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Talk:Biela's Comet

message: I just removed a dead link from the Peshtigo Fire article that referred to a Discovery Channel story about the comet breakup. Royalbroil 05:41, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Speculative Theory

message: Could the one sentence be expanded and given a 'standard' cite reference? Awolf002 21:32, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Are you refering to the comment that P/2001 J1 might be part of Comet Beila?  Or the comment about the two visible parts of Biela being 1.5 million miles apart in 1852? (I am fairly new to wiki so I am still learning what Wiki considers a standard cite reference.  Since the book is from 1886 I might even be able to scane the relevant page.)  Kheider 23:09, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, I'm talking about the P/2001 J1 piece. Can this have more detail, maybe to the point of a "subsection"? Awolf002 01:50, 26 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible identification 

message: One understands why Biela, but what does the 3D mean?  —Tamfang 01:51, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Comet Halley is known as 1P/Halley since it is the first confirmed periodic comet. Biela is labeled "3D" (instead of 3P) because it was the 3rd confirmed comet and has disintegrated or been lost.  Comet 5D/Brorsen is another lost comet. -- Kheider 01:30, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  Thank you, now I can sleep.  —Tamfang 02:02, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  3D? 

message: This section has an interesting point. The luminiferous aether was discredited by the Michelson-Morley experiment, and replaced with Special Relativity. It occurs to me that the very slight anomalies of Mercury's orbit have been deemed to confirm the General Theory of Relativity's digression from Newtonian Solar System mechanics. Is there any possibility of attempting to match these cometary observations with that?  DaveyHume (talk) 17:44, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: With perihelion (q) 0.87 AU from the Sun, Special Relativity is not important to the orbit of Biela's Comet. -- Kheider (talk) 18:10, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Importance in scientific history of luminiferous aether 

message: "On 29th December, 1845, however, Bradley and Herrick of Yale University seem to have made the first announcement that Biela's Comet appeared to display a companion. This was followed by the same observation made by Lt. Mathew F. Maury, the first director of the newly founded Naval Observatory in Washington." Hujer, K., Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Vol. 77, pp.305-309
TristramBrelstaff (talk) 13:32, 16 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maury was not the first to notice the split
Talk:Filth

message: PT (s-s-s-s) 21:03, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

message: Each entry among the following should, when an article is written for it, be copied to the accompanying Dab page, and the copy struck thru.--Jerzy•t 18:09, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed RedLink'd entries
Talk:Provisional Legislative Council

message: Definition of universal suffrage according to Universal suffrage: Universal suffrage (also general suffrage or common suffrage) consists of the extension of suffrage to all adults, without distinction as to race, sex, belief, or social status. This would include right to vote or participate in government, most often in a democracy.
The 1995 election used simple plurality. (see Elections_in_Hong_Kong) So why it is not universal suffrage? --Hunter 05:52, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Only twenty out of the sixty seats were elected from geographical constituencies, under the simple plurality system. — Instantnood 13:54, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Universal suffrage 
Talk:Henry B. Plant High School

message: Phil LaMarr's page says that he went to high school in North Hollywood, and makes no reference to Tampa, much less Plant.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.242.166.163 (talk) 14:23, 26 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Alumni

message: The "100 Best High Schools in America - Newsweek Website" link is broken (or, rather, doesn't take you to a page mentioning the 100 best high schools in America).  Perhaps there exists another authoritative high school ranking source? Cww 06:07, 2 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Just wanted to comment that it appears to have been fixed at this point. Fuzzygenius (talk) 01:41, 20 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Broken link

message: Sorry Anders, we all think you're a rock star, but I didn't think it needed to be there.
72.187.168.8 (talk) 22:05, 31 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: March 2008

message: face it, this article is a joke
anyone want to do a rewrite for some objectivity and some more actual facts? 
as a plant graduate frankly, this page is an embarassment, it looks like someone's mom wrote the entries for their sports team 173.78.65.52 (talk) 07:39, 9 September 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  rewrite 
Talk:Rhubarb pie

message: Should I add that the band "Five Iron Frenzy" has made a song about Rhubarb Pie called "Rhubarb Pie"?  There's those sort of things in other wiki pages? - Logan
:Go for it.  I'll support.  Morton devonshire 19:00, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Why is this listed inn the Conspiracy theorists category?

message: I don't think we should take it as a given that str.-rh. has "generally" surplanted the pure rh.  Are there any authoritative sources for this?  If so, please cite them.  If not, this sentence can be rewritten along the lines of: "A popular variation is blah blah...." Hayford Peirce 03:46, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Rhubarb vs. strawberry-rhubarb

message: Any reason it's called a 'savory type of pie'?  In the UK at least, savoury means the opposite of sweet - so a meat pie would be savoury, but not a rhubarb one. Claret 18:37, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Savory

message: I've removed a lots of stuff that has never been backed up by citations or any precise references.  If you'll back it up with some specific info, then please do so and we'll put it back in the article. Hayford Peirce 04:56, 6 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Editing

message: Do we need a section on rhubarb custard pie? 184.21.204.5 (talk) 19:17, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rhubarb custard pie
Talk:Allandale railway station, New South Wales

message: There was a sentence here saying that the station has been officially closed, but there are no sources anywhere confirming this. This sentence has been removed until a legitimate source is found regarding this. (JROBBO 06:09, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Closure

message: Given that the station's services are suspended, but the station itself is not closed, I'll add this box here in case it is ever reopened again:
JROBBO 02:33, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Old station box
Talk:Woodhouse Township, Ontario

message: I would like to know, in all seriousness, if the person who added the sentence the name of the township came from the fact that the first houses here were made of wood did so as a joke?  Or do they actually think this is a plausible explanation, so why not add it unsourced to wikipedia?
--thirty-seven 06:30, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Houses made of wood 

message: I'd have to agree with the question about the accuracy of the name derivation. I believe that all but one of the heritage townships in Norfolk County had names that were taken from places in England. Woodhouse is a town southeast of Sheffield in Yorkshire. RTBoughner (talk) 04:32, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Woodhouse Name
Talk:The Corrections

message: C. is not a drug, as originally written in the article, but a method to influence the brain - it is described at length in the Gary chapter; Gary and Denise visit a road show by the company developing the method.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.217.68.197 (talk) 21:36, 17 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correcktall 

message: St. Jude is in Kansas? Northeast Kansas? It has been a while since I read the book, but I don't think the state is ever named, is it?  Also, the phrase "one last Christmas" (the title of a section of the novel) was modified to "one last Christmas together" in quotation marks. If this is a direct quotation from the novel, it should be cited; if not, the quotation marks should be removed. --ShelfSkewed Talk 14:38, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Whoops, that's what happens when you "read" audiobooks.  I'm fairly sure about the direct quote, much less so (now) about Kansas.  They're hardly important even if they are correct, so I've undone them.  Thanks, --jnestorius(talk) 08:14, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Your mind isn't completely playing tricks on you. I was skimming through the novel, and Alfred is from Kansas and attended the University of Kansas. But there's also a passage in which Alfred, in St. Jude at the time, imagines retiring to "Kansas or Nebraska", which suggests that that's not where he is  at the moment. (St. Jude, by the way, is a stand-in for St. Louis, Missouri, and Webster Groves, the St. Louis suburb where Franzen grew up.) I wouldn't be surprised if the quote was accurate, but I couldn't track it down. Cheers--ShelfSkewed Talk 14:41, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recent edits 

message: On the eve of launch of his new novel Freedom, I have spruced up a bit of the plot-summary. Interesting to note that Franzen chose to release the book on his Birthday: well, this is my gift to him - kinda like Gary's gift with the drill-bit to Alfred.````  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.224.130.54 (talk) 21:12, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It's quite a good essay, but unfortunately a lot of it falls into original research, which is not allowed at Wikipedia. However, the article does need quite a bit of work, so it will be good to have some knowledgeable eyes on it. Please do continue contributing.--Cúchullain t/c 00:01, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Eve of Freedom

message: I am incredibly depressed by the quality of the article we have, the fact no wikiproject has taken the time to rate this as important, and just the fact that the talk page is labelled to the article for [The Corrections (Band)].  I don't know about how to get a wikiproject's attention, nor how to relabel the talk page, but a good place to start with a resource for the plot summary is the edit that [96.224.130.54] made as mentioned above, a link to his revision for quick reference is http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Corrections&oldid=379847964 Oakpack4 (talk) 00:36, 9 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Page moved to correct title.  pablo 15:21, 31 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: State of Disrepair
Talk:Stupid Dream (song)

message: This "song" is, as written in the article, basically is a little mood piece of 28 seconds with a tuning orchestra and some sound effects.
The piece will never get famous or important for the band due to its length.
Maybe the article should be deleted, like Tool's "Lipan Conjuring".
--62.47.43.5 06:56, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cleanup
Talk:Pareto analysis

message: Could do with an example of a pareto chart - I'm having trouble visualising it from the description
--Dan 07:06, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Suggestions for improvement 

message: You can do a pareto analysis based on costs if you have a spreadsheet of line items with a resulting cost. You then arrange the lines in descending order with the highest cost item at the top. Get a total sum of all costs.  Then you calculate the percentage of each line item cost as a percentage of the total cost. It is likely that 80% of the total spend will be concentrated in only 20% of the total line items.199.3.246.231 01:25, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pareto example 

message: Looking at the graph data, it provides a very poor correlation with the Pareto law. The top three causes (50%) are required to be included to generate 83% of the cumulative total.
Whilst Pareto analysis is a tool for use on any data to clarify which are the most important causes, it would seem less confusing if the example chosen complied with the associated principle. i.e. 20% of causes leading to 80% of occurrence.
Suggest either editing data to correlate more strongly with the law, or include a section explaining that pareto analysis is a tool that can be applied to any data and is only named after the law.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.151.49.204 (talk) 08:55, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Graph is a poor example of a Pareto Law correlation
Talk:Wondermark

message: Why is this proposed for deletion if there's a project to create articles like this...?  --Apeloverage 10:52, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. I've added a link to it, in a line about Wondermark's subject matter. Bit of a blatant excuse to put it in there, but I think it's kind of fun - and not too wildly off-topic. -- TinaSparkle 16:03, 16 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: December 2006

message: Noticed this article is wanting for references, and I've just found an audio interview with David Malki ! on The Sound of Young America.  An archive of the program can be heard at http://www.spokenword.org/program/151610.   I'm not in a position to do much with it at the moment but there it is! Poechalkdust (talk) 11:35, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Source to use for citations and expansion 

message: Excessive inline links and number of links overall to the site, per WP:EL and common sense.  Page should be tagged to clean these up, any suggestions for a tag?  I was going to use , but that doesn't seen quite right...  CliffC (talk) 05:03, 10 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too many links to Malki's site
Talk:Advanced Computing Environment

message: ACE was supposed to provide full parallel support for x86. MIPS machines were to be the "high-performance", x86 the high-volume end. Internal politics (like DEC wanting to go with OSF/1 for Unix instead of SVR4) and technical problems (like the R4000 shipping later than expected) delayed products and contributed to the failure of ACE. -Pelladon 07:26, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I pulled the following sentence from the article:
One of the first companies to leave the consortium was Compaq. The unsubstantiated rumor was that Intel threatened that company to not deliver sufficient quantities of processor chips to support Compaq's then current production rate. 
 (emphasis original author's)
If there were at least an citation for this (a sourced unsubstantiated rumor? :-), it might be OK to leave in, but with nothing to back it up at all, it didn't seem appropriate.--NapoliRoma 18:04, 3 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed self-declared unsubstantiated rumor 

message: As Rilak has pointed out, there are problems with the following:
When the initiative started, RISC based systems (running at 100-200 MHz at the time) had substantial performance advantage over Intel 80486 and original Pentium chips (running at approximately 60 MHz at the time). Intel quickly migrated the Pentium design to newer semiconductor process generations and that performance (and operating frequency) advantage slipped away.
First of all, the MHz values for that time seem off.  Second, megahertz is a completely bogus metric for performance comparisons, especially between unlike architectures.  What would be meaningful here would be something like SPECint and SPECfp values (and prices!) for comparable systems of the day, 80486 vs. MIPS, since that's what ACE was targetting.  I believe floating point was a major weakness of x86 systems at that time, which would be a critical factor in the workstation market.--NapoliRoma (talk) 19:41, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: After all this time, I recently modified the first part of this and dropped the "original Pentium chips" part, along with the note about Intel's subsequent Pentium developments. ACE was around before the Pentium reached the market. I imagine the person who wrote this section didn't get their timeline right. PaulBoddie (talk) 21:18, 11 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  RISC vs. CISC performance claims
Talk:Kaifi Azmi

message: Plenty of content on this page is a dump from http://www.upperstall.com/kaifiazmi.html. Needs a rewrite.. Chirag 21:40, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  copyright violation 
Talk:Maria Pavlovna, Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The result of the move request was: moved. Consensus that the proposed title is more WP:NATURAL than the current one, and that the improvement is sufficient to outweigh the reduction in consistency. (closed by non-admin page mover)  ModernDayTrilobite (talk • contribs) 15:22, 29 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1786–1859) →  – A more natural disambiguation per WP:NATURAL, she was a grand duchess consort in Germany and it's a better choice than putting years of birth and death in the brackets. Killuminator (talk) 20:51, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

text: Support - While I generally prefer to include both the maiden and married titles in the title for deceased consorts with ambiguous maiden names, Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia, Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach is too long (even for me). Using the married title alone (or married territorial name) is not without precedent (ie. Marie of Romania), and I prefer anything to the present form of disambiguation which I think should be avoided at any cost. estar8806 (talk) ★ 01:38, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: In that case the nominator has to demonstrate that the person was mostly notable as Grand Duchess of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach rather than a Grand Duchess of Russia. Keivan.fTalk 02:47, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Her time as as consort in Germany is longer than her life before marriage and one of the images used in the article is a commemorative medal with the German title prominently above the image of her head, estar's proposal is good too.  Killuminator (talk) 14:47, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, but we should not forget that this is the English Wikipedia. Obviously, German sources would favor the German title but what about English sources or even Russian sources (she was Russian after all)? We have to look those up too before jumping to conclusions. Keivan.fTalk 16:21, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 6 September 2023
Talk:Paulo Wanchope

message: The dates for the list of his international goals seem to be completely messed up, and in Spanish. The years do not seem to follow the chronological order and in most cases are completely wrong. ~Chemicalrubber (talk) 04:59, 15 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  List of international goals 

message: Wanchope scored 2 goals against Germany and it is important for many... I know this but why did you write it twice in the article. Article starts with Germany match and ends with the thing again. Deliogul 08:24, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I've consolidated the info into one paragraph. --Muchness 09:11, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  I know you are happy but... 

message: The man is seen as something of a Derby County legend, at least one of recent years. Probably the only English team he was consistent for, he scored a classic goal on his debut, and was part of the best team we've had in recent years. Maybe some of this could be mentioned in the article? 86.0.232.60 14:20, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Derby County legend
Talk:Nekhen

message: paige wilson lives in logan ut  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.202.24.2 (talk) 00:54, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: It would seem logical that the content related to a single archaeological deposit would be better described as part of the article on the main site. PatHadley (talk) 20:09, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. If this article were very lengthy, there might be a reason to have a separate article on the Main Deposit, but instead it's fairly short. The contents of the Main Deposit are undoubtedly the best-known finds from Nekhen (the Narmer Palette is almost certainly the best-known artifact from the Predynastic and Early Dynastic Periods) and deserve more detailed coverage here than they get. The palette and the two maceheads already have their own articles, so there's really no reason to have a separate Main Deposit article that further isolates Nekhen from the most important finds in Nekhen. A. Parrot (talk) 22:55, 23 November 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed merge with [[Main deposit (Nekhen)]] 

message: I have edited the article for many minor changes and propose that we shift to using the Ancient Egyptian name consistently for the site, as our article is entitled, not switching back and forth between it and the name used by the ancient Greeks. A redirect is in place for Hierakonpolis and it is noted three times at the top of the article as an alternative name, so that should suffice for references to that name. 
In case there is no objection, I went ahead and made the changes that would be required. Please do not reverse all of the edits if there is not -- I will restore the Greek name where I have changed it if that is the consensus. _ _ _ _ 83d40m (talk) 19:45, 27 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  proposal to use the Egyptian name
Talk:Maggie Roswell

message: In the article for her character Maude Flanders, it states:
It is rumored that the character was killed off because Roswell demanded more money. This rumor has been denied. Other sources say the actress was tired of multi-state commutes for what was only occasional work.
It's not cited, but it contradicts the statement in this article about her leaving because of money. Tetigit 08:29, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Simpsons 

message: Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that :File:Maggie Roswell.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on November 14, 2014. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2014-11-14. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. Thanks! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 23:55, 24 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[:File:Maggie Roswell.jpg]] to appear as POTD
Talk:John V, Count of Armagnac

message: The date of birth and the biographical details don't match up - he can't have been causing political trouble at age 4 or 5. Chicheley 08:33, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Dates

message: The son Jean D'Armagnac (d. 1473) links to an article where the same person (Batard d'Armagnac) is born of different parents.  Julia Rossi (talk) 22:19, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Offspring

message: This is obviously cut and pasted from somewhere, or copied from some book. Anyone know where? --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 15:52, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cut and pasted? 

message: This Article seem to be very POV, it is also poorly written and badly cited.--Lord Don-Jam (talk) 23:21, 16 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article POV 