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Talk:List of historical states of Italy

message: Some maps here would be great. I might try to source some, but other people may well beat me to it (please?) — OwenBlacker 18:38, Dec 2, 2004 (UTC)
How about this one?  — Misterantithesis 21:31, 28 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: What's the copyright status? john k 04:25, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maps 

message: Would it be better to have this topic be about the Italian Penninsula rather than Italy proper?  That way We could include San Marino.  Before Italian unification, it was really no different than any other nearby state, but it gets left off of this list.  Also, Vatican City was part of Italy for a while, now it isn't, so it doesn't get included, but really should.
Yeah clearly that would be better. Surely the whole point of the article is that - look it hasn't always been italy! there were loads of independent states around. The current italian borders are less static than the penninsular itself, so the latter should be used as the catchment area.
:San Marino was clearly a historical state of Italy prior to 1861.  It's only after that that a distinction between the "Italian Peninsula" and "Italy" makes any sense. john k 19:38, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Also peninsular Italy would seem to exclude the islands. ‘Kingdom of the One Sicily’? —Ian Spackman 09:38, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Change to Italian penninsula? 

message: This map is anachronistic. Sardinia and Savoy were not joined until 1720. SamEV 04:20, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  1494 

message: It would be good to have a map of Italy that covers the alignment of states somewhere in the 1815-1859 period. john k (talk) 15:32, 3 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  19th century map 

message: As the recent flurry of edits makes clear, this page (it doesn't really have the potential to be an "article", even a "list" one) doesn't really have any plausible definition of scope.
It might be better to turn it into something tangibly encyclopedic that could also be based on secondary references, along the lines of territorial evolution of France. --dab (𒁳) 05:03, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: It has the same scope of List of historic states of Germany and many other lists of this type. It simply includes a list of Italian States.--Enok (talk) 12:08, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: "article" scope

message: Most common usage of "historic" means momentous in history rather than occurring in history which is "historical". Ought the title be changed to List of historical states of Italy over the redirect? Carlossuarez46 (talk) 23:23, 25 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  change name?
Talk:Telecommunications in the Falkland Islands

message: My apologies if appropriate, for removing the last edit. Anything which says that 'penetration is over 100%' is suspect. If the rest of the information is valid, please re-add in an appropriate way. DJ Clayworth 18:44, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Penetration is over 100%, I'll check the exact figures and put them there, but every house has at least one line, many have more, and of course business can have many lines. Therefore penetration is well over 100%. --Tweed 01:38, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Penetration
Talk:Ed Grimley

message: What is the name of the piece backing up his triangle, and who was the composer? It should probably be added if someone knows. Vendo Thefastlane (talk) 23:30, 30 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Music? 

message: As much as I love New Mutants Special Edition and how much it pains me to do so, I have removed the following bit of trivia, as it really has no place in the article. If a compelling list of "appearances in popular culture" can be accumulated, I believe it should be welcomed back, but until then it's just a shoe-horned tidbit of hobbyist minutiae. 
* Chris Claremont and Art Adam's 1985 comic book New Mutants Special Edition includes an Asgardian giant bearing a distinct likeness to Ed Grimley.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.210.191.225 (talk) 20:18, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trivia Removed
Talk:Breed club

message: So, what do you think?
Too partisan?--jdege 19:35, 2004 Dec 2 (UTC)
:Not bad, I think. I made a few minor edits.  Elf | Talk 20:23, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Start

message: This page had a cleanup tag but no specific comments about why. I addressed some POV comments and merged in the content of another article that had just been jammed at the end of the existing article.  Elf | Talk 23:48, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Removing cleanup tag

message: Breed clubs are found in almost all species of domesticated animal. Dog breed clubs in specific has its own article, see Talk:Breed standard.--Hafwyn (talk) 23:54, 18 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Breed clubs in general
Talk:Vauxhall Slant-4 engine

message: Article mentions that the design was based on an American V-8.  Anyone know which one?--Pqdave 20:08, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: My recollection is that it was one that was never produced, but reached the prototype stage only. The slant-4 was one way of recovering some of the tooling and R&D costs invested in it. However, this is only a vague memory that "somebody once told me" so it may be totally wrong. There is probably an interesting story here, if it is even possible to dig it up after all this time. Graham 22:32, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: The current article text, which states that the engine was developed from a (prototype) V8 GM design, is in agreement with what is stated in the only source I can locate, which is an extensive article in "Classics" magazine from June 1997. So whoever keeps reverting this under an anon IP address, if you want to contest it, please a) register yourself so it can be discussed (and so that your input can be taken seriously), and b) cite your sources. Sentences such as "...you can see what a ludicrous notion this is" are POV and unencyclopedic. The V8 design was a prototype and never reached production in that form, so it probably differed greatly from the usual V8 American iron that you are using as a comparison. Graham 05:43, 20 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  American V-8 

message: The last sentence in the first paragraph is incorrect. The vast majority of modern engines do not use a rubber belt but use the superior chains. Almost all engines produced in America in the past 10 years use chain-driven camshafts. The statement might have been true 30 years ago. I cannot supply sources, so I will just delete the unverifiable statement.
:Well, pretty much every European/Japanese engine I've looked at lately uses toothed rubber belts. Maybe chains are considered "superior" in America, but it doesn't mean they are used on the majority of engines worldwide. I'm not adding the passage back in because I don't have a source for any actual figures either, but don't assume that what you know is the whole story. 58.168.91.115 (talk) 14:46, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  First Paragraph
Talk:Tumbuka people

message: The Tumbukas are among,if not the most educated people in Malawi as a result the former and the first Malawian President Kamuzu Banda,so them as a threat and persecuted a lot of them,one he day,he was quoted as saying "God made a great a mistake he created the Tumbukas and gave them intelligence".Presently there is quet a signicant number of the Tumbukas in Zimbabwe and South Africa.
(In addition to being possible POV it needs grammar and spelling repair.  Can the quote be confirmed?  How about the accusations of persecution?) RJFJR 03:19, Mar 3, 2005 (UTC)
This comment was correct in 2005, but substantial work was done on it in 2016 by Ms Sarah Welch so it no longer applies.Sscoulsdon (talk) 16:09, 21 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Possivle POV

message: The writing quality for some of this article is quite poor, and in many places it is without sources. Appears to have perhaps been written by an English-language learner--not to say that the info is incorrect, but needs more references and a general check for grammar. 199.111.224.189 (talk) 16:44, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Writing quality
Talk:Beothuk language

message: Apparently, the Beothuk word for "(the?) evil spirit" was something like aichmodyim.  The resemblance to Asmodeus is striking.  I wonder if there is anything to be made of it. A. Shetsen 20:20, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: Transliteration can be from words to letters, see dicdef. Gwen Gale (talk) 02:56, 5 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: The definition given is ambiguous (note "corresponding characters of another language or alphabet" - Beothuk had no characters for another system to correspond to) and is from a general purpose dictionary. Dictionaries of linguistics make the difference between transcription and transliteration quite clear: "In the study of writing systems, the conversion of one writing system into another. Each character of the source language is given an equivalent character in the target language...Transliteration needs to be distinguished from transcription, in which the sounds of the source word are conveyed by letters in the target language." transliteration from Crystal, A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics, p. 474; and "Any conventional system for representing in one orthography a language which is ordinarily written in a different orthography, normally by merely replacing each character of the ordinary orthography in a uniform manner by some character or sequence of characters in the orthography being used, with no attempt at providing a phonetic or phonemic transcription." transliteration again in Trask, A Dictionary of Phonetics and Phonology, p. 361 Ergative rlt (talk) 21:26, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for answering here and for those definitions. I agree transcription is the closer linguistic term. Gwen Gale (talk) 22:30, 15 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  transliteration 

message: I don't know who or when all of this was added to the article, but the claims that the language is still in use in the intro really need to be rectified on this article, if not verified. I won't mess with the article myself because I am not fully informed on the subject, but considering that most of the article indicates that the language died around the early 19th Century and was never revivied, it's hard for me to trust the claims about it being spoken today, especially without a source.
AnyGuy (talk) 21:57, 11 March 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Likely Misinformation
Talk:The Rebel Billionaire: Branson's Quest for the Best

message: Here, in short, is why TRB failed where the apprentice succeeded:
Trump does one thing which most people understand and he does it well. Branson is into EVERYTHING and thinks so differently to other people they cannot relate to him or his show.
Trump has focus, Branson has an open mind. Trump went to Wharton, Branson struggled against dyslexia and did the opposite of academia to survive. The Apprentice is pure ambition, TRB is a series of ever wackier things which someone with an amazing but undisciplined imagination cobbled together so people would (hopefully) understand him.
Branson claims that he does not like speaking in public, but not uncommon with introverts, he is quite a showman. His charisma is unsuited to mass appeal. Trump's, and his signature "you're fired" line, is the guy we can all relate to.
Branson, who offeres Virgin airlines tickets in an envelope to two people, one of which may be a ticket home, comes across as a coward, who hates to fire nice people. Plus it suggests that Virgin airlines tickets bring uncertain stressful news. Who dreamt that little touch up? 
Lots of other things wrong with the show, but the lack of a coherent plot is the main one of them.
:I agree the incoherency of the plot was a possible major detractor from the show. Escpecially against The Apprentice, where you knew exacly what you were going to get every episode. I agree also that the "nice guy" attitude that Branson (and indeed the entire show) portrayed didn't nearly match up (in terms of what modern day TV viewers want) to Trump's extremely aggresive "YOUR FIRED" attitude and the bitchiness of the apprentice hopefuls.
:I don't know that the Virgin tickets implying bad news therefor people wouldn't fly the airline argument quite stacks up, but the blatent commercialism of the series didn't help it's ratings I'm sure, there's only so much product placement that even US viewers will take. Finally, although I don't have figures to hand, I seem to remeber A LOT more marketing went into the Apprentice than Rebel Billionaire (The Apprentice bombarded the world with TV and poster ads). Combined with the fact that The Apprentice was first of the block is in my view the most probable reason for the gap in viewing figures between the shows. Having said all that, as far as I understand the Rebel Billionaire was far from a complete flop (something which the article maybe over-implies it was), does anyone have viewing figures / ratings for the show? Canderra 07:22, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

message: I propose removing "Other versions" section unless/until sources are provided.  Even a single link to a show web site would be ok for starters.  There's limited sourcing, and none in English.  There's no mention in Roberto Justus.  Also, I find part of this section to be incoherent.  --Rob (talk) 16:37, 5 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other versions
Talk:T-square (fractal)

message: I asume the fractal dimension of the curve is 2.0 but I'm not sure, (I'm not very good at the rules of dimension claculation). Scale by 2 myltiply by 4 vill give  log 4 / log 2 = 2.0 . If you can comfirm this then please write it to the page. =P // Solkoll 20:53, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: hum... seams correct : 4 points, division by two. A fractal dimension of 2, for a plane object, means that it is not fractal... And actually, for sure, this object finish up as the square all black. Gem fr 17:47, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: My mistake : the black surface is not fractal, but the line (contour) is Gem fr 18:01, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)

text: moreover, a plane object can be fractal even with a fractal dimension of 2, the black surface is fractal. Second and third mistake. Gee, I'll better stop editing and return to bed. Gem fr 18:15, 21 Jun 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fractal dimension 

message: Is there a reason why this fractal is called "T-Square" instead of "T-square"? I'll probably translate this article to Indonesian and I'm not sure whether to use "Kotak T" or "kotak T".
Thanks a lot.
I amlooking information about T-square fractal, if you know who "discower"  it and when?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mamukasam (talk • contribs) 12:15, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why the capital S? 

message: It is not obvious to me that it is one, even though it is placed in that category. Lavateraguy (talk) 14:16, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Iterated Function System Fractal?
Talk:Bayview Village

message: Terms describing the residents of an area such as "snobbishness" and "inferiority complex" don't belong here.--Bastique 21:04, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Without any supporting data to back up that claim, any statements about a "tendency" would only be speculation and would not be particularly insightful or NPOV. Darkcore 17:12, 5 Dec 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Spigot (object)

message: The object described by most of this stub sounds like a spile, but I've never come across "spigot" with that meaning. I don't think there's enough to make a "spigot" article, and I believe the word is mostly used in American English for some types of what I would call a tap. Thus I've redirected it there. PeteVerdon 09:38, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirect
Talk:Tristan A. Farnon

message: I forked added information from the Spigot article. Please contact me if you have anything that you feel like talking to me about.
I removed the Jerkcity link, since the man didn't create it(and if you read his interview, you'd know that he's just fond of it)
I'm not sure if Tristan really is engaged to a woman named Delia Derbyshire, but the link goes to a woman that's been dead since 2001.  There should either be a separate Delia Derbyshire article, or the section should be removed.
:I am guessing that someone may have wikified that name thinking that it was the same person (or someone just jumped the gun and decided that all names needed to be wikified without verification, I dunno). It is also interesting to note that there is no mention of the details of her death on the article page for the woman. I will de-wikify it until someone can provide further clarification on this matter. TheMonkofDestiny 16:23, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I removed the mention of the dilbert strips as being 'often racist' because it's patently untrue. They are definitely obscene but not even remotely racist. Somebody has an axe to grind.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:CCEE:CD90:6A1C:A2FF:FE02:4C44 (talk) 17:44, 15 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Racist 

message: This article survived a nomination for deletion. The discussion can be found here. Flowerparty☀ 23:20, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Deletion discussion 

message: :
This tells us what a silent key does (though not how), but not what it is. —Tamfang (talk) 09:17, 22 April 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  the word is not the thing 
Talk:Spigot algorithm

message: I forked this page from the Spigot article. Please contact me if you have anything that you feel like talking to me about.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Goofyheadedpunk (talk • contribs) 21:19, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)

message: Right now, the article only lists the Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula as a spigot algorithm. Are there others? -- 128.104.112.85 (talk) 00:23, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes - this MathWorld page gives a list of BBP-type formulae which can be used as the basis of spigot algorithms for various mathematical constants. The BBP π formula/algorithm is the best known example because it was so unexpected. Gandalf61 (talk) 11:23, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Others? 

message: The page states that: "We add a few terms in the 'tail'" and  the first few terms of the "'tail'". How many is "a few" in this context? Can one term be used if one wants to compute just one digit? I think there should be some sort of clarification, explaining the value of "a few"
Earl of Warwick 11:02, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification needed 

message: Currently it is said "noting that the error introduced by truncating the sum is less than the final term" but I don't think this is evident so I suggest to add a short justification, or at least a mention to the need of an error bound if going into details is cumbersome. Davidsevilla | Talk 13:35, 7 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bounding the error
Talk:Spigot (disambiguation)

message: First of all, I'm quite new to Wikipedia am am sorry if I should have posted this on the talk page of User:Largoplazo. 
Anyways, I'm referring to a revision by the mentioned user, which reverts my addition of SpigotMC, the performance-optimized Minecraft server implementation. 
The user states in their revision message: (Reverted 1 edit by Literallie (talk): Removing fourth addition of reference to a non-notable server.) that Spigot was non-notable. I disagree with that, since the usage of Spigot actually improves performance a lot and is also used by a lot of big (I mean the one with >500 players online at all times here) Minecraft servers (citation needed). Also, as you can see on this McStats chart, about 20% (as of May 9, 2014) of all Bukkit servers are run by Spigot, making it the most-used fork of CraftBukkit. Apart from that, the Spigot forums are also used by a lot of server owners, making them a great place to find help related to Spigot, but also related to Minecraft in general and for general discussion. It may also be required to mention that the SpigotMC Resources section features more than 400  resources (read: plugins) related to Minecraft (also as of May 9, 2014).
I am open for discussions, but I really think that Spigot needs to be mentioned on Wikipedia. --Literallie (talk) 19:10, 9 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm afraid you've misunderstood the problem. Wikipedia isn't concerned with how terrific something is, but whether it's notable in the sense that Wikipedia uses the term. See WP: Notability. Broadly speaking, before something is mentioned on Wikipedia, Wikipedia wants it to have already been mentioned in a substantial way in multiple  reliable sources. I was unable to find suitable sources.  —Largo Plazo (talk) 22:15, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

text: Some more detail: The purpose of a Wikipedia disambiguation page is to assist users in navigating Wikipedia by distinguishing among articles, not among things that are out there in the world. There is no article about SpigotMC, nor any that gives information about SpigotMC. That's why it's incorrect to add an entry, at this time, for SpigotMC to this page. See MOS:DAB for more information. —Largo Plazo (talk) 12:32, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  On the repeated removal of SpigotMC
Talk:Inherit the Wind

message: *I strongly agree that this article should be split into multiple sections stemming from a disambiguation page. The article has many details and should be addressed separately according to its context. IndulgentReader (talk) 06:00, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Basic clean up completed. -Classicfilms (talk) 16:05, 3 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Split
Talk:Grand Valley State University

message: I made a user box for Wikipedians who are or were students at GVSU:
I also made the Category:Wikipedians by alma mater: Grand Valley State University
It certainly would be helpful to identify Wikipedians who are familiar with GVSU, so if you want to, please include yourself in this category.
*If you want to put the userbox on your page and also join the category, copy and past this code to your user page:
: 
* If you want to add yourself to this category, but don't want the userbox, insert the following anywhere on your user page. Copy and paste the code as is; do not change PAGENAME.
: 
* If you want to put the userbox on a page without adding it to this category, use the following code:
: .
Happy editing, PDCook (talk) 22:54, 14 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Userbox and category 

message: Why is there no ethnic demographics section in this article?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:241:8580:4220:50E8:AC9C:EE6A:19D1 (talk) 20:00, 24 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Demographics