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Talk:Susan Sto Helit

message: I'm not sure what there is to discuss about susan sto helit, but i would like to ask where it says how old she is? In Soul Music it sounds by the way she is described and how she acts in general that she is younger than 16, more like 11 or 12, at the beginning anyway. As i said before I'm not sure what we are meant to discuss but if you have the answer to my question then that would be very helpful.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.131.191.22 (talk • contribs) 12:39, June 3, 2004
:Certainly:
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:"How old are you?"
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:"Sixteen."
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:"Oh my." Albert rolled his eyes. "How long have you been sixteen for?"
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:"Since I was fifteen, of course. Are you stupid?"
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:Soul Music, p 83 of the Corgi paperback. Hope that helps.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.191.62.136 (talk • contribs) 16:14, August 10, 2004
::Of course, that was in Soul Music. since then, she's gotten a job as a Governess and a Teacher. presumably she's now in her mid twenties, although with the current (?) state of the Discworld timeline, thats not certain.—Preceding unsigned comment added by User: (talk • contribs) 16:32, December 19, 2004
:::The article mentions that she is at school and 16 and her parents died recently.  I have just read Soul Music and if I remember correctly it states that her parents died when she was 7 years old. If anyone can confirm this the entry needs updated.  Scottanon 02:06, 27 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The book has a brief flashback of Susan being informed that her parents are dead, which implicitly happens a long time before the main plot of the book.--70.132.14.164 06:02, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Age of Susan

message: It was hinted in Thief of Time that Susan is in fact the antropomorphic personification of helpfulness - partially, at least - but I don't have the book around to check. Anyone else? Baughnie 19:38, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Susan's nature 

message: Can anyone point to where she is referred to as "Susan Death"?--NapoliRoma (talk) 19:55, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Nobby calls her that once in Soul Music. He tells Fred Colon: "That was her, Susan Death!" Doczilla (talk) 22:20, 24 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Susan Death"? 

message: The image needs a caption to identify the actress and the production. 23skidoo (talk) 18:34, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Infobox image

message: Why does the article assume Susan inherited her special abilities from her adopted grandfather, rather than her biological father, who was, at one point "death"? 84.92.54.229 (talk) 16:44, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Pratchett generally gives that impression. He speaks of the effects of "a Death in the family" and refers to her grandfather rather than father as the significant otherworldly bit. Mort's stint at the job doesn't seem to come into it. --Kizor 18:01, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inherited abilities
Talk:All Along the Watchtower

message: Prince performed it at Super Bowl 41. 144.178.0.140 (talk) 20:11, 16 August 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: WP:SONGCOVER. DonIago (talk) 13:35, 17 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prince 

message: I'm a bit confused about your addition:
"In 1974, Dylan recorded and released a studio version of the song on Before the Flood concert which Larry Starr has called Dylan's up-tempo version of the song after listening favorably to the Hendrix version. A third version of the song is identified by Starr as being released on the MTV Unplugged concert recording released in 1995"
as this seems to repeat part of the pre-existing text:
"Dylan has released live recordings of the song on the following albums: Before the Flood (recorded February 1974); Bob Dylan at Budokan (recorded March 1978); Dylan & The Dead (recorded July 1987); and MTV Unplugged (recorded November 1994)."
I'm sure the 1974 release would have had some sort of studio treatment, but I don't think it's a "studio version". Maybe some commentary from Starr can be included, but it would need to be fully cited in the way that the other books referenced are. Regards, BennyOnTheLoose (talk) 16:19, 2 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The quote from the new Larry Starr book that I added on your Talk page is: "...'Watchtower' is a brief, compelling, and mysterious song. Its ominous character is captured memorably in the studio version, which utilizes for accompaniment just Dylan's guitar and harmonica... The singing is utterly straightforward, as if recounting a simple parable about the nameless joker and thief; Dylan is not about to disclose a hint of any deeper meaning...", from page 107. If that is useful, then maybe you can find some way to add it into the article. Any duplicated material can be deleted. Of the six Dylan books I've looked at so far, only Starr seems to give any attention to Watchtower. ErnestKrause (talk) 16:30, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

text: I've removed the duplicate part about the 3 versions from Starr and added his quote about the lyrics to the lyrics section. If it looks ok, then it can be converted to Harvard cites format. Also there seems to be a problem with cites made to Gray;2002 in the book sources which I can't quite figure out, in the print out in the last paragraph of the Lyrics section. I've also added a short quote from the 2021 Cambridge University Press anthology on Dylan titled The World of Bob Dylan. If it looks ok, then it can be converted to Harvard cites format as well. ErnestKrause (talk) 00:08, 3 August 2022 (UTC)

text: Also fixed the Harvard cites in the lyrics section I just mentioned above. ErnestKrause (talk) 00:30, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dylan versions
Talk:Public holidays in Vietnam

message: According to the description ("From last two days of the last lunar month to 3rd day of the first lunar month") the Tet Holiday is 5 days.
Adding the other days, the total number of holidays is currently 10, not the stated 9, no?
Stefanhanoi (talk) 11:36, 11 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of Public Holidays
Talk:Junius (writer)

message: I added some material from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica including the rest of a sentence which ,as it was, was a fragment. People might want to note that the scanned versions of the 1911 EB online are sometimes indifferently edited.Dhodges 21:47, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: (heading added above this comment, for consistency, by: Xover (talk) 16:28, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: untitled comment

message: The section taken from the EB show a late 19th century view, corresponding rather closely to the Whig interpretation of history, which  assumes the virtue of the cause supported by the author of the letters. This was not proper encyclopedic writing even at the time, and is not so today.  The exact portion taken from the EB needs to be specifically cited, and some indication given of its characteristic POV. Other views need to be given also . DGG ( talk ) 05:34, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Note that I did not immediately recognise which section of the article you're referring to here. A bit more detail may increase the likelihood that a future editor (not me, I'm just passing by) correctly addresses the problem. --Xover (talk) 16:28, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: that is exactly the problem: the section taken from the EB must be indicated exactly by the use of quotation marks or other indicator, and it has not been, One will find the whole EB article  at https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclopædia_Britannica/Junius  DGG ( talk ) 03:15, 12 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: Consensus to move to "Junius (writer)" and move the current contents of the dab to the basename. I leave it up to other editors to decide what to put on that dab page vs. a potential separate article for the name.   (t · c) buidhe 19:12, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 2 March 2021
Talk:Zero-point energy

message: This article has a whole section entitled "Articles in the press". Why? Johnjbarton (talk) 15:07, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Articles in the press? 

message: The section on "Alternative theories" has two paragraphs. The first one discusses alternative analysis and the second paragraph refutes it. The second paragraph misconstrues Jaffe. Jaffe is saying that vacuum fluctuations are needed by QED, but they are not real. His last sentence:
* Still, no known phenomenon, including the Casimir effect, demonstrates that zero point energies are “real”.
Johnjbarton (talk) 16:37, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alternative theories
Category talk:Numbers

message: This really should be Category:Number, so if someone wants to fix it before I, you're welcome :) Dysprosia 22:28, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Why? Plurals are preferred, and even 'Category:Sport' is now 'Category:Sports'. Why singular if there's a perfectly valid plural available? Abigail 23:10, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  Plurals don't quite work in all cases. Numbers implies we're talking about numbers only, and not topics that relate to numbers in general (such as absolute value, or something). Calling the cat "Number" would work. (Also, "Arithmetics" does not work in plural form! :) Dysprosia 06:24, 6 Jun 2004 (UTC)

message: The francophone wiki has a sub-category "nombre figuré" so the proposed translation as figured numbers including for example Triangular number. 209.90.162.83 01:30, 20 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Figured numbers?

message: Hello,
The infobox "Number systems in mathematics" has gotten quite big, and also contains some categorizations which I find problematic.
For example, I wouldn't consider transfinite or split-complex numbers a "basic" number. If we were to continue using the term "basic" I would understand e.g. high-school math to be basic.
The second categorization, "complex extenions" is also problematic, because it might imply extensions that are using roots of -1 only, and therefore not include split-complex numbers. All or most of the entries listed there appear to be higher-dimensional extensions, why not name it this way?
I would suggest a new category, along the lines of "extensions using infinites and infinitesimals" which contain transfinite, superreal, hyperreal, and surreal numbers. Any suggestions for how this category could be named better? Or any other ideas for categorization?
Any suggestions are more than welcome; for now I think that it would be best to rewrite the infobox into a regular article, so we can wrap a little more wording around the links. You may also want to have a look at the hypercomplex number article and the discussion therein. I'm currently trying to find out how many different understandings of this term are out there, and found 4 so far.
In the meantime I'll do some category maintenance (make sure all articles referenced from here are in the "Numbers" category, and that subcategories are up-do-date).
Thanks again, Jens Koeplinger 14:23, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've just been shown the article Numbers, which is the right place for any details. Could we get away with the template:Numbers and instead write everything into the articles? In this category, we would then only have a very brief description, and could link to the article Numbers instead. Thanks for any suggestions, Jens Koeplinger 17:10, 20 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thanks, User:Melchoir, for getting away with the template:numbers here. I'll do some updates to the article number once I got more feedback on uses of the term hypercomplex number (see discussion page there). Jens Koeplinger 21:16, 22 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Concerns with "Number systems in mathematics" infobox / template
Talk:Politics of Portugal

message: This is...confusing. So who, exactly, holds the balance of power, between the Pres and PM? --Penta 23:46, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: In my even more humble opinion the content of that article can be included in this article. Electionworld = Wilfried (talk 07:32, 9 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Government System 

message: I oppose the merge. The government of Portugal is notable enough to have its own article, just like many other government articles in Wikipedia. Afonso Silva 20:26, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Pokénav

message: Pokémon article editors, please have a look at the Manual of Style. Page names and headlines should not be Capitalized Like This except in proper nouns. Thanks. Fredrik (talk) 23:52, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Capitalization

message: I see that Professor Ivy was added to the Pokémon Professors boilerplate, but her link is inactive. I have created a page on Ivy a while back, but its title features her full name (Professor Felina Ivy). Could the link in the boilerplate be fixed to direct to that article? Sinistro 08:45, 29 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Characters

message: See Template:Kanto History
On July 15, 2004, Raul654 removed the image of the spinning Pokénav from the template for the Kanto Cities and Towns. The following day, I reverted the image back in because this edit was creating inconsistencies with the other templates of the Wikiproject Pokénav and said:
 Give me a good reason to take the image away and if I agree<BR>I'll remove it from ALL the WikiProject Pokénav templates.
One hour later, Raul654 responded with:
 Because animated gifs are *laughably* unprofessional. This wikipedia,<BR>not some 12-year-old fan's site.
I've brought this to discussion to see if I can get other people's opinion on the matter.
I, myself, think the image should stay since, well, I added it after all. I think of it as an illustration and "symbol" of this Wikiproject (though I do agree that WikiProjects are not the kind of thing that would need symbols).
If it looks too unprofessional, I could replace it with a still version of the image (not spinning around like a top)<BR>However (although they may try to make it seem at points) Pokémon is not something that serious, really (maybe because it's aimed at 10-year-olds) nor formal.
That's the problem and what I think of it in short. Please put your opinions, thanks.<BR>--Fern 12:36, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images in the templates
Talk:Party line

message: I don't know what to make of the section Swingset etiquette, is this a parody? I'm removing the internal link, I don't think that has anything to do with any of the definitions. Slark 09:46, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I had exactly the same thought.  Looks like parody to me, and google picks up no obvious references.  Since I'm newish here, I won't delete it myself, but consider permission granted to the next person who happens along with the same notion.  MaxEnt 04:25, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Speaking of etiquette I'm a fast study.  I found the  tag which I will insert after the claim. MaxEnt 04:30, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm just gonna delete it.  It might not be true and it's certainly much less interesting than the other definitions on the page. Strait 03:38, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Swingset etiquette section
Talk:List of program music

message: Are the two Brahms pieces listed - the Tragic Overture and the Academic Festival Overture - really pieces of program music? The former has some vague notion of being "tragic", as the title suggests, but there's nothing more specific to it than that, as far as I know. The latter just quotes a few drinking songs, it doesn't even have a vague notion behind it, does it? Or is there more to this than I'm aware? --Camembert
:Maybe I was reaching. Now that I think about it, Brahms is a lot less programmatic than even Bruckner! Dmetric 20:01, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Indeed.  A list of the Debussy works that are not program music would be shorter than a list of those that are.  --  Jack of Oz [your turn] 21:51, 16 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Category talk:Airports

message: Hmmm.. I would have thought List of Airports articles shouldn't be under Airports - only actual airports themselves? Chuq 00:17, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)

message: I don't seem to be able to edit this category (article). I guess, this can only be done by the administrators or something.
Anyhow, could somebody be kind enough to add Airports of Kosova in this category, please. And, under Airport of Kosova then add Prishtina International Airport, please.
Many thanks, -- Kosovar 16:10, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Airports of Kosova
Talk:Harad

message: The fantasy world of "Harad" could be evidence that "Delhi Sultanate" has a presence in literature.
The presence of massive "War elephant" is more proof that Harad is the "Indian subcontinent".
08:16, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  You are entitled to your personal opinion, but since that cannot be verified by other editors, we cannot use it in the article. Of course, if a scholar has made a similar suggestion, we can cite that book or research paper. Chiswick Chap (talk) 09:13, 27 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Delhi Sultanate 

message: Corsairs of Umbar are metaphorically the "King of Colombo". 19:47, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  You are entitled to your personal opinion, but since that cannot be verified by other editors, we cannot use it in the article. Of course, if a scholar has made a similar suggestion, we can cite that book or research paper. Chiswick Chap (talk) 19:57, 18 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  King of Colombo 

message: Harad is metaphorically the Delhi Sultanate, their mighty Mumakil War elephant species is the much needed evidence.
The Corsair of Umbar is the King of Colombo.
My evidence is the Catalan Atlas of 1375.
21:44, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Um, on the war elephant, Tolkien explicitly gave a Roman source, so your "evidence" is incorrect. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:33, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Catalan Atlas of 1375 

message: Harad is India and Umbar is Ceylon, just as the Catalan Atlas of 1375 explained.
21:50, 10 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I note your personal opinion that there could be an oriental interpretation of Harad. However, you cannot cite a PRIMARY source like the medieval Catalan Atlas, as obviously that says nothing about whether Tolkien (centuries later) knew of the source or used it. What would be required would be a scholarly source that says in terms that Tolkien saw the atlas and may have been influenced by it. Without that, all your speculations are ORIGINAL RESEARCH and are forbidden on Wikipedia. You have made your opinion known, but without further evidence, it cannot go anywhere, so please stop now. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:32, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  India and Ceylon
Talk:DEC Alpha

message: See comments added to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:DEC_PRISM#The_article_is_wrong_about_how_MIPS_got_chosen
This gives some key history on how MIPS got into DEC product line, starting with a chance meeting at 1988 computer show in Washington that caused Ultrix to be ported to Little-Endian-configured MIPS M/1000s loaned to DEC in New Hampshire.JohnMashey (talk) 23:56, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  PRISM Section
Talk:Jiang Yanyong

message: The Beeb article for this says he mailed the gov't over T Square incident in Feb 2004. Article Says May.
Is there a corresponding article in chinese about Jiang? If not, can somone who knows chinese translate this? chinese wikipedia Theon 00:32, Jun 5, 2004 (UTC)
Parts of the article say "Dr. Jiang" and parts of the article use "Dr. Yanyong". Which one is correct?--Lucky13pjn 22:51, Jun 16, 2004 (UTC)
:Dr. Jiang.  It's Chinese, so last name first.
----
Birthdate from . Recent news from .
Does anyone know just when the "recent" note was?
Tualha 13:55, 5 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: His intention is unknown and his action is still controversial.
I actually do not know why his intention needs to be questioned at this point. However, at least one source is necessary!
--Ghormax (talk) 13:13, 5 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Dear Ghormax, I agree with you and will work on finding more cites. But, it seems to be similar to looking for a needle in a haystack. Geraldshields11 (talk) 15:35, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  Hello all. At the DC edit a thon, I added more cites and removed  the warning tag. Geraldshields11 (talk) 20:14, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Questions about Dr. Jiang's Motivation 
Talk:NPD

message: ----
NPD is the French acronym for NDP (New Democratic Party).  But this acronym is never used in English.
But for every English acronym, there's a different French acronym (or Spanish acronym, etc).  For instance the French acronym for NHL is LNH, the French acronym for KFC is PFK (Poulet frit Kentucky) (in Quebec anyway).  It makes no sense to list these, because they're not used in English.
There are some foreign-language acronyms that are used in English, for instance FIFA or FARC.  But foreign-language acronyms that are used only in that foreign language and not in English are not suitable for inclusion here... there would be thousands and thousands of them, one for each foreign language for each acronym.
P.T. Aufrette 02:24, 4 Jun 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Culture of Switzerland

message: Will someopne please fix this disruptive IP who has blanked a paragraph. I'd do it myself but I can't. Looks like obvious sock of User:Mumbos Jumbos. See here. 92.40.202.200 (talk) 18:52, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Protected page edit request

message: Done 2A01:9700:1396:1B00:80E1:56EE:719A:598B (talk) 15:53, 14 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Farmer families, dressed in traditional clothing, guiding cattle down from the Swiss Alps.
Talk:G

message: An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect :Ɡ and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 November 26#Ɡ until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.   Jay 💬 14:07, 26 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Ɡ" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]