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Talk:Fagging

message: "Nevertheless, unofficial fagging is still quite common in many English schools." I live in England and have never heard of this; indeed I've only ever heard of fagging existing in (a small minority) of what we call "public" schools (i.e. a select few private schools). In the absence of any reference I've removed this statement. 64.103.93.95 (talk) 19:41, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unofficial fagging 

message: Is the author using anarchy in the correct sense of the word? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.69.14.35 (talk) 07:21, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anarchy? 

message: I seem to remember girls in the Malory Towers and/or St Clare's books fagging for older girls - at present, the article makes it sound like it only happened to boys. Did girls do it, too? -- Dandelions 23:02, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: While hardly a credible historical source, "fagged out" is used in the Schoolgirls Own annual 1927. But this is in a story written (most likely) by Charles Hamilton, who also wrote stories set in Boy's schools, most famously Greyfriars (with Billy Bunter) and St Jim's. The story doesnt mention any younger girls "fagging" for older girls as such, but i'll carry on reading XD. Speaking of which there are far too few articles relating to the world of Charles Hamilton's stories, each school seems to have had a full cast of characters, a nearby rival school with it's own characters, and also a nearby village with yet more recurring shopkeepers and working-class urchins... and there was at least 4 schools (Greyfriars, St Jim's, Cliff house and Morcove), along with at least 1 more (Rookwood) which was only seen on certian occasions 86.158.27.179 (talk) 16:50, 18 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Girls? 

message: This article says that the practise of fagging has continued, and is now identified as ragging or hazing, but is that the case? I thought ragging was more like out and out bullying and abuse, whereas fagging was different in that jobs and chores had to be done. Should the comparison be removed? JimBrownish (talk) 15:55, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fagging the same as ragging? 

message: SOme of the usages of the word fag in this article look like they are jokes.  For example, "when he was a young fag".  I think someone is pulling your leg at times.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.34.80.28 (talk) 19:42, 30 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Reading this article temporarily turned me into Beavis and Butt Head. 12.154.105.6 (talk) 03:14, 12 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  LULZ!? 

message: I wonder if we might include the page Senpai_and_kōhai in the See Also section. Based on my own familiarity, and the information in each article, I think it's a quite similar tradition. 14.2.35.239 (talk) 17:15, 18 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Senpai and Kouhai
Talk:Contravariant

message: Should this page be moved to contravariant tensor? Michael Hardy 22:19, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: There's actually already a plethora of articles discussing covariant and contravariant transforms, for instance, four-vector, Lorentz covariance, not to mention covariant transformation and contravariant transformation. I'm not sure which organization scheme I like, since four-vector makes the distinction between contravariant and covariant vectors, which are defined by how they transform, but as a physicist I'm still more likely to look up covariant or covariant vector before covariant transformation.--Laura Scudder | Talk 05:45, 2 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: There's a really basic possible source of confusion here, to be noted. Towards the end it talks about pullback and covariance. Of course it is the 'components of' something covariant that pull back (act as something contravariant does); because 'components of' is coded language for dual space. It would be very good to get this properly phrased and highlighted on WP. Charles Matthews 09:39, 2 May 2005 (UTC)

text: Contravariant components are distantly related to covariant transformation so I think the article should not be merged. General covariance expresses the invariance of certain physical and mathematical quantities to coordinate system changes (including a change to a system in relative motion to the original), while covariant and contravariant components can be used in elasticity, optics and other places where covariance under transformations is of little interest. I added a bit to the page and apologize I could not find a help screen to bring in Greek so I spelled out "theta". Pdn 03:05, 12 May 2005 (UTC)
Template talk:Infobox isotope

message: I chaged the halflife, etc. so that this template would work for stable isotopes.
I could have changed that color part can be switched with "stable" or somthing. But I do not know if you would like to do or not.--Shoons 11:31, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unified for stable isotpes 

message: Hi, I've just improved the template. Please do let me know if there are any bugs!!!
I'm just wondering what rationale you have behind the colours. Should certain isotopes or chemicals be displayed in certain colours? The documentation ought to reflect this. It would make sense to have a colour coding (as they do for animal taxoboxes).
It might be nice, also, to have the option to have a little image to denote stability or decay mechanisms.
Verisimilus T 14:06, 7 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Colours 

message: How about adding magnetic moment, gyromagnetic ratio, and electric quadrupole moment? Will make a huge difference for us NMR folks. Xenonice (talk) 02:40, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Magnetic properties etc 

message: Would some please add a variable for decay constant, \lambda, and I will add it to the radioactive element articles? I hesitate because the template impacts multiple articles, and I'm not sure it's straight-forward to edit. Thank you. --68.107.135.58 (talk) 03:11, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Just list the half-life (using the variable halflife) instead.  The decay constant is just the inverse of the half-life up to a constant factor (see Exponential decay) so it would be redundant to list both.  TDL (talk) 00:16, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: If either of the two are included, it should be the decay constant, not the derived half-life. 68.107.135.58 (talk) 16:55, 11 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing decay constant - please fix 

message: A case of having the bold (triple ') and the ! used at the same time in the code. Any objections if I resolve it? GraemeLeggett (talk) 11:34, 23 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Double bold in infofox  section headers 

message: (with small pun...)  I note that there is a source of confusion with this infobox regarding mass.  The heading says "Nuclide data" but the box itself has "Isotope mass".   Thus, this template on the Deuterium page has the mass that includes the bound electron, that is, it gives the mass of the Dueterium atom, rather than the deuteron nuclide.  Seems to me the template ought to perhaps have nuclide mass and also isotope mass.  Or something... Bdushaw (talk) 21:13, 17 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mass confusion 

message: Would it be possible to add an extra field to the template Infobox isotope to easily provide the numerical value of its specific activity at least in Bq/g (or a multiple value, such as MBq/g, GBq/g, TBq/g...), and possibly also in μCi/g. Naturally, it only makes sense for radio-isotopes or radionuclides. 
For instance: 166 TBq/g for . In advance, thank you very much. Shinkolobwe (talk) 01:33, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Specific activity
Talk:Rudy Trouvé

message: I have removed the proposed deletion from this page. While the current article isn't independently sourced, there are sufficient sources, even online, to show his importance. E.g.  (La Libre Belgique, a Walloon newspaper, discussing a Flemish artist): "une des principales figures de la scène rock belge" ("one of the major figures of the Belgian rock scene"), in the middle of a long article about him. He wa e.g. also interviewed at Radio 1 and Studio Brussel, two branches of the Flemish national radio, and by the Dutch radio VPRO. Dutch magazine Oor also considers him an important figure in the Belgian popscene ("belangrijke figuren in de Belgische popscene"). Fram (talk) 08:17, 16 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Ref1 is good, ref3 is unreliable (per their FAQ page), and ref4 glows suspiciously because it's written by volunteer editors (though VPRO appears more reputable on the whole). And the quote from Oor (ref5) actually expands to  (the important Belgian pop figures are Barman and Carlens, Trouvé is usually forgotten). Some of these are good finds, but with the unreliable sources aside, the argument is that Trouvé is not independently notable with enough reliable sources to support an entire encyclopedia article. czar · · 15:07, 23 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Your translation of the Oor quote is wrong. It's not "Trouvé is usually forgotten" but "But don't forget Rudy Trouvé." This is of course nearly the opposite meaning of what you made of it. So even ignoring Ref 3 and 4, we have Refs 1, 2 and 5, plus his actual contributions to two notable bands and a split album with another very notable musician. Fram (talk) 07:26, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  Let's continue this at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Rudy Trouvé—easier to keep the discussion in one place. czar · · 15:13, 24 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed ProD
Talk:Liver (color)

message: hmm...Isnt Liver more of a reddish color o.0? ~Jizg
Seems like the colour doesn't correspond to the description• leon 05:31, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

message: I think I referenced the infoboxes well, I was planning to add content to and source the article itself tomorrow or the day after, because its 10PM here and i'm tired. Meanwhile, please don't challenge the material because as you can see in the boxes, I have reliable sources from equestrian specialists/enthusiasts which seem to corroborate most of the artice. C u later (or tomorrow) :) --Free Wales Now! what did I screw up?  02:59, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Now i'm done :). Feel free to suggest improvements if you think something is off or missing. After all, that's what Wikipedia is for. --Free Wales Now! what did I screw up?  17:31, 21 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improving Article 

message: An interesting and well-made content, but it reflects merely cultural references to the word "liver" as a color term, which is apparently used as an alias to brown. Note that Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Should it be converted to variations of brown, merging with relevant parts of Brown article? Is it obvious that there is no "standard" liver color, and its denotation varies in approximately the same range as "brown". Incnis Mrsi (talk) 07:22, 23 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Any sense but variations of brown? 

message: The sRGB color codes for "Liver (Dogs)" #5D3B1A, "Liver Chestnut (horses)" #543D37, and "Liver (organ)" #6C2E1F do not appear anywhere in the sources they each cite. The first source is broken, but its archive shows no mention of liver and this article doesn't explain why earthtone is somehow synonymous with liver. The second one discusses horse genetics and its only mention of liver chestnut is that it's a "very dark chestnut"; it makes no mention of color codes whatsoever. The third source is just a photograph of a human liver. As far as I can tell there are no external sources for these names corresponding to the specific color codes given in the color infoboxes. I propose that those three infoboxes are removed, or at the very least their sources be removed since they don't actually support what they allege to. Altay8 (talk) 23:22, 19 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources
Talk:Postage stamps and postal history of China

message: Obviously the part about China inventing post networks is almost certainly not true, but we could use more details on China's traditional post from the 中文 article. — LlywelynII 12:40, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Chinese page
Talk:Felix von Hartmann

message: As far as I know, we do not usually put honorific job titles such as "Cardinal" in the titles of articles. We don't even do this for monarchs. I realize it is a common way of referring to him (but "Queen Elizabeth II of England" is common—so to speak—, too). Ultimately I don't care a lot about this in any respect other than consistency. -- Jmabel | Talk 23:22, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)
It seems to be the standard for Cardinals to do it this way. John Cardinal O'Connor. RickK 23:34, Apr 5, 2005 (UTC)
* OK, then, as long as its consistent. -- Jmabel | Talk 00:11, Apr 6, 2005 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Western clergy)#Cardinals indicates to me that the title should be without "Cardinal". Google (and Google Books) searches indicate he is usually known without the title. He does not seem to meet any of the exceptions at the NC page. Olessi 21:37, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Re: recent move
Talk:Wayne Grudem

message: Why are the (soon to be outdated) 2008 political views of this man on Wikipedia.  Not really relevant or encyclopedic if you ask me. 207.190.65.208 (talk) 01:09, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Political Views

message: The article currently states, "Grudem's best friends are Chris Hulz, Daniel Row, and Andrew Steen." There's no citation, they don't appear to be people of note, and I'm not convinced the information about "best friends" is relevant. In fact I've never come across this before on other wiki pages, unless the friendship is very public (eg. Gayle and Oprah) or otherwise significant (eg. John Piper and Mark Driscoll). Does anyone know who these people are or have a good argument for the inclusion of this information?Sadiemonster (talk) 14:28, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Absolutely, I have removed the section. StAnselm (talk) 22:06, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Best Friends?
Talk:Celestial kingdom

message: Moved the target of exaltation from theosis to exaltation (Mormonism), since it has its own page now. Morgaledth 20:56, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Exaltation as a reference

message: The following link under External Links is broken. I looked at the site to see if I could find where it should point, but I didn't find anything. If someone would like to put it back with a link that works, that would work.
*Words used in Swedenborg (A-D) --billlund 18:46, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Broken link 

message: I feel that I must object to the mormon church members violating the NPOV of the page. I have attempted on several occasions to add facts to this subject. They have all been removed by members of the LDS church. The fact that the information on the subject only address an LDS point of view proves simply that it is in clear voilation of the NPOV. Emanuel Swedenborg and his book entitled Heaven and Hell show that there is another demonstration of this concept beyond the mormon church's position.  The similiarities are too striking to be a mere coincidences.  This position is not mentioned on the Telestrial and Terrestrial Kingdom pages.  Now I understand that mormons are not allowed to read Mr. Swedenborg's book as it has been sanctioned by them as anti-mormon literature.  The consequences of reading this book for them included denial of temple privledges, disfellowshiping, and excommunication which is why non-LDS input is necessary.  Allow the posting of non-LDS information to this page and I would support it. Thewayandthelight 21:06, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Could you please provide a reference for your statement above regarding reading Swedenborg's book? I have read the Qur'an, Tao Te Ching, and many other sacred writings, but I have never been asked or counseled by anyone in the LDS church not to read any of these writings. Do you have anything to support your statement? I eagerly look forward to your response. --Storm Rider (talk) 23:39, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

text: Active discussions on the neutrality of this article is taking place on the :Talk:Telestial kingdom page. Val42 21:07, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sethie has reviewed this article and cannot find any bias or non-neutrality in it. Sethie 04:34, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV
Talk:Italy in the Middle Ages

message: ‘ The Imperial authority never extended much south of the Italian peninsula.’ What, not into Lampedusa? Not into Africa? What is intended here (and is it true)? —Ian Spackman 21:00, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geographic weirdness 

message: The section "Rise of the Catholic Church" says "After the Lombard invasion,
the popes (i.e. St. Gregory, St. Peter, and St.  Mark) were nominally
subject to the eastern emperor, but often received little help from
Constantinople"; but the table of contents shows this section to be part
of "Transition from Late Antiquity (6th to 8th centuries)".  "St. Peter"
is linked directly to the original apostle.  It's plausible that linking
to Pope Peter of Alexandria was actually intended, because he at least
is roughly coeval with Pope Mark, to whom "St. Mark" is linked; but
both are way before the 6th to 8th centuries.  Pope Gregory I does make
sense in this context.  The sentence says "after the Lombard invasion",
but the other 2 popes were centuries before it.  And "i.e." instead of
"e.g." there implies that the list is at least contiguous, if not complete.
This list made me start to think of the entire paragraph as gibberish;
HOWEVER, the central assertions of the paragraph are actually true AFAIK.
I don't want to do an edit myself here because I'm a novice at medieval
history, but just switching to "(e.g. Pope Gregory I)" would help.
Of course, the whole thing should be sourced in the context of a rewrite.
67.183.64.49 (talk) 16:04, 10 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anachronistic and erroneous list of popes
Talk:Chicago Water Tower

message: Should the article note that the lower portion of this building is the model for the White Castle hamburger chain?
Rlquall 23:54, 5 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Is the building still in use as a water tower? 64.118.218.85 17:52, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No. 01:12, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use as a water tower 

message: How tall is it?  209.101.84.237 23:20, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Height? 

message: The article states that much of the city south of the river survived, but the south side as defined at the time (from the river south) sustained heavy damage.  It was the west side that remained mostly untouched, even though the fire started there, because it blew east.  So I'm changing the description of what was left untouched.—Preceding unsigned comment added by Icebox93 (talk • contribs) 
:Thank you for your suggestion! When you feel an article needs improvement, please feel free to make those changes.  Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit almost any article by simply following the  link at the top. You don't even need to log in (although there are many reasons why you might want to).  The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold in updating pages. Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes — they're likely to be found and corrected quickly. If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use the sandbox to try out your editing skills.  New contributors are always welcome.A mcmurray 14:23, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correction 

message: Tower partially destroyed in 'Invasion The Abductors' arcade game. http://www.gamefaqs.com/arcade/582006-invasion-the-abductors. Not the best of cites but a cite. Lots42 (talk) 03:58, 14 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  In popular culture  
Talk:Rómulo Gallegos

message: Anon just changed "2 November 1884 – 7 April 1969" to "2 November 1884 – 5 April 1969" (albeit leaving a "7 April" at the bottom of the article). On w:es :es:Rómulo Gallegos says 2 Aug to 5 Apr; Britannica says 2 Aug to 4 Apr;  2 Aug to 7 Apr; 2 Aug to 5 Apr; 2 Aug to 4 Apr. 2 August seems to have consensus as DoB (and I'll do the necessary in a minute), but what about the DoD?  4s, 5s, and 7s abound... –Hajor 00:06, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Dates of Birth/Death
Talk:Doge of Venice

message: Why isn't this Doge of Venice singualar?  As most page that are not merely lists use the singular. gren グレン 21:10, 20 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naming 

message: Could someone with more knowledge of the subject revise this part? I found it confusing. In particular:
Doges of Venice were elected for life by the city-state's aristocracy. 
and then:
 
The title "doge" was the title of the senior-most elected official of Venice and Genoa; both cities were republics and elected doges.
My question would be whether the doge was especially elected to be the doge i.e. in an election specific for that purpose, or whether it was just the senior most official who was already elected. 
CryptoCat (talk) 14:09, 27 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Introductory paragraph doesn't read well and is ambiguous 

message: "This ceremonial cap may have been ultimately based on the white crown of Upper Egypt." The source for this nonsense is Samuel Sharpe in a book published in 1863. If there is no recent respectable scholarly source for this shouldn't it be removed? METRANGOLO1 (talk) 16:11, 28 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  CROWN OF EGYPT 

message: — Assignment last updated by MayaHBu (talk) 21:12, 7 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Venetian Renaissance Art
Talk:List of mayors of New Haven, Connecticut

message: Do we have any idea how accurate is this?  I've seen two obituaries (see ) for Alfred Blackman listing him as the mayor, but he doesn't appear in the article.  Unfortunately page 13 of Dahl is not accessible to me in Google Books.  Gamaliel (talk) 18:31, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Unfortunately it only lists names and dates, and only goes up to 1885, but it's something.  I've added a bunch of names from the book that were missing here.  Gamaliel (talk) 13:36, 31 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Dahl's list
Talk:List of Coca-Cola slogans

message: A discussion is taking place to address the redirect :Always the one. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 July 17#Always the one until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  signed, Rosguill talk 19:46, 17 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Always the one" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:Kool aid man

message: Dont delete this, it is better to have one funny article on the kool aid man then none at all!
* No . . . no, it's not. raekwon 01:18, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)

message: Not a joke posting site. There are some joke pages in the Wikipedia: namespace, which are seperate from the main encyclopedia. Humor belongs there, not in a regular article. Please stop creating useless articles, and editing image captions. That is considered vandalism. Doopokko 01:18, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia is an Encyclopedia