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Talk:Generation ship

message: I was wondering if this (highly fantasized) graphic would be appropriate for the article? I am the author and the license is already Creative Commons. Thanks. ➧datumizer  ☎  07:46, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Unless there is a specific concern or inaccuracy against it, I would say go for it! --ExperiencedArticleFixer (talk) 11:30, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Graphic for article 

message: On one side we have the topic of the use of generation ships in real life, which has its advantages, disadvantages, difficulties and challenges. On the other side, we have generation ships used in works of fiction, which may try to reflect the real issues, but it is a completely different topic. Besides the inherent need to fit into a narrative, science in fiction is easier than real-life science: you can introduce fictional technologies, you can handwave or even ignore intractable problems, you can provide solutions that may sound reasonable to the unsuspecting reader but be complete bullshit for real life, etc. As a consequence, fiction has no place in articles about real-life science, unless it is treated as fiction and nothing else.  
I'm explaining this because of the section "Social breakdown". It explains something that may happen, and cites as a reference a review of a sci-fi book, and later adds "this and that book also talk about this". I removed that, it was restored asking "How is leaving two uncited sentences better than text with cites, not just of fiction, but critical discussion of same?". Yes, unreferenced stuff is bad, but real-life stuff referenced on fiction is worse. And the book review is equally irrelevant: it is "critical discussion" of a work of fiction and nothing else. 
If the section can not be referenced with references that deal with the real life topic, we may need to delete the whole section altogether. I would prefer not to get there, but the section as it is can not stand. Cambalachero (talk) 15:10, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed.  Especially given that there are no other references to fiction in the article, this content is noticeably out of place.  The excerpt has merit, but not in this article. Dan Bloch (talk) 00:57, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fact and fiction
Talk:Rudeness

message: I improved this slightly. Of course it is sourceless and sometimes a bit POV. JFW | T@lk 17:52, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: I

message: I am thinking of adding to the list:
*Asking someone their age
*Asking someone what their salary is
 ignoring a person, when spoken directly too  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.207.32.36 (talk) 14:02, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  What else is considered rude? 

message: Having disgusting yellow teeth, as displayed by Chordate and, most recently, Apollo. How is that rude for Gods sake?--Light current 01:28, 20 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are you joking? 

message: Isn't the list of rudeness a little imprecise, in that what is considered rude varies by country? --Jonathan Drain 14:17, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doesn't rudeness vary by country? 

message: 'Anti-social' does not mean what whoever used the phrase thinks it means. Since asocial behavior doesn't fit the list's examples either, I retitled it [Examples of] Rude Behaviors.   -$5KHPD (talk) 23:22, 11 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  RE: 'Examples - Anti-social Behavior' 

message: Caims that asking inappropriate question or pression for answer are rude are lacking citation. On top of that I think they are false.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 46.126.115.125 (talk) 00:34, 1 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations needed 

message: This article says that hate speech is a crime but it's not, at least not in the United States. Wikipedia's Hate Speech article even acknowledges that the United States doesn't have hate speech laws: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech#United_States
I would like permission to change this to match what the other article says.
For further reading by the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/07/no-theres-no-hate-speech-exception-to-the-first-amendment/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:5B0:4BCB:AAC8:864:BD9D:DD79:D944 (talk) 22:38, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: It doesn't say hate speech is universally a crime (and BTW, it is a crime in some nations), only "rudeness can [emphasis added] go so far as to be a crime, for example, the crime of hate speech". Heavy Water (talk • contribs) 17:31, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hate speech is not a crime in the United States
Talk:Deposition (geology)

message: Deposition                                          Gracie Rodriguez
There is something that makes air deposit soil to another place. Do you know what it is? It is called Deposition! An example of deposition is: There is an island and a coastline. A strong gust of wind suddenly blew in making soil from the island go and make the coastline bigger. That is called deposition. There is a root word in there. It is deposit. erosion and deposition are kind of like partners. deposition is a good thing and a bad thing. It is a good thing because it makes our state or even country a bigger place. But it also makes the smaller places like Hawaii a smaller place. Anyways, you can check out more on deposition and erosion here at Wikipedia.org!
===Random Links===
OK, so is there any particular reason why we're including random links to random geologists in this article? This is a particular article about a specific branch of geology (sedimentology), so this is like saying "here's some other examples of people who've done engineering in their lives" on an article on Bernouli's (sp?) Principle. I've also edited the article to remove redundant words, and put in some bits about exactly what transports the sediment. Also, I've reworded it to make it clearer how the order of erosion-->transport-->deposition works (at least I hope it's clearer). 139.147.197.162 (talk) 16:27, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: OK, so is there any particular reason why we're including random links to random geologists in this article? This is a particular article about a specific branch of geology (sedimentology), so this is like saying "here's some other examples of people who've done engineering in their lives" on an article on Bernouli's (sp?) Principle. I've also edited the article to remove redundant words, and put in some bits about exactly what transports the sediment. Also, I've reworded it to make it clearer how the order of erosion-->transport-->deposition works (at least I hope it's clearer). 139.147.197.162 (talk) 16:27, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Random Links

message: I consider myself fairly well-versed in the sciences, and also in the English language, having used it for over 40 years... but I cannot for the life of me figure out what this paragraph means.  The words appear to be English — maybe I've suffered a stroke and don't know it yet?  Can anyone enlighten me and explain what concept this is attempting to convey?  I'd fix the sentences myself, if only I understood them.  Groll†ech (talk) 00:02, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks almost like random wordism to me. 'Twas added by an ip the other day and I've no clue what the ip was trying to say ... so I've chopped it. If anyone can interpret the jumble of words, feel free to rewrite and add it back. Cheers, Vsmith (talk) 01:26, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nonsensical babble?  Or is it me?
Talk:1889 London dock strike

message: What was the solution of the conflict? And which role did mediator cardinal Manning play in it exactly? --Oudeístalk  11:35, 4 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Solution
Wikipedia talk:Mediation Cabal/Cases/2005-12-27 Jehovah's Witnesses

message: Steven, I accept the terms under which you are making these changes, but I would offer the caveat that, in the past, there is no such thing as a "little" liberty, or a "little" anything here.  Large or small, certain editors will invariably (and predictably) raise a fuss until everyone else feels physically nauseated. - CobaltBlueTony 18:25, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reply from Cobaltbluetony 

message: yes he is --Greyfox 02:31, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Agree (mediator is damaged)
Talk:Alpha Pegasi

message: A proper name mankib for β Pegasi, and Mirfak for α Persei.--Bay Flam 11:11, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: proper name

message: The page currently states that Alpha Pegasi has spectral type A0 IV. This appears to be in error: the Simbad database (and other references) indicates it is a B9 III type star: http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=ALPHA+PEGASI. I would make the edit, but I am not sure at all how to set up the reference correctly. It should be corrected though: it's a significant error. Joel (talk) 01:32, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: It isn't a significant error.  It is a marginal difference.  Reliable sources report the spectral type (MK unless noted) for this star variously from newer to older as A1IV (BCD), A0IV, A0III-IV, B8IV:, A0V (S2/68), B9III, B9.5III, or B9V.  Simbad currently shows a spectral class of B9III but doesn't give a source for it.  Simbad itself is not a particularly reliable source because it changes over time.  I don't see any compelling reason to change from a recent value from a respected source of A0IV to an old (1968) value of B9III just because Simbad happens to still be showing that value.  Simbad does usually pick up on the most recent spectral class from an MK spectral atlas, but it isn't God.  The borderline A0/B9 III/IV spectrum should probably be discussed in the body of the article.  Just for fun, the Bright Star Catalog shows B9V, the Hipparcos Input Catalog shows B9.5III, and the Henry Draper Catalog (old!) shows A0.  Lithopsian (talk) 13:19, 19 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  Well, I'll leave it to you to decide on significance. In any event, "the borderline A0/B9 III/IV spectrum should probably be discussed in the body of the article": that would actually be helpful.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Joel Shepherd (talk • contribs) 05:55, 28 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spectral Type
Talk:Unicode and email

message: : Most modern mail clients support Unicode but it is rarely the default. The bulk of e-mail character representation needs were satisfied just fine by the ability to specify which charset an e-mail was in. Using unicode could simplify a program that only sent e-mail and needed to support multiple scripts but receiving e-mail still requires the ability to deal with whatever charset the sender chooses. (Added to the article by User:Plugwash)
The first line duplicates a line in the introduction. "just fine" is opinionated; Farsi-speaking users weren't handled just fine. Using Unicode is near unavoidable by programs that need to handle a variety of character sets. I just don't see what this adds to the article.--Prosfilaes 20:37, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added paragraph 

message: "Most do not send in Unicode by default,"
: Why? — Omegatron 15:35, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Because Unicode is not supported by all clients. Clever agents use Unicode when the encodings with broader support do not cover all used characters. It is e.g. useless to send a message containing only ascii characters in Unicode and usually better to use the Latin-* encodings for French, Swedish and other languages covered by those. As Unicode support gets functional even in primitive programs (that might not support Latin-* & co) US-ASCII might become the only other character set worth trying. --LPfi (talk) 09:06, 7 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed the dubious tag regarding this issue. Although Unicode (encoded as UTF-8) is ASCII-compatible, it is not compatible with the myriads of alternative character encodings used for languages for which ASCII is not enough. If you are Russian, your e-mail client will probably use KOI8-R by default, even if it can handle Unicode. Likewise Latin-1 is much better than broken ASCII (as in unimplemented UTF-8) for most languages in Western Europe. And those are languages with alphabets similar to the one of American English. --LPfi (talk) 19:05, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why not the default? 

message: It seems to me that no email transport sends or receives "Unicode".  They send or receive UTF-8 (or UTF-7, as mentioned in the current article), which is an encoding of Unicode.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.91.29.50 (talk) 12:37, 1 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Referring to all the encodings of Unicode as 'Unicode' has become common use. I wouldn't bother correcting it. Even standards documents have started using the term that way. 63.197.247.13 (talk) 21:31, 8 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missuse of term 'unicode'? 

message: The article fails to distinguish between the use of Unicode with the old MIME protocolRFC 2045, RFC 2046, RFC 2047 and the use of Unicode with the new Internationalization supportRFC 6530, RFC 6531, RFC 6532, RFC 6533. Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz Username:Chatul (talk) 16:40, 7 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflating two topics
Talk:Pax World Funds

message: I just started this page, and have tried to make it as NPOV as possible. If anyone has any problems with the article, please notify me on my talk page. --Liface 18:22, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Just a couple of notes -the official site probably shouldn't be used a reference, and there really only needs to be one external link to the Pax sites. Also, the last bit gets into the definition of socially responsibly investing versus sustainable investing, which drifts a little from the focus of the article (the company). TNXMan 21:56, 30 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Notes
Talk:Margaret Biggs

message: The text in the article is a copy of  (by Ju Gosling) with a little paraphrasing. If User:Skull 'n' Femurs is Ms Gosling, or the text is relased under the GFDL or a compatible licence, that would be fine; otherwise not. I've left a query at User talk:Skull 'n' Femurs
However, even if we have permission to use this text, a number of paragraphs are quoted material from which the attribution has been removed. This is quite wrong, and the attributions should be restored if the material is kept. Gdr 18:27, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I could quibble and dispute that 1.  was the prime source, (I'd never visited that page before the link was posted). 2. It was "with minor paraphrasing", but whatever - at least I did not simply cut 'n' paste without any changesas per Charles Matthews at school story... Skull 'n' Femurs 20:02, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  You say it was from the one source, so you tell me? Since it has gone, how can I say otherwise? Whatever... ask Charles Matthews if he knows.  Also, I removed no attribution(s) from the quotes. "Am I bothered?" (Is that quote copyright, as well?) Skull 'n' Femurs 20:35, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyright violation
Talk:Virtual Insanity

message: Might want to take out the part about the toaster... funny though  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.220.159.9 (talk) 07:27, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV 

message: This page has, at different times, given two different explainations for how the video was made (moving walls, moving floor), neither of them referenced. It would be good to have this section back, but since there is disagreement, there needs to be references.
Keithmahoney 21:22, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  How It Was Done 

message: The song's being used on the commercial for Space Week on the Science Channel. Which may or may not warrant a mention. I'll let my fellow wikipedians decide. --MightyGiant 22:29, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Space Week 

message: Why isn't it mentioned anywhere on this page that the song won a Grammy in 1997 for Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal? Seems like a pretty big oversight to me...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.128.192.27 (talk) 23:08, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammy
Talk:Bull shark

message: The correct citation should be this one:
Thomerson, J. E., Thorson, T. B., and Hempel, R. L. (1977). The bull shark, Carcharhinus leucas, from the Upper Mississippi River near Alton, Illinois. Copeia, 1977(1), 166-168. https://doi.org/10.2307/1443522
Thank you.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:541:501:C510:ADE5:B48F:D062:5CA4 (talk) 20:58, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add proper citation for Mississippi River occurrence. 

message: This shark is/was a major problem for Réunion, so I’m incredibly surprised that this map doesn’t mark the island as being within its range? 81.101.176.9 (talk) 04:48, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Réunion Island
Talk:Raine Maida

message: I tagged this as "citation needed":
Maida and Chantal Kreviazuk contributed to Kelly Clarkson's song "Where Is Your Heart?", which Kreviazuk actually helped write
because even though it clearly states that Chantal Kreviazuk co-wrote the song, it doesn't mention what Raine Maida's contribution was. -- chsf, 15:35 CET, Friday 13th April 2007
: Kelly Clarkson's official website used to state that Maida played guitar on the song. Her site has been updated since the release of a new album and no longer includes the info, but I added a Google cache link as reference, because he did work on it. Lunapuella 22:27, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maida & [[Kelly Clarkson]] 

message: Since the old promo pic was removed for not being free, I uploaded a temporary alternative that I created. However, this photo is from 2002, so it's pretty old. If anyone has a more recent picture, that is also free, please upload it. I'm sure there must be people here who took pictures of Raine at a more recent concert than 2002. ;) Lunapuella 18:04, 29 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  New pic 

message: I'm not sure how to rewrite this sentence or else I would do it myself but "His lyrics were also less Delphic, although these attributes have been abandoned and his older singing style and lyrical work has returned to a certain degree on the band's most recent album, "Curve" in 2012." is no longer correct.
"Curve" is not the most recent album anymore but I'm not qualified to judge the lyrics and musical qualities. Can someone fix this? Ansarya (talk) 01:43, 27 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  most recent album
Talk:Plaxton Pointer

message: As the Pointer is no longer offered by Plaxton, but by Alexander Dennis, I renamed the article to reflect the current status of the vehicle.  Although it may be better known as the "Plaxton" Pointer, Plaxton separated from Alexander Dennis in the ashes of TransBus as an independent, separate company once again and the Pointer was left with ADL.  As it is effectively the same product, same history but with a different manufacturer I think a rename is more accurate than a new article. --Ayrshire--77 18:39, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested move 1

message: :Rather late response I know! Yes, I agree that it is the same product and that a separate article is unnecessary. However, I feel it would be more appropriate for the article to be named "Plaxton Pointer" and for "Alexander Dennis Pointer" to be a redirect. As long as all of the appropriate names point to the same article, the choice of which one should be the "primary" name is to some extent arbitrary, and I believe it should be the Plaxton one because:
:*The product was the Plaxton Pointer for the greater part of its 15-year production life, covering a longer timespan than the other three marques combined
:*As you say, it is better known as the Plaxton Pointer - 11,300 Google hits where none of the other names even manages 1,000
:*The Ian Allan book "Bus and Coach Recognition" lists it under P for Plaxton
:Any other opinions? I'll check back in a week or so, and move the article back to the original name if the consensus is in agreement with me. Quackdave (talk) 18:17, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes! As I mentioned at WikiProject Optare, I believe this article should be called "Plaxton Pointer", for the reasons given above. As you say, it is known far for widely by the Plaxton name, look at the links, the are more for the Plaxton name than the Alexander Dennis one. Arriva436talk 19:32, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Requested move 2

message: I have memories of a variation of the Pointer that was used in the South East, where the Destination board was raised above the roofline, leading to an almost-comical lack of any aerodynamics.  Anyone know what this was?  -- 213.105.186.124 (talk) 22:37, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Variation on the Pointer?
Talk:Nissan Laurel

message: The 'Seventh generation (C34) (1993–1997)' section has lots of joined, all-caps words. This is typically of what machine translation used to put out a few years ago, so I guess somebody grabbed something from a Japanese website or wiki, ran it through a translator program and dumped it here, as-is. It's a bit off-topic for me, so perhaps it's better if somebody else has a crack at it before I wade in with minimal knowledge of the topic.  Stepho  talk  14:31, 2 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lost in translation 

message: The electric Laurel is very minimal, and would fit into the main Laurel article easily. (Regushee (talk) 17:33, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. The Nissan Laurel C130-EV page is very small and is unlikely to grow. Much better to put it into the main Laurel article.  Stepho  talk  23:43, 6 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger Proposal
Talk:Radagaisus

message: There's a bit more from Zosimus (via Heather) about the fate of Radagaisus's fighters and other followers, which I will add later.  Real life demands my attention for the moment... Dppowell 18:23, 6 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional 'aftermath' material 

message: It seems that in almost every article about leaders of the Goths, or Vandals, or Huns, or whoever -- including this one -- the first thing said about the subject is that he was a "pagan." For the earlier leaders, especially, this is irrelevant. In fact, it seems non-NPOV in a "rah, rah, for Christians" sense. --Michael K. Smith (talk) 05:14, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: As far as I know, Radagaisus was one of the last—perhaps the very last—Gothic leader specifically described as a pagan by contemporaries. So it would be very relevant to anyone interested in the religious history of the Goths. —benadhem (talk) 21:15, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Pagan"? 

message: From Gothic, interpreted to mean "counsel spear," from Proto-Germanic *rēdaz + *gaizaz. Compare Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐍂𐌴𐌳𐌰𐌱𐌰 (garēdaba) and *𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍃 (*gais). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Radagaisus Manfariel (talk) 11:25, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology
Talk:Stevia

message: I think it is important to point out that Natural stevia is no problem for people with diabetes. But synthetic stevia is. Because the synthetic contains more than 90% glucide carbonat.Sorgim (talk) 19:54, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: To what are you referring? The article makes no mention of "synthetic stevia" and I see no reliable source references to such a substance, and none that mention "glucide carbonate" in the context of stevia. ~Anachronist (talk) 22:25, 30 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Natural Stevia dif to synthetic stevia
Template talk:Infobox Semitic letter

message: Please, change that phrase  because it forces the Arabic letters to be shown with the Nastaliq fonts, which aren't the regular style of rending Arabic letters.  Instead, you can change the phrase to  which ensures that even rare Arabic letters would be shown by an appropriate font. --Mahmudmasri (talk) 04:25, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nastaliq