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Talk:New York Court of Chancery

message: This is a bare-bones history: formed, altered, abolished. I get that. But what exactly did the Court of Chancery do? I see the term used in some old family legal documents, but don't understand what the court was about. Adding an description of the purpose and scope of the court would be appreciated. Thanks, Wordreader (talk) 02:15, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  ...but what does it do?
Talk:Pythagorean means

message: hey, is the golden mean thing actually acurate? I'd never heard of more than 3 pythagorean means, but I'm not sure... ROBO (talk) 02:10, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Golden Mean 

message: What is the proof of the graph?
Why does it work out so beautifully in a semicircle. I am very curious.
152.2.11.70 (talk) 21:25, 9 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I second the request for an explanation of the graph.  For one, is it a circle or an ellipse?  If it is a circle it seems to be showing the harmonic mean as a radius, which would be equal to A. --Walt (talk) 15:17, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Assuming the picture is a semicircle it appears that H > G. 128.40.255.6 (talk) 15:59, 17 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm quite sure that it's a circle, but I agree that it would be very helpful to see a proof. As for the harmonic mean being too big, you have to look carefully at the colors: the purple for the harmonic mean does not come all the way down to the circle's center; it just comes down to the right angle.  Duoduoduo (talk) 18:28, 1 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proof 

message: The "Value Preservation" property is just a special case of the "Averaging" property. Should it be removed? 24.148.88.178 (talk) 12:58, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Properties 

message: The part "Monotonicity and idempotence together imply that a mean of a set always lies between the extremes of the set." is incorrect if the domain is not restricted to postive values for x. For example: take the values -8,-1,1. GM(-8,-1,1) = 8^(1/3) = 2. Max(-8,-1,1) = 1, so GM>Max. Similarly GM(-1,1,8) = -2 < -1 = Min(-1,1,8). 193.10.51.77 (talk) 14:13, 5 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Domain Restrictions 

message: The geometric mean is defined with an absolute value.  This is not consistent with the geometric mean page's definition.  Is this an assumption of all Pythagorean studies of the GM, a simplification focused on here for certain cases, or something else? 2603:6080:5AF0:9A80:F0B4:82A2:7CB5:9404 (talk) 13:37, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: In the version history, it looks like the absolute values were added by an anonymous editor on 5 February 2016, so they weren't part of the original article.  Note the use of absolute values affects the properties of the function in some important ways, including those noted in the above Domain Restrictions comment. 2603:6080:5AF0:9A80:F0B4:82A2:7CB5:9404 (talk) 13:45, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  (Absolute?) Geometric Mean
Talk:Ottawa Road 174

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: page not moved.  Arbitrarily0 (talk) 16:05, 7 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Ottawa Road 174 →  – This is also posted on Template talk:Jcon#Ottawa "Regional" Roads. I noticed that Template:Jcon is linking Ottawa Roads to 'Ottawa City Road %' (i.e. Ottawa City Road 174) (Template link:  ), while the Ottawa numbered road articles are titled 'Ottawa Road %' (i.e. Ottawa Road 174). Is the best course of action for a fix to modify the template to the article link, or rename (move) the article to reflect the format? At this point I think the only article that would really be affected would be Ottawa Road 174. I beleive other numbered roads in cities use "City Road" as the naming convention. MuzikMachine (talk) 00:52, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 30 November 2023
Talk:Heidelberg Football Club

message: I would dispute that Heidelberg ever played in the VFA.  There appears to be no record of this in any of the recognised histories, including Marc Fiddian's definative VFA history.  The only references to Heidelberg and the VFA are on this Wikipedia page and the VFL Wikepedia page. Can anyone provide proper references for this information?  If not it will have to be removed from both sites.Albert Isaacs (talk) 02:28, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Heidelberg and the VFA.
Talk:1929 Ottawa sewer explosion

message: This article does not meet the notibility requirements as described in Wikipedia:Notability (events) and Wikipedia:Notability.  Its local scope (Geographical scope WP:GEOSCOPE) requies it to be of an importance to warrant its own article.  Lasting effects (WP:EFFECT): it was not demonstrated that it had any effects other than those of the event itself.   Depth of coverage (WP:INDEPTH): This is not demonstrated, and none of Ottawa's books on history (Woods, Brault, Bond, Haig, Mika, Taylor, Van de Wetering) have a section on the event, none list it in their index or table of contents,  and the most important works: Woods, and Brault don't even mention the event at all.  Duration of coverage (WP:CONTINUEDCOVERAGE): there is no evidence presented to show that this event's coverage was beyond its occurrence in time.  Diversity of sources (WP:DIVERSE): there is no showing that the event was covered beyond the local newspapers.  I favor having this article marked as Wikipedia:AFD soon.  Furthermore I don't think that the article's content should be merged with any other article.SunKing2 (talk) 01:26, 3 October 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: With respect, I find it noteworthy, as it IS extremely unusual for sewers to explode and even MORE unusual for manhole covers to be launched into the air. From personal experience in handling manhole covers, I'll state as fact that they're extremely heavy!Wzrd1 (talk) 00:19, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Picture #5 at this link for today's Courier-Journal shows one example of what a manhole cover can do when a sewer explodes. That apartment was on the top floor of a three-story building. Picture #6 is also about a close call with a manhole cover.  2601:600:9980:B540:C955:C30F:5888:BD96 (talk) 22:54, 22 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability and possible deletion
Talk:River cruise

message: The main purpose of mods was to get it to mesh with the Wiki "Cruise Ship" article.
Removed redundant verbiage, as well as several incorrect statements, uncited, or inexact statements "the countryside is always in view", "The most popular river cruises include...", "can go where no other transportation can", etc. 
Alpha Ralpha Boulevard (talk) 02:48, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Language tightened

message: 66.108.6.53 (talk) 04:42, 3 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  who the hell is douglas ward?
Talk:NABU Network

message: Was considering buying a NABU home computer unit, but thought that the expansion capabilities inside were proprietary.  The expansion bus sockets inside were not S-100 bus of the late 1970s and the power supply was likely not able to operate such high power consumption expansion cards.  Expensive proprietary cards would likely be the only choice.
It had a unique joystick controller with 3+ axis output--up/down, left/right, forward/back, &, if I recall correctly, twisting the handle too. One of the popular games was the BC game where a cave man would ride a single stone wheel with its single wooden axle under his bare feet down a hill with lots of obstacles to hop over or land on. The goal was to avoid all the obstacles, get the bonuses, and make it to the finish line.
The long corded, black colored, full size keyboard was quite nicely sculptured. A typing tutor game called Wiz-Type would have words/phrases appear that the player had to type in, or risk losing the game.  It would measure the words per minute achieved. Game audio / music would play through the user's TV.
The dark colored case was light gauge sheet steel fastened together by screws.
A diskette drive cost about CDN$200 then, but for this computer would have cost much more due to the proprietary nature of the machine.  NABU had a cassette interface and BASIC language interpreter.
The IBM PC (CDN $1,800 - $3,000) had come out & had diskette drive(s) & 16/8-bit Intel i8088 at 4.77 MHz & a standard ISA 8-bit signal bus with a number of expansion bus slots.  The Apple II & IBM PC both used switching power supplies rather than the late 1970s bulky 60 Hz linear power supplies of the S-100 bus common for most 8080 or Z80 computers of the time.  The Commodore Vic-20 with only a few kilobytes of RAM, M6502 CPU chip cost under US$50 with BASIC language & no cassette drive.  A small, slow Z80 chess playing experimenter computer Timex Sinclair zx-81 with small keyboard & audio cassette I/F jack, & B&W TV RF-modulator cost about US$30 on sale at drug stores.
A white colored Xenix computer with hard disks running an 8086 came out called the Nabu-16 Business computer or similar such name.  A Bell Northern Research co-op student school friend bought one 1983 or so with 3 x 10 Mbyte hard disks, and floppy disk drives. Oldspammer (talk) 10:02, 26 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Took one apart 

message: There seems to be quite a bit available at . Don't have time to include it these days, however. Martinp (talk) 15:54, 25 March 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: And quite a bit more published today at . Martinp (talk) 17:45, 29 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Additional information to be included
Talk:Achasan station

message: – Would anyone object if I started a new multi-RM discussion to replace the 5 open discussions on Korean station caps, so we don't each have to repeat ourselves in so many places?  I'll go ahead and start that, and then delete the old ones, if I don't hear any objections.  Please either copy your comments or write new ones, or I'll copy some over, if I don't hear back.  I'll do it on this article. Dicklyon (talk) 03:21, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The bot's not instant; seems to have picked this up around 04:46, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the closes.  The first time I saw the Bot update the RM list after I submitted, it wasn't there.  Maybe I missed its scan phase by a bit. Dicklyon (talk) 16:25, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Can we merge these 5 discussions?
Category talk:Endemic fauna of Newfoundland (island)

message: Tagged the Newfoundland Pine Marten and Newfoundland Wolf pages with this category. Rather than inappropriately tagging lots of other mammal pages with this category, added the List of Mammals of Newfoundland, with links to the appropriate pages, and tagged that page instead.  If any new subspecies pages are added - the black bear and lynx subspecies are possibilities - they should be tagged with this category.Vulcan's Forge (talk) 02:54, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Metlapilcoatlus nummifer

message: In the article text, the geographic range of Atropoides nummifer includes Mexico and Central America (from northern Guatemala to central Panamá). However, the IUCN limits A. nummifer's range to Mexico only, which is reflected in the range map used in this article. Does anyone have an explanation why Central America isn't included in IUCN's range description? -- Arjuno (talk  22:08, 12 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Range 

message: There is no explanation for the 'jumping' common name. Some description of the jumping is badly needed. Dean1954 (talk) 08:56, 29 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Behaviour
Talk:Storyhill

message: I have updated my article with sources, now how do I get the deletion form removed?  Maybe I am not doing this correctly, but I sure would appreciate some advice, because I believe this group is very notable.  Also, I got a deletion notice for a picture that I scanned out of a song book, and the only license I saw that was close to this was "book cover", which is not what it is.  How do I site a picture from inside a book?
Killercptwinky (talk) 03:12, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Having heard them once on NPR, and just read the St. Olaf alum article http://www.stolaf.edu/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=NewsDetails&id=4009 (not neutral, but also not done by them or their label) those terms seem accurate. If you don't like that language, you need to expand each sentence into a paragraph explaining that they weren't having fights before the breakup, and remained friends, etc.69.72.27.250 (talk) 06:48, 2 August 2011 (UTC)
Talk:Bothriechis

message: What about the five new species discovered in South America? Three are endemic to Colombia. 177.73.44.195 (talk) 23:12, 3 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  new species
Talk:Crotalus durissus

message: In Spanish, the rattlesnake is called víbora de cascabel, cascabel, or cascabela.  (This means a little bell, like a cow's bell -- a curious description of the rattlesnake's rattle!  The word "cascabel" is used in a variety of idioms and figures of speech; to the best of my knowledge, "cascabela" means only rattlesnake.)  "Cascavel" is the Portuguese cognate (there is even a city in Brazil by this name).  A less widely used Spanish name, limited mainly to southern South America (e.g., Uruguay, Argentina, the Andes), is yarará; this is a Tupi word meaning "big snake," related to other names such as jararaca. Mia229 (talk) 15:02, 21 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  common names for C. durissus 
Talk:Strength Through Peace

message: Wow. This article isn't POV at all... --Kevin W. 03:28, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

message: This phrase is a mock inversion of the militaristic "peace through strength". It's been used as a slogan occasionally but isn't all that notable that I can find. There are a few examples of minor politicians using it and so on, in relation to peace through strength. I suggest a merge/redirect to peace through strength until/if someone can demonstrate this phrase has merit to be a standalone article. -- Green Cardamom (talk) 23:07, 22 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-notable phrase
Talk:Bear Brook (Ontario)

message: This page should be split since it mixes two separate topics. Topic 1 is about the watercourse, Bear Brook. Topic 2 is about the village of Bearbrook. While Bearbrook is on the banks of Bear Brook, they are definitely not the same. Milksge (talk) 11:40, 9 February 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I've created Bearbrook, Ontario for the community, and will be adjusting this article to service only the stream. --papageno (talk) 21:41, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Split into two articles
Template talk:User linguist-2

message: I made the background gold to match the academic hood color for linguistics. Do you like it?
Sometimes somethings (talk) 03:41, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Background Color

message: Subj.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by BPK (talk • contribs) 21:46, 24 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need for hobby-linguist template
Talk:Carlington

message: This article profiles the neighbourhood, and has useful info which could make its way into this article. --Padraic 17:40, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Zebra (medicine)

message: this article is textually the same as http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Zebra-(medical)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 217.82.178.148 (talk) 05:19, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Very true indeed. :-) But as they say on their page: The Wikipedia article included on this page is licensed under the GFDL. -- Momotaro (talk) 09:35, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

text: And yet you would be surprised how infrequently most physicians think this way, especially in the era of practice guidelines.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.195.90.244 (talk) 06:50, 12 October 2011 (UTC)

text: We are talking about diagnosis. Is someone seriously suggesting that if the patient has clearly been hit by a large object it is irrelevant whether he lives on a busy road or lives miles from any road? Those criteria are reflected in statistics, and they ARE relevant! 78.147.18.59 (talk) 16:34, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: this

message: What does "Sotos (2006) page 15." refer to? 72.65.51.43 (talk) 05:24, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: In the article's bibliography section at the bottom of the page it says:  — tbc (talk) 21:07, 29 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: What would the leading image for zebra medicine term be, if we could get one? A picture of a literal zebra probably would be not appropriate. Qwertyxp2000 (talk | contribs) 04:47, 19 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I've seen ribbons with zebra pattern. Like an awareness ribbons. Nakonana (talk) 19:31, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: It's actually a thing: Zebra print ribbon. Nakonana (talk) 19:35, 17 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zebra medicine image 

message: The statement that "calculations of probability have no meaning" and more egregiously "Whether it is rare or common does not change the odds in a single patient" are quite wrong. The quote is just a Base rate fallacy. Should this at least be mentioned next to the quote? I.Elgamal (talk) 20:42, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quote at end of Introduction 

message: I have it second hand from someone who was a med student under Dr Theodore Woodward at Johns Hopkins, and I'm still looking for the attributed version, but the correct original quote zie posted is within 5% of:
"When you hear hoofbeats behind you on Greene St, you expect horses, not zebras... but a zebra it may well be."
The street address of Johns Hopkins is #10 Greene St, Googlemaps tells me.
Clearly that's not enough attribution to put the quote *in* the article, but since Dr Woodward is being cited to have said *the exact opposite thing from what he's quoted as having said* -- to wit: that you should *think about zebras*, not dismiss them -- and since we are cited as many people's source for this, we might perhaps reconsider how this is written and/or whether we should include the current attribution?  (I have the citation and I *will* find it, but this is front of mind just now and I didn't want to forget.)-- baylink@en.wp Baylink (talk) 03:39, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  The quote is wrong.
Talk:Dwyer Hill, Ottawa

message: As per WP:CANSTYLE#Neighbourhoods, this article should be moved to Dwyer Hill, Ottawa.  In accordance with the guideline, however, the move is first being raised on the talk page. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 13:39, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed page move
Talk:Horaceville, Ottawa

message: As per WP:CANSTYLE#Neighbourhoods, this article should be moved to Horaceville, Ottawa.  In accordance with the guideline, however, the move is first being raised on the talk page. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 17:47, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed page move

message: The measurements of the main building at Pinhey's Point and St. Mary's Church?  I'm doing a Historica Fair Project and I want to make a scale model of the two, but I want it to be exact.  I would be delighted to get an answer.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by InkwellAnimations (talk • contribs) 00:08, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does Anybody Know... 
Talk:Harper Finkle

message: Hey i wanna know who said she was missing in the movies episode She was there! she dumped soda on Justin in the theater and talked to alex in the sub shop
That's not what this is being talked about there - the episode entitled Movies is the one in which Alex tries to hang out with Justin's friends and then gets trap in a horror movie. Harper was absent in this one.96.250.173.113 (talk) 21:52, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Talk
Talk:Special Task Force (India)

message: Emmanuel Reyes isn't disclosed on records I'm sorry I need a trip to another state and to washing tin state and protection from everyone of my children plus grandma fiky along with three cultured 
Type on church 2607:FB91:20C1:2DF:AC39:C212:9A4A:F5C4 (talk) 23:11, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Police
Talk:Crotalus cerastes

message: The "Sidewinder" page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidewinder says:
"Crotalus cerastes, a venomous viper species found in the Namibian Desert in Africa."
But this article talks about a snake native to the US and there seems to be nothing about the African sidewinder.
::Thanks for the heads-up, I've fixed it. Mokele (talk) 04:30, 2 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  An African or an American snake? 
Talk:The Heart of the Andes

message: Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that :File:Church Heart of the Andes.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on November 26, 2014. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2014-11-26. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. Thanks! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:56, 5 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:File:Church Heart of the Andes.jpg]] to appear as POTD
Talk:Lewes Castle

message: An anon changed the date the castle was "built" from 1087 to 1069. Which one's correct? Perhaps both (date building started, date completed)? Some sources, such as the Sussex Archaeological Society here, say buiding started "soon after 1066", but others, such as this, say building started in 1087.--A bit iffy (talk) 20:05, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Just to further muddy things, pastscape (run by English Heritage) says 1100. It seems like there's some uncertainty about the date building started, in which case it's fine to state that in the article. Simply state that sources differ on when the castle was founded (perhaps one will explain why this is). Nev1 (talk) 20:58, 28 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date built 

message: Description and history of the castle should be expanded in order to justify a "B" class rating.  A wider range of sources needs to be consulted. Monstrelet (talk) 12:02, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  MILHIST assessment
Talk:Myles Rudge

message: Inspiration behind "Myles & Rudge" organisation in Bristow comic strip?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.178.63.3 (talk) 03:48, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Purvas

message: This section read like a Babelfish translation to me, so I did the best I could patching it up without altering any meaning. Re-reading the passage, I have a hard time seeing any encyclopaedic information, but, this may just be a case wherein the jargon hides the content (I'm sure, to someone unfamiliar with cell biology, certain articles would also seem completely nonsensical). To improve this article, I think this section either needs to be integrated into the article, or given greater context so that someone who is unfamiliar with the terminology can still understand the gist of what is being said. Mr0t1633 (talk) 13:37, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Loss of the Purvas