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Talk:January 18

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Who is "popular Texan Lance C.", born in 1988? <KF> 20:05, 18 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I hereby announce my firm intention to delete all references to the above individual unless Mr Lance C. himself or someone knowledgeable about him convinces me that that would be the wrong course of action to take.  <KF> 15:56, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)

message: I just removed the following:
*1307 - German king Albrecht I makes his son Rudolf king of Bohemia.
Rudolph's article says he was made king in 1306 but doesn't mention the date. He replaced Wenceslaus III, but according to his article he died in August 1306. I have no idea where this entry came from and I haven't found any other source to confirm it but if it has a good source, please put it back (and preferably edit the articles to match). --Spondoolicks 15:10, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Doubtful date

message: well i dont care toy be honest because i am the best   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.18.86.99 (talk) 13:26, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Important enough?

message: DO NOT edit this article to promote a movie! The movie I speak of is the jj abrams project. DO NOT EDIT THIS ARTICLE TO INCLUDE THAT, IT IS IRRELEVANT AND NOT AN IMPORTANT PART OF AN ENCYCLOPEDIA.Strunke 04:10, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: the movie

message: Blackout. Doesn't seem like it will be possible that anyone will see what happened important on this day for another year :(
At least not on the English Wikipedia.
-- User:Cronos Dage 173.35.89.249 (talk) 23:58, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Will this page be viewed tomorrow? 

message: Wikipedia was one of the main contributors to an online political protest on January 18th, 2012. The fact that they are covering their own protest is downright hilarious and shouldn't be covered by itself as a supposed news source. If wikipedia is going to continue to pretend shamelessness, they would do their best to cover themselves in the protest. But that goes strictly against Neutrality, which I believe they have already breached in the protest itself.--71.196.147.152 (talk) 07:06, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Everyone is entitled to one's opinion, of course. Yours happens to be faintly ridiculous and generally incoherent, and Wikipedia can't avoid covering a globally notable event just because they were involved in it, no matter how many nasty synonyms that random and anonymous hand-wringers dredge up from their thesauri. --CalendarWatcher (talk) 08:45, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I do so enjoy your countering of my "ridiculous and generally incoherent" synonyms and [thesaurus-rape] in an ironically similar manner. Wikipedia should be neutral is the fact of the matter, and in this case it is certainly not.--71.196.147.152 (talk) 09:26, 19 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pathetic and Incestuous Self-Coverage of the "Blackout" 

message: the webpage for Amy Carmichael says she is venerated in the Anglican Communion, which is not the same as the Church of England.  Can this be changed? --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 15:09, 18 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Amy Carmichael
Talk:Permissive society

message: The link from Sexual revolution does not show in the "What links here" list. Yes I know it stops at 500, but if you have a look a it you'll see that there's only one other link. This is the reason why I created a new link in the first place. <KF> 21:08, 18 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: Whenever the word "Norm" is thrown around, people need to establish, VERY SPECIFICALLY what that means. Is this the norm of a previously nonpremissive society? of all societies? of a society that frowns upon BDS&M? Adultery and "Fetishes" have been around since time immemorial, a hypothetical society that was free of both these supposed "aberrations" would be very abnormal indeed. 68.13.72.138 (talk) 17:56, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I think I have resolved this. Changed "not the norm" to "previously considered unacceptable or even criminalized". I also dropped bisexuality - I think it has negligible independence from attitudes on the homosexual component. Alsee (talk) 17:49, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not the Norm? 

message: "For example, lower divorce rates, decreasing the incidence of sexually transmitted diseases, and controlling crime are all desirable."
That sentence is written as if it were stating hard facts. While decreasing rate of STDs and controlling crime are obvious, I have to question why lowering divorce rates benefits society - from a religious perspective, it might, but not being religious I can't see any possible benefit to reducing the divorce rate. In fact, quite the opposite - forcing partners to stay in wedlock while it makes them terribly unhappy is obviously a bad thing for them and thus bad for the society with which they interact.
I would suggest removing 'divorce rates' from your assertion. Guy.fraser1 (talk) 12:15, 14 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Lower divorce rates could also mean lower marriage rates between ill-suited people.  I think that people on both sides can agree that mis-matched people would be better off not marrying in the first place than marrying and divorcing. --70.41.70.6 (talk) 20:18, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: human relationships are dynamic, just because people "match" when they marry, this doesn't have to be like this 1, 10 or 30 years later. --MrBurns (talk) 05:42, 11 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this opinion or fact? 

message: This article begins with a definition by non-essentials.  It's the dumbest Wikipedia article I've seen in a while. Michael Hardy (talk) 02:31, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It was a phrase widely used in the 1970s (and perhaps 1960s), e.g. in the UK, referring to the societal changes of the time, and the phrase has 120,000 Google hits, so I think it merits an article. Ben Finn (talk) 10:57, 20 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  non-essentials 

message: The final paragraph treats the term "oppressive society as if it is the opposite of "permissive society". This is not necessarily so  - the opposite of permissive society could be "socially conservative society". Vorbee (talk) 07:52, 14 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Oppressive society
Talk:Real computation

message: Right now, obviously, (and perhaps this is exactly the intent), the section "could a real computer ever be built" is far from a NPOV.  It says that it can't be built out of "wood."   Really, there should be some counterarguments in there.  Such as "Noone ever expected it to be made out of wood, why would you even mention such a thing?".  I'm not saying that a Real computer can be built as is defined here, I'm just saying that currently, the article is more bias than any other wiki article I've seen.  Don't you guys have a sense of shame? -- Kevin Baas 21:29, 18 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I disputed the NPOV of this section with template:POV-section. I very much agree. Scottydude 23:53, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  could a real computer ever be built? 

message: Some physical theories such as loop quantum gravity hypothesize that space and time themselves are quantized: this would also present major problems for building a "real computer".
I'm not a physicist, but if space and time itself was quantized, surely a perfect analogue computer wouldn't just present major problems, but it would be completely impossible?  There'd be no way to input, process, or output infinitely precise values.
Even assuming continuous space/time, while an amazingly accurate analogue system could be created, I don't get how infinite precision could ever be achieved - if there is an argument against this seemingly intuitive conclusion, could it be put in the article?
--82.46.194.14 14:15, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quantized space/time 

message: The entry says "Depending on the model chosen, this may enable real computers to solve problems that are inextricable on digital computers". This doesn't clearly state whether there exist models of real computation that are strictly more powerful than Turing machines. But the paper http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/siegelmann94analog.html purports to give an example of such a model (on page 2, it says they prove that their analog neural net can solve the halting problem in exponential time). So, unless I am misunderstanding that paper, I think that this entry should have the following sentence added, "There exist models of real computation which are provably more powerful than Turing machines (siegelmann and sontag, '94)".
I am not an expert in this area so I won't add that myself, in case I am misunderstanding. Bayle Shanks 20:53, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  "may" enable?
Talk:Thought reform

message: I see no difference between the following terms:
*mind control
*thought reform
*brainwashing
Each implies that some sinister force tricks or traps the hapless dupe into doing nefarious deeds that no sane or rational person would "freely" choose to do.
Hence, we need "deprogramming" to free the "victim".
I daresay there's a conflict between camps or schools of thought who say that mind control, etc. is Possible and Bad and often accuse various new religious movements of it; and those who either say it's impossible or that opponents are just prejudiced against legitimate religious conversion.
Is this the controversy? And if so, can we re-do the articles to present accurately neutrally the various beliefs about the ability of one person to "control" another?
Sanger, Hassan, Rick Ross and others would be on one side. --Uncle Ed 21:01, 30 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Ed, I agree that it would be better to create one article that compares the differences and similarities between these three competing theories in. I believe that brainwashing, thought reform and mind control differ somewhat from each other. There are many theories on religious conversion and the above mentioned theories are just three of many. Most of the existing theories are not yet mentioned in Wikipedia. I would be happy with some help to include the most important theories in Wikipedia. Andries 21:13, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I still don't see the difference between thought reform and brainwashing. Maybe we could take a section from the latter and create a new article on coercive persuasion. -- Uncle Ed (talk) 18:02, Mar 9, 2005 (UTC)
This has been sitting on the shelf for quite a bit. It needs to be acted upon. We need to merge these three. ANy takers? --Zappaz 01:16, 24 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Big merge
Talk:Super Bowl XXXVIII

message: I didn't actually check all of the scores on this page (I only added the Colts-Patriots and noticed that the Packers-Eagles game was misordered so changed that one as well) -- according to the following:
By custom, the home team in any sporting event is always listed last, football included. Doing so implicitly shows where the game was played; the score makes the winner obvious and makes it unnecessary to list the winner first.
Skybunny 23:51, 18 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment by Skybunny

message: I notice there is no mention of the streaker
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.6.163.253 (talk • contribs) .
*It was moved to the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy article. Zzyzx11 (Talk) 19:07, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Streaker 

message: Would this be the Super Bowl to date to have the most Roman numerals until Super Bowl LXXXVIII in 2054? Night Tracks (talk) 09:41, 11 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Most Roman numerals 
Talk:Afrikaners

message: This page needs a significant section that notes the unique cuisine of the Afrikaner including Koeksisters, Vetkoek, and various others...  Dean  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Deanerasmus2006 (talk • contribs) 10:30, 15 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Cuisine

message: So the census figures for Australia and New Zealand provide separate categories for those who identify as "Afrikaner", and whites who report being speakers of Afrikaans. Wikipedia should cite the figure used for self-identification, with a footnote explaining that the number of Afrikaans speakers in these countries is much higher. Afrikaans doesn't necessarily equate to Afrikaner, since it's not clear how many Afrikaans speakers overseas also identify as Afrikaner. 
Let's bear in mind that - especially overseas - there may be many children who are raised with Afrikaans as a household language, if one of their parents was an Afrikaans speaker. That does not mean these people identify as Afrikaners. Also note that many white South Africans - regardless of their ethnic background - are bilingual and were raised speaking both English and Afrikaans, especially prior to 1994. Katangais (talk) 23:16, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Australia and New Zealand 

message: This language is compliant with WP:MOS and in reality - numerous deletes and lengthy debates about the few sentences added - seems rather POV - this version completed the 'thought' left half expressed in the last paragraph version - it seems reasonable, it should not be contentious and above all it is accurate and cited.
Reeg. Dr. BeingObjective (talk) 21:14, 20 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: What "measures"? I'm not sure what you are trying to say or ask. Roger (Dodger67) (talk) 08:43, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Keeping the article NPOV 

message: Measures taken by Afrikaners to creata a bond with black population in south Africa 197.250.50.46 (talk) 08:42, 15 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  History
Talk:Train spotting

message: Can we have some input from U.S. Wikipedians on this topic? I don't believe that trainspotting ever caught on in the USA. 00:45 19 Jan 2004 (UTC)
:It didn't.  There are certainly a very large number of railfans (railway enthusiasts), but number-taking as a pastime never caught on.  The obsessives in the US fraternity tend to be certain manic photographers.
:One can certainly buy roster books for some large US railroads, though (I've seen Union Pacific books) but I don't think they are used for the same purpose.
:Possibly the sheer size of the country made it impossible; one would have to have way too much free time and money to have a chance of completing just one big railroad's equipment.
:I removed the mention of the US and added a bunch more stuff. —Morven 22:40, 5 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Some began carrying cameras in order to document more unusual sightings, in order that they be believed...
As a U.S. guy who doesn't really know, (or understand), about all of this, I'm having a hard time understanding what would make a train "unusual". The color? A special limited edition boxcar? Perhaps the article could use an example? func(talk) 06:00, 26 Sep 2004 (UTC)

text: Unusual sights vary, but one would be seeing a locomotive outside its normal working area, or pulling a train normally not hauled by that type.  Unusual train formations, new paint schemes, and the like might also qualify. —Morven 00:51, Sep 27, 2004 (UTC)
What about the people who 'spot' HGVs?   That are not so obvious as the people who hang around railway stations, but they do exist.  See Eddie Stobart.  How about a catagory for them?--JBellis 15:03, 26 Feb 2005 (UTC)

text: Not sure if it's accurate, but that article is talking about Network Rail, not British Transport. Or have the two merged? --SPUI (talk) 23:31, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Scorpius (mythology)

message: I substituted Hera for 'Gaia (or possibly the goddess Juno)' as the goddess whose scorpion stung Orion. Juno was a Roman goddess that the Romans associated with Hera. She had no direct relation to Orion. Gaia is the Earth Mother whose presence looms behind the Triple Goddess of Crete, whom Greeks identified with Hera-Demeter-Athena according to context. I hope this doesn't seem confused or contentious. Wetman 02:19, 19 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I took the liberty of disambiguating the 'Juno' reference in the comment above. If this is a Bad ThingTM please notify me. jkl 08:32, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Veil of ignorance

message: I came across this page in a random search.  It contains a bad grammatical error (second para), but I don't know enough about the subject to be sure of the appropriate correction. JackofOz 02:24, 19 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: If the error is still there, can you at least indicate what it is? There might be more than one grammatical error in the second paragraph, so it'd be good to make sure your particular one gets addressed. --Ryguasu 12:40, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)

text: What about Kant? I thought that he originally explained that we can't get beyond our senses, and called it the veil of ignorance (but I'm trying to remember this from first-year philosophy, so I could be wrong). In any case, I've linked here from fallibilism and the link comes off as a little odd because veil of ignorance redirects to Rawls. Any ideas? --Frekja 19:08, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opening heading

message: How come the Hebrew version of this entry does not appear on the sidebar of other Languages? I don't know how to change this. See the link, including the sidebar that leads to this entry, and its German equivalent: 
http://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%A1%D7%9A_%D7%94%D7%91%D7%A2%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%AA  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.180.38.105 (talk) 17:07, 28 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Languages Sidebar 

message: :The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the move request was: Move. Jafeluv (talk) 17:16, 24 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move.  Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.
71.192.133.139 (talk) 02:15, 13 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 

message: There is bias in the polygamy subsection. A single author's position is stated but there is no commentary, no explanation, no context. What is a reader to do, just accept the author's statements as a correct application and conclusion from behind the veil of ignorance? 161.31.0.30 (talk) 20:48, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Bias in Application: Polygamy

message: It's being discussed [[Talk:Original position#Merge Proposal: Veil of Ignorance > Original Position|here]].DolyaIskrina (talk) 04:32, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger Proposed
Talk:Grace Aguilar

message: Edith Wharton published a novel in 1925 called A Mother's Recompense.  She gives this acknowldgement regarding her re-use of the title: "My excuses are due to the decorous shade of Grace Aguilar, loved of our grandmothers, for deliberately appropriating, and applying to uses so different, the title of one of the most admired of her tales. E.W." Here is the citation: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks05/0500121h.html  
Preservation Guide (talk) 16:57, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: In Popular Culture

message: Dugdale says "Grace's Grandfather, Joseph Aguilar (1765 - 17th December 1822) had married his first cousin Grace Aguilar (1764 - 28th February 1823) The generation of Aguilar's before this had owned sugar plantations in Jamaica, their forebears having fled Jewish persecution in Spain." There is no evidence that Joseph and Grace were first cousins and the generation before this is unknown. Kittybrewster  ☎ 09:48, 17 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Genealogy

message: From the entry: "Her mother, a cultivated woman of strong religious feeling, trained her to read the Scriptures systematically...."
What does "systematically" mean in this case?  This is a term normally used with certain branches of science.  Thank you. Rissa, copy editor (talk) 04:14, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Systematically

message: I want to edit this article a bit for clarity.  I hope nobody minds, I want to change some wording, redo sentence structure in a few place. Rissa, copy editor (talk) 04:26, 21 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copy editing
Talk:The Blithedale Romance

message: Brief analysis?  Anyone?  What about Silas Foster?  No one sees him as an important character in the novel?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.96.218.192 (talk) 18:00, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Silas Foster 

message: The plot section of this article is really just a list of who the main characters are but says nothing notable about the plot at all.--WickerGuy (talk) 18:37, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot? 

message: Have there ever been any film/video/TV versions of this? -96.237.4.73 (talk) 21:20, 10 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Film version? 

message: Reviewing the microform for the newspaper, I'm wondering about the interpretation or summary accuracy.  May I propose a different read?JenniferNM (talk) 03:12, 31 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Newspaper microform
Talk:Anton Geesink

message: Needs a better introductory sentence, to give some context.  I'd do it but I barely understand what this is about. ike9898 04:02, 19 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I suggest replacing the phrase:"....,and placed second in his category." for "..., and ended on the second place in his category." The first sentence is not entirely wrong but very much double Dutch.
(Wereldburger758) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.166.73.101 (talk) 10:21, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Double Dutch? 

message: Anton Geesink has written several books about Judo, according to my knowledge. These should be added.
Wereldburger758 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.166.73.101 (talk) 16:45, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Books written by Anton Geesink 

message: I slightly modified the claim about the three living 10th dan kodanshas recognized by Kodokan as to make it unambiguous. Anyway, is it relevant at all? Perhaps a separate page with the list of all 10th dan holders would be in order. Blazar 17:52, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Explanation of the correction I made, and question 

message: Removed one of two trivia for two reasons:
# No source available
# Unlikely since they were living in different parts of the city
Patio 06:32, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed trivia

message: That sounds like he's dead. His weight may have varied over the years since, but has his height varied too? He's still alive, as far as I know, and he probably STILL is 1.98 m tall... 68.200.98.166 (talk) 01:19, 26 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  He was 6'6" (1.98m) tall 
Talk:Newt Gingrich

message: That should be Dennis Hastert's pic there, not Dick Gephardt's. 2605:A000:1316:6027:0:22A0:65EE:35D2 (talk) 12:38, 16 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Dick Gephardt succeeded Newt Gingrich as Speaker" 

message: "Since 2020, Gingrich has supported Trump's now proven claims of voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election" False verification - the articles cited argue for the opposite.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:1C2:1B7F:B770:0:0:0:3E27 (talk) 20:23, 18 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  False Claim
Talk:Ailanthus webworm

message: Thanks Seglea for the format improvements. But why are you calling it parasitic? I don't think it fits the definition.
I also wish Wikipedia would standardize on using taxonomic nomenclature for the primary page, with redirects from common names. It's less confusing that way. Pollinator 07:14, 19 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Parasitic?

message: The comment "The moth does not survive cold winters, but migrates north each year so it is commonly seen in summer throughout the continental US, and occasionally eastern Canada." puzzles me.  I live in Ohio where our temperatures always dip below zero degrees Fahrenheit, yet Ailanthus webworm moths are among the first to emerge after thaw.  I have always taken them to be hardy.  I'm just an amateur collector though.  Any more qualified commentary? Todd.Isler (talk) 20:59, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does not survive cold winters?