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Talk:Block (sailing)

message: I've added some more text to this page, but I feel it really needs some illustrations.  These could be photographs or drawings.  I'd like them to show:
* A traditional wooden block, with rope grommet
* A typical modern sailing yacht block with high-tech features
* A typical non-nautical all-metal or other 'agricultural' block
In addition, there is scope to illustrate
* Single sheave
* Multi-sheave side-by-side and 'fiddle' blocks
There is another important set of illustrations needed, showing all the common tackles that these are used in - single purchase, double purchase etc, with the working end at this end and that and all related to the mechanical advantage.  I think this second lot should not be here, but on the tackle page.
I'm putting this here as a reminder as well as a request:  if I get around to it, I may be able to take photos to illustrate some of these.  If anyone wants to beat me to it, or can draw them, please do! :-) --Nigelj 20:31, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a very comprehensive set of tackle illustrations on a site linked from one of the rigging pages here (can't remember exactly where, unfortunately). It's from a 19th century seamanship manual, so copyright isn't a problem. I can probably find a decent photo with a block in from my recent Tall Ships' Race voyage. PeteVerdon 23:47, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Request for expansion

message: We've got "Block (sailing)", but Blocks are used for other purposes. For example, Arborists use Blocks; they sometimes call them Rigging Blocks. I think this page should be made more general. Totoro33 (talk) 20:42, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I see nothing to argue with. The steps are to announce your intent to broaden it, to consider a more general title, and to build consensus. You have, pretty much, done the first step. I support the broadening of the article. Fiddle Faddle 20:48, 22 July 2015 (UTC)

text: US arborists might use "blocks", but in the UK tree surgeons use "pulleys", bought in climbing shops. A "block" is seen as something for fixed rigging, where the rope enters it neatly from a fixed direction. Climbing pulleys (and US arborist blocks) are different from this, they have wider flanges on the sheave and they have big wide side cheeks. If you use a "block" in a moving tree, you'll get stuck when the rope comes off. I hate people talking about blocks when they mean pulleys (or buying them in sailing shops), they're not the same thing and getting it wrong can cause accidents. Andy Dingley (talk) 21:28, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  That is, surely, an argument for a well written and more general article, Andy? Fiddle Faddle 21:37, 22 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Generalize
Talk:Ontario Highway 410

message: ;Extension
*http://urbantoronto.ca/archive/index.php/t-3217.html
*http://ogov.newswire.ca/ontario/GPOE/2007/08/23/c9450.html?lmatch=~lang=_e.html
*http://www.mto.gov.on.ca/english/pubs/highway-construction/southern-highway-2008/partB.shtml
;Up to Bovaird
*http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/473503671.html?dids=473503671:473503671&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Mar+29%2C+1988&author=Frank+Calleja&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=Relief+for+frustrated+motorists+is+on+the+way&pqatl=google
*http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/473911571.html?dids=473911571:473911571&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Jul+12%2C+1988&author=Chris+Lawson+Toronto+Star&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=Timing%2C+route+for+410+link+upset+Brampton&pqatl=google
*http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/474148071.html?dids=474148071:474148071&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Sep+20%2C+1988&author=&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=No+real+reason+for+highway+extension&pqatl=google
*http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/thestar/access/475335001.html?dids=475335001:475335001&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&type=current&date=Aug+05%2C+1986&author=Donna+Yawching+Toronto+Star&pub=Toronto+Star&desc=New+section+of+Highway+410+will+benefit+Brampton+residents&pqatl=google
-- ʄɭoʏɗiaɲ τ ¢ 03:15, 26 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sources 

message: In September 2019, the GTA West Corridor EA put out this PDF of preferred interchange locations, including an extension of Highway 410. Should I mention this now or should I wait until the EA is approved by the province before adding this as a new Future section? Username6892 13:26, 29 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  GTA West Corridor & Effects on Highway 410
Talk:HMS Ajax (22)

message: Just curious what the number 22 behind Ajax means?
Ajax (22), if I search the page, it only occurs again in the displacement figure: 7.220. 
Leander (1931) which caught my attention, referes via 1931 to the time it was built (finished?) and launched. But (22)? or (D-39)?
I am admittedly a know-nothing just happen to like the two numbers: 31 and 22 (or 4 for that matter!)
LeaNder de Cologne
: (22) or (D-39) are pennant numbers; that page may help explain it. Shimgray 15:39, 14 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  22? - Ajax (22) 

message: ::The same ambiguity occurs as in the 'Newport' section above, i.e. "she was adopted by the civil community of Halifax." (See the introduction). Again, which 'Halifax' are we talking about? Clicking on it is no help, it merely leads to a page of 'Halifaxes'.
::Folks at 137, I have linked to Cashmore, the scrap merchants in Newport, South Wales. 
::RASAM (talk) 23:32, 11 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Halifax

message: The text states:
:"Ajax was hit seven times by the Germans: X and Y turrets were disabled, structural damage was sustained and there were 12 casualties including 7 killed."
The seven hits seem to be wrong, since in the battle description only two hits are mentioned: the first disabling the two aft turrets and the second breaking the mast. The source attached does not mention any number of hits sustained by Ajax. The Exeter was the one with seven (or nine) hits, not the Ajax. Or how is it?--Andreas (talk) 22:59, 21 December 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of hits sustained at La Plata
Talk:Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority

message: In 1994, a walkway and skyway was added from the Terminal Tower station to Gund Arena, 
I edited this sentence, but the more I think about it, is "walkway and skyway" redundant? The RTA calls it the "Walkway to Gateway" on their map, but it is also an elevated covered walking bridge, so I thought skyway would be more appropriate. To me, "added a walkway" sounds like they just put in a sidewalk. Or maybe I'm just thinking too much. :) But as they say... "be bold," so I was. --Birdhombre 21:35, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Walkway

message: If you look up the definition of an "Interurban" and look up the history of the Shaker Heights Rapid,
then the Blue and Green lines are definitely "Interurban" whereas the Waterfront extension is "light rail" but not "Interurban".
GCRTA only says "light rail" even though "Interurban" is technically more correct/specific (from a functional view).
Accordingly revising "light rail" to "interurban" where appropriate.  LeheckaG (talk) 14:44, 30 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Interurban 

message: The 2001 (21**) buses from Nova Bus have a picture and a reading that this "will be the last time Cleveland deals with Nova Bus". That seems like an official statement to me, and I never saw any announcement like that from RTA. I understand something like "it was the last time RTA has dealt with Nova Bus" (there have not been further Nova Buses since then), but the way it stands now, it does not seem correct (and I doubt that the "citation needed" will be met).
Default.aspx (talk) 19:24, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nova Bus 2001 

message: Granted that CTS sold a number of its PCC cars to Toronto in 1952, does anyone have a source for info to the effect that a small number of those units were repatriated for use on the former Shaker system prior to the renovation of the Blue and Green lines?  NorthCoastReader (talk) 03:45, 19 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  History 

message: This section is just too large, being an unduly large portion of the article. The Health Line has it's own article, where much if not most of the background detail belongs. Plus there's a decidedly promotional tone to the text as currently written, listing all sort of supposed benefits of the buses used and the construction. I plan on slashing it down in size and making the remaining text far more NPOV. Maybe need to check the Health Line article to make sure that the non-NPOV tone is not present there as well. oknazevad (talk) 02:38, 14 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Euclid Corridor Project section size
Talk:Desmond Rebellions

message: Good article! I did a bit of (what I think is) tidying. Hopefully I didn't do anything but improve it! Everyking 21:58, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Before the first rebellion (i.e. in the 1560s), it says; "Finally, Irish landowners continued to be threatened by the arrival of English colonists." The colonies were Antrim and Down c.1575 which failed, and then Munster. So how many acres did settlers actually take up in the 1560s to make anyone feel "threatened"?86.46.198.205 (talk) 10:22, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Settlers in the 1560s
Template talk:States of Sudan

message: I have am having some issues with the content of this template.  I originally added the Arabic language names in parentheses, but it made it very bulky and difficult to actually read the box.  I then put the secondary names in parentheses, but it still looked too cumbersome, so I just deleted all the secondary names. I assume that some readers will be looking for the Arabic names, so am now concerned about ease of use since they would either have to go back to States of Sudan or click on random links.  It may be worth it to revert to one of my previous versions... BanyanTree 22:18, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

message: Just to let everyone know that I have been doing a lot of changing of Southern state's names to Southern, not northern terms. "West Bahr al Ghazal" to "Western Bahr el Ghazal." Mutatis Mutandis "North Bahr al Ghazal," "East Equatoria," and "West Equatoria."  —Preceding unsigned comment added by La gaie (talk • contribs) 14:01, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Southern instead of Northern names
Talk:Oudtshoorn

message: I think the sections "Ostrich" and "Ostrich again" are not named in a standard manner.  What should they be renamed to? SpaceCaptain 22:35, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: What about "Ostrich (Starter)" and "Ostrich (Main Course)"? :-D Elf-friend 22:45, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)

text: Gee, you don't have a sense of humour? Anyway, if you checked the article before writing your reply above, you'll see that those two sections already have new headings. But if the headings bothered you so much in the first place, why didn't you change them? Elf-friend 20:24, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Style

message: I'm leaving the link that's currently in the article to the disambiguation page because anything else would be original research. I have no way of knowing what the article I sourced the statement from meant by "Transvaal". Willhesucceed (talk) 14:45, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Transvaal

message: Does anyone have information on the orgins of Oudtshoorn's name. I believe it's Afrikaans for "old horn" O Lourde (talk) 01:41, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Oudtshoorn was named in honour of Pieter van Reede van Oudtshoorn, who was named after the village of Oudshoorn in Holland. Wiktionary says that Oudshoorn was derived from a Middle Dutch personal name "Out" and "hoorn" in this context meaning bend or corner - the village is on a bend in the Old Rhine. - htonl (talk) 21:36, 13 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name of Oudtshoorn 

message: In 105.9.174.162 (talk) 15:14, 6 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where is oudtshoorn layd
Talk:Rick (given name)

message: One fellow who would be fit to be on here is Rick May, voice of the Soldier in TF2 and more. If he had a page. I am fairly new on Wikipedia so if anyone could find a way to put him on in a way as is suitable to the rules (as you can't just put a person on there with no citation) then danke sehr schön. Cyberghoul 0961 (talk) 23:42, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Significant-ish people with no page.  

message: Hey I’m sorry for editing the wiki page,if I did major damage I’m sorry… Hdurhdhdy (talk) 19:08, 13 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  I’m sorry for the edit 
Talk:Freak

message: There is a move discussion at Talk:Freaks#Requested move 12 May 2019 proposing that there is no primary topic for the plural which is currently about a film. Crouch, Swale (talk)  19:45, 12 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Freaks" 

message: I added "monster" to the "See also" list and was reverted with a vague summary "not needed". I think the cultural concepts of freaks and monsters are closely related and often overlap, and there is value in linking one to the other. Arguments to the contrary? —swpbT • go beyond • bad idea 13:39, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The word, Freaks, in this usage does not refer to monsters, the word is in reference to people.  Human beings.  People are not monsters.  Any relation between the two are tenuous at best.  I can see no value added using that word/link here in this particular article.  GenQuest "scribble" 19:03, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Obviously they're not the same thing; if they were, they'd be the same article. That's not what "See also" means. I can read as well as anyone that this article is about humans. But there is a huge cultural association throughout history of deformed but otherwise perfectly natural humans with supernatural powers and phenomena. One could write a full, well-sourced section on that association, probably a whole article. —swpbT • go beyond • bad idea 14:10, 26 April 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: "Supernatural powers and phenomena"? That doesn't equate to monsters either. Clarityfiend (talk) 01:46, 28 April 2022 (UTC)

text: I agree with GenQuest. There is no strong connection between the two terms. Clarityfiend (talk) 21:08, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Monster]] to see also list
Talk:Conure

message: Uh, by the way, that was me who just gave my sun conure's name, I wasn't logged in.  At any rate, thanks for adding your Nanday pic Mceder.  Does anybody have a pyrhurra or Patagonian pic they'd be willing to share? --Quintucket 22:52, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Should these be added too? Or do they fall under the same group as the sun conure?
I have a picture of a sun capped conure but I don't how to upload it. http://i58.photobucket.com/albums/g253/alexyasha/family%20stuff/DSCN0938.jpg
--KaidenShiba 23:57, jan 8 2008  —Preceding comment was added at 05:57, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sun Capped Conures / or  gold-capped conures (?) 

message: it seems this article fails to mention that Blue-crowns are the best talkers among Conures... I could post a picture if y'all think I should?  --Kolbeer 16:52, 23 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:   Blue-crowned Conures 

message: I do agree that the pic of the Sun Conure doesn't do these birds justice. He's a fine looking bird, as far as I can tell, but viewers can't see his eyes & it's blurry with low resolution. I do have a pic of a Cinnamon Green Cheek Conure that has outstanding resolution and the bird is looking directly at the camera. I'm likely going to swap these two if no objections are heard. E dog95 02:44, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cinnamon Green Cheek pic 

message: Is it possible they aren't extinct?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Conureluva13 (talk • contribs) 17:30, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No, no, it's not.  At least not until we perfect the Improbability Drive.  But they will always live on in our hearts. --Quintucket (talk) 03:52, 15 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Carolina Parakeet 

message: I note the use of the term 'Australian parakeets', which links not to 'Parakeets' but to 'Parrots'. The term 'parakeet' is not used in Australia, as far as I know -- I've lived in Australia since I was born in 1953 and have never heard the word except in American media. I suspect it's an exclusively American term, so not appropriate for Wikipedia in this case. I'm not an expert on birds, but an amateur bird fancier, so I might be wrong. I won't change the link because I'm not sufficiently expert in the parrots of the world. Alpheus (talk) 01:50, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Australian parakeets? 

message: There are several more genera containing conures now, since aratinga was split a few years ago. 146.200.127.203 (talk) 12:07, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taxonomy needs updating  

message: "I'll just leave this here", as they say. :)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Iloveparrots (talk • contribs) 18:52, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  I made a taxobox for the conures - is this useful to anyone?
Talk:Desmond FitzGerald (politician)

message: I'm querying the succession box in this article. It shows Michael Hayes as FitzGerald's predecessor as Minister for External Affairs, though the article says FitzGerald was the first Minister for External Affairs, and Hayes' article says he was Minister for Education. Who is right? -- Arwel 23:50, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: with his memoirs cited.Red Hurley (talk) 11:53, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: expanded

message: How did he get, as the article currently claims, “expelled from Kerry”? Also, on the Kevin O’Higgins page it says, citing Garret Fitzgerald’s book, that O’Higgins and Fitzgerald were part of the “Donnybrook set”: “O'Higgins himself was not avowedly republican. In the Government of the 3rd Dáil he would be classed, along with Desmond FitzGerald, as one of the “Donnybrook set" - out of step with the rest on issues such as Irish language, autarky and militarism.[6]” What’s the origin of this and did his views change regarding Irish as this article implies he was drawn into the national movement via a love for Irish. 2A02:8084:6A22:4980:6127:134F:1FAC:B791 (talk) 09:17, 18 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: “Expelled from Kerry” and “Donnybrook set”
Talk:R v Big M Drug Mart Ltd

message: I moved this page to R. v. Big M Drug Mart Ltd. because this is the most common name of the case. It is even index in the Supreme Court database under that name. Using the full title "Her Majesty The Queen in Right of Canada v. Big M Drug Mart Ltd." is just awkward. Cheers! PullUpYourSocks 23:58, 5 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Minaret of Jam

message: "breathtakingly located" is hardly NPOV.  Is this copied from somewhere?  RickK 00:18, Mar 6, 2005 (UTC)
No, it was not copied from somewhere. I condensed the Advisory Report (~5 pages) which is abailable on the world heritage web page (whc.unesco.org) and actually took care not to plagiarize. I probably should have indicated the source - sorry for that. Here it is:
http://whc.unesco.org/archive/advisory_body_evaluation/211rev.pdf
"Breathtakingly located" is maybe POV - I agree. But the pictures I have seen are pretty much breathtaking. But I'll take it away, no problem. Luis rib 01:03, 6 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The Minaret of Jam is covered in text, can anyone translate it? I am led to believe the text advocates good relations between Muslims and other Abrahamic religions, and I think noting what the text says anyway would be useful for the article. 81.97.96.95 (talk) 18:54, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translating the inscriptions 

message: It has been discovered that this book:
*Gupta, Om. Encyclopaedia of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. Gyan Publishing House, 2006. , 9788182053892. 
Contains significant amounts of material plagiarized from Wikipedia articles. (Some other books from the same publisher also have this problem). There is no practical way of determining which material came from Wikipedia, and which came from other sources. Further, widespread plagiarism is an indication of poor scholarship. For those reasons, and according to Wikipedia policy, WP:CIRCULAR, I will deleting all citations to the book. However I will not delete the material that cites it, as there's no indication that the material is inaccurate. For more background, see WP:RSN#Circular references: Gyan Publishing and ISHA Books, or the archive after it goes there.   Will Beback  talk   23:07, 18 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Encyclopaedia of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
Talk:Rochester, Michigan

message: As a graduate of that fine instatution, I have decided to mention the school here. I hope that it will have its own article at some point. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hurricane Omega (talk • contribs) 00:16, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Leader Dogs 

message: Oakland University and Rochester College is located in Rochester Hills, not Rochester.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.226.93.189 (talk) 01:37, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Wrong locations

message: The cited town in that "100 best places to live" is Rochester, Minnesota, not Michigan. I'm erasing it. - Some Guy 12:07 PM, 04 December 2008  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.62.7.119 (talk) 17:10, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Wrong town
Talk:Cedega (software)

message: Transgaming spends a good deal of time promoting a product that doesn't work.
Documentation is nonexistant and customer support simply asks the same questions over and over without providing any direction.
Things which are simple w/ WINE, e.g. installing ActiveX, are perplexingly absent in the Cedega user interface.  
The forums are heavily edited, and serious complaints which sould be vetted in the community are deleted by the forum without comment.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.63.197.74 (talk) 00:08, 3 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Cedega Gaming Service will be retired  --Bothary (talk) 01:33, 17 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cedega Gaming Service will be retired 
Talk:Gdańsk/Archive 9

message: i have removed some of the lists from this article and given them their own articles. this makes the Gdansk article less bulky and confusing. i will continue to help this article become more clear. Kingturtle 22:34, 29 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  breaking this article up 

message: i have removed these images temporarily until this page becomes better organized: 
sincerely, Kingturtle 22:03, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  images that i've temporarily removed
Talk:Russian martial arts

message: I thought it be best I explain the NPOV tag here. Quoting the article, "Because of the size and age of Russia, and its conflict-filled past, it has a significant martial history. Russia also has many different ethnic groups, most of which have their own traditional fighting methods." 
How does Russia's long history effect martial arts. Many nations have longer histories and pratically no martial arts(Israel for example). There is a lot of other NPOV problems I had with the article. Falphin 00:41, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Sy, I like your enthusiasm, is this page on your watchlist. And how come Falphin has put the tag on this page but not bothered to get to you. By the way, I've seen that episode of Go Warrior. Give me a holler sometime. Dessydes 16:02, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV tag 

message: Is the abbreviation (initialism) of RMA actually used enough to warrant listing it? RJFJR 21:02, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  RMA abbrev 

message: it is not entirely true. My parents know Russian history and culture very well, and they grew up in Russia/Belarus during the soviet era. Please rethink. I am not saying that it is entirely wrong that they did, I am just saying that it was not completely shoved out the window, and people must of continued to use martial arts if it is still prominent today. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Blackraven36 (talk • contribs) 18:10, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Soviet suppresion of culture 

message: Why when I search for Mikhail Ryabko it redirects here? I'd like to know whether he really was a colonel, since he seem like a bullshitter.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 187.36.36.208 (talk) 21:29, 5 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mikhail Ryabko