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Talk:Renaissance Cruises

message: I don't believe that credence should be given to the claims that 9/11 killed off Renaissance, American Hawaii, etc. considering that within weeks of the attacks, BK was filed.  It's mismanagement, plain and simple.  There was not enough time for 9/11 to materially impact these lines in these cases.  Many cruise lines survived.  Most did.71.84.48.64 (talk) 01:38, 5 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  9/11 scapegoating in the cruise industry 

message: I was living in Tahiti during the time both Renaissance ships were docked for months at Papeete before the company officially went under. The news then reported that Renaissance ceased operations because the ships were linked with Bin Laden's assets, which had been frozen. The local papers didn't do much online then though, and I can't find any articles to substantiate it now. Raroata (talk) 15:52, 16 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  re: 9/11 scapegoating in the cruise industry 

message: A discussion is taking place to address the redirect :Azamara-class cruise ship. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 October 4#Azamara-class cruise ship until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Lyndaship (talk) 16:02, 4 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Azamara-class cruise ship" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:Jim Hicks

message: Reliable baseball sources (mlb.com, b-r.com, retrosheet.org) indicate Hicks' year of birth was 1940. His obituary indicates 1939. I have changed the article to indicate 1940. Bob305 (talk) 16:35, 6 November 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Baseball reference changed it to 1939. Emk9 (talk) 19:45, 23 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Conflicting year of birth
Talk:Johnny Temple (musician)

message: This article has been revised as part of a large-scale clean-up project of multiple article copyright infringement. (See the investigation subpage) Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions must be deleted. Contributors may use sources as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously. Diannaa (talk) 21:38, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible copyright problem 

message: Hazlehurst (according to infobox) or Canton (according to the text)? Jwicklatz (talk) 00:29, 2 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Place of birth
Talk:Robert Geroch

message: Geroch has an impressive number of relativistic terms named after him: the Geroch energy as one of the extant definitions of mass in general relativity, the infinite-dimensional Geroch group, and the GHP formalism. At least the first two wikipedia entries, short as they are, cite reviews of the ideas in question in articles that are reliable by WP criteria; even one would be enough for Geroch to meet criterion 5. in Wikipedia:Notability (academics). He is also notable for his successful book General Relativity from A to B. It's been in print since 1978; that plus a google search for the title, which turns up a significant number of people recommending this book, should show the book is widely read, as per Example 1 in Wikipedia:Notability (academics). That google search also turned up an example for criterion 1: . For me, that's pretty conclusive, so I'm removing the notability tag from the main page. Markus Poessel (talk) 01:46, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Notability

message: Dear authors. You could do a great favor to the readers (to foreigners especially) if you indicate the pronunciation of the name. --217.71.236.141 (talk) 18:51, 20 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation
Talk:Vermont Route 127

message: The 2005 VTrans FAU Highway Log confirms that VT 127 has been rerouted to follow Blakely Road, so does that mean that VT 127 now exists in two segments in Colchester? The 2006 VTrans state highway log and the September 2008 VTrans town highway map of Colchester indicates that the southern leg of the wye between US 7 and VT 2A is still designated as VT 127. Does anyone know if an overlap exists or if the 0.143 mile long portion of VT 127 between US 7 and VT 2A is unsigned and thus VT 127 is now segmented? – TMF 20:49, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I checked this out using Google Earth's street view, and it appears that (1) there is no overlap as the southbound assembly on where the overlap would be reads US 2 / US 7 / to VT 127 and (2) the northern "segment" of VT 127 appears to be signed as "To VT 2A", at least from the northbound direction. So, I suppose the route now exists in two segments. – TMF 21:09, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: More from the VTrans videolog: as signed, the northern terminus of VT 127 is at US 2 / US 7 at the east end of Blakely Road. There is no overlap between this part of VT 127 and the state-maintained section of VT 127 on the VT 2A wye. The aforementioned other section of what is VT 127 (at least, officially) is not signed as VT 127; it is signed as "To VT 127" from VT 2A northbound and "To South VT 2A" from US 2 / US 7 northbound. – TMF 21:47, 14 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  VT 127 in Colchester?
Talk:Obatzda

message: I removed a broken link:
*Bavarian Food Guide
and added a new link instead:
*A Bavarian beer garden classic: "Obatzda"
CSchoenberger (talk) 10:26, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

message: Sorry for my bad english, I am from Bavaria.
There is no need for butter. The main thing is mashed cheese (it works even with blue cheese!) and sweet paprika powder. Of course you need something to give the cheese a spreadable consistency -- butter, for example. But you can also use yogurt.
It is important to use sweet paprika powder and not hot paprika powder!
The main reason for "inventing" Obatzda was to make old camembert more durable and to make it taste more tasty, because it gets bitter, if old. 83.97.72.14 (talk) 21:03, 8 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Butter 

message: I have looked at many sources, and many of them agree that "Obatzda" is the Bavarian dialect version of the verb "anbatzen" (perfect participle:  angebatzt), which means "to mash" (as in mashed potatoes); anbatzen in turn comes from "Batzen", meaning a "lump, glob, clump".  (There is even a common joke about girls from northern Germany who go to Bavaria looking for "angebatzt" and who don't realize that Obatzda is the local name for the dish that they're seeking.)
However, I have found no dictionary or other authoritative source that states that the above folk etymology is correct.  (Even German Wikipedia's article on Obatzda doesn't provide a source for the word's etymology, which is presented in the German article.)  I'll continue to search.
Cwkmail (talk) 17:02, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text:  Your explananation is correct. the verb anbatzen is not part and parcel of standard German but rather a translation of Bavarian children´s language. batzen can e.g. mean forming figures out of wet mud in children´s play. That is exactly what you are doing when mixing the ingredients for Obatzda which is most easily done by hand. The standard German prefix an- sounds o- in Bavarian (and Austrian, Swabian and South Tyrolean BTW), and the past participle of batzen is gepatzt or gebatzt in Standard German, and is represented as batzd or batzt in Bavarian, since the standard German past participle prefix ge- is frequently dropped in Bavarian. Since there is no standardised orthography of German dialects people use approximations when spelling dialect words, so there is no standardised spelling of Obatzda. Obatzder is possible too and sound slightly more correct as far as standard German goes. Obatzda can be found on menues of most southern German restaurants as long as they are not Italian, Chinese or ethnic, and is a standard dish in beergardens. Many German supermarkets store ready made and packed Obatzda.
My personal recipe is simple: chop onions finely and mix with a roughly equal amount of camembert cheese. Add some spicy olive oil and a little beer, and season with paprika powder (mild or hot to taste), salt and pepper. Butter can be added. Kneading the mass with hands and fingers is easier than using forks. Ontologix (talk) 00:00, 20 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Etymology
Talk:Tuscan wine

message: * What is the purpose of this: "Chianti, Brunello di Montalcino and Vino Nobile di Montepulciano are primarily made with Sangiovese grape whereas the Vernaccia grape is the basis of the white Vernaccia di San Gimignano." in the intro. I found it a bit confusing and out of place. Maybe it should be put into context somehow? --Charleenmerced  Talk 07:38, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah, the wording is awkward. Feel free to improve. Essentially it is just meant to introduce the main grapes of the region. As for the Super Tuscan, the sources are in the Super Tuscan section-currently footnote #6. (Footnotes are not required in the lead, which per WP:LEAD is merely meant to be a summary of the sourced content within the article). AgneCheese/Wine 07:43, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: After rereading WP:LEAD (Which changes almost weekly it seems :p), it can be determined on a case by case basis. If it seems that the claim is "contentious" or likely to be challenged, then feel free to add a duplicate footnote. AgneCheese/Wine 07:47, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Article improvement

message: After reviewing :d:Q2645959 and examining the sources provided in the German version, I believe that the section of "Super Tuscans"should be made into a standalone article. Just write it here as a note for the moment. Alexmar983 (talk) 16:44, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Super Tuscans
Talk:Helmand province campaign

message: A map of the location of these operations, Coalition locations (i.e. where are the British operating, where are the Marines operating), major Taliban attacks, etc would definitely make it easier to see the ebb and flow of the campaign. Lawrencema (talk) 00:51, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Map of the campaign requested

message: Added ongoing operation.  Should this have its own section?  It IS a significant phase of the campaign...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ouketi.ego (talk • contribs) 00:24, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There should be a new section about the surge of US troops into Helmand, not just about OP Khanjar. --Raoulduke47 (talk) 11:29, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Operation Khanjar

message: There are press reports of Australians in blue sword, with mention of some casualties though these may have been from an operation in uruzgan.
However their involvement is not mentioned here.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 220.239.162.58 (talk) 00:33, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Australians in operation blue sword?

message: The Georgians deployed some 926 combat troops to Helmand and are allready in action. Hence I suggest to put them into the section of participitating ISAF forces of the campaign. TheMightyGeneral (talk) 07:39, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Georgian Forces
Category talk:Airports in England

message: A port is an entry point, a place at which the transport of goods and materials occurs.  I think this category would be better named "Aerodromes in England". The RAF stations and airstrips listed here do not seem to fit this categorisation. The term "aerodrome" is generic and for that reason is used in legal documents such as the Air Navigation Order 2005. JMcC (talk) 10:42, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
Template talk:Atlantic Hockey

message: I happen to find the bolded text easier to read -- it's important to be able to find the school names quickly amid the sea of schools and arenas.  Powers T 19:50, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I strongly disagree that bold font makes it easier to read. Templates should be simple as possible, not cluttered with bold font nor images. Previous discussion located at Category talk:Ice hockey navigational boxes. Flibirigit (talk) 20:39, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Simplicity is secondary to readability and usability in my opinion.  I've brought up the topic at the category talk page.  Powers T 23:06, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Bold fonts

message: On another note, I'm getting layout errors when this navbox is displayed.  For example (and this changes depending on where it's displayed), I'm getting all the schools and arenas through Canisius on the first line, with "State Sports Arena)" extending past the right edge of the box.  On the second line, I get all the rest, with "Pavilion)" extending past the right edge.  I've seen it with Sacred Heart on the last line and "(Frank Ritter Memorial Ice Arena)" extending past the edge, as well.  Anyone else getting this?  Powers T 23:06, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Layout errors?

message: I would prefer that the template revert to emphasize the school rather than the mascot, "Air Force" rather than "Falcons." This is pretty much standard thoughout most sports templates. Arena names seem fussy to me and unnecessary. Why are they so important? Add my name, too, to the list of people who would rather follow WP:MOS and reserve boldfacing for article titles. Student7 (talk) 23:30, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Mascots
Talk:Thomas White (Australian politician)

message: The following 'He served as Minister for Trade and Customs in Joseph Lyons' United Australia Party government from 1933 to 1938, but resigned when he was excluded from Lyons' inner cabinet. He joined the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War and saw service in Australia and the United Kingdom. Returning to parliament as a member of the newly formed Liberal Party in 1945 ...' may wrongly give the impression that he resigned his parliamentary seat in 1938 and returned to parliament in 1945. The main article clearly indicates that his parliamentary career was from 3 August 1929 – 21 June 1951. Anthony Staunton (talk) 09:05, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Tks Anthony, I see your point. Would "Resuming his parliamentary career as a member of the newly formed Liberal Party in 1945..." avoid that impression or did you have something else in mind? Cheers, Ian Rose (talk) 09:38, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps something alsong these lines. 'He served as Minister for Trade and Customs in Joseph Lyons' United Australia Party government from 1933 to 1938 when he resigned as a minister having been excluded from Lyons' inner cabinet. He took leave from parliament after the outbreak of the Second World War and saw service with the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) in Australia and the United Kingdom. Resuming parliamentary duties shortly before the United Australia Party was folded into the newly formed Liberal Party in 1945, ... Anthony Staunton (talk) 09:05, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Parliamentary Career
Talk:DBZ (meteorology)

message: An update made on 2019-01-05 at 04:14 changed the rain rate values in the reflectivity to rain rate conversion table.  The new rain rate values are wrong.  They should be the same as before since the reflectivity column values have not changed and neither have the coefficients in the Marshall-Palmer equation (200, 5/8).184.161.180.10 (talk) 01:58, 12 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why have the rain rates values changed in the table? 

message: This sounds like the measurement of dBZ indicates the relative density of particles in the volume. Would it be accurate for a simple description to say that the map indicates the density of water and other particles within the storm? Aphzidos (talk) 14:23, 15 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Simple Explanation 

message: Yesterday's severe storms in Colorado might have hit 80 DBZ, and held 75 DBZ for some time. Also an Alabama storm might have hit a more precise 78 DBZ. B137 (talk) 19:05, 19 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  80 dBz Colorado hail storms 

message: Is that DBZ by the second formula supposed to be there? ✶Mitch199811✶ 19:40, 26 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  DBZ by second formula
Talk:Ludvika

message: This entry seems to require considerable editing. Ludvika and Smedjebacken are separate, if adjacent municipalities (kommuner), so I do not understand why the entry states that Ludvika is a bimunicipal town (whatever that is).
Gratianus (talk) 12:07, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If look further down in this entry you will see that a minor part (392 out of 14,018 inh.) of the town Ludvika live in Smedjebacken Municipality. As the town (tätort) is situated in two municipalities it could be called bimunicipal. But it is not a conurbation, it is just the same urban area, but the municipal border runs through it! Cities, towns, villages  and other localities in Sweden are geographical areas fully independent of the municipal (and even county) borders. --Muniswede (talk) 19:58, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Escalope

message: Should this be merged with paillard, another stub about a different term for the same thing? 75.57.125.157 (talk) 01:54, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge?

message: I propose that Paillard be merged into Escalopes, as was previously suggested above. The content in the paillard article can easily be explained in the context of escalopes, as the paillard article itself mentions that paillard is an older term now primarily used in the USA while the more current term used in France is escalopes. Both terms describe the same item (pounded meat). Merging of paillard into escalopes will not cause any problems as far as article size or undue weight is concerned. Geoff Who, me?  17:10, 13 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 
Talk:Manganese(II) carbonate

message: In the chembox and the picture, it says that manganese(II) carbonate is a brown solid. In the "Production and Uses" paragaph, it says that it is faintly pink solid. So what is it? I tried adding sodium carbonate solution to manganese(II) sulfate solution, and got a faintly pink precipitate (which should be manganese(II) carbonate). So is manganese(II) carbonate brown or faintly pink? YOSF0113 (talk - contributions) 08:02, 27 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It's definitely pink.  The mineral form, rhodochrosite, is pink/red in color.  To me, brown sounds like an Mn(III) or Mn(IV) impurity, possibly caused by the presence of oxygen during preparation of the compound or in storage (or maybe some basic manganese(II) carbonates are brown).--Pyrochem (talk) 06:28, 12 May 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I've just been making some, so took a photo of the filter cake and swapped the picture over. It is very faint pink. I've also edited the box to say the same. Perhaps the original image got mixed up with some other manganese compound. When I was first preparing the carbonate, I tried drying it in a normal atmosphere at 50C for an hour. The colour appeared to be darkening to an orange and half an hour later (one hour thirty in total) I found brown tinges around the edges of the dish. I was preparing the acetate from the carbonate and found this sample refused to react with acetic acid. It seems possible that decomposition of the carbonate to the oxides actually begins at much lower temperatures. This was also noted by someone else. Creating another possible explanation for the original photo showing a clearly brown solid, that it had been dried at high temperatures and decomposed. Anyone passing by with journal access could have a look into the 200C decomposition mention in the article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Wikichemistry (talk • contribs) 22:39, 7 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Contradiction

message: I cannot verify the value of refractive index written on the page. Can someone tell me where did they get this value from?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.84.169.193 (talk) 17:49, 16 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Refractive index
Talk:Spiric section

message: I know "spiric sections" by the name "spiric curves".
see.: www-history.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/mathematicians/perseus.html
:I think in that article, "spiric curve" follows from "spiric" which is short for "spiric section". I added the the link, seems to be an old version of a MacTutor link, to the article.--RDBury (talk) 13:33, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Spiric curves

message: The French site, Encyclopédie des Formes Mathématiques Remarquables (see refs section), uses an algebraic definition of the curve rather than a geometric one. This would not be a problem if the definitions were equivalent, but in this case they are not. Specifically, the algebraic definition includes the curves obtained as the intersection of the torus with the plane z=ic as well as z=c. In other words the algebraic definition allows sections by imaginary planes as well as real ones. The curves produced do exist, even when restricted to x and y real, and are different than the ones produced in the geometrical definition, for example some parameters give a pair of crescent shapes. I haven't found enough sources on this subject to determine if the algebraic definition is the modern standard or just an extension created by the author of that site. I personally like the algebraic definition better, families of curves similar to this can often be defined in several, surprisingly diverse ways and using the more inclusive definition will probably eliminate exceptional cases.--RDBury (talk) 14:10, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Variations in the definition 

message: Are there any reasons to complicate the last formula? It 's easier this way
:r^4=r^2(d\cos^2\theta+e\sin^2\theta)+f. 
Also, this formula leads to a simple explicit formula for constructing a curve. 
: \theta=F(r^2)
Not interested? Сурбас (talk) 09:37, 28 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polar coordinates
Talk:Acidity regulator

message: I am planning on improving the stub through these areas:
1)	I will add subcategories that include food safety and shelf life in acidity regulators, properties of the acid regulator and how it inhibits the growth of bacteria growth and natural acid regulators found in nature 
2)	Add a image to better showcase the chemical compound of citric acid and other. Also add a better caption that describe what kind of food does citric acid preserves. 
3)	Remove all the secondary sources and include primary research article sources that matches with contents
-SamB  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.68.196.20 (talk) 02:51, 26 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: CHEM 300
Talk:Sales management

message: I've straightened out one paragraph and taken out most of the "how to" language and software package advertising.  There are still some issues.  I'd like to get rid of the "etc." items.  Anyone who comes across this and is an expert, plse. leave comments or do a bit of cleanup. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.97.245.5 (talk) 18:23, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Needs work