lflage/wiki-talks huggingface dataset:
Talk:Major, Saskatchewan

message: (Cocopie (talk) 20:44, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Robert Simpson

message: Why is there a special list of Robert Simpsons who are/were Canadian? The fact that two of them don't have entries in Wikipedia makes this even odder. It's not that I'm being nationalistic here, it's just that it makes no sense, as much as if they were listed under the headings 'Over 2m tall' and 'other'. ;-) Ian Rutt, 13th March 2006 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.222.24.233 (talk) 13:46, 13 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Special list
Talk:Halton Hills

message: So we hope that this post remains under tightly controlled circumstances related to control of vandalism and other disruption by the faction that comes here & deletes additions so that only one side of the story shows... The Link below is not to help computing page ranks etc.
http://www.topix.net/forum/ca/halton/TGMEG9JUCG06U8IK7  —Preceding unsigned comment added by ORMNEC (talk • contribs) 07:30, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  There have been 2 Factions fighting here for over 50 Years 

message: ...to the :Category:People from Halton Hills, Ontario by using the What-links-here button from the toolbox menu (see left side of article) Ottawahitech (talk) 03:21, 22 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  I added  a couple of people... 
Talk:Solway Junction Railway

message: Previous editors had this on the viaduct closure date.  I give it below, partly because some of it might be right, partly because it can't all be right, and therefore indicates the problems lurking in the use of 'railway histories' as sources: 
A miners' strike took place in May 1921, by which time the daily train service had reduced to one mixed train each way, and on 30 May the service was amended to two return trips per week. In August 1921 a new review of the maintenance needs on the viaduct showed that £70,000 needed to be spent: this sum was beyond what was justified and after the last train on 31 August 1921 the viaduct line was closed. The sections between Kirtlebridge and Annan, and between Brayton and Abbey Junction continued in operation for the time being.
....
There are contradictory references to the date of final closure of the viaduct, but this was probably 1 September 1921. Clinker states that the entire line closed from 1917 to 1919,C R Clinker, Register of Closed Passenger Stations and Goods Depots in England, Scotland and Wales, self published by C R Clinker, 1964 and Stansfield states that "the service ... was suspended from January 1917 to March 1924", but this is refuted by Quick, who states that Bradshaw's Timetables for the period continued to show a passenger train service, and that no Railway Clearing House documentation for the closure was found. Clinker also states that the viaduct and lines in England closed from 20 May 1921, and Ross says (on page 185) that the "viaduct was officially declared closed from 20 May 1921", but this probably refers to a temporary suspension during the coal emergency.
Two bits of information in local newspapers not in the current article are
* temporary station closures took place in May 1917 (on the 2 days before the Royal Train used the line) - so clearly the 'closed from 1 Feb 1917' decision hadn't stuck
* indignation meetings in late 1921 generally talked about the viaduct having been closed 'some time ago' , but the Southern Reporter of 22 December 1921 reports the Annan Merchants' Association complaining that the viaduct had been shut for six months
Given the accuracy of the Minister of Transport's information on other points, it looks fairly certain the final closure was no later than July 1921, which would fit with the 'six months' of the Annan Merchants' Association.      01:13, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Closure date  

message: On at least one occasion, an English judge asked why he was expected to hear a case between two Scottish companies.  The answer to that is that the SJR was an English company.  A few of the categories are wrong therefore. Rjccumbria (talk) 01:20, 9 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nationality of the Company
Talk:List of 2008 United States Democratic Party superdelegates by endorsement

message: The chart i've made over at List of 2008 United States Democratic Party Superdelegates might make this article obsolete. Kingturtle (talk) 20:58, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed.  I've redirected this article to there. Nandesuka (talk) 14:39, 2 March 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Queenston

message: Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that :File:Edward Walsh - Queenstown, Upper Canada on the Niagara (a.k.a. Queenston, Ontario).jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on September 3, 2010. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2010-09-03. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks! howcheng  {chat} 22:09, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:File:Edward Walsh - Queenstown, Upper Canada on the Niagara (a.k.a. Queenston, Ontario).jpg]] to appear as POTD soon 
Talk:Sharon Temple

message: Ontario Heritage Trust   ....PKT(alk) 20:46, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Potential Reference
Talk:Piero Angela

message: Is this a joke? The English must be thoroughly revised.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.51.217.242 (talk) 21:05, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: 2008 Comment

message: There is an RfC on the question of using "Religion: None" vs. "Religion: None (atheist)" in the infobox on this and other similar pages. 
The RfC is at Template talk:Infobox person#RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion. 
Please help us determine consensus on this issue. --Guy Macon (talk) 10:06, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Template talk:Infobox person#RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion|Request for Comments]]
Talk:STS-4

message: According to this MIT lecture (1:46:55) STS-4 was struck by a hailstorm while on the pad, damaging the surface of the orbiter's TPS tiles and allowing them to absorb several hundred pounds of water.  They decided to launch anyhow (it was an early flight with a light payload) and the orbital dynamicist could detect perturbations in the orbit due to thrust from the water evaporating.  This would make an interesting addition to the article if we can find a good reference.  So far, all I've found are news stories about the hail damage to STS-117 which make a passing reference to STS-4 also being damaged by hail. -- 124.157.218.5 (talk) 12:08, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hail storm
Talk:STS-9

message: "29 days, 22 hours, 60 minutes"
Is this different than "29 days, 23 hours"?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.185.161.246 (talk) 05:14, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time duration 
Talk:Squat effect

message: Squat (shipping term) is an older article on the same subject.  Kablammo (talk) 09:43, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Squat (shipping term)]] 

message: >>>
This article is seriously flawed and should be removed for the following reasons:
(1) While "Squat" is a common term used in naval architecture "squat effect" is a term that seems to be made up by the authors of this wiki page and a few others on the internet but not in any hydrodynamics offices...
(2) References do not support the text
(3) The "Bernoulli effect" explanation is just plain wrong. It is the wave pattern around the ship that causes squat.
>>>
Moved by --Tito Dutta (talk) 17:04, 24 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I would disagree that waves are the cause, because wave amplitudes and periods are insignificant, in the case where this effect would be seen, compared to large ships' sizes. The diagrams are actually misleading in this respect.--Jasper Deng (talk) 06:22, 3 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reader's feedback 

message: According to the article of Allure of the Seas, it was this ship, not her sister ship Oasis of the Seas, that passed under the low bridge. Or perhaps they both did, but in any case, they are almost identical, and the article on the Allure specifically says it was the Allure, and that the whole story about the squat effect being the only thing that allowed sufficient clearance is a myth created by sensationalist media types, who claimed that the funnels only cleared the bridge by a foot, when in reality it was several meters, meaning that it would have had sufficient clearance regardless. This means that any squat effect present had no impact on whether the ship could clear the bridge. I added a statement to this effect on the main page, but for some reason I am unable to add any references; when I click "edit section", it just shows text saying "/references", and in Beta, it just gives me a template that doesn't seem to do anything at all..45Colt 03:54, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Allure of the Seas 
Talk:STS-61-C

message: The article on Robert Cenker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_J._Cenker contains more details on STS-61-C aborted launch attempts than the main mission page. I wonder if such detail should be copied or moved to the STS-61-C page? Brewbooks (talk) 15:25, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add details of STS-61 Columbia aborted launch attempts
Talk:West Coast Airlines Flight 956

message: The coords given place the crash site on the Washington side of the river... Katr67 (talk) 21:13, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll take a look, thanks for the catch --Trashbag (talk) 21:38, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, so I took the original coordinates from page 3 of the NTSB Report.  When I check the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center's Crash Locator it appears that the latitude minutes should be 15 instead of 51.  --Trashbag (talk) 22:10, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This is definitely not the first time that the NTSB and the CAB have published incorrect crash coordinates, believe me.  It's more common than one might reasonably expect.  I've learned to try to find other sources for corroboration, such as wreck chaser websites, and to use mapping services like Google Earth to see if the published coordinates make any sense.  --Itsfullofstars (talk) 18:50, 4 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Coords

message: There's nothing wrong with adding tags or ratings before an article is "done". They're never done, and they're easy enough to change. See WP:OWN. BTW,  is really only needed on articles that might be controversial or inspire chatting. Katr67 (talk) 01:43, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project tags
Talk:The Case of the Gilded Fly

message: I've been attempting to improve this article over the past few days, and have now pretty well finished apart from the Literary Allusions section, which I have not really touched. While the list may well be accurate, and indeed interesting, it appears to be original literary criticism. I have not been able to locate any reliable source for the list as a whole, nor indeed for the individual items within it. Even if someone were to spend time going through the novel and identifying each of the allusions with a specific quote and page number, it seems to me that that would still be impermissible original research. In the circumstances, I think that the section should be deleted in its entirety, but before doing that I thought it would be worth asking here for a second opinion. Sadads, do you have any thoughts? MichaelMaggs (talk) 19:05, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Typically I kill these kinds of sections when I do rewrites, unless they are of significant critical commentary (think anything by James Joyce ). Allusions sections tend to be WP:TRIVIA or WP:OR, and we don't really document very well, in terms of sourcing. I actually think that Wikidata could handle these better than Wikipedia can, but in any case we need them to be well referenced on either platform. Sadads (talk) 21:25, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: That being said, when I worked on Quicksilver (novel) the criticism spent a lot of time reflecting on the historical cast of characters used throughout the novel, so I opted into discussing the history and context around the plot. Sadads (talk) 21:27, 17 October 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks Sadads, appreciate the help. MichaelMaggs (talk) 02:38, 18 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Literary Allusions section
Talk:Hamazi

message: This article is cribbed from
http://www.historyfiles.co.uk/KingListsMiddEast/MesopotamiaHamazi.htm
and I see no support for some of the facts, like the governors 
under Ur. Also, it looks like the Hamazi of Elba is most likely
a different entity than the Hamzi of the sumerian king list.
Ploversegg (talk) 22:25, 14 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: More likely, that web doc was cribbed from this wikipedia article, that I wrote myself from a wide variety of research sources.  At the time I wrote it, I could not find as much information on any one page, as that doc you linked has got. This suggests to me that the link is influenced by wikipedia, since I know for a fact it's not the other way around. 
Also, all sources in my research are unanimous that both Hamazi's are the same; I've never seen any published source suggest there were two entities, so that idea may be OR if it isn't published anywhere. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 12:14, 15 July 2008 (UTC)

text: Thats cool. The reason I wondered about the two locations was I happened
to be looking at
http://books.google.com/books?id=0Rwals-oh6kC&pg=PA129&dq=%22hamazi%22&lr=&num=100&sig=ACfU3U3xh8-Vu5lD9otjkCZY4ZpVEpf60A
i.e. Eblaitica: Essays on the Ebla Archives and Eblaite Language and noted footnote 477
which says that the Ebla Hamazi should not be confused with the Zagros one. It also
says that the Ebla request was not for mercenaries but rather for onagers (the footnote
continues on the next page). But ... it's not a big deal.
Ploversegg (talk) 15:56, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh yeah, I do recall seeing that page before, now that you mention it. Maybe the views of Pettinato (reviewed by that footnote) should be included, if someone can find out more of what he said. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 20:49, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  More or less a copy of web doc
Talk:STS-40

message: G-616 was one of several GAS payloads aboard STS-40, which had more notable payloads (Spacelab Life Sciences - 1), yet this is the only GAS experiment from any space shuttle mission to get its own article, and it doesn't seem to hold up by today's standards to be notable or verifiable enough to get its own article. I probably could just do it myself, but I thought I'd document it here to get opinions / collaboration on it, since parts of the G-616 article lack verifiability in themselves. SpacePod9 (talk) 22:00, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge of [[G-616]] into [[STS-40]]
File talk:Even-Newer-Map-Francophone World.png

message: Not all of Canada should be done in dark blue. French speaking communities exist throughout the country but the majority is concentrated in Quebec, with english beating out french for the top spot. I think it should be recoloured blue for official language/widely used personally.
----
Response to above:
Canada does consider French to be one of its official languages... I do believe this map is trying to represent that, not usage.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.188.174.1 (talk) 01:52, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
Talk:STS-58

message: This is the headless rat mission. A guillotine-like "rodent dispatcher" was used to "fix" rats in orbit as part of the life sciences study. Hektor (talk) 10:33, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Guillotine

message: The opening paragraph of Dr Seddon's article states that she was Payload Commander on STS-58.  This article article lists her as Mission Specialist 1.  Which is right?  Trappist the monk (talk) 14:35, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dr Seddon's job assignment
Talk:Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space

message: Atomic fountain clocks derive their name from the fact that they launch the caesium atoms upwards in a parabolic arc, interrogating them once when they go up and once when they get back down. In microgravity, this concept is meaningless, so it makes no sense to apply this term to the atomic-clock component of the device. Moreover, the project paper (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crhy.2015.05.002) draws that distinction several times, describing PHARAO as separate from fountain clocks.
I'm removing that reference until a suitable argument for retaining it is brought up. Episanty (talk) 00:03, 28 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "fountain" clock?
Talk:Calcium salt

message: Why this page exist?  We already have a page fro calcium compunds?  Fro history someone just wanted to copy advert? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.252.4.195 (talk) 
:Good point.  I'll make this page a redirect. --Slashme (talk) 05:55, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Why does this page exist?
Talk:STS-83

message: * I found the content on 15 Feb 2008 to be identical to the mission highlight information for STS-94, the replacement mission, looking to be a cut-and-paste from a press release (including future tense).  Given that this mission was cut short, presumably many of these highlights were not as-advertised and probably should be modified. Ogre lawless (talk) 22:19, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mission highlights
Talk:STS-87

message: "A small satellite designed to study the sun failed to turn on today after it was released from the space shuttle Columbia."
"Release from the robot arm should have set off an internal timer, triggering a self-test maneuver causing Spartan to pirouette 45 degrees, which would have indicated the satellite was operating normally. The pirouette never happened."https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1997/11/22/satellite-designed-to-study-sun-fails/ead709ba-441d-4e96-a2ad-683e9fe65661/
It was recaptured during a spacewalk. https://web.archive.org/web/20081030202338/http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/gsfc/service/gallery/fact_sheets/spacesci/spartan.pdf
Mentioned on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-95#Spartan when it was redepoloyed.
Interestica (talk) 18:52, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spartan Satellite event 

message: STS-87 apparently was first launch to roll heads-up to transmit telemetry to TDRS satellite during launch and SRB burn. (Previous launches had flown heads-down to send telemetry to ground stations). - Rod57 (talk) 10:02, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  First mission to use TDRS during launch
Talk:STS-93

message: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/07/pictures/110720-best-unforgettable-space-shuttle-pictures#/best-unforgettable-space-shuttle-pictures-tornado-launch-pad_37674_600x450.jpg  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.109.98.44 (talk) 20:16, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tornado occurred?
Talk:Eight-Eight Fleet

message: Quote from the article: 'This group formed the influential Fleet Faction which later achieved Japan's withdrawal from the treaty.' Japan never withdrew from the Washington Naval Treaty, it expired December 31 1936. 
Or is my translation wrong? Greetings --ThomasJa276 (talk) 15:51, 24 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Japanese Fleet Faction
Talk:Lancashire League (cricket)

message: the article states:
The Lancashire League in its first season of 1892 consisted of only 13 clubs (the 14 current members minus Todmorden)
The current members number 24 - several clubs joined in 2018. Could you revise or clarify the initial clubs. 51.241.122.113 (talk) 18:50, 2 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Initial members of the league 

message: I suggest the information on the structure of the league in 2018 is not helpful. These things change from season to season 58.7.110.151 (talk) 01:02, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relevance on out of date info
File talk:Binomial distribution cdf.png

message: Someone correct this image. The Binomial cdf is discontinuous.
: Agree.  I'll do it. Tayste (talk - contrib) 22:49, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

message: Quoting the Summary:
: ...the function only exists on the the set k \in \{0,\dots,n\}\! (it's support)
False.  The cumulative distribution function exists for all real numbers.  For the Binomial distribution, it is a step function, with discontinuities at integer values from 0 to n (where positive probability mass exists). Tayste (talk - contrib) 23:57, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comment on Summary 

message: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Binomial_distribution_cdf.png
Tayste (talk - contrib) 10:11, 1 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corrected image uploaded to Commons
Talk:Rosto the piper (character)

message: wait! why does someone want to delte this? i think it is significant becuase Rosto the Piper is a character from Tamora Pierce's book Terrier. Not enoguh is known abotu him and as the book grows in popularity, fans become mroe interested in him. for those who may be unclear abotu something, this would be the place to search for answers. if I wrote any incorrect information, i suggest editing the infromation....not deleting it!
oh, and as far as characters, harry potter, the character nad not te boo khas his own wiki and no one is deleting it. Also, I want to know why this is supposidy wanting of deletion. It says under A7 which is abotu a real person and such....this is about a book character! Book characters often have wikipedia pages. It's not insulting and simply states a lit information aobut the character. It's not even my oppinion of the books! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vine archer (talk • contribs) 22:10, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia has notability guidelines governing what is appropriate for inclusion. WP:N indicates that "A topic is presumed to be notable if it has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject." Harry Potter, the character, has received significant and substantial coverage in other sources. Can you demonstrate that this character has? It may be appropriate to include information about this character in the parent articles on the book, but as a stand-alone article it does not seem to qualify. I would like to suggest that you consider redirecting this article to the article on the book and perhaps merging some of this information there. Otherwise, it may be subject to deletion debate. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:33, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Artificial bee colony algorithm

message: Is this the same as Bees algorithm? Andreas Kaufmann (talk) 21:58, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This article would be improved if ABC could be explained explicitly in the body of the text, wrt: gradient descent, swarm intelligence, Bees algorithm and particle swarm optimisation. Leondz (talk) 11:26, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Context wrt: similar work

message: I have removed the boilerplate criticism section that appeared in the lede of this article (and in many others), which appears in more or less the same form at List of metaphor-based metaheuristics.  Since I have made similar removals or replacements on other pages, if anyone has an issue with this one, it's best to start an omnibus discussion at Talk:List of metaphor-based metaheuristics. —Psychonaut (talk) 19:19, 31 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criticism
Talk:Chain rule for Kolmogorov complexity

message: I am concerned that the book Li, Ming; Vitányi, Paul (February 1997) does not appear to Google Books to contain the phrase "chain rule".  Can anyone give a page reference?  Deltahedron (talk) 17:02, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: "Chain rule", as a term, does not appear in Li & Vitányi. They use conditional complexity to denote H(x|y), but that term isn't mentioned here. It's possible that the older sources might use this "chain rule" terminology, but it also might be the case of someone writing stuff in wikipedia in their own terminology. (It wouldn't be the first time I see that happen.) Similar expressions are called "chain rule" in other fields, most notably the chain rule about conditional probabilities. JMP EAX (talk) 12:38, 24 July 2014 (UTC)

text: Also, the book  uses "chain rule" aplenty for entropy etc., but never for Kolmogorov complexity. JMP EAX (talk) 14:01, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference