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Talk:Dry quicksand

message: :Dry quicksand is a loose sand which yields easily to weight or pressure. Different from regular quicksand, dry quicksand does not cointain any water. Up to recently, it was believed that dry quicksand was a legend, and the reports of humans and complete caravans being lost in dry quicksand were considered fictional.
:However, Detlef Lohse of Universiteit Twente in Enschede, Netherlands, experimentally prooved the almost non-existing load bearing capacity of dry quicksand. Lohse disturbed small sand grains with a size of about 10 µm in an air stream and let them sink to the ground. Only about 41% of the volume was occupied by sand, and 59% by air, whereas completely settled sand occupies about 55 to 60% of the volume. This reduced the weight bearing capability to almost nothing. A table tennis ball was placed carefully on the settled sand, but even though this ball is extremely light, it disappeared completely in the sand within less than a second. A small column of sand also jumped up in the air where the ball vanished, similar to a stone fropped in water. The final depth at which the ball came to rest depended on theweight of the ball. 
You beat me by 5 minutes in creating this new article. I just wrote the above text but got in an edit conflict with your new article. Do you also read the german Spiegel? However, your article is better, anyway. Damn -- Chris 73 Talk 13:42, Dec 9, 2004 (UTC)
Hi Chris.  Thanks for the feedback!
I'd appreciate your thoughts on the duplication between granular material (which was mine) and granular matter (which I didn't know existed).  One day I'll get round to combining the pages and redirecting.
best wishes
Robinh 15:55, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)

message: Thanks to whomever post the reference of the latest indiana Jones film.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Longlivetheloud2 (talk • contribs) 05:12, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: References

message: If that table tennis ball really weights 133g, the sudden disappearance of it under the surface is much less surprising then it is made to appear (that's what a rather big apple weights). 
The Wikipedia article on table tennis mentions the mass of 2.7 grams for a standard ball.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Misiu mp (talk • contribs) 21:08, 18 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: yes - it was a metal weight inside a tennis ball. – SJ + 19:44, 28 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Ball weight
Talk:Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington

message: The article specifies that HSS (and her husband) did not hyphenate their names, but rather both used "Sheehy Skeffington" as a double last name. Why then does the header name HSS as "Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington" with a hyphen? To me, this seems to beg correction but maybe I'm missing something?  Clio.at.work (talk) 13:15, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  To Hyphenate or Not to Hyphenate? 
Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/Snowspinner vs. Lir/Proposed decision

message: *If Raul and Snowspinner are going to accuse me of vandalising user pages ... shouldn't the users whose pages were allegedly vandalised feel that their page was vandalised? There are obviously certain arbcom members who wish to run this like a kangaroo court. It is stunning that a talk page comment of "Its true!" could be construed as vandalism. Certainly, the users in question have not expressed the belief that they were vandalised. Lirath Q. Pynnor 14:26, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Faucett Perú Flight 251

message: From the author of "El ultimo vuelo de Faucett" ("Faucett´s last flight")
Habiendo leído el comentario y sin refutar la posibilidad del CFIT, lo cual no ha sido comprobado, pero con la intención de aportar evidencias que permitan determinar las reales causas del fatal accidente, entre otras, que el tren de aterrizaje estaba arriba conforme aparece de las fotografías y en el plano topográfico levantado con la distribución de los restos del avión, así como que el investigador oficial del accidente declaró ante el fiscal penal que los motores estaban a máxima potencia al momento que hizo el impacto con la parte posterior del fuselaje, podemos establecer que el piloto había decidido frustrar la aproximación y que por ello se encontraba con ángulo positivo, es decir, en posición de ascenso; sin embargo, en esas condiciones continuó perdiendo altura hasta estrellarse por debajo de los 8,500 pies que había seleccionado en el altitud alert, ello por el infernal sobrepeso de 8,000 kilos (aproximadamente 17,000 libras, casi 25% demás) en un avión equipado con motores JT8D-9 con menor potencia que la necesaria para aeropuertos de altura, tales como Aspen, Colorado, USA; La Paz, Bolivia; Quito, Ecuador; Cuzco, Peru.
Cabe precisar que en el vuelo de restitución, realizado varios días después con la finalidad de verificar si la altitud seleccionada por el piloto fue la causa del accidente, también descendieron hasta 8,500 pies pasando el VOR/DME y continuando a esa altura sobrevolando la pista 09 que está a 8,270 pies; esto significa que a pesar de haber seleccionado una altura menor a la mínima del descenso instrumental (8,760 pies), todavía tenían margen sobre el terreno, por consiguiente, queda comprobado que esa aeronave se estrelló porque con los motores JT8D-9 a máxima potencia no pudo superar el tremendo sobrepeso que la aerolínea tenía como política comercial, tan es así que la mañana del mismo día ese avión fue despachado al Cuzco con 6,000 kilos (13,000 lbs.) de sobrepeso.
Con mucho gusto brindaré mayor información a quien lo desee, comunicándose con el autor de esta nota y del libro “El último vuelo de Faucett”, Victor Girao Alatrista, piloto de línea aérea y abogado, ya sea a la dirección electrónica estudio@abogadogirao.com o mediante la página Web www.abogadogirao.com 201.230.246.159 02:26, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  originally posted by 201.230.246.159 on article page
Talk:True lemur

message: Uther, I reverted your removal of the picture because I felt that it improved the quality of the article by better illustrated the subjects of the article, in this case one of the species of true lemur which does not have its own Wikipedia page at the moment. (I don't think not having a wikipedia page is a good justification for removal of the picture). There is a great variety of appearence among the true lemurs and frankly I think the article should include the pictures of the true lemurs which do not have their own pages. It would be helpful if you explained why you removed it. Sifaka talk 04:08, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I gave justification in my edit summary. I think images should be loaded onto Commons, and use a link to commons to get to the images. The article is way to short as it is to have more than just a single image, and in general I think random pictures detract from an article more than they add to it. - UtherSRG (talk) 04:22, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture of ''Eulemur rufus''
Talk:Part

message: This shouldn't be in Wikipedia, more like Wikitionary.
* I'm not sure about that.  The first section is a basic definition, which is perhaps better suited to Wiktionary, but the second part is encyclopedic, and the third could become encyclopedic if expanded upon. --HappyDog 02:13, 11 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: What about the "parts" in drinks? Eg: One part Malibu Mango rum, one part Irish Cream, etc. --12.162.215.130 13:06, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Drinks? 

message: There should be a separate article called Part (music).  This would explain the meaning of "part" as an individual line in a polyphonic piece of music with explanation of terms such as "4-part fugue" and "part-writing", the fact that it can also be called "voice" (as, indeed, it is in many other languages).  It can also mention the meaning of the piece of music that an orchestral player puts on his/her music stand containing just the notes for his/her instrument.  And finally that "part" can also mean "section" (of a composition). I am planning such an article for Simple English, and would be happy to write one here for English wiki (with big words) when time permits.Hikitsurisan 17:05, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Part (music)
Talk:Landscape ecology

message: What is the difference between Biogeography and Landscape Ecology?  The articles as written don't seem to be all that different from each other.  They should probably reference each other and explain the differences or be merged into one.  Jmeppley 16:28, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Biogeography and Landscape Ecology are very different - Biogeography deals with a very different spatial scale, and also deals with species, rarely with populations, energy flows, or interactions.  There are some similarities, but they are quite distinct.  As soon as I have the time I will edit the articles to make that distinction  Guettarda 17:07, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  
Talk:Campanology

message: There has been a discussion on talk:change ringing about the whole set of bells-related pages.  At the moment there is a lot of duplication and little structure.  The proposal was that this article be developed into a master article with extensive hat notes to the individual pages.  I suggested the following structure:
Campanology
* History
* Lists (largest, oldest etc)
* Bells
** forms and materials
** tuning
** hanging
* Structures
** Integral towers
** campaniles
** bell cotes (and small gables)
** (large) bell gables
** clocks
* Ringing (bells)
** change ringing
***Call changes
***Methods and principles
****Are individual methods worthy of note?
** Veronese
** Carillon (inc Ellacombe)
** handbells
** Percussion section ("cow bells")
* Organisations
** CCCBR (inc RW, use a redirect)
The current structure would need adapting as follows:
*Shape and tuning - Merge the detail of this with Bell, leave a summary here and use a hat note.
*Carillons - Move into carillon and summarize in Ringing (bells), hat notes to and from both.
*Chimes - Merge this information and that in Chime (bell instrument) into carillon.  Make Chime (bell instrument)as a redirect.
*Russian Orthodox bells - keep as is, put into a section under "Ringing"
*Change ringing - Merge into Change Ringing, keep a summary here.
**Method ringing - Move to a subpage of Change Ringing
**Numbers - Move to a subpage of Change Ringing
**Gamelan - summarize, merge details into gamelan.
*Other types of ringing use to inform the above structure.
*Bell Organizations - move to a list to avoid repetition on the various pages.
This is a pretty big change, input would be appreciated.  Can we have a discussion over the next week with an aim for consensus by Sunday 8 May please. Martin of Sheffield (talk) 23:04, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major review 
Talk:Oranmore

message: A news source, or some substatiation would be necessary for the following claims added by an anonymous editor, if they are indeed true:
:A local group known as the O.P.A. have recently gained huge influence in the village, espeicially amongst youths, and are thought to have links with several terrorist orginizations. Thier goals remain unknown to the villagers.
zoney ♣ talk 16:50, 9 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I removed a lot of the notable figures because they were the work of vandals.  I have been to Oranmore but have not seen this statue.  I cannot find anything about Joe Howley.  Can you tell more about Joe Howley?  Mfields1 01:58, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No offense taken.   Due to vandalism of Wikipedia I assumed Joe Howley was an add on item by a vandal.  I apologize for the mistake.  I was in your lovely city but one time.  I did not see the statue.  I did visit the thatched roof pub and the one across the street (can't remember the name).  My visit was during the golfing tournament last fall.  Oranmore is a lovely town. The weather was not too good but the people were friendly.  Mfields1 22:59, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Joe Howley

message: Can someone substantiate this with a reputable citation please? PD (talk) 22:12, 22 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Highest per capita income 

message: Does anybody have a translation of the placename? Galway explains the origin of its' name, as do Sligo, Cork, Waterford and Dublin. Autarch (talk) 20:29, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation of placename 

message: I removed the Musters mention under the notable people. It didn't seem notable or encyclopedic. Wonderland42 (talk) 10:19, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Musters
Talk:Bamboo lemur

message: Please do not add information about the greater bamboo lemur (Prolemur simus) to this article, unless it deals with the taxonomic split.  They have their own article and are in an entirely different genus.  The information that was added to this article about the greater bamboo lemur was moved to the appropriate page. – Maky « talk » 14:33, 3 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Hapalemur'' vs. ''Prolemur'' 
Talk:Lizzie Borden

message: The last editor changed the picture of Lizzie, saying that the old one was of Bridget Sullivan and that this was the "right" one.  As a matter of fact, they are both of Lizzie and there are several pictures of her, and therefore no one "right" one.  Kostaki mou (talk) 19:32, 20 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  The "right" picture 

message: There's a musical from 2013 called "Lizzie" that's not mentioned in the article. It doesn't have its own article, either. It's based off of the Lizzie Borden story, so shouldn't it be mentioned? -- post by someone or other
:You said it: it doesn't have an article, which probably means it's nonnotable. EEng 03:00, 8 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  I believe that notability does not apply on a claim-by-claim basis. Fabrickator (talk) 04:15, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: You are correct that, in general, notability is not the criterion for individual bits of article content (see WP:NNC). But mere existence isn't enough either -- see Talk:Lizzie_Borden/Archive_2#TV_and_Literature (later refined at Talk:Lobotomy/Archive_2#In-pop-cult/literary_portrayals/etc._material). EEng 16:33, 5 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The 2013 musical "Lizzie"  

message: I'm curious why the listing for Andrew Borden says both the 2021 and 2022 inflation adjustments. We really only need the most recent. I'm thinking of doing away with the 2021 unless there's a reason for it to be there? The Introvert Next To You (talk) 20:20, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Personally, I would remove the 2022 figure, which was added manually and is not a result of the inflation template. Since inflation equivalents are provided multiple times in the article, all for 2021, they should all be the same. Schazjmd (talk) 20:36, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why are there two inflation adjustments? 

message: What do you think about splitting some of this content to a separate article about the Borden murders? The murders themselves have been written about by dozens of researchers and authors over the years and it is quite strange that we do not have a standalone article about them.--16:01, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split to [[Borden murders]]
Wikipedia talk:Danish wikipedians' notice board

message: Hello!  I just created a Denmark-specific stub notice, so I would appreciate all help adding it to all the articles here that are less than 50% completed.  It can be linked at .  It looks like this:
	 This Denmark-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by [ expanding it].
:Added a few important subjects that I think should be covered re Danish archaeology - hope you agree. I'll try to write something on some of these myself in the coming weeks. Bruce, aka Agendum | Talk  00:19, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

message: I and user:isfisk have now made articles for all current Danish ministers :). Thue | talk 21:47, 18 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: *Thanks, Added! Thue | talk 18:08, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Danish politicians

message: There has been a push on the danish wikipedia to make articles for all Danish kommuner. The English wikipedia already has articles for them, but does not make a distinction between the overall municipality and the individual towns and villages that may be under the municipality. With the upcoming structural reform in Denmark this may well lead to some confusion. Do you think it is worth making seperate pages for the municipality and the individual towns? Or should we just mention in the articles that they are not necessarily the same thing? If we do make seperate articles should they be named xxx Municipality? As in Greve Municipality, Peregrine981 02:15, Mar 19, 2005 (UTC)
:As the muncipalities get bigger it doesn't make as much sense to identify them with their main city, so giving each muncipality it's own seperate article seems like a good idea. Named them consistently as xxx muncipality also seems like a good idea. Thue | talk 09:27, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I have made a push to see that there are articles for all Danish kommuner (and I think I have accomplished that task), as well as to see that there is a certain consistency to them all (in regards style, content and structure).  I am in the process of verifying that I have accomplished that also.  I have also set up articles for the future kommuner, so we are prepared for Jan. 1, 2007.  I tend to agree that they should be consistently named "xxx municipality", and in the worst cases I have already renamed a few.  I have down-prioritised that task, but will get back to it as time permits in the future, and when other more necessary tasks are completed (and there are a number of those).  All new articles that had not been written before I put my hands on them were named "xxx municipality".  As for separate articles for town and municipality— I am not convinced that every little town needs to have a one-sentence article, just so it can get a "stub" notice (but that's my opinion).  My solution was a sentence about the site of the municipal council, other towns if I had some names, and a subhead for the main town within the municipality article with information (where I had some).  If and when the town section gets so large that it should be split off, then it can always be split off later. --SFDan 11:20, 7 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Danish municipalities
Talk:Smetana (disambiguation)

message: Is there really a difference between smetana and sour cream?
when i tasted both there was no real difference.
Does anyone knows for sure?
:Sour cream sucks. Seriously, if you tasted them both in, say, United States, no wonder. It is the same problem as with vodka: to me it is just water + alcohol no matter which one; while connoisseurs distinguish brands with eyes closed. There are plenty of brands of sour cream and plenty of brands of 'smetana', all differ. E.g., to my tastes, of all american sour creams I can tolerate only Knudsen brand. Mikkalai 05:17, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Aftr some thinking, you are probably right. They are both brands of the essentially same product. Just like beer or whatever. The whole continous spectrum. So unless some compelling arguments will be presented, I will support a vote to 
# write a separate sour cream article (now it is a redirect to [Cream]]) 
# and to merge it with smetana. Mikkalai 08:39, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: We've got BOTH in Finland, and they're definitely different. Smetana is much thicker and sweeter than sour cream, and the latter just tastes stupid. - Cymydog Naakka 09:24, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Even so we need some kind of definitive knowledge wether smetana and sour cream are the same product, or just a variation of same product. Guiness and Budwaiser taste VERY differently, yet they are both beers, since they were produced by esseantially same process.--Hq3473 09:31, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Heheh. Could be. With that in mind you might say a merge could be appropriate. - Cymydog Naakka 09:53, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

text: I am implemnting Mikkalai suggestions, if anyone has a different opinion please post on Sour cream discussion page.--Hq3473 21:51, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  What's the difference 

message: As the previous version of this page stated, Smetana is also the name of a composer, Bedřich Smetana.  I can't tell whether sour cream and smetana taste different :), but if sour cream is the primary page for that, this page, Smetana, should be a disambiguation page, or a redirect to Smetana (disambiguation), which already exists.  We could also make this one the primary page for the sour cream and link it to the disambiguation page.  What do you think? -- Adiel 03:58, 2005 Feb 12 (UTC)
I think the composer should be the main article for Smetana and there should be a link to this disambig page on the top of the composer's page.  --GidKlio Gidklio 05:02, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I disagree with that. The primary usage is the sour cream. In fact, the composer's last name is derived from the sour cream... bogdan 09:39, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: And what about the composer?
Talk:Offset printing

message: Magehs Mageshkalai (talk) 14:19, 12 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  My  

message: The second paragraph says:
Development of the offset press came in two versions: in 1875 by Robert Barclay of England for printing on tin
and links to a "Robert Barclay (23 December 1648 – 3 October 1690)". As far as I can tell, there isn't yet an article on the inventor Robert Barclay.
--77.111.174.176 (talk) 04:26, 20 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Robert Barclay 

message: Is as far as I can tell correct, but it is interesting that the dates of invention precede widespread application by several decades in most instances. E.g. as late as the 1970s, "offset printing" was talked about as the hottest new thing, and laser printers slowly conquered the workplace over the 1990s.2A01:CB0C:CD:D800:3999:AD7D:2296:6887 (talk) 07:40, 14 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time line 

message: Amazing that a page with this name does not exist. There are many others. I was going to create one, but to create a new page is even more PITA these days :) Surjit Singh (talk) 20:02, 8 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:   Ira Washington Rubel
Talk:Jade Villalon

message: this way tooo looong discography section is gonna be separated into album pages... Alensha 23:06, 24 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I got rid of the spam and advertisement tags since they don't really seem to apply anymore. Does anyone think the importance one still needs to be there? Robbie 23:17, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Tags

message: Shouldnt u merge jade villalon into jade valerie, as she is releasing songs under valerie?///
~Killybunny~  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Killybunny (talk • contribs) 00:57, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merging 

message: The track listings had disappeared for Saint Vox and Eternity, which I presume was a mistake given that the gaps I'd left in Eternity's sample-list had been filled in prior to being deleted.  Anyway, they're back now, and it looks like they'll have to stay on this page; there appears to have been attempts to create pages for the two projects which were subsequently deleted because Jade "isn't a notable artist".  Charming!  (NadaPlissken (talk) 23:26, 5 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Track Listings 
Talk:Captive bead ring

message: I think the merge was done improperly. Relevant information from Ball-closure ring including a better picture was lost. See below:
----
I've merged the Talk: Captive bead into Captive bead.
00:38, 5 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I've never seen one that needs tools.  Mine didn't. User:Pedant 10:54, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inproper merge 

message: The previous image requires a photo credit almost as big as the caption, and it amounts to an advertisement in my opinion.  Sorry I never noticed that the 'pd' tag on my old image had become obsolete... however a quick check of the Image page would clear it up, since I said it was made by me and released to public domain for unlimited use.  Any way I replaced the image that needed a credit with one that doesn't, and put the text from the image in the caption.  Hope that meets with everyone's approval. User:Pedant 10:50, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image