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Talk:François Arago

message: This article contains several very long paragraphs, making it more difficult to read than necessary.  I've reduced the length in a few cases.  Is anyone interested in doing the same for others? -- Astrochemist 23:48, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Much used verbatim - not all referenced. I've added a few. Could do more ? - Rod57 (talk) 01:56, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Organization 

message: Can something be merged from François Jean Dominique Arago?
: It looks like they have been merged, as the above link now redirects back to François Arago 194.200.237.219 10:50, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Content, merge, Canary Isles 

message: There is an RfC on the question of using "Religion: None" vs. "Religion: None (atheist)" in the infobox on this and other similar pages. 
The RfC is at Template talk:Infobox person#RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion. 
Please help us determine consensus on this issue. --Guy Macon (talk) 02:48, 26 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Template talk:Infobox person#RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion|Request for Comments]] 

message: The article about his mother lists 6 Arago brothers, not 4 as in the text. 47.17.223.161 (talk) 07:42, 5 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  How many brothers did he have? 

message: Arago played a large part in the controversy over the discovery of Neptune.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.136.176.33 (talk) 09:57, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: This should be mentioned in the article on Arago.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.26.9.162 (talk) 13:53, 1 December 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Arago referred to Adams' "clandestine calculations".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C4:7C87:4F00:A5A4:8900:239C:9E0E (talk) 16:18, 25 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neptune 
Talk:Radon difluoride

message: i need a description of radon fluoride
RaF is Radium difluoride. RnF is probably what youŕe  talking about.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Porygon-Z474 (talk • contribs) 14:59, 17 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Radium difluoride would be RaF2; RaF would be a monofluoride (which would not be a stable compound but should exist as a radical). Double sharp (talk) 16:03, 17 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: RaF

message: isn't the name spelled "flouride"? Starhood` 18:25, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, the element is "fluorine", and its compounds are "fluorides". The name comes (indirectly) from the Latin fluere, to flow. —Keenan Pepper 18:36, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  name
Talk:No Rest for the Wicked (Ozzy Osbourne album)

message: *All song titles serve as redirects to this album, have their own pages, or have been placed at the appropriate disambiguation pages.--Hraefen Talk 20:25, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: '''<^>v!!This album is connected!!v<^>'''

message: Hi all,
just wanting to know if I can add the genre "Pop-metal" to this album? Stated as such at this source:
Kelly, Sean. Don't Call it Hair Metal. Art in the Excess of 80's Rock. Page 234. ECW Press.
"No Rest for the Wicked is an album that saw Osbourne reach back into his Black Sabbath heritage to pull out a slew of dark heavy metal riffs, polished up to a pop metal sheen"
Thanks! AgentKozak (talk) 19:17, 16 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding the genre "pop metal" to this album?
Talk:Goodness (band)

message: This is a great article. Fresh, no nonsense and sensitive to the importance of goodness.—Preceding unsigned comment added by  (talk • contribs) 
---
I have tried to merge the articles on value theory and goodness, see goodness and value theory. I did this mainly because the two pages have the same subject and some overlapping material, but raise  some separate and interesting issues.  
Value theory was based on Larry's notes, which had a lot of informal language, but was very wide ranging and useful. The article on goodness seemed overly brief and incomplete, although inspiring in its strong direction and intellectual honesty.
I hope people find the resulting article satisfactory, feedback is welcomed. If acceptable, I would eventually like to redirect from both the old pages to the new rewritten material. 
TonyClarke
Shouldn't one of the pages redirect to the other and put the content there? That's what is usually done in cases like this (such as the merging of Linux and GNU/Linux, currently at Linux). LDan 23:21, 12 Oct 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Rachel Corrie

message: Change "American journalist Charlie Wolf" to "Charlie Wolf, formerly the Communications Director of Republicans Abroad UK"... as I doubt someone merely namecalling merits the title of 'journalist' (and his article doesn't, while it does have the comdir). 92.18.125.136 (talk) 13:50, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 9 June 2023 

message: The punk band ten foot pole also has a song about her titled 'Rachel Corrie' 24.52.215.185 (talk) 15:29, 15 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  missing a song 

message: Article seems well referenced, in the main.  What is cited to Gannet News, though, doesn't have a URL, making it unverifiable, and the first paragraph in ==ISM accounts== has no references at all.  I've tagged the former with , and the latter with  (and ).  Bearing in mind the FAQ at the top of this page, please provide suitable references for these parts if you are able. All the best: Rich Farmbrough 11:32, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: References
Talk:OE ligature

message: This article should tell us about the French usage. Is it a letter or a ligature? When can "oe" be written as "œ" and when is that not allowed? — Hippietrail 14:05, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  French 

message: Does anyone know how I get the œ ligature with a macron over it? - James
:You need to use the "combining macron" ̅: œ̅ - it may not render equally well in all fonts and on all systems of course. — Hippietrail 05:37, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: combining macron is &772; not &773; the combination still looks pretty shitty on my system though (œ̄). you could also possiblly overline the sybol e.g. (œ) Plugwash 14:44, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  If its important to look good, you could create a font that uses the modern special features of OpenType and similar formats so that œ+&772; is specially remapped (you'd start with something like Bitstream Vera that you can edit, then create an extra precomposed character, then create a mapping table, I think, that does things automagically. I don't know how tho). Alternatively, for some reason TeX/LaTeX have always been able to do combining characters niftly, so you might typeset your document with that. (Neither option can be used on the web except as PDF, unfortunately, until more font manufactures do the right thing with combining characters). Felix the Cassowary 03:26, 11 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Unicode oe with macron: œ̄ (E659) DivermanAU (talk) 05:37, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Companion Ligature 

message: "while fœtus became fetus only in American English"
I've read several places that "foetus" is a false etymology added by foolish Brits, like iland ---> island.
Rather more specifically that the "oe" is only used in direct borrowings from Greek, and that fetus is borrowed from Latin, which dropped the "oe." 
Anybody know about this?
:That's what I've heard, it was origianlly fetus then someone thought it was Greek and made it fœtus.Cameron Nedland 21:31, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Fetus
Talk:Edgar Cayce

message: The article gives two different versions re: the "Pit" card game. What is the correct story?:
"1893–1912: Kentucky period
In May 1902, ... He invented Pit (or Board of Trade), a card game which simulated wheat-market trading. The game became popular, but when he sent the idea to a game company it copyrighted it and he received no royalties...
"1912–1923: Selma period
... He invented Pit, a card game based on commodities trading at the Chicago Board of Trade, to help raise money; the game is still sold today."
Bhami (talk) Bhami (talk) 02:29, 27 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I deleted the second iteration because the game was first marketed in 1904, during the "1893-1912" era, and hence too early for the "1912-1923" era. Catherineyronwode (talk) 17:39, 26 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is the correct story re: "Pit" card game?
Talk:Chinese surname

message: They are not always the same. What is the difference between last name and family name?
"Last name" is the name that comes after the first and middle names, and is used in titles i.e. Mr. "last name" or Miss "last name". ... "Family name" is one that is shared with the family, but is not necessarily the surname.
* https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/29686/surname-family-name-and-last-name
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surname
Look for example the actor Lee Majors. His real name is Harvey Lee Yeary, but he adopted the stage name Lee Majors. His real family name is Yeary, Majors is only his (staged) last name / surname.
I brought this up because i noticed on many chinese articles like Betty Ting or Kelly Lai Chen the names Ting and Lai getting mentioned as their "family name", when in fact it is only the surname of their staged names. Ting´s birthname is Tang Meili, which means Tang is her real family name, not Ting. Same with Lai, he was born as Hsi Chungchien, which means Hsi is is real family name, Lai is only his staged surname. Lai has a sister named Betty Loh Ti. She was born as Hsi Chung-i. This case just underlines what i mean. Kelly Lai and Betty Loh are siblings and have the same mother and father. The family name of both is Hsi, but their surnames are different (Lai/Loh).
I am only here to help to improve. But maybe Wikipedia should consider the possibility to seperate between "surname" and "family name", since they are not always the same. Look also the famous Samurai/Ronin Miyamoto Musashi, who was born as Shinmen Bennosuke. His real family name was Shinmen, his (staged) surname Miyamoto. --Niten Doraku (talk) 19:32, 8 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Surname and family name are the same thing. Stage name/pen name/pseudonym is a completely different issue, people with different stage name don't normally change their surname officially. Hzh (talk) 14:32, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Something about "Surname" and "Family Name" 

message: multiple users seem to remove Japan, from the beginning sentence. which is vandalism, japanese can also have chinese surnames, ryukyuans for example being the most obvious, and a lot of japanese also have a chinese name but with a japanese pronounciation. this is fact. i can list a couple out of my head. but the question is, why do these users remove japan?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.26.190.194 (talk) 08:42, 20 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: This is about Chinese surnames, not East Asian cultural sphere surnames Immanuelle 💗 (please tag me) 16:50, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:  The problem was the wording, adding Japan to a list together with Korea and Vietnam sounds like Japanese people use Chinese surnames to the same extent as Korea and Vietnam, when only a very small proportion of Japanese people use Chinese surnames. Hzh (talk) 23:05, 3 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  japan also has chinese surnames
Talk:Wuer Kaixi

message: His name in Uyghur is Uerkesh Daolet (the Chinese and Japanese versions say Urkesh Davlet). Probably neither Wu'er or Kaixi alone would be his surname. And what is his actual surname?  — Instantnood 18:21, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
:You are right. Wuerkaixi is the pinyin transliteration of Uerkesh which should stay as one word.  Someone who know him better should correct the title.  What name does he go by in English publications?  Perhaps the title should be Uerkesh Daolet with his Chinese name added as side notes.  Kowloonese 23:28, May 17, 2005 (UTC)
:: The correct title shall be "Wuerkaixi". Since he no longer lives with his own Uyghur people and is known from his Chinese transliteration, the Uyghur name now becomes less relevant. Some Chinese people mistakenly called him "Wuer Kaixi", however, that's a mistake. The Japanese Wikipedia correctly used ウーアルカイシ (wa-a-ru-kai-shi) as the title. -- Toytoy 09:41, Jun 10, 2005 (UTC)
His full Uyghur name is Ɵrkəx Dɵlət, or ﺋﯚﺭﻛﻪﺵ ﺩﯙﻟﻪﺕ in the current Uyghur script. Unfortunately, I can't insert the latter into the article itself. —Babelfisch 03:23, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: His last name

message: "He reportedly expressed his hope of taking part in Legislative Yuan elections as a representative of Kuomintang, which eventually did not nominate him as one of the party's candidates."
.
What year/election is this referring to? --Jiang 09:31, 7 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Potentital candidacy
Talk:Tibet

message: Tibet 西藏 commonly means Tibet Autonomous Region, similarly China means PRC, the Tibet Autonomous Region page should become Tibet page, current Tibet page should become new page Tibetan Area (or Tibet Region, or Greater Tibet) 藏区. Both current titles "Tibet" and "Tibet Autonomous Region" do not follow Wikipedia's naming conventions, such as that it is not the common name of the subject. Some common links show that common meaning of Tibet is Tibet Autonomous Region:
Google map
: Tibet means Tibet Autonomous Region
Bing map
: Tibet means Tibet Autonomous Region
Travel agency of Tibet
: Tibet Autonomous Region is one of the autonomous regions of the People's Republic of China and is commonly abbreviated as Xizang (Tibet).
:The Tibetan Area (or Tibetan Region) is a broader geographical concept
Dalai Lama's statement
: Tibet is a part of the People's Republic of China. It is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China.
U.S. policy toward Tibet
: The United States considers the Tibet Autonomous Region or TAR (hereafter referred to as "Tibet") as part of the People's Republic of China.
Britannica
: Tibet, historic region and autonomous region of China that is often called “the roof of the world.”
Toto11zi (talk) 02:29, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: "The United States considers the Tibet Autonomous Region or TAR (hereafter referred to as "Tibet") as part of the People's Republic of China." That does not mean that the US considers the word "Tibet" to refer to the Tibet Autonomous Region in general usage, only that it is using "Tibet" in that sense in that one document.--User:Khajidha (talk) (contributions) 13:43, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you provide common source for the general use of term Tibet? meaning all the Tibetan regions in China? Toto11zi (talk) 14:15, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page move, please add if you have more ideas. 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: not moved. In spite of a long (and at times rather heated) discussion, the consensus is against the proposed move.  Favonian (talk) 15:26, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 29 May 2024
Talk:Albury–Wodonga

message: Some articles (like Wondonga, Victoria, Albury, New South Wales) say that there have been proposals to merge Albury-Wodonga into a single city, and direct here for more information. But there's no more information here. I've heard/seen in various places both information that it has already happened (which seems to contradict WP), and that proposals for it have generally been turned down. Has anyone got any information they can add to this article? —Felix the Cassowary 06:06, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger of A/W
Talk:Battle of the Somme

message: "315,000 in 10​ " (divisions) ? 31,500 men per division? Seems a bit dodgy. Regards Keith-264 (talk) 09:43, 26 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox question 

message: The outcome of the battle as stated in the infobox is quite misleading considering the lack of consensus about it. Deeming most of the Entente objectives in the battle to have been achieved is surprising. It does neither reflect the content, nor the sources linked in the article. (Jules Agathias (talk) 14:41, 1 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Good. Nice to see that piece of nonsense has been fixed.Paulturtle (talk) 20:51, 26 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox (result) 

message: G'day, Duncan, hope you are well. Reference your here, potentially Simkins 2003 might be:   Unfortunately, I don't know for sure, though. Can anyone else assist? Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 05:09, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks - I went further back through the article history, found it was added by an IP which had also edited Operation Alberich at the same time, and found the same sentence, referenced to the work you mention, there. Have now added it here. This is a common problem with harv/sfn references. DuncanHill (talk) 14:39, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: G'day, Duncan, thanks for following it up. Hope you are having a safe and happy Christmas. Regards, AustralianRupert (talk) 02:05, 24 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Simkins 2003

message: Since it seems to be a point of contention recently, does anyone know where the higher German casualties come from? The 10 day loss reports and other data from the Reichsarchiv support the 420,000 number, I can only find suppositional accounts from British authors supporting 600,000. An exception is Alexander Watson's "Ring of Steel" which is a British book but goes through the 10 day reports for the relevant German armies and also arrives at around a ~420,000 figure. It seems odd to have official British and French losses represented in the infobox alongside more speculative losses for the German side, although the high German figure seems appropriate for the casualties section. If my understanding is correct the Edmonds view that all German losses have to be increased by 30%, if thats where this orignates, has been contested by both the German archives and by Churchill in his book. Thx Roddy the roadkill (talk) 03:03, 25 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  German casualties in the infobox 

message: What were the long and short term consequences of the Battle of the Somme? 131.242.7.31 (talk) 04:36, 3 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Long and short term consequences of the Battle of the Somme
Talk:Lists by country

message: I would like to change the vertical "List by country" navigational box on the right of this page to a horizontal one at the bottom. Please discuss at Template talk:Lists by country. --ChoChoPK (球球PK) (talk | contrib) 12:53, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "List by country" navigational box 

message: A discussion has been started at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Countries/Lists of countries which could affect the inclusion criteria and title of this and other lists of countries.  Editors are invited to participate. Pfainuk talk 13:47, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: New Discussion

message: Template: has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. Cybercobra (talk) 06:51, 27 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:Templates for deletion|Templates for deletion]] nomination of [[:Template:{{ucfirst:Lists of countries}}]]
Talk:Uday Hussein

message: I added a quick note about rounds being fired, and wanted to say a few more things but ran the risk of getting wordy on something note entirely relevant to the article. I was going to continue on to say that "celebration" and "mourning" generally have the same physical appearance in the Arab world. I would gladly appreciate if someone more experienced with Wikipedia would edit my comments to include this in a less wordy manor. Greatly appreciated --Ahmed Stephens 21:06, 23 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  About rounds being fired 

message: "Gegeo had recently introduced Saddam to a beautiful, younger woman, Samira Shahbandar, who later became Saddam's second wife. Uday took this as an insult to his mother (his father's first cousin)."  <-- That makes no sense.  Which Saddam is in reference?  I'd assume Uday, because that is who the article is about.  Therefore, what did Uday take as an insult? Jachin 21:59, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gegeo Murder 

message: Should the sections on the respective brothers' articles relating to their death be renamed to "Death" or still stay as "Killing"? - OpalYosutebito (talk) 04:27, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Very minor question: Death or Killing?
Talk:Markov algorithm

message: I thought of an example: a converter from Roman number into Arabic number (restricted to the interval of 0–99). I am not sure yet, all these things are new to me, thus I do not insert it yet to the article page.
It can be experimented with on the online Markov algorithm interpreter.
 nihilum->.0
 nihil->.0
 nil->.0
 XC->[90]
 IC->[99]
 LXXX->[80]
 LXX->[70]
 LX->[60]
 XL->[40]
 IL->[49]
 L->[50]
 XXX->[30]
 XX->[20]
 IX->[9]
 X->[10]
 VIII->[8]
 VII->[7]
 VI->[6]
 IV->[4]
 V->[5]
 III->[3]
 II->[2]
 I->[1]
 0->
 [->
 ]->
Unfortunatelly, it does not illustrate the importance of the “after applying first matching rule, rerun the search” principle entirely (although it illustrates that the first rules have a precedence above later rules in some sense). Also an example of the importance of terminating rules is given by nil->.0 like rules.
I have not found yet a good illustration for the other seemingly strange (unnatural, arbitrary) principle (“only the leftmost is substituted in a match”). Superficially, it is similar to lazy evaluation (but I think, no deep connections exist, this is just an accident). But one can illustrate the importance of the “only the leftmost is substituted in a match” by the fact, that an “entire replacement in one match” rule would be no less arbitrary-looking. Because also such a principle would involve some arbitraryness: e.g. when applying
 bab->7
rule in
 
 babab
string, it would require a — necessarily arbitrary — resolution of overlapping occurrences.
Physis 11:05, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Examples 

message: I removed the link
* Markov Algorithm explained for SEO
which points to a page about Markov chains, not the Markov Algorithm. Jks 18:31, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed misleading link 

message: What about SNOBOL and Expect as other examples of languages using the Markov Algorithm paradigm? Jeremybennett (talk) 14:31, 30 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other language examples 

message: There is one more interpreter of Markov Algorithm with a debugger: fvm2. Maybe add it to the external links?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.251.129.106 (talk) 11:50, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  One more interpreter 

message: I have just corrected many errors in grammar and usage. Inline citations still need to be added. I changed all instances of "word" to "string" so that the wording would be consistent. In the "another example" section, I also changed the order of the rules in the algorithm so that the steps would be correct, back to the original order (before the edit by 188.163.114.37). Either order has the same result, but the listed steps are only for this order. It seems that there is redundant information between the sections "Descripiton" and "Algorithm." Furthermore, it needs to be cleared up whether "Markov Algorithm" and "Normal Algorithm" are exactly synonymous. Finally, It would be helpful if someone changed the formatting in the Description and the examples so that they match.Dijekjapen (talk) 01:10, 16 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits