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File talk:Winchester rifle grko474 rifle.jpg

message: This comment on the correct identification of the rifle in the image is interesting.  But it probably belongs here on the talk page.  I think, without verifiable external citations, this would count as original research.  --  Geo Swan 14:36, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not original research, the information in question is taken straight out of the Blue Book of Gun Values, S. P. Fjestad, 13th Edition.  Someone put that image in the lever action article, and it was later recaptioned to be a Winchester Model 1894 rifle, with it is definately not.  I can't say for certain what the rifle is without being able to examine it, but I can certainly look up refrences and say what it isn't, and list the possibilities with the given information.  If I can track down an e-mail address to contact someone at the Grant-Kohrs Ranch I might send them a note and see if they have any more information on the rifle--that should count as an authoritative source.  scot 15:14, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Of course if you have a verifiable, authoritative source it is not original research.  --  Geo Swan 03:30, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: correct identification

message: When I uploaded this image the wikipedia had no free images of 19th century repeating rifles.  This image was from the National Park System, so was in the Public Domain.
There are many fine images now, donated from pictures from private collections, making the image I uploaded less important.
I am completely happy having this image deprecated -- particularly if gunnery experts doubt the caption applied by the NPS archivists.  But someone has replaced the image I uploaded, with an image of a different rifle.  This is wrong.  
*The new image should get its own name.
*Or this image should be moved, renamed.
But, IMO, the image shouldn't bear the original NPS caption, if it is a different image.
Cheers!  Geo Swan 14:22, 8 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I reverted to the original image.  Because no source was offered for the replacement.  Geo Swan 03:58, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  image replacement
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Tracks

message: I am going to retire from generating track maps because of the disaster caused by implementing the new colour scale, and those people who decided to implement just ran away from all troubles they have made. My last update should be at around 12Z of December 31, 2023, unless the problems regarding to the new scale are all solved.  🐱💬 15:38, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: What disaster and what trouble? As you well know the project as a whole was in one of those catch 22 situations where we couldnt win, since the colour scheme needed to be updated to comply with Wikipedia's rules surrounding accessibility.Jason Rees (talk) 15:54, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Since the uploaders for hurricanes can't be persuaded to use the new scale, isn't this the most obvious trouble? How about the season maps which are terribly ignored? I am really surprised that people from English Wikipedia don't even know how serious the issues are.  🐱💬 16:02, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  Believe it or not I have a life and cant keep an eye on everything that goes on especially surrounding the trackmaps, which I can not personally generate. I would personally hope that people would use the new colours rather than the older ones in good faith and to follow the consensus that emerged on the project page, since the project pratically ripped itself apart over the last few years trying to get this issue sorted.Jason Rees (talk) 16:11, 15 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I have my life too and I am now very busy on my new job and learning drawing. I am not the person who can deal with all boring politics of this project anymore. It is obvious that people who purposed the new scale do not care about all issues they have brought and they just do not want to address any of our feedbacks. It has been a half of month and those people still have not given any response here, so my decision of giving up on this project shall be continued.  🐱💬 17:03, 30 August 2023 (UTC)

text: Writing some rules is one thing. Following another. I don't understand why you guys never ignored that trolling. However, now we have to deal with the issue that you are uploading trackmaps to commons all the other language versions of Wikipedia also are using but they did not make the color transformation at all. So we have now maps which do not correspond to infoboxes. And more problematically, the new infoboxes aren't matching us other languages versions' infoboxes at all. It's totally different syntaxes. Basically you gave the tropical cyclones Wiki Projects globally a punch. I have retired from those articles in the German WP totally. Matthiasb (talk) 06:59, 28 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  To retire
Talk:Tourniquet (Evanescence song)

message: Though it is a French-derived word, pronouncing the "t" at the end of Tourniquet is not unusual. According to dictionary.com, in English, the final t is pronounced. (Just as the t in "often" isn't.)The Editrix 14:44, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This article appears to be of an appropriate length for the subject matter under discussion. It is also appropriately categorized and wikified. 
By nature, stubbing and tagging articles devalues them, giving them an aura of unreliability. As part of my personal campaign to free up articles that have been stubbed and tagged without cause, this article has been disenstubified. 
If any editor disagrees, and would rather re-stub it than improve it by adding actual content, please discuss here. The Editrix 14:44, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  De-stubbed 

message: Hello, in the article, it says that Amy Lee screams this line in the Fallen version. To my ears, she sounds as if she is speaking the line, not screaming it, on the album. She does seem to scream it in concert, though. Does this sound correct? Thanks, --Kyoko 04:25, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah, it sounds to me like quite the scream, both on Fallen and in concerts.  I suppose its up to individual interpretation though. -- Huntster T • @ • C 08:26, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  about the line "I long to die" 

message: If the song was originally written and preformed by Soul Embraced, the article should not be about the cover version, it should be about the original version + the covers. This article even states the writers as being the band members of Evenesence, which isn't true either. It doesnt matter who popularised the song or put it on what album, it was originally written and preformed by Soul Embraced. IronCrow (talk) 02:01, 8 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why is this listed as an Evenescene song? 

message: can we add a link to the Rocky Gray article?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.161.46.212 (talk) 07:01, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Rocky is already linked in the first paragraph, the infobox, and the Evanescence template at the bottom. ~ [ Scott M. Howard ] ~ [ Talk ]:[ Contribs ] ~ 08:22, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  link?
Talk:Inverse problem

message: I suggest we need a severe cull of references, there are simply to many. It might be appropriiate to put them back in more specific articles (eg Inverse problems in geophysics)? Please discuss Billlion 09:48, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Bibliography too long

message: This article contains some interesting material, but I think it has some rather serious flaws. First, it is quite difficult to follow for everyone except mathematicians—and most people who do inverse modeling are physicists or engineers, not mathematicians. (For example, the discussion of compactness is not going to be relevant to >95% of people who are interested in inverse modeling.)
In the section on nonlinear inverse problems, sweeping—and wrong—generalizations are made. It is not essential to answer the Hadamard questions, and I can't see how answering them "solves" the problem from "the theoretical point of view". Additionally, more useful (i.e., understandable) examples could be given, although there isn't anything wrong with the examples already there.
129.78.64.103 (talk) 23:37, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too vague and too specific? 

message: The "Conceptual understanding" section says, 
:The forward problem [...]:
::Data → Model parameters
:The inverse problem [...]:
::Model parameters → Data
and that seems opposite to that which the articles says elsewhere, that the inverse problem is to find or adjust model parameters on the basis of observed data, i.e., to move from data to ("→") model parameters. Would it be possible to clarify the "Conceptual understanding" section in regard to that for non-experts like me? The Tetrast (talk) 16:26, 27 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with you, I came across this today also found this made no sense - I think it's the wrong way around. In the forward problem, we predict data from parameters, and in the inverse problem, we determine parameters from the data. I think it is most likely a mistake. Astrofrog (talk) 12:35, 13 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  A confusing statement in the "Conceptual understanding" section 

message: Reading the definition of "Inverse Problems," this page seems to give a very mathematician-centric view of a very general reasoning problem.  In particular, the inverse problem seems at least very similar to abduction, reasoning to a best explanation.  More information about Abduction can be found in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.  This pattern also relates to Bayesian inference which often proceeds by building a generative model and then "inverting" the model to reason back from observations/effects to model parameters.
Would it be reasonable to extend this page with some cross-references to such related problems?
Rpgoldman (talk) 15:19, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Connection to Other Conceptions of Inverse Problems
Wikipedia talk:Special:UnusedTemplates

message: When I try to view the page, it shows me the first 1000 and then doesn't show any more. I know there are more because it stops at 'B'. Does anyone know why this happens or how to fix it? Thanks. ><RichardΩ612 UW 17:46, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Bug?

message: You could put the templates in catogorys to make searching easier Richardson j 05:51, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  help 

message: This page would be a lot more useful were it not full of redirects. While those redirects aren't used, that isn't a problem - most serve as redirects from old locations of the template, or alternative spellings, and are fine. The bigger problem is all of the templates that aren't actually used at all, and hence want to be passed through WP:TfD. Could some sort of modification be made so that redirects can be hidden (either by default, or by user choice) or the non-redirects highlighted (possibly in a similar way to Special:Allpages)? Mike Peel 11:53, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, now how do we do that?--mitrebox (talk) 21:31, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Option to hide redirects? 

message: Does it really make sense that subpages are listed on that special page? It should be obvious that at least things like /doc and /sandbox are never used... Choyoołʼįįhí:Seb az86556 > haneʼ 03:43, 7 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  subpages 

message: Perhaps it would be a good idea to state in bold that the page is cached, and how often it is updated, at the top of the page? fredgandt 14:40, 17 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Update schedule  

message: As noted in a couple of previous posts, there are some cases where pages should be excluded from this listing:
* redirects
* template subpages which are not templates themselves (e.g. doc pages)
* templates which are meant to be substituted rather than transcluded
A workaround for the third bullet could be to create a special set of pages where the subst template is actually transcluded.
--User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 19:51, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Can someone please adjust this report so that it specifically excludes templates that transclude  or that are members of ? All pages ending in "/sandbox" and "/testcases" should also be excluded. – Jonesey95 (talk) 16:44, 4 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Exclusion criteria
Talk:Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber

message: Schreber was the author of the genus Liatris. This is a very interesting name, because it has no clear etymology. I suspect it is an eponym, perhaps from Liater, which is a surname, perhaps German, though it is not common. There is, or was, a Liater Institute of Preventive Medicine in the United Kingdom, but I don't see any information about this Liater on the Internet. If anyone finds out anything about an associate or patron of Scrheber's named Liater, Liatro, or something similar, perhaps they could post it on this talk page, or that for Liatris. If anyone knows a good printed reference on Schreber, please post the information here. --Cotinis 14:53, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Liatris 
Talk:Basingstoke (UK Parliament constituency)

message: The redirect Millennium Council has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached.  AusLondonder (talk) 18:07, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "[[:Millennium Council]]" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:Thalamocortical radiations

message: More than half of this article is about loops, but what about radiations. More of this article should be about things like the internal capsule and sensory modulation by the thalamus on its way to the cortexDrchazz (talk) 20:53, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: loops vs radiations

message: Jytdog, please explain what is a vanity wikilink and why it is not useful to have it in wikipedia. After that, please explain why the wikilink to Ward belongs to this category. I see only minor positive and no negative effect of my edit.WikiHannibal (talk) 20:29, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  The key thing is that wikilinks are meant to be used to help the reader understand the topic better -- to lead to significantly helpful information.   There is no benefit to the reader to linking to a random author on one source.  See Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Linking#Overlinking_and_underlinking.   On top of that:  a) it is incredibly random to provide a wikilink to one author on one of 25 sources used in this article;  b) if we linked to all authors on all sources the references section would become monstrous - this is not a great direction to go;  c)  on Wikipedia we care about the quality of the publication, not the author so much; d) i could see maybe linking to the author if he or she were some giant in the field but in this case the investigator is not especially notable - the article that you linked to is a mere stub.   All that adds up to this being a vanity wikilink to me - an instance of overlinking.    What is your reasoning for doing it? Jytdog (talk) 20:44, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: By the way, reverting a reversion is NOT the way to go.  Bad form.  See WP:BRD Jytdog (talk) 20:45, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: vanity wikilink
Talk:List of Kathak dancers

message: I suggest we set the list to a rough chronological age.  That way we will get the gurus before the shishyas.  Chaipau 14:57, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

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: moved. Without objection. (closed by non-admin page mover) Extraordinary Writ (talk) 06:26, 25 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: List of Kathak exponents →  – The word "exponent" isn't commonly used to mean "prominent practioner". User:力百 (alt of power~enwiki, π, ν) 00:43, 18 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 18 December 2021
Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (Polish rulers)

message: In order to reduce forking, I would direct interested parties' attention to the discussion at Talk:List of Polish monarchs. --Elonka 03:41, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it was pointed earler that a proposed Naming Convention is a much better place to discuss the naming issue then a list page. Oh, and note that your proposed version is only one of many optional English spellings we can use, and the current ones are also used in English publications, so they qualify as English, too.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 04:52, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Moving names back to English spelling

message: Interested editors are invited to participate in: a poll on whether or not to use diacritics in the article titles of Polish monarchs. --Elonka 18:32, 13 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Related poll
Talk:Ireland King of Arms

message: I don't suppose the grant made to Jehan Baret of Picardy was in fact the Picardy Coat of Arms itself? If it was, it might be worth inserting it into the article. GeeJo (t)⁄(c) • 15:02, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Geejo, I can find no evidence either way, but my gut instinct says that it was not. None of the sources that I've quoted in the article have anything to say about the arms actually granted. If you can find out more about them, then it would be great to add them. Otherwise, we'll have to keep looking.--Eva db 12:03, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added a link to an image of a grant of arms by Walter Bellinger, which is in the British library. Everything on the website is copyright of the British Library Board, so we can't add the image directly, unfortunately.The grant is to Thomas Barowe, clerk to the Duke of Gloucester. It's a bit hard to read, but I think the blazon starts at the end of the seventh line from the bottom and reads A scotcheon of sable a ? of [silver?] in his? kynd? a barr of gold in the chief two fleur de lys of the same (As an aside, it's interesting that this patent is addressed to gentlewomen as well as gentlemen!) Dr pda 20:02, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

text: Great work, Doc. Thanks, too, for copy-editing some of my original text. Sometimes, I forget that not everyone knows as much about heraldry as I do. Thanks.--Eva db 10:52, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Picardy Arms

message: Passing, but there is persistent, although small, use of the word "interesting" which could be rewritten. —Rob (talk) 18:53, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  GA comments
Talk:SBD

message: ----
SBD is also "slang abbreviation" for soundboard (as in live music recording).
$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ ינון גז המלך רשם את זה  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.8.52.146 (talk) 09:34, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
Talk:Aquaporin

message: Good, but "could do better"!
… Two hydrophobic loops contain conserved asparagine-proline-alanine NPA motif. Because aquaporin is usually always open and is prevalent in just about every cell type, it causes water to almost always flow to down its concentration gradient. This leads to a misconception that water readily passes through the cell membrane down its concentration gradient. … 
The first of these two sentences contains three puzzles for the non-specialist:
#What does "conserved" mean in this context?  (I have no idea.)
#What is "NPA" and how does it relate to the preceding compound word "asparagine-proline-alanine"?  (I think it's an acronym of sorts, thus: "asparagiNe-Proline-Alanine", but who knows?)
#What does "motif" mean in this context?  (I have only a glimmer of an idea, and it's this:  in music and the plastic arts, a "motif" is a small assemblage that occurs repeatedly, sometimes with variations.  Is the usage in biochemistry similar?)
This fragment: "it causes water to almost always flow to down its concentration gradient" contains two grammatical infelicities (since it would be better as "it almost always causes water to flow down its concentration gradient") and two further puzzles:
#what is this "concentration gradient"?
#which direction is "down" that gradient?
I propose to improve the grammar, but will leave the rest to somebody better informed than I, meanwhile marking it .  yoyo (talk) 04:41, 5 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead section is unclear
Talk:Griffin Investigations

message: The person at IP 205.242.33.240 has made some very heavy edits to this page.  While it is good to expand the article, it is becoming quite POV. We might want to tone it down a bit. SmartGuy 15:09, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opening comment 
Talk:Daylighted

message: This page is being created because the word daylighted when used as a verb is uncommon. I see it is frequently used in Seattle to refer to the removing of trees and brush as part of the Seattle's Urban Restoration Project. Many people, especially those who do not live in an urban area as environmentally aware as Seattle, may not know what daylighted means in this context. It is not found in Merriam-Webster Online. Nor is it found in Encarta Dictionary Online
KarenAnn 15:11, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Juraj Kukura

message: This article appears to be of an appropriate length for the subject matter under discussion. It is also appropriately categorized and wikified. 
By nature, stubbing and tagging articles devalues them, giving them an aura of unreliability. As part of my personal campaign to free up articles that have been stubbed and tagged without cause, this article has been disenstubified. 
If any editor disagrees, and would rather re-stub it than improve it by adding actual content, please discuss here. The Editrix 15:13, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  De-stubbed
Talk:Jainism in Maharashtra

message: A copy of this page was deleted as a suspected copyvio of http://jainresources.org/religion/Jains_of_Maharashtra.htm. However the text in question was on this page before 15 July 2006, the date at which the domain jainresources.org was first created. It would appear that the text had been copied by that site from here. The matter may have been confused by a copy-and-paste move of the current page made by a new editor. I hope I have distentangled things a little bit. --Deskford (talk) 22:43, 25 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Apparently not a copyvio 
Talk:José María Medina

message: This article appears to be of an appropriate length for the subject matter under discussion. It is also appropriately categorized and wikified. 
By nature, stubbing and tagging articles devalues them, giving them an aura of unreliability. As part of my personal campaign to free up articles that have been stubbed and tagged without cause, this article has been disenstubified. 
If any editor disagrees, and would rather re-stub it than improve it by adding actual content, please discuss here. The Editrix 15:15, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Calling it a stub, becuase it is not a start. Please see the project page for the definition of article classes. Srice13 02:30, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  De-stubbed 
Talk:Jane Dee Hull

message: The article states that Governor Hull signed death warrants in the LeGrand murder case.  That hardly seems possible, because, in Arizona, death warrants are issued by, and returnable to, the Supreme Court of Arizona.  See Ariz. Rev. Stat. s. 13-759(A).  This article needs serious clean up.John Paul Parks (talk) 01:43, 13 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: What Death Warrants Did She Sign?
Talk:Tom Herman (disambiguation)

message: This article provides a lot of good, notable biographical information about Herman that would not be appropriate to the Ubu article proper.  I don't think there's any call for merging it. Anazgnos 15:19, 6 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled