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Talk:Melrose, Massachusetts

message: You should have left the David Lynch reference... It was a nice joke to people familiar with the town. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.61.18.207 (talk) 06:01, 31 December 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: I didn't think it was that funny. As much as I like David Lynch and as much as the town has a striking similarity to the fictional town in Blue Velvet, it sounds too cynical and wise. You don't have much of an idea who is writing this stuff, and as such you have no idea in what light they meant to portray their comment. --anon — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.31.74.122 (talk) 01:53, 28 January 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: David Lynch reference

message: I don't think there there should be an "Attractions" section to merely note the city's lack of attractions.  I'll edit it eventually if I get no feedback.  --DeanoNightRider 3 July 2005 18:07 (UTC)
:Having lived in Melrose for a spell during college, I can say that there was quite a bit going on. It seems like the "boring suburb" description must have been written by someone fitting into the typical "restless teen with a yearning to escape" niche that you can find in any non-urban environment. I don't mean to be mean when I say that, but that is what it seems like. I think that the section should be deleted. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.34.208.8 (talk) 00:26, 3 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Attractions section 

message: Melrose definetly borders Revere, MA over near rt 99 and Melrose Dodge, so stop taking it out!Grk1011 21:09, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yea he's right. Melrose, Saugus, Malden, and Revere all meet at one point over there. 72.93.196.229 22:52, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

text: I also agree that Revere should be added to this list.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Baileighfaller (talk • contribs) 19:07, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Revere 

message: This article claims Wyoming is a neighborhood of Melrose.  But the article linked to it is only about a RR station.
Either: a) remove Wyoming from list Neighborhoods because it isn't one, b) expand the station article into topic Wyoming, or c) create a new article for that topic.
Jimlue (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 19:14, 5 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for your comments. Please feel free to do either option b or c. Since the station is in the Wyoming neighborhood, it's helpful for the time being to have the link go there. Grk1011 (talk) 00:05, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Wyoming

message: I think there should be a picture of MVMMS, since there is only one of the high school and MVMMS was recently renovated in the last couple of years. Baileighfaller (talk) 18:42, 22 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture needed
Talk:SuperDisk

message: I just noticed that there's another, totally different LS-120 page describing the same thing. Perhaps the info here should be merged with that page? -lee 06:08, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe that I am correct in remembering that the word "laser" (also?) refers to the fact that LS-120 disks were formatted at the factory with a laser so as to make maximum use of the available space on the disk.  The LS-120 disk could be wiped but not formatted by the user in his/her drive.  The user could, however, format standard floppy disks with the drive using the Windows formatting tool.  NorthCoastReader (talk) 01:44, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

message: This line sounds quite outdated...
Today, the format faces heavy competition from recordable CDs and DVDs, as well as solid state USB keydrives.
...compared to this:
Matsushita continued development of the technology and released the LS-240, which was still fairly available in Asia and Australia until 2003 but is now quite rare. It has double the capacity and the added feature of being able to format regular floppy disks to 32 MB capacity. However, this higher density comes at a price—the entire disk must be rewritten any time a change is made, much like early CD-RW media.
--Debug-GED 08:02, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confirm Removal of line: 

message: My LS-120 from the 1999 is still in mint condition boxed. I was short lived and we'll surely miss such a great piece of small technology. R.I.P. LS-120.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Andwan0 (talk • contribs) 15:55, 4 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death / memories of LS-120 

message: There are mentions, but few specifics on the ls240. Would someone link to articles demonstrating who made those models? Dcsutherland (talk) 02:56, 26 February 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  LS-240 examples?
Talk:Dusk

message: Years ago, I posted a very simple chart that really had nothing to do with dusk. Last night, I set up a tripod with the intention of grabbing an actual dusk photo. Hard to do, because you'd eventually  be taking a photo of nothing...lol. I kept clicking until there was nothing except artificial light coming over the Horizon from Los Angeles. I posted the last photo in the lot, where you can still see natural light. This is probably as close to an actual Astronomical dusk shot in high def we are going to be able to get. I added some saturation or we'd really be looking at the abyss here. So...if a consensus doesn't like it, take her down. It's not going to win any photo awards; there's hardly an image there, but I think it is what it is. Thanks Pocketthis (talk) 15:59, 19 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Astronomical Dusk Photo

message: Pocketthis, can you quote the source for these two sentences in the introduction? I can't find the source language on the web, and I don't have a physical copy of this dictionary.
Dusk occurs at the darkest stage of twilight, or at the very end of astronomical twilight just before night.
and
"Dusk" is actually short for Astronomical Dusk, or the darkest part of twilight before night begins.
My experience is that everyday usage of the word "dusk" refers to the end of civil twilight, or possibly the end of nautical twilight. I've never heard someone refer to it as the end of astrmonomical twilight, which could be an hour-and-a-half or more past sunset—well beyond the time when most would consider it to be dark. Generally, parks or playgrounds might say "closes at dusk", which means "dark". Google "dusk" and it gives the time for the end of civil twilight.
I'm just looking for a source, because I am skeptical of the way it is worded now. --TWCarlson (talk) 00:42, 21 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Astronomical vs. Civil Dusk
Talk:Polychaete

message: Two things
1.  This article really needs expanding by someone who knows the polychaetes better.
2.  Sandworm links very nicely to an article on Frank Herbert's fictional creatures so I changed the links, since none of the articles they would refer to are written yet.  Still, some kind of disambiguation page should probably be made on sandworm.
WormRunner 06:59, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: A note

message: And how about Barry, the Corwall Acquarium monster  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.82.52.106 (talk) 16:18, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  what do they eat? 

message: I updated to the latest per recent revisions and updates by Dr. Geoffrey Read and others. Esoxidt•contribs 05:36, 18 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Taxonomy

message: The lede says that they are a polyphyletic class, whereas the "Taxonomy and systematics" section says that they are thought to be paraphyletic. I'm not sure if one of these statements is simply wrong and needs to be corrected to match the other, or if this is an active matter of dispute and both viewpoints need to be presented, but either way, the contradiction needs to be addressed. Does anyone know? —RuakhTALK 02:38, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction in article: polyphyletic vs. paraphyletic 

message: How do they work? Nickske3011 (talk) 19:38, 19 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bristles 

message: A discussion is taking place to address the redirect :Podarke (polychaete). The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 March 24#Podarke (polychaete) until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Estopedist1 (talk) 06:50, 24 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Podarke (polychaete)" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: we have several links to these unresolved orders: Opheliida, Polygordiida and Spintherida. Maybe some of these are already resolved, and maybe some of them can be substituted to correct ones?--Estopedist1 (talk) 08:56, 4 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Unresolved orders

message: see the article Chả rươi for the Vietnamese dish.  there’s also a casserole in Cantonese cuisine by baking these worms(Tylorrhynchus heterochaetus) with chicken eggs in a Büt(a roughly inch high flat earthenware dish). 119.236.47.178 (talk) 15:36, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vietnamese and Cantonese cuisine
Talk:List of numbers/Deletion

message: See Talk:List of numbers/Deletion/archive1 This concerns the push in January and February 2004 to delete all number pages. Also concerns some issues regarding number article naming. From there arose a concensus to rename all number articles to the format Number N (number) rather than spelled out, due to disagreement between British and American Wikipedians on the word "and" in number names. PrimeFan 18:49, 13 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Monemvasia

message: The history contents is just temporary, I'll add more info soon and possibly re-write it. Feel free to contribute. Aggelophoros 07:15, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I removed this sentence:
:The main industry and export of Monemvasia is the production of Malmsey, a kind of red wine.
Malvasia (or Malmsey) grapes, which get their name from this place, have not been grown there in any great quantity in many centuries. The wine produced in the region is now made from different varieties. I'm also not sure whether wine production of any kind is the chief industry of this area. (I suspect the main industry may be tourism.)
--Peter G Werner 04:51, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Malmsey wine 

message: Morea fell in 1460. How could it have sold anything eleven years later?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.102.211.73 (talk) 03:51, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "until 1471, when it was sold to the Pope by the Despot of Morea Thomas Palaeologos" 

message: Χαίρετε! I just completed a massive series of modifications and additions to this page, of which much is translated from the equivalent page in Greek. Hopefully I have done well to contribute to accessibility of the extremely interesting history of this town! I, for one, had loads of fun translating and learning more about editing in Wikipedia. Cheers! NipponGinko (talk) 21:52, 22 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extensive modifications & additions
Talk:Off-budget enterprise

message: For a January 2005 deletion debate over this page see Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Off-budget enterprise
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This article could use some NPOV cleanup. 18.24.0.120 07:25, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes.  This article is seriously POV. Darkcore 22:20, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)

text: I am inclined to think that the "off-budget enterprise" is a fabrication of some sort of conspiracy theorist.  The figures cited are baseless and I haven't even been able to find any information on the topic (a search on Google only brings up this article and other Wikipedia feeds of the article).  Sounds like a potential candidate for VfD... Darkcore 22:25, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Special district (United States)

message: I think it is an error to describe the PANYNJ as a "special-purpose district"; the PA is not a district, although it does have a special purpose, and operates subject to an interstate compact approved by Congress.  18.24.0.120 07:29, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. May be you can add an explanation of interstate compact in this or a separate article? - Patrick 20:30, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: I have created a new interstate compact page.  18.24.0.120 17:47, 31 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Error?

message: There are lists of municipal governnments, school districts, but I can't find any lists of special purpose districts. Where are they? TMLutas (talk) 05:20, 21 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  District lists 

message: Since this is a strictly American article, I would think that some reference to the Declaration of Independence should be made; that government derives its power from the people. The people delegate to the state certain powers. (The state delegated to the federal government certain rights). A bottom-up system. There is nothing in this article that would seem to contradict the ancient system of divine right of kings, with the exception of the possible renaming of the "king" and the absence of God. Student7 (talk) 19:34, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Where does power derive

message: I am deleting the following text from this section: "Most of these functions can also be provided by private companies. Basic Capitalist theory holds that the privatization of public infrastructure and services often results in lower quality and higher prices.  Furthermore, as most special districts provide only a single service, privatization of these functions is vulnerable to monopolization. As a result, there are many examples of successful remunicipalization efforts around the world, including in Paris and Buenos Aires."
At best, these statements are controversial.  The "Capitalist theory" idea doesn't seem to follow the larger body of economic philosophy.  While it may hold true in some cases, I haven't found anything that constructs a coherent theory of it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wwengr (talk • contribs) 14:22, 6 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Functions 

message: Since the usual term is "special district," and since the person who picked the name "special-purpose district" didn't cite a source for that name when starting the article, I suggest moving the article to "Special district (United States)" or something similar. Doctor Whom (talk) 20:23, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed page move
Talk:Boboli Gardens

message: I think the prose in this work is all a little strange, almost as if it's written by someone whose first language was not English. But yet, very complicated words are used. I've fixed a lot of the more obvious errors and reworded some stuff, but it still seems odd to me. Kent Wang 07:38, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: 111 acre is why 45 000 m2? 45 hectare, or 4,5 hectare?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tunderaos (talk • contribs) 08:41, 24 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Garden size
Wikipedia talk:Banners and buttons/archive

message: Since most are GFDL, the answer is: nobody who can't use them under fair use, unless they are willing to ignore terms of the GFDL. For US people it's easy fair use, since the sole purpose is to promote the site and that's what they were created for. Banners which aren't copyright infringement outside the US would be a good thing. The GFDL is fine for some things... but this isn't one of them.:) Jamesday 15:16, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Who can use these?

message: Some of this pictures cannot be GFDL since they are derivative works of non-GFDL works. Please, take care of it. --83.202.57.126 19:27, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Could you specify which ones, and which works?  Run!  20:22, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Some of this pictures cannot be GFDL

message: Why has the NO_TOC been inserted? --Seriocomic 03:19, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  No table of contents? 

message: What font and settings are used in "WikipediA"?? --Sonjaaa 15:09, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Fonts?
Talk:Shriners

message: I don't understand this sentence introducing the history section: "In 1870, there were several thousand Freemasons in Manhattan, many of whom lunched at the Knickerbocker Cottage at a special table on the second floor." How big was that table? How "many" sat there? Did they take turns? Jojalozzo (talk) 12:10, 23 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Special table for thousands in NYC?
Talk:Bambuco

message: from vfd:
*Bambuco - listing this for several reasons. (1) It's empty. People shouldn't be offered links to an English article that doesn't exist. (2) We've deleted this some time ago already, and back then it contained a machine translation of a Spanish text. (3) Apart from Interlingua, all of the inter-language links are useless. It contains a nonsensical machine translation of that same text on the German, Galician, French and Dutch Wikipedias. The Italian link leads to an equally empty page. -- Timwi 23:04, 26 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: pero si  uds  miran la  cobertura de  influencia, la misma anda en colombia, el  origen es  en colombia por favor leer el  origen etimologico de la palabra bambuco para entender mas,un ultimo dato  les recuerdo que  parte del territorio  ecuatoria fronterizo como lo  es la provincia  de esmeraldas,,carchi, y sucumbios fueron parte de  colombia en  epocas pasadas, por ende   si  hallais bambuco  no es  de extrañar, lo de extrañar seria no  hallarle.
but if you watch the influence cover, the same one walks in Colombia, the origin is in Colombia by favor to read the etimologico origin of the word bambuco to understand but, I complete data them memory that divides del border territory ecuatoria as it is it the emerald province, carchi, and sucumbios were part of Colombia in epocas happened, by if hallais bambuco is not to be strange, the one to be strange serious not to find to him.
:: No comprenda. Pueda usted translate again?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 148.87.19.198 (talk) 02:13, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  ante valterús enkitues
Talk:Anarchism

message: I suggest revising the intro sentence to replace "skeptical of all justifications for authority" by "skeptical of justifications for hierarchical authority associated with the nation state" to correct a widely held misconception and to be in line with the quoted source (which states just that "it is not government as such that they find objectionable, but the hierarchical forms of government associated with the nation state").
Specifically, anarchy does not seek to have no government or ruler, it seeks to not have a ruling class with potentially different interests to those over which it rules. This reading is specifically supported by the quoted source at the end of the intro sentence [1].— Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.178.202.229 (talk) 19:54, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Anarchy is against all forms of hierarchy, therefore against all forms of ruling, too. DefendingFree (talk) 14:46, 1 March 2024 (UTC)

text: Not done: The first part of the sentence seems to summarize the article and not be based on that source. The source says anarchists are against the nation state, not that it is the only form of authority they are skeptical of. HansVonStuttgart (talk) 07:44, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks @HansVonStuttgart, my thoughts exactly. Cinadon36 13:02, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intro sentence not in line with supporting source 

message: :
Here a noun is defined as an adjective.  How best to make it a noun?  "Rulerlessness"?  "the state of having no ruler"? —Tamfang (talk) 01:55, 25 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: absence of rulers —Tamfang (talk) 16:47, 27 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  parts of speech
Talk:Treaty of Tientsin

message: 1) singlular is most common (the article doesn't specify how many...and switches from plural to singular within the first sentence)  and 2) the older romanization is more common and probably was official: . --Jiang 11:00, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Move

message: Thanks for your edits, Brian0324, but is it necessary to include the whole treaty text? These text are better included in Wikimedia Commons.--Niohe 22:35, 3 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Full text?

message: Pending a name section with citations, we should lead the article with the title form of the name and include the modern form and leave the rest (Tien-tsin, T'ien-chin, etc.) for redirects and the Tianjin article. — LlywelynII 20:19, 17 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Names

message: Neither the American nor British treaty opened Tamsui. The "Taiwan" in their texts means the city (not island) of Taiwan, which means Tainan. Was Tamsui in a different treaty? or was it in the French &c. treaty and opened to the rest by means of most-favored-nation clauses? — LlywelynII 08:45, 22 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Tamsui?
Talk:Vernon God Little

message: WHile I agree this really isn't a stub, there's quite a lot that could be added:
* ISBN
* I think I saw the author interviewed on TV, and he said a bunch of stuff about the writing of the novel.  Damned if I can remember any of it ;)
* wasn't there controversy (in the US, at least) about the "tastefullness" of the subject?  It's probably banned somewhere...
I suppose I should read it, too -- Finlay McWalter 12:24, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Should the issue of the debate as to whether Vernon lives or dies at the end by discussed in more detail? I am not well enough informed on both sides of the argument to contribute to the article, but is there someone who perhaps would be able to do so?
83.70.65.178 19:54, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Debate

message: There were plenty of positive reviews, yet we only list a negative one, which comes from a critic who has well publicized prejudice against all things vulgar? This book won the MAN Booker for feck's sake, we can do better than this. And I will, when I get some time, someone else feel free in the meantime though. 82.227.178.187 (talk) 11:24, 28 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: reception

message: There are several bracketed numbers in the text which are not links. They may or may not all refer to the sources currently so numbered.
Would be nice if somebody who knows the territory would improve these guideposts. I'm not that person, but I think the problem is worth noting here. GeorgeTSLC (talk) 15:52, 9 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Refererence non-notes
Talk:Rough-toothed dolphin

message: There is a public domain photo of a RtD at http://nmml.afsc.noaa.gov/gallery/cetaceans/sb-6_rtdolphin.htm. When uploading is re-enabled, that photo should be used to decorate the article. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 14:24, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 11:18, 5 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Canton (administrative division)

message: canton (subnational entity) or canton (entity) may be better names for the pages. I'd suggest to rename it to the first. -- User:Docu
:It has cycled through several names over 15 years, and is now qualified by the name of the main article Administrative division after AfD a decade ago (as it has been twice named previously). It has 12 redirects as of this date.William Allen Simpson (talk) 02:40, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Notes

message: If you look in the French Wikipedia, there is an article called fr:Canton_canadien.  Which are our townships.  Should this page and township be merged? Nfitz 04:34, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The analogous jurisdiction to Switzerland's cantons are states and provinces, not townships.  For example, Canton Berne contains 399 municipalities, far more than one would expect in a township. -- SwissCelt 14:18, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps, but in Quebec a canton is quite small, sometimes there are more than one in a municipality.  Though in English we call them townships, and in French they call them Cantons (or they used to ... I don't think they exist legally any more).  I'm starting to think that this should be two pages; but there should be a couple of words of clarifying text added on both the Township and Canton pages. Nfitz 18:36, 22 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm all for that. ;-)  Would you like to do the honors? -- SwissCelt 06:02, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Isn't Canton just French for Township?