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Talk:United States Department of Defense

message: DOD is not the largest employer in the world. The wiki page that has the list of largest militaries contradicts the statement, and the source [3] that backs the claim is from 8 years ago, so how can it support the claim "as of June 2022" which was less than 2 years ago? 2601:600:9100:D90:7D61:AFD0:90CF:974 (talk) 05:08, 17 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  DOD not the largest employer in the world
Talk:The Pentagon

message: This line exists in the article: "The side-by-side sets of restrooms still exist, but have been integrated in practice since the building was occupied."
This hasn't been true for more than a decade now.  As part of a complete renovation of the building, which began prior to the 9/11 attacks, the duplicate bathroom facilities were removed.  There are no longer any vestigial segregated bathrooms.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 57.140.32.10 (talk) 18:50, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Segregated Restrooms 

message: How many offices are in that gigantic building? 10,000, 20,000, 30,000? Just curious. 
2001:8003:A070:7F00:E93C:B981:47CD:E24D (talk) 00:34, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Feel free to look search that out, (Google is your friend), and if you find an answer from a reliable source, perhaps you can add it to the article, or post it here and then request it be added it for you. Good luck - wolf 00:54, 12 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  How many offices?  

message: The first paragraph correctly mentions that "The Pentagon" is a metonym. But should it be added (or replaced) that it's also a synecdoche (a type of metonym)? 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche LemonPumpkin (talk) 22:05, 15 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Metonym vs Synecdoche
Talk:Kebab

message: , you've twice now removed "outside of North America" from the second paragraph. That leaves a statement that isn't accurate and doesn't reflect the sources or reality. In the UK, Ireland, Australia, etc., people usually call a sandwich/wrap with meat from a vertical rotisserie literally "a kebab", e.g. "I'd like a kebab please", or "we stopped for a kebab after the pub". This usage is essentially unknown in the US and Canada, where it was popularized mainly by Greek immigrants. There, the common name overwhelmingly is "a gyro", (sometimes "a donair" in Canada) not "a kebab". This is common knowledge and easily verified, I added a citation and there are many more. Please stop changing it to imply that in North America a common name for gyros/shawarma/doner is "a kebab".
The first source, "Language and Food", says:
First, note that Zubaida does not say that the doner is more ubiquitous than the cubes of meat on a skewer type, which in a global context it certainly is not. In the first sentence, ubiquitous refers to all types of kebab. The shish kebab type had spread worldwide much earlier, measured in centuries; it's not until "our time" (i.e. since the 1970s) that the doner has also become ubiquitous. Secondly, the sentence describing doner as ubiquitous goes on to say "in every city in the Middle East and Europe" - i.e., outside of North America. He doesn't mention the situation there, nor gyros.
In the second source, Marks says:
That's a very clear statement. It also doesn't mention gyros, but that's the reason. It does support the idea that - outside of North America - these days arguably "a kebab" more often means a doner than a shish kebab. However, he refers to Europe in general, including e.g. Austria, so if we want to make a statement that In most English-speaking countries, as the paragraph begins, the sense of "a kebab" as doner is demonstrably more common than the sense as shish kebab, we would need a better source. I think it's not really worth the effort, and is not necessary to quantify which sense is more common, at least not in the lead; the current wording suffices. --IamNotU (talk) 13:32, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: I may have been misunderstanding the first sentence. I was reading the anglosphere as being North America (and US centric), whereas now it scans OK to me as both versions of the kebab are in the anglophere.Halbared (talk) 17:11, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, thanks for replying... --IamNotU (talk) 21:16, 19 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Usage in English etc., second paragraph
Talk:Orange Alternative

message: Can I ask why this movement is called "anarchic"?
My knowledge of the Pomarańczowa Alternatywa is only cursory but I suppose it was a protest movement without any real aims. Just for the protest's sake. They
wanted to give people some hope, a few laughs and escape from grim everyday life under Communism.
Unlike Solidarnosc they were not a political movement rather something like a dada cabaret that went to audiences in the street.
Kpjas
:Well, it's because i wrote it basing on article which described it as anarchic. In history you wont see it, because irst author is "coinversion script" :))) Szopen 11:09, 16 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Anarchism

message: Why is "See Polish language" possibly appropriate in this article, even discussing a mistranslation or pun?  — Arthur Rubin  (talk) 02:41, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Polish language 

message: Waldemar “Major” Fydrych has persistently engaged in falsification of my intellectual property rights by erroneously claiming editors Marjolein ‘tHart and Dennis Bos wrote my scholarly article titled, “Antagonism, Absurdity, and the Avant- Garde”. They editted the volume - they DID NOT - author my work. Please block any editor from distorting the record of my own intellectual property. I am the sole author of my published research. These editors never made any comment on the topic, only quoted my work in their Foreword. Lisiunia (talk) 19:35, 29 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  no further distortion of my published work
Talk:South Pyongan Province

message: I write all with three different steps: First in English, what I take from Korean map, then I translate it into Korean, and then I seek in dictionary Hanja version.-- Egon
And then I put it all in alphabedical order...-- Egon
Fabulous work! I've added in that it is in North Korea, as I felt that it needed some context. Secretlondon 16:43, Dec 6, 2003 (UTC)
Can anyone fix the map so that the background is transparent as the map for Namp'o. I need the maps for the swedish wikipedia. // Wellparp 11:37, 16 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: : The below former counties of South Pyongan were merged with Nampo in 2004 and are administered as part of that city:
:: Chollima-guyok (천리마군/千里馬郡)
:: Kangso-guyok (강서군/江西郡)
:: Ryonggang County (룡강군/龍岡郡)
:: Taean-guyok-gun (대안군/大安郡)
This looks weird. Each former county was formerly named 군. When merged wit Nampo, some were renamed 구역. The parenthetical Hangul names are the former names (why not, this can be an editorial choice). But the Roman names should be either all new or all former. We should have either Ryonggang-gun or Ryonggang-guyok (according to the actual name). And either Taean-guyok or Taean-gun. But what could be a guyok-gun ?  Pldx1 (talk) 08:55, 24 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  County or not county ? 

message: --JWB (talk) 16:23, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Does population figure include Nampo?
Talk:Roman usurper

message: This describes a phenomenon, not a thing. I propose a move to Roman usurpers. Sverdrup 17:10, 6 Dec 2003 (UTC)

message: This page is supposed to talk about "Roman" usurpers, but yet the leading sentence refers to "Usurpers". The Usurper contains little information. Worse yet, both pages link to one single page in other languages. I propose a merge into "Usurper". 石川 (talk) 10:55, 28 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge? 

message: A usurper is someone who gains power in a constitutionally illegitimate way. But the office of emperor did not exist in the Roman constitution (at least, not till the dying days of the Empire in east.) They maintained the polite fiction that Rome was still a res publica, and the emperor was merely princeps, the first among equals.
As there was no constitutional office of emperor, equally well there was no constitutional succession. The only fairly reliable method of guaranteeing succession was to retire whilst still fairly healthy so as to be able to enforce transition to a chosen successor (although even this method didn't work out so well for Constantine I); otherwise succession occurred through a wide range of means, running the gamut from the conventionalised and quasi-legal down to assassination. The acquisition of the de facto auctoritas of Augustus through acclamation by the army was neither more nor less illegal than any other method. As such, "usurper" is not the right word to describe these men. -- 202.63.39.58 (talk) 04:47, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Usurpation is the wrong word
Talk:Rolfing

message: I agree that rolfing is psuedoscience but is it not basically massage therapy of which there is 'some' evidence for? 2A00:23C6:1E82:8601:84EC:A89A:8C4B:B8AC (talk) 10:56, 15 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Massage is "the manipulation of the body's soft tissues," while Rolfing is specifically the manipulation of fascia, which surrounds all kinds of tissue. While the two may look similar in practice, there is no basis to evaluate the efficacy of Rolfing based on evidence about massage. — Epastore (talk) 17:05, 30 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Agree
Talk:Ivonka Survilla

message: What's a rada? moink 19:54, 6 Dec 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Council. Halibutt 00:26, Aug 26, 2004 (UTC)
How could Ivonka Survilla start fighting Russian domination at the age of three? I would like to see the page edited to reflect a more reasonable age at which she started fighting for less Russian influence on Belarus.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tommy6860 (talk • contribs) 01:44, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Khoekhoe language

message: Moved from main page to here;
This is seriously the only information I can find that hasn't been contradicted, except for the number of speakers, though Ethnologue seems like a reliable source. The sources contradict each other on whether Nama contrasts voicing, just what accompaniments it's clicks can have, and many other things.
: The linguistic community as a whole seems unable to ascertain the number of click consonants in some Khoisan languages. For instance, is the !Kung name N!xau three phonemes, or five? Is the click a sequence n + !x? n! + x? n + ! + x? Or just one phoneme, a prenasalised voiceless laminal retroflex click with affricated velar release? (BTW, I tend to believe that it's just one phoneme, on a par with Swahili and Zulu prenasalised voiced stops.) I must say though, I like this page; it actually shows some of the language in use, rather than just the name - population - location approach that has been taken with so many Wikipedia pages about languages in the past. thefamouseccles 04:11 17 Dec 2003 (UTC)
:Indeed. Also, the sample text has /ts/ but the phonology section doesn't seem to include it (unless it's a consonant cluster rather than an africate). It would seem one of the sections is incorrect or incomplete in some way, or cover different dialects. Eddy1701 (talk) 03:19, 23 August 2008 (UTC)

message: The article mentions that a dictionary exists; could someone provide a citation or ISBN number?
:Haacke & Eiseb 2002. Added. — mark ✎ 08:07, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Dictionary for Nama

message: Is it true (as stated in the French article) that most Namas now speak Afrikaans rather than Nama? QuartierLatin1968  22:54, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  shift to Afrikaans?

message: "Klipkaffer" language redirects here and has been nominated for speedy deletion.  Any thoughts on whether this redirect should be kept or deleted? --Richard 20:16, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Klipkaffer" language 

message: If you are a native speaker of Khoekhoe then you can help translate this template into your own language:
 Edit
--Amazonien (talk) 22:28, 20 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Khoekhoe language template

message: Is this edit  legitimate? Before the edit the text was identical to another version to be found on the internet, after it not anymore. Also the changes done are not consistent (e.g. in the first two paragraphs clicks followed by vowels received a g after them, but not in the third one), so it can't be just a change of orthographic convention (or it must be a poorly performed one). The IP-address that did it seems to be a regular vandal, but that doesn't say it all, of course. MuDavid (talk) 14:28, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I reverted it, then. MuDavid (talk) 11:42, 30 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sample text 

message: From my knowledge the name of the language is pronounced kwe-kwe (the 'we' as in Wembley), not koi-koi. Unfortunately I don't have a reference, and I don't know how to write it in phonetic alphabet. Anyone? --Pgallert (talk) 07:01, 31 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pronunciation
Talk:Uvular consonant

message: A direct link to a wave file might be beneficial in the beginning of this article for English speakers who have no inherent capability of understanding what this might sound like because of the limitations of their chosen written language. I am curious about these, specifically because of what part of the tongue they are made with, but because I suffer this language limitation myself I am unable to make a recommendation as to which link would be the best..
:I second that wholeheartedly. All the phonetics articles would be greatly improved by .ogg files of native speakers making the sounds described in the articles. They would also be improved by jargon-free descriptions of the precise articulatory gestures -- the movements of the tongue.  — Solo Owl (talk) 12:04, 14 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The individual pages (voiceless uvular plosive) have pronunciations in the opening table, except a few of the truly exotic sounds.  A quick description of how you would at least get close to a uvular would simply be to take the 'k' sound in English and make it farther back in the mouth.  As for jargon-free pronunciation guides, I'm not sure Wikipedia is the place for them, but between the sampled pronunciations, the table that lists if a sound is found in English, place of articulation and manner of articulation (especially the individual pages of those two), they provide pretty much all the information you need to pronounce them.  And if just can't figure one out, ask at the language reference desk.  Vowels... well, they're tougher.  Lsfreak (talk) 00:32, 20 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  improvement to the en.wikipedia version of this article? 

message: Curiosity always strike me. Can you pronounce uvular consonants when you remove your uvula? Komitsuki (talk) 09:38, 10 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: This type of question might be a bit more appropriate for the Language_reference_desk (if nothing else, you'll get an answer faster).  Except for the uvular trill, none of the uvular consonants actually use the uvula as a necessary part of sound production.  My gut feeling, though, is that someone who spoke a language that had both velar and uvular fricatives could potentially confuse people as to which they were using, as (from the perspective of someone whose native language has neither) the wobble the uvula makes in rapid speech does seem to give the latter a very distinctive sound compared to the former. Lsfreak (talk) 20:41, 30 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Question 

message: :
A distinctive feature of Piaf's pronunciation (at least in singing) is that she did not use the standard uvular trill; she sang with an alveolar trill instead.  I'll remove her. —Tamfang (talk) 19:28, 10 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Piaf 

message: in Arabic language you can 
Pronunce this word 
As next 
Qisah'
Qisatun 
Qisatan
Qisaten 
Please add this in article for somebody who are learning arbic to know more احمد هاني 1 (talk) 07:44, 28 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  قصة in Arabic have another pronunciation
Talk:Paris Hilton

message: In the sections titled "Early life" and "This Is Paris (2020–present)," will you please add the other schools Paris attended before Provo Canyon School? 
In the film This Is Paris, Hilton talks about her experiences in four different “troubled teen” industry programs: Ascent Wilderness Program in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, Cascade School in Whitmore, California, CEDU School in Running Springs, California, and Provo Canyon School in Provo, Utah.
They are listed in the order she attended them. Thank you.
:Are we your servants? You can add them. Planetjanet (talk) 03:28, 5 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Troubled Teen Industry 

message: Missing from personal life, per her tell-all:
https://time.com/6260573/paris-hilton-abortion-story-book/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2023/03/14/paris-the-memoir-revelations-paris-hilton/11424760002/
https://www.insider.com/paris-hilton-says-she-had-abortion-at-22-memoir-excerpt-2023-3?amp
https://people.com/health/paris-hilton-had-abortion-early-20s/ 2603:7000:3600:C1A9:D55:C37A:9C2D:E1E4 (talk) 07:21, 6 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abortion Confession (Tell All Book) 

message: The character "Dakota" from the TV show Total Drama: Revenge of the Island was based off Paris Hilton. 174.168.61.76 (talk) 18:27, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  in popular culture 

message: Giant wikifail Mrmackdaddybigbone (talk) 16:38, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why does this page read like it's written by her publicistt
Talk:King Giddra

message: Does "tight" mean something here I'm not getting? moink 21:07, 6 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Georgia (disambiguation)

message: The purpose of this redirect is to facilitate disambiguation of Special:Whatlinkshere/Georgia.
:Sorry, that explanation is not helpful.  I have noticed the big hoohah about which Georgia "deserves" the default title, but I still can't understand the following:
# what redirect?  
# facilitate how?
# facilitate why?
# why are there separate disambiguation pages at :Georgia and :Georgia (disambiguation)
# :Georgia at least links to :Georgia (disambiguation); why does the reverse link not exist?
:--jnestorius(talk) 18:40, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
Talk:List of former counties of Quebec

message: Why did you make Antoine-Labelle into Labelle? My map, and Stats-Canada both say Antoine-Labelle. User:Earl Andrew Dec 6 23:41 UTC
This entire section might be better served as part of the historical discussion of the CURRENT municipalities, since many of these retain the same historical divisions.Caspiankilkelly 20:17, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Vladimir Ivashko

message: The Soviet Union was not dissolved on August 29, 1991.  Andres 00:58, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Old talk

message: Why are there no spaces between some of the links and the text? vLaDsINgEr 02:56, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It turned out to be a template problem, which arose after an anon user blanked half of the Template:Communist Party of the Soviet Union. I have fixed it, —dima/s-ko/ 03:07, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Formatting

message: It seems Valentyna Shevchenko was changed into Valentina Shevchenko which is a skier. 83.134.74.228 (talk) 06:31, 17 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Valentyna Shevchenko

message: There is an RfC on the question of using "Religion: None" vs. "Religion: None (atheist)" in the infobox on this and other similar pages. 
The RfC is at Template talk:Infobox person#RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion. 
Please help us determine consensus on this issue. --Guy Macon (talk) 15:17, 21 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Template talk:Infobox person#RfC: Religion infobox entries for individuals that have no religion|Request for Comments]]
Talk:Icehouse

message: An icehouse is also a building which stores ice. It would be interesting to have something on these; such as how common they were in before electric refrigeration, and how long they could conserve ice for, etc -- Tarquin 11:35 Feb 5, 2003 (UTC)
The idea intrigues me, so I'll see what research I can do in the next week or so, hopefully enough to have a starter article on "ice storage"... Logotu 23:49 Feb 5, 2003 (UTC)
Perhaps just a Wiktionary page, don't know if there's enough to it to support a Wikipedia article. Tualha 01:31, 8 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: 2003 discussion
Talk:Año Nuevo State Park

message: The original information for this article comes from http://www.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=523, a California state government site which is in the public domain.  RickK 02:19, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  Opening heading

message: I've merged Año Nuevo State Park into here, and it now probably needs some cleanup/copy editing. Kevin 10:08, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the merge was probably a mistake.  The State Park and the State Reserve are two distinct entities within the state park system. - Stepheng3 (talk) 01:22, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge
Talk:Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve

message: Original text from http://www.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=627, a California state government site, in public domain.  RickK 02:39, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)

message: What time does it open on Sunday? 2603:8001:7000:5381:F802:4D7C:D640:3BA (talk) 02:48, 29 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hours of operation
Talk:New wave of British heavy metal

message: @Lewismaster what's wrong with including this as a derivative? The About.com info page I cited clearly states it has characteristics of NWOBHM.--MASHAUNIX 20:56, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I answered on your talk page. Lewismaster (talk) 21:06, 29 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Melodic death metal 

message: *Comment: Saw this at 3O. The above seems like mostly opinion/original research. Do WP:IS WP:RS normally use the word "underground" to describe the subject? If so, list the sources, this will be the best case for using the word; if sources cannot be provided, it fails WP:V, and the description in the article should align with the best WP:IS WP:RS. Please no walls of text, refs with simple descriptions will be enough.  // Timothy :: talk  20:43, 22 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources
Talk:Symmetry

message: Article says: 'asymmetrical nteractions send the message "I am special; better than you."'. This is wrong (and rather new age); specialisation creates asymmetry without creating that kind of relation. I have added "may".  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.120.134.215 (talk) 08:12, 13 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure asymmetric interactions are even relevant for this page. Sbcloatitr (talk) 19:08, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Asymmetrical interactions 

message: As far as I know the sentence that says "as an aspect of scientific models, language, music and even knowledge itself" incorrect, I have never heard knowledge being described as symmetric. Sbcloatitr (talk) 19:05, 27 August 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Knowledge symmetry? 

message: Much that I admire the example Celtic knotwork, the sample given is not correct for symmetry - in that it offers a pseudo-bilateralism.  This is because of the 'over'/'under' nature of the knot which prevents true bilateral symmetry in knot designs of this sort. Knotwork that is P4 symmetry is, however, correct. I have therefore amended the sample. (20040302 (talk) 09:19, 9 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  'Arts and Crafts' 

message: First portion energy and second portion of energy. Simmetry.. 
Лоб и затылок. Simmetry. Кручение рук, вращение глаз - искусфто, гадание, видения .. Вещщщ ... чешем рэпу ... ))) 
И ваапчэ!! Солнце - то пучит, то Оное - сохнет .. по Любомуё .. наверное .. как знать ?? 
Нда. Дела наши мирские .. 176.59.204.43 (talk) 00:52, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: This is English Wikipedia.—Anita5192 (talk) 00:56, 12 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Divide - simmetry for multiply.