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Talk:Eccremocarpus

message: Proposed section
Felix Mendelssohn was inspired by Eccremocarpus scaber to write a Scherzo.  Composed for Honora, the youngest daughter of John Taylor, with whom Mendelssohn holidayed in Wales in 1829, it was inspired by the trumpet-shaped flowers of the eccremocarpus which grew in the family's garden. Honora, who listened to Mendelssohn's playing in wide-eyed wonder, plaited the yellow flowers in her hair, and asked of him "Could you not compose music for such lovely trumpets?" "Certainly," replied Mendelssohn, "the fairies might have played on such instruments."
Mendelssohn, who was accomplished at drawing and painting, decorated the margin of the autograph manuscript with a watercolour sketch of a branch of the vine. 
A.C. Norman (talk) 21:43, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Musical Inspiration
Talk:Mayflower Transit

message: Whole sections of the history were lifted straight from the website.  I removed the obvious ones, but the article still needs a rewrite.  BrokenSphereMsg me 22:37, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Plagiarism
Talk:Crescentia cujete

message: The term doesn't seem to appear in any English dictionary or encylopaedia. If you Google it, it thinks you mis-spelled "Yale"...
118.93.229.87 (talk) 00:19, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does anybody actually call it "ayale" in English 

message: Shouldn't this article also mention that this tree is also grown in Indonesia? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 02:44, 13 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Also grown in Indonesia
Talk:European Quality Award

message: It would help if the article would get a bit more structure, for example, History, including when the EQA was renamed.
Also, the listing should possibly be a table that could ideally sorted if the user clicks on something; wikipedia
already uses this in other projects. I assume that not many folks looked at the article here so far.  2A02:8388:1641:8380:8920:7EEB:D50A:6466 (talk) 20:11, 1 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Better overview 

message: The link to the EQA homepage no longer works. In general it would be better for wikipedia to contain
the information, rather than right now where the article refers to the homepage (which is now gone,
and thus no information can be obtained; or, perhaps not gone, but the old article was relocated,
and thus the link points at a non-existing entry). 2A02:8388:1641:4980:52EB:F6FF:FE28:C651 (talk) 13:27, 18 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Homepage link no longer works
Talk:Tecomaria capensis

message: Is the correct name for this species not supposed to be "Tecomaria capensis". According to POWO/IPNI "Tecoma capensis" is now a synonym of "Tecomaria capensis" https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:111129-1https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/111333-1 Rooiratel (talk) 08:21, 20 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taxonomy
Talk:Return merchandise authorization

message: This article should be included on the disambiguation page for RMA. si que no? --64.58.153.2 (talk) 17:49, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It is linked from the RMA page. It was lower down before, I moved it to the top. -- intgr [talk] 10:17, 4 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  RMA Disambiguation Page 

message: Need RMA number to return product Yhguagcm (talk) 17:30, 17 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  RMA
Talk:Bill of sale

message: I think (I am not a lawyer) that there is a difference between a bill of sale and a sales agreement. I found, for example, a link (ehow dot com: "What is the difference between a bill of sale & a sales agreement?") where the difference is explained. I will continue looking for. Best regards from Mexico City, where Wikimania 2015 will take place (July)!! --Correogsk (talk) 17:04, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bill of sale = or ≠ sales agreement? 

message: This entry makes heavy use of some highly technical yet undefined meaning (or rather multiple meanings) for the word "security:, which makes the entry very nearly useless.
Please try rewriting without using that word at all, then explain why the word matters.
Burressd (talk) 10:38, 30 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Security"
Talk:Silent trade

message: I propose that Silent barter be merged into Silent trade . I think that the content in the Silent barter article can easily be explained in the context of Silent trade , and the Silent trade article is of a reasonable size in which the merging of Silent barter will not cause any problems as far as article size or undue weight is concerned. Silent trade is slightly clearer, but Silent barter contains a few details that are not touched on here. Andrewaskew (talk) 23:45, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: I don't feel like entirely rewriting this page at the moment, but in case someone else does, Pablo de Moraes Farias demonstrated back in 1974 that the silent trade is a historical myth: . According to Farias, most accounts of "silent trade" are either repetitions of vague accounts going back to ancient times, or descriptions of trade conducted through a broker misinterpreted through the lens of "silent trade". More recent work generally seems to agree with Farias:  . Let's try to make Wikipedia be more accurate than Herodotus here. Ornithopsis (talk) 15:50, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: It's described very clearly (not in a "vague" way) in Herodotus. AnonMoos (talk) 10:19, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: It's vague in geographic details and vague in Herodotus's sources for his information. But that's not the point: the point is that Farias has argued that silent trade is a myth, and this view seems to have been widely accepted. This article needs to be significantly reworked to take into account the widespread academic skepticism of the idea of silent trade. Ornithopsis (talk) 05:12, 2 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The silent trade is a myth
Talk:Streptocarpus

message: This section needs to be deleted. This is an encyclopedia not a gardening manual. Richard Avery (talk) 21:16, 13 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  cultivation 

message: These sections contravene Wikipedia:NOTHOWTO. Richard Avery (talk) 18:25, 1 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cultivation and much of Propagation. 

message: The current edition of the RHS magazine says that Saintpaulia is now merged in to Streptocarpus. See African violet / RHS Gardening  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Number774 (talk • contribs) 09:14, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I've done some work at saintpaulia. This article needs massive revisions, as also noted above. Peter coxhead (talk) 11:19, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Saintpaulia now gone?
Talk:Council of the Americas

message: http://www.as-coa.org/article.php?id=1960
Says hes VP  —Preceding unsigned comment added by GeneralChoomin (talk • contribs) 07:03, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eric farnsworth is VP in council 

message: Is the photo of the current CEO relevant at all in such short article? Pugliese23 (talk) 19:03, 25 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo of the CEO
Talk:Fixed price

message: Are you kidding me? Is it just a phrase used in Indian English? How about a type of contract (as opposed to a Time and Materials contract) that is used all over the world? This is a couple of references , . Solarapex 04:10, 1 September 2007 (UTC)

message: I would like to see a section here (or separate article) on unit pricing, which to me is an alternative to fixed pricing.  Unit pricing is cafeteria-style, in which the two parties agree on services or materials being provided at a fixed price per unit (per quantity or unit of time) up to a maximum contract value.  An example might be rental of construction equipment, where the per unit price is fixed at $X/backhoe and the customer can rent 1, 2 or 3 at the same unit cost up to the limit of the contract (NTE, not-to-exceed) value.
I'll bookmark this and write something myself if I don't see anything (or find an entry elsewhere) after a while.--CheMechanical (talk) 23:37, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added a 'See also' link to the exiting article on unit price. 70.247.162.84 (talk) 07:54, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unit Pricing 

message: Hence the need for disambiguation. Cheers, 159.235.96.154 (talk) 03:38, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I am the IP above. A user asked about the definition of "Prix fixe" in an edit summary, merriam webster defines it as: [1] a complete meal offered at a fixed price. [2] also: the price charged. Etymology: French, fixed price. Sifaka talk 05:37, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prix fixe means "fixed price" and is the common English term for a fixed price menu
Talk:Jumble sale

message: Have removed the bit about jumble sales in Briton being like rugby scrums...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.214.172.212 (talk) 17:59, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup

message: Does anyone know when jumble sales were first held ? Beardo (talk) 21:18, 15 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origins
Talk:Duty drawback

message: YEAHHHHH  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.180.46.233 (talk) 02:14, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: moved. A natural disambiguation. (closed by non-admin page mover) — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 02:49, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Drawback →  – 'Drawback' is too ambiguous; the correct terminology in the industry is 'Duty Drawback' Lauren1453 (talk) 02:11, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

text: This is a contested technical request (permalink). Polyamorph (talk) 06:31, 16 June 2022 (UTC)

text: Content below was copied from WP:RM/TR. Polyamorph (talk) 06:31, 16 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Speaking of which how is disadvantage not a dab page? In ictu oculi (talk) 21:27, 19 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably because  isn't about wikt:en:disadvantage, similar to the situation with drawback -- 64.229.88.43 (talk) 02:11, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: It's also clearly not primary topic by any stretch of the imagination. In ictu oculi (talk) 15:15, 21 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 16 June 2022
Talk:Grain trade

message: See if any of this can be integrated into the article:
Wheat has been cultivated from remote antiquity. In a wild state it is practically unknown. It is alleged to have been found growing wild between the Euphrates and the Tigris; but the discovery has never been authenticated, and unless the plant be sedulously cared for, the species dies out in a surprisingly short space of time. Late 19th century experiments in cross-fertilization in Lancashire by  the Garton Brothers, trading as Gartons Limited of Warrington from 1898, have evolved the most extraordinary sports, showing, it is claimed, that the plant has probably passed through stages of which until the present day there had been no conception. The tales that grains of wheat found in the cerements of Egyptian mummies have been planted and come to maturity are no longer credited, for the vital principle in the wheat berry is extremely evanescent; indeed, it is doubtful whether wheat twenty years old is capable of reproduction. The Garton artificial fertilization experiments have shown endless deviations from the ordinary type, ranging from minute seeds with a closely adhering husk to big berries almost as large as sloes and about as worthless. It is conjectured that the wheat plant, as now known, is a degenerate form of something much finer which flourished thousands of years ago, and that possibly it may be restored to its pristine excellence, yielding an increase twice or thrice as large as it now does, thus postponing to a distant period the famine doom prophesied by Sir W. Crookes in his presidential address to the British Association in 1898. 
In the raising of the standard of farming to an English level the volume of the worlds crop would be trebled, another fact which Sir William Ciookes seems to have overlooked. The experiments of the late Sir J. B. Lawes in Hertfordshire have proved that the natural fruitfulness of the wheat plant can be increased threefold by the application of the proper fertilizer. 
Kevlar67 (talk) 17:56, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed 1911 content 

message: I'm pretty happy with the pictures I added, but it could really use something showing smaller-scale grain movement in Europe or Asia.  Anyone know of any? Kevlar67 (talk) 19:13, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pictures 

message: -- Beland (talk) 21:39, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stats on current imports/exports needed
Talk:Statutory holdback

message: :This 2006 article, tagged since 2009, actually has merit concerning contract law in regard to security for creditors. I am exploring making improvements.
*Statutory holdback's are covered by Canadian law such as the Builders Lien Act or US state laws such as the Michigan Construction Lien Act.
:US: Holdbacks are known as "Retainage" in the US. 
:In Michigan the act covers such things as a Notice of Commencement, Notice of Furnishing, or Sworn Statement. 
:Canada: A holdback is at least 10 per cent of the value of labor (labour) and materials applied to the project must be held back from each progress payment for the benefit of sub-contractors to the payee. Information concerning Canada can be found through the Canadian Construction Documents Committee (CCDC). Otr500 (talk) 10:40, 24 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article improvements
Talk:Sinningia

message: Since hybrids are mentioned, I encourage anyone who knows about miniatures and microminiatures to add something to the article about them.  They have their own niche hobbyists. --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 16:53, 20 April 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: More photos of hybrids and minatures would be a good beginning, ideally categories of photos of each. There is one photo of a hybrid at Commons, but that's the only one I can see there. Can someone take some photos of their plants? Sminthopsis84 (talk) 22:01, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  hybrids and miniatures
Talk:Sales quote

message: This article (note really) as it stands seems to turn the idea of a "quote" on its head. The suggestion here is that a "quote" is used where a price can't be provided up-front due to cost variables. The attempt is to make "quote" synonymous with "estimate" (a word that's often misused in it's own right).
I think usage in the marketplace is clear: a "quote" is taken to be a firm, committed price - in effect, a promise or a contract. Like a quotation in a securities market, a "sales quote" is taken to represent an exact, committed price at a particular moment in time.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Slane00 (talk • contribs) 13:09, 25 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusion of "quote" and "estimate" 

message: I agree whole heartedly with the above description - quotation is at a fixed price/amount and if the costs e.g. for the repairs are higher it is up to the repairer not the customer who requested the quotation!
But what about the cost of the Quotation/Estimate respectively... under German Law there seem to be differences in that the "cost for a quotation" can not be expected, while a "cost for an estimate" is according to the agreement between the two parties...
Just wondered whether anyone had an answer to this - it is like 25 years ago since I dealt with this subject while studying at Middlesex Polytechnic
151.136.144.225 (talk) 07:47, 16 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusion of quote ...(2) and Cost of Quotation/Estimate respectively
Talk:MacSpeech

message: From this review:  
"Speak Up, a Computer Is Listening" 
State of the Art 
By DAVID POGUE  
NYT  
Published: August 6, 2008 
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/07/technology/personaltech/07pogue.html?_r=1&partner=rssnyt&pagewanted=all&oref=slogin 
... "And now, the NatSpeak Frequently Asked Questions: 
“Does NaturallySpeaking work on a Mac?” Yes, but only when the Mac is running Windows and you’re using a U.S.B. headset adapter. It works fantastically in Boot Camp and fast enough in VMware Fusion, an emulator program.
Of course, it might be simpler just to buy MacSpeech Dictate, a Mac program that uses the same Dragon recognition technology. The current version is fast and accurate, but it lags behind NatSpeak in features and power; it doesn’t even let you make corrections by voice, and therefore the accuracy never improves. But a 1.2 version, with voice correction and voice spelling, is in testing now. ... "  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.167.61.220 (talk) 17:37, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mac version crippled until 1.2 release -- run Windows version in Boot Camp till then 

message: should be consolidated with nearly duplicate wp article on the same company at 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacSpeech  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.165.11.214 (talk) 15:48, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  nearly duplicate wp article on the same company at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacSpeech  

message: In MacSpeech, it matters not that a user correctly train a mis-recognized word.  New words created by laborious correction and training procedures, though repeated again and again, are always ignored.  
If the new "Dragon Dictate for Mac" (Sept. 20, 2010) product allows you to train words by selecting and typing what it should have typed, and the corrected/trained word then comes up correctly the next time you dictate it, (as now finally in NaturallySpeaking for Windows) then Dragon Dictate for Mac is a package worth having.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.167.61.70 (talk) 14:35, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does Dragon Dictate for the Mac fix the training bug in MacSpeech?
Talk:Corporation Service Company

message: "According to CSC's website, CSC is the leader ..." is nonsensical and promotional.  The company's opinion of itself is simple marketing.
There is also no definition of "Big Four" in the resident agent industry.  Again, it is self-defined and is used for marketing purposes.
Simple, change "the" to and. Problem solved Dagelf (talk) 12:01, 24 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: General

message: The golden spike is not a rumor.  I have one.  It is engraved with "DRIVING THE GOLDEN SPIKE" on one side, and "Corporation Service Company (R)" on the other.  It is non-ferromagnetic base metal, with a lustrous golden electroplating.  I wasn't told to stake any hearts with it, though.  I wasn't told anything about it at all, really.  It would perhaps be more useful as a close-quarters weapon, to defend one's tiny cubicle space against encroachment by neighboring employees.  I'll leave it to a non-employee to edit the article itself--conflict of interest, etc. etc.  71.87.21.195 (talk) 18:36, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Corporate affairs

message: That CSC is the second largest registered agent service in the world.  If it were "well-known" then a citation could be easily obtained.  If you ask 100,000 people at random what the second largest registered agent company in the world is, probably somewhere between zero and one would answer "CSC".  This, IMHO, does not meet the threshold of "well-known". CoolDiscoDan (talk) 01:01, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  It is not "Well-Known"
Talk:Bland Group

message: * 2009 Corporate overview
* 2007 Corporate Overview
WhisperToMe (talk) 07:19, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Documents
Talk:Intertemporal choice

message: Investopedia has a better article on this. --John Nagle (talk) 23:43, 27 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Investopedia is better 

message: This article has been found to be edited by students of the Wikipedia:India Education Program project as part of their (still ongoing) course-work. Unfortunately, many of the edits in this program so far have been identified as plain copy-jobs from books and online resources and therefore had to be reverted. See the India Education Program talk page for details. In order to maintain the WP standards and policies, let's all have a careful eye on this and other related articles to ensure that no material violating copyrights remains in here. --Matthiaspaul (talk) 12:16, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Look out for possible copyright violations in this article
Talk:University of Development Alternative

message: "University Of Development Alternative (UODA) (Bengali: েডেভলপেমন্ট অল্টারেনিটভ িবশব্িবদ্যালয়) is one of the top most leading private universities in Bangladesh"---Anyone in Bangladesh can ever prove this? (Joke of the year.)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fnashid (talk • contribs) 05:38, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Neutrality

message: should we sing or recite the holy verses of our glorious Independence and Victory keeping a person the chief guest, who once was the main culprit to change the real history of Liberation War and directly avoided the name and the most significant role of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and intentionally escaped the abhorrent role of Jamaat-e-Islami ???  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 123.49.23.139 (talk) 12:33, 18 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  shame UODA!!!
Talk:Lamium

message: The plant is obviously similar in form to stinging nettle (square stem, serated leaves with roundish form and pointed end) and of comparable though lesser hieght and similar distibution.  The common name says it all, nothing more to discuss, it simply looks a bit like a stinging nettle.  Do Wiki not have any gardening or country walking contributers?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.31.202.145 (talk) 13:06, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: The question is not whether they appear similar to humans, but whether natural selection has been involved, which would be required if the link to Batesian mimicry is to be justified. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 13:12, 19 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I've found a scholarly reference to a suggestion of Batesian mimicry. It at least proves that the comment wasn't Original Research.Cimbalom (talk) 14:06, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. I've removed the "dubious" tag. Sminthopsis84 (talk) 13:10, 24 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Batesian mimicry=superficial resemblance?