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Talk:1997 Tour de France

message: I can't find who 2nd/3rd place are for the 1997 maillot blanc, anyone else have luck getting that info? --Fxer 23:14, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Youth winners 

message: Although officially no-one of the top finishers has admitted to using illegal drugs during the 1997 tour it is highly probable that at least some of the top 10 finishers did. Bjarne Riis admitted to having taken illegal drugs in the 1996 tour. Ullrich was on the same team. Virenque was banned in 1998 for doping. I don't know if this should be mentioned in the main article but I feel it should. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 195.0.229.42 (talk) 11:51, July 18, 2007
:Probable? Possible? Perhaps? You seem to have found Ullrich and Virenque guilty of doping in this Tour... Whatever you or I think, it is against Wikipedia policy (WP:BLP, which applies to all articles concerning people) to include any contentious material without thorough sourcing. As there is none beyond that which is circumstantial, I feel it has no place. SeveroTC 15:15, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Doping 

message: Jan Ullrich's victory margin, of 9' 09" was the largest margin of victory since the internationalisation and popularisation of the Tour brought about by the simultaneous events of Greg LeMond's groundbreaking victories, the first by a non-European, and also the ending of the Cold War.  In modern times, Ullrich's effort is yet to be bettered.
the parenthetical "the first by a non-European" seems to apply to Ullrich's victory, not to lemond's.  also, lemond's victories weren't simultaneous, and the ending of the cold war is kind of out of place and probably doesn't need to be mentioned.  finally, the 9'09" margin was the largest margin of victory since Fignon's victory in 1984 (at 10'32") - two years before lemond's first in 1986.  and Fignon's victory certainly counts as "in modern times."
i'm going to rewrite the sentence (and tweak the opening a bit).
Jan Ullrich's victory margin, of 9' 09" was the largest margin of victory since Laurent Fignon took the Yellow Jersey in the 1984 Tour by 10'32".
Theroyalweman  (talk|user|contribs) 14:38, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  awkward opening 
Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/July 23, 2006

message: It wasn't surprising that Pat Buchanan challenged Bush in the primaries, but it was surprising that his challenge did so well. Perhaps the summary should make that clear. David | Talk 23:28, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed . Raul654 23:39, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Pat Buchanan's surprising challenge

message: The prase "Democrat-conrolled congress" seem like poor writing to me.  Is there any way it can be rephrased? Rjm656s 22:18, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Phrasing
Talk:American Cowslip

message: I have rights to myspace.com/americancowslip.  I created that page.  There is no copyright violation.  I am the filmmaker and all the images, text, and other content are original. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 69.234.66.142 (talk • contribs) 23:33, 12 July 2006  (UTC)
I put up a temporary page at American cowslip/TEMP. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.126.117.170 (talk • contribs) 21:33, 14 July 2006  (UTC)
It appears that the first paragraph of this may not be a copyright violation. I cannot find excerpts of it at the MySpace site, nor on a Google search (except for a duplication of this Wikipedia article, ). Therefore, the page could be deleted and then the first paragraph re-added. It is also not unreasonable that the user could have rights to the other text, as it is MySpace, and he also created the Mark David article, the director. —Centrx→talk • 06:10, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyright
Talk:Ras Nouadhibou

message: The note about having the latest sunset in Africa is interesting, but when you read the article, it focuses on European sunsets, and only happens to mention two dates when Ras Nouadhibou has the latest sunset. 
The article doesn't give Africa the same level of detail that it gives to Europe. Based on the article, it's fair to say that Ras Nouadhibou sometimes has the latest sunset in Africa, but it's not clear that it always does.
Here's a link to the actual article: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1408/1408.2161.pdf 159.2.55.16 (talk) 03:09, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sunset time
Talk:Glenn Graham (fiddler)

message: There is no reason to delete this page. This subject is an accomplished musician with many webpages and websites devoted to or mentioning his accomplishments.
Ciociabasia 23:39, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: deletion

message: See   for my vote on this matter. As far as the "importance" of this subject he is a talented, well known musician and he has as many or more hits on Google than Planxty, Liam O'Flynn, Seamus Ennis and Leo Rowsome, to name just a few musicians who have their own pages and who have just as limited/unlimited appeal.
Rosemary's Baby 02:30, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: My vote on deletion of this page
Talk:Antsiranana Bay

message: I would like to propose a merge with the article on Madagascar. This is only a stub, and would fit in better with the main article on madagascar. Sapient Vesta 15:55, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: So what? Learn how to edit, how to spell and how to become a better user and please do not propose such bulshit. --Darwinek 18:24, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I am a little hurt by your reply and felt that it was unwarrented for you to reply in such a manner. I do not see what is wrong with the proposition of merging the two articles. If indeed it is 'such bulshit' (incidentally it should bee spelt sith two 'l's, 'bullshit'), could you please elaborate on why the suggestion provoked you and upset you in this way? Sapient Vesta 20:10, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Because we do not merge stubs to other articles. End. --Darwinek 20:42, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge
Talk:Frag Dolls

message: Based on recent edits removing references to skill and whether it should be part of this entry, I am requesting any citation of skill to decide this issue.
Zeashe 00:26, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Skill

message: Unfortunately this discussion is fraught with opinion on both sides.  The Frag Dolls, while definitely not "booth babes" are not up to the same standards that are held for most professional teams.  The fact is they are marketing for Ubisoft first, and players second.
This doesn't mean they aren't professionals, or that their skill should be part of the article, but people who keep up with the pro circuit know this - and Zeashe probabaly should too.
rmcelroy90@msn.com
A quick search for "Frag Dolls Tournament" turns up several links citing evidence of tournament participation and placement - the topmost entry cites #1 placement out of 32 teams.
* http://www.gameinatrix.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=508
* http://xbox.gamebattles.com/game/rainbow-six-lockdown/news_871p1.html
* http://www.xequted.com/articles/104.html
Fallout01, Please support with evidence of poor performance in tournaments.  Based on past contributions you've had the same complaint about other entries.
Zeashe 00:26, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Update
Talk:Teenage Caveman (1958 film)

message: When I saw "Teenage Caveman" as a pre-teen I remember thinking it was very much like the plot of a story I had read in my babysitter's literature textbook: "By the Waters of Babylon" by Stephen Vincent Benet.Naaman Brown (talk) 16:21, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Possible Source
Template talk:American Civil War/Archive 1

message: Here's my rough draft changes. I think it's a tiny bit padded, but items from each row must be removed to balance shape. The theaters and campaigns column is very difficult to pare down further, so in its current configuration, we're down to tweaking what fits and what doesn't, IMHO. BusterD 04:06, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Updates starting in July 06 

message: Looks good. I wonder if people with stingy screen sizes will be happy with its larger scope. The reason I overused Key in the titles was to provide an argument against numerous arbitrary additions, particularly to the Leaders column. I think a degree of discipline is needed here (or perhaps a detailed explanation of criteria in this Talk page) so that it doesn't explode with names such as Shaw, Chamberlain, and someone's favorite ancestor. Hal Jespersen 14:42, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good point on word key. Have corrected. When I look at this box, I see everything a secondary school student should need to access as a basic reference. That seems a reasonable standard. BusterD 01:54, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  update 

message: how about keeping at the top of the talk page, prior to usual talk items, a section called something like 'usage guidelines' where a few sentences would help editors to know in which categories/ articles they should place this template and where they should place it in the article.  Should this template go at the bottom of every article that is in the 'American Civil War' Category and its subcategories, for example?  Thanks Hmains 02:36, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Very sensible. I'm ill experienced to make such placement recomendations, but I'd think the kind of modest, gradual deployment Hal has so far executed seems right. The more pages on which this menu appears, the more difficult it might be to make structural changes. I think this definitely belongs on Theater and major campaign pages. I'd think that until an article achieves a certain page length, the navbox is too large even in its leaner configuration. BusterD 02:58, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  usage guidelines 

message: One idea to consider if the format proves excessive for pixel-deprived readers is a horizontal one, such as I've seen at . In this format, giving full names of generals would be possible. I'd go with blue and gray row colors. What do you think? Hal Jespersen 04:05, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  alternative format 

message: how about making the columns named 'Key USA leaders' and 'Key CSA leaders' to instead be 4 rows across the bottom of the template.  This will leave the columns for info that is common to north and south and let the rows be for north/south unique info.  Leaving more left/right space.  Thanks Hmains 03:10, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  another idea
Talk:Cognitive slippage

message: i don't understand how this is a positive symptom. ReverendG 00:04, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "Positive" doesn't mean it's a good thing. A positive symptoms would be a behaviour which indicates that the patient has schizophrenia, whereas a negative symptom would be a normal behaviour which someone with schizophrenia may not exhibit. Ben Morris 13:58, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: i
Talk:Bryman College

message: I caught an anon-user (12.9.194.180) that's traced back to the corporate owner of Bryman College removing negative information without reason.  Like all for-profit colleges, keep your eyes peeled for these shenanigans. --Bobak 00:05, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Look out for WP:SPAM from CCi
Talk:List of Sinhala words of Portuguese origin

message: Give reasons why this is an encylopedia artile not just a list of words. Describe how Sinhalese came about these words, there effect etc.RaveenS 13:51, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Expand this article

message: Hello. I just removed
divuranna	Swear	jurar	Swear
because it is not a loanword. It is a compound made out of diviya "oath" and uranavā "to swallow" (see Geiger, Etymological Glossary of the Sinhalese Language).
By the way Sinhala verbs are normally cited in the navā-form; we should stick to that convention in this article in case any verbs come up. Krankman 08:37, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Diyuranna

message: Is koocciya 'train' not from pt. coche? Any ideas?
Jasy jatere 22:08, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  yes it is from coche  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.185.137.138 (talk) 09:32, 26 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  koocciya 

message: Becker,
Baioneta: Bayinettuva: Bayonet.
Baile: Bailaya.
Copo: Koppaya: Cup?
Escola: Iskolaya: School.
Gudão: Gudama: "Warehouse".
Maçã: Masan: Apple?
Meia: Mês.
Medula: Midulu: Medulla.
Mesa: Mesaya: Table.
Mostra: Móstaraya.
Munição: Munissama: (Am)munition.
Natal: Nattal: Christmas.
Número: Nomaraya: Number.
Dona: Nóna: Lady?
Órgão: Orgalaya: Organ?
Relógio: Orlosiya: Clock.
Padre: Pádiri, pádeli: Priest?
Prancha: Palanchiya.
Palangana: Palangánama.
Pão: Pan gediya: Bread?
Papa: Páppa: Daddy? Pope?
Papuses: Pápus.
Páscoa: Páskuva: Easter.
Passaporte: Paspórtuva: Passport.
Pateca: Patágaya, patakka gediya.
Pato: Pattayá: Duck?
Pedreiro: Pedaréruvã: Builder?
Pena: Tatupena.
Peneira: Penéraya: Sieve?
Petição: Petsama: Petition.
Pregão: Peragama.
Fatia: Petta.
Picão: Pikama, pikasiya.
Pintura: Pintáruva: Painting.
Pepino: Pipiñña: Cucumber?
Pipa: Pippaya.
Pires: Pirissya.
Pistola: Pistolaya: Pistol.
Fita: Pittapataya.
Peão: Piyon.
Forno: Pôranuva: Oven?
Foros: Pôrke.
Profeta: Frophétaya: Prophet.
Púcaro: Púkuruva.
Funil: Punílaya: Funnel.
Purgatório: Purgatóriya: Purgatory.
Porcelana: Pusalana: Porcelain.
Rabão: Rábu.
Rancho: Ránchuva: Ranch.
Arrátel: Ráttala.
Renda: Réndapatiya.
Ripa: Rippaya.
Roda: Ródaya: Wheel?
Rosa: Rósa: Rose? Pink?
Rolão: Rulan.
Sabañ: Sabão: Soap?
Saia: Saya.
Tombo: Tombuva.
Viola: Viyole.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 187.14.123.72 (talk) 12:47, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vocables 
Talk:Siu Nim Tao

message: I'm going to tag this as a Martial Arts stub, but, in all honesty, I'm not sure if that's true. goofyheadedpunk 00:08, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Stub

message: Is the link "A Proper Martial Arts Stance - Martial Arts" really good for an entry specifically about "Siu Nim Tao"? I doubt. Frank F H (talk) 03:34, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it looks like a blog entry and suffers from lack of  notability requirements. --Marty Goldberg (talk) 19:45, 18 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed it because it does appear to be a blog. I also did this because the author states those wishing to use the copyrighted material must get expressed permission from her. --Ghostexorcist (talk) 16:25, 27 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Questionable source
Talk:502 Downtowner

message: Look I just wanted to create a stub so that other people could add to it. I see references to this route in other articles, but no one has stepped up to the plate. Therefore, I have. - User: Nlsanand
I agree, this article is a stub and it should be expanded, not deleted --24fan24 00:18, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually maybe not, is there really anything that can be added? --24fan24 00:35, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Speedy Deletion
Talk:Bacone College

message: Good catch on the copyright issues; I obviously picked the wrong search strings when I processed the AfC request here.  The article appears to be a mix of copyrighted and original text, so I created a semi-stubbed version on the Talk:Bacone College/Temp page with the copyrighted material removed. Kickaha Ota 00:10, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyvio problems

message: I think a guide to proper pronunciation of "Bacone" would be appropriate, as I hear it pronounced variously as either "bacon" or "bay-CONE" by people unfamiliar with the school (I do not know the correct pronunciation).  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.90.12.233 (talk) 02:29, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation of "Bacone"

message: The first paragraph needs to be edited to remove the implication that American Baptist Churches USA is a tribal nation.
161.80.114.202 (talk) 18:37, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wording is misleading
Talk:Liner notes

message: Previously an author asserted, incorrectly, that liner notes descended from notes written on sleeves.
This is an inaccurate claim.  While there were some occasions when such notes appeared on the sleeve of the grammophone / LP record inner sleeve, in the overwhelming majority of cases, liner notes appeared on the rear of the jacket cover.  I own several hundred LPs, from the 50s onwards, of jazz, classical, rock and world music genres.  Only a handful have notes on the inner sleeve.  The practice of putting notes on the sleeve was a relatively recent tradition, in the mid-1970s to the demise of the LP in the late 1980s. 
Perhaps the writer making the inner sleeve assertion was mainly familiar with that trend.
Furthermore, one writer claimed that liner notes essays were often pretentious.  That is clearly a violation of the NPOV ethos.  Dogru144 03:14, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: '''Factual clarification of liner notes'''

message: I rewrote the final paragraph and eliminated some of it, specifically the following passage:
:There is a special version of the ISBD which addresses the issues involved in trusting the information placed in the liner notes, when the time comes to describe a sound recording in the catalogue of a library.  The information found on these recordings approved by the artist and/or the label issuing the recording, introducing a biased point of view.  As such, these notes are far less historically accurate than the records kept by recording studios and the freely expressed criticism of the recordings from the press at large (assuming such criticism is reviewed en masse).
I checked the ISBD (a set of guidelines for libraries to use when cataloguing their collections) and couldn't find anything resembling a "special version ... which addresses the issues involved in trusting the information placed in the liner notes." If such a document exists, it needs to be referenced specifically by name.
The subsequent two paragraphs make a judgment about whether liner notes are more or less accurate than other commentaries about the records. Some liner notes are indeed less accurate than other sources, but sometimes the liner notes to recordings are written by musical scholars and meet high standards for accuracy. I think it goes without saying that information in liner notes is approved by the publisher, but it is POV and rather inaccurate to suggest that this automatically means all liner notes are less reliable than information published elsewhere. --Sheldon Rampton 19:02, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change to final paragraph
Talk:Scogui

message: I would request that the Scogui page remain unmerged from the general scouting in Leicestershire page on the grounds of publicity for the club being paramount and a single page making access to relevant information considerably easier. To validate this I will endeavour expand the page so it is no longer a stub.
:It is noble that you will expand it, but your reasons for doing so ("Publicity", in your words) go against Wikipedia is not an advertising service. Also, this kind of is parallel to articles for individual troops rather than for the larger entity. Leaving the merge discussion open for more opinions on this. Chris 00:05, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well it does seem the organization includes both Scouts and Guides and is outside the Scouting Association (save that some of its members are in the SA) while the Scouting in Leicestershire seems to be purely Scouting Association. One option is to broaden Scouting in Leicestershire to Scouting and Guiding in Leicestershire and then merge this in. --Erp 00:19, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think there is a difficulty in broadening Scouting in Leicestershire as this is one of a set of articles about Scout Counties/Areas. It is not clear to me that Guides are organised around the same geographical entities. It would be nice if they were and we could broaden all of them. I agree with Chris on two points; publicity is not an appropriate argument and we should leave the merge debate open for longer. If it has to be merged I suggest it should be merged into Student Scout and Guide Organisation, partly as that is the parent organisation, not the Scout County of Leicestershire, and because members of Universities in UK come from all over the country, not just the local area. I also note that the merge tags correctly suggest the merge discussion be at Talk:Scouting in Leicestershire so I'll put a note there pointing out that discussion is taking place here. --Bduke 00:52, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I pretty much agree with Bduke, this is not an advertising forum and unless that slant is removed and the article expanded significantly, it should be merged per Bduke's suggestion. Rlevse 01:01, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scogui remaining unmerged
Talk:Scanimate

message: I've flagged this article as a stub, due to there being very little to no hard data on what the process of Scanimation actually is, how it looks, or what analog technology is used.  I was trying to find an incomplete market, couldn't find one, so feel free to modify it if you can find one. - MSTCrow 00:18, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Replaced with more appropriate boilerplate text. - MSTCrow 04:39, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Stubbing

message: I noticed some recent commercials for the Honda Odyssey minivan are using the song "We Want the Funk" while showing the animation in a Scanimate-esque style. Include?  WAVY 10 14:24, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Honda Odyssey]] 

message: There are some references in the article of questionable accuracy.  I've removed the most egregious of them - The Jackson 5 "Blame It on the Boogie" music video was almost certainly not done on a Scanimate - it couldn't do motion trails from video, since Scanimate had no memory!  Most likely, one of the first Quantel devices was used.  I'd recommend removing "Let's Groove" as well, but there are many effects in there, so who knows, maybe Scanimate got used at some point, though it's unlikely.
Tom S. (talk) 04:54, 23 February 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: "Let's Groove" is Scanimate. "Blame It on the Boogie" used the Scanimate colorizer and (you are correct) the Quantel DFS 3000 for motion trails.  Kittyinthetree (talk) 14:51, 30 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Accuracy 

message: This is a tantalising article on a now vintage video animation system which I discovered in researching the British artist Michael Nicholson (still working on a WP bio). What would make the article much more effective and informative would be to include some video, or stills, please!  Jamesmcardle(talk) 08:24, 30 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Images
Talk:Chrome steel

message: Chrome steel is real, for example the following ball bearing is made of it:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160003296883)003296883
Crhome steel is very similar to stainless steel, however it does not met the required precentage to be stainless, thus it is chrome steel.
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BALEETED!  —Ryan 20:53, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The term Chrome Steel does not have a single definition. A chrome part, or a chromed part, is a steel part coated, more specifically, plated, with metallic chromium. Chromium steel is a steel, often stainless steel, which has chromium added intentionally (it isn't a contaminant). Technically, stainless steels contain higher levels of Cr that most chrome (chromium) steels, enough to impart corrosion resistance. It is also nonsense to claim that chrome steels are somehow weaker than other steels. There is no question that some other steels are stronger but some are weaker. Chromium adds hardness to a steel (with proper processing). This may or may not make the resulting alloy stronger than the base composition. There are a variety of different systems in use globally which designates alloy composition. SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers and ASTM (U.S.A.), JIS (Japan), EN or ISO (European) DIN (German) and GB (Chinese).173.191.243.18 (talk) 23:57, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong