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Talk:List of all-female bands

message: I just added Xmal Deutschland. Their Wiki article states "Founded in 1980 with a completely female line-up...". They might of added a male or two along the way, would this disqualify them from the list? Bikini Kill comes to mind, although their situation is the opposite-they had a boy member when they started, but their current iteration is male-free, I believe, and I don't see them here. Or maybe that's an oversight? What exactly are the rules here? I know a band has to have a Wiki article to qualify for this list, but obviously there are complications.  --  Pete Best Beatles (talk) 14:37, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: @Pete Best Beatles The article lead states:  Unless I am reading the Xmal Deutschland article incorrectly, it seems that that it is not the case that they qualify for this list. Specific dates would be helpful. From what I can gather, they were all female from 1980-82. Then they were mixed gender from 1982 onward to 1990 when they disbanded. So it seems doubtful that they qualify as an all-female band, and that addition should be removed. Netherzone (talk) 16:45, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the quick response, that's what I needed to know. They have been removed. (I guess that 3/4 rule explains Bikini Kill's omission too, huh?)  --  Pete Best Beatles (talk) 17:09, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: @Pete Best Beatles - the guidelines for inclusion and non-inclusion in the article are located in the lead section of the article. Netherzone (talk) 17:23, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. I had skimmed it, but obviously not thoroughly enough. Actually, my comment about Bikini Kill wasn't about the rules but their application to that specific band and their different historical boy/girl ratios. Pete Best Beatles (talk) 23:02, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: There are comments in the Talk page archives. Netherzone (talk) 23:13, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Xmal Deutschland
Talk:Sir George Downing, 1st Baronet

message: In the Introduction as it stands in December 2019, Dowling is described as "an Anglo-Irish preacher, soldier, statesman, diplomat, turncoat and spy". Several of these descriptions are questionable
Anglo-Irish There is some doubt as to where Downing was born, two sources say Dublin, one London. His father is said to have been in Ireland in 1614, the year that he married his first wife, who died in 1622 in Dublin, but he married his second wife, Downing's mother in Suffolk, also in 1622. As Downing's younger siblings, born from 1628 onward, are all said to have been born on Suffolk or London, even if he were born in Ireland, it seems he must have left that country as a young child.
The article on Anglo-Irish states it was a term of the 19th and early 20th centuries to identify a Irish social class, mostly the descendants and successors of the English Protestant Ascendancy, often the members of the Church of Ireland who made up the professional and landed class. Even if Downing were born in Ireland, he hardly falls within this description and his opponents insulted him because of his low birth and New England education, not any Irish connection.
Statesman defined in Statesman as "usually a politician, diplomat or other notable public figure who has had a long and respected career at the national or international level": the word that would be missing in Downing's case would be "respected". Whether or not he deserved respect from his contemporaries, he did not receive it, and his diplomatic and political methods were hardly deserving of respect. "Politician" would be more accurate.
Turncoat the article on Turncoat excepts from the definition individuals who believe that the goal they once sought is no longer attainable. Downing first wished for a Puritan republic, but realised in the 1650s a monarchical form of government was preferable under Cromwell and, after Cromwell's death, under Charles II. "Turncoat" rather lacks neutrality.
Spy Except to the extent that all diplomats are spies (and Downing is already called a diplomat), Downing was not a spy himself, but controlled networks of spies, so Spymaster is a better term. 
A description: "was in turn a preacher, soldier, statesman, diplomat and spymaster and politician whose allegiances notably changed during his career" seems more reasonable.
Sscoulsdon (talk) 09:13, 8 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Downing's background and character
Talk:Mikheil Saakashvili

message: The lead states that he was appointed Head of the National Reform Council of Ukraine but the body of the article has only one sentence on that, referenced by one page no longer available and one behind a pay all.  There's no Wikipedia article on this organisation.  By contrast the body of the article has a lot of information about his current incarceration in Georgia but there's nothing in the lead. I'm sure that he is a very controversial figure in Georgia but it would be helpful if the lead and the body of the article could match up.  I am a visitor to Georgia and had no idea he was incarcerated until I looked up this article. Nine-and-fifty swans (talk) 01:24, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Noticing in general the lead is oddly long - could use a trimming. Lucksash (talk) 09:25, 5 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unbalanced lead 

message: That's a looooooooooong lead. Nobody is gonna read that. Synotia (moan) 20:53, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  What the fuck? 

message: The Prosecutor's Office of Georgia filed criminal charges against Saakashvili over allegedly exceeding official powers during the 2007 Georgian demonstrations, as well as a police raid on and "seizure" of Imedi TV and other assets owned by the late tycoon Badri Patarkatsishvili, the embezzlement of GEL 9,024,367 owned by the Special State Protection Service for his personal purposes, exceeding official powers in the episode of battery of Valeri Gelashvili and organization of a grievous bodily injury, and exceeding official powers in the episode of pardon in prior agreement of the individuals tried for Sandro Girgvliani's murder.
The grammar of the "as well as" item strikes me as dubious, and even if grammatical, "organization" also fails to respect parallel -ing verb structure. — MaxEnt 04:37, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious grammar
Talk:Clinton-Gore Administration

message: Much of this information is copied verbatim from http://www.americanhistory.or.kr/book/files/ethirteen07.html.  RickK 00:20, 2 Jan 2004 (UTC)

message: January 2, 2004
*Clinton-Gore Administration contains verbatim passages from , not sure if all is a copy vio or just parts. Maximus Rex 04:18, 2 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[From Wikipedia:Possible copyright infringements]]
Talk:Newark Liberty International Airport

message: In my opinion, the 'Notes' tab contained within the article should be removed if no information can be added to it as in my opinion it is pointless having an empty tab in the article. Xboxsponge15 (talk) 08:59, 23 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  The 'Notes' tab should be removed 

message: Do not add them to the article until they are available.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jibreel23 (talk • contribs) 03:04, 11 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flights Bookable in the future 

message: An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect :Elizabeth International Airport and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at  until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  TartarTorte 21:44, 1 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Elizabeth International Airport" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:Viral evolution

message: The article says:
"Viruses have short generation times, and many—in particular RNA viruses—have relatively high mutation rates (on the order of one point mutation or more per genome per round of replication)."
Perhaps someone knowledgeable about this subject can express that concept in more familiar terms for non-expert readers of this article. (Terms like gene, allele, chromosome, or whatever.)2601:200:C000:1A0:B5B5:2BD0:4339:6E8 (talk) 05:02, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I have linked Point mutation. Graham Beards (talk) 06:21, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  What does "one point mutation" mean?
Talk:Mennonite World Conference

message: I started a list to include the year and location of each Mennonite World Conference. I have included what little that I have found, but it is quite incomplete. Hopefully someone knows a source for that info. - Rlvaughn 03:09, 2 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  List 
Talk:Adult Swim

message: Request received to merge articles: Checkered Past (TV programming block) into Adult Swim; dated: May 2024. Proposer's Rationale: Widely unsourced "block within a block" that is non-notable for its own article, proposing consolidation into a section in the Adult Swim article. Discuss here. MikeM2011 (talk) 16:07, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger discussion
Talk:Caspar Weinberger

message: German Wiki: "Aus Przysucha stammte die Familie von Caspar Weinberger (1917–2006),
US-Verteidigungsminister in der Regierung von Präsident Ronald Reagan zwischen 1981 und 1987."  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:9E8:20D3:A000:5853:FFCA:A11B:9DBE (talk) 22:43, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Przysucha, region Minor Poland
Talk:Chernyakhovsk

message: Okay, we have a grand total of 13 "famous residents", and only 1 has a Wikipedia article...  Either Wikipedia is very lax in its coverage of famous people, or else they're not very famous after all... Maratanos 22:46, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The list is copied (and even not translated) from German wikipedia article. Please believe me, German wikipedia has quite high standards; in some aspects higher than English one. I can quite understand that English wikipedia is lax in covering German politicians, artists and writers; American porn stars are much more fun for an average punk or geek who contribute to wikpedia :-). `'mikka 02:19, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Pacifica Foundation

message: Perhaps my concern is unfounded and inexperienced, but doesn't saying "left" seem lazy and superficial?  Surely we can cite KPFK's more prominent issues and topics as opposed to just saying "it's left." 
I'm concerned more with the larger habit of labeling so many articles in this database with politically stereotyped names.  Let the facts speak for themselves.
:They are so stereotypically Leftist, it is hard to call them anything else. I mean, there is lot of different things that can be _called_ Left. There are few things so stereotypically Left that they define the word instead of being defined by it. I guess that is the proper formulation. Pacifica is not Leftist. Leftism is defined by Pacifica. 76.168.4.212 (talk) 19:32, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Pacifica's long history of internal f(r)actionism is itself "stereotypically L(l)eftist", unfortunately. Acwilson9 (talk) 19:48, 14 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Leftist?  which is? 

message: Unfortunately, almost nothing in this article has an accompanying citation, so I myself have no idea what is or is not factual.  (However, if I were to assume that it IS all factual, I would then be amazed that such a fractious organization has not yet destroyed itself from within...)
Nonetheless, so as to make this article easier to read, I have just now done some minor reordering/restructuring of this article's history and programming sections, subsections, and paragraphs. (Until today, the article's text was rather chaotic.) I have also corrected grammar of several incomplete sentences.  To the best of my ability, I have made NO CHANGES TO THE MEANING of the pre-existing text, although one ungrammatical sentence was so unclear that it was hard for me to determine precisely what its writer(s) had meant to say.  I hope that, someday, some other neutral person(s) will track down citations for what is verifiably true, and eliminate unverifiable assertions. 
I have no involvement with Pacifica; nor any of its stations or affiliates; nor any knowledege of Pacifica's circa 25 years of internal conflicts (except for what I've just read in this article). However, in Chicago where we live, my wife and I do listen to WZRD (FM), nominally a Pacifca affiliate (per List of Pacifica Radio stations and affiliates, which also lacks citations).  On WZRD, I listen to "free-form" music and she listens to Democracy Now, which has been independent from Pacifica since 2002 - more than 10 years before she started listening to it. Acwilson9 (talk) 05:32, 19 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minor reordering/restructuring of article 

message: Looks like it is present tense. They still operate that network: https://pacificanetwork.org/about-pacifica-foundation/ I'm removing the "when" tag. Thanks. --MaxineJP (talk) 21:34, 23 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "when" tag in 2nd para.
Talk:William Dobbie

message: Ugly bit of managerialese, and I'm not clear what it means. Can someone improve it?
Notreallydavid (talk) 06:48, 17 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Blame culture' 
Talk:Sylvester

message: While I agree with removing those who didn't need disambiguation, I put back Sylvester James - he performed using the stage name "Sylvester". - Jim Redmond 19:45, 2 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I feel this disambig page gives insufficient prominence to the above. Anybody searching WP for 'Sylvester' alone is highly likely to be looking for Sylvester (singer). There is probably a link here buried amongst all the obscure rubbish, but I couldn't be bothered to find it. Ef80 (talk) 21:18, 26 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sylvester (singer)
Talk:Eton, Berkshire

message: The bridge that links Windsor and Eton is only called 'Windsor Bridge' by the residents of Eton; to the residents of Windsor it is called Eton Bridge.
:The article at http://www.thamesweb.co.uk/windsor/windsorbridges/winbridge.html seems to be written pretty well from a Windsor point of view, as indicated by the URL itself. And it calls the bridge Windsor Bridge throughout the text, and Windsor Town Bridge in the heading. No sign of it being called Eton Bridge. -- Chris j wood 19:23, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Also Google gives 721,000 hits for the search string "Windsor Bridge Berkshire" and only 61,000 hits for "Eton Bridge Berkshire". -- Chris j wood 19:28, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Windsor Bridge 
Talk:Robert Carr, 1st Earl of Somerset

message: This says he broke his arm in the tilt-yard, but Thomas Overbury says it was Carr's leg. A surprising 1911EB discrepancy - which one is correct? Stan 00:48, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Gentlemen, how was born in Somersetshire if he and his parents were Scottish?--Anglius 02:36, 21 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: ''Wrington, Somerset''

message: John Beaufort, lived from c 1371/3-1410 (according to Alison Weir "Wars of the Roses"), was Earl of Somerset, then Marquess of Somerset. His son, Henry, lived from 1401-1418, was also Earl of Somerset.
Your Robert Carr was NOT the 1st Earl of Somerset by a long shot. There were Earls of Somerset 200 years before he came on the scene. Hone your research skills, gentlemen. MOST of the information that I've found on the internet is inaccurate. Try cracking open a book.
87.178.123.180 (talk) 06:51, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Should the title of the article be changed to "Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset", as he was the only one? Or at least not the first? Martinevans123 (talk) 15:40, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other Earls of Somerset
Talk:ISPF

message: I changed the classification in the first paragraph to again call it a 'software product' rather than a 'component' of z/OS, because it is a separate package from z/OS, sold as an add-on at an additional price.  In MVS class systems, 'component' normally implies that it is included as part of the package.  T-bonham (talk) 07:24, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fix classification

message: * When I used it, back in the early 1980s, it was called "SPF" not "ISPF", and the older documents called it "Structured Programming Facility", and the newer ones called it "System Productivity Facility".
* In fact IBM described it as 'Interactive Structured Programming Facility'. I guess this is just another example of how Wikipedians - and Interactive Business Methods - rewrite history.
Yes, and somehow the "I" for "Interactive" crept in. Martin Packer (talk) 20:07, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name? 

message: * Changed the section on PC versions of ISPF -- it implied that they were only a thing of the past. T-bonham 06:20, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  PC versions 

message: I propose the following changes:
*Change Product Development Facility (ISPF/PDF) to Program Development Facility (ISPF/PDF) with the reference: International Business Machines (2008) z/OS V1R10.0 ISPF Services Guide. Boulder, CO: IBM
*Change the word Customisation and its variations to Customization.
*Add a reference in the first paragraph to: Lowe, D. (1991) Murach’s MVS TSO: Concepts and ISPF.  Fresno, CA: Mike Murach & Associates, Inc. 
--Les (talk) 15:31, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: While Murach's book is very good (like most of his), why would we want to include a reference to it, rather than one of the many other books about ISPF?  Especially why put such a ref in the first paragraph?  At best, it belongs down at the end under a Additional Information or similar heading.  And there is still the question of why pick out this one book to highlight.  T-bonham (talk) 07:30, 12 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  proposal 

message: "Software product" is not very descriptive. Don't make readers dig for such basic info.Isaac Rabinovitch (talk) 18:20, 23 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  What does it ''DO''?
Talk:Single non-transferable vote

message: --Red Deathy 10:45, 2005 May 9 (UTC)Let's say there are 60 voters and 2 seats to fill. To guarantee a win, a candidate must get one more than (1/(2+1)) = 1/3 of the votes. 1/3 of 60 = 20. Three candidates can theoretically get 20 votes, so a candidate has to get 21 votes to guarantee a win.
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Text was merged from Single Non-Transferable Vote. --Jiang 08:47, 20 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: 2004 comments

message: Isn't this used for local election in the UK as well, when one or more members of a ward are up for election? Sceptre (talk) 01:57, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: In Scotland it's Single Transferable Vote in England and Wales its the  Block Vote--Red Deathy (talk) 08:57, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah. See, I'm in two council areas where the seats are in tranches (Calderdale MBC, Leeds City Council). So... Sceptre (talk) 16:24, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Local election in the UK 

message: I'm afraid the article doesn't really indicate how SNTV differs from FPTP.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.201.114.138 (talk) 04:36, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: SNTV is a generalization of FPTP, it's just what happens with multi-member constituencies if you keep the "1 vote" property. If you keep the "as many votes as seats" property, you get PALV. Julio974 (Talk-Contribs) 08:32, 13 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  FPTP 

message: Limited Vote - on the surface it may seem Single Non Transferable Vote and Limited Vote are the same. However, the former allows one vote only and the latter allows several votes - but not as many as there are elected candidates.
First Past the Post - it seems FPTP is for single seat elections and that SNTV is essentially FPTP but used in multi-member seats where the top candidates are elected. Like FPTP only one vote.
Single Transferable Vote - this is more proportional and allows for the re-distribution of votes from other candidates. Under SNTV  a party could win more votes but fewer seats than a rival if its votes are too concentrated on  a particular candidate - or spread too thinly with too many candidates. (Coachtripfan (talk) 08:39, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comparisons with other voting systems
Talk:Labour (economics)

message: Argh, How many Wikipedia entries are there out there which call economic ideas they disagree with the "old-fashioned, outdated" ideas or whatever and call the economic ideas they agree with the "modern" ideas?  Believe it or not, there are a lot of people nowadays who think "human capital" is a load of BS, including myself.  This drives me crazy, calling your groups ideas "modern" and the oppositions the old-fogey, outdated ideas is a very sly way to slip in a POV without making it seem so -- Lancemurdoch 02:18, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I read this BBC article about Google.
It says: "Revenues are in line, but it was a big earnings miss". English is not my mother tongue, and even if it would have been, i'm not sure that i would understand that.
What is the difference between revenues and earnings? And profit, for that matter?--Amir E. Aharoni 06:13, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Earning vs. Revenue 

message: Nobody had to go to work? I'm rather sick of it. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.122.208.51 (talk) 19:41, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wouldn't it be nice if 

message: Although this artical has been marked as Start Class on the quality scale, be carefull to not make the length of this article too long. At the moment (May 2007) I think it is at an appropriate length in relation to the subject of the article. However, I think it could be very easy for this article to be come far too lengthy with future editing, rendering it almost incomprehensible to average users seeking information. 
I guess in general, I do believe that this article could do with a little re-wording in certain areas and possibly a few additional sections, BUT most importantly the additional sections should be kept to a minimum! 
Remember: Quality over Quantity!!!  
Jason McConnell-Leech 13:33, 22 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Length
Talk:List of people from Missouri

message: What is the rule for pages like this--list people born in the place, or people bred in the place, or both? Eg, Charlie Parker was born & bred in Kansas City, but in both states I think. Kyk 04:57, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I've been adding people born there, simply because that's what I could scoop up easily; I'd think people born elsewhere but brought up in the state would be just fine too. Salsa Shark 05:50, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Nice additions; a lot of these I didn't know were born in MO. Kyk 05:52, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Criteria for list inclusion

message: The Athletics section has become quite lengthy. What say you folks? Should it be broken down into various sub-categories like "baseball", "football", etc.  ALSO, while I think of it...should the pro wrestlers be more aptly placed under Entertainment, since WWE and others actually bill themselves as being "sports entertainment" these days. I'll wait for some feedback before taking action. Sector001 (talk) 02:19, 3 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Athletics needing sub-categories? 

message: I added Tyler Farr and Tate Stevens under the country/bluegrass section.  Both singers were raised in Cass County, Missouri.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.31.223.174 (talk) 21:43, 9 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added 2 Under Country/Bluegrass 
Wikipedia talk:Medical advice

message: Moved text:
This page should be linked when discussing examples of medicine or health, not necessarily for very general discussions. Use the following markup to link to this page:
:Please note: Wikipedia does not give medical advice.
or
:
It is suggested to put the disclaimer at the top of the text with a line underneath (four dashes). That way it will be visible when the person links to the page, in a prominent position.
I'm about to add a link to Wikipedia:General disclaimer to the bottom of every page. Thus is will not be necessary to add the ugly Wikipedia-specific text above to individual articles. --mav 05:02, 3 Jan 2004 (UTC)