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Talk:Hot Rats

message: "Although Zappa was a Californian, he did not use drugs and actually disdained the psychedelic and tie-dyed, jam-band mentality of the era. The colorful, psychedelic aura of the late sixties is apparent in the graphic design and photography of Hot Rats."
This seems like quite the non-sequitur to me. Ideas anyone? W guice 17:13, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Direct contradiction

message: Does anyone have a source for the contents of Advanced recording techniques? I'd love to include that into an article. Thanks for any hints! --Hei ber (talk) 23:15, 22 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Advanced Recording Techniques 

message: The article says Zappa plays a short octave-bass solo. I also read this information in the liner notes. However, I have no clue what an octave bass should be! Is it a keyboard-like instrument or an 8 string bass? Any further information regarding this point? To me it sounds like an instruments played using keys instead of strings.--88.74.240.74 (talk) 08:33, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is an octave-bass?
Talk:List of extreme points of New Zealand

message: Does someone have a nice high-res map of Marlborough to check whether Cape Campbell or West Head (at the entrance to Tory Channel) is further east? Grutness 04:24, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: (untitled section)

message: Looking on this map, it appears that Napier Island and Nugent Island are almost exactly as far north, and that Napier Island could have land further north. The article has no inline citation that Nugent Island is the most further north. Do either of the two references support the claim? HenryCrun15 (talk) 02:16, 25 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Northernmost point
Talk:Weasels Ripped My Flesh

message: The first paragraph seems to contradicts itself.  It says "Weasels Ripped My Flesh is the tenth studio album," and then says "Weasels Ripped My Flesh largely consists of live recordings and features more improvisation."
Wouldn't that make it a "Live" album?
albabe - The Writer/Artist Formally  Known as Al Gordon 16:20, 4 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question
Talk:Rostov Oblast

message: * I didn't have time to translate all of the last paragraph from the Russian version, so if you speak Russian, please do so.  24.21.140.185 04:29, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation 

message: Remove the map, because it shows the Russian temporarily occupied Crimea as part of the Russian territory, with the annexation being internationally recognised as illegal. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.27.113.73 (talk) 11:02, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map
Talk:The Twilight of the Idols

message: Gotzen-Dammerung sounds a lot like Gotterdammerung, the opera created thirty-odd years before. Is there any connection there?
Yes. The connections between Götterdämmerung and Götzendämmerung are huge. The former is the name of an opera (the conclusion of Wagner's Ring Cycle), meaning Twilight of the Gods. Nietzsche's title is an intentional play on Wagner and means Twilight of the Idols. Nietzsche and Wagner were close friends at for a while, but N became dissilusioned with W when W became openly anti-semitic. He also had little patience with W's apparent capitulation to mainstream Christianity in the opera Parzifal.
Incidentally, this article on Twilight of the Idols needs a lot of work. Full of Nazi ideology? Gimme a farking break. Have you read the book?
::::N broke with W when W adopted Schopenhauer's philosophy. Nietzsche opposed Schopenhauer's notion that the denial of the will to live is good.Lestrade 19:49, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

message: I put some meat in this article. My additions state where Nietzsche said those things, so that anyone who wants to know if they're true, and I'm not merely interpreting, can check them out for themselves. 
By the way, I did study Nietzsche twice or maybe thrice as a Sociology major, maybe that gives me more credibility. Moonwalkerwiz 02:57, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Metaphors are mixed when it is said that the hammer is used to tap the knee (in order to test for a reflex) and is used to produce a sound (indicating the possible hollowness of an idol).Lestrade 19:44, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editing
Talk:Fillmore East – June 1971

message: Apparently this album has some reference to dressing-room fights of CSNY.  Can anyone fill in some details of that reference?  Thanks.CountMacula (talk) 06:14, 2 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  CSNY reference 
Talk:No Electronic Theft Act

message: "The NET Act amends the definition of "commercial advantage or private financial gain" to include such things as MP3 files and specified penalties of up to five years in prison and up to $250,000 in fines."
~ do they mean that the MP3 files are considered "private financial gain"?
~ It ammends section 101 of the Copyright Act to make financial gain to mean anything of value including recieving other copyrighted works. See the AHRA (Audio Home Recording Act) article to see examples of how it interacts and why it conflicts with the AHRA.
~ 17 USC 101 defines "private financial gain" as the "receipt, or expectation of receipt, of anything of value, including the receipt of other copyrighted works", and 17 USC 506(a)(1)(A) criminalizes infringement for "commercial advantage or private financial gain". Per the terms "receipt" and "other" in 17 USC 101, as well as the fact that the threshold of criminal infringement (17 USC 506 (a)(1)(B) is a different criteria from 17 USC 506(a)(1)(A) (implying that one can, for example, illegally download an MP3 from the internet for private use (without exchanging anything for it), but it doesn't nessecarily count as private financial gain), I personally interpret "commercial advantage or private financial gain" in criminal copyright infringement, to mean when someone infringes copyright, cannot use defenses such as fair use, and (at least) expected another party to give them something of value for said infringement. (for example, if one party gives another party an illegal copy of a song in exchange for an illegal copy of another song.) I'm not an attorney however, and this does not constitute legal advice, and I welcome any corrections and clarifications to this statement. Shrewmania (talk) 23:20, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Topic
Talk:Chunga's Revenge

message: How did this album mark the beginning of a controversial epoch in zappa's career. Don't mention it and then leave us hanging!! :)  [user:PurpleChez]
Not to mention that, without support, it's not at all NPOV Spanghew2fs (talk) 02:56, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: You've got a point. I added some opinions in the 'Critical Reception' section, which support the original statement somewhat. Misterioustraveller (talk) 08:10, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  intro 

message: The entry "Mark - pound" in Personnel seems to be either vandalism or an inside joke.  Asat (talk) 09:06, 9 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  ? 

message: I realize Robert Christgau was and is a prominent critic but...he clearly dislikes Zappa, so it seems odd that for many albums, he's the only critic cited in "Critical Reception" sections. No time at the moment to find them but...finding some other critics of the era to offset Xgau's persistent negativity would give a more accurate perception of the way the albums were received... Spanghew2fs (talk) 02:58, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: He actually quite liked some of them, but yes, the larger spectrum, the better. Doctorhawkes (talk) 08:47, 11 May 2021 (UTC)

text: I agree. Therefore I added some other voices who express a more positive opinion, and thus balancing out RC. Misterioustraveller (talk) 08:07, 28 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Zappa album entries always quoting Christgau?
Talk:Sebring International Raceway

message: Forewarned- This is my first new entry into the 'pedia.  Please help me out here!
* I don't like the introduction much.  I believe, but was not able to verify, that there is an ALMS award for winning the three big endurance races (24hrs Daytona, 12hrs Sebring, 6hrs Atlanta).  I thought winning those got you into Le Mans.
* The history is sparse.  This is a track with a lot of history.
* Probably needs help with the verbage.
* How's the layout?
Thanks.  Having fun!
:Just realized I wasn't logged in... carried over a browser from the trip home from work.
:Anyway, the edits indicated as 67.168.24.250 are from me, User:Atombaby.  So blame me, not some anonymous idiot.
I like the layout and you have a good start here. I just wanted to offer a correction on the track record for the "5th variation: 1991 - 1998" Juan Fangio and Andy Wallace qualified for the 1993 Sebring 12 hours at 1:46.135, over three seconds faster than Stefan Johannson did later. I remember, because I was their race engineer then. A reference for this fact is
 http://www.racingsportscars.com/photo/Sebring-1992-03-21.html. 
 Thanks! Trossa27 (talk) 14:28, 13 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Clean-up

message: The track is actually named "Sebring International Raceway".  What's the procedure to change the article name? JDS2005 05:40, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article Name Change 

message: ...so why the bloody hell is this part of Wikiproject Georgia? JDS2005 05:40, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: not sure, I just changed it --bradkittenbrink 05:44, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sebring is in Florida... 

message: The history section contains the following unsourced statement: 
"The 12 Hours of Sebring, sanctioned by the ALMS is one of the most important races in the world." 
This statement seems like pure self advertisement, with nothing to back it up. Unless someone can find reliable sources that backup such a claim I think the statement should be removed.SkorponokX (talk) 15:49, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  12 Hours of Sebring
Talk:Over-Nite Sensation

message: I have this album on 8-Track and it is credited to "The Mothers" instead of "Frank Zappa." What gives? -- El Payaso Malo 99.30.242.101 (talk) 00:45, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I seem to remember that there were a number of albums that were originally labeled as "the Mothers" which, when re-released in the CD era, were credited simply to Frank Zappa. PurpleChez (talk) 21:52, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: The Mothers

message: Is this perhaps the seventeenth FZ album, rather than the seventh? The article for Apostrophe ('), which comes next in the discography, describes it as being the 18th. PurpleChez (talk) 21:55, 19 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, fixed. (There is a Frank Zappa discography.) Rothorpe (talk) 01:18, 20 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead paragraph
Talk:Waka/Jawaka

message: This article is short and could use expansion. At the same time two song articles "Big Swifty" and "It Just Might Be a One-Shot Deal" which contain little notability could be merged into this article to make it longer as they are reliable article, yet at the same time short stubs who really shouldn't have separate articles. --Mrmoustache14 (talk) 00:48, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge
Talk:Craig Barrett (racewalker)

message: Is there any reason why, in the personal bests table, the distances 20000 m and 20 km (and similar equivalent pairs) should be distinguished (as they are at present)? -- Picapica (talk) 00:57, 10 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  20000 m = 20 km 
Talk:JavaServer Pages compiler

message: actually this is a query i din't know where to put a query so i have put it here........
does the jsp compiler, compile a jsp page for every change made...if so how does it detect that a change is made......
for eg: u open a jsp page and view it...go to the real source and make some static changes or even script changes...and then u press refresh, still while the server is running....u can view the changes made!!! so where, when and how does the server know that the change is made and when is it processed????
:It looks at the file date.  Most JSP containers support configuration for how often the container checks the file timestamp to see if the page has changed.  Typically, this timestamp would be set to a short (perhaps seconds) interval for development, and longer (perhaps minutes, or even never) interval for a deployed application. – Doug Bell talk•contrib 06:44, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

message: It looks like there have been no substantial additions to this page since December of 2006. If nobody is opposed I'll be merging this page into JavaServer Pages. --Libertyernie2 (talk) 17:05, 19 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge
Talk:The Grand Wazoo

message: Just a question. What's the evidence that the cover is, infact, referencing Rabelais? I can see the similarity between the two people's work, and certainly Zappa seems Rabelaisian, but it seems more likely that the cover is just depicting the war taking place in the story contained in the liner notes.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.76.151.25 (talk) 01:35, 3 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Rabelais?

message: The article Eat That Question, about one of the songs on the album, only contains one reference, and doesn't appear to assert sufficient notability for a separate article.  According to Wikipedia:Notability (music), "Most songs do not merit an article and should redirect to another relevant article" so I have proposed merging it to this article, about the album. —Snigbrook 00:08, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Eat That Question]]

message: "Before "Wazoo," two earlier albums of mostly instrumental work were released by Zappa, "Hot Rats" and "Burnt Weeney Sandwich." The album "Waka/Jawaka" followed "Wazoo." "
This seems wrong. Wazoo came after Waka, and Wazoo was the 4th such work not the 3rd. Anyone object if I remove these two sentences? Even if corrected, they contribute little and sound lame. --Matt Westwood 19:14, 5 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Inaccurate?
Category talk:Banks

message: Proposal: Make a different list for "Types of Banks" and "List of Banks" --Voidvector 05:56, Nov 8, 2004 (UTC)
This category is getting too cluttered, so I'm thinking of dusting off :Category:Banks by country and moving the appropriate articles over.  -- Beland 23:23, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Go for it. It spent a week at CfD and no one had any problem with it. -Aranel ("Sarah") 22:54, 19 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Massacre in the Great Temple of Tenochtitlan

message: There was an older thread, now in the archives, that discussed an inconsistency between the sources used and the content of the lead. Neither account mentions human sacrifice, yet the lead repeatedly stated this was the proximate cause of the massacre. I've therefore removed that content from the lead. I'd also suggest, if anyone has the time and inclination, that a section on the aftermath of the massacre would help readers understand the historical context better. Just Step Sideways from this world ..... today 19:28, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I took a swing at adding that section, improvements more than welcome. Just Step Sideways from this world ..... today 19:46, 23 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  human sacrifice
Talk:List of people who have been considered deities

message: How about including Nimrod? Splashen (talk) 04:28, 6 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Did Nimrod exist? Despite what historians have been saying, it's still doubtful that this person actually existed in history, isn't it? 2602:FEDA:3E:E35B:1BF7:ADF4:D2F8:76F3 (talk) 06:22, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I mean, historians have been trying to find this person in history books and at sites, but there's no very credible 2602:FEDA:3F:8C46:6A12:B72E:533E:A44C (talk) 06:26, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  What About Nimrod?
Talk:Jane

message: If anything, the primary topic for this page should probably be the Tarzan Jane, not the Orson Scott Card Jane. In any case, the need to generate a proper disambiguation page here is glaring. --Michael Snow 06:44, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambig 

message: can we get the definition of jane? as in what the name really means? if no one who reads this and knows it posts, i will just look it up and add it in a few days--Elysianfields 07:56, 19 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition of Jane 

message: Is it just me, or does the name Jane somehow has a "plain" or "ordinary" connotation to it? (like Jane Eyre and such?)--cecikierk  —Preceding comment was added at 23:18, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plain Jane? 

message: Users are ill-served by piped blue-link-only entries for every song mentioned in WP -- except in the specific cases where the blue linked article has more information than the track length and the title of the album including it. Such links lead users to believe there is at least a section on the song, and wastes the time they will spend waiting for the page to load and finding the fraction of a line devoted to the song, when they should have left this Dab page immediately & consulted other sources. My interest in the pop-song explosion is such that i can do something constructive about it for about 10 minutes. I prefer red+blue-lk'd entries (which hint at the inadequacy of the blue lk), tho this issue needs further creative thot.--Jerzy•t 04:16, 26 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Songs
Talk:List of elements by boiling point

message: this page really should be in kelvin not celsius. for standarisation with the rest of wikipedia. 61.68.201.23 06:53, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: like that? (please crosscheck for errors, as this was done half-automatically). 84.160.255.160 16:42, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

message: According to Emsley () the boiling point of Tungsten is 5960K and the boiling point of Rhenium is 5900K. Tungsten is usually understood to be the element with the highest boiling point, but according to the data given in the entry (which I will change to Emsley's values) Rhenium is shown to have a higher boiling point -- and is listed out-of-order. --Ben Best 08:22, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Tungsten and Rhenium

message: I have filled in all of the data gaps that I saw as well. Lots of the elements are not correctly ordered by boiling point. I may fix this later, but I haven't got time to do so now. --Ben Best 09:12, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Gaps and out-of-order

message: Isn't Thallium a Poor Metal, not an Actinide.
*Fixed.
----silicon
somebody check this but I think the boiling point is way wrong, also on the wikipedia silicon page
citation to check: (NOT MEANT TO KEEP ON LINE) http://van.physics.uiuc.edu/qa/listing.php?id=1708 
'''''''
But on to your question about glass gas -- the boiling point of silicon dioxide is 2230 Celsius. Addition of impurities will probably raise this boiling point. 
Tom (w mike)' --end citation
Respectfully
Jjf  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.153.108.107 (talk) 20:10, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Thallium

message: Arsenic melts at 817 C and boils at 614 C?!? Don't be silly. 23191Pa (chat me, but mind the alphas!) 12:41, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arsenic
Talk:Kwela

message: I removed "As a youngster I was told that the infectious kwela dance rhythms of the South Africa of my youth came from a word that means 'step up'." Reminiscences should not be included in articles.  
and
"This name is tinged with irony, and reflects the strong, happy spirit that characterises the new South Africa, which overcomes adversity with good humour."  The new South Africa started much later than the kwela era. 
and
"It derives from the order, often from the police, when bundling people into their trucks. "Step up!"" as it is duplicated further on in the article.  Tiles 07:36, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Referring to Paul Simon's Graceland; that's OK, but wasn't it Harry Belafonte (Paradise in Gazangulu) using this music before?
Frits van Aarssen
The Netherlands
:Nope. Belafonte's Paradise In Gazankulu was done in 1988, almost three years after Simon's Graceland. --LBM | TALK TO ME 15:54, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kwela 

message: 1. What song in "Graceland" we're thinking of?
:"You can call me Al" and "I know what I know" would be the two.elpincha (talk) 17:27, 26 February 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requesting two clarifications
Template talk:Page fixing tools

message: I'm working on updating the Template:Resources_for_collaboration; this is one of the Templates that I think it should be divided into.  Feel free to comment here or on the Template_talk:Resources_for_collaboration page. JesseW 08:35, 8 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Where this came from

message: Two things:
#The Wikipedia:Duplicate articles page is not listed in this template:
#*Proposal: change the template.
#I'd like to see some guidelines for merging categories:
#*Proposal: create a Wikipedia:Duplicate categories page and put a ref in this template.
Sounds OK? ---- Charles Stewart 19:04, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds great.  Please do it. JesseW 06:25, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Duplicate articles

message: Template:Resources for collaboration seems much more comprehensive...is this template really needed as a simpler alternative? -- Beland 06:03, 18 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger with Template:Resources for collaboration? 

message: As suggested on TFD, I'm being bold and changing this to a redirect to the more comprehensive version, for the benefit of user pages still using it.  Feel free to discuss or change if you care. -- Beland 13:09, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect
Talk:Naomi Shemer

message: Speaking of the "notable songs" issue, I don't see how the new External link to tikkuntoronto serves the purpose of this article. Except as an example of her work, do you see any connection to the article? Thanks, -rich<Rich Janis 10:44, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links 

message: The "22:58, 26 August 2007 Alex Middleton" edit added "Category:Place of birth missing" to this talk page. Is that an error, or is that serving some other non-obvious purpose? The article already says, "Naomi Shemer was born and raised in Kevutzat Kinneret". --rich<Rich Janis 06:18, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Rich: both your points are good, don't wait for massive approval. Go ahead and be bold.--woggly 07:07, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. I see now that that was one of two edits to move that category here from the article page. That category was originally added by the "19:30, 4 July 2007 Away I Rode" edit to the article page, although the article already gave the place of birth and that edit lacked any explanatory comment. So, I did remove that category. --rich<Rich Janis 07:11, 27 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categories on this talk page 

message: I've looked at the history and it looks like I have done most of the edits in that period of time. Since I reference the name, copyright, and publisher of each of the four books and the data is a transcription of the English-language table of contents of each (fair use I suspect) I'm concerned that it is tagged this way, am I missing something?
Has this article progressed from starter to something more substantive? Are there any plans for additional material or is it really of low importance so do with it what you will?
Docdave (talk) 04:33, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tagged as possibly having original research since December 2007 And other tags 