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Talk:2006 Major League Baseball Playoffs

message: I am thinking that because of the multiple-round structure of the MLB Playoffs, perhaps there should be an anchor page for each of the playoffs since the advent of divisional play. This is the first, "experimental" page - and it's just a start. Let's figure out what should be on each "main" playoffs page. Thoughts? Theirishpianist 00:51, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Rambouillet

message: Would like to propose the following as an external link - Rambouillet Smithville 00:53, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal For External Link 
Talk:Flying toilet

message: Great article, really well done. Stevage 00:54, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: http://springwise.com/non-profit_social_cause/peepoobag/
I don't have the time to write more but it might inspire someone.
Olivier C (fr) (talk) 12:02, 22 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Some inspiration

message: Before you changed the two words recently, User:Graham87, there was more or less an equal amount of American English and British English in this article (there is still an example of American English towards the end by the way). I would suggest to change it to American English. Why? Whether Kenya uses British English or not is irrelevant as the article is not specifically about Kenya. Flying toilets exist all over sub-Saharan Africa. Also you'll find that most of the other sanitation related articles are already in American English, due to a convention used by the WikiProject Sanitation which people who care about sanitation-related content on Wikipedia have been following since 2014 (WP:SANI).  EMsmile (talk) 16:26, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: At the moment, as written, the article has strong ties to Kenya because that's the only prominently mentioned country. Also, WikiProjects don't have the authority to rule on wider projectguidelines like English varieties. For those reasons, I've changed the one instance "sanitizing" outside quotes to "sanitising".  Graham87 03:26, 30 December 2017 (UTC)
replies: text:  Just because Kenya is mentioned in the article in my opinion doesn't necessitate British English. I think it would be better if this article was inline with all the other sanitation articles which are pretty much all in American English. Does anyone else have an opinion about this? EMsmile (talk) 05:24, 3 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Shift to American English

message: Should WAG bags be added to this article or a new, separate article? WAG Bag is a common term used to refer to plastic bags used for packing out human feces by hikers and mountain climbers.  (for example: https://www.rei.com/product/662978/cleanwaste-go-anywhere-toilet-kit-waste-bags-package-of-12, https://thedyrt.com/magazine/gear/wag-bag-camping-waste/). -Kylelovesyou (talk) 17:48, 29 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: WAG bags
Talk:Federal Civil Defense Administration

message: When was the FCDA disbanded (or defunded or whatever you call it)? I assume it isn't still active. Federal Civil Defense Administration implies this administration, with the same initials, was ended in 1958. RJFJR (talk) 16:18, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Disband?

message: In researching Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation, I ran across a reference to a "Civil Defense Administration" during World War II and was actually surprised to find that a redlink. Would there have been a similarly named operation during the war (maybe at state level)? - Jmabel | Talk 05:55, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: WWII

message: Internet searches for the book by Mitchell mentioned above brought up the following other sources, which may be reliable enough to be used (and cited).
* Civil Defense and Emergency Management Organizational History (United States) (Entry 0114) from The Electronic Encyclopaedia of Civil Defense and Emergency Management edited by Walter G. Green III
*:This confirms the FCDA as existing from 1950-1958, and being renamed to the Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization (which was initially called the Office of Defense and Civilian Mobilization).
* Civil Defense: The Truman Administration (Entry 0113) from the same source.
*:This confirms the statutory basis for the FCDA, and claims it was due to the USSR's nuclear test and the start of the Korean War, that it's head was Millard Caldwell, and that it suffered from confusion over goals and correspondingly insufficient budgets.
* Civil Defense: The Eisenhower Administration (Entry 0107) from the same source.
*: This suggests that the reason for the renaming/merging was in response to the USSR's ICBM tests.
Hopefully these sources may be of some help. -- 63.251.123.2 (talk) 18:58, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Some additional possible sources
Talk:Ikeda map

message: This matlab code doesn't produce the same output on my machine as it does here...
and by looking at the code, you can tell it doesn't follow the equations given on this page.
This loop is where I see a problem (line numbers mine):
 1.for n = 2:N
 2.
 3.t = 0.4 - 6/(1 + x^2 + y^2);
 4.
 5.x = 1 + u*(x*cos(t) - y*sin(t)) ;
 6.y = u*(x*sin(t) + y*cos(t)) ;
 7.
 8.P(n,:) = [x y];
 9.
 0.end
On line 5, we change the value of X, then we use this changed value on line 6. That goes against the
definition given earlier.
:There is definitely something wrong here. Even after fixing that, my pictures look quite different. -- Jitse Niesen (talk) 02:43, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi guys, yes, there is a programming error : we should store x and y in a temporary variable. But other than that I think the code follows the equations Kghose 17:56, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  PS. I'm redoing the plots and will upload them soon Kghose 04:57, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Output
Talk:Earful Tower

message: I propose we use this official press photo.  Source. --TIB (talk) 16:09, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Photo proposal 
Talk:Alexios Strategopoulos

message: Do we really have evidence that General Alexios's family name was "City of the General"?  That sounds too close to be coincidental.  Is it possible that he was renamed when he had already established a reputation AS a general? Jmacwiki (talk) 02:53, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: "Strategopoulos" means "son of the general", it can easily refer to any one of his ancestors. He is mentioned as "Strategopoulos" in all accounts, and there is nothing to indicate any renaming. Either way, 1) "Strategopoulos", as explained, doesn't imply any martial virtue, and 2) Byzantine generals did not assume honorifics or victory titles like Scipio Africanus, since, by Roman practice since the days of Augustus, all victories etc were made in the name of the Emperor, whom they certainly did not want to offend. It is a funny surname for a general, granted, but merely coincidental. P.S., "City of the General" would be "Strategoupolis". Cheers, Constantine   ✍  13:27, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Surname? 
Talk:Identity Crisis (Shelby Lynne album)

message: I removed the "tone" tag because there's no article to speak of, so the tone can't be inappropriate. Kathy A. 01:14, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe that was the wrong tag, but if you look at most other articles on here about albums, there's more to it than just a track listing. Anthony Rupert 02:54, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Tondrakians

message: There doesn't appear to be any reason for this group to be termed Gnostic.  The main thing they had in common was social, not religious -- opposition to the rich (be they secular or religious).  They denounced marraige, which the Paulicians accepted.  The group denied the immortality of the soul, some were even atheists, which is kind of hard to do while holding to a Christian and/or Gnostic worldview.  As such, I am removing this from the Gnosticism category, and taking away the Gnosticism template.  Gnostic and heresy aren't interchangable, there's plenty of heresy outside of Gnosticism (and if we consider Clement of Alexandria, it's possible to argue that Gnosticism and heresy are distinct but with a great deal of overlap).  Ian.thomson (talk) 19:51, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: There doesn't appear to be any evidence of this group being Gnostic.

message: this whole article seems to be a personal synthesis --142.163.195.153 (talk) 22:28, 26 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  original research
Talk:William de Valence, 1st Earl of Pembroke

message: I found this while adding bits from the bio on the Earl of Pembroke page (from the 1911 Britannica):
*Though he is sometimes called earl in contemporary documents, it is uncertain when if ever William was formally created or recognized as Earl of Pembroke.  
*In 1295 was summoned to parliament as Earl of Pembroke.  
These sentences are in direct contradiction, but I don't know which one is right!  The first was on this page, the second on the other one (apparently from Britannica).  Chose to leave it off until someone could sort it out... Lordjim13 01:17, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I have found reliable sources that say he was never Earl of Pembroke; e.g. T. F. Tout, "The 'Communitas Bacheleriae Angliae'" in English Historical Review vol. 17 (1902) pp. 89-95: "was certainly never recognised as Earl of Pembroke", p. 92. He claimed to be (and was) "lord of Pembroke", thanks to his marriage, but that's not the same thing. I haven't found any reliable sources for the statement that he was Earl of Pembroke. So I've placed a "citation" tag on the page. Andrew Dalby 13:07, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Likewise "Medlands": "He styled himself Lord of Pembroke, but was never invested with the earldom of Pembroke". This is sourced to Cokayne's Complete Peerage. Andrew Dalby 13:15, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Sinmce no one has cited any sources, I have now shortened him in the first sentence to "William de Valence". See also my comment about the proposed move below. Andrew Dalby 08:47, 9 October 2012 (UTC)

text: I believe from what I can pick up (this isn't my line really) that you couldn't inherit a peerage from your father-in-law. Instead, if your wife or mother was the child of a peer, who had no male heir, and if the king hadn't taken against you, he might re-create the peerage for you. You would then be the 1st earl of the second creation. This happened at least twice with the Pembrokes.  Andrew Dalby 17:50, 19 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Same question again
Talk:KILT (AM)

message: In the 1959 "B" movie "The Giant Gila Monster", (which takes place in an unnamed Southwestern state that looks a lot like Texas), there is a character named Horatio Alger "Stemroller" Smith who works for radio station KILT. Steamroller Smith plays recordings by the movies' hero Chase on Radio Station KILT. 
KILT again gets mentioned at the climax of the movie which takes place at a Sock Hop sponsored by KILT.
I don't know if "Steamroller Smith" was based on a real KILT personality or not.
Perhaps there could be a Popular Culture section added to the KILT article which mentions the inclusion of KILT in the movie, and provides a click-on to the "The Great Gila Monster" movie entry. 
i don't feel competent to do this correctly or I would do the edit myself.207.7.74.74 (talk) 07:10, 9 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Sporty Thievz

message: Cruise control is caplocks for cool. But you still have to steer.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.121.207.204 (talk) 23:13, 23 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: THE FIRST

message: * They also had partial success from the lead single to their album, "Cheapskate".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.227.87.214 (talk) 20:24, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Songs
Talk:Scalping (trading)

message: That practice, buying a stock, advertising it, then selling it, is called Pump and Dump, not scalping. 23.236.23.78 (talk) 04:15, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The article already distinguishes between scalping and pumping and dumping. John M Baker (talk) 23:52, 21 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Re, the fraudulent naming
Talk:Fenway–Kenmore

message: I love the improvements that have been made to this article. I removed "nee" as I believe this was just an editing error. Markco1 (talk) 14:35, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. It is nice to know that my work was appreciated. I looked into "nee" and I believe it is referring to the French term née and being used to note that streets were renamed. It was not obvious in any way and read horribly. Grk1011/Stephen (talk) 14:45, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree it did not read so well - keep up the great work. Thanks Markco1 (talk) 15:03, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I see you removed the former street names - I think some of what was in there was interesting - Possibly it could be written in such a way that it would not be confusing Markco1 (talk) 04:05, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I restored the missing street names. -- Beland (talk) 16:32, 17 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Updates
Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/James Dicks

message: Taken from Whois data at http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/whois.ch?ip=66.193.232.253.
:IP address: 66.193.232.253
:CustName:   Sales & Marketing Technologies, Inc.
:Address:    220 E. Central Parkway
:Address:    Suite 1010
:City:       Altamonte Springs
:StateProv:  FL
:PostalCode: 32701
:Country:    US
:range: 66.193.232.0 - 66.193.232.255 
From the Sales & Marketing Technologies, Inc. website at http://www.smtusa.com/
:Sales & Marketing Technologies
:220 East Central Parkway
:Suite 1010
:Altamonte Springs, FL 32701
:Local Phone: 407-682-2222
:Toll-Free: 1-800-434-0339
:Fax: 407-682-2249
From WhoIsJamesDicks.com website at http://www.whoisjamesdicks.com
:WhoIsJamesDicks.com
:220 East Central Parkway
:Suite 1020
:Altamonte Springs, FL 32701
:Phone: (407) 265-1317 | Fax: (407) 265-1417
----
From the official guideline, Wikipedia:Conflict of interest:
:Consequences of ignoring this guideline:
::If you write in Wikipedia about yourself, your group, or your company, once the article is created, you have no right to delete it or to control its content. Any editor may add material to it within the terms of our content policies. If there is anything publicly available on a topic that you would not want included in an article, it will probably find its way there eventually; more than one user has created an article only to find himself presented in a poor light by other editors. Therefore, don't create articles lightly, especially on subjects you care about.
and:
:"If you have a conflict of interest, you should:"
:# "avoid editing articles related to your organization or its competitors;"
:# "avoid participating in deletion discussions about articles related to your organization or its competitors;"
--A. B. 01:23, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Relevant information added after AfD closed
Talk:Julie Moos

message: I removed the Alabama project tag. Not sure why it was here but she is really not connected to the state that I see except for a single art exhibit in Birmingham. If there's more, please re-add the tag. JodyB talk 12:13, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Alabama

message: I question edits made by at least two editors -- User:OneMarkus and User:Artintegrated -- to this and other articles about artists and organizations of questionable notability. As edits I have made related to WP:BLP, WP:RS, WP:N and other Wikipedia policy and guidelines have been  reverted, I have started discussions here and on other related talk pages to discuss the future edits and existence of these articles. Flowanda | Talk 05:44, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  April 2010 -- Edits, sourcing and notability 
Talk:Destination: Void

message: The third paragraph talks about "brains" and "brain" alternately, leading to confusion. 72.199.225.63 11:05, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It wasn't like this when I came to edit it; anyway have now clarifed to OMC for consistency Lessthanideal 23:44, 8 November 2007 (UTC)

message: For my edits I've referred to the 1966 original version of the book. I've corrected some inaccuracies comparing against that text and hopefully clarified some things.  If this is now wrong compared to the 1978 later version, or if that version is significantly different anyway, perhaps another section summarising the changes would be useful.  (I looked for but wasn't able to find a description of exactly how it was revised.)
I also removed details that only become apparent in the later books in the series, e.g. the full name of the clone being "Raja Lon Flattery".  It seems to me that the first book is distinct from the later volumes and was not originally written as the start of a series, and that therefore these details would be more appropriately added to the The Jesus Incident page.  (If they're worth it - surely this middle name fact is not very important and can be left out, unless it has some significance I've missed?)
I've no evidence that Herbert didn't always plan a series, but I think treating the first book as just part of the series gives a false impression given that
. This book is a complete story, while the later three hang together as a three part story.
. The other three have a different style of writing similar to other later work of Herbert's, e.g. separate chapters starting with quotes.
. Presumably he revised it in 1978 because he decided then to add to the series.  (Can anyone verify or refute this?)
Lessthanideal 23:44, 8 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The middle name Lon means that the individual is a clone, so Raja Lon Flattery would be a clone of the original Raja Flattery. A main plot point in "Jesus" is that the bad guy's self-esteem and claim to legitimacy hinges on being an original, and then (SPOILER) this lady discovers that Lon is his middle name. 2A01:CB0C:CD:D800:DD79:F766:567C:FB98 (talk) 07:13, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  What changes went into the 1978 revision?
Talk:The Santaroga Barrier

message: knowledgeably referencing is clumsy English and at any rate not how one would commonly describe brilliant dinner chat. How about: over dinner, they cogently discuss the theories... or (avoiding another unusual adverb): their dinner conversations revolve around cogent discussion of... 2A01:CB0C:CD:D800:FC0C:4A6D:BB93:2F6F (talk) 19:57, 15 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "their dinner conversations knowledgeably reference"
Talk:Liberty spikes

message: Someone please take a picture of decent liberty spikes, and remove that absolutely terrible one of the guy looking down. It looks like the spikes are literally held up with water and cheap hair gel.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.224.119.237 (talk) 20:40, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  The picture is terrible. 

message: For Harold Lloyd, it could be used this photo  or this , rather than the present, taken from a DVD cover.
Other suggestion is that photo , of David Bowie.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.68.67.84 (talk) 03:08, 30 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggestions of photos 

message: What about Salvador Dali creation?  https://es.pinterest.com/pin/334321972317627773/  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.152.212.104 (talk) 19:36, 25 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Salvador Dali 1950s
Talk:Whipping Star

message: I take issue with the last sentence in the introduction:
The main theme of the novel is the difficulty of simply communicating with a truly alien species.
Upon whose authority is this interpretation based? I can think of plenty of other themes that seem equally relevant: humanity's general inability to see consequences beyond the glittery promises of new technologies, the ironies of institutions that are inherently antigovernmental being able to perform government-scale tasks better than it, the blurry distinctions between what is labeled as psychosis and self-interest, etc. Theme is subjective; either quote someone notable (like the author or a relevant critic) or remove the assertion. -- Anonymous  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.12.233.20 (talk) 20:40, 20 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Theme 

message: Fannie Mae - I have just noticed that Fannie Mae redirects to Federal National Mortgage Association. It would be nice if there were a disambiguation (which I do not know how to create) page for the name.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.42.149.24 (talk) 19:44, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Setting up a disambiguation is easy but the odds of someone searching Wikipedia for the Fannie Mae in Whipping Star are next to zero. --Marc Kupper|talk 09:03, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fannie Mae 

message: Mliss' sadism is actually a red herring.  She does not "whip" the Caleban for enjoyment (though she does evidently enjoy watching it) but rather as part of a plot to exterminate all other sentients in the galaxy.  She and her co-conspiritor Cheo mistakenly believe that the planet to which Fannie Mae has transported them ("Ark") is a safe haven, but it is in fact an illusion sustained by the Caleban and her own imagination, thus it evaporates when she dies at the end of the novel.  Despite the book's title, the protagonists do not realize that Calebans are stars until very late in the story, leading to the hydrogen-infusion trick to "heal" Fannie Mae and foil Mliss.  Asat (talk) 08:02, 11 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot clarification
Talk:Hellstrom's Hive

message: Why "see also" Coalescent ? -- Beardo 03:46, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe this must be a long gone section. --Nomentz (talk) 07:58, 25 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  SEE ALSO 

message: Current version says, "Through sabotage and luck, the government Agency's spy is able to warn the outside world of the impending danger. A counter-weapon against the Hive is developed and a detente is reached by both sides that involves mutually assured destruction if either weapon is unleashed."  I just read this novel, and none of that is true at all.
I don't have a source, just my own "original research" but the there's no lucky escape by the government agent, and there's no counter-weapon developed.  Hellstrom has the agent captive and allows him to present what he's seen during negotiations.  And the only "counter-weapon" is the threat of using nukes on the Hive, not something newly developed.
108.51.137.137 (talk) 16:40, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: You're right. --Nomentz (talk) 19:41, 14 October 2021 (UTC)

text: I notice that somebody anonymous (maybe you?) removed the paragraph containing that sentence. However, the summary contains more problems, e.g. it refers to "hybrid human-insect workers" which is not correct. I think I've read a plot summary/blurb elsewhere that refers to Hellstrom's Hive using that formulation. May I point out that WP:NOVELPLOT especially allows using the work itself as primary source for the plot only (not for interpretation)? Somebody should rewrite, I might have time in Winter. --Nomentz (talk) 07:23, 20 October 2021 (UTC)

text: @108.51.137.137 I have the original English version and the German translation. The German translation differs from the original in that Merrivale mentions the possible use of nukes. The original does not. The German translation also differs somewhat at other parts of the novel. Marcus Schätzle (talk) 20:23, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Plot summary problems.
Talk:The White Plague

message: The use of terrorist in this article is clearly a breach of WP:LABEL and WP:NPOV. It is also uncited.80.111.232.244 (talk) 08:22, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: While I think some of the phrasing could be better (like the choice of thugs), the IRA is listed as a terror group, so I don't believe it violates either WP:LABEL or WP:NPOV. MartinezMD (talk) 20:38, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Nothing wrong with the use of the word, IMHO, as it is clearly cited elsewhere. But it doesn't need to be used 3 times in 1 paragraph, and the choice of "thugs" is strange. Doctorhawkes (talk) 21:49, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The IP editor just got blocked for 3 months. So I don't think he'll be responding for a while. MartinezMD (talk) 22:38, 2 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  terrorist