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Talk:Ballard Locks

message: During November, 2004 the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks were emptied for maintanence. While one of the two locks was emptied the other remained open for boat traffic. The large locks shown below has three gates. One at each end and one in the center dividing the locks into two halves. The pictures below from left to right show the west half taken from the center gate, the east half taken from the center gate and the center gate taken from the south side.
		
Moved from Canal Lock to here aqs it didnt fit in to the Canal lock article. I cant imediately see where it fits in this artcile either, but I dont like compleately deleteing info! Iain 10:06, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I would strongly recommend moving these images to Commons and placing them in :Commons:Category:Hiram M. Chittenden Locks. Ditto for the images in the gallery on this page, only two of which are on Commons. - Jmabel | Talk 06:02, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I added more photos of cleaning the small lock, and moved them all to  --Dennis Bratland (talk) 15:29, 12 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Empty Locks 

message: There are a lot of public domain federal government documents about the locks. As far as I can tell, most of them are only on paper, not online. I'll try over the next month or so to upload some of this content; some of it (both words and text) can probably go directly into the article. - Jmabel | Talk 06:31, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  PD documents 

message: This is no longer a stub. To get to B class, the article needs some work on the WP:LEAD. As in summarize the whole article, with expanded details further down, bullets in the lead are rare. Also needs a global perspective, not everyone knows where Seattle is, try adding state and country. Then try to do something to reduce the amount of white space that is created by having so many pictures compared to text. Aboutmovies (talk) 08:01, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment

message: *Here's a baseline estimate for the total waterfront in Seattle in 1911. This can be compared with the miles of waterfront after the Locks and ship canal were constructed. --Dennis Bratland (talk) 22:14, 30 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Total waterfront in seattle
Talk:Rejection sampling

message: # as a layman I find the present page too hard to understand, e.g. I don't know the terms "subgraph of a function" or "marginally"
# how does it compare to alternatives?
# I was looking for this information using the term "rejection algorithm", is that a common  alternative name?
# Yes, I agree. Too full of jargon to be useful for outsiders! E.g. I have no idea what is an 'instrumental distribution'. In the algorithm, how does one 'sample from g(x)'?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.95.156.92 (talk) 15:04, 25 July 2010 (UTC)

message: The circle in square example is very clear, but it lacks the random rejection aspect of the algorithm; once the point is chosen, whether it will be accepted or not is already determined regardless of u. It would be nice to have a more complete example.  
Another way of saying this is that this example is more of an example for importance sampling, which does not involve a random u.
—Preceding unsigned comment added by Rodrigo braz (talk • contribs) 02:12, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Example is good, but incomplete 

message: The example reads like someone who completely missed the point and doesn't really understand rejection sampling wrote it.  There is an excellent example in rejection sampling from someone who actually understands it at:
http://www.wikicoursenote.com/wiki/Acceptance-Rejection_Sampling
You don't simply define a region of space, select random samples, then accept if they are in that space and reject otherwise.  That could also be called "rejection sampling", but has nothing to do with what we're talking about here.  I'm deleting the example because it's so God-awful.  If someone can come up with an example closer to the one above ,I think that would be very nice.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 149.97.32.36 (talk) 23:12, 19 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Example is AWFUL! 

message: Is this method perhaps known in English as von Neumann method? And if it is, should we make a redirect (I tried to find it as a von Neumann method, since it is what we call it in Serbian)? -- Obradović Goran  (talk 19:16, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I never heard of it as the von Neumann method and none of my books cite it as such. No objections on the redirect though.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.226.87.164 (talk) 14:54, 14 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naming 

message: Needs illustration 77.198.158.225 (talk) 23:34, 26 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lacks a graph. Incomprehensible viz indigestible without some illustration, and preferably an example illustration 

message: Item 2 in the description reads "Draw a vertical line at this x-position, up to the maximum y-value of the probability density function of the proposal distribution".
I believe it's a mistake and the word "maximum" should not appear there, so it should read "Draw a vertical line at this x-position, up to the y-value of the probability density function of the proposal distribution". Doobiefletzet (talk) 08:44, 21 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  The description is wrong
Talk:Expletive (disambiguation)

message: Placeholder_name 
shoudl they go somewhere here while we are talking about subjects being replaced where not one. I don't see placeholders in teh grammar page either!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.197.28.252 (talk) 09:00, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Placeholder

message: I've revised the syntax half of this page rather radically because it struck me as wrongheaded. One example: I can imagine that there do exist recent grammar books that claim that expletive "it" is not a pronoun, but I haven't seen them. For a recent theoretical approach, see Andrew Radford, Syntactic Theory and the Structure of English; for a recent descriptive work, see Huddleston and Pullum, The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language. -- Hoary 10:44, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Wrongheaded syntax

message: The sense of 'bad language' seems to have extended to another class of words sometimes called expletives - interjections of anger or frustration, even those that aren't swear words, such as "sugar" or "bother". -- Smjg 16:34, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yet another meaning 

message: Where in the wide world of sports did it go? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Ziggythehamster (talk • contribs) 04:08, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: See Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of fictional expletives. —RuakhTALK 05:30, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of fictional expletives? 

message: Forgive my ignorance, but should this article really be in :Category:Richard Nixon?  If so, what is the rationale? Silly rabbit 21:49, 11 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category Richard Nixon? 

message: Whereas it makes no sense to ask what the it refers to in "It is important that you work hard for the exam",
This isnt true, consider the following
"It is important"
"What is important?"
"That you work hard for the exam" 81.79.81.15 03:52, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, good point. "Refer to" wasn't the best choice. But what meaning does it add? That you work hard for the exam, perhaps? If so, then the result would be That you work hard for the exam is important that you work hard for the exam. And this isn't just unidiomatic, it's actually wrong (in my idiolect, anyway). -- Hoary 05:27, 11 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, but the thing about that is that you're using the copula "is." cf. "She's the Queen of England," which by your algorithm would become "The Queen of England is the Queen of England," - an uninformative tautology.....  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.122.133.201 (talk) 16:50, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong 

message: Quote: "In original Wikipedia content, a profanity should either appear in its full form or not at all; words should never be bowdlerized by replacing letters in the word with dashes, asterisks, or other symbols." Therefore I have removed the dashes and asterisks in the article.--Nemissimo (talk) 21:23, 11 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Well done! For those who prefer arbitrarily censored "facts" there's always Conservapedia. Rursus dixit. (mbork3!) 07:51, 15 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia is not censored
Talk:Character theory

message: I notice that the final reference is no longer a valid link.  In fact I have some character tables on my own website, if anyone feels they want to replace the link (it's obviously not for me to do).  The link to my pages is
: http://www.maths.manchester.ac.uk/~jm/Representations
It's under development, but there's enough there for it to be useful. (There might be other articles for which this would be a useful link.) James Montaldi  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.88.0.119 (talk) 20:47, 16 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  character tables 

message: Characters on locally compact abelian groups are very important, and ignored entirely.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.28.19.223 (talk) 01:21, 4 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about non finite groups? 

message: It is confusing that there is a seperate article about character. Madyno (talk) 10:23, 6 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Character
Talk:S-box

message: This page does not agree with the page on Confusion and Diffusion. While that page associates diffusion with dissipating the relationship between a plaintext and a ciphertext (as here), substitution is there considered to be a component of confusion not diffusion. IMHO the first paragraph here needs to be reworked. Dvunkannon (talk) 20:44, 21 November 2007 (UTC)

message: Note that for some hashes (like the simple s-box hash) the s-box is also an important technique in hashes to increase the avalanche achievement behaviour of relatively simple algorithms.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.61.9.74 (talk) 12:29, 26 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  hashes 

message: This article needs expansion. It doesn't talk much about what a S-box is, or how it works, at all. I'd expand it, but I don't know myself.
Surgo 05:32, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expansion 

message: The "S" may stand for "substitution" but no-one ever talks about a "substitution box", only an "S-box".  If we're to follow the terminology used in the field, we should title this appropriately. — ciphergoth 18:02, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title should be S-box 

message: Looks to have been updated. Thank you.
Brifish (talk) 07:21, 7 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The answer for "Corresponding Output.." ? 

message: What's the meaning of "6×4-bit"? It's neither 6 4-bit boxes, nor 6×4 = 24-bit boxes. Shouldn't it be on of the following? 
* 4×2-bit
* 16×4 
* 2^6×4 = 64×4-bit  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:8070:A193:9601:7CFD:6A43:B3D9:5DF (talk) 17:09, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, it's confusing. The only way it makes sense is to read it as a 6-bit input (there are 26 boxes) mapped into a 4-bit output, so 26×4 bits total. I'll change it. -- intgr [talk] 19:34, 13 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  DES S-box size
Category talk:Tobacco

message: Cigarette packet warning signs is great. It's my little baby and I want it to get stronger. A simple page to nourish I think. If I smoked it'd be easier, but alas I dont. French people do loads. Damn them.
Please do not create an article to promote yourself, a website, a product, or a business it says. This doesn't fall into this category I hope--Thewayforward 13:11, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: It doesn't fall into that promotion category, but there could be some question as to whether it is appropriate to an encyclopedia. - Centrx 07:39, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: comments

message: I hope no-one minds, but I'm going to tag the articles about the actual plants in Solanaceae as well, just to make things easier for those of us who work on or research plants... SB Johnny 17:09, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Double tagging...
Talk:Eighth note

message: "eighth note (United States) or a quaver (rest of world)" is not true. In Sweden we use "åttondelsnot" (eighth-part-note). It's probably the same for the rest of Scandinavia and possibly also Germany, (music terms in Sweden is, most often, of German origin). // Solkoll 13:27, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I think whoever wrote that meant "rest of the English-speaking world".  America, like Sweden, takes much of its musical vocabulary from German, because of the prevalence of German expatriots in American orchestras of the 19th century.  They also call the leader of the orchestra the "concert master", from Konzertmeister.  --Doric Loon 20:01, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

text: I realized the same problem, so I was bold and changed 'rest of world' to 'Commonwealth'. Deltabeignet 03:58, 27 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regional variation in term 

message: In the following sentence: "In the climatic ending of Close Encounters Of the Third Kind ..." I believe the third word should be "climactic." I'm new here, so I'll let someone else fix it. (I'll get the hang of this yet.) NewJerseygirl (talk) 01:31, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  typo or wrong word chosen 

message: We define an eighth note as one-eighth of a whole note. This is from the following tree:
*1 whole note
*2 half notes
*4 quarter notes
*8 eighth notes
*16 sixteenth notes
*32 thirty-second notes etc.
However, this is in fact the simple time tree, which is one of two versions of the tree of note durations. There is also the compound time tree:
*1 dotted whole note
*2 dotted half notes
*4 dotted quarter notes
*12 eighth notes
*24 sixteenth notes
*48 thirty-second notes etc.
Has anyone planned to give this note a flexible enough definition that allows it to be defined in both simple and compound time?? Georgia guy (talk) 14:19, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Mathematically, it's all the same. There are 8 eighth notes to a whole note and 12 to a dotted whole note, no matter what the time signature is. Of course, most common time signature do not allow for a dotted whole note. Wschart (talk) 21:05, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eighth or twelfth?? 

message: What does this edit mean? It is at Wiktionary, see en.wiktionary.org/wiki/quaver. Vanjagenije (talk) 20:52, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Where does it mention "corxera", for example? Hyacinth (talk) 21:02, 10 July 2017 (UTC)

text: Okay, I see it if I hit "edit". Hyacinth (talk) 21:04, 10 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wiktionary 

message: A discussion is taking place to address the redirect :Åttondelsnot. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 November 25#Åttondelsnot until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Opalzukor (talk) 16:38, 25 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Åttondelsnot" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: Why are time signatures 15/8, 18/8, etc. not listed, but only 3/8, 6/8, 9/8 και 12/8? Χιονάκι (talk) 12:16, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  15/8, 18/8 etc.
Talk:Madrid Conference of 1991

message: I have added internal links and some formating to this page. I have also tried to make names, etc consistent with information on other pages. However, it currently has considerable background information, ranging seventy years before the Madrid Conference and which may not be NPOV, and not much about the workings of the Conference itself.
This would be improved by having further details therefore, specifically where and when the Conference was held, what its objectives were and who the participants were. Mtiedemann
Most of these irrelevant "facts" are untrue, even preposterous, or impossible if one puts in correct dates.  (since when is a 504-54 (or something like that) - "under two thirds".  "Renouncing terrorism would entail changing the charter" - implies the charter says we are a bunch of terrorists I guess, yeah, right, that's in there)  If you know the correct dates, you would know the kooky account of Abdullah getting TransJordan is impossible.
It would take too long now to fix this absurdly, pathetically POV article now, which hardly mentions its supposed subject. --John Z 09:04, 17 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: untitled
Talk:Abu Musa

message: This island belongs to Iran and only its Persian pronunciation should be mentioned in the article.
Not the pronunciation of another country. مصطفی کوهستانی (talk) 02:22, 29 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Given that the island was formerly administered by the Emirate of Sharjah and that it remains a disputed territory, including the Arabic pronunciation in this article is justified. 216.181.221.63 (talk) 22:28, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  There is no need for Arabic pronunciation in the article 

message: The island is owned by Iran, according to a satellite photo. There is no connection with the UAE Irandamavand (talk) 17:26, 16 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Given that the UAE still claims to the island, and that the island was formerly administered by the Emirate of Sharjah prior to the Iranian invasion, there absolutely is a connection to the UAE. 216.181.221.63 (talk) 22:31, 5 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Absolute ownership of the island 

message: Yes  103.114.98.4 (talk) 07:06, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Noakhali is a big city. Create md ismail
Talk:Pyrophosphate

message: What is the molecular structure of pyrophosphate anion P2O7(2-)?
163.175.162.3 15:11, 2 December 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chemical structure 

message: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100612/sc_livescience/newtheoryforlifesfirstenergysource  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.85.14.106 (talk) 13:17, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Theory for Life's First Energy Source

message: What does the "i" stand for in PPi? Strange that it's not mentioned in the article. --89.204.136.53 (talk) 22:54, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Usually, this denotes inorganic phosphate, so perhaps some mention should be made? Or a link to the inorganic compound page? Ardkorjunglist (talk) 23:24, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  I added that PPI stands for inorganic pyrophosphate, and I wikilinked the first occurrence on the page of 'inorganic phosphate'. Manudouz (talk) 09:36, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  why PPi? 

message: WHY do you not give informations on side effects and dangers of this food additif?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.227.244.217 (talk) 06:52, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: WHERE ARE SIDE EFFECTS?
Category talk:2005 deaths

message: The following discussion comes from Wikipedia:Categories for deletion. -Aranel ("Sarah") 15:34, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I hope not: he wrote that just before he committed suicide. jguk 21:34, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: CfD discussion

message: It's only 2004, and we don't know who will die in 2005. How is this category useful?? 66.245.70.89 17:55, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I hope not: he wrote that just before he committed suicide. jguk 21:34, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: [[:Category:2005 deaths]]

message: Sorry, still fairly new to Wiki so don't know how to change this to have him showing up under the D's and not under the L's
Thanks!
Done and done. It is a matter of chaging the sort key in the category tag of the article. Good catch! 205.206.123.248 18:06, 6 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  De Lorean, John Z. Appearing under the "L" category
Category talk:4 Non Blondes albums

message: The following discussion comes from Wikipedia:Categories for deletion. -Aranel ("Sarah") 15:39, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: CfD discussion

message: According to allmusic.com, 4 Non Blondes only had one album. Gamaliel 03:08, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: [[:Category:4 Non Blondes albums]]
Talk:Silverbird (album)

message: There are inconsistencies in the release dates.  The main text, banner box chronology and also the date in the release section of the main Leo Sayer page give a release date of "1973".  The banner box release date gives a release date of "January 1974".  I don't know which is correct.  If anyone knows, could they correct this? Wantnot (talk) 11:58, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inconsistent release dates 

message: The current version of the article says "All songs written by Leo Sayer, except where noted", with only two songs co-credited. The liner notes for the 2009 re-issue say "All songs written by Leo Sayer and David Courtney". Is this a change in how the songs are being credited? Szarka (talk) 18:29, 4 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Songwriting Credits
Talk:Political Research Associates

message: This is a dispute about the validity of information sourced to Discover The Networks.
;Statements by editors previously involved in dispute
* User:Hipocrite has taken it upon himself to comb through the encyclopedia and delete any references sourced to DTN.  Hipocrite claims that DTN is in violation of the guideline WP:RS.  The only evidence presented by Hipocrite is here where he states "I looked at the website, and determined it was not a reliable source."  I posit that until we have reached a consensus about the reliability of said source, Hipocrite should cease his deletion of sourced material from this and many other articles.  Cheers. L0b0t 15:45, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: * The information at DTN that I saw was well-sourced, with easily corroborated facts as far as I know.  To prove the site is unreliable would require a minimum of one example where it presented any information that was known to be erroneous, false, or unreliable.  Not just because you don't like the information.  Do you have even one example? ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 16:34, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: For the record, much of the information on DTN about PRA and Chip Berlet (me) is false, defamatory, and churlish. I have responded to specific falsehoods here. Attempts to get DTN to remove the false claims have been met with silence.  See also "The Art of the Slur: From Joe McCarthy to David Horowitz, by Aaron Barlow, The Public Eye Magazine - Fall 2006: "...it was Horowitz who actually codified lying, making it into a tactic rather than just a careless mistake."--Cberlet 18:14, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

text: * As to the accusation of violating WP:STALK, I had noted the following at : Hipocrite said "I'm reviewing your edit history also. So are scores of other people. If, while doing such, we find errors in articles you have contibuted to, we're gonna fix them." Sauce for the goose... (I don't see it on the current page, but it should be in the History. I gotta run.) Andyvphil 00:34, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

text: At  I see Hipcrite and MortonDevonshire rejecting your claim that the article on Common Dreams at DTN counted towards CD's notability. They were wrong. Is there anything at  you wish to identify as being in error? Andyvphil 03:35, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Request for Comment: Validity of sources

message: Article is self-promotion and the org is sketchy Bashfan34 (talk) 22:26, 15 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: No reliable sources present in the article to establish notability