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Talk:Deane Hutton

message: This article as mostly been cut and pasted from the subject's personal website (see link at bottom of article). I wasn't sure whether to report that as promotion, original research, copyright violation, or...  either way it's not the best! --118.209.141.180 (talk) 07:02, 19 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Promo / Cut & Paste
Talk:Optimal substructure

message: In the middle of the formal definition, it mentions a minima, but it doesn't say what variable is being changed to form that minimum.  I couldn't figure out what that variable is, so I couldn't follow the formal definition.--Christopher King (talk) 20:04, 15 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: How get Minima?

message: It would be helpful if someone could include information about the origin of the term "optimal substructure". As far as I can tell it is a more general version of the "principle of optimality", which is Richard Bellman's term for the fact that finding the optimal choice in a multi-step decision problem ordinarily requires finding optimal choices inside shorter subproblems too. Did Bellman also coin the term "optimal substructure", when he started to do work on computer algorithms? Or was the term originally coined by the Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, and Stein textbook, or by some other computer scientists? --Rinconsoleao (talk) 15:11, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I have tried to hunt the term down, but I couldn't find any reference to the term "optimal substructure" earlier than 1990 - Google Books has a couple hits, but they all seem to be misclassifications (dating papers to 1976 because that's when the first issue of the journal was published). And seeing as the book doesn't cite anyone for coining the term, it is possible that the term itself was coined in the CLR book in its first edition in the 90s. --185.125.224.20 (talk) 15:55, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of term? 

message: I tried a careful read of the "Definition" section, and still found it completely impenetrable.  I suggest that we either remove it or rewrite it.--Clevera (talk) 23:49, 24 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Definition" section 

message: Is the graphic even correct here? The optimal decision at the start node would be the middle line with cost 2, yet 5 is chosen. If I understood this correctly this means that this task does not have optimal substructure: selecting the local optimum does not lead to the global optimum (total cost of 27 instead of 25).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.80.17.92 (talk) 09:19, 23 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Graphic correct?
Talk:Agar, Madhya Pradesh

message: with Madhya Pradesh workgroup parameters was added to this article talk page because the article falls under :Category:Madhya Pradesh or one of its subcategories. Should you feel this addition is inappropriate , please undo my changes and update/remove the irrelavent categories to the article   --  TinuCherian     (Wanna Talk?)   - 09:25, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[WP:INDIA]] Banner/Madhya Pradesh workgroup Addition 

message: The flag is not from AgarMalwa but from Alwar (Rajputana). AgarMalwa princely state in Rewa Khanta is different from AgarMalwa city in Central India.--83.34.44.253 (talk) 14:30, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Which of these was the former Princely State?  You seem to imply that the Princely State was in Rewa Khanta.Fconaway (talk) 06:24, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The Princely State was in Rewa Kantha, according to the following reference:  <http://members.iinet.net.au/~royalty/ips/misc/agency_rewakantha.html> Fconaway (talk) 06:42, 25 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flag and princely
Talk:Akoda

message: with Madhya Pradesh workgroup parameters was added to this article talk page because the article falls under :Category:Madhya Pradesh or one of its subcategories. Should you feel this addition is inappropriate , please undo my changes and update/remove the irrelavent categories to the article   --  TinuCherian     (Wanna Talk?)   - 09:26, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[WP:INDIA]] Banner/Madhya Pradesh workgroup Addition
Talk:Akodia

message: with Madhya Pradesh workgroup parameters was added to this article talk page because the article falls under :Category:Madhya Pradesh or one of its subcategories. Should you feel this addition is inappropriate , please undo my changes and update/remove the irrelavent categories to the article   --  TinuCherian     (Wanna Talk?)   - 09:26, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[WP:INDIA]] Banner/Madhya Pradesh workgroup Addition 

message: Chandravanshi copmuters  — Preceding unsigned comment added by JATIN MANAWAT (talk • contribs) 09:14, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shop
Talk:Alampuram (Hemalapuram)

message: with Madhya Pradesh workgroup parameters was added to this article talk page because the article falls under :Category:Madhya Pradesh or one of its subcategories. Should you feel this addition is inappropriate , please undo my changes and update/remove the irrelavent categories to the article   --  TinuCherian     (Wanna Talk?)   - 09:26, 21 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[WP:INDIA]] Banner/Madhya Pradesh workgroup Addition 
Talk:Austrian colonial policy

message: To name this series of failures and blunders as "colonial empire" requires a lot of imagination. Pavel Vozenilek 09:55, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: That map seriously needs some references. When did Austria-Hungary (1867-1918) colonize Belgium? -- 10:44, 26 October 2018 46.107.117.4
:The Hapsburg dynasty ruled over the Netherlands from the time of the 1477 marriage of Mary of Burgundy to Maximilian of Austria -- in later years (down to the Napoleonic wars) only the southern or "Spanish" Netherlands. AnonMoos (talk) 18:24, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map 

message: On the map the malaysian State of Sabah is colored,but its not mentioned in the text.... is that by mistake? 194.230.148.61 (talk) 12:46, 8 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Malaysia
Talk:Special Others

message: The band is extremly popular in Japan.  References for the band appear from iTunes to Victor entertenment.  They are noteworthy. Shoessss 10:14, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I just discovered them, what a band! Check out Dachambo aswell. :D Terrasidius (talk) 01:48, 3 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Brilliant
Talk:Greek crown jewels

message: Comment by unknown user, that has been moved from the article text to here:
I don't think that this is the crown of Greece. It is nothing like the crown used at the funeral of the late King Paul and it is not the same as the crown of Otto taken back to Greece and given to King Paul by an Archduke of Bavaria!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.31.240.156 (talk) 18:03, August 28, 2007 (UTC) 
:Well, the picture seems to be an obvious Photoshop job. The unnamed user above thinks it doesn't even look like the actual item. Anyone know? or have a real public domain image we could use? -LlywelynII (talk) 16:23, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed, the previous crown was a rather fanciful Photoshop job. According to this the crown looked quite different. I found a color version online, and substituted the fictional one with this. Constantine   ✍  21:58, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture

message: Does someone know where the Crown Jewels are now?Informationskampagne (talk) 16:01, 15 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where are the Greek Crown Jewels today?
Talk:The Little Street

message: i have a question!!
what is the meaning of this painting??  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.186.150.130 (talk) 22:02, 10 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

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Talk:The Milkmaid (Vermeer)

message: Wikipedia articles are supposed to reflect the conclusions of the best sources, and although Walter Liedtke is one of the best sources, one which I've added quite a bit to this article, there are some indications that his view of the sexual suggestiveness due to the symbolism in the painting is not the general view of scholars. That may mean that it's given WP:UNDUE treatment here. I'm not sure about this, because I don't know how authoritative these blog posts are.   Anyone else looking at other sources may want to think about this. I think Liedtke's views are valuable (Sylvia Cant, another source here, seems to agree), and I'd like to keep them, but other views probably need to be added or expanded. CountryDoctor (talk) 02:52, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The maid-as-sex-object idea may be overplayed in the article 

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thread_title:  [[:File:Johannes Vermeer - Het melkmeisje - Google Art Project.jpg]] to appear as POTD soon 

message: There seems to be an image of a jug holder and a fire basket in the underpainting.
* 
--evrik (talk) 21:17, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Underpainting
Talk:H'ART Museum

message: Dutch government announced that it will be closed due to war in Ukraine, anybody knows the date?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:A45E:72A7:1:527B:9DFF:FED0:561 (talk) 15:53, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  When will it close? 

message: Please note that (in the ‘History’ section) the correct English translation of Dutch Diaconie is ‘Deaconry’, not ‘Deanery’, whatever the museum’s own website may say. Mithrennaith (talk) 15:36, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diaconie ≠ Deanery 
Talk:Better Living Through Chemistry

message: I've also heard this used in reference to non-illegal drugs, notably psychopharmaceuticals, anyone know where a reference might be? Wintermut3 10:52, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Do I recall such a reference in the movie "The Graduate"? I'm not sure.
The reference to Agent Orange is wrong. Just plain wrong. Dow was protested because of napalm. I'll wait one week before fixing it myself.173.57.26.9 (talk) 02:30, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Another modern useage?

message: I think that this list of pop culture references, removed last year, was interesting, informative, and encyclopedic. We do the same thing for numbers, years, etc, without requiring a cited source to make the obvious connection. An expanded discussion of the original slogan is in order, as well.groupuscule (talk) 03:13, 27 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal: restore pop culture references 

message: There is an external link to a dot com called BLTC.  In my opinion, that site has nothing to do with Chemistry or Better Living Through Chemistry. I don't even see much real science on that site, just new-age mumbo jumbo.  Although it has taken the name BLTC, I think that that External Link should be removed as being irrelevant to the actual topic and meaning of BLTC. Update: The link appears to have been added on 15:58, 25 September 2009 by
74.94.105.238 . AdderUser (talk) 00:11, 18 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Paradoctor (talk) 19:35, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  BLTC Commercial Website link?
Talk:Neotropical parrot

message: This article seems to interfere with Macaw. Any suggestions what to do? --Narfiol (talk) 14:33, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neotropical parrot <-> Macaw 

message: Surely, the appropriate place to enumerate the genera is under the separate articles for each tribe?  It's redundant here, and whenever something changes, doubles the work required to update.  It feels like stuffing the article, as if there's nothing else better to do.Sbalfour (talk) 19:20, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  enumerate genera here? 

message: Surely, the appropriate place to enumerate the genera is under the separate articles for each tribe?  It's redundant here, and whenever something changes, doubles the work required to update.  It feels like stuffing the article, as if there's nothing else better to do.Sbalfour (talk) 19:20, 15 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  enumerate genera here? 
Talk:Nanday parakeet

message: # Support all. Per Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names). As far as I am aware, the original (Conure) names are long-established in many (most?) fields outside of ornithology and the 'Parakeet' titles are a fairly recent innovation. We should use the names that the majority of general readers will be familiar with. Also, the term 'Conure' is far more descriptive (by implying the land mass of origin) than is 'Parakeet'. --Kurt Shaped Box (talk) 13:55, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Support

message: I thought that until recently the nanday conure was in a genus all on it's own, but of late it has been proven to breed succesfuly with another bird and produce a hybrid. So the accepted nomenclature was wrong.
I disremember the details (I am away from home and my bird book library isn't with me), but I have a feeling that a nanday can be crossed with a Sun Conure (Aratinga solstitialis), so the nanday genus should be Aratinga, not Nandayus.
As I said I cannot recall the exact details.
I'll look at my books when I get home tomorrow and fix this page's errors.
Anyone have anything to add, or think I am wrong?
Doktordoris (talk) 23:51, 17 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Isn't the genus name wrong?
Talk:Barred parakeet

message: Weasel words in a citation!  Check it out!
Oh, and "not affected by cold" should probably be changed to something indicating tolerance to colder weather rather than the SuperBirdie powers it currently has. Mbarbier (talk) 12:23, 19 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. The weasel-worded citation is also gone now too. --Kurt Shaped Box (talk) 22:43, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shameless 
Talk:Linea 77

message: Linea 77 aren't one of nu-metal's big hitters like Slipknot or Korn, I'd say they're more in the league of Primer 55, who have their own article, I note--therefore I am looking to expand this stub a bit more if we can actually find more info on the band (not an easy task). Stelios Bedrock (talk) 12:22, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Just because Band X has an article, doesn't mean that Band Y should - see WP:OTHERSTUFFEXISTS. I'd say that at present, notability hasn't been established (see WP:BAND for what's required), so the article could be deleted if notability can't be proven. FlagSteward (talk) 17:01, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stuff which needs to be done
Talk:Filipino immigration to Mexico

message: Should this page be renamed to "Filipino Mexicans"? It's more fittable. FourBowl5905100 (talk) 09:18, 26 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page rename
Talk:Choco toucan

message: Attention needed - unbalanced article, needs natural history info.
*I fixed it a bit, still needs work though--Abbott75 07:56, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:City of Hobart

message: How many inhabitants are there in Hobart. Isn't that important enough not to avoid?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.120.2.236 (talk) 08:03, 3 August 2011 (UTC)

message: seems to think that the City of Hobart has an official flag. I however can find no official references of this; the council website only lists a CoA, and I can find no other information on it online. Could you provide a reference? Word of mouth that it might or might not be flying on the town hall is not a reliable reference for our purposes. JTdaleTalk~  02:55, 26 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for that information, and yes it probably is correct, but I'd still prefer a reference that it is official. I find it strange there are no sources on it online.  JTdaleTalk~  03:14, 1 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flag of Hobart 
Talk:White-throated toucan

message: This is incorrect. The Red-billed Toucan is the northern and eastern subspecies and Cuvier's Toucan is the southern and western subspecies. The Red-billed Toucan occurs in Northern Colombia, the Guianas and Eastern Brazil. Cuvier's Toucan occurs in Southern Colombia, Eastern Ecuador, Eastern Peru, Eastern Bolivia and Western Brazil. Source: Birds of Colombia by Hilty, S. L. and Brown, W. L., publishe by Princeton.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pandionaus (talk • contribs) 05:30, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Aracari

message: This page, and all the other araçari pages, should be moved to the spelling with the cedilla. In linguistic terms, this is necessary in order to yield the correct pronunciation /arasari/, and this is the spelling adopted by authoritative bird books such as Garrigues and Dean . The spelling aracari yields the incorrect pronunciation /arakari/ and is therefore inferior. 
Awien (talk) 14:42, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling 
Talk:Collared aracari

message: I posted a photo of this bird that I have taken and licensed to Wikipedia. I'm not a bird expert.
--Tedder 09:32, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This page, and all the other araçari pages, should be moved to the spelling with the cedilla. In linguistic terms, this is necessary in order to yield the correct pronunciation /arasari/, and this is the spelling adopted by authoritative bird books such as Garrigues and Dean . The spelling aracari yields the incorrect pronunciation /arakari/ and is therefore inferior. 
Awien (talk) 14:41, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling 
Talk:Fiery-billed aracari

message: This page, and all the other araçari pages, should be moved to the spelling with the cedilla. In linguistic terms, this is necessary in order to yield the correct pronunciation /arasari/, and this is the spelling adopted by authoritative bird books such as Garrigues and Dean . The spelling aracari yields the incorrect pronunciation /arakari/ and is therefore inferior. 
Awien (talk) 14:40, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling 
Talk:The Derby (1895 film)

message: The clip in this article is not of the 1895 Derby. The 1895 race took place in fine weather and saw the first three finish close together, whereas the clip shows overcast weather and the first two are well clear of the rest. The racing colours of the winner are also completely wrong. Tigerboy1966  06:04, 15 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: 1895 or 1896
Talk:Red-and-yellow barbet

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Talk:A Lady Writing a Letter

message: "Vermeer sought to grant to his models that which he could now enow his wife and family: calm and affluence."
What is the writer trying to say in "now enow"?  Perhaps "not endow"...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.93.191.116 (talk) 20:48, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm. Was a typo, now fixed. Thanks guys. Ceoil (talk) 18:18, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doesn't Make Sense 
Talk:Woman Holding a Balance

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thread_title:  [[:File:Johannes Vermeer - Woman Holding a Balance - Google Art Project.jpg]] to appear as POTD soon 

message: To me, it looks like the woman is pregnant and using a divining mechanism to determine whether the baby will be a boy or girl. I'm surprised the article doesn't mention possible pregnancy. Akld guy (talk) 03:19, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: My thoughts exactly. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 13:48, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text:   Further research shows that several of Vermeer's women appear pregnant, and commentary is divided as to whether they actually are, or if this is just an aspect of the fashion of the day. WikiDan61ChatMe!ReadMe!! 13:52, 20 September 2016 (UTC)

text: Maybe I'm just being literal-minded here, but it looks to me like she is making sure that the balance is, well, in balance. As in calibration of an instrument. If the balance is supposed to represent justice or judgment, then the act of calibration could be used to reinforce the idea of giving/getting exactly what is due. 32.212.48.121 (talk) 21:52, 20 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interpretation
Talk:The Astronomer (Vermeer)

message: To someone who can be bothered to expand this page:
try this site for ideas: [] —The preceding unsigned comment was added by R160K (talk • contribs) 20:22, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Information on the painting 

message: There is a dispute concerning how the painting entered the collection of the Louvre. As a donation or as a tax payment to the state. Opinions are welcome here...Modernist (talk) 03:50, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: So far the only online sources I'm finding state that the painting was either sold or donated to the Louvre. If it was intended as a tax payment there needs to be a source to support the claim. JNW (talk) 04:20, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I re-added the reference by Barbiedrag that mentions inheritance tax, I'd like another source however...Modernist (talk) 04:24, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Found and added. JNW (talk) 04:32, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for that addition, good find - the gift seems to be part of some complicated negotiations and not just something to clear up a tax liability...Modernist (talk) 04:35, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Funny how the health of the market determins the goodwill behind such things. Ceoil 22:09, 18 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Louvre

message: I recently came across some info on this painting's history, but since I am not an expert I will leave it to others to determine if this is relevant for the article. The painting's whereabouts during the Nazi years was described in the book The Devil’s Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich by Robert K. Wittman an David Kinney (2016). Wittman is a noteworthy expert on recovering artworks stolen by the Nazis during World War II, and the book's subject, Alfred Rosenberg, was in charge of the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg operation that is already mentioned in the article. The book describes that the painting was hidden for a few years in a salt mine near the village of Alt Aussee, Austria and was discovered by Allied investigators shortly after the end of the war. Hitler had apparently planned to keep it for his personal collection. This is described in Chapter 22 of the Wittman/Kinney book; sorry I can't provide precise page numbers because I was reading an e-book version that rearranged the original page numbers. ---DOOMSDAYER520 (Talk|Contribs) 17:09, 23 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  During the Nazi Years