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Talk:Not Fragile

message: I wouldn't say their sound was "a cross between Black Sabbath & ZZ Top." I'll go with ZZ Top but I don't think they sounded at all like Black Sabbath. Sabbath was into songs about killing/death/apocalypse etc. and BTO was completely different, more along the lines of ZZTop. Ozzie has a high voice, BTO and ZZ much lower/grittier  vocals. Sabbath's bass/drums were not especially remarkable, taking a backseat to Ozzie's lead, whereas ZZTop & BTO songs were notable for bass, beat & rhythm. So is there some other band to compare them with?
*I don't like the Black Sabbath comparison, either.  No source is cited by whoever wrote that.  Other than the full, fat power chords on some songs from this BTO album, nothing remotely reminds me of Sabbath.  I would say a cross between ZZ Top and Mountain is closer.  Randy Bachman even listed Mountain's Leslie West as one of his guitar influences in an interview track released with the 1998 BTO "King Biscuit" series live disc. Howenstein115 19:25, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Black Sabbath??

message: The article introduction references a quote by Randy Bachman referring to Yes' "Fragile" album.  It gives the release year as 1972.  The album was released in 1971 in the UK and 1972 in the US (and presumably Canada).  Since the release year was not part of the Bachman's quote (as written in the article at least), the correct release year should be used even in Bachman did actually say "1972" (which is unlikely though I don't have the referenced book to check this).  For the actual album date, I deliberated using the presumed Canadian release date of 1972, as "Not Fragile" is by a Canadian group or the UK date of 1971 as Yes is a British group.  I checked Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers but found no clear guidance there, even in the "Uncertain, incomplete, or approximate dates" section.  The closest I could find was the "When a date is known to be either of two years" part that recommends "1971 or 1972".  This seems inappropriate as does a footnote describing the dates.
The album was first released in 1971 so I settled on that.--Wantnot (talk) 00:54, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yes "Fragile" release year
Talk:Jo Byrns

message: Speaker Byrns was/is far better known to Tennesseans, especially Middle Tennesseans, as "Jo Byrns" than he ever was as "Jospeh Wellington Byrns".  It is doubtful that he would be known as this by anyone or even recognized by almost anyone other than serious political historians.  Articles should be merged so that this full name is the bolded indicated name at the start of the article, but it will almost always be looked up as "Jo Byrns". especially since he is memorialized by a high school with this name.
207.69.140.36 04:52, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Someone put the following text under the References section. I removed it, but can not figure out were it goes in the article.  Can someone find it a home?
(removed text)     2. Gowan, Phillip A., Byrns/Jackson, A Record of Their Probationary State, Nashville, 1983.
Janeky (talk) 04:43, 4 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphan footnote 
Talk:Communalism (Bookchin)

message: Eco-communalism appears to advocate for the exact same things as the political communalism listed on this page. The eco-communalist page is also very poorly sourced, and it would be better to have one significant page for the topic rather than several poorly maintained ones. Catiline52 (talk) 02:20, 21 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[WP:BOLD]] merger from [[Eco-communalism]]. 

message: I found plenty of sources for the term "eco-communalism". For this reason, I am reverting the edit removing the Eco-communalism section.
*"eco-communalism" -wiki Google search
*"eco-communalism" -wiki Goggle News search
*"eco-communalism" -wiki Google Books search
*"eco-communalism" Google Scholar search
Peaceray (talk) 20:18, 5 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: That's fine, looks like it is more covered in 'Google books' than Google search. There were only a small handful of non-notable sources that mentioned eco-communalism in the search, but it looks like it's more extensively covered in books.Catiline52 (talk) 00:42, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources for eco-communalism 

message: What sources discuss "communalism" as a discrete topic? The article mostly consists of summaries of existing Bookchin-related concepts/articles. Looks like a fair amount of original research at play, if there is a discrete topic beyond a dictionary definition here in all this. czar 23:15, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The "Politics" section is virtually unchanged from when it was merged years ago, and repeats content that is already much better explained and sourced within . The Christianity part has no bearing on the political topic. Which brings us to the original point, that this isn't a discrete topic apart from the dictionary definition. Next step is to turn it into a dab page. czar 23:41, 27 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scope
Talk:Vocal sac

message: wShouldn't this be "vocal sac"? - Nunh-huh 05:34, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes indeed. Now changed. --Stemonitis 12:19, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: to be more specific certains species of gibbons like the siamang wich also use their gular sac to aplify noice to communicate with eachother, locate the group or a group member, attract mates, and scare away rivals.--Jasonz2z (talk) 03:15, 15 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  what about mammals 

message: Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that :File:BennyTrapp Hyla intermedia Italien.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on November 18, 2013. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2013-11-18. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. Thanks! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 22:42, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:File:BennyTrapp Hyla intermedia Italien.jpg]] to appear as POTD
Talk:Libertarian theory

message: The collection of childish and ill-mannered responses on this and other pages speak poorly of both of you, assuming, that is, that there really are two of you instead of one. It is patently clear that you have no real interest in the article or in libertarian thought, but only in arguing for its own sake. I am leaving you to yourselves. icut4u 14:17, 4 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: childishness on display

message: You all are invited to visit and comment on a draft for a RfC on this and related articles that will eventually likely become a poll. Please remember we are not discussing the topic itself, just the suitable neutral number of issues we want to cover. --Improv 17:13, 4 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Draft for a RfC on the issue 

message: Pls wikify night-watchman state, minimal state, book names in the end et cetera. --Tmh 18:50, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikification pls
Talk:Xe (pronoun)

message: Could someone add info about pronounciation? As a non-native English speaker, I have no clue how to pronounce the leading x ("rhymes with" doesn't help there obviously).
Thanks. 134.130.183.83 01:08, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I only use the word in writing not in speech and I don't know who invented the word so I don't know the "official" pronounciation. However, in English most words that start with x, the x is pronounced the way z is pronounced in English, so xe would sound like "zee". Actually, as far as I know, "zee" is another gender neutral pronoun that has been suggested. Q0 00:35, 5 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronounciation? 

message: I have long since been using neutral pronouns of this manner. I thought that I made them up though. lol. (public release page). I'm not asking for credit (obviously these are different pronouns), but I'm wondering who authored these ones! :) Sources would be nice, hien?
--→ Chèvredan∫ante talk · contrib 16:10, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin 

message: This article makes it sound as though these words are an official part of the English language when in fact they are not official, or popular, or even widely known.  They are made-up words that have negligible further scope beyond the paper at Autism.org in which they're proposed, and they are no more notable than other made-up suggestions for neutral pronouns and certainly should not be conveyed as anything more than that.  Further, I feel these words are just as non-notable as many of the nonsense articles that get speedy-deleted every day such as definitions made up by kids (e.g. "Joshism" and "Pulling a Jeff") who wish to immortalize the made-up words they use with their friends, but that's my admittedly biased opinion.  This article is already confusing to the previous non-native speakers of English who are asking in this talk page how this word is used in everyday English, oblivious to the truth that it is not.  The introduction to this article should state that these are pronouns proposed by (somebody) which have not gained acceptance or common use, just like the Ze article (a similar proposed pronoun) does.  Reswobslc 15:18, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've made the article much more NPOV, approaching many of your concerns. I've thusly removed the tag. - CheNuevara 16:37, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  A flagrant NPOV problem
Talk:Ivan Delyanov

message: принимать "только таких детей, которые находятся на попечении лиц, представляющих достаточное ручательство в правильном над ними надзоре и в предоставлении им необходимого для учебных занятий удобства..."
учебные заведения "освободятся от поступления в них детей кучеров, лакеев, поваров, прачек, за исключением разве одаренных необыкновенными способностями, которых вовсе не следует выводить из среды, к коей они принадлежат.."
Mikkalai 06:15, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:   Excerpts from  "Cookwomen's children circular"
Talk:Four Wheel Drive

message: This company is apparently now known as FWD Seagrave.  I was going to create an infobox for this company but I'm not sure the entry itself should be under "FWD Seagrave" as opposed to a name that's no longer in use?
JamesLeary (talk) 09:06, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: We'd usually create redirects from all alternative forms of the name. The canonical article name could be the current name, or it could stay at a "most recognisable" form of the name. I don't like renaming articles at the whim of corporate mergers (the typical reader doesn't care and can be confused by this). However "FWD" would be bad (too opaque as an acronym) and "Four Wheel Drive" has problems of confusion with "Four wheel drive". I wouldn't oppose a move to FWD Seagrave if you think that name at all meets WP:COMMONNAME. Andy Dingley (talk) 10:10, 4 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Company name is now FWD Seagrave
Talk:Rejection of evolution by religious groups/Selected discussions prior to October 29,2004

message: Considering that Barry Setterfield's article about the decay of C is an example of Junk Science (see http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/c-decay.html ), don't you guys give it a little too much credit by not mentioning that it is a fraud?
:I don't believe that your criticism is fair.  Science puts forward lots of ideas that later turn out to be wrong.  Setterfield honestly believed what he was putting forward; it was not a fraud.  I also reject that it was junk science.  It was an interesting idea that turned out to be wrong.  The linked article is hardly a fair account, by the way.
:On the other hand, I doubt that the current wording is accurate, in that I've not heard of the idea getting any support from helium diffusion dating.
:Philip J. Rayment 02:32, 6 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Speed of Light 

message: # I don't understand the difference between microevolution and macroevolution. Would someone please explain it to me, in simple terms a layman can understand? 
#: The meanings of microevolution and macroevolution seem to vary depending on who you talk to.  One definition is that microevolution refers to changes within species, whereas macroevolution refers to one species changing into another.  Another definition is that micro- refers to rearrangement, elimination, or corruption of genetic information (i.e. a "downhill" change) whereas macro- refers to the addition of new genetic information.  Creationists argue that the former had been observed whereas the latter has not been, but they also (well, Answers in Genesis at least does this) argue that use of the terms "microevolution" and "macroevolution" are misleading in the context of differentiating between what creationists accept and don't accept, and that the terms themselves are best avoided, as they don't really consider "microevolution" to be "real" evolution at all.  Instead, they prefer to use terms such as variation.  As an aside, creationists use variation to explain the numbers of species and varieties of living things that exist today having derived (in the case of land animals and birds) from the relatively fewer kinds on the ark, without having to invoke "macro-" or "real" evolution.  This is consistent with their views that the universe could not create itself, and that the original creation was perfect but has deteriorated since, due to the fall.
#: Philip J. Rayment 15:02, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Um, actually *blush* it was Philip's excellent metaphor, but thanks anyway! --Uncle Ed 17:58, 7 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Micro, macro, and selection
Talk:Jay McShann

message: Need accurate birth date, as the article originally gave 1909 as birth year, but riverwalk.org link (see external link on page) give 1916.  Anyone know? Gwimpey 07:15, Oct 31, 2004 (UTC)
The media here in KC said on the day he died that no one knows for sure what his exact birthdate was, but that he was thought to be about 90, which fits the 1916 theory. The Monster 14:52, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Count Basie, Joe Turner, Jay McShann, and others played together in 1974 at the Mutual Musicians Foundation in Kansas City. This was documented in a film entitled "The Last Of The Blue Devils". The filmographies for all involved should be updated to include this important work:
http://www.kino.com/theatrical/th_item.php?film_id=281
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079443/
http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=980DE0DE1538F93BA25755C0A966948260
Related Wiki pages that should also be updated:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_Musicians_Foundation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Joe_Turner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_Basie  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.139.32.211 (talk) 19:14, 9 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The film, "The Last Of The Blue Devils" should be added in a filmography section 

message: I know that McShann was blind and still playing at eighty five years old, but I can't find any RS to confirm that. Part of the problem may be that he was associated with many blind musicians in person and in print.  Al Hibbler worked for him. He may have been billed with the Blind Boys of Alabama, Blind Willie Tell, Art Tatum, so searches may be lost because the searches are confounded by those associations. Activist (talk) 19:09, 12 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Went blind when?
Talk:Guild of One-Name Studies

message: I'm guessing you don't want to join if your surname is 'Smith'...
No, but somebody IS doing Morgan - and that's bad enough.
:I believe the MILLINGTON name study is proving rather prolific... -- Graham  ☺ | Talk 22:34, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  you don't want to join 

message: I created a stub in /temp some time ago, but forgot to make a note of it here.
I will expand the stub soonest.
Jeff Knaggs 20:00, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  /Temp stub created 

message: Carol A. Moneymaker, what is the first and last name of this name  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.193.143.218 (talk) 07:03, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Carol A. Moneymaker, what is the first and last name of this name
Talk:Dot matrix

message: Eh, I think someone before me messed this up, as it only said wedcead so uhm...you should remopve the ability to change things on here...
:Actually, no, they had simply been the only one to leave a comment, though granted that comment was nonsense. The ability to change things is a valuable force. Regardless of vandals who insert junk and remove quality writing, these pages prosper, because vandals are blocked, and vandalism reverted. --Mathwizard1232 20:41, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

message: No, a straight merge is a bad idea as dot matrix is strongly associated with printers too. Maybe make "Dot matrix" a disambiguation page with a brief explanation of what a matrix of dots is and links to Dot matrix display and Dot matrix printer? Pol098 (talk) 13:38, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with dot matrix display?
Talk:History of Kosovo

message: I think it would be valuable to write more about the general development of the land in the post-2008 period. It seems as if all text about the years after that are just the History of North Kosovo, which only accounts for about 2.8% of Kosovo's population. I'm sure incidents from this region capture international headlines and have the potential to re-escalate international tensions, but it is hardly representative of post-2008 Kosovan society. Cheers, Nederlandse Leeuw (talk) 06:52, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Post-2008 period 

message: The article starts with "The history of Kosovo dates back to pre-historic times". This was written by someone who doesn't know what pre-history means? Machinarium (talk) 14:12, 21 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pre-history
Talk:Denaʼina language

message: This should be renamed to Dena'ina, which is the proper name for the people. — Ts'éiyoosh 12:36, 31 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I'm noticing some words under "Aspect" spelt with a y without a diacritic. Is it suppose to be ŷ representing the sound [ɣ], or does it represent the sound [j]? If it's the earlier, the words should be rewritten. But if it's the latter, then the consonant table under "Phonology" should be updated so that the palatal approximate is written with a y.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.206.181.191 (talk) 18:36, 29 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Y in Orthography
Talk:Vastu shastra

message: Vastu shastra (vāstu śāstra - literally "science of architecture"[2]) are texts on the traditional Indian system of architecture.[3][4] These texts describe principles of design, layout, measurements, ground preparation, space arrangement, and spatial geometry.[5] The designs aim to integrate architecture with nature, the relative functions of various parts of the structure, and ancient beliefs utilising geometric patterns (yantra), symmetry, and directional alignments. 103.90.45.222 (talk) 16:13, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Science 

message: did you actually check any of those sources? Joshua Jonathan - Let's talk! 01:16, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes I checked most of his sources and they are not saying that there is "consensus" over regarding Vastu Shastra as pseduoscience. IP editor misrepresented the sources. Raymond3023 (talk) 16:41, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Failed verification"
Talk:Modernization theory

message: This section contains some duplicate text, around the phrase "Recent demonstrations of the emergence of democracy". It also has some content which used to be part of a citation ("The argument also appears in Walt W. Rostow") and is now in the text. There are also some phantom citation numbers. As far as I can tell, the errors were caused by this edit. I tried to fix this, but I can't figure it out, it's not my area, and I'd rather not mess it up further. Anybody feel like cleaning this up? Jessicapierce (talk) 04:08, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mess in Democratization and modernization section 

message: I tagged the article because there seems to be a fair bit of original research or irrelevant content, partly due to a merge of Modernization; too bad, as this is a vital article. If anyone is willing to rework it in depth, I recommend doing a literature search, aggressively pruning anything that's not in those sources (essentially rewriting from scratch), and redoing it chronologically instead of thematically, covering the various conceptions of modernization theory in the 50s/60s, then the skepticism and counter-theories, so that it's clear what these theories claimed, what they were based on, and how they evolved. DFlhb (talk) 20:46, 15 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added maintenance tags
Talk:Stephen Tindall

message: Should we be linking press releases? I have not heard of the "other" Stephen Tindall and the release doesn't say much. Surely there is a better founded criticism against Tindall if we have to have one? Stombs 13:27, Oct 31, 2004 (UTC)
Cleaned up.--Matt von Furrie 11:00, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The following was included in the article and really belongs here on the talk page.
The reference on this person stating "he was responsible for the closure of many small businesses in Cities and Towns" is totally subjective and in NO WAY could be prooved. If you check the stats, small businesses in NZ have an 80 % failure rate in the first 10 years after starting and  this has been the case way before The Warehouse even got started. Therefore the very high turnover both before and after The Warehouse started could be for many different reasons and should not be blamed on this man.  I would have thought this could quite easily be proven in a court of law, which must leave Wikemania wide open to a law suit.
You state at the bottom of this page; " Encyclopedic content must be verifiable ".......... this definitely IS NOT !
There is a (1) which can be clicked on straight after this statement which takes you to the NZ  TV3 website, there are no references on thet site to Stephen Tindall if you search it, so I can't see the relevance ! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.198.108.235  (talk) 22:19, 9 May 2008  
In response to this the reference link (1) used to point to a video shown on TV3 Campbell Live in 2005 however TV3 have now removed all of their older videos from Campbell Live. If I find a new reference I will certainly add it. Bhowden (talk) 21:40, 10 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Moved from article