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Talk:The Time Machine

message: Isn't that usually just called fanfiction? — DanielLC 20:06, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Not necessarily, and you could have looked up fan fiction, sequel, and prequel yourself instead of posting here.—Anita5192 (talk) 20:17, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: "Fan fiction or fanfiction (also abbreviated to fan fic, fanfic, fic or ff) is fictional writing written by fans, commonly of an existing work of fiction. The author uses copyrighted characters, settings, or other intellectual properties from the original creator(s) as a basis for their writing." So, why exactly isn't this fanfiction? — Preceding unsigned comment added by DanielLC (talk • contribs) 05:12, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Please sign your name on talk pages using four tildes (~~~~); this will automatically produce your name and the date.—Anita5192 (talk) 16:36, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sequels by other authors 

message: The name Eloi is the Hebrew plural for Elohim, or lesser gods, in the Old Testament. No. Elohim is the name translated "God"; the "lesser gods" are called in Hebrew elim. Manfariel (talk) 23:56, 26 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Can I update this section? While this is what the cited source says, the cited author is talking out of his ass. I can come up with a dozen sources on Hebrew showing this is complete nonsense. Elohim does not mean “lesser god” Heymisterscott (talk) 03:04, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: If you cite reliable sources, you can update it.—Anita5192 (talk) 03:14, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eloi - Elohim 

message: not dubious. hobbits are known as lesser gods too. 199.7.158.55 (talk) 04:30, 18 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  no 

message: "the only sequel to Mr. Pal's classic film"
Is it ok to call something a "classic" as a factual statement in an encyclopedia? Isn't it more of a subjective thing rather than saying "it is widely regarded as a classic"? Is it against NPOV? I'm asking out of curiosity. Dornwald (talk) 02:57, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Classic"
Talk:The Wealth of Nations

message: There's a sentence fragment in this passage:
"The Radical MP Richard Cobden as a young man studied The Wealth of Nations; his copy is still in the library of his home at Dunford House and there are lively marginal notes on the places where Smith condemns British colonial policy. There are none on the passage about the invisible hand.[36]  campaigned for free trade in his agitation against the Corn Laws."
Somebody with a better notion of what this passage is intended to say should probably clean it up.
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.148.241.222 (talk) 4:32, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Richard Cobden passage
Talk:Constitution of the United States

message: You are invited to join the discussion at WT:MOS § Founding Fathers of the United States on whether the expression "founding fathers" should be in lower or upper case. Thanks. Allreet (talk) 22:30, 15 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion at [[:WT:MOSCAPS#Founding Fathers of the United States|WT:MOSCAPS §&nbsp;Founding Fathers of the United States]] 

message: This discussion affects this page and may be of interest to topic editors. It concerns the navbox . Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 13:50, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2024 April 3#Template:Historical American Documents]]

message: (U.S. government sources
The Constitution of the United States Explained, U.S. Congress: legal analysis and interpretation based primarily on Supreme Court case law) Change | https://www.congress.gov/constitution-annotated/ | with | https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/ |
Because the link is dead, the second one is very good and is the new one. 190.141.81.136 (talk) 13:34, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: --Ferien (talk) 15:41, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 20 April 2024 

message: 'was became operational' isn't proper. Who writes this stuff? 100.15.215.166 (talk) 22:30, 24 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Now corrected. Dhtwiki (talk) 02:56, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Obvious grammatical error
Talk:Uncertainty principle

message: The last phrase of this section says "this experiment was influenced the formulation of the EPR paradox".  Either "was" should be removed or "by" added before "the".  Which? Jafaucett (talk) 23:25, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks I fixed it up, please review. Johnjbarton (talk) 02:36, 9 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Popper's criticism section
Talk:Útgarðar

message: Is this correct? I always thought that the giants' world was Jotunheim and that Utgard is the capital city thereof? I may be wrong of course. sjc
Could use some looking into. I'll put it into the "things to do" basket. If you find something conclusive, edit verbosely please :-). Anders Torlind
After some brief fact-finding i conclude that you are absolutely correct. I'll change the entry accordingly.
Yes; but I can see how the confusion arose, with all the other -gards being the homelands of the relevant folk. sjc
Right O. Ive put a little disclaimer on the pages in any case. Let's see if some guru pops out of the woodworks. Anders Torlind
Here's some secondary source information: Snorri Sturlusson in the Gylfaginning: "[..]And you do not have very far to go on to the castle called Utgard.[..]" sjc
Blah! Darn those oral traditions. Lets bear with the disclaimer a couple of days and see if anuthing else pops out. If not, the current version remains without the disclaimer. Ok? Btw, could you do a piece on Norse Mythology and its spread across the nordic countries, displacing the Nerthus cult? I simply don't know enough to do it :-) --Anders Torlind
Yes, but I'd have to do a fair bit of research to make it worthwhile. Let me see what I can round up in the way of resources before I commit myself. sjc
I think we can safely say that Jotunheim and Utgard are not coterminous. There seem to be many references to the citadel-like nature of Utgard and to the land of Jotunheim, and very few the other way around. sjc
Jutenheim is the land of the giants, Utgard is the stronghold. Gelsamel
Please reread the main entry. It does not explain what Útgarðar is at all.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.1.135.91 (talk) 16:50, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: We really need to figure this out, otherwise the pages on the worlds are possibly literated with misinformation. Is it another name for Jötunheimr or just the name of Utgarða-Loki's castle/stronghold? How many places is Útgarð/Útgarðar mentioned outside of Gylfaginning? In actual Old Norse sources? What about the Icelandic sagas? Although I'd trust them less since they came during Christinization. But so did the Prose Edda, although it was largely based on much older material, including the orally transfered skaldic poems, and Eddic poems. Here in Denmark many people also think Utgarð is the main world of the jötnar. Or that it is somehow a collection of several "worlds" or "realms", of different jötnar, but most people still say just "Jötunheimr", and a few does say the other name is for the stronghold. Anyway, let's do this! Now or soon. --Luka1184 (talk) 18:15, 22 August 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I just checked, and from what I see, there is *not*. This page needs to be changed. It's only one place, and that place is Útgarða-Loki's stronghold. --Luka1184 (talk) 00:38, 23 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments
Talk:United States Declaration of Independence

message: This discussion affects this page and may be of interest to topic editors. It concerns the navbox . Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 13:52, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2024 April 3#Template:Historical American Documents]]

message: Websites for the government of the United States tend to say that the United States' founding documents consists of The Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, and Bill of Rights. Other internet searches also say that there are "founding documents" for the United States but they do not say there is "the founding document" for this country. I have not yet found a source that says that the Declaration of Independence is the founding document of the United States. One way around this inconsistency is to say in the Wikipedia article something like: "This founding document" in referring to the Declaration of Independence. KentLStevens (talk) 02:02, 19 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  is the founding document of the United States
Talk:Rapid transit/Archive 1

message: I am bothered by the line that says that the tunnels are sealed from groundwater by concrete. Very bothered. As anyone with construction experience would know concrete is porous and water passes right through it, this is not a defficiency of concrete, its a strength, since water makes concrete (a lot) harder. What I am trying to say here is that while tunnels are often lined with concrete, concrete itself can't seal against water the concrete is primarily structural.. even though it does stop some water. 
For any one out there about to bring up a dam, take this into account: Concrete lining a metro tunnel is probably no more that 40-50 cm (probably less, this is an estimate, im not an expert). Dams are way thicker, the water that seeps through is a neglible ammount. They are probably made of a special kind of concrete anyways. 
point being, can anyone fix that line? i would have done it myself.. but i do not know what to say.. i'll say this though concrete is mostly structural, while it does stop some ground water from seeping in, thats not its porpouse, if you made a bucket out of concrete and filled it, the next day it would probably be empty. Think of it as a paper water cone.. yeah it works as a cup for a couple of minutes, but would you ever considering using it as a long-term cup?
Lightning 17:34, 30 Jul 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Misc.

message: This paragraph appears in the article:
:In 1850 the Long Island Rail Road bricked over the Atlantic Avenue Tunnel (which had been an open cut), carrying its line for about 500 m under the streets of Brooklyn (now part of New York City). Although sometimes called the "world's oldest subway tunnel", this had no stations and was used for long-distance as well as suburban trains.
Does anyone know when the tunnels on the New York and Harlem Railroad were made tunnels (if they were open cuts)? --SPUI (talk) 00:24, 9 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: First underground street railroad

message: In systems where the tracks don't go overground, how do the trains actually get placed underground? Scott Gall 11:08, 2005 Apr 17 (UTC)
:Not sure in general. On the BMT 14th Street-Eastern District Line in New York City, when they had only built part of it, they built a ramp to the surface connecting to a line of the Long Island Rail Road. There always has to be a yard and shops for the system, so it's probably likely that access will be made there. --SPUI (talk) 11:25, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The Waterloo & City Line of the London Underground used to have a special hoist to the mainline tracks at Waterloo but now uses a crane on the road outside the station to lift rolling stock up a shaft from the underground depot. The original City & South London Railway (now part of the Northern Line) had a steep incline at Stockwell to haul stock up to (and lower it down from) a surface depot by cable, though this has been out of use for many decades. The Glasgow Subway apparently used to use a crane but now has a track connection to a surface depot. --rbrwr± 13:08, 17 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: How do the trains get underground?
Talk:University of Michigan

message: Any number of comparable higher ed articles do without all these fotos. There would be no end to it, if we continue this way, and the photos are easy enough to access just be hovering the mouse over the linked names. I suggest deleting the pix here. --Melchior2006 (talk) 06:59, 22 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too many pix of alumni 

message: Can anyone verify whether the claim in a previous version of this article seen here, that Michigan "was the first U.S. modern university based on the European model" is true? The claim was uncited, so I removed it, however it seems like it was probably taken from the Prussian education system article itself, which speaks about Michigan in the United States section. The source provided there was in German, so I couldn't verify it's relevance for this article myself, and I found very few mentions of this in English sources. Regardless of the validity of the claim, I don't think it's really needed in the introduction, especially as the second sentence of the article, but if anyone here is an expert on the history of education in the United States and would like to weigh in on this, would be interested in more input.  Alphaw00lf2000 (talk) 16:08, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Michigan's link to the Prussian system of education 

message: That is not how figures are posted, in three year blocks. Summerdays1 (talk) 22:08, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: What are you talking about? Please stop posting vague, contextless statement in Talk pages. ElKevbo (talk) 00:19, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Figure
Talk:Ursula K. Le Guin

message: Recent NYT article (8/17/2023), entitled , seems relevant - however - ref added recently,  but then reverted.
QUESTION: Is the article reference worth adding somewhere in the main article? - or not? - Comments Welcome - in any case - Stay Safe and Healhty !! - Drbogdan (talk) 21:40, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: @Drbogdan, is there any new information in the NYT article that can be used to expand the article? Is there any unsourced information in the body of this article that the NYT article would support, where citing it would make sense? Schazjmd (talk) 21:59, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  (and others) - Thank You for your comments - and question(s) - actually, I'm very new to this WikiArticle and was hoping those more familiar with the article could better answer your question(s) - for my part - it's *entirely* ok with me either way - if there is a place in the article for the ref, then perhaps the ref should be added; if there is not a place, then the ref should not be added - if interested (and fwiw), should note that my own related NYT comments were recently published along with the NYT article - in any case - hope this helps in some way - Thanks again for your comments and all - and - Stay Safe and Healthy !! - Drbogdan (talk) 23:48, 18 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I just read the article, and I don't believe there is any new information in it; it's a retrospective of her most famous works, but dozens (if not hundreds) of articles of this sort exist. As they don't go into detail into any particular aspect of either her writing or her personal life, it's usually the case that they do not provide new information. Vanamonde (Talk) 00:48, 19 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relevant NYT Article (8/17/2023) Worth Adding - or Not? 

message: She and many other scifi authors are mentioned in the videogame Stellaris, should this be included in the article? https://stellaris.paradoxwikis.com/Patch_2.2  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2806:267:7400:871A:2046:8B2E:1001:F6F6 (talk) 17:38, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think being mentioned in a videogame is significant to her biography. Schazjmd (talk) 18:38, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stellaris
Talk:USS Liberty incident

message: I was searching for the "Kill rebels, behead rebels" copypasta meme, and this was, for some unknown reason, the 3rd result. I suspect this page has been covertly vandalised so it would appear when you search that (the meme originated from a racist 4chan post).  BonkeySmoke (talk) 12:37, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism? 

message: "It was later reported, based on information from IDF sources, that the over-flights were coincidental, and that the aircraft were hunting for Egyptian submarines that had been spotted near the coast."  Did Egypt have submarines in 1967?  I think this claim needs a citation. 2601:147:4700:7BD0:1747:553F:3078:956A (talk) 00:04, 4 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Egyptian Submarines
Talk:Conservative Party (UK)

message: The Conservative Party cannot, in recent years, be considered 'centre right'. Although I consider much of their policies to be far right, they should at the very least be described as right wing. 78.151.204.254 (talk) 12:18, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: There's been extensive discussion on this in the past, and the right-wing label has been included.  — Czello (music) 12:21, 1 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 1 March 2024 

message: The CP is one of THREE, not two main parties. --95.24.76.0 (talk) 14:45, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: This sounds like it would give disproportionate weight to one of the other parties; based on this edit, I assume you mean the Lib Dems. In which case I'd say, no – there are two main parties as parliamentary seats are what count. — Czello (music) 14:51, 8 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  One of three 

message: Wouldn't it be time to write 'was'? Regards, ULF 2001:4C80:40:493:9AEE:CBFF:FEE7:FBAD (talk) 09:08, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: — Czello (music) 09:11, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Within the EU, the UK is one of the largest recipients of research funding in the European Union 

message: "According to an estimation of the right-wing Bow Group think-tank, in 2013 the Conservative Party lost 35–40% of its membership due to the Same Sex Marriage Bill."
This is a baseless assertion. It should be deleted.
Citation link is dead, and Bow Group provides no data to ground this claim. "Evidence" comes from claimed "canvassing" of 100 local associations, typically one per constituency.  UK has over 600 constituencies.
Same group found that average age of Conservative Party members is 72.
If not deleted, it should be contextualized:
"The right-wing Bow Group think tank claimed the Conservative Party lost 35–40% of its membership due to the Same Sex Marriage Bill in 2013. It based the claim on a canvassing of a fraction of local associations; it did not conduct a poll.  The same group stated in 2017 that the average age of a Conservative Party member may be 72."
https://www.bowgroup.org/the-bow-group-finds-that-the-average-age-of-a-conservative-party-member-is-72/ 108.51.52.223 (talk) 13:01, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marriage equality
Talk:United States Military Academy

message: I see nothing wrong with the length of the lead, given the scope the of the article. Absent specific concerns raised on the talk page, I am removing the tag about the long lead. –Zfish118⋉talk  –Zfish118⋉talk 21:03, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: It came back, so I've removed it again. BilCat (talk) 02:06, 21 June 2023 (UTC)

text: You added back the second time, so would you like to explain your specific concerns? Thanks. BilCat (talk) 02:12, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, lede looks good. I did some trimming previously and I think I might have left the tag there. GuardianH (talk) 13:14, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Length of lead 

message: The first photo is lame. Get a better one. First of all of the 3 POLITICIANS pictured, only one "served" in the Army (arguably - Hobson served in the National Guard, I can't speculate whether is was to avoid the Draft or not...) They are totally irrelevant and yet are the main focus of the picture. Of the actual military, only the Commandant is named - none of the cadets are identified - neither by rank nor name.Surely, there are plenty of public domain photographs that better depict the undergraduates at West Point. (Hint: it's not just some posers in Dress Uniform).40.142.183.146 (talk) 20:16, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Hobson served in the Ohio Air National Guard from 1958 to 1963. This would have been before it was fashionable to avoid the draft. As for National Guard slots, someone must fill those positions because the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard of each state is a significant part of the reserve component of the Army and the Air Force. The picture in question serves to exhibit the uniforms of the senior leadership of the Corps of Cadets. Nothing wrong with that in my opinion. The Congress members are all serving on the Armed Services Committee. No one is a "poser" in the picture.Cuprum17 (talk) 21:15, 12 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photograph 

message: "As all cadets are commissioned as second lieutenants upon graduation". This is presumably true only of cadets who are US citizens, and not of the foreigners who attend. If that is, right, this sentence should be qualified.Bill (talk) 23:02, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Commissions

message: The grammar on the business leaders section is WILD
--— Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:647:4B81:15B0:E1B2:BDDC:73EC:D511 (talk) 04:33, 13 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Business leaders
Talk:Umayyad Caliphate

message: The preview you can see when you hover over a link is nice with the image and all, but this page has the image just a plain white flag. It makes it seem like the image isn't loading. Maybe it should be replaced with the Umayyad Dynasty's map instead? 208.66.243.66 (talk) 13:05, 17 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change Preview Image on Links to this Page 

message: I am not sure if this is universal, but the flag appears as a green banner with a crescent and star, a flag which as far as I know has no historical usage. Spagheditor (talk) 10:26, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Where are you seeing this? Vif12vf/Tiberius (talk) 14:31, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: In the info box, over the map is a flag. Normally this is white but for some reason it is showing a green flag with a diagonal crescent and star Spagheditor (talk) 00:53, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The current flag in the infobox is white. Someone did change it on Commons for the flag that you're describing, but that was three weeks ago. Maybe you still have a cached copy of it. M.Bitton (talk) 02:00, 30 October 2022 (UTC)

text: I just fixed the flag back to the White Standard, what you are describing appeared for me as well in the .svg version. The image used has been switched to the .png format and should no longer experience any errors. Praxeria (talk) 21:47, 11 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: the flag is now a Rainbow for some reason. This needs to be changed back Igrokugrok (talk) 14:15, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flag? 

message: It is not true that the Zakat, the Obligatory or Mandatory charity ordained unto Muslims, by both the Qur'an and the Sunna, was used exclusively for the welfare of born Muslims and Muslim converts or the Mu'alafs. Since the rule of the second Califah, Omar ibnul Khattaab, he has established Baitul Maal, the House of Treasury, formed essentially of the  Zakat, collected from those Muslims who according to Islamic legislation are considered affording to its paying, but also of the booty and the Jizyah paid by the non Muslims living under the protection of the Islamic state. Omar, gave orders that among the funds of the House of Treasury, are pensions that are to be paid for elderly retired non Muslims who used to pay the Jizyah earlier in their active years of their youth. 102.185.137.255 (talk) 00:23, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the comment on the Bayt al-mal setup. Inclusion will require sources though. Iskandar323 (talk) 06:16, 28 February 2023 (UTC)

text: It shouldn't be that difficult to source as this is a known fact, though I suggest you start by improving the Bayt al-mal article first. Here are some sources that could potentially help. M.Bitton (talk) 13:24, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zakat and The House of Treasury