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Talk:Marsaglia polar method

message: This page calls the method the "Marsaglia polar method" without offering any justification. I was worried about that and did a little research; it looks to me as if it *is* correct to credit it to Marsaglia; here are some notes.
According to Box-Muller transform, the method is attributed to Marsaglia by Devroye's book cited there. Chapter 5 of that book does indeed say that the method is due to Marsaglia (page 236, first line) but gives no citation. One of that book's references is to a paper by Marsaglia and Bray in SIAM Review 6 (1964) called "A convenient method for generating normal random variables". That's about an entirely different method, but it mentions the polar rejection method in passing on the first page. (Actually, the entirely different method uses the rejection method as a fallback in rare cases.)
In the references of Ziggurat algorithm there's a paper from ACM Computing Surveys 39 (2007) called "Gaussian random number generators" which attributes the method to Knop with a date of 1969. Seems like Marsaglia (and Bray?) has priority. Curiously, the ACMCS paper goes on to discuss the Marsaglia-Bray paper immediately after crediting someone else with an algorithm found in that very paper five years earlier!
I don't know whether the paper by Marsaglia and Bray is the first appearance of this algorithm in the literature. Its common attribution to Marsaglia alone suggests that perhaps it isn't.
Gareth McCaughan (talk) 18:10, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Credit

message: The C code seems to contain some errors. It scales U and V by the variance (standard deviation squared), whereas it should scale U and V by the standard deviation, right? That's what the Java code does. Also, why is a pointer to the variance being passed? Also, are the bool and qreal datatypes part of standard C? I'm happy to fix these problems, but I wanted to make sure that they are problems. Mgnbar (talk) 21:41, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Errors in C code?
Talk:Tom Clancy's EndWar (novel)

message: This page is horribly written.
--Phph
This book is horribly written.
--IMO68.148.123.76 (talk) 10:41, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: article

message: I added a short section on the book's storyline differences with the video game. The information from the video game was taken directly from in-game cut scenes and dialogue and thus I have no source to put on the page.66.41.156.50 (talk) 01:32, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: LOL I can't stop laughing...!Jersey John (talk) 10:46, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added storyline conflictions with video game. 

message: This article reads terribly, and probably should be rewritten entirely.  I am unable to determine what most of the article is talking about due to the poor grammar and never read the book, or I would do it myself.  Hopefully someone who has read the book can take the time to repair the article, because in it's current state it may as well be marked for deletion. Iarann (talk) 20:44, 27 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Added cleanup template 

message: This page should be merged into an Tom Clancy's EndWar (series) article, with summaries from the games. 76.66.198.128 (talk) 04:33, 21 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: PROD

message: I am currently in the process of trying to put together a decent article for this book including a cast, plot, and what reception I can find and accurately site. It is taking a while because I need to re-read the book for accuracy. One thing I question though is the validity of the Notability tag. I am not saying this is a widely popular book but I do feel that technicaly few if any of the Tom Clany books written by "David Michaels" fit this criteria.
JWoods86 (talk) 19:02, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: First update complete. Added a bit more detail to the main heading of the page, added the back cover synopsis, and added a cast of characters list. JWoods86 (talk) 03:48, 9 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Working
Talk:Operation Countryman

message: In 1979, The Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said:
:""No action will be taken against any police officer of the Metropolitan Police Force as a result of the (Operation Countryman) enquiry because to do so would damage the morale of the Metropolitan Police Force" http://www.portia.org/chapter06/police.html''
Source? Googling  finds this quote solely on a handful of polemical websites. Do we have any official/news reportage? 86.139.249.49 (talk) 18:19, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Thatcher quote

message: Much of the investigation's evidence was obtained by police officers going undercover as police officers.
:What does this mean? Valetude (talk) 17:43, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: "It's the way they tell em". Yeah, I wondered that too. Odd phrasing. ——SN54129 16:34, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: It means the following:  The investigators were police officers, just like the people they were investigating.  Quit a lot of evidence was collected by investigators who posed as normal police officers.  They pretended they were investigating normal crimes. Toddy1 (talk) 17:23, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Cheers , you're probably right, and it's certainly clearer. Unfortunatey it's still  for now... :) ——SN54129 17:46, 7 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarify, please 

message: This was a team of Met detectives based at Swanley in Kent overseen by DCI Snape and was tasked to arrest the Chainsaw gang led by career criminal Jimmy MOODY who attacked Security Express cash in transit vans, usually on a Thursday, and used petrol driven chainsaws to enter the vans and successfully steal £2m. Many of the villians were arrested, charged and sentenced but serious allegations against the detectives of planting or stealing evidence and fabricating interview records. 2A02:C7E:317D:F200:91C9:E4B9:8446:7D42 (talk) 17:53, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Operation Ohio  

message: Ch Supt Alan Longhurst and Supt Bernie Davis working at Scotland Yard under Cmmder Mark Taylor and assisted by D/Sgt Joe Glass "investigated" the complaints against the Ohio Detectives but conveniently found they were all unsubstantiated... 2A02:C7E:317D:F200:91C9:E4B9:8446:7D42 (talk) 17:59, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  CIB LINE OF DUTY
Talk:Knowledge mobilization

message: Colleagues, Thanks for reading and contributing to this KM wiki.  I have just made some small edits and additions and I have started this talk page.  I am interested in seeing who is visiting and using this page.  If you wish please leave your name, organizaiton and contact information (if desired) so we can learn who is part of our growing KMb family.
David Phipps,
York University,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada,
dphipps@yorku.ca
Davidphipps (talk) 18:20, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

message: *Propose merge. The article states that Knowledge mobilization is a synonym for knowledge transfer, therefore it should be merged into that article. I don't think that this article contributes a whole lot, except that the synonym exists and is preferred by a major research organisation in Canada. Itsmejudith (talk) 11:02, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Oppose merge. They are fundamentally different and deserve to have their own pages, as the abbove users have pointed out.Beefcake6412 (talk) 18:16, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge discussion 
Talk:Southwest Cay incident

message: This is a copy/paste from Spratly Islands#Tabular listing of features showing country possessions and is very similar to Southwest Cay. Most of the material should be in one place, not three places, with perhaps a short summary in the Spratly Islands article. Sbowers3 (talk) 18:27, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I went ahead and merged this into Southwest Cay. At some time, the Spratly Islands#Tabular listing of features showing country possessions article should be edited with a brief sumary. Sbowers3 (talk) 19:30, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge?
Talk:Wadi al-Na'am

message: The above comments are unclear: Could someone please explain what they feel needs to be added to this page? Refcahman (talk) 01:49, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

message: I have just noticed that the Bustan links are broken as the website has recently changed. please do not delete the citations - I will try to get them updated as soon as I can (though it may be a short while). Thanks. LamaLoLeshLa (talk) 18:31, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Bustan
Talk:Me Gustas Tú (Manu Chao song)

message: And what kinda language is that? Sounds Spanish, right? D@rk talk 18:41, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

message: In the sentence «"Me Gustas Tú" means "I like you" despite the conjugation of the verb gustar for "tu."», what does “despite etc.” mean? I am correcting to just «"Me Gustas Tú" means "I like you"», which is the only meaningful part of the remark. Goochelaar (talk) 15:21, 13 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unclear sentence 

message: I've noticed that the "u" in "Tú" does not appear to have an acute, instead labeled as "Tu" without an acute. Such examples are the cover art for the single, official certification and record chart websites, and official releases don't label it as "Tú". In major music platforms, Apple music labels it as both "Me Gustas Tu" and "Tú", but Spotify only uses "Me Gustas Tu" without the acute. This article should obviously be renamed to the correct title "Me Gustas Tu".  Spinmeisters (talk) 22:42, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Me Gustas Tú or Me Gustas Tu
Talk:Planet 51

message: Too much trivia on the cultural references section? Some of them are very subtle and probably just a coincidence - Miaire (talk) 15:17, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I assumed it was a reference to the lunar excursion module. Spiffy sperry (talk) 00:53, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I checked on one of those characters like lem, skiff, eckle, mailman and others and they are possibly shaped like a fraggle to me because of what they look like. I'm sure those look like something else on other videos and movies.--HappyLogolover2011 (talk) 23:01, 26 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Green people in Planet 51 
Talk:University of Santo Tomas College of Commerce

message: Material not taken from the mentioned source and subpages has been placed at Talk:University of Santo Tomas College of Commerce/Temp with credit to authorship in the edit summary, including a reference back to University of Santo Tomas Faculty of Arts and Letters, from which some material was drawn verbatim, to satisfy GFDL. --Moonriddengirl (talk) 18:47, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Non-infringing content
Talk:Bowes railway station

message: The following coordinate fixes are needed for Bowes railway station. The placemarker for it is about 800 feet too far south. The marker should be at: 54°31'10.87"N 2° 0'27.13"W Thanks
—RThompson82 (talk) 02:39, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: . Thanks for pointing out the error. Deor (talk) 05:05, 15 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coordinate error 
Talk:USS Vernon County

message: DANFS has a large history on this ship @  --Brad (talk) 18:55, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: sources
Talk:Abu Laith al-Libi

message: The BBC citation of al-Libi being born in 1941 has to be completely wrong.  Video screen captures of him in a television interview, dated April 2007, show the smooth-skinned face of a young man.  If he had been born in 1941, he'd have been 66 in 2007.  Age 41 in 2008 seems more likely.  Therefore, he must have been born about 1967. —QuicksilverT @ 03:15, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: See this one: edition.cnn.com/2008/US/01/31/alqaeda.death/ —QuicksilverT @ 03:28, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, that was just the first thing I found before the DIA info that he was 41. Joshdboz (talk) 12:02, 1 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birth date 
Talk:Scissurella stellae

message: This article was based on Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1. It has been revised on this date to eliminate a probable copyright violation of that book. Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. (For background on this situation, please see the related administrator's noticeboard discussion.) Thank you.  ----Anna Frodesiak (talk) 01:05, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem removed
Talk:Scissurella prendrevillei

message: This article was based on Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 . It has been revised on this date to eliminate a probable copyright violation of that book. Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. (For background on this situation, please see the related administrator's noticeboard discussion.) Thank you.  ----Anna Frodesiak (talk) 01:05, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem removed
Talk:37th Airlift Squadron

message: 20 June 71. I saw 63-870 and 63-874 C-130E's with tailcode LN and squadron markings.
Probably 37TAS was then stationed at RAF Lakenheath?
Kr, Jim 2A02:A446:E23D:1:9DD0:C0DA:4950:8E80 (talk) 18:54, 3 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lineage
Talk:Scissurella manawatawhia

message: This article was based on Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 . It has been revised on this date to eliminate a probable copyright violation of that book. Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. (For background on this situation, please see the related administrator's noticeboard discussion.) Thank you.  ----Anna Frodesiak (talk) 01:05, 18 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem removed
Talk:Power good signal

message: The first sentence does not parse.  What is the subject?
What is the predicate?  Is this acceptable?  "A computer 
power supply provides a signal named Power-Good." 
Regards,      ... PeterEasthope (talk) 19:15, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: First Sentence

message: That coolmax blurb at the end of the article looks awfully beside-the-point for a statement going into detail on product model number.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.188.233.121 (talk) 00:59, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I changed that part of the article. --217.226.52.243 (talk) 23:48, 19 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Ad?
Talk:Lake Washington steamboats and ferries

message: Pretty redundant, no? SounderBruce 06:04, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[Lake Washington ferries]] 
Talk:Running Wild (1995 film)

message: An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect :Running Wild (1992 film) and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 December 2#Running Wild (1992 film) until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Rusalkii (talk) 23:27, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Running Wild (1992 film)" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:Dossin Great Lakes Museum

message: The reference [2] link to the Free Press has expired. Should this be referenced to the print version of the article, with the Newspaper and date?Annebethmi 19:27, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link Expired 

message: Text and references copied from William Edward Kapp to Dossin Great Lakes Museum.  See former article history for  list of contributors. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 10:38, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Attribution
Talk:Gearhart Mountain Wilderness

message: On May 5, 1945, in the only fatal attack of its kind during World War II, a Japanese balloon bomb exploded on Gearhart Mountain in Oregon, killing the pregnant wife of a minister and five children.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.197.31.11 (talk) 15:30, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trivia
Talk:The Bull's Eye (serial)

message: There currently is a "dense prose template" over the Reception section, which lists all of the censorship cuts required for each chapter of the film serial (with the exception of 12, which was not reported). This section records the amount of heavy censorship early 1920s American films were subject to. To clear up the issue identified by the template, I divided up the block of text by chapters. If you agree that this resolves the issue per Wikipedia editing standards, that it is no longer "dense prose," please remove the template. Deanlaw (talk) 21:49, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Dense prose template in Reception section
Talk:Australian Army Band Corps

message: Quote: All members of the corps are full-time musicians.  What about the reservist members of the Corps?--TinTin (talk) 06:23, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 
Talk:Sinezona

message: This article was based on the corresponding article in Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 , which is not compatibly licensed for Wikipedia. This article has been revised on this date as part of a large-scale project to remove infringement from these sources. Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use external websites as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously, and persistent violators will be blocked from editing. While we appreciate contributions, we must require all contributors to understand and comply with these policies. (For background on this situation, please see the related administrator's noticeboard discussion and the cleanup task force subpage.) Thank you.  --Invertzoo (talk) 22:10, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem removed
Talk:Lhamana

message: The statement in the last section about the complexities of lhamana people doesn't really clarify anything. Do lhamana people choose life/sexual partners of the same sex, switch back and forth depending on their current gender role, or what? StarHOG (Talk) 16:56, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the statements are clear. The identity is not based on sexual orientation / attraction / who their partner is / or even if they have a partner at all. The framing is within the particular cultural understanding of social and ceremonial roles held by the Zuni people. It involves cultural context that not everyone is going to understand. There's only so much we can do about this, because to some extent it involves cultural immersion that can't be replaced by reading an encyclopedia article (no matter how well we write it). Some of that information either isn't shared with those outside the culture, or may not make sense to cultural outsiders without that lived context. - CorbieVreccan ☊ ☼ 20:42, 1 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I have no problem with explaining something as if this was an encyclopedia, because it kinda is. And your explanation above is about 10 times better then what is currently in the article. And, forgive me for being culturally illiterate or insensitive, but I don't think it is too hard to state whether or not lhamana's engage in homosexual relationships when they are currently representing the opposite gender. StarHOG (Talk) 00:03, 2 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not LGBTQ
Talk:Osh-Tisch

message: A badé is not "male-assigned-at-birth," unless you count colonists "assigning" her to be male, which in the case of Osh-Tisch is long after birth. A badé is assigned to be a badé, as this was actually a part of Crow culture. 128.61.92.167 (talk) 22:34, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Male-assigned-at-birth" inaccurate 

message: Badé being a third gender / two-spirit role, I've removed the binary categories like "women in warfare." Those binaries are too simplistic for this topic. - CorbieV ☊ ☼ 21:17, 20 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Binary designations of woman/man also inaccurate

message: Why not add a photo? 76.190.213.189 (talk) 23:09, 25 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Photo
Talk:Criticisms of the declining quality of The Simpsons

message: plase dont deleate this page . if you think its nonesence change it but dont deleate this, i think its a usesful pageFW07 (talk) 19:52, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's an exact replica of the section from The Simpsons, why can't this just be mentioned there? -- Scorpion0422 19:52, 31 January 2008 (UTC)

text: And what would be the point of that.--Maitch (talk) 20:37, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This is a minor subject on The Simpsons page. It does not need its own article. All the content on this page is already included in The Simpsons - LinczoneTalk/Watch 21:20, 31 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I haven't viewed the original Simpsons article, but considering this article is such a short piece, surely these crictisms can be incorperated into the original? londonsista | Prod 21:44, 31 January 2008 (UTC)