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Talk:Brass monkey

message: A brass money is also a rack (Similar to thouse used to hold volleyballs and basket balls) used to hold cannon balls.  It's where the saying "Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey" came from since when it was cold, the brass would shrink, causing the balls to fall off. -- User:198.103.161.1 19:08, 9 February 2007
: This is an ubran myth.  See Brass monkey (colloquial expression).
: Also note that other users have already revereted all contributions made by User:198.103.161.1. -- Nick 21:18, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rack 

message: Reverted to remove folkloric content already refuted on the Brass monkey colloquialism page.--John Gibbard (talk) 09:28, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revert justification 

message: Brass monkey 109.96.167.109 (talk) 09:35, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Monkey 

message: No monkey 109.96.167.109 (talk) 09:36, 3 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  I hate monkey
Talk:Princeton, West Virginia

message: That is stuff from the Virginian RR page. This is about Princeton not the entire railroad, only what the railroad done in conjuction with the city belongs here. This needs to be rewritten.
Princeton was burned during the civil war, this needs to be covered as well as other things such as the emergence of the present hospital, which has been one of the focal points of modern Princeton as well as it's importance from the WV Turnpike/ I-77 and the emergence of the highway system in the last 30-40 years.
I could help out if I had time and forgot my password anyway. I was born in this city and know it well, wish someone can represent this place well in Wikipedia.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.34.136.181 (talk) 21:10, 22 February 2008 (UTC)

message: We need a few basics here.  When was Princeton founded?  First incorporated as a city?  When would it first appear on maps of Virginia?  All this should be in this article.dr-t 20:11, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Basics
Talk:Richard Rood (violinist)

message: Richard is my dad, and I wrote that bio with him, and orpheus happens to have it on their website.  it is not copyrighted, and neither are either of pictures on this page. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Mrjazzguitar (talk • contribs).
:That may be so, but you still need to review the Wikipedia Copyright Policy. -- Whpq 19:48, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It all has to do with Wikipedia's GFDL license, and TINLA, and I don't understand it, but I believe it's possible for the copyright holder to perform the right kind of word magic and, um... release rights, or something.  It's something about how Wikipedia content can be freely reused and redistributed, and... something.  There's a page full of people who know all about this at WP:CP. -GTBacchus(talk) 22:33, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Bluefield State University

message: There's nothing here about the current controversies that I read about by doing a simple search  on "Bluefield State University"in Google news.com. 2600:6C67:1C00:5F7E:A429:ED77:BC15:C6D4 (talk) 17:33, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: See, e.g., https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2023/02/22/president-mulls-firing-complainers-after-end-faculty-senate 2600:6C67:1C00:5F7E:6C51:C37D:BE6C:FB1F (talk) 21:47, 28 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current situation
Talk:Altstätten

message: Reads-  'Do not use articles from Wikipedia as sources. Also, do not use websites that mirror Wikipedia content or publications that rely on material from Wikipedia as sources. Content from a Wikipedia article is not considered reliable unless it is backed up by citing reliable sources. Confirm that these sources support the content, then use them directly.'...William 11:27, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: This wasn't actually what was being done. You might want to comment on the article's talk page if you find an issue with the content others added, you removed and I reverted you. -- 签名 sig at  18:58, 15 March 2014 (UTC)

text: (Comments moved from my user talk) -- 签名 sig at  17:48, 19 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[WP:CIRCULAR]] 
Talk:West Virginia State University

message: What year did it get university status?  youngamerican (wtf?) 20:55, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks.  youngamerican (wtf?) 19:51, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  From college to university? 

message: I have checked the university's website and the state higher education website and both are not forthcoming with statistical information.  The Department of Institutional Studies says they publish a booklet called "In Brief" every semester with facts.  However, i can't find an online version. Racepacket (talk) 06:42, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Need more info

message: The section about the university losing, then regaining, its land grant status could use some clarification. What exactly is land grant status?  Exemption from property tax? --Saforrest (talk) 13:53, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Land grant status
Talk:Catamount Ski Area

message: The amount of blatant, biased advertising is appaling and shocking. Shame on the person who wrote this. --Alreajk  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.184.230.130 (talk) 06:08, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advertisement 
Talk:Cham, Switzerland

message: A recent edit changing 'labor' to 'labour' has been reverted. There appears to be have two arguments for this: (1) 'labour' was described as British spelling & with the town not having any strong links to Britain this spelling was considered inappropriate, and (2) 'labor' was the spelling used originally.
As per Wikipedia's policy the latter has some merit. However, the first is not valid. 'Labour' is not British English; whilst it may be the spelling used in Britain it is also that used in other countries as well, just not the US. The general idea of there being British & American spellings is equally flawed, as it is far more accurate to consider there a group of words used in most countries (for example colour, centre) and the niche variants used in the USA (for example color, center).
There is no reason for an article on a Swiss town to use US English because it has no strong ties to America. Should the niche variant of 'labor' be insisted upon simply because of a Wikipedia policy ... fine.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.197.19.137 (talk) 01:12, 5 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Spelling

message: An Ancient Roman Wall Just Emerged in Switzerland. It's an Archaeological Sensation. (yahoo.com) = https://ca.news.yahoo.com/ancient-roman-wall-just-emerged-184700308.html --Maybe this should be included:  it seems archaeologically significant. 2600:6C67:1C00:5F7E:A89C:16AC:DE51:10C2 (talk) 18:23, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Here is additional information: Ancient Roman walls discovered in Swiss Alps are an 'archaeological sensation' | Live Science:  https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/ancient-roman-walls-discovered-in-swiss-alps-are-an-archaeological-sensation, Archäologischer Jahrhundertfund im Chamer Äbnetwald entdeckt (zg.ch): https://zg.ch/en/news/news~_2023_8_archaeologischer-jahrhundertfund-im-chamer-aebnetwald-entdeckt~ Kdammers (talk) 20:17, 17 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Archaeology
Talk:Ebikon

message: Anyone have more update? I think they would be good for the article. Oklabamasippi (talk) 23:32, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
Talk:Fürstenau, Switzerland

message: Can anyone confirm it's the world's smallest city?German.Knowitall (talk) 16:30, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: City?
Talk:Maerdy

message: "The name Maerdy is also thought to be the origin of the Northern English colloquialism Mardy meaning moody. During the General Strike of 1926, miners from the Maerdy area were sent to Staffordshire and thereabouts to take the place of belligerent locals. Neither these imported miners nor those they replaced were all too thrilled. Locals would mutter darkly when they saw them - 'They're Maerdy.' Since 'mardy' is slightly easier to say, the pronunciation shifted and evolved. From link title"
Is there a cite which is a little more, erm, cite-able than http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A769250 ? If not, I'm taking this out. 
Telsa (talk) 19:24, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Maerdy miners?
Talk:Neuhausen am Rheinfall

message: The blazon given here for the coat of arms is rubbish. The actual one is In gelb über grünem Kleeblatt weisses nach rechts gekehrtes Rebmesser mit braunem Griff. The cutting-tool charge is thus not even a sickle, but rather a billhook. I shall find a source for that blazon (which appears in de:WP) and insert that instead. Kelisi (talk) 16:31, 26 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blazon 
Talk:Rheinfelden (Aargau)

message: The first citation cannot be improved, because it is somehow nested in (hidden by) the infobox template. This needs to change. All sources need to be edit-ready for general editors, and cannot require specialist skills related to infobox markup. As it stands, this hidden source is URL only, in contravention of WP policies.  Le Prof   71.201.62.200 (talk) 00:04, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Issue with infobox 
Talk:Saint-Maurice, Switzerland

message: just wondering if there is such a thing...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:C7D:411:1600:226:8FF:FEDC:FD74 (talk) 01:21, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Google Search is your friend. If you don't find anything I suppose the answer is "no". --Novarupta (talk) 15:01, 16 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Saint-Maurice also the Patron-saint of the Underwallis/Lower Valais 
Talk:Willisau

message: I added sections, but this article looks like a Babel-fish translation of a German source.  Needs clean up and some parts need translation. Tobyc75 (talk) 17:58, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Clean up needed

message: It says over the last 10 year in the section talking about the population. Maybe we could clarify which years that was so it doesn't become outdated. Leefkrust22 (talk) 02:04, 8 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time 
Talk:Zofingen

message: I think Ringier is the largest employer of the city... so the sentece "The largest employer is Siegfried Ltd..." should either be changed or deleted. Can anybody verify that? --DoubledG (talk) 15:44, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
Talk:Fear of Clowns

message: This article is missing information on the film's production, this should be added to the article as well as information on the film's DVD release.--Paleface Jack (talk) 00:47, 7 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Production section needs to be added 

message: This article is incomplete as it's missing information on the film's production which needs to be added to the article. Some sections such as the release and reception section need to be expanded in more detail than what it currently is with the latter needing more reviews from notable critics added to it. Hopefully this article gets the attention it needs since there is enough information made available to it.--Paleface Jack (talk) 15:36, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expansion
Talk:Dübendorf

message: A very nice museum. That's all that needs to be said. 143.232.210.38 (talk) 22:32, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The air museum needs a page 
Talk:Rapperswil-Jona

message: please refer to Talk:Rapperswil, Roland zh 20:53, 25 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: requests for changes to the page protection level should be made at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. --Jnorton7558 (talk) 01:58, 8 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: History section "merge" ([[Rapperswil#History]] and [[Rapperswil-Jona#History]]) 
Talk:Spreitenbach

message: Wer öppis gege spreitebach hend ich fick euri muetter in po 2A02:3035:A:8582:3DA6:E74B:6CD5:DCDC (talk) 23:55, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spreitebach
Talk:Alan Willett

message: According to the article's content, he was executed in 1999, yet he is included in the "2004 deaths" category.  Someone please clear this up.
--Slyguy 19:47, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The external sources confirm 1999 execution, so I have corrected the category. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:30, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Year of death 
Talk:Winterthur

message: Please give a source for "one of the fastest growing cities in Switzerland"  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Flavio87 (talk • contribs) 01:23, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: done... --Fundriver (talk) 15:29, 14 January 2010 (UTC)

message: I'm not sure why there are sections for notable residents and then another for "sons and daughters". I think breaking it down by time periods is quite excellent but perhaps it should be all one subhead of notable residents. Ifnord (talk) 18:32, 24 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability
Talk:Hayoth

message: There isn't such a quote in the bible, and google-search gave only copies of this article and this article itself back, so I think someone should either look for the source of the "bible"-citation or stick a -template to the "quote". I think I do the later and I hope somebody with more knowledge of the comic than me should do the former, OK?--Baruch ben Alexander - ☠☢☣ 02:36, 19 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Attribution has been corrected, a little research would have led you to the Soncino edition of the Zohar from whence the quote originates. --Xero (talk) 23:55, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  phony bible quote
Talk:Edward McGlynn

message: "Archbishop Corrigan was zealous in his enforcement of canon law, but was not personally bitter toward McGlynn, acting against him with extreme reluctance. He expressed his joy when McGlynn was restored to the priesthood and presided over his Requiem mass. McGlynn, in turn, remained a friend of Henry George's, delivering his eulogy in 1897."
The Archives at Notre Dame suggest that Corrigan in fact did have a personal animus toward and was pretty petty.
:If you can source that better... Biruitorul (talk) 18:45, 6 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  I provided sources (2 years ago) the original article does not have any source. I think that paragraph should be removed.68.55.60.111 (talk) 00:51, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Arado Ar 234

message: Denniss has reversed all my edits regarding spacing inbetween model and variants, claiming I am incorrect. Yet strangely, he/she has left many examples of model/variant with no spacing, as I did, so why is this? Why is it ok for Denniss to leave "mistakes" withing the article that he/she claims I vandalised? Why doesn't he/she edit the entire article to reflect the "correct" way, instead of just concentrating on my edits? How is that fair? Where is the consistency here? He/she apparently has no issues with other people doing what I did, apparently that is of no concern to him/her. Why is that? Why is it ok to have both nomenclature styles in the article, as long as I didn't do any of it? Troy von Tempest (talk) 04:01, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aircraft nomenclature 

message: I added a book to the bibliography but Denniss removed it. Why is that? Am I not allowed to add anything to the bibliography for this article? Is there a limit to the amount of books that can be added? Do I need his/her permission to add any more books to the bibliography from now on? I've added it back so I hope he/she leaves it alone or at least does me the courtesy of explaining why it doesn't deserve to be here, especially as it is included in dozens of other bibliographies on Wikipedia Troy von Tempest (talk) 04:03, 26 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: I've just done a quick perusal of Wikipedia articles for aircraft mentioned in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_of_World_War_II, and it seems that the spread between present tense (such-and-such is fighter) and past tense (such-and-such was a fighter) is about 50:50. The point about the Arado still being "in existence" is an interesting one. In the sense that the restored remains of Arados still remain in air museums, yes that seems correct. Although the actual statement in the article is that the Arado "is a jet-powered bomber", and clearly what is in those museums is no longer a jet-powered bomber. It is an historical artifact. I'm easy either way, but I'd thought I'd post this conundrum here, in case other editors have any thoughts. HistoryEditor3 (talk) 21:59, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Clarification to the above. It seems there is one re-assembled Arado on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.HistoryEditor3 (talk) 22:08, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tense
Talk:Amphipathic lipids

message: I'd suggest you start with a definition. eg "Amphipathic lipids are molecules that have both hydrophobic and hydrophilic parts..." Or some such. Then get more specific
As far as I know, the majority of lipids are amphipathic (on the lipids article it defines them as amphipathic molecules), so it may also be helpful to mention a few lipids here that are *not* amphipathic. Kmcallenberg (talk) 16:26, 13 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:African palm civet

message: The picture shown is of an African Civet (Civetticus Civetta). While the two species may be similar, they are distinct species and should not have the same picture presenting both.
:You are apparently correct, User:Viewport. I will remove the picture from this article and fix any other such misuses of  it. --Kineticman 02:06, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Some paragraphs are exactly as they are written in  Wilson, D. E. & Mittermeier, R. A. eds (2009). Handbook of the Mammals of the World. Vol I. Carnivores. Lynx edicions. Barcelona
And other if not exactly, very very close. The order of phrases are exactly as in the book. --DPC (talk) 17:15, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  CopyVio
Talk:Sihora

message: why the city is great?
first of all is it a city?
Dr Shyam Kishore Verma never heard of him was he MLA ?
who is this maestro Sir Siddharth Goyal i don't know anyone from sihora who was awarded *SIR*,
please don't exploit this wiki page for ego gratification.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.167.83.24 (talk) 13:46, August 27, 2007 (UTC) 
Hi All,
I don't understand why somebody removed the convent school thing don't you *think* it's a fact  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.167.70.167 (talk) 18:56, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

message: with Madhya Pradesh workgroup parameters was added to this article talk page because the article falls under :Category:Madhya Pradesh or one of its subcategories. Should you feel this addition is inappropriate , please undo my changes and update/remove the irrelavent categories to the article   --  TinuCherian     (Wanna Talk?)   - 13:36, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[WP:INDIA]] Banner/Madhya Pradesh workgroup Addition 

message: CIVIL HOSPITAL SIHORA
(Marthoma) C.P ASHRAM HOSPITAL, Darshani, Sihora.
OP Timing 8.30AM to 12.30PM and 3.30PM to 5.30PM  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.131.124.119 (talk) 10:35, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Health Care / Hospitals
Talk:Jazzercise

message: The Jazzercise page is mainly describing what Jazzercise is, the history and company. In no way is the page intended to sell anything.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jazzercise40 (talk • contribs) 17:40, 3 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Jazzercise Page - Not Commercial

message: I can't find any information about this program on the Jazzercise website.  Does anyone know if it's still being offered?  If not, we should probably delete that part of the article. - Skinny McGee 20:17, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm going to take it out.  If the program is still around, we can always put it back in. - Skinny McGee 16:56, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's mentioned (not as a program but as a video) on the site under timeline.  --Yahoo!Sirius 05:47, 5 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: "Know More Diet" Program

message: This article is really bad, but the subject is funny enough to warrant keeping it around an improving it.  And by the way, it definitely does read like an ad.  Jermor (talk) 22:24, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Terrible, but hilarious

message: I would love to hear more about this woman, she's a complete badass. 2601:602:67F:D250:30E9:2315:AE45:B3F8 (talk) 18:30, 6 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Judi Missett Shepard
Talk:Relevance (information retrieval)

message: The current version of this page seems to edge toward violation of the NPOV policy. Specifically, use of the term "relevancy" has a different scholarly lineage, and is not incorrect.  It's just different. A second example is the insistence on a particular view of relevance - that two or more documents are never relevant to each other without a user's information need. Source needed - that is one view among many. Documents may be related in many ways. For example, two documents may be related to each other for policy reasons, whether or not specific users feel they have an information need.
I agree. The discussion of relevancy versus relevance seems irrelevant, ha ha, and should certainly not be at the top of the article. Ideally, there would be a much better summary of algorithms, discussion of relevance versus importance in search results, and so on. I might have a go at some stage...
Sam Dutton 12:24, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

message: I have seen, in multiple IR documents, Relevance used as a binary value, where the relevance of a document to a certain query is either 1 or 0. However, all definitions of "relevance" I have seen, descbribes it as an analog value, a value which can have lots of values on a scale from "perfectly relevant" to "not relevant at all". Which is correct; A binary value or an analog value?
Another realated question: In searches with a search engine, you will often find documents which are of interest, but not an answer to your query. Are such documents to be regarded as relevant or not relevant.
Jpalme (talk)jpalme  —Preceding undated comment added 12:16, 17 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Binary or analog value 

message: The section relating to Google should be removed, because it's not really relevant (heh) to the topic, but, more because it defines relevancy incorrectly. Relevance concerns how much a document matches a certain query. Google's PageRank algorithm is specifically a query independent metric. It is not a novel measure of relevancy. It is a measure of how authoritative the document is, irrespective of particular queries.
Srowen 06:29, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not quite the right definition of relevance 

message: It seems to me that this page should be folded into the Information_retrieval page, which, though not perfect, is much more thorough. And I agree that the jab at Google, is at best a violation of NPOV, and at worst misleading. It belongs in a broader context of query-independent measures of authority, such as the one started on the Link_analysis page.
Dtunkelang 19:55, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should fold into Information_retrieval page 

message: Sperber & Wilson and Saracevic seem to be notable enough to qualify as additional reading on relevance. I'm inclined to add Ingwersen & Jarvelin's "The Turn" as another reference. But I'd like to avoid this section become a place for researchers to promote their own work, which is why I removed a recent addition. Anyone else want to chime in on what criteria we should use for this section?
Dtunkelang (talk) 22:32, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional Reading
Talk:Sugarcreek, Ohio

message: The content of this article was inappropriately deleted on 11/21/06 and replaced by discussion of Sugarcreek Township, Greene County, Ohio; I've reverted to the previous content about the village in Tuscarawas County.  I started to merge the material about the township to the appropriate article, but I found it to be so poorly written and non-notable as to be unsalvageable.  ("There's a Holiday Inn right across the street" etc.)  It's in the edit history if needed.  But most importantly, I just wanted to point out that there are separate articles for the two locations. --Malepheasant 20:19, 9 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Deletion and restoration of content Nov. 06/Feb. 07