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Talk:Styria (state)

message: Be aware of the spammer which tries to spread his homepage www.bad-mitterndorf.net all over Wikipedia (on topic-related articles). The advertised site is a private one which tries to sell rooms. We have troubles with the spammer at the German Wikipedia too ...
From the article: "It is also called Upper Styria, or Obersteiermark".
This is very confusing, to put it mildly. If we consider Styria as an Austrian Bundesland -- and that's the idea here, after disambiguation -- then Obersteiermark (or Upper Styria) refers to those regions within Styria (state) closest to Lower Austria (e g the Semmering region), not to the whole Bundesland.
But a lot will have to be written about Styria anyway, and then this will have to be changed, too.  --KF 22:18 23 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Yes, this is odd. The problem is that the larger Styria was an Austrian Bundesland before 1918, and the part that remains is, I suppose, more upper than the part that became part of Yugoslavia.  I'm not convinced that there should be separate articles on "Styria (Duchy)" and "Styria (State)".  Was Styria as it existed in the 19th century really more of a duchy than a state?  I'd say not.  The transition from the one to the other is rather seamless, and is not really marked by the date (1918) when part of the state was removed from Austrian control and became part of another country. john 22:31 23 Jun 2003 (UTC)
:Being from Styria myself, I added a clarification on the term Obersteiermark. This is actually used only for the northern and northwestern parts of Styria, not for the entire federal state. The parts west and east of Graz are refered to as Weststeiermark and Oststeiermark, respectively. Those parts which since 1918 are part of Slovenia were (and sometimes still are) refered to as Untersteiermark ("Lower Styria"). -- The article on Lower Styria suggests that the term "Upper Styria" (Gornja Štajerska) is used by Slovenians to refer to the Austrian federal state in its entirety. I do not think that this is actually the case since these terms were already in use in the times of the Austrian monarchy in the sense as described above, but I am not Slovenian so I did not change that article. --thomasgraz 19:28, 18 December 2005 (UTC)
Talk:Deep Thought

message: This page has been Slashdotted, and will need to be checked once it's all over. One specific thing: which is right, 3 billion years or 10 million? Evercat 23:46 23 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Definitely 10 million, the Magratheans made it look older (implanting Dinosaur bones, rolling glaciers over it and so forth). — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.220.14.7 (talk • contribs)  20:43, 9 September 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: If you'd like to write an article on the band, you may do so, though it will be deleted unless it contains reliable evidence of notability.  If not, then it won't be listed here. Chick Bowen 00:10, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Band
Talk:Larry Flynt

message: Larry Flynt "claimed Magoffin County was the poorest county in the nation during the Great Depression."  who cares.  is it true, that's the important point.  He grew up poor, that isn't enhanced by his claim.  It might be enhanced by evidence that that country was very poor, but this line is silly.  chris  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.34.49.193 (talk) 19:45, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  the poorest county... 
Talk:Luxury car

message: Hi all, I just made a few minor modifications to the page. These include: 
1. I added more info about the run-off between the Mark Series and Eldorado in the history section. This is specifically because of the prominence in American culture. 
2. I added a photo of Arnold Palmer standing in front of a Mark III and removed the old Chrysler imperial photo to highlight the importance of personal luxury cars in the era, both with the general population and celebrities. 
3. I removed the Nash Ambassador photo. The reason for this is because the "brands" section featured over-representation from American models, and unfortunately the Nash is the lesser important of the two. The section appeared cluttered, so it was removed 
4. I removed the Hongqi photo.  Since the east-asia section is quite small and two photos felt cluttered, the Hongqi was removed and the Toyota Century remained. This is because of the greater international importance of the Toyota. 
Please share your thoughts on this as we work to improve the page. Did I make the wrong move? Should we re-add those photos? GeorgeRoush5 (talk) 15:50, 25 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Small Image Update 

message: The "Classification standards" section has three bullet points that actually could be taken as "classification standards".  The bits about "In <language>, these cars are called <term>" are not "classification standards", but mere trivia.
Also, luxury subcompacts?  Are you kidding me/us?  You even mention "C-segment" when clearly luxury cars are "F-segment".  Nobody would consider a Mercedes A-class a luxury car.  Yes, you (whoever wrote or rather hacked together this piece of excrement) tried to CYA with "The term is relative and partially subjective, reflecting both objective qualities of a car, as well as the projected and perceived image of the car marque." but that's still just hogwash.  Oh, and the reference?  This "Economics Web Institute" doesn't even have a Wikipedia article, for crying out loud!  A marque does not a luxury car make. jae (talk) 02:03, 22 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is this a joke?
Wikipedia talk:Foldoc license

message: :See also: Wikipedia:Public domain resources
I don't see how that link relates to anything. What do public domain resources have to do with FOLDOC? FOLDOC is not a public domain work; it is restricted under United Kingdom copyright law and international treaties and licensed to the public under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. Shouldn't this notice be changed to point to GFDL resources, of which FOLDOC is one, instead of public-domain resources? --Damian Yerrick (☎) 15:29, 23 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes.  The 'see also' notice is obviously wrong.  It must be changed to point to "Wikipedia:GNU Free Documentation License resources".  --Kanjy 10:38, 24 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Fixed.  Ral315 (talk) 06:08, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  FOLDOC is *not* a "public domain resource" 

message: Please remove all interwiki links. They are handled by Wikidata.--GZWDer (talk) 07:39, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Graham87 14:18, 25 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Interwiki link
Talk:Quart

message: What's a US quart in metric/SI? reference to another US unit (not the same as UK gallon) doesn't help.   jimfbleak 08:28 24 Jun 2003 (UTC)
:As the articles says 1.136 liters. IIRC a US quart and an Imperial quart are the same (their definitions are different though). --mav
::A US & an imperial quart are only the same with respect to their ratios to other units of volumes (excluding fl. oz. & any cubic length).  So yeah, a quart is 0.25 gal or 2 pints in both systems, in this way they are the same.  But an imperial quart is still about 20% bigger than a U.S. one so in this respect they are different. ... Maybe that's what you mean by "IIRC" Jimp 03:41, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Metric value

message: Per this edit, the usage of the page was established as American English. Kindly maintain it consistently, pending a new consensus to the contrary. — LlywelynII 23:10, 9 June 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: In that case, wouldn't it be "liters", rather than "litres"? 2601:545:8201:6290:ED27:28EF:9CC0:7D1D (talk) 01:41, 24 January 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes. Also, quart is very commonly used in the US but has fallen out of use in the UK (in favour of "two pints"). --Red King (talk) 16:03, 25 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: WP:ENGVAR
Talk:Twenty-One Demands

message: One of our policies is that Wikipedia is not a repository for source documents. (see Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not). Can we have an encylopedia article about this, please rather than just the raw text?  For example, these questions could be answered: What was the context? What were the most important demands? Why was this significant? What were the consequences? 
Thanks. -- The Anome 09:11 24 Jun 2003 (UTC)
Someone needs to summarize the main points. See statement above. --Jiang
:An idea: relocate the source document to Wikisource and put the main points mentioned by The Anome in the article. (I will need someone more experienced with Wikisource and part of the Wikisource community to help me with this--thanks) Wikiacc 22:37, 26 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: I have found the Move to Wikisource template. I will be putting this on the page soon and moving it. Wikiacc 01:46, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Does anyone know the original text of this document? Was it English? In Wikisource the namespace for all documents should be occupied with that document in its original language. Wikiacc 02:41, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: A friend of mine (Profxyz) has just added it. Nippoo 17:16, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

text: clean-up has now removed source document from main article. It can now be found on Wikisource, where it belongs. MChew 20:55, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Old Discussion

message: Why are there so many missing verbs? "China to grant..." appears rather than "China is to grant..." for example.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.208.204.11 (talk) 16:42, 3 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: New Discussion

message: The most prominent location for the word "demaich" is < http://demaich.com >, street address removed
This article is confusing.
I am searching f/ article twenty-one, article XXI,  Treaty_of_Guadalupe_Hidalgo, & frustrated.
 hopiakuta  Please do  sign  your  signature  on your  message.  %7e%7e   Thank You. - 01:05, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[ demaich ]]
Wikipedia talk:Image markup with HTML

message: I've just spotted - and changed - what I consider to be an error on the Extended image syntax page. Namely, it repeatedly described the images associated text as its alt text, when in fact it is (quite rightly) also used for the related but different purpose of a title attribute - one is instead of the image, the other is as well as it. On that page, I went through and called it caption text throughout, but this page already uses alt text and caption for two different things, so I'm not sure how it could better be worded.
And as for Wikipedia:Alternate text for images - surely the whole article is based on a false assumption.  Am I going mad, or has everyone else decided to ignore the fact that it's also a title attribute? 
- IMSoP 12:39, 30 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alt versus title attributes 

message: Is there any way to use a small image icon as a link to an article? Having clickable icons would be very handy for data tables and the like. Over at Talk:Ryanair we have been discussing using a Unicode airplane (✈) as a link to the destination airport, like this Cork ✈. Unfortunately, this doesn't work with many browsers.
What I'd like to do is link the image :File:1a2.png to the airport. 
Easy to do in HTML, but is it possible in Wiki? Seabhcán 14:31, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Currently, there is no way of doing this. A rather odd hack is being used, for instance, for the links to sister sites on the front page, where the description page ("Image:whatever") is made into a redirect; thus, clicking the image gets you redirected. But this isn't much good for you, since you'd need a copy of the image for every airport, which would be silly. There is a pending feature request at Bugzilla:539 to allow exactly this, which I started working on, but I'm afraid I haven't finished coding a proper version yet (I got distracted tidying up a whole section of the code, in the hope of making things easier for myself). Of course, if I (or someone else who gets fed up waiting for me to do it) hard-code a description-link in as described there, that's going to be a bit of a pain for this particular use too; hmm... - IMSoP 15:10, 26 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article link using Image?
Talk:Europium

message: 1. There is no such mineral like xenotime; this name refers to a GROUP; the correct name is xenotime-(Y). Also, xenotime is an important source of yttrium, ytterbium, dysprosium, gadolinium, but not necessarily of europium.
2. Xenotime-(Y)'s formula is YPO4.Eudialytos (talk) 19:01, 15 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Wrong xenotime formula/identity

message: Why does one heading read "Chalcogenides and pnictides," then the word "pnictides" is mentioned nowhere in that section (and, in fact, it is not mentioned anywhere in the article)? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 04:39, 18 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: To fix

message: Here are some (IMHO) questionable referencing practices:
*"Europium metal is available through the electrolysis of a mixture of molten EuCl3 and NaCl (or CaCl2) in a graphite cell, which serves as cathode, using graphite as anode. The other product is chlorine gas.[27][38][39][40][41]"
*"the discovery of europium is... was able to isolate it in 1901; he then named it europium.[50][51][52][53][54]"
*"it was the fluorite found here that fluorescence was named after in 1852, although it was not until much later that europium was determined to be the cause.[31][32][33][34][35]"
I already removed multiple refs for the use of Eu reagents in nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, but maybe experts want to distill down some of the above 15 refs. --Smokefoot (talk) 21:21, 3 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Multiple refs
Talk:Gadolinium

message: Because only editors are permitted to change b. p. values in Wikipedia, I submitted the following to veteran editor Polyamorph on 30 September 2023 without any response.  I submit it here 
Wikipedia B. P. values[edit]
Dear Polyamorph,
This is VatievonHans who is unable to login on my new Pavilion PC or to reset my password. I have graduated from densities & m. p. to b. p. Below are issues for your consideration because I am not qualified to change b. p. values on Wikipedia. Because Wikipedia accepts the b. p. temp from Zhang et al. (J. Chem. Eng. Data 2011, 56, 328-337) for Tb at 3396 K rather than the CRC value at 3503 K (or 103% of Zhang) and for Ir at 4403 K rather than the CRC value at 4701 K (or 107% of Zhang), should the current b. p. temp at 1802 K for Eu on Wikipedia be replaced with the 1713 K value from Zhang et al. (where 1802 K is 105% of Zhang)?
For Gd, Wikipedia & Zhang claim b. p. at 3273 K, but the 2016 CRC Handbook shows (p. 4-14) 3273 °C (not K) and adding 273 = 3546 K (which is 108.34% of 3273). Zhang et al. do show (in Table 1) a CRC value of 3546 K as well as values of 3533 K and 3539 K from two other handbooks along with 3273 K (°C?) from two different handbooks.
Below is my 9/13/23 email to the corresponding author for Zhang et al. (before I noticed the Gd issue).
Dear Professor Shoufeng Yang:
Concerning J. Chem. Eng. Data 2011, 56, 328-337, the "corrected" B. P. values are the same in Tables 11 & 13 for Ba, Be, C, Pd, Pr, Rh, Sn, and Y, but the Yb value in Table 11 is 116% of the value in Table 13 (1703 vs 1466 K), the Tm value in Table 11 is 110% of that in Table 13 (2203 vs 2003 K), and the Nb values differ slightly at 100.9% (5017 vs 4973 K). Perhaps errata could be submitted to the journal to avoid confusion for other readers. Sincerely, Thomas A. Hinners a recovering chemist 68.108.51.9 (talk) 23:38, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correction for Gd b. p. value (among others)
Talk:Black-necked swan

message: There is a bird that lives in the lake behind my house that we were confused wether it was a goose or a swan and now we know!!!!! It is so pretty.......it always comes by my house and we feed it bread and things. I'm just so surprised that its a South American swan!!! Though we did notice that one of its wings is clipped so it must be a pet. Thanks to Wikikpedia now I know that the bird is a swan!!!! 
---maggster s 17:19, 3 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Finally!!!! 

message: What is that phrase supposed to mean? It is in the Description. DCDuring (talk) 19:39, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  "nest of vegetarian mound" 
Talk:Terbium

message: There are contradicting statements in this article concerning the physical properties of Terbium. The opening paragraph claims that Terbium is "very hard" and the physical properties section describes Terbium as "soft enough to be cut with a  knife." Perhaps these are differeneces between the oxide and metalic forms. This should be noted if that is the case.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.126.51.51 (talk) 14:47, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: WebElements says it can be, but I doubt it – it makes the same claim for thulium, which is just about impossible to cut with a normal knife. Maybe it can be scratched with a knife? (Tm can.) I'll change the statement accordingly. Double sharp (talk) 15:07, 23 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Material Properties

message: The summary claims the the element is 'malleable, ductile, and very hard.' The physical properties section claims that it is 'malleable, ductile, and soft enough to be scratched with a knife.' The hardness indicators (Vickers and Brinell) point to it having a hardness on par with high-grade steel. Can we get some consistency here? I'd fix it myself, but I don't have a reference book handy to double check the data. 173.164.183.245 (talk) 17:42, 29 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Apparently it's hard, but can be scratched with a knife. This is totally not a reliable source, but says that Tb is soft but resists impacts well. That could be an explanation. Annoyingly I haven't found a reliable source on this. Double sharp (talk) 02:10, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hardness?
Talk:Operation Provide Comfort

message: * Regarding this addition: "Operation Provide Comfort sponsored by the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, American Legion Post 295..." - that should be in a different article. --Cheese Sandwich 19:14, 30 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hey! 

message: Why is there no mention of the Dutch marines who were also a part of this operation?
References can be found here in this book:
Van Korea tot Kabul - ISBN : 90-12-10915-9
:There is. Chwyatt (talk) 11:05, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dutch marines. 

message: Op provide comfort was was not planned in 1990 to stop kurds going into neighbouring Turkey! After the 1991 conflict in the Gulf saddam ordered is army to cause devastation to the kurds. The kurds had no alternative but to flee into the Turkish mountains where there was little or no food or water. This caused famine amongst them. Op provide comfort was a famine relief operation whereby allied coalition forces where sent to northern Iraq and Southern Turkey to protect and feed the Kurdish people. The were fed on supplies of Meals Ready To Eat (MRE'S)American military food supplies left over from the gulf war. This was flown by British and American Chinook, jolly green giants and Puma helicopters to the mountains. The whole operation took around 6 weeks to complete. I dont think Dutch forces took part but i may be wrong! But what would i know "I was only there" serving with the british joint helicopter support unit.(wasnt happy at the time has i had just returned home from op granby to be deployed back out there again) but hey i wouldnt change it for the world...  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.105.97.252 (talk) 17:09, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  op provide comfort 

message: Called Missione Airone, in italian.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bravonc (talk • contribs) 19:20, 28 May 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  you are missing references to the Italian participation to Operation Provide Comfort =
Talk:Vowel

message: I think this section fits badly into the article. There are good articles already in WP about prosody and intonation. The most relevant bits of this section are about vowel length, and these would be worth keeping but under a heading "Vowel length" or "Vowel quantity". Most of the rest is (as the article points out) about syllables, not specifically vowels, and I think it should be removed.  RoachPeter (talk) 08:47, 12 January 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Prosody and intonation 

message: It would be so great to include a vowel chart with example words that had the vowel sounds, in addition to the chart that is there now.   — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.220.247.81 (talk) 21:49, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: EXAMPLES
Talk:Ginkgo biloba

message: Much of the article suggests that Asia has had the ginkgo trees for much of history, while ginkgo declined elsewhere. However, the first sentence of that paragraph doesn't specify who thought the ginkgo tree was extinct. Was this assumption just a European phenomenon?
SheepTester (talk) 05:10, 16 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thought to be extinct by Europeans?
Talk:Snowy Owl

message: How come this bird (and perhaps others) is capitalised? I note that Britannica refers to it simply as a "snowy owl" . Why the proper noun? Stevage 20:24, 3 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Bird books capitalise species' names. After much discussion it was agreed some years ago that bird species would be fully capitalised with an obligatory lower case redirect. No consensus exists for other animal groups, so the practice with mammals, fish etc varies dependeing who's writing them. jimfbleak 15:00, 28 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: That was something I was wondering about myself, too, since all of my field guides refer to animal, plant and mushroom species with (aside from the scientific ones that already have cap genus name) capitalized names throughout the text. Thank you for answering this for me, too. One thing, though: does the snowy owl remind anybody else of Cher? It's weird, but each time I see a snowy owl... 62.194.0.236 14:11, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Capitalisation

message: Can this article be locked untill more experts can contribute to it? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.127.65.2 (talk) 01:54, 7 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Vandalism

message: I'm not the one to do it, as I am not formally educated whatsoever on this subject -- just a fan of raptors, especially this one. But would anyone be willing to explain that this owl is diurnal, what that means and why it's unusual, etc.? Thanks for your consideration. Harfang 04:40, 10 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Day hunter

message: i think you should put the way it behave with human  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.184.246.174 (talk) 16:34, 7 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  snow owl  

message: let them go.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 163.6.220.10 (talk) 15:32, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  go 

message: Don't want to be too pedantic, but would anyone mind if the sentence stating "... Inuit word for..." were reworded to "The Inuit refer to the Snowy Owl using the Inuktitut word...."? "Inuit" refers to the name of the people and "Inuktitut" is their language. Pierrefonds (talk) 19:55, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I've fixed it but only by being more pedantic. Inuktitut is just one of several Inuit languages. CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 21:59, 20 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inuit vs Inuktitut 

message: I AM DOING A PROGECT ON SNOWY OWLS THIS WEBSITE HAS HELPED ME A LOT.BY BRITTANY HUPMAN  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.89.200.213 (talk) 20:59, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  SNOWY OWL 

message: Why is there a picture of a robot snowy owl on the snowy owl page? Shouldn't there only be pictures of real live snowy owls?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.2.49.52 (talk) 21:35, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Robot