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Talk:List of cities that failed in their bids to host the Olympics

message: For a September 2004 deletion debate over this page see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/List of cities that have not hosted the Olympic Games
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The thing we'll need to distinguish on this page is that there are two kinds of failed bids.  There are the "applicant cities", and then the "candidate cities" (usually ~5). -Plutor 16:16, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: All of the data in this entry is adapted from this page:  - Plutor 17:28, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Source

message: #Merge "Russia" with "Soviet Union".  I find the distinction confusing for the purpose of this list.
#Explain that for many of these cities, there were also successful bids.  For example: Montreal; Lake Placid; Lillehammer; Los Angeles; and so forth.  A couple of possibilities: put a disclaimer to this effect in the lede, and a proper "see also" for a list of cities that did host the Olympics, or mark * for cities on the list which hosted Olympics in other years. 
Kudos to User:Black Falcon for his excellent work to preserve this article. YechielMan 02:50, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for your "kudos". I have taken care of the first issue and am thinking of the best way to handle the second. In addition to your two proposals, I am also considering the options of (1) adding a "Notes" column to the tables, (2) adding a "Notes" section at the bottom of the page, and (3) color-coding individual rows. The third option is the fanciest but may also be distracting. Anyway, I'll modify the page more in the coming days and will also do a search for additional sources ... if nothing else, they're needed to double-check the accuracy of the information. Cheers, Black Falcon (Talk) 04:40, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two suggestions 

message: The link List of cities that have not hosted the Olympic Games redirects to this page. However, this is a misnomer, since my idea of "not hosting the Olympic Games" is that a city has indeed never hosted the Games in its history. Cities that may have failed in bids to host the Olympics may have still ended up hosting the Olympics, as in the case of Athens and Beijing. Hence, failing to win a bid is not the same as not hosting the Olympic Games at all. Either we can correct the links, or make a color coding scheme to indicate which cities on this page's list were able to host the Olympics. Thanks. Joey80 02:56, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The problem with a list of cities that have not hosted the Olympic Games is that almost every city in the world meets that criterion. Which is why the article was moved from that title to this one; the redirect is an artifact of the move and shouldn't be taken to have any real meaning regarding the contents of this list.  That being said, it would be nice to have an indication of which of the cities in the list have also had successful bids.  Simply another column would probably do the trick, I'll get to work on it. -- Jonel | Speak 03:33, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of cities that have not hosted the Olympic Games
Category talk:Deaths by year

message: These categories are for people only, correct? i.e. not for murders in which a previous unknown died, and not for articles on incidents in which people died? I think that's pretty clear.
What, however, about articles like "Talk:Murder of Emily Sander"? It's not a biography, but it's the only article about her. Does it belong here or should the people categories go into a redirect from her name? I think the latter is best, as it maintains the integrity of these categories as people only.
I'm mostly concerned because I'm doing a bot run and I occasionally find articles like this. If they stay in the cat they'll get tagged with . That said, if the cats get moved to a redirect which is my usual favoured choice they'll still get tagged as I follow redirects. --kingboyk (talk) 17:25, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Biographies only? 

message: I've compiled three lists of people needing categorization by birth or death (as of mid-March 2008):
* User:Dsp13/Living people needing categorization by year of birth (containing about 26,000 individuals)
* User:Dsp13/People needing categorization by year of birth (containing about 11,000 individuals)
* User:Dsp13/People needing categorization as living or by year of death (containing about 18,000 individuals)
Any help gratefully received in adding the appropriate categories to these! Dsp13 (talk) 21:08, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Lists of people needing categorization by birth or death
Talk:Separation

message: I have a 5 month old child with a girl who I have broken up with and the mother will not let me look after my daughter alone because she doesnt trust me but there is no reason for her not to trust me. Would the courts make her hand the child over to me regually or and I wasting my time trying to be a good father? Please, help me. benjaminpoulter@hotmail.com
: Benjamin, sorry to hear about your problem but this is an inappropriate inquiry on an encyclopedia. Perhaps your best course of action is to contact a support group. There are many listed on the internet which you can find using the appropriate search terms. Also the courts differ by country and state and so it is wise to be precise in the details you provide and how you formulate your question. JPF 21:01, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)

message: Separatism, as in those seeking to "separate" their land from the country of which they are now page -- have its own link here? Hearing no dissent, will do in a few days :-)
Carol Moore 18:35, 23 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Should Separatism Be Linked Here?
Category talk:Icelandic musical groups

message: Shouldn't Björk be included? - Omegatron 17:37, Aug 31, 2004 (UTC)
I think Björk's not there because she's technically not part of a musical group anymore, she's solo. She's under the "Icelandic musicians" category, though. The musical groups that she has been in are also there (KUKL, The Sugarcubes). - swidly 00:23, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Click (TV programme)

message: This site (www.wikipedia.org) was once mentioned on Kate Russell's segment of Web Scape.
::It's always been mentioned!  Spencer Kelly even showed this page on their progrmamme! LOTRrules (talk) 14:21, 16 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia 

message: There appears to be some confusion in the Presenters section as Webscape is attributed to two different presenters at separate points in the section.K33l0r (talk) 20:43, 15 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Presenters 

message: I have had to edit the online section here for obvious reasons I shall explain... Since sometime in early 2011 they (rather ironically for a programme about the merits of online technology, et al) do NOT show the full 30 minute edition now until sometime on Tuesday/Wednesday of the following week after initial first broadcast on the Saturday before. This full edition seems to be listed on iPlayer as "Broadcast: BBC World Service, 1:32AM Wed" with "First broadcast
BBC World Service, 10:32AM Tue" or similar? While iPlayer (and Click website page) lists the 15 minute version under the "BBC News" banner and make that edition available very early on the Saturday of first broadcast. 
Whoever made that policy should be fired; why on earth would we want the 15 minute version online, rather than the full 30 minute one? Utterly confusing and highly annoying for UK viewers trying to follow editions of the show, thanks Beeb! Jimthing (talk) 01:16, 28 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: This is now largely resolved, as per my resent edit. Though some deficiencies in the recent past episodes archive are ongoing possible fixes (apparently ;-). Jimthing (talk) 05:28, 12 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Online availability: more issues! 

message: I corrected the previous edit for the programme's listings for this as the BBC Two airing starts tomorrow (14-Jan-2013) at 1035 (in tv listings & the EPG) not 1030 as mentioned on the programme or by the previous editor of the page. the programme is approximately 22 minutes in length on all full-length editions (allowing for BBC World News' commercial break). Usually, on the BBC News channel (excluding BBC Breakfast), it starts after a short news summary and afterwards has approximately a 4 minute weather forecast, a programme trailer or two and about 20-30 second countdown to the top of the hour. Will1701 (talk) 16:32, 13 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: There is a mention on the page under 30 min edition. Adamiow (talk) 11:13, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  New BBC Two airing 

message: I've updated the transmission times in-line with the BBC Website's transmission times 1701Will (talk) 11:59, 26 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Transmission times
Wikipedia talk:Collaboration of the week/Archive 2

message: As the page was over 46k, I have moved old (pre-June) comments to Wikipedia talk:Article of the week/Archive 1. -- ALoan (Talk) 13:42, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Archiving

message: Background: some Wikipedians feel that "Article of the week" is a potentially misleading name. The wording may lead new Wikipedians to erroneously assume that the AotW page is another way of showing off featured articles to readers, similar to "Today's featured article". In fact, it's quite the opposite! The AotW page exists so that article editors may collaborate on one article per week, bringing it from stubhood to featured article-quality.
Question: what should this page's name be? Please vote for your favorite name(s), and/or add your own suggestion.
====Votes====
*Maintain the status quo. (Article of the week)
*Article expansion of the week
#ALoan (Talk) 14:55, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Issue 1: Renaming

message: *Maintain the status quo. (Article of the week)
*Article expansion of the week
#ALoan (Talk) 14:55, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Votes

message: * I would avoid the word Project, as we are not a WikiProject -- PFHLai 06:42, 2004 Aug 9 (UTC)
** I like the symmetry with WikiProjects actually, it sticks to wikipedias idea of taking things on as projects, the article of the week or project of the week is like a temporary project then  —siroχo 08:17, Aug 9, 2004 (UTC)
**We're just a WikiProject with a really short attention sp... (wanders off) • Benc • 19:46, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: *Allow ties: let there be two articles of the week concurrently
*Extension: give a one-day extension to the vote; if still tied, use seniority
#Sean Curtin 05:12, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Votes
Template talk:Auto-stub

message: Do not add this template to any more articles, remove the template from any articles you find it on.
:I presume we should replace it with the normal stub template?  Brianjd 08:00, 2004 Nov 13 (UTC)
::Ignore the above comment.  It has already been previously discussed that the stub template is overworked and the divisioning of these other "stubs" are helping to organize Wikipedia further. --AllyUnion (talk) 10:02, 17 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Caution
Talk:Volume

message: If you have an opinion, please express it at this RFC. Dondervogel 2 (talk) 07:44, 28 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  What symbol should Wikipedia use for the litre?
Talk:Salt pan (geology)

message: How can you forget the Rann of Kutch which is the second large Salt Desert in the world.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rahul Zota (talk • contribs) 07:55, 27 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Rann of Kutch

message: Note that I intend merging salt pan and playa (by doing a proper history-merge) under the name salt pan. Playa's content is rather better; the content of both pages will naturally be conserved in the new page.  There's also some overlap with endorheic, so some information that's better there will also get moved. I've leave this a couple of days - please tell me if you have a problem with this. -- Finlay McWalter |  Talk 18:25, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Intended merge

message: * Support (how embarrasing, my "couple of days" has turned into over a year). However, as salt pan has now turned into a disambig, I'd prefer the final name be playa.-- Finlay McWalter |  Talk 14:52, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed merge with playa

message: The articles need to be sorted out and factual errors or generalizations corrected and  clarified (there are several different related phenomena here that are being lumped together).  I wouldn't recommending merging them unless they're merged into intermittent lake, dry lake, dry lakebed, or playa, which is not an alkali flat (which is the same thing as a salt pan/flat).  Tomertalk 19:24, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Discussion

message: Salt flat currently exists as a dab, which is fine except the topics it's dabbing are
* this article
* Dry lake, whose lead says that any salty form is the subject of this article
* some places named Salt Flat(s), whose capitalization already completely distinguishes them
In other words, there doesn't seem to be a good reason for this page to be at the less common name for its topic. Is there any reason for Salt flat to distinguish between Salt pan (geology) and salty forms of dry lakes? If so, rewrite the lead of Dry lake to make that clearer. — LlywelynII 18:02, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Move?

message: See discussion at Talk:Sabkha, whose article either needs to be thoroughly overhauled or merged here. It also doesn't currently need to be distinguished at Salt pan either. — LlywelynII 18:02, 4 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge from [[Sabkha]]

message: In the article about the Salar de Uyuni it is stated that "Bolivia holds about 7% of the world's known lithium resources; most of those are in the Salar de Uyuni", however in this article it is stated that "It contains 50% to 70% of the world's known lithium reserves". These are very different numbers ArchangelGabriel0723 (talk) 00:49, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: That's an easy question. Check the sources cited.- Altenmann >talk 01:41, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Checked. The source cited here is of dubious expertise and gives fantastic numbers without providing source of wisdom. Replaced it with ref to reliable source, USGS (also I updated numbers from year 2011 to 2024). - Altenmann >talk 01:58, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inconsistent information
Talk:Module (mathematics)

message: The word redirects here but is not used in the article. Equinox (talk) 06:58, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: In a nutshell, a semimodule is just like a module, except that the underlying abelian group is replaced with an abelian semigroup, so the elements do not necessarily have inverses. For example, the set of natural numbers is a semiring, and it is a semimodule over itself just as any ring is a module over itself. I think an argument could be made to redirect this to "semiring" instead of "module." Rschwieb (talk) 13:59, 11 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is a semimodule? 

message: In the second paragraph the term "abelian" should be linked to our relevant article for ease of use.
I'm not a skilled editor, so request someone else add this link.  Thx  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 97.125.86.137 (talk) 23:12, 14 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add a Link Please 

message: The examples refer to K but that is not defined anywhere.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gcsfred2 (talk • contribs) 13:13, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The sentence "If K is a field" defines K. More precisely, it specifies K sufficiently for giving sense to what follows. D.Lazard (talk) 13:35, 3 July 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Examples - K is not defined
Talk:PiHex

message: There were 1246 contributors (I was #523 on the list- I used a 486-33 IIRC). It was fun. Then SETI@home started.
The contributors list is here.
There is a BBC program about Pi on the radio in a couple of days, and I've alerted the PiHex organiser, Colin Perceval, to this. Unfortunately, the beeb's website doesn't seem to have heard that there's a new series of this "intellectual chattering" program starting this week. --Aidan Karley 19:46, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)

message: The way this is written suggests that PiHex actually computed all of the first quadrillion binary digits of pi---which is untrue, correct? I believe they just computed a few digits around the quadrillionth one. -- Spireguy (talk) 18:54, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misleading? 

message: Those 1.2 million hours cost, assuming a CPU draws 100W and electricity costs 10c/kw*hr, $120,000. $120,000 for the quadrillionth digit of PI. Was it really worth it?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.70.39.72 (talk) 07:41, 4 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cost 

message: At the time when I am writing this, there is currently a template regarding this article's notability. While I currently will not remove this template, because a single user's opinion is not consensus, I do believe that this article is noteworthy. I believe the PiHex software is notable for the following reasons: 1) It is a part of the annals of history regarding distributed software; 2) It describes the details of a record-reaching calculation of pi - using over a thousand people's computers no less; 3) It serves as an anecdote to the efforts of Colin Percival that go beyond Tarsnap.
Just my two dimes on the subject.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by X6wie72UelocEdjk (talk • contribs) 03:23, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  On the subject of Notability
Talk:Batting out of turn

message: Article has "If batting out of turn is appealed, the entire play is nullified under Official Baseball Rule 6.07 and MiLB Umpire Manual 4.3."  OK, and the article then says this could include double play, so I am pointing out that you'd probably want to let the double play stand even if it was improper batter who hit into it.
Although there is penalty for finishing out-of-turn appearance, you decline such penalty by REMAINING SILENT, in contrast to American football, where you have to say that a penalty is either accepted or declined. Carlm0404 (talk) 01:26, 6 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Double play 

message: Would "Batting out of order" work better as a title? It seems to me and others to be the common term, although checking the n-grams "Batting out of turn" has the historical edge (esp. 1938-1970) but now has only a slight, and falling, overall edge. I used 'Batting out of order' in adding this page to the  navbox, seems the more familiar terminology. Randy Kryn (talk) 03:42, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: "Batting out of order" is the official terminology from the MLB rulebook, so if common usage trends towards this phrase, I think it is reasonable to use as the article title. isaacl (talk) 16:43, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure where you are seeing that. From what I can see, 6.03(b) from the 2021 rulebook is titled "Batting Out of Turn". The mlb.com glossary also calls it Batting Out of Turn. Skipple ☎ 20:16, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: My apologies; I was led astray by my failing memory and the index at the end of the rulebook, which indexes "Batting out of order". In that case, personally I think there should be evidence that "batting out of order" has clearly supplanted the previous common use of "batting out of turn" before renaming the article. isaacl (talk) 02:55, 11 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Title change?
Category talk:Musical terminology

message: This category has been depopulated by Redheylin using Wikipedia:HOTCAT. It is probably that this was a large category before the articles were removed. Arguably that the cat should have been called :Category:Musical terms rather than Musical terminology, but that move was never done, nor was the category listified, which would have been another possibility. 
The lead to :Category:Terminology reads "when suitable specific categories don't exist to hold them they should be placed into the root category for that topic until a better categorization presents itself" in other words they shouldn't have been dumped out of the category without a suitable alternative beinhg created. 
In any case automated processes should not be used for this kind of controversial editing. --Kleinzach 03:45, 28 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Depopulation of this category

message: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge_%28music%29 As a non-authority, I will not presume to make changes, but I will add this suggestion as I expected to find it here and did not, though I did find the article for the term.  Cheers Thistledowne (talk) 19:33, 28 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestion for inclusion
Talk:Sunsphere

message: There was talk about adding a restaurant to the top of the Sunsphere. I'm not sure if they ever did make one, or if it was just an idea. Also, the bottom part is an observation deck which is still open to the public.
Most such towers in Europe and Canada (and the Space Needle in Seattle) have one, but I don't know as East Tennesseans would pay those type prices for a view of Knoxville.
Rlquall 14:01, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)

message: The Church of the Giant Golden Microphone is no joke.  The Sunsphere Cult will live on forever, just wait.  Keep waiting.  OK, stop.
Obviously this is a joke.  My question is, I suppose, is it a good and big enough joke to be encyclopedic?  Rlquall 23:58, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sunsphere "religion" 

message: According to the engineering plans posted here http://www.sunsphere.info/SchematicPlans.asp.  The sphere only has 5 levels.  I haven't been since 1982 so I can't say for certain, but I thought it was worth mentioning. --MathewBrooks 15:44, 30 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  8 Levels? 

message: One cool building
:When I saw the Sunsphere for the first time I immediately thought of a van der Graaf generator.  Given the proximity of Oak Ridge to Knoxville, was this a factor in the design? 70.67.185.209 (talk) 22:23, 21 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: =
Talk:Scipio Aemilianus

message: Was his original name "Publius Aemilius Paullus" or "Lucius Aemilius Paullus" or what?  This should be listed here, I think. john k 23:47, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original name 

message: The tone of this page seems a little too fawning and overpraising of the man. 69.223.135.87 11:55, 25 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the last two paragraphs should be removed as they are praising Scipio rather than giving actual facts --Must WIN 01:20, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Overly fawning tone 

message: Scipio's name ended with the title 'Numantius' given to him after the conquest and destruction of Numantia in North-East Spain. Is it possible that we change the title of the article so his full name is there?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.56.107.162 (talk) 15:29, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Numantius 

message: This article claims that scipio was a moderate. He was anything but. He was a conservative man. He followed the mos maiorum  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.121.54.213 (talk) 20:10, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pov 

message: I removed this sentence which seems non-encyclopedic:
Scipio Aemilianus will be forever be associated with the destruction of Carthage.
Mikeroetto (talk) 16:31, 30 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scipio's reflections on the sack of Carthage
Talk:Zorba the Greek (film)

message: * Track listing of music score - the score was done entirely by Mikis Theodorakis
* Text of the book! Kazantzakis has been dead for 50 years now and man, there was/is no copyright law in greece! if i find a copy of the book in text, i'll upload it, somewhere. UTF-8, Greek, right? Maybe The Gutenberg Project has a copy... htmmm
Project2501a 13:50, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Things needed to add to the article 

message: Zorba the Greek should redirect to the novel, not the movie. The movie article should be titled FILM. --RossF18 (talk) 23:39, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: MOVE

message: I'm not sure about these things, but should Wikipedia be linking to a random flash game about Zorba the Greek? It doesn't seem very relevant.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.15.145.20 (talk) 22:25, 2 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flash Game?