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Talk:Elrond

message: Could we include the picture JRRT made of Elrond? Also, what precise amount is Elrond elvish? Is it possible to include this? Jack Upland (talk) 02:12, 3 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Tolkien's artwork will remain in copyright until 1 January 2044. Until then, we can use it only on a fair-usage basis, i.e. at low resolution and with individual justifications. He drew few figures (of men or elves) and I don't recall seeing an Elrond in any of the art books. He's described as "half-elven", and the family tree shows that both his parents were half-elven; though part (1/16) of the "elvish" blood is actually Maia – higher than elf – from Melian, so if a hyper-picky genealogist were to demand that to be treated separately, it'd be 1/16 Maia, 7/16 Elf, and 1/2 Man. But I think such calculations more suited to talk pages than Wikipedia articles. Chiswick Chap (talk) 08:14, 3 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggested additions
Talk:Politics of Lebanon

message: This page uses the term "confessional" numerous times but doesn't define it. It seems to be used in a peculiar sense here and a brief explanation would be helpful. Nohat 19:48, 2004 Apr 28 (UTC)
: Now linked in lead paragraph. Facts707 (talk) 04:27, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Confessionalism

message: It's a good thing Lebanon has the world's weakest internet infrastructure and the 4th slowest internet speeds in the world, otherwise this would probably be filled to the brim with vandalism. In any case, this article doesn't even begin to describe the politics of Lebanon. I'd fix it myself, but I'd probably go insane in the process so I would rather not. 193.157.229.201 (talk) 15:52, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Politics of Lebanon? 

message: Might it perhaps be a good idea to remove this section? I fail to see how it links to the country's politics, and inevitably almost every country will appear in the news at some point in their lifetime. It's not especially noteworthy. 90.215.69.19 (talk) 15:25, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: 'Lebanon in the news'?

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: closed. (closed by non-admin page mover)  Jerm (talk) 01:09, 22 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Politics of Lebanon →  – Article has advanced to being primarily about the government of Lebanon. Facts707 (talk) 04:22, 30 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 30 May 2021
Talk:Brain–computer interface

message: it was added here: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brain%E2%80%93computer_interface&diff=prev&oldid=1129021088
The IP has made no other contributions and also admitted that it was a joke submission. 146.229.119.152 (talk) 20:38, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right, I've never seen it referred to as that and was unable to find anything from a (quick) search. Thank you! Irltoad (talk) 23:51, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  I don't think anybody calls it "smartbrain"
Talk:Day sailer

message: Take a minute to read the comments at Talk:Sailing#Re-write effort -- non how-to et seq. Some of us are working on re-organizing the sailing-related articles. See if you agree with our approach and give us some help. Mrees1997 20:51, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Sailing]] re-organization effort 

message: There's a distinction to be made here. The "Day Sailer" is a specific boat design - created in the late 50's by George O'Day and Uffa Fox.  Search under "Day Sailer (Dinghy)" It's spelled with an 'e', not an 'o', which is a common mistake, even by those who own those boats.
'Daysailer' is a generic term, referring to any boat not designed to sail more than overnight or intended to only go out during the daytime. Onecould argue that a sailor is the person using the boat, and a sailer is the boat... not a very common distinction.
I would encourage this article be merged with the article on the Day Sailer, or changed so it only references the generic form.
Bob (talk) 19:03, 3 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I think having two articles is better. We have daysailes here too, although I do not think we have the Day Sailer. I tried to lessen the confusion. The etymology is worth describing, if it is correct (no source, though). There is now too much text about that, compared to all the article, but I think that could be balanced by writing more. There certainly is more to write. --LPfi (talk) 10:20, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  It is "Day Sailer"
Talk:Unigov

message: How convenient that the Republican Party is mentioned in the article as having benefited from Unigov, but the Peterson administration's spoils from the Indianapolis Works plan are not mentioned...
This article may be served better by mentioning that either way you spin it, Unigov and Indianapolis Works! are being used by the Republican and Democratic parties respectively to consolidate their respective power bases; the Republicans vis a vis Richard Lugar to take advantage of white flight to the townships, and the Democrats vis a vis Bart Peterson to take advantage of the middle class flight to the townships. 
Let's not even start with the issues that Lawrence is having that would make it seem as if Deborah Cantwell would love to allow Indianapolis to cede Lawrence back into the mix...and people thought that Tom Schneider was bad for Lawrence....KC9CQJ 02:37, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Power consolidation  

message: What was the physical size of Indy, in square miles, immediately before the merger?  I assume it had annexed far beyond its square mile very early on, right? --Criticalthinker (talk) 10:07, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Size Before Merge

message: I have added a citation needed flag in the legacy section about the reception of the amalgamation. I would normally search out a source, but this seems to be a very specific claim, and is probably best addressed by the original editor. I'm putting this here as advanced notice before I search myself or boldly delete. Kwkintegrator (talk) 22:47, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I added the ref already used in the next paragraph. While this is a specific claim, I don't think anyone has ever disputed that there was opposition to Unigov by Blacks and other groups who saw it as a loss of potential power. Indyguy (talk) 23:12, 3 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsupported claim in legacy section
Talk:Model–view–controller

message: I share sentiment with comment above , that picture is disturbing . users (clients) should only interact with view objects while controllers 'goes' between views and model(data). 41.77.91.206 (talk) 07:17, 17 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: According to Krasner and Pope 1988: "The model carries out the prescribed operations, possibly changing its state, and broadcasts to its dependents (views and controllers) that it has changed, possibly telling them the nature of the change. Views can then inquire of the model about its new state, and update their display if necessary." so Model-View interaction is part of MVC as described in the original literature. But I do think there is room for improvement. The original literature includes the input and display devices as part of the diagram and also differentiates between state "change messages" and "access/editing messages". It may be useful to portray that distinction here. Elplatt (talk) 19:32, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture issue
Talk:Random Fibonacci sequence

message: I removed the following text from the article:
:the ratio of the absolute values of successive terms converges to the value of the constant
If this were true, then f(n-1) would be approximately Vf(n-2), where V denotes Viswanath's constant. Hence f(n) is either f(n-1) + f(n-2) = (V+1) f(n-1) or f(n-1) - f(n-2) = (V-1) f(n-1), so f(n) / f(n-1) is either (V+1)/V or (V-1)/V. These numbers differ, so the ratio f(n) / f(n-1) does not converge.
I replaced the above text with the definition from Viswanath's paper. -- Jitse Niesen 23:17, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

message: Mathworld (see references) defines the random Fibonacci sequence as 
a_n = \pm a_{n-1} \pm a_{n-2} 
with +/- sign in front of the two terms. The definition in the main article has only one +/-.
TomyDuby (talk) 18:27, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep, you're right. I checked against Viswanath's article, and he does the same. A bit unfortunate, in my opinion, because it just complicates the definition without making much difference. But we better follow the source, so I changed the article. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 19:13, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is the definition correct? 

message: The second paragraph of this section appears to be meaningless speculation (rabbits preying on each other?), whereas only the first 2 sentences of the first paragraph are relevant to the article, and need to be highlighted sooner, as they provide a theoretical underpinning for exponential growth of the sequence. Is there any reason why the section has been preserved virtually in its original form for so long? Arcfrk (talk) 02:23, 19 April 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed it. Arcfrk (talk) 05:12, 22 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Significance
Talk:Protoself

message: Unless anybody has real good arguments against this, I will merge this article with Core consciousness, but not sooner than 6/6. Lova Falk talk 16:20, 29 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, I decided not to do this. Both protoself and core consciousness, and, by the way, extended consciousness should all be sections in a new article that might be called Damasio's theory of consciousness. I haven't read Damasio's book and don't really know enough of this theory to create this article. I'll also remove the tag. Lova Falk talk 12:49, 12 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: I would like to merge this article, along with the article entitled Extended Consciousness, into the article Core Consciousness. I would then re-title the entire article "Damasio's Theory of Consciousness". If anyone has any objections, do voice them.  Otherwise I will procede with the merge in about a week. Rachaelallen91 (talk)
:Please go ahead! Remember though that article titles are case sensitive, and that we use sentence style. Thus, you're going to merge this article, along with Extended consciousness into Core consciousness, and than retitle (we call this "move") into Damasio's theory of consciousness. Good luck, and let us know if you need some help! Lova Falk talk 13:07, 21 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: New Merger Proposal
Talk:De Havilland Flamingo

message: It states clearly that the photo is exempt as taken by a British government employee 50 years ago. ???? Bzuk 22:33, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Image challenge

message: He flew in this plane to Paris prior to the Fall of France (1940). Might be mentioned. --CopperKettle 10:10, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Winston Churchill

message: A cigarette card image on  shows the type with a triple tail. Was this an early prototype? Drutt (talk) 21:17, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Tail
Talk:3834 Zappafrank

message: "Scialli's favorite choices of name proved, for a variety of reasons, to be unsuitable: 2813 Zappalà had already been named after the astronomer Vincenzo Zappalà..."
That sounds a bit strange to me, in light of the fact that later another asteroid did get the name Zappa. That one, according to the JPL data-base is named after some astronomer, not Frank Zappa, but anyway, the argument was just about the name.
Maybe Scalia was just afraid that might be a problem, or maybe the IAU changed their policy later, when they needed thounsands more minor planet names?--ospalh (talk) 11:00, 22 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: 16745 Zappa
Talk:Briarwood, Queens

message: Article listed on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion Apr 29 to May 6 2004, consensus was to keep.  Discussion:
Not particularily notable, unless we want articles on the houses of famous people as well.  Falcon 01:24, Apr 29, 2004 (UTC)
*Keep, certainly. Seems plenty notable to me. Everyking 02:10, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)

message: Once primarily a way station for Jewish families on their way to the suburbs, Briarwood is today a very diverse community, with lead fractions of the population being African-Americans (36.6%) and European-Americans (30.2%). It has many Bukharian Jewish, Greek, Hispanic, African American, Albanian, and South American residents. It now has a distinguishable and fast-growing Asian American (14.4%) community as well.[2]
What source or evidence is there supporting this is a way station. I'm not disputing that this is residential nor arguably even suburban. However, this statement leaves the assumption that Jews had come from a place that's not specified? And that they were to a suburb that's unspecified? And why them exclusively. I'll be taking out the first line. Tom173.72.121.29 (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 02:28, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  No evidence or source supporting that this is a ''way station'' for Jewish Americans. 
Talk:Lifestyle disease

message: The lifestyle diseases article has a twin which is missing!  I should know since I wrote both articles. This article has a companion article called modifiable risk factors. It is actually just about the only article on the web that talks about this subject in general rather than going down the list disease by disease. Both articles were originally part of one big web page on on my website. The twin is missing and is going to stay missing.  Just thought that you might want to know that my generosity in developing Wikipedia has limits. 
And by the way, I have already added the Wellness (alternative medicine) article to my folk edition of Wikipedia. I have also modified it. So, my copy is now better than Wikipedia's. I don't have the time to clean it up every time somebody takes a crap, even on the talk pages. -- 00:01, 9 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: John Gohde (talk) 23:40, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article has a twin which is missing! 

message: My understanding is that diseases of civilization and longevity are not exactly the same things. Diseases of civilization, such as diabetes and heart disease will appear at increased rates in all age groups, so calling them diseases of longevity is a bit misleading is it not? Peregrine981 (talk) 10:58, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  are diseases of civilization and longevity really synonymous? 

message: There is absolutely ZERO EVIDENCE that male pattern baldness is NOTHING BUT GENETIC.
It's simply a coincidence that white/industrialized countries have higher rates of baldness compared to asians/spanish/less industrialized countries.... This is all genetic. Remove it or add a citation note  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.39.192.229 (talk) 23:43, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Male Pattern Baldness (Androgenic Alopecia) 

message: Typical meals for aristocrats in 18th century England could be 100% meat. Only the very poor ate much starch, and they failed to thrive for other reasons. See for instance "Kitchen & Table : a Bedside History of Eating in the Western World" by Colin Clair. So blaming meat in the diet for "diseases of civilization" is false. It's very easy to see which diseases are brought on by, versus ameliorated by meat consumption by examining Inuit health in the era post-penicillin, pre McDonalds.172.5.154.148 (talk) 15:25, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meat consumption way down in 20th century
Talk:Objectivism/Archive 2

message: I just did a major edit on the page. I didn't address the factual error previously mentioned (it seemed perfectly Randian to me, although I don't recall reading that exact quote either. I'll do a Google search on it later.)
I also invited a few fellow students of Objectivism to clarify some of the rest of it. It appears a lot of the work here has been done by critics of Objectivism. While that's fine for purposes of NPOV, students of Objectivism, in my experience, usually know a lot more about the topic than the critics.
Edit: I can't find any match for the disputed quote other than the Wikipedia itself. It sounds Randian enough, but I'm taking it out until it can be verified. Philip L. Welch Feb. 15, 2004
I've been editing this page even more extensively, with Michael Hardy's help and clarification (thank you). I think all conflicts between my edits and his are resolved. Philwelch 00:18, 16 Feb 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I added both sections. They don't contradict: Objectivism rejects the mind-body dichotomy,  holding that the mind and body are an integrated whole, but it doesn't get into the specific metaphysical descriptions of how that works. You see, the main problem with mind-body dualism is figuring out how an immaterial mind can really interact with and influence a material body, and how sense data from the material body goes to the immaterial mind. While Objectivism holds that this mind and body are an integrated whole, it doesn't comment on how specifically, for instance, material and immaterial things can interact, if they can, or which parts are strictly material and immaterial. You can feel free to clarify that, but I consider myself a pretty serious student of Objectivism, and I added both statements, not expecting them to contradict. Philwelch 19:00, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Major Edit
Talk:Betti number

message: What makes some spaces more "reasonable" than others? Any statement about "the most reasonable finite-dimensional spaces" is inherently not mathematical. I suggest that the statement be made more clear/precise, or removed.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 132.64.72.154 (talk) 09:30, 27 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Introduction

message: I think this subsection should not be here, or should be cut to one sentence.
Tosha 03:40, 29 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Could someone at least put back in a link to De Rham cohomology? There are whole swathes of people interested in global analyis or electromagnetics for whom de Rham cohomology is the only algebraic topology they know hence know the Betti numbers as the dimension of these spaces and measuring 'how many closed forms are not exact' is a matter of vector calculus. Billlion 12:20, 20 Sep 2004 (UTC)

text: That's the genus g. B1 = 2g for orientable surfaces. Charles Matthews 18:50, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  what is a "general Pretzel"? 24.58.63.18 (talk) 17:20, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Images on triple torus will give you the idea. Charles Matthews (talk) 22:18, 20 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Relationship with differential forms

message: Can we have more examples of computed Betti numbers? e.g. RP2, RP3, CP2, S^2, S^3, full torus?..
Commentor (talk) 01:44, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: More examples?

message: That was deleted here . It seems to be correct. 188.27.81.64 (talk) 21:20, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  I've restored a section 

message: Hello. is the example for the simplicial complex correct? It seems to me that if the shaded region is the 2-simplex, then the hole is the non-shaded region. 147.26.87.13 (talk) 15:56, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Example 

message: The last section looks like advertisement for some random biology paper. probably inappropriate in wikipedia in general, and on this page in particular.
134.157.10.42 (talk) 13:26, 20 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I deleted all but the link to Topological data analysis — Cheers, Steelpillow (Talk) 09:35, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Last section 

message: Enquiring minds want to know: what are the Betti numbers for the affine Lie groups? Err quantum groups,  from the affine Lie algebras? 203.210.8.148 (talk) 02:47, 26 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  affine lie groups 

message: I can not find the description for the Betti number for finite abelian groups.  Should I add it to this article or have a separate article? Digital27 (talk) 17:44, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Betti Number of Finite Abelian Groups
Talk:Comorian languages

message: Neither the CIA World Factbook 2008 nor the Ethnologue report for Comoros list comorian as an official language.  Please produce a citation to confirm this.--The Jacobin (talk) 18:45, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: removed official status after no response --The Jacobin (talk)  —Preceding comment was added at 20:30, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Official Status 

message: The article says, "No official alphabet existed in 1992 . . . ." but it doesn't explain why that year is significant.  It should.  J. D. Crutchfield | Talk 16:58, 22 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why mention 1992? 

message: So how did speakers of this language come to the Comoro islands? Did they migrate here by their own volition? Or were they brought here as slaves? (History of the Comoros is frustratingly sketchy on this issue.) -- llywrch (talk) 18:06, 11 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: This source claims that the Bantu speakers arrived before the Shirazi Arabs sometime between the 5th and 10th century IntergalacticOboist (talk) 00:23, 24 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  An omission 

message: @Fdom5997 If there's actually a citation for the phonology, cite it directly, with a ref on the table, and cite the specific document and page number it comes from. --Eievie (talk) 20:38, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: @Eievie Yes, I'll have to check to see which sources listed below, I used for the phonology section. Fdom5997 (talk) 22:38, 19 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation
Talk:List of people in alternative medicine

message: Really? Alternative medicine, in the modern sense of the term, rather than contemporary to his discoveries????? Gzuckier 18:40, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Louis Pasteur 

message: Fire Star, why the removal of people such as Cheng Man-ch'ing from this list? TCM is classified as alternative medicine - see the alternative medicine article. Greenman 12:30, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not alternative 

message: I removed the following unsourced material from the article by User:Dbbajpai1945@sify.com --apers0n 18:40, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed content 

message: The inclusion criteria for this list are stated in the beginning:
* "Famous people in alternative medicine provides a master list of the articles included in this alternative medicine (CAM) series of articles."
There are two criteria listed:
# They need to be famous, and (no matter how famous they may be considered by someone)
# They need to be notable enough to already have an article here.
Those inclusion criteria are well-worded and serve as a pretty good way to keep people from misusing this list to advertise people and practitioners. Wikipedia should not be misused to create notability. Those who are red-linked are obviously not included in accordance with the inclusion criteria and should be deleted on sight. I'll let those who are editing this article do it, and it needs to be done sooner rather than later. Be bold! -- Fyslee (collaborate) 13:28, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Since no one seems to be listening, I'll go ahead and do it now. If anyone disputes it, I'm more than willing to discuss it here. -- Fyslee (collaborate) 10:04, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non notable people listed as "famous" ? 

message: This is a fixanble complaint. Rich Farmbrough, 08:58, 13 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Prod removed

message: The need for citation in this list should be unnecessary. The citations must come in the articles referd to here. Blindvei, 7. jan 2014.
:Agreed. Every person on this list has a WP article, and those articles should contain adequate sources to document notability and alternative medicine fame. --Karinpower (talk) 03:53, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Citations for verification