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Talk:National University of Singapore

message: I have removed the two incidents which were recently added by WezSchultz. Per WP:BLPCRIME, we have to be very careful not to include any material which suggests an innocent, non-public figure, is guilty of a crime. 
In the first alleged sex-for-grades incident, the source makes it very clear the professor is a non-public figure that was acquitted and cleared of all charges after initially being convicted. In the eyes of the law, he is innocent and has committed no crime. Including the name of his student is also potentially a privacy violation.
In the second alleged case of academia fraud by a visiting professor, she is also a non-public figure and has not been convicted of a crime. The source is clear that she's being investigated, but there has been no updates on the results of the investigation. Whether the case will spur any significant policy changes in NUS is still unclear and its notability has yet to be established.
I wish to make my reasons clear for the reverts and am willing to have this be subjected to the review of other editors. Seloloving (talk) 14:22, 10 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reverts of incidents 

message: Residential College 4's curriculum is focused on Systems Thinking  It is the newest RC and all the rooms have air conditioning. CherryMochi25 (talk) 02:01, 13 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Residential College 4
Talk:Christopher Castile

message: Christopher Castile should not be a redirect to Step by Step. This implies that the show is the only thing he's ever done. I've replaced it with a stub. Redfarmer 16:21, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Forum moderator

message: Methinks Moderator (Internet) or Forum moderator (seperate from IRC moderator would be better. Any thoughts on this? --Andylkl 19:15, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Page title?

message: Moderator (communications) merged into Forum moderator.  Since the latter had no talk page, I've moved the former's page here. —Simetrical (talk) 00:40, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Pages merged

message: Does this article have to have references? It is a generally accepted concept among everyone on the internet. Someone put it to a vote? --Μ79_Šp€çíá∫íš†
tell me about itSeriously, is there anyone on Earth who has written a citable source about internet Moderator's? I'd say the best thing is citing the Guidelines for a few forums.
Thank You Wiki (talk) 02:31, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Reference

message: I have reduced this article to a stub. It has been marked as unsourced for nearly eighteen months. Providing verifiable sources is not optional and editors have had plenty of time to do so. Much of the text here was original research and personal commentary. Please only restore or add information if you include a proper citation to a reliable source at the same time. Thanks, Gwernol 19:30, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: As of June this article is still a tiny, unsourced stub. I propose to change it back to the pre-shortened article, as a long , fairly informative unsourced article is surely better than a short, pointless unsourced stub. I don't really think anyone will find sources for this. Objections? Ecth (talk) 21:25, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reduced to a stub 

message: I have merged this in Internet forum, where the section on mods is more detailed and comprehensive, and has one source. Cenarium Talk 16:48, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: For all its existence, the article was in a poor state and lacked references. It may be possible to find reliable sources for this article, but in the present state, it's worth redirecting to a more watched and better sourced article. Cenarium Talk 17:14, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merged in Internet forum
Talk:Calgary, Mull

message: This sure isn't a town - it's barely a village, I think...dave souza 19:33, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Depends on which part of the world you live. :) --MacRusgail 20:18, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Where I'm from, "town" and "village" are just two different municipal charters. ;) 68.146.29.77 (talk) 22:17, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: In Britain a town is one or two orders of magnitude larger than a village. -- Derek Ross | Talk 08:46, 27 December 2009 (UTC)
Talk:Mako (actor)

message: WikiProject Biography Assessment
The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 23:58, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 

message: Merged content from Mako_(actor) and Makoto Iwamatsu, and placed them at Makoto Iwamatsu. I also placed a redirect at Mako_(actor) to go to Makoto Iwamatsu. If someone could tell me how to link to a page so that you don't get redirected, that would be great.
Greba 19:50, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: IMDB has him credited as Yamamoto and does not have a Chuichi Nagumo listed as a character.  I would tend to believe IMDB.  Gorrister 14:30, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion

message: Is that section really necessary/relevant? The incident did cause negative backlash for the NC, however it wasn't covered by any news sites afaik. And if it was, there should be some sources given that it caused "A considerable amount of controversy on the internet".IchiGhost (talk) 19:31, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nostalgia Critic Controversy 

message: Did he shorten Makoto to "Mako" in order to have the same name as a cool shark?
(Some of us may have been assuming that for decades. Not naming any names.)
That affects the pronunciation since the shark is "may-ko".
Is his 'a' long or short? Does his name rhyme with "Seiko" or with "Wacko Jacko"? Varlaam (talk) 18:39, 12 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: No.  Mako is short for Makoto and is pronounced just as it would be in Japan, Mah-ko.  The shark name, by the way, is pronounced the same way, not may-ko, despite pretty common erroneous usage. Monkeyzpop (talk) 11:02, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Mako shark]] 

message: Mako Iwamatsu is the name of the page, but the actor was almost exclusively billed and known by his shortened one-word name, Mako.  In his 59 films and over 100 television appearances, he only used the family name 3 times, always in Japanese productions.  Calling his page name by a name he used only rarely and by which he was not generally known to the public seems counter-intuitive, just as calling Cher's page Cher Sarkissian or Fabian's page Fabian Forte would be.  Is there support for changing the page name to the name by which Mako is far better known? Monkeyzpop (talk) 11:02, 19 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Page name

message: Why is this article named Mako (actor) instead of Mako Iwamatsu? I really believe that the second one suits it better. Thanks.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 191.80.188.218 (talk) 14:33, 17 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Little change of title request 

message: Just saw Mako in a Magnum repeat.  Looked like a martial arts expert, very convincing.  Wondered if he had formal training and credentials?  e.g. in Kendo or Aikido, judo, karate? Would be good to see this on wiki page - even if just acting. 95.147.13.108 (talk) 13:02, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Any martial arts credentials?
Talk:Lender of last resort

message: This should not be moved to Wiktionary, it can be expanded on. - Jerryseinfeld 20:29, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed move to Wikitionary

message: I think that the reference to pay day loan operators is not consistant with the traditional meaning of 'lender of last resort' and serves to otherwise muddy up a pretty clear subject. I am unable to find a legitmate reference from a trusted source that references these pay day loan operations as a lender of last resort. --t9 (Talk) 17:18, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I fleshed out a few more details. There are grammatical errors. I am not entirely familar with wikipedia style so i'm afraid i'm going to have to leave it to someone else or come back at a later date armed with the knowledge of wikipedia style guide. I still think that the payday loan definition doesn't really fit the true spirit of economic institution that makes bail out loans to other institutions and that this is more or less colloquial usage co-opted or possibly reinvented to describe something entirely different. I have found references to payday loan businesses being described as a 'lender of last resort' but really these seem to be used by ill informed news media or self agrandizing propriators of such loan establishment. All this being said I didn't remove it cause i dont want to break wikipedia links, but i think it should go. There is already an article called 'payday loans' and is probably much more to the point, much more likely to be found when searched out, and over all the more proper terminology. When I think lender of last resort, I think IMF, central banks, economics, not some pawn shop slash loan shark. --t9 (Talk) 18:03, 13 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Pay day loan reference

message: The text currently states, Fed has neither asked for good collateral nor charged rates above the market, in recent years. However, both cited works do not support the "recent year" clause. In fact, Flannery (first cite, , see p. 17) seems to imply that Fed had never used the penalty rates: "Bagehot’s advice in this regard, has not been followed by the Fed." I therefore propose to remove the vague "recent times" clarification. Викидим (talk) 15:34, 26 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Absence of penalty rate
Talk:Texas blues

message: I removed Kenny Wayne Shepard (actually Shepherd) from the list because I haven't seen anything that associated him with 'Texas' blues, other than being a blues musician with some Texas associations.  Could some references be cited before readding?  SteveHopson 21:07, 30 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kenny Wayne Shepherd 

message: Without any sources here, it is hard to say what the scope of this article should be.  Its hard to imagine that there is a coherrent genre that includes Leadbelly and ZZ Top.  Also, what about Mance Lipscomb, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, etc.? -MrFizyx 19:19, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scope of the article 

message: While I Agree there is a genre of Texas Blues, I don't define it as Ledbelly. I think Stevie Ray Vaughn is the main example. Although I reflected the main article's views in the genre box I made. --SilverPwnzor 01:10, 22 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Texas Blues ?
Category talk:Dukedoms

message: The fact that this category is restricted to British dukedoms is problematic. It is probably best to place all articles in this category in a Category:British Dukedoms, and make it a subcategory of this category. Any objections? -- Itai 21:24, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Well it has passsed 3 years now, and the problem is still there. Kudos to those who would take the job away ! PurpleHz 10:27, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: "Dukedom" implies that the title is simply named for a location, and that the duke has no responsibility for that location, i.e. the British peerage system. For other countries, the office of duke should be called a "duchy". So basically "British dukedom" is redundant. See WP:NCROY. Kauffner (talk) 04:33, 29 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: "Dukedom" implies nothing at all as it hasn't been an English word since about the fifteenth century, and was not exactly "correct" even then (in the broadest sense of the term, this being before any linguistic standardization). I have seen within the past seven years, this "word" be re-invented by the ignorant who simply do not know the word "duchy" and cannot be bothered to look it up. To begin with, it only came about over uncertainty of how to refer to the holdings and houses of certain foreign nobility — and, since the term was already foreign, we soon settled on Anglicizing the existing foreign term (from Old and Middle French — which is also why the feminine is "duchess" not "dukess" or something along those lines). I repeat, it is not an English word, and should not be on Wikipedia, expect as a listing of errors. HwætGrimmalkin (talk) 03:26, 11 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Wack MC

message: For a November 2004 deletion debate over this page see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Wack MC
Tim Ivorson 23:26, 27 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: VfD (2004)

message: I don't think that Wikipedia needs this article. It basically explains that a wack MC is an MC and wack. I think that it should be merged into rapping, or some other related page. Tim Ivorson 21:27, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point. It's a good article, but it will have more of an impact in a collective article describing rappers/rapping. MOD 15:59, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge? (2004)

message: Why not just merge this with Wack and Master of Ceremonies?--Urthogie 19:02, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't know. Maybe because the two articles are just separate words of the term "Wack MC." MOD 15:59, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm aware that they're seperate subjects.  I'm suggesting that this isn't significant enough to be its own article.--Urthogie 19:05, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Too late cracker. Already merged. MOD 21:00, 29 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  sigh
Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/IMAO

message: I agree that the original content is heavily promotional. However, there are many individual blogs which deserve inclusion to Wikipedia. With revision and/or moving a revised entry to the larger category of blogs, I think this needs to stay here. 
And yes, I admit I'm a fan, but I would say the same of other blogs I don't care for.
Perhaps under the main heading of blogs there could be several sub sets? Like the eco-system ranking set up over at Truth Laid Bare?
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my first edit was on a plankton shadows thingie (unregistered, a few minutes before i registered).  why am i under the first-edit IMAO votes? - Curi 20:13, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Pacific Ocean Park

message: Iggy Pop's song "Kill City" refers to the then-closed POP: "I'm living in Kill City where the debris meets
the sea." Iggy was living in Venice at the time he wrote the song (1974). 
There was a rock club adjacent to POP called The Cheetah in the 1960s.
Choreographed scenes from Nancy Sinatra's 1967 special "Movin' With Nancy" were filmed at Pacific Ocean Park shortly after it closed.
I agree, there should be a new section or topic titled ‘In Popular Culture’ with TV shows and movies filmed there, and songs that reference POP by name. Rather than stuck in Decline topic Dec212012 (talk) 08:20, 30 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Cultural references

message: The article does not list who decided closure, nor motivation.
Nor the motivation of "...demolished and streets leading to the park were closed."
Hopiakuta 13:55, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  poop, uh, pop. 

message: I understand the ruins of the pier still exist. Has anyone considered rebuilding the park?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.67.35.97 (talk) 05:41, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rebuild? 

message: Mark Evanier's blog entry about the IRS shutdown of Pacific Ocean Park and his father's involvement.
Kenshiroh (talk) 01:21, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mark Evanier details his fathers involvement in the IRS shutting down of P.O.P.
Category talk:National liberation movements

message: A substantial portion of this list consists of separatist groups. These groups should be removed. Just put the regular 'liberation movements' and then include a link for speeratist movements. 141.166.152.244 (talk) 16:10, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Separatists 

message: This category is in  as it contains mostly extreme Left-wing POV groups as well as many Terrorist groups that are listed in :Category:Terrorism and :Category:Terrorist organizations. IZAK 22:43, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: CfD

message: Are some of the articles here ones that should be in :Category:Independence movements? Andjam (talk) 12:39, 29 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Miscategorization?
Talk:Craigslist

message: The number of employees listed in the article (50) is quite out of date (2017). I could not find a more recent source but that doesn't mean there isn't one. 
There has been a lore that Craiglist is run with a small number of employees, but clearly their number has grown. In 2006 it was 23,  and in 2022 Craig Newmark said "It’s in the 10s" (i.e. fewer than 100).
Glassdoor currently lists the company as having "51-200" employees. Would that be a better number to include in the side bar since that 2017 number is 7 years old?  --107.190.43.119 (talk) 03:47, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of employees
Talk:Risk neutral preferences

message: Can someone answer me this question:
You are offered a lottery with the following prizes: £100, £50, or £10.
The probabilities of each prize are respectively: 0.1, 0.2, or 0.7. 
	What sum of money would a risk neutral individual pay for this lottery ticket?
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.1*100 + .2*50 + .7*10 = 10+10+7 = 27 
Wolfman 22:57, 21 Nov 2004 (UTC)

message: That example section is awful. First, the numbers change midway through from being 100 EUR to 1 EUR for winning (I think?). Second, the idea of shorting the game doesn't make sense in the context of the example. Third, the example is really about risk-neutral pricing of options, not really about the general concept of risk neutral. There is already a great example in the second sentence of the article. This long-winded example is interesting but not really appropriate here. Thus, I deleted the example. (I also added "see also" references to the more appropriate topics of risk-neutral pricing.) Dosai (talk)  —Preceding undated comment was added at 05:06, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Example

message: Forgive me but this article, covering a central topic in finance, is poor. May I suggest a reading of the early chapters in Duffie (Dynamic Asset Pricing Theory) or similar?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.124.219.70 (talk) 19:32, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: =
Talk:Evan Taubenfeld

message: this article hurts me. not only do i find it hard not to care about this topic but its' badly written as all of you have mentioned. 
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Damn, that's a big photo.
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That's also a really, really poorly-written article. How this made it to the "did you know" section is beyond me.
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Yea verily.  What is going on here?  I don't want to stare at his pre-pubescent moustache while reading statements that are obviously not factual, but are in fact speculation.
Someone edit this.
* agreed this is very POV
also... do a fact check, that web links page has language options in  english french and ITALIAN but not german like it says  he speaks? odd...
* dude... the guy actually knows some words in french this is DEFINITELY encyclopedic and NOT irrelevant at all... soapntheclown 11:23, 22 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Not that this is really that relevant, but I know his sister (she goes to my school).  Wikifan42 01:27, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  His sister
Talk:Maiden Japan

message: mine is definatly british,yet only has 4 tracks (no wrathchild) anyone explain why?
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It's because the Japanese, UK and some other European pressings only have 4 tracks...no wrathchild. That's why.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.79.170.66 (talk) 19:23, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: 4-track ep

message: There is NO Japanese fan club edition. We have never put out a "fan club edition".
There are a couple of vandals who show the track listing to a homemade bootleg that people sell on eBay claiming to be an official release when it's not.
I don't think it's appropriate to list bootleg cds on the official wikipedia page for this album.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Naturalthing (talk • contribs) 20:18, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Japanese fan club edition
Talk:Julius Streicher

message: "During his trial, Streicher claimed that he had been mistreated by Allied soldiers after his capture." - He did indeed say so, when he was on trial. But I don't recall that this in anyway was disproven or discredited during the trial by the prosecution. The mistreatments were mostly humiliations in a rather mean way not severe injuries. If that was deliberate (as to prime him for the trial) is of course an open question. Streicher's description of the details can't be found in the transcripts, but can be found in an audio-recording thereof (From  22min onward): https://archive.org/details/JuliusStreicherVerteidigungsrede --105.8.7.22 (talk) 11:08, 8 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Claims of abuse by Allied soldiers 

message: "Joseph Kingsbury-Smith... said in his filed report that after the hood descended over Streicher's head, he also apparently said "Adele, meine liebe Frau!" ("Adele, my dear wife!")."
Why the "apparently"? Kingsbury-Smith was an eye witness and clearly writes:
"When the black hood was raised over his head, Streicher's muffled voice could be heard to say, 'Adele, my dear wife.'"
(Source: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/NurembergNews10_16_46.html )
Perhaps this is an unreliable account, but "apparently" is nonsense. 2A02:AA1:1018:BA8C:F8D2:3D00:A320:A2A0 (talk) 20:24, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, and fixed. Thanks. Firefangledfeathers (talk / contribs) 20:27, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Apparent last words
Talk:Jane's Addiction (album)

message: There has been a recent effort by several people trying to ret-con history by somehow categorizing Jane's Addiction's debut album as "just a traditional live album" and not their debut. Jane's Addiction self-titled record is in fact their debut album in every sense of the word. How much of the album is actually "live" is up for debate-- in fact, it's well-documented that the audience you hear was added in after the fact during the recording process. It's been rumored that most of the album was actually tracked in the studio, but these are rumors, nothing more. REGARDLESS, the band made a conscious decision in 1987 to release their DEBUT ALBUM in a live/semi-live format to better capture their energy and sound. It was something that was kind of unheard of in those days. Back in 1993/1994, the Jane's Addiction FAQ listed the band's three ALBUMS: Jane's Addiction, Nothing's Shocking, and Ritual de lo Habitual. Until Strays, JA had just "three albums." Self-titled was always considered one of them. Kettle Whistle and Live & Rare came out in the interim but they were just compilations. The Wiki has stated this for years, so I'm not sure what the sudden push to ret-con the album out of their official discography is. My guess is young kids that weren't around in those days that haven't actually read any articles or books on the band. There is a GREAT online resource for magazine and press publications from throughout their career at janesaddiction.org. It blows my mind that I even have to have this conversation. It doesn't matter what you choose to write on the Wiki page for the album, the album WAS their debut, and it WAS recorded and released the way it was released on purpose. Warner Bros. wanted to release the album, but the band refused and went with XXX in order to avoid the image of "selling out." You can TRY to change history, but it doesn't actually change what is & what happened. It's all there in the old articles. Jane's Addiction DID release a more traditional live album later on: Live in NYC.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.56.17.126 (talk) 17:48, 1 July 2016 (UTC)
Talk:Bananas (Deep Purple album)

message: *All song titles serve as redirects to this album, have their own pages, or have had disambig links placed at the appropriate article or disambiguation page.--Hraefen Talk 23:34, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: '''<^>v!!This album is connected!!v<^>'''

message: It would be good to note, that this was their last album with EMI.
83.27.231.111 (talk) 19:41, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Last album with EMI