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Wikipedia talk:Literature collaboration of the fortnight

message: I feel Week 1 has been a complete failure - look at the article A Tale of Two Cities - its still quite frankly too short and un-informative. Next week we must pick a topic more people are capable of writing about. --CGorman 18:12, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Ya. We really have two options - try and get more people by advertising it and looking for more contributors or broaden the scope by, say, broadening the scope to arts as the anon suggested above. JOHN COLLISON | (Ludraman) 21:30, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: It's something that I've noticed with this - it really requires one or two people to be prepared to get the meat of the article there, and then you'll find a bunch of other people chipping in to add corrections and little bits and pieces. For the Australian collaboration of the week, two of us wrote the bulk of Cyclone Tracy, and it was featured. Then, the second time, both of us were too busy and didn't have the necessary resources for the one that was picked, and no one else had a chance to write it up in detail, so although it's improved the article, it's still nowhere near featured status. So, I think there's two solutions to this - one, pick topics that a lot of people are going to know about (I'm a bit surprised A Tale of Two Cities was a failure on this count, but I suppose you could get more common), and secondly, be prepared to do a fair bit of the work yourself if you want it to succeed. Ambi 23:10, 15 Oct 2004 (UTC)

text: Yeah, I think it's okay for the main COTW, but for us, a vote should IMnsHO, mean a contribution (though it doesn't have to be any sort of major one, or that would discourage voting. JOHN COLLISON [ Ludraman] 16:10, 21 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disappointment 

message: On the French Wikipedia, they have a great literature template, which you can see here. what do you think about creating a similar template from English, or even copying the French template? Danny 19:06, 7 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: A Template

message: * I worry for this place. I just updated the COTW list template, and this and the Gaming COTW are the only 'subject' ones left. I'm not sure how a COTW dies, but since they're participation driven, you need something like fifteen people to keep it from bottoming out. This place has been on the verge of abandonment and although it's done better than most (Just look at Science and Music, which went straight from cradle to grave), I'm not sure if the wiki-age of specialty COTWs isn't drawing to a close. -Litefantastic 15:45, 10 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Save the LCOTW
Talk:Tekle Haymanot

message: Is it just me, or does that not look like him (is the Greek or Russian Orthodox?)? Can we get an Ethiopian portrait/icon of him, please?
Yom 16:51, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Image

message: Why y'all keep deleting tekle Haymnot ethnicity? 2A00:A040:194:C4AF:CD15:A468:DD22:72A7 (talk) 19:09, 6 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tekle Haymnot ethnicity
Talk:Allomorph

message: There is a probable oversight in the first paragraph (emphasized here in bold). "In linguistics, an allomorph is a variant form of a morpheme. The concept occurs when a unit of meaning can vary in sound without changing meaning. ..." This should be "can vary in sound and also spelling", as the discussion relative to Sanskrit would have shown had devanagari been used. Lavomengro (talk) 22:13, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  A probable oversight in the first paragraph. 

message: After going through the citations it came to my attention that section 1 and section 3 of this article have wording that is very closely related to the first source under references. For now, I am going to simply put a citation by those sections, but in the future those sections should probably be rewritten to make sure that it is not considered plagiarism. Sergiowallsergio (talk) 16:25, 10 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change for possible plagiarism 

message: Isn't it [ɪz], and /bʌsɪz/? 2A00:23C5:FE18:2701:45E0:8821:6E38:C311 (talk) 03:40, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: They're both possible.--Megaman en m (talk) 14:27, 16 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  [s], [z], and [əz]; and buses /bʌsəz/ 

message: The article says "The term was originally used to describe variations in chemical structure. It was first applied to language (in writing) in 1948, by Fatih Şat and Sibel Merve in Language XXIV", with attribution to "Oxford English Dictionary Online: Entry 50006103. Accessed: 2006-09-05". This is incorrect. There is no article by Fatih Şat and Sibel Merve in the journal Language volume 24 (1948); there is no OED entry 50006103; and the OED in fact has an earlier citation for the word allomorph, by Paul Garvin. Moreover, I haven't been able to find any mention anywhere of linguists named Fatih Şat and Sibel Merve. (The one correct bit of this is that volume 24 of Language is in fact from 1948.)  
Can someone provide a better reference to Şat and Merve? Perhaps the information is buried inside an article by someone else?
Should I simply delete this incorrect information from the article? Linguistatlunch (talk) 21:16, 30 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  History
Talk:Chancellor of France

message: Hi, I just created a page for Michel de L'Hospital, a 16th Century chancellor. Somebody ought to add him to the list, but I'm not sure what to do, as there seem to be a few missing between him, and the earliest one listed. Rhymeless | (Methyl Remiss) 08:56, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: You'd think eventually somebody would take care of this.. -Tim Rhymeless  (Er...let's shimmy) 05:16, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Michel de L'Hospital

message: Has an article on the French Wikipedia page. Jackiespeel (talk) 09:34, 22 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Pierre Doriole
Talk:Susanthika Jayasinghe

message: "...in 2000 she became the nations first Olympic Games medalist since 1948 behind Merlene Ottey and Zhanna Pintusevich-Block."  - I don't understand the meaning of this phrase. What is trying to be said here?? Drdr1989 21:46, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: No sense
Talk:The Continental (Saturday Night Live)

message: Isn't this a parody of some soap opera from the fifties? I remember seeing it when Mad Magazine reprinted their early comics in a special series. -Branddobbe 09:43, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC)
::I believe the show was called The Continental, but I'm not sure. Christopher just talked about this on Live! with Regis and Kelly a few days ago. I'm going to bookmark this page and come back to it if I actually find something. JoeHenzi 23:55, 14 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: No, one of Pepe le Pew's cartoons just parodied the same source material in pretty much the same way as Walken's parody and half the other parodies over the decades. --50.0.192.101 (talk) 08:02, 22 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Earlestown railway station

message: Is there any evidence that the original station building dates to 1835? Dawson dates it to 1844/5 in his recent book on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway. CastWider (talk) 22:06, 30 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: One of the problems with describing the infrastructure of the early L&MR is that, apart from Crown Street, Liverpool Road and one or two others, several of the "stations" weren't stations in the modern sense - there were no raised platforms or permanent buildings. They were just convenient places to stop close to a road crossing, and appeared in (or disappeared from) the published schedules according to traffic demand. Some of them appeared under different names in different sources, some names were reused for stations at locations different from the original use of that name. It is possible that Stephenson, on planning the railway, did not wish to incur the expense of permanent buildings at locations which might fail to generate traffic. So Earlestown may have started as a temporary structure, acquiring more permanent buildings once the traffic had become established. The choice of location for the station was simple - it was the triangular junction at the northern end of the GJR. --Redrose64 🌹 (talk) 00:26, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. However, the article asserts that surviving buildings date to 1835 and that they are the oldest railway buildings in continuous passenger use. It would be useful to clarify the situation with respect to Edge Hill, for example, which dates in part to 1836. Did Edge Hill temporarily withdraw from passenger use? If not, then it would seem to have a better claim unless I'm mssing something. CastWider (talk) 18:43, 31 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Early history 

message: Check when Richard Evans started in the north of England mining business before including the name in text about the early 1830's.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.25.94.142 (talk) 21:26, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Richard Evans Collieries?  Early 1830's?

message: Currently the infobox lists these as the historical station names:
:15 September 1830 Opened as Newton Junction
:July 1852 Renamed Warrington Junction
:November 1861 Renamed Earlestown Junction
:5 June 1950 Renamed Earlestown
However, it doesn't seem like this is entirely correct. For example, see below for a timetable in 1832 which lists the station as "Warrington Junction":
:
FozzieHey (talk) 17:57, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Historical station names
Talk:Simon Jones (actor)

message: The actor who played Arthur Dent in the 12-part radio adaptation, the 6-part LP audio adaptation, and the 6-part television adaptation of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" needs a portrait/picture. I don't know how to do it. Perhaps someone can help? 97.113.146.165 (talk) 20:14, 27 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: No image for Jones?

message: This should be moved to Simon Jones because there is no disambiguation needed, as far as I know. I'd do it myself, but the redirect's in the way. - Furrykef 10:06, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Of course the above no longer applies. - furrykef (Talk at me) 06:00, 1 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I added information about Simon Jones' Oct.8th car accident but I don't know if I did it right.
Please check it.Ed (talk) 11:54, 23 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  accident 
Talk:Service-level objective

message: from VfD:
Valid topic, invalid article (and almost certainly copyvio, as well).  SLO's vary widely from company to company.  This article does not discuss the topic, but lists the SLO's for a single company (Rabobank).  'Looks like it came straight from company literature.  SWAdair | Talk  10:09, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: From VfD
Talk:Waldorf Astor, 2nd Viscount Astor

message: Nancy Astor's page lists the five children she had by Waldorf Astor. Why are they not shown on Waldorf's page? Valetude (talk) 19:08, 1 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  His children 

message: The one sentence on his racing interests is hardly true (yes he did have a horse that won the St Leger) but mainly wrong. He most certainly did not take over his father's stable. I'll try to find time to add to this section as he was one of the most important thoroughbred owner-breeders of the 1915-1950 era. (Victor Middlesex (talk) 01:26, 9 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  His Racing Interests
Talk:Port Howard

message: Attractions include a ford ? - or should that be fort ? 213.51.209.230 10:45, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a ford - perhaps not the most exciting attraction, but true. Warofdreams 11:13, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: There are different statements about the flag on the coffin - the other article Engagement at Many Branch Point says there was no Union Jack --Eingangskontrolle (talk) 20:31, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I've noticed this incongruity. It's extremely problematic. The Brits say he was so heroic that the Argentines procured a Union Jack, and the Argentines say that some petty people refused them one. Who's to say? Maybe this contradiction should be noted. --MacRusgail (talk) 15:01, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Union Jack ? 
Talk:Porsche 931

message: I don't think this page should be wikified; it concerns a variant of the Porsche 924 and the only reason I haven't turned it into a redirect is because not all of the info has been incorporated into the 924 article. If anyone wants to work on this page I'd suggest they move its contents into the 924 article. SamH 11:06, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Nacho King!

message: from VfD:
A nacho kiosk franchise in the Philippines that again, has mastered the art of google bombing.  Is an unkonwn nacho franchise notable enough for an encyclopedia? --Viriditas 11:42, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This article has been substantially rewritten. The advert language about franchises has been removed and points about notability have been addressed. -JCarriker 23:06, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
*Well in that case keep Theresa Knott  (The torn steak) 23:40, 13 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Comments 
Talk:Nimzowitsch Defence

message: 3.exd5 Qxd5, followed by either 4.Nf3, seeking to gain time by attacking the queen with Nc3, but enabling Black to put pressure on White's centre with 4...Bg4 or 4...e5.
I'm finding this sentence hard to grasp — feels like it should be "seeking to gain time _before_ attacking the queen" or perhaps "_then_ seeking to gain time by attacking the queen"?
cf. this edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nimzowitsch_Defence&diff=next&oldid=164498084.
As a novice player, I'd like a second opinion before making the edit, though.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Robert.sinton (talk • contribs) 23:05, 9 April 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: If 4. Nc3 Black plays Qxd4 winning a pawn. So White defends it with 4. Nf3, *then* gains time by attacking the queen with 5. Nc3. 2A00:23C7:548F:C01:52A4:BE26:845B:5A8 (talk) 17:05, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Clarification

message: Magnus Carlsen played 2...d5?! against Gates, not the solid and transpositional 2...e5, as the article erroneously states. http://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-magnus-carlsen-chess-match-2014-1 Krakatoa (talk) 17:16, 27 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Gates-Carlsen
Talk:Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan

message: I would like to fix a small thing on the list of sons it says his wife were married since 2007 but actually 2005 and he is divorced with his former wife not currently. 31.215.222.170 (talk) 06:02, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Kpgjhpjm  06:33, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 2 August 2023
Talk:Jablonec nad Nisou

message: Gablonz, which I turned into a redirect, contained this:
:Gablonz is German name for town of Jablonec in Bohemia, Czech Republic and was derived from older Czech name Jablonecz (from 1356) in the line Jablonecz - Jablonicz - Gablonicz - Gablonz.  _R_ 13:23, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Talk:Busted

message: Someone seems to be under the impression that label-less Fightstar is a successful act!
They didn't actually say they were Tories. If you read the original Tatler article, only Charlie said that he was a Conservative supporter (well, he is a public schoolboy). Matt said he ought to be a Tory because he earns so much now and James said he supports the Monster Raving Loony Party. --195.11.216.59 13:30, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Reads like it was writing by, either Busted themselves or one of their mothers 80.3.89.183 19:18, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good Lord 

message: According to a BBC article, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3390003.stm, they weren't manufactured, but chose to go the "pop band" route, this sounds plausible, but the three of them are all seen playing guitars/vocals, who'se the drummer? (I know their lead singer was a former drummer, but in the videos he's shown at the front)
Or did they, like Spinal Tap, go through more drummers than Pete Doherty does hypodermics?
Something this awful had to be manufactured.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by KenSharp (talk • contribs) 11:06, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Manufactured? 

message: The Singles are not complete: there's manking "Hurra, die Schule brennt". It's a Video running on MTV 83.176.151.111 (talk) 17:20, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Singles 

message: this link from The People newspaper says that BUSTED are making a return....
http://www.people.co.uk/showbiz/showbiz/tm_method=full%26objectID=20360100%26siteID=93463-name_page.html  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.104.152.7 (talk) 17:59, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed it because I saw one reference from a non-reputable source which was swiftly quashed by Matt Willis. If someone wants to re-add a version with reliable sources AND citations that it was widely reported, please do. Otherwise, it seems fairly non-notable to me. -mattbuck (Talk) 14:59, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  They're Back?

message: "The bands initial line-up consisted of James Bourne on Guitar and Vocals who is crap, Matt Sergeant (Willis) on Drums who is crap , Owen Doyle on Bass and Vocals,who is also shit and Ki Fitzgerald on Guitar and Vocals [1] called The Termites. The latter two members were sacked later that year. they also did not play there own instruments".
Classic stuff there! 
Tommyhaych 18:23, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Congrats on your editing skills.. 

message: Changed the face of British music? In what way? Citation needed to at least several critics/commentators for that comment methinks.
Anon. 10 June 2008 21:55 GMT
:It scrunched up into a look of disgust.  ;) 87.194.30.174 (talk) 14:35, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changed the face of British music? 

message: MTV now has a television show called busted TheHammer24 (talk) 03:27, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  MTV Show
Talk:129 (number)

message: Is it just me, or does this look "odd" to anybody else?
"... can be expressed as a sum of three squares in four different ways: ..." followed by only three examples.
If 112 + 22 + 22 is two of the four ways, maybe it would help to point that out.
I'm just sayin'.  ;-)  
Flagstonia (talk) 22:25, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Odd statement?
Talk:126 (number)

message: Removed useless trivia - first, Tom Cruise's incorrect gas bill (how is that notable, especially to the number 126?), and also the stuff about the numbers on the keyboard. If anyone has good reasons to keep this stuff, post it here.
71.212.5.9 (talk) 15:16, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Useless trivia 

message: Best number ever. Reliable Forevertalk 14:42, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Best number ever.
Talk:124 (number)

message: I restored the unbiquadium comment-out because the element hasn't even been discovered yet, per WP:NUM. As far as I know, no scientist team is trying to discover unbiquadium. Once a team of scientists announces they've discovered, the comment-out is removed. When the element gets an official name is usually at least a year from date of discovery. PrimeFan 18:47, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unbiquadium
Talk:121 (number)

message: Until a couple of minutes before my edits, this page made it seem like it was a conjecture that there are no squares after 121 that are of the form x4 + x3 + x2 + x + 1. This is actually easy to prove!
Case 1: Let x = 2k
Then, x4 + x3 + x2 + x + 1 = 16k4 + 8k3 + 4k2 + 2k + 1. For k > 0, this is between (4k+k)2 and (4k+k+1)2.
Case 2: Let x = 2k+1
Then, x4 + x3 + x2 + x + 1 = 16k4 + 40k3 + 40k2 + 20k + 5. For k > 0, this is between (4k2+k)2 and (4k2+k+1)2. For k > 1, this is between (4k2+5k+1)2 and (4k2+5k+2)2.
As a result, it suffices to check k = 0 and k = 1 and there are no solutions other than x = 0 and x = 3. 173.76.131.225 (talk) 21:32, 18 March 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I spot a mistake, but more importantly, this is original research. I'll revert your edits for now, but feel free to reinstate them if you can include a reliable source for this information. Gap9551 (talk) 07:43, 19 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Squares of the form x4 + x3 + x2 + x + 1 

message: please add my account  45.112.29.69 (talk) 00:27, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: For information on creating a Wikipedia account, please see Wikipedia:Account. Certes (talk) 12:37, 25 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mera account add kyu nahi ho raha hai
Talk:Call centre

message: The redirect Contact Center as a Service has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at  until a consensus is reached.  Utopes (talk / cont) 20:52, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "[[:Contact Center as a Service]]" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]]
Talk:Taijiquan (pinyin article)

message: We currently have two versions of the same article (T'ai Chi Ch'uan and Taijiquan (pinyin article)) in order to avoid problems between those who prefer pinyin and those who prefer Wade-Giles. They are cross-referenced, so it is easy enough for someone who wants to check the other version to switch back and forth. This helps to avoid the inelegant and confusing mixture of different romanization schemes in the same article, a problem endemic to articles relating to Chinese culture. I hope this helps. Fire Star 16:44, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Romanization]]
Talk:Hotwife

message: from VfD:
*Looks like utter nonsense.  Exploding Boy 17:07, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC)
*A quick google reveals 30,000 hits for the term, and from what I can tell off the results page, they're relevant. However, I see no reason this can't be redirected to swinging. Any objections? Meelar (talk) 19:38, Oct 8, 2004 (UTC)
*Delete. Actual concept is covered in swinging, the rest is POV and misdefinition.  — Gwalla | Talk 22:20, 8 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Comments

message: Florian Blaschke, as you can see from this edit, I reverted you. Sorry if my edit summary sounded too threat-ish. What I mean is that this topic, under the term hotwife, is not WP:Notable, and clearly should be covered in the Swinging (sexual practice) article, where alternative wife terms are also used. It's already covered there...but currently without the term hotwife. But I do stand by my statement that I will take this article to WP:AfD if you revert the redirect and let the article stay in the poor shape it was in. Even if the article were well-sourced, "hotwife" doesn't need its own Wikipedia article. I am more of a WP:No split editor. If the split is not needed, then I am not for splitting. WP:Spinout also advises against unnecessary splits. Flyer22 (talk) 05:14, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Please, if you insist on the redirect, merge the content of this article into Swinging (sexual practice) and do mention the term there. I'm still unhappy with the solution since the article says that "hotwife" is emphatically not swinging. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 13:26, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: As you can see, the content in the article is completely unsourced. So I'm not inclined to believe its assertion that "hotwife" is not swinging, especially when it is redundant to what is already at the Swinging (sexual practice) article. As for merging, I don't like adding unsourced material to articles. But I won't revert you if you merge the content to the Swinging (sexual practice) article. Flyer22 (talk) 13:40, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Redirect discussion