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Talk:Pentland Ferries

message: Propose removal or modification of this section.
I feel this section, as it stands, provides little relevant information for an encyclopaedia. It is true that shortly after the service started the ferry got into difficulties while attempting to berth in bad weather and the subsequent MAIB investigation found a number of procedures required attention. Since then these matters have been resolved. The full report can be seen on the MAIB web site, just ‘Google’ M.V.Claymore. Controversy concerning companies, particularly those engaged in transport is not unusual, nor are dissatisfied passengers. Justified or not I do not believe such comments belong here. At least with Pentland Ferries operating such passengers have a choice of crossing which they did not before. Since they started, freight rates on the crossing have reduced, this being reflected in the islands cost of living. Tourism has increased, with last I heard around half the passengers being carried between Pentland and John O’Groats Ferries, all down to freedom of choice. What really matters is how the people of Orkney see it; they recently voted Andrew Banks, the owner, ‘Citizen of the Year’ so some people must appreciate the service. True they are using vessels past their best, but as stated a new vessel is due next summer, again at no cost to the public.
The real Controversy surrounding Pentland Ferries is the lack of help they receive and the vast amount of both Tax and Rate payer’s money that has, and is, poured into the subsidised ‘Northlink’ service, both directly and indirectly. Pentland receive no financial assistance and little other help, at times quite the reverse. Why are they unable to use the facilities at Burwick which were paid for by the people of Orkney and would give them an improved service? One could go on but as I said an encyclopaedia is not the place.
D.MacLeod 23/05/07
As no comments made concerning the above I have removed non relevant items.
D.MacLeod14/11/07  —Preceding unsigned comment added by D.MacLeod (talk • contribs) 22:05, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: ‘Contraversy’ (Controversy) Section

message: This article seems to be written in the wrong tone - "Described as ‘Cheap and Cheerful’ although ‘Inexpensive and Friendly’ is possibly a better description" - this could be a violation of WP:NPOV. A bit of rewriting is required to make it fit Wikipedia's guidelines. I'll start doing this, but I'd appreciate it if someone could help out. Thanks. Andreworkney talkcontribs 09:36, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Neutrality of this article
Talk:Charlie Soong

message: Soong's name was originally given in several forms, including dialect readings. This doesn't work for the article, where everything is spelled using standard Mandarin pronunciation. There was much confusion from a severely mangled website reference which I don't believe is necessary. The one website now given is sufficient, apparently it is a news account based on some sort of conference on Soong in Hainan. 
The article generally uses Seagrave's Soong Dynasty; not ideal, but one of the few English sources on Soong, and for the early years not terribly off. I looked at the entry in Boorman's Biographical Dictionary of Republican China to try and straighten things out for some of the biographical details. The article had a confused account of Soong's 'adoption' that I fixed up using this. I will come back later and fix what I can. Rgr09 (talk) 12:40, 22 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name and origins
Talk:Samoset Council

message: In my opinion, this article qualifies for an upgrade on the WiliProject quality scale. I believe it qualifies as a C or B-class article (one level above it's current Start status). It is more complete than before, with more cited references. The article isn't perfect, but has come a long way in a few months. Anyone agree? Who determines an article's level on the quality scale?
--Billertl (talk) 09:32, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Rating scale for this article
Talk:West London NHS Trust

message: West London Mental Health NHS Trust changed its name to West London NHS Trust on 25 September 2018. I have been through the article and update links and text. Archibald Monk (talk)  —Preceding undated comment added 12:46, 30 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Trust Name Change

message: Leaving this here as an aid memoir so that it is followed up to see if anything relating to investigation needs to be added to article:
 Healthcare Commission launches investigation into West London Mental Health NHS Trust. Published 1 April 2008
Why's this article such a mess, can someone who knows help format it properly? Sighola2 (talk) 19:40, 14 September 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Since July 14th 2015, six edits from different single-purpose/IP users all deleting the same sourced sentence and without any comment - "It has been embroiled in a series of controversies, however, involving millions of pounds of unaccounted overspend, poor Care Quality Commission reports and whistleblower allegations of a bullying management style; the Chief Executive resigned in 2015.[5]". 
Is it a coincidence that right now this organisation is undergoing final checks on gaining 'foundation' status which has major implications for its funding incl. salaries? Eversync (talk) 01:37, 5 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Repeated removal of sentence
Talk:Charlotte E. Ray

message: I'm concerned that this page may have the wrong photo on it.  According to the Kansas State Historical Society, that's Lutie Lytle, not Charlotte E. Ray.  Stephen Aquila (talk) 03:16, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: It might have been nice if someone informed me of this discussion, considering that I posted the photo - I only found out about this discussion now! There are three different websites that identify the photography as being Charlotte E. Ray. However, there are other sites that claim it is Lutie Lytle. For the time being, I will agree to keep the photo off Wikipedia until I can confirm just which lady was in the photo. And Adoil Descended (talk) 22:34, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: * The image in question is captioned as "MISS LUTIE A. LYTLE" on page 379 of Occupations for Women: A Book of Practical Suggestions... by Frances Elizabeth Willard, et al. (1897) See this Google books page image. FYI, I'm suspicious that another photo identified on several online sites as lawyer "Charlotte E. Ray" is actually the dancer Charlotte Ray.Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 00:39, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wrong picture
Talk:Charlotte Garrigue

message: I've heard of couples who hyphenate the marital surname: Bob Smith marries Mary Jones, and they become Bob Smith-Jones (or Jones-Smith) and Mary Smith-Jones (or Jones-Smith).
I've even heard of couples where the husband takes the wife's surname, the reverse of the usual practice: Bob Smith marries Mary Jones, and they are then known as Bob Jones and Mary Jones.
But I've never heard of a husband adopting his wife's surname as his own middle name.   Until now.  Why did Masaryk do this?  --  JackofOz (talk) 02:56, 30 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Why did he adopt her surname as his own middle name?
Talk:Charlotte Hawkins Brown

message: I'm making some substantial changes and additions to this entry, also improving the citations. I'm working on this as part of the UNC Edit-a-thon, 14 April 2013. Nmg27510 (talk) 17:32, 14 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: UNC Edit-a-thon

message: — Assignment last updated by Jmmaxwell (talk) 21:00, 12 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: ARH 371_The TransAtlantic_Cross-Cultural Representations
Talk:Charlotte Hughes (supercentenarian)

message: Charlotte Marion Milburn Hughes (August 1, 1877 - March 17, 1993) is the longest-lived person ever documented in the United Kingdom, despite legendary claims such as that of Thomas Parr. She was a schoolteacher, but retired and married over fifty years before her death when she was 63. Her husband died in 1980, aged 103.
This appears to mean that she died when she was 63, with her husband living to 103. It also seems to say that she died when she was nearly 116. Which is correct? Simply south 20:33, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well spotted: it should read as She was a schoolteacher, but retired and married when she was 63, over fifty years before her death (she died at 115 1/2). Extremely sexy 20:45, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, that looks better and clearer now. Simply south 20:59, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It's my pleasure though. Extremely sexy 21:49, 11 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  A contradiction 

message: You can find a Noel Hughes in the England Death Index who died in 1979 in Cleveland Country but this Noel was born in 23. Dec. 1892, so it looks like that he didn't died with 103... --Statistician (talk) 00:29, 19 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Her husband 

message: In the article is said that Charlotte Hughes has been the third person in history to reach 115 years of age, after Jeanne Calment and Lucy Hannah. Actually she has been the fourth: Augusta Holtz reached 115 on August 3rd, 1986 and she was actually the first person in history.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.17.4.103 (talk) 18:15, 15 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: To prove if the hypothesis that Jeanne was confused with her daughter is true or false, a DNA/blood test is required. A test may prove if the one who died in 1997 really was Jeanne herself, or her daughter Yvonne who may have usurped her mother's identity, claiming to be her mother and aged 122 as of 1997 but in fact she may have been only 99 years old. However, a DNA/blodd test is so far not made, and I think people shall wait with saying that the hypothesis is "fake news", "fabrication", etc. until the eventual test is made!
P.S.: Something notable is that we had one man among the ten oldest people in history though until 22 January 2016, if excluding disputed people as Jeanne Calment and Lucy Hannah (who even is debunked now), and when Jiroemon Kimura became the oldest man ever, there were even TWO men in the top ten. The ten oldest people in history as of Kimura's 116th birthday, 19 April 2013, were the following:
#Sarah Knauss (119 years, 97 days)
#Marie-Louise Meilleur (117 years, 230 days)
#María Capovilla (116 years, 347 days)
#Tane Ikai (116 years, 175 days)
#Elizabeth Bolden (116 years, 118 days)
#Besse Cooper (116 years, 100 days)
#Jiroemon Kimura (116 years)
#Maggie Barnes (115 years, 319 days)
#Dina Manfredini (115 years, 257 days)
#Christian Mortensen (115 years, 252 days)
213.65.211.63 (talk) 14:44, 18 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fourth person to reach 115
Talk:Charlotte Moore Sitterly

message: Some suggestions for improvement as the article is expanded:
*Template:Infobox Scientist should be added 
*Photograph should be added from a source with a free license, if available
*After expansion, article should be divided into appropriate subheadings
*Information on research should be expanded and references required
*References should be added, preferably in the inline format  
*External links to useful online resources should be added if available
Espresso Addict 01:23, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Review comments

message: I've added a few links to biographies & obituaries to the article, which might assist in expansion. Espresso Addict 01:52, 17 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Resources for expansion 
Talk:Charlotte Payne-Townshend

message: The citation for the assertion that Mr. Shaw and Ms Payne-Townshend had a sexless marriage is "Spark Notes," which seems to be a dubious source.  --  Wi2g 02:42, 12 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Original research?

message: Anything on her origins? As Shaw's wife, she has attracted much curiosity. This article could be filled-out a little.  109.154.9.58 (talk) 21:48, 29 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Her background? 

message: 'Charlotte resolved to have no children and abstained from sex completely throughout the marriage.' I think this warrants a few words of explanation. Was it sex-phobia, or a reaction to a bad early experience, or a religious conviction, or just wanting to devote herself single-mindedly to the cause? Valetude (talk) 21:31, 5 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reasons for celibacy? 

message: "He told Ellen Terry that the proposal was like an "earthquake" and he "with shuddering horror and wildly [sic] asked the fare to Australia"." Seems a word is missing. Autodidact1 (talk) 04:09, 11 November 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sentence needs correction
Talk:S/2007 S 3

message: * IAUC 8836: S/2007 S 1, S/2007 S 2, and S/2007 S 3 (subscription-only) May 11, 2007 (discovery)
I can go see the fish of thu IAU one subscription.
Subscription is need only for the fish with numero > 9000.
I think, what the fish < 9000 is declassified.
--Jean-François Clet (talk) 21:54, 15 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Why subscription-only ?
Talk:Charlotte von Kirschbaum

message: This article contains the following astounding passage: 
:: Charlotte von Kirschbaum's presence in the Barth household resulted in duress in the family at times, and has been a matter of vast speculation,[7] speculation that was confirmed by the release of many personal letters between Barth and Kirschbaum in 2017.[8]  However, after Karl Barth had died, Nelly Barth continued to visit Charlotte von Kirschbaum in the hospital.[9]
What does this tell me, the reader?
In 2017, "many personal letters" were released, and these letters "confirmed" something.  What was confirmed?  "Vast speculation."  The article doesn't tell me what this speculation was about:  perhaps Kirschbaum was secretly the author of Barth's books?  perhaps Kirschbaum was the heir to the Romanov dynasty?  perhaps Kirscbaum had a great temper?  perhaps Kirschbaum poisoned Barth?  (For a moment, I wondered if the speculation concerned an affair, but that's absurd -- surely such a run-of-the-mill occurrence would be the occasion of ordinary speculation, not vast speculation.) 
The word "However" is also quite helpful.  Apparently Barth's widow's visits to Charlotte are somehow contrary to, or mitigating of, whatever was mentioned in the previous sentence.  What might that be?  Maybe Charlotte's presence didn't really result in duress?  Maybe the speculation wasn't really confirmed by letters?  
Wikipedia articles should not be riddles. — Lawrence King (talk) 07:23, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I tried to clarify the issue with cites and a quote ex the Barth article. Rjensen (talk) 05:12, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Talk about euphemisms!
Talk:Tania Chen

message: I have added an external verificaiton of the Vexations performance - a liknk to the Tate's page for this event. Personal site linked, which has a discography, CV etc. Will add more links later. 
On 'Notability', a brief google search shows plenty of reference to performances.213.219.37.67 15:44, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Notability
Talk:Danskin's theorem

message: I have modified the conclusion of the theorem of Danskin; it was wrong; the good conclusion is f is semi-differentiable. the case of f(x)=max(-x,x) provides an example of a function not directionaly differentiable. BRousselet (talk) 15:31, 4 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  semi-differentiability.
Talk:Chen Jingrun

message: ==Untitled==
The article claims Chen is one of the greats of the 20th century, but no citation is given.  This claim sounds dubious to me.  Someone removed the same claim from Grothendieck's article.Aliotra (talk) 15:25, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: There is nothing to be gained from a discussion of the relative greatness of mathematicians. This is so, with and without citations.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.95.123.216 (talk) 07:19, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alledged greatness 

message: The article claims Chen is one of the greats of the 20th century, but no citation is given.  This claim sounds dubious to me.  Someone removed the same claim from Grothendieck's article.Aliotra (talk) 15:25, 11 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: There is nothing to be gained from a discussion of the relative greatness of mathematicians. This is so, with and without citations.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.95.123.216 (talk) 07:19, 19 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Surtur (moon)

message: Why is the name Surtur? The -u- is modern Icelandic, and is not used in the name of the moon Thrymr. --Njardarlogar (talk) 17:31, 24 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  -u- 
Talk:Royal family of Canada

message: I'm trying to be patient with this, but it's getting difficult when one person is unilaterally censoring information. If you've got an issue with this article, discuss it here, please. --G2bambino 15:48, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No discussion, It's on WP:AN/I. Ryan Postlethwaite 15:53, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

text: Done SkierRMH (talk) 09:21, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
MediaWiki talk:Wikimediaplayer.js

message: Hi there. An issue was identified at Wikipedia:Village Pump (technical)#Prose size script that I believe is caused by a combination of bad behavior in Internet Explorer and this module. In short, the use of a for/in loop with HTMLCollection objects returned from getElementsByTagName("a") has incorrect behavior if there are any named anchors in the page whose name attribute starts with a number (as is the case when section names start with a number). If this is the case, any attempt to use bracket syntax to select the node from the collection will interpret the first part of the name attribute as a number and fail if that numeric index does not exist.
One fix is to use a traditional for loop to fix this. The requested changes is to change the two instances of this code (lines 95 and 125):
 for( var key in links )
To be this code:
 for( var key = 0; key < links.length; key++ )
This will cause all browsers to use only numeric indexes that are in range and fix problems people are seeing in Internet Explorer. The problems with this script seem to be preventing all user JavaScript from loading on affected pages. Mike Dillon 15:49, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Cheers. --MZMcBride 19:25, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. The users reporting the problem have confirmed that this change fixed it. Mike Dillon 03:03, 27 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fix for link iteration
Talk:Economic development corporation

message: A tag has been placed on :Template:Db-spam, requesting that it be speedily deleted from Wikipedia. This has been done under the criteria for speedy deletion, because the article seems to be blatant advertising which only promotes a company, product, group, service or person and would need to be fundamentally rewritten in order to become an encyclopedia article. Please read the general criteria for speedy deletion, particularly item 11, as well as the guidelines on spam. 
If you can indicate why the subject of this article is not blatant advertising, you may contest the tagging. To do this, please add  on the top of the page and leave a note on the article's talk page explaining your position. Please do not remove the speedy deletion tag yourself, but don't hesitate to add information to the article that would help make it encyclopedic, as well as adding any citations from reliable sources to ensure that the article will be verifiable. Feel free to leave a note on my talk page if you have any questions about this.
Prod concern: There are notable organisations that share this as part of their name. I am unable to find, however, a reliable source discussing the general structure of such organisations. This is not surprising, as there are no particular legal restrictions, no mandated structure; it is not even restricted to state-level organisations, as some city- and county- level organisations of widely varying function also have this as part of their name. In the end, its just a collection of three words that some organisations working in economic development - and that too in a non-mainstream sense - tend to use. Relata refero (talk) 14:46, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Orgo

message: Why is Organic Chemistry nicknamed "orgo?" Is it short for organo? Is it because it is related to orgy or orgasm? Just curious to see if anyone knows.   Thanks, Frank 134.67.6.11 15:52, 23 May 2007 (UTC)

message: Seeing as how we don't even have an article for the city, can't we just make "orgo" redirect to organic chem, and then maybe put a italicized comment in the article about other meanings? 76.197.237.25 04:42, 11 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unnessecary Link
Talk:Relative interior

message: The equivalent definition seems incorrectly stated. The relative interior as given would appear to be the entire set, since any point in the set can be written as a combination of half itself and half itself again, meeting the criteria. Also, it cannot be straightforwardly adapted to be correct, because requiring the other two points be different from the original does not explain how the relative interior of a single point is the point itself.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.243.16.79 (talk) 09:10, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: While I will look for a reference for that secondary definition, your argument against it isn't correct.  This definition says: x \in \operatorname{relint}C (convex) if and only if for every y \in C there exists a z \in C such that x lies on the line between y and z and x \not\in \{y,z\}.  So there is the error that for some point y \in C then x = y and that would automatically mean x \not\in \operatorname{relint}C, but otherwise you need more than just the point to lie on a single line but instead on all possible lines in the set. I hope I explained that well. Zfeinst (talk) 16:20, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  You were right that this formula was incorrect.  I have found 2 books with a correct definition for finite dimensional convex sets. Zfeinst (talk) 18:09, 23 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible error
Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship/DanMS

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Talk:Subderivative

message: In convex analysis, the subdifferential is the set of subgradients. 
In nonsmooth analysis, Ioffe has stated that other subdifferentials reduce to the convex-analysis subdifferential for convex functions. 
Subderivatives are primitive objects from which subdifferentials are constructed. 
These statements suggest that the article should be entitled subgradient, not subderivative. It should first discuss the convex-analysis subdifferential and then generalizations (subderivatives of Dini, Frechet, etc.).   Kiefer.Wolfowitz 16:57, 30 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Convex-analytic subgradient, then subdifferential, then generalizations. 

message: I think this might be confusing 2A01:E0A:285:6360:F101:C327:A0F0:AD7F (talk) 05:57, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Converse on the mean value theorem
Talk:The Bitch Is Back (Veronica Mars)

message: I know it was the last episode, but CW didn't even promo it as the series finale.  They referred to it as the season finale.  Should we change the wording?--Twintone 15:58, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I personally would refer to it as the season finale until the show is officially cancelled which according to my knowledge and according to the sources here will not be known before June 15 (regardless of the fact that a new season may be unlikely). Blur4760 16:12, 23 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Series Finale