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Talk:Nm

message: Is there any proof that NM is actually used for nautical mile? The most common abbreviation seems to be nm, although that's the ugliest thing there is. I'm taking the easy way here anyway, changing "nm" to "nautical miles" whereever I see it. -- Jao 14:49, 16 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: NM is used by the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) - see Nautical mile. --Wisdood (talk) 11:23, 23 February 2021 (UTC)

text: Not encyclopedic. --Wisdood (talk) 11:23, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  nautical mile 

message: how about the well known abbreviation for 'not much' on the internet?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.205.197.35 (talk) 21:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia is not the Wiktionary. --Wisdood (talk) 11:23, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Internet abbreviation for not much 

message: Nevermind 212.19.64.188 (talk) 07:09, 28 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nm
Talk:Dwarfism

message: I added a short paragraph on Verne Troyer, basically because he's currently one of the most famous little people in the world. I don't mean any offense by having him the only little person mentioned by name in the article (not counting any of the authors who may be short statured). I just didn't want to expand this into a general section on / list of little actors (not right now, anyway). If this bothers you, please add more info about other famous little people. - dcljr 08:09, 13 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Verne paragraph
Talk:Workers' Power (Sweden)

message: Arbetarmakt believes that a peaceful revolution is not possible (in contrast to many other organisations claiming to be Trotskyist), since it thinks that the bourgeoisie will use violence against a workers revolution to defend its class privileges. According to it, the working class needs to arm itself, smash the bourgeois state (including the police), form its own state based on workers councils and workers militias, and spread its revolution worldwide. As part of the League for the Fifth International it wants to form a new international party for world revolution.
I think this is stating the obvious. The first bit is standard Trotskyism - I've never come across a Trotskyist group that didn't think that. I've left it in but what do people think? Secretlondon 15:29, 16 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I think this should be covered in the article on Trotskyism.  Perhaps just say in this article that as part of the LFI they see themselves as orthodox Trotskyists. Warofdreams 13:58, 17 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Smokey Stover

message: Am I just crazy? How does a gasoline-powered truck in any way "presage" a human-powered scooter? This has been added twice. Just having two wheels is not enough of a link. Any opinions on this? -- Sampo Torgo [talk]  
:No- you are not crazy, merely ignorant (note: this is not an insult). The point is that the two wheels are side-by-side, an unstable configuration. This was not realised as a practical configuration until the Segway's employment of gyroscopes, accelerometers, and computers. By the way, the Segway is NOT human powered. - Leonard G. 03:40, 30 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That is not a valid link between the two. Saying it "presages" a Segway is basically saying that a comic strip was seriously attempting to predict future concepts, rather than putting forth a comical idea. But, hey, whatever gets you off. Oh, and you're pedantic (note: this is not an insult). — Sampo Torgo [talk]  @ 06:52, 13 September 2006 (UTC)

text: OK, that makes a lot more sense. I knew 'presage' wasn't right, but couldn't think of what phrase would accurately reflect the connection. — Sampo Torgo [talk]  @ 16:33, 18 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Segway?
Talk:Demographics of Puerto Rico

message: So, the article is full of "stuff" that doesn't really reflect census realities. And there's lots of "padding" talking about U.S. Immigration Law; Such as the 1790 Immigration Act, which had nothing to do with Puerto Rico until the 1898 Spanish American War. Between 1790-1898 it's immigration would be under Spanish, briefly French (via Napoleon) Law, though from 1804 to 1840s it's likely refugees from haiti & haitian occupied dominican republic affected it.
The current census website:
(please note: it's currently set on New York State, but the interface allows rapid change between States & Territories)
Very helpfully, it allows one to check the change between 2010 & 2020 Census, which, allows one to see how much a population changed in real numbers, as well as Reidentification. One of the Biggest changes, is the near disappearance of the "White Hispanic" (fell by -2,262,110 an 80.8% Drop!) while "Some Other Race+Hispanic" +547,000 189% & "Two Or More Race+ Hispanic" +1,512,000 grew as much as 1250% (all 50 Main US States had a similar extinction of the White Hispanic Category.)
The Current 2020 Numbers for Puerto Rico are:
Hispanic: 98.9% or 3,249,043
Non-Hispanic: 1.1 or 36,831 of which;
Whites: 24,548, which fell from 2010 by 2,398
Sadly, the CDC NVSS Birth Data for Puerto Rico by Race isn't included on this page like it is for other states. I'm not in a position to link that info currently, I'm sorry to say. PS, the birth data for 2014 was ruined by Typographical error as it was for Guam & North Marianas Islands.
Non-Hispanic White Birth Mothers fell from 2,644 in 2013 to 298 in 2020.
The article doesn't "get" that nowdays, no one wants to be seen as "White" anymore, even "white" people. It's increasingly a "null" category, defined by hostile outsiders.2603:7080:CB3F:5032:7449:6155:9B71:BA6D (talk) 12:20, 25 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  2020 Census Update 

message: I removed the following citation needed note and adjusted the article slightly:
"Earliest Neo-Taino movement activities have been dated to post-1960s, and rural jibaro identity has been based contemporaneously on European descent and land-owner post-slave owning identity. 1840 date seems highly spurious." I modified the article to read "some sources say" because there is a source directly next to this citation needed note with that year. Namnatulco (talk) 16:59, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citation needed note for 1840 as the year of rediscovery of Taino
Talk:One Hundred Years of Solitude

message: This may just be a translation issue, but the character ostensibly named Gabriel García Márquez is never called that. There is a character named just Gabriel, near the end, and he is the great grandson of colonel Gerineldo Márquez, but the name García only appears in the character "Enrique García Isaza", who seems not at all related to Gabriel. I had before fruitlessly searched for a source on this character. Unless the claimgets sourced, I will remove it. Perhaps somebody speaking Spanish could help with the original text?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kotlopou (talk • contribs) 22:18, 24 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  GGM character 

message: Given that most people keep replacing Argentina with Colombia as the country despite the clarity of the Infobox rules ("country: Country of original publication), would adding an edit notice to the article help? e.g.
The text for the editnotice needs improvement, but I think it is necessary, given the constant vandalism.
--181.9.175.140 (talk) 18:55, 9 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Time for an Editnotice? 

message: The article text lists the Shûji Terayama work with this title as a play, but IMDB has a 1981 film with that title by that director. The IMDB page has very little information. Does anyone know what's going on here? Personman (talk) 20:51, 7 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  百年の孤独 

message: The main thrust of this article is the apparent popularity or importance of the novel. However, it should be stated that the work is a compilation of unbelievable events written in a barely coherent story. The coherence is not helped by various characters having almost identical names. Living in a world with many fairy tale characteristics, many of the actors live extraordinary long and defy death or reappear as ghosts. 
The book is inventive but is it a work of genius?
Some alternative views should be included. Timmytimtimmy (talk) 01:50, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lack of balance
Talk:Names given to the divine

message: Isn't Buddha quite clearly not a diety of Buddhism?
Sometimes it recognizes dieties, but Buddha is always just a person who attained enlightenment. -- PM 19:56, 16 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: True.  Buddhism is essentially an atheistic religion, one that doesn't promote a belief in a god or gods. But Joseph Campbell called it the closest existing belief system to a universal religion. IamthatIam 18:56, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

message: *Merge - I vote for merging this article with Names of God. IamthatIam 19:00, 17 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge?

message: I think the article is redundant of Names of God, and everything in the other article that was valuble has been included into that article.  Feel free to vote at the AfD here.  --  Wikipedical 19:07, 6 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  AfD
Talk:ATI Technologies

message: AMD still seems to have an ATI Technologies ULC. left, is this related to the original ATI Technologies Inc. and should it be written into the article (? 2401:E180:88A2:8D77:D9DE:2E23:A699:72CE (talk) 16:14, 9 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  AMD-ATI 

message: Qiero a Siri 172.58.89.25 (talk) 22:02, 19 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Siri
Talk:Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!

message: Seth Ilys, thanks for putting in the ISBN link.  I actually didn't know you could do that.  I wasn't advertising for Amazon and was a bit loathe to put the link in, but I don't know many other sites for book reviews.
I have no business interest in driving business to bookstores, but the stub was so incoherent when I picked it up that I wanted to flesh it out a bit.  The ISBN link tip should come in useful in the future.
Abqwildcat 20:40, 16 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: http://www.nationalreview.com/miller/miller200311210832.asp  Cites a 1995 book entitled Dr. Seuss and Mr. Geisel by Judith and Neil Morgan.  Unknown page number.  Is a book citation without a page number sufficient?  The Natl Review article provides more details to the story, with Seuss telling Buchwald after Nixon's resignation that "they should have collaborated sooner." --Gavroche42 17:29, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Jabir ibn Hayyan

message: There are sources in Farsi, which say al-Azdi (as nisba of Jabir) means Yazdi (belonging to Yazd city in Iran), so Jaber is directly a Persian. Other variants of the word Yazd are Ayzd and Izad.
If any one could find a reliable source which denotes this, please add it to the article. Perscience (talk) 14:31, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: For those who are interested, one (unreliable) source which makes this claim is here. ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 14:54, 2 December 2022 (UTC)

text: Al-Azd is attributed to the Arab tribe only. The person is attributed to the origins, not to the country of birth, and Iran is not only Persian Muhsin97233 (talk) 21:32, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  al-Azdi means Yazdi 

message: Jabir ibn Hayan was a Persian. 83.121.164.64 (talk) 09:23, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Jaber Ibn Hayyan, all sources are attributed him to Arabs, not Persian Muhsin97233 (talk) 06:53, 1 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Could you please cite a few sources? James.aminian (talk) 16:52, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

text: There is no source for that! He was Persian, and his father was also Persian, literally called Attar! During that period, everyone in Iran had to speak Arabic besides Persian, so it is not surprising that he has books in Arabic and Persian. Persiangreat (talk) 06:49, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: His ethnicity is well covered in Jabir ibn Hayyan#Biography. Please review the sources cited there, especially  (the most authoritative account of Jabir's biography to date) and  (a recent paper reviewing all the evidence on Jabir's biography, affirming Kraus' position that ethnicity is uncertain). ☿ Apaugasma (talk ☉) 13:41, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  He was persian not arab
Talk:Maitrayaniya Upanishad

message: For a 2004 October deletion debate over this page see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Maitrayaniya Upanishad
What is this? If it's a source text, it doesn't belong here and should be either removed or moved to Wikisource. Bryan 21:14, 16 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: 2004 deletion discussion
Talk:Substitution–permutation network

message: It might be worth explaining that -- contrary to a Feistel scheme -- the S-box has to be invertible in order to permit decryption. This makes the statement
The length of the output could be the same as the length of the input (the picture on the right has S-boxes with 4 input and 4 output bits), but could also change the length
somewhat questionable. -- Jonas Wagner, 29 Oct 2009
: You are right: although S-boxes in general don't have to be invertible (e.g., in DES they are not), for an SP-network they should be. Also, the article should mention how decryption is done. I will do this, unless you do it earlier :-). --GaborPete (talk) 20:57, 9 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  Go ahead... --Jonas Wagner (talk) 16:14, 14 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  OK, I have finally done it. --GaborPete (talk) 06:52, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Invertible S-box? 

message: The "permutation" part of a modern cipher is typically not a bit permutation as described in the illustration. It is a simple (usually, but not necessarily, linear) vectorial Boolean function transformation of the state. This greatly enhanced machinery is still called "permutation", causing confusion: the term “permutation” has become established and is still used, even when we do not talk about a bit-permutation (Thorsten Kranz, 2020,  p. 8, see also note 5 on the same page). If someone can find a better source with the same blunt statement, it would be great. We can then change this article and the Permutation box. Dimawik (talk) 22:33, 9 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Meaning of "permutation" 

message: Our article includes text 
:Rather, a good S-box will have the property that changing one input bit will change about half of the output bits (or an avalanche effect). It will also have the property that each output bit will depend on every input bit.
While this is an obvious statement for a practitioner, these sentences can be extremely confusing to our readers who came here to understand the terminology, as noticed by . It would be nice to properly source the statement and add text explaining why the proper design of an S-box should randomize its input (some attempt at it is done in avalanche effect). Dimawik (talk) 02:00, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  All output bit are dependent, half change
Talk:Conveyor belt

message: There is a difference between conveyor belt and belt conveyor. A conveyor belt is made of a tensile member (steel or fabric) and rubber or PVC covers. Several variations including special protection systems are there.A belt conveyor is the entire system consisting of the conveyor belt, idlers, pulleys, motors, gearboxes etc.
In Sahara it is the longest conveyor belt system, consisting of several belt conveyors. However, the longest single belt conveyor is crossing the Indian/Bangladeshi border. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Squink  (talk • contribs) 14:26, 17 June 2005 
:Agree - we need to change the title!--Graham Proud 11:59, 21 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Difference

message: The longest single flight conveyor in the world is a Cable Belt rope driven conveyor installed at Worsley Aluminium in Western Australia.  It is 30km long and is one of two conveyor belts making up a 50km system.
The longest single flight conveyor in India is at NALCO Damanjodi,situated in Koraput district which is 14.3 km long.
The Cable Belt conveyor was invented in Scotland by Mr Thompson for primarily high lift duty such as drift conveyors in coal mines.  Various records are held in terms of length overland (Western Australia), tightest radii curve (Canada), longest underground system (UK), steepest angle of incline (Israel), longest downhill regenerative (Venezuala)Keefysher 22:29, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Longest single flight

message: Conveyor belts when used in certain industries such as the Construction Aggregate and Coal-Mining may build up a substance on the belt called “carryback”. Carryback is fugitive material that sticks to the belt past the conveyor belt discharge point and then drops off along the conveyor’s return run.[1] This may lead to problems such as reduced operating efficiency, material buildup on rolling components leading to seizure of equipment, reduced work environment safety, and certain health hazards associated with fugitive airborne material. To prevent this, conveyor belt cleaner systems are employed in an attempt to make conveyor systems cleaner, safer, and more productive.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 1jtwidell (talk • contribs) 15:39, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Carryback

message: The animated graphic in the upper right titled Conveyor Belt is not a conveyor belt. It's a drive belt to transmit power to something.  A conveyor belt is wide and various things (boxes, people, coal, etc.) ride on it as it moves along. foobar (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 21:21, 21 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Wrong Graphic

message: I noticed that the article did not have the usual encyclopedic tone of Wikipedia, and added and later edited the cleanup tag, a google search revealed that much of the text is an exact match of articles such as this: https://terpco.com/conveyor-belts/ Something must be done to fix this and write a proper article without the "infomercial" tone that it currently has. 2601:546:C300:8FF0:21AE:7747:36E5:5E77 (talk) 14:52, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Copy-Paste
Talk:Azeroth

message: Replacing this stub--this is totally wrong!
"In the computer game WarCraft, Azeroth is a mythical fortress in which orcs reside."
:This article isn't even a disambiguation because it really only links to 1 article containing the name. Lame. Just delete it already, as you would treat most other Warcraft related articles. --Intentionally unsigned  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.175.18.130 (talk) 00:48, 5 December 2008 (UTC)
Talk:Private

message: Would it be better to name this entry Private magazine or something similar?
:I'd say only if someone is planning on expanding it beyond the 1-liner. - Wguynes 20:51, Mar 31, 2004 (UTC)
Why is "private" (genitals) in bold? And why can't I undo it? 141.217.221.212 23:25, 8 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It was bolded because it was linking back to itself. I removed the link; a link to genitalia should be sufficient. --SigPig 03:03, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
Talk:Taíno/Archive 1

message: From Wikipedia:Speedy deletions
* Taíno - cut & paste move. Need to delete in order to move Taino there.  —John | Talk 21:32, 14 May 2004 (UTC)

message: I just reviewed the history of this entry, and I must warn editors that it runs a terrible risk of being hijacked for political causes.
Taíno culture ceased to exist over 400 years ago.  However, in recent decades, a small group of Puerto Ricans in the USA, based in New Jersey, have been agitating to be recognized as the true item by the US Government and gullible academics.
As such, this group of people endeavors to place their Taíno survival propaganda all over the web.  The history of this entry shows this very clearly.
The people doing this are intellectually dishonest.  The one truly interesting bit of information that they cite is mtDNA studies of the Puerto Rican population.  They regularly fudge the math on these; for example, this article had the following statment: "In research, sample sets collected from people who claimed to have a maternal ancestor with Native American physiognomic traits showed a higher likelihood of possessing Native American mtDNAs (70%) than did unbiased sample sets (53%). Averaging between these two figures would suggest that 62% of the entire Puerto Rican population descend, at least in part, from the Taíno..."  This is really, really bad math, averaging from two different, non-representative samples.
Another thing that jumps out is the fact that one of the references inserted by JohnCrawford's recent edit was from the e-"journal" Kacike.  The name of this journal is cognate to the word "cacique", which is the word recorded by the Spaniards for Taíno chiefs.  A quick examination of the journal's index reveals that a grand total of 12 people have published in it, and 7 of these are either in the Editorial Board or Editorial Staff ("peer review" my a**). It can't have had more than 3 or 4 issues. Also, browsing through the articles, they are clearly about pushing an agenda, and a number of them show very questionable scholarship; for example this article by P.J. Ferbel (who, incidentally, is Assistant Editor) reads like something an undergrad would write.
The biggest problem is that before long, the combination of fake New Jersey "We want affirmative action and casinos" "Taíno tribe", and the Dominican "I'm not Black like the Haitians, I'm Indian like the Taínos" racists, will again conspire to pass fantasy and questionable scholarship as fact, and set their aims at this entry again. -- 171.64.42.82 11:41, 30 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Relax dude. Then register up.  —John | Talk 05:23, 31 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beware hijacking 

message: I removed the proposal to merge Zemi in the main Taíno article after expanding the Zemi article enough that it can stand on its own. -Uyvsdi (talk) 19:49, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Zemi]] 

message: Godoffrye12 (talk) 03:48, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Please read :Wikipedia:Edit requests on how to use this template. There is nothing in your request to act on. - Donald Albury 14:06, 17 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 17 May 2019
Talk:Noaydde

message: The first chapter has some very odd wordings and some bits I can't quite decipher. Also, "noita" in modern finnish at least means quite literally "witch". Wise one would be "tietäjä" ("one who knows"). I can't really tell what that or some bits are describing, though, so I didn't change anything apart from "raindeer" :)  Consulting some Sami or other sources might shed light on the subject enough to correct or clarify the article. --blades 00:17, May 17, 2004 (UTC)
: Yeah, I noticed that noita nowadays means "witch" (which I originally wroted, bute changed later to "wise"). I camed across this meaning in an very old encyklopediae from the late 1800s. If you manage Finnish, can you please check it against an etymology dictionary? Shamanism has been seen as a girlish thing, and assumed the modern meaning "witch" has something to do with that; but I'm not sure. It need to either to be related to Finnish noita; instead, noita might be related to naid.// Rogper 00:28, 17 May 2004 (UTC)
replies: text:  P.S. Naid was my translation from Swedish nåjd -- perhaps we should change it to noajdda, the Sami language spelling (?). // Rogper 00:28, 17 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Noita &ne; wise ?
Talk:Ifs, Calvados

message: ----
I re-reverted Lst's edit.  The anon didn't remove information, he added and pruned, and linked to a separate article for the first meaning.  There was no need to revert that edit. Isomorphic 00:36, 17 May 2004 (UTC)