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Talk:Carding

message: A recent change that made only spelling "corrections" also introduced spelling errors.  All of this change was a conversion from American spelling to English spelling.  Such changes seem a waste of time and energy given that the meaning of the corrected words (with one exception) by either spelling is unambiguous.
The one change however that did apparently change meaning: meter changed to metre.  The sentence (with spelling changes intact) is:
:"Raw fibre, placed on the in-feed table or conveyor is moved to the the nippers which restrain and metre the fiber onto the swift."
The original spelling (meter) intended this meaning:
:meter vt to supply in measured or regulated amount (Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary).
Definitions that I could find on the intarwebs for metre did not include that definition but, rather, provided definitions for poetic and musical meter, for instruments that measure phenomena, and for the SI unit of length.
Perhaps it is better to refrain from making spelling changes simply for the sake of making the article look like one's own tongue.  
Trappist the monk (talk) 17:21, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Spelling

message: I have revised this down, the criteria say
An article that is developing, but which is quite incomplete and may require further reliable sources.
More detailed criteria
The article has a usable amount of good content but is weak in many areas. Quality of the prose may be distinctly unencyclopedic, and MoS compliance non-existent; but the article should satisfy fundamental content policies such as notability and BLP, and provide sources to establish verifiability. No Start-Class article should be in any danger of being speedily deleted.
Weak in Many ares: Text concentrates only on the craft aspect, and little on the industrial importance. It concentrates on wool- rather than cotton and other fibres. There are no statistics or talk about the health and fire implications in the blowing room. Sections missing on card dressing. 
MOS:The style is instructional in parts rather encyclopedic.--ClemRutter (talk) 08:32, 9 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment

message: Why was this moved from Carding to Carding (textiles)? Pinging User:Deku-shrub. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 13:50, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I've returned this to Carding. There seems to be no reason to move this to a disambiguated name and have Carding be a redirect here. (See also Carding (disambiguation)) Anna Frodesiak (talk) 14:02, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation
Talk:Heorhiy Kirpa

message: I have a whole bunch of objections to present article's state:
*total abuse of "he" word
*evidently one-sided non-critical view of the business career (why don't we reflect the dominating view of Kirpa as a hypercorruptioner?)
*no bio details
*and of course unsufficient referencing.
The passage about Kirpa's "rising tariffs" is evidently false: Ukrzaliznytsia, as a state-run monopoly, doesn't regulate its own tariffs (the government does). Wishes, Ukrained 18:39, 17 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: 2

message: I just removed a lot of unsourced info from the article; in particular in reference to what caused his suicide and to his work ridding corruption at the railway.  Any/all of that info may be re-added, but only if reliable sources are provided to support it.  Wikipedia cannot be a venue to portray unsourced rumors or speculation.  Qwyrxian (talk) 04:00, 5 February 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contentious info 
Talk:Phil Lynott

message: , what is your source of information for this edit? Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 19:30, 6 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Midlands 

message: I think there should be memorial for dear Phil at Salisbury hospital, where he passed away.  
My brothers and I are long time fans, based in Wiltshire.  I feel sad that he died at all but doubly so that he died when he came to Wiltshire. :(.  But I take comfort knowing Phil was loved and appreciated here in Wiltshire. Bless him. 95.147.13.108 (talk) 19:31, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Memorial at Salisbury hospital? 

message: Phil Lynott father was from Brazil and not Georgiatown, British Guiana. 77.75.244.142 (talk) 22:40, 15 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you have any source(s) to support that claim? Martinevans123 (talk) 18:20, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Phil Lynott father
Talk:Glaciation

message: Shouldn't articles glaciation and Ice Age be merged? In any case the difference is not clearly indicated so as to justify different articles. This confusion also persists in the articles in other languages. Afil 18:42, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Since it's been 5 days with no comments, I'm merging. This article will be dumped into Ice Age, then redirected to Glacier. Please don't edit while I'm moving. The way, the truth, and the light 10:02, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Glaciation or Ice Age 

message: It's a long time since anyone commented on this talk page. From the perspective of pages which link here, this is a more of a liability than an asset, so I've changed to a DAB function. 
They say "X is a glaciation" oblivious to whether it's bigger than a bread box (ice age) or smaller than a bread box (glacial period). 
The DAB structure will warn them to get it right. — MaxEnt 23:30, 20 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change to DAB page
Talk:Anne Brown

message: Sources vary on her birthdate. Southern (listed in references), PBS, Google Answers, and others give her birth in 1915.  IMDB seems to be the source of the previous date but seems incorrect
* To do! more biographical and career information
--Sketchee 12:18, Dec 30, 2004 (UTC)
Nrk, the Norwegian State Television writes about her because she recieved the the Norwegian Cultural Councils price for 2001. In this article, and on radio shows in norway covering this event, her birthdate was given to be 1912. All norwegian newspapers announced her 92 year celebration on the 9th of August 2004. I think Anne Brown or people knowing her, (she is very famous in the Oslo Opera Club) would have demented this if it was not correct.--PeterKristo 14:14, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Birthdate

message: I've changed the date of the prize she recieved from the Norwegian Cultural Council from 2001 to 2000. Information obtained from the netpages of the Council.--PeterKristo 14:27, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cultural Prize

message: Of her with her 3d husband, their young daughter, and her daughter by her second marriage, Paula. Was in Ebony magazine. http://blog.blackwomenineurope.com/2008/07/22/anne-brown.php 204.126.251.245 (talk) 20:32, 17 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Great photo here 

message: Some nearly 40 years ago I occasionally shared tramcars to Oslo downtown with Ann who was regularly accompanied by one or a few students of hers. It was most often a rather loud and merry party: very un-Norwegian. At other times she was travelling with only one student and it was still loud, but then often with serious complaints to the student about lack of seriousness or effort in the study of music. I believe she was a dedicated teacher.
I never got to know her, but we sometimes spoke lightly about music and she certainly knew what she was talking about. We shared anecdotal opinions about singers, orchestras and conductors and I was pleased to agree with her. I remember her as a sweet woman with a lot of life and definitely a person with solid strength of mind and integrity.
– I guess she was one the first persons I ever spoke with in Oslo that had a different culture background and different skin shade than all my friends. What I knew of Ann Brown I liked, and what I learned from her culture and her friendliness to the Norwegian natives I may have only recently discovered.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Perneby (talk • contribs) 22:08, 21 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  An Oslo memory at the passing of Ann Brown  

message: The last sentence in paragraph 3 reads "As a result, the role of Bess grew from a secondary character, like it was in DuBose Heyward's novel Porgy, to one of the opera's leading roles"  "Like" should be changed to "as." Dfrankchat (talk) 14:34, 2 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grammatical correction
Talk:Jardine Matheson

message: A number of stats need to be updated, mostly. As I have a financial COI with Jardine Matheson, I'm not editing the page itself but instead requesting an interested volunteer(s) review the changes, and if they agree, implement them directly. Thank you :) JeanetteM2 (talk) 01:05, 1 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Edit request accepted.  ~ Ase1estecharge-paritytime 01:08, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Oh wow, thank you so much! :) JeanetteM2 (talk) 18:14, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  COI Requests for Jardine Matheson 

message: 1st Paragraph changes
A few roles have changed and now need to be worded in the past tense in the first paragraph.
*In first sentence, it needs an update for the chairman retiring, so maybe simplify to: "Henry Keswick, the company's Tai-pan from 1970 (aged 31) to 1975 and the 6th Keswick to be Tai-pan of the company, is chairman emeritus."
Link: https://www.jardines.com/en/group/directors.html
*2nd sentence, about the brother Simon, change "is the 7th Keswick to be Tai-pan" to "was the 7th Keswick to be Tai-Pan."  
*4th sentence, change content to "Ben Keswick, son of Simon, is executive chairman of Jardine Matheson Group and from 2012 to 2020 was Tai-pan."
Link: https://www.rothschildandco.com/en/who-we-are/corporate-governance/supervisory-board/adam-keswick-profile/
*Fifth sentence, change to: "Adam Keswick, son of Sir Chips Keswick, is an executive director."
Link: https://www.jardines.com/en/group/directors.html
Director Updates
As of 2021, the directors of Jardine Matheson Holdings are:
*Ben Keswick, executive chairman
*John Witt, managing director
*Y.K. Pang
*Graham Baker
*Stuart Gulliver
*David Hsu
*Julian Hui
*Adam Keswick
*Alex Newbigging
*Anthony Nightingale
*Jeremy Parr
*Percy Weatherall
*Michael Wei Kuo Wu 
Link: https://www.jardines.com/en/group/directors.html
Also, Neil McNamara is no longer company secretary , and since the role is minor, might as well remove the sentence about him entirely.
Link: https://www.provokemedia.com/latest/article/jardine-matheson-names-rolls-royce%27s-erin-atan-as-corporate-affairs-chief
Also, Lord Sasson is no longer involved, so cut that section or move it to history?
Link: https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/brief-jardine-matheson-holdings-says-105914487.html
Scottish Leadership Section
Same as with infobox change, number of employees has increased to 464,000 (2019)
Link (page 3): https://www.jardines.com/assets/files/Investors/Reports/matheson/jm-ar2019.pdf
:  Edit request accepted.  ~ Ase1estecharge-paritytime 01:08, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
replies: text:  Oh wow, thank you so much! :) JeanetteM2 (talk) 18:14, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Request - Corporate Structure Section

message: having recently read a book on the topic (Imperial Twilight by Platt), it is rather shocking to me that no mention of the opium trade is made in the history section of this page, considering both traders' mains sources of wealth came from opium. I think it merits inclusion. 157.131.76.206 (talk) 03:58, 1 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Connection to the opium trade
Talk:Moonfleet (novel)

message: I think the book is awsome! I am reading it as a part of my grade 8 literature class. But sometimes, I need to read some passages twice to remember them.--69.158.117.35 14:04, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: If you can improve the article please go ahead. After all people can always revert if you do make it worse (which I do not expect will be the case). Dabbler 21:20, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: The pub info states paperback and hardback and gives the original pub date and a certain number of pages.  I wonder if this isn't a misleading conflation.  Was it a pb and a hb in the 19th c?  My copy is a Penguin Popular Classics edition pb with the text on pp. 11~247 (unnumbered page one is a bio cum ad; p. 2 is blank; after p. 247, there are some blank pages and three pages of Penguin titles.) Kdammers (talk) 07:33, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Publication details 
Talk:Mycotoxin

message: I have a question. Why are mycotoxins actually produced in the first place.... what is it that makes them so useful to the fungus that they invest their energy into producing them?
It is a very interesting question. Some mycotoxins (trichothecenes) help filamentous fumgi to infect plants. Zearalenone regulates reproduction of consuments (animals), that eat plants. Some mycotoxins act like antibiotics - against bacteria, or like fungicides - against another fungi. Mycotoxins participate in complex ecological interactions, the most part of wich is stil anclear.
*In my opinion mycotoxins may simply be a waste product similar to alcohol.
Just because there is a function provided by the substance doesn't necessarily mean that it's anything other than a waste product.
I recommend a more existential approach to understanding science and the world around us; just because most things have a purpose doesn't mean that most things have meaning. -Entropy
—Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.66.229.25 (talk) 15:36, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Untitled 

message: Should ergot be mentioned as a mycotoxin? Dforest 14:20, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ergot 

message: Is there a reason to keep the in fiction section? What does it contribute to the article?  RJFJR (talk) 16:58, 22 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: In fiction section?

message: I think a section on candida and mycotoxins would be of great benefit to this article and more informative to it's readers. 71.40.80.173 (talk) 17:26, 20 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Candida & Mycotoxins 

message: This article is practically useless. A toxic secondary metabolite is not a simplification of "fungus poison" so much as the fore of a journey into complexity, which is of little use to most people. Of the list of 8 examples, only patulin is described on its article as a white powdery substance, the only readily helpful piece of information I can find from Wikipedia on the whole topic. Telling us a mycotoxin is B1, B2, G1, and G2 is not explaining it unfortunately. ~ R.T.G 20:10, 14 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: what information were you looking for that you didn't find here? 05:11, 17 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Almost useless
Talk:Seifert surface

message: This page could really do with some pictures. I thought about adding
:
(which, incidentally, someone incorrectly misnamed a Mobius band), but I don't know if we really need a Wikipedia logo on our Seifert surfaces. -- Fropuff 06:43, 2005 Feb 10 (UTC)
I think this is a bad candidate: This surface is not orientable (am I right?), and hence not a Seifert surface. Hermel (talk) 15:44, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: It's orientable.  --C S (talk) 21:53, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image 

message: could perhaps be mentioned. - Rod57 (talk) 19:44, 18 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  SS in 4 dimensions
File talk:2004 Indonesia Tsunami Complete.gif

message: Did this by grabbing the movie from NOAA, convert it into .png images with "mplayer", then using imagemagick ("convert") to convert the images to correctly cut smaller images (40% size of original video). And finally I used "whirlgif" to compose the animated gif. One optimization I did was to animate only the part of the movie that actually moves and let the surrounding world just be a background image in the animated gif. 
These are the commands I used on my Debian GNU/Linux box: 
----
$ mplayer TITOV-INDO2004.mov -vo png
$ convert -scale 40% 00000001.png start.gif
$ for f in *.png; do convert -crop 370x280+90+100 -crop 458x380-90-100 $f tmp.png; convert -scale 40% tmp.png $f.s.gif; echo $f; done
$ ls > incfile.half
(and then I edited incfile.half to only contain i.s.gif where i is an even number with leading zeroes)
$ whirlgif -loop 10000 -globmap -o "2004 Indonesia Tsunami Complete.gif" -time 10 start.gif -off 36:40 -i incfile.half
----
However, I dont seem to reach the extremely small filesize of the other animated gif (750 kbyte vs 150 kbyte). If someone knows any other ways to optimize the animated gif, please tell me.--Malu5531 15:40, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Jug Rock

message: Not being familiar with Martin County, Indiana, I can't write with authority about the lay of the land there; but I note discrepancies among printed authorities about these feature names.  I think that the Geographic Names Information System has probably confused House Rock with Jug Rock and has labeled Jug Rock "Pinnacle Rock."  The 1998 DeLorme Indiana Atlas and Gazetteer, at p. 56, B6, shows Jug Rock at the north edge of the town of Shoals, while TopoQuest's map labels the same feature as "Pinnacle Rock."  The GNIS entry for House Rock gives "Jug Rock" as a variant name and cites the 1876 Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Indiana published in Chicago by Baskin, Forster and Company as authority.  With all respect to the hard-working people who oversee the GNIS, I think that they might profit from consulting the 1871 Second Report of the Geological Survey of Indiana cited in the article in which State Geologist T.J. Cox distinguished  Jug Rock from its parent sandstone formation, "the "Pinnacle."   My tentative conclusion, which I have not "ground-truthed," is that House Rock is House Rock and that Pinnacle Rock is Jug Rock. -- Cuppysfriend 17:45, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Jug Rock, House Rock, Pinnacle Rock

message: There is at least one other table rock formation east of the Mississippi in Wisconsin Dells, WI. 66.42.159.94 (talk) 22:27, 27 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jug rock
Talk:Microfilm

message: How many pages can one get on a standard microfilm?
It would be great if someone were to expand this page, which is barely more than a stub.  It would also be interesting if someone could explain microfilm blips.
It should probably be pointed out that the image on this page is a microFICHE reader, not a microfilm reader.
--Trevheg 11:54, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

message: When was microfilm invented, and when did it come into common use? --Metropolitan90 04:37, September 6, 2005 (UTC)
Is this page accurate? I have my doubts because this page looks exactly like the microfiche page.Aceman2009 23:41, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  When was microfilm invented? 

message: There seems to be a word missing from this section: "these information (called "blips") are used to create an, which is an index database" - SimonP 03:55, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Incomplete sentence

message: I suggest we merge this article, and "Microfilm" with "Microform."  The articles are practically identical, and their differences will be more clear in comparison with eachother. --Mdresser 03:30, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggest merge to "Microform"

message: I agree with the suggestion that the page needs expansion. I can do this because thirty years ago I did a lot of work on the subject. For training I developed a total summary; I hope that I can remember it all. This is probably still relevant because microfilm is past its prime. I will start work but I hope others will help. Please can someone let me know where I should put the first draft. Responses to issues above : microform is a part of microfilm; there are many standard sizes of microfilm and microfilm images, the number per film ranges from 1 to over 5000; blips are digital ( not analogue as the article states ) codes printed onto a roll of film so that the roll within a suitably made viewer can be automatically positioned to display any frame desired; it became generally used to record engineering drawings of steam engines, I do not know the date. Reg nim 20:29, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for your interest in improving the Microfilm article.  You might take a look at the talk page for Microform to add your opinion on the proposed merger of this article and Microfiche.  As far as "where to put the first draft," just go ahead and edit this article as you see fit.  That's how Wikipedia works!  --Mdresser 14:42, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: What to do
Talk:Corsetmaker

message: Is it safe to assume that the corsetmaker Thomas Paine is not the same man as one of the Founding Fathers of the United States?
:-Etoile 10:02, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thomas Paine 

message: I think this statement from the Spirella catalog needs to be qualified as only relevant to Spirella ( a now defunct company) and their catalog offerings, and not to all modern corsetmakers. I see it is cited, but the way the statement is presented is very misleading in relation to modern corsetry. Mokosh (talk) 00:50, 19 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  The more fat, the fewer alternative corsets.[5] 
Talk:Western and Atlantic Railroad

message: The information in the following three articles needs to be distributed among the articles properly. I'd do it, but somebody more familiar with the information could do a much better job.
*Western and Atlantic Railroad
*Great Locomotive Chase
*The General (locomotive)
-- Fingers-of-Pyrex 12:33, 2005 May 17 (UTC)
:Keep them separate, please, although you are correct that there is information that is redundant. Still, all three are distinct entities and should remain so. Thanks! Scott Mingus 17:01, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Article merging
Wikipedia talk:Requests for comment/Chan Han Xiang

message: Oppose punishment: I believe Chan recreated pages after trying to satisfy the criticisms which lead to the original 'delete' votes, and after reading Wikipedia:Your_first_article#And_be_careful_about... . As such, although they may be unacceptable, they are good faith contributions and the user responsible should not be punished for them. Also I believe that Chan has ceased various kinds of misguided or inapproriate behavior after requests from the community. For example insulting language is unacceptable, but he has been warned and I don't believe he uses it any more. Kappa 18:08, 30 Dec 2004 (UTC)