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Talk:Ape Cave

message: After a brief e-mail discussion with persons at the U.S. Forest Service, I was able to nail down the length of Ape Cave more accurately: a recent re-surveying of the cave showed the original length (12,810 feet) to be incorrect, and also placed it as the third-longest (rather than the longest) lava tube in the continental U.S.  I have quoted the messages below for the sake of posterity.
ZorkFox: Hello!  While doing some reasearch for a Wikipedia article on Ape Cave, I noticed that your Web site lists two different lengths for the lava tube.  On the "about us" page, it lists 12,810 feet, while on the Ape Cave home page it reads 13,042 feet. Also in disagreement is the fact of its prominence among lava tubes: one page says it is the longest, the other says it is the third-longerst. Which information is correct?
Teresa: After some resurveying of Ape Cave just a few years ago, it was discovered that the cave is actually 13,042 feet and indeed the third longest cave in the continental US.  The second longest cave is in the Mt. Adams area and I do not know where the longest cave is located.  I hope this information is useful to you.
Adam: Just to clarify, Ape cave isn't the 3rd longest lava tube in the continental U.S., unless the word 'continuous' used here means the physical length in a straight line from point a to b. Others that are not in a straight line have more miles of passage, but wind and loop over each other and if plotted on a map, would have a shorter width, but longer passageways. It's possible this information came from a website such as: http://www.cob.jp/jsp/english/lavalist-w.html  - but this may have mostly 'publicly known' caves. There are many others, that the USGS would have accurate information on, including, for example, Deadhorse Cave, near Trout Lake, WA, which is roughly 9 miles of passage- some continuous, some not, but the continuous flow is longer than Ape Cave, and not even mentioned on that website, for instance. Most cave organizations have access to this complete information. 
—ZorkFox 01:10, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Length and status update 

message: I might be mistaken, but I seem to remember that the leader of the Scout troop that first explored the Ape Cave was named "Harry Reese" not "Henry Reese".  Does anyone have any sources to confirm this? Kbomb 07:55, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: His name was Harry. He was my grand father. he had the sons! :-)  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.222.55.57 (talk) 08:48, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scout Troop Leader? 

message: I will be going up to the Ape Caves this weekend and will verify all info on this page. I will also try to get intouch with someone I know in the USGS that works in the Mt St Helens area. Greasemunkey0119 04:04, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Length and status update
Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/October 12, 2005

message: "densitiy" is a typo. "south-east Asia" might be technically correct, but "Southeast Asia" or "South East Asia" are much more common on a Google listing. Art LaPella 01:14, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: 'Corrected. →Raul654 01:17, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Threshold

message: I don't think the following reference is correct (second quoted sentence), I've not seen the Sci-Fi channel film, but it appears to have no connection.  Therefore I've removed the material and placed it here:
'Threshold is also the name of a science-fiction television series that began airing in 2005. Its based on the Sci-Fi Original Picture, Threshold, that came out in 2003.
Black Wolff 01:14, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Science-fiction television series

message: I question whether the origin of the word, "threshold," truly relates to an effort to "stop the straw from escaping the cobblestone floor." I know such a story is part of an email in mass circulation that purports to describe early origins of several modern words and phrases, but some of the explanations in the email seem fanciful, that is, internet urban legends (or perhaps, in this case more accurately, rural legends).
I don't question the door sill origin of the word, but I do question the suggestion that the "thresh" in "threshold" refers to the straw used on the floors of English homes in the 16th Century (or so). I understand the connection between "thresh," "thrash," and "straw," etc., but that is insufficient to draw the connection to the word's origins.
What say ye?
During these years the villages and settlements at times had a threshing room. This room was where they would thresh the wheat or other grains from the stems. There is a possibility that the word came from the fact that the threshing room had the stop at the doorway to prevent the wheat from going out the door. This could have also caused the story to be created about the 16th century English homes. It could have been for the one room and not necessarily all the homes. 
DBK 02:55, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The Online Etymology Dictionary is your friend: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=threshold&searchmode=none says ...but the oft-repeated story that the threshold was a barrier placed at the doorway to hold the chaff flooring in the room is mere folk etymology. Cotoco (talk) 03:24, 1 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Origin of Threshold 
Talk:Eucalyptus marginata

message: it is the principal hardwood tree harvested in Australia for timber.
I find this hard to believe, I think even Eucalyptus regnans would beat out Jarrah, let alone the vast amounts harvested in Indonesia.  Is there a reference for this? njh 23:34, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  principal hardwood? 

message: I haven't done the edit, because I wanted the discussion first.
English is wonderfully rich in dialects.
The main one(s) where Jarrah grows would spell the colour "grey" not "gray", and would call them sleepers not crossties.
Anyone agree with me that (pace our friends over there) we should "naturalise" the diction of this article?
TIA.  Callophylla 02:02, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually I disagree. However, you apparently have Wikipedia policy behind you. --Ptcamn 03:27, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diction? 

message: QR code in place Elrebe56 (talk) 06:20, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: QR code installed

message: Eucalyptus marginata was first formally described in 1802 by James Edward Smith, whose description was published in Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Smith noted that his specimens had grown from seeds brought from Port Jackson...
I’m dying to know how seeds from a tree endemic to SW WA got to Port Jackson in 1802. Whaling ships? Matthew Flinders? Convict ships stopping in SW WA on their way to Sydney? MBG02 (talk) 08:19, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Seeds in 1802
Talk:Mud wrestling

message: There should be a section that lists mentions of mud wrestling (and jelly wrestling) in TV and movies. I would create one now, but first I need to confirm whether Hill Street Blues is the show I'm remembering that had a mud wrestling scene. I know that A Different World had an episode in which a student and a professor each separately mention plans to see a "don't-miss" match-up at a local mud-wrestling event. Coupling also mentions jelly wrestling, which is how I ended up here in the first place. In Dragon Ball Z: Super Android 13,Goku mentions to Gohan that ChiChi's shopping scene is like the mud wrestling video Goku showed him. Lawikitejana 07:42, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pop culture 

message: Citation needed
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The best mud wrestler in the world is Chewby Maulba. Boils (talk) 23:32, 2 December 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Chewby Maulba
Talk:Splinter of the Mind's Eye

message: Quote: "Additional inconsistencies exist such Luke having to recharge his lightsaber (which is revealed in other EU sources as having a lifelong power source)." Mace recharges his lightsaber in Shatterpoint, but that was after it'd been used extensively. -LtNOWIS 01:23, 12 October 2005 (UTC)

message: This novel has many of the same elements later used or planned to be used in ESB, such as Mimban == Dagobah, and the rebel base, the crash site, and a neutral planet all in the same system (Hoth, Bespin, and Dagobah were originally all in the same solar system, in Leigh Brackett's version of the story).
In regards Jedi, the furry, primative Coway effectively battle the Stormtroopers, much as the Ewoks did on Endor.  Also, the "Yuzzim" were in an early version of the ROTJ script, mentioned in (iirc) _The Art of Return of the Jedi._
Are there other relations, and would it be worth putting these in the article? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.148.235.6 (talk • contribs) 17:25, 16 November 2006
:Apparently, there was once a trivia section with the following info. (this has since been cleaned up):
:*Some elements appear in the novel which may have inspired similar elements in later Star Wars films, such as: 
:**Moving objects with the Force. This was seen in The Empire Strikes Back. 
:**The setting of a dense, foggy planet. This was also seen in The Empire Strikes Back 
:**Darth Vader has the ability to jump very high. Luke and Darth Vader have the ability to do this in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi. 
:**Darth Vader has the ability to shoot balls of white energy by making a fist, which Luke repels by raising his arms. The Emperor has the ability to shoot lightning in Return of the Jedi. 
:**C-3PO mentioning that Darth Vader knows "all the proper code words and commands" to shut him down. This would make sense, given the revelation in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (released in 1999) that Vader himself built Threepio when he was a little boy. Whether George Lucas developed this story element at that point is unknown.
142.167.183.128 (talk) 02:04, 15 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Novel's relation to ESB and Jedi? 

message: I haven't read the book since the mid-eighties, and I don't remember the narrative particularly well: however, I've changed the sentence "They begin looking for a space station to get off the planet but instead find a town..." to "looking for a space port..." as I assume they were trying to find a ground-based settlement where they could acquire a spaceship, rather than an orbiting outpost. ~dom Kaos~ (talk) 08:42, 7 March 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Space station or space port?
Talk:Dog intelligence

message: Sure this is a contradiction.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.129.25.28 (talk) 23:11, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Please stop this trolling already.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Ramdrake (talk • contribs) 23:22, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Signed for archiving purposes only.  William Harris |talk  10:11, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dog & Intelligence in the same sentence 

message: "researchers have as much difficulty agreeing on a method for testing canine intelligence as they do for human intelligence."
Not only is there no citation for this statement, but it's also rather nonsensical, as mainstream science couches the evaluation of human intelligence firmly in IQ.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.72.236.71 (talk) 19:31, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Uncited statement. 

message: Taking into consideration many of the comments post here over the last 6 years, that the page had some good citations and some poor ones, that it had much uncited conjecture, and the fact that it had little structure at all, I have taken the liberty of completely redeveloping this article. I trust that it is of more use to readers now. Regards, William Harris •  talk •   05:00, 24 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redevelopment 

message: This article on "Dog intelligence" now has a section on "Intelligence".  This seems a little odd to me.DrChrissy (talk) 11:59, 9 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Because the opening sentence needs to be reflected in the body somewhere with citation, something that now appears to have been lost due to some recent "guild editing". Regards,  William Harris |talk  10:20, 6 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Structure 

message: There are no citations for Chaser and Rico at the beginning of the article.
This sentence: "A study in 2013 indicated that dogs appear to recognize other dogs regardless of breed, size, or shape, and distinguish them from other animals", seemed out of place under Awareness; it may make more sense under the heading Perception, because it mentions that perception "includes such processes as . . . the identification of events and objects".
There is also no citation for the claim that dogs can sense magnetic fields, under the heading of Perception.
Woltersemily (talk) 17:20, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no requirement to provide citations in the lead if they are given in the main text - but they can be added.  On the other matters, please be bold and make the edits or tag where you think a citation is needed. DrChrissy (talk) 19:00, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no need to provide a reference unless the statement might be disputed. Go to Google Scholar and enter the words "dog magnetic field" - it is not as if the topic is arguable. William Harris • (talk) • 09:42, 2 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Citations
Talk:Daniel Carroll

message: The death date of June 5, 1796 is incorrect. Daniel Carroll died on May 7, 1796.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Compmary (talk • contribs) 18:02, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  one of only two Catholic founders? 

message: The article may say that it was "adapted" from the US military site, but it appears to be more or less the same thing. You might as well go to the original site. I should add this to my list of stuff to do, I have a report on him somewhere... BunnyFlying (talk) 19:29, 16 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Adapted? 

message: I never cease to be amused by the sloppiness with which Wiki deals with kinship. What does it mean to say Charles Carroll of Carrollton and Eleanor Carroll were "apparently first cousins"? That they probably were but perhaps they weren't? Given the prominence of the Carroll family in Maryland, it is unlikely that nobody knows. After all, first cousins are pretty easy to check. I would first see if their fathers were brothers and indeed they were. According to wikiTree, his father was Charles Carroll of Annapolis, her father was Daniel Carroll of Duddington, the sons of Charles Carroll the Settler aka the Immigrant. This is confirmed by a tree on the site Charles Carroll House of Annapolis (charlescarrollhouse.org). 2601:18E:C501:5FE2:7ACA:39FF:FEB2:EFCB (talk) 03:27, 26 September 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Apparent Cousins? 

message: No mention of slave-owning. I feel that this category should be restricted to people whose slave-owning history was notable in itself. Valetude (talk) 21:03, 21 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Category:American slave owners
Talk:Heterotic string theory

message: I changed a line that read "Heterotic string theory was discovered in 1985" to "Heterotic string theory was first developed in 1985." I don't think theories are discovered. They are theorized or developed. I'd be happy to hear arguments otherwise.Lamontacranston 14:22, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Discovered?

message: incomprehensible.
:Agreed.  See my post below.  Spiral5800 (talk) 20:58, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: What the fuck does this mean?

message: This article is extremely specialized and could use some clarification for users who are not fluent in theoretical physics.  I am very interested in theoretical physics, and have read a great deal on string theory, and I still find this article boggling - and I imagine I would have to read half a dozen other articles to make it even half as boggling as it is now.  This problem could easily be fixed by someone who already knows their stuff simply adding to this article a couple explanatory sentences for those of us without degrees in physics (Neuroscience here, but I dabble in everything, and as I said I love theoretical physics and am still baffled by this article).  Therefore, I added the  tag to this article - which I feel sums up my concerns and that of the other user who used more colorful language than I on this talk page.  Once this is resolved please feel free to remove the template.  Thanks! Spiral5800 (talk) 20:58, 16 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It took 3 years, but I have made and attempt at something readable. The first 4 sentences are close to intelligible. The rest still obviously needs work Bhny (talk) 20:24, 7 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Technical tag
Talk:Dorbod Banner

message: Hehe, sorry, I got a bit mixed up there, thanks Evil Monkey =)  I'm not that good with Chinese geography even though I was born in Mainland China x_x, I should be ashamed. -Tcwd (talk) 02:40, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inner Mongolia != Mongolia 
Talk:Dassehra

message: I am familiar only with Dasara. Never seen it spelt "Dussehra". Having Google'd it, Dussehra wins with 272,000 hits. Dasara second, with 135,000. The two transliterations that were part of the original article came up with only 37,000 and 17,000 respectively. I've changed the article to reflect these findings. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vvuppala (talk • contribs) 02:49, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Please read WP:COMMONNAME and WP:RM. If you really believe that Dussehra is not the correct spelling then you are going to have to get the article moved to whatever the correct spelling may be. As far as I can see, the sources at present in the article do indeed spell it Dussehra. We are not interested in whether you are a Hindu. - Sitush (talk) 15:26, 3 October 2018 (UTC)

text: Oops, I have replied to a comment from 2006 that probably related to an earlier version of the article when it was indeed concerned with Hinduism! Anyway, someone has been changing the spellings recently to this thing in its current state as a movie article, so my comment above is still valid. - Sitush (talk) 15:27, 3 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I note the recent upload of :File:Dassehra_Film_poster.jpg. Is it the same film? Is it an official poster? Why can't we find, say, a news source reporting the latest projected release date (it has been put back before). Given the amount of promotional editing that has gone on with this article in the past, I'm inclined to wait until the reviews come out and then update it accordingly. - Sitush (talk) 09:16, 9 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Spellings
Talk:Earless monitor lizard

message: Removed "bizarre" and "ugly" from the description for POV reasons.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.23.81.116 (talk • contribs) 02:53, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This (File:Real Varanus salvator cumingii.jpg) image is Earless monitor lizard (Lanthanotus borneensis) (Nijman, V, and Stoner, S. S. (2014). Keeping an ear to the ground: monitoring the trade in Earless Monitor Lizards. TRAFFIC Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia.), not Yellow-headed water monitor (Varanus cumingi). --Kmoksy (talk) 00:52, 17 June 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image 

message: Three sections that are missing that should be included in the entry are parental care, enemies, social behavior. While there is a discussion on reproduction, there is no mention of parental care which is something that can be added to boost the page’s comprehensiveness. Adding a section on enemies would also be interesting to see given that earless monitor lizards can swim underwater and it would be interesting to learn more about how they bypass aquatic predators and parasites during feeding. Lastly, it would be helpful to see the addition of a social behavior passage as very little was mentioned about their socialization and would help explain certain aspects of their classification such as why they are rarely seen. Perhaps they group up and live underground?
I will be looking to maybe add these in the future so this can serve as a reminder for myself
Joshuachenwustl (talk) 07:09, 24 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  suggestions!
Talk:PHP-GTK

message: As belonging to the GTK category, which itself is a sub-cat' of Widget toolkits, does this article also need to belong to “Widget toolkits” ?
--Jerome Potts (talk) 04:58, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think it doesn't. GTK is a :Category:Widget toolkits. PHP-GTK "uses" GTK instead of "is a" widget toolkits. Kind of... Said: Rursus ☻ 08:20, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Categories
Talk:Phi Sigma Sigma

message: Does anybody mind if I archive the very long jumble of a discussion that took place nearly a year ago? I find it really distracting when I look at this talk page to see the whole mess. If nobody responds in about a week I'll just go ahead and do it. And probably try to organize the convo per its timeline since I know some responses were just thrown out there in random places. Anyway if you have objections please let me know. Thanks --ImmortalGoddezz 18:02, 6 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Okay since there's been no response I've gone ahead and archived and organized it. So it should now be both readable and in the timeline that it occurred. I hope this doesn't bother anybody. --ImmortalGoddezz 04:02, 27 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Archiving

message: Any reason the tags were changed from "citation needed" to the functionally identical "fact" tag?  Desirsar (talk) 17:54, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Citation tags

message: please remove the small section about the secret name of the organization and change it to ending with the section before it
71.179.37.193 (talk) 04:47, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: - Wikipedia is Not Censored - Arjayay (talk) 09:58, 23 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 23 September 2015 

message: One of the greatest parts of being in the sorority is sharing knowledge with specifically only your sisters. This Wikipedia page reveals a secret from the sorority that been been around for over 100 years.
If what is in quotes can be removed, the entire organization would greatly appreciate it. We pride ourselves on respect and loyalty. Whoever put this on the page has no respect nor loyalty to the organization. 
Thank you in advance for your help. 
Phisig1913 (talk) 20:56, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done While Wikipedia values respect, as an encyclopedia it is not censored, and the Wikipedia project has no loyalty to the organization. While Penny Arcade's behavior is abrasive, the information is supported by reliable sources and is presented in a generally neutral way. The story was also picked up and expanded on by other sources. Grayfell (talk) 23:06, 14 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 14 December 2015 

message: "A cease and desist order sent by the sorority to the website requesting removal of the name was ignored and the organization subsequently filed suit seeking to have it expunged.[3]" contains information that is private and should be deleted off this page as it is not for public eyes. This information was released without the permission of the national organization Phi Sigma Sigma, and thus breaches our own privileges to privacy as well as the privileges of the members who are still active within the fraternal organization. This content also breaches our own copyrights and should be omitted from this public page immediately. 
Sbling1993 (talk) 03:14, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: Wikipedia is not censored. The content is reliably sourced. — JJMC89 (T·C) 03:41, 11 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 11 April 2016
Talk:Fill (music)

message: I've added fill to the List of musical terminology, using the definition on the first line of this article, and linked it here. FerralMoonrender 15:13, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Music Terminology 

message: I've added a 'see also' section at the bottom linking the site to the lead guitar article, i'll make a link in the lead guitar article as well.
Also, I think It's pretty safe to remove the thing at the top that dictates that there are no links- however... I don't know how to do this, if someone would remove it please--Mikeoman 17:12, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  lead guitar