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Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 51

message: Could a English punctuation expert write a section for this manual on the use of commas?  I do Wiki copyedit work and I find most of the changes I make involve missing commas.  Commonsense guidance on the usage of commas by Wiki authors might help in the writing and reading of articles, without so much  copyedit additions of commas, as I and probably others do.  Thanks Hmains 23:40, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This is, to some extent, a matter of personal style. I am guilty of "rhetorical punctuation" --where a comma means a short pause in speaking, and use them, whenever, I think that natural. Editors remove them, if they can.   (I have deliberately added some in the preceding sentence.) DGG 08:25, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  missing commas 

message: Is there guidance anywhere about adding empty sections to an article for consistency with some project template? I don't think a section should be added unless there is content for the section, but I couldn't find any mention. older ≠ wiser 16:13, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, it's probably fine to have sections temporarily empty when an article is being actively worked on, but they certainly shouldn't exist in a more finished product.  (One obvious subtlety would be whether a section that contains no text in its own body, but only a group of sub-sections—an extra heading grouping some related sub-headings, in other words—counts as "empty" here.) Kirill Lokshin 16:17, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I wouldn't count that as empty.  I agree that empty sections should not exist.  If they are in the midst of being worked on they can easily be hidden in ""s. --Jimp 08:28, 19 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Empty sections
Talk:United States Air Force in France

message: Shouldn't the names of installations in this article use the names used by the USAF during the Cold War?  They can be linked by redirects if required.  Chateauroux was an Air Station, rather than an Air Base for most of its existence.  Also, the USAF did not use the hyphenated location names of these airfields for the most part (i.e. USAF documents would refer to Phalsbourg Air Base).  Finally, shouldn't the orthography for this article be English, without accent marks? --Lineagegeek (talk) 21:03, 12 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Installation Names
Talk:Razzle (game)

message: My God, this article is completely wrong.  As written, it sounds like a sales pitch the scamster running the razzle would use.  I am doing a complete rewrite. 69.142.21.24 07:34, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Rewrite

message: I just stopped at a carnival on Long Island, NY. There was a razzle that involved rolling golf balls on wood into pegs guarded by rubber bands. Possible prizes were iPods, Playstation 3s, Xboxes. The price to play was 10 bucks, and I immediately knew was a scam, thanks to the news a while back. The news showed undercover of a razzle where at a certain point, after the price to play elevated, the prize was for $600+. Funny enough, when I first walked up the operator said to somebody on the phone "Jim, uh, we've got a customer." After I walked away, he then said "Nevermind, he left". Socby19 18:11, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Recent razzle

message: this article still suffers from the same problems that were addressed in 2006, i am copy pasting an older version that is much more fairly written and leaving the errors for someone else to fix.  a flawed fair version is much better than a completely biased yet grammatically correct description.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.247.127.52 (talk) 08:42, 24 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  horrible article 

message: As it stands, it is far too easy for some scammer to come along and remove all traces of this game's fraudulent nature...which is what someone did.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.191.227.94 (talk) 03:01, 10 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should this article be locked? 

message: If it was ever actually ran honestly, no one would ever score a single point, and people would realize it was a scam right off the bat.  You only earn any points because the operator miscounts in your favor.  Even a 1 in a thousand chance would be too risky with the odds that are usually offered.  EVERY fair roll/toss scores zero points, or hits the evil double number (traditionally 29). where both the prize and your bet are doubled.  Once you get really close, the miscounting stops.  You just keep hitting that doubler, and 0 point totals. Eventually, you can't make that bet, and you give up. 74.211.58.201 (talk) 04:51, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  This game has NEVER ONCE been ran honestly 

message: Nowhere is it explained what "flattie" means. And the whole last paragraph makes no sense whatsoever. Turkeyphant 00:16, 19 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flattie/last paragraph 

message: The extremely vague description currently in the article is wholly inadequate.2600:1700:E1C0:F340:6C23:D281:2C14:A598 (talk) 23:16, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  The article should give a specific example of just how a Razzle game is played.
Talk:Particle identification

message: I corrected the statement that the particle id identifies eementary particle... it was factually wrong: the particle id can identify kaons and pions for instance which are not elementary particles..
Other than this I think the aim of the article is not really the right one, usually in particle physsics the particle id is defined as the ability to identify a particle from another, while the article seems focused on jet identification. Tatonzolo 07:41, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's got one line about each of a bunch of different things, and (as you rightly point out!) it's missing stuff on pions and kaons and so on.  I'm not sure I see how the approach is wrong...  Your claim is that jet tagging shouldn't be mentioned in the article at all? -- SCZenz 23:25, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  no I mean that jet tagging is just another subject, maybe good for another article: I thought as particle identification as just the possibility to recognize signle mesons, baryon or elementary particle: pion/kaon/proton discrimination or pion/muon, or electron/muon. These discriminations are just based on fundamental princicples (like dEdx measure or cherenkov angles for instance), the one mentioned and for jet tagging in particular, they are strongly dependent from what kind of algorithm you use for jet reconstruction.. so they are not detector free... it's just a point to see that... maybe we can split the article in two main section one about jet tagging, (maybe the second one) and one about the single particle id.. what do you think about it?Tatonzolo 07:26, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive 52

message: I don't see any guidelines here.  Where would I find them?  Clarityfiend 19:10, 10 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Bolding is normally reserved for the article title the first time it appears in the text; see Article_titles. —Wayward Talk 10:53, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sometimes it is italics. There is a somewhat bizarre distinction between long and short poems. I questionned this weirdness at: Wikipedia_talk:Manual_of_Style#Why_do_some_articles_use_italics_in_the_title.3F. bobblewik 19:03, 13 July 2006 (UTC)

text: Traditionally, in print typography, boldface is generally reserved for book titles and such. Anything that you would underline on a typewriter would get bolded when typeset. Whether or not Wikipedia follows this guideline, it should have a clear guideline for boldface and italic usage. -- MiguelMunoz 11:23, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think you’re mistaken. Underlined things get italicized. I’m not aware of anything that “traditionally” gets boldfaced. If text needed to be bold on a typewriter, the typist would simply back up and double-strike the letters. Book titles and other “large” works (I’m being intentionally vague) get italicized or underlined, and other titles, such as poems, chapter titles, and news articles, get quoted. --Rob Kennedy 17:37, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Boldface usage

message: I don't know if this is the right place for this, so feel free to move this comment to the right place and/or tell me. I tried to use sentence case headings in Srebrenica massacre but was reverted. Can people take a look and see if what I was doing was wrong? Thanks. bobblewik 18:27, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Your edit was in line with MoS:HEAD guidelines. --Muchness 18:40, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I just fixed the headings in said article. Shinobu 22:07, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you. bobblewik 19:04, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sentence case in headings 

message: In terms of defining "encyclopedic tone", is there a specific guidelines policies that explicitly mention it? I.E. there are cleanup templates for this as well, but I've had new users ask what this means specifically - and I guess "the formal tone expected of an encylclopedia" isn't good enough. Any good way to explain this? RN 18:32, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:   It could be said that encyclopedic tone is an attempt to make the material look more authoritative than it really is. Like a textbook, but implying infinite reservoirs of learning in the background. DGG 08:25, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  defining "encyclopedic tone"
Talk:Three Little Pigs (film)

message: I have seen reports that the voice of the Big Bad Wolf is a parody of an unpopular film director of the time. Is this true, and if so, who?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.193.200.174 (talk) 06:41, 14 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Wolf Parody?

message: "In those other countries to whomhujlhjljhlcartoon surfacing on home video, namely a Japanese laserdisc which was issued in 1997.  I'd love to know if there are any others. 217.155.20.163 22:13, 14 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Laserdisc

message: Why doesn't this article detail the event itself of the "Jewish peddler" being changed to a "Fuller brush man"? It mentions that there were two versions, and how home video releases variously featured both versions, but doesn't say a durn thing about how/when this came about, which it certainly oughtta! 2601:545:8202:4EA5:A521:4CA2:669F:F08 (talk) 18:42, 24 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: File:Three Little Pigs poster.jpg  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.8.119.252 (talk) 23:03, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  No details on peddler change 

message: This work was originally published in 1933. Its copyright was renewed in 1960. It will become public domain in 2029 under the American copyright law as of 2023. SDudley (talk) 18:18, 27 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  2029 in public domain
Talk:Wilson Airport

message: The Nairobi, Kenya page says that "Wilson Airport is a small, busy airport to the west of Nairobi." This article says it is "five kilometres south of Nairobi." Which is correct? 66.234.220.195 (talk) 17:20, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  South or west of Nairobi? 

message: Does anyone know what is the source for the 1933 date?  The Aero Club of East Africa website says that the new Nairobi Aerodrome was first used on 19 February 1929 (http://aeroclubea.com/history.htm). They have been at Wilson Airport from the beginning so the club records should be a reliable source. Andrew Hennigan (talk) 13:40, 9 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Year of Foundation
Talk:Academic probation

message: "However, it is not considered an expulsion to special education students (K-12 students only) since school districts are required to provide them a free appropriate public education." This is not true of all schools. Please cite the country and source if you have the information.--M3rrick 07:58, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Overgeneralisation

message: No idea what this is supposed to be. No link to the Northwestern page, so I am removing this sentence.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by WiseWoman (talk • contribs) 09:34, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lullerless? 

message: I removed the unreferenced from this because there really isn't any information here that isn't known to a college freshman. But that also means that the article the article isn't very informative as it is and needs to be expanded.--RDBury (talk) 17:30, 22 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expansion needed 

message: The article has been rewritten by Uncle G to describe probationary periods for academic staff.  That seems to be a special case of the probation which applies to many professions which is described in Probation (workplace).  The original sense of the topic was probation for students rather than staff, as described in sources such as the Encyclopedia of distributed learning.
I'll restore and improve the original content when I have a moment and we should then consider whether to split the article or keep these related concepts together.  Colonel Warden (talk) 12:25, 2 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Scope
Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Archive (quotes and quote marks 2)

message: From the article on Hezbollah:
*Hezbollah is one of the two main organizations representing the Shia community, Lebanon's largest religious bloc, but the only militant one.
*Throughout most of the Arab and Muslim worlds, Hezbollah is highly regarded as a legitimate resistance movementAsia Times - July 20th, 2006.
Which is the correct format for period placement? Before or after the ... tags.  --Roxi2 16:19, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Before. Placing a period after the footnote is a crime against literacy. This is covered at Wikipedia:Footnotes. Perhaps it should be mentioned under "Punctuation" on this page as well. --Kevin (complaints?) 16:36, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

text: (edit conflict) :Wikipedia:Footnotes#Place_ref_tag_after_punctuation is the guideline we have. It's not universally beloved. —Bunchofgrapes  (talk) 16:37, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks.  I had a difficult time finding it here. Maybe it should be mentioned as Kevin suggests.  --Roxi2 20:17, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I had fixed all the refs to be after punctuation a couple weeks ago. I guess this is an indication of the quantity of mutation in the information here. Gimmetrow 16:33, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Period before or after citation?
Talk:Circus Royale

message: "Ringing Circus Royale" is not an acceptable way of verifying that the "change in ownership" has occurred. You must provide printed source that states the fact. Wikipedia information may not always be The Truth, but it must be verifiable from published sources. —Resurgent insurgent 2007-05-01 15:10Z
I have 2 different local newspaper articles saying that Damian is the owner. regards elena.—Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.161.87.91 (talk • contribs) 
:Can you give the name of the newspaper, date, and page number for each article? I have given that information for whatever I put in the article and if you give the same information for your claim, then it makes it much easier for someone who wants to check up on whether it's true. Thank you. Resurgent insurgent 07:37, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change of ownership
Talk:Cate Kennedy

message: An email has just been sent to Wikipedia permissions clarifying that permission is granted for the text from scribepublications.com.au to be used on Wikipedia
  — Preceding unsigned comment added by SarahBraybrooke (talk • contribs) 22:56, 22 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  permission granted for use of text 

message: I have commenced a tidy-up of the Bibliography section using cite templates and tables for short stories, poems and/or book reviews. 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. Feel free to continue. Sunwin1960 (talk) 05:12, 6 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bibliography 
Talk:Australian Reptile Park

message: I don't know that there's enough on the Eric the Crocodile article to merit it having it's own article. I think it could quite easily be contained on this page, and the photo of Eric would contribute to this article as well. Thoughts? Beeawwb 09:53, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: OK then, I'm going to be bold and merge the content of the Eric article into the AR Park article 1dragon (talk) 10:47, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal: [[Eric the Crocodile]] 
Talk:Stepped gable

message: What is the difference (if any) between a crow-stepped gable and a Dutch gable?  Richard New Forest (talk) 20:33, 2 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Dutch gables have curves, as now covered in Dutch gable article (perhaps a redlink when question was asked). —Doncram (talk) 15:04, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Dutch gable

message: The section titled "World-wide examples" seems to be a completely arbitrary, short and not extremely informative list. Some of the entries there are redlinked entirely. Unless some effort is made to systematise it or at least shape it up a good deal, I suggest that it should be removed. I can't see what it adds, information-wise. Yakikaki (talk) 18:25, 16 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, since no one has objected I will remove this section. Yakikaki (talk) 15:17, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "World-wide examples" 

message: Please add the Overstolzenhaus in Cologne, it was built in 1230, some 200 odd years before the 15th century. The style spread from the German northwest into Holland and Denmark, and was carried by the German Order to exclaves in Latvia, etc.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.118.139.112 (talk) 17:19, 15 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Most notable earliest example is missing 

message: Would be very helpful if the waterproofing methods from the "Construction" section were accompanied by some diagrams. I admit I need this for personal research, but a more objective reason is that the article itself is just hard to read and understand without diagrams. I assume the source is Hogan's "History of Muchalls Castle", which I, unfortunately, haven't been able to find. If anyone could provide it I'd be grateful (or any other source on waterproofing methods for stepped gables). AndreiMiculita (talk) 12:42, 13 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diagrams/source on waterproofing methods
Talk:Alba Bible

message: I had translated from the Spanish article that the artwork was done wholly by Franciscans, and the reason was that Jews were prohibited fromm the vocation. An anonymous editor claimed that this prohibition is untrue, so I removed it. Some clarity on that issue would be nice as well.--Fuhghettaboutit 03:16, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Artist's vocation prohibited to Jews of the epoch

message: The image caption reads "Detail from Belshazzar's Feast" - is that correct? I don't know the context of this page in the book but that doesn't look like the "writing on the wall" to me. It's an illustration of Arragel handing the bible over to his patrons, correct?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 109.128.30.244 (talk) 23:09, 15 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image caption 

message: — Assignment last updated by Jackhoal (talk) 23:34, 14 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Medieval Art
Talk:Jumbuck

message: http://www.jumbuck.com/home/default.php 01:14, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mobile company 

message: In what language? There are many, many different Aboriginal languages.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.206.50.173 (talk) 13:25, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  "aborigine word for sheep"
Talk:John Harris (Australian settler)

message: Have removed the following words from the article as the oz dictionary of biography does not talk of any of this:
"In 1803 he was brought before a court composed of officers of the New South Wales Corps, charged with committing an offence on the "19th ultimo" (the 19th of the previous month). As the offence had been committed on the "19th instant" (the 19th of the current month), he had to be acquitted."
Fine to reinstate when appropriate source(s) cited. Coolabahapple (talk) 13:20, 26 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  removal of uncited words
Talk:Biguanide

message: Biguanides are not only antidiabetic medications. They also include proguanil (antimalarial), chlorhexidine gluconate (antimicrobial/antiviral), 2-guanidinebenzimidazole (decreases gastic acid secretions).  How can we modify the article to include the broad spectrum of the biguanide and its derivatives? rmosler 08:13, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agree. According to this source, Chlorhexidine is "hexamethyl bischlorophenyl biguanide". Should it be categorised as a biguanide and mentioned here? This is a major antiseptic. Colin°Talk 20:07, 21 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: It looks like a bi-Guanidine. Can we say if this is the origin of the name ? - Rod57 (talk) 12:57, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Structure and name 

message: het is zo vervelend dar het op mijn computer engels is  kan je dat veranderen 2A02:A45B:4D45:1:CDB3:1334:D64:DE93 (talk) 13:00, 9 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  kan het nederlands worden vertaald 

message: ..or at least it doesn't agree with the other image of the structure and the formula, the latter given as HN(C(NH)NH_2)_2 . The ball-and stick model has formula (NH_2)_2CNC(NH)NH_2  In fact, they are isomers. 147.147.218.218 (talk) 02:02, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: They are tautomers. See https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molstruc.2017.08.100 for the full story. The skeletal formula should probably be changed to match the ball-and-stick model, and the tautomerism should be explained in the article body. Ben (talk) 02:58, 31 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  The image of the ball and stick model appears to be incorrect
Talk:Combined Joint Task Force 76

message: See http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123042615 --Pmsyyz 20:38, 27 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Still active?  Feb 2007 reference 
Talk:DOSAAF

message: Well, interesting, but reading about the second title is really tough - I couldn't get any, you know :) To many letters. But cool (:) Um, I was going to tell to you about the point: (sure it's not my business, but) word 'society' doesn't seem to be appropriate to the content. Recognizable is, f.i., 'movement', 'organization', 'club'. It's more suitable for English-speaking person. But again - sorry - that's to my point of view: and may be you know that better.195.135.237.19 (talk) 16:38, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Notice
Talk:SibeliusMusic

message: Why do not consider to merge this page with Sibelius? Alegreen 08:35, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed! Lsjzl 23:28, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

text: Disagree. --HelgeStenstrom 21:13, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Same...? 

message: I've taken the liberty of deleting some nonsense from this page (declaration of interest: I am one of the founders of Sibelius Software). I've also deleted the listing of myself and a few other little-known composers as 'famous composers' who use the site. Ben Finn 16:09, 6 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Nonsense
Talk:Diocese in Europe

message: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukcm/1980/2 – Kaihsu (talk) 18:47, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diocese in Europe Measure 1980 

message: The tense change in this paragraph confuses me:  "The diocese is led by the diocesan Bishop in Europe, Rob Innes .... Under Rowell and Hamid, there was no alternative episcopal oversight in the diocese (for churches which reject the ministry of priests who are women) because both bishops did not ordain women."
does this change imply that they have changed their minds?  --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 18:22, 21 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  do they still not?  