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Wikipedia talk:Featured article removal candidates/Spoo

message: *Comment. Aside from the problems and merits of the article at issue, I have to say that when the manager of the FAC or FARC room is personally involved in the process, there's a potential conflict of interest. Jeffrey, do you propose to have someone else step in at the end to interpret the discourse here and to decide whether to remove or keep? I think that would be the proper course of action. Tony 12:22, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Seriously, is this the "best of the best" of what wikipedia has to offer? And consensus doesn't mean squat here or in FAC. Raul promoted the bulbasaur article without having arrived at any consensus and has since refused to explain his rationale to repeated requests. Wikipedia isn't a democracy and while votes count as nothing, the quality of argument does. Sometimes even arguments do nothing as exemplified by the bulbasaur FAC. It's a cabal. BlueShirts 21:47, 23 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes.  It is a cabal.  You have figured us out.  The folks who hold down WP:FPC, WP:FLC, WP:FAC, WP:FARC and WP:FLRC hold yearly clandestine meetings at Dick Chaney's undisclosed location with the sole purpose of holding the good stuff down.  Bam!  We even have a secret handshake, and each member receives an embroidered fez.  Personally, I'm in it for the fez.  --Jeffrey O. Gustafson - Shazaam! - <*> 07:59, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

text: The problem with your analysis is that Jeffrey is not "in a position of power to rule on something in which s/he has a personal stake".  De facto, he is the person that has made the decisions for a while; until he decided he has had enough, I am sure that everyone is happy for that position to continue.  But there is no FARC tsar - anyone, if they really wanted to, could close this or any other FARC when it was the right time to do so.  In any event, Jeffrey's decisions are completely transparent, and if he were to make a mistake (finding a clear consensus when there was not one or vice versa) then I am sure appropriate corrective action would be taken by the community. Quite why you think a bureaucrat should have to decide this one is beyond me: any Wikipedian could do it - you could do it yourself.-- ALoan (Talk) 14:25, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

text: I don't understand your first point; the very opposite appears true to me. The rest of your comment appears to assume that I asked Jeffrey to step down completely, and that I'm somehow criticising his performance; it's clear from my comments that I'm not doing that. This is a matter of process, which should apply irrespective of the people involved at a particular time. I've made my point, so perhaps this debate should continue on the talk page, if at all. Tony 01:40, 25 March 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Ron Saxton

message: I urge those who are part of a campaign not to edit on Wikipedia. This is a conflict of interest and against the NPOV guidelines of Wikipedia. Any POV edits will be reverted by myself or other editors. Davidpdx 12:24, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflict of Interest Campaigns 

message: I removed the following comment:
:  Although rumors that he regularly frequents a male prostitute have circulated, there is no hard evidence that he still buys methamphetamines.
Comment was added by an anonymous coward (65.100.48.225). [].  This slander/libel is utterly ridiculous, and in violation of Wikipedia policies.  Keep up the vandalism, and I'll report your IP to the Mt. Hood Community College.Kythri 21:58, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prostitute/Meth Comment Removed 

message: This older article has few verifiable sources today. It references many dead URLs and what appear to be non-online newspaper sources. I think it's clearly a notable biography, though. QuintinK (talk) 20:30, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link Rot and Offline Sources
Talk:Schwa (Cyrillic)

message: What does "In all Cyrillic alphabets it presented the vowel sound /æ/, because the same sound was presented by the latin letter Schwa in Janalif, the pan-Turkic alphabet, before all languages that used them were switched to Latin." mean? —Firespeaker 12:30, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unclear Language 

message: Tatar's latin alphabet *is* in common use, at least in some contexts; see the Tatar wikipedia for a really big example. —Firespeaker 12:30, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tatar latin 

message: It is a letter used in synthetic, politically-imposed Cyrillic-based alphabets for Turkic tongues, and does not show up in any languages using original Cyrillic, such as Serbian, Ukrainian, Church Slavonic, or any of the Russian alphabets used through the ages. As such, how is it a Cyrillic letter?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Aadieu (talk • contribs) 19:14, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  How is it a Cyrillic Letter? 

message: I am almost sure this letter was reintroduced into Azeri after switch to Latin alphabet. Also, Azeris prefer to call their language Azerbaijani.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.1.3.99 (talk) 09:55, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Azeri/Azerbaijani
Talk:Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center

message: I'm not sure that the Penn State School of Medicine is called the Milton Hershey Medical Center. https://med.psu.edu/ Rather, a close reading of the article seems to indicate that the Hershey Foundation gave the money to establish a medical center with the School of Medicine part of the medical campus. But apparently on the Penn State website the actual school is shown as the Penn State College of Medicine. A medical center affiliated with a medical school does train interns and residents, but they are still separate facilities. I don't believe Penn State School of Medicine should redirect here. Bodding (talk) 01:44, 3 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Penn State School of Medicine
Talk:Judge Smith

message: He should really be listed under Judge Smith, not Chris Judge Smith. He calls himself Judge Smith (without the Chris) for more than a decade now.--Mark in wiki 13:11, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Judge's name 
Talk:Exergonic reaction

message: The merge debate goes back to '05 (see: Talk:Endergonic).  The result of the debate was to not merge.  Moreover, it is standard protocol, e.g. according to both The Essential Dictionary of Science (Clark 2004) and the A to Z Dictionary of Thermodynamics (Perrot 1998), to have separate entries for such closely-related but subtly-different topics such as:
:*Exothermic – a process or reaction that involves the release of energy; usually in the form of heat.
:*Exothermic reaction – a chemical reaction in which heat is given out.
a exergonic reaction is...
sorry im still learning about this subject  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.188.26.95 (talk) 14:03, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please do not merge these separate 6 pages 

message: I suggest we do merge these pages; they are all very short and my guess is that, when a reader gees to one they may well be either confused as to which one they want or intending to consult another as well. Combining them will make many reader's task easier and I can't see how it will make life more difficult for anyone. The previous (2005) consensus referred to above was pretty limited in scope and shouldn't deter as seven years later from improving things. Abtract (talk) 08:58, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: What 223.233.75.95 (talk) 09:59, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Exergonic bio
Talk:Randolph Field

message: Thank you for your contribution, but in the future could you please sign your messages with four tildes? Yee-hah!--BillFlis 01:30, 11 August 2006 (UTC)

message: I suggest that this page be merged with the Randolph AFB article. It seems that they are really the same entity under slightly different names. BillFlis 13:18, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge?
Talk:Wimple

message: Regarding the issue of a scan of a print from the Maciejowski Bible that was linked to by this article: 
While the original work (the Maciejowski Bible, Pierpont Morgan Library Manuscript m.638) is out of copyright, the image in question is a scan from a print in "Old Testament Miniatures", the earliest printing of which was in 1927.  The image on Wikipedia is therefore not out of copyright, and cannot be presented as Public Domain.  It may be fair use, but that is a different argument.
:Trivial reproductions of publid domain art can't be copyrighted. From Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources#Visual_arts: "Note: Accurate photographs of visual artworks lack expressive content and are automatically in the public domain once the painting's copyright has expired (which it has in the US if it was published before 1923). All other copyright notices can safely be ignored." There are also some court cases regarding this, and at least in the US and in Germany these pictures are PD. Kusma (討論) 13:37, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Scan copyright

message: Is this the same thing as :pl:Podwika? If so, in addition to interwiki, we can get some good pictures.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 21:57, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Podwika?

message: I'm deleting this claim:
"In Middle English, the word was wymple, and anyone wearing one would be Ywympled, rather than wimpled."
because it's unsourced and is based on a misunderstanding of the history of orthography. There was no uniformity in spelling in the Middle English period; a quick look at the OED shows that the Middle English spellings of the word included winpel, wimpel, wempel, wimpil, wympul, wompyll, and wympill. "Wymple" and "wimple" both apparently appear from the 14th century onwards.
65.213.77.129 (talk) 14:06, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Middle English

message: The bit of Hebrew here is strangely done. It says that "וְהַמִּטְפָּחוֹת" is the same as "miṭpaḥoth". The problem is that the Hebrew actually says "v'hamiṭpaḥoth", which means "and the miṭpaḥoth". It might be better to just make the Hebrew read "מִּטְפָּחוֹת", though this might not be appropriate if this is a quote from somewhere.
Aasmith (talk) 02:04, 24 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Hebrew Transliteration
Talk:Exergonic process

message: The merge debate goes back to '05 (see: Talk:Endergonic).  The result of the debate was to not merge.  Moreover, it is standard protocol, e.g. according to both The Essential Dictionary of Science (Clark 2004) and the A to Z Dictionary of Thermodynamics (Perrot 1998), to have separate entries for such closely-related but subtly-different topics such as:
:*Exothermic – a process or reaction that involves the release of energy; usually in the form of heat.
:*Exothermic reaction – a chemical reaction in which heat is give out.
As well as for the other terms: endothermic, endothermic reaction, etc.  For example, the melting of an ice-cube is an endothermic process; combustion evolves an exothermic reaction, warm-blooded animals are endothermic, arguing with other Wikipedians is an endergonic activity, etc.  Help us expand on these separate stubs, but please don't merge.  Wikipedia has unlimited storage space.  Articles are sure to grow.  Thanks:--Sadi Carnot 17:30, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please do not merge these separate 6 pages 

message: I am not much into thermodynamics, I know the basis, and what it does for me, and what I can measure, but that is about all.  But after reading 2 of the 6 articles mentioned, I do get the feeling these are all Wiktionary-entries.  But getting here from benzimidazoline and after reading the text, I still don't have a clue why the reaction between benzamidazolium salts and sodiumhydride is exergonic, and why then the other reaction mentioned there is so special.  I have been so free as to add a  to the pages.
:Theres nothing special about them, theyre' just examples. Why is that reaction exergonic? Because the bonds in the molecules have a higher energy before the reaction, and after the reaction they have less energy, so energy has been released. 218.102.71.167 03:28, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That is OK, I understand that.  But I guess your oneliner is a clearer explanation than the article.  What I meant was, the article is not readable for someone who has no knowledge about Thermodynamics.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 06:54, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stubby & Wiktionary
Talk:List of LEXX episodes: Season 3

message: (Or any other future proposed mergers)
The list of Lexx episodes will become obsolete soon, so no point in merging with it. If we did all episodes on one page, the page would just be too large. Bipedia 05:54, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It might me large but as a refrence to Wikipedia Episode pages see List of Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes. DivineShadow218 18:13, 30 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regarding the proposed merger 

message: * I don't know how to format the page so that the thumbnail of Xev walking through the desert doesn't stuff up the table format below, so I have just put a load of new lines after the Overview.
*Although the episode contents on this page appear to point to pages that could be expanded upon, I'm not sure they should be (for the time being anyway).
* I'm thinking of putting all/most characters on one page, so if referenced, they should be of the form ((Lexx Characters| Lyekka)) (say)...
Bipedia 13:52, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion Opens
Talk:Virgilius Maro Grammaticus

message: ----
To my knowledge he does not cite the authors (Isidore of Seville, Virgil, Aelius Donatus) by name. In "Wisdom, Authority and Grammar" Vivien Law argues, that some citations (and Virigilius' knowledge) can be traced back to mentioned authors - but Virgiliuses style is always obscure. --Aethralis 13:46, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: It's incredible! It seems that scholars should always attribute irish or british origin to intellectuals of unknown origin in the high middle ages. So ye brythons are able of course to boast yourselves that ye have always been the centre of the world. Even when ye were a pack of dull folks in the margin of civility. It's false, ye have always been too lucky folks (very luky does not mean worthy of thy culture).
For some scholars should be likely that a herd of few thousands insular writers might be able to provide a great lot of middle latin literature. And country of far greater and profound latin heritage, Gallia, Hispania and especially Italia should have been (even in that ages) a stock of ignorants! Damn falsehood! It's false anglocentric irritating 
knowledges: that's what I've found much too often here in this anglowikipedia.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.49.245.186 (talk) 10:55, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Irish origin??????!!!! of course...

message: I would like to inquire why the article refers to the Irish evidence as 'not watertight'? From what I've seen, Virgilius Maro Grammaticus a.k.a. The Irish Virgil displays a knowledge of Old Irish grammar, and this would not have been possible for anyone other than an Irish person in this period. Not to mention the fact that the Irish scholars of this period underwent extensive research of classical languages, and the timing and style of Virgilius Maro Grammaticus fit in perfectly with the Irish grammars. There's not even a reasonable alternative. I'm giving notice of my intention to remove the below line by the 21/09/2012 if nobody can suggest reasons why the evidence is not watertight. 
However, the Irish evidence is not watertight, and Virgil's origins remain undetermined.
General Michael Collins (talk) 16:21, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Doesn't seem to be any contemporaneous source referring to the author as such - Scotus is the usual term. There were many British scholars in the Irish system around this time, which caused Aldhelm to cite the influence of Virgilius in dissuading students from travelling to Ireland and to favour his school at Canterbury instead. Good 2008 article from Peritia which should be included: https://www.mgh-bibliothek.de/dokumente/b/b045627.pdf Shtove (talk) 17:56, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Irish Origin
Talk:Josep Trueta

message: I have seen a reference to that it was this man who was the primary "alarm bell" regaring the spanish flu, thereby giving the flu its name. I wish I could find that reference.DanielDemaret 13:49, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: Catalan is not a nationality.There is specified that he was a Catalan nationalist.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.16.153.224 (talk) 09:51, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Catalan is not a nationality 
Talk:Crap Towns

message: I removed the following, as it seems to be the opinion of an editor. If you can cite a source please add it back. GameKeeper 08:33, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed uncited piece

message: That book has been written just for fun and I'm amazed that there still are people who do not catch it. But nevertheless I'm glad, that Taunton is going to replace Bridgwater. That's the way justice's like... Kicior99 (talk) 07:30, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Just for fun 

message: Under the 2nd image it states, 'Luton, Bedfordshire was the 2004 'winner'.' but in the survey section, it states '1. Bedford, Bedfordshire'. Bedford & Luton are both in Bedfordshire, but are certainly 2 very different towns. However, I'm unsure which of these conflicting pieces of data are in fact correct.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.25.227.91 (talk) 20:12, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Meh, if I were to blind-drop you in a random street in Luton, or a random street in Bedford, you'd be hard-pressed indeed to be able to tell where you are. 2A01:CB0C:CD:D800:459D:C5BD:A2FB:BB54 (talk) 14:35, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Conflicting Data
Talk:List of Hungarians who were born outside present-day Hungary

message: The actor Peter Lorre was a Hungarian born in what is now Slovakia, according to his Wikipedia listing. Perhaps someone would like to add him to this (rather pointless) list.
:I think that the point of this list is that with the  change in the borders of Hungary after World War I, if these were born more recently, they would not have been Hungarians. The underlying implication is that the Hungarian culture, and society would have been the worse for it. Of course there is nothing that would stop a person emerging as an eminent contributor to his or her 'new' country. In Hungary however there is a still alert sentiment about these issues, also given that sometimes controversial treatment of the large local minorities in the bordering countries ( see for example the situation in Romania). David.orban 10:06, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Peter Lorre
Talk:Little Altars Everywhere

message: This book is not a novel. I am changing the genre, categories, and stub type to accurately reflect what the book actually is. The fact that some people call it a novel does not make it one. Pat Berry 16:07, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The discussion of short story collections at the WikiProject Novels general forum indicates that short story collections should not be included in that project. Accordingly, I am removing the banners. Pat Berry 16:32, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Not a novel
Talk:Rock Scully

message: While I have not made any changes in this article (I'm not even sure where to begin), has anyone noticed how incredibly POV this is? It reads like a court defense.
:To call it POV is an understatement. I'm half convinced that Scully wrote it himself. Msclguru 18:39, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Scully was born Aug. 1, 1941, and thus shared a birthday with Jerry Garcia (born Aug. 1, 1942), who was exactly one year younger than Scully.Maccb (talk) 03:30, 8 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scully's birthday
Talk:Twelve (novel)

message: I have read this novel and have found the additions to this Wikipedia article entirely full and accurate and I therefore believe it is no-longer a stub! Also, if there is any interest in adding a 'Books in similar genre' sub-heading there are a few recommendations I should like to make. Thanks.
Plot summary section seems too long, isn't this not the purpose of Wikipedia?156.111.161.160 (talk) 21:42, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: A novel of the same name came out in 2009, see the Jasper Kent article. (Said book won awards, and probably meets the notability requirements.) This article should probably have the name changed to Twelve (2002 novel). Kimera757 (talk) 00:45, 14 January 2012 (UTC)
Talk:Secaucus (album)

message: *All song titles serve as redirects to this album, have their own pages, or have been placed at the appropriate disambiguation pages.--Hraefen Talk 21:26, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: '''<^>v!!This album is connected!!v<^>'''
Talk:Friedrichs extension

message: The article states:
:Let H1 be the completion of dom T with respect to Q.
Let ξ_n be a Cauchy sequence in H that converge to ξ in H under the usual norm. Then, given various different Cauchy sequences ξ_n, it seems to me that these sequences can converge to different places under the Q norm; that is, different sequences converge to different values of Q(ξ_n,ξ_n) if/when Q is not bounded. So there may be many distinct elements in H_1 that are identified with a single element in H. Right?
:: There is a mapping from the completion of dom T into H. It is not immediately clear that it is injective. That requires a short (one or two line) argument not in the article.--CSTAR 16:06, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Define an operator A ... Q(ξ, η) is bounded linear
From what I can tell, the requirement that Q(ξ, η) is bounded linear is exactly what it takes to single out just one point in the space of Cauchy sequences in H_1 (since boundedness implies continuity, then all sequences Q(ξ_n,ξ_n), by continuity, converge to the same value, and all sequences Q(ξ_n,η) converge to the same value. Thus the point is unique, and serves as the extension point.).
I think what I describe above is the intent of the definition of A, but perhaps this point could be belabored a bit. If you agree that my interpretation is correct, then perhaps I'd like to modify the article to belabor this point.   linas 14:57, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification
Talk:Sirdar

message: Sirdar is also a popular brand of knitting yarn in the UK
http://www.sirdar.co.uk/
Should this be included in some way?  Claudine McClean 14:30, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The "Sirdar (company)" article should be written. Quite notable. Thanks for pointing it out. mikka (t) 21:41, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: I propose that Sirdar be merged into Sardar. The words are closely related cognates (Sirdar is Sanskrit, Sardar is Old Persian) indicating precisely the same concept - a head/chief of an Army.  
I think that the content in the Sirdar article can easily be explained in the context of Sardar (which is more detailed)Bangalorebar (talk) 07:25, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: There is another title Sirdar سِردار meaning keeper of secrets. This is preserved in the last entry for this term in the Steingass Persian dictionary for Sirr-dar and was the title of Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah. He translated his own title as that: a confident or literally keeper of secrets. (Sirr: secret). http://dsalsrv02.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/philologic/search3advanced?dbname=steingass&query=%D8%B3%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1&matchtype=exact&display=utf8
--Wool Bridge (talk) 20:57, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sirdar