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Talk:Giovanni Dondi dall'Orologio

message: This well written article is kind of hard to find because of it's name De'Dondi. I just wrote a Wikipedia article that referred to 'Giovanni di Dondi', searched Wikipedia for that name, and missed it.  Although de Dondi seems to be the correct name in Italian, large parts of the English speaking world know him as di Dondi; see for example:
:History of technology series, Univ. of Houston
:Museum of American Heritage timeline
:L L. Sprague de Camp, The Ancient Engineers,book 
:article on creativity, Engineers Week magazine
:technology timeline, Intute
:sciencetimeline.net
The combination of the initial preposition, the apostrophe, and the variant spelling of 'de', and the fact that most articles about persons are named with the full name, make it hard to look up in a search engine and hard to recognise who it refers to.  Also, the name isn't specific enough: there are other well known Italian families named Dondi and De Dondi. 
 
Maybe rename the article for the more well-known De Dondi, Giovanni de Dondi, and then redirect Jacopo de Dondi and the alternate spellings there?  --Chetvorno 12:46, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: good idea. I got the old spelling from Henry King's "Geared to the stars" (which is quite old), so it may have been more fashionable then than now. Cormullion 16:50, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Name change?

message: I've changed the phrase "elliptic-lik" to "near elliptical", since the original is not an English word. I believe "elliptic-like" was intended, for which my substitution is probably better English. However, as I'm not very familiar with the mechanism, I encourage someone else to improve on this phrase, if necessary.
Broom (talk) 17:03, 3 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: "elliptic-lik"?
Talk:G.S. Olympia Larissa B.C.

message: There is another topic for the same team with title Olympia Larissa. Can anyone combine these 2 topics to one?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.1.20.171 (talk) 22:01, 29 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Mathmos

message: There are some issues with this page which i would like to draw attention to. 
Firstly Edward Craven walker invented the 'Astro' lamp, the rights to produce and sell the lamp on the American Market were sold to Haggerty Enterprises in 1966, and it was the Americans who coined the phrase Lava lamp.
Mathmos still manufactues the 'Astro' lamp in their Factory in Poole, Dorset and from 1990 Mathmos has been owned soley by Cressida Granger. 
Today Mathmos sells various lava-lamps and as well as over 20 other lighting products, most of which are ambient lighting - incorporating colour and movement of some description. there are about to move for the first time since the open to a new factory but its still in dorset
Parts of the article read as massively non-NPOV. Anyone else agree?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.178.34.105 (talk) 18:28, 1 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Phylogenetic bracketing

message: Cool; I was a bit asleep at the switch last night.  Besides, when I think of Witmer and bracketing, I usually think of EPB. J. Spencer 13:14, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: EPB

message: The section  Example of bracketing with one extinct and one extant group claims to infer characteristics of Jurassic mammals by bracketing between Thrinaxodon and modern shrews and marsupial mice. The conclusion drawn is that the Jurassic mammals were "small, nocturnal, insectivorous dwellers of the undergrowth".
There is good fossil evidence that Jurassic mammals were small, nocturnal, and insectivorous. To evaluate the inference in the article, we need to pretend to be ignorant of this evidence and consider just what phylogenetic bracketing can tell us. Can we conclude that they were small and insectivorous? Hardly, because the modern-day mammals being considered were chosen just because they are small and insectivorous. We could as easily decide that the Jurassic mammals were large herbivores because they are phylogenetically bracketed by Exaeretodon and oxen. If there is enough variation in reference taxa, one can show just about anything.
And nocturnal? Is there is any evidence that Thrinaxodon was nocturnal? Endocast evidence on the sizes of the olfactory regions of the animals' brains favors nocturnality for Jurassic mammals but not for Thrinaxodon.
"Dwellers of the undergrowth"? If there is one thing we do know about Thrinaxodon, it is that the animal was fossorial, not an inhabitant of the undergrowth.  Some shrews are fossorial as well. This one is a nonstarter.
Suggestions for better examples are welcome. It has occurred to me that, while there is no direct evidence of hair in any Triassic mammal, the fact that Tikitherium is phylogenetically bracketed by Castorocauda and modern mammals makes a Triassic origin of hair quite probable. If it's in the literature, this would be a nice case.
Peter M. Brown (talk) 16:44, 4 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, I kind of drew the current one out of my hindquarters so to speak. Petter Bøckman (talk) 18:39, 5 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  A really bad example
Talk:Mosin-Nagant 1891/30

message: Can the point of this article be explained? It seems to only mention the 1891/30 as a sniper rifle, but it was in fact the standard issue weapon to Soviet infantry after 1930. All this and more is explained in the main article for the Mosin-Nagant. Perhaps the unique information included in this article would be better suited there.
Zytsef 21:07, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Category talk:Properties of religious function on the National Register of Historic Places

message: See Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2007 June 11#Category:NRHP theme - religious for further history of this category. Ipoellet 13:24, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

message: The title of the subcategories is awkwardly phrased and gives no indication of its relationship to this category. Why not use Registered Historic Places of religious function in State? --Trödel 00:55, 6 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Subcategories
Talk:Bread Givers

message: It should be mentioned that this novel has undeniably feminist. It was written in the 20s, and many publishers did not print it because it was a story told from a woman's point of view, and that view potrayed the father as lazy, stupid, and angry. wjs23
ËËËËË  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.222.35.110 (talk) 16:48, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Roman Catholic Diocese of Nha Trang

message: The redirect Roman CatholicnDiocese of Nha Trang has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached.  BD2412 T 03:53, 29 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "[[:Roman CatholicnDiocese of Nha Trang]]" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:New Brunswick Route 2

message: Feel free to continue converting it to ELG standards. ([ →]vishwin60 - new age roads) 21:08, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Commented out, since I made one without seeing this one here. --NE2 11:42, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Under construction exit list 

message: has some more recent information. Other information is from various maps. --NE2 12:09, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: History of bypasses

message: *Route 144, 8 to 75
*Route 108, 75 to Grand Falls
*Route 130, Grand Falls to 172
*Route 590, 172 to 184
Note: older Route 2 is Route 105, Perth-Andover to Hartland; Route 103, Hartland to Woodstock; Route 165, Woodstock to 194
*To remain Route 2, 184 to 194
*Route 165, 194 to 212
*No name, 212 to 231
*Route 102, 231 to Fredericton
*Route 105, Fredericton to Youngs Cove
*Route 10, Youngs Cove to Sussex
Does anybody have the most recent official map, and can confirm and clarify this, as well as clarify the new interchanges? Thank you. --NE2 13:40, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: has the new exit numbers. --NE2 14:00, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: And  has the new changes. --NE2 16:05, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: The old road has the following numbers

message: Several can be seen on poor-quality aerials on Google Maps. For some reason, the map embedded in  has different data than the main Google Maps. Please help fill in details of any missing ones. --NE2 14:35, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: New or modified interchanges

message: Exit 19 is missing from the list.  Link.   24.202.202.94 (talk) 00:39, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Exit 19 

message: Two good retrospectives on the Fredericton-Moncton highway, including plenty of dates and history.
http://conf.tac-atc.ca/english/resourcecentre/readingroom/conference/conf2006/docs/s018/scott.pdf
http://conf.tac-atc.ca/english/resourcecentre/readingroom/conference/conf2005/docs/s13/johnson.pdf
-- Floydian τ ¢ 04:07, 14 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opening of sections
Talk:Nazand Begikhani

message: 29 Feb 2020: Nazand has asked me to update her page with links to her poetry recitals, academic posts & publications. I'm new to the game & am learning the ropes gradually, still notr quite sure how to put in references & links refs to body text - please excuse any glitches. PG Petergreenhouse (talk) 13:00, 29 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified
Talk:List of world number one male golfers

message: Here the end date for 1 golfer and the start date for the next are the same. However, this is not true since 2 golfers are not number 1 on the same day. In other words, the end dates all needed to be moved back by 1 day to show on which date who exactly was the world number 1. Supertigerman 14:01, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Start/End dates

message: Are there any sources for the Rankings between April 7, 1986 and 1987? There are only the very first rankings in April 1986 and the rankings from 1987 onwards available in  the archives on the official rankings homepage. 
Also there is the week from Monday, November 16, 1987 to Sunday, November 22, 1987 missing in this list in which Greg Norman should haven been #1 ranked player (see here which states ranking AFTER week ending November 15, so from November 16 onwards). But this would extend Norman's overall streak to 332 weeks while all sources that I found state 331. The only other possibility could be that he didn't become #1 on September 14 (or 15) 1986 but on September 8 (or 9) 1986 but as I couldn't find any rankings for this period I just cannot tell. Does anyone know about that or have sources? --FeinerMax (talk) 22:05, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rankings 1986/1987 

message: The rankings were frozen on March 20, and will remain frozen for the foreseeable future. How should the count of weeks at number one be handled when rankings resume?
:I think we'll have to wait and see how OWGR handle it. I'm guessing that the weeks will simply be ignored, so Rory won't be credited with any weeks at number one during the frozen period. Nigej (talk) 08:00, 8 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Frozen rankings 

message: What is meant by order? Sequence they reached? Can someone explain this? ~ Tremello (talk) 04:15, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Order
Talk:North Fly District

message: This is one of the first steps in a massive personal project to document the districts and local level government areas of PNG, and one of the first PNG related articles to make the main page of Wikipedia. If anyone wants to help document any particular district of Papua New Guinea, please leave a message on my talk page with the area you are most interested in, and I will supply the relevant maps and stub articles to get you started, mabye the next PNG related "Did You Know" article on the Main Page will be yours! Aliasd 12:33, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Consumer driven health plan

message: This is possibly the worst posting I've read.  Its purposefully unclear with the intention of confusing readers.  
This article needs an author who:
#1. Is unbias.
#2. Knows what he/she is writing about!!!
#3. Can explain the topic clearly.
Here's a start:
CDHP are based on the consumerism trend, which focuses on empowering the consumer with more health care quality and cost information, more control in making health care decisions, and more accountability in the financial impact of health care decisions. CDHPs have been widely championed by many of the top economists, doctors, and health care administrators in the United States as the solution to the high rate of health care inflation as well as a potential way of reducing the number of the United States's uninsured population. Consumer driven health care is often seen as the capitalist answer to universal health care.
CDHP model:  
Free Preventative Care -- Then the Deductible -- Once Deductible is met (100% coverage to infinity) 
Why its better than traditional plans:
Lower premiums = savings + tax deduction + Employer contributions (from their savings) = enough money to come close to covering the entire deductible.  Which means regardless of whether you're just a little sick or horribly sick, CDHPs SAVE YOU MONEY!!!!!!  
HSAs are not only a fantastic way to pay for medical expenses, but are a nice vehicle for retirement.
How do I know this? Because I'm an insurance broker who does this everyday and sees it in action.  Once people get through the first year they LOVE CDHPs and HSAs.  Its the transition that is scary for people.  
Sadly people are lazy and hate change. They would rather the government be their babysitter (in the form of Universal health care) and pay tons in taxes than spend 20 minutes learning about health care.... which makes up over 20% of the total expenditures in America today.
Ethiopian32 13:51, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

message: RESULT: merge into Consumer driven health care. Merge completed. -- Sfmammamia 21:14, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge proposal 

message: Nbauman made a claim which was illustrated in a citation. Maybe my brief analysis is lacking, but I did not see anything to illustrate that claim. It seemed to say the opposite.--Rotten 18:58, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation lacking
Talk:G Magazine

message: There is G Magazine in Australia, a green living magazine, and G Magazine in Brazil, a gay mens magazine.
It seems that the folks from Brazil are deleting all references to the Australian magazine! This simply isn't very fun for us Australians!
Could a disambiguation page please be created?
--59.167.240.35 06:02, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  There are two G Magazines! Don't delete the Aussie one! 
Talk:Shelton, Nebraska

message: I've removed a single-sentence IPC section: 'Shelton is mentioned multiple times in Jack Karouac's book "On The Road".'  Diff is here.
The full, searchable text of OTR is at .  Kerouac's stop in Shelton lasts for about one page, much of it dialogue, with very little description of the place; there are two passing mentions of Shelton later in the book.  Per MOS:POPCULT, "Media coverage of a topic is generally encyclopedic information, helps establish the topic's notability, and helps readers understand the subject's influence on the public (and often vice versa). Unfortunately, these sections are frequently just lists of appearances and mentions, many of them unencyclopedically trivial."  The coverage of Shelton seems to fit the second sentence: there's no indication that Shelton played a major role in the book.
At MOS:POPCULT, there's a pointer to an essay that includes WP:IPCV, which states "In determining whether a reference is encyclopedic, one helpful test can be to look at whether a person who is familiar with the topic only through the reference in question has the potential to learn something meaningful about the topic from that work alone. For example, if a movie or a television series has been filmed in a town, the viewer is seeing a concrete representation of what the town actually looks like at street level; but if the town is merely mentioned in a single line of dialogue, the viewer hasn't learned anything except that the place exists."  Kerouac's description of Shelton strikes me as too sparse and generic to convey any real information about the place.
WP:IPCV also suggests that "passing mentions of the subject in books, television or film dialogue, or song lyrics should be included only when that mention's significance is itself demonstrated with secondary sources".  A Google search for ("on the road" shelton nebraska) turns up quotes from OTR, but I don't find any secondary sources discussing the significance of Shelton to the work.  I think that before the passage can be restored, it behooves the restoring editor to find such secondary sources and cite them. — Ammodramus (talk) 13:32, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  "On the Road" 

message: Hey, whatever.  The town of Sheldon Iowa had had the note erroneously on their wiki page for almost ten years and even though it was in error, no one there felt the need to be a prick about keeping it off the page.  I took it off their page and added it to this one.  On The Road was an extremely culturally significant book and I thought the people of your small town might be interested in knowing that their town was a part of it.  Have fun lording over this page like some kind of information nazi, pal.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.22.197.224 (talk) 17:29, 18 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wiki Page Nazi
Template talk:Kaari Utrio

message: A few times someone has deleted from template the list about non-fictional books, and I wonder why. I wonder also, why that frenzy of destruction be directed at just non-fictional books - not at novels although there are nowhere near link to all them. For example, if there is a link just to every other novel and all the remaining red links are deleted, complete navigation template is messed up. --Movedgood 14:22, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled
Talk:Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq

message: http://books.google.com/books?id=DwY2AQAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=21Y-AAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=eMNLAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=qSjgAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=f0bgAAAAMAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=F38QAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false
Rajmaan (talk) 02:52, 25 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Works by Shidyaq
Talk:Al Thornton

message: Al thornton is a cool guy  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.11.218.207 (talk) 20:39, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Alex Jacobowitz

message: Please add it to all linked pags! Thanks in advance! Regards ‫·‏לערי ריינהארט‏·‏T‏·‏m‏:‏Th‏·‏T‏·‏email me‏·‏‬ 09:17, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[commons:category:Alex Jacobowitz]] 
Talk:Ann Z. Caracristi

message: As of the date/time-stamp of this comment, this article contains both of the following quotes:
"; and she was the first Deputy Director of NSA"
and
"In 1980, Caracristi became the sixth NSA Deputy Director,".
It's impossible for both of those statements to be correct. Wikipedia's list of NSA Deputy Directors contains her name only once, and the first NSA Deputy Director in that list is Joseph H. Ream, NOT Ann Z. Caracristi.2603:7000:9906:A91C:1C64:8308:33BC:E2D6 (talk) 07:46, 9 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction
Talk:Gaius Cassius Longinus (consul 30)

message: In general I feel this page used to have more information on it?  It's good if the stuff removed from wrong but I'm still curious? KuudereKun 14:43, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: @JaredMithrandir, you can check this in the page history.  Sandstein  16:52, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Did this page use to say he held some office at the start of 30?
Talk:Christian Zell

message: Mention is made of a modern copy made by Goble. Linking on the word "Replica" does suggest the addition might be made by someone wanting to promote a particular performance recording but nevertheless identifying modern makers who have taken Zell instruments for their pattern is of relevance. Martin Skowroneck is another. Tracking the development of revival instruments is assisted by this. Dollist (talk) 13:50, 2 July 2014 (UTC)
Talk:KIMEP University

message: Readers of this page should note that similar anonymous allegations of unfair practices in the award of construction contracts by KIMEP were reviewed by the Ministry of Justice in Kazakhstan in Spring 2007 and found to be completely without merit.Prodigal55 13:16, 28 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Controversies

message: The edit to "the classes are taught in English" is not factually true: KIMEP has language classes and a small number of foundation courses that are offered in Russian. The change was undone.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mquinn.kimep (talk • contribs) 01:45, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Recent Edits
Talk:Curt von François

message: I don't suppose anyone knows what his religion was. Being of French Huguenot ancestry you'd think he was a Calvinist. Invmog (talk) 00:00, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Presumably the book's title is not talking about two Englishmen, but should be "...durch Dick und Dünn" meaning "through thick and thin"?
I don't know this writer but I assume he wasn't just making a very odd pun. TooManyFingers (talk) 04:20, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice catch, TooManyFingers. I changed the translation. --Pgallert (talk) 19:20, 31 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Book title: ... Dick and Dunn?
Talk:Malik Shah (Rûm)

message: *Melikshah Seljuq -Llc 316
*Melikshah Seljuk -Llc 377
*Seljuq "Malik Shah" -Llc 4180
*Seljuk "Malik Shah" -Llc 4440
*Seljuk Rum "Malik Shah" -Llc 552
*Seljuq Rum "Malik Shah" -Llc 113
*Seljuk Rum Melikshah -Llc 3
*Seljuq Rum Melikshah -Llc 10
*Seljuk Rum "Malek Shah" -Llc 52
Takabeg (talk) 12:15, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
Talk:Clique (disambiguation)

message: Clique should not be consfured with claque but this source claims that “clique” was synonymous with “claque” in the original French.--Brz7 14:32, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Clique / Claque

message: I don't see the need to reference an extensive list of specific political groups, which have in common only the generic term "clique", meaning faction.  It would make more sense to create a new page for clique in this sense, with the groups listed there as See Also links.  This could be similar to the page for Political party. --Ott2 18:42, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  clique as generic term
Talk:Đồng Sĩ Nguyên

message: What was his birth name? Badagnani (talk) 03:05, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Birth name
Talk:Dušan Fabian

message: If Mr. Fabian has since gotten contacts, or put on 45lbs is it considered bad taste to post an update image to reflect his current visual representation?
Dirtclustit (talk) 02:45, 16 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Entry's Image 