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Talk:MacOS

message: macOS (/ˌmækoʊˈɛs/;[6] previously OS X and originally Mac OS X) is an operating system developed and marketed by Apple Inc. since 2001. It is the primary operating system for Apple's Mac computers. Within the market of desktop and laptop computers, it is the second most widely used desktop OS, after Microsoft Windows and ahead of Linux (including ChromeOS). 
the last part where gnu/linux is refered as just linux is wrong and should be changes so it is more true and correct 81.234.150.230 (talk) 00:44, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: The name of the family of operating systems in reliable sources is simply "Linux", so that's what we use here. Tollens (talk) 01:03, 19 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 19 November 2023 

message: The software, macOS, is now onto version 11. So it shouldn't be called OSX anymore, X letter meaning the older version 10.
So there should be a new redirect tag leading to this macOS page. Is the word "macOS" okay, or is it 1-2 digits too long?
ObiKKa (talk) 06:17, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: What do you mean by a "redirect tag"?  , , and  all redirect to macOS, and have done so for quite a while, given that the OS has been called "macOS" ever since macOS 10.12 Sierra, several years before macOS 11 Big Sur. Guy Harris (talk) 06:56, 17 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Need a new redirect tag for macOS 

message: I severely doubt Apple is going to sue Wikipedia for a screenshot of their operating system, considering screenshots/videos of macOS and iOS have appeared in thousands of places across all media types, including media made with profit in mind. I'm not sure why we're stuck with pictures that are lower resolution than computers from the 90s. This has been enacted across all pages related to macOS, destroying what used to be very pretty and readable pictures. This also clutters Google images. Machintosh-hd (talk) 01:31, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Because Wikipedia follows Wikipedia:Non-free content criteria. - Aoidh (talk) 02:50, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unreadable header image resolution  

message: The first word of a sentence is always capitalized even if the particular word isn't always--dchmelik☀️🦉🐝🐍(talk|contrib) 04:52, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Capital letters that is primarily true, though exceptions exist and per MOS:TMCAPS this seems to be one of them. - Aoidh (talk) 16:13, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  capitalization at article beginning
Talk:Somaliland

message: I know through previous efforts and discussion the length of the lead was greatly reduced from its previously overly lengthy state. But now I noticed the lead suffers from the reverse and is way too short to summarise the information presented within the article.
See MOS:LEADLENGTH, an article of this length should have a corresponding lead of three or four paragraphs, now there's only two. Zinderboff(talk) 12:30, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: The cut lead text was mostly excessive history, which should not be added back. New paragraphs should be crafted to cover politics, administration, economy, demography, and culture. CMD (talk) 13:33, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead length 

message: outdated info, Somaliland is recognized by one other country as of January 2024, Ethiopia
https://citizen.digital/opinion-blogs/opinion-how-ethiopias-recognition-of-somaliland-can-aid-in-its-quest-for-international-recognition-n334257 Rickman785 (talk) 17:26, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Thickynugnug (talk) 04:00, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 16 March 2024 

message: The image below shows the land controlled by the self-proclaimed government of Somaliland as of August 2023 as the government no longer controls the Sool, Sanaag, Ayn (Buhoodle) region of Somalia. 
thumb|Land controlled by Somaliland self-proclaimed government as of August 2023
https://www.kormeeraha.com/2022/01/20/no-somaliland-recognition-without-sool-and-sanaag-on-board/ Waraabe12 (talk) 03:39, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: . I've made the change on Commons, so you might need to refresh the page. Alaexis¿question? 10:14, 28 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 28 March 2024 

message: What is the exact land area of Somaliland? The Somaliland official government website says 137,600 km2, the official web portal of the Republic of Somaliland says 176,119 km2, our article says 177,000 km2</Sup>, but Google says 284,899 km2.
The Somaliland official government website's figure is less than 50% of Google's figure. For a small country, these are BIG differences. What happened? Which source is right? What is the exact land area of this country?
Links:
# Somaliland official government website
# Official web portal of the Republic of Somaliland
# Google search result  120.16.132.146 (talk) 00:57, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: De facto and de jure 48JCLTALK 00:51, 1 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Huge discrepancy for Somaliland's land area
Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (aircraft)

message: Over the past several months there has been contentious debate over aspects of WP:Article Titles policy.  That contentiousness has led to efforts to improve the overall effectiveness of the policy and associated processes.  An RFC entitled: Wikipedia talk:Article titles/RFC-Article title decision practice has been initiated to assess the communities’ understanding of our title decision making policy.  As a project that has created or influenced subject specific naming conventions, participants in this project are encouraged to review and participate in the RFC.--Mike Cline (talk) 19:09, 16 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  RFC – WP title decision practice 
Talk:Widget

message: Anyone know who came up with the term widget?  I thought it would have been an economist, but the Oxford dictionary has a journalist (I think a journalist) named E. Lyons.  Any thoughts? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.46.125.17 (talk) 21:27, 4 April 2005‎ (UTC)
:The alt.usage.english FAQ traces it back to a 1924 play; I'll mention both in the article. Mindspillage (spill yours?) 16:17, 15 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Etymology 

message: Last week I had a can of Boddingtons containing a different kind of widget.  It's a plastic cylinder (appeared to be about an inch in diameter) stuck to the bottom of the can.  How does this sort compare in how it works?  And do any other brands have this sort as well? -- Smjg 14:10, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Boddingtons widget 

message: Hi. I suggest that a disambiguation page be created for 'widget', which would be better. The entries, quite obviously, can be written as - 
1. Widget_(Device)
2. widget_(Computing)
3. Widget_(Comics)
Thank you.
Jam2k 10:50, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, and it is so done.  See Widget (disambiguation).  Scott Ritchie 18:29, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Disambiguation page

message: It might be worth mentioning here that Roald Dahl used the term widget to describe male gremlins in his book The Gremlins back in WWII (females were fifinellas. Anyone looking into the history of the term might mention this. --DanielCD 22:33, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: A note

message: "The Widget" is also the nickname of the Delta Air Lines logo and/or the livery they used (with minor changes) from the 1970's to 1997. I would add the link to Delta myself, but I do not know how.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.178.89.43 (talk) 00:43, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: There, added including a link to the relevant paragraph in Delta Air Lines. Diego (talk) 12:41, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggest new link  

message: Should I/we add the template of the widget engines Template:Widget engine mabdul 0=* 11:12, 5 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Widget template
Talk:Charles Beaumont

message: "I need some help here. Perhaps his last screenplay was for a movie called "Brain Dead" also (apparently) known as "Paranoia" This was the movie that caused Peter Jackson's "Brain Dead" to eventually be retitled, "Dead/Alive" This should explain why trying to look up some of these things is a little tricky." by User:Beep54. ~Eliz81(C) 08:06, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comment that was originally on article 

message: I revised the projected publication date of the book as per an exchange of emails with publisher Jerad Walters. I realize that this is not up to Wikipedia sourcing standards, but neither was the date that was originally in the article. 😎 HMishkoff (talk) 18:55, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Book publication date
Talk:William F. Nolan

message: More on one of the sources: California Sorcery is a collection of fiction from "The Group" (California writers including Ray Bradbury, Harlan Ellison, and Robert Bloch who were responsible for the bulk of The Twilight Zone scripts). The book has an overview of the development of the group, with biographical details on each member provided there and, in brief, before that member's story.
*How can you say those guys wrote the bulk of TZ scripts?  Bradbury wrote one.  Ellison wrote none for the original.  Bloch wrote none.
Why put inproduced scripts first in Nolan's article?  Sir Rhosis 06:04, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Borda count

message: Since other editors are actively looking at this page I took the bull by the horns and deleted the section on ‘Borda as a consensual method’. Really it was no more than Chinese whispers. It said that ‘The Borda count tends to favor candidates supported by a broad consensus’ but justified this by a reference which said that ‘Borda count is sometimes described as a consensus-based voting system’ without endorsing the claim or suggesting that the people who made it were in any way authoritative.
In fact the claim is certainly made, eg. by the Electoral Reform Society, but the ERS is comparing Borda with less sophisticated systems such as FPTP. Wikipedia puts all sorts of systems into the mix such as Schulze’s, and the statement on Wikipedia that Borda is particularly consensual will be understood as implying that it is consensual in comparison with them rather than in comparison with the ERS alternatives.
In any case the example was unconvincing and gave rise to a lot of editorial hand-wringing on my part. Colin.champion (talk) 07:54, 28 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: @Colin.champion I'm here because I've found multiple references of consensus voting on consensus decision-making, which all seem to be referring to MBC! It seems that Designing an All-Inclusive Democracy: Consensual Voting Procedures for Use in Parliaments, Councils and Committees Emerson 2007 is guilty for coining the term, and I see it is reused in framework called 'CrowdWise' https://rhizomenetwork.wordpress.com/2011/06/02/near-consensus-alternatives-crowd-wise/ DougInAMugtalk 23:15, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh guess what, a certain Mr Emerson is responsible for those appearances of "consensus voting" https://xtools.wmflabs.org/topedits/en.wikipedia.org/Peter_Emerson/0/Consensus_decision-making DougInAMugtalk 23:50, 30 May 2022 (UTC)
replies: text:  Yes, I think it’s best to treat statements that a voting method is consensual with a pinch of salt. The debate between voting theorists is not over whether systems should be consensual, but over which systems have this property. Someone who calls the MBC consensual is either comparing it with procedures which are not conventional voting methods (eg. shouting down), or – if he’s comparing it (eg.) with Condorcet methods – using pseudo-objective language to say that he thinks it’s better. Colin.champion (talk) 07:42, 31 May 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  As a consensual method 

message: This article claims the Borda Count Method applies 1 point to the most preferred candidate, 2 points to the second most preferred candidate, and so on. This is not correct. The Borda Count Method applies 1 point to the voter's least preferred candidate, 2 points to the second least preferred candidate, and so on. If you did it the way this article suggests, you would be wrong every time. It stands to reason that more points should go to the most preferred candidate, not the least. Considering the most points wins, allowing the least preferred candidate to win makes no sense. 47.232.60.12 (talk) 00:55, 17 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article is Incorrect
Talk:Pseudonym

message: As there are a number of people who used several pseudonyms, pen names and other variants should there be a list? (Eleanor Hibbert and David Bowie are probably two of the best known: and perhaps a few of those who are known to have used 100 plus alternative names.) 22:29, 23 August 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Now and then I read of someone known primarily for writing in pulp magazines that he is known to have used [list of a couple of dozen pseudonyms] and probably others. Sometimes that was to disguise writing two stories in the same issue. Likely it was sometimes done to keep editors unaware of how many of them the writer was working for. —Tamfang (talk) 05:29, 28 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Multiple pseudonyms 

message: The section of pen names was confusing. The best-written part - before I messed around with it - described European lady writers using male names to get published in the 18th or 19th centuries. The worst part was using Mark Twain and Lewis Carroll as examples of things that they didn't really exemplify. 
Dodgson wanted to separate his literary life from his real life as a college professor and did not like to be addressed as Lewis Carroll - particularly on fan mail. Clemens was quite the opposite, enjoying his fame as Mark Twain. --Uncle Ed (talk) 12:33, 15 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh yeah, I think it's also cutious how people mystify their presence.@Jeylime 31.29.195.109 (talk) 04:58, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Pen names, etc.

message: How about Franklin W. Dixon, the pen name used by a variety of different authors (Leslie McFarlane, a Canadian author, being the first)? We might mention whether the different authors chose this pen name spontaneously, or it was an idea that came from the publisher. --Uncle Ed (talk) 14:20, 22 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Sounds nice. Plus I like the reference in the title. 31.29.195.109 (talk) 04:57, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Hardy Boys

message: Pseudonym and Takhallus both are same. Can it be merged or done something with Pseudonym? If yes then it would be better to connect the Benguli Laguage. Md. Giashuddin Chowdhury (talk) 01:20, 16 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Takhallus
Talk:Urban planner

message: What is the Style Guide for lists of people in a profession:  Should it be urban planner or urban planners?
-- dml
since the list says "chronological order", might it be an idea to give a yearspan, a century or an era for each person? -- tarquin
"Planning board" redirects here.  A planning board is generally volunteers without this level of training, so this is probably an imprecise redirect.  --otherlleft (talk) 13:30, 7 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Planning Board redirects here but there is nothing in the article about planning boards.  The phrase "planning board" doesn't even appear anywhere in the article.  Planning boards are often a very important part of municipal governments in the United States and many planning boards are quasi-judicial in nature.  I believe this merits an article of its own; if not, there should at the very least be a section about planning boards in this article.  64.185.129.173 (talk) 01:24, 31 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  planning board
Talk:Louis Gathmann

message: I have edited the claims concerning Gathmann's invention of both the German Big Bertha howitzer and the Japanese naval guns used at Tsushima as neither claim has any basis in fact. Both were media inventions. McTodd (talk) 09:09, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Big Bertha and Japanese Naval Ordnance 

message: The claim that the gov't decided not to use his gun because of some ideological bias is also questionable. There's very little written about Gathmann after the 1900s, but contemporary press speaks of test failure. "The Gathmann wet gun cotton shell was a failure, as was also the Isham shell, as it provided only for an outside explosion." "The test of the Gathmann torpedo gun under the requirement of the fortifications act of March 1, 1901, resulted in an unfavorable report, in which the Board of Ordnance and Fortification has concurred." "Mr. Gathmann slated that the failure was due to the gun cotton not being in intimate contact witli the fuze; butt tie character of the fragmentation of the fuze chamber showed do detonation of the primer. " The only slightly more recent account is Teddy Rosevelt's memoirs which say "in the Gathmann Gun matter, because strong political pressure was brought to bear upon me to favor the Gathmann Gun. ... had been attacked in Congress for his failure, fifteen years before, to approve the Gathmann gun". Claims of Gathmann's awesome influence on artillery developments in several countries appear very WP:FRINGE. I can't even find one artillery book after the 1900s that even mentions him. This all appears to be promotion from his descendants on a couple of tripod.com web sites, and which have apparently edited Wikipedia as well. Have mörser, will travel (talk) 16:25, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bias claim biased?
Talk:List of science-fiction authors

message: An editor has identified a potential problem with the redirect :SF author and has thus listed it for discussion. This discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2022 April 1#SF author until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Steel1943 (talk) 19:51, 1 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "SF author" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: Why are the sections from Q thru Z sorted alphabetically by first name within the group of "last name starts with [letter 2603:8000:7A00:DC46:6D46:2E5A:2157:89CB (talk) 04:55, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Likely someone used a generic sort tool and didn't think to skip the first word. —Tamfang (talk) 01:09, 14 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Not that that would always be enough! —Tamfang (talk) 06:23, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  alphabetical by... first name? 

message: Some authors are listed for each of multiple pseudonyms; is that necessary?  We could instead append a list of pseudonyms to the primary name. —Tamfang (talk) 06:25, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  pseudonyms 

message: Most of the de names are under D, and van names under V.
But Lester del Rey is under both D and R; Paul Di Filippo under F; and Paul van Herck under H.  
Is there a policy?  Are their personal preferences known?  —Tamfang (talk) 06:47, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  particles
Talk:List of short-story authors

message: Some distinction ought to be made between authors who are known primarily as short story writers -- where the short story was the primary expression of their craft -- and novelists who also wrote short stories.  The former would include people like Raymond Carver, Harlan Ellison and Bobbie Ann Mason.  The latter would, IMO, include people like William Gibson.
:Agree wholeheartedly. Almost every author has written a short story at some time. BartlebytheScrivener (talk) 17:58, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

message: Maximilianklein (talk) 23:51, 5 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: WorldCat Genres
Talk:Eiffel

message: The tower is never just called "Eiffel" and is therefore not a valid entry in a disambiguation page. In addition, Eiffel programming language and especially Gustave Eiffel are boderline: Do to the fact that this programing language is not at all widely known (unlike, say Java) the words "programming language" are almost allways going to follow this usage. Furthermore, people are only commonly referred to by only their last name in the military or in certain special exceptions (like Seneca or Cicero). In cases like these I tend to simply redirect the nominally ambiguous term to the most widely known and used usage (in this case Gustave Eiffel). I will leave this one alone though -- mainly as an example of disambiguation gone bad. --maveric149 02:44, 27 May 2002
Well, I've typed in "Eiffel" to get the programming language and then later on to get the guy's name so obviously people will try it. Also, it doesn't make that much sence to not list the tower since it's named after the guy and is what he's most well known for. If you're looking for the maker of the Eiffel tower you're probably not going to know the guy's full name so he needs to be listed, the area in Germany needs to be listed since it's a common misspelling, and the language should be listed because someone who doesn't know Wikipedia that well won't know to type "Eiffel programming langauge" and anyways there are many programming language articles that don't contain the phrase "programming langauge" in the title so it's quite concievable that "Eiffel" would go to the language. As for the techno group, who knows maybe they don't know the ending numbers so Eiffel makes sence as a search there. This is a perfectly fine disambiguation page that makes perfect sence the way it is. - DNewhall 19:51, 10 August 2005
DNewhall, I agree! This is perfectly userfriendly and okay. 193.135.25.34 14:22, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
Talk:Blue screen of death

message: Can you add those error codes please? I wanted to know them. Thanks! Cdmxm8807i8x (talk) 00:36, 30 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add a list of Windows 7/8/8.1/10/11 error codes 
Talk:Kingdom of Kush

message: User:MilosHaran deleted the current  with the simple comment: "Not accurate map." The problem is that there is no accurate map of the Kingdom of Kush, and the map the article had was within the space that even the National Geographic defined it: "Kush was a part of Nubia, loosely described as the region between the Cataracts of the Nile." So, I brought the map back since it shows the region clearly enough. I am open to other interpretations. Caballero/Historiador ⎌ 23:15, 7 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with @milosHaran that a map of Africa with a heading 1000 BCE to xxxx should not show Egypt as a part of PersiaEditorfromMars (talk) 22:10, 27 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Map

message: To Vif12vf, meroitic polythiesm is a synchronization of earlier kerman influences and later egyptian influneces,the dieties like 
apadamak (and a few others) are of nubian origin not egyptian origin so blanket statements like it all belongs into "ancient egyptian religion
is careless and inaccurate. Jedorton (talk) 23:18, 2 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  kushite religion 

message: Why does the map lay claim to Egypt, a three thousand year old kingdom who was more often the ruler of Kush, instead of showing the heartlands, core and historically fundament part of Kush? Like having a map of Britain that shows only the peak British Empire.  Dustek (talk) 12:50, 7 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why this map