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Talk:Judaism/Archive 4

message: regardless of how nutty its proponents may be, jew watch is a valid external link regarding critcism, heck, its the #1 google hit for "jew". I would think you'd prefer to take note, and se what these guys are saying. Anyhow I insist that its a valid link. Sam Spade 20:32, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: If being a popular site is our determinant than we should add links to porn sites too. "Jew Watch" is not a "critical" site, it doesn't add anything to debates on history, culture or theology. It's just Jew-hatred. AndyL 21:19, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I understand your POV, but you are sadly mistaken. Attempting to reduce the resources available to the reader reflects poorly apon the encyclopedia in general, and censorous editors in particular. Sam Spade 21:25, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: "Jew Watch" is a site that Google themselves have stated they don't agree with - but they feel compelled to remain objective.  It arguably doesn't belong.  Pakaran. 22:35, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Do I hear you to say that google'sPOV should be mentioned here (I could compromise on that)? Or is it that the wikipedia need not remain objective, as Google clearly intends to be (compromise on that would seem unlikely)? Sam Spade 22:59, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: What I'm saying is that the google ranking is not the first factor that should be taken into account.  I'd treat Jew Watch as an accurate source on Judaism to the same extent I'd trust SCO on Linux.  Pakaran. 23:11, 13 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  jew watch
Talk:Political colour

message: Do not move again. On wikipedia the American English spelling is used. ~~ Frvwfr2 19:05, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Please see WP:ENGVAR before making similar changes. VMS Mosaic 20:16, 3 October 2007 (UTC)

text: I agree. (dot)com is US... US commerce, so all on (dot)com should remain US standard. Enough of the imperialistic rhetoric... we are not ruled by the empire and never will be again. History is history and it should not be changed or redefined by an online "encyclopedia" AmerIHCan (talk) 20:52, 14 December 2022 (UTC)

text: You are correct that we don't move pages between varieties of English, but please do not correct a move by simply copying the article back to the old location and creating a redirect.  Doing that breaks up the article's history.  I'm straightening up the move now. -GTBacchus(talk) 23:11, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. I messed up trying to correct the move before discovering the right way to do it. VMS Mosaic 23:19, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No worries. -GTBacchus(talk) 23:22, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Political Colour
Talk:D.C. United

message: All the jersey of team can be added as It will give a good look with the images in the content. The page seems to have low number of images.  (suggestion) Lucaschuaa (talk) 10:18, 28 February 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you have sources for them all? Is there an encyclopedic reason to add them? Walter Görlitz (talk) 07:04, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add all the jersey image of team. 

message: Scans in an odd way that DC is the only American team to win the Copa Americana. Couple of cases in the text for use of the actual name of the country - USA - if only to avoid annoying Uruguyans. 139.5.123.134 (talk) 17:56, 27 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of 'American' 

message: Fixed sourcing issue I forgot about. The DC season is over but the MLS season isn't so that's why it says TBD. DONT TOUCH IT. Instead discuss here about it SubOP (talk) 02:36, 8 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wayne Rooney
Talk:Texas City disaster

message: the article appears to mention 2 different official casualty estimates:
"Official casualty estimates came to a total of 567, including all the crewmen that remained onboard the Grandcamp, but many victims were burned to ashes or literally blown to bits, and the official total is believed to be an underestimate."
this passage makes it sound as though the official number is 567 + possibly an unknown number of other people never counted
only a few sentences later is this:
"The official death toll was 581."
this gives another number... so maybe it's possible the official unknown number of people blown to bits in the first passage is 581-567=14, but then it wouldn't be an unknown number.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Zackyfarms (talk • contribs) 03:09, 19 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  conflicting official death tolls 

message: My mother's first husband was killed in that explosion. His name was James Dycus. He was also my father's brother. Do not know if he was on a ship or working at one of the refineries. Would like to view any history that may mention his name. My name is Aletha Dycus Kowitz. I know were James is buried. If anyone can help me in my research, Please contact me at alethakowitz@aol.com Thank you  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.103.95.37 (talk) 21:17, 22 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Texas City Explosion 

message: What grade of fertilizer was in the ships and storehouses? It can be fertilizer or bomb grade. So soon after WW2 there may have been a large surplus of bomb grade. I have never heard of a farmer exploding with fertilizer.
2601:181:8000:D6D0:2C28:2B4C:D97:C350 (talk) 11:43, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Grade

message: This edit removed all instances of "the" before ship's names etc. Not sure this is an improvement but let's discuss and reach a consensus. Shearonink (talk) 16:24, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of "the" etc 

message: This statement is sourced by an individual's account. Airplanes don't work that way unless they were directly in the blast itself. The laws of physics don't change during a powerful explosion. I think this is very slim evidence for such an extraordinary claim. Without stating where the planes were, I think this source is too dubious. Perhaps the article could say there was one account of two planes crashing as a result, something like that, but the claim is too big for the evidence as it is. Dcs002 (talk) 08:01, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: An article in Popular Science Montlhy magazine, April 1955 (available on-line at Google Books) said streel fraqments from the expiosion impacted the planes and that's what brought them down. 2600:4040:5D38:1600:5D90:3D83:D764:4E00 (talk) 13:00, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Airplanes blown out of the sky?
Talk:Serse

message: There are not many secular works by Handel compared to his sacred works. Should there not be mention somewhere in this article that it is a secular work? I have not read the entire translation (only bits and pieces of sections I liked), so I may be wrong in that; but I found it by searching for secular works of Handel, and the bits and pieces I've read seem to agree. -- Charles Stover 20:29, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: That's not actually true. Handel wrote over 35 operas (I can't remember the exact figure) and this is one of them. They are all secular (almost all operas are by definition secular). He also wrote a large amount of instrumental and orchestral music, including famous pieces such as the Water Music. Again, little if any of it is religioua. --Folantin (talk) 21:00, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: And at least two of his oratorios (Semele and Hercules) are secular, too. --GuillaumeTell 22:24, 13 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Secular 

message: I´d like to know, if there is something known about the singers to perform this opera for the first time. I think the name of the castrato should be mentioned, an I assume there is allready an article about this castrato.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Giftzwerg 88 (talk • contribs) 16:22, 28 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  First performance 

message: It's very strange that the sample of Ombra Mai Fu is of a baritone when the song was originally sung by castrato and now by countertenor or mezzo (never by baritone except perhaps in repertoire or concert). Andreas Scholl would be an iconic choice for a countertenor performance, or any of a number of exceptional mezzo performers, including Cecilia Bartoli.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.134.204.15 (talk) 04:19, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sample media
Talk:VFD

message: : See also: Talk:Vfd, Talk:VfD
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See Wikipedia talk:Avoid self-references for why the entry for  Votes for deletion was deleted again. Jay 08:09, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)

message: This page is noteworthy on Wikipedia for the reason that it has the longest edit history for the shortest page ! Vote here on what you think regarding the mention of Wikipedia:Vfd which will accordingly make changes in policy in the Wikipedia:Avoid self-references meta page. Jay 10:34, 11 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Make your vote on Vfd

message: How is it that CFD and RFD don't come in to the same revisioning?
They also reference into the Wikipedia namespace. (and helpful people keep fixing the broken external link into a self reference) 132.205.15.4 03:19, 30 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Self Referencing? 

message: I don't mind that my edit was reverted because as I continue into the 10th book of the series (with a few more to go), I now see that there is more than meets the eye; there are many more V.F.D.'s than "Very Fancy Doilies!" 
     "Duncan and Isadora tried to tell us about V.F.D.," Violet said, "but they never got the chance. We don't even know what it stands for."
     "It seems to stand for many things," Quigley said, flipping pages in his notebook. "Nearly everything the organization uses, from the Volunteer Feline Detectives to the Vernacularly Fastened Door, has the same initials."
     "But what is the organization?" Violet asked. "What is V.F.D.?"
     "Jacques wouldn't tell me," Quigley said, "but I think the letters stand for Volunteer Fire Department," Violet repeated, and looked at her brother. "What does that mean?"
     "In some communities, Klaus said, "there's no official fire department, and so they rely on volunteers to extinguish fires."
     "I know that," Violet said, "but what does that have to do with our parents, or Count Olaf, or anything that has happened to us? I always thought that knowing what the letters stood for would solve the mystery, but I'm as mystified as I ever was."
~ Ch. 8 in Book the Tenth: The Slippery Slope (A Series of Unfortunate Events) by Lemony Snicket, published by Harper Collins (2003).
(Me too, Violet, very mystifying!) It'd be interesting to try to list all of the V.F.D.'s I find in the whole series, just for fun; not on the official VFD page though. :) 
 
--Follow.your.inner.heroes.2.the.work.you.love.2021 (talk) 06:55, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: That sounds like a fun project – but as you say, it would not be something you'd add in Wikipedia! As for this page, there should not be more than one link for each bullet point. That's a general principle for disambiguation pages. More info here! --bonadea contributions talk 11:56, 23 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  VFD in A Series of Unfortunate Events
Talk:Flintlock mechanism

message: It looks like the merge to Flintlock has been proposed for a long time (since 2009).  Is there no objection to it? Doniasis (talk) 22:04, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The argument to keep the pages separate is located on the Flintlock talk page, and seems to indicate that the two pages should remain separate.Doniasis (talk) 22:08, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  I've removed the merge tag, if there are no objections. Doniasis (talk) 22:11, 16 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: The difference between the doglock and the 'true flintlock' is the internal half-cock sear in the latter, this is true. However, I would class the doglock as a type of flintlock, as would many others. The really important development of the flintlock over the earlier snaphaunce lock is the integration of the striking plate and pan cover into a single frizzen. That this is not mentioned in the article is a serious shortcoming. Urselius (talk) 09:28, 29 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strange omission in article 

message: There is a fundamental problem with this article. From first principles and the application of logic, any mechanism employing a flint to cause a spark is a "flintlock mechanism". The exact type of flintlock used on firearms in various regions differed, before becoming more-or-less uniform around 1720 - and there are exceptions to this. The snaphaunce, English lock, doglock, Scandinavian lock and miquelet lock are all types of flintlock, and they need to be mentioned here. At present the French or "true" flintlock, which superseded the other types (except for the miquelet in Spain) by about 1720, is the only type described. As it stands the article is most definitely not encyclopaedic. Urselius (talk) 17:36, 3 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Fundamental problem with the article

message: The definition of a flintlock includes the word hammer, but there is no hammer on a flintlock, it is a Cock, and then the definition of hammer supports this. Ron Geronimo (talk) 17:20, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: You are completely correct, the hammer did not feature in any gun mechanism until the percussion system was invented. It should be corrected. Urselius (talk) 20:07, 6 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction within Wekipedia
Talk:Scripophily

message: Beautiful samples of scripophily item at http: //www.scripophily.it
Following copyright notice moved here from User:68.100.196.102's edit of 22:46, May 9, 2004:
: "The above history was prepared by Scripophily.com and Encyberpedia and is available with permission to the Wikipedia free encyclopedia."
::Under what license?  Can it be modified?  Reproduced?  This is unclear.  --ChrisRuvolo 00:14, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible image 

message: I've added this section to the main page, and moved these links here:
* - Italian virtual museum of Antique Stocks, Bonds, Certificates, Securities, Paper money, Manuscripts and other documents of historical value.
*Scripophily Shows
If you'd like to add them back in per Wikipedia:External links please discuss it here first. 
brenneman(t)(c) 13:36, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

message: I do not agree with Searchme who just deleted all external links I added a few hours ago: If I check the now remaining 8 links, 5 out of them are links to commercial sites of 4 dealers and 1 to a dealers' association.
I was many years a scripophily dealer, so commercial links are Ok to me, but only if non-commercial (and surely not less) interesting sites are linked too; therefore I re-added the 2 museum sites that have English pages (the one in Switzerland and the U.S. one).
I disagree too with the way some dealers were kicked out and some not - what criteria did you use doing this? If commercial links are Ok, then all links to scripophily dealer sites shall be Ok (surely and at least the ones that offer English pages). Therefore I ask that either all links to commercial sites are deleted or all links to commercial sites (at least the ones with English content) are allowed.
Kind regards,
Rico — Riconet  —Preceding undated comment added 23:49, November 9, 2008 (UTC).
:I do apologize. I did it in such a rush, I didn't even look at the sites.  I've reviewed them and believe I got all the commercial sites, which there should be no commercial ones anyways.  Feel free to add more comments here, Thanks.  Joe I 04:50, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removal of links
Talk:Slip knot

message: bowline links here as part of directions on how to tie it "lighting fast". Unfortunately, this redirects to knot, which doesn't seem to have directions on how to tie a slip knot. *sigh* --Johnleemk 10:34, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  (Rdr from bowline) 

message: The link to Rolling hitch as an example of a knot that slides along the middle of another rope is incorrect. Rolling hitches are tied specifically not to slide, but to grip. -BonsaiViking 22:46, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Rolling hitch]] 

message: The attached photo was of a slipknot album..and not a slipknot. The admins need to watch this page for regular cases of minor vandalism like this.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dewdude (talk • contribs) 22:22, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Bad photo

message: 'Running Knot' links here but there is no information in this article pertaining to running knots. I know that a running knot is a series of slipknots used to shorten rope or line but this is a bad redirect, it is almost completely irrelevent.66.170.42.236 (talk) 00:32, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Running Knot 

message: The usage and primary topic of slipknot is under discussion, see talk:Slipknot (band) -- 70.51.45.100 (talk) 06:40, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: "Slipknot"

message: The usage and primary topic of  is under discussion, see Talk:SlipKnot (web browser) -- 70.51.46.195 (talk) 05:29, 24 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: "SlipKnot"

message: What makes this a stopper knot? On reading the definition of stopper knot, a slip knot in no way serves the function of a stopper knot. Kortoso  (talk) 13:11, 6 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stopper knot?
Talk:Traffic psychology

message: This has the look of a cut-and-paste from a finished document, but searches on Google and Amazon have failed to find any matches with existing works, so I'm leaving this here for now on the assumption that this is the poster's own work. -- The Anome 10:53, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, The Anome! I actually did find this "article" from another source from a Google search. It was all basically copied and pasted. In my second sandbox, I am attempting to re-do the entire article as part of my senior lab project.S. Henry (talk) 14:38, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

text: --141.30.182.42 08:16, 16 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments in 2004 and 2006

message: The text below is copied from Lova Falk's talk page in order to keep discussions about this article in one place: 
Good morning, Lova Falk!
I guess I should clarify that I didn't intend to use just "my own words" to re-do the Traffic Psychology article in my sandbox2. The original article is taken completely from here: http://vplno1.vkw.tu-dresden.de/psycho/download/ttp3_0.pdf
I did not want to edit a plagiarized article, so I thought wiping the slate clean (just for my sandbox and grade) would be best for now. I sent my sandbox 2 link to the group that is working on the same article to get their input. I also spoke with my professor who told me to go ahead with what I am doing since I have been working with the article for weeks now.
I intend to use the article linked above, but not verbatim. Any more input?
Thanks!S. Henry (talk) 14:10, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Good evening Stephanie! I had no idea such a great part of our article was plagiarized. Good catch! I'll wipe those parts out for you, so you can start more or less from scratch. Lova Falk talk 17:26, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

text: PS I did check who copied from whom, and when looking at the history of Traffic psychology, the very first edit is (apart from three words) literally the same as the pdf. If the edit window is opened, it is clear that the whole article simply is copied into Wikipedia. Lova Falk talk 17:43, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

text: Good afternoon wiki Community. I just added an edit of behavior and accident research. You can see my notes on my edit post. Thanks
Bcuad21:  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bcuad21 (talk • contribs) 20:54, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyright violation

message: This part had become too big for the article, so I moved it here. Lova Falk talk 17:56, 12 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Further reading subsections 

message: Hi, Giribarne and ariera90!
I have been approved to upload my modifications (which were to the first version of the article), but see that you guys have already uploaded your own. I will try my best to fit in the information I have into what you guys already have.
S. Henry (talk) 13:15, 4 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two assignment modifications
Talk:Secretariat

message: If this is a disambiguation page, then Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages) should apply.  I quote from the opening paragraphs of the MoS:
:Disambiguation pages ("dab pages") are non-article pages, in the article namespace, similar to redirect pages. Disambiguation pages are solely intended to allow the user to choose from a list of Wikipedia articles, usually when searching for a term that is ambiguous.
:This style guideline is intended to make the process more efficient, by giving disambiguation pages a consistent look and by avoiding distracting information, such as extraneous links (internal or external). The pages should contain only disambiguation content, whether or not the page title contains the word (disambiguation). This guideline does not apply to any articles that are primary topics, even if the articles contain a "see also" notice or the like.
--rogerd (talk) 20:56, 5 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this an article or a disambiguation page?
Talk:Rijswijk

message: I'm wondering if this article should really have the title Rijswijk. I live nearby to it at the moment, and in English everyone seems to refer to it as Rijswijk, but the Treaty of Ryswick, seems to indicate that the town does actually have an English name. If this is the case, and since this is the English version of Wikipedia, should the article be renamed to Ryswick, much like we have Flushing for Vlissingen and The Hague for Den Haag?
On the one hand the treaty is over 300 years old; on the other hand the Dutch people in the town may not know (fairly enough) that there is an old English name for their town. Suggestions welcome. Alexd 11:31, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: ============
Talk:Free as in beer

message: I reverted the Wikilink to Free as in speech because it's just a redirect back to this page, as is Free as in freedom. Chris 01:24, 3 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Free as in speech 

message: I came here in high hopes of finding free beer and it turns out its just a stupid article about free beer, not actual free beer. --66.120.157.194 03:43, 15 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I can image your disappointment when you reached the Sexual intercourse page... --Yoghurt 16:08, 30 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  what a letdown
Talk:Catch-all party

message: Article listed on Wikipedia:Votes for deletion Apr 15 to Apr 20 2004, consensus was to keep.  Discussion:
* Far too vague and indefinite to ever amount to anything, not unless the name means anything to someone out there. ping 10:26, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Oliver Lieb

message: Should we have a disambiguation note for 'LSG', the urban R&B group? (since this page re-directs from 'L.S.G.') I'm not sure how to do this. Earthlyreason 14:19, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: The other LSG group

message: Because, frankly, the main usage of this term is acronymic for 'shit out of luck', originally coined by George Carlin (part of the acronym SOL and JWF - jolly well fucked). If I don't really hear some substantial feedback, I'm going to remove the redirect and square away the proper usage. - Jack Sebastian (talk) 14:01, 6 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can someone provide a citation for the acronymic use of S.O.L. for Lieb?
Template talk:States of Mexico

message: I think this msg is way too big. I preffer the old version, we can include the flag, but a smaller one. Ruiz 15:17, 15 Apr 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't see it on Requested Moves. Anyway, why would you want to move a template? It's already in place in the only 30-odd articles where it's ever going to be used. –Hajor 18:25, 4 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I did not knew that it also has to be listed there. I saught to have read somewhere I can either do it here or there. 30 is not that many, I can change it if you want. It is better to have a standard form. Tobias Conradi 23:24, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)