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Talk:Mandinka language

message: Is this a tonal language?  If so, why is this not mentioned in the article?  Badagnani 04:03, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It is now.  Skinsmoke (talk) 18:32, 2 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Tones

message: Is this about Mandingo (man, a macrolanguage) or Mandinka (mnk, part of the former)? The lead seems to talk about Mandingo (Mandinka has not "millions" of speakers but 1,346,000 according to Ethnologue), but the rest of the article calls it Mandinka, and the ISO code in the infobox says the same. --ἀνυπόδητος (talk) 17:57, 1 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: This is about Mandinka, for which I believe the local English term in Gambia would be "Mandingo." "Mandingo" as the name retained by ISO for the "macrolanguage" has always seemed to me to be misleading, but the closest relevant Wikipedia article would be Manding languages. However, the macrolanguage man covers only varieties of Mandinka and Maninka (or Malinké), but apparently not Bambara or Jula. The macrolanguage concept comes out of a need to reconcile different codings in ISO 639, but AFAIK there has never been an attempt to review the coverage of the current list of macrolanguages, with an eye to expanding some (Manding would seem to be a prime candidate) and creating new ones (for instance for Nguni languages, or for the very similar Kinyarwanda & Kirundi).--A12n (talk) 08:16, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Mandingo or Mandinka?

message: mune kete laa 2603:6080:2805:B880:55E8:351E:74DF:5103 (talk) 16:38, 2 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mandinka
Talk:The Case of the Speluncean Explorers

message: The following text is the original deleted article: If it is useful please advise and I'll do a history merge to get the text into the history again ++Lar: t/c 04:06, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Per ++Lar's history undeletion, the original text is now here. ~ trialsanderrors 19:05, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Forgot to clean up my mess, thanks for that! ++Lar: t/c 19:13, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deleted text 

message: “They have limited food supplies and no sources of nutrition” is a literal self-contradiction, as food is by definition a source of nutrition. I added the word “other” to brake the contradiction. 82.36.70.45 (talk) 17:04, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction
Talk:Zulima Farber

message: I think when there is an article on a political figure, the article should indicate what party the person belongs to.69.6.162.160 04:13, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: These have been moved here from a subpage as part of a cleanup process. See Wikipedia:Discontinuation of comments subpages.
I have assessed this article as C-class and identified the following areas for improvement:
* The article is not comprehensive and needs expansion
shirulashem (talk) 19:41, 31 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comments
Talk:The Judybats

message: What a total bummer, that no one out there can keep/clean this page up. (Recognizing I'm part of the problem, of course.)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.201.190.68 (talk) 18:38, 28 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I've taken a stab at it. I'll be the first to admit that it still ain't perfect, because it relies a little too much on Allmusic for the basic details — and for the reasons why that's not a gold standard source, consider that their overview profile and their discography listing give different years of release for both Native Son and Down in the Shacks — but it's about a thousand times better than it was. Bearcat (talk) 14:43, 21 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Nada Surf

message: Does the band name need to be capitalized in every place it is used? Yeah... no.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Clamum (talk • contribs) 05:03, 29 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: wat

message: This page is a huge mess. Thunderbunny 07:49, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes indeedy. I just took a pass through for grammar and removed some non-NPOV stuff, but it still needs a ton of citations and rewrites. Tjarrett (talk) 16:59, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jesus Christ 
Talk:Laboratory for Laser Energetics

message: Should the laser system be spun off into a separate article? I mean, is there a sound practice involving that?
:I'm not sure. I don't think so at this point, its just a single sentance. Typically separate articles are spun off of very large articles.--Deglr6328 06:12, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: OMEGA

message: The maximum fusion yield of OMEGA so far is about 1014 neutrons per shot (first achieved in 1995), and it thus holds the record for highest neutron yield of any inertial confinement fusion device to date.
This is no longer the case, as the NIF has created a reaction about 3 times as large
https://www.llnl.gov/news/newsreleases/2010/Nov/NR-10-11-02.html  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.189.185.250 (talk) 18:37, 12 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: neutron yield
Talk:Guadalcanal Diary (band)

message: Is that really the best description of this band's music? All their music? Just asking. -- Rob C (Alarob) 00:12, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jangle pop? 

message: So much more could be said about this band. Matthew R. Lee 20:03, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  So much More 

message: In the article, it is suggested that Murray Attaway is a woman, but later it seems that instead, Rhett Crowe is a woman, with the other band members all being men. This is confusing, as there is also no clarifying image attached.
86.136.237.255 (talk) 11:28, 4 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  he vs. she
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Council/Guide

message: #REDIRECT Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Council
thumb|c5
  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.58.30.149 (talk) 02:53, 19 March 2021 (UTC)

message: Hey I would like to join in on the crime/criminal project, but I'm a bit confused on where to start. Lol please help Ohanlonee719 (talk) 16:36, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikiprojects tutorial?
Talk:WEHI

message: Board President is now Jane Hemstritch: https://www.wehi.edu.au/news/celebrating-leadership-retiring-board-president
Vsolomon (talk) 00:56, 20 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  New President 

message: Shouldn't there be some mention of this?
http://www.theage.com.au/national/education/melbourne-uni-says-sorry-for-trials-on-orphans-20091117-ikc9.html
http://www.originsharp.com/experiment.html
Vervainnovikova (talk) 06:41, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Medical experiments on State children 

message: The WEHI research divisions have expanded somewhat since the article was last edited.  The current divisions and heads can be found at:
http://www.wehi.edu.au/about/structure/scientific-divisions
I have refrained from editing the article myself as I am a WEHI employee.GKSmyth (talk) 03:58, 16 July 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for the heads up. I've updated them along with a swath of other edits. There are still a lot of references not inline though. I've alos upped the page's class, since I think it's better than a start page. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 12:27, 7 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current Research Divisions 

message: I've moved most tof the references in line and added a few more (particularly open source refs). Here are the remaining refs that didn't make the cut in case it turns out that they are particularly important. T.Shafee(Evo﹠Evo)talk 12:13, 10 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Old 'Further reading' section 

message: Useful link about 2012 building: https://www.australiandesignreview.com/architecture/21197-wehi-dcm 
T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)talk 12:34, 7 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link to add
Talk:Rival Schools: United by Fate

message: Just a shot in the dark here, but would anyone happen to know what the names of the opening and ending theme songs are for the home version of Rival Schools, as well as the artist?  I've had the CD single for almost two years now and I have not been able to find out the song titles or the artist's name no matter where I look. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Djseifer (talk • contribs) 
:Artist of the game's music is Setsuo Yamamoto and (asusming you're talking about the music from the Evolution Disc, and not the arcade's intro and endings) I presume he helped produce the intro songs for the Playstation version, too. However, I have absolutely no idea what the titles of those songs are. –NeoChaosX (talk | contribs) 05:07, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, never mind. Turns out this page reveals the intro and ending songs from the PSX version are titled "Atsuki Koudou" and "Ashita no Yukue", respectively; and the vocalist for both songs is Isao Bitou. NeoChaosX  [talk | contribs] 05:17, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Music 
Talk:List of hull classifications

message: Probably should be merged. Lou Sander 04:42, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger 

message: There is a common mistake found all over the internet and repeated in this article regarding Amphibious Assault Ships.
The assumption is that:
LHD = Landing Helicopter Dock
LHA = Landing Helicopter Assault
LPH = Landing Platform Helicopter
Per the Naval History and Heritage Command: "It is important to understand that hull number letter prefixes are not acronyms, and should not be carelessly treated as abbreviations of ship type classifications."
LPH stands for "Amphibious Assault Ship." LHA stands for "Amphibious Assault Ship (General Purpose)" and LHD stands for "Amphibious Assault Ship (Multi Purpose.)"
See INSTRUCTION 5030.8A for further clarification. The link to Naval History and Heritage Command is a good one for decomm ships.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jaiotu (talk • contribs) 13:10, 4 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article is inaccurate. Major clean up of Wikipedia required. 
Talk:Suffolk County Community College

message: This must have been written by their PR office.  --Nelson Ricardo 04:46, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually no. I wrote it a long time ago. But I did use their information from their website. (Msh25 (talk) 09:15, 28 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Reads like an ad

message: I tried to take care of some of the issues. A little clean up of the article. I would like some feedback, how is it?
Msh25 (talk) 19:56, 1 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Good, but I've done much more heavier clean-up. The article felt like an advertisement and a brochure. I have rid the article of peacock terms, original research and personal commentary, amongst other things. CarpetCrawler (talk) 03:56, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Multiple Issues

message: This needs a summary saying how many students there are in total, how many faculty there are in total, and how many employees there are in total.  It would be helpful to say how big SCCC is in terms of its total annual budget, however it should say how the public funded college is financed (e.g., from federal, state, county, and private sources).  This is basic high-level info that lets people immediately grasp the size, complexity and resources of the organization.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.41.13.248 (talk) 14:31, 6 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Missing summary information
Talk:Wall of Voodoo

message: I have removed the history section because it is unsourced and is drawing complaints to WP:OTRS.  You may rebuild at your discretion provided that each assertion is supported by at least one reference utilizing a reliable source. The Uninvited Co., Inc. 18:51, 8 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've written a new history, mostly independent of the deleted section. Peter G Werner 01:37, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Good work on this! -- Takwish | Talk 03:53, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

text: I second that! Nice job! --GentlemanGhost 07:00, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion/WoWWiki (2nd nomination)

message: I am getting the distinct impression that anything having to do with Warcraft is undeletable from Wikipedia. — Kaustuv Chaudhuri 04:48, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have a feeling all articles related to Warcraft is being targeted for deletion. Havok (T/C/c) 05:48, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
Talk:An Emotional Fish

message: Because An Emotional Fish and Jerry Fish and the Mudbug Club have the same members, I'm going to merge the two if there are no objections. Teemu08 01:17, 15 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger
Talk:Cross and circle game

message: Phil has added the following to my talk page:
:Noe, I've been editing cross and circle game and I see you had a hand in there somewhere.  I wonder if you wouldn't mind checking me on my use of "topologically equivalent". I believe I'm using the term correctly (you'll see what I mean), but I'm not a mathematician (or geometer?). I realize that my pictures are not topologically equivalent (if I'm using the term correctly), but I think this is a necessary evil: I wanted to start out with a real Nyout board (not a notional board of a non-existent game), and when "collapsed" this does not give the even ends of a pachisi-like board, so I had to add 1 space to each quarter of the outside track. Thanks. Phil wink (talk) 18:04, 2 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent changes 

message: From my perspective (I'm Danish), it seems odd that the article doesn't mention Ludo as a typical game in this group - I'd mention it in the first paragraph. But I'm not sure how common Ludo (the game, and the name) is in English-speaking countries.--Noe (talk) 22:43, 3 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. I took both parcheesi and ludo out (temporarily) in a rewrite, and we both agree they need to go back in. They are both necessary; no one in the US knows ludo, and probably no one else knows parcheesi. I just hadn't yet decided where they fit best in the new landscape. First one to put them back in wins! Phil wink (talk) 04:30, 4 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ludo 

message: The british museum released a video about a game from Sumeria that in it's simplified form at least is very similar to games like Ludo. At least it felt very similar to me. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZskjLq040I / https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHjznvH54Cw)
is there any connection between the presented game and Ludo/parchesi? Does anyone have any references for such a claim?
:See my response at Talk:Ludo (board game)#Origin from a game from Sumeria. Phil wink (talk) 05:48, 22 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin from a game from Sumeria 

message: The ancient Chinese game Liubo and its "TLV" design have similarities to the cross-and circle design, and can be dated back to around 500 BCE. Alas, the gameplay or rules of the game are not known, but one can speculate that the pieces were moving along a route similar to that of Pachisi. Without a source, this has no place in the article or category, but am I the only one to be intrigued here - are there no sources linking those, or suggesting a place for Liubo in this family?
PS. Regarding the similarity, it may not be striking at first sight, but at the least, Liubo and Pachisi share the C4 symmetry of the swastika. (Arguably, Pachisi is D4, like a square and many mandalas and cosmograms, but it is C4 if we consider the handedness imposed by the direction of play, more evident in the markings of the board itself in many other cross and circle games, e.g. Ludo.)--Nø (talk) 10:20, 1 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Liubo
Talk:The House of Love

message: I've fleshed out the article and added some references, mostly referring to the biography on the band's unofficial website. Reference-wise, this could be improved (especially as the article citations are still predominantly from a single source) and I will be looking at finding further sources elsewhere. Have recently added material to the Terry Bickers article which also uses references which can be added here. = Dann Chinn (talk) 14:07, 9 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Improving the article

message: The intro has conflicting dates. I don't know why I'm on this page so have no idea what the correct one is.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mongoletsi (talk • contribs) 23:29, 21 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarify date of split 
Talk:Cold air intake

message: Is it necessary to promote the manufacturers? Seems like some subtle marketing wars. 
66.69.71.250 20:00, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it isn't necessary. Wikipedia is not here to give free advertising to companies. This is a site to give information, not to endorse products. Some companies don't understand this, judging by the reaction to my reverting of a few past link additions.
Jax184 03:51, 13 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Indeed, the pictured system may get any kind of air but it most certainly won't be cold air. It gets warm air from the radiator and it will decrease power instead of increase. What does it have to do with the 'cold air intake' topic? I don't know and will remove it from here if noone objects. Saying that, the article actually nowhere justifies the title of "cold air intake" since no method of obtaining the actual cold air is mentioned. Moreover, it seems like there is no importance of getting cold air, so how is it "cold air intake" anyway? Looks more like another article about short ram intake than anything. :arny (talk) 00:01, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Talk

message: The cold air intake photo has the file name "ram air clean" and is used in the Ram-air intake article with the caption matching the file name. Can someone distinguish what part is in the photo? --Rent A Troop (talk) 07:26, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cold Air Intake Picture 

message: This is Theory...  Heat equals power, and the power compensated for with more oxygen is not equivalent to the power lost with cold air.  The hotter the air, the more power you have.  It's basic thermodynamics. The VooDoo Reverend 17:11, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It's not, y'know. Colder air is denser, hence more oxygen, hence more power.  TREKphiler any time you're ready, Uhura  19:46, 25 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Theory

message: Why does this article include in the "See Also" links a link to a "Booster Engine", an item used on steam trains? I'm not making the connection here. Perhaps it should be removed? D3matt 66.216.248.77 (talk) 23:43, 19 May 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Steam engines?
Talk:The Darling Buds

message: Do we have much in the way of RS for the band's current activities or line up? They don't seem to have a website or anything else much, which is fair enough for a band who only reform for occasional one-off events and probably spend the vast majority of their time concerned with other things than the band. Even so, it would be good to find something solid to finally see off the person who is repeatedly trying to insert themselves into the band with absolutely no evidence. --DanielRigal (talk) 09:38, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh, ffs. This is getting silly. I have requested page protection. I hope this will get rid of the vandal and not inconvenience anybody else too much. --DanielRigal (talk) 13:35, 27 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current Activities?
Talk:Eva Briegel

message: Dec. 10th - New information added (translated from Wikipedia.de article) and article formatted into seperate sections. 65.29.77.73 01:37, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: 5ft 6inches? That would be only 167 cm. E.B. herself said that she was 181 cm tall. "Kleine Frau" does only mean "small woman", which she is definitely not ;) ..... "longest note held in a German song" - can you explain that more precisely? ;) --slg 15:06, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: The picture shows the frontwoman of "Wir sind HHelden"  and not Eva Broiegel.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.199.20.169 (talk) 08:22, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture

message: Can someone revert and lock the page?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.44.235.140 (talk) 20:04, 14 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: See here.  I prefer only to watch silently, revert quietly and ignore.  --RobertG ♬ talk 16:28, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Vandals
Talk:Penny Crone

message: Can someone find out her birth date or birth year and put it on the page?
Could someone who understands the ins and outs of wikipedia better than I change the redirect for Penny Crone? Right now if you type that in you get taken to a Howard Stern article which barely mentions her rather than this article. I'd make the change but, as I alluded to, I have no clue how.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.68.117.186 (talk) 23:38, 27 September 2012 (UTC)
Talk:Word completion

message: I removed this material for the reasons stated. meatclerk 05:20, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Unusable Material

message: I have flagged this section as POV, since it consists almost entirely of unsupported arguments against word completion in general text editing. The Dunlop and Crossan article cited in support of the arguments in fact reports results that are exactly opposite to those claimed in this section: their user tests showed a 10% decrease in the time taken to type words when using a "hybrid word-completion and word-prediction method" on a simulated mobile phone. (I suspect the article can't be accessed without a Springer subscription, so unfortunately this will be difficult for some people to confirm.) Also, that article only reports studies of text entry on mobile phones. It's not clear whether or to what extent their results apply to general text editing. Dunlop and Crossan make no claims in this direction.
The rest of the section presents a one-sided argument against word completion in general text editing, without citing any other references to support the arguments. (The cited Tugboat article discusses average word length, but doesn't make any mention at all of word completion, let alone whether average word length would affect it's usefulness.) The section seems to be a personal point of view on word completion in general text editing. I suggest either undertaking a far wider survey of the relevant literature, or deleting this section entirely.
Finally, apart from the POV problems, the section title would lead one to expect a list of examples of the use of word completion in general text editing, which is not at all what it actually does. (The examples appear in the following similarly-titled section.) 137.222.80.132 (talk) 12:32, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Examples of word completion in general text editing

message: Under Examples of Word Completion, should Google Suggest be added?
69.204.164.119 21:31, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Examples of Word Completion- Google
Talk:Carry flag

message: The word "contatenation" in line 5 should be "concatenation", I'm correcting it now. Hopefully, I spell the word right. :^) --130.194.13.105 05:21, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]

message: tagged  with , but I'm not positive what's being asked for.  The fact that "borrow" is more commonly associated with one convention and "carry" with another is something of a WP:SYNTHESIS, but it's just finding lots of architectures and counting them, which I think falls under WP:CALC.
Slightly more broadly, describing which of several opinions is more widely held is an essential part of a Wikipedia editor's job; that's assessing WP:DUE weight.  I admit to having a POV that I wish there were some consistent terminology, but I don't think saying "this appears to be the most common" is pushing it too hard.
Simply sourcing the assertions on an architecture-by-architecture basis is possible, but seems like make-work, and WP:OVERCITE.  They're obviously individually WP:VERIFIABLE; is anyone seriously challenging those specifics?
Or is the request for some higher-level issue?  Just trying to understand. 71.41.210.146 (talk) 17:45, 12 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  How to improve references in "Carry flag vs. borrow flag"