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Talk:Modified Newtonian dynamics

message: Does it make sense to essentially copy all of Galaxy rotation problem into this article?
Aragorn2 15:07, 25 Sep 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: I just ran into this article, the first paragraph is indeed copied (but it is allowed under Wiki GNU Free Documentation License. Anyway, the majority of the article is dedicated to the solution of the problem by Milgrom's MOND. A descripition of the problem is neccesary. MathKnight 22:21, 28 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Galaxy rotation problem 

message: Please explain this global revert. The text in the 4th paragraph was just simplified and removed the word-for-word copying of text from the cite. You also removed an additional relevant more recent reference that confirms both versions of text in this article. 
There is nothing contentious with edit : 
"Although MOND explains the anomalously high rotational velocities of galaxies at their edges by the Tully-Fisher relationship, it does not fully explain the velocity dispersion of individual galaxies within galaxy clusters. Some discrepancies may not be accountable by MOND, such as the presence of yet undetected missing baryonic matter or neutrinos."
The reverted version talks about "...factor of around 10 to a factor of about 2.", but this doesn't appear anywhere in the main body of the article at all. The Introduction is supposed to be a summary of the main article, not just word for word extract from a cite.
Saying 'further back' is meaningless. It just looks like gatekeeping. Why? Itchycoocoo (talk) 02:03, 4 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: 'Further back' refers the prior reversions. You were partly reverted, and then I reverted further back into the article history. Your attempts to simplify the wording in fact made it more difficult to understand, changed content in ways that the sources didn't really support, and introduced some subtle technical errors (to cite one example, accuracy and precision are not interchangeable terms). I felt that your changes overall were not improvements to the article, so I reverted them. MrOllie (talk) 01:51, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: ...then why remove the reference? Worst, carte blanche word-for-word copying of copyright text is not allowed. The modification appears in the main text exactly as said. good faith edits apply here. If you disagree with something, then just use the talk page here. Itchycoocoo (talk) 03:28, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Questionable Revert
Talk:Human being

message: This is not an encyclopedia article. Anything that could be said about human beings can be said about Homo sapiens just as well. I vote for reinstating the redirect. If not, I'm afraid people will start to add more material here and we will get duplication. 199.17.238.92 17:13 Aug 15, 2002 (PDT)
:I agree. These two terms are synonyms, and should be treated as such. Bryan Derksen
: I also agree. If Icarus doesn't soon come up with some kind of justification the redirect should be put back. -- Jan Hidders 17:30 Aug 15, 2002 (PDT)
:I already put the redirect back. But if there were justification, something could be put back back. --Brion
Somebody linked from "human being" in the article on Curriculum. In that article, "human being" does not unambiguously mean "a human person," it could mean (in my opinion: is best understood to mean), in an ontological sense, the distinctive being proper to humans, as in Heidegger's formulation of Dasein.
Perhaps a disambiguation page would be in order. jawhitzn 21:36, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have just added a stub for Human being (ontology) jawhitzn 22:25, 22 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Olde discussion 

message: To deal philosophically with human being in a way different from the taxonomical concept of a human species. -Stevertigo (t | log | c) 01:16, 1 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Created
Talk:William, Prince of Wales

message: How long was William's service in the Blues and Royals? The article just says he started in December 2006. Thanks. Martinevans123 (talk) 15:17, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: @Martinevans123 I'm currently looking for a citation. Once I've found it, I'll add it. Please refrain from re-inserting the tag you previously added, as I'll likely include the information in the article soon. Regards MSincccc (talk) 15:21, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks. I will also refrain from putting a tag in the infobox. Regards. Martinevans123 (talk) 15:48, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: 2006–2008 (1, 2). Keivan.fTalk 20:51, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Blues and Royals]]   

message: How many people know that a Master of Arts degree from the University of St Andrews isn't actually a Master of Arts degree? It is not a postgraduate degree, it is actually the name they give their Bachelor of Arts degree for historic reasons. Therefore, stating , is misleading as it suggests he has an actual post-graduate level master's degree. I suggest one of two changes to reflect this reality:
* He earned an undergraduate Master of Arts degree in geography at the University of St Andrews
* He earned an undergraduate degree in geography at the University of St Andrews
I added the first of these but this was reverted for being "Not an improvement". Any comments? Gaia Octavia Agrippa Talk  11:35, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with the reverting editor, the distinction is not important enough for the lead of this article. Master of Arts (Scotland) is linked in the lead, and the wording in the Education section does clarify that this is an undergraduate degree. Rosbif73 (talk) 11:59, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:   Master of Arts degree
Talk:Aragonese language

message: Please would an interested editor assess the material added at User:Rgk50/Aragonese language in 2021, incorporate what is useful into the live article, blank the user page as WP:FAKEARTICLE, and leave a note here when done? – Fayenatic London 14:57, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: you assessed it with full marks on its talk page; perhaps you might like to merge such good work, so that it is not wasted? – Fayenatic London 15:01, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Abandoned user draft
Talk:Scale (music)

message: See  Talk:Interval_(music)#Scale_steps. — MaxEnt 16:45, 19 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scale steps 

message: gapped scale is redirected here. But we also have one link to Gapped mode. Suggestions?--Estopedist1 (talk) 08:58, 9 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Gapped mode? 

message: The section on "Jazz and blues" states that a piano can't play "blue notes," which are described as microtonal; yet the example "blues scale" is played on a piano. This needs to be clarified by someone who knows more about it than I do. My suspicion is that "blue notes" and "blues scale" are not at all the same thing, albeit related, but if so this section needs to address the concept of "blues scale" at least slightly. Furthermore, the hatlinked article covers many more scales than just the blues scale; maybe a few sentences describing what's in that article might help. The "jazz scales" article uses the phrase "blue notes" only to refer to chromatically-altered notes as shown in the example, not microtones. The article Blues scale seems to indicate that "blue notes" is a contested term in this regard. —Wahoofive (talk) 16:59, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Blues
Talk:Phonology

message: Both images start with the same phrase, "The vowels of modern (Standard) Arabic and (Israeli) Hebrew from the phonetic point of view.", but then show completely different charts. This look like an error.172.56.34.120 (talk) 02:35, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Confusing description for vowel chart

message: There are some sort of syntax problems in the notes section. Tried fixing it to no avail. Can anyone resolve it?--Megaman en m (talk) 09:58, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  syntax problem
Talk:Interval (music)

message: I believe that the current description of Helmholtz's theory on dissonance is so simplistic that it is rendered incorrect.
"Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894) defined a harmonically consonant interval as one in which the two pitches have an upper partial (an overtone) in common.[11] This essentially defines all seconds and sevenths as dissonant, and the above thirds, fourths, fifths, and sixths as consonant."
I believe that a suitable alternative may be something like this:
"Hermann von Helmholtz (1821–1894) theorised that dissonance was caused by the presence of  beats (1). von Helmholtz further believed that the beating produced by the upper partials of harmonic sounds was the cause of dissonance for intervals too far apart to produce beating between the  fundamentals (2). von Helmholtz then designated that two harmonic tones that shared common low partials would be more consonant, as they produced less beats (3)+[11]. von Helmholtz disregarded partials above the seventh, as he believed that they were not audible enough to have significant effect (4). From this von Helmholtz categorises the octave, perfect fifth, perfect fourth, major sixth, major third, and minor third as consonant, in decreasing value, and other intervals as dissonant."
I realise this is significantly longer, but the additional length is necessary to correctly discuss the idea. I've not edited a wikipedia article before so I am not 100% sure on how to reference this correctly. I am more than happy to get secondary references that describe the concept in a similar way.
(1)  Helmholtz, H. L. F. (1877)On the Sensations of Tone as a Theoretical Basis for the Theory of Music. Third English Edition. Ellis, Alexander J. (Trans.) (1895). Longmans, Green, And Co. (P. 172) "The roughness from sounding two tones together depends... the number of beats produced in a second."
(2)  Helmholtz, H. L. F. (1877)On the Sensations of Tone as a Theoretical Basis for the Theory of Music. Third English Edition. Ellis, Alexander J. (Trans.) (1895). Longmans, Green, And Co. (P. 178) " The cause of this phenomenon must be looked for in the beats prodcued by the high upper partials of such compound tones,".
(3)  Helmholtz, H. L. F. (1877)On the Sensations of Tone as a Theoretical Basis for the Theory of Music. Third English Edition. Ellis, Alexander J. (Trans.) (1895). Longmans, Green, And Co. (P. 182).
(4)  Helmholtz, H. L. F. (1877)On the Sensations of Tone as a Theoretical Basis for the Theory of Music. Third English Edition. Ellis, Alexander J. (Trans.) (1895). Longmans, Green, And Co. (P. 183) "Here I have stopped, because the 7th partial tone is entirely eliminated, or at least much weakened,".
JoshuaAMills (talk) 07:33, 1 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Classification - Consonant and dissonant -  Hermann von Helmholtz
Talk:Kohen

message: Provided he had no physical blemishes etc. It's essential for understanding the concept of kohen, and the article doesn't address it, or it's too well hidden within the convoluted text. Belongs in the lead.
Concrete application: was Josephus Flavius/Yosef ben Matatyahu a priest? His father was, but what about him? If this was a matter of choice (his or a committee's of some kind), or if he was too young at the time he was sent to prepare the defense of the Galilee in 66, then he can't be called a priest. Or can he? Thanks. Arminden (talk) 13:39, 7 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Every male member of a kohen family became an active priest? 

message: Does anyone volunteer to clarify. There have never been tribes in Rabbinical Judaism, the tribes disappeared or merged 500 years earlier. The Tribe of Levi does not exist. Kohanim and Leviim have been hereditary castes for 2,500 years! Essentially the entire Jewish nation is the Tribe of Judah. The Ten Tribes from the Northern Kingdom were non-Jerusalem-Temple-centric Israelites, not Jews, and they completely vanished into the vast Assyrian Empire or morphed into Samaritanism. The much smaller Tribes of Simeon and Benjamin merged into Judah during the Babylonian Exile, and once being a kohen or levi ceased being tribal and became purely hereditary and familial, as it is today, so did the Tribe of Levi. Monosig (talk) 05:28, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe I agree with you in the general contours of your description of the historical development and disappearance of the tribes, with the remnant Rabbinic system of "castes" as you call it. But we would need reliable sources that confirm what you say, so that more clear statements about the Rabbinic "caste" system could be introduced into the article. Thank you, warshy (¥¥) 17:18, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Confusion between the post Second Temple priestly caste system and the pre-Babylonan Exile tribal system. 

message: I have one question.  Why did they create this calling card, knowing people were going to match, only to deny those that match.  I matched the model and have received nothing but hate and spitefulness when attempting to address this with any group or person, and usually after I show the proof. Shame on you for shining a light for us to follow, a light that's end up being darkness. And we're here, with no place to go because of your racism and hate. Denying God can't be a good thing, no matter what you believe. We are here, you called, now what. 71.34.227.105 (talk) 20:50, 29 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Calling Card for the Kohanim Priest 

message: Here's my family tree, I belong to the Kohanim lineage according to my DNA, and many others.
https://discover.familytreedna.com/y-dna/Q-M242/tree Alphamoses (talk) 14:57, 8 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kohanim in the US
Talk:Children in the military

message: This article is or was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Kinna kile.
:"During the armed conflict in Eastern Ukraine in 2014 Justice for Peace at Donbas documented 41 verified individual cases of child recruitment into armed formations. Of those 37 concerned the participation of children in armed formations on territory not controlled by Ukraine and 4 on territory controlled by Ukraine. There were 31 further reports of child recruitment which could not be verified. Of the 37 verified cases on territory not controlled by Ukraine, 33 were boys and 4 were girls; 57% were aged 16–17, 35% were under 15, and age could not be determined in 8% of cases"Это откровенно сомнительное утверждение сделаное проукраинское стороной потому конкретно сомнительное само определенное вербовки очень расплывчато,да и доказательства существование этих вербовок тоже очень сомнительны Цйфыву (talk) 14:04, 20 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

message: Should this article mention children fighters enlisted by the Hong Kong independence movement? https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-50501084
In my opinion, no. These are child protesters, who may commit acts of violence but are not in the military or a military organisation. Fugitivedave (talk) 16:52, 21 November 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Children rioters during Hong Kong independence movement 

message: If you are interested in child soldiers you should read the book called A Child Soldier by Emmanuel Jal. It has some very useful information in it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.38.6.228 (talk) 21:43, 1 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Child Soldiers
Talk:Stag beetle

message: Stag Beetle page added by TerrapinDundee from his site http://www.brickfieldspark.org/data/stag_beetle.htm with his permission
I'm not sure a stub article needs that frankly ridiculous list of species, especially since only about 30 of them link to actual articles. Fish-Face (talk) 23:01, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I noticed that and split off most of it to  make the article Lucanus cervus. Many other taxa in this group are missing. Rigadoun  (talk) 19:33, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: :Add  # Support  or  # Oppose  on a new line in the appropriate section followed by a brief explanation, then sign your opinion using ~~~~.  Please remember that this is not a vote; comments must include reasons to carry weight.
*Oppose -- WP:NC and Wikipedia:Naming conventions (fauna) "If there is a common name in English, use that"  If more than one beetle gets the same name then a sperate paragraph takes care of it. What should not be done is to turn this into a redirect page --Philip Baird Shearer 20:42, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Survey

message: "(it is the largest terrestrial insect in the UK)."
Not disputing it, but a reference would be good.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ride the Hurricane (talk • contribs) 16:20, 24 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  UK title-holder 
Talk:Unitarianism

message: "Unitarianism might be considered a part of Protestantism, depending on one's stance or viewpoint, and some exclude it from that term due to its rejection of the Trinity. Despite common origins during the Protestant Reformation, some scholars call it a part of Nontrinitarianism, while others consider it both Protestant and Nontrinitarian, seeing no contradiction between those two terms. None of the three views is universally accepted."
This is all misleading at best. Unsourced, I think it can be entirely removed. Jrwsaranac (talk) 12:35, 10 May 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: The article still contains a lot of blather that sounds like a blog and is certainly WP:OR. I removed more opinion. 71.136.189.245 (talk) 18:31, 15 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Probably misleading, certainly needs citations 

message: The merger between the Unitarians and the Universalists, ended the church as it was known, and started a mix of the two religions, known as the Unitarian Universalists (UU's). Then after the UU's had the merger, eventually, they usurped the Unitarian name.  Thus, the prior Unitarian's had different beliefs, and most know nothing about the Transcendentalist movement within the Unitarian church, or the volume of Politicians whom were Unitarians.          — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.72.88.128 (talk) 19:49, 22 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger 

message: The number of Unitarians seems to be 800,000, throughout the world.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C4:7C87:4F00:D879:1050:A007:5BE2 (talk) 14:24, 30 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number 

message: :Article fails the B-class criteria. One instant is "unsourced statements" since 2010. Reassess the article to C-class.  --  Otr500 (talk) 08:42, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title: Article issues and classification
Talk:Akaba of Dahomey

message: Uh... throne of where?  What dates?  -- April
Also, this is a word-for-word transcription of the site 
http://www.concentric.net/~Jeffnaus/akaba.htm
Do we have permission to use this material? Is it GPL-OK?
A whole series of articles have been added by 200.155.66.*, including Ghezo -- Tegbessou -- Kplinga -- Agonglo -- Adandozan -- Agadja -- Houegbadja. Unless their non-copyright status (or permission) can be established, the content of all of these will have to be removed, though the titles will still be useful. -- April
I would be careful before removing all material, considering many sites mirror Wikipedia.  Be sure that this is not the case before removing the articles.  Lujack 16:27, 12 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:History of Benin

message: http://www.worldstatesmen.org/Benin.html  —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Xed (talk • contribs).
I've broken the article up, and added some information about administration post-colonialisation- but its probably quite a symplistic version of events. At least it has a better framework now--nixie 07:14, 17 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: to do
Talk:Annual Customs of Dahomey

message: Do you have any?--Temple3 14:50, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Documentation 

message: When were these celebrations held? 104.153.40.58 (talk) 21:51, 24 October 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  When?
Talk:Newton

message: was also a pop singer.
He sang "Sometimes when we touch". It was a top song in Australia in 1996.
As far as I know he didn't have a Christian name.
--EuropracBHIT 09:18, 14 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes - Newton's Streamline is the background music for a Pepsi commercial (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1001047613271854156). Newton is also on Last.fm: http://last.fm/music/Newton. I'm adding him. --Anthony5429 03:20, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Newton  

message: Should we create a link for that? - user:tothaa —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.99.125.207 (talk) 13:00, 16 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[newtonmas]] 

message: Virgin Galactic#LauncherOne's engines are called Newton  and documented at that article, so an entry may be in order here. -- 67.70.35.44 (talk) 05:26, 2 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: "Newton" rocket engines
Talk:Stalingrad (disambiguation)

message: How about merging Stalingrad into Volgograd and redirecting it there?
One city doesn't need two articles just because the name changed.
:We had this discussion re: Inchon vs. Incheon and decided to leave them the way they were.  Well, actually, Inchon redirects to Incheon, but we decided that history articles shouldn't be edited. -- Zoe
The above discussion is from 2002. I am moving Stalingrad here, pointing Stalingrad to Volgograd and putting  on Volgograd. There are about 100 articles pointing to Stalingrad, and ALL of them have to do with the city now known as Volgograd. --Dryazan 20:52, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Pierre de Marivaux

message: Anybody know where he is buried?
mars  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.193.14.107 (talk) 02:23, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: What is "Marivaudage"?  This section would benefit from an explanation of the term. Catwizzle (talk) 14:31, 5 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marivaudage
Talk:Maximilian Kaller

message: However the bishop was asked to leave the office by Polish Cardinal August Hlond
Hlond pretended, Pope Pius XII had given him the authorization to dismiss Kaller from his function( A. Kossert, "Ostpreussen", p. 359). Describing that as, "he asked him to leave" is an euphemism. HerkusMonte (talk) 10:37, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kaller and Hlond 
Talk:Simon Stevin

message: "Stevin discovered the hydrostatic paradox, which states that the downward pressure of a liquid ..." I had to changed this since pressure has no direction.Laelele (talk) 09:54, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Hydrostatic paradox 

message: Does anyone have a source for the name Simon Stevinius Brugensis used in this page? Apparently this should be Stevinus rather than Stevinius. Tkuvho (talk) 09:42, 4 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  stevinus/stevinius 

message: I have corrected the reference with the correct book name, page no., theorem and proposition, at reference no. 8,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Stevin#cite_note-8  as along with a link to his chief works, where this book could be found. I hope the O.P./writer of this article wouldn't mind. Bkpsusmitaa (talk) 14:30, 22 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  I have corrected the Reference 

message: In  connection with an exhibition in Bruges 2020 the following catalog "Vanden Berghe, G. (2020). Simon Stevin van Brugghe (1548-1620): hij veranderde de wereld. Sterck & De Vreese." was published,  (He changed the world), 2.65.16.244 (talk) 18:13, 25 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:     Simon Stevin exhibition