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Talk:River Bourne

message: R Bourne in Surrey is easily confused as there are two very close to each other. They then join together - aptly again called the r. bourne - and then flow into the thames. Both rivers are called the R Bourne.  I didn't know how to differentiate them - even locals don't. Hence I've called one the north branch and the other the south branch. Perhaps someone else has a suggestion.  SuzanneKn 21:58, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

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THERE IS AN UNDERGROUND RIVER WHICH MOUTH IS AT HASTINGS THA GIVES THE NAME TO BOURNE ROAD.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Freakmighty (talk • contribs) 19:38, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hastings
Talk:Rational sieve

message: The article says:
We'll arbitrarily try the value B=19, giving the factor base P={2,3,11,13,17,19}. (We cannot include 5 and 7 since they are actually factors of 35, which screws up the algorithm. Of course, if we already know the factors, we do not need to do the algorithm, but we will anyway to show that it works.)
I don't understand this.  Does this mean that if we don't know the factors, and some of them are, inadvertently, in our factor base, the method fails?  Why? And how useful could the method be if it often fails? —RadRafe 22:00, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If you're actually trying to factor a number (knowing nothing else about it), the first thing you try is direct division by all primes up to...well, as high as you can go given your time and computation constraints. If that doesn't work, then you would try a fancier method like this one. So it's reasonable and realistic to assume that any prime in the factor base has already been tested for divisibility. Alternatively, you could say that the full algorithm is: 1. Pick a factor base. 2. Test each prime in the factor base for divisibility. 3. Proceed with the algorithm. Regardless, in point of fact, the method actually isn't that useful for factoring big numbers, and it does often fail (when you can't find enough z's), but it's pedagogically useful as a simple version of the special number field sieve and general number field sieve, and that's indeed the only context in which I've seen it discussed. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Sbyrnes321 (talk • contribs) 
I have just replaced the old example (factoring 35 but cheating on the selection of P by skipping the actual factors 5 and 7) with a better example (factoring 187 using P={2,3,5,7}). As a bonus, the new example is shorter. On the downside, I couldn't find any way to get the trivial factorization 187 = 1*187 to fall out of the new example's four simultaneous congruences, so it loses that bit of verisimilitude. --Quuxplusone (talk) 00:39, 10 February 2010 (UTC)

text: Seems like a clear-cut improvement to me. Good job! --Steve (talk) 05:12, 10 February 2010 (UTC)
Talk:Bomber (novel)

message: An editor has changed this word to the correct German spelling. However the book is written in English and the word is spelt Burgermaster in its text, and I think that for this reason we should stay with that. Britmax (talk) 08:53, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Deighton actually uses "Burgomaster". Khamba Tendal (talk) 17:00, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Burgermaster - Burgermeister

message: The 1995 BBC radio drama based on the book is mentioned in detail in both the Trivia and the Dramatisation sections. Once is enough, surely! --TraceyR (talk) 11:33, 17 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duplication 

message: I don't recall this being mentioned in the novel. The character in question, Anna-Luisa, August Bach's housekeeper, is actually introduced to the reader thus (p.32, Pan 1971 edition):- "Neither the little boy nor his father, for whom she was preparing breakfast, belonged to Anna-Luisa. She was a member of the RADwJ, a uniformed labour force of mothers' helps and social workers." The initials, never explained by Deighton, stand for Reicharbeitsdienst der weiblichen Jugend, "Reich Labour Service for Female Youth", a sub-branch of the much larger RAD. From 1939, RADwJ service was no longer all-volunteer and young women could be conscripted. Anna-Luisa's membership of the RADwJ, her uniform and her brooch badge are referenced a number of times in the text. Khamba Tendal (talk) 17:17, 2 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Faith And Beauty Society
Talk:Chimera (Barth novel)

message: Hello, I'm a graduate student of English Literature at the University of South Florida. For a class assignment, I would like to collaborate to improve this page. I really like this novel and want to make the page more thorough and reliable. I look forward to help from anyone who has also been watching this page, though I see there has been no activity for some time. Cheers, Nealfschr (talk) 00:39, 4 June 2015 (UTC)
Talk:Islands in the Stream (novel)

message: The sentence below is very awkward and detracts from the overall merits of this article. 
:He also wrote an unpublished "Sea-Chase" story which his wife and editor combined with the stories about the islands, renamed Islands in the Stream and published in 1970.[2]
1.) I believe it should be specified that his wife was the editor of Islands in the Stream, rather than in the ambiguous instance above. 
2.) My main grief is that it refers to this article in the 3rd person. It is just a hastily-thrown-together sentence that seems pasted from another article (it may very-well be but I did not check out the citation).
Please let me know if I'm just being crazy - Ñǀʛʛɑþħðńę  ; August 11th 2011  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.174.62.61 (talk) 03:28, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Awkward sentence under "Background" section of Article
Talk:The Chinese Agent

message: I want to work as agent in china. If any company need, contact me
email:xuyan1987ling@163.com
Waiting for your email.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Serena224 (talk • contribs) 14:23, 3 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  I want to work as agent in china. If any company need, contact me
Talk:Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company

message: I have tagged a merge from Oregon Railway and Navigation Company. It appears that the ORR was simply a reorganization of the ORy, and not really a consolidation as the article states. In any case, I do not believe any railroads were newly acquired by the ORR in 1896. --NE2 23:30, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: This is somewhat vague to me, but I think Oregon Railway and Navigation Company went broke and became Oregon Railroad and Navigation Company.  Let me consult a source on this, it may make since to leave them separate to help prevent confusion.  Or not.  But in a day or so I should be able to shed some light on this.Mtsmallwood (talk) 23:35, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry for not explaining it further, but that's what a reorganization generally consists of. This used to happen often in the rail industry; for instance look at the former names of the Erie Railroad. --NE2 00:31, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge?

message: The OR&N -- which was reorganized as the OWRR&N later under UP ownership -- never had a rail line anywhere near Mount Rainier. The postcard caption is a goof. The mountain is Shasta, not Rainier, and this is the SP near Black Butte, on the Shasta Line of the SP, and the last car bearing OWRR&N markings (if indeed those were not added by the photo studio later) is inconsequential to the ownership of the railroad or the operator of the train, as through cars from other railroads were not uncommon. 
For sources, consult Peter J. Lewty's Across the Columbia Plain and To the Columbia Gateway, as well as Austin & Dill's Southern Pacific in Oregon.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.237.139.24 (talk) 02:18, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Remove Postcard!
Talk:Wheels (novel)

message: How come there's no 'box' saying that this article needs "inline citations" for any of the information/details included ? ? ?
And why no specific date(s) for the 10-hour 5-part miniseries that aired on NBC ? ? ?
:BTW, the broadcast dates were May 7, 8, 9, 14, and 15 of 1978.  The info comes from the TV Guide (pp. 12-13; week of May 6-12) article that I cut out. 68.2.114.117 (talk) 13:51, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inline citations
Talk:The Carpet People

message: This is a call to arms to make the Terry Pratchett article a Featured Article. It will greatly help the cause if all the side articles that link from it are of a reasonable standard. Terry Pratchett has around 40 side articles (ie the ones relating to his work) - I don't think they are all expected to be GA (Good Article) standard for TP to become featured, but certain basic elements will be looked at for sure. 
A full list of the sub articles is here on the TP talk page: I'm posting this comment on the talk pages of each article on the list. Editors reading may also like to help with the TP article too? 
The main issue, especially with smaller articles, is often a finding reasonable amount of citations, and prose can sometimes be a little  POV too. Coverage of the topic is probably less important, but of course it needs to be reasonably good. --Matt Lewis (talk) 14:23, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Making [[Terry Pratchett]] a Featured Article  

message: I'm not currently able to edit these in, but someone kindly explained the major differences in the two editions here: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/q/245679/3804
If people want to edit them in, please do so. Otherwise I'll get to it eventually
AncientSwordRage (talk) 18:06, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source for edition changes
Talk:The World Inside

message: The so-called "Plot Summary" does not actually summarize the plot at all. It just describes the background against which the story takes place. SisDivComp (talk) 12:54, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Plot Summary 

message: On May 2, 2010 I added the March 2, 2010 publication of this title by Orb Books. http://us.macmillan.com/theworldinside Xin Jing (talk) 19:27, 2 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Added Orb Books Publication

message: Any idea on how much floor space per person or the dimensions of the buildings? 1,000 stories with 800K people seems awfully roomy, even if 3/4 of the building is given over to hallways, elevators and services.
If the building has a base of .5 x .5 mile, the footprint covers 6,969,600 ft^2 Assuming the building goes straight up, multiply that by 1,000. 6,969,600,000 ft^2 Now divide by 800,000 That's 8,712 ft^2 of gross space per occupant. If 75% is not living space, that's 2,178 ft^2 of net living space per occupant. The mega-scrapers would have to be quite narrow and/or taper quite a bit as they go up to get a really high density.
Of course adjust area according to the book to come up with a figure, if there's any such data in it. Now I need to find a copy to read. ;) Bizzybody (talk) 04:09, 20 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Space per person? 

message: >>> Categories: 1971 novels | Dystopian novels | Overpopulation fiction  | Novels by Robert Silverberg | American science fiction novels
Having read the book (granted, 35 years ago) I would say that the book was not particularly Dystopian, only mildly so. I would personally not like the place, but it wasn't describing a truly onerous or vile life, just one which was limited in freedom and which a modern person would consider somewhat dreary and limited. If that's all it takes to make a dystopia, then I'd say most historical fiction about life more than 200 years ago is "dystopian".
I would also say it's not really one involving "overpopulation", since its entire point is that the carrying capacity of the planet is far higher than the pundits of the time were claiming possible. I don't know for a fact that Silverberg actually calculated it out, but he tended then, at the least, to write moderately hard SF with strong social implications. He likely based his society on numbers he believed reasonable. So it's more a response to overpopulation myths of the time.  --OBloodyHell (talk) 06:15, 2 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categories
Talk:Much Obliged, Jeeves

message: I've nothing against the existence of a Crit. section, but this one isn't quite NPOV.
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"During the wedding, the pipes in the chapel start spewing out sewage..."
I don't think it's meant to be sewage is it?  It loooks more like light clay mud.  
The crit section could do with some citations.
Adytum72a 01:25, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Criticism Section
Talk:Post Office (novel)

message: There's no easy way to find this page by simply searching for Post Office. Should a disambiguation page for Post Office be made to exist alongside General Post Office?
Ianwilliams 15:55, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Disambiguation

message: Here is a very personal signed cover of the old Black Sparrow edition:
https://plus.google.com/101046916407340625977/posts/KSogrmNxH1a
194.95.230.234 (talk) 07:38, 10 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Signed Cover

message: Deleted self-promoting edit by author Phil Terrana -- shamelessly plugging his own novel "Postal Service." His novel is self-published, not of note, and adds nothing to the article about Bukowski, the novel, or the history of the writing. Liontamarin (talk) 02:53, 31 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed Self Promotion
Talk:Big Sugar (band)

message: Can we have a disambiguation page for "Big Sugar"? This is also a term (nickname, really) for the enormous, influential and arguably destructive sugar industry, a subject sadly lacking on the wikipedia. It is also the name of a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) documentary on the subject.  74.73.39.127 16:47, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think a disambiguation page is necessary as there are no other articles on Wikipedia with the same name at this time.  Strobilus 20:49, 18 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Disambiguation
Talk:Jigme Dorji Wangchuck

message: Is it encyclopedic to refer to the subject as "His Majesty" in the body of the article? It would seem to be non-neutral and thus inappropriate. Also, there is nothing about his death, especially at such a young age, nor what he was doing in such a remote place as Kenya. Mal7798 (talk) 23:37, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  "His Majesty", death 

message: How was bringing modernization important to start in Bhutan 119.2.118.122 (talk) 15:21, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  History
Talk:Then Again, Maybe I Won't

message: The "theme" and "setting" sections are full of original research.  It looks like somebody copied their book report here. 
These sections either need to have citations added in to show the material is not OR and is coming from some legit source, or else they need to be deleted. 
I will just leave a tag on the article for now and this note here, to give somebody a chance to improve the sections within a reasonable time. I'm sure there are sources on this book as there are for all the other Judy Blume books, so someone should be able to find some. TheBlinkster (talk) 01:52, 23 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article is full of original research (OR) 

message: I remember having two versions of this when I was a kid, one was the hardcover original, the other a paperback released sometime later. One of the versions (I think the first edition) was missing the final chapter (which was only about two pages long), so the book ended with Joel going off to military school. I have been unable to find any other references to there being different versions of this book anywhere else, so am not including this in the article as it's original research, but has anyone seen this confirmed anywhere else? (98.100.130.107 (talk) 15:57, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Different Editions?
Talk:The Perilous Gard

message: I find it interesting and amusing that the author's name incorporates references, or at least allusions, to three of the major elements in the novel: Queen Mary, her successor Queen Elizabeth, and religion (although Christianity itself is much less significant in the book then the "fairy folk"'s pagan religion).
--Thnidu (talk) 04:49, 9 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: As a Perilous Gard fan (my friend showed me the book two years ago, and I was hooked), I just want to say thank you for contributing to this page! I didn't think this stellar book would be found in Wikipedia, much less have an entry! EmTef (talk) 18:46, 14 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Elizabeth Marie Pope
Talk:Vincenzo I Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua

message: ==Untitled==
The article on Vincenzo Bellini says he lived 1801-1835. How could he have been at Vincenzo Gonzaga's court? Is there an authority out there who knows which is right? JamestownArarat 22:22, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Bellini?

message: The article on Vincenzo Bellini says he lived 1801-1835. How could he have been at Vincenzo Gonzaga's court? Is there an authority out there who knows which is right? JamestownArarat 22:22, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:The Warlord of the Air

message: The title is The Warlord of the Air which is how this is linked in from most places. I'd suggest getting an admin to move it to the right place. (Emperor 16:09, 11 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds fair enough to me.--Joseph Q Publique 03:07, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Something similar came up with The Authority (the name of the group and the title of the comic book) which was at Authority (comics) and the first link redirected to it. (Emperor 03:54, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: The

message: The first paragraph should state why this book is notable -- what's important about it, in a real-world context? --Coppertwig 01:41, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The first paragraph (at least nowadays, in 2012) stipulates the notability: that it is deemed a sort of proto-steampunk; and that it's perhaps the earliest example of the rule of thumb that in any fictional parallel world where the British and other European empires survive, some form of lighter-than-air travel does as well. --Orange Mike | Talk 17:09, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability 

message: That cover illustration is ghastly. Was that really the original Ace cover in the United States? When published in the UK, it had a very splendid picture featuring an airship with the inscription "Royal Indian Air Service". After that you just had to read it!
This is probably the one I'm thinking of.
Warlord-of-the-air1.jpg
--TS 23:34, 10 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: UK cover

message: As I understand this article, its Oswald Bastable is a veteran British soldier in 1903.
The Bastable series by E. Nesbit is contemporary realistic fiction inaugurated by The Story of the Treasure Seekers (1899) in which Oswald is about twelve, I vaguely recall and suppose. Contemporary, not set in the past, and realistic, not fantasy, if i recall and understand correctly.
We say here:
: Oswald Bastable is a character created by author E. Nesbit for her book The Story of the Treasure Seekers.
and say in The Story of the Treasure Seekers (our only page for the Bastable series, and without plot summary): 
: British writer Michael Moorcock later used the character, or at least the name, of Oswald Bastable for the hero and first-person narrator of his trilogy A Nomad of the Time Streams, published from 1971 until 1981, an influence on the nascent genre of steampunk.
Is there any basis for suggesting Moorcock has done anything more than reuse a name made famous in another writer's fiction? --P64 (talk) 22:28, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oswald Bastable
Talk:Crickhowell

message: "in a bid to force the Treasury into legislation to crack down on loopholes", "local 
businesses have put forward a plan that mimics some of the tactics used by multinationals to avoid paying taxes in the U.K"
Sources: 
* NPR
*The Independent
* (and many others)
--Austrian (talk) 14:46, 6 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tax loopholes
Talk:The New Centurions (novel)

message: The discussion of characters and their events is much too lengthy and appears to be Original Research, as no sources are cited. Wambaugh has been a highly successful author, about whom much has been written. Editors need to use published sources for discussions of his plot, characters, movie adaptations, etc. Parkwells (talk) 22:00, 8 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: No sources
Talk:The Patterns of Chaos

message: One of the problems with this website is that somebody might actually read this description of the book and think "Oh, that sounds worth reading". They would then waste a few hours of their life reading what was possibly the worst book ever written. Should we not warn them?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.198.212.130 (talk) 13:46, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  No room for subjectivity 

message: Best. Science. Fiction. Novel. Ever. -- Karada (talk) 01:40, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Five words
Talk:The Revolt of the Cockroach People

message: A section for the background of the novel, detailing Acosta's experiences in East L.A. and interactions with Hunter S. Thompson, will illustrate why and how the novel was written in the method of Gonzo Journalism. With a Reception section, it will display how the novel was received by Chicano critics at the time, of how they initially critical of the novel.
I added a few sentences about it as a work of Gonzo journalism. I believe it is relevant information for the introduction paragraph. Aeroglove566 (talk) 14:03, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I've added a Reception section to the article. I intend to improve that section from there and will create a "Context"(Background) section for information regarding Acosta's life and Gonzo journalism. Aeroglove566 (talk) 03:53, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Background and Reception section 

message: — Assignment last updated by Aeroglove566 (talk) 14:16, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Advanced Writing and Research

message: I believe the Plot section needs more information about the events of the novel. It gives a broad, general summary of Brown's story, so adding more about the plot will help readers understand what The Revolt of the Cockroach People is about. Maybe we can try to replicate what the article for Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo did? Aeroglove566 (talk) 04:00, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Improvement for the Plot Section
Talk:Grubbs catalyst

message: For info, Grubbs 2 is a range of cpds- the one listed here is probably the first but there are others, e.g. [this] for those that have access to Tet. Lett. (and there is at least one other from memory). Perhaps a comment is needed to indicate that the 2nd Gen is a range? The third gen is around too, an example of its use is JACS 2007, 129, 1105-1112. Freestyle-69 (talk) 07:08, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Range of catalysts 

message: I suggest that the section on the Hoveyda-Grubbs catalyst be trimmed down a bit.  The examples using the water soluble catalyst are a bit specific, and there are a variety of simpler methods to do olefin metathesis in water (see http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.200801451/pdf).  The image file "Grubbswatersolublecat.png" could easily be removed, which would condense the section down nicely.  This would also clarify the synthesis of this type of compound, while they can be synthesized from the 1st generation Hoveyda-Grubbs complex they are generally synthesized from the corresponding 2nd generation Grubbs catalyst. Vdubbs 22:03, 4 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hoveyda-Grubbs catalysts