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Talk:Northern lapwing

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thread_title:  Featured picture scheduled for POTD
Talk:Northern saw-whet owl

message: Some editing notes:
-I do not believe that mentioning the scientific description attribution to Rev Keen, belongs in the Description section. The description should be scientific in nature. The sentence could be placed in the leading paragraph. 
For instance: The scientific description of one of the sub-species of this owl is attributed to the Rev. John Henry Keen who was a missionary in Canada in 1896. 
Modified in the leading section as: Rev. John Henry Keen, a Canadian missionary, may have first described the northern saw-whet owl (Aegolius acadicus) as a small, native North American owl in 1896.
-I believe that some of the information in the article could have more reference. 
For instance, under the Description, “they are close…. with white spots,” would be more legitimate if a reference is provided, even if carried over from previous reference.
Generally, I believe that the article is unbiased and presents good information regarding the topic.
Balexa23 (talk) 02:49, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Initial Critique 

message: It feeds on Red squirrels? They life in Europe and the little fellow here is an American. Is this wrong?
--Stone (talk) 14:51, 19 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Red squirrel
Talk:Northern waterthrush

message: Image was a bird in a tree. I've swapped it for another image of the bird in a tree that's a bit higher resolution, but I think the ideal would probably be to have one showing it on the ground by water. Unfortunately, we don't have a great quality image like that that I'm seeing. Anyone should feel free to swap out the one I added or move it lower down if you see a good replacement. — Rhododendrites talk \\ 17:05, 28 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox image
Talk:Halyard

message: Useful, I was redirected here from jeer and now there's no mention of it. - So what are the jeers? please (from my pic they look like they might hold up the masts somehow).   Lucien86 (talk) 12:38, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Jeer

message: I've pulled this sentence:
"Today, polyester is most often used for all lines, but stainless steel or galvanized steel cables may still be seen in some older yachts, while lightweight carbon fiber cords is used for modern racing vessels."
Halliards (As I've always spelt it!) are made from lots of different things.  I've had personal experience of galvanised (but not for a long time) stainless steel (as I have on my dinghy, and so do many others) polyester (which is a PITA for racing, too stretchy) Kevlar (which is brittle, and tends to snap without warning, and doesn't like blocks) and Spectra/Dyneema HMPE.  I haven't seen carbon - big boats?  Isn't it a bit brittle, like Kevlar?  I don't think it's a good idea to list all those materials.
If people really think so at least get the grammar right (cord, not cords - and is that even the right word?)
Stainless is often used for dinghies, along with a rack - haul the sail up, hook the eye at the end of the steel into the right place for the black band, coil up the rope tail and you are away.
Number774 (talk) 20:23, 31 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Modern Materials?
Talk:GE 45-ton switcher

message: This locomotive's specific 45-ton weight was directly related to one of the efficiencies the new diesel locomotives offered compared to their steam counterparts, reduced labour intensity. In the 1940s, the steam to diesel transition was in its infancy in North America, and railroad unions were trying to protect the locomotive fireman jobs that were redundant with diesel units. One measure taken to this end was a stipulation that locomotives weighing 44 tons or more required a fireman in addition to an engineer.
Why would they make a 45-ton locomotive to skirt a 44-or-more-tons requirement? Shouldn't this be "more than 45 tons"? Perel 02:04, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weight and name 

message: I hereby challenge the unreferenced, extremely bizarre description of the alleged "electric variant" of the 45 tonner. That entire description is just too far out in left field to be reality.
I could understand;
*A DC, straight electric version, powered by overhead wire or 3rd rail, with a resistance type control.
*An AC Motor-generator version, with an AC synchronous motor turning a DC generator for traction power.
*A battery electric version, with a resistance type control, with the batteries charged by any combination of a Diesel engine, 3rd rail or overhead wire, and the traction motors powered directly by the batteries when the other powers source(s) were not available.
But that entire batteries under the engines, powering a motor, to turn a generator, to power the traction motors concept is just too overly complicated and inefficient to have ever been seriously considered.
Why turn the electrical energy into mechanical energy, just so you can turn that mechanical energy back into electrical energy, in order to convert that electrical energy back into mechanical energy yet again? The energy goes back and forth between mechanical and electrical THREE times, losing efficiency every time. A simple resistance control system would be MUCH more efficient, and 300% simpler.
I have also had recent personal experience with a GE 45 tonner, (US Army 8537 at IRM) and can personally verify that there is only about 6 inches of vertical space between the engines oil pans, and the floor under the engines (yes, there is a flat floor under there!), which leaves very little room for batteries.
Sorry if I've been a bit too technical here, but, I've got 22 years worth of weekends of working on, and with, Diesel-electric, and straight DC electric, locomotives built between 1911, and 1974, and sometimes bizarre writings like this article section need strong rebuttals. Wuhwuzdat (talk) 23:54, 8 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: section removed, info on military variant of 44 tonner moved to that article. Wuhwuzdat (talk) 21:24, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  That variants section....
Talk:Ventricular escape beat

message: The inherent rate of the AV node is actually between 40 and 60; this is considered a junctional escape rhythm.  The idioventricular rhythm's inherent rate is the one that's between 20 and 40.
JErving6 02:08, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Early comment

message: I don't think a ventricular escape beat is always due to "failure of electrical conduction between the SA node and AV node". For example, in 3rd degree AV-block, the conduction between the SA and AV node is normal, but the ventricles aren't stimulated. Please comment. --Steven Fruitsmaak (Reply) 13:28, 5 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition
Talk:Eugene de Kock

message: I don't have much time to work on this, but I can add sources. Granted, it's hard for me to be NPOV about everything here, but I'm actually gobsmacked that there isn't a page on this already. If anyone can help add to it, please do.
ManicParroT 02:11, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've changed "executing" to "killing", which is a neutral (though not ideal) word. Execution is killing following some form of legal process, which these killings were not, as the rest of the article makes clear. The term "extrajudicial assassinations" is also used here, is that better? Babakathy (talk) 10:13, 27 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: "Considered one of the darkest figures of the apartheid period" - I rarely find such POV descriptions in Wikipedia.  Even Hitler receives a more balanced description. And C1 did not "became a death squad which hunted down and killed opponents of the National Party and the apartheid system". It was a counter-insurgency unit that hunted down terrorists - just like CIA teams that use bombs and drones to kill AL Qaeda members.119.224.91.84 (talk) 06:45, 11 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: To describe de Kock as a "colonel, torturer, and assassin" is not objective, or encyclopaedic language. He was no more a "torturer and assassin" than was Mandela. As for C1 having "hunted down and killed opponents of the National Party and the apartheid system", this is even more emotive and misleading. One could say the same for the CIA. Such emotive and political language should be avoided in Wikipedia.Royalcourtier (talk) 02:14, 14 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV 
Talk:Petcock

message: You can severely damage some parts of the engine if there's too much fuel in the engine.  Remember:  Liquids don't like compressing and thus spread force quite well.  Some parts aren't meant to be exposed to that much force.
Anyone got a citation from a motorcycle/scooter manual or something to back this up?  It would be nice if this article had some references to automotive books or sites of reputable experts.  71.196.246.113 (talk) 02:05, 5 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other danger of overflow of fuel 

message: It may be worthwhile having a section on symptoms of a failing, or failed, petcock.
Many readers interested in this topic may be searching for info because they are having equipment problems.
My scooter (2001 Yamaha Riva 125) has a automatic vacum controlled petcock that has failed.
As a result, gas in the tank is feed to the carburator, even when the scooter is not running, which overflows and leaks onto the ground.
This failure often starts out as a 'gas smell' and eventualy [over a period of months or years] fails completely with gas pouring onto the ground.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.111.12.45 (talk) 12:47, 7 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Failed Petcock Symptoms 

message: Swimming Pools also have petcocks. They are commonly used on heater headers as a winterizing drain valve. They are also used on filter tanks as an air relief valve Sigfod (talk) 14:01, 11 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Petcocks In Swimming Pool Equipment
Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (film)

message: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0253312/ <- life and adventures of NN is a 2001 TV movie
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309912/ <- Nicholas Nickleby 2002 movie
this is where the confusion was when i nominated it for deletion, because the years were so close i got confused and there is no article for the 2002 big screen version which is surprising considering that there are some big names in there.
:You should post this in the discussion of the nomination itself; people may not see it here. Are you willing to withdraw the nomination? Newyorkbrad 02:16, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't worry, it's been closed as keep. Regards, Newyorkbrad 16:09, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Valhalla Swimming Hall

message: Isn't Valhallabadet a better name for this article? // SMARTSKAFT | ¿ 20:32, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think so, just look at the Category:Buildings and structures in Gothenburg and you'll see that almost all buildings names are translated. --Krm500 02:38, 18 February 2007 (UTC)

text: It did, now I'm a bit confused here. I remember that it did take place in Scandinavium but maybe Valhalla was also used as a venue and Scandinavium was only used for the finals and such? See here, says Valhalla was a venue - http://www.goteborg.com/templates/Page.aspx?id=241 Krm500 21:58, 18 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe there is a tunnel between Scandinavium and Valhallabadet and Scandinavium were used for the races while Valhallbadet was used for cool down? SMARTSKAFT | ¿ 20:17, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes there is a tunnel between Valhalla, Wallenstamshallen and Scandinavium. But my guess is that they need more then one pool for such an event so both were used as venues. --Krm500 21:51, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I think we shall remove the sentence until it's clear. // SMARTSKAFT | ¿ 15:01, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion
Talk:Northwest District, Portland, Oregon

message: I do not see Lake Oswego  referred to as "Lake No-Negro" on Wikipedia, nor Stark Street between Burnside and Broadway as "Vaseline Ally", or Deep Southeast as "Felony Flats".  And one should not.   This "Trendy-Third" has no place in an encyclopedic article.  --Satyricrash 04:36, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I beg to differ.  I think all of these nicknames are potential candidates for inclusion -- it all depends on notability and significance, which need to be assessed on a case-by-case basis.  Surely you're not suggesting that only content complimentary to a place or topic should be included?  Including widely-used (and published, etc.) nicknames for a place I think is helpful to the reader in conveying a sense of local culture and politics.  At least for "Trendy-Third", I'd argue this is the case. --ScottMainwaring 08:25, 19 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with Scott.  --Usslakecounty (talk) 09:46, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trendy-Third Inappropriate 

message: A discussion is taking place to address the redirect :Z Street (Portland, Oregon). The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 February 6#Z Street (Portland, Oregon) until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  John B123 (talk) 19:44, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Z Street (Portland, Oregon)" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:Seattle Queer Film Festival

message: Your article started out in pretty good shape but you've made some real improvements. I think you should focus most on integration, expansion, and polishing.
In particular, you want to look at taking the stuff in external links and adding them as references with the  tags. Check out this page for useful details: Help:Referencing for beginners.
Anyway, you're off to a good start so I don't think there's any real reason this needs to stay in your sandbox. I'd move your text back into the main article and replace your sandbox with a blank page. Good luck! —mako๛ 01:15, 24 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Feedback 

message: Hi Ricki! Your article has some really good content, like several other people have already mentioned, and I really enjoyed reading it. A few suggestions that I have for making it more polished are:
-Sort the paragraphs into headings/subheadings. You could do this by splitting one section into history, another section into a brief summary at the top of the page, and another section into a 'recent years' heading. Something that I also thought of would be to make a list of previously aired festival films!
-Something that might be useful and eye catching would be to add a template/infobox in order to include a quick snapshot of important information
-Condensing external links into actual internal references, like Mako suggested, would also be a very good way to clean up and polish your article
Overall your article looks fantastic in my opinion! Keep up the good work -Siobhanmdowling (talk) 22:22, 1 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Another note: I have made one of the previous external links into a reference within the article instead! -Siobhanmdowling (talk) 00:00, 3 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Feedback
Talk:Julius Marmur

message: Reasons to dispute speedy delete:
1) Julius was a full tenured professor at a major research university and a recpient of many RO1 grants from the NIH, and the author of over 50 papers published in the peer reviewed scientific literature.
2) Julius' discoveries about DNA are a cornerstone of our understanding of how to maniupulate DNA in vitro, eg such technology as the Southern blot and microarrays rely on what Julius discovered.
In both technologys, people use Julius' discovery that the temperature dependent melting of DNA is proportional to the G,C content; of course we have come a long way since then, but Julius started it.
here are two urls that support my statements
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=iga.section.1523
http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/10072/
Admittedly, this is way outside of my field, so I don't know anything about him.. but asserting importance is enough for it to not be a speedy.
Plus, after even briefly reading up on him, I can concur that he is definitely notable. Perel 02:37, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:David Burt (filtering advocate)

message: I added a photo and revised this bio to bring it in line with wiki standards.  The previous bio contained lots of unsourced material, and lacked many citations
DavidBurt2000 23:28, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's certainly an improvement, but bear in mind Wikipedia's policy on autobiography, which discourages making substantial improvements to an article about yourself. Your decision to release a photograph into the public domain is appreciated, thanks – Gurch 15:41, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revision of David Burt bio 
Talk:Benjamin scale

message: Prior content in this article duplicated one or more previously published sources. The material was copied from: http://www.genderpsychology.org/transsexual/benjamin_gd.html. Copied or closely paraphrased material has been rewritten or removed and must not be restored, unless it is duly released under a compatible license. (For more information, please see "using copyrighted works from others" if you are not the copyright holder of this material, or "donating copyrighted materials" if you are.) For legal reasons, we cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or published material; such additions will be deleted. Contributors may use copyrighted publications 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. Thank you.  VernoWhitney (talk) 16:17, 21 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copyright problem removed 

message: I'm cleaning up after the mess made by BenjiBoi.  It looks like one of his socks made this revert.  I was going to undo this, but since I noticed that this article has editors involved in ongoing disputes I'm going to ask here before touching this one.  little green rosetta 18:30, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I too am uncomfortable doing or saying much until after the relevant ArbCom case is completed, but I think my opinion is pretty clear already: All the content is much more appropriate to transsexuality typology pages, IMO, so would be better as a redirect to that.— James Cantor (talk) 21:42, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Banned editor BenjiBoi
Talk:Barazoku

message: The reference at the bottom indicates that the magazine may not be as dead as indicated in the article. -- Taral 23:55, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yup, it's been resurrected.  Exploding Boy 00:57, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi, I've added its history (1970-1980), using Bungaku Ito's essays as reference. Pls help me with my English and whatever needs corrections. Jandals (talk) 19:13, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update 
Talk:Education Program for Gifted Youth

message: Information on the OHS should probably be next up; it's looking a tad anemic. I'll probably make some updates on the morrow or so.--Screenmaster16 02:34, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: OHS

message: The section labeled "Summer Institutes"  was copied directly from the EPGY Summer Institutes website, and was not edited to adhere to reference source style. It reads more like an advertisement than an encyclopedic entry. The section should also be greatly reduced in length as this section about one particular program in EPGY is almost as long as the rest of the article. Ryan.km 06:46, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Summer Institutes

message: EPGY is no more, it's now called the "Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies" program. I updated the article to reflect this, but just FYI. Also, the article should probably be moved to a more accurate name now, with EPGY and Education Program for Gifted Youth functioning as redirects. UNIT A4B1 (talk) 19:20, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  name change 

message: This page was "moved" by copying and pasting the content to Education Program for Gifted Youth at Stanford University. That shouldn't be done; for licensing reasons we need to move the page history along with the content. See WP:Moving a page on how to do so. I've tagged the target for speedy deletion so we can move this page properly. Huon (talk) 03:23, 30 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copy&paste moves 

message: The last time I checked, the only reason under Wikipedia policy for a longer name is for disambiguation purposes, but there is no other EPGY.  Accordingly, it makes no sense to have "at Stanford University" in the article title when this is the one and only. --Coolcaesar (talk) 06:22, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I concur, the previous name was better. Int21h (talk) 16:03, 5 August 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed it. Turns out the responsible user was banned by ArbCom last December. --Coolcaesar (talk) 17:37, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why was this moved? 

message: It turns out that a large chunk of the original EPGY math and physics courses were kept by Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies and are now offered under the unwieldy name of "Stanford Pre-Collegiate University-Level Online Math & Physics."  Only the K-8 programs and some of the high school lower division courses were transferred to Redbird. --Coolcaesar (talk) 06:14, 26 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article is an inaccurate mess
Talk:Tennessee Aquarium

message: The article's first reference, to the statement that "Its River Journey building is the largest freshwater aquarium in the world", is based on a news release from the aquarium itself.  Many tourist businesses make similar claims.  It would be preferable to have a statement from an outside source along with a date, as in "As of July 3, 2010, it's River Journey building..." Nightsmaiden (talk) 00:01, 4 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: 2011

message: The aquarium's numerous conservation efforts are not listed (or even mentioned) in this entire article. I believe adding a section about the aquarium's conservation attempts and triumph's will add a bit more structure and validity to this article as a whole. floydcaro (talk)   — Preceding undated comment added 04:37, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Conservation

message: So which structure is the Lemur Forest in? 2601:204:C900:9F63:9A1:F99E:6CFB:DB1A (talk) 00:16, 8 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lemur Forest
Talk:Moscow Helsinki Group

message: The Chronicle of Current Events began publication in 1968, seven years before the Helsinki Accords and eight years before the first Helsinki Group was established. It was not in any sense edited or printed by MHG. The relationship between them was that between 1976 and its own demise in 1982 CCE regularly published a summary of the Group's missions and reports on particular issues.
The oldest or earliest human rights group in the post-Stalin Soviet Union was the Action Group or Initiative Group for the Defense of Human Rights in the USSR which began its activities in 1969.
John Crowfoot (talk) 05:08, 31 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fact-checking