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Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countering systemic bias/open tasks

message: I removed Pro se legal representation in the United States from the task list. It was oddly listed as non English literature that needed expansion, plus it seemed to be part of a sock puppet edit war by the person that posted it. Cloveapple (talk) 22:13, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: It seemed that nobody noticed it for so many years.  Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 01:56, 1 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed from task list (misplaced?) 

message: With 35 sections on this talk page, more than half the space is taken by only one of them, and that's a discussion on whether to use the term "progressive" or "reform". 
Could the systemic bias on wikipedia be illustrated more clearly than that? DS Belgium (talk) 13:20, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, the systematic bias needs to be more clearly illustrated.  Unfortunately, I had been the only contributor of this WikiProject for so many years, despite not being a founding member.  Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 15:42, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: You have my sympathy. I couldn't do it, nice to see someone still cares. DS Belgium (talk) 17:00, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you DS Belgium.  I know that one person cannot maintain the list, but one person maintaining the list is better than having the page collect dust.  This is why more people should notice the Open Tasks page, which unfortunately is neglected and has a self-fulfilled prophecy of systemic bias being completely unchecked.  Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 22:50, 24 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Systemic bias here 

message: It is very unfortunate that I am the most active person on this WikiProject.  It would be better if more people can take part in it.  Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 02:19, 1 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I am slightly disappointed that white anglophone scientists are considered to be among the topics where we lack proper coverage. Surely our systemic biases fail nonwhites, non-English-speakers, and those outside the hard-sciences interests of our typical young male geek anglophone editoriat? Whatever next - is somebody going to add a videogame or a rifle to the list of open tasks? bobrayner (talk) 20:16, 26 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: How unfortunate.  Johnny Au (talk/contributions) 00:39, 1 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need more people to go through the page 

message: October 2016	
October 2016
	
Women in Architecture & Women in Archaeology editathons
Faciliated by Women in Red
(To subscribe, Women in Red/Invite list. Unsubscribe, Women in Red/Opt-out list) --Ipigott (talk) 15:22, 25 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Invitation to Women in Architecture & Women in Archaeology editathons
Talk:Murray Perahia

message: I'm unsure about the style of this article. Are there any guidelines on writing about performing artists in an encyclopedic vernacular? Jongo 21:02, 16 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Does him being Jewish have anything to do with his achievements? Gordon Freeman 16:34, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Vladimir Horowitz said "There are three kinds of pianists: Jewish pianists, homosexual pianists, and bad pianists".  Perahia's not bad, and he's not, afaik, homosexual, so that leaves his Jewishness as the only reason he's a good pianist.  :) :)  --  JackofOz (talk) 07:47, 6 October 2009 (UTC)

text: * it doesn't seem to be relevant to me. Like stating that this or that pianist is a Muslim or Christian pianist, or any other specific attributes. But i reckon Perahia is involved in Israeli musical activities, it should be mentioned some where that he's Jewish, but certainly not in this way. Maysara (talk) 18:32, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jewish-American pianist 

message: I propose the creation of a separate discography page for Perahia, similar to what has been created for Vladimir Horowitz.  Once that is complete, a link would be added to this page, and the listing of recordings on this page would be removed.  Please share your thoughts on this.THD3 (talk) 13:43, 15 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Discography

message: This article notes that Perahia began his study of the piano at age four; the liner notes of his first vinyl recording (Schumann, Davidsbundlertanze and Fantasiestuck) says he began at age 6.  The liner notes also indicate that from age 17 to 25 he broke off studies with his teacher, Jeanette Haein, to study on his own.  Furthermore, he did not take part in concerts or competitions during these years. tigerdg (talk) 04:39, 12 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early Piano History 
Talk:Transposition cipher

message: "Looping the scrambling process on the binary string multiple times before changing it into ASCII characters would likely make it harder to break."
A transposition of a transposition is just a transposition. If the transposition produces a binary string that can be interpreted as ASCII then necessarily the input alphabet hasn't been expanded by repeating the process. The only attack I can see as being made more difficult is the case where the attacker knows the specific scrambling technique and knows a weakness in that technique (perhaps using known plaintext) but doesn't know the number of times the scrambling has been applied. 173.243.41.226 (talk) 23:17, 23 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Looping the scrambling process

message: The claim that grille ciphers were used only at the start of the Great War is questionable.  David Kahn in The Code-Breakers, 1996 edition, page 308:
"At the end of 1916, transposition messages again appeared in German military communications."
French cryptographers recognised turning grille ciphers, in January 1917, and devised attacks.  
"The grilles lasted four months." (page 309)
--Steve (talk) 02:34, 20 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grille Ciphers 

message: cages in this context? thanks scope_creep (talk) 22:40, 16 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Cages

message: Now felling happy 👌💪❤ 203.144.88.36 (talk) 22:42, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Driver  

message: thank you my life 203.144.88.36 (talk) 22:44, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Driver
Talk:Nightfall (Asimov novelette and novel)

message: There seems to be a tendency to add categories without checking their relevance. In particular, this article is called Post-apocalyptic. Yes there are historical apocalyptic events but story is about a recurring disaster. The short story deals with the run up and the actual apocalypse. Maybe the short story should be in the Pre-apocalyptic category. The novel talks about the post disaster society and so that part of the article is indeed post-apocalyptic.
The other category is American Philosophy. It's a story and like all good works of fiction it examines emotions, feelings and the consequent actions of the protagonists but 'Philosophy'? No. I don't think so. And why American Philosophy? For sure the authors are American but the protagonists are just folks.Their reactions seem to be international rather than parochial. OrewaTel (talk) 05:41, 29 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article Categories
Talk:Mausoleum at Halicarnassus

message: The Mausoleum at Halicarnassus or Tomb of Mausolus[a] (Ancient Greek: Μαυσωλεῖον τῆς Ἁλικαρνασσοῦ; Turkish: Halikarnas Mozolesi) was a tomb built between 353 and 350 BC in Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey) for Mausolus, an Anatolian from Caria and a satrap in the Achaemenid Empire, and his sister-wife Artemisia II of Caria. The structure was designed by the Greek architects Satyros and Pythius of Priene.[1][2] Its elevated tomb structure is derived from the tombs of neighbouring Lycia, a territory Mausolus had invaded and annexed c. 360 BC, such as the Nereid Monument.[3] 2A00:1851:8017:22DD:FCFC:1D9B:C40F:7145 (talk) 11:17, 18 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mousoleum at Halicarnassus
Talk:Max Boot

message: IP editors keep taking this out, eg here. While labels can be contentious and/or meaningless, I don't see that this one is; rather it is an informative description of his political position and background. It is how he is regularly described and self-identifies, and including it at the outset explains a pretty basic fact about him to any reader straightaway. The USA Today column referenced doesn't have him denying being one, just him saying that Trump has "disfigured the ... movement". N-HH talk/edits 14:45, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it helps the reader, which should be our highest priority. As recently as last week, Boot described himself as a former "smart-alecky young conservative" who isn't as young as he was when he attended college and who has "had [his] consciousness raised", and wrote that he "remain[s] a classical liberal". (See Classical liberalism, especially the sections on the meaning of the term and the United States, for information about why "classical liberal" means "conservative".) — MShabazz Talk/Stalk 15:56, 1 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: It certainly helped me. I came here pretty unaware of him, and was left none the wiser from the lead as to where he stood in terms of US politics. "Conservative" is a broad label, but precisely because of that it narrows things down a bit without doing so too much. Googling the term with his name leaves little doubt that this is what he is usually described as. Hence WP should follow that. N-HH talk/edits 12:48, 2 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Pretty nonsensical to leave out "conservative" from the lede - according to his own biography "He was a senior foreign policy adviser to John McCain’s presidential campaign in 2007–08, Mitt Romney’s campaign in 2011–12, and Marco Rubio’s campaign in 2015-2016." and his new book is "The Corrosion of Conservatism: Why I Left the Right" link.   We need not make him out to be a "right winger" but he certainly has tended conservative throughout his career. Bdushaw (talk) 14:22, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

text: I think he officially no longer identifies as conservative.T. Anthony (talk) 10:58, 10 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conservative in lead 

message: This article is extremely promotional for Boot's career from the personal website link to the inset box with videos of him talking. Needs work to have a neutral point of view. Nweil (talk) 22:35, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Promotional 

message: A new user who says he is the subject, has been editing the article. I left the user a note on their talk page asking them to use this talk page. Malerooster (talk) 18:41, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflict of interest
Talk:Charles Forte, Baron Forte

message: "Charles Fort" needs disambiguation, because of Charles Hoy Forte.
Auto writes
Early life:
!He emigrated from Italy to Scotland at the age of four.[1]"
I appreciate the reference may explain, but I struggle to see this four-year-old walking from Italy to Scotland alone, pulling his Trunki.
"He emigrated, with his family/parents/father/mother/whatever from Italy to Scotland at the age of four.[1]' may perhaps be better,
Thanks
Auto wrote 2114Z 21 August 2015 86.173.210.62 (talk) 21:14, 21 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure

message: In a part of the article, it said each episode had "10 or 11" levels, but no, each one only have 10 levels, and the final scene of episode 1 does not count, it's only an epilogue. 200.71.186.240 00:48, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Only ten levels

message: Should we call him Duke Nukem or Duke Nukum?
At the time when Cosmo was made, he was called Nukum. But now everybody knows him as Nukem. Calvero2 15:10, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The original, real, and final name is Duke Nukem. It was called Nukum for a time (but originally it was still Nukem), but I don't think that matters much. I think the real character and game name should be used, Nukem. The commentary and reference there are enough.Sega381 15:43, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duke Nuk?m 

message: I'm not sure why this article is marked as unreferenced. What reference does it need (as of now, considering the information it has) but the game itself? I thought that non-verifiable things needed referecing, not easily verifiable ones. And if there is something that needs a reference, it should be marked as such. Otherwise, I think the tag should be removed.Sega381 20:17, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unreferenced? 
Talk:Benjamin Lincoln

message: I removed part of it which was incorrect, likely due to someone copying wrong.  He did not die in the Battle of yorktown.
Is he any relation to Abraham Lincoln?
:In the absence of any visible proof we have to assume he was not. It would, however, be fairly cool if he was.
I'm fairly certain that Benjamin and Abraham Lincoln share a common ancestor in Samuel Lincoln, one of Hingham's first settlers.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.253.27.187 (talk) 17:49, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: While it is interesting that genealogical work has been recently done to sort out Lincoln paternities, the web site cited as a reference appears to be a personal one, and the work smacks of original research by the contributor (see WP:SPS).  If/when it is published in reliable sources (e.g. something like a journal of the New England Historic Genealogical Society, who might well be interested in this sort of information) it can be contributed to Wikipedia.  (In the interim I think the article should avoid specific ancestry claims about this and other affected Lincolns.) Magic♪piano 16:48, 1 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent genealogy additions 
Talk:Mars Polar Lander

message: Since the most newsworthy piece of the mission was its loss, the crash should be mentioned, at least in passing, in the opening paragraph. 76.123.145.220 (talk) 00:00, 19 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia is not a paper encyclopedia. :) There are people who would actually be interested in what the mission's purpose was.--BrendanRyan 20:43, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It still needs to be encyclopedic.  Too much meaningless, unending detail about something that never happened makes it hard to see the forest for the trees.  Gene Nygaard 21:56, 8 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: The section discussing the microphone includes the text, "The microphone used speech recognition from technology Sensory, Inc."  I am at a loss why this is here, as there is no need for speech recognition on this microphone setup.  Is this a link plant by Sensory, Inc. to get some PR?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Timmholt (talk • contribs) 20:31, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Why is Sensory, Inc. and Speech Recognition mentioned?

message: Some of the text, if not more, was copied from : http://aerospacescholars.jsc.nasa.gov/HAS/cirr/em/8/8.cfm
Popher 16:35, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: US Gov't material is in the public domain, IIRC. -- 193.24.32.37 (talk) 10:35, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Doesn't make OK to copy verbatim. Or do you not understand the difference?  TREKphiler 08:35, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's absolutely fine as long as it's quoted appropriately69.120.19.57 (talk) 23:48, 10 November 2008 (UTC)

text: Huh?  Are you saying it's not OK to copy something that's in the public domain?  leevclarke (talk) 05:46, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Plagarised

message: martian day is 24 hours, 39 minutes and 35.244 seconds long  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.163.13.203 (talk) 06:18, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If it's relevant to the article then add it in!  leevclarke (talk) 05:46, 3 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  martian day 

message: Numerous but perhaps non-authoritative sources claim the crash was caused by incorrrect units of measurement (imperialos rather than the NASA-specified metric) used in the software. Is there any truth to this?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 101.175.45.156 (talk) 12:06, 9 September 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I expect you are thinking of the Mars_Climate_Orbiter#Cause_of_failure - similarly named spacecraft - but it was designed as an orbiter and they never intended it to land. It crashed because one piece of software was programmed to create figures for the thrust in pound seconds (imperial units, or "US customary units"), but another piece of software then used those figures as a thrust in newtons seconds (SI unit). Robert Walker (talk) 19:12, 13 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reason for crash? 

message: Beagle 2 was found (partially deployed) - MPL is larger - What effort was put into imaging the presumed crash site, and what was seen ? - Rod57 (talk) 09:28, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Has wreckage been found
Talk:Khwaja Mir Dard

message: This article is pretty much entirely plagiarised from the biography of Khwaja Mir Dard in the book "Masterpieces of Urdu Ghazals: From the 17th to the 20th Century" by K.C. Kanda.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.246.164.160 (talk) 22:12, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  plagiarism 

message: Assalamu alaykum. I edit in good faith. I have no axe to grind against this man. I merely want to see the page become more neutral in tone and better referenced. Wikipedia requires citations to reliable, authoritative, and neutral third-party sources. Two good sets of Wikipedia guidelines that I have found really useful can be found HERE and HERE. Regards, George Custer's Sabre (talk) 03:10, 1 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations / my recent edits
Wikipedia talk:Requests for arbitration/ArmchairVexillologistDon

message: Don wrote in his response:
:THE TWO PROVINCAL RED ENSIGN DESPUTES HAPPENNED IMMEDIATELY after the original national RED ENSIGN DISPUTE settled down.
:AndyL changed BOTH the Provincal Red Ensign pages of Ontario, and Manitoba right after our "big Red Ensign (of Canada) dispute" petered out. He inserted text (to emphasize earlier) references that stated the Red Ensigns were adopted in 1965 AD, and 1966 AD, respectively.' However, AndyLs wording, and later he openly said to me that the Ontario, and Manitoba Red Ensigns DID NOT EXIST until 1965 AD, and 1966 AD, respectively.
I don't know why Don has chosen to ignore the substance of the complaint and spend his time writing on an irrelevent side issue but, in point of fact, what Don says above is wrong. In fact the histories of both the Flag of Ontario and Flag of Manitoba articles show that reference to those flags being adopted in 1965 and 1966 respectively were added to those articles long before Don ever became an editor and were, in fact, added by editors other than me. I edited those articles only to change the Red Ensign link to Canadian Red Ensign. I did revert Don, however, when he subsequently made poor quality edits to those articles. However, given that the references Don is complaining about are, in fact, correct (ie the flags of those provinces were adopted in 1965 and 1966) I don't see the problem if I had added those reference. As point of fact, however, I did not. AndyL 21:25, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Soulseek

message: Added:
* Searches include folder names and files paths which allows, to a certain degree, for searches by music genres
* One to one system looked all negative. I don't think that reflects fairely the discussions on the forums as one of the appeal of this system is to make other users more available for communication.
Let me know if it's ok with you all (some of it might need rephrasing as English is not my 1st language). Keria 23:43, 13 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Search and one to one 

message: You know, it actually makes me curious as to how notable this software really is.--h i s   s p a c e   r e s e a r c h 21:42, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There are a couple of trivial reviews like   . But notable or not, you can certainly tell that it's popular by the number of editors to the article, or the number of different client programs that have been developed exclusively for this network. -- intgr [talk] 02:04, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  No third party sources, still 

message: Since this article is largely, and I think most importantly, about the network, it may be worth making a section or even a separate article about the clients.  At the moment, information about the official client is kind of spread throughout, and is separate from information about unofficial clients.  (By the way, Nicotine+ is also available for MS Windows.)  For example, there are separate eDonkey2000 articles for the client and the network (although they do still duplicate some information between them).
Jwmurphy (talk) 04:30, 30 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: No, I don't the network(s) and clients need separate articles. First it is difficult enough keeping the present article up to date and accurate. Second the SS networks (156 and 157) are highly integrated into the networks (QT, 156 and 157), unlike  eDonkey and eMule. cckkab ( cckkab ) 19:53, 13 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  clients 
Talk:Robert Edmond Grant

message: Darwin, Adrian Desmond and James Moore, spells the middle name Edmond - should this page be moved to that spelling? . dave souza 00:09, 17 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Name spelling?

message: Based partly on Desmond's The politics of evolution, which contains extensive material on Grant (and other sources), I see a need for some changes in emphasis in the article, as follows:
:1. Grant's influence on Darwin is restricted to the period when CD was a student in Edinburgh. He helped CD turn from medicine to natural history/zoology. I see no evidence that he had any influence on CD's later work on evolution. This needs to be said.
:2. Grant's own ideas on evolution were more Geoffroyan than Lamarkian. That needs explanation.
:3. The continental influence on G is notable: he was perhaps one of the foremost advocate of French and German ideas in the 1820s to 1840s.
:4. The radical politics angle needs to be expanded/better explained.
:5. One key biographical question is why his reputation fell so dramatically during his life. Some ideas have been suggested, and these suggestions need to be woven in. Much information about Grant was lost with his bound volume of letters. Macdonald-ross (talk) 18:42, 28 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes of emphasis 

message: Shoulnd't it be split from here? FunkMonk (talk) 03:10, 6 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split grant Museum
Talk:Iranian

message: User:Diyako has created an article on a Turkic-Nowruz without mention of its Iranian history and roots. Soon we will here Nowruz has nothing to do with Iran too. His article is Nevruz. This should be merged or edited properly. He has gone on the Turkish discussions to promote it. 
Here is what user:Diyako has written;
Nevruz is the spring festival among Turkic-speaking nations, from Turkey to Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan etc. It is very similar to the Iranian festival of Norouz.
According to Turkish legends Nevruz dates back to era of Gökturks.
Th user Diyako is definnityl anti-Iranian and has an anti-Iranian agenda.
Nevruz is  not very similar to the Irnian festival of Norouz it is Norouz!
He has claimed the Kurdish flag has nothing to do with Iran and is a crime to fly in Iran. The Kurdish flag is based on the Iranian flag it is even in the memories of the founders of the Mehbad Republic who wanted to showcase their Aryan and Mede heritage. Back then Kurds only had a oral history about their only know ancestors the Mede and Mede heritage, before other ancestors were accepted. The Sun is also very significant element of ancient Iranian and Zorasatrianism. Diyako is misleading everyone. Go to Kurdistan 20 years ago let alone 50 they will say we are Aryans and our own blood relatives are the Persians. The Kurdish flag is not banned in Iran and is based on Iranian colours. This user also claims the Iranians are only a lingustic group after he saw that the tide was against him that Kurds are in definition an Iranian people so he worked to undermine the definition of Iranian people and even Persians with user:Acuman. 
69.196.139.250 21:12, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: User:Diyako is trying to make an alternative ficticious definition of Newroz

message: Sålaum 5.115.126.129 (talk) 17:55, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Salaam