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Talk:Four-seam fastball

message: This article is essentially a single-source article composed mostly of a single, lengthy quote from a copyrighted source.  I'm not sure this is appropriate. 71.57.26.140 (talk) 02:51, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe adding that the reason to it being called the rising fastball is not that it is rising, but instead that the spinn of the ball makes it drop less than an ordinary ball. In fact it is said that the trajectory of the four-seam fastball is dropping so much less than expected that some pitchers swear it is not dropping but instead rising. A persons expectation can play tricks on your eyes.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.114.12.152 (talk) 20:52, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

message: The article tries too hard to introduce tangentially relevant baseball slang, as if trying to impress upon the reader that the article was written by somebody who is part of a special baseball club. Examples include get "around on" a pitch, swinging "empty", the "good-eye" batter, if a batter can "square up", fastball loses "heat", among others (quotation marks are in the original article). There is no need to introduce a slang term or colloquialism that is only used once and is defined right after it is used. The article would be easier to follow if this jargon was removed (or perhaps exported to a document on slang baseball terms (or to this existing page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_baseball )  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.113.28.133 (talk) 01:35, 15 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  way too much jargon 

message: The wording in much of the article is incredibly awkward (“It is called what it is”????) and written in the conversational style of an over-enthusiast. Further, it has the awkward tone of feigned expertise rather than plain language to define the pitch and its effects for the reader. Wideeyedraven (talk) 14:47, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Awkward
Talk:Middle East Council of Churches

message: I have added a short referenced section noting the body's opposition to a widely held Protestant position on restorationism. Cpsoper (talk) 22:21, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Criticism
Talk:The Scousers

message: Is it right to say that Brookside was the inspiration for the Scousers? In a video of his (Harry Enfield Undressed), an audience member asks whether Brookside was the inspiration for the Scousers. He replies that they were based on...people from Liverpool. LeighvsOptimvsMaximvs (talk) 23:02, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Inspiration for the Scousers

message: Likewise, is it right to class these characters as 'Merseysiders'?
Scousers are from Liverpool. Liverpool is only a part of Merseyside and the scouse accent isn't spoken throughout Merseyside.
As per the previous post ... 'they were based on...people from Liverpool.'
Colin Thomas (Wigan).
:I couldn't agree more - Scousers are from Liverpool only - not all Merseysiders are scousers Vera, Chuck & Dave (talk) 20:13, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Merseyside or Liverpool
Talk:Chester-le-Street railway station

message: I'm sure First Transpennine manages this station. Their signs have the first logo on them, but this station is listed as being managed by Northern Rail. Can anyone confirm this?
Manors21 23:04, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Northern Rail is correct - see information on the station, though I see it gives the address of the station as Chester-le-Track! – Tivedshambo (talk) 06:30, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  What does this mean exactly?  That Northern Rail is the franchised TOC for this station, but they subcontract the duty to Chester-le-Track?  Or that managing and operating are two distinct duties? — Smjg (talk) 10:04, 8 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Manager
Talk:Marie Hall Ets

message: I see a merge request suggested in May 2013, but no reason or discussion. Book article stands alone as Caldecot winner. Writer is significant enough for an article as well. I am removing the merge request at this time.  Feel free to discuss here.--Knulclunk (talk) 23:28, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing merge request
Talk:SMS Brandenburg

message: "Seiner Majestät Schiff" translates (roughly) as "Its Majesty Ship." ¿Is there a way to include this in the page? 71.34.68.186 (talk) 17:00, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seiner Majestät Schiff 

message: here. Parsecboy (talk) 17:29, 7 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo 

message: Should this be linked in the Lead is would that be overlinking? I was going to link it but with it being such a highly rated article I didn't want to interfere.Pennsy22 (talk) 05:08, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, I think so - I also added a link to coastal defense ship in the lead. Thanks Pennsy. Parsecboy (talk) 11:44, 22 September 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Barracks ship
Talk:Optina Monastery

message: "It is not clear when the monastery was established. Its name is derived from the Russian word for 'living together,' possibly because nuns were allowed into the cloister prior to 1504."
Which supposed Russian word would this be? Russian Wikipedia claims that "По преданию, основан в конце XIV века раскаявшимся разбойником по имени Опта (Оптия), в иночестве — Макарий." "According to legend, it was founded at the end of the 14th Century by a reformed bandit by the name of Opta (Optiya), or the monastic name of Makarii (Macarius). This book backs that up http://books.google.com/books?id=IcDeFiZgxK0C&pg=PA332&dq=opta+optina+monk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=zEV9UunfJcP0yQHy-YDwAg&ved=0CEQQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=opta%20optina%20monk&f=false I don't know what the editing procedure is, so I'll leave it for someone else to decide what should be done.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.64.205.187 (talk) 20:15, 8 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name Origin
Talk:Helgoland-class battleship

message: Similar articles (St Vincent-class battleship, HMS Neptune (1909), Colossus-class battleship (1910), Nassau-class battleship, etc...) do not have "An illustration of ..." in the images. In fact, I don't remember seeing any article where images are captioned "An illustration of ..." (besides this one). It is my opinion that it's unecessary (readers aren't that dumb, come on) and just verbose. 69.165.196.103 (talk) 21:12, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Some readers are viewing these articles on mobile devices with small screens, and it may not be readily apparent that the images in question are illustrations, not actual photos. There are plenty of articles that describe illustrations like this one does -  comes to mind. Thankfully, your opinion is just that, an opinion. Parsecboy (talk) 22:10, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: See also Kaiser-class battleship, König-class_battleship, Ruggiero di Lauria-class ironclad, SMS Erzherzog Albrecht, etc. Parsecboy (talk) 22:19, 12 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: You're sadly wrong again. (link corrected below) shows that the first picture is not an illustration but an actual photography. The second image is not just a random illustration but a drawing by the RN, so it would be better identified (if it's necessary to) as such, like here. 69.165.196.103 (talk) 13:06, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Check that link, it's just to the empty search page. In any event, if it is a photograph, it's so heavily retouched it might as well be an illustration. Parsecboy (talk) 13:09, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Or it's just a reproduction of an old photograph and the quality isn't exceptional (that's what the German text says). Try http://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/archives/barchpic/search/_1497365456/?search[view]=detail&search[focus]=1 (copy the whole link, somehow it doesn't display correctly because of the [] in it). 69.165.196.103 (talk) 14:55, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it's very heavily retouched - the original is this one: http://www.bild.bundesarchiv.de/archives/barchpic/search/1497365456/1497365995/_1497366002/?search[view]=detail&search[focus]=36 . Parsecboy (talk) 15:02, 13 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Illustrations
Talk:Orientalium Ecclesiarum

message: There should probably be an additional note on the role of the Congregation since the time of the Second Vatican Council. Although it seems unfortunate to make this type of association with the Council, the plight of Christians in the Middle East since the 1960s has been almost tragic, with a severe persecution in Iraq, steep emigration in Palestine-Israel, discrimination in Egypt, Jordan and Syria, civil war in Lebanon, lack of official status in Turkey, complete absence of freedom in Saudi Arabia, religious apartheid in Iran, etc. ADM (talk) 02:14, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Since Vatican II

message: Would it be better to say that Orientalium ecclesiarum means "Of the Eastern Churches"?--Richardson mcphillips (talk) 01:44, 27 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  meaning of title 
Talk:Nassau-class battleship

message: Some information from Ireland, Bernard, Jane's Battleships of the 20th Century, p. 30, , which may make the article more comprehensive:
*length-to-breadth ration was 5.45, "comparatively stubby" (even for a battleship);
*wing turrets and trunks were very close to side, necessitating extra width; they were vulnerable and made it difficult to provide longitudinal anti-torpedo bulkheads;
*main armament squeezed into machinery spaces, but had benefit of dividing those spaces into three, increasing survivability;
*given the overall weight of the main and secondary armament (14% of total displacement), turrets had to be sited as low as possible for stability purposes; secondary armament, lower down in casemates at main deck level, were of doubtful use in a seaway;
*Nassau could fire six guns forward, six aft, and eight in broadside, the same as the (theoretical) figures for contemporary rival Dreadnought, but Nassaus required two more rifles to do so;
*armour belt was 12" only in limited area in centre.
And here is some interesting information on the roll characteristics, from Lyon, Hugh, The Encyclopedia of the World's Warships, pp. 100–01, :
*the wide beam and heavy wing turrets gave them a large metacentric height.  This ordinarily would have made them stable gun platforms, but their roll period proved to coincide with that of the average North Sea swell.  The bilge keels were added to mitigate this.  
Kablammo (talk) 16:17, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: NOTE - this is wrong - a large metacentric height leads to a large righting force when a ship rolls, hence more violent rolling.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.74.130.171 (talk) 09:54, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't splice your comment into someone else's, please. And no, you're wrong - cruise ships have large metacentric heights for the sole purpose of reducing roll to make them more comfortable to passengers. Parsecboy (talk) 12:13, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Design aspects 

message: Do we have sources for :File:Nassau class main weapon.svg and :File:SMS Westfalen midel section-EN.svg? (poke @Jimfbleak as this article is scheduled for TFA on Jan 28th) a455bcd9 (Antoine) (talk) 14:54, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: for comment Jimfbleak - talk to me? 14:59, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know that the uploader is still active, but I'm reasonably sure the latter is based on a drawing in Staff's book. I'll try to check it in the next day or two. Parsecboy (talk) 20:45, 13 December 2022 (UTC)

text: I've added references to both drawings. Parsecboy (talk) 17:28, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Amazing, thanks a lot @Parsecboy! a455bcd9 (Antoine) (talk) 17:42, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources for images
Talk:SMS Kaiser Friedrich III

message: My understanding is that ships of the German navy are referred to in the masculine.  Why does this article mainly use the feminine? 65.128.20.255 (talk) 22:42, 1 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Because this is en.wiki, not de.wiki. We follow English conventions. Parsecboy (talk) 02:50, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronouns
Talk:SMS Kaiser Karl der Grosse

message: In German, the ship's name was rendered with an eszett, as Kaiser Karl der Große.
Why the was? German orthography hasn’t changed on this, any contemporary text mentioning the ship’s name would still spell it with a „ß“. —Galaktos (talk) 00:28, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree. Also, there's no need to render the name of the ship in french-fried English (Charlemagne is French; literal English would be "Charles the Great"), as the ship was never known by an English name, even to the Brits. Sca (talk) 13:50, 18 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Past tense in footnote about ship name
Talk:SMS Kaiser Wilhelm II

message: Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that :File:S.M. Linienschiff Kaiser Wilhelm II - restoration, borderless.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on February 16, 2016. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2016-02-16. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. — Chris Woodrich (talk) 00:11, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:File:S.M. Linienschiff Kaiser Wilhelm II - restoration, borderless.jpg]] to appear as POTD soon 

message: The lead (+the image of the day item above) and the text (+ the infobox) have different commissioning dates (1902 vs 1900). Perhaps somebody with a source can verify which is the right one.No longer a penguin (talk) 12:35, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Good catch - no clue where the 4 February 1902 date came from. Parsecboy (talk) 13:03, 16 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Commissioned
Talk:England runestones

message: Just to note that the notability of this article, and the technical engagement that must be hidden somewhere in the article-history, is based on a stray sentence from Harrison, D. & Svensson, K. (2007). Vikingaliv. Fälth & Hässler, Värnamo. ISBN 978-91-27-35725-9.
* All in all there are about thirty runestones with information on people that had travelled to England.
Sechinsic (talk) 09:50, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  A processual euphemism detected and  verified 
Talk:Rogozhskoye Cemetery

message: I am sorry but there is a factual error in References. And I can't correct it. It is Dmitry Urushev (Дмитрий Урушев) who wrote the article. And the name of this article is copied inattentively. It would be correct to write like this:  Дмитрий Урушев. Старообрядцы у Рогожской заставы // Истина и жизнь. N6, 2005 ISSN 0869835X  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lady TY (talk • contribs) 16:29, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Factual error
Talk:Michael Dadap

message: How old is he? Mike H. I did "That's hot" first! 18:34, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: See article now for birth date. Dragonbite 04:58, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Jerry A. Dadap 124.105.178.88 (talk) 02:49, 2 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mapeh
Talk:Sobor

message: It seems to me that, in addition to the word's regular meaning the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of Canada uses the term sobor to mean a large church serving a wide area that is not a cathedral. For example in Alberta they have St. John Cathedral and St. Andrew "Sobor" (both in Edmonton) and in Saskatchewan they have Holy Trinity Cathedral in Saskatoon and Descent Of The Holy Spirit "Sobor" in Regina (see: http://www.uocc.ca/en-ca/parishes/search.asp).  Am I understanding this right?  Do other orthdox churches use the term this way? --Kevlar (talk • contribs) 16:36, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This is an East Slavic/Russian term and may well be used by immigrants in Canada. - Altenmann >talk 18:30, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other uses of term 

message: @ShelfSkewed  Hungarian is not a Slavic language (or even an Indo-European language) so is Sobor, Hungary an example of "a word in Slavic languages"?  Looking in an on-language dictionary, there is a Hungarian word "sobor" which means "statue".
I'm inclined to delete that link from this page but seek some advice first. Vincent J. Lipsio (talk) 17:41, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: You cannot delete links from pages of this type. But I deleted the reference to language. - Altenmann >talk 18:25, 17 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sobor, Hungary ?
Talk:Bible translations into German

message: Does anyone know anything about the "Wenzel Bible", apparently the original source of :Commons:Image:Page from the Wenzel Bible.jpg? If so, could you add information to that page, and possibly to this article. It is obviously a very early translation into German. - Jmabel | Talk 23:35, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Wenzel Bible

message: Gothic, in the main article, is a Teutonic language, but not identical with German.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.149.223.218 (talk) 14:08, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gothic 

message: The main article says, "which established High German as the literary language
thoughout Germany". I am not sure that there is any reference to this dialect
in any divine revelation.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.160.202.155 (talk) 12:24, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Established 

message: I am not sure about the sentence "Later Charlemagne promoted Frankish Bible translations in the 9th century."   The Carolingians had an effort to generate a correct version of the Vulgate, and Charlemagne promoted that sermons should be in the vernacular (and therefore that the preachers needed to translate, perhaps as they went along) but that is not the same thing as making a Bible translation.  (Of course, it is possible: the Anglo-Saxon King Aelfred did it.) Rick Jelliffe (talk) 10:46, 9 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Charlemagne
Talk:Great Western Railway War Memorial

message: HJ Mitchell has requested some photos.  I often go through Paddington but the article already has a reasonable photo so I'm not understanding what more is wanted.  Please advise. Andrew🐉(talk) 13:23, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Argh. You should have asked earlier today, before I set off for Padd en route to m:Meetup/London/176. There were loads of wreaths etc. I won't be there again until January at the earliest. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 20:53, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: , I hadn't realised you were attending, though I assume the area around the memorial would be busy on Remembrance Sunday anyway. , I was hoping for higher-resolution and/or sharper photos of the whole memorial and its setting, of the statue, and of the relief carvings. There's certainly no rush; as you say, the photos we have are adequate, but it would be nice to have a deeper pool to fish from and I know we have plenty of keen photographers in (or passing through) London. HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 16:15, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I took a variety of photos today – a mix of detail and long shots.  There was a good array of wreaths and other Remembrance Day items which make the scene more colourful.  I'll do some cropping and editing and then upload them.  The hardest part to photograph was the main statue but we'll see.  I also took pictures of Paddington (the bear) and Brunel. Andrew🐉(talk) 17:29, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  can you help Harry here please? --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 22:00, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll see what I can do. Thryduulf (talk) 22:12, 15 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Photos

message: When taking the photos above, I was impressed by the number of wreaths which were so numerous that they were grouped in three main banks to provide access paths to the doors either side. Reading the article, it seems that this is a recent scheme which started in 2020.  My count for 2021 was 190 wreaths plus lots of crosses. Andrew🐉(talk) 09:44, 16 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: That's remarkable. Thank you very much for the photos, . HJ Mitchell | Penny for your thoughts? 14:43, 17 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Wreaths
Talk:Synod of Diamper

message: I have made a number of changes in the article.It was not giving any specific information earlier and the statements which were wrong did not have any citations. I Organized it and added reference for the citation. Please discuss to further improve this,
1 Back Ground
2 Decrees of the Syond
3 Changes in Liturgy
4 Changes in Administration
5 Destruction of Syriac Books.
6 Invalidity of the Syond
7 Aftermath
8 See also
9 References
9.1 Books ( Studies on Syond of Diamper)
10 External links
Pamparam (talk) 16:28, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I have added a detailed description of the prohibited book and why they were prohibited. So you can now safely remove the list from section "estruction of Syriac Books" -17:40, 31 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changes done 

message: I have done quite a bit of cleaning up on grammar, yet I believe that there are a few errors that need to be fixed.  Hopefully, it conforms to the Wikipedia standards.
Toohak113 (talk) 09:06, 31 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Me too. The sentence construction and spelling are now improved, but fuller explanations of the technical terms used would be helpful.Perry Pat Etic Poleaxe (talk) 10:36, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Still needs a lot more work 

message: The list of books prohibited by the Synod appear on both the documents of that synod and in later histories of the topic. A note in one of the prefacing references acknowledged the extensive character of these lists in other sources. However, as part of this Wikipedia page, the sources seem disinterested in discussing them in a way that makes detailed inclusion of their contents appropriate for this article. Perhaps a WP:SPINOUT for all the books collectively or some of them individually might be considered, but even on pages explicitly about banned texts, this amount of detail is not generally provided. As such, I am removing this incredibly over-sized portion of the article. ~ Pbritti (talk) 19:17, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Books
Talk:Compositional data

message: A link to the page of John Aitchison should be included.
Vera  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.8.26.42 (talk) 01:34, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  More 

message: I removed the link: 
*CoDaWeb: Compositional Data Analysis Web Site
mostly because 1) it requires registration to view, 2) after registering, promotes only one commercial software product, 3) has four discussion forum posts in 2+ years, 4) has sections for publications, events, conferences which are empty, containing no postings.   In short, this site has fails to provide any usable information at all.  linas (talk) 22:38, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  removed link 

message: This article seems to be almost entirely contained in the article Aitchison geometry. But this article also just describes an application of studying a simplex where some data lies on a simplex. There doesn't seem to be any actual content to this article. — MarkH21 (talk) 06:16, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Done following this discussion. — MarkH21 (talk) 07:03, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge to Aitchison geometry or simplex?