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Talk:Carneddau

message: Moved this article from "Carnedd" to "Carneddau". I have never heard "Carnedd" used for the range. Rhion 08:15, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I've heard 'Carneds' (with a 'd' rather than a soft 'th' sound) used by non-Welsh speakers but would baulk at using that pronunciation myself! Geopersona (talk) 05:07, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

message: The area is described as extensive high ground over 2000 ft, 2500 ft and 3000 ft. Metric conversions have been added. Template:convert naturally rounds figures to match the input so  is displayed as,  instead of the more accurate figure . This was fixed by adding a precision parameter as . Unfortunately the original figures are rough. That is, "High ground above about 3000 ft" rather than "High ground over 3002 ft 7 inches". So the metric figured should also be rough figures. Roughly 3000 ft is roughly 910 m or even roughly 900 m. Roughly 914 m 40 cm does not make sense. A good rule of thumb is that Ordnance Survey used 50 foot contours on their 1 inch series and now use 10 metre contours on the 1:50000 series so rounding heights of areas to 10 m makes sense.
However actual heights of features should always be converted with true precision. Infobox Mountain has parameters height_m and prominence_m that automatically convert metric height to imperial. This can be embarrassing if the precise height of a mountain is 1000 m. To avoid any rounding, you can add a decimal point so that the height is 1000. m. Don't add a prosthetic zero as otherwise you will get . OrewaTel (talk) 19:43, 12 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conversion Precision
Talk:Bernard Woolley

message: Is that really meant to be his date of birth? Despite the fact that the casting of Derek Fowlds at that point would rather kill the illusion, I thought Woolley was meant to be comparatively young - in his early 30s rather than mid-40s. --Bonalaw 08:18, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Date of birth

message: (proven (historical solution)) is like (little (old lady)) - as "proven" modifies the whole phrase it doesn't take a comma; see  #2 --Zeborah 21:32, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: To quote from this website:
"Adjective as independent descriptions. Independent adjectives display the discrete facets of the noun they are describing. They list descriptions. As items of a list these descriptions are necessarily separated by commas.
[e.g.] That smelly, dirty, ragged coat is still his favourite one."
"Proven" and "historical" are separate adjectives and the sentence would still make sense with either removed (i.e., the solution can be either proven or historical, whereas the old lady must be just that). The reason I qualified the description was to demonstrate that Woolley seeks solutions that have not only been tried before, but have been seen to have worked in a practical sense. Sorry, but I don't see "proven historical solution" as a noun phrase in the same way as, e.g., "large ancestral home", which most definitely is. However, I'm not one for getting into an edit war, so I won't re-revert! Chris 42 22:46, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm, well obviously I still disagree with you.  Talking with a friend, she suggested the test of reversing the adjectives - to me "a historical proven solution" sounds so wrong it verges on nonsensical, and that's the signal that a comma isn't appropriate.  But if you disagree with me there too, how would you feel about "a historically proven solution" as a compromise? --Zeborah 06:17, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

text: I have no problem with your suggestion at all: "historically proven" is a very good alternative. Thanks for accommodating my point of view. :-) Chris 42 11:36, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Commas

message: I have removed Woolley's knighthood - he isn't Sir Bernard in the sitcom, just plain Bernard. See for example  - "Principal Private Secretary, Bernard Woolley (Derek Fowlds), and Permanent Secretary, Sir Humphrey Appleby (Nigel Hawthorne)." Jll (talk) 09:51, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Knighthood
Talk:Muti

message: * On a visit in Kenya I found that murder victims sometimes show signs of ritual killing. But no ritual killing has ever been proven. It is very well possible that murderers use the rumours about ritual killings to disguise their deed actually committed for completely different reasons. martinvienna
* News reporting of suspicion of muti murder in 2016. http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Community-hangs-man-after-boy-3-brutally-killed-20151019  Rauterkus (talk) 16:42, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Topic treated cautiously.

message: I have removed the image image:Muti.jpg
*It is the subject of a copyvio tag
*The authenticity of the image is unverified. I suspect it was lifted from stopboergenocide.com, which is not an authoritative or verified source
Humansdorpie 13:17, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image 

message: Afaik in some parts of Africa especially humans (mostly children or youth) who are suffering from albinism are the victims of crimes connected to muti (or Voodoo, Juju etc.) Because their bodyparts are regarded as something special and with strong magic power. They musician Salif Keita from Westernafrica Mali (being an albino himself) is very active in fighting those crimes. 
* http://www.salifkeita.us/Press.html
* http://www.theblackheritageradio.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=186%3Aafrica-salif-keita-africa-nations-concert-against-albino-killing&Itemid=127 --178.115.103.91 (talk) 17:43, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Aspect of Albinism   
Talk:Barrier

message: As you've probably noticed i'm wrong but I've also listed a number of things where "barrier" is just part of their name, since few places have the exact complete name "barrier" (e.g. the place in Netherlands).  If more places with that exact name are found, I would support removing some of the non-exact matches I have here.  --rob 09:18, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Gerry Fitt

message: I'm not sure if anyone will check this but here goes...
I'm just doing some reading on the Northern Ireland troubles for a university course and am currently wading through the Cameron report into the circumstances surrounding the violent clashes associated with the first civil rights marches. In view of the pretty damning conclusions of the report re Gerald Fitt MP I think this page warrents some cleaning up. He's labelled 'irresponsible' and 'self publicising' several times, but the article makes reference only to his treatment at the hands of the police. I think this might be mentioned, and it it t'were would give the article a far more even slant. Cheers y'all.
:Cameron was a Scottish judge commissioned by the unionist O'Neill government of Northern Ireland (and the sectarian politics of Northern Ireland find quite a strong and unpleasant echo in Scotland, with marching flute bands and the Celtic-Rangers football rivalry in Glasgow and all that), so it's not surprising that he would dislike a Catholic nationalist politician like Gerry Fitt (who is never, ever referred to as 'Gerald'). Khamba Tendal (talk) 19:00, 3 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discusion 

message: Does nobody have a picture of Gerry Fitt? ~ R.T.G 04:54, 3 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images 

message: This is my first post so I hope I've done it right. The information I have added could be seen as controversial but I promise it is genuine which will be seen if anyone examines the source I've quoted. I won't do anything more until I see how this change is received but because I have the book I intend to bulk out the page with further information which may not have been available when it was written. 
Leitrim Lad (talk) 18:39, 23 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Circumstances of birth
Talk:Archibald Prize

message: I am not sure if I see the point of the section Archibald Prize#Notable finalists.  As the Archibald is supposed to be portraits of notable people, it would be expected that finalists would includeprotraits of notbale people.  Perhaps if the section was refined to discuss pictures where commentators thought (not just a passing throw-away line)that a finalist of the Archibald was a very notable painting.  Otherwise, perhaps these finalists could be mentioned int heir own articles - eg the article on William Dargie could mention that he was an Archibald finalist in 1981 for his protrait of Joh Bjelke-Petersen ...--A  Y  Arktos 00:09, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: * Yes I think it should be moved to a separate article, I have started Archibald Prize list of winners -- Astrokey44|talk 01:00, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notable finalists? and List of Winners and section on entries

message: Is anyone willing to update the winner's details for 2007? Special mention should be made for that awful portrait of Toni Collette ;) Naysie 11:25, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Update needed?

message: does it refer to later part of a sentence, or to both parts? 212.200.205.163 (talk) 02:31, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it refers to both parts. In my opinion, the whole sentence would be clearer and lose nothing if the second part were omitted: "The Archibald Prize is regarded as the most important portraiture prize in Australia." -- Michael Bednarek (talk) 07:29, 25 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  'in australia' 

message: It's called a "Prize" but is it not in essence a competition?  Why does the word "competition" appear nowhere in the article?  --  Jack of Oz [your turn] 09:21, 6 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Competition?

message: Prize money is cited as $100k for 2008 in the 2nd last paragraph. But $100k in section 1.1 and intro.
Maybe the diff is “total prize money” versus first prize money?
MBG02 (talk) 05:30, 16 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  $ difference  
Talk:Gawler

message: I updated the population of Gawler to 19,000 based on:
# 19,000 on council web site: http://www.gawler.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=100
# 18,762 at ABS web site (June, 2003): http://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/c311215.nsf/0/3C556306C6A3B803CA256B5500799B10?Open#Untitled%20Section_2
# "Nearly 20,000" in SMH article, Feb 2004: http://www.smh.com.au/news/South-Australia/Gawler/2005/02/17/1108500204259.html
Troy88 18:01, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population Updated 

message: A new section about local industry and the economy is needed. If you can find the info, please add it in. See Kapunda as a small and simple example.
Troy88 19:24, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Industry Information Needed 

message: Article shows 1836. This is before the site for Adelaide was chosen! Local signage erected by Town Of Gawler council show "Established 1839", which seems much more likely as George Gawler became Governor in October 1838. 1.147.28.91 (talk) 09:43, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date established?
Talk:Blair Athol, South Australia

message: So I saw a link that said Blair Athol. I followed it, because those are some pretty crazy words, and I wanted to know what they mean. I find a fairly long article, and after reading it, I still don't know what Blair Athol is.
It's a city, right? Please tell me it's a city. Or a town. Or a county. I can tell you lots of things about it, but the article doesn't say what it is! I know where it is, what it has, which number bus goes there, but what do I find when I get off of line 182? I'll have to look elsewhere, because this article isn't telling. Staecker 17:43, 9 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Huh?
Talk:Ottawa Senators (original)

message: I've been tasked on doing hockey research for the Eastern Ontario region and have had the unfortunate pleasure of cleaning up the odd inaccuracies on various pages so far and have taken notes on pages that will need to be created.  Every now and then I get some facts that lead me to the Ottawa Hockey Club but I opt to leave that page alone for now as I have sufficient other areas to work on at the moment.
One of my concerns is that the current page has a different name then its infobox.  Either this is the Ottawa Hockey Club page or the Ottawa Senators (original) page.  In all honesty having two varying names looks very unprofessional.  
Secondly, Ottawa Senators (original) seems inaccurate as the team was not actually called that for several years.
Thirdly,  we must keep in mind that citations will be added to other articles in Wikipedia and could in turn send the reader to this page.  If the information is then contradictory it is counterproductive, 
For example: I have update the "Jim Durrell Recreation Centre" Wikipedia page with the following information;
 Several names were proposed for the new arena, among them were, Senator's Memorial Arena, Colonel By Arena and Billings Arena,[6] the Silver Seven Stadium (to commemorate the Silver Seven hockey team which won the Stanley Cup in 1903, 1904 and 1905),[7] but it was eventually decided to simply keep it as Walkley Arena.[8]
Now I have clear newspaper citations for this addition to the page.  Clearly there is a conflict with who won the Staley Cup the first three years, Silver Seven or Senators, yes it may be the same team, so are the Hartford Whalers and Carolina Hurricanes, but unless we can clearly cite that the team is the same team with same ownership or that there was a transfer of ownership then should we not refrain from lumping it all under one grouping, and if the lineage is there, should it not be properly identified in the infobox like othe hockey clubs?
Well, sorry for the vent, just got a little frustrated with the inconsistencies.Slave1 13:14, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: This page has been reviewed several times. You can rely on the information on this page. It is extensively cited. There are articles for the various seasons of the club too. So it is well-backed. If you have any interest on the topic further you should read the Win, Lose or Wrangle book on the team that covers this time period, and Joan Finnigan's books. If anything, the inconsistencies come from other information about ice hockey in the area. The article is titled Ottawa Senators (original) following Wikipedia guidelines. The name of Ottawa Senators is the best-known name for the club, though it was always the Ottawa Hockey Club from its founding. The club was an amateur organization for many years until a few years before 1910. It was affiliated with the Ottawa Athletic Association. It became its own organization when it became professional and the ownership of that legal entity changed over time, but the Ottawa Hockey Association was always the owner. Alaney2k (talk) 14:33, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inconsistencies on this page
Talk:Fundamental polygon

message: Need a discussion of, or perhaps a new article about, the Poincare polygon theorem.
Also need higher dimensional articles, about fundamental polyhedra and the Poincare polyhedron theorem.
Perhaps the current article can be upgraded to discuss fundamental polyhedra as well, with the current text as its core.
--Mosher 11:52, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: If you set out to do this, then please create a new article for fundamental polyhedra.  I beleive that WP articles work better if they can be kept short, in byte-size pieces. The reader should be trusted to follow whatever links are needed to get any background material hey may be missing. linas 22:00, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggestions

message: It would be more introductional to state that the 2n sequence corresponds to the 2n edges of the polygon in question.  Also, a point, it would be nice to know if the genus of the manifold/shape/closed surface correspond to the number of edges (by, say, something like a silly factor of 4 when dealing with simple surfaces - though I have never seen a proof of this, it does seem geometrically clear).    
MrASingh 03:05, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: For Those of Us Lacking Brain Cells....

message: ... is not the one shown (which is actually the torus).  If anyone can locate or recreate the correct one please do so!  -A13ean (talk) 18:25, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  The fundamental polygon for the klein bottle... 

message: The terminology "genus k projective plane" or "genus k Klein bottle" is something I've never heard in years of working with non-orientable surfaces in graph theory.  The terminology I've always seen is "non-orientable surface of (non-orientable) genus k". Zaslav (talk) 05:52, 29 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Terminology
Talk:TLC (TV series)

message: This whole article needs a little tidying; mainly to rewrite it into a language more suitable for an encyclopaedia. 81.140.76.57 (talk) 22:08, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Tidyup
Talk:European values

message: The following comments appear to support the proposed merge --Boson 21:41, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Heading added

message: I've cut this as straying off-topic, but have added a mention of the European migrant crisis in the relevant place earlier. Ben Finn (talk) 13:25, 13 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Immigration crisis

message: Most "European values" as defined in this article are off-shoots of Post-WW2 neoliberalism and have nothing to do with 99% of European history. The idea that Europeans should be minorities in their native capital cities (like London) and partially ruled by foreigners in the name of multiculturalism would be laughable just 30 years ago. These are not "universal values" either as we do not see any of this occuring outside the Western World. In fact even the non post-1945 values here are offshoots of the ideologies of 18th century proggesive revolutionaries in Anglo-America and France. They have nothing to do with 99% of European history and the thousands of years which proceeded the existence of "Liberal Democracy". The article must be frank and say the EU started out as a pure monetary union and then incrementally morphed into a highly ideological multilateral structure which claims to represent the "values of Europeans" but in reality represents the values of select EU member states (the largest nations in Europe are not even in EU like Ukraine or Russia and members like Hungary openly dispute these values).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:8000:9B02:A846:F11A:F9EC:D618:E6A4 (talk) 20:24, 18 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historical Revisionism
Talk:Porsche 956

message: I've had a stab at a template for racing cars (see template:Racing car) to summarise the usual data. I've used the F1 templates as a starting point and applied it to the Brabham BT46 article. If anyone's got an interest in this, please have a look at the template and modify or suggest changes as appropriate. After a few people have had a go at it and we have something we're happy with we could start to use it more widely. Note that it's not meant to be specific to F1, by the way. Cheers. 4u1e 09:58, 2 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Racing car template

message: Sorry to post this as there is nowhere else I can post as I want to point out an error. Referring to this photo above, I want to say judging by this number, as I can tell straight away, whoever wrote the title has made an error with the as I can say that this is a 962C, the 1987 Le Mans winner and not a 956C. Judging by the photo, this is how I can tell...
# The names say Bell, Stuck and Holbert. That trio won both times together in '86 and '87 (see number 2 on why this would not be '86)
# On where Bell is marked, it says MBE (Member of British Empire), he was awarded that for outstanding contribution to Motorsport on the New Year's Honour list in 1986
# As that car is numbered 17, which is the same car as this one where linked
#Autoglass never sponsored any of the Rothmans cars prior to 1987
#The last competitive year for the 956 before they were banished from competition due to regulations was in 1986
#Another reason why this would not be '86 is the winning car is a #1, #17 was given to Brun Motorsport 
#Notice the length between the door gap and the back of the front wheelarch...that is one way to tell the difference between the two, 956s are shorter.
Willirennen 22:38, 19 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title error on Image:Rothmans Porsche 956 C Coupé (Langheck).jpg 

message: "High downforce aerodynamics allowed the car to be capable of reaching 252mph (+400km/h) on the Mulsanne Straight at the 24 Hours of Le Mans."  
Having a lot of downforce does not increase top speed, it lowers it, even in the absence of the inevitable high drag.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.63.82.163 (talk) 18:07, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: That depends entirely on the lift/drag ratio. In any event, the 956 did not reach 400 km/h. The highest ever speed ratified for a 956/962 was when the ACO speedtrap clocked a 962C at 391 km/h (242 mph) in 1988 http://www.mulsannescorner.com/maxspeed.html . Flanker235 (talk) 22:49, 19 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: High downforce contradiction
Talk:Lunar-A

message: :LUNAR-A is a Japanese robotic spacecraft…
I removed this redundant word "robotic". Just what does "robotic" mean here? Are there any non-robotic spacecraft? According to Wikipedia's definition of robot, all spacecraft are robotic.—Herbee 12:51, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text:  Well, except the Space Shuttle. And the Soyuz, and Shenzou, and the Apollo spacecraft, and Buran. But you were still close. Perhaps one shouldn't use Wikipedia for definitions...--Planetary 01:44, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Robotic

message: The article says that the LUNAR-A will be launched by M-V. BUT the M-V article says that the next M-V launch this month is the final one... so I think there should be a change somewhere. Hektor 07:41, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: M-V launch
Talk:Eskimo words for snow

message: , could you please supply a reference that supports your edit, suggesting that "Whorf is important to this notion"? Cheers, HopsonRoad (talk) 18:21, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks, that's more solid! Cheers, HopsonRoad (talk) 19:47, 3 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Whorfism 

message: I note that you're trying to get this right, which I find to be a difficult task because it's unclear from the title whether this article is about actual Eskimo words for snow or about the claim/expression. The first sentence should be structured in a way that the main theme echoes the title, reasonably well, in boldface, per MOS:LEADSENTENCE. Currently, it doesn't. I tried to accomplish this with "The phrase...", which had the unfortunate effect of appearing to be an entry in a lexicon, not about a concept or thing. What can be done to solve this? HopsonRoad (talk) 04:18, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I've tried to address this question, plus make other MOS edits. HopsonRoad (talk) 14:00, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead sentence?
Talk:Supré

message: I deleted "Supre meaning Stuff" as this is not true, and replaced with the meaning of Supre. Esperanto for stuff is aĵoj/aferoj.
Also the text suggests that the neutral nation Amikejo still exists (within Holland!) AFAIK it only existed for a few years.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Agneau (talk • contribs) 13:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I do not believe Supre really means slut, but I find it an interesting insight! -Media clutz (talk) 18:21, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meaning of SUPRE in Esperanto 

message: I disagree with the speedy deletion. It's a valid article, and it's a stub! Why should it be deleted? I've made it a bit tidier. Jevon 13:22, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Delete

message: Yep, cool. In its current form it is all good - certainly not a speedy. But when i put the tag on it, there was really no question about it, although maybe i should have used afd instead. Anyway thanks for cleaning it up, it actually has some useful info now. THE KING 12:48, 9 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  whatever