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Talk:Captain America

message: A case of, when they grew up - they (REFUSED to) put away their childish things?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 95.149.166.218 (talk) 18:50, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  False Hero's and Fake gods? 

message: Concerning the reference to the 1944 serial as Captain America's first appearance outside of comics, would it be better if the lead sections and the "In other media" section mentioned that it wasn't Steve Rogers using that moniker? PanagiotisZois (talk) 00:19, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Mentioning it in the lead is probably excessive (the statement  is not inaccurate, even if the film's Captain America is not Steve Rogers), but a fleeting mention in "In other media" is probably fine. Morgan695 (talk) 05:52, 1 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Grant Gardner
Talk:Hydro-Man

message: Wasn't there something about Hydro-Man being too dumb to use his powers effectively? I seem to remember him getting a brain boost by someone and almost slaughtering the West Coast Avengers.
Lots42 23:12, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Genius? 

message: I plan to come back later to rework; some of my improvements could use improving, need sleep now though. Lots42 (talk) 05:53, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stuff I did
Talk:Osama bin Laden/Archive 3

message: I reverted the changes somebody made to indicate for a fact the Bin Laden is a terrorist. I figured that if Bin Laden had indeed admitted to that, it would be easy to find on cnn.com, but it wasn't. If somebody can point me to reliable sources that say he is a terrorist, I'll of course revert my changes.--User:Branko (Dated August 18, 2002)
The question is not whether he admits to being a terrorist.  The question is whether he is a terrorist.  And he is.
user:TimShell (Dated October 18, 2002)
Terrorist.  Guerilla.  Freedom Fighter.  When you find a difference outside of your own narrow persepctive, then we will consensus on what you are saying. --Mymunkee 18:40, 31 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Is he a terrorist?
Talk:Osama bin Laden/Archive 5

message: Protected page thanks to edit war from User:JoeM Tompagenet 17:53, 20 Aug 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Now that User:JoeM is on auto-revert, I'm happy to unprotect this page whenever people want - if it's felt that the problem with JoeM has not finished left then we can leave this as it is for the moment Tompagenet 16:24, 21 Aug 2003 (UTC)
replies: text:  Unprotecting page as it's been several days with no calls to keep it protected. We can protect it again if it becomes a problem. --Zippy 23:35, 23 Aug 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Page protected and unprotected (August 2003)
Talk:Osama bin Laden/Archive 8

message: :::Okay, Graft's description is much better and serves to draw out the issue, BUT:  I think the coming together of the Afghans may be more soundly attributed to the Soviet invasion of the country, not the foreign aid.  Whether the resistance would have succeeded or failed without the US is a big "what if" which may be unanswerable (do you think the Soviets would still have A'stan today?).  Bin Laden's radicalization came first, and his appearance in Afghanistan is an effect of it, not a cause.  His anti-US'ism stems from the former US base in Saudi Arabia, not the indirect support for the Muj.  So, "ham-handed" is an understatement.  I'm not "offended" by Kw's views; rather, he's the gazillionth self-assured person I've heard talk like this about random tidbits they think they've put together into some "big picture", and I generally don't bother to argue such people down, especially since this is an NPOV issue, not a "who's right" issue.  And I think Kwantus's proposed revision is much better, although the Mujahedeen link discusses this in adequate detail and is perhaps the better place for it.  Lastly, one unrelated point, it strikes me as wrong in any case to just say "US-backed/supported/whatever"; why would you mention the US but not, say, Pakistan, which also supported the rebellion?  Never mind, of course I know the answer. -- VV 21:48, 14 Sep 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Graft's description is better, says VV

message: :::::Actually, it's a pity you've no interest in "my" theories, since, if predictive value is a measure of a theory's quality (and it's usually accepted to be), then the theories I follow (they are far from exclusively mine) have value, since I have made accurate predictions with them. For instance, i had to look up the Rwanda mess to answer my legislative member's smarmy comment about what the UN had done for Rwanda when I was contesting his pro-invasion position this spring. I predicted I'd find that the US, for all its public lamentation and handwringing, had nothing to be be proud of re the Rwandan massacre. And I was right: while there's plenty of blame to go 'round, it turned out the UN did more than either the US or UK wanted, and the US was particularly slow and niggardly about its material support.
:::::In other cases I've found that the best way to find out what the US is doing is to see what it is condemning in others; that is then what the US is itself doing. the US gets hyped up about WMD? well, who has of them? It accuses X of breaking the agreement? Then it was the US that broke it (X=North Korea being one relevant specification). As historical rules of thumb go, I've found that one to be unusually accurate; accusation-in-the-mirror is a US specialty. But anyhow...Kwantus 03:38, 16 Sep 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Kwantus says my theories are good theories
Talk:Osama bin Laden/Archive 9

message: Regarding all that "trained by CIA" stuff, it seems it's a myth: http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=9998
Dated November 3, 2003 by User:12.233.88.41
:Regarding that article, it seems to be a load of hooey, for the following reasons:
:#It fails to mention the ISI, which was the major conduit of both CIA and Saudi funds, and definitely was involved in recruiting jihadis from around the world.
:#The ISI sent a significant portion of their money to MAK, which everyone agrees bin Laden was in charge of. So, yes, the CIA was funding him, although not directly.
:#The CIA was in deep with the jihadis; they produced fundamentalist textbooks for "education" in Afghanistan (which were later denounced as reprehensible when the Taliban was overthrown - how ironic), broadcast jihadi messages on their radio services, and provided training for foreign fighters at their Camp Peary.
:So, yes, maybe bin Laden never got a CIA check, and maybe he never had contact with the CIA, but, to quote Bearden: "Did I know that he was out there? Yes, I did ... [Guys like] bin Laden were bringing $20-$25 million a month from other Saudis and Gulf Arabs to underwrite the war. And that is a lot of money. It's an extra $200-$300 million a year. And this is what bin Laden did."
:In other words, yes, bin Laden had plenty of CIA support, tacit though it was. There weren't two parallel efforts, with CIA money going only to home-grown Afghan boys. Graft 19:17, 3 Nov 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Trained by CIA?

message: please incorporate this news item  into this article. thanks! Kingturtle 08:29, 27 Nov 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: Very little to do with bin Laden.... Graft 14:59, 1 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  news item 

message: Does this picture, Image:Jhhj.jpg belong in this article? If not, where else can it go? I think that it might be a good idea to use it to show how Osama Bin Laden is viewed in North America. 
BTW, User:JoeM originally posted that pic in his user page WhisperToMe 01:31, 4 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: A photo of people with an anti bin laden T-Shirt

message: There's an apparently doctored picture of Bin Laden serving doughnuts to Americans. Where does that pic belong on the English wikipedia? WhisperToMe 07:45, 7 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: A bin laden photo in the Swedish article

message: As far as I know, no courts have convicted bin Laden of terrorist activity. Lirath Q. Pynnor Dated December 31, 2003
No court convicted Hitler of the Holocaust either. Encyclopaedias have to state what they believe to be facts. Do you seriously doubt that OBL did 9/11, or least funded and approved it? Adam 09:36, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Innocent Until Proven Guilty

message: In the words of Ronald Reagan, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter. It just depends on whose side you're on. For the pros and cons of using the term terrorist, see Wikipedia:Words to avoid. I think the term should be avoided. Kingturtle 21:09, 31 Dec 2003 (UTC)
thread_title:  the term terrorist is POV
Talk:Potluck

message: Where does it say that pot-lucke means "food provided for an unexpected or uninvited guest, the luck of the pot"?
There is one reference but it's not there. LucasW (talk) 21:19, 15 July 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: @LucasW  Agreed. He uses it in the context of wine, as he does in his play "Summer's Last Will and Testament". He doesn't use it in the context of food in either source. Instead it seems to mean the last bit of wine left in a	vessel. 174.197.133.149 (talk) 04:58, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nash's Pot-lucke
Talk:Robert Redford

message: Where's the full filmography list which used to exist????? Themittyman (talk) 02:09, 23 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Filmography?? 

message: Maybe I missed it, but why did Redford take a two-year (1977-79) "hiatus"? One place (IMDb) I read said it was a 2-1/2 year semi-retirement during which Redford purposely isolated himself. True?  Not true? How about some facts about the "hiatus"? Just curious and thinking. 2600:8800:784:8F00:C23F:D5FF:FEC4:D51D (talk) 03:25, 29 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hiatus 

message: I understand he as only one Academy award (not two as stated ). Am I wrong? Barakpick (talk) 18:39, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Number of academy awards
Talk:Osama bin Laden/Archive 10

message: I doubt Al-qaeda had anything to do with 9/11. As reported by Newsweek, the New York Times, TIME, and the BBC; every "hijacker" associated with Al-qaeda has turned up in the mid-East (where they work as airline pilots), and they are suing the US for slandering them (by claiming they hijacked these planes). The US government is obviously lying about things, I see no reason to take their word that Al-qaeda is bad. Lirath Q. Pynnor
I have read many stupid things at this encyclopaedia, but that is without doubt the stupidest. Adam 02:24, 1 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Adam Carr's comment on Lir's comment

message: :In the West (especially in the United States) he is widely regarded as a terrorist, but in parts of the Islamic world he is respected as a freedom fighter.
The only mention of him as a freedom fighter is in the intro paragraph. If he really is "respected" as one, in the Islamic world, we should have at least a couple of sentences about this POV later in the article. The intro paragraph ought to summarize or "introduce" the more detailed contents to follow.
Please list people or groups in the Islamic world who consider bin Laden to be a freedom fighter and/or who respect him. --Uncle Ed 19:02, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: VerilyVerily, the word "terrorist" is highly POV. Let people decide for themselves. -- Viajero 20:30, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: See my explanation above. -- VV 21:57, 14 Jan 2004 (UTC)

text:  I agree with Adam! PMA 11:41, Jan 21, 2004 (UTC)
You can call it "terrorist attacks on the USA" if you like - doesn't bother me. I'm not sure I appreciate being called morally bankrupt, but as you wish. Martin 20:00, 21 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Terrorist or Freedom Fighter
Talk:Östergötland

message: The proposal that a land consisting of Östergötland and Västergötland was a consistuent of the Swedish kingdom, or that such a land ever existed, or that such a constitution ever took place, is mere speculation, hence the deletion of that part. --Jao 17:40, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: late by about three years but it looks like Östergötland is just the Swedish name for Ostrogothia Pw33n (talk) 06:44, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the anglization "Ostrogothia" for Östergötland is very bad. It could lead to confusion with the Ostrogothic Kingdom, which of course is something quite else. --Vedum (talk) 22:18, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: 2005-2008
Talk:USS City of Corpus Christi

message: There can be no doubt that naming a military submarine that may carry nuclear warheads after Jesus Christ is one of the most stupid and pervert ideas imaginable. I wonder whether there have been protests against it in the USA.--93.244.50.221 (talk) 11:38, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: 2000 years ago a man brought the following words to people like you, Joe Charles Combs: "Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain." But you seem not to understand these words, as every single point of your argument above is flawed. The first name of the ship was definitely "Corpus Christi" and it had to be renamed because of the religious implications. This action alone proves that something was wrong. By the way, Corpus Christi is still contained in the current name and you maintain that naming a ship after a city that is named after Jesus has nothing to do with the initial name ... If some muslims name an atomic bomb first "Allah" then rename it "City of Allah" (e.g. the really existing Allahabad), would the new name abolish the abuse of religious notions? Also, the above nameless "protester" was well aware that the current ship does not carry IBMs, but also that its cruise missiles may carry nuclear warheads, in number and strength well suited to kill millions of people. To name any weapon after (a city that was named after) Jesus is just perverse, Mr. Combs. --Discordion (talk) 06:44, 26 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Perversion of the US Americans

message: Recently, IP editor 182.130.237.9 has been edit warring to attempt to push into the article the this ship has been decommissioned as of 30 May 2016. This is provably incorrect. The Naval Vessel Register (NVR) is "the official inventory of U.S. Navy ships and service craft." It is updated on a weekly basis. Despite this, the IP has claimed that the NVR is "outdated". I fail to see how the official inventory provided by the USN, which is updated weekly, is somehow out of date. I have asked the IP on their talk page to provide cites supporting their claim. They have failed to respond. Instead, they have continued to edit war to push this incorrect information into the article. I readily grant that a decommissioning ceremony was held, per this story from the Navy. But, a decommissioning ceremony and the actual decommissioning are not the same thing. She was officially inactivated. Inactivated does not mean decommissioned. The ship departed Pearl, under her own power and with her own crew, for Bremerton.  Per NVR, she remains in commission. See NVR entry. Also see the NVR entry for the USS Albuquerque (SSN 706)  which shows the ship was inactivated a bit over a year before she was actually decommissioned. Can any one provide any cites that contradict what I have laid out here? --Hammersoft (talk) 20:46, 4 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inactivated vs. decommissioned
Talk:Stippling

message: Who or what is symphony?  There are a number of things the writer knows, without which, the page makes little sense.
: I suspect it is a brand name for a manufacturer of art supplies, specifically brushes?
I'm interested in adding a link to my website to show examples of stippling. My art is extremely labor intensive and some require hundreds of hours to complete.  Stippling creates great detail that is difficult to achieve through other mediums. 
Thank you.
www.joellake.com
207.75.210.192 18:44, 12 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: What is symphony?

message: What about the stippling technique in quilting where, in order to hold the batting, backing, and quilted top together, a quilter will free hand sew over the quilt?
Is there a reason this definition of the word isn't included?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Shanak (talk • contribs) 00:52, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quilting? 

message: In some applications, a stippled finish can be applied to plastic using a heated tool of some kind.  Is this information worthy of inclusion?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.41.40.24 (talk) 19:22, 18 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Stippling plastic? 

message: I am moving the following uncited material here until it can be properly supported with inline citations of reliable, secondary sources, per WP:V, WP:CS, WP:IRS, WP:PSTS, WP:BLP, WP:NOR, et al. This diff shows where it was in the article. Nightscream (talk) 21:20, 4 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Uncited material in need of citations
Talk:Battle of Lewes

message: The sentence "The king had taken refuge at a priory, but his son, Prince Edward (later King Edward I of England) held Lewes Castle." should be amended to refer to "St. Pancras Priory" as the specific foundation is important. St. Pancras was fortified to the extent that its walls were crenelated and was thus defensible. Crenelation was a priviledge that the Priory petitioned the crown to obtain.
:This being wikipedia, anyone can edit an article. Click the "edit this page" link at the bottom of Battle of Lewes to add the information you noted above. Maybe not a bad idea to have a quick look at Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers first. --snoyes 20:55, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  

message: From the anniversary entry on today's main page, I got the impression that King Henry III was also captured at this battle. While the Henry III, Simon de Montfort, and Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall articles support this, the Battle of Lewes article seems to imply that only Prince Edward was captured.
*Henry III article states: "...at the Battle of Lewes on 14 May 1264, Henry was defeated and taken prisoner by de Montfort's army."
*de Montfort article states: "at the battle of Lewes on May 14, 1264, where the king, Prince Edward, and Richard of Cornwall fell into his hands."
*The Richard of Cornwall article says: "After the shattering royalist defeat at the Battle of Lewes, Richard took refuge in a windmill, was discovered, and imprisoned until September 1265."
Contrast the above with Battle of Lewes article: "...and Prince Edward was captured on his return. De Montfort held Prince Edward as prisoner to ensure the King's co-operation."
Without knowing the specifics of Henry's capture, I hesitate to update the article, but am going to be bold regardless. Please correct me if I introduce error! -Throbblefoot 22:13, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarify the Captives 

message: Did de Montfort have Welsh soldiers fighting for him during the battle? Llywelyn ap Gruffydd had been known to supply de Montfort with Welsh troops pre 1264 during sieges. I also read somewhere that one chronicler stated that Welsh archers harassed the royal English army while they where marching through woodland on the way to the battle. However, whether I don't know whether there where Welsh troops present at the battle itself.--81.132.196.50 (talk) 18:34, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Welsh? 

message: Oman seems to have switched the positions of Richard and his father King Henry III.  Every article I've read has the royalist's line with Richard of Cornwall on the left, King Henry in the center (where one would expect) and his impetuous nephew Edward on the right.--Catenary (talk) 20:14, 25 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Attached map
Talk:Schur complement

message: It'd be nice to setup Ax=b, for a 2x2 matrix, and then use the schur complement to show what the values of x_1 and x_2 are
-- 131.215.105.118 (talk) 18:48, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  another feature 

message: Star-mesh transform states: 
:The equivalence follows from the Schur complement identity applied to the Kirchhoff matrix of the network.
My visit here didn't help me much, not having done any linear algebra for thirty years.  — MaxEnt 13:51, 2 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Star-mesh transform 

message: Does anyone have a reference for the quotient notation,
:M/A := D - CA^{-1}B.
which entered into the article here? Is it standard? I have not seen this before and have been working with Schur complements for a long time. I'm not particularly for or against it, but it does seem non-standard. One potential point of confusion for readers is that it conflicts with the notation in Matlab/Octave, wherein M / A means M A^{-1}. 128.62.208.237 (talk) 19:18, 9 April 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi! I modified the notation in order to be compatible with the notation used in "Haynsworth inertia additivity formula". To the best of my knowledge, this notation is not standard, but is used for instance in the book "The Schur Complement and Its Applications". What do you think of adding a footnote in the article pointing out that this notation is not the same of the notation used in MATLAB? - Saung Tadashi (talk) 22:19, 18 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quotient notation 

message: The Section "Application to solving linear equations" and the second part of "Background" (introduced in https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Schur_complement&oldid=1009008699) seem to overlap significantly and repeat each other. I am not sure about the added value of the new material in the 2nd part of "Background", but I am not going to butcher it. However, I think the 2nd part of "Background" should be curtailed to several written sentences and refer extensively to "Application to solving linear equations" section, and all additional equations from the 2nd part of "Background" should be moved to "Application to solving linear equations" if appropriate. Any comments, ?
AVM2019 (talk) 19:21, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: The suggestion has been kindly implemented in this edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Schur_complement&oldid=1030722463 AVM2019 (talk) 05:04, 28 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duplicate material within the article
Talk:Jews for Judaism

message: I have attempted to write an "encyclopedic" article (stub) for this topic, based on information gleaned from the Jews for Judaism website. However, as a Christian, I am not qualified to do the job on my own. Please, someone of the Jewish faith, look this over, edit it mercilessly, or start over if needed. 
:-Anthropos 22:50, 22 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Should this article have a stub tag? 70.21.216.114 03:36, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: This article has been revised as part of a large-scale clean-up project of multiple article copyright infringement. (See the investigation subpage) Earlier text must not be restored, unless it can be verified to be free of infringement. For legal reasons, Wikipedia cannot accept copyrighted text or images borrowed from other web sites or printed material; such additions must be deleted. Contributors may use sources as a source of information, but not as a source of sentences or phrases. Accordingly, the material may be rewritten, but only if it does not infringe on the copyright of the original or plagiarize from that source. Please see our guideline on non-free text for how to properly implement limited quotations of copyrighted text. Wikipedia takes copyright violations very seriously. Diannaa (talk) 15:40, 8 August 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible copyright problem 