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Talk:Himeyuri students

message: "[K]illed by the gas shell"? What gas was used on Okinawa?
—wwoods 15:33, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I recall from a visit to the museum that all the students were female, yet the current text says "was a group of coed students".  I suspect this is a garble.
Correct. The Himeyuri were all girls (just like the Shiraume and the other nurse corps). The boys were in other units. Additionally, there was no coed in those days in Japan, boys and girls were separated after elementary school. It should also be mentioned that the Himeyuri came from the most exclusive schools on Okinawa. 
Also I'd like to add that gas wasn't really used on Okinawa, except maybe teargas. According to George Feiffer in "Tennozan", the Americans used phosphor grenades to ignite napalm, which would then burn and use up all oxygen in a cave. And looking at the reports from survivors among the Okinawan civilians there was a lot of propaganda by the IJA. A lot of people were forced or talked into committing suicide, that includes Himeyuri girls and others. The girls were even issued handgrenades (for suicide, not for combat, schoolgirls are no combat force, they would be of no use in the field). Pretty much every survivor will confirm the propaganda about being raped by the Americans (Americans were the devils in the military's propaganda). Just recently 110,000 Okinawans protested against the central government in Tokyo, because the ministry of education removed references to the murder of Okinawans and forcing people into suicide by the IJA from school textbooks.Takekaze (talk) 18:59, 29 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  gender of students 

message: I feel this article aboslutely does not have a neutral point of view. To make statements like "but they were misled by their militaristic and propaganda filled education" and "Survivors committed suicide in various ways because of fears of systematic rape by US soldiers — propaganda spread by the military government of Imperial Japan" even with proper references would be problematic because so much of it is conjecture. To write these things without any references is simply wrong. I feel this page deserves a neutrality template and to be re-done. How do others feel?
Charles Jeffrey Danoff 01:39, 7 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  neutrality 

message: Under the section entitled "Unit Dissolved" the article states that 237 of 240 were killed. Yet in the section entitled "Himeyuri Monument" it states that "many" of the survivors helped to construct the monument, and under "Himeyuri Peace Museum" it states that there were 90 survivors. The numbers simply don't add up.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.91.188.7 (talk) 16:21, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Original Japanese article says about only 136 direct deaths during Pacific war(let it be suicides or after US army attack). Those English version add ups include even deaths after war or even at year 2003, see. EditingTalk (talk) 03:41, 24 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Numbers?
Talk:Bagasse

message: "However when a full audit of energy used in production is done, 75% of the energy required to grow and move the sugar cane (including bagasse) is from liquid fuel (petroleum or hydrocarbon based), leading to a 25% net gain from photosynthesis."  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.56.90.172 (talk) 08:16, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Old comments

message: Bagasse is also used as a food for cattle.After hydrolization under hight temperatures and water, this product is transformed into a very good ration for cattle, in places such as Brazil.Agre22 (talk) 19:49, 7 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Bagasse is used as food for cattle

message: I conducted a major edit providing more detail on bagasse production generally.  I will post some references shortly for the comments about pith.  
I do not feel that it should be categorised under "Energy" but rather under something like "Manufacturing".  Unfortunately I have no idea how to do this and would appreciate if someone could help with this one.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bagasseman (talk • contribs) 01:09, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major edit 

message: Quite a bit of self-promotion has entered this entry, which is sad. I have removed a great swathe. Also, there are lots of comments about the work of individual companies.  The reality is that there are many companies looking at every possible aspect of bagasse use. So trends should remain in the article and references to individual companies should be kept to a minimum. I would like to see other examples of bagasse cellulose ethanol projects and power plants. If anyone can help with that, it would be good. I agree that Manufacturing is a more suitable category. How to do this?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bagasseman (talk • contribs) 05:50, 16 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Edit out blatant self promotion

message: It appears that origiginal Celotex from 1920's was made from bagasse. Or based. Dieſelmaus (talk) 12:21, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Celotex
Talk:Severance package

message: Talk: Severance package
I don't really agree with this definitions  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.244.82.210 (talk) 22:26, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: What do you disagree with?  Do you have an improvement in mind?  76.202.61.191 (talk) 05:47, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

message: The rules given for Canada, and the associated reference link only applies to federally regulated industries.  (Banks, airlines, railroads that cross provincial boundaries, telephone, telegraph, radio, television,etc: http://www.labour.gc.ca/eng/regulated.shtml.) 
Most people fall under the labour regulations of each individual province or territory.
"If you do not work for one of the above, the employment standards that regulate your conditions of work are defined by your provincial or territorial ministry of labour." (taken from above link).
For instance, the current rules for the Province of British Columbia (http://www.labour.gov.bc.ca/esb/facshts/termination.htm) are:
"An employee who is terminated may be eligible for compensation based on the following formula:
    After three consecutive months of employment – one week’s pay;
    After 12 consecutive months of employment – two weeks’ pay;
    After three consecutive years – three weeks’ pay, plus one week’s pay for each additional year of employment to a maximum of eight weeks."
In BC, written notice of the same length can be given instead of severance pay; I believe all (or most) provinces permit notice in lieu of severance.
Jokemill (talk) 08:14, 23 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Canadian rules just for "federally regulated" jobs
Talk:SkyCat

message: I'd like to know why user Lfoltzer removed the References, See also and External links sections. The page now looks almost like it did before I tried to make it look more like other Wikipedia pages. I'll try to add a wikify template, just to see if Lfoltzer removes it again. Init 15:45, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: User Lfoltzer seems to be Chairman of the board of Hybrid Aircraft Corporation - see http://www.hacinc.us/. -- Bricaniwi (talk) 06:13, 14 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: :"The Skycat has the unique ability of being almost impervious to light ordnance"
What's unique about it?  The Goodyear blimps, for example, routinely take hits from rifle fire without trouble, and in World War I, Zeppelins would successfully complete their missions even after being hit by antiaircraft guns. --Carnildo (talk) 04:27, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Unique ability?
Talk:2004 Madrid train bombings/Archive 11

message: ::Southofwatford wrote: How curious that you are not so rigorous about the mentions in the article of other explosives, after all no other explosive apart from Goma 2 ECO has been identified anywhere connected with the bombings - either on or off the trains. 
You are wrong, Southofwatford:. It is difficult to be more wrong about something, and I am going to prove it:
DNT (DiNitroToluene)  and Nitroglycerine  had been identified in the remains of the trains, and Goma-2 ECO has neither substance [Page 51]. 
These links   are to prove as false the "contamination at the factory" bogus argument you are about to write. I will add all this info in the future.
A note for foreigners: The individuals being judged in Madrid for the bombings are connected ONLY to a Goma-2 ECO supplier. If any other explosive went off in the trains (the point I just proved above), there´s still a hidded part in all the bombings plot.  Randroide 13:49, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: For you is not libel since you think that Spanish police did the bombings using his informers. But for the rest of the planet, to say that Spanish police helped to kill 191 of his own nationals is libel. It is ludicruous to remove the cite and let the conclusions as you have done. And apart form the libel, the cite in french says the opposite to what you says that say and the criminal history of Trashorras is doing nothing there except push you delirant theories that he was directed by Spanish police. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Igor21 (talk • contribs) 16:02, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: My thinking (and my "theories", delirant or not) about the issue is irrelevant: Only what sources say counts, and everything is sourced. If there is any incorrect cite in French, please present the cite here, but AFAIK the translation is perfect. Again, please read WP:NPA.Randroide 16:11, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The explosives: New thread
Talk:Classification of Fatou components

message: In the section "Attracting Periodic Point" the first few lines are of the form:
The components of ... that contains the attracting points that ... .
Three clauses with a subject and no object. It is impossible for a native English speaker to make any sense of this totally apart from the math. I cannot fix it since I have no clue what the author was trying to say and I have no competence with the mathematics so I can't guess what it should say. 204.109.14.162 (talk) 20:48, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Is now better ? --Adam majewski (talk) 07:40, 21 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clauses are not sentences
Talk:British Best All-Rounder

message: Unless things have changed, this competition is based on the average of speeds rather than the true average speed. That is, the average speeds  for the 50, 100, and 12 hours are added and divided by 3 whereas the average speed should be determined by adding the distance covered in the 12 hour and 150 miles, and then dividing by the sum of the time for the 50 and 100 mile events plus 12 hours. Simply averaging the three speeds places undue emphasis on the shorter events, that is, the event tends to favor those who do quite well in the 50 and 100 while the 12 hour specialist is usually out of luck. There was at least one time in the 1960s that the rider with the highest true average speed was "beaten" by a rider whose average of speeds was higher.
This is a common mathematical mistakeWschart (talk) 01:48, 24 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Average speed vs average of speeds? 

message: It really cannot stay the way it is. It appears authoritative from the content, but it isn't verified in line with our standards. I wonder if it comes form a time when Wikipedia was less precise? We need to get it up there with the best articles. Fiddle Faddle (talk) 22:12, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article suffers form lack of citations 
Template talk:Non-free magazine cover

message: Please seee Wikipedia talk:Non-free content#Wording of Template:Non-free magazine cover for a discussion of specific versus general uses of magazine covers. Carcharoth (talk) 01:08, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Specific versus general uses of magazine covers 

message: The present statement of the template is that magazine covers could be used in case of direct illustration of a point about the publication of the image. Could some one explain exactly what "a point" and "the publication" mean, they're so vague. Can an image of a magazine cover with a celebrity on it be used for the article of that person, as he makes the magazine more appealing which raise up its publication at the same time? --Symane TALK 04:37, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  “a point about the publication”? 

message: This template can be switched to use  if a change in the structure of the bulleted list is acceptable; I've drafted a new version of the template at Template:Non-free magazine cover/sandbox. Yes, I know I can edit this template myself, but I'd like at least one other person agreeing. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 11:28, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Done — JJMC89 (T·C) 03:44, 30 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 29 January 2020 

message: Please update from the sandbox which moves  into the imbox, this allows license metadata to be properly emitted because the imbox is set to type license, which sets class licensetpl to the imbox, however  was not placed in the imbox so the metadata was not being detected. Dylsss(talk contribs) 23:09, 17 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Done Elli (talk | contribs) 08:55, 18 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template-protected edit request on 17 May 2021
Talk:River Rother, South Yorkshire

message: * Suitably referenced, with inline citations
* Reasonable coverage - no obvious omissions or inaccuracies
* Defined structure, with adequate lead
* Reasonably well written for grammer and flow
* Supporting materials - Infobox, map, images, POI table
* Appropriately understandable
I have assessed the article against these criteria, and am rating it B. Bob1960evens (talk) 11:41, 5 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment
Talk:S bridge

message: I noted that some information has been included in the article page that is informational rather than descriptive.
I think S-bridges are extremely interesting and continue to study them, however, I think we might consider adding strictly informational entries on this 'talk page' rather than expanding the descriptive entry.
For example, I recently discovered another S-bridge that I did not know existed, this one is located 3 miles east of Claysville, PA near Old US route 40, and as many of these sites are, it has been converted into a small park.
67.142.130.36 16:01, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  S-Bridges discussion 

message: Why does this article have a Top importance rating? MegaPedant (talk) 17:33, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I've changed it. ShakyIsles (talk) 01:23, 22 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why Top importance?
Talk:Māhū

message: My Bio professor claims that the alternative definition of Mahu is not derogatory; rather it was regarded "as a natural way of living" (her words, not mine) and that "transvesti" (variation of transvestitisms) are considered derogatory. Perhaps a Disamb should be made, and the definition changed. Zidel333 16:03, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The "Pocket Hawaiian Dictionary" defines it as homosexual, hermaphrodite... AnonMoos (talk) 12:57, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Meaning of Hawaiian word

message: Many of the recent additions were good, but they need to be sourced or it looks like a personal essay. Let's discuss here and find sources so we don't have to have the article filled with "citation needed" flags. - CorbieV ☊ ☼ 23:42, 25 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent addtions and revert 

message: Hi! I’m Brinney22. I have been reading this page dedicated to the Māhū/Māhūwahine/RaeRae discussing their traditional roles, roles during post World War II, and plan on adding information to the page discussing the role of these third gender people within the modern-day world with a focus on familial life, how they are incorporated into the family, and what sorts of lifestyles in general they lead. I will be doing this from research gathered on databases such as AnthroSource and JSTOR. I am Native Hawaiian and love learning more about my culture and would love to add to a page discussing it. Please feel free to give me any feedback on my writing – greatly appreciated.--Brinney22 (talk) 18:26, 24 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit: What Roles the Mahu Play Within the Family in Modern Day  

message: I'm not Tahitian or Hawaiian, but I find the use of this phrase strange in the context of this article. It implies that in Tahitian/Hawaiian native culture they would have assigned children male and then decided later that they were Māhū. But I get the impression this is not the case from the rest of the article. As I understand it, assigning children a western binary gender at birth is more of a European colonial phenomenon. So I'm a bit confused about the meaning of the phrase.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.244.1.63 (talk) 07:16, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why does this page use the phrase "assigned male at birth"?
Talk:D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson

message: The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. --KenWalker | Talk 07:45, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 

message: Just responding to the photo request response to tag. Yes, there's a photo, but it's very low-res. I guess we can remove the tag, but somebody who's going to an archive (like University Dundee in the UK) should try to find an open-domain photograph to scan. SamuelRiv (talk) 06:39, 8 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo request 

message: Much of the text uses just the first name. It reads like it was written by someone who was best buddies with him back in the day. Why not "Thompson" or "Sir D'Arcy"? David Marjanović (talk) 16:59, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes, someone had made a bit of a mess of it. I've used Thompson or pronouns throughout. Chiswick Chap (talk) 20:34, 13 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why use just the first name? 

message: Is the short summary accurate?  I was able to read the blog post, but unable to access the book?  If Wolframm truly states something to the effect that evolution has *no* role in organism shape, rather than acting via mechanical/developmental forces, then it should be deleted under WP:FRINGE. HCA (talk) 21:32, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text:  It does indeed sound distinctly fringiferous. I hope that all he meant was that he was excited to see how Thompson pioneered the use of mathematical models of growth. If he's indeed using it to deny evolution/climate change/North Korean astronauts etc then the bin'll be the right place. Chiswick Chap (talk) 21:39, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wolframm work on the topic?
Talk:Gowanda, New York

message: Note to editors who add new information, especially to the "Notable Events" section, please add citations and references along with your information.  Most information in that section is from the Gowanda Penny Saver News, however it must be cited. Daniellagreen (talk) 03:32, 13 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: What's with the 'Little Known' bit of trivia regarding the underground railroad?  This needs to be removed if it can't be documented.  It makes no sense to say it's 'little known' if it's publicly written-up on Wiki.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:6000:1312:40C5:86EF:18FF:FE4C:BBED (talk) 13:08, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with you. I'm going to remove it. If someone finds citations in terms of mentions in publications (like the local newspaper), that would be fine, but as is it probably shouldn't stand as there is no verifiability. Softlavender (talk) 14:50, 14 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations Needed 
Talk:Macy conferences

message: * N. Katherine Hayles, How We Became Posthuman (1999) -  129.21.198.113 16:25, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Further reading 

message: I added a list of some of the topics discussed at the conferences, to give a sense of what they were about. The list is taken entirely from an American Society for Cybernetics page that cites research by Steve Joshua "Heims' The Cybernetics Group, Dupuy's Mechanization of the Mind, and other sources." I am not satisfied with my cherry-picking and rephrasing, but it's at least a start. dweinberger (talk) 15:43, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Content of the conferences 

message: Is the fact that some of these folks went on to controversial activities for the CIA really the one follow-on fact worth citing? They also went on to contribute rather mightily in some sciences. dweinberger (talk) 15:43, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It is just one spin off. I think the problem here, isn't that these fact are being mentioned, but that other spin offs aren't mentioned as well. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 00:13, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  CIA reference? 

message: The remark might be vandalism.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.154.32.1 (talk) 12:42, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: It was by 180.149.192.133.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.154.32.1 (talk) 12:47, 5 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Timing
Talk:Kirk Alyn

message: There's a "Citation Needed" under Kirk Alyn publishing a book in 1971. I have a copy of the book. There's no ISBN or publisher listed - my guess would be he self-published it. What's the proper way to cite that?  Auldpig (talk) 21:26, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kirk Alyn book
Talk:United States District Court for the District of South Dakota

message: The first sentence of the article reads as thus:  "The United States District Court for the District of South Dakota (in case citations, D.S.D.) is the United States District Court or the Federal district court, whose jurisdiction for issues pertaining to federal law or diversity for the state of South Dakota."
What does the term "diversity" mean in this context?  I suppose its some legal term, but I don't recall every coming across it previously. KevinOKeeffe (talk) 23:35, 11 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I found the answer:  Diversity jurisdiction KevinOKeeffe (talk) 23:35, 11 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: "Diversity?"
Talk:Parks and open spaces in the London Borough of Enfield

message: This banner doesn't seem relevent. Are we expected to give co-ordnates for all the parks!? Rogwan 16:46, 3 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thaks for removing it Rogwan 13:32, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: LocateMeBot
Talk:List of Cathay Dragon destinations

message: The lead section of this list-article states that these were the flights that were being operated as of October 2020. However, none of the references used to support the routes in the list were even published by this date and most are from years before that. The list is therefore effectively unreferenced for the data it purports to display. FOARP (talk) 18:26, 21 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  citations needed
Talk:New England Role Playing Organization

message: I'll dig up the sources, but under Wikipedia:Notability (organizations and companies) the primary criterion for a company being notable is discussion in outside secondary sources.
Being the subject of an article in Dragon Magazine, a major (and at the time of the article largest) fantasy gaming magazine is pretty notable.  That NERO also was the subject of articles in regional newspapers like the Boston Globe seems to satisfy this, it's been noted in the media as a fantasy entertainment company.  I've got finals this week so I'm pretty busy, but I'll note all this and remove that "non notable" tag once the secondary sources are listed.  --Wingsandsword 18:32, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Notability