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Talk:Dorothy Wilding

message: Here's a bit to get us started on an article about Dorothy Wilding.
Sources:
 
1) The citation for Hutchinson's Biography Database entry on Dorothy Wilding (1893-1976) includes the following, verbatim. I can request the entire entry from my library, though I'm not certain it'll include more info than this.
:Dorothy Wilding (1893-1976)  
:English society photographer, considered the most successful portraitist during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s in the U.K. She popularized the profile portrait as well as innovative, stylized settings. She enjoyed a long-standing close relationship with the royal family and is perhaps best known for her definitive portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, used on postage stamps during the 1950s and 1960s. 
    
:She worked in studios in both London, England, and in New York, New York, U.S.A.
2) The National Portrait Gallery web site includes nice information on Ms. Wilding too.
I'm relatively new to Wiki stuff, so please be kind if I'm going about this in the wrong way!
Keesiewonder 14:48, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: 2006 post

message: Have tried to expand lead section to bring it in line with rest of article - can the note now be deleted?Noswansofine (talk) 11:21, 6 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead Section 
Talk:Nouméa

message: Quote: "Nouméa is the most "westernised" city in the Pacific Islands region"
I live in Wellington and it seems pretty Western to me. When did New Zealand stop being a pacific island country? 121.73.7.84 (talk) 12:25, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it's because the term "Pacific Islands" now refers to either Melanesia (excl PNG) or Polynesia and NZ is more its own region. --SHB2000 (talk) 11:44, 29 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  most westernised??? 
Talk:Erysiphales

message: The powdery mildew article isn't in great shape, redirecting to and expanding this page would make more sense. --SB_Johnny|talk|books 15:00, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, I'm pretty sure most of this taxon are just powdery mildews anyway.(a Mentally Efficient Loonies And Nice Insane Elephants creation 21:59, 11 February 2007 (UTC)

text: We had the same problem in German WP, there were 3 articles ("Echter Mehltau", which means "powdery mildews"; "Erysiphales"; "Erysiphaceae") treating the same species (since Erysiphales consists of only one single family, named Erysiphaceae). We decided to preserve "Echter Mehltau", transforming "Erysiphales" and "Erysiphaceae" into redirects and expanding the taxbox to family level. 80.139.191.205 01:00, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

message: I see no need to merge the articles of Erysiphales and Powdery mildew! The first one is a biological order and the other one is a disease caused by species belonging to that order. There are also separate articles for common cold and rhinoviruses for the same reason.
I suggest rather merging the separate articles for Erysiphales and Erysiphaceae, as they are essentially the same thing. Kaarel 20:27, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: To make myself more clear - the powdery mildew is a phytopathological syndrome (a condition of the plant), as the Erysiphales are a bunch of fungus species, many of whitch cause that syndrome during some part of their life cycle (the causative agent) Kaarel 03:12, 3 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  No need to merge
Talk:Mikhail Skobelev

message: At one point an editor added: "There was a conspiracy theory that Skobelev had been poisoned by a secret order of Alexander III." without citation.  On 12 April 2007, this was removed from the article.  Can anyone provide a source and citation for this information? --Bejnar 20:04, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Also regarding a conspiracy theory: maybe The Death of Achilles should be mentioned. Ben  T/C  14:19, 30 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Death conspiracy

message: Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 12:14, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008
Talk:Diether von Isenburg

message: I think I have never seen "Dieter" instead of "Diether" like on :de:Diether von Isenburg in German before. Is there evidence that English uses "Dieter"? Kusma (討論) 16:44, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 
Talk:Mountain rescue in England and Wales

message: Organisation list is incomplete so far, but will be added to in the coming weeks.
--Pandaplodder 15:08, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: There are two articles in one here: 'Mountain rescue services in England and Wales' and 'Mountain Rescue England and Wales (MREW)'; mixing both is confusing. Llywelyn2000 (talk) 16:27, 22 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure what you mean. The two are inextricably intertwined. One is the umbrella organization (but not in the sense of a governing body) for the other. How would you split them, and what benefit would this provide to our readers? Pyrope 16:12, 12 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: 'Mountain rescue services in England and Wales' is not an umbrella organisation, but a general description of what follows in the body of the article. Many of these services do not operate under the association of Mountain Rescue England and Wales (MREW), formerly called Mountain Rescue Council of England & Wales. This is very cloudy, and incorrect. If you take a look at the  Mountain Rescue England and Wales (MREW) website you will see that their list of associated services is much smaller than the one on Wikipedia. We are trying to do two things within one article, and have therefore cloudied the issue. This article needs to be one or the other imo. Llywelyn2000 (talk) 12:44, 15 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two articles
Talk:Quadratic variation

message: Why can we use quadratic variation to test differentiability?
From Advanced Stochastic Processes by David Gamarnik:
Even though Brownian motion is nowhere differentiable and has unbounded total variation, it turns out that it has bounded quadratic variation.
The theorem might be correct, but what is it useful for?
A differentiable function needn't have a continuous derivation:
:x^2 \sin(1/x)
—The preceding unsigned comment was added by Theowoll (talk • contribs).
I don't follow the your argument. If a function is everywhere differentiable, then it has vanishing quadratic variation. If a function has non-vanishing quadratic variation, then it is not everywhere differentiable. The theorem says neither more nor less than that. The function you've exhibited has a continuous derivative everywhere and therefore has vanishing quadratic variation. There are plenty of functions, such as |x|, which  have discontinuities in their derivatives and nonetheless have vanishing quadratic variation. (In fact, every continuous function with a piecewise continuous derivative has vanishing q.v., whereas any discontinuity has non-vanishing q.v. as do nowhere differentiable processes like Brownian motion.) I have removed the dubious tags, but I also removed the very imprecise statement from the intro. –Joke 21:39, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: In the meantime I learned that a differentiable function needn't be of bounded variation (like x^2\sin(1/x^2)). So the theorem is intereresting indeed. The function I've exhibited above (f(x) = x^2 \sin(1/x),\mbox{ }f(0)=0) is a counterexample for the following statement in the proof: "Notice that |f'(t)| is continuous". The example is differentiable everywhere but its derivative is not continuous. Theowoll 18:58, 13 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The definition says:
Its quadratic variation is the process, written as [X]t, defined as
:[X]_t=\lim_{\Vert P\Vert\rightarrow 0}\sum_{k=1}^n(X_{t_k}-X_{t_{k-1}})^2
where P ranges over partitions of the interval [0,t] and the norm of the partition P is the mesh. This limit, if it exists, is defined using convergence in probability.
What does it mean? The probability that the sum of the square differences over a given partition is different from the limit by more than epsilon is at most a given function of the mesh, for any partition of a given mesh? Is this true, or do we only have almost sure convergence for any particular sequence of partitions with mesh going to zero?
Commentor (talk) 13:39, 9 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: definition
Talk:Stosh "Piz" Piznarski

message: Is this the Hearst rapist?
: Nope.  —Tamfang (talk) 07:53, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: By the way, what the heck kind of name is Stosh anyway?  Kid's got two nicknames, it seems to me. —Tamfang (talk) 07:53, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: name
Talk:William FitzWilliam (Lord Deputy)

message: This article is written from a purely English perspective, even though it describes someone whose career was largely in Ireland. The opening sentence, that he was "an English statesman" is highly partisan; "statesman" is not a term that would be applied by an Irish person to someone responsible for what the article later euphemistically labels as "pursued aggressive policies". His massacre of the survivors of the Armada gives a hint of what those "aggressive policies" might have amounted to.
The process of military colonisation which he oversaw should be described in less euphemistic terms. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 20:32, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have edited the lead and taken down the NPOV tag. Charles Matthews (talk) 09:35, 29 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV
Talk:John Cudahy

message: Cudahy is featured in this interventionist WW2 cartoon by Dr. Seuss in which he is told by Hitler to sell one of his paintings of "German pride" to the American people (taken from an aggregation of Seuss political cartoons). He is thus implied to be either a Hitler apologist or isolationist in a manner that would be understood at the time, but I cannot find any information describing Cudahy's public reputation or opinions in those last years (and especially not anything blatantly isolationist, seeing as he was in FDR's admin). Does anyone have more info or ideas? SamuelRiv (talk) 17:06, 8 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Isolationist cartoon 
Talk:Shamus Culhane

message: Tom Klein: “Woody Abstracted: Film Experiments in the Cartoons of Shamus Culhane.” March 2011 Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 6: 39-53, doi:10.1177/1746847710391228.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 211.225.30.91 (talk) 10:30, 11 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: link

message: ...an animation method that involved stewing for multiple days, before drawing the entire thing ... without invoking the left side of the brain ... his 'High-speed' technique of using only the right side of the brain ...
These two sections were added by anonymous contributors, or I'd ask them in person - what is all this about using one side of his brain? You can't just drop something like that in a sentence without further explanation. Please expand. Saint|swithin 06:48, 10 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Brain sides??
Category talk:Food Network (Canadian TV channel) original programming

message: I'm in a conundrum... should we tag the Food Network shows that air in Food Network Canada or only the original programming? I see that for other canadian signals (CTV, CityTV) actually even the american shows are tagged... -- dockingmantalk 15:28, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As discussed on the CFD page linked above, only the original programs by Food Network Canada should be in this category. – Fayenatic London 15:46, 10 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Contents
Talk:Philip Vera Cruz

message: Besides the obvious ("Vera Cruz" is not only the name of a city (maybe several) but also means "True Cross", as in "This sliver of wood is an authentic holy relic, a fragment of the True Cross."), the first evidence i found that bears on his surname is , which repeatedly uses the two words as his surname in subsequent references. I'm changing the piping of his Cats accordingly.--Jerzy•t 15:32, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Surname 

message: Why is this individual listed as low on the importance level of Labourproject?  This individual's actions preceded that of the much aclaimed Cesar Chavez.  Why is he listed in the Mexican-American Wikiproject when he is Filipino American? --RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 12:20, 20 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ethnicity and importance
Talk:Silsila

message: The silsilah dealt with in this article is a description of a practice apparently particular to the Sufis and should not be confused with the isnad utilized in the Science of hadith. Therefore, I am removing the Golden Chain reference and any reference to hadith in this article - especially since it is unreferenced. Supertouch (talk) 05:04, 10 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Relationship with ''isnad''

message: Silsila can be of a partial knowledge or a book as well. All Hafiz (memorizers of Quran), Muhaddiths (narrators of Hadiths), Qaries (reciters of Quran with correct accent and pronounciation) are given a chain of credible narrators linking to Prophet Muhammed.
An example of Hadith's silsila is Imam Al-Bukhari's declaration that the most authentic chain of narrators (Isnad) is that of Malik by way of Nafi` by way of Ibn `Umar. Al-Bukhari described this chain as the Golden Chain (Al-Silsilah Al-Dhahabiyyah).
Even today, when there are formal religious schools known as Madrasah, traditional madrassas will mention in their certification, the chain of masters linking to Prophet Muhammed.
:: has nothing to do with Sufism, I studied it.  --The Brain 15:38, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Historic Importance

message: Madrasah (Arabic: مدرسة) is the Arabic word for school. Any school, not just religious schools, Google's language tools try copy & paste مدرسة then translate from Arabic to Engllish it'll read school. The other way around school translates to المدرسة  the extra two letters mean (the),  s it translates to the school.   --The Brain 15:38, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Madrasah

message: Which silsila traces its origin to Umar (R.A.)? Most golden chain trace it to Ali (R.A.) or Abu Bakr (R.A.)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 119.155.47.113 (talk) 21:03, 8 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Which Silsila traces itself to Hazrat Umar? (R.A.)
Talk:Ink sac

message: Where the claim is made that the ink is biologically costly to produce, the portion in brackets is highly suspect. I have removed it and reproduced it here.
"(estimated USD 120 per pound)"
Quick research revealed no indicartion that there is even a unit of this, much less that it is measured in USD of all things.
SolubleCarpet (talk) 00:36, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: A note

message: This with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod_ink  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.31.45.93 (talk) 16:46, 8 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Articles shiould be combined
Talk:Acadia (disambiguation)

message: Female fronted pop, punk band from the West Midlands. Vocals performed by Natalie Rodgers, Richard Lavill on drums, Ben Newman on bass, Adam Newman on lead and Paul Maddocks on rhythm guitar. 
Glass Lashes have been together since January 08. For gig listings see myspace or NME.
www.myspace.com/glasslashes  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Glasslash (talk • contribs) 16:17, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Glass Lashes 

message: I'm surprised there is no separate article for Acadia as such; nothing in the Places section in fact; it's still in use in Acadian French to refer to Acadian areas of the Maritime Provinces; and of course has a specific history and identity.  Maybe there's something on Acadians/Acadian people if there is such an entry, or in New France or History of New France.  At the least the lede line could specify that the area in question is today's provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick and PEI......not sure if the Gaspe was included, it might have been.......have posted this to WP:CANTALK we'll see what comes of discussion there or which might come here.  I may amend the lede line myself, but think there should be a good article on Acadia proper.Skookum1 (talk) 07:37, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: my bad, I see there's an Acadia article linked in the lede's first line; this could be clearer but maybe my addition of the provinces helps.Skookum1 (talk) 07:55, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Lede line re Acadia proper
Talk:Dana Ivey

message: WikiProject Biography Summer 2007 Assessment Drive
The article may be improved by following the WikiProject Biography 11 easy steps to producing at least a B article. -- Yamara 22:36, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Biography/Assessment#Class_parameter|Biography assessment rating]] comment 

message: I deleted the statement that Ivey was a member of Phi Mu at Rollins College. I now add it back, with a reference. Sorry, Phi Mu's everywhere.JeanColumbia (talk) 19:46, 14 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Sorority

message: Starting this section for the subject of this article with no prior connection or COI. 
Will be adding: (once reliable sources are found)
Broadway
*Present Laughter (1983)
*Heartbreak House (1984)
*Marriage of Figaro (1985)
*Importance of Being Earnest (2011)
Film
"Explorers" (first screen appearance)
(2011) Importance of Being Earnest - not technically a film; but a taping for a closed Broadway View showing. Maineartists (talk) 01:44, 3 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dana Ivey Requests
Talk:Tilicho Lake

message: This article should be expanded - very popular among Himalaya trekkers. riana_dzasta 15:41, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Organocatalysis

message: I've turned most of the references into the standardized  style including dois in place of urls. Would appreciate it if anyone can help turn them into  <ref> style. --Rifleman 82 06:57, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  References 

message: The Aldol reaction article has a nice section and a diagram for the proline-catalysed aldol and the Hajos-Parrish ketone.  Should it be copied directly into this article?  A link from here to Aldol reaction seems to be diverting the reader unnecessarily......
Let me copy and paste here the corrected text from another site of Wikipedia. Please consider it here to satisfy the history of Organocatalysis and to have the text and the picture in agreement.The rest is self-explanatory.Zghajos (talk) 09:14, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Proline-catalysed aldol

message: Dear all, if anybody is ere, wo can give me a sensible reason for removal of the overview-picture on the standard thiourea catalyst that is described in the text? I don't see any. This picture was created by me, all references were cited correctly, and the reader was informed on the outstanding capabilities of this thiourea in the field of organocatalysis. To my opinion this removal means a large loss of information for this aticle. Finally, I must repeat a statement I already gave above: No-one before was interested to give the rapidly growing field of organocatalysis a platform in wikipedia. I did start to do so, and some guys think, they must act as referees. And what do you think to know better? For what? To remove scientifically correct information to the readers of this article? If this seems to be the tendency and the wish of some arrogant so-called scientists it's just a waste of time to me contributing anything. Please remember, it's always much easier to criticize but it's even harder to do it better. To date, nobody did it better (apart from the changing the formatting). MK.
The images you had uploaded had a copyright problem - on one hand you gave a free license template; on the other hand you said it was only for use on wikipedia. In particular:
Do note that fair use images are being actively removed from wikipedia, as far as is possible, so the latter clause does not hold much water anymore. If you wish to upload an image under a free license, such as GFDL or PD-self, that would be perfectly acceptable under wikipedia rules. --Rifleman 82 16:43, 5 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: concerning the removed picture "thiourea - overview"
Talk:Naremburn Cammeray Anglican Church

message: Edited the description of the recent reversal of the churches decline. Although as a fellow believer I agree that it is "by the grace of God" that the decline has been reversed this is not suitable language for an encyclopedia. Articles must retain a neutral point of view (NPOV). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Air Elijah  (talk • contribs).
Agreed and thank you for making this alteration. Although we are on the same page and believe that a higher power is at work here the NPOV must prevail I suppose. Nigel Fortescue 10:55, 5 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  By the Grace of God alteration 

message: Hi, just wanted to make a friendly suggestion that you really need to point out why Naremburn is notable. Our church's article was deleted for exactly that reason. Journeyman 01:42, 18 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Warning 
Talk:Acolyte (disambiguation)

message: Has this been separated out too far in respect of the separate articles for religeous and common meaning ? John 08:39, 7 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Specific and common usage 

message: I have removed a couple of the entries on this page, per the Manual of Style entry on disambiguation pages: "On a page called Title, do not create entries merely because Title is part of the name."  Several of the links just contained the word "acolyte" and were not appropriate here.  Also, since the DAB page for Acolytes redirects here, I've accommodated both the singular and the plural, with or without an article.</br>
I must say I have some doubts about the computer game aspect of it, but that's for another day. - Corporal Tunnel (talk) 21:50, 3 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removing List Content
Talk:Acomb

message: No citations and minimal google profile (except for estate agents). PatHadley (talk) 17:05, 16 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: It would be a good idea to merge Acomb Park into Acomb, North Yorkshire, not as proposed. Acomb is just a disambiguation page. SamuelTheGhost (talk) 12:35, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Whoops! Good point! PatHadley (talk) 15:34, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I would be inclined to merge it with Woodthorpe as both politically and geographically it is separated from Foxwood estate, which is part of Acomb, by Acomb Wood. Acomb Park is in the Dringhouses & Woodthorpe Unitary Authority ward, so it seems sense to merge with the Woodthorpe article. Just a thought.Rimmer1993 (talk) 22:02, 17 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[Acomb Park]]
Talk:Acosta

message: At present, these two articles have practically the same content. The only rationale I can see for keeping them separate is if Acosta (surname) were to introduce historical information on the surname, which just isn't there at the moment; thus, I propose merging both under Acosta now, without prejudice against recreating Acosta (surname) if someone has suitable content for it later. -- Perey (talk) 10:13, 9 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merging [[Acosta (surname)]] and [[Acosta]] 

message: Julian Acosta is also the name of a television actor on episode 39 (18Oct2015) of CBS' Madam Secretary.  I'll look for more info as I have time.  ragity (talk) 02:14, 22 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Julian Acosta
Talk:Acrocephalosyndactyly

message: This article was initially categorized based on scheme outlined at WP:DERM:CAT. kilbad (talk) 17:44, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article categorization 

message: — Assignment last updated by Capybara862 (talk) 00:04, 26 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: BIOL463 Gene Regulation in Development

message: We are a group of students who are currently working on this article as an assignment. My group has drafted some changes to this article. Here is the link to my sandbox [1]. Please let me know if you have any comments or suggestions. Feedback is always appreciated. Kelsh9610 (talk) 02:35, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Editing Article