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Talk:Axis Percussion

message: how can Tim Yeung be the fastest drummer (on feet) if he hits 872 beats a minute, and Tim Waterson hits 1407? i was taught that 1407 is bigger than 872
Because 1407 is strokes per minute, not beats per minute. theres a difference. see Talk: Behemoth.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.229.168.12 (talk) 15:27, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Basel drum

message: The article simply describes historical military field drums of the 18th and 19th century, but claims they are somehow unique to Switzerland. Drums exactly as described were used by armies all around the world for centuries. This article needs to be merged into Fife and drum corps or Snare drum Ironmatic1 (talk) 05:42, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Very reasonable suggestions. Either would work, but I think that snare drum is the better target, as the primary focus is the drum rather than the culture of the musical groups in which it is played. Klbrain (talk) 14:13, 10 August 2021 (UTC)

text: Sorry, I removed the merge proposals, mainly because there is a significant body of literature about this specific type of snare drum's development and idiosyncratic rudimental style (albeit under the more common name "Basel" not "Basler" drum). Here are a few sources as proof, which I'll add within the next few days: . Why? I Ask (talk) 09:36, 25 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Switzerland-centric
Talk:Bass piano accordion

message: There's absolutely no reason this should be a stand-alone article. It only has a single sentence, haha, and the differences are not big enough to warrant a new article.
If there's anything elaborate, a section in the piano accordion article would probably cover it all.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Necz0r (talk • contribs) 00:58, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge into piano accordion article
Talk:Port Discovery (museum)

message: Even the three Port Discovery entries here now seem different enough that a normal Wikipedia disambiguation page seems appropriate. (I expect that we will come up with more Port Discovery entries worldwide; it seems too familiar a name to have just these three instances.) I don't have time to set the page up at the moment, but will try to get back to it if nobody else does. Trevor Hanson 00:44, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Disambiguation
Talk:Ron Hunter

message: Is there any way to start a page (with pertinent sources) on the other Ron Hunter (1938-2008), a television news anchor who worked in several cities including Chicago and Philadelphia, and was one of the inspirations for the Ron Burgundy character in Anchorman?  Surely, given his fame - or infamy - it's amazing that that Ron Hunter [who would no doubt be listed as Ron Hunter (newsman)] does not yet have a Wiki page. Wbwn (talk) 18:13, 13 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  What About the Other Ron Hunter?
Talk:Brugmann's law

message: I quite like a lot of this article even though it needs a good clean up - the rather personal style isn't really very encyclopedic and it needs a lot of sourcing. More worrying is the last paragraph. The idea that ablaut e/o alternation was originally a/ā must be possible but I don't see how that relates to the possible existence of PIE *a mentioned before that; I don't see how it's connected to the subject of the article; I can't see any evidence for the proposal (just a "what if?"); most importantly the idea's not sourced and I've never come across anything like it before. This makes me suspect original research. If the paragraph's author could clarify things that would be really good but I'm tempted to delete. --Lo2u (T • C) 00:48, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Rereading it I do now understand the connection to the article but not to the absence/presence of *a in PIE. I don't see what problem the proposal is supposed to solve though or what might cause someone to propose it (is a long/short *a alternation really "more familiar"? Does the proposal help to regularise some irregular sound change? It seems to me the answer to both questions is no). I really suspect that Wikipedia is the first to publish the idea.--Lo2u (T • C) 21:45, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

text: I'm puzzled as to how this is "just more examples of the ignorant western mentality". 151.188.137.191 (talk) 15:18, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Unattributed facts/ original research

message: According to whom is this law controversial? I just checked the works of some authors and I couldn't find anyone sceptical about the law. Some acknowledged that we don't fully understand the functioning of it, but they all accepted it. Here there is a list of the authors I found who support the law.
* R. Beeks
* J. Clarkson
* B. Fortson
* D. Ringe
* A. Kloekhorst
* P. Kiparsky
* A. Yates
The first four are have written well known introductions to the field. It must also be noted that in the paper I checked for Kloekhorst, He was addressing an argument that was supported solely on Brugmann's law, but he didn't attack it, not even to strengthen his argument, which shows it's not controversial at all. Tom 144 (talk) 05:00, 3 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: As far as I can tell, the only person who "rejects" Brugmann's law is Jouna Pyysalo, who's the same guy that rejects laryngeal theory. 151.188.137.191 (talk) 15:24, 17 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Controversial?
Talk:MulvannyG2 architecture

message: I think this article could meet Wiki's standards provided it is adequately referenced and written in an encyclopedic tone.  I have notified WP:AN of this and have tagged the article with a reference/citation message.  Would the article originator (who should not have removed the speedy delete tag) ensure that he/she does not remove the citation request tag until the article meets verifiability rules.  This should happen very soon else someone else quite correctly can remove all parts of the article that are not asserted correctly. --VS talk 06:58, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Speedy delete or not
Talk:Developmental needs meeting strategy

message: A citation is needed to support the statment that the trt is evidence based. DPetersontalk 00:49, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Note that case studies, while very important for building knowledge are not empirical and do not indicate effectiveness of a treatment modality.  DPetersontalk 01:02, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The POV statements about the "effectiveness" of this treatment shold be removed.  Case studies published by the origniator of this approach are not evidence of effectiveness.  Unless valid empirical studies can be provided that meet the wikipedia standard of  being attributable to a reliable source the statements should be removed. Furthermore the links in the Also see section are not relevant to this article...but let's see what other editors think.DPetersontalk 01:10, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Citation needed

message: I don't see the linkage with EMDR?  If one exists, please explain it.  DPetersontalk 23:01, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: EMDR
Talk:Boy Meets Boy

message: In the event of complete initial exposure to Wikipedia via Boy Meets Boy, I fear that someone would read the text "Boy Meets Boy (TV series), a gay reality television program" offensive, unprofessional, or unintentionally funny. Though, I don't know how I would rephrase it:
* ...a reality television program about homosexuals
* ...a homosexually themed reality television program
* ...a reality television program about the gay lifestyle
? Any thoughts?
Ironiridis 00:53, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Hmm. "Gay"...
Talk:Pseudohypoparathyroidism

message: At 30 letters, pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism is the (or at least very close) longest actual work in the English language. As opposed to a made up word that is not actually used. Cool hu? 
Looktotheson 00:55, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: At

message: it mentions it but does not explain what the difference is.  Thanks. 76.174.42.22 (talk) 03:04, 21 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  please expand on the cAMP differences between type 2 and the others.   

message: Type 1A is the phenotype known as Albright Hereditary Osteodysmorphism. I highly support merging these two topics to reduce confusion.Cpt ricard (talk) 23:06, 5 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I support merging the article (I have consulted with and expert in the field), and also I propose to improve the definition to "Albright's hereditary osteodystrophy a form of osteodystrophy, is the phenotype that can be present in patients with maternally inherited mutations in GNAS, thus pseudohypoparathyroidism 1A. But it can also be the only clinical manifestation in some patients with paternally inherited mutations, diagnosed as Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (PPHP)" DMzlC (talk) 11:20, 15 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge
Talk:John Symond

message: Wondering if John Symonds would be interested in purchasing the NSW number plate - JOHN ? 220.237.35.106 (talk) 03:53, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number plates  

message: Wondering if John Symond would be interested in purchasing the NSW number plate - JOHN ? Helen Eves (talk) 03:58, 19 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number plates
Talk:Area codes in the Caribbean

message: The phrase "National Number" appears in a table but is nowhere defined. —Tamfang (talk) 08:00, 10 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  National Number 

message: A map showing area code info in black and country code info in red has a small error.  The three-armed boundary symbol between the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands implies that Great Inagua Island is not part of the Bahamas, but possibly of Cuba or Haiti.  This three-armed boundary symbol should have the left extension erased in order to indicate Great Inagua is not separate from the Bahamas. GBC (talk) 18:14, 7 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: There is an error I have just noticed. Aruba is shown (in red) as +299. It should be +297. Greenland uses +299. GBC (talk) 04:48, 30 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map has error 

message: The word exhausting, which was introduced in the 16:50, 20 December 2020 edit and is present in the current version  is being used improperly.  Fabrickator (talk) 04:54, 22 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  word ''exhausting'' used improperly
Talk:Soren Sorensen Adams

message: According to an April 1st, 2007 National Public Radio interview (link NPR Interview ) of the owner of the S.S. Adams Company, David Haversat, Mr. Adams was employed in 1904 at a coal company.  And it was coal derivative that was used in the sneezing powder.
--Regc 01:02, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Optical properties of water and ice

message: This was originaly part of the REFLIB (refrtab) - tabulation of various refractive indecies maintained by P. J. Flatau on http://atol.ucsd.edu.
I added an equation that describes the index of refraction. I think it would be usefull here and I had a difficult time finding it so I guess it would help some other people. JunCTionS 00:11, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Bartlet's Third State of the Union

message: TOBY: "No. But I do know that if you combine the populations of Great Britain,
France, Germany, Japan, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark and Australia you've got a population
roughly the size of the United States. We had 32,000 gun deaths last year and they had 112. Do
you think it's because Americans are more homicidal by nature? Or do you think it's because
those guys have gun control laws."
Switzerland's gun control laws are not even close to any other nations
They REQUIRE its citizens to hold guns! (see military of switzerland for more info
chrisboote 01:04, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Factual Error
Talk:Harry Crosby

message: 'In 1917, when he was 13 years old, his parents decided it was time to send him to St. Mark’s Prep School.'
If, as the article states, he was born in 1898, wouldn't he have been 18 years old in 1917?  He would have been 13 years old in 1912, not 1917.
And the conversion of $12,000 a year to $152, 421 is much too low, considering that inflation between the 1970s and now is about a factor of 10. 
206.248.163.122 (talk) 22:49, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll have to recheck the source for his age. Certainly he was sent to boarding school as a teen. The conversion rate for the dollar is probably low, but supplied by a script I don't have control over. -- btphelps (talk) (contribs) 23:20, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  So he graduated in 1917, not entered, St. Mark's. That was the same year he volunteered for the Ambulance Corp. -- btphelps (talk) (contribs) 16:37, 29 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Things that just don't seem right here 
Talk:Ten Thousand Fists (song)

message: "Baseball player Ben Broussard alternated between this song and Ten Thousand Fists when he was at bat during the 2006 season."
"This song" is Ten Thousand Fists, so clearly there is an error. If anybody knows the source of this they should change it.Theunknown42 01:24, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Umm 
Talk:Emlen Tunnell

message: The text for this article was copied verbatim from Tunnell's page at the Pro Football Hall of Fame website.  Since that stolen text formed the very first version of this article, it was impossible to revert to a version that could be saved.  Plagarism and copyright violations are a problem for *many* of the entries for NFL Players, particularly Hall of Famers.  For a list of other articles that need to be rewritten, please see my talk page. Anson2995 01:25, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Copyright violations

message: Emlen Tunnell was ranked #79 on the NFL Channel's The Top 100 Greatest Players(2010). Cjstanonis (talk) 19:09, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tunnell listed in NFL Top 100 

message: Here's a full view magazine piece on him in Ebony from when he worked in the Giants front office: AaronY (talk) 02:52, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference for expansion 
Talk:Israel Folau

message: MOS:1STABBR indicates that on the first occurrence of an abbreviation it should be introduced with the full expression, ie. "National Rugby League (NRL)". Removing the full version from the lead entirely does not solve the problem of abbreviations later in the text. Nikkimaria (talk) 01:21, 27 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: MOS

message: change "who plays for" in the opening sentence to "who currently plays as a fullback for" 193.114.106.172 (talk) 00:21, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Actualcpscm (talk) 10:35, 11 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: minor issue, but he's playing union and you linked to the league fullback position. PhinsUp23 (talk) 07:12, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text:  Caeciliusinhorto-public (talk) 09:40, 12 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 11 May 2023
Talk:Simon Rich

message: I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section. Cite templates will be used for books and articles. Capitalization and punctuation follow standard cataloguing rules in AACR2 and RDA, as much as Wikipedia templates allow it. ISBNs and other persistent identifiers, where available, are commented out, but still available for reference. Links to potentially unreliable digitised copies may be removed. This is a work in progress; feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 06:38, 10 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bibliography
Talk:CHMB

message: As was previously noted on the new editor Rightthings' talk page when I last reverted his/her contribution, one of the many carefully chosen rules for Wikipedia editors is that we cannot introduce "original research", meaning information from only our own knowledge. We can use only information that is provided by a "verifiable source". If you can identify and cite a verifiable source for your new information, you can put it back in.  This time, I also not that we must use an "encyclopedic style" of writing.  This precludes statements like those I reverted: "For further information, ..." (unsourced), "It should be clearly understood that..." (unsourced), "Please see the full Reuters article." followed by the same citation that has already appeared. Finally, Wikipedia editors must maintain a neutral point of view, reporting only what the reliable sources say, with no extra opinions from the editor. Layzeeboi (talk) 22:34, 14 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reasons for reverting [[User:Rightthings|Rightthings]] (again)
Talk:Vita Food Products Inc v Unus Shipping Co Ltd

message: Maybe it's just me, but I'm having a very hard time understanding this article. Is it just me? Am I a dummy or is this article a bit too jargony? --JohnnyB256 (talk) 19:46, 30 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: No comprende

message: I have changed the categories on this case, in two ways:
:1. I have added a general category of "Conflict of Laws", because this is a case on conflict of laws from the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, and states the conflict of law rules that are part of the law of Nova Scotia.  Since there is no category on Canadian conflict of laws, the general category must be used to show that this case is relevant to Canada.  If the only category used is one referring to Britain, it is too narrow.  This case is not solely about conflict of laws in Britain, and a narrow category that does not include the subject-matter of the article should not be used in isolation.
:2. I have changed the category "Conflict of Laws in the United Kingdom" to "Conflict of Laws in England".  The JCPC decision referred only to English law in its decision.  It does not say whether that same principle is adopted in the civil law jurisdiction of Scotland.  Since the decision only refers to the common law of England, it is inaccurate to conclude that it applies to all British law, including the civil law of Scotland.
:3. In considering these points, it is important to remember that the Judicial Committee is not a court to determine English or Scottish law, except in very narrow circumstances.  It was not an appeal court for England, Scotland, or the UK.  It was an appeal court for British possessions overseas, and its decisions are not, strictly speaking, binding on British courts.  Highly persuasive, but not binding.  As a matter of precedent / stare decisis, this decision was only binding on the courts of Nova Scotia, and by extension, the other Canadian courts. Mr Serjeant Buzfuz (talk) 00:35, 6 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflict of Laws categories
Talk:Long Island Press

message: The Long Island Press during the late 50s and early 60s was the showcase property in the Newhouse newspaper empire, which was launched some years earlier with the acquisition of The Staten Island Advance. S.I. Newhouse was the patriarch and chief; his brothers, Teddy and Norman, were active in administration and the decision making at the Press. Norman, who lived in style in posh Manhasset, would drive in to 168th Street in Jamaica, Queens, before dawn every morning to physically make up the front page for the first edition. These were the days of "hot type," set in the composing room by linotype operators. That first edition was destined to be rushed out by truck to Suffolk County in outer Long Island. A second edition contained updated wire stories and local community news and features for Nassau County. The Queens editions and replates represented the bulk of the paper's circulation. As population on Long Island shifted, so did the fate of the newspaper. Archie Bunker's borough of Queens became a magnet for minorities. Circulation began to shrink. Worse, still, the ad base began to defect. Newsday, a lively tabloid based in Nassau County. began to attract more than its share of the lucrative display advertising from the big department stores, Gertz, Mays and Macy's. Their ads were directed toward Nassau's bedroom communities. Long before the term, "profiling." entered the vocabulary, a crass ad manager at Gertz told his space sales counterpart at the Press, "Your readers are our shoplifters."
Non-union editorial executives of the Press, including city editor Dave Jacobs, shifted onto jobs with other Newhouse publications,
such as the Syracuse Post-Standard and the Newark Star-Ledger. The newspaper holdings grew to some two dozen properties. Meanwhile the Newhouse brothers and their offspring continued to expand though their privately held Advance Publications (Conde Nast) and are publishers of such well-known magazines at Glamour, Vogue, GQ, Vanity Fair, Wired and even W and Womens Wear Daily.
68.37.218.54 (talk) 22:05, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Blankman

message: Although the name Blankman is often associated with the Movie Film of the name, it is also the surname of a large number of families with a history going back to the 1500s. My own line goes back to a Pieter Blanckman (later Blankman) who lived in Oude Sluis in the Zijpe Polder of North Holland in 1565. I have traced his descendants and my database contains information on about 6,000 individuals. In addition, there are other non-Dutch Blankman families of German extraction and also Jewish Blankmans from Russia and Ukraine. I have information on many of these families and will share with interested parties via e-mail. My address is: dblank@comcast.net.
Donald W. Blankman 98.244.233.171 (talk) 14:38, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Family name Blankman 
MediaWiki talk:Previousdiff

message: Should the previous diff say "previous edit" instead of "Older edit"? Anyway, this page is called "Previousdiff" anyway. This is a suggestion. -- Andy W. (talk/contrb.) 02:10, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It should say "older". And MediaWiki:Nextdiff should be "newer". That's how it is in the source, and it's better because it's unambiguous. "Previous" could be understood as both "newer" and "older". Think, for example, of people who examine versions one by one—they could go both forward and backward. "Older" has only one meaning. --Amir E. Aharoni (talk) 10:07, 30 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Older or previous
Talk:2008 United States Senate election in South Dakota

message: The following text was removed, mostly do to it's lacking citations and being poorly written, please do not reinsert it without discussing it here. Spiesr 13:23, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed Section 

message: A line about "When Republicans polled they did not include Rounds". There is no evidence supporting this. Plus, the sentence implies that all Republicans acted together in polling, rather than a polling firm (whether partisan or not) on behalf of a client (whether political or not). 207.138.153.98 17:26, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleted 
Talk:Stanwood, Washington

message: There were controversies a while back (circa 1990) about the teaching of evolution in Stanwood Schools. The Camano Chapel (on nearby Camano Island) is pretty emphatically creationist, and backed creationist school board candidates. Here's an account God's Country by cartoonist Mark Zingarelli, who (at least at the time) was living there (and who may deserve an article: This piece appeared in a national magazine, Mother Jones, and I've seen his work in quite a few places, but I'm not sure how well known he is outside of Western Washington). - Jmabel | Talk 02:12, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Education

message: @Rainyda Let's discuss it here. I think there is a potential for adding a sentence or a neutral POV mention somewhere in the article, but I agree with @SounderBruce, a long paragraph in the lead is not really equal to the weight of the topic. Maybe you have thoughts on its inclusion SounderBruce? PersusjCP (talk) 19:19, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: This makes sense, thanks. Rainyda (talk) 19:25, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The issues of a single business that does not cause long-term or permanent effects to the city are not relevant to this article. Providing undue coverage would be a violation of WP:NPOV. SounderBruce 05:55, 18 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discussion for the inclusion of the paragraph about bad odor