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Talk:Confidence interval

message: Perhaps someone can expand the history section. It used to be longer, but most of it was irrelevant.
Was interval estimation used before Neyman? What did his contemporaries think? What about their adoption besides medical journals?
FRuDIxAFLG (talk) 06:22, 19 January 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: So far as I know, the doctrine of confidence intervals, or confidence 'belts', was indeed introduced by Neyman, but the 1937 paper cited in the article was not his earliest statement.  Several earlier papers are included in the CUP selection of Neyman's early statistical papers.  There was also an important 1934 paper by E. S. Pearson and C. Clopper.   As to what Neyman's contemporaries thought, when Neyman expounded the method at the Royal Statistical Society in 1934, both A L Bowley and R A Fisher had strong reservations about its value.  (Bowley made a bad joke about 'confidence tricks'.)  Neyman's 1937 paper was in part an attempt to answer these criticisms.  For interval estimation in general, Fisher's obscure doctrine of 'fiducial probability' predates  Neyman's doctrine, and Neyman first presented confidence limits as an extension of Fisher's idea, but Fisher himself did not like the comparison.   2A00:23C8:7907:4B01:A825:2DCD:C5C3:B3EF (talk) 16:41, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

text: I rewrote the history section, though I didn't look at the talk page and it still only answers the first of FRuDIxAFLG's three questions. Several papers before 1937 are now cited, including the 1934 one by Clopper and E. Pearson. As shown in the quotation that I added, the 1934 paper by Neyman is the first one where he presented the theory of confidence intervals. Merrick08 (talk) 13:22, 16 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  History needs expansion
Talk:Intolerable Acts

message: Shouldn't the acts be listed under the m ain article? otherwise, they are all a group of stubs -Lt Ender — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.115.215.101 (talk) 23:09, 18 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. I am in favor of merging the individual acts here, and turning the articles into redirects here. Firestorm 18:12, 25 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merging 

message: They're the same thing, so they should've had a redirect anyway. :P
-skateboarder11(skateboarder11@nospam.gmail.com) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 147.31.4.43 (talk) 14:23, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thank you for redirecting my article "Coercive Acts". 

message: There is no evidence at all that colonists referred to the Coercive Acts as the Intolerable Acts. NO EVIDENCE. This is a 19th century invention by historians. The term used at the time was Coercive Acts.Princetoniac (talk) 14:43, 8 May 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Wiki uses 21st century language because our readers are 21st century people.  If we had to write articles dealing with the 1770s or 1670s or 1570s using ONLY the language of that bygone day, then Wikipedia would be confusing indeed to many readers not trained in historiography. Rjensen (talk) 00:16, 21 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coercive Acts, not the Intolerable Acts 

message: PLEASE tell us exactly WHY the Intolerable Acts got their name. It annoys me I_I. “With great power comes great responsibility,” as people always say.52.144.111.98 (talk) 15:46, 9 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sooooo...
Talk:Cohort (military unit)

message: Why does this just redirect to "legion"? Now we can't have pages for anything about other uses of the word "cohort". Wiwaxia 17:38, 6 Sep 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: I can not find any listing that a cohort is 480 men. I do that it is 600 men like in this dictionary. I have changed it. About that a cohort also can be 500 men I do not know that is true. --Walter 17:56, 17 Mar 2005 (UTC)

text: created a disambiguation page and moved Cohorts to Cohort (military unit)--Tombombadil 6 July 2005 17:45 (UTC)
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The cohort itself was divided into six centuries of 80 men" Written by a total ignoramus - a Century, as the name implies means precisely 100 men, nothing more, nothing less. His other statistics are also all ridiculously inaccurate, like the 480 man cohort. [NAME?]
I think you will find that the century as you seem to think it is (=100) is nothing to do with the military centuria. This was almost always 80 men and anyone who spends more than 10 minutes studying the Roman army would know that, rather than resorting to calling people an 'ignoramus'. A contubernium consisted of 8 men and each century consisted of 10 contubernia, so it is not possible for it to add up to more than 80. Each cohort (apart from the double strength 1st Cohort in a Legion) consisted of six centuries = 480 men at ideal strength. Andypeg123 (talk) 21:28, 7 August 2008 (UTC)

text: no necessarily. it just points out how far back in history military units have typically been under strength.Toyokuni3 (talk) 23:14, 26 July 2008 (UTC)

message: i'm afraid it isn't immediately obvious what this refers to. it can't be 'latin' since all the terms are latin.Toyokuni3 (talk) 23:12, 26 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: (LA)

message: It says there are 6 centuria, 5 of them double-sized, totaling 800 men. 11x80=880, if I'm not mistaken. I didn't edit the article because I wasn't sure which, the 5 centuria or the 800 men, was wrong. --98.169.245.233 (talk) 05:52, 12 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Math
Talk:Landsknecht

message: Thank you, Loren, for your improvements to the style of this article. I am afraid it was not one of my better efforts. :-) Dieter Simon 18:47, 6 Sep 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I moved Tross down from a "see also" in Organization to a generic see also at the bottom, as it's not really particularly a part of organization per se.  I also finally removed that horrid Games Workshop image, now that the lovely image of the standard bearer in battle has been added. Larry Dunn 20:43, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Some recent edits 

message: The notion that 1800 landsknecht slayed nearly 15 000 Swedish farmers is ridiculous, as that many men hardly ever partook in any of Swedish revolts. Even if it's just a quote from a soldier of that time, it adds nothing of value to the article. On the contrary, the landsknecht underperformed repeatedly in the Swedish Kalmar union rebellions which in the end would allow Sweden to secede from Denmark.
I will delete that section eventually if nobody protests. --94.255.146.227 (talk) 01:32, 24 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Siege of Älvsborg 

message: I've removed the clothing section as it appears to have been entirely plagiarized from Luca Stefano Cristini's The landsknechts: German militiamen from late XV and XVI century. --2604:6000:A640:2500:6CBE:8337:D76B:C03D (talk) 16:10, 11 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clothing Plagiarism
Talk:Edsger W. Dijkstra

message: It's a bit ironic he is being called a software engineer when he was against that term. Perhaps software developer is more appropriate?Zvtok (talk) 23:03, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Software Engineer 

message: His death is both mentioned in the biography section under "last years", as well as in the "death" section. Should one be removed? 217.105.2.26 (talk) 17:24, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Death 

message: Since the latest changes are very drastic (removing a lot of material that isn't obviously wrong from glancing through it), I was wondering if you could explain further here in the talk page what's going on. Thanks, Caleb Stanford (talk) 18:31, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Answered here. Caleb Stanford (talk) 19:13, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Massive content removal (July 2022)
Talk:William Stamps Farish II

message: This article seems to take Farish's side in his disputes with the US government.  Additionally, much of the language used seems unprofessional.  I'm tagging this article for cleanup and NPOV. Gentgeen 19:08, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  NPOV and cleanup 

message: It is not speculation Farben was involved in slave labour at Auschwitz.
I put an "Unreferenced" notice here because such serious claims require precise references not a disconnected list at the bottom. Also, I will put in a POV notice as this is an Encyclopedia. Handicapper 17:15, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Farben and slave labour 

message: This article refers to William Stamps Farish III as son of William Stamps Farish II, but that article states he is the grandson, with a William Stamps Farish, Jr. in between. Very confusing... Sverre 19:46, 9 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contradiction 

message: I removed the entire section because it was not referenced asnd appears to be reciting in part from sources that are't reliable. Wikipedia:Reliable sources. Whatever Farish and Standard Oil's role in WWII actually was should be documented but in an NPOV manner and properly referenced. I also am removing numerous external links to dead sites or unwarranted ones connected to sites that are nothing more than rantings against George Bush. Handicapper 15:03, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed "treasonous" section
Talk:Mutt and Jeff (comic strip)

message: Well to get started Mutt and Jeff were performers back in the 1800's the Exact year they got started is unclear at this presant time. But I do know they were performing during the 1840's. On that note the guy in charge of the team was Ernest Latimore. I have many many pictures of Mutt and Jeff, and those are actualy there screen names there real names are for the tall one,Jeff McBride and Harry Potts which is the little one. Mutt and Jeff were musical comedians. Send me and email if you would like to see the actual pictues.
enthusiasm@arczip.com
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I removed this statement:
:"the original character A. Mutt was killed off, but was later brought back as Augustus P. Mutt."
I don't find any documentation for this in my sources.  If the statement is restored, please document it.  In particular, is "killed off" meant literally?  Ortolan88 16:12, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Info

message: It would be very helpful if someone could chronicle the relationship of Bud Fisher to his assitants in the period prior to 1932. Anybody know this info? BTfromLA 18:19, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  who drew it when? 

message: I have seen a suggestion that the Spanish version was called Eneas and Beletin (recently mentioned by Shakira in one of her songs.  Is this correct ?
-- Beardo 04:17, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: It's called "Benitín y Eneas", actually. A question: in which Shakira song does she talk about this? It sounds downright odd =P. --User:Revoish 10:36, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: She mentions them in "Día de enero". The lyric is: Y ahora que andamos por el mundo/Como Eneas y Benitin/Ya te encontre varios rasguños/Que te hicieron por ahí. I found a translation of that: "And now that we're walking around the world/Like Mutt and Jeff/I've already noticed the many cuts/That they inflicted on you along the way."  --Metropolitan90 (talk) 05:48, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spanish version ? 

message: In a 1940 guide to the city, an article mentions in passing that Mutt and Jeff were inspired by habitués of Tanforan racetrack. This article says a couple of guys from Occidental, California, without a reference. Hmmm. Here's the Tanforan bit: 
*http://www.archive.org/stream/sanfranciscobaya00writrich#page/153/mode/1up
Binksternet (talk) 16:39, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Occidental or Tanforan?
Talk:Barbara Bush

message: The current photo is grainy and has low resolution. Though I cannot find a better copy of her official photo anywhere, there are some better photos available elsewhere; Flickr has many that are high resolution and where she's the clear subject (this or this?). This one from the LOC is more from her time as FLOTUS. MyCatIsAChonk (talk) (not me) (also not me) (still no) 01:17, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: , that LOC picture actually was the main portrait for some time. I've swapped it back per the resolution issue. The real trick is finding good public domain images from before she was in the national spotlight. Thebiguglyalien (talk) 01:39, 10 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Better photo?
Talk:Court Line

message: Court Line's 'gamble' wasn't the cause of its demise - there were many more factors involved, largely Court Line's parent company's precariously highly geared investment in the shipping and leisure industry sectors and the fuel crisis of 1973.  Court Line as a carrier was a viable business but a proposed MBO was rejected as its liquidation value was needed to pay off the debts of its parent company .... allegedly!!
:Well feel free to amend the article accordingly. GRAHAMUK 06:56, 26 Sep 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  

message: Hi. This seems a comprehensive history, but I'd say has too many reference superscripts appearing within it. Could there be say just one per paragraph that list the references for that paragraph, rather than one or more per sentence (or even clause), please? 213.246.90.75 (talk) 19:03, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference superscripts
Talk:Singapore

message: This is listed against the ethnic groups by percentage. Does any other Wikipedia article of a country allow this? It is placing arbitrary conditions on counting ethnicity of the residents to push a narrative. 30% of the population is being excluded because of their classification as second-class citizens who may never be granted citizenship or permanent-residency visas despite living and working in the country for decades. 103.30.92.64 (talk) 15:26, 5 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proportions of ethnic groups are calculated based only on the resident population, which comprises Singapore Citizens (SC) and Permanent Residents (PR). 

message: It says on this article that Singapore is a Parliamentary Republic but how so? Ever since the amendment that allowed for the direct election of the President, I thought that Singapore should be considered as a Semi-Presidential System. 161.142.11.225 (talk) 05:10, 14 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Government system 

message: This article states that Singapore is ranked 6th by the WHO for healthcare, but the source is 24 years old. I think that should be made clear, or a more modern source found. Fredfsr (talk) 08:46, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Question: Do you have a source you'd like to update with? User:CanonNi (talk|contribs) 08:53, 28 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 28 April 2024 

message: Archivecard0 (talk) 13:03, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Question: Where would you like this added? User:CanonNi (talk • contribs) 13:17, 2 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 2 June 2024
Talk:Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary

message: You've already been warned about removal of text, your date changes are annoying but why are you removing text? Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 07:34, 30 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  vandalism by user:Silverhorse 

message: When my Mom , Was A Little Child , As A First Grade Of Elementary School ,
Shah And His Wife Soraya , Came To Visit Children , But At that time no One Like them .  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 151.247.41.86 (talk) 15:37, 19 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Real Memory 

message: Whilst I am sure the filmography was compiled with the best of intentions, the claim that the Princess appeared as a belly dancer in a 1975 episode of the Two Ronnies (a British comedy show) is obviously absurd. The belly dancer "Princess Soraya" is an entirely different person. Nor did she appear in "Doctor on Top" - a 1990s British show. I have just watched the episode mentioned on You Tube: Her supposed character does not feature, nor is she on the cast list. I am going to remove these references. Jellyandjocko (talk) 19:39, 11 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Filmography 
Talk:Identity politics

message: — Assignment last updated by A.lejla (talk) 19:20, 4 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Gender and Politics in Global Perspective

message: Why isn't Black Lives Matter mentioned? 192.118.27.253 (talk) 11:24, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: It is arguably the most important Identity Politics movement 192.118.27.253 (talk) 11:25, 7 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  BLM 

message: I believe it's important to add information about some of the most famous contemporary groups/identities as it relates to identity politics. This will include information about #BlackLivesMatter, the counter movement, #AllLivesMatter, Proud Boys, and Antifa.  Wrig36 (talk) 01:05, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Contemporary identity politics issues/groups/movements 

message: This is a comment on the "undue weight" reference to this quote.
It is useful to look at the psychology of identitiation ie is it a self centred thought process? This is what the last sentence of the Wikipedia quote asserts. The quote suggests consequences of identification - "surround themselves with a moral force field". The process of identification inevitably changes the way people interact with the identifier. It can also lead to the checking of thoughts and speech. In contrast not identifying "as anything" maximises the opportunities for interaction.
I feel the intent of the quote does not provide "undue weight" but there may be better words to comment on the sociology/psychology of the internal process in the individual asserting identity. A more community valuable approach is to identify the issue as this is much more objective in its thought process. Sigma1950 (talk) 01:09, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed the quote. There are countless opinion columnists, and this topic doesn't need more hot air. A reliable, independent source would need to indicate to us why Brendan O'Neill (columnist)'s hot take from one 2015 column is important enough to include, and from that, we could decide if this particular quote is the best way to summarize that column. Lacking such an indication, this doesn't belong.  Grayfell (talk) 01:17, 19 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Undue weight assigned to Brendan O'Neill quote
Talk:State Anthem of the Soviet Union

message: The English translations here appear to be terrible. I don't speak Russian, though I do speak another east slavic language. But identical lines from the first two versions are translated differently. Also, the very first verse appears to be translated improperly and should be along the lines of "Ubreakable union of free republics united Great Rus'/Russia forever." Based on the declension of the verb, Rus' appears to be the object in this single sentence. KaerbaqianRen💬 16:56, 17 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad English Translations
Talk:William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

message: The first few paragraphs are exclusively positive... I mean, was he really so perfect? If he was alive I would have thought he was the one who wrote it... surely there can be some sort of balance, as it currently reads like a puff piece... 80.42.137.100 (talk) 02:10, 10 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Positivity? 

message: Pitt the Elder seems to be credited largely with the idea of raising the Highland regiments, as a way of pacifying the Highlands further by diverting "wild" Scotsmen away from Jacobite rebellion and into military service to the empire. But our article on him doesn't say anything about this.
I got this from:
* 
I would think that various histories of the regiments would also mention it.  — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼  17:00, 6 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Highland regiments
Talk:Personal exemption

message: There are too many capital letters in this article's title, but I'm not really sure how to lower case it.  RickK 01:24, 7 Sep 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Merge Personal Exemption (federal income tax) into this article?
* Support - These look like the same topic to me. Morphh  (talk) 4:18, 04 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll merge it in the next couple of days unless someone objects or if someone accomplished it.EECavazos (talk) 06:39, 13 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge
Wikipedia talk:Recent Changes

message: We need one place to develop MediaWiki documentation so I'm starting a project-neutral MediaWiki User's Guide in meta and think it would be a good idea to cross wiki redirect this page to meta:MediaWiki User's Guide: The Recent Changes page as soon as I'm done with the conversion (before that I will change each link to this page to a direct one to meta so that it appears correctly as an external link). --mav 01:27, 7 Sep 2003 (UTC)

message: Given the pace at which Wikipedia contributions are coming in (now sometimes numbering more than a dozen per minute), would it be reasonable to add seconds to the RC timestamps? -- Seth Ilys 23:29, 25 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Time for a second hand? I think so

message: I don't know how technically feasible this is, but it seems to me that it'd be very handy for the Special:Recentchanges and Special:Newpages to show when an entry simply contained a #REDIRECT.  As someone who patrols RC regularly and NP occasionally, I think it'd be good to know at a glance which entries can be disregarded completely because they're just redirect pages.  Sometimes people indicate this in the edit summary, or by marking a new page as a minor edit (so that it shows up as "Nm" on the list), but this isn't always that consistent.  Could we get some kind of notation on the lists (maybe an "r" where "N" and "m" go?) or, failing that, a push for more widespread usage of the new-and-minor convention? —Etaoin 06:30, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Trouble is, is it really safe to disregard anything if you are on the lookout for vandalism? I am sure we all know of cases where something that can be marked as innocuous and might be disregarded has had a more serious effect than you'd think, at first sight. As the system gets cleverer the vandals will too ... <sigh> --Nevilley 07:12, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)

text: On the newpages the redirects are already filtered out - only those redirects show up which are for whatever reason broken - like #redrict target - and thus if you spot a short page on NewPages which looks like a redirect it is a redirect which needs fixing. However not all redirects are good - I recently had to override some with disambiguation pages, as the one who created those redirect did not check what articles linked there and did not notice that the lastname of a famous person was also the name of a city, and then a link to that city led to a totally unrelated article. Thus they should be listed on recentchanges at least. andy 07:14, 14 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Feature suggestion: Redirects on RC and NP 

message: Wikipedia:Recent Changes redirects to Help:Recent changes to meta:Help:Recent changes. Wikipedia:Recent Changes should just redirect to meta:Help:Recent changes.91.110.157.8 (talk) 18:24, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Double Redirect