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Talk:Letter of the two sorries

message: This article is a wonderful demonstration of how a topic can be presented deeply and intelligently in a short writeup. Excellent. - DavidWBrooks 14:23, 24 Dec 2003 (UTC)

message: Personally, I don't see how the article could be expanded very much. There's a need for more information at the main article, U.S.-China spy plane incident, but is there really that much more to say about the letter of apology? --Dhartung | Talk 23:12, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree; there really is nothing much else to say. I was BOLD and removed the stub and expansion notice. Feel free to revert if you disagree. -- Where 22:34, 20 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Expansion 

message: Considering that there is very little (or nothing) that can or should be said about this subject, and that the Hainan Island incident article is also very short, and that the two are obviously inextricably tied together, is there a reason why the two have not been merged (or at least proposed for merger) with appropriate redirects? (Asking politely before I propose it myself...) -- Pawl 15:29, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I concur - added the merge tags to the articles.RJASE1 17:00, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge?
Talk:Eastern Townships

message: Since this region has been the setting of a number of the popular Louise Penny mysteries, there should be a "In Popular Culture" section.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.164.142.49 (talk) 15:09, 2 August 2017 (UTC)

message: I have copied this information into Estrie. Doesn't it make more sense there? Wetman 17:15, 24 Dec 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it's good to have it at both places, as Estrie is a fairly new creation, and the Eastern Townships are very well known and often referenced, especially in the anglophone community.
There is no mention of where the 'Western Townships' are. Andrew Luimes70.24.71.154 21:15, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Thanks for leaving it here. I would never have found it under Estrie. A better map with some of the towns and rivers marked would be very helpful. Ben 10:52, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map 

message: During the October 28, 2008 episode of the Rick Mercer Report, Mercer visits Former Prime Minister Paul Martin at his farm in the Eastern Townships.  .  Certainly a notable resident to include on the page.  Other searches say Mr. Martin resides, more specifically, in Brome.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.38.194.130 (talk) 15:04, 3 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Paul Martin
Talk:Philadelphia Folk Festival

message: Does anyone care if I work on editing and expanding this a bit?
Lyellin Dec 24 2004
: Of course we care -- we'd absolutely love you (or anyone else) to do this!  -- TimNelson 11:40, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Edit

message: I am a huge fest fan... one week from tomorrow morning I'll be on the Old Pool Farm myself. But this article reads a little too much like a love letter to the PFF. I might have to work on that... but not until after this year's Fest.... PurpleChez (talk) 20:16, 8 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  encyclopedic
Talk:Blue Streak (missile)

message: User Spidercorp has added a full launch history of Blue Streak which is presumably correct as far as it goes, but it does not include the sattelite launch mentioned in the line above, and so cannot be complete. Man with two legs 22:04, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Launch history

message: The times quoted for 'go' to launch are not accurate. The missile could be kept pre-cooled and then fuelled and launched within two minutes or so. Ice formation on the LOX tank, which after all was only 14 thou thick FSM1 stainless at the top end did not seem to be a problem. 
I think the time of 4.5 minutes given for fuelling is a misprint for 45 minutes. Seadowns (talk) 11:21, 17 November 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, go ahead and improve it then. Can you provide sources? BTW, I've put a title in for this section so it can be distinguished from the merge proposal above --GW_SimulationsUser Page | Talk 21:01, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Times & Politics

message: The engines were unique at that time in that they could be vectored by seven degrees
Nearly all guidance systems of this era worked this way, and it remains true to this day. Notes above suggest this is compared to the Atlas, which used verniers. Thor (flown 1955) and Jupiter (1957) are largely identical in performance and even use the same engine, both use TVC for control and it was on this engine that it was developed. Almost every BM since then has. I am removing this statement. Maury Markowitz (talk) 11:19, 28 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  This is not unique
Talk:Call box

message: Might also want to mention callboxes along highways every mile, to report accidents and the like. This is common on most US highways. Lyellin Dec 24 2003
:Thanks for pointing that out!  Added a mention of them and also their use in subway systems.  --Sewing 21:21, 24 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: I'd like to know when emergency callboxes started popping up on college campuses? 2000s or much earlier? Was there some event or series of events that precipitated them? --Limxzero (talk) 20:48, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Campus callboxes
Talk:Haaretz

message: Perhaps it should be noted where he's mentioned. Shovalis (talk) 07:22, 9 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Herzog is the Israeli president today 

message: I think the last sentence of the first paragraph of this page's "Editorial policy and viewpoints" needs an edit: "The Haaretz editorial line is supportive of weaker elements in Israeli society, such as sex workers, foreign laborers, Israeli Arabs, Ethiopian immigrants, and Russian immigrants." 
The word "weaker", or the phrase "weaker elements", is too subjective—as well as inflammatory. Isn't it? Dsa605 (talk) 14:27, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Maybe they meant weaker like marginalized. If that is the case, an edit is still a good idea for greater clarity. Thanks. Dsa605 (talk) 14:28, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please Edit This Word Choice 

message: I've reverted this edit. The two sources used to describe Haaretz as "far-left" were:
1. 
2. 
The first is an opinion piece by Caroline Glick, an Israeli conservative. The second is an editorial by Ed Morrissey on Hot Air, a conservative political blog. (It does not appear on the WP:RS/PS list.)
AllSides rates Haaretz "lean left", barely. For reference, other things Hot Air has called "far-left" include The Squad, Ron Filipkowski, Media Matters, The Trevor Project and Planned Parenthood, Mayor Brandon Johnson, and of course, George Soros.  grendel|khan 04:10, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The far-right activist Glick calling Haaretz "far-left" would make a good political cartoon. Zerotalk 08:54, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Far-left" is not supported. 

message: Haaretz is by no means Israel's newspaper of record. Its viewership is less than 5%, and there are more than a couple newspapers who are faaaar more relevant to that claim. Let's not jump over our head, Haaretz in Hebrew is very, very, rarely read. Shovalis (talk) 22:21, 30 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The concept of "newspaper of record" has nothing to do with the size of the readership. Zerotalk 06:00, 1 December 2023 (UTC)

text: A 2011 Tablet articlehttps://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/israels-paper-of-record https://web.archive.org/web/20230530070729/https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/israels-paper-of-record is entitled Israel’s Paper of Record. Mcljlm (talk) 16:20, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Newspaper of record? What? 

message: As to the last sentence on the first para ("It is known for its left-wing and liberal stances on domestic and foreign issues"):I think that the word "liberal" should be removed for accuracy,and that the word "general" in between "its" and "left-wing" should be  written in order to avoid incorrect inclusion (Sometimes right-wing or more "moderate" views are in place,at least until recently).
עמית לונן (talk) 13:37, 21 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  As to the last sentence on the first para ("It is known for its left-wing and liberal stances on domestic and foreign issues")
Talk:Railway stations in the Netherlands

message: Please expand on the usage of "=" in Driebergen=Zeist etc. I understand that it can be useful in a list of stations separated by "-", but this usage seems to be rare in schedules etc. - Patrick 20:08, 24 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled 1

message: I fixed a number of instances of bad English, there's quite a few more that I don't dare touch. Bz2 21:10, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: If it's "bad English" that's in question, then I deprecate the above usage of "deprecated" (sorry, Bear!) -- Picapica 23:28, 11 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled 3

message: Is it worth seperating the list from the rest of the content? Railwayfan2005 (talk) 21:37, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I do not think the rest would survive as a standalone article.--Ymblanter (talk) 21:40, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seperate List article
Talk:Chiang Hsiao-yen

message: That official site has "John Chiang" on its first tab. --Jiang 21:07, 24 Dec 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't understand this. Chang said explicitly he will not change his surname to Chiang, and the official ROC Who's-who calls him John Chang too. It doesn't make sense that his own official page would go against his own wish. Maybe the graphic artist got confused? Chang and Chiang do look very alike in English. --Menchi (Talk)â 02:20, 25 Dec 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: According to this article in Chinese , it appears that he's planning to change his surname next year?--Confuzion 16:55, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: It's confirmed that he changed his surname to Chiang ; maybe the article should be moved to John Chiang now?--Confuzion 04:57, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Konstantine Gamsakhurdia

message: Anon, the source (p. 249) clearly reads: "Thereafter Gamsakhurdia was feared as a favourite of Beria, but the archives prove that in the terrible year 1937 he fearlessly refused to denounce others and spoke of the purges with irony, even disgust". If you have any reliable source supporting your claim that "in reality he actually accused several people", please provide it. Thank you, --KoberTalk 18:19, 4 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Fact tag
Template talk:EB1911

message: What on earth does "Set to wstitle= if set, if not to title= if set, if not to article= if set, if not set then left blank." mean? Or rather, as it clearly means nothing, what is it meant to mean? DuncanHill (talk) 04:10, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: It's programming code barely translated into English. I have attempted to give it a better translation. – Jonesey95 (talk) 15:17, 13 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I edited  doc to duplicate the rewording. The EB1922 equivalents are documented (or not) in a different way. David Brooks (talk) 16:20, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  title=
Talk:Robarts Library

message: I am removing the urban legend of the sinking library stuff from the article since these are ussualy untrue but common around large biuldings. I also removed the link to the deletion stuff since it was agreed it was vandalism.   Cafe Nervosa | talk 23:19, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Can someone tell me why this tag was placed on this article? EncyclopediaUpdaticus (talk) 23:55, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup required 

message: I think there should be a section about the notable student animosity towards Robarts--its notoriety as a cheerless and often dysfunctional institution. Perhaps the (nick)naming section should be moved into a brief section called 'Criticisms', and the mention of Robarts being named after Mr. Robarts can be moved into the intro paragraph. 142.150.120.191 (talk) 20:50, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I have my own reservations about the naming section because in its current form it lacks citations. Therefore most of the uncited names must be removed. If that happens the section will disappear naturally and the few cited names can then be moved to the intro as you suggest. About the student criticism section however I have no opinion. Sure  it looks imposing and even forbidding but I wasn't aware of student rancour about it. If anything, from what I know, the interior seems to be rather spacious and the studying facilities and the amenities are not that bad. If you can find reliable citations however about such criticism the edit would be ok. Thanks for your suggestion. Dr.K. (talk) 22:08, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Renaming "Naming" 

message: Two sentences in the article refer to triangular tessellation of the floor within Robarts:
* "The concrete waffle slab floor plates are adorned with triangular-patterned tessellation."
* "Escalators of the circulation atrium and the ubiquitous triangular tessellation of the floor plates" (photo caption)
Strictly speaking this isn't incorrect (since the floor of one storey is the ceiling of the storey below it), but in practice only the ceiling is visibly tessellated. Also of note is the fact that the photo of the escalators (which is captioned with the second sentence listed above) shows the ceiling, not the floor (this should be clear even to those who have never set foot within Robarts given that the file name is "Robarts_escalators,_looking_up.jpg" and the photo itself clearly shows a recessed ceiling light). 142.20.20.193 (talk) 20:27, 28 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Triangle tessellation is visible on the ceiling, not the floor
Talk:Music of immigrant communities in the United States

message: If you expand this article, please make a redirect from some more easily searchable title like Italian-American music or Chinese-American music.  Also please note that this is kind of an other category, and explicity excludes all Latinos and African Americans, who already have their own articles (a section of Latin American music that I will soon separate, and African American music). Tuf-Kat 04:10, Dec 25, 2003 (UTC)
:What is the justification for the exclusions? The article excludes Latino music, directing readers to Latino music, which redirects to Latin American music, which covers the music of Latin America, not the music of Latino immigrants to the US. Shouldn't there at least be short paragraphs on the latter?BobFromBrockley (talk) 09:30, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Vijayadashami

message: Please discuss the recent addition in the lead. --106.220.175.187 (talk) 05:52, 20 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please discuss about the organizations celebrating this festival 

message: Why is this article not titled Dussehra? That's how most people know it. Mooshika1 (talk) 14:26, 9 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dussehra? 

message: The second line currently says "It is observed on the tenth day of the month of Ashvin, the seventh in the Hindu Luni-Solar Calendar.".  However, that is not completely correct for all years.  That rule appears to be only correct for Bengal Vijayadashami, as described at https://www.drikpanchang.com/festivals/vijayadashami/bengal/vijayadashami-date-time.html .  The link describes the difference as "Most Indian states observe Vijayadashami based on Muhurata and prefer the day when there is suitable combination of Tithi and Nakshatra during afternoon. Many religious books including Purana suggest to observe Vijayadashami after considering appropriate Muhurata.".  However, it is unclear how to explain that for the wikipedia page as a Hindu calendar rule.  The problem appears for the Gregorian year 2026 with Bengal Vijayadashami having the date 2026-10-21 while Vijayadashami has the date 2026-10-20.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.113.18.65 (talk) 19:35, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Correct Date

message: what is meant by Vijayadashami? 103.87.54.253 (talk) 11:07, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Durga maa
Talk:Bam, Iran

message: I've seen in a reportage after the first earthquake the crown prince of the city. So this city has in the same wise like Birjand and Ghaenat and the center of the Kurds an own Shah - an prince. Unfortunately I don't know the name. Furthermore who is the mayor, ruling Mullah, famouse personalities(Scientists, Stars, Politicians ...)?
Such names are an enormous marketing for the city and create an identity of the people with the city!Menu2a 08:16, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: no Prominence?

message: I've just tried a minor cleanup - a lot of stuff that was in this article either doesn't belong in this article or doesn't belong in an encyclopaedia at all - several figures didn't add up and, especially regarding the earthquake, there was a lot of info that should be in a news story instead - if you don't agree, by all means discuss it --Danlibbo 23:17, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  cleanup 

message: I tranferred some of the text about Bam earthquake to a new article about that disaster. I think it is better to summarize the text here and refer to the main article, using . --M samadi (talk) 14:52, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[2003 Bam earthquake]] 

message: EVERYBODY in Iran will tell you that at least 50.000 people died in the earthquake. Please do not insult the death by writing 23.000. Correct it.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.12.65.241 (talk) 22:31, 4 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  23.000 deaths? An insult! 
Talk:Iraqi National Accord

message: Is the present tense in this article still appropriate? Sould it perhaps refer to the Saddam Hussein era? Jmabel 22:27, 26 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Royal Astronomical Society

message: I rather doubt this. It's not mentioned in his Who's Who (UK) entry. --Runcorn 19:44, 9 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Patrick Moore as President? 

message: The RAS is currently in the category '1831 establishments'.  Should it be in '1820 establishments' instead?  --Robminchin 00:03, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Astronomical Society of London is 1820. The Royal charter was in 1831. People looking in the 1820 category might expect to find the RAS. People looking in the 1831 category might also expect to find it. I think categorising the redirect will do. Carcharoth 17:12, 24 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Establishment category? 

message: At the moment, "Astronomical Society" redirects here. This could cause some confusion, and the hatnote is an attempt to alert readers to it.  I just reverted a change by Modest Genius, who had changed the hatnote to refer only to the societies whose names resemble "Royal Astronomical Society".  I would be in favour of putting that change back in if the redirection from "Astronomical Society" was removed, or changed to a disambiguation page, or even redirected to the List of Astronomical Societies. Or is there some particular reason why it should redirect to this article in particular?  --Gronk Oz (talk) 16:33, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I hadn't realised that Astronomical Society redirected here. That seems rather odd - surely it should go directly to List of Astronomical Societies? 150 years ago the phrase 'the astronomical society' probably really did refer to the RAS, but today there are dozens of astronomical societies. Maybe bring it up at WP:AST or WP:RFD. For the moment I've tweaked the hatnote to avoid singling out any one particular society - we can reassess if/when the redirect changes. Modest Genius talk 09:24, 25 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: As almost all of the links to Astronomical Society have been changed, I fixed the last few and redirected it to the list. Modest Genius talk 17:18, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirection from "Astronomical Society" 

message: It covered the London meetings of the RAS ~1878 and also correspondence from Fellows of RAS.
eg The Astronomical Register ~1878 often mentions "Royal Astronomical Society" and has a record of meetings and correspondence & subscribing members. Mentioned for the redirect. Seems to be an independent publication by Jackson about RAS meetings rather than by the RAS. - Rod57 (talk) 21:46, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: The 'publications' section deliberately only covers the RAS's own publications, not reports about the RAS appearing elsewhere. Lots of places have reported on RAS meetings, including some very obscure periodicals in the nineteenth century. The 'meetings' section mentions The Observatory, which carries the current formal minutes of Ordinary Meetings, but I don't think we need to list everywhere that ever reported on one. Modest Genius talk 16:57, 12 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Could mention ''The Astronomical Register''
Talk:Public policy

message: what are relevant factors in general that affecting implementation of public policies ApolloMD (talk) 03:01, 10 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Public policy implementation 

message: — Assignment last updated by PeaceProsperityDemocracy (talk) 13:44, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: International and Comparative Public Management

message: This article is the subject of an educational assignment at Michigan State University supported by WikiProject United States Public Policy and the Wikipedia Ambassador Program during the 2011 Spring term. Further details are available on the course page. 
Category:Wikipedia Ambassador Program student projects, 2011 Spring
Phuong 2405:4802:A477:FFD0:BC08:D402:3888:1855 (talk) 05:50, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikipedia Ambassador Program course assignment
Talk:Un*x

message: dont think that the fair use bit is accurate - my understanding is that fair use is a copyright term and is nothing to do with Trademarks
In fact using the trademark formally in any formal way would be passing off and therefore prohibited.
Hopwever I don't really know much about copyright and trademark law so am relucatnt to edit it as I could be wrong. MrWeeble 00:22, 27 Dec 2003 (UTC)
Talk:List of operas by title

message: Past discussion on use of this list versus use of :Category:Operas by title can be found at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Opera#Category:Operas by title. --BaronLarf 13:25, Jun 13, 2005 (UTC)
:I have removed two modern Chinese operas from the list as the genre is totally different. In any case two works can scarcely represent Chinese opera which is a rich field in its own right. 
:Kleinzach 12:19, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Notice

message: Some missing titles: Loreley, Oberon, Le postillon de Lonjumeau, Risurrezione, Le roi malgré lui,  Sakùntala, Il segreto di Susanna, The Seven Deadly Sins (Die sieben Todesünden), Si j'étais roi, Sly, Der Vogelhändler, Where the Wild Things Are
This is a hand-made list (unlike the category operas list). How can we keep it up to date? Any ideas?
Kleinzach 00:15, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: What, exactly, is the point of this list?  Does anyone know?  The discussion alluded to above isn't exactly helpful, IMNSHO.  --GuillaumeTell 00:51, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I asked myself the same question as GuillaumeTell. Isn't :Category:Operas already there, which, as I understand, contains automatically all operas with articles (if the articles contain a reference to that category)? Michael Bednarek 05:48, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Missing Titles

message: I've come here to ask the same question as Guillaume Tell and Michael Bednarek asked above, in 2006.  This list contains about 425 entries.  It purports to list every opera WP has an article on.  Yet, Category:Operas lists 1,752 operas with articles.  That means this list covers less than a quarter (!) of the population.  Yet, if all the holes were filled, it would then be an exact duplicate of the contents of Category:Operas, and thus redundant.  Either way, it seems to be purposeless.  Yet it's been around for a long time now, and many people have contributed to it.  Can anyone enlighten me as to exactly what its purpose is, and what determines what's in in the list and what's not?  --  Jack of Oz  ... speak! ...  07:55, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Revisited