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Talk:List of pinball machines

message: I'm adding more pinball machines to the list, because I want to expand it with help from other websites. 200.89.33.137 16:00, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Adding more machines

message: Having years after each machine not only seems unnecessary, but seems to violate WP:MOSLINK's "Overlinking" guide in two separate ways (low-value links, repeated links).  While there seems some small value for having the year next to the machine, at the very least just making it text-only seems an improvement.  Either way, right now the list needs to be fixed somehow, as only half the machines listed have this after the name.
I wonder if there might be some value in breaking the list up into years or decades or eras as opposed to simply straight alphabetical.  I haven't yet entirely gone through WP:LIST, though, so I am open to ideas.  Much thanks, Fractalchez (talk) 20:27, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, there's no feedback on this, so I'm  going to do this.  I'm going to go simple and just leave it alphabetical for now, and probably just remove the years; I don't see any need to have them there. Fractalchez (talk) 15:54, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: You could put the titles into a sortable table.  That way users could sort by name or date. Just a thought. — Frecklefσσt | Talk 15:02, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Hey, that sounds great.  Except... I don't know how. :-}  If you happen to have a pointer to instructions I would take this on.  Thanks, Fractalchez (talk) 18:51, 27 May 2008 (UTC)

text: Never mind, I think I found it. Fractalchez (talk) 18:52, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Years

message: I find it highly doubtful that the majority of these will get their own articles, so I'm removing them.  If and when a machine gets an article, would be a good time to add it. Dlabtot (talk) 20:29, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: No, red links are a great jumping-off point for the creation of new articles. Furthermore this list is an overview even when there is no article to a title but it is no overview if titles are removed. --Fluffystar (talk) 20:19, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Furthermore, Wikipedia would not need lists at all if there is no more information on a list than in a category. --Fluffystar (talk) 20:49, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: I unlinked all red links until they get an article but the information should stay in the list as black entries. Nobody is harmed by it but the information is very usefull for many. --Fluffystar (talk) 21:23, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Far to many redlinks 

message: There are a few home brew machines with a run of only one or two on the list, as well as tabletop games (primarily those manufactured by Tomy). I'm not sure if either of these should be included in the list and would appreciate other perspectives.
Vegantics (talk) 17:47, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Home brews and tabletop games
Talk:Zhou Xiaowen

message: Why did he not make any films after 1998? Badagnani (talk) 00:46, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why no films since 1998? 
Talk:Del Sol Quartet

message: I wouldn't classify this as a tango music group. They did a rendition of Piazzolla on their 2002 CD but the rest of the composers on the album are not tango composers. I would call them a contemporary classical chamber ensemble.
RosinDebow 03:49, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If "Tango music group" means "a group that occasionally plays tango" I wouldn't disagree. But I'm on their mailing list and have been to two of their concerts, and I would not say that they specialize in tango. Their repertoire is much wider, encompassing the classics to contemporary music, music by Chinese, Iranian, and Mexican composers, etc. In a similar vein, I wouldn't call the Kronos Quartet a jazz string quartet because they did albums dedicated to Bill Evans and Thelonius Monk. RosinDebow 00:36, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Why weren't past members (even those who formerly played with this quartet for many years) not listed in this article? That's not very encyclopedic. Please try to add all the past members. I just added two that I knew about. 173.88.246.138 (talk) 00:15, 30 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Past members
Talk:Mungo Man

message: I heard somewhere (i'll try to find the source) that mungo man is much too anatomically different from any humans too be classified as such, and that there was evidence he may have been homo erectus. try to go into more detail about that. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.164.94.55 (talk • contribs) 20:49, 4 November 2006 
A minor  but helpful edit would be simply to spell out, define, or otherwise clarify the abbreviation, "ka", for those, like me, who are unfamiliar with it, as it is used twice in the following sentence. "Since remains of a robust form of modern humans have been found in Ethiopia dating to about 160 ka, and similar remains have been dated at Jebel Qafzeh in Israel at about 100 ka, it is conceivable that Mungo Man's maternal ancestor left Africa in an early wave." 72.64.13.109 (talk) 22:46, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Homo erectus 

message: Shouldn't Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names) apply with regard to Mungo Man vs Mungo Lake remains. Also isn't it appropriate to use the move tool, rather than a redirect to maintain article history. Wapondaponda (talk) 06:50, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Article name
Talk:Twilight Zone (pinball)

message: I'll be the pain and point this one out.  The actual name of the machine is simply "Twilight Zone" without the "The".  Given that this is the first good pinball machine page I've seen so far, though, I can't bring myself to just jump in and move the whole thing. :-) Not at least without confirmation from someone who's been working on it first. Fractalchez 03:59, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No, you're correct - it does need to be moved to "Twilight Zone (pinball)". — KieferSkunk (talk) — 03:21, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Name correction

message: I removed the paragraph that listed the "official" high score for this machine.  I know for a fact that it is inaccurate, because the score was obtained in the league that I started, and at the time the score was obtained, the league did not use tournament mode for its matches.
This brings up the question of exactly how we include high scores for individual machine pages.  Given that there is no consensus yet, and no single authority recognized by a supermajority of players for determining such, that we leave out such information as non-encyclopedic until a consensus standard can be determined.  To that end, I would like to direct people to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Pinball, where I have an idea for this that I will write about there in the next day or two.  Thanks, Fractalchez (talk) 04:49, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: High scores

message: It says "Talky Tina" Instead of talking Tina. 2603:3001:6A2:400:44DE:FC3A:5792:FE01 (talk) 16:19, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Talking Tina is misspelled
Talk:Thirlmere Lakes National Park

message: I found no evidence that there is "absence of freshwater snails" as it it in the DYK hook in the reference . Otherwise I found a sentence "Trematodes are one species that is absent from the lake sediments." Did you accidentally classified a trematode as a snail? / There is an evidence of at least 8 species of gastropods in the area (but there is not explicitly mentioned in which lake they occur) at . --Snek01 (talk) 17:16, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The book that I have says it. It was written by the National Parks Association (and much of its text has ended up on NSW government National Park websites (!)). But I agree that peer-reviewed literature would trump it. Casliber (talk · contribs) 21:38, 3 June 2011 (UTC)

text: The actual words used on p. 37 are "The complete absence of water snails is also considered significant as they are usually found in fresh water lakes" Casliber (talk · contribs) 21:42, 3 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for the reference and for clarification. --Snek01 (talk) 11:12, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: If you do find anything I'd be intrigued. I am going there in a couple of weeks so if I find any molluscs I'll take some photos! Casliber (talk · contribs) 12:58, 4 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Snails
Talk:Craigmont High School

message: removed the upcoming athelets because all of them are non-notable and uncited. Barcode 04:01, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: upcoming atheletes

message: Must be very lonely for him!  How can you have a club with only one member?  Should it be Gentlemen's Club, or are standards of spelling slipping at Craigmont High? Emeraude 13:26, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gentleman's Club
Talk:Thomas Hughes (disambiguation)

message: ----
are these 2 the same person?
# Sir Thomas Hughes, an Australian solicitor and politician
# Hon Tom Hughes, QC, former Member of the Australian House of Representatives
VikÞor  |  Talk 04:06, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

message: I'm adding that he is now Metro Council President, an office he did not hold when this page was last edited.
I am closely related to the topic, however, I'm making the change because it seems not-at-all controversial, either factually, or NPOV. Informata ob Iniquitatum (talk) 02:12, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tom Hughes (Oregon Politician) COI Disclosure
Talk:Sheik Chinna Moulana

message: I came by this article through Random article. It was a mess so I tried to fix it up. I'm a noob so go easy please. Joseph haley 04:11, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup

message: The article has two sources, one of which, AMG, calls him "a well-respected soloist ". Hyacinth 08:26, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Notability
Talk:Doomadgee, Queensland

message: Nicholson River is two states, and several thousand miles away.
This 'fact' needs checking. DermottBanana (talk) 05:51, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Or, alternatively, there are two Nicholson Rivers in Australia.. I will fix the link. -- Mattinbgn\talk 06:05, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relocation 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: no consensus to move the page to the proposed title at this time, per the discussion below.  Dekimasuよ! 05:07, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Doomadgee, Queensland →  – Redirect from name without precision to name with it. 217.117.125.83 (talk) 13:43, 12 May 2022 (UTC)

text: This is a contested technical request (permalink). GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 04:32, 13 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 13 May 2022
Talk:Elim Aboriginal Mission, Queensland

message: The content is short is uncited and the mission is mentioned in Hope Vale, Queensland already. It's not clear at this time we need a separate article. Your thoughts? Kerry (talk) 02:38, 27 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Suppport merge; it could form part of a history section. Klbrain (talk) 16:34, 20 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:  Klbrain (talk) 08:14, 31 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge this article into [[Hope Vale, Queensland]]
Talk:Barron River (Queensland)

message: I've added a citation needed because this Australian Dictionary of Biography entry for Johnstone, Robert Arthur (1843 - 1905) says he discovered the Barron River in 1876, rather than James Venture Mulligan in 1874 as this article now claims or 1875 as his article suggests. - Shiftchange (talk) 13:55, 26 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  European discovery
Template talk:UAV

message: I built this table to deal with the messy text dumps like this. Therefore I don't know which data fields it's missing yet. Salad Days 04:16, 4 October 2006 (UTC)

message: Template: has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for Deletion page. Thank you. — Trevor MacInnis (Contribs) 15:51, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  TfD nomination of [[:Template:{{ucfirst:UAV}}]]
Talk:Azad (fictional game)

message: I find it a little hard to believe that a fictional game is significantly more notable than all the other Azads, such as the German rapper who is among the most popular rappers in Germany.  I think "Azad" should just go to the redirect page, not directly here.  Does this game have some significance I'm unfamiliar with? -Elmer Clark 04:16, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Go ahead and change it.  The reason it was done this way was simply that the game Azad was the first to be defined in Wikipedia.  Under such circumstances a disambiguation isn't necessary.  Cheers, --Plumbago 08:03, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Most significant "Azad?"
Talk:Dalby, Queensland

message: There is nothing in the Margot Robbie article that indicates she lives or has lived in Dalby. In a recent TV interview she says she comes from the Gold Coat but that her family is in Dalby. But when she talks about being in Dalby, she appears to be just visiting family. Can anyone demonstrate that she really is/was a Dalby residents? Kerry (talk) 08:20, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: A bit of googling keeps bring her up as a Gold Coast resident, not a Dalby one. Kerry (talk) 08:22, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: The Dalby-born former Neighbours star ...,  The former Neighbours star said she considered Dalby "home" and hopes to make it back there for a family trip at Easter. Though I grew up on the Gold Coast ...  Take your pick, I guess. -- Mattinbgn (talk) 08:38, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, she can stay in the Dalby notables then. I'll add a citation. Not sure if I should add her comments about the arrival of BigW being the biggest thing to happen in Dalby :-) Kerry (talk) 19:51, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Margot Robbie]], notable person from Dalby?
Talk:Beaudesert, Queensland

message: As a point of interest in the search for the origin of the town's name, "Beaudesert" is one of the historic names of Leighton Buzzard (Leyton Beaudesert, I believe) in Bedfordshire. I don't know how long it persisted in local knowledge beyond the naming of one of the schools, though, but I felt it may help anyone looking into the history of Beaudesert. — Sasuke Sarutobi (talk) 09:29, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of the name
Talk:Home Hill, Queensland

message: If you check the Wikipedia article on Battle_of_Inkerman, you'll find that "Home Hill" in the Crimean War was spelt exactly like that. This puts a dint into one of the theories about how Home Hill got its name. 
203.151.232.114 (talk) 07:44, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. I will do something about it. Kerry (talk) 23:53, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I went through looking for sources of the various name origins with particular emphasis on the early sources. And it seems there is some truth in all of them. The town is variously called Home Hill and Holme Hill in the 1910-1919 period when you look at the old newspapers. There is a 1912 confirmation of a link between the name Holme Hill to the Battle of Inkerman but not specifically to the British position called Home Hill. I cannot find any evidence of a Colonel Home or Holme from the district who served in the Crimean War (but I am not a military historian); the first mention of the colonel story that I can find comes from the 1930s which is within the living memory of the town name being established, so it is difficult to completely discredit that theory. I cannot find any early source telling of a signwriter getting the name wrong but it was being called both Holme Hill and Home Hill so clearly there was some source of confusion about the name that was somehow resolved into the present-day name of Home Hill. Google searches reveal a lot of content that is clearly directly copied from Wikipedia but there is at least one other site that doesn't appear to be direct copy (but may have been informed by the Wikipedia article of course) that mentions a signwriter at the railway station making a mistake (the Wikipedia article did not mention the railway station). So I think it's one of those situations where we can't say what's right and what's wrong but just put the theories to the reader with citations and let them make up their own mind, so that's what I did. Kerry (talk) 01:33, 7 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crimean War
Talk:California chaparral and woodlands

message: I suggested a merge because the shrublands of california are practically exclusive in the article, "Chaparral" which is the term that refers pretty exclusively to the shrublands of California, . Having two seperate articles is redundant. Valley2city 04:21, 4 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This article is not about the scrubland, but about the chaparral AND woodlands of California, which is quite a bit more than the chaparral.  The other article IS about the chaparral. KP Botany 19:11, 6 October 2006 (UTC)

text: I also don't agree with a merge. Chaparral is a narrow topic. This article covers a much broader topic. -Will Beback 17:49, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge

message: This article combined three different ecoregions defined in the World Wildlife Fund system . As we expand it, we should develop it into three distinct articles. I've updated some incoming links from the nearctic mediterranean forests, woodlands and shrub template to still land here for now. --Justin 18:48, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I've created stub articles for the three ecoregions. They're now linked to from this article. Miguel.v (talk) 18:39, 28 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Three in One
Talk:Bennelong Point

message: I changed 'thousands of years' to the less exact 'many long years' - As there is not evidence to prove such a claim - Whether aborigines had lived in Australia for thousands of years or not, they may not necessarily have lived around Sydney, nor may have been oyster shelling on that exact point for all that time.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 60.242.30.23 (talk) 04:37, 28 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Thousands of years of oysters'
Talk:Carl-Einar Häckner

message: From Wikipedia:Translation into English/Swedish
; Article : :sv:Carl-Einar Häckner
; Corresponding English-language article : Carl-Einar Häckner
; Worth doing because : The user who requested the translation has a couple of songs of theirs.
; Originally Requested by : --Dangherous 14:00, 26 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Creation Request
Talk:Biloela

message: There are many aboriginal languages. Specify which one.--Jeffro77 (talk) 01:19, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meaning of name 

message: I removed the content about drug offences as it failed verification. Most of the content was not included in the sources cited. If people wish to reinstate such content, please ensure all information in the article is supported with citations being particularly mindful about the policies when writing about living people. Kerry (talk) 05:15, 13 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Drug offences
Talk:Kingaroy

message: It would seem that this history section is almost entirely copied from The South Burnett Tourism Page. So, it needs a complete overhaul... Iamtiredofbeingpedantic (talk) 21:46, 19 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: History section

message: This page needs a map in the info box indicating where the township is located ROxBo (talk) 04:55, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Map

message: Today I decided to roll back all of my well-researched and cited revisions to this section because they apparently upset some of the local residents. It would appear that at least some locals are vehemently opposed to any explanation for their town's etymology that contradicts the myth that Kingaroy is based on the word "Kangaroo". It is evident that some people seek to put down any theories of an Aboriginal etymology, particularly those that derive from well-documented Aboriginal language and cultural sources. Their bias is noticeable. An anonymous website with an obviously partisan focus has recently sought to politicize the issue of the town's etymology. Although the website invites people to supply evidence for the town's naming, the page heading and content clearly give the kangaroo theory preferential treatment. The website consistently trivializes and pokes holes in all other theories, yet the arguments provided in support of the kangaroo theory are equally speculative and lack any supporting evidence apart from hearsay. So any evidence supplied to the contrary may in all likelihood be similarly trivialized. This is unfortunate, but is sadly so often the case today in rural, inland Australia. I am washing my hands of it because clearly my input is not welcome and any further comment would be a waste of time and effort. Bookly (talk) 07:57, 30 March 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Etymology section
Talk:Kairi, Queensland

message: Could someone show which syllable is stressed? kwami 05:06, 16 October 2007 (UTC)

message: On the Kairi page, it states the distance from Kairi to Brisbane is 1.698km but I think it is much further away than that!  According to google map it is more like 1,376.  https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Kairi+QLD+4872/@-24.5428765,146.943993,6.4z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x69789c37de862c3d:0x400eef17f207290!8m2!3d-17.216667!4d145.55 Lilycart (talk) 00:00, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: They are supposed to be road distances as per :Template:Infobox Australian place which says "Distance by road, not direct". I don't know why that particular decision was made. Kerry (talk) 14:49, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: This seems very odd to me - and I've always put in actual-distance when I've done them. The Drover's Wife (talk) 20:47, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

text: Very odd.. I would have used direct distance in the past too, using road distance makes little sense.FNQ (talk) 23:14, 6 March 2018 (UTC)

text: The distance should have been entered as a plain number, ie. no formatting, 1698 not 1.698 or 1,698. FNQ (talk) 23:14, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect distance to Brisbane
Talk:Bogantungan

message: Where was this school? It is described in the Education Dept records as being "via Bogantungan" (which indicates that Bogantungan was the nearest town) but I cannot find any Pine Hill in that area today. Kerry (talk) 21:27, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: ...I think it's Pine Hill, Queensland. Bogantungan is today in Willows, Queensland; Pine Hill borders Willows to the west. The Drover's Wife (talk) 22:54, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:   My first reaction was "... no it's Alpha to the West" because I've got the Queensland Globe open in front of me and there's no Pine Hill anywhere nearby. Then I noticed that the Pine Hill was indeed listed as being west in the Willows, Queensland article and the penny dropped. I looked to see if reality was at fault. And it was, there was a Nov 2019 decision to amalgamate various localities and one of the ones that disappeared was ... Pine Hill. So thanks for spotting this. I now need to update all those locality articles that were affected by the amalgamation. Kerry (talk) 10:07, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thankfully Google Maps didn't notice yet, which is how I picked it up. The Drover's Wife (talk) 11:21, 15 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pine Hill State School