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Talk:Slough (wetland)

message: I was raised in Englandduring the 40s and we referred to slough as " sluff" as in tough. David bracey.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by David bracey (talk • contribs) 13:19, 15 February 2015 (UTC)

message: Currently the article says "In the UK, pronounced to rhyme with bough"; however, I (an American) don't know how that word is pronounced, either.  Does it rhyme with "toe" or with "cow"?  It would be even more helpful if someone could use pronounciation markup for the article. --LostLeviathan 17:06, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It's Slough to rhyme with cow. I'll revisit shortly. Presumably, Americans call them branches rather than boughs ? Thanks, Ian Cairns 18:31, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't know about in the US, but in Canada it decidedly does NOT rhyme with cow; the rhyme would be with "do" or "coup" or "through".....Skookum1 (talk) 16:00, 7 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Old discussions

message: In the article it says that the western sloughs have no native trees, but I live in California, and the sloughs around here have willows and cottonwoods, and sometimes oak.
BTW, we in the central valley pronounce it slew.
: There is a slough here in western Montana that doesn't fit any of those definitions, precisely. Dlabtot (talk) 10:18, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the article wants to refer to trees that grow in the slough, such that the slough is populated by trees within it.  There might be many trees that encroach the edge and in wetter years get a little flooded, but not like the semitropical mangrove swamps.  Probably the article needs to be clearer. Fremte (talk) 20:37, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Trees in sloughs

message: The article only mentions the (SAMPA) /slu:/ (homophone of slew) pronunciation in the US.  However, Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary seems to indicate that /slaU/ (rhymes with cow) is also present in the US. The American Heritage Dictionary also mentions this pronunciation without marking it as British (note that AHD doesn't even mention the British pronunciations of schedule & lieutenant). Jimp 15:05, 25 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  US pronunciation
Talk:Nozomi (spacecraft)

message: Nozomi is also a Japanese female name. Should this be added to the article? 85.164.76.159 17:09, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure.  Hope is also an English female name, but if an American spacecraft was named Hope we probably wouldn't mention the female name. -- Curps 17:59, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: The article states:
It was constructed by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, University of Tokyo 
At that time, ISAS was not part of U Tokyo anymore.  Was there a major involvement of U Tokyo?
--Fukumoto 15:08, 13 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  U. Tokyo involvement? 

message: Article says it is still active.  Can we add : how much fuel is left, what communications are working, and when it next approaches Mars ? Rod57 (talk) 09:30, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: The operation was terminated by sending the cease command on December 31, 2003.  (The communication was lost before that already.)  --Fukumoto (talk) 15:58, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current status - fixed 

message: The article says that this spacecraft is orbiting the sun, but the summary box says it's a satellite of Mars. Greg (talk) 06:24, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Summary box now says heliocentric. Could add period. - Rod57 (talk) 08:11, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong orbit - fixed
Talk:Intellectual rights

message: I think there is a problem with the accuracy of this article, primarily as regards the following passages:
This notion is more commonly referred to as "intellectual property", though "intellectual rights" more aptly describes the nature of the protections afforded by most nations.
In my opinion the article should explain why the one term is supposedly more 'apt' than the other, and according to whom. 
Both terms were used in Europe during the 19th century as a means of distinguishing between two different views of intellectual protection. "Intellectual property" was generally used to advocate a belief that copyrights and patents should provide rights akin to physical property rights. The term "intellectual rights" was used by those who felt that such protection should take the form of temporary, limited grants.
This passage tries to elaborate on two different views on intellectual property rights (I use this term because it is the most commonly used) that supposedly existed in Europe during the 19th century. In my opinion this is too vague as both 'in Europe' and 'in the 19th century' fail to indicate the scale of prevalence of this difference in views. What are we talking about? Organised interest groups with thousands of members represented in European countries from Spain to Finland, active from 1840 until well into the 20th century? Or are we talking about two people in 1801 in Paris who shared these different views and then forgot all about it? (the exaggeration is to illustrate) If the latter, the whole story would become quite less relevant to merit a mention in this encyclopedia. The same issue arises where the article talks about '20th century Europe'. We are talking about an era here spanning from before the first human flight and the Russian revolution until after the advent of internet and the collapse of the Soviet Union, not to mention the geographical span.    
Furthermore, the difference in views itself is not clear. The 'belief that copyrights and patents should provide rights akin to physical property rights' and the belief 'that such protection should take the form of temporary, limited grants' were supposedly opposed to each other. On first view however, it seems that a 'right akin to physical property rights' could just as well be 'temporary' and 'limited'. I think the article should be more clear on the exact nature of the differences between the two points of view.
Another issue is the use of the word 'modern'. What is meant by it?  
--Vunzmstr (talk) 09:43, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accuracy
Talk:Low-probability-of-intercept radar

message: : One of the major characteristics of an LPI radar is that is has small side lobes?
Is this really correct? However big the side lobes are, the main lobe should always be several dBs stronger, which makes it the most probable part of the radar signal to detect. Could someone please explain the sentence above?
europrobe 17:44, 2005 Feb 13 (UTC)
My understanding is:
* Minimising side-lobes allows the use of lower total power for the same sensitivity. In addition, signal processing can become somewhat easier.
* Larger side-lobes increase the chance of detection by objects not being tracked in the main part of the beam. You can't avoid radiation reaching the target(s) being tracked but you can hopefully avoid it being detectable from other locations which may contain sensitive instruments.
* Side-lobes are effectively wasted energy and only contribute to the detectable signature, not the resolution or detection capabilities of the radar.
This is not to say you must have small side-lobes to create an LPI radar, but rather that the minimisation of side-lobes contributes to making a radar more difficult to detect. I don't have a degree in electrical engineering though so if you do you almost certainly know better than I do.
Nvinen 23:51, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)

message: When is a radar LPI?  How low must the antenna sidelobes be to be LPI.  How low must the transmit power be?  How wide must the frequency spectrum be?  How much pulse compression  must be used?  How sophisticated must the waveform be?  How many of the techniques must be used to be considered LPI?  Can "LPI-ness" be measured?Is there a standard definition of Low Probability of Intercept?  
Similar questions for Low Probabilty of Detection (LPD).  --199.73.74.5 17:37, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  But what is the definition of Low Probablity of Intercept? 

message: Should there be a mention of the ARIS-system of LPI interception:
Link to Patria's ARIS page  —Preceding unsigned comment added by SlOrbA (talk • contribs) 10:58, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: For more on the math see: http://www.academypublisher.com/ijrte/vol01/no03/ijrte0103176180.pdf Hcobb (talk) 14:31, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  LPI interception by ARIS 

message: See Wikipedia talk:Requested moves#Low probability of intercept radar and another undiscussed Dicklyon move Andy Dingley (talk) 11:32, 1 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Undiscussed page move
Talk:Juan Manuel de Rosas

message: For example, the Second Governorship title feats sections like "totalitarian regime" or "state terrorism" which show an anti-Rosist bias. Their main source is a short book written by a British militaryman and Ph.D. of the University of London, prior to the Malvinas War. Novishock (talk) 21:15, 1 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The article should avoid unnecessary emotive language, but Wikipedia neutrality does not require the article to avoid stating that he was a dictator if he was a dictator.  Why would the British author be expected to be biased BEFORE the war? AnonMoos (talk) 02:30, 2 January 2022 (UTC)

text: I agree, "farce", "docile", "blatant" are emotive and unnecessary, especially when they are not presented as views of sources, but as if they are objective (though I harbour doubts that they should be included in the intro at all, given they are obviously opinion). Rewriting and more sources needed overall. AllenY99 (talk) 23:47, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

text: "an enduring public perception among Argentines as a brutal tyrant" is but elaborate weasel wording. Describing "Revisionism" (which lacks any form of encyclopedic definition in this article, in any case) as anti-semitic, authoritarian and racist lacks reliable sourcing - so does the claim that the mazorca "killed thousands of citizens". The relation between the repatriation of Rosas' remains and dirty war apologia is outright bizarre and unfounded. Mollejasaurio (talk) 23:59, 21 January 2022 (UTC)

text: I find the whole article a farce. There is no citation and lots of biased opinion. Bass-Kuroi (talk) 23:44, 3 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some sections in this article should be rewritten under a neutral point of view 

message: The entire article is useless for historian purposes, as it has no quotes and it’s clearly condemning Rosas without explaining why he is a controversial figure. 190.245.114.34 (talk) 05:07, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, it is disgraceful; they do exactly the same with Hitler and Mussolini; instead of being neutral and showing them as Christian gentlemen, they pretend they are scoundrels.  If I were you I would found an institute to revise history.  You could call it the Instituto Juan Manuel de Rosas.Ttocserp 08:47, 7 April 2023 (UTC)

text: Allegations of bias were addressed during the Featured Article evaluation, and then extensively during subsequent actions taken due to edit-warring by editors promoting a hagiographic view of Rosas, and in previous discussions here. As detailed in those incidents, the language used in the article is based firmly in the consensus of reputable historians, as detailed in the citations, notes, and subhead links.  • Astynax talk 17:59, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Did they do irony? Ttocserp 21:46, 7 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article is way too biased
Talk:Sam the Sham & the Pharaohs

message: Where does this connection between Sam the Sham and the Six Day War come from? It seems a tad peculiar. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 19:20, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Six day war?

message: If you don't trust my page (http://www.nostradamus.net/samhome.htm)
then check Sam's own page:
http://www.samthesham.com/indes.htm
*Thank you for your suggestion!  When you feel an article needs improvement, please feel free to make whatever changes you feel are needed.  Wikipedia is a wiki, so anyone can edit any article by simply following the  link at the top. You don't even need to log in!  (Although there are some reasons why you might like to...) The Wikipedia community encourages you to be bold.  Don't worry too much about making honest mistakes—they're likely to be found and corrected quickly.  If you're not sure how editing works, check out how to edit a page, or use out the sandbox to try out your editing skills.  New contributors are always welcome. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 19:12, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  It's spelled Samudio 

message: Most copies of Wooly Bully that I've seen, and some reference books and sites, spell the name of the group as "Pharoahs".  I know that's not the "correct" spelling, but was it the original one used ?  Perhaps some clarification is necessary.  Ghmyrtle 15:22, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Pharaohs / Pharoahs
Talk:Tempeh

message: From the recipe of grilled tempeh in "Organic Authority":
Unlike tofu, which has been linked to dementia, sterility in males and even breast cancer in women
Agreed, this is external to Wikipedia, but frankly, before linking an article which begins with these statements without providing a shred of evidence, perhaps a different source could be chosen. 81.104.36.244 (talk) 11:19, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed as misinformation, and removed. Thanks for the catch. Zefr (talk) 18:32, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Linked website to grilled tempeh makes dubious statements about tofu
Talk:Virtua Tennis 2

message: I've just added the basic details of the game, if anyone else wants to chip in, they're quite welcome Vanky 19:49, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Article help

message: What on Earth is the writer doing? While I accept that he or she doesn't think Virtua Tennis 3 and 2009 were as good, you can't write six paragraphs of unsubstantiated POV about the 'special feeling' you get when you play and how unfortunate it is that Sega didn't recognise the 'je ne sais quoi' of the game. Find some sources.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.169.55.219 (talk) 01:44, 31 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  What an amazing game it apparently is. 

message: I noticed that this article as well as the articles for other Virtua Tennis games in the series are being edited with nonsense information by an unregistered editor with an apparently Indonesian IP. In this article, the nonsense edits include:
* King and Queen nationalities as Indonesian when their nationalities are clearly not shown in the videogames.
* Changing the location of the last tournament from the Pacific Ocean (it is played in a Cruise Ship) to Dublin in Ireland.
Is there a way to range-block these IPs, maybe? (180.254.21.111 and 180.246.61.249)
Cpfig (talk) 19:06, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Nonsense Editing
Talk:David Orchard

message: I won't pull the POV card (I think it conforms to the standard), but this article seems very highly speculative, and kind of paints Orchard as a mastermind of deception.  Does anyone else agree?Habsfannova 18:26, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article... 

message: "On January 31, 2006, a Toronto judge ordered the Conservative Party of Canada to pay Orchard $70,000, the funds from his 2003 leadership campaign which he had been owed since then."  What news since then?  Has Orchard been paid?  Are the Conservatives dragging their feet?  74.102.58.135 23:04, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  $70,000 
Talk:Adachi, Tokyo

message: I’ve added a map and two pictures of the lower rivers to this page.  I lived in Adachi-ku (Odai), so I have plenty of pictures if this section ever warrants further expansion.  Unfortunately, I don’t have much in the way of useful information to add.
Question: In regards to Arakawa River.  Since "kawa" means river, isn't saying Arakawa river redundant? Would “Ara River” be more accurate, or merely confuse the issue? Kirkpatrick 19:59, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: As for the question, it is the same problem as to say HIV virus and Hokkaido Prefecture, where V means virus and Do prefecture. In wikipedia, it seems we have not resolved this problem yet. Our job, which is not done yet, is to see what other reference works are doing and follow them. -- Taku 21:29, Feb 13, 2005 (UTC)
Is there a need for the reference to Junko Furata in History?  She was from Misato, Saitama, and found in Koto ward.  If there is a connection to Adachi, it is not mentioned. keisetsu 05:36, 6 Feb 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Map and pics added

message: Could someone add the neighborhoods of this special ward? jlog3000 (talk) 18:03, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: List of Neighborhoods must be added

message: Hi. I am submitting this edit request as part of a GSOC (Google Summer of Code) '22 microtask associated with phabricator ticket T300454.
Change "north of" to "to the north of" in "It is located north of the heart of Tokyo" (from the first paragraph). Kaladinesque (talk) 10:55, 26 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 14:31, 13 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 26 March 2022
Talk:Corwen

message: The A5 isn't a trunk road where it passes through Corwen.--JBellis 20:03, 13 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I see what you mean about the North Wales Trunk Road Agency .  However, the A5 in North Wales hasn't been the recommended route for long distance traffic since the A55 was built around the coast providing a dual carriageway  from Holyhead to the M53. There is no signing at Holyhead recommending the A5 as the quickest way to Birmingham for example. --JBellis 17:32, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: A5 road

message: I know nothing of Edward H. Dafis but I do know that Amen Corner were from Wales, and they acheived considerable success in the 1960s. Maybe this should read "first notable Welsh Language rock band". Red van man (talk) 08:59, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Culture

message: The 'Geography' section of this article is empty. Information should be added. Xboxsponge15 (talk) 21:53, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Geography section
Talk:Chromatin

message: The current text on euchromatin and heterochromatin being equivalent to the beads on a string and 30nm fiber are wrong. The beads on a string seems to be very rare in physiological conditions and the 30nm fiber is present in both euchromatin and heterochromatin. The difference between euchromatin and (the different kinds of) heterochromatin lies in the higher order compactness. (Lodish, molecular cell biology) Kuije002 (talk) 11:52, 3 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: euchromatin and heterochromatin definitions

message: The new image is beautiful but the simple double structure helix is left handed, where the actual structure in cells is a right handed helix. It need to be fixed.
What is polytene chromatin?  My teacher asked us to define this for Genetics homework but I have been unable to find any answers and wikipedia.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Acarrell (talk • contribs) 22:13, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: New Image

message: This page seems to be getting vandalised a lot, or am I just being an anti-vandal n00b? - Zephyris Talk 23:18, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Vandalism

message: solenoidal structure disproven 
Nature 2005 436(7047):138-41  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.253.133.106 (talk) 18:20, 29 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, updated now BooleanQuackery (talk) 08:21, 31 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  30nm fiber 

message: I think this article needs to include a section emphasizing the role chromatin plays in transcription, or at least a link to a relevant section on the transcription page (which currently needs a lot of work)...MDG38 16:12, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Role of chromatin in transcription 

message: — Assignment last updated by Rgorasiya2022 (talk) 18:39, 4 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Molecular Genetics

message: This entire section of the article requires extensive cleanup. I've fixed some of the grammar mistakes, but there are several parts of this section where I can't tell what the original author was trying to say. Unfortunately, this is not my area of expertise, so it may require rewriting by someone more familiar with the subject matter. Lumberjane Lilly (talk) 00:09, 21 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Chromatin and DNA Repair" section
Talk:List of minor Star Wars characters

message: The table of contents is obscenely long; it's practically the same length of the article, which makes it difficult to navigate. Any way the characters could be divided up into subcategories? Beemer69 chitchat 18:00, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  here's a better idea, let's slash and burn the in-universe nonsense and read about those people as the fictional objects of a narrative that they are. it's a radical idea but one supported by.. well every policy and guideline going... --Allemandtando (talk) 14:30, 27 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  Amen. This is just absurd. Niczar (talk) 22:38, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text:  just how many words does this arrticle have at the moment?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.167.167.211 (talk) 01:09, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Table of contents

message: I'm working on amalgamating this and all the other god-awful lists at :Category:Lists_of_Star_Wars_characters to remove all the ORish and arbitrary topics (i.e. what makes a character a "villain"? what if he/she later is "good"?) and repetition (e.g. Leia shows up on several of them). Once I've squished them together, they can be broken up just alphabetically like the slightly-less-crappy Star Trek character lists. I've copy-and-pasted these lists as of ~11:30EST 3 Oct -- if you make any additions to this list, I'll try to be sure to maintain them in the reworked version, but please be mindful that something might accidentally be overlooked. Thanks! --EEMIV (talk) 15:39, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Revamp

message: I plan on Monday to replace the current content of List of Star Wars characters with the material at User:EEMIV/StarWarsCharacters, and then to redirect this page to that updated list. Much of the content on this page will go away -- for the better. Wikipedia is an indiscriminate collection of information, even on its list pages, and many of the entries were are truly insignificant characters. If you take exception to this plan, please say so here. --EEMIV (talk) 11:20, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirect
Talk:Buggy the Clown

message: Shouldn't this article go under the minor characters section?  I like Buggy but he's really not all that important to the plot.
:Actually, he's more important than you think. By beating Don Krieg, Arlong AND Buggy, it raised Luffy's 1st bounty to 30mil. It would have been lower if Luffy didn't beat Buggy. Buggy also was one of the reasons Nami joined the crew. Buggy also helped us get more backstory on Capt. Shanks. He may seem like the One Piece version of Team Rocket (trying, but never succeeding), but he is somewhat major.
:Buggy played a large enough role in the story to warrent his own page, plus this is a fairly large page. Justyn
:He is Oda's favourite villian so most likely is gonna return, has a big enough back story to warrent it... He has had three appearances: First early on asa  main villian, then the Rogue/Logue town thing and finally he is seen at the end of Alabasta.  Many other more major villians have only one or two appearances, he has been active in the story then them.  Angel Emfrbl 11:55, 14 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Minor Character