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Talk:History of United States and Canadian license plates

message: The 1901 article says New York began requiring license plates in 1901.  This article, however, says the US's first license plates appeared in Massachusetts in 1903.  Which is right?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.137.124.191 (talk) 22:22, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The License plate page also mentions the same date for New York. Not sure which is right.  --124.184.164.20 (talk) 09:18, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe that New York first required plates in 1901, while Massachusetts first issued plates in 1903. That is, in many places around the world, plates were required before they were first issued, and during that interim time period vehicle owners constructed their own plates. Now I just have to find a source backing that up! Qqqqqq (talk) 16:54, 26 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: New York?
Talk:Robert Capell, 10th Earl of Essex

message: I'm currently writing a new article at Robert Capell, 10th Earl of Essex/Temp, until the current version is deleted. Matjlav 00:47, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The "Temp" version currently redirects to the main article -- SGBailey 09:20, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:M252 mortar

message: Isn't the M252 Mortar a British model?
-- It is.  It also is not artillery.
'L16A2' links here, shouldn't it be better to link it to British 81 mm mortar ? user:Superknijn
:As the M252 is a version of the L16, the L16A2 now redirects to the L16 Chwyatt 09:26, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: If you look under the Technical Summary (top right) it list a crew of 3, and under the Operation heading on the main part it list a crew of 5. I figured I'd ask you all on your opinions instead of just changing it. Me personally, I think 5 is wishful thinking. Pretty sure it's 3, maybe 4 if there's a guy not doing anything. Gmios 03:10, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of crew members 

message: I'm not one for moaning about redirects, but as a WWII junkie '81mm Mortar' means the French Brandt weapon, and its many cousins across the world.  *Imagine my disappointment* to end up here. ;) Stevebritgimp 23:02, 19 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect? 

message: Australia does not use the M252, Australia uses the L16 (under the designation F2) CMarshall (talk) 12:10, 27 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Australia

message: What the header says. Not sure how to tag them. - 37.190.62.114 (talk) 10:55, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Links Are Broken 

message: This section names four countries, the UK among them, who use the same basic weapon under the designation L16. Go to the L16 81mm mortar page and we find many, many operators, but not the United States. This contradiction should be fixed and we should decide whether a country using a variant or licensed version counts as an operator of the same weapon. --Mongreilf (talk) 15:52, 3 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current operators 

message: The picture is wrong. That is an M120 mortar, not an M252 — Preceding unsigned comment added by an unspecified IP address  13:36, 27 March 2018‎  
:Discussion at https://www.reddit.com/r/wikipedia/comments/87ih3x/is_there_a_sub_specifically_for_wikipedia_editors/ . It was suggested there to use the image from German Wikipedia instead :de:File:M252_mortar.jpg ···Vanischenu (mc/talk) 20:54, 28 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  The picture is wrong
Talk:Paul Capell, 11th Earl of Essex

message: I'm making a temporary page until the cpyvio is solved. Matjlav 01:08, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

message: How can the Earl of Essex be preceded by the Earl of Essex? -- SGBailey 16:29, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed it --JRawle 14:21, 10 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Precedence
Talk:Process and Reality

message: Is Whitehead really a subjectivist?  I've never heard him described in this way.  I thought the philosophy of organism had more like a neutral monism than a subjectivism or idealism.  --The Hanged Man 01:21, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Whitehead is not a subjectivist. As you say, if one tried to describe his scheme in otherwise established terms, one would be inclined to speak of neutral monism. That is essential to Whitehead's scheme.Chjoaygame (talk) 07:55, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Subjectivist? 

message: Someone who knows more about Whitehead than I do (I know nothing) might want to rescue an overzealous explanation of this book from the Process Philosophy page, which also needs attention. --98.100.207.38 (talk) 09:44, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry if the Process philosophy article's account, largely written by me, of Process and Reality is "overzealous". Please explain what that means, or suggest or enact remedies. What do you mean "rescue"?Chjoaygame (talk) 07:55, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Process Philosophy
Talk:Recording format

message: This page should be a separate article explaining Information mapping, information encoding formats, software, data, meta data and data file formats. All references to the hardware interface should be removed. Explain why software goes beyond computing. Software is anything that is not hardware but is used with hardware, (e.g. film, tapes, records). I will write it if I get the chance. Oicumayberight 10:25, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Goal for the page
Talk:Ushant

message: While reading up on the Journey of Pytheas, I ran across the equation Uxisame/Uxantos/Uxantis = Ouessant/Ushant. The former three names are found in the works of early Greek geographers and historians such as Pliny the Elder, and 19th (and early 20th) century scholars readily supported connecting these to modern-day Ushant. (See, for example: Matthias, Franz (1901). Über Pytheas von Massilia und die ältesten Nachrichten von den Germanen, p. 10. Berlin: W. Pormetter Verlag.) This article is currently ignorant of these connections (whatever their scholarly value today), and it seems to be something interesting enough to warrant further investigation. Cheers, --84.75.164.153 (talk) 11:39, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uxisame/Uxantos/Uxantis? 

message: A straight numerical comparison (forgot to take out Trollope, Aiken, WP, LLC) shows Ushant still more prevalent since 1990:
* 5,290x ushant + island since 1990
* 2,480 ouessant + island since 1990
However try it with a tourist term like "ferry" and it is reversed, 173x vs 348x. More surprisingly "pilot" also favours Ouessant, indicating modern shipping uses the French name. In ictu oculi (talk) 02:09, 17 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Ouessant being used for modern island outside history contexts

message: "It is the only place in Brittany with a separate name in English."
This is not true: like many places in Brittany the supposed 'exonym' is actually the name given to the island by Bretons.
There are differences between the french and breton names of most of the places in Brittany and Ouessant is not the only example where the english use the breton version instead of the french one.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.250.140.7 (talk) 13:46, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Separate name?
Talk:Hurd Hatfield

message: What's the protocol for outing/not outing deceased notables? We use the euphemism 'never married' here, when it's out there in reputable sources that he had at least one gay relationship e.g.: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/hollywoods-king-mean-bald-truth-yul-brynner/ 
Little grape (talk) 12:25, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Gay

message: Comment by 160.136.109.130 on 4 June 2005 retrieved from the article:
"Hello. He did NOT play a "youthful Confederate soldier" in the excellent episode of The Wild Wild West called The Night of the Maneating House."
--Audrey 01:39, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Played a fence (Herman Gray) in the TV movie Thief (1971) w/ Richard Crenna and Angie Dickenson, et al. 173.2.144.154 (talk) 03:39, 28 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thief 1971
Talk:Daniel F. Galouye

message: :Why are we using his full name? I've only ever seen him listed places as "Daniel F. Galouye" and that's what the other Wikipedias do. I'm not sure I even knew his middle-name was Francis. Did his family or agent request this?--T. Anthony (talk) 11:12, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Ahh probably just someone's goofiness. (See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people)#Middle names and abbreviated names) I see the confusion though. It does says it's preferred to use a version without punctuation marks if both are nearly as common. However "Daniel F. Galouye" is more than ten times as common as "Daniel Francis Galouye." Anyway I moved it back to the original.--T. Anthony (talk) 11:23, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

text: Note that "Another Tribute" link is a 404.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.80.149.2 (talk) 13:34, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: What happened to his first novel - Rebirth - did Imagine just sit on it, and prevent its publication?   Dexter Nextnumber (talk) 03:04, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  His first novel 
Talk:Frequency distribution

message: The Construction section mentions the formula 1 + 3.3 \log n for determining or estimating the ideal number of classes, where n is the number of data points. From high school math, I have been taught this formula under the name "Sturges' rule", and a quick search of that term shows that some sources also attribute this name to this formula. However, there seems to be another formula for estimating the ideal number of classes having a very similar name yet it isn't algebraically equivalent with this one. Before realizing this, I wanted to add detail that the listed formula 1 + 3.3 \log n is called Sturges' rule, just as I had added detail that the formula C = \sqrt{n} is called the "square-root choice" formula.
What should be done about this? I still wish to add detail and give a name for the formula, but I'm not sure how to go about the problem of the existence of a formula in the same context (that is, in estimating the ideal number of classes) with a very similar name. I can't seem to find this particular formula \left( 1 + 3.3 \log n \right) mentioned anywhere else on Wikipedia either. --Bismabrj (talk) 01:19, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Sturges' rule"? 1 + 3.3 log n 

message: Cute girl 112.198.123.107 (talk) 00:44, 28 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mathematics
Talk:Nineteen Day Feast

message: I know people have been working hard on this article for a while but its leading a bit off the beaten track here. Wikipedia is supposed to summaries what the topic is all about - not drop a load of quotes on the topic. As a Baha'i I naturally highly respect what the Universal House of Justice and the Guardian have written about the feast, but, in my honest opinion doesn't read well.
I really think that pretty much every quote should be removed. Quotes are only really necessary on contentious points, and even then only quote the smallest amount necessary (just a few words).
I may of course be wrong so please voice your disagreement if you feel so. -- Tomhab 01:43, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Ahhh right :) You don't have to go that far though. Don't worry about it in most cases though as its not contentious. I reckon the only POV mistakes you can make on this would be saying "all" instead of "most" or something small like that -- Tomhab 11:36, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup 

message: I have updated the article with information form the 17th May 2009 letter from the Universal House of Justice to the National Spiritual Assemblies.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.188.23.230 (talk) 11:06, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-Baha'is 

message: I think it would be nice for Baha'is and Non-Baha'is alike to post the names of the months, for example, Dominion, or Mulk. (Optical Serenity (talk) 07:19, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The month names are in Baha'i calendar.  Regards, -- Jeff3000 (talk) 08:20, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Feast calendar and names
Talk:Walter Raleigh

message: Are there any sources that say Raleigh was the Father of British America since he founded a British colony on Roanoke Island in 1585 and 1587? Sir Francis Drake claimed New Albion for Queen Elizabeth in 1579, but no colony was set up, only a fort, to repair a ship. Cmguy777 (talk) 03:39, 25 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Father of British America 

message: "In January 2014, the Raleigh Rum Company was founded in Raleigh, North Carolina."
This appears under 'Legacy' with no explanation. Is it truly relevant to this bio that his last name was used to title an American rum company in 2014, especially when said company was named for the *city* and not the man?
I mean, should we add every company founded in every city bearing his name to this section? This seems ridiculous to me unless there is context I'm missing. TricksterWolf (talk) 14:34, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relevant to Legacy?
Talk:Firearms (video game)

message: I've found a couple more articles that can possible be used in the article. Shacknews, Gamer.nl, Eurogamer and perhaps something from the official website. soetermans. ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 10:49, 20 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I've introduced these into the article. ⇒SWATJester Shoot Blues, Tell VileRat! 05:19, 2 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other sources
Talk:Alexandru Averescu

message: Actually, in 1859, when he was born, his hometown (and the whole Southern Bessarabia) was part of the "United Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia", so its name was "Babele". :-) bogdan 15:10, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, yeah, but I've phrased it without mentioning where it was situated at the time, and took the lead by what it is named now. I'm always confused about what criteria I should apply and how to do it best, so, if this looks stupid, feel free to rephrase. Dahn 17:17, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Ozyornoye

message: Bdate in lede did not match infobox. Both now in box. — kwami (talk) 17:43, 24 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  dates? 
Talk:McIntyre final eight system

message: : Whats the deal with the NRL specific history doing on this page? Should it not be on the NRL page? POds 06:36, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeh you may as well remove it altogether. I put it there, it was my first page, there's not much point in it being there. Thanks AlbinoMonkey (Talk) 12:01, 4 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  History section 

message: Why oh why does this system have to be so bloody complicated? :-)  I've re-written and re-written in an effort to make it understandable by Joe Public, a lot of what I had to work with being written in doublespeak or or somesuch, but there are still one or two paras which just don't flow. Boscaswell (talk) 10:33, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Complexity
Talk:Galia melon

message: I wonder perhaps if anybody has a picture so we can see the similarities and differences between a galia and a cantelope.--Whiteknight 02:45, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)

message: Galia Melon is also grown in large numbers in Pakistan and usually the weight ranges from 1 Kilo to 8 to 10 kilos per peice.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.130.119.58 (talk) 06:52, 16 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gaia Melon 
Talk:Sidney Smith (Royal Navy officer)

message: I don't mind but I do think that he should be listed under Sidney Smith as the prime name as that is what most people know him as. I wrote pretty well all of this article and I didn't realise his name was William Sidney Smith until I was well into the rresearch. The other article is basically Britannica 1911 and has virtually no information that is not already on this page. Dabbler 02:48, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naming 

message: -- Comment --
Please excuse any offense I may be committing; I am new to contributing and have not absorbed what looks to be a daunting amount of information on procedure and protocol.
My comment is about a point of confusion I am having reading this article. It is not clear to me at what point the topic moves from John Spencer Smith, back to Sir Sidney. On my first reading I went several paragraphs before I came to the conlusion it had somewhere migrated back, but the continual use of the singular appellation "Smith" does not help in identifying where this happens.
On a 2nd reading (the locaton follows this comment) I began to suspect that John Spencer is only discussed for a single sentence, which if I may, begs the question, why include it at all; however I think it would be helpful, if not more respectful to replace some of the following "Smith recruited, Smith arrived, Smith had, etc. etc." with Sir Sidney, possibly a more common British form. 
--Vernoncoffee (talk) 02:53, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naming confusion 

message: While the Chamber of Commerce of Sidney, New York (Delaware County) claims the town was named in Sir Sidney Smith's honour. However, it is built on Sidney Plains which had that name before Sir Sidney Smith was born and it seems as likely to me that it was named after its location not a foreign naval person. I realise that it is a published source, but is it a reliable one? Should local folk myths be added to Wikipedia? Dabbler (talk) 11:07, 19 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I assure you that it had a name before it was re-named in honor of Sir Sidney. 2601:445:201:3780:0:0:0:1138 (talk) 07:26, 6 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sidney, New York 

message: Very little detail besides his military career is mentioned here. Even his marriage is buried in a paragraph about his service. Did he have children? Robin S. Taylor (talk) 17:15, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personal life
Talk:Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec

message: As per the name change, i'm going to try to rename this article Bibliothèque et Archives nationale du Québec and make this page redirect to the new name... All the signs have been changed at the downtown location for a while now so I assume no one will be offended. Abeneal 20:08, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: NAME CHANGE
Talk:Neue Nationalgalerie

message: FYI my recent edit (19:57 PST, 22 Jun 2005) was from a pretty dim memory.  It may need some correction from someone who's been there more recently. k.lee 02:58, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Hello! This is to let editors know that :File:Berlin Neue Nationalgalerie asv2021-11 img1.jpg, a featured picture used in this article, has been selected as the English Wikipedia's picture of the day (POTD) for October 25, 2023. A preview of the POTD can be edited at Template:POTD/2023-10-25. For the greater benefit of readers, any potential improvements or maintenance that could benefit the quality of this article should be done before its scheduled appearance on the Main Page.  If you have any concerns, please place a message at Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day. Thank you! Aviafanboi (talk) 12:08, 8 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Featured picture scheduled for POTD
Talk:Highty-Tighties

message: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/List of drum majors, commanders and directors of the Highty-Tighties. Just fyi. -- Quiddity (talk) 20:31, 25 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  List at AfD 
Talk:Larry Graham

message: One of the main legends of the 80`s — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.215.160.247 (talk) 03:22, 23 June 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Larry Graham, the legend

message: the passage on machine-gun bass is totally out of place for an entry on larry graham.  especially within the first paragraph of "biography."  i have a feeling somebody deleted a slap-bass wiki, and stuck the text into larry graham's bio section.  i don't think i even want to know the truth. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.119.236.170 (talk) 00:46, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: machine-gun bass

message: I heard this rumor that he was living on Prince's ranch -- not in a sexual way. Can anyone confirm? Kent Wang 15:42, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently he talked Prince into becoming one of Jehovah's Witnesses.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.220.27.42 (talk) 11:48, 16 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: AFAIK Graham has been a spiritual mentor for Prince, who was raised JW.  Prince had a horrific experience as a father, and Graham helped him as he rediscovered his faith in the aftermath.  That's all unsourced, and possibly doesn't belong in the main article, but is an interesting aspect of his career.  He certainly had a front row seat on Sly's decline. 108.93.178.52 (talk) 00:20, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Living with Prince? 

message: Not that it matters, but Grand Central Station properly refers to a post office, not a train station.  (They're both in the same building.)  The train station is Grand Central Terminal. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tom Duff (talk • contribs) 05:19, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grand Central Station 

message: --209.244.188.61 01:51, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Addition to recording career 

message: I know it's stupid, but I added this phrase (with its footnote) because a Wikipedia editor keeps removing people from categories related to African Americans unless reliable sources within the article identify the person as African American. Should be a simple case of WP:BLUE, but some people are thick. — Malik Shabazz Talk/Stalk 21:22, 11 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  "who is African American"
Talk:Gargamel (disambiguation)

message: On typing in Gargamelle, the first thing I should see is a brief article describing Gargamelle and linking to the article on the subject of the particle detector named after her.
Instead when I type Gargamelle I get the reactor and then I'm given Gargamel (disambiguation) (this one) which currently leads me off to tripe like Gargamel, which obviously has nothing at all to do with Gargamelle.  --Tony Sidaway 22:32, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: This is a bit ridiculous
Talk:Fessenden School

message: please provide the timestamp for the timesensitive data. mikka (t) 04:26, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Timestamp

message: I've deleted this section as it had no citations and had become an obvious place for trolling, false additions, and disparaging remarks.  Please make sure that all on the list are verified by reliable sources and that citation are included for each. — ERcheck (talk) 03:07, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable alumni section
Talk:Twenty-cent piece (United States coin)

message: The US was also considering joining the Latin Monetary Union with the dollar at 5 Francs.  If they'd done that, then 1 Franc would've been exactly 20 cents.  Was that part of the motivation? -- Nik42 04:39, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It is one theory. See: , however, I believe by the time the coin actually came into production the idea had been dropped. Splarka 05:36, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The lede seems slightly confusing. Proofs were struck in all 4 years of this coin's run. The statement, "for circulation in 1875 and 76 and for collectors the following two years" seems to indicate that proofs were only struck in 1877 and 78. Joefromrandb (talk) 06:27, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. Tweaked.--Wehwalt (talk) 08:35, 6 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proofs 

message: Does anybody thinks they have plans to mint the twenty-cent coins again  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.222.219.230 (talk) 05:51, 13 October 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: No, the coins Americans will accept right now are pretty set.  I don't think will ever be minted again, except as a commemorative (the 150th anniversary will be in 2025)--Wehwalt (talk) 15:38, 28 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Minting twenty-cent coins again 