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Wikipedia talk:Database queries

message: Since I can't edit the page maybe someone else wants to put the link http://www.wikipedia.org/upload/sqllog_mFhyRe6 on it. BTW I'd like to have this for the German Wikipedia. Maybe it puts more pressure on people not to experiment with this feature (well, I guess developers can still make queries that aren't shown in the log, but I hope they know what they're doing ;-) --Kurt Jansson 16:26, 19 Aug 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  external link to sql-query log 

message: If a query is taking to long to run, and you close the browser window, is the query cancelled fairly quickly, or does it run to completion anyway? If it does not cancel itself, then we must be much more careful in contructing queries (e.g. using indexes wherever possible {i.e. those created via indexes.sql}). Nanobug 15:11, 19 Sep 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cancelling queries 

message: There is this query getting the list of "articles containing a link to itself." I would like to run it for Japanese wikipedia and get the list so that we (japanese wikipedians) can fix them. But I am quite hesitant to take 24 seconds worth of database load. Does anyone has a suggestion when I should run it (time of day, day of week, etc)? Or should I not run it at all? Tomos 05:19, 21 Nov 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Now I gat a ja.WP in my Machine with dump. I could run anytime you want but the query does not responce anytiong from 29.Jan.'s dump...Suisui 06:41, 12 Feb 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  want an advice on a heavy query 

message: SELECT cur_namespace,cur_title FROM cur WHERE cur_text REGEXP '\\(.*[^\[]http:[^ \\(]*[^\] ]\\)' ORDER BY cur_title LIMIT 100
Runs quite fine on German WP. It will give some false positives but I've used it with pyWikipediaBot which is a bit better and ignores the false positives. -- TomK32 10:21, 14 Dec 2003 (CET)
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Is old_id in table "old" a primary key? (use DESCRIBE `old` and look under Key column for "PRI") r3m0t 21:48, 3 Mar 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad rendering of external links 

message: When I do a query, it brings up a totally blank page with just the site notice on it.   — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 03:19, 24 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Queries don't work 

message: Who is allowed to enable administrator queries? Right now, I'm not able to open Special:Asksql ("page does not exist").
Thanks, --Abdull 11:26, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Administrator queries 

message: This page might be significantly outdated...or I might be doing something wrong. It looks like Wikisign can't run queries on the English Wikipedia, because (if I'm interpreting correctly) the database is no longer exported in SQL format. If this is true, then it should be mentioned in the article. The instructions on how to query from one's own computer would also need to include how to query the XML and/or how to convert it to SQL. Ardric47 05:32, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Outdated
Talk:Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia

message: Article has considerable uncited text and uses an inconsistent citation format. (t · c) buidhe 00:31, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  FAR needed 

message: @DrKay While the primary sources claimed to be reproduced on alexanderplace.org may have been reputably published originally, there is no way to verify the content on the website itself; for example, the Anna Vyrubova memoir doesn't even mention where, when, or by whom it was originally published, or even whether it's a translation (and by whom). We don't know its copyright status either (what if it is a direct copy of a translation published much later?). These are serious concerns that apply to all the content on the website; if ancestry.com is considered unreliable even when it hosts photocopies of primary documents, why should we trust something manually reproduced in plaintext?? At the very least our citation should only include the website in the "via" field, although even then WP:SAYWHERE states  so that might not be appropriate either. These refs should reflect the unreliability of the website or be removed. JoelleJay (talk) 07:38, 30 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alexander Place refs
Talk:Semiconductor

message: Hi! I wonder if the current definition of semiconductor is the best possible. Rather than being defined by being "in-between" conductors and insulator, I think the key property of a semiconductor is that it can be either conductive or insulating depending on several factors (doping, temperature, ...). I like the definition here much better: . I hope some experts can weigh in in the discussion. -- Broc (talk) 10:05, 28 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I definitely agree. The definition my advisor used is something like "a normally insulating material that can be doped to usefully control electrical properties" or something like that. Wide bandgap materials like AlN were considered insulators until the technology developed. Their conductivity did not change, therefore it is something else that makes something a semiconductor -- its usefulness. Pikadog (talk) 19:31, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Definition of semiconductor
Talk:Creative accounting

message: ""Earnings Management" occurs when managers use judgement in financial reporting and in structuring transactions to alter financial reports to either mislead some stakeholders about the underlying economic performance of a company or to influence contractual outcomes that depend on reported accounting numbers."
The notion is direct copy of Healy and Wahlen (1999)  JPV (talk • contribs) 16:23, 29 April 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Earnings Management

message: This article doesn't seem to give enough emphasis to the legal issues involved in this subject. While there is some mention of fraud, nowhere does the article explicitly state that "cooking the books" isn't just unethical, it's also usually illegal. 71.203.209.0 06:32, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: "Creative accounting" is fraud.

message: there's no reference where the quote on healy and wahlen came from??  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.48.147.2 (talk) 07:18, 30 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: There was.  I've made it more clear. TJRC (talk) 00:08, 31 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Healy and Wahlen quote

message: Anyone interested in collaborating on this at some point? We could use something like Financial Shenanigans: How to Detect Accounting Gimmicks & Fraud in Financial Reports, 3rd Edition as a start. II | (t - c) 02:51, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Building out a section on major techniques
Talk:Turks and Caicos Islands

message: When the Commonwealth of The Bahamas is referenced should it be referred to as "The Bahamas" instead of "the Bahamas"? This is how I see the commonwealth referenced on the Bahamian government web pages and other sources like the CIA World Factbook but interestingly not in the UN list of members. I'm not a Bahamian so I hope someone with knowledge can comment. LeeGriffinNC (talk) 14:03, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: From looking at The Bahamas, usage there is inconsistent, and there's no clear consensus on that article's talk page either. The most recent discussion there, Talk:The Bahamas/Archive 1#Discussion of capitalized "The" in the official name, was inconclusive, but leaned toward not capitalizing as per most style guides. I'd recommend capitalizing it here only when the full name is used ("Commonwealth of The Bahamas"), but not otherwise ("the Bahamas"), which is what is done in this article already. BilCat (talk) 16:33, 8 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should references to "the Bahamas" be "The Bahamas"?
Talk:Pope Symmachus

message: Is the year of the Roman synode correct? The article says 499, but also makes it seem that this happened after the end of the schism in 505. Andre Engels
:The year is correct. I re-ordered the facts, so now it should be more clear.--Panairjdde 08:22, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Could we get a citation on the supposed veneration of Symmachus by the Oriental Orthodox? This sounds like an astounding claim to me, as I would have thought them to probably think of Symmachus as a heretic. Deusveritasest (talk) 01:51, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Veneration 

message: Is there any relation to the gens Symmachi? I notice that one of its members, the consul Quintus Aurelius Memmius Symmachus, supported the Pope in the controversy. Was there a familial connection there, is it an amazing coincidence, or were these names more common in Rome at this time? --Akhenaten0 (talk) 15:34, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: There were other Symmachuses, in several generations.  The topic can be a prosopographical minefield.  Consult the experts: Jones, Arnold Hugh Martin; Martindale, John Robert (1980). The Prosopography of the Later Roman Empire: A.D. 395-527. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. --Vicedomino (talk) 22:14, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Symmachi? 

message: One should get the correct information from the title page.  --Vicedomino (talk) 21:47, 23 March 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: DAVIS, not Davies
Talk:Anime

message: — Assignment last updated by Dslaym (talk) 13:57, 10 January 2023 (UTC)

message: — Assignment last updated by Thecanyon (talk) 05:32, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Technology and Culture

message: Hello! I have an idea to make this anime section better. Add a section featuring the most popular anime, but do a Top 10 list. If you like my idea, then add it. Thank you. RingmasterCaine (talk) 00:10, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Creating a section for "popular anime" is too vague of an inclusion criteria and would violate WP:INDISCRIMINATE and creating a "top 10" list would violate WP:NPOV. Link20XX (talk) 01:16, 25 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Add this! 

message: In the Attributes section, an illustration of the face of an anime character is attached, but does this violate copyright issues? I remember that the evaluation of the article included the presence or absence of copyright issues, so if there are any issues, it may be necessary to delete or replace it. ジョンドウ (talk) 17:33, 26 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anime character illustration in the article
Talk:Alexios I Komnenos

message: I have added the year of publication to the short citations. This protects the article against editors adding text either cut and pasted from another article or new text with another edition of book by one of the authors already cited. For example I have assumed that all the short inline citations on this page to John Norwich are from the one an only source mentioned in the long citations section:
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However I am aware that he has been a prolific writer in this area and he has published other books and editions to which the inline citations could refer. So someone with his book needs to check that the all the short citations in this article at this time do indeed refer to "", or go back through the article and check with the editors who added the inline citations. -- PBS (talk) 19:34, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adding years to short citations 
Talk:Lisa

message: Why redirect LiSA here, instead of LiSA (Japanese musician, born 1987)? Seems unambiguous to me, and not something one would type by mistake.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by LaloMartins (talk • contribs) 01:49, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  LiSA 

message: An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect LiSA. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so.  –MJL ‐Talk‐☖ 22:31, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  LiSA listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: Since they all happen to be singers anyway, I figured why not change the section name. I argue people would benefit more when searching for articles when they know they're singers instead of them being different Lisas. Opecuted (talk) 15:01, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Also make it easier to put hatnote linking to different singers Opecuted (talk) 15:04, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't think that's apt. The section is for People with the mononym; not for Singers. There are many singers named Lisa, e.g., Lisa Ekdahl, Lisa Germano, Lisa Hannigan. Labeling this section "Singers" means that these singers should be listed there, but that's not correct. The defining characteristic for being listed in this section is whether someone uses the mononym "Lisa"; not whether they are a singer named "Lisa", and using a section header "Singers" is misdescriptive. TJRC (talk) 19:47, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Changing "People with the mononym" to "Singer"
Talk:Cadaver monument

message: Could we have captions under the images? 
Also, I take it that the tombs of Fontevraud Abbey of Eleanor of Aquitaine, Henry II of England and Richard I of England are not cadaver tombs since they are too early? AxelBoldt
: The Fontevraud monuments have effigies not cadavers Verica Atrebatum 15:55, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: [Untitled]
Talk:Disneyland Paris

message: I really don't understand the purpose of this section. It's just a list of First, Second, Third, ... with bracketed years. I have no idea what any of it means, nor why it's important enough to get its own section. 80.233.50.93 (talk) 00:33, 2 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Anniversary List? 

message: Reads like Disney PR wrote it - there is only window-dressing that absolves Disney of any wrongdoing without even providing any facts or details about a single accident. The fact that one must navigate to a separate linked Wiki article Notable incidents at Disneyland Paris seems like deliberate obfuscation of relevant facts that may be embarrassing to Disney.
There is no reason for this section to exist if it fails to provide actual information about notable incidents. D-sho.qub (talk) 01:30, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: This is consistent with the other five resorts. Stifle (talk) 13:28, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incidents section 

message: The areas cited on this article and Disneyland Park (Paris) are very different. Someone should figure out which is correct or clarify if they're measuring two different things. Stifle (talk) 13:22, 22 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Area
Talk:Security through obscurity

message: 1. The article does not say a single positive thing about security through obscurity in its entire text, only a litany of criticisms. Humorously, they felt the need to add a criticism section in an article consisting of nothing but criticism.
2. The article is focused entirely on information technology security, or, by way of analogy, locks in the history section. Security through Obscurity is a perfectly valid way to, say, position a nuclear launch site/vehicle. There is no mention whatsoever of myriad other security contexts.
3. The criticism amounts to a strawman that security through obscurity is the only method of security being used, rather than in concert with other forms of security.
--166.182.84.28 (talk) 20:50, 3 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I will be correcting this. Thanks for pointing it out. skarz (talk) 04:13, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Intense Editorial Bias in this Article
Talk:South

message: : Removed "It is the azimuth of the sun at its highest point during the day. " -- yes, but only in the northern hemisphere ... which is just a circular definition (Fallacies of definition). I'm tempted to redirect all 4 N, S, E, W to cardinal point so we can iron out such circularity. -- Tarquin 13:33 Aug 28, 2002 (PDT)
All right, added a non-circular definition. Actually, if you want to get persnickety about it, the sun is always to the south at noon only to an observer north of the Tropic of Cancer. - user:Montrealais
: At the end of the day, it's all arbitrary. The Earth rotates about an axis. One end is called "north", the other "south". -- Tarquin
Well, only to the extent that all names are arbitrary, since the north is the left-hand side of an observer facing east, and the south is the left-hand side, and east has a definite meaning (the direction the sun rises in). It's not like left and right, the terms are defined in relation to something else. - user:Montrealais
And isn't the Earth's magnetic south actually in the north?—Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.177.168.75 (talk) 
:Yes, if your definitions are correct. The Earth's south magnetic pole is the pole that attracts the "south" pole of a bar magnet, and conversely the Earth's north magnetic pole is the pole that attracts the "north" pole of a bar magnet. Since opposite magnetic fields attract, this means that the south magnetic pole is a "north" pole in terms of magnetic field, and vice versa for the north pole.--Srleffler 22:14, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Which is more correct
: The direction should be lowercased, while any region or set of regions referred to south as a proper name should be capitalized. It depends entirely on the usage. Skreyola (talk) 23:16, 12 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  South vs south
Talk:Philip II of Spain

message: The legacy section contains elements of editorializing and pesonal opinion eg. "Philip II's reign can hardly be characterized by it's failures" it says. Also a particular problem is the line that says "English-speaking historians tend to show Philip II as a fanatical, despotical, criminal, imperialist monster,[42] minimising his military victories (Battle of Lepanto, Battle of Saint Quentin, etc.) to mere anecdotes, and magnifying his defeats (namely the Invincible Armada[43])." Not only is this a grossly misleading generalization but the evidence to support it (notes 42 and 43) are sources from 1953 and 1877 respectively which are hardly the present day.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.146.149.84 (talk) 04:52, 19 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legacy 

message: Was it not the main intention to overthrow Elizabeth I, replacing the monarch once again with a Catholic and re-empowering the so-called "recusant" nobles in England?  If so is it not better to put that in the Leading paragraph WP:LEAD?  Invasion seems a tad WP:vague and probably given its connotations more towards misleading than accurate.  After all the English people, the nobility especially may have been persuaded with a dented navy and army to revert to a Catholic regime - what evidence is there he felt he could subjugate England in the same way as the Netherlands?  Perhaps best to leave 'invade' but the word sits badly with me as it seems given the military of England and its history it would be unlikely England would ever accept being a mere vassal of the Spanish Empire, as when he was married, its economy was run separately.- Adam37 Talk 11:13, 8 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Invasion of England (and its fledgling Empire) 

message: Will somebody PLEASE point to the discussion/consensus that ended in removing the Portuguese regnal number for the predecessors/successors of the Bourbon monarchs? GoodDay (talk) 00:37, 16 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  A request  
Talk:NLS

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Is this original work? -- Zoe
according to the link given at the bottom, it seems to have notability in computer history.--MaxMad 10:39, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)

message: I googled "NLS", and the oNLine System was only on page three, with The National Library of Scotland at number one. I suggest that this page should not be listed at NLS. Rather it should be moved to oNLine System, and NLS should be a disambiguation page.--MaxMad 10:39, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Or Non-Linear Systems, the instrument maker... What about NLS (computer system), or somesuch, and make NLS a disambig? -FZ 19:47, 6 Dec 2004 (UTC)

text: I suppose, but someone has to create it first! Kilo-Lima|(talk) 11:41, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Did that. Please help with the other awards: Bronze Cross and Bronze Medallion, which should be turned into disambig pages with articles for each award. See Template:Lifesaving in Canada for more to work on :) – Mike.lifeguard | @en.wb 02:55, 8 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Move this page? 

message: I have cleaned up the page. Kilo-Lima|(talk) 11:41, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Cleanup

message: I have added a link to the nonlinear Schrödinger equation.  I have grouped this and the entry for nuclear localization signal into a new "In science:" sublist.  I have also removed the fullstops at the end of a couple of entries, to make the list appear more consistent. Hyperdeath 13:37, 19 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Addition and slight rearrangement
Talk:Commedia dell'arte

message: Most names seem to be compatible with "Italian" (i.e. a variety of Tuscan), Zanni is Venetian, what else? Pulcinella was a Neapolitan character, wasn't Neapolitan used too, at least in the South? 89.64.81.126 (talk) 23:06, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Languages? 

message: Yeah. Title 2604:5C80:200:8F5A:358E:5397:8D97:2809 (talk) 23:56, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Are there sources showing that this is a culturally important reference and not just trivia? - Aoidh (talk) 23:58, 14 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  add Brian David Gilbert to this page for modern pop culture influence? 

message: Two English dictionaries, New Oxford American (Third Edition) and The American Heritage Dictionary (Fourth Edition), include this term and do not italicize it, and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera does not italicize it either, i.e., it is commonly treated as a loanword in English. Maybe we should not italicize it either. Robert.Allen (talk) 15:28, 14 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Italics for the term (and title)
Talk:Patrick Henry

message: Hello . Would beg to differ that "helped to draft and signed the Continental Association" does not merit first paragraph status (and at the moment it isn't mentioned in the lead at all). Those acts, in addition to the speech, are what qualify Henry for Founding Father status. The Association remains the main American document before the Declaration, and foreshadowed it by bringing together the colonies in a unified stand, written and enforced. Its considerable importance stands out in American history, and hopefully will be focused on in 2024 as a precursor to the 2026 250th birthday of the nation. Seeing that it was missing here actually put me on a track to put up a P. Henry template tomorrow (if the creek don't rise, etc.), and studying Henry's contributions it stands out as arguably one of his two greatest achievements and lead-paragraph worthy. Randy Kryn (talk) 22:52, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Given that the lead is a reflection and high-level summary of the body, we would need sources, perhaps in the legacy section, that attest to the importance of Henry's actions in this regard to put it in the lead paragraph like that. What about putting it later in the lead, as part of the biography summary?--Wehwalt (talk) 09:12, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: My mistake in emphasizing Henry's influence on the draft of the Association, I was thinking of the Petition to the King. Yes, mention later in the lead of the Association, as well as the petition, seems appropriate, especially since Henry's signing of the Association later gave him Founding Father status as it came to be defined (signing any of the four founding documents is the golden ticket). Randy Kryn (talk) 12:40, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Continental Association

message: Kibby  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.232.147.199 (talk) 23:51, 15 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cat boi  

message: Source:  Quote: "Tom Paine, Patrick Henry, James Otis, and John Paul Jones were all Masons." 82.50.120.25 (talk) 20:13, 22 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Freemasonry 

message: “ but bought property in Prince Edward County instead. Hampden-Sydney College, which he had helped found in 1775, is located in that county ….”
Prince Edward County links to Ontario but the school is in Virginia. 134.41.82.59 (talk) 01:02, 6 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Link error