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Talk:Belcher Islands

message: Just curious, why is this part of the Manitoba project?  The main page has no reference to Manitoba.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.78.2.200 (talk) 03:22, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: english, cf Edward Belcher. --Eisbaer44 (talk) 21:37, 16 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: The section on the murders appears to be, almost verbatim, lifted out of reports from 50 years ago. The language is journalistic in tone. It is presented with a great deal of opinion and this makes big chunks of it unsuitable content for an encyclopedia article. Most of it can be removed to focus on the facts only and leave out those details that have nothing to do with the Belcher Islands. There is a fascinating list of sources about the character, geology and wild life of the islands but nothing about this in the article (??)--AssegaiAli (talk) 13:17, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with AssegaiAli. I suggest moving virtually all of the material about the Belcher Island murders to a new article, with only a passing reference and link to it left here. Xenophon777 (talk) 04:36, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Given the lack of dissent, in the next few days I will make the move suggested in my 12Feb08 post (above) unless there is objection. Xenophon777 (talk) 13:13, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Belcher Island murders

message: George Weetaltuk deserves an article all to himself! I am unworthy since I know so little about him or the Belcher Islands, but I'll eventually write one if nobody else does.Arrecife (talk) 06:35, 6 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  George Weetaltuk
Talk:(89959) 2002 NT7

message: "it has now been known for years" that it would pass harmlessly, hmmm.  Better to replace that obsolete wording with, say, the date of the first accurate prediction.
Meanwhile, how did the projected nearest approach move from February 1 to January 13? —Tamfang (talk) 05:32, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The impact scenario on 1 Feb 2019 was NEVER the nominal solution, and reality became 13 Jan 2019. It took less than a month to rule out any impact scenario.  -- Kheider (talk) 05:52, 18 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  two independent questions of date
Talk:Mixing console

message: The audio mixing article says "Mixing - summing signals together, which is normally done by a dedicated summing amplifier or in the case of digital by a simple algorithm." (emphasis mine) Where is there information on such algorithms? (Hopefully I haven't missed it if it's already in this article!) There must be more complexity than simply summing, because (for example) summing more than one full-amplitude sine wave will result in a lot of clipping. Another example is a full-amplitude sine wave which, after a time, is joined by a second sine wave of equal amplitude -- how are they mixed without clipping, but preserving the psychoacoustic properties? I have yet to find a clear, non-code description of the details of this sort of thing. Or else I have a misunderstanding about the whole process. -- 98.221.23.155 (talk) 03:26, 8 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: As an end-user of digital mixers, I'm interested in your question, but I'm not a designer of digital audio. As far as I have been able to find out, well-engineered digital algorithms take into account how many signals are being summed, and each signal to be summed is reduced in amplitude by an amount which corresponds to how many active signals are present. Another scheme is to make the processing core be very high bit depth, much higher than the input or output resolution. Binksternet (talk) 03:15, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

text: Digital summing is simple addition. To avoid clipping, the accumulator where result is stored typically has overflow bits. You have the same situation with analog summing with additional headroom in the summing amplifier. Avoiding clipping is a matter of managing the gain structure of the system. Responsibility for this is shared between equipment designer and equipment operator. ~Kvng (talk) 21:14, 24 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Digital Mixing algorithms
Talk:Cerium

message: "Immediately after lanthanum, the 4f orbitals suddenly contract and are lowered in energy to the point that they participate readily in chemical reactions;"
Isn't this the exact opposite of what you want to say? The lanthanide contraction makes the 4f orbitals less likely to participate in chemical reactions, not more likely,72.200.200.2 (talk) 02:31, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I have corrected it since then (actually it happens already at La, not after La), but the point is correct: up till barium 4f is too high up to participates. At the early lanthanides it contracts and is lowered to the point that allows ready participation. Then as you progress through the lanthanide series they contract further than that and it becomes harder and harder to use them until ytterbium. At lutetium it becomes impossible. Double sharp (talk) 12:38, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tarnishes rapidly or slowly? 

message: In the first paragraph I read:
and it is soft enough to be cut with a steel kitchen knife
And in the "Physical" section I read:
It is a ductile metal with a hardness similar to that of silver. 
I know silver cannot be cut with a knife. This statement has a credible citation labelled with the number 5.
I don't personally have any metallic cerium to try, but one or the other of these statements is true, but not both. I would tend to go with the one that has the citation, rather than the one labelled "citation needed".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Frostybeard (talk • contribs) 08:20, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  How hard is cerium? It cannot simultaneously be soft enough to cut with a knife and have a hardness similar to silver. 

message: The article appears to omit the widespread use of cerium oxide as a polishing agent for the manufacture of accurate lenses and mirrors. A suspension of cerium oxide particles is used instead of much harder silicon carbide or even harder diamond grains on the surface of a tool made with polishing pitch, especially in hand polishing, because you want a hardness closer to the softness of the glass surface being polished, to avoid the over-removal of glass from the surface being polished. David Spector (talk) 19:48, 12 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Omission of use of cerium in grinding optics
Talk:List of transgender people

message: Remove list of detransitioned people from contents since the section has been removed SomeoneDreaming (talk) 00:13, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: — Paper9oll (🔔 • 📝) 00:49, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 24 May 2023 

message: Add 'Emmy Murphy'; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Murphy as a notable trans person and mathematician. Wikipediussy (talk) 07:09, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Pinchme123 (talk) 21:56, 10 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 10 August 2023 

message: Add, Kate Lynn Blatt, won constitutional challenge to the ADA 2017 
Blatt vs Cabela's retail inc 2601:985:4401:FC0:ECE9:FD22:1359:EC62 (talk) 22:00, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Also, see WP:WTAF Cannolis (talk) 22:43, 22 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 22 January 2024
Talk:Index of religion-related articles

message: Religious politics needs to be created based on the following
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_q=religious+politics&num=10&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=title&as_sauthors=&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&as_allsubj=all&hl=en
--222.64.26.62 (talk) 02:45, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  A topic of .... 

message: I have requested an expert to look at this article. It contains several links to disambiguation pages that should be solved. An expert should know far quicker where to link to (or when to add additional links) then I do. Your effort will be much appreciated. Night of the Big Wind talk 16:39, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Um, no. The tag you put on that page is a dispute/warning tag that indicates that the content is thought to be so bad, and written by people with no idea what they are talking about, such that the entire page's trustworthiness is at issue.  And it doesn't take an expert to figure out whether something on a disambiguation page is religion-related or not; any bored editor can do that by looking at the items on the DAB page and reading the articles they go to for a while if necessary. — SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 11:32, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Expert needed

message: I'm trying to think of a reason why the category system isn't better than this list. Xaxafrad (talk) 09:29, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, somebody above mentioned the list of math topics, which goes to Outline of mathematics...isn't that what the portal page with a dozen infoboxes is for? Xaxafrad (talk) 09:31, 8 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why have this list?
Talk:Idol worship

message: I've only just begun this and have little academic knowledge of it. Please feel free to contribute rather than redirect or delete.
The main reason for restarting this as an article is because I feel there is a difference from idolatry - and that article discusses the matter in biblical terms, as a sin, rather than presenting an overview of it as a cultural form. 
I might have to wade through Man and his Symbols and The Golden Bough again...Totnesmartin 19:56, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Idol worship vs idolatry
Talk:Judeo-Christo-Islamic

message: Okay, so the article addresses how the term is used, who uses it, and why they use it. Fine, but for God's sake, what does the term mean? This may be obvious to you, but it's certainly foggy to me! Omphaloscope » talk 19:04, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: An excellent point.  However, the only way to respond to your pointis for someone to find verifiable sources, and I wonder whether anyone who has worked on this article has done the necessary research. Slrubenstein   |  Talk 20:24, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  How about some definition? 

message: This seems to be a nonnotable, pseudo-historical attempt at referring to Abrahamic religion. I propose we redirect to that, as it is much longer, and more accurate. KI 01:46, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree. Pecher Talk 09:50, 18 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Nonnotable
Talk:Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester

message: The law at the time gave all of the father's titles and lands to the eldest son, in this case to Amaury. He was well set up in france. Pursuing a rather tenuous claim to an English Earldom (having a claim was a requirement for the earldom, not necessarily a right)would have been a waste of time to him as he could not swear fealty to the kings of both England and France.
Simon would have offered his holdings in France in exchange for the elder sons claim to the English earldom. That would have made sense to Amaury as he was trading something he had no practical use for in return for something tangible. 
For Simon, that was the easy bit. The hard work was still to follow. The earldom of Leicester had been given to another english Baron,(I believe it was the earl of Pembroke ?) who had several titles, the earldom of Leicester being a relatively insignificant one to him. Simon had to pursuade him to reliquish the title (probably in return for a large sum of money)leaving the claim vacant, and himself as a genuine contender. He then had to pursuade the king of England that his claim was the strongest and get the king to endow the title and its priveleges upon him. (More money involved)
Simon got what he wanted, he was a land holding earl in the English court. This was a huge achievement for someone who was not an eldest son. But the financial dealings inolved indebted him heavily and this dogged him for the rest of his life. A lot of his problems throughout his life were money related.
This is an educated opinion, it was long ago that I read Simon de Montforts biography but I think this sums it up pretty well. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.54.202.242 (talk) 16:51, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Amaury's Claim - an opinion. 

message: I have edited out a repition in the text in the section "War against the king", but (for some reason) was unable to login. If this was done in error, apologies. jim jacobs — Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.168.19.142 (talk) 16:01, 2 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Repitition 

message: I noticed that citations are needed regarding two works of fiction that the earl appears in. Sharon Kay Penman's 'Falls the Shadow' and Edith Pargetter's 'The Dragon at Noon Day'. What sort of citation is required? I own both books and know that the earl does, in fact, appear in both books. Is a link to Goodreads for each book acceptable?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Offeiriad (talk • contribs) 15:35, 5 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popular culture 

message: A few places online have this date, some with a question mark, others not. Is there any truth to it? --  Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 09:14, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: ODNB has just "c. 1208". My guess is this is from some random genealogical "researcher". Ealdgyth (talk) 11:07, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Birthdate 23 May 1208?

message: Flagging that I will give this an edit within the next couple of months to push it to a GA standard with a bit of luck. Jim Killock (talk) 20:51, 9 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit coming up
Talk:Alexandria

message: History to present day.
Think the Egyptian Revolution, Suez Crisis (i.e. when did the British leave?)
Dunc_Harris|☺ 11:19, 4 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some things to think about 

message: Surely interested editors can fill in the history from the tidal wave of the fourth century to the seventh century? 104.169.37.99 (talk) 17:31, 10 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The version you are referring to likely has changed, but yes I would agree that there are 2 major gaps in the history section: one between the destructive earthquake of Alexandria and its fall to the Sassanid Empire and one between the construction of the governor's palace and the battle where the Ottomans annexed Egypt. Adrian Velazquez 2003 (talk) 14:48, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  missing some centuries ... 

message: Overall, many strides can be made to significantly improve the citation practices of this article. There are entire sections and subsections without any citations. With regards to the initial summary, the information about Alexander's body being moved to Egypt is unecessary and should be removed. There are also major gaps within the history section that I commented on in a reply, and several subheadings like Christianity which can arguable be moved under the history heading. One thing this article does well is providing a lot of images. Adrian Velazquez 2003 (talk) 14:52, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  General Ideas for Improving the article 

message: — Assignment last updated by Issai920 (talk) 22:54, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Humanities 2 1400-present
Talk:Carleton Place

message: I have added a disambiguation page, and will slowly begin moving the link pointers from Mississippi River to Mississippi River (United States) and so on. -- Aetas-Nex
The above change and move were promptly undone.  See Talk:Mississippi River.  There are two articles, Mississippi River and Mississippi River (Ontario).  The disambiguation is handled at the top of both articles.  The bigger river keeps the title Mississippi River.  Whiner01 03:15, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Short-lived disambiguation page for "Mississippi River" 

message: I will also take a few more pictures of Carleton Place as well as the Mississippi River and upload them. -- Aetas-Nex
Please everyone sign your comments using the standard ~~~~ -- it inserts your username, the time, and the date.  Otherwise your comments end up un-dated.  Un-dated comments frustrate all readers.  Whiner01 08:33, 3 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pix 

message: It is twinned with Comrie in Perthshire, Scotland.  I'm not sure which section to add this into. 161.12.7.4 13:57, 14 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Twin Town 

message: The link I removed was to the wrong article. It referenced Maryland, this particular CCA is in Canada. The external link at the bottom, however, is correct. -- Endofline (talk) 13:54, 12 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Calvary Christian Academy 

message: Hasn't Leigh Instruments been closed for close to 20 years now?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.254.135.122 (talk) 14:01, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, that was a direct quote from the citation.IEEE Canada – The Crash Position Indicator =Dhodges (talk) 19:29, 27 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Leigh Instruments
Talk:Vitalism

message: No scientist believes that biological processes are directly reducible to chemical or physical processes, so the main claim and the way the whole article frames vitalism is unacademic - to say the least. Furthermore, there are no references to the current debate and conspicuously absent are contributions from the fields of biosemiotics or any reference to von Uexküll or Rose. In short, the article is not informative and does not meet Wikipedia standards. 86.6.148.125 (talk) 10:39, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for pointing thosse things out. Since you seem quite knowledgeable about vitalism why not try to fix some of these things yourself? Thank you. The Blue Rider  11:14, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text:  IP, please read the information related to pseudo-scientific articles at the top of this page as well as WP:FRINGE. Do you have a source for your statement "No scientist believes that biological processes are directly reducible to chemical or physical processes"? Because it looks to me that the exact opposite is actually true. In any event, since you have not provided a single source to justify the NPOV tag on the article, I will remove it. In the future, please propose specific changes and always provide sources to back them up. --McSly (talk) 14:24, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV 

message: Are there any good sources for non-European vitalism? This page is written primarily from an eurocentric perspective. Might be a good idea to expand. Euglenos sandara (talk) 00:41, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-European Vitalism
Talk:Staff of office

message: I propose moving Walking stick#Ecclesiastical use contents into this article.
As far as I am aware, the term "walking stick" is not used for the various ecclesiastical staffs: the term is not mentioned here. I will try to find a few references as well. Please discuss at Talk:Walking stick#Move proposal: section Ecclesiastical use to Staff of office where I have also left a message. Mirokado (talk) 20:58, 26 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move proposal: section from Walking stick to here 

message: This word doesn't show up in the dictionary. If it's ok, can someone find the meaning of this word? Komitsuki (talk) 08:05, 16 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dodsmen?
Talk:Grape

message: Why is the religion section only about Christianity? Wine plays a prominent role in many other religions, such as Judaism. This section needs to be updated. 174.34.196.106 (talk) 08:45, 22 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you have a source for this? CheeseInTea (talk) 17:32, 19 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Religion section 

message: Smitesh jadhav (talk) 00:09, 24 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. - FlightTime (open channel) 00:20, 24 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 24 November 2022 

message: It's stated that Iran is the 6th country in the world for producing grapes for wine making, while wine making is illegal in Iran. Aminabzz (talk) 20:06, 12 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Top producing countries for wine making
Talk:No Border network

message: When does an "excerpt" become a copyright violation? -- Zoe
: Excerpt of what? Please explain, Zoe. I went to  expecting to see exactly the same text as in the Wikipedia article, but our article differs from anything on their site. Dramatic 10:07 Mar 4, 2003 (UTC)
::I removed the excerpt; you can still find it in the article's history. AxelBoldt 16:34 Mar 4, 2003 (UTC)
:::Someone appears to have put the excerpt back in, i'm going to add wikify notice, 'cos this page doesn't seem particularly wiki (especially with that great big "excerpt"), perhaps it should be summarised and put into headings? - FrancisTyers 09:40, 11 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I started to summarise, though the whole excerpt is just an advertisement for a minority point of view regarding the No Border Network, especially since there is some controversie about their views. I therefore removed the excerpt and made a link to the source. AlexP 14:56, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Excerpt 

message: Shouldn't the "n" in "network" be capitalized?
:Yes, why shouldn't it be? →bjornthegreat t|c 02:50, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalize? 

message: This page is heavily outdated and misses references and information. I start to update it, starting with United Kingdom and references. I will continue work in the next days. Startx (talk) 23:13, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updates 
Talk:Gumboot dance

message: I saw the reference to the "African welly boot dance" in a newspaper, and thought that it was probably a joke. 
:However after watching it then soon after finding out its meaning and history i saw i as the 'work of a genius' !The history to this amazing dance and rhytm of sounds is what the african mine workers made up and then used this to communicate by slapping their gum boots and wrattling their heavy metal chains and making up their own secret lanuage!
Whoever told you that the black gold miners could not talk to one another underground or that they worked in water up to their knees???  Of course they could talk and very often shout if they were near the drills.  They had to in order to work together in that environment.  No work would be done otherwise.  As for working up to their knees in water, it rarely came up over one's boots.  On the mines I worked on only the latrine gangs were issued with gumboots for that extremely unpleasant task, and they worked a short evening shift as compensation.  There is an awful lot of rubbish written about conditions in the gold mines.  It was hard work in the heat and sometimes inadequate ventilation but everyone looked out for everyone else, black and white.  You had to.Egoli (talk) 19:28, 9 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: What is interesting in Gumboot dance culture 
And isicathamiya 41.144.67.72 (talk) 23:17, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  History
Talk:SimCity 4

message: This article doesn't list anything about the public outcry during the botched release.  It doesn't mention the game being played online-only.  This was quite a big deal. John Moser (talk) 19:29, 23 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this a scrubbed article?
Talk:Idolatry

message: Idolatry isn't worshipping a statue. They believed their gods to be in the heavens. They just had statues of their deites so that they have something to bow to.
Muslims also place their heads on a piece of clay when they want to worship god. Aminabzz (talk) 17:49, 4 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Idolatry is distorted 

message: What's the point of citing North Korea when in the US there is institutionalized idolatry for demi-gods like "founding fathers", idolatry for politicians from the Democratic-Republican biparty, and for celebrities and billionaires?
Besides, communism is from the western Eurasia("europe"), not from the Sinosphere. Fakecontinent (talk) 08:22, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cherrypicking with double standards for political propaganda.