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Talk:Transitional fossil

message: How does one add the Feedback tool to an article? That would be very useful and would show us areas that this article can improve. --Harizotoh9 (talk) 15:52, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article feedback 

message: "Whoever wrote this seems to be confused regarding what constitutes the term "missing link". I was referring to a post-Darwinian use of the term whereby modern humans are directly connected to a specific line of hominid. Though his (her) explanation of Java man is acceptable, and is definitely not missing, the inference that future discoveries will somehow fill in does infer that for now they are indeed missing."
What are your thoughts? --Harizotoh9 (talk) 02:59, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The commenter seem to have missed the references for the term having several meanings. The article has an example of the term used by a modern researcher (Benton) using it for a non-humanoid fossil, the Archaeopteryx. Perhaps we need to make this more clear? Petter Bøckman (talk) 08:03, 3 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reader feedback on Missing links: 

message: Should this fit into the article in any way? 
::Vestigial organs are common in whales (legs),[25] flightless birds (wings), snakes (pelvis and lung), and numerous structures in humans (the coccyx, plica semilunaris, and appendix).
--Harizotoh9 (talk) 21:32, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vestigial organs 

message: What would be needed to bring the article to FA status? 
What areas do you think need expanding?
--Harizotoh9 (talk) 05:50, 18 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  FA status and other improvements 

message: That last IP edit reminded me. A section on the Platypus and other animals like that could be interesting. It would go under "Misunderstandings". --Harizotoh9 (talk) 02:38, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text:  Mm, yes. Love the mammal evolving into a duck, or was it the other way round. It will be a controversial section that could create quite a challenge for FA; finding reliable, undisputed sources for it might be .. interesting. Chiswick Chap (talk) 07:53, 24 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Platypus 

message: The section "missing link" (in the as-of-writing current revision does not make sense to me. The sources do support the claim that modern use of the term can be emphasized unduly, or lead to lopsided understanding of human evolution; they does not support a characterization of transitional fossils being a "misconception", or the implication that people looking for transitional fossils were operating under false premises (in fact, just the opposite -- the section details numerous discoveries, like the Java Man, which identified the missing links which had been unknown at the time). I am going to copyedit the section. jp×g 01:56, 11 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Strange content in "missing link" section
Talk:Noriyuki Makihara

message: I made a few edits that might make this entry sound a bit less gushy.  When I get the chance, I'll post some additional biographical information and notable factual events in the artist's life that might help round this entry out.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.134.101.184 (talk) 09:06, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Factual, but a little on the gushy side.
Talk:Paul McGrath (footballer)

message: McGrath captain of Ireland??
I believe Andy Townsend was captain for the majority of the time McGrath played internationally.  Can anyone elaborate? Thanks
You are right, McCarthy was captain in 1990 and Townsend in 1994. Will fix. --Dryazan 05:12, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: McGrath captain of Ireland
Talk:Quirinal Palace

message: It's over 430 years old  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.26.166.103 (talk) 15:05, 15 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: History

message: The following images are available if anyone feels they may be useful to improve the article at some point:
All were taken by . Cheers --RexxS (talk) 15:48, 26 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images available
Talk:List of instant messaging clients

message: It's an instant messaging service, as shown here. Didn't know which header to put it under, so it's down as unclassified, maybe someone can amend it for me. Hedley 02:49, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Odigo Messenger

message: This is considered a mainstream client?  The article about it is almost tagged for deletion, how can this be mainstream?
Agreed. I was just about to ask the same question. I will delete the entry now. Marc K 16:31, 19 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mercury Messenger??? 

message: Adium is a) not an official client and b) listed twice (now once). ... aa:talk 05:30, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  removed adium from official clients list 

message: It does mention the now-defunct GTalkr, and Gmail Chat, but not the main Google Talk cilent.
--J.L.W.S. The Special One 07:05, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where is [[Google Talk]] on the list? 

message: The difference between "mainstream" and "other" is, at this point, highly subjective.  This invites questionable edits by stakeholders of non-mainstream messaging clients placing their client in the "mainstream" section.  I would suggest making this a more objective classification, perhaps based on the number of active users.  -- Fastolfe00 17:26, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Consider renaming "Mainstream" 

message: Why, in my opinion it should eb mainstream, especially by number of users, as everyone with a Gmail account also has Gtalk sidebar in their email...
69.221.36.244 20:22, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Google Talk is listed last
Talk:Ebirah, Horror of the Deep (film)

message: I am in the process of merging this article with Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster. I chose this direction rather than the other because the "Godzilla" title appears to be more common, based on the title of the available U.S. release on DVD, as well as its use in Mystery Science Theater 3000. I am hoping to use the fairly new  template, pending the question of how to document multiple titles. I will be sure to credit all contributors to this article as I transfer the information. If anyone has major objections, please let me know as soon as possible. — Jeff Q (talk) 03:12, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Wow! It was actually much easier than I thought to do the merger, since most of the info was already in the other article. (I've credited everyone here for their contributions in the Sea Monster article history, even those that were changed later.) I've gone ahead and changed this article to a redirect. I realize I didn't give anyone time to comment, but fear not! If anyone is seriously bent out of shape by this merger, you can comment here or in the other article, and all data is still available through the histories, to allow for changing things around if necessary. — Jeff Q (talk) 04:53, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger

message: People keep copying Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster into this page. This creates duplicate articles that get out of sync with each other. There should be only one article, with all other titles redirected to it. Anyone who feels that the final article should be titled Ebirah, Horror of the Deep instead of Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster (the current state) should make their arguments on one article's talk page and post a notice of the discussion on the other, so all parties are made aware of it.
I have previously done this in the above discussion, '"Ebirah" vs. "Sea Monster"'. I came up with considerable evidence that the best-known English title of this film is Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster, with Ebirah, Horror of the Deep being a distant second. However, working from Teh Xilian's information, I also confirmed some evidence for the latter as an official title. The article remained in its existing place because (A) those favoring Ebirah were either focused on vilifying the opposition, or failed to respond to my legitimate arguments, even when I gave them some support; and (B) no one else joined in the discussion.
As I said above, I ultimately don't care which title we use, but we can't just summarily change it or duplicate the articles. Make your case and win the support of the readers to make this kind of change. Don't just take unilateral action. Here are some relevant policies to keep in mind when making your case:
* Wikipedia:Naming conventions — general rule of "best-known English name"
* Wikipedia:Naming conventions (films) — currently not much help in this specific case
* Wikipedia:Naming conflict — how to decide between options
I hope this helps move us toward some conclusion on this matter. ~ Jeff Q (talk) 15:35, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Do not copy and paste
Talk:Abseiling

message: Something seems to be off with one of the respelled options: RAP-pel is incongruous with the attached /ræˈpɛl/, that is, the stress is on the first syllable in the respell and on the second in the IPA script. Also, as I am not a native English speaker and did not find this on Merriam-Webster–does anyone pronounce RAPpel instead of rapPEL? כרסומת (talk) 21:14, 27 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Respell
Talk:Yasuko Namba

message: My contributions to this article were originally published on Everything2's node of the same name.  My homenode: etoile
:Etoile 03:30, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: From what I understand, it is considered that one has achieved a goal in mountaineering if one summits.  I am just an amateur fan, though. -Etoile 15:26, 28 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Done. I confirmed her kanji name by this page. It is a Japanese version of "Into Thin Air". --Nightshadow28 13:04, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Japanese script 

message: Acc. to "Into thin Air" (Jon Krakauer) and "Left for Dead" (Beck Weathers) Yasuko N lived the next day May 11, and maybe lived on May 12, still breathing but no further reaction. May 10 is not her date of death. --77.11.230.123 (talk) 17:46, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  date of death 

message: Yasuko Namba is one of the very rare cases in which a body of a dead climber was brought down from the death zone to be buried. Her husband had initialized an expedition to pull her body from the icy south col down the 3.000ft high Lhotse face, through the Western Cwm and down through the dangerous Khumbu Icefall. It wass extremely "costy", endangered the life of several nepalese porters, and is a very special case as the nepalese sherpas normally avoid to have anything to do with dead on the mountain.. --77.11.230.195 (talk) 23:01, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Body buried

message: thx from women in red Victuallers (talk) 08:47, 19 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: thanks
Talk:Hydroxyl ion absorption

message: 'Hydroxyl' usually refers to an electrically neutral OH fragment, either as part of a molecule or as a free radical.
The OH- anion is generally referred to as 'hydroxide'.173.246.23.29 (talk) 23:42, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I propose that this page be deleted, due to the ambiguous title. Freestyle-69 (talk) 04:46, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deletion
Talk:The Macallan distillery

message: I'm changing the term "vintages" on this page to "expressions", which I believe to be more correct and would recommend throughout the pages dealing with whiskies. BradGad 04:09, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

message: The Macallan is matured in oak sherry casks brought to the distillery from Jerez, Spain. Beginning in 2004 Macallan also introduced their Fine Oak series, with the whisky mellowed in oak barrels rather than sherry ones.  
This is unclear to me.  Sherry is not a kind of wood, and oak is not a type of drink, so the comparison is mixed.  user:Shana 24 May 2006
:Also, all sherry casks are made of oak... Notinasnaid 14:44, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The casks are made of oak that has previously housed sherry.  The description you quoted is, I believe, taken straight off of the box that the cask strength comes in, and is how I've always seen cask descriptions written. 74.192.40.96 04:50, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oak vs. Sherry 

message: So, I know that MacAllan is made on the banks of the Spey, but they call themselves a Highland.  I've seen a few other scotches of the Spey region do this, so I'm not sure if this is just some technicality, but MacAllan definitely has more of a Highland taste than any other Speysides I've had.  So perhaps this page should list it as they do on the bottles. 74.192.40.96 04:50, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have rewritten the LEAD of the article to clarify that the labels say one thing, and the website say something else.  May have something to do with The Scotch Whisky Regulations 2009?  At any rate, I hope my changes help to clarify things. Spectre9 (talk) 05:33, 10 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Speyside?

message: I've read that part of the Macallan's unique flavor comes from the drying of the malt, which is accomplished without the use of peat, unlike others such as Laphroaig or Oban.  I can site several sources, but where is the best place for this info?  The lede?  Micahmedia (talk) 01:37, 5 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Peat

message: Here. Spicemix (talk) 19:48, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source 

message: It says "citation needed" for the Guinness World Record. Well here's the citation, although you'll notice that the record has been broken twice since the one noted here. 
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-expensive-whisky-whiskey-sold-at-auction#:~:text=The%20most%20expensive%20whisky%20sold,also%20a%20bottle%20of%20Macallan.
81.174.170.99 (talk) 21:40, 2 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Most expensive whisky
Talk:Education in China

message: — Assignment last updated by York1210 (talk) 19:03, 1 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Research Process and Methodology - SU23 - Sect 200 - Thu

message: I propose to merge Two exemptions and one subsidy plan into Education in China#Compulsory education law. Cheers! BD2412 T 15:23, 16 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: If there is no objection, I will implement within the next few days. BD2412 T 18:25, 28 September 2023 (UTC)

text: Merged as proposed. BD2412 T 02:19, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge from [[Two exemptions and one subsidy plan]]
Talk:Lunar Park

message: maybe delete the spike.com review from the external links? it is poorly written and has some pretty big inaccuracies (the reviewer seems to think the book takes place in southern california which it clearly does not).
This plot summary just.. stops, as it gets sidetracked in talk about a fictional character's website. What about the end of the book?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.12.175.37 (talk) 21:43, 18 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  delete spike review in external links? 
Talk:Tribes: Aerial Assault

message: This is an encyclopedia, not a fan database. If you want to list all the Tribes clans, make your own website. ugen64 04:32, 19 Mar 2005 (UTC)

message: Can somone put the current status of the online up?, it looks as though that has not been edited since 2003.
Wera 13:50, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Status

message: This article has been protected from vandalism for a week now.  Unprotecting to permit editing. --Tony Sidaway|Talk 15:27, 27 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Unprotected
Talk:List of U-boat aces

message: Needs to be redone to show the actual order, the text needs to also be fixed, as it doesn't count hte high scorers at the bottom of the list in numerical order, i.e. everything after number one needs to be bumped down two spaces.
:I have changed the tonnages for Merten and Schultze to reflect those in their main articles.  As it had been before the change, Merten's tonnage was stated as being higher than his immediate predecessor in the list, and Schultze's tonnage in this article as the same as Merten's tonnage in the article on Merten. Respectfully, SamBlob 14:09, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: The aces aren't listed in order, unless some of the tonnages are wrong.

message: Forget all that.  I doubt there will be a problem.  BUT, for the sake of disambiguity, don't you think this should have been called something else?  Or maybe added to the List of U-boat aces page instead??The UNeducated 08:27, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I wonder what question are you responding to? Deryck C. 12:36, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyright?

message: ...let's celebrate some coward mass murders.
... why not. It's long been over. DAS MUSS MAN SPORTLICH SEHEN.
service is service and schnapps is schnapps, like we say in germany.
thanks, 05.10.2005
:You're very ignorant. --Tykell 23:04, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Please mind your tongue. Deryck C. 09:09, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Yeah!

message: To those who propose the merge:
I agree with the merge. The article List of U-boat aces is so short that we should try to get professional opinion about the factual accuracy and then merge the articles together. --Deryck C. 10:00, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Merge. This isn't "Aces of the Deep" (which is hideously melodramatic), because it makes no mention at all of anybody who isn't German. Where are Wanklyn? O'Kane? Morton? Dealey? Davenport? Chapple? Hell, where are the WW1 aces? Trekphiler 14:49, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm going to go ahead and be bold and move this page back to List of U-boat aces, for the reasons stated by Trekphiler above. Also, it's a far more encyclopedic name for the article, and a better descriptor of what it contains. Parsecboy (talk) 23:47, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

text: Given that the page already exists, and I'm not an admin, I guess I'll just post at WP:Ships and get it done that way. Meh. Parsecboy (talk) 23:49, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

text: There, the proper authorities have been notified. Parsecboy (talk) 23:54, 17 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Done!  --Kralizec! (talk) 01:14, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge? 

message: Aces Of The Deep. game. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.244.149.25 (talk) 23:18, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  see also 

message: I find all the see main article stuff distracting so am going to just link all the names in the sub heafings. Lisiate 01:39, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Linking names
Talk:Primacord

message: What is the purpose of the colors?  The same color for the least powerful and the most powerful??
67.169.127.22 (talk) 13:26, 24 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Colors

message: Article states that it is made in Graham since 2003. I know EBCo has always made their bulk powders there, and I thought they produced the cord there. If so, why would it be since 2003?
Msjayhawk (talk) 18:35, 11 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Graham, Ky
Talk:Uplift Universe

message: Some of this really doesn't jive with my understanding of the languages depicted in the books. 
*Anglic was developed as a universal language for all earthlings, replacing the myriad languages spoken by humans today by blending a number of widely spoken languages together. Terran schools also teach GalSeven, a galactic language used by a great many species. 
*Dolphins are portrayed as being very adept at various languages. Among themselves dolphins speak an extremely fast dialect of Anglic that is hard for humans to follow, but also compose haiku by whistling in a language called "Trinary", and have another language referred to as "Primal Dolphin" that is what non-uplifted dolphins use to communicate, as in,  what dolphins actually do right now. Many also speak GalFour and/or GalTen,  galactic languages employing sonar. 
*GalTwo is a "bridging language" that almost any species can learn, described as "basic, logical, unamibiguous...and boring". 
I don't know that we need to go into that level of detail in the article itself butwhat is there right now seems incorrect. Beeblebrox (talk) 23:09, 25 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  language section 

message: This is another area that seems to disconnect somewhat from what is actually in the novels. The path of redemtion, as it is called, is rarely used in galactic culture. Most species aspire to become members of the Transcendent Order, not to devolve. This may be conflating the situation on Jijo (setting of Brightness Reef and Infinity's Shore, where groups from a number of races live a primitive existence ostensibly in pursuit of devolution, but some of the groups, including humans, are really just kind of hiding there) with galaxtic society at large. The normal course is presapient to uplifted client, to patron, to the Retired Order, and finally Trancedence, which is either moving on to another plane of existence living inside a gravity well, or entire species dying in deep space, both are witnessed by the crew of Streaker in Heaven's Reach. I think if we dialogue here we can resove these discrepencies, I have not read all the new found sources but I do have access to all six novels (which, coincidnetally I just finished re-reading literally the day before the deletion nomination) as well as Contacting Aliens: An Illustrated Guide to David Brin's Uplift Universe. Beeblebrox (talk) 00:23, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Devolution
Talk:Battle of Oliwa

message: "Battle of Oliwa" (with words "wikipedia" and "LLC" removed to get rid of mirrors, and with the word "Sweden" added to screen out non-english titles": 109 hits
"Battle of Oliva" (ditto): 57 hits.
So "Oliwa" appears to be twice as popular in English sources than "Oliva", and "Oliwa" was the original title of this article. Hence I'm moving it back.VolunteerMarek 19:24, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  name 

message: The work listed in References is "Anderson, R. C. Naval Wars in the Levant 1559-1853" - how relevant is this really to the subject matter? Last I checked the Levant was a few miles away from the Baltic Sea.VolunteerMarek 19:32, 18 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference 

message: Why do all the "Polish" ships have German names?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.221.30.147 (talk) 18:00, 29 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Ships' names
Talk:Steve (Stargate)

message: Should not this article be titled Steve_(Stargate) in keeping with the general format?
*Done.  The article had been copy/pasted to this article title from Steve (Atlantis).  That caused the history to show the article springing full-blown from one editor, effectively eliminating the article's history.  I've merged the two so that the article is now at Steve (Stargate) with the full history intact.  SWAdair | Talk  10:04, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)