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Talk:Lurlene McDaniel

message: Added photo with permission........
>>Her detractors consider them to be sappy and overwrought.<<
Her novel "prey" rederirects to the wrong article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.89.129.232 (talk) 00:46, 13 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Attribution and photo 

message: The sentence about Tyrell James is kind of out of nowhere.  Who is that and what does he have to do with Ms. McDaniel? - Rev. Syung Myung Me (talk) 00:13, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It looks like it MAY be vandalism -- this is the edit that it appears on  and it looks like the person who made that edit was later banned for vandalism.  For right now, I'm changing it back to the previous version of the sentence that read "she", which makes more sense anyway. - Rev. Syung Myung Me (talk) 00:21, 6 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tyrell James? 

message: Instead goes to a stub at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_I_Should_Die_Before_I_Wake
"If I Should Die Before I Wake is a 1946 short story collection by American crime writer Cornell Woolrich under his pseudonym "William Irish".[1] It contains six short stories.[2]"  109.144.219.35 (talk) 01:52, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Think you've linked to the wrong "If I Should Die Before I Wake"
Talk:Homosexuality in Iran

message: No iota of evidence is provided to substantiate this wholly offensive and discriminatory allegation.
*Since the newspapers and other media are completely run by the state, this fact can never be published in Iran.  Some of my Iranian friends have confirmed its accuracy.  One of them says that several Iranian men tried to kidnap him in the street on three different occasions when he was a boy in the 1990s.  However, he says it is a shame.
--anon
**And, anon, doubtless this is very interesting, but even if you allow that attempts to kidnap were made, this does not justify the automatic conclusion as to the purpose of the alleged intended kidnaps.  Moreover the fact that the state run the media is surely a side-issue unless (and I emphasise that I mention this only for hypothetical argument purposes) the argument is that all homosexuality in Iran is carried out by the state.
*I lived in downtown Tehran. In the neighborhood where I lived 80% of the teenagers were homosexual. Older teenagers had dropped out of school and were seducing younger boys. A small percentage of married men seduced all boys. 
One time when I was a pre-teen in a village outside Tehran, I had to run away from a score of teenagers who were saying in Farsi,"You have given it to everybody, so let us do you too." I ran and cried at an unbelievable speed until I got to my dad who was visiting a friend in the village. In the house of my dad's friend, I kept near my father until we got into the car and left. I didn't say why I was running and crying. Any Iranian who had lived to the age of 20 and gone to various places definitely knows about this. Some deny it and some acknowledge it. 
When I lived in a Germany refugee camp, some of my Afghan friends said that in the city of Kandahar, Afghanistan it is impossible for a boy to grow up and not get abused by a man. They said that they had been abused and had themselves sexually abused younger boys. [This candid conversation occurred when the Taliban was in power.] By the way, both Iranian and Afghans both speak Farsi but with different accents. 
--66.81.26.244 14:14, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it may well keep the main Iranian society article more compact. But other than that, not really. I've tried cleaning up the article somewhat. It read a bit like the agitated political rant of a high schooler. Arild 22:55, 6 February 2006 (CET)
Some things in this article should be moved to gay rights in Iran because they are legal issue. Or maybe both article should be made one? Taliesin1 00:57, 3 February 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Defined and undefined

message: I agree with one thing MarSch said in the above section—I don't like this article, and most especially I don't like the name. Adjectives make bad article titles; two adjectives with a conjunction are just out of bounds. Also the article doesn't specify well enough in what context the expressions are being considered (reals? naturals? complex numbers? extended complex numbers?) and is duplicative of indeterminate form.
I was very tempted to start an AfD, but I suppose there is some value in having this information available in elementary form. But the mathematical context needs to be specified, and the name just has to go. Alternative naming suggestions? --Trovatore 17:20, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think I don't like the name either. :) And the article is not well written either. But I don't have any ideas of what to do, neither of the defined kind, nor of the undefined one. :) Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 00:08, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: How about moving to implied domain of a function? We could include square roots of negative numbers and logs of nonpositive numbers. As it stands this is a bad article; one way or another we've got to get rid of it. --Trovatore 15:27, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

text: Or maybe "implicit domain" is better than "implied domain". --Trovatore 15:28, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: article is problematic

message: If we're making a list of undefined expressions, that's hardly all of them. If one plugs a value not within the domain of any given function, it is undefined, unless I'm wrong. 69.117.64.161 (talk) 01:53, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: All three of the expressions that it says are undefined in all conditions can be defined in some conditions as limits. For instance the limit as x goes to infinity of x-x is zero. The limit as the integer n goes to infinity of (-1)2n is 1. The limit of x/x is 1. The article definitely needs a good clean up. Dmcq (talk) 06:25, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: A list of undefined expressions?

message: There are many proofs for 1=0.999... but are both 1 an 0.999... defined? Tristan Tondino (talk) 19:27, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: See 0.999.... Dmcq (talk) 20:32, 7 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Is 0.999... defined or undefined?

message: I copied (actually, largely rewrote) the contents of this page to well-definition and merged.  I hope I did it correctly. Tilmanbauer (talk) 12:41, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm happy for the page to go in whatever fashion! It wasn't being looked after and was a bit crappy, being put in with that sounds a good idea to me. Dmcq (talk) 13:15, 17 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Merged
Talk:Salt Lake Bees

message: If someone could find a higher resolution picture of the Bees logo I think it would help the article out quite a bit [[Hypernick1980 07:23, 25 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Logo 

message: I am a long time fan for this franchise, regularly attending since they were the Stingers.  I have never, in 25 years heard the park referred to as the Apiary.  I would love to see a citation on this one. 166.70.6.5 (talk) 20:37, 20 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Apiary?? 

message: Today, I corrected the link on Bill Lane's name. He was not some Australian ornithologist. He deserves an article of his own. Who will write it? DutchmanInDisguise (talk) 01:49, 13 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Bill Lane
Talk:Default gateway

message: Maybe a major cleanup of this article would make it a good stand-alone article but it should probably be a section in the main gateway article. Rsduhamel 19:37, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Since WP is not a how-to guide, I'm afraid you're not finding the information you want because you're looking in the wrong place. You won't find step-by-step instructions here. -- Mikeblas 03:00, 19 August 2007 (UTC)

text: I've changed modem to router which I think fixes this. TwoTwoHello (talk) 10:25, 1 September 2013 (UTC)

message: An image (with some IP-numbers) would be nice. -- 88.194.194.231 (talk) 14:29, 2 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image request
Talk:Watkin's Tower

message: On reading this article, I was struck by the similarity with another building project, also in London, also a fiasco. But the more modern structure is south of the river, in Greenwich. At least the Millenium Dome was finished.    84.130.113.173 14:06, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't understand. What similarities do the two buildings have apart from both being located in London? Canderra 05:38, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

message: The entries for the tower design competition just entered public domain. Is it relevant enough to add one of them as a thumbnail to the article?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.216.86.149 (talk) 12:18, 31 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Design competition pictures
Template talk:Wbr

message: I guess this template is outdated. Not working in IE8 - renders as a space. Jack who built the house (talk) 15:51, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually it was a wiki engine issue, it removes all empty tags. I replaced space with  . Now it works fine: ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss. Jack who built the house (talk) 16:22, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  Ah sorry,   is no good replace. Decision found is display:inline-block + ​ : display:inline-block helps to produce a break, and ​ (zero-width space) will appear if the text is copied, and produce a break if, for some reason, inline-block has failed. Actually, could've put even   here (despite its opposite function). May be I should, because I'm not sure what will ​ look like in older browsers and text editors (after being copypasted). Notepad renders it as a space. Jack who built the house (talk) 16:55, 14 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Outdated 

message: The section  suggests a lot of manual control to create a list with pseudo-hanging indents, where the "indentation" is merely nbsp;s. A better method to achieve the same effect, but better-looking, and less "futzy", is to use :

Should this be recommended instead?  — sbb (talk) 02:53, 24 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggest using <nowiki>{{indented plainlist}}</nowiki> for controlling line breaks? 

message: Just in case  (and this template ) causes unintended and unexpected line-breaks for someone, using (only) &zwsp; might be a solution. See Template_talk:R#Line_breaks.
--Matthiaspaul (talk) 14:07, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  < wbr /> causing unintended line breaks 

message: According to recent discussions, this template is being used on about 53,000 pages. However, the transclusion count tool shows only 1,530 transclusions. Is the tool no longer accurate? Or did we change most of those pages to not rely on this template? Ixfd64 (talk) 18:48, 1 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  transclusion count not accurate?
Talk:Chris Johnson (footballer, born 1976)

message: It's a matter of public record that the Fitzroy Football Club is still around in its own right, albeit not in the AFL - now in the VAFA - and is not a part of the Brisbane Lions. Hence any claim that Fitzroy no longer competes as a club and somehow merged with Brisbane is not true and shouldn't be posted as such in Wikipedia articles like this one.
What is true is that Brisbane took over the AFL operations. As detailed by Fitzroy on the club's website (http://www.fitzroyfc.com.au), and within Wikipedia itself for a long time now in the entry about Fitzroy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzroy_Football_Club). And both the club website and that Wikipedia entry clearly show that Fitzroy still exist and compete as a club on the field.
To reiterate, since Fitzroy still exists as a club, both on and off the field, and since the club clearly states that it was the AFL operations absorbed into Brisbane, not the club itself, it's self-evident that there was no merger.
121.210.232.42 (talk) 14:13, 6 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error corrected about Fitzroy in this article 
Talk:The Colditz Story

message: Can someone explain why this article needs a box on the right hand side of the page with a 'starring' list of the principal actors and a cast list on the left hand side with the same information? Also, why have a budget category in this box ? I have yet to see it filled out in any of the other film articles I have read.  84.130.113.173 14:57, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Cast List
Talk:Sir J. J. School of Art

message: * There is a reference in Metro Cinema article about stairs being done by JJ School of Art. Is it Art or Architecture? 
* Elphinstone Institution? Does it mean Elphinstone Technical High School, next to Xavier's or Elphinstone College?
Npindia 23:54, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Metro Cinema

message: * Sir JJ School of Art Deans Bungalow 
* Inside view from the sculpture workshop at Sir JJ School of Art in Mumbai (Bombay, India) 
:-- (Ekabhishek (talk) 05:17, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Image source

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: moved. (closed by non-admin page mover) — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 19:05, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art →  – see homepage of school. Gryffindor (talk) 18:43, 22 July 2022 (UTC)

text: Hello @Gryffindor, I agree with you. Being a frequent contributor to the pages of the alumni of this school, I add Sir J. J. School of Art as the name, since this is the official name being used in the references and press. Request you to go ahead with this move as and when the consensus is reached. Regards -  DesiBoy101 (talk) 12:52, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 22 July 2022
Talk:Coalbrookdale

message: I have deleted the following passage in the course of rewriting, not because Peter Mathias is not a respected economic historian, but because his work is evidently derived from other published sources.  There is an enormous amount written on Coalbrookdale, mostly as a result of one author copying from another, and one cannot cite it everything.  
:Darby's initial ironworks cost £3,500 to establish, Peter Mathias, The First Industrial Nation, Routledge, pp. 113, ISBN: 9-780415-266727 and most of this funding came from fellow  , such as the Champion and Goldney families, the majority of whom operated out of Bristol. Mathias, pp. 96 The railways of Coalbrookdale were also the first in the world to adopt iron rails; cast iron rails were first laid down between the ironworks and the nearby mines in 1767 to speed up the transit of horse-drawn coal and iron shipments. Mathias, pp. 254
Peterkingiron 11:19, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I think this section was originally a separate (and not very good) article.  Sicne the furnace survives as part of the Museum, it is right that it should ahve its own section.  I have substantially amended this section, and hope it is now better.  
Nevertheless, I am not sure that the paragraph on products is in quite the right place, as it probably covers the products of both the blast furnaces and all the air furnaces.  Peterkingiron 00:23, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old Furnace 

message: I have undone a recent alteration.  Many people do associate the Iron bridge with the birth of the Industrial Revolution, but it is merely an icon of that, not the industrial revolution itself; hence the circumlocution is appropriate.  Peterkingiron (talk) 22:31, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Circumlocution 
Talk:Spanish cuisine

message: I'm not a fan of banging heads together, but if you have an argument about details of an article, it's far better to do it on this talk page where others can voice an opinion than to keep exchanging bitchy edit summaries. Stay calm, folks. Grutness...wha? 02:43, 28 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit summaries 

message: An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect :Comida and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at  until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  PamD 12:05, 22 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Comida" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: — Assignment last updated by Eaturvegeez (talk) 19:08, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Technical and Professional Writing

message: Hello! I’ll be working on this article for the next few weeks. I want to improve the article’s clarity and grammar. Specifically for each region, is there a reason that these regions are focused on? I’ll be working on these regions, but I’ll be working in my sandbox before editing anything on the main article. TwistedInThreads (talk) 18:09, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: About  Sorry, I don't understand this question, could you please reword it? --Jotamar (talk) 23:15, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: My question was answered. Sorry for any confusion! TwistedInThreads (talk) 00:19, 28 February 2024 (UTC)

text: Spain is a big country with various regions that have their own cuisines. It makes sense to cover them that way in the article. Carlstak (talk) 13:11, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: PS: If you "want to improve the article's clarity and grammar", you'll need to do better than you've done on your own user page. Carlstak (talk) 00:36, 22 February 2024 (UTC)

text: Thank you. I appreciate the clarification.  TwistedInThreads (talk) 00:18, 28 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Preparing to do edits
Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/McWords

message: Far from deleting this article, I would suggest adding an entire new category called "McWords." Currently, most of the words on this list exist in the categories "McDonald's" and "slang." A "McMansion" has nothing to do with McDonald's, but does fall into the McWord category, and this would be more accurate.
One thing that I'm surprised nobody mentioned - not only is McDonald's s not happy with the inclusion of "McJob" in Merriam-Webster (an article is linked on the appropriate page), but they went so far as to threaten to sue the dictionary for including the term. When I find a news article on that, I'll link it to either/both the McWord and McJob entries. --L. 15:26, 28 October 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Premium Motorsports

message: Can someone please name change this to Jay Robinson Racing. It was Jay Robinson Racing before Troy Blakeney came into it (for only one year) and it's been Jay Robinson Racing during the NEMCO merger as well (NEMCO Motorsports with JRR (Jay Robinson Racing)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Doctornickel (talk • contribs) 21:31, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Is it JRR, NEMCO-JRR, or Identity Ventures Racing? - The Bushranger One ping only 22:39, 20 March 2014 (UTC)

text: Hm...then the NEMCO page needs to be split, with the 87 Cup car's history being spun off to Identity Ventures Racing, and the remaining BGN team info moved to NEMCO-JRR or NEMCO-Jay Robinson Racing. - The Bushranger One ping only 01:45, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name Change 
Talk:The Lone Gunmen

message: It's hinted at in the text of this article that the trio died in the course of the stories (presumably on The X-Files but maybe on their own show; I dunno).  This needs to be explicated.  It's also hinted at but unexplained that they made some kind of post-mortem comeback.  This needs to be covered in a way that makes sense to people who are not X-Philes.  And I say that as a former X-Phile (gave up around season 7, if you're wondering). — SMcCandlish   Talk⇒ ʕ(Õلō)ˀ  Contribs. 05:42, 1 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incomplete coverage 

message: I am watching this series currently, and this page spoiled the show without warning. Frankly I can't be ****ed to learn the community guidelines because it just gets deleted with a polite copy and pasted warning from some jerk who is more concerned with policy than the reader. I would appreciate if the article was restructured with a warning.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.31.115.232 (talk) 05:31, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: If you don't want to know the full plot, don't read the Wikipedia article. This isn't TV Guide, it is an encyclopedia. The fate of the characters is relevant to the article, and Wikipedia explicitly does contain spoilers and does not apologize for it. If you read our article on Romeo and Juliet you will find we mention their deaths as well, right in the first paragraph. If you read our article on The Empire Strikes Back you will find out that Darth Vader is Luke Skywalker's father. I've undone the removal of the content but I have also moved it further down in the article.  Beeblebrox (talk) 21:59, 20 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spoilers 

message: See The_Lone_Gunmen#The_Lone_Gunmen_series, this section includes a coincidence on September 11 attacks and this category is useful for navigation with threads like this. --Rezonansowy (talk • contribs) 17:41, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: The coincidence focuses on the event happening after the series aired an episode with a similar plot, so the category "Aftermath of the September 11 attacks" has no bearing here. It has nothing to do with the aftermath of something that happened afterwards. GRAPPLE X 17:58, 5 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:Category:Aftermath of the September 11 attacks]] 

message: Character descriptions using past tense sound really weird. Can this be cleaned up or is there a reason for this? E.g. "[Byers] was a conservative dresser with a neatly trimmed beard, a stark contrast to his grungier comrades." Did he change his dress style towards the end of the show? Gvanrossum (talk) 04:05, 10 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tense 

message: Any reason why the tag should not be removed? Wakelamp d[@-@]b (talk) 08:26, 21 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability Tag - ??
Talk:Matchbook Romance

message: Does the band classify as horror punk? I was listening to "You Can Run, but We'll Find You", and thought it may be. Cdocrun (talk) 16:48, 11 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  wat 
Template talk:SMILES

message: This is a template for the SMILES chemical structure representation strings.
At this very moment, its purpose is to just stay as a placeholder for semantic markup of the values. Later it may be easily converted to a link to various external services for displaying the molecular structures and working with them, much along the lines of what Wikipedia:WikiProject Geographical coordinates does for geographical coordinates.
The primary function of this template is to markup the meaning of the value in a machine-readable way, by enclosing it to SPAN tag with CLASS set to a value denoting the variable meaning, therefore allowing its easy retrieval by a postprocessing javascript, implemented eg. by Greasemonkey or by an user modification. I already have a proof-of-concept implementation, to be published.
--Shaddack 04:09, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I made the template show its parameter, it does not do anything useful with it now.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 20:50, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

text: Forget about it, changed it back, did not understand it's function, now it makes sense to me.  --Dirk Beetstra T C 20:58, 30 August 2006 (UTC)