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Talk:Map projection

message: In Commons we have problem with old maps and their projections. Wise advices will be needed in here: :Commons:Commons:Categories for discussion/2018/01/Category:Maps with unidentified projection--Estopedist1 (talk) 10:39, 29 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Classification of old maps without projection? 

message: "The projections are described in terms of placing a gigantic surface in contact with the Earth" - violation of NPOV? Who defined the surface as gigantic? Is that encyclopedic? Euro2023 (talk) 23:54, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Do you believe that the use of English adverbs and adjectives is automatically unencyclopedic, and that encyclopedic language should be limited only to nouns, verbs, and connecting words? —David Eppstein (talk) 00:06, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I changed the wording to convey the same meaning. Gigantic is relative, and  map projection is not only limited to the Earth. GeogSage  (⚔Chat?⚔)  00:23, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gigantic 

message: "If maps were projected as in light shining through a globe onto a developable surface, then the spacing of parallels would follow a very limited set of possibilities."  - How that? Why should there be a limitation? Is there projection of a particular point on a surface that cannot be reached by "light shining through a globe"? Euro2023 (talk) 15:45, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The set of projections defined by projective geometry is grossly limited compared to the the set that is possible from more general mathematical transformations permitted in the common definition of cylindrical projection. Strebe (talk) 19:24, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: "in the common definition of cylindrical projection" isn't contained in the claim, or the text next to it, that I copied from the article. And where is the evidence that such a "common definition of cylindrical projection" exists? https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=%22common+definition+of+cylindrical+projection%22&title=Special:Search&profile=advanced&fulltext=1&ns0=1 : "There were no results matching the query." Euro2023 (talk) 19:36, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

text: The common definition, whatever it is or isn’t, does encompass the Mercator projection, as per all the literature in existence. Meanwhile, the Mercator projection cannot be represented just by “light shining through a globe onto a developable surface”. Therefore, given that we have an example (and scores more) of cylindrical projections that cannot be represented by “light shining through a globe onto a developable surface”, the statement is fine. Strebe (talk) 21:33, 10 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  light shining through a globe - then the spacing of parallels would follow a very limited set of possibilities 

message: I have created a proposal page for Map projections. Please feel free to add your name to the support section, discuss, disseminate, and otherwise edit. Thanks. Strebe (talk) 01:26, 12 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject
Talk:Biogeographic realm

message: The realm map on this page, though very nicely done, contains some major inaccuracies. For instance, Sulawesi is classified as Indo-Malay when it should be Australasian. I'm looking into fixing it, but meanwhile not sure how to flag this -- would it be appropriate to note on the main page that it is in error? Sharp11 (talk) 03:00, 10 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map
Talk:Honey

message: In the Honey (England) Regulations 2015 there is no such term as 'raw honey'.  The regulations list the terms that csn be used in relation to honey. It is not a term that is legally defined in the UK.  Black Mountain Honey in Wales was asked by trading standards to stop using  the term 'raw' on its honey labels. see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAnnYx7NUE4 89.241.102.49 (talk) 12:20, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Youtube is not a reliable source for Wikipedia's purposes, but that really doesn't matter at this point because it is unclear what you want us to do about it. If this article were about the word "honey", there may be some use for adding this information, but encyclopedias are about things, not words. Dictionaries are about words. This is really too specialized to call it a WP:ENGVAR thing, so I really don't know what you want us to do? Zaereth (talk) 19:01, 1 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of  the term 'raw honey' in UK 

message: In the section "Formation", subsection "By honey bees", in the second paragraph, the end of the sixth sentence reads, " which delivers the liquid to the bee's proventriculus, also called the honey stomach or honey crop."  This is incorrect.  The proventriculus is part of the digestive tract inbetween the honey stomach(honey crop) and the food stomach, formally called the ventriculus. It acts as a filter between the honey stomach and the ventriculus. Since this is a Honey page and not a Honey bee digestive tract page I suggest removing reference to the proventriculus all together and have that part of the sixth sentence read, " which delivers the liquid to the bee's honey stomach, also called the honey crop."  This change, along with the current reading of the seventh sentence conveys the information that nectar is carried in a different place than the bee's true (food) stomach without getting into technical terms such as proventriculus and ventriculus. 128.119.202.187 (talk) 18:30, 30 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, you're right. I got that from one of the sources. Can't remember which, because someone came along later and rearranged everything, so not every source is with the information it once supported. I remember thinking, "that's interesting, never heard that word before", and since we had an article I added it in. But in looking deeper into bee anatomy, the two are definitely not the same. The proventriculus serves as a valve between the honey stomach and the food stomach, opening and closing I guess when the bee gets hungry, and prevents it backflow. It also seems to serve a second purpose of filtering pollen from the nectar that passes through it. That would probably be good info to add to the proventriculus article, but I agree, it's not necessary here. Thanks for catching that. Zaereth (talk) 01:34, 3 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 30 July 2023
Talk:SCSI

message: Since there's also a comprehensive Parallel SCSI page, I'd like to move most of this page's Parallel SCSI section there and just keep a summary. IMHO this page should focus on SCSI in general. Any objections? Zac67 (talk) 20:29, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: At the same time I suggest the SCSI#Interfaces and SCSI#Cabling sections should be merged with subsections for each of the SCSI embodiments, linked to more exhaustive articles.  Tom94022 (talk) 02:29, 31 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move [[SCSI#Parallel SCSI]] to [[Parallel SCSI]] 

message: The SCSI Express stuff and SBC-4 are some obvious lacunae. Someone not using his real name (talk) 01:25, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Outdated 

message: Myusernamewastoosimilar-apparently (talk) 00:01, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Link rot is quite frequent unfortunately. Have you tried the [http:archive.org Wayback Machine]? --Zac67 (talk) 06:16, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Link rot

message: I came here wanting to know whether SCSI is obsolete or still in use, but found hardly anything. I'd say any addition on this matter would be welcome. Cheers. --uKER (talk) 19:51, 26 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: SCSI is more popular than ever, see SCSI#Modern SCSI. If you refer to Parallel SCSI (SPI), I've just added some text to its decline to SCSI#Parallel interface. --Zac67 (talk) 07:41, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: SAS is certainly a current and viable interface but "more popular than ever" is not so clear.  I'd like to see a RS on, for example, a ratio today of SATA/SAS HDD/SSD versus say ATA/P-SCSI HDD in the 1990s.  I'll look for something and then maybe we can add text to the article.  Tom94022 (talk) 22:52, 27 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: I wasn't refering to SAS (alone), but to the SCSI family in general. I've searched for a source but couldn't find a usable one. --Zac67 (talk) 07:50, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: AFAIK most of the serialized versions of SCSI use SAS or SATA drives (HDD or SSD) behind a converter/controller.  If you want to say something along the lines of "the SCSI protocol in a serialized form such as SAS has replaced parallel SCSI in current applications," I don't think anyone could object.  Tom94022 (talk) 17:05, 28 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  No timeframe for usage
Talk:Electrochemical potential

message: A question:
Why is the electrochemical potential where it is? I understand that it a form of potential energy, but can someone break this down further? For example, why is water at 0.4V vs SHE? [Reaction: O2 + 2H2O + 4e ---> 4OH-]. I understand the driving forces involved between differences in electrochemical potential, but I'm having problems wrapping my head around the concept of why an electrochemical potential is where it is.
Any help would be appreciated.
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I don't know what you mean by "SHE" and so I'm not positive I understand your question, but I guess the answer to it is that it's at least partly about how tightly each element clings to its most loosely held electron a.k.a. the ionization potential for that electron. 168... 00:56, 11 Aug 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  But why? 

message: In the article it says "In a battery, an electrochemical potential arising from the movement of ions balances the reaction energy of the electrodes. The maximum voltage that a battery reaction can produce is sometimes called the standard electrochemical potential ..."
First, is standard electrode potential meant by standard electrochemical potential?
Second, is this article stating that the maximum voltage a wet cell can produce the difference between the two standard reduction potentials? If so, it is wrong. One can vary the voltage of a wet cell by changing the ratio of concentrations of the two solutions involved.
Loggie 02:52, 29 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Two Questions

message: I have added "electronic and electrical engineering" to electrochemistry, as a domain in which the term "electrochemical potential" means "total thermodynamic chemical potential".  I have also restricted the domain where the other convention applies to "metal physics", because (in my experience) the term "electrochemical potential" is not commonly used in semiconductor physics. (RGForbes (talk) 11:43, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry but you need sources for the changes. Also note that sources were given for the text as is. Using only one's own personal experience is a violation of WP:NOR. --Bob K31416 (talk) 12:44, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Ashcroft and Mermin use the "other convention" in their discussion of the p-n junction. (page 593). They're not primarily semiconductor physicists, but still... --Steve (talk) 04:53, 12 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflicting terminologies
Talk:Transcendental Generation

message: The article says "this generation included the first children to be protraited (and named at birth) as individuals."  I cannot figure out what this sentence means.  Can someone translate it into English?  Does it mean parents did not give their children individual names before that time?  If so, that is certainly false.  Does it mean no portraits of individual persons were painted before that time?  If so, again, it is obviously false. 131.183.81.100 22:56 Feb 7, 2003 (UTC)
The old practice was to wait a few days to make sure that the child lived a few days and then bring the child to a church for a christening. The extreme mortality among mnewborn children seemed to abate in the late eighteenth century due in part to the forceps deliveries. Children began to be named soon after birth.--66.231.38.97 03:50, 15 July 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It does sound like a literal translation of something out of a book.  I can accept that "Transcendental Generation" means something in philosophical terms, but the article as it stands doesn't explain it in a comprehensible manner. Deb 23:05 Feb 7, 2003 (UTC)
The intellectual climate that followed the American and French Revolutions was much more open to inquiry on scientific, philosophical, religious, and political beliefs. The industrial revolution  began to take off, smashing the old primacy of landed elites in dominance of society. Culture and thought opened up, and although all generations alive in the early 19th century were able to participate in the increased freedom, but the contemporaries of the American Republicans and Compromise generations still had thought patterns from the old era.
Transcendental  itself implies "climbing beyond", and Transcendentals made as strong a break with traditions and fashions as did any prior -- or perhaps later -- generation.  They include an incredible variety of novelists who started to examine human nature and established romanticism as the norm in art and music. They were the first to make a powerful challenge to capitalism itself (Marx), the first effective anti-slavery crusaders and fenminists, and the founders of at least one major religion (Mormonism). Their best-known scientific mind, Charles Darwin, established the common origin of all animal life. Tellingly, they are the ones who abandoned the powder wig.--66.231.38.97 03:50, 15 July 2005 (UTC)

message: Am I the only one who sees that this article is strong in being pretentious and weak in content and explanation? -- Zz 18:46, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Pure garbage.  ALL Strauss and Howe pages need to be merged into ONE.  They are pop authors, with no backing in academia, and they are promoting their own consulting business.  This page needs to be deleted.--Dylanfly 16:11, 30 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Huh?
Talk:United Federation of Planets

message: Hi, I felt it was odd that the first sentence currently reads as follows: "In the Star Trek universe, the United Federation of Planets (UFP) is the fictional interstellar government that sent Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock, and the crew ..." etc. 
This feels like a strange place for the qualifier "fictional." The Federation isn't a fictional within the Star Trek universe; within the fictional Star Trek universe, the Federation is a very real government. I went looking for similar articles to see if this was a normal placement. The Starfleet article is similarly worded ("Starfleet is a fictional organization in the Star Trek media franchise."). Still, I suspect that the Section_31_(Star_Trek) page ("Section 31, in the fictional universe of Star Trek, is an autonomous intelligence and defense organization"), provides the least ambiguity.  
I know it's not likely to cause anyone any serious confusion, even if English isn't their native language. Still, I'm making the change so that people can see how it looks and consider how they feel about it. I'm sure it's ultimately fine either way.  Emoprog (talk) 21:08, 14 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Placement of "fictional" in lede 

message: Should we note in the infobox that the image there is only the UFP's flag from a specific time period and/or should we change the image to the new UFP flag shown in Discovery Season 3? Prcc27 (talk) 21:58, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flag in infobox 

message: Anthem is listed at https://nationalanthems.info/ufp.htm (which states it appears in an episode of DS9, “Take Me Out To The Holosuite”) and in several YouTubes. Sounds like it is based on Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken to me. Is this suitable to add to the article? FrankSier (talk) 10:39, 21 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anthem
Talk:Vanilla Ice

message: Add Foss Films as a record label. That is his current label as of 2023. Fosjon (talk) 03:00, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Pinchme123 (talk) 03:48, 13 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 12 October 2023
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ecoregions

message: Hello. I have written a bit about ecoregions for a few volcano articles this year, namely Level Mountain and Hoodoo Mountain. One thing I noticed is that ecoregions in British Columbia, Canada appear to be subdivided into ecosections. Is there an article this term can be redirected to or should it have its own article? Volcanoguy 00:04, 11 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ecosections 

message: Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia:Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a  parameter to , which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.
No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to , and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.
However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass  a new  parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 19:38, 10 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Project-independent quality assessments 

message: Hello Ecoregionalists!
I requested a page move back to Valdivian temperate forests. It's the name used by the primary sources - WWF, EoL, DOPA, OneEarth, etc. Our practice has been to use the names used by primary sources for our ecoregion articles. Please opine! You can find the discussion at Wikipedia:Requested moves#Current discussions. Tom Radulovich (talk) 03:22, 22 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Valdivian temperate forests 

message: An article which may be of interest to members of this project—Sudanian savanna—has been proposed for merging with Sudan (region). If you are interested, please participate in the merger discussion. Thank you. 89.206.112.13 (talk) 17:52, 3 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger discussion for [[Sudanian savanna]]
Talk:Neotropical realm

message: I am working on updates and expansion of articless on swallows, swifts and martins, all classified as neotropical migratory birds.  Neotropical migrant is a common descriptive term in ornithology but Wikipedia lacks an article or major section that contains a description, list of species, and so on.  I can argue both for and against each option:  a major section in this article or a separate article.  I would appreciate comments from others on which is most appropriate. DocTree (ʞlɐʇ · cont) Join WER 00:35, 17 September 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I would say a separate article would be better, because the migrants also spend a considerable amount of time in temperate zones, and so the scope is broader than this article. A "see also" link to a Neotropical Migratory Birds would be quite useful here, however. Animalparty (talk) 00:18, 18 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neotropical migratory birds - Here or in a separate article? 

message: I have seen Texas and Florida be included or excluded from the Neotropical region by different authorities.  For example, Graham Griffiths' Flies of the Nearctic Region excludes Texas.  Southern Florida has a tropical climate but strong connections to the Nearctic.  I weakened the statement about inclusion of these regions. Vox Sciurorum (talk) 14:10, 21 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Northern limit 

message: The word "Neotropics" is a combination of the prefix "neo-" meaning "new" and "tropics" which means near the equator. Who coined this term? When did it make its way into common use? In what way is the region "new"? This basic information should be presented in an encyclopedic entry on the term "Neotropics".60.242.189.31 (talk) 19:44, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology and history of the term
Talk:Dymaxion map

message: So... if I have the some coordinates of a point on a surface, how would I transform those points to find the coordinates of the corresponding position on a dymaxion map?  (Pick one, though I am specifically interested in polyhedral dymaxion mapslet's say a dymaxion map based on a regular octohedron.)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.126.169.10 (talk) 22:52, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  So... how does the math work? 

message: Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that :File:Dymaxion 2003 animation small1.gif will be appearing as picture of the day on June 5, 2011. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2011-06-05. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page so Wikipedia doesn't look bad. :) Thanks! howcheng  {chat} 17:53, 2 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:File:Dymaxion 2003 animation small1.gif]] to appear as POTD soon 

message: This file doesn't load at all, there's just the broken image icon 151.227.93.223 (talk) 15:10, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Works fine on Mac OS X browsers and Safari on iOS 9, for example. Strebe (talk) 17:52, 20 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yeah, works fine in Opera, Chrome, and IE 10 on Windows 8.1 too.  RossPatterson (talk) 00:33, 21 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: [[:File:Dymaxion 2003 animation small1.gif]] is broken

message: It's probably worth mentioning that this map projection does see some use in the sciences, whenever the continents and their connections (including across Bering Strait) need to be shown and the oceans are not relevant; apart from the genetics map in the article, compare the map in the infobox of Woolly mammoth. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 21:14, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Real-world application
Talk:List of rivers of Russia

message: Can anyone provide details on the Lovat/Lovat'/Lowatj that flows through Velikiye Luki and into Lake Ilmen? The latter article provides an edit-me link to it as Lovat'. Thanks. — B.Bryant 00:02, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Lovat

message: The European part is drained into the Arctic Ocean, Baltic Sea, Black Sea and Caspian Sea. Russian Wiki has a different approach Формирование перечня проходило по принципу: океан — море — река — приток реки — приток притока и так далее.Koakhtzvigad (talk) 07:13, 28 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  European rivers