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Talk:Blind Blake

message: Blake was briefly mentioned in a TV-show called "What's My Line" from around the 1950's by the show's host, John Charles Patrick Croghan Daly. This episode at least was on YouTube many years ago. I saw this episode and noted that I knew a reference to a person mentioned on that show, and that I know and have tried to play Blind Blake's music. Long after that I googled Blind Blake. Back then his grave was apparently unmarked and his life was not documented much, at least here on Wikipedia. John Daly mentioned him to a guest on the show as if everyone at that time would have obviously heard of and known Blind Blake, and how he was one of the greatest musicians, or a pioneer. Knowing this, one might find more clues and information on Blake and his life to fill some gaps. Whomever it was that John Daly was speaking to, John Daly himself, and the panel all might have been familiar with Blake in one way or another.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by LauHir (talk • contribs) 09:57, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: What's My Line

message: Blind Blake is probably the finest guitarist of his era.Too bad he is not the most famous.Just for fun try playing in is style.It's very difficult to master.Thats all the proof you should need.Cheers .....James Anthony
I'd go further.  I think he was the greatest guitarist of any genre, of any era.  The only one who comes close is Rev. Gary Davis.  Blake was unbelievable--and he did it blind.--Susan Nunes 19 March 2008  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.228.62.224 (talk) 22:12, 19 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yep. -- Infrogmation 04:38, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Out of mere curiosity, is the "author" (for lack of a better word) of the provided photo in the article sure of that photo being the only one in existence? I only ask because there is another supposed photo of Blind Blake here.
--Celestialroad (talk) 00:45, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: That foto you refer to (typically for some internet sources created by robots instead of human beings) shows the other (Bahamian) "Blind Blake" !!! (Don't follow leaders, watch the parking meters ;-) StefanWirz (talk) 09:13, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Oh I see. That explains it then. Thank you! --Celestialroad (talk) 16:58, 7 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Only known photo" 

message: It appears that his grave now has a marker: http://stefangrossmansguitarworkshop.yuku.com/topic/3689/Blind-Blake-s-gravestone-is-finished#.UQ6L21rDSTY  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pklipp (talk • contribs) 17:15, 3 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  "unmarked grave"
Talk:Big bang

message: Could the following text:
category:protected redirects
...please be replaced with the following text:
...so that the redirect is is put into the category via a tranclusion in an Rcat template rather than a category transclusion? Thanks! Steel1943 (talk) 05:44, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 08:06, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protected edit request on 19 September 2014 

message: Please add  inside the .
Best, ‍—‍a smart kitten[meow] 16:50, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: * Pppery * it has begun... 16:54, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protected edit request on 18 December 2023 

message: #redirect Big Bang 

-per WP:REDCAT
2003 LN6 18:33, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I've removed the protection. You two can argue over what rcats to use following normal editing processes. * Pppery * it has begun... 20:29, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protected edit request on 11 March 2024
Talk:Boleslaus I, Duke of Bohemia

message: Anyone have any opinions on what the proper naming conventions for Boleslav I, Boleslav II, and Boleslav III should be? The Naming Conventions Project indicates that the most commonly recognized English-language form of the name should be used- this would presumably be the Latin Boleslaus. It was suggested at Guidelines for the spelling of names of Polish rulers that pre-royal names should be local in name while royal names should be English/Latin in name, but I do not know if that was ever accepted.
I personally prefer "Boleslaus I the Cruel (Czech: Boleslav I. Ukrutný)" with the article name Boleslaus I of Bohemia, but want to see what other people think before I propose a move. Olessi 21:31, 20 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name Discussion 

message: This article states Boleslav "arranged for his sister Doubravka to marry the Piast prince Mieszko I in 965". However other sources, including the articles on his daughter, Doubravka, and Mieszko I say that Boleslav I was the father, not brother, of Doubravka (also called Dobrawa) who married Mieszko I in 965.
: One Boleslav (I) was her father, the other one Boleslav (II) was her brother. Where is the problem? There were mane bearers of that name - Boleslav. --Franta Oashi (talk) 02:51, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sister or daughter married Mieszko? 

message: "...presumably consisting of border raids ... between Boleslav on one side and the margrave of the Ostmark on the other, reached its conclusion in 950 when Boleslav signed a peace..." -- however: the Ostmark / Austrian March wasn't created until 955 (see History of Austria). So who was this margrave of the Ostmark? Chl 19:21, 27 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Margrave of the Ostmark

message: Both 967 and 972 are given as death dates; any firm information?; no help from LC--FeanorStar7 21:41, 26 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Death date discrepancy

message: The second illustration picture (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Boleslav_of_Bohemia_and_Jewish_slave_trader.jpg) is incorrectly pasted to the article about Boleslaus I. In fact it depicts St. Vojtěch/Adalbert while trying to persuade the duke Boleslaus II, son of Boleslaus I (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boleslaus_II,_Duke_of_Bohemia) not to allow selling christian slaves to pagan lands. By the way, this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Boleslav-II-Bohemian.jpg) is a pen drawing after the disputed picture.
If there is desirable to append more than one illustration picture, than it could be this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ermordung_Wenzels.jpg
This is undoubtedly the most contemporaneous depiction of Boleslaus I, although as a very young man. Naturally it would need some commentary for the reader, to help them distinguish between the two dukes.  Karel Kocourek 21:11, 30 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect illustration
Talk:Britain and Ireland

message: There are already Dispute over the name of the Persian Gulf and Dispute over the name of the Sea of Japan articles.  From what I've read here, it seems this geographical naming dispute probably merits it own article as well.  Please respond on Talk:British Isles--Pharos 20:01, 7 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about [[Dispute over the name of the British Isles]] ? 

message: Surely to be entirely correct it should be Great Britain and Ireland ? There is no island named simply "Britain". siarach 14:10, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Article title 

message: Five reverts is excessive and I would guess this makes tha rticles survival considerably less likely, SqueakBox 00:45, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Correct. Has this former editor/now petty vandal been brought to WP:AN/I? --sony-youthpléigh 06:13, 30 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Five reverts editor
Talk:Blue

message: Blue is one of the three primary color in the RYB color model Marxbarx (talk) 09:41, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. M.Bitton (talk) 14:54, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 7 March 2024 

message: Blue is one of the three primary colors in the RYB colors model (traditional colors theory), as well as in the RGB (additive) colors model.[2] It lies between violet and cyan on the spectrum of visible light. The term blue generally describes colours perceived by humans observing light with a dominant wavelength between approximately 450 and 495 nanometres. Most blues contain a slight mixture of other colors; azure contains some green, while ultramarine contains some violet. Jacksparrowthepirate (talk) 09:51, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. GrayStorm(Talk|Contributions) 15:08, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Jacksparrowthepirate seems to be asking to change "colour" to "color", but this article uses British English so nothing needs to be done (MOS:ENGVAR). — The Earwig (talk) 16:22, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 7 March 2024 (2)
Talk:Bilinear transform

message: What is the correct formula for this transform? The current formula does not seem to agree with the "Background" paragraph.
--AxelBoldt
I found two essentially equivalent definitions:
: s = (2/T) * ((1 - z-1) / (1 + z-1))
and
: s = (2/T) * ((z - 1) / (z + 1)).
The first one is from Feedback control of dynamic systems by Franklin et al.  The second is from the help text of the bilinear operation in Octave.
What exactly do you mean by does not seem to agree?
-- Ap
In the Background paragraph of the main article, it is explained that the transform maps complex numbers from the interior of the unit circle to the negative half plane. But I think the above transform maps complex numbers from the interior of the unit circle to the positive half plane. Or am I confused? --AxelBoldt
Oops, yes I am confused indeed. The above is correct, and gives values in the negative half plane. --AxelBoldt
:True, both equations are the same, but I find it easier to convert the first form (above) into executable code. The second one requires a little algebra to make it useful in the real world, IMHO. Am I wrong? Madhu 23:57, 4 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  "is" is the verb ("the result" is the subject), but it is poorly worded.  for some reason i think it's my fault. i'll work on fixing it. r b-j 23:59, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

text: See Logarithm#Series_for_calculating_the_natural_logarithm.  Oli Filth 12:54, 15 April 2007 (UTC)

text: T is already defined in the article as the sample time.  Oli Filth(talk) 11:56, 20 October 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Formula 

message: In the Frequency wrapping section, the T is left out in the formula's (i.e. exp(jwT)-> exp(jw)), is that ok??
Arthurdenhaan (talk) 13:55, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Question

message: I have reverted 952723881 as the maths in the revision was incorrect. I believe the edit was in good faith. Frankplow (talk) 10:55, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reversion of 952723881
Talk:British Isles

message: Change population of Greater Dublin to 2,125,000 as that is the Census 2022 population 
. 86.44.233.172 (talk) 19:51, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. Your claim also seems to conflict with the information in the Dublin article. —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 22:50, 11 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 11 February 2024 

message: Why is the Scottish Gaelic for British Isles, Eileanan  Bhreatainn when the Irish is Éire agus an Bhreatain Mhór. Eileanan Bhreatainn is a direct translation of British Isles just as Oileáin Briotanach would be for Irish. Would the Scottish Gaelic for British isles not resemble something more similar to the Irish language as they are so close. Probably something like Éirinn agus Breatainn Mhór. 109.79.4.140 (talk) 23:38, 7 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: The Irish for the British Isles isn't "Éire agus an Bhreatain Mhór" - that translates as "Ireland and Great Britain". The Irish for "the British Isles" is "na hOileáin Bhriotanacha", but presumably a keyboard warrior has removed that from somewhere, with an edit summary along the lines of "No true Irishman uses that phrase!"? BastunĖġáḍβáś₮ŭŃ! 11:01, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a question for the Irish language Wikipedia, not something we can deal with here. WaggersTALK 11:16, 8 March 2024 (UTC)

text: My issue is not with the Irish as that is what these islands are referred to and is the terminology used. But rather that why isn’t the Scottish Gaelic following similarly to the Irish 109.79.4.140 (talk) 17:39, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Your issue might not be with the Irish, but the Manx (also with a similar language) might take issue with it. But in any case, you don't translate a language based on how another and different language translates it. Not even if they are related. Now, where did I put my handshoes? I need to go out in the cold. Sirfurboy🏄 (talk) 19:53, 8 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Scottish Gaelic name  

message: 46.208.141.146 (talk) 13:37, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Malformed request. Many, many, many times discussed before that this is a geographical term, not a political one. The Banner talk 13:45, 26 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 26 May 2024
Talk:Boy band

message: Being founded in 1962 this agency should be mentioned as an early boy band manufacturer. Interstingly they are older than the jackson 5, the article is too anglo and centered around a random date. Are we sure there were not  what would nowadays be considered a full boy band (formed by an agency and all) before the 60s? Mirad1000 (talk) 18:21, 8 August 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Johnny Kitagawa aside, I don't know if Johnny & Associates would apply. --209.93.242.250 (talk) 14:42, 11 January 2024 (UTC)

text: Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want to be made. — SamX [talk · contribs] 02:35, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Johnny & Associates 

message: The edit https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Boy_band&diff=prev&oldid=1122477564 includes an accidental? pasting — changing ″Broadcasting″ to ″Broadband is not 6ft to a particular location casting″, which has not been rectified. The ″H″ at the end did disappear, after a busy evening … — 51.6.34.252 (talk) 00:40, 28 November 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  A Pasting 

message: "Individuals can also go on to achieve greater success as a solo artist coming out of a boy band having used the groups popularity to build on. Usually this signals the end of the group until potential future reunions. Examples of this include Michael Jackson from The Jackson 5, Donny Osmond from The Osmonds, Ricky Martin from Menudo, Justin Timberlake from *NSYNC, and Ronan Keating from Boyzone."
Harry Styles should be added to this section, as he too has achieved greater success as a solo artist since One Direction went on indefinite hiatus. 209.93.242.250 (talk) 14:40, 11 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikipedia is supposed to be a summary of the best available published material on the topic. If Harry Styles were to be added, someone would have to find a reliable published source saying that he is an example of a singer having a successful post–boy band career. Binksternet (talk) 23:56, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Key factors of the concept" section
Talk:Batman

message: There is a Batman game where Man is the main character and Jonkler is a character that follows you after Man gets exposed to Crowmans scary toxin. Trickster6647 (talk) 19:21, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: really? Richardgrayson3451 (talk) 19:38, 13 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Man Ham Knight 

message: Dananananananana Dananananananana Batman! ImaPerson hello (talk) 10:01, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: Nope.avi ABG  (Talk/Report any mistakes here)  10:28, 30 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 30 May 2024 

message: Given the article's length, I propose dividing both sections, "Other versions" and "Cultural impact and legacy," into separate articles. Lililolol (talk) 01:13, 5 June 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Splitting proposal
Talk:Black

message: A discussion is taking place to address the redirect :Ultimately dark. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 August 29#Ultimately dark until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.  aeschylus (talk) 22:18, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Ultimately dark" listed at [[Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion|Redirects for discussion]] 

message: Not color, shade/tint. 107.115.203.26 (talk) 23:08, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a colour. What would the difference be anyway? סשס Grimmchild. He/him, probably 18:48, 12 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: @Grimmchild 197.211.63.70 (talk) 20:53, 23 March 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: What is it? Grimmchild, Talk 17:31, 26 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Black and white
Talk:Brasília

message: The first paragraph of the lede has a dead reference. I'm not sure how to remove it without causing damage. Would someone more computer savvy than I am please do so. Also, I updated the currency conversion rate and added a date.  American In Brazil (talk) 12:14, 25 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Corrections 

message: *this appears to have found its way here by mistake "" --probably because the caption contains the word "plano". It is important to realize that in this case it means map. There are places in the article where it is difficult to translate something to do with the axiometry and it would be nice if a Portuguese architect looked at that Elinruby (talk) 03:55, 20 April 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  maps and plans 

message: There needs to be more recent history, e.g., the stadium that  opened in 1974.  Kdammers (talk) 18:57, 26 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  History
Talk:BPP (complexity)

message: Is it really true that one of P=NP or P=BPP is true? I find this a bit hard to believe. Who added this claim (regarding exponential size circuits for EXPTIME) and where's your reference? Thanks. Deco 19:37, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I've commented out that paragraph, since it's most likley wrong.  P=NP would imply P=BPP, so the disjunction (P=NP or P=BPP) would in turn imply P=BPP unconditionally.  This is not known to be the case. --MarkSweep (call me collect) 18:18, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  P=NP or P=BPP? 

message: Is BPP equivalent to Monte Carlo? We have elsewhere ZPP is equivalent to Las Vegas.
-Ozga 20:18, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, BPP-algorithms are equivalent to one of those casino towns. -- EJ 22:39, 27 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  BPP and Monte Carlo 

message: The bound e−k/18 on the error for k runs is suboptimal, it seems to be an artifact of whatever general version of Chernoff's bound was used to derive it. The actual value is of the order \frac1{\sqrt k}\left(\frac{2\sqrt2}3\right)^k, which is about e^{-k/16.98}\,. It does not make any practical difference (especially since the convention of using 1/3 for the error of one run is itself completely arbitrary), but still I think that it is a bit misleading to give arbitrary numbers in the table which make a false impression of being tight. — Emil J. 19:07, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. What do you suggest? Putting in the value "16.98" also seems pretty pointless. --Robin (talk) 22:00, 11 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not quite sure what would be the best way to solve it. Maybe just say something like "2−ck for some constant c > 0", and leave the exact value unspecified? — Emil J. 11:44, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  The phrase "for some constant c > 0" seems too long to put in the infobox. But I have no other ideas, so go ahead with this. Maybe someone will think of something better. --Robin (talk) 13:01, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: OK, I've implemented the change. Feel free to fix it if you get a better idea. — Emil J. 13:20, 12 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bounds 

message: In the table next to the intro/definition, I believe the 2^{-ck} error bounds for k runs are incorrect, because majority voting doesn't converge that fast. This should be 2^{-c*sqrt(k)} I believe. 62.166.189.223 (talk) 10:33, 25 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: See the above section. I think the table is correct and this is the result you get from Chernoff bounds or "probability amplification" or "majority voting" or whatever you want to call it. I did a search and saw a few different lecture notes that I think give equivalent results to 2^{-ck} e.g. e^{-k/18}, depending on the precise Chernoff bound. — Bilorv (talk) 13:41, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  k runs
Talk:Benoit Mandelbrot

message: "His family was Jewish and had a strong academic tradition — his mother was a dental surgeon, and his father made his living trading clothing"
Trading clothing now requires a degree of some kind?
Perhaps the sentence ought to read 'although his father etc.' 
As it stands, the sentence lies somewhere between clumsy and comic, almost as though Woody Allen had authored it:
'Mandelbrot's father was a brilliant rocket scientist, though his mother still had to take in washing.'
'Mandelbrot's mother was a mathematician of international repute,  while his father mended shoes and danced for throw-money outside movie theatres.' 121.44.223.71 (talk) 21:34, 30 August 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: The suggested phrasing would be a good improvement. --Light show (talk) 18:48, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: Of course the unsigned commenter is correct. I've boldly made the change. Carlstak (talk) 23:55, 5 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Traded Clothes? 

message: The picture "File:Newton-lplane-Mandelbrot.jpg" is not part of the Mandelbrot set, as far as I understand it. So why is it in here? I propose to remove it.
Even if it’s in some way significant, it certainly shouldn’t be captioned "A Mandelbrot set".--Geke (talk) 00:20, 30 May 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Remove picture or correct caption 

message: Should this page be semi-protected, at least while Mandelbrot is the subject of today's (Nov 20, 2020) google doodle? There seems to be a lot of vandalism from IP addresses, including one edit that removed the infobox and the first paragraph of the intro. Paul1764 (talk) 13:06, 20 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Protect Page?
Talk:Benzodiazepine

message: im not sure if its my screen or display but the table at the beginning is "broken", dont want to fix it because im not sure if its my screen only. DANIELTHEDON (talk) 16:21, 26 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  broken chart 

message: Why is it benzo[e][1,4]diazepine and not benzo[f][1,4]diazepine? As far as I understand the IUPAC nomeclature (https://www.acdlabs.com/iupac/nomenclature/93/r93_229.htm) it should be named benzo[f][1,4]diazepine. --Esmu Igors (talk) 03:27, 15 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Benzo[e][1,4]diazepine 

message: I am proposing that much of the "regulatory" clutter found in the legal stats section be moved elsewhere. While drugs may have lots of regulations surrounding their use, legal status is a horse of a different colour and this should be reflected in its own relevant section. A drug is either legal to use or it is not; whether its a "target of interest amongst seniors" for example is irrelevant. Daystrom (talk) 05:49, 6 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legal Status
Talk:British Columbia

message: Hey , please remember when you make an update, you also need to provide an updated reference for the change. —Joeyconnick (talk) 02:44, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  updating population estimates 

message: See BC United.
The Government and politics section needs to be revised. Will-o-the-west (talk) 01:51, 2 January 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  B.C. Liberal Party now called "United Party" 

message: hello page owner Lectitude (talk) 11:17, 11 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  columbia is Latin American state????  

message: According to this article Campbell cancelled the trial, but British Columbia Legislature raids doesn't say anything like that. The trial ended with convictions, apparently. And does a premier have the authority to 'cancel' a trial? Indefatigable (talk) 20:36, 5 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cancellation of the BC Rail corruption trial