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Talk:Inner Circle railway line

message: I am not familiar with the disbanded railway lines, but wonder whether the Nicholson Street station would be Carlton and Langridge Street would be Fitzroy, rather than the other way around.
Mbwardle 15:21, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: If by Fitzroy you mean North Fitzroy (and not Fitzroy station on the branch to the south), then the street names are correct. Langridge Street is now just Lang Street for some reason, (and North Carlton station was located adjacent to it), and North Fitzroy was located adjacent to Nicholson Street. I don't see how they could be the other way around. TPK 17:10, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)

message: "and ironically the remaining overhead gantry sections still carry railway electrical current between the Upfield and Epping railway lines."
Is my perception of irony off or is this not ironic
--Dinna89 09:43, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Rewritten without 'irony'. Wongm (talk) 11:25, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  supposed irony 

message: Does anyone have any details/images regarding Fitzroy station on the branch and where it was located. A quick google fails to return anything. Nomadtales (talk) 05:20, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It went down to the Edinbrough Gardens or thereabouts. I'm pretty sure it was just freight sidings, not a actual 'station' as such. Wongm (talk) 05:28, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Another search just then has turned up these two interesting documents:  & . Your right it was in Edinburgh Gardens. I think it briefly carried passengers before competion from the trams closed it to just freight. I will try to incorporate some of this into the article. Nomadtales (talk) 05:38, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Doh. Most of the info was already in the article, including links to the document .. if I had bothered to read it properly. Nomadtales (talk) 05:55, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fitzroy station 
Talk:Fast user switching

message: According to the man page, the su command has been around since Version 1 Unix, which—according to the Unix article—was released in 1971.  There may have been similar commands for CTSS (1961) and Multics (mid-1960s).  This well predates Linux (early 1990s).  These commands were not graphical, of course—you switched from a command-line shell owned by the login user to a command-line shell owned by another user.  But it did switch users (in the same way modern systems do it) and it was fast.  This should be mentioned in the article—just because you've only been able to do it for a few years doesn't mean Unix geeks haven't been doing it for 35.—Kbolino 06:44, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lies, damn lies, and ignorance 

message: I might remove the part which says
:For installations with older environments, the functionality must be enabled in the configuration file of the X display manager (for example GDM) then a hot key sequence such as CTRL-ALT-F8 is pressed. A separate login window will now appear and the second user can login (or even the first user again). Alternatively, in the default install, new X sessions can be started at will by using different display parameters to have them run in different virtual terminals (e.g. "startx -- :1" or "X :1 -query localhost"). Again, hot key sequences allow the user switching to take place.
since it reads like a howto, not a description. Thoughts? Marnanel 15:51, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That sounds good. It does seem out of place, although I think it may be better to add explanations for Mac OSX and Windows, just because the article is still border-line stub length. Stale Fries 00:41, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Howto 

message: This page is mixing up "user switching" with "Fast User Switching" (with caps). The former has been around for ages in different forms, including Linux virtual consoles and [screen]. On the other hand "Fast User Switching" as described in body of the article seems to be specifically related to fully graphical desktop environments such as MS Windows and GNOME. Either the scope in the first paragraph needs to be narrowed to relate only to modern graphical desktop environments, or the rest of the article needs to be vastly expanded.
It might also be worth recognising "Fast User Switching" as an ongoing effort by linux distros to catch up with the OS X user experience.
EndlessPossibilities (talk) 17:20, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scope 

message: According to the article, fast user switching is unavailable if the computer is on a "domain network." What does that mean?Unfree (talk) 10:26, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Domain network

message: This needs some expanding...  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.46.162.190 (talk) 21:57, 6 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Mac OS

message: 2.^ Architecture of Fast User Switching  - and probably other MSDN links - gone for good  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.90.116.114 (talk) 08:20, 22 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  404
Talk:Building Nothing Out of Something

message: On this album at least. - Immigrant laborer (talk) 17:45, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelled "Artic", not "Arctic"
Talk:Endangered Species (Flaw album)

message: * Good source from Billboard regarding the single "Recognize", could be used here or if a song article was ever created. See here. Sergecross73 msg me 17:01, 20 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recognize source
Talk:Vladimir (Waiting for Godot)

message: What production is the photo credit from?  This should be listed.
--Xinoph 17:58, Sep 12, 2004 (UTC)
Done.--Yossarian 21:05, Sep 12, 2004 (UTC)
Age ranges it has been played as should be listed.  And I can't find them anywhere, except for the 1 Bert Lahr production.
70.61.100.232 23:38, 31 December 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Turkish

message: Azerbaijan (Azarbaijan) is a region in northwest of Iran. The Republic of Azerbaijan is a country in Caucasus. These regions are not Turkish. Their language belongs to the Turkic group of Altaic but this is not a good reason to put their name under the name Turkish. Doing that is like puting the name England under the heading German, just because English language is a Germanic language!
--Mani1 18:11, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: .  --Lambiam 06:23, 29 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Hello,
@ Talk:Aurat (disambiguation)#Requested_move_11_May_2020 is taking place about article relating to women of mainly of Asian origin. In Past 2 days only two opinions are received and more opinions will be preferable.  Thanks for your opinion and  participation in discussion.
Bookku (talk) 12:03, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requesting opinion on a page move request.
Talk:Rubrics (education)

message: Aren't rubrics red letters at the start of chapters, as found in many old Books? -- 82.83.135.245 19:00, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)

message: Hi, I found this page : Rubric (academic) which is the same thing, no?  Should they be linked together or something? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.156.91.84 (talk) 01:44, 23 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: definitely needs merging - not sure which way it should go though as "rubric" should be in the singular so the page should be "rubric (education)" Madmedea 15:10, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes.  This article should definitely be at Rubric (academic) ; it's a singular and more general name there.  SnowFire 02:27, 13 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  merge proposal
Wikipedia talk:Reference desk/header/Archive

message: Benc suggested using this page to discuss replacing the text currently at the top of Wikipedia:Reference desk. See Wikipedia_talk:Reference desk#Instruction bloat. The basic idea is that the existing instructions are long and complicated, and frequently ignored. I believe that they can be rewritten to make them easier to follow, by using a couple of small screenshots as examples. AlexG 19:00, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)

message: Perhaps we would do better to pressure the developers to add an inline "post new comment" edit box?  If the reference desk could include a real, working edit box at the top of the page, a number of problems would be solved at once:
* no need to describe what an edit box looks like
* no need for [ Post a new comment] links
* no intermediate edit page
* instructions remain visible
* an example question could be displayed
--η[ υωρ] 03:25, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Feature requests 

message: hope no one minds--Aolanonawanabe 00:22, 30 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Added new Cat

message: I removed WP:DESK as a redirect.  There are two desks on Wikipedia, the reference desk and the help desk.  Having WP:DESK go directly to the reference would be confusing.  I'm going to make it an undocumented redirect to Wikipedia:Where to ask a question. Superm401 - Talk 00:12, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed [[WP:DESK]] 

message: :Copy of discussion at Wikipedia talk:Reference desk#Browse all questions...
==Browse all questions...==
I'm thinking of removing the Browse all questions... link from the RD header. It is a relic from long ago when the RD was first split into categories (remember that!?) and was argued in as a "security blanket". It is a HUGE page that seems to serve no purpose any longer except to confuse the newcomers. Thoughts?  --hydnjo talk 19:37, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow, that is huge.  And of course it's not "all" questions, just the ones that haven't been archived.  I can't imagine anybody actually using that, you've got my vote.  --LarryMac 19:46, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

text: I agree that removing the all link would be an improvement. -R. S. Shaw 20:57, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The RD header links to the /all page as do the direct calls Wikipedia:Reference desk/all and shortcuts WP:RD/ALL and WP:RD/A. I'm not anxious to delete those calls to the composite page, only the link in the header. If some future need comes up then the composite would still be available.  --hydnjo talk 23:35, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

text: end of copy  --hydnjo talk 23:40, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Removal of '''''Browse all questions...''''' link
Talk:History of feminism/to do

message: *Include a section on "New Age Feminism" and/or "Millennial Feminism" as these are terms that have been coming up a lot these days. It is similar to the fourth wave, but differs somewhat. It celebrates and accommodates the differences between men and women and rejects man-hating. 192.76.8.2 (talk) 12:09, 3 March 2015 (UTC)
Talk:Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

message: thanks for coming to Wikipedia. You have stated that you work for Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and Neal D. Barnard.
In Wikipedia we have a lot of challenges with paid editors coming to Wikipedia with an agenda and consuming volunteer time in a tedious way that Wikipedia's intended contributor base - community educators - would never do. Instead of organizations coming to Wikipedia to promote themselves and then leave, what the Wikipedia community would prefer is that organizations come to Wikipedia to share information in their field of expertise in the spirit of good will and community education. We also invite organizations to train their own community base to contribute information to Wikipedia, because everyone is invited to edit Wikipedia.
Could you please ask your sponsor at PCRM if they would be willing to develop some Wikipedia articles in the outreach field of the organization? Perhaps they would agree to look at articles on diet, health, or advocacy issues. Wikipedia is the world's most consulted source of information on nutrition, and if PCRM cares about the topic, then perhaps they would like to advance their institutional mission by distributing information through Wikipedia, even if that does not directly promote their own brand. Could you please ask them if someone at the organization could edit veganism or any other such article of their choice that is not related to the brand of the organization?
Wikipedia's articles on nutrition have been extremely popular since at least 2007 and sharing good information in those articles will have an impact. Starting in general interest articles is also less likely to lead to conflict while PCRM comes to understand the basics of what can and cannot go into Wikipedia. There is about a 40-hour learning curve for learning the Wikipedia basics and from a Wikipedia community perspective, volunteer time is better spent in training people to edit popular articles of general interest than low-traffic articles which are mostly visited by researchers and journalists, like the articles for organizations. I and lots of other Wikipedians would offer to help share health information. While there are some volunteers who like spending their time helping organizations develop their brands, there are many more volunteers who come to Wikipedia for reasons other than public relations, and more people are available to help outside the space of brands. After PCRM learns about Wikipedia by editing popular articles, then I think it would be better informed to make proposals about the articles relating to its brand.
Thanks for whatever you can do. If PCRM has any reply then please share.  Blue Rasberry (talk) 15:33, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a great suggestion and explanation. Thank you! PaperHydrate (talk) 15:45, 8 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can PCRM develop a Wikipedia article in their field of expertise?
Talk:List of undeciphered writing systems

message: What's the idea of having a subsection "deciphered languages" in an "list of undeciphered languages"? -- Pjacobi 20:10, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Probably because they were once considered undeciphered. Bogdan | Talk 11:58, 13 Sep 2004 (UTC)

message: Should we just merge this article with List of writing systems? It's pretty much a duplicate of the last section in that article. kwami 20:06, 2005 August 13 (UTC)
: I agree. Only Guanche language is in here but not there. But there is not enough information in its article to decide where to put it. EmilioSilva 01:24, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I have put Guanche language there, and redirected. I checked and there seems to be little or no loss. EmilioSilva 01:48, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge?
Talk:Kilkis (regional unit)

message: Regardless of any non-Greek names for the capital city, the prefecture did not exist under Ottoman rule, and the name "kukush" did not apply for any geographical or administrative region other than the city itself. The just-removed name is anachronistic. sys < in 13:20, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non Greek Name 

message: These are the most historical people of Kilkis prefecture!! Don't you know them? Read a book then. You could read wikipedia instead, but as I see, wikipedia doesn't allow encyclopedian knowledge.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Pyraechmes (talk • contribs) 19:06, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Personalities of Kilkis prefecture
Talk:Are Ye Right There Michael

message: The song's birth came from an incident when Percy French was to sing and play in a hotel in (?)Lahinch. Due to delays caused by the West Clare Railway, upon his arrival, the patrons had returned home, and the management had had to refund the takings. (French was an engineer by profession, but supplemented his income by composing and by giving concert recitals.) Admirers of his work often overlook that French's songs are not particularly flattering in their portrayal of the native Irish: see "Slattery's Mounted Foot," and the verse about "England's King" in "The Mountains of Mourne." Indeed the words of that song, if analyzed, show a distinct belief in the stupidity of the Irish. 
As might be expected, the song, "Are ye Right there, Michael?" led to a court case for defamation. Legend has it that the author, Percy French, turned up late in court. When he was upbraided by the judge, he replied, "But, Your Honour, I came on the West Clare Railway." The charges were dismissed.--PeadarMaguidhir 14:21, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin and Court Case 

message: The words given here are the most accurate that I have ever seen on the net (The words on The West Clare Railway's site were a mess, at least when I last looked at that site. Two minor points:
  And the fire is taytotally out. (A taytotaller in Ireland being one who drank no alcoholic beverages.)
Also, although I have always seen the words "...fine clamp of turf..., I suggest the word "clump" would make more sense.--PeadarMaguidhir 14:30, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Words Of the Song
Talk:Flag of India

message: Needs :Category:Tricolours flags 92.71.60.61 (talk) 13:03, 15 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  New cat 

message: 164.68.185.161 (talk) 20:00, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Question: why would anyone confuse the two? M.Bitton (talk) 21:47, 4 June 2024 (UTC)

text: Not done: The documentation for  says  The article titles are not similar. User:CanonNi (talk • contribs) 01:11, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 4 June 2024
Talk:Mock Turtle

message: I have started this page with an explanation of the characters name, dont be so quick to remove it!—Preceding unsigned comment added by AmyNelson (talk • contribs) 12 September 2004
I have added and cleaned it up, please do not delete it.—Preceding unsigned comment added by AmyNelson (talk • contribs) 20:58, 12 September 2004
Under cultural references, I have found two seperate books that use the mock turtle's quote "once,sighed the mock turtle, I was a real turtle" to describe the Canadian monarchy. anyone find it notable? --Wilson (talk) 22:43, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
Talk:Forty-Five Years' War

message: #REDIRECT Talk:Cold War
I've never heard of this term before.  Can we get some evidence of who labelled the Cold War as such? (Official U.S. / Soviet documents, speakers etc.) Oberiko 21:10, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)

message: Merge this with Cold War perhaps? K1Bond007 06:57, Feb 9, 2005 (UTC)
*I agree. I'm adding the "merge" tag to the main page, and we'll see what happens from there. Egpetersen 12:29, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge
Talk:Irish reunification

message: Just wondering. And with that in mind, should'nt the title be changed?Fergananim 23.8. 05
It was united as one nation of the United Kingdom of Gb and Ireland pre Government of Ireland Act 1920 so your point is completely wrong.--Muc Fíníneach 15:05, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: it was but it was ruled from london.the parliament in Dublin had to get approval from London before it passed law.--Play Brian Moore 23:08, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, until Poyning's Law was repealed it did. There was a brief period (1782-1800) when the Irish Parliament had actual power as opposed to the illusion of it, and then it got abolished. In my opinion there's nothing wrong about referring to Irish reunification. David | Talk 17:10, 27 August 2005 (UTC)

text: so it had 18 years of power so Fer is wrong.--Play Brian Moore 21:10, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: How can you re-unify that which was never unified in the first place?
Talk:Gojūshiho

message: This is presumably something to do with karate? --Ianb 22:33, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. I asked because it's amazing how much context-free junk gets created, never to be edited. The series is looking good (not that I know anything of the subject). Ianb 08:38, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Brock Adams

message: Possible image at .  No detailed copyright information available.  Site says "Images on this site are provided as a contribution to education and scholarship. Not all images are in the public domain; some images may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Do not duplicate without permission from copyright holder. Copyright information is provided whenever possile, but it is ultimately the responsibility of the user to determine and satisfy the copyright and other restrictions." Blankfaze 16:21, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Possible image
Talk:Loanwords in Japanese

message: :This article was on votes for deletion, the consensus was to keep it. See the archived discussion for further details.
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Hey, Kusunose, thanks for fixing my typos. That's what happens when I work too fast, I guess... --Marnen Laibow-Koser (talk) 01:46, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Work done by Frank Doulton and other linguists seems to show that it varies by age group, and by the task involved.  For example, kids might make mistakes with pronunciation, but they're far better at understanding.  His work also seems to point out that the older you are, the more likely that it might help you rather than hurt. 66.188.113.92 (talk) 09:25, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Since when does gairaigo make pronunciation better?  It tends to make it worse by confusing Japanese learners of English with regard to English phonetics, I would think.  E.g., associating the kana ア with the letter "a", or "R"/"L" with らりるれろ.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 219.208.179.163 (talk) 10:32, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Work done by Frank Doulton and other linguists seems to show that it varies by age group, and by the task involved.  For example, kids might make mistakes with pronunciation, but they're far better at understanding.  His work also seems to point out that the older you are, the more likely that it might help you rather than hurt. 66.188.113.92 (talk) 09:25, 29 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation AID?
Talk:Departments of Benin

message: Maps for each of the province are already available, see User:Ahoerstemeier/Temp for the list. andy 22:56, 12 Sep 2004 (UTC)

message: I don't understand where the regions and sub-regions are coming from, as far as I know, these are not official classifications, and the idea of Zou being in the North seems somewhat bizarre to me.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 160.155.143.24 (talk) 15:15, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regions and Sub-Regions
Talk:Percy French

message: I have renamed this article from "William Percy French" to "Percy French", because he was known as "Percy French".  See for example http://www.percyfrench.org/ ; also 35,900 ghits for "Percy French" -wikipedia and only 857 ghits for "William Percy French" -wikipedia. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 21:23, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Renamed to Percy French 

message: I just made a small edit to the Percy French article.  I neglected to mark it MINOR.  Sorry. Wanderer57 16:58, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minor Edit 

message: I didn't find 'Gortnamona' in the list of songs or poems.
It's quite dark, unlike most of his other work. Some say that it's a reflection on the death of his wife and daughter; I can't confirm or refute this.
Korhomme (talk) 07:26, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gortnamona 

message: The photo of Percy sitting on the bench at Ballyjamesduff isn't great. I'd post a link to one of mine, but the site is on a blacklist here.
Korhomme (talk) 07:34, 15 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo 

message: I have an idea who the editor is who is hiding behind the anonymous "176.61.110.208" (there is a recent book that is lauded here in rather subjective terms). If you read this: Please stop making unreferenced claims in this article. I have placed the "citation needed" tag at a few places, but it should be at many more of your edits. Please only add something when you can provide a source to your claims, i.e. a footnote to a page in a book or to a weblink. Also, please be more careful in terms of formalities like italics, the positioning of commas, full stops, blanks, etc. This is an encyclopedia article that needs to be factual and neutral, not coloured by personal opinion. – Aklein62 (talk) 14:57, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent edits resp. unreferenced claims.