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Talk:Macedonian phalanx

message: Cplakidas, please observe the difference between the page content before the original page and the current one... --Joy [shallot] (talk) 11:57, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: On the first point, yes, so what? There is no rule that says that the page has to be recreated exactly as it was before it was converted into a redirect. Ideally, both the present and former content should be merged into the article. I just felt it odd that a) there was no dedicated article on the Macedonian phalanx and b) "Macedonian phalanxes" is an unreasonable title. As for "Macedonian phalanxes" itself, the article's history is quite distinct, I don't know how the history merge could or should be performed, this is a question for an admin I suppose. Constantine   ✍  14:19, 25 March 2010 (UTC)
replies: text:  My point was simply - if you're merging, merge as much as you can. It looks like it was a copy&paste move before. --Joy [shallot] (talk) 20:09, 27 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  re-creation from redirect 

message: I think that the word artillery in the last sentence of the article is quite irritating. The term artillery is contemporarily used in reference to long-range, large-caliber guns such as mortars and cannons, as well as, their operating unit. However, I am aware of the fact that siege machines like catapults and balistas have historically been refered to as artillery and I see that the use of this term is not technically wrong. Furthermore, though I cannot claim by any means that I am an expert, I am not aware of any weapon other than a catapult that has been invented by the later classical antiquity and could possibly be considered an artillery piece, so I think that such a generic term is unnecessary. All in all, I believe that the term should be changed perhaps to a more specific and appropriate one or have at least its hyperlink replaced and, if applicable, have a citation added for further study. Gkoutentakis (talk) 22:30, 12 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of the word artillery
Talk:Il Dottore

message: The overview seems to be a repeat of the first section of the article, I might suggest removing it or adding some more information to it. It mostly seems like a repeat.
Msldance (talk) 21:28, 9 December 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Overview
Talk:Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar

message: One hell of a name, don't you think!—Preceding unsigned comment added by Longevitymonger (talk • contribs) 23:42, 9 April 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed the last line that commenting on the weirdest of Lamar's name.  I just didn't think that it was of any pertinence to comment on the "weirdest" of the subject's name. Jpcarver—Preceding undated comment added at 17:55, 4 May 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This guy easily wins for the longest name in the US Supreme Court.—Preceding unsigned comment added by YixilTesiphon (talk • contribs) 02:28, December 2005 (UTC)
:He is, of course, named after the Roman dictator Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus. – Quadell (talk) 13:10, 12 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nice name 

message: Greetings other Wikipedians! Not sure if it necessary to put this here, but I thought I would just as a heads up. I've been doing a heavy rewrite of this page in my sandbox, and while I'm not fully finished with it yet over there, I'll be transferring it over as I finish (feel free to check out the progress!). I've read and been citing from his most recent biography on him for context, though I've been pulling from a prior biography and other scattered information on him. 
Anyway, cheers, and here's to hoping for a productive rewrite.
PoliticsIsExciting (talk) 07:19, 30 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article rewrite
Talk:Elaine

message: I dunno about not having this be the entry for Elaine Benes. The only examples on the list that plausibly go by the single-name "Elaine" are the Seinfeld character and the Arkansas town. And the Seinfeld character is much more well known. If someone's looking for other Elaines they can use the search function. It's preferable to have articles at the 90% right title. --The Cunctator
:What about the mythological character, half-sister of King Arthur? That can only be "Elaine" alone, surely. I think there's enough ambiguity to merit keeping this a disambig, but I'm not sure we need to list everybody (or thing) called Elaine, just those who might plausably live at an article just called "Elaine". --Camembert
* This should really be consolidated with Elaine (given name).  I added the Elaine Benes here, before I realised that entry was already under the (given name) one.  Given that there are given names in this article as well, they should be consolidated.  Having multiple disambiguation pages only creates more ambiguity.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 38.139.8.209 (talk) 16:35, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: A south African RnB singer 41.114.147.170 (talk) 11:59, 28 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Elaine
Talk:Motion of Confidence

message: As a definition of a formal parliamentary motion, it is written with capitals. STÓD/ÉÍRE 02:06 Apr 10, 2003 (UTC)
Why? Michael Hardy 02:34 Apr 10, 2003 (UTC)
I think it depends on when it is used.  Obviously when it's a formal noun (an Act outlining procedures about what to do), it's capped; otherwise when it's an action passed by Parliament (verb) it can be lowered.  I think we're talking about the formal noun definition.  Again I'm speculating again, gotta ask Jt.
That is 100% correct. BTW, I've been meaning to say, I lurv the nick. (Opps, bad english there!) STÓD/ÉÍRE 02:58 Apr 10, 2003 (UTC)
This needs more information on other parliamentary systems besides the German and Irish ones (Canada, Britain, etc.). Not sure how to go about it. AndrewTouesnard 17:42, 16 December 2005 (UTC)

message: i thinrk there is one in italy right now!--Sonjaaa (talk) 22:21, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: italy?

message: We also have Motion of no confidence. On the face of it, that's just silly. 86.149.131.188 (talk) 18:37, 4 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why two articles?
Talk:12 (number)

message: I'd like to know, for what reason part of this section was deleted lately: "Etymology (Weekley, Skeat) suggests that "twelve" (similar to "eleven") consists of two parts, the first meaning "two" and the second "leftover", so a literal translation would yield "two remaining [after having ten taken]", thus strongly indicating the use of a duodecimal system." --Palapala 07:11, 2004 Jul 1 (UTC)
:Sorry, that was my doing.  Anyhow, it is "two left over from ten".  The word for "twelve" was derived from ten; nothing is derived from twelve itself, as one would expect in a duodecimal system.  We continue right along with "thirteen", transparently "three" + "ten", again based on ten.  In fact, tracing the etymology all the way back to the Proto-Indo-European language, there are etmya for "ten" (*dekm) and even "hundred" (*kmtom), but no single reconstructible expression for "twelve".  So although in specialized uses English may have its "dozens" and "grosses", the core of the language has been decimal as far back as we can reconstruct.  Do you know of a source proposing this duodecimal system?  4pq1injbok 02:23, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Duodecimal system

message: the Ishihara colour test is very interesting, but it seems to me that the standard version of the test doesnt require 12 to be the first plate, the one that everyone can see. Looking at websites and paper encyclopedias i've seen 25 and 52 used too. Numerao 20:15, 1 Sep 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: We need to know if Ishihara wrote a standard and if it says anything about which numbers ought or should be used. If the standard does not name specific numbers, then it might still be interesting to note which numbers Ishihara himself used for the test and why he chose them. But if he chose them randomly and the standard makes no recommendation as to which numbers to use, then this should not included in the number articles. Anton Mravcek 19:55, 2 Sep 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  colorblind test 

message: What is the next sequence number12 13 14 17 48 46.153.203.95 (talk) 16:04, 23 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: 85. These are the last 2 digits on my last 6 supermarket receipts. How did you know? Dhrm77 (talk) 11:00, 26 June 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Ha ! Radlrb (talk) 20:50, 15 October 2023 (UTC)

text: More seriously, there is an infinite number of solutions to this problem. One possible (and relatively simple) solution is 157, which the result of the function f(n) = n^4 - 17n^3/3 + 10n^2 - 13n/3 + 12 for n=5. Dhrm77 (talk) 20:32, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sequence of numbers
Talk:Composite

message: This could use a pointer to composite in the context of composite returns for an associated group of portfolios.  The gist of it relates in part to the concept of dispersion in statistics; there is a pointer from the page for Dispersion to its finance-related article.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.163.80.138 (talk) 16:16, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Finance
Talk:New World warbler

message: It appears that two generic names may need alteration. I have sources, but not good enough sources. The first is Seiurus, which, as noted here without a citation, has long been suspected to be polyphyletic. Now genetic studies clearly show the waterthrushes to be quite distant from the ovenbird, and a new generic name Parkesia has been proposed for them. I don't have access to the paper on this, but here's a reference: "Sangster, G., 2008, A new genus for the waterthrushes (Parulidae), Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club 128: 212-214". There are a lot of interesting possibilities (not much else, yet) coming out of some recent phylogenetic studies and I'll add notes like this: "Genetic studies suggest the Canada and Wilson's Warblers may be whitestarts." The second genus is Vermivora, which Oberholser's Bird Life of Texas (1974) claims is preoccupied by Linné's 1776 senior synonym for the Worm-eating Warbler. The next available name is apparently Helminthophila Ridgway 1882. I think I'll add little notes on this, but can anybody give some input? Innotata 16:06, 2 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I just found that Vermivora americ was suppressed by the ICZN. For some reason it isn't in the index of names in zoology innotata (Talk | Contribs) 21:58, 7 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  two generic names 

message: I am the author of the article about Dolichonyx oryzivorus in the Spanish Wikipedia and I found a paper that said that the bobolink, an icterid, is closely related to the yellow-breasted chat. When I wrote that in the article’s taxonomy section, it aroused some controversy due to the fact that the yellow-breasted chat was originally classified as a parulid. Then I resorted to the article in English about this bird to learn more about its taxonomy and it suggested that its classification as a parulid is obsolete. I was wondering if anyone knew anything about its current classification. Has anyone heard or read anything about its phylogenetic links with Icteridae? If you happen to know any free-access paper available in the internet about this matter, I’d appreciate you let mi know in my talk. Thank you! --Pablo.ea.92 (talk) 11:01, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yellow-breasted chat 

message: I've redirected Mniotiltidae here. This old taxon appears to have formerly included Mniotilta and perhaps some other genera. It should probably be explained (here or at some better location). I mostly see it in works from the early 20th century, though it still appears in the unabridged Merriam-Webster: "Taxonomic synonym of Parulidae".  — SMcCandlish ☺ ☏ ¢ ≽ʌⱷ҅ᴥⱷʌ≼  00:58, 10 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mniotiltidae 

message: Is there a reason the yellow-rumped warbler doesn't appear on this page? Accipiter22 (talk) 02:41, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yellow-Rumped Warbler?
Talk:Shoebill

message: 150 flaps per minute? 217.8.12.201 (talk) 22:17, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Context please. Is this in the article or are you proposing a change? Got a source? –Novem Linguae (talk) 01:19, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Flaps
Talk:Intravenous therapy

message: The other uses of IV therapy has not been listed, such as for beauty treatments, eg. skin lightening.https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/28/health/skin-lightening-glutathione-bleaching.html. Also, the article is missing information about NAD+ therapy, which is getting popular.https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/wellness/do-nad-boosting-supplements-fight-aging-not-according-to-current-research/2019/11/26/ffc95704-07c4-11ea-818c-fcc65139e8c2_story.html Internetyev (talk) 20:31, 7 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Other Uses" Expand the section
Talk:Gastroesophageal reflux disease

message: Non pharmacological treatment of GERD
Fromhttps://www.webmd.com/heartburn-gerd/features/11-meal-planning-tips-prevent-heartburn
*Avoid eating large meals because the more volume in the stomach, the more likely the stomach contents will splash toward the LES. Try eating four to five small meals instead of two or three large ones.
*Chew gum (a nonpeppermint flavor) after meals to stimulate saliva production (the bicarbonate in saliva neutralizes acid) and increase peristalsis (which helps move the stomach contents into the small intestine more quickly).
*Drink a small glass of water at the end of meals to help dilute and wash down any stomach acid that might be splashing up into the esophagus, suggests Shekhar Challa, MD, president of Kansas Medical Clinic and author of Spurn The Burn: Treat The Heat. Professor Fox & Dr B (talk) 04:51, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Treatment 

message: A topical diet for acid reflux in 2600:1700:BF10:3AB0:0:0:0:42 (talk) 22:24, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Acid reflux
Talk:Double bowline

message: The double sheet bend should also be listed as a related knot.
:Done. --Dfred (talk) 17:20, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  double sheet bend 

message: It is written that "The disadvantages of the double bowline are that it is less secure than a figure eight knot, takes longer to tie, and is not as easy to check." The first point may be demonstrably correct, the last is completely subjective, and the middle ("longer to tie") contradicts consensus. One of the major disadvantages of the retraced figure 8 (against many other loop knots) is that is takes much time to re-trace and even longer to dress. Alexgenaud (talk) 17:03, 12 August 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disadvantages are arguable 

message: This is just a bowline with two loops. People call this a double bowline due to misunderstanding. Check Mountaineering: Freedom of the Hills for a more reliable definition. It is worth noting in the article that many people refer to this particular knot as a double bowline instead of the one listed in Freedom of the Hills. Also, evidence should be cited that this knot is more secure than a bowline. It may just be a dangerous rumor.
69.243.81.178 (talk) 06:12, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I attempted to address these issues (and a few others :).  I do not have access to M:FotH, so please review my changes and let me know if this helped.  If it contains specific info about limitations/caveats for the "round turn bowline", please feel free to add them to the article w/refs. Also, take a look at WP:KNOTS for some guidelines/ideas on knot naming/article titles, etc.  My thought on this article is that double bowline is a common enough name for this knot that it doesn't need to be moved as long as the ambiguity you brought up is addressed.  ...but I'd be open to hearing thoughts to the contrary.   --Dfred (talk) 17:15, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: [replying to self] Looks like the knot referred to in M:FotH as the "double bowline" is neither the double bowline (ABOK #1013) nor the bowline on a bight (#1080).  The most comparable knot I found in ABOK seems to be #1074, which is also a bowline made with a bight, but in that knot the initial loop (i.e. the "rabbit hole") is made with a single strand rather than a double.  My feeling is that the editors of M:FotH have chosen too generic a name for this obviously distinct knot, but I'll add something to the naming section to address their use of this name. --Dfred (talk) 03:21, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  not a double bowline
Talk:AVUS

message: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talladega_Superspeedway
NASCAR 1984  May 6 Cale Yarborough 278.397 km/h
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indianapolis_500_winners
INDY 1986 May 31 Bobby Rahal[74] 274.750 km/h
then 1990 the famous record of Arie Luyendyk 299.307 km/h  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.134.75.130 (talk) 06:26, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  AVERAGE SPEED 278 km/h; is real ? 
Talk:Spanish flu

message: The term Spanish flu is considered derogatory and offensive by 50% of the world.
Why not change the name from Spanish Flu to 1918 Avian flu pandemic? 
Doctors already changed the name Wuhan virus/Coronavirus to Covid 19 to prevent racism and anti Corona beer sentiment.
Doctors already changed the name MonkeyPox to MPox to prevent racism. 
Or at least add a trigger warning at the top of the wikipedia page to prevent outrage.
76.98.200.126 (talk) 12:59, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: This has been discussed extensively, and the most recent discussion in November 2022 decided to stick with the current title, although personally I would have gone for 1918 flu pandemic as this has been the standard name in medical and academic sources for many years. Wikipedia does not do trigger warnings, it is an encyclopedia based on what reliable sources say. The opening paragraph makes clear that Spanish flu is a misnomer.--♦IanMacM♦ (talk to me) 15:22, 26 May 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Preventing racism? 

message: I really think that the ñame "Spanish Flu" should not be used after the NAMES section. That was a name created by propagandists and shouldn't have any place on wiki. of course, you have to use it at the beginning of the article because many people call it that, but it shouldn't be used at all after that unless in a citation. Spiel (talk) 07:16, 29 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The name Spanish Flu is a misnomer but it also accurately reflects the conditions during the outbreak and it's relation to the First World War which of course was hugely geopolitically significant. Considering it's also the name it's most known by, I don't really see the problem with using the name Spanish Flu Angryman120344 (talk) 11:48, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

message: — Assignment last updated by Sun Snow Bear (talk) 09:24, 6 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Linguistics in the Digital Age
Talk:Mountain rescue

message: Too many helicopter pictures. In the US certainly the majority of mountain rescue occurs without helicopters. DriveBy27 16:53, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, thinned out helicopter pictures, lets see how long it lasts.--KTo288 (talk) 08:19, 2 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Helicopters

message: sigh... yet another US-centric page — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tarquin (talk • contribs) 10 April 2003
I have rewritten the article to make it slightly less US-centric. --Iceaxejuggler 15:37, 1 Oct 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: US-centric nature

message: Since when is Ireland part of the UK?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.97.78.31 (talk) 01:50, 10 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Ireland/UK

message: Could this article also integrate ski patrol? --Joy [shallot] (talk) 11:12, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  merge with [[ski patrol]]? 
Talk:Ten-code

message: This article is not about ten-codes. It's about APCO and their history with police communications. The ten-codes are discussed only as they relate to police definitions and procedures, and most of the article is about police radio communications other than ten-codes. This isn't at all the article I was looking for. Dcs002 (talk) 07:45, 21 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should be moved 

message: The "Official APCO Ten Signals by era" section has a table with a column titled "1937 APCO". This column is completely empty. Should it be removed? -- Mikeblas (talk) 19:58, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Hrm, right next to it is a column named "1939 First Published Set (17 signals)". It's empty, too, but also has a reference. The reference doesn't includ any actual ten-codes, though maybe that's just because the PDF linked is only one page and doesn't contain the whole article. What's really meant to be happening in this table? -- Mikeblas (talk) 23:59, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove empty column?
Talk:Sonic boom

message: I know that a supersonic aircraft generates a sonic boom.  The graphic adjacent to " Perception, noise, and other concerns" states: 
"... When v = c, the sonic boom is visible. When v > c, the Mach cone is visible." What aspect of the sonic boom "is visible"? Geometrically, the line of the shock wave it is the locus of the tangent to the circles representing the range of the sound from the plane at points along its trajectory.
I don't think the article explains the relationship between that line and the creation of the "boom" (or, the N-wave described in reference[1])
Gpsanimator (talk) 07:32, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why does the shock front create a boom?
Talk:Jeffrey Dahmer

message: Under "Victims," the article states that Dahmer's crimes weren't racially motivated because of the findings of an "independent forensic specialists' study of Dahmer's victim selection." This explanation isn't sufficient as the study only says that he was attracted to a certain body-type, not that race was irrelevant to him. Sexual preference for a specific physical look and racism aren't diametrically opposed. In fact, there's often overlap. Tryingtomaketheworldbetter (talk) 06:21, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: He did not kill them because he hated the color of their skin. CJC-DI (talk) 16:35, 21 November 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Perhaps he picked them cause he didn't have much respect for blacks...terrible..they were really nice guys 92.8.214.18 (talk) 14:30, 9 April 2024 (UTC)

text: Note 22 seems to address this issue quite neatly. I'm not sure any more is needed. Martinevans123 (talk) 14:40, 9 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Attraction to a specific body-type doesn't discredit allegations of racism 

message: Please change "He died of natural causes eleven months later." to "He died of natural causes on December 5, 2023."
https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2023/12/05/jeffrey-dahmer-father-lionel-dahmer-dies-at-87-in-medina-county-hospice/71818993007/ SableRain (talk) 22:18, 12 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Jonathan Deamer (talk) 15:23, 16 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 12 December 2023 

message: Jeffery Dahmer killed himself 149.50.166.209 (talk) 22:40, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: No. he was he was beaten to death by Christopher Scarver. Martinevans123 (talk) 22:43, 27 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 27 January 2024