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Talk:Bird Noises

message: Does anybody know anything about a massacre of Australian Aboriginals on Wedding Cake Island? Is the instrumental "Wedding Cake Island" meant to be a memorial to them? Eligius (talk) 23:25, 23 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Massacre on Wedding Cake Island
Talk:Red Sails in the Sunset (album)

message: I think Best of Both Worlds should have it's own article Series premiere (remake) (talk) 13:17, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Best of Both Worlds needs own article  

message: What is the subject of this song?  Wikipedia entries on Mount Kosciuszko and Kosciuszko National Park do not explain.  Does this song rail against the "Snowy Mountains Scheme"? - Aboudaqn (talk) 20:35, 2 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Subject/meaning of song "Kosciuszko"
Talk:Diesel and Dust

message: I believe that both Put Down That Weapon and Dreamworld are deserving of their own articles Series premiere (remake) (talk) 13:21, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  2 Needed articles 

message: Was it the Australian or the United States edition that nominated Diesel and Dust as one of the best albums of the Nineteen-Eighties? Eligius (talk) 23:49, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can You Clarify Which Edition of Rolling Stone? 

message: Was it the Australian or the United States edition that nominated Diesel and Dust as one of the best albums of the Nineteen-Eighties? Eligius (talk) 23:49, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: US edition: article finally has an RS ref to support this claim.shaidar cuebiyar (talk) 03:07, 17 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can You Clarify Which Edition of Rolling Stone? 
Talk:Blue Sky Mining

message: The following songs deserve they own articles Bedlam Bridge, Forgotten Years, King of the Mountain and One Country Series premiere (remake) (talk) 13:24, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Songs deserve own articles 
Talk:Scream in Blue

message: Very nice article.  I have a comment. How can you say that critical reaction to the album was "mixed", and then follow with just one "for instance" that is entirely positive? I suggest you either add an example of a negative review, or change the descriptor to "positive" instead of "mixed". You could also write, instead of "For instance", "One positive review was the Allmusic's review..., which was ...." Rhyolitewiki (talk) 00:15, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Alpha Archive 4

message: Really trival question here, but it wouldn't hurt to have an answer, and I've failed to find it so far.
The article about a person generally leads off with the person's name and a brief description of who this is.  Sometimes the name as given here includes an honorific title, such as Sir or Dr. or Baron.  Sometimes not.
My inclination would be to use the title for [Sir] Francis Drake or [Baron] Manfred von Richthofen, but not for [Dr.] Dorothy L. Sayers. This is current usage in those three articles, but has not always been.  My choice is not because of the silly Victorian convention that physicians, having adopted a title that belongs to learned people qualified to teach others, are entitled to exclusive use of the title in preference to inferior beings such as Dr. Samuel Johnson and Dr. Benjamin Franklin; it's personal whim.  But is there a stylke on it, and should there be?
:Should Dr be treated as a salutaton like Mr? If so, then don't include it. I'm leaning towards not doing so. 
:What about suffixes? eg
::Howard Brush Dean, III, M.D. --Jiang 04:00, 11 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: People's titles in article intro

message: I would like to add the following under the section titled Italics: That foreign words always be italicized (not quoted, bold, etc.) Sean Kelly 05:51, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think that's needed. Maurreen 06:04, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)

text: I just had a colleague told that Chicago (or maybe it was another university press house style—I haven't personally verified it in CMOS) states that a foreign word used repeatedly is only italicized on the first occurrence, unless its sense would be lost otherwise (e.g., Fr. colon, in reference to a person of European blood born and resident in a colony, which is a somewhat different meaning from the English word).  When ambiguity would result, however, italics should always be used.  —Tkinias 20:34, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: If the word is in another alphabet (for example, Greek), it should, of course, never be italicized just because it's in a foreign language. Transliterations, though, should be in italics. (Always? Or is a transliteration the same as any other foreign word?) -Aranel ("Sarah") 23:25, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)

text: That sounds right.  My proposal wasn't so much to make italics manditory, but rather to prevent unnecessary bolding and quotation marks.  Sean Kelly 10:41, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposal up for quick vote: italics
Talk:Real world

message: 4. The outside (physical) world
Outside of what? I assume that this means outside of virtual communities like Wikipedia. It seems like there has to be a better way of describing this than by using the term "physical". Even Wikipedia is a physical system (contained in a few computers). JWSchmidt 13:50, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I've taken a stab at better wording that item to reflect what I took it to mean. —Triskaideka 21:13, 25 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Outside of what?
Talk:A Jackknife to a Swan

message: The title is also a play on words, referring to diving.  I will add this.  Ifinallysignedup 04:11, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jackknife to a Swan 
Talk:Finnish Sign Language

message: www DOT eud DOT eu/Finland-i-182.html tells that FInland was 2nd in the world not third. It also says less that 5000 FSL signers (actually they have 4000 odd registered signers, which is probably fairly accurate). etc.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.113.96.60 (talk) 20:03, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  qs answerd 
Talk:The Land of Rape and Honey

message: Can anyone confirm/deny the Saskatchewan motto as being the basis of the title?  Sounds unlikely, but if sourced, it should stay. --Surv1v4l1st (Talk|Contribs) 20:53, 8 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Why does that sound unlikely? Also, source found from Tisdale, Saskatchewan page, added here. MrMoustacheMM (talk) 00:31, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, if that source is a reliable one, then we should add it to this article.  As to it sounding unlikely, there just wasn't any reference to it elsewhere in Ministry material.  Regardless, if it is sourced, it should be kept and an inline cited added.  Thanks for the note. Surv1v4l1st (Talk|Contribs) 02:15, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Saskatchewan 

message: This album isn't industrial metal. Guitars are only used on 3 tracks and those tracks are industrial rock with the other tracks being electro-industrial.Harry-Oscar 1812 (talk) 11:37, 15 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The genre is sourced. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 02:51, 16 May 2020 (UTC)

text: Or maybe you're wrong.  Regardless, Wikipedia goes with what the sources say. NinjaRobotPirate (talk) 03:56, 4 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Genre
Talk:The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste

message: Whoops. Trying to preserve all of the history for this, I wiped out most of it :( -- Jim Regan 05:03, 22 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: "Cannibal Song" has never once made me think of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, so I've removed that part as POV.  Cardinal Wurzel 20:42, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: MacMurphy
Talk:Dark Side of the Spoon

message: As an editor at Crawdaddy!, and to comply with COI guidelines, I am not posting the link to this article about Ministry's Dark Side of the Spoon. However, I would like to recommend it on its merits, and hope that an editor will find the time to examine the article and—if he or she sees fit—post it to the professional reviews section. I appreciate your time. Crawdaddy! (favorable) Mike harkin (talk) 18:44, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Review Suggestion 
Talk:Stimorol

message: It appears to be.  If there is a Danish version of Wikipedia with more information, please share it.
It is a Danish company, owned by Dandy A/S. Molix 17:49, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  I'm Not Sure If the Company is Danish 
File talk:Buddhistswastika.jpg

message: Has this picture been horizontally reversed? Because the symbol is going the wrong way.... --Vikingstad 15:40, Mar 29, 2004 (UTC)
:Woops, never mind, just read this was common practice in buddism...
This is the usual way in East Asia Buddhist.--刻意(Kèyì) 12:50, 8 September 2011 (UTC)
Talk:Lumbricus terrestris

message: I really feel this should be merged with the article [earthworm]. These are the same species with 2 articles. I just want that to be known —Preceding unsigned comment added by Geosultan4 (talk • contribs) 00:56, 25 May 2007
:This article is about Lumbricus terrestris, the type species for the sub-order Lumbricina (earthworms). However, there are 5,500 species in Lumbricina. A merger would be similar to merging Canis, Felis, Ursidae and kindered into Canis_lupus. Or merging Homo sapiens sapiens, probably this most common member of its order along with, for example, Otolemur crassicaudatus into one page for primate_order. Although the various earthworms may look similar to us, they are as about different to each other as the various members of the primates are. CS Miller 18:31, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger

message: This thing is in need of so much editing I wouldn't even know where to begin. There are a couple nonsensical sentences in here with poor grammar, and mating and reproduction aren't described in proper detail. (E.g. it says "these things are key aspects of mating" but only explains half of them and doesn't say HOW or WHY they're key. Also it just says "fertilization occurs in cocoons" and then "young worms eventually start emerging" but never really explains what the fertilization process entails and what the new worms are growing from [like, it's obviously not an "eggs are laid and then are fertilized by sperm and grow" thing].)
Also. The picture of the long worm under the reproduction section that just says "The worm found in may 2006." Who is he? Why is he under the reproduction section?? This article is a freaking joke lol. 2601:204:CA00:1B70:90EC:38C0:FA60:171D (talk) 08:36, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  This is the worst wiki article I've ever read
Talk:Lucky Charms

message: Source 12 is outdated; replace with https://www.luckycharmskids.com/charm-powers/ Jacehan (talk) 23:57, 6 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: . Heartmusic678 (talk) 14:56, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 6 November 2021 

message: An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect :Lucky Charms® (cereal) and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 April 15#Lucky Charms® (cereal) until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  BD2412 T 04:59, 15 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Lucky Charms® (cereal)" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: I would like to identify the oat shapes. They appear to be a bell, x’s, fish, etc. what are they and what are the “lucky” associations with those shapes? 2601:647:8004:90:65CE:A313:3D9F:33F7 (talk) 16:51, 23 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about the oat shapes? 

message: They changed the white trail of the star charm from white to orange, and changed the actual star from orange to yellow 2603:8001:AB00:A050:8416:A364:772D:9868 (talk) 05:25, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 18:16, 7 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 7 June 2023 

message: "and pieces of shaped pulverized oat"
First paragraph. I don't think pulverized is a very good word choice. I doncv vbnmkytrewasdfghj't know how to say it more accurately but I think this needs a rewrite. Kentucho (talk) 02:29, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pulverized oat? 

message: What font is the Lucky charms logo? 2601:3C5:8201:2A90:8D0D:F215:9CD:7014 (talk) 21:59, 5 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  What font used in the Lucky Charms logo from 2003
Talk:Plan-It-X Records

message: Vanity, doesn't seem important/famous. No? --Alex S 16:25, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, one of their bands lists about 10 states on their tour this year. Niteowlneils 18:42, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: * http://www.villagevoice.com/music/rip-plan-it-x-records-6650782
czar 19:04, 29 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source dump
Talk:Zollverein

message: Starting date is missing. Extent and practice of the Zollverein are basic information for this entry. The Industrial Revolution link is a bit generic: does it shed any light on Zollverein? Wetman 17:07, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  When? 

message: How and why were the various lesser German states persuaded to join the ZV? Obviously the ZV benefited Prussia, or at least Prussian trade. But how did it benefit the other states? Obviously they had to forego customs revenues, so at first consideration it was to their disadvantage. What did they receive in exchange?
Just curious.
The benefit of not having to pay custom revenues on their own goods when sending it to other German states. Ixistant 20:41, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cui bonum? 

message: Contrary to what the article says, East Prussia and Wast Prussia were contiguous at least from 1815 onwards. In 1815ff problems of non-contiguity arose in relation to Prussia's territory in the Rhineland. There were also some local problems in the Anhalt area and some other districts. Norvo 13:34, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contiguity 

message: The sentence "Bismarck cannot be said to have revolutionized Prussian politics when the Zollverein had been working actively against Austria for about 30 years before he came along." seems to me like it'd be a breach of this policy. I don't see the point backed up by sources, either. Though I don't have altogether much experience in this, so anyone can feel free to delete this if my protest isn't valid or I'm protesting to the wrong thing.
Georgery 06:04, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality 

message: Beyond the neutrality issue, which I can deal with somewhat, this article needs major league expansion, because it simply does not cover the complexity of the Zollverein, or its importance for German 19th century history.  I can translate some portions of the German article, and include some material from some recent historians, and I will try to deal with the neutrality controversy.
--Auntieruth55 (talk) 17:39, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  expansion of this article
Talk:List of American and Canadian cities by number of major professional sports franchises

message: Should we add a note to the number of teams in the CFL to mention the Atlantic Schooners? Or is it not considered a "sure thing" yet? The upcoming NHL and MLS teams are mentioned, but those are about as guaranteed to happen as anything in professional sports could be. I'm not sure if the Schooners rise to that level yet. --Khajidha (talk) 18:26, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Teams per league 

message: Since we're already counting US states and Canadian provinces together, it seems a little silly to relegate DC's ranking to a footnote about where it would fall "if it were a state". --User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 14:50, 22 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population ranking 

message: This has been talked about before, but, considering this includes the CFL, and CFL teams are at best valued around $50 million (https://www.insauga.com/hamilton-tiger-cats-receive-highest-valuation-in-cfl-history-report/)... it does beg whether things like WNBA (which have slightly less but similar likely team values, https://herhoopstats.substack.com/p/wnba-team-values-sale-worth-2021... and the 12-team league & teams were just valued at $1 billion a few months ago), or even the National Lacrosse League (most likely right now at best worth $10-15 million, but, their team values are growing).   More just to the point that just because the CFL has been around forever and the NFL isn't in Canada, doesn't mean the CFL necessarily belongs with the "Big 4" (or even MLS). Dletter (talk) 20:57, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  What leagues to include 

message: A map in the "Teams by state/province/territory" section includes several states that have 0 teams, but formerly had a team. These states include Nebraska, Iowa, Kentucky, Connecticut, & Rhode Island. I am confused about which teams this map is referring to or even the criteria for attaining this rank. Does it include former professional leauges like the ABA? It might help to include citations or links like the more prominent chart in the "Teams by metropolitan area" section. Does anyone have the answer to this? Ledvelvet21 (talk) 17:02, 3 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  States listed as having former sports teams 

message: Seems Demographia didn’t include Oakland in the San Francisco Bay Area population. 2607:FA49:5902:B300:A17E:A417:15BE:45DB (talk) 04:29, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: SAN FRANCISCO-SAN JOSE, CA: San Francisco, Antioch, Concord, Livermore, Napa, San Jose, Vallejo 2607:FA49:5902:B300:A17E:A417:15BE:45DB (talk) 04:35, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  San Francisco Bay Area Population
Talk:List of years in archaeology

message: This page has been nominated for deletion twice.  The first nomination discussion is archived below:
There are about 20 of these articles. Each one contains one event in archaeology. Shouldn't just be put on the main page for the year? LDan 17:42, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)

message: The format of Timeline of architecture would work well for this page, hence the proposed move. —Viriditas | Talk 03:06, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Timeline of archaeology

message: No activity here since 2004, but I figured I'd stir up the interested parties.  Specifically, I was looking for a master list of archaeological finds, digs, events, etc arranged by date - this is the closest I could find, but it's very tedious to browse.  The page layout and organization (Explorations, Excavations, Publications, Finds, Awards, Miscellaneous, Births, Deaths) is excellent, however, it is hampered by the lack of content, leading to a somewhat empty page.
I suggest a cleanup and consolidation.  A Timeline of Archaeology would be fantastic if, instead of a page for each year, it split into decades of events, eg Archaeological Events of the 1990s.  As far as merging with Science or Architecture timelines, I'd be inclined to vote against that.  While an archaeological timeline would certainly be considered a subset of science and architecture, archaeology is specifically the investigation of the past - a reader wouldn't want to sort through the myriad of entries in each timeline such as the release of a new medicine or the development of a new highrise or civic center in order to track down recovered ship wrecks or unearthed tombs.
--BakerQ 16:18, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There certainly has been steady good improvement on many of the individual year articles, but this "List of years" has remained a plain basic navigational aid. In it's present state I think it's ok, but if someone wishes to redo it in format similar to Timeline of architecture I'd say go for it. Off hand, why don't you go ahead and start a Timeline of archaeology (note per our conventions "archaeology" shouldn't be capitalized there). Once that page at least has all the relevent links, this page could be redirect there if there is no objection. -- Infrogmation 17:48, 9 August 2006 (UTC)

text: I'll go ahead and get started on that shortly.  (Nothing better than an external voice to remind you that if you want something done, it's best to do it yourself!) --BakerQ 18:28, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Timeline of Archaeology, an idea for consolidation
Talk:Jorge Manrique

message: Woah, the translations of the "Coplas..." are good; very imprecise to the original, but great. Even spanish is my native language. Who is the translator? Deafussy (talk) 11:57, 28 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I feel they are too far off from the original. Basically a completely different take, so far removed from the original that it is misleading the English reader. 80.29.127.187 (talk) 00:48, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Translations

message: Please help me to correct the english translation.
A word is missing and I'm jza not very sure with the
rest. Thank you! user:hhanke
Sorry I can't help you with this, but I can tell that Jorge Manrique's father didn't die in a battle but peacefully at home, "between his wife, his sons and brothers and servants" as it is clearly said in the last verses.
Dardo
: Thanks for the correction, I've fixed in the article. Don't be afraid to fix such mistakes yourself, I won't complain :)
--hhanke 18:24, 9 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: help
Talk:Marathon City, Wisconsin

message: I apologize to anyone looking at this article's history for the page shifts. I got confused about or by the name. This is a statutory village but the name of that village is Marathon City. So, it is self-disambiguated. I think we now have the least complex assemly of names, so I'll sort out the referring links. Lou I 19:06, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Cleve Moler

message: To add to this deletion debate, click here
*Non-famous. Deus Ex 19:00, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: As far as I can tell, since the tag was added in 2013, the page has been adequately sourced. Just added another source too. Any objection to removing this tag? Likeanechointheforest (talk) 04:35, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing tag
Talk:Non-zero-sum

message: Is there a term for negative-sum, where everybody loses?
Global thermonuclear war comes to mind, as the WOPR discovered.
If so, it should be noted that negatives are no non-zero for these article's purpose.
----
I just edited out the "Popular non-zero-sum games" section. First, I question whether the games listed are actually non-zero-sum.  Bridge definitely has winners and losers, and every score by your opponents is something you try to prevent.  Monopoly is more ambiguous but I'm still not comfortable listing it, because it depends on what you define as the payoff.  If it's simply the order in which the players are eliminated, the game is clearly zero-sum.  I can't think of many popular games that are clearly, obviously non-zero-sum.  Charades was possibly a good example, but it still depends on how you score it - you could concievably play Charades competitively.
More importantly, though, I just don't think the section adds anything to the understanding of the concept.  It should probably be covered at non-zero-sum game, but here it's just going to add complication. I don't think games played for entertainment provide nearly as much insight into the idea of non-zero-sum as do economic and every-day life examples. Isomorphic 19:26, 29 Mar 2004 (UTC)