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Talk:BBC Home Service

message: Am moving link to "Woman's Hour" as this programme was never on the Home Service: it went out in the Light Programme 1946-67, on Radio 2 1967-1973, and then moved to Radio 4.
Am dubious about "Mrs Dale's Diary": AFAIK that was always on the Light Programme. Some sources say it began on the Home Service, but I think they're mistaken. To be followed up. -- Picapica 11:25, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

message: I suggest that this stub article be merged into the History section of BBC Radio 4 as that article provides plenty of information already and will be the name that first comes to mind for the majority of people today.  BBC_Radio_Four#History Unsigned comment on 18:02, 15 August 2005 by User:Davidkinnen
:I've broken this article back out of the previous redirect. The previous article was a dull stub, covered well enough on the BBC Radio 4 page; this new one is much more and covers far more about the Home Service than the Radio 4 article can manage to hold. ➨ ❝REDVERS❞ 15:34, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge to [[BBC_Radio_Four#History|BBC Radio 4 - History]] 

message: Surely this ought to be in BBC Radio 4, given that (a) it's talking about the regional situation on Radio 4 post Home Service and (b) the Radio 4 article is missing any reference to regions whatsoever. All this article needs is a short paragraph in the Regions section explaining that the situation continued for a time after the launch of R4. I'll make the move should nobody object. -- Fursday 14:00, 12 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Regional radio legacy 

message: There appears to be no mention of the Home Service on 200m long wave.  This (Now 198m) is Radio 4s only AM wavelength. Deke42 (talk) 22:57, 7 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Long wave
Talk:Zhoushan

message: :Dinghai and Putuo Counties were upgraded to districts
Aren't counties and districts the same level? (as according to the article Political divisions of China)
:Higher status. — LlywelynII 03:55, 5 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Good article on the ZhouShan archipelago: Baidu Encyclopedia of ZhouShan. Mineowyn (talk) 01:15, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok. Good enough for the External links section? — LlywelynII 03:55, 5 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Good article

message: This article
* .
has a wealth of mid-19th century details on the island as experienced and understood by the Brits during the First Opium War and afterwards, even if they botched scanning the map. — LlywelynII 03:57, 5 November 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Sources for future article expansion
Talk:Angelita Lind

message: Muy buena la info que aparece en este articulo en el site de wikipedia. Lo unico que me pregunto es por que esta info no esta tambien en español, para beneficio de los latino parlantes. 
Gracias 
Jessica
Hola, Jessica!  Yo fui la persona que escribio el articulo.  Yo escribo para la Wikipedia en Ingles con el fin de dejarle saber al mundo de ese idioma, ya sean latinos o no, que me islita no solamente produce cantantes y deportistas, sino que hemos aportado en otras professiones.  Si deseas, puedes escribir cualquiera de mis articulos en el Spanish Wikipedia.  Perdona cualqueir error en esta carta, ya que soy un flojo escribiendo en espanol.  Tony the Marine
Hello Tony and Jessica... It was greatly debated and known to the world that the Cuban runner tripped Angelita Lind on purpose to get the other cuban runner to win the race... She didnt fall in the lane she purposely did it... read about it here... http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2003/vol7n24/PRSportsBeat0724-en.html  there are more sources there and even the cuban people apologized after the incident...thanks Javier  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.48.204.140 (talk) 00:50, 3 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Jelly Belly

message: Awesome 2600:6C40:17F0:C480:80B:8EF7:7B14:2447 (talk) 19:19, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jelly belly's are so cool 

message: Cool 2600:6C40:17F0:C480:80B:8EF7:7B14:2447 (talk) 19:20, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  My grandma sold jelly bellies
Talk:Magdi Yacoub

message: Will some administrator please rename this page to "Magdi Yacoub" to comply to the naming conventions. --Alif 12:54, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Actually, any editor can move a page: just click on the 'Move' tab on the top of the article. Dbiv 12:59, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Text and references copied from Magdi Yacoub to Derrick Morris.  See former article's history for a list of contributors. 7&6=thirteen (☎) 20:39, 20 April 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Attribution

message: So what's the point of mentioning his religion in the very first lines? I haven't seen this anywhere else.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:7081:5D07:E706:6D38:8172:EE3A:2D1C (talk) 01:28, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Coptic
Talk:Loft

message: :A surely well-intending colleague confused the record by silently correcting one of the typoes in the following contrib. I've reverted to the IP contributor's version.--Jerzy•t 22:25, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Wikt:loft#Etymology has info; i doubt it's encyclopedically significant, but if i'm missing something, consider adding it to the accompanying article.--Jerzy•t 22:25, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  (Etymology) 

message: This article seems highly slanted towards US-English usage of the word loft.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 158.143.213.27 (talk) 11:45, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: What do you suggest as evidence of that, and as a remedy?--Jerzy•t 22:25, 6 October 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  Well for one thing the attic article notes that what Americans call an attic is commonly called a loft in the UK (although attic is certainly not an unknown term here). Most houses with a pitched roof have a loft/attic space and it would be called a loft even if it is not converted and is either unused or used purely as a storage space. By contrast this article seems to suggest that lofts are only found in industrial buildings and barns and only called lofts once they have been converted which appears to be the American terminology. 82.68.159.246 (talk) 09:40, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  (American usage?) 

message: Vote to merge with Attic and change Loft to a redirect. Lee M 02:03, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I have added a second meaning for "loft" that is different from "attic". A merge should no longer be necessary. Lawrence Lavigne 02:30, Apr 29, 2005 (UTC)
Since the article has been expanded somewhat since the original stub designation was put on, I took the stub designation out.  I'm not sure there is much more to say about lofts that is really essential in this article, although some details about structure and style can be mentioned, such as angled ceilings under pitched roofs.  H Padleckas 00:27, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Check out loft apartment perhaps definition 2 sense could be merged there MPS 03:39, 8 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Merge

message: If any of you see a Loft.  Please talke a pictue, upload it and add it to this page--E-Bod 04:28, 2 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: For now, I'll just put in the one under attic.Ben Tibbetts 00:33, 27 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Needs picture

message: Maybe "microloft" and "micro-loft" could/should be forwarded to this article, since these don't have any other meanings and it would make things easier for visitors. I for one would've liked it if microloft would've forwarded me to this article. --82.170.113.123 (talk) 22:06, 7 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Forwarding to here from "Microloft" and "Micro-loft"
Talk:Technological utopianism

message: Article needs to be rewritten to conform to Wikipedia's standards, the article seems to be pushing an ideology over WP:Fact.
"Technological utopianism (often called techno-utopianism or technoutopianism) refers to any ideology based on the belief that advances in science and technology will eventually bring about a utopia, or at least help to fulfill one or another utopian ideal. A techno-utopia is therefore a hypothetical ideal society, in which laws, government, and social conditions are solely operating for the benefit and well-being of all its citizens, set in the near- or far-future, when advanced science and technology will allow these ideal living standards to exist; for example, post-scarcity, transformations in human nature, the abolition of suffering and even the end of death."
to:
"Technological utopianism (often called techno-utopianism) is an ideology that holds the belief that advances in science and technology will eventually bring about a utopia, or conform to utopian ideals, in which the laws, government, and social conditions, are operating for the benefit and well-being of its citizens."
Dark Liberty (talk) 04:45, 8 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article rewrite 

message: I'm looking at a copy of Rushkoff's "Renaissance Now!", and it appears that the list appearing in the "principles" section which recounts the principles of "Renaissance Now!" is analysis. The bolded phrases are not explicitly stated by Rushkoff but instead have been synthesized from his work.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.12.254.132 (talk) 05:59, 17 May 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original research in "Principles" section 

message: Marc Andreessen published an essay The Techno-Optimist Manifesto describing some terms and defining what is "techno-optimism" and what is "techno-pessimism". Mentioning de-growth, depopulation and nihilism. Can an essay be cited as a credible document describing techno-optimism? Should e/acc page be created? Kazkaskazkasako (talk) 07:03, 18 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Techno-optimism, e/acc, effective accelerationism
Talk:Johan Ihre

message: The posted biography is based on the one on the Swedish Wikipedia. / up+land 14:14, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Didn't notice this until now. Apparently the date I had put into the article had already been converted to NS. I now changed it in accordance with Svenskt biografiskt lexikon, which probably follows the style used in contemporary sources. - up+land 10:27, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:BBC Third Programme

message: "it broadcasts 24 hours a day, following the useful technique commenced in Milan of repeating the day's output late at night."
1. BBC R3 does not "repeat the day's output late at night" (although five times a week it does repeat at midnight just one hour of programming first broadcast at noon a week earlier).
2. What has Milan got to do with it? -- Picapica 15:38, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: 24 hour service

message: Added information and corrections drawn from a recent BBC 4 documentary, Primary Sources in Delaware (which includes a brief history of the Third Programme in its notes) and BBC fact sheets. --Davidbrake 11:35, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: BBC4 documentary

message: This is tendentious in the extreme:
BBC4 has much of the same populist outloook of the terrestrial channels. What have repeats of The Old Grey Whistle Test and Mark Lawson's sycophantic interviews with 'celebrities' on BBC4 got in common with the third network which was dedicated to talks from academics, classical theatre and concert music. Very little I would say, so I have chosen to cut it. Philip Cross 21:42, 20 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hear, hear. A good choice, Philip. -- Picapica (talk) 08:31, 24 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: BBC4 comparable to Third programme?

message: One of the early advocates of the Third Programme decribed its intended audience as typically ' a maths master in Derby'. At school in Derby the late 50s my maths master, (Dick Marriott), was indeed a keen listener to the Third Programme, and I wonder it this was purely chance... Linuxlad (talk) 17:19, 5 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Intended Audience
Talk:Anarcho-capitalist terminology

message: Why does the "Libertatis Æquilibritas" invoke the Yin / Yang?  Yin and yang are not just a balance or equilibrium between forces.  Materialistic concerns are entirely yang--exceedingly, quite unbalanced yang.  There is no Yin in capitalism (or in communism either).  There is no Yin in economics at all.  Please properly investigate these philosophies properly before invoking them.--Pariah, like yesterday, sometime.
:Ancap has nothing to do with materialism and it is not about economics. It's a philosophical, ethical concept.
::??? The key concepts of the movement are personal property rights and free markets--and the symbol is a dollar sign.  How is that not about economics?  --Pariah 05:17, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yin and Yang? 

message: The yin refers to the libertarian ideal of private charity and un-coerced compassion in an almost spiritual, or at least moral way.
: Well, that's fair.  Charity is always good.  Money and morality don't have to be mutually exclusive.  It's just that before some jerk invented the idea of comparative value of material goods, human beings primarily existed by charity.  Morality was a given, and money was not needed.  Mutual interdependence.  And life was good.  There is nothing to steal when no one really owns anything.  And there is nothing to lose when people recognize that life is a flowing impermanent thing anyway--our lives are on loan to us from the universe.  Nothing to hang on to, no need for property.  Now we live in an age where anything can be turned into a commodity, and most wealth is controlled by a few.  So, how can we be free when our lives revolve around money?--Pariah 05:44, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Yin/Yang revisited 

message: Is there any real point to having a separate page for such a small article?
I suggest that somebody should merge this article with Anarchist symbolism.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.255.195.135 (talk) 11:52, 19 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why a Separate Page? 

message: Following the merger of the symbolism section to Anarchist symbolism, all that remains here is a section copied from Anarcho-capitalism and a necessarily OR Jargon/neologism section. Is there any reason not to delete and redirect? Skomorokh incite 09:25, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Redirect to Anarcho-capitalism should be fine. -- Vision  Thing -- 12:41, 8 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is there anything worth keeping in this article?
Talk:Flag of Liberia

message: If anyone in the world knows anything about the history or origin of the county flags, I hope they'll take the time to write about it.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.48.32.12 (talk) 20:26, 25 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of county flags 

message: Is the county flag section a joke? Or are these seriously the flags of the counties?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.86.72.159 (talk) 19:22, 6 November 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Is seems so, photo of them flying. Though some of the little details may not be exactly right. Tideflat (talk) 03:17, 7 November 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Joke? 

message: Were these made by an 8-year-old with MS Paint!? These cannot be the official flags... – Nixinova ⟨User talk:NixinovaTSpecial:Contributions/NixinovaC⟩ 19:35, 25 November 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: I found the flag of River Gee County flying on two governmental websites, so it must be real: judiciary of liberia President visits Harrobo. --Spucky123r (talk) 16:04, 9 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  County flags
Talk:LaRouche criminal trials/sandbox

message: As I've mentioned elsewhere, this article needs more info on the criminal prosection of the associates. There seem to have been two sets of prosecutions, with about ten people convicted. Also, the theories of conspiracies need to be covered, no matter how bizarre. Finally, the Train Salon seems out of place here, since there is no clear link between them (except bizarre theories). Shouldn't that material be moved to the LaRouche bio?  -Willmcw 01:13, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)

message: This page was the subject of an MfD deletion discussion closed on 15 June 2006.  The result was Keep. Xoloz 16:39, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: MfD Result Notice
Talk:Vehicle registration plates of Italy

message: Until perhaps the mid-90's, the Italian plates were often very small and hard to read.  Does anyone know why? Astronaut 13:02, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: They didn't look as good on your Alfa Duetto..... FlagSteward (talk) 03:30, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Size of plates 

message: Since 2017, State Forestry Corps became (mainly) part of the Carabinieri. Consequently, Forestry Corps vehicles now have a Carabinieri (CC) plate. 82.213.98.39 (talk) 14:32, 24 July 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Removed "State Forestry Corps plates" section 

message: It says "Greyed out codes are not currently used. Q and U cannot be used in consular corps plates, as such they are Bold Italic." - but then the bold italic were those which had V - so I changed it to V.
But then there are Iceland (HV), Norway (BV), Mozambique and Pakistan (DV) which are not bold italic.
Also Slovenia has both BF and DF.
Does anyone have an explanation or could give a link to a reliable source? The Italian Wikipedia version is not better (and even worse with it GK (Phillipines) bold italic and GQ (which is not issued) not.
Thanks Tierecke (talk) 10:29, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diplomatic Plates
Talk:Persian Gulf naming dispute

message: in aritcle:
I have notes about these paragraphs:
# The art said: The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names discussed the naming issue but The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical does not discusses any thing what happened is what in the report of  23rd session of The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical:
So Working Group on Exonyms, Iran prepared the working paper and someone read the its summary on the meeting there were not any discussing the naming issue' 
# the art said "According to the report of the meeting" but it refer to the working paper not the report of meeting. report of meeting is at https://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/UNGEGN/docs/23-gegn/gegn-23-english.pdf and the working paper of Persian Gulf at https://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/UNGEGN/docs/23-gegn/wp/gegn23wp61.pdf. the reference note does not put the real writer of the working paper it must Working Group on Exonyms, Iran as in the cover.
# As you see other bolded text this is not UN view this is Iranian view so it must moved to Iranian view section
حبيشان (talk) 20:24, 30 June 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Viewpoint of third parties-united nations 

message: This article contains an extraordinarily large gallery of very repetitive maps> I'm going to clean it up per WP:GALLERY. It's just a WP:CITEBOMB at the momentUnbh (talk) 09:50, 28 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Excessive Gallery 

message: I sometimes look at this article out of curiosity. I see that it currently says, "According to authors Philip L. Kohl, Mara Kozelsky, and Nachman Ben-Yehuda in their work Selective Remembrances, Sir Charles Belgrave (British adviser to the ruler of Bahrain) was "the first westerner to use and advocate the name 'Arabian gulf', [...]". Some idle searching today led me to a use of the term "Arabian gulf" in  That quote from the book is from a direct quote there which begins on page 6004, and which cites "F. Lenormant,Manual of Ancient History, bk. 7, ch. 4. " The F. Lenormant there may be François Lenormant (1837-1883). That's all I found and I don't know whether or not it of any use, but I thought to mention it here. Wtmitchell  (talk) (earlier Boracay Bill) 22:09, 25 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Possible cite from 1923 or earlier using the term "Arabian gulf" 

message: I reverted the addition of a couple of paragraphs about the US Navy as OR. The only source that discuss this rather than just examples of use if Foxnews, which is not a very good source. 37.245.43.126 (talk) 06:24, 10 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  US Navy etc
Talk:John McLaughlin (host)

message: This: 
His superiors denied him this, even though they did grant permission to fellow Jesuit Father Robert Drinan to run for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives for Massachusetts 
seems pointlessly argumentative. However, I'm not going to change it. I doubt that McLaughlin himself would let it slip past him. 
If we knew why his superiors denied McLaughlin and not Drinan, and it was because of some patent bias, then that might be worth mentioning as such. But as it stands, they could have denied him for any number of reasons while allowing Drinan, and it's the article that sounds biased or at least a bit petulant.
Bovious (talk) 03:51, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: "Pointlessly argumentative" is your point of view.  It's just a fact of history that in 1970, Drinan got permission and McLauglin did not.  No one is speculating why.  It was correct that I added this in 2005, and it is correct that the New York Times obituary mentions it as well in 2016. patsw (talk) 02:11, 17 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Senate Run 

message: I'm guessing that the delay discussed is probably contractual.  PBS local stations air shows at varied times.  For example, my affiliate, KTCA Twin Cities airs McLaughlin group Sunday morning at 11 am, isn't it filmed Thursday or Friday?  So they proably don't want to interfere with the local broadcasts.
Besides, this doesn't seem like a John McLaughlin issue, and it should be removed, and placed on that page, right? --TjoeC 16:37, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Podcast 

message: Hi.  I know enough about John McLaughlin to be dangerous, but I think there are some potential improvements.  Firstly, I recall that he used to use the title "Washington Editor or the 'National Review'" in the mid-1980s (at least in 1986/87/88, but likely longer) to describe his position on his TV show.  I cannot recall when he dropped that title.  Can anyone add detail on his work with the "National Review"?  Secondly, I don't know the current status, but I think his show was run on commercial TV outside of Washington.  In NY and Boston, I had seen it on NBC affiliates.  So the stuff about it being on public TV and the podcasts having commercials is not comprehensive.  I am sorry, I don't have the full detail on this.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.19.19.226 (talk) 21:34, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Concerns about this biography 

message: The article opens strangely (in the middle of a discussion of the show) and is incomplete.  Much of the info requested in the discussion above is on the official bio.  I'm going to do a bunch of clean up.
There will still be plenty of room for improvement.  There's not much about his early years.  TjoeC (talk) 17:01, 22 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rewrite 

message: Due to the death of this person, the BLP status of this article has changed. This does not mean that unsourced material that would contravene the Biography of Living Persons rules can be added to this article Capitalistroadster (talk) 20:21, 16 August 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: BLP status change
Wikipedia talk:Danny's contest/Danny's contest 2

message: What does the "initial" in "(initial diff of expansion)" really mean? :-). I suspect everyone is using it just because the previous person used it, going back to dysprosia, who used it to mean that she (he?) would perhaps add more before the end of the contest. :-). � David Remahl 23:25, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: She meant it to illustrate the initial expansion, demonstrating that the stub was indeed a stub before expansion and to illustrate the initial material added. Dysprosia 03:57, 30 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Q 

message: My apologies to all of the participants. The recent elections, which I oversaw, followed almost immediately by a personal, work-related crisis, sort of put the contest on the back-burner. I have asked all of the judges to review the material--all of which is great, by the way--and we will have our winners announced by this weekend, if not sooner. Once again, my apologies. Danny 22:18, 18 Jan 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Great news. Squash 03:04, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Apologies