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Talk:Charlton Heston/Archive 1

message: :In the documentary Bowling for Columbine (2002), Michael Moore asked Heston in an interview why he thought there was such a high rate of violent crime in the United States as compared to other developed countries. Heston said he believed it was because "we have a more mixed ethnicity." This interview and Moore's other interviews in the documentary are considered controversial, even deceptive by critics. At the time of the interview Heston was suffering from Alzheimer's.
FactsOnly and Hcheney: I have moved the controversial paragraph here. Let's discuss it further below rather than engage in a revert war. 
IMO, either we accept the quote as legitimate and representative and present it as such, or we don't include it. I am not in favor of including it but wrapping it in all kinds of qualifiers with respect to Moore's filmmaking techniques or other factors, mitigating or otherwise. FactsOnly: simply because Heston once uttered these words does not imply that we are required to include them in an article on him. Encyclopedia writing is the art of synthesis and distillation. We are not here to either honor or vilify him, simply describe him in a couple of paragraphs. Therefore, please explain here why you think that this quote should be included, why it is relevant to our understanding of the man. Thank you. -- Viajero 11:42, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: First, what appears on other websites is of secondary importance. Second, it is clear that you regard this statement of his in the interview as being representative of his political beliefs. If this is true, than it should be possible for you to find other representative quotes which were not obtained in such a controversial fashion (such as the Harvard Law speech). I strongly urge you to pursue this possibility. Thanks. -- Viajero 13:56, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Columbine quote
Talk:Firefighter

message: This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Lauraware4. Peer reviewers: Katies268.
:You never play with fire 🔥 220.253.3.1 (talk) 11:08, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

message: How about this for a potential source? 
https://www.cityofkearney.org/528/Fundraising
Prairie Astronomer Talk 14:03, 6 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fundraiser Sources 

message: Surely this should only include those with a Wikipedia page otherwise they're not exactly notable? Escaper27 (talk) 18:10, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, that tends to be the rule on most pages. Notability is indicated by having a Wikipedia article, or at least a sub-section of a Wikipedia article.Timothy Titus Talk To TT 19:42, 23 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable firefighters 

message: In Australia at least, Fire and Rescue used to be called the Fire Brigade. All of a sudden, the FB in every state seems to have been renamed Fire and Rescue. The old FB has performed the Rescue function for a long time. When did this name change occur? ----MountVic127 (talk) 22:28, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change of name from FB to F&R 

message: Firefighters have on at least one occassion held an internation "Olympic" games competition. Does ant one have any details? ----MountVic127 (talk) 00:56, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Firefighter Games 

message: A discussion is taking place to address the redirect :Fire danger. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 September 26#Fire danger until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Sangdeboeuf (talk) 04:38, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Fire danger" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: — Assignment last updated by Stevesuny (talk) 14:06, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Digital Media and Information in Society

message: — Assignment last updated by Katebern (talk) 07:49, 14 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: ENV H 453 Industrial Hygiene

message: *Hi Shadow Wizard here, just wondering if it would be okay if i had added a section dedicated to Training and how to become a Firefighter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ShadowWizardMoney (talk • contribs) 20:31, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Question for whoever can answer...
Talk:XHRF-FM

message: Back in 1983 I visited the studio of XERF and took a look at the old RCA 250,000 watts transmitter that an engineer managed to get back on the airwaves when the station began promoting itself as a "border blaster" once more. I am in the process of updating and expanding the "Pirate Radio" page which now links to XERF and I will also be contributing the later history of XERF on this page as time permits. MPLX/MH 20:28, 28 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm looking forward to it.  Somewhere I read an interview with Wolfman Jack where he, radio guy that he was, was almost salivating over the giant transmitter tubes.  Ortolan88 01:08, 29 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  The later history of XERF 
Talk:List of therapies

message: The text added by User:Simionwsimion on 24 December 2015 and then again on 25 December 2015 is not appropriate for this page for the following reasons:
#The text reads like a personal essay, which is against Wikipedia style; see WP:NOT#ESSAY.
#The text discusses psychotherapy and this page is not specifically about psychotherapy but rather about therapy in general; as the page says: "This is a list of types of medical therapy, including forms of traditional medicine, alternative medicine, and quackery. For psychotherapies and other behavioral and psychological intervention methods, see list of psychotherapies."
#This page is a stand-alone list, designed to be a concise list of topics, and a large quantity of prose in the lead section is not necessary; see WP:SAL. Of course, the text added by User:Simionwsimion is neither necessary nor appropriate, because it is off-topic, as explained in number 2 above.
Biogeographist (talk) 12:30, 25 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Essay-like text
Talk:Spoof

message: This article should be semi-protected. Anonymous_anonymous_Have a Nice Day 12:36, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Request for semi-protection

message: in australia spoofing is slang for ejaculating--220.245.74.93 (talk) 09:19, 14 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Other meaning for spoofing

message: How 'bout starting off with a definition of this article's topic?? Niccast (talk) 00:35, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition of 'spoof'
Talk:SI base unit

message: Ampere, a base unit, is defined in terms of a Newton, which is not a base unit?
:Yes.  I imagine that it is for convenience.  If you like, you can mentally substitute "amount of force required to accelerate a one-kilogram mass at a rate of one meter per second per second" for "newton".  It's also "equal to a flow of one coulomb per second" (ampere).  I am not a physicist, but I don't really see any problem with defining base units in terms of non-base units — as long as there are no circular references — since those non-base units are in turn defined in terms of base units.  See also: http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/current.html. --Timc 19:43, 15 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  What? 

message: :"Yes. I imagine that it is for convenience. If you like, you can mentally substitute "amount of force required to accelerate a one-kilogram mass at a rate of one meter per second per second" for "newton""
Please edit this into the article 02:55, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  ampere:newton 

message: See Wikipedia talk:Featured articles#2019 redefinition of SI base units. --Guy Macon (talk) 15:29, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  TFA? 

message: Since Boltzmann's constant is dimensionless (although mosts chemists and too many physicists seem to be unaware of the fact) the Kelvin is in fact equivalent to (a rather small amount of) energy, which is expressible in the base constants mass, length, and time.  2A01:CB0C:CD:D800:4507:4B4B:7EE:825F (talk) 15:57, 14 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kelvin independent?
Talk:Civilian

message: User:HughLilly changed the text of the first sentence to "Under international humanitarian law, a civilian is "a person not in the armed services or the police force"" and added a source that did not support this claim. I think it's pretty clear that a dictionary definition does not override international humanitarian law. --Pete (talk) 05:20, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  IHL
Talk:Incidence algebra

message: I take it the zeta function is always invertible? (I figured that one out.) Is there a characterization of the invertible elements in the algebra? AxelBoldt 23:36 Jan 8, 2003 (UTC)
Mike, non-logged in users cannot mark edits as "minor" anymore, because some have used that to hide vandalism. Maybe it would be good if you logged in anyway, because then people could leave you messages on your user page. AxelBoldt 04:36 Jan 9, 2003 (UTC)
What is exactly the connection with classical Euler characteristic ? Is the classical Euler ch. equal to the incidence Euler ch. of the poset of faces of the polyhedron ? It would be nice to put that information both in this article and in Euler characteristic. --FvdP 18:47 Jan 9, 2003 (UTC)
Good question.  I find I can't answer it as quickly and efficiently as I would have hoped; stay tuned .....   -- Mike Hardy
I added a sentence about this (and took out the sentence that μ(0,1) is always an integer, as the Mobius function is integral by definition).  Dotdotdotatsignapostrophe (talk) 22:54, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Questions

message: Having looked at the several articles dealing with aspects of Moebius inversion on posets, I have come to realize that this topic needs some reorganization. This is a beautiful, unifying concept in combinatorics and one does not see that from these articles unless you already know what to look for. In this article, the topic in its general form is most clearly laid out, but it is buried under an article title which does not hint at this content. I think that this article should be called Moebius inversion (combinatorics) and it should contain a section on the most general order/algebraic setting in which such inversions are defined, i.e., Incidence algebras. To support this move I'd point out that most of the links to this page are links to Moebius inversion and in the text treatments of Moebius inversion, the term incidence algebra is rarely used. There may be other ways to deal with this issue and I'd like to hear some suggestions. Bill Cherowitzo  (talk) 20:48, 29 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible move 

message: I've been learning about incidence algebras by reading different articles on the internet, and the definition given here strikes me as incomplete.  Currently it sounds like you could just pick any functions f[a,b], regardless of how a and b relate.  Elsewhere I've read that if a !≤ b, then f(a,b) = 0.http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/combinat/sage/combinat/posets/incidence_algebras.html  It's also unclear how different choices of f(a,b) relate to each other.  What if I picked f[a,b] = 4 and some other person picked f[a,b] = -30.  Would we be dealing with "different incidence algebras"? "Different bases"?  I'm just scratching my head in wonder for now :) Macaw scopes (talk) 22:21, 29 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusion about the definition
Talk:F. S. L. Lyons

message: The article states that Lyons relinquished the post of Provost of Trinity College Dublin in 1981 to concentrate on writing.  I think the term for provost is currently set at seven years.  If this were true in Lyons' time, it would appear likely that he stepped down at the end of his term rather than seeking re-election.  To me, this would put a slightly different slant on his decision, if it were the case, but I can't find information on provosts' terms one way or the other.
Pertusaria (talk) 21:09, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Provost of TCD

message: I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. ISBNs and other persistent identifiers, where available, are commented out, but still available for reference. Feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 23:37, 2 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bibliography
Talk:Southern Expeditionary Army Group

message: you missed it. the japanese attacked the vichy french colony in 1941, occupied it as a puppet state thehn overthrow the vichy french administration during the 1945 coup and established a colony named empire of vietnam. Paris By Night 16:27, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: french indochina

message: Hi there,
The correct translation of  is Southern Army and not Southern Expeditionary Army Group. This is also confirmed in the book Japanese Army in World War II, Conquest of the Pacific 1941–42, Osprey Publishing on page 13. If that's okay with everyone I'd like to move this article to its correct name. Thank you, --Chris.w.braun (talk) 15:57, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correct article-name should be "Southern Army"
Talk:Discrete probability distribution

message: These math pages are basically worthless.  If you don't know the math already, you can't understand the pages.  For example, in order to understand the page on probability mass distributions, you have to know the meaning of discrete number.  The discrete variable uses the probability mass distribution in the definition.  It's all very circular.  The page discribing how to use the capital sigma notation is likewise confusing.  Are these pages here to teach people who don't know about these concepts or just to fill up space?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.107.90.170 (talk) 18:01, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Problems with the math websites

message: Would it be a valid alternative definition to say that "a discrete random variable is a random variable whose cumulative distribution function increases only by jump discontinuities"? If not, would it be sensible to include it as a slightly more intuitive but less rigorous description, marked as such? The current page may be strictly mathematically correct, but it is hard to decipher if you are just someone who has, say, a working knowledge of calculus but no in-depth knowledge of analysis, indicator functions, all this other stuff that is referenced. 81.159.124.90 00:05, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: What you are say is correct, from what I can tell. But please notice that those bumps can be a dense set (the set of rational numbers for example). I think a function which is piecewise constant, increasing, and having bumps all over the place is enough to give everybody a headache. Wonder what others think. Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 02:14, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternative 

message: The list of common discrete distributions fails to mention the Uniform distribution (discrete) distribution. Is there a reason for this, or just an oversight. Dale Gerdemann 15:57, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  What happened to the discrete uniform distribution? 

message: I think that making a simple kind of example to help define it would help. I, as an eighth grade mathematician, would like to offer one myself. "Basically, to be a discrete probability distribution, it uses values like 1, 2, 3, 4, 5... rather than real numbers. In a geometric distribution, for example, you wouldn't have p(1-p)^(3/2); you would have p(1-p)^n where n is an integer. However, this example should not imply that all discrete distributions use 1, 2, 3, 4, 5...
Heero Kirashami 02:25, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Making it more definable to us younger people using this as a reference, which is still better than MathWorld's "A discrete probability distribuion is a probability distribution that is discrete." 

message: Is the following is true?
:\operatorname{P}(X \in A) = \int_A^\ \, \mathrm{d} \operatorname{P}(X \le x)
Then how about A=[a,a]? Is the Riemann–Stieltjes integral well defined in this case?Nick C. (talk) 06:08, 30 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Riemann–Stieltjes integral
Talk:Wu Zetian

message: Given how important the concept of 0 is and how much easier it is to do mathematics with a symbol for 0, we should include this.
In Unicode, the Chinese numeral for 0 is "〇".  The character for the word "zero" is "零".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.103.109.31 (talk) 19:46, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  She gave Chinese a numeral for 0. 

message: From this event onwards, whenever the emperor attended to business, the
empress then hung a curtain [and listened] from behind it. There was no
matter of government, great or small, which she did not hear. The whole
power of the empire passed into her hands; reward and punishment, life
and death, she decided. The emperor just folded his hands and that is all.
In court and country, they were called the “Two Sages” 5.31.228.200 (talk) 10:32, 17 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 10:51, 17 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 17 April 2022 

message: The first note, stating that her surname is Wu, should link to Wu (surname 武). 72.82.43.12 (talk) 19:17, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Surname linking
Talk:RMS Queen Mary

message: 1. In the first instance I have noted that in the pages of the various British ships - Queen Mary, Queen Elizabeth, Mauretania etc, the flag of the country of origin is now shown as the Blue Ensign. Whilst many of these ships regularly flew the Blue Ensign, this would have been due to the situation whereby the Captain at that time was a member of the Royal Naval Reserve. The normal ensign for all British merchantmen was & is the Red Ensign. In my opinion, all these pages should be revised.
2. In an edit of 21 Aug 2016 I added the flag of the City of Long Beach in this section. As of 11 December 2017 the Queen Mary has been the property of the City of Long Beach for 50 years; by comparison, she was under British registration for only 31 years. On this basis I felt that the additional flag was warranted. I am therefore wondering why it has (at some stage) been removed?(Richard Tennant (talk) 19:25, 9 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flags 

message: The operator of the Queen Mary have declared chapter 11 bankruptcy, I feel like this should be mentioned in the article however I wouldn't be able to myself. https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2021-01-20/queen-mary-bankruptcy-hotels-eagle-hospitality-trust 87.75.84.128 (talk) 16:16, 21 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Operators of the ship have declared bankruptcy 

message: The reason for misunderstanding what the provided souces say is unclear. One very obviously says "The Queen Mary". The other very clearly says the historical names (plural) are "RMS Queen Mary" and "HMT Queen Mary". While I can understand the argument against the "HMT" designation being mentioned in the lede, as the ship held it for only a few years, the repreated attempts to claim in this article that the aforementioned sources support something they obviously don't are as baffling as the "justifications" for them, "repetition" (no), "the ship only had one name" (not quite), and "only one person is adding this" (so what?). ₪ MIESIANIACAL 15:47, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Names
Talk:Henry II of Castile

message: It annoyed me that Pedro becomes Peter later in the article. Also would love to see some updates on why Henry lost the throne (because he led a battle in the field leaving a highly defensible position).
:i agree with the previous post. all references should be consistent, and that should be 'peter'. if henry's translated everywhere, so should pete's name. besides, the main article for pete himself has his name translated. change 'em all. 4.230.162.62 18:55, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why does Pedro become Peter? 

message: Any info on his twin brother Fadrique of Trastamara?  It says on the list of twins page that he was killed in 1358, but no further information exists elsewhere on the site. --Lurlock 16:15, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Twin brother? 

message: The Spanish Inquisition (nor other) did not pursue jews. "False christian" (or jews who baptized but kept on with judaism), yes. But not jewish people. --213.37.241.232 (talk) 02:17, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inquisition, again
Talk:Finger

message: In the section Regrowth of the Fingertips, there is a grammar mistake that makes the part sound kind of weird. I request that this is fixed.
Fingertips, after having been torn off ‘’’children’’’, have been observed to regrow in less than 8 weeks.[22] However, these fingertips do not look the same, although they do look more appealing than a skin graft or a sewn fingertip. No healing occurs if the tear happens below the nail. This works because the distal phalanges are regenerative in youth, and stem cells in the nails create new tissue that ends up as the fingertip. 2600:1005:B0B7:2C4C:A03E:F153:294F:A14E (talk) 17:05, 1 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The OP doesn't specify exactly what change is desired.  Naturally, it should be: "Children's fingertips, after having been torn off, have been observed ..."  Actually the rest of that paragraph is terribly written as well.  I suggest: "This works because the distal phalanges are regenerative in youth, and stem cells near the nails create new tissue that ends up as the fingertip.  Thus, fingertips are not regenerated if the injury destroys the nail bed.  These regrown tips look different but are preferable to skin grafts or surgical reattachment. [22][23] 172.75.77.7 (talk) 03:25, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weird Grammar in one of the sections 

message: The top of this talk page invites users to improve the article: "If you can improve it, please do."  But the article is locked to prevent edits.  One would expect there to at least be some discussion or reason for this lock given in the talk section, but no such reason is given.  So much for Wikipedia being "the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit" (the official description on the main page) when someone can lock people out of doing so without even providing a reason. 172.75.77.7 (talk) 02:49, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The article has been indefinitely semi-protected since 2015 when it was frequently being vandalized. I will ask the admin to unprotect it, and we'll see how it goes. Zefr (talk) 03:16, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  and opened for editing by admin, JBW. Zefr (talk) 14:21, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why locked? 

message: Affect, not affects:
"Raynaud's phenomenon and Paroxysmal hand hematoma are neurovascular disorders that affects the fingers."
(This would be a simple edit if the article weren't locked.  Not sure why someone locks a C-class article that obviously needs much improvement.) 172.75.77.7 (talk) 02:57, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: - thanks. Zefr (talk) 03:14, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Subject/verb number agreement