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Talk:Pica (typography)

message: Can anyone substitute or at least add the corresponding values in SI units? --Mecanismo 18:06, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Wouldn't make much sense to substitute, since the pica is defined as being a sixth of an inch, but I've added the approximate millimeter equivalent. Factitious 20:05, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  SI units? 

message: I'm torn. On the one hand, , Wiktionary, and IPA's always an unpleasant eyesore. On the other, this is a rather obscure pronunciation: pikachu and its French origin are going to point some readers towards reading it /pikə/ and situations like that are the one occasion where pronunciation guides are in order.
The problem is the current article is wrong. It's /ˈpaɪkə/ in American English but /ˈpʌɪkə/ in the UK per the OED's "pica, n²". Personally, I'd rather leave it to the Wiktionary entry rather than have two separate pronunciations here, but what do you guyls think? — LlywelynII 15:25, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Pronunciation

message: Hi, I'm Francesco from Italian Wikipedia. We checked on the web and in technical literature but we can't find any references to P with an overlaid slash (\cancel P) like described in the article. It maybe a vandalism of user Picaman, who wrote the thing. The only symbol we found is a square with a overlaid slash (\cancel \Box ) on this spanish site. I saw the same symbol was used in United States customary units in the form P/, we did't found this form too. So be careful to propagate this unsure symbol--Frank50 s (talk) 16:44, 28 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pica symbol
Talk:Illative case

message: (a question copied from a comment inside. Seemed legitimate and appropriate for talk page.)
- Is there an illative in Latvian too? 
- Latvians use the same locative both for locative and for illative!
i think some mention should be made that Latvian has had illative too.
Well, I came here from this article expecting a discussion of the illative participle in koine Greek, only to be disappointed. Does this case actually exist in this language, or is someone making up crap? (That is an accusation related to no original research, but not identical to it.) -- llywrch (talk) 20:40, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]
Talk:International Save the Children Union

message: I have made a number of changes to this page: Firstly, although Eglantyne Jebb was certainly the leading figure behind the creation of the organisation, she was not the only one. Her sister Dorothy was also involved, although she dropped out of active involvement shortly after. I have also added a link to the International Committee of the Red Cross, which played an important part, and whose patronage certainly contributed to the success of the organisation.
Secondly, I have added information about the closure of the organisation and the location of its archives. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rbreen (talk • contribs) 18:34, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled 9 October 2005
Talk:Declaration of the Rights of the Child

message: This could use some information on what officially constitutes a "child" under UN definitions.  205.156.36.109 01:02, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:St. Jimmy

message: An anonymous poster asked: I'm a lil disturbed about the article... what the hell makes you so sure that Saint Jimmy is the Alter Ego of Jesus?
Someone else (also anonymous replied: I'm not a big Green Day fan and don't own this CD but after some research I would say it is a commonly accepted fact that S. Jimmy = Jesus of Suburbia but if you want to add a note saying the exact identity of St. Jimmy is unclear and disputed feel free. Metamagician3000 13:14, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Refactoring discussion

message: have you ever noticed when Billie Joe Armstrong talks about eather of these characters it seems very personal, i don't know im wondering if eather of these characters (not saying their two people not saying their ore)are based on billie joe mike and tre or on someone they knew in the pasti've been wondering for while. if you listen to the song hashinka off of nimrod it kinda has some simalarties to Whatsername on American Idiot.
he explains this in bullet in a bible co'mmentary for a song--Greenday21 (talk) 22:14, 29 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Billie Joe & St.Jimmy/J.O.S. 

message: Annonamous user with the IP 67.66.219.252 wrote a uncited, un-grammar checked, and in general badly written second spoiler paragraph. It claimed the band (Green Day) had said that St. Jimmy is in fact not JOS' alter ego. I deleted it, because it was not encyclopedic at all, and mostly because it had no citation. Also, Green Day rarely talks about the story aspect of American Idiot, leaving all interpretation up to the listeners, and them explaining how they feel about the story seemed uncharacteristic. So, because of this and the fact that it had no citation, I just deleted it. If 67.66.219.252 would like to re-write it and put it back with citation, they are welcome to.
--Trogdor077 22:03, 25 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  2nd Paragraph
Talk:K. C. Pillai

message: On Wikipedia:Accuracy dispute, it says that a page may be nominated to be checked for accuracy if it was created or edited by someone known to write inaccurately on the subject.  This article was created by 68.191.137.163, who can be clearly seen to edit with little regard for NPOV on The Way International or on subjects related to it, as I presume this "Bishop K.C. Pillai" is. -- Antaeus Feldspar 18:55, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Hey Antaeus, yeah this guy is "close" to TWI hearts. And this page is a copyvio from http://www.cortright.org/key6.htm < Will change text now to not be copyvio for now. Lsjzl 12:40, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Gyikes!  Good catch, Lsjzl! -- Antaeus Feldspar 19:18, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  POV check 
Talk:Balthasar Gérard

message: How much is 50 crowns in modern currency? RJFJR 18:56, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Money in modern units?

message: The description in the article of tortures and method of execution look like a bad 'fairy tale'. Could one provide a historically reliable source for all this? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 62.131.127.26 (talk) 17:36, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Also, the tortures and execution described here do not match the description as given on the William the Silent page. Moreover, William's lasts words differ between these two pages.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.214.50.158 (talk) 19:10, 4 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Tortures

message: It's been on cleanup for about a year.  What's left that needs to be done? RJFJR 18:56, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: What's left to cleanup?

message: I removed some pov wording that pictured Gerardts as a kind of hero and especially his tortures as brutes. The torture (horrific as it must have been) seems fairly standard for those days. After all, according to the Dutch this guy had just killed their freedom fight leader (compare with an assasination of George Washington or similar); thus in Dutch pov the villain (Gerardts) received what was his due. (of course this should also not be the pov of the article). Arnoutf 18:36, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Rem POV

message: If he had only  one firearm, how did he fire three shots?  It is not like they had revolvers back then. The flintlock was not even invented yet. --76.203.126.137 08:52, 10 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: He could have easily carried multiple pistols. Also, he could have had repeating pistols, which were proto-revolvers. 86.86.215.140 (talk) 18:04, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: He was carrying two and was unlikely to have had time to draw a third. The contemporary revolvers were applied to (full size) guns not hand guns, so that is unlikely. Some kind of double barrel design may have been possible though. Arnoutf (talk) 18:29, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Three shots? 

message: It appears as though this passage has been edited beyond recognition:
 On Sunday, 8 July 1584, Gérard loitered in the courtyard examining the premises. A halberdier asked him why he was waiting there. He excused himself by saying that in his shabby clothing and without new shoes he was unfit to join the congregation in the church opposite. The halberdier unsuspectingly arranged a gift of 50 crowns for Gérard, who, the following morning purchased a pair of pistols from a soldier....
To what courtyard does this passage refer? Whose halberdier provided Gérard with the 50 crowns he was unable to cajole from the nobles involved in the conspiracy?
Patronanejo (talk) 03:14, 8 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  What premises?
Talk:Big Youth

message: The article says:
*born April 19, 1949 or February 1955
I don't think we should have both dates on the article.  My first thought was that if we don't know, we shouldn't include either.  On second thought, if, as the article states, Big Youth started performing in 1970, with his own first album in 1971, he would only have been 15 years old had he been born in 1955.  The 1949 date seems far more plausible.
I am going to remove the Feb 1955 date from the article.  If anyone objects, it is open for discussion.  --AStanhope 18:56, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Birthday Question 
Talk:Clement Haynsworth

message: Some editors object to notes such as the one i have added:
: (Haynsworth is occasionally confused with G. Harrold Carswell, who was unsuccessfully nominated the next year for the same vacancy.)
I have observed just such confusion, among professionals: on "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me", in discussing Harriet Miers, one panelist described the "mediocre" quote as targeted at Haynsworth; another was erudite enuf to identify Roman Hruska as having made the statement, without revealing any sign of recalling that Carswell, not Haynsworth, was the subject.
In any case, this could perhaps be better treated using a Haynsworth and Carswell article, analogous to The two boxers Davey Moore, that would compare and contrast them, and to which both Clement Haynsworth & Harold Carswell would lk, e.g. thus:
:He was one of two nominees nominated unsuccessfully for the same vacancy.
--Jerzy•t 19:08, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusion 

message: The sentence regarding the Washington Post endorsement relevant in that it is a major newspaper considered by many to be liberal. However, the sentence should be cited with a generally accepted source that states the WP was liberal at that time. This should not be hard to do as media studies have looked at the politics of newspapers for decades. 
I deleted the comment saying that the WP is a conservative paper for two reasons. First, it is irrelevant to the topic at hand. If no source can be found for the liberal sentence, than that sentence should be deleted. Second, on many other pages it has been decided that as it is an advocacy organization, Media Matters is not a valid sources. (The same would be true for Accuracy in Media.) If MM is citing a study from a peer reviewed journal or something like that, then the origional source should be cited. Ericsean (talk) 19:31, 28 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Washington Post criticism. 

message: Here is an image of Haynsworth that can be uploaded:http://www.history.com/news/a-brief-history-of-supreme-court-battles Blue Director (talk) 19:55, 22 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image
Talk:Caserta Palace

message: I am unhappy with this statement: "Of all the royal residences inspired by the Palace of Versailles, the Reggia of Caserta is the one bearing the greatest resemblance to the original model" is this comment sourced. I can think of several which are (IMO) closer to Versailles, the most obvious imitation being Herrenchiemsee.  I won't remove it, but I would like it to be referenced. In  my view the Baroque of Versailles and Caserta are widely different. Giano | talk 21:29, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this correct 

message: I've in the end decided to remove the following paragraph:
The kingdom of Naples was neither powerful nor prosperous when Caserta was built, and it has been unflatteringly described by the historian Edward Crankshaw as "a colossal monument to minuscule glory" and a reviewer of George Hersey, Architecture, Poetry, and Number in the Royal Palace at Caserta, found that "interpretive description is palsied by monotony, the principal quality of the palace and its garden.Unesco site evaluation. 
It looks like POV, and of old-fashioned storiography. I'm not a fan of the Kingdom of Naples, nor of the "sudists" revisionists who are recently trying to revise Risorgimento as a colonization of a richer south of Italy from the avid Piedmontese. Not because the latter weren't, but because probably Kingdom of Naples was not that developed country that they want to convice us it was, just because it was the first Italian country to havew a railway (5 km long!!!!). IMHO, it was little more developed the the Papal States, which, in the 19th century, was the most underdeveloped and medieval in the whole Europe. Notice that the Kingdom of Naples had abolished feudalism only in 1805, and only for it was under a Napoleonic-French king. --Attilios 10:34, 7 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: The kingdom of Naples was neither powerful nor prosperous when Caserta was built. Removing quotes of published historians because one doesn't like them, while retaining a jejune and inaccurate assertion like It is inspired by the park of Versailles, but it is commonly regarded as superior in beauty, takes a certain kind of self-confidence.--Wetman (talk) 12:03, 18 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Doubtful, POV paragraph
Talk:Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre

message: As of October 2006, Royal Hospital has a new name, which is now Royal Ottawa Mental Health Center --Deenoe 01:34, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: New name

message: Wasn't Mr. Hughes released into the community several years ago? I want someone else to verify before I edit anything. Reference the article on Andrew Leyshon-Hughes.claimman75 (talk) 00:46, 10 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Andrew Leyshon-Hughes
Talk:Queensway Carleton Hospital

message: Can someone help with information on the one-dollar-rent segment?  The following may be useful:  details of the failed bill in November 2005, negotiations made leading up to the $1 announcement, etc.  It should still be fresh in several news websites.  Also, I admit I'm struggling with NPOV because I'm not a Poilievre fan.  --Bdsmith 14:57, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Rent

message: Reverted to the previous entry since 400,000,000 people for the hospital makes no sense.MinRob (talk) 01:57, 6 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Reverted...
Talk:Khowa people

message: I had a little bit of trouble with the first sentence of this article, and I've tried to rephrase it to make the context more clear.  Since I don't know anything about the topic, I've left the rephrasing here; please feel free to add it to the article if I got everything correct.
*The Khowa, also known as the Bugun, are a tribe of indigenous people living in the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh.  They live mainly in the sub-tropical Thrinzo circle in the sub-divisions of Wanghoo, Kaspi, Singchung and Tenga, within the Bichum and Teliga circles of the West Kameng district.
I also noticed the "purple and heckered jackets" -- should this be "checkered"?
-- Creidieki 19:54, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Article's first sentence
Talk:List of tallest buildings in Ottawa–Gatineau

message: :The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposal. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
The result of the debate was move. —Nightstallion (?) 11:04, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: * It seems to be that this list should be amended to be the National Capital Region's tallest buildings, esp. since the tallest building is on the Gatineau side.  When the downtown exists on both sides of the river, and it's one interconnected metropolitan area, it seems silly to have a list that pretends that nothing exists on one side of the river.  Skeezix1000 19:48, 11 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Earlier discussion

message: In the first sentence: "This is a list of the 10 tallest ..." is mentioned that this list includes only ten buildings but there are more than fifteen buildings listed on the main list. Wabba The I (talk) 14:24, 31 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  10 or more? 

message: A discussion is taking place to address the redirect :Tallest ottawa. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2020 September 25#Tallest ottawa until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  Regards, SONIC678 16:31, 25 September 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Tallest ottawa" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: Why was there such a dramatic change to this article with regards to building heights? I'm not sure its been improved to be more accurate. The one glaring issue is Le Parc is definitely 104m tall but now is nowhere to be found. This calls into question the entire accuracy of the article for me. I've been coming to this article for quite a few years now and I just don't know about it anymore. Gravelcyclist (talk) 13:59, 27 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Further discussion about the updated building heights is here: User talk:Harleyd613#Ottawa Gatineau Tallest Buildings (cc Harleyd613) Consigned (talk) 22:22, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dramatic Change of this article 

message: Hi Harleyd613, thank you for all of the photos. I find the skyline images at the top of the article too small to give a proper overview of the city when introducing the article; do you have any which give a good view of the skyline when shrunk to a thumbnail? At List of tallest buildings in Calgary there's a single image at the top then some wide skylines further below. Consigned (talk) 22:26, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Header image
Talk:List of bridges in Ottawa

message: The last two bridges : the See Also is really unclear. --Deenoe 10:54, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  See also 

message: this list should be expanded to cover Ottawa-Gatineau 70.51.10.188 (talk) 11:24, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Gatineau
Talk:Beacon Hill, Ottawa

message: As shown in the Ottawa Neighbourhood map, Beacon Hill is bounded by the Ottawa River, the 174, Blair Road, and a small creek to the east of the city.  Does anyone have the name for that creek so that we can write the actual boundries in the article?  The creek is Ruisseau Green's Creek. --Sigma 7 07:34, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Because of these actual boundaries, I've removed CSIS from the list of buildings in Beacon Hill - it's just barely on section 36 (Ottawa North East). --Sigma 7 07:58, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Boundaries 

message: As per WP:CANSTYLE#Neighbourhoods, this article should be moved to Beacon Hill, Ottawa.  In accordance with the guideline, however, the move is first being raised on the talk page. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 13:19, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed page move
Talk:Burritts Rapids

message: The following coordinate fixes are needed for Burritts Rapids, Ontario
Should be 44.9834282, -75.7991492 (Currently 44.816667, -75.798611)
David Taylor
: (though not with quite the precision that you've given; see WP:OPCOORD).  Thanks for pointing out the error. Deor (talk)18:03, 30 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coordinate error
Talk:Cedardale, Ottawa

message: - move to Cedardale, Ottawa
As per WP:CANSTYLE#Neighbourhoods, this article should be moved to Cedardale, Ottawa.  In accordance with the guideline, however, the move is first being raised on the talk page. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 13:11, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed page move
Talk:Cumberland, Ontario (city)

message: Cumberland's population isn't independently reported by the Canadian Census anymore...2006 census figure is calculated by summing all of Cumberland's component census tracts. Marathone 09:25, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  2006 census 

message: As per WP:CANSTYLE#Neighbourhoods, this article should be moved to Cumberland, Ontario, especially since it is no longer a city, and the "(city)" disambiguation is not in keeping with any naming convention.  In accordance with the guideline, however, the move is first being raised on the talk page. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 13:05, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Upon realizing that there was another, almost identical, stub article on Cumberland's years as a township, I was bold and merged the two articles at Cumberland, Ontario.  There is no need for two stubs dealing with the same subject.  Skeezix1000 (talk) 11:44, 20 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed page move
Talk:Embassy Row, Ottawa

message: The article on the Jamaican embassy says it's on Slater Street. But that *is* the Jamaican flag in the photo. Perhaps, that's where the ambassador lives? -- Earl Andrew - talk 18:44, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: They migh call it "Embassy Row" but to me it looks like those are mostly official residences not the actual embassies (formally chancery). --Kevlar (talk • contribs) 23:54, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Residence vs. Embassy
Talk:Greely, Ontario

message: I'm not sure it's appropriate to have a section on softball that's longer than the article itself, expecially since it doesn't seem to be very notable. Hockeyalltheway25 (talk) 14:29, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Softball

message: Does anyone know why the town was named 'Greely?' Was it named after a notable family or after an older town somewhere? Grandma Roses (talk) 13:28, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of name
Talk:Ficko

message: - move to Ficko, Ottawa.
As per WP:CANSTYLE#Neighbourhoods, this article should be moved to Ficko, Ottawa.  In accordance with the guideline, however, the move is first being raised on the talk page. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 13:32, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed page move
Talk:Dorrit Hoffleit

message: This stub is plagiarized from here:
http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/d/do/dorrit_hoffleit.htm
— Preceding unsigned comment added by 130.132.143.49 (talk • contribs) 16:16, 9 October 2005
:The link above is broken. See instead: http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Dorrit_Hoffleit which includes the text of this Wikipedia biography under the terms of the GFDL. It is not plagiarism. --mikeu talk 15:33, 9 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Heron Gate

message: The following section of this article is written as an advertisement for a real estate agent, and contains unverifiable, as well as personal opinions: "At the moment, Heron Gate is growing a great community of new homes, and the real state business is giving a great value to this central area of the city".
While it is true that Heron Gate has ONE developer building new homes in the area, the writer cannot make the claim that these add great value to the region, nor state that these homes are creating a great community. To me, this seems like promotional material for the one developer in question. Userinottawa (talk) 06:46, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Given that the Timbercreek evictions are a significant source of press and scholarship for this area, I've moved that information to its own section. I've also removed the references to renx.ca, since, as an industry source (the interview is with Timbercreek’s executive director of marketing), it does not appear to be reliable as per wiki standards. CropMilk (talk) 13:42, 8 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV dispute
Talk:Honey Gables

message: - move to Honey Gables.
As per WP:CANSTYLE#Neighbourhoods, this article should be moved to Honey Gables, Ottawa.  In accordance with the guideline, however, the move is first being raised on the talk page. --Skeezix1000 (talk) 17:46, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed page move