partisan advantage only, I reckon. --Uncle Ed 13:59, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Talk:Lineman (gridiron football)

message: Can we move the page?  Or maybe change the sexist content?  For more infomation,100110100 09:36, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: When using the talk page you do not just post what you are going to do and do it. You ask the opinions of the other editors until a consensus is made. Redd Dragon  speak 12:13, 5 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sexism 

message: I appreciate linemen a lot, being one myself, but don't you think this article is a little biased? "Unpraised Heroes?" Come on...It sounds like a lineman wrote this after getting his ego boosted. 24.162.154.176 17:24, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bias? 

message: What is a lineman in football 2601:41:C400:3AE0:49FA:13A3:756:13C2 (talk) 07:41, 5 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Football 

message: The diagram image for this article has black symbols with a transparent background. This is not visible in dark mode. Please consider fixing this issue by updating the photograph, or following one of the suggestions in Recommendations for night mode compatibility on Wikimedia wikis. JScherer-WMF (talk) 17:12, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diagram is not visible in dark mode
Talk:Marmaduke Pickthall

message: Actually I quite liked the previous version. Maybe it should be immortalized in the jokes page. DJ Clayworth 16:30, 29 Aug 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: :Pickthall travelled across the plains and coastyards of many Eastern countries, forming a great reputation as one of the foremost Middle-Eastern scholars of his time. A strong and steadfast advocate of the Ottoman Empire,
A few points could/should be revised.
#"coastyards"??
#Easter countries--which precisely? Is "Eastern" NPOV?
#advocate of the Ottoman Empire--are people typically described as being advocates of an empire/state or as an "advocate for Western support of the Ottoman Empire" (or something to that effect)?
Thanks --Dpr 05:20, 16 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Points for revision 

message: I don't mean any offense, but this seems more like a glory story than a real encyclopedia entry. Also, why are there no details about his translation of the Quran? What year was it accomplished? Thanks for your work.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.175.109.203 (talk) 12:51, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Pickthall does not claim to have satisfactorily translated the Koran - only attempting to reveal its glory to those who do not have classical Arabic in "an explanatory translation". The British Library has copies of the 1930 edition of The Meaning of the Glorious Koran, published in London and New York by Alfred A. Knopf. It was published in India in 1938. Vernon White . . . Talk  17:59, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weak entry 

message: The Times obituary Wednesday 20 May 1936, Page 18 says that he was for several years, Imam of Woking Mosque.  When was that?  Vernon White . . . Talk  09:38, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Imam of Woking Mosque

message: This article begins thus:
: 
:: (Mohammed) Marmaduke Pickthall (7 April 1875 – 19 May 1936) was
: 
But the infobox says he was born in 1876.  Which, if either, is correct? Michael Hardy (talk) 21:29, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correct date of birth 

message: I used to own a copy of The Meaning of the Glorious Koran and I'm pretty sure that Pickthall stated that it was not a translation as the Koran was not translatable. Tigerboy1966  09:07, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation? 
Talk:Magnetic tape

message: Shouldn't there be a mention about the predecessor, iron wire? Kwantus (Nevermind, it's under reel-to-reel.)
:Magnetic wire recording is mentioned and linked in the lead. ~Kvng (talk) 22:01, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Predecessor: Iron wire

message: "Tape remains a viable alternative to disk due to its higher bit density and lower cost per bit" -- These tend to be true only for narrow usages these days. The article currently seems to have a wide scope but a narrow focus, which results in it being slightly misleading. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.182.109.10 (talk) 07:39, 11 July 2006
:Current sourced statement is  Seems fair. ~Kvng (talk) 22:03, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Tape vs disk

message: In the table of tape formats, there is an error:  Dectape II is NOT a 3/4" format!  It used a preformatted DC150 cartridge, a baby brother to the QIC (aka DC300).  I don't know exactly what size the tape was but it was on the order of 4mm or 1/8". I don't know how to edit this common table. Jeh 02:28, 18 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Now covered at DECtape#DECtape_II ~Kvng (talk) 16:53, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Error

message: The note about Imation is kind of silly.  Imation, formerly 3M, was once a major force in magnetic tape, but times have changed.  Citing a government grant that happened 6 years ago just doesn't seem to meet the notability threshold.  The reference has more then just the grant in it, but it is also at least 5 years old and Imation has changed focus in that time. --Austin Murphy (14:29, 7 October 2008)
:Magnetic tape#Computer data should be a summary of Magnetic-tape data storage. I have replaced the random facts previously listed there with an  of the Magnetic-tape data storage lead. ~Kvng (talk) 16:59, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Imation note at end 

message: Why, what, where, and how does this article need additional citations for verification? Hyacinth (talk) 08:09, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed the tag ~Kvng (talk) 17:04, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Additional citations

message: All history is next to useless w/o dates.  At least a year *when* something happened.  But I see nada here. --jae (talk) 18:19, 15 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: This article no longer has a History section. There is comprehensive history coverage at Tape_recorder#History and Reel-to-reel_audio_tape_recording#History and in Videotape. ~Kvng (talk) 17:09, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dates missing entirely
Talk:Trade bloc

message: Where can I find a page with 'military blocs'?
-G
Here is the wikipedia list over millitary alliances (blocs):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_military_alliances
Arnkristen (talk) 22:06, 24 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Military blocs

message: Could the section 'Comparison between regional trade blocs' contain a column on supra-national courts. ie.e. Central American Court of Justice etc.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by JAC Esquire (talk • contribs) 21:43, 17 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Courts 

message: While many members of the European Union are also members of NATO it is not accurate or objective to state that NATO is an official defence pact of the European Union. Especially as several members of the union have committed to a policy of neutrality, and have rejected multiple offers to join the defence pact, please see Ireland and Austria.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.193.65.150 (talk) 09:47, 13 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  NATO 

message: I don't fancy reworking these poorly designed tables but the European Economic Area is definitely not a monetary union. I don't know without checking but I doubt strongly that the Caribbean nations have a common currency. The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States articles say that four members do not use the XCD, so that one fails too. For now, I am just tagging the table as disputed, but the tables need to be relabeled. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 23:01, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Well spotted! I have moved the EEA. OECS is listed at , which does appear to be true if only counting the fully sovereign member states, all six of which use the Eastern Caribbean dollar. I have clarified the article Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States and added "(sovereign states)" to the table on Trade bloc. Hopefully that resolves the accuracy concern, so I have removed the tag. Corrections welcome. And updates - much of the coverage of this topic appears to be 10+ years old. Feel free to ping me if there's further activity in this thread. -- Beland (talk) 02:50, 7 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not a monetary union
Talk:Supermarket

message: An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect :Supermercado and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 May 7#Supermercado until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  feminist (talk) Слава Україні! 13:32, 7 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Supermercado" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: I'm challenging this edit as (1) grossly inaccurate and (2) failing verification. 
The text I am challenging is as follows: "In everyday U.S. usage, however, "grocery store" is synonymous with supermarket,[1] and is not used to refer to other types of stores that sell groceries.[2][1]"  The cited sources do not actually say that, and it's also just plain wrong.  By the time I was eight or nine years old, I was well aware that in American English, the term "grocery store" refers to both big and small stores that sell groceries (especially the classic "corner grocery store" seen in inner-city areas) and overlaps with the "supermarket" concept.  Any objections before I take out the trash? --Coolcaesar (talk) 17:10, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm changing it now to just say that it's often a synonym for supermarket. You are right that I didn't prove that grocery store doesn't refer to something smaller than a supermarket, although to be honest I'm not familiar with any format which is still like that, not in the city and not in the suburbs, except for specialized ethnic food stores, and I personally would be likely to call one of those a "food store" (e.g. "Russian food store") but I will stick to what is in the referenced sources. Keizers (talk) 15:37, 2 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Challenging edit by [[User:Keizers]] on 13 July 2020 

message: yes 38.183.26.35 (talk) 15:02, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Very good question (and observation)! That information is included in the article. Hopefully that solves your concern? Keizers (talk) 15:06, 6 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  What do you mean by supermarkets?